Caray, Caray!

Parte 1~~
• Viridiana shows up at The Realty Place demanding to see Mariano to give him a piece of her mind about his having locked up Soledad for kidnapping.

• Back in county lockup, aka “la cárcel”, Solebad admits to Valeria she’s bad company cuz she’s very introverted and keeps to herself.  Just then Sole is taken out to speak with “visitors."

• At La Cruz Roja, Rodrigo enters Remedios’s room to introduce himself and offers to pay her expenses per Ramiro’s request, Ramiro being his very capable employee.  She refuses Rod, explaining that her husband left her well provided for.  She does run a rooming house of sorts out of her big, drafty old home, but it’s because she cannot stand to be alone.  She takes in roomers and now the place is full of life and energy—just the way she likes it.  However, she doesn’t need anyone’s help financially.  She tells him she’s certain she knows him from somewhere and will have to try to recall [hacer memoria = search one’s memory] from where she remembers him.  She thanks him and Rod leaves.



• Chana has come during visitors’ hours to speak with Sole.  She encourages Sole to get a message through to Ana Lucia that she wants to explain things to her.  Sole tearfully states that first A Lucha has to forgive her and her daughter so far has refused.

• Rod runs into Facundo [BTW, whose name does translate into voluble and fluent and/or eloquent] entering the hospital floor lounge.  Fubar asks if it’s true that Rem saved Marcelo’s life.  Rod scolds him and says she sure has and over the past three years has been a much better parental unit that has Fu by becoming a hermit and cloistering himself or at any time during Marco’s life, for that matter.    What right has Rod to do this? (Yes, all us inquiring minds definitely want to know!)

Rod reminds him that he gave him that right years ago.  He’s aided in protecting Marcelo.  In fact, Rod adds, he should be protecting him from his own father!!  “—And do we know who Evaristo has been working for all these years?”  “—Unfortunately, the only person who knew that is now dead.”  And that somebody, Viewerville learns to their drop-jaw, slap-me-silly impactados selves, is none other than Alfredo Varela.  Rod adds, “—Before you go in to see Remedios García, you’d better know that she was Alfredo’s wife!  He told her to protect him at all costs before he died.”   Old Fubar is one frown-ya-knocked-me-down-a-peg impactado.

• Yes, he’s ba-a-a-a-ack.  Marcelo is getting dressed up and he’s got all three keys on his key ring now.

• At Rem’s Rooming House, Ana Leticia looks haughtily around and sniffs, then    wrinkles her pug, patrician nose contemptuously at Santiago’s room.  Her husband is used to much better. (However,Viewerville is quite impressed with the handsomely carved woodwork of the cabinetry, the moldings and all those gates and doors around there—not to mention  the stonework and the brick and mortar treatments.  Sort of makes ya wonder if Ana MiMi’s taste is all in her mouth since she’s apparently so taken with glass, cheap chrome, and plywood.  Errr....don’t answer that; we all know it's plainly a rhetorical question.)  Ana Lucia says, well, SanMarco was very happy in this grand ol’ place.  Never had a hint of a complaint.  “—Didn’t hurt, him having your visage around, now did it?  He even had a carbon copy of his wife.”

The two sisters discuss SanMarco’s deadly tumor, Ana MiMi somewhat nonchalantly and Ana Lucha quite tearfully.  A Lucha hands her sister over the wedding band she took from Santi and  renounces any holds she felt she had on her man.  He’s her sister’s husband and she will no longer interfere.  (A Lucha no longer has any lucha left in her, anyway.  She's like a helio baloon that's lost 2/3 of the gas by now, all wrinkled and folding.)  Yes, she admits, she was ready to suffice as being nothing more but The Other Woman.  Not now, even though it’s breaking her heart into a thousand pieces [mil pedazos].   There should now no longer be any reason to get a divorce.  She certainly doesn’t want to do that to her sister and BIL.—to come between the two of them.  Ana MiMi admits she still hasn’t signed the papers yet and will now take this into consideration.  (A loud, communal groan makes it’s way throughout Viewerville.)

