Caray, Caray!

The action continues in the cul-de-sac:

Rodrigo goes out to greet the uniformed police officers who have arrived in the cul-de-sac while the drug dealer hides behind a fence and shrubbery between the houses.

Dulce rushes out of her house, much to the fear of Baldo, pushing him aside. She tells Rodrigo and the other policemen in the street that she has a thief living in her house and has proof. She caught Baldo stealing money from her purse.

Flor, who has been standing to the side with Rafael and Renée, overhears what is going on and sticks up for Baldo telling Dulce not to be such a pain. Dulce calls her a busybody. The drug dealer continues to watch. Rodrigo tries to quiet the situation down. One of the policemen informs Dulce that they are there to deal with a much more serious problem than a domestic complaint. Vero and Esperanza are drawn to the group to see what is going on. Everyone wonders what is going on.


María, in Mauricio's house, is being directed by Fabián who is in his car. He tells her to look in the drawers of the sideboard in the dining room for the drug packets. She finds them and asks where she can find others.

As Rodrigo leads one of the uniformed officers to Mauricio's house, he assures them that this is most likely a mistake or just a nuisance call.

Mauricio is meeting with Jorge and Toño at the new Anitoys headquarters. Jorge congratulates Toño on his proposal. It is excellent and they can implement it. Toño willingly volunteers that it was Vero's idea. Toño tells them that it is Vero who would be a great addition to their business. Mauricio says they could take her on, too. Toño tells him that he does not understand. It is Vero who really has the passion for working there not him. That is why he quit his job. He just has to be somewhere else, "way out there." They are left looking up wondering where "way out there" is.

When the policeman and Rodrigo arrive, María answers the door. Rodrigo informs her that they are there to do a search of the house due to a complaint having been made.

As the crowd watches the police at Mauricio's, a fight between Ernesto and Bryan breaks out. Even after the kids are broken apart and Rafael asks Bryan why he would do this to a kid smaller than him, Bryan lunges again at Ernesto and has to be dragged back by Rafael.

After having searched the house, Rodrigo and the policeman find nothing and chalk it up to just a prank call. The second uniformed officer sees a man (drug dealer) between the houses but does not mention it.

Bryan refuses to apologize. Rafael says they will be going home and he can stay inside. Bryan does not care. Rafael excuses himself and takes Bryan home.

Renée asks Mauricio why they were at Mauricio's house. He explains it was a prank call with a false accusation. María agrees it must have been some kind of jokester but cuts her chatting short since she can see that Fabián is calling her. As she moves away to answer the call, Renée looks concerned.

The uniformed officer explains to his partner who is now in the patrol car that they found nothing in Mauricio's house. He asks if his partner saw anything suspicious. Since he asked, the second officer did see something suspicious. There was a suspicious looking guy roaming around the cul-de-sac. They decide to track him down to ask him some questions.

Fabián asks María if her fright has passed now. She calls him a wretched human being. He is not done with María. He now wants María to meet him so she can find out about the marvelous agreement they have come to. They then can confirm that they are going to be one big happy family. María is upset because she has no idea about what agreement he is talking about. It is just something that he wants to force on her? He decides to give her a summary. In two days she and Anifer will be living at his house where they will do whatever is needed to renew their relationship obviously for the good of their daughter. She is outraged. She also cannot decide anything concerning the future of their daughter without consulting with him first. From now on, all rights to and custody of his child are solely his. She calls him a piece of garbage. He says he loves her, too. He reminds her he can have the police come back again. She has two days to start living with him and less than five minutes to come out and see him. He is waiting for her in a car outside the cul-de-sac. He is watching her so she had better be very very careful.

The patrol car comes back and Rodrigo leaves Renée and Flor to see what is up. María comes out and asks Renée to watch Anifer for just a bit because she has to go somewhere. María wonders aloud why the police are back. Rodrigo tells them that they arrested a drug dealer that was seen around the cul-de-sac.

