Caray, Caray!

Just Dust in the Wind

The nightmare is real.  Leonardo has come to do an audit of the galleries.  A very subdued Elisa requests a tete a tete with him.  Once alone,  Curley Locks, aka CFO Fabricio offers to accompany her but Elisa declines.  

Meanwhile, Majo, whose level of self-esteem has plummeted recently to all-time lows is now about to let herself be used to mop Dario's floors.  She knocks at the door and asks if it's true Dario made a bargain with Elisa never to see her again in exchange for keeping away from El's family, and Majo in particular.  He reminds her it was she that left him and not the other way around.  What he felt for her once is now dead and the cadaver about to be buried.  He yells at her that he never lied about who he is and what he does and that she despises him for it.  The two of them are fire and water and he's realized that she's just not the right woman for him.  Besides, he's a businessman at heart; it's all just business to him.  Elisa promised to continue working for him without complaining if he left her alone.  Yep, it just was good business.  

Majo in addition to naivete can add gluttony for punishment to her list of alienating personality traits. "--Why couldn't you just change?  You said you'd change?  You'd leave it all for me.  Why couldn't you just leave this business?"  (Oh, that's rich!  Well, if he has to explain that you are too juvenile to waste his breath on, girlfriend.) She simply wasn't a priority.   (Suck it up, buttercup, and please spare us your unending torment and heartache.)  Finally, the mulish mewling Majo, having been hit over the head any number of times with Dario's verbal frying pan, gets moving.  Viewerville feels her peabrain's ability to grasp the meaning of no más is still in doubt.)

Back at Grupo Cantu, El's propensity to impose impossible demands on Mr. Could-Be-Should-Be-Right is just soooo wrong.  "--You realize the woman in front of you is the same one you say you fell in love with, so why do you persist in ruining  me?"  Leo insists this investigation isn't against her as he knows she's not to blame for her father's money-laundering.  But it is the most certain route to finding the killers of her father and Julia.  

Blondie is quick to point out to Detective Dagwood that whatever illegalities he uncovers, she as head of the company will be charged and the one to pay the price.  "--I will go to jail."   He says sure he thought about that.  "--And that didn't stop you."  (Talk about your unstoppable force and your immovable object...)  "-- You sacrificed our love all to get at the truth.  And, all that we've experienced, lived through,  is destroyed."  No Blondie means everything to Detective Dagwood still and without her life has no meaning.  He insists he knows her and it is all to protect her.   "--You don't know how to protect me!"   She motions for him to keep his distance and then tells him to continue his work before turning her back on him.  

Fern arrives late to the office now with the papers Fabricio needs for the inspection.  She tries explaining she had something come up with Juanito, but Fab doesn't want to hear it.  He cops an attitude: he hired personal nurses and nannies to help with all that just so she wouldn't be late!  (I guess this cheap-ass nursing service doesn't come with subs when somebody skips out.  Not that Fern has the first clue of proper Business Etiquette, i.e., like calling in to give a heads up?)

Fern then decides to take her ire out on Leo.  "--You getting off on your little show of authority here with this investigation?  When are you going to leave my friend alone?"  Leo shoves it right back at her. "--Your friend?  Does Elisa know yet that you were her father's lover?"  Fern basically tells him to stuff it and leaves.  

Outside casa de los Velasco, Theresa, and Reynaldo are discussing her abusive hubby situation again.  Terry says that's why she's planning to get a divorce.  He offers to get her hooked up with an attorney.  Terry expects Rey to get a divorce also.   Rey starts stammering..... "--Or don't you want to get a divorce?"  Here's where Rey begins to do the shifty shuffle otherwise known as the Michael Jackson moonwalking two-step. 

You Got To Wash That Man Right Outta Your Hair

Back at Cantu and all the do-do, Fern does her damnedest to dissuade El from continuing this sick relationship with Dagwood.  "--Can't you see he's only used you to further his investigation?"  Blondie is stuck on stupid, however, where Dagwood is concerned.  

As for Terry, It seems that Rey is actually a kept man and he wants to keep on being kept.  HIs wife inherited a bucket of billetes and he cannot afford to leave home at his age and in his circumstances to just start from scratch again.  Anyway, they have a good time in bed, don't they?  Couldn't that just continue?  "--You men are all alike, aren't you?"  

Something To Talk About

Adriana is late getting up and JL has ignored it cuz she "looked so cute lying there in bed."  Adri apologizes and adds she'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.  He says no need since he's got to go home to change anyway.  And if they should walk in together people could start to gossip.  "--Gossip, huh?  You should hear what people are saying about me."  "--Tell me who and I'll fire them myself."  "--No, it has nothing to do with it.  You've got to get used to people gossiping.  It is that they all feel I only got my promotion because of sleeping with you."  "--We both know that's not true and that should be enough.  I'll order them not to.  Now drink your coffee and relax.  Take your time.  There's nothing urgent going on at the station." 

