Caray, Caray!

 We open on a repeat of Pedro's grand revelation to Sara that her father not is THEIR father Sevaranio Del Monte. He’s referring to her real father, Dante!! Cara de Impactada for Sara.

Elsewhere Rosa is reacting to Deb’s grand revelation at her wedding by screaming ‘Deborah’ about the way you would scream ‘Viper’! She gets all in her face. Prospi briefly tries to restrain her but then lets her go for Deb, as he instead turns his attention to the letters now on the floor. Adela takes Prospi's position trying to hold Rosa back but Rosa is almost immediately distracted anyway when she noticed Prospi go for the letters, she begs Prospi not to read the letters. Deb is much more interested in watching the fall out than she is in fighting with Rosa. Rosa insists the letters are lies but Prospi reads them anyway. The smile on Prospi face looks a little sinister…. but then maybe he’s just shocked and trying not to cry.

Sara thinks Pedro is making up lies to hurt her since she rejected him. Pedro asks if she really thinks she’s that important to him and she says yes and it’s sad he would stoop that low.  Pedro accuses Sara of being in on the scheme with Deb and Dante and coming to Santa Catalina to make idiots out of all of them to steal their inheritance. They trade insults and accusations and somehow even now, Sara jumps to the defense of dear ol' mom when Pedro basically calls her a whore. Pedro tells Sara to go ahead and ask dear mommy what the truth is, if she doesn’t believe him. You know since she can’t ask either potential father as one is deceased and the other is missing.

Propsi really is crying now saying he always believed that he was the love of Rosa’s life (I seem to remember weeks of just the opposite – Prospi begging for affection and saying multiple times they might as well divorce since Rosa doesn’t truly love him) Rosa insists Prospi is the love of her life and the letters are lies. Sal tries to calm Prospi but he screams he won’t be calmed down and then quickly changes his mind and leaves crying out that he’s an idiot. Rosa starts to go after him and Juli stuffs letters in her purse before stopping Rosa to demand to know if it’s true, were Rosa and Sev lovers? Rosa looks at Juli for a moment and then just goes to pick up the letters. She gathers them gingerly as she begins crying harder and harder and ultimately ends up lying on the floor clutching letters and bawling. (Question for viewerville: Does Juli get her crazy from Prospi or Rosa? I am starting to believe it’s both…) As this is happening, we see Lucas comforting Alondra and Brayan comforting Jess. Juli is all alone and I can’t help but wonder if this wedding disaster will awaken the sleeping crazy within Miss Juli.

Sara is trying to ignore Pedro and just walk away, but he’s not having it. He demands she confront Deb and learn the truth. Sara keeps saying Pedro is lying but she looks like she has her doubts. Pedro says the DNA test Deb gave them all when she and Sara arrived was false, Sara doesn’t believe him. She calls him crazy and he says he’s crazy with anger and resentment because Sara and her mother came here under false pretenses. He tells her to leave now and never come back. Leave Juan and get rid of the bastard she carries in her belly. Sara says that’s never going to happen and if Pedro doesn’t want to see her, he better leave himself. Pedro chillingly informs Sara that if she doesn’t leave, he will kill her, Juan, and all his brothers!!! Tadeo is going to be the ONLY heir of Del Monte! (Note to Simon, Mateo, Lucas and Juan – any and all future children you may have are in danger!!) Sara looks like she might be starting to understand just how crazy Pedro is! She finally does leave.

Juan and Mateo are in the living room reacting to their own discovered revelation that Pedro and Dante may have been accomplices of Henry. Juan is clinging to what’s left of his denial and insisting they can’t rush to judgment. Mateo thinks that Juan is having a hard time with this because Pedro is his brother by blood and that’s a much bigger responsibility than he has to the rest of them. Juan says to never say that again. He feels the same responsibility to all of them equally. Mateo asks, if Pedro is responsible for the disappearance of Dante, are you going to report him? Juan answers that their dad knew Pedro was responsible for the fraud at the company and didn’t report him, should Juan act differently than their father??? (Big ol’ resounding YES!!!! Your father was a sentimental idiot) Mateo is getting smarter everyday and he warns Juan that it seems like Pedro stopped seeing them all as brothers awhile ago, all he cares about now is himself and Tadeo. (I’d argue himself and the reflection of himself he sees in Tadeo) Juan wonders what kind of person reports his own family and Mateo says he doesn’t know but the more he thinks about it the more sure he is that Pedro was in cahoots with Juli to lie about the baby's paternity!

