Caray, Caray!

⦁ Vicente and Natalia continue discussing Magos' age and infirmities while still seated at the uptown restaurant.  They agree that, at this advanced age, she should continue living there at the house with them.  Nata has skirted the cancer angle.

⦁ At the resort, Juanga is very obviously moping after Chole who he's seen passionately mouth-melding with Gustavo.  Magos has Juanga sit with her.  She advises him to give up on the impossible dream woman and look for one who is much more attainable and who can truly appreciate him.

⦁ Back at Constanza's vacation casota, it's lunchtime and the guest list is now whittled down by three.  Connie complains to Teresa about Regina's gross lack of manners and defends her opposition to allowing any hoi polloi, i.e., the brutish barrio rabble, to sit at her table.  Claudio defends Connie's class-conscious social stratification along with Andrea who nods in agreement with each of Constanza's complaints.  Clod says Regi is picking up her mother's bad habits.  Connie says she wouldn't be surprised if Nata ends up becoming Chente's lover.  (Oh, the shame of it all!)

⦁ Sammie and Mauricio's mother, Patricia, are now also dining at the same restaurant as Nata and Chente.  We learn from Sam that Mau is up to something devious to help lure Omar away from Andi's clutches.  Mau's mother suddenly notices Chente and Nata dining together.  Sammie and she are scandalously scandalized.  Chente mentions this to Nata who turns around and snubs the two.  Chente and she hold hands there at the table; she admits she's got courage when with him.  

⦁ Meanwhile, Juanga and Olga decide that since Chente and Chole are never going to give either of the two of them the time of day, they might as well try dating each other.  

⦁ Nata makes an effort to confront Pat and Sam on the way out of the restaurant.  She says hello and introduces Chente.  She then mentions their kids' wedding next week and how it would be nice of Sam and Elias to attend in a show of support of the pair who obviously love each other so much. Sam is all "--In your dreams."  Nata finishes and grabs Chente's hand as they make their way out.  He proudly puts his arm around her as a means of visual support.  Outside the restaurant, Nata apologizes for using him.  He says it's fine to pretend as many hugs as possible as long as people like those continue to annoy Nata.  She insists she wasn't pretending anything.  She allowed Chente to hug her on the way out to show that she was proud and happy to have him with her.  They then hop into his Rustoleum red rolling pin and head home.

⦁ Jo-jo, aka, J2P2, aka Pepe Pepe arrives back at the resort and explains to Chole and Magos the chaos at Connie's and that Regina and Tio Tavo are now spending the rest of their holiday weekend there with them.  

⦁ Nata and Chente, meanwhile, return home where Benji gives a big welcome-home hug to Nata.  Once alone, they chat, and Nata and he agree that Omi has the basics to become a decent adult.  Nata is adamant that her daughters marry for love with a decent individual so that they don't experience the same emotional deceptions she's just gone through.  She wants them in a happy and loving relationship, just like the marriage he had it with Lucia.  Chente takes this moment to say at times they have to move on and leave some dreams in the past (or some such passionate thoughts).  

⦁      Tavo joins Chole, Magos, J2P2, and Regi in the resort's park area.  Up comes the "new couple." Magos and Chole's mouths turn into fly-traps when Juanga introduces La Vulga de Olga as his new squeeze. (Wow~ a match made in Hell, with Vulga getting the better half of the deal.) 

⦁ Chente starts to move closer to Nata in an attempt to impress her with a kiss, but there's loud obnoxious knocking at the door.  

⦁ Magos pulls Juanga aside and warns him that Vulga is nothing but a mindless tramp and he should have known better than to sidle up to her.  "--She's nothing but trouble with a capital T and you'll learn soon enough!"

⦁ Nata opens the door and finds a free and footloose Mario smiling there at her.  They laugh and hug each other.  Yes, Mario's free but he's got nowhere to hang his sombrero since Tania vamoosed out of the country and took all his cash with her.  Can he stay with her?  Nata and Chente argue over this.  She explains how his sister, Tania, bamboozled her brother and how Mario kindly offered to let her and the girls stay in his apartment when she had nothing left--and she adds that Ver was Mario's fiancee at the time.  She then reminds Mario that Chente is one more victim of Veronica and Adrien's.  Chente still has his back up over this, but Nata decides for herself and tells Mario to stay, over Chente's objections.

⦁ At the resort: when Chole tries to question Vulga about her 180-degree reversal to date Chente's kid brother practically over night, Vulga calls Chole a hypocrite.  But, if it wins her Magos's respect, all the better. Vulga flit-fits and flies off to find her new loverboy, the keen-kissin', kookie kid brother.

