Caray, Caray!

Francisco gets a call from Eliseo in the middle of his meeting with Trejo Bonfil.  Eliseo tells him that he followed Berto last night and thinks he took the guns out of his sister's hotel in a briefcase and took them over to Casa Bonita.  Francisco ends the call abruptly and asks Trejo Bonfil for his answer. Trejo Bonfil agrees to the deal and agrees to allowing Francisco to place some of his own people in key positions.

After the ceremony, Lina gives her mom her certificate as a present.  While Lina goes to hit the dessert table and get her sugar high on, Mariano and Inés talk.  They joke about Inés saying she thought about becoming a nun.  Mariano offers her the job as the parish librarian, but it won't pay much and he's already told Paloma, who didn't like the idea.

Oriana, Alina, and Tito go to visit Paloma and show off Alina's diploma.  She got 1st place in math.  Alina starts complaining about how she regrets wheedling her mom into living with her dad, cause it turns out he's a Tito-hating jerk.  Made him sleep outside in the freezing cold last night and everything.  Paloma chides her, saying it doesn't get cold there.  She sends Alina to go say "hi" to the maids, et. al.

Francisco finally calls Eliseo back and tells him he agrees that the guns are at Casa Bonita.  Eliseo reports that he's found someone to spy on Oriana.  Francisco doesn't care how Eliseo gets the guns back, and he's not going to help him come up with a plan, but he forbids him to get himself a room at Casa Bonita to do it.

Paloma figures JL is now trying to use Tito to convince Oriana to have sex with him.  Dude, you're doing it wrong.  You're supposed to be NICE to the dog.  Paloma says she won't bother telling Oriana what to do.  She changes the subject and asks about Oriana's new job.  She says she's going to go nuts if she doesn't get out of the house and interact with other people.  Paloma tries to convince her to go back to work at Aresti Breton, but JL won't like that since she'll be seeing Ricardo there, every day.  "He's very jealous."  Paloma tells Oriana to send JL to her and she'll offer him her shares in exchange for Oriana's freedom.  "Go back to work and take up your rightful place or I'll give my shares to your husband in exchange for leaving you alone."  Damn.  Paloma's mad as hell and she's not going to take it anymore!

Greeeeeat.  Matilde, Lila, Berto, and a (presumably) sleazy lawyer named Robles come to the Aresti Breton offices to ruin Ricardo's day.  Lila wants Ricardo to tell the truth about Sebastian's parentage so that Gabriel's estate can be redistributed.  The lawyer points out that the shares that were given to Matilde weren't Sebastian's to sell, so she's been harmed.  Ric admits that Sebastian isn't his son.  "So my aunt lied to me?"  Oh, shut up, Matilde!  Ricardo says that Paloma didn't know.  Robles says that Paloma will have to answer to a judge.  Ricardo points out that Paloma is sick and asks Matilde why she's trying to drag her sick aunt who's supported her family for years into court.  "Well, the shares were in compensation for all my years of service and because she left all the rest to that slut Inés…and I bet she was an addict and a hooker like her mother.  But, of course, my aunt's so enamored of her.  And now she's got some husband showing up from who-knows-where.  Maybe they're some criminal organization trying to steal from my aunt."  Ric, worn down by her babbling, asks the lawyer for his card and says he'll have his lawyers give Robles a call.

Matilde, Lila, and Berto have a post-meeting glass of wine.  Lila gets the scoop about Francisco Castro being Inés' husband.  Berto claims he didn't know.  As for Matilde's accusations that Inés was a prostitute and a drug addict…"Well, her mother was, and it's obvious that if she lived with her mother, she would have inherited her  habits."  Well, as far as I know, Fabiola's not an emotionally manipulative shrew who listens at doors, so shut up, Matilde!  Lila is horrified and wonders why Ricardo is denying it.  "Well, he's been bewitched by her, too.  Who knows what…services…she's doing for him."  Matilde…do I even have to tell you?  Berto smirks.  Shut up, Berto's smirk.

