Caray, Caray!

Paz snaps, slapping Humberto and shouting about no means no and you can't go around kissing ladies without their permission. He takes it well, apologizing immediately and promising to hereafter hang his hat firmly in the friend zone. The contrast between his gentlemanly sincerity and the memory of Esteban banging Fermin's head on the table like an underperforming bowling ball gives one pause, but everyone knows you can't choose your soulmate -- that's the scriptwriters' job! -- and hell, we're all under a lot of stress.

Before Bosco can act on his decision to proceed against Gio, Castro arrives with a couple of flunkies to arrest him. (How did she beat him to it? Doesn't Ginebra still have her by the cheeks?) It's a good thing the Only Police Station in Mexico City is so close to Esteban's house. Or maybe they moved it there, since that's where all the action is.  

Up on the roof, Gala tells Salo she and Jero are kaputski. He gleefully takes this opportunity to declare his love in the most loving, caring, supportive, patient, non-Jero way possible. She reciprocates. Kiss-kiss, cue the bubble-gum song. 

Down in the kitchen, Paz shows Humberto a recipe book she's been compiling for the past six years in the hopes that she would one day be able to prepare every one of those dishes for her daughter. But of course Max is on a hunger strike, so forget that. Cut to Sam and Monito folding laundry in their room like the cute little couple they are. Sam confides that she misses Paz's cooking something awful, and Monito chimes in that Ginebra's pancakes are like car tires. Sad/funny/ironic: take your pick.

In the police station, Castro presents the results of the analysis showing that they found Bosco's...eeeuw, do I have to? Can I just say "evidence that he was very close to Giovanna"? Ugh. Now I have to go spray myself with antiseptic.

Paz tries to feed Max again, but she's not having it. When Paz takes her arm to try to comfort her, she freaks and goes upside her head like a mockingbird on a crow. When Lupe breaks up the fight, Max throws more dishes on the floor and runs to the window screaming that she's been kidnapped, which can't do much for Paz's reputation. 

Lupe tells Paz she needs to "set limits." (Really, Lupe? You mean like, "No, your scruffy ex-husband can't live on the roof," or "Please stop smooching that guy who put the whole family in jail"?) She suggests that Paz tire the kid out with a long walk to the mothers' group. This sounds like the worst idea ever, and it has a LOT of competition. 

The amazingly svelte Gema shows up at Casa Roble with Jero just as our happy couple are descending from the roof. Jero refuses to believe Gala is really breaking up with him until she whips out her phone and announces it on livestream. 

Some time later, presumably, because they can't all have been on the spiral staircase at the same time, Mireya and Nandi are hanging laundry on the roof when Kenzo shows up in the street with mike and karaoke machine for a performative apology. He can't sing his way out of a wet paper bag, but Nandi is charmed. (I guess this is the comic relief we've been needing so badly, but in the current climate it's not going to get us far.) He also gives her a magatama, which is a Japanese curved stone. Oh, I'm not going NEAR that one, bebe.

Esteban invites Humberto into his office and finally, finally, FINALLY flexes his executive multitasking muscles by verbally "discussing Bosco's case" while simultaneously writing beautiful and succinct notes conveying that he is being threatened, extorted, and constantly monitored by Ginebra. Hum signals that he gets the message by suggesting they go get something to eat and launches into a long list of vegetables that's apparently some kind of secret code for "let's bury our cellphones under a pile of papers and go hide in the storeroom." 

Amazingly, it works! It seems Mauro can't monitor them in there, which makes zero sense since he's literally just down the hall, but let's roll with it. Esteban spills his guts, including that he suspects Gin of murdering Berenice, but Hum is having a hard time taking it all in. Esteban even says he has tried everything to figure out how she is spying on him, including undergoing a full set of x-rays, but no one can find anything. (How will they ever get to the bottom of it? Put him next to a giant magnet?)  

Gin, backed up by Elvira, tries to convince Bosco to let her spirit him out of the country until things calm down, but he points out that was the one thing the police specifically told him NOT to do. It's a sad state of affairs when Bosco is the most sensible person in the room. 

Jero and Gio are having an evil confab when Sandro pops in with the news that Salo is there -- and demands a cash payoff from his brother to keep quiet about the fact that he has a girl in his room. Gio hides in the bathroom while Salo threatens Jero nine ways from Sunday. He says he doesn't want to fix his face in front of the little guy, but Sandro eagerly pipes up that he wants to watch the fight. (It's hard to think up an appropriate Karmageddon for this little creep. We can't just kill him off like an irredeemable adult. While it would be satisfying to see him reunited with his birth parents in some cold-water flat with nowhere to shop, that would be a terrible thing to do to the parents. Do they have manicomios for feral children?) 

Special section: Ubiquitous Fobo 

* First he tries to calm Elvira down by hand-holding her through some deep breathing exercises. Hopefully this won't lead to another "yoga position" that they have to explain to Eder.

* Then he gets buttonholed by Gin, who says she knows about his "relationship" with her mother and warns that he'd better not break her heart. Has she been reading a training manual about how normal people act? 

* Finally, he takes Bosco to see Pepa, who listens intently to his new friend with sad puppy-dog eyes. It's hard to ignore that Pepa is much prettier than Gio no matter which side you bat on.

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