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Amores Verdaderos Cap 42—1/8/13—The Fed up Little Gorilla and Big Angel and his James Bond Moves

I had a rough day yesterday. Am feeling better today. This was a great episode. I hope I can do it justice, but for the sake of my sanity (and because I'm getting a late start) I'll do it bulleted abbreviated style (with more time taken on crucial scenes). Please be patient because my Internet connection is complete rubbish at the moment. I'm going to try to do screenshots too. We'll see how this goes.

REFRIED: Big Angel is telling his wife about the plot to mess up him and Victoria with the bogus hotel thing, and how they think Odioette is behind it. Big Angel never does elaborate on the strip-tease thing, though. As they discuss (as Big Angel scarfs down some food that Christina is making) it comes up that Chris has a secret that she's promised not to tell. Big Angel is curious, but says, "Well, if you promised not to tell. . . "

Kendra-ho and Nikki meet in the foyer. Nikki's going out to the club. She tells Kendra-ho about the bogus pregnancy scam, and how she's using it to get Little Gorilla fired. Kendra-ho laughs. Then Vicki comes along and says that Nikki can't go to the club, she's got to see a gynecologist! Uh oh.

THE NEW: Nikki spins some yarn about how she wants to go to the club to relax and try to forget about Little Gorilla's rejection of her and her bebé. (Oh please.) Vicki indulgently goes along with this. As they're leaving, Vicki tells Little Gorilla to "look after my daughter and my grandchild, please." She's beaming. Little Gorilla looks grim.

Our Little Gorilla looks grim at the thought of a "grandchild" for Vicki.

Beatriz is getting the grand tour of the office building.

Candelaria (Ana Martin) gets a Large Print letter from Anibal. "Get lost, both you and your daughter. As far as I'm concerned I only have two daughters—Vicki and Adriana, and no one else. Don't ever bother me again because I won't answer." it says (in a nutshell). It is not signed. Just all typed (in Large Print, no less!). We know this is a forged letter but poor Candelaria does not. She gets verklempt at the rejection.

Candelaria reacting to the cold response from Anibal.

Large Print Rejection Letter.

The Padre comes in and notices her tears. She tells him what's up. He says that when she arrived in the country that she thought she was going to die (?) and decided to not tell Anibal about the baby she was carrying. She says yes, but she still thought that now he'd want to know . . . but guess not. The Padre says maybe he thought she was after money. She replies that she made it very clear that she wasn't a gold-digger. When she got pregnant she took off and he never found her.

At the office, Kendra-ho and Salsa Dude have a mini-meeting to discuss their latest nefarious deeds. Kendra sent the anonymous letter to Christina. Salsa-Dude wonders why she didn't send a DVD too. Kendra didn't want to go overboard, which might cause Christina to leave Big Angel. Then they plot blackmail against Victoria. They won't ask too much this time, just 40,000. More than that and Vicki might tell someone. They'll meet later to do the deed. As they part, Salsa-Dude gets out Bea's scarf and sniffs it again, with a dreamy look on his face. For an evil blackmailer, he's got it bad for the virtuous Bea!

As he sniffs and dreams, the object of his admiration walks behind him on her tour of the offices.

We do an annoying "Just missed each other" scene as Bea walks one way and Salsa-Dude walks another, barely missing each other and unaware of each other's presence there. They are TORTURING US! Just get it over with!!!

At the club, snotty Nikki comes to swim and sees Lili there. The coach is saying how great Lili is doing with her swimming. There's a swimming competition coming up, but if Nikki doesn't train and practice, she won't do so well. As Lili gets out of the pool, the little bruja Nikki has her chance to deflate Lili—she rubs her flat, empty belly and tells Lili it's full of the Little Gorilla's bebé. Poor Lili is visibly heartbroken and can barely contain her tears—much to Nikki's satisfaction. Lili approaches Little Gorilla, hoping to get some info from him, but no go. Nikki then teases Little Gorilla about their nonexistent baby. Little Gorilla doesn't think it's funny—not one bit! Meanwhile, some unseen photographer is taking pictures of them all with a bright pink camera.

Lili is distraught over the "news" that Nikki is pregnant with Guzmancito's child. "Why is she carrying your baby when I love you?" she laments to herself.