Back at Casa Tratando de No Dormir Con El Enemigo, Oriana sends Alina upstairs to change out of her uniform and says she'll have Tonya fix her a sandwich, since she didn't eat much earlier.  JL comes in and finds out that Alina won 1st place in math.  She's cold to him when he tries to congratulate her and goes upstairs.  JL sits Oriana down in the living room to show her the paperwork exonerating her from the money laundering charges.  The original of the document is on its way in the mail.  He laughs when he tells her that the cops think he forged her signature, but since he's dead….  Oh, JL, aren't you just a barrel of lols.  He won't let her keep the copy, though, until she complies with her end of the deal, which as far as he's concerned means being his wife "in every sense of the word."  Oriana says she's not sleeping with him until she gets the original, and BTW, she's working in the parish library once Alina goes back to classes.  He asks her to at least kiss him and she remembers Ricardo's kisses.  JL starts to kiss her, but she pushes him away and goes upstairs.  JL is stunned that Oriana has lost that lovin' feeling.  Per Mr. 5ft she stopped loving him when she found out he was a jackass.  So, let that be a lesson to would-be galanes…don't be a jackass.  Yes, that would include opening up a bank account in your wife's name to hide ill-gotten gains, in case that wasn't clear.  This has been a public service message from Mr. 5ft.

Paloma and Ricardo wonder what to do about the suit from Lila.  Paloma is happy to pay, as is Ricardo, but he's worried about how Sebastian is going to handle being stripped of his last name.  Paloma is surprised at Matilde's attitude and swears she'd have thrown her out already, if it wasn't for Fabiola.  Paloma takes a call from Inés, who tells her that JL has the document from Columbia, but he's demanding "something" in exchange for the original document.  Inés doesn't know what to do, and even with that out of the way, there's still the matter of Gabriel's murder.  Lina comes in with movies her dad brought her and asks if they can watch together, so Inés ends the conversation with Paloma.  Paloma fills Ric in on JL's demands.  "He just wants to get her pregnant again so she'll be tied to him forever."  What?  He thinks the first one didn't take?  Ric says he has to do something, maybe go to the cops…but then he might hurt her.  He gets Oriana's new number from Paloma's phone, then calls Manrique to ask him to call his contact in Colombia to verify that Oriana has been exonerated on the money laundering charges.

Eliseo skulks around at Casa Bonita.  He tries to climb the wall, but ends up having to just walk in the front door.  He sees Felipe behind the registration desk and asks for Berto's room.  When Felipe turns around and recognizes him, Eliseo smashes a glass pitcher into the back of his head.  Felipe's bleeding and doesn't get up when Eliseo nudges him, or when he hits him with the butt of the gun for good measure.

Berto is cleaning the edge of the collar of a white shirt with "Berto Martin" embroidered on the collar.  Just the very edge of the collar, mind you, with a sponge.  Eliseo knocks on his door and Berto spritzes his hair with water before going to answer the door.  Does Berto not wash anything?  Are we going to find out he has some kind of shower/washing machine/soap phobia?  Eliseo ducks do and when Berto doesn't see anyone through the peephole, he doesn't open the door.  Eliseo knocks again and this time, Berto throws the door open in annoyance without checking to see who it is.  Eliseo points his gun at Berto and tells him to hand the guns over.  Berto gets them out of the safe, lays one down on the floor carefully, but then tucks the other one into the back of his waistband as he turns around.  Eliseo laughs, telling Berto that his boss, Jose Luis, is reeeeeally cheap.  He never gives Eliseo money for gas or drinks…and definitely not for bullets.  "Guess what?  This one doesn't have bullets."  Just as Berto starts to pull the gun out of his pants (not a euphemism, thankfully) Eliseo pulls out his OTHER gun and says "but this one does."

Berto thinks Eliseo's bluffing.  He wouldn't shoot him in a public place where he could be caught.  "Besides, you don't have the guts.  Come on, go for it, pull it."  Berto's bluff is called and he lies there with a bullet in his head while Eliseo says, "Thought you said I wouldn't."

Lucina hears the shot and runs out to see what happened, but not fast enough to see Eliseo heading out the front door.  She finds Felipe behind the desk and Ruben, Cesar, and Raquel are hot on her heels.  She leaves Ruben to call the Cruz Roja while she heads upstairs.  Raquel and the maids are in Berto's room.  The maids have covered him with a sheet by the time Lucina gets there.  She's like the cat who always lands on her feet, that one.  It seems like she doesn't even have to think, she just immediately tells the maids to go help Felipe, who's hurt, shuts the door, and starts checking Berto's body for the guns.  Raquel is surprised, but Lucina doesn't stop to explain, just gets the gun.  I can't tell if she's wiping the prints off with the sheet and her blouse or just trying not to get her own prints on it.  Raquel reminds her that she wanted to put more security in place, but Lucina tells her this was about someone trying to get back the two guns…the one that they think was used to kill Gabriel and the one that Alina found on the beach.  "Ricardo had them.  One of them was Berto's that we think he used to kill Gabriel, and the other one is the one Oriana is supposed to have used.  But two days ago, someone broke into his house and stole them…this guy obviously!  And then they came to get them back, but they didn't get this one."  She tells Raquel to go downstairs and wait for the police. Raquel tries to refuse, but gives in.

