Caray, Caray!

Upon discovery, Miguel manages to find the colored wrapping for the efedrin packs (?) as he makes a run through the back and apparently places his brown ball cap on some other unsuspecting worker so that Tacho accuses him of screwing around and not listening.  Mig secretly is able to contact Peligros and tell him to go buy a few things they'll need now.

Hector squirms his way out of having to seduce--or be seduced by--Juana.  He pleads emotional difficulties (Well, whatever pays the rent, right?) and they agree to see each other again.  In the meantime Juana shows him pictures of her and Natalie in her phone, one of which intrigues him.  He takes her phone and sends copies of her pictures to himself while she is changing into something more stimulating--er relaxing.  (A cocktail dress instead of negligee--thanks be to the telenovela gods.


Peligros has bought the supplies and is now directing his men to mix charcoal and sand into mortar bricks of a certain weight and size, then to wrap them in paper and blue saran which will, and does, look exactly like the keys of efedrin that were stolen.

Victor has persuaded Adela to have dinner with him and they hit it off.  They know the same songs and share the same odd sense of humor (and flat, rasping, off-key voices--if ever there were a pair made in Heaven).   There is definitely an attraction--and better on-screen chemistry.

Later in the evening a car full of beauties--oops, choice ladies of the evening suffer a breakdown of their car in front of the warehouse where Tacho's been storing the efedrin.  So while Tacho has some fun in the van outside and the posse fix the whores' car and then party down with them, Peligros and his men switch out the bricks of charcoal mortar with the keys of efedrin.

While Epigmenio is assured all is well in Michoacan and drinking a congratulatory toast to himself, Peligros and Mig oversee trucks being filled with their rescued merchandise camouflaged by fake wooden walls and boxes of regular goods.  The two regional capos congratulate Mig on pulling their chestnuts out of the fire.

Tacho has his posse load the cargo into their trucks/vans.

Mig informs the pistol-packin' daughter of El Serb that she can tell Daddy his merchandise is now safely on its way up to the U.S. as planned and promised.  She tells him how sly and slippery he was today and she salutes him with a powerfully long lip-lock... which... he doesn't seem to mind at all.  (Yech!  FF>>FF>>) We suppose that International Relations was part of his college load along with learning Russian, English, Japanese and Serbian.

Victor brings Adela home and is shocked to learn that she is only the chauffeur of the manse they've parked in front of.  He keeps asking her questions about how the boss puts her as head of his foundation and yet keeps her as his chauffeur.  She asks him why all the questions about her boss. (Alarm bells and sirens are going off all throughout Viewerville about now!!)  He admits (rather too quickly and just as shabbily as Valentin) that he's jealous.  She shuts him up with a quick swak on the lips and tells him he doesn't have any reason to be jealous.  He moves in for a much longer, tongue-swallowing, spit swapping lip lock.  Looks like both of them are really into the moment.  Chis just happens to be looking out the window and sees the two of them enjoying their mouth meld.  It gives her a smile and the wheels in her devious brain begin to turn.

In the wee hours of early morning, as the sun is barely over the clouds in Michoacan, and while Mig and Daddy's laser-lusting lil' daughter enjoy some sporting cavorting in the sheets, Tacho and his posse are ready to roll back to the DF. 

At breakfast later that same morning, Chis notes the smile on Jorge's face.  Ade and Mig walk in and sit down together, joining the smiling chatter.  Chis teases Ade about being hung-over and having a late night [desvelada].  She denies it.  Mig is listening with bigger than usual ears.  Chis again needles her about the guy she saw her kissing last night.  Ade has had enough and leaves the table to wait for Mig in the car.

Across town, Tacho's gang deliver the goods to El Halcon and are totally clueless as to how the bricks of enfedrin turned into mortar dust.  They go to their maker just as clueless--bang! Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh!

Chango and Pig have gotten the bad news.  When Tacho comes struttin' in he gets the other half of the surprise.  A beating with promises of worse.  Chano complains that they'll have to give back the cash and apologize.  Pig shoves him up against the wall at gunpoint and says he's not gonna do anything of the sort.  Chano warns him they'll all be killed and fed to the sharks/pigs/gators....whatever's handy.  He says they need to get outta Dodge and fast.

