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Friday: Flo and Alfie talk about Elisa still a threat… they count on Dam keep believing they are sibs, but Loopy tells Dam the truth… Dam impactado… then Dam goes to find Elisa…

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We open with a little recap of Juan Carlos doing some heavy foreshadowing... "Me? See the world from a woman's point of view? What is she smoking?"

Helena goes to her kid's school to console him. The other kids have been teasing him about his absentee father, and he got roughed up a bit. A triple scratch on his cheek makes it look like maybe a squirrel attacked him. What kind of school is he attending?


Anyway, she brings him to the friends-house-cum-travel-agency. She tells the him that grandpa can't know about about the business (because she payed for it by taking out a mortgage on his house without his knowledge).
Plutarco's bimbo gets his car in a fender-bender. He is quite displeased by what she had described as some lil rasguncitos (smashed-in-headlights), but all is mostly smoothed over by plans of a jacuzzi "business meeting" for the two of them when he gets a call from his wife the whale who is feeling fatal and must see him immediately. Wuh-woh! But when he gets there he finds that she's not literally dying. He looks momentarily disappointed before he remembers that she's his link to 40% of grupo imperial. Apparently her malaise was not physical. She was waiting for him and he was late. It's about their relationship - he's never there and she wants divorce. This time he remembers the shares immediately, and falls to his knees begging for another chance to show her romance.

Helena does her own share of foreshadowing, joking with her friend about what she'll do when her "hombre ideal" shows up. Cue Juan, who bursts into the agency for his meet cute. He's dressed absurdly, with a little kerchief about his neck and a silly shirt. He clonks heads with Helena about 3 times, she drops her stuff, their eyes meet, the whole deal! She wonders who he is. Him: "Yo soy Juan........ uh........ PERON [emphasis mine]...... de Argentina"[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] I laugh out loud. I was surprised that my mom didn't recognize the name (Juan Peron, immensely popular, immensely devastating beloved/hated populist autocratic president of Argentina off-and-on for several decades with an exile before the third term), but it's a real crackup. And his fake accent really made me giggle. He claims to be representing a bus of tourists arriving to D.F. in an hour and desperately in need of a tour guide. She says she's a bit rusty but agrees to give it a go.


Somehow, he came up with a bus full of people for her to guide. Maybe it was just some random tour bus. They give the tour together, are super cute, and even dance up top of the double-decker bus! We see many sights, but where's the tower they always include in every telenovela shot of Mexico city? They get off. He praises her tour guiding talents and tries to find out about her beach development project. He will continue his investigations when he takes her out to a fancy dinner tonight, ostensibly to discuss her leading more buses. I love the way he's stumbling at trying to figure out the "vos" form in his fake Argentinian accent.

Then Juan discusses the situation with his bud, who sees her as just another one of Juan's dames and wants to know if she's plebian, cortesana, o marquesa (some kind of chauvinist/bro-vinist classification spectrum).

At dinner, Juan is smitten by Helena, though she looks kinda like she did this afternoon. He falls all over her. "I don't drink," she says, but his plan was to get her drink, so uh-oh. I love watching him squirm when she gripes about that bastard Juan at grupo imperial who trashed her project and fired her for being a woman.

Plutarco's makeup romantic dinner, to which he conveniently accidentally invites his boss (so he can puppet-master his wife into asking her brother for some shares for Plutarco). He pushes the unhealthy stuff on his wife - she'll have the ribs AND the shrimp fountain! A shrewd boss (Adrian?) won't talk business, and frowns at Plutarco as the beloved whale (man, the fat jokes are getting old quick) smears her face with rib sauce.

Juan Peron wants to  dance. Isn't it funny that he will change his identity into Eva from Juan Peron? Just as Eva Peron (remember Evita) picked up the populist mantle from her dead husband? As they dance Juan grabs her butt and tries his line, but she slaps him and storms out. But before making it to the door she sees Plutarco at his table and flips out (remember, she got the identities mixed up, because Plutarco was the only executive upstairs when she led her woman-revolution up there for the attack.

Juan tries to defuse her. He says HE will talk to them, and hauls her back to the table to try and fix everything. Awesome cliffhanger!


Then the avances show us nothing new - more like a preview of what they'll show in the in the recap tomorrow at 8:00 PM. Tune in!

