Caray, Caray!

Thanks NM! Happy Holiday to you and all the SD followers, friends and lurkers.

Some afterthoughts, I do agree that Santi knows something is up with Vicky although Santi ran out of the party as soon as he found out Santa is in trouble. Maybe he and Pancho have that TdelOro mess under surveillance. The thing is that now Pancho will have to go undercover or else Narco Guy will suspect something.

I also think that Pablo is in some time of internal conflict, BUT, avoiding Lucy is just as likely because they have such different personal styles. I do enjoy Lucy and her slangy comments - very funny. But as a match for Pancho - straight or gay - naaah.

Those crazy kids in Marrero, as I always say.



 

Do you think that was Monica Perez with the eye patch? And wasn't that Ximena Duque? If so Ines has a twin.

It gets crazier & crazier. I hope Vicky isn't pregnant.
 

I do think the Diabla was Monica Perez. But I didn't think it was Ximena Duque (could be wrong). As for twins, what if Monica Perez is really Alica Cano, Santiago's "dead" twin sister?
 

HdelM if Diabla is the missing twin, that sure begs the question. Why did Fran want assurance MP was dead? I was wondering if it was Ines' mom, although she looks a little young for that. Hmmmmm
 

Monday – Part 1
We start with a brief recap of Friday’s episode ending with the reveal that Bert killed Vicente “because he had to.”
Santi and Pancho are celebrating their successful plan to deceive Franco into believing that Santi shot and killed Pancho. We flash back to Santi coming to see Pancho and explaining his predicament. Then Pancho asks the obvious question, “why would such a powerful drug lord choose you to blackmail into helping him?” And Santi does not tell Pancho the whole truth. He says that he got involved with a woman without knowing that she was the wife of a narco-trafficante. That was why he was using the false names, etc. But a guy told him that the drug lord had found him in Marrero. Pancho fishes out the pictures that Bert gave him and asks if this is the guy. Santi confirms that it is and asks if Pancho was investigating him. Pancho says no but doesn’t explain where he got the photos. Santi tells Pancho that Franco killed the guy in the picture. He saw his body.

Santi is afraid (and rightly so) that he is in danger but Pancho laughs it off and says that no one could guess that he is working for the police. He assures Santi that he is no danger. Then Santi asks the obvious question: what is Franco going to think when he finds out that Pancho is not, in fact, dead? He’ll know that the whole thing was a set up.

Inés comes to see Bert. She wants the murderer of her daddy to pay. Bert tells her that it looks like Santa is guilty. Inés is ok with that but not with the idea that Bert will defend her in court. Inés says that Bert has to make sure that Santa is convicted. “We think alike,” says Bert.

Paula tells George that he can’t just change their relationship just like that. He is the father of her baby. Then she drops the, “who is Mónica Péres” bomb and asks if she is George’s accomplice and whether they are having a relationship behind Paula’s back. Francisca overhears and says, “what name did you say?” Paula tells her that George got a call from a phone registered to a Mónica Péres. “No puede ser,” says Fran.

Pancho tells Santi that he will pretend that he was only wounded when Santi shot him but Franco won’t doubt Santi because he saw Santi shoot him. He tells Santi that he made the right decision and they make a toast. Santi doesn’t seem very reassured. We see that Santi put a tracking device on the merchandise. Pancho says that his men are tracking the truck right now and we see the truck being stopped by the police. Santi wants to know when Pancho is going to arrest Franco. Sorry, says Pancho, the chief of police in Marrero can’t arrest a big drug lord – only the DEA can do that.

At the narco party, Franco is drinking to the success of his operation. Then he gets the call that the shipment has been seized. Franco is really pi**ed off. He pulls a gun, runs around asking who was the traitor and shoots several of his henchmen, everyone runs away screaming, Babs is dragged off once again and the party is definitely over. Patricio seems to be taking a bigger role that simply providing women for parties. He suggests to Franco that Santi must have been responsible. Franco doesn’t believe it – he saw Santi kill the policeman.

 

Monday - Part 2

It doesn’t seem like Vicky was at the party when all hell broke loose. At any rate, she is in bed back at the Trebol de Oro. Tránsito is happy that no one touched her last night but what are they going to do about the next night? Vicky says she will fight but she faints.

Ivan has taken Daniela to a clinic and he has sedated her. The doctor tells him that they can only deal with crises here. The problem is that Daniela won’t agree to go into a rehab clinic.

We see someone in prison. She takes out a photo of Fran and says that she will pay. Meanwhile we see Fran fraught with anxiety about the Mónica Péres situation.

Now we have a time passing montage during Santa’s trial. We see Begoña praying, Ivan and Daniela together, Lázaro giving Arturo therapy, Horti with her doctor, Vicky sick in bed while in a voice over Bert explains the American judicial process to Inés.

Naturally, the jury finds Santa guilty of first degree murder and the judge sentences her to 30 years in prison. We see Santa being taken to the prison, warning from the guards, body cavity searches, mug shots, etc.

Little willy asks Begoña where his mommy is. Begoña tell him that she had to go on a trip ( a looooong trip) but that she will be home someday. In comes Willy who tells willy and Begoña not to worry, Dad’s here.

Fran asks George if he has heard from Babs. He says that he hasn’t and furthermore he doesn’t care. George asks Fran if she has her bags ready. Fran asks why. She isn’t going on a trip. George replies that tomorrow all Canos are out on the street.

Ivan leaves Daniela to do something and she gets out some drugs that she has hidden and takes them.


