Caray, Caray!

I must have missed the very beginning. Helena and Eva come into the "Office of Exploded Good'n'Plenty" to find Rebeca is not fired! She tells them Adri and Pluto begged her on bended knees not to leave, and why? Because her work is invaluable. And she is a victim, blameless. And she's happy to be back embittering their lives.

Santi comes to Fer's home. Fer, fired, is wearing his baby bib. Santi returns the money he borrowed ("you'll need it more than I do") and Fer says the lesson he's learned is: never trust a woman. Everything bad that's happened to poor him is their fault! Santi has adopted a less cro-magnon stance on women. Fer: "Your wife is probably deceiving you again, that's life."

Meanwhile, Marcela sadly decides she has to return her new car, now that Fer's fired they can't afford it.

Helena tells Pluto she doesn't think Rebeca should still have her job; he says it turns out it was all Fern's fault. Same story when Eva goes to see HER boyfriend Adri: he says the brilliant evil mastermind Fern seduced and used Rebeca to rob the company. "No, Adri, that burro doesn't have the brains for something so baroque." Adri yells that the decision is final. Eva calls him Satan and leaves.

Helena thinks about Juan's accusations against Pluto. Pluto comes in. The phone rings, it's Juan. Helena won't pick up. Pluto is suspicious. Helena lies and says it was her mother. The phone rings again - Pluto says, answer. She does. It's Juan again, he says they have to meet. She stammers out another lie to Pluto. He does not believe it. She calls Juan; he begs to see her. She refuses.

Rebe cries piteously to Adri: she doesn't want to lose her job, she did it because she lost her heart to Fer. She is fully reinstated.

Announcement from Adri to all: Fer is not working here now, but no gossip about that is allowed. And, from now on Renato is officially the President's Assistant.

"I have nothing to say to the wife of a thief," says Rebe when Marcela is astonished to see her. Marcela and Eva agree Fer was too much of a moron to plan this. Marcela remembers Juan dragging her moron husband into stupid activities when he should have been doing his homework. "I loved Juan but he was a bad influence."

Fer looks at job ads, finds one to his liking, goes back to watching tv, then later goes (without making an appointment) to the place offering the position. He's in the process of being, as usual, a macho imbecile when the woman says she can't hire him, she knows he was fired from GI.

I can't bear to watch Lucia drool and nag over Renato, who would rather hang with Santi, who suggests to L. that she not hang all over the scarfed one.

Eugenia suggests music school to Claudia. Claudia says she doesn't care. Eugenia says, that's the problem with today's youth, so indifferent to everything. Claudia is poisonously sarcastic when Eugenia says we have to struggle towards our dreams, sometimes winning, sometimes losing.

Onesimo puts his feet up at Rebe's office and says she owes him big time, he talked Pluto into not firing her, and last time he saved her when she poisoned Helena, and there was a time before that (I forget what). He expects a fine reward. She covers her breasts before his lustful gaze and after he leaves she bothers the Virgin, begging: "Don't make me give my favors to a naco."

Helena, finding Pluto out of his office, sits at his computer... and he comes in and finds her there!

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