Baldo is all packed up leaving Jorge's when Flor confronts him on the street. She asks if he has talked to his dad. No, Baldo has just had it with what his dad's wife did to him right now in front of everybody. She humiliated him. Flor understands but does not want him to throw it all away because of her. Baldo does not even know where he is going. She finally convinces him to come home with her. She will make him some food and they will talk. She will not take no for an answer.

Jorge comes home and is locked out of his own gate. He goes over the hedge and knocks on the windows calling out for Dulce and asking why she changed the lock on his house.

Baldo is talking with Flor at her house about his mother dying and feeling alone. Coming to the city to be with Jorge has just made things worse instead of helping.

Renée informs Mauricio of the latest goings on. Mauricio is shocked to hear about a drug dealer in the cul-de-sac and the police searching his house. He has to talk to Rodrigo about what is going on. He wonders why María just left like that. Renée wonders if it has something to do with Fabián. Mauricio insists that María would have told him if it had.

María is at Fabián's where a lawyer is working on his laptop on the agreement. She is upset. Fabián explains that if they want to be together it is because they want to do it for the good of their daughter. María wants to know how long the agreement is going to take to write up. Fabián has all the time in the world. He hopes she does, too, because the agreement is going to be long and she is not leaving until it is done. he invites her to take a seat.

Mauricio goes over to Rodrigo's to find out why the police came to his house. Rodrigo goes to talk to Mauricio outside.

Toño and Vero have a heart to heart where he confesses that working in an office just doesn't do it for him anymore. As a matter of fact, it hurts. She is tired of taking care of the house and the kids. Toño tells her that is what he is there for. With her talent, Toño says she would be a perfect fit for Anitoys. She is just better at those kinds of things than he is.

Rodrigo tells Mauricio to calm down as Mauricio is trying to call María and is not getting an answer. The arrest of the drug dealer doesn't necessarily have anything to do with María's call. Mauricio does not see it as a coincidence. For him, there are no coincidences.

Jorge is in his car and calls Dulce who is at a movie theater with Valentina and Samuel. She tries to answer it quietly as he complains about her changing the lock on the house. She insists that she had her reasons and will meet him later at a bar to discuss things.

Toño makes it clear to Vero that he is ready to be a house husband again. They can continue being the great team that they are. She asks if that is all he is going to do. He does admit to having a secret passion . . .

Dulce and Jorge are drinking shots at a bar as she reminisces. Jorge wants to talk about the lock. She makes him listen to her trip down memory lane talking about how she fell in love with him, Yuriria blah, blah, blah. Jorge tells her he did his best but their marriage just didn't work.

Noél tells Renée even though she did not grow up with it, his last name is hers just because she is his daughter. Renée sees the name as symbolic of a relationship. She had none with him as Anifer has had none with Fabián. Then there is Fabián who was alway with him and look at what kind of person he grew up to be. Noél admits that his relationship with Fabián has been broken for a long time.

Dulce and Jorge are now drunk. He asks her what she is planning on doing. She wants to take the kids to the USA which does not sit well with Jorge. Suddenly they both want to pay the check and pull on each other's hand for the check until Jorge gets it and Dulce's hand flies up and she hits herself in the face. She acts like Jorge hit her and plays the victim to the hilt.

Finally, Fabián takes María home and Fabián reminds her that she will be watched by his people to make sure she doesn't try to make a run for it with Anifer. It also would be better if she did not tell Mauricio since he is so impulsive. Things could turn out really bad for both of them.

The patrons of the bar are taking Dulce's part since they think that Jorge hit her. One of the guys punches him in the jaw and a drunken Jorge ends up on the floor. Dulce finally leaves and leaves him the check to pay.

Mauricio is waiting with Anifer when María comes home. Mauricio asks her what happened. She wasn't answering her phone. María says it was nothing out of the ordinary. She tells Anifer that the police visit was just routine, nothing else.

A drunk Jorge shows up at Kika's suite and falls drunk to the floor outside her door. She opens the door to see what happened to him.

