Caray, Caray!

Refritos:


Isabel hysterical, not knowing what language the ‘rancheros’ speak. Rocio finds it amusing that the neighbors can drive her aunt that crazy. ‘neta?? que oso!’ Felipe actually glad they HAVE neighbors, no?... Isabel bans them from coming close to any of the neighbors.

Of course the dare makes it even more fun for Rocio… so she ends up presenting herself to Beto (who is obviously smitten with her) and his horse ‘El Pinto’, Beto offers her a ride, she gladly hops on (must not be that easy with the tight black leather pants). Isa comes out of her house and faints at seeing them.

Lo Nuevo:

Rocio leads the route. They are seen by the neighbors, who start gossiping since Rocio is Isabel’s niece.

Rocio and Beto have arrived at someone’s house. A young guy who is dressed ready for the beach is amused at seeing Rocio’s new neighbor, stating Beto is ‘very rural’.

Santiago gets home and starts shrieking at the sight of the horses. He finds Isabel fainted and gets scared. ‘Puchis, are you ok??’ She wakes up, asks if she is dead, she WANTS to be dead!! … They are in disgrace, it is the 7 plagues of the Apocalypsis!! ..

Rocio kisses Diego (who we find out later is her bf, at least that’s what she says) in front of Beto who is not enjoying. Rocio goes in Diego’s house after he invited her to his pool. Beto is not amused, so much not that he calls her ‘Loca’… (but he can't take the credit, Diego called her 'loca' when he came out the door)

Santiago (with wife) comes over to meets Facundo (with wife)… Santiago says they have a situation that concerns him. Isabel says ‘your son kidnapped our daughter!’ Maria and Facundo are surprised but don’t have much time to react, here comes Beto riding back (alone!). Beto says he dropped their daughter with her bf… Ok crisis over. Facundo moves on to the next item on the agenda… Let’s get along and spend some time together!! He tells Santiago that the government bought their lands saying they were going to build a major highway and an oil refinery in there. Facundo says they bought the house ‘cash’. Isa is about to have a stroke. Santiago is quick to recover and puts his hand on Facundo’s shoulder ‘welcome!’.

Back in their house Isa is still freaking out, Santiago is not so worried. ‘life is smiling at us’. ‘look at those folks, they are no problem’… Isa still freaking out about the social implications of having ‘rancheros’ for neighbors. Now I am menonita! (ok i read up on it. mennonites are protestants who don't believe in any measure of 'order'.. military, government, church ruling, etc) Santiago is already working the gears in his head… calls Esteban on phone. ‘I think I found the way to save the company!’

Later on Esteban meets with Santiago. The employees are angry, we owe them 3 months salary and they want their money, otherwise they will quit and kill us. Santiago can only see ‘$$$$’ in front of him. He says the neighbors are ‘dumb’ (brutos!)… Santiago asks Esteban to find out exactly how much the government paid Facundo for the lands. Santiago cannot let Puchis find out they were THIS CLOSE to bankruptcy.

Maria goes into Beto’s room to rant at him for mingling with the neighbors. People here are not like in the fields. You will fall for her… then you will go dragging yourself crying around the corners.

Rocio is taking the same rant from Isabel. She already got called by the Penalvers (the neighbors who saw her). More ranting for Rocio… Rocio whines that Isabel never worried about her before… Isa claims that since Rocio’s mother died, she promised her she would care for her children as her own. But Rocio has become independent, solitary, a rebel. ‘That farmer is not the one for you!’ Rocio rebutes the usual ‘its my life!!’ Isa threatens her ‘get away from the neighbor!... NADA DE NADA with the neighbor!!’

Later on Facundo, Beto and the two young ones (Jacinto and Susana?) are working on the yard… apparently putting together a wooden fence for some of the animals.

Esteban calls Santiago to let him know the Carmonas were paid $10 Million dollars!! Santiago gets on his knees ‘My God Thank you!! Truly, thank you!!’

The Carmona girls (Yoya and Susana?) are arguing about the little pig… Yoya has a hose and wants to get him wet, Susana dumps the bucket of water on her. They were almost run over by Felipe and his car. He is smitten by Yoya… he comments that he actually likes the little pig (Margarito). ‘See you later, vecina’. (another couple that are smitten at first sight). What’s in the water at that neighborhood??

