Caray, Caray!

The subtitles were almost useless tonight, so, viewers who understand rapid fire Spanish, please fill in the blanks!

Roberto shows up at Ikonika USA and most of the conversations he has with Alicia, at high volume and a mile a minute, are general insults, he accuses her of hanky panky with the boss, also, she doesn't want to share the luxury hotel suite with him but he insists it's his right as a Toledo y Mondragon family flunky.


Gumaro is spying at the mansion. He is very good at chatting up Valeria and even better at seducing Luciana over her pruning project in the greenhouse - he gets her to sit in his lap and he coos in her ear and since she (pobrecita) has not been "getting any" for quite a while, she is not indifferent to his charms. Also, Dafne loves Gumaro, they joke together.

Dafne skypes with Alex while sitting on her bed with her laptop, covered with a black lace mantilla. Alex says: "You need to help mom."

Bea sobs to Valeria: "I always knew of his adventures, but that it was that social climber Alicia, the one who almost married my son, this is the limit." She asks Valeria for the name of her therapist and goes to him. She kneels on the floor as if he were a priest and talks non stop for an hour about her marital woes. He says "time's up" and she pushes him down again because she is not finished. He complains she never let him say a single word.

Yes, Bea wants a divorce. We are reminded she owns at least half of everything. For this reason Don Augusto (who's back from the U.S.) is loathe to let go of her. He tries seducing her but she refuses him: her only true companion is Jesus. So he goes and puts the moves on Valeria in the hallway. I think maybe they went out to dinner later but not sure.

We enjoy a fiasco of a client meeting with Mr Gomez, who sells chiles (I think). He hates whatever presentation has been slapped together for him by the B team (actually they are more like the D or F team). Luciana rudely cuts Mr Gomez off while he's talking. When he says he'll go to another agency Chuchette hurriedly promises a new proposal. Gomez is astonished that Sandra is not there, nor Alicia, nor Don Augusto. "This is a scandal!"

Luciana bolts from the uncomfortable meeting saying she has more important things to do. Elias is too angry to help out, in fact he acts like a lunatic just to annoy everybody.

Between bouts of yelling at Alicia and making nice with the two employees of Ikonika USA, Roberto knocks on the door of his ex-wife's stepfather (I think) and begs for Sheila's location. The guy says he doesn't know where she is but later calls Sheila and reports: Roberto is looking for her.

My favorite part of this episode is Sandra lying on her couch, her hair a mess, eating ice cream. She goes out to get some booze and is spotted briefly by one of the Ikonika receptionists though she thought she avoided discovery. Sandra gets drunk at home with her ice cream and sings to herself, which she finds terrifyingly pathetic.

Fatima (the only one who knows where she really is) calls: there is a client disaster here. At first Sandra is ready to let the D team lose the client -- then she says: "set up a conference call for 15 minutes from now." She pulls herself together and poses at a desk in front of a Spanish flag and mollifies Mr. Gomez. When he says he wants Alicia Sandra says "she's busy."

Later the whole D team is wondering why Sandra hasn't posted any pictures of herself online (not even a sad selfie) in Spain. Perhaps realizing this is fishy, Sandra starts photoshopping a Spanish vista behind a photo of herself (increasing the size of her pompas [buttocks] while she's at it).

At the café Magos and her worthless buddies are celebrating a victory over the Peoples' café across the street, which seems to be shuttered. Inside it the manager is getting reamed out for his poor numbers. He defends himself: "We have such strong competition." "Peoples' café has no competition." The manager shows the HQ guy the magazine article with Alicia in front of Elsa's cafe and the HQ guy's first thought is: "She's so sexy, our boss will want to know about her."

Elsa says they are not going to be selling booze, it's not her style. "It's too soon to triumph, they'll be back."

Pre-Braulio shows up again. His driver's license falls on the floor and Braulio is astonished to see pre-Braulio looked like a regular guy in the picture. Pre-Braulio says his Braulio-esque makeover was Brisa's work: she just gets to a guy, first it's yoga, then it's veganism...

Alicia and Roberto yell all the time, louder and faster. He tells her Augusto is looking for new investors. He accuses her of hating him. She says she does hate him but not completely. He says he's just about to the point of feeling the same way about her. He's jealously convinced she is boinking the boss despite her denials.

Beatrice comes in to Dafne's room, sees her daughter under the mantilla, lifts it and peers in. "What are you doing here in my Gothic Cave?" "You and Alex and I need to have a talk."

There are endless scenes of the D team circulating gossip via chat, facebook, what, whatever - that Don Augusto and Alicia are lovers and that's why they went off to the U.S. The only work getting done is via cellphone (Alicia, Brisa and Braulio are actually trying to accomplish things). Alicia texts Chuchette asking for a business update -- by accident Chuchette sends the gossip text to her instead! Alicia is utterly furious, pounds away at her cellphone sending a denial. Then in a rage (shades of who was that guy who was always doing this?) she hurls her phone across the room - by accident knocking out the new much-awaited character who has just arrived. Meet cute.

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