At home, Dulce is poisoning Samuel and Valentina's mind against their father as she ices her bruised face. He is not the saint they have always thought he was. At first, Valentina is not too sure about what Dulce is telling them. There was hardly a mark on her face. Their father never hit her before, so why would he now? As expected, Samuel is more convinced.

Kika is taking care of Jorge giving him a cup of coffee and a piece of her mind. Everything that has happened has been his fault because of his double moral standard. When is he going to accept that he did it all for himself in support of an image of the perfect family that he created in his own little mind? She starts listing his moral errors: his hidden relationship supporting Yuriria all those years, his racism with Pablo, his homophobia with Rafael and Rodrigo, his being unable to publicly announce a relationship with her because she was so very modern and he was embarrassed. Jorge is silent on the couch looking sheepish. She tells him to be a man and to accept the consequences of what he himself caused. She takes his cup away and pushes Jorge back out in the hall.

Next, Rodrigo sees him all drunk and desheveled in the cul-de-sac and comes to his aid. Jorge is rather incoherent mentioning being punched three times. He confesses Dulce threw him out,she changed the lock, his kids hate him, and Kika does not love him. He is going to Toño's house and thanks Rodrigo, pats him on the head, gives him a hug and tells him he is a good person.

A new day:

It is breakfast time with Rafael, Rodrigo and the kids. There is also a guest at the table: Jorge. Bryan is on a tear and insists that he is not going to school. Rodrigo tells him he does not have a choice. Bryan doesn't want to and no, he is not Rafael's son. He is not going to school. He is going to bed and he is going to sleep. He is very tired. Rafael reminds him that they have company. Jorge is there. Bryan does not care. That wakes Jorge up. He looks on disapprovingly.

María explains the agreement that she has made with Fabián to Mauricio. It is to be filed in family court. She is going take Anifer and go and live with Fabián. Fabián will have sole custody over Anifer. Mauricio is shocked. Is Fabián threatening her? They can go to the police, . . . María says she cannot do a thing. Fabián has her right where he wants her. She does not want to be separated from her daughter ever. She also does not want Mauricio to get involved in something that is beyond their control. Mauricio tells her she just cannot give in like that. She is a warrior. María says there is nothing else that can be done. She leaves. Mauricio is left dismayed.

Back at R and R's, Rodrigo is still arguing with Bryan. Jorge cannot take it anymore and finally tells Bryan that he is tired of hearing him. He is not being respectful. He should be grateful to these two gentlemen for trying to help him and his sister get ahead in life and adopt them. Jorge explains that he is suffering from a bad hangover but that he is a lawyer and and knows all about different laws. So, when that social worker comes visiting, Bryan had better not go lying to her. Bryan insists he won't lie. Jorge says that would be a good idea because if he were to lie, he would have to go against him and support his friends. Then Bryan would be separated from his sister Manuela and returned to the orphanage where, Jorge promises, nobody but nobody is going to want to adopt him for being such a rude child who does not know how to behave. After that, he will end up on the street with nobody, certainly not a family waiting for him. Bryan tries to talk but Jorge tells him to be quiet. Bryan will have nobody to go to and nowhere to go. He will be all alone in life. He asks if Bryan gets it or not. Jorge is not happy until the now scared Bryan answers him with a "Yes, 'sir'"' which he does. Jorge continues. From now on it starts, Bryan will be treated not like a five year old but like the ten year old he is. He then tells Bryan that his sisterManuela behaves better than he does. He asks him if that makes him feel ashamed. Jorge prompts him until he hears that "Yes,'sir'" again. Bryan gets up to get ready for school and Rodrigo can only smile.

Fabián and María are at family court waiting to see the judge. He tells her showing up in front of the judge is just part of the process. He tells María if she keeps her part of the agreement and does not go against him, she will have nothing to worry about. He also wants to let her know he still has one drug packet hidden just in case she starts to regret what she has done. If she does, it can become "un" hidden. María complains that he said they were all gone. There is no way that Fabián is going to allow himself to be affected by her changing her mind. María does not know what he is talking about.

