Monday, August 29, 2011
Alborada, 8/29/2011. Cap. 64.
Sorry so late today, folks. Pesky day job!
Today's episode is covered in Melinama's Recap #24, Tuesday segment, at this link.
On YouTube, haguilar78's clips for Cap 64 start at this link.
What a stunning picture today! Thank you, Carlos.
Novelera's caption: Honey, did you forget to pay the electric bill again?
Today's episode is covered in Melinama's Recap #24, Tuesday segment, at this link.
On YouTube, haguilar78's clips for Cap 64 start at this link.
What a stunning picture today! Thank you, Carlos.
Novelera's caption: Honey, did you forget to pay the electric bill again?
Labels: Alborada
Sunday, August 28, 2011
La Pola - August 26, 2011 - After the Battle
Summary: Alejo reaches Leandro just before he dies. Leandro tells his brother he is on the right side and that Sámano is an ambitious coward. With the unwanted help of Juliano and Pola’s sewing skills, Domingo survives his battle wounds. Pola will accompany him back to Guaduas in spite of Alejo’s asking her not to go because he does not want to be separated from her. She says she will be gone only about a month and that she will return to him. He brings Leandro’s body back to his parents in the mansion (after a few days??? I hope the body was embalmed.). Francisco earns my four seconds of sympathy when he breaks down and cries over Leandro’s body, but he loses my sympathy when he blames María Teresa for alienating Leandro from him. María Teresa stands up to him and tells him that she is leaving and is going to live in Maquititas with her brothers. She enlists Alejo to help her get there. Nariño’s army is not welcome in Popayan, but that is where his forces will regroup before pursuing Sámano again. And, then there is Col. Rodriguez chopping off the head of the invincible Col Hasin….. Martaivett's recap follows:
here we go... friday... aug 26
Alejo keeps fighting and yelling for his brother…
Finally spots him when Leandro is swept on his hip with a sword by a rebel soldier, Alejo heads over to him but has to fight a couple other men first… Leandro fights someone else who stabs him on left shoulder, then someone else sinks his bayonette on Leandro’s back right side… Leandro falls to his knees and someone sinks their sword in his stomach… as the guy removes the sword, Alejo sees him again just as someone gives Leandro the final blow from the back through his chest… Alejo yells NOOOO!!! And runs to him, yelling at the guy to leave him alone.
Alejo grabs Leandro…
L: look… all our lives fighting… fighting to the death.
A: You are not going to die.
L: I am already dead…
A: How am I going to be able to keep on living after staining my hands with my own brother’s blood?
L: No, no… you were on the righteous side.
A: Why do you say that?
L: I finally got it… Samano has no honor, or valour… he only knows ambition… and cowardness. (Alejo looks up and around as if angrily looking for Samano right then and there) You are right. Keep fighting for what you want.
A: You fought bravely.
L: Tell our mother that I willl try to be the light that guides her way… forgive me Alejo… (I believe he said ‘I would have wanted to be a better brother’)… too bad our father… our father…
A: Leandro… Leandro… No!! Leandro!! … Leandro, No!!
(a soldier comes and points his bayonette at Alejo and yells at him ‘ Die, you wretch!’, but Pola shoots him down. Alejo turns around, Pola!... Pola comes to him)
P: He is already dead, Alejo, lets go!
A: What are you doing here, dressed like that??
P: Lets go Alejo, before they kill you!
(a shot is heard and she is hit on the shoulder)
A: They hit you!
P: Let’s go before they kill us both!!
(Alejo grabs her, stands up, punches someone in their way..)
A: Let’s go!
(he grabs her again and runs with her through the fighting mayhem… )
Juliano has carried Domingo into the woods, Domingo keeps yelling ‘let me go, dumb negro, you are hurting me!. Juliano wants to go get a doc or help… Domingo says he does not need help, asks Juliano why don’t you let me die in peace?... Juliano goes for help anyway…
At Guaduas, Catalina and Bernarda are praying to the virgin… Cata can’t stand the anxiety. No news… Bernarda is afraid the news won’t be good.. Gertrudis comes in, Cata asks if she has news of the war. No, bringing news about the mayor selling Domingo’s crops.. Cata asks the house too? No, he was not interested in the house but at least we have where to live.
Alejo and Pola stop.
A: Are you alright?
P: Yes, its just stopping the blood and that’s all.
A: Thank you for saving my life… (they embrace… she is anguished for him, he is in loads of emotional pain and overload, for the blood hell he has been in, it’s a miracle his white shirt sleeves are clean as a whistle, but have to say they did good continuity, his hands/knuckles show he punched a few folks along the way.)
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:45:00 PM EDT
Back in the fight, I had to laugh… nearby Col Hasin there is one guy who is more doing an aerobic exercise, jumping constantly and hitting another guy’s gun with his bayonette/gun side to side… (definitely stands out, sorry had to laugh)
Col begins to yell asking for Samano, we see Samano riding full speed with a handfull of men behind him. Hasin continues to fight bravely..
Antonio: Col Hasin!! You don’t have to die! Give up! You have my word that you will be treated with dignity!!
H: Come get me, you devilish american!!
(he gets grabbed from behind but he can shake the guy off, and kills him and another one… Col Rodriguez has seen this and finishes off the guy he was fighting and heads over toward Hasin, lifting his gun… Hasin turns around sword in hand, but sees Rodriguez pointing at him point blank.
Antonio: Noo! Rodriguez!!
But Rodriguez enjoys putting a bullet right between Hasin’s eyebrows… Hasin falls dead.
A younger officer notices they killed Hasin so he yells at their troops that they killed Hasin and yells for retreat. They all retreat quickly…
The whole fight happened in a field mudded up, good attention to detail, we see the smoke trails of where the cannonballs fell… they run like maniacs and Antonio’s troops follow them.
Capt Caval announces to Antonio that the enemy ran scared… Antonio asks for Gen Samano, Caval says he’s nowhere, seems he ran too… Caval gives Antonio the credit, Antonio gives it right back, tells him if it was not for his making it through, although a bit late, another would have been the result. Caval says you have no idea how hard it was to make it through that jungle.
At the fields, Rodriguez is pointing his sword to Hasin and yelling ‘WE ARE FREE!! WE WON!!! WE FINISHED THESE WRETCHS!! .. COL HASIN!! THE INVINCIBLE!! (goes down to his knees and grabs Hasin, lifting him up by the coat… ‘You are not so invincible, Col! Did you really think we were so insignificant? Did you really think we were just some scum that can be stepped on like insects??? (stands up and grabs his sword) These are the wretchs that feel like they are our owners!! That feel they have the right to cut out heads off!! (he swings his sword to cut Hasin’s head) Antonio yells “Col Rodriguez!!’ but he yells ‘NO MORE!!!’ and swings and cuts Hasin’s head off. HE enjoys his deed and then grabs Hasin’s head and lifts it above his shoulders…
Most of the rebel soldiers cheer, except Pedrito and Viviano who look like they are getting sick.
Rod: IT is us who now cut their heads off!!
Antonio: Col Rodriguez!! What are you doing?? (with a face of total disgust and disapproval)
Antonio gets off the horse and walks over to Rodriguez and Hasin’s body.
Rod: Gen Narino.. I was going to go find you. I have a present for you.
Antonio: You are an animal. (un salvaje) That is not the behavior of a civilized man. Don’t you know that God’s laws ban destruction of the already dead?
Rod: My G Narino, it’s exactly what this ‘(they muted it but the word starts with P, you figure it) would have done when he came out victorious!
Antonio: What kind of reasoning is that? (louder so all soldiers hear) Here we are not taking vengeance! Here we are fighting for our freedom!! And if we let ourselves be overcome by hatred and resentment, like Col Rodriguez just did, WE will all end up like this poor man!
Rod: My General…
Antonio: Not another word! This act erases your heroic achievement today and stains the honor of our troops! (have to say the troops are not cheering anymore, they seem ashamed of having cheered Rodriguez… Rodriguez could be shooting fire out his nostrils, he looks very angry)
Antonio lifts his arm asking Rodriguez for the head… and tells him to go away..
Antonio asks for a spanish flag, puts Hasin’s head back and covers his body with the flag.
Antonio: Col Hasin, Rest in peace. You fought like a valiant. Now I understand why you did not loose any battle. And perhaps, with a more honorable commander, your outcome would have been better.
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:45:00 PM EDT
Samano has made it out… his handful of men reach him, noone follows them. He breathes a sigh of relief.
Pola is walking through the bodies calling for Viviano and Pedrito… They meet and they all hug happily. Pedrito says Viviano is a much better warrior. Pola sees Viviano is not well emotionally and asks him what is up. He says he does not like to kill. She says I know, this is one of the worst sights anyone could experience. They ask her for Alejo, he is alright, but his brother is dead. Pedrito says he did not know his brother fought for us. She says he fought for Samano’s troops.
Alejo is kneeling by Leandro’s body.
A: From the beginning I cursed this war between brothers… but I never thought I would have to face such tragedy… (Pola has reached him and holds his shoulder in support) All our lives fighting… fighting to the death… (he turns around) Pola…
P: I’m alright.
A: (loses it crying)
The priest and Antonio are walking around the field.. Antonio asks the priest to ensure all the dead get christian service. Leyva comes to tell him the death toll (500 theirs, 60 ours). Antonio asks Leyva to make a list of the dead so they can ensure the families get compensation from government.
Pola walks by and Antonio calls for ‘soldier!’… She turns around…
P: Don Antonio…
A: Pola…
P: Don Antonio, please don’t say anything.. Believe me, I tried to follow your orders, but the anguish won me over. And thank God because if it was not for this uniform, the person I love would be dead. So you can give me whatever punishment I deserve. (Antonio just looks at her with concern)
Back at the camp tents, Domingo is attended to by their medic, Pedrito is holding his head, Viviano his legs… but Domingo keeps jerking around, he really wants to die… Doc says ‘if you don’t stay still I can’t close the wound! ‘ Domingo keeps saying leave me alone… Doc says ‘if you want to die that’s your problem! But there are people who DO need my help and want to live! ‘
Doc leaves even after Pola calls for him.
Viv: Your wound looks pretty bad. IF we don’t close it you will die.
Dom: As if anyone needed me.
Viv: I do.
Dom: You? I thought you hated me.
Viv: Why?
Dom: Because when you lived at my house I treated you bad.
Viv: You are a good person, Dom. Well, until you married my sister. You beast, you should not have married her.
Pola comes back and finishes sewing his wound…
P: Why do you want to die, Dom? Does the conscience feel heavy for not having been a good husband? To finish the life of a small innocent creature? OR do you still think you are a poor victim and that God hates you?
D: Your little brother was telling me that I was a good person until I married your sister.
And all I did was love her, give her all she asked me for. And she didn’t even love me after that.
P: You did everything backwards. Just like you bought Juliano, you bought Catarina?
D: What are you talking about?
P: What am I talking about? You practically bought Catarina from Misia Gertrudis since she was a little girl! And on top of that, you forced her to love you by beating her up! Who can fall in love that way, Domingo? Love is free, you don’t chain love! …
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:46:00 PM EDT
Antonio asks Leyva if they can move forward to Pasto fast after the enemy’s defeat. But Leyva recommends they instead go to Popayan to recover, get some resources and then go to Pasto and Quito.
Later Antonio talks to Tonito, says someday everyone, even the men in the council, will understand that this victory is everyone’s!... Tonito asks if he will stop here. No. For the campaign to be complete, we must go on to Quito. Tonito congratulates his General. Antonio does same with his Col Narino. Antonio gives all his officers a promotion… including Tonito who is now Col.
Tonito leaves, Pola comes in to tell Antonio she is leavign, have to take her sister’s husband home so he can try to say goodbye… Antonio asks then you will come back and join us again? Pola says I thought you did not want women to come along. This time he says it will be a pleasure to count on her again. Pola will be happy to return.
Juliano tells Pola that Domingo was wounded by a black soldier, and Pola says and even then you took him out of there. Juliano says he would have done that for anyone. We’re all on same side. Pola tells Juliano she will take Domingo back to Guaduas…
In another tent, Alejo is dressing up a clean Leandro… and crying beside him. Arcos is standing by them.
A: Even if you think the opposite, you were a good brother… the best. I always admired you, Leandro, and always felt very proud of you.
Pola comes in…
P: I came to say goodbye.
A: Say goodbye?
P: I have to take my sister’s husband who is badly wounded.
(Alejo sends Arcos away, Arcos tells Pola he is sad she will leave)
A: I want to go with you. But first I have to take Leandro’s body to Popayan.
P: I have to go right now. Domingo can die any moment.
A: Pola I don’t want to get away from you.
P: I will just go, leave Domingo, and come right back to join you all again! They say that you all will spend about a month in Popayan before you move forward.
A: (he is shaky…) Pola, please…
P: You don’t want to go on fighting?
A: This war makes no sense.
P: OF course it does. The pain for your brother is not letting you see it, but you, as I, as everyone here dream with being free! To see our children grow in a free country!
A: Are we ever going to see that day, Pola?
(Pedrito comes to get Pola, they are ready to leave, Pola kisses Alejo)
A: I don’t want to get away from you.
P: Everything will be alright. You will see.
(Alejo is devastated… she watches him sharing his anguish and feeling real bad she has to leave him now)
Juliano brings a bayonette shotgun to Domingo, asks him to shoot him dead after they exchange dares as to ‘finally you have the guts to kill me / the one with not enough guts is you’.
J: You said you would not leave me alive, so go ahead, kill me… I am not kidding, amo. If you die and I live, you won’t rest in peace. You would think that I will go back with ama Catarina, maybe that is true.
D: you will go back to her, miserable negro.
J: I can’t promise you I won’t. so do it now that you have the chance. Shoot me! (puts it on his neck)
… (he won’t do it… Juliano dares him again but Domingo can’t get himself to)
D: Maybe you think the opposite. But I am no murderer. I am a man in love, brute, because now that I am about to meet God, I am realizing all the mistakes I made.
(Pola comes to get Domingo… Domingo gives Juliano a killer stare… tells Pola that Juliano and him were just saying their farewells). Domingo and Pola leave.
Days later, at Popayan..
Alejo arrived to the house, upset Eusebia comes to get Francisco and Maria Teresa.
Downstairs Alejo has Arcos and a couple other men, with Leandro’s body covered up.
Francisco kneels to uncover Leandro while Maria Teresa grabs Alejo for support. He holds her. Arcos squeezes Alejo’s shoulder briefly in a show of support.
Fra: Leandro, for God’s sake! Leandro!
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:47:00 PM EDT
Pola and Domingo (a very ill Domingo, barely able to keep himself sitting up on the horse)
At the house Catarina and Gertrudis are preparing corn from the fields, gertrudis is nagging, as usual. Acacia comes running in to tell Gertrudis and Catarina that Pola arrived. Catarina is in disbelief.