Lucina takes the gun to her room and locks it in a drawer with some paperwork on top of it.  Her hands are shaking when she grabs her cell phone to call Ricardo.  "They just killed Berto Martin.  Just now in the hotel.  They took the gun he used to kill your father, but I think they didn't have time to get the small one, or they didn't see it, but I've got it now.  The police will be here soon.  We're fine but…damn it, another dead guy!"  Ricardo says he's on his way.

Cesar and Felipe's wife go with him in the ambulance.  Raquel is upset that Felipe could have been killed too.  Ruben wonders if anything was taken, but Lucina says she hasn't even checked and definitely, they shouldn't let Adalgisa clean the room until after the police have come.  She and Raquel exchange guilty looks.

JL is throwing papers around in his office when Eliseo comes to see him.  He tells the butler he'll be right down.  Out in the hallway, Oriana is waiting to tell him that Alina won't be joining them for dinner.  She asked to have a tray in her room since Tito is afraid of JL.  He starts in again on how she's being spoiled and Oriana lays into him about everything Alina's been through, what with the fleeing in the middle of the night, seeing a man she liked get killed right in front of her, changing her name, having a great-grandmother show up out of nowhere, and then having her supposedly-dead father show up.  "So, all YOUR daughter's tantrums are my fault?"  Oriana asks him to understand that Alina's life is a hot mess right now and he's piling it on by being cruel to the dog and turning her against people she liked.  And yes, she's referring to Ric.  "You had no need to badmouth him to her.  She liked him.  Maybe tomorrow you'll start talking smack about Paloma and you know what…I'm not going to allow that!"  JL grabs her and says she's his wife and she's going to do what he says.  "Whether you like it or not, I'm your only salvation."  Oriana fires back that SHE is also HIS only hope, but she's got other people who will help her…yes, Ricardo and Padre Mariano and Lucina and Paloma.  "All of them are willing to help me!"

Eliseo has been left waiting outside the house.  When JL shows up, he proudly announces that he got the gun that was used to kill Gabriel.  He's not too upset that he had to kill Berto to get it, though, and tells JL that he killed him at the hotel.  "But don't worry, he's definitely dead."  JL asks about the other gun, but Eliseo tells him some story about a struggle and guns changing hands and oops he shot him and there wasn't time to look for the other gun.  And oh, BTW, the guy who was at the hotel in San Carlos was there and recognized him.  "Get out of here.  Go back to Joaquin.  Tell him to assign you to another job.  Tell him to kill you."  JL explains that this was actually a FAIL because Eliseo didn't get the other gun and it wasn't a clean job.  Eliseo whines about not having any money, so JL goes back in the house to get some.

Cesar talks to the surgeon while Felipe is in ICU.  Felipe needed surgery, but they weren't able to fix everything.  He's got an edema that's going to have to resolve on its own.  But the concussion is what the doc is really worried about.  They need to wait 48 hours and see, but it's possible Felipe could be left with some speech problems and/or loss of memory.

Cesar goes out to the lobby to talk to Felipe's wife.  He advises her to wait and says Felipe is strong and will be fine.  He encourages her to pray and keep her spirits up, because Felipe will need her.

In the dining room at Casa Bonita, Raquel does shots while Lucina sits, Ric paces, and Ruben gets the update from Cesar.  One of the cops comes in and says that they've checked the room and it doesn't look like Berto's money or watch were taken.  The CSI: Hermosillo team will be there shortly.  Raquel asks why they're taking so long and the cop says they probably had another crime scene to investigate.  As he's leaving Manolo walks in and hugs Lucina while Ruben loudly clears his throat.  He tells her he's just visiting and asks if it's a relative of hers that died.  "No, not the dead man, but Felipe…the savage who got in here beat the crap out of him.  He's in the hospital with a concussion!"  Manolo introduces his cousin, Carmelo Hernandez, who happens to be The Cop in Hermosillo.  Carmelo starts asking Lucina about the dead guy and she tells him that Berto was Lila's brother and it was Lila's husband Gabriel who was shot at her hotel in San Carlos.  Sounds kinda bad when you put it that way.  Carmelo is called away by one of the other cops who wants him to see something.  Manolo greets everyone else in the room and is introduced to Ruben.

