Caray, Caray!

Camilo and Antolín talk over beers at a bar. Cam is bent out of shape about Ivan’s expected return and the fact that despite time and tenderness, Lucia will never feel for him what she feels for Ivan. Anto suggests patience. “When we least expect it, life gives us surprises.” Cam is worried that Lucia will go running back to Ivan when he shows up. Anto doesn’t think that will happen. Ivan’s got his life with his wife and son, and Lucia has hers with Cam and their daughter. Plus, Lucia would never separate a child from its father, and that’s Camilo, RIGHT? (Camilo takes a big gulp from his beer in answer.)

Tony calls Dirty PI, who is hanging out with Bob. Dirty PI claims he was out of town the last few days, and that’s why he’s been out of touch. But he had a colleague follow MP, and they reported nothing happened. Tony is livid. How come he didn’t tell him his daughter-in-law has been frequenting the casinos?! They found the gambling chips among her things. Dirty PI tries to play it off. Tony asked him to report if she had a lover, not if she’s gambling. Tony says everything is important, calls Dirty PI incompetent, and says that he’s fired and that he’ll report him to his superiors. He hangs up on him. Dirty PI is ticked and tells Bob what happened before taking off. Bob’s beginning to think MP is a hindrance (estorbo).

At the Ag Association, Lucrezia is telling JJ how she’s been put in charge of Camilo’s experimental crop of cártamo (safflower). Since Lucrezia holds JJ’s opinion higher than God’s, she’s asking him if Camilo is making a smart move by growing it. The government has been pushing the farmers to grow it for some time, it does well in this climate, and it’s used in a lot of things. However, it’s really susceptible to disease. “Well, then it’s a bad idea?” JJ tells her honestly that if, with his cleverness, Camilo finds a way to strengthen the plant, perhaps through crossbreeding, then it could be a very profitable crop. Lucrezia doesn’t like these crazy modern ideas.

JJ changes the topic to more personal business. When is Lucrezia going to tell him why Lucia married Camilo? Lucrezia claims it was love, but JJ notes the VERY premature birth of their daughter. He asks if Camilo married Lucia to cover up that she got knocked up by Ivan. Lucrezia denies. JJ claims he’s discreet. Yeah, so discreet that you blackmailed me for water the last time I told you a secret. Lucrezia is sure that if he had any other useful info he would just blackmail her again. “Nope. The baby is Camilo’s child.” JJ doesn’t believe it. (And neither does anybody else JJ, so how exactly would you blackmail Lucrezia with a secret that isn’t a secret?)

The maids at the McGuire Mexico house are scared to pick up the phone since it hasn’t rung since the patrones left. When they finally answer, Tony tells them he’s coming tomorrow, with Benito and Bruno, but no Ivan and Alex (no one mentioned MP). The maids are excited to fix them some yummy food. Tony then informs Benito that he’s traveling with him to Mexico. Benito is disappointed since he planned on playing Good PI, and following MP while everyone was away. He tells Maria that he wanted to do it for Alex, more than anyone else. He knows that one of them will catch her in the act sometime soon. “That woman is not only a hussy/flirt (coqueta), but also shameless (cíníca)!”

MP pours herself a drink and stalks around her messy gilded cage. “This house is a damn prison.” She picks up her phone and interrupts Bob and Juliet, who are having dinner and wine at home. MP scolds him for turning off his phone. She wants to see him tomorrow and expects him to cancel his other appointment. When his wife comes around the corner, Bob pretends he’s speaking to some guy named Ishmael who wants to play blackjack next week. He hangs up on her and tells Juliet Ishmael sends greetings and kisses. He gets a little too affectionate, raising Juliet’s suspicions.

David is also enjoying wine and dinner with a woman who is not his ex MP. It’s Lucia’s friend who’s had a crush on him for a while. It looks like the feelings are mutual. She tells him he’s all a woman could ask for, after listing his great qualities. Well, not everyone, considering MP dumped him. She knows MP is flighty, but she is a one man kind of woman, like Lucia. David points out that Lucia married Camilo. She is certain that Lucia has never stopped loving Ivan. But she loves him in silence so as not to hurt Camilo. David thinks Cam deserves to be loved for real. She agrees, but brings the conversation back to her and David. In fact, she wants to take the conversation back to her place! David begs off for another day since he’s got so much work the next morning. (Hmm…is our boy ready to take the plunge?)

Benito and Tony prepare to leave, but MP is in an alcohol induced stupor. Tony gives Maria their numbers in Alamos and asks for any reports of funny business from MP. Maria is on it.

Once in Alamos, they are greeted warmly by the maids. Tony says his heart is in two places—his house in L.A. and this one. The maids have kept his return a secret, but David is already in the offices in the other wing of the house. He’s happy to see Tony. Tony gets right to asking why Camilo is quitting. David says it’s up to Camilo to tell him.