Pola and Domingo arrive. Pola tells Cata Domingo got wounded in the fight.
Bernarda asks about Juliano, Domingo reluctantly says he is alright. He stayed fighting with the troops. I did not kill him if that’s what you are worried about.
Pola will run for a ‘galeno’ (doctor). Domingo asks her for a priest so he can do confession.
Catarina and Bernarda help Domingo in the house.
In Popayan, the Valencias, Sarabains come back to house after a service for Leandro. Maria Teresa tells Eusebia and Gaspar they are finally leaving. To mariquita, with her brothers. Francisco, visibly in disagreement but resigned, walks away.
Gaspar asks Alejo when they leave. Alejo tells him Don Antonio wants to meet with the most wealthy families of Popayan. They need resources. Eusebia asks Alejo to stop by and say goodbye to Maria Ignacia. Alejo agrees, he will.
Maria Teresa asks Francisco if he is ok. He says how could I? My son Leandro died hating me, and its your fault. She asks how is that.
Fran: Leandro never forgave me for saying his mother was ‘bad race’ woman.
MT: What?
Fran: Don’t tell me that neither of your sons ever told you.
MT: Did you tell my sons that?
Fran: Yes, it is the truth.
MT: I did not understand the reasons for this war. But now I do. This country needs to get rid of men like you.
Fran: Now you say that? Let me remind you that when you were younger you were dying to marry a man like me. An european of noble origin. I avoided you from being an old maid. That’s where you were heading. You were a disgraced woman, ‘stained of the land’.
MT: Some time ago I would have been hurt by your words. Now I don’t feel anything. A while back I realized you did not marry me for your feelings for me, but for your feelings towards the wealth of my family.
Fran: See? You are not as dumb after all.
MT: I am not. You never really got to know me.
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:49:00 PM EDT
Bernarda, Catarina and Acacia are caring for Domingo. Acacia gets scared at the sight of the wound. Cata asks her to bring clean cloths… Domingo asks Acacia to leave him alone with Catarina.
Dom: I never thought I would see you again.
Cata: Dom, I know you did not expect to see me in your house, but the thing is the crops were sold but not the house. But don’t worry. Now that you are here, I will leave today.
Dom: You don’t have to leave anymore.
Cata: What?
Dom: Come closer. I can’t speak very loud. I only came here to… ask you for forgiveness.
Cata: You don’t have to say anything.
Dom: I always wanted for you to love me. But I am too dumb/brute. All I did was to get you to hate me.
Cata: I don’t hate you.
Dom: Yes (you do). And I deserve it. The problem is that none of what I did I did for being bad, but for the pain I was feeling because you did not love me.
Cata: I know that. And I tried to love you but I couldn’t.
Dom: And how could you? Can you forgive me?
Cata: I can forgive everything, Domingo… except what you did to my son.
Dom: Catarina, I am going to die.
Cata: Domingo, don’t say that. If you could get here, it must be because that wound is not so bad.
Dom: If I made it all the way here, is because I need to talk to you.
Cata: I think we said everything we needed to say.
Dom: At that time I hated you with all my heart.
Cata: You don’t hate me anymore?
Dom: Pola made me understand some things…
Cata: Some things?
Dom: Like it is not your fault for not having been able to love me. All I did was to try to force you to love me the violent way. But that doesn’t matter anymore. I am not even interested in you to love me. All I want is that you are alright. For you to be happy.
Cata: No, Domingo, I can’t be happy anymore…
Dom: Yes you can. Catarina, your son Joaquin… is alive.
Cata: Alive?... But… Didn’t you tell Ciro to… to kill him?
Dom: He didn’t. HE did not kill him. He sold him.
…
Cata: And who are those merchants?
Dom: Ciro just told me that he took him to some mines to sell him. Ciro didn’t even know himself.
Cata: What mines? And then how do I find him?
Dom: Ciro only told me that he is alright.
Cata: Then how will I find him?
Dom: I would like to help you… I can give you money to find him and buy him from them. Don’t think that they will just hand him to you just by you saying you are his mother… This house is yours. Go tell Pola to get the mayor so we can do the paperwork. (to sell the house)…
Cata: Why are you doing this for me, Domingo?
Dom: Because I want to see you happy…. (she smiles) What Pola said worked. Just a small gesture of mine and it’s the first time you look at me with a smile (me mira bonito).
Cata: What can I say? Thank you Domingo!
Dom: Don’t say anything. Rather run, because if I die, you will not have the house or recover your son. Go.
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:50:00 PM EDT
Back at Valencia house in Popayan… Maria Teresa is crying, Alejo comes to embrace her again.
A: Mother… Leandro told me that he would be the light to guide your way..
MT: Hopefully God will let him…. Why didn’t you tell me?
A: Tell you what?
MT: That your father thinks that we are ‘bad race’.
A: Would that serve for anything, mother?
MT: I don’t want to live with him anymore!
A: Mother, you are very affected by Leandro’s death. Let a few days go by..
MT: NO! No! I don’t want to live with Francisco! I can’t stand to live with him one more day!
A: You don’t mind being married anymore?
MT: NO. It mattered to me because I had sons who would see their honorability affected. Leandro is not here anymore. And you… your own father rejects you because of your race. What good would it do to prolongue this miserable life at his side?
A: And where will you go?
MT: To my brothers’. To Mariquita. And you will help me. (he embraces her again).
Leyva and Antonio with the troops walk around Popayan’s streets.
A: The people in this city don’t appreciate us. They feel safer in ‘realista’ hands.
Ley: They will learn to appreciate freedom.
A: How long until we can move on?
Ley: That depends on the resources we get and how soon we get them. Besides, Samano has to recover from the blows we gave him.
Leyva tells Antonio that the way to Pasto allows the enemy to take advantage position against them. It will not be easy. Antonio is still optimistic. Leyva grimaces in pain… Antonio tries to lift his spirits and says while we keep the troop spirits up, tomorrow people will say they are the ‘liberators’ of our lands.
Previews show Acacia unmasking Francisco to the Valencias. While a stranger merchant arrives at Pola’s life. Someone who could change many things in the story.
here we go... friday... aug 26
Alejo keeps fighting and yelling for his brother…
Finally spots him when Leandro is swept on his hip with a sword by a rebel soldier, Alejo heads over to him but has to fight a couple other men first… Leandro fights someone else who stabs him on left shoulder, then someone else sinks his bayonette on Leandro’s back right side… Leandro falls to his knees and someone sinks their sword in his stomach… as the guy removes the sword, Alejo sees him again just as someone gives Leandro the final blow from the back through his chest… Alejo yells NOOOO!!! And runs to him, yelling at the guy to leave him alone.
Alejo grabs Leandro…
L: look… all our lives fighting… fighting to the death.
A: You are not going to die.
L: I am already dead…
A: How am I going to be able to keep on living after staining my hands with my own brother’s blood?
L: No, no… you were on the righteous side.
A: Why do you say that?
L: I finally got it… Samano has no honor, or valour… he only knows ambition… and cowardness. (Alejo looks up and around as if angrily looking for Samano right then and there) You are right. Keep fighting for what you want.
A: You fought bravely.
L: Tell our mother that I willl try to be the light that guides her way… forgive me Alejo… (I believe he said ‘I would have wanted to be a better brother’)… too bad our father… our father…
A: Leandro… Leandro… No!! Leandro!! … Leandro, No!!
(a soldier comes and points his bayonette at Alejo and yells at him ‘ Die, you wretch!’, but Pola shoots him down. Alejo turns around, Pola!... Pola comes to him)
P: He is already dead, Alejo, lets go!
A: What are you doing here, dressed like that??
P: Lets go Alejo, before they kill you!
(a shot is heard and she is hit on the shoulder)
A: They hit you!
P: Let’s go before they kill us both!!
(Alejo grabs her, stands up, punches someone in their way..)
A: Let’s go!
(he grabs her again and runs with her through the fighting mayhem… )
Juliano has carried Domingo into the woods, Domingo keeps yelling ‘let me go, dumb negro, you are hurting me!. Juliano wants to go get a doc or help… Domingo says he does not need help, asks Juliano why don’t you let me die in peace?... Juliano goes for help anyway…
At Guaduas, Catalina and Bernarda are praying to the virgin… Cata can’t stand the anxiety. No news… Bernarda is afraid the news won’t be good.. Gertrudis comes in, Cata asks if she has news of the war. No, bringing news about the mayor selling Domingo’s crops.. Cata asks the house too? No, he was not interested in the house but at least we have where to live.
Alejo and Pola stop.
A: Are you alright?
P: Yes, its just stopping the blood and that’s all.
A: Thank you for saving my life… (they embrace… she is anguished for him, he is in loads of emotional pain and overload, for the blood hell he has been in, it’s a miracle his white shirt sleeves are clean as a whistle, but have to say they did good continuity, his hands/knuckles show he punched a few folks along the way.)
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:45:00 PM EDT
Back in the fight, I had to laugh… nearby Col Hasin there is one guy who is more doing an aerobic exercise, jumping constantly and hitting another guy’s gun with his bayonette/gun side to side… (definitely stands out, sorry had to laugh)
Col begins to yell asking for Samano, we see Samano riding full speed with a handfull of men behind him. Hasin continues to fight bravely..
Antonio: Col Hasin!! You don’t have to die! Give up! You have my word that you will be treated with dignity!!
H: Come get me, you devilish american!!
(he gets grabbed from behind but he can shake the guy off, and kills him and another one… Col Rodriguez has seen this and finishes off the guy he was fighting and heads over toward Hasin, lifting his gun… Hasin turns around sword in hand, but sees Rodriguez pointing at him point blank.
Antonio: Noo! Rodriguez!!
But Rodriguez enjoys putting a bullet right between Hasin’s eyebrows… Hasin falls dead.
A younger officer notices they killed Hasin so he yells at their troops that they killed Hasin and yells for retreat. They all retreat quickly…
The whole fight happened in a field mudded up, good attention to detail, we see the smoke trails of where the cannonballs fell… they run like maniacs and Antonio’s troops follow them.
Capt Caval announces to Antonio that the enemy ran scared… Antonio asks for Gen Samano, Caval says he’s nowhere, seems he ran too… Caval gives Antonio the credit, Antonio gives it right back, tells him if it was not for his making it through, although a bit late, another would have been the result. Caval says you have no idea how hard it was to make it through that jungle.
At the fields, Rodriguez is pointing his sword to Hasin and yelling ‘WE ARE FREE!! WE WON!!! WE FINISHED THESE WRETCHS!! .. COL HASIN!! THE INVINCIBLE!! (goes down to his knees and grabs Hasin, lifting him up by the coat… ‘You are not so invincible, Col! Did you really think we were so insignificant? Did you really think we were just some scum that can be stepped on like insects??? (stands up and grabs his sword) These are the wretchs that feel like they are our owners!! That feel they have the right to cut out heads off!! (he swings his sword to cut Hasin’s head) Antonio yells “Col Rodriguez!!’ but he yells ‘NO MORE!!!’ and swings and cuts Hasin’s head off. HE enjoys his deed and then grabs Hasin’s head and lifts it above his shoulders…
Most of the rebel soldiers cheer, except Pedrito and Viviano who look like they are getting sick.
Rod: IT is us who now cut their heads off!!
Antonio: Col Rodriguez!! What are you doing?? (with a face of total disgust and disapproval)
Antonio gets off the horse and walks over to Rodriguez and Hasin’s body.
Rod: Gen Narino.. I was going to go find you. I have a present for you.
Antonio: You are an animal. (un salvaje) That is not the behavior of a civilized man. Don’t you know that God’s laws ban destruction of the already dead?
Rod: My G Narino, it’s exactly what this ‘(they muted it but the word starts with P, you figure it) would have done when he came out victorious!
Antonio: What kind of reasoning is that? (louder so all soldiers hear) Here we are not taking vengeance! Here we are fighting for our freedom!! And if we let ourselves be overcome by hatred and resentment, like Col Rodriguez just did, WE will all end up like this poor man!
Rod: My General…
Antonio: Not another word! This act erases your heroic achievement today and stains the honor of our troops! (have to say the troops are not cheering anymore, they seem ashamed of having cheered Rodriguez… Rodriguez could be shooting fire out his nostrils, he looks very angry)
Antonio lifts his arm asking Rodriguez for the head… and tells him to go away..
Antonio asks for a spanish flag, puts Hasin’s head back and covers his body with the flag.
Antonio: Col Hasin, Rest in peace. You fought like a valiant. Now I understand why you did not loose any battle. And perhaps, with a more honorable commander, your outcome would have been better.
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Samano has made it out… his handful of men reach him, noone follows them. He breathes a sigh of relief.
Pola is walking through the bodies calling for Viviano and Pedrito… They meet and they all hug happily. Pedrito says Viviano is a much better warrior. Pola sees Viviano is not well emotionally and asks him what is up. He says he does not like to kill. She says I know, this is one of the worst sights anyone could experience. They ask her for Alejo, he is alright, but his brother is dead. Pedrito says he did not know his brother fought for us. She says he fought for Samano’s troops.
Alejo is kneeling by Leandro’s body.
A: From the beginning I cursed this war between brothers… but I never thought I would have to face such tragedy… (Pola has reached him and holds his shoulder in support) All our lives fighting… fighting to the death… (he turns around) Pola…
P: I’m alright.
A: (loses it crying)
The priest and Antonio are walking around the field.. Antonio asks the priest to ensure all the dead get christian service. Leyva comes to tell him the death toll (500 theirs, 60 ours). Antonio asks Leyva to make a list of the dead so they can ensure the families get compensation from government.
Pola walks by and Antonio calls for ‘soldier!’… She turns around…
P: Don Antonio…
A: Pola…
P: Don Antonio, please don’t say anything.. Believe me, I tried to follow your orders, but the anguish won me over. And thank God because if it was not for this uniform, the person I love would be dead. So you can give me whatever punishment I deserve. (Antonio just looks at her with concern)
Back at the camp tents, Domingo is attended to by their medic, Pedrito is holding his head, Viviano his legs… but Domingo keeps jerking around, he really wants to die… Doc says ‘if you don’t stay still I can’t close the wound! ‘ Domingo keeps saying leave me alone… Doc says ‘if you want to die that’s your problem! But there are people who DO need my help and want to live! ‘
Doc leaves even after Pola calls for him.
Viv: Your wound looks pretty bad. IF we don’t close it you will die.
Dom: As if anyone needed me.
Viv: I do.
Dom: You? I thought you hated me.
Viv: Why?
Dom: Because when you lived at my house I treated you bad.
Viv: You are a good person, Dom. Well, until you married my sister. You beast, you should not have married her.
