Caray, Caray!

So Val's gone walkabout from the office, and everyone is friqueando. They look "everywhere", meaning mostly in their own area. The guards say she hasn't left the building, so Chucho runs down the fire stairs, and then back up again, to show off his fitness. Then he searches the conference room and men's room back in the admin area. No luck. He runs down to the garage, and Alma follows. Val isn't there, but our Trepid Heroes have time for some Significant Looks and a leisurely chat about having faith before they take up the search once more...back in the admin office.

Meanwhile, down in the bodega, row upon row of boxes is neatly stacked on racks. Val finds one of only three wooden crates in the whole place, half full of packing peanuts, decides this is her princess carriage, and climbs in and closes it. See, this is what happens when you keep telling little girls they are princesses. So here come our warehouse dudes, who of course need to lift that almost-empty wooden crate way up to the top of a high and precarious stack of cardboard boxes, which are not on racks, with the forklift. Their only task for the day done, they leave. Val is friqueando and screaming for Daddy.



Chucho finally remembers one place in the building he hasn't searched: the massive warehouse. So he and Elías run down there and find Val teetering atop the flimsy stack. The Mexican equivalent of OSHA should shut this place down. Chucho hops into the forklift for what he hopes won't be a literal crash course in warehouse operations. Elías gets to stand at the bottom of the boxes, perfectly positioned for an inexperienced forklift operator to spear him, in case Val takes a dive. Once the forklift is in position, Chucho can see where the glam hero opportunity is, so he hops out and makes Elías push the lift lever while he rides on his white steed, I mean, on the fork. So Princess Val is rescued and they ride down in heroic glory as Alma walks in, just in time to admire her knight in shining hair gel as the crate crashes empty to the ground. It does not seem to occur to the fairytale Queen to order a review of the safety procedures of her warehouse.

Back upstairs, Chucho humbly accepts praise and adulation and Elías seems to have maybe forgiven him. How can you not make up when you're working for Avon? The lady secres all fuss over and pamper Val, but Chucho actually takes a break from the princess routine to give her a stern lecture on not running off.

Meanwhile, Rogue has arrived at his house, in the company of Delia and her cohorts. Delia gives him some fancy new ankle jewelry as a token of her affection. He gets a 50 meter radius. Delia makes him cross the line for a preview of the shock he'll get if he does it again.

Rogue calls Alma and asks her to come over. Rogue and Cantú worry that Fernando will say something stupid. They decide they need a new contact in the U.S. Cantú warns Rogue about using the landline telephone. Stupid Rogue thinks it's going to shock him, too. Then Cantú toys with him by telling him the walls have ears. Rogue is not smart or savvy enough for underworld dealings. He's so literal and gullible. Cantú has to tell him to get a new disposable phone every week.

Cárdenas calls Rogue and finds out that Fern is in jail. When Jess hears that, she faints. Cardy tries the Sleeping Beauty protocol on her, and she snaps to and commences friqueando.

Meanwhile, back at the office, Alma can tell that Chucho isn't happy about Rogue's freedom. Elías watches their convo and smiles. Is he thawing? Alma leaves, and after she's gone, Chucho realizes he needs her to sign some urgent papers, and also she forgot her cell phone. He'll have to take them to Rogue's house, where he is always a welcome guest.

Elías wants to talk. Chucho tells him Vero wants to get back together with his hot self (Chucho's, not Eli´s) and play happy family. Alma walks back into the office in time to hear him say that, but of course she gets all sad and walks back to the elevator before she can hear Chucho say that they are never ever ever getting back together. Elías, sigh, refuses to believe this and is back to his old mantra of Juicy trying to destroy his family. He will not admit that his marriage was already toast B.C. (before Chucho). SIGH. This plot arc will never end.

Alma arrives at Rogue's, and he crosses the line to hug her. ZAP! The polis are there within seconds and get snapped at for their trouble

When Chucho arrives at Rogue's palace, Jess in tow, Sansón senses a better option and escapes from inside, where Alma is fighting unsuccessfully to tear Rogue's attention away from his doggy to find out what is going on. Rogue runs after the dog and hesitates to cross the line again. He calls to Sansón, but Sense-on thought bubbles about nice pats from Chucho and Val, and won't go to Rogue.

MEANWHILE, while all this drama has been going on, Vero has been abusing Chatita's hospitality. Chatty says "que telefonote" when Vero pulls out the lime green handset at one point. In her cleverly daffy way, Chatty manages to accidentally let slip about the burglar who broke into Chucho's apartment, and something about a fire. How much will it take to scare Vero away? More than that, apparently, because Vero just invites her to the delicious dinner she is going to cook at Chucho's place. I hope she is not planning to desecrate the sacred Almicrowave. Vero goes to the store and buys a giant cartful of everything, including about two whole cows, neatly sliced in antiseptic packaging.

But who is really buying those cows? Elías checks his bank statement. Seems 50% of his salary is being taken out for support pending the divorce settlement. His lawyer tells him he should cut off Vero's access to the bank account and credit cards. Elías seems to have truly never have considered that avaricious Vero might try to clean him out! BTW, it looks like his previous balance was $97,056.56, current balance is $16,181.75, and there is an additional credit card balance of $24,582.00. Someone's been buying a lot of beef!

MEANWHILE MEANWHILE, Fernando has gotten settled into his new home. While getting his perp pics taken, he argued with the officer about how old he looks, wanted to smile for more flattering photos, and would have preferred the profile shot taken on his good side. Then he meets his new cellmate, who introduces him to his monster hands and says, "I'm on top, you'll be on the bottom." "¡¿Qué?!" He means the bunkbeds. Satisfied that he has sufficiently terrified the new arrival, Cellmate climbs into his bunk and falls asleep, unconcerned.

In other minor news, Pánfilo read Elías the riot act about getting involved with the much-younger Marisela while he's married to someone else. El is confused about why he cares so much.

Marisela vehemently denied she is falling in love with Ricardo, and Xochi laughed and teased her. Marisela is still determined to snag Elías.

Coming attraction: PANCHO! PANCHO LOPEZ!!!

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