Sunday, September 30, 2007
September 28, 2007 Yo Amo a Juan – In which Pastor has a Mimisqui* and Ivonne has an Admirer
Announcements….
I just realized as I re-read a little of this that I use quotes sometimes and don’t other times when I probably should. Thanks in advance for bearing with that. As always, help and corrections are welcome. I take total responsibility for typos and grammatical errors. ☺
Also, I’ll need subs a couple of times in October for travel. The first is next Friday, October 6. Thanks for considering this, anyone who is able to. If no one can, I’ll get a header posted before I leave for the weekend trip.
And now to our feature film…
As morning breaks over the D. F., we revisit Juan and Ana talking outside the Casa Dávila where Juan has come to get Paula for work and Ana is leaving, too. They greet each other warmly; she turns to go, and almost immediately turns back. Can she ask him a question? Sure, even two. She chuckles, but wants to know what’s up with Juan and Paula. He thought bubbles that’s the question he’s asking himself. He doesn’t want to get mixed up between the two of them.
And we revisit Pastor’s chat with CL, who barges in while Pastor is grooming his toupee. Pastor makes a nice save with his mirror and comb stowed in the fake company file faster than the speed of light, though he’s impactado because CL is known not to be a lark and it’s awfully early for him to be up and meddling in office stuff. CL needs his help Pastor tries to offer him coffee, or Lucy’s word (which I love), whatnot. CL cuts him off, nope, he just needs Pastor to prepare separation papers and pay for Paula and Juan.
Ana doesn’t think this is such a difficult question. Juan babbles until she asks him even more directly what’s up. He honestly answers he has no idea, really. She isn’t buying it. He thought bubbles about what he should do. Just as we think Ana might get an answer, Paula pops out and greets Juan rapidly, reminding him they need to hurry. And you, Mamá, aren’t you going to be late? Ana sighs. She’s not getting the 411 today, obviously. She rushes Juan to the car, and he rushes after her. Isn’t it a lovely day? Yep, a lovely day. Doña Ana, YOU have a lovely day. They’re off and running (as opposed to running off….. at the mouth).
¡¡¿¿¿Qué???!!! Pastor chuckles nervously. What’s so funny, CL asks him? Pastor’s sure he misunderstood. Nope. There’s nothing to understand, just do it. He repeats his request; as soon as possible! Pastor wants to know if there’s a specific reason for this. Because I said so. Ya got a problem wid dat? Pastor assures him there’s no problem. But, he pushes for reasons why…..CL cuts him off. Just do what I tell you. Don’t be questioning me or you’ll be preparing your separation papers. Pastor stutters around that he’s not questioning the boss’s decision. CL tells him that’s better. He wants it by noon. Pastor assures him it’s crystal clear (no canta un gallo, a rooster couldn’t sing clearer) and we hear the rooster crow in the lobby. CL stalks out while Pastor mutters to himself and writes. He stares at the door, dejected and impactado.
Queen Nidia has her orange juice [Ed. Note: geez, does Delirio do this every morning? Maybe he does have some socially redeeming value] in bed, and is whining about Yadi’s noncompliance and ingratitude. It was only when Juan arrived that they finally knew where Yadi was, or she doesn’t know where they’d still be hunting the wretched child down [okay, I added that wretched child stuff]. He dresses himself for work as he tells her that the thing worrying him the most is that she’s ended up with Enrique, in whom he’s never had any faith. [Ed. Note: ¡MENTIROSO! He was your best friend a few episodes ago, especially when you were broke and hungry!] What’s more, Nidia tells him, it’s his fault she’s ignoring me (no me hace caso) and she doesn’t give a d*** (qué la importa un comino, a grain of cumin isn’t important to her) about the punishment I gave her. Delirio tells her “excuse me, but I’ve told you” and proceeds to castigate her for spoiling the little girls as long as he’s known her and she goes with any whim they have, etc., etc. She tells him not to question how she’s raised her children. He jumps on it to point out her kids need a paternal figure. That’d be a masculine role model with authority, maturity, serenity, economic stability…..Nidia tries to interrupt and he cuts her right off. Yadi needs someone serious, responsible….um….someone like Gutis! It’d be for her own good! “Listen to me! Listen to me!” Nidia actually looks like she’s thinking about Gutis here. Delirio approaches her and she thrusts out her palm to hold him off. Wait. She’s going with him to work and talk to Enrique. She gets out of bed to get ready. She’s going to put things very clear with him. Delirio thinks that’s a VERY good idea, he’ll wait for her. He smugly finishes fixing his tie, which has taken him about five minutes to knot so far.
Paula asks Juan what her Mami wanted as they drive to the office. Well, she wanted to know what was up with us. So, what did you tell her? Well, nothing since you came out of the house right then. But, Licenciada, your mother asked me a question and I honestly didn’t know what to say. Juan doesn’t know what she has said to her mother. She tells him she’s said nothing, but he knows her mother, she suspects there’s more than a simple friendship between them. Juan thought bubbles that it’s now or never, it’s going to drive him nuts. He’s still left with a doubt himself, so he decided to play it out with her. He stops the car and nails her. Okay, Licenciada, I’m asking myself the same question, what IS between you and me? She looks a little disturbed at having her cage rattled.
Ivonne is impactada. She sits down in Pastor’s office, “So, he’s going to fire them both at the same time?” Pastor affirms the news she’s been waiting to hear, her nemesis will be GONE! He mutters that it’s really strange, no? She agrees. They’re both puzzled. She wants to know more, and Pastor tells her CL’s lips were sealed (el hombre estuvo hermético, like hermetically sealed ala Carnac the Magnificent, aka Johnny Carson). She says she thinks she shouldn’t have been surprised—something strange was happening between CL and Paula. Pastor agrees. Ivonne says she hadn’t told Pastor, but there was so much coming and going from his office to hers and back again—something was going on.…..Pastor points out that from the beginning they had their messes. It’s logical CL would end up firing her. Pastor’s real question is what does Juan have to do with this [Ed. Note: that’s the only relevant question, right, Pastor?]
Juan wants to know why he’s one of the protagonists of this story and is clueless. Paula tries to protest a little….she is clueless, too. Puh-leeze, Licenciada. He tells her if she wants him to be honest with her, he’s half nuts with this situation, one day it’s a thousand marvels, she’s warm, all smiles, and another she’s distant, like she can’t stand him (que le cayera gordo, fell fat for you). He tells her a few more unpleasant things she does like hide from him—he doesn’t understand, and she tells him she’s just trying to put her thoughts in order. He thinks if they define it for themselves, it’ll make it easier and they’ll know how to behave. She agrees, he’s totally right. She’s a little taken aback, though. It’s happening so fast, so pressured. She doesn’t understand how to interpret all these things. Okay, he tells her, before anything else you need to clarify if you still have feelings for CL. Juan, she tells him, you know it’s just recently I’ve been enamored of him. Suddenly when what happened between us happened, the floor (or apartment, flat) moved (I was shaken up, [my best guess]), and it made me doubt my feelings. He tells her there are certain feelings that don’t bear analysis and one knows perfectly what they are. She agrees and feels like a fool for not knowing exactly what it is she’s feeling. [Ed. Note: Could she be placating Juan, still playing with him to buy time?] He’s going to ask her one question, just one. Does he please her or not? (What does she feel for him?) As they say in my town, do I trip your trigger? (le muevo la aguja- do I move the switch?) She runs her fingers through her hair and looks away --she doesn’t want to go there.