 

Monday - Part 3

Santa finds a friend in prison – it’s Mara. They embrace. [Mara didn’t even get a crummy novela trial.] Santa assures Mara that she is innocent. (Santa doesn’t ask about Mara’s situation.) Mara advises her to keep a low profile but we know that isn’t going to happen. Some other prisoners accuse Santa of being a stuck up, princess. They start a fight in the dining hall.

Inés comes to see Bert who is hitting the bottle again. She reminds him of his promise to help her deal with Willy. She says that Bert should be happy. If he can’t have Santa, no one can, because she is in prison. Bert doesn’t seem very happy, though. Inés taunts Bert about believing that Santa would ever love him. She says that he convinced everyone that he was trying to save Santa when in reality he was working to send her to prison. Santi overhears this and attacks Bert.

Ivan gives Paula an address for MP.

Another prisoner whose face we can’t see comes in and starts defending Santa against the other prisoners. She seems to have martial arts abilities. Then we see that she has a giant eye-patch. After dispatching the other prisoners, she introduces herself to Santa as Diabla, the devil, and asks if a Santa and a Devil can co-exist.

Other folks, including Fran, come in to separate Bert and Santi. Inés yells at Santi for defending Santa and reminds him that he is her husband. Santi drops the bombshell that he isn’t the father of Inés’ baby. And when Santi drops the other bombshell that the baby’s father is Willy, Fran is impactada and rightly concludes that Inés set up the whole pregnancy thing to snare Santi. She orders Inés out of her house (HER house? George is not getting his message across) and tells her never to return.

George tells Daniela that he is ok with Ivan living there and he says that loves her and is glad to see her happy again. Daniela goes into her room for more drugs.

Vicky has been sick for several days. Tránsito wants to call a doctor but Patricio won’t allow it. He says, “if she dies, she dies here.”

Bert gets a call from the disguised-voice person who accuses Fran of being the biggest liar ever. Bert asks about Mónica Péres and the voice says that she was an angel. Bert asks the voice why it says that Fran is a murderer. Did she kill Mónica Péres? The voice says no, Fran did something much worse and then we see that Diabla is making the call from prison.

 

Santa

thanks so much Jean!

hmm, so Santiago has been working with Pancho for a while now, since we see them talking back when Santiago went to meet that lady at the hotel, did Santiago keep telling Pancho to remember her name?

with Pancho looking out for him, I don't blame Santiago for being worried.

and Monica Perez, so if it is Diabla, then she is getting her current events info from George and then calling Humberto to get him all excited, but does she know about Santa, and what is that address in Marrero that Paula has for her?

and Paula was sure impacted when she overheard that Willy was the father of Ines' baby, of course she never sees anything coming her way.

once Patricio calmed Franco down, did he decide to leave that house, will they remember to take along the portrait of Gloria?

and so Mara is another one of Humberto's clients, has the great white shark ever won a case?



 

I have no idea why we saw the flashback of Santi calling Pancho to tell him to remember the name of the woman he was supposed to meet in the hotel. It was evidence that Santi has been working all along with Pancho but that's about it.

I didn't think that Monica Perez was Ximena Duque but it's hard to tell with that patch.

El Tiburon Blanco has certainly not won any cases lately!! He becoming El Tiburon borracho.
 

Jean, thanks for another excellent recap!

If Pancho says only the DEA can arrest Franco, then he should CALL them!

I wonder what Barb was doing during the time skip.

I still think Diabla could be Monica, and Monica could be Alicia. Why would Fran be afraid? Maybe she WANTED Santi's twin to be dead. She certainly hasn't shed too many tears over the love of her life, Vicente. We know she has secrets, and she decides who lives or dies.

Now that Pancho sort of trusts Santiago, he should start investigating Bert. So many times, Pancho took Bert's word, and condemned Santi. But if Santi was clean, doesn't that make Bert suspect? Maybe not. There's also the matter that Santa found drugs in the tea that Bert gave her, way back. I think she told this to Pancho. And can't Pancho ever get it that when he gets anonymous calls, and goes to a scene and find someone just sitting there, with a gun in his or her hand (Santa or Ivan), maybe it's a setup??? He should also get back to the Trebol de Oro again, to check things out. He sort of dropped that investigation. Of course Lucy could always go back. Go, Lucy!
 

You're right, Hombre. It is interesting that Pancho accepted Santi's story about being blackmailed by drug trafficers after all the bad things that he thought Santi was involved in before. I sure wouldn't let anyone fire a real, loaded gun at me unless I trusted them and their aim completely.
 

Thanks Jean, Love this line ...

She orders Inés out of her house (HER house? George is not getting his message across) and tells her never to return.

Didn't George throw a suitcase over the banister?

Also, didn't Dani go back to drugs when Ivan didn't give her a "suitable" beso? That young lady is not giving up with her primo.

After reading the recap, it seems the story's loose ends are more like frayed ends ...I sure hope Pancho turns out to be more astute than he appears right now. I was wondering why he didn't followup on the mescaline in the cup story. Or, why the hit-and-run story fizzled out of sight. And finally, like a comment before said...

where oh where is the DEA
where oh where can they be?
with Franco a threat
and Santi to protect
oh where oh where can they be?


 

SANTA, Martes, Part 1

Good one, Mena!

Diabla has called Bert, with a disguised voice, to tell him that Francisca didn’t kill Mónica Pérez, what she did was much worse. And we see the eye patch. Ouch!

