Saturday, November 17, 2007
La Fea Más Bella #57-60 Missing Recaps 39-42, by Kim P.
Waaaaah! This is it - the very last batch of LFMB recaps. Kim P. put a LOT of time into these 42 recaps that close the gap between Chris's recaps and mine, but now they are done, and there are no more.
But remember, you can still go back and read ALL of the recaps again and again. You can also join in the conversation at Telenovela-World.
Missing Recap 39: Paradise lostAlicia gets the bad news from Lopez again and calls Celso again. Fernando gives his speech and introduces Ricky again and Saimon tells Fern about the cuartel again. Fernando pretends his bladder's full again and leaves. Alicia and Marcia talk more and Alicia begs Marcia not to let the cuartel in.
Saimon goes down and tells the cuartel he did manage to get hold of Fernando, but that Marcia heard him and isn't happy. Fernando comes down and they all start talking at once. He shuts them up and lets them all in (BIG mistake buddy!). They all sneak backstage and again they all talk at once and again he shuts them all up. Marta asks for Omar and Fernando leaves. Lety gives his back her patented dreamy look and Lola has to drag her off. Paco and the two kidlets show up and he just happens to know the doorman, so they get in as well.
Fernando goes and sits back down and Marcia asks about the cuartel, and gives him hell when he tells her he let them in. Humberto asks them to be quiet, so Omar calls Fern on the phone again to see if he let Lety in, which of course he did. Marcia tells Alicia that the cuartel managed to worm their way into the event. Isabella comes out and introduces the commercial as the cuartel sneak (very obviously) behind the screen. The commercial plays and everyone claps when it's over.
Paco and kids running around, I don't care. The cuartel spot Omar but can't get to him. Alicia tries to leave to find the cuartel and Marcia tells her to not cause a scandal there at the show.
The dancers come out and Lola freaks when she sees that Jazmin's one of them. The rest of the cuartel try to calm her down as Paco is at another part of the stage taking pictures. Lola continues to freak and Jazmin sees her, but then Lety drags her off, as Saimon dances in the background. Lety leaves to call her 'rents so PM and Lola go back to do more damage because, let's face it, Lola's revenge is far more important than the success of the company they both work at and depend on for their paychecks.
At Casa Padilla, the oldsters are wondering where Lety is when the phone call comes in. Pop tells her he wants her home in an hour and hands the phone to Tomas. She wants him to talk to her dad for her and he agrees.
The dancing is still going on (Bob Fosse and Twila Tharp had nothing to fear from this choreographer) and Paco is still taking pictures. Lola and PM have somehow found the items necessary to make signs and begin to flash them at Jazmin - one says Zorra (vixen) and the other says Quita Maridos (literally "acquittal husbands" per Bablefish, take it however you like). (Julie says: Google Translate says "husband remover" and we used to just say "homewrecker").Though Jaz gets mad when she sees them, it doesn't make her mess up her steps. Jaimito sees his mom across the stage and starts to yell out to her but Marta's daughter, in an incredibly rare moment of intelligence, tells him it's not a good idea. Instead he picks up one of Paco's plastic film containers and tries to throw it to his mom to get her attention (oh yeah, that's a much better idea... NOT). Naturally, instead it hits Jazmin right in the head. She falls to the floor, tripping all the other dancers as well. Luigi has a heart attack while Paco and the monsters run off. Saimon and the choreographer get up on stage and start dancing, trying to pass the whole thing off as an intentional part of the show while Luigi cries and Fernando covers his face (told you, you shouldn't have let them in buddy). The audience all laugh so Fernando also acts like it was all planned and goes up and hugs the choreographer and Saimon.
Irma is feeding Luigi a whole lotta valerian when Jaz comes up crying. She tries to explain what happened but Luigi just tells Irma to get her out of his sight. The cuartel all laugh and I'm thinking how so NOT funny that was, but what do I know? Once again the little brats don't get punished for destroying everything and everyone just thinks they're adorable.
Back at the Padilla fortress, mom and Tomas are sharing a friendly little moment. Robopop the good time destroyer tells them he's going to get Lety, and Tomas decides to come along.
Back at Bella Life, PM is still talking to the brats and I can't take it and fast forward as fast as I can press my finger to that little button. Meanwhile, everyone's congratulating Luigi and he gets up and gives a nice speech. Omar tells Fern that was a good recovery from Jazmin's disaster, then they talk about Lety and Tomas some more because that topic just never gets old. Humberto comes up and congratulates the two of them on the success of the evening and Marcia gives them an evil face.
Backstage Jazmin is explaining to Luigi that what happened was Lola's fault, but Irma's sticking up for her friend and denies everything (ooh, Irma, you're gonna burn in hell for lying). Luigi sides with Irma and tells Jaz to stick a fork in herself, she's DONE!
The cuartel are trying to get Omar's attention but he's flirting with Isabella and doesn't see them. Lola's gloating about ruining Jazmin, as always not caring what it might have done to the company. Alicia pulls Marta aside and demands that she give her the results of her pregnancy test, and also demands that the cuartel keep their mouths shut about it. Marta wants to tell Omar and starts to head toward Omar to show it to him, but Alicia tells her she'll have her fired for getting into her confidential paperwork and showing it around. Marta continues and Alicia starts to call Marcia over to tattle, and they start arguing. Meanwhile, we see Ariel talking to someone setting up Alicia's apartment in Miami.
The cuartel should have kept their mouths shut, they could have been rid of Alicia forever. Oh well, hindsight... Omar walks by and asks Sara why they're there. The cuartel discuss what to do and Alicia tells him they have some CONFIDENTIAL information from the office. He asks if there's a problem and they decide they don't want to get in trouble, so they deny any problems. Carolina comes up and takes Omar away and more crap flies between the cuartel and Alicia. Eventually they give her the test results.
The Bella Life people are telling the Conceptos people how happy they are. Fernando and Omar leave and Omar teases him about Lety.
Alicia goes into the bathroom and cries over the loss of the comfortable life she was going to have thanks to Ariel. She tosses the test results on the floor and stomps on them. She tells herself goodbye apartment in Miami, goodbye wedding to Omar, cusses out the cuartel, and prepares to go talk to the two men.
Speaking of cussing out the cuartel, Marcia's giving them thorough reamings for interrupting the show. Lety tries to explain but Marcia doesn't want to hear it and tells her she's SO VERY overstepping her bounds as Fernando's assistant. Fernando comes up and makes things worse by telling her she needs to respect Conceptos' secretaries. Before she can blow like Vesuvius Alicia comes up and drags her away. The cuartel all thank Fernando and he tells Lety that he needs to talk to her.
Alicia shows the test results to Marcia and pretends to be happy about it. Marcia asks her about the earlier positive test and Alicia tells her it must have been wrong. Marcia tells her she's glad she's not pregnant and she needs to tell Omar. Marcia leaves and Alicia again starts cussing out the brujas.
Caro comes up and congratulates Omar but he's in a bad mood. He tells her what Alicia told him about marriage or Miami. Just then Alicia comes up and says she needs to speak to him and they leave. She tells him she's not pregnant and he's comically relieved.
Fernando tells Lety it's ok that she intruded and she's integral to the company and a bunch of other crap. Caro comes and takes him away and she gives his back another Tan Divino. The cuartel talk amongst themselves and I'm so beyond caring it's unreal. Lety continues to worry about Marcia.
Omar's very happy and wants to know about the first test. As with Marcia, she tells him it must have been wrong. She starts flirting with him, wanting to pick up where they left off and telling him she loves him. Omar, however, is thinking Oh Hell to the NO and he can't get away fast enough. He tells her he doesn't want to ruin her chance to go to Miami, it's a good opportunity for her. She moves in for a kiss but he just kisses her forehead and leaves. Fernando's talking to prospective clients and Omar comes up and tells him he's not going to be a papa. Fernando's happy for him.
Alicia now goes to talk to Ariel. He thinks she's there to ask for more money but instead she shows him the test results. He's pretty sure she did it all on purpose and yells and treats her terribly, as always, and keeps the test results. She tells him she'd still like to go to Miami (is she that clueless?) and he tells her he still expects her to quit Conceptos, as a punishment I guess, but he's the one who needs a vacation.
Fernando and Omar are still talking about Alicia, not seeing her standing behind them. She hears his relief, and hears him say how glad he is he can now say goodbye to her. She's very sad.
The Robomobile pulls up in front of Bella Life and Tomas gets out. He goes to the door and sees the dancers all milling around there. He starts talking into his cell phone like some bigwig honcho, trying to impress them, but they aren't impressed and look disgusted. He's talking finance, dropping big dollar amounts, hoping they'll come around. As he reaches for some of his cards to hand out to them, they make their escapes. He goes in and tells the doorman he doesn't have an invitation but he's there with Lety. The guy isn't impressed so Tomas hands him one of his F.I. cards and brags that he's important to Conceptos and is Lety's NOVIO.
Missing Recap 40: In which everyone forgot their chill pillOnce again Omar's glad he's not a papa, and Fernando's glad with him. Ariel is mean to Alicia again and, god figuring she hasn't had enough crap heaped on her yet, she again overhears how joyful Omar is to be rid of her. The Robomobile pulls up again, Tomas tanks with the models again, and tries to impress the doorman again with who he knows and is dating. The doorman's not impressed and won't let him in, but says he'll go get Lety when he gets the chance. Tomas sits on the steps to wait.
The cuartel all attack the food and chat about stuff I don't care about. Marcia comes up and pretends to be nice while still giving them hell so they decide to leave. They discuss getting a taxi, and Lety tells them Tomas is coming for her.
Jazmin runs by, crying, and Saimon is calling after her. Lola sees her and does her usual garbage and Sara convinces everyone it's time to leave. Saimon tells Jaz she was good (she wasn't, she was way too cheesecakey in her movements). She cusses at Lola, Saimon calms her down, and she thanks him for believing in her. They almost kiss but Irma hits him on the head and orders Jaz to leave as Luigi asked. Saimon offers to give her a ride home and she accepts.
Omar's flirting with a woman and Alicia sees him and calls him desgraciado under her breath. Marcia comes up and complains to her about Lety.
Saimon is still flattering Jazmin while she calls Flaquito and the cuartel discuss the situation. Jazmin tells Cheque she'll be late and Saimon's excited as they decide where to go. Lola's still freaking (someone please shoot me and put me out of my misery here, I can't take much more). Lety tells the cuartel she needs to speak to Fernando and tells them goodnight. Tomas spots Jazmin and starts to stalk her even though she's right there with Saimon. PM sees them leaving and makes a jealous scene and Saimon goes off to talk to her. They're gone a while so Jaz goes to look for him and sees him getting lovey with PM. She calls to him, so does PM, and he's torn between the two (thank god that horrible song Torn Between Two Lovers didn't start playing or I'd have had to hurt someone). While the whole cuartel watches, he chooses PM over Jazmin.
Jaz walks away pissed and he follows, trying to explain, while Tomas watches the whole thing. He claims he doesn't want to cause her any problems with Cheque, but she just ignores him and gets on the phone. Lola really wants to tell Efren about Saimon and Jaz, but PM doesn't want her to, worried that Efren will kick Jazmin out and she'll wind up with Saimon. Jazmin continues to ignore Saimon and gives him back his raincoat. He goes on over to PM and the cuartel all decide to leave, with Saimon and PM dancing out. They have to pass by Jaz and Lola once again freaks, they all give her crap, and I hate them more than ever. Tomas then moves in for the kill but she's not impressed by his phony phone crap either and ignores him. Erasmo comes up asking where Lety is and, seeing that Tomas isn't doing what he was supposed to do, reminds him to hurry up and go get her, but when Robo leaves Tomas just goes back to trying to impress Jaz. Meanwhile the doorman's as sick of Tomas as Jazmin is and finally decides to go get Lety so Tomas will leave. He tells a bouncer to watch him and leaves to find Lety.
Saimon and PM are at a bar dancing and all of a sudden PM gets pissed about something. I swear I think this bimbo is manic/depressive or something! She hits a depressive down spiral and gives him crap about Jazmin but before I can press the fast forward button, Ms. Thing hits her manic high and decides to give Saimon a kiss, and they leave.
Fernando's parents tell him they're leaving for London in the morning and won't be back to Mexico until the wedding. Humberto tells Fern he's happy with how things have turned out. They start to leave, but Teresita wants Fern and Marcia to reconcile before they go (everyone could tell they've been fighting all night). They pretend to kiss and make up and Ariel tries to start something but Marcia puts him down. Everyone leaves except Fernando and Omar. Lety waives at Fernando and he calls her over to talk. She thanks him again for letting the cuartel in and the doorman comes up and tells her that her boyfriend Tomas, the manager of Filmo Imagen, is there for her and hands her the card Tomas gave him. Fern and Omar are very unhappily impactados, and Fern takes the card from her. She laughs and tries to make it a joke that Tomas called himself her boyfriend. Fern tells Lety how nice Tomas' card is, and you can tell there's a whole lotta hidden meaning in his tone.
Lety goes down and gives Tomas hell for calling himself her boyfriend and telling the doorman about Filmo Imagen. He explains why he had to do it and she warns him that Fern's pissed at him for mentioning the secret company that no one's supposed to know about. He tries to laugh it off but she's pissed too. Pop pulls up in the Robomobile and they leave.
Fern and Omar continue to discuss Lety and Tomas. Omar reminds Fern that the embargo is perfectly legal, but Fern's still worried. Omar then once again states that their only option is for Fernando to seduce Lety to take her away from Tomas. Fern tells him he's not sure he can, he doesn't have any experience in seducing ugly women. He's fixating on her mustache. Omar tells him if Tomas hadn't appeared he could have sworn Lety was in love with Fern. They continue to discuss, worried about Tomas.
Lety gets home and pop is giving her hell for being late. She's whining (literally) that it was work. He lays down the law, all that fancy stuff isn't for her. She argues. Mom talks to dad and tells him to go to bed, then she tells Lety she'll talk to him and calm him down.
Marcia and Fernando get to Marcia's and she's complaining the whole time, giving him hell about Lety. He tells her Lety's important to the company, just as important as Marcia. Not smart, Fernie boy, now she's really full-on pissed. They continue to fight with Fern telling Marcia that a beautiful and intelligent woman like herself shouldn't see someone like Lety as a rival. He's also drinking like a fish during this whole exchange. Finally he's tired of it and threatens to leave, and Marcia stops him and gets all mushy. She tells him she still loves him and wants him to stay, giving him kisses and caresses.
Lety's writing in her diary about Fernando and the trouble Tomas caused. While she talks we see that Fernando still can't sleep. He remembers Omar saying he has to make Lety love him, and what he said about Tomas maybe influencing her. Lety falls asleep and we get a montage of different times Lety had with Fern, both good and bad. This segues into a dream where she's with Fernando on a couch while Omar stands behind them looking happy. Alicia, Marcia and Ariel are outside a window peeking in. A little girl comes in looking like Lety and calls them mom and dad, and Fern thanks god for his good life and beautiful woman. Then it's Erasmo and Julieta on the couch with Tomas looking happily on, and a little boy in a suit and slicked-back hair ala Fernando comes in and asks where his mom is. Lety jumps up from behind the couch and says "here". The boy runs to her and they hug while Tomas cries with happiness.
Meanwhile Fern's also asleep and dreaming. He and Lety are on a couch with his parents standing behind chanting "beso, beso". Omar's outside holding a sign that says something along the lines of I didn't tell you to marry her (Di NO al matrimonio). Lety puckers up hideously and Fern tries to get away. He screams, waking both himself and Marcia. He tells her he had a horrible nightmare, then they both go back to sleep.
Next day Julieta tries to wake Lety up, but she just whines that she was having a good dream and wants 5 more minutes. Mom eventually gets her up. Meanwhile, over at Marcia's crib, she and Fern are rehashing about how they made up and are happy now and how things went well with the commercial and etc.
Missing Recap 41: The one where two guapos fight over LetyFernando's remembering Omar's words again and still can't sleep. Lety dreams again and Fernando nightmares again. Mom wakes her up, he and Marcia talk, and we're all caught up. Fernando leaves.
At work, Lola's on the phone when Lety comes in. They discuss how PM's late and so is Saimon. Marcia and Fernando come in so they cover for PM. While he and Marcia get on the elevator, Fern can't stop looking at Lety (in a horrified way). He's imitating her pursed lips. Once they're in the lobby, Fernando points out that Alicia's late again and Marcia tries to cover for her. She mentions that Alicia may not be going to Miami after all. They discuss and Marcia leaves.
Still in reception, Lety and Lola are trying to find PM. Alicia comes in just then, and PM and Saimon arrive together as well. Alicia sniffs them and says they smell like the same soap. She points out that they're late and PM tells her it's none of her business. She replies that it's the company's business and PM tells her she's just bitter because she couldn't snag Omar. Jaz comes in and overhears the conversation. Alicia leaves and Jaz comes up crying and says hi to Saimon, then leaves. PM's mom calls, all worried about her for not coming home.
Ariel calls Alicia and she tells him she's not going to quit, she needs the work. He still wants her to leave, but she says she can't. He continues to insist that she resign and she hangs up as Omar walks by. She calls him "amor" and he doesn't like it. He totally blows her off, and I don't mean sexually. He's practically hitting her over the head with how much he doesn't want to be around her but she's choosing to remain clueless, especially after what she overheard last night. He goes and hides in Fernando's office.
Lety tries to explain about Tomas, that he likes to feel important and that's why he had the cards made and talked about the company. I don't know, that sure wouldn't make me feel any better knowing he does that with a company that's supposed to be secret. However Fern just tells her "ok". She leaves to get Saimon and Omar and Fern talk about it more, Fern telling Omar he's the one who should seduce Lety because he's the Great Seducer, doesn't have any mercy, and has no commitments. Fern points out that he's Lety's boss and that could cause even more problems. Omar points out that Lety already likes Fernando more than Omar, so Fern's the one who should do it. Fern tries to disagree, but Omar says he can prove it, they'll both ask Lety for a favor and see how she reacts to each one. Lety comes back and Omar asks her for some information. She goes to her office and brings it to him gracelessly. Fern then asks for some info and she flirts with him, smiling and cheerful when she goes to get the info for him. Omar says see the difference? Fern did see it and is not at all happy.
Marcia asks Alicia if she still plans on quitting and Alicia says no, why, do you want me to? Marcia tells her no.
Lety brings the info to Fernando and asks if he wants anything else. He says no and she leaves and Omar teases him. Fern says he doesn't think Lety will allow herself to be seduced by him because he's engaged to Marcia and Lety is a woman of principles. Omar scoffs and says Lety will be more than happy to give in to someone handsome like Fernando. Marcia comes in and starts talking about Luigi and the storyboards for the next few commercials. Omar asks for a meeting and Marcia agrees and leaves to get ready. Fern calls Lety in and tells her there'll be a meeting in five minutes.
Alicia is typing a resignation letter, putting in all the dirt about Ariel. Meanwhile, in the conference room, Omar and Fernando are still talking about Lety. Fern says he can't possibly romance Lety with Marcia right there and Omar reminds him that he does it all the time with women like Fatima. Fern continues to say no and they continue to discuss at length but it's just the same ol' same ol'. Lety comes in and smiles grotesquely at Fernando and he asides to Omar that he just can't do it. Marcia comes in and smiles and he says "yes". Lety smiles at him again and he says "no".
Ariel calls Alicia and asks if she's resigned yet and she tells him she just finished typing up her letter. He tells her to take it to Lopez right away and she tells him she's sending copies to Fernando and Marcia and Teresita and Humberto...He wants to know why so many copies and she tells him she wants to explain to everyone. He tells her she doesn't need to explain, just leave. She starts to read him the letter, but Saimon dances in and interrupts her. He dances off again and Alicia continues.
During the meeting, Fern is really nervous and keeps looking at Lety the way some people look at gory accidents, they don't want to but can't help it. Meanwhile, Alicia is just getting to the good part of her letter when Saimon dances by again. She boots him out and keeps reading to Ariel. Fern's still looking at Lety and walks behind her and bends down and sniffs her hair. Lety's very confused.
In her letter, Alicia states that Ariel sexually blackmailed her because she broke Lety's computer at his direction, and that she's been spying on Fernando and the company in order to buy his silence. He tells her not to send the letter out and is pissed that she actually got one up on him. She asks him if he thought she was really so stupid as to resign from the company and not come clean? She then hangs up on him. He immediately calls back and tells her she doesn't have to quit and she hangs up on him again, happy.