Paloma rips into Matilde for being so ungrateful as to start a fight with her over those shares.  Matilde, in that annoying syrupy voice, asks what she was supposed to do, just wait for them to come take the shares away?  "You should have checked it out before giving me the shares…gosh you seem so clueless!"  Matlide has though it all out and suggests blaming "that bastard" Sebastian and saying that he and Ricardo duped her.  Paloma doesn't care if they take her shares.  "Well, I care!  What am I going to end up with?" Matilde asks.   "You should have thought about that before taking me to court."  Matilde smarms that she didn't sue Paloma to upset her, she just wanted to keep her shares.  Paloma's not buying that and accuses Matilde of not caring who gets hurt as long as she gets her way.  "I guess it was my turn this time.  If not for Fabiola, I'd throw you out of the house right now!"  Matilda smirks that it won't be necessary to throw her out, because she and Fabiola are leaving tomorrow.  She can pay her way, thank you very much, with her savings.  Paloma accuses her of building up those savings by skimming from the grocery money and the house repair fund.  "I haven't stolen a cent from you!  I'm not like your granddaughter!"  Paloma says when her granddaughter left she left behind the car, the clothes, and the jewelry.  "See, she's clever…she's after your inheritance!"  And now that I've saved it up for an entire scene…SHUT UP, MATILDE!

Lucina and Raquel go fix some coffee while Ruben, Ricardo, and Manolo sit and chat.  Manolo asks if Ricardo is still looking for Oriana Caligaris and says he's sure not.  "People disappear all the time."  He says women can change their hair and eye color, and even have plastic surgery.  Ricardo asks about the news from Colombia, but all Manolo knows is that the band disbanded and Jose Luis died and he wasn’t  in charge of the group anyway.  Manolo asks why Berto was staying there.  Ricardo explains that Berto was administrating Lila's shares in the company, but he doesn't know why Berto ended up at this hotel specifically.  He goes to help Lucina and Raquel with the coffee and get away from Manolo.

Felipe's wife cries over him in the ICU.

Carmelo tells everyone the coroner has taken the body.  He thinks it's strange that whoever went into his room wasn't there to steal from him.  He wonders if it was some personal revenge.  He informs them all that they'll have to come down to the station and make statements.  He asks about Berto's family and Ricardo tells him that Lila's staying at a hotel in town.  Carmelo and Manolo leave, but Lucina stops Manolo to ask him to come by tomorrow…you know…to have a chat…and a drink.  As they leave, Lucina decides to go with them and visit Felipe at the hospital.  Raquel tells Ricardo that Lucina's an idiot and will probably tell Manolo everything.  "You have to stop her!"  Raquel leaves and Ruben asks Ricardo QTH?  Ricardo brushes him off with "it's a long story, I'll tell you later."

Lucina comforts Felipe's wife in the waiting room.  She tells her she'll be paying the hospital bill and tells Cesar that the cops haven't been able to figure anything out yet.

Carmelo calls Lila's cell and tells her that he got it from Berto's cell.  Lila figures Berto's in trouble again, but Carmelo tells her that Berto was killed a few hours ago.  WHAT?!  First we have the doctors who don't watch Grey's Anatomy and now we apparently have the cop who doesn't watch Major Crimes. He's supposed to give Lila the news in person so he can watch her and see how she reacts.  He asks her to come down and identify the body and chat with him.  Lila begs him to say it's not true, that it's some kind of joke.  She asks how and where it happened and Carmelo just tells her he's really sorry.  Lila sits by the hotel pool and cries.

Ricardo calls Oriana's new cell.  She still calls him "mi amor" but she chastises him for calling her.  He wants to arrange a meet to talk.  Starting with talking about Berto's murder, since he thinks it might have something to do with her.  She hangs up to go to the door, which she has thankfully LOCKED tonight, and unlock it for JL.  She runs back to her bed and pulls the covers up to her chin.  He asks her why she's locking her door.  "Are you afraid I'll force you to do something you don't want to?"  Oriana admits she didn't used to think so, but now she's not sure.  "You never said no before."  She tells him things have changed and they're not the same people.  "But my feelings for you haven't changed."  Oriana says hers have.  He turns on the waterworks and says he'll wait as long as he has to.  "But let me sleep next to you tonight."  No, dude…HELL NO!  He swears on their daughter that he won't try anything and just wants to hold her.  He doesn't actually wait for an answer, just whines and cries as he lies on top of the covers and spoons her.  Creep.

Tomorrow: Jose Luis starts harassing Oriana about her whereabouts; Paloma offers him $10M to let go of Oriana.

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