Caray, Caray!

Recap by Anita

Lo del anterior
Patricio and Matilde are talking in his room.  Pato wants her to ask her sister Estelita if there is any news of Luciana.  He doesn’t know Rod went after her.  Roselena walks in and hears the tail end.  She goes off on him.  Luci’s name was never to be mentioned again in this house.  He wants to know why she is surprised that he would want to hear about Luciana.  Even though she is no longer part of the family, he’s going to continue to seek her out.  Roselena dismisses Mati and this time tells her to shut the door.

She recognizes that he is an adult [really?] and she can’t pick his friends for him [really?] and she can’t stop him from chasing after Luciana [maybe not], but she wants him to remember that it was thanks to Luciana that she got “sick.”  Mamá demands an answer to her trick question,  “What’s more important to you, Luci or my health?”   Pato calls her bluff reminding her how she hurt the people that he most loves, then turns his back on her and rolls to the other side of the room.


In Het Het
Don A. talks to his dead vampire bat head trophy [it’s probably a rabid wolf, but in any case it’s a bad taxidermy job] on the wall.  He can’t figure out why after watering his little flower, another gardener just comes in and swipes her away right from under his nose.  He wants an answer to another trick question, “If she [Luci] has a husband, why isn’t he here?”

The two Het Het Chisme Twins follow Luci down the street, trying to catch up and talk to her at the same time.  They want to know if she going to take the call from the Licenciado, ese.  She stops them short and runs off around the corner.  They claim she’s changed, the city has changed her, she’s no longer the country girl she once was.

Luci arrives at Telephone Central.  She asks about Don Serapio.  Procopio says he’s getting better.  Claudio Linares calls back.  Luci tells him about winning the ceramics prize and getting orders for more pieces.  Claudio tells her that he’s coming to see her in a few days.  Is there anything she needs?  She avers that it’s hard to find certain pigments there.  Claudio says he’ll call her back tomorrow morning when she knows which colors she wants.  She tells him she won’t be home in the morning.  Instead of stopping there, she lets him know that she will be at the clinic in the morning with her a-ma.  Luci realizes a minute too late that she’s made a BIG ooopsie.  Claudio wants to know if she’s ill.  She tells him no.  Instead of stopping there, Luci, being Luci, can’t lie.  She tells him there’s a very tiny remote slight possibility that she’s expecting un bebé.  A baby, an astonished Claudio replies.  Well, not certain, not for sure.  Then what makes her think so?  Magda and Paz say they can see it in her eyes.  But then that’s the way things are determined there.  He want to be sure everything is ok and to call him after the tests are done.

At home, Luci tells her mother that, if the test is positive, Claudio wants the three of them, Luci, Paz and Baby, to come to D.F. to live together.  Paz says she wouldn’t feel comfortable there; her  place is here in S. Francisco el Alto, but if she wants to go and be with her father and lack for nothing, nothing should keep her here.  Luci says her place is here, too.  Then she gets nauseous from the odor of the tomatoes.  Magda and Paz give each other a knowing look.


In the Web of the Black Spider(woman)
Gala holds the pregnancy test.  She cogitates.  Is she or isn’t she going to take the test.  She hesitates.  She goes for it.  She sets it up.  She aims, she scores—nope, it’s negative.  [It’s hard to tell if she’s relieved or disappointed—either have extreme ramifications.]   Julie has arrived to share the results.  She seems genuinely disappointed she’s not going to become a grandmamá [haha].  It’s only been a couple of days, after all, there’s still time, time to try again (with The Rod) to get some positive results.

Gala is getting ready to crash the Torreslanda family gathering.  The City Chisme Twins arrive.  Gala’s excuse to show up is that she has a present for Roselena that she brought all the way from Colombia (proving that she’d actually been there).  The real reason, of course is to nuzzle up to Rod Her Bod Now.  She tells the Twins to go ahead—she wants it to seem as though she’s just popping in and doesn’t want anyone to figure out it was all carefully planned ahead of time.


