Caray, Caray!

Over drinks with Francisco, Catalina expresses her concern over the phone calls she has been receiving but insists she is not worried.  Francisco thinks it is just someone who wants to frighten her.  Putting him on the spot, she asks what he would he be willing to do for her. He asks what does she have in mind.

Back at Francisco's, Ambar is lingering in her bedroom as Dora tries to get her to leave because she knows that Francisco is on his way home. Ambar wants some of her clothes. Dora asks her not to take any because she doesn't want Francisco to think she is a thief. Ambar doesn't think he would ever notice as he cares nothing about her. Dora disagrees and urges her to leave. As Ambar barely moves, she and Dora hear Francisco arriving with Catalina.  Out in the hall, Catalina wants to have sex but Francisco tries to get out of it saying it is just too soon (after Ambar disappearing). Catalina won't take "no" for an answer and soon she and Francisco are all over each other.  Dora and Ambar have managed to sneak into the kitchen on the way out.  Ambar grabs a knife as Dora tries to stop her.  Catalina hears a noise from the kitchen. Francisco becomes curious and goes into  the kitchen.  He sees Dora with the knife in her hand. She excuses herself saying she dropped it as she was putting it away. She looks and sounds nervous as she explains that she was just doing some ironing. Francisco reminds her how late it is.  She was just going . . . He gives her a half smile as she leaves but looks concerned.  He tells Catalina that he is sure that Dora saw them. Catalina doesn't care what the servant thinks and they are back at it. Dora and Ambar are still in the house. Ambar starts to wail after seeing Francisco with Catalina. Dora covers her mouth to keep her quiet and leads her out of the house.


Luis is working with Pedro who is researching a possible connection between illegal imports from Sierra Leone and Catalina Creel.  Pedro doesn't see that as an easy task as the money will end up having been subdivided many times.  Luis is sure that they can track the money. He will not asks for assistance from anyone else because there is nobody  that he can trust. Any police officer who has gotten involved with these gangsters has ended up dead.  Well, Pedro doesn't want to end up dead either. He asks if Luis has heard from Leonora.  Luis has tried but she doesn't want to hear what he has to say.  She thinks Catalina Creel is some awesome woman and now she is part of the family.  Pedro is disappointed thinking that Leonora  maybe could have worked for them on the inside. Luis wants Leonora left out of this. The less she knows the better.  It is for her safety.

Leonora tries to get her new husband to spend some time with her but Alejandro explains that he is waiting for a phone call.  She asks if he is okay and he lies saying he is just overwhelmed by a new campaign at work.  Leonora wants to help. He tells her to go to bed and he will be in shortly.  Alejandro is left alone on the balcony trying to make contact with Miguel who is not answering.

Back at Francisco's post sex, Francisco wakes up and tells Catalina that somebody rang the door bell.
He goes downstairs asking if Dora is there. There is no answer but he then sees José Carlos has arrive wishing his brother a good morning and telling him that Dora let  him in.  He has broughtAlejandro a hot green tea. He just couldn't wait to see him at the office because he was going through some  documents that just make no sense. Alejandro looks around nervously. Catalina manages to see that José Carlos is there hidden at the top of the stairs as Alejandro asks if they cannot take care of this at the office. José Carlos registers Alejandro's reaction and decides that Alejandro is not alone. José Carlos looks up at the stairs and moves towards them as Alejandro tries to capture his attention by asking him to point out what he did not understand in the documents that he brought. José Carlos tells him that the numbers don't make any sense.

Alejandro suggests that he and  Leonora plan that trip to Paris that she wants when they get back to Mexico City.  She loves him. She asks if he solved his problems that kept him up most of the night before. He says it isn't that easy. He is going to have to go back to Mexico City.  An unhappy Leonora  confronts him about how different he has been ever since he returned from Buenos Aires or maybe it has been since she told him she was pregnant.  He insists the pregnancy is not the reason.  She makes a point of telling him she didn't plan on the pregnancy. It was a surprise for her, too. He reiterates it is all about stress from the job.  She reminds him they are married now. If he  goes back, she insists that she is going with him.