• Viridiana has forced Mariano to appear and come out of his lair to speak with her.  (Viewerville watches aghast at what passes for haute-couture in this scene.  Whoever suggested tights instead of hose or bared legs had their proverbial heads up their proverbial backsides.  Certain styles are simply not appropriate for women of certain builds, y punto.)  Vi is surprised to learn that Ana Lucia had survived all these years, but incredulous at learning her employee had kidnapped and kept the little girl as her own all these years.  Vi then also learns it was a friend of Mo's named “Claudia,” whose mama lives in the same boarding house as his niece and Solebad.   "--She didn’t just save the girl’s life—she robbed her life by having kept her from them for herself for 20 years.  The two things are quite different." Mo is quite emphatic on this point, still.  (Can’t fault him there!)Well, be that as it may, thinks Vi, but Sole deserves some consideration as her employee—not to mention, that Vi should have been informed of his intent to press charges, especially since Solebad was her employee.  (Naw, not particularly.)

• At the same time, Ana MiMi runs into Nerina and Valantin while at Rem’s.  A MiMi learns that the obnoxious woman from the hospital and from the meet up at the manse is TinTin’s mother.  TinTin is just as surprised to learn that her triplet lives in the same place as Nerina.  Nerina informs her that it was Claw, her daughter and TinTin’s sister, who gave the skinny on A Lucha to Unky Mo.  “—How lovely.”  Ana Lemeeee is going to thank Claw personally for the marvelous[y] gift her daughter has given Ernestina and her family.”  Just then a tearful Ana Lucia enters the suite and TinTin is sit-me-down-again-and-spin-me-round impactado.

• Back at County Lock-Up, Chana and Sole accidentally encounter Ernie and Leonora on their way to speak with Valeria.  However this encounter turns deadly when Ernie recognizes her from having come to the house to work on Ana Leticia’s gown.  Sole harshly informs her that yes, and she is also Ana Lucia’s mother.  (Dun-dun-dun-dunnnnnnnnnn!)

~~end, parte 1~~
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Parte 2~~

• Vi gives Mo a last chance to clarify their relationship and to admit what she saw took place between him and The Blonde.  “—Anything else to tell me?”  He naively, clueless to the fact he was seen kissing Claw, answers nada de nada.  Ok.  Bye.

• Meanwhile, Sole, with the visiting Chana,  gathers her courage and robotically spits out the facts concerning how she found Ernie’s grand-daughter and saved her life.  “I gave her a life, like any mother for her child would.”  And, she admits committing the sin of keeping her as her own.  Why?  Because from the moment she found her and saw her she loved her as if she were her own, immensely.   “—I have always been a humble woman, but she never lacked for anything with me.  She had a good upbringing; I provided her principle standards to live by.  I gave her whatever I could afford to.  I offered her my entire existence.  Doesn’t that count for you?  Is it right that I should be paying for all this love in jail?”   Ernie, this being the first time she’s heard that Ana Lucia is actually live and well and happy living in a loving, though humble home, has a heart attack right then and there.

• Vi leaves Mo’s offices and wipes his kisses off her lips.  The dude obviously has no guilt or shame over what happened with The Calculating Clawed One.
• Ana Non-Lucha is invited to the recital that Ana Laura is giving with TinTin.   TinTin, the slimy toad, looks appropriately hangdog and heartbroken when she mentions that she only knows about her other triplet in terms of her being Ramiro’s fiancée.
                 
• Chana, meanwhile, realizes the three woman are the ‘Three Sisters’ foretold of during the reading she gave to Ernie.  Sole is punished for having caused Ernie’s disconsolate discombobulation and directly sent to the punishment cell in solitary confinement.

• Felicitous Facundo (not!) frightens the feces out of Rem when he enters her room to supposedly thank her for saving his son’s life by so selflessly offering up her own.  She tells him bluntly she wants him out of there as of yesterday!  He lets her know he’s just learned that she is Alfredo Varelo’s widow.  Ah, yes, she says, he worked for your son.  Not quite, corrects Fubar.  We let my son believe that, but in reality, he worked for me.  He  “suggests” the nurses give her a sedative.  Before leaving, he asks her for a key he believes her husband must surely have given her.  She insists she has no idea what he’s referring to.  He tells her he believes otherwise.

