Caray, Caray!

                                
    • While Ricardo and Alejandra contemplate taking his kids to the amusement park, they enjoy a bit of diversionary lip-smacking themselves in his office.

    • Juanito is whining to his mother that he’s got too much to do to stay at home and have breakfast. Just then there’s a knock at the door.  It’s Fer and nope, she hasn’t had breakfast either.   They discuss her staying up all night and searching for some clue on the net about dead “dancer” Patricia’s missing-in-action boyfriend, Pedro.  And, well, she found an old resume still up on the net with a photo of him on it. (See, Johnny. Sometimes Mama does know best!)  Happy, happy! Joy, joy!!  Juanito attaches a “my love” to his excited comments.  Fer smiles that it’s the first time he’s done that.  They celebrate with a loving lip-lock as, we assume, Mama approves in the background.
   

    • Back at Ric The Brick’s office, it’s once again to considering the appeal of Alexa’s rape case. Something needs to change and come through for them, if only to prove to Alexa and her daddy that there’s hope for justice, no matter how small.  They discuss how her papi, Jaime, is also consulting on the case with Alonso.  Ric uses this as a means to flirt with Ale a bit more.  Her law prof papi gave him as enjoyments the two best things  in life for him – a love of the law and his love for Ale.
   
    • Leonardo and Roberto receive the numerous DVD’s of security videos.  The bring up a frame of a blond guy looking around a couple of floors like he’s lost.  Just then Juan walks in with the print out of Pedro’s job resume and photo. 

    • At the old folk’s home, Astrid has a male visitor who’s telling her he’s short on cash and his errant son hasn’t bothered to give him a centavo towards his basic living needs.  He’s heartbroken and she feels helpless at not being able to share what little pension she has, either.  They hug good-bye.

    • Dr. Morelli has just planned to invite Astrid for a special dinner and has asked his favorite orderly to arrange it.  He notices Astrid hugging her male visitor and suspects the worst: he’s an admirer of hers with whom she’s romantically involved.  He has the orderly cancel the dinner.
   
    • Later that morning, Astrid tells the orderly of the old gentleman’s plight.  He suggests getting a lawyer involved.  He assures her that Dr. Morelli’s son is an attorney and will be able to give them some advice.  Dr. Morelli agrees to listen and is overjoyed to learn that the man he saw embracing Astrid was her brother.  The dinner is back on?
   
    • Back in Rob’s office, the three lawyers remain fixated on the frame of the solitary dude who looks lost outside the door to Carlos’s room.  They hold up the photo attached to the resume and except for the hairstyle, it’s the spittin’ image of Pedro!!  He doesn’t return to the camera area and suggest he went out the emergency exit—or could have waited and then gone.  So this, says Leo, definitely links him to the murder—why else be walking around on that floor if not looking for Patricia.  They now have time, place and plenty of motive.  They’ll just need to show it to Sonia and have her put out an APB and a warrant for his arrest.  Perhaps he didn’t know what she was doing there—or perhaps he did and either way, there’d be a motive for him to be there.

    • Just then Olivia knocks on the office door to take Juan with her to work on Alonso’s case with her. She briefly discusses the murder case they’re working on and says she admires their ability to work on two major cases at once, then leaves with Juan.  Rob teases Leo about Oli’s compliments.  I couldn’t get what he replied to that. (??)    The two chuckled about it though.

    • Back at the old folks home, Astrid is disgusted with her nephew for not caring enough to repay his daddy’s kindnesses with a fraction of all he was given.  How ungrateful!  If he’s been refusing his calls and not responding to any approach of his father, then the only way is  to proceed legally.  He takes Astrid’s hands into his own and promises that if she leaves it to him he’ll see it gets done.  And like All State, if it’s in his hands, she’s in good hands….. The wide-eyed stare that Astrid gives him has Viewerville in stitches.
   
    • Back at Bad-Boys Legal Battlers, Inc., Carlos begins to look greasier and greasier.  (Somebody should tell him that the brill-creamed gleam look went out half a century ago—well perhaps not so much in Mexico.)  He receives a new client: the woman who’s son was strangled.  Turns out her daughter survived the knife wounds to her throat.  She suspects it was her daughter’s mad as a hatter boyfriend, Vicente.  She wants him put away for life—no, more than that, she wants him dead as a door nail forthwith.  (El Ciego, call your crime-ridden offices.)  He agrees to take the case and represent her.  He needs her daughter to identify her attacker.
   
    • Leticia is pissed at losing her case still and is working feverishly on an appeal when Oli and Juan come in looking for assistance with the task Alonso gave them to assist in the rape case appeal.  The two of them remark that it’s a major loser and a dawg of a case so to stop wasting her time with it.  At least Alonso’s case has merit and possibilities.  Hers does not (and besides, Viewerville starts screaming at the T.V. screen: IN CASE YOU’VE FORGOTTEN, THE DUDE’S YOUR BOSS AND THE ONE WHO SIGNS YOUR FREAKIN’ PAYCHECK, TOOTS!)  Alonso needs a report from them today.  She begrudgingly agrees to stop working on her personal project to assist Alonso—and reminds Juanito that she prefers doing it ALONE.
   
