El Amor no Tiene Receta, Capítulo 73 - Viernes, 14 de junio, 2024 - "Everyone's in Malolandia"

Busy days, so here are the highlights:

Humberto, who also is a breaking-in mastermind except from a lawyer, hacker and computer expert and Fel put the plan of breaking into Ginebra's house in action. Two goats, using the Telenovela Teleportation Device are randomly (?) outside the house. Ginebra's guard goes to get them away, but Humb knocks him unconscious. The cameras have been disabled beforehand by him. He and Felipa enter the house, splitting ways to search more effectively. Hum finds a small box, in which he inputs the number 0708 (Ginebra's clue to Esteban) and gets a USB stick out. He shows Fel and they put everything back like it was. I mean... Gin is going to notice the knocked out, tied, gagged guard in the middle of living room, so she is going to search for the stolen anyway. But plan executed successfully. (Slightly OT, but I ate some chocolate yesterday and checked the expiration date and it was 07.08... No joking, I instantly thought of Gin. Geez, she has become a nightmare even to us!)

Salo gets pissed at Gema for working, she says she doesn't have a rich boyfriend to pay for her. Salo of course gets offended and tells her he wants a paternity test done on the baby. He says something about the test being ok after ten weeks and him not wanting to waste anymore time.

Mir tries to tell Lupe something, but Paz calls and tells them about Eder in Malolandia.

Eder is getting better. The Robles are in the house. Paz, Esteban, Sam, Monito, Gala and Bosco have put up their Eder in Malolandia show. Bosco is a wizard, Paz and Sam are fairies, Esteban is a king and Monito is a prince, while Gala is narrating. Wizard Bosco for some reason put his heart in some sort of stone and the whole kingdom became sad. King Esteban said that unfortunately the only remedy is to break the stone. Everyone goes all "¡no!" The Malolandia story is interactive; Eder is asked to identify the main villain of the story (fear, "miedo") and the solution (love, "amor"). Some pics because I couldn't help it:

Gin and Mauro are talking in the office. Delusional Gin says something about falling in love with Esteban. Does she even know what love means? Mauro says this is the least of their worries and talks about the people who are threatening them. They're some sort of higher, more powerful and more dangerous child selling group. Mauro tells Gin to GTFO, of the country IIRC, but Gin whines about him being scared and refuses. They're at war, they can't run away. I have a hunch that this will be the start of the end of Gin.

Kenzo and Nandy leave for personal reasons. Porf says he doesn't understand this at all and they don't have to ruin a nice moment. Honestly, just FF-->

More scenes with Eder getting better.

Paz and Esteban are having a moment in the kitchen, but Paz is scared El will pop up, so they try to control themselves. Elvira does pop up and is suspicious. After Paz leaves with the food, El tells Esteban he married her daughter because he loves her and he should give her what she deserves. "You're right, doña Elvira. I'll give Ginebra exactly what she deserves", replies Esteban. 

Paz, Lupe, Pepa and Esteban meet up at some room of the house to discuss Vermin and Rubio. No new info.

Kenzo shows Nandy his place, he has put stickers in the drawers so Nandy has her own. Nandy is moved amd says she's so happy to see her name on the drawers, her -finally- legal name! 

Paz and Esteban are having another moment in the office. Paz is jealous about Esteban and Gin, Esteban swears they have never been intimate and they never will (what about Gin's pregnancy command?) Still, Paz is jealous. I honestly wonder how she can stand this. Esteban says he hates waking up and seeing Gin's face first thing in the morning. He then mentions Paz's daughter and how he'll try to get her to talk on TV to make the disappearance more public. Paz thanks him and they kiss. Unfortunately, Gala walks in on them and goes all "¡PAPÁ!" The cliché "it's not what it looks like" line is used, which of course Gala replies to with "what do you mean, I saw you kissing!" They ask her not to tell anyone and then they quickly ask her if she has clicked the link Hum sent; she has and says her phone's been a bit weird from then on, she's hopes it's not a virus... But what does that have to do with this?

Esteban and Paz explain half the story, they admit Gin is threatening Esteban and that's why he married her. But Esteban says she's threatening them with the company's shares, she has 30% and she could make the whole company go bankrupt. Gala says it's ridiculous and doesn't really buy it, she asks Paz but she replies generically ("your dad is an intelligent man and knows why he's telling you this"). Gala asks them if Gin had anything to do with Eder's poisoning and she wants the truth; Esteban lies that she doesn't have anything to do with it. He and Paz say their relationship should be kept secret.

Nandy is very happy she has a place to live and a comfortable bed to sleep in. She mentions having to live on the streets after her family kicked her out (before she went to the Robles). She admits she doesn't know how to fill her drawers up. Kenzo talks about their love.

Gin gets pissed at her guard for allowing the breaking and entering, Mauro goes to search what's stolen and to review security. Rubio brings Vermin in. Ah yes, Ginebra, Mauro, Rubio, Vermin and Abdul. The 5 people I'd least rather to get stuck in an elevator with. What a gang! Vermin calls Mauro "patrón", Gin says Mauro's her brother, his loyalty is to her. She wants Vermin's key and tells him his soul belongs to her. Vermin says something about Gin's soul also belonging to him because he'll take her to hell with him if he dies? Gin at first threatens him with telling Paz about selling their daughter and stealing other kids for her and then threatens him she'll kill the Robles. 

Humberto is examining the contents of the USB, they're all currently uncrackable. He calls another computer expert friend (I wonder if he's also a lawyer/hacker/camera specialist/break-in guy), but he also can't crack them. Humb says something about the passwords probably changing every few seconds. Fel asks what to do and is pretty anxious about Gin and Mauro finding out. Humb points out that they'd be here had they found out. Porf tells Fel (not so) politely to leave.

Porf and Hum at some point have another discussion, in which Porf mentions Esteban "killing" his mother. 

Mauro informs Gin about the USB being stolen, she freaks out, blames Mauro and says they're capable of anything if they got in the house (she thinks it was that powerful child-stealing group). Mauro tells her they should leave then. Jero arrives and is pretty shocked. He tells Gin these people are criminals. Everyone, especially Gin, laugh their butts off. "Honey, we're ALL criminals", Gin replies. She orders Rubio to sort out Vermin, these two leave. Jero asks Gin what else does she want, he's already laundering money for her through the crypto. Gin says that when she tells him, he'll reveal it was all a fraud and Gala will pay. Jero panics and says his career, his life will be ruined! Gin replies that yes, but she'll be his salvation. He shouldn't end up like Vermin. For now, he shouldn't do anything special; continue pressuring Bosco. 

And with that, we have the Fin del Capítulo...