Back at Lety's house, Tomas is working when the lawyer Sanchez calls. He wants to have dinner with them to discuss the embargo and Tomas isn't happy about it. Meanwhile everyone's in the meeting discussing the upcoming commercials, Lety talks budget, and Marcia goes to leave to talk to Luigi. Fernando ostentatiously kisses her and calls her guapa. She leaves and Lety tells Fernando she needs to talk to him. They go into his office and discuss money and F.I. and banks. She then goes to her office and Tomas calls to tell her about having dinner with the lawyer, while Fern and Omar listen in. She hangs up and goes out and tells Fernando what's going on. Omar leaves and Fernando's giving her weird looks and she's wondering why. She starts to think hey... maybe... and she gets a hopeful look, but then she thinks no, that's impossible! But maybe...
Fernando follows Omar out and tells him again that he can't do it, and Omar continues to push him, telling him he should start that night with trying to win her over. Then they start discussing Alicia and whether or not she's still going to quit.
Speaking of, Alicia's in Marcia's office telling her she's not going to Miami after all. They discuss it a bit, then she tries to bring up her bills. Marcia tries to get rid of her, but instead Alicia whips the bills out and tries to show them to her. Fernando and Omar come in and Fern wants to know why she's not in Miami. She gives him some excuse and he and Omar just laugh at her. She tries to love up to Omar but he trades places with Fernando, who immediately trades places back. Omar says they have to go talk to Luigi, and Marcia leaves with them. Outside Marcia's office Fern and Omar make fun of Alicia, then turn to see her standing right there behind them. They get guilty looks and leave.
Speaking of looks, Lety's sitting in her office giving dreamy ones. Juana and Sara come in to get her for lunch, and Juana tells her she can tell Lety's tense by her aura. Juana whips out the shells and offers to read them again at lunch. Irma shows up ready for lunch as well and Lola complains that she can't afford to go. Marta tells them she's not hungry and they question her about it, and she tells them it's just mind over matter. They're impressed and offer to join her in her fast, but she tells them it's not necessary. Marta agrees to go with them but says to go ahead, she'll catch up, she has to make a call first. She says goodbye to taquitos, enchiladas, etc. The others leave, congratulating her on her willpower. As soon as they leave, though, Marta whips a crapload of food out of her desk and starts pigging out.
Downstairs the cuartel tells PM about Marta's excellent willpower. She eventually joins them, as does Saimon, and they all chat.
Missing Recap 42: Prelude to a kiss
Omar and Fernando embarrass Alicia again. Lety's dreamy again and Juana goes native reading her aura again and says it's about a galan. Marta lies about food again and Saimon flirts with the cuartel again. He's hugging Lety as he talks and you know he's just so happy that he finally got together with PM, then they all leave.
At a bar, Fernando's drinking a LOT of whiskey because he can't accept the idea that he has to seduce Lety. He complains why didn't he hire a pretty secretary, and they continue to rehash. Omar tells Fern maybe Lety will look pretty after a couple of drinks so Fern asks him to pretend to be Lety so he can practice. Omar pretends to be her and Fern flirts with him as other patrons watch, amused. Fern tells him never mind, it didn't help and continues to freak out at the thought of what he has to do. Clients join them but Fern just keeps drinking.
The cuartel are at lunch talking and I skip a lot of it. Mostly they're teasing PM about Saimon, who's at another table and sends a drink over to her. PM tells them that though Saimon is good looking, he's only a friend because he's poor. The cuartel tell her she shouldn't be playing with his feelings like that. Next Juana tells Lety she's preoccupied with thought of love and offers to read her shells.
Back to Fernando, he's not paying any attention to the meeting with the clients, he's still freaking about Lety.
Back to Lety, she says Fernando's name in her mind as she rolls the shells. Juana again mentions a galan and Lety asks if he likes her. Juana tells her she sees Lety with a lot of money and a handsome man and a bunch of other stuff and Lety remembers back to Fernando punching out her bad date and dancing with her. It's weird because she's remembering it like it actually happened but it was actually one of her fantasies. The cuartel bring her back to the real world and discuss it further.
Fernando and Omar get back to work and see that all the secretaries are still gone except Alicia. She tells them she didn't have any money to go out and they tease her. Luigi comes in looking for Irma and Fern and Omar stare at his cowboy-inspired outfit (it really is outlandish, even for Luigi, though no dead animals appear to be involved except maybe some leather). They discuss the commercials as the cuartel finally decide to show up and Luigi takes Irma away. Fernando yells at Lety for being late and she apologizes. Omar asks Sara to get Ricky Armstrong on the phone for him, while Marta tells Fern they're late because Juana read the shells again and saw Lety's future with Tomas Mora, and told Lety her dream would come true, and that she saw Lety "in the middle of great wealth".
Fern goes in and tells Omar what he just learned, and once again they work themselves into a paranoid lather over it. They go into the conference room so they can talk without Lety hearing, and become convinced that she's going to keep Conceptos for herself. Omar insists that Fernando has to take her out tonight and if necessary, to keep drinking until he's able to do it. Fern tells him he can't take her anywhere he usually goes because everyone knows Marcia and it will cause a scandal, so Omar gives him the name of a place to go. Lety pops in long enough to make a comment, then leaves again and Fernando, after looking at her again, is more upset than ever.
Alicia is working (wow!) and Marcia asks her about Fernando, and Alicia tells her he's in the conference room with Lety. Marcia goes in and chats with him, and they discuss that they can't make payroll because Bella Life hasn't paid them yet while a payment to the bank is due. She asks if he's coming over tonight and Fern tells her he can't because he has something he has to do. She says ok, kisses him, and leaves. Fern keeps saying "no" while Omar keeps saying "yes". He looks Lety over again and she asks if she can leave early to meet with Tomas and the lawyer. Fern asks her to cancel the meeting because he needs to meet with her to discuss ways to come up with payroll. She leaves and Fernando watches her go while chanting "I can't, I can't, I can't" and continues to drink.
Julieta calls Tomas and Erasmo down to eat. Lety calls and tells mom she has to work late on some projections, and mom describes to her what food she made. Lety talks to Tomas and asks him to meet with the lawyers without her and what to discuss with them and how delicate this stage is, then she hangs up. Pop finally comes downstairs and asks about Lety. Mom tells him she's going to be working late and Pop goes into his usual rant.
Lety goes back into the conference room and tells Fernando that Tomas will meet with the lawyers and she's free to stay with him. He's still drinking heavily and she leaves. He goes on about how much influence Tomas has over Lety while Omar encourages him to take her out. Fern cries.
Marcia stops by Alicia's desk and Alicia hits her up for some buckage. At first Marcia says no, but then gives in and digs in her wallet. She starts to pull out a couple of bills but Alicia reaches over and grabs the whole wad from her, then actually has the nerve to ask Marcia to buy her dinner. Whew, no wonder Marcia wasn't treating her so nicely in later episodes!
PM gets a phone call from someone as Alicia and Marcia come downstairs. She wishes them good night, then keeps talking into the phone after they leave, and you can tell she's setting up a date with someone. Saimon comes in and they start chatting, then she asks him to take an envelope upstairs for her. As he does so, she sneaks out. The cuartel are talking in the lobby while Marta eats forbidden food in the bathroom. Sara yells at her to hurry up, so she hides it all. Saimon dances off the elevator and gives Lola the letter PM gave him, saying she should get it because it's addressed to her ex-boss Olarte. They all chat and Saimon seems to think he's going to be with PM. Marta finally comes out, they chat more, and get on the elevator. Downstairs, he sees that PM's not at her desk. He calls out her name, but she doesn't answer and the cuartel tell him she must be gone. He says that's not possible but they point out that her purse isn't there. He's mondo sad and they feel sorry for him, then leave.
Lety's trying to get Fernando to stop drinking while Omar is encouraging it. They're discussing the commercials and finances as she keeps taking the bottle away but he and Omar keeping managing to get it back. Omar tells them they've all been working very hard and deserve a rest and they should all three go out for dinner and drinks. They discuss where they're going to go while Lety goes to her office to get her purse. Fern tells Omar he's had enough to drink, and Omar asks him if Lety looks pretty to him yet. Fern replies that he'll have to be passing out drunk before he'll see Lety as pretty. She walks back in and tells them she's ready to go. As she stands by the door with a particularly ugly look on her face Omar and Fernando stand there just looking at her, then Omar again encourages Fernando and they leave.
They go to a bar, and Lety's very nervous. A waiter comes for their order and there's chat but the music is REALLY loud so it's hard to hear. Omar flirts with a woman while they discuss work. The waiter comes back and he's very rude. Lety leaves to call her p-units while Fern is getting drunker. It's not helping and he tries to leave but Omar pulls him back. The crowd jokingly chant "beso, beso" because it does look like they're having a lover's quarrel. Omar gets him to sit and tries to get him to imagine beautiful women, but that's not helping either.
Lety's on the phone to her 'rents and pop tells her he can hear that she's not at Conceptos. She tells him she's at a restaurant with Fernando and Omar but they're still working. Pop wants to come get her but she tells him Fernando will drive her home. He insists that she be home in one hour and she whines at him. Mom sticks up for her and he finally agrees.
She goes back to the table to find that Omar has moved, so she now has to sit between the two of them. Me, I wouldn't mind so much 'cause you know I loves my F/O sandwiches, but she doesn't look so happy. Fernando cries while Omar stands up and tells them he has to leave, he has another appointment he forgot about. They both try to stop him from leaving but he manages to escape while Fern makes a total ass of himself. The DJ comes up and calls them lovers and both are impactado.
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Missing Recap 39: Paradise lostAlicia gets the bad news from Lopez again and calls Celso again. Fernando gives his speech and introduces Ricky again and Saimon tells Fern about the cuartel again. Fernando pretends his bladder's full again and leaves. Alicia and Marcia talk more and Alicia begs Marcia not to let the cuartel in.
Saimon goes down and tells the cuartel he did manage to get hold of Fernando, but that Marcia heard him and isn't happy. Fernando comes down and they all start talking at once. He shuts them up and lets them all in (BIG mistake buddy!). They all sneak backstage and again they all talk at once and again he shuts them all up. Marta asks for Omar and Fernando leaves. Lety gives his back her patented dreamy look and Lola has to drag her off. Paco and the two kidlets show up and he just happens to know the doorman, so they get in as well.
Fernando goes and sits back down and Marcia asks about the cuartel, and gives him hell when he tells her he let them in. Humberto asks them to be quiet, so Omar calls Fern on the phone again to see if he let Lety in, which of course he did. Marcia tells Alicia that the cuartel managed to worm their way into the event. Isabella comes out and introduces the commercial as the cuartel sneak (very obviously) behind the screen. The commercial plays and everyone claps when it's over.
Paco and kids running around, I don't care. The cuartel spot Omar but can't get to him. Alicia tries to leave to find the cuartel and Marcia tells her to not cause a scandal there at the show.
The dancers come out and Lola freaks when she sees that Jazmin's one of them. The rest of the cuartel try to calm her down as Paco is at another part of the stage taking pictures. Lola continues to freak and Jazmin sees her, but then Lety drags her off, as Saimon dances in the background. Lety leaves to call her 'rents so PM and Lola go back to do more damage because, let's face it, Lola's revenge is far more important than the success of the company they both work at and depend on for their paychecks.
At Casa Padilla, the oldsters are wondering where Lety is when the phone call comes in. Pop tells her he wants her home in an hour and hands the phone to Tomas. She wants him to talk to her dad for her and he agrees.
The dancing is still going on (Bob Fosse and Twila Tharp had nothing to fear from this choreographer) and Paco is still taking pictures. Lola and PM have somehow found the items necessary to make signs and begin to flash them at Jazmin - one says Zorra (vixen) and the other says Quita Maridos (literally "acquittal husbands" per Bablefish, take it however you like). (Julie says: Google Translate says "husband remover" and we used to just say "homewrecker").Though Jaz gets mad when she sees them, it doesn't make her mess up her steps. Jaimito sees his mom across the stage and starts to yell out to her but Marta's daughter, in an incredibly rare moment of intelligence, tells him it's not a good idea. Instead he picks up one of Paco's plastic film containers and tries to throw it to his mom to get her attention (oh yeah, that's a much better idea... NOT). Naturally, instead it hits Jazmin right in the head. She falls to the floor, tripping all the other dancers as well. Luigi has a heart attack while Paco and the monsters run off. Saimon and the choreographer get up on stage and start dancing, trying to pass the whole thing off as an intentional part of the show while Luigi cries and Fernando covers his face (told you, you shouldn't have let them in buddy). The audience all laugh so Fernando also acts like it was all planned and goes up and hugs the choreographer and Saimon.
Irma is feeding Luigi a whole lotta valerian when Jaz comes up crying. She tries to explain what happened but Luigi just tells Irma to get her out of his sight. The cuartel all laugh and I'm thinking how so NOT funny that was, but what do I know? Once again the little brats don't get punished for destroying everything and everyone just thinks they're adorable.
Back at the Padilla fortress, mom and Tomas are sharing a friendly little moment. Robopop the good time destroyer tells them he's going to get Lety, and Tomas decides to come along.
Back at Bella Life, PM is still talking to the brats and I can't take it and fast forward as fast as I can press my finger to that little button. Meanwhile, everyone's congratulating Luigi and he gets up and gives a nice speech. Omar tells Fern that was a good recovery from Jazmin's disaster, then they talk about Lety and Tomas some more because that topic just never gets old. Humberto comes up and congratulates the two of them on the success of the evening and Marcia gives them an evil face.
Backstage Jazmin is explaining to Luigi that what happened was Lola's fault, but Irma's sticking up for her friend and denies everything (ooh, Irma, you're gonna burn in hell for lying). Luigi sides with Irma and tells Jaz to stick a fork in herself, she's DONE!
The cuartel are trying to get Omar's attention but he's flirting with Isabella and doesn't see them. Lola's gloating about ruining Jazmin, as always not caring what it might have done to the company. Alicia pulls Marta aside and demands that she give her the results of her pregnancy test, and also demands that the cuartel keep their mouths shut about it. Marta wants to tell Omar and starts to head toward Omar to show it to him, but Alicia tells her she'll have her fired for getting into her confidential paperwork and showing it around. Marta continues and Alicia starts to call Marcia over to tattle, and they start arguing. Meanwhile, we see Ariel talking to someone setting up Alicia's apartment in Miami.
The cuartel should have kept their mouths shut, they could have been rid of Alicia forever. Oh well, hindsight... Omar walks by and asks Sara why they're there. The cuartel discuss what to do and Alicia tells him they have some CONFIDENTIAL information from the office. He asks if there's a problem and they decide they don't want to get in trouble, so they deny any problems. Carolina comes up and takes Omar away and more crap flies between the cuartel and Alicia. Eventually they give her the test results.
The Bella Life people are telling the Conceptos people how happy they are. Fernando and Omar leave and Omar teases him about Lety.
Alicia goes into the bathroom and cries over the loss of the comfortable life she was going to have thanks to Ariel. She tosses the test results on the floor and stomps on them. She tells herself goodbye apartment in Miami, goodbye wedding to Omar, cusses out the cuartel, and prepares to go talk to the two men.
Speaking of cussing out the cuartel, Marcia's giving them thorough reamings for interrupting the show. Lety tries to explain but Marcia doesn't want to hear it and tells her she's SO VERY overstepping her bounds as Fernando's assistant. Fernando comes up and makes things worse by telling her she needs to respect Conceptos' secretaries. Before she can blow like Vesuvius Alicia comes up and drags her away. The cuartel all thank Fernando and he tells Lety that he needs to talk to her.
Alicia shows the test results to Marcia and pretends to be happy about it. Marcia asks her about the earlier positive test and Alicia tells her it must have been wrong. Marcia tells her she's glad she's not pregnant and she needs to tell Omar. Marcia leaves and Alicia again starts cussing out the brujas.
Caro comes up and congratulates Omar but he's in a bad mood. He tells her what Alicia told him about marriage or Miami. Just then Alicia comes up and says she needs to speak to him and they leave. She tells him she's not pregnant and he's comically relieved.
Fernando tells Lety it's ok that she intruded and she's integral to the company and a bunch of other crap. Caro comes and takes him away and she gives his back another Tan Divino. The cuartel talk amongst themselves and I'm so beyond caring it's unreal. Lety continues to worry about Marcia.
Omar's very happy and wants to know about the first test. As with Marcia, she tells him it must have been wrong. She starts flirting with him, wanting to pick up where they left off and telling him she loves him. Omar, however, is thinking Oh Hell to the NO and he can't get away fast enough. He tells her he doesn't want to ruin her chance to go to Miami, it's a good opportunity for her. She moves in for a kiss but he just kisses her forehead and leaves. Fernando's talking to prospective clients and Omar comes up and tells him he's not going to be a papa. Fernando's happy for him.
Alicia now goes to talk to Ariel. He thinks she's there to ask for more money but instead she shows him the test results. He's pretty sure she did it all on purpose and yells and treats her terribly, as always, and keeps the test results. She tells him she'd still like to go to Miami (is she that clueless?) and he tells her he still expects her to quit Conceptos, as a punishment I guess, but he's the one who needs a vacation.
Fernando and Omar are still talking about Alicia, not seeing her standing behind them. She hears his relief, and hears him say how glad he is he can now say goodbye to her. She's very sad.
The Robomobile pulls up in front of Bella Life and Tomas gets out. He goes to the door and sees the dancers all milling around there. He starts talking into his cell phone like some bigwig honcho, trying to impress them, but they aren't impressed and look disgusted. He's talking finance, dropping big dollar amounts, hoping they'll come around. As he reaches for some of his cards to hand out to them, they make their escapes. He goes in and tells the doorman he doesn't have an invitation but he's there with Lety. The guy isn't impressed so Tomas hands him one of his F.I. cards and brags that he's important to Conceptos and is Lety's NOVIO.
Missing Recap 40: In which everyone forgot their chill pillOnce again Omar's glad he's not a papa, and Fernando's glad with him. Ariel is mean to Alicia again and, god figuring she hasn't had enough crap heaped on her yet, she again overhears how joyful Omar is to be rid of her. The Robomobile pulls up again, Tomas tanks with the models again, and tries to impress the doorman again with who he knows and is dating. The doorman's not impressed and won't let him in, but says he'll go get Lety when he gets the chance. Tomas sits on the steps to wait.
The cuartel all attack the food and chat about stuff I don't care about. Marcia comes up and pretends to be nice while still giving them hell so they decide to leave. They discuss getting a taxi, and Lety tells them Tomas is coming for her.
Jazmin runs by, crying, and Saimon is calling after her. Lola sees her and does her usual garbage and Sara convinces everyone it's time to leave. Saimon tells Jaz she was good (she wasn't, she was way too cheesecakey in her movements). She cusses at Lola, Saimon calms her down, and she thanks him for believing in her. They almost kiss but Irma hits him on the head and orders Jaz to leave as Luigi asked. Saimon offers to give her a ride home and she accepts.
Omar's flirting with a woman and Alicia sees him and calls him desgraciado under her breath. Marcia comes up and complains to her about Lety.
Saimon is still flattering Jazmin while she calls Flaquito and the cuartel discuss the situation. Jazmin tells Cheque she'll be late and Saimon's excited as they decide where to go. Lola's still freaking (someone please shoot me and put me out of my misery here, I can't take much more). Lety tells the cuartel she needs to speak to Fernando and tells them goodnight. Tomas spots Jazmin and starts to stalk her even though she's right there with Saimon. PM sees them leaving and makes a jealous scene and Saimon goes off to talk to her. They're gone a while so Jaz goes to look for him and sees him getting lovey with PM. She calls to him, so does PM, and he's torn between the two (thank god that horrible song Torn Between Two Lovers didn't start playing or I'd have had to hurt someone). While the whole cuartel watches, he chooses PM over Jazmin.
Jaz walks away pissed and he follows, trying to explain, while Tomas watches the whole thing. He claims he doesn't want to cause her any problems with Cheque, but she just ignores him and gets on the phone. Lola really wants to tell Efren about Saimon and Jaz, but PM doesn't want her to, worried that Efren will kick Jazmin out and she'll wind up with Saimon. Jazmin continues to ignore Saimon and gives him back his raincoat. He goes on over to PM and the cuartel all decide to leave, with Saimon and PM dancing out. They have to pass by Jaz and Lola once again freaks, they all give her crap, and I hate them more than ever. Tomas then moves in for the kill but she's not impressed by his phony phone crap either and ignores him. Erasmo comes up asking where Lety is and, seeing that Tomas isn't doing what he was supposed to do, reminds him to hurry up and go get her, but when Robo leaves Tomas just goes back to trying to impress Jaz. Meanwhile the doorman's as sick of Tomas as Jazmin is and finally decides to go get Lety so Tomas will leave. He tells a bouncer to watch him and leaves to find Lety.