George is serious about kicking people out of the house. He packs Fran’s bags, and tosses them down the steps. When Fran gets indignant, he grabs her by the arm, forces her outside, and pushes her to the ground! Bert comes in to stop this, and George pulls a gun on him! He wants them all out, except Daniela. Bert vows to get back at George, but ushers Fran out. Inés was there, too. Where are they all going to go? To Inés’s house! She’s not too happy about that, but in return, she tells Bert he has to promise to “do away” with Willy Delgado.

Inés had also told Bert she was happy Santa is paying for killing her father, Vicente. Bert tells her, Santa didn’t do it. This outrages Inés, especially when Bert won’t tell her who DID do it.

Dani isn’t happy with her father. He kicked out her grandmother, her uncle, and also Paula, who’s pregnant with his baby. How cruel of him! George tells her to like it or lump it. She downs some more pills.

Pancho discusses Santi’s help in the drug operation. Santi tells him that Santa is innocent, why doesn’t Pancho help get her out? Pancho is taken aback, the law has spoken, there’s nothing he can do. Besides, who else could have done it? Santi replies, how about Bert? Pancho wonders what motive Bert would have, why would he put his own wife in prison? Santi replies for spite, since he couldn’t have her love. Pancho gets it, Santi and Santa love each other, but he asks, how can you be helping Santa, what about your own wife, Inés? Santi gives him the shocker. The baby that Inés is expecting is not Santi’s, the father is Willy Delgado! Pancho can’t believe it, Santi says you can ask Inés, Willy, anyone, everyone knows. Pancho’s world is crumbling. Again.

Outside the police station, the two continue to talk. However, they’re being observed by Franco and Patricio in a car. Pat says to Frank, I TOLD you Santiago was the traitor. Frank agrees, he’s lost a lot of drug money because of this guy. He’ll make him PAY.

Pancho visits Ulises, it’s been a week since Vicky disappeared. Pancho will notify Interpol, if Vicky tries to leave the country, they’ll know. Ulises wonders if something happened to her. Pancho says why don’t you ask Iván? Meanwhile, Ulises can see that Pancho is tired, and offers him some food. He proceeds to tell how he recognized he was gay, it was just a feeling, he just knew. He asks Pancho, how did you recognize that you love women? Same thing, right? Apparently, his gaydar has NOT identified Pancho, but WE have. Pancho’s nervousness speaks volumes. I think that closet door is peeking open a bit.
 

SANTA, Part 2

Paula goes back to her old house, which is really Santa’s house, or more precisely, Willy and Santa’s house. Begoña, still mad at her, asks her why she’s here. Well, George threw her out. No problem, says Willy, my sister can stay here as long as she wants, with me, and with my son. Got any problems with that, suegra? Begoña gulps and stays silent.

Santi visits Santa in jail, she begs him to get her out. He swears he’ll try. He tells her he thought Bert killed Vicente, but it could also be Willy. This shocks Santa.

Ulises does meet with Iván, who ALSO hasn’t heard anything from Vicky. They’re now both worried that Pat might have DONE something to Vicky. How right they are.

Tránsito has had enough. Vicky is in real pain, all her bones hurt. Tran will take her to a hospital. She saw another girl with the same symptoms. She won’t tell Vicky what it could be. Don’t worry about Pat, he’s out with his men right now.

At the jail, Santa spends a fitful night, with Diabla watching her every move. Diabla tells her the first night is the hardest. But you have to be tough. Santa doesn’t know how. Later, she’s about to take a shower, when 5 of the tough women that Diabla beat up yesterday corner her. They throw her to the ground, and start kicking and stomping her mercilessly.

Santiago has decided to go for a walk all by himself on a deserted street, just in case someone wants to kidnap him (just kidding, but how stupid was that?). It works. Franco’s thugs grab him, push him into the SUV, take him to a bridge over some troubled water. They proceed to start kicking and stomping him mercilessly. All this is intercut with Santa’s beating. Yes, our lovebirds are not having a good day. Santi’s gets even worse. He’s laid out on the ground, and Pat says, I guess he’s dead. Nah, says Franco, pulls out his pistol, shoots Santi in the stomach. NOW he’s dead. Dispose of the body, boys. They throw Santi over the bridge, down, down, down to the water goes the body. Goodbye, Santi, it was nice knowin ya. (Of course this is a telenovela. Can our hero survive?????)

At least Santa isn’t dead. Just barely. She’s bruised and battered, laid out on a slab in the infirmary. Open your eyes! barks out Diabla. Santa struggles, opens them. Now sit up! Santa does. Now get off that bed! She walks Santa back to their shared cell, and tells her, that’s the LAST time I act as your crutches. From now on, you’ll have to stand up for yourself! Forget all that lovey dovey stuff. You’re in prison now, and if you don’t shut down your emotions, you DIE! Santa looks at her, asks her, Can you teach me? Can you teach how to be tough? How to be like you? I believe she CAN, and she WILL!!!!!!
 

Another great recap, Hombre!!!

How stupid are an obviously unwounded Pancho and Santi - having a friendly conversation in full view of anyone in front of the police station?

Begoña gets a psychic message that Santa is in trouble but Santa doesn't get one about Santi. Maybe because she was getting beaten up too.

You didn't mention Lisette bringing Ivan into Mara's restaurant and asking him to get the images off the security cameras he installed. There were security cameras and the police never looked at the tapes?!? The failings of the Marerra police department mount.

Inés was sure an unwelcoming hostess. But Fran was not too polite either. Maybe she went off to see the person she calls all the time.

It sure looks bad for Santi but as a telenovela hero we know that he'll bounce back.

