Caray, Caray!

Snotty Bitch is being kicked out and Cayetano won't budge.  Mariano tries to talk him out of it, but Cayetano says there's no way he'll back down--not only is he the head of the family and owner of the ranch, he's the offended party!  Everyone looks sick and worried, except for Ileana who's grinning a little bit.  Mariano can't get him to calm down.  Yes, Cayetano, calm down so Isadora has a chance to kill you herself…once she's got her hands on your ranch.

Dionisio, talking with the La Malquerida office door open, calls Isadora to tell her that the letters got into Cayetano's hands after all.  Eluterio is inside the house, for some strange reason, so he gets to overhear Dionisio's end of the convo.  Isadora gloats that Camila helped her out after all. Dio gets up to shut the door, but he never sees Eluterio.  Eluterio continues listening through the closed door as Dionisio talks about how they were wrong to think La Malquerida was an easy target, with nothing but an old man, a woman, and a depressed girl, while La Buenaventura was guarded by four men.  Dio lets slip Isadora's name.  Isa is busy bragging about how easily men are led around by the penis.  She's confident in her continued ability to do so. Dionisio thought bubbles that he won't let Camila marry Daniel and he'll keep fighting until Camila is his.


Snotty Bitch keeps trying to plead her case, but Cayetano won't have any of it. Now he's talking divorce, and too bad if she doesn't like it.  "If I prove Pablo isn't my son, I don't know what I'll do!"  Mariano counsels her to accept the decision, but he says he'll take care of her.  Yago tells her to take Mariano's deal, because he never wants to see her again either.

Camila comes into Agustina's room.  Augie wants an update about Mariano.  She figures it must have been terrible to find out the truth.  She passes on the news about Dionisio's daughter.  Camila lets slip that she already knew, and she knew it was Natalia.  She explains that Amanda didn't want anyone to know, because she didn't want Dionisio to find out.  So much for their truce, as Agustina complains that Camila didn't tell her and Camila snarks back that Agustina never believes what she says about Dionisio anyway, so why bother?  Agustina thinks this confirms that Dio told her the truth.  Camila tries to tell her that Dionisio lied to her about not knowing he had a child.  "Natalia had already been born when Amanda left him."  Agustina won't even let her finish, prompting Camila to give a big, hearty, "See what I mean?!" Augie agrees to SHUT IT long enough to listen to Camila before she decides what's true and what's not. Camila tells her about Dio being married to Amanda under the name Hector Gutierrez.

Dio goes out to burn his old passport, saying that no one can know that Hector Gutierrez existed and vows that Amanda will never be able to prove he was Hector.

Augie, predictably, doesn't believe it.  She remembers Amanda telling her that she was once married to a great guy who she didn't know anything about.  Brushing off her memory, she claims Amanda must be saying all this out of jealousy, that Dio married her instead of marrying Amanda when he was younger.  Augie has her special diamond-encrusted platinum-coated titanium beanie on as she blissfully floats down DENIAL, talking smack about how Dio gets dibs on their trust for being one of the family and Camila shouldn't believe anyone who's not part of the family over him.

Pablo pulls in at La Malquerida.  Luzma's not feeling well and Pablo insists on carrying her in while Hipolito gets the bags.  Pablo comes up with Luzma, and they explain to Piedad what's going on.  As he stands there.  Holding Luzma.  Acting like she doesn't weigh more than five pounds.  And oh, look, they're going to take her to her room, which is back the way they came, so he just carried her down a hallway to carry her back the same hallway, cause he can do that with whatever he's been hiding under those vests.  Mr. 5ft and I wonder if maybe they had Luzma rigged with a harness or some giant invisible helium balloons, but I'm forced to conclude that Eddy Vilard is just far more buff than the wardrobe department has been letting on.

Eluterio goes to the kitchen to tell Dorotea what he overheard.  And he sure did catch on to the part where Dio said they hadn't been able to get La Malquerida, but they were going after La Buenaventura instead.  Between the two of them, they decide not to give this info to Daniel, since they want him to enjoy his honeymoon and they don't think Dio's going to be able to accomplish anything while he's away. They'll tell Daniel after the honeymoon and after things settle down.

