Caray, Caray!

Simona asks Diego what Nat was talking about in the office. Diego explains that Rodrigo did a lot of stuff to break them up, but it doesn't matter, it's over, and he's ready to move on.

Alonso goes over the hospital to ask Oscar, aka HOTscar what his intentions are toward Karina.  Reminder, Alonso…you're the baby daddy, not Karina's daddy.

Paul wants Carmen to be more supportive of Brigitte, but Carmen is just tapped out of compassion.  El leaves Paul and Carmen to talk.  Paul's surprised about Brigitte as well, but he doesn't want to just leave her to her fate.  Carmen doesn't think she can handle it and Paul pats her ineffectually until she cries on his shoulder.  He looks uncomfortable.

HOTscar tells Alonso he felt sorry for her, because she was so alone, and then started calling her.  He apologizes for thinking Karina was "alone" since Alonso's presence proves she's not.

Paul goes out to tell El that Carmen doesn't want to talk to Brigitte.  El understands her heartbreak, having watched the way Carmen raised all the kids.  He asks Paul to help Carmen as much as he can.  Paul wants to see Brigitte…



Who is busy cursing the day she ever decided to get into Rod's pants.  A sad Paul walks in and Brigitte starts the whining, but he says he's not there to judge, just to help.  He does, however, tell her that she's basically ruined their relationship and she can't expect any affection from him at this point.  Also, her mother is very disappointed in her.  But they're hopeful they can get her out on bail, which he will pay.  That's the most he can do.  Since he has nothing more to say, he leaves and Brigitte screams after him not to go, not to leave her.  A sad guitar plays.  That was rough…I couldn't even laugh.  Show, don't make me feel sorry for Brigitte!

Alonso keeps digging himself a hole as he explains that even though he has no romantic interest in Karina, he's still going to, uh, guard all approaches.  HOTscar displays signs of a spine as he says if Alonso's not interested in her, then what's it to him if HOTscar keeps calling?  If Karina doesn't want to hear from him, she'll let him know.  Go HOTscar!  Oddly, Alonso thought bubbles that he hopes he didn't scare Karina's suitor away.  Really, Alonso?  That was you NOT trying to scare him away?  What the heck were you going to say if you had been?

Eleazar wishes he could have kept this pain from Carmen, but she says she'll get over it.  She knows what it's like to be in jail, but instead of feeling compassion for Brigitte, she's feeling angry with her.  Brigitte needs to pay for all the harm she's done.  Paul bumbles in and interrupts their potential moment.  He says Brigitte keeps cryin' and denyin' and there's nothing to do but wait for the judge to set bail.  He hustles Carmen out of the office, away from El.

Diego and Simona visit Grumps' office.  He's still doing that weird thing with his face where he pulls the corners of his mouth up and shows his teeth and crinkles his eyes, what's that called?  Oh, yeah, smiling!  *shudder*  They have good news for him--Telermann approved the deal and they've signed the paperwork.  They're working on getting the fabric for the next collection.  Vicente praises Simona's efficiency.  I swear, he's looking at her like he's about to offer her a cookie or a lollipop for doing such a good job.

Nat is in her/Irene's office and grumpily tells Irene that Simona's coming through.  Nat thinks she's sucking up, but Irene says even though she's on Nat's "side" she can't deny that Simona is good at her job.  Well, fine, but Nat wants to make oooone laaaaast play for Diego and she wants Irene's help.  Irene agrees.  Let the jr. high plotting begin.

Karina has made some mistakes in her knitting, probably because thinking about HOTscar and wondering when he's going to call again is getting in the way of her concentration.  And him calling to break up with her doesn't help.  He tells her that Alonso came to visit him, so she puts her anger in juuuust the right place.  You messed with the pregnant woman, Alonso, and now you will pay!  She immediately calls him, but can't get through.

He's busy talking to Natalia and agreeing to help with whatever her plot is to get Diego to take her to the spring dance.  As soon as he's off the phone, Karina's call gets through.  She calls him an "entrometido" (meddler) a "metiche" (nosy) and a "chismoso" (gossip) and what's it to him?!  She says she hates him and he's the worst thing that ever happened to her.  Heh, heh, heh!  Better get ready to grovel, little Al.  May I suggest flowers, chocolates, and HOTscar in a Speedo jumping out of a cake?  Just a thought.