The Cosmic Bed
Oscar and Conny wake up in the same bed to greet a beautiful day with birds chirping in the background.  Oscar leans over and kisses Conny and strokes her face.  They both have that lovely morning-after glow of two contented individuals who have known the intimacies of the cosmic bed (gracias, Isabel Cordero).  There is pretty music in the background while Oscar offers coffee for a queen.  They are beginning to learn some useful personal things about each other—they both like their coffee black.

A little later, they are both up and dressed, suitcases ready to roll.  Oscar thanks Conny for a spectacular night.  Between amorous kisses, he tells Conny he’s so in love with her.  She with him.  Oscar wants to unpack and spend another night.  Conny puts the damper on his ardor.  They both have to work tomorrow.


The Torreslanda Estate
Frigida Brigida is still complaining about setting up for the al fresco Sunday family-style get-together.  She wants Genaro to get busy and fire up the grill.  Hanna is boasting to Melissa & Lula about the menu.  Everything is going to be grilled (but she hasn’t mentioned the tacos that are coming.)  Pato arrives and the chit chat is kept very general.

Boris arrives.  He wants a chance to talk to Rosa before she sees him and runs him off.  Rod arrives for the repast “en famille” and praises Hanna for her organizational skills.  She says it’s great to be doing this now that everyone is together again, well, except for Tía Conny.  Pato, very calculatingly states that it’s only Luci who is missing.  That curbs everyone’s enthusiasm.  What a way to ruin the moment.  [Pato was probably taking notes on who looked the most uncomfortable.  Naturally, it was Rod.]  He knows darn well that Mama Rosa just admonished him about not mentioning Luci’s name again in this house.  Maybe he can claim it was a technicality, since they were all outside the house.

Lorenzo and Fabian have arrived at the Torreslanda gate with the tacos.  The security guard remembers them, but won’t let them in and goes to fetch Frigida. 

Meanwhile, Max, Gabriel and Marco have joined the party under the canopy; the fiancées are late—the boys say, you know how girls are, they need time to get ready.  They decided not to argue with them and if they want to be late, let them be late.  Roselena arrives.  Boris sees his chance to receive absolution from Santissima Rosa for his bedroom transgression and approaches her.  He receives absolution and her blessing to return whenever there are other people in the house.

Frigida won’t let the tacos nor the taco carriers through the gate and tells them to begone.  Neither he nor his sister Luciana are welcome in this house.  Lorenzo protests that he’s just making the delivery that Hanna requested.  Frigida could care less—it’s not her problem.  From somewhere in the back, Hanna comes running to save the day and the tacos.  The gates are opened, she takes a reluctant Lorenzo by the hand and leads him onto the grounds, much to Boris’ distaste.  For Frigida it’s another lost opportunity to stick it a poor muerto de hambre, but she’s going to keep an eye on him because for sure he is a ratero (pickpocket).

Pato sees Lorenzo first, then Rod.  Hanna introduces Lorenzo to Max as Luciana’s brother.  Everybody welcomes the pair, asking about the tacos de canasta.  Rosa appears  wanting to know what this “tipo” is doing here.  Hanna speaks up, this is Lorenzo, she invited him.  He’s the guy that sells tacos outside the Tiendita de la Colonia.  Doesn’t she remember him?  Roselena says she didn’t ask what his name was, she wants to know what he is doing here.  Max says, what’s the problem?  Everybody loves tacos.  Boris is getting steamed, but not by the heat of the grill.  He wants to know if Hanna is going to take Lorenzo by the hand in order to eat his tacos?

Lorenzo doesn’t want to stay although he’s been invited to stay and serve the tacos.  They just want to get paid and leave.  Rod gets his billfold out.  What he really wants to know is how Luciana is (even though he just saw her yesterday).  He doesn’t know how much the tacos were and tries to give Lor more than the 300 pesos for the 100 tacos.  He tries to get Lor to keep it all.  Lorenzo doesn’t want it.  Dicho:  El dinero no se regala; el amor sí, pero el dinero no (Money isn’t given away; love yes, but money no).  Rod tries to justify it by saying that if they stay and serve, that’s more money for them.  Lorenzo says he doesn’t want to be here, not even in dreams, after what they did to Luciana.  They are only there because Hanna requested an order from them.  So, he hands the bill back to Rodrigo and Rod fishes out the right change.



