Caray, Caray!

Refrito: AnaSophy keeps her pitiful-me-song about her disastrous life, and her son trying to get her to be quiet for a record 10 seconds. She is so afraid she will be the laughing stock of several Mexican generations… (he suggests she choose from 2 solutions: bigger party or punish Frida with no funds… she likes that.. but she thinks sending Frida away to an European bording school is too easy (LOL!).. she will think of something… but meanwhile, how will she face the embarrassment she just endured. Have no choice. Give me the gun… (psych!, she wanted the blow dryer to dry her full fur coat)…


We get the ice cold reunion scene of Minerva and MA… and her sticky mommy, who can only see in terms of dollar bills.

Back to the colorful neighborhood party and Emiliano’s wish of meeting his dad. Lupita and her dad put a ‘oh crap!’ face when he says it.

Lo Nuevo:

Here comes (Arturo Peniche as) Nepomuceno (I will do him a favor and call him Nepo from here on), he arrived with his musicians to get the party started. Lupita is sad, Nepo comes to bring her some fruit (is he a green grocer/distributor?) and try to cheer her up. Fruit is not as pretty as you, but they are sweet as honey. Lupita not in mood, even with the band he brought to her son.Nepo is definitely interested in Lupita, and he does not skip a beat, he asks her out. She is very reluctant… just a movie or a drink… please don’t say no or I will squish like an avocado. Lupita leaves him with a pinch of hope, ‘maybe one of these days we can go out to dinner…’ That’s good enough for him. He happily goes back to animate the party. Wendy(?)(is this the aguas girl?) comes to scold Lupita for rejecting Nepo. For some reason Wendy wants to know the name of Emiliano’s dad. Lupita won’t tell her.

Next morning, Lupita and her dad again discuss the options about the gym, and even consider selling the house. He can tell Lupita is more worried about Emiliano wanting to meet his dad. She is thinking about it. Her dad says should not even consider it. Lupita never told Emiliano’s dad she was expecting. She remembers:

We see her on the day she got the positive pregnancy test results and was coming to the office to tell him, she found him (none other than Alejo) in the arms of a woman (none other than Minerva!)… Lupita got upset and left, he basically demanded that she not tell anyone about what she saw. She gets really upset, claims he had told her he loved her. Alejo says ‘I am a R-P, the next President of this corporation. You are just a receptionist. How can you even think there could be love between people of such different social ranks?’ She gathers some strength and backbone and says she does understand and will leave him something (he thought she wanted to give him a last kiss, but she actually gives him a knee in the sweet spot… YAY!!, you go Lupita!! WHOO!!! WHOO!!!)…

Back to present… Lupita tells her dad she thought Emiliano would never ask. Dad says ‘that man’ does not deserve a son like Emi. Lupita says it would only be fair they met. Dad asks her to be honest, do you still feel anything for that guy? Heck no!! but my son has the right to meet his dad. Dad insists maybe Emiliano will forget about it. Lupita hopes he is right.

At some offices (lawyer’s?) the reading of the grandpa will starts. (I am adding that Julie's recap cleared up why they are reading the 'will'. it is similar to what we had in Cafe and Destilando, where a piece of the will is read at a certain point... in this case when grandma no longer is mentally capable of remaining at the 'head' of the corporation. Thanks Julie!) Aureliano RP… He wants Alejo (oldest grandson) to take presidency of the company (Alejo smiles satisfied, thinking he retains control of the corporate… but to his dismay, the lawyer continues), ALONG with my other grandson MA. For a while, until one of my two oldest grandsons (Alejo or MA) have a legitimate son in a legal marriage. (WHOA!! What a bomb!! Alejo is visibly disgusted, biting his lip, MA totally shocked) Alejo asks what if that clause is not fulfilled? Lawyer says then the assets would need to be divided among the remaining heirs. Ana Sophy brags that MA (Miguel Anyelo) is about to get married so no sweat. MA not so sure, is actually offended at her statement and walks away. She follows him.

