De Que Te Quiero, Te Quiero #156, 8/14/14

De Que Todo No se Vale en el Amor y la Guerra, Todo No se Vale en el Amor y la Guerra

Not much happened tonight folks, so I’m keeping it short and sweet.

Diego’s captors take him bound and gagged to the police station. El, Morales and their police crew have been informed of “Rod’s” capture and hustle him off to the cells without question. Mom and son bounty hunters tell El every detail of the capture and then try to get their reward, while Diego tries to convince the underling cops guarding his cell that he’s in fact Diego. They don’t believe him, so he uses the ruse of needing to use the bathroom to knock one of the cops out and make a run for it. He is swiftly knocked out cold by another cop. El informs Alonso and Grumps of Rod’s capture, and Grumps informs Irene. They all rush to the police station. By the time Irene and Grumps get there, Diego has managed to convince El and Al of his identity by telling them things only Diego would know. Bounty hunter mom and son don’t believe the twin story and think the cops just don’t want to give them the million peso reward. El is able to pacify them by saying they'll get a letter of commendation, AND a police escort back home.

At Caprico, Simona makes the mistake of asking Nat if she’s seen Diego. She hasn’t been able to reach him all weekend since she saw him Saturday evening. Unfortunately, Nat has decided that all is fair in love and war. In other words, she’s decided she can be a mean girl. She tells Simona about Diego being seen kissing on some older lady that weekend, and that it’s not unusual for him to just disappear for a couple of days like this. Even after Nat learns that Diego actually spent the weekend tied up (literally), she’s content with letting Simona continue to believe that Diego is a cheater and a flake.

Diego may not be a cheater and a flake, but he is also not the sharpest knife in the drawer as he has yet again not told a woman he’s involved with that he has an EVIL IDENTICAL TWIN. He has to explain the whole thing to Simona, going all the way back to the coma, so that she’ll believe he wasn’t really the one seen kissing some woman that weekend. They kiss and make up. Simona even defends him when they go out to dinner that night and he’s attacked by a woman Rod boinked and robbed.

After clearing things up with Simona, who reveals Nat is the one who told her about him kissing that woman, Diego goes to Caprico to tell Nat off. He is briefly sidetracked when Nat tells him she and Andres broke up and that she still loves Diego, but then he finds his backbone. He points out that he begged and begged and she rejected him. Now he’s got Simona and Nat is nothing but a memory. Nat is shocked! Shocked! She can’t believe Diego is over her. Irene doesn’t look surprised.

Al takes a page from Nat’s book, and also comes creeping tonight. He visits Irene at Caprico and tries to rekindle the fire. Irene tells him to put on the brakes. Even with Tad no longer in the picture, she still thinks there are many reasons she and Al may not work: 1) the age difference; 2) his impulsive behavior which led to him cheating with Karina; and 3) the baby he’s about to have with Karina. Irene says she’s happy for Al that he’s going to have a baby, but she really doesn’t know if she wants to be a part of all that. She leaves him standing there, and she looks pretty darned happy and at peace. You go, Irene!

Meanwhile, Al’s baby-mama, Karina, gets excited every time the phone rings, thinking it’s her male nurse admirer. Al’s secretary, who has come to care for Karina and to teach her to knit, takes note and reports back to Al. Al tells Karina that it’s cool with him if she has a boyfriend, or a guy friend, or whatever. But he wants to make clear that HE is the baby’s father. Karina is happy that Al seems jealous, but seems even more excited by the prospect of another call from her admirer. Meanwhile, her admirer is being counseled by his hospital administrator friend that it might not be a good idea for him to fall for this girl who is pregnant with someone else’s child. He’s convinced Karina’s baby-daddy doesn’t love her, while he wants to take care of her. Have at it, dude!

Lupita continues to turn the heat up on El by getting cozy with Mushroom Man. She looks pretty happy learning French and trading air kisses with Frenchy. MM also seems happy to finally have someone appreciate his culture. The Brat, who has lowered herself to working at the fonda (chopping onions, no less!), is jealous of the attention MM is paying to Lupita and not to her. For once, Nat is not the target of her jealousy and resentment. El comes to the fonda to see the new happy family unit with his own eyes, and Lupita hardly pays him any attention as she chats with MM. Brat whispers venom in El’s ear about MM and Carmen, and he reacts by asking Carmen to return the money he invested in the fonda after the robbery. Carmen is on the verge of tears, but doesn’t argue with him. After he leaves, MM asks Carmen what he can do to make her feel for him what she feels for El. She tells him he’d need to be reborn, in Tuxpan, and named Eleazar!

Rod continues to work his hustle on older ladies at bars and clubs, in order to earn the money for his fake passport and airline ticket.

Tomorrow: Rod tries to fly out of the country and has to disguise himself as airport security when the cops arrive looking for him. Shots are fired. Will Rod finally be caught?