Pastor looks at his watch. He wants to know what’s going on, and would you look at the time? Juan’s late! Ivonne tells him she is sure that Juan is clueless, he has no idea what’s happening here. “He’s as lost as you, or more.” Pastor gets up; he’s going down to wait for Juan and kidnap him as fast as Juan gets there. He’s going to force Juan to tell him every little detail, all of it! ‘Scuse, please. Ivonne is left in the office, puzzling over this new twist.
Paula gives Juan the ol’ “you’re very special to me” song and dance. She takes his hand and folds both of hers around his. The time they had that night was magical. Hablablablabla…..He asks if there was love? She can’t say that word yet. She’s still recovering from her war wounds. She is sure, though, they’re going on a good road. That’s all he wanted to hear. She asks for a favor, that they go slowly, give one another space, that they don’t have pressure, and don’t have to say a word, not have to explain every gesture and not put themselves in a strait jacket (camisa de fuerza). She needs time to sort out what’s in her head and heart. He tells her to take all the time she needs. His love for her isn’t going anyplace. He has no doubt what he feels for her. “Because, I love you. I love you with all my heart.” He doesn’t need to say more, with this it’s all been said. He kisses her hand. She’s serious, but smiling. He’s serious, and intense. They caress each other’s hands and gaze at each other while “Ay, amor” plays in the background…..
Kike is in the garage, where Fern is fiddling with what looks like a mini-television. He asks Fern what he was supposed to do? Put her out in the street? Look grudging and inconsiderate? What could he do? He could have her in the house, and hold her off. Well, did she come in? What do you think? You know what, though? She’s still there, sleeping like a queen until dinner. He chuckles about Yadi’s ways. Fern wants to know where this leaves him. He loves this woman. Enrique suddenly gets suspicious. What did Fern have with her? Nothing, Fern swears with his hand up. Kike says anyway, she betrayed him, and since then he’s not so sure she’s a good woman. She doesn’t make him feel the passion she used to. They chitchat a little and Pastor comes looking for Juan. He’s not here yet, they tell him. Where could he be? Look at the time! Pastor asks God for patience. Fern wants to know if he plans to wait there, and Pastor wants to know if there’s some problem with that. No, of course not. Just curious. Pastor waves them back to their conversation. Kike stutters something about food, and Fern plays along….
Ivonne, her fetching tube-type top leading the procession out front, storms into CL’s office and throws a file down on his desk. For a paper file, it sure makes some noise. He looks up, muy irritado. “What do you want?” She has to talk to him. He’s busy. Well, she has something to say and it’s now or never [déjà vu, didn’t Juan have this line earlier? I guess it saves writers fees if they can repeat the lines.] “What do you want, and please make it quick.” Ivonne makes a caustic remark about her majesty, the star of the office, Paula. CL snidely notes that if the office folk devoted as much time to work as they do to gossip, Farell Industries would be the most productive company in the world. It wasn’t gossip. Pastor is very upset that not is Paula leaving, but Juan, too. [Ed. Note: Aha. The file has the separation paperwork, anyone want to make book on it?] Let’s say it wasn’t too secret. CL smirks and tells her he’s so pleased to see her genuine caring for Juan, she’s making progress here. Ivonne says Juan can go to the devil. But then what? This caring is for Paula? Nope. I want her position. I want you to appoint me Veep for commercial transactions. He gets a big grin. Then he’s ROTFLLL. And LLLLLLL. And LLLLLLL. While he laughs his nasty head off, Ivonne plots eternal revenge with a humongous stink eye.
Pastor is patting his toupee and pacing a little. Kike and Fern lean in to whisper behind him. “What do you think is going on?” “Could he have lice on his head?” Fern chuckles and tells him not on the head, in the toupee. They grin at each other. They speculate about why he’s waiting for Juan. Is Juan going to get a death sentence? Kike thinks he looks like he’s on the verge of tears. Fern points out that’s his normal face. Whew, here comes the limo. Juan lets Paula out and tells her goodbye before Pastor grabs him and rushes him off—Juan had him at the point of an attack of nerves! [Ed. Note: it’s not likely this guilt trip will work, Pastor, so give it up.] Pastor has something urgent to communicate with him….Juan tries to tell him that he has stuff to do. The only thing he has to do, Pastor tells him, is go with Pastor. Trust me for once in your life, Juan! They’re going out for coffee. They won’t be long, and they won’t be overheard. He looks meaningfully back at the muchachos. Juan calls back for Fern to look after the car as Pastor shoves him off. Fern salutes: “sure, boss.” Kike waves, too and taps Fern, what’s up with that? “I don’t know what to think. The only thing I now is that every day it’s tougher to find a normal Christian who’s right in the head.” [Ed. Note: Must be a dicho, folks, and I likely screwed up that interpretation.]
CL is still ROTFLLLLLL. He’s nearly in tears, it’s so funny. That’s a good one, he tells her. (Qué buena onda). That’s the most absurd thing I’ve heard in my life. Ivonne takes issue with that. She doesn’t see how it’s funny. He tells her, look, forget it, I’m not discussing this with you. You’re not taking Paula’s place, period. For this assignment, you would have to be trained, self-assured, and able to think on your feet (make decisions on the wing, al vuelo). Able to have a minimal sense of how to analyze and make commercial transactions….with experience. He shakes his finger at her to emphasize. [Ed. Note: don’t you just want to do something rude with that shaking finger, gentle readers?] She tells him she can meet all those conditions. He smirks and chuckles again. [Ed. Note: don’t you just want to do something rude with that smirking face, gentle readers?] “I doubt it.” “Let me show you!” “Are you for real?” “Well, you see I am. I just want to be heard out. This doesn’t have anything to do with….our past.” He tells her okay, let’s talk to the point (clearly). You want a promotion, right, don’t worry. Yep, but not just anything. I’ve thought about it, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Ivonne smiles in triumph. Okay, I’m promoting you to Licenciado Perafán’s assistant. How does that sound? She practically comes across the desk at him. Feet first. “Are you mocking me? Do you think I’m stupid? That’s what you think of me?” “I had the same questions? How could you think to come through my office door and ask for the Commercial Veep position?” “Like the Licenciada Paula, or have you forgotten how she obtained her meteoric ascension?” “Why don’t you refresh my memory, Ivonne?” “By spending time in your bed.” She points out he didn’t have to ask about experience, training, nothing. He retorts that her qualifications are excellent, her résumé is excellent, and wonders if she wants to see it. She scoffs. She’s sure Paula showed it to him lots of times. He uses what is apparently a trump card for her qualifications, though who knows why, because she could have graduated from Podunk U: Paula studied at a university in the United States! And you, meanwhile, studied at a technical school for secretaries. That’s just to begin with. What do you want? That you’ll end up humiliated? She says it doesn’t matter. He agrees with that, and tells her that at least is a more sensible attitude. But, he lets her know the Veep position already has a new occupant. “What? You’ve found another victim?” He reluctantly tells her that the new Veep is MB. Ivonne is a little impactada. He tells her to excuse him, because he has a lot of work and little patience. She storms out in a huff. When he’s done looking disgusted and irritated, he laughs and points at the door she just exited.
