P. 1. A Tisket, A Tasket.....J Pito’s Missing From His Basket!
Capítulo 116
Bernarda persuades her parent’s one-time servant (nana?) Mama Lulu (who BTW looks 10 years younger than Bis Abuela Burnie) to take care of Juan Pablito by telling her one major lulu of a lie. She tells Mama Lulu that she has the baby since the mother didn’t want it and would only mistreat him because she thinks it’s a nuisance and gets in the way of her “sinful activities.” Since Mama Lulu has two grand kids of her own she’s looking after while their parents are in the US, Burnie has asked her to help her with this holy mission until her lawyers can get the legalities taken care of. Of course, she’ll be well paid for her troubles. This gets Lulu to thinking and she asks Burnie if having this child will get her in trouble with the law. (Sounds like she knows Burnie well enough that she ought to know better!) Of course not! Do you really think I would do anything illegal? No, you’ve always had a righteous heart, says Lulu. Nobody will miss him, I assure you, says Burnie. What’s his name? Juan Pablo. What an angelito!
Meanwhile, Max takes a moment to catch Maria up with the news regarding the DNA test he and Osvaldo did. It proves that Oz Sandoval is his bio-daddy after all, but also confirmed that Osguito is Ji’s son by Guillermo. Max asks Maria if she’s still willing to raise the child of her worst enemy as her own? The more the merrier, says Maria.
Milagros returns from delivering her Casa Victoria fashion magazine to the jarochas and sees that JPito isn’t in his crib. Somebody took him and it wasn’t Cruz, Juanjo or Napo cuz they’re all still at work. She screams for help, see’s Scorpion Dude in the middle of the sympathetic crowd and accuses him of the kidnapping but has no proof since JPito isn’t in his apartment, either.
Oz fills Victoria in about the Big Lie and the DNA test. This is a good example of why he took little Max away from his mother, he says. Neither wants the little boy to grow up with the likes of two loco weeds like Gui and Ji. They agree to legally adopt Osguito if for some reason Maria and Max can’t keep him.
Maria tells Max that she already knew Osguito was Gui’s since he came by her place earlier to snicker at Ozzie’s rotten luck while demanding his rights to see JPito. Well, he’ll get the word, says Max, and he’ll have the DNA test to back him up this time. Gui and Leonela walk over to Max and Maria after the awards ceremony to gloat about Looni winning the award. “--Aren’t you going to congratulate your mother?” Gui sticks his two centavos’ worth in too. “--and say hey to your father?” Max hauls off and hits the S.O.B. flat on his creepy kiester and gives Gui the word on the DNA tests. Gui is Osguito’s baby-daddy, but Osvaldo Sandoval is Max’s!
Gui drags the Lush-ous Looni off to the side to tell her he’s pissed that she managed to make such a fool out of him. He demands to know why she lied. She tells him to cool his jets, it’s not like he ever wanted kids! He tells her he abhors her now and storms off.
Jimena is whining to Mama Roxy about how everyone is so envious of her and wants to take whatever she has away. She says she hates this Leonela for taking Guillermo and her spot as top model. She’s as bad as that slut, Maria! She’ll have to get rid of them all! Roxy tells her to can it before somebody around there hears, puts two and two together, and guesses that she was the one who offed Linda. It just so happens that Fausto overhears Roxy talking about Ji murdering Linda.
Gui walks by just then and gives Ji grief. She begs him to return to her. He can’t leave her for a fifth-rate actress like Looni. He tells Ji she’s turned into a wreck [piltrafa]. Rox tells him to watch his mouth! He’s talking to her daughter who gave him a son! Gui says they’re both a pain in his backside! Ji starts pawing at him and he tells her never to touch him again! Just seeing her disgusts him! Afterwards, Jimeana swears vengeance on him and all the others who’ve betrayed her and made her the butt of their jokes, starting with Looni-ella.
Max gives his mother grief for lying to him and hurting him this way. She admits she did it to get even with his father and diverts the conversation to Maria and how beautiful and accomplished she is. Maria falls for the flattery and the well-placed nasty asides about Victoria and Ji. Yep, they get on great!
Milie finally reaches Max on his cell and gives him the bad news as Fausto listens in the background. Max tells Maria and they race back to the vecindad where Maria screams and cries at Mili about her totally irresponsible behavior.