Alejandro tries to smooth things over with José Carlos saying he is happy he wants to be involved in the business but he has been away from it for a long time so he has to understand some things.  José Carlos thinks  he has really made an effort to change and would find it amazing if others did the same. He starts to leave with his documents in hand wishing that someone would just trust him. Alejandro apologizes and assures him he will go over the numbers. Alejandro asks how José Carlos's therapy is going.  José Carlos admits that it went badly because he was dealing with previously blocked memories from Catalina's accident that cost her her eye.  So, he dropped out again.  Catalina listens from the landing. José Carlos  relived those events from hearing Alejandro crying to going to go look for Catalina. Francisco gets nervous. José Carlos recounts opening the door to the bedroom and seeing Catalina. Back then he didn't understand what she was doing but knew it was something bad.  She was with somebody who wasn't his father just like Francisco is with somebody who is not his aunt. He quietly adds that Alejandro isn't obligated to explain anything to him. Who is he to judge him anyway? Alejandro just asks for his silence on the issue. José Carlos assures him he won't be saying anything and will keep engaged only in the company business. Catalina has heard it all.

Diego is with his laptop monitoring arrivals at the airport. He calls Catalina to tell her the shipment was a success and the diamonds had arrived.  As she is still with Francisco, she tells him to stop by the vault to check the shipment as she stops by her house. She also wants him to stop José Carlos from nosing around the books.  Francisco reminds her that he has the authorization to see the books. She is worried about what he may find and Francisco is worried that he is going to remember more than the man she was with wasn't Carlos. Catalina sees no danger in that. He has never gone beyond that point in therapy and Gélica has done a good job periodically "reminding" him what happened after that moment.  Francisco is not so sure he will not remember it all some day. Catalina is not afraid because she was the victim. She lost her eye because of José Carlos.   She even forgave him in spite of the way he treated her. She reminds Francisco that his nephew José Carlos is ill. He is an addict who cannot be believed. Nobody would waste any time listening to what he had to say.  She leaves a clearly disturbed Francisco behind.

When Catalina gets home, she is surprised to see that Leonora is back. She says that Alejandro came back because of the problem at work with launching the campaign. Didn't Catalina know?  Catalina lies and says she's right but she told Alejandro he didn't have to come back so soon. His uncle and se could have taken care of the problem. Catalina is more interested in how Leonora is feeling as a newly wed and recounts the joy in her own days as a newly wed. A somber  Leonora is feeling that Alejandro only married her because she was pregnant. Leonora says that she did tell him that. Catalina assures her that he is just afraid and that all men are the same in needing more time to get used to the idea. . . .  Leonora cuts her off and asks if she knows what happened to Alejandro in Buenos Aires.

Alejandro has been calling Miguel's workplace asking the secretary to have him call her when he can.  He tries to face time Miguel but nothing is happening there either.

Catalina lulls Leonora into a false sense of security talking about symptoms that go along with pregnancy like crying for nothing, etc. She describes pregnancy as an "explosion of hormones". Leonora finds it all very scary. Catalina explains that her body is confused trying to get used to accommodating the new life it has within. Catalina wants her to learn to enjoy it. Catalina promises her that everything will be just fine and gives her a hug. The two women look at photos of the wedding on Catalina's table. Leonora brings up how upset Miguel was at the wedding and seemed to have been arguing with Alejandro and even wanted to tell her something. Catalina tells her that Miguel has some serious mental health issues . . . José Carlos arrives on the scene and welcomes his sister in law to her new home. He asks where Alejandro is. Leonora says he is taking a shower. José Carlos wants to know why Leonora isn't joining him in the shower. Catalina tells him not to be vulgar. As he goes on about the passionate first days of marriage, Catalina remarks she doesn't understand why José Carlos ever left therapy and goes to leave. Before she does, she tells him that Francisco was the one who told her he had quit therapy and that  he has been  nosing around the Gothier accounts. What is he looking for?  They had been  doing just fine without him there. He asks what Leonor thinks.  She thinks he calls attention to himself far too much and never allows anyone o help him.  He notices she looks sad and adds that she probably had a fight with Alejandro. Leonor gets more upset and starts to leave  stating she doesn't know why he finds it necessary to interject himself in her life. He apologizes. She wonders if his pattern of saying whatever he feels like and then apologizing will ever change. He hopes so; she does, too and leaves.