Candelaria is at church, pouring out her heart in prayer. She feels guilty for not saying anything sooner about Christina's real dad. She doesn't want to go to her grave with this weight on her. She knows the truth will hurt those closest to her.

Christina's making cookies as Big Angel is "helping" by eating them as fast as she makes them. They talk about mom-in-law, Candelaria, who is doing okay. Christina wants to bring the cookies to neighbor Paula, who's had a rough time of it since she's dumped (or been dumped—I have trouble keeping track) by her main squeeze. Big Angel isn't keen to go on a cookie-delivery mission, but finally agrees.

Meanwhile, whiney Paula is met by Anibal in their apartment. Bittersweet goodbyes. He wants to give her a monthly income. She doesn't want it—she'll get a job! She stayed with him for love! (I say take the money, honey.) They share a few bittersweet goodbye kisses.

Big Angel and Christina approach the door to deliver the cookies. But the door is ajar! Oh no! This could mean that robbers have gotten in! Big Angel decides to do a move that he learned from Guzmancito. James Bond-type music plays as he retreats back and then barrels through the door with a kick. He only interrupts Anibal and Paula mid-smooch. Anibal does not look pleased. Big Angel has a deer-in-the-headlights look at seeing Anibal (the boss's dad) in the arms of the whiney neighbor Paula. Christina deposits the cookies and they get the hell outta there, after promising Anibal that they'll be discreet and not tell anyone what they saw.

That didn't work out well.

Victoria is having Odiodette over for tea or something. Is trying to confront her about the hotel strip-tease fiasco. Odioette of course is admitting nothing. Jean Marie sees Odiodette and immediately is smitten with Odioette for some mysterious reason. Thinks she is just fab. So elegant. He tells Polita about her.

Lili comes into the kitchen, all teary and depressed. Polita and Jean Marie want to know what's up. "Nikki is pregnant with Guzmancito's baby!" Lili confesses. Both Polita and Jean Marie are jaw-droppingly impactado.

Jean Marie comes out to see if he can offer Odioette anything else, but she's left! He's very disappointed. He asks Victoria more about her wonderful friend. Victoria is in no mood. "That's not my friend, she's my main business rival!" Jean Marie is impactado.

Jean Marie is sobered by the news about Odette.

Back at their apartment, Big Angel and Christina talk about what they just saw—Paula and her main squeeze, Anibal. So Paula was "kept woman," eh? Big Angel won't tell anyone but he seems amused by the gossip. Then the conversation strays to Christina and her insecurities. "You wouldn't take a mistress, would you?" She starting up with that again. Big Angel tries his best to reassure her. He doesn't need any other woman. He loves her and only her!

Guzmancito (Little Gorilla) is waiting for Nikki to get out of the bathroom at the sports club. He goes behind a potted plant to retrieve a ball he was playing with, and overhears the three bruja friends of Nikki laugh about how Nikki has totally made up the pregnancy thing so he'll get fired (and then Nabila can snap him up as her own personal morsel of man candy). Guzmancito is really ticked off.

He vows revenge!

At the office building, Anibal approaches the reception desk and meets the new girl, Bea. He introduces himself. She is impactada as she remembers that this guy has been shacking up with her mom!

When they get back from the sports club, Guzmancito wants to have a heart-to-heart with Nikki. She's giving him attitude so he drags her up the stairs as she protests. Vicki witnesses this and follows them.

The Fed Up Little Gorilla drags Nikki up the stairs.

When they get to Nikki's room she is full of indignant outrage about how he's invading her personal space. The Fed Up Little Gorilla simply starts to calmly undress. First taking off his jacket, his tie, then he starts unbuttoning his shirt. The belt is next! Nikki's starting to get a little concerned, yelling at him to explain what he's doing.

Shirtless, the Fed Up Little Gorilla explains to her that since they're going to have a baby together, they'd better get busy! The only thing left to do is start making one. He starts to take the cushions off her bed, better for baby-making. Nikki is near hysteria now, as he throws her on the bed.

The Fed Up Little Gorilla is up for some baby-making, if that's what it takes.