Back at the hotel, Padilla listens as Ste. Burnarda salivates at the thought of finally accomplishing her divine works. He asks if she means the little boy they took this evening. She says yes; something told her that the woman would be careless and give them the chance they needed to grab the kid and go. There’s only one thing that worries her now. Her Son The Priest will worry now about his daughter and forget again about his religious duties! Rats! Rudy asks if she’s saying that Maria Desamparada’s father is Juan Pablo cuz then that means that Victoria Sandoval’s daughter is Maria Desamparada! Duhn-duhn-duhhhhn! He tells her not to worry that he found out because he’d rather Vic not find out who her missing daughter is, either.
Vicente comes to the fire station to join his new buds as a fireman. Shout out to Mexican firemen. FF>>
Everybody keeps trying to get her to calm down, tho’ of course she can’t. Papa Padre Juan Pablo rushes in then to give her his shoulder to cry on. He asks her to think who they would know who might have a reason to take him. Maria is too upset to put two and two together yet. PPJP prays that there won’t be a repeat of what happened to Vicki.
Antonieta and Oscar drop by the hospital to give Vicki the word on the fashion show awards going to Casa Bernarda this year. Vic blames herself for being too ambitious, too aggressive and too greedy all these years. She realizes she should never have let her family suffer while working so hard to see her business succeed. Oscar and Toni tell her this is not the time to give up or give in because not only is Casa Victoria’s reputation at stake, but the livelihood of all those dedicated employees who’ve stood by her all these years. is also. Vicki takes their words to heart and decides she’s not going to continue taking this lying down --well, figuratively speaking of course......
During her exclusive interview with a member of the press, Looniella blames everyone thinking she was dead on her ex, Oz. The reporter asks if she’s dating anybody else right now. She admits to dating Guillermo Quintana, who, meanwhile, is getting drunk as a skunk and cursing out his rotten luck and Looni. Not only has she lied to him about Max being his son, but she’s made a laughing stock of him in front of Osvaldo Sandoval!
End P. 1
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Hickory Dickory Docker! It’s Great Grandma Who’s The Stalker! Time to Complain She’s Off Her Rocker! Somebody Needs To Clock ‘er!
Capítulo #117
● Don Napo cries to his buds over losing Milagros to Don Joel, but claims it’s only smoke in his eyes.
● Fabian has brought Fernanda home and gets jealous when Cruz presents her with another serenade for helping him get accepted into the university
● Max speaks to a detective at the police station who tells him to think of anybody with a major grudge who might have taken the baby.
● Victoria tells Toni that she’s reconsidering how she’s lived her life up till now and the pain she's caused others. "--It’s only when we face something serious that we realize how we’ve gone about living our lives." She mentions that once Padre JP told her Dios had granted her the miracle she’d asked for but she hadn’t been able to see it. She’s determined to think about living rather than dying and what she still hasn’t accomplished yet: namely, finding her little Maria.
● Maria prays to the virgencita to find her son and to give him back to her.
● Max races over to Alonso’s apartment and immediately accuses him. Lonnie says no way he’d do something that rotten and proceeds to pass out on the floor. Max revives him and figures Lon must be telling the truth. He offers to take him to the hospital to see a doctor. Lon refuses cuz finding the baby is priority numero uno.
● Roxy and Ji secretly hear Burnie and Padilla speak about something he wants hush money for.
● Maria cries on the missing JPito’s pillow, fingers the wall sized poster of the two of them on the couch, remembers her pregnancy and her giving birth. Max returns and she cries in Max’s arms. There’s no news at the police station about him, but Max promises to continue looking for their son.
● Max discusses his suspicions with Oz that Burnie took the baby, especially since she argued with Maria who told her she’d never be able to see or hold her child again.
● Once Max is gone, Lon finds a decent picture of J Pito and gets fliers made up. Millie’s posse tries consoling her.
● Jimeana comes to the vecindad to see Maria. She tells her that she knows who has her kid and demands that they speak alone, so Nathy leaves.
● Ozzie shows up unexpectedly at Burnie’s and demands his grandson back. She fakes not knowing it was JPito he meant and then denies he’s there. Oz says that’s B.S. Of course she knows everything that goes on in that apartment house because she owns the darned thing for crying out loud! She screams back that she’s tired of everyone blaming her for everything bad that happens around there! Oz can take a look around if he wants, but he won’t find him, she says. Oz says that’s exactly what he plans to do.
● Max drops by the hospital to visit with Victoria. He tells her about JPito’s kidnapping. Vicki is so upset by the news she starts having flashbacks to the time she lost her little girl and then faints dead away.
