Caray, Caray!

When DB sees that it was BP who shot Danger, she says, "You, it had to be you." BP says that he is at her service as always. DB asks why he did it. BP says that DB is more generous than Danger was.

Cecilia tries to get Lorenzo to eat some oatmeal (aveda) that she made but he doesn't like it. Jeez, the poor guy is dying. They should let him eat whatever he wants. 'Heart healthy' stuff isn't going to make much difference now.

Marisela thinks she is being followed. You'd think after growing up like a wild animal in the forest, she might be more wood-crafty than to let soldiers stomping around in boots scare her like that.

BP tells DB that Danger had legal problems in 'gringoland' and needed the money from the La Chusmita deal to pay lawyers. BP asks DB if she is going to reward him by making him a partner in this business. DB says that he will receive a reward for saving her life. She tells BP that they will dump the body in the swamp.

Santos tells the rebels that they are going to leave for the border that night. He will go with them because he is responsible for them and because Meléndez is looking for him too.

Don Encarnación is annoyed that Antonio has to go away for a few days right then. Lucía tells her father to let Antonio go. If he says it's important, then it is. Antonio vows that he will come back. There are very important things here he has to return to.

Marisela bursts into the kitchen at Altamira in fear at being followed but she says nothing to her father about it.

BP and DB thow Danger's body into the swamp (pantano). (This place doesn't look much like a swamp.)
DB says that she will miss Danger and hopes that he understands that she didn't kill him. BP looks at her, "His death is yours," she says. Danger sinks into the swamp just in time. Soldiers are patrolling. DB says it's time to go. This job is done. ("Este arroz ya se coció," literally, "This rice is cooked.") Then she says something that is sort of equivalent to the English saying, "Life is for the living." ("El muerto al hoyo y el vivo al gozo," literally, "The dead to the hole and the living to pleasure.")

Marisela is very jumpy and Cecilia demands to know what is going on. Marisela tells her that she is being followed.

Guerrero reports to Meléndez that per his orders, Marisela is being followed day and night. Guerrero says that he doesn't understand why. Marisela is not a disident. Meléndez tells Guerrero to follow orders but having sex with Federica seems to have blunted his fascistic tendencies. He accuses Meléndez of abusing his authority by harassing the locals and persecuting DB for personal reasons. Meléndez orders him to be put in jail until he is court martialed.

DB returns to El Miedo and tells Eustaquia to hide the papers she got from Danger. She tells Eustaquia that the papers are about being rich, really rich. She can't deal with it until Meléndez is out of the way. She says that everything is ready for his execution. Eustaquia warns her about Santos finding out. DB says that Santos won't find out what she is doing.

DB tells Eustaquia that when things have calmed down, she will have the documents translated because they are in English. Eustaquia says that Santos could do that but DB doesn't want anyone, even Santos to know about the documents. She tells Eustquia that Danger found that there is something very valuable, she doesn't know what, undernealth the infertile soil and the bad smells of La Chusmita. DB tells Eustaquia that his ambition killed Danger.

The idiot Gonzalo is running around outside. He gives Juan Primito a note to take to Marisela.

Santos is packing up to leave for the frontier. DB says that she will go with him. Santos tells that she can't go with him.

JP gives Marisela a terrible fright by coming up behind her. He gives her the note, which asks her to meet Gonzalo at the well of the spirits when it gets dark that night.

Santos tells DB that she has to stay at El Miedo and wait for him like the other women. DB says that she isn't like other women. If her man is in danger, she want to protect him and take care of him. She asks Santos to wait one more night and she will solve all their problems. Santos says that their problems have a name: Nicolás Meléndez. How is she going to solve them? He accuses her of planning to kill Meléndez. DB says that she won't touch a hair on his head. But she says that he will pay. She says that sometimes one has to do hard things to survive and there's no choice with Meléndez - it's him or us. Santos trots out the old violence isn't the way and there are laws. DB is dismissive of the law. She says it is only paper that can be burnt. Then she tells Santos that she won't do anything, that he has won the argument.

Well, I guess DB was just fibbing with Santos because the first thing she asks Melquíades (who is getting weirder and weirder about DB)

is whether he has figured out a way to kill Meléndez without leaving a trace. Melquíades says that they have to get him alone. That's the problem says DB. Melquíades says that recently Meléndez has been sleeping with Josefa.

DB and Melquíades come to town to implement their plan.

Santos comes down to the cellar to get the rebels to find that Gonzalo is gone to see Marisela. Santos is furious.

Cecilia tells Lorenzo that with all the soldiers around, Marisela shouldn't leave the house. Cecilia ends up telling Lorenzo about Marisela's belief that she is being followed. Marisela appears and says that she is going out. Lorenzo forbids her to leave the house.

Josefa has an appointment with DB in the hotel bar. DB says that she has a job to propose to Josefa that will be very profitable to her and useful to DB. Josefa says that what they want her to do is dangerous. If she is found out, she could be shot. DB tells her that with the money DB will give her, she can be independant of men, start her own business and DB will never tell that she helped her.

Naturally, Marisela has disobeyed her father and left the house.

Santos finds Juan Primito and learns what Gonzalo's note said.

DB's plan is as simple as the El Miedo vaqueros starting a fight in the bar and Josefa telling the guards outside Meléndez' door to go and help stop the fight. DB and Melquíades get into Meléndez' room. Apparently, they still aren't just going to kill him outright but are going to incapacitate him and bring him somewhere.



Antonio is accosted by soldiers. They asks what is doing alone at this hour.

Marisela is grabbed by soldiers as she walks to the pozo. They put a bag over her head and drag her off.

Santos finds Gonzalo waiting for Marisela and punches him.

DB and Melquíades may be waiting for a while in Meléndez' room. He has got Marisela tied to a chair in some remote place.

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Well yes...there were a few plot developments but for me the best part of the night was when the butler and the maid were singing Wooly Bully in the kitchen. What does that tell you? But you want more than that, right? Okay, here it comes.

First the old stuff: Mother and Alicia are squabbling about Patricio's attitude and what he said about his mother-in-law. Alicia pretty much ignores mom and gets on the phone to find Santiago's number so she can arrange for a "bubis" lift...and hey, while she's at it, Mom can get herself a face lift.

Then a brief scene with Cece bringing along a lot of food to Candy's house and setting up the idea that maybe they can have dinner sometime over the weekend. Candy seems to be missing all the signals Cece's sending out but we get to see her gleeful look as she imagines she's making progress.

Meanwhile, back at Santiago's digs, the word is out that Donato is the one who blabbed about Santi's old rock group and got the teenagers totally excited. And since Santiago can deny his daughters nothing, now he'll have to go through with it. Donato and the winsome maid do a little rockin' Wooly Bully number and it's looking good until Mama Santiago arrives in high dudgeon and sentences the butler to a month of washing dishes, including the greasy pots, for running off at the mouth and temporarily getting HER in trouble (Santi thought his mother was the culprit).

Evidently washing dishes is going to be one of our transition themes tonight because we switch to the lovelorn restaurant cook who's still grieving Patricio's rejection. (Don't you just want to rip out Candy's hair for adding to this woman's woes!?) Tio Meño gives her the usual pep talk about being a very interesting woman and "before-you-know-it-your-dream-guy-will-come-along" bit and chides her for looking like a "pollito mojado" (wet chick, or think drowned rat...whatever sad image comes to mind)

Meanwhile Santiago is looking a bit like a "pollito mojado" himself, glum and silent at the breakfast table, and under some brisk grilling by mom, confides that he's worried about Raul's plan for a couples' dinner....because he's sure Raul is going to try and seduce Candy! Mom informs him he's madly in love and jealous. He informs her she understands absolutely nothing!

Well, if Santiago's not making any progress, Patricio certainly is....with Beto his son. He's giving him some good soccer tips and assuring Beto he can score like Borgetti (Jared Borgetti...top scorer for Mexico) if he just learns to stand back a little and not rush the goal. He also throws in the name of Guardado (Andres Guardado, one of the best paid Mexican soccer players) and Beto is so thrilled with the good advice he proposes that Patricio should be their soccer coach. (Watch out Candy!)

Back at the office, Marissa is trying to promote the Candy/Raul romance and it's having the opposite effect. Candy is backpedaling rapidly while we (but not Candy or Marissa) see Cece looking angrily jealous. Candy is off to Santiago's office to try and enlist his help in cooling Raul's ardor, and as she rushes in, she just narrowly misses running into sister Alicia... who's there to see about that "bubis" lift she wants.

