Caray, Caray!

Casucha Roble

Paz and Esteban spend the rest of their time on the roof making decisions for other people. Pepa will tutor Bosco in math, whether either of them likes it or  not. (Better lock up the swords!) Gala and Salo will be watched with a jaundiced eye. And meanwhile, Lupita will sub in the Villa de Cortes kitchen so Paz can concentrate on her side-gig of hiding little girls in the bathroom. 

After Esteban rounds up his kids and leaves, Paz follows up with Fermin, who offers her a packet of cash. She accepts on the grounds that she now has another mouth to feed and...upsi! Now she has to fess up that she has Luna. Cara impactada de Fermin, who asks to meet her. "Why??" a baffled Paz asks. Quickly recovering his composure, he growls, "Because I'm your accomplice, that's why." But he loses his cool again when he sees her, going into a dreamy fugue state and stroking her squeaky-clean cheek. 

Paz makes Luna a happy meal shaped like a mermaid or a princess or a shepherdess or something. Luna says it's the best meal she's ever had in her life, or at least she thinks so; she doesn't actually remember. Jaja! Amnesia humor. 

Mansion Nicoliti

Rubio turns up unannounced, greatly displeasing Mommy Dearest. He tells her he has other bosses; what is he supposed to tell them? You work it out, she says; you only have one boss now. 

Mauro hands him a burner phone and he seems very impressed. I guess his other jobs didn't come with office supplies. He grins and asks what they want him to do next. 

Empresa No Se Que

Esteban is all set up for the Press Conference That Explains Everything. But before he has a chance to speak, the screen is taken over by a larger-than-life Berenice hurling further accusations. There is a medium amount of chaos and it's hard to hear what she's saying, but she ends with, "If I or my children die, it is Esteban's fault." (Yikes! Are the kids on Gin's hit list, too? Can we tell her which one to start with?)

The network is jammed, so Kenzo hits the breaker and cuts off power to the conference room. As the party breaks up, we see Rubio in a baseball cap standing behind one of the press cameras. Esteban notices him, too, which is hardly surprising. Dude couldn't stand out more if he was wearing a tankini.

As the family is hustled out to their waiting car, aggressive randos pelt Esteban with questions, accusations, a cup of fake blood and a big rock. Journalism sure isn't what it used to be. Hopefully everyone is so distracted they don't think to photograph Gala in those hideous plaid shorts. 

Villa Villa de Cortes

Everyone is gathered around the cop with the floofy hair as he desperately tries to trace the origin of the ersatz videos. The GPS zeroes in on Mexico City -- well, that sure narrows it down -- and we cut to Mauro, tapping madly away at his laptop. Suddenly warning messages start popping up all over his screen. Oh noes! No puede ser! 

He leaps up and smashes his computer repeatedly on the stone floor, then grabs a piece of its guts and throws it into the microwave, where it bursts into flames. This scene is so peppy it should have been set to music. 

Back at the villa, everyone freaks out when they lose the signal. Officer Floofy says his experts will continue to work on the trace but informs Esteban that the last video was broadcast on a closed network, so it couldn't have been done remotely. Yes, the call was coming from inside the house. Will this be enough to make Esteban remember the ugly blond guy with Viking beard-doodles that no one has ever seen before? 

In the kitchen, Lupe prepares a mouth-watering spread while Elvira stands to the side hurling increasingly vicious insults. She calls Paz a tramp and worse, but Lupe gives as good as she gets. Finally Elvira loses it -- she goes for the right-hand slap, Lupe blocks her, and she comes around and connects with a left-hander. Round one to Elvira! Looks like no one's going to get to eat that food, either.

Back in the Barrio

Paz muffles Luna up in a cap and hoodie and takes her to the mercado to buy some cute outfits. Fermin spots them out in public and panics. He hustles them back to the house, where Luna lies down for a nap and Paz goes up on the roof and suggests Mireya put the moves on Mauro to get more intel. Que que que??? Is she really pimping out her sister to a guy who drowns people in mud? 

While all this is going on overhead, Luna starts awake from a nightmare about Monito and decides to go look for him herself. She picks up the dog-rabbit and manages to walk out of a house that contains nineteen people on a slow day and get halfway down the street without anyone noticing...because it's Telenovela Law.

In other news:

* Elvira invites Gin over for olives and afterward hands the spit-out pits to Fogo for a DNA test. Now that's dining with class.

* Paz admits to Nandy that she thinks Esteban is dishy, and they squeal like bobbysoxers at a slumber party.

* Who's the cowboy in the credits that comes between Paz and Esteban? Actually, I don't care who he is: will there be a horse? 

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