Caray, Caray!

Ric, Homero, and Inésiana discuss Alina.  They agree that she can't see too much of Inésiana while she's staying at Paloma's, but Inésiana wants to see her at least once.  Homero goes off to see what happened to his car, but not before laughingly patting Ric on the cheek and telling him he's got a lot to learn.  Ric and Inésiana trade "I love you"-s and Ric starts listing all the documents he's going to need to get the adoption ball rolling.

Ric calls Marilu, aka Alina's new NannyMommy, to tell her not to take Alina over to Paloma's after school, even though Alina was looking forward to it.  "Just make up an excuse."  Niiiiiiice.

Homero catches Leo up on the car incident and mentions that he could swear he knows the guy who was with Francisco/JL.  He finally remembers that the guy's name was Mike and he used to be an agent.  "If he's undercover, why wasn't I informed?!"  Uh, oh…either Mike changed sides or someone forgot to keep forwarding Homero all those memos….

Ric finally shows up at work…to meet with the lawyer, Manrique, about Alina's adoption.  Manrique lists all the paperwork he's going to need…Ric and Marilu's birth certificates, their marriage certificate, income statements, etc.  Ric hands over Inésiana's letter to the court giving Alina to Ric and Marilu to adopt and says he'll give the lawyer Inésiana's passport copy and Alina's birth certificate tomorrow.  Manrique asks some shrewd questions, like why is Inésiana giving Alina up?  And if her daddy's cray-cray, then why is Inésiana going back to him?   Whaddaya mean, "love"?  And where exactly is the rat he's smelling being hidden?  He finally says he doesn’t believe what Ric is telling him, but he'll do his job.

The bishop, having finally finished with his meetings for the day, finally sits down with Mariano to discuss his suspended plaid-ness.  He's gotten a report from Padre Patroclo (neither plaid, nor pugilistic) that Mariano is continuing to live according to priestly rules and has generally been behaving himself.  But what about that woman, Oriana, and his problematic lusty feelings for her?  Mariano says heeeeeeeeeee will always lover herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…but only in a Christ-like, "love your neighbor" sense.  Plus she's his best friend's girl and he's not the Rick Springfield type.  The bishop is all set to welcome Mariano back to the plaid-hood…but wait!  Mariano has changed his mind.  Even if Oriana is not the woman for him, he's realized during his time off from the holy gym that he would like to have a family of his own…have a wife, and kids, and who knows, maybe even develop a paunch.

Marilu picks Alina up from school, where she got a gold star on her Spanish paper.  Francisco giddily accosts her and sends her running to hide behind Marilu. Marilu explains, firmly but sweetly, that Alina doesn't want to see him.  She's backed up by two guys in suits and mirrored sunglasses, one of whom lets Francisco see the gun stuck in his waistband and asks him to either leave or they'll make him leave.  Francisco walks away, looking like something snapped.

Benigno...selfish, deluded, determined Benigno, finds the reporter he talked to originally to break the story about Ricardo and his heinous misdeeds against Maria and tries to convince him that he needs to do something about this latest travesty…his poor daughter's barely cold in her grave and Ricardo got married yesterday!  The reporter tells him it's OVER.  It was already proved that Ricardo isn't the father of Benigno's grandchild, so there's no story here.  He goes into his office while Benigno rails against the injustice of greedy journalists who only work for rich people, damnit! 

Sebastian meets up with Raquel outside his apartment building and she mentions she's looking to live there too.  He invites her up for a drink.

Back at his hovel, Benigno bitches to his golfa about not being able to get the reporter to do anything.  He wants to kill Ricardo, but she reminds him that won't get them any money.  She suggests going after "the kid."

Raquel brags about how her "man" is going to buy her an apartment.  She's actually doing a great job of investigating.  And Sebastian is an idiot, so she's able to easily get him to tell her that he's money laundering for the mob.  She looks a little alarmed, but she gets over it when Sebastian says Francisco will probably buy her a house.  Sebastian wants to get horizontal, but THE IDIOT doesn't have a condom.  Here's my "SAY WHAT?!"  moment #1…the little walking hormone tries to hook up with anything in a skirt and he neither has any condoms in the house, nor owns stock in a condom company.  I mean, I already knew he was stupid, but doesn't he realize that they don't just help prevent pregnancy, but also the spread of sexually transmitted diseases?!  It's gonna fall off, dude!  Then he asks "What's the big deal?  We didn't use one last time."  And there is my "SAY WHAT?!" moment #2.  Sebastian, Raquel…y'all need to go straight to a clinic and get tested.  For EVERYTHING!  And I shouldn't be sexist about this…Raquel hooks up with anything in pants, so she oughtta be carrying her own supply.  Maybe I'm not giving her enough credit and she has an economy-size box in her purse, but she's using this as an excuse since Sebastian really isn't useful to her anymore.  Anyguey…she says she can't be getting knocked up with anyone's baby but Francisco's, so…see ya! [OK, true story from Casa Latina…I accidentally typed "kocked up" and joked to Mr. 5ft that I should correct it because it's not really the same thing as "knocked up"…to which he replied "Yet, surprisingly, one often leads to the other."]