Hortensia, his secretary, is not pleased. Everytime you're here "Troy arde" (Troy burns) she sighs to Candy....and besides, the doctor is with a patient. Candy flounces, pouts, sulks and bounces in her seat like a 2-year-old. ( Lord, this woman annoys me! Could we have another heroine please. Anyone???!!!)

So Candy's invaded the surgeon's office, while at home, mother Gregoria is invading her and Meño's space. She waltzes in without saying hello and after some jibes thrown back and forth, informs Meño that "she's coming to live with her daughter". She wheedles Chava into announcing that Candy is his mom and the truth is out for sure...Gregoria has a grandchild...and she knows for certain who the father is as well.

Meanwhile, Candy's pulling the tired old trick on Hortensia...bring me a cup of tea....with a little honey please (see anything wrong with this liberated woman treating a secretary like a maid? I do!) Candy then cracks open the door of Santiago's office, sees that Alicia is the patient and overhears that her husband is about to arrive any moment. Now Hortensia is about to be transformed from maid to co-conspirator. There's also a little horseplay about the bell...it keeps getting accidentally rung and people keep asking "What's up with the bell?" Ho ho ho.

But back to the matter at hand. Santiago's assuring Alicia that her breasts are firm and just fine (well, we can attest to that with all those revealing yoga outfits) but she still wants to enlarge them. Okay, fine, but we have to have your husband's approval. It's my body, she snaps, and I can do what I want with it.

So there!

Alright, let's compress the following madcap I love Lucy type scenes. Candy persuades Hortensia to disguise her as a nurse. However she's so covered up she's blind and stumbles around like a lost soul. Santiago fumbles his lines at first but finally plays along and introduces her as his new surgery nurse. Patricio, who has arrived, is strangely attracted by this curious figure and says "se me hace muy conocida" (she seems very familiar to me) and Santi launches into a lot of maxilofaciala B.S. to explain why she might indeed look familiar. Alicia on the other hand is horrified at this clumsy apparition and says, Well, I certainly hope she won't be your nurse when you operate on me! Good call Alicia.

Another great scene when Santiago then runs down the hall to where Candy is back changing clothes once again. It's a great run. Primo physical comedy. The man can do wonderful things with his body, but Lord have mercy, he needs a better script.


More tomfoolery as Santiago lurks outside the dressing room screen as Candy changes back into her regular clothes. He thinks he deserve a little kiss for all his help, and maybe a little peek as well. Nothin' doin'. He points out that he's seen 20 of whatever she's got on any given day, and on busy days, even more. Still no cooperation. She repeats her classic line (how many times have we heard this.. and has HE heard this?) that she doesn't want any men in her life. Well how about we spend just one night together, and then you can reevaluate? Stike three, he's out.

This whole shebang ends with a little tête-à-tête with Hortensia...a poignant moment when the secretary begs Candy not to torment Santiago.
H: He's a good man....alright, a bit of a womanizer...but someone broke his heart once...I don't want that to happen again.
C: You're in love with him aren't you?
H: shakes her head
C: Don't worry...I won't....
Candy leaves, and Hortensia stops shaking her head and sadly nods.....yes, indeed, she is in love with her boss.

While this medical and emotional mayhem was going on, Gregoria and Meño are continuing their own bickering. He's protesting he has no room for her; she proposes sleeping in his bed with him since she has nothing to fear there.

Things are not going smoothly at Pato and Alicia's either. She wants to know what's up. He's ignoring her and turning on the TV. She gets right in his ear and says she knows what's up...it's about his anniversary with Candy. She stomps out to get a té de tila (lime blossom tea or linden tea for Americanos) which seems to be the Mexican version of a tranquilizer and he yells at her to bring him a burger and lots of nice greasy fries as well. As for her proposed surgery, he could care less...do with her body whatever she wants. Hmmm.....not quite the response most wives would want.

Candy's back at home to join in the fray with mom and tio. Gregoria threatens that she's not going to "tapar la mentira" (cover up the lie). Candy wants to know what she has to do to get her silence. Aha! blackmail is it? Yes, indeed....but if Candy lets Gregoria live there, she'll keep her mouth shut.

Candy gets all huffy and righteous and says, Do you pray?
G: Every night
C: Well then pray that the Virgencita opens your heart because it's been closed so many years.
G: You closed my heart! You closed it by faking your death. And your sister Alicia closed it by kicking me out of her house.

Okay, I think Mom won that round.

We also have a series of interesting scenes with Marissa, trying to score points with Rocio and her two buds by taking them to the park. Beto and Rocio think she's grand but Chava's on to something. He leans his head into her chest (dumping his chocolate ice cream cone all over her shirt) and listens to her heart. Whoops. She's not as nice as she tries to appear. Busted!!!

Beto and Rocio disagree and start pummeling Chava. Meanwhile Marissa sensing an opportunity, grabs Rocio's dog and hides her in the car. Generalized terror and crying as the kids search frantically for the doggie, fearing the worst. After some prolonged kiddie suffering, Marissa miraculously finds the dog and emerges as the all-time Olympic hero of Rocio's life. As the child recounts this charming story to Santiago and her granny, Abuelita looks clearly sceptical. She evidently is as suspicious of Marissa as our little Chava. Darling, she advises Santiago, if you're not serious about Marissa, you'd better cut it off now...Rocio can't lose another "mother". We get the same old line about Marissa being a partner in the business and the legal implications and complications and oh my, that's why he'll just have to remain with her. We've heard it all before.

And speaking of stuff we've heard before...Candy's plowing old ground with Meño about her special connection to Patricio.
M: Your first love....
C: My ONLY love...
M: Candy, I don't want you to dry out like your mother. Love is a plant that must be watered every day. I was in love once.....and I enjoyed it fully (we presume this was with his business partner who left the restaurant and office building to him).

Well, Candy's off for a date with destiny. Although she's being mysterious about it with Tio, we have no trouble guessing that she's going to revisit Acapulco on her anniversary. And we have no problem guessing that Patricio will be there too....and that they will JUST miss each other. But whoa...I'm getting ahead of myself here.

We're back with Marissa and her protective brother Raul. They're deep in another romantic strategy session. She's been to the gynecologist's office because her period's late but it's not the hoped for" leverage pregnancy"....rather it's "miomas" (tumors) in her ovaries. Well alright, counters Raul, but if you really want a child, you could adopt. Yes, but Santiago already has two daughters....he'd want a child of his own but not an adopted one. I hoped to be pregnant to tie him to me.... but now.... Raul, you've got to change your strategy! You're driving Candy away and you've got to make her love you so she'll leave Santiago alone.

One final washing dishes scene. This time it's Gregoria with her hands in the dishwater, and Meño trying to shoo her out of his kitchen and out of his house. Evidently she slept in Charly's bed last night and the displaced teenager was clomping around the house all night disturbing Meño's sleep. Chava's watching all this, very confused, and wondering why this strange woman slept over.

At last....Acapulco. We hear in the background Patricio and Candy's love song "Bendita la luz" and there they both are....separated by only a few feet...both dressed in white as they were years ago, and both lost in their bittersweet memories of the past. But wait...he seems to catch a glimpse of her. No, it can't be. He's crazy. He runs after the fleeing vision but finally gives up, (as she cowers behind a stone wall) because he knows, he knows after all, that she must be dead.

We see Candy heading back to Guadalajara on the bus, crying again, but also marveling that Patricio kept his promise (cumplio su compromiso). He returned to the scene of their loving tryst, just as they had planned.

The writers throw in a little comedy scene here, just so we won't get too sentimental and want to see these long lost lovers reunite. Lucia is asking her granny if they had lipstick back in the 60's. Donato chortles while Abue snaps that it wasn't the dinosaur era and yes, they had lipstick, though not as bright as the lipstick today, more "nacarados" (pearlized). (I remember those days well; we piled on lots of mascara and made our lips very pale in order to bring out our eyes even more. Not sure anyone was even looking at our eyes....but we did our best!)

And it turns out the shopping bags Abuela lugged home earlier contained a Sergeant Pepper outfit for Donato. He's having no part of it however. First of all it's too small and he'd look like a stuffed sausage. And besides, he's a Rolling Stones....

Stop right there! He's going to wear it. We shall see, we shall see he mutters, all the while claiming he's "tarareando" (humming) a Beatles tune.

