Caray, Caray!

Happy New Year, friends. First, I'd like to say I'm not happy with Alicia descending into the "generic bimbo" category. She looks like the receptionists now, only in red...

... and having just now learned of the existence of Spanx I can no longer look at these bimbos in their skin-tight dresses without imagining the industrial strength spandex (sometimes in multiple layers) that obliterates any humanity of form. Pobrecitas, I wonder if they have to cut themselves out of those undergarments with scissors when they get home. Anyway...

...the subtitles were functioning very poorly so feel free to elaborate if you got more than I did.

Master murderer and hypocrite Don Augusto consoles his daughter Luciana over the death of her purported father and says the best thing she can do is get knocked up and forget about it.


Braulio and Brisa are having a cheery talk about sex (now they've done it I guess) when the doorbell rings and a hunk with a Braulio moustache and beard is at the door. I will call him pre-Braulio. Pre-Brau is Brisa's ex and she pets him all evening as he gets drunk and says he wants to come back to her. "But Braulio I is my actual boyfriend," she points out while stroking him. He gets very drunk and stays the night. Braulio I is jealous, duh.

We arrive at Elsa's café while Roberto is whining to Alicia that he needs the warmth of her family when he's going through such a tough time. She is negative on this and reminds him he's married. As she's about to leave he detains her with an idea for her promotion of her mother's café: play up its homey atmosphere, that's what people are longing for.

Roberto tells Gumaro: Augusto is worse every day. There seems to be some suspicion Augusto is behind Mateo's disappearance. Roberto breaks into the mansion and into Augusto's desk, but the piece of paper he takes to - a detective? a newspaper guy? - is not enough to get him anywhere.

Sandra calls Augusto at home to have a cozy chat. While he is whispering to her on his cellphone across the piano (that nobody plays), a playful Bea pounces on him and coos/snarls in his ear as he drops the phone ...



... because evidently they had sex recently and she wants more. Sandra hears the exchange. Later Augusto puts off his wife by saying he's so distraught over the death of his brother. Remorseful, she creeps off to pray and he calls Chuchette, who does not answer. Later he tells Chuchette she'd better make it up to him that very night.

Luciana's mom is so lovely without her makeup! She tells Roberto he should console Luciana, who at heart is good "and you can change her." So he goes to console Luciana who has been moaning for days. He just up and says, taking Valeria's advice I guess: "Maybe now would be a good time for you to change into a better person." Subtle. He tries to tell her he too is sad, because his son has disappeared, but she ignores that and continues to moan.

Alicia is trying to think up new slogans for Elsa's café, slogans about love, but she feels so bitter they aren't coming out well, to wit: "In a pair, one pays and the other takes."

Augusto tells the Ikonika multitude that Alicia will be taking Oki Oki big, Oki Oki wants her campaign for the whole American Union...

... and she will also be going to work at the Ikonika USA branch office. She'll come back to D.F. to work on all the campaigns in Mexico for clients who want only her. In her absence, Elias will run things. Sandra is speechless and stony. She says she's going on a long European vacation in two days...

... In private Sandra yells at Augusto about giving her gig to Alicia, but he breathes on her neck and turns her to a pussycat and says this has nothing to do with their plans to escape to the US together. So then she says her vacation comment was just a joke.

Elsa and Nacho kvell over Alicia's success while Magos wipes tables.

Luciana insists Roberto stay in bed with her hour after hour while she snivels. He is bored to the point of paralysis.

Sandra tells Alicia: "You don't have what it takes to be international." They trade some carefully rehearsed words of English.

Dafne persuades her mother to take her out to lunch. "This is my sacrifice" says Bea (ie being seen in public with her awkward daughter). She's only allowed it because Dafne agreed to accept some religious indoctrination. But what Dafne's really engineered is a meeting with Alex and Kenny. They show up, Bea is indignant, Dafne pleads hopes for reconciliation but Bea stamps out.

On her way to the airport, Alicia stops at the café where she's set up an interview with her favorite reporter. They do a story on Alicia, her parents, and the wonderful café. Pictures etc. ..

... Then she's on her way to LAX. Imagining herself as a superstar in a very drab charcoal gray boa, spinning, she ends up dizzy. Hope that doesn't mean she's pregnant. She gets to LA and guess what? Ikonika USA is an empty building. Stay tuned. Over to you, Ezra!

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