Sara is walking away – walking when she should be running – rubbing her belly and remembering Pedro’s words; trying desperately to convince herself Pedro is lying. She remembers her father/daughter moment with Dante and it looks like her grip on denial is tentative at best. She can’t believe her mother would do something like this and why didn’t Dante tell her? Please let it be a lie!

Juan and Mateo take their discussion into the study and Juan says he figured Juli had help but he doesn’t have anything to prove who helped her. Mateo says everything points to Pedro even if they can’t prove it right now. Their brother is definitely not the same. Speaking of the ghoul, he appears and you have to wonder if he heard Mateo’s comment. Juan asks what Pedro needs but Pedro reads the room and says what he wanted can wait. He asks if Mateo was planning to go to Adela’s wedding and he says he’s on his way. Juan asks if Pedro saw the news about Dante, Pedro says no. Not a peep, btw, they should fire him for disappearing! He’s useless! He left Pedro high and dry with Tadeo’s custody issue! Juan wants to know when the last time Pedro saw Dante was.

Sal and Modesto are discussing what happened to poor Prospi and how the same thing happened to Sal years ago. Sal tells his brother there’s something he never told him and that has always remained a doubt in his mind. He tells him that Sev once told him that Paloma was Sev’s daughter!!! Modesto immediately tells his brother that Paloma is his and he should never doubt it!! We see a flashback to Sev and Modesto in the camp. Modesto is concerned because Irma continues to visit Sev and Sev tells Modesto that he had already ended things with Irma as he already told Modesto. He agrees that he will have a talk with Irma about coming around. Modesto is back in present day and he tells Sal that Sev’s sins haunted him and he was never able to let them go and live in peace; Sal still can though! He should drop all this rancor and enjoy what’s left of his life! Sal nods in agreement.

Pedro says the last time he saw Dante was when detective Mateo outted Julieta at her baby shower. Mateo tells him to be serious and Juan says Dante never would have disappeared like this. He doesn’t think it’s a kidnapping either since no ransom has been requested. Pedro suggests it could be pay back. Dante used to do all daddy’s dirty work (I want to know just what kind of dirty work daddy had done) and it wouldn’t be surprising if someone fought back. Juan questions whether it was just dad’s dirty work, Dante hasn’t done anything for Pedro? Pedro’s shrugs and says he doubts Tadeo’s custody battle led to Dante’s death. Mateo can’t believe Pedro can speak so casually about the possibility of Dante’s death since he was more than their lawyer, he was part of the family! Pedro says he was too close to the family for his taste. Juan thinks Pedro should be more worried about Dante, unless of course, he knows something? Pedro asks what Juan’s problem with him is. He says he feels more and more alone in this house every day, like a pest or as if he did something horrible. He tells him to speak up and Juan agrees to be direct and asks Pedro if he helped Juli fake the DNA test result. Pedro pauses and then attacks Mateo for putting ideas into HIS brother’s head. Mateo retorts that Pedro is guilty, he helped Juli. Pedro asks if Juan is going to believe Mateo and Juan tells him that they’ve discovered too many of Pedro’s lies, he’s lost his credibility. Juan wants to know what happened to their bond as brothers – the five of them. Pedro plays the victim card saying he can’t believe his brothers think so badly of him. He picked Mateo up off the ground when he was drunk is this how he repays him? Mateo asks Pedro how is he repaying them? Pedro looks directly at Juan and tells him he can go ahead and believe everyone over him, he doesn’t care anymore; but he tells his brother that he is breaking the promise he made to him as kids! He warns him not to coming crying to him about it later. Mateo apologizes to Juan for fighting but says Pedro leaves him no choice. Juan says this is getting out of control and he worries about how it will end.