Back at Casa Garcia, Carmen asks Paul to leave her alone, which he doesn't think is a good idea, but he agrees.  Pobre de Carmen cries alone in her apartment.  Aw, for…someone needs to hug that woman!

Irene tells Simona she's gotten the specs for the fabric and thanks.  Simona hopes Irene likes the fabrics and Irene would like to show her the designs…maybe over coffee?  At the house?  Just the two of them?  Without Diego?  So they can get to know each other?

Natalia goes over to Casa Garcia and hears about what happened.  Natalia is more inclined to think that Rod DID threaten her, since she can't figure what Brigitte would have gotten out of giving him the watch.  Though she's upset that it means Brigitte was in contact with him all this time (eh, I'll give her that one…it's a logical conclusion, even if it's wrong).  Carmen asks about the whole wig thing and when she finds out that Nat already knew she understands why Nat has been so cold to Brigitte lately.  Natalia says she doesn't enjoy her suffering, but she did have it coming.  She feels bad for Carmen, though, who didn't deserve this.  On that, I think there's a good chance we are all in agreement.  Carmen cries while Nat hugs her.

Alonso tries to tell Karina to calm down.  She calls him cruel…he's been telling her for months that he doesn't care about her and now he's driving away a guy who showed her some interest.  He says he didn't mean it that way…he just wanted to find out what HOTscars intentions were.   He tries the "well, if one little creepy chat scared him away he couldn't have been THAT interested…" defense and I mentally kick him in the shins while Karina tells him that HOTscar went to all the trouble to find out her number and call her, even though she's got another man's bun in the oven, and that's pretty damn interested!  She complains that she's alone again, since she doubts he's doing this so he can have her all to himself.  "Well, no, not the way you want…."  She calls him a "tonto" (a stupid person) an "ególatra" (an egocentric person) and an "egoista" (a selfish person).  Al wonders how to fix it.  I shake my head pityingly in his general direction.

Carmen says life needs to go on, so whatever Nat is there for, she might as well get to it.  Carmen will be heading to the fonda soon to let the other siblings know what happened with Brigitte, since it's not like she can hide it.

Simona tells Diego about the invitation to coffee..that Diego's not invited to.  He thinks this is a good idea.  Simona doesn't know if Natalia will be there, but she figures they need to learn to get along…since they're going to be family, right?  Diego agrees and laughs as the music of doom plays in the background.

Natalia and Alonso haul two giant boxes into his apartment.  I have the fear!  Alonso leaves her alone to do the rest of her prep work while he figures out how to fix the mess he made with Karina.  No, not that mess, the other mess...no, I mean the other, other mess…I mean…wait, how many messes are we up to between the two of them?

Rodrigo is getting transferred.  He complains about his arm hurting while they cuff him.  Nobody cares.

Alonso goes back to the hospital looking for HOTscar, but he's out.

They parade Rod past Brigitte's cell so he can taunt her and she can curse him.  And cry.  I'm thinking all this can't be good for the baby, who probably doesn't need any additional stress on top of the stress of the parents s/he ended up with.

Diego gets back to Alonso's to find a puppet stage all set up.  He figures it's Natalia.  She tells the story of the two of them.  With puppets.  But we mostly see the flashbacks.  The puppets don't really look like them, so that's ok.  Mr. 5ft says it's the Avenue Q puppets.  Please, let's hope Nat doesn't go there and re-enact the ENTIRE relationship.  So far she's up to them meeting in Tuxpan.

HOTscar gets back to the hospital and Alonso apologizes to him.  HOTscar is confused.  Alonso says he really does want HOTscar and Karina to have a thing so Karina will stop being mad at him.

Nat cleans up the story a bit, by leaving the reasons for the separation vague.  The big separation, mind you…not the million daily break-ups and make-ups before then.  Diego cries.  Like, seriously cries.  Nat begs for another chance…and a hug…and some smoochies…and forgiveness.  Diego says he's sorry, but he doesn't feel anything for her anymore. He asked her for forgiveness, they had lots of opportunities to get back together and he got tired of begging.  She's out of his mind, his heart, and his soul.  He's forgotten her.  Nat cries now.  And leaves.  Diego looks uncomfortable.

Rod.  Prison.  Big Al is his cellmate!  The other prisoners call him crazy while Rod screams for the guards.  When his live, human cellmate taps him on the shoulder, Rod starts beating him to a pulp.  This is both the best and worst thing to do on your first day in prison.  On TV anyway.  What do I know.