Chelo and Monica are cutting up veggies together in the kitchen. [Ed. Note: No wonder Moni doesn’t think it’s a mortal sin for Paula to hang out with a chauffeur.} Chelo is congratulating Moni on getting to do the work she wants, and to work together with CL. For some unfathomable reason, Chelo thinks this is a Good Thing. Chelo wonders if she’s happy, and Moni confirms it makes her very content. [Ed. Note: Chelo is almost always smiling. She’d be a good person to have around.] Moni says there’s still something she doesn’t like about it. Chelo wants to know what, if Moni doesn’t mind her meddling (si no le importa que meta mi cuchara, if it’s not important to you that I’m mixing my spoon in it). Moni tells her she’s still not sure what’s up with Paula. Something has her unconvinced. It’s strange, when she and Juan were here, we talked about work and she seemed quite content, enthusiastic. Chelo asks what Don CL says. Well, he’s told me his version, Moni tells Chelo, but I’d like to hear hers. She has been very special with me; she made a good impression on me. Chelo tells her she has a big heart. Moni says it’s just fair, nothing more. Moni says she’s going to talk with Paula, but not one word to CL, he’ll kill me. Chelo promises to zip her lip. (yo pico de cera, I mind my own business).
Marely, standing in front of Paula’s desk, has her notepad and is reciting the to do list for Paula. They have responses to send, calls to make. Paula says she’s going to make calls personally, and Marely agrees. Also, there’s my letter of resignation, Paula says. Marely looks up, a little alarmed, and then smiles and tells Paula of course, the letter of resignation is routine around here. Nope, this time it’s for real, Paula tells her, she’s also tired of this game. She’s going to save CL the trouble of letting her go. Of course, Marely tells her. Paula wants to know why she’s so mad. Marely denies she’s mad, and she won’t meddle in something that’s not important to her. Well, excuse me, Paula tells her, but you look like you’d gladly choke me. Paula, I’ve told you it’s your life and you know what to do with it. Paula tells her she’s talked with Juan and he asked what’s their situation, are they a couple? Oh? “I said I didn’t know.” I should say I didn’t know what to say. I tried to tell him the truth, or what I believe to be the truth. Well, Marely replies, this seems like it wasn’t a very clear conversation. [Ed. Note: Could her tongue be in her cheek?] Paula gets impassioned as she tells Marely that the one thing she wants to do now is get away from CL. Marely retorts that Paula wants to see him suffer as much as possible. Paula confirms that’d make her happy. Paula reminds Marely what he did to her, betrayed her, humiliated her, what woman wouldn’t want to get revenge on a guy like that? You know what I’ve suffered at his hands! Marely knows, but she tells Paula Juan shouldn’t have to pay for the damage (the broken plates). The half-sisters glare at each other.
Pastor has Juan cornered at the coffee shop. He wants Juan to explain a couple of little things. He wants Juan to explain like God wills it, with his hand on his heart, and the truth on his lips. Juan swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help him Diosito. He thought bubbles that he’s wondering what’s happening. Pastor’s gonna overheat like a turbine. Pastor tells him this morning he was working in his office very early when suddenly CL showed up, which was odd because he’s no lark, but what was really strange was what he asked me to do. What was that? To prepare your separation paperwork, and the Licenciada Paula’s, nothing less. That? What don’t you understand about how important this is? Pastor wants to know. He’s going to FIRE you, Juanito! Both of you! Sure, Juan assures him, I understand, I’m not a blockhead. Pastor remarks that he must be the blockhead because doesn’t understand (why Juan isn’t more upset). Could Juan please explain que the h*** is happening? Juan sits back with a sour look.
Paula finally stands up and comes around her desk. She tells Marely that her worry about Juan only says that she hasn’t been honest. Does Juan interest her? Paula walks behind Marely, who is looking guilty, but Paula can’t see it. She squares her jaw and turns around. Yes, as a friend, a brother. “Marely, I promise you I’ll do everything possible….” Saved by the bell. Marely answers the phone and finds it’s Monica. She passes the phone to a reluctant and sighing Paula. Paula answers with pretty manners, but a grimace. Moni invites her out to eat lunch. How would that be? Paula can’t think of a graceful way to decline, and accepts. They’ll have lunch at three. Moni asks her not to say a word to CL; Paula agrees that she’ll say nothing. As she hangs up the phone, she tells an impactada Marely that Moni wants to talk with her.
Kike tells Fern he’s got to get going, and Fern bids him goodbye, but there’s a hitch in Kike’s plans. Delirio is right behind him. With Nidia. Nidia tells Delirio thanks for coming with me, but I’ll go it alone now. She looks meaningfully as a worried Kike. She tells Delirio she knows he has lots of work and she doesn’t want to take more of his time. [Ed. Note: Looks like a firm dismissal, folks.] He bids her goodbye with an endearment (my little sunflower bud? Capullito de girasol).
Nidia forcefully tells Kike she has to talk to him. He faces off with her hesitantly and submissively; he’s at her orders. Fern watches from his seat at the desk behind Kike. Nidia excuses herself to Fernandito, and tells Kike to get going. He walks off quickly. She and Fern eye each other….is it electricity? Is it disgust and annoyance? Is it about half and half? She turns and follows Kike. With a swing like that, she needs a porch. He watches…..but what the heck is that look?
Juan is trying to explain to Pastor. He wants Pastor to promise to take it calmly. Pastor tells him that Juan knows he’s the calmest person on the planet. Juan starts to stammer through it and decides to spit it out: “the Licenciada Paula and I are in love.” Juan beams at Pastor. Pastor, on the other hand, is impactado and desolate. He stands and begins to shake his head, close to tears. “No, no Juan, it can’t be!” His voice hits the Threshold of Discomfort at about 110 decibels Sound Pressure Level. Everyone in the restaurant looks. Juan tells him it is. Pastor seats himself, putting his head onto his hands and crying loudly. Juan looks over his shoulder at all the people looking at them.
Nidia has revved up to full speed ahead with Kike. She reams him a new one. She wonders what on earth possessed him to kidnap her daughter. He tries to interrupt. She wonders how he could do this to her! She’s been like a second mother to him! He tries to interrupt. She reminds him that he knows how much her deceased husband esteemed him. He would have given anything to see Kike and Yadi married. He tries to interrupt. She chastises him for thinking about living together, and gives him a list of reasons why it’s a Bad Thing. Kike makes the “time out” sign and tells her to listen to him. It wasn’t HIS idea! He agrees with her and he didn’t TAKE Yadira. No??? No!!!! He tells Nidia she’ll have to pardon him, but Yadi tricked him into coming to her room, and provoked him when she started to undress….Nidia doesn’t want to hear that part! Then he tells Nidia that Yadi came looking for him at school and practically forced him to take her in. If she wants to verify it she can ask Juan.