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The old:
Bumble accompanies the Killer Orange back to the quinta.
At Casa bien Castigada, Elisa, still stained with Augusto’s blood, wails. Really loudly. [Mr. Maven hollers from the next room to turn down the volume but I can’t because then I can’t make out the mumblers and the low talkers. A door shuts noisily in the Maven house.]
Horacio recites Carmina’s alibi, as ordered. Lucio restrains Carmina. The draped body is removed on a stretcher. When Lucio says that an autopsy will be done, Carmina howls in protest: “Criminy! He killed himself with a shotgun! Why can’t they leave him in peace!”
Say what? Who said anything about a shotgun?
The new:
Elisa’s pathetic Nancy Drew (You just got here! How did you know about the escopeta?) is no match for Carmina’s mad improv skills. The shotgun? It was sitting out in the open, fully loaded, when she and Horacio left, right H? Even Dolores has to admit she saw the weapon. Oh woe! If the Orange Widow had known what Augusto was going to do, she’d never have left the damn quinta!
Alone in her room, the Rotten Citrus blubbers: ¡Tuve que hacerlo! (I had to do it!)
Hacienda Harango: Alfonsina tells Gabino about Chente’s accident. No skin off his nose. Wow. Cold, dude. Even Alfabitch shakes her head. Later, however, Gabino rides over to the Health Center. He lurks briefly but doesn’t enter.
Centro de Salud: Toña weeps over the ashen-faced Chente. She and Braulio are being tested for compatibility as kidney donors. (I’m betting neither is a match for the crucial filthybandanahandwrap factor.) Doc Tovar has scheduled the transplant first thing tomorrow. Medicine moves lightning-fast in La Ermita.
Wait ... Chente speaks. He’s calling for his dad. Awww. Braulio is touched. Until Chente says “Tell Gabino to come, mamá, I need him here.” Oh, THAT dad. Braulio storms out, undeterred by Toña’s pathetic protests.
Hacienda Harango: Paolo won’t take the blame for Chente’s accident. And if Alfie is sick of him, the feeling is mutual. After Flor’s wedding, he’s history.
Maru stops by the hacienda looking for Dam. Since he’s still out squabbling with Flor, she has to settle for leaving word of Augusto’s death with Alfie. Oh yes, Alfie will be sure to tell him.
When Maru leaves, Alfie, stunned as she may be, has the presence of mind to tuck this metaphorical amulet in her metaphorical bra. No way Dam is getting that message tonight. When he and Flor get back home, Alfie’s hands are sweating but her botox mask is more inscrutable than ever. As soon as Dam walks toward his bedroom, Alfie shuts off the house phone. Yes, she’s a bitch. But as our Cap'n has noted, she’s magnificent.
At Casa bien castigada, the decibel level is still unbearable. Dolores and Lucio soldier on. Elisa finally asks to be alone. She wanders into the study and picks up the phone, dials, and gets a busy signal. “Ay Damián, te necesito.”
You think you’ve got problems?
Braulio arrives to find Horacio comforting Dolores. Dolores asks innocently: “How’s your son?” “My son” Braulio echoes bitterly. He’s not in good shape. But Braulio’s there for another reason. “You mean about what happened with don Augusto?” That’s the third shock of the night for Braulio but that’s not why he’s there either. Horacio knows Gabino, right? Where does he live?
Now it’s Dolores who tries to phone Damían for Elisa. No luck. What about calling Padre Lupe and Gael? “Go ahead, they have to be told.”
Meanwhile poor Lucio has to shlep Carmina’s heavy suitcases back to her bedroom and then broach the delicate subject of funeral arrangements. There won’t be a wake, she declares. Let’s just get that sucker in the ground. And not next to my sister, either. He’ll be next to MY SON. “I think you should ask Elisa what she thinks” suggests Lucio mildly. “She...” begins Carmina, “is in no condition to make any decisions.” “But Carmina”, protests Lucio. And the Killer Orange thunders loudly: “Absolutely not! I don’t want him next to my sister!”
Back at Hacienda Harango, Flor follows Dam into his bedroom, and half-heartedly follows her seduction script. He boots her out saying he doesn’t want Mommy Dearest walking in on them again. It’ll have to wait until they’re married.
Will there be Passion in the Pit tonight?
