Caray, Caray!

RoDiego admits to Brigitte that he's obsessed with Nat…and also, bring me a sammich and a beer.

Nat doesn't know who the hell she married, but she's convinced it's not Diego.  Tad says some guys are just rough around the edges, but Nat and Irene say Diego's not one of them.  Tad tells her she can stay as long as she wants and Irene calls Alonso and asks him to come over.

Carmen doesn't believe Lupita's story about polar bears for a second.  Gino decides to try to talk to her.

Tad lets Alonso in, but he's not happy about it.

Lupita told Gino the same story about the polar bears and he bought it.  He asks Carmen not to ground her.  Carmen refuses to lift her punishment, but eventually Gino butters her up enough that she cuts the grounding back to a week.  Gino advises Lupita to take the deal.  He thinks he's winning her over, but Lupita's too smart for that.

Nat tells Alonso that "Diego" tried to rape her, just like Rodrigo did--and, no, that's not the fear talking.  Alonso agrees that the man she married isn't Diego, but he's working on finding out who he is.  For now, he advises her to stay away from "Diego," but if he shows up, play it cool and don't let on that they're investigating.  I mentally kick Alonso for equating "bipolar" with "double personality" as the first is inaccurate and the second doesn't exist.  He leaves Nat with some pills.



Alonso watches Irma leave the house.

RoDiego wakes up with Brigitte, who's thrilled that he spent the night, but now he's gotta go.  Places to go, spouses to torment.

Alonso goes up to see "Rodrigo" and takes a blood sample.  Vicente surprises him, but Alonso stays calm and says the lab asked for another sample and Irma wasn't around, so….  He leaves and Vicente starts talking to "Rodrigo" about his attractive nurse.  And also, neither "Diego" nor his wife came home….

Alonso calls Irma to apologize for missing their "date" because of an emergency.  Ha!  He's at the hospital, having his buddy analyze the blood.

Vicente starts to lecture RoDiego when he gets home and RoDiego realizes that Natalia didn't come home either.  He lets slip that they weren't together.

Alonso explains to his buddy about "Diego's" shift in personality to that of his allegedly-comatose brother who has somehow not lost any muscle tone.

Lucrezia (was that her name?) sent Luchon to find Lupita and therefore Carmen and therefore Gino.  So Cunchetina can find him and drag him back to Sicily, where he is apparently still married to her.

Alonso ends up at the café where Karina works while he's waiting for the lab results.  He apologizes to her for making her feel bad on Sunday.  I kick him again.

RoDiego comes in to Casa Garcia to demand that Natalia come home with him.  Carmen defends Natalia, who isn't there, and says if he thinks Natalia would have come to spend the night there, he must have done something.  He complains that she forgot to tell Natalia that when you're married you do what your husband tells you to.  Really?  On what planet?

Alonso is apologizing because when Karina came over on Sunday, Kimberly and her friends had (for some unknown reason) invaded his apartment and Karina thought he'd invited them over on purpose.  So…I guess she and her girlfriends came over to visit El and he wasn't home?  Anyway, Karina left him some pastries and El helped him polish them off later.

Carmen suggests that maybe RoDiego is the one who doesn't understand how to behave in a marriage.  He plays innocent.  Natalia hears him haranguing her mother as she walks in and says she hasn't done anything to be sorry for.

Alonso's breakfast break goes on forever.  Karina is now apologizing for all the crap she pulled, with the exception of hiring those two women to drive Irene away.  Al accepts her apology and then takes a call from his friend.  He wants to run the tests again to make sure.  Al tells him to take his time, but then tells Karina he's got to go.

RoDiego keeps blabbing about Natalia's horrible behavior while Natalia thinks to herself that she's got to play along like Alonso asked.  Natalia says RoDiego is right and they should go talk somewhere alone and Nat will come back later.  Carmen is confused, as is RoDiego.

Natalia lies and says she spent the night at Angela's house.  She apologizes for everything she allegedly did, and says she wants him to be the Diego she fell in love with.  Hearing the name "Diego" so many times seems to be bothering Rod.  Yeah, well, deal with it, Rod.

Irma comes home and is worried to hear from Vicente that Alonso was there.

RoDiego is so bothered by Natalia continually calling him "Diego" that he freaks out and has to stop the car.  He says he's not buying her "sweet" act and she's driving him crazy.

Irma realizes Alonso fooled her with that breakfast invitation and took some blood from Diego.  She curses herself for going along with Rod instead of cooperating with Alonso in the first place.  "Why did I have to be so stupid?!"  Not gonna answer that one.  She decides she's got to get out of Dodge now that everything is about to blow up in her face.  She apologizes to Diego and says she's gotta save her hide!