At the entrance to Techy Towers, as they arrive for work, Mig asks Ade why so quiet at breakfast today.  She replies she's just tired of always talking to herself.  He wants to explain for last night.  (Really?  Why?  What does she know or care about last night?)   She says there's no need to discuss anything.  She hasn't any questions.  "--I suppose you'd like to know what happened between me and Jimena?"  "--Not really.  I can imagine....."  "--Maybe you thought wrong?  Between Jimena and I there is nothing formal."  (Oh, that makes it okay?  You can jump into anybody's pants and it's just nothing special, run-of-the-mill, man-stuff?  Sorry dude so wise of Eastern ways and custom.  Western women are not put together the same way.  It's my way, the only-one way, or the highway.  Got it?)  She tells him that his personal life is his bidnez.  She is only his driver, really.  No, he counters.  "--You are much more than that."  (Like what?  The next conquest?  The next notch on the bedpost.)  He forges on, trying to lay claim to territory that is no longer his.  (How gawd-awful painful to watch!  It seems Ade is tracking righ along with Viewerville.)  "--Jimena isn't the woman for me."  "--Look, I really don't want to talk about this."  "--How about the guy you kissed last night."  "--That either."  She walks away.

At Suceso, Hector and Claudia, printed off the pictures and learn that they were taken at the candy shop near the Ministry of Internal Affairs.  Hector immediately heads off to question the clerk there, but she has only been there six months and doesn't recognize either of the girls in the pictures.

Back at the pig pen, Chano has gotten away with only a beating.  Pig, Chano, Tacho and their guerreros drive off to a little place Chano knows of to hide out.

Later in the day, Mig wants to pay a visit to Petrovico, El Serb.  Jime mentions she's got a new impresario whose got an addiction.  She hints he'll need some of the merchandise to keep him happy.  Miguel reminds her that is not a problem for them.  Fine, then now that things are going smoothly again, she says, maybe the two of them could do a bit of celebrating together.  He gives her a peck and says perhaps they might.

Chis finds Adri at the gym and apologizes.  Eventually Adri is fool enough to accept it.

At Petrovico's, El Serb mentions that El Halcon has put a very high price on Pig's head.  Mig says it's not his problem.  He's more interested in discussing his business with him as he's the one that he's agreed to deal with.  Mig then invites him to become a partner in his business.  Dreska (Laser'n leather, high-power pistol packs now put aside for a dull, mustard-colored lizard print 'n lace--her party duds?) encourages Daddy to agree because Miguel will increase their cash by 1000 percent. They drink to a new partnership.

Pig and Chano have gone back to some garage or warehouse to pick up some of the rest of their posse they'd left there.  When one of the guerreros knocks at the door there is a large explosion and the guerrero is blown to bits.  Chano and Pig tell Tacho to drive like the wind before something else happens.

Poor Hector, meanwhile,  is knocking on doors all over the neighborhood to find anybody who knows or remembers Ana and Natalie.  It's a loss except for the fact that he does notice Carlos Duarte chatting up some other government suit.  He snaps a photo for later.

El Halcon's men return to inform him that the bomb failed to kill Pig or Chano.  They were protected inside an armored vehicle and never actually got out of it.  They got away.  Halcon is fit to be tied.  He wants them DEAD yesterday if not sooner.

Back at Susesos, Claudia digs through the files in her computer to find she knows the other man in the picture with Carlos Duarte.  It's Franco Torres, the businessman who manufactures passports for the government.  (Ching, ching!)  This has to be the place, then, surmises Hector, where Carlos does his dirty dealings.  Claudia runs a sensual finger along Hectors mustached lip and praises him just as there's a call on his phone--from Ana.  Whoops!  Well, he says it is better that Claudia leaves.  It's not a good idea having her so close.  He wouldn't know how to stop himself from making a mistake.  "--Mistake?  Is that what I am?"  Why should she stop herself?  She grabs him and they go at it like a couple of minks.  (Ana, call your former office.)

Chis gets a phone call.  Well, actually, a voice mail from Val.  Oh, he's been so busy but don't think he hasn't missed her a ton and sends his love and please don't stop loving or caring about him.  She tries reaching him live wire but gets nothing but his mailbox.

In the inner reaches of the inner city,  Pig and Chano, and Tacho are stopped at a light when another van pulls up in the middle of the street right in front of them.  Out jumps El Halcon's men and they begin shooting machine guns at Pig's armored SUV.  Will it hold up to all that gunfire?

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