Caray, Caray!

• Repeat scene of Juan telling Perla about irrigation and how this fits into his latest scheme to ruin David. I don't understand it but it probably is just one of Juan's many hare-brained schemes to ruin David. Up there with poisoned wine and such.
• Repeat scene of David and Bobby eating breakfast alone and Fer coming in to announce she's joining the I Hate Luciana Sooooo Much Club at their new residence wherever that may end up being.
• Luciana worrywarts to Marta about the kids reactions to finding out about her becoming official with David and not to mention, who knows what that loony Gracie is capable of? Marta offers to talk to David, but Luciana doesn't want her to do that as it might cause more issues for Marta. Marta says it won't be easy and throws Lilian's name out as one to worry about as well.
• Lion cub Leon is the next kid to worrywart to Marta. He's worried Lilian will make life hard for Sonia when she finds out about David and Luciana and that she'll send Sonia and Luciana away. Marta agrees as she's worried for his sister. 
• Also repeating conversations from yesterday are David and Fer who yell at each other. Neither one is really listening to each other, but hey that happens when Dad checks out of parenting for three crucial teenage years and leaves that to the manipulative succubi relatives. Poor Bobby runs up to Fer as the yelling ramps up and grabs her in a tight hold, begging her not to go. She tells him why she's going, and she more loudly tells David again why and where she's going (he sends her to her bedroom to wait until he can talk to her/but she's just going to wait until her aunt and grandmother are ready to go). Then she goes. Bobby expresses how worried he is to David, who tries to reassure him.
• Marta tells Leon not to worry, she knows Sonia really loves him. Leon worries that Fernanda will never accept his sister.
• Fer has locked herself in her bedroom and David bangs on the door demanding to talk to her. This gets louder and neither side will budge. Gracie hears it and comes running to ask David what is happening. He explains that Fer insists she wants to go with her aunt and won't open the door to speak to him. Gracie promises that she didn't put this into Fer's head and guilt trips David a little. Enough to let him take her up on her offer to talk to Fer. He lets her by and she gets Fer to open the door and let her in to talk. Not David, as she shuts the door on him. David is left in the hallway exasperated.

• Fer tells Gracie she doesn't care where they are going, she just wants to go with her. Gracie tries to dissuade her, telling her it will just complicate things and David would never forgive her. Then Gracie tries telling Fer she should stay because she'll become the woman of the house. Fer is insistent, she doesn't want to live in the house anymore. Gracie tries you'll miss out on school and graduating with your friends. I was surprised Gracie didn't play the Tano card. At this point, Fer starts suspecting that Gracie doesn't really want Fer to come with her. Gracie denies it. Fer stomps out of her room. She may not be going with Gracie but she's going. Somewhere.
• Lilian is lying around depressed in her room, and Sonia checks on her. Lilian says things are very, very bad and she needs Sonia' loyalty. She catches Sonia up that she's been thrown out of the house. Marta comes in with her suitcase, LOL, and Sonia is dismissed. 

• Lilian is pissed she brought the purple one. Then Lilian yells at Marta for swaying Bobby. And for cheating with her husband. They sort of shove the suitcase back and forth, LOL. Then they drop the suitcase and get in each others faces and remind each other why they hate each other. Marta zings that she will be a grandmother soon, not just a nanny. I felt like Marta won this round.
• David is hiding in his home office. Luciana busts in and asks what happened. He tells her that Fer wants to leave the house with her aunt. Luciana is shocked and worried for his family. He tells her not to worry, Gracie will talk to her. Luciana is not as dim a bulb as David and points out this will only make things worse (as it did, see above). David says that the only person who can talk to Fer is Gracie. Gracie is the Fer whisperer. Luciana agrees, but says to remember that Gracie only has her own interests in mind. (Personally, I think they should all get Tano in there STAT as he is the only hope of saving Fer from eternal bratdom.) David needs to think. We all know that doesn't come easily to him, including Luciana who suggests he go out to the calming influence of the vineyard. He likes that idea. All he can do is hope Fer calms down.
• Lilian says that she is the true blood grandmother and Marta's grandmotherhood all depends on how good Luciana is in bed. But Marta totally wins the fight, pointing out that the kids love her more, and gets in a last dig that Lilian will be left alone, bitter and old. That REALLY ticks off Lilian. Marta leaves and Gutierrez has the worst timing ever and calls to ask Lilian's help to organize some charity event. She blows him off. 

