Caray, Caray!

The opening scene is a rewind on the Lupe-Mauro slap, which is fun, and then Porfirio throws him out on his can, which is even more fun. Gala sniffs and says that Gema didn't say anything important, but she's clearly feeling it.

Gin admits to Mauro that she's in love with Esteban, which has never happened to her before, and you can tell it's true because she's really honked off about it. He points out that there is no HEA here because Esteban can't stand her, but she says she'll have him one way or another. (Are we sure she's not related to Gema?)

In the courtroom, everyone's playing Fun With Perjury. Paz is just a poor, deluded grieving mother who sees her missing child everywhere; Fefe is a good-for-nothing debtor/wife-beater who threatened everyone into submission; the rest of the Robles are clueless rubes and nobody doesn't know nothin'. Castro is called upon to confirm a number of details and seems gratified someone is actually listening to him. The judge sends everyone back to jail so he can take a Xanax think.

Oh, and it turns out Mauro is a lawyer, in addition to being an HR professional, a tech whiz, and a crime boss. He probably dubs telenovelas out of Turkish in his spare time. 

Por takes Lupe back to Villa Villa, where the bad guests and the bad hostess spar as per usual and put everyone off their feed. In another room, Esteban, Humberto and Gala gasp as they watch Gin backhand Sam for asking her to sing the Paz song. They doubt it's enough to incriminate her, but at least they know the spybunny works. In the background, Por comments that smacking  your kids isn't so bad, which disgusts Gala. 

Elvira convenes a meek-looking Board of Directors to propose -- well, demand -- that they replace Esteban with Ginebra as general director. Esteban objects that she has no management experience, and Mauro assures everyone that she was deeply involved in all of Elias' companies; he just didn't want her name on anything because he was such a macho man. Well, that should settle it. Evidence is SO overrated. The Board adjourns to polish up their rubber stamps think.

(I'm surprised Gin didn't offer to job-share with Esteban, just to keep him close. If she can mix up hallucinogens, flesh-dissolving acid, and foamy death in her kitchen sink, surely she can come up with a love potion. Or at least something to immobilize him. Isn't that what love is?)

Salo buys a contraband phone from a tattoo contest finalist and surreptitiously phones Gala. She refuses to speak to him after "what he did" and hangs up. What? She believes GEMA??? She won't even give him a chance to explain? Bad fake girlfriend! No cookie!

Monito is taking his undercover assignment very seriously, wandering around the glass house fondling knickknacks and knocking on walls. Using his experience with secret chambers from his old burgling days, he finally presses the right panel and reveals the entrance to the piles o' cash room. He signals Sam to be the lookout while he punches in a long number he found etched on the bottom of some tacky quadruped statuette downstairs. Aaaand he's in! (The fact that he remembered the number after seeing it just once while Gin needed a physical reminder just shows who has the brains in this operation.) 

In Elvira's office, Ginebra pointedly asks her why she chose her for the new general director of the company. What's so special about her? Why does Elvira trust her so much? El finally comes clean: "Ginebra...I am your mother..." Gin rears back and rolls her eyes like a half-broke horse. Good thing she doesn't have a light sabre. 

In other news:

* Monito finds a locked box in the secret room and gets out his jimmy. Please tell me Gin doesn't keep...shudder...trophies. 

* The lady that hoards all the lipstick lets Paz and Mir into the kitchen, where they announce they're going to cook for everyone! (You can't keep these girls down!) The existing cook flounces off after warning them that it's pretty hard to make a gourmet meal without weaponizable knives, saucepans or hot oil. 

* Mauro drops in on Mir in the jailhouse speakeasy. Lather, rinse, repeat. Yaaaawn. 

* Kenzo is released, and Jero shows up at his door. Big hugs, somewhat dampened when Kenzo asks where Fil and Sandro are and Jero says, "They went shopping." 

* Esteban visits Paz to tell her he may have to seduce Ginebra. Paz is visibly upset but goes along with it. Any man who looks that miserable about getting into a lady's leathers probably isn't much of a flight risk anyway.

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