Caray, Caray!

I'm tired from loading and unloading a truckload of hay for my donkeys today, and the subtitles were a mess, so this is going to be minimal. Please add what you will.

Alejo sort of promises Mati he'll get his lawyer right on that divorce thing, but that he wants to be with his son. Mati says she will allow him to try to convince Lupe (this seemed very bogus to me).

As somebody guessed, when Minerva does the big reveal of the next magazine cover, the model is her own mother! The grandsons share a united moment of flabbergasted astonishment. All say it's a risky idea but she's confident it will be a big hit. Mati likes it so MA gets on board.


Mati has an announcement: she doesn't think Alejo's abilities are being put to their best use in his position as vice president so from now on he's [demoted to] head of marketing. He is flabbergasted again. Not in a good way. The harpies come to gloat, he makes the usual threats, they gloat some more about how they are going to be so famous (I guess because of the new magazine cover).

Fri comes to the Nopalera, ostensibly to tell Lupita how sad Mike is without her (and how he was innocent of any wrongdoing with Minerva) but actually to try to talk to Tizoc, who isn't home. She asks Lupita about the troubles she's had as a single parent. "It's been hard, but I was never completely alone, my family helped me." Fri says she admires Lupe and asks for a hug. Poor girl.

Rita thanks Wendy for sticking up for her with Nepo. Wendy reassures her: "Diego wants to see you and he deserves an explanation." After a lot of incomprehensible advice from Wendy, the two of them visit the Banana King and Prince at dinner time. While Wendy goes in the kitchen to cook, Rita explains: I left because I was confused. I didn't go with a man, I went with a woman. I married your dad when we were both young, I got pregnant..." "To entrap me!" says Nepo. "Shut up!" says Diego, who is rapidly growing a backbone. Turns out Rita's girlfriend died and she decided she had to try to find her son Diego (whom she had wanted to name Lalito).

The fonda is open again. When Tizoc gets home Lupita says, too bad, you missed Fri. And by the way, you are a jerk now and you don't help around here any more. He turns to a customer and reads off the whole menu, which is actually just one dish. Cameo: the guy is Bobby Pulido, a Tejano singing star.

Dinner at RP, they are all at the table together (eating prole food as served in the Nopalera, but off silver platters). Nothing important happens. AS spouts off about their need to find friends (and future spouses) of their own rarefied social class.

Carmela asks Lupe why she's so quiet and reassures her: "Don't worry, we'll catch those vandals." "It wasn't vandals, it was Alejo." Shocked, Carm says "Denounce him," but Lupe's afraid to - and also she can't bear to upset Emiliano that way.

Carm says, I know there must be something else bothering you. Lupita says she went to an oncologist and he found a lump in her breast. She's going to get it "taken care of" and hopes it is not be malignant like the breast tumor that killed her own mother. PSA for going and getting regular breast exams and dealing with any problem right away. Lupita tells Carm she doesn't want anybody to know, it would frighten them.

Charly, Alejo's stooge and Tizoc's manager, is giving more bossy advice. Tizoc wants to sing at his neighborhood fair and Charly says no. Tizoc gets mad and - quits! Charly reminds him he's millions of pesos in the hole. Tizoc says, "Next! Bye!" In the street he sees a poster of Tay and scribbles a moustache on it.

Leo, in a bar with his crappy rich friends, misunderstanding their sly references to the Gay Pride Parade in NYC, comes out to them. He looks happy but they look away.

Fri tells Mati "I tried to find Tizoc but I couldn't." Mati says she'll continue to keep Frida's secret but that Tizoc has a right to know.

Mike reveals to Minerva that all those properties Alejo supposedly signed over to her belong to the corporation, she actually got nothing. She is incensed. She tells her mother and they rage together. "Where will we live? I know, Daddy's penthouse!" But it turns out Isela sold the penthouse long ago. Minerva says, but that was my inheritance. Isela says, but it's me who had to put up with that crappy lover, not you. Minerva doesn't want to hear this. "Well, what did you do with the money?" "I bought a lot of chuchulucos" When I looked that up turns out they are pretty much what in Yiddish we call tshotshkes - little baubles and trinkets. "You can't have spent ALL the money on stupid junk." "Well, I gave the rest to the rich-bored-ladies foundation."

Fri calls Tizoc, they meet, she can't tell him yet again. She runs away.

Mati gives Alejo the same lecture as earlier. He smiles to her face but behind her back says "How I hate that decrepit old woman." I hope he doesn't push her down the stairs. He calls Charly and hears about Tay's rebellion. He smiles an evil smile and says he always gets the last laugh.

Mati and Alejo have the same conversation again - "You need to give Lupe the divorce." "Yes but I need my son."

Lupe tries to persuade Tizoc his quitting is a big problem and he has to start growing up and dealing with his own life. He has a rare affectionate moment, hugs her and tells her he loves her.

Uncomfortable conversation between Lupita and Alejo - the same one they always have, about how she wants a divorce and he doesn't. Emi runs off to wait for his dad and a messenger comes in with a red rose in a box for Lupita. She smiles (evidently before I started watching this show MA gave her a rose or two). Alejo is jealous. She tells him she wants sole custody.

We end with Frida at an abortion clinic, alone.

Tomorrow: No hints, just some shots from tonight!

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