Caray, Caray!

El lives in some kind of fantasy world and she's horribly offended that Gael would ask such a question about his sainted parents, who she loved dearly and misses.  His mom was awesome and his dad would never have been a "cornudo" (cuckold; dude who was cheated on)  Sure, Os Sr. was a horrible ass who treated his wife badly, BUT THEY LOVED EACH OTHER!

Gi finds the picture of her new jail and is…impressed.  Except that it makes her relationship with Gael more difficult.  Even when Fi points out that she can invite Gael over Gi is not convinced and would rather find out what happened at the dress fitting.  "But I thought if he saw you in your dress…."  Oops!  Backpedal, backpedal, backpedal.  Fi says Pedro's a rock and won't be moved by anyone.  Gi's grateful for everything he has done for them, though, and so Fi agrees she shouldn't be so hard on him.



Benigno has decided to abandon his life as a captain of industry and grifter and take up a new career in fashion design.  Aitana's dress just won't do.  It's too conventional.  He picks up the scissors, to Aitana's horror, and says THIS will be the excuse for El to fire Fiorella, so quitcherbitchin!  Ai-ai-ai-ai whines that she'll never find another dress in time!  And Mom's dress is uuuuugly!  But she knows what side her hair is moussed on, so she just watches, as Benigno destroys the hard work of people who actually know the meaning of the word.

At the Rancho, Fi and Gi are about to have a little "thank you" meeting with Pedro, but Joaquina announces the arrival of Fi's dress, putting a massive damper on the mood.

Sergio drinks and talks to some friend he has in Rome.  They're going to investigate for him.  Uh, it was a chick.  Julieta overhears and she is NOT happy.

Gi sincerely thanks Pedro and Fi grudgingly thanks him and asks if Gi can stay at the Rancho while she's out of the house.  Pedro thinks that's a good idea.  She tells him she'd like to keep working with El after, and Gi says they won't be living there.  Simona comes to fetch Fi for Eloisa while Gi stays behind to "talk" to Pedro…oh, what is she plotting now?

Eloisa is still in tears, looking at old pictures, and pulls herself together before letting Fi in.  Wedding talk…whatever.  El's ok with Fi working there after, but they need to "clarify" a bunch of things.

Gael goes running.  Roxi gets ready to go snogging.

Luca is back with Vitto's prescriptions, cranky, and crankily leaves because Vitto says he can't handle too much noise.  Vitto's in a bad mood himself, and not just with Luca.  He's equally rude to Diana.  To be fair, she's just there to bug him about who's in charge when he leaves and boy did I not need to hear Vitto insisting he's going to "enjoy" his honeymoon (oh, please, TN gods, NO!).  Well, Vitto's planning to leave Domingo in charge.  That's going to put a kink in her embezzling scheme, or at least that's how I'm interpreting her insistence on "helping."  Then she throws out an offer to be his bachelor party and I'm grateful for the end of the scene.

El and Fi.  You can work here if there are no adulterous scandals or even the hint thereof.  Something about the family being the center of attention because of business that makes me snort, because I don't think they're quite as important as El would like to think.  As for the thing with Benigno's phone…Fi obviously needs to work on her Spanish.  But if she insists her Spanish is good, then she has no excuse for not following El's "don't be upsetting the sanctity of my grandson's marriage" instructions.  So…which is it, El?  You think her Spanish needs work or you don't?  Whatever.  El is fixin' to sauna, and then Fi will arrange her hair again, because that's what personal assistants do everywhere that is not the real world.

Fed meets with a shady guy in a stairwell to buy some drops of death from him.  Now, let's be clear on these very precise instructions for the mystery drops…a "high" dose will kill quickly and be untraceable.  If Fed wants a slower death, then she needs to use a "few" drops every day, which will kill more slowly and be even MORE untraceable.  Fed buys two of the unlabeled brown glass dropper bottles from the shady guy.  Oh yeah, I'm feeling like this is a solid plan.

