Caray, Caray!

We get a repeat of the quotation marks and highlighter abuse. Lety excuses herself to go to her office to look over some documents about upcoming meetings.

Lola talks to Marcia about the betrayl of her husband. Marcia says she understands; she can’t believe that Lola’s husband wants half of everything. Lety calls and Marcia asks if she has the clients’ appointments ready. Marcia proclaims that she’s coordinating the meetings and hangs up. Marcia tells Lola it’s okay that she went to see the lawyer that morning. Lola thanks her and walks out of the office.

Sara and Juana comfort Lola. Alicia comes over and asks Lola if Lopez gave her (Lola) permission to come late. Lola says that if Alicia has a problem with it then she needs to talk to her boss, Lety. Alicia sarcastically says she’s trembling with fear. Sara adds her insults. Lola leaves the floor while Sara and Juana continue to argue with Alicia. Sara hits the mark when she starts to talk about Alicia’s repossessed Mercedes. As usual, Alicia looks insulted and then leaves, but not before she gets to answer back. She tells them that she can get her car when ever she wants, blah, blah, blah. She can get another one, a better one. Uh-hu, yeah Alicia; sure you will, and I bet those chiches won’t melt if you light a match under them either. She walks back over to her desk and decides to call Tomas.

Tomas is driving down the street in his not-a-Mercedes Mercedes. The camera makes love to the car. Tomas talks about taking Alicia to the ocean in that car. Shocker! At that moment his cellular rings. Geez, I wonder who it could be? Alicia is calling from the bathroom. She asks Tomas if he remembers her. He slams on the breaks and then starts talking and giggling in his weird voice. Tomas asks for a moment. He very considerately pulls his car over to talk on his phone. He tells her that he’s pulling over his Mercedes, it’s very big so that’s difficult to do. She understands. She has…had one too. She lectures him for not calling. Alicia asks if Tomas wants to go out for coffee or some drinks. She’s missed him a whole, whole lot. She asks if Tomas forgot to call her. No, he tells her I was going to call you when I got to the office. She asks when they can see each other; when will Tomas have time. Tomas states that he has some important meetings tonight but they should get together tomorrow. Alicia pretends not to understand. She whines that she’s bothering him. No, no! Let me think. After looking at his very empty planner, he tells her that their only option is tomorrow. She needs to tell him where and when to pick her up. She complains that she’s all made up and it’s a shame that he’s leaving her alone. Oh well, he can pick her up at her apartment. She demands that Lety does not find out about their date. “Lety!” he exclaims.

Julieta tells Erasmo that she cannot get through to Tomas. Erasmo is upset because he needs Tomas’s help with the car. Julieta tells him that she’ll help him. Erasmo doesn’t want her help because she knows nothing about cars. Julieta stays optimistic and says that she can learn.

Tomas continues to talk on the phone with Alicia. She thought he hung up on her. No, he tells her; he was thinking about what she said about Lety. He too doesn’t want Lety to find out about their date. “She would kill me,” he asides. Alicia says she can’t imagine the problems it would create in the office. Alicia tells Tomas that their dinner tomorrow will be a friendly dinner to talk about business. He buys it hook, line and sinker. Tomas asks Alicia for directions to her apartment. She loves it when he points out how nice her neighborhood is. Tomas lies and says that he has many friends who live there. She tells him to pick her up at nine o’clock. He promises to be on time. Tomas goes into serious scary stalker behavior and talks to Alicia’s photo.

Erasmo and Julieta work on the family car. Moty gets in the way, and this causes the car to start smoking by pushing the pedals. Julieta ineffectively fusses with the dog. Erasmo decides that there is no doubt that women should not work on cars. Where is Tomas!!!??? He throws down his rag in frustration.

Martha eyes Alicia’s candy. She walks over to Sara, but the candy keeps calling. She grabs a white chocolate treat. Marcia is about to put it into her mouth, but Alicia catches her. Alicia demands that Marcia return the chocolate. Martha begs for Alicia to let her have it. Juana and Sara press Martha to return it. oooohhh! Cat fight!

Erasmo accuses Julieta of causing the problems with the car. She says that it’s only a little problem. Erasmo thinks about how much money it will cost to fix the car. Julieta says that it’s time they buy a new car. Erasmo is incredulous. The car smokes some more.

The cat fight continues until Martha passes out. Alicia gives Martha the chocolate. Marcia runs in and tells someone to go get Martha water. Marcia tells Martha that she needs to see a doctor. This diet of hers is killing her. Alicia is incapable of being so kind. Marcia pulls Alicia aside and asks if she was fighting with the cuartel. Alicia basically says they started it. Marcia can not believe that Alicia is smiling about Martha being sick. Alicia says she’s smiling for another reason, but she cannot tell Marcia what it is. Juana runs in with some water for Marcia.

Erasmo complains to Julieta that he does not want to buy a new car. She makes a joke about cars like theirs being only in museums At that moment, Tomas drives up in his Mercedes. He flips down the top for effect. Erasmo asks him if he’s a chauffeur for someone famous. Nope, this is the new car for the manager of Filmo Imagen!

Fernando comes in to Lety’s office. He has some paperwork about the Sportwin commercial and for the trip to Germany. She asks him to put it on her desk and then returns to her work. Fernando offers to take her home tonight. That’s okay, Tomas will take her home. Marcia calls him, incessantly. Fernando replies that he’s coming. Fernando asks why Tomas is coming for her. Well, Lety just wants to be careful now that Doña Marcia is back. Marcia comes in for Fernando. He stomps his foot and leaves.

Erasmo makes fun of Tomas’s driving skills. Tomas literally falls out of the car. He tells Erasmo that he bought the car from a dealership with Filmo Imagen’s money. Erasmo says that money belongs to Fernando.

PM asks Martha if she feels better. Martha is only worried that whatever she eats will make her more fat. Martha’s daughter and husband run in. They’re going to take her to the doctor. Paco thanks PM for taking care of Martha. The family leaves.

Erasmo asks if Fernando authorized the purchase of the automobile or if he even knows about it. Tomas says he doesn’t know, but he Fernando will find out today. Erasmo gets into the driver seat. Tomas tries to kick him out, but Erasmo is entranced. Julieta and Moty gets into the passenger seat. Erasmo points out that the car has a television. Tomas wants to leave.

The brass are in a meeting about the Sportwin commercial. Lety goes over the costs of the Sportwin commercial. Fernando and Omar agree that Lety’s analysis is correct. Fernando asks her what cost the most. Lety says a lot of money was requested by Luigi. Of course, Luigi exclaims! He goes on about his position and about Lety. He’s not going to allow her to question him and his activities! Fernando starts to defend her, but Lety says there’s no need. Luigi is fine, he’s always nice. This stumps both of the men.

Tomas pulls up to Conceptos in his Mercedes. Unfortunately, he runs into and not over Jasmin. He asks her if she knows Lety. Jasmin volunteers to call Lety for him. Nope, he’ll call on his cellular. Jasmin giggles. Lety doesn’t answer.

Lety and Fernando enter her office. She wants to talk business. He stalls. Why wouldn’t she allow him to defend her in front of Luigi? She doesn’t want him to be obliged to do defend her. It’s just not a good idea.

Tomas and Jasmin talk about…Jasmin. She’s Conceptos’ test model. She asks if Tomas is Lety’s friend. No, he tells her. He’s her boyfriend. She didn’t know that Lety had such an elegant boyfriend. Tomas tries to downplay his relationship. Jasmin pardons herself, but not before sucking on Tomas’s face a little. Tomas gives her his card. Jasmin gets excited and asks if he works in production. They discuss the possibility of her becoming a model for Filmo Imagen. Jasmin offers to give him her cell phone number. She even enters it herself. She asks if she can get into the car. She’s cold. Um, it’s a convertible. Tomas opens the passenger side, but she gets into the driver’s side. He admires her assets while she admires the car.

Fernando asks Lety to call Tomas and tell him that Fernando will take her home. Marcia calls out for him again. Fernando leaves to talk to her. Marcia tells Fernando that there is still some business to look to with Bellalife. Afterwards, she wants him to come over to her house. She asks if he has another thing to do. No, he tells her. Good thing he doesn’t have to take Lety home anymore. Lety now has a rich boyfriend to take her home in his car. Marcia points out that Tomas has the latest model, expensive Mercedes. Lety leaves her office and tells Fernando that she’s going home. She also says good-bye to Marcia. Marcia scrunches her face. This must be her substitute for blinking. Fernando watches Lety leave. Marcia asks Fernando what’s wrong. She leaves and blows him a kiss. Nothing, but he forgot to ask Lety something. Marcia blows him a kiss and leaves. He imitates her and rolls his eyes.

Jasmin goes on about the car. Juana points her out to the cuartel. Sara takes off for Jasmin who wisely decides it’s time to get out of the car. She tells Tomas not to forget to call. Sara and Lola confront Jasmin for her behavior with Lety’s boyfriend. Jasmin plays dumb. Her Flaquito drives up and sees everyone arguing.

Omar and Fernando talk about their new dilemma. Fernando spies Lety out of the corner of his eye. He asks what she’s doing still there. Nothing, Tomas hasn’t arrived yet but she’s leaving right now. Fernando pulls Omar toward his office.

Efren urges Jasmin to hurry up and leave. Lola comes over and beats the hood of the car. He tells her that they can talk another time. Lola snaps. She tries to pull Efren out of the car. She fails, but Sara succeeds. PM yells in his face. Sara holds him so that Lola can yell at him. They argue about Efren wanting half of everything. She makes fun of his car. Efren slips and says that he won’t throw Lola out of the house but she will have to pay rent to him. Sara discards him. Efren starts to confront her. Sara pets him and then head-butts him. He passes out on the hood of the car. Jasmin accuses the cuartel of killing her Flaquito. He wakes up and they scurry off into the night with Efren crying in his best girl voice the whole time. Tomas can’t figure any of this out.

Tomas tells Lety about what happened. Lety runs over to the cuartel to check on Lola. She tells Tomas that she’s waiting for “someone” to leave the office. Lety asks Lola if she wants a ride to her house. Lola says no thank you. The cuartel asks Lety to introduce them to her boyfriend, but she only offers excuses. Juana tells Lety that Tomas was making nice with Jasmin. Lety turns around to look at Tomas and puts him in check with one look.

Fernando and Omar walk out of the office. Omar calls Lety a gargoyle. Fernando gets upset. They leave.

