Caray, Caray!

Alternate Title: Fabricio Should Have Stayed in Monterrey, Away From These Crazy People

If I have time during the snow day tomorrow, I’ll look at the Mexican episodes and add things that Uni cut out. But our condensed Uni episode was filled to the brim with revelations and surprises!

Isabel is on the phone with FeVier making arrangements to meet up tomorrow. Gabi just wants Isa to get to the point, and kick the guy out of her condo. When she hangs up, Isa tries to downplay all the coincidences, which Gabi points out—he saved her life, then he turns up working for their internet security company, and now he’s renting her penthouse! He’s probably one of those obsessed stalkers. Gabi wants to tag along to the meeting. Isa downplays again. Gabi has been watching too much Law and Order-SVU.  Isa doesn’t think they should judge him just because he reminds them of Fernando, but she does want to figure out a tactful way of kicking him out of her condo.

Arturo reads the letters Katia left him. In them, Osvaldo tells Katia that she is the love of his life. Had they met years earlier (before he met his wife), then their story would have had a different end. Art can’t continue to read the letters, nor can he believe it. He calls Dr. Elias Caranza and asks him to come to the house right away. He shakes and holds his head in disbelief.

That night, Sonia arrives home, still marveling that Fabricio is Osvaldo’s son and Art’s (half) brother. Feo arrives and brags about how much success he’s having seducing her niece. And now that he knows Aranza is inexperienced, he is eager to plow that virgin soil and be her first. He is certain that she is VERY in love with him. Sonia isn’t surprised considering he’s been pulling out all the stops to romance Ara, just like he did with her (hmmm…a bit more back story on these two). Ah, but you see, that’s not enough for Feo. He wants to rob Ara of her will (voluntad)! He wants her to only see through his eyes. Since Ara is balking on presenting him to her parents, he’s going to keep trying to make inroads with becoming Isa’s friend. Who can resist Javier’s charms? He’s not like Fernando. He’s educated, well-mannered, classy, and she owes him her life. He loves the idea that Ara will be his (sexually) in the same place that Isa was his mujer. S: “You’re such a pervert, Diablo.”  He can’t wait for the day Art and Isa meet their daughter’s novio, and even more for the day when they learn who he is. Sonia points out that that will be the day he goes to jail. Feo is not worried. He has a plan. All this nefarious talk makes them horny and they start making out. All the while being recorded by the hidden camera Feo installed.

Gabi returns home and remembers Nick’s words about how Isa is taking advantage of her. The man himself appears at her door with a bouquet of flowers and an apology.

FeVier has Ara over for a romantic dinner at his place. Ara thought they were going out to eat. She’s clearly nervous and her hands are sweaty. FeVier tries to put her at ease by saying they don’t have to do anything that SHE doesn’t want to do. Their first intimate encounter will happen when SHE wants it to happen. He would never disrespect her. He pops the champagne cork.

Uni has clearly skipped some very important scenes, because we head to Tita’s bedroom where both she and Ally are bursting to tell their good news. Ally goes first. Tita’s going to be a grandma! No, she’s not pregnant, but Bruno wants them to adopt a child. Yay! Happy, happy, joy, joy, and hugs. Tita goes next. Osvi proposed, and she accepted! She shows off her gigantic diamond ring, teasing about its small size. More happiness, joy and hugs.

In their bedroom, Isa and Art are in their pjs but Art can’t stop pacing. Isa tries to calm him down. She points out that it’s hard to accept that someone we respect has faults, but no one is perfect, not even Don Osvaldo. What really gets Art is that Os has always thought himself to be better than everyone else. He held Art to such a rigid standard that it caused a rift between them for many years, and now he finds out he had a love child that he didn’t acknowledge! He is extremely disappointed in him. Isa gives him a calming hug.

The next day (who knows with these edits), Mrs. Raisin receives an anonymous letter with a cd and blown up photos of Sonia entertaining Adolfo, aka Mr. Raisin. Her eyes get all buggy and crazy and she starts cursing the Raisin. She knew he was cheating on her, and he’s going to pay!

At work, Feo has the cameras he’s collected back from Sonia’s place, and he’s erasing the videos from his folder. Being that this IS a systems security company, the Raisin automatically gets an advisory on his computer that someone at the company is erasing a lot of huge files. He clicks one open and it’s the latest and greatest of the secret recordings that he first sees- Sonia and Feo sucking face. He hears her call him Fernando too. Busted!

After the commercial break, the Raisin is ready for Feo. He calls him into his office, calls him Fernando, shows him the video of him and Sonia, and reveals that he researched the real Javier Castillo de la Fuente, a guy who died two months ago. If he and Sonia thought they could make a fool of him, they were very wrong!

Before he can finish his threats, Mrs. Raisin walks in, looking more crazy eyed than the last time we saw her. “What the hell are you doing here?” Wrong thing to say, Raisin. She throws the photos at him and asks who the woman is. Before he can answer, she pulls out a gun so large, it’s worthy of Dirty Harry. She tells him not to move, or she’ll shoot, and she doesn’t make threats in vain. FaVier tries half heartedly to dissuade her. She tells him to SHUT UP! The Raisin doesn’t come up with an answer about who his lover is soon enough, and ends up with a chest and gut full of lead. Goodbye Raisin. It was (not) nice knowing ya!

Art goes to see Os at his home, but he’s busy at the bank setting up a trust fund that will take care of Fabricio for life. He’s trying to make up for a great wrong that he’s done. Later, Art takes a walk and thinks back to when he dumped Marcela all those years ago to pursue Eugenia. He remember Os disagreeing with his decision and telling Art that he (Art) didn’t understand the significance of the word honor.  Yeah, the irony is killing Art and us.

