Thursday, June 28, 2018

Por Amar Sin Ley, 6/27/18 Chapter 85: Indecent Proposals

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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Pure sizzling take-no-prisoners Jardinera cookin' with gas recap. Scoring mortal blows right from the get-go:

[Alan] poster boy for Beta males everywhere

who wants to spend the rest of his dull, lusterless life with [Olivia}

But Olivia, wants to be "more proper than propositional" (A bit late for that Olivia, given your adventure with the naked bondage ladrón, but whatever)

and the winner:

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.

I'd love to see you get a job as an advice columnist Jardinera. Your replies to the lovelorn would get you a national following. No doubt about it.

But as it is, we get to enjoy your recaps for free. Thanks amiga. You're my Good Time Gal.
 

Judy! Thanks for your unending support in finding my future bucket list jobs, amiga! Je-je!!
 

OMG, Jardinera, this is your best recap. Wonderful, delightful, clever, insanely funny and witty, I don't have the words to say how much I enjoyed it. I can't stop laughing and have to copy entire paragraphs because they are that good. Thank you so much!

"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?"

"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!)"

" Rob always runs off with the beauty and leaves him with the beasties"

"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."

"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"

Irene

 

Ditto. Too many fabulous lines to quote. But these alliterative gems deserve mention:

"Back to the bummed out barrister and his proffered proposal, Al cannot help but pick at the ugly scab of a flat rejection."

"Rob has less luck getting responsible Ric the Brick to relax a bit and enjoy a boys' night out."

I have one observation. If Gus and Isa have started to patch things up and everybody is in LaLa land with Luis, I wonder if Jacinto's plans don't have something to do with one or all three of them. If he takes out Gus and leaves the other two, then Isa can put on her widow's weeds and behave like a proper grieving widow with a fatherless son, remembering all the good times they had together. That would at least add a little twist to an otherwise yawn fest-worthy reconciliation.

OK, some wise one explain. If laundering money means finding investments in small businesses, charities and real estate to infuse with cash transactions, how can Benji launder all that cash practically overnight? Dry-cleaning? No, seriously. Wouldn't he have to have off shore accounts all over the place to deposit dirty cash then turn around and withdraw clean cash? I'm sure El Ciego doesn't want to receive paper shares invested in GE or Walgreens or the title to a piece of property in Puebla.

And what happens to the bank holding dirty money? How do they clean it up? Do they need to?
Just askin'

 

...and thank you Jar for this absolutely fabulous recap.
Oli is so pitiful and you brought out the worst of her best.
 

I totally second JudyB, you have a bright future as an advice columnist, Jardinera.
And again, what a great job you did with this horror of an episode. It's true what they say, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and your recap was a delicious fresh lemonade miraculously made out of a moldy and decomposing lemon picked out from trash.

The writers must have collectively suffered devastating brain damage to what was left of their brains or were held at gun point and forced to write this crap.
If not, I would love to know what they were smoking when they wrote this ridiculous trial?!
Carlos, who against all logic and ethics represented both of the defendants concentrated on sort of representing just Octavio and decided to act as Nuria's prosecutor. Nuria, a defendant in murder trial, didn't get any defense whatsoever. The question of why Nuria stabbed Daniela wasn't addressed, nobody spoke about whether it's a first degree murder, a second degree murder or something else altogether. No one raised any kind of defense (self-defense, insanity and more), probably because Nuria's defense attorney was busy prosecuting his own client, no one mentioned any attenuating circumstances. The judge arbitrarily decided that a cold blooded murder merits only 15 years in prison while an elderly judge was sentenced to 25 years for corruption (or whatever they charged him with).

Octavio was sentenced to 3 years for obstruction of justice, when he should have been charged with being an accessory after the fact.

And don't get me started about the foundation being audited and getting the all clear.
This is absurd!!! The whole idea of money laundering is that you have to do it so as not to raise suspicions that you are laundering, because then an audit can be ordered and the money laundering will come to light. The trained professional that goes through the foundation's papers, bills and receipts does it knowing that there are irregularities and all he has to do is to find them and it's not difficult to do. He will see that the prices were inflated on goods, he will see from whom the services were purchased, he will notice irregularities with the receipts etc... because there are only that many ways to use a foundation to launder money.
So it's a complete and total bulls,it that a competent auditor didn't find any irregularities (unless he was bought, of course, but Carlos didn't say anything like that)


Irene

 

Another recap gem! Thank you, Jarifa. I was having mixed feelings watching Alan's "proposal" fiasco. On the one hand, I was laughing at his bumbling, no-finesse-having attempt at wowing the love of his life in a very public place with the expensive, extravagant .... set of keys!! (clueless much?) On the other hand, I felt a twinge of sympathy for the poor schmuck. The laughter won.
 