Pola comes back and finishes sewing his wound…
P: Why do you want to die, Dom? Does the conscience feel heavy for not having been a good husband? To finish the life of a small innocent creature? OR do you still think you are a poor victim and that God hates you?
D: Your little brother was telling me that I was a good person until I married your sister.
And all I did was love her, give her all she asked me for. And she didn’t even love me after that.
P: You did everything backwards. Just like you bought Juliano, you bought Catarina?
D: What are you talking about?
P: What am I talking about? You practically bought Catarina from Misia Gertrudis since she was a little girl! And on top of that, you forced her to love you by beating her up! Who can fall in love that way, Domingo? Love is free, you don’t chain love! …
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:46:00 PM EDT
Antonio asks Leyva if they can move forward to Pasto fast after the enemy’s defeat. But Leyva recommends they instead go to Popayan to recover, get some resources and then go to Pasto and Quito.
Later Antonio talks to Tonito, says someday everyone, even the men in the council, will understand that this victory is everyone’s!... Tonito asks if he will stop here. No. For the campaign to be complete, we must go on to Quito. Tonito congratulates his General. Antonio does same with his Col Narino. Antonio gives all his officers a promotion… including Tonito who is now Col.
Tonito leaves, Pola comes in to tell Antonio she is leavign, have to take her sister’s husband home so he can try to say goodbye… Antonio asks then you will come back and join us again? Pola says I thought you did not want women to come along. This time he says it will be a pleasure to count on her again. Pola will be happy to return.
Juliano tells Pola that Domingo was wounded by a black soldier, and Pola says and even then you took him out of there. Juliano says he would have done that for anyone. We’re all on same side. Pola tells Juliano she will take Domingo back to Guaduas…
In another tent, Alejo is dressing up a clean Leandro… and crying beside him. Arcos is standing by them.
A: Even if you think the opposite, you were a good brother… the best. I always admired you, Leandro, and always felt very proud of you.
Pola comes in…
P: I came to say goodbye.
A: Say goodbye?
P: I have to take my sister’s husband who is badly wounded.
(Alejo sends Arcos away, Arcos tells Pola he is sad she will leave)
A: I want to go with you. But first I have to take Leandro’s body to Popayan.
P: I have to go right now. Domingo can die any moment.
A: Pola I don’t want to get away from you.
P: I will just go, leave Domingo, and come right back to join you all again! They say that you all will spend about a month in Popayan before you move forward.
A: (he is shaky…) Pola, please…
P: You don’t want to go on fighting?
A: This war makes no sense.
P: OF course it does. The pain for your brother is not letting you see it, but you, as I, as everyone here dream with being free! To see our children grow in a free country!
A: Are we ever going to see that day, Pola?
(Pedrito comes to get Pola, they are ready to leave, Pola kisses Alejo)
A: I don’t want to get away from you.
P: Everything will be alright. You will see.
(Alejo is devastated… she watches him sharing his anguish and feeling real bad she has to leave him now)
Juliano brings a bayonette shotgun to Domingo, asks him to shoot him dead after they exchange dares as to ‘finally you have the guts to kill me / the one with not enough guts is you’.
J: You said you would not leave me alive, so go ahead, kill me… I am not kidding, amo. If you die and I live, you won’t rest in peace. You would think that I will go back with ama Catarina, maybe that is true.
D: you will go back to her, miserable negro.
J: I can’t promise you I won’t. so do it now that you have the chance. Shoot me! (puts it on his neck)
… (he won’t do it… Juliano dares him again but Domingo can’t get himself to)
D: Maybe you think the opposite. But I am no murderer. I am a man in love, brute, because now that I am about to meet God, I am realizing all the mistakes I made.
(Pola comes to get Domingo… Domingo gives Juliano a killer stare… tells Pola that Juliano and him were just saying their farewells). Domingo and Pola leave.
Days later, at Popayan..
Alejo arrived to the house, upset Eusebia comes to get Francisco and Maria Teresa.
Downstairs Alejo has Arcos and a couple other men, with Leandro’s body covered up.
Francisco kneels to uncover Leandro while Maria Teresa grabs Alejo for support. He holds her. Arcos squeezes Alejo’s shoulder briefly in a show of support.
Fra: Leandro, for God’s sake! Leandro!
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Pola and Domingo (a very ill Domingo, barely able to keep himself sitting up on the horse)
At the house Catarina and Gertrudis are preparing corn from the fields, gertrudis is nagging, as usual. Acacia comes running in to tell Gertrudis and Catarina that Pola arrived. Catarina is in disbelief.
Pola and Domingo arrive. Pola tells Cata Domingo got wounded in the fight.
Bernarda asks about Juliano, Domingo reluctantly says he is alright. He stayed fighting with the troops. I did not kill him if that’s what you are worried about.
Pola will run for a ‘galeno’ (doctor). Domingo asks her for a priest so he can do confession.
Catarina and Bernarda help Domingo in the house.
In Popayan, the Valencias, Sarabains come back to house after a service for Leandro. Maria Teresa tells Eusebia and Gaspar they are finally leaving. To mariquita, with her brothers. Francisco, visibly in disagreement but resigned, walks away.
Gaspar asks Alejo when they leave. Alejo tells him Don Antonio wants to meet with the most wealthy families of Popayan. They need resources. Eusebia asks Alejo to stop by and say goodbye to Maria Ignacia. Alejo agrees, he will.
Maria Teresa asks Francisco if he is ok. He says how could I? My son Leandro died hating me, and its your fault. She asks how is that.
Fran: Leandro never forgave me for saying his mother was ‘bad race’ woman.
MT: What?
Fran: Don’t tell me that neither of your sons ever told you.
MT: Did you tell my sons that?
Fran: Yes, it is the truth.
MT: I did not understand the reasons for this war. But now I do. This country needs to get rid of men like you.
Fran: Now you say that? Let me remind you that when you were younger you were dying to marry a man like me. An european of noble origin. I avoided you from being an old maid. That’s where you were heading. You were a disgraced woman, ‘stained of the land’.
MT: Some time ago I would have been hurt by your words. Now I don’t feel anything. A while back I realized you did not marry me for your feelings for me, but for your feelings towards the wealth of my family.
Fran: See? You are not as dumb after all.
MT: I am not. You never really got to know me.
Permalink posted by martaivett : Sat Aug 27, 05:49:00 PM EDT
Bernarda, Catarina and Acacia are caring for Domingo. Acacia gets scared at the sight of the wound. Cata asks her to bring clean cloths… Domingo asks Acacia to leave him alone with Catarina.
Dom: I never thought I would see you again.
Cata: Dom, I know you did not expect to see me in your house, but the thing is the crops were sold but not the house. But don’t worry. Now that you are here, I will leave today.
Dom: You don’t have to leave anymore.
Cata: What?
Dom: Come closer. I can’t speak very loud. I only came here to… ask you for forgiveness.
Cata: You don’t have to say anything.
Dom: I always wanted for you to love me. But I am too dumb/brute. All I did was to get you to hate me.
Cata: I don’t hate you.
Dom: Yes (you do). And I deserve it. The problem is that none of what I did I did for being bad, but for the pain I was feeling because you did not love me.
Cata: I know that. And I tried to love you but I couldn’t.
Dom: And how could you? Can you forgive me?
Cata: I can forgive everything, Domingo… except what you did to my son.
Dom: Catarina, I am going to die.
Cata: Domingo, don’t say that. If you could get here, it must be because that wound is not so bad.
Dom: If I made it all the way here, is because I need to talk to you.
Cata: I think we said everything we needed to say.
Dom: At that time I hated you with all my heart.
Cata: You don’t hate me anymore?
Dom: Pola made me understand some things…
Cata: Some things?
Dom: Like it is not your fault for not having been able to love me. All I did was to try to force you to love me the violent way. But that doesn’t matter anymore. I am not even interested in you to love me. All I want is that you are alright. For you to be happy.
Cata: No, Domingo, I can’t be happy anymore…
Dom: Yes you can. Catarina, your son Joaquin… is alive.
Cata: Alive?... But… Didn’t you tell Ciro to… to kill him?
Dom: He didn’t. HE did not kill him. He sold him.
…
Cata: And who are those merchants?
Dom: Ciro just told me that he took him to some mines to sell him. Ciro didn’t even know himself.
Cata: What mines? And then how do I find him?
Dom: Ciro only told me that he is alright.
Cata: Then how will I find him?
Dom: I would like to help you… I can give you money to find him and buy him from them. Don’t think that they will just hand him to you just by you saying you are his mother… This house is yours. Go tell Pola to get the mayor so we can do the paperwork. (to sell the house)…
Cata: Why are you doing this for me, Domingo?
Dom: Because I want to see you happy…. (she smiles) What Pola said worked. Just a small gesture of mine and it’s the first time you look at me with a smile (me mira bonito).
Cata: What can I say? Thank you Domingo!
Dom: Don’t say anything. Rather run, because if I die, you will not have the house or recover your son. Go.
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Back at Valencia house in Popayan… Maria Teresa is crying, Alejo comes to embrace her again.
A: Mother… Leandro told me that he would be the light to guide your way..
MT: Hopefully God will let him…. Why didn’t you tell me?
A: Tell you what?
MT: That your father thinks that we are ‘bad race’.
A: Would that serve for anything, mother?
MT: I don’t want to live with him anymore!
A: Mother, you are very affected by Leandro’s death. Let a few days go by..
MT: NO! No! I don’t want to live with Francisco! I can’t stand to live with him one more day!
A: You don’t mind being married anymore?
MT: NO. It mattered to me because I had sons who would see their honorability affected. Leandro is not here anymore. And you… your own father rejects you because of your race. What good would it do to prolongue this miserable life at his side?
A: And where will you go?
MT: To my brothers’. To Mariquita. And you will help me. (he embraces her again).
Leyva and Antonio with the troops walk around Popayan’s streets.
A: The people in this city don’t appreciate us. They feel safer in ‘realista’ hands.
Ley: They will learn to appreciate freedom.
A: How long until we can move on?
Ley: That depends on the resources we get and how soon we get them. Besides, Samano has to recover from the blows we gave him.
Leyva tells Antonio that the way to Pasto allows the enemy to take advantage position against them. It will not be easy. Antonio is still optimistic. Leyva grimaces in pain… Antonio tries to lift his spirits and says while we keep the troop spirits up, tomorrow people will say they are the ‘liberators’ of our lands.
Previews show Acacia unmasking Francisco to the Valencias. While a stranger merchant arrives at Pola’s life. Someone who could change many things in the story.
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Mujeres Asesinas 3, Thursday August 25: The case of the sinister stepdad
Wow, that was quite a break in between episodes!
Two women are being arrested by the DIEM crew. Someone escorts a younger girl behind them. Aranda calls Capellan to tell her they're on the way with three suspects and one of them is a minor.
Yolanda Andrade and Aleida Nuñez are Elvira y Mercedes, justicieras (agengers).
Lupita and Elvira are cutting up potatoes on an outdoor patio. Elvira is Lupita's aunt. She asks about the building custodian getting the light back on and as Lupita leans over the table, Elvira notices Domingo, who Lupita calls "dad" checking out her ass. Yeah, it's gonna be that kind of night. He complains about the custodian never doing his job and Elvira tells him to bite his tongue, considering the source. He tells her he really is looking for work…and checks out Lupita again. He complains there just aren't any jobs out there. Just office work. And he's more of a fresh-air-lover. He doesn’t look like he smells all that fresh. He gives Lupita a kiss on the side of the head and leaves.
Elvira hisses to Lupita that that loser isn't her dad and she knows it. She says he can't find a job in the open air or under a roof because all he does is sit around with the paper all day. "Haven't you seen the way he looks at you?" Lupita brushes it off, but she won't look at her aunt when Elvira asks her if all he's done is look. Elvira complains about Mercedes ending up with that good-for-nothing. Mercedes walks up with a basket of laundry and gives it to Lupita, telling her to hurry up and take it to her room.
Mercedes asks why Elvira is saying those things to Lupita. She claims that she's not "putting up" with Domingo, that he's doing his "manly duty." Elvira says just be cause he got her pregnant doesn't mean he's a man. Elvira asks her what she's planning to do with four kids and another on the way, with a husband who "no ata ni desata" (he won't tie or untie; he's useless, etc.) . Mercedes says she stays with him because he'll change all their lives and make them better. Elvira reminds her that having a better chance is for those who work, but look at how they're living. "You said it, Lupita's of age. It's time she started sleeping in my room." Mercedes says no way, she doesn't want to cause trouble for Elvira, they'll make room. Elvira asks if Mercedes hasn't noticed Domingo looking at her daughter. "What barbarities are you saying?! What do you have against Domingo?" "Lupita isn't a girl anymore." Mercedes calls Lupita over and asks her what she has against her dad. Elvira says it's ok, she can tell them. Lupita begs her mom not to get upset. Elvira snaps at her to tell them and Lupita asks her not to keep pushing.
They're all escorted into DIEM headquarters and Lupita is placed in Capellan's office. Aranda says she needs to be calm and tell them what happened. Lupita cries that she didn't do anything.
Lupita leaves the kitchen and Mercedes looks up at Elvira and says Domingo isn't capable of doing "something like that." After all, he's her dad. Elvira reminds her that he isn't. "As good as, Elvira. You know what, that kid's gonna hear it from me right now! How dare she make things up." Elvira says this is coming from her too and she doesn't need to be sleeping in the same room with Lupita. "You'd have to be a real idiot not to realize the danger that girl is in!" Mercedes takes offense at Domingo being called a danger and calls her sister bitter and sick. Elvira says it's hard enough having the whole family there and she doesn't want any more problems.
Mercedes can't sleep. She tells Domingo it's not the baby--she's only a month pregnant. He decides a little sex will knock her out, but Mercedes wants to talk. "Domingo, do you love the kids? Even though they're not yours?" He says if he didn't love them, then why would he be supporting them all? Um, except he doesn't actually. "Are you going to throw the work thing in my face again? I swear tomorrow I'll find something!" He claims again to love all the kids as much as he loves little Domingo, who's on the way. "And Lupita?" "Lupita more than all of them. When I see her, I see you. Of course I love her." Ewwwwwww!
The next morning Mercedes tells Elvira what Domingo said. "Hey, not to make you feel bad, but what did you think he was going to say? That he didn't love the kids? That he doesn't love Lupita?" Mercedes accuses Elvira of wanting to say bad things about Domingo so he ends up alone like she is. Riiight, cause he's such a catch! "And what about Lupita?" Mercedes says that Lupita didn't say anything, but Elvira tells her that's because Lupita was too scared. She spouts some nonsense about Lupita making things up because it gets her aunt's attention and it's Elvira's fault for paying attention to it. "That girl is scared and if that sonofabitch puts a hand on her I'll kill him." "Threatening my Domingo is like threatening me!" "So you and Domingo are the same person now? In that case, when he wants to sleep with your daughter, then you hold her down so she keeps quiet. Or maybe you should join in and all three of you can sleep together." Mercedes calls her sister a pig. "I'd rather be a pig then be blind!"
