Caray, Caray!

Adolfo is put in a teensy bit of a difficult position here...

A FEW HIGHLIGHTS, EXPANDED:

It turns out Ezequiel was bluffing with the whole Kill-Bitch-Maria-or-Else threat on Adolfo. The bullets in the gun were blanks. Maria is not amused. I think she'd be less amused if she actually died. But I digress. Ezequiel has this idea to take down Medina, so he needs Maria alive to witness against Medina when the time comes. Ez says that it's just a matter of time before that happens, as JL is already suspecting something. Ezequiel explains that he doesn't want to wait around for Medina to knock him off, he's going to get to Medina first! Adolfo is very contrite for pulling the trigger (which we know now had blanks) but Bitch Maria is not feeling forgiving. Ezequiel arranges for Bitch Maria to hide out with Esmeralda, who isn't too keen on hanging out with Maria. She assigns Maria maid duty for room and board. Maria feels this is "beneath" her. Esmeralda says well, leave then, and see how that works for you.

"Don't do it!" she begs him. Well, all things considered, maybe ...? She is such a pain in the neck, after all...

After the gun has proven itself to be full of blanks, Ezequiel, with a sadistic sense of humor, laughs at both Bitch Maria's and Adolfo's distress. He then tells them that they are in it with him—they both get to live, but they have to help him take down Pedro Medina! It's an offer neither are in a position to refuse.

Fabiola and Sandro (aka Hot Lawyer) meet with Pedro Medina, to tell what they know. Interesting meeting between various traitorous snakes....

Fabiola, she with the less than fabulous hats, and Hot Lawyer, aka Sandro, meet with Pedro. Pedro starts out by saying he had nothing to do with Joaquin's death. It was all Ale's fault. Methinks he protesteth too much. Anyway, Sandro and Fabiola tell Pedro about how Ale won't hand over Benjamin's will. They're hoping to rectify that. Also, Fabiola tells how she hid the "drug money" at Ale's request and how later it was burned. They have no evidence against Ale! Bummer! Fabiola also reports seeing JL help Ale, but she wasn't close enough to hear what they were talking about. Pedro is impactado to learn that JL was there when the drug money was destroyed.

Monse tells Rosario how bummed Ale is in prison, and how the Padre blames himself for losing Joaquin's letter (which would have exonerated Ale).

Medina goes straight over to JL's office to give him a chewing-out for "helping" Ale (by covering up the drug money evidence). JL is all calm and collected, saying he "only did his duty," denying any wrong-doing, and pointing out that the bottom line is, Ale IS innocent of drug trafficking, bottom line. Medina is all outraged. He'll see Robledo about this! JL is like, yeah, yeah, whatever.

"Talk to the hand" JL doesn't really seem all concerned about Medina's threats.

There's a scene where Ezequiel visits Esmeralda in "her" new strip joint (now that she's an owner) and talks her into taking in Bitch Maria and hiding her from Pedro. Esmeralda is not too happy about this, as she's scared of Evil Pedro and not too crazy about Bitch Maria either. But Ezequiel talks her into it in the end. Also we have a scene where Adolfo and Bitch Maria talk about what has just happened, and what were their options? If Adolfo hadn't "shot" Maria, he would have been shot. He wasn't given a choice. Running away wouldn't have really helped either, as they both would have been caught. Yadda yadda.

Ezequiel convinces Esmeralda to take in Maria. Now this should be interesting!

She with the less than fabulous hats is touching base with Hot Lawyer (Sandro). He hasn't had luck getting a copy of Benjamin's will, and Monse isn't going to help. They worry about trusting Medina with the info they had about Ale. But Medina said he wouldn't tell anyone where he got his info! Oh yeah, I'm sure it'll be fine to trust Medina . . .

Poor Ale and his vivid imagination: While rotting in prison, Ale has this "nightmare/daydream" where he's watching Monse smooch JL and laugh about how they pulled the wool over the Ale's eyes. In mid-smooch, Graciela interrupts. Instead of being outraged at seeing her daughter kiss another man...

... Gracie is all in favor. 'Cuz you know, JL is going to be in big money soon, and Monse needs to get on with her life! I just love the outraged/despairing expressions that Sebastian Rulli (Ale) is able to get on his face during this scene.

Poor Ale is full of indecision and doubt about whether Monse is still on his side or not. She is at home vowing to her kid that everything will be okay. Later, Ale has a dream/daydream about how JL and Monse are getting close again, if you know what I mean. Ale snaps out of his "dream" and vows to get out of prison.

Fabiola, she with the less-than-fabulous hats, recalls seeing Viktor open the safe and remembers the safe combination. Thus she is able to sneak in and open Ale's safe. A satisfied gleam is upon her face.

JL arrives at the meeting with Medina and Robledo. After some back and forth, he admits to being in on the whole burning-drug-money thing. Robledo immediately fires him. Medina smiles smugly. JL asks for some alone-time with Robledo. Medina doesn't care and goes, satisfied that things are going his way.

With Medina out of the room, JL tells Robledo a combination of the truth and not-so-much-truth. He has documentation which establishes Ale's innocence. He tells mostly the truth about the whole drug-deal setup thing being cooked up by Joaquin, but lies like a rug about the drug-money-bonfire. "It was all MY idea! Ale was all about turning in the money, but I wouldn't let him! Blame me!" And Robledo seems to go for it.

Robledo promises to keep this a secret until Angelica dies, because she doesn't know anything about it and JL would like to keep it that way. But Robledo says, my hands are tied, you committed a felony . . . JL understands. It was nice working for you, he says, all choked up, and he salutes one last time.

Dim is off to work. He gives Josefina a nice beso which leaves her all swoony. They talk about Adolfo, who is working for Medina for the MONEY, por supuesto. Aldofito is all about money, don't you know. He was the one that had the idea to scam you, dear Josefina. Not that it makes me less of a douchebag for going along with it, but I care about you now and I want to make that distinction . . . Josefina is still all swoony about the kiss. Gracie overhears all of this.

Dim is showing himself to be decent, and is loving towards Josefina. Graciela sees the writing on the wall and butters up Josefina, saying, "You are responsible for my son growing up! I was wrong about you! Please forgive my rudeness before." Of course Josefina is totally forgiving, but I am screaming, "DON'T TRUST HER!!!!1!"

During her chat with Graciela, it comes out that Dim would get really jealous of Adolfito's attentions directed towards Josefina. "Do you think Adolfo really cared about you?" Gracie asks. Josefina replies, "Nah! He stopped coming around as soon as my brother cut me off. All Adofito cares about is money!"

Medina has been convinced that Bitch Maria is dead and gives Adofito a big fat check as payment for the deed, which makes Adolfo to raise his eyebrows.

Adolfito seems bored with his meeting with Medina, until he sees how large his "payment" is for the offing of Bitch Maria (who is currently scrubbing Esmeralda's floor, I'm assuming). But still, Adolfo isn't completely comfortable with this whole evil Pedro situation.

And that is the END OF THE EPISODE!!!

AVANCES: It looks like JL is packing his stuff and is kicked out of the Navy. Some scenes insinuating that he's going to kiss Monse . . . but we know they're probably not. MUST SEE TV!!!!