• Sonia returns and Lilian confesses she's at her wit's end and doesn't want to go. She orders/begs Sonia to help her unpack.
• The question of where did Fer go is answered as we see her with her favorite box of hair.

• Oh jeez, she wants him to run away with her. This will be a true test of Tano's abilities to Fer whisper. He runs his fingers through his hair, clearly trying to think through what to say or do.
• Lilian continues packing when Gracie comes in to tell her Fer wants to go with them. Lilian correctly ascertains that this will make David Grumpy. Gracie knows that. Lilian also correctly guesses that Fer went straight to that employee she likes so much. Gracie departs to find her but Lilian stops her - maybe they need Fer on their side and should use Tano.
• I should stop calling Tano a box of hair because he is using his head and telling Fer that he loves her but he won't run away with her and it's a bad idea. LOL, he doesn't think Luciana is really to blame like Fer thinks; instead he thinks she should have a reasonable talk with David about their relationship and Dad's relationship and her issues and seek solutions! Does he know what show he is on? Fer does not take this advice well, and says that her dad doesn't love her and maybe Tano doesn't either. She tells him she doesn't know how she could have thought she count on him and stomps off. I guess Tano is not the true Fer Whisperer after all, and we're back to Gracie again.
• Luciana is in the vineyard with David and empathizes with his family problems. David hopes that Fer will come around. She will help him with whatever he decides to do. A little empathy and time with the grapes was all David needed and now he's ready to face gnaw. They commence their weird kissing as an approaching Gracie spies them. She's clearly affected.
• Leon is washing carrots in the kitchen when he gets a visit from Sonia. With all that's going down in the mansion, she's worried for Lion Cub's sister and mother. Lilian plans to make their lives impossible. Carito enters the room and interrupts and Sonia and Leon adjust their body language to not give away their relationship. Carito needs some money, which Leon loans to her while Sonia seethes. He tells her she looks tired and she excuses herself. As Carito goes to her room, Sonia confronts Leon about that friendship; he's worried something is up. Sonia tells him to ask Carito and huffs off.
• With nowhere to really run, Fer has run back to her bedroom and it's Bobby's turn to take a crack at being the Fer whisperer. Of course because he is a little kid, this consists of telling her she's being bad. Which she doesn't appreciate. They raise their voices and this brings Marta running. Marta attempts to reason with Fer, and Fer lets her guard down and asks her if she's keeping things from her like her dad does, but Gracie interrupts and asks Marta and Bobby to leave. Fer tells Gracie how Tano let her down and she fought with him and now she's sad. Gracie is sympathetic and tells her with time and college, she'll meet other boys. In the meantime she has Gracie and Tano. She tells her to go make up with Tano and that she saw him in the vineyard.
• In the non-Fer-centric part of town, Juan hands Perla a big wad of cash to buy something impressive to wear to Gut's charity event, which Juan considers to be very important for him. Carito is not to know, because if she opens her mouth, the money will disappear. Off shopping Perla goes.
• Susan brings Paco (the immigrant who knows Ingrid) to meet with Miguel at the coffeehouse. Susan tells Paco he can trust Miguel to keep a secret. He tells Miguel that they weren't taken good care of by the traffickers but he didn't really see who it was. He didn't get the names of the ladies who watched them. One was an angel - she was nice and fed them because she had a relative who had died while being trafficked, but the other was very rude. Miguel asks he if he recalls the room they were in or even just anything about it. He doesn't really as they were all put in an enclosed truck and sent to work on a vegetable farm. Miguel offers to go with him to give a statement to Gut and also to get him coffee.
• Mark joins Juan in his apartment. He's been searching for the machines they will need for their olive oil plant. They need something that will dig deep. An engineer told him it's not easy but can be done. Juan is psyched. And he's been working too! On the contract for their partnership.  But first... Mark has to stop calling Susan. As that legal genius Juan explains, one can not help with an event with the sheriff and then break the law. Gut is on board to help them. The evil guys smirk for the camera.
• Back to the vineyard. Luciana is reassuring David that his kids love him. She reminds David that she and Fer have something in common as Luciana was sad when she lost her dad, but time always worked it out. She's glad David trusts her and confides in her. He thanks her for caring about his children.
• Poor Bobby has retreated to the game room with all the household dramalama, and can't muster up the energy to even turn on the PS4. Marta finds him and brings him some donuts and milk, and sits on the floor with him. He doesn't understand anything that's happening. He just wants to be a good kid and a good brother and Marta tells him he's very brave and good and will be there for his sister. He asks her if she loves him and she tells him "You know it!"  She tells him to tell his father his thoughts and fears; it's better than keeping them in his head.
• Perla visits Carito at employee quarters to invite her to go shopping. She flashes her wad of cash. Carito turns down the offer. She knows where that money really came from. Perla is in denial. Carito needs money, but Leon helped her. Perla offers Carito some money but she turns it down. This irks Perla and she tells Carito she's tired of her attitude and if it continues, they can't be friends.
• Miguel fills in Erika on how Paco didn't really have that much information. He's still trying to put together in his head a few of the things he did find out, like that the immigrants were being fed "by an angel," as Paco described her. Erika leaves and Miguel calls Carito. They make a date to meet up and talk about things. Carito is psyched. Perla overhears this.
• David and Luciana continue their talk. He's looking forward to a life with his kids and with her. She's still worrywarting a little but he reassures her. Whatever happens, nothing will separate them. They are ready to talk to the children. The face-gnawing begins but ends abruptly as Fer comes out of nowhere (so quickly the screencap would be too blurry) and with great anguish, yells, "PAPA!??" Holy moly, then she sucker-punches Luciana!