It begins innocently enough. Gael comes looking for Paloma because he feels bad about the way they left things between them. They’d better walk to the other side of the cenote so Ramona doesn’t see Gael. She’s pretty mad at him right now.
Casa Tovar
Bumble comes home to find Enrique and Sabrina in a shouting match mostly about Paolo. They are silenced by the sober look on their mother’s face. “Where’s your father?” she asks. “Something really tragic happened.”
It will be a while before the news reaches Doc. He was on his way home, he really was, but on an impulse, he turned around and drove to Mérida. Too late, though. Curls had gotten tired of waiting for him and had left the restaurant more than an hour before. (Trust me, Edmundo. You don’t know how lucky you are.)
The Blue House of Shame
Gabino lounges. He’s grouchy and suspicious and maybe feeling prickles in that teeny-weeny vestigial conscience-like thing of his. When Curls gets home, he tells her that a boy who works in the Pro Ce had an accident.
Ramona’s choza
Enrique is looking for Paloma. When Ramona tells him she’s not home, he reassures her – she probably went to Elisa’s when she heard the news about Augusto. The news? Oh, Ramona didn’t know? “Parece que se dio un escopetazo.” (It seems he blasted himself with a shotgun). Ramona is absolutely stricken. Enrique is frightened by her reaction to the news and wants to help her but she sends him away.
This is a singularly unpleasant scene.
Flor’s room in the hacienda
An Alfie invasion. How can Flor expect to get knocked up if she sleeps alone? Flor explains tartly that “Damián se puso pudoroso” (he became modest, or ‘chaste’) after Mommy Dearest walked in on them. And why is Alfie pushing so hard anyway? Isn’t Elisa safely out of the picture? “Hazme caso” (listen to me, sweet cheeks), “when you’re married and carrying his baby in your belly, then you can loosen your bandage dress.” (Well, that’s a rather loose translation.)
This scene is just evil. We can deal.
Elisa’s bedroom in the casa demasiado castigada
Elisa stares at her reflection in the mirror. The Killer Orange approaches. She is wearing black and affecting the grieving widow. She knows Augusto had many problems and didn’t deal well with emotional stress but it was Kenia that drove him to this. He couldn’t live with the guilty knowledge that a 17 year old girl had drowned herself because of him.
Yeah, yeah, Elisa knows all that, but she knows how much grief the aunt brought him.
With desultory cruelty, the homicidal Orange announces: “No va a haber velorio. No pienso seguir prolongando ese sufrimiento.” Having deposited her poison, she leaves. Elisa collapses, desolate and teary, on her bed.
Here is the most unpleasant scene of the night.
Damián’s bedroom in the hacienda
Alfie brings her boy a bedtime snack, apples and milk, and tells him to go boink Florencia. She dismisses Damián’s gut feeling that there is something very wrong going on (besides his mother invading his bedroom and attempting to orchestrate his sex life, that is).
In the Centro de Salud
Toña weeps over Chente’s bed and prays that he won’t be punished for her sins.
Here is the best scene of the night. No kidding.
On the outskirts of town, Horacio leads Braulio to the Blue House of Shame. (Just don’t say I told you, okay?) Braulio enters and, after expressing mild surprise at seeing Curls there, walks up to Gabino and begins to beat the crap out of him. (We have to get as much pleasure as we can out of this tonight because tomorrow, Irritating Curls is probably going to conk Braulio on the head or Gabino will pull a knife or something. Carpe diem, folks.)
The second best scene of the night.
Paloma keeps blathering about Elisa. She’s not woman enough for Gael and he’ll never feel for her what he feels for Elisa, she says. Gael shushes her. “Any man would feel proud to have a woman like you at his side.” He moves in very close. “You think I don’t feel anything when I kiss you, when I caress you ...” They move in for the smooch. The music swells in the background...
Scriiiiitch. The scene changes abruptly. Ramona interrupts Padre’s prayers with a startling declaration: “It was my fault! I provoked it! I killed him!”
Avances: In the dead of night, Elisa seeks out Damián at Hacienda Harango; Damián mounts his white steed and goes forth looking for Elisa. Let’s hope they manage to connect.