Elvira runs into Lupita inside. Lupita knows they're fighting about her. Mercedes comes inside and asks what Lupita was doing there. Apparently this patio is attached to Elvira's apartment. Lupita says she was just helping her aunt. "Oh yeah? And who's gonna help me with your brothers? Go home." Elvira tries to intervene, but Mercedes tells her to shut up and tells Lupita to get home. Elvira asks if she's given any further thought to having Lupita sleep in her room. "No. Lupita will sleep in her house." Lupita tries to beg to be allowed to stay with her aunt, but Mercedes shuts her up. "Look, Elvira, you're good at threatening, but don't mess with my husband. You're an old maid and that's not my problem. Find a man--that's what you need." "What for? So my life can go the way yours has? No thanks." "Well, better to have had lots of men than to be left alone!"
Capellan comes into her office to talk to Lupita. She says everything is fine and she doesn't think Lupita is guilty of anything. Besides, this isn't a jail cell, it's an office. "But you have to trust me. You have to tell me everything that happened to you. Calmly."
Domingo gets up out of bed in the middle of the night at tells Mercedes he's hungry and going to go get something to eat. While he creepily stands by Lupita's bed with his underwear half hanging off him and picks up the covers to get a better look at her, Mercedes wakes up completely and goes to see what he's doing. He hastily puts the covers back on Lupita and says he was just covering the kids up. He says he was looking for something to eat, but all he found were beans. Mercedes tells him he took a long time. Meanwhile, Lupita is stuffing the sheets in her mouth and covering her head with her pillow.
Elvira brings candy home for the kids. "Yeah, I know, you don't like me to bring them sweets, but that's why I'm their aunt! I spoil them and you bring them up right." Mercedes asks Elvira to forgive her for what she said the other day. Elvira says it is true, she's alone…but it's Mercedes' fault because of Hugo. "Well, Hugo was MY boyfriend." Well, Elvira liked him, that's all. He only stuck around long enough to get Mercedes pregnant with Lupita. Elvira says, just to clarify, she doesn't like the one Mercedes is like now, not even a little. "What do you have against Domingo?" "I talked to Ceci, the doctor from 22, and she told me…." Mercedes complains about her talking to other people about what does or doesn't happen to her. "That's the thing! She says Lupita's an adolescent and we should take care of her." Mercedes says Ceci saw "her" Domingo and wanted him…and she's a nurse, not a doctor. Mercedes tells her to stay out of things. "Domingo's a good man and he loves the kids as if they were his. If you keep saying that stuff, you and Lupita, I'll smack you both across the mouth. That'll be a good remedy!" Elvira goes into the kitchen and says maybe she'll be the one to apply a remedy first.
Capellan asks Elvira if she really thinks she remedied the situation. "At least I did something. Whether it was a good thing or not. It was too late, though."
Some young guys hanging out on the bottom floor of the apartment building say hello to Lupita while she sweeps up leaves. Domingo chases them off and insists they were bothering her. He also insists she call him "dad" and not "Domingo." "If anyone bothers you, that's what I'm here for, ok? You tell me." He kisses her on the cheek and she takes off.
Mercedes is making the beds. Elvira offers to help, since Lupita is downstairs sweeping. "Oh, so now she works for you, or what?" No, she offered, and it's better for her to get out. "I think there's something going on with that girl. I think she's sick."
Lupita is outside crying and eating the sleeve of her sweater. Her mom catches her and she washes the tears off her face. Mercedes starts to ask, "Hey, what your aunt Elvira is saying about…." "I didn't do anything!"
Lupita is in an interrogation room now. Aranda walks in and starts setting things on the table. Her gin, her badge, and her cell phone. "I know right now it's difficult to distinguish good from bad, but it's very important for you to get your thoughts in order and tell me in your own words what happened. Do you know why you're here? You have to know you're safe here, first of all." She reaches her hands across the table and Lupita stops chewing on her sleeve and takes Aranda's hands. "I need you to get your thoughts in order. Do you understand what I'm telling you?"
"But if something was happening, you'd tell me, right? Because Domingo's a good guy. You see how loving he is. Don't go mistaking one thing for another." She tells Lupita to come help her, but Lupita stays outside.
Lupita gets escorted out of the interrogation room and Aranda meets up with Forense Gerardo behind the glass. He says she got Lupita's confidence. Gerardo says looking only at the medical facts, it's a fine line. Aranda asks him to give her the results and she'll write up the report.
Domingo shows Elvira an ad in the paper for a seamstress. Mercedes comes in and says all the kids are finally asleep. Elvira says again that something's wrong. Domingo hurriedly takes a swig of beer. Mercedes says she's tired and Domingo tells her she's been up and about all day. He says something about the baby being a boy and claims to know everything. He makes a snide remark about Elvira needing "alineación y balanceo" (a wheel alignment and balancing). "Are you offering, or what?" "Are you flirting with me? She's flirting with me." "Looks like that's the last thing you need." More snideness about Elvira needing sex and Domingo needing to get a frickin' job. Elvira calls him a "rabo verde" (pervert) and he shuts right up. He nervously guzzles his beer and leaves.
Elvira gets out of bed when she hears Lupita throwing up outside. She's clutching a pair of underwear. Elvira holds her and they both cry. It sounds like Lupita is saying "ya no mas" (please, no more).
Mercedes asks Domingo if he's going to go see about the plumbing job. "No. Why?" She asks him what's wrong with him. "What do you care?" "I'm just asking." He growls at her and grabs her ass. He tells her the beans just didn't go down well. "That's why your sister's still single. She can't cook." Mercedes begs him to stop fighting with her. "Well, it's that time of the month…assuming she still has one!" He laughs, but his head hurts. He takes his beer, or whatever it is, outside to drink it. Two cops come looking for Domingo. They have an order of arrest. "This is your sister's doing! What has she made up now?" They cops lead him away and Mercedes yells for Elvira.
As they take him out of the building he whines that they're probably looking for someone else. Mercedes follows them down and when she sees Lupita she smacks her across the face and yells at Elvira that it's all Lupita's fault. She calls Elvira a "desgraciada"(wretch) for filing the report." Elvira and Mercedes struggle and Elvira ends up holding Mercedes back from attacking Lupita again. Mercedes screams at her daughter to tell her aunt that Domingo didn't do anything to her. Lupita just keeps chewing on the sleeve of her sweater. "Domingo didn't do anything to me," she says, crying and looking down. Mercedes throws it in her sister's face and tells her to go take back the report. Elvira starts walking out and Lupita goes after her asking where she's going. "Where else? To get your father out of jail. And let's see if they don't lock me up for making things up. But I'll tell you this, once he gets out, you're all going to live somewhere else." Lupita asks for forgiveness. "Don't ask me for forgiveness. Don't speak to me anymore." "But, he didn't do anything to me." Elvira calls her a liar and an idiot. "And quit crying, because now he's in jail and they're going to lock me up, and it's your fault!" Lupita can't stop crying and Elvira goes back to her and holds out her hand. Elvira hugs her and they walk out together.
"That guy deserved what happened." She makes some joke about how he was nothing, but now he's everything.
A doctor asks Lupita to lie back and take off her underwear. Elvira explains that Domingo isn't her dad, he's her stepdad. They let the doctor know that Elvira is her aunt. "Look, Lupita, I know this isn't pretty, but we've got to do it. And for how long did you say your dad has been raping you?" Lupita chews on her sleeve. "Answer, honey!" Lupita says it's been three years. Elvira is surprised. A nurse comes in with some test results for the doctor and he rather abruptly says "You know she's pregnant, right?" Elvira and Lupita cry.
Capellan says to Elvira, "Look, what I have here is a murder. Three women are implicated. One is a minor. And she's your niece. Your niece, who at sixteen years old, has to make the decision whether or not to have an abortion. Do you really think we can keep talking around the situation?" She used a new vocabulary word, "legado" meaning "curettage," a scraping of cells from within a body cavity.
Mercedes visits Domingo in jail and brings him food. He complains about the horrible food in there. "It's been a day and a half and they haven't told me anything. Your stupid sister hasn't taken back the report, has she?" "She brought Lupita here so they could do some tests. She's pregnant. She's just a girl, like I was when I had her." He tries to act like someone else did it and he's outraged. "Since she's a minor, while they do the tests…." He tells her she's got to fix things, then slips up and says "oh yeah, she's just a girl, going around showing her…" he holds his hands out in front of him, indicating breasts. "I know who it was! Those loser neighborhood boys!" Mercedes asks if he's not noticing Lupita. She asks him to kiss her medal of the Virgen if he's telling the truth. He does, then kisses her.
In the interrogation room, Mercedes tells Capellan, "I believed him." "What were you afraid of? Being alone? Being abandoned? I don't want to offend you, but there are a lot of cases like yours." "She's just a girl." "She stopped being one violently and under threats. Victims at that age never understand why they're abused. Never."
Lupita serves her brothers food on the patio. Mercedes comes up and says she must be happy that while they're waiting for the test results her "dad" is in jail. "Who was it?" "Domingo said you'd never believe me. But my aunt says…." Mercedes hits her across the face, knocking her to the ground and tells the boys to get inside the house. She goes into the kitchen and tells Elvira that just because Lupita got away with her little "joke" doesn't mean Domingo did it. "You've never doubted Domingo, have you?" "Of course not, that's why he's my husband." Elvira says Lupita is her daughter. "But you're right. You can't go around all the time doubting the people you love. Thank God now with those exams, you'll be out of doubt, and then there's no turning back the page."
Mercedes screams and cries that she can't believe it. Elvira and Lupita huddle outside on the patio. Mercedes comes out, holding a letter and crying. FINALLY she comforts her daugher. "What am I going to do, Elvira?" Elvira doesn't know. Mercedes and Lupita fall to the floor and Mercedes cries over her poor daughter. About time.
Mercedes goes to the jail with food for Domingo. She smiles blandly at him as he digs in. It's those beans he loves so much. He complains the tortillas are cold and asks why she hasn't shown up for 10 days. "I've been feeling bad." He complains about her needing to get him out of there while she puts some beans in a tortilla and hands it to him. "Eat."
Mercedes stirs the pot of beans. Elvira comes up. "If you're cooking it's because you're feeling better. Let's see, let me taste." Mercedes slaps her hand away and tells her not to be stupid.
"You don't eat well here?" Mercedes tells him she talked to Lupita. She asks him how he likes the mole (so not beans after all). "Don't you want to know what I talked to Lupita about?"
Domingo goes chasing after Lupita the day he chased the boys out of the downstairs courtyard. He catches up to her in a hallway, grabs her from behind and asks where she's going.
"What do I care?" He keeps stuffing his face. "You're a dog. An animal. For have done that to a girl for so long, since she was fourteen." "Hey, babe, I don't know why you're upset, but I didn't do anything! I swore it on the Virgen." "Do you know what they do to rapists in jail? Don't you know?"
Lupita sits on the floor, crying.
"Eat. Swallow it." "It's lies, lies started by Elvira. You want the truth? Your daughter, the whore, offered herself to me. Just like you did. Just like her mother. And you know why? Blood calls out. Or have you already forgotten what you were like with me?" Mercedes gets up to leave and he gets nervous and whines to her that he was just joking. "I don't want to spend the rest of my life in jail. You're not going to let me stay here, are you?" Mercedes hugs him and says he won't rot.
Elvira holds the box of rat poison while Mercedes takes a spoonful and starts stirring it into the mole. Then she dumps the entire box in as Mercedes keeps stirring.
Domingo starts experiencing some gastrointestinal distress and coughs blood on Mercedes. She sits him down and holds him.
"How could he rot? I wouldn't let him," says Mercedes.
"He died like a rat," says Elvira,
Domingo finishes dying and the bloody butterfly flies away.
"That asshole didn't deserve to die any other way," says Elvira.
Elvira and Mercedes walk out of the jailhouse together.
"Domingo Martinez murió por envenenamiento."
Domingo Martinez died of poisoning.
"Mercedes y Elvira Gonzalez fueron encontradas culpables en primer y segundo grado de responsabilidad, respectivamente."
Mercedes and Elvira Gonzalez were found guilty in the first and second degree of responsibility, respectively.
"El embarazo de Mercedes, así como su situación emocional, se consideraron atenuantes para su condena."
Mercedes' pregnancy and her emotional state were considered extenuating circumstances for her punishment.
"Fueron sentenciadas a 24 años de prision."
They were sentenced to 24 years in prison.
"Lupita fue declarada inocente y se le permitió abortar, segun las leyes vigentes."
Lupita was declared innocent and allowed an abortion, according to the laws in place.
"Actualmente trabaja en un almacen y se ocupa de sus hermanos."
She is working in a warehouse and taking care of her brothers.
Two women are being arrested by the DIEM crew. Someone escorts a younger girl behind them. Aranda calls Capellan to tell her they're on the way with three suspects and one of them is a minor.
Yolanda Andrade and Aleida Nuñez are Elvira y Mercedes, justicieras (agengers).
Lupita and Elvira are cutting up potatoes on an outdoor patio. Elvira is Lupita's aunt. She asks about the building custodian getting the light back on and as Lupita leans over the table, Elvira notices Domingo, who Lupita calls "dad" checking out her ass. Yeah, it's gonna be that kind of night. He complains about the custodian never doing his job and Elvira tells him to bite his tongue, considering the source. He tells her he really is looking for work…and checks out Lupita again. He complains there just aren't any jobs out there. Just office work. And he's more of a fresh-air-lover. He doesn’t look like he smells all that fresh. He gives Lupita a kiss on the side of the head and leaves.
Elvira hisses to Lupita that that loser isn't her dad and she knows it. She says he can't find a job in the open air or under a roof because all he does is sit around with the paper all day. "Haven't you seen the way he looks at you?" Lupita brushes it off, but she won't look at her aunt when Elvira asks her if all he's done is look. Elvira complains about Mercedes ending up with that good-for-nothing. Mercedes walks up with a basket of laundry and gives it to Lupita, telling her to hurry up and take it to her room.