I wonder what is wrong with Vicky. Tránsito says that she has seen these symptoms before. Does that mean that they are prostitution related? Pregnancy is one possibility but the symptoms don't seem right. Venereal disease? Could it be something not prostitution related?
 

I forgot one thing:

Have you noticed that Santa isn't interested in anyone else's problems? She didn't ask Mara how she was doing and she doesn't seem to be interested in Mónica Pérez's story. It's always all about Santa.
 

wow, thanks Hombre!

I was wondering when someone would tell Pancho about Ines' baby, you'd never know these two were brother and sister, of course Humberto is one of the family now too.

Pancho tells Santiago, not to worry, Franco will never figure it out, then they walk outside and have a chummy little chat, wow, and why doesn't Franco turn around and shoot that parasite Patricio for no reason what so ever.

Mara is really in never never land in that prison, is she waiting for a trial, but didn't she tell Santa that Diabla runs that place and it wasn't by chance that Santa is her cellmate, hmm, I kept waiting for Santa to throw out Humberto's name, so we can see how things really stand between Santa and Diabla.

I'm guessing that Santiago will be going "underground" so to speak, what Pancho should have been doing, too bad there isn't someone that could tell everyone he is dead. (so will there now be two shadows creeping around everyone's house)

yep, the Cano's are out on the street, it seems the only thing Humberto does well is kill people.

good point Jean about Lisette taking Ivan to look at the Cafe's security cameras.

oh, and Paula went to see Monica Perez, knock, knock, but no answer, but after she left a mature looking lady came out.

are we waiting for the evil Willy to actually do something evil, welcome home sis, and yes little willy, your mom went on a little 30 year trip.

 

HdeM, Thanks for the recap. I liked the line... take him to a bridge over some troubled water. ... so true.

How dumb was the conversaton in full public view outside the police station between Pancho and Santi. So the only thing I can figure is that Santi did that to get NarcoFranco to stop threatening his family....far-fetched I know, but part of the power Franco has is the threat to someone who cares what happens to the Cano's. He would even risk his life to end the threat. Hmmmm..

I hope Pat forgets that NarcoGuy stated very clearly that he is the smartest one and no one make him look otherwise.

Pancho asked Ulyses how he knew he was gay. Sure suggests Pancho is giving thought to his identity.
 

For Aaron Díaz fans

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This year I am giving thanks that I don't live in Marrero. Pancho isn't a bad guy, just not a very good cop. Maybe he and Ulises can open up a cafe or something now that Mara's place is shut down.

Kelly
 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Deb, my mom and I were wondering the same thing. Why doesn't Franco/Sebastian turn the gun on Patricio and shoot him? I've been waiting for his horrific death since he showed his true colors and killed Carlos. True Carlos was no prince either but Patricio is way worse. And with Patricio I'll settle for any kind of death. Shooting him, shoving his head into a meat grinder, anything will do.

And I hope Victoria is not pregnant with Patricio's little demon spawn. For one thing he'll never love it because he's incapable of love. Also, I see him as the abusive type. He'll beat the child the way he was probably beaten as a child. And if it's a boy, he'll drag him into his horrible lifestyle and if it's a girl, he'll make her work as a prostitute no caring that it's his daughter he's doing that too.

 

Santa,

can we say that Barbara's boyfriend dumped her.

Ulises has become an in your face kind-of-a-guy.

I keep flashing on Corazon Valiente, Aylin Mujica was the Diabla in prison, and Miguel Varoni was shot and pushed into the river, so I was expecting a pretty girl to find Santiago.

gobble, gobble

 

SANTA, Miércoles, Part 1

Diabla is going to teach Santa how to be a diabla. She'll have to get rid of all emotions. The end result will be that she'll be able to survive in prison, and maybe someday get revenge on all those who have harmed her. Santa is ready. Diabla asks for a complete history of who hurt her, by the way, what was the family name? Los Cano, replies Santa. Never heard of them, says Diabla. But we suspect this is a lie, that Diabla may be Mónica Pérez. Santa tells how she hates Humberto Cano with all her being. But Santiago Cano? She loves him more than anyone she's ever loved in her life.

The mysteries continue, as Francisca visits the grave of Alicia Cano, Santiago's twin, who died as a baby, back in 1983. Fran talks to her, says what happened, happened. It wasn't her fault. I still get the feeling that Alicia did not die, and could be Diabla!

George gets a call from the old lady that was in the “Mónica Pérez”, house telling him that someone visited the house (we know that was Paula), knocked on the door, but left. Hmmm. Cut to Begoña and Paula talking, as she tells Begoña that she's going to track down this Mónica, who has been calling George. She has a phone number and an address, and she's a good investigator.

Willy comes up to Inés outside her house, she lights into him, you MURDERER! Wait a minute, he says, I had nothing to do with Vicente's death. And I thought Santa was convicted of it. Yeah, says Inés, but when I talked to Bert, he said Santa was innocent, he assured me of it. Well, replies Willy, how can he be so sure? Maybe HE did it! This really rocks Inés' world, and she jumps in the car, despite Willy's calls, and speeds away. She realizes Willy could be RIGHT.

Where's she going? To the prison, to confront Santa. Santa gets a notice from the guard, you have a visitor. She hopes it's Santiago, but it's Inés, who proceeds to insult her, and demands to know where Santiago is. Santa doesn't know, and Inés screams that Santa is alone now, and she'll never see her son again! Santa slams down the phone, staggers back to her cell. But all this yelling has also affected Inés. She's in great pain, and may be going into labor!

