Caray, Caray!

Eleazar plays along, saying of course he's not in love with Carmen…as if!  He doesn't join in on Luz's hysterical laughter.  He's not thrilled to hear that Luz encouraged Chato to have Carmen make an honest man out of him.

Paolo, Abdul, and Lupita are ready to head out for the day.  Carmen has an exciting day of cleaning planned, so she doesn't go with them.

Natalia visits Angela at the Good Vibes kiosk. She fills her in about the baby being Diego's, then runs off to meet him elsewhere in the mall.  He brought her a stuffed bear. Which is cute.  But it would be cuter if he wasn't married with a kid on the way.

Carmen got stuck taking an unintentional cold shower.  As she shivers and shuffles out to the living room in a towel, someone knocks on the door.  She answers it, thinking it's the kids, but unfortunately, it's Chato.  She goes to get dressed and trips on the towel.  Chato's response: "Oh, please, hit me!  With both hands, so the towel falls again!"  When Carmen finally re-emerges, fully dressed, I ignore all his incoherent quasi-romantic babbling.  And then he asks her to marry him.



I likewise tune out what it is Diego's whining at Natalia to do today.  Whatever it is, she begs off, saying she has to go home for lunch.  Why he's in such a hurry to tell her mom about "them" is beyond me, but Natalia's certainly not.

Diana leaves the house, telling Hilda that she's going to see Diego.  Even Hilda doesn't believe that.

Carmen isn't convinced that Chato's proposal is sincere.  After all, last time he proposed, he left her at the altar.  He begs for a way to prove that he's serious…so Carmen tells him to fix the boiler.

Diego drops Natalia off at home, sans bear, and makes googly eyes at her.  He runs up to hand her the bear and tells her not to forget to tell her mom that her boyfriend gave it to her.  Oh, that's so not going to happen!

Chato fiddles around with the boiler, claiming that sure, he's got plumbing skills.  He claims to have found what needs tightening and tells her to hold something in place for him while he tightens it.  While she's leaning over with her hand in the boiler (hot water heater?) Chato gets comfy behind her and enjoys the feeling of Little Chato…Chatito, if you will…saluting.  They get busted by Natalia, who basically turns and runs.  Chato finally goes to re-light the pilot light (?) and ends up getting a very obviously CGI fireball in the face.

Natalia and the bear go over to Luz's.  She's upset at seeing Chato and Carmen together.  Luz says Chato was asking her for advice yesterday.  Natalia's shocked that Luz told him to marry Carmen.  She seems to be having a hard time with the idea.

Carmen puts some goop on Chato's face for his burns.  She wants time to think about his marriage proposal.  In the meantime, she recommends he go home and stay out of the sun.  Chato vows to return tomorrow for his answer.  After he leaves, Carmen says he seems serious this time.

Diego gets home and Hilda asks if he was with Diana.  They realize she lied to Hilda.  Diego calls, but Diana is in the back of a taxi, alone, and she ignores his call.

Natalia goes back home.  She tells Carmen she was just surprised and Carmen doesn't owe her any explanations.  Carmen confides that Chato proposed, but she hasn't given him an answer yet.  She says she's going to put him through his paces before she makes her decision.  "And what about the boiler…is it fixed?"  Carmen gives her a saucy grin and says "Pues…de que prende, prende!"  (Well…it TOTALLY turns on!) shocking Natalia.  No mention of where the bear came from.  Diana comes over to tell Carmen to tell Natalia to leave Diego alone.  She claims Natalia ruined her marriage and is the reason Diego wants a divorce.  Carmen doesn't buy what Diana's selling, but the news that Diana is pregnant throws her.  Natalia, in her bedroom, FINALLY takes her earbuds out of her ears and hears all the commotion.  She goes out to the living room just as Diana is accusing Carmen of pushing Natalia at Diego so she can rake in the cash.  Duuuuuuude…you do NOT mess with someone's mom!  Especially not Natalia's!  Carmen has to get between Natalia and Diana to keep them from ripping each other to pieces as Diana spews her usual delusional venom.  As Carmen's shoving her out the door and shutting it in her face, the last thing Diana says is that if Natalia doesn't leave Diego alone, she'll kill her.  Once Carmen has her breath back, she turns to Natalia, but she says she doesn't want to hear a word.

Diana writes "zorras" (whores) on the Garcias' front door.

Natalia calls Diego to rat out Diana.  He insists that he's coming over right now and this time he will talk to her mother.

Irene and Tad go for a walk…with ice cream cones.  Tad starts having both arm and headache pains and unfortunately commits coneicide.  Irene leads him back to his place.

Diego shows up as Natalia's getting ready to wash Diana's graffiti off the door.

Irene and Tad make it back to Tad's, where he says he's feeling ok now, it was nothing major.  He calls to his maid to bring him his pills because he had a "calambre" (cramp) in his arm.  He doesn't want Irene to call a doctor, so she says she'll go and let him rest.  As soon as she's gone, Tad stops trying so hard to control the shaking in his arm.

