Caray, Caray!

Olivia joins Alan for dinner.  Alan, the Quicksand Kid, the poster boy for Beta males everywhere, sits down and while waiting for their cocktails, offers the woman he supposedly loves and wants to spend the rest of his dull, lusterless life with--a beauty with whom he's shared a few, passionless lip locks that led nowhere--(drum roll)...not a diamond ring hidden at the bottom of her champagne glass nor baked into her dessert. Nope.  He regales her with ---wait for it--a set of shiny new keys to his apartment!!!  (Cue the crickets!) er...was that a whoopee cushion Viewerville just heard?

Oli, to her credit, is polite as always, and perhaps not so disappointed--rather more than less relieved it's only a set of keys. (Alan, you are so predictably tacky!)  She is more than a bit peeved and stutters that their relationship hasn't come to that bend in Proposition Road yet.  In fact, she'd hoped he saw her as more proper than propositional.  He asks her just what really happened in Cancun since she's come back from there a totally different woman. (Sure, thing Al.  You've dug yourself into a hole.  No reason to stop digging now.)


Across town at Elena's apartment, Ricardo is tucking in his ex for the night.  She apologizes for being such a pain in the ass to him.  We agree with her that she doesn't deserves his attentive ministrations. Lights out!

Back to the bummed out barrister and his proffered proposal, Al cannot help but pick at the ugly scab of a flat rejection.  Oli is left explaining to him that what she feels isn't anywhere near as strong as what Alan must feels for her.  She feels a great affection, not luhhhhv for him--not to mention no sexual attraction, right? She confesses she feels she's the wrong woman for him--Viewerville agrees wholeheartedly--and that he deserves somebody who feels the same way he does about the relationship--but it ain't gonna be her.  She says it's best if they break it off instead.

Alejandra rescues Ric from another night of boredom in the guest bedroom with a call about Carlos having taken the case to defend Danny/Daniela's ex's father.  It's not all bad, since Ale helped him with the case and together, after reviewing the forensics, they determined it was Nuria who really killed the confused critter of a caring ex lover.

The trial is maybe the next day cuz suddenly the next morning it seems they're in the courtroom with Carlos awaiting Octavio and Nuria's hearing.  Carlos proves that Octavio couldn't have stabbed Danny/Daniela because he is right-handed [diestro] and the stab wound was done by someone who was left handed [zurdo].  He questions Nuria if she's right or left-handed and she is in fact a lefty.  Ta-dah!!  The judge takes a time out and then returns her judgment: 15 years prison time for Nuria and three years of prison time for Papi for trying to cover up the crime and taking the fall.

Back at Vega, Oli takes refuge in Victoria's office, confessing to Vicki that she's called it quits with Alan and why. Roberto walks in on them and learns that Oli and Alan are yesterday's news.  He's cheerful about this and learns he should be somber.  It's a breakup after all! Have you no shame???  Oli has just turned down a chance at a normal life with an intelligent, decent and capable professional!  (Well, professional, but decent and capable are still up for grabs.)  Rob changes his take and his tune to solemn and dirge-like as he leaves, awkwardly, the two women to mourn and lament Oli's luckless love life together.  (Outside in the hallway, we're certain it's more like Leo call your office, baby!)

Juan and Fer, in the meantime, are having coffee.  He tells her he hates being separated from her so much due to his job.  She feels the same.  He invites her for a day trip to Cancun and she accepts.  No hanky panky, now!!  (Well, that's a relief.)

Back in the aftermath of the murder trial, Carlos and Ale and Ric mourn Danny/Daniela's death and take heart in justice having been done.  We then get a government PSA that we're all Dios's children.  The two men then fight over who will drive Ale back to the office.  She tells the two of them she doesn't need a lift and will head back on her own, thank you very much.

At Vega and Associates, Gustavo races in to advise Alonso that the warrant for Ramiro Dorante's arrest has gone out.  Soon they'll have the crook behind bars.  Happy, happy, joy, joy!!  They may be celebrating too soon, cautions Lon.  Jacinto may throw a legal wrench into the works.  Gus will go looking for witnesses to testify against Ramiro.  Could be difficult after Fausto's suspicious death, he comments.  Gus is sure that some fool soul will blindly sally forth.

