Saturday, October 26, 2019
Cuna de Lobos, Capítulo 5 Fri. 10/25/19: Ambar's One Way Ticket--OR--Catalina and the Cost of Leadership
Catalina texts José Carlos on Ambar's phone and pretending to be Ambar explains that she just needs a little time alone to decide what she wants to do. Also, she doesn't want Francisco to come looking for her. After hearing that, José Carlos asks Francisco if he would like to tell them the truth. Why doesn't Francisco tell them who his lover is. Francisco insists he doesn't have a lover. José Carlos looks like he doesn't believe him.
José Carlos calls Miguel who is siting drinking a beer at home. He leaves a message that he needs to talk to him because he needs the two of them to be okay together. he loves him.
Leonora is sleepless in her bed. She thinks back at what Luis told her about what the man who loves her should be like.
José Carlos looks at Leonora's picture online And thinks about what she told him about how he was the only one responsible for his behavior and how to fix it.
Alejandro goes to see Miguel. They are happy to see each other.
José Carlos looks at another photo of Leonora online. He goes to message her and then stops.
Diego arrives in Acapulco telling Catalina that he came as quickly as he could. She takes him to the utility room and shows him Ambar. She orders him to get rid of her. He warns Catalina that it is dangerous. She doesn't care what he has to do. He takes Ambar and puts her in the back of a SUV.
We see a woman in heels carrying a gun in silhouette as she climbs the stairs inside a house. The door opens to a bedroom where Catalina is sleeping with Francisco. Catalina awakens and sees that the woman is Ambar. Francisco awakens. Ambar points the gun at Catalina who tells her no. Francisco asks what she is doing. Ambar says she is only doing what she should have done a long time ago. She shoots them both. Francisco awakens from his nightmare with a jolt. He gets a phone call from Catalina who cannot sleep worrying about Ambar. He tells her about the text message she sent to José Carlos. No, Francisco did not try to contact her. Catalina talks about the shock Ambar must have hd finding out that the man who she was with for more than 20 years didn't love her. She wonders if she would try to take her life and if Francisco could deal with that.
Diego stops off at a junk yard surrounded by a chain link fence.
Catalina adds they should continue on with their lives and when Amber has mourned the end of her marriage she might just come back.
Diego starts to work on the lock on the chain keeping the gate closed and guard dogs run up to meet him. He then is startled by a young guy with a gun who wants to know what he is doing. Diego says he is looking form Mr. Cosme. He is informed that Mr. Cosme is dead. The guy wants t know if they can do business. Diego explains that the car is hot and he needs to get rid of it. The guy tells him this is the wrong place for that. Diego changes the guys mind with a wad of cash and the SUV is crushed.
Catalina tells Gélica that Ambar has disappeared and that is why she has come home early. Gélica wants to know how that happened. Catalina says it seems that she had an argument with Francisco and since the poor thing is not well she just left.
José Carlos is tearing his room apart. Catalina hears the noise and asks what he is doing. She knows he is going through withdrawal and wants to call the clinic or Francisco. He wants to just be left alone. She thinks he is reacting that way because of Ambar missing, too. Catalina shows him a "text from Ambar" saying she was done with Francisco and was leaving to start a new life far away. José Carlos says Ambar said before that she needed time to think about things. Catalina concludes that she thought about them and came to a decision. She tells him not to use Ambar as an excuse to use drugs and Gélica to get someone to clean his mess.
Catalina explains to Alejandro that she had to come back early because of the Ambar situation and his uncle. Ambar is mentally ill. Catalina hopes she is locked up forever in an insane asylum. It would be the best thing for her and José Carlos. She asks how things are going with Leonora. He says yesterday they visited each other's work places. He is not see he is in love with her. She thinks that will come with time. He asks if she knows the photographer that Leonora was interested in. he explains how much Leonora admires him and would love to meet him. She will do what she can. She also insists that they go out for dinner tonight with Leonora. Thinking of Miguel, Alejandro says he cannot go but Catalina insists that they will be going out to dinner tonight with Leonora. She is his priority. He needs to pick her up at 8:00.
Diego tells Catalina about his earlier talk with Julius. She promises Diego that the first shipment coming from the new deposit will be his. One always has to reward loyalty. He thanks her and leaves with a smile.
