Caray, Caray!

Diego visits the Cacares House of Horrors to tell Lala (not Hilda) about his plans to help Tiburcio recover, so he can tell everyone what he knows about Alberto's murder.  Lala will be in charge of administering the medication.

Carmen sits Mally down at the fonda to talk to her about the upcoming nuptials and give Mally her blessing.

Lala makes an unnecessary grocery list to get Hilda out of the house.  As Hilda points out, there's plenty of food for the few people left.

Luz comes to the fonda to catch up with Carmen.  And, more importantly, find out if Carmen is going to jump into Paul the Mushroom Man's arms.  Hell no! says Carmen.  She happily tells Luz about Abdul's upcoming wedding and they joke that she really needs to change the name of a certain crab dish on the fonda's menu.

Eleazar enlists Lupita to help him figure out what he said the day he was drugged out of his mind.  La Detective Lupita is on the case!



Lala explains to Tiburcio that the medication should help him recover faster.  She brings up Rodrigo, which agitates him.  She gets his consent…well, if we think the deliberate blinking means anything…and wrestles a pill past his clenched teeth.  Lala calls Diego/Alonso and Alonso gives Lala some additional instructions to get Tiburcio to exercise and to give him massages.

Rodrigo leaves work, so Rosa plugs in the hard drive to see what he's been up to.

Somebody has been following Diego around and uploading video of his "forgive me" antics to the Internet.  Alonso's having a big laugh over Diego's fall.  Diego somehow thinks that the number of views should be useful for helping him sway Natalia.

Rod goes back upstairs because he forgot his keys.  Rosa conveniently leaves in search of more coffee.  Rod somehow recognizes that Rosa's looking at what he thinks are his files.  I don't know about you, but if I just see somebody's screen up with extra large, generic icons, that's not exactly a red flag.

Lupita helps Carmen with the laundry and asks about the Mushroom Man's present…and then asks about Eleazar.  Carmen explains she wishes El behaved a little differently….

Rod pulls the external drive and makes sure Rosa's computer doesn't have any of his files left on it.  She returns with coffee and questions her.  Rosa tells him that Grumps saw his files, too, and it's the reason he had a heart attack.  He demands she call the tech so he can verify there are no other copies.

Lupita calls El and tells him she found out how Carmen wants El to act.  First off, stop being so grumpy; be nicer, say pretty things…whatever the last thing on Lupita's list is, El refuses to do it.  Lupita lays down the law…"Do it!  I don't want to have to learn how to say 'dad' in French."

The tech confirms there was only 1 copy and it's the one he gave to Rosa.  Rod says he's going to fire the tech.  Rosa tries to elicit some guilt over robbing from the company and making his Grumps suffer, but Rod just finds the whole thing funny and takes the opportunity to threaten Rosa.

Brigitte tries to call the hotel again, but the desk clerk refuses to put the call through.  Brigitte vows she won't let her (sugar) daddy slip through her fingers.

The desk clerk calls the Mushroom Man, but he insists he doesn't want to talk to her.  Basically, this is a huge imposition to him and all he wants is to attend his conference.

Rosa doesn't feel like she can ignore what Rod is doing, despite his threats.  Her first loyalty is to Vicente.

Rosa visits an Internet café the next morning.  She goes to a government website to file an anonymous complaint and thought bubbles that she hopes it works.

Alonso is still in awe over Diego's fifteen minutes of Internet fame.  But, no Natalia hasn't seen it or said anything.  Diego starts reading the comments, since so many viewers have ideas about how he could get Nat back.

Brigitte calls the hotel yet again and can't get through.  She realizes she has to get into the conference if she wants to nab him.  I'm impressed she can spell "neuropsychiatry."  She calls and tries to register, but is told it's sold out.  If she can send in some professional credentials, the nice lady on the phone will see what she can do.  Brigitte has no idea what to do now.

Nat gets an email from Paolo with the link to the video of Diego hanging off the building.  Nat doesn't care who thinks she needs to forgive Diego, she's not doing it.  Seems like Paolo just thought it was funny.  He doesn't push the issue.

Eleazar, in his office with nothing better to do, agonizes over how to win back Carmen.  He doesn't know how to write poetry or songs…but guess who does?  Morales, in his new little office, half-asleep at his computer and unable to find any clues on the case his boss has him working on.  He gets the report of fraud against Rodrigo at Caprico.  It's his job to evaluate the validity of the report.

Hilda catches Lala giving Tiburcio a hand massage and gets the wrong idea.  She doesn't want anybody else rubbing on her viejo!  She kicks Lala out, saying she'll do it herself.  Tiburcio seems to like the massage…or the ladies fighting over him, I'm not sure which.

Morales' new boss comes in to suggest an angle on their current case, which Morales says will take way too long…but here's a new case for them!  The boss thinks anonymous reports are BS, but Morales convinces him this one has merit.

Rosa goes to the hospital, but Rod tells her to go away and not try to talk to any members of his family.  Rosa leaves.

Morales tells Kim about his new case.  He's hoping it will help him "make up" with El, but Kim says he has nothing to apologize to El for.  Morales is hoping Rod will be his "Al Capone."  Kim likes how smart he is, but pouts that he's going back to the office to meet with one of the computer specialists.  "Hey, babe, no fake 'operations' here!  You can call me at the office to check up on me if you want to."  Morales leaves and Kim says that's what she gets for dating cops.

Nat refuses a delivery of plush flowers that I suspect were actually for Carmen, but of course she assumes they MUST be from Diego because the world revolves around her.

Outside, the kid with the flowers takes them back to El and says "she" said she wants nothing to do with anything that comes from him.  He pays the kid and decides to call Carmen so she can tell him why she refused them.  She sees him out by his car and asks what's up with the flowers.

Morales' colleague gives him the address of the Internet café.

El tries to pretend he remembered what he was like when he was drugged, but Carmen recognizes everything he's saying now as what she said to Lupita.

Diego and Irene visited Grumps.  Rod smarmily says the best thing for Grumps would be for him to die.

Carmen smacks El with the flowers and yells at him.  Really, I don't know what she wants anymore.  Sounds like it's for him to be spontaneously romantic, but if El's not a "spontaneously romantic" kind of guy.  He says some pretty words about how he's loved her forever and this is what Carmen wanted, so she rewards him with smoochies.  And then tells him to shut up so they can get back to the smoochies.

Irene and Diego talk about Rod's attitude and congratulate themselves for getting out of Caprico while the getting was good.  Diego's mostly worried about Vicente getting better, and not so much what could happen if he dies.

Lala gives Tiburcio more medicine and Tib shows her how he's getting a little better at moving one finger.  He's also working on his vocal exercises and gets out "si" several times.

Irene and Tad visit Vicente's doctor. He's actually recovering, but not out of the woods.

Lala reports Tiburcio's progress to Alonso.  Alonso passes on the news to Diego.

Irene visits Vicente.  He opens his eyes when she says she doesn't like seeing him like this, in spite of everything.  Vicente reaches for her hand and asks her to forgive him.  "I did you so much harm.  I can't leave in peace without your forgiveness.  I'm dying.  If I do recover, I want to dedicate myself to repairing all the harm I've done you."  Irene says having Nat with her has already started doing her a lot of good and she's remembering the good times more.  Vicente says the truth is that when Irene got to their lives, she really did make them happier.  "I thought you never wanted me." "I've always had a hard time expressing my feelings."  Vicente doesn't want to be the same old ass as always.  He wants to see Natalia and apologize to her, too.

Tomorrow: CarmEl smoochies; Diego whining; Rod's murder attempt interrupted by Nat.

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