Domingo lets slip that Luca was upset after Vitto talked to his doctor.  Vitto's stupid, so he insists Luca wasn't there…but then he freaks out because his potential sexi times with Fi might be at risk.  *barf*

Aitana has Fidel carry her wedding dress in, 'cause ladeez don't carry boxes.  She insists he leave it in the living room.  And then when Fi shows up, she asks Fi to carry the box up to Pedro's room.

Pedro and Gianna have been talking all day.  Or for five minutes.  Who knows.  He's asking about her health, but she has bigger fish to fry.  Like Fi being on the verge of becoming the bride of Dracula.  So she makes her last-ditch attempt to manage her sister's life, being the one in possession of all the brain cells in the sisterhood today.  She says Luca's just an nutter trying to bust up the wedding, but there's nothing going on between Fi and Luca.

Dante puts some of the "good" drops in a glass of water for Eloisa and then stupidly leaves Fed alone in the room with the glass and her drops of EEEEEEEBIL!  She puts in ONE drop and crows that El will die slowly.  Seriously?  At that rate, she may have just run the clock in reverse!

Gianna arranges a meeting between Pedro and Fi in the girls' bedroom and then goes out into the hallway to pray to San Biagio.  Luca arrives.  Because there's even less security in this place than in a Televisa hospital.  Gi won't let him pass. He does the thing where he spends more time talking about the Very Important Thing he has to say instead of saying the thing.

Fi likewise wastes time talking about how Gianna's a "berrinchuda" (woman who has many berrinches = tantrums) and how they're both getting married.  And Pedro wastes time apologizing for completely misunderstanding everything and not being enough of an adult to just sit down and talk instead of jumping to conclusions.  I tune them out, as I will continue to do until I hear the words "Las Vegas" and "now" because until then, it's all just words.  We're not even "fighting" for anything this time.  Now it's "I'll never forget" and not even a snog, just a hug.

Gael's run is interrupted by a temper tantrum and then a collapse.  Rox and Beni come riding along.  She's going to turn him into a "jinete" (jockey, rider, male or female) and informs him that she's not a "jineta" she's an "amazona"(horsewoman) and has been riding since before the age of 6.  FINALLY, Rox notices Gael, face-down in the dirt, and the two of them start freaking out and trying to rouse him.

El enjoyed her sauna.  She's now relaxed.  Nothing can bother her.  I'm bothered that she's applying some kind of skin treatment OVER her makeup.  I'm not an expert, but I'm thinking that's counterproductive.  Fed's there, trying to ingratiate herself.  Dante puts MORE drops in her water glass as El brags that these drops are the bomb, yo!  But they taste like crap.  Aitana comes running in with her shredded dress and Fed gloats.

Gi has gotten Luca into the employees' kitchen and convinced him that Pedro and Fi's luuuuuurve is real.  Luca is still stalling too much on telling the truth so he doesn't tell Gi before he's interrupted by Joaquina, announcing Vitto's arrival.  He begs them NOT to let Vitto in before he talks to Fi!  No problem, I hear he can't cross the threshold if he's not invited.

Fed is cracking jokes about how maybe Aitana tried to alter the dress herself.  Or maybe this is pre-wedding panic.  Aitana begs for help finding out what happened.  Even El is baffled by that.  Aitana insists the dress was fine in the car, then Fidel brought it in, then Fi carried it up to Pedro's room.  Fed's bored…"Can I have a little piece, as a memento?"

Gael is back in his room and Benito is scolding him while Rox is insisting that it ain't easy being an Angeles.  Gael doesn't deny that he was using again, because he's worried he's not Os Sr.'s son.  Oh, honey, that's actually good news.  Just saying.

Pedro and Fi are still all talk and no ac-- never mind, they're finally getting their snog on.  Well, in between declaring their undying love.  Luca gets an eyeful and seemingly can't bear to break up the pretty scene.

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