⦁ Back in the barrio, Nata shows Mario to the Andi's bedroom and says it's free for at least this one night while she's away.  Mario suggests that Chente seemed a bit jealous of him but she says there's not a chance.  Chente's stand-up people, after all.  

⦁ At the resort, Tavo tells Chole over a couple of brewskies that he likes Juanga and Vulga's dating but she disagrees.  She's certain Vulga has something else in mind and it's all part of some devious plot that cannot possibly end well.

⦁ The bachelor party is in full force.  However, the cowed Omi is hiding in a corner texting Andi that he'd rather be back there with her.  Mau notes he's missing then tracks him down and forces Omi back into the party room as the female dancers arrive.  And within a couple of hours the main attraction--a hooker dressed in red--arrives and sticks to Omi like glue.  While he's off somewhere she gets a couple of tragos for the two of them but first a few drops of something into one.  She finds Omi and hands him the mickey.  There's a drinking game and he chugs it down dutifully.

⦁ While Nata makes a plate of food up for Mario, she explains to Chente that he's got nobody and nothing; he is just as much a victim as they are and he is a decent man.  Anyway, she adds, it's just for the night.  She's hoping he could share something at the rooming house. Their place is already splitting at the seams.  However, Chole will certainly give Mario a helping hand.  

⦁ The red dressed hooker now has her hooks into Omi.  

⦁ Then next morning the maid enters the disaster of a hotel suite.  She gets a big surprise as she walks into the bedroom--but not as big as the one Omi gets when she screams, "--You killed her!!"  He takes a gander over the back of the bed and there is the hooker, lying dead with blood pooling around her head!!

⦁ And, that same morning  at Connie's Crabshack, Andi sits down to eat breakfast; she begins going through her texts and there's a picture of Omi lipsmacking the red-dressed hooker.  Andi flies into a tantrum.  Connie grabs the phone and begins thumbing through it.  Tere and Clod appear just as Andi faints into their arms.  

⦁ At the hotel again, Omi has dressed but is still only half awake.  He runs out of the suite, down the hall, down the stairwell and out into the back alley as Security and the EMR team roll in the cadaver bed into the suite.  A few minutes later, Elias enters the suite, congratulates his henchmen on a job well done.  "--Just as we planned!"  Out of the bathroom strolls the hooker, Michelle, fresh from the shower.  Elias pays her and even adds a bonus.  Don't worry about his son, he tells her.  "--it won't be long now before he calls me."

⦁ Sure enough, like clockwork, Omi calls from the back of a taxi.  He's panicked and in trouble, he doesn't know what happened.  Elias tells him to meet him at the office in a few.

⦁ At Connie's, Andi is awake.  Tere and Connie are at her bedside.  Andi is in tears and says she never wants to see Omar again!  Connie suggests it was only a picture of him kissing a whore.  Tere objects to that and says it doesn't justify Omi's lack of respect towards Andi (his betrothed, the love of his life, blah-blah--you get the idea).  Connie finally spouts something sensible in response.  "--Well what do you expect of a man at a bachelor's party???)  Andi hasn't changed her mind, though.  So, Connie goes with the current flow and says, okay then, better you see it now than after marrying the guy.  It's obvious that he's just like Andi's papi and what can Andi expect with a man like Omar who shows so little respect for his betrothed? 

⦁ At papi Elias's office now, Omi is there and is in shock; he tearfully greets his dad.  Elias has him walk through what happened.  No drugs but lots to drink and all he remembers was kissing the hooker.  He woke up and she was dead. He is sobbing uncontrollably now. "--Somebody killed her!"  Elias hugs his son.  Yep!  He has Omi right where he wants him.  

⦁ The next morning, Mario is cooking breakfast when Chente walks into the kitchen.  Chente remarks at the way Mario seems to have moved right in.  Mario explains how the first morning at his place Nata made him breakfast.  He's just returning the favor.  Mario says he plans to get a job and then move Nata and family to another, larger, and separate abode....Chente gets his back up again, insisting she already has a house and is living in it right now!  Mario says, not true: she's forced to live here. And she and her daughters are accustomed to a different standard of living.  Chente obviously doesn't like where this conversation's going.  "--That's what you say! I doubt she would agree; who are you to make decisions for others?"  "--When this all started Nata and I lost everything and we decided that we'd see it through and get beyond it all... TOGETHER!  I am not going to waste more time.  While I was in jail I decided that once I got out I would start over.  And, I am not going to argue about this with you.  I am doing this because Natalia is the woman I love!"  

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