Caray, Caray!

Jose Luis arrives at the shantytown and shoots into the air to scare off the lusty hillbillies. He's looking less and less like a real murderer. Adri puts up a fight when he drags her off, but he's way bigger -- also he has a gun, and she's still handcuffed. I'd give them closer to even odds in a fair fight. At least he doesn't tell her she's beautiful when she's angry.

Fab tells El he'll stay on top of Majo's lawyers and let her know right away if there's any news. Is he lying? How would we know? (In this tn it would be easier to look for tells that people are not lying. Note to self: Pay more attention to Mario and Leo's forgettable boss.) Elisa tells the grandmotherly maid not to let either of her sisters leave the house and goes out to look for Leo. The maid must be wearing an invisible beanie, because she nods agreeably as if this is even remotely possible. 

Clara and Nieves are packing up an overnight bag for Les when Elisa arrives at Casa Velasco. Elisa offers to drive Clara to the next stop on the boyfriend scavenger hunt, while Nieves insists on staying behind to snoop in all the cabinets "tidy up."

Leo goes to interview Sonia. He finally seems to believe her about Eugenio and JL, and she finally seems to be telling the truth. (So what is the tell? Washed-out beige sweater, manky hair? Or is it just that she's really, really tired?) She also reports that it was Fernanda who gave her the Aztec surprise-kitty and that the last time she saw Adri she was headed off to see JL. Girlfriend is a real font of useful information tonight.

Eu drops by Fer's pad to tell Fer that Sonia has implicated her in the art trafficking, but she'll be fine as long she does exactly what he says. (Fortunately we know he's lying, so we don't have to look at him too closely.) She says that better be true since she knows even more about him than Sonia, and he tells her not to threaten him. (He's had to deliver that exact same line to so many people recently you'd think he'd notice the uptick in uncooperative behavior.) 

He says she really earned her ten mill by betraying "your best friend, her father, and my son." Not sure if he's referring to the preexisting mound of betrayal, or if there's more to pile on. It's a good thing Juanito can't talk.

Eu lurches off to Can't-Do to give Fab the same set of bad noticias, adding that Sonia dropped the dime on that corrupt cop Jose Luis Velasco. "You mean Velasco, like Leo Velasco???" Apparently Fab has been unaware all this time that Leo even had a brother. (Seriously, that's the secret this show managed to keep? The two of them have never been in the same room/hospital/police station/jail/restaurant together? He's never even come up in conversation?) Oh, and by the way JL killed Elisa's dad. Run off and tell her.

Hey! Someone's still at work! Mario traces JL's phone, and Crazy Chris demands the deets from him before he can get to anyone more official. 

Fab finds Elisa at the hospital and spills that JL & Dario were the masterminds behind everything and that JL killed Augie. He also says, very somberly, that this is "the end of the lies" -- which is hilarious, and also patently untrue as there are 17 more episodes. Elisa pulls her own string and says "no puede ser" over and over. Fab adds that Leo knew all about it the whole time, and Elisa swallows that like a poison macaroon. Just then Sara conveniently topples over, ending the scene.

Ren goes to Majo's room with some tiny outfits from her collection. She wants Majo's baby to have them. Then she appears to realize that kidnapped babies don't come with their own wardrobes and takes one of them back "for the baby mama promised." Majo tells Ren she's acting weird and edges away, and Ren squeaks that it's all a big secret and runs downstairs. And to think they could have spent that time tying up the maid...

JL takes Adri back to the shack and strings her up to the roofbeams. She might have been better off with the hillbillies. She's still giving him plenty of sass and he's obviously out of ideas when Chris texts him from just outside. He warns Adri to be quiet but bolts the door behind him when he goes out, which seems to defeat the purpose of pretending no one's in there, but whatevs. 

Chris tells him she's giving him a heads-up so he can go see Leslie in the hospital before he turns himself in and takes credit for all the crap. In return, Eu will take care of his daughter's medical care as promised. But he'd better hurry up, because Mario's on the way! That has to be the first time anyone's ever been threatened with Mario, but it seems to work.

A trio of loud and door-pounding policewomen come for Fernanda. Fab holds Juanito and promises he'll take care of him and that a lawyer will be waiting for her at the station. He looks normal, so he's probably lying. 

Leo and Mario arrive, and Leo cuts Adri down from the ceiling. He tells her what Sonia said about JL and she confirms it -- JL confessed everything. Mario looks devastated but definitely not sleepy.

Ren collides with Vic in the palatial living room and blurts out that she only told Majo she was getting a baby, not that she was getting Sonia's baby. Vic is exasperated and tells her she's not getting any baby if she doesn't learn to STFU. Majo comes in and demands to know what's going on, but Vic sends Ren to her room and spins a little tale of perfectly legal adoption. This descends into a hissy spit about who has the smarmiest boyfriend and Majo earns herself a slap. It doesn't seem to have quite the usual oomph, but Vicky is out of practice. 

Majo phones up Dario in prison and tells him she's changed her mind; she does want him to escape. She can't stand living in that cesspool of hypocrisy one moment longer. Wouldn't it be easier to, I dunno, go out and get a job? Or even move into that nice empty apartment everyone's forgotten about? 

What am I saying? Of course not. Jails just have locks, guards, spotlights and barbed wire. The Cantu mansion has a maid.

Leo finally shows up at the hospital and Elisa demands to know why he hid all the JL stuff from her. They argue interminably about who has the most corrupt relations. Yaaaaawn. At least they're not playing that stupid song.

Fernanda lies her fancy fanny off at the police station. She is a simple employee at Can't-Do; she only knows Eu professionally; it was Sonia who gave her the illicit kitty. Behind the one-way glass, Mario watches alertly. Well, he has to pay attention now; he's the only cop left. 

Surprise! Instead of going to see his daughter at the hospital, JL dashes back to the house to empty out the shoeboxes and run away. He pulls them down from the closet shelf and discovers that...they're already empty. (Cut to Nieves surrounded by cash, but we knew that, didn't we? They should check if any matronly blouses or mom jeans are missing as well.) He accuses Tere of making off with the money, which makes no sense since he already gave it to her and anyway she always looks at it like it's a basket of dead fish. She protests in vain. No longer capable of anything even approaching reason, he cocks his gun and points it at her face. 

Back at Fer's, Fab is trying to explain to Juanito that Mom's kinda held up. (They're clearly dubbing the kid's voice at this point. That poor child actor must be completely traumatized by all the choking and gratuitous shirtlessness.) Suddenly Fab's phone rings from an unknown number...it's Dar calling to tell him Eugenio put a hit on him in the prison. Fab drops the phone. Is he...thinking? 

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