Caray, Caray!

Well, this one was a lot of fun: doubled up episode with plenty of action but also with twice as many scenes as a "normal" episode. My head felt like a ping pong ball in the first half hour. So, this will be more of a bullet point type presentation.

Important plot points from tonight not necessarily in order:

- Alicia is done talking with Roberto unless it is about work. Roberto is broken up about the whole thing. He is worried that she is changing and forging on ahead with her life without him.

- Alex tells his mom that she should not be so hard on Dafne. She needs their support. He tries but there is not much of a response from her. As she picks up an American football helmet he brought home, she wonders why he would like a savage and brutal sport like that. He answers that his tastes are "varied."

- Fatima tells Sandra that they need one more person to man the reception desk and ends up being responsible for hiring Magos. She is doing this to help out Elsa after hearing about the rental problem Elsa and Nacho are having:
Nacho and Elsa are still unable to find a guarantor for their business venture to open a cafeteria. Elsa does not want Alicia to know they are having problems because that would just put more pressure on her. Elsa is back at Icónika to work the cart. Elsa and Nacho become even more depressed when the place they want to rent is suddenly advertising for a renter. They are sure they have lost their chance.


- Valeriana, Luciana's mother tells her that she agrees with Augusto in wanting her to give up pursuinng Alex and to concentrate on Roberto instead.

- Luciana tells the truth to her mother, Valeriana that Roberto did not want her. At the hotel, he just fell asleep. She decided to get revenge by stripping him so that they would both wake up naked and he would think they had made love.

- Valeriana presents Augusto with the results of the DNA test: Luciana is his daughter. He never expected having to recognize a daughter (so similar to himself) from his relationship with Valeriana so he is asking her . . . We never find out because Beatriz interrupts them. He takes the test results and crumples them up and stuffs them into the desk drawer. Beatriz does not know.


- Augusto has a meeting where he announces Alex's naming to the candidacy for presidency of the Association of Ibero American Publicists. Then there are two other appointments that Alex is allowed to announce: Roberto will be his advisor on his campaign and Alicia (who honestly believes this will be her promotion) will be his assistant. Alicia is upset that Magos has just started work at Icónika and is being hired as a receptionist. Magos tells her it is not her fault if she has not been promoted.

- Alicia and Roberto do the "Mi Can" dog food proposal presentation. The owner wants all info in writing and will have to check with his wife whether or not they will go with it.

- Augusto tells Roberto that he wants him to do whatever he has to to keep Luciana far away from Alex. Alex needs to concentrate on work. Roberto does not look happy and is also worried because Augusto mentioned Gumaro. Augusto interested in his private life could be dangerous.

- Elsa keeps finding more money in her wallet in the morning than she had the night before.

- At a meeting, Alicia corrects Chuchette when she calls her Lichita and tells her her name is Alicia. Roberto smiles until Alex chimes in with: his assistant's name is Alicia.

- Alicia is disappointed that she has just been named someone's assistant again and not to a position of her own. She decides to use any means necessary to get ahead and decides to use Alex. It has to go beyond the friendship he has already shown her even if she has to betray her own heart. She will become a gold digger if necessary. She is already planning to accompany him to a reception. Chuchette gives her some advice on using her sexuality in a double entendre kind of way but considers it all a waste with Alicia. Magos helps her update her look and pulls a "hot" blue dress out of her bag at work for her to wear. Alicia gets all dolled up, is hardly able to walk because of her heels, but meets Alex there. They both end up going back to the office.

- Roberto is doing his best to follow Augusto's orders and takes Luciana out to eat at a restaurant. When Luciana is in the rest room, cleaning off some wine that was spilled on her, Roberto goes into her cell phone and finds her selfies with Augusto in the hospital. He copies them to his phone. The problem is, as he tells Gumaro, that he knows that Luciana did not leave Mexico but supposedly Augusto had his accident in New York. So where was the picture taken? Gumaro says maybe on Nueva York street? Ha ha! Roberto thinks it must have something to do with the change in Augusto's change of attitude towards Luciana which happened right after he came back from his trip.

- Alicia and Alex both end up at the office after leaving the reception. She climbs all over him to seduce him. She kisses him. He is not responding even when her zipper separates in the back of her dress. It turns out he is never going to respond because he is gay. Now the photo of him with the football player that she saw makes sense. He is sorry he did not tell her earlier. Alicia agrees to keep it a secret knowing what problems it would cause him with his family, friends and work.

- Venus does a home visit and is happy with what she sees with the new apartment. Roberto fills her in on how he had to steal to just survive as a child. She reminds him he has to still be honest and come clean at work.

-Leave it to Néstor to do research on Alex on the Internet. From what he has a read/seen, Alex is gay. He is telling this to the receptionists. Alex overhears and confronts him. Néstor says it was just a little gossip that Alicia told Magos who told him and it was about Luciana. Alex tells Luciana who is not surprised at all that Alicia would do something like that: start gossip about her. Alex cannot believe it. Magos tells Alicia the news she has: Alex is "full color gay: like the rainbow flag". Alex overhears and looks disturbed.

- Augusto runs into Alicia (he does not remember her name at all) and thanks her for talking Alex into accepting the API candidacy. He in turn compensated her by making her Alex's assistant (he says so in a very demeaning way). She makes the mistake of saying that is fine eventhough it will not help her out much in her career. He asks what career? In times like these, she should be happy to have a job at all without putting down the one she has. Again he thanks her and skulking Alex asks what they are talking about. Alicia excuses herself and Augusto tells Alex that she did her job in convincing him to accept the candidacy and wasn't shy asking about her compensation either. Alex is left wondering if he knows who the real Alicia is.

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