Caray, Caray!

Previously on…

Majo, the youngest Cantu sister has been kidnapped in broad daylight, on a busy highway.

Renata, the oldest sister, has an undisclosed mental illness, which makes it impossible for her to have the baby she obsessively desires.

Elisa, the middle sister, is being confronted by the ruggedly halfway handsome special detective Leonardo – he suspects things and demands some answers.

Some scenes are combined, others are condensed, these people talk too much, and it’s hard to keep up.

Elisa and Leonardo get to know one another

Elisa is weeping.

Leonardo would like to help, if only she could trust him. She needs to tell him everything, she can’t do it all on her own.

Elisa is unsure, it’s too early in the game to open up to him; her phone rings, so she takes advantage of the distraction to try to evade Leo’s questions. He believes that Augusto was involved in the stolen artifacts debacle (expect for me to repeat this phrase A LOT – new drinking game?) and Julia was an innocent victim.

This makes Elisa react strongly, what if Julia was involved? After all, she thought she knew her father, too, and look how well that turned out. Why were they together in the middle of nowhere, if not because they were secret lovers (is there any other kind?). Elisa’s phone rings again. Leo insists that he only wants to help, but Elisa is sure that he can’t. And off she goes.

But not too far away, because right after the credits we see Leo in his car, brooding, while Elisa looks on. She goes to his window, says she’s sorry and asks him not to go with that pouty face that Angelique B. does so well. He wants to know who she’s afraid of. She gets into the car and begs him to drive, they can’t talk here. She seems scared of her own shadow, if Leo doesn’t get it by now that she’s afraid that someone is following her, than he’s not much of a special agent.

They end up in a nice restaurant, sipping coffee and reminiscing about their lost loved ones.

Elisa talks about Augusto, her hero and how her image of him has changed with his death. Now her family is a mess, the company is in ruin, she found out that Augusto had all kid of shady business going on. It is all very painful. To think she was only in Mexico to celebrate her birthday.

She mentions her Manhattan gallery, Leo is impressed, and Elisa admits that she has had a sheltered life. She thinks she’s talking a lot, but Leo doesn’t mind, he wants to know everything there is to know about her. Elisa wonders if she is being investigated, would like to know more about Julia.

As expected, Julia was great – school teacher who loved children, was a sweet, loving person, as perfect as perfect can get. The night of her death they had gotten engaged, Leo had come from Monterey especially to propose (he sometimes has to travel for his undercover work as a special agent). And he knows Julia loved him, too, he doesn’t understand why she was with Augusto that night.

He mentions the missing artifacts again, but that’s the one thing Elisa won’t talk about. She wants to go, so he leaves her his phone number, asking her to trust him and to come to him for help because he needs her, too.

Majo and her various kidnappers

Majo is not feeling well, the two goons that are watching her find her asleep, and they think she has a fever. So they call their boss, El Cobra, our dear Eugenio Serrano, trusted family friend of the Cantus. He’s in a cemetery with Dario, talking about how they have Elisa cornered. When Eugenio finds out that Majo is probably sick, he orders his underlings to take good care of her- she is not to be harmed in any way (aside from being kidnapped and scared out of her mind).

At some  point he has a phone call with the police chief - they're in cahoots!! Maybe that's why Majo's kidnapping was never reported by one of the other drivers on the highway. The big boss himself is keeping things on the down-low. 

Marcelo is really not a good husband (shocker)

We find him in bed with Eugenio’s lady friend, Sonia. He realizes that his father in law was in a bad shape financially and wants Sonia to snoop around Eugenio, who was Augusto’s best friend. But Sonia won’t do it, she says she has no power over Eugenio (more on that later). Why can’t he ask Renata for help?

Seeing that Sonia is of no use to him anymore, Marcelo asks her to get dressed and go, it’s getting late (talk about galan material).

Sonia wonders if Marcelo’s plan was to get his hands on the Cantu fortune all along. Could he be the one who killed Augusto?

When she gets home later that evening, Sonia gets a dose of Eugenio love. She lies that she had been to the gym, he checks her bag and sees that her towel is dry (beginner’s mistake, Sonia!). He has the crazy eyes and, sure enough, he ends up almost chocking her, threatening to kill her if she ever dares to cheat.

What a wonderful triangle this is… and Renata is supposed to be the crazy one.

Questions

Leo is visiting with Julia’s mom. She’s happy to see him, wants him to stay in contact, he’s still part of the family. She mentions wanting to make a credit to build a nice chapel for Julia, Leo offers to pay for it.

Julia’s sister wonders how come Julia left the house without being seen that night. Her mother gives her the stink eye. What is she hiding, did she believe that Julia was involved with Augusto Cantu?

Elisa finally answers Dario’s call, he’s mad that she wouldn’t pick up sooner, maybe she doesn’t care if her sister is dead or alive. Elisa apologizes, she wants to hear Majo, make sure that she’s OK. But of course Dario can’t do that, since Majo is still in a very bad shape. Later on we see her sleeping while Dario caresses her face. Creepy? He does look a tiny bit troubled. The doctor who checked on Majo told him that he needs to make sure that she eats and drinks, if not they’ll have to take her to the hospital.

Will Dario somehow let his guard down with Majo?

