Caray, Caray!

El Presente is a continuation of Ayer
Santiago is getting an earful from Lisa over the phone. She only *thinks* Vic could have killed Caro, well, because he's acting so strange. She tells him Vic keeps talking to Caro as if she were there. Lisa heard him say it wasn't his fault, to leave him in peace. She's scared. If he didn't kill her, why is he so tormented. Santi tells her he's on his way. They won't call the police until after he gets there, otherwise they'll get him a lawyer and he'll lawyer-up. Vic comes into the room and wants to know if she was talking to the police. She says she was talking to Santi. He gets violent and starts shaking her and yelling at her. Then he "sees" Carolina. He races out of the house to catch up with "her."

Cintia and Nando are sitting together in Raquel's living room. They have some quiet moments as Nando says he needs to see her; he likes being with her; he likes talking to her; being with her is good for him; she makes him feel good. This leads to a gentle kiss.

Nacho comes to visit Alina. She thinks it's about Nico and blabs it all before he says it's about Santi. He would like her help to determine if Santi is involved in something dirty. He recalls for her the visit by two guys who showed up on Santi's doorstep while he was there. He heard the name Saldivar, he thinks. Nacho couldn't hear the conversation but Santi got very nervous and sent them away.

Santi is in a desperate hurry to get on the road to Lisa's. He finds his keys, but leaves his cell phone behind. The second he's out the door, it rings. It's Raq who wants to tell Santi something. Nico tells him he left for Lisa's because of Vic, but he'll call her when he learns anything. Then Raq remembers that Nando/Godoy is sitting in her living room with Cin. She interrupts their nice, sweet kisses to tell him about Santi and Vic. On hearing Vic's name, Godoy goes into full police mode. They've been looking for Vic, so he takes leave of the two women.

Cin is ready to leave, too, but Raq asks her to stay and rest. [Something must have been cut out between the sisters after Andres "told" on her and Nando coming to see her.] She stays, then apologizes that she forgot to tell Raq that Miriam called to say she didn't have time to bring Benji by, as promised. [THIS SCENE WAS OMITTED: Raquel is pissed and goes to Miriam's to get him herself. Miriam agrees, but requests that Mia and Fede are the ones given official custody. Raquel will explain this to Santiago.] She returns triumphant, with Benji. Apparently it's settled. Benji will live with them permanently. Jovita welcomes the little guy and all three have a grand old time until Mia shows up in a funk. Raquel goes after her.

Santi stops by the side of the road, near where the accident took place and recalls seeing his dead wife's body and falling apart. He also recalls that odd conversation he had with Vic when he, Nico and Lola went to see him. Santi had been questioning Vic on Caro's whereabouts and he told them she was dead. Santi's inner anger is gripping at him through his tears of remembrance. He jumps back in the car and heads for Lisa's. As Santi arrives, Vic looks out the window of Lisa's house but won't open the door for him. Instead, he starts yelling nonsense. Santi fears something has happened to Lisa. Vic says to leave them alone. He's just talked to Caro. Doesn't Santi know she's cheating on him with Damian?

Before Santi decides to break a window to get in, Lisa answers the door and tells him Vic escaped through the back. Santi takes off after him, finally catches up and brings him down. He tells Vic to talk, as he, counterproductively, tries to choke him to death. Vic repeats his earlier delusions. Frustrated, Santi tells him Carolina is dead. Vic swears she's here, he just talked to her. He swears he didn't kill his sister. He blubbers that he killed his own father to save her. [Thank goodness Caro had already told Santi about this or he never would have believed it now.] They continue to scuffle.

El Pasado is also a continuation of Ayer
The Party of Doom isn't over yet. Raquel and Carolina are still talking outside of Nacho's house. Raq comes right out and tells Caro she's a liar and has been hiding something since they first knew each other. Caro hides behind a notion that everyone hides something. Back at the party, Santi and Dam are standing together and Nacho, because he's drunk and drunks tell the truth, tells both men to do all they can to save their marriages. Caro has decided she doesn't want to continue this conversation, or any, ever. She feels it's better they no longer see each other or talk to one another. They would hurt each other--a lot. [Ya think?] With that, she says she's going back to get her husband and leaves Raquel standing there.

