Caray, Caray!

Repeated scene: Juan gets thrown out of Bodega de Los Angeles and Ramón and Tano are assigned to get Juan’s things out.

Sonia breaks the news to Lilian and Grace that David threw Juan out. Grace tells Sonia to get out, then Lil tries to call Juan and leaves a voicemail for him. Lil and DisGrace argue about how this must be Grace’s fault. Lil says to DisGrace, “This wouldn’t have happened if you had been able to buy that land!

David with Luciana is lamenting how he ever could have trusted Juan. He says that all these years he felt sorry for Juan and felt responsible for him and this is how Juan repays him! Juan is just an unhappy ingrate! David hugs Luciana and thanks her for listening to him.

Lu calls Miguel and tells him about what happened with Juan and how Juan wanted to ruin David. Mig says he told Dave many times not to trust Juan. But, Luciana says, “I think Juan might come after you.” Mig says, “No problem, I’m ready to take him on.” Lu says, “With that attitude, you worry me even more!” Mig tells Lu that he’s already related everything to the police detective everything that we suspected regarding Juan. Now maybe David can confirm all of what we suspected. Mig at first is thinking that Juan may try to take off far away. But Lu tells him the news. “No, he won’t be going far. He bought the olive tree orchard next door.” Mig says, “What? Are you serious?” “Yes, I’m serious because Juan won the bid for the olive orchard that was for sale that David tried to buy.” Mig say, “Thanks for calling and take care now.”

Erica and her dad walk in and Mig gives them the news that Juan is a traitor who bought the olive tree orchard. Adolfo says that he feels badly for David, as Juan was the vineyard administrator. He also wants Miguel to know that although he’s the vineyard chief, Adolfo respects and trusts him. Mig should feel protected from whatever happens there.

Leon comes into the employees’ house to find Carito crying. She tells him that Perla is leaving with Juan and now she feels more alone than ever, since Perla was like a sister to her. León takes her into his arms to comfort her, but then Sonia walks in and thinks something is going on with them and becomes jealous. “Well excuse me” says Sonia. “Sorry for interrupting. I just came to leave tomorrow’s work orders.” She says to Carito, “Whatever León is promising you, don’t believe him. He’s that way with all the girls.”

Ding dong! Lil and DisGrace show up at Juan’s door. Juan opens the door and Lil is shocked to see that he’s been in a fight. Juan says, “So what are you doing here? I didn’t really want to see you both.” Lil answers, “Relax Juan, we came to see how you were and what happened to you” Juan responds, “I had a fight with David and he told me to leave. Well, I’m glad that you are so worried about me, so goodbye, thanks but no thanks.” He begins to close the door but DisGrace stops him. She says, “Well we had a deal going, didn’t we?” Juan says, “No that deal no longer exists. It’s now everyone for themselves. I just don’t need you both anymore.” But Lil says, “Tell us what we need to do so that we can continue with what we were doing together.” So Juan says, “Well that all depends on what you are willing to pay for my silence.” DisGrace then asks, “So to what are you referring?” “Well for starters”, says Juan, “you can give to me what you were going to pay for the olive orchard. Or I’ll just tell David all about your conspiracies to get him.” DisGrace says, “You’re crazy, Juan.” But he responds, “Oh no…I’m in control now. You don’t have to agree with me about this.” DisGrace tries to protest and says, “Do you know how much money you are talking about?” Juan arrogantly tells her, “NOTHING compared to what you will LOSE if I tell David what you have been up to!” Lilian tries to tell him that they have complied with everything he has asked of them. But Juan says, “No you haven’t! All you have done is fight with Marta over your silly jealousies. And you Grace, all you do is fret about whether Luciana will win David over you. I was the stupid one for getting involved with you broads. Things are going to get bad for you and when it all ends, it’s all going to end very badly for you!” (Sounds like one of those Biblical prophecies to me! Their Karmageddon is coming one day! LOL!) DisGrace thinks she can talk to Juan alone about all this, but Lil won’t allow it. DisGrace says, “So what if I tell David that you’ve been stealing from him all these years?” Juan says, “So what? You can’t prove it! Now just get the money ready for me and leave me in peace. Now if you’ll both excuse me….” Juan then shuts the door on their faces.

DisGrace and Lil get back to the house to discuss their next moves.