Oops, I meant Jardinera abive!
 

Above!!
 

Anita, just pretend that Benjy is a superman and his superpower is money laundering. There is no other explanation.There is no such a thing as an overnight money laundering, as far as I know, of big sums. He could maybe do it for small amounts through currency conversion or something similar, but other than that, I don't see how it can be done. Although I am not an expert in this area so shouldn't be talking about it.

Irene

 

With all of the yammering all season long about how it's all about the children, the poor chldren, think of the children, did anyone take an interest in what's going to happen to poor Nuria's kid with his father dead and both his Mom and grandpa in prison?
 

This was a real rip-snorter, Jardinera! I see everyone's favorites lines and raise them the following:

"We agree with her that she doesn't deserve his attentive ministrations. Lights out!"

"No hanky panky, now!! (Well, that's a relief.)"

"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."

"Leo is beside himself with hormonal happiness."

And last but not least...

"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."

 

Jardinera, girl you cracked me up with
This one.
Alan the king of bordem, I'm so glad O
Broke up with him. I was bored for her her.
"She hoped he saw her more proper than
Propositional",(crickets),lol.Just how proper was she before she opened the gates of glory to that internet hookup
That tied her to her bed? Oh oli you r
So cute,Sad. I hope that this little
Blind date plan works out. Hey aren't
Alan and Carlos on their way to a bar
To celebrate the successful auditing
Of the washed n dryed money through the women's shelter? What if its the same bar? It's gonna be a fun night.

Ally didn't just leave rick swinging
Carlos was swinging in the wind too.
It takes 2 to play red rover. And they
Were both tugging pretty hard. And she
Is enjoying it. With tears.

There's alot of laundry being done on
This show and it ain't clothes. Is it
About to be a death of a good guy?Gus?
I certainly hope not, but it happens.
Just like rick laid it out to ally about for her, he better with ex-Lena
Before gets her books into him again.
He's canceled the custody suit, was
That a good idea? We Shall see.

Thank you Jardinera

 

Great work Jardinera. Too many good ones to quote.

Obviously nobody thought of what would happen to Nuria's son, who will likely be in foster care or an orphanage until Octavio gets out. They don't have other relatives unless Daniela had parents or siblings (I don't remember whether anything was said about that), but that could be a whole new case.
 

Hey, patio peeps. Thanks again for the comments. Sometimes it just cannot be helped if the spirit moves, je-je.
 

Thanks, Jardinera. I needed laughs today and you delivered in spades.

 

UA: Do you think Nuria's kid will end up in foster care ? How will Octavio explain to him that his Mommy whacked his Grandmother in such a violent way ?

Niecie: Elena's got ulterior motives here......
 

Foster care was the outcome. It is not the best but better perhaps than certain others. Nuria sacrifices for the mistake she made and the outcome she wanted --and so did Octavio.
 

If the writers hadn't changed Leo into Olivia's twin, Olivia would have immediately jumped at those keys like the desperate twit that she is. I actually feel kinda bad for Alan, but Olivia is annoying as heck, so technically he was saved from her by her.

El Ciego had told Carlos a few episodes ago not to worry about the audit. So he must have paid off the auditor.

The judge said that until either Nuria or her father are released from prison, the child would be under the care of the state. Unless he happens to reach legal age: assuming the judge was referring to the possibility that custody wouldn't be granted to the grandfather? Alejandra briefly gave the child a thought but didn't seem too interested, honestly.

Is PASL underfunded that they couldnt hire prosecutors? At least use the same lady that goes judge shopping then. Are the writers really that uneducated as to the law? Or is that the way it works in Colombia and so they literally copied every scenario in that novela?

Anon1146
 

I wondered about Colombia, too and it's possible. However, it doesn't make any sense to do that. I know that the various countries south of Mexico have different sentencing patterns for the same crimes..

They could at least find some real-life Jaimes and Alonsos and hire them to review all the legal language and procedure and tell them "Yes" or "No" about what they've written. I don't know how sophisticated the average person in Mexico is about the law because courtroom dramas have not commonly been produced there so it would be a good thing for them to be accurate.
 





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