Alonso's friend has determined that "Rodrigo" isn't in a coma, he's being drugged.  Alonso hightails it to Casa Cacares.

Irma actually stopped to pack, because her stupidity knows no bounds.  Then she realizes that she doesn't have a passport, so she can't leave the country.

Alonso calls Irene to find out where Natalia is and asks her to please trust him, find Diego, and distract him for  a few hours.

Natalia has no idea where RoDiego is driving her to and is worrying about how to keep the act up.  RoDiego wonders if she's on to him, then thinks to himself that he doesn't care.  Natalia pretends to have an urgent need for a bathroom and gets him to stop at a gas station.  Once inside the bathroom, she realizes that she looks terrified and can't possibly be fooling him.  She considers running away, but doesn't know where to go.  She gives herself a bathroom mirror pep talk and decides to ask for a divorce.  As Natalia is coming back to the car, RoDiego yells at her to hurry up--he has to get to Caprico.  I guess Irene got in touch with him.

Irma, with one measly trash bag of belongings, almost makes it out the door unnoticed, but ends up having to tell Lala that Don Vicente asked her to take some clothes to a shelter as a donation.

Alonso starts unhooking "Rodrigo" and gets caught by Lala.  He begs her to trust him and just blame him for everything when they ask what happened.  He says Vicente will thank him later.  Then he picks "Rodrigo" up and carries him out the door.  Frankly, I don't think he looks like he could get him down the stairs without dropping him!

RoDiego is frustrated that Irene wanted him to review something that apparently didn't have any errors.  Vicente comes into his office to ask if he found his wayward wife.  RoDiego calls him "viejo" again and Vicente tells him to quit being a bad copy of Rod.  He brings up Alonso's excellent care of Rodrigo and says they can't keep taking advantage of his friendship.  They really need to pay him.  "He was even at the house early this morning, taking blood."  RoDiego gets upset and Vicente is baffled by his attitude, considering that first "he" didn't want to "disconnect" him, then he brought "Rodrigo" to the house, and now he's saying that "Rodrigo" is never going to recover.  "Fine, whatever.  Do whatever you want."  Oh, don't worry, RoDiego, that's what Grumps always does.  RoDiego is furious that Irma didn't warn him that Alonso had gone so far.  He tries to reach her, but his call goes directly to voicemail.  He tries the house, but we know she's not there.  He vows he won't forgive her this time and he'll just kill Diego himself.

Alonso calls Irene and tells her to meet him at the cabin of tears, recriminations, and fire, to bring Natalia, and not to worry about keeping RoDiego occupied.

RoDiego gets to the house and is so pissed that he grabs Lala by the shoulders, just for telling him where Irma said she was going.  I don't blame Lala for stalling before she tells RoDiego that Alonso took "Rodrigo" out of the house.  RoDiego sees the empty bed and flips out.  Show of hands--who else couldn't stop laughing?!

Alonso lets Irene and Natalia into the cabin and begs them to be calm as he explains.  "Diego is here.  The real Diego.  You were right, Natalia, you didn't marry Diego.  You married Rodrigo."  "No puede ser!"  Girl, you've been saying it for days!  Seriously?  She goes in to see him and cry over him.

RoDiego insists that Alonso must have told Lala where he was taking "Rodrigo," but he honestly didn't.  RoDiego keeps up the physical and verbal abuse and loses his cool enough to say that Alonso took Die--.

Irene and Alonso come into the room.  Alonso doesn't know when the drugs are going to wear off, but he thinks it could take weeks to wean him off.  Nat is furious that Rodrigo would do this to his own brother.  She's on the verge of swearing revenge when Irene takes her out to the living room.

RoDiego tries to find Alonso, but Rebecca doesn't know where he is.  He's predictably unhappy.

Alonso and Irene are feeling like idiots.  "Imagine how I feel!  I married him."  Good point, Nat.  Natalia wants to turn Rodrigo in.  She figures her marriage is invalid and Alonso says he can back her up via the bloodwork.  They've been giving him drugs to induce a coma as well as poison.  And they would have gotten away with it, he says, since it wouldn't have seemed odd for a coma patient to die.

RoDiego considers his options.  He actually says to himself that he won't disappear because he didn't do anything wrong and no one can take away what's "his."

Irene, Alonso, and Nat keep chatting about how evil Rod is.  Alonso says the drugs they were giving Diego are addictive and while he's not suffering now, he will be when he wakes up.

RoDiego decides that the key is to make Irma look like the one who's responsible for everything.

Alonso calls Lala to find out if RoDiego has found out what he did yet.  Lala says he sure did, and after the way RoDiego treated her, she's worried about how Vicente is going to take it.

