Caray, Caray!

It is time for the children's performance at school and everyone is in the audience including Renée and Ariel. The principal informs the audience that after the show, there will be a presentation of educational toys from two toy companies in the gymnasium. The participation of the students will be needed to evaluate their new products. In the wings, Mauricio and Toño wonder what toy Fabián could have brought. They also wonder if he came. Nobody has seen him. Mauricio is then introduced to the audience as the person responsible for the production of the performance and as its director. Mauricio is all smiles as he tells the audience that this production was supposed to be an intensive course on how they do things on Broadway for the children but in the end the one who ended up almost failing the course was him. He learned just as much from their children as from his own daughter. He learned that each of these little monsters is somebody's child, incredible, a natural teacher, valuable, and an advisor. Also, one must remember to treat each and every one as if they were all of our children. Mauricio announces the production which the children named themselves: "Princesses Without Toads and Soccer Players Without Penalties".


Pablo is in the city on the street and shows a couple groups of young people a photo of his father Melchor. Nobody has seen him. He moves on to a homeless man sitting and drinking alcohol from a bottle on a bench. Yes, the homeless man has seen the man in the photo passing by right along there. He then chuckles and comments that he has really changed a lot. Pablo asks if he has changed here like the homeless man. The old man answers by taking another drink from his bottle.

The play continues . . . just like we would imagine with the kids mentioning plenty of good things about their families and what they say. Before we know it, thankfully, is is "Colorín colorado este cuento se ha acabado"(And they lived happily ever after) time. The audience applauds. The principal congratulates the students for the great job they did and thanks Mauricio for working with the children. Mauricio has them all take a bow and thank the audience. The principal invites everyone to the auditorium to evaluate the products from Anitoys and Logatoys. Renée is surprised hearing "Logatoys" and then notices Fabián standing in a doorway at the back of the auditorium. Renée tells her group she is going outside. She saw who she was waiting for.

The homeless man continues talking with Pablo. He does remember his father. Pablo asks if the man was into drugs or something bad. The homeless man says they were not friendly enough to know that kind of information. When he used pass by, sometimes he would bring the homeless man some food and some clothing. Pablo says his father loved to take care of other people. The homeless man suddenly remembers the last time he saw him around six months or maybe a year ago. He saw him go by with a lady. Pablo asks what she was like. Come to think of it, the homeless man doesn't really know if they were together or not. What he does know is that that lady came there for several days. He saw her at night. The homeless man then remembers it is she who came back and Pablo is asking about the man. Pablo is not sure if the homeless man is remembering correctly or not.

In the gymnasium, all of the excitement in the Professionally decorated Logatoys area. Nothing is happening at the very plain Anitoys area with a table as Jorge and Toño man it. Mauricio tries to make the most of a bad situation and tells them "Less is more". Jorge disagrees saying sometimes "More is more". A creepy wiggly butt clown comes over to offer the guys a balloon which they refuse. He leaves. Anifer goes over to give her evaluation of the Logatoys product as Toño comes back from a spying mission to inform the guys that the Logatoys product is a game made out of pile of cubes. Mauricio cannot believe it. Where is the imagination kin that? There might be a lot of money and power at Logatoys but there is also a lack of creativity. The guys see it ss only good for Anitoys. Some kids come by their table. Anifer is looking at Logatoys toys when the creepy wiggly butt clown comes by for her to be the first to evaluate the new Logatoys product. He extends his little finger so he can lead her away. She grabs it and goes with him to a separate space with a projection screen. Fabián comes in and asks Anifer is she remembers him. Yes, she does. He and her father are friends. Fabián knows that she does not probably remember much about him since she has only seen him a couple of times but he does remember her and has been thinking about her. He cannot get her out of his head. He shows her the robot plans up on the screen. She reacts with a "wow" and is clearly impressed. Her opinion is very important to him. He asks what she thinks. She thinks it would be just super.

In another part of the building, Renée happens to see the creepy wiggly butt clown take off his wig and sniff a cigar. She stops to not call attention to herself as he walks in the opposite direction.