Diabla sees Santa crying and tells her to stop it. Now. Do you want to continue with your training, or not? Santa pulls herself together. She does.

Inés is rushed to the hospital, and is, in fact in labor, even though she's only about seven months along. She begs the staff to call her brother, Humberto. Bert does finally get the message, and calls Pancho. The two of them go to the hospital. As they wait outside the delivery room, the doctor tells Inés to push one more time. And here it comes! The baby is born, big and beautiful, as we see Inés face, looking away, cold as ice. Do you want to hold your baby? asks the nurse. No. Get it away from me. I don't want anything to do with it!!

We find out why the cops never checked the security cameras at Mara's place. They did. Iván tells Lisette that the cameras weren't on. Mara had turned them off, maybe through carelessness. And of course the cops DID check for fingerprints, etc. There just isn't anything here in the café pointing to Hortensia. Iván says they need to get out of there before he gets caught, and sent back to jail. Lisette vows she'll prove Horti did it. So later, she follows Horti, who goes to the church, and says to Padre Milton, before I die, I want to confess my sins. Father, I was the one who put the arsenic in the sugar at Mara's place, that caused that person to die. Lisette has been listening right outside the door. She pops in, smiling in triumph, and as Horti and Milton are aghast, she says I KNEW IT!
 

SANTA, Part 2

I had wondered where Bárbara was during the time skip. Turns out that Franco was worried that he'd be caught in his mansion after his drugs were seized by the police, and has been out of town with Barb the whole time. Now he's back, at some curb, and he dumps off Barb there, along with her suitcase. What, are you just kicking me to the curb, now? Sorry, Barb, says Franco, you're out. Bye. Wait a minute, she says, I know why you're done with me. You want Santa Martinez, right? Well, haven't you heard, she was convicted of murdering Vicente Robledo, and is serving 30 years in prison! Apparently, Franco, who always claims to be the smartest guy in the room, did not know this. Pissed off, he leaves Barb at the curb, and speeds off. Inside the SUV, he tells Patricio, I need a new place to stay. How about YOUR place? Pat agrees. They arrive, and Pat tells Ulises, this is my new friend “Rodrigo”. He can have your room. You're obviously leaving, right, since your sister is gone. No way, answers Ulises with a tough attitude. The fact that my sister is gone is why I'm going to STAY. There's something fishy about her disappearance, and I'll stay until she comes back! He stomps off, and Franco/Rod tells Pat he likes the guy's chutzpah. Pat says, there's only room in this house for one of us, and Ulises will have to go. Frank says if things get too hot, you may be right. Pat says, I don't want some bodyguard taking Ulises out, I want to do it myself!

Ulises had visited Pancho in the station, saying he was puzzled at why Pancho reacted so nervously the other day. Pancho reacts nervously again, rushing out of the room, so we KNOW he's struggling with his sexual identity Ulises seems to sense this, too. But since the best defense is a good offense, Pancho takes action. He goes to see Lucy at the house (now occupied by Lucy, Pancho, Inés, Bert, and Fran), and she's upset that Fran is there, that lady might think of her as a maid again. Lucy is babbling away, when Pancho whips out a bouquet of flowers! Pancho, you never gave me flowers before. What's up? Lucy, he says, trembling, will you marry me? Wow! She says YES!

Lázaro helps Arturo rehab his legs, going through exercise after exercise, pushing the muscles. Art, with great effort, is able to flex the legs on his own. Next up, walking. Art gets to his feet, and he DOES IT! He walks, a few tentative steps, in a truly touching scene, and the two big guys hug, as he calls Lázaro his brother, thank you, my brother, thank you.

We saw Santi get shot. We saw his body thrown off the bridge into the water. Now we see he has washed up to the shore. It looks as if the water around him is a bit bloody. But here comes an elderly female hunter, wearing hip boots, carrying a shotgun. She sees the body, pokes it with the barrel of the gun. Could this guy be alive?
 

SANTA, Part 3

Iván gets a call from his book publisher. His book has been accepted! He's to come tomorrow to sign the contract. He goes into Dani's room to tell her the good news, and finds her writhing on the floor, foaming at the mouth! I guess there WERE drugs in her room!

Vicky has been taken to the hospital by Tránsito. The doctor meets with Tránsito, and confirms the diagnosis (I don't think they tell us what it is). Anyway, Tránsito begs the doctor not to tell Vicky, since she's had marital problems, and this would destroy her. Vicky asks the doctor what's wrong, and although we don't see the response, I think the doc followed Tran's wishes and hid the truth from Vicky. Back at the bordello, they just manage to get Vicky back under the covers before Pat bursts in, his usual charming self, telling Tran that he doesn't care if Vicky lives or dies.

Elisa visits Mara in jail. Elisa will somehow get Mara out of there someday. Mara says the good news is that Santa's here, too. She has a friend for company. But what's weird is that when Mara wanted Santa to unburden herself, let out all her feelings, Santa turned tough. And she's friends with a very dangerous prisoner.

This dangerous prisoner says it's time for phase two of Santa's training. She has to learn to ignore pain. Diabla lights a cigarette, presses it to Santa's arm, Santa screams out in pain. No, says Diabla, you must IGNORE the pain. You must not FEEL. Santa fights back tears, gasps for breath, gets more and more control. She struggles to ignore the pain, repeating out loud, the pain does not EXIST. It does not EXIST. Diabla says, I am going to turn you, Santa, in a Diabla, whatever the cost!!!!!!!!!!
 