Sara is now alone in her apartment wondering how she could be so stupid to not know Dante is her father. Juan calls and Sara lies and says she is perfectly fine but she needs to resolve something at home. She doesn’t tell him what. Juan tells her things aren’t great there either and he had a big fight with Pedro but he doesn't want to talk about it right now. He just needed to hear Sara’s voice, he needs her by his side. They trade ‘I love yous’ and agree to see each other later that night.

Juan goes to talk to Pedro and he’s having a pity party. He says sometimes he thinks he should just shoot himself in head because everyone would be so much better off without him (Truer words have never been spoken by Pedro!) Juan tells him to not even joke about that! Pedro may not believe it but he and his brothers love him very much and they couldn’t stand it if something happened to him. Juan asks why Pedro has pulled away from his brothers but Pedro doesn’t answer. Juan asks if Pedro really wants Juan to just leave him alone. He says sometimes he feels like Pedro wishes he was dead. Pedro says yes, that’s true! Because Juan is supposed to protect him from everything, above and beyond their other brothers and he doesn’t! His mother comes and tortures him and he doesn’t stop her!! Juan doesn’t know what Pedro is talking about and Pedro says Aurora is driving him crazy, she won’t let him alone and she torments his thoughts. He begs his brother not to let her, to make her stop!

Prospi is packing up to leave and Rosa is trying to get him to stay any way she can, including demanding he forgive her using the logic that if she forgave him his infidelity then he should forgive hers. She says it’s unfair how men or expected to be forgiven of their infidelities while women are held unforgiven. Prospi takes exception to the whole man vs woman thing especially since Rosa has emasculated him their whole marriage. He lays into her for manipulating him throughout their whole marriage and says that he put up with it because he loved her but her deception is different than his because she’s lied to him their whole marriage. Prospi says the worst part is that he still loves her but he just can’t take anymore. Rosa asks how it’s possible that he would throw away all their years of marriage? Isn’t he capable of forgiving the woman he claims to love, and Prospi looks truly disgusted that she’s still trying to manipulate her even now.

Juan comes downstairs just as Simon, Paloma, Mateo and Lucas are arriving home, he’s surprised the wedding is over so soon and Lucas gives him the news that Deb ruined the big day by revealing Rosa was another one of daddy’s dalliances! Lucas actually sounds amused as he informs his brother that there are love letters and everything. Dad sure was a piece of work. Juan worries about Simon and how he’s taking the news and Simon says this has hurt them all in the past and continues to hurt (and he sounds hurt as he almost cries) in present. Juan and Lucas both chime in and tell Simon that they can’t even imagine how hard it was for him to keep these types of secrets in the past and Lucas admits that even though they judged him in the past he probably would have reacted the same in Simon’s shoes. Paloma says she’s noticed that he isn’t so intensely affected and she wonders what’s changed. Simon says he finally understands that his father paid for all the damage he caused while he was alive and in some ways, he feels liberated by the revelation (???) Lucas pats Simon’s knee and Juan pats his face, Simon gives a little half-smile….this whole scene feels a little strange.

Juli now alone in her room digs mama’s letters out of her purse and gets to reading. She crumples each as she reads but the third envelop, she comes to looks less like a love letter and more like an official medical letter and has the letter head of a lab; (Who's Juli's daddy?) also notable, Rosa has said all along they were her letters TO Sev and he never saw them but at least one of the letters Juli read was addressed TO Rosa not from her. The look on Juli’s face grows quite serious as she reads... and viewerville can’t help but wonder if the crazy is going to stay tranquilized or if it’s about to come roaring back in full force!

Deb comes back to the apartment and is surprised Sara wanted to meet her there. She starts in with all her sarcasm, saying Sara should be at Santa Catalina enjoying a romantic horseback ride with her beloved! She quickly realizes Sara is not okay though and goes from sardonic to concerned mother in about three seconds. She guesses several possible things that could be wrong but is unprepared for the question that finally comes out of Sara’s mouth. ‘Is it true that I’m not the daughter of Severiano DelMonte?’ (Deb looks more wicked than ever in today’s makeup)