Cesar is over at David’s house and says, “Well I always knew that Juan was crazy, but I never knew he was this crazy.” David says he never knew when things started to change between him and Juan and he should have paid attention to Susan and Miguel when they tried to bring things to his attention regarding Juan. Cesar says, “Well he had been your best friend, you had worked together for many years, you had a strong relationship.” David says, “It was all lies! All this time he was just envious of what I had.” Cesar responds, “Well now he is out of your life, out of the vineyard and out of your business.” Dave says, “No so fast, Cesar. Guess what happened? Juan bought the olive tree orchard next door. He’s also declared war on me.” Cesar says, “Well how about that? I have no doubt that Juan is involved in a lot of other dirty things.” Dave says, “Yea, like where did he suddenly get all this money to buy that property?” Cesar points out too that Susan and Mig think that Juan was responsible for ruining all that wine and if he’s able to do that, what else is he capable of doing?” Dave says, “Exactly, now I’m going to tell the police detective everything that I suspect about Juan.” “Well done” says Cesar.

That night Cesar is outside on the phone with the lawyer for Susan regarding Mark’s release from jail. He gives Susan that confirmation that he was released a few weeks ago. Susan is very upset because she was not told. Cesar explains that the lawyer was out of the country and just came back. He just found out about it himself. Susan is upset, but then they change the subject to David’s problems with Juan. Cesar says that he’s warned David many times, but David hasn’t listened and always defended Juan. Susan says, “Don’t feel badly. You have been a good friend and it’s just good that Juan is the one who is now gone.” Cesar is in agreement.

Mig and Erica discuss the win competition and how they are looking forward to winning. They get back to work.

In the morning, Dave, Lu, and Susan are going through invoices and paperwork leftover from Juan. (I don’t know why this stuff isn’t all input in the computer system, what a mess! Don’t they use Quickbooks or something?). They decide they plan of action with running the vineyard businesswise, with ordering supplies and such. Susan knows where they can get a good outside lawyer. David says they are notifying everyone that Juan no longer works there. Susan finds some paperwork that shows a lot of inconsistencies with some unknown providers. David is about to kick himself because he should have listened to everyone who was warning him. Susan leaves to go get coffee and he and Luciana talk. She reminds him of what he said, “Together, they are stronger and come out ahead.”

Next morning Mig and Erica are “working” but they look more like they are flirting. They discuss a little about Juan and David, but Erica says, “You are very noble, and you are not part of them anymore. But you always act like you are stuck there. You speak with such nostalgia and all, it makes me feel badly.”

Lil drops by to visit Gut at his office. He wants to talk about their problems and he says he’s not afraid of Adolfo. Lil says she wants to be his priority and he promises not to stand her up again and invites her to another event. (Gag!) She’s giving him another chance.

As Gut and Lil are leaving his office, a bunch of reporters surround them asking him about “raids” on immigrants. Gut begins to answer, but Lil pipes up and says, “Illegal aliens don’t deserve any better treatment than they get!” Then she says she’s the sheriff’s girlfriend, Lilian Smith. The reporters ask if he agrees with his girlfriend and Gut says no, he’s working for everyone and there is classified information. Then Lil points to the cameraman and says, “Are YOU legal?” Gut whisks Lil away and you can hear the clatter of her heels. Gut is pretty upset and tells Lil to never do that again. But Lil says, “Why not? It’s the truth. And don’t forget who put you here.” (Arrogant, isn’t she?) Gut says he’s there because of his work and is not going to risk his job because of her racist remarks.” Lil leaves, says she’s not going to the event and to go look for Marta instead.

Back at Juan’s place, Mark says that he would have given anything to see how Dave looked when he got the news. They discuss that they can’t use the illegals to work the land. But Juan’s idea is to “work Gutierrez, to be free of all suspicion.”

Lu finds DisGrace in the patio painting. She confronts her about his manipulating Bobby and now must face the consequences. But DisGrace says, “Listen to me! Who are YOU to say anything to me? You are no one to be in the middle of my family stuff.” Lu says, “Well you’d just better be careful about what you do with the children and what you say. Don’t pit them against their father’s wishes.” DisGrace says, “Yeah and all you want to do is to get close to David yourself!” So Lu tells her, “And if that’s the way it is, then what of it?” DisGrace was not happy to hear that and so she calls Lu a hypocrite. But Lu says, “No, no, YOU are the hypocrite because you are manipulating the children because you want to be with David. All you want to do is ruin the relationship the children have with their father.” DisGrace pulls the “Tía” card and tells her that she is just a lowly employee and NOTHING to anyone. DisGrace turns her back and returns to her painting.