Lety leaves the cuartel and walks over to Tomas. She asks for his cellular. He doesn’t want to let her. She finds Jasmin’s number in there. Fernando and Omar walk out. She demands that Tomas opens the door. He does and takes her bag. Then he walks her over to the passenger side and helps her in. They fake laugh and he jogs over to his side. The whole time Fernando does his best impression of Omar’s mental constipation look.

The two men run back into Conceptos. Fernando wants to know where in the world did Tomas get the money to buy that car! Fernando, being paranoid (for good reason), thinks that they planned this. After Omar asks some “insightful” questions, Fernando goes back to the car. It’s worth 90,000 dollars! Ever perceptive Omar points out that they would need money from a company like Conceptos. Or from Filmo Imagen! Fernando points out.

Will Fernando confront Tomas and Lety?
Can Tomas keep a secret about his date with Alicia?

Have a great night, everyone!

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Fernando and Omar are in the conference room, and Lety is in her office listening in. Fernando tells Omar that his date with Lety was caught short because Tomas came to pick her up at Yuri’s shindig. Omar mocks Fern because Lety chose Tomas “el nerd” instead of a night of crazy passionate animal love with Fern . Omar makes growling noises (must be another nod to Mundo de Fieras). Fern is still mad that she actually left with Tomas. Fern rolls his eyes, slams an office chair, and generally acts like a jealous man in love. Omar thinks it’s a bad sign. He advises Fern that he better not wait too long to spend some quality time with Lety. He should take the little vampire out for a good time ASAP. Lety is disgusted. They wonder some more about why Lety is acting weird. Fern mentions his promise to Lety to break his engagement with Marcia. Aha! Omar decides that must be why Lety is being weird. She must be doubting whether Fern will really break it off! He thinks he’s soooo smart. Fern tells Omar he’s wrong; Fern already discussed that with Lety and she was very understanding. In any case, Fern says he needs help writing a card for Lety, something really good. He can’t keep giving Lety sappy cards, she deserves better, something profound. Profound? Omar doesn’t get it. He helps him write another sappy card.

Lety’s phone rings and Lety answers brusquely. It’s Tomas. He says Filmo Imagen just got the approval for a bank loan that Conceptos needs. Lety asks him to transfer the funds to Coceptos right away. She also says she got Fernando to sign another promissory note (pagare), just in case the weasels find a way for the first documents (that give her ownership of Conseptos) to disappear. That must have been what Lety had Fern sign the day before when she was hounding him for a Carvajallmark card… very sneaky! Tomas says he is at a car dealership. He found a car he likes – of course he did, the lot is full of flashy and super expensive looking convertibles. He needs her to come down to authorize the car loan. Lety agrees to come by during her lunch break.

Marcia and Alicia talk about Tomas. They call him a naco (low-class) with money. Alicia tells Marcia that Lety was crying over him in the bathroom the other day, so their relationship must be in trouble. Marcia wonders what Alicia is plotting. Alicia denies plotting anything but it’s obvious that she sees this as an opportunity to get a piece of the naco pie. To change the subject, she ask Marcia if she got her a gift from Germany. Marcia feigns ignorance but then hands over a bottle of perfume.

Omar leaves the conference room and Fernando reads the sappy card that Omar just wrote for him. He’s not impressed. He says that what he really needs to tell Lety is that he feels terrible, that every day the situation with Marcia feels worse, that the engagement ring was Omar the Embicile's doing, not his. (Where are you, Lety? This is the part where you should be eavesdropping!)

Alicia and Marcia walk back to the common area, and Alicia asks Marcia who the gift box she’s carrying is for. Marcia loudly exclaims that it’s an esclava (a manly bracelet) for Fern, as a thank you gift for HER ENGAGEMENT RING. The cuartel hear this (how could they not?) and are impressed. Alicia loudly thanks Marcia for getting her the EXPENSIVE PERFUME. As Alicia walks to her desk, she sees that her last piece of chocolate is missing. She is impactada! She squeals in terror and accuses the cuartel of taking it. They deny any connection to the tragic disappearance of her chocolate. They are offended at Alicia’s allegation. (Seriously, these people need to find something more time-worthy to argue about.) Meanwhile, in the powder room, Martha is ogling Alicia’s chocolate. She talks to it and plays with it. She puts it up to the mirror so she can look at it twice as much. It’s sort of creepy. Alicia and the cuartel continue to argue as Martha walks back in, licking her lips.

Marcia goes into Fern’s office to bring him the present. Fern feigns excitement to see her. He pretends he likes the manly esclava, “Ah Caray!” She loudly thanks him for her ENGAGEMENT RING, and Lety overhears. Marcia is feeling frisky. She says she wants him NOW, but Fern says she needs to calm down, because Lety is in the next room. Marcia gets ticked off and says someday she’ll get used to the idea that wherever Fern is, Lety will always be there too. Lety, listening in, is ticked off too.

Carolina brings Lety a candle. Caro lights it and tells Lety that fire purifies (a nod to Doña Jacinta at Barreras De Amor). Caro says Lety should always light the candle with a purpose in mind. "Like what?" Caro explains that, for example, as she lit the candle just now, she hoped that it will help Lety purify her body of all the negativity she is feeling, and she also thought about the person who Lety is mad at. She gives Lety a quick lesson on karma. Caro tells Lety to always keep the candle lit. As soon as Caro leaves, Lety blows out the candle.

Jasmin and Lola have another confrontation. Lola says that Efren was never interested in her house until Jasmin showed up. Jasmin pretends to be hurt. Irma is nearby and tells Jasmin not to play dumb, they know what she’s up to. As Jasmin tries to walk away, Lola accidentally-on-purpose bumps a package that Jasmin is holding. The package breaks open. It’s a plaque that says “Welcome To Our New Home… Efren y Jasmin.” Lola is impactada. Jasmin tells Lola that she better pay for the plaque because it was a gift for Efren. Lola says she’ll be happy to pay for it, but she’s going to keep the plaque so she can finish breaking it… over Efren’s head! Jasmin says “Uh, nevermind” and scampers off.

Fernando brings Lety a card and a box of chocolates. Lety admires Fern’s new manly esclava, and asks if Marcia got it for him. Fern nervously says that she did, but it’s just a souvenir, and that she probably got it at the airport. Lety thought bubbles “Yeah right, a souvenir in exchange for the engagement ring.” Fernando hastely leaves. Lety reads the card. It says that he’s troubled because she is not acting herself, that his body misses her (this sounded much better in Spanish). Lety wants to believe what’s in the card, but remembers hearing Fern asking Omar for help writing it.

Lety goes through Fern’s office on her way to lunch. She says “Thanks for the chocolate, it was… rancid!” (Good one!) Fern looks crushed. Lety says she’s just kidding, the chocolate was fine. Omar walks in. Lety is just cold enough to him to make them wonder if she’s doing it on purpose. Lety walks out.

The cuartel invites Lety to lunch, but she tells them she can’t. When she realizes Fern and Omar are listening, she tells the cuartel that it’s because SHE IS HAVING LUNCH WITH HER BOYFRIEND, and that he told her he has a surprise for her. Omar and Fern (1) are impactados, and (2) wonder what the surprise could be. Omar asks if Fern gave Lety her card. Fern says he did, and that he had to write it himself, because Omar’s writing stinks. They argue like 8-year olds. Omar says Fernando can do his own writing from now on, he won’t be Fernando’s Cyrano de Bergerac anymore. He calls Fernando “Neruda” and “Shakespear” and tells Fern he better take Lety on a hot date immediately! Fern agrees but says it’s not so easy with Marcia around.

Lety arrives at dealership. She realizes there’s nothing but luxury autos there and tells Tomas he’s crazy. Tomas demonstrates for Lety how cool he looks sitting in a sleek convertible talking on the cell phone in his radio announcer voice. Lety asks how much it costs. “Oh, it’s just a million pesos, about 90,000 dollars.”

Omar theorizes that Tomas must be trying to seduce “la fea.” Fernando clenches his teeth and says Lety is NOT UGLY. Omar suspects that Fern must really be jealous.

Tomas tries to convince Lety to buy the million-peso car. Lety says that while technically, they can afford it, she’s just not comfortable buying something so classy. Tomas says that in that case, they should just go on and live their lives as busy little worker bees, letting someone else enjoy the good life (or something like that). He gets Lety to touch the car, then to sit in it. “A car like this makes us better-looking. Guys will be lining up for you .” Lety finally agrees to buy the car. Tomas is ecstatic.

Lety and Tomas drive up to Conceptos in their new car. The cuartel, Saimon, Alicia and Marcia are all outside coming back from lunch. They are all impressed by the car. Lety loudly thanks Tomas and calls him MI AMOR. Tomas loudly calls Lety MI VIDA.

As he gets in the car, he calls out “Ciao” to Alicia and then drives away. Alicia explains to Marcia that the guy is Lety’s boyfriend. The cuartel ask Lety why she didn’t introduce Tomas to them. Alicia tells Lety her boyfriend must be a chauffeur. Lety, who is not in the mood for this, replies that, no, he is not a chauffeur; no, he did not win the car in a raffle; no, he did not get it from an ex-husband; and oh yeah, nobody will be showing up to tow his car anytime, because he actually works for his stuff. The cuartel cackle in delight. Alicia says she won’t reduce herself to their level by responding to them.

In Fern’s office, Fern, Marcia, and Omar are talking business. They need Lety to draw up some paperwork. Fern calls for Lety. Marcia says Lety is not in her office, she’s outside showing off he boyfriend and her car to her friends. Fernando is incensed! He goes outside to look for her. He sternly tells her to come inside, because they lots of work to do. The cuartel comment that Lety always has to fix all of Fernando’s problems.

