Caray, Caray!

Hi all.  I got to see the capitulo and then write.  I get home too late to watch generally the night of. The recap will be up ASAP...  --edit.  P.S. FYI, On Demand hasn't listed this tn yet.  It may take a week if the past is any bit of the predictable.

• Fernando is spitting in the wind trying to tell cuckolded Santiago everyone has got to do their part through this.  Nando has been here before and tries reasoning with his apparent bud that Santi’s got to give him room (to effing breathe) while they do their search and discovery, and Santi’s got to give them that space.  Santiago NEEDS answers, but is grateful.  Nando will do his part which, as he reminds Macho-Man-turned-Maniac, is being done as a favor to the Chief. They are not shirking their responsibility in any way. Yeah, they in fact have been doing their job and they found Carolina’s cell phone--but unfortunately they cannot tell Mr. Raging Bull where it was found.

• Nando gets a phone call from his wife as a possible reprieve, but no, it’s another harangue.  Hmm.  Well, she taunts, think about the investigation her lover, the accident—yes, it’s all intertwined.  Think about all of it and maybe you can manage to learn from this investigation what prompted Caro Rivas to leave her husband like this and the reason you cheated on me!  Click.

• Lola says there’s got to be a reason Mama didn’t get in touch with them before. Santi advises Mama couldn’t face them with what she did.  Nando told him Uncle Vicente (?) told him that she never showed.  In fact all the times she used Unkie as an excuse she wasn’t there.  He hasn’t seen in in nearly 2 years!!  Uncle’s a drunk who they shouldn’t believe, counters Lola.  “—Get in the car!”  Just then Raquel comes running out and asks for a lift.  She’s got to get away from there and fast.  Santi obliges.

• Mama Miriam, comes out with Sr. Abogado and the two watch Raq driving off with Santi and “that family of trampy low-lives!” [muertos de hambre]  “--Ha! I always suspected my daughter-in-law was disloyal to my son!  And after that little number back in there, I have the proof.   My son and Caro are doing this probably out of revenge and those two are the ones having the affair!”  El Sr. Abo-gato doesn’t disagree….exactly.



• A girl at Mia’s school introduces herself as Julieta and says she knows Mia as she’s all over the social media and the net.  Who doesn’t? Mia seems to blow her off.  Meanwhile, Lola’s friends are telling her she should sleep with Rich Brother of Mia to wangle money out of him for a trip I believe they’re wanting her to go on with them.

• Mia’s being ogled by Mr. Popular and his posse.  She definitely blows him off just as Mr. Popular’s current squeeze walks up and warns her “Hands off, slut!”

• We see a quick flashback of a night as Raq, alone in her bed, looks at a picture of her and Dam in happier times.  

• Santi screaming at Unkie V accusing him of knowing where his sister, Caro, is and keeping it from him.  Unkie V has the right idea: he hangs up on Macho-Man Maniac.  Raq comes up to him and says they will certainly find a reasonable explanation for their spouses to have been in that car together.  He bellows back at her there is no other explanation.  The only explanation is they were cheating on the two of them.  Raq looks sour, like she’s about to vomit….They didn’t have the guts to face them and tell them.  That’s what!

• 3 years earlier: Caro and Santi are in bed together.  He wants …. affection….er…a little bit o’ sugar. “--Just a quickie.” She refuses.  She’s got to get up early?  Any early appointment?  There’s a text about the inability to sleep.  (Dam to Caro?) Dam’s at the other end of the text.  He’s just showered and has his towel wrapped low enough that all of Viewerville has their tongues hanging out in voyeuristic anticipation.  Raq is so beautiful.  So lovely.  He drops the towel and Raq cannot stop from mentally licking her lips.  He jumps in.  (Man!  Caro, I can see why you’re ripe for the picking!  Compare her loud, demanding, stubborn, bearded and brutish bumpkin versus the dashing, deep-pocketed and debonair Damian.  Ain’t no comparison needed in my book!)   Oops.  Something fails. Can she help a bit to fix the nix?  It’s obvious his head was in the right place but the heart and the rest definitely were not…..

• At school, the coach is warning Lola, she’s missing her games and practice and she’s been hanging out with the wrong crowd.  She blows him off with “—I got a few problems I’m dealing with.”

• Santi’s doing some plumbing repairs or rehabbing at the Beckers’…..while Dam is conveniently over at Caro’s taking advantage of the time to chat with her and flirt.  She offers to make him a cup of coffee and he accepts.  She accidentally twists her foot (her 7” high wedge sandals being the culprit) entering the kitchen.  He wraps it like a pro and she smiles sweetly at his proficiency.  She admits her nervousness at this situation and he takes his leave, but not before a tender, sexy, electric kiss just to the side of her mouth on the cheek.

• It’s a circus at los Becker with Raq insisting Santi’s soaked and needs to get dry and please, “--no, I demand you put on one of Dam’s shirts so you don’t catch your death and I don’t worry you cannot start on the renovation of my house!:”  (Methinks Santi has met his feminine match!  She’s as pushy and stubborn as he is.)  He’s embarrassed at being shirtless.  She looks on unabashedly and states that at the beach he’d have even less clothing on.  What’s the big deal?  Well, she always has a way of putting her foot in it, she obliges.  So, she’s sorry.  He’s now got to go and he’s leaving the proposal for her and Dam to look over.  His problem, he admits, is that he’s got to go home in another guy’s shirt and explain, but Caro will probably understand it’s the truth, after all, right?  He races off.

• Currently:  Miriam looms over her comatose son for never paying her any mind when she warned him…..Sr. Abo-gato arrives.  Mir wants the assassin found!  “—Your son’s alive, madam.  So, there is no assassin.”  “--They’ll try again as long as he is alive.  I need your help to find whoever is responsible.”  Rueda complies.

