Caray, Caray!

De que algunos entienden, entiende

Hola amigas/os.  I played with Sara's title and if you haven't seen this yet you will know why....it seems an unteneable plot is about to be resolved.  I'm skipping the 7 minute rehash and jumping into the new.

Diego, Nat and the Brat arrive at Caprico and meet up with Irene.  She notices Nat is still cold to Diego and he doesn’t know what to do (because having a discussion about what’s wrong could resolve things, sigh).

Irma learns that Rod stole Lolita’s jelly but their laughs get cut short.  The doc comes in and she has left her bowl of food on Rod. Doc isn't happy and threatens to write up Irma.  This should be a warning for her but sadly it is not. 
Diego comes in with good news about an order, he tries to kiss Nat, and she continues her coldness.  Irene gets a call from Alonso and they make a date for coffee after work.  She’s all smiley afterwards.  It’s really cute.





Diana convinces Alina to get a sedative to relax even though she’s supposed to be watching Diana.  Now, anyone with a brain should know what Diana’s doing here.  Though Alina clearly is as self-centered as her daughter, I hate the way her being a bad mother is connect to her job and excitement about her work.  Thankfully, Carmen also works so we don’t have to feel we’re getting a women should not work message here.

Alonso apologizes for being an immature idiot and then causes me (and the rest of you I’m sure) to sink into despair.  Unlike Diego and Nat, these two at least address the problem of Tadeo.  She explains his illness but Alonso wants her to stop seeing him, claims she only wants to help him because of guilt and wanting to be needed.  He actually tries to use his “professional” judgement to claim he’s being objective.  She says its very black and white for him and he says it is.  Can someone remind me does he know about their child?  Needless to say, they break up and he seethes.  I guess he’ll be going back to Karina, tonto!

Carmen and Luz are visiting when El (yeah) comes in and they chat about the new fonda. Carmen gets new recipes from Luz and leaves.

Nat and Diego meet in front of her house.  She doesn’t want to go anywhere private with him which is a huge problem.  In spite of all her bad signals, he proceeds to propose.  Nat turns him down and breaks up with him.  Of course during this “discussion” she never tells him what the real reason is for the break up.

Diana goes to visit Rod.  She tells him she knows he’s a rapist and that’s why he got beat up and has been in a coma.  He doesn’t respond and Diana gets security called on her (that was pretty great).  He now blames Nat and Diego for his poor choices but can’t figure out who Andres is. Meanwhile the nurses yell at Diana for leaving her room and Alina for not watching her.

Nat continues to be a frustrating tn character by not telling her mom what is wrong. 

Diego goes to Alonso are both are dejected.  The Brat calls to find out what happened and poor unsuspecting Diego tells her they broke up.  She then calls Diana, treacherous heifer.  El wants to play dominoes but the boys want to use alcohol to deal with their problems.  Happy to report they don’t get drunk this evening.  Poor Irene reads Alonso’s great letter and wonders why he can’t accept her when this is a problem of HIS immaturity.

The skanks mess up the lock on Carmen’s fonda.  Really skanks.  The next morning the Garcia’s can’t open their fonda.  The locksmith tells them that someone put paper in the locks and that’s why they can’t open all the doors of the fonda.

Irene calls the office, she’ll be late.  She wants Nat to get the budget and the Brat is actually dumb enough to set up her account, where Diana will pay her, on the office computer.

Diana tries to convince Diego she’s recovered.  Thankfully he’s not that stupid.  Irene is late because she’s visiting Tadeo.  She agrees to be his administrator and she asks him to create the logo for her line, Esquema, which means dream in Zapotec.

El and his partner go to help Carmen and when lead skank, the Crab, sees El she agrees to serve him herself.  Carmen lets her know its on after the lock mishap.  El asks the Crab/Cheater if she had anything to do with the locks and she dodges the question by stating her food is great, no need for dirty tricks. 

Rod and the nurse do the deed (!!) and he tells her she made him feel completely alive.  Although poor Irma better have a plan B because Rod earlier stated that he will play nice with her as long as it serves him to use Irma.

Irene arrives at the office and Nat finally wants to talk because she’s going to quit.  I’m kind of glad Irene lets her know her decision is very immature and she’s disappointed in Nat.  Nat later tells her bratty sister, who naturally calls Diana so she can get her money.  And just in case we thought Diana might not be as horrible as Rod, she tells the Brat to keep giving Nat the drops.  I guess we should all rejoice because I think the Brat would actually give Nat the drops if she hadn’t dropped them.

