Caray, Caray!

We begin our story tonight in the mean streets of the pueblo; LeoSordido has shot Pablo and Dandres.   Now both Dandres and Pablo lie in the street, bleeding, with Leo Sordido standing over them with a pistola aimed at Dandres’ heart.  LeoSordido aims carefully and we see the gun up close… and closer … he pulls the trigger, and CLICK.. bullets, no hay.  What a genius!  He shakes the  bubblegun but nothing happens. Viewerville hopes he looks into the barrel and finds the last bullet on its way out and into his empty little skull.  Suddenly, down the street, Amanda emerges from the hostel, yelling “Auxilio! Policia!” … LeoSordido disappears.   Amanda runs into the street, desperate and distressed as she sees it is Pablo and Dandres who have been shot and are lying in the street .


Further down the mean streets of the pueblo, Lic. Becerra and Camila are fretting together.  A very distraught Camila has been crying in Lic. Becerra’s office after having read DanSr’s final letter.  This was the letter  DanSr wrote to DanJr after discovering AlLooseLink’s role in taking control of Camila’s inheritance-to-be.  “It is just not fair”, she weeps, this is what DanSr was trying to say to her just before he expired, she deduces.  Camila exclaims they need to call Daniel, pronto, to tell him what is going on.  Camila wants a resolution to this growing El Malquerida Mess.

Back at the scene of the crime, Natalia has joined Amanda and now both of them are crying over Dandres and Pablo who are lying bleeding out (that ever-so-special blood type) onto this mean street. Lic. Teresa is on the phone calling for ambulances and other emergency help.  Amanda also makes a call.

The phone rings in Lic. Becerra’s office… He answers, listens, contorts his face, “Que?  Voy por alla!”  He breaks the news to Amanda that Pablo with the ever-so-special blood type and Dandres with the ever-so-special body have been shot!  AAyyyyeee! No puede ser!  Camila runs into the mean streets of the night.  Above the scene on the second floor of the hostel we see Aaron watching from the window – looking trapped – and he makes a mysterious phone call.

Blissfully ignorant over at Viv’s place, Rafa and Viv talk about Rafa’s book-in-progress.  They laugh because Rafa can write but is a lousy artist.  They joke with one another and roll onto the couch laughing, Rafa tickling Viv…. Phone rings. This must be the mystery call Aaron was making down way on the mean street.  He tells them the news of the shooting.  Caras de ticklefest instantly convert into caras de shock.  No puede ser!

Self-righteous Agustina is at the church talking (more like kvetching) to Padre.  She tells them about her disappointment in the immoral behavior of her daughters. They are both living in prohibited relationships.  How did this happen if she tried to be a good madre?  She is indignant that Xinmoral scolded her because Agustina abandoned her to follow Camila to the ranch and pursure DanSr.  Camila also scolded Agustina  because she married Dio.  What right do they have? After all, she has the right to be happy and she laments that the girls just don’t understand her.  Padre wisely suggests that Agustina must value Dio greatly to allow him to be the reason she is fighting with her daughters.  Agustina-self-justina says she didn’t think she would ever be able to love again,until, twinkle, twinkle, Dio came into her life and sprinkled his fairy love dust in her path.  Padre further observes that Camila is her ever-so-special-blood relative and he suggests that Agustina should reconcile with her.  Agustina-self-justina  continues to wonder if Dio would consider leaving her based on Xinmoral’s inmoral behavior and wonders what will  be if the town finds out about the scandal. “After all, this town is small and news travels fast!” she says.  “Take Al’s impotence as a fine example?” –she didn’t say that, but viewerville thought it, you know you did! Padre tells her if Dio leaves her because of this, it would say a lot about what kind of man he is.  After all, “Love is about acceptance”, he says.  Padre pleads with her to talk to her daughters, they need her now.

