Friday, September 02, 2016

Yago #64. Thursday September 1, 2016. Hell Hath No Fury Like A Lucio Scorned

Bésame mucho. Tickle me with your beard mucho.

At a glance  

-- Just read on. I don’t have the heart to tell you here.

A closer look 

The episode opens up with a replay of Yago’s grand declaration to his tainted love, Sara. If Dusty Springfield sang “Wishin’ and Hopin’” with this pair in mind, it would go something like this: “All you gotta do is hold him and kiss him and frame him and jail him, just do it and after you do, you will be his!”

Flashback. Many years ago. Lucio drags his reluctant bride to their honeymoon suite. Once again, Sara’s choice of wedding attire and bridal coiffure reflects her level of excitement with the nuptials and the groom. She is as hot for Lucio as a Siberian winter morning. As Lucio pops the champagne with barely-contained glee, Sara tries to keep her aversion at bay. She ruminates silently: “I gave up (me di por vencida) many years ago. Not because I thought that happiness didn’t exist. I simply knew that I didn’t deserve it. I was condemned to pay for betraying Omar.” Lucio offers her a full champagne flute and toasts to their new life together. He tells her how much he has waited for this moment and hungrily kisses her, eager to start the wedding night extravaganza. Sara pushes him away. Not tonight, dear. I have chronic nookie-prohibiting migraine that occurs nightly. It’s a medical condition, dear. Lucio can’t believe she is doing this to him. They are husband and wife now! Why won’t she give herself the goshdarn opportunity to be happy?! He immediately apologizes for his outburst and assures her that he’ll wait for her. He’ll wait until she is ready. Sara says it’s fine. She’s ready to do the deed now. And while smooching with her new hubby, she thinks to herself: “And so I was prepared to pay the price that life had imposed upon me for hurting Omar.” 

Present time. Sara is still sucking face with Yago/Omar. She muses: “I never thought life would give me a second opportunity. I always supposed that my sentence would be a life sentence (condena perpetua). But, in the end, I paid my debt and today I’m free to love Omar as he deserves. Free to redeem myself and demonstrate that, in spite of everything, I too deserve a happy ending.” The antidote to happy endings shows up in his SUV and he looks mad as a mofo. Hell hath no fury like a Lucio cuckolded.

Sara is blindfolded as Yago leads her to see a surprise. She is nervous because his previous surprises were not particularly pleasant. He assures her that those were Yago’s surprises. Weren’t Omar’s surprises always to her liking? She agrees: Those surprises were always beautiful. He takes off her polka dot blindfold to reveal the adorable little wooden house that Omar had built for the two of them, now fully furnished and decorated. Sara is very happy with her surprise. The lovers share more loving smoocheroos. Lucio is outside, glaring pure distilled hatred at the little love nest in the woods. 

Inside, the lovebirds cuddle while Sara reads Omar’s letter about the wooden house, the one where he told her that the furniture of this humble abode will see them grow old together and bask in the warm glow of their eternal love, or some other mawkish turn of phrase to this effect. Yago sips red wine and nibbles on Sara’s neck. Sara recalls how happy she was to read this letter. It felt as if Omar were with her. The letter said that this house meant for them the beginning that will never end. Now, it’s all becoming a reality: They will be together forever! Yago agrees that this is the best place to start their new life together. However, if his beloved Sara would prefer to get their fresh start in a palace or in a castle, then her wish is his command. Sara maintains that she needs nothing more than being here with him. He sets the wine glass down and starts devouring her.

Back at Casa Sarquis, Lucio is a boiling fuming twitching pile of bottled up anger. He phones someone: “I need a service. It’s urgent.”

Teo visits Katia’s estranged mother. He introduces himself as Katia’s friend, well, boyfriend. He says he loves Katia deeply and he is desperate to locate her. The mother lets him in; the missing bouffant is inside. Teo is pleased that Katia is letting him into this space she considers her fragile zone. He tells her how glad he is that she decided to return to her family home instead of going back to that horrible place where she would get drugged off her rocker. Katia admits it hasn’t been easy to resist the temptation to slide back down that path of perdition, but she had to make the right choice, because she owes to too many people. She owes it to Fidel, to Yago... “And above all, to you!” she adds, her voice breaking down. “I owe it to you! I owe it to you!” She realizes that the road to recovery will be long and difficult but she knows she has one strength that will get her through it all: The fact that Teo loves her. “You love me! You told my mom! At the door! I heard you!” He smiles and pulls her towards him. He gazes lovingly into her eyes and makes a hundred love promises without uttering a single word. They kiss. She starts crying. He figures it’s because of Yago. She says Yago hates her now but Teo disagrees. 

Sara makes love to Omar and spoons with Yago. She tells Yago/Omar how much she loves him. He declares that he loves her and has loved her always.

