Caray, Caray!

~~Recapped by JDesdeNYC~~
Scenes combined so as to not annoy the recapper and reader

To Tell the Truth

Susana tells an incredulous Gerry that Daniel has threatened to throw her out of Ivana’s house after he and Ivana marry. Susana says she has to play both sides; while she will continue to pretend to support the Dan-Ivana marriage to Dan’s face, she thinks it makes no sense for Ivana to marry that worm and find out later he fooled her. Gerry still plays the “they should marry for the sake of the baby” card and Ivana shows up. Susana leaves and Gerry finally breaks it to Ivana that Maria Dolores wasn’t some “fling” (aventura) for Daniel.  Gerry saw MD come to the hospital, where Ivana was interned during her miscarriage scare, in her wedding gown looking for Daniel. Cara de impactada de Ivana.

Josefa still is angry and hateful towards Isela asking why she confirmed Honoria’s suspicion that she is messing around with Claudio.  Josefa plans to get rid of Orlando once and for all so Isela can focus on the “Get Claudio” mission.

The Lying Santibanez Come to Blows

Alma reminds Claudio of his responsibility to the Santibanez family, as a close friend of the dead Daddy Santibanez, so he can take care of the Maleny/Dan abuse situation privately. Speaking of the devil Dan and Maleny argue about Max insisting on reporting Dan to the police.  Maleny says of course she won’t report him but Dan insists Ari clarify and retract to Max that Dan physically abuses his sister.  Maleny says Ari can’t do that and neither will Max believe her if she says the accusation is false.  Mal says MD is going to run into Max’s arms as MD will not return to Dan after all the lies he has told.  Dan says he’ll get MD back by telling her Mal was the one who got the fake judge for the civil wedding ceremony.  An outraged Mal grabs Dan’s face and tells him no way she’ll allow Dan to lie on her like that.  She will tell MD the whole truth because if Max leaves her, Dan won’t get to be with Maria Dolores. The siblings push and shove with Dan eventually actually abusing Maleny.  The avenging Max sees the abuse firsthand and Dan only stops after Max sucker punches him. Max insists that Mal reports Dan to the police.


Love Hurts, It Scars

Julian takes MD, Leo/Clara and himself on a boat ride for a day of fun.  MD, of course, isn’t enjoying seeing all the in-love couples kissing as her fake marriage and relationship falls apart.  Julian tries to cheer her up, promising she will have the family she so desires one day.  He tells MD to imagine she’s in Venice as he takes the helm of the boat and rows it.  This only serves to aggravate his legs as we’re shown later that he has to go to the doctor.  The doctor tells Julian he has to be more careful about his condition if he doesn’t want to end up in a wheelchair or bedridden.  He has to take his prescriptions and take physical therapy.

Claudio Takes Charge

Max takes Mal to Claudio’s and they discuss the Dan assault on Mal.  Mal insists she can’t denounce her brother. Max insists she should because Dan is dangerous but Claudio says if Mal doesn’t want to report her brother to the cops, he won’t force her.  Max is horrified and privately he and Dad discuss why Claudio thinks they shouldn’t send Dan to jail.  Claudio thinks they have to respect Mal’s feelings and not report Dan while Max insists Dan be reported to the authorities because he’s going to marry and have a child with Ivana and he can abuse them as well.  Claudio says he’s going to give Dan a good talking-to because he can’t be allowed to abuse Mal.  Max says if Mal won’t report Dan, he’ll support MD if she does.

Leo Tells Max to Go For MD

Mal will stay at the Bustamantes since that’s the safest place for her away from Daniel, so say Alma and Max.  Leo shows up at home and tells Max he better go for the gold that is MD before it’s too late.  Max says he’s in a relationship (compromiso) with Mal and MD with Dan.  Leo says he doesn’t love Maleny and he should be with the one who he loves.  Leo says he’s proudly playing Cupid.  Max agrees to finally tell MD how he feels and will support MD in this difficult time.  Maleny overhears all of this and looks worried.

Max Goes for Gold and Dan Strikes Out

Max goes to MD’s and as they are talking, Dan shows up looks pretty GQ to woo MD and fails miserably.  He notes that Max wants to send him to jail to leave the way clear to date MD.  MD interrupts Dan and tells Dan for once to take responsibility for his actions.  He lied to her, but she’s not stupid anymore so if he doesn’t get away from her, she’ll personally report him to the police for the fake marriage.  Dan leaves and Max hugs MD.  Dan tries to return to MD, but seeing the Max-MD hug, seems to realize it’s over between he and Maria Dolores.

In her home, Max tells MD what a scumbag Dan is.  He even tells her that Dan told him that he can have fun with MD now that he’s had her.  MD cries but thanks Max for telling her the truth.  She views this entire situation as a test (prueba) that will help not be so stupid and silly (tonta) in love.  She let herself get carried away with her love for Dan but now her love has turned to hate.  Max tells her not to hate, but to grow from the experience; besides Dan was the stupid one because he didn’t appreciate MD.  Max goes in for the kill as he gets down on both knees in front a seated MD and confesses that if he had been Daniel, if MD loved him as much as she loved Daniel, he’d be the happiest man alive and they would be married.