• Outside her room, Fu tells somebody he’s heading directly over since another somebody is there at the house with the first somebody.   The first somebody isn’t just anybody; it’s Edmundo.  Neither is the second somebody just anybody.  He is Evaristo, whose failing memory makes him think the Salvaterra that’s on his way is Marco, but he’s told it is Facundo, the father.  Eddie tells Ev that The Man is upset because things got out of control.  Ev starts yelling like a maniac that things don’t  get  out of control with him!  They’ll see once Fu shows up.  Suddenly Ev has an Alzheimer attack and thus a memory glitch.  He thinks they’re about to become compadres.  Eddie sarcastically reminds him that his granddaughter committed suicide years ago.

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• Ev grabs Edmundo by the collar and accuses him of having killed her and then making it look like suicide—just like Eddie so conveniently did with his own wife so many years ago.  The only reason he accepted this marriage was because Ev had threatened him.  (Gotta sympathize with Ol’ Ed on that point.  Nobody in their right minds would have wished Gina on even their worst enemy’s kid—well, maybe--but just on their worst enemy’s kid.) Ev remembers the facts now: Ed gave his kid, Ram, the news about Gina’s death much ahead of the police even finding her body.  Ruh-roh!!!  (Lightbulbs now go off like fireworks on the 4th of July as Viewerville suddenly has a thought!  It really could have been ol’ Eddie-boy!)

Ed pulls a gun.   Ev yells at him to be a man.  [Put on a pair of pants = lleva los pantalones/ ponte los pantalones]  Ed says he’s not like Ev.  “—Of course not.  I kill facing them.  You, on the other hand, only know how to set up suicides.  Isn’t that how you got rid of your wife, your son’s mother?  Just what do you think Ramiro will say when he learns all about this?”  “—Yeah? And what will Facundo say when he finds out that you tried to murder his son on Ana Leticia’s orders?  You destroyed his world when they buried his son.  He spent three years like a hermit in a cabin because of this pain and suffering!!”  “—Are you so certain it was due to the pain?  Or could it have been because of the guilt that was eating away [corrorer= to rust, eat away, corrode] at him?

• Leo hears from Chana that it was she who read Ernie the tarot cards that day.  She knows Ana Lucia and she knows she’s alive and well.

• Meanwhile, Valeria learns that her visitor, Doña Ernestina, had a fainting attack and is in the clinic now.  A bit later we learn she’s now at home.  Cardio Doc arrives to check her out.  Leo eventually calls Ana Llora to let her know.  A Llora and Ram are taking the next flight out.  (Bummer!  He was just getting used to dealing with the infirmity and the artificial limb.)   Chana is in the other room.  She excuses herself with Miranda and leaves word with her that she’ll come back later.

• At the same time, Ana MiMi is at a coffee shop when she gets a call from Orlando and voices her desire that Orlando take flying leap.  She ain’t givin’ him the money nohow noway.  Besides she  knows Ana Lucia is alive and well and she’s already found her sister’s rooming house and spoken with her.  Tuff nutz, snorely Orly!  (You snooze and you lose, buddy boy!)  Tin Tin rolls up to her table.  Apparently  she wants her and Violentin to strike up a deal.
 
• Nerina admits to Ana Lucia that she also knew eventually the truth that everyone was keeping from her.  She wasn’t in favor of it, but Sole was too frightened of losing her love, she tells Ana Lu.  Ana Lucia admits she’s angry but she’d never stop loving her.  She’d tell her that, but nobody knows where Solebad is right now.  (I wonder if they get the newspaper there.  Wait till tomorrow morning and it’ll no doubt be above the fold on page one.)

• Speaking of Chana, she comes to tell Ana Lu to forgive Mama Sol (and possibly where she is now???) but Ana Lu only wants to gripe at her for also lying to her.  Chana tells her that her abuela is near death and she should come speak to her, even if it’s only for the first and last time.


• Fubar is now giving Ev a scolding for screwing things up.  Marcelo cannot open Alf’s lock box because they still don’t have his key.  Inside that lock box is information that can destroy the whole cotton pickin’ bunch of them!  WRONG, Fubar!!  Your son is at this very minute opening the lock box you have so long desired to possess.  What’s in it remains to be seen………

end parte 2~

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