Caray, Caray!

• "I'm going to kill you, tarantula!" Alejo growls as he chokes Minerva. She and her mom are playing a dangerous game. The mother wants to trade Mike's location in exchange for the entire house, which she has always liked. She disabuses Alejo: "He's not bonking Minerva, he has somebody else."
  
  Minerva still thinks she can win Mike back and tells her mom she won't betray him. "But daughter, we have to think of ourselves."
  
  Vilma thinks the "piranhas" are pulling a fiddle. Alejo snarls, "It's your fault, you let your laptop get stolen." He's willing to cede the house, eventually, because he does not actually own it, it belongs to the corporation. Vilma thinks he's as smart as Napoleon.
  
  
• The celebration for San Ciprianito is going swimmingly and Ana Sofia, stoned out of her mind, is basking in the glory of this fiesta which she thinks is for her. "Thank you my Mexicans!" Tenderly Chuy leads her away and she leans on him, but soon she's back at the balcony orating, nodding grandly, and thanking the plebeians below.
  
  The RP family, which had forgotten it was her birthday, explains, and Chuy kindly tells everybody: A great coincidence! With the permission of San Ciprianito, let us applaud Gacela and celebrate with her! She gets a huge mariachi Happy Birthday. "Nobody has ever sung me this to me in Spanish before, how folklorico! Lupita, your dad is a great guy!"
  
  Grandma tells Mike: "Your mom has a big drinking problem, when she's sloshed she's more demented than I am."
  
  Mike thanks Chuy for being so kind to his mom. Chuy warms to him - slightly.
  
  AS staggers out giving the princess wave to all. She's having a grand old drunken time. Leo patiently steers her about, she's careening like an overloaded barge. She thanks some random stranger for bringing her flowers but when Frida shows up with a bouquet, AS drops it on the floor.
  
  Frida says "You always ignore me," she goes off to sulk in the hallway. Tizoc comes along, whistling, and commiserates: "Our parents! They don't care what we think or feel."
  
  AS grandly informs Mike: "My compassion allows me to celebrate with these poor people of the Nopalera, I will go to heaven." She tells Mike it's been nine years since he was last with her on her birthday, he was in London so long. She thanks him for being with her.
  
  
• Nepo comes in and stares hard at Mike. Cut to commercial.
  
  
• The Banana Prince asks Leo out on a date in the park. It won't be the Champs Elysee, but they could have churros or chocolate or ears of corn and then go to a zombie movie. Leo hems and haws and then says ok. But...
  
  ... Perla comes in with food for her beloved Diego. Leo leaves. She tries out her best swaying walk on Diego and points out that she's lost six pounds and has a wasp waist. "Remember that poem you wrote for me, about my mouth and eyes?" Diego tries to ooze away. She asks him to ask her out.
  
  Enters Chuy. "What do you want with my daughter?" "We're just friends." Nepo comes in and proudly attests to his son having the best of intentions.
  
  
• Nepo glowers at Mike some more: "You're a fugitive, and you're messing up the Menchacas' life. I don't trust you. I wanted to give you up to the police. You hurt Lupe or her family, you'll answer to me."
  
  
• Ana Sofia, who has adapted some crepe paper ornament as a hat, says this was the most exotic birthday of her whole life, what a success it's been.
  
  Now most of the people are gone and she notices the saint for the first time. Simultaneously Mike tries to talk to her about her drinking problem, which she denies furiously, and it's dawning on her that something else was going on here tonight besides her birthday. She gets so mad at Mike, she sort of has at him and they BREAK THE SAINT.
  
  Chuy and family: aghast. Mike: get the glue. Ana Sofia: cannot stop thinking about herself. While the Menchacas mourn the broken saint, she is embarrassed that she thanked everybody for coming.
  
  The reglued saint is not what he was: instead of hands piously pressed together in prayer, one points down and the other points sideways (I would have done a MUCH better gluing job). As the neighbors bid farewell to Saint Cipriano, they sense something's odd about him, but no matter, he is passed along to the next people who want them.
  
  
• Lupita tells Emiliano his punishment will be over starting the next day, and that she is strict because "I want you to grow up good like Don Chuy." "Or why not, good like my dad! He is a good person, he wants all three of us to live together!" She makes a moue.
  
  
• Alejo decides to hold a press conference and denounce Mike as a fraudster and a money launderer. The editorial Board of Old Dudes confirms that Mike is the criminal. "The police are on his tail," Alejo informs the press confidently.
  
  Minerva tells Saul to tell Mike to run. Saul conveys the message and also says "We must stop talking so often, Mike, they may trace you through the calls." Too late, next day his picture is in all the papers and on the TV.
  
  Nepo sees the newspaper and stares. Wendy sees the story on TV and screams in fear when Mike enters the room - the tv reporter had just said: "He is a villain and may be an assassin."
  
  
• Poor Frida is getting it from all sides from the monstrous creeps at her school about her being not only poor but now the sister of a criminal. She calls Mike in tears and he says it will all work out. She says she loves him.
  
  
• Lupe comes in to Wendy's and throws herself into Mike's arms. "Will they grab you?"
  
  "What more will they accuse me of? I'm afraid of involving your family. I have to leave to protect you all, everybody who's helped us." "Now everybody knows the police are after you."
  
  He says he's got to run and he's not egotistical enough to ask her to wait for him. She hits him and says she'll be waiting until it's cleared and he can come back. "That's - chido!" he says, cutely using this slang word (great!) for the first time.

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