Caray, Caray!

At the shoot with all the babies, Luci is aghast at all the little dwarves. Especially when Xuxette catches her holding one!  Then when its mother/handler takes it away she cries a bit.

Sandra comes for her meeting with Alicia. Elias is happy to see her but she blows him off. At the meeting, Alicia rubs it in about how when she wanted her job back Sandra was mean. She says she'll be MUCH meaner in response.

 Luci admits in a whisper to Beto that she's pregnant. Augusto, with his customarily impeccable timing for eavesdropping, overhears this and delights in the news!



 Elsa finds out that Nacho lost all that money and gives him hell for it (right next to a carefully-arrayed product-placement stack of la costeña canned foods). He moans some more.

Alicia accepts everyone´s congratulations for her nomination for   the ibericamerican advertising prize (I didn´t realize she´d won it yet) and says she made them something to thank them for their hard work. No, it´s not money or vacations. She´s made a video of "highlights" from the past few months.

She´s got photos of various employees with snarky and mean comments. Nestor, she says, wasn´t gay... his family left him for being a "workaholic." Funny, since he´s never been seen doing any work at all. She then mentions that "she who laughs last laughs best." She has some swimsuit photos of someone (who is it?)...  She´s gone evil! She´s getting back at them, calling back the insults that they yelled at her, and tells them they need to learn to laugh at themselves.

Luci actually tells Gumaro that she´s pregnant, and he flips out, running all over, jumping on the bed with delight! One of the happiest moments of the show!

 Braulio can´t bring himself to tell Elsa and Nacho what Alicia did, but Brisa tells them after he leaves.

OOOOH NACHO....... So he's been lying to his family about paying the mortgage (he wants to feel like the man of the house, remember?). Shit's coming home to roost. The house is getting repossessed!

No one will be surprised that Alicia won the award, but when she goes to thank people in her speech she realizes she kind of shat on everyone and she has no one left. She tears up and runs away. augusto tells her that the path to success is a lonely one. Just then, Valeria calls to tell her about her parents' home getting taken.

She rushes home to find the disaster! She's mad that they didn't tell her earlier. Nacho goes on AGAIN about being the man of the house and yells at HER for not respecting his rights as man of the house. Jesus. And the rest of her family won't talk to her. Are they mad about her being bad to Braulio? Or that she hasn't been back to visit them?

Augusto continues trying to turn Alicia to the dark side (there's a strong Vader/Luke dynamic going on here), handing her the gleaming golden prize and telling her that success makes everything feel better. He takes her out to dinner and tries to tell her that she deserves the prize (maybe you didn't have the idea, but you needed it and you took it, and that takes talent). "You were born to be a leader, to have the world at your feet." Seriously, this stuff comes right out of Star Wars (join me and we can rule the galaxy together)!

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