Actually George visited the old lady and paid her some money. Wonder who she is?
 

Thanks for the great recap H d M Particularly a valiant effort on a day of a holiday.

So NarcoGuy actually likes Ulysis. That itself seemed to make Pat even more po'd at Ulysis. Wonder how the pair of Narcos will kick out Arturo and Lazaro?
 

Thanks so much, Hombre for recapping on Thanksgiving and great job.

Some killer narco Franco is. Santi betrayed him. A real narco would have killed Barb and the rest of Santi's family not dropped Babs off with her stuff in a bad part of town.

Inès gave birth to an enormous premature baby!

I still can't figure out what disease Vicky has. How could Trànsito convince the doctor not to give
Vicky the diagnosis? Should we assume that it is incurable?


 

Some killer narco Franco is. Santi betrayed him. A real narco would have killed Barb and the rest of Santi's family not dropped Babs off with her stuff in a bad part of town.

I agree. If Franco/Sebastian were a true drug dealer and sociopath who really wanted to hurt Santiago, he would have kept him alive and killed his entire family in front of him or killed them off one by one before killing him.
 

Cracked me up that the hunter woman checked on Santi by poking him in the butt with her gun. At least she used the back end. That guy's got enough to deal with without adding buckshot in the tush.

Kelly
 

any "Marido En Alquiler" watchers here,

it looks like Diabla is being played by 'Maki' (Magdalena Moguilevsky) Soler,
the wife of Juan Soler (Reinaldo in Marido)

(thanks to Wesley at TW for the tip).

 

While we wait for the recap, here are a few thoughts. It's not really a good time to be a Cano. At this point, who wants revenge on that family? Well, of course Santa, Paula and Begonia. And Willy, who's starting by messing up Bert's office. Plus Diabla, and we don't the reason there. And Franco, too.

The situation at the Trebol de Oro seems to be going downhill with each management change. Carlos was despicable, Patricio was worse, but Franco may be the worst of all, with his cavalier attitude, almost smiling as he kills someone.

Pancho wasn't able to keep his supposed "death" quiet for more than one episode. But if Santiago recovers (and maybe that hunter can use "folk medicine", which is of course much better than hospital medicine) to cure him, he could really do a lot if people think he's dead. The hunter lady sure gets a lot of uses out of her booze.

I think Ulises could see that Pancho was hiding something, when Pancho said the reason he was marrying Lucy was that "it's the right thing to do, right, get married, have kids?"


 

Yes, Hombre, the Canos seem to have many vengeance seekers out there against them. They don't appear to be very effective, though.
Willy wrecks Bert's office - that's more like the vengeance of a 5th grader.
Santa's big reveal of Vicente and Fran's affair and parentage of Bert didn't have any lasting consequences. I note that the "Chart of Canos" that Santa made for Diabla doesn't even show that Bert isn't Gaspar's child.
Maybe we'll get some better quality vengeance when Santa gets toughened up in prison.
Franco, the vicious drug lord's threatened vengeance against the Canos didn't amount to much except for shooting Santi.
It seems like the most effective action against the Canos was George killing Gaspar, which revealed that the Canos have no money, and that wasn't really part of a plan of vengeance but rather trying to keep Gaspar from revealing George's theft.
 

loved the frontier doctora, what did she start with, a screw driver and some tin snips, but opted for a steak knife, and put her belt in Santiago's mouth because his screams were distracting her, but it looks like she is getting rusty, and so the next morning grabs her shovel to go dig his grave.

 

The most successful killer is Humberto, the ones he wants to kill, stay dead.
As a killer, Franco doesn't shoot Santi through the head or heart????
He is very cold blooded shooting that poor girl in the back, but perhaps she is better off dead. He is guapo though. Does he think Babs can't find her way home?

hard to figure what Diabla has to do with the Cano's, I'm thinking it is sth with Francisca.
Did the Cano diagram go on the wall after Santa arrived?

Now how is cárcel boot camp going to help Santa? And why does Diabla seem to run the place? I guess losing an eye has to do with her being tough.
 

Recapping now.....this epi jumped around all night, so I will recap by character rather than in order.

VP Narco Guy is really cold- blooded, I agree. Even Pat told him he was a little hard on the girls.
 

Santa Diabla - Viernes 11.29.13

Part 1

Santa and the prison pals - The episode opens with Santa being toughened up by Diabla by taking a burning cigarette to the skin. Ouch! Diabla explains to her that a skin wound hurts less than a broken heart. She needs be tough, tough, tough, like Diabla. The next “quien es mas macha” lesson is for Santa to learn to stay awake to watch her back. Diabla explains to Santa that the only reason she has survived so long in prison is because she stays vigilante and awake at all times in order to watch her back. She tells Santa that she will need to stay awake this very night to prove herself – if Diabla wakes up and finds Santa asleep she will fire Santa from Mas Macha Academy. As Diabla sleeps, Santa replays the videos of humiliation in her head. She sees Fran mocking her for being a wimp, Bert trying to temp her to go beddy-bye with him in her prison bunk, and then sees all those crazy kids from Marrero taunting her and laughing. The mental movies serve their purpose and she stays awake all night. Santa and Mara chat in the yard the next day. Santa asks Mara how Mara deals with the injustice of being imprisoned for a crime she did not commit. Mara explains she doesn’t need more bitterness. Santa gets the evil eye from Diabla for friendly chit chat with Mara; she sucks up the girl talk and excuses herself to report for training with Diabla. Santa and Diabla start physical training –she swings across monkey bars, jab punches at Diabla (oops - slips a punch to Diabla’s nose), and braves the skeptical smirks of her fellow prisoners. Santa is on her way to being mas macha.