Saimon and PM are at a bar dancing and all of a sudden PM gets pissed about something. I swear I think this bimbo is manic/depressive or something! She hits a depressive down spiral and gives him crap about Jazmin but before I can press the fast forward button, Ms. Thing hits her manic high and decides to give Saimon a kiss, and they leave.
Fernando's parents tell him they're leaving for London in the morning and won't be back to Mexico until the wedding. Humberto tells Fern he's happy with how things have turned out. They start to leave, but Teresita wants Fern and Marcia to reconcile before they go (everyone could tell they've been fighting all night). They pretend to kiss and make up and Ariel tries to start something but Marcia puts him down. Everyone leaves except Fernando and Omar. Lety waives at Fernando and he calls her over to talk. She thanks him again for letting the cuartel in and the doorman comes up and tells her that her boyfriend Tomas, the manager of Filmo Imagen, is there for her and hands her the card Tomas gave him. Fern and Omar are very unhappily impactados, and Fern takes the card from her. She laughs and tries to make it a joke that Tomas called himself her boyfriend. Fern tells Lety how nice Tomas' card is, and you can tell there's a whole lotta hidden meaning in his tone.
Lety goes down and gives Tomas hell for calling himself her boyfriend and telling the doorman about Filmo Imagen. He explains why he had to do it and she warns him that Fern's pissed at him for mentioning the secret company that no one's supposed to know about. He tries to laugh it off but she's pissed too. Pop pulls up in the Robomobile and they leave.
Fern and Omar continue to discuss Lety and Tomas. Omar reminds Fern that the embargo is perfectly legal, but Fern's still worried. Omar then once again states that their only option is for Fernando to seduce Lety to take her away from Tomas. Fern tells him he's not sure he can, he doesn't have any experience in seducing ugly women. He's fixating on her mustache. Omar tells him if Tomas hadn't appeared he could have sworn Lety was in love with Fern. They continue to discuss, worried about Tomas.
Lety gets home and pop is giving her hell for being late. She's whining (literally) that it was work. He lays down the law, all that fancy stuff isn't for her. She argues. Mom talks to dad and tells him to go to bed, then she tells Lety she'll talk to him and calm him down.
Marcia and Fernando get to Marcia's and she's complaining the whole time, giving him hell about Lety. He tells her Lety's important to the company, just as important as Marcia. Not smart, Fernie boy, now she's really full-on pissed. They continue to fight with Fern telling Marcia that a beautiful and intelligent woman like herself shouldn't see someone like Lety as a rival. He's also drinking like a fish during this whole exchange. Finally he's tired of it and threatens to leave, and Marcia stops him and gets all mushy. She tells him she still loves him and wants him to stay, giving him kisses and caresses.
Lety's writing in her diary about Fernando and the trouble Tomas caused. While she talks we see that Fernando still can't sleep. He remembers Omar saying he has to make Lety love him, and what he said about Tomas maybe influencing her. Lety falls asleep and we get a montage of different times Lety had with Fern, both good and bad. This segues into a dream where she's with Fernando on a couch while Omar stands behind them looking happy. Alicia, Marcia and Ariel are outside a window peeking in. A little girl comes in looking like Lety and calls them mom and dad, and Fern thanks god for his good life and beautiful woman. Then it's Erasmo and Julieta on the couch with Tomas looking happily on, and a little boy in a suit and slicked-back hair ala Fernando comes in and asks where his mom is. Lety jumps up from behind the couch and says "here". The boy runs to her and they hug while Tomas cries with happiness.
Meanwhile Fern's also asleep and dreaming. He and Lety are on a couch with his parents standing behind chanting "beso, beso". Omar's outside holding a sign that says something along the lines of I didn't tell you to marry her (Di NO al matrimonio). Lety puckers up hideously and Fern tries to get away. He screams, waking both himself and Marcia. He tells her he had a horrible nightmare, then they both go back to sleep.
Next day Julieta tries to wake Lety up, but she just whines that she was having a good dream and wants 5 more minutes. Mom eventually gets her up. Meanwhile, over at Marcia's crib, she and Fern are rehashing about how they made up and are happy now and how things went well with the commercial and etc.
Missing Recap 41: The one where two guapos fight over LetyFernando's remembering Omar's words again and still can't sleep. Lety dreams again and Fernando nightmares again. Mom wakes her up, he and Marcia talk, and we're all caught up. Fernando leaves.
At work, Lola's on the phone when Lety comes in. They discuss how PM's late and so is Saimon. Marcia and Fernando come in so they cover for PM. While he and Marcia get on the elevator, Fern can't stop looking at Lety (in a horrified way). He's imitating her pursed lips. Once they're in the lobby, Fernando points out that Alicia's late again and Marcia tries to cover for her. She mentions that Alicia may not be going to Miami after all. They discuss and Marcia leaves.
Still in reception, Lety and Lola are trying to find PM. Alicia comes in just then, and PM and Saimon arrive together as well. Alicia sniffs them and says they smell like the same soap. She points out that they're late and PM tells her it's none of her business. She replies that it's the company's business and PM tells her she's just bitter because she couldn't snag Omar. Jaz comes in and overhears the conversation. Alicia leaves and Jaz comes up crying and says hi to Saimon, then leaves. PM's mom calls, all worried about her for not coming home.
Ariel calls Alicia and she tells him she's not going to quit, she needs the work. He still wants her to leave, but she says she can't. He continues to insist that she resign and she hangs up as Omar walks by. She calls him "amor" and he doesn't like it. He totally blows her off, and I don't mean sexually. He's practically hitting her over the head with how much he doesn't want to be around her but she's choosing to remain clueless, especially after what she overheard last night. He goes and hides in Fernando's office.
Lety tries to explain about Tomas, that he likes to feel important and that's why he had the cards made and talked about the company. I don't know, that sure wouldn't make me feel any better knowing he does that with a company that's supposed to be secret. However Fern just tells her "ok". She leaves to get Saimon and Omar and Fern talk about it more, Fern telling Omar he's the one who should seduce Lety because he's the Great Seducer, doesn't have any mercy, and has no commitments. Fern points out that he's Lety's boss and that could cause even more problems. Omar points out that Lety already likes Fernando more than Omar, so Fern's the one who should do it. Fern tries to disagree, but Omar says he can prove it, they'll both ask Lety for a favor and see how she reacts to each one. Lety comes back and Omar asks her for some information. She goes to her office and brings it to him gracelessly. Fern then asks for some info and she flirts with him, smiling and cheerful when she goes to get the info for him. Omar says see the difference? Fern did see it and is not at all happy.
Marcia asks Alicia if she still plans on quitting and Alicia says no, why, do you want me to? Marcia tells her no.
Lety brings the info to Fernando and asks if he wants anything else. He says no and she leaves and Omar teases him. Fern says he doesn't think Lety will allow herself to be seduced by him because he's engaged to Marcia and Lety is a woman of principles. Omar scoffs and says Lety will be more than happy to give in to someone handsome like Fernando. Marcia comes in and starts talking about Luigi and the storyboards for the next few commercials. Omar asks for a meeting and Marcia agrees and leaves to get ready. Fern calls Lety in and tells her there'll be a meeting in five minutes.
Alicia is typing a resignation letter, putting in all the dirt about Ariel. Meanwhile, in the conference room, Omar and Fernando are still talking about Lety. Fern says he can't possibly romance Lety with Marcia right there and Omar reminds him that he does it all the time with women like Fatima. Fern continues to say no and they continue to discuss at length but it's just the same ol' same ol'. Lety comes in and smiles grotesquely at Fernando and he asides to Omar that he just can't do it. Marcia comes in and smiles and he says "yes". Lety smiles at him again and he says "no".
Ariel calls Alicia and asks if she's resigned yet and she tells him she just finished typing up her letter. He tells her to take it to Lopez right away and she tells him she's sending copies to Fernando and Marcia and Teresita and Humberto...He wants to know why so many copies and she tells him she wants to explain to everyone. He tells her she doesn't need to explain, just leave. She starts to read him the letter, but Saimon dances in and interrupts her. He dances off again and Alicia continues.
During the meeting, Fern is really nervous and keeps looking at Lety the way some people look at gory accidents, they don't want to but can't help it. Meanwhile, Alicia is just getting to the good part of her letter when Saimon dances by again. She boots him out and keeps reading to Ariel. Fern's still looking at Lety and walks behind her and bends down and sniffs her hair. Lety's very confused.
In her letter, Alicia states that Ariel sexually blackmailed her because she broke Lety's computer at his direction, and that she's been spying on Fernando and the company in order to buy his silence. He tells her not to send the letter out and is pissed that she actually got one up on him. She asks him if he thought she was really so stupid as to resign from the company and not come clean? She then hangs up on him. He immediately calls back and tells her she doesn't have to quit and she hangs up on him again, happy.
Back at Lety's house, Tomas is working when the lawyer Sanchez calls. He wants to have dinner with them to discuss the embargo and Tomas isn't happy about it. Meanwhile everyone's in the meeting discussing the upcoming commercials, Lety talks budget, and Marcia goes to leave to talk to Luigi. Fernando ostentatiously kisses her and calls her guapa. She leaves and Lety tells Fernando she needs to talk to him. They go into his office and discuss money and F.I. and banks. She then goes to her office and Tomas calls to tell her about having dinner with the lawyer, while Fern and Omar listen in. She hangs up and goes out and tells Fernando what's going on. Omar leaves and Fernando's giving her weird looks and she's wondering why. She starts to think hey... maybe... and she gets a hopeful look, but then she thinks no, that's impossible! But maybe...
Fernando follows Omar out and tells him again that he can't do it, and Omar continues to push him, telling him he should start that night with trying to win her over. Then they start discussing Alicia and whether or not she's still going to quit.
Speaking of, Alicia's in Marcia's office telling her she's not going to Miami after all. They discuss it a bit, then she tries to bring up her bills. Marcia tries to get rid of her, but instead Alicia whips the bills out and tries to show them to her. Fernando and Omar come in and Fern wants to know why she's not in Miami. She gives him some excuse and he and Omar just laugh at her. She tries to love up to Omar but he trades places with Fernando, who immediately trades places back. Omar says they have to go talk to Luigi, and Marcia leaves with them. Outside Marcia's office Fern and Omar make fun of Alicia, then turn to see her standing right there behind them. They get guilty looks and leave.
Speaking of looks, Lety's sitting in her office giving dreamy ones. Juana and Sara come in to get her for lunch, and Juana tells her she can tell Lety's tense by her aura. Juana whips out the shells and offers to read them again at lunch. Irma shows up ready for lunch as well and Lola complains that she can't afford to go. Marta tells them she's not hungry and they question her about it, and she tells them it's just mind over matter. They're impressed and offer to join her in her fast, but she tells them it's not necessary. Marta agrees to go with them but says to go ahead, she'll catch up, she has to make a call first. She says goodbye to taquitos, enchiladas, etc. The others leave, congratulating her on her willpower. As soon as they leave, though, Marta whips a crapload of food out of her desk and starts pigging out.
Downstairs the cuartel tells PM about Marta's excellent willpower. She eventually joins them, as does Saimon, and they all chat.
Missing Recap 42: Prelude to a kiss
Omar and Fernando embarrass Alicia again. Lety's dreamy again and Juana goes native reading her aura again and says it's about a galan. Marta lies about food again and Saimon flirts with the cuartel again. He's hugging Lety as he talks and you know he's just so happy that he finally got together with PM, then they all leave.
At a bar, Fernando's drinking a LOT of whiskey because he can't accept the idea that he has to seduce Lety. He complains why didn't he hire a pretty secretary, and they continue to rehash. Omar tells Fern maybe Lety will look pretty after a couple of drinks so Fern asks him to pretend to be Lety so he can practice. Omar pretends to be her and Fern flirts with him as other patrons watch, amused. Fern tells him never mind, it didn't help and continues to freak out at the thought of what he has to do. Clients join them but Fern just keeps drinking.
The cuartel are at lunch talking and I skip a lot of it. Mostly they're teasing PM about Saimon, who's at another table and sends a drink over to her. PM tells them that though Saimon is good looking, he's only a friend because he's poor. The cuartel tell her she shouldn't be playing with his feelings like that. Next Juana tells Lety she's preoccupied with thought of love and offers to read her shells.
Back to Fernando, he's not paying any attention to the meeting with the clients, he's still freaking about Lety.
Back to Lety, she says Fernando's name in her mind as she rolls the shells. Juana again mentions a galan and Lety asks if he likes her. Juana tells her she sees Lety with a lot of money and a handsome man and a bunch of other stuff and Lety remembers back to Fernando punching out her bad date and dancing with her. It's weird because she's remembering it like it actually happened but it was actually one of her fantasies. The cuartel bring her back to the real world and discuss it further.
Fernando and Omar get back to work and see that all the secretaries are still gone except Alicia. She tells them she didn't have any money to go out and they tease her. Luigi comes in looking for Irma and Fern and Omar stare at his cowboy-inspired outfit (it really is outlandish, even for Luigi, though no dead animals appear to be involved except maybe some leather). They discuss the commercials as the cuartel finally decide to show up and Luigi takes Irma away. Fernando yells at Lety for being late and she apologizes. Omar asks Sara to get Ricky Armstrong on the phone for him, while Marta tells Fern they're late because Juana read the shells again and saw Lety's future with Tomas Mora, and told Lety her dream would come true, and that she saw Lety "in the middle of great wealth".
Fern goes in and tells Omar what he just learned, and once again they work themselves into a paranoid lather over it. They go into the conference room so they can talk without Lety hearing, and become convinced that she's going to keep Conceptos for herself. Omar insists that Fernando has to take her out tonight and if necessary, to keep drinking until he's able to do it. Fern tells him he can't take her anywhere he usually goes because everyone knows Marcia and it will cause a scandal, so Omar gives him the name of a place to go. Lety pops in long enough to make a comment, then leaves again and Fernando, after looking at her again, is more upset than ever.
Alicia is working (wow!) and Marcia asks her about Fernando, and Alicia tells her he's in the conference room with Lety. Marcia goes in and chats with him, and they discuss that they can't make payroll because Bella Life hasn't paid them yet while a payment to the bank is due. She asks if he's coming over tonight and Fern tells her he can't because he has something he has to do. She says ok, kisses him, and leaves. Fern keeps saying "no" while Omar keeps saying "yes". He looks Lety over again and she asks if she can leave early to meet with Tomas and the lawyer. Fern asks her to cancel the meeting because he needs to meet with her to discuss ways to come up with payroll. She leaves and Fernando watches her go while chanting "I can't, I can't, I can't" and continues to drink.
Julieta calls Tomas and Erasmo down to eat. Lety calls and tells mom she has to work late on some projections, and mom describes to her what food she made. Lety talks to Tomas and asks him to meet with the lawyers without her and what to discuss with them and how delicate this stage is, then she hangs up. Pop finally comes downstairs and asks about Lety. Mom tells him she's going to be working late and Pop goes into his usual rant.
Lety goes back into the conference room and tells Fernando that Tomas will meet with the lawyers and she's free to stay with him. He's still drinking heavily and she leaves. He goes on about how much influence Tomas has over Lety while Omar encourages him to take her out. Fern cries.
Marcia stops by Alicia's desk and Alicia hits her up for some buckage. At first Marcia says no, but then gives in and digs in her wallet. She starts to pull out a couple of bills but Alicia reaches over and grabs the whole wad from her, then actually has the nerve to ask Marcia to buy her dinner. Whew, no wonder Marcia wasn't treating her so nicely in later episodes!
PM gets a phone call from someone as Alicia and Marcia come downstairs. She wishes them good night, then keeps talking into the phone after they leave, and you can tell she's setting up a date with someone. Saimon comes in and they start chatting, then she asks him to take an envelope upstairs for her. As he does so, she sneaks out. The cuartel are talking in the lobby while Marta eats forbidden food in the bathroom. Sara yells at her to hurry up, so she hides it all. Saimon dances off the elevator and gives Lola the letter PM gave him, saying she should get it because it's addressed to her ex-boss Olarte. They all chat and Saimon seems to think he's going to be with PM. Marta finally comes out, they chat more, and get on the elevator. Downstairs, he sees that PM's not at her desk. He calls out her name, but she doesn't answer and the cuartel tell him she must be gone. He says that's not possible but they point out that her purse isn't there. He's mondo sad and they feel sorry for him, then leave.
Lety's trying to get Fernando to stop drinking while Omar is encouraging it. They're discussing the commercials and finances as she keeps taking the bottle away but he and Omar keeping managing to get it back. Omar tells them they've all been working very hard and deserve a rest and they should all three go out for dinner and drinks. They discuss where they're going to go while Lety goes to her office to get her purse. Fern tells Omar he's had enough to drink, and Omar asks him if Lety looks pretty to him yet. Fern replies that he'll have to be passing out drunk before he'll see Lety as pretty. She walks back in and tells them she's ready to go. As she stands by the door with a particularly ugly look on her face Omar and Fernando stand there just looking at her, then Omar again encourages Fernando and they leave.
They go to a bar, and Lety's very nervous. A waiter comes for their order and there's chat but the music is REALLY loud so it's hard to hear. Omar flirts with a woman while they discuss work. The waiter comes back and he's very rude. Lety leaves to call her p-units while Fern is getting drunker. It's not helping and he tries to leave but Omar pulls him back. The crowd jokingly chant "beso, beso" because it does look like they're having a lover's quarrel. Omar gets him to sit and tries to get him to imagine beautiful women, but that's not helping either.
Lety's on the phone to her 'rents and pop tells her he can hear that she's not at Conceptos. She tells him she's at a restaurant with Fernando and Omar but they're still working. Pop wants to come get her but she tells him Fernando will drive her home. He insists that she be home in one hour and she whines at him. Mom sticks up for her and he finally agrees.
She goes back to the table to find that Omar has moved, so she now has to sit between the two of them. Me, I wouldn't mind so much 'cause you know I loves my F/O sandwiches, but she doesn't look so happy. Fernando cries while Omar stands up and tells them he has to leave, he has another appointment he forgot about. They both try to stop him from leaving but he manages to escape while Fern makes a total ass of himself. The DJ comes up and calls them lovers and both are impactado.
End of missing recaps, we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. It's been fun!
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
La Fea Más Bella DVD release delayed??
If you pre-ordered the LFMB DVDs from Amazon or someplace else online, you've probably already heard the news - the release, which was supposed to be next week, has been delayed until FEBRUARY 19!!
I don't know why. But it's a bummer. :(
I don't know why. But it's a bummer. :(
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Friday, November 09, 2007
La Fea Más Bella #54-56 Missing Recaps 36-38, by Kim P.
Missing Recap 36: Lety gets a phone call FROM A BOY!!
Marcia once again wants Lety's head and complains about her helping him to hide Fatima. He says he can't fire Lety and she says can't or don't want to? At first he replies that he doesn't want to, then he changes it to can't. She's pissed as he tells her Lety's fundamental to the job and they go back and forth for a while. Finally she says I don't care what you say, I want a head! If you can't fire Fatima, you have to fire Lety.
The next day Lety is telling her parents about the upcoming commercial preview and launch party. Tomas comes over and eats her breakfast and she takes him to her room to chat. Tomas asks her for a favor and wants her to call him on his cell phone from now on. It's a dumb conversation having nothing to add to the general storyline, so I ignore the rest of it. Lety leaves.
At Conceptos, we're still getting Garnier commercials as Luigi holds up a basket of red apples and admires the ad he did for the Nutrisse red hair color. He and Irma discuss it, bleh! How they're able to do those conversations with straight faces is beyond me, but I guess that's why they're the actors and not me. Anyway, Fernando comes in and wants Luigi to fire Fatima, but naturally Luigi refuses. They discuss much with Fern telling him Fatima is sick and might cause a scandal during the launch, but Luigi replies that if Fatima is ill it's Fernando's fault for seducing her in the first place. In the hallway they're still arguing about it when Jazmin comes up and starts flirting with Fernando. Luigi blocks her from reaching Fern and tells her to leave. Marcia comes up and Luigi complains to her and leaves. She wants to know what's going on and Fern complains to her too and she leaves.
Lety comes in and says hi and he jumps down her throat for being late. She gives some lame excuse that she's not THAT late and oh look, Alicia's not there either (yeah Lety, compare yourself to the biggest loser in the company, that's smart!). He starts yelling about Alicia as Lety walks away. Marcia comes up and, after Fern points out her friend isn't there, covers for Alicia. She goes into Lety's office and asks her something about a check. Lety takes the paperwork from her and goes into Fernando's office. She smiles at him and he smiles back at her and Marcia gives them an ugly face, then she and Lety leave.
