Caray, Caray!

• Mike is a prisoner in red pajamas. Minerva has hidden his cellphone battery. She tells him he's unnecessarily depressed and should trust her.
  
  She boasts Alejo will have to give her half of everything (later Mike wonders what she has on Alejo, that he might have to be so generous!). She says after losing her (fake) baby she thinks of suicide.
  
  Carmela thinkgs Lupe should tell Mike about the papers so Lupita tries to call, but Mike's cellphone is sans battery.
  
  Mike is about to call Lupita when he hears a scream. It's Minerva, pretending to be waking from a nightmare. Mike comes running, she pulls him into her bed.
  
  She makes vague threats. Mike asks if she's blackmailing him; she counters: "Do you really feel something for that insignificant woman? I understand men need distraction. But you WILL come back to your old life when you're cleared, then you'll forget her." "No, I love her."
  
  "Don't leave me alone," Minerva pouts, "embrace me a few minutes." He reminds her: "I love another woman." "My embraces will make you forget her! She's just a fry cook, the mama of Alejo's bastard." "How did you know that?" he asks.
  
  Mike now doubts she has the laptop and tells her he should just leave. She grabs him and swears to have the laptop for him the next day.
  
  He discovers his battery is missing but finds it and calls Saul; he complains Minerva is trying to seduce him and that he thinks her promises of finding proofs are fake.
  
  Next day, Minerva has taken Mikes clothes away (they smelled bad). He says he'll trust her one more time and wait while she fetches the laptop. If she fails him, he'll turn himself over to the authorities.
  
  
• Alejo's campaign to seduce the Menchaca family is progressing. He compares himself to Napoleon. Perla tells Alejo she thinks moms and dads should be together but "Lupita's in love with somebody else." "Who am I competing against?" Alejo demands but doesn't get an answer.
  
  Sunken in gloom, the Menchacas brood over the failed expedition to get the house in their name. Perla suggests they ask Alejo for help. They seem to think his lawyer, Vilma, went rogue on this operation!
  
  What is awuiwui?
  
  
• Emiliano happily reports "My aunt almost fainted when she saw all the great stuff my dad has!" Lupita scowls. It seems he's getting a bit prince like. He refuses to eat the beans saying: "We had them yesterday!" He doesn't want to remove his own plate from the table. Lupita notices his tennis shoes are wearing out and she has to buy new ones. He doesn't tell her his dad already has bought him fancy shoes.
  
  
• Ana Sofia groans and hobbles histrionically after her attempt at cleaning. She swept everything under the rug. Her take on manual labor: "It was inhuman, worse than in a penetentiary! It's so hard, and so pay is so bad!" "Mom, you always underpaid your workers"
  
  
• Alejo browbeats the police chief. "Half of Mexico has seen my cousin, why can't you find him? I demand you personally go to the Nopalera and hunt for him there again. "Don't tell me how to do my job," the police chief growls.
  
  
• Leo sleeps with his mom? Diego calls and wakes him up, just to hear his voice, and to invite him to go to a movie next day. Leo (out on the balcony holding up the hanger to improve reception) is happy to hear Diego's voice, too. He has butterflies in his stomach after the call - in a good way.
  
  Ana Sofia comes out and asks who he was talking to. She hopes it was one of his old High Society friends, perhaps with moola to help them out of their porca miseria. He refuses to tell.
  
  
• Outside the penthouse, Saul waits for Minerva to show up, but she's with her mom at the club, complaining: "I passionately threw myself at him and he rejected me!" "I fear you are you a nymphomaniac," mom responds, "You're obsessed, forget this delinquent." "I'll go try to get even more beautified for him, hard as that is to imagine."
  
  Saul discovers the mom doesn't live at the penthouse any more, the place is for sale.
  
  Mike takes advantage of Minerva's absence to look through her stuff but finds nothing. He tells Saul: "I'm not staying her a second longer. She's lying, she could turn me in to the police." "She is not that Machiavellian." Finds out she locked him in! It's like a horror movie!
  
  Saul: "You won't think with agility if you don't breath calmly, inhale, exhale."
  
  
• Nepo is yelling and snarling, he's mad at Diego for wanting to give up on a football career and at Mike for having Lupita's love. He reminds his son there will be no more money for him if he doesn't knuckle under. Diego says he'll get a job, Nepo scoffs.
  
  Diego says his dad should not judge the RP family so harshly, he doesn't know them. Nepo whines: "I would be happy with Lupe if it wasn't for them." "Open your eyes, dad, she never wanted you for a swain."
  
  The doorbell rings, it's Lupe, Nepo is overwhelmed, but she just came with an installment of the money to pay the debt.
  
  
• Chuy visits Alejo at the office and reluctantly asks for a favor (he's interrupting Alejo's perusal of some website with girls in bikinis). Alejo summons Vilma and commences yelling at her (she winks as she cowers, this is pre-arranged). He threatens to fire her. Chuy says: "you should never make a woman cry." Alejo tries to play the situation two ways:
  
  
  1. Since you are the family of my son Emiliano, I'll take care of you all, don't you worry.
     
     
  2. You owed a debt to my father, and now you have to prove the debt is totally paid. But if you help me win over your daughter Lupita, I'll help you with the debt.
  
  Chuy: "I'm starting to see it was you operating behind that lawyer." "I couldn't be so vulgar and vile." Unconvinced, Chuy leaves.
• Saul tells Mike to be "less civilized" about leaving Minerva's. Mike throws a golden ball through the front door and is about to step through when the alarm goes off.

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