En el Barrio
Matilde is visiting her sister Estelita [Thank you, Vivi for clearing up her source of income].  She asks if there is any word of Luciana.  Estelita says no and before Matilde can say no, no, she picks up the phone and calls Licenciado Linares—it’s Sunday, he’s not working so it won’t be a bother and she has his cell phone number.  Matilde hears Estelita say, Un Bebé?  Woops, the cat and the kittens are out of the bag and scampering across D.F.  Claudio is happy; Matilde is thunderstruck.  What did he say?  What baby?  Estelita is matter-of-fact, Luciana’s of course.

Mati’s thunderstorm passes, but she is muy impactada.  All of a sudden she remembers that she has to go immediately, she’s overstayed the time Rosa allowed her to have.  [Servants don’t get Sundays off when there is a family dinner on?]  She’s very preoccupied with the news that Lucia might be a mamá and Rodrigo doesn’t know.  She just can’t stay any longer.  Mati wants Estelita to send greetings to Luci, but has to hurry off.  She really feels that Luci and Rodrigo should be together (for love or parenthood or both, she doesn’t say), it’s just not right.  Estelita sees that she is agitated.  Mati realizes it and will try to disimular (feign or pretend) or everyone will know something is wrong.  Estelita is sure that Luci has Lic. Linares on her side and will help her.

There is a park nearby the barrio complex and Vio, Serena, Ofelia and Marianita are playing ball.  Vio hears her name when the others have gone off to chase the ball.  Someone approaches with two youngsters in tow.  It is Mrs. Marcial—coming to resume hostilities with Violeta, this time with two-legged ammunition.  They are Valeria and Errafito (?), two charming, polite little kids.  Mama dismisses them to go and play and lights into Vio again with the same old story which Vio tries in vain to deny, that she’s had nothing to do with Marcial since she found out he was married.


In the Comandante’s Office
OK, now are we more convinced that Mr. Marcial is in it for career advancement?  We see him reporting to the Comandante, who is impatient with his lack of progress on the Inferno case, one which Marcial himself requested starting.  Marcial admits he has nada contundente (lit. nothing blunt, bruising; my definition, nothing firm).  Comandante says he needs pruebas (proof).  Marcial is sure he’s getting close, sure they are laundering money and sure it is more than an antro.  There is a clandestine casino in the back room.  He’s knows he’s onto something *big.*  Comandante will give him a few more days and advises him to get to work.


The Torreslanda Estate, cont’d.
The tacos are delicious and they’ve been a big hit [although we didn’t hear Rosa’s opinion].  Lorenzo is a hard worker, says Pato, proudly.  Speaking of someone who doesn’t work hard, Aldo shows up.  He re-charges the party with his bluff ‘n puff.  He obviously thinks well of Lorenzo and is sorry he didn’t stick around.

Julie and Gala show up next, ready to do the fashion runway bit, preening as they move toward their target—Rodrigo.  He meanwhile, tries to make himself very small and invisible and wonders who invited her.  He doesn’t want to see her.  Pato thinks it was probably Valentina.

The Rosa-doll has been rewound and rushes up over-animated to see the ladies.  Gala launches into her role as party crasher—oh, no, she’s not going to stay, Gala didn’t know this was a *family* get-together.  She merely wanted to drop by to bring Rosa a little detalle (apparently this means a present in this context, rather than a detail) she got on her trip.  Rosa is thrilled with the lovely lavender, plum and rose print scarf.  Max wonders if someone told them about the party.  Gala lies easily, no, she hadn’t heard.  Rosa immediately invites them to stay.  Gala immediately goes over to the table where Rod and Pato are sitting next to each other.  She greets and speaks to Pato but places her hand seductively on Rod’s shoulder.  Rod looks mighty uncomfortable.  Gala doesn’t speak to him.  He gets up and leaves the table.