Candy's now back at home and doing that little junior high find-out-if-he-likes-me thingy with her mom. She wants Gregoria to verify if Patricio's still in love with her and thinks she can do it by quizzing Alicia on Patricio's reactions. I find this beyond tiresome but Gregoria finally relents and says she'll do it.

The final scene is Alicia with Gregoria at Meño's restaurant. Evidently Mom's brought her there to do the grilling but Zamora, after fending off Alicia's questions (and trying to interpret Gregoria's frantic hand signals) blurts out that Meño's not there....He went to the 60's party with CANDY.

Impactado look. Alicia.

Previews: Alicia knows there's a "gato encerrado" (there's something fishy here) No subtitles so I can't be completely sure but I think she asks Patricio if Candy walked in the door...would you abandon me?

Vocabulary:
¿comieron los ratones la lengua? (literally, did the rats eat your tongue....or we would say Cat got your tongue? Rocio to Santiago at the breakfast table)
se me hace muy conocida = looks very familiar to me
abolengo = ancestry (part of the complicated BS Santiago was slinging when Patricio asked about his mysterious nurse)
mioma = benign uterine tumor
tapar la mentira = cover up the lie
pollito mojado = wet chick (we might say drowned rat or sad sack)
tarareando = humming or going "la la la"
nacarados = pearlized
cumplio (preterite form) su compromiso = kept his promise

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Abigail and Vicky find the button to open the secret door in the study.

PJ/S get propositioned by some working girls who are scornful when Rebeca picks him up.

PJ/S imagines that Valeria is playing the piano in the restaurant while Rebeca blathers on. He tells her that they can only be friends.

Whatever her name is tells Andrés that PJ/S is Isabel's lover.


Andres reacts badly to the news.


Isabel in bed with her picture of PJ.

Rebeca asks for a kiss and PJ/S is going for the forehead when with all the strength of her thwarted desires, she goes for the lips. PJ/S wrestles her off and is disgusted.

Andres mental health which was never that great seems to be in free fall once he got the news of who Isabel's lover is. He is about to suffocate her with a pillow when Rebeca comes into the room.

Then he gets his sniper rifle out.

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• Santiago was too proud to let Marissa dump him, and now his heart is suffering because Candy is not willing to be his second woman.
  
• Candy pushes all men away, and now she feels the dark night of being alone.
  
• Alicia made Pat into a man who cheats on his wife, and now she has a husband who cheats on his wife.
  
• Candy faked her death, and now Pat can use that against her to get custody of Chava.
  
• Pat betrayed the only woman he ever loved, and now he has no one to love in his life.

As they reviewed Friday’s scenes, I realized something.

1. At the “hot breakfast,” Marissa announced that she was willing to walk away from Santiago. She gave him a wide open door.
2. Then Candy confessed that she does like Santiago, implying that if he walks out Marissa’s open door, he’ll find Candy on the other side.
3. Candy left the restaurant immediately thereafter, to give Santi space to choose his course.
4. The moment Marissa comes into Candy’s office, Candy asks, “How did it end at the breakfast?”

It didn’t end. That’s the problem. And Candy will keep on rejecting Santiago, unless her life’s goal is to be someone’s mistress.

Now, today’s recap.
Luc and her friends are planning the party. The want to raise the most money for the orphans (?). Donato, whose favorite hobby is gossiping, tells Lucía that her tio’s rock band will play at the party. The girls swoon as if Elvis were coming. Perhaps they have a point.



Candy shows Lulu Pat’s picture. Lu will meet Pat as his friend from chat. She’s all atwitter, and she can’t believe that Candy would leave such a bonbon just because he cheated on her. Lulu asks how far she can go with him. I don’t want to sound like a certain troll, but geesh! She hasn’t even met him and she wants to throw herself into his bed? Lulu, get a grip!

Santiago discovers the Abandonados practicing in the clubhouse. Their song is, “Too Many Guests And Not Enough Tacos.“ He tells them to forget it! He has too much work to waste his time on such foolishness. Does anyone think Ed is not the drummer type? Maybe Carlo (Celso), but not Ed. And as for Miguel, the other young guy? Bass. Definitely bass.

Tulipánes de quién?
Someone delivers tulips for Candy, but Chayo loses the card. Our Sour Candy marches them out the door. She finds Santiago on the elevator. Again, the running gag: all the other people in the elevator groan when they see that it’s her. The two crows (I certainly can’t call them lovebirds) block the door so the others can’t exit. Candy demands, “Do you know what you should do with them? Santi suggests that he should send them to his novia. Candy orders him, “Don’t send me flowers. Don’t call me. Don’t come see me. Don’t nothing.” Note this is the first Candy has talked to him since he didn’t walk through the ‘open door’ this morning at breakfast.

Santi corrects her grammatical construction and also her assertions, “I don’t come see you, I don’t send you flowers. But from now on, I don’t want anything to do with you.” The elevator crowd cheers, and so do I, because she finally gets a taste of her own medicine and it leaves Candy speechless. Let me savor this moment.

Lulu and Candy e-mail Pat to arrange a meeting. Lulu can’t contain her excitement. Pat, not so much. He takes another look at the photo and proclaims his signature line, “No está sexy.” When Pat uses that line, he doesn’t mean it in a sexual sense. It seems to mean, “That’s not cool, that’s not a good idea, I don’t like it.”

Lulu is distressed that her new prospect doesn’t want to meet her, so Candy compassionately consoles her by saying, “There’s nothing you can do about it. Now get going because I have a column to write.” Lulu is losing hope of ever finding someone, and Candy asks, “To get a date, do you think you have to be a skinny, anorexic model?” Let’s see, can we think of any skinny, anorexic models who have four suitors?

Noche de perros (an idiom for a sleepless night)
Nobody is getting any sleep tonight.


In parallel scenes, both Candy and Santiago recognize that life is not meant to be alone. Candy is feeling lonely, writing her diary on her laptop. Santiago is reading poetry. “You’re far, and the distance is hard to bear. I can’t kiss you. I love you, I dream of you. I desire you.”
Candy writes, “I think about you, and I shouldn’t. I suffered from betrayal and the pain remains. It aches.”
Santiago talks to himself, “I don’t want to go back to suffering. But my heart is calling out for you. You don’t let me get close, with what I have for you inside.”
Candy: Life was not made for us to be alone. To live is to share. We’re all angels of only one wing, and the only way to fly is arm in arm with another.
Santiago: I used to be alone and didn’t feel alone. Why did I have to meet you and remember what loneliness is? Loneliness is what life is for me. And for you too.
Candy: But I won’t fly with you. I won’t have anything to do with you. No woman should betray another woman. Women don’t betray.
Santiago: I love you.
Candy: Continue with your novia. It’s not important to me. (She starts crying.) I don’t feeling anything. I don’t want to feel anything. Away with the pain.

Candy goes down to the kitchen. Meño couldn’t sleep either. She asks if loneliness bothers him. He says, “I’m gay. There is very much loneliness. I’ve always been alone. It hurts, but I’ve gotten accustomed to it.” Candy decides she has to get used to it too, but Meño says that one day she’ll open her eyes and not be alone. Charly couldn’t sleep either. He takes this opportunity, while Chava is asleep, to ask what’s up with Pat’s photo.

Beto didn’t feel like eating supper because he misses Jorge. Late that night he’s sick with a high fever. Soledad calls Pat, who is on the couch watching TV, with Alicia clinging to him like a remora. (I didn’t say ramera, but if the tacone fits…) When Pat hears that Beto is sick, he throws off Alicia like she’s a dog who doesn’t belong on the bed (if the slipper fits…). Soledad is sorry to call but she has no insurance and she’s desperate. Alicia is upset and doesn’t want her husband going to his ex(?)-lover’s house in the middle of the night. Nobody can fault her that, but her whining is still annoying.

Los perros se van - The dogs leave.
After Charly hears the story of Candy’s “death,” he heads up to bed. Meño sits and ponders. “My poor son. My family gave me up for dead. Everyone thinks you’re dead. Poor Charly lives in a cemetery!”

Beto’s fever left and he’s feeling better, thanks to the medicine. Soledad lets Pat talk to Beto alone, but Beto doesn’t want to listen. Pat gently explains what a bad father he had, and Beto brags that he has a good. dad. Pat says he’s not asking Beto to stop loving Jorge as his father, but he wants to spend more time with him, get to know him, and make up for all the years that he missed. As he tucks Beto in, Pat lingers and savors the scene, wishing it was part of his daily life.