It’s morning time at the love cabin. Yago is having a nightmare where he recalls Omar’s last noche de amor and boinking with Sara, the one that ended with her disappearing the next morning and the police dragging his naive enamored behind to jail. Yago is startled awake and does not find Sara beside him. He panics and calls out her name. She is downstairs preparing breakfast. She notices he looks pale. He admits that those awful memories of the day of his arrest came back to him when he woke up and found Sara gone. She tells him that those memories pursue her as well and she asks him to forgive her. She knows she made a lot of mistakes and she starts getting into a more elaborate apology but Yago stops her. He wants them to stop thinking about the past and the mistrust or else they’ll never find happiness. They ought to think about their future together as a family. Sara agrees: “Today, we’ll tell the truth to Matías and then he can come to live with us!” Yago says he will have to tell his parents that he and Sara are an item. Sara is sure they’ll take the news very badly. Yago doesn’t want her to have these kinds of thoughts. He wants her to think that she deserves to be happy, that the two of them deserve to be happy because they have suffered enough. Kisseroo and hugzeroo.

At Casa Sarquis, Lucio is still in yesterday’s clothes, having a heart-to-heart with his friend, Jack Daniels. A woman arrives and remarks sarcastically: “Looks like the party hasn’t ended yet! I suppose it’s going to get more savage!” Lucio tells her that he imagined her differently. She says it doesn’t matter how she looks, what matters is that she is good at what she does. “Just tell me what you want.” “Yago Vila. That’s the man I want dead” replies Lucio.

At Casa Guerrero, Yago gathers his parents and brother in the garden to show them a picture frame (portarretratos). This house only has old photos of him (of Omar). He wants to put a new photo in this frame, one that reflects his present and his future: A photo of him with Matías... And with Sara. The Guerreros are shocked and majorly ticked off. They let Yago/Omar have it: Are you crazy? After all that woman did to you? Yago says he gets their objections but he has every faith that, with time, they will come around and understand his decision. “I need your help to make me feel again what I once was. To help me recuperate Omar” he hopes. Somber faces around the table answer his request. “I’ve seen you commit a lot of idiocies but this is the biggest one of all!” growls Jonás as he smacks the photo frame and gets up to leave. Yago catches up to him to explain but Jonás doesn’t want to hear it: “This woman was your perdition. What makes you think she won’t do it again?” She is repentant and she has paid for what she has done, is Yago’s argument. Besides, he loves her. “That’s what you said the last time too” reminds him Jonás. Yago asks his father to understand: “At long last, I have the opportunity to form my own family with Matías and Sara!” However, he adds that his happy family can’t be complete without his parents and his little brother. Yago insists that Sara is the woman he loves and the mother of his child. He has already forgiven her. What’s the dealio? “You have already forgiven her? And what about us?” reproaches Jonás. “That woman ruined your life but she ruined ours as well! Your mother cried for years because of her and now you want to forgive her in our name?” “Dad, I only want you to give it a try!” Jonás can’t. If his son wants to put his head in the lion’s mouth (meterse en la boca del lobo), he can go right ahead, but “please forget about me!” Jonás storms out. Yago goes back to the garden and apologizes to his mother. He’s sorry for what has just happened but he is sure that his family will eventually understand. He asks her about the engagement ring, that family heirloom with which he proposed marriage to Sara, before she landed him in jail. Melina retrieved it from prison, with the rest of Omar’s personal effects, but she gave it to Abel.

Back at Casa Sarquis, Lucio gives the hired assassin a backpack filled with cash. He instructs her to make Yago’s murder look like an accident and warns her that the target has a propensity to survive lethal situations. The hitwoman assures Lucio that he’s dealing with a professional. Yago is a goner. No muss, no fuss. No witnesses, no clues.

Yago goes to Abel’s place looking for the engagement ring. Abel inquires whether Yago is indeed talking about the same ring that simpleton Omar once gave to scorpion Sara. Yago ignores the sarcasm and confirms that the ring has always belonged to Sara. Abel advises him to melt down (fundir) that ring and turn it into a scorpion-themed piece of jewelry, as a constant reminder of who Sara is. Alternatively, Yago could give that ring to Ximena, suggests Abel. “Ximena is a great woman but she is not Sara!”, affirms Yago. “That’s the point!” confirms Abel. “Compañere, you better than anyone else know what it is to deserve a second chance” says Yago. “Yeah, but I’m not Sara!” retorts Abel. Julia interrupts and drags Abel away to get the ring. She reckons that, good or bad, the decision is Yago’s to make. “Come on! I was chatting with my compañere! We can’t...” protests Abel. “Enough! Stop whinging (lloriquear)!” orders Julia. She reminds him about the story of their coupling: How would Abel have felt had Fidel nipped his romance with Julia in the bud? Abel folds: “Let’s be clear that I’m not OK with this, but if this makes you happy, if this is what you want... Take it!” He reluctantly hands Yago the ring.

Back at Casa Guerrero, Melina tries but fails to soften Jonás and Bruno towards Yago/Omar or persuade them to reconsider their refusal of Sara. “Sara is a horrible person! She will enter this family over my dead body!” proclaims Jonás. He realizes, too late, that Matías has overheard everything.

Sara and Yago/Omar take a stroll in the park. He fills her in on what happened with his family and with Abel. For the moment being, nobody, other than the two of them, is willing to accept their romance. “They need to remember that I’m me, that I’m Omar, that they love me, that Abel is my best friend. I’m convinced that, one day, they will accept us with open arms. The two of us.” Sara shares her man’s optimism. All will be fine. The hitwoman’s nearby hovering indicates the contrary.

Back at Casa Guerrero, Matías says he is hurt by the way Jonás talked about his mother. Sara is his mother and he will always defend her, in spite of the errors she made and of the fact that she hurt the Guerreros’ eldest son, Omar.