Marta comes in and gives him some contracts just as Lety's phone rings. He asks Marta to answer it and it's Tomas; she's excited to be talking to him. Lety comes in with paperwork and Marta tells her that her boyfriend, Tomas Mora, was on the phone. Lety's eye twitches as Fernando looks upset. She leaves with Marta and, out in the lobby, tells her she shouldn't have mentioned Tomas in front of Fernando. Marta wants to know why and Lety tells her Tomas isn't her novio, he's just a very good friend. Marta leaves and Lety talks to Lola about the papers in her hand.
Omar goes into Fern's office and Fern tells him Lety has a boyfriend. Omar can't believe anyone would be attracted to Lety, she's too ugly, and is impactado when Fern tells him it's Tomas Mora. They discuss it a lot, with Omar thinking they should have investigated Lety more before turning the company over to her. What bothers Fern more is that now they don't only depend on Lety, they depend on Tomas as well. Omar teases him about being jealous and Fernando is feeling no love for Omar's humor.
Alicia finally gets in and Marcia tells her about her current problem with Fernando, and that she's demanded a firing, either Fatima's or Lety's. Juana and Sara are listening in and Lola and Marta come up and listen in too. Marcia gives Alicia a bad time for coming late. Alicia uses her pregnancy as an excuse but Marcia says it's not good enough. She leaves and the cuartel begin to discuss what they've just heard.
Fernando and Omar are teasing each other when Marcia comes in looking for Lety. Fernando yells for her and she comes out of her cubbyhole and gives some money to Marcia and wants her to sign a receipt. Marcia doesn't feel she should have to sign, but Fernando backs Lety up saying it's just a formality (and just salt in Marcia's already wide open Lety wounds). Marcia signs and leaves and Lety goes back to her office. Fern tells Omar how Marcia's pissed about Fatima and told him if he can't get rid of her, he has to get rid of Lety, but he says he's not going to allow her to touch a hair on Lety's head, not even the ones in her moustache. Lety's listening in, of course, and his comment makes her swoon with happiness, and while I'd also be glad he stuck up for me, I'm not sure I'd be so fond of the moustache crack. Anyway, Fern complains about Luigi not being helpful and he starts drinking as he and Omar continue to discuss the Fatima situation, then they discuss Tomas some more.
Lety calls her house asking for Tomas. Mom answers and he asks her to tell Lety to call him on his cell phone, but mom forces him to take the house phone. Lety also tells him to stop already with the cell phone crap! Tomas reminds her that the first payment to the Bank of Americas is due soon. Lety comes out and talks to Fernando about the upcoming payment. Fernando asks her about her "novio" Tomas, her friend who works at Filmo Imagen. She explains that Tomas isn't her boyfriend, she just invented the story for something to tell the cuartel, but it's not real. He tells her "fine" and she leaves.
Lola and Lety are getting ready to leave for lunch and convince Marta to go with them. The rest of the cuartel joins them and Saimon comes up but they all ignore him because of his ties to Jazmin. Then they all decide to hit him, then they leave. Saimon spies Fern and runs up to him, but Fern knows what it's about and again tells Saimon he can't help Jazmin. Fern leaves and Saimon is sad.
Fern goes to Omar's office for a change and happily tells him that Tomas isn't Lety's boyfriend and what she said. Omar's still cautious and says when a woman claims she doesn't have a fiancé, she usually does (what? Let's see if that works... I'm NOT engaged to George Clooney, I'm not! I'm really not! Honestly! Hhmmm... nope, still no ring on my finger and half ownership of a villa in Italy, so there goes Omar's logic down the toilet!). Fern and Omar decide to find out everything they can from the cuartel about Tomas. They argue about who should have to try to get the intel, and Omar points out that it was Fernando who created Filmo Imagen, set up the embargo, and put it all in Lety's hands, therefore he should have to do the detective work. He leaves his own office and Fernando talks to himself like an investigative reporter checking into Tomas Mora.
As always, the garbage is flying in the bathroom between Alicia and the cuartel, including Lety. They tease Alicia about the clothes joke and she tells them her dress is exclusive. She then brags that she's going to the launch party tonight because she's special and they aren't going because they aren't special, and Lety brags that she's going to invite the cuartel to the launch. Naturally, Alicia runs to Marcia and whines (aaaayyyyyy Mmaaaarrrrcccciiiiaaaaa) about what Lety said and once again steam issues forth from Marcia's ears and nostrils. Marcia confronts Lety in front of everyone and tells her it's not her place to invite anyone anywhere and who does she think she is to disrespect herself (Marcia) and the company. She then rants about this special power Lety THINKS she has but doesn't. She and Alicia leave and Irma comforts Lety while Sara does her usual amazon-roller derby-hold-me-back schtick.
Lopez calls Marta and asks her for the dancers' contracts. She tells him Fernando has them and he tells her to go get them. She goes into Fernando's office to get them and Fern asks her to sit and starts pumping her for info about Tomas. They begin to trade gossip like two old women as she tells him about Juana and the shells and what she saw. They get really comfy and really start chatting.
In the bathroom the cuartel are waiting for Marta and talking. Irma says she has to go but they talk her into staying, but Marta and Fernando are still gossiping. She asks Fernando to promise not to fire Lety and for some reason she wants to do it in English, so she has him repeat after her: "cross my heart, ok". Fern asks if it isn't supposed to be "hope to die" but she says no, it's "ok", so he repeats what she said. I mention it in detail because it was actually kinda cute and I just love it when Fern speaks English no matter how short the conversation. *sigh*. Let me try that thing again... I'm NOT engaged to Jaime, I'm not... hhmmm, never mind. Where was I? Oh yeah... we get a flashback to the shell reading, and Marta continues to gossip. Lopez butts in looking for the contracts and Marta takes them and leaves. Lopez sits in her chair also wanting to gossip with Fernando, but Fern puts him down and Lopez leaves like the song, only with a lick and a squeak instead of a wink and a smile.
Marta gives the contracts to Saimon to take to the dancers for their signatures. He spritzes himself with cologne and dances for joy and leaves. He runs into Marcia and Alicia and tells them where he's going and Alicia teases him unkindly about Jazmin. Marcia wants to know if that's the woman who caused Lola problems and he agrees that it is. She tells him everyone has to try to get along at work, then tells Saimon she wants to see Carolina so she'll go with him (apparently everyone's over at the place where the show will be held). Saimon and Marcia leave.
Marta goes into the bathroom and tells the cuartel she was late because she was with Fernando. Lety wants to know why and she tells her it was about the contracts. Marta goes back to her desk and Fernando comes out and pretends to yell at her about something but actually wants to continue with the gossip. They go back into his office and continue the Tomas discussion. We flash back to Juana's second reading of the shells and Lety tells them more about Tomas. Fernando wants to know if Tomas is Lety's novio, yes or no. Marta tells him no and he thanks dios, but then she adds that he's her great platonic love and Fern's upset again. Then Marta mentions the second reading and how Juana said Lety's novio would bring her fortune. Now Fern's REALLY upset!
Missing Recap 37: Our Lady of *belch*
Again with the Fernando/Marta gossip session, and again Marta tells him that Lety's novio is going to bring her fortune. Fern ends the session, now more worried than ever. The cuartel are at lunch chatting and Marta joins them. She tells them she should be getting the results of Alicia's blood test soon, then they talk about Fernando and Tomas and she tells Lety she told Fernando that Tomas was just a friend. They all tease Lety about Tomas.
Fernando calls Omar, who's at Bella Life preparing for the launch, and tells him what Marta told him. They discuss, Fern's worried, and Omar tells him to calm down and hangs up. Saimon arrives with the contracts and Omar talks to him while looking for Carolina.
Luigi gives the dancers a rest and Saimon dances for him and suggests choreography changes. Luigi pretty much tells him to piss off. Saimon then tries to give him the contracts, but he tells him to give them to Irma instead once she gets there. Saimon leaves and Luigi calls for Carolina. Backstage Saimon gives the contracts to the models to sign, and notices that Fatima is drunk. He finds her flask and tries to talk to her about it, but like Luigi she pretty much just tells him to piss off.
Back at Conceptos, Fernando goes into the lobby trying to chat with Marta again. Jazmin comes up and kisses his hinder still hoping he'll come through for her, and wishes him luck tonight. He thanks her and leaves.
Meanwhile the cuartel are still rehashing at lunch. Marta excuses herself to go to the bathroom and Sara discusses wanting a man for herself. The waiter comes and complains that Marta stole some food, and the cuartel have to wrestle it from her.
Carolina is giving the chef instructions for tonight and Omar comes up and starts flirting with her. They leave together while Omar continues to flirt and she's trying to get him to stop. Finally she puts him in his place mentioning pregnancy, and he hears a baby crying in his head. He asks her not to use that word, so of course she uses it again.
PM signs for Alicia's test results. Lety apologizes to Fernando for coming back late from lunch, and he's very cool to her as he tells her it's ok and heads into the lobby. She's wondering que the hell is up with him?
Saimon dances by Fernando and tells him he got all the dancer's signatures on the contracts. He also tells him that Fatima is asking about him. Saimon then gives the contracts to Marta, as well as the envelope with Alicia's test results, then he dances off like the little dancing machine cricket that he is (I like Saimon, he's so cute and upbeat. I do wish he wasn't so p-whipped, but other than that I think he's adorable).
The cuartel debate on whether or not they should open Alicia's test results, but just then Lopez walks by. He sees the results so Marta has no choice but to give it to him. He lick/squeaks and leaves and they're upset they weren't able to open it. Marta's daughter calls, more kid crap and I'm sorry but I just don't care.
Back at Bella Life, Fatima is still on her binge. Luigi comes in to talk to the models and two of them cover for her so Luigi doesn't catch her, then the rest of the models join in as well.
Omar and Carolina have a conversation about the dancers. Marcia goes to Luigi, angry that Fatima is still there. Luigi begs her to be reasonable, he simply can't fire her on the very day of the big presentation. He's also upset because Irma hasn't arrived yet with the costumes. Marcia gives in about Fatima and leaves. Meanwhile we see that Fatima is still hittin' on her flask and is now even more drunk.
Fernando comes in and there's chat between him, Omar and Carolina about all kinds of things, the dancers, the booze and food... Fernando's very nervous and Omar and Caro try to calm him down. He and Omar leave the area just as two models run by. Fern starts to chase them but Omar pulls him back, and the girls run to Fatima to let her know that Fernando's arrived. They try to get her to stop drinking but she's on a party-till-I-puke mission and won't stop.
Fern goes to the bar with Omar and tells him that Tomas is the platonic love of Lety. He tells him about Juana and the shells and remembers back to the time in the car when Lety had asked for a job for Tomas. He asks Omar if he thinks Lety's trying to conquer Tomas with money, and is worried that Tomas will be able to manipulate Lety.
Back at Conceptos, Jazmin is helping Irma pack up the costumes. Saimon comes in and tells her what Luigi said, doing a very funny imitation of him. Irma leaves and Saimon hugs Jaz, they chat, she pouts, they dance, typical Saimon/Jaz stuff.
Omar and Fernando continue their Lety talk and are working themselves up into a paranoid lather all based on something someone reading snail shells said. Go figure! I think for the first time Omar floats the idea that they have to make Lety coo coo for Fernando's coco puffs. At that comment, we get a shot of Lety in her office dreaming of those very same coco puffs. Fern is impactado at the very idea and tells Omar it's ridiculous. Just then Marcia comes up and makes a nasty crack about the dancers and Fern tells her she's paranoid.
Irma finally gets there and Luigi reams her out for being late. Meanwhile Fernando is still giving Marcia crap and she's tossing it right back at him. He's also still drinking heavily. Luigi comes up and listens for a bit but finally gets tired of it and interrupts and tells everyone there's a disaster. Omar offers to deal with it so the two of them leave so Fernando and Marcia can keep on keepin' on. He's telling her there's nothing going on between him and Fatima and she ain't buying. I finally get sick of Marcia and fast forward.
Luigi's disaster is that the sound isn't working, there's a very loud annoying hum. Omar tries to help Luigi but the sound guys can't find the problem. Omar convinces Luigi to go away and continues to work with the sound guys on the problem. Eventually he leaves as well and we're back to Fern and Marcia fighting. Thank god Carolina interrupts and asks Marcia something and they both leave. Omar comes up and he and Fern continue to discuss Lety and Marcia and the dancers. Omar then tells Fern about the sound problem.
Fatima is now very drunk and everyone's still trying to keep Luigi from finding out. Carolina comes in and tells everyone to get ready.
Fernando and Omar are now at the sound machine, a now slightly drunk Fern is trying to fix it and Omar's trying to stop him, afraid he'll cause even more damage. Fernando thinks the machine has gotten too hot and fans it and, sure enough it works, much to Omar's surprise. Fern brags a little and they leave.
It's later in the evening and we're at Marcia's crib. She's talking to Alicia about Fatima and Lety and we get a shot of Alicia at the office, dressed to the nines. They hang up and Alicia brags to the cuartel that she's off to the ball, I mean launch party, and leaves. The cuartel complain and plot and twirl their moustaches and tell Marta to go get the test results.
Marta goes into Lopez's office and starts to flirt with him (ew!). He's reading the results and is surprised a pregnancy test was requested. Marta tells him she'll file it away for him, so he gives it to her and she leaves. She goes back to the cuartel and they fight over it before finally learning that Alicia is not pregnant after all. They hide it as Lopez comes out to leave, then go back to their plotting. Naturally something this important couldn't possibly wait until tomorrow and they must immediately intrude on the evening's festivities to warn Omar. They want Lety to get them into the show and she agrees.
Fernando's talking to Carolina and a reporter comes up and snaps their picture. Meanwhile back in the dressing room Fatima is really blitzed and Luigi finally catches her. He yells at her and calls Irma over and tells both of them that Fatima can't dance. Irma yells at her too for good measure. Fatima insists on talking to Fernando so Irma runs to get him.
The cuartel are all down in reception and Lety asks how they're going to explain to Alicia why the CONFIDENTIAL results of her blood test came back in Marta's name.
Missing Recap 38: Pregnant anticipation
Marta gets the test results from Lopez again and we discover Alicia isn't preggers again. Lety says she'll get them into the show again and Fernando is schmoozing with reporters again. Luigi discovers Fatima's condition again too. Irma goes to get Fernando to keep Fatima from going out after him. Lety once again wants to know how they're going to explain to Alicia that her confidential test results got to be in their hot little hands. They discuss some kind of lie they'll come up with, tease Saimon about Jazmin, and catch a taxi.
Back at Bella Life, Fernando and Omar are meet-n-greetin' when Irma runs up and tells Fern about Fatima. He appears to be pretty well on the way to toasted himself. She warns him he needs to go see Fatima or she'll come out here and raise a stink. Fernando excuses himself from the people he was talking to and fills Omar in on what's going on. Fern and Irma then head backstage as Carolina greets Teresita, Humberto, Marcia and Ariel. Teresita asks for Fernando but Carolina doesn't see him. Ariel suggests that he's probably back with the dancers and T and H chide him for the comment, not knowing how right he is. Marcia goes to find him.
Fernando is trying to talk to Fatima and she's climbing all over him. He's trying to keep her off and Luigi comes up all angry and whiney. Fern tries to convince Fatima to leave but she doesn't want to. He reminds her how important this night is and just then Marcia comes in and sees Fatima all over Fern and gets pissed. I'm not sure why, just what does she think Fern's going to do with Luigi and Irma standing right there, but oh well, that's our Marcia. He finally manages to shove Fatima onto Irma and asks her to pour her into a taxi and send her home. He then tries to explain what's going on to Marcia. Luigi tells the choreographer they're short a dancer and will have to make it work, but the guy throws a hissy diva fit and refuses. He's really kind of too big and beefy and boxer-looking to pull it off well but it's still funny and apparently Marcia thinks so too because you can see her laughing. Fern gives the guy his drink to calm him down.
At Marta's house, Paco is watching his daughter and PM's son Jaimito. I ever so don't care about their conversation, but they have to get down to Conceptos.
Back to Conceptos, Saimon gets a call from Fernando telling him to get Jazmin on the phone, so he does. Fern himself breaks the good news that she gets to be in the show. Luigi takes the phone and tells her what to do and to get there immediately. She squeals with delight and Saimon offers to drive her there. Luigi hangs up and starts blaming Fernando, but he says it's not HIS fault. Marcia also decides to continue giving him crap. Luigi comments that Jazmin isn't a good dancer but you do what ya gotta do. Meanwhile Saimon and Jazmin waste a whole lotta time chatting and dancing in Conceptos' reception.
Carolina's out greeting people and up comes Ricky and the BL People and Isabella. Ricky introduces Caro to Isa and they go into the show area.
Celso goes into Conceptos' reception with Paco and chillens, and they don't get what they need and we reach the whole gist of the setup, that they need to get to Cinderella's ball along with everyone else.
Fernando and Omar are still talking about Marcia and Fatima, then go up to greet Fern's p-units. Humberto compliments the décor but wants to know why they didn't use the studio at Conceptos. Fern tells him it's nice but too small for what they have planned. Fern and Ariel get into it and it's all rehash of their usual arguments, finally Humberto has enough and tells Ariel to shut it, though he's much nicer about it than I would have been. Marcia then comes up and throws her two cents in by telling everyone what happened with Fatima. Fern explains there's another dancer on the way and says it isn't important, Ariel says it is, it's another symptom of Fern's ineptitude and again with the insults. Ah, good times. Finally Ricky comes up and saves the day, dragging Isabella with him.
Alicia arrives and says hi to Carolina, then goes to track down Marcia. Lopez shows up right behind her and offers to give Alicia a ride home later (PLEASE god don't let him explain what kind of ride he means!), but she just tosses her hair at him with disdain and tells him she has her Mercedes. He then tries to hit on Caro, but she's just grossed out, as any normal red-blooded woman who isn't trying to get something out of him (Jazmin) would be. Speaking of Jaz, Marcia comes up and tells Carolina that they're waiting for her to arrive to replace Fatima.
Alicia goes into the bar and orders a drink and sits at a table. Marcia comes in and catches her drinking it and gives her hell for drinking while in the family way. Alicia says she needs it to calm her nerves, but Marcia takes it and drinks it herself and tells Alicia about Fatima, and how she's pissed because now she can't use Fatima as an excuse to fire Lety.
The senior Mendiolas are talking to Ricky and posse when Omar, Marcia and Alicia come up and Humberto introduces everyone to everyone. A waiter comes up with a tray of food and Alicia pretends the smell is making her sick and heads of to the bathroom while Omar and Ariel watch her go. Isabella and Ricky walk away and Teresita asks what's wrong with Alicia. This makes Fernando laugh into Omar's shoulder and Marcia fills her in on Alicia's not-so-secret secret. Ariel looks pissed and he and Omar excuse themselves from the group.
Someone's interviewing Ricky and tries to interview Ariel too, but he isn't interested in being interviewed. Omar's drinking at the bar and Caro comes up to talk to him. They chat and she tries to make him feel better about doing the right thing.
Ariel joins Alicia in the ladies room and starts giving her the usual hell about being pregnant. He finally agrees to take care of her but demands that she leave right away, he doesn't care where. She tells him she wants an apartment in Miami, in South Beach, plus cash to live on. He says no and she tells him she wants what's best for her son. They discuss and he finally agrees to her terms. She wants 5 thousand dollars because it's an expensive place to live, and he agrees as long as she agrees to leave tomorrow. He leaves and she gloats. He passes Omar in the hallway, also on his way to confront Alicia in the ladies room.
The cuartel show up downstairs but the doorman refuses to let them in without invitations.
Alicia's gloating in the bathroom when Omar walks in. He says he wants to go ahead and acknowledge that the child is his and take care of it, but he doesn't want to get married. She tells him no, she's going to go to Miami tomorrow with his child. They discuss it and she tells him she refuses to stay unless he marries her. She walks out and gloats in the hallway... South Beach or Marriage, she wins either way, what a miracle!
The cuartel show their work badges to the doorman, but he still won't let them in. Sara gets rude, so he threatens them with the police. Saimon comes in with Jazmin and they all give him hell, then when they see he's going in, ask him to get Fernando for them. We get a shot of Fern talking to Ricky and Ernesto, aka BL Guy. Saimon and Jazmin are passed through and the cuartel are pissed. Lety wants to leave and not cause a problem with Marcia but the rest convince her to stay.
Saimon turns Jazmin over to Carolina, who takes her backstage. Saimon manages to sneak backstage himself. The dancers are all dressed and Luigi comes in and my oh my he looks really super HAWT! He can be so yummy when he's not sporting dead animals draped over his shoulders. Caro brings Jaz in and he gives her crap for being so late and tells her to go get dressed. She wastes even more time thanking him profusely. Caro goes out front and tells everyone they're ready to start and everyone sits.
