Caray, Caray!

Our episode opens on Freddy's busted nose. He's acting kind of bemused, but Pina is freaking out. She winds up squeezing it and making things worse.

Vins is still gasping for breath in the grip of the Candi-Pina vicegrip. Support one radio program, lose the other lady.

Vins and Enzo want to double their salary, and Beto whips out the Titanic analogy. The company will sink. I wonder if the new businessman of the year will be clever enough to tell Beto to think outside the box (which miraculously solved Avon's problems last time).

Arnold shows up at Rebe's with a slightly floppy purple flower (sexually symbolic, hmmm?). Her attitude is unchanged, but that doesn't stop him. Ding dong... it's Pancho! He demands to be let in, Rebe hides, and Arnold gets the door. Pancho barges in and talks Rebe out of the bathroom, and Arnold makes himself scarce with some minor protests ("she's my friend!" "The buzzards are your friends, now get out of here")

Popeye is still pining for Abeja, so Lupita and Temo take him to la casa irabien to see her.

Meanwhile Pinas ridiculous sister YuyU shows up (and they play wonderfully together, speaking and gesticulating just alike). She's come to drop off her daughter Meli, who is like an impossibly smarmy combination of Shirley Temple and Pina, so she can go hound her husband at a conference to keep him faithful. In nauseating (yet predictable) fashion, Temo falls for the brat and we're treated to some truly vile child acting. I dread that this subplot may afford him even more face time.
But hey, it was almost worth it to see Pina, Yuyu, and Meli all bickering with the exact same inflections, pronunciation (amors, pors, etc.), and the same aggressive head-wagging.

Let's see, Fers is still looking for her kid she put up for adoption. Unfortunately, she takes ill, and despite her protestations the maids call Doc Oct, who demands she be hospitalized.

Pancho and Rebe have made up with alarming speed, and he makes her the best tortilla in Mexico (tortilla in the spanish style, with eggs and fried potatoes).

Pepe is happy to be working on a car project for Avon marketing (I missed the first hour, so I'm not clear on how a car fits into cosmetics), but surprised to find that the vice president has taken a direct supervisory role. Enzo has lightened up a little about Pepe and Monica, but that isn't saying much. He tells the boy he'll make him wish he'd never been born if he hurts his little girl.

Freddy looks remarkably pleased with himself for some scheme he's cooked up to get back at Pepe for dating his ex.

Chela clearly hasn't yet enacted her plan to start acting and dressing cooler, but she earns back a few points in my book when she points out how absurd and gross Temo's new crush is.

Tomas professes his love for Lupita (huh? that ship has sailed, bro). She stupidly comes to his house to tell him what she could have told him in the street: no. Unfortunately, she does not benefit from my insight, and Alex shows up with some flowers (why was he there?). He gets mad, dumps the flowers in the street, and that's that.

Now begins a sequence that I think of as loading a musket... the show is winding up for a big huge fight at a hospital (standard novela fare).
Vins informs Pina that Fers is really sick, and she reminds him that they should probably go visit her. He acts like it was his idea.
Pancho and Rebe are interrupted in the middle of their makeup brunch by Pancho's phone. They're headed for the hospital.
Pepe gets the same call (same ringtone as his dad, that's cute) and is also headed to the hospital.
Ana has the same ringtone. She's also going to the hospital.
At the hospital, Pina overhears Fers changing her will to give everything to Pancho. She begins to shred the daffodils she brought for Fers. See you next time!

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