Caray, Caray!

Hi all. I've been watching Por Ella from the beginning as a replacement for La Que No Podia Amar, which sadly ends this week. I'll give this recap thing a whirl.

Tonight Helena admits to her father, Bastardo, everything that's gone wrong including having mortgaged the house to buy the travel agency. After snapping at his wife not to say stupid things, he tells Helena that he told her so and of the hundreds of stupid things she's done this is the worst. He orders her to move out of the house in the morning. [Side rant: Can I say how much I detest, loathe, and despise this man? In order to control my fury last week at having to watch him spastically whistle so he could ignore a heartfelt conversation from his wife, I pictured her stabbing him repeatedly in the face with a fork. Ass.] As you see, Madelaine, I completely agree with you.

JC while fleeing from the police hits an embankment and drives over a cliff. He is thrown from the car, unconscious, and gets his wallet stolen on the beach. The thief crawls under the upside-down car to rob the cell phone also, and the car explodes in a fiery ball. Plutarco the Putz and his goon are there and see the explosion from up on the cliff. The Putz doesn't care. A couple of drunks find JC and bring him to a shack, where a homeless person, once an intern, treats his wounds. JC doesn't want to go to a hospital. At the crash site the police state the body is too badly burned to be identified, but clearly it was JC.

Next morning Helena begs Sylvia to go with her and Lalo (yes, yes, yes!), but Sylvia says her place is there. Bastardo says Lalo is staying with them, and then convinces a reluctant and distraught Helena that it's for the best because she has no job and no apartment (yeah, because of you). Helena promises to come see Lalo every day.

Modesto and Adriano each cry when told by phone of JC's death. Modesto tries to tell Eugenia that JC is dead, but she doesn't believe it. "The heart of a mother is never wrong. He's alive."

Helena moves in with Luci, and the camera makes sure we see the wedding invitation get ignored again during the unpacking (I don't understand this anvil at all).

The evil Rebecca is upset over JC's death and turns down The Putz's request for Jacuzzi time. He throws a little tantrum and she says only someone inhuman could be having fun at this time.

JC sneaks into his parents' house and writes his mother a letter, which he hides inside a framed picture of the two of them. His mother finds him, and he tells her they won't be seeing each other for a while. She asks if it because he's gotten into trouble at college, and he says it's something like that. Eugenia gives him jewels for money, which JC tries to turn down but she tells him, "You are my best jewel. These mean nothing."

While applying for a job, Helena is told that JC is dead. She doesn't react much. She's told she can't have the job because she's being blacklisted by the Tourism Association. She's turned down for several other jobs.

Adriano lets Mutt and Jeff keep their jobs- that this was JC's last request of him. Their new boss will be someone named Ramos Arrieta. Privately, Adriano explains to The Putz that he wants to keep them close because something about all this fraud business doesn't add up to him. The Putz objects but is over-ruled.

Helena tells her mom over the phone about JC. Sylvia says she's taking it too calmly. Helena says JC ruined her life, but her mom reminds her that she loved him.

JC pawns the jewels for a fraction of what they're worth because he has no ID. He takes back one necklace.

Helena sees the cover story of JC's death at the newsstand and breaks down crying.

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