Alicia is wallowing in self-pity. She tells Marcia about how the cuartel taunts her because they repo’ed her car from the Conceptos lot. Marcia tells her not to worry about it, that it’s just silly office gossip, and that Alicia should not bring herself to their level. Marcia leaves and Alicia thinks aloud that Marcia is right; that she is not at their level. She has even less then them, because she doesn’t have a car or a boyfriend, she is lower then them. Awwwwh, poor Alicia... NOT!
Fernando is in his office when Lety walks in. He points out that she did not immediately rush back up as he asked her to. Woops, sorry, she says (though not very sincerely). Fern asks if she had lunch with Tomas. She says she did. He is at his desk trying to stay calm but he is acting very hostile toward his highlighters. He asks why she was showing off her “BOYFRIEND” to her friends. He makes harsh quote marks with his fingers in the air. I thought the veins in his neck would burst! She points out that it was his idea for her to say that Tomas is her boyfriend. Besides, she says, you look so happy with Marcia, what with ENGAGEMENT RING and all. Fernando is impactado. He stutters, “I didn’t want you to...” and Lety finishes his sentence “to find out that you got her a ring?” She says that she’s fine with it. After all, he needs to keep the relationship with Marcia in order to keep Ariel from dissolving the company, etc, etc.… Fern changes the subject. He needs Lety to put together some paperwork, and he wants to make sure the fake documents are perfect for the upcoming board meeting. Lety smiles the most evil smile that ever was smiled.

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(I’ll begin with the new scenes after Carola comes to warn Renata not to make Fernanda cry again, and after a shot and bleeding El Magnate finds out from the government SWAT team that the head honchos of the narco-trafficking mobsters are all in police custody.)

El Magnate dies peacefully with a look of relief on his face in the arms of the real government agent.

Cesar is now ordering even Bertha around in his apartment. She scoffs at him and says, no he’d better listen to her first as she has important news for him. He says he’s all ears and she asks him if he knows any reason Gonzalo would know enough to go to London. Cesar is surprised as heck to hear about this.

Alejandro is discussing Leonardo on the phone with Luciano when Lizania finally appears in the hallway asking where her mother went so early in the morning. Alejandro looks at his sister and suddenly realizes she’s wearing those ugly sunglasses for a reason and it isn’t the so-called migraine she’s complained about.

Cesar says Gonzalo has no reason at all to know about his activities in London and he says somewhat menacingly that he hopes she had nothing to do with it. Bertha tells him she’s not that stupid. So he asks her to get hold of Luis Alberto and have him meet him at the usual restaurant but she tells him she’s not his secretary. He goes off half-cocked and warns her not to get him crazy, and spits at her that he said it was “a favor, a favor!” She actually gives in and goes to make the call. In the meantime he calls Daira back a second time and asks her again not to tell Alejandro that he called about Lizania or told her anything about it. She promises to be discreet and asks to meet the girls that saw Lizania like this. He agrees to arrange a meeting with them. She hangs up and tells Santiago what Cesar had called about and that she was going finally to talk to some girls who realized Lizania’s problem and had told Cesar.

Alejandro takes off Lizania’s glasses and is shocked to see how bad the bruises are, and immediately wants to know who did it to her. Lizania starts crying, but she refuses to tell him, says it was an accident, just games – “What kind of games are you playing?” It finally comes out that she actually enjoys it, which just floors Alejandro. She still refuses to tell him who beat her because she’s afraid her brother will send somebody to beat him up or go himself and beat him up. (Talk about your “twisted sister”.....) He tells her that she and Daira are leaving in another day for Italy. She doesn’t put up an argument. (I guess she needs a break – I mean a rest.)

Gabino, Arcadia and Nati are cleaning out the pool area when he says he plans to tell Miranda that all the hacienda owners around except her and the Manglars’ are eager to sell out. He calls Miranda and she says to use the fact that he’s well known and a trusted employee to get them to come to a meeting with Miranda there.

Cesar insults Bertha again and broadly hints about “her daughter”, then tries to blackmail her. Sansone comes by and tells him that Nuria hasn’t been heard from. Cesar tells him to return to her apartment and get out of her who she was with and where she went. He has orders to beat her if need be. Sansone leaves and Bertha asks how he knows about Nuria but he says it’s enough that he knows. Bertha tells Cesar to back off or she’ll let people know he’s the father of Nuria’s baby and then walks out. For whatever reason Cesar doesn’t up the ante before Bertha goes.

Fabricio finally works up the nerve and tells Florencia how and why Veronica has been blackmailing him. Florencia says she loves him and forgives him but never wants the girl around them ever again. He leaves to get her some treat she’s craving.

Pamela and her mother read El Magnate’s final letter to them and cry over his self-sacrifice. They lament the fact they'll never know his name.

Renata invites Veronica over to Juan’s to warn her against blackmailing Fabricio anymore. Veronica has a great laugh at Renata’s expense over Renata’s “new reality” and standard of living. Veronica eventually breaks down and cries about her rotten situation with her illness and her rage. Renata tries to console her and tells her destruction of one’s self or of others is not the answer.

Alejandro brings Pamela to see Miranda and when she finds out he’s there the two argue about everything and nothing. He asks her when will she allow him to speak to her and she says perhaps never. He tells her how fussy and demanding she always is (You said it, Ale!) and she answers that it takes one to know one. (This masochistic thing obviously runs in the family. --Enough already, Alejandro! This woman has been nothing but rude, mean, arrogant and demanding from the moment you met. Where's your sense of self-respect.)

He turns to leave and Miranda stops him long enough to warn him that if he goes to visit Florencia she now knows they are brother and sister. He is bewildered by this news and asks why she didn’t seem to realize she was risking her life. Miranda says because just like her she was tired of lies and half truths. He leaves in disgust to see Florencia. Pamela suggests Miranda go after him and tell him she loves him, but Miranda just swats away that idea saying there’s no reason to. Pamela tells her after that it was Luciano who, on Leonardo's orders, took the proof of the mob's activities to the police and saved her and her mother and her father's money.

Florencia and Fernanda are chatting in the hospital room and Bertha rushes in. Florencia tells her to leave, that she isn’t wanted there. Bertha wonders what’s going on and why she’s so mean. Florencia tells her she remembers everything from that fateful night and what she and her father both were saying to each other. Bertha tries to shock her by telling her that Fernanda is her mother. Florencia says she knows and that she’s extremely happy to have her for a mother.

Then Bertha tries to shock her again by telling her that Gonzalo isn’t her real father and that she’s Alejandro’s sister. Florencia shoots back that she knows all that too, so get out and don’t come back. Bertha attempts the “how do you dare to judge me when I cared for your needs and raised you as my own” speech. “All I ever did was to do exactly as you wanted.” When that doesn’t work she blames Fernanda and starts hitting her. Juan finally comes running in and pulls Bertha off Fernanda. Bertha, finally speechless, screams her frustrations like a wild animal, and she runs out of the room.

Renata is still trying to console Veronica, but in the end Veronica tells her that she has no idea where she’s going to find money for her treatments next month and if she knew something about Renata she would definitely blackmail her as well. Renata tells her to get out of her house then, and Veronica has the last laugh telling her, “I wouldn’t call this place a house! It’s a pigsty!” Then she stomps out.

Luis Alberto and Nuria are eating lunch together and she explains that she had to cancel their meeting last night because she was so tired. He wipes away all of her tears and tells her she can count on him and that she knows he loves her. He would be a loving father to her baby. She thanks him and says no because she loves Cesar and is married. Then she tells him how Roman found out about her being registered as Bertha’s daughter and got copies of the documents. She says Bertha always told her that her parents had died and had her put in charge of her as a foster mother. Luis wants her to talk to Bertha and to get the truth but Nuria is afraid to confront her. The whole idea of really having Bertha as her real mother is frightening to her.

Bertha goes straight to the convent and is angry to find out that the Mother Superior gave Fernanda the copies of the entire file. The nun says the files are open to anybody who wants information. Bertha warns the nun that since she turned against her there will be consequences. The nun has things to hide also. She knows enough to worry once Bertha leaves.

Alejandro visits Florencia and she greets him as her brother. They all say they’re relieved not to have to walk on eggshells about all these things now. Florencia wonders where Daira and Lizania are. He explains Lizania is going through a bad spell and is about to leave to return to Italy. “In fact,” he explains, “she’s hooked on a masochistic relationship and you’d be shocked at the beating this guy gave her!” (Why send her to Italy? Ship her off to a psychiatric hospital somewhere for treatment!)

Once Bertha gets back home, she tells Lucas that she has to rest and think things through. She tells herself, “I never lose.” She calls up El Guapo and tells him to meet her. Then she lays down and takes a nap (What an image: two vicious dogs together.)

Arcadia asks if Gabino is going to ever tell Miranda about killing her horse, Chocolate. "Miranda won’t like it a bit, not to mention that it was an order of Bertha’s," she adds. Gabino figures he’s got no choice but to tell Miranda the truth. The two discuss the likelihood of Bertha returning. Arcadia suggests they ask Nati. Nati looks into the water of the pool and tells them that Bertha will be coming back and she will bring misfortune and death.

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Well sadly audience we are looking at a once happy family dissolving. The Gabe clan is splittin up or are they?

Gabe is upstairs in Lui's room trying to console the boy, who is mewwwwin and crying and just general whimpering. He is all upset cause Papito is leaving (I'd be upset too if I had to stay with Mommy Dearest); but Gabe does his best Bob Cratchit and picks Tiny up, promising him good times at poppi's new digs. For a brief shining moment I have hope Gabe will drop Lui, that kid looks pretty stout, but once again my hopes are dashed.

Next there is a family conference where Gabe is telling Rog, Dinah, Pedro & Paulina that he and Joselyn have irreconcilable differences (mainly she is BSC & he is in love with MA), Gabe however leaves out these details. It looks like Reg & Dinah will be staying at the mansion, Paulina will be going with Dad & Pedro has to make up his mind. There is a lot of well, I just want you to be happy formalities.

Paulina receives like 100 white roses and a card from JC, but Karen gets to them first and sticks the card in the waistband of her jeans...and tells Paulina that the flowers are for Karen from JC and she hands one rose off to Paulina, like here ya go have some sloppy seconds.

Paulina is of course reduced to tears, JC calls to ask how she liked the flowers, but she yells at him. PLOT POINT*****Not to take sides here, but why would a guy call you to asked how you liked the flowers when he sent them to someone else...Well maybe Rog would do that to Diana, but JC is good and true.
Paulina packs her suitcase, which just amazes me as I am sure this girl will need an 18 foot moving van, just for her winter clothes. She pulls out a couple of what I assume to be "Dear Diary, my cousin JC is sooooo hawt", journals & she runs across the heart necklace of faded dreams....Ahhhhhhh Paulina, damn you, there we go back into the happiest 45 seconds of your life.

Meanwhile over at the hospital MA is visiting her mother, who is in the last thros of whatever is wrong with her...I mean I know she has Alzheimer’s, but she looked pretty physically healthy when last I checked. Clemente & of course Leo are also there. I hope if I am in the hospital, I get some PJ's that are not so revealing as I am slippin and fallin all over the place, they were an attractive shade of blue however. Leo says time is basically running out. Clemente tells MA that he & her mother were once in love. And no, no lite bulb went off, no thought bubble.