Padre pays a surprise visit to Sonia. He tells her that he and Cuca have been keeping an eye on her kid all these years. At first she doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about, but when he explains that he saw her abandon her kid all those years ago, and that Cuca told him that Sonia had been “raped”, ended up pregnant, and gave away the baby for fear of what Gil would do, her memory is jogged. Padre explains that now is the time to come clean because her BROTHER Daniel, and her DAUGHTER Marianela are in love, with each other! Sonia actually looks a bit worried about this. But her concern stops short when Padre says she has to meet her daughter and tell Gil the truth, now. He might disinherit her! Padre is gobsmacked that money is her only concern.  Sonia tries to play it off that what she’s really worried about is what Gil, who is so strict and structured, will think of her abandoning a child—he will disown her. Padre thinks he will understand once he knows how the child was conceived, and will be overjoyed to have a grandchild. Padre thinks Mari has a right to have a home, and to know that the boy she loves is her uncle (a bit too late for this, Padre!). Sonia agrees to meet Mari, and to tell Gil the truth herself. Uh huh. She fakes a few tears and says how difficult it was to leave her daughter. But she knew she’d be in good hands with the Padre. She thanks him for taking care of her child. Padre falls for it. What a dope! Later Padre tells Cuca the good news. She gets excited (she knew Sonia couldn’t resist the call of the blood). They are both fools.

Back to the popped raisin, the office workers come running towards the sound of the gunshots, including Fabricio. Guess who was that uncle he got a job with, when he left Monterrey and moved to D.F. to be with “English teacher” Sonia? Yep. The Raisin! Well, actually Mrs. Raisin is his mom’s sister. Should have known. They both have the same crazy eyes. He asks his aunt why she did it. She raises her arms and shrugs. “Because he deserved it.” Fab is impactado. (This is only the beginning of the madness, Fab. Just you wait.) While this all happens, Feo sneakily collects the evidence the Raisin got on the real Javier, the pictures of Sonia, and the Raisin’s little black book. He pops into his office, before heading to the police station to make a report, destroys the other evidence, and looks through the little black book. The contact info of the company’s millionaire clients are in the book, as well as the passwords for many of the large companies and agencies for which they do systems security. This includes the prison system. Feo goes into the state prison system, and erases all traces of his criminal past and charges. If he is discovered to be Fernando, there is no legal record of his crimes. Bwahahaha!

Later that day, Isa meets with FeVier at a restaurant and confronts him about all these weird “coincidences.” He tries to play it off, and assures her he’s not stalking her or coming on to her. She has apparently told him about Fernando and that he reminds her of him. He points out that it’s not fair to judge him based on this guy who did her wrong. He just wants to be her friend. Yada yada. He tries the whole song and dance, but Isa isn’t having it. She wants him OUT of her penthouse, anything related to the penthouse he should discuss with Hernan, and she doesn’t want him to EVER contact her again! Woohoo! FeVier points out that he already paid the whole year’s rent, and that finding a new place and moving takes time. Isa doesn’t budge, so he asks her for 2-3 months before he has to go. She agrees to these terms, asks his pardon, and then gets the heck out of Dodge. He then says to himself that he’ll never pardon/forgive her, and that she will pay for belittling him and destroying his life.

The three girls arrive at the hotel for their beach vacation. While Ileana goes to check them in, Dafne spills the frijoles from one of the many de la Riva family conversations she eavesdrops on. She drops the bombshell on Ara that her grandpa had a love child, and she has an uncle.  Ara finds this almost as hard to believe as Art did that Os cheated (put the horns) on her grandma. Ileana comes over and hears the new gossip.

Cristian wonders why Ileana hasn’t showed up at the church to help with their projects. Padre lets him know that Ileana and her girlfriends went to the beach for a long weekend. Looks like Cris is thinking about crashing their vacay.

Feo and Fab meet up at the police station. Fab is in real shock. Feo fakes it. Feo doesn’t have to do much since Mrs. Raisin has freely admitted her guilt. Fab knows his aunt has always been very jealous, but she never had proof. He asks Feo what happened. Feo says she got some anonymous pictures of the Raisin with his sugar baby, and that drove her to it.

At Casa Arte, neither Tere nor Gabi are happy that Isa just let Dafne swan off to have a long weekend at the beach. Gabi asks for the 411 on what happened with FeVier. She’s not happy that Isa shared info about her past with Fernando, nor that Isa is giving FeVier 2-3 months to get out of her condo. Mau interrupts to give them the hottest gossip about Rodolfo, aka the Raisin, being shot up by his wife.

Sonia’s at home, blowing up Fab’s phone because he hasn’t answered any of her calls. Feo arrives with the happy news. She’s free, free at last! Ding, dong, the Raisin is DEAD!

Mrs. Raisin shares some quality time with her prostitute cellmate. She wants the gossip on why she popped two caps into her husband. Fab comes to visit his aunt. She says she was tired of it! He had been unfaithful their whole marriage. Had she divorced him, he would have made sure she got nothing. At least this way she can protect Fab and his mom, whom she loves, by passing the money/company on to them, even though she can’t enjoy the wealth behind bars. She wants Fab to find that woman who was getting it on with his uncle. No. She doesn’t have a name, but she has photos. She left them in his uncle’s office. She begs Fab to promise to make that woman pay! He promises. Oh, boy!