At ranch Socorro, Perla is running a fever and crying, and the Curiel women and Camilo are concerned. They decide to take her to the hospital.

David and Tony have still not heard from Camilo and Tony is getting antsy. After Tony exits, the secretary looks at David with concern and says Tony is going to find out everything. David thinks there’s no avoiding it.

Tony is greeted by Cleto at Ranch Socorro. Carly greets him warmly in the living room. They make small talk, but then both admit they didn’t like how their last conversation ended. Tony decides to tell Carly the whole story, so that she won’t judge Ivan harshly. Outside, Lucia, Camilo and Lucrezia return with Perla. They see the car and Benito waiting outside and assume Ivan is inside. Lucia decides they need to just get it done with and enter the house.

Carly explains how hurt she was by what Ivan did, but she understands. Anyway, Lucia has moved on and it’s best that Ivan does too because… She doesn’t get the chance to finish before Lucia, Lucrezia and Camilo walk in with Perla. Greetings all around. “And who is this beautiful little girl?” “She’s our daughter. Camilo and I got married.” (Wow! Tony’s got great game face. He doesn’t even flinch at this news. But he does look at the baby really hard.)

Saul and Gordo look in the shattered fun house mirror in the Meandragon House of Horrors. Saul doesn’t want to go outside with his crutch (muleta) because he doesn’t want people pitying him. But he’s antsy to leave the house. He tries to practice walking without the crutch, but can’t without much effort and pain. Gordo wonders why JJ won’t pay for the last surgeries for his leg. “Because he hates me.” Saul swears he will find a way to get that money. He doesn’t want to be a damn cripple (cojo) the rest of his life! Gordo says he can count on him. After Saul leaves the room, Gordo questions the maid about Judith’s whereabouts and if she has a boyfriend. (Yuck!)

Lucrezia takes the baby to her room and updates Carly on what the doctor said. Perla has an ear infection. Tony wonders why they didn’t tell them about the marriage or baby. Carly says it came as a surprise to them too. But so is love. Tony pretends to buy it, tells Camilo he’ll see him in the office, Carly that they’ll see each other again soon, and congratulates Lucia on her baby and good choice in husband. They all breathe a sigh of relief and Camilo goes off to talk to Tony in Casa McGuire. Lucia gives Carly a big hug.

Camilo tries to convince Tony that he and Lucia love each other, and got involved as soon as Ivan left—Lucia because she wanted to get Ivan out of her heart (un clavo saco otro clavo/one nail drives out another), and he because he really loved her. Tony doesn’t press for any details, but he doesn’t think this should affect their working relationship, nor does he believe Ivan will want the lands back. Camilo thinks Ivan will surely be upset that he married Lucia. Tony believes in the power of their long-standing friendship. Camilo is decided; he’s resigning. Tony has no choice but to accept. He’ll have David prepare the paperwork. They shake on it.

Lucrezia wonders if Tony was mad. Carly tells her that Tony just wished Lucia well for finding a good man. Lucia’s already long face looks twice its length, and she mopes off to her room. Lucrezia, who has no emotional intelligence when it comes to her younger daughter, asks for news of her oldest demon spawn. Tony didn’t tell Carly anything about MP, but he did tell her that Ivan hasn’t forgotten about Lucia, and they know that Lucia hasn’t forgotten Ivan. That might be so, but they both are married to someone else and each have a child. Carly points out that Ivan married for Alex, and Lucia married for Perla. She had hoped that what had happened to her (falling in love with her husband after marriage) would happen to Lucia, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. The big difference is that Lucrezia’s bio-father disappeared off the face of the map, but Ivan is still very present. Lucrezia’s not worried about all that “feelings” stuff. She wants to know if Tony’s going to make them give back the loan. He’s too much of a gentleman, says Carly, but Lurcrezia thinks ALL men are the same.

Tony gives Good PI Benito a mission- find out when Camilo and Lucia got married and when their daughter was born.

Ivan and Alex have some quality father-son time on their boat in the Sea of Cortez. They chat about the marine life they have seen so far and still want to see.

In the kitchen, Benito chats with the maids and gets the gossip on how quickly Perla was born after the wedding. Meanwhile, in his office, Tony is trying to get info out of David. David admits he knew Lucia and Camilo were getting married but made a promise to Camilo not to say anything, more because Lucia didn’t want them to know. Tony asks if the reason Lucia wanted to keep quiet about it is because she was pregnant with Ivan’s child and marrying Camilo for cover. David admits he had the same suspicions, but Camilo denied it. They joke about David not falling for any of his dad’s tricks now that he’s in charge of McGuire Inc. David laughs it off. He knows his dad too well for that.

Alex spots the white limestone cliffs off the boat and says they look like an iced cake (pastel glaceado). Alex wants to call Lucia so that he can share all that he’s seeing. Both Ivan and Alex are sad that they have no phone signal. Ivan wonders if Lucia is thinking of him as he is thinking of her.

