Caray, Caray!

Part 2 is up, enjoy!

Hi my patio peeps, this is my last recap of what has been an incredible production. The acting and writing has been fantastic but let's be honest, this has been really dark and because it was so well done we can't even really be snarky, I think we are all going to need some tequila at the end of this.

This is the hardest recap I've ever had to do, there's so much going on and I hope to do it justice, if I miss anything or get anything wrong please correct me and feel free to add it in the comments section! I'm to recap the things that happened in the past and work my way to the present, its the only way that I can keep everything together.




Damian calls Carolina and says: "I need to see you, theres no reason for us to continue on like this, I've tried everything to try and save my marriage but I can't do this any more"
Carolina: "Me too, I can't go on like this"
Damian: " Then lets see each other"- Carolina is holding the pregnancy test and tries to tell Damian that she is pregnant but Damian interrupts her before she can say anything and tells her he will send her the address where they can meet to "talk", uhh, sure that's totally what's going to happen. Carolina shows up at the hotel room and five seconds after she arrives Damian is ready to jump her bones, he pushes her on the bed and her phone falls out, while they are getting hot and heavy Carolina's hand hits her phone and she accidentally calls Nicolas, he hears her moaning and realizes she's having an affair.

Carolina soon realizes that she's called Nicolas and that he's probably heard everything and rushes home. Santiago and Nicolas are already home and Santiago can tell something is bothering his boy, he tries to get Nicolas to talk by telling him that sometimes talking things through can help a person feel better, but Nico tells him that in this case saying anything will only hurt them and he tells Santiago that he does not want to hurt him. Santiago wonders why anything Nicolas would say would hurt him (he thinks Nicolas is just having issues with Mia again) before Nico can say anything Carolina comes home and Nico goes to his room, he can't even look at his mother. Santiago starts to go after him but Carolina tells him she'll talk to him.

Nicolas is getting dressed when Carolina walks in:
Nicolas:"what do you want?"
Carolina:" I saw that I called you by mistake"
Nicolas:"Yes, I was with my dad, who were you with?"
Carolina: "What did you hear?"
Nicolas: "I don't know what I heard, I want think it was my imagination because my mother could never do something like this, now please leave, I don't want to talk to you."

Carolina gets a text message from Damian, I like to call them the text messages of doom, because this my friends is the beginning of the end. The following is not an accurate word for word translation because I'm having a hard time translating from Spanish to English but it's pretty spot on and you'll all get the idea, my apologies is advance but it is already 1:15 am and I still have a ton of stuff to get to.

Damian Text: " So, what happened with Nicolas?
Carolina Text:" I know that he heard us, he did not want to talk to me."
Damian Text:"We are running out of options my love, lets go away to our special place"
Carolina Text: "okay"
DamianText: "Can we enjoy this trip? All I ask is for two days."
Carolina Text:" You asked me for one day before and look where that got us."
Damian Text: "Do you regret it?"
Carolina text: "You know I don't"

Santiago comes into the bedroom and tells Carolina that Nicolas left and that he's probably just mad at something that happened with Mia. Santiago leaves to run some errands and as soon as he leaves Carolina sends one final text to Damian- it reads "I can't take this anymore, please get me out of here. Newsflash Carolina, you are not the victim here, you've had three years to come clean, you don't get to play the victim. Damian reads her text and calls for Azucena, he asks her to "buy the tickets."

Nicolas calls Vicente, he is sure that his uncle knows about the affair Vicente tells Nicolas that if his mom says she was with him then that's where she was, well it's good to see all that blackmail money went to good use, I guess. Garrido shows up and compliments Vicente on his new car, Vicente says he won it in a bet and Garrido says he might lose it when he starts gambling again, Vicente says he is done with that vice and Garrido asks if he has also given up drinking but Vicente tells him he is giving up one vice at a time, it looks like they agree to go drinking to celebrate.

Damian is at home with Raquel, it is now the day before the accident happens, he is having lunch with Raquel and she's trying to talk to him about Mia, but he interrupts her and tells her he is leaving on a trip the next day. Raquel wants him to explain but he tells her there's nothing to explain, he simply has to travel for work. Raquel wants to know if there's problems with the factory but he tells her there's just some deals he's trying to close but he's also leaving to work some things out, he wants to explore some new horizons and wants to organize a lot of things, Raquel again asks him in a round about way if they are having issues and if they are she says they can work them out.

