Caray, Caray!

Alicia's surprise presentation in kimono is a big hit - she then take off the kimono and underneath is a t-shirt and skirt, she says, and THIS is the heart of the Latina. (?) Anyway, Augusto loves the presentation and so does the client, who says: "This is much more original than the first one you showed me, I'm enchanted, it's good that Alicia and not Luciana is now our creative director." She gets applause.

After they leave (the client saying, "you robbed my heart,") Sandra screams at Alicia about pulling this surprise. Beto deflects the rage saying "I knew about it," which is not true, and Augusto points out that it was all a success so stop beefing. Alone, Elias congratulates Alicia: "you are truly a creative director and remember - it's better to surprise than disappoint."

Magos pathetically continues to more-or-less pole dance all around Luis, purported father of Ximena. He pays little attention. Turns out the blond in the photo on his desk is his girlfriend. [How did he get this job with an office so easily??] Mags is undaunted.



Beto tells Alicia not to pull a surprise like this again. She more or less points out that if she'd told him her idea in advance, he'd have stolen it. "But I'm still your boss. Never change a campaign like that. But you, you're changing every day." "Yes, and I have much farther to go."

Luciana locks herself in her room instead of showing up for dinner at the mansion. Augusto is getting beaten by Dafne at pool while he congratulates Alex on the good publicity he's gotten and how great his girlfriend is doing.

Beto and Gumaro figure out how to find out (for Augusto) what happened to Alex. They focus on the taxi. Roberto goes to Nacho, who says "I only let my wife and daughters use THIS taxi service (gives number), it's safe." They find the guy who drove Alex and Alicia, then trace back to the hotel. The manager tells them Alex had been there with a man, and that the man left first with the car, leaving Alex behind without his clothes. They are astounded.

The evil plot to destroy Alicia with the transparent dress failed utterly, all the magazines are full of the beautiful romantic young couple. Luciana and Chuchette snipe at each other, their mutual rage is exacerbated when Alicia storms in with the dvd of the tampered-with-by-the-frenemies Oki Oki campaign that was supposed to destroy her. She gives it to them and points out to Luciana that Chuchette's publicity campaign for her and Alex worked beautifully while the work she did for Luciana failed utterly. ("Divide and conquer," she tells us.)

Chuchette is for some reason getting demoted to a cubicle. She tells Luciana everybody at work hates her and calls her Lucy-fer. "I won't help find dirt on Alicia." "I'll do it myself" sez Luciana...

Don Augusto is leaving on another mysterious trip tomorrow. It appears from a conversation with Drako and some other goon that he's in some kind of Mafia-like connection to grow/launder his money and that he was shot by one of his mob connection's enemies. He is setting Roberto up to take the fall for all his so-far-undisclosed evil doing.

At Los Guttierez, all hope they will soon get out of debt, thanks to the carrito and Alicia's new job and maybe the new cafe, which has its soft opening next day. It's suggested that Magos could contribute at least a few groceries. She says, "Hey, I bought this bottle of milk," and suggests she needs a credit card, showing she has as much understanding of money as I did when I was five and wondered why anybody worked if all you had to do was sign your name on a check and get anything you wanted.

Elsa realizes Alex does not move Alicia's needle.

Beto passes Luciana's office when she has her head down and is sobbing. He reluctantly goes in to comfort her. She complains, nothing's going right. She grabs him and reminds him of their night of passion (which he claims he does not remember). He disengages. He says, why don't you calm down and try to be a good person. "Gray and goody-goody, like her? Never! Antes muerta que Lichita," which I thought was a pretty good gag.

Beto delivers a preliminary report (with no info at all) to Augusto, who cottons to the fact that there is somebody else (Gumaro) investigating too. "Finish up fast because there's a related issue - somebody is blackmailing Alex."

The cafe opens, Roberto swings by to say hi, Alicia unexpectedly arrives with flowers, Elsa tells her finally, in his presence, that it was Roberto who guaranteed the loan. Alicia is furious, Roberto takes her out in an alley, she yells and asks what are his motives, he kisses her, and the kiss is captured on cellphone...

... by Luciana, who's been following Alicia to playgrounds and other innocuous places to get dirt on her, but now has what she needs...

Tomorrow: she shows the video of The Kiss to Augusto.

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