Caray, Caray!

I cooked dozens and dozens of Hanukah doughnuts tonight for a party, then cleaned up, then watched the show, and then blogged it. I don't have time to proofread it, sorry!

Pina rewards Candy with 2 spa passes for finding Abeja. She and Vince tell Adoracion, "Take this devil dog, with hate in his eyes, away!"

Rebeca misses much of Chela's in-the-dark monologue (which she, and we, have heard dozens of times) as she dozes in Pancho's bed ("in MY house" Chela barks). When Rebe sort of wakes up, Chela yells louder. "What an idiotic excuse, that your house burned, right, like I believe that."

Chela stalks out of the house crying. Rebeca staggers into Pancho's room, still dizzy. She knows the kids hate her. She and Pancho kiss. Pepe enters without knocking and grins at them.

In the barrio, Chela cries at Jessenia. She seems ready to move on but Jessenia eggs her on until: "I'll never accept that I've lost Pancho."

Pepe wants to open a auto shop with Tomas.

Adoracion comes to Pancho's house and says the "usurper" (the false Abeja) got her fired.

Vince calls Candy on their new secret cellphones. He's on the roof with binoculars. He reads her more poetry, pretending he wrote it.

Only Pepe stands up for his dad; the other kids say: "she goes or we go." Regardless, Pancho says she stays till the next day.

Pancho dreams: he's kissing Rebe, but suddenly Rebe turns into Chela. Then Rebe kisses Vince, Pancho screams, NO! Beto arrives in the dream saying: "I told you everything in life turns out badly and ends in death!" Pancho wakes up, hears shouting, and opens the door: there's Rebe, bleeding. "Chela stabbed me with a knife." No, it's another dream! He wakes up again and staggers into the next room, waking Rebe. He tells the dreams.

Enzo dreams of Violeta, Monica's mom. Now we find out she didn't die - she left him!

Pina sits alone in the living room. Freddy comes in and nicely asks what she's doing. "Waiting for dawn... That Tasmanian demon wasn't Abeja. But how are you?" "Did I tell you I asked Moni to marry me? And she said no." "Well, you don't like her much." "But wouldn't she make me a good wife?" "She's unstable." Pina thinks they're too young, anyway, then reminds him "You're the most important thing in my life... after the dog. Let her go to the grocer's son, there are lots of pretty girls out there."

Pancho brings Rebe breakfast in bed. She's still sick from the pill, her house is burnt and Chela hates her.

Candy comes and tells Pancho the show Pina Opina will, today, be half her and half Pina for the first time.

Adoracion comes in with the usurpadora. She cries to Ana: "I miss the shouting, I miss my home." Tomas comes in, she throws herself into his arms.

At the dog psychiatrist Pina says her dog has gone crazy. Vince is there, but he's texting Candy. The doc says they will soon be the happy grandparents of six puppies.

Ana, confused as usual, tells Lupe "I like Manuel, sort of, but there's tension with the other guys now."

"Carmen Matahari" (Candy) enters the spa, two VIP passes in hand. Close behind, "Bergerac" (Vince). Both have hats over their eyes. Bergerac says his wife is dead. Matahari: "My husband is not dead." "I am sorry to hear that." "He went off with his taichi master." "Sorry." "I'll get over it." She lets Bergerac have her second pass.

Wait, how did Vicente get into the lady's steam room? Candy: "Tell me a poem." "I didn't bring the book." He tells her about Mesoamerican spa rites: The temascal purifies body and soul...

... naturally, down the hall come Pina and her friend! Candy rushes out and says "Don't go in there, it's cold and there's fungus! It smells bad, like a rotten egg!"

Rebe and Pancho take a meeting with the director of the school Rebe is recommending for Temo. This woman, supposedly German, is scary looking and humorless, maybe a transsexual. She says Temo will have to take an admission exam. "But Temo doesn't know any German." "He'll take a class in the afternoons." When they leave, Pancho derides the director, she's like a badly-paid sergeant, he's not sure about this, he'll have to talk it over with Chela. Rebe starts up with her speech, "you want Chela," Pancho gets pissed and leaves.

Back at the spa: while Candy works hard to convince Cati and Pina not to go in the steam room, Vince gets so well boiled, he faints and the paramedics have to come for him. Mouth-to-mouth, oh no! Only from Candy! Vince goes running through the lady's dressing room; then Candy runs through the men's dressing room. She kisses Vince there and Pina and Cati are about to bust in and see! But they get intercepted by another guy who reminds them it's the men's room.

At Avon the receptionist flirts with Pepe again, and again, Moni sees them and is very jealous.

Uh-oh, Rebe left her cosmetics bag at Pancho's house. She goes back for it and encounters the crying Adoracion. Then Pancho comes in. He tells her, offhandedly, that Chela has a boyfriend. She says that changes things - but then why hasn't Chela come back to the house?

In the barrio, Chela runs into a guy who says he's lost. "You and me both," Chela mutters. As she's giving him directions Ana sees the two together; she runs after the guy to scold him. Then she scolds Chela for having a boyfriend; then she says she wants to stay with Chela in the old neighborhood.

Beto has a wife! He's ironing, so he must be hen-pecked. The wife, Maria, yells: her clothes are old, he mustn't leave a single wrinkle while ironing, he hasn't paid the rent, his love is worth nothing to her.

Pina is having no luck at all making her own breakfast. Everything boils over and burns. "I quit!" She tells Vince the eggs are well cooked, they've been on for 48 minutes. He spits out the coffee, perhaps made from socks. She says, "Then you make breakfast next time! ... I miss Adoracion, I need her!"

Ana yells at Rebe. Yikes, she is so so rude! "You have no business here, leave and never come back. It's your fault our family is a disaster. We will never accept you, never." Lupe comes in and tries to reason with Ana, who turns on her and yells, "You were always dad's favorite."

Beto enters Pancho's office sweating. "My beloved wife has wanted me to ask you to eat with us for a long time..." So Pancho goes to dinner and is assaulted by the bossy wife while Beto cooks and serves in an apron. The wife, Maria, flirts disgustingly and disparages Beto's cooking. Then she presses Pancho hard to give her husband a promotion and raise. Pancho: "Yes, he deserves it, but since we are cutting costs, it would look strange." Beto apologizes later; Pancho says "I'll give you a 20 percent raise since otherwise your wife will kill you!" Now he knows why Beto is so nervous all the time.

Enzo yells at Vince: "You abandoned our 'plans' just to chase a skirt." In fact, Vince had forgotten about their plans (to buy a majority share of Avon) - and anyway he doesn't see what marriage has to do with it. "Why are you so insistent that your daughter marry Freddy?" "Because I don't want Moni to end up doing what my wife did - leaving. I loved Violeta with all my soul." He tells Vince she isn't dead, and cries.

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