Jorge goes limping home where Samuel and Valentina are leaving for school. The first thing Samuel asks him is why did he hit his mother. Jorge has no idea what he is talking about. He asks Dulce what she told the kids. Valentina asks him why does her mother have a bruise on her face. Jorge tries to explain. That goes nowhere. The kids leave and Dulce locks the gate. Dulce will not let him inside to get his clothing. She will do it for him. In the meantime, R and R come by with the kids taking them to school. No, Jorge says he does not need their help. He bumps fists with Bryan and tells him he is watching him.

Back waiting at court, María asks if Fabián is crazy or ill. Fabián, who is now irritated, says he is fine. She just needs to worry about signing what he is asking her to sign so the police don't get any other anonymous calls. He lets her know that the last drug packet is hidden in Anifer's backpack. Furthermore, Anifer is to never know about what is going on because if she does, María will suffer the consequences. If something were to happen to her, he would be all by himself with Anifer and there is something telling him that María would not want that to happen. María is ready to sign. He likes that attitude. As they go to see the judge, Mauricio arrives on the scene. He is there to talk to the judge and ask his opinion about what is going on. Fabián just looks at María.

As R and R are still there with the car, Dulce proceeds to throw all of Jorge's clothes out of the window.

María asks for a moment to talk alone with Mauricio. Fabián goes ahead. Mauricio wants to talk to the judge and put up a fight. María explains that she is worried that there is too much that could be used against her. Mauricio is not helping the situation. From this point on, he is nothing to Anifer. This is something between just Anifer and her parents. He does not count as a part of that group.

Nerón comes by and helps Jorge pick up his clothes. Where is he going to stay? Jorge mentions something about a brother. Nerón offers his place where Baldo is staying. Jorge is surprised as Nerón goes on about how sad and abandoned Baldo feels since Dulce kicked him out just like she did Jorge.

María signs the agreement in front of the judge who congratulates them on giving their family another chance for their child. He wishes them good luck as Fabián smiles and María looks like she is in shock. Fabián asks if it is okay if his daughter and future wife move in with him. The judge says there is no problem if María agrees. They thank the judge.

Dulce gets a surprise phone call from Isauro who is going to have a surprise for her real soon. He wants his money back that he asked her to keep for him.

Mauricio is loading Anifer into the car. She asks if her mother knows she is leaving the house. She sees the suitcases. Mauricio explains they are going on a father daughter trip. No, Renée and her mother cannot make it. She asks where they are going. Mauricio answers and she joins in: to infinity and beyond! He tells her they can go wherever she wants because nobody will ever separate them. Anifer repeats "Nobody, ever".

Dulce informs Isauro she can't get to the money. He tells her that he specifically put the money in her name so its existence could not be linked to and used against him. He insists that Dulce knows that the money belongs to him. She asks what needs the money for anyway since he is behind bars. Isauro says that remains to be seen. She had better concern herself with getting his money and not pulling a fast one on him making him look like a fool.

Noél is trying to talk Renée out of going to the USA for her graduate studies. He would like her to stay and work with him. He could be dead by the time she goes and returns from her studies. He does not really feel well. She asks if he is blackmailing her. Noél says, no, he just needs some air. He does not feel well. He is having difficulty breathing and is wheezing.

Surprise! Jorge arrives at Nerón's house where he meets up with Baldo.

Noél uses his inhalator and is better. He tells Renée that the last thing he wants to do is cause her problems but if he were to die the bank accounts would go straight to Fabián which would be bad since Fabián is such a fool and when it comes to business he is so much worse. No matter how Noél told Fabián that Logatoys should have been closed years ago, that imbecile never understood. Renée wants to know what he meant about wanting the factory to be closed. Noél tries to explain that he believes that when a business it not working it is the best to get out of it quickly. He is also almost out of money. He wants Renée to move her renters out so he can move in with her in the cul-de-sac house.