Lucía can’t sleep either. She’s crying over her mother’s picture. Santiago comes in to be with her. As they sit under the portrait of his father (Santiago’s father and Jaime Camil’s father), Santi understands but reminds her that it wasn’t her mama’s fault. Luc is still angry that they left her alone. Like a good papa, he suggests that maybe it’s time to let go of all the coraje (anger, bitterness, being upset; the word is hard to translate). He gives her his shoulder to cry on, and says that if he holds her and rubs her ear, little by little the coraje goes away. She asks, “Is that what my uncle, the doctor, says?” He says, “No, it’s your uncle who loves you with his whole heart and wants to be your father forever.”

Notice the contrast. Pat, who was raised by a terrible father and a lousy mother, is trying to figure out how to be the right kind of father to his son Beto. Santiago, who has a world of well-earned admiration for his mother, and who sits under the shadow of his father, already knows how to be a good father.

Rosas de celos. Mumbles de baño.
The next morning at the office, Candy refuses to ride the same elevator as Santiago. Tan caballero (such a gentleman), he surrenders his place. Watch him carefully after the elevator elevates. You’ll see four separate thoughts occur to him. Then he goes down the street to buy flowers.



On the Machograma, the second definition is Macho Perezoso (lazybones). So slow that they seem motionless. Their slogan is “Slowly but surely.” They father five children and later want you to provide for them. Es vigo (?). For them, everything can wait, even your pleasure. If you want to be dissatisfied, find a macho perezoso.

I’m just wondering how teaching women to be man-haters makes them more beautiful on the inside.

Soledad tells Candy that Santiago is in reception with a bouquet of flowers. Candy marches out, grabs them before he can say a word, and screams at him that she doesn’t want any flowers from him. She violently shakes them at him, causing a blizzard of petals. He asks her to please give them back because he bought them for his novia. Marissa dashes out, so delighted to get flowers from Santiago. As she zeros in for a big thank-you kiss, he shuffles over so they can kiss directly in front of Candy. Bull’s-eye! Santiago scores a direct hit. Candy got exactly what she demanded - that the doctor leave her alone - and she almost starts crying. Poor Marissa, she is so happy to finally have Santiago’s attention, and she has no idea she only has a bit part in this play.

At the restaurant, Lulu is depressed because of Pat. Meño comforts her that Pat has always been patán (an oafish lout). Thank you, Meño, for the new moniker. Lulu says that Patán rejected her after seeing her picture. Meño reminds her that he himself is no Alejandro Fernandez, El Patrillo. He’s just an old fogie. Lulu disputes this – she adores him. Meño say’s that’s just his point – she’s a sweetheart and people adore her too. Alejandro Fernandez is my favorite singer but I don’t consider him a heart-throb.

At school, Rocío tells Chava that she changed her dog’s name from Maripa (Marissa plus Paulina) to Santiaga because her mother doesn’t love her. Notice that she removed the reference to Marissa as well.

Marissa and Bárbara mumble about something in the bathroom. They don’t want the rest of the office to hear it. The sound man doesn’t want me to hear it either. Who am I to argue?

Patán asks Meño why his Suegrita brought Patán’s picture to Meño’s house. Meño kicks him out. At the counter, Sven tells Ole he doesn’t qualify as an Abandonado because he’s never had a girlfriend to abandon him.

Jaime tells Isabel that she’s lucky to be involved in her son’s life. Jaime spent last Christmas alone. “Yo coseché lo que sambré” – I reaped what I sowed. He says he put his work before his family, and now he is almost a stranger to them.

Rocío wants Marissa to take her and Chava to the park. When Santiago hears that Rocío is taking her novio. Santi stomps on the brakes. “The only novio Rocío has is me.” Tender-hearted Roc is worried that she made her daddy angry, but Mar says he’s just jealous. Santi yanks the reins on that wagon too! He “clarifies” to Marissa that he doesn’t want his daughter to contend with the pressures of life before her time. He doesn’t even want to think about the day that some barbarian will take his princess away. His princess tells him not to worry, she’ll marry Chava, not some barbarian.

Raúl brings Candy her fan mail and insists that she go to a couples’ dinner with him. Candy says, “You and I are not a couple.” “Not yet,” says Raúl.

Marissa takes the three kids to the park and asks Chava how many boyfriends his mother has.

Raúl is joking with Santiago about their band playing again. The talk shifts to Candy and the couples’ dinner. Then Santi realizes that Raúl is talking about Raúl and Candy as a couple, and joke time is over.

Jaime takes Isabel home and suggests a kiss. Isabel gives Jaime a peck because she knows he’s a little timid. Jaime gathers his gumption and gives her the tiniest peck. They discuss whether they are novios. With a little prompting, Jaime gives her a sweet kiss.

Santiago barges into Candy’s office. Before we listen to that conversation, let’s review, class. What happened between them earlier this morning? Santiago brought a big bunch of roses to Marissa, not Candy, and then he gave Marissa a big sloppy kiss, making sure Candy couldn’t miss it. But now that Raúl has used the word “couples,” everything has changed. Santi doesn’t want anyone doing any “Hey, Hey, HEY!” with his prospective mistress. Santiago shoves shows Cece out the door and gets straight to the point.

He tells Candy, “You can’t go out to dinner with Raúl. It’s a couples’ dinner. What’s dangerous is what can happen afterwards. Kisses, caresses, he’ll want to grab hold of you.”
Candy answers, “Then I’ll prepare for what comes after the kiss. I’ll buy lingerie. (Santiago looks like someone is pulling his necktie tighter and tighter.) Would Raúl like red or black? You decide.”
Poor Santiago, his head just about explodes. He gets steaming mad and then realizes that she is just playing games with him. At least he hopes so.

Bárbara tries to get Cece to talk about Candy, assuring Cece that she is very discreet. Cece keeps her mouth shut. Candy walks in and asks what the secret is. Bárbara, the discreet one, says, “Cece doesn’t like men!” Ha ha! Broma! Hmm. ‘Entre broma y broma, la verdad se asoma.’ Between one joke and another, the truth appears.

Santiago is beside himself, thinking about Candy with Raúl. He gives poor Hortensia fits – a full-blown obsessive-compulsive, bipolar, neurotic panic attack, with some post-traumatic stress thrown in for good measure. Hortensia points out that he doesn’t have any more appointments today; maybe he should go home early. PLEASE! To get ready for your party. Yeah, that’s it! Santi is surprised that Hortensia knows about the party, and today he has already had too many surprises.

Patán is at home with his shirt open, and Alicia reminds him that her mother might see him like that. (I think that in Mexico, men rarely go bare-chested.) Pat doesn’t care if she sees him; he’s been seeing her for three weeks now, and remember that fish and visitors stink after only three days. He would be delighted.. no, he’d be overjoyed! to pay for a hotel room for her.

Out on the street, a boy (is it Charly?) gives Santiago a flyer for the party. Yet another surprise - he’s the starring attraction! He clenches his teeth and seethes, “Sainted Mother, thank God I only have one!”

Candy tells Cece she has to go home and make Chava dinner.

Lucía’s friends are working on party publicity, and one says the whole colonia will come when they find out the music will be by Lucía’s guapisimo uncle. Who is of course standing behind her. Santi finds Isabel to give her what-for, because she’s the one who told the girls that Agua Mineral would be playing.

At Patán’s, Suegrita está gritando (she’s yelling) because she heard what Pat said about her. Alicia completely ignores her and decides to get a boob lift. From Santiago of course. Suegrita is fuming.

Cece takes dinner to Candy’s house because she “likes to help her.” Cece suggests that they go to a restaurant some time. Candy agrees, and Cece gets a glint in her eye.

Tomorrow, Suegrita moves herself into Candy’s house while Meño tries to move her out. Chava & Charly come down the steps, and Chava proudly proclaims that his mama is Candy.

Labels: Tontas

CUIDADO - EPISODE 72 - Jan. 5, 2009:
* Chuy and son are in the bedroom. She talks to her son about her love for him and hopes to make sure he doesn't suffer like she's had to do. She plays with him on the bed.

* JM meets with the police in the front entryway. They inform him about Nellie making a report with the police and that he's being accused in the murder of his wife, Viviana.

* Steffie is in the sitting room with Nellie - they discuss JM talking with the police downstairs. Nellie is distraught and crying.