Valentina is at school texting with "Danny" aka "Blancanieves" and "Isauro". She got out of school early. They could meet quickly. She wants to know where he is. He says he is real close as he watches her from his SUV parked on the street. She thinks that is just great.

The kids are all having a fine old time at the Anitoys/Logatoys event. They even have food and candy!!! María stops on by the Anitoy table, where kids are using the Anitoy product and drawing, asking about Anifer. Mauricio tells her she went over to the Logatoys booth. María is concerned because Fabián could be there. Mauricio says he has not arrived. María still ends up going to look for Anifer. At he same time, Fabián is explaining to Anifer that this is not any old toy. Fabián is interested in what she thinks they could add to the robot to make it a nanny, friend, playmate, to be at home when children get home so they would not feel so alone. Fabián suddenly realizes that Renée has arrived and is looking at the image on the screen. Renée tells him that she designed that robot. Fabián counters saying that she must be wrong. It is an old design of his father's that he perfected. Renée simply says that he robbed her robot plans. Anifer gives her a quick smile of approval.

María is back not happy that she has not found Anifer and tells Mauricio that Anifer was supposed to be at the Anitoys table. Mauricio informs her that all of the children were supposed to try out both products. Mauricio does not understand what the big deal is. She needs to calm down and breathe. Mauricio insists that Anifer is at her school with her friends. María knows that the place is secure but Fabián could still be there. Mauricio offers to go look for her with María.

As Fabián watches on, Renée starts to verbally take the design apart piece by piece. First of all, there is a piece on the chest that was not on his father's design, nor the digital control of the arm nor the ten jointed leg. Fabián says he had to modify the design for the twenty first century. Renée says he plagiarized her work. Anifer wants to know what that means. René says it is like copying or robbing somebody's work. She asks where he got the design from. It finally occurs to her that he was the one who orchestrated the theft of her laptop.

Valentina is all ready to meet "Danny" outside the school as he watches her from his car. He tells her to go to the corner where there is a black SUV, turn the corner and he will see her there. She starts to walk but is saved at the last minute by Samuel and Baldo telling her that Jorge wanted them to go to where the children's event was happening. She complains that they are not her bodyguards and says that she is going to meet up with that guy Danny from Facebook just to day "hi". Samuel asks if she is crazy. She says she is old enough to know what she is doing. Baldo and Samuel don't believe her. "Danny" watches it all getting aggravated.

Fabián admits he might be a thousand things but he is not a common thief especially of a former employee's cheap laptop. Renée asks how he knows it was cheap. He just smirks. Renée says he is incredible. She grabs Anifer by the arm to leave. He tells her to wait because he has permission from the principal to show the students his prototype. He asks if Anifer has something to say. Anifer shrugs and Renée drops her hand. Anifer asks him if the robot remembers if it is his friend and what they were playing. Renée takes her hand again and leads her out. Fabián is left with his thoughts: a robot with a memory to keep memories.

Anifer asks if Renée is very angry. Renée says it happens sometimes. María sees the two together and blames Renée for keeping Anifer away. Renée says she just ran into her. Mauri Renée explains that Anifer was in a separate area with Fabián. Mauricio is shocked while María gives him the well-deserved "I told you" look. Renée assures them that Anifer is just fine. She was looking at a toy design with him. Since Renée did not know if they knew that Anifer was with Fabián, she brought Anifer to them. María apologizes saying that she was just frightened. María decides to go home with Anifer. Mauricio does not know what to say to Renée first: thank her for rescuing his daughter from Fabián or to apologize for María. She tells him neither is necessary and informs him that Fabián's robot is the one that she designed based on don Noél's design. He was also the one who stole her laptop. Mauricio is ready to give Fabián a piece of his mind but Renée stops him.