Back at the park, Yago receives a phone call from Teo arranging an appointment with him somewhere. It turns out that the person expecting Yago at the rendezvous is Katia. She begins an awkward apology but Yago doesn’t wait for it. He hugs her and she sobs in his arms. “It’s over. I’m here, Katia.” A beautiful friendship is rekindled. Later, he shares the Sara news with her and begs her not to berate him; he has heard enough berating from Abel already. Katia decides to tell Yago what he himself told her once: “It’s about time that someone around here is happy. You decide how and with whom. If you feel that you are able to forgive Sara then...” Their conversation is interrupted by a guy verbally abusing his girlfriend in the adjacent table. Yago intervenes but the guy draws his gun and points it at him. However, Katia shoots the guy before he gets a chance to fire at Yago. The abused girlfriend runs away. She is, in fact, the hitwoman Lucio hired to murder Yago. 

Katia is sent to the love cabin to take care of Sara and inform her that Lucio tried to have Yago/Omar killed.

Yago goes looking for Lucio at Casa Sarquis. He pulls out his gun and sets it on the table. “I was waiting that someone would notify me that you’re dead and that I can finally breathe peacefully... Or that you would come here yourself” says Lucio without turning around. “I’m not armed. I’m unprotected, so this is your chance to kill me, if thats what you want to do, Lucio. Because I am not going to respect the pact we made, nor am I going to give you back what you took from me. For years, you have been living with what was mine. I’m only recovering what used to belong to me. That’s all. I know you still love Sara and Matías. Your tragedy is not the fact that you have lost them, it’s the fact that they are now with me.” Lucio finally turns around to face Yago. He brandishes a gun in his face and stares bullets at him. Yago continues his monologue: “I, too, hated Sara for many years. I wanted to kill her with my own hands for everything she did to me, but I still love her. I haven’t been able to forget her. Now you can do the same. Because you won’t be able to forget that, one day, you used to be my best friend. Give up, already!” The barrel of Lucio’s gun now rests on Yago’s chest. Lucio’s eyes are filled with tears but his expression doesn’t pinpoint an exact and precise feeling in that volcano of emotions which seem to engulf him since yesterday. He lowers his gun when Yago’s face becomes Omar’s and he puts it to his own neck. “This is your way of being free? Of leaving everything behind?” asks Omar. “Go ahead! Do it!” “I’ll do it!” threatens Lucio, ready to shoot himself in the neck, mimicking Camilo’s suicide. “Do it! Forget everything!” urges Omar. Omar’s face morphs back into Yago’s “Do it!” he insists. Lucio lowers his gun. “How could I forget Sara? How?” wonders Lucio with tears streaming down his face “And Mati? Don’t take them from me!” he pleads with Omar. “I beg you! Because you’ve always had it all and I’ve never had anything!” Omar gives him a sad smile and declares: “I forgive you, Lucio.” He morphs into Yago once again and walks away. Lucio just stands there, stunned and devastated.

Jonás confides to his wife that he doesn’t want to lose Matías and Omar, but he is sure “that woman” will take them away from the Guerrero family. “You don’t know that! If you keep being so stubborn, then we will end up losing them! But it will be because of you, not because of Sara!” affirms Melina. 

At the love cabin, Yago informs Sara and Katia of what happened at Casa Sarquis. Lucio looked very afflicted (atormentado) but, in the end, he gave up. Sara doesn’t trust the sanamabish. This could just be a ploy to later come after them. Yago insists that Lucio appeared very repentant. Besides, if Lucio really wanted to kill him, he would’ve done it right there and then, but he didn’t. Yago tells Sara that they have no choice but to trust. He also assures Katia that the lovebirds don’t need any protection. They’ll be fine on their own. He accompanies his friend to the door and apologizes once again for their rift: “I’m sorry I let you go and thanks for saving my life.” “I owed you. You saved mine years ago!” replies Katia. They hug goodbye.

Lucio phones the hitwoman and tells her to keep the advance if she wants but he instructs her not to kill Yago.

Back at the love cabin, Yago assures Sara that, from now on, they’ll spend the best days and nights of their lives together, because they no longer have anything to fear. He proposes to her with the same old engagement ring that he gave her before, when he asked her to marry him, as Omar. He even intentionally drops the ring as a nod to his clumsiness when he first proposed to her, many years ago. They share a hearty laugh and she says yes several times.

After a passionate session of “she said yes” sex, Yago receives a call from Jonás. The “we need to talk” sounds morose on the phone. 

Yago heads to Casa Guerrero expecting another round of yelling and reproaches. Jonás and Bruno tell him they need his help with a recipe. Yago declines the dinner invitation because he has alternative plans tonight. Jonás hands him an apron and orders him to start cooking before Sara arrives for dinner. Melina announces that the Guerreros have accepted that Sara become part of their family. Father and son have a long hug. Matías looks on from the garden and doesn’t appear particularly chuffed with this tender scene. 