• Rueda later meets one of his snitches who tells him Tonio is closed mouthed and hard to get information out of.  Rueda puts a packet of pesos under his nose.

• Meanwhile, Raq insists Caro will appear.  Santi and family are leaving now.  He’s tired of her naiveté in believing everything is still the same as before.  He’s wasting time with her.  He’s got to go.

• At the factory/store office, Lola demands from Primo Andres what’s Dam and her mama to each other.  He should to know. “—Ask them!”  Nada de nada.  She insists and he tells her they were together to get what they wanted from each other and nothing more.  She wanted his family’s money and position and Dam wanted what a man always wants.  She was all too eager to trade.  They are interrupted just as he’s about to attempt to lay a big one on the smacker.  (Depravity R Us, Andres?) Obviously he’s laying the groundwork to accuse of her like mother like daughter.  Zorra!  Slut!

• 3 years earlier: Andres was attracted to Lola from the start.  (Aha!  This is the Daddy Warbucks Lola’s friend was going on about!)  Bad GF is coaching her at a restaurant.

• Mr. Popular's Squeeze comes after Mia to accuse her.  She says she’s got a boyfriend.  Suddenly she sees Federico and lays a lip lock on him he wants explained.  In the background, the real BF looks on and leaves, disgusted.  Now Fede wants an explanation.  She tells him he’s daft.  Don’t get your hopes up cuz it was nothing.  

• At their respective houses, the spouses explain the crazy morning and disastrous results, then how they tried to rectify it and made the other worry that their spouses wouldn’t understand and get jealous.  No problem if there’s no reason, says Dam.  Nope, not with Raq.  But then, we see Caro sniffing the aftershave on Dam’s shirt.

• The next morning the renovation starts.  Raq drags Santi off (to the store to purchase the materials?). Caro’s to stop by Dam’s office to pick up the cash,

• Nando's wife is dealing with a an editor.  She is supposed to stay away, to keep from having Nando resort to a long line of sweet things.  Is he leading her on?  (Dunno as this convo was totally unintelligible.  Help appreciated.)

• Miriam is looking over files and tells Rueda, El Sr. Abo-gato, that sure she knew about this two day trip and the only one who’ll get the worst of this will be Caro.  The only one ignorant of it all was Raq.

• Andres drives Lola home.  He wants to chat her up.  Back off!  Not on your life.  She tells him her papa and Raq are together in there.  He says invite him in for coffee.  She refuses.  He gets out just as Santi opens the gate.  Andy says say hi to my cuz’s wife for him and leaves.  Santi asks Lola how she could hang around that twerpy guy.
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• Andy immediately calls Rueda to inform him that his S-I-L is at Santi’s house while his cuz is laying comatose at the hospital.  Curious, no?  Miriam’s ears prick up.

• Inside Santi’s house the two families are commiserating.  They were too trusting, suggests a tearful Raq.  Suddenly a call comes in and Santi thinks it’s Caro.  The kids and Santi are all in a kerfuffle. Maybe it really wasn’t her.  Nobody really can say.

• It turns out to be from Nando’s wife.  She begins writing a column.  What’s her game?  Nando shows up at her desk.  He’s there to take his wife out to eat.  Unless he’s got news about Caro and Dam—it’s The Story of the Century—she’s not going anywhere with him.  He won’t spill a thing to her.  He cannot.  She leaves to take a call.  She doesn’t need his info.  She’s got her own sources and methods.

• Lola and Santi are desperate.  She wants answers from daddy. She has been told things by Andres.  Like what?

• Back at the paper, Nando takes a gander at his wife’s screen.  He reads the line that “Every call Santiago Alvarado Rivas answers is another hope.”  He checks his wife's phone log and sees she placed a call recently to Santi’s home.  She walks in and accuses him of shamelessly spying on her.

Nando gives in. (So much for her putting him into a compromising position that threatens his job.  Mr. Clean turn in your earrings.) He’s got a list of all the calls to and from Dam and Caro and he’ll give them to her to investigate if she promises she won’t divulge anything learned before he gives her the go-ahead.  What’s a girl to do--and with a proposition like that?  Hell yeah!!  She only wants to know what kind of relationship the two really had and….”--Hey!  Do you think Caro’s still alive?”  He shakes his head and says he’s got no clue (pardon the pun).  She could be alive and in hiding out of fear or doesn’t want to face folks, she could have caused the accident, who knows?

• Andres arrives at Miriam’s and says he was just at los Alvarado and knows Raq was there with Santiago…  Miriam’s all too eager to say it was proof positive they were up to something.  Rueda takes his leave.  Miriam asks rather suspiciously, what Andres was doing with that little girl.  He says she was at the office asking him questions and he took her home.

• At los Alvarado, Tonio, the comandante friend of Santi’s arrives with a file of detailed information he’s giving him before the press gets hold of it.  Forewarned is for-armed.  Ok.  El Comandante explains the details prove the two were travelling to Miami for a couple of days together.  Raq goes berserk.  “--He was leaving me???”  Lola goes in to tell Fede what she overheard and it’s all true.  Mama and Raq’s hubby were leaving them all, traveling to Miami.  In the other room, Raq is having a breakdown and Santi's got her in his arms, trying to comfort her.  "--I'm here.  I'm here for you.  Hush now."

• Nando wife, Laura, begins writing the article, relaying all the basics that we—and the police-- know to this point.  The rest is supposition and accusation based on that supposition: that a relationship hidden for as long as it must have been was no adventure one took lightly; it was the kind that led to revenge, and this is homicide-attempted or committed.  Laura wonders to herself,  “--Where are you, Carolina?”

• Out in the middle of nowhere a dark haired woman is wandering blindly, indiscriminately, but with determination….

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