Juan asks Pastor to please do him a favor and shut up. Pastor keeps yelling. All the while that he was giving Juan a hand, and it was impossible to be happy, and he kept on defending Juan from those who would do him dirt. Juan tells him he appreciates all that Pastor has done for him, but really, he’s always been a friend. Juan notices all the onlookers and yells that Pastor is a great friend. “He’s my compa!” (Compadre, pal).
Kike assures Nidia that if it’d been up to him, he would have brought Yadi home last night. He doesn’t understand, but she’s obsessed with him. He’s desperate. Nidia wonders if he’s telling her the truth. She clearly wants to believe him. He swears he is, he’s not playing her, that’s God’s will. You know how much I loved your daughter. You know I would have died for her, but it’s all different now. I care nothing for her. Nidia says she’s working hard to believe this. He tells her it’s true, and she can go by his house and talk to Yadi. She’ll be doing them both a favor. Nope, she says, you’d better go with me. Kike wants to draw her a map and give her the address—he has a lot of work at the moment. They go back to the desk and Fern looks up, wary. Nidia looks triumphantly at him. She strokes herself and he starts to say something, but can’t. Could there really be something here? Nah. Kike gives her the map and address, and tells her to let him know if she needs anything, because she can count on him. She thanks him. She tells him that she hopes he’ll find love again, and calls him “my son.” Kike thanks her, takes his leave, and runs off to get his transporting done. Fern and Nidia are left staring at each other. They’re not alone, though….this is still Grand Central and the world passes through here each day. Does it matter to Nidia? Nope. She sits on the corner of the desk and looks dejected, so Fern, gentleman that he is, gets up and pats her on the shoulder. “Is anything wrong?” She throws herself into his arms. He reluctantly holds her and strokes her hair, then hears something that makes him look down to see if she’s crying or purring.
Pastor is still on a roll. He wants Juan to tell him one thing, the truth, and nothing but the truth. Do you love HER? Or is what’s happening with her simply a whim? Tell me the truth, I demand it. Juan tells him if he wants the truth, then yes, he loves her more than he has ever loved before and more than he will ever love again. He says Pastor should believe it, there are no more lies, no matter how much it hurts him, hurts CL, whoever. He adores this woman, and no human will ever change that. Pastor stands up, and Juan asks why? They’re not done talking. Juan tries to talk him back, but Pastor turns around and immediately falls into the arms of the guy behind him who stood up just in time to catch Pastor….in dead faint. It’s a mimisqui that would make Luigi Lombardi sit up and take notice. Juan lowers him to the floor gently and calls for water.
Delirio is still talking with Gutis, upset because he hasn’t got the information he wants yet and that they’re pressuring him and he doesn’t know what he can tell them about not finding the info. Gutis, totally nonchalant about all this, and playing with his shades while he talks on the phone, wonders that’s the mystery. They exchange barbs about the info, and Delirio tells Gutis he can’t keep making excuses. Gutis gets frustrated and tells him enough, already, don’t be crying here. Last night I left it for you on the desk top. Delirio turns over some papers and sputters.
Nidia still has Fern detained. She tells him it sucks to be her. How come children pay their parents like this with tears of blood? After all this dedication! Why? Why? She scans the area for warm bodies, and detecting none but Fern’s at the moment, slinks up to give him a full-body press (not noticing the person passing behind them several feet). He reluctantly tolerates her throwing herself at him, while she tells him her life is so unfair! Here she is, more alone than ever, she’s just realized…..alone, abandoned, without a firm little chest to give her support. All this is, of course, punctuated with stroking down her sides and a hoist. She continues that there are no arms to pamper her, as she strokes his long arms and gazes up into his face two feet above her.
Delirio is delirious! He tells Gutis that it’s marvelous what he’s found! Of course, Delirio has barely opened the document he just picked up, but it’s marvelous. Gutis says they can make a few little calls, get organized, and then…blackmail hovers in the air, unspoken but tangible. Delirio realizes he’s brilliant, though it pains him to say it. But Gutis is not happy; he reminds Delirio that they have a pact for which Delirio as of yet has done nothing at all. “But what are you talking about, my king? What?” It’s Yadira, of course. Delirio assures Gutis that he’s working on this child on Gutis’ behalf. He can be very sure of that. Gutis certainly hopes so, for Delirio’s own good.
Nidia pushes Fern almost back to the wall as he sits on a desk against it, and she suggests that they save this discussion for another day in another place. Fern finally gets his bearings and takes charge. He eases her up and away from him, flips her around a little and pushes himself farther from her, holding her arms. “Doña Nidia, you know what I think about that.” She flips him back to sit on the desk, holding him by the arms, and sits him down, flirting some more [ni que te estuviera pidiendo algo del otro mundo, it wasn’t like I was asking for something to write home about? I looked this one up and found it could be very racy, judging from the websites the phrase brought up. Yikes! Help here is welcome]. She only wants a few quick seconds of his time. He’ll be able to help her “clarify” her life. She strokes and rubs. “That’s all.” He tries again to stand up.
We find ourselves looking up at Juan’s concerned face, people standing behind him. “Are you feeling better?” The view shifts and we see a man holding Pastor up slightly from his position on the floor, with Juan holding a cup to his lips. “Drink a little water.” Juan dabs a napkin lightly at Pastor’s face after helping him with the drink. “Are you feeling better, better, better, better?” We hear the echo fades in Pastor’s ears. “Give me your little hand.” Juan and the guy help Pastor to his feet and Juan pulls a chair out for him. Juan thought bubbles that this hit the poor guy like a mule kick. Pastor weeps that this has to be a nightmare, a punishment. He shakes his head and blubbers. Juan encourages him to calm himself; they’re bringing him a little cup of tea. The drama continues.
Licenciado Perafán is in CL’s office. He has brought the incriminating book from the catacombs for CL’s review. CL thanks him; that’s what they were needing. Delirio tells him how much work it was to find this info for him. And, as you see, when I commit to something, it’s until death! He snaps his fingers. [Ed. Note: what an irritating habit! I have a colleague who does that often, and sometimes want to shake that colleague. I keep myself in check, though. With Alirio I probably would cut loose, however.] Delirio is beaming ear to ear, and making his usual expansive gestures to punctuate his grand success. “Ah, but CL, buddy, you and I still have a bit of unfinished business, right?” CL wants to know what. “Sure, you remember that about my assistant?” CL informs him sure, but I have bad news, Ivonne didn’t accept it. Delirio foolishly tells CL that he had thought for sure that CL was the one who made the decisions in Farell Industries, (and implies that now he sees that’s not the case, tsk). CL squares his jaw and tells Delirio through gritted teeth that sometimes he takes the well-being of his people into account. Delirio pushes more buttons by telling CL that he understands perfectly; if he were in CL’s shoes he’d do exactly the same thing and not let Ivonne out of his sight [okay, I interpreted very loosely here. Also, I’d like to make an observation that I’m not sure, but I think Delirio made a really risqué comment here, instead of saying “I’d do exactly the same (mismo), the word “mismo” Alirio pronounced “misma” which could have been a reference to doing Ivonne, her. But a schoolmarm wouldn’t actually know about that, so I could be way off base]. CL remarks that Delirio can’t know how much that reassures him to know that. Delirio asks if it would be too much for him to ask that CL let him talk with this little girl and see if he can convince her.