Lucio shows up at the love cabin. He walks up the creaky stairs and sees the messed up bed. Sara asks what he is doing there. He says he brought Mati something. “Didn’t Omar tell you that we talked? That I apologized for everything I did to him? He forgave me.” “Of course he forgave you! He is Omar!” says Sara. “I have to change my life. Without you. I’m scared. But I swear that I’ll succeed in doing it!” announces Lucio, rather unsure of his own resolution. “Of course you will succeed! You’re a handsome, smart, friendly man!” lies Sara. “You would make any woman happy! Besides, everything is over and you too deserve to have true love.” “If you had never known Omar, would you have fallen in love with me?” he asks. “Yes, probably.” she lies again. He thanks her, hands her the bag he brought for Matías and asks her to say hello to the kid for him. “You spoil him too much!” she says, after consulting the bag. Lucio’s eyes throughout this exchange are as dodgy and treacherous as can be. He suggests he be present when they tell Matías the truth. He wants to be there so they can break down the news gently to the kid, together, supportively, as a family. Sara doesn’t think this is a good idea but she assures Lucio that he can see Matías some other time. In fact, he can see Mati whenever he wants. “Thanks. Forgive me for everything.” He starts walking away. Sara stops him on his way out and gives him a hug. “Everything will be alright. Don’t worry!” she reassures him. He starts smelling her, rubbing up against her. He won’t let go of her. He forcefully inches her towards the bed, asking: “You slept with him? You slept with him? Why with him?” Sara screams, orders him to let go of her, threatens to call the police. To no avail. He pushes her on the bed, slaps her roughly across the face... Well, you know where this is going. Thankfully, we are spared further gruesome details.

At Casa Guerrero, the dinner table is set. Yago prepares to go get Sara but Matías stops him to ask whether what they have to announce to him tonight is bad news. No, it’s just something that Yago wanted to tell him for a long time. He gives the kid a peck and leaves. 

Back at the love cabin, a traumatized Sara tries to hide her distress with makeup. She gets dressed, tidies the bed and, when Yago walks in with the news of their dinner invitation at Casa Guerrero, she tries her best to act happy. Lucio calls Yago at this precise moment. Sara insists that Yago hang up on him. “I hope you liked the gift I left for you” says Lucio. “What gift?” wonders Yago/Omar. “It’s a gift to show my appreciation for the great friend you are, Omar!” sneers the slimy devil, who is parked in the vicinity of the love cabin. “You know what? Whatever happens, you always know how to forgive!” he mocks. Yago/Omar asks what happened. “Let Sara tell you. Sara always tells you the truth, doesn’t she? Let her tell you! Truth be told, at first she resisted but then she ended up enjoying it!” gloats Lucio, before hanging up. Yago/Omar loses it. He demands to know what Lucio did to Sara. Did he rape her? The poor woman tearfully denies anything happened. It didn’t matter. She urges Yago/Omar to forget it all. To move forward together. To think about the future. Too late, the man has unleashed his inner primal beast. He swears that he’ll kill Lucio with his bare hands. Sara begs him to just let it go. They’re together, they’re gonna talk to their son tonight... Yago/Omar leaves her at the love cabin, a weeping mess, and he goes to hunt Lucio down, except that the waste of space and oxygen happens to still be lurking right outside the cabin.

An armed Yago breaks into Casa Sarquis looking for his archenemy. He gets intercepted by the police and asks them whether they managed to arrest Lucio. A police officer informs Yago that they are here to arrest Yago. Mr. Sarquis lodged a complaint against Yago for what he did to Lucio’s wife, Sara Madrigal. “What happened with Sara? I was just with her!

A team of paramedics rush to the love cabin. Sara is lying on the floor in a puddle of blood, with a bullet wound to the chest and a gun resting next to her body. She contemplates the roof for what seems to be the last time, then she closes her eyes. The paramedics declare that she has no pulse and start CPR.

Another redeemed dove sacrificed on the altar of tainted love

A quote from the capítulo

“Nunca creí que la vida me diera una segunda oportunidad. Siempre supuse que mi condena sería perpetua. Pero, al fin, pagué mi deuda y, hoy, soy libre de amar a Omar, como se merece. Libre para redimirme y demostrar que, a pesar de todo, yo también merezco un final feliz.”*

*Sara savors the beginning of the 24 hours of happiness that life finally deigned to grant her: “I never thought life would give me a second opportunity. I always supposed that my sentence would be a life sentence. But, in the end, I paid my debt and, today, I’m free to love Omar as he deserves. Free to redeem myself and demonstrate that, in spite of everything, I too deserve a happy ending.” 

Your viewing vocabulario        
(these definitions are context-specific, unless otherwise indicated)    

darse por vencido(a) = to give up, to give in. 
condena perpetua = a life sentence, life imprisonment. 
un portarretratos = a picture frame. 
meterse en la boca del lobo = Lit. “To put oneself in the wolf’s mouth”, i.e. to put one’s head in the lion’s mouth. 
fundir = to melt something. 
lloriquear = Lit. to whimper. In this context, to whine, to moan, to whinge. 
atormentado(a) = tormented, afflicted. 
redimirse = to redeem oneself.   

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Comments:
Compañeres, I am heartbroken! I hated the ending of Wednesday's episode, I hated Yago going back to Sara and declaring his undying love for her. Nevertheless, I feel so sad after watching this episode. I didn't want Yago/Omar to shack up with the Scorpion Lady, but I never wished for her to get raped or killed by Lucio. Such an awful anvil! :(

Good night!
 