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Terry tells Rey she has no intention of being somebody's lover.  "--Thanks for making me feel like a woman.   But this isn't working out as I'd thought." She gets out of Rey's car and calls it quits.   "--You need to learn to respect me."

Meanwhile, Majo has gone to see Clara but Nieves tries lying to her about Clara not being at home.  (Just what is her problem?  ODD or something like I suppose.)  Clara comes out to the front step and tells Mama she is at home.  Nieves sniffs and says, well I thought she was gone..... and leaves.  Majo needs a shoulder to cry on.  She needs to tell Clara what a jerk Darth Dario was to her.  "--I already told you he was a sadistic loser and you would listen to me; so what are you doing here now?"  (She needs a therapist, not a part-time toady for a companion.)  Majo tries explaining that when she was with Dario he was able to make her feel like she was important.  She was "visible"....her two older sisters always managed to take up all the oxygen in the room at home.  So, now she is there to help Leo and Clara send him up the river.

Mario has since shown up at Cantu Corp. and is playing catchup.  El walks by him and Leo and snubs them both.  She walks away with Fab in tow.  Leo sighs that life is topsy turvy for him now.  He cannot stop thinking about El, but it is what it is.  Mario agrees with El that he can't have both.  It may be great as a policeman to make the collar but it stinks in terms of a romantic relationship.  

Back at Clara's, Majo begs Clara to return and to be her close companion.  Majo needs her to keep her from continuing to chase after Dario and doing something stupid she's sure to regret.  

Meanwhile, Elisa can't help thinking about the good times with Leo; Majo cannot stop drinking; and the personnel at the police station cannot stop gossiping about Adri and how she probably got her promotion to Captain.  

I Got To Get Out Of This Place

El is back at the hospital trying to visit her sister but the nurse is trying to prevent her.  She's under lockdown, donchaknow?  Who says?  Dr. Omar of course.  Well, tell him I want to speak to him.  What gives him the right, anyway?  I am family!  This is my sister!  The nurse runs off to get him while El stops to look in on Renata.  She's obviously been drugged because every visit Ren's asleep now.  El manages to wake her for a moment.  It's long enough for Ren to beg her to get her out of there.  El promises her she will or die trying.  Just then she gets a call from Darth Dario telling her they've got a meeting and his men are outside the hospital to take her to it.

As she is leaving, Dr. Omar arrives. "-- Who has authorized you sedating my sister like this???"  Why, Sra. Victoria has.  (As if she couldn't guess....but he's only telling half the truth cuz Unky Ewwy made the decision and the threats, as Viewerville knows.) 

Back at the station, Fern has come to speak with JL as his supposed C.I.  She is there to tell him how Leo has to be put on a leash since he's now threatening to inform Elisa that she was her daddy's lover.  JL says what's the big deal?  She was his lover.  Don't worry, he says, he'll put a muzzle on him.  But, insists Fern, just today he brought a Federal Investigation to their doorstep.  Federal auditors were there checking the two galleries' books.  His brother has simply gone too far.  

Back at the clinic, Mauricio asks Stella what she found if anything regarding Renata's files.  Stella says she found a report discussing an operation they did on Ren that isn't done at their hospital.  Mo wants a copy of it.  Stella will try.  

Back at Cobra Central, El gives Cobra grief about the rush to get her there.  He says there's an important client who wants to do a show there.  She's got to authenticate his stuff.  (I think.)  The client shows up just then and Cobra gives him, Olivario, the royal treatment.  This is going to be an inside job.  The insurance company wants a Mexican to authenticate the pieces which are later to be shown in the U.S. and supposedly sold at which point they'll be stolen; he can collect from the insurance company y tan tan.  

About the same time, Fab discusses the implications of this audit with his daddy.  El could go to jail.  He's hoping Eugenio can put a halt to the audit.  Ewwy will be more than delighted to help by calling in a few debts he's owed by those in high places--high enough to call this audit off.  

