Caray, Caray!

Alternative Title: The Many Faces on Don Augusto the Grand Impostor

For those who missed the recent turn of events Alicia narrates the saga and reminds the audience of a few things:
- Sandra's has a childish tantrum leading her to inform Bea of Alicia's and Augusto's alleged affair
- Don Augusto making creepy and inappropriate advances towards a very naive Alicia
- Roberto giving his 100% with his puppy dog face upon hearing above news
- Finally, the @*#&! show of a meeting where affairs, secret babies and true parentages were revealed.

The New

Augusto, in damage control mode, pressures Bea not to believe the lies of a scorned woman. Bea does not want to hear any words coming from his two-timing mouth. She asks Valeria for the truth but does not wait for an answer. Upon walking out of this disastrous meeting she collapses suddenly sending everyone into a frenzy.

Sandra wonders why Alicia and Elias looks as if they just attended a funeral. They came and got what they wanted. Naive Alicia did not foresee things going as they did and she feels guilty. Sandra gives Alicia a little piece of advice. The world we work in caters to men. Don Augusto will not suffer too much for his actions but his "lovers" will. In their professional lives, the men receive the credit while the woman gets ignored. However, this is no longer her problem but theirs.

Bea gets whisked away to the hospital while Fatima is left to fend herself from the callous shrews in Iconika who care less about Bea's health and more about the Godzilla-Augusto affair. Fatima does not cave under the pressure and dismisses their pleas. Back in the meeting room, only Luci and Val remain. Val begins the daunting tell of her romance with Augusto. It started prior to her marriage with Rafael. She believed herself to be so in love that she doubted whether she should marry Rafael.
Val started to imagine herself breaking it off with Rafael and living her happily ever after with Augusto. She soon found out that he was just using her to hurt Rafael. She broke things off with Augusto, married Rafael and they left for Argentina. Roberto checks in on Luci who asks to be taken to the hospital with Bea. Luci wants nothing to do with Val and forbids her from going to the hospital as well.

Outside Sandra's apartment Alicia feels like everything that happened was her fault. Elias tells her not to blame herself. They talk about his feelings towards Sandra. He mentions that love in real life is nothing like telenovelas where boy meets girl....fall in love...get married...and live happily ever after. (He clearly has not a watched a novela from start to end because he forgot to mention the angst, villians, lies and stupidity that keeps the lovebirds apart for more than half of its run before the obligatory wedding and happily ever after occurs). Returning to the point...he sometimes wonders whether he went crazy not due to his work, but for the immense love he had for Sandra but could not give it to her.

Fatima finds Sandra wallowing away on her couch. Fatima felt like she had to convey the truth...she was okay with displaying discretion but could not go on harboring a lie that affected an innocent person.  She knows Sandra will not understand but now that everything is out, Sandra could move on with her life..in peace. Sandra does not see it this way and only feels betrayed.  While, Fatima understands their friendship is no more she requests Sandra to call on her if she wants someone to confide in. Sandra is not ready to lose the chip on her shoulder and only has bitter words for Fatima.


The doctor informs the family that the recent events caused her pressure to go wonky and put her in this state. He advises that Bea see a psychiatrist when she recovers to make sure she remains stable. Roberto consoles Luciana in the waiting room. She cannot help but think that Valeria is more to blame the Augusto (Seems that Sandra was not far from the truth). Roberto tries to convey that sometimes parents make mistakes (listen to the expert Luciana) and she should not be so harsh towards her mom. Alicia seems to have lost her brain again because she believes it wise to go to the hospital to check on Bea's status (please just pick up the phone next time). Luci of course acts explosively on her entrance. She blames Alicia for all the bad things that have happened to her. Alicia finds herself leaving with her main agenda unaccomplished. Later, Luciana spills the details about the mysterious trip and injury Augusto had months ago. Roberto finally learns where Augusto really was and also that he was shot.

Back at the office Alicia finds Fatima packing her things. Fatima displays enough wisdom to know that Augusto nor Bea will want her working at the agency any longer. She warns Alicia not to make things worse and just let things be. Later, when the dust settles she will figure out severance pay and next steps.

Minus Alicia, the Guiterrez family continues unaffected by the madness of Iconika. Magos watches her novela while Ximena does her homework. Ximena asks what she talked about with her buddies earlier since they were being so secretive. Magos fumbles to answer the question but Ximena sees right through her crap. She hopes that Magos is not getting herself into another scheme that will affect them.

Playing the part of a dedicated employee and family member, Roberto sleeps at the hospital to watch over Bea while Augusto finds a swanky hotel nearby. Augusto reminds Roberto that none of this should be mentioned to API folks. The next morning Augusto is well rested and takes the credit for staying at the hospital all night when Alex shows up.

Alicia, the superwoman, decides to help her parents out today and take Ximena to school. Elsa gets suspicious and wonders how she can do all this when she has work? When is she returning to Los Angeles? Once Nacho leaves Elsa gets to the heart of the matter. She knows something is going on with Alicia but her daughter finds an excuse to leave the conversation (if only Elsa is as perceptive with Magos as she is with Alicia).


Augusto seeks out Luciana to have a heart to heart. He wants her to hear his side of the story. He begins to spins a preposterous tale painting himself as the victim. Valeria was the one who pursued and seduced him. He was in love and she only ended up hurting him in the end. He only just found out about her and if he found out sooner he would have been a model father. Unfortunately, her mother did not allow that to happen. When he did find out, he had to keep it secret so that Rafael's health would not be affected. Luciana eats up his lies without a second thought. Don Augusto subtly tells Luciana that Valeria will have to leave this house. He adds that she is so much like him...unlike those other two.

While working at the Cafe, Alicia runs into nameless guy she hit with her phone (Soto). They sit down for coffee as she talks his ears off. Topic switches to People's Cafe which seemed to have moved. Alicia believes that the owner is probably some old guy who knows nothing about coffee nor willing to get his hands dirty for his company. She wants to know who he is and why he is here. To her embarrassment he declares himself as Santiago (did not catch last name), owner of People's Cafe!

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