Caray, Caray!

Chatita gets a sweet kiss from Chucho when she agrees to guard Valentina while he takes care of a problem.  He calls Almita to tell her he has been thinking he is sure it was Fernando who is behind the disappearance of Sanson.  Said slime dog, Fernando is meanwhile trying to break into Chucho’s apartment first ruining his credit card.  The sharp eared Valentine hears him and grabs the money she had played with putting it back in the little black satchel it came in.  Sin-stained Fernando tries to use another tool like an a useless allen wrench. Good thing he is completely ineffective at virtually everything, Valentina doesn’t seem to see him trying to break in but after shrugging off the strange sounds, continues to play bank with her play money.  Chatita dreams on in the chair.  Fernando as inept as he is, eventually breaks through the door.  Only Valentina is guarding the house, the treasure, and the sleeping Chatita.  Alma and Chucho drive around.  She totally believes him that Fernando is the culprit but to further his argument, Chucho asks if Fernando has a dog.  NO, she says, well, he continues, there was a barking dog in his apartment this afternoon when he called the office.  Ever the planner, Chucho has papers that he uses to greet the desk staff explaining that he has papers with matters of life and death he must get to Don Fernando.  So he convinces them that he must only slip them under the door.  They joke about his other secretary being there.  Chucho thus forewarned greets a stunned Jessica right after the clever Sanson has torn up the apartment, escaped from the bathroom and eventually escapes into the hall way.  An unsuspecting neighbor lets Sanson into the stairwell and off he goes in his determined little way. 

Jessica continues to fuss fume and deny but Chucho gets into the apartment sees the mess and declares that only a DOG could have done this to the apartment. He leaves and she comes out into the hallway telling him with her ego twice the size of her intelligence that she will tell Fernando he was there.  He asks her not to since he and Fernando don’t get on so well already.  Assuming she holds all the aces, she threatens to tell anyway so quick on his feet, Chucho says well how will you feel when I tell the entire office in the morning that you were here late in Fernando’s apartment. She doesn’t care, still proud but with clouds of doubt covering her lovely face, and then he adds: even that you were NUDE?  She is aghast.  OMG it takes time and patience with this one.

Back at casa Chucho, the culprit has broken into the house while Valentina has hidden the money, covered Chatita and put herself in the closet for safety.  Fernando scrambles through the chests of drawers and comes up empty. He is so inept that he thinks he can hide under the child’s bed.  Chatita wakens and would have looked under the bed but her back hurts her so much that she can’t bend that far so Valentina and she jump in Chucho’s bed.  The skullduggery continues with Fernando able to use his snake like nature to crawl out of the room on his belly without being detected.  When he reaches the street, sweet Karma has struck and his car is up on blocks with NO tires.  As he calls Rogue to tell him that he found no money in Chuchos’ house and he had to sescape and now his car has been stripped, we get a wide-angle view that he is indeed in his fancy car but he is being towed by a large tow truck.  Rogue is predictably beside himself storming that they have to get that money back.  Meantime Fernando gets a call from Jessica to tell him of his next flubbup  that the great Sanson has inexplicably escaped.  Another moment of Karmic justice?

Chucho and Alma are outside Fernando’s  apartment when Alma hears Fernando walking toward them and shoves Chucho against the wall.  Fernando asks who goes there to no effect, one thing Fernando never seems to have is real curiosity.  While up against the wall, Alma and Chucho finally grace us with a real triple scoop sundae KISS with cherries on the top of the whip cream.

Pati in her sparkly cocktail dress tries to console and joke with Rogue to small effect.  She can’t really take serious that he is so concerned with Sanson’s disappearance.  He is much more than an animal he howls.  Apparently he doesn’t share the Laundry problems with her…

She then slips into carping about having to be the maid of honor at HIS wedding while in the meantime she has to hear all the drivel of every detail of music, food, all those things that should be coming to her.  But Alma is your best friend, strange logic,  and it won’t really make any difference in their relationship after the wedding. Everything will be basically the same.  Pati does not look convinced.

Back at the conversation in dulcet tones that is so much easier to translate, Chucho and Alma kiss, snuggle and steam a bit more then he remembers that he has to get back to Valentina and besides Fernando has already passed inside with out seeing them.  They both have found smooth ways to get by whatever occurs between them. 

Back up at the forlorn digs of Fernando, he accuses and hassles Jessica that someone had to open the door for the dog, he couldn’t do it himself.  I think that Sanson is so much smarter than Fernando that he could open his own doors if he weren’t a squatty little bulldog.

Pati and Rogue continue to argue as he manages to get some real business done.  He talks on the phone to another of the Laundry team then gets down to the business he and Pati always agree on as they climb on the kitchen island scattering fruit every direction at last Rogue and Pati are both giggling and happy.

Meanwhile, Fernando tries to switch from complainer to would be swain but Jessica manages to escape evidently not trusting his mood swing durations so much. 

The sweetness continues when Alma lets Chuco off back at his place, making obviously silly small talk.  They are getting less embarrassed by their growing attraction.  When Chucho enters, after saluting the Virgin of Guadalupe for giving him such sensational memories of the kiss.  He awakens Chatita with some difficulty as she seems unsure which Jesus he really is.  At the table he tells her he had a phenomenal evening and tells all about that KISS.  Chatita wants to know if it was accidental, no not exactly.  He really felt that La Licenciada was not acting that she was really feeling it the same way he was.  In that case says Chatita I think you must be in love.  He grins in agreement.  We see the Almita looking at her star projectings.  Meantime Chucho has to tell Chatita once again that he is not the principal love of Alma’s life, after all she is engaged to marry Rogelio.  Chatita starts one of her deeply philosophical stories and gets confused part way through that he must persist in becoming that bridegroom if he feels the way with her.  That was what her husband did.  What happened to him?  Oh he died.  Chucho smacks his head on the table, I meant what did he do before that. We get some homily about believing in your true love and true destiny.  Anyway we all get her drift and her great heart at the same time.

Next morning he awakens the sweet Valentina, helps her dress and lovingly packs her lunch, combs her hair and off they go.  We get to see parts of neurotic notes from the MomDespot which both Chucho and Valentina mostly ignore.  Only in a brief moment earlier in the episode, we saw her worrying about how Valentina would survive a night without her (the first ever apparently, who can blame her anguish even if she is a pain)

Outside the apartment, who should be waiting for them but the peripatetic SANSON.  Wow, that dog has a nose finding Chucho in a neighborhood he has never been in.  Valentina pets him enthusiastically even though dirty dogs are forbidden territory, but it is nothing compared to the joy with which Chucho greets the slobbery little beast.  I didn’t see where he put Sanson while taking Valentina to school but hope it wasn’t his open apartment.

Thanks to Faith Hill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI7v36a92LU

Next episode: Alma and Chucho get more starry eyed time together at the office while the Brothers Dimm plan an assault on Chucho’s apartment with the Laundry Company.  Never a dull moment.