Caray, Caray!

So Cande said that she heard that Aldonza was, like, totally kissing her lawyer.  But Cris doesn't believe her.  Cande dares him to ask Aldonza…or Silvia, even.  Cris won't be badgered into doing it.  No offense to badgers.  Cris points out to Cande that she and Severiano have earned his distrust.  He's especially not going to give her the satisfaction of calling in front of her.  Cande leaves, threatening to send Valeria in.  Pobre de Cris…and he can't even get up and lock the door.

The engineer talks about how he would divert the water from near the waterfall.  "¡Me lleva!" Sev thought bubbles (short for "me lleva el diablo"…British dudes would say "Devil take it!"…I'd say, "Aw, FFS!")  Sev nixes that idea, on account of it being Simoneta's watery grave.  He pays the guy his advance and it's adios ingeniero!



Emmanuel continues his quest to replace the traditional illustration of "El Borracho" (the drunk) in the Lotería game.  He shouts outside Mari's house that she's a bad woman who had no right to ruin his life. Mari, possibly genuinely, cries.  As Irma tells Uriel not to go out there and get his damn fool ass thrown in jail for assault, Emmanuel is screaming that he loves Lola and Mari's a coward.  As his curses continue, the cops show up.  Em refuses to leave until that "zorra" (slut) gives him an explanation.

Aldonza tells Adelina that she visited her father's grave earlier.  She made a decision--since they've been neglecting the gravesite anyway, she'd like to remove the remains, have them cremated, and scatter them in El Santuario.

Mari continues crying as she and her family watch Em argue with the cops.  Between the three cops, the wrestle Em out of there and avoid getting hurt by the bottle he was carrying.  One even picks up Em's hat.

Adelina thinks that's an absurd idea!  Or she's afraid of the truth getting out, yet again.  Take your pick.  Aldonza is right, I think, that Ray would have liked being one with the earth.  However, she's uncharacteristically careless about asking "What's it to you?"  If I didn't know better, I'd say she was provoking Adelina because she knows more than she's letting on and she's trying to get some confirmation.  Aldonza points out that she agreed with Adelina about leaving Roberta's ashes in the church, so, uh, I guess that means she gets to decide where Ray's eternal resting place will be?

Pato finally got in touch with Silvia, who tells him that after the way Renato behaved, leaving was the LEAST she could do.  She doesn't want to kiss and make up and go back to the playground.  Not now.  Pato can call her later and they can have dinner when he's in town.

Candela runs into Lola on the street and invites her to dinner.  Yeah, you read that right.  And Lola made that same face you're making.  Before she accepted.

Em continues crying and screaming in his jail cell.

Over YET ANOTHER DESSERT THAT NOBODY IS GOING TO EAT! Cande starts quizzing Lola about why she gives a f- about Simoneta.  She tells her to forget about her.  Sev's telling the truth about her going back to San Miguel…what else could possibly have happened?  Sev gave her money and she left when she got what she wanted.  She doesn't care about Sev or Lola or anybody.  Lola thinks Cande might be right, but that's not the song Simoneta was singing.  Cande finally gets to her real point…can she count on Lola to keep her mouth shut?

First meeting of the Cheater's Club of Santa Lucia! Pru and Whatsherface drink some fine red wine while Whatsherface talks about how, damn, her lover just won't take "no" for an answer!  They discuss their feelings of fear and guilt and shame and sin.  And drunkenness, as Pru is finishing off a bottle.  Whatsherface says it's an "aventura" (affair, but also adventure) because you never know where it's going to lead.  "If you're going to have a lover, forget about a quiet life.  Live in the moment and enjoy the nookie!"  But what about when it's over?  "Eh, get over it.  Move on.  I just hope you haven't fallen in love with him…because God help you if you have!"  Pru gets every last drop out of the bottle as a couple of Santa Lucia's finest busybodies look on.

LumberJoaquin brings some stuff to Emmanuel in jail.  He chastises him for being so unmanly as to cause a scene like he did.  Emmanuel tells him what Mari said happened in San Miguel and what really happened in San Miguel. He can't believe Joaquin is on Mari's side.  Joaquin just wants to understand que the hell happened.  Em thanks him for the blanket and the food, but tells him to get the hell out.  Joaquin says he'll talk to him when he sobers up, but if Em has his way, he'll never be sober again.  Aw geez, man…Em's breaking my heart.

Pensive Lola is pensive.

