Caray, Caray!

[My apologies, but I am living the recapper’s nightmare with only a poor quality video, bad audio, machine gun Spanish, and no CC’s. On Demand and Hulu+ are a bit behind.  But who’s complaining? –ed.]

(And this is just in the first ten minutes.....)

Viewerville is at the edge of their seats as Yolanda, John, and Zulima take an unexpected air born detour to the creek bed hundreds of feet below in the red bug. Dave/Arturo and Monica look on in horror.  Dave thinks on his feet and immediately grabs a rope; he then heads down the branch-filled  cliff side.  Suddenly there’s an explosion.  More horror as we learn Dave’s knocked cold—but only momentarily.  He heads back down and another policeman comes down with a fire extinguisher.  They see all have escaped into the deep-forested hillsides.




Dave, aka El Duro, gets his tracker on and determines there’s blood on the fallen tree trunks heading a certain direction, while at the same time, John tells Yoli and Zuli that the ranch is near and all they have to do is follow the river to the highway.

At the highway they commandeer some farmer’s truck full of hay.  The farmer puts hay over them and we see the lone truck with hay drive out of the trees.  Dave and Monica realize the group with John Lucio have gotten away from them.

The other stewardesses are watching T.V. later that morning in their respective domiciles and see the news about the desperate escape.  Suddenly they realize just who they helped onto the plane the night before.  Blondie is especially stunned, understanding she’s now an accomplice to drug lords escapades, literally.

Later that same morning someone is kidnapping the gals during their morning routines.

At Rancho de Narcos Lucios, Oscar wants to know who’s to blame for this major fuster-cluck.  Yoli, Zuli and Zeki (?) are on the carpet for 5 million bucks that have gone missing.  Yoli says it’s not their fault.  Oscar calls her a troublemaker and clicks his knife open threateningly.  She scolds, saying they’ve done all to save his brother’s life and all he can think of is money.  He comments that he hasn’t time for her attitude and walks outside.  He’s got a proposition.  The other stewardesses are tied up as captives in the truck.  Zeki’s told: it’s their lives for the 5 million bucks in the next 24 hrs.

Zuli races into John’s bedroom where he’s lying unconscious.  She tries waking him to ask him to save them.  But, his body-guard (Mauricio Aspes, who’s been missing from Uni these last few years) threatens her with his gun at the back of her head to “get out!!”

According to the news accounts, John and the two stewardesses are dead.  Dave explains to his boss that they gave this information to the press hoping to make the drug cartels lower their guard and to gain time till they can connect John Lucio to Centro American Air.  Monica adds that the way they brought Lucio back to Mexico (on the plane) is more than enough. The boss isn’t interested in the small fry like Zeki and Zuli.  He only wants John Lucio and the other cappos. Duro asks for more time to learn who of the stewardesses must be aiding them. He gives Duro some more time; they need results and quickly or it’s over.

Meanwhile, Oscar takes out his pistol and demands the women get down on their knees.  Yoli looks him straight in the eyes.  “--You’re going to kill us?  Well, then do it, but do it looking us in the face!”  One of his henchmen forces Yoli to her knees and Oscar’s about to shoot when John shows up and tells his brother to drop his pistol.  “—Lower your gun!  That’s an order!”  That night John and Oscar have a table of beauties at dinner to improve their view and their meal.

At headquarters, Moni and Duro fight over whether it’s Yoli or Zuli who’s aiding and abetting the cartel and John Lucio.  He insists it’s Yoli who’s the closes to him.  She’s the one who’s got to be watched.  He warns Moni never to question him and not to forget who she works for.

At dinner, John thanks the stewardesses for saving his life so magnificently.  He’s buying Zuli a car to replace the old one.  Yoli asks what they get.  He offers them all an association with his organization.  It’s a once in a lifetime deal and an offer they cannot/better not refuse.  “—Your lives will be set forever.  Think it over.”

Later that evening on their way back to their rooms, Zuli tries to apologize for the troubles she’s caused.  Yoli makes it plain she got her mixed up in drug trafficking and is not the friend she led her to believe.  Deloris, the lady in charge of the apartment complex, tells Yoli she noted that she hadn’t been back and isn’t she working at the club anymore?  Nope.  She got a job working for Centro American Air as a stewardess.  A nice change, so stop the gossip already!  Exhausted, she enters her dark bedroom and thinks back to how she got to this crossroads in life.  She remembers John’s words that she’ll make so much money nothing would be out of their reach that they’d want.  She still wants to pilot planes.  Her decision is made.

Anyway Blondie is reminded the next morning over coffee with the other stewardesses, it’s not something they can say no to, Blondie is no longer seen in the group.  The other three join Zuli and Zeki on the street as Zuli entices them by showing all her new car from John.  Yoli asks Zeki how the delivery and transport thing works.  He explains the ways they evade DEA detection and that they travel to various cities in Europe and South America.  Everyone from the mechanics, to the pilots and even the police are involved and take a cut to look the other way.  Nobody steals a single bill because Oscar will make them pay with their life.Blondie Bette tells the girls she simply refuses to take up with narcos; at the same time, John tells Oliver that all the gals are trustworthy except for Bette.  John and Oliver discuss their decision to get rid of Bette in cloaked terms, but Zeki realizes what they're hinting at and gets feisty with Oscar over killing decent people who simply don’t want to get involved.  John reminds him they’ll be the first to fall if she and others like her are made to talk.

Dave continues checking out Yoli and offers to buy her a meal.  Yoli can’t right now.  She races after Bette who enters a bus.  Yoli’s just missed it.  John drives up to the curb just then and tells her they still have things to discuss.  Like what?  Like the missing 5 million dollars she owes him.  She frowns and gets in the car.  Monica has lookouts and she puts out an APB on her and John.

John and Yoli stop somewhere off the highway in the mountains.  They talk about the debt and he flirts a bit.  She doesn’t care and will pay him back even though it will be years.  (I think.)  He offers another deal.  He’ll renounce the debt and never mention it again if they can be friends and she works for him and pays him what she can.   She agrees.  Then he wants to show her something.

John takes Yoli to his private plane and airport. He tells her he’s learned she wants to be a pilot and he’s willing to get her there.  “—In exchange for what?”

At the airline, Dave is checking something for Moni and gets interrupted by Zeki.  He has to leave.

John takes Yoli up in the plane and she melts.  She really has fun.  Her whole stone wall and stubborn attitude changes.

Zuli calls to complain to Zeki about something.  He ends up giving her the news that John’s put a hit out on Bette for that night.

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