Jenny Hearts Julian

After returning from their boat ride, and obviously fatigued Julian goes home and sees Fermin with AA girl Jenny.  They’re going to their AA meeting and Julian insists on going along with them after he rests his leg.  Jenny gives MD the stinkeye after MD thanks Julian for helping her forget her sorrows and kisses him on the check.  At her AA meeting, Jenny confesses her sordid past.  She had sex with men in exchange for money to buy alcohol and alcohol.  She also confesses she’s in love with the son of an alcoholic (Julian) and this is dangerous as she doesn’t want to be in a codependent relationship with a man.  Fermin looks on horrified as he wonders how AA girl knows he’s Julian’s dad.

Maleny and Claudio Have Deep Secrets

Claudio, on his haunches in front of Maleny, is given sincere and tearful thanks by Maleny, for not forcing her to report Dan. “Thanks, again,” she says with relief.  She flashes back to her childhood where Claudio covered up a murder for her.  Claudio takes a gun from a tearful little girl Maleny, who asks if she will be punished.  Claudio says no.  Guys, this is deeper than the Pacific.

Maleny and Ari engage in some intrigue where she tells Ari he has to retract his confession against Dan and get rid of Leo who’s to blame for all these problems.  He’s walking around like Cupid trying to get MD and Max together and if Leo succeeds, Ari won’t have a luxury apartment.

Ivana and Maria Dolores Face Off

Ivana goes over to MD’s and they talk.  Ivana tries to throw rich-girl shade and says she understands why MD sought out a rich-man like Dan because, of course, she’d want to get out of the barrio living in a home like this. Maria Dolores tells Ivana her home might seem awful to her, but she wouldn’t exchange her life and childhood in her home for all the money in the world, so the snob de Ivana can leave if she wants to, but if she’s going to be in her home she might as well hear the truth.  She never knew Dan was rich until a few days back; he always told her he was a driver for a rich lady. “Oh, please,” says the incredulous Ivana, everyone knows who Dan is.  “But I didn’t,” says MD.  If you don’t believe me, she says, ask his mother and his sister, we were in a months-long relationship.

Ivana says she had ended her relationship with Dan when Max told her Dan was with MD.  She only agreed to return to him when he visited her in the hospital asking for her forgiveness and swearing his relationship with MD was only a fling, and a bet (apuesto) between he and Max on who could sleep with MD first.  MD clarifies that Dan won the bet—wait what, there was no bet between Dan and Max; why is she mudding Max’s name?—because he got her to sleep with him because of the false wedding.  He even promised to marry her in the church afterwards but he didn’t show up on their wedding day.

Ivana tries to one-up MD by saying she doesn’t know that Daniel because the Daniel she knows rejoiced when she slapped MD over her stolen dress and called MD a thief (ratera); he proposed marriage to her and made love to her all night passionately and she carries the fruit of their love. “I have all of this.  You don’t.” MD one ups Ivana by handing her the engagement ring Dan gave her.  “It belonged to his grandmother, it costs less than yours,” MD admits, “but his grandmother told him to give to the woman he loves.”  “Now it’s yours,” MD says. Ivana is impactada. She’s also still angry about the lost dress as she tells MD she won’t get away with making her look ridiculous again.  She will marry Dan—yes, way to stick it to MD. Not!—and she hopes MD keeps her promise to not get involved with Dan. As Ivana angrily walks out, she seems overcome with sickness again, and MD offers to help her, but Ivana refuses. “Don’t you dare touch me,” she snarls as she walks out dressed in white.

Claudio Gives Dan a Good Talking-To
Dan gets a mini-intervention from Claudio.  He has to go to therapy or he will report him to the police.  Maleny will stay with the Bustamantes until she decides she’s ready to leave.  Dan submits to Claudio’s conditions.


MD Remains Compassionate, Ivana Realizes the Truth

MD discusses the woman-to-woman chat she had with Ivana with her mom and says she feels sorry for Ivana who is still blindly in-love with Dan as she was.  She’s even more sorry for hurting Ivana because she’s pregnant and telling Ivana the truth of Dan’s betrayal made Ivana sick.  Esperanza says it was good for Ivana to learn the truth, painful though it may be.  Esperanza wisely says, “Don’t you wish someone would have told you the truth to you’re your eyes, too?”  Besides, Ivana was the one who came to MD and that shows that she’s starting to doubt Dan.  Ivana shows she’s quicker on the uptake than MD was when she confesses to Gerry upon returning to the VD offices that on the same day Dan proposed to her and took her virginity, he also brought MD to meet his mother.  “Don’t you realize,” she says to Dan, “He loves her.  I’m just his meal ticket”(cheque al portador).

Leo’s Loose Lips Sink His Ship

Leo is posted up under a car repairing it, when someone knocks the wood blocks holding up the car, doing serious damage to our blond truth-teller.

THE END

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