Caray, Caray!

Hey folks, last night we had an episode where things were going pretty well for Lichita. I tend to see happy scenes like these so early in a novela as a form of loading a gun... The happier she is now, the bigger the boom from the tragedy cannon.

Anyway, the episode opens on Luciana grilling Roberto about the kid in the photo (actually his son). He claims it's his nephew and marvels at his own stupidity ("how could I have brought this photo to the office!??") for almost getting caught.

Nacho continues to display his ineptitude. He's happy to have his janitorial job back and he hums and dances with his mop. He places a wet-floor warning sign (remembering out loud that it's an important rule to put the sign up so no one slips and gets injured) and promptly slips on the floor and loses his eyesight (again). The retina re-detached.

Fortunately for Nacho, the doc patches it up relatively easily. Elsa, his wife, worries about how they'll pay for it, but no worries: Lichita put it on her credit card! And they manage to get Magos to cover Elsa's shift of pushing the food cart through the office so Elsa can stay with Nacho.

Mateo's would-be adoptive parents meet with a lawyer. They don't have much legal grounds to take Mateo, because his dad (Beto) is still around and has legal rights. Anyway, I question the wisdom of trying to adopt a kid who knows his dad and actively doesn't want to be adopted.

Beatriz' maid shows her an unfamiliar pair earrings that she found in her husband's bag. She confronts Augusto (whose earrings are these?) as he tries to work on a hilariously serious self-portrait of himself in a business suit with a briefcase. He tries to sidetrack her with a romantic advance, but she won't quite fall for it. "Don't lie to me, it's a sin!"

/>Luciana reads the accusations of ineptitude and nepotism levelled at her in the "Mujer de Hoy" magazine article. She's pissed. "We're gonna shut up this idiot journalist!"

Dafne finds her mom crying in Alex's room. She's actually kinda sweet and they're nice to each other for maybe the first time. She heard the fight and tries to comfort Beatriz with a hug.

Augusto comes to Sandra (side girl #1?) and asks if the earring is hers. She's pissed and says it isn't. August: "fortunately my wife is very understanding with me." Uhh, no she's not and you're a jerk. He's got too many girlfriends, and he doesn't even recognize whose earrings they are.


Beto and Lichita are alone in the building, filming an ad preview for the mattress company. He wants her to be his model again, and he poses her in a bed: "you're happily dreaming in the clouds! Stop looking so sad!" She likes him and all but she wants to know what'll happen with them. Where do they stand in the relationship? Is this love or just desire? Roberto answers these questions with another evasion (look into my eyes, what do you see?), but it's good enough for Lichita and they wind up making out again....

All of this is taking place on-camera in front of a green-screen set up to project the mattress into puffy clouds at sunset. Romantic music, etc. Basically, this is as close as they're gonna come to showing sex in a novela. Yup, they did it. Afterwards, she's happy and she says there aren't words for how it felt. He employs a bizarre phrase that I hope someone can explain: "well if you were a 'melón de pasión', I could give you at least a hundred." Huh?

He walks her home, and they kiss and are cute at her door. When Lichita hears Elsa coming, she swiftly thrusts him away and pretends nothing was going on between them (giving him a taste of his own medicine?).

Dafne overhears Augusto's plan to throw a party for Luciana and angrily confronts him! They threaten each other and growl back and forth through his office (she's clearly his daughter!). What's he holding and waving at her? a letter opener? When she spits out that she wishes he'd died in his "accident" on "vacation," he gets a flashback to his time out in the Mexican countryside (his supposed trip to New York, for which he cancelled plans with both his wife and mistress)... He and his henchman are in some sort of a gun battle, presumably where he got shot.

Alex (Dafne's brother) still isn't writing her back. We're clearly building up to an exciting reveal.

Gumaro congratulates/joshes Beto about his passionate time with Lichita, and Beto confirms that he has fallen in love with her.  "cuchi cuchi, chaca chaca!" Meanwhile, in a corresponding scene, Elsa finds out from Lichita just how head-over-heels she is, and they girl out together!

Dafne overhears (I like her a lot, but she does have a habit of eavesdropping)  Luci talking to Xuxette about the Lichita-humiliating scheme and the planned party. Dafne knows that Luci made off the count's gem. Beatriz walks in on the argument and Luci plays hilariously "innocent:" "I was just minding my own business polishing my saints, about to start my morning prayers." Beatriz gets mad, threatens to send her daughter to a convent in America and actually slaps her!!!

Venus puts some pressure on Roberto. She wants him to fess up. She knows he's telling a huge load of lies and says he needs to shape up if he wants his kid back.

Luci blames Lichita for the bad way she came out in the magazine article that portrayed her as an incompetent who only got her position b/c of nepotism. After Luci leaves, Lichita reads the article and its good words about her and flips out!

Beto and Lichi wink at each other over the business table. But he says in front of everyone he has nothing special going on in his love life. Awww, Lichita really got her hopes up! She's tired of waiting for the right time for him to acknowledge their relationship publicly. Later, outside, they have a funny moment when she's puckering up for a kiss and he's looking around to make sure no one can see.

Augusto has some sort of plot involving getting Luci's signature for leverage over her or something. He menacingly says to his henchman "be careful what you sign... a simple signature can implicate you in the most grave of things..."

Finally we see Dafne, completely despairing, climbing up to jump off a bridge (her mom said she was gonna send her to a convent that very day!)... Lichita sees, and that's our cliffhanger!

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