Benito is very pleased to report that Lucia and Cam got married a month and a half after they left for L.A., and that the baby was born six months after the wedding. No incubator was needed. The baby left the hospital two days later. Benito’s conclusion—either Lucia was cheating on Ivan, or Lucia had Ivan’s baby and married Cam to cover it up. Tony makes Benito promise not to tell Ivan. “Sí Mister.” Benito has something else to say. He spills the beans about hearing MP speaking to her lover on the phone. He intended to follow her but now he can’t do anything. Tony says he’ll handle it.

Lucia continues to work on her thesis and Cam comes in to check on the baby. He tries to get affectionate, but she doesn’t even look up. Lucia asks how things went with Tony, and he tells her it went well and Tony accepted his resignation. Lucia then slips in a question about how Ivan is doing. Camilo shares his displeasure at the question, but Lucia doesn’t think the question was out of turn. They both want to know how Ivan is, for their own reasons. “Yeah, me because he’s my best friend (amigo de alma), and you because you haven’t been able to forget him.” Camilo storms out.

Antolín is begging Carolina to marry him. (If only she could see the HUNK she is turning down!) She doesn’t want to tie him to a blind woman. It’s not important to Anto, plus they can try another surgery. “He who doesn’t take risks, doesn’t win.” Caro then goes to her next standard excuses—the surgery costs too much and she doesn’t want to leave Gerry alone. Anto is not on board with a living arrangement like Camilo and Lucia have. Caro doesn’t see why they couldn’t live in the house with Gerry since there is plenty of room. Anto wants to get his own house where his princess can reign. Caro points out that she already runs things in the Lomeli house. Anto is not on board with this. He could understand her wanting to stay when Alex was in the house, because he’s a child. But Gerry is a grown man! There are plenty of men who live alone. Anto finally catches on that all of these have been excuses. He thinks it’s a lie that she loves him. She swears she loves him, she just can’t leave Gerry. “Then marry him!” Anto storms out leaving Caro crying on the couch.

Celia is reaming Carmen out. All these months supposedly in school and they haven’t seen any sign of it—no homework or grades. How do they know that she’s really taking classes or just using the money? Carmen tries to bs. These are computer classes, so they wouldn’t see her carrying homework. And by the way, she needs money to buy a computer. Celia wonders what happened to the money her brother gives her as an allowance, and why is she always wearing new clothes? How can she go to school in old rags?! (trapos viejos) Carmen outshouts Celia, and storms out (that makes all three Galvan kids this evening). Celia begs the Virgin for help, just as Camilo sulks into the room. Celia throws in a plea to the Virgin for him too.

David brings the good news to his family that he is now the director of McGuire Inc. Mexico! The Mondragon women cover him with hugs and kisses. JJ says he knew Camilo wouldn’t last, but he always knew David had the right stuff (tamaño/ the size). (Let me take a few seconds to LOL here! He even said it with a straight face!) He knows that he was hard on David, and even doubted him at some point. But now David’s demonstrated to him that he knows what he’s doing. “I’m proud of you.” David thanks him but doesn’t seem to be buying it. JJ sees a perfect partnership forming between him at the Ag Association and David at McGuire Inc. Total Mondragon domination of the region. (Bwahahaha!!) He could become David’s advisor, since he knows SO much and David doesn’t. He sends the women off to paint their nails while he continues to try to scam David. The first order of business that he wants David’s help with, is a big loan from the McGuires for the hydroponics.

Judith and Esther are on the other side of the door hoping that David doesn’t bow to JJ’s pressure. If he does, then Esther swears she’ll divorce JJ. Judith says she’s heard that song before, but Esther never follows through.

Lucia admits to Carly that she thinks she made a mistake marrying Camilo. She thinks she would have been better off as a single mother. “You’re scaring me.” I care for him (lo quiero) and I’m really grateful to him, but I don’t love him. It’s an effort for me to make love to him. And you know why? Because it’s not love (amor). It’s for wifely duty.”

Camilo is having the same discussion with Celia and telling her Lucia is only going through the motions to satisfy him. There’s no passion; no love. Celia thinks that women often need more time. Camilo knows that’s not the case, and with Tony’s return things have just gotten more complicated. Camilo thinks after all this time, she should love him. Celia thinks perhaps the shame of having another man’s baby is part of the problem. Camilo doesn’t think in this day and age that’s a real excuse. But he does know that if Ivan comes back and tries to take Perla and Lucia away from him, he won’t allow it. He swears!

Avances: Benito snaps pictures of MP and Bob in the act. Camilo looks really fine shirtless. Tony tells Carly he knows Perla is Ivan’s baby. We again hear Camilo vow to not allow Ivan to take his women. The announcer says it’s war!

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