Ay, Nandicta. What an episode. And what a recap! So beautifully written. Thank you.

I just watched the episode, and am still trying to compute all the damage Lucio tried to and did do this episode. Like everyone else, Sara was never my favorite person (although I admired her strength). But, you know what? If Yomar being with her meant that everyone could forgive, drop the hate, Matias could have a happy, stable family, and everyone could move on with their lives, then I was on-board. Why not? All of these people have made horrible mistakes. What does holding on to all the hate and resentment achieve?

But Lucio saw to it that NO ONE can have a happy ending. If he can't have what he wants, then no one else can either. I want him dead. After someone beats the crap out of him first.
 

Thank you Nandicta.

Yago still addicted to Sara. Even Jonas, Melina & Bruno are disgusted by his horrible addiction to the con-woman.

Vivi: Not surprised that Yago is getting framed by Lucio once again. Anyone want to bet Abel comes to Yago's rescue ?

Bruno still has the flash-drive that Yago gave him.
 

Recappers: Please check all of your posts for the past week to delete spam. A spammer has hit pretty much all the last week's recaps.
 

Thank you so much Nandicta!

I am happy to say thia novela will end and I would have figured out no twist. I kept wondering when the other shoe would drop mostly because I knew we have at least one more episode but I didnt expect that!

I was thinking more the assassin would shoot for Omar and Sara would get in the way and die and then it would be Lucio vs Omar. Different equation, same outcome.

Im still wondering if Sara is lying about the attack and rape and is in cahoots with Lucio. The fact of the matter is I dont know anything still and how this story keeps going I probably wont until el fin.
 

Nandicta, I was so appalled by the episode I can't bring myself to even read your recap, though I'm sure it is indeed skillfully and beautifully written. Just flat out devastated. Maybe later. But thank you for all you do, on so many levels.
 

Judy- ((hugs)) The ending of this episode was indeed traumatic, so I understand. But so much of this episode was beautiful, and Nandicta brilliantly conveyed that in her expressive writing. Maybe read the first half?

Nandicta- I especially enjoyed how you described the tender scenes between Katia and Teo (I like the touches the set designers gave her teenage bedroom), and the scenes between Katia and Yomar. And I must admit that I was happy seeing Yomar happily giggling and kissing Sara. I even enjoyed the scenes of Yomar trying to convince Abel and his family to get on board with his new-old romance. Abel was especially funny pointing out why this was a bad idea. But while everyone was harping on how dangerous Sara is, they didn't even consider that Lucio was the REAL danger in this situation.
 

Question- Did Yomar leave his gun at Lucio's place that first visit? I'm assuming that's the gun Sara was shot with that was lying near her body.
 

Vivi..I WILL go back and read Nandicta's recap eventually. Just now, thinking how Lucio can put Omar back in jail, devastate his parents and brother once again, and wrest Mathias from their grasp as well just has me....completely empty. Thanks for the virtual hugs though...I needed 'em!
 

Judy B: This is why I do NOT see a happy ending for anyone on Tuesday night (when the show ends).


 

Holy crap. I can't believe the twists and turns in this show.

Now off to read the recap.
 

Ok, just finished reading, thank you Nandicta, and thank you for all the recaps and being the team leader.

I hope they can revive her long enough for her to tell them who killed her.
 

Nandicta and Vivi, i was actually mad that they were ending this show with so much forgiveness. I don't know what that says about me, lol, probably nothing good. But what i mean is, it's one thing to forgive, it's another to let them totally off the hook for all they've done. Especially Lucio, forgiving him and letting him continue on was really stuck in craw.
So now I'm actually more pleased with the ending but I want to see Lucio being the one in jail of course, not Yago.
 

Finally steeled myself to read your recap Nandicta. And how I loved this line about Teo and Katia....

[Teo} makes a hundred love promises without saying a single word."

I will treasure that line and that moment. And do my best to move on from all the rest of the horror. It IS just a story, but alas, we humans do hurt, maim and betray our loved ones in real life as well.

Thanks for your outstanding recaps, your love of...and gift of language. And the generous blessing of your time to this blog.
 

Vivi, Steve, Superalfie, JudyB and Cathyx, thanks ever so much for taking the time to read and comment. I think we need a virtual group hug. This particularly difficult to watch and recap because I had a lump in my throat and an uneasy feeling from the first five minutes of the episode. The more Yago/Omar and Sara seemed happy, the more uncomfortable I got. The more plans they made, the more certain I was that tragedy would hit. I just didn't expect what happened to happen.

To answer your question about the gun, yes Yago/Omar took off his gun and set it on a table at Casa Sarquis, just before the confrontation he had with him, where he told him he has no intention of respecting their pact. Surely, that's the same gun that we see lying next to Sara's body.

Vivi, "Lucio saw to it that NO ONE can have a happy ending" I knew that twitchy sanamabish was up to something throughout the episode, I just couldn't envisage what it could possibly be. I take my hat off to the wonderful Flavio Medina for transmitting so much without a single line of dialogue. I found that his silent bits were more tense and eloquent that his speaking bits. He kept me on edge the whole time. Gaby de la Garza was majestic in her last scenes. She took my breath away and I felt her pain, her shame, her panic, her fear, her despair, as well as her hope that she could somehow avoid the tragic outcome she knew was coming. I felt it all and the actress deserves great praise for making it all so raw, so real, so penetrating. My heart was broken for a character I couldn't stand, though, like you, I admired her resilience and ability to stand up, dust herself off and carry on no matter what.