Inésiana shuffles slowly into Paloma's house, where she's warmly greeted by Paloma, Fabiola, and Homero.

Mariano goes back to the Holy Gym with Padre Patroclo, who is sad to see him go, but says he can stay there until he finds himself another place to live.  Matilde comes in, asking to speak to "Padre" Mariano, but he breaks it to her that he is no longer of the plaid.  Matilde wants to talk to him as a friend of the family.  She puts on her pouty face and tells him she needs him to convince Ruben not to divorce her and, well, then there's Fabiola….  Padre Patroclo leaves them to talk.  Matilde continues her whine about Ruben having filed already, and all so he could shack up with that hussy Lucina.  She refuses to believe that Lucina is a good person, as Mariano says, because how could a shameless homewrecker possibly be a good person.  Mariano brings up the fact that Matilde and Ruben's marriage was already a hot mess before Lucina came on the scene, and that the whole relationship started off with Matilde being pregnant, and then losing the baby and getting pregnant with Cesar.  Matilde denies that's true and blames Fidelia for having told Ricardo, who told Mariano that heinous falsehood!  But, whatevs.  "I'm glad you're not a priest anymore.  Clearly you never deserved to be.  You've gotta wear big boy pants to be a priest!"

Inésiana and Ricardo agree that Alina will visit tomorrow. Homero tells Ricardo he needs to make himself scarce.  Inésiana begs Homero for some patience while she gets used to the idea that she's going to go back to shacking up with Francisco/JL.

Leo and Fabiola talk out in the courtyard.  Fabiola tells him she's starting school next week and wants to study veterinary medicine.  Leo wants to take her out to celebrate, but Fabiola thinks he needs to know that her baby might have some problems.  Well, Leo already knew that, and he agrees that abortion is an option, but he thinks she needs to be the one to make that decision.  And then either do it, or go through with having the baby and hold her head high.  He says sure, he'd marry a woman who's pregnant with someone else's baby, if he were crazy in love with her.

At the office, where clearly no one is doing any work, Ric confirms to Piero that he's still going to adopt Alina.  Ric calls Manrique to let him know he sent the paperwork over.  Ric actually allows Piero to change the subject to work and talk about the cotton growers and weavers.  Piero thinks their options are to beat Arte Folclore's prices, bribe Ceferino themselves, or find another provider.  Ric wants to talk to the workers directly first.  "SAY WHAT?!" moment #3 of the episode…I thought we were waiting on test results, but no-- Piero tells Ric that Fabiola hasn't gone to get the prenatal testing done because she's afraid of the results. 

Inésiana tells Fabiola to get the damn tests done already!  She wants Fabiola to quit worrying about hooking up with a guy and stay in school and not lock yourself away.  Fabiola timidly says her mother wants her to get an abortion.  Inésiana doesn't care what Mathilde thinks.  She tells Fabiola to get the damn tests done and then make a decision.  They're interrupted by the nurse, Berenice, who's there for Inésiana's physical therapy.  Inésiana reminds Fabiola that she's there for her.

Mathilde has come to visit and pulls rank (not that she has any) on Nadia insisting that Nadia shouldn't tell Paloma that she's in the house.  She shoos Nadia off so she can grill Fabiola.  She wants to know what's up with Inésiana and is pissed that no one bothered to tell her.  Maybe because it's none of your business, Mathilde.  "So, what about you?  You have to get rid of that kid...understand?"  Shut up, Matilde.  A process server has come to deliver papers to Matilde.  He hands over the envelope before having her sign for it…big mistake!  She reads Ruben's letter to the court, requesting a divorce, and rips it up, telling the server that she doesn't want to give him a divorce and she's not going to discuss it with some nobody from the court.  In that case, says the nobody, she'll have to wait for a summons and instead of a nice, quiet divorce, they'll have a trial instead.  "Mom, you shouldn't have done that!"  "Yeah, well.  You shouldn't have gotten knocked up."

Inésiana is still a little weak, but the nurse assures her she'll recover.

Predictably, Matilde calls Ruben to brag that she ripped up the papers.  She hangs up on him as one of the construction workers calls him over.

Fidelia gossips with someone who found out that Mariano is no longer of the plaid during that afternoon's Rosary. Padre Patroclo announced it.  Fidelia wants to know how it's going with Inésiana.  Ric gets a call form her and Fidelia makes herself scarce.  Inésiana has decided that she shouldn't see Alina tomorrow as they planned.  She doesn't want Alina to realize she's not ok and worry about her.

