Caray, Caray!

⦁ Leonardo and Elisa are stuck at the roadblock being checked by the officer in charge. "My wife doesn't need an ambulance; she has a headache because she doesn't have the medicine I left at the hotel.  We just need to get that."  Finally, we've got a cop who can relate to spousal guilt trips;  he relents and lets them pull out of the roadblock.  Lucky for Leo and El (and the telenovela gods) that in this little corner of the alternate universe Mexico's police use walkie-talkies still instead of slick cell phones or laptops with Instagram and twitter-sharing options in their cop cars......

⦁ Back at Grupo Cantu, Renata still has her funky uncky Eugenio corralled and is laying her cards on the proverbial poker table.  She's seen the report where the type of nefarious operation performed on her is discussed in glorious detail.  All she wants to know is who the heck gave them permission to do that to her.  Ewwy diverts and skirts asking if she really thinks him capable of harming her.  She is his favorite of them all and knows this.  Truly, she's been off her meds too long and needs to continue taking them.  He kisses her and hugs her as Viewerville has visions of a mafioso's last kiss to the condemned. 

⦁ In another office at the Cantu Group Fabricio learns from Majo that El )  has escaped but not before (scraping the bottom of the barrel when) asking her to take charge of the bidnez and come to some accord with Fab.  And, she adds El ain't comin' back till she and Leo have proof of her innocence.  So where do they begin???   Well, El's flight from Justicia has left them between a rock and a hard place is Fab's response (excuse, more likely).  More than likely the company will be seized and locked.  This is where Fab shows what a worthless piece of oxygen-absorbing massive waste of space he truly has been.   "--Elisa said that you had insured our [inherited] assets."   "--Autos and property perhaps, but....not bank accounts or company stock holdings."  "--Are you telling me we now have nothing?" Yes indeedy, Speedy.....They're going to now have to think of plan C, D, and or E.  "--So we're going to lose the construction company?"  Fab sheepishly nods. 

⦁ At the fiscalia, Christina rudely sticks her head inside the glass-walled office where everybody who is anybody, as well as those who are not,  can see everything.  Christina notices as Jose Luis kisses his trophy squeeze of a captain, Adriana, on the lips to seal a date for din-din that evening.  (Sorry, but this part of Viewerville suddenly has a need to race to the bathroom and scour my skin, especially my lips.)  Christina wants a chat with Adri about her report and her evaluation of Leo's capacity to conduct himself professionally in regards to the Cantu investigations.  In particular, what about Leo's involvement with Elisa Cantu??  Adri tells her that it is irrelevant.  Christina rolls her pancaked eyeballs.  Christina snidely reminds Adri that Elisa is still illicitly involved with Dario Ramirez--Leo's pummeled piece of work, so... think again, Sweetcheeks.

⦁ Meanwhile, Ewwy gets a frantic call from Victoria as he is leaving Grupo Cantu.  What is going on with Elisa's being hounded by the authorities, not to mention the nurse that came to see Elisa recently?  Ewwy says these things are best spoken about in person, not over the phone.  So, he'll see her at his place in a few.   He nods to a car waiting in the shadows of the parking lot as he gets into his limo.  The car blinks its lights in answer.  

⦁ At the same time, El and Leo return to the love shack.  He assures her that Adri and Mario will contact him if there's anything to report.  For now, they'll be just fine here.  He takes her into his arms and carries her inside and onto the bed where a bit of nookie negates her nervous-nelly-issms for a while longer.  (FF>>FF>>)

⦁ Back to Adri and Christy.  Christina wants to know if Adri is covering up for Leo since she doesn't have any idea where he is right at that moment.  (Hey, bitch.  He was suspended so he isn't exactly on the clock, ya know?) Christy is as irritating as some fly that can't stop flitting around your face and hands.   "--You're his friend, right?"  Adri verbally swipes at the flittering, buzzing little beasty.  "--Yeah, but not his nanny."  Christy reminds her she's still head of internal affairs...She sees it differently. Christy apparently likes the intimidation as a technique.  She waits for the quiver and shakes.  When it doesn't happen she pushes a bit more.  She says it appears as if Adri might be covering up for her best buddy.  Dangerous to do. What Adri wouldn't give to have an electric fly zapper hanging head high about now.  

⦁ Darth Dario is getting his comeuppance in prison meanwhile.  He quickly learns that he's nobody special there, despite his dastardly daddy's pull.  The guard tells him no privileges here for him.  He leaves Dario in the hands of gorilla-like goons assigned as his new roomies.  They graciously give him the floor to sleep on.

⦁ Ewwy now entertains Vicki and informs her that Fab is quickly moving to protect the girls' and her holdings in Cantu prior to the law freezing all their assets.  Vicki wonders aloud how did it ever get this bad? (Is this a rhetorical question?)  She asks Ewwy if he killed the nurse.  Where could she have gone?   (WTQ?  Where did this come from?)  Ewwy poo-poos this notion.  "--Of course not!"  He blames Dario's quest for vengeance as the reason this has happened to all of them (him included, the poor little bidnezman.)  Vicki says she's the one who gave permission for the operation.  Well, Ewwy will do anything for the woman he loves, he swears, so making that nasty bit of paperwork disappear is not too much to ask and he is on it!  

⦁ Back in Cell Block Z, JL delivers Dario a message from Daddy.  "--Retract your statement about Elisa Cantu's involvement or you will stay here without money or protection."  Darth Dario threatens JL now.  He's got hours to make his daddy see reason or Dario will give a second statement involving  JL's sole participation in numerous of their criminal acts.  JL doesn't bat an eyelash.  "--Busy yourself with retracting your accusations against Elisa Cantu and I will see that you lack nothing here,"  Dario asks whose side is he on, Daddy's or his.  He insists again that if JL doesn't side with him the judge will learn about all the "little chores" he's done for the gang.