Francisco finally makes a phone call to the police to report Ambar as a missing person.
Left by herself, Catalina thinks about how compassion, sadness and feelings are things that one cannot afford. People like her need to forge on ahead whatever it takes because they are the leaders who mark the path. Anything else is just foolishness.
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Catalina’s little riff on “leadership” at the end was something else.
Diego sure was excited by his diamond reward for being a loyal fixer. Here is hoping the deal goes through as planned and that Catalina keeps him employed and alive. I do not trust her with anyone except herself.
After one week, this is setting up quite well.
The writers at Televisa are obviously James Bond fans; the car crush was in Goldfinger and was arranged by Oddjob.
I have the feeling that Catalina is setting Diego up somehow. He knows too much.
Since JC now knows that his little brother is more gay than bi they should be contesting Carlos' will. The should call Vega y Asociados. JC should lose the man-bun.
At least someone is having nightmares about what's going on.
The crushed car was sobering; and I don't doubt that now Diego's days are numbered as well. But it was interesting to see such glee light up his face when Catalina told him the first profits from the newly discovered bed of diamonds would be his.
This is a scary, awful show and yet I can't look away. Interesting how easily we are hooked on viewing the darkness of the human soul.
Thanks for the very thorough and detailed recap. I certainly hope that Francisco and Catalina are haunted by nightmares every night. But "its just a story". Whew.
Your writing always conveys the events truthfully, insightfully and realistically. Your summaries are completely enthralling.
"He says she needs a man who can tell how she is doing by just looking at her eyes, someone who will love her forever, and who won't change her". At first glance, Luis, Leonora and Matias would seem a loving family (Luis' inconvenient wife aside of course). Yet logic is often displaced by the heart as emotions often rule, having a life of their own.
"Catalina decides she needs another dose of her medication and stuffs Ambar's mouth full of her medication and makes her swallow it all". A vile, violent scene.
"Ambar begs for her life". Like Judy, Calalina's savage cruelty, her ignoring Ambar's pleas and her barbaric treatment were almost impossible to watch. Yes, an unfathomably horrible way to die.
That said, I'm glad you mentioned the slight possibility Ambar might be alive. There seemed to be lingering shots of the car and I thought for a second she might be able to escape. I fear the writers are toying with us.
I have a feeling José Carlos will be a force to be reckoned with. Francisco continues to be purely pathetic.
Jarifa, just marvelous. Thank you thank you!
Diana
SpanProf, I was wondering the same thing. That said, this is a fairly small cast so the killings need to be finite for a while, especially if no new characters are introduced! :)
Diana
UA...I agree about the manbun...no . However, the actor is very handsome . I hope that he has a happy ending. He seems so damaged and vulnerable . I feel sorry for him....despite the bad manbun decision.
JudyB, I agree that this is a dark one but it is so well done. I cannot imagine what the next 20 episodes will hold with so much action having been stuffed into the first 5 already.
SpanProf, Catalina is sure on a roll. At this pace of killing, she will be the only one left at the end.
Diana, nobody checked to make sure Ámbar was dead when they put her in the back of that SUV. There is so much that is implausible in this novela already that I wouldn’t be surprised if Ámbar slithered out of that SUV and crawled off somewhere to recover and regroup. Her return would be a suitable surprise for Catalina at a later date. Well, we will know soon enough.
Susanlynn, I hate man buns. The actor could be a cutie with the right haircut or even a pony tail.
Just to let everyone know I have a bit of a cold and tomorrow's recap could be a little late. It also won't have as many screen grabs as the first two because that takes a lot of time. I am going to try to limit screen grabs to about three dozen per recap from here on.
I too am hoping that Ambar made it out of the vehicle. She survived the drowning and a hard blow to the head; surely she can survive taking swallowing all those pills...and that's if she actually swallowed all the pills. Like, Diana, I noticed the lingering shots of the car...so there is always hopeos.
SpanProf, I think I would prefer your adaptation for this dark novela.
RgvChick, I think Ámbar is smarter than what they gave her credit for so maybe she was able to avoid swallowing all of the pills and play dead.
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