Back at the Good Mansion, Joselyn and Gabe have begun to argue....he basically wants to part ways, so they can both start over again and make new lives for themselves. Joselyn does not want any part of it. She's all no you won't & he is all yes I will.

Miriam blames all this on the arrival of MA, (of all people Miriam should be well aware of that itch you just gotta scratch)

Gabe walks outside on his way to work I guess, he is out in that giant front courtyard which is larger than several city parks here in Tulsa, but Joselyn follows him out and does her best Annie Oakley, unfortunately she pretends to shoot an imaginary beer bottle off the top of his head rather than just blowing his head off. After the wrist slitting incident & the Dider Dude shooting I think she could have whacked Gabe & just gotten a few months in "Feliz Acres". Gabe talks her down, takes the gun, Karen & Paulina come running out...Gabe leaves, Paulina takes off in her cute VW bug, but doesn't put the White Rose of Shame in the flower cup. As she pulls out JC comes running up on the grass strip in front of the mansion, but Paulina won't stop. Damn Dude did you run all the way from downtown?

I can't actually believe normal (or whatever) people would leave a BSC lady who just tried to shoot someone at home with a crippled kid...maybe I'm just overprotective that way.

Joselyn goes up and holds that lil stuffed tiger & converses with her lil stuffed son. It is creepy when she talks to him, she is so cloying....forget the legs, lil Opedius Rex is gonna require at least 20 years of therapy. After this Telenovela I may require therapy, but I digress, she basically tells Felix the mewwwwwwing Cat, that only Mami loves him and she suffers so much and it hurts so bad and he is gonna have to help Mami. "Oh Sigmund do you see where this is going?"

The bright spot of tonite was for me the two seconds my main man "Demian" was on. Tiberio was in his room and Demian tells to do whatever it takes to stop Gabe's construction of "Mother Teresa Acres", it was a Sopranos moment...Get it done whatever it takes, dinero is no problemo.

Miriam who has been putting the screws to Rog to come over to the dark side (like it was some great leap for him), has decided to pick up the pace, she puts a call in to Demian for some help. Demian turns to T for Thug in his rolodex & the next thing we know, Coyote is meeting with Miriam..She kinda looks like she'd do him if she had a bar of soap and five extra minutes.

Leo is having breakfast with the local Padre (of course he is...Cafe y Pan Dulce), the Padre, brings up Leo's mom dumping him all those years ago. Leo thought bubble, "Geez can't I just go through one day with out being reminded of what a Bastard I am?". When questioned Leo says he does not want to know about his Mom. I dunno, but I'm not buyin that Leo.

Leo leaves and runs into JC outside on the street, JC explains his broken heart and Leo kinda does the "your sister"? "Oh yeah here is the great news, she isn't my sister." Leo and JC hug, yes that is correct. JC, of course does not know that Paulina is not his cuzzin, so there is still that icky fathers are identical brothers whole yucky thing, but hey one problem at a time.
Okay now, believe it or not, Paulina is inside the same church talking to the Padre about JC, oh I love him, I can't forget him, he is the great love of my life...just the kind of yammering everyone who is not in love with JC wants to hear. Paulina leaves the church and with prompting from Leo, JC walks up to her.
JC tries to explain that life is just frickin great now cause they are not brother and sister, then he has to digress and explain that nonsense. Paulina still tells him it is over cause he kissed Karen, but he says Karen kissed him (I must say he does have a point). She storms off down the street, leaving poor JC in her dust.

I gotta say Shut-Up, I have so had it with this chick and her JC JC JC...just wait it gets worse.

Gabe is having a man to man conversation with Nic about his new apartment...at least I think they are sitting in what is supposed to be his new apartment...

PLOT POINT****What is it with all these Telenovela Metrosexuals? For the love of Gawd, I go thru this on LFMB...with Fer/Omar, now I have Leo/JC & Gabe/Nic, what is next man-purses? These guys are more sensitive than a group of pre-puberty campfire girls. Coyote is looking more attractive by the moment.

Speaking of which Miriam invites Rog to lunch, & as Rog pulls his "I not over compensating for my lack of masculinity" bright red sports car out, he is followed by not overcompensating Coyote. Rog meets with Miriam for lunch and oh look she gives him a present, two hot models....
Coyote is messing around the sports car acting like he his polishing the mirrors.
Rog is basically a man-whore and would happily sell out his own beloved Papi.

Rog gives Miriam a wink across the table and takes the porn version of the DoubleMint twins down to the lil red sportscar; just as he has one sitting on the back (remember this is a two seater) and he is about to put twin two into the passenger seat, a cop car pulls up and blocks his way. Ah, there is a Drug Dog, sniffin under the car, this dog is goin after the undercarriage of that car like Lassie sniffin Timmie outta the well. Oh Rog this does not bode well.

Joselyn gets another Dider call, he is lounging around his tropical paradise with a his KFed Wife-beater standard T & shorts, while that one leg is sporting the big bandage, Dider threatens Joselyn again for $$$$, yes guess what Dider has more copies of the straight to video, porn clip of their tryst. Pay-up or I'll give Gabe the unedited version. Joselyn hangs up. Frederico appears behind her, eavesdrop much?
He tell her he wants to help.

Frederico goes to Dider and threatens him, Dider tells Frederico some of Joselyn's recent shady activities.

Frederico is concerned for Joselyn's fragile state of mental health...Hello I am glad someone finally noticed, Frederico, realizes that attempting to shoot two people in the past week requires urgent attention.

Meanwhile on her sobbing way home from church, Paulina has decided to stop in and visit MA, at her death bed vigil. MA is sitting next to her mother, who is incoherent. Paulina comes in and the usual niceties are exchanged, MA tells her that her mother is in very bad condition. Paulina in turn starts sobbing and talking about JC, yes indeed let's make this all about Paulina. She has joined my list of tools on this show.


Dinah is standing her bedroom with an EPT in her hand, yipeeee, it is positivo, oh joy she is pregnant by that stellar future father and all round swell guy Rog, currently sitting in a Mexico City Police Station. Dinah is very happy and we can see thought bubble pictures of happy pitter pattering lil angels with curly blonde hair.

Gabe gets the phone call all parents dread, "Sir, we have Jr down at the station"
When Gabe arrives at the police station, he finds Miriam and Joselyn have beaten him to it. Of course, they have. Rog gives his step-mom some creepy special hugs and the whole family returns to Casa de Crazy. In the living room, more creepy hugs and Rog, urges Gabe to not move out and abandon his family.

Gabe goes to Paulina room and she is sobbing on the bed, "What is wrong my lil Princess", "Ewwww, it is that evil heart breaker JC"....See what I mean STHU.

Next scene, Gabe is rushing into JC's job and man-handling him. Paulina watches from the office door. Once again....did they take separate cars? Did they run to downtown, with Gabe and Paulina leaping over hedges, What the hell. Is it okay to smack someone around over a botched flower arrangement; are there just like no laws in Mexico what-so-ever?

Stay tuned for more family intrigue
& as Demian would say "Vote Early & Often"

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Fermin says the last company to have the money (or something like that) was Raytheon. Luciano says this means drug trafficking. What? Raytheon is a government contractor, they make missle guidance systems and things like that. How that means drugs is beyond me. Fermin doesn’t understand his reasoning either. Luciano explains it away somehow, the end result is that they are in great danger and need to get the info to Alejandro muy pronto. They leave.

Alejandro tells Pamela to just accept the money and say thank you, or if she doesn’t want any part of it say no thanks. The conversation steers towards Miranda and Pamela tells Al that he broke her heart and won’t listen to his explanation.

Sanson tells Cesar that the only thing he heard Nuria say was that she was never coming back to Cesar’s apartment, or he should never come to hers, I couldn’t figure out which. Sanson tells Cesar about Renata going shopping with Bertha and buying many things. Cesar tries to figure out what Bertha wants with that family. The doorbell rings, Cesar tells Sanson “what are you, deaf?” and Sanson gets the door. It’s Lasagna in a really great tight shirt and she wants to talk to Cesar. She walks right over and accepts a kiss. This woman is insane. She even smiles at him. What a nutjob, tight shirt be damned.

Miranda is in Flor’s hospital room. Flor wants to ask Miranda a question, Miranda swears she will tell the truth. That takes a full minute for the two of them to work out. Then we have to wait for later to hear the question.

Pamela’s family and Alejandro, despite the earlier argument, are sitting down having coffee. Man, everyone on this show lives in a palace. Even the pobres have a nice house by poor people standards. The doorbell rings, Pamela answers. It’s Fermin. He has news that “you aren’t going to like.” He looks at Pamela’s ‘father’ and says to tell the truth please. He says that he told everything he knows, there’s nothing more to tell! Fermin says that the companies that used that bank account manufacture weapons, so Alejandro assumes that the account was used in arms trafficking. Remember how Fermin said it was going to be so complicated to get this info? It took him what, five minutes? Anyway.

We see a piece of art on Cesar’s wall, it’s a white outline of a woman on a black background. The woman is nude and lying down on her front, using her arms to push herself up. So, we see her backside and a side view of her front side. It’s horribly tacky and I think sums up Cesar completely. It reminds me of all the Nagel posters people in the U.S. always had about 15 years ago. Naked women disguised as art. I don’t have a problem with it, but oh my god 10/10 on the ‘naco’ scale. He’s telling someone (presumably Lasagna) that she’s stupid and this is what she deserves. The camera pans over and shows Lasagna with a face that actually shocked me. She has been beaten badly. It may be the first time this show has gotten a genuine reaction from me. He beat her up pretty good. For some reason though, she’s STILL THERE. You dumbass, get out of there. Cripes. He goes on about how her cries of pain grated on his ears. He tells her that tomorrow when she calms down she should come back, he has many things to go over with her. She says she’s leaving but isn’t coming back. He grabs her and says “You’ll be back. I know full well that you’ll be back.” Then he forcibly throws her out of the apartment and goes back to drinking.