⦁ Ren, Majo and Fab are in the parking garage as the girls are leaving Grupo Cantu.  He tells them he's large and in charge and will take care of everything.  Not to worry. (That certainly makes me feel better.)  The girls drive away.  Daddy's thugs drive up, beat Fab to a pulp, and throw him into their car.  

⦁ Adri informs Mario that Christy is writing up her report any way she sees fit.  He says she's got it in for Leo for walking out on her.  (I think?)  He reads on his cell that there's a formal arrest warrant out for Elisa now.  Adri says she'll call Leo and advise him.  She does.  She adds that Christy's out to destroy him professionally any way she can.  Police get the video APB on their laptops finally.  Leo explains the bad news as if she's never heard of what an APB and a warrant are all about.  She wails that she cannot live the life of a criminal on the run.  She'll call the police and hand herself over to the authorities.

⦁ Leo tries to explain to El that she cannot hand herself in because then Dario wins.  This is his vengeance.  The head of the mafia gang wants illegal art trafficking to continue (fester?)  The best thing, for now, is for her to hide out till things clear up, till they get Dario to retract.  It is in the mafia don's best interest.

⦁ Ewwy suggests that he's done all he can where Dario is involved.  He's left him in prison without his support or backing to show his true luhhhhvvv for Vicki.  What else can they do, she wonders.  "--Name Fabricio head of Grupo Cantu."  Que?????

⦁ JL calmly gives Dario the second half of Ewwy's message to him:  retract or Mama is fish food.  Also, no matter who he hides behind or runs to in prison, he's going to have a pistol at his head.  So, best to stay on his good side.

⦁ Fab gets told by one of the two toughs beating him up that he's supposed to take over Dario's job.  Is this a message from Papi?  They laugh scornfully and tell him there's somebody much more powerful than that running things and knock him around some more.  (You can throw in a few from me too while you're at it.)

⦁ Back at the fiscalia, Adri begins to give JL a shoulder massage and invites him over for another romantic dinner.  He needs more time for himself, he's too burdened with all that goes on there.  He agrees.  She kisses him and tells him she'll be waiting.  (Ya gotta love those glass walls.)  

⦁ At the same time, Majo is on the phone with El catching her up on the meeting with Fab.  Ren is going to be a problem Majo thinks.  Ren runs into the room. grabs the phone, and starts a discussion out of the blue on what a great catch Leo is and how much he truly loves Elisa.  

⦁ Elisa hangs up and later tells Leo she hopes he can keep the press out of this.  Leo will do his best to convince JL to do just that.  

⦁ Christy starts a late-night chat with Mario.  She tells him she needs a really close friend of Leo's to try convincing him to drop the relationship with Elisa and not to destroy his remaining career by helping a criminal who's on the run. She wants Leo to meet with her tomorrow.   Before she leaves the floor she tells Mario she thought they could have or should have chosen him for the captain.  He defends Adri so this attempt at divide and conquer seems to have failed.  

⦁ JL has stopped at home to check on things and clean up.  Sarah asks him to stay for dinner.  He begs off because he's "got things to do at the fiscalia" still.  Just before he leaves, Leslie stumbles out into the hallway and collapses.  

⦁ Fab goes to see Ewwy and tell him about his beating.  Ewwy convinces him that joining up with them to learn the operation and how to conduct their business is the only way to protect their investments and avoid losing everything.  Fab asks him to try to get an appeal or some kind of legal protection.  He refuses and says all his money is tied up in the business investment.  He cannot afford to do that for Elisa.  Fab should just learn the illicit trade from the rest of the crooks and then when he's got them cold they will report them to the authorities.  Somewhere Fab lets it be known that he doesn't appreciate not being told he had a son.  Ewwy cannot be blamed for trying to protect Fab from a social climber like Fer.  

⦁ Fern arrives home and is upset to find that Juanito has been playing with Sonia.  She cannot stand the woman and tells her to leave the child alone.  Sonia tries to explain she was giving her dying mother a rest from the child but Fern doesn't want to hear it.  She tries to convince Fern that they all must leave and try escaping from Ewwy and Fab.  Ewwy's dangerous and Fab only listens to his father.  He's as useless as a concrete parachute.  Fern ignores Sonia's advice.

⦁ Mario comes over to Adriana's late in the evening.  She's blowing out the candles since JL didn't arrive for her romantic dinner due tMario comes over to Adriana's late in the evening.  She's blowing out the candles since JL didn't arrive for her romantic dinner due to Terry and Sarah's pleadings and Leslie's collapse; Adri, thinking it is JL relights the candles.  Mario sees the dinner table all laid out and as he begins to explain that Christy wants them to warn Leo off the Cantu case and away from Elisa Cantu, in particular.  JL walks in the front door with a bottle of wine.  "--What are you doing here?"  Mario frowns.  

⦁ Back at the Cantu manse, Majo has a nightmare about Dario sneaking in and dragging her away with him.  

⦁ At the love shack, El and Leo are taking a break from bed duty.  She wonders how many in the family knew all these horrible things about Daddy and the company he kept.  How little she really knew them. Now it's all much clearer.  All lies flying around her.  The only truth, says Leo, is that he loves her.  And, with that, it's back to ...uh where were we?..... Ah, yes. Things will eventually work out and it's time for a little more sweets in the sheets.

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