Caray, Caray!

Parte 1~
So, Jacobo/León is amazed to see Sra. Lucia knock-knock-knockin' at Camilo's front door.  After pointing out he should let her through the front door already, she begins the...ahem...pretext is that as her dear departed's "best friend was Camilo--" "--Sorry, I thought Sr. Carvajál's best friend was Sr. Johny"-- "--he should know my reasons for firing you."  Cam suggests in front of the two of them that Jake was rather oafish and crude for which he's sorry (not).....Well she was there to have Cam relay the message but since he's there in person, "--I'll tell him myself:  you're to be at my house tomorrow morning.  Apart from your rude actions, it's difficult to find good workers and someone that I can trust.  Be there first thing in the morning." Jake thanks her for a second chance.  Cam sees her out.

In Téjas, Beltran and Fortune Telling Broad are downing a couple of Texican brewskis.  She wants to know why people are after him and trying to kill him.  "--Later.  --Damn, you soak beer up like a sponge."  Belchin'  throws down cash to cover their tab and answers a call from the wife that the boy is still in the hospital.  He'll be right there he says.  --He explains his job now in this life and she giggles thinking that's the last thing she'd think he could/would do!  Hey, he's won the lotto!  And his career in the life before this?  Belchin' tells her to throw the tarot cards down.  They'll tell her.  He leaves and she races after to join him.


Cam walks back into the living room and tells Jacón, aka León "--this woman has fallen in love with you.  You've gotten her attention (and how --Johny being a big, bearish bore);  Look, León Carvajal was a powerful man who seduced her, who respected her, who loved her, cared for her and gave her position in his life.   Now with this new wrapper!  "--Naw.  It's not like that."  "--Think, man!  What do you mean it's not like that!   It cost her a great deal of embarrassment to hire you back like this.  Why else do you think she came!"  (Viewerville's assuming León's character and characteristics shine through and are what have gotten her attention, not to mention the...ahem...new package--pun very much intended.)  "--Ok.   Perhaps. Yes. Fine.  She likes the 35 yr. old façade.  It's a younger and better looking--good looking 35 yr. old package.  So she cheated on me with Johny and no doubt she'll probably cheat on Johny with this new Sr....Jacobo.  Cam reminds him it's called (one of this corner of Viewerville's favorite references) "poetic justice."  "--INDEED!  And if it's true that she's enamored of this Jacobo,  we'll use her attraction to Jacobo Reyes to plot out our revenge!"

Johny, meanwhile, has called the cops in to look at the broken window.  He thinks  back to the note somebody left him in the bar.

At Renata's apartment,  Ren's watching the news report about the liquor store robbery Guillermo was involved in.  She texts Guille about it.   Blabby The Roommate is yammering on about being a beautiful Brazileña when Teo calls Ren about about picking her up for that date to the theater.  WTF?  He's bought the tickets and he's ready to get her.  She says she never agreed to anything with him. She fakes granny's sick and all so no go, but my roommate is free and would love it!  Click.  She then gets a call from Guille at the same time.  He's worried they'll recognize him in the video. "--No way.  You were wearing masks."  They agree to meet before work . He'll pick her up. and he should have a plan then....

At a pool hall in the DF the barmaid makes a funny about the boys renouncing their names for their strange nicknames.

At Eva's, dinner is too noisy for the female cur in heat.  He accommodates.   She tells Hubby that Gaston shouldn't be reporting on such dangerous people.  He's lucky he wasn't the one killed.  Hub answers he's only doing his job.  She reminds him Gaston was witness to a murder of the guy informing.  It could have been Hubby.  She definitely doesn't want this kind of trouble in her organization.  Hubs, aka Mateo, gets mad and asks her to listen to herself.  What kind of newspaper is she running now?  She sounds like she's protecting the criminals.  What's more, has she forgotten what journalism is all about?"  She immediately shoots back at him,  "--Have you forgotten the country you live in?"

Guille can't stand it any longer and calls up his "friend" and asks if the guy's seen the news yet?  The psychopath is enjoying a double date deluxe and tells Guille it's nothing different from the rest of the daily news in the DF.  "--Don't worry and don't be a stupid shit.  That's what the masks were for."  "How can you it not feel bothered that a man is lying near death in the hospital?"  "--Hell, it was his fault for taking out his rod [fusca: piece, gun]."  "--Listen, you!  I'm not ruining my life for somebody like you!  You aren't worth shit [valer madres: scum, shit, muck, debris]!"