Finally back to the hospital for whatever important question Florencia has to ask. She goes through her reasoning. She has a hereditary condition that nobody else in the family has, but she isn’t adopted, so which parent isn’t really her parent? Miranda wants to bolt from the room but promised to answer, and she does. “My father.” She tells her that to Gonz it doesn’t matter, to him she is his daughter. Flor asks, “He knows but it’s ok with him?” Miranda says yes, and it will always be that way. Flor says she wants to see him, to give him a hug. Miranda explains that he went on a trip, but he sent his love and kisses to Flor before leaving. Miranda says that Flor needs to know something else. Flor and Alejandro are brother and sister. Flor continues to cry. I don’t know if she’s happy or sad anymore at this point.

Everyone is saying thank you and see you later to Fermin and Pamela’s ‘father.’ He tells Al that he needs to go to a friend’s office first tomorrow, then he’ll go to the airport to leave the country. Al says ok and leaves. ‘Father’ tells Pamela and her mother that it feels like he has known them forever. Lots of hugs.

Flor cries a lot, so does Miranda. They decide that they both know what they have to do now. More crying. Sniff sniff. Flor remembers Miranda always being so strong when they were younger, now they cry more than ever. Flor says she’d give her life for them to just be young girls again. They recall some happy memories. This feels like a death scene, with the long speeches and all, but it’s really just a long crying scene. I guess the whole Fab thing isn’t a problem between them anymore.

Renata tells Juan on the phone that she sounds funny because she was talking with Erika about her mother. She sends greetings and kisses to Flor and says to tell Miranda that she’ll call her later. She tells him to get some sleep and eat something, all in a little kissy kissy voice that sounds very strange coming from her. Renata finishes telling Erika the long story of her mother. Erika rightly tells Renata that Fernanda deserves a chance to tell her side of the story.

Miranda cries some more and looks at the sleeping Flor and then leaves the room. Flor wakes up a little and cries some more, she thanks Miranda for being her sister. More crying. This still feels like a death scene even though it isn’t.

Lucas is back! Bertha comes into her room to find him on the bed. She welcomes him home warmly and starts talking to him like he’s a person. She tells him all the things she did and what she is going to do next. She tells him that she needs to make Flor dead, end Renata’s marriage, and make sure that Miranda doesn’t get pregnant. She also is going to use Daira and Lasagna to torture Al. He will be introduced to HER concept of love. Dramatic music.

Pamela and her mother bemoan the fact that ‘father’ wasn’t really who he said he was. Now they are alone. ‘Father’ enters and apologizes for causing so much pain. The women ask why he did things the way he did. Their father always planned to get the money to them when he got out of jail, but he was killed. He doesn’t really explain further. They have a long goodbye, the women go to bed.

Charo tells Miranda the latest Bertha movements. Charo then tells that Veronica came looking for Bertha but she (Charo) turned her away because Bertha wasn’t home. Miranda says good, when Charo is alone, nobody is allowed in the house. She says something about watching the chocolate and excuses herself. Miranda then thinks “I don’t care if it’s Alejandro’s or not, I’m opening it!”

‘Father’ calls Alejandro on his cell phone. He wants to go see someone before leaving the next day, something about nobody taking the blame for something they didn’t do. Al says sure, I’ll call Luciano in the morning and give him his orders. Then he tells ‘father’ that he is quite a gentleman. After Al hangs up Daira asks him what he’s going to do. Al says take him to the police, that’s what ‘father’ asked him to do. Then he asks if Lasagna knows yet that she’s being sent back to Italy. Daira says no, she’s hiding in her room. Al swears he’ll tear her door down tomorrow if he has to in order to talk to her. Daira says he’s grumpy because he misses Miranda and that he should call her to patch things up. Al says he can’t. He asks why Heridas De Amor don’t just kill so ther isn’t so much pain?

Miranda is looking through the envelope, they are Nuria’s personal papers, what is Bertha doing with them? She is going to discuss with Nuria when she sees her. She’s glad she didn’t call Al (why?) but she wants to see him. She goes on about wanting him for a while and there is more crying. We are treated to a montage of the honeymoon again. And more crying.

The next morning Miranda tells Charo to not put out any breakfast, she isn’t eating and Gonz is gone. Charo says sure, but what about Bertha? She’ll have a fit if nothing is out. Miranda says to tell Bertha that the woman of the house is Miranda, if Bertha has a problem she can come see her directly. Charo says ok, she still has a glass of orange juice on her tray, she says she has to go deliver it to the devil.

Fern and Roman are talking to Santiago about Nuria being registered as Bertha’s daughter and the orphanage where she grew up. Roman says he knows where Nuria lives, Santiago says to go get her, he needs to talk to her urgently. Fernanda asks Santiago to visit her later at her house to talk.

Bertha tells Charo that the juice is bad. She wants to know where Gonz went, finally she gets it out of her – London.

Carola comes into Renata’s room, Renata frostily asks her what she wants. Carola tells her that she saw Fernanda crying because of her and that it would be the last time Renata makes her cry. Renata says “is that all? Goodbye.” Carola begs her to be nice to Fernanda. Renata says really? Tell me. Carola goes on to tell Fernanda’s story from Fernanda’s point of view. More crying. Renata begs her to say it wasn’t really that way. Carola says her mother died when she was young, Renata shouldn’t waste the opportunity to be with her mother. Renata decides to be nice and asks if Carola would accept some of the extra clothes she bought without being insulted, she takes them. Raul busts in and announces that now they have a computer!

Santiago tells Daira that Lasagna must be under the influence of someone who hates Alejandro, it’s the only explanation. Her phone rings, it’s Cesar. He tells her some story that he knows someone who knows Lasagna and saw her being beat up by some guy, basically covering his butt for when everyone sees how she looks. Cesar’s doorbell rings, it’s Bertha. He isn’t very happy to see her.

The thugs are walking and talking, one is on the phone, he tells the others that ‘El Magnate’ has put all the money where they wanted it, now they can let him go.
‘Father’ is walking along, thinking that he has taken care of everything and now he can be free. The thugs phone rings again, the guy on the other end tells him that the suitcases were empty, El Magnate lied. Head thug says now the women (Pamela and her mother) and the guy from the bank are going to die. El Magnate is coming up the escalator right behind him. As El Magnate walks past him, the thug pulls out his gun and follows him up the next escalator, then shoots him in the back. Then he rides up the escalator behind him, just standing there like an idiot. He asks where the money is, holding his gun out, then some police lean over the wall above and tell him to freeze! Thug starts to move away and the police gun him down. They rush to El Magnate/’father’ and call for an ambulance. They tell him that they rounded up the entire gang of criminals. El Magnate slumps over, apparently dead. We hear some slow, depressing music and a long shot of El Magnate dying. I suppose he might not be dead, but it sure appears that he is.

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Folks, I swear I posted this on Friday night. I don't know why it disappeared. I seem to have problems posting to Blogger almost every week.
Tuesday is Election Day in the USA. Here's an inspirational message from Jaime Camil on that subject.

Someone asked how long we take to do our recaps. I clocked this one at 3 hours but then had to type it up which took a lot longer than I expected (I'd be embarrassed to say how long). This is a crucial segment of the novela, and there's a lot of detail to cover, some of which deserves to be captured nearly word for word. There's also a lot of irrelevant nonsense, like Alicia's whining; I could save time if I glossed over some of that, but the truth is, she makes me laugh. So I have to include that too.

Anyway, to put this into perspective, it took me two hours to recap Ugly Betty last night... and that was in English. So the translation is really not the most time-consuming part of this process (even if I am constantly reaching for my dictionary). It's making sure all the details are right and trying to get the story to unfold as well in words as it did in pictures.

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PMS (let's get this out of the way first)

Paula Maria is angry with Saimon for having secrets with Celso and not telling her about them. Saimon is angry with PM for going out and partying with Lola. She says she doesn't owe him an explanation - where was he? He says he won't tell her until she tells him. (Lola pokes her head in and warns them not to wake the children.)

Apparently they exlain everything to one another between scenes. When they come back, PM says okay, if that's true, where are those mariachis? He says if you don't believe me about that, why should I believe that you and Lola went to see El Cheque? They sulk.

Saimon angry leaves. As he runs away, PM sees the roses on the ground where he threw them earlier. She realizes that he was telling the truth. She begs his forgiveness and they make up. Hug. Kiss. Awwwww.

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Finishing up with Yuri

Fern asks the ladies at the front desk if they've seen his assistant. He describes her as short, with glasses, wet-looking (? relanido ?) hair, mustache, and braid. (Wow, just imagine how he'd describe her if he didn't like her!) They say sorry, no. He draws the glasses and mustache in the air with his hands. He stalks off. Lety comes out of hiding and thanks the ladies for covering for her. She wonders where Tomas is.

Tomas is talking loudly on his cell phone in front of Yuri and the dancers, telling his imaginary chauffeur to cancel his reservations for the evening because he's got to find Lety. He hands his business card around to the dancers. He tells them they should call him and he'll go out with them. One-on-one, not as a group. He asks for his card back - he says it's his only one. Yuri asks, aren't you Lety's boyfriend? He says where did you hear that? She says Lety told her. Alicia arrives and Tomas hides.

Alicia does a Yuri impression in front of Yuri. They all clap and laugh... Alicia does not realize that they think she was doing a comedy routine. She tells Yuri to call her the next time she wants to do a show - she's a "public relationist" and also a dancer. She can do all the... Yuri interrupts and asks Alicia if she was looking for Luigi. If so, he's somewhere else.

Just then, Tomas passes through, speaking to "Rafa" (the chauffeur) again. This time he asks him to prepare his private jet. Alicia thinks his voice is familiar, and after Tomas leaves, she asks Yuri who he is. Yuri says he's Tomas Mora, general manager of Filmo-Imagen and Lety's boyfriend. Alicia is impactada!

Luigi enters and Al hurriedly tells him that Anais is waiting for him. She excuses herself and runs out to look for Tomas. Luigi also excuses himself. Irma says goodbye to Yuri and the dancers.

Tomas stumbles through the crowd, looking for Lety. He runs into Anais, who tells him Lety was looking for him. On his way past her, he smells her hair and decides to give her his only card. (To KEEP!) He asks her to call him so they can go out for tequilas some time. (Isn't she married?)

He tries again to make his way to the exit, but is snagged by Alicia. She introduces herself to him and actually pirouettes so he can check her out! Ugh. They flirt, and he says that she does not look the way he pictured her - shorter, with black hair, and much plainer. (This is a lie, since he is looking at her photo as he says this.) She says she hopes she didn't disappoint him. She admits that she was expecting him to be ugly, but instead, he's a hotty!