Matilde is back and crosses no-man’s land.  She is immediately spied by Rosa who jumps up and wants to know why she’s so late in returning.  Mati tells her about the phone call to Lic. Linares and spills the beans about the bebé.  Rosa nearly has an attack of apoplexy.  In an immediate flashback, she remembers Rodrigo telling her he was Luci’s first.  She knows what that means if he finds out.  She quickly erases that scene from her mind declaring to Mati that she doesn’t believe it, it can’t be Rod’s.  Mati thinks otherwise.  She thinks Rodrigo should be told.  Rosa grabs her and absolutely prohibits her from saying anything to anybody, underscore nada a nadie (nothing to no one).

Pato rolls over and wants to know what is going on.  Oh, nothing (great disimulando on both their parts).  But what got her so upset that she grabbed Mati’s arm like that.  They were just talking…..about household things.  The only reason she claims she’s disturbed is that she only gave Mati a couple of hours off and look at the time she returns.  Pato says, “No te creo nada.”  He doesn’t believe a word; she was so happy until she talked to Mati and then it all changed.  Rosa wants him to stop the interrogations as she stomps off.  Mati asks Patito not to ask her anything and follows Rose into the house.  Pato is very curious.


In the Cone of Silence
Apparently Rod had no recourse but to go and talk to Gala away from everyone.  Actually, they are in that semi-circular basket-weave lounge chair thinggy that Alex and Maria Jose used three years ago.  Gala is seen launching her reverse psychology script—you never “querered” me.  Seriously, answer me.  Not true, says Rod, playing right into her hands.  If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have gotten engaged.  She comes back with, obviously your promise wasn’t that important or you wouldn’t have left me at the altar.  He doesn’t want to go back over ancient history.  She doesn’t either.  She claims it only hurts when she thinks about it.  It *was* important to him, too, he just couldn’t help having fallen in love with Luci [Viewerville agrees the timing wasn’t great.]

Gala’s little teatrito is working most excellently—Were?  Past Tense?  You Sure?  You are still in love with her, admit it.  He charges her with destroying that love.  She diverts any blame for what *they* did to Lucia from herself.  All she did was use the picture on the front without knowing it was Luciana.  It was all your mother’s and my mother’s doings.  Yours because she has this strange obsession/hate for Luciana; mine because she never forgave you for leaving me at the altar.

Gala and Rodrigo continue their civil discussion.  Rod knows he was a jerk for leaving her at the altar, but also for not defending Luci when she needed him.  So he’s carrying a great weight on his back, too.  Gala says she’s not asking him to retake their relationship.  She doesn’t think it would work, but they could be “friends” [and she certainly expects “with benefits” to go with it].  She states the obvious to him, they have so much in common—friends, family, pasatiempos (pastimes) [a good compound word], professional activities  [Gala certainly is playing a cool hand, and looking particularly lovely and behaving graciously.  If I were seeing her for the first time, I’d believe she was a perfect match for Rod the Bod is About to be Hers Again], the movies, dinners…they always got along very well.  She suggests they intentar de nuevo (try again).  Rod doesn’t want to give her any false hopes.  A romantic relationship between them can’t be.  She understands clearly.  [Dang, nailed him].


After Dinner Chit Chat Among the Younger Set
Everyone is most satisfied with the meal.  Boris lets Hanna know that he is jealous—the hand-holding was completely unnecessary.  She says it didn’t mean anything.  Lorenzo was reluctant to come through the gate and Hanna had to prod him.  Melissa and Aldo back up Hanna; Lula backs up Boris [sigue un poco de interes on her part?]  Hanna wants to know if Boris doesn’t trust her; he’s seeing things that aren’t there.  She’s mystified that Boris straightened everything out with Rosa and now he comes up with this?  Boris says it’s not Hanna he doesn’t trust, it’s Lorenzo.  It’s all about how the family treated Luciana, protests Hanna.  Does he think it’s ok to mistreat Lorenzo, too?  She wants to talk to Boris alone.  The others leave.  Basically, Boris doesn’t want to see her with any other chavo (guy).  The turn away from each other—no resolution.