Johny has called Lucia, meanwhile, to tells her about the rock in the window and the note at the bar earlier.  He believes it must be the same person, trying to scare him somehow.  She needs to be alert like he will be.  He's not sure what he'll do about it yet.

After dinner, Eva and Mateo sit out on the steps and look out toward the city lights (I imagine).  She's lonely for her daddy and regrets always fighting with him.  Matt reminds her it was sport for her--her only sport.  He suggests a remedy for her loneliness--kids.  She guffaws.  Nope.  Not gonna happen.  She told him that before; kids are not in her life trajectory.  He'll have to respect that.  (For now Viewerville guesses he does since he doesn't fight about it.  He's rather gawdawful wimpy anyway for a husband.  Any wonder she's got a narco for a lover now, class?)

Fabian, like a dog homing in on his missing bone, hires a private investigator to find El Chino.  He hands over the file and says police cannot be trusted and anyway, they referred him to the P.I.  The man's a hired assassin.  This P.I. loves the challenge.   (Now, am I wrong or when a man survives his hanging, i.e., his sentence is served, and he survives, in the U.S. the few odd times this might have happened, there is no second time around.  The criminal's penalty cannot be served a second time,  What is Viewerville missing here?)  Seems our Ferreting Fabian is close to calling the kettle black at this point!

Cam and Jake continue chatting. Cam mentions his seeing another person with the same black butterfly mark on her neck.  A girl and she seemed frightened when he called attention to her.  He needs to talk to her and Jake takes objections to becoming a rat in a lab to Cam.

We note that, meanwhile, this girl is chatting with her daddy who tells her he noticed a man digging in a grave earlier that day--it seemed that the man lying in that grave was the same man digging in it now.  "--Do ya think?"  This just happens to be the girl with the butterfly tattoo on her neck, the girl about whom Cam was referring.

Morning comes.

end parte 1~

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parte 2~

Jake's not got the kind of hangover this morning he thought he might from all the liquor he downed during his pity party of one.  While he's finishing dressing, Cam comes in and notes how the mark on his neck is bleeding badly.

For his part, Belchin' has stayed by "his" son's bedside all night.  Now his wife notices his mark is bleeding also.  She wants it looked at but Bechin' says absolutely not.  It's just a scratch from hurrying earlier.

Alacran and the posse talk about the reporter's piece in Eva's paper.  Alacran says let's go show that reporter whose feet should be kissed!  They head off.

Juliana and Lupita's ex from high school days chat.  Lupi's asleep right now.  Well, he came over to invite the two of them to go for a walk or something.  "--Ever seen Chapultepec?"  Jules isn't so appreciative considering the way Panchito threw them off the property the other day, not to mention the pack of kids and that witch who came to the door.  Panch explains Lupi's one of the few friends he has.  (Which begs the question, kiddies: is it any wonder, considering the aforementioned brood-bearer he got married to?)  He just wants to help them out if he can.  Jules offers him a cup a coffee.  "--So what's your daddy do for a living?"  "--He's a businessman.  An assassin.  He earns lots of money killing people."  Panch is stone-cold to the bone impactado at this nonchalant declaration.  Well, we note that if Panch had any untoward intentions regarding Lupi, they ain't there now.

At the Carvajal manse, Valentina is heading out.  At the base of the gigantasaural marble staircase is her boyfriend.  She's still pissed, despite the attempt at an apology with a bouquet of roses for her.  "--Not all is fixed with a simple bouquet of roses." "--Won't you forgive me?"  She snubs him and heads out the door.  "--You shouldn't have to ask that question."  She bitches that he should question what a sad person really needs.  On the front veranda.  Lucia appears to tell Val that she's just finished reading a book that her dad had read after Val had lent it to him.  Yes, he read it too, just like all the books Val had given him to read.  "--I just want you to know that I am here for you."  Val relaxes a bit.