Out on the street somewhere, Emiliano insists to Lupita he wants to meet his dad. Lupita says it is complicated. Emiliano says he is now 9 years old and is old enough to understand their situation. Lupita says you are right, you are smart, grown up and my pride and joy. He walks to school, she is still very worried.

Back to the RP house, Ana Sophy wants MA to accept the inheritance, MA says he can stand on his own, no need for any of the family fortune. She insists he accept the title/position to make up for his long term absence. As he insists he has his own life and does not need any of that, she has a brief fainting spell.. ‘what have I done to deserve such lack of gratitude??’ MA asks her not to exaggerate. She insists he accept the position. Now that you will marry this girl ‘muchacha’… you can fulfill your grandpa’s wish. MA takes offense with that. That ‘muchacha’ is named Minerva. (and walks away)..

We see Alejo show his true colors, in his office at corporate, he grabs grandpa’s picture frame and smashes it on the wall. The secretary worries about him, he hates the will clauses of grandpa’s… She reminds him MA is not interested. Alejo says you are right. Secretary says noone can run this company like you can. Alejo says he wants all employees to know that he will always be the president of the corporation. Seems this secretary/assistant (as she calls herself) has a weak spot for Alejo… even though his mood/temper leaves MUCH MUCH to be desired (What do Lupita and this girl see in him??).

We go back to Lupita and her dad, they have such a great relationship. They keep talking about taking the house deed to the bank. He says banks loan you the umbrella when it is not raining and when it rains they won’t loan you anything. She says they have to open the fonda (like a cafeteria, Aha! SO she DOES plan to run a cooking business) as soon as they can.

MA is buying (or renting?) a car. Picks a white one,( I would have picked the red one, but oh well.) The salesman asks him if he would not prefer one with driver, MA says no thanks, and drives away.

Some women who are part of Ana Sophy’s social circle are gossiping about AS, one says one day AS will arrive riding an elephant (that is, if the elephant does not complain), she always wants to be in the spotlight. Just at that moment AS arrives, complete with her puppy love, via helicopter. She is very cocky asking the waiter for a dry martini. Kissy kissy..( have to say the rose shaped ruffles on her shirt are sort of cute.) She continues bragging, go ahead and talk about me all you want, as long as it is good things. The ladies tell her the designers are demanding pay for the coats your ‘nina’ (daughter) ruined.

Lupita and her dad come to some guy’s house who happens to own a pawn shop (Salomon Ladino OMG LOL!!), they want to pawn the gym equipment. He can’t give them much for it, but he can loan them money with a low low interest rate. And he will take the equipment as guarantee… ‘taza variable de ajuste inflacional’ (variable rate with inflation adjustment LOL!)_ instead of the usual 6% he will charge them 5.9%. Lupita does not skip a beat and huddles with her dad away, she is not convinced. He says lets do it, God will help us. They come back and accept the deal from Don Salomon. How much are we talking about? 20K? 60? 100K?

AS and the gossip ladies are also talking about the money, but seems AS expected them to hand over some money for the 'charity' but it turns out it is THEM asking AS for the money for the ruined coats and jewelry. AS says her daughter is a ‘rebel without a cause’. But she will think of an unprecedented punishment.

MA arrives to see his grandma. She recognizes ‘her favorite grandson’ immediately. She says she should be mad at him for having been away so long, even though grandpa had chosen him(MA) as the one to head the corporation. When grandpa died she wanted MA to have helped her with the corporation instead of Alejo. MA insists Alejo has done fine. Grandma says Grandpa wanted all the family fortune to end in MA’s name. MA says ‘he did that to try to keep me here. I am sorry I did not stay but I have made a name for myself on my own means and thanks to the values you all taught me I have got everything I want’. Grandma says she hopes he has learned his lesson.

AS is trying to feed puppy. Now she is sitting Poolside(?) with Frida, who is again asking for money. Frida is complaining that AS can only think of her poor animals but won’t take care of her. Leonardo also comes to ask for money. AS protests, go ask MA for money. I am your mama (in Italian), the one that gave you life… At least MA deposited some money for me, otherwise I would not have money either.