The next thing we know, Delirio is panting over Ivonne’s desk. He asks her how she is, what can she tell him? Nothing! He doesn’t take the hint, but continues that he’s noticed how alone she is when it’s time to eat, and he wonders if she’d go with him to a cozy little Mexican place, with tacos and tepache to die for. “Are you inviting me to EAT??” “Well, yeah, how does that seem to you, precious?” “BAD! Many thanks but NO thanks!” Ivonne is yelling. The office gossip-mongers should have fun with this old boy hitting up on Ivonne [Ed. Note: I tried to find Roberto d’Amico’s birth date on the web and it’s not given. Anyplace!] “Little queen, don’t be so surly with me! Accept my invitation. It’ll be worthwhile for you, because I have a business offer for you….” Ivonne gives him a fake smile and says that it doesn’t interest her, no thanks. Delirio presses on, because he’s just sure this is something she’d find worthwhile, if she’d only listen to him (he calls her precious, doll). If she doesn’t think it worthwhile, he won’t insist. [Ed. Note: Hah. We already have plenty of evidence to the contrary.] “You know what, Licenciado Perafán?” “What?” He asks and leans far over her desk. Ivonne shakes her finger in his face and yells “Leave me in PEACE!” Marely sits up and looks over at them, startled and possibly wondering que the h*** her stepfather is doing over there.
Back in Ivonne’s corner, Delirio says, “Look, doll, don’t get like that. It’ll be worth your while; I want what’s best for you.” Ivonne’s fuse is about burned out. She tells him that he keeps bothering her and she’s not responding. She wants to know in what language she can tell him that he’ll understand she’s not interested in ANYTHING to do with him. She’s not interested to be his assistant, doesn’t want his invitations to drink tepache, and she isn’t interested in anything at ALL.” She gives him her very best stink eye and storms off. Delirio, like the Bobo doll that never falls over, bobs upright again and says, “this doll’s an original.” [Okay, I interpreted loosely again.] He sidles over to Marely’s desk and complains that all he wanted was some info he needed, with the most cordiality he would muster up, you know me, and look at how she treated him, like a crazy woman. What’s up with that child? She has no class! Marely just stares at him. One can hope she’s as disgusted as we feel.
The lowbrow in question is in CL’s office, bellyaching about Delirio to the big boss. CL makes a wisecrack and Ivonne fusses at him about not starting with his stupid smile that unnerves her (wears her down). CL says that instead of wasting energy fighting uselessly, don’t you think it’d be better if you studied? She could soon begin a new career, with a promising future, a productive one. Ivonne’s annoyed. She doesn’t want him talking nonsense. He tells her whatever; if you want to be this guy’s assistant, perfect. If you DON’T want to be this guy’s assistant, perfect. The only thing he wants is that she won’t bother him with her stuff, because he is sure that he has things much more important to think about. She thinks a second, and walks toward the desk. In a questioning voice, she says “I want to go out tonight...” He tells her that’s a great idea, she needs a distraction and needs to reduce her neurosis a bit. Oh, that’s not exactly what she had in mind, it seems. “I want to go out with you!” He looks mildly impactado. “What a shame. I can’t.” “Sure, you can.” He murmurs dissent, and puffs on one of his infernal cigarettes; he’s clearly bored. She tells him he’d best be thinking about where he’s taking her and it’d best be someplace elegant; that’ll really give him something important to think about. She flounces out of the office.
Juan and Pastor are coming down the escalator to the garage at Farell Industries, and Pastor tells Juan, “Hasta aquí nos trajo el río” Well, it all comes down to this or here we are (my interpretation, it’s a Columbian dicho). Juan remarks that it looks like it. Pastor tells Juan he appreciates that Juan’s been honest with him. Juan remarks that Pastor knows better than anyone that Juan doesn’t like lies, and Pastor chuckles and reminds him that there were times before that Juan doesn’t want to make Pastor recall, which contradict his assertion. Juan replies okay, okay, but I’m a reformed man—by love. Pastor wants Juan to know that he’s going to do everything he can to help Juan. Juan thinks that battle is more than lost. Pastor tells Juan if he only knew how expertly Pastor can manipulate the big boss—he wouldn’t believe it. Modesty aside, Pastor continues, he can do with the boss what he feels like. From here, Juan will not be leaving. [Ed. Note: Pastor just got mega points with me. He can be a really solid guy, and right now is one of those times.] He tells Juan to have a good day, and Juan tells him to have one, too. He calls Pastor as Pastor goes to leave. Pastor turns again, Fern in the background. Juan thanks him for his understanding and makes guy-type gestures. Pastor sighs, “Juanito, what am I to do with you?” He goes. Juan smiles fondly after him, thought bubbling that there’s really a lot of nobility in this little bald guy, and if he hadn’t been fairly sure it could be misunderstood, he’d have given the guy a hug.
A smiling Ana is asking Paula by phone if Paula wants to have lunch. Paula has to turn her down for Monica. Can’t Paula cancel? Nope, impossible. Ana is disappointed, because she wants to tell Paula something that has the potential to be life-changing. Paula wants to know why Mamá can’t just tell her, already. Ana smiles broadly—this will be best told face to face, personally, and it’s a surprise for her. Paula just cannot go. Ana sighs and says she’ll see her in the evening and they’ll talk. Paula wants a little head up right NOW. Ana smiles again and tells her all she can say now is it’s something that could change their lives for the better. “Really?” “Yes, Paula.”
Ivonne gives Pastor an earful about Perafán. The nerve of that guy, trying to make her his assistant! She babbles on about CL being no help at all, all you men are the same, present company excepted, and notices Pastor is in some other world. She claps her hands at him and he comes out of his trance. “Are you listening to me?” “It’s over, Ivonne.” She wants to know what’s over. His relationship with Juan is over forever. She points out that nothing really happened. He sadly tells her that deep down he always had a secret hope that if nothing was said to the contrary, there was always a possibility of them ending up with something, a connection between the two of them. So now, why’s it all over, she wonders. He tells her that Juan is the lover of someone she knows, and detests. “Don’t tell me, Marely?” “No, Paula Dávila.” Ivonne is impactada and speculative at the same time.
Chelo is dusting as Moni comes to tell Chelo she’s leaving. “And what shall I tell him if the Mr. calls?” “Mmm, tell him that I’ve gone to see the Doctor.” “Ay, Sra. Mónica, I’ve never heard you tell lies!” Chelo is scandalized. Moni tells her there’s always a first time, and besides, it’s a righteous lie (white lie). She won’t make it a habit. It’s for a good reason. Chelo lectures Moni that she sure hopes so, since this could turn her into a liar fast. Chelo wouldn’t like that to happen to her. Moni says it won’t. She smiles and waves to Chelo, who wishes her luck as she leaves.
