Caray, Caray!

Crazy Marta, in her campaign to steal Mateo from his father, discovered Roberto beat up a guy in jail, just when he was going to be released early for good behavior, and so he had to serve his full sentence. He won't tell his lawyer what happened, it would implicate third parties.

Gumaro, who literally ran into Luciana outside the restaurant where Roberto is meeting with his lawyer, flirts hard with her, partially to save Roberto's ass and partially because he is very attracted to her. She calls him an indio sin gracia (play on her usual idiosincracia) and complains about the hairy guys and human contamination in Nacolandia.

Marlene Garbo wants to be Cleopatra in her own ads, with a few hundred extras, and pyramids. Or, instead, she'll be a Roman emperess and kill Christians in a coliseum. Alicia and Elias point out that these ideas, while undoubtedly magnificent, would be expensive and would not sell her products. Here's what they think:


Elias and Marlene continue their flirtation and are soul-gazing with joined hands when Sandra comes in.

Later Elias tells Sandra: Marlene doesn't like any of our ideas, we are are "un cero a la izquierda," that is, zero, "as our marriage was" - but when Sandra evinces jealousy he lights up and says, maybe our marriage was better than I thought - maybe 0.5 from the left on the meter.

Magos' revolting pole dance wriggling in front of the Guero continues though he says, "I don't want any more coffee! And I love my fiancee and we're getting married soon!" By accident Magos, Guero, and the door collide and he has to go to the hospital with a broken nose. Magos follows and offers him coffee there, too. Just when she tells him Ximena is his daughter, his fiancee shows up (of course), hears all, and leaves in tears.

The Guero finally tells Magos that the night she woke up next to him, naked as Eve, they hadn't had sex. "You were drunk and sad because Chanclas was cheating on you. I was a gentleman, I didn't take advantage of you." She is astounded, has the grace to be embarrassed, and goes to his girlfriend's house to confess her idiot behavior and declare: Guero is completely innocent. He shows up, proposes to Vanessa, they embrace, and Magos has finally done something right.

Augusto asks Roberto to keep Luciana away from the house so the engagement dinner with Alex and Alicia can be peaceful. At a restaurant, Luciana tells Roberto Alicia will soon be fired, confesses her escapade escaping the Duke but keeping his ring, and that she's under a warrant for arrest back home in Argentina. She wants some confessions from him too but he resists. She pries: is Mateo really just your nephew?

At the mansion, during the glacial family dinner, Augusto and Beatriz laud appearances and united families. "It's one thing on the outside and another on the inside," Alex says. "If so, it's for a good cause," purrs Bea. "Lies are a sin," reminds Dafne, who goes off to have a cozy chat with Alicia about how hard school is and how she'll never have friends. Alicia tells her to be strong "and you always have me."


Magos asks Ximena if she's pining for a dad, Ximena says no, I have grandpa.

Alicia tells Magos: "You're about to lose your job even though Fatima is a cream puff." Fatima has even seen Mag's contraband dumped in a sink! "Oh, but you'll save me, being as you are the fiancee of the owner's son," Magos announces complacently. "Not if you're an irresponsible jerk," Alicia says.

Brisa and Braulio are having dinner (plain unadorned spaghetti) in his pad. He says if he gets a raise he'll move to a bigger apartment and Brisa can stay in this one.

At the orphanage, Mateo wants his dad to tell him about his mom. Beto puts it off till later. Venus shows up, takes Beto off and tells him: with the revelation about his violence in prison Marta has a better chance of getting custody. Venus nods almost imperceptibly when he says, "but you know I would never hurt a child." She's warning him that the dark is rising.

Finally, in Augusto's office Sandra yells her head off about the changes he wants. He kisses her and they go to the meeting where there will be a full rearrangement of job titles. Alicia is named chief creative director.

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