Valentina is still outside the school now texting "Danny" that her brothers won't let her go and meet up with him. "Danny" thinks that is really bad and tells "his Vale" that they will have to catch up later. He will be in touch and adds that she owes him one now. Samuel wants to know where this Facebook guy is anyway. She says he saw them and left. Baldo doesn't get why them being there is a problem. He says Jorge is going to have a lot to say about it when he finds out. Valentina begs them not to tell since he is such an ogre. They agree to keep quiet and go back into the school as "Danny" is still observing it all.

Renée explains to Mauricio that Fabián took her plans and made several prototypes of the robot and wanted Anifer to help him improve it or something like that. Mauricio says that Fabián never has stopped surprising him now between this and the issue of papá Noél. Renée is just bummed out by the whole papá Noél experience and not even getting to know her father and be able to form an opinion of him. She doesn't know how she feels about him but he is her father. Mauricio agrees and is ready to get into non-Fabián issues when Rafael and Ariel arrive on the scene looking for Renée. Ariel greets Mauricio with a handshake and tells him how wonderful his toys are and what a great idea he had with the focus group at school. Mauricio thinks it is just great that they came. Mauricio asks Ariel what he is up to these days. He is taking advantage of his free time because he will be going back to school in a few months just like Renée. Mauricio looks at Renée repeating that she, too, will be leaving soon. Renée says it will be a little while but now she has to see if the Fabián matter is going to cause her problems with her graduate studies. Renée decides to leave and Ariel and Rafael go along with her. Mauricio is alone with his fading fake smile.

"Danny" is on the phone with somebody saying that the only other choice is to use the mother but the last thing he wants to do is get Dulce involved in this. Exasperated with the person on the other end of the phone, he concludes that he will have to do what he has to do.

Back at home, María is giving Anifer the third degree about Fabián. She wants to know if their conversation was about something other than the robots. Anifer assures her it was all robot talk. He wanted to know what the robot needed and if she liked it or not. María asks of she spent a lot of time with him. Anifer answers she did and he wasn't as serious as before when he and her father were friends. Also, after a little while he got angry and had a fight with Renée. It was about robots but Anifer didn't understand it very well. María tells her she does not want her spending any more time with Fabián because he has nothing to say to her. If he wants to talk to her it will be with both of them. Anifer wants to know why. Does María think that he is a bad person? María sighs and says he is not the best person so it it better to stay away from him. Anifer agrees since her mother says so . . .

At Restrepo Sistemas, Verònica is talking to Bustamante and he asks if she wants to change departments. No, she loves her job and has so much to learn by his side but Antonio Barrientos is clearly overqualified for his job and deserves something better. Bustamante will have to think it over. If he changes Antonio to another position it would be full time and he does not know if Antonio's "wifey" would allow him to do that. Verónica cringes as Bustamante laughs. Bustamante will think about it but continues with his opinion. Antonio must be with one of those "empowered" witches. He laughs hard while Verónica tries very hard to laugh along.

Renée is with her teacher trying to explain the whole problem with her project robot and Fabián's claiming it as his own. Everything new in the design was hers. She had the design copyrighted in Mexico but has no idea if the original was copyrighted before and if Fabián has a right to it. Renée understands but her teacher is the only one who understands the policies of both the university here and the one in Maryland. Her teacher tells her that if Fabián says he inherited the robot design from his father and that he made all of the changes, Renée will end up looking like the plagiarist. Renée says this is all that she needed and it could end up with her losing her place in the master's program yet again. Her teacher tells her to be very careful with Fabián and try not to expose herself to any danger. If all else fails, Renée and Fabián could come to an "agreement." Renée does not see that as possibility since she has no money to bargain with. Her teacher says sometimes lawsuits are all about recognition and not necessarily money so Renée does have something to bargain with. For example, it might all come down to including Fabián's father's name on the product along with hers to give him credit. Renée concludes that maybe Fabián would stop all of this if he knew the design was staying in the family so to speak.

At a meeting of the cooperative, Mauricio is telling the group that Fabián's robot is pretty useless right now from what he heard from Renée. It is way too complicated. Mauricio turns the topic to how Fabián is obsessed with being just like him. He copies the good, the bad . . .He needs to be just like him. María tries to get them back on track by asking if they are happy that the competition has ended up like this. Should they not be discussing more serious issues? María is exasperated with the guys laughing at Fabián and wonders if they can get anything intelligent done or if they are just into joking around. She leaves.

