Caray, Caray!

It's on the way (with apologies to Paul and Linda, qepd. --edit.)

• Over the next five months, life goes on.  DEA Dave returns to the EEUU where Spanish is spoken like a native language; Amanda gets plumper and plumper as the pregnancy continues in Villa Antigua now as Sindy’s surrogate self; Lisbette gets very courtier-like visits from Lt. Raul Arguelles, who comes a –courtin’ her in jail; Olivia is putting together and studying pictures and maps/locations of los Lucios and the main players in that group, using the dead sergeant/colonel’s RV (don’t know what good it’s doing a dunce like her, but again, we’re in telenovela land where the miraculous is the norm); Rosalba prays for and to her (shrine of) her niece; Monica avoids all contact with her former life and Dave; John struggles not to lose patience with Zoolima’s lacking aeronautical acumen; Yolanda endures Colonel Santa Maria nightly “assaults”; and the partying never ends in the new mansion of Lucio expansion.



• Five months and counting, Yoli pretends to be totally enthralled with Col. S&M so that she can wangle a call to her aunt Rose.  He promises her if she continues to be so delightfully delicious (or rather, charmingly submissive) [jugosa=juicy],  she may very well get her call.

• Dave, meanwhile, is up to here, there, and everywhere with reviewing criminal files and sitting behind a desk.  “—I’m a field agent and it’s been five fricking months of nothing but going through case files since Simpson’s death!  I cannot take it anymore!”  His supervisor tells him to cool his jets cuz it’s Montgomery’s doing.  However, now he will get a different opportunity: interviewing extradited narcotrafficantes.  Yeah, righhhhhht.  He slams the door on the dude in charge.

• Back in the D.F. or wherever los Lucio now have their airfield set up, Zooli has once again botched her landing the plane and now she whimpers about it to John.  “--Give it more effort.  Concentrate better, all right?”  (Yeah, Zoo can dress the part but she just ain’t got it; and yet John wants her quiet and putting out, so…he puts up so she’ll shut up.  Uggh!) Oscar walks up and informs his big bro that Salavador has reported a couple of shipments are late.  They suspect some of their distributors are selling to a different cartel now.  He plans to fly down and handle things personally.

• At the same time, S&M gets a call from the general that they now know where el tal Salvador Moreno has his new narco-cienda.  Capture him dead or alive!  And, then S&M gets word that the long awaited medical supplies, et al, are arriving that morning at 9:00.  Yoli’s brain starts plotting for if and when she gets her chance…..

• In Villa Antigua, Raul, who is now a DEA agent, meets with Bette’s lawyer. Mr.  Abogado [advocate] has located [radicar] Bette’s file, examined all the flaws and gotten an appointment with a judge for a hearing the next week.

• Once the troops head out to surround and capture Moreno, Yoli sneaks into the infirmary and manages to steal some morphine in her pants.  Castro tries to interrogate and search her but Yo! warns him to stop manhandling her or she’ll tell Col. S&M!  He fears S&M’s ire more than her stealing something from there.

• Richie and Moreno pack up their red truck with merchandise.  He jokes with Rich about the medallion he kept when they offed that stupid soldier after he supposedly killed La Piloto.  La Virgencita and/or Yo! must be smiling on him from above since he’s had nothing bad happen these past five months.

• In the woods outside the narco-cienda, DEA agent Reyes, greets the colonel.  S&M warns him things will be done his way, not Reyes’ way cuz he doesn’t want any fuck-ups this time.  Reyes insults him by addressing him as Sargent.  S&M cuts him off and reminds him, it’s not Sargent but colonel and the DEA are there only to assist in Army operations, not to run them!  Reyes, having now gotten his attention, reminds him the crook is awaiting extradition to the EEUU if he’s caught and it’s his duty to review that with him.  S&M replies, sure thing, as long as he’s still breathing.  Reyes wants him alive, and so does the U.S. S&M looks him over and then in the eye.  “—What’s your great interest in him, anyway?  He family to you or what?”  Reyes heels.

S&M suggests to Rubio that if should happen to snatch Moreno and he repents, then a bullet to the head might be called for, all being fair in love and war, shall we say?  Rubio nods.