Rodrigo calls the hospital to report an accident, then he crashes his car into a tree.  I hope he screws this up royally.

Nat figures Rodrigo is trying to escape, but Irene and Alonso disagree.  Alonso thinks Nat needs to be careful, given Rodrigo's obsession.  Natalia decides to fill Eleazar in, so he can help.  She decides to go home and tell her mother what's happening.  Al's pretty much ready to transfer Diego to a hospital, but he thinks the cops need to be informed first.  The good thing is, Rodrigo doesn't know about the cabin.  Natalia goes in to say goodbye to Diego before she and Irene leave.  Irene and Alonso discuss what to say to Vicente.  Irene's worried that Rodrigo will feed him lies, but Alonso says he has the bloodwork on his side.  This is assuming that Vicente doesn't immediately die of a heart attack when he sees the empty bed.

Nat cries and gives Diego a pep talk.

Rodrigo is in pain, but laughing as he says he's got to wait for the ambulance.  It looks like he passes out.

Luchon finds Lupita's school.  He approaches the wrong girl and scares her…then he gets scared off himself as the girl points him out to a cop.

Carmen goes to the Cacares' to find Natalia.  It doesn't help that no one knows where Natalia is.  Lala tells her the whole house has gone crazy and "Diego" is currently preoccupied with his twin brother "Rodrigo" having been taken from the house.  "Twins?"  Yes, Carmen.  And wait 'till you hear the rest of the story.

Lucrezia orders Luchon to follow Lupita tomorrow.  Cunchetina is on her way to Mexico.

Apparently, Carmen gave Abdul the slip by asking him to pick up Lupita from school so she could go off in search of Natalia.

Diego wakes up as Alonso is about to shoot him up.  He explains he has to do it and begs him to calm down.  Poor Diego asks why his friend wants to hurt him.  Alonso's not happy to have to do it, either.  There's going to be a LOT of explaining after he finally gets weaned off of everything.

Rodrigo is drifting, thinking about when he and Diego were in Tuxpan, meeting Natalia, setting up the switch with Irma.  The ambulance arrives.

Rosa comes into Vicente's office to tell him Diego was in a car accident.

Lala explains about the twin situation.  Carmen realizes what must have happened back in Tuxpan and gets the hell out of the house ASAP.  Hilda is curious, but Lala has just about had it with all the shenanigans.

Carmen tries to call Natalia, but the call goes to voicemail.  She comes to the conclusion that Diego must be so aggressive lately because he found out that Natalia and Andres are the reason Rodrigo is in a coma.

Eleazar is furious when Irene and Natalia tell him about the switch and he vows to kill Rodrigo.  Carmen calls him and thinks she's giving him news, but gets upset when he tells her he knows everything.  "Come over here!"  Carmen then gets pissed that Natalia didn't go to her first.

Vicente goes to the hospital, looking for RoDiego.  He's having some testing done right now.

Eleazar says there are two main crimes Rodrigo committed--kidnapping and attempted murder.  Irene gives Eleazar Irma's name as an accomplice.  Eleazar supposes the wedding is invalid, but they'll have to check with Alberto.  Irene brings up the business--there could be some problems there.  Morales comes in to escort the ladies to a sketch artist so they can describe Irma.

Brigitte is being extra bratty with Alberto, just because he wants to hang out tonight.  Alberto gets the call from Eleazar.  Too bad Brigitte is still in the car.

RoDiego is conscious and sitting up in bed when Vicente comes in to see him.  RoDiego tells Vicente that Alonso took his brother and he crashed the car while he was looking for them.

Alberto, of course, tells Brigitte that she's been sleeping with Rodrigo all this time.  Well, he tells her about Rodrigo anyway.  And then he drops her off so he can help El untangle the legal side of this mess.  Now Brigitte thinks she's an idiot.  I'm not arguing.   She thought bubbles: "I was never Diego's lover.  You always have to win, stupid Natalia!"  Yes, once again, this is all Natalia's fault.  Natalia, Natalia, Natalia!

Vicente is furious and ready to go after Alonso.  RoDiego says Irma disappeared, so she must have been in on it with Alonso.  Vicente has some chest pains, but he takes them as seriously as he always does.  He plans to go after Alonso and Irma and accuse them of kidnapping.  Rodrigo looks so happy about that that he must be convinced Diego's already too far gone to ever recover.  Otherwise, he'd be seeing this for the bad news it is.

Carmen comes into El's office and he sits her down and tells her the rest of the story.  Carmen is freaked that her daughter married "the rapist."  Oh, that part was news for El.

Vicente calls Alonso, who tells him that his grandson is doing well and he's not bringing him back.  He says he can explain everything.  Vicente demands Alonso meet him at the house and bring his grandson with him.

