Not one to be ruffled by the
appearance of the person she and her horrible spawn were just bashing, Úrsula
breezes over to dear Susy. She promises to scold the butler for not telling
them she was there and Susy notes that he didn’t offer her anything to drink
either. Ah, well, no matter they must get going. Max’s mom, Alma is waiting for
them to pick her up. Maleny and Úrsula nervously follow her out to the car.
Josefa whines bitterly about
MD getting her job back and all the guys lining up to help her while she,
somewhat roughly, cleans Isela’s wound. She spits that the ruckus Isela made
about lawsuits came to nothing for her. Isela says that she didn’t think the
company would give she and MD back their jobs, but she thought crying to the
Bustamantes might get hired in their offices. Someone knocks on the door. Jo
goes to open it and comes face to face with Mr. Bustamante himself.
Gerry’s on the phone with MD,
telling her that Jacinto just accused her of having stolen the dress. She
protests that she didn’t do it. He believes her, saying it’s just Jacinto
trying to get more traction on this case. They hang up weirdly (there’s just a
dial tone on MD’s side, even though they’re in the middle of a conversation.
Weird editing.) The seamstresses ask MD why she didn’t explain what happened.
What’s she going to do now? MD vows that she’s going to produce that dress for
Gerry and Ivana. She doesn’t know how, since the material he gave her was
imported and crazy expensive and what’s in the bag is a bunch of cheap stuff,
but she’s going to figure it out. Everyone’s job is on the line.
At the boutique, who’s
assigned to take care of the Leech Ladies Club (minus Alma) but our lovely
Doris. Mal takes one look at her, and dismisses her services; they don’t need
anything in extra large. The manager notes that they don’t carry extra large
sizes. She tells Doris that they’re Ivana’s special guests and she’s in charge
of assisting them.
Josefa spits in Claudio’s
coffee before serving it and leaving him to talk with Isela. (He ends up not
drinking it anyway). He returns Isela’s cell phone, which fell out when he hit
her with the car. He brought her a bunch of fruits and veggies so she won’t
have to cook, and insists again that he wants to take her to a doctor. She
apologizes for him going to all this trouble and for making him late getting
home. He says he explained things to Alma and she was really worried for Isela.
Meanwhile, Alma’s trying on
Doris’s suggestion. Úrsula says it’s nice, but doesn’t look like a dress for a
gala opening. Alma confides that she wants it for her anniversary night with
Claudio. They’re due for a romantic interlude and she wants to surprise him.
The Shop-for-rent lady
catches up with Honoria as she’s going to give Fermin his next meal. She wanted
to tell her that the police came around asking about Julian and Rodolfo’s
death.
Daniel has stopped by to take
MD to lunch, but she doesn’t want food: She wants to know what he did with the
dress!
Josefa gleefully goes through
the fruits and veggies. What quality! Orlando shows up. He also brought gifts
for his beloved: oranges and a salve for her knee. Josefa loudly praises the
fruit from Bustamante and then silently, but smugly, produces the Bustamante
first aid kit stuff as well. Orlando leaves the pomade and shares a smile with
Isela, who mouths “Gracias” to him as he leaves. She asks Josefa if she’s going
to eat all of the magazine fruit that they got from the man that
killed her daughter. That takes the wind out of Josefa’s sails.
At the boutique, Maleny
doesn’t like anything Doris suggests. Since Doris obviously wears
carpas(=tents), how can she possibly hope to dress Maleny’s
svelte figure? No, Maleny will just have to do this herself. She dismisses
Doris, blowing out her cheeks to make “fat” faces as she leaves. In the
hallway, Doris is waylaid by a randy Ari. He kisses her up against the wall
(and a light switch. Their actions keep turning the lights on and off). They
end up taking their passionate make out session to a dressing room as they hide
from her boss, who’s calling for her.
MD chews Dan out. He’s the
only one who doesn’t want her working at the tailor shop and she gave the
dress/material to him. He takes offense. How can she believe he would
deliberately cause problems for her? He gets in the car, and MD, now thinking
that she’s judged him with false accusations, calls for him to wait as he
drives off.