Steve, I agree with you and I dread what expects us on Monday, though I can't wait to find out. And thanks for reminding me of the flashdrive that Bruno still has. That bloomin' flashdrive! That's another ticking bomb! Oh dear!

Superalfie, you're totally right. I'm in the same boat. I haven't guessed a single thing right!

"I was thinking more the assassin would shoot for Omar and Sara would get in the way and die and then it would be Lucio vs Omar. Different equation, same outcome" I thought the same during the course of the episode too, when the hitwoman was lurking in the park. But no! Wrong again! I think it was either Julie or Niecie who, for the longest time, had this theory that Sara would die a heroic death that would redeem her sins, that she would die defending either Mati or Yago/Omar.

 

JudyB, I'm so sorry the episode affected you so much. It was so devastating but so beautifully executed. Excellent acting, directing and cinematography. Go read the latest recap for "Sueño de Horror, digo, Amor" for a major pick-me-up. The mediocrity is through the roof but thigh-slapping hilarious! Sending much love and light your way, my dear.

Cathyx, "i was actually mad that they were ending this show with so much forgiveness. I don't know what that says about me, lol, probably nothing good." Hahahaha! Actually, our positions align perfectly! I wouldn't say it means that we are not forgiving people, I'd rather consider it the way Jonás did: The injustice wasn't just against Omar, it was against innocent people too: The Guerreros, the casino security guard and his family, Ámbar, Mati,... Yago was granting forgiveness that wasn't his to give. Under his no criminal left unpardoned plan, Lucio, Sara and Abel will get off scot-free and live happily ever after, and as much as I like Abel, that is not fair. One can and should forgive for any number of reasons but there is a huge difference between forgiveness and impunity. Then again, I see Vivi's point of view as well: " If Yomar being with her meant that everyone could forgive, drop the hate, Matias could have a happy, stable family, and everyone could move on with their lives, then I was on-board. Why not? All of these people have made horrible mistakes. What does holding on to all the hate and resentment achieve?" Well, it seems that this discussion will now be moot because Lucio has decided to go down and take everybody down with him! And this could've been prevented had he been rotting in jail, instead of free and forgiven, which brings us to our first point: Our disagreement with so much forgiveness! :)

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your time, your kindness, your support and all the wonderful comments you contributed to the Yago patio. You're the reason this patio stayed open, in spite of everything Looneyvision did to bury this show. OK, no more. I'll leave the mushiness to the finale. Adiowz, amigowz (it means Adios, amigos in pidgin gringo Spanish. A long-running joke from the Sueño de Amor patio). Night night :)
 

Thanks Nandicta for the wonderful recap!

Lucio, by killing Sara and setting up Omar, assures himself Matias. I'm crossing my fingers that Sara survives, and that says how far I've come! I think it was Vivi who said she wasn't Saras biggest fan but if everyone is able to forgive and be happy she'll tolerate it. I feel the same way. I have a hard time seeing Yomar and Sara together but I think she has suffered enough. I just don't like her. And poor Mati can't lose his Mom! We have two hours (?) left. Gosh I hope we have something good to hang our hats on. Omar again underestimated Lucio. How many times will it take for him to get his head out of his bum? I guess this is it but is it too late? He doesn't have Fidel to help him and as much as I like Abel, Teo and Katia, they don't have the power of Fidel.
 

It don't get much better Nandicta, thanks.

“All you gotta do is hold him and kiss him and frame him and jail him, just do it and after you do, you will be his!”

The biggest upset for me in any of these TN's is rape.

Sara was the mastermind, yet they made Lucio the baddest of the bad guys, how convenient. Lucio didn't force Sara to marry him. She chose him and used him and she betrayed him too, so Sara kinda had it coming.

I think Yago is one selfish son of a biscuit to even ask his family to accept Sara. What a nasty piece of work. I'm still mad Yago's twisted courtship of Sara got Bruno's little girlfriend Alejandra killed. I hope he has to complete his prison sentence with another 60 years tacked on.

 

If Yago had never shown up, Bruno and therefore Alejandra would have still Lily investigated his brother's case, and Damian would have still killed her for finding out too much. That's not on Yago.
 

Not sure where Lilly popped up from. Tablets are so odd. :)
 

Thanks, Nandicta. Your recap reads like a tautly written novel. The antidote to happy endings shows up in his SUV and he looks mad as a mofo. Hell hath no fury like a Lucio cuckolded. Awesome.

I’d been hoping Sara would come out of this alive. Twasn't me who thought she'd go out heroically though. She was just too me-me-me. But who knows, maybe Yago’s love and forgiveness and the Guerrero’s letting her into the fold would’ve made her a better person.

So Lucio would humiliate Sara with rape, murder her, and leave Matias motherless all to get even with Yago. Sara was always smarter than Lucio. I hope somehow she has managed to implicate him. Poor Mati.

Teo and Katia were so cute in her sweet 16 bedroom. Surely these two will get a happy ending.
 

Nandicta,
Wow! What a recap you have shared with us on the patio. My hats off to you for recapping such a great, yet sad episode.