Across the hall, Rob walks into Leonardo's office and gives Leo the good news that Olivia's broken up with Alan and has left the way clear for him to come, to claim, and to conquer.  Rob has to stop Leo from rushing in and stepping in it.  He cautions his friend to give her time and wait for her to open up to him.  Let her unload and then offer his support.  Leo is beside himself with hormonal happiness.

Down San Benito way, Jacinto warns Ramiro he's got to hightail it out o' town.  The cops are comin' for him. He's been accused of fraud with the housing project. Jacinto says he's got too many legal problems of his own to add another to his plate by helping out Ramiro.  He'll find him a lawyer, but till then he's got to stay out of sight.  They know it's Gus from Vega who's behind the warrant and Jacinto's got plans for him.

Jaime pays a visit to Lonnie.  The news is that impeachment of Jacinto is on the state judiciary board's agenda.  Jaime apologizes for having doubted him.  Lon says it's all in a day's work and he's just happy to still have a good friend like Jaime around to count on.  Jaime invites him to Paula's birthday party and Lon says Lourdes has already done that and he'll be there with her.

Rob comes to Vicki's office with an idea to get Leo and Oli together finally.

Exlena calls Ric to tell him she's been called to appear and testify at Miguel's hearing.  The last thing she wants is to ever see Candy Man again.  Ric advises--no, counsels--her that she's got to be there and must testify.  it's The Law.  He will come back in the evening to coach her and explain how things work.

Meanwhile, Rob conspires to get Leo to go with him to a bar that evening for a couple of drinks and to spend time yukking it up with a couple of conquests.  Leo says no way.  Rob always runs off with the beauty and leaves him with the beasties.  Rob says just this once he promises he'll come up with a gal who he will really appreciate.  If Leo doesn't like this gal, then he'll give up drinking whiskey for a solid week.  Leo takes the bet.

Across the hall, Vicki looks in on Oli.  Oli confesses she feels rotten over how she treated Alan.  Think of all the nice things he's done to win her over.  Then how she repays him with a let's part friends and chalk it up to Life.  How selfish!  Vicki replies that she did Alan a favor by telling him like it is.  "--Everyone's got to look out for himself and find his own happiness."  He's a big boy and will understand... "--Anyway, how's about joining me for a bit of happy hour to relax and forget.  If it doesn't go well we'll go have a slumber party at your place (or some such)."  Oli agrees.

Rob has less luck getting responsible Ric the Brick to relax a bit and enjoy a boys' night out.  He's babysitting Exlena and sleeping in the guest room to see the kids are being cared for.

 Alan comes into Carlos'  office depressed.  "--Your advice to take control of my relationship was worthless.  Olivia told me she wasn't certain of her feelings and that was that."  "--Ok.  Nothing to be done about it so move on."  Alan asks his cuz if he noticed anything happening between Leo and Oli while in Cancun.  It would kill him to learn that she'd cheated on him down there.  Carlos tells him to stop this and forget it already.  The relationship is over and done with so get over it and over her, period!  He hands Carlos an envelope then that holds the results of the audit done on The Women's Foundation.  It came out completely clean.  They have to celebrate this one.  Al leaves to file it somewhere.

Ric now feels the sudden urge to gripe at Ale for leaving him with his male appendage swinging in the wind in front of Carlos at the courthouse.  She tells him she's tired of being pulled like she's the rope in a game of Red Rover.

As for Alan, he cannot stop grieving over Olivia as the good girl that got away.  Carlos tells him to hang it up and move on.  Al figures it measures up to what Carlos felt like when Ale dumped him.  No, says Carlos, nothing at all the same.  They were about to get married.  Anyway, Al, he advises, will be better off delving into the work at hand and letting himself forget about Olivia.

Carlos gets a call from El Ciego while in the middle of an "employee review".  He wants to know if the latest batch of bad bills has been appropriately washed and dried.  Carlos says should be sooner than later.  He then calls Benjamin to finish finding a place to put El Ciego's cash yesterday already and hangs up.

Ric continues kvetching to Ale.  Besides, he adds, he knows full well that while he's not settled his personal life with Vexlena, there can be nothing between them.  He tells her that despite his personal problems, he still loves her more than life itself.  He just wants her to know that she's changed his life forever and despite his not being able to free himself from Vexlena's clutches, she is the one he wants.  (Ale can now tie this declaration of love and affection up in a bow and put it away in a box on her coffee table to pull out when times get tough.) 

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