Alicia catches up to Marcia and tells her about heading for Miami's golden shores. Lopez sidles up to Alicia and tells her it was a good idea to test for pregnancy. She's surprised and tells him she didn't ask for a pregnancy test and wants to know if anyone else saw the results. Lopez tells her after he read it, it was given to Marta to be filed. Alicia climbs on the clue bus and realizes that the cuartel set the whole thing up and she's pissed. She calls Celso and asks if the cuartel are still at work and he tells her they left. She hangs up and worries that they're going to cause a scandal for her.
Fernando gets up and makes a speech and introduces Ricky Armstrong. Alicia arrives at the table and Marcia wants to know what she and Lopez talked about and she says it was something about her contract. Ricky then gives his speech.
The cuartel are still unable to enter the ball and Lety still doesn't want to cause trouble with Marcia. Lola is, of course, freaking about Jazmin getting to dance. They're still pinning their entry hopes on Saimon managing to get to Fernando. Meanwhile, during Ricky's speech, Saimon sneaks drinks to Fernando and tells him about Lety and the cuartel being there and wanting to come in. Marcia overhears this and gets pissed, saying Lety wants to be in on everything, and Fern calms her down. Omar, sitting two seats away, calls him on his cell phone and tells him he should let her in because it's not a good idea to turn away the owner of the company. Fern tells Marcia he has to pee and leaves. Alicia asks Marcia what's going on and Marcia tells her the cuartel are there trying to get in. Alicia asks if Marta's there too and Marcia says yeah, probably. Alicia's upset, knowing her little not-so-secret secret is about to blow sky high.
Marcia once again wants Lety's head and complains about her helping him to hide Fatima. He says he can't fire Lety and she says can't or don't want to? At first he replies that he doesn't want to, then he changes it to can't. She's pissed as he tells her Lety's fundamental to the job and they go back and forth for a while. Finally she says I don't care what you say, I want a head! If you can't fire Fatima, you have to fire Lety.
The next day Lety is telling her parents about the upcoming commercial preview and launch party. Tomas comes over and eats her breakfast and she takes him to her room to chat. Tomas asks her for a favor and wants her to call him on his cell phone from now on. It's a dumb conversation having nothing to add to the general storyline, so I ignore the rest of it. Lety leaves.
At Conceptos, we're still getting Garnier commercials as Luigi holds up a basket of red apples and admires the ad he did for the Nutrisse red hair color. He and Irma discuss it, bleh! How they're able to do those conversations with straight faces is beyond me, but I guess that's why they're the actors and not me. Anyway, Fernando comes in and wants Luigi to fire Fatima, but naturally Luigi refuses. They discuss much with Fern telling him Fatima is sick and might cause a scandal during the launch, but Luigi replies that if Fatima is ill it's Fernando's fault for seducing her in the first place. In the hallway they're still arguing about it when Jazmin comes up and starts flirting with Fernando. Luigi blocks her from reaching Fern and tells her to leave. Marcia comes up and Luigi complains to her and leaves. She wants to know what's going on and Fern complains to her too and she leaves.
Lety comes in and says hi and he jumps down her throat for being late. She gives some lame excuse that she's not THAT late and oh look, Alicia's not there either (yeah Lety, compare yourself to the biggest loser in the company, that's smart!). He starts yelling about Alicia as Lety walks away. Marcia comes up and, after Fern points out her friend isn't there, covers for Alicia. She goes into Lety's office and asks her something about a check. Lety takes the paperwork from her and goes into Fernando's office. She smiles at him and he smiles back at her and Marcia gives them an ugly face, then she and Lety leave.
Marta comes in and gives him some contracts just as Lety's phone rings. He asks Marta to answer it and it's Tomas; she's excited to be talking to him. Lety comes in with paperwork and Marta tells her that her boyfriend, Tomas Mora, was on the phone. Lety's eye twitches as Fernando looks upset. She leaves with Marta and, out in the lobby, tells her she shouldn't have mentioned Tomas in front of Fernando. Marta wants to know why and Lety tells her Tomas isn't her novio, he's just a very good friend. Marta leaves and Lety talks to Lola about the papers in her hand.
Omar goes into Fern's office and Fern tells him Lety has a boyfriend. Omar can't believe anyone would be attracted to Lety, she's too ugly, and is impactado when Fern tells him it's Tomas Mora. They discuss it a lot, with Omar thinking they should have investigated Lety more before turning the company over to her. What bothers Fern more is that now they don't only depend on Lety, they depend on Tomas as well. Omar teases him about being jealous and Fernando is feeling no love for Omar's humor.
Alicia finally gets in and Marcia tells her about her current problem with Fernando, and that she's demanded a firing, either Fatima's or Lety's. Juana and Sara are listening in and Lola and Marta come up and listen in too. Marcia gives Alicia a bad time for coming late. Alicia uses her pregnancy as an excuse but Marcia says it's not good enough. She leaves and the cuartel begin to discuss what they've just heard.
Fernando and Omar are teasing each other when Marcia comes in looking for Lety. Fernando yells for her and she comes out of her cubbyhole and gives some money to Marcia and wants her to sign a receipt. Marcia doesn't feel she should have to sign, but Fernando backs Lety up saying it's just a formality (and just salt in Marcia's already wide open Lety wounds). Marcia signs and leaves and Lety goes back to her office. Fern tells Omar how Marcia's pissed about Fatima and told him if he can't get rid of her, he has to get rid of Lety, but he says he's not going to allow her to touch a hair on Lety's head, not even the ones in her moustache. Lety's listening in, of course, and his comment makes her swoon with happiness, and while I'd also be glad he stuck up for me, I'm not sure I'd be so fond of the moustache crack. Anyway, Fern complains about Luigi not being helpful and he starts drinking as he and Omar continue to discuss the Fatima situation, then they discuss Tomas some more.
Lety calls her house asking for Tomas. Mom answers and he asks her to tell Lety to call him on his cell phone, but mom forces him to take the house phone. Lety also tells him to stop already with the cell phone crap! Tomas reminds her that the first payment to the Bank of Americas is due soon. Lety comes out and talks to Fernando about the upcoming payment. Fernando asks her about her "novio" Tomas, her friend who works at Filmo Imagen. She explains that Tomas isn't her boyfriend, she just invented the story for something to tell the cuartel, but it's not real. He tells her "fine" and she leaves.
Lola and Lety are getting ready to leave for lunch and convince Marta to go with them. The rest of the cuartel joins them and Saimon comes up but they all ignore him because of his ties to Jazmin. Then they all decide to hit him, then they leave. Saimon spies Fern and runs up to him, but Fern knows what it's about and again tells Saimon he can't help Jazmin. Fern leaves and Saimon is sad.
Fern goes to Omar's office for a change and happily tells him that Tomas isn't Lety's boyfriend and what she said. Omar's still cautious and says when a woman claims she doesn't have a fiancé, she usually does (what? Let's see if that works... I'm NOT engaged to George Clooney, I'm not! I'm really not! Honestly! Hhmmm... nope, still no ring on my finger and half ownership of a villa in Italy, so there goes Omar's logic down the toilet!). Fern and Omar decide to find out everything they can from the cuartel about Tomas. They argue about who should have to try to get the intel, and Omar points out that it was Fernando who created Filmo Imagen, set up the embargo, and put it all in Lety's hands, therefore he should have to do the detective work. He leaves his own office and Fernando talks to himself like an investigative reporter checking into Tomas Mora.
As always, the garbage is flying in the bathroom between Alicia and the cuartel, including Lety. They tease Alicia about the clothes joke and she tells them her dress is exclusive. She then brags that she's going to the launch party tonight because she's special and they aren't going because they aren't special, and Lety brags that she's going to invite the cuartel to the launch. Naturally, Alicia runs to Marcia and whines (aaaayyyyyy Mmaaaarrrrcccciiiiaaaaa) about what Lety said and once again steam issues forth from Marcia's ears and nostrils. Marcia confronts Lety in front of everyone and tells her it's not her place to invite anyone anywhere and who does she think she is to disrespect herself (Marcia) and the company. She then rants about this special power Lety THINKS she has but doesn't. She and Alicia leave and Irma comforts Lety while Sara does her usual amazon-roller derby-hold-me-back schtick.
Lopez calls Marta and asks her for the dancers' contracts. She tells him Fernando has them and he tells her to go get them. She goes into Fernando's office to get them and Fern asks her to sit and starts pumping her for info about Tomas. They begin to trade gossip like two old women as she tells him about Juana and the shells and what she saw. They get really comfy and really start chatting.
In the bathroom the cuartel are waiting for Marta and talking. Irma says she has to go but they talk her into staying, but Marta and Fernando are still gossiping. She asks Fernando to promise not to fire Lety and for some reason she wants to do it in English, so she has him repeat after her: "cross my heart, ok". Fern asks if it isn't supposed to be "hope to die" but she says no, it's "ok", so he repeats what she said. I mention it in detail because it was actually kinda cute and I just love it when Fern speaks English no matter how short the conversation. *sigh*. Let me try that thing again... I'm NOT engaged to Jaime, I'm not... hhmmm, never mind. Where was I? Oh yeah... we get a flashback to the shell reading, and Marta continues to gossip. Lopez butts in looking for the contracts and Marta takes them and leaves. Lopez sits in her chair also wanting to gossip with Fernando, but Fern puts him down and Lopez leaves like the song, only with a lick and a squeak instead of a wink and a smile.
Marta gives the contracts to Saimon to take to the dancers for their signatures. He spritzes himself with cologne and dances for joy and leaves. He runs into Marcia and Alicia and tells them where he's going and Alicia teases him unkindly about Jazmin. Marcia wants to know if that's the woman who caused Lola problems and he agrees that it is. She tells him everyone has to try to get along at work, then tells Saimon she wants to see Carolina so she'll go with him (apparently everyone's over at the place where the show will be held). Saimon and Marcia leave.
Marta goes into the bathroom and tells the cuartel she was late because she was with Fernando. Lety wants to know why and she tells her it was about the contracts. Marta goes back to her desk and Fernando comes out and pretends to yell at her about something but actually wants to continue with the gossip. They go back into his office and continue the Tomas discussion. We flash back to Juana's second reading of the shells and Lety tells them more about Tomas. Fernando wants to know if Tomas is Lety's novio, yes or no. Marta tells him no and he thanks dios, but then she adds that he's her great platonic love and Fern's upset again. Then Marta mentions the second reading and how Juana said Lety's novio would bring her fortune. Now Fern's REALLY upset!
Missing Recap 37: Our Lady of *belch*
Again with the Fernando/Marta gossip session, and again Marta tells him that Lety's novio is going to bring her fortune. Fern ends the session, now more worried than ever. The cuartel are at lunch chatting and Marta joins them. She tells them she should be getting the results of Alicia's blood test soon, then they talk about Fernando and Tomas and she tells Lety she told Fernando that Tomas was just a friend. They all tease Lety about Tomas.
Fernando calls Omar, who's at Bella Life preparing for the launch, and tells him what Marta told him. They discuss, Fern's worried, and Omar tells him to calm down and hangs up. Saimon arrives with the contracts and Omar talks to him while looking for Carolina.
Luigi gives the dancers a rest and Saimon dances for him and suggests choreography changes. Luigi pretty much tells him to piss off. Saimon then tries to give him the contracts, but he tells him to give them to Irma instead once she gets there. Saimon leaves and Luigi calls for Carolina. Backstage Saimon gives the contracts to the models to sign, and notices that Fatima is drunk. He finds her flask and tries to talk to her about it, but like Luigi she pretty much just tells him to piss off.
Back at Conceptos, Fernando goes into the lobby trying to chat with Marta again. Jazmin comes up and kisses his hinder still hoping he'll come through for her, and wishes him luck tonight. He thanks her and leaves.
Meanwhile the cuartel are still rehashing at lunch. Marta excuses herself to go to the bathroom and Sara discusses wanting a man for herself. The waiter comes and complains that Marta stole some food, and the cuartel have to wrestle it from her.
Carolina is giving the chef instructions for tonight and Omar comes up and starts flirting with her. They leave together while Omar continues to flirt and she's trying to get him to stop. Finally she puts him in his place mentioning pregnancy, and he hears a baby crying in his head. He asks her not to use that word, so of course she uses it again.
PM signs for Alicia's test results. Lety apologizes to Fernando for coming back late from lunch, and he's very cool to her as he tells her it's ok and heads into the lobby. She's wondering que the hell is up with him?
Saimon dances by Fernando and tells him he got all the dancer's signatures on the contracts. He also tells him that Fatima is asking about him. Saimon then gives the contracts to Marta, as well as the envelope with Alicia's test results, then he dances off like the little dancing machine cricket that he is (I like Saimon, he's so cute and upbeat. I do wish he wasn't so p-whipped, but other than that I think he's adorable).
The cuartel debate on whether or not they should open Alicia's test results, but just then Lopez walks by. He sees the results so Marta has no choice but to give it to him. He lick/squeaks and leaves and they're upset they weren't able to open it. Marta's daughter calls, more kid crap and I'm sorry but I just don't care.
Back at Bella Life, Fatima is still on her binge. Luigi comes in to talk to the models and two of them cover for her so Luigi doesn't catch her, then the rest of the models join in as well.
Omar and Carolina have a conversation about the dancers. Marcia goes to Luigi, angry that Fatima is still there. Luigi begs her to be reasonable, he simply can't fire her on the very day of the big presentation. He's also upset because Irma hasn't arrived yet with the costumes. Marcia gives in about Fatima and leaves. Meanwhile we see that Fatima is still hittin' on her flask and is now even more drunk.
Fernando comes in and there's chat between him, Omar and Carolina about all kinds of things, the dancers, the booze and food... Fernando's very nervous and Omar and Caro try to calm him down. He and Omar leave the area just as two models run by. Fern starts to chase them but Omar pulls him back, and the girls run to Fatima to let her know that Fernando's arrived. They try to get her to stop drinking but she's on a party-till-I-puke mission and won't stop.
Fern goes to the bar with Omar and tells him that Tomas is the platonic love of Lety. He tells him about Juana and the shells and remembers back to the time in the car when Lety had asked for a job for Tomas. He asks Omar if he thinks Lety's trying to conquer Tomas with money, and is worried that Tomas will be able to manipulate Lety.
Back at Conceptos, Jazmin is helping Irma pack up the costumes. Saimon comes in and tells her what Luigi said, doing a very funny imitation of him. Irma leaves and Saimon hugs Jaz, they chat, she pouts, they dance, typical Saimon/Jaz stuff.
Omar and Fernando continue their Lety talk and are working themselves up into a paranoid lather all based on something someone reading snail shells said. Go figure! I think for the first time Omar floats the idea that they have to make Lety coo coo for Fernando's coco puffs. At that comment, we get a shot of Lety in her office dreaming of those very same coco puffs. Fern is impactado at the very idea and tells Omar it's ridiculous. Just then Marcia comes up and makes a nasty crack about the dancers and Fern tells her she's paranoid.
Irma finally gets there and Luigi reams her out for being late. Meanwhile Fernando is still giving Marcia crap and she's tossing it right back at him. He's also still drinking heavily. Luigi comes up and listens for a bit but finally gets tired of it and interrupts and tells everyone there's a disaster. Omar offers to deal with it so the two of them leave so Fernando and Marcia can keep on keepin' on. He's telling her there's nothing going on between him and Fatima and she ain't buying. I finally get sick of Marcia and fast forward.
Luigi's disaster is that the sound isn't working, there's a very loud annoying hum. Omar tries to help Luigi but the sound guys can't find the problem. Omar convinces Luigi to go away and continues to work with the sound guys on the problem. Eventually he leaves as well and we're back to Fern and Marcia fighting. Thank god Carolina interrupts and asks Marcia something and they both leave. Omar comes up and he and Fern continue to discuss Lety and Marcia and the dancers. Omar then tells Fern about the sound problem.
Fatima is now very drunk and everyone's still trying to keep Luigi from finding out. Carolina comes in and tells everyone to get ready.
Fernando and Omar are now at the sound machine, a now slightly drunk Fern is trying to fix it and Omar's trying to stop him, afraid he'll cause even more damage. Fernando thinks the machine has gotten too hot and fans it and, sure enough it works, much to Omar's surprise. Fern brags a little and they leave.
It's later in the evening and we're at Marcia's crib. She's talking to Alicia about Fatima and Lety and we get a shot of Alicia at the office, dressed to the nines. They hang up and Alicia brags to the cuartel that she's off to the ball, I mean launch party, and leaves. The cuartel complain and plot and twirl their moustaches and tell Marta to go get the test results.
Marta goes into Lopez's office and starts to flirt with him (ew!). He's reading the results and is surprised a pregnancy test was requested. Marta tells him she'll file it away for him, so he gives it to her and she leaves. She goes back to the cuartel and they fight over it before finally learning that Alicia is not pregnant after all. They hide it as Lopez comes out to leave, then go back to their plotting. Naturally something this important couldn't possibly wait until tomorrow and they must immediately intrude on the evening's festivities to warn Omar. They want Lety to get them into the show and she agrees.
Fernando's talking to Carolina and a reporter comes up and snaps their picture. Meanwhile back in the dressing room Fatima is really blitzed and Luigi finally catches her. He yells at her and calls Irma over and tells both of them that Fatima can't dance. Irma yells at her too for good measure. Fatima insists on talking to Fernando so Irma runs to get him.
The cuartel are all down in reception and Lety asks how they're going to explain to Alicia why the CONFIDENTIAL results of her blood test came back in Marta's name.
Missing Recap 38: Pregnant anticipation
Marta gets the test results from Lopez again and we discover Alicia isn't preggers again. Lety says she'll get them into the show again and Fernando is schmoozing with reporters again. Luigi discovers Fatima's condition again too. Irma goes to get Fernando to keep Fatima from going out after him. Lety once again wants to know how they're going to explain to Alicia that her confidential test results got to be in their hot little hands. They discuss some kind of lie they'll come up with, tease Saimon about Jazmin, and catch a taxi.
Back at Bella Life, Fernando and Omar are meet-n-greetin' when Irma runs up and tells Fern about Fatima. He appears to be pretty well on the way to toasted himself. She warns him he needs to go see Fatima or she'll come out here and raise a stink. Fernando excuses himself from the people he was talking to and fills Omar in on what's going on. Fern and Irma then head backstage as Carolina greets Teresita, Humberto, Marcia and Ariel. Teresita asks for Fernando but Carolina doesn't see him. Ariel suggests that he's probably back with the dancers and T and H chide him for the comment, not knowing how right he is. Marcia goes to find him.
Fernando is trying to talk to Fatima and she's climbing all over him. He's trying to keep her off and Luigi comes up all angry and whiney. Fern tries to convince Fatima to leave but she doesn't want to. He reminds her how important this night is and just then Marcia comes in and sees Fatima all over Fern and gets pissed. I'm not sure why, just what does she think Fern's going to do with Luigi and Irma standing right there, but oh well, that's our Marcia. He finally manages to shove Fatima onto Irma and asks her to pour her into a taxi and send her home. He then tries to explain what's going on to Marcia. Luigi tells the choreographer they're short a dancer and will have to make it work, but the guy throws a hissy diva fit and refuses. He's really kind of too big and beefy and boxer-looking to pull it off well but it's still funny and apparently Marcia thinks so too because you can see her laughing. Fern gives the guy his drink to calm him down.
At Marta's house, Paco is watching his daughter and PM's son Jaimito. I ever so don't care about their conversation, but they have to get down to Conceptos.
Back to Conceptos, Saimon gets a call from Fernando telling him to get Jazmin on the phone, so he does. Fern himself breaks the good news that she gets to be in the show. Luigi takes the phone and tells her what to do and to get there immediately. She squeals with delight and Saimon offers to drive her there. Luigi hangs up and starts blaming Fernando, but he says it's not HIS fault. Marcia also decides to continue giving him crap. Luigi comments that Jazmin isn't a good dancer but you do what ya gotta do. Meanwhile Saimon and Jazmin waste a whole lotta time chatting and dancing in Conceptos' reception.
Carolina's out greeting people and up comes Ricky and the BL People and Isabella. Ricky introduces Caro to Isa and they go into the show area.
Celso goes into Conceptos' reception with Paco and chillens, and they don't get what they need and we reach the whole gist of the setup, that they need to get to Cinderella's ball along with everyone else.
Fernando and Omar are still talking about Marcia and Fatima, then go up to greet Fern's p-units. Humberto compliments the décor but wants to know why they didn't use the studio at Conceptos. Fern tells him it's nice but too small for what they have planned. Fern and Ariel get into it and it's all rehash of their usual arguments, finally Humberto has enough and tells Ariel to shut it, though he's much nicer about it than I would have been. Marcia then comes up and throws her two cents in by telling everyone what happened with Fatima. Fern explains there's another dancer on the way and says it isn't important, Ariel says it is, it's another symptom of Fern's ineptitude and again with the insults. Ah, good times. Finally Ricky comes up and saves the day, dragging Isabella with him.