Back to MA and grandma. She hopes his successes have not turned him into an arrogant and cold man. She is sure he is good and noble. She begs him to stay and take over his grandpa’s patrimony. If you don’t do it for his memory, do it for me. MA asks her if she knows what is in the ‘clause’ of grandpa’s will. She doesn’t have a clue. But she does know that things in the corporate are not going well since your cousin took over the management. She tells MA both the corporate and the family need him more than he thinks. (she keeps having her mental gaps thinking grandpa will arrive home soon). She reminds him no success in life will make up for a failure at home.

Back at the house, Frida gets a phone call from her boyfriend. She is leaving. AS rants about her boyfriend being worthless … as you say… ‘equis’. AS comments that Frida made her push for 9 hrs when she gave birth to her. Frida says love you too, mom and leaves. AS looks at magazine and says the word ‘party’ and remembers Frida’s protest at her party. She gets on phone with the police commander. She asks him for a big favor. You need to be discrete because it is about my daughter Frida. I am sure she will commit some vandalizing felony. (this is going to hurt…)

At the corporate, some model is doing a photo shoot, Alejo is nothing short of drooling and popping his eyes out, while his secretary is putting faces like she is not liking his joy with the show. When the photo shoot finishes, Alejo, the photographer and Alejo’s assistant look at the pictures and Alejo is not happy at all. He wants more heat, more sensuality. The photographer says ‘more flesh!’ Alejo says ‘That’s right. Need to catch the attention of men, and also for women to realize what they can achieve with a good ‘look’.’ Photographer says why don’t we get MA’s opinion, since he is now also president of the corporate?. (hey, mr photographer, do you want to keep your job for more than 3 minutes? Shut up, you’re much too cute for unemployment) Alejo takes offense, turns to his ‘assistant’, tells her to send a memo to everyone to assure them that he is The ONE AND ONLY president. He leaves. The assistant makes faces at the photographer and says ‘you have so little tact/sense’ (or stte). Yes, she definitely has the ‘Alejo’ bug bad, not to talk about being totally blind to his ‘ways’.

Nepo is at Wendy’s hairstyle chair, Wendy is suggesting to Nepo to dye change his hair color. He is not liking the idea. She says you won’t try anything out of the box. No wonder you can’t make any progress with Lupita. She slips to him that Lupita and her dad plan to close the gym and open a restaurant. Nepo ‘impactado’ (he is alarmed, just had to use that word, been a while I used it).

AS is home, about to head to the horse racetrack. MA comes in, tells her that grandma told him that things are not going well at the corporate, asks her what’s up with that?. She says ‘no clue, why don’t you ask Alejo?’. MA learns she is about to leave, asks ‘are we not going to eat together?’ AS says that they never eat together. Everyone eats whenever they want. Then she tells MA: ‘If all the fortune of grandpa ends up in Alejo’s hands, you will have to sustain all of us (the family).’ MA asks does no one work around here? She says no. Besides, you left for a long time and cannot come back to give orders. MA says you should be proud that I made a life for my own with no help. AS says you should now think of us, and fulfill that darn clause of the will. In comes Leonardo the ‘artist’ as AS refers to him. AS and Leonardo leave and MA has again a confused ‘wth’ face.

Minerva and her mom are at the beauty parlor talking. Mama wants Minerva to find out about the mysterious clause of the will. Minerva does not think it will be easy to find out. (besides, she seems to be much more interested in some magazine she is looking at, specifically an article about some bull fighter , perhaps an ex- of hers?) Mama says stay away from Alejo ('lejos de Alejo' LOL!) and focus on MA. Minerva says everything MA has ‘good’ in bed, he has of ‘boring’ in everything else. Mama insists MA is handsome, rich and willing to please her. What else can you ask for?

Previews: engagement keeps going forward. Lupita comes to the corporate office to see Alejo. Seems Alejo (with or without meeting with her first) has her sent away. But she shows her dad’s genetics and next thing we see is she has the security guard on all fours on floor, she has a firm grip around his neck. MA comes out and seems to think she needs help. Shouts to the security guy to get his hands off her (LOL!)

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