Mercedes asks why Elvira is saying those things to Lupita. She claims that she's not "putting up" with Domingo, that he's doing his "manly duty." Elvira says just be cause he got her pregnant doesn't mean he's a man. Elvira asks her what she's planning to do with four kids and another on the way, with a husband who "no ata ni desata" (he won't tie or untie; he's useless, etc.) . Mercedes says she stays with him because he'll change all their lives and make them better. Elvira reminds her that having a better chance is for those who work, but look at how they're living. "You said it, Lupita's of age. It's time she started sleeping in my room." Mercedes says no way, she doesn't want to cause trouble for Elvira, they'll make room. Elvira asks if Mercedes hasn't noticed Domingo looking at her daughter. "What barbarities are you saying?! What do you have against Domingo?" "Lupita isn't a girl anymore." Mercedes calls Lupita over and asks her what she has against her dad. Elvira says it's ok, she can tell them. Lupita begs her mom not to get upset. Elvira snaps at her to tell them and Lupita asks her not to keep pushing.
They're all escorted into DIEM headquarters and Lupita is placed in Capellan's office. Aranda says she needs to be calm and tell them what happened. Lupita cries that she didn't do anything.
Lupita leaves the kitchen and Mercedes looks up at Elvira and says Domingo isn't capable of doing "something like that." After all, he's her dad. Elvira reminds her that he isn't. "As good as, Elvira. You know what, that kid's gonna hear it from me right now! How dare she make things up." Elvira says this is coming from her too and she doesn't need to be sleeping in the same room with Lupita. "You'd have to be a real idiot not to realize the danger that girl is in!" Mercedes takes offense at Domingo being called a danger and calls her sister bitter and sick. Elvira says it's hard enough having the whole family there and she doesn't want any more problems.
Mercedes can't sleep. She tells Domingo it's not the baby--she's only a month pregnant. He decides a little sex will knock her out, but Mercedes wants to talk. "Domingo, do you love the kids? Even though they're not yours?" He says if he didn't love them, then why would he be supporting them all? Um, except he doesn't actually. "Are you going to throw the work thing in my face again? I swear tomorrow I'll find something!" He claims again to love all the kids as much as he loves little Domingo, who's on the way. "And Lupita?" "Lupita more than all of them. When I see her, I see you. Of course I love her." Ewwwwwww!
The next morning Mercedes tells Elvira what Domingo said. "Hey, not to make you feel bad, but what did you think he was going to say? That he didn't love the kids? That he doesn't love Lupita?" Mercedes accuses Elvira of wanting to say bad things about Domingo so he ends up alone like she is. Riiight, cause he's such a catch! "And what about Lupita?" Mercedes says that Lupita didn't say anything, but Elvira tells her that's because Lupita was too scared. She spouts some nonsense about Lupita making things up because it gets her aunt's attention and it's Elvira's fault for paying attention to it. "That girl is scared and if that sonofabitch puts a hand on her I'll kill him." "Threatening my Domingo is like threatening me!" "So you and Domingo are the same person now? In that case, when he wants to sleep with your daughter, then you hold her down so she keeps quiet. Or maybe you should join in and all three of you can sleep together." Mercedes calls her sister a pig. "I'd rather be a pig then be blind!"
Elvira runs into Lupita inside. Lupita knows they're fighting about her. Mercedes comes inside and asks what Lupita was doing there. Apparently this patio is attached to Elvira's apartment. Lupita says she was just helping her aunt. "Oh yeah? And who's gonna help me with your brothers? Go home." Elvira tries to intervene, but Mercedes tells her to shut up and tells Lupita to get home. Elvira asks if she's given any further thought to having Lupita sleep in her room. "No. Lupita will sleep in her house." Lupita tries to beg to be allowed to stay with her aunt, but Mercedes shuts her up. "Look, Elvira, you're good at threatening, but don't mess with my husband. You're an old maid and that's not my problem. Find a man--that's what you need." "What for? So my life can go the way yours has? No thanks." "Well, better to have had lots of men than to be left alone!"
Capellan comes into her office to talk to Lupita. She says everything is fine and she doesn't think Lupita is guilty of anything. Besides, this isn't a jail cell, it's an office. "But you have to trust me. You have to tell me everything that happened to you. Calmly."
Domingo gets up out of bed in the middle of the night at tells Mercedes he's hungry and going to go get something to eat. While he creepily stands by Lupita's bed with his underwear half hanging off him and picks up the covers to get a better look at her, Mercedes wakes up completely and goes to see what he's doing. He hastily puts the covers back on Lupita and says he was just covering the kids up. He says he was looking for something to eat, but all he found were beans. Mercedes tells him he took a long time. Meanwhile, Lupita is stuffing the sheets in her mouth and covering her head with her pillow.
Elvira brings candy home for the kids. "Yeah, I know, you don't like me to bring them sweets, but that's why I'm their aunt! I spoil them and you bring them up right." Mercedes asks Elvira to forgive her for what she said the other day. Elvira says it is true, she's alone…but it's Mercedes' fault because of Hugo. "Well, Hugo was MY boyfriend." Well, Elvira liked him, that's all. He only stuck around long enough to get Mercedes pregnant with Lupita. Elvira says, just to clarify, she doesn't like the one Mercedes is like now, not even a little. "What do you have against Domingo?" "I talked to Ceci, the doctor from 22, and she told me…." Mercedes complains about her talking to other people about what does or doesn't happen to her. "That's the thing! She says Lupita's an adolescent and we should take care of her." Mercedes says Ceci saw "her" Domingo and wanted him…and she's a nurse, not a doctor. Mercedes tells her to stay out of things. "Domingo's a good man and he loves the kids as if they were his. If you keep saying that stuff, you and Lupita, I'll smack you both across the mouth. That'll be a good remedy!" Elvira goes into the kitchen and says maybe she'll be the one to apply a remedy first.
Capellan asks Elvira if she really thinks she remedied the situation. "At least I did something. Whether it was a good thing or not. It was too late, though."
Some young guys hanging out on the bottom floor of the apartment building say hello to Lupita while she sweeps up leaves. Domingo chases them off and insists they were bothering her. He also insists she call him "dad" and not "Domingo." "If anyone bothers you, that's what I'm here for, ok? You tell me." He kisses her on the cheek and she takes off.
Mercedes is making the beds. Elvira offers to help, since Lupita is downstairs sweeping. "Oh, so now she works for you, or what?" No, she offered, and it's better for her to get out. "I think there's something going on with that girl. I think she's sick."
Lupita is outside crying and eating the sleeve of her sweater. Her mom catches her and she washes the tears off her face. Mercedes starts to ask, "Hey, what your aunt Elvira is saying about…." "I didn't do anything!"
Lupita is in an interrogation room now. Aranda walks in and starts setting things on the table. Her gin, her badge, and her cell phone. "I know right now it's difficult to distinguish good from bad, but it's very important for you to get your thoughts in order and tell me in your own words what happened. Do you know why you're here? You have to know you're safe here, first of all." She reaches her hands across the table and Lupita stops chewing on her sleeve and takes Aranda's hands. "I need you to get your thoughts in order. Do you understand what I'm telling you?"
"But if something was happening, you'd tell me, right? Because Domingo's a good guy. You see how loving he is. Don't go mistaking one thing for another." She tells Lupita to come help her, but Lupita stays outside.
Lupita gets escorted out of the interrogation room and Aranda meets up with Forense Gerardo behind the glass. He says she got Lupita's confidence. Gerardo says looking only at the medical facts, it's a fine line. Aranda asks him to give her the results and she'll write up the report.
Domingo shows Elvira an ad in the paper for a seamstress. Mercedes comes in and says all the kids are finally asleep. Elvira says again that something's wrong. Domingo hurriedly takes a swig of beer. Mercedes says she's tired and Domingo tells her she's been up and about all day. He says something about the baby being a boy and claims to know everything. He makes a snide remark about Elvira needing "alineación y balanceo" (a wheel alignment and balancing). "Are you offering, or what?" "Are you flirting with me? She's flirting with me." "Looks like that's the last thing you need." More snideness about Elvira needing sex and Domingo needing to get a frickin' job. Elvira calls him a "rabo verde" (pervert) and he shuts right up. He nervously guzzles his beer and leaves.
Elvira gets out of bed when she hears Lupita throwing up outside. She's clutching a pair of underwear. Elvira holds her and they both cry. It sounds like Lupita is saying "ya no mas" (please, no more).
Mercedes asks Domingo if he's going to go see about the plumbing job. "No. Why?" She asks him what's wrong with him. "What do you care?" "I'm just asking." He growls at her and grabs her ass. He tells her the beans just didn't go down well. "That's why your sister's still single. She can't cook." Mercedes begs him to stop fighting with her. "Well, it's that time of the month…assuming she still has one!" He laughs, but his head hurts. He takes his beer, or whatever it is, outside to drink it. Two cops come looking for Domingo. They have an order of arrest. "This is your sister's doing! What has she made up now?" They cops lead him away and Mercedes yells for Elvira.
As they take him out of the building he whines that they're probably looking for someone else. Mercedes follows them down and when she sees Lupita she smacks her across the face and yells at Elvira that it's all Lupita's fault. She calls Elvira a "desgraciada"(wretch) for filing the report." Elvira and Mercedes struggle and Elvira ends up holding Mercedes back from attacking Lupita again. Mercedes screams at her daughter to tell her aunt that Domingo didn't do anything to her. Lupita just keeps chewing on the sleeve of her sweater. "Domingo didn't do anything to me," she says, crying and looking down. Mercedes throws it in her sister's face and tells her to go take back the report. Elvira starts walking out and Lupita goes after her asking where she's going. "Where else? To get your father out of jail. And let's see if they don't lock me up for making things up. But I'll tell you this, once he gets out, you're all going to live somewhere else." Lupita asks for forgiveness. "Don't ask me for forgiveness. Don't speak to me anymore." "But, he didn't do anything to me." Elvira calls her a liar and an idiot. "And quit crying, because now he's in jail and they're going to lock me up, and it's your fault!" Lupita can't stop crying and Elvira goes back to her and holds out her hand. Elvira hugs her and they walk out together.
"That guy deserved what happened." She makes some joke about how he was nothing, but now he's everything.
A doctor asks Lupita to lie back and take off her underwear. Elvira explains that Domingo isn't her dad, he's her stepdad. They let the doctor know that Elvira is her aunt. "Look, Lupita, I know this isn't pretty, but we've got to do it. And for how long did you say your dad has been raping you?" Lupita chews on her sleeve. "Answer, honey!" Lupita says it's been three years. Elvira is surprised. A nurse comes in with some test results for the doctor and he rather abruptly says "You know she's pregnant, right?" Elvira and Lupita cry.
Capellan says to Elvira, "Look, what I have here is a murder. Three women are implicated. One is a minor. And she's your niece. Your niece, who at sixteen years old, has to make the decision whether or not to have an abortion. Do you really think we can keep talking around the situation?" She used a new vocabulary word, "legado" meaning "curettage," a scraping of cells from within a body cavity.
Mercedes visits Domingo in jail and brings him food. He complains about the horrible food in there. "It's been a day and a half and they haven't told me anything. Your stupid sister hasn't taken back the report, has she?" "She brought Lupita here so they could do some tests. She's pregnant. She's just a girl, like I was when I had her." He tries to act like someone else did it and he's outraged. "Since she's a minor, while they do the tests…." He tells her she's got to fix things, then slips up and says "oh yeah, she's just a girl, going around showing her…" he holds his hands out in front of him, indicating breasts. "I know who it was! Those loser neighborhood boys!" Mercedes asks if he's not noticing Lupita. She asks him to kiss her medal of the Virgen if he's telling the truth. He does, then kisses her.
In the interrogation room, Mercedes tells Capellan, "I believed him." "What were you afraid of? Being alone? Being abandoned? I don't want to offend you, but there are a lot of cases like yours." "She's just a girl." "She stopped being one violently and under threats. Victims at that age never understand why they're abused. Never."
Lupita serves her brothers food on the patio. Mercedes comes up and says she must be happy that while they're waiting for the test results her "dad" is in jail. "Who was it?" "Domingo said you'd never believe me. But my aunt says…." Mercedes hits her across the face, knocking her to the ground and tells the boys to get inside the house. She goes into the kitchen and tells Elvira that just because Lupita got away with her little "joke" doesn't mean Domingo did it. "You've never doubted Domingo, have you?" "Of course not, that's why he's my husband." Elvira says Lupita is her daughter. "But you're right. You can't go around all the time doubting the people you love. Thank God now with those exams, you'll be out of doubt, and then there's no turning back the page."
Mercedes screams and cries that she can't believe it. Elvira and Lupita huddle outside on the patio. Mercedes comes out, holding a letter and crying. FINALLY she comforts her daugher. "What am I going to do, Elvira?" Elvira doesn't know. Mercedes and Lupita fall to the floor and Mercedes cries over her poor daughter. About time.
Mercedes goes to the jail with food for Domingo. She smiles blandly at him as he digs in. It's those beans he loves so much. He complains the tortillas are cold and asks why she hasn't shown up for 10 days. "I've been feeling bad." He complains about her needing to get him out of there while she puts some beans in a tortilla and hands it to him. "Eat."
Mercedes stirs the pot of beans. Elvira comes up. "If you're cooking it's because you're feeling better. Let's see, let me taste." Mercedes slaps her hand away and tells her not to be stupid.
"You don't eat well here?" Mercedes tells him she talked to Lupita. She asks him how he likes the mole (so not beans after all). "Don't you want to know what I talked to Lupita about?"
Domingo goes chasing after Lupita the day he chased the boys out of the downstairs courtyard. He catches up to her in a hallway, grabs her from behind and asks where she's going.
"What do I care?" He keeps stuffing his face. "You're a dog. An animal. For have done that to a girl for so long, since she was fourteen." "Hey, babe, I don't know why you're upset, but I didn't do anything! I swore it on the Virgen." "Do you know what they do to rapists in jail? Don't you know?"
Lupita sits on the floor, crying.
"Eat. Swallow it." "It's lies, lies started by Elvira. You want the truth? Your daughter, the whore, offered herself to me. Just like you did. Just like her mother. And you know why? Blood calls out. Or have you already forgotten what you were like with me?" Mercedes gets up to leave and he gets nervous and whines to her that he was just joking. "I don't want to spend the rest of my life in jail. You're not going to let me stay here, are you?" Mercedes hugs him and says he won't rot.
Elvira holds the box of rat poison while Mercedes takes a spoonful and starts stirring it into the mole. Then she dumps the entire box in as Mercedes keeps stirring.
Domingo starts experiencing some gastrointestinal distress and coughs blood on Mercedes. She sits him down and holds him.
"How could he rot? I wouldn't let him," says Mercedes.
"He died like a rat," says Elvira,
Domingo finishes dying and the bloody butterfly flies away.
"That asshole didn't deserve to die any other way," says Elvira.
Elvira and Mercedes walk out of the jailhouse together.
"Domingo Martinez murió por envenenamiento."
Domingo Martinez died of poisoning.
"Mercedes y Elvira Gonzalez fueron encontradas culpables en primer y segundo grado de responsabilidad, respectivamente."