Fabián is at the office telling Falcón that Anifer talked about friendship. Falcón says that all sounds really nice but how will that be incorporated in the robot reminding him of the productions costs and making it a more expensive product to sell. Fabián sees Anifer being a visionary just like his father. Thanks to her the papá-mamá doll was a success. Falcón says that the advice was good but she is not infallible. They cannot just go by what a little girl says. Fabián disagrees because this is not any little girl. It is his daughter. The phone rings. Gladys tells him Kika is there. Kika comes in before Fabián can hang up on Gladys. She read the whole brief and it was awesome. She could be all ready to invest bu first she has a few little questions for him. Falcón excuses himself. Fabián cannot keep his eyes off of the beautiful Kika as he escorts her to a sofa. He is ready to hear her questions.

María has returned to the meeting. Things are going better. Mauricio says that their results were good but now they have to try to incorporate the best suggestions that Mauricio mentioned. María asks if they have the money to do that. Jorge goes through his maddening yes/no/maybe routine and ends up talking about selling the license to the papá-mamá doll as the only way to get their next product made. Mauricio does not like the word "product" and wants to call it their next "success." Toño is concerned with them failing. Mauricio has the faith that they will not fail because they are such an incredible team. They work hard. It is all going to turn out well for them . . . isn't it? Nobody looks confident.

At the hospital, Florvidente and Nerón are seeing her doctor. Her doctor has good news. She is in remission. He will still be seeing her to monitor her progress and to continue with testing. He congratulates them.

Fabián wants to engage in some more interesting activity before talking business but Kika is interested in seeing a professional plan complete with the numbers, the figures, the monetary yield, the balance before she would be able to invest. Fabián has it all on his computer and he can send it to her to look over of if she wants they can look it over together in a much more romantic spot. She calls him a "naughty boy" and tells him how tempting that is but before doing anything else she wants to start familiarizing herself with the information. He is disappointed because that will take hours. She insists it will just take her a New York minute but cannot he offer her something to drink like a mimosa
or whatever he has. Fabián will have Gladys take are of it. Kika is not impressed that she is not important enough for him to take care of her order himself for . As he goes to get her drink himself, she wants him to bring up the information on his computer so she can be checking the information she needs while he is gone for her drink. he logs in o hs computer and tells her it is all hers. She thanks him and calls him handsome and then gets to work. She is very excited as she sees "transfers" and everything.

Rodrigo runs into Jorge outside their homes and asks if he has heard anything from Pablo. They only know he made it over the border. Rodrigo asks how Lili and the unborn baby are doing. Jorge says they are doing well and asks Rodrigo how the adoption process is going. Rodrigo says it's going. They started some adoption processes at an orphanage so now they are waiting for to see what they say. Jorge does not want to be a busybody but they haven't been successful, right? Rodrigo agrees. It has been a combination of everything from bad luck to discrimination. What could be bad about them just wanting to have a child; a child they could hug, love and give all that they have? Rodrigo adds that this adoption effort has caused him and Rafael a lot of problems as a couple. It might cause them to break up. Rodrigo excuses himself. Jorge calls him back telling him that having a child is a great responsibility, it is no small thing, it is not a bed of roses. There are those thorns. Rodrigo just laughs and asks if Jorge is going to give him a sermon. No, Jorge just has a question. Why would a gay couple want to complicate their life? Jorge thought they would want a more wild lifestyle. Rodrigo tells him he is wrong. Jorge accepts that and says that the greatest gift that God has given them is the family. One must be very brave to bring children into this world. They become so important that one would defend them tooth and claw and love them with one's entire soul. A smiling Rodrigo tells Jorge that he has alone has removed his doubt. That is how he and Rafael want to form their family: with pure love. Rodrigo thanks him and leaves. Jorge does not quite get what he is thanking him for.