Around the corner of the mean streets, Xinmoral knocks at Al’s door, suitcase in hand.  Al gives her his “estas loca!” look.   Undaunted X announces she has dropped the news bomb to Camila that the pair of them are having an affair and Camila knows allllll about them now.  A stunned Al sputters, “How does she know and what happened?”  X reports she has no idea how Camila found out and that Camila insulted her and that they fought.  Demonstrating his complete lack of psychological insight, Al concludes that this must mean that Camila is jealous of the loveybirds and that Camila must still love him.  X. tells him to dream on, that if Camila loved him she wouldn’t be asking for the divorce.  Nonetheless, we see a glimpse of hopefulness in his expression.  X announces that they can now go public with their luuvvv.  “Not so fast”, says Al, “I will deny it”, he says, as he fears that he may not get the money from the divorce if this news goes public.  X tells him to forget about any money at this point.  She announces she will never leave.  “No way you can live here, not with my mom living here!” he says.  X reminds Al what she knows about his nefarious plans and refuses to be dissuaded, plants a kiss on him and shoves him in the face.  Seems X is more like Mumsy than we thought before.

In the dark of night, in the mean streets, Camila has arrived at Dandres’ side; she is crying and wailing for help.  We see Aaron, again, trapped in his second floor room, distraught and holding his head.  He is helpless and this is not a comfortable place to be for do-good-guy Aaron.  Rafa shows up to the street scene.  Amanda reports that she cannot be sure of who the perpetrator was, but she thinks it was LeoSordido.

Dio, sits in his den brooding.  The phone rings.  His henchman is calling him to report that Dandres and Pablo have been shot and it was Leo who did the shooting.

Flash back to the church, Agustina bids Padre goodbye although we think Padre’s wisdom was wasted breath on his part to the daffy Senora.  Tolentino charges in and breathlessly reports there has been a shooting and the victims are Pablo and Dandres.  They all convert to faces of distress and hurry off to the scene of the crime in the mean streets.

Rafa, Aaron, and Viv, in gumshoe mode, wonder who could have done this and why.  If Leo did this as a minion of Dio’s it couldn’t be an attempted hit on DanJr because neither Leo or Dio know Dandres is really DanJr.   Who and why?  Does the gun go with Colonel Mustard in the mean streets?  Rafa  reasons that Al thinks Dandres is a spy for Daniel Jr.  Maybe the geniuses ordered the hit to send a “message’ to DanJr.

Downstairs, now off the mean streets and back at the hostel, Amanda is being coaxed to make a statement to the police.  She is uncertain who it was.  She relents and agrees to go to the police Padre and Lic. Teresa accompanying her.

Dio continues to brood in his office and the phone rings.  Agustina is on the phone reporting what has happened.  Dio seems to be more interested to learn that Camila is there at Dandres’ side.  Agustina mutters something about Camila having been in town for business.  Agustina asks her Dio amor to come to get her and take her to the hospital.   Dio, in true form, growls that she can take a taxi. He will go directly to the hospital.  Poor Agustina pauses and stands in the dark mean streets – she tastes the bitterness of disillusionment.  She agrees to travel together to the hospital with Natalia.

Standing outside the church, waiting, Luzma glances up and down the darkened streets.  A car pulls up, slowly creeps in front of her.  She freezes as the passenger window is rolled down.  We all breathe a sigh of relief as it is Lic. Becerra who has seen Luzma waiting.  He offers her a ride and tells her Camila has been detained.  Luzma climbs into the car and we watch their conversation, although we are kept in silence.  We know that Lic. Becerra is telling her that Pablo and Dandres have been shot – Luzma, hearing the news looks off into the distance, into the darkness of the night.

The bleeding bodies of Dandres and Pablo have now been put in the ambulance and the sirens scream as it speeds off to the hospital.  Camila is at Dandres’ side, having traded roles with him from an earlier episode of near death.  She pleads and yells at the emergency paramedics.  She tells Dandres she cannot lose him.  She checks on Pablo.  Viewerville can recite this scene by memory because we saw it before in reverse…ff

A few miles away in the lively city of Maltepec, Isa is meeting with Daniel’s BioDad .  She gives him the power of attorney document for him to give to his  “son” Daaron to sign.  He cajoles and flatters her.  She is not amused and informs him this is not a game.

