Caray, Caray!

Wow! Another action filled episode. Our questions are finally being answered! So, let us get right to it!

We pick up the action inside the warehouse where La Sombra is keeping Esperanza. He is continuing to threaten her at gun point and threatening her. As the force of special agents engage La Sombra's henchmen, there is a lot of gun fire, hand to hand combat and a confrontation with a group of La Sombra mannequins. As Ricardo wonders which if any of the La Sombra figures are real in front of him, the voice of La Sombra greets him and tells him how much he enjoyed making Esperanza suffer. Ricardo shoots but La Sombra himself is long gone. In the background of much of the scene there in "James Bondish" music playing. Ricardo finally finds and unties Esperanza. He take her into his arms and apologizes for what he caused to happen to her. She just sobs.

At the same time, Tracy is at home on the phone with Mr. Parker, her lawyer, telling him that she does not have to feel sorry for him (Ricardo) because that is the only way to force him (to do what she wants). She hopes Mr. Parker understands. Talking to herself she tells Ricardo, her love, that one way or another he was looking for it (guess she is now giving it to him).


Still in the warehouse, Ricardo gives Esperanza his cell phone so she can call home and let the kids know she is okay. They all are ecstatic!!!!! ALL of the friends of Esperanza's kids are there. Even Ernesto is there and smiling. Pato is grateful to La Virgen de la Paz. Esperanza does not know what she is going to tell the kids without giving away Ricardo's cover. Shortly, Esperanza arrives home and there is a lot of hugging and tears of joy. She is careful about what she tells her kids. Ricardo invites Ernesto to go outside. Ernesto declines by telling him not to come any closer. Ernesto tells Esperanza that the reason he is there is that he has friends in the police department and was monitoring her rescue. Ricardo sort of breaks up the whole reunion reminding Esperanza that she has to go down to the station to file a report. Even Luca was there and missed his flight to support Esperanza.

Ricardo reminds Ernesto that he needs to speak with him. Ernesto sends Adrián and Luca on their way home so he can talk to Ricardo. The "talk" on the side walk quickly turns into an argument as Ricardo says that he knows that Tracy was at Ernesto's office. Tracy has hired Mr. Parker as her lawyer and Tracy does not have that kind of money to pay a lawyer like Parker so he suspects that Ernesto is footing the bill. Ernesto admits it. He is paying so that Tracy will get a judgment to take his (Ricardo's) kids back to Los Angeles. Ernesto reminds Ricardo that he told him not to mess with him and that this is only the beginning of his nightmares. Ernesto punches him in the jaw and knocks him off his feet. Ernesto's bodyguards respond with guns drawn but Ernesto motions for them to stay back. He will make Ricardo sorry for ever being born. Ernesto even admits that his guys were the ones who beat up Ricardo up when Ricardo voices his suspicions. What Ernesto cannot get his head around is how a simple school teacher has all of these abilities. He is also interested in his role in Esperanza's kidnapping since it was Ricardo who returned with her freed. Ernesto would like to know who Ricardo really is. The only important thing says Ricardo are his children. Ernesto says he knows that Ricardo adores his children and that if they go back to Los Angeles he will follow them there. He can't live with out them, or can he? Ernesto gets right in Ricardo's face and dares him to hit him again. Ricardo keeps his cool and says this will all be settled in another way. As he is leaving, Ernesto is yelling for Ricardo to just leave already and leave the road to Esperanza open for him. Ricardo is yelling that Esperanza hates Ernesto and loves him. Suddenly they are in each others' faces again.

At the Guerrero house, Esperanza has just taken a bath and Pato has brought her a hot cup of tea. It is 6:00 a.m. and Esperanza feels like a truck ran over her. Pato says she deserves the day off. Esperanza has never missed a day of work in twenty years. Pato says they will call the principal and she will bring her her fruit and yogurt. Pedro tells Kristel he is not going to school. He is staying home with his mom, too. Ara sees Kristel kiss Pedro,goodbye on the cheek and it bothers her. Pedro reminds his mom they have to talk and no lies between them, right?