Ines and the Two Guys and a Baby -At the maternity ward of the hospital of Marrero, the nurse asks Ines to hold her new bebe. Ines declines the offer – she wants nothing to do with the child – and orders the nurse to take her away. The lady doc signs and tells the nurse to do as Ines says. In the waiting room, Lucy bounces in and announces to Bert that she is wooo!hooo! engaged to Pancho. Pancho is over the moon about his niece but Bert dashes Pancho’s happiness with the news that the premature bebe may have some sort of telenovela medical problems. Lady Doc comes to confirm the news to Pancho that the bebe, as a preemie has some respiratory problems and will need to stay in the NICU unit of the hospital until she is stable. Stricken with this sad news, Pancho goes for consolation to Lucy? No, he goes to Ulysis to cry in his beer. Viewerville scratches their collective chins about the significance of this. Ulysis offers Pancho a drink rather than food for this visit. Pancho confesses his worries to Ulysis and then mentions that he is, by the way, engaged to Lucy. After all, he asks rhetorically, isn’t this what everybody does? Get married? Have kids? Have a family? Pancho has somehow misplaced the TN guide that states that TN families never start in that order. Viewerville offers to send him our copy of the guide. Pancho suddenly gets a phone call – what the que?! There is suspicion that Santiago is dead! He “voy’s para ya” - back to the police station leaving Ulysis in his usual state of puzzlement. Cifuentes tells Pancho, back at the station, that they have found blood and Santi’s wallet.

Bert and Willy and The Firm - Elsewhere, at the law firm, Willy stands in Bert’s office surveying the mess. It appears Willy has ransacked the office for an as yet, unknown reason. He vows aloud that Bert won’t get the best of him, but it is not clear what Willy has been looking for. Bert later returns to his office, trashed as it is, and is as puzzled as viewerville.

 

Part 2

Horti, Lisette and the Padre - Horti, Lisette and Padre return to Horti’s house from the not-so-confidential confessional. Lisette lectures Horti about needing to come clean about being the one responsible for poisoning Mara’s customers. Either Horti turns herself in or Lisette will. She turns to the good Padre to add that religion cannot cover up an injustice. Horti pleads with Padre to consider the not-so-confidential confessional as a real one and honor her horrible Horti secret. Padre advises Lisette to do what her conscience tells her to do and Horti to come clean on the crime. He excuses himself from the dreadful conversation to return to the church and some truly penitent parishioners. Horti tells Lisette to lay her cards on the table – she wonders what she wants – as she knows Lisette is not really concerned about justice for Mara. Lisette agrees it is time to remove the masks. They agree that those little checks from Horti to Lisette would be a good start to keep Lisette’s silence. But, more to the point, Lisette orders Horti to change her will to make Lisette and her bebe the sole beneficiaries. She gives Horti several days to get this done.

Art and Lazaro - Back at Ulysis’ guest house, Art and Lazaro give happy man hugs to one another for the success of Art’s therapy. Art thanks Laz for all he is done for him. Art can now go look for work, make some money, and help save Mara. Not so fast cowboy, advises Laz. Money will not help Mara – she needs them to find truth and then justice.

George, His Happy Family (and Ivan) - Over at George’s palace, Dani is in the middle of an overdose. Ivan yells for ayuda – in vain – for more than a few minutes. Meanwhile, downstairs, Barbara has found her way home and drags her suitcase in the door. George swaggers over and wonders what she is doing at the house. He informs her that he has booted out the rest of the Cano clan. Undeterred and clueless, she tells George she has nowhere else to go. George plays the mental movie of the time when Barbara humiliated him while frolicking in bed with two young fellas. The mental movie ends and George demands that Barbara gets on her knees and beg him for a place to stay. She refuses, he proceeds to throw her out, she capitulates and then FINALLY, Ivan makes it to the stairway to request help from the parents-of-the-year for their OD’ing daughter. They converge in Dani’s room. George demands they stay at the house with Dani despite pleas to call for an ambulance. Ever-empathetic George says deal with it and leaves. Ivan and Barbara put their heads together to help Dani and Ivan reports he has read a book about “Do-It-Yourself Rehab: Tips for At-Home Care”.

Santi - Somewhere in a shack by a river down the way from a bridge with a not-so-sharp shooting cartel leader, lays a bloody and feverish Santi. Santi appears to be alive! Que sorpresa! Our mountain lady tries to pour the obligatory liquor down his throat, on his wound and takes a trago or two herself. She prepares to do the obligatory rough surgical procedure to remove the bullet from Santi’s gut. She gives him a leather belt to bite (what happened to the bullet? Too cliché? Too cowboy moviesh?) and another swig. He hollers and she pops out the cartridge. She assesses the patient as needing a miracle or a grave. She decides on the grave, grabs the shovel and goes outside to begin digging. Viewerville shakes its collective head because mountain lady skipped the TN guide chapter that explains the need to light a candle and discuss the matter with the Virgincita of Guadalupe. This could be a serious oversight.