● Looniella is up early and guzzling down her 80 proof breakfast. Gui wants to know why she lied to him about Max. Looni says she thought it would be fun to see the looks on their faces when they found out the truth--and it was! He admits he never thought he’d ever met anyone more perverted than Jimeana, but he has and it’s Looni! She takes it as a compliment.
● Ji tells Maria that now she knows how Ji feels not having her child, either. Maria asks her to take pity on her, but Ji has too much fun seeing her suffer, especially after the way Maria enjoyed telling her at the hospital that she was going to keep Osguito. Jimeana wants Maria to promise she’ll leave Max for good since he belongs to Ji. Otherwise she won’t tell her who has JPito.
● Looni tells Gui after living in a jail and listening to her jailers’s sermons for twenty years she’s not going to listen to his. If he doesn’t like the way she does things, fine! She’ll leave and have somebody pick up her things later. Gui freaks at the thought of losing his Lush-ous and asks her to forgive him. She can’t leave! Besides, he has an appointment set up for her with Televisa. This gets a Cheshire cat’s smile out of her. She says she already has work and a salary, so she doesn’t need him for anything. She’s leaving! He tries to stop her and she warns him that nobody has ever stopped Leonela Montenegro and she won’t let him be the first to; then she walks out on him.
● After Vic’s been checked over, Max talks the doctor into telling him what she’s really doing in the hospital. Being the telenovela doctor that he is, Vic’s oncologist plays fast and loose with medical ethics and tells Max she’s got breast cancer.
● Ji admits she doesn’t know where Maria’s son is. She starts babbling about ransom calls and getting money for kidnappers. When pushed for answers she loses it and goes off on a wild tangent about the kid being dead just like hers. Maria slaps the crap out of her. Ji jumps Maria and tries choking her to death this time. Fortunately, Alonso shows up just in the nick of time and pulls Ji off Maria.
● Ji starts screaming about how her son is dead just like Max and Osguito. Lon tells her to quiet down. She starts jabbering about how she saw the train come at them. He and Maria thinks it’s just more ranting and he throws her out of the building.
● Max tells Vic that he knows about the cancer and he promises to keep it a secret.
● Lon and Nat try comforting Maria, but she’s gone temporarily around the bend thinking that her son might really be dead. They tell her she can’t believe anything Ji tells her now. Maria continues with the hysterics and then faints.
● Back at Burnie’s, Oz finishes looking around but tells her he’s still convinced she’s had something to do with his grandson’s disappearance. Burnarda lies that she was too busy at the fashion show presenting her award-winning new designs. Oz says try that story on somebody else. He’ll sue her and then folks will know what he knows: that Her Son The Priest had an illegitimate child with Victoria, that the child was lost and that she never bothered herself to go looking for her all this time.
Burnie denies it again, but Oz says he knows that she’s condemned her son to silence, and so he’s willing to go to the press himself and tell them that a priest would rather keep quiet about it than to alleviate his ex-lover’s pain. Burnie tells him not to forget he’d be exposing Victoria to the scandal as well. Oz says he doesn’t care and neither would Vic. So, she’s been warned! Oh, and BTW, if he finds out that Burnie had anything to do with the attempted murder of his grandson and Max the other day, she’ll pay dearly for it. Burnie tells herself once he’s gone that it doesn’t matter if Oz finds out she took the baby or not because nothing in the world will get her to give him back to them. Nothing!
● Oz and Fer talk about her no longer being a little girl. He hints that he knows she might be interested in the gardener and a certain office employee of her mothers. FF>>
● Fabian complains to Lucy about Cruz’s serenata. She tells him rather than competing with something he’s lousy at she’s got a better idea. She gives him an encouraging hug and it nearly turns into a romantic kiss for the two of them.
● Oz tells Fer about the kidnapping and how he’s planning to go to Televisia to get the news department to help him get the word out. Fer talks Oz into taking her to see Max and Maria to lend them emotional support.
● Lon has printed up fliers and the vecindad goes on a major drive to put up the fliers in hopes of someone giving them information that helps Maria and Millie get the baby back.
● Mama Lulu thinks it’s a bit odd that the baby’s name should be the same as Burnie’s own son.
● Rudy tells Burnie he wants more money for what she’s asking him to do. She gives in and warns him against any more mistakes. Once he’s gone she’s determined to get rid of Padilla.
● Padre Jeronimo tries to comfort PJP over the kidnapping. Padre later prays that Dios will prevent the same thing happening to his daughter that happened to her mother. Mama Burnie walks in on him and overhears his prayer. “--Juan Pablo!!”