Caray, Caray!

One of the great things about this show is that no matter what happens to Lichita, she is not destroyed. She tolerates Sandra yelling at her and Augusto YELLING at her. She tries standing up for herself but she's outweighed, especially when he reveals that he's known along it was she kissing Beto in Luciana's cellphone video.

Roberto is very ill in the honeymoon suite. Luciana urges him to tell his secrets but as he tries he gets sicker and hoarser and can't really get anything out. Even though he told her Mateo was his son, and that he himself was an orphan, she thinks he's hallucinating and discounts it all.

Chuchette calls and says: "Come quickly and watch the devastating downfall of the detested Lichita" so Luci leaves her sick husband to go gloat over Lichita with the rest of the bullies. Lichita listens patiently to all their taunts (including Luciana offering her the job of bringing coffee and making photocopies) and leaves.

Beatrice wails about sodomy to Valeria who is the voice of reason and says, forgive him.

There was a security guard who got fired when the cart no longer is allowed at Ikonika - he and Alicia commiserate briefly and she says she'll help him when she can.

Sandra, glad Alicia's out, nevertheless has to tell Augusto there are a number of clients who have asked that Alicia herself personally carry out their campaigns. Augusto calls a meeting and says everybody has to keep it quiet that Alicia's fired, at least until her clients' jobs are finished. He tries to name Elias as Alicia's replacement, but he demurs (not wanting to go back to the loony bin) so Augusto appoints Luciana!

Alicia goes to the cafe to help out. She knows her mom wants to expand into the adjacent building and suggests the security guard could be hired. As usual, Nacho poopoos it all. Magos and Ximena walk up - the therapy is going well but Magos complains to her mom: "Ximena will barely talk to me."

Beto somehow gets himself back to his old pad. Gumaro says "a sore throat is psychological - when you can't say something it all closes up - and you spent a night in jail where they didn't even give you a taco, then tore over to the church, I mean to the slaughter house..." he speculates idly about the exhausting honeymoon duties but Beto just says "come with me to see Mateo." "You can't go are you crazy? You could get him sick." So Robert records a video for Mateo ("Remember our fun adventure with the police? I love you.") and sends it with Gumaro - but no matter how much he flirts with the prison guard, uh, orphanage attendant, turns out nobody is allowed to see Mateo until it's settled in court.

Rafael has taken such a shine to Dafne! He comes in to talk to her about bullying and reveals that when he was young he tortured baby Don Augusto so he knows about bullying. He assumes it's been Dafne being bullied but she reveals it's the other way around - she's aggressive to head off anybody making fun of her.

The one journalist who's been especially interested in Alicia shows up at the cafe and makes this proposal: Dish on Augusto and all the dirt of Ikonika, we'll put it on national TV, you can tell your side. I thought Alicia should say yes but she, not wanting to hurt Dafne or Alex, says "I'm not like that." She has a day or two to think it over.

Brisa and Braulio come to the cafe to show support and they think it's a "triple like" cafe. "Maybe you should be a big restaurant empresario," they suggest.

Bea confesses her sins to the priest, that she is dissolute and loves luxury. He temporizes: "You can hardly tell!"

Luciana wants to have a celebration of her promotion - she has no idea where Roberto is and doesn't care much, he's sick so what good is he to her?

Chuchette tells Augusto the press is insistent on an interview, which he refuses to do, or at least a statement, but the statement he proposes is clearly not one that can be aired in public. She tries to give him a massage but he yells, DON'T TOUCH ME.

Sandra also tries to give him a massage. "What is it with women and massages? DON'T TOUCH ME. What bothers me is those old doofuses at API. We need to blame it all on Alicia." Sandra asks whether he really thinks his daughter Luciana can replace Alicia but he says, deal with it.

Augusto goes to the API guys and tries to blame everything on Alicia but there is pushback. He says he'll propose another candidate.

Everyone is still together at the mansion and Augusto mocks Luciana for how all the press thinks she's pregnant. He mentions his "nephew-grandson" and crosses his eyes at his slip. Soemone else says "he can't wait to be a grandfather" and Valeria collapses in nervous hysterical giggles.

Beto, staggering around in the street, sees one of the supermarket cow ads on a street pole and brings Alicia's number up on his phone. And promptly faints.

The doctor calls Alicia, thinks she's Roberto's wife, says come quick he's very ill. She comes. He has pneumonia and needs to be taken to a specialist at a different hospital. She reluctantly agrees to take care of it.

In his feverish stupor, he flashes back to being taken away by the police from his first wife and baby Mateo. He also flashes to Alicia saying "I do" at the church and murmurs "I love you," and Alicia thinks he means her, but then he flashes to his ex-wife and says "Sheila" -- Alicia stares furiously -- and cut.

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