Caray, Caray!

“Who wants to die first?” Pedro asks.

He explains to Sara how he killed her father, Dante, and how he killed his mother, Aurora. Then he goes to Julieta, who isn’t feeling well and has her eyes half closed, and reminisces about torturing Bryan and provoking Don Augustin’s heart attack.

At the ranch, Juan thinks they are the only ones who can stop Pedro, even as Lucas and Mateo insist they need to call the cops again. Juan is afraid Pedro will kill both women if he realizes he is cornered.

Pedro decides that Sara can chose where she wants to die. How kind of him. San Juan can’t save them now. Sara asks Pedro to let Julieta go, she is sick and she never did anything against him. When Pedro allows Julieta to talk, she screams for help and he says she broke the rules, so now she has to die. Sara continues trying to divert Pedro’s attention from Julieta, she is the one he should go against, since she is the one who rejected him. Pedro says OK, he will listen to her … and grabs Sara, pointing the gun at her. “Aurora” shows up, encouraging Pedro to kill both women, and he gets restless, just in time for Deb to arrive, holding a gun with one hand and Tadeo’s hand with the other (I hope that Tadeo doesn’t believe in reincarnation, because if the kid lives through all of this, he will have nightmares in this life and the next).

Deb urges Pedro to drop the gun, pointing her weapon at Tadeo’s head… Pedro directs his gun towards Deb now, it’s quite the Mexican standoff (you called it, Doris!). Sara takes advantage of Pedro’s lack of attention to grab a big log conveniently placed behind the hay stacks and kicks Pedro in the back (“In the head”! the Patio screams, almost at the same time as Tadeo yells to warn Pedro). Sara manages to hit Pedro twice, he falls to the ground, so she and Julieta grab Tadeo and leave, soon followed by Deb. Pedro stands and runs after them.

Outside they meet the brothers, Pedro is now pointing the gun at everyone. Julieta almost faints in Mateo’s arms, Pedro mocks them a bit, just for fun. Juan starts begging Pedro to stop, trying to remind him of the happy moments they all lived together. Simon mentions Tadeo, everyone begs Pedro to stop, but all that Pedro can see is Aurora’s ghost looking at him. Juan asks him to let the others go, since this is between the two of them. He tries to make his brother remember not only their dark past, but also the life they had with Catalina and Severiano. Pedro thinks he plans to manipulate him, they all hate him, all he has to do is decide who to start with… maybe Lucas? And he shoots his younger brother in the shoulder! Deb screams Pedro’s name and shoots, too, hitting him straight in the heart (if he actually had one). But Pedro doesn’t seem too bothered, he keeps shooting towards the others and sees Aurora call for him to follow her where everything started. He seems to listen because he leaves running.

Lucas looks really bad and Julieta has fainted, so in this chaos Deb is left to comfort Tadeo (!!). The boy is sad because Pedro left without him, Deb says that is the best thing that could have happened to him (no arguments there). Looking over at Sara one last time she says to herself that “These are her brothers, I can no longer deny it” and then leaves for good.

The Millan family arrive for Julieta, who is now awake. Alondra is with Lucas who feels awfully bad, Bea and Cornelio grab Tadeo.

Pedro is back to “where it all started”. His gun wound is starting to get the best of him, he holds his hand to his chest, but he can still see his mother torment him, this time mocking the fact that he couldn’t kill the women. He asks why the torture and lack of love, Aurora says they deserved it for always being in her way. But she loves and hates him just like she does herself, so he has to come with her, not allow the others to trap him and jail him. She shows him the table, Pedro walks over, drops the gun, finds the rat poison…

There is an ambulance for Lucas, who talks as if he were at death’s door. Julieta is taken, too, not before Sara can give her a big hug. The cops arrive and Rosa urges them to go after Pedro and Deborah. Mateo encourages Juli to get well, fight for their baby. She says she wants to live, he says he will give her all his strength, he will fight with her.

For a ghost, Aurora is very realistic, she even manages to powder the bread with rat poison, encouraging Pedro to have a bite, he must be hungry. As Pedro start eating, we can actually see that he’s alone. He grabs his chest tighter, starts screeching, foaming at the mouth… avert your eyes if you don’t want to have nightmares.

As I wonder if the poison or the gun will kill him first, Juan arrives and sees the bread and his brother convulsing on the floor. Pedro says he came back to their home, because this is the place where they were so close, does his brother still love him? Juan wants to call an ambulance, can’t understand why Pedro poisoned himself. Flashback to them as kids and grownups, Juan says he loves him… but Pedro can still see Aurora, asks Juan not to allow her to take him. He asks Juan to forgive him, assures him that he always protected him just like he’d promised, if he were to be born again, he’d ask God to be his brother again. He tells Juan that he loves him, Juan says that he forgives him… Aurora calls for Pedro and he just dies… Nothing worse than to know what awaits you on the other side! Juan screams in pain.

Tadeo is with Bea and Cornelio, all of a sudden realizing that he didn’t know what he was doing before, thinking that papa Pedro was a good guy. The kid sure snapped out of it fast!