She pouts and says she's been waiting for him to invite her out for coffee. He gives her his card (aha, so that WASN'T really his only card!) and tells her to call him. She says what, me call you? She is offended. She says she's not going to leave until he commits to a time to call her.

He nervously says okay, I'll call you tomorrow. (We can see that he is torn between jumping her bones right there, and extricating himself politely out of loyalty to Lety.) She says that if he doesn't, she'll think it's because he really was disappointed after all. He promises he will call, but he has to leave now. He makes a snorty noise. Alicia almost makes a face at him, but recovers quickly. She gives him a tiny kiss on the corner of his mouth. He kisses her hand. Tomas looks like he's having a seizure.

Fernando interrupts this tender moment to ask Alicia if she's seen Lety. Alicia says no, why, did you lose her again? She introduces Tomas and Fern. (Fern recognizes him as the imbecile from the househunting video.) Tomas and Fern shake hands and greet one another very coldly. If you put a room temperature bottle of beer between their hands at this moment, it would be chilled to perfection instantly. Mmm. That sounds good.

Tomas finally gets away and meets Lety at the exit. They squabble briefly about one anothers' whereabouts and Tomas reveals that he met both Alicia and Fernando. Lety is horrified and wants to leave immediately. Tomas complains that he can't get on a bus dressed up like Manuel Mijares. She agrees that they should take a taxi.

Fern gets there two seconds after they leave. He's very frustrated. Yuri says to him again, "Lety is someone very special to you. Don't deny it!"

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At Lety's house

Evidently Lety and Tomas do not speak at all during their cab ride, but instead wait until they get home to continue their earlier conversation about Tomas meeting Alicia and Fern. Lety scolds him for talking to Alicia. He says it wasn't his fault; she found him and flirted with him. Lety wants to know how Alicia knew him. "Women's intuition," Tomas glibly answers. He tells her that Alicia said she thought he'd be ugly, but found him very attractive. She said it right to his face.

Lety asks how he left it with Alicia. He said nothing came of it. Lety is relieved. She is much more curious about his meeting with Fern. What happened? She eagerly presses him for details. Tomas says that when Alicia introduced him to Fern, Fern's face turned deadly cold, like a snobbish metrosexual. (He accurately demonstrates this effect to Lety; she is delighted.)

They talk about what to do next. "Marry me," he says in his deep voice, and they giggle and snort. She says very soon, she'll throw all of Fernando's damn lies right back into his face. Very soon, he will pay.

Tomas wants more specifics. Will she quit the company? She says she can't quit the company - she already has the company! If she leaves the company, she will ruin it, but vengeance is not the way. (Gosh these novela characters sure are moody!) She wants to run away, but can't do it. She rehashes the financial relationship between Conceptos, Filmo-Imagen, etc. Tomas reminds her that Fernando has ridiculed and manipulated her.

Lety points out that Fernando distrusts both of them. She says let's just see what happens. I have some trouble understanding this part of the discussion, but I think she says let's just watch how much more Fern "loves" her as the debt increases.

RoboPop starts rasping at them for coming home so late. Tomas says it's okay - we took a taxi. RoboPop says what??? Don't they know how dangerous it is to ride a taxi around this city at night? They should have called him. He would have gone and picked them up.

Inspiration strikes. Lety says you know what? We're going to buy a car. RoboPop says, "who's we?" Lety says Filmo-Imagen will buy a car. Tomas will pick one out tomorrow. RoboPop questions whether she has the authority to spend her boss's money this way. "It's not his money," Lety says smugly. "It's Filmo-Imagen's." (He doesn't know all the details of the highly unethical and dangerous relationship between Conceptos and F-I.)

"Kids today," RoboPop complains, and goes to bed. Tomas tells Lety that RoboPop didn't notice his new look. "I like it," she tells him, indicating his hair. Tomas smiles. "It's like Vaseline," Lety finishes.

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At Mendiola Manor

Fern is sitting on his bed, looking bewildered, when the phone rings. It's Marcia with the usual questions. Fern sounds completely indifferent and tiredly pushes himself through the conversation. "Oh hi, Marcia. You're coming home. That's nice. Uh, you know I'm at home, cuz that's where you called me. Alone, yep. Went to the Yuri show, now home to sleep. I promised I'd behave, and I have. So, when are you getting in tomorrow? Great. I'll be waiting. I, uh, I love you too."

He hangs up and remembers Yuri's words. "Lety is someone who is very special to you." He looks lost. "She's so special that I'm suffering for her," he says to himself.

Fern, you might want to get a couple of gallons of Chunky Monkey for yourself. Or perhaps Rocky Road would be a more appropriate choice...

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Next morning in the executive lobby

Alicia is on the phone with her dad, remembering the good times. "I couldn't sleep last night, thinking about 'el.' Going places, being seen together, listening to music...." She sobs.

Sara and Juana, listening nearby, wonder who "el" is.

Alicia tells her father, "There was the time when we went to my cousin's wedding, or the time we went to Ixtapa and saw the countryside... all the nights we spent together, here and there, all the places we went, we looked at the moon, saw the sunrise, etc... I will never see 'el' again..."

Juana and Sara wonder who this man was that she obviously loved so much. They wonder if he's in the hospital, or maybe in prison. They are touched by the intensity of Alicia's emotion.

"Yes, Papa, I spoke to the lawyers. They won't let me visit, or even say where 'el' is!"

Sara and Juana are tantalized by this drama.

"If I don't pay the 500,000 pesos, I'll never get it back! I'll just die without my Mercedes!!"

Juana and Sara are as disgusted with themselves as they are with Alicia, for thinking that she was actually talking about a person. Hah!

She is still whining a while later. She is worried that the car is being exposed to the elements.

Saimon arrives with some chocolates she requested. She asks him for her change (I guess that means no tip). She continues speaking to her father with her mouth full of bonbons. She says Carolina told her that chocolate wards off depression. (You know what else wards off depression? A sexy silver convertible Mercedes.) "Papa, I'm gorgeous, I'm beautiful, but without a car and money, I'm not a pretty picture."

Martha and Lola approach. Lola is concerned about a meeting she has with El Cheque's lawyer this afternoon. She is going to need to be able to get away from the office and doesn't want to get in trouble for her absence.

Martha sees Alicia eating the chocolate bonbons. Alicia sees Martha staring and begins to tease her with the chocolates.

Marcia and Omar arrive. Alicia nearly mauls Marcia with joy. Alicia and Marcia go to Marcia's office to talk, while Omar heads towards Fern's office.

Alone in the lobby for a moment, Martha swipes one of Alicia's bonbons. She baby-talks at it for a little while, then sneaks it into the restroom where they can have some privacy.

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In Marcia's Office

Alicia blames Marcia for the loss of her car. Marcia explains all of the things that are wrong with this theory. (This scene must have been done in multiple, nonconsecutive takes, because sometimes Marcia's eyeshadow is very orange, other times it is subtle.) Anyway, Marcia doesn't want to talk about Alicia's car. She wants to talk about Fernando. What happened last night?

Alicia says Fern's been good lately and describes how he spoke with the dancers. He didn't pay attention to any one particular girl, and he left by himself. Marcia seems annoyed by Fern's flawless behavior.

Alicia adds that Fern was constantly, frantically looking for Lety, who brought her boyfriend. Marcia is intrigued by this, but isn't sure what to make of it.

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Rewind

Let's go back to first thing this morning, in Lety's office.

Lety is remembering the CarvaHallmarks she found in the dreaded Yellow Envelope, and wonders which one she'll get today. Fern arrives and wants to know what happened last night. She carelessly says she had plans with Tomas and then she went home. Fern is really wound up about this. "You had an engagement [interesting word choice] with ME and then you went with HIM!"

She puts on a contrite face and says something like, oh, yeah, gee, I don't know how I forgot about that, I guess it's just love that makes me forget things.

"Did love make you forget your plans with ME?? I don't get it, Lety."

She says she doesn't get it either, really, and she's sorry. Nothing happened! (The tone of her voice sounds sincere, but she clearly isn't putting any effort into choosing words that will soothe him.)

Fern says, "you're right. Nothing happened, because you spent the night - OUR night - planned for you and me... and Marcia is coming back today."

Lety says it's too bad - we're just going to have to wait until next week. He is aghast that she can say this so lightly, as if it doesn't matter to her that they'll have to wait a whole extra week. Lety says sure it matters, but he's told her many times that it can only be once a week when Marcia's around.

He asks her to tell him what's going on. Lety replies that he promised he'd break up with Marcia when she gets back from Germany. Is he going to do that?

He turns away and says "I'll be honest, Lety, I did mean that, but I can't do it." Lety wearily rolls her eyes and throws up her hands behind his back. "Because Ariel will dissolve his relationship with the Mendiolas and take over the company," she recites from rote memory. "I'm so glad you understand," the clueless oaf replies, "because you've been acting so strange."

Carolina enters Fern's office and hears their voices drifting faintly from Lety's room. Caro approaches for a better hear.

Lety: I understand, Fernando.
Fern: We'll wait till next week, but no longer.
Lety: I'm sorry, but you didn't leave me a gift?
Fern: Yeah I know. (stomps foot) Don't you care that we have to wait a week? Because I care, a lot!

Carolina opens the door and Fern starts talking about accounts (cuentas), balances, and sums. "Yep, me and Lety are talking about work, all the time," he tells Caro. Caro wants to discuss Cannes stuff with him, but he puts her off until later and excuses himself.

Lety tells Caro that she's feeling better. Caro agrees that she's looking better... a little better. She says Lety's office needs a candle. Caro will get her one, and they'll talk some more later.

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Later, in Fern's office

Lety and Fern discuss money. Conceptos is going to need $175,000 to pay for some work they've been doing. Fernando is nervous about his ever-increasing debt. "Okay, if you don't trust me..." Lety guilts him, and he denies distrusting her and immediately signs for the debt.

She flashes the most evil, smug, crap-eating grin at him, and he misinterprets it. He says it's good to see her smile. He misses her laugh. In return, she wants a card and gift! He says he wants to give her something really special.

Lety retreats to her office and listens as he mutters over the CarvaHallmark Collection. He hates all of them and says he'll have to write one himself. He prays to God to guide his hand.

For some reason, Lety becomes desperate to interrupt him. She bursts out of her office on some pretense of wanting him to sign something else. She sees the card in his hand and says "hey, is that for me?" and tries to grab it from him. He strenuously resists, saying he doesn't like what's written inside, he wants to give her something more profound, like she deserves. He signs something else for her (at this point you get the feeling he'd sign anything just to get rid of her). Lety puts on that evil grin again and goes back to her office.