Paula is bracing herself to go to lunch with Moni. She tells Marely if anyone calls, tell them she’ll return about 4:00, 4:30 p.m. Now to go see if she can save Juan’s hide (pellejo, hide/skin) in this company. Marely wants to know what Sra. Mónica has to do with Juan and his situation. Paula thinks a lot, and she’s going to take advantage of the opportunity to get her to intercede for Juan with CL. She has a lot of power, Paula tells Marely, so Paula can kill two birds with one stone. The last thing Paula wants to do is prolong her exposure to CL. Paula leaves and strides across the lobby, while the camera takes us to CL’s office where he’s fingering the phone, clearly wanting to pick it up and call….Paula gets to the elevator, waits a second until it comes, and gets on it as CL finally calls and Marely answers. “Paula?” “No, it’s Marely.” CL is embarrassed, but asks if she’ll hand the phone to Paula. Marely informs him she’s gone to eat. CL wants to know if she left long ago, and Marely tells CL she just left moments ago. CL wonders if she knows, by chance, with whom Paula went to eat. Marely is panicked as we are reminded that any similarity to real life is purely a coincidence.
Monday: Will the gossip mill have a meltdown as Paula and Juan walk out arm in arm? Will CL get vengeance because he's been thrown over for a lowly CHAUFFEUR?
Vocabulary-note there are some in the recap I didn’t put in the list because the translation I guessed at and it might not be correct
no canta un gallo – it’s clear (a rooster couldn’t sing clearer)
que la importa un comino – she doesn’t give a d*** (a grain of cumin isn’t important to her)
que le cayera gordo – you can’t stand me (I fell fat for you!)
¿le muevo la aguja? – do I move the switch? (do I trip your trigger, do you care about me?)
camisa de fuerza - strait jacket
tomar decisions al vuelo – make decisions on the wing/on the fly, think on your feet
si no le importa que meta mi cuchara – if you don’t mind me meddling (if it’s not important to you that I’m mixing my spoon in it)
yo pico de cera - I mind my own business
*Mimisqui – a very unique infirmity suffered by Luigi Lombardi, the flamboyant television production guru of La Fea Más Bella, usually occurring when he perceived himself under extreme duress, for example, when he REALLY didn’t like something or someone
Jeanne
I just realized as I re-read a little of this that I use quotes sometimes and don’t other times when I probably should. Thanks in advance for bearing with that. As always, help and corrections are welcome. I take total responsibility for typos and grammatical errors. ☺
Also, I’ll need subs a couple of times in October for travel. The first is next Friday, October 6. Thanks for considering this, anyone who is able to. If no one can, I’ll get a header posted before I leave for the weekend trip.
And now to our feature film…
As morning breaks over the D. F., we revisit Juan and Ana talking outside the Casa Dávila where Juan has come to get Paula for work and Ana is leaving, too. They greet each other warmly; she turns to go, and almost immediately turns back. Can she ask him a question? Sure, even two. She chuckles, but wants to know what’s up with Juan and Paula. He thought bubbles that’s the question he’s asking himself. He doesn’t want to get mixed up between the two of them.
And we revisit Pastor’s chat with CL, who barges in while Pastor is grooming his toupee. Pastor makes a nice save with his mirror and comb stowed in the fake company file faster than the speed of light, though he’s impactado because CL is known not to be a lark and it’s awfully early for him to be up and meddling in office stuff. CL needs his help Pastor tries to offer him coffee, or Lucy’s word (which I love), whatnot. CL cuts him off, nope, he just needs Pastor to prepare separation papers and pay for Paula and Juan.
Ana doesn’t think this is such a difficult question. Juan babbles until she asks him even more directly what’s up. He honestly answers he has no idea, really. She isn’t buying it. He thought bubbles about what he should do. Just as we think Ana might get an answer, Paula pops out and greets Juan rapidly, reminding him they need to hurry. And you, Mamá, aren’t you going to be late? Ana sighs. She’s not getting the 411 today, obviously. She rushes Juan to the car, and he rushes after her. Isn’t it a lovely day? Yep, a lovely day. Doña Ana, YOU have a lovely day. They’re off and running (as opposed to running off….. at the mouth).
¡¡¿¿¿Qué???!!! Pastor chuckles nervously. What’s so funny, CL asks him? Pastor’s sure he misunderstood. Nope. There’s nothing to understand, just do it. He repeats his request; as soon as possible! Pastor wants to know if there’s a specific reason for this. Because I said so. Ya got a problem wid dat? Pastor assures him there’s no problem. But, he pushes for reasons why…..CL cuts him off. Just do what I tell you. Don’t be questioning me or you’ll be preparing your separation papers. Pastor stutters around that he’s not questioning the boss’s decision. CL tells him that’s better. He wants it by noon. Pastor assures him it’s crystal clear (no canta un gallo, a rooster couldn’t sing clearer) and we hear the rooster crow in the lobby. CL stalks out while Pastor mutters to himself and writes. He stares at the door, dejected and impactado.
Queen Nidia has her orange juice [Ed. Note: geez, does Delirio do this every morning? Maybe he does have some socially redeeming value] in bed, and is whining about Yadi’s noncompliance and ingratitude. It was only when Juan arrived that they finally knew where Yadi was, or she doesn’t know where they’d still be hunting the wretched child down [okay, I added that wretched child stuff]. He dresses himself for work as he tells her that the thing worrying him the most is that she’s ended up with Enrique, in whom he’s never had any faith. [Ed. Note: ¡MENTIROSO! He was your best friend a few episodes ago, especially when you were broke and hungry!] What’s more, Nidia tells him, it’s his fault she’s ignoring me (no me hace caso) and she doesn’t give a d*** (qué la importa un comino, a grain of cumin isn’t important to her) about the punishment I gave her. Delirio tells her “excuse me, but I’ve told you” and proceeds to castigate her for spoiling the little girls as long as he’s known her and she goes with any whim they have, etc., etc. She tells him not to question how she’s raised her children. He jumps on it to point out her kids need a paternal figure. That’d be a masculine role model with authority, maturity, serenity, economic stability…..Nidia tries to interrupt and he cuts her right off. Yadi needs someone serious, responsible….um….someone like Gutis! It’d be for her own good! “Listen to me! Listen to me!” Nidia actually looks like she’s thinking about Gutis here. Delirio approaches her and she thrusts out her palm to hold him off. Wait. She’s going with him to work and talk to Enrique. She gets out of bed to get ready. She’s going to put things very clear with him. Delirio thinks that’s a VERY good idea, he’ll wait for her. He smugly finishes fixing his tie, which has taken him about five minutes to knot so far.