Miggy comes to visit Dave in his office to talk to him about what happened with Juan and to say how sorry he is to hear it happened. He came to offer all his support to try to prove that Juan was behind a lot of the stuff that happened. Together they can prove that Juan did those things and send him to prison! Miguel and Dave shake hands and discuss a plan. Miguel ends by telling David he still has a lot of love for that land and even though things didn’t work out with Lu, he has no regrets.

Later at Juan’s apartment, he tells Perla that DisGrace has paid him they money and now he has money to pay off creditors or do what he wants with it. Perla asks if she can ask Carito to join them, but Juan says no. Perla says, “I sort of promised her, I just can’t leave her alone.” Juan still says no and gives a bunch of excuses. (Of course we know that it’s because he’s hiding his criminal activities).

Tano and Fer are outside talking about Juan. Fer can’t believe all that happened, but she has never liked Juan anyway. He gets up, says he has a lot of work to do. She asks if she can help him work because she’s been studying a long time and needs to do something else and misses him. So they go off together.

Later DisGrace and Dave are talking in his office. He asks if she ever heard Juan say anything against him. “Did he ever tell you he was interested in purchasing that olive tree property?” DisGrace puts on her best innocent look and says that Juan never said a word to her. Then she comes out with a cock and bull story about how Juan was jealous of Dave from their university days because Juan was in love with Lisa, but Lisa was in love with David. (Don’t we remember that story differently? Wasn’t Juan in love with Grace, but Grace was in love with David?) Anyway, she goes on to say that then Juan’s father died and it was one thing after another with Juan. She goes on to tell him that his family will never be traitors and they are the ones who love and worry about you. “Now I’m so glad you are not mad at me anymore”, says DisGrace. David says, “Right. I am no longer angry with you.”

In the patio, Marta brings Lil her coffee and turns to walk away. Lil says, “Hey, I haven’t dismissed you yet!” Marta turns back and asks, “What do you need?” So Lil asks her about Gutierrez and how she felt about Gutierrez and his doings. Marta says, “Look, I’m just not interested. It’s his job to protect citizens and the immigrants. Latinos are a big part of this community.” Then Lil tells her, “Well I’m telling you that everything you have struggled for, you will lose.” Marta asks, “Why is it you keep asking about Gutierrez, when you have been out and about with Adolfo Balleteros? Is all you want to do is to cause jealousies with them? After this is all over, it’s going to be pretty funny.”

Downtown, Susan and Lu discuss what she told DisGrace. Susan wants to know if she has told David yet, but Lu doesn’t yet want to bother him with that yet. Lu asks if she is feeling more relaxed about the Mark situation. Susan says that Cesar is helping her a lot with that. He understands her and is worried for her. Lu says, “Well this is looking like something more.” Cesar walks up and Lu says, “Well I leave you in good hands.” Cesar says, “what was all that about?” Susan says, “Well since she’s in love, she wants everyone to do the same.” Cesar looks like he is in agreement with that idea.

Tano and Fer come back from working together in the vineyard. She kisses him before she goes back to her studies.

In the kitchen, Marta answers her phone. It’s Gut who says he misses her, but she will have no part of it. He wants to win her love back. Marta says, “Don’t call me again!”

Last, DisGrace and Lil are in the patio talking and DisGrace says she gave her deposit to Juan. Lil says to stop complaining, “don’t you still have all that money you got from your art exhibit? What you have to think about now is how you are going to end up with David. We have to plan this out well with no mistakes.” DisGrace says, “Well at least David is no longer mad at me.” Lil responds, “Listen to me now, everything now has to be well planned out and calculated. There is no room for mistakes! I’m not going to risk my future over your impulsive behavior.” Grace says, “I don’t know what we are going to do. Luciana already talked me about how I’m manipulating the children. Now it looks clear to me that she does have something going on with David. (She looks worried.)

David walks up and says, “Grace, we need to talk.” Lil says, “I’ll take leave of you both.” She hypocritically tries to be sympathetic about Juan’s traitorous behavior. (This pot is calling the kettle black again!) She goes on, “For this reason, you just have to be careful who you let in to our family.” (Well with family like this, who needs enemies when the enemies are members of your own household, David!) Lil walks away and Grace says, “What did you want to talk about?” David says, “I received back my money from Mr. Kent and I now have the cash to buy you out of partnership we shared. I am now dissolving our partnership.” DisGrace does not look like a happy camper!