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Rebeca cheerfully explains to Helena: you're getting dumped as part of the new austerity plans. You're always wanting special consideration because you're a single mother. Helena asks to get her project back, Rebeca denies having it. It turns out all the fired employees are women - either old, or single mothers.

JC and his buddies are striking out: all the projects he and his sidekicks review are lousy. He even goes to bed with the somewhat middle-aged Victoria Infante in hopes she has some ideas for him. He calls her his countess; she knows about his fiasco...


... and she tells him Playa Majagua is the next big thing, there will be tax breaks etc, but he better hurry, the window of opportunity is closing. He leaves her to make her own sandwich while he goes off...

... to trawl through the trash - he finds Helena's precious project soaked with ikkiness and her dvd is broken.

Meanwhile, Helena remembers the Canadian guy and calls him... he takes her to lunch and says he'll do business with her if she'll open a travel agency -- he as a foreigner needs a local legal entity. He makes her promise not to accept an offer from anybody else, especially G.I. and they sign an agreement.

Helena drags her fired butt home. In private she tells her mom she's been fired ("don't tell your father") and that she needs 200,000 pesos to start a travel agency. The mom takes out a mortgage on the family home the next day. The cranky dad tells her son Lalo: "Your dad was an irresponsible coward, he ran away, he never wanted you." BUMMER. Later Lalo tells his mom it was his fault the dad left. "You think my dad loves me?" "I think he's losing the chance to see a wonderful boy grow up."

Meanwhile JC gets the list of fired employees from Rebeca (while staring down her cleavage). "You're not thinking of re-hiring them?" she asks like a proper villainess. She gives him pills good for gastritis. JC finds Helena's number and calls her. He's suave, but she's furious: "I'm not setting foot in that business. You didn't have time for me, now it's too late." She hangs up on him. He tells his buddies: "They get their period, that's why I hate doing biz with women!"

He goes and fakes it with his boss, airily describing chains of hotels, restaurants, spas, all with the G.I. logo on them. "Like the Caribbean or the Mediterranean." Plutarco whispers in his brother-in-law's ear that it's all a bad idea. The brother-in-law (boss of both of them) says he won't put his own money into it. JC says he'll get private investment. Adriano says if it goes well, JC will get a chunk of the business.

Plutarco is indignant: "I am your brother-in-law and you never offered shares to me." "You're married to my sister, she has shares. And JC has never failed me - except that once." Plutarco goes to whine to Rebeca his girlfriend (the same one whose cleavage JC was ogling). They have an argument; she threatens: "Fire me and I'll tell the whale [his wife] we're lovers."

At home Plutarco's wife again tries to give him a massage and again he spurns her. Turns out she owns 40% of the company shares.

With the money from the bank, Helena and her friend fix up the friend's place to be the new travel agency, which they call Viajes Moreno. The Canadians come through (the subtitles amusingly call them the Alberta Trouble Company but it's really the Alberta Travel Company).

JC's buddies report that at the beach, they have no local buy-in - the locals only want to do business with Helena! JC says no woman can do as well as men. Plutarco calls the three of them "Hugo Paco and Luis," better known to us as Walt Disney's trio of baby ducks, Huey Dewey and Louis. Plutarco has come round with a huge empty box; he says that because of the austerity program they have to turn in their cell phones. JC says this is sabotaging him! Plutarco says people did without cellphones for centuries, consider the Aztecs!

Adriano steps up the pressure for a quick solution - he wants a formal report on the Playa project immediately. Plutarco is listening.

Rebeca wants a chauffeur but she is refused (austerity). She goes and yells at Plutarco. Unsympathetic, he suggests she take a taxi or walk. Or there's a microbus. She rubs up against him until he gives her his car keys.

JC realizes Rebeca knows something about the Playa project, runs after her, offers to join forces with her, they end up in bed. He says afterwards, "I never take this sort of 'meeting' with women I work with." "Then I'm special." As a reward, she tells him: "I have contacts - and I know that Trouble company has the project underway."

There's some problem at Lalo's school so Helena runs out of the travel agency.

Hewey tells Dewey he's found out about the Alberta Trouble/Travel Company having an alliance with Helena's Viajes Moreno. "And she's an employee you FIRED." Rebeca comes in to hear JC whispering about her: "The woman I'm here with is nothing special, she's a courtesan by vocation, I'm doing her a favor." She yells: "You pig! Some day you should feel what I feel, be in my shoes!" "Ridiculous woman, you think such a thing could happen?"

Tomorrow: he greases his hair back and goes with a false identity to hit up Helena.