Once back home, Santi and Caro have a big blow-out over her behavior and attitude at the party. She asks him if he was aware she was the only one not having any fun. She hadn't expected Raq to show up and she wanted to leave. Santi says it would have been improper to leave. Nacho and Agustin had been planning this for a long time. It was important to him and all of them. He accuses her of not having wanted to go to the party with him at all. She should have wanted to be by his side, supporting him. He pointed out how Raq was standing by her man. Caro starts to fly off on him again but Nico wanders into the room. Caro shuts Santi off and goes to a different part of the house. Later we see her in a bedroom, alone, in a single bed.

Damian sends Caro a text--she looked beautiful this evening. She replies--how did he get her number; it's just as well Santi isn't in the room; don't write any more. He gets it and sends her a new message--not even by text? The next day Dam is checking in with Lola on how the family is doing. How is Santi? How is her mother? She says all are fine. Then he gets a text. Whatever it said, his spirits are lifted and he says, in answer to Lola's question, that everything is fine.

El Presente
Raq calls Nico and asks him what is going on with him. She'd asked him before not to hurt Mia, but it's her understanding that he's still seeing Alina. [There could have been a conversation left out where Raquel and Mia talk and she tells Raq about Sammie's visit and what she found out--another possible cut?] Nico tries to explain his version. Raq tells him to give his explanations to Mia. Nico rushes out to straighten things out with Mia while Bebo stays in their house to wait for Lola. Lola gets home. She doesn't think she's worthy of Bebo. He says he's always loved her and nothing can change that. They hug.

Raquel pays a visit to Alina. She confronts Alina with sticking her nose (lips, breasts, and behind) between Nico and Mia's relationship. Alina is guarded, but claims she doesn't have to discuss the intimacies of her private life. That's ok with Raq. She's actually there to let Alina know that she has Benji and Miriam is going to have her attorney arrange to give official custody to Benji's siblings--that is Mia and Fede. Since Alina is Santi's attorney, Raq just wants to make sure she is informed, in case Miriam and her lawyer try anything against Santiago. Alina asks her to sit, but as they are still standing, she fake smiles and asks what bothers Raq more, Nico's relationship with her or that she is Santiago's attorney. [I guess that is rhetorical, we don't get to hear Raquel's answer.]

At the hospital, Miriam and the doc hover over a very wide-awake Damian. Doc doesn't want him to talk, so they use the old standby blink once for yes, two for no. He apparently knows where he is, but not what happened. Doc fills him in with the barebones facts. He recognizes Miriam, but instead of saying mama to her, he says Raquel, which infuriates her, but she tries not to let on.

Godoy has reached Lisa's. Vic is calmer. He claims not to know Garrido, but Godoy tells him that everyone in town knows they hang out together playing cards. Now, what does he know about the shoot-out, which Vic saw and saw Godoy there, and the stolen credit card? Since Santi is present during this interrogation, he starts to get hot under the collar as this is going nowhere. He wants Godoy to let him at Vic, he'll get the truth out of him. Santi is sure Vic knows a lot and furthermore, he's the one that had him jailed. He's itching for revenge. Vic's hide is saved by the arrival of an ambulance. It's going to take him to the funny farm.

Nico is at the Beckers holding Benji when he sees Sammie coming down the stairs. Mia says he came to tell her the truth, that Nico is still sleeping with Alina. Nico protests that it wasn't like that. He can explain. No explanations are necessary. Mia wants him out of her house and out of her life. Sammie boasts that now Nico is alone as Alina isn't going to touch him again either. Then Sammie's bandaged wrists are exposed and why. Mia is still wanting to get Nico out of the house when Fede gets home.