• David has to restrain Fer from going after Luciana some more as Fer screams at Luciana that she's to blame for her family being destroyed. Fer is screaming at her father that she can never accept this woman in his life. Luciana makes an attempt to be the Fer whisperer and Fer shouts her down and says that Luciana is a traitor and her papa is only for her. David keeps trying to calm down a hysterical, ranting FerBeast. 

• Luciana tries again but that just gets Fer more hysterical and she cries that Gracie was right. Fer screeches at Luciana that she HATES HER and SHUT UP (but we're thinking that about Fer). David yells, "Enough!" at her and she starts to rip him a new one about all this time she thought he was trying to be more caring, but how he didn't tell her the truth about falling in love. Why is he doing such things to Fer and her mother? David tells her it's not like that and she starts hysterically crying that she knows it's true, and wailing, why is he breaking up the family? Luciana is not one of us! Fer accuses David of preferring Luciana to his kids. She tells him she's going to leave with Gracie, whether he likes it or not!
• Meanwhile, the Fer Whisperers meet in the wine cellar. 

• This has not been a good day for them. Gracie tells Tano that Fer has gone loca! (She literally says this.) Gracie tells Tano that she needs him because things with Fer and David have gone very badly. Tano's worried about helping out since, um, Fer is very annoyed with him. Gracie encourages him to help convince Fer to stay, because she knows Fer will listen to him and accept what he says. He falls for this and rushes off. Gracie rolls her eyes at how easy boxes of hair are to manipulate.

• It's just gotten worse between David and Fer and they are yelling in each other's faces right now about how Gracie loves her more and she's staying her and no she's not, and he's lying. Luciana contributes to the situation by yelling too but Fer shuts her up and continues her meltdown. "You love her, not me!" David tells her that's not true and he loves her. Fer says she hears him, but it's all lies. Luciana tells her she should listen to her father. Fer is almost at total collapse now and tells Luciana she thought they were becoming friends and it was all a lie and she never wants to see her again. David has had enough and starts dragging Fer back to the house. Fer breaks free, tells him "Adios Papito" in a snotty tone and stomps off Luciana-style. David starts to go after him but Luciana finally breaks stance to restrain him.