 José Carlos gets a call from Vicky. She needs to see him in person. It is important. He tries to give her the brush off and says he will call  her later. He reminds her he is trying to stay sober. She assures him it has nothing to do with that. He tells her he is in a rush and will call her back later.

Ambar sits on a bed at her new place and tortures herself remembering  Catalina and Fernando going to  it in the hallway of her old house. She saw them from the kitchen. She cries, wails and gets her gun out of the nightstand.

Diego has presented Catalina with a sample of the latest diamond shipment. The rest are getting polished. She would have loved to have examined all of them herself.  Diego says Francisco was there at the vault to record the carats of the shipment. Catalina reminds him they have an unsolved matter. He knows she is talking about the reporter Luis and has taken care of that issue.  It will be wrapped up  today and, no, it will not be a warning.  At the same time, a man has found Luis's motorcycle and cuts the brake lines.

Alejandro comes to see Catalina, in her office,  who tells him that she and Leonora are both worried about him.  Sarcastically, he does not see what could be the problem since her plan seems to be working out point by point. He is married and going to have a child. What else does she need? She accuses him of not doing his part in making his marriage work. His attitude is making Leonora suspicious. If she were to find out he had been in Chile with Miguel, it would all be over.  Alejandro doesn't think that would necessarily be a bad idea.

After leaving, Alejandro literally bumps into a man who has been looking for him to sign some papers. He signs them all. The man is a new hire who just stares at Alejandro.  He never thought he would meet Alejandro quite in this way.  Alejandro says he is pleased to meet the man who responds that he is pleased to be at Alejandro's service for whatever . . . He stares at Alejandro as he walks away.

Ambar calls Catalina again from outside of the Gothier offices and says nothing. She looks up at Catalina's office as Catalina asks who she is and tells her to answer her. Catalina says that sooner or later she will find out who the person is that is calling and the person must  know what will happen to them  then. Amar drops her phone into the bushes and walks on.

Francisco comes to see Catalina talking about the new diamonds and the carat count after polishing.
Catalina is upset because some silent somebody called her again but this time on her private direct line.  Who has her number? Francisco, Diego, Alejandro,  José Carlos and Ambar . . . .  Catalina cannot it believe it would be Ambar. Francisco is not so sure. She would love to mess up Catalina's life.

Alejandro appears at Leonora's workplace with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a warning to never discuss their private life with his mother again.  She has a word or two for him, too. This is the last time he will be coming to her workplace to complain and criticize her for something she has done. He wants his mother outside of their relationship. She says the only thing she said to his mother she already  said to him. He has become a different person since he got back from Buenos Aires.  He tries to assure her that nothing happened and that everything is going to be fine. He kisses her and tells her he loves her. Leonora looks angry and confused. He leaves. Luis watches from the background.

Vicky has gotten tired of waiting for José Carlos to call so she goes to the Gothier offices. Catalina says not to go looking for him. She asks security to remove her. Vicky gets her attention when she tells her she is pregnant. Now that is a different story!

At work, the boss has assigned Luis to go to  an interview but they need  a photographer. Leonora wants to go. The boss says she was hired to cover all of the social sections not what Luis is covering.  Luis says she is interested in doing other kinds of work so he should give her the opportunity. The boss reminds him she is married now so he can stop being her knight in shining armor. Luis says she is his friend. The boss sees Luis as obsessed with her but finally allows her to go with Luis.

Vicky and Catalina have a heart to heart talk. Vicky needs to talk to José Carlos.  Catalina asks, as nicely as she can, how Vicky can be sure that  José Carlos is the father.  Vicky insists she only had been with José Carlos. He is the only "friend with benefits" she has. Catalina smiles as she tells her how happy José Carlos is going to be about this. Catalina suggests they surprise him.