Isabel again gossips with Conchita that soon they will be invaded by bugs and gnats. Rocio adds roaches and ants to the invasion. Suddenly grandpa Porfirio shows up uninvited scaring the jebees out of the women… he asks them if they have a boiled egg, says they (his family) are keeping him on bread and water. He takes her coffee cup right from Isabela’s hand. Santiago comes out at hearing the ruckus that Isabel made… he meets grandpa Porfirio, who tells him he came looking for a boiled egg, Santiago more than willing to oblige his every need. Grandpa Porfirio has also fallen smitten for Conchita.

Where did the Carmonas get so much wood so quickly?? They are putting together fences of different sizes for the animals. Santiago comes over to return Porfirio to them… (guess unsolicited visit deserves a return unsolicited visit) … Facundo rants at Maria for not keeping an eye on ‘mi apá’. Facundo changes the subject to ask Santiago how to find a school for the two little kids and a university for the older girl. Facundo gives Santiago the bottle of tequila he was drinking. Santiago takes a gulp and almost chokes on it. Then he freezes at seeing Facundo drink it straight like soda. And he tries to do the same. (thinks to himself, perfect! That way I will have more opportunities to squeeze them dry!) Santiago even suggests Facundo give him a power of attorney so he can help them with all their transactions (boy is he going fast!!)… Facundo says that is a bit too complicated for him. Santiago responds ‘don’t worry about anything, I can help you with all that, leave it all up to me’. And takes another big gulp of tequila from Facundo’s bottle. Facundo will think about it ‘but thank you for the offer’. (Santiago is a bit tipsy from all the tequila he had to gulp down)

At dinner time, Santiago is sick to his stomach. Isa nags him for it. Felipe thinks Isa is overreacting to the neighbors. Santiago says Facundo invited them all to a barbecue at their house. They will ALL go to the Carmonas. Santiago arranged for their daughter to go to same school as Alejandra and the older daughter will go to same college as Felipe. Isa is shocked. NOT a happy camper. She doesn’t get how he can be so calm after having been at their house. Santiago won’t let her undermine him. He is entitled to make the decisions since he pays the bills and gives them everything they want. Rocio has heard enough arguments so she leaves. Isa starts crying. Santiago yells at her. He is angry at everyone for not going along with him. Isa has a rather annoying hiccup after her crying.

The Carmona girls are again talking and arguing about going back to school. Yoya will ask Felipe tomorrow at the barbecue what career he is studying for.

Facundo is taking a bath with lots of suds. Maria comes in. He is enjoying how ‘rich people take baths in movies!’ Maria says she could wash the sheets in that huge tub. HE says nonsense. We can both fit in here. Get in! the water is great!... he drags her inside the tub, dress and all… they get lovey dovey. ‘we’ll be very happy here in the city. With the kids. You’ll see.’ ‘I hope so’ (Dios lo quiera)… more lovey dovey.

Next morning, Facundo is knocking at Santiago’s door. Isabel comes out. She calls him ‘Facundo’ (on first name basis already??) she walks away a few steps… he says ‘since I saw you I haven’t stopped thinking about you…’ ‘this is not right, I am married and so are you’. They start kissing. (is this a dream? Yes it is. Isabel’s. she says it was a nightmare, but then asks herself ‘why did I dream with that rustic/rough rural man??’)

Still at night… or rather early morning… Isa and Santiago wake up startled at the sounds of the rooster at Facundo’s house. It is only 5:30 am… more rooster calls. Isa yells for that ‘thing’ to shut up already!! She says they must call the police and denounce them! He is not so convinced (would make them enemies and ruin his plans?) She calls ‘locatel’ instead (what is that? A shopping catalog?) Santiago peeks out the window and sees the rooster on the fence.

NOW is the next morning.

Santiago comes out for a morning run and steps right in a pile of horse doodoo. Facundo says ‘good morning! That is for good luck!’ Rocio laughs at Santiago. Then walks on into the house. Once Santiago goes back in the house, Facundo tells his horse ‘Facundo’ that Rocio does not respect Santiago at all.