Nat goes back her new age friend and former boss, Angela.  Diego has to find out from the personal manager that Nat quit.  He goes to ask Irene que the heck.  She doesn’t know why either.  I wish this horrible plot would get resolved.  Nat talks more with Angela about Diego being a rapist but how she can’t talk with him about it because he’ll be in denial.

Alina goes home and gets Diego to come visit Diana.  Once she leaves Diana’s room, Diana decides to get laxatives.

Though the Garcia’s had been tripped up, this does not stop Carmen and they sell tacos on table outside the fonda.  The Crab keeps hitting hard on El and I cannot blame her for this

Alonso allows Karina in his office and she tries to play off that craziness as her being romantic...at age 10.  But Al she’s similar to vampires and other evil forces, NEVER invited them in because it will take divine intervention to get rid of them.  She quickly moves from the door, to the chair, to hugging him in his chair,.  Yeah, I told you so hombre.  Alberto interrupts and Alonso does not stop her when she says they reconciled.  Wow, Karina is so annoying I can’t understand why Alonso tolerates her at all.

Diego comes to the hospital just prior to Diana taking laxative.  Her stomach groans from all the damage she continues to do to her body and she tells Diego the baby is moving, so wrong on some many levels.  Both Diego and Alina doubt that the baby is big enough to feel movement.

The Crab’s plot backfired once Carmen’s fonda opened.  All the customers go to the Garcias and not the Crab.  Nat arrives at the fonda and Carmen tells her how she’s letting Irene down by quitting.  Nat is firm in her decision but for these 50 episodes we know consistency in decision making about Diego is not her strong suit.

The Als, the Brat, and Karina go to dinner and the Brat momentarily acts human.  Then she tells them all about Nat and Diego’s break up, she’s back.  Alonso then let’s the group convince him to go dance over the weekend.  Are these beanie moments for anyone else?  If I am not fond of someone and I feel he is into me, I don’t try to hang out with him, ever.  This madness continues with Alonso dropping Karina off at her job as she continues to hang on him asking him to dance with her this weekend.  He won’t stop this nonsense but thankfully her boss does.

Paolo’s weeny of a boss tries to get him in trouble with the manager.  His future girlfriend, Mara, lets the manager know Paolo was working hard and Ricardo “punished” him for no good reason.  Mara now must train Paolo and Ricardo gets dressed down by the boss.  As she tells him how to prepare the burgers, he makes a heart on one of the buns.  Awww.  Icky Ricky shows up and they act serious but then she tells Paolo her design is better; its an “M + P” on her bun.  Awww again.

Tadeo tries to draw but he’s hand won’t cooperate.  But for Irene’s sake he pushes on.

El plans to return to the Crab/skank’s fonda to see what she has planned.

Two beat cops try to tell Carmen that selling her food on the street is illegal.  She calls their bluff, calls their supposed boss, and they run away.  The skanks are not happy.  Later Carmen

Irma helps Rod walk and he complains about the two lost years of his life.  From our friend Carlos, NEXT.

Irene is having a bad day because she can’t seem to get her designs right.  She’s mad at herself for letting Nat’s leaving upset her.  Diego suggests she ask Nat to return and he’ll stay away from Nat.  Irene says Nat isn’t worth that.

The other skank calls Abdul and he proceeds to tell her everything.  He can’t be that dumb though Lupita’s questions to him let us know he’s not the sharpest tool in the tool box.  At least she seems to be falling for Abdul and her tia pulls a Gracie (from Robo) and head pokes her niece (though it wasn’t as hard as Gracie).

Carmen reams out El for being at the Crab/skank’s spot.  She’s about to leave when he stops her and tells her his plan.  She gets a call from Chato which makes El leave.

Diego seems to get a clue and viewers get reward after too many episodes not knowing about the evil twin.  He tells Alonso she realizes Nat start acting funny when he told her about Diana’s rape accusation.  As they discuss this, Alonso almost makes up for his continued stupidity with Irene and Karina by realizing:  Nat has been attacked, by someone who liked like Diego, oh wait that’s Rod and that’s why he’s been in a coma.  Initially Diego don’t want to believe that Rod is capable of this so he asks how could Nat have defended herself.  Almost miraculously the writers have Alonso suggests, in the same episode, someone helped her and then Diego realizes why Andres hate him so much and can’t believe Nat is with Diego.  I can’t believe (and am ecstatic about the possibility) that the “great misunderstanding” might be resolved this week!

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