Caray, Caray!

⦁ Victoria, Alejandra and Olivia return to Oli's office to begin the divorce papers for Benjamin's soon-to-be-ex, Karina who, with the new dye job Viewerville failed at first to recognize.

⦁ Candy Man Miguel is there for supper again at Elena's.  He's brought gifts again for the kids.  She must head out for a few minutes to get something last minute and leaves Miguel in charge.  He is visibly uptight being left alone with a couple of kids he barely knows.

⦁ Back at Vega and Associates (which may soon be two fewer in number) Benji and the now fully clothed Leticia scream and yell  at each other about who is really to blame that they've not only been found out, but that the spaghetti spined Benji didn't claim Leti as his one and only love and thereby humiliated her in front of his wife, not to mention the boss and half the law firm saw her practically naked in her Victoria's not so Secret bvd's.  Ben angrily tells her they're both to blame and that he's got much more at stake here than she does!  She eventually throws him out of the office and tells him not to rely on her for a single thing from now on. 


⦁ Back at Exlena's apartment, Federico is ready to play video games and comes looking for Migi. As there are no locked doors in Mexico, though as many reasons as people to have one,  Fede unceremoniously opens the CLOSED BATHROOM DOOR on Migi and immediately finds his mother's guest sniffing up nose candy from the counter top.  Yes, Migi has been seen and he angrily shoves Fede back against the hall wall whereby he hits his head and hurt his shoulder.  Fede manages to recover and races into get his sister then heads to one of their bedrooms where he must finally realize if he cannot shove a chair under the doorknob or move a piece of heavy furniture against the door, the lock will have to do.

⦁ Roberto reminds Vicki that he wanted to take her to dinner and he promises to leave her back at her door sans a nightcap invitation if that's how she wants it.

⦁ Fede dials Ricardo at work and hurriedly explains the chaotic situation in the house right now.  Ric races over to Exlena's to rescue the two children.  Candy Man Migi races to the opening elevator doors thinking it's Exlena.  It's Ric, who immediately gives him a right hook to the jaw and knocks the dude to the floor.  "--You the guy who hit my kid?"  Ric takes the kids away to his place while Candy Man lies half spaced out on the living room floor.

⦁ Gustavo and Alonso meet with Sonya to advise they don't believe Fausto's death was a simple gang revenge killing [ajusta de cuentas].  Sonya reminds him they found drugs in the man's car.  Lonnie doesn't have any proof of his suspicions that it was a setup and the murder was staged to make Fausto look like a drug-trafficking criminal, but he reports that Dorante came to his office with his posse to threaten him that afternoon.  He's willing to file a complaint.  While Sonya's off getting the paperwork ready, Lon confirms to Gus that he doubts Fausto was in any way involved with drugs.  They reason it out and determine that if the Durantes were capable of staging drugs in the car when murdering Fausto, then they might very well be involved with drug-running in San Benito.

⦁ Back at Vega once more, Oli and Ale are leaving for the day and discussing how learning that you've been cheated on is emotionally disastrous, but actually finding your loved one "in flagrante delicto" is devastating.  They agree that Leti's a beautiful, capable professional woman who shouldn't need to become involved with a married man who has a family.  And Benji should have been clear to his wife about the situation.  Leti overhears the chat and tells the women while they wait for the elevator that they don't have to talk behind her back.  Say what they think but tell her to her face.  Ale tells her she's not judging her, but why get involved with a married man when she's got all the qualities that should make her self-dependent and a great catch for decent, singles?

⦁ Exlena returns home with the food and finds Candy Man nursing his jaw with ice. He lies to her about not knowing the reason her crazy fool of an ex-husband came rushing in and knocked him down and then left with the kids.  She says he wouldn't do it without a reason and wants to know what happened.  She immediately heads off to pick up her kids.  Migi offers to take her there.  (Bad move, dude.)

⦁ Leti is at home nursing her emotionally bedraggled pride/dignity when Benji begins banging on her door begging to be let in.  She lets him in and he complains that Karina has locked him out of the house with nothing but the clothes on his back and he needs a place to stay.  Leti says no way can he stay.  He tries whining that this is what she wanted: for him to leave his wife.  "--Yes, but because you wanted to be with me, not as your only other option!"  (Benji, why don't you part with a few of those Benjamin's of your own that you've been putting away all this time and get a room at the Embassy Suites or some such.  We know your a lowly, craven worm but still, why lower yourself to begging for a bed at Leti's?  It's because you ARE a lowly, craven worm!)  She says she's tire of his whining.  She knows now that he only wanted to sleep with her but never wanted to leave his wife for her.  "--I am no longer interested in you.  Get out."  She throws him out of her place.