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Ok, maybe it's me but this episode just pithed me off. It didn't help that there were NO English subtitles so I was unable to fall back on them during the important conversations (and there were only like, what, two of them...maybe?)

Lo Refrito
BANG!
Horacio: You are so screwed.
Carmina: No I'm not, you are. Ooo! Paper! Note from Kenia! Wait, we do have a way out. I'll keep my mouth shut and you keep your mouth shut.

Dam: Break up with Pal. You've got the road open for Elisa.
Gael: Dude. I broke up with Pal about four episodes ago.

Lo Nuevo the Short Version

• Carmina and Horacio get their stories straight. He was helping her move to Begonia's. Too bad Gael saw them drive off and can verify that she was NOT gone "all afternoon."
• Chente goes crash with Paolo's Phallocycle. Escuincle Baboso needs a kidney transplant. Tonia is gonna be screwed.
• Padre and Gael talk really fast. I'm pretty sure Gael's synapses are starting to fire and he's wondering why Padre has always insisted that Gael and Dam be best buds.
• ToadHead's body is discovered and Elisa wails and irritates all of Viewerville.
• Carmina mentions ToadHead shooting himself before she's supposed to know how he died. Ooops. Elisa yells and demands to know how she knew that.

Seriously. That's really it. But if you insist on details:
Lo Nuevo in Detail
In Which Flashbacks and FF>> Opportunities Abound (Not necessarily as aired. I did some condensing)