I have not been able to comment because of my work schedule, but believe me when I say that I have savored every recap that has been written for Yago. I actually was not watching the TN, but I started reading the recaps, and the recappers did such a great job telling the story that I had to tube in to watch. I have been hooked ever since.

Like most of you I have been totally wrong in guessing plots and storylines. The writers have done a great job. I like that no one in this story is perfect or innocent. Seems like everyone has flaws, just like in real life.

Vivi, I agree with what you said about Yago and Sara being together. I didn't want them to be end game, but if Sara was the only way Yago/Omar could be happy, then I am on board too.

I hate Lucio. I was totally surprised by the ending. Like some of you, I thought that maybe Sara would take a bullet for Yago, but again I was wrong. I never liked Sara, but I didn't want her to die this way. Maybe she will survive. The wound looked like it might be kind of low in the stomach area. Did anyone see if it was more in the chest area, like near her heart or lungs? If that's the case, then I guess Lucio got revenge on Yago again, and that sucks!

Thanks again to Nandicta and the Yago recappers.

Hasta Pronto
 

You are right vivi, holding on to hatred just
Tares you down, and destroys the soul. But she hsd some happiness howevet short lived. Loucio was never a friend. He is not even a good human being. He'll get his.
I haven't seen thid show sense they pre-empted for jon sabastian. This was a short
Tn, why didn't they put it back on after JB was over. Is yaho on late at nite? They've got
The episodes onDemand in order. Its hard to keep interest in a show when its jerked around Like uni done ya-omar. 4 more eoisodes left.I Probably wont see those either. I just happen to be goin thru recapes this one caught my eye. I didn't like sara, hated what she did. Maybe this was the ending for the lives she devastated all those years ago. No, nobody deserves to be raped then murdered.
I hope they catch the demon that did that. At
Least she was forgiven. If shes even dead. It would be devastating to go through all of that prison in all that heartache and then come back and think you might have a good start and then somebody takes it away from you again.

Thanks Nandicta
 

Carvivlie, Tofie, Niecie, AuntyAnn and Nina, thank you for swinging by the Yago Patio to greet your compañeres and leave such great comments! :)

Carvivlie, "Lucio, by killing Sara and setting up Omar, assures himself Matias." Your conclusion gave me much food for thought and the way you formulated it was simple but poignant. Could it be that Lucio loves Mati more than he loves Sara herself? During and after the episode, I thought his cruel and calculated revenge was motivated solely by scorn but you made me see things differently. Now I interpret his shifty looks in the cabin differently. Despite his nervousness, he was mostly calm and collected, he didn't become agitated until his request to be present when they ell Mati the truth was denied. Then, before he could digest that refusal, he receives a hug from Sara while facing the love where she made love to Yago, Yago who gets to keep everything Lucio once had (it was stolen property but it was his). Now that I've had a chance to think about it, I believe Lucio didn't walk into that cabin determined to do what he did. He may have had some sinister ideas bouncing off his sick desperate head ever since his confrontation with Yago/Omar but nothing was set in stone until that moment. The moment he realized that his son will find out he is not his son and Lucio won't even be present to comfort the child or reassure him that he will always be his dad no matter what.

Tofie, "I think Yago is one selfish son of a biscuit" Hahahaha! He may not have been directly responsible of Alejandra's death but he should've done more to protect her. Actually, here is my biggest gripe: Why oh why hasn't he told his family and loves ones the truth about his identity from the get-go then moved them far away, to safety. He has the money to uproot them in an hour and have them settled anywhere in the world, with all the commodities, luxuries and protection his vast fortune can provide. The Guerreros could've invented any story so as not to raise the suspicions of Yago's enemies, especially Lucio (Sara was persona non grata at Casa Guerrero and Abel never visited so they wouldn't have realized the Guerreros are gone).

Vivi, I thought Lily was some character I missed (I still have 11 episodes in the middle I need to watch) :D

 

Niecie, I got confused then, but that theory was great and I thought it would be a great way to redeem Sara and make us feel sorry for her. However, the writers (and kudos to the Turkish writers really for their originality) found another totally unexpected way to break our hearts over a characters the majority of the viewers disliked immensely.

AuntyAnn, it's good to see you (read you) no matter when you can find the time to pop in and chat with us. I'm glad the recaps incited you to tune in to see this beautiful but tragic story. Thanks to you and other faithful readers and commenters, the recap team soldiered on despite Looneyvision's determination to jerk us around different timeslots and channels.

Regarding Sara's bullet wound, I guess Lucio got her in the lungs. I don't think it's a stomach wound, because my understanding is that being shot in the stomach makes the death long and excruciatingly painful. I may be wrong but that's what I heard anyway. Sara seemed to go away peacefully, she wasn't groaning in pain. I don't know, what do you guys think?

Nina, there are still viewers on Uninovelas Facebook page who ask to this day "Where did Yago go?" "What happened with Yago?" Tres Veces Ana could've done without the premiere week of double episodes. Por Siempre Joan Sebastian could've waited. Narcos could've waited. Yago should've been shown in its entirety at 10pm without preemptions, without cancellations, without messing about. Had Looneyvision done, had they stood behind the show they themselves insisted on getting the exclusivity for, Yago would've been over by end of July and he would've engaged a greater number of viewers. Oh well! I hope you get the chance to watch what you missed OnDemand.