We travelcam back to the hospital.  Dio has arrived and is taking a call from one of his henchman.  The voice reports to Dio that the people who presumably wrote the letters of recommendation for Dandres do not know who he is and that no one by that name has ever worked there.  The letters are fake and Dandres is not who he says he is.  Dio squints and ponders on this news.  Camila enters the hospital and is running alongside the gurney and throws all caution to the wind by pleading with Dandres to live (mi amor) within earshot of Dio and crowd.  Dio thought bubbles about Dandres and it is not a warm fuzzy bubble.  The nurse greets the incoming group and reassures Camila that the gurney riding patients are in good hands as they wheel them off into surgery.

Dio stands behind Camila listening.  She turns, is startled , and asks what he is doing?  She starts to  excuse herself to go to the chapel and put in a prayer for the fellows with ever-so-special blood and ever-so-special body.  Dio comments that Dandres is a good worker and declares he wants justice for him and will find whoever did this to him and bring him to justice.  Camila cannot escape from Dio’s company fast enough, goes to the chapel and prays that Dandres not be taken from her.  Dio thought bubbles again that  Dandres is a traitor and that he will pay.  The bubble turns delusional when Dio assures himself that Camila will be his, only his.

At the police station, Amanda is giving a statement to the police.  She is not sure, but thinks it was LeoSordido.  She adds her theory that LeoSordido had a motive to hurt Dandres because it was Dandres who discovered he had sexually assaulted his own niece, beat him up because of it and turned him in.  She recalls that LeoSordido swore to avenge himself.

Speaking  of LeoSordido, we return to him in his usual fine form, sloshing and swilling every bottle in sight over at Dio’s place.   Omar and his henchmen arrive and they are not happy with LeoSordido.  Omar tells him that Dio knows that LeoSordido stole Dio’s gun to try to kill Andres and that Dio doesn’t forget when people “do him wrong”.  They grab Leo and rough him up (not enough as far as viewerville figures) while grabbing his arms and twisting them behind him.  In a last ditch effort to get out of this situation, LeoSordido tells the henchman that he has some money (lana) socked away that he can give them if they let him go and they will never see him again.  Omar, it turns out, has his standards, he isn’t a traitor (a thug and a hood, but not a traitor, mind you).  Leo pleads again to the thugs that everyone has a price “con dinero baile el perro”, but there is too much honor among these thieves to succumb to the bribe.

Cameraflash back to Al and Isa’s place.  Isavibora comes home whistling a happy tune and greets Xinmoral with “to what do we owe this honor of your visit?”  X. smugly responds that, guess what, “Camila knows AlLocoLonso and I are amantes.  So, there is no reason to hide”, says Ximnoral - guess who’s here for dinner, permanently? “No wayyyyy”, snaps Isa (Vaya! Is she ever cranky tonight!), Isa is not having this tawdry affair between Sonny and his wife’s sister going on together under her roof.   No sireee!  Xinmoral laughs that Isa is a hypocrite and has known about this tawdry affair all along.   Isa shoots back, “Get her out of here, Al”, and starts to flounce out.  Al pulls up his suspenders and says, “No, she stays, she is my partner!”  Isa freezes!  “Que?”  She orders Al to “get rid of her.” “And, ahem, Isa”, says X., “since this is my sister’s house and I am her half sister, I have more right to be here than you do, so there.”  Isa is not one bit pleased with this brazen attitude of Xinmoral’s and wags her finger at her warning her to watch her step because Ximena is no match for her,  “With me” she says, “Topaste la pared!”  Then she wags her finger at Al and tells Sonny to teach is wife her proper place. We think X. has nooo idea who she is up against.   Isa leaves.  Xinmoral self congratulates herself and points out to Al how easy that was.  Al, shaken after sassing Mumsy, scolds Xinmoral for confronting his mom.

Back at the hospital, Agustina and Natalia arrive and Dio tells Agustina that Camila is in the chapel praying.  Dio is introduced to Natalia and we watch as the clock is ticking on what the future holds for the two of them.