In the kitchen, Silvina is surprised to see Jake waltz in.  "--Didn't they run you off?"  "--Just a bad misunderstanding.  All is straightened out now."  She tells him to be more careful with his job and hugs him.  She draws back.  She tells him he smells just like Don León, but then says don't pay any attention to me cuz if I told you all the things that have happened to me around here you'd put me in a lunatic asylum!  Just then Sra. Lucia comes in.  She reminds him to behave from now on.  He says he will.  He chuckles and she thinks he's laughing at her behind her back - having a big laugh at her expense [botar de reir?].  He says no, it's just a harmless sense of humor is all.  She's thanked for the opportunity again to mend his ways and get his job back.  They head out.

At the same time, Guille and Ren are headed to the hospital.  She's instructed to keep out of sight but to make sure that this money in the envelope he's giving her is there for whatever expenses in the way of an operation, etcetera, etcetera.


At Johny's, our stout detective tells Johny essentially he's not that important at Carvajal, Inc. to curry such disfavor as a nasty note or a rock through a window.  If they wanted to kill you they would have and that would be that.  No. Look closer to home.  Maybe somebody is angry and he wants to remind you of it.

In Tejas, Belchin and the bruja, Barbara, pick up the pickup, aka, Rosita.  Rosie's not to keen on there being another broad in the car.  Barb, the aforementioned broad, is introduced as Belch's colleague.    Rosie's a bit snide as she advises she doesn't like people showing up without previous notice. "-- The shaman I don't think will let her go in, anyway."  Barb calls and raises her one;  she sneers back at the "the child brat" to stop kvetching and leave the witchery to them, aka, the adults in the know.  Barb then hisses at Belchin' that she's only a kid! "--Doesn't matter, just deal."  The car and Barb groan together as she pulls away from the curb.  "--Ready all?"

Eva, while driving to work. is reading the article about Al and the gang's snitch; it's aptly entitled "They Killed Me for Being a Snitch."  She is suddenly hijacked at gunpoint.  The posse kidnaps her after drugging her unconscious and takes her to Alacráns high-end hide-away.

At the same time, Gaston and wife are arguing while the kids are being dropped off at their grade school.  Wife is angry about hubby's cavalier, not to mention reckless, attitude over publishing this article.  Oh, he's certain he'll be famous and become rich once he writes his book about this narco-dealing gang.  Besides, he's got his body-guard.  He nods over to some 60-ish guy riding a pint-sized motor scooter in a suit (his disguise?).  She scoffs ( right along with Viewerville) and warns him again this is stupid if not totally crazy.  He's stubborn and the wife's gotta get to work. They kiss goodbye.

Eva awakes to roses.  Al says if she behaves she'll be surrounded by roses all her lifelong.  Otherwise, she now knows she can disappear just like that.  He snaps his fingers.  She's angry.  She explains the story was already out before she knew about it and could stop it and thus protect him and his guys.  Too bad.  Learn your lesson the hard way.  Strip.  Clothes off!  She refuses.  They argue over her being a woman whose got to pay for her mistake.  She corrects him that she's a lady not a mere woman!  They go at it like minks.

Across town at the major competition who published that nasty article about Sra. Lucia, Jake takes note and then helps Lucia out of the car.  They enter the building and Lucia orders Jake to wait for her in the lobby.  She enters the publisher's office after not taking no for an answer and telling those in reception to tell him she's there expecting to speak to him.

Of course, the wife of the shot liquor store attendant cannot afford the private hospital for hubby's operation which is needed ASAP and of course she needs to use a private hospital because the public one won't have a free operating room for another two weeks.  (Can you spell Canada and England, class?)  Ok.  So when the wife and the doctor enter his room there's an envelope full of money with a note that says hopefully the money will be of some use.

Ren assures Guille that nobody saw her, but that they nearly caught her.  He hugs her out of relief and gratitude.

Lucia shows the competition's owner the article he published about her a day or two before.  He bemoans the fact that he cannot control his journalists.  She then shows him article she has had printed up about his own private life, complete with pictures of his most revealing and revealed bedtime antics.   He yells the expected response, "--It's a lie!"  she continues in a low, breathy near whisper. "--Yes, but at times a firm hand is necessary, right?"  He holds his tongue and listens to what she has to say.  "--You'll publish another front page story tomorrow about me, but this time with an apology for the first one, stating that you've fired the reporter who wrote it, because that is exactly what you will do.  Or,  my reporters' article will be my tomorrow's headliner."   He gets the message toot sweet.  Ka-ching!

end parte 2~~

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