Mercedes and Elvira Gonzalez were found guilty in the first and second degree of responsibility, respectively.
"El embarazo de Mercedes, así como su situación emocional, se consideraron atenuantes para su condena."
Mercedes' pregnancy and her emotional state were considered extenuating circumstances for her punishment.
"Fueron sentenciadas a 24 años de prision."
They were sentenced to 24 years in prison.
"Lupita fue declarada inocente y se le permitió abortar, segun las leyes vigentes."
Lupita was declared innocent and allowed an abortion, according to the laws in place.
"Actualmente trabaja en un almacen y se ocupa de sus hermanos."
She is working in a warehouse and taking care of her brothers.
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
La Fuerza del Destino #18 Fri 08/26/11 Dead End in Guaymos: Ivan Chases Wild Geese While Tony Chases After Carly
Cap. #18
We make it back to Sonora just as Alex and Ivan meet for the first time at Geraldo’s. Turns out they have the same interest (Surprise!) in Soccer and Mathematics and the same winning personality. Viewerville waits for the earth shattering and overpowering “call of the blood” but is sorely disappointed. We’ll just chalk it up to Van’s biorhythms being out of sync.
At the restaurant across town, Anthony starts discussing business right away. He asks who owns El Socorro. Carlota mentions that she inherited it from her dead husband and proudly states (gawd knows why) that her daughter, Lucrecia, runs it. Juan Jaime puts in his two cents worth--and that’s all it is worth! “--In the state the ranch is in, it just goes to show that women have no head for business.” Carly turns out to be a real Comeback Queen, though. “—If that’s the case, then why are you in the same straits we are here, begging charity [limosna] from Anthony also?” “—Oh, my situation is not the same!” Yeah, just like a man, she clucks. Tony interrupts the verbal sparring and says he has the utmost respect for the feminine intellect. Juan Jeil-me is quick to agree then (see the brown on his nose there?) and asks Carly to lighten up; it was just a little joke [chascarrillo]! Tony allows himself a mini roll of the eye and things simmer down.
Back at Grandpa Gerry’s, Van and Lucia have just left. They should have stayed for dinner, she says. Van didn’t want to cause a bother for them, although he did like seeing Gerry again. He chokes up suddenly. Seeing Alex got him thinking about his son and that they’d be practically the same age now. Lucia then gets a peck on the cheek and he asks if she’s still going to meet him as planned. She says of course. He drives off.
Lucia goes back inside Gerry’s and explains why Ivan didn’t stick around for supper. She mentions how the tragedy with Merry Piece and losing his son had destroyed his life and broken him in two. Gerry asks what about Mari Paz? She told Ivan all sorts of stories—none of which were true. BTW, the news is that she’s left the Meandragon Stalag to move back home and is getting a divorce.
Van is waiting for Tony when he returns from the Curiel business lunch and tells him about meeting Alex who is bright and very likeable. He’s even the same age his son would have been. Tony reminds him he’ll have other children. Van agrees, but says it doesn’t necessarily make the pain stop. Tony says it’s about time he realized that his son may have never been born or that he died. True, but the need to know is what’s driving him now, says Van. Anyway, he’s also got to speak to Celia about what she knew concerning his mother’s pregnancy. He was certain the baby-daddy was JJ Mondragon, cuz he never knew Mama to date or to discuss another man in all the years they lived together. Tony suggests that there were times she probably did spend away from him, either on her days off or while he was at school or with friends. She just might never have thought to discuss this with him. Van naively considered that she’d always have spent that time with her friend, Celia. Tony sniffs as if to say get real!
Talk turns to Tony’s business lunch with Carlota and Lucrazia. He’s decided to help them out despite Van’s being against it, especially since Carly offered her house as collateral.
LuScreechia, meanwhile, is giving Mama holy Hell for putting their house up as a loan guarantee, especially since Sr. McGuire wasn’t asking for any guarantees. Carly says she wouldn’t take advantage of his easy-going nature that way. She couldn’t accept his financial support as if it were a gift! Lucre-zia says hey, if the guy wants to give away his big bucks then let him? What’s the big problem? Carly says she’s too decent to play that way! Lucre-zia is quick to remind her mama that she wasn’t so decent when it came to letting her boyfriend knock her up all those years ago! Carly tells her to can the trash-mouth for a change. Speaking of smart-asses, in walks Merry Piece wanting to know what the yelling was all about. Lucre-zia says it had to do with her abuela offering the house as collateral for the ranch. She adds then that they had lunch with the senior McGuire and that he’s going to help them out with a loan for improvements. Happy, happy! Joy, joy!
Of course, says Lucrazia, Juan Jeil-me arranged the business lunch and he had requested that Mari Paz would return to David until the McGuires went back to The States. It ain’t a gonna happen—not now, not never! Fageddabowdit! MP says she’s already seen a lawyer and started the paperwork [tramites]. She’s way smarter than Mama, she brags, cuz instead of begging for money from Old Man McGuire, Merry Piece is planning to marry El Guapo de Ivan who, seemingly, is now eating out of her hand! LuScreechia refuses to even hear of it! It’s not her choice, says Merry. She’s already decided and that’s that!
Back at the hotel, Ivan’s discussing the possibility of marrying Mari Paz now. Tony warns him against giving her false hopes. He says naw, he only wants her to get divorced in order to embarrass the Meandragon’s socially. Sure it will be a nasty thing for David since he likes the guy, but poor ol’ Dave isn’t able to consummate the marriage anyway, so…. As for MP, when she had the chance to marry him, she refused to marry the son of a servant and now that he’s got money and social position, he refuses to insult his mother’s memory. Well, asks Tony, if Van doesn’t care for her, why did he say she could decorate their new digs then? Oh, she offered to on her own, he explains, and in any event, he let her know in no uncertain terms that Tony would be the one to say yay or nay about it. Van doubts her tastes and Tony’s will mesh anyway.
Speaking of the Queen of Roma, Mari Paz calls the suite looking for Ivan but he tells the desk to tell her he’s not in. “—Darn! See? She’s after me every time I turn around! Whatever I felt for her isn’t there any longer. I’m wise to her now!” Tony says, well, he’s interested in helping Carly. She’s nice, intelligent and he likes her. Besides, he is interested in what she’ll tell him about her granddaughters. Van chuckles and Tony blushes. (Riiiiiight.) “--Oh, so you don’t think I can handle it, huh?” Van tells him to go for it and then they hug. Tony then has a question for ivan: if he learns that another good man has adopted his son, knowing that the boy would consider the other man his father, would Ivan take him away from that adoptive family? Van says he hasn’t a clue, but what is certain is that the boy doesn’t stop being his son also.
Meanwhile, Saul and Antolin are shootin’ the breeze. Saul is griping about Lucia having the nerve to dump him after he’d deigned to make her his girlfriend—even with her family’s financial social standing a few rungs above ground floor level, too! whoever the sorry son of a buck she’s got her eye on just better watch out!
Over at Gerry’s, Carolina is worried that he’ll tell Ivan the truth about Alex. Gerry doesn’t know what he’ll do at this point. Carolina reminds him that it’s Alex they need to consider first. He’s been with them his entire life! He’s always known Gerry as his father. Ger says seeing Ivan again has made him think about Alicia and why she never told him she was pregnant. “—that she would rather die than cause me problems! It still hurts like heck!” Carolina tells him not to dwell on it cuz all he’ll do is torture himself and there’s nothing to be done for her now. He shouldn’t blame himself like he does. Besides, he’s done a great job with Alex. Gerry’s sense of guilt is overwhelming, though. He’d like to tell Ivan Alex is his son, and not to worry; that he’s fine and doesn’t lack for anything, and that his life is brimming over with love.
At the same time, on his way to Arcelia’s, Van watches boys playing soccer in the street and remembers the day when he and his mother first arrived in Alamos.
He shows up at Celia’s and tells her he’s there to ask about his mother’s love life [vida sentimental]. She clams up and says Alicia never mentioned anything to her, ever! Best to leave it alone. What’s to be gained? Justice, says Ivan.
Back at Gerry’s, Carolina’s figures that the best thing is to leave things as they are in hopes that Ivan manages to resign himself to never knowing anything more about his son. No good to tell Lucia the truth either because she’s attracted to Ivan. Yes, answers Gerry, lost in thought. He was always interested in Mari Paz rather than Lucia, though’. Well things change, says Carolina. If Lucia ends up with Ivan then perhaps they’ll have their own family. Ivan would be near his son without their need to tell either of them the truth. Gerardo isn’t really convinced that’s a good idea.
That night, Juan Jeil-me wants to know if Esther spoke to David and got him to agree about sticking it out with MP. Nobody knows if she agreed or not or, if he’s moving back in or not. He calls up Lucrazia to find out. Lu tells him Merry Piece can’t be persuaded. She’s already seen a lawyer and put things in motion. He threatens to wreck Lucrazy’s financing with Tony McGuire if Merry Piece goes ahead with her divorce plans. Lucrazy snickers and says she doesn’t think so; McGuire’s too taken with her mama and a divorce probably isn’t going to make or break either of them; after all, he’s an American with such liberal ideas that he even adopted an illegal, didn’t he? JJ asks what the heck she’s talking about. Lucre-zia chuckles at herself and hangs up on him. She’s just dumped a percussion grenade under his belligerent backside and she can’t wait for it to explode!
At the other end, Juan-Jeil-me puts the receiver down, barks for his dinner, and walks out of the room without a word. Saul and Esther heard the conversation. Saul can’t believe MP’s actually divorcing David (not to mention defying their bad-ass Papa Bear that way). He’s also curious to know what illegal Mexican his dad was talking about. Esther doesn’t know and doesn’t care and goes back into the kitchen in a huff.
Lucia now tells Carly about her plans to go with Ivan that weekend to Guaymas to find their old housekeeper. Carly doesn’t approve of the two of them going up there un-chaperoned. Lucia, if she wanted to help, could just as easily give him the names and addresses and let him go himself. Just then Lucia gets a call from Saul. He’s trying to get back together and wants to see her the next day. She lies and says she’s going with some gal pals to one of their houses in the country. He starts giving her the third degree about how she’s getting there and who with..... He offers to take her and she snidely says thanks but no thanks. He snidely suggests it’s probably a group of guys and girls! She yells back that it’s none of his business who’s going or not and slams the receiver down. Carly dislikes Lucia’s making Saul jealous. Lucia asks what’s it matter? They aren’t anything to each other now!
Afterwards at supper, LuScreechia also has a fit about Lucia leaving for the weekend with her “girlfriends” and wonders whether Saul knows or not. Lucia politely says she’s old enough to do what she wants and Mama knows that she and Saul have broken up. LuScreechia wants Carly to back her up but she won’t. “--The girl’s grown up. She has a job and she earns her own way now. Time to let the young ones fly away from the nest.” Lucrazy says, yeah, wasn’t MP a perfect example of that? Lucia reminds her Mama that she’s NOT Merry Piece.
Saul walks into one of Antolin’s favorite watering holes and offers to pay Anto to spy on Lucia.
Antolin plays P.I. for pesos and watches as Lucia gets into a taxi. He follows her and, with a sh!t-eating grin on his face, sees her meet up with Ivan, who takes her bag and stashes it in his trunk while she gets into his car with him. “—Jo-joooo! Saul won’t like this one itty-bitty bit!”
Camilo meets with Tony to discuss his working for McGuire Import/Export. He presents a contract to Cam who is completely blown away by the salary he’ll be getting. Tony points out that he will be Van’s right-hand man and will earn every bit of it.
Arcelia is so excited when she finds out. They do a happy dance. Cam suggests buying her some new furniture or a stove, and possibly even a new house. She says furniture’s fine, but she’s not moving. Sylvestre bought her the house when they were first married and she couldn’t possibly sell it. He should move out and live somewhere really nice if he wants. Cam doesn’t want to leave Mama’s. They decide to eat out to celebrate since he has the afternoon off.
Tony gives Carly an unexpected call and invites her out to eat. He’d like to chat. It’s pleasure, not business—unless she’s afraid of town gossip. She glances up at the picture of her dead hubby and decides she’ll ask him to eat at her house. He wants to talk to her alone. She says no problem. Lucrazy’s at their ranch since it’s payday [el día del raya] and MP’s on her way out and will be leaving in a little bit.
Merry Piece tries calling Ivan’s hotel suite again, in the meantime, but is shot down by the desk clerk. She decides to call David instead.
Meanwhile, on the way to Guaymos, Lucia (in a muffled sound-track that sound-editing should have caught and is irritating to the max) tells Van about missing school the year when her sister was pregnant, and that she was forced to stay there with her. She also mentions her parents’ divorce. It wasn’t her daddy’s fault. He and Mama just never got along. (Puhleese! Nobody but nobody gets along with your mama!) Mama never had any respect for Gerry and always put him down. He couldn’t stand country living and eventually had to sell his parents’ house in Mexico City, but than eventually bought a small construction company. Ivan and she both agree he’s a great guy, and that Carolina is a terrific S-I-L who takes wonderful care of the house, and both Alex and Gerry, despite not being able to see.
Merry Piece has a quick chat with Grams before leaving for the club. Carly asks how she’s paying for all the stuff she does. MP brags that she’s still got David’s credit card and his car, but then, as far as she’s concerned it’s fair compensation for the rotten state of affairs-–both literally as well as figuratively. Carly tells her it’s a bit shameful. (Ha! Might as well speak to the hand.) Carly wants to know if she’s got designs on Ivan now. Merry Piece isn’t about to give her the satisfaction of telling her just so she can race back to gossip about it with catty Lucia!! Carly knows when she’s been bested and gripes under her breath once MP struts out the front door.
Back at that dive of a corner bar Anto likes so much, Saul sits down to get the goods on Lucia. Anto couldn’t wait to see the look on his face when he told him she left town with a guy! Yeah, who? Anto drags the telling out about as far as it will stretch without snapping: “--she took a taxi. She waited for the car of all cars.” Saul’s patience does snap! “--With who? A new beau????” “--Calm down! Calm down!” She got out with her suitcase and greeted the guy with a kiss, he threw her suitcase into the trunk and she got in. “--On the mouth? ON THE MOUTH?????” He couldn’t tell. “That damned two-timing wench!” “--Who’s the dude? Do you know him?” He sure does! It’s the gringo. “--Gringo? What gringo?” “—Ivan.” “--Anthony McGuire’s son?” “--That’s what they say.”
Saul is WTF impactado to find out lovely little lame-brained Lucia would actually trade him in for that moron [papanatas = simpleton, dupe, dope]! Saul’s got to stop it somehow. Anto asks how he figures to do that, cuz if he complains to the dude his daddy’s financing is likely to go down the drain along with the family jewels. Nope. Ol’ Saul is screwed seven ways from sundown [entrampado=stuck in muck to the eyeballs]. Saul refuses to accept that. He starts banging his fist on the bar. No way is he going to stand around and let this happen! Antolin hides a sly grin behind his shot of tequila.