Luis and Leonora are suited up and have their helmets on as they go to the assignment. She thanks him for taking her.

Catalina asks Vicky if she used birth control. Yes, she did but  sometimes it fails. Catalina agrees and reestablishes that Vicky and José Carlos are friends with benefits. Vicky has no close family. Her mom lives in the USA. Vicky thinks she is a little less than eight weeks pregnant.  Catalina will help her prepare this very special surprise for José Carlos who is like a son to her. She gives Vicky a "very special"necklace as a gift from her. She is part of the family now.

Luis discovers that he has no brakes and ends up in a crash. He and Leonora are thrown from the bike. Leonora ends up unconscious on the pavement. Luis is left rolling on the ground in pain.

In an office, Alejandro is talking to the new hire. They are standing a little too close. Alejandro asks the new hire why he is working there. How did he get the job? Did somebody recommend him?  The new hire says he filled out an application like everyone else but he did cheat. Alejandro doesn't like cheats and he could fire him . . . The new hire takes a step in to get even closer to Alejandro when Alejandro's cellphone starts rngnig. Alejandro doesn't answer it. The new hire steps in even closer and touches Alejandro's hand and asks if he wants him to leave. Just as he goes in for a kiss, Alejandro walks away and closes the one door that is still open. The new hire smiles.

José Carlos comes running up to the offices to spread the news that Leonor was in an accident and was in very serious condition. He meets Francisco along the way. He pounds on Alejandro's office door. Alejandro and the new hire have to stop making out and Alejandro covers the new hire's mouth so he doesn't say anything.   José Carlos complains that Alejandro hasn't answered his phone either. Now Francisco is banging on Alejandro's office door. Francisco calls Catalina. José Carlos gos to the hospital.

Catalina has put Vicky up in a hotel until she decides it is time to surprise José Carlos. Vicky is not  to say anything about anything to him if he calls her. Catalina gets the call about Leonora.

Catalina hurries to the hospital where she meets Francisco.She is concerned about the baby. Leonora is unconscious and they know nothing about the baby.  José Carlos leaves Alejandro a message on his phone. It is urgent.  Francisco tells her that Leonora was on a motorcycle with her reporter friend when his brakes went out. Catalina's eyes widen with the shock and her knowledge of the situation. Francisco asks if she is all right.  She tells him to call Oscar(family doctor) so he can come and take care of Leonora.

At the hospital, Luis calls his ex to tell he he is fine. He can have Pedro send her a photo to make her feel better.  Pedro asks about the brakes going out.  Luis says  the motorcycle was in perfect condition.  He says his bike was tampered with.  Pedro asks who might have been responsible when José Carlos comes barging  in  demanding to know what Luis was thinking taking a pregnant Leonora on his motorcycle. Pedro intervenes saying Luis was not responsible for anything. Luis says it was an accident. José Carlos insists it was carelessness on his part and he is holding him responsible.  Catalina stops by next to asks how Luis is doing but also to remind him that Leonora is still unconscious. and to suggest they both pray that she comes out of it.  Finally Alejandro gets through to Alex. Catalina wants him at the hospital right away. Catalina continues to stare at Luis and then finally leaves.  Luis asks Pedro if there are any doubts.

José Carlos visits Leonora. He tries to calm her down. All she cares about is her baby.

Luis gets an "anonymous" phone call.  "She" has proof that Catalina Creel is a murderer.

Alejandro finally gets to the hospital where he faces an angry José Carlos wondering where he as anyway all this time. Catalina and family bring him up to date.

After an ultrasound,  the Oscar declares that Leonora and the baby are out of danger.  Finall, Alejandro goes to see his wife.

Catalina excuses herself to take care of something important that won' t wait.

Catalina pays a visit to Vicky.  She explains that her daughter in law had an accident . It was such a terrible day that she never had a chance to talk to José Carlos. She just wants to ask her for a little time. She brings Vicky a gift, too.Vicky is joyful and  grateful. Catalina  asks Vicky if she has been taking folic acid. It is good for the baby. She hands Vicky a pill with a glass of water. Vicky happily akes the pill.

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