Marilu and Alina are in her room watching TV.  Alina hasn't done her homework yet because Marilu can't say "no" to her and one cartoon led to another.  Ricardo insists that Alina do her homework now, with his help. Marilu leaves them alone.  Alina asks him if he knows how to do math cause, you know, grownups are stupid around here.

Francisco and Antonio try to have drinks, but Francisco is pissed that Mike didn't refill his ice bucket.  He tells Mike to send flowers to his wife and notices that Antonio seems…disappointed to hear that Inésiana isn't dead.  He complains that there's something about Mike he doesn't like.

Mike calls Joaquin and tells him that Francisco's wife has recovered and is at her grandmother's house, but she has agreed to come back to Francisco.  He's a little calmer for that and seems to be paying attention to business now.  Joaquin is happy to hear it.

Ric reads to Alina from Alice in Wonderland as she drifts off to sleep.

Fidelia tells Marilu that she has to tell Ric about…"What?" Ric walks in and asks.  Marilu tells him about Francisco showing up at the school, but she and the guards handled it.  Fidelia is pissed and wants Ric to do something to keep it from happening again.  Ric suggests a restraining order once they've adopted Alina.  Marilu tells Ric that Piero and Mariano are waiting on him in the bungalow.  Ric thanks Marinanny and gives her updated orders for tomorrow--no visit to Paloma's house for Alina, since Inésiana is still having some motor problems and doesn't want Alina to see her that way.    After he leaves, Marilu confesses to her aunt that she did have some hope that maybe, even though this was a fake marriage, Ric might, maybe, y'know….  Fidelia tells her to get over it and laments that Marilu shouldn't have accepted this fake marriage/baby nanny deal.

The dudes talk about Mariano leaving the plaidhood and wanting to live a different kind of life now.  Ric offers to help Mariano with whatever he needs…Piero offers to let Mariano live with him, but Mariano wants his own place…Ric offers him a job.  Mariano wants to visit his family for a while.  He had studied medicine, but never finished his degree.  His family are actually in the cotton business.  Piero grins at Ricardo.

Homero finishes Skypeing with someone who confirmed that, yes, Mike is indeed undercover.  "He's working for us!"  Homero announces happily, though I think it's a little early to say that for sure.

Piero gets a call from Fabiola.  She's ready to go get the tests done. He insists on taking her and says he wants to be with her in good times and bad.  Fabi agrees to let him come to the appointment.

Manrique informs Ric that the paperwork has been handed over, but the judge wants to talk to Ric in person at high noon.  Manrique can't say whether there are any issues…it's all up to the judge.

Berenice, Inésiana, and Paloma talk about Inésiana's condition and her reluctance to let Alina see her until she's more recovered.  Nadia ushers Jorge in with a big bouquet from…dun, dun, dun…Francisco.  Paloma orders Berenice to get rid of the flowers.  Inésiana doesn't argue, but says she has to call Francisco to thank him.

The judge tells Ric that he and Marilu look good on paper, but he has some questions for him.  Why does Ric want to adopt her?  Ric claims that because of Inésiana's health, he offered to take Alina and Marilu agreed to it as well, because the both love Alina.  Ric explains that while her father is somewhat in the picture, he's a total tool.  The judge says unless he shows himself to be cray-cray upon evaluation, he has a right to claim custody of his daughter.  Ric gives him Francisco's name and tries to avoid giving the address, but the judge insists he has to hear from everyone.

Francisco is dealing with a whiny Raquel, who he tells to wait for him at the hotel.  Inésiana calls him to thank him for the flowers.  Francisco whines about being worried about her and having to find out where she was staying.  Inésiana tells him she's feeling better, but weak as a newborn puppy.  Francisco accuses her, somewhat jokingly, about saying that to remind him about Tito.  Inésiana tells him she'll be ready to leave her grandmother's house in a couple of weeks and that Alina is there with her and they've told her that Inésiana fell.  And, no, Alina hasn't mentioned him.  After they hang up, Inésiana explains to Paloma that she has to soften Francisco up because she's going to have to tell him that she put Alina up for adoption.  She's determined to go through with this deal.

Francisco finally shows up at the hotel, using "work" as an excuse for not being there as soon as Raquel was expecting.  Raquel tells him she's heard the company is a front for money laundering, according to that drunk, Sebastian.  Francisco says that's BS and she shouldn't repeat Sebastian's lie to anyone.  She brings up Colombia and Francisco claims that was a false accusation.  Raquel changes the subject to her fabulous new apartment, goes off to the bathroom, and orders him to get undressed while she's gone.  Francisco calls Mike and tells him to kill Sebastian "because I say so."  Mike asks for the address and says he'll take care of it.  "Well, that's that," Francisco says to himself.

Tomorrow: Oriana breaks up with Ric yet again; Mike shoots Sebastian, or so we're led to believe.

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