Damians phone rings and its Azucena, she says Vicente called and he was very upset, he asked about his money, he wants it and he wants it fast. Damian says he will take care of it and later he calls Vicente, they agree to meet on the road on the way to the love nest, neither of them realize what a bad idea this would turn out to be.

Damian takes the cowards way out and instead of coming clean with Raquel he gets up and tells her he need to get to work, he has a lot to get done before he leaves. Oh his way to the office he calls Azucena and asks her if she has the money ready, she tells him she's working on it.

Vicente calls Carolina, who tells him she's fed up with him and she does not care what he does with himself, he tells her Damian has agreed to meet with him and give him the money and once that's done she will never hear from him again, he is going away to get away from the memories, then he warns her that Nicolas suspects she's having an affair.

Nicolas is having a really hard time coping with everything he now knows and seeks out Federico, after what feels like a life time he finally tells Federico why he's so upset, he asks Federico what he would do if he heard his mom moaning during sex but his father was right in font of him and now Federico knows that his dad and Carolina are still seeing each other.

Damian gets to his office and Azucena has the money ready, he tells her to put the money in the car (why?! why would you take your eyes off such a large sum of money? I'd ask Damian if he's stupid but we all know the answer to that).

Meanwhile Miriam is asking Andres who took so much money from the bank account, Andres has a pretty good idea and leaves Miriam in his office, he follows Azucena to the parking garage and sees her put the over night bag in the back seat of Damian's car.

Carolina has her bags ready and Santiago begs her not to go, he tells her Vicenteis a big boy and that she does not need to fix all his problems, but she tells him she needs to take care of this and he relents, he tells her they will miss her and I almost cried y'all, because she's never coming home, and Benjamin is so little and Lola and Nico won't have a mom any more and it's all just so unfair. She should have stayed home.

Damian also comes home to say his goodbyes, this surprises Raquel because he never does it. He tells her he didn't want to leave without seeing her first, he wants her to know that everything will turn out okay, she feels like he's saying a final goodbye and she asks him if that's the case  but he can't answer her question an instead just asks for a hug, Mia and Federico are lurking in the background.

The present:

This was really hard for me to watch, because although Damian was a crappy husband and he deserves to lose his wife, he is also a victim of a vicious attack, he is trying to recover from a major brain injury and here he is facing the wrath of not only Santiago but also Raquel.

Part Two: Don't tell the enemy what you know (or lessons Federico should learn)

Andres catches Federico in his office, he wants to know what Federico knows about his shady business deals and Federico is stupid enough to tell Andres that he knows he's be draining Legato slowly and that he knows all about the wire transfers Andres has been making, Andres realizes his in deep and that Federico really is a threat to his survival, he calls his goons and asks them to bring Azucena to his office.

Once Azucena is there he starts asking them what proof they have that he did anything illegal, he needs to know what they have on him, both Azucena and Federico tell him that they have no proof but he does not believe them, he tells Federico to leave Legato and come back with all the evidence he has, if he does not get him the paperwork Azucena dies and he better not go to the police, Federico does not want to leave Azucena alone but she begs him to leave, Federico runs.

Andres keeps asking Azucena what evidence she has against him and she's in her chair crying and whimpering, she sneaks a look towards the office safe and Andres catches that, he goes to the safe, opens it and realizes that all the paperwork that was in there is missing, in a fit of rage he takes off his belt and put it on her neck, he continues to scream at her that she's a traitor and I'm over here like "b*tch how is she a traitor? She never even liked you!", he continues to choke her until our poor Azucena dies. Her only sin was being a good employee, loyal to Damin till the bitter end. One of my favorite lines spoke in this novela came from Azucena, when she's talking to Raquel and Raquel asks her if she knew about the affair Azucena says she did, Raquel asks her why she kept quiet and Azucena tells her "el amor es divino, todo lo demas es humano"- "love is divine everything else is just human". It sounds better in Spanish. Anyhoo, Andres seems surprised and kinda disgusted that he killed Azucena, and this leads me to believe he is not Carolina's killer.

