Caray, Caray!

El Refrito

• Rodrigo wishes Vicente was dead.
• Carmen beats El with plush flowers, but melts at his flowery words.
• Tiburcio gets his therapy
• Irene and Tad get a report on Vicente.
• Lala reports on Ticurcio's progress.
• Vicente sees the error of his ways and asks forgiveness. Irene forgives him. Vicente asks to see Natalia.

Lo Nuevo
Carmen prepares for her date with Eleazar. Natalia approves and agrees to watch Lupita.

Morales investigates Rosa's anonymous tip. He asks the Internet Cafe manager for a description of the person. It's a vague description. Morales instructs the man to find out her name if she comes in again and call him ASAP. He also asks him to print the history.


El waits for Carmen and he's nervous as a teenager. Carmen arrives and asks where they are going. El tells her that one time when they were kids she said she wanted to go where he's taking her. She is amazed that he remembers something she said so long ago. Aw! El is a closet romantic! They get their own theme song, too (Me enamoré by La Klave Version Balad)

Natalia babysits Lupita. Lupita is disappointed Carmen is not coming. She wanted some barrettes she saw earlier. Lupita interrogates Natalia and wants to know if she's going to forgive Diego. Paolo showed her the video on the internet. Everyone wants to know if Natalia is going to forgive Diego. Natalia has no desire to forgive him.

Brigitte convinces a security guard to let her in the conference. She gives him a sob story about being a poor medical student from Tuxpan. His wife is from Tuxpan, too! He lets her through. I bet the low cut neckline and extremely high hemline helped, too.

Carmen's dream date is at Xochimilco with a serenade (it sounded a little off-key to me, but I am NOT musically inclined at all.)  A little cursi. I'm trying to cut them some slack since they've delayed this date since they were teens.

Brigitte is thrilled to see the Mushroom Man. Mushroom Man is not too happy.

Irene tells Tad that Vicente asked for forgiveness. Tad thinks it's a good thing that Irene forgave her father. They go to get Natalia.

Brigitte continues to try to charm her father. Not a day has gone by that she didn't think of him. She prayed that she would get to meet him. Monsieur Chamignon stammers that he isn't ready to meet her and rudely asks her to leave.

Natalia watches the Diego video. Irene calls and invites her and Lupita to lunch.

Brigitte cries. Mr. Mushroom has to think about his talk at the conference right now, but later...okay? Brigitte tries to get a firm date for "después", but fails. He finally has to physically push her out the door.

Abdul and Mali visit Papá Juancho and tell him about the upcoming nuptials. The date is so soon, that Papá Juancho wonders if they *have* to get married. Abdul assures him that's not the case. They want to have the party in the church hall (did I get that right?) and Papá Juancho agrees and talks to them about premarital counseling.

Brigitte laments having played her hand to soon and thinks she should have waited for the Mushroom to come to her. Meanwhile, the Mushroom continues to lament that he is not prepared to talk to her yet. He needs more time. MUCHO MÁS tiempo. (Ok. Brat is a sourpuss, but I don't like the thought of anyone being rejected by a parent and I fear this is the road the writers are traveling.) Mr. Mushroom wonders if what he's feeling is "the call of the blood."

Irene and Tad tell Natalia that Vicente wants to see her. Natalia is not sure if she wants to see him. Irene doesn't pressure her.

El, Carmen and La Klave continue on their date. I'm not sold on the bike ride. El's refusal to dance and Carmen's convincing was cute.

After attending the conference with the Mushroom, Alonso wants to adjust Tiburcio's meds. He calls Lala with instructions that Diego will be bringing new meds. It's urgent that Tiburcio recovers his speech.

Carmen and El return home from their date. The relationship gets the Lupita seal of approval.

Irene and Tad discuss Vicente's desire to see Natalia. They both understand if she doesn't want to see him. Irene calls Rodrigo to tell him Vicente is not dead yet.

Natalia tells Carmen about Vicente's desire to see her. Carmen thinks Vicente is near the end and wants to make amends, but it's Natalia's decision.

Diego is visiting Vicente. Vicente looks tired so Diego leaves to let him rest. Rod is lurking and sneaks into the room. Vicente's monitors start beeping. Rod tells him he'll take good care of Caprico and starts fiddling with machines. Vicente's vitals begin to fall...

Natalia arrives at the hospital and runs into Diego. He tries to be civil and really she's a little snot. She is never going to forgive him. Ever. Now I WANT Diego and Laura Carmine's character together. Hey, writers...ur doin it rong.

...And Vicente's vitals continue to fall. Natalia walks in and Rod is forced to act like there's an emergency. Medical staff rush in and ask Rod and Nat to leave. Outside, Nat is more pleasant to Rod than she just was to Diego. At least she calls Diego and tells him to come back.

Carmen and El tell Luz they are officially an item. Luz is pleased but hopes that they don't ruin the wonderful friendship they had. El tell his mom it's twue wuv.

They were able to resuscitate Vicente. He's sedated. Rod is not happy about that. Diego finds it odd that he left Vicente looking ok, but when Rod comes Vicente goes south. Rod leaves. Diego doubts Rod. If he can kill Alberto, he could kill Vicente as well. Natalia turns down his offer to take her home.

Abdul and Paolo discuss the honeymoon. Abdul doesn't have much money and Paolo offers some of his savings. Awww! I love you Paolo. Lupita informs them of Carmen and El, who conveniently arrive. Abdul and Paolo play macho men of the house and mess with El. What a precious scene. They are happy for their mom, but they won't call El "dad." Laughs all around.

Brigitte comes home and acts like a turd.

Rod kvetches about Vicente still being alive.

El makes a beautiful speech about loving Carmen forever. He promises to do everything to make her happy. La Klave plays on.

Natalia is happy for Carmen. They talk about seeing Diego at the hospital. Natalia is Andres' novia now and she needs to remember that, but it's hard when Diego is being charming. She says she needs to keep reminding herself of jealous and distrusting Diego.
Morales continues his investigation and asks a guard at Caprico which employees fit the description he's got. The guard informs him that only two ladies match that description and he gives Morales their full names. Morales asks the guard not to say anything. I have now idea why Kimberly is doing a ride along. With the full names Morales can get their picture from some government (I assume) database and ask the internet cafe manager to ID the anonymous tipster.

Brigitte worries that Mr. Mushroom will leave Mexico without taking her with him to France. She's had it with this life of poverty.

The internet cafe manager IDs Rosa.

Tiburcio moves his hand. Rodrigo comes in and Tib recites the vowels. Rod tells him the minute Grumps dies, he's kicking Tib and his wife out on the street. Rod leaves. Tiburcio laboriously spits out A-SE-SI-NO.

Rosa  is approached by Morales.  Rosa made the tip anonymously because Rod is threatening her. Morales understands. He needs some information so he can investigate. Rosa remembers Banco Wannabe in the Cayman Islands. Morales assures her he knows Rodrigo well and he will not give up until Rod is rotting in jail.

While Irene isn't looking, Tad gets dizzy and clutches the wall. Irene notices he's a little "off" and he chalks it up to the strong solvents in his studio. He's still working on that mysterious picture. Ok. It looks like Tad is doomed. I can live with that, but so help me if she ends up with Frat Boy....

Rosa hands Rodrigo her resignation. He's wanting a younger secretary anyway. He wants to pay her a severance so she'll stay quiet. One less worry for him.

Avances

• Abdul's wedding
• Andres' proposal

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