* As JM talks with police, Steffie trots downstairs and interrupts. She leads the police detectives upstairs - Nellie is upstairs waiting. JM agrees to wait in the entryway for the detectives to return.

* Mayita is in fantasyland talking with Abuela and the trip she will be taking with Rocio and Ed. She'll miss visiting Abuela. Abuela assures Mayita that she will be right there waiting for her to return. Mayita is happy and excited again. Cuate barks.

* Police detectives enter the bedroom. Nellie talks with them as they pull back the cover and examine Viv's dead body on the bed. Nellie cries and grumbles about what happened and that JM killed her.

* Mayita runs into the living room and right up to her dad. They talk about her trip with Rocio and Ed. Mayita is excited and then mentions her mother. JM and Ed exchange worried glances.

* On the balcony at the hacienda, Chuy is holding her son and talking with Cande - about JM, the love of her life; her son; and her confusion about what to do next.

* Police detectives are gathering evidence around the room. Jimenez puts the letter opener in a plastic evidence bag. The lead detective asks Nellie to identify the opener, as well as about Blanca the governess. Steffie listens as Nellie babbles on about Blanca and then screeches her accusation about JM, and she wants to make it official.

* JM and Mayita hug and say good-bye. Ed takes her and Cuate from the room. Rocio and JM talk - Rocio tells her brother he's going crazy. Rocio leaves.

* Purita whistles as she cleans the little apartment. She stops to daydream about Adrian saying he loves her and their kiss. Clemencia enters. Purita offers her something to drink or eat. Clemencia isn't there socially - she wants to discuss Adrian's and Purita's relationship.

* Adrian and Olga sit on the stairs outside - they discuss his mom's problems with Olga's past. He wonders who to convince his mom to accept Purita because he wants to marry her.

* Steffie gives JM the news about Nellie's official accusation to the police. Steffie then presses JM to discuss what happened with Viv and Blanca. JM doesn't want to talk and tries to end the subject. Steffie continues to press and tells him that she knows he's innocent.

* Clemencia tells Purita that she won't support her dating, or even marrying, Adrian. Purita is impactado.

* Adrian assures Olga on the stairs of his true love for Purita. They hug.

* Steffie continues to talk with JM in the living room about why Steffie believes in his innocence. JM says thanks for your support but that's not enough. Steffie points out some of the strange occurrences surrounding what happened to Viv.

* NIGHTMARE - At night, Chuy runs along a darkened pedestrian bridge to where several men are fighting with JM.

* In the hallway, Rocio is talking on her cell phone to Vicente. She tells him about Viv's death. She hangs up as Blanca approaches. Blanca is a nervous, psycho wreck and needs to talk with JM.

* JM and Steffie continue their discussion. Steffie continues to badger JM with her suspicions. JM doesn't want to discuss it.

* NIGHTMARE - Gangmembers drop JM over the side as Chuy approaches the scene on the bridge. JM clings to Chuy's hands for dear life. She screams to hang on! He tries but can't. His grip slips and he falls down to the ground below.

With the splat, Chuy wakes herself up with a frightening scream - she's on the balcony and her son starts to scream and cry as well. Cande runs out to see what's the matter. Chuy explains her nightmare - a new one - and Cande has to assure her and calm her down.

* Amador and Isa are antsy about what's happening with Chuy, if she gave birth yet? also what's going on at the castle of the crazies. They need information so they can kick their kidnapping scheme into high gear - Isa agrees to call Steffie for an update; Amador will go check in at the hacienda.

* In the hallway at the castle, Rocio has to work to get Blanca to the office. Blanca is nervous about Viv's death and needs to see JM. Rocio calms her down and walks her to the room.

* Balbina is in the study with Steffie. Balbina is babbling and crying to Steffie about what she knows about Blanca and Viviana that night before the murder happened. Steffie is all 'mickey mouse' ears as Balbina says that JM wasn't even there at the castle and that Rocio was with her in the library, and that Balbina and Rocio heard loud screams from a female that night.

* JM calls Pat on his cell phone. JM asks Pat for help in finding the best lawyer in mexico; he's been accused of murdering his wife. Pat is impactado.

* Steffie is intrigued by Balbina's story, and assures her that she will do all she can to help.

* JM continues with his phone call with Pat.

* In the study, Nellie enters and Steffie stuns her with the news that JM didn't do it.

* Over the phone, JM tells Pat that he needs help with finding an excellent lawyer ASAP.

* Clemencia breaks Purita's heart and tries to convince Purita to break up with Adrian.

* Pat goes to see Ceci. Ceci thinks Pat's phone call from JM was about Chuy. Pat says no, JM called because he's been accused of murdering his wife.

* Steffie tries to convince Nellie that Ivette is the one who killed Viv, not JM.

* Ceci is impactado and asks for more details. Pat tells her what JM just told him over the phone. Ceci wonders about Viv and her pregnancy. Pat realizes that JM's going to need the best lawyer in Mexico because if he's convicted, he will be facing a lengthy jail sentence.

* Steffie argues with Nellie about JM's innocence; his marriage to Viv and the murder. Nellie won't budge - she still says that JM is guilty of the murder.

* JM and Rocio discuss Blanca's nervousness and worries.

* JM goes to the office and talks with Blanca. He tells her not to worry, he will handle it.

* Olga enters the apartment while Clemencia is still badgering Purita. Olga and Clemencia argue about Adrian and Purita. Clemencia leaves.

* Blanca cries to JM that she did it, she killed Viv. JM sits Blanca down and tries to convince her to go along with the story that she wasn't anywhere near the castle and didn't do it. Blanca asks then who is guilty?

* Cande talks as she chases the chickens in the coop. (Here, chicken, chicken, chicken!) Soon, Amador the wolf king appears to say hello, long time to see. Cande just glares back at him.

* At her mansion, Padre assures Ceci that Chuy is perfectly fine where she is. Ceci tells Padre the horrible news, JM could go to jail for killing his wife, Viviana.

* Amador stands at the fence and pumps Cande for information about Chuy and the baby. Cande inadvertently tells Amador about Chuy giving birth to a son. Amador turns to go and El Leopoldo appears at his side.

* In the office, JM tries to calm Blanca and convince her to go along with the story; Blanca is even more nervous and worried; JM says this is an order. He goes over the story and plan with Blanca.

* Amador leaves. Cande tells Omar who he is. Omar glares in the director Amador was walking.

* Blanca cries about her guilt and motives for killing Viv. JM is intrigued and listens as Blanca says she is also in love with him.

* In the kitchen, Cande plops down the chicken on the kitchen table. Cande explains to Chuy how she caught it.

* Nellie stares at Viv's phone on the side table. Everyone comes in for the visitation. Pat and Ceci enter and give Nellie their condolences. Nellie grumbles about her pain and accusations and that she will never forgive those responsible.

* Steffie and Pat meet in private at the visitation. They discuss JM and the crime. Steffie tells Papa Pat that he has to help JM because JM is innocent!

* Amador meets with Pirana and pal in the woods. He growls his disappointment over his orders not being carried out.

* JM listens as Blanca continues to babble her story about what happened with Viv and how guilty she feels over Viv's death. JM assures her.

* Chuy looks at her son in his crib. Omar enters the bedroom and talks with Chuy. Chuy mentions her relief that Amador hasn't come back around the house, like he promised. Omar wonders if he's the father?

ADVANCE: major turning point for JM, and in Amador and Isa's scheme to kidnap Chuy's son.

Labels: Cuidado

Raquel stands next to her packed suitcase and tells us that whatever surprise Ricardo has prepared for her could be dangerous. She doesn't want to risk finding out.

Juan tells Eva that Ruth came by, wanting to be friends with Juan. Juan is willing to let Ruth visit for Eva's sake. Eva is grateful.

"You killed the Reyes' parents," Sofía tells Ricardo. Eavesdropping Ruth is stunned. Ricardo admits to it, but says it was Gabi's fault. She planned the whole thing. If he goes to jail, he'll turn Gabi in, and she'll get locked up too. And if she tells the Reyes about this, he'll tell them the rest of the story, and they'll seek revenge on Gabi too. How would she like it if Juan killed them and rotted away his last days in a prison cell? Sofi runs up the stairs, mortified. Ruth scurries back to her room.

Juan is waiting in Sofía's room. That's way better than the big fat centipede I found in my room a few months ago. He wants to know why she is so upset, but she can't tell him anything. They hug, and she cries on his shoulder.