Irene and Simona look over the designs and Simona loves them.  Grumpy Nat comes in and blows them off.  Simona thinks it's because she's there.  It's late, so she offers to leave so Irene can deal with her daughter.

Who is busy crying in her room.  Because Diego doesn't luuuuurve her anymore.  She begged as prettily as she could, but he said he was over her.  Nat is sure he's lying.  She hugged him and he was like a rock.  Irene says Nat has tried everything, but Nat says she can't forget him.  Irene tells her to start with calming down and then clearing her mind.  Nat blames all the superfluous drama on this show on listening to her head instead of her heart.  So now she's going to listen to her heart from now on, and if that means loving Diego forever even though he doesn't love her back, then that's what she'll do.

Diego mopes a bit over the puppets and the nice gesture that was just too late.  He cleans up the set.

Karina consoles herself with chocolate, but Alonso has brought HOTscar.  She doesn't recognize him at first and then has to apologize!  She recognizes his voice, though.  Alonso leaves them alone, but warns them that he'll be in the living room.  Dude…it's not like they were planning on getting it on tonight…they don't need a chaperone!  HOTscar says he got a little freaked out at Alonso acting like her dad.

A cop brings Brigitte some dinner, but she refuses to eat.  Eleazar shows up and Brigitte vents at him a bit.  He tells her her dad hired a lawyer for her, but he doesn't know when the hearing/trial will be.  If she's convicted, she's looking at a 5-10 year sentence, so it's better if she cooperates.  All Brigitte keeps saying is that Rod is lying and she only gave him the watch because he threatened her family.

Karina thinks HOTscar is right and Alonso IS acting like her father.  HOTscar says he and Al are besties now.  He's kinda shy about talking to Karina in person, so she suggests they talk on the phone…with him sitting across the room from her.  Annnd it works.  Alonso (go away, already!) walks in and sees this and thinks the two of them are made for each other.

The next day, Carmen is looking at Brigitte's baby pictures and wondering where she went wrong.  Aw, Carmen!  She flashes back to the many moods of Brigitte…dreaming, snotty, selfish, angry, jealous.  Ending with the day she caught Brigitte in Natalia's wedding dress in Diego/Rodrigo's office and Brigitte told her she was already used to not having a mother.  Poor Carmen.

HOTscar shows up at Karina's the next day with chocolates for her, but Rebecca doesn't realize he's there to visit and shuts the door on him.  He has to ring the doorbell again for her to let him in.

Simona meets Diego for coffee so he can tell her…that he saw Natalia last night.  She surprised him at Alonso's and tried to convince him to get back together with her.  Simona smiles like that sounds like a very sweet thing to do.  Oh, dear.  She might be the nicest person ever or she might be about to flip the table over and beat him with a chair, I'm not sure which.

HOTscar and Karina are stuck with Rebecca as a chaperone today and Karina claims a craving for "higos" (figs) to get rid of her.  HOTscar almost screws it up by offering to go get them himself, but Karina prevails.  It's HOTscar's day off, so he thought he'd surprise her, but he needs to make a call first before she can find out what the surprise is.

Eleazar has been summoned to the prison to talk about Rodrigo.  He saw the request that Rodrigo go into "reclusión psíquiatrica" (a prison psychiatric ward).  El says Rod's faking it, but the warden says he must be faking it really well…last night he beat his cellmate and claimed to see the man he killed.  They couldn't control him, so he had to put him in solitary.  He's concerned that after what happened, the other prisoners will want to retaliate.  He gives El permission to see him and he hopes El can convince him that if he plays crazy, he's not going to last long…and not because they'll transfer him, but because his fellow prisoners won't find it funny.

HOTscar wheels Karina out to the sidewalk, where an ambulance is waiting.  Rebecca comes back with the figs and freaks out.  Karina gives her the day off and tells her to eat the figs herself!  HOTscar says they're going to La Marquesa.

Rodrigo begs Eleazar to get him out because Alberto is in there!  El says that's his conscience, and getting out won't get him away from it.  El calls Alonso and asks to see him.  Meanwhile, Big Al keeps tormenting Rodrigo.

Tomorrow: Nat won't leave Diego alone and he keeps saying "no"; Simona is no creampuff!  And we are *8* episodes away from the Gran Final on August 29!

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