Nikki is getting scared now. She grabs some sort of trophy and threatens him with it.  She says she'll scream that he's raping her. "Go for it! I have nothing to lose now!" he yells. She's destroyed his reputation with her lies. He never touched her, they never had sex, he respected her! Why did she do it?

She yells back the she's fed up with him, she wants him fired, and because (and this is the real reason) he REJECTED her!

He wants to know why she did all of this.

Because he rejected her, of course!

There's the sound of a door slamming. Uh oh. Victoria has made her presence known. Both Guzmancito and Nikki have a busted, deer-in-the-headlights look on their faces. Our Little Gorilla quickly collects his discarded clothes and explains that he "was just . . . " but Victoria says she heard it all. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you" she says to Our Little Gorilla. As he starts to leave, she tells him to stop, and says that if he still wants to look after her spoiled daughter, the job is his. He pauses for a moment, and says, "I'll stay."

Vicki heard it all, thank goodness.

Christina and Big Angel are making the bed in their room. Things start to get frisky. Christina is all for getting busy. Big Angel laughs and happily goes along with it.

We have a moment of unfettered happiness for Big Angel and Christina.

We return to Nikki having her skinny ass handed to her by her mom. Vicki is in tears, so angered and disappointed. Nikki is in tears too, feeling guilty and bad about being caught. She says she gets it "Okay?" and she won't do it again. That isn't good enough for Vicki. "Can you imagine what would have happened had your father or grandfather found out about this?" (Would they have done some bodily harm to Guzmancito? Probably.) Nikki is all contrition and just wants this over with. But Vicki says that everything has a limit.

A tearful, very disappointed Vicki.

Nikki feels bad about being caught.

Vicki leaves to go downstairs. She stops and says to herself that seeing Nikki in distress like this hurts her, but she has to stay firm—she can't overlook something this bad.

Vicki gets a call from Salsa-Dude, who is using some sort of device that disguises his voice. He wants her to bring the money to an isolated parking lot, deposit it in a rusty barrel, and leave. "How can I know that this is the only copy of the DVD?" she asks. "You'll have to trust me!" he replies. (Oh please!) Oh, and if she brings a bodyguard, they'll BOTH be dead! Uh oh.

Nikki is crying in solitude. Recalls the Angry Little Gorilla's attempts to start making a baby. "Guzmancito might have raped me" she thinks. (Oh give me a break! He was just trying to scare you, you silly bruja.)

Our Little Gorilla goes to the bodyguard quarters and thinks about what just transpired. He says to himself that it's hard to work for Nikki, who has insulted him, attacked him nonstop since he got to the house. But he can't control his feelings for her, even though there is no future in them. So he'll just stick around and suffer in silence like a fool adore her from afar.  Just being near her is enough. (Oh please! Is this guy for real or what? LOL.)

Guzmancito is inexplicably smitten with our spoiled bruja, Nikki.

Cut to Vicki and Thomasina rushing to get the money to pay the blackmailers. Vicki is desperate to not let the hot video get out, lest it put her marriage to her useless, faithless, worthless husband Nelson in jeopardy! Thomasina assumes that Big Angel will come along as a bodyguard, but Vicki says that they can't do that. They question whether Odioette would cook this up, as she's rich and doesn't need the money. Vicki is starting to doubt that Odioette is behind this. She rushes out and Thomasina says a prayer for her safety.

Meanwhile, Kendra-ho and Salsa Dude are getting gussied up in their best black duds for the blackmail rendezvous. There's a funny moment where Kendra asks Salsa Dude to move aside so she can admire her blackmail garb in the mirror. Ever the vain one, eh, Kendra-ho?

The ever-drippy Paula is talking with best friend and Anibal's secretary Gilda about her breakup with Anibal. Paula has decided that she wants to tell Christina the truth about Anibal being her pappy. Christina has been a good friend and it's the least she can do! Gilda asks if she's sure? She's sure.

END OF EPISODE!!

Avances: Looks like Vicki goes alone to the blackmail rendezvous. Big Angel is told all about it by Thomasina, so he shows up later. Slo-mo fight with a masked Salsa-Dude. Will Big Angel remove the mask and discover who is behind the blackmail? MUST SEE TV!!!