    • Carlos informs cousin Alan that he’s taken on the new murder case and no way in Hell is he letting Alan near it; he refuses to have a repeat of the last dismal failure.  Alan is going to be dealing with the Women’s Foundation setup and assisting Ale and Oli and Victoria.  Carlos’s taking this case will be great publicity for the firm.  The public will soon forget about El Ciego.
   
    • Rob comes to Vicki to ask her to handle a case his father has spoken to him about.  He gets around to telling her she’s special again and perhaps she might want to discuss the case over dinner.  Naw, not necessarily.  She doesn’t care to witness him showing off for the long line of women who’ll be waiting for him to favor them with a look or a word while they’re out eating.  Hey, he says, “--if there are so many, there’s got to be a good reason!”  “--Yeah, either they don’t really know you that well, or they have really bad taste in men.” He reminds her again that if she’d just give him a serious chance he would give them all up in an instant.  She tells him he’ll never be that lucky, but yes, they will have that business dinner this evening.  He struts out the door, ever her servant.

    • Carlos, meanwhile, tells Alan that the two of them are headed to Vega’s law firm immediately.  Al’s to work on the foundation business while he tries impressing Ale with having taken the grieving mother’s murder case.  He wants to remind her why she fell in love with him to begin with.

    • Juan comes to Alonso with a case he found that Marrufo, aka, Malrufo, seemed to overstep the law. There was a lawyer who poorly represented his client and rather than sanction the attorney he stated the lawyer never meant to do harm and therefore never punished him.  Since Rob did the appeal, he’ll have more details for Alonso to proceed with.  Lonnie agrees. (Lonnie, give that boy an office, already!)

    • Carlos and Alan arrive at Vega and Associates and enter Ale’s meeting she, Vicki and Oli are having concerning the foundation.  Alan gives Oli the customary suitor’s greasy-lipped kiss on the cheek hello with a couple of hi’s to the other women.  After the meaningless chit-chat,   Alan, Vicki and Oli leave to work on the foundation’s needs while Carlos gets a chance to go over in detail about the murdered child’s case he’s just taken on.  He says good-bye, but Ale calls him back in to discuss her new relationship’s progress.  He talks right over her and refuses to discuss anything but his case with her.  She gives in.  He leaves, thinking he’s making progress.

    • Ric gets a call from Elena.  He advises he’s really busy.  Exlena, like a nagging fish wife, chides him for probably letting his work get in the middle of his family duties again.  After all, she says, don’t forget that work was the reason their family was broken into bits to begin with.  He’s not happy to have this thrown in his face again, ‘twould seem.

    • Back in Vicki’s office she’s finishing the details of the work they’ve so far accomplished and Al’s acting like he’s sooo excited at all they’ve done.  Nothing better than helping women in need…. However, he’s got to get back to the office—and, oh, BTW, would Oli like to go out with him sometime so they could get to know each other better?  She certainly would!  Ok!  I’ll be in touch! (Oli, don’t do it!  He’s a L.O.S.E.R.!!!  But that’s the only kind she can rope in and she’s ready to settle. )  Vicki’s been hoodwinked along with the rest of Vega and Ale, besides.  Ale sanctions Oli going out with him.  Ale then tells the girls she’s failed to get Carlos’s attention so she can emphasize they are really splits this time for good.  Woe is the whole lot of them lady lawyers.  Fushi!

    •  Meanwhile, Jaime meets with Lonnie to let him know that yeah, they have a definite set of rules here now that Malrufo violated.  They have something to proceed with.   Just then Jaime gets a call and they head for the courthouse. 

    • Across the hall, Benjamin pays lonesome Leti a visit.  He has a gift for her.  After she complains about her losing the last case and trying to work on the appeal and Benji telling her to leave well enough alone and forget the appeal, she takes note of the watch.  Ah, trinkets for the trollop.  In Leti’s world all the glitters is gold, and the watch she’s been given is all she needs to half undress in her office and let Benji feel her up.  (Viewerville screams at the tv to get real already!)
   
    • So from one silly situation to another we see that Vicki is just as naive regarding Al and Carlos when it comes to their so called commitment to the women’s foundation as Ale and Oli are—well, Oli’s a lost case anyway you look at it.  Ale agrees she’s just as surprised but all’s well that they think’s going to end well….
   
    • Carlos gets to the hospital and chats with the girl who survived the murder attempt.  Yes, it was Vicente, her boyfriend who strangled her brother and slit her throat.
   
    • At the courthouse, later that day, Malrufo returns.  In the hall nobody will return his greetings.  His secretary shows him why.  He enters his office and sees that both Jaime and Alonso are waiting for him.  Right after he screams at them for the reason they’re in his office invading his space, two detectives arrive to put  him in handcuffs for corruption.  Who’s bringing charges?  The head magistrate of Mexico it would seem!  Dun-dun-dun-dunnnnn!

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