Back on the side walk, Ricardo tells Ernesto that his story with Esperanza has not ended nor will it end. That is when Ernesto goes for the low blow with his finger in Ricardo's face reminding Ricardo how it was he Ernesto who had a daughter with Esperanza and not him. He made love to her, kissed her, touched her . . . Ricardo cannot take it and yells " shut up"  and for Ernesto to respect Esperanza. Ernesto just laughs and says it must really hurt because Esperanza was never "his" but Ricardo should not worry because she learned a real lot from him. Ricardo's comeback is that the only important thing about Esperanza is her present and he Ricardo is a part of that and nobody or nothing is going to change that. With that Ricardo walks away. Ernesto stops laughing and rubs his jaw.

When Luca and Adrián arrive home, Luca makes Adrián promise that if he has the urge to drink he is to call him and he will come to be with him. Luca loves his brother and will miss him.

Salma is going on and on about Adrián as Mario has just dropped her off at school. They are both on the sidewalk. He is not paying her much attention as he checkS himself out in the passenger side mirror and keeps glancing around. She notices he was combing his eyebrows, checking out his teeth, combing his hair. She wonders if he is sick or something. No, he is fine. Is he waiting for someone? No, who would he be waiting for? Salma changes the topic to credit cards. He reiterates how he has told her and her mother that they cannot spend so much. She clearly does not want to hear that and leaves. As he is checking himself again, the teacher Felicia that he talked to in a previous episode passes by. He is all excited and calls to her. She turns around and recognizes him. She remembers his name. He runs to her, trips and falls on his face. He jumps up smiling but one of his front teeth has broken off.

Ricardo is back at Esperanza's. Pato is off and tells Esperanza AND Ricardo she loves them. In the meantime as Ara is leaving and Pedro walks her to the door, Ara really puts her foot in it by telling Pedro she is jealous of Kristel because Pedro loves her and Kristel loves him back. Pedro is upset she wants to talk about something so serious like that right now after all that just happened with his mom, etc. Pedro feels like she is pressuring him and it is his decision after all. She just wants him to know that she loves him and wants him to be honest with her. Pedro looks exhausted and demoralized.

Esperanza and Ricardo move to a couch in the living room where Esperanza is acknowledging the fact that she never knew that La Sombra had killed Ricardo's best friend. Ricardo says that that criminal has done a lot of damage and has been responsible for many deaths. That is why it is so important to stop him. He also traumatized his son. Esperanza can understand that Ricardo has this obsession for catching La Sombra for the killing his friend and terrorizing his son. It turns out that the same night he terrorized Rodrigo, La Sombra killed his friend Mike. He had captured him and tortured him for days before killing him. Mike was his only friend. He killed him for revenge on Ricardo. La Sombra is a threat to society and has to be stopped.  Ricardo wants to pay him back for all he has done.

Poor Adrián is in his bedroom looking for his pajamas. He does not find them but he does find a partially filled bottle of liquor. He holds it and wonders what he is going to do with it.

Back on the couch, Esperanza is talking with Ricardo about what she went through in her kidnapping and getting more upset as she is doing it: her thoughts were going around in circles; she suffered; she was so afraid of never seeing her children again; she thought it was all over for her. Then besides that, she was really angry, really annoyed, furious with Ricardo because he put her and her children in danger amd all of this after he had disappeared from her life for TWENTY years! And he has not been able to give her an explanation. He says he has tried. She says he always talks around the issue. She brings up how he says he talked to Pedro's dad. Yes, he did call and talk to him. He told him that she was gone, she had left th city. She cannot believe it. It was his only phone call. She does not get the "only call" thing. It was his last call before he was processed into the central maximum security detention center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was in jail accused of murder.

Felicia has taken Mario to the nurse at the school where she is a new philosophy teacher (and Mario's wife Silvana is the principal unbeknownst to Felicia). The nurse tells him that his dentist can easily replace his "false tooth" that was knocked out. Felicia accepts Mario's invitation to coffee later today (before he can ask her.) A little comedy as they try to exchange cell phone numbers.