He continues to agonize over the terrible cards. "Pure filth," he remarks. Omar shows up and Fern gives him a hard time about them. Lety has trouble hearing. Fortunately, Fern says "let's talk in the boardroom," and it's actually easier for Lety to eavesdrop on them through that door.

(Out in the exec lobby, Sara says something about Omar that I don't get. It sounds like she's talking about lunchmeat. Salami? Maybe she's calling him a little weenie. Heh.)

The first thing Lety hears is Fern referring to "our problem with Lety." They talk about the difficulty with the cards, and her strange behavior, demanding gifts, spending time with Tomas. Omar is amazed that Fern seems jealous of a nerd. He asks, are you in love with Lety? (Lety listens hopefully.)

Fern thinks to himself how true it is, but he doesn't want to expose their love to Omar's ridicule, so instead he answers that he's furious with her, not jealous of Tomas. He describes how she ditched him, when earlier, she had wanted to go to Omar's apartment.

Omar is upset by this. He says "the first time could have been written off as an accident, but a second time would be a public disgrace."

Lety hears this and is repulsed.

Omar snorts and shares some inappropriate thoughts about Tomas and Lety. He says it's a bad sign. (Thanks for that, Captain Rehash!)

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Next week
At least two of the following statements are true:

• Fern and Marcia are reunited, and it doesn't feel so good.
• Alicia attempts to rescue her stolen bonbon from an unspeakable fate.
• Lety finds out about Marcia's ring.
  

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El Coyote (still –appropriately-- in the Gorilla mask) is dangling crippled Little Lui over the side of the flat-roofed apartment building in a crazy and desperate attempt to scare off Gabe and the others below. In the end, Coyote throws the crying, screaming Lui (finally some peace and quiet for the viewer?) over the edge to everybody’s horror and escapes during the confusion. Gabe rushes over to the edge of the roof where Little Lui is literally hanging on by his fingertips. (Darn!) Gabe grabs his son and with a great deal of effort pulls him up one arm at a time from the edge and out of danger. They embrace and Mariangela runs over to hug them both. Leo and the”Bowry Boys” try to grab El Coyote on the way up to the rooftop thinking he might be coming down the opposite way towards them, but Coyote’s gotten off the roof a different way and has escaped. Little Lui and Gabe thank Mariangela for risking her life so valiantly against El Coyote. Gabe tells her he’ll never forget her brave acts.

Back at the manse, Paulina, Diana and Pedro are waiting for news when Gabe and Lui appear unexpectedly at the front door. Everyone is cheering and smiling. Jos glides down the main staircase, making her entrance, and laying it on thick faking such happiness at seeing Lui returned safe and sound, even though she finds out that Mariangela risked her life saving him. She is adamant, though, that the other woman is not to come back to work there. Lui bellows again at the thought of not having Mariangela as his nanny, and he takes the blame for leaving Mariangela’s side at the little fair. His mother tells him not to take the blame for her (this time I actually agree with Jos), but Gabe jumps in saying Jos is being unfair to the woman. Jos disagrees, saying she was the one who lost him and puts and end to the argument just as Frederico and Clemente come out to greet “their” grandson.

Back at Candy’s place, Leo patches up Mariangela’s cut arm and offers to help her find another job away from La Señora Cervantes Bravo. She accepts his offer and thanks him for his aid and he takes her to see her mother at the Altzheimers hospice.

Dolores pays a visit to Demian’s house, introducing herself to his wife, Regina. She tells her she may remember her from the hospital with Mother Remedio, though she was dressed as a nun. Regina remembers her then and asks if she’s given up on her vocation. Dolores says she’s no longer with the group since things in her life took her in a different direction, and they go into the living room for tea. Regina says if she’s an associate of Mother Remedio, then she’s happy to assist her with whatever Dolores might need.

At the hospice, Mariangela and Leo are told that Aurora has entered the final stage of the disease. The doctor also calls Clemente to tell him the bad news. Clemente laments that he cannot be there with his daughter for this.

Little Lui begs his father to convince his mother to allow Mariangela back as his nanny and Gabe says not to worry. He promises to try.

Jos has returned to her bed upstairs and has the boy’s toy tiger with her. Miriam enters saying she’s heard they found him. Jos reminds her she’d said there would be no reason to worry so much. Then she explains jealously how her son and Gabe were so excited over the fact that the fool, Mariangela, had risked her life to save him. At least for now, Mariangela was away from them all and her mother has to help her keep the woman out of her house and away from her husband. The problem is that now everybody will want the heroic Mariangela to come back.

Dolores explains to Regina that since she and Regina had gotten on together before, and since she didn’t know anyone else in the city to look to for help, she thought to come to see her about finding work. Regina ask why she didn’t know anyone else here in the city and Dolores confesses that she has spent the last 20 years in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She needs a job she says, but Regina would be in her right not to believe her. Regina asks whether she has a trade and Delores tells her that she was taught to be a seamstress in prison, but before that she was a nurse. Regina hires her on as Demian’s personal nurse immediately and sends her upstairs to Demian’s bedroom to check on him.

Paulina calls Juan Cristobal to tell him her little brother was found safe and sound. He is happy to hear the news and ask her if she’ll consider taking him back, but she refuses. She is angry at how he left her so suddenly and then cheated on her with Karen. She demands an explanation. He says he can’t explain the gory details, just that he never deceived her and never stopped loving her. That isn’t good enough for her and she hangs up.

Gabe is thanking Nicolas for being such a good sidekick and trying to find out who was behind the kidnapping when Pau walks in. They all hug and she mentions that the doctor who was going to operate on Little Lui has left the country and nobody is able to say when or if he’ll return. (Hey, if that is what it will take to get him to stop that hi-pitched blubbering every time you talk to him, I’d move heaven and earth to track that physician down!) So there will not be any operation. Gabe is upset and worried how he’ll explain this to his son, again.

At Demian’s house, Belen is running after Tiberio asking him why he’s changed his attitude towards her. (She must think forcing her to get drunk on their dates is so-o-o sexy.) He says he’s got too much to do to discuss it now. Suddenly, Dolores appears in the hallway and Tiberio is speechless. She explains she’s been hired as his father’s nurse and excuses herself to go up and see her “patient”.

Gabe again asks Jos to allow Mariangela to come back because their son is anxious to have her back. She refuses his request and says it is her final word.

Regina joins Dolores upstairs and explains he’s had a nervous breakdown, that he suffers from these fits regularly, but the past few years the attacks come more and more often. Then she leaves to call the doctor and tell him she has a new nurse for Demian.

Dolores sits on the side of the bed and watches Demian. She tells him he’s apparently not the god he supposes himself to be, lying prostrate and so defenseless. Suddenly he opens his eyes and begins to strangle her, but Regina arrives just in time. His wife screams for him to let loose of Dolores; he’s killing her! Finally he wakes up and says he didn’t realize what was happening. He just saw this woman there and reacted. Regina then explains Dolores is to be his live-in nurse until he recovers.

Karen takes delight in letting Pau know that she and JC went to eat together and says they had a great time (even though in reality, he rejected Karen’s advances). Karen reminds her step-sister she intends to win over the affections of JC since Pau has dropped him. After all, they are still first cousins. Pau wonders why JC is playing with her emotions like this.

Regina calls JC at work to tell him his dad is doing better. He leaves for home immediately.

Gabe gets Mariangela to walk with him a bit outside to chat. He asks her to return to the manse for Luisito’s sake. (Come on, who’re we kidding here?) She tells him she thinks it’s best if she doesn’t return. (Again, she has more sense than he does.) He won’t give up and convinces her to go for coffee with him to talk it over.

Upstairs, alone with Dolores, Demian tells her to stop this farce. She tells him she warned him she’d fight to get close to her son again. She says she’s ready to turn into a wild animal if necessary. He looks at her, takes his medicine and frowns, resigned for now.

Jos tells her son (hiding behind that stupid toy tiger) that she was laid up in bed the entire time, worrying and waiting for them to find him. She hopes he’s learned his lesson and next time she tells him he cannot go out, he should listen to her. He agrees then asks her not to get angry, but can he have Mariangela come back? Jos goes crazy and screams that she never wants to hear that woman’s name again! Just when will he understand? JUST WHEN?

Gabe asks Mariangela if she is sure this is what she really wants. (They are trying to avoid the obvious reason he wants her to come back and that she wants him to want her to come back.) She assures him that she’ll miss his son, but she wants this and it is for the best.

JC confronts his father in the bedroom about why he deceived him. He asks why it was necessary to lie to him about being Gabe’s son and why he refuses to accept that he is his son. Demian lamely tries to blame Regina and says she’s the liar. JC says he knows his mother to be honest and kind and a respectful wife. Regina walks in on the two of them, and Demian asks her to admit that she cheated on him and asks what she feels for him. She tells him what she feels for Gabe has always been chaste. She never cheated on him with Gabe, but she feels nothing for Demian. He’s never given her anything but tears and suffering. Demian yells back that he’s given her everything at her feet. She says it was all material possessions, but never a bit of affection. Then JC says he and his mother are leaving his house for good. The two turn and leave. (It’s a scene in slow motion...so, ok, this is a big life-changing decision for the two of them and for Demian.) Demian is frantic and decides he will not allow Regina to leave his side.

Tiberio is in his father’s office downstairs, saying that one day all of this will be his. He starts thinking back to when Rogelio taunted him earlier in the day about not being more than a foster child to Demian; and that he would not be handed over the keys to the famiily business and that it would all be given to JC. Tiberio sits down at the desk and says to himself, “We will see. We will see.”

Candy is aggrieved to hear that her best friend, Aurora, is in the final stage of her disease.

At the cafe, Gabe admits they shouldn’t feel guilty about what suddenly developed between them romantically, but he will do his part to maintain control of his emotions and keep himself apart from the two of them if she would just come back to tend to his son. He asks simply as a concerned father.

Belen and Simona ask Regina if she is really leaving the house, and when she answers yes, they say, they will leave also. She says she’s taking nothing and leaving all the jewels and things and she will send for her to come as soon as she’s settled in to her new place. At that moment Demian appears at the top of the stairs and asks her to wait.