Reyes does admit to the colonel that one of the narcos had turned informer for a huge packet of pesos.  “—Aparrently.  It would not be for love of country, would it?”  The whistle-blower signals on Reye’s phone. The  operation is successful. However, S&M is about to shoot the dude in the head but Reyes is witness and yells at him to lower his gun.  “--The guy’s asking to be arrested and has given up already!!”  S&M turns his gun on Reyes, but then lowers it.  He gets Salvador Morena alive and kicking since S&M likes to keep his hands clean in these matters, but not before he kicks the brut in the head a good one.  Thus, Salvador is …ahem…saved and to be extradited to the U.S.

• Back at the camp, the new medic has been shot by a stray bullet that one of the soldiers accidentally fired.  The gun went off, that is…  Yoli removes the bullet for the guy and saves his life.  She takes the opportunity to get ready for S&M’s return by filling the vodka bottle with the clear liquid morphine and hiding electrician’s tape under the mattress to await her chance.

• S&M walks Salvador out and mentions his great desire to have had the opportunity to have him killed rather than his spending time in a U.S. prison.  Salvador replies in kind: he’s sorry that soldier of his didn’t kill both him and Yoli in that grenade attack.  S&M is not totally surprised to hear it was Caicedo, but that the intention was to kill Yoli and not him.  Yup.  Who paid for that?  Los Lucio?  “—Who???  I don’t know any Lucio!”  Sal doesn’t get too far with that and eventually tells him it was in fact, Oscar Lucio.

• Reyes calls and informs Dave that Morena’s been taken alive and is being expedited.

• S&M reports the success of the operation and gets a week leave at home. Reyes leaves with his prisoner and S&M informs Rubio the grenade attack was just for whom and by whom they expected except it was to kill Yoli and not him.  Rubio’s told to keep mum and not even Yoli is to hear about any of that.

• John and Oscar get the word that Sal is being extradited to the US and Montgomery cannot stop it from happening.  Zuli overhears Oscar’s concern that if the guy talks it can be very problematic for them and their operation.  John doesn’t agree, but it seems that Zuli does.


• In Miami, Dave interviews Sal and sees the medallion.  He learns from Sal that Col. S&M has kidnapped Yoli and kept her prisoner.  “—He’s given her over probably to his men these past five months rather than report her as captured or handing her over to the police.  Seems the guy is a bit of a minor Mafioso type himself.  Yeah, I tried killing her myself cuz she came to my finca an helped a prisoner of mine escape.  I had a guy with Santa Maria and I thought she was dead, but now I have my doubts.  She’s got more lives than a cat!”  Of course, he never did see her body, right?  Nope.  And the medallion?  It was a a little present, a little bit of proof, that she supposedly was offed.

S&M returns home for a week’s liberty.  His wife is anything but Yoli.  She’s tall, slender and very blond.  She isn’t in to making love that first night home and goes to the kitchen.  S&M’s cell rings.  He gets word of the shooting of the medic and Yoli’s role in saving his life.  His wife overhears her name and asks who she is.  He lies that she’s some 48 year old fat nurse in the area who came out to assist in the infirmary.

Meanwhile, Dave tells Reyes that according to Sal, the medallion he’s showing him is Yolanda Cadena’s.  She never died in the jungle as reported.  No, Santa Maria supposedly captured and then kidnapped her there and has held her the past five months as his prisoner in the jungles of Colombia.  He wants Reyes to fly him out incognito to that base in Colombia.  Reyes is a bit edgy about it….

Yoli, meanwhile, tries stealing keys and a gun while the colonel is gone, along with her other preparations.
A week later, Col. S&M returns to his base of operations in the jungle.

Lis, meanwhile, practices what she must testify about with Raul and Mr. Lawyer.  She and they agree to keep Amanda’s name out of things since she was also an innocent victim.

In Colombia, Reyes and Dave learn from Teresa’s pimp, Martinez, about Col. S&M after a bit of coaxing collateral crosses a few palms in Las Palmas.  They’re looking for a woman there that some of his girls might have seen around.  Yeah, his memory suddenly returns and he says his girls did mention they saw a Mexican gal there that day and something happened that they were told not to peep a word about.  And now poor Teresa is dead with two bullets in her chest.  “—Yeah?  And just when did they see her?  How long ago?”

Yoli, at the same time, now plies Col. S&M with her favors. So taken with her and so sure of himself and his power over her, he drinks from the enchanted cup…..

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