• Quique kvetches to Doc Dad about Sabrina's relationship with Paolo. The other girls the Italian Stallion has knows were experienced (code for sluts), but Sabrina is innocent. She could really get hurt. Doc Dad agrees to talk to Begonia. As he leaves, Quique asks Pal to go to the movies with him. Doc, the greatest freaking boss ever, grants Pal the rest of the day off. He'll take care of the filing she never does. 
• ING interrupts Doc's filing to tell him she'll be at a restaurant in Mérida around 8. He should meet her there. Later in the episode we see the stands her up. He tried to tell her he was going to be busy dealing with a family problem but ING wouldn't listen.
• Elisa sits under a tree and flashesback to one of her last conversations with Dad in which she tells him she and Dam will never work and ToadHead tells her he just wants her happy. Lolita arrives to tell her that Papá has sent for her.
• Guido calls Flor from jail. Quique isn't paying the bills anymore. Flor tells him not to worry. She and Dam are back together and he'll be paying the legal fees. They're getting married in two weeks! And since Fina is so worried about appearances, she'll make sure you're out for the wedding. Guido warns Flor about marrying a man whose mother will always be butting into the marriage. Flor and Guido hang up as Fina and Dam arrive. Dam assures Flor Guido will be at the wedding...his mom will take care of that. Flor smirks. Fina flicks the fan.
• Sabrina and Paolo snog in the plaza. She gets a craving and Paolo goes to get a snack. Chente (now fully bandanahanded) macks on Sabrina. Paolo comes up and calls him an escuincle baboso and runs him off.  Chente steals and crashes the Phallocycle. Lolita screams. Paolo is pithed...his moto has been trashed again!
• Carmina and Horacio have the truck all packed. Carmina tells him that they are to say that he came to help her move all her crap to the Tovar's and they were gone all afternoon. They never saw ToadHead. They drive off, unaware that Gael has seen them leaving. He rings the bell but no one answers.
• Chente is unconscious in the street. The folks with heart call for an ambulance and a doctor. Paolo gripes about his moto. At home, Doc and Begonia are discussing the Sabrina. Begonia thinks Paolo is an ok guy since he has the Carmina Orange Seal of Approval. All that rapey snake business was Elisa's fault. Doc is pretty sure that it's a bunch of bunk since the whole world knows Carmina hates Elisa. Begonia lets him know that Carmina will be staying with them since she is having marital problems. The Ho arrives on cue and thanks Doc. Doc reminds her that it is HIS house and he doesn't want her there. If he has to, he'll say exactly why. Begonia is confused, but  Quique and Pal arrive just before the can of beans and worms gets opened. Doc is needed at the Centro de Salud.  
• Gael ponders why Elisa didn't tell Damián that they weren't hermanos and flashes back: to a young Gael preparing for a funeral and being told he has the OBLIGATION of saying good-bye to Rosendo. Padre comes home. Gael asks him why it is so important he and Damián be together on tragic occasions...like burying his sister; like when Rosendo died. Gael reminds Padre that he told him that is was his DUTY to say good bye to Rosendo. Padre says it's because Rosendo paid for his schooling. Things get heated (that's code for I had trouble understanding and the Spanish CCs are crap.) Padre thinks Gael is accusing him of keeping secrets. Gael says Padre didn't tell him about Dam's upcoming wedding nor did anyone tell Dam that Elisa is not his sister.
• Chente is not dead. Doc Tovar explains that Chente's kidney is injured and there is internal bleeding. A transplant will be needed because this was the most convenient way to out Tonia about the Gab business. Of course, Brau is ready to sign up for testing because Chente is his son. Tonia insists on being tested too, you know...just in case. She is so screwed.
• Elisa and Lolita arrive home and the wailing begins. It grates on my nerves. I ain't recapping this hot mess.
• Maru and Lucio return from their dinner date. He is embarrassed because she had to pay. He left his wallet. Maru finds the wallet between the cushions. She drops it as she hands it to him.The both reach down. Sparks, but no contact. They are interrupted by a phone call. It's Lolita telling him that Toad is dead
• Begonia is indignant. Carmina is not the one who should have been thrown out. It should have been Toad. Carmina claims she hasn't seen Toad since the day before.
• Padre and Gael talk fast (remember the code.) Padre talks about Dam and Flor. He fusses about Gael and Paloma. How would Gael feel seeing Pal with some other guy? Gael claims nothing would happen. Gael leaves in a huff. I need help with this conversation.
• Quique and Paloma are strolling the plaza now that the Chente emergency is under control. Quique admits there was a time he was prejudiced (predispuesto) against her 'cause of gossip.  Pal messes with Quique and says she felt the same way at one time. She talks him into buying her a snack, but we'll never know about it because it was edited. QTH? Was the female vendor topless? They run into Dam and Flor. Flor brags about getting married soon and says she'll invite Pal. Pal says she doesn't go to weddings that are doomed for failure. Almost girl fight. Quique admits it upsets him that Flor is marrying. Pal can't catch a break from any guy.
• Elisa won't leave her Papito's side. Lucio manages to drag her away while she wails and screams. He takes note of the gun, the note from Kenia and a bag. Horacio arrives on the scene and recites his alibi to Lucio as Carmina instructed. Lucio calls Carmna at Begonia's. Carmina pushes until Lucio tells her Augusto died. Carmina acts surprised. Begonia goes with her to the house.
• In her bedroom, Elisa wails some more. Elisa figures Lolita was sent to fetch her so he could say good bye. Elisa thinks Toad must have killed himself because he felt he was responsible for Kenia's death.
• Dam tells Flor she didn't need to be so rude to Pal. Flor starts to figure out that Dam is not as happy about the wedding as he should be. She accuses him of wanting to keep it secret. Dam really doesn't answer that question.
• Carmina arrives and hugs Lucio. She plays the role of grieving widow. She wants to be with Augusto, but Horacio tells her the authorities are there. That stops Carmina in her tracks. Lucio  tells her that Toad killed himself (se quitó la vida.) They roll out the body. Carmina wants to know where they are taking him and Lucio tells her there has to be an autopsy. It's the law. Carmina says it's clear he shot himself with the rifle and why can't they just let him rest in peace. Ruh roh, Lucio never told her HOW Toad died. Just that he killed himself. Elisa arrives for one more round of screaming: How did you know he shot himself if you weren't even here?? Answer me!!!!!!!!!! Yeah. Whatever. Nothing is going to happen. There are too many episodes. left.

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We open with our heroine Helena at the cemetery. A strange guy in a hoody (Juan Carlos, now JC) is lurking behind trees. She has flowers for him because it's his birthday. Along comes another woman, and another, one leaves a red bra on his tombstone, the aunt of one of them comes along (she also was one of JC's conquests).

Here comes a batch of mariachis accompanying a couple drunk women, one in a fur coat, they call themselves JC's courtesans and say "He shared with all but gave his heart to none."

Heroine, who's been watching this in amazement, says "That guy deceived all of us, he just deserves to be forgotten." Dozens more women arrive as the mariachis wail. Behind the tree JC whispers: "Helena, you are the only one I've ever loved. When will you forgive me?"