At Ernesto's house, he is taking a shower when his misguided wife Viviana decides to join him. He berates her: telling her he liked her years ago when there was some passion between them but he does not like her now. She had better not try something like this again. Doesn't she get it? He does not like to see her since she does not excite him like she did before. He tells her to cover up because she just embarrasses him. She should have some dignity. Viviana is crushed and sees herself as an old wrinkled up woman. The Botox did nothing for her.

Pedro goes over to Kristel's house to talk to her about "them."

Back on the couch, Esperanza is telling Ricardo that they used to be best friends and that he can always count on her to listen to him. He just finds it hard to talk about it. She encourages him to tell her the whole story. She will not judge him. He can trust her. He starts to tell his story. They crossed the border through the desert at Nogales. A group of "hunters of the undocumented" almost got them once. He tried to defend the group and got shot in the leg. He was in pain and losing blood but they could not quit walking. They didn't have a drop of water. They had a lot of canned food but no way to open it. They were desperate. Then the "hunters" came again and they got into a shooting match with them. One of the "hunters" got shot and died but his "hunter" friends did not kill them. They wanted them alive. There is a black market where undocumented immigrants can be sold. At that moment, the coyote and he were the only chance that several families had.

At the Alegría houses, Tracy is telling the kids they can get packed because they are moving back to Los Angeles. It is not a request. It is an order. No, their father will not be coming with them. Selena is not happy.

Back on the couch, Ricardo talks about the coyote shooting the "hunter" and how they all had to flee. The coyote and he were wounded but were the only ones who could distract the "hunters" so the others could be saved. He and the coyote were in bad shape and took refuge in a cave. Ricardo started shooting and . . . Pato comes on through looking for coffee interrupting the story. That is all of the story for now.

In Silvana's office at the school, she is asking Félix what are they going to do with three teachers out. Can they fire Esperanza? Félix reminds her that Esperanza is untouchable. He cites from  the rules and regulation book that Esperanza can be absent and still keep her job. Silvana is not pleased. Her secretary does a little dance.

At Kristel's house, Pedro is not beating around the bush. He talks about the truth always coming out. So the truth is that he loves her and has loved her for the very first day he met her. Since she didn't want anything with him, he settled to be just her friend. Now he can not hide it anymore. Kristel is angry and crying. How could he love her when he doesn't even know her? He is a liar like all men. He says he is being honest. Then why did he not tell her way back at the beginning? Because he would have lost her at the beginning. "Exactly!" is her answer. She has told him a thousand times that she loves Erasmo. She never wants him to speak to her again.

Adrián is still sitting on his bed with the bottle of liquor in his hand maybe going to open it but thinking about what Luca told him, when he hears a knock on the door. It is Viviana his mother. He opens the bottle and smells the liquor. He caps the bottle, hides it and lets his mom in his room. Viviana comes in talking about how the mirror is her worst enemy. She is not doing well at all.

At Esperanza's house, she and Pato are having coffee when Ricardo joins them. The topic is Luca and Esperanza telling Pato to fight for him. Esperanza says that true love is so hard to find and it can just slip through your hands and be gone forever (as she smiles at Ricardo.)

At the Alegría house, Rodrigo and Selena are packing and discussing going back to Los Ángeles. Rodrigo tells Selena she has to respect mom's choice. she asks why he wants to abandon their dad. Rodrigo wants to be together as a family again. He wants to be happy with mom, dad, and her. He blames himself for all of it. Selena tells him she loves him.

Back in Adrián's room, his mother Viviana is telling him more than he probably ever wanted to know about her relationship with Ermesto. As soon as she started to age, her skin got loose and everything headed south, Ernesto told her she was disposable: something to be used and thrown out. Adrián tries to comfort her as she goes on about how bad crow's feet are. He tells her what she has in her heart is more important than what is on the outside. She asks: what does she have in her heart?

Back at Esperanza's house, Pato is talking about how important it is that Ricardo and Esperanza clear up why they broke up twenty years ago and forgive each other. She excuses herself and apologizes for interrupting them in the first place.

Back in poor Adrián's room, Viviana is telling him how Ernesto never loved her. He married her for her father's company and then only stayed with her because she got pregnant with him (Adrián). Adrián realizes he was an accident. He then thinks back at all of the cruel things his father has said and done to him. Now he knows why his father has always rejected him: he hates him.

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