Joaquin, apparently, calls Adelina to give her the update.  She passes the news on to Aldonza.  Neither of them knows what's going on with Emmanuel.  Oh really, Adelina?  How about he's been deprived of love his entire life and might be genetically predisposed to alcoholism and you'd rather worry about "How will Aldonza react?!" than do something to help him finally find a sense of belonging?  Aldonza, like the sister she doesn't know she is, says that even at his drunkest, there's no way Emmanuel would do what Mari is claiming.  "Oh yeah?  Alcohol makes people do really shitty things…just look at Rob--"  She apologizes for being about to besmirch her sister's…aka Emmanuel's biological mother…memory.  But, hey, it's all good, Aldonza knows what she was like…or so she thinks…but Emmanuel?  Adelina thinks Aldonza doesn't want to accept that he could do something like that to Mari.  Well, fine, but Aldonza needs to think about Lola as well.  Adelina delivers this last bit of Aunt-ly wisdom before self-righteously swanning upstairs.

Cris is under the watchful eye of Warden Valeria.  He asks her to help plug his phone charger in.  Cris says if she doesn't want to help him, he can call the nurse.  Valeria, of course, once she plugs it in, makes sure to leave it where it can fall off the tray table, so that when the nurse comes in to change his IV fluid, she puts the bottle on the tray table, knocks the phone off it, and gets verbally abused by Valeria, including having to hear such gems as "I'm gonna tell my daddy and he's gonna take it out of your pay!"  I really hate Valeria.  Cris would really like Val to STFU, as would I.  He reassures the nurse that it's fine.

Aldonza now has to leave a voicemail message.

Back in Cris' room, the nurse is gone, but Val continues spewing her venom.  She fake sadly announces to Cande that poor Cris isn't going to be able to call anyone now.  Cande offers her phone, but Cris isn't taking the bait.  And, no, he's not looking forward to Val showing up tomorrow.  Not that Val cares.  She threatens to be back first thing in the morning.  Cris calls his mom on the transparency of her plan and declares he'll NEVER get back together with Val, whether Aldonza is his sister or not.

Humberto tries to have a civilized conversation with Valeria.  Well…that takes two civilized people, so I predict an automatic fail.  He says he's not "against" her, he just wants her to chill about this whole Cris thing.  Val doesn't think she needs to.  She'll have him "back" any minute now.  Humberto wants her to date other guys.  "But other guys can't give me what I want."  Ohhhh, ok, so you're a gold digger?  Val swears she's not…she's in lurrrrrrrve, for realz!  She just needs her daddy to help her out a little bit.  Well, Humberto would love to see her happy.  "Well, do something so Aldonza can't get near him.  It's not much, but it would help me."  Humberto neither agrees nor disagrees.

Under the moonlight, by the gorgeous waterfall, Simoneta's coffee table bobs to the surface of the water.  Where Lola was sitting, contemplating her messy love life, one supposes.  She jumps into the water, opens the lid, and is horrified by what she sees.

Sev jerks awake in bed as Simoneta approaches him, machete raised, and hacks at his now-whole left arm.

How much of that was real and how much was Sev's nightmare?  He's actually in bed, possibly having phantom limb pain, and screaming long and loud enough that Melesio, Dominga, and the maid ALL had time to make it to his room and are trying to calm him down.  Mel doesn't seem to think Sev is actually awake and tells Dominga and the maid to get a good grip on him and not let him go.

The next morning, Sev tells Humberto he felt like he was having his arm severed again.  Humberto reminds him that he had warned Sev this could happen, but Sev got complacent because he hadn't had symptoms before.  He explains about "dolor fantasma" (phantom [limb] pain) being a "dolor neuropático" (neuropathic pain) where the brain gets confused by the something that starts with a "v" (thanks for mumbling, Hum!) in the "campos electromagneticos" (electromagnetic fields).  Sev is outraged that this is happening now after so many years, but Hum says that's normal, and there's no way to say why it's happening, but maybe if Severiano was under some stress recently….  Sev worriedly asks if it could happen again.  Humberto says it probably will, and it could last minutes or hours.  He writes a prescription in case it happens again.  Sev freaks because…he's Sev!  This can't happen to him again!  He has to find a cure!  (It's called "death," Sev.)  Humberto says there's no organic cause, which makes it difficult to treat.  There are some treatments that are experimental.  Traditional painkillers don't work, but he can give him a prescription for a sedative that will help him get through it if it happens again.  He recommends Sev see a specialist.  Sev is outraged that this is all Humberto can do for this terrible pain that felt so real…he swears it WAS real!  Humberto is sorry, but there's nothing more he can do.  He's got to go to the clinic and see Cristobal.

So far, Sev has shown that losing a limb doesn't have to mean giving up on your previous career and doesn't even have to slow down a life of crime.  Now, they're using Sev's plight to show the difficulties in getting treatment for chronic pain.  Gee, thanks, show.  Maybe next time you try to give us PSAs on these serious topics you could…oh, I dunno…not use a murderer and a rapist with an overblown sense of entitlement as your example?