Rocio and family arrive at the hospital with Rocio wailing and and handwringing.  Natalia fills them in on what has happened to Dandres and Pablo.  She says that LeoSordido is the suspected shooter.  Of course, Luzma arrives as Rocio hears this…. Rocio tells Luzma this is her fault, Luzma and her loser uncle  are the reason Pablo is lying in the hospital fighting for his life.  If only Luzma “had maintained her place this would have never happened”.   Luzma, devastated already, tells Rocio that she would give her life in place of Pablo if she could.  Poor sincere Luzma.

We are transported to the drama in the operating room.  Doctors discuss whether or not to remove the bullet near the kidney.  If they remove it, Dandres could bleed to death.  If they don’t, the bullet could move and kill Dandres…. The doctors wonder together, what should they do?  Viewerville just wants the docs to leave the ever-so-special body in the same lovely shape as before.

Back in the hospital hallway, Camila walks with Luzma who fears that Rocio speaks the truth about the shooting being her fault.   Luzma hates her uncle as does ALL of viewerville.  Camila reassures Luzma that what happened to Pablo is not her fault.  Rocio is only saying it is Luzma’s fault because she is worried.  Uhhh sure, that’s it, Rocio will be nice again tomorrow, viewerville says.  Luzma tells Camila she knows that Camila feels the same way towards Dandres that she feels towards Pablo.  “You know about us?” asks Camila.  Luzma nods.  Mariano coinkidinkily walks up behind Camila and Luzma and apologizes for Rocio’s harsh words.  He explains that Pablo is her “light”.  He tries to reassure Luzma that Pablo loves her as she loves him.  Luzma excuses herself  to the capilla.  Camila thanks Mariano for being such a nice guy …. She hugs him in a friend kind of way… He hugs back, looking forlorn over her shoulder.

Viv and Rafa have arrived at the hospital.  The surgeons emerge from the operating room, grimfaced.  They present  Dandres’ options, remove the bullet, bleed to death, maybe…. Keep it in, move a little, bleed to death maybe.  They ask about any family Dandres may have to make the decision.  Camila says, no, there is no family available to help with the decision.  They fret and Camila takes the bull by the horns, so to speak.  She looks at both doctors, she asks who has the most experience…. Surprisingly, only one of them raises his hand… she gives him the directions to get in there, act like a professional and use his best judgment.   Uh, ya think?

Down the hall, Natalia is getting coffee in the cafeteria.  Dio wanders in, offers her the change she needs and proceeds to quiz her…. “So, how do you know Andres?  Wasn’t  he your novio? Why did you break up?  After all, you are such a pretty and intelligent young lady…Oh and if you ever need a job, look me up”.. you get the idea.  Smartly, Natalia gives him very vague answers.  Lic. Becerra  comes in and saves Nat from Dio’s probing questions.   Lic Becerra gives Dio the evil eye and Dio, ever the manipulator, cooly returns to Lic Becerra with “ if you don’t like coffee, try the chocolate, it’s excellente”.   Unfortunately, Dio has dropped a little fairy dust in Nat’s path as she tells Lic Becerra that Dio is not so bad (no es tan sangron) as she thought before.

Viv and Rafa wander the halls wondering what is to be with their plot to outplot the bad guys - the situation is getting muy complicado.

Agustina and Dio snip and chat with each other.  Camila frets. Rocio hyperventilates.  Dio gets a call from Isa.  Dio moves his conversation away from the fretful crowd to the bathroom.  Unbeknownst to him, Rafa is in the bathroom stall eavesdropping.  Dio tells Isa that LeoSordido has shot Dandres and that Isa was right, Dandres is not who he says he is and he is a traitor.   Isa coyly asks if Dio is going to kill Dandres for being a spy, or, for being Camila’s lover.  Dio is not amused and he swears that Dandres will not leave the hospital alive.  We close the capitulo with a frozen shot of Rafa looking deeply concerned.

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