Alicia arrives and says hi to Carolina, then goes to track down Marcia. Lopez shows up right behind her and offers to give Alicia a ride home later (PLEASE god don't let him explain what kind of ride he means!), but she just tosses her hair at him with disdain and tells him she has her Mercedes. He then tries to hit on Caro, but she's just grossed out, as any normal red-blooded woman who isn't trying to get something out of him (Jazmin) would be. Speaking of Jaz, Marcia comes up and tells Carolina that they're waiting for her to arrive to replace Fatima.
Alicia goes into the bar and orders a drink and sits at a table. Marcia comes in and catches her drinking it and gives her hell for drinking while in the family way. Alicia says she needs it to calm her nerves, but Marcia takes it and drinks it herself and tells Alicia about Fatima, and how she's pissed because now she can't use Fatima as an excuse to fire Lety.
The senior Mendiolas are talking to Ricky and posse when Omar, Marcia and Alicia come up and Humberto introduces everyone to everyone. A waiter comes up with a tray of food and Alicia pretends the smell is making her sick and heads of to the bathroom while Omar and Ariel watch her go. Isabella and Ricky walk away and Teresita asks what's wrong with Alicia. This makes Fernando laugh into Omar's shoulder and Marcia fills her in on Alicia's not-so-secret secret. Ariel looks pissed and he and Omar excuse themselves from the group.
Someone's interviewing Ricky and tries to interview Ariel too, but he isn't interested in being interviewed. Omar's drinking at the bar and Caro comes up to talk to him. They chat and she tries to make him feel better about doing the right thing.
Ariel joins Alicia in the ladies room and starts giving her the usual hell about being pregnant. He finally agrees to take care of her but demands that she leave right away, he doesn't care where. She tells him she wants an apartment in Miami, in South Beach, plus cash to live on. He says no and she tells him she wants what's best for her son. They discuss and he finally agrees to her terms. She wants 5 thousand dollars because it's an expensive place to live, and he agrees as long as she agrees to leave tomorrow. He leaves and she gloats. He passes Omar in the hallway, also on his way to confront Alicia in the ladies room.
The cuartel show up downstairs but the doorman refuses to let them in without invitations.
Alicia's gloating in the bathroom when Omar walks in. He says he wants to go ahead and acknowledge that the child is his and take care of it, but he doesn't want to get married. She tells him no, she's going to go to Miami tomorrow with his child. They discuss it and she tells him she refuses to stay unless he marries her. She walks out and gloats in the hallway... South Beach or Marriage, she wins either way, what a miracle!
The cuartel show their work badges to the doorman, but he still won't let them in. Sara gets rude, so he threatens them with the police. Saimon comes in with Jazmin and they all give him hell, then when they see he's going in, ask him to get Fernando for them. We get a shot of Fern talking to Ricky and Ernesto, aka BL Guy. Saimon and Jazmin are passed through and the cuartel are pissed. Lety wants to leave and not cause a problem with Marcia but the rest convince her to stay.
Saimon turns Jazmin over to Carolina, who takes her backstage. Saimon manages to sneak backstage himself. The dancers are all dressed and Luigi comes in and my oh my he looks really super HAWT! He can be so yummy when he's not sporting dead animals draped over his shoulders. Caro brings Jaz in and he gives her crap for being so late and tells her to go get dressed. She wastes even more time thanking him profusely. Caro goes out front and tells everyone they're ready to start and everyone sits.
Alicia catches up to Marcia and tells her about heading for Miami's golden shores. Lopez sidles up to Alicia and tells her it was a good idea to test for pregnancy. She's surprised and tells him she didn't ask for a pregnancy test and wants to know if anyone else saw the results. Lopez tells her after he read it, it was given to Marta to be filed. Alicia climbs on the clue bus and realizes that the cuartel set the whole thing up and she's pissed. She calls Celso and asks if the cuartel are still at work and he tells her they left. She hangs up and worries that they're going to cause a scandal for her.
Fernando gets up and makes a speech and introduces Ricky Armstrong. Alicia arrives at the table and Marcia wants to know what she and Lopez talked about and she says it was something about her contract. Ricky then gives his speech.
The cuartel are still unable to enter the ball and Lety still doesn't want to cause trouble with Marcia. Lola is, of course, freaking about Jazmin getting to dance. They're still pinning their entry hopes on Saimon managing to get to Fernando. Meanwhile, during Ricky's speech, Saimon sneaks drinks to Fernando and tells him about Lety and the cuartel being there and wanting to come in. Marcia overhears this and gets pissed, saying Lety wants to be in on everything, and Fern calms her down. Omar, sitting two seats away, calls him on his cell phone and tells him he should let her in because it's not a good idea to turn away the owner of the company. Fern tells Marcia he has to pee and leaves. Alicia asks Marcia what's going on and Marcia tells her the cuartel are there trying to get in. Alicia asks if Marta's there too and Marcia says yeah, probably. Alicia's upset, knowing her little not-so-secret secret is about to blow sky high.
Labels: fea-m
Friday, November 02, 2007
La Fea Más Bella #51-53 Missing Recaps 33-35, by Kim P.
Happy/sad news, y'all... just two more installments to go after this one, and then we're truly done.
Missing Recap 33: The Fly/Honey Diet
Lety once again tells Fern his company's in good hands. He touches her face again and he moves in for a kiss again. Suddenly they start dancing a tango-like dance while they discuss the company; yep it's time once again for Fantasy Island Lety-Style. She tells Fern she supports him unconditionally and he tells her his love is as big as the sea. The real Fernando has to ruin it all by snapping his fingers to wake her up wanting to know que the hell is she doing?!
Marta is sadly eating her pathetic little lunch when Fern walks by and, surprised by how small it is, asks her what she's eating. She tells him while he asks about what she usually eats. He then notices how skinny she is and compliments her. But, like so many other characters on this show, suddenly his evil twin takes control of his body and he begins to berate her for eating at her desk. He takes her dish and pours the food into his mouth and walks off, leaving Marta in an emotional downward spiral.
The cuartel are chatting in the bathroom (what a surprise, huh?) and Marta joins them. They're talking about their huge lunch and Juana says she doesn't feel well and we're treated to yet another Pepto Bismol commercial, this time it's Sara with the bottle handily in her locker, extolling its virtues. Commercial over, Marta asks them to stop talking about their fab lunch because hers was tiny and Fern ate it all. They go back to work (hee hee, I love saying that when y'all just KNOW it's not true! These guys wouldn't know real work if it actually bit them in the butt!).
Saimon comes dancing off the elevator and showers the cuartel with compliments and mail. Jaz walks up, calling Saimon's name, and his drool spigot starts running. He stops what he's doing and goes to talk to her while Lola does her usual, now-boring freak-out thing. Jazmin wants to know if Saimon's talked to Fern yet, which he hasn't. She pouts. She pushes him to please talk to Fern, and then complains about the cuartel. He calms her down and flirts more. She relents and flirts back and he leaves happy. He dances back into the lobby and continues with the mail. Lola gives him hell, telling him not to talk to Luigi about Jazmin. Personally, I'm wishing someone would tell this woman the old saw about getting more flies with honey than with vinegar. Oh well, I guess this is where she's supposed to "grow" by the end of the show. During this whole conversation, Alicia comes in off the elevator.
Efren comes into reception and PM sends him upstairs. He looks worried about what Lola will do. He gets on the elevator, crosses himself, and prays. The feas tell Lola to try to talk to Efren calmly instead of getting her usual freak on. I guess they listened to me and gave her the flies/honey/vinegar speech. When he gets off the elevator in the lobby, Alicia laughs at him and Saimon growls at him. Lola chugs a mental margarita and is calm while the cuartel chant mantras in the background. He says hi to everyone and is surprised by Lola's calmness. Jaz walks in and he begs her to stay back, not wanting to start anything. He gives Lola a check, explaining that it's short (no wonder he crossed himself). She tells him it's ok and he can give her the balance later. He's happily impactado and makes his escape while he can, barely speaking to Jazmin. She looks at the cuartel, gets scared, and runs off. Naturally, once they're both gone Lola can't contain it any more and releases her inner Psycho B*tch Queen from Hell.
Saimon's back downstairs when Luigi comes in with the dancers. He asks to talk to Luigi, but Luigi says no and gets on the elevator. PM makes fun of Saimon.
The cuartel are all laughing (I told you they wouldn't be working) in the lobby when Fatima comes in looking for Fernando. Lola tells her Fern isn't there and she wants to know if he's with Marcia and Marta tells her Marcia's at her in-laws house (ok one, F & M aren't married yet... two, that's some personal info to just be handing out to any random visitor. Oh well, that's our fun-filled unprofessional cuartel). Fatima thanks them and leaves, and Lola comments that Fern's gonna be dead if Marcia finds out about her.
Back at the senior Mendiolas' nest, Teresita gives Marcia a gift and they chat about the wedding and other stuff. Humberto comes in and asks about the company and Marcia tells him everything's just peachy keen-a-reno. Humb's upset because he hasn't heard anything from Fernando and again Marcia placates him.
Fern and Lety are at the bank talking to the manager. He's concerned about how much debt Conceptos has built up and F and L are trying to calm him down. Lety shows him a presentation that I think is probably just bullshite and the banker agrees with me and continues to worry. He wants to know if Humberto is aware of all of this, and Fern tells him not to worry about Humberto because HE'S in charge of Conceptos now (poor Conceptos). They discuss the possibility of a scandal should the public find out about all the debt.
Back at Casa Mendiola, Marcia's trying to call Fernando but can't reach him. Teresita asks Marcia if she's worried about where he is and if she's jealous. Marcia denies the jealousy and says Fern's just with Lety so there's nothing to worry about, which makes Teresita laugh. Just then Ariel comes in with hugs and kisses for everyone. He wants to know where Fernando is while they all chat, then he breaks the news that Fernando's going to be presenting the Bella Life commercial tomorrow. The 'rents act shocked, which surprises me because I thought they knew that and it was, in fact, one of the reasons they flew out from London. But heck, what do I know?
Luigi is still working with the dancers, preparing for the B.L. Launch presentation. Jazmin is still dancing along in the wings. Luigi's happy with how it all looks and he lets the dancers all go home.
Fernando and Lety enter reception and Saimon runs up to them wanting to talk, while Jazmin and Fatima hover in the background. Fern tells him he has to get to his parents' house and can't chat and leaves. Jaz whines.
Fern and Lety discuss his parents and the bank. I think he asks her to give his parental units the same presentation she gave to the banker. Just then Fatima comes in and Fern asks Lety to go to her office. When she's gone (but you know she's got those big ears planted at the door listening), Fern asks Fatima what she wants, and she says "you". He mentions Marcia and she tells him she knows Marcia's not there in the office and she wants to spend the night with him again. He says he can't, he has to get to his parents' house. She flirts and insists and he's trying to resist. She climbs onto his desk and starts kissing him and what's a handsome young studmuffin to do? Meanwhile, Alicia is talking to Marcia on the phone, telling her about Fatima, and Marcia tells her to go in and find out what's going on. Marta overhears and tells Lola to call Lety and warn her, which she does. Lety goes out to Fernando's office and yells out his name loudly so they'll stop kissing. Lety and Fernando then start playing tug-of-war with Fatima across the desk. Alicia walks in and Fatima jumps off the desk and all try to act like nothing's happening. Fatima leaves and Alicia tells Fernando that Marcia's waiting for him at his parents' house. He tries to give her some bull explanation but she just cuts him off and says he doesn't have to explain anything to her, Marcia's the one he has to worry about. She leaves as Omar comes in asking how things went at the bank. Fern tells him as Lety goes back to her office. Fern tells him about his close call just now with Fatima, and Omar warns him that she was involved with a married man once and created so much trouble with his family and his work that he got fired.
Saimon once again hits Luigi up, saying he knows a great dancer and starts extolling all her virtues like she's Pepto Bismol or something. Luigi, who knows but asks anyway, wants to know who Saimon's talking about and of course he says Jazmin. There's a lot of chat about it, but ultimately Luigi says uh uh, nope, no way no how, nyet, etc. He tells him Jazmin's a crappy dancer, and of course she comes walking up just in time to hear that. Luigi also mentions the Lola/Cheque thing and I'm shocked because it sounds like he's actually supporting Lola. See, like I said, more flies with honey... if she'd have just ASKED Luigi not to use Jaz instead of ORDERING him... Anyway, Luigi leaves and Jazmin runs off crying with Saimon following.
Fern, Lety and Omar are again rehashing finances. Lety gives Omar more grief about the contraband and how much money they lost on that and Fern tells her to calm down. Meanwhile, to save space I won't start a new line, Jazmin is crying and Saimon is trying to calm her down. Everyone's tossing "calmate"s and "tranquila"s all over the place in Conceptos these days. Meanwhile, back at the office, Lety goes back to her office, then leaves. Omar continues to lay seeds of doubt in Fern's mind about Lety, saying it's going to take a year or more to pay off all their debts, and therefore Fern isn't going to reach his stated goals and will lose the presidency, and if that happens Lety will be the true owner of Conceptos.
Meanwhile, Lety's chatting with the cuartel down in reception and I couldn't care less and fast forward.
At Marta's house, Paco gives his daughter a watch and she's happy and leaves the room. Marta gets home and he asks her about the car. She acts all sexy and tells him she's not fat any more and does he like it? He says yes, but where's the car? She tells him she spent the money on herself, on liposuction, and he's very upset. They go back and forth about it; she thought he'd be happy she was pretty, he wanting her to have a car. She shows him a really skimpy negligee she wants to wear for him and he just cries and blows his nose into it.
Now to Casa Padilla, Lety and Tomas talk about the new loan. It's just rehash, nothing new here. They also put themselves down about their feo-ness. Lety locks away the papers as there's more rehash and fea talk, as well as more discussion about Alicia and her baby.
Fern finally gets with his family and greets everyone. There's a lot of back and forth with Ariel about the meeting and Humberto wanting to know how the company's doing and Mom not wanting to talk about it now. It all boils down to Humberto and Ariel wanting a full-on board meeting or shareholder meeting and Fernando wanting to keep it just the small group. Mumsy actually sides with her baby boy on this one and Humb and Ariel back down.
Meanwhile, Lety's talking mushy stuff with her mom, complaining about all the responsibilities she has at work. Mom bucks her up because after all, that's what moms are for (are you listening Teresita?).
Next day Alicia is at the lab for her blood tests. She's very nervous and we learn she doesn't care for needles at all. Meanwhile Marta is crying to the cuartel, including Lety, about Paco's reaction about the car (or lack thereof). Fern comes in and takes Lety with him to his office and tells her about having to have a meeting. He's upset and she tries to calm him down. He asks her to create a financial report that lists their expenses, but also shows the income from the Bella Life campaign. Lety reminds Fern that they haven't yet received any income from B.L., but Fern says that it's necessary for them to make up the numbers. Lety's so impactada by this comment that she forgets to come to attention at the word "necessary".
Missing Recap 34: Lunch Break
Alicia's getting stuck again, Marta's crying again, and Fernando and Lety chat again. Fern asks her to call Carolina, then goes out looking for Alicia. He eats more of Marta's scant food and starts to ask them to set up lunch, but just then Alicia comes of the elevator, really drama-queening up the sore arm thing. Fern gives her hell for being late and she tells him it's because she had to go in for blood tests for work. Fern tells her to set up lunch in the conference room for the meeting. She claims she can't, using her arm and the baby as an excuse, so Fernando tells Marta to do it. Natch, this makes Alicia want to go ahead and do it, the cuartel all laugh and he tells them all to get to work. When's he gonna learn that telling them that doesn't work and he just needs to fire their lazy butts???
Marta calls the lab pretending to be Alicia and asks them to include a pregnancy test, and tells them to send the results to her (Marta).
Back at home, the embargo lawyer calls F.I. and asks for Tomas. He isn't there and mom pretends to be his secretary and takes a message. Tomas comes in and shows mom and pop his new cell phone, posing with it and stuff. Mom laughs at his cute silliness while pop calls him an idiot. We get a shot of Fernando and Lety rehashing in the office, then we're back to Padilla Central where Robopop and Tomas are working. Pop asks about F.I. and Conceptos and the bank and Tomas gets nervous and tells him to ask Lety about it. Lawyer Sanchez calls back and tells Tomas that he and the appraiser are ready to go to Conceptos. Tomas tries to talk them out of it but Sanchez says they have to do it, it's part of the process. He tells Tomas he'll meet him there and hangs up and Tomas goes upstairs to Lety's room for some privacy to call Lety.
Lety brings some papers to Fernando and then leaves with them, and while she's gone Fern answers her phone. It's Tomas, but Fern says Lety's busy and hangs up on him. Pop comes in and sees Tomas on Lety's bed and gives him crap, but Tomas tells him he's meditating. Erasmo asks why he's so nervous and Tomas gives him some lame excuse, and Erasmo boots him out of Lety's room.
Saimon's entertaining the cuartel out in the lobby, and I skip it. Lety goes back to the office while Fernando and Omar are rehashing about the upcoming meeting and their finances. Lety prepares stuff for the meeting and puts it in the conference room while Fern shows a copy of it to Omar. Meanwhile, Marcia's out front with Teresita and Humberto. They go into Conceptos just as the lawyer and appraiser show up in a taxi looking for Tomas. The 'rents go into reception and greet PM, and Carolina comes in and greets everyone as well.
Omar thinks the papers look good. Lety's phone rings again and Fernando complains about it. He goes and answers it again, and once again it's Tomas trying to get hold of Lety. Fern tells him she's busy and to call back, but Tomas tells him it's important. Fern starts giving him hell for bugging Lety at work, but Lety comes in just in time and takes the phone from Fernando. Tomas tells her that Sanchez and the appraiser are going to be there at any moment to do the inventory and she tells him this is a really bad time because of the meeting. He explains that he had no choice and she hangs up and leaves her office. She tells Fernando what's going on and he freaks out. He and Omar start to give her hell about it, but she explains that it's not her fault.
Everyone's still chatting downstairs in reception. Humberto's still worried about the fallout from the Benny Ibarra video (like I said to Ariel, let it go dude!) but Marcia and Carolina tell him the current commercial's coming along really well. Someone mentions that they're just waiting for Ariel to show up, when of course outside Sanchez and the appraiser drive by in their taxi and almost run him over. Ariel joins everyone in reception and Carolina tells them all that the Bella Life commercial is fabulous. Ariel says something rude to her about sex and everyone gives him hell about it. Celso comes in trying to keep Sanchez and partner out and Marcia wants to know what's going on.
Just then Fernando and Lety show up in the elevator. Fernando herds his family into the elevator saying it's nothing and sends them off upstairs. He then sends PM on an errand to get rid of her, then he and Lety chat with Sanchez and the appraiser. Sanchez explains why he's there, that as part of the process they have to make sure Conceptos has enough assets to cover the debt. Fernando tells them to do what they have to do, but to PLEASE be discreet about it. They agree to be discreet and he asks Lety to take care of them. Sanchez asks Lety why she's working at Conceptos, he thought she was in charge of Filmo Imagen, she just answers that it's a long story and leads them off.
Up in the executive lobby, Teresita and Humberto are congratulating Marta on how good she looks. Fernando shows up and herds everyone into the conference room, telling Omar in an aside about the lawyers being there. Meanwhile, Lety's showing them around, reiterating that they have to be discreet because the company can't have a scandal. They again agree to be discreet and she lets them look around downstairs while she leaves.
The meeting starts and everyone goes over the papers Lety prepared. Humberto asks about the men downstairs and Fernando gives him some kind of excuse. Ariel gives Fernando the usual crap and mentions the information he saw on the internet. Fern tells him it's false or incorrect information and Humberto and Teresita get mad at Ariel for always looking for trouble.
Downstairs, Sanchez and the other guy are still looking around. Celso and PM are talking about it, wondering what's going on. Lety overhears them and tells them to stop gossiping, that it's Fernando's business, not theirs, and not to say anything to anyone about it. No Lety, nothing suspicious about that at all...
The cuartel are dragging Marta to lunch and I ignore most of the conversation. They want Lety to come too but she can't; they leave.
Ariel is still droning on and on when Lety comes in and explains all the paperwork. Outside in the lobby, Alicia is giving instructions to the wait staff. Luigi comes in with the dancers and she tells him about the meeting, but he tells her he can't go, he's got too much to do to get ready. In the meeting, Lety's still 'splainin' and Ariel is still giving crap. Humberto (finally!) cuts him off and says he's happy with what he heard.