Kika is having a great time on the computer when Fabián returns with her mimosa and a salad. She was just reviewing the numbers and from what she can see everything is just super duper which just gives a person confidence to invest. She thanks him for going for her drink himself. She wants to know if he is all ready for the mega-event at Logatoys. Fabián says it is going to be just spectacular. She remarks what a difference that is from Mauricio and his sad little populist cooperative. Fabián makes it clear that he has no interest in talking about Mauricio when it is just him and Kika alone together. He wants to talk about the two of them. After she eats her salad they could do some more interesting things. She tells him to just calm down and wait just a little while longer. She does not like to mix pleasure and work if she is going to invest her millions in such a wonderful product. She gets up to leave. He gives her the tray with the untouched mimosa and salad to take along which she does. She excuses herself adding that the life of a businesswoman is very difficult and she has a matter she to attend to. Fabián sits down at his computer and sighs wondering what Kika got into on his computer.

Mauricio is talking with Anifer and María telling Anifer that they still do not have a good name for the digital bracelet. Anifer said her friends came up with some names but they were so bad even she has forgotten them. Mauricio says that is proof they they were all the wrong name because if they had had the correct name Anifer would be repeating it just like the parakeet that she is. María has no ideas either, looks bored and says that marketing is his thing. Then Anifer mentions that Mauricio and María are acting real strange. They both vociferously deny it. Nothing wrong here! She finally tells them both to just shut up already. They are sad, or angry or both. Mauricio lies and says he is just a little worried because they do not have the name for the bracelet yet, no money and a thousand other things but aside from that, all is well. María says she is going to summarize the observations from the focus group to clarify what they need to do. Anifer concludes that they are not angry. "Of course not" is the response from Mauricio and María. María takes the opportunity to explain to her that sometimes people get on each other's nerves or have differences but it is an "adult" thing and if that were to happen between her father and her, then they would have to think about what to do. Anifer is afraid that if they were angry with each other, they would end up splitting up. A guilty María and a guilty Mauricio are silent.

Renée is talking about her robot problem with Ariel. They need to look for differences with "Charlie" which is the name of her robot and Fabián's robot. If Fabián decides to sue her for plagiarism using her thesis design from her laptop, then she is "fried". Ariel asks to see the design so he can help her. He asks about the functionality of the hand as Renée explains that "Charlie" was created for autistic children. It is very important that the hand is mobile so that a child can manipulate it.

Rodrigo and Rafael have arrived home as Renée and Ariel are working. They are having a heated discussion about getting their feelings out in the open. Rafael says everything is fine because he knows that Rodrigo doesn't want to hear what he has to say, so he just doesn't say anything. A smiling Rodrigo says if he asks him how he is feeling it is because he is thinking a lot about what they discussed. He needs to slow down. For Rafael the decision is black and white: either they continue together or they get divorced. A still smiling Rodrigo asks a reluctant Rafael to just come with him and asks him to calm down. Rafael repeats that if it is over, just to tell him and get it over with. Rodrigo takes Rafael to the Ministerio Público building because that is where the state adoption offices are located as well as other federal and local government offices including the police department. Rodrigo takes advantage of the situation to proudly introduce Rafael as the man he chose to be his husband in the lobby to all of his colleagues. There is silence all around as his colleague at the info desk asks if he is kidding. Rodrigo says no way. Rafael is his husband and they have come to inquire about adopting a child. They grab each other's hands and go to the appropriate office as his surprised colleagues really have nothing to say.

Florvidente and Nerón have all of the guys and Renée over (except for Rafael and Rodrigo who are MIA) to give them the good news about Florvidente's remission. Florvidente repeats what she once said "A weed. . ." and they all finish it "never dies." They all cheer and are happy for her. Florvidente wonders if she is going to lose her powers now that she will not be getting chemo anymore. Nerón informs them all that his Florvidente can see the future. Mauricio asks her how she sees their cooperative going. Florvidente concentrates and says something is telling her that this cooperative is going to . . .

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