Eleazar gets the story of Rodrigo's attempted rape from Carmen, along with the explanation for why they kept it a secret.  El says if she'd talked with him from the beginning, they could have cleared everything up.  He and Carmen argue about that.  Carmen wonders if Rodrigo knows what Natalia and Andres did and then has another fit of jealousy because Irene is there.

Vicente tells RoDiego that Alonso had better have a good explanation for him.  The doctor is going to release RoDiego, since he doesn't have any serious injuries.

Natalia tells Carmen, Irene, and El about finding out that Diego had a twin brother and not feeling any anger towards the one in the bed, plus recognizing his look when he opened his eyes.  Carmen, incredibly rudely, says the worst thing that ever happened to Natalia was meeting "the Cacares."  "Excuse me," pipes in Irene, "Diego has always loved her and so have I!"  Carmen takes Natalia home while Irene stays to wait for Alberto.

Alonso leaves Diego alone while he goes to talk to Vicente, figuring Diego will be safe while he's gone.

Alberto arrives at El's office.  He adds "estafa" (fraud) to the list of crimes Rodrigo should be prosecuted for.  Natalia can make the report and then Diego can add his when he's able.  Irene asks about the wedding and the business deals and Alberto says none of it is valid.  Irene figures Natalia will be ready to make her report tomorrow.  She leaves and El and Alberto sit around talking about what idiots they are.

Vicente and RoDiego come home and Vicente fires Lala.

Carmen is still busy focusing on how Natalia should have told her sooner.  Gino knocks too enthusiastically on the door and freaks them out.  El comes over to talk and Gino gets upset that El knows all the family troubles and he doesn't.

Vicente doesn't offer RoDiego a drink and tries to send him to bed, but he insists on hearing Alonso's explanation.  When Vicente answers the door and demands to know where Rodrigo is, Alonso says "He's right behind you."  Alonso brings up the drugging and tells Rodrigo that he's not going to shut up, even if Rodrigo beats him up.  Rodrigo insists he's really Diego.  "Cut it out, or I'm calling the cops!" threatens Vicente.  "Go right ahead!  Call the cops so they can arrest this impostor.  I have proof of what I'm saying!"  Rodrigo finally looks nervous.

Blah, blah, blah, Gino's wounded male pride.  Carmen shuts him up and says right now what she needs is support.  Gino doesn't cut it out and claims that her closeness with El is why he wants to take her far away.  Carmen says even that wouldn't separate them.  Gino stalks off in a huff just as Padre Juancho is arriving.

Rodrigo tries to win Vicente over, but Vicente wants to hear about Alonso's proof.  Alonso starts with the change in behavior, then moves on to the blood work.  Rodrigo gulps, but can't do more than keep insisting that he's really Diego.

Carmen brushes off Gino's behavior and says they've got bigger fish to fry.  Natalia explains that Diego isn't Diego.  Carmen gets pissed off yet again because PJ knew that Diego had a twin before she did.  Way to make it all about you, Carmen.  Eleazar breaks it to them that Rodrigo can still accuse Nat and Andres of assault.  Padre Juancho says not to worry about it.  If he dares, PJ has an ace up his sleeve, but he won't tell them what it is just yet.  He thought bubbles that Irene won't let anyone hurt her daughter.

Rodrigo won't let up, but neither will Alonso.  Rodrigo either fakes or really has a headache and Vicente tells him to go rest already.  Rodrigo doesn't want to leave them alone so Alonso can "fill his head."  Vicente calls BS on that…"No one puts ideas in my head that I don't want!"  All Rodrigo can do is poutily go up the stairs calling "I'm Diego!"  Alonso can't resist responding with "You're a murderer! That's what you are!"  Vicente tells him to cut it out, give back his grandson, and if he's telling the truth, he'll personally see that the guilty parties pay.

Hilda runs into Tiburcio's room to give him the latest gossip about Diego being Rodrigo and Rodrigo being Diego.  Tiburcio grunts in a panic and Hilda realizes why--Rodrigo is the one who knows about Natalia.  Lala comes in to ask if Hilda has a box she can use for her stuff and Hilda tells her about the twin switch.

Alonso tells Vicente that Diego's fine, as far as things go, but he's been drugged and is just now starting to detox.  It could be a while before he regains consciousness.  Vicente is having a hard time believing this story, but "Diego's" reaction is confusing as well.  Alonso begs him not to let Rodrigo try to convince them that he's not right in the head.

Which is exactly what Rodrigo thinks he's done.  "How can they do anything to a poor crazy guy?!"  He congratulates himself for being smarter than Alonso.

Tomorrow: Diego ran away and Rodrigo pretends to be Diego to lure Natalia out of the house.

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