Ruth is brooding over Sofía's words ("you killed the Reyes' parents") when she hears a horse outside her window. (By the way, it's a full moon, just in case you were wondering.) It's Capricho. She's furious to think that Juan is in Sofía's room, and swears revenge.

Now Gabi is telling Ricardo that he should forgive her for deceiving him about Raquel's baby, since Ruth is the child of both of them. Ricardo says he never would have broken up with her. Gabi scoffs at this, since she was married to Bernardo at the time. Ricardo says he would have killed him. "You loved me that much?" Ricardo kisses her in reply.

They separate hastily as Ruth bursts in to tattle on Sofía for having Juan in her room. Ricardo gives Ruth a funny look as Gabi rushes off to investigate. Gabi breaks up Juan and Sofía's little kissing party and calls Sofía shameless. She tells Juan to round up his three little boogersnot kids and get out.

Juan tells her not to talk that way about his kids. Sofía isn't leaving here until she's married to him. Gabi starts with her "I own this place, I call the shots" speech, and that's when Juan drops his bomb: Abuelo sold him his share of the hacienda. Juan says Sofía can stay, or he can move his entire family in here - it's all legal.

Gabi doesn't take the news well. Juan explains that Abuelo did this to ensure that his granddaughters would be safe. Gabi runs out clutching her forehead in dismay. Sofía beams. Juan then repeats everything he just said in case we or Sofi didn't catch it the first time.

Gabi goes back to her study to tell Ricardo and Ruth what just happened. Juan now has power over a good portion of the house and property. She can't do anything. She curses the irony that her father ended up defeating her, but this means that now she's going to have to kill the Reyes.

Juan tries to get Sofía to agree to move in with him now, so that she'll be safe. She doesn't want to leave her mother behind because she's in danger. Juan thinks this is absurd, but Sofía says she just needs some time put things in order and then she'll be at ease. He doesn't understand what danger Sofia's referring to, and she doesn't explain, but he says he'll be on the lookout. He can't wait till their wedding day to be done with this nightmare forever. She thinks him for being so understanding. Someday she'll be able to tell him why she was so afraid. He tells her to spit it out, but she doesn't. They go back to kissing. Then he leaves to check on Oscar.

Alone, Sofía agonizes over what will happen if she tells anyone about Ricardo murdering Juan's parents.

Back at the cottage, Ruth asks her father what's the big deal - Gabi still owns most of the hacienda, right? Ricardo says Juan owns enough of it to have a say in any decisions.

Ruth hesitantly asks him if he really killed Juan's parents. He tells her to lower her voice - he's afraid Raquel will hear.

Raquel will not hear. She's lugging her suitcase down the road, scampering for her life. Coyote comes along and says he knows she's in trouble; he begs her to let him help. She doesn't waste any time; she hops into his truck. (The way she's walking, it appears that Raquel, like Rosario, did not consider wearing practical shoes for her great escape.)

Ricardo sees that Raquel and her things are gone. He and Ruth ride around on horses to look for her.

Eva and Tio Vicente enjoy hot drinks and she tells him her tale of woe. (Could these two someday be an item?) Ruth is so much like her adoptive father. It pains Eva to admit it, but it's the truth. Tio says Ruth is also a lot like Gabriela when she was younger; she loved hurting the people around her. Tio tells Eva not to cry; someday everything will be fine, and Ricardo Uribe will pay for the cruelty that he instilled in Eva's daughter.

Ricardo angrily gives up the search for Raquel. Ruth thinks she'll be back; she's run away before. Now she wants to finish hearing his explanation about killing Juan's parents. He says yeah, he killed them, but Gabriela drove him to it. She had it all planned out. Ruth is shocked. How could Gabriela possibly have convinced him? He says she did it the way all women do, with the same weapons that work on all men: love, jealousy, passion. Ruth is still aghast that this was enough to turn him into a killer. He says yeah, he's passionate, and when he makes a decision, nothing can stop him. Ruth's pleading eyes beg him to change his story.

Feo complains to Gabi that her father got his own way; the final winning move. Gabi says it won't last long. Feo will have to get rid of the Reyes, or she'll do it herself. Feo advises her to chill out. First, they should play along with Juan so as not to tip him off and make him want to move in. Sofía will be easier to manage, too. And then add a touch of good old blackmail. Sofía will fall in line, because she loves her mommy and doesn't want her to suffer. It'll be better to have Sofía in the hacienda than Juan.

Juan tells his peeps at home that he's not confident about the kids' safety; but if he marries Sofía right away then he can bring them to live here now. Franco asks what's this great danger that Gabriela's supposed to be in; Juan guesses that it has something to do with Feo or Ricardo. Tio warns Juan to be cautious; one false move will get the enemy's attention.

But Oscar says that if Sofía suspects something, then she's probably right, and she's in danger and so are the kids. Juan says that's why they need Oscar to get better, to protect their women and children. Oscar promises that he will. Tio says let's find out what's going on before we do anything.

Gabi calls Sofía into her study. Sofi is expecting to get kicked out of the house; instead, Gabi says she's given up her useless effort to keep Sofía and Juan apart. She'll respect their decision to marry. That's it; Sofía is dismissed.

Sofía says it's nice of Gabi to let them be together since nobody can split them up. But she wants to know if it's true that Gabi made Ricardo kill Juan's parents."

Gabi says that when you're in love with someone the way she was in love with JJ Robles, you'll do anything. "But you should know that better than anyone, with all you've been through with Juan Reyes, right?" Sofía says she'd never make Juan commit a crime. Gabi says that emotion can cause you to surpass your own limits.

Sofi guesses that JJ rejected Gabi, and that's where her hate for him began. Gabi is speechless. Sofía tells her that Ricardo threatened to turn Gabi in if Sofi turns him in.

Gabi seems shocked by this twist, but is ready to use it to her advantage - she explains that this is why she asked Ricardo to stay - because if she displeases him, he'll turn her in. She lays an extra-thick guilt quilt on Sofía, saying that this is her big chance for revenge, for Sofía to show just how much she hates Gabriela. Sofía cries with denial, no I don't hate you, I love you, I'd do anything for you, I'll keep quiet in order to save you, even though my conscience will complain.

Gabriela puts on a stellar display of motherly contrition. "I never thought you could have compassion for me," she says. She takes Sofía's hands, "You're soooo good. The only thing I can do is ask forgiveness for all my offenses. Please forgive me for all the damage I've done." She asks Sofía to please stay at the hacienda until her wedding day.

Sofía tears up and thanks Gabriela. This is all she's ever wanted in her life. Gabriela hugs her and frowns over her shoulder. Ruth interrupts and sarcastically remarks, "What a moving sight, though I don't know who you're trying to fool." She asks Gabriela why she hasn't kicked Sofi out yet. Gabi defends Sofía and says she'll never kick her daughters out of this house. "But you did before - besides, you don't even like Sofía!" Gabi shushes her and tells her to be respectful to Sofía, or else she'll be sent to live int he cottage.

Ruth goes to her room, confused and angry. Feo's waiting for her. She explains that Gabi and Sofía offended her and she hates them both. He wants to know why she's so mad at her now when she admired her so much before. Ruth says Gabi treated her like a dog in order to get in good with Sofía. "You're jealous!" Feo taunts. She asks him to help her make Gabriela feel the way Gabi made Ruth feel. He recommends that they get rid of Gabriela in an "accident." Ruth will inherit everything. But first he'd like Ruth to sign a statement giving him half her fortune. She tells him he's crazy.

Juan contemplates a batch of conchas. They look a little like brains. Maybe these people have conchas for brains. That would explain a lot. He muses that he's got to get Sofía and his kids out of there and protect them.

Franco sneaks into Sarita's room. He wakes her with a kiss. We don't get to see much more, but we know there's more.

Ruth agrees to Feo's deal and asks him for the paper. He says he'll get it later. First they'll seal the deal with some rough sex.

Ricardo is on the prowl, dressed in black with his face covered; definitely the look of a low-tech Darth Vader. He remembers getting shot at by some unseen person (Coyote) and wonders who's this additional enemy he doesn't know about. Could be the person who helped Raquel escape; what wants to kill him, and why does he hate him?

Coyote brings Raquel home to Mom. "This woman is my mother. One more victim of Ricardo Uribe and Gabriela Acevedo." He kisses Mom's hand and she kisses his sweet shiny forehead.