At the boutique, an overly
scandalized Úrsula is practically having a heart attack because she walked in
on Doris and Ari’s make out session (geez, from her face, you would think she
saw a dead body). Her freak out has brought everyone to the scene. The manager
kicks Ari out as he clumsily tries to cover Doris, saying she told him someone
was in there, but he didn’t listen. Maleny, having a much more silent heart
attack, leans on a table for support and Doris looks like a kid about to get a
spanking.
Honoria figures that Fermin
turned the cops on to Julian to save his own skin in the Rodolfo situation. He
shoots back that she created his vice and now he can’t shake it (Note:
So he blames her for his alcoholism…?). She says if her son goes to
jail because of him, she’ll stop having any consideration for him. He claims the
kids who killed Rodolfo threatened to kill Julian too, if he or Hon open their
mouths.
The boutique manager
apologizes for The Incident (i.e. Mal and Ari). Mal demands that she fire
Doris. Alma tells her that’s a little much and Úrsula backs Alma up. As the mom
types leave, the manager tells Mal that she herself recommended Doris for the
job. Well, Maleny is sorry she did and, despite what Alma said, demands that
Doris be fired. She’ll tell Alma about it later. Úrsula swoops back in to get
Mal, furious that Mal asked the manager to fire someone in front of Alma and
Susy, acting like she owns the place. Mal tries to leave, saying she has to
meet up with a friend. Úrsula nicks that idea in the bud and practically drags
Mal out.
Leo talks to Julian and recommends
him working with his brother’s financial lawyer friend. Honoria’s rushes in,
worried about Julian. She hugs him close and tells her she loves him before
leaving again. Leo and Julian praise their loving, supportive moms. Leo asks if
Julian likes MD.
Doris apologizes to her
manager, but still gets fired.
MD brings Isela and Julian up
to speed on the situation with the dress. Isela thinks the tailor shop
management set the whole thing up to trap MD with actual proof that she stole
from them. Julian points out that they can fire everyone involved without the
company taking a hit.
Meanwhile, two of the
seamstresses have gone to beg Gerry for more cloth for the dress to help MD
out. They’ll work overtime all year to pay for it, whatever it takes. Gerry’s sorry
he ever stood up for MD in the first place. And there is no more fabric; he
bought it all from a French supplier himself to make sure Ivana was the only
one who had it on her dress.
Susana tells Ivana about the
shopping scandal. She warns Ivana that the family has no money, that’s why
Daniel is marrying her.
Julian calls the nightclub
guy and takes the job. He needs the money right away.
Susana tells Ivana that the
Santibañez called her a remora(=suckerfish (like a leech); obstacle, hnderance)
and will kick her out once Ivana and Daniel marry. Ivana thinks Susy’s
overreacting to Mal’s bad behavior and using it as an excuse to break up her
and Dan. She tells Susana that she doesn’t need to worry; if she leaves the
house, it won’t be because of the Santibañez, but her own actions. She leaves
and Susy thoughtbubbles that Ivana’s a stupid girl who will pay for this.
Julian gives a protesting MD
the money he got from the nightclub guy. She eventually accepts and hugs him.
Max, coming to ask her questions, sees the hug and decides to leave. Josefa
follows him. She introduces herself and shares the newest accusations against
MD and implies that she uses men to get her out of jams. Max politely cuts her
spew short and leaves.
Úrsula comes home ranting to
Maleny about the boutique debacle. She fills Dan in on the fact that Mal tried
to have an employee fired and bought half the darn store, which makes them look
like their abusing Ivana’s kindness in providing dresses for the gala by Mal
buying dresses for the whole flippin’ year! Dan asks for money to get his car
out of the shop while disturbingly kissing Mal repeatedly on the shoulder and
neck. (That incest bell is ringing again…) Úrsula tells him
to take it up with Durango. She chews Mal out a little bit more until Mal
shoves her drink at her mom, announces she knows what she’s doing and she’s
going to over to Max’s. She screeches for Isidro as she leaves. Úrsula takes a
drink of the drink Maleny’s left, clearly wondering how she ended up with these
horrible children.
Clara shares her visit with
Esperanza and MD. She reports that Leo’s house is HUGE and his mom is
supernice. She also shares his situation with his dad. Esperanza worries that
his dad won’t like him dating a girl of humble means, but Clara says his mom’s
so great that she doesn’t think it’ll be a problem. Esperanza says Daniel also
mentioned marriage. MD looks uncomfortable.