Back home Elisa is drawing, looking at Leo’s business card, when her mom, Victoria comes to her room. Elisa begins to cry, she misses her dad. Victoria tries to encourage her, she’s worried about Majo all alone in NY (you don’t even know the half of it). What if she gets into trouble, what if she needs her family?

Elisa wants Victoria to calm down, Majo needs time alone to accept everything that has happened. Victoria agrees, but thinks that Majo might have to come back regardless, since the police want to question the whole family again.

Elisa is scared, could Eugenio help them get rid of the police?

The next day she calls Leo, tries to get him to intervene to get the police off their backs. But Leo won’t interfere, this is just the normal procedure and besides, this is not his case. And why is she so afraid, anyway?

Elisa mentions her scared mother, one of her sisters is not well, and the other one is out of the country. Leo insists that he can’t help.

In the meantime the crime unit sees that Augusto’s car was being followed by another car. Who could that be?

Everybody wants a piece of the family business

Elisa goes to the office, she reassures Fernanda and Alfonso, another employee, that they have some money now, since she’s sold stock to Eugenio. She is to be named CEO of the company, all the other managers are aware and are happy with the decision. Elisa wants to move forward with all of her father’s projects. She also wants to set up a meeting with all the employees, assure them that things will be OK, as long as they all work together to save the company. She hopes that she’ll be able to deal with all the problems her father left behind.

After Alfonso leaves, she asks Fernanda who was the woman found with him and were they having an affair?

Flashback to Fernanda and Augusto sharing a yucky moment together. He promises her he is going to leave Victoria to be with her… soon.

Back to the present, Fernanda assures Elisa that her father couldn’t have had a lover behind her back, because she knew everything there was to know about him. And he would have never cheated on Victoria, especially not with such a young woman.

She says all of this with a straight face.

In case someone forgot, Renata still thinks she deserves the big boss position, because she’s the older daughter. She barges in the office, closely followed by Marcelo, who she names her consultant in all things business. Elisa doesn’t think it’s a good idea to make such a big change while the company is going through a crisis. Renata wants Elisa to go away, take care of her galleries and eat dirt.

Her doctor said the other day that she’s doing fine, but I haven’t seen anything fine about her so far. If this is Renata doing OK, I dread to see her in a manic state.

Marcelo tries to intervene, to help his wife’s cause while stopping her from going totally crazy on Elisa. But that’s not an easy task with Renata screaming that she’s not an idiot and she’s in charge from now on.

Elisa cuts the fight short, when she gets another call from Dario, who wants to meet right away. Seeing Elisa leave, Renata thinks that she drove her away. Marcelo manipulates her into naming him her second in command. He wants to speed up the process before Elisa’s naming as CEO becomes official in the afternoon.

They ask Alfonso to give them details about the company financial status, but neither Alfonso, nor Fernanda want to cooperate. They only recognize Elisa as a boss and won’t do anything that she doesn’t sanction first. Renata wants Fernanda to send a memo to all the employees, naming her as the CEO, when Fernanda refuses, she’s fired.

Later on, when Marcelo asks Fernanda if she obeyed his wife’s orders, Fernanda reminds him that she was fired, so she won’t do a thing. Does he actually believe that he’s going to get everything? Marcelo is no fool, though, isn’t this what she was after, too, with Augusto?

Interesting dynamic with these two. I’m putting Fernanda in the naughty corner, for now.

The Cantu women are having a very bad day

Renata is definitely not OK, because when she is left alone with Marcelo and he’s trying to calm her by giving her some pills, she rejects the pills, says she wants a baby instead. And she wants them to make love right here, in her dead father’s office. Marcelo looks everything but turned on by the prospect.

Fernanda calls Elisa to let her know what is going on at the office, Elisa promises to take care of it, but she has bigger worries for now. 

When she left the office earlier she met Dario, who ordered her into his car and showed her a video of her sister screaming and asking for help. Elisa wants to see Majo, Dario wants the artifacts. He gives her one more day, suggests she find out who was Augusto’s accomplice, mentions the woman who was found dead at the same time. Elisa wants to know what is it that he knows about Julia, but he throws her out of his car.

When Fernanda calls, Elisa is walking around the city, in a daze. She asks Fer to get her Julia’s home address.

Dario gets back to the hiding place, threatens Majo with a gun, and says that her sister didn’t seem interested in saving her life. Majo doesn’t believe him. 

Later on she’s asleep when the older guy comes in, removes the blanket she’s covered in, wakes her up and starts kissing her while Majo screams her heart out.

I’m thinking that maybe Dario comes back and blows his brains out?

Jose Luis comes to the Cantu house to escort Victoria to the police station for another round of questioning. This is not a courtesy demand, they have proof that she was involved in her husband’s murder – her car was seen following him the night he died.  

Elisa arrives at Julia’s house, lies to her mother that she’s a teacher from Julia’s school and needs some files that are probably in Julia’s room. Reluctant at first, the older woman allows Elisa in, because she’s busy with her husband.

Elisa starts looking through Julia’s things just in time for Leo to come for a visit. Julia’s mom tells him she’s busy with her husband’s dialysis, could he be a dear and go help Julia’s work colleague, who’s in her room looking for some documents?

Leo knocks on the closed door, Elisa manages to hide Julia’s journal in her bag before she has to come out. Leo is impactado when he sees her.

What is Elisa Cantu doing in his fiancée’s house??

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