Feo returns to his own room, where Gabriela is already asleep with a book in her hand. (Extraordinary Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - no doubt "The Tell-Tale Heart" is among them.) "Very soon you'll be sleeping forever," he thought-bubbles at her.

Eva dreams of talking to her better fake daughter, Rosario, in a flower garden. She explains that things aren't going well with her real daughter, Ruth, who rejected her. Rosario comforts her with a hug. Eva wakes up, begging Rosario not to leave. This wakes Quintina, who is wearing green socks with toes, and some randomly applied face cream. (Notice that even rumpled from sleep, Eva looks better with her hair down than in the ponytail.) Eva then describes the entire dream to her.

Q says it's a tough break that Rosario didn't turn out to be Eva's real daughter. Rosario was so nice, and Ruth is nasty like trichinosis. Like Ricardo. In fact, just today Quintina caught Ruth trying to gain Pablito's confidence, maybe trying to get some information. She's up to no good.

It turns out that the reason Rosario couldn't hang around with Eva is because she had an appointment to haunt Feo. "Do you remember me? You're going to pay for each and every one of your crimes." "Leave me alone! You're dead!" he cries, waking Gabi. "Get her away from me!" he begs. Gabi looks around, but doesn't see anyone. "Right there!" He points at the wardrobe. "It's Rosario! She's come for me, she wants revenge!" He can still hear her echoing accusations.

Gabriela realizes that Feo killed Rosario and Armando. He admits it, still staring in terror at the haunted wardrobe.

Darth Ricardo skulks around in Pablito's room, looking for that little box. His foot knocks a toy over; Pablito wakes, but pretends to be asleep as Ricardo searches all around his bed.

The boy follows Ricardo into the living room. Darth takes the Robles family crest off the wall and steps on it. He finds Pablito's little box inside Juan's big trunk. "Now I just have to find Raquel," Ricardo thought-bubbles.

But first he will have to get past Pablito, who demands an explanation. Ricardo shushes him, but this is not an obedient child. His screams of fury wake the entire house. He latches onto Ricardo's leg for dear life. Everyone rushes out to help - everyone except Oscar, who fumbles on the floor with his wheelchair and curses himself for being unable to defend the family. Slacker!

The grownups are too late - the masked man is gone. Juan rushes outside and takes a few shots at the departing shadow. At least one shot gets him in the leg. Darth Vader Uribe rides off into the darkness, and nobody knows it was him.

Mexico airdate: 10 de septiembre
Next time: Sofía tells Uncle Vinnie that Ricardo killed the Reyes' parents.

Labels: Fuego

Santa Cachucha! What an episode.
Melquíades is about to come into Meléndez' room through the window when Josefa comes in with a tray. Melquíades starts to go for Josefa with a knife but her screams bring the soldiers in and the opportunity is lost. No one sees Melquíades, apparently.

Santos says that he won't sign this blackmail (chantaje). DB says that she doesn't want to submit to blackmail either but they don't have a choice. Santos says that he's not going to stand around doing nothing while that gringo blackmails them out of what is theirs. He says that the first thing to do is to find a way to get out of this cellar because now Danger knows where they are hidden.

"Everything got messed up," says Marisela to Lucía because of gossip (chisme) by that airhead (cocatúa, a cockatoo), Federica Pernalete, do you know her?" Lucía grimaces and says that she knew Federica at school. "That harpy made up a story that Antonio got her pregnant so that he would marry her. My aunt is so stupid (tan boba) that she let him go. Then when she found out it was a lie, it was too late. She had married my father!" "How ridiculous," says Lucía, "marrying your father when she was in love with Antonio. Why did she do it?" "As if I knew!" says Marisela. "It's very complicated. My aunt is like like that. Good people sometimes complicate things. The thing is that they are very much in love and have been separated by stupidity (bobos) and pride (orgullosos).

Guerrero comes in to the room, determines that Meléndez is alive and asks Josefa what happened. He sends his men for the doctor.

DB tells Santos not to be obstinate. Everything will be all right if he lets her handle it. Santos says that he doesn't know what bothers him more: having her handle this or being blackmailed by that gringo. DB says that one day he will trust her. He signs the document.

Even being in the river doesn't relieve the itching in the private parts of Pajarote and María Nieves. The terneras add insult to injury by running up and stealing their clothes.

At El Miedo, DB is waiting for Melquíades to return. Eustaquia tries to get her to eat but she isn't interested. Eustaquia is worried that DB is going after Meléndez. DB says that Eustaquia was there when Meléndez hit her and threatened her and Santos. She can't permit that to happen. "I will kill him before he touches Santos or me," says DB.

Marisela tells Lucía that her aunt Cecilia married her father but they are like old friends who care a lot about each other. "And Antonio?" asks Lucía. (Cecilia overhears) "Antonio is very good and noble," says Marisela. "He continues to love my aunt, he adores her but he doesn't want anything to do with her. Lucia says that if it had been her, she wouldn't have let her man leave her for anything in the world. Marisela agrees. Lucía says that she would have fought to the end. She says that she likes Marisela a lot. She invites Marisela to visit her and says that she would like to meet Antonio's cousins and his father. Marisela says that she will like them. Lucía leaves. Marisela sees Cecilia and asks if she was listening. Cecilia says yes and Marisela says that she didn't say anything she wouldn't have said in Cecilia's presence. Marisela says that she likes Lucía and Cecilia says that she is very frank and intelligent and then, of course, she has to say that she and Antonio would make a nice couple. Marisela is indignant. "That's the limit!" she says.

Then she says something that I can't translate: "Por qué no le pones un lacito, la envuelves y se la llevas de regalo a Antonio?" "Why don't you put on/become a 'lacito,' wrap it ('la') up and sent it to Antonio as a gift." The adjective lacio means straight as in hair or can mean withered as in plants but it's not a noun, which seems to be how 'lacito' is used here. It's very possible that the titles got 'lacito' wrong but I can't guess what word they meant.

Dr. Arias examines Meléndez and finds that he is fine. He is just sleeping.

Federica starts to put her moves on Guererro who has come looking for Pernalete. Pernalete appears and Guerrero tells him that there is something going on with Colonel Melendez and it's urgent. He and Guerrero leave.

Melquíades returns to El Miedo. He tells DB that he failed her.

Dr. Arias says that Meléndez is under the effects of a powerful narcotic. He sends Josefa out to get some strong coffee for when Meléndez starts to wake up. When she has gone, he looks around the room for how the drug was administered and he finds the dart (dardo) from the blow gun on the floor. Dr. Arias remembers how Orestes Prieto died. He realizes that Orestes was killed by a dart like this just the way someone tried to kill the Colonel.

The rebels agree that they have to leave. Andrés is well enough to travel. Santos says that he knows someone who can help them escape.

DB and Melquíades-
DB: You have never failed me, Melquíades.
M: Mi Doña, I didn't think the woman would return to the room so soon. She started to yell. I was going to take care of Josefa with my knife when the soldiers came in. I couldn't do anything.
DB: Even the best hunter misses sometimes ('Al mejor cazador se le va una liebre,' 'The hare escapes from the best hunter'). We should have done it at night.
M: Day or night, that bastard Meléndez is surrounded by soldiers all the time. If we were going to kill him him, we had to do it once and for all.
DB: I don't want that accursed man to die so easily. I want him to die of fear looking at me like the others. He must suffer. He must suffer, brujeador.
Melquíades asks what she wants him to do now. She tells him to watch Santos. He is likely to do something crazy.
(Now it is clear that the reason Meléndez isn't dead is because DB wanted to be present when he was killed so Melquíades only put him to sleep and intended to bring him back to El Miedo.)

Melquíades goes to the cellar but Santos is gone.

Pernalete comes to Meléndez' room but Dr. Arias tells him that Meléndez is just drugged and there is nothing to be done until he wakes up. They leave Meléndez with Josefa. She makes sure he is really unconsicous and then kneels astride him and slaps him after every insult: "Filth (sucio). Batterer (maltratador). Dog (perro). Disgusting (asqueroso). Bad in bed (mala cama). Above all, bad in bed.

Pajarote and MN come out of the river wearing only their boots and strategically placed hats.

Pajarote asks MN how they can get back at the terneras. MN says that he doesn't want any part of it. He has enough to deal with with the itching (picazón) and the fact that Altagracia doesn't want to have anything to do with him ('no me quiera ver ni en pintura,' literally, 'she doesn't want to se me even in paint).