Paula asks Juan what her Mami wanted as they drive to the office. Well, she wanted to know what was up with us. So, what did you tell her? Well, nothing since you came out of the house right then. But, Licenciada, your mother asked me a question and I honestly didn’t know what to say. Juan doesn’t know what she has said to her mother. She tells him she’s said nothing, but he knows her mother, she suspects there’s more than a simple friendship between them. Juan thought bubbles that it’s now or never, it’s going to drive him nuts. He’s still left with a doubt himself, so he decided to play it out with her. He stops the car and nails her. Okay, Licenciada, I’m asking myself the same question, what IS between you and me? She looks a little disturbed at having her cage rattled.
Ivonne is impactada. She sits down in Pastor’s office, “So, he’s going to fire them both at the same time?” Pastor affirms the news she’s been waiting to hear, her nemesis will be GONE! He mutters that it’s really strange, no? She agrees. They’re both puzzled. She wants to know more, and Pastor tells her CL’s lips were sealed (el hombre estuvo hermético, like hermetically sealed ala Carnac the Magnificent, aka Johnny Carson). She says she thinks she shouldn’t have been surprised—something strange was happening between CL and Paula. Pastor agrees. Ivonne says she hadn’t told Pastor, but there was so much coming and going from his office to hers and back again—something was going on.…..Pastor points out that from the beginning they had their messes. It’s logical CL would end up firing her. Pastor’s real question is what does Juan have to do with this [Ed. Note: that’s the only relevant question, right, Pastor?]
Juan wants to know why he’s one of the protagonists of this story and is clueless. Paula tries to protest a little….she is clueless, too. Puh-leeze, Licenciada. He tells her if she wants him to be honest with her, he’s half nuts with this situation, one day it’s a thousand marvels, she’s warm, all smiles, and another she’s distant, like she can’t stand him (que le cayera gordo, fell fat for you). He tells her a few more unpleasant things she does like hide from him—he doesn’t understand, and she tells him she’s just trying to put her thoughts in order. He thinks if they define it for themselves, it’ll make it easier and they’ll know how to behave. She agrees, he’s totally right. She’s a little taken aback, though. It’s happening so fast, so pressured. She doesn’t understand how to interpret all these things. Okay, he tells her, before anything else you need to clarify if you still have feelings for CL. Juan, she tells him, you know it’s just recently I’ve been enamored of him. Suddenly when what happened between us happened, the floor (or apartment, flat) moved (I was shaken up, [my best guess]), and it made me doubt my feelings. He tells her there are certain feelings that don’t bear analysis and one knows perfectly what they are. She agrees and feels like a fool for not knowing exactly what it is she’s feeling. [Ed. Note: Could she be placating Juan, still playing with him to buy time?] He’s going to ask her one question, just one. Does he please her or not? (What does she feel for him?) As they say in my town, do I trip your trigger? (le muevo la aguja- do I move the switch?) She runs her fingers through her hair and looks away --she doesn’t want to go there.
Pastor looks at his watch. He wants to know what’s going on, and would you look at the time? Juan’s late! Ivonne tells him she is sure that Juan is clueless, he has no idea what’s happening here. “He’s as lost as you, or more.” Pastor gets up; he’s going down to wait for Juan and kidnap him as fast as Juan gets there. He’s going to force Juan to tell him every little detail, all of it! ‘Scuse, please. Ivonne is left in the office, puzzling over this new twist.
Paula gives Juan the ol’ “you’re very special to me” song and dance. She takes his hand and folds both of hers around his. The time they had that night was magical. Hablablablabla…..He asks if there was love? She can’t say that word yet. She’s still recovering from her war wounds. She is sure, though, they’re going on a good road. That’s all he wanted to hear. She asks for a favor, that they go slowly, give one another space, that they don’t have pressure, and don’t have to say a word, not have to explain every gesture and not put themselves in a strait jacket (camisa de fuerza). She needs time to sort out what’s in her head and heart. He tells her to take all the time she needs. His love for her isn’t going anyplace. He has no doubt what he feels for her. “Because, I love you. I love you with all my heart.” He doesn’t need to say more, with this it’s all been said. He kisses her hand. She’s serious, but smiling. He’s serious, and intense. They caress each other’s hands and gaze at each other while “Ay, amor” plays in the background…..
Kike is in the garage, where Fern is fiddling with what looks like a mini-television. He asks Fern what he was supposed to do? Put her out in the street? Look grudging and inconsiderate? What could he do? He could have her in the house, and hold her off. Well, did she come in? What do you think? You know what, though? She’s still there, sleeping like a queen until dinner. He chuckles about Yadi’s ways. Fern wants to know where this leaves him. He loves this woman. Enrique suddenly gets suspicious. What did Fern have with her? Nothing, Fern swears with his hand up. Kike says anyway, she betrayed him, and since then he’s not so sure she’s a good woman. She doesn’t make him feel the passion she used to. They chitchat a little and Pastor comes looking for Juan. He’s not here yet, they tell him. Where could he be? Look at the time! Pastor asks God for patience. Fern wants to know if he plans to wait there, and Pastor wants to know if there’s some problem with that. No, of course not. Just curious. Pastor waves them back to their conversation. Kike stutters something about food, and Fern plays along….
Ivonne, her fetching tube-type top leading the procession out front, storms into CL’s office and throws a file down on his desk. For a paper file, it sure makes some noise. He looks up, muy irritado. “What do you want?” She has to talk to him. He’s busy. Well, she has something to say and it’s now or never [déjà vu, didn’t Juan have this line earlier? I guess it saves writers fees if they can repeat the lines.] “What do you want, and please make it quick.” Ivonne makes a caustic remark about her majesty, the star of the office, Paula. CL snidely notes that if the office folk devoted as much time to work as they do to gossip, Farell Industries would be the most productive company in the world. It wasn’t gossip. Pastor is very upset that not is Paula leaving, but Juan, too. [Ed. Note: Aha. The file has the separation paperwork, anyone want to make book on it?] Let’s say it wasn’t too secret. CL smirks and tells her he’s so pleased to see her genuine caring for Juan, she’s making progress here. Ivonne says Juan can go to the devil. But then what? This caring is for Paula? Nope. I want her position. I want you to appoint me Veep for commercial transactions. He gets a big grin. Then he’s ROTFLLL. And LLLLLLL. And LLLLLLL. While he laughs his nasty head off, Ivonne plots eternal revenge with a humongous stink eye.
Pastor is patting his toupee and pacing a little. Kike and Fern lean in to whisper behind him. “What do you think is going on?” “Could he have lice on his head?” Fern chuckles and tells him not on the head, in the toupee. They grin at each other. They speculate about why he’s waiting for Juan. Is Juan going to get a death sentence? Kike thinks he looks like he’s on the verge of tears. Fern points out that’s his normal face. Whew, here comes the limo. Juan lets Paula out and tells her goodbye before Pastor grabs him and rushes him off—Juan had him at the point of an attack of nerves! [Ed. Note: it’s not likely this guilt trip will work, Pastor, so give it up.] Pastor has something urgent to communicate with him….Juan tries to tell him that he has stuff to do. The only thing he has to do, Pastor tells him, is go with Pastor. Trust me for once in your life, Juan! They’re going out for coffee. They won’t be long, and they won’t be overheard. He looks meaningfully back at the muchachos. Juan calls back for Fern to look after the car as Pastor shoves him off. Fern salutes: “sure, boss.” Kike waves, too and taps Fern, what’s up with that? “I don’t know what to think. The only thing I now is that every day it’s tougher to find a normal Christian who’s right in the head.” [Ed. Note: Must be a dicho, folks, and I likely screwed up that interpretation.]