Alicia enters the room to take everyone's food orders. She hands a menu to Ariel and says something to him about his son. He tries to shush her but goes to the door and brings him in, a little boy dressed in a suit like Ariel's. The kid jumps on him and calls him Papi. The real Alicia snaps him out of his daydream (or daymare actually). He yells at her for no reason and everyone gives him que the hell looks.
At La Comedilla, the cuartel's food gets waved under Marta's nose and they all talk about it. The waiter offers to bring her a salad, but she's not at all happy. More chat I ignore.
Back to the meeting, Alicia's still taking lunch orders. She tries to hand the menu to Omar but drops it. She comes around and hits him and tries to hand him a baby. He says he's in a meeting but she gives it to him anyway along with a bottle, and tells him to feed it. Everyone looks at him and he begs there pardon for interrupting but he has to feed his son. Fernando snaps him out of HIS daymare as he's holding a menu like a baby and singing to it. He tells Alicia what he wants to eat, as does everyone else. Luigi shows up and greets everyone and gives Alicia his lunch order.
Marta is staring at everyone else's plates while they eat. The others all yack at her about staying on her diet and keeping the weight off. The waiter tries to take Sara's plate and he and Marta fight over it. They go back to work, having to fight to drag Marta out of there.
Back to the meeting for more talk, with Carolina explaining how she's set everything up. Ariel spreads his usual sunshine and Marcia yells at him, telling him the commercial is important. Luigi tells them all about the Launch Party Production and offers to give an advance showing to everyone. Lety excuses herself, con permisso'ing every single person in the room.
Out in the lobby, the cuartel come in hatching their usual anti-Alicia schemes. Marta leaves to go to the bathroom. Luigi comes out and asks Irma to go with him, and thanks Alicia for the lunch.
Meanwhile, the lawyers are chatting in an empty office, it looks like the one the computer tech had before he got fired for messing with Lety's computer. Lety comes in and they tell her they have to take pictures of the company and its inventory. She twitches. They leave and she says to herself that they can't go into the studio and embarrass Don Fernando. She chases after them and catches them in the hall and refuses to let them pass, planting herself spread-eagle in front of the doorway to block them.
Missing Recap 35: Pimp My Boss
Lety's still blocking the door, telling the men they can't enter. They say fine, but they're just trying to do their jobs. She tells them they can look everywhere else but they can't go into the studio because there's an event going on in there. They tell her to calm down, they'll be discreet, and they move on.
In the studio, everyone's watching the commercial. It ends and they clap and sing Luigi's praises. Luigi gives a speech and Humberto's happy and Ariel isn't. Luigi refuses to allow them to argue in his studio and calls in the dancers to give them a preview of tomorrow's show. Omar and Fernando clap a little too enthusiastically for the dancers for Marcia's taste. The dancers do their thing and Fern and Omar notice that Fatima is one of them. She starts playing to Fernando right in front of everyone, blowing him kisses and everything. He acts like he doesn't know what's up with her but Marcia's still pissed. Omar reminds him of the scandal she caused. The show ends and everyone claps.
Down in reception Lety's trying to hurry the lawyers along, and they get on the elevator to go upstairs. Meanwhile everyone's still in the studio congratulating Luigi. Naturally Alicia's fanning Marcia's jealousy flame, telling her how Fatima had been in Fern's office. Marcia calls Fern over and starts in on him, but he just denies everything.
Everyone leaves as Lety comes in with the lawyers. She shows them the studio and they say they're impressed. She leaves them for a minute and they keep looking around. They wander into the dressing room where the dancers are changing and Luigi boots them out. Lety runs up and apologizes and drags them off. Just to prove that they actually are good for something, we get a gratuitous shot of the cuartel all on the phones doing various types of work to prepare for the big launch party. The lawyers watch them work.
Nighttime in reception, Marcia tells Humberto that she hopes he feels better now that he's seen everything for himself. Down comes Lety with the lawyer and appraiser. She gives Fernando their paperwork to sign while making some lame excuse for everyone who's there. Humberto, Teresita and Carolina leave. Marcia wants to leave as well, with Fernando, but he tells her he needs to talk to the two men, so she goes back upstairs alone. Fernando talks to them about how the inventory went and the appraiser tells him he'll get the information registered with the Public Minister while Sanchez congratulates Fern on how nice the company is. They leave as Fernando hands the paperwork to Lety and Omar says something totally innocuous like let's go. This causes Lety to lose it and she totally goes off on Omar. She's going after him physically while yelling about his crappy suggestion for which lawyers to use and how it's all his fault because of the contraband (naturally, totally forgetting just how much of the trouble was caused by Fernando paying in advance for the contraband, and for just plain starting the whole problem with has bad financial plan. However, this is her Tan Divino I'm talking about so of course she'll ignore all that). Fernando holds her back as she continues to try to get at Omar, and he tells her something along the lines of "don't make me call out my flying monkeys". Ok, he actually said Celso, not flying monkeys, but I had to toss in a little humor there and I just love that saying. Anyroad... eventually she calms down as Omar rings for the elevator, which gets there awfully fast considering Marcia just went up in it. He and Fernando back into it slowly while Lety acts like she'd still like to rip out Omar's throat and Fernando's reminding her that Conceptos is now in her hands (again??? How many times is this company "just now" in her hands??). They leave as she stares at the paperwork in her hands, then heads towards the stairs.
Alicia and Marcia are talking and Marcia walks away just as Omar and Fernando get out of the elevator. Just then Lety also exits the stairs and once again she goes after Omar and once again Fernando stops her. Alicia watches as Fernando makes Lety and Omar shake hands. They hear Luigi talking and go watch the dancers for a minute, then Fernando drags Omar out. Lety starts to dance, at first trying to imitate the dancers but degenerating into her usual spastic dance, and Fernando drags her out too. You can see Jazmin still dancing in the wings, ever hopeful. Fern and Omar begin to discuss how Marcia is jealous of Fatima when Saimon runs up and Lety leaves. Saimon asks Fern to help get Luigi to allow Jaz to dance but Fern tells him though he's the President, Luigi's the director and has total power on whom to hire and Fern can't help him.
It's late and the dancers are all tired and want to stop but Luigi wants to keep driving them. Saimon comes in and motions to Jazmin that he failed in getting Fernando's help. The choreographer asks if they can stop for the night while Jazmin leaves, crying. Luigi lets everyone go after a short speech. Fatima tells one of the other dancers that she's going to nail Fernando.
Speaking of, he and Omar are in his office discussing the embargo. Omar is trying to cheer him up but Fernando says his conscience is bothering him for lying to his dad and the committee. Omar makes fun of Lety but Fernando doesn't like it, so after a couple more cheering-up efforts by Omar, he leaves. Fernando calls Lety in and tells her to either go get Fatima or keep Fatima away, but in walks the devil herself horny as hell and ready to go. She flirts with Fernando and Lety tries to drag her out of the office, but Fatima pulls a fast one and it's Lety that gets locked out. She starts chasing Fernando around his desk and the rest of the office, he's climbing over the sofas and stuff trying to get away from her. She won't be dissuaded, though. He's mentioning Marcia but she doesn't care.
Meanwhile, Marcia and Alicia come walking up to Fernando's door and ask Lety if Fern's in his office. She tells them he's in Luigi's office and they leave. Though he's still protesting, you can tell Fernando's starting to give in. Lety knocks and yells but Fatima won't let him answer. As with all the men on this show, once she starts kissing him, his johnson takes control and he's ready to throw caution to the wind.
In Luigi's office, he's telling Marcia Fernando isn't there and never was. Marcia wants to know where Fatima is and Luigi tells her he doesn't know that either. So we don't ever forget who the sponsors are, boxes of Garnier Nutrisse are prominently displayed all over his desk.
Lety's still trying to get into Fern's office and sees Marcia coming. She finally grows a brain cell as it occurs to her to duck into the conference room to get to his office through that door. Fernando's still protesting yet kissing Fatima. Marcia tries to get in and finds the door locked, while Lety runs in and drags Fatima to her office. She shoves her under her desk as Fernando lets Marcia in, saying he has no idea why the door was locked. Marcia's sniffing around like a bloodhound on a prisoner's trail and interrogating Fernando about Fatima's behavior. While Lety listens in, Fern's denying everything claiming that Fatima molested HIM. Fatima keeps pushing Lety's chair away (with Lety in it), making a lot of noise. Lety kicks her and tells her to be quiet, and you know the jealous little thing just LOVED being able to get that kick in! Marcia asks Fernando if he thinks she's an idiot and he says fine, whatever, look around if you want, you won't find anything. Fatima's still making noise while Marcia suspiciously looks in the conference room and in Fernando's armoire. She goes into Lety's office and looks around there suspiciously. Fern's in his office praying that Lety will save him. He looks in and Lety indicates to him that Fatima is under her desk. Marcia leaves, still suspicious but unable to prove anything, and Fernando pulls Fatima out from under Lety's desk and yells at her for causing trouble. She tells him she didn't mean to but Fernando grabs her arm and takes her out of Lety's office.
Marcia is in the lobby telling Alicia what happened and she's convinced something shady was going on. They walk away as Lety peers out the conference room door. She see's that it's all clear and hustles Fatima out. Unfortunately, Alicia is walking back and, though she doesn't actually see Fatima exit the conference room, she's close enough to the door that Alicia knows that's where she came from.
Lety goes back and tells Fernando "mission accomplished" and he thanks her, then she leaves to go to the studio. Meanwhile Alicia tells Marcia what she saw and that Lety must have hidden Fatima. Marcia catches up to Fatima and demands to know where she was but Fatima just blows her off. Marcia is super incredibly pissed at Lety for hiding her and Alicia, as always, just fans those flames higher and higher.
Fernando is worrying about where Lety is when Marcia comes in, sarcastically clapping at his ability to hide a girl. Lety walks in and overhears her complaining about Lety helping him. She turns and sees Lety standing there and starts giving her hell, practically calling her Fern's pimp. Fern tells her to leave Lety alone and Lety defends herself saying she was just doing her job (I guess pimping for her boss falls under "other duties as required"). Marcia leaves and Fernando tells Lety not to worry.
Marcia goes to Luigi and demands that he fire Fatima, but Luigi says he can't do that the day before the show, he doesn't have anyone to replace her with. They go to leave and Fatima gives Marcia a nasty, smug look. Omar comes up and asks what's going on and Marcia tells him and gets all in his face as well. Omar goes into Fernando's office and asks Fernando what happened and Fern tells him, mentioning that Marcia treated Lety really badly.
Tomas calls Lety and Fern and Omar listen to her conversation and they wonder about Tomas and Omar says they need to find out more about him. Lety talks to her parents, more "when ya comin' home" questions and Tomas invites himself to dinner. Fernando tells Omar that he trusts Lety and Omar reminds him that Lety is poor and was once tempted to accept a bribe. There's more back and forth on this, she's shifty, no I trust her, blah blah blah, and in the end Omar tells Fernando to be careful that Tomas doesn't have too much influence on her. Marcia comes in and says she's leaving and gives Fernando just a tad more crap before going. Omar says they should get rid of Fatima but Fern tells him they can't, they couldn't get someone new in time.
Jazmin is dancing for Saimon in reception while PM watches and gets jealous. Marcia comes out and startles them, then leaves. Jaz continues dancing, and it's true that she's terrible. She whines about not getting her chance and thanks Saimon for believing in her (which is sad, 'cause I think the only thing Saimon actually believes in is her boobs). They almost kiss but she just busses him on the chin instead and leaves. PM's pissed and reminds him that she's with El Cheque, but Saimon says he doesn't care, she hasn't rejected him so he can still dream.
Lety brings some stuff out to Fernando and tries to leave, but Fern and Omar say they need to talk to her. Omar gives her his chair while Fern reminds her that only the three of them are supposed to know about the embargo, and he wants to know if she told Tomas about it. She 'fesses up that she did and Fern wants to know why. She tells him she needed him to go with her to talk to the lawyers so she had to tell him about it. Omar isn't happy and wants more info about Tomas, and Lety replies that they should trust him because he's her very good friend. She asks them to please understand, and Fernando tells her ok and lets her leave. Fernando and Omar continue to discuss the situation and Omar is still worried.
Lety gets home and there's some silliness about a fake phone call between her and Tomas, who tells her about the questions dad's been asking. She calms her dad down, then she and Tomas go upstairs to talk. He wants to know what' s up with the embargo and she tells him everything that happened with Sanchez. He's happy when he hears that the paperwork is being filed, which is odd because I thought he was against this all along. They discuss his cell phone a bit and he pretends to call Alicia and my skin crawls at this stalkerish behavior that Lety seems to find so amusing.
At Marcia's pad, she's in bed when Fern comes in and kisses her. She's still pissed and Fern tells her it's not his fault Fatima was flirting with him. She ain't buying and he tells her he's not interested in Fatima and she needs to understand that tomorrow's important and they can't just let Fatima go this close to the show. Marcia says fine, she'll forgive him under one condition, if she can't get Fatima's head on a platter she wants someone else's. Dumbo Fernando asks who and Marcia says she wants the head of Leticia!
Missing Recap 33: The Fly/Honey Diet
Lety once again tells Fern his company's in good hands. He touches her face again and he moves in for a kiss again. Suddenly they start dancing a tango-like dance while they discuss the company; yep it's time once again for Fantasy Island Lety-Style. She tells Fern she supports him unconditionally and he tells her his love is as big as the sea. The real Fernando has to ruin it all by snapping his fingers to wake her up wanting to know que the hell is she doing?!
Marta is sadly eating her pathetic little lunch when Fern walks by and, surprised by how small it is, asks her what she's eating. She tells him while he asks about what she usually eats. He then notices how skinny she is and compliments her. But, like so many other characters on this show, suddenly his evil twin takes control of his body and he begins to berate her for eating at her desk. He takes her dish and pours the food into his mouth and walks off, leaving Marta in an emotional downward spiral.
The cuartel are chatting in the bathroom (what a surprise, huh?) and Marta joins them. They're talking about their huge lunch and Juana says she doesn't feel well and we're treated to yet another Pepto Bismol commercial, this time it's Sara with the bottle handily in her locker, extolling its virtues. Commercial over, Marta asks them to stop talking about their fab lunch because hers was tiny and Fern ate it all. They go back to work (hee hee, I love saying that when y'all just KNOW it's not true! These guys wouldn't know real work if it actually bit them in the butt!).
Saimon comes dancing off the elevator and showers the cuartel with compliments and mail. Jaz walks up, calling Saimon's name, and his drool spigot starts running. He stops what he's doing and goes to talk to her while Lola does her usual, now-boring freak-out thing. Jazmin wants to know if Saimon's talked to Fern yet, which he hasn't. She pouts. She pushes him to please talk to Fern, and then complains about the cuartel. He calms her down and flirts more. She relents and flirts back and he leaves happy. He dances back into the lobby and continues with the mail. Lola gives him hell, telling him not to talk to Luigi about Jazmin. Personally, I'm wishing someone would tell this woman the old saw about getting more flies with honey than with vinegar. Oh well, I guess this is where she's supposed to "grow" by the end of the show. During this whole conversation, Alicia comes in off the elevator.
Efren comes into reception and PM sends him upstairs. He looks worried about what Lola will do. He gets on the elevator, crosses himself, and prays. The feas tell Lola to try to talk to Efren calmly instead of getting her usual freak on. I guess they listened to me and gave her the flies/honey/vinegar speech. When he gets off the elevator in the lobby, Alicia laughs at him and Saimon growls at him. Lola chugs a mental margarita and is calm while the cuartel chant mantras in the background. He says hi to everyone and is surprised by Lola's calmness. Jaz walks in and he begs her to stay back, not wanting to start anything. He gives Lola a check, explaining that it's short (no wonder he crossed himself). She tells him it's ok and he can give her the balance later. He's happily impactado and makes his escape while he can, barely speaking to Jazmin. She looks at the cuartel, gets scared, and runs off. Naturally, once they're both gone Lola can't contain it any more and releases her inner Psycho B*tch Queen from Hell.
Saimon's back downstairs when Luigi comes in with the dancers. He asks to talk to Luigi, but Luigi says no and gets on the elevator. PM makes fun of Saimon.
The cuartel are all laughing (I told you they wouldn't be working) in the lobby when Fatima comes in looking for Fernando. Lola tells her Fern isn't there and she wants to know if he's with Marcia and Marta tells her Marcia's at her in-laws house (ok one, F & M aren't married yet... two, that's some personal info to just be handing out to any random visitor. Oh well, that's our fun-filled unprofessional cuartel). Fatima thanks them and leaves, and Lola comments that Fern's gonna be dead if Marcia finds out about her.
Back at the senior Mendiolas' nest, Teresita gives Marcia a gift and they chat about the wedding and other stuff. Humberto comes in and asks about the company and Marcia tells him everything's just peachy keen-a-reno. Humb's upset because he hasn't heard anything from Fernando and again Marcia placates him.
Fern and Lety are at the bank talking to the manager. He's concerned about how much debt Conceptos has built up and F and L are trying to calm him down. Lety shows him a presentation that I think is probably just bullshite and the banker agrees with me and continues to worry. He wants to know if Humberto is aware of all of this, and Fern tells him not to worry about Humberto because HE'S in charge of Conceptos now (poor Conceptos). They discuss the possibility of a scandal should the public find out about all the debt.
Back at Casa Mendiola, Marcia's trying to call Fernando but can't reach him. Teresita asks Marcia if she's worried about where he is and if she's jealous. Marcia denies the jealousy and says Fern's just with Lety so there's nothing to worry about, which makes Teresita laugh. Just then Ariel comes in with hugs and kisses for everyone. He wants to know where Fernando is while they all chat, then he breaks the news that Fernando's going to be presenting the Bella Life commercial tomorrow. The 'rents act shocked, which surprises me because I thought they knew that and it was, in fact, one of the reasons they flew out from London. But heck, what do I know?
Luigi is still working with the dancers, preparing for the B.L. Launch presentation. Jazmin is still dancing along in the wings. Luigi's happy with how it all looks and he lets the dancers all go home.
Fernando and Lety enter reception and Saimon runs up to them wanting to talk, while Jazmin and Fatima hover in the background. Fern tells him he has to get to his parents' house and can't chat and leaves. Jaz whines.
Fern and Lety discuss his parents and the bank. I think he asks her to give his parental units the same presentation she gave to the banker. Just then Fatima comes in and Fern asks Lety to go to her office. When she's gone (but you know she's got those big ears planted at the door listening), Fern asks Fatima what she wants, and she says "you". He mentions Marcia and she tells him she knows Marcia's not there in the office and she wants to spend the night with him again. He says he can't, he has to get to his parents' house. She flirts and insists and he's trying to resist. She climbs onto his desk and starts kissing him and what's a handsome young studmuffin to do? Meanwhile, Alicia is talking to Marcia on the phone, telling her about Fatima, and Marcia tells her to go in and find out what's going on. Marta overhears and tells Lola to call Lety and warn her, which she does. Lety goes out to Fernando's office and yells out his name loudly so they'll stop kissing. Lety and Fernando then start playing tug-of-war with Fatima across the desk. Alicia walks in and Fatima jumps off the desk and all try to act like nothing's happening. Fatima leaves and Alicia tells Fernando that Marcia's waiting for him at his parents' house. He tries to give her some bull explanation but she just cuts him off and says he doesn't have to explain anything to her, Marcia's the one he has to worry about. She leaves as Omar comes in asking how things went at the bank. Fern tells him as Lety goes back to her office. Fern tells him about his close call just now with Fatima, and Omar warns him that she was involved with a married man once and created so much trouble with his family and his work that he got fired.
Saimon once again hits Luigi up, saying he knows a great dancer and starts extolling all her virtues like she's Pepto Bismol or something. Luigi, who knows but asks anyway, wants to know who Saimon's talking about and of course he says Jazmin. There's a lot of chat about it, but ultimately Luigi says uh uh, nope, no way no how, nyet, etc. He tells him Jazmin's a crappy dancer, and of course she comes walking up just in time to hear that. Luigi also mentions the Lola/Cheque thing and I'm shocked because it sounds like he's actually supporting Lola. See, like I said, more flies with honey... if she'd have just ASKED Luigi not to use Jaz instead of ORDERING him... Anyway, Luigi leaves and Jazmin runs off crying with Saimon following.
Fern, Lety and Omar are again rehashing finances. Lety gives Omar more grief about the contraband and how much money they lost on that and Fern tells her to calm down. Meanwhile, to save space I won't start a new line, Jazmin is crying and Saimon is trying to calm her down. Everyone's tossing "calmate"s and "tranquila"s all over the place in Conceptos these days. Meanwhile, back at the office, Lety goes back to her office, then leaves. Omar continues to lay seeds of doubt in Fern's mind about Lety, saying it's going to take a year or more to pay off all their debts, and therefore Fern isn't going to reach his stated goals and will lose the presidency, and if that happens Lety will be the true owner of Conceptos.