Back at the station, Adri asks JL what Fernanda and he were discussing.  "--Did you know about the audit Leo initiated over at Grupo Cantu?  She admits she doesn't.  (How could she?  She's been too involved with you to give a frikkin' flip about him, dude!)  He asks her to come in and shut the door.  (Ruh-roh.)  He begins by asking her why she persists in covering for Leo.  Adri's ears start shooting out steam.  "--I haven't been covering up for ANYBODY.  If you think I have then do whatever you want."  He tells her to calm down.  He tells her that Fern had agreed to be a CI in exchange for full immunity, but then Leo came waltzing in with his Federal Audit and threatened her with telling El that Fern was her daddy's other woman.  JL orders her to stop him.  Send him somewhere else.  Adri wants to know why doesn't JL tell Leo? He says he doesn't want to hear from or see Leo.  (Do we honestly need to believe that after all these years as a cop she's never learned the first thing about chain of command?)  She tells JL that if she's now "following orders" and he doesn't want to bump into kid brother then forget coming around for dinner and any of those cute little "spur of the moment" sleep-overs.  Her place is now off limits.

At the Cantu manse, Vicki is going nuts from the loud music.  She suspects Majo's back to guzzling bottles of booze again.  She timidly knocks on the door.  Majo pretty much tells her to drop dead.  Vicki uncharacteristically reacts like a limp, wet dishrag.   

At the office again, Fern is trying to make nice to Fab but it's not working this time.  Attitude is all she gets.  She says, hey, you know my mother's cancer isn't exactly contagious.  He sneers back at her that she's so rude. (A casual glance in the mirror might be in order here, Curley.)  "--Just what is the relationship between you and my father?"  

Across the way, El rushes into the living room demanding to know what reason her mother has for putting Ren on continual sedation?  Victoria says Ren needs round the clock "protection" from herself.  The last time she escaped she threatened suicide, remember.  El says but that isn't living!  Supposedly it's their quality of life versus Renata's and Ren pulled the short straw.  

Vicki decides to change the subject for one equally as depressing....."--How goes it a the office?"  El brings Mama up to date date with the audit currently taking place there.  "--But Fabricio has everything under control.  They are not going to find evidence of money laundering are they?"  (Can this woman be that naive at this point?)  El spells it out for her.  "--Daddy made his living laundering money, Ma; if and when they find what they're looking for I will be headed to jail."

Now for El's next challenge, Majo, her sozzled kid sister.  El tries to get sissy to take a shower and hopefully sober up.  Now it's just the two of them against the world.  Cobra has broken it off with Majo.  Leo and she are broken up, too, she tells Majo.  

Don't Mess With Mother Nature!

At Adriana's, Leo is full of woe and Adri is all ears.  Just then the front door opens.  JL comes sauntering in.  Adri is trying to avoid another scene.  She complains that he's got no right to just come wandering in as if it's his house!  Calm down, Love.  Leo knows about our affair.  After all, he's been investigating my life.   Right Champ?  Leo answers this isn't the time or place and he's leaving.  JL offers another verbal jab.  "--And don't think of coming back because you're not welcome!"  Adri pipes up just who the heck does JL think he is to speak for her in her home?  "--Don't argue with me in front of my brother, my love!"  Leo says don't worry on his part.   JL says, well, on second thought, now that you're here,  I have got a couple of things I want to tell you.  Like STOP MESSING AROUND WITH MY JOB!   Adri tells JL she never wants to see JL again outside of the office and he and his brother can figure this out somewhere else.  

Majo admits to El right before conking out that she's been a fool because of Cobra and she knows it.  El sends off a text to someone asking to meet with her at the house.  

Back at Adriana's JL tells Leo to stop interfering with his investigation.  Fernanda is his CI and Leo's threatened her.  Leo asks him how he plans to explain this to his boss if he hasn't gotten the proper authorization?  "--It must be pretty darned important information to have agreed to protect her!"  "--A Fiscalia doesn't need 'authorization' to do whatever he needs!"  "--Well, I have the authorization to investigate both the stolen art and money laundering!"  "--Oh, really?  Does that include investigating me?  You don't want to become an enemy of the Fiscalia, Champ.  It isn't advisable. "  Leo tells JL he simply doesn't recognize him any longer.  JL reminds him again that Leo owes all he is to JL.  "--And one more thing,  if you're still alive, it's solely because of me, Champ." 

Nothin' Left To Lose 

Across town, Adri has come to the Cantu Manse at El's request.  "--Please don't tell anybody what I'm about to tell you, especially Leonardo."  Adri says she understands and will keep things confidential, but as a cop, she has an obligation...El says she understands.  Then she blurts it out.  "--I must confess to you that all this time I've been working for an organization run by Dario Ramirez, against my will.  Like, what would you do if you had a pistol to your mother's or your sister's head?  Since my sister's kidnapping, he's been seducing her and he and his network of traffickers have been extorting me to launder money and to traffic artwork.  If I don't comply they've threatened to kill my family.  I cannot handle it any longer!  I've made my decision.  I'm assuming responsibility for my actions. "  "--But that is truly risky!"  "--I will inform you of their doings and you will catch them.  And, it doesn't matter if I go to jail for it because when I do they're going in there with me!"  

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