Tony shows up. Carly asks if he’s there for the deed to the house. He says there’s no hurry for that. He’s only there to chat. They talk about why neither of them got married again and the fact that she was widowed back when Lucrazy got married. Tony gives her a quick backgrounder then on how he first met Ivan.
Meanwhile, Merry Piece meets David at the country club. He tells her that the bank called to tell him his credit card was maxed out [hasta el tope = full up to the brim]. She goads him. In her best baby-talk impression she says he could get money from mami and pay it off, right? No. Better--he gone to a headhunter with his degree in business [licenciado en administración] and handed them his resume. He dutifully asks her again if she’ll give him another opportunity. Not. A. Chance. She’s already seen her lawyer and started the paperwork.
David, still very slow on the uptake, thought Merry Piece would do what his papi had ordered them both to do. Ha! No. Way. In. Hell. Merry Piece is not keeping up any front for Daddy-Dearest. What’s more, if he doesn’t want the truth coming out about what happened–or rather, what DIDN’T happen on their wedding night--then he’ll get off his duff and meet her at the lawyer’s office to sign the papers ASAPP! Why did she agree to marry him then, he asks. He was the only one with money, position and a family name, she tells him, and she really liked him, bottom line: who cares about a family name if the family’s flat broke and his dipstick is too? David insists it’s only a psychological hang up. MP doesn’t care and she doesn’t believe him, anyway. So, now when is he coming to the lawyer’s office with her? We see a touch of anger display on those babied baby cheeks of his. “--Whenever you want!!” Victory. Time for a celebratory cerveza or, better yet a “—Martini, please!!”
Back at Casa de las Curiel, Carly discusses Mari Paz’s willful ways, the unexpected pregnancy, Lucrazia’s and MP’s wanting her to abort it, Ivan’s fight to change her mind and offering to marry her with All-Ears Tony. Carly knew, though, that MP wasn’t about to marry a servant’s son or allow herself to become a single mother in a small town to be humiliated by her friends. Lucrazy wouldn’t have allowed it either, but she swears she knew absolutely nothing about the brutal beating her demon-seed daughter paid for! Then came the baby and it’s disappearance. Ivan has always talked lovingly about her, though, says Tony. Yes? Well, she cared so much for Ivan when he was a young boy, she starts, then realizes she was about to confess the secret that Van’s Teodoro’s grandson and thinks better of it at the last moment. Tony tries to get her to tell her what she’s holding back. She says one day she will. (That definitely will be Must See T.V.!)
Lucia and Van arrive at the hotel (and get two different rooms, BTW). First they’ll eat and then they’ll start their search for Asuncion he says. FF>>
Cam tells his mama what a bad seed his bro, Antolin, is. Celia knew he hated school, but she never thought of him as a killer. That and more, says Cam. He pimps out women for rich guys, sets up poker games, and even sells drugs! Hush your mouth! Cam says Mama’s too bright not to have realized it before. She agrees, but then admits she wondered about the cars and apartment and such, and just didn’t ask because he was always good for a few much-needed pesos. Couldn’t Cam put in a good word with Ivan for his brother, to get him a decent job? Cam refuses. “—A leopard never changes its spots.” [Un árbol torcido nunca endreza = literally, a twisted tree never rights itself.] She can ask him, if she likes, but he’s not going to!
On the way to dinner, Lucia finds out how Alicia really died--from a botched abortion in the barrio, and not from some serious illness like her abue, Carly, told her. Ivan asks if she was ever aware of his mother’s going out with anyone, or if Cleto or Gloria or anyone else ever mentioned it. Lucia draws a blank. He explains then that with his mother dead and Merry Piece giving him the cold shoulder there was nothing keeping him in Alamos, and so, with Lucrazy ready to blame him for the murder of the worker she sent to beat him up, he decided to run away to the U.S. and start over. Lucia says she understands his anger towards her family now. (He looks skeptical—or maybe that’s anger. Hard to tell. Note to director: tell DZ to work on skeptical expression.)
Back in Alamos, Carly and Tony flirt a bit. She then feels brave enough to ask Moneybags McGuire why, if Ivan hates them so much, would he take Lucia to Guaymos with him to look for that servant? Tony is surprised to hear Van actually decided to go after all, and says he thinks Ivan obviously thought that her knowing the woman would help him somehow. Carly says Lucia is a beautiful, goodhearted, hard-working, and intelligent girl who has always been in love with Ivan. She hopes he’s not got bad intentions, because if he does, Carly is simply not going to allow him to hurt her. Tony tells her not to worry about that. He will make sure he talks to Ivan about it!
Merry Piece comes back home at that point and introduces herself to Tony. She immediately asks him to let her decorate his new house. Embarassed, Carly says she doesn’t have any background in decorating. MP says Judith has her degree in decorating and she says she has wonderful taste and a real knack. Tony tells her to present him with some formalized design ideas and that then, he’ll consider it. (If Judi has her degree in interior design, then he’s way better off with Judi instead of that pain in the patoot Merry Piece. Carly better be worth the ride!) Mari Paz flits back out again and Carly has to apologize. Tony doesn’t mind and chalks it up to youth. He does admit to MP’s being a little bit of a “free and easy spirit” [desenvuelta = also brazen, daring, forward –all of which Viewerville agrees apply] Time for dessert! FF>>
Back up in Guaymos, Lucia and Van find Asuncion right off the bat. (What an unexpected relief that is!) Lucia tells her she’s Carlota Curiel’s Lucia. Asuncion invites the two of them in with a hug and a huge smile and immediately asks how the baby is. Lucia and he exchange disappointed, knowing glances. It obviously wasn’t the housekeeper that took his son.
Labels: Fuerza
El Mundo de Telemundo, Week of August 29, 2011: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Hello from the disaster central - the Northeast. We had an earthquake on Tuesday and are now battening down for a hurricane. But back to the crisis-ridden world of telenovelas.
FLOR SALVAJE - viernes
Flor reunites with Sacto. He tells her that he never went far away. He tells her that he sent Pablo to Nueva Esperanza to give her the message that he doesn't care what happened with Urrieta and he never should have left town. He asks Amanda to marry him. Then he tells her that the postcards he sent were provided and written by Pablo. Amanda is impactada. She tells Sacto that it is too late. She can't marry him. Sacto concludes that Amanda has fallen in love with Urrieta.
Pablo meanwhile is having breakfast with Rafael and Catalina. He finds out that Rafael has a beef with Sacto. Rafael promises him a better position in the company. Catalina concludes that Pablo is a spy for Rafael. She decides that she has to go see Sacto and tell Rafael that she is going to Brigida's house to plan for the celebration of the Nativity of the Virgin. Rafael is suspicious of Catalina's sudden devotion to religion but he lets her go - warning her not to lie to him.
Pablo sees Amanda in town and gives her a cheery greeting. She attacks him for lying to her about Sacto. CC appears and warns them not to behave this way in public - someone might gossip to Rafael. Does Pablo want to join the "companía al descabezado" (headless company)?
Sacto is in a funk and Raimundo tries to get him to take his medicine. He gives him the advice of an old man: "Las mujeres de la mala vida sólo tren eso: ¡males a tu vida!" (The women of the bad life only bring one thing: bad things to your life.) Sacto says that he should know that already: his mother lived on 'Consolers Street' and she abandoned him right after he was born. Raimundo asks her name. When Sacto says that his mother's name was Penélope, Raimundo flashes back to an sexual encounter with her, which, in novela terms, is as a good as a DNA test showing that Sacto is Raimundo's son.
Amanda tells CC that Pablo lied to her. Pablo isn't traveling the world with a good job. He barely escaped death from malaria. When CC asks how she knows this, Amanda replies that she heard it from Sacto's own lips. CC is impactada.
Catalina, meanwhile, is trying to convince Sacto that Pablo has switched to Rafael's side. He won't believe it. She then tells him how, in his delirium, he confused her with someone else and kissed her. She puts her hand on his and Sacto looks uncomfortable. Catalina asks who the woman is. Then she gushes about how Sacto set her free from the dungeon and was so brave to face Rafael's wrath. Sacto says that she helped him too so they are even (a mano).
Brígida sees Catalina caressing Sacto's face and goes running to her husband who is looking at a picture of him and Sacto's mother, Penelope. She accuses him of turning her house into a bordello. He asks her how old she thinks Sacto is.
Amanda won't tell CC where Sacto is. When CC asks if she wants all the men for herself, Amanda replies that she is trying to save his life.
Rafael has called Enrique to his office to get publicity from the fact that his company is going to donate money to build a small hospital in NE with qualified medical personnel. He insists that Enrique take a picture of the 'chequezote' .
When Enrique is gone, Rafael tells Peter that he would like to put a bullet between his eyes. Peter changes the subject to the gossip in the bar that Rafael had sex with Zahra. Peter asks if Zahra is exclusive to Rafael like Flor. Rafael says to go ahead and try to get Zahra to have sex with anyone but him.
Zahra tells Olga that she threw Pablo out. Olga replies that Amanda is in love with Pablo and reminds her of the crazy things she did when she was love with Rafael. She also reminds Zahra that she has kept the reason that she and Rafael broke up a secret for many years. Only Olga knows what happened. Zahra tells her to leave it way it is: dead and buried.
Pablo gets into Amanda's room. She accuses him of lying to her about Sacto. He tries to defend himself but Zahra comes in, hustles him out, walks arm in arm with him on the street and makes him pretend to pay her. Malicia asks if Zahra is taking clients again. "Only with special clients," she replies.
Rafael tells Peter that he wants to promote Pablo in the company and get him in charge of the newly forming union so that it doesn't do anything management doesn't want.
Raimundo's daughter, Manuela, (and maybe Sacto's half sister) tells Sacto that he can trust her. He says that he wants to get out of the hacienda to find out what is going on. She agrees to help him.
Catalina tells Luisa that Sacto is the 'elegido,' the chosen one, who will kill Rafael for her.
Manuela give Sacto some of her older brother's clothes. Her brother is studying medicine in the capital. She notices that Sacto looks like her brother and even has some of the same gestures.
Amanda decides to leave town with her sisters. She says that Zahra told her to obey her or leave so she's leaving. Bebe actually speaks and says, "mala Amanda." Zahra comes in and reminds Amanda of all she has done for her and her sisters. Amanda goes to Clara's house without her sisters.
Pablo gets CC to arrange a meeting with Amanda. Sacto is in town and he finds CC. She is disgusted that he is only concerned with Amanda so he takes him to see her.
Amanda and Pablo reconcile at the river. Rafael comes to town looking for Flor and Ana tells her that Zahra kicked her out. CC takes Sacto to the river and shows him Pablo and Amanda kissing passionately.
I spend way too much time on this one. I will try and do a recap of Mi Corazon later.
Labels: casa-lado, flor-salvaje, insiste, telemundo
Teresa Fri 8/26/11 #125 Not one, but TWO tipsy Hunkasauruses and one very cunning Tiburoncita!
CUERNAVACA: Mariano admits to Aurora he’s made many mistakes but he loves her and will prove it to her. She walks away and he leaves only to find Teresa waiting outside doing her best Captain Morgan impression. She knew he’d forget this stupid idea of going after Aurora because he still loves her.
Inside, Aurora looks at the rose Mariano left and knows things would have been so different if he had only figured it out a long time ago.
Meanwhile, Mariano tells Teresa there’s nothing to discuss, isn’t it obvious he is no longer interested in her? He tells her he no longer feels anything for her. Teresa’s convinced that this thing with Aurora is just a passing fancy. Mariano swears that’s not how he feels. Teresa speaks of her long friendship with Aurora and warns him not to hurt her as he did Aida. He says he’d never hurt her. He only wants a chance to show her what he feels for her. Teresa tells him to get real, he’s only doing this out of spite (despecho) because he’s still in love with her. She closes in for her signature move and…he backs off! Again, he tells her he no longer loves her. She doesn’t believe him and moves ever closer and again, he backs off and tells her it would be best if she did believe him. She notices how he gets when she gets close, when she touches him. She’s now on him, like a shark on its prey. She says what they have is very strong.
DANG! We interrupt this very Sharky scene for an update on doofus Grumps, like anyone cares! Hernan has come to check on him. Old fart is complaining about his diet and Johnny.
BACK IN CUERNAVACA, Mariano admits Teresa is a very beautiful, sensual woman but he now has eyes only for Aurora and pushes her away! She claims she’s happy for him and hopes this is true so her friend doesn’t have to suffer anymore. (Methinks she doth protest too much cuz there’s murder in them thar Sharkita eyes!) Mariano takes his leave and Teresa tries to bum a ride with him saying she didn’t have a chance to get the car from Arturo. Mariano wisely refuses, saying it wouldn’t be prudent for them to travel together. Wow! I like this new and improved Mariano! She can’t believe he’d leave her there alone! He offers to help her get a cab, going so far as paying for it cuz she has no money. Teresa is mouth-open-QTH-impactada and Viewerville can be heard cheering “¡¡Bravo Mariano!! ¡Por Fin!”
HOSPITAL: Stupid scene where Hernan explains to Gramps who he is and his connection to Johnny. He and Espe invite him to Rodriguito’s baptismal fiesta. Definitely FF>>>>
CUERNAVACA: Mariano drives Teresa to a taxi stop. She’s furious and can’t understand why he can’t drive her to D.F. since he’s going there anyway. No way, he says, he doesn’t want any problems with her hubby. She gets in the cab and pouts as she hears him ask the taxista for the closest florist.
Aurora calls Johnny asking after the old curmudgeon. Johnny hands the phone to Juana and she frantically confesses she’s the one who told Mariano of her whereabouts and pleads with for forgiveness. Aurora calms her down, saying it turned out for the best because they were able to talk and she was able to tell him a few things and she feels better now. She tells Juana she didn’t give in to him because she really needs to be alone but she admits she was very happy to see him. She can’t believe he no longer loves Teresa, who also came by. Juana explains she asked her to go because she felt so bad about telling Mariano. Aurora explains Teresa’s no longer there and they really didn’t have a chance to talk after she told her to leave.
Mariano is at the florist ordering a ginormous bowl of white roses that will be delivered today. Meanwhile, Teresa’s cab drives by and she points out his car to the taxista. She asks the taxista if he’d like to make some extra cash and he won’t have to drive all the way to D.F. She’s talking to the driver when her phone rings, yup, it’s Arturo, but she doesn’t answer. He’s in a bar (collective Viewerville gasp) with a drink. He leaves her a voicemail and then has a succession of quick flashbacks: Odiana telling him about Teresa doing the horizontal mambo with Mariano, Teresa swearing she loves him, Armando telling him she went to Cuernavaca, Johnny telling him Mariano is in Cuernavaca. He’s distraught and downs his drink. He next calls Refugio who doesn’t know where Teresa is but she’ll go check in their apt and call him back. Fine. Arturo orders another drink! No, Arturo! NO!