Barbecue time… Grandpa is impatient, want to be the first to eat chicken when its ready. Beto asks Facundo if the neighbors daughter will come. Maria nags and Facundo tells her the gossip that Rocio did not come sleep at their house. That she bosses herself, does not respect Santiago. Tells Beto it will be difficult for him to enamour her. Maria tells Facundo need to go to the grocery store… Yoya jumps and volunteers to go. Facundo asks Beto to take his sister.

Santiago and family arrive at the barbecue… Isabel mocks Facundo’s accent saying ‘amistAAAad’ (friendship)…

Maria puts a glass of “pulque” (mexican traditional homemade beverage based on agave) in Isabel’s hand, Santiago basically forces Isabel to drink it. Meanwhile Yoya approaches Felipe and offers him chapulines (sp? looks like cherrries) She finds out that Isabel is his aunt, not his mother. He tells her he is studying ‘mercadotecnia’ (a fancy way to say business admin).

Grandpa again goes after Conchita. Grandma Perpetua brings Jacinto and Susana to meet Alejandra. Alejandra tells them she wants to meet their little pig.

Beto is with Rocio… Maria comes to split them up saying he is needed elsewhere. Later we see Beto in the kitchen (about to swallow a boiled egg, what else?), Rocio comes in after him. She says it seems his mom does not like her very much. She mentions that her cousin Felipe and Beto’s sister Yoya are going to college together. They comment that college is not for them. Beto says at first he did not want to move to the city, but now that he met her, he is not regretting it. They move closer to each other when Facundo comes in and sees them. (they have not seen him yet). Rocio gets out of the way. She asks him about his horse. He has had him since the horse was born. She admits she finds him handsome. But that does NOT mean she wants anything with him. ‘My bf Diego would not like that’. She leaves him there drooling.

Jacinto, Susana and Alejandra are talking about all the animals, the cats, bunnies… etc.

Facundo tells Santiago that it seems Isabel does not like beef that much… Maria says that they also have other Mexican foods, some of which make Isabel even sicker of just mentioning them… Maria offers to fix Isabel an egg sandwich. Isa nags about the gluten in that. Santiago tries to be the peacemaker/damage control agent. Santiago wants to see the house. Facundo happy to give him the tour.

Inside, Santiago compliments them on their taste. (I have to admit it is much warmer and 'welcoming' than the Velasco's, which is a bit darker and furniture seems disjointed, mix-up of old, new. weird) Santiago says  'it has… ‘history’. Facundo says some of the furniture belonged to his great great great… gramps… Santiago even sits on one of the chairs. Then says he admires Facundo. It must not have been an easy decision to move to the city. Facundo says when he was young he had to help his parents work the farm… so he did not have the choice. Santiago says ‘the kids are going to school. But what does the man of the house want to do with his mon…’ (stops himself short) '.. with his TIME!'… Santiago suggests Facundo invest in some business… Santiago offers to give him some advice… how about investing in the construction industry? ‘and look! It so happens… I am spotting a very smart man… maybe tomorrow I can give you a tour around the offices and perhaps you will be interested.’ Fac: ‘Facundo Carmona… entrepreneur’… Santi: ‘Facundo Carmona … Enterprises’.

Susana brings her pig to Isabel to meet. Isabel is not amused. Almost chokes on her food…Susana leaves with Margarito … Then Grandpa Porfirio comes over with a whole basket of eggs and offers her a boiled egg… has peeled one for her, sprinkles salt on it. Almost hand-feeds it to her. She passes on it. He gets a bit flirty with her saying she should eat some food so she could gain some kilos here and there (poking her around her waist, etc)… and grandma Perpetua comes and nags at him for disrespecting Isa. Grandma later brings her some red liquid in a glass. Looks like cherry juice. Santiago says it looks like wine (bocato dicardinale?). It is ‘jumirichi’ (what is that?) Isa spits a sip of it right on Grandma Perpetua, she wants to leave, Santiago won't let her, he grabs her arms and she tries to get around him and then falls in the pool. Facundo dives in after her, hat and all…

Previews: Santiago tells Isa that their business is bankrupt. ‘it will be either the corn-planting farmers (campesinos siembra-elotes)… or the streets’ Also that they will have dinner with Facundo and his wife.

And all heck breaks loose at dinner and outside with the older children, animals are running all around, and we see the bf Diego and a shotgun.

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