Juan Primito tells Cecilia and Marisela about what happened at El Miedo with Meléndez and DB. Marisela asks about Santos. JP says that he wasn't there then. JP says, "Don Santos probably was in the hiding place (el escondite) with the hidden-ones (los escondidos) whom no one can know that they are hidden. They are looking for the hidden-ones everywhere even under stones." Santos comes in. He embraces Marisela. He says that he can only stay a minute. He wants to see Lorenzo. While Melquíades listens outside the window, Santos tells Lorenzo about everything that happened at El Miedo and previously at the police station. Lorenzo now understands what Marisela wouldn't tell him. Lorenzo says that Santos has no alternative but to leave. Marisela comes in and says that she wants to go with him. Santos says no and that he will be back soon when things are calmer.

Guerrero voluntarily comes back to see Federica and she takes full advantage of the opportunity.

Pernalete is upset that he was forced to sign the denunciation of Santos. He says that both of them are in the mortuary chapel (capilla ardiente) . When DB finds out, she will flay (desollar) them alive. Pernalete says that he knows what DB does with traitors. Mujiquita says that he doesn't want to die in the jaws (fauces) of the one-eyed (tuerto) crocodile.

Santos tells Marisela that he will leave that night with the guys. He knows the terrain like the back of his hand. Lorenzo says that it is more dangerous for him to stay here. Santos puts Marisela in charge of the hacienda once again. Marisela asks how long he will be gone and Santos says that he doesn't know. He sends Marisela for Antonio.

Pernalete tells Mujiquita that he will tell DB that Melendéz deceived him. "Don't you mean, deceived us?" says Mujiquita and wonders if the excuse will work with DB. Dr. Arias comes in and asks to speak to Pernalete alone.

Santos meets Antonio and asks him to help Santos and the rebels escape. He says that he knows what he is asking is dangerous.

Josefa steals what money Meléndez has. "It's something," she says, "but in reality there isn't enough money that could pay for the grossness of having to sleep with you." Meléndez wakes up and Josefa pretends to be all concern. She tells him what Dr. Arias said happened to him and he concludes that someone tried to kill him.

Dr. Arias says that Orestes Prieto was murdered. Pernalete asks Dr. Arias where he got that idea? OP died of natural causes. That is what is on the death certficiate that Arias signed. Arias says that before he didn't have a logical cause of death but now he does. He asks Pernalete who uses weapons like the dart. "Indians," replies Pernalete. "And who is the only indian who could have projected a dart into OP?" asks Arias and answers his own question, "The only indian who could have launched a poison dart into OP is named, Melquíades." Pernalete asks how Arias knows that OP was hit by a poisoned dart and Arias says that he had a mark on his neck and the symptoms OP displayed were consistent with the poisons used by indians on poisoned darts. "Melquíades Gamarra, alias El Brujeador, is the murderer of Orestes Prieto," declares Arias, "and the intelligence behind it is your comadre, Bárbara Guaimarán." Pernalete tells Arias that they are political enemies but he doesn't want to see Arias with his mouth full of ants or eaten by piranhas. The best thing to do with this information is keep his mouth shut if he wants to keep on living.

Santos works out a plan of escape with Antonio. He asks Antonio if he understands the risk he is taking. Antonio says that in spite of their recent differences, they are brothers, brothers of the heart, which is more important than blood. Cecilia comes up and says that they are crazy to try and escape. She says that Colonel Meléndez soldiers could shoot them out of hand. Santos reassures her that nothing will happen [he is the star of the show after all]. He leaves. Antonio walks away and Cecilia follows.

DB tosses Danger's place looking for something that explains what is so valuable about La Chusmita. She finds some papers.

Cecilia runs up behind Antonio and asks if he is leaving without saying goodbye to her. "Did anyone ever tell you that when you are crying, you look very pretty," says Antonio. "No, no one has told me that," says Cecilia, "I will try and cry more then." He looks at her so tenderly

and asks about the baby. She tells him to be very careful. His child needs him. He asks how she is doing and she spoils it all by mentioning that Lucía was at Altamira and that she is in love with Antonio and asking if he is in love with her. "Cecilia," he says, "Right now I can't love anyone. Do you know why? Because in spite of everything, I can't get you out of my heart." They almost touch each other and I'm yelling at the TV to hold her, kiss her but Antonio says that he has to go get ready for ready for the night's activities and he leaves her standing there crying. Only someone deeply in love would say that crying makes Cecilia pretty because it doesn't.

Guerrero comes back to Meléndez' room from his quickie with Federica. Meléndez asks for a report on Santos' whereabouts but there is no news. Meléndez tells Guerrero that he is sure that DB tried to kill him. He doesn't know how she did it but she didn't succeed. He curses her and says that she won't get out of this.

DB is trying to read the paper she found in Danger's house but it is in English. Since we are English speakers, we see that our speculation that Danger has found oil at La Chusmita is correct. DB is badly educated and doesn't speak English and can't figure out what 'oil' means. Danger comes in and asks if she has brought the papers that she and Santos signed. She shows them to him but she won't give them to him unless Danger tells her what this is all about like the good business partners that they have always been.

Melquíades finds Santos and tells him that he has been following him.

Marisela comes to visit the terneras and asks Gervasia how the baby is doing. Genoveva asks why Marisela is so sad when she is usually as noisy (bulla) as a chattering parrot (cotorra parlanchina).

Gervasia says that Marisela has a lot on her mind and Genoveva tells her not to worry. The Virgin of the Bark will protect her. Someone is watching them through the leaves.

Danger pulls a gun on DB and says that he will take the papers from her dead hand. DB puts them in front of her chest. In his broken Spanish, Danger says that the one-eyed crocodile eats women, too. He knows all her secrets. He knows that she is a murderer.

Pernalete is fooling around with the dart.

He calls DB crafty (zorra) and says that he has no doubt that she killed Apolinar's son with this and used it on Meléndez. Either she kills Meléndez or he kills her. He doesn't understand why she didn't use the poison again. Meléndez comes in silently and asks what Pernalete is looking at so closely.

Melquíades says that he was following Santos on DB's orders. He mentions those with whom Santos spoke ending with the "pollita de Altamira," literally, "the baby chicken of Altamira" referring to Marisela. Santos tell him to be careful with his insinuations. Melquíades says that he doesn't know about insinuations but he is speaking to Santos man to man and if there is a pretty filly without a brand, he would wear out any bit (freno) or rope (reata) to mark her with his brand. Santos tells Melquíades that he is being disrespectful of him and his cousin. Melquíades says that he is talking about life, about how we men are. That even those who are saints (santos) make errors. Santos says he has gone too far. Melquíades apologizes ironically. Melquíades says that he is talking to him as a friend. That's how it will be while he is DB's love interest. The day that he stops being that, all bets are off.

DB laughs and says that she didn't know Danger hated her so much. He must have found a fortune in La Chusmita to have stayed around here hating them for so long. Danger takes her gun.

She asks if he is going to kill her. He says that he will if she wants. She says that it won't do for his documents to be covered in blood. Would he say it was tomato sauce? Because the only way she will give him the documents is if she is dead. She suggests that they could be partners. Danger says that she kills all her young partners. DB says that he doesn't understand. She can't forced to do something ("Con migo por las malas, no").

There is a shot and Danger falls down dead. BP has shot him. DB laughs.

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Rebeca, frustrated at not seeing PJ/S around the Donoso house anymore, goes to see him at the factory. If he didn't want anyone to know that she had come, it probably didn't make a lot of sense for PJ/S to speak to her on what appears to be the main floor of the factory.

Here we see that PJ/S's vest is blue in the front and red in the back. Pretty cool.

Valeria get an anonymous gift of flowers. She thinks they are from PJ/S, of course, but they are from Simon who believes that Valeria is in love with him.

PJ/S comes to his trysting place to meet Isabel.

They have a glass of wine.

They have sex.

Isabel says that she loves PJ/S more ever day and wants to know about his past, etc. He is uncommunicative.

They are suprised by the unexpected return of Isabel's friend whose apartment this is. PJ/S thinks that this may cause problems for Isabel but Isabel swears that this woman whose name is Inidira, something like that, is a true friend. We know PJ/S is right to be concerned because this Inidira is Andés' lover.

Andrés tells Isabel that he won't stop being jealous of her until he stops loving her and he loves her more every day.

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