More of Rosa trying to stop Prospi from leaving, and now they in the entryway and Berta, Jessica and Alondra are there as well. Rosa once again tries to say they both made mistakes. Her mistakes drove Prospi into the arms of Deb and Prospi’s mistakes drove her to Sev!!! (Really? That’s the argument you go with to win back your husband?) For some idiotic reason she thinks it will help her case by explaining that she was vulnerable to Sev because she thought she needed a real man! You know a real Alpha Man who knew how to give his own opinion and didn’t just defer to her – even strong women need to be protected from time to time! Alondra knows this is stupid and she tries to warn Mommy to shut up and stop making things worse, but Rosa doesn’t listen. Prospi tells her he can be strong and decisive and he’ll prove it; he declares he never wants to see her again! He tries to walk away again but Rosa again clings, begging him to forgive her and begging him to stay. She says she thought that she was in love with Sev but she knows now it was illusion and ever since the day at the hacienda when Prospi protected her she’s realized HE is the love of her life (it only took how many decades of marriage for her to come to this conclusion?) Prospi doesn’t believe her, he thinks he now understands why Rosa cried so much when Sev died, she was still in love with him!!! He is determined to leave and the girls are crying in each other’s arms and I can’t believe I am going to type this but I think Prospi SHOULD forgive Rosa!!!! Not because she deserves it but just because these two are made for each other in some weird way.

Big Surprise Alert – Deb denies the truth and insists to Sara that Sev is indeed her father! Sara doesn’t believe her for a second and tells her to stop lying. Pedro told her that her real father is Dante. How can she do this to her own daughter? Deb immediately claims Pedro is a bastard and a liar – which is true enough to be fair. Sara asks mom to please, just have the decency to be honest with her for once in her life! Deb doubles down. Sara tells her she is the worst mother in the world. She lied to her for her entire life and now she’s brought her into the Del Monte’s life to fight for an inheritance that doesn’t belong to her.  Mama has manipulated her for her entire life but it’s over now, all Sara wants is for mom to just go ahead and admit what Pedro said was true and finish ruining her life once and for all! Deb finally nods, it's the truth.

Prospi says he can’t stay because he won’t live his life being compared to her great love Severiano DelMonte. Rosa says Prospi is the love of her life. We see Juli descending the staircase and her sisters are quick to beg her to say something to help, but Juli says Prospi should go ahead and leave! He has no right to reproach her mother just like mom had no right to reproach him for Deborah!!! They are both the same and made for each other – hey I said the same thing but I didn’t have that cold-hearted bitch tone in my voice when I said it…

Now that Deb has finally come clean, Sara starts listing off the damage Deb has done with her lies, making her believe the wrong man was her father her whole life, lying to Sev, keeping her from Dante, etc. Has mom forgotten that Sara almost died while fighting for that inheritance? Deb tries to insist she did it for Sara’s own good but Sara says no way, you did it for your ambition!!! Sara lets her know that Pedro threatened her and her child because of mom’s stupid lie! Pedro thinks Sara is complicit in the lie! Deb tries to start in on the 'damn that Pedro' line, but Sara says it’s consequences of Deb’s lie. She wants her out of her apartment!

Lucas and Mateo catch up to Simon outside in the courtyard. They didn’t want to say anything in front of Juan because he has enough problems but they want to know something; awhile ago Simon said Dad paid in life for what he did, what  did he mean by that? Did something else happen during the accident? Is there something Simon would like to tell them? Simon says no, he’s not hiding anything – he walks off. Lucas starts to go after him but Mateo stops him. He says Simon is obviously hiding something he’s not yet ready to talk about. Lucas utters the famous ‘We have to tell Juan’ line, but Mateo doesn’t think so. Simon would never do anything to hurt their dad. He’s probably hiding that they were fighting or something like that not some deep dark deed; they should just let it go and stop tormenting themselves. Lucas agrees.

Juan is studying some report and looking worried, he makes a call and asks someone to verify that a transaction is closed. He looks to the photo of daddy and says how difficult it is to protect the family and more so when you have to protect them from themselves!  I really hope he isn’t doing something stupid to continue protecting Pedro! He flashes back on Pedro talking about Aurora torturing him and Juan not protecting him from her.

