Caray, Caray!

Enzo is not happy with the sight he comes home to. Frauddie snaps his fingers at Pepe. Pepe tells Enzo he's leaving, but only bodily. And he gives Mónica another kiss first! Enzo again pressures Moni to promise never to see him again. This time she screams in his face! "We have a big problem, Super-Suegro," Frauddie tells Enzo.

Back to the restaurant. Vince confesses to Candy that he's been pretending to be Pancho with Yuri, but swears he's not having a thing with her. Candy's mad, but he begs her to help him out. (Since Candy's been saying all along that she wants to get revenge on Vince, this would be the time to throw him under the bus. Well, the latest of many, that is.)

Yuri and Pancho have been seated in the lounge because the regular dining area is full. Yuri, who is still convinced that Pancho is a chauffeur, tries to get him to wait outside in "that thing." Pancho defends La Burra's honor. Candy comes over and pretends to be with the restaurant and tells Yuri that her table is ready and Mr. Lopez is waiting. Yuri again ignores Pancho when he says he's Lopez and she goes to Vince's table. Candy tells Pancho she works here now and didn't want to tell him. He doesn't buy her story, but she promises to explain everything when they get home.

Manuel tells Ana his life story. His family had some money, but they wanted him to study business administration and he didn't want to, so he left home at a young age to make his own life. Turns out his family owns a record label! Ana's eyes get very big.

Vince has had a lot to drink. He keeps up the Pancho pretense - he's got the vocabulary down, more or less (at least to where a Japanese woman can't tell the difference). She wants to hear more of his folksy talk. He keeps trying to sidetrack the conversation to business. She wants to skip dinner entirely, take him to her room, and do something else. Her husband arrives in Mexico tomorrow. He trusts her blindly, and if she tells him to sign, he'll sign.

Adoración tries to make nice with Tomás. Pina tries to get her to do some housework so she can have Tommy all to herself. Tomas wants his job back. He explains that he and his sister are orphans, their parents died in an accident, and they really need the money. Pina is touched and promises to convince her husband. Tomas is so grateful he almost kisses her face, but then backs off and kisses her hand. Ado is jealous! "Where's my kiss?"

Yuri wants Vince to talk to her in "Mexican;" he can say whatever he likes. He says all kinds of crazy stuff, most of which goes over my head, but I do get something about rocking the cradle and making the baby dizzy, and "ay mamacita, you're so curvy, and me without brakes." (This reminds me of that movie where Jamie Lee Curtis would go crazy whenever she heard someone speaking Russian. I wish I could remember the movie.) She wants to rip his clothes off. Flustered, he says (in English) "Business are business." She'll speak to her husband on only one condition: that she and Vince spend the night together. Vince whimpers. Yuri offers him a massage - in her suite, of course.

Pancho is at home with Candy. Finally she explains that Vince is posing as Pancho. She assures him, however, that Vince is going to close the deal. He needs the deal just as much as they do. But Pancho is not assured at all and goes back there to make sure.

Back to Enzo and Frauddie. Enzo mentions Frauddie's recent trip to Brazil with the plumber's sister. Frauddie says he shouldn't have done it. "You're just like your father," Enzo says. "Mónica doesn't deserve that." Apparently, however, it's not a deal-breaker in Enzo's book. F tells E that SHE broke up with HIM. She's super-obsessed with Pepe. He says there are thousands of "girls like Mónica." Enzo takes offense and gets a bit intimidating with him and says Mónica is unique. They agree that Frauddie will fix this because he and Mo are in love.

Moni calls Pepe from her room. She says she doesn't know why he loves her. "Do you love me?" he asks. "I adore you." "That's all I wanted to hear!"

By the time Pancho gets back to the restaurant, Vince and Yuri have already been gone for an hour. He calls Vince, who is now in the hotel lobby with Yuri. Vince doesn't answer the phone, but tells Yuri he has to go home to a sick child. She thinks his servants should take care of that. Then he says he has a problem "muy embarazoso." (Not to be confused with "embarazada"!) She says he's never been with a Japanese woman before, but they can always buy one of those little blue pills. He backpedals and says that's not it. She kisses him and says he will be hers - the deal depends on it!

Enzo wants Moni to talk to Frauddie. She doesn't want to be with a guy who's only interested in himself. Enzo says better that than the son of a greengrocer. She asks Enzo why he isn't putting her happiness first. But she agrees to talk to Frauddie.

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Pancho visits Pina; or as he calls, her, Quina. (She tells him it's Pina with a P; he later calls her "Tina with a P.") She calls him Sancho. He says he's looking for Vince. He puts a lot of doubts in her mind about Vince and Yuri.

Frauddie tells himself Daddy and Enzo are right, he can't let Pepe have his chick. Moni comes in and tells him to leave her alone. He says he's sorry and such. He says all the right things, but his tone barely approaches wheedling, much less begging. Then he suggests that they could just be great friends, no strings attached. She says she's in love with Pepe. He says she deserves better. (Well, that still leaves Frauddie out of the picture!) Moni says if he wants to be friends, then fine, but that's all it will be. She doesn't even want him kissing her hand.

Pancho goes home and talks to Laurita's photo. Then Fer comes in and he tells her what Vince is up to. She is impactada.

Tom and Pepe at the garage... Pepe is rehashing everything to Tom, and Tom warns that Pepe's going to fill up the car with "melcocha" - far as I can tell, it's some kind of gooey sweet like treacle or possibly taffy or toffee (not that taffy and toffee are much alike). As for Tom, I guess he feels like he pulled one over on Pina.

Candy is at the old house, scolding Chela for leaving without saying goodbye. Chela tells Candy how bummed she is about Pancho being in love with Rebeca. Candy's a bit put out that Chela turned to Jess instead of her, too. Chela says fixing herself up for Pancho didn't work anyway. But Jess told her she should try making Pancho jealous.

Meanwhile, Pancho is telling Fernanda that he loves Rebeca, but it's making things very complicated. He's not sure he's doing well at his job, what with Lamberto always crying doom (hecatombe). And Rebeca's off dealing with a problem at one of the plants. Fer says Rebeca is afraid, but not because of work. It's fear of surrendering herself, fear of losing control, fear of loving him unconditionally.

Alex is visiting with Frauddie. Frauddie wants to split up Mónica and Pepe... and he wants Alex to help.

Next morning, Lambi says the employees' phones aren't getting good signals. Pancho says they need good tools to do their job and promises to take care of it. I cannot imagine that this is a plot point. I smell a product placement on the horizon.

With a smirk, Pina tells Vince at breakfast that he came home so late she didn't hear him. Also, Pancho came by last night. He told her that he was supposed to be at dinner with the Japanese woman, but they weren't there. And he said something very folksy that she didn't understand. She even does a really feeble impression of him.

Popeye barks at breakfast. Oh good, he's still alive. We hadn't seen him in a while. Maybe he was getting fixed. Anyway, Chela's there. Everyone wants her to stay this time. She doesn't say yes but she does agree to help out in the kitchen. Candy tells the others to be patient.

Vince asks Ado what means "hacer de chivo los tamales" (the folksy expression Pina didn't understand, it's literally "to make young goats into tamales"). She says it's like giving a cat for a hare, or giving something that's not what it seems. Frauddie comes to breakfast.

Chacho's in the kitchen with Chela. Somehow in that shirt, he looks like a little bald kid. She wants to tell him a big secret.

Nico is at the office, asking what's Pancho going to do about Vince's deception. Pancho says he has a plan that can't fail. Before he can say what it is, Chacho comes in with Chela's big secret: she's got a guy!

Next time:
Beca comes back.

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