ROADSIDE: Now we find out what Teresa is up to! The cab driver is changing a “flat tire” on his cab on the side of the road and she waves down Mariano. She’s soooo happy he received her message! Imagine, the cab has a flat and he’ll have to double back to repair the tire. What to do? Mariano relents and she runs to his car but not before giving the taxista a thumbs up!
HOSPITAL: Juana and Hector talk about how happy Aurora is. Hector’s happy to know that Juana would go visit her as a favor to him. Of course, she says, Aurora’s like a daughter to me! Hector hopes she can convince Aurora to come to Rodriguito’s baptismal fiesta.
VECINDAD: Mariano and Teresa arrive. She notices he said very little during the drive. He tells her there’s nothing left to say. She thanks him for rescuing her. He wasn’t about to leave her there but he also tells her it’s best they avoid each other and tells her to get out. She can’t believe he’s not going to drive up to her building. He doesn’t want anyone to see them. He’s doing it for her, to avoid any problems with Arturo. She agrees, sarcastically saying she’s soooo happy with Art even though they’re living in the vecindad. Mariano tells her that since their relationship couldn’t work out, he’s happy she can love her husband even though he doesn’t have any money. Then he says, “Adios Teresa!” Ha-ha! She’s pissed but as she’s getting out of the car who should drive up but our hero Arturo, who thankfully isn’t actually driving. He asks his driver to stop. He sees Teresa get out of Mariano’s car, but she doesn’t see him. He jumps out of the car as Mariano pulls away and yells after her. His driver stops him from doing something stupid and talks him into getting back in the car.
HOSPITAL: Ugh, Johnny/Pati and recovering Gramps. They chit-chat about his demeaner. YAWN –FF>>
VECINDAD: Refugio finds Teresa in the courtyard and tells her Arturo was looking for her. Teresa tells a half-truth about having to go see Aurora in Cuernavaca. She tells mom her trip to Cuernavaca didn’t turn out as planned. She realized she’s losing something she considered hers – she fibs about this being about a case. She goes back to her little hovel and finds the ensemble Arturo left for her on the bed. YES! Happy dance time! She rushes to the dress, checks the label first as any fashionista would, then reads Arturo’s note. He tells her to get gussied up because tonight they’re going out to dinner before going to their new home! He’s come through at last! Arturo walks in and she’s so excited she doesn’t notice his gloomy demeanor. She rushes to embrace him and tell him how much she loves him then realizes something’s wrong. He yells at her, “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?” She notices he’s been drinking. He shakes her and demands to know where she’s been!
CASA CHAVEZ: Armando and Refugio talk about Teresa. She’s worried about Teresa’s attitude. Armando hopes that’s the only thing amiss. He tells how Arturo didn’t know about Teresa’s trip to Cuernavaca before he mentioned it. Refugio’s surprised she didn’t tell Arturo since she just mentioned to her that she went to see Aurorita.
BATTLING BARRERAS: Arturo is still manhandling her demanding to know who she was with! TERESA: “Let me go, you brute. Look how you get when you’ve been drinking. I don’t want to be with you when you’re like this.” ARTURO: “Of course I have to drink and it’s all your fault because you continue to cheat on me!” TERESA: “What? Are you plumb loco?” ARTURO: “I looked for you and couldn’t find you, not even by phone.” TERESA: “Cell signals are really bad on the highway. I had to go to Cuernavaca.” ARTURO: “Oh, so you admit you went to Cuernavaca.” TERESA: “Yes, to see Aurora.” ARTURO: “MENTIRA, MENTIRA! I just saw you getting out of that imbécil’s car!” He shoves her down on the couch and she’s all, “ruh-roh” Arturo is furious and standing over her, panting. Eeek!
HOSPITAL-DOUBLE YAWN I’ve combined all the boring Hospital scenes. You can really skip this section, only semi-important item is that Grumps tells Idiotaberto that Juana is infertile. I took one for the recapping team and watched the whole thing and here’s what happened: Buttberto is in grampa’s room talking to Pati. She’s staying to spend the night. Doofus tells her he’ll stay until he goes to his mariachi jig. He has the day off because his rich old lady is off to Cuernavaca for a few days – he brags she’s still paying him. Pati wonders if that lady might not have an interest in him. No way, says our erstwhile gigolo-in-his-dreams, she’s real sangrona (nasty, uppity) and calls him igualado, confianzudo (cheeky, overfamiliar). Even stupid Pati thinks it’s strange this woman should treat him so well. The old bugger starts to stir and asks for the doctor. Buttberto says he’ll take care of grandpa while she goes for the doc. The old codger puts him in his place, reminding him he should be addressed as “Don Porfirio”.
Later, Dumberto is attempting to read the paper to gramps (such a prize, Juana, he can’t even read). Gramps asks him to stop because he does it so poorly he should be in la primaria. Instead, why doesn’t he explain why he messed with his maid? Dumberto tells of the plan to make Juana jealous, of how he wanted to help Johnny and Pati, etc, etc; there’s no using talking about it anymore (please don’t) since everything turned out for the best and Johnny and Pati are happy. Grumps wryly wonders for how long. Ugh, he starts to talk about Juana. Sick as he is, Grumps spells it out for him, Juana is s-t-e-r-i-l-e. Clueless-berto has an aha moment, which we must admit is really hard for him. Ugh, gramps and Buttberto discuss Juana’s sterility. The doc finally comes to discuss Grump’s convalescence. Doc thinks it’s a good idea for him to go live at the vecindad with his granddaughter. The clinic there would be ideal for any medical attention he may need. Yawn, stretch.
BATTLING BARRERAS: Arturo dares her to deny it! She admits she returned with Mariano but didn’t say anything because she knew he’d react this way. ARTURO: Don’t you think I have a valid reason? What story are you going to come with now to justify what you’ve done? TERESA: I swear it’s not a lie. I went to see Aurora because she’s so broken up over Martin. ARTURO: And that’s why you returned with Mariano? Did you just “happen” to run into each other? TERESA: No! I didn’t have a car because you used the insurance money to pay off debts. (oh, so now it’s his fault). Arturo interrupts her, “You were together, JUNTOS!!!” TERESA: I asked him to take me to a taxi stand. I didn’t want to come back with him, you can ask him. Then the taxi got a flat and if Mariano hadn’t come along, I’d still be there at this hour. “¡BASTA!”, he screams at her, “I don’t believe any of your lies. (Now, technically, she is telling the truth. She’s only leaving out the intent behind the visit to Cuernavaca). Teresa says he can confirm this with Aurora. She’ll tell him Teresa was never alone with Mariano. He hands over his phone for her to dial Aurora’s number.
Aurora’s cell is off. Teresa frantically suggests they drive over to Cuernavaca now to speak to her. Arturo leaps over the sofa to slam the door shut before she can get out. He actually grabs her by the hair (this is getting scary now) and says he can no longer believe her. He’s more angry (rrrrrabia) than hurt that she sees him as a fool. He shoves her into the kitchen. She’s scared and crying now and asks him to think that if she didn’t love him, would she have moved back to this maldito vecindad? He grabs her again and holds her over the sink and wonders if that’s why she went looking for Mariano. Does she think she can now have everything she’s ever wanted from Mariano? He feels like such a fool, having arranged for them to move into Fernando’s apt tonight! He shoves her and she stumbles but recovers enough to ask if that’s where they’re going. He grabs her again and asks if she thinks she deserves to be taken out of here again!
Teresa screams at Arturo. “Es el colmo!” They’ve finally found a way out of this pocilga (pigsty) and now he says she doesn’t deserve it. She’s stuck by him through thick and thin and has even had to bear living here when he knows this is the worst thing that can happen to her. No, that’s not the worst, he says. What is worse is being married to someone you don’t love, isn’t that it? She tells him that’s not true. She loves him, she really, really does. Oh, really? He hopes that’s true because she’s his wife. This gets really ugly now as he attempts to prove that she’s his wife. He’s got her in his grip and clears off the kitchen table and throws her on top of it. He tells her to look at him. He’s not Mariano! She fights him off and they both fall to the floor. He chases after her, first barring the door and then into the bedroom where he traps her on the bed. She’s screaming the whole time begging him not to do this. He finally comes to his senses and backs off, telling her this is what she’s turned him into. She makes her escape out the door and he chases after her. She jumps into a cab as he yells after her. Whew, heavy duty stuff.
ELSEWHERE at the hospital, Magpie-Magda asks Mariano about his trip to Cuernavaca, did he find Aurora? Even though he didn’t mention it, Magpie says it was only obvious he was going after Aurora. Since Aurora started avoiding him, he’s become a different person. Mariano doesn’t understand why it’s not obvious to Aurora. She tells him he’s never aware of what goes on around him. There are so many women who are hot on him that she’s tempted to start an I Hate Teresa Club. Seriously, she doesn’t understand how he didn’t realize Aurora’s affection for him. He admits he was an imbécil. He never thought he’d feel this way about Aurora. He knows she cares for him but she also thinks he’ll never forget Teresa. He doesn’t know how, but he’s determined to show his love for Aurora. He plans to shower her with gifts and attention. Magpie drills him on Aurora’s favorite things. He knows them all since they share many of them. He can’t believe he hadn’t noticed this before.
CUERNAVACA: Aurora places a bowl of white roses (her favorite) on an outside table. His note reads, I’ve just left you and already I miss you. If you miss me in the slightest, call me. Te quiero. Cute scene, they shot the scene with Mariano leaning over her as if he’s reading the note. Awwww. She smiles and picks up her phone but puts it back down. Riiiiight, make him wait. Seldom used Chica rule #5.
HOSPITAL: Mariano confirms to our addle brained Dumberto that if Juana is sterile, this means she can’t have children, duh. Duhberto doesn’t understand why she would keep this from him. Mariano thinks he should discuss this with Juana; Gee you think?
JUANA’S APT: Hector and Juana talk of how much they miss Aurora. Hector talks of living in Cuernavaca once they marry and he wants Juana to redecorate the place to her taste. Of course, Juana puts him off, saying it would be best to wait until Aurora comes back and they can do it together. As usual, Hector agrees. Poor sap. She’s really ticking me off. She needs to let him go.
EVENING IN CUERNAVACA: Odiosana and Luisa are settling in for dinner when Luisa gets a call from Fernando telling her he misses her terribly. He’s been taste testing wines for their wedding and he’s had maybe a tad too much but he’s chosen the white, rose, and champagne. (Uh-oh, tipsy and la Sharkita is on the loose!) Reina comes in to clear the bottles but he dismisses her saying she can go to her room. As he says this, Teresa lets herself in the front door. Ruh-roh! She rips open her blouse (sorry guys, she’s wearing another shirt underneath) then makes a re-entry, shouting frantically for Fernando. He quickly embraces her as she tearfully tells him of Arturo’s abuse and how he tried to force himself on her. He’s shocked and she tells him Arturo was drinking and crazy jealous. Ay, Caray!
HOSPITAL: Mariano and Aida are discussing clinic business. He asks if she’s serious about continuing her work here. She annoyingly asks if he’s so bothered by her presence. She’d already told him she would continue her work to remain close to him, even if it’s just as friends. PATÉTICA!
CASA BARRERA, um FERNANDO: Teresa tells Fernando she was so frightened. She needs a drink and grabs one of the wineglasses on the coffee table. Neither of them would have expected this of Arturo. She complains he wouldn’t let her explain. He’s obsessed with the idea that Mariano is her lover. If she didn’t love him, would she have agreed to live in that place and have people jeer at her? Fernando agrees Arturo’s in a bad place and says he’s going to talk to him right now! She stops him, pulling him back and holding him, telling him she’s afraid to be left alone. Ha-ha – he’s falling right into her trap, and of course it will all be blamed on the alcohol. Hunkasauruses can’t handle their liquor when faced with a she-shark.
HOSPITAL: Mariano feels Aida shouldn’t be doing this work just to be near him. He knows that deep down she’s hopeful they’ll reconcile but that’s not gonna happen. He doesn’t want to hurt her. Aida says he shouldn’t believe she feels he’s the only man in the world. She hasn’t stop living her life. They should continue to conduct business as usual and the future will tell whether or not they will get back together. (oh, she’s so dense) Mariano sets her straight that it’s not a question of time and he knows there are things she won’t be able to bear. Delusional Aeeeeeeeeda says that’s not true. Mariano tests her by telling her he saw Teresa today. Aeeeeeeeeeda reacts just like that old joke, “slowly I turn, step by step”, no puede seeeeeeeeerrrrrrr, Marianooooooo!
CUERNAVACA: Aurora arrives at the same restaurant where Odiosana and Luisa are dining. Luisa makes the introductions. They chit-chat and Aurora ends up joining them.
BACK AT THE HOSPITAL, Aeeeeeeeeda continues her rant. Honestly, it’s comical. Mariano finally stops her, telling her nothing happened between them. He went there looking for Aurora and that’s when he ran into Teresa. He admits nothing happened between him and Aurora either but he’s telling her now that he intends to fight for her love. Aeeeeeeeeda the Pathetic wishes it had been she that he wished to win over (conquistar). She appreciates his honesty and is beginning to realize she’s lost him (duh).
CASA BARRERA, um FERNANDO: Teresa tells Fernando that Arturo refused to even listen to her suggestion that they go to Cuernavaca to talk to Aurora. Fernando comments about Arturo’s intense hatred of Mariano. He agrees she couldn’t have stayed on that lonely dark highway alone. Teresa says no woman should be forced into intimacy against her will. Fernando agrees and can’t believe Arturo would lose control in that manner. She blames it all on his problem with alcohol. She’s distraught, whatever shall I do?
CUERNAVACA: Luisa tells Aurora about her wedding plans. They talk about venues and it ends with Aurora offering her garden as a possibility.
OH NO THEY DIDN’T!!!!! Teresa doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. She’d like to just forget it happened. She’s sorry she barged in on him like this but he was the first person she thought of. He caresses her cheek as he says she did the right thing. She knows she’ll be safe here with him. They stare at each other intently. She tilts her head and they ever so slowly start to smooch. It starts with a peck and then it’s a full on smoochfest. No Puede Ser!!!!! I hope Reina interrupts them…..or ARTURO! They can’t go any further than smooching, or can they? Guess we’ll find out Monday! Yikes!!!!
Oh man, previews show them hugging and she’s wearing a nightie kinda thing! And she asks Arturo for a separation!
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