Fabián and María visit Anifer's school where they talk with the principal. From now on, Fabián and María are to be listed as her parents and Mauricio is to be prohibited from having any contact with Anifer. The principal informs them that Mauricio came by for Anifer already very early today. Didn't Mauricio inform them? An incensed Fabián asks how they could have allowed that to happen. Mauricio has no rights over his daughter.

Mauricio calls to check in with Renée and to tell her what he is doing. They are at a restaurant on a highway. Renée asks if he knows what kind of a problem he is getting himself into. Yes, he does. He said he was going to protect Anifer from Fabián and that is what he is going to do. She begs him not to do it because he will end up in jail, but whatever happens she wants him to know she is with him. That means a lot to Mauricio. She asks if he has thought about the worry he is causing María. He admits she is right. His battery is running out. She wants to know exactly where he is at. His battery is dead.

After that call, Mauricio calls María. She is still at the school and pretends that the call is from Vero to keep Fabián out of the loop. Mauricio tells her why he has taken Anifer. He is and will always be Anifer's father. His battery runs out before she can tell him about what is in Anifer's back pack.

At, Nerón's, Jorge is lecturing Baldo about how stealing is stealing is stealing and how it is a bad thing. Baldo mentions having needed money and still not having gotten any of his inheritance . . .

At dinner time with Dulce, Dulce is telling Valentina and Samuel that she is looking into selling the house and maybe they are going to have a change of plans like moving out of the country for a while, maybe Miami. Samuel is happy, Valentina not so much.

María and Fabián have arrived at María's where they are arguing about Anifer's education. Fabián insists it will be private tutors in their home. María mentions now is not time for that discussion. Renée accuses Fabián of wanting of wanting to keep Anifer isolated. He says he only wants to be in charge of his daughter. Does she know where Mauricio took her and when they are getting back? Renée does not think it will be long. He asks if she is sure because he does not have the time to be waiting for her little boyfriend. María goes into her room to call Mauricio on the sly.

At Toño's house, he has an announcement at the supper table. He wants to explore a new profession. He wants to be a comedian. Vero and his mother wonder how HE would do that. He explains that when he was in Fidelito's classroom, he was sensational. He won over his audience. Fidelito agrees they all died laughing. Toño explains that he just wants to try it. Vero and Esperanza are not very excited.

Renée goes to talk to María and tells her to not call Mauricio. She has to trust him because Fabián could always come back around and accuse her of being Mauricio's accomplice. María asks where they are. Renée does not know. Renée is going to talk to Jorge. María tells Renée that Mauricio needs to know that Anifer has something in her backpack that could put them both in danger. Fabián starts calling for María from the other room.

Valentina leaves a video message for Kika informing her that she will probably be going to Miami with her mother and brother and just wants Kika to know because she really loves her a lot like a friend. Things are bad with her father now, too. She almost hates him. Kika just shakes her head. She is sad that Kika has such a bad opinion of her beautiful Jorge.

Anifer and Mauricio arrive at a cabin out in the woods where Mauricio spent time as a child. He and his father used to play frisbee out there. He never played with him after that . . .

Toño is talking to Vero explaining how he is always joking around. Vero says he does that just like 99% of all Mexicans. She does not see being a comedian as having a future. He asks her how does she know that anyway. He has found his vocation. Isn't she happy for him? He has high hopes. There is nothing to be lost by trying. Vero adds just maybe his dignity and they both end up laughing.

Mauricio tells Anifer that when he started to grow up, he began to see his father with all of his defects and he wasn't such a super dad anymore. He is afraid of that happening with Anifer and him. She assures him that will never happen because she likes him. He will always be the best papá in the world for her. He will always be "her" papá. Mauricio repeats "your" papá. they hug.

Fabián calls Mauricio and leaves him a message: if he does not return with Anifer in an hour he will be filing kidnapping charges against him.

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