 

Part 3

Paula and the mysterious Monica Perez - Back in town, Paula pays another visit to the Monica Sanchez house. This time she encounters the mystery lady at the house. Mystery lady denies that she is Monica Sanchez, but tells Paula that Monica is her since deceased sister. Paula tells mystery lady that someone with a cell phone registered to this residence under the name of Monica Sanchez made a call to George. The mystery lady gets edgy and tries to slip away. Perky Paula decides to give mystery lady her business card and tells her to call her if she has any other information. Perky Paula leaves and mystery lady calls George to report that someone named Paula has paid her a visit. Paula returns to the Santa / Willy house. Willy asks her if she is comfy in her room, but by the way, it was a low blow to tell Santa all about his affair with Begona. Besides, he adds, she knows he is a dog with women so why report the obvious? Viewerville wonders why Paula forgot to tell Santa this detail back in the day. Paula lectures Willy that Santa nearly paid with her life to avenge the death of Willy. One-expression-Willy stares back at her, apparently unmoved, as always. There is a knock at the door. Bert is paying a visit to inform Willy that his new baby girl has been born.

Pat, NarcoFranco and the Girls - Checking in with Narco Franco, we find him at Ulysis’ place talking up the tasty food he smells Ulysis cooking. Save me some for later, he asks Ulysis. Ulysis, unfortunately asks a few too many questions about NarcoFranco’s origins. On the way out to “do business” with Pat, NarcoFranco tells Pat to take care of nosy Uly. Uh oh! Our enterprising fellas arrive at the Trebol de Oro to check the new shipment of smuggled immigrants. Pat goes through the usual routine of taking their passports and encounters an unwilling recruit. She refuses to give up her passport, begs to be let go and turns and runs away. NarcoFranco pulls his gun and shoots her in the back, killing her in her tracks. The whole crowd is left speechless and Transito asks who this trigger happy guy is. Paternal Pat asks NarcoFranco if he doesn’t think he is being too hard on the girls? NarcoFranco lectures Pat about needing to show the girls who is boss if Pat want to grow this little town business into a real success. Apparently, NarcoFranco hasn’t seen Pat at his brutal best breaking necks and slicing skin. Inside the Trebol del Oro Vicky searches for Transito. She finds her and Transito advises Vicky to stay in her room and out of site. Vicky asks more questions about the new girls. Transito fills Vicky in on the shipments that come to the Trebol del Oro – that they are girls that are smuggled in to work as prostitutes against their will. No one works at the Trebol del Oro by their own choice. Vicky wilts a little more – if that is possible.

Our episode comes to a close at the Marrero hospital. Ines stares off into space and hears the voice. One-expression Willy has come for a visit. Ines tells him she has a gift for him, she is giving him the baby. She doesn’t want the bebe. One-expression Willy stares at her as he digests this information.

 

Wonderful recap, Mena!!

I especially liked:
" Get married? Have kids? Have a family? Pancho has somehow misplaced the TN guide that states that TN families never start in that order."

I also thought it was strange that mountain lady (or should be say "bayou lady") had decided to dig a grave before Santi actually died. That's going to be a lot of hard, sweaty work for nothing.

Premies, especially those with respiratory problems, are in incubators and only people in surgical masks can come into the room. You don't carry them around and try and hand them to people. But it would be difficult to get the drama of Inés rejecting a baby that was in a NICU.

I didn't get the impression that Willy was looking for something in Bert's office. I thought he was just doing some minor revenge vandalism.
 

Great recap, Mena! I liked the mas macha school, but you had lots of gems.

I can see why Pancho went running to Ulises rather than Lucy, who doesn't seem to be the consoling, understanding type. I doubt Pat will be able to kill Ulises, since we need him for Pancho's coming out party.

Ines really has no reason to go on at this point. Her Daddy's dead, her husband found out that she tricked him and had another man's baby, her baby Daddy repels her. I guess the only thing left is to go to the dark side, and help her half-brother Bert in some evil scheme. Although at this point, Bert has few victims left, with Santa in jail and Santi "dead". Well, there is George. Ines could help get revenge on him. And that's right, Willy! Bert and Ines could try to take down Willy, who currently has a lot of enemies, and no true allies (even Paula is uneasy with him).
 

Great one Mena, very funny, especially TN family order.

I also thought the office was just trashed for vengeance.

I think Ulises will survive to help his sister, someone has to.
Doesn't Arturo still live in Vicky's house?
 

Santa

thanks Mena,
what a nice recap!

I seem to remember that when Paula was questioning the lady about who made the call as Monica to George, on a phone registered to her address, we see Diabla pull out her secret cell, (that she keeps in a real cell block) and it has George on speed dial.

Lisette is pretty resourceful, I don't think she has ever considered having a job.

if Arturo had been in a wheel chair I would have been more impressed with Lazaro's miraculous healing.

and I wouldn't think there would be much downriver from a town on the coast.

now we know the evil Willy is capable of, loved Humberto's what the... look as he surveyed the damage in his office.

and loving Diabla's "mas macha school", I think of Gaby Espina as bringing in the glamour, and have never seen her in kick butt mode, but I'm guessing Santa will meet Humberto at his level, and maybe we will see some sparks flying.

it's interesting that when Santa and Santiago are separated they have different but similar experiences, both now being tormented.

 

Interesting comments, all. What if Bert and Ines turn on each other over Santa? Bert tries it save Santa for himself from Narco guy and Ines joins forces with NarcoGuy to see Santa spirited away by NarcoGuy. Or Willy and NarcoGuy bump heads.....or pat and NarcoGuy bump heads .... Or all of the above! Then Narco Guy can be taken out by Barbra for scorning her! So many storyline possibilities!

BTW. Don't ask me why Monica Perez has become Monica Sanchez! I have no idea where that came from.

Last comment was to give credit to the old sat night live that had a regular skit called "Quine is mas macho?" It was the usual funny crazy stuff