Meanwhile, Lety's chatting with the cuartel down in reception and I couldn't care less and fast forward.
At Marta's house, Paco gives his daughter a watch and she's happy and leaves the room. Marta gets home and he asks her about the car. She acts all sexy and tells him she's not fat any more and does he like it? He says yes, but where's the car? She tells him she spent the money on herself, on liposuction, and he's very upset. They go back and forth about it; she thought he'd be happy she was pretty, he wanting her to have a car. She shows him a really skimpy negligee she wants to wear for him and he just cries and blows his nose into it.
Now to Casa Padilla, Lety and Tomas talk about the new loan. It's just rehash, nothing new here. They also put themselves down about their feo-ness. Lety locks away the papers as there's more rehash and fea talk, as well as more discussion about Alicia and her baby.
Fern finally gets with his family and greets everyone. There's a lot of back and forth with Ariel about the meeting and Humberto wanting to know how the company's doing and Mom not wanting to talk about it now. It all boils down to Humberto and Ariel wanting a full-on board meeting or shareholder meeting and Fernando wanting to keep it just the small group. Mumsy actually sides with her baby boy on this one and Humb and Ariel back down.
Meanwhile, Lety's talking mushy stuff with her mom, complaining about all the responsibilities she has at work. Mom bucks her up because after all, that's what moms are for (are you listening Teresita?).
Next day Alicia is at the lab for her blood tests. She's very nervous and we learn she doesn't care for needles at all. Meanwhile Marta is crying to the cuartel, including Lety, about Paco's reaction about the car (or lack thereof). Fern comes in and takes Lety with him to his office and tells her about having to have a meeting. He's upset and she tries to calm him down. He asks her to create a financial report that lists their expenses, but also shows the income from the Bella Life campaign. Lety reminds Fern that they haven't yet received any income from B.L., but Fern says that it's necessary for them to make up the numbers. Lety's so impactada by this comment that she forgets to come to attention at the word "necessary".
Missing Recap 34: Lunch Break
Alicia's getting stuck again, Marta's crying again, and Fernando and Lety chat again. Fern asks her to call Carolina, then goes out looking for Alicia. He eats more of Marta's scant food and starts to ask them to set up lunch, but just then Alicia comes of the elevator, really drama-queening up the sore arm thing. Fern gives her hell for being late and she tells him it's because she had to go in for blood tests for work. Fern tells her to set up lunch in the conference room for the meeting. She claims she can't, using her arm and the baby as an excuse, so Fernando tells Marta to do it. Natch, this makes Alicia want to go ahead and do it, the cuartel all laugh and he tells them all to get to work. When's he gonna learn that telling them that doesn't work and he just needs to fire their lazy butts???
Marta calls the lab pretending to be Alicia and asks them to include a pregnancy test, and tells them to send the results to her (Marta).
Back at home, the embargo lawyer calls F.I. and asks for Tomas. He isn't there and mom pretends to be his secretary and takes a message. Tomas comes in and shows mom and pop his new cell phone, posing with it and stuff. Mom laughs at his cute silliness while pop calls him an idiot. We get a shot of Fernando and Lety rehashing in the office, then we're back to Padilla Central where Robopop and Tomas are working. Pop asks about F.I. and Conceptos and the bank and Tomas gets nervous and tells him to ask Lety about it. Lawyer Sanchez calls back and tells Tomas that he and the appraiser are ready to go to Conceptos. Tomas tries to talk them out of it but Sanchez says they have to do it, it's part of the process. He tells Tomas he'll meet him there and hangs up and Tomas goes upstairs to Lety's room for some privacy to call Lety.
Lety brings some papers to Fernando and then leaves with them, and while she's gone Fern answers her phone. It's Tomas, but Fern says Lety's busy and hangs up on him. Pop comes in and sees Tomas on Lety's bed and gives him crap, but Tomas tells him he's meditating. Erasmo asks why he's so nervous and Tomas gives him some lame excuse, and Erasmo boots him out of Lety's room.
Saimon's entertaining the cuartel out in the lobby, and I skip it. Lety goes back to the office while Fernando and Omar are rehashing about the upcoming meeting and their finances. Lety prepares stuff for the meeting and puts it in the conference room while Fern shows a copy of it to Omar. Meanwhile, Marcia's out front with Teresita and Humberto. They go into Conceptos just as the lawyer and appraiser show up in a taxi looking for Tomas. The 'rents go into reception and greet PM, and Carolina comes in and greets everyone as well.
Omar thinks the papers look good. Lety's phone rings again and Fernando complains about it. He goes and answers it again, and once again it's Tomas trying to get hold of Lety. Fern tells him she's busy and to call back, but Tomas tells him it's important. Fern starts giving him hell for bugging Lety at work, but Lety comes in just in time and takes the phone from Fernando. Tomas tells her that Sanchez and the appraiser are going to be there at any moment to do the inventory and she tells him this is a really bad time because of the meeting. He explains that he had no choice and she hangs up and leaves her office. She tells Fernando what's going on and he freaks out. He and Omar start to give her hell about it, but she explains that it's not her fault.
Everyone's still chatting downstairs in reception. Humberto's still worried about the fallout from the Benny Ibarra video (like I said to Ariel, let it go dude!) but Marcia and Carolina tell him the current commercial's coming along really well. Someone mentions that they're just waiting for Ariel to show up, when of course outside Sanchez and the appraiser drive by in their taxi and almost run him over. Ariel joins everyone in reception and Carolina tells them all that the Bella Life commercial is fabulous. Ariel says something rude to her about sex and everyone gives him hell about it. Celso comes in trying to keep Sanchez and partner out and Marcia wants to know what's going on.
Just then Fernando and Lety show up in the elevator. Fernando herds his family into the elevator saying it's nothing and sends them off upstairs. He then sends PM on an errand to get rid of her, then he and Lety chat with Sanchez and the appraiser. Sanchez explains why he's there, that as part of the process they have to make sure Conceptos has enough assets to cover the debt. Fernando tells them to do what they have to do, but to PLEASE be discreet about it. They agree to be discreet and he asks Lety to take care of them. Sanchez asks Lety why she's working at Conceptos, he thought she was in charge of Filmo Imagen, she just answers that it's a long story and leads them off.
Up in the executive lobby, Teresita and Humberto are congratulating Marta on how good she looks. Fernando shows up and herds everyone into the conference room, telling Omar in an aside about the lawyers being there. Meanwhile, Lety's showing them around, reiterating that they have to be discreet because the company can't have a scandal. They again agree to be discreet and she lets them look around downstairs while she leaves.
The meeting starts and everyone goes over the papers Lety prepared. Humberto asks about the men downstairs and Fernando gives him some kind of excuse. Ariel gives Fernando the usual crap and mentions the information he saw on the internet. Fern tells him it's false or incorrect information and Humberto and Teresita get mad at Ariel for always looking for trouble.
Downstairs, Sanchez and the other guy are still looking around. Celso and PM are talking about it, wondering what's going on. Lety overhears them and tells them to stop gossiping, that it's Fernando's business, not theirs, and not to say anything to anyone about it. No Lety, nothing suspicious about that at all...
The cuartel are dragging Marta to lunch and I ignore most of the conversation. They want Lety to come too but she can't; they leave.
Ariel is still droning on and on when Lety comes in and explains all the paperwork. Outside in the lobby, Alicia is giving instructions to the wait staff. Luigi comes in with the dancers and she tells him about the meeting, but he tells her he can't go, he's got too much to do to get ready. In the meeting, Lety's still 'splainin' and Ariel is still giving crap. Humberto (finally!) cuts him off and says he's happy with what he heard.
Alicia enters the room to take everyone's food orders. She hands a menu to Ariel and says something to him about his son. He tries to shush her but goes to the door and brings him in, a little boy dressed in a suit like Ariel's. The kid jumps on him and calls him Papi. The real Alicia snaps him out of his daydream (or daymare actually). He yells at her for no reason and everyone gives him que the hell looks.
At La Comedilla, the cuartel's food gets waved under Marta's nose and they all talk about it. The waiter offers to bring her a salad, but she's not at all happy. More chat I ignore.
Back to the meeting, Alicia's still taking lunch orders. She tries to hand the menu to Omar but drops it. She comes around and hits him and tries to hand him a baby. He says he's in a meeting but she gives it to him anyway along with a bottle, and tells him to feed it. Everyone looks at him and he begs there pardon for interrupting but he has to feed his son. Fernando snaps him out of HIS daymare as he's holding a menu like a baby and singing to it. He tells Alicia what he wants to eat, as does everyone else. Luigi shows up and greets everyone and gives Alicia his lunch order.
Marta is staring at everyone else's plates while they eat. The others all yack at her about staying on her diet and keeping the weight off. The waiter tries to take Sara's plate and he and Marta fight over it. They go back to work, having to fight to drag Marta out of there.
Back to the meeting for more talk, with Carolina explaining how she's set everything up. Ariel spreads his usual sunshine and Marcia yells at him, telling him the commercial is important. Luigi tells them all about the Launch Party Production and offers to give an advance showing to everyone. Lety excuses herself, con permisso'ing every single person in the room.
Out in the lobby, the cuartel come in hatching their usual anti-Alicia schemes. Marta leaves to go to the bathroom. Luigi comes out and asks Irma to go with him, and thanks Alicia for the lunch.
Meanwhile, the lawyers are chatting in an empty office, it looks like the one the computer tech had before he got fired for messing with Lety's computer. Lety comes in and they tell her they have to take pictures of the company and its inventory. She twitches. They leave and she says to herself that they can't go into the studio and embarrass Don Fernando. She chases after them and catches them in the hall and refuses to let them pass, planting herself spread-eagle in front of the doorway to block them.
Missing Recap 35: Pimp My Boss
Lety's still blocking the door, telling the men they can't enter. They say fine, but they're just trying to do their jobs. She tells them they can look everywhere else but they can't go into the studio because there's an event going on in there. They tell her to calm down, they'll be discreet, and they move on.
In the studio, everyone's watching the commercial. It ends and they clap and sing Luigi's praises. Luigi gives a speech and Humberto's happy and Ariel isn't. Luigi refuses to allow them to argue in his studio and calls in the dancers to give them a preview of tomorrow's show. Omar and Fernando clap a little too enthusiastically for the dancers for Marcia's taste. The dancers do their thing and Fern and Omar notice that Fatima is one of them. She starts playing to Fernando right in front of everyone, blowing him kisses and everything. He acts like he doesn't know what's up with her but Marcia's still pissed. Omar reminds him of the scandal she caused. The show ends and everyone claps.
Down in reception Lety's trying to hurry the lawyers along, and they get on the elevator to go upstairs. Meanwhile everyone's still in the studio congratulating Luigi. Naturally Alicia's fanning Marcia's jealousy flame, telling her how Fatima had been in Fern's office. Marcia calls Fern over and starts in on him, but he just denies everything.
Everyone leaves as Lety comes in with the lawyers. She shows them the studio and they say they're impressed. She leaves them for a minute and they keep looking around. They wander into the dressing room where the dancers are changing and Luigi boots them out. Lety runs up and apologizes and drags them off. Just to prove that they actually are good for something, we get a gratuitous shot of the cuartel all on the phones doing various types of work to prepare for the big launch party. The lawyers watch them work.
Nighttime in reception, Marcia tells Humberto that she hopes he feels better now that he's seen everything for himself. Down comes Lety with the lawyer and appraiser. She gives Fernando their paperwork to sign while making some lame excuse for everyone who's there. Humberto, Teresita and Carolina leave. Marcia wants to leave as well, with Fernando, but he tells her he needs to talk to the two men, so she goes back upstairs alone. Fernando talks to them about how the inventory went and the appraiser tells him he'll get the information registered with the Public Minister while Sanchez congratulates Fern on how nice the company is. They leave as Fernando hands the paperwork to Lety and Omar says something totally innocuous like let's go. This causes Lety to lose it and she totally goes off on Omar. She's going after him physically while yelling about his crappy suggestion for which lawyers to use and how it's all his fault because of the contraband (naturally, totally forgetting just how much of the trouble was caused by Fernando paying in advance for the contraband, and for just plain starting the whole problem with has bad financial plan. However, this is her Tan Divino I'm talking about so of course she'll ignore all that). Fernando holds her back as she continues to try to get at Omar, and he tells her something along the lines of "don't make me call out my flying monkeys". Ok, he actually said Celso, not flying monkeys, but I had to toss in a little humor there and I just love that saying. Anyroad... eventually she calms down as Omar rings for the elevator, which gets there awfully fast considering Marcia just went up in it. He and Fernando back into it slowly while Lety acts like she'd still like to rip out Omar's throat and Fernando's reminding her that Conceptos is now in her hands (again??? How many times is this company "just now" in her hands??). They leave as she stares at the paperwork in her hands, then heads towards the stairs.
Alicia and Marcia are talking and Marcia walks away just as Omar and Fernando get out of the elevator. Just then Lety also exits the stairs and once again she goes after Omar and once again Fernando stops her. Alicia watches as Fernando makes Lety and Omar shake hands. They hear Luigi talking and go watch the dancers for a minute, then Fernando drags Omar out. Lety starts to dance, at first trying to imitate the dancers but degenerating into her usual spastic dance, and Fernando drags her out too. You can see Jazmin still dancing in the wings, ever hopeful. Fern and Omar begin to discuss how Marcia is jealous of Fatima when Saimon runs up and Lety leaves. Saimon asks Fern to help get Luigi to allow Jaz to dance but Fern tells him though he's the President, Luigi's the director and has total power on whom to hire and Fern can't help him.
It's late and the dancers are all tired and want to stop but Luigi wants to keep driving them. Saimon comes in and motions to Jazmin that he failed in getting Fernando's help. The choreographer asks if they can stop for the night while Jazmin leaves, crying. Luigi lets everyone go after a short speech. Fatima tells one of the other dancers that she's going to nail Fernando.
Speaking of, he and Omar are in his office discussing the embargo. Omar is trying to cheer him up but Fernando says his conscience is bothering him for lying to his dad and the committee. Omar makes fun of Lety but Fernando doesn't like it, so after a couple more cheering-up efforts by Omar, he leaves. Fernando calls Lety in and tells her to either go get Fatima or keep Fatima away, but in walks the devil herself horny as hell and ready to go. She flirts with Fernando and Lety tries to drag her out of the office, but Fatima pulls a fast one and it's Lety that gets locked out. She starts chasing Fernando around his desk and the rest of the office, he's climbing over the sofas and stuff trying to get away from her. She won't be dissuaded, though. He's mentioning Marcia but she doesn't care.
Meanwhile, Marcia and Alicia come walking up to Fernando's door and ask Lety if Fern's in his office. She tells them he's in Luigi's office and they leave. Though he's still protesting, you can tell Fernando's starting to give in. Lety knocks and yells but Fatima won't let him answer. As with all the men on this show, once she starts kissing him, his johnson takes control and he's ready to throw caution to the wind.
In Luigi's office, he's telling Marcia Fernando isn't there and never was. Marcia wants to know where Fatima is and Luigi tells her he doesn't know that either. So we don't ever forget who the sponsors are, boxes of Garnier Nutrisse are prominently displayed all over his desk.
Lety's still trying to get into Fern's office and sees Marcia coming. She finally grows a brain cell as it occurs to her to duck into the conference room to get to his office through that door. Fernando's still protesting yet kissing Fatima. Marcia tries to get in and finds the door locked, while Lety runs in and drags Fatima to her office. She shoves her under her desk as Fernando lets Marcia in, saying he has no idea why the door was locked. Marcia's sniffing around like a bloodhound on a prisoner's trail and interrogating Fernando about Fatima's behavior. While Lety listens in, Fern's denying everything claiming that Fatima molested HIM. Fatima keeps pushing Lety's chair away (with Lety in it), making a lot of noise. Lety kicks her and tells her to be quiet, and you know the jealous little thing just LOVED being able to get that kick in! Marcia asks Fernando if he thinks she's an idiot and he says fine, whatever, look around if you want, you won't find anything. Fatima's still making noise while Marcia suspiciously looks in the conference room and in Fernando's armoire. She goes into Lety's office and looks around there suspiciously. Fern's in his office praying that Lety will save him. He looks in and Lety indicates to him that Fatima is under her desk. Marcia leaves, still suspicious but unable to prove anything, and Fernando pulls Fatima out from under Lety's desk and yells at her for causing trouble. She tells him she didn't mean to but Fernando grabs her arm and takes her out of Lety's office.
Marcia is in the lobby telling Alicia what happened and she's convinced something shady was going on. They walk away as Lety peers out the conference room door. She see's that it's all clear and hustles Fatima out. Unfortunately, Alicia is walking back and, though she doesn't actually see Fatima exit the conference room, she's close enough to the door that Alicia knows that's where she came from.
Lety goes back and tells Fernando "mission accomplished" and he thanks her, then she leaves to go to the studio. Meanwhile Alicia tells Marcia what she saw and that Lety must have hidden Fatima. Marcia catches up to Fatima and demands to know where she was but Fatima just blows her off. Marcia is super incredibly pissed at Lety for hiding her and Alicia, as always, just fans those flames higher and higher.
Fernando is worrying about where Lety is when Marcia comes in, sarcastically clapping at his ability to hide a girl. Lety walks in and overhears her complaining about Lety helping him. She turns and sees Lety standing there and starts giving her hell, practically calling her Fern's pimp. Fern tells her to leave Lety alone and Lety defends herself saying she was just doing her job (I guess pimping for her boss falls under "other duties as required"). Marcia leaves and Fernando tells Lety not to worry.
Marcia goes to Luigi and demands that he fire Fatima, but Luigi says he can't do that the day before the show, he doesn't have anyone to replace her with. They go to leave and Fatima gives Marcia a nasty, smug look. Omar comes up and asks what's going on and Marcia tells him and gets all in his face as well. Omar goes into Fernando's office and asks Fernando what happened and Fern tells him, mentioning that Marcia treated Lety really badly.
Tomas calls Lety and Fern and Omar listen to her conversation and they wonder about Tomas and Omar says they need to find out more about him. Lety talks to her parents, more "when ya comin' home" questions and Tomas invites himself to dinner. Fernando tells Omar that he trusts Lety and Omar reminds him that Lety is poor and was once tempted to accept a bribe. There's more back and forth on this, she's shifty, no I trust her, blah blah blah, and in the end Omar tells Fernando to be careful that Tomas doesn't have too much influence on her. Marcia comes in and says she's leaving and gives Fernando just a tad more crap before going. Omar says they should get rid of Fatima but Fern tells him they can't, they couldn't get someone new in time.
Jazmin is dancing for Saimon in reception while PM watches and gets jealous. Marcia comes out and startles them, then leaves. Jaz continues dancing, and it's true that she's terrible. She whines about not getting her chance and thanks Saimon for believing in her (which is sad, 'cause I think the only thing Saimon actually believes in is her boobs). They almost kiss but she just busses him on the chin instead and leaves. PM's pissed and reminds him that she's with El Cheque, but Saimon says he doesn't care, she hasn't rejected him so he can still dream.
Lety brings some stuff out to Fernando and tries to leave, but Fern and Omar say they need to talk to her. Omar gives her his chair while Fern reminds her that only the three of them are supposed to know about the embargo, and he wants to know if she told Tomas about it. She 'fesses up that she did and Fern wants to know why. She tells him she needed him to go with her to talk to the lawyers so she had to tell him about it. Omar isn't happy and wants more info about Tomas, and Lety replies that they should trust him because he's her very good friend. She asks them to please understand, and Fernando tells her ok and lets her leave. Fernando and Omar continue to discuss the situation and Omar is still worried.
Lety gets home and there's some silliness about a fake phone call between her and Tomas, who tells her about the questions dad's been asking. She calms her dad down, then she and Tomas go upstairs to talk. He wants to know what' s up with the embargo and she tells him everything that happened with Sanchez. He's happy when he hears that the paperwork is being filed, which is odd because I thought he was against this all along. They discuss his cell phone a bit and he pretends to call Alicia and my skin crawls at this stalkerish behavior that Lety seems to find so amusing.
At Marcia's pad, she's in bed when Fern comes in and kisses her. She's still pissed and Fern tells her it's not his fault Fatima was flirting with him. She ain't buying and he tells her he's not interested in Fatima and she needs to understand that tomorrow's important and they can't just let Fatima go this close to the show. Marcia says fine, she'll forgive him under one condition, if she can't get Fatima's head on a platter she wants someone else's. Dumbo Fernando asks who and Marcia says she wants the head of Leticia!
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