MONTHS EARLIER...

In Acapulco: JC pulls up in a nice car and a nice white suit. The Grand Resort hotel is opening, joint project with a US firm. Reporters swarm him - he blabs smoothly, then grabs one of them and makes an appointment for later.

With his buds Santiago y Fernando by the pool, all three are ogling. One sidekick is married so he's sad looking at the unavailable fruit. JC says to the other: "don't ruin your life, there's time to get away from her, jeez, you already smell married." Then: "Remember our code: no very young women; old women and single mothers don't exist." JC wants his own children, not somebody else's.

"A goddess" arrives in a red dress. JC moves in and though his line is very crappy, she takes a look at him and immediately accompanies him into the empty hotel where they proceed to make out against a wall...

... while her FIANCE, an old gringo dude, turns out to be boss of the US company and is signing papers to join his gringo $$$ to Grupo Imperio... He says his future wife is "The ideal woman: young, beautiful and only opens her mouth when necessary."

While bragging about the up-to-the-moment security of the hotel, they turn on the closed-circuit tv feed and JC's groping with the affianced goddess is shown to all, with the result that the old gringo dude tears up the contract and leaves snarling, "You'll be hearing from my lawyers."

In Mexico City: In her son Lalito's bedroom, Helena practices a presentation on her six-year project, the eco-touristic Majagua Beach.

She lives with her parents. Her dad has been grouchy with her for years - I think he'd like to charge her rent. He scolds her for a marriage that left her with debts. He hands her a hefty private school bill she has to pay. He says nobody will pay attention to a project created by a woman. Helena's mother is nicer.

Turns out Helena had an appointment today - made three months earlier - with JC himself - to discuss her project! But he's in Acapulco... She sits down to wait, and she waits and waits, but then she gets a call from her friend at the hotel where she works - she's needed. She leaves her notebooks with the G.I. secretary saying, "This is my entire life, put these right in JC's hand." She leaves.

Moments later, of course, Adriano Reyes the boss re-arrives from Acapulco after the shattered deal, followed by everybody (the evil Plutarco, JC's buddies, JC, etc). The secretary gives Helena's notebooks to JC and he immediately tosses them in the trash on his way in to his boss's office. Because no project cooked up by a woman could be any good.

The boss yells at him and says, "Unless you come up with a project as good as the one you just ruined with your skirt-chasing, you're fired and so are your buddies."

Behind the hotel desk, Helena fixes something very efficiently for a guy connected with the Canadian "Alberta Trouble Company" [sic]. Impressed, he says she's over-qualified for her job and hints he might have something for her (his business is in competition with Grupo Imperial)

Later she goes home and her son (who is not horrid so far) reminds her that if her project is a success they will be able to buy a house and a dog.

In the hot tub: Plutarco and his girlfriend play wet footsie. He is married to Antonia (the plus-sized sister of big boss Adriano Reyes, himself a sexist skirt-chaser), whom his girlfriend calls "the manatee." Antonia calls him and he goes home briefly (after all, she IS the boss's sister). She is dressed in lingerie. There are sadly going to be a lot of fat jokes. Plutarco spurns her and goes, I guess, back to the hot tub, where he plots with his girlfriend to kick JC while he's down.

In a big house somewhere: JC goes to see his mother Eugenia who was in the theater and now has memory problems. She says she can fix his woes.

Finally: Helena gets a phone call from Grupo Imperial and goes in. She think's it's JC calling her in to discuss her project, but instead it is Rebeca Oropeza, who mocks her for thinking she could see such an august personage as JC: "He doesn't have time for you. But he left this for you. You're fired."

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I've lost track of what chapter we're on. Was today 54 and 55??

'Nando, Isa and Manuela
Manuela and Ceci  crash a celebratory dinner thrown by Zoe (who's living with Felipe now.) Manuela proposes a toast to her new job at 'Nando's company. 'Nando drops the "I'm not hiring you" bomb. Manuela runs off to the bathroom to freak out. Ceci and Felipe think 'Nando was harsh. Zoe was fine with it.  Manuela spends the rest of the episode playing emotional blackmail. In a flashback we find out that she does have a history of deep depression and trastornos emocionales (emotional disorders) and that she feels like Sofia "took what was hers"; however, IMHO she is faking it for most of this episode. Because of Manuela's history, Horty is able to guilt 'Nando into hiring her (Isa helps to guilt him into it when she hears about Manuela's past and how much Manuela's disorder intruded on his marriage.) Manuela also plays Ceci like a Stradivarius.