Cayetano meets with Isadora and tells her she was right about Snotty Bitch.  He's also pissed at her for how willing she was to trash someone else to try to keep from taking the blame.  He praises Isadora for her openness and says he'll be grateful to her forever.  Good, cause "forever" won't be more than a few days at the rate you're going, pal.  He tells Isadora he's getting a divorce, he kicked her out, and he wants Isadora to stick around and stay by his side during this terrible ordeal.  She asks about his sons, but, well, Pablo might not be, and since Mariano is going to look after Snotty Bitch, Cayetano doesn't think he can trust him anymore.  He's left only with Yago, who he doesn't yet realize is just being a suck-up to try to finally get in Cayetano's good graces.  Pobre de Yago…he finally wins the "Favorite Son" title, but only after all other contestants have been disqualified.  Isadora figures Yago will also go off and have his own life soon.  Isa vows to always be by his side.

Snotty Bitch won't let Nana pack more than a few days' worth of clothes.  She vows she'll be coming back.  Mariano tells her not to get her hopes up and pack everything.  Snotty Bitch is now pissed at him for telling Camila what happened, and she refuses to believe Camila's actions had anything to do with defending her dead uncle's honor.  "She was trying to get revenge!"  Mariano won't let her abdicate responsibility.  Nana begs Snotty Bitch to cut it out already.  "You're the only one responsible for what happened here, so stop playing the victim."  Mariano says he'll put her up in a hotel and when Ana comes back from Zacatecas and the house is ready, they can all go live there, including Nana if she wants to.  He leaves and tells Snotty Bitch to let him know when she's ready to leave.

Ileana comes to mock Yago for his mother's behavior.  Yago's busy drinking and getting ready to kick Yago out of La Buenaventura.  Natalia calls and he actually answers it, for once, but starts copping an attitude immediately, telling her he has problems too, so he's not in the mood.  Ileana laughs at the secretary for being impertinent.  Yago tells Ileana she's not the only one as he hands her the empty shot glass.

Dio is busy looking over more of his fake passports when Agustina comes into the office without knocking to gripe at him for being the last to know about Natalia.  Dio is shocked to find out that Camila and Daniel already knew, and that Amanda told Daniel that she was married to Dio while he was using another name.  Dio explodes and asks if she's really going to believe all that crap…which, of course, she isn't (The one-and-only Televisa-approved Titanium beanie, ladies and gentlemen…witness its stunning deflective capabilities...now only 166 easy payments of $19.95!)…she's just hurt because everyone else knew.  Dio accuses Amanda of defaming him and whines that no one else is being hurt but him, damnit!

Camila brushes Maja while she tells Daniel that her talk with Agustina went…well, about as badly as could be expected. Daniel is trying to hack into Alonso's email and has another failed attempt just as Pieded bursts in.  She tells them that Luzma is back and why and they all rush off to see her.

Snotty Bitch is all packed and ready to go. Yago visits her room to have a drunken temper tantrum about his cheating mother.  Ileana listens in from the hallway as Yago continues his ranting.  He finally calls his mama a ho and gets slapped into the middle of next week for it.  Cayetano comes in for a last sneer.  He wants to know where she's staying, but only so he can send his lawyer to visit about the divorce.

Luzma is sad about the missed honeymoon and Pablo not being able to stay with her.  Daniel and Camila come in to check on Luzma.  Daniel tells her they're sorry, and Camila says they'll all take good care of her.  Camila insists Pablo and Luzma take Ximena's old room.  Piedad is worried about what Agustina and Dionisio will say, but Camila gets her to agree.

Snotty Bitch is still trying to plead, but Cayetano won't budge and he's going to insist on Pablo taking that DNA test as soon as he's back from his honeymoon.  Ileana is still out in the hallway eavesdropping and gloating.  Cayetano turns on Nana, saying it's good she's leaving so he won't have to fire her.  He's sure she's been covering for Snotty Bitch all these years.  Nana has just had enough already, damnit, so you're damn right she's going, but first, she's going to tell the WHOLE story, so grab your popcorn, kids!  Snotty Bitch tries to shut her up, but Nana can't take it any more.  "You know part of the truth, but you need to know the rest.  Yes, Mrs. Rocio and I know who Pablo's father is.  Pablo's real father is Daniel Monterde.  He never knew Mrs. Rocio was expecting his child."  Caras de impactados all around…except for Snotty Bitch's usual combination panicky/snotty look.

Eleuterio and Rodolfo go into town.  They're talking and joking about their girlfriends and being faithful, and Eleuterio jokes he may not be very good at it.  Rodolfo sees Natalia walking across the square and takes off to go talk to her, leading Eleuterio to joke that Rodolfo must not be very good at that whole "faithful" thing either.

Natalia tries to say nothing's wrong, but she cracks and ends up crying in his arms.