Diego knocks on Carmen's door and asks to speak to her.  Carmen comes out to the living room.

Tad's maid gives him his pill and, despite what he told Irene, he tells her he needs to get to the hospital because this seems pretty bad.

Diego wants to explain the "situation" to Carmen.  Carmen doesn't let him talk before saying it's his fault that she can't trust Natalia anymore.  She throws Diana's accusations and the baby in his face.  Diego tells her Natalia's innocent in all this and he made a mistake marrying Diana.  He tells her about Diana cheating on him and says he has nothing but respect for Natalia and once his divorce is final, he wants to give her everything she deserves.  He says that Diana is pregnant, but it happened before he reunited with Natalia, and he has every intention of supporting the child.  Natalia says she should have told Carmen everything.  Carmen demands a hug and tells Natalia to NEVER keep things from her again.  Diego apologizes to Carmen for Diana's behavior.  Carmen says to forget about it, but he'd better get his house in order before he makes a serious proposal to Natalia.  She warns him to keep Diana in check, because if she shows up again, "she's going to find out who Carmen Garcia is!"

Diana swans into the house, brushing off Hilda's concern.  Hilda tells her that Diego went out and was trying to call her on her cell.  Upstairs, Diana enters…Rodrigo's room?  Red walls, furniture draped in sheets.  Diana uncovers a desk or a dressing table that has (finally!) a picture of both twins standing next to each other (drink!).  She remembers going into the room once before and seeing Rodrigo with a gun.  He thinks it's funny to point it at her and gives her some quick tips on shooting.  He pulls the trigger and freaks her out, but it wasn't loaded.  Still not funny.  Diana roots around in some drawers and finds the gun.

Carmen asks Diego and Natalia to please be careful.  Diego leaves and settles for a handshake when he sees Carmen looking at them.  After he leaves, Carmen tells her she'd better be right about Diego really being in love with her.

Alberto and Brigitte are outside.  Alberto wants to formally announce their going-out-ship, but Brigitte refuses.  Diego comes out and tells them Diana was there causing a scene, but he resolved everything.  After Brigitte goes inside, Diego gives Alberto more of the details and refuses his offer to go to lunch together.  He feels the need to get home and deal with Diana.

Brigitte comes in and seems less than thrilled that her mom's not furious with Natalia after Diana showed up and caused a scene.  "Oh, how nice that you cleared everything up."  Lupita and her brothers get home from…wherever they were at.

Irene talks to Vicente about Rodrigo.  Vicente has been reading the books Alonso lent her, trying to come to some kind of decision, but for now mostly what he wants to do is visit Rodrigo.  He'd been avoiding it because it was too painful for him.  They agree to go together tomorrow.

Natalia is folding clothes in her room when Brigitte walks in to congratulate her on hoodwinking Carmen.  Natalia tries to convince Brigitte that Carmen has faith in ALL her children and trusts them ALL, but Brigitte thinks Natalia gets away with just a little bit more than the rest of them.  She blasts her for getting involved with "a married man," even though Natalia reminds her it's not quite the way she's making it sound and she and Diego are doing nothing wrong.  Natalia asks why Brigitte is so resentful, but instead of answering, Brigitte just pulls a jacket out of her closet and leaves the room.

Paolo gets permission from Carmen to get a part-time job after school so he can help out with the household expenses.  She tells him it's not necessary, but gives him permission anyway.  Because Carmen has the bestest kids.  Except for Brigitte.

Over a game of foosball at Alonso's, Alberto makes some jokes about Diana needing a neuron alignment.  I'm guessing she didn't get one when she last went in for her oil change.  And here I thought rich people had access to all kinds of perks.  Alonso thinks Diana is exhibiting signs of schizophrenia and boy does he NOT want to be in Diego's shoes right now!

Diana takes the gun back to her room, remembering Rodrigo's words "You never know when it might come in handy."  She's interrupted in her gun adoration by Diego bursting in to ask her QTH she's up to.  Diana blames Diego for her own behavior and when Diego says being the mother of his child doesn't mean being his wife, Diana pulls the gun on him and delivers one of the classic lines…the most famous is "No puede ser!" but only slightly less well-known is this…"Si no vas a ser mio, no vas a ser de nadie!"  (If I can't have you no one can!)

Irene tries calling Tad, who is busy being in the hospital.  His maid is with him and Tad asks her to pretend he left his phone at home.  She lies to Irene, saying Tad's doing just fine and even left the house, forgetting his phone.

Diana keeps pointing the gun, saying she hasn't decided what to do yet…kill Diego, or kill herself and the baby, or all three of them.  "If you'd just leave that woman, this would all be so easy.  We could be so happy, the three of us."  Diego tries to grab the gun out of her hand, they struggle, and the gun goes off.

Tomorrow: We don't know who got shot, but someone's life is hanging by a thread.

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