Inside the Mansion
Matilde brings Rose a cup of tea.  She reminds Matilde not to talk about you-know-what.  Julie comes in to pump her for information.  Roselena has her own script to follow—it’s what everyone knows, that Luci already knows Claudio Linares is her father.  Doesn’t she realize what that means?  She could come back as Luciana Linares.  [And that would change her how?  Only to narrow minds would this be significant.]

Julie and Roselena continue their discussion.  Julie warns that Luciana could come back to recuperar el terreno perdido (lit. recover lost ground; fig. make up for lost time).  Rosa thinks the possibility of Luci wanting to take up the social position accorded to her is remote, but Julie warns that Linares might convince her and that would be the end of her is she decides to accuse her.  Oh, no, Rosa is not going to go down by herself.  Julie is up to her neck in everything—she and Rosa were socios (allies in this case) in everything, knew everything and kept quiet about it.  Julie thinks it best if Gala and Rod get married as soon as possible.  Gala had been feeling a little off the last few days so Julie made her take a pregnancy test.  Roselena is hoping that if she is, this one comes out of the gates first.  Julie, surprisingly, answers truthfully, that no, it was negative.


In HetHet
Paz wants to move – TODAY, after they eat.  She wants Magda to move with them, but isn’t going to pressure her.  Ariche comes for a visit.  He sees they are moving and will help.  He is a cute kid.  Magda feels a little left out when he announces that from now on he’ll be visiting at Paz’ house.  Moving time begins.  Luci is happy to be back in the house where she grew up.  Por fin pienso que me regrese el alma al cuerpo (Finally, I feel my soul returning to my body).  Each corner brings me lots of memories.  You can breathe in so much love.


Luci, Paz, Magda and Ariche are still moving stuff.  Procopio comes to offer his help, but everything is done.  He’ll help hang the pictures, instead.  Doña Luchita arrives bringing a ladder and stays to supervise.  She didn’t think it was very nice of Don A. to leave the place in such a mess.  [She must be over him.]  Procopio has to go get bigger nails.  Luci tells Ariche to get the money from her wallet and he pulls out the photo of Rodrigo, with the inscription on the back professing his undying love for her.  Luci grabs it and gets emotional and misty-eyed.


The Torreslanda Estate, cont’d.
The party’s pretty much over and most of the guests are leaving.  Roselena has re-emerged to say good-bye alongside Max and Pato.  Rosa was about to scoff at the humble tacos when Rod comes up and covers that the tacos were very good, right, mamá?  Everyone agrees, so what can she say.

Oy vey, Conny and Oscar have returned.  Los dos, se nota, are still wearing their morning-after glow this evening and especially Conny’s happiness spills all over Julie and Roselena.  Aldo asks them to join the left-overs (guests, that is).  There’s a little kissy-face between the new lovers that makes everyone squeal with delight.  [Oscar is looking particularly handsome and supremely satisfied.]

Before they leave, Marco and Gabe tell Rod it looked as though things went well with Gala.  Rod tells the Bobbsey Twins that yesterday he went to Luci’s village and he realizes that everything is lost.  He begged Luciana’s pardon for not believing or trusting her and asked her to come back with him and they could start over [that is not quite the way Viewerville saw it…but man, Rod looks good in his aviator shades and I’d fall for him right there, if I didn’t remember that Alejandro Lombardo kisses better than anyone].  Luci doesn’t want anything to do with him…and he’s pithed that Luci accepts things from Linares, that she rejected coming from him.  If it was so easy for her to erase him from her heart, he’ll have to do the same.  [Gala, watch out, you are about to become the rebound gal-a.]


Avances:
Luci tells Paz that this baby will be the grandchild of Linare’s worst enemy, Maximino Torreslanda.
Roselena tells Max about Luci’s pregnancy.
Gala muses, what if the domestica (drink) is pregnant.
Rod tells Pato he thinks Gala is being sincere.
Luci gets the results of her pregnancy test at the clinic and calls Linares with the news.

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