Deb tries to play the pity card with Sara begging her not to kick her out because she has nowhere to go. Sara isn’t buying it this time, mom can find a place and she knows it. Sara asks again about the child support and whether mom has all that money stashed away and Deb still insists Sev never gave her child support. She tries to blame Dante and say he forced her to go along with his plan and that Dante himself had the money but Sara doesn’t believe her. Where was the money when they almost lost the apartment? Sara is going out and when she comes back, she wants Deb gone!!! Deb cannot move her this time with her tears and begging. And you know what hurts the most, more than all the manipulations? The fact that Deb has always cared more about money than she did about Sara. When all else fails Deb tries the ‘you should be grateful because you met the love of your life thanks to my lie’ approach but Sara tells her she’s about to lose all her happiness thanks to that same lie!! Sara walks out.

Juan walks the now cleaned out torture chamber and remembers how he and Pedro found it as children and how cool Pedro thought it was because it looked like a torture chamber! Pedro jumped up and down with glee wanting to play Pedro the Torturer!!! He remembers Pedro grabbing and choking Aurora when he saw her in the study and swearing, he’d kill her and he remembers a couple of Pedro’s other lies and confrontations. (Why are there candles in that empty room?)

Juli is once again looking at the letters pilfered from Rosa and as she looks in the mirror she says ‘This changes everything!’ She stuffs the papers back in the envelope.

Juan is still studying the empty chamber when he gets a voice message from Sara saying she isn’t coming to see him that night because she isn’t feeling well. Nothing serious but she’s tired and needs to rest. She will see him tomorrow at the office. (Good call since Pedro threatened to kill her, all his brothers and her baby if she came back to Santa Catalina)

Rosa, now alone in her room, thinks back on her fight with Prospi. She stares at her marriage bed and goes to lie down. She thinks back to some of the many times she mistreated and rejected Prospi and she cries in regret. She goes back to the mirror. She doesn’t know when she turned into that woman, the one who despised her own husband but she wants to change!! She loves Prospi! She cries that her whole life is a lie and to demonstrate that, she REMOVES HER BLONDE WIG!!! As she continues crying, we see Rosa’s true hair is short and brown.

Juan is alone in his room saying he needs to know Sara is okay when there’s a knock. It turns out Sara isn’t smart enough to stay away from Santa Catalina after all. She’s there to be comforted by her man! She doesn’t tell him what’s wrong though just that she needed to see him.

Deb is moving into a hotel room it looks like, Dante’s old room?? She is also crying and remembering the loving mother-daughter times with Sara. I hate you! She declares out loud, I hate you Pedro Del Monte!!! You hit me where it most hurt but the same way you took Sara from me, I am going to take Tadeo from you!

Sara talks to her belly saying the baby is her strength and she is going to fight for her! Juan comes back with safe-to-drink tea and asks what’s wrong. Sara says she feels so alone. Juan says she has him and all their brothers (if only he knew how comforting this is NOT in this moment) and they will always support her. Sara says it’s probably just the pregnancy hormones. She doesn’t want to talk more about it now. She needs to rest. Juan agrees they can just go to bed.

The next morning, Bea is actually having tea with Corni and she’s letting him take Tadeo to school. Corni wants to spend more time with Tadeo because he is afraid, he is starting to grow cold toward him. Bea says not to worry because Tadeo loves him. Corni mentions the wedding but the subject lands like a rock since Corni mentions he lived the same as Prospi and Bea says now everyone will start to judge Rosa as it’s always the woman’s fault. Tadeo rushes down and is not happy to see Corni, neither is he interested in his greeting. Corni is not his father, Pedro is, and now that Tadeo sees Corni and Bea have reconciled he is going to tell his daddy! Both Tadeo and Bea tell him no, not to say that; but Tadeo says yes, he will tell! Because he doesn’t want to live with Corni or with Bea! He wants to live with his father, Pedro!!!

Juan enters the office and says good morning to Sara. Apparently, she got up and left so early Juan didn’t even hear her leave. Juan gives her a kiss but Sara is cold and doesn’t reciprocate. Juan asks what’s wrong and Sara says she thinks the answer is now no. Juan looking absolutely stunned says no, what? And Sara responds that she doesn’t think she wants to return to the company or to Santa Catalina!!

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