Have a great Sunday, compañeres! :)
 

Nandicta: I noticed that too. Didn't Lucio shoot Selma in the lungs as well ?

 

The paramedics were giving Sara CPR and at the time I thought that one doesn't give CPR to someone with a bullet to the heart, so perhaps it was below the heart. I hope she has time to at least tell them who shot her, if not a full recovery.
 

And my point Nandicta about Yago. He is manipulative, very selfish, emotionally motivated, a liar and a thug. He was spell bound by Sara the first moment he laid eyes on her and every thing he has done, everything, was to punish her, trick her in disclosing if she had ever loved him, make her beg and blow up his big balloon head ego, and resume as if nothing ever happened. No one, friend or family or foe, mattered except to be used by him toward that end. He didn't protect his family and now forced them to accept her on his terms. He's a menace to society.
 

Tofie: The consequences of Yago's revenge plot is coming back to bite him as he's framed for Sara's shooting!

Lucio likely getting Matias unless Bruno sends the flash-drive to the law enforcement agencies & Abel saves the day!


 

Sorry I'm so late, Nandicta, but gracias. You made everything very clear. My favorite line:

At Casa Sarquis, Lucio is still in yesterday’s clothes, having a heart-to-heart with his friend, Jack Daniels.

I didn't want to see this, either. Sara did or does not deserve to get Omar/Yago back. She would collect Camilo's fortune by now and she needs nothing else. She was only at risk of losing Matias once he knew the truth.

Lucio got smarter for having been married to her, but this was not a situation of him being cuckolded. Idiota, Sara may have been your wife, but that is Past Tense. She is not property.

With two hours to go almost anything can still happen.
 

Thank you, Nandicta. That couldn't have been a fun recap to do. Although, there was a lot of nice stuff in the episode too, and you covered all of that beautifully. It's just hard not to dwell on the negative.

I never liked Sara much, but if she had to be killed I wish it had been when Yomar was still trying to hate her. This just sucks.

It was I (but I think others too) who thought Sara's last act would be to throw herself in harm's way to protect Mati. Well, she didn't get a chance. Maybe Lucio will, but I hope not. I want to enjoy his demise. I'm still holding onto hope that Lucio will somehow get killed twice.

One thing struck me funny - Katia's bedroom, unchanged since she moved out long ago. (I think Omar's room was kept untouched as well.) Are there any parents who really do this?
 

OK, that last question from me was maybe a dumb one. When my cousin died when I was young, of course her parents left her room as it was for many years. It makes sense that both Omar's family and Katia's would have left their rooms unchanged, for similar reasons.
 

I've left my kids' rooms unchanged Julie. And a good thing since one of them came back to live with us again! One other still houses our married daughter and husband while they visit, and the other girls' room our granddaughter. She loved all of Julie's wild posters from the 90's. Grandson bunked in my office, not nearly as interesting, but he had a fabulous playroom in the basement and that was all he needed to be happy.
 

Thank you for stopping by, UA and Julie.

UA, you are absolutely right, this is not a situation of Lucio being cuckolded but in his eyes he is. He believes his divorce is not valid because he signed it under duress and he believes that the betrayal of Omar with the subsequent dodgy history he and Sara shared makes her his property. He seems to be one of those people who, if they can't have something they covet they prefer to destroy. I do hope, however, that he is not prepared to do the same with poor Mati.

Julie, same as you, I definitely don't want to see Lucio dying in a heroic act. I could've gotten onboard with that way back when I was touched by his paternal devotion to Mati, before he lead Ámbar to slaughter and before he killed Selma and (possibly) Sara.

Have a lovely evening, everyone! Catch you tomorrow for the first part of the gran final :)
 

Nandicta: Looking forward to the recap from Monday night!
 

Ahhhhhhhh!!!! What in the heck? Ok I'm with Steve (can't wait for the recap)

I finally caught up to be able to comment and i just watched this mornings episode. WOW
 

It wasn't on Hulu yet when I looked for it this morning. :-( Hulu was doing a great job the last few weeks, but not last night. ::fume::
 

Hello all! I'm about to start watching the episode now and get started on the recap right away. I hope I'm able to post it by 4 pm EDT, if not, I'll post a discussion page while I finalize it. Thank you
 

Thank YOU!
 

I haven't watched yet, so I've got no problem with the recap coming later, Nandicta. Looking forward to both the episode, and your recap!
 

I'm looking forward to seeing it posted at 3:00pm CST!
 

Well here it is Chewsday evening, & I see no place to disgust the ending, which I do not understand. I saw Yago alive poozling with Sara in her hospital bed, both alive. Then Sara seemed to croak, but the machines didn't go into croak mode showing a flat brain wave, etc. Then we saw an etherial white school bus with everyone who died during the story in same character as on earth. We don't know where the bus is going -- to heaven, hell, or wherever. But then we see Yago on the bus, still schmoojelating with Sara -- Why is he there? I didn't see him commit sewer pipe??? At any rate, the show for me was not entertaining, worst ending I ever saw in a show, even worse than Donde Esta Elisa. It came close to being a complete tragedy, only we didn't see Yago die -- so why is he on the celestial bus? Is Dumas rotating in his grave?
 

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