⦁ Exlena finally manages to reach Ric on the phone and he tells her that he took the kids only after her drug addict of a boyfriend attacked Fede.  She refuses to believe him and says she's calling the police for kidnapping her children.  Ric, our morally staunch brick in times of panic, tells her to go right ahead.  Candy Man keeps driving and obeying Exlena's command to speed it up.

Exlena screams she just wants Ric out of her and her kids' lives once and for all.  She is screaming at Migi to put the pedal to the metal when out of nowhere, his speeding car is T-boned at an intersection.  (Whoa!!  That was a car crash Viewerville never saw coming!)  Ric hears the crash over the phone.  Exlena has at least finally been silenced, but Viewerville isn't certain if it is permanently or not.

⦁ This same evening, Lourdes and Lonnie are enjoying their chance to have dinner together.  He confides that after his wife's death and the children went to school outside of the country, never to return, he turned to teaching law and hired three of his brightest students into his firm.  They were SJW's just like him eager to provide justice in a country where none feel it exists.

⦁ The paramedics answer Exlena's phone and advise Ric of the accident and that Exlena is in very serious condition, along with the driver.  They're being taken to the hospital.  Ric will be right down.

⦁ Rob and Vicki's dinner date will have to be put on ice.  She has just gotten Ric's call advising her about the accident.  Vicki tells him she and Rob will head over to his place immediately.  She'll call Oli to take care of the kids in the meantime for him.  And, unbeknownst to Vicki, Ric's called Leonardo to take care of them as well.  (Woot!  Woot!)

⦁ As for Oli, she and Alan are sharing a glass of wine at her place.  He's just told her he was slightly jealous of her being in Cancun and is inviting her to spend the weekend with him in Cabo.  She is about as interested in that idea as peanut butter on dry toast.  She politely says she's got lots of work to catch up onl;  he is disappointed she's not more enthusiastic.  She says it's a charming idea but she'll let him know.  He asks if everything is fine between them and then realizes when she doesn't answer right away he's put his size 12 right in it.  He excuses himself for being so forward.  (Not so much forward as old, wrinkled and a stuffed suit compared to Leo in linen and Levi's.  Take a hint and bugger off you 2nd rate solicitor.)

⦁ Alonso, the old guy, tells Lourdes he doesn't want to beat around the bush--which is wise when you're in your seventies and have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.  He really likes her and wants to get to know her better.  She feels likewise.  They agree to start dating  (I believe.)

⦁ The Li'l Rascals, minus Ale, join up at Ric's.  Oli is surprised but pleased to learn that Leo's babysitting also.

⦁ Gus and Isabela discuss the dangers of the San Benito case over a sleeping Luis's head.

⦁ Ric blames himself for Exlena's vexing condition.  Hmmm.  Seems she's got pressure/swelling or some such on the brain and cannot be moved in this condition to a hospital that has more specialized equipment and doctors.  She's just going to have to manage to survive the night on her own.

⦁ At Ric's, Oli is surprised and pleased at Leo's winning ways with the kids.  He uses this to ask her for another opportunity to get to know him better.

⦁ When Rob and Vicki catch up to Ric in the lounge, he tells them Exlena's condition is serious and that he'll never forgive himself if she doesn't survive.  Vicki and Rob lend moral support for how he rescued the kids.  He's not to blame.  (I'll second that.  Vexlena was the one who went BSC and told Candy Man to run the Indy 500 over to Ric's place!)

⦁ The next morning Lon and Gus are discussing the rag that San Benito calls its morning paper due to the angelic light the Dorantes are discussed.  They're useless, Gus says.  Carmen races in to inform them of Exlena's accident and he wants to speak to Ric on the phone.

⦁ Oli and Leo discuss how he feels since he was shot that life is passing him by and yes, he'd like to settle down and start a family.  Ric comes in and tells the kids that their mom survived the night and he'll spend time with her at the hospital--out of guilt, no doubt.  Leo offers to continue taking care of the kids in the meantime.

⦁ Benji arrives to find huge moving boxes full of his things that Karina had sent over to him.  He is not a happy camper.  (Viewerville's surprised Alonso hasn't had Carmen pack up the things from Benji's office as well.)

⦁ Lon calls a staff meeting and tells the group that Ric's to be out a few days as his ex is very ill.

⦁ Jaime meets Mayor Dorante at breakfast and shows the headlines in the paper about Fausto.  "--You better defend yourself.  He was the first to file against you and now he's dead.  If I find that you've deceived me I'll refuse to be your attorney in this case."  Dorante twists the facts to his advantage.  He was meeting with Vega himself that evening while this was happening.  He only was there to see if Vega had come to his senses about this case because he's accusing me of crimes I never committed!  I am ready to be investigated.  But I will tell you,   You know how things can get with these fanatics and me being a politician and all.  I myself am afraid for my life.

Labels: ley