A smiling, and thus not traumatized by the sight of her dead mother stuffed into a coffee table (so let's quit talking about the previews, shall we?) Lola, is at work the next morning when Aldonza comes to tell her that she's going to go visit Emmanuel.  Lola's over him.  Permanently, this time.  She's working really hard not to think about him.  She's even thinking she needs to stop worrying about her mother.  It's not like Simoneta ever worried about her, right?  Aldonza asks what about the baby.  Well, Lola was excited, but she doesn't even have any way of finding her mother, so….  Aldonza is sure Simoneta will show up when Lola least expects it.  (Hopefully not the way Sev dreamed!)  And now she's off to visit Emmanuel and hopefully Cristobal.  She tells Lola to think positive.

Cris, leaning on his mom, with Humberto's help, and with some difficulty, takes a few steps.  He'll have to use a crutch for a while. Hum assures him he's at no risk of losing his leg now.  Cris can't wait to get back to "normal" life.  Candela accompanies Humberto out of the room to ask if she can take Cristobal right now.  She'll even hire a nurse if she has to.  "You just want to get him out of here so Aldonza can't get near him."  Candela admits it, and says she's also doing it for Valeria's sake.  He can't object to that, right?   Humberto says he's a doctor first and she can't take him out of there until Humberto thinks he's ready, so Cande better not insist.  Because Humberto can't keep his mouth shut about anything, he tells Cande about his visit to see Sev earlier that morning.

Aldonza tries to bully her way into the jail to see Emmanuel.  She finally shuts up long enough for the guy to tell her that she can't see him RIGHT NOW because he's giving his statement.  So maybe she could sit down and shut up.  Aldonza smarms that she'll be back later…with her LAWYER.  Uh…good luck with that one.

Adelina is having a meltdown in Padre J's office about Aldonza's plans for Ray's remains.  He wants Padre J to forbid her from doing it, but Padre J says there's no way.  The only thing Adelina can do is tell Aldonza the truth before she finds out on her own.  And Adelina says…come on, say it with me now…"no puedo."  Can we visit the wizard and get her some courage, please?  Padre J says she already knows her mom shagged Sev, and they even floated the possibility that Sev and Roberta had a child.  All that's left is for her to find out whether they did nor not.  Adelina (and I hate what they're having her do here, because she just keeps sounding more and more selfish every time she opens her mouth) says she doesn't dare, because Roberta's not there for Aldonza to yell at, but she still is.  (In the earlier words of Sev…¡Me lleva!)  And how could she possibly explain that she let him take a newborn…and that the child could be Emmanuel?!  Padre J…oh, how I love that man…says "Well, you take a deep breath and you TELL HER and that's it!"  He says she'll have to find out someday and there's no point delaying it.  "No, I won't be able to.  I'm not ready.  Please help me!"  Padre J looks like he's silently repeating "Please help me!" to the man upstairs…and  La Virgen…and all the saints…anybody who will listen!

Aldonza skulks around the hospital and finds that Cris isn't in his room.  The nurse thinks he was released.  Uh oh…he lost his scapular.  Nothing good comes of that.

Dominga and Melesio help Cris into his bed.  He seems to think that he had Humberto's permission to leave.  Cande is going to go back to her room and have a shower and change and then she'll be back to trying to micromanage his life!  Yay!  They all leave him alone and Cris looks at the phone and remembers the conversation he had with Candela.  He thinks it's stupid and he's certainly hurting badly enough that it doesn't seem worth it to reach for the phone.

Renato is WAY too thrilled to see Aldonza, even though he says he understands he's only her lawyer and her business partner now.

Sev walks along by the waterfall and sees Joaquin and Ray.  He smirks at Joaquin saying that he brought Ray down there to swim.  As Joaquin and Ray are walking away, Sev says now this is a "balneario populachero" (public spa; a spa for the unwashed masses).  Joaquin asks Ray to wait for a second while he goes to confront Sev.  Joaquin says he won't break Sev's face, due to his "condition."  Sev fondles his gun and says he won't kill Joaquin and leave his "mocoso" (snotty kid) an orphan.  Joaquin and Ray get the hell out of there.

Dominga tells Cande the story of what happened to Sev.  Cande explains to Dominga that it was phantom limb pain and it could happen again.  Dominga says he looked like the very…(devil, I'm guessing).  He's out of the house now, though.  Gone who knows where.

Back to the scene of the crime…er, the second crime…er, the second crime involving Simoneta.  He pulls his gun and turns as if he hears something and suddenly the pain is back.  Kudos to Alexis Ayala for some really hideous facial contortions.

Adelina goes to visit Ray and Joaquin and runs into them on the sidewalk outside their house.  She grins at Joaquin like a teenager, saying she just wanted to see him is all.  Joaquin sends Ray off to his room to play.  Adelina turns serious, but she won't tell Joaquin what's up.  She finally brings up that whole "not telling people things to avoid hurting them" conversation.  Joaquin remembers and encourages her to trust him…with a kiss.  We are ALL unpleasantly surprised when Flavia emerges from Ray's room to applaud the scene she's witnessing.

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