19 minutes in and three months later…

The brothers, Sara, Paloma and Julieta are all together in the living room, looking at a new portrait of themselves (sans Paloma, and at first I don’t get it, but then I realize this is supposed to be a picture of all the Del Monte siblings, bio or not). They talk about Pedro, they all miss him and wish that things could have ended up differently. Lucas forgives him (for a moment I even forgot that Pedro shot him, with everything else that he’s done, this seems like no biggie), everyone else has a few words to say about him, almost like a wake. They all look bereaved, especially Juan, they all hope Pedro could find his peace. And Juan adds they should start a new life now, forget about the past.

And then it’s a new day… the brothers and Sara arrive at Avocados RUS, smiling and saying hello to everyone (reminiscent of that first episode). A heavily pregnant Julieta (and presumably still dying, but looking like the picture of health) hands Sara some documents. Mateo comes to give her a kiss, Juli has a gift for Mateo, too, a pair of baby shoes with blue ribbons – it’s a boy! Juan and Sara have some news, too, so they call for all the employees’ attention: everyone is invited to their wedding! Kiss, kiss and Sara jumps on Juan, while everybody claps and laugh and laughs and claps! Pretty inappropriate for a work place, but these people have already seen and heard so much, this doesn’t even make them blink.

And then it’s wedding day time, Sara is in a white carriage going towards the church, while Juan waits for her, with Modesto and a very pretty Bertha by his side. Sara is followed by a huge crowd of people calling her name and the brothers greet her, while Juan is ushered inside, he can’t see the bride. Lucas, Mateo and Simon help her get off the carriage and take her towards the altar. Everyone is still clapping as Sara approaches Juan (we get a glimpse of Prospi and Rosa together, as in back together and a smiling, carafree Tadeo with his parents, who are probably just parenting together, but who knows).

The priest (where was he when things were going crazy??) starts his service. Mateo and Julieta have the rings. Juan and Sara say their vows, promise to love one another, Lucas and Alondra arrive with the coins (arras de boda), more vows, Paloma and Simon place the lazo de matrimonio, even more vows and then the priest declares them marido and mujer. “Beso, beso!” yell the people in church, while Bea sings “Ave Maria!” Rosa holds on to Prospi for dear life (he doesn’t look all that happy in my opinion), Alondra and Lucas are together, so are Jessica and Bryan and Modesto and Bertha. And a lot more kissing! Geez, you’re in church!

Fireworks as Sara and Juan get out of the church and kiss one more time in front of everyone. Then it’s picture time and everyone dances and sings in front of the church (and I bet this is the real life wrap party).

But we’re not done yet!

At night, Sara and Juan arrive in their room, open a bottle of champagne and I only now notice Sara’s dress which is very nice and appropriate looking (considering how they dressed her so far, I’m shocked that her belly and most of her chest are covered). And then it’s time to get busy and we can definitely see some tongue and whatnot…

Some time later… Mateo and Mateito are together by Julieta’s tomb (!!) and the change in mood is chilling. Flashback to Julieta’s death bed: Sara is there (instead of her sisters!), Rosa (“Thank you her for giving me life” Juli says), Prospi (“Thanks you for being my dad”). Then Mateo arrives with the tiny baby and Julieta gets to kiss him and asks Mateo to take care of him (and as much as I hated Julieta through it all, this moment makes me shed a tear). She kisses her baby one more time and then she dies… Back to the present we notice Julieta’s tomb, her huge picture and the fact that she never took the Del Monte name. Mateo promises never to forgive her and to take care of their baby while she watches them over from the sky. Quick voice over from Sara talking about enjoying life…

Then the fun part of this finale begins:

… with a voice over from dearly departed Pedro, who did take one last secret to the tomb with him: he was the one who tampered with the breaks of the car that killed Severiano del Monte.

Another flashback, this time with Rosa saying how she was the one who tried to poison Deborah… she only did it to save her family. She and Propsi have left town, they are somewhere in the world, happy and in love.

And Deb… or Senora Catia, how she calls herself now, is trying to pay for a hotel room, but her card is not working. Enter a man, a new sugar daddy surely, and the guy offers to pay for her, while Juan speaks about evil and how sooner or later everyone pays for their bad deeds (everyone but Deb, apparently).

And let’s not forget Simon, who is still a tormented soul, still remembering the day he failed to save his father… we actually see how he took Sev out of the car, looked at his phone and put it back in his jacket as Sev asked for his forgiveness and said that he loved him. And Simon’s voice over says that this will be the most painful secret that he will ever have to carry, but I don’t get it, since he already told everyone the truth and we haven’t seen anything different in this last flashback. Paloma arrives to help him up and Simon apologizes for all the harm he’s ever done to her. Paloma promises to always be by his side and Simon swears to be the best man for her, because he loves her.

Lucas and Alondra are happy to find out their kinesiotherapy project has been approved, but they will have to move to Monterey, away from the Del Monte brothers, for work. No worries, at least they will be together.

Several months later… Sara is pregnant, she and Juan walk around the ranch, Juan talks to the new baby, Sara tells him his mom Catalina came to her in the hospital and assured her that she will be a mom one day. They kiss, and then Simon and Paloma arrive (she is pregnant, too), then Lucas and Alondra and Mateo with his baby. We understand they are all dressed up because it’s Mateito’s baptism’s today. Juan remembers Severiano and Pedro (another flashback to the Del Monte men, the dead and the alive ones, bonding).

And then we are back to the present and several voice overs about brotherly love, love for one’s land, someone’s true legacy being love and … POR FIN!

That’s all she wrote!

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