Elsewhere Rueda is visiting with Alina, he has no idea what to do with the paperwork Azucena sent him. If he does nothing Azucena, Miriam and Federico are in danger, on the other hand if he goes to the police he is going to end up in jail because he helped Andres with the money laundering. Alina tells him to leave everything to her, she tells him to get his affairs in order and leave the country, she'll cover for him which should give him more time to run away and she will negotiate with Andres to get more money out if him in return for the paper work. Rueda asks what they will do to protect Azucena, Federico and Miriam and Alina tells him they are not going to do anything, their fate is already written. Hu, Rueda actually cares about what happens to Miriam, so maybe his cold dead heart still feels stuff. Amazing.

The showdown:

Nicolas tells Mia it was a stupid idea to bring her dad to see Santiago, especially knowing that her mom was there, Mia claims she had no idea her mom was there and that she brought her father to Santiago because he wanted to speak with him. "Speak with him of beg for forgiveness for what he did to our family?" " Your mom also ruined our lives" says Mia- "yeah well my mother is dead, isn't that enough?"- Nico tells Mia that they will never work out because she will never stop hating and resenting his family. Mia wants to know what her mom is doing inside Nico's house and Nicos reply is a simple, "I don't know, why don't you ask her?"-

Inside the house things are not going well, Raquel tells Damian that she doe not love him any more and that all she wants is the divorce, Santiago asks Damian to leave. He should have left but nope, he just puts his foot in his mouth, I blame the brain injury.

Damian:" Carolina tried, she left you Santiago, but I couldn't, I was a coward. My love for her was real and uncontrollable." Dude, shut up!
Raquel:' "I don't care, this doesn't help us, it doesn't help Santiago, it doesn't help me and it doesn't help my children."
Damian:" please help me, help me so that my children don't hate me"
Raquel: "what, you want me to lie to my children? No, no, this is your responsibility"
Damian:" you both hate me, you condemn me but here you are, doing the same thing, why are you doing this? Because you love each other, because you want revenge?" (he means that they are like him and Carolina, having an affair)
Santiago: "You're wrong, we are not like you. We don't betray, we don't lie, we don't hurt other people. You want to know why Raquel and I are together? We are together because of you, because of the pain you caused that's why we are together, Raquel and I love each other with respect- so that we don't hurt other people, something the two of you could not do."
Damian: "Carolina and I tried to end the affair a thousand times and we couldn't, I was going to tell you the truth but something always came up, Mia, Federico..even you Raquel (he means her mental breakdown)
This sets Raquel off, she wants to know where he gets off, he's the reason all of this happened, this is all his fault, how dare he blame her for what's happened. He's the one that destroyed their lives and she asks him if he has any idea how hard it is to live with the hell he's created inside her head.

And then it's Santiagos turn, he tells Damian that he is responsible for the death of his wife and the death of his unborn child, all he wants from Damian is the truth, he wants to know if he killed Carolina.

Godoy finally shows up and I'm happy because I was getting real worried about Damian, he never should have been left alone. Mia gets snotty with Godoy and tells him to leave, her parents had nothing to do with Carolina's accident. You know what would have been funny? If Godoy was all like, "okay Mia, I'll take your word for it, I'm gonna run along now". Anyhoo, Godoy tells her that if her parents had nothing to do with Carolina's death then she has nothing to worry about. After he leaves Leo tells her everything will be okay and she answers "No, nothing will be okay, I know everything"

Godoy is let into the house, he starts questioning Raquel, where was she the night of the accident, was she at the scene of the accident, Raquel looks terrified, almost like a dog that's expecting to be kicked, she hides slightly behind Santiago, crying and unable to answer Godoy's questions, that's when Damian speaks up.

"No, no it was not her, not her. I killed Carolina, Vicente tried to hit her and I tried to save her, but I shot her instead."- yeah, I don't buy it.

At the police station Antonio is questioning both Garido and Vicente, he tells them that now that they are together maybe they can get the truth out. He asks about the third car, Vicente says he never saw it and Garido says he did. Antonio tells Vicente that he probablt killed Carolina and planted Damians finger prints of the gun. Vicente says that's not what happened, he loved his sister, he did not kill her. Antonio asks him again if he remembers anything else from that night and Vicente says that he has a new found memory, he remembers Damian screaming "shoot, shoot" at someone else, like there was a third person at the scene of the accident." Antonio asks "why would Damian scream at someone to shoot if he was the one with the gun in his hands?"

And the story continue tomorrow!

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