Raquel is by Dam's bedside when he tries to say something. It looks like, mama. He then asks what happened. She tells him only that he was in an accident, has been in this state a long time and how she's been with him every day since [except when she and Santi went away for a little R&R--which didn't last very long anyway]. He verbalizes, "Fede." He starts to get agitated and says he feels like he's choking. Raq arranges for Fede to come to the hospital right away.

[OMITTED SCENES: Fede and Nico are talking about their women drama. Nico asks Fede about Luz and then tells him about his own tangled mess with Mia and Alina. Laura gives another TV report about Vicente taken in for an evaluation and questioning.]

Santi tells his children he thinks Vic killed their mother. Nico tells Santi that Benji is going to be living permanently with Raquel. There's more. He tells Santi that Raquel is with Damian at the hospital because apparently he's improving and asked to see Fede.

Santi takes a call from Antonio. All we know from Santi's end of the conversation is, "tomorrow, in the morning?"

He calls Raquel on Nico's phone and she confirms all that Nico said. That's why she had called him, but he didn't answer. Fede arrives and Raq says she'll call him later. Before they go in, Raq warns Fede that his father is not fully remembering the recent past, but he's remembering Fede from when he was little. Raq is sure he will keep improving. She leaves him alone long enough for Miriam to appear and continue to poison his mind about his mother. Miriam says Raq is making Dam go crazy with her anxiety and constant pressuring. She's doing more harm than good and is putting Dam's recovery in jeopardy. He and Raquel go in to Damian's bedside. He sees Fede but then says that's not Federico. Raq says the reaction is normal and urges him to say something to his father. Finally, he seems to recognize him.

Rueda and Alina have a meet-up. He tells her that Andres has ordered that he wants Santiago and Raquel to be separated, he doesn't care how. Alina is up to the challenge. She bedded the son, how hard can it be to bed the father. Rueda asks if Alina knows that Raq and Santi have a little something going on. Yes, she already knows, so it won't be easy, but there's nothing more exciting than a man who is forbidden.

Nico finally admits to his dad that he did spend the night with Alina. He went there with the intention of telling her he wanted nothing more to do with her. He tried to resist, but it just happened. Now Mia hates him. Now he's really finished with Alina.

El Pasado
Boom! The time travel machine takes us all back to .... what? Dam and Caro are meeting in a park and it's all sweetness and light, as if nothing had happened for the last two years. All the ugliness is forgotten. She hopes he didn't mind the text she sent him that morning. But after last night, she was giving it a lot of thought. She hasn't been happy in her life. Neither has he. Neither wants to hurt their families, but Dam says he can't live without her. He tried, but he can't. She feels the same, she tried to be happy with her family, but she couldn't. They talk, fall in each other's arms and say how much they've missed each other. [Have they learned NOTHING from the past 81 episodes? Geesh.]

El Presente
Ant is furious with Nando for the Vic caper. Nando should have alerted him to send folks (who don't have one arm in a sling). Nando says there was no time. He had to go before Santi got himself into trouble. And what about Vic? Nando gives him a status report. Vic still won't admit to knowing Garrido. Ant says he'll take charge of seeing Vic and Nando should keep tabs on Dam's progress. He knows, by the way, that Nando went to see Raq's sister, so he warns him to keep his pants up.

Nico is with Lola chatting in her room. She gets up from the bed and Nico sees a blood stain. [That probably means bye-bye Baby Juan.]

At the construction site, Nacho and Agustin get an unexpected visitor. He identifies himself as Saldivar and he's looking for Santiago Alvarado. They tell him Santi isn't there. Bald guy is standing behind him. Saldivar says it's urgent for Santi to contact him. Nacho with his big mouth wants to know what this is all about. The visitors just look at them, as if they were going to answer--not.

Santi arrives at the Beckers to see Benji in Raquel's arms. All three are smiling happily.

Mia is taking her turn at Dam's bedside. Dam stirs. He asks for Carolina. Mia [is] scrunching her face up in an ugly expression and scathingly repeating "Carolina" as though it were the most incredulous thing she'd ever heard. She looked fit to be tied.

And Diana has the Last Word.

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