Yup, Luciana barely moves her body or her face during all of this.

• In the kitchen, Lilian happily enjoys a green grape. Sonia asks her what she should do with the suitcases. Lilian says keep them for now but she's not going. Sonia replies, Oh really, but she uses the wrong tone, and Lilian picks up on it and asks her if her leaving would give her pleasure. Marta comes into the kitchen and asks if she needs work Lilian tells her she plans to do PR for  Brian. This doesn't flummox Marta in the least and she zings that Brian will need even more PR to fix his reputation after Lilian damages it more. Lilian leaves the kitchen with a threat - when David loses interest in Luciana and things get straightened out - the one out in the street will be Marta. Lilian calls Sonia to go with her and as she leaves, Sonia and Marta exchange knowing looks. Then Marta utters a few choice words about Lilian.
• Miguel tells Erika he's going to town to follow up on the leads. Erika worrywarts he wants to go back to the vineyard and Luciana. Miguel says Luciana will always be a fond memory in his heart but he's with Erika now. Satisfied with that answer, Erika hopes he'll get the information he needs.
• Luciana tries to calm David down. She tells him that Fer is a good girl with a very bad Fer whisperer named Gracie who's been putting thoughts in her head. David feels bad for the anti-Luciana whisperings. Luciana tells him that if it's better for the kids for them to separate, maybe... David stops her right there. He's going to wait for Fer to calm down and then talk to her. They hug each other, but it's one very worried hug.
• Tano finds Fer crying and stumbling around the vines. She grabs him and holds tight and cries. She begs him to get her out of there. He tells her he's there for her. She tells him that she just found out all this time her dad has been messing around with Luciana. Tano (who I think was in the dark on this) tells her that's not true. Oh it is, says Fer. She elaborates that Luciana is trying to destroy her family. Tano tells her Luciana isn't like that and Fer should try to understand that her dad wants to be happy just like anyone else. Fer asks, doesn't he love her? What is happening?
• Fer asks Tano if he understands that she feels like no one loves her? Tano says he does love her, and tries to reason with her again. Nope! She feels alone. And he's not like her friends, and when she needed him, he defended the bitch! Wow. Tano tells Fer that he loves her but she needs to calm down, open her eyes and rethink things. Fer doesn't want to hear anymore and stomps off again.
• Event planning talk time with Juan and Gut!

• Juan asks who's going to be in charge. Lilian, DUH, says Gut! And in she comes! She gets a little kick out of Juan being Gut's charity benefactor. It's all she needs to accept Gut's offer and become his PR person. (Thankfully for Gut, an officer comes in and needs him to go help with something and he gets out of this awkward meeting.)

• Lilian immediately asks Juan what he's up to. Juan tells her, just like her, this event will be important for his place in society and she chuckles. Then he says that while she's doing it for vanity, he intends to completely destroy David.
• Luciana and David return to his office in the vineyard. She proposes that he takes the kids on vacation, away from the conflicts. He isn't into that idea (it is a dumb one) and can see she's really just trying to figure out what to do. He reassures her that he needs her by his side and his feelings for her are solid; can she say the same?
• Lilian is surprised by Juan's openness and doesn't think he's got what it takes to destroy David. Juan asks her why she's taking on the PR job. Lilian says "for love."  Juan laughs and says that maybe PR can be Lilian's plan B if David and Luciana work out and she can't return to the house. Juan zings that he doesn't want to give money to Gut's charity for Lilian just to rob him blind.
• Luciana tells David she wants to be at his side forever. She wants them all to be a beautiful family together, but doesn't know if that's possible after all that just happened. He tells her that part of having a life together is working out these family issues. She sees his point and tells him she loves him. They kiss and she leaves him to contemplate the family issues.

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