Willy, Lucía and Beba
Beba continues to dream of her wedding with Willy. Horty tells Jorge about this "wedding" and her concerns that Beba is being taken advantage of. Willy calls it off with Beba and tells him he's madly in love with another woman. This breaks Beba's heart and she hits him with a vase and knocks him out. He recovers quickly. Willy really did seem repentant...thoughts? Opinions?

Later, Beba goes to visit Lucia. Willy also visits Lucia and tells her he wants to introduce her to his mom as his pre-novia. Beba overhears Lucia and Willy talking marriage (Lucia talks him into waiting and he respects that.) Beba gets very upset and in heart attack moment #1 Viewerville thinks Beba is going to tell all. She doesn't. Lucia, still misreading the situation tells Beba that true love will come knocking on her door one day.

Willy goes to Beba's house again and begs forgiveness again. Beba says she'll forgive him IF he confesses his past to Lucia. Willy says he will, but by the end of the episode he still hadn't.

Barbell (Thanks, Julia!), Marisogullible and Knuckles
Barbell is hanging out with Knuckles and talking to Mari-so-dumb on the phone.  She is still feeding Mari-so-pitiful the ol' "Juancho is still pithed" line of bull. Barbell swears she'll keep working on behalf of Mari-so-stupid. Barbell hangs up and tells Kuckles she's doing her part to keep them apart, what is Knuckles contributing? I can't remember what he said and I forgot to make a note.

Jorge the Tool
Makes his mother think he'll be staying a little longer 'cause he loves her, but really it's just to keep his nose in her business. Jorge gets his thugs to kidnap Willy. They bring him to a secret location. Jorge threatens Willy's family and then the thugs beat Willy up and leave him in the dirt. After this little chore, Jorge heads to Isa's for a late night visit. He tells her how worried he is about people taking advantage of his mother. The next day he sends flowers to Isa's office. Can we say d*****bag on this blog?

Leo and G-mina
G-mina has decided to give Leo his tranquilizante* every 6 hours instead of every 8. Leo spends the rest of the episode loopy and sounding drunk. G-mina's plan is to get him to sign documents which I assume will give her all the money. He manages to call Isa and slur to her, but G-mina catches him and hangs up. Isa rushes over, convinced that something is up. G-mina had Leo hidden in, you guessed it....the closet. This was definitely not funny.
*would mean tranquilizer or anti-anxiety med? Pharmacist hub and I discussed this and he thinks with high blood pressure an anti-anxiety would be prescribed. Are we expecting too much of the TN medical community?

Heart attack moments #2 and #3
There was a scene with Lucia and Reina (and Reina's MC Hammer pants) and they were looking at a house with a Realtor. I missed exactly what Lucia said, but the Realtor seemed to indicate that Lucia's word was good as gold. Feel free to fill in my blanks, but I got a "something is going to go wrong" vibe. Heart attack moment #2 was when Lucia called Beba while she was eating lunch with Jorge. I thought for sure Beba was going to go back on her word (Heart attack #2 and how silly of me! Beba would never do that.) Then I thought for sure Jorge was going to be a putz about the money (Heart attack #3.) So far he's not.

The That's So Creepy Award goes to...
Whoever obliterated the "de Lobo" from Sofía's tombstone. Who could have possibly done that???

The Hubba Hubba Award goes to...
For the scene when Willy takes off his shirt for some medical care from Lucia. It ends in a kiss that is interrupted by Lala. I laughed out lout when Willy tried to cover himself.

Pitiful Vocabs
encajosa: bothersome by being demanding
te volaste la barda: you crossed the line (in the context it was said to Beba); but can also be You went over the top!
Ni fú ni fá: so-so; neither good or bad; The last time I had this I had it spelled without the accents. Who first brought this to my attention? I know it's on the UFCS list, but did you mention it, too Blue Lass? Anyway... I was thrilled that I recognized it. I'm learning!
agalles: guts
barbaján: boor
picarona: naughty
tunda: thrashing

Avnaces:

• Doris is back!
• Girl Fight!
• Escaleracide?

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