Gabe walks Mariangela back home and leaves. Frederico then appears suddenly out of the shadows and tells a confused Mariangela that she is not to return to the manse. She has already caused enough pain to Joselin and he is not going to permit her to hurt Jos again. If she knows what’s good for her she’ll take him at his word and stay the heck away from Gabe and his family. Then he leaves.

Tiberio tries to assist Demian, but he pushes him away. Demian gets down on his knees, literally, and begs for Regina to stay with him. He tells her life will have no meaning without her there and that she has to understand how difficult it has been for him all these years knowing that she never loved him, knowing that she loved his brother instead. He weeps and says through his tears that neither of them has been happy. (JC and Tiberio are weeping. Regina is weeping. Heck, I was even weeping, Demian was so convincing.) He would have given everything he has for her to love him instead. He again begs her not to leave. “Give me another chance, I’m begging you. Give me another chance!”

[end of first hour]
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At Gabe’s place, Rogelio finds his wife, Diana again in Pedro’s room, sitting with Pedro on the bed and talking. He tells her it doesn’t look right and she should go. She leaves and he turns around and warns Pedro off again. Pedro tells him he may have Diana convinced he’s changed but not him. Rogelio tells him not to meddle in something that doesn’t concern him. Pedro for once, speaks up and says if Rogelio makes Diana suffer again, he’ll have to answer to Pedro. Rogelio makes fun of him and warns him not to mess with him.

Regina follows Demian back to his office and says she’ll stay but only under certain conditions. She is not going to offer love and will do anything for her son. She will not stand for his yelling or his humilliating her any longer. He will have to accept her son as his and deal with him as such. He is not to even hint at his being Gabe’s. If he doesn’t accept then she has no reason to remain there and he’ll never see her again. He comes face to face with her and stoically accepts. Regina is stunned at this.

Diana and Rogelio argue about her background as a stripper again. He, the older son of a Cervantes Bravo, married below his station and he was so drunk he didn’t know what he was doing. He simply can’t get that out of his craw. Diana finally suggests they get divorced. She doesn’t want to hold him back against his will. There’s still time to separate.

Regina lets JC know that she has decided to stay there after all. JC says she can count on his support whatever her decisions. He isn’t going to judge her.

Tiberio admits to Demian that he was surprised to see him beg Regina to stay. Demian says he wants her with him and there are times in life when one has to yield when it is most convenient. Tiberio asks him then if this was all a farce, but Demian just orders him to go and let him rest.

In Jos’s bedroom, Miriam and she are discussing what Dolores must be planning. They hope she’s resigned herself to not being able to come around Karen. Jos then says as an aside that she didn’t kill Edgar. Miriam gets angry and reminds her that the two of them agreed to get rid of him, even if she didn’t do the actual murder. Jos asks who was it then that took care of it? Miriam says Demian was the one who actually set things in motion. As she tells Jos the story she remembers Demian and herself 20 something years ago beginning to plan it all. (She looked pretty dowdy back then!) She was complaining about Edgar having lost all their money over some careless business decision. Demian was looking to get rid of Dolores because she was becoming a nuisance to him. He is saying that they could take care of both of them at the same time.

Dolores the next day is coming in the house at the same time Tiberio is leaving. She’s dressed in her whites, including stockings and a cap. (Man, when was the last time you saw a nurse formally dressed in whites and with a cap? It s almost as if she’s a refugee from a skit on Sabado Gigante! ) He accuses her of chasing after him again. Dolores, though, quietly insists she is there as Demian’s personal nurse. Tiberio disagrees and says she is looking for something else and he’s going to be in charge of finding out just what that is.

At the hospice Mariangela thanks Clemente for attending to her mother. He says that they were good friends long ago. She says she would have liked to have had a father just like him. She leaves and he sits at Aurora’s bedside and professes his deep love for her and says he’ll never forgive himself for abandoning her all those years ago.

Juan Cristobal kisses Pau at the office and she gets angry at him for playing around with her feelings. He swears he loves her and won’t stop till she believes him, but she says she knows he tells her one thing and then goes out with Karen. She stomps out of the office and slams the door.

Gabe invites Jos to a restaurant for lunch so that they can discuss something very important. (This is a stupid idea. The woman has a screw loose and he wants to chance a scene in a public place with her?)

El Coyote finally reaches Demian on his cell and tells him what happened with Little Lui and why he was forced to let him go. Demian tells him to stay low until they are able to see each other again. Dolores comes in and tells him she’s sticking around till he has recuperated whether he likes it or not. Then she orders him to take his clothes off because she’s going to give him a sponge bath. He raises his eyebrows at this and just stares at her. (Shades of Sabado Gigante!)

Gabe tells Little Lui the sad news about the doctor not being able to do the operation after all. He tells his son how he is to blame for the car accident that prevented him from having a normal childhood. LL tells his father not to be so hard on himself. They will simply wait till the doctor comes back and he can operate then. (Ok. That makes too much sense.)

Pedro and Diana are discussing Little Lui’s rotten luck at not getting his operation. They begin talking about Pedro’s being a poor relation and Rogelio’s always treating him like he was ashamed of him because of his humble beginnings. Diana tells him he grew up without luxuries, but he is a great person and never to forget it.

Dolores is giving Demian his sponge bath. He teases her about still being sexually attracted to him. He finally can’t stand it any longer and he grabs her, knocks her backward and her over his lap and kisses her. This shocks Dolores. She fights him off, grabs her bowl of water and--runs out. He is laughing at her and says to himself that if she wants to play on his turf, she is going to lose.

In the study downstairs, Dolores realizes that he’s stirred her feelings up again. She prays to God that she is not tempted by Demian and her desire once again.

At the restaurant Gabe finally asks Jos to give him a divorce. She stands up shrieking to everyone there that this thankless slob wants to leave her for another woman. He stands there trying to explain to her his reasons, in front of God and every customer in the place. She (mercifully for the other customers) finally runs out of the place, repeating she’ll die first, or he will, before giving him a divorce!! She stands in the middle of the street daring a car to run her over. Somehow Gabe pushes her away and prevents her from getting hit. He tells her she really needs to get professional help and to be in a psychiatric clinic. She tells him she’ll die before giving him a divorce. He should be in jail for killing the child they were expecting. Jos sees a cab, then, at the end of the block and runs toward it. As luck would have it, it is Leo’s cab and he’s just left off a fare. She jumps in and says just take her anywhere, but get her out of there. Take her far away from there, now!

He starts up a conversation with her, realizing who she is and that she doesn’t recognize him at all. He asks if he can help her but she refuses anything from him. She tells him not to involve himself and that it's none of his business. She keeps repeating that nobody can help her; she is just such a loser, she is so unlucky.

Candy tries to console Don Clemente He’ll get through this difficult time with Aurora. He confesses that he cannot do right by one daughter without hurting the other. Candy tells him God knows what a kindhearted man he is and will show him the way.

In the cab, Jos opens up her heart to Leo without realizing it. She tells him that her sin is loving her husband too much, and that there is another woman who is taking him from her.

At the church, the two padres are discussing the appearance of the woman who left Leo abandoned at the church years ago as a baby. Father Anselmo thinks he should and will confront her about that night.

At the same time Ingrid is telling Miriam that the priest from that night long ago must have recognized her when they were in the churchyard waiting for news about her grandson. Would’t it be something if "he" were there that night also, just a few steps away? Miriam shudders at the thought and tells her friend to be quiet about it. Just then Leo appears at the doorway with Jos. Leo explains that he is Candy’s son, the taxi-driver, and how he found her daughter arguing in the street with Gabe, distraught after running away from him. Miriam rudely refuses to shake his hand or to thank him. “You took too much bother with her. -- Ingrid! My wallet! -- How much do you want?” Leo refuses money and leaves. These two feel something strange after their meeting but both brush it off. Ingrid follows Leo and watches from behind a stack of clothes as he gets into his cab and leaves. Jos then informs Miriam that Gabe and she were arguing because he finally asked her for a divorce.

Dolores goes back upstairs with Demian and starts adjusting his pillows. Demian grabs her again and kisses her. He tells her he know she likes it just as much as he does. (Truth be told! And that silly little nurse's cap hasn't moved an inch with all that rolling around!) She asks him how he dares to do this right under his wife’s nose. Regina is such a good woman. He answers that she doesn’t know anything about what his life has been like. Sure he loved her, but she’s forced him away. Dolores says, “Yes, just like you did with me!” She assures him that the only reason she is there is for Tiberio and walks out. Demian thinks to himself, “Dolores, you are still a really attractive female!”

Nic tells Gabe that Demian still hasn’t returned to the office, but Gabe says Tiberio will see to things. Nic wonders why Demian is so attached to Tiberio when his son, JC, now an engineer, should be heading his construction company. He also asks what Pau is feeling now regarding JC. Gabe says she’s assured him it is all in the past and Nic says, that is good. Now he doesn’t have to reveal to her that she was really adopted. Then Gabe asks Nic to start divorce procedings for him and Jos.

Miriam scolds Jos for losing control like that. Jos screams back that she couldn’t exactly help it. After all, who would have thought he would ask her out to lunch just to ask her to give him a divorce? (She has a point there!) She will never give it to him, either! Miriam asks her daughter if she is ready to do anything at all to ensure he doesn't divorce her, and Jos answers “Absolutely anything.”

Regina suggests to JC that perhaps if things are too uncomfortable at his current position, being so close to Paulina everyday, that he should consider coming to work for his father instead.

Candy and Leo discuss Jos’s cab ride and he admits he felt sorry for Jos. She seemed to be all alone in the world. In fact, he feels as if he’s known this woman all of his life, but he cannot understand why.

Jos goes in to visit her little boy and tells him that his daddy has asked her for a divorce and she starts to cry.

Regina confesses to Dolores that she has been so unhappy all these years with Demian. “I shouldn’t be telling you this.” She says that perhaps it is because she trusts her. Regina suggests Delores encourage her to tell her all about it sometime.

Candy serves Diana lunch, but Diana suddenly feels nauseous. Candy asks if she might be pregnant. Diana is surprised at the thought. (Momma never told her the facts of life or the signs to watch for?)

Miriam and Rogelio are meeting at a restaurant. She tells him that they like the same fine things in life. There is soon to be a storm kicked up in the household, since his father has asked Jos for a divorce. He needs to choose sides. He can leave without the luxuries he has been accustomed to having or he can join forces with her against his father.

Gabe comes in to see his son and Luisito tells him that he doesn’t love him anymore because he’s leaving his mother.

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