Cayetano backhands Snotty Bitch and calls her a ho.  This is too much for even Yago.  He looks horrified.  Cayetano keeps spewing bile and ends up demanding that Mariano get him something they can use for the DNA test.  Mariano refuses, out of loyalty to his mother, Nana, and Pablo.  Cayetano says he'll do it himself, then, but he won't be sensitive about it…he'll go find Pablo and interrupt his honeymoon.  He needs to proof of his wife's infidelity to get rid of her once and for all.  Nana begs him not to ruin Pablo's honeymoon.  Cayetano tells her to shut up and calls her an "india ladina," which shocks both me and Yago.  Yago tells his dad to quit slinging insults around already.  He agrees that it wouldn't be good to ruin Pablo's wedding.  They all beg Mariano to take care of it, so he agrees.  Cayetano screams at him to do it ASAP.

So, where to begin with "india ladina"…my cc translated it correctly as "sly indian" but that doesn't quite capture the depth of the insult.  His tone and Yago's shock do a much better job of that.  He doesn't mean "sly" as in "wise," he means "sneaky" or "deceitful."  As for "india," that comes with as much baggage as most racial/ethnic epithets, but it almost has more sting because it's coming from a guy who, in all likelihood, doesn't have 100% pure Spanish blood himself.  By virtue of his social status, he gets to scrub out or ignore the part of his lineage that he traces back to the native population of what became Mexico, and gets to fling around the insult to anyone who he considers beneath him.  It's that whole ethnic/socioeconomic thing that gets all tied up together, when really most of the population of Mexico is a mix of Spanish and native.  So stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Cayetano.

Camila and Daniel talk about Luzma and Pablo moving into the house and how Agustina's not going to like it because she's a snob.  Daniel mentions that "they" hired Hipolito.  Camila gives him a hard time about that, since she can't seem to recall having hired Hipolito….  Daniel admits he couldn't say "no" to Piedad.  Camila is thrilled with it, though, since she thinks Hipolito has a thing for Piedad.   "Oh, don't you just feel the love vibes floating through the ranch?"  Shut up, Camila!  Way to jinx it!    Daniel says they can't change the name of the ranch, out of respect for her uncle, but he can at least make sure that Camila is never "la malquerida" again…he'll make sure she gets plenty of good, good lovin'…starting right now…in the daytime….

With Mariano and Yago still sitting in the room, in shock, Snotty Bitch cries that Nana shouldn't have ratted her out.  Ileana, drawn to the negative emotions swirling around the room, can't help but peek through the door with a delighted expression.  She can't understand why Nana would do that. Nana says her conscience just wouldn't let her stay quiet any longer.  Mariano thinks she did the right thing…and also that they should go now so that when I'm recapping next Thursday's episode they're not still sitting there, cause he knows that would piss me off.  I mean, at least make it as far as the driveway by next week, please.  Yago is very disappointed in his mother.  Really?  We had no idea.  He storms out, making Ileana scurry back to her original post around the corner.  Snotty Bitch turns on the waterworks, begging Mariano to never abandon her.  He says she'd better quit with the lies, then, cause he doesn't want to hear any more of them!

Yago and Cayetano mourn together.  Yago continues his campaign to topple Pablo from his throne.

Ileana Skypes with her mom to tell her that she really dodged a bullet with Pablo.  Mama was actually ready to call Ileana back home, but Ileana's having way too much fun and she's sure she can find some way to turn it all to her advantage.

Agustina is pissed about Luzma moving into the house.  A predictable argument ensues.  Camila tells Agustina and Dionisio that she and Daniel are considering giving Pablo part of the ranch if they get proof that Pablo is a Monterde.  A predictable argument ensues.  Camila plays the "Natalia" card, saying of course they're going to welcome Pablo into their house as Don Daniel's son…just like they're going to welcome Natalia, right?

Rodolfo has now heard the story and he believes Amanda's version.  He believes Dionisio's hiding something.  On the other hand, people love Amanda because she helps out and she's kind.  Rodolfo says with his eyes closed, he'd pick her mom.  Natalia is surprised to hear that Rodolfo likes her mom so much.  Well, Amanda is cool and Dionisio is…not.  Rodolfo tells her to think about how sad and alone Amanda must have been when she left Dio.  He tells her not to screw up her relationship with her mom.

Cayetano's lawyer advises him to hand over La Buenaventura to someone who will give the property back after the divorce, that way Snotty Bitch can't get half.  Do you see where this is going?  Cause Cayetano goes directly to Isadora.  The idiot!  The lawyer tells him to get the ball rolling ASAP.

Tomorrow: Camila and Daniel's wedding is sure to be interrupted by Dio and Isadora's plotting.

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