Ari meets with Maleny. He
tries to spin a story about looking for her at the shop, but when he got
caught, he kissed Maleny to throw off suspicion. Maleny doesn’t buy it. She
kicks him out of her car and says they’re through!
Doris is leaving a message
for Ari as she leaves his place. A group of guys start following her. She beats
them back with her purse but they keep coming. She sees Orlando and practically
jumps on him with “mi amor!”s so that the guys think he’s her bf.
Clara and Esperanza encourage
MD to make up with Dan. Espie
tells them Dan’s paying for a mass for Rodolfo. She thinks he’s doing it
because he didn’t have the chance to meet him and this is his way of making up
for that.
Ari has apparently come to
pick Doris up. She blows him kisses from the car as he tells Orlando he knows
her because she’s the sister of a friend and he helped her get a job. Orlando
asks why Ari denied knowing her before. Ari says it’s because she’s fat and
Orlando, semi-disgusted, semi-“whatever”, tells him to take her home because
she’s still pretty shaken up. In the car, Doris asks if he was telling Orlando
she’s one of his girlfriends. He doesn’t respond and drives off.
Max fills Maleny in on where
he was – trying to talk to MD because the case still isn’t closed. Maleny
exudes some jealous vibes and Max tells her he couldn’t talk to MD b/c she was
with her boyfriend.
Maleny fills Gerry in on the
shopping debacle. They agree that Maleny and Daniel are lazy good-for-nothings
when it comes to work. Gerry suggests that she check out their finances if she
wants to be sure of why Dan is pursuing her.
Maleny brings a still-sleeping
Max breakfast in bed. “Imagine waking up like this everyday,” she teases. He
sleepily asks if she’s proposing. “Yes,” she whispers, going in for a kiss.
Susana has invited Úrsula
over for breakfast. Úrsula asks why and Susy says she just wants Úrsula to see
how The Rémora lives.
Jacinto and his lawyers meet
with Max and Ivana’s lawyers. Jacinto says he’ll leave if MD and Isela also get
fired.
Úrsula looks ready to pass
out now that she knows Susana really did overhear them talking about her and
Ivana yesterday. Susana sits her down to talk, leech to leech. She knows that
Daniel’s only pursuing Ivana for her money, but she wants Ivana to be happy,
even if that means she married good-for-nothing Daniel. She won’t reveal the
Santibañez for the users they really are if they agree not to mess up her comfy
situation either. If not, she’ll ruin them in society circles by sharing their
true financial situation.
MD’s seamstress friends
managed to get a very similar fabric from somewhere. They haven’t paid for it
yet, but- No matter! MD has the money to pay for it. An overjoyed MD hugs them
all and thanks them profusely for all of their help.
Josefa tells Esperanza and
Honoria that Julian’s messing with a bad crowd in order to give MD and
Esperanza financial help. Both women leave her outside, but worry that she’s
telling the truth.
Hon asks Julian about what
Josefa said. He admits he gave MD the money, but it’s from an accounting client.
Honoria worries about how he got all of this money; she doesn’t want him to end
up in jail! Josefa smirks with satisfaction outside the window alongside a
dismayed Esperanza.
Max talks with Gerry about
the new accusation against MD for stealing the dress. Gerry admits MD’s work
friends came to him about it, but this is the first time they’ve had this kind
of problem with MD.
Úrsula fills Mal, Dan and
Durango in about Susana figuring them out. She tells them they have to be very
careful. She orders Durango to make sure no one finds out about their finances,
she orders Maleny to keep going to the club (to keep up appearances), and she
will take Dan to get the best engagement ring Mexican society has ever seen.
Julian is working out the
rent with the shop lady, but Esperanza tells him not to worry. She doesn’t want
Honoria to be worrying about him. Now that she’s a single mom, she understands
those worries much more.
Max, Ivana, Gerry and the
company lawyer meet to discuss the case. They don’t want a scandal, especially
this close to the premier of the new line. Max will work on strengthening the
sexual assault case; now that Jacinto’s gone, the ladies shouldn’t be too
scared to testify against him. The company lawyer suggests they just give him
what he wants: MD and Isela have to be fired and a contract written up that
specifies that the company can’t rehire them as seamstresses ever again. Ivana
agrees.
Susana plays back a recording
on her phone. She’s taped her meeting with Úrsula!
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