CL is still ROTFLLLLLL. He’s nearly in tears, it’s so funny. That’s a good one, he tells her. (Qué buena onda). That’s the most absurd thing I’ve heard in my life. Ivonne takes issue with that. She doesn’t see how it’s funny. He tells her, look, forget it, I’m not discussing this with you. You’re not taking Paula’s place, period. For this assignment, you would have to be trained, self-assured, and able to think on your feet (make decisions on the wing, al vuelo). Able to have a minimal sense of how to analyze and make commercial transactions….with experience. He shakes his finger at her to emphasize. [Ed. Note: don’t you just want to do something rude with that shaking finger, gentle readers?] She tells him she can meet all those conditions. He smirks and chuckles again. [Ed. Note: don’t you just want to do something rude with that smirking face, gentle readers?] “I doubt it.” “Let me show you!” “Are you for real?” “Well, you see I am. I just want to be heard out. This doesn’t have anything to do with….our past.” He tells her okay, let’s talk to the point (clearly). You want a promotion, right, don’t worry. Yep, but not just anything. I’ve thought about it, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Ivonne smiles in triumph. Okay, I’m promoting you to Licenciado Perafán’s assistant. How does that sound? She practically comes across the desk at him. Feet first. “Are you mocking me? Do you think I’m stupid? That’s what you think of me?” “I had the same questions? How could you think to come through my office door and ask for the Commercial Veep position?” “Like the Licenciada Paula, or have you forgotten how she obtained her meteoric ascension?” “Why don’t you refresh my memory, Ivonne?” “By spending time in your bed.” She points out he didn’t have to ask about experience, training, nothing. He retorts that her qualifications are excellent, her résumé is excellent, and wonders if she wants to see it. She scoffs. She’s sure Paula showed it to him lots of times. He uses what is apparently a trump card for her qualifications, though who knows why, because she could have graduated from Podunk U: Paula studied at a university in the United States! And you, meanwhile, studied at a technical school for secretaries. That’s just to begin with. What do you want? That you’ll end up humiliated? She says it doesn’t matter. He agrees with that, and tells her that at least is a more sensible attitude. But, he lets her know the Veep position already has a new occupant. “What? You’ve found another victim?” He reluctantly tells her that the new Veep is MB. Ivonne is a little impactada. He tells her to excuse him, because he has a lot of work and little patience. She storms out in a huff. When he’s done looking disgusted and irritated, he laughs and points at the door she just exited.
Chelo and Monica are cutting up veggies together in the kitchen. [Ed. Note: No wonder Moni doesn’t think it’s a mortal sin for Paula to hang out with a chauffeur.} Chelo is congratulating Moni on getting to do the work she wants, and to work together with CL. For some unfathomable reason, Chelo thinks this is a Good Thing. Chelo wonders if she’s happy, and Moni confirms it makes her very content. [Ed. Note: Chelo is almost always smiling. She’d be a good person to have around.] Moni says there’s still something she doesn’t like about it. Chelo wants to know what, if Moni doesn’t mind her meddling (si no le importa que meta mi cuchara, if it’s not important to you that I’m mixing my spoon in it). Moni tells her she’s still not sure what’s up with Paula. Something has her unconvinced. It’s strange, when she and Juan were here, we talked about work and she seemed quite content, enthusiastic. Chelo asks what Don CL says. Well, he’s told me his version, Moni tells Chelo, but I’d like to hear hers. She has been very special with me; she made a good impression on me. Chelo tells her she has a big heart. Moni says it’s just fair, nothing more. Moni says she’s going to talk with Paula, but not one word to CL, he’ll kill me. Chelo promises to zip her lip. (yo pico de cera, I mind my own business).
Marely, standing in front of Paula’s desk, has her notepad and is reciting the to do list for Paula. They have responses to send, calls to make. Paula says she’s going to make calls personally, and Marely agrees. Also, there’s my letter of resignation, Paula says. Marely looks up, a little alarmed, and then smiles and tells Paula of course, the letter of resignation is routine around here. Nope, this time it’s for real, Paula tells her, she’s also tired of this game. She’s going to save CL the trouble of letting her go. Of course, Marely tells her. Paula wants to know why she’s so mad. Marely denies she’s mad, and she won’t meddle in something that’s not important to her. Well, excuse me, Paula tells her, but you look like you’d gladly choke me. Paula, I’ve told you it’s your life and you know what to do with it. Paula tells her she’s talked with Juan and he asked what’s their situation, are they a couple? Oh? “I said I didn’t know.” I should say I didn’t know what to say. I tried to tell him the truth, or what I believe to be the truth. Well, Marely replies, this seems like it wasn’t a very clear conversation. [Ed. Note: Could her tongue be in her cheek?] Paula gets impassioned as she tells Marely that the one thing she wants to do now is get away from CL. Marely retorts that Paula wants to see him suffer as much as possible. Paula confirms that’d make her happy. Paula reminds Marely what he did to her, betrayed her, humiliated her, what woman wouldn’t want to get revenge on a guy like that? You know what I’ve suffered at his hands! Marely knows, but she tells Paula Juan shouldn’t have to pay for the damage (the broken plates). The half-sisters glare at each other.
Pastor has Juan cornered at the coffee shop. He wants Juan to explain a couple of little things. He wants Juan to explain like God wills it, with his hand on his heart, and the truth on his lips. Juan swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help him Diosito. He thought bubbles that he’s wondering what’s happening. Pastor’s gonna overheat like a turbine. Pastor tells him this morning he was working in his office very early when suddenly CL showed up, which was odd because he’s no lark, but what was really strange was what he asked me to do. What was that? To prepare your separation paperwork, and the Licenciada Paula’s, nothing less. That? What don’t you understand about how important this is? Pastor wants to know. He’s going to FIRE you, Juanito! Both of you! Sure, Juan assures him, I understand, I’m not a blockhead. Pastor remarks that he must be the blockhead because doesn’t understand (why Juan isn’t more upset). Could Juan please explain que the h*** is happening? Juan sits back with a sour look.
Paula finally stands up and comes around her desk. She tells Marely that her worry about Juan only says that she hasn’t been honest. Does Juan interest her? Paula walks behind Marely, who is looking guilty, but Paula can’t see it. She squares her jaw and turns around. Yes, as a friend, a brother. “Marely, I promise you I’ll do everything possible….” Saved by the bell. Marely answers the phone and finds it’s Monica. She passes the phone to a reluctant and sighing Paula. Paula answers with pretty manners, but a grimace. Moni invites her out to eat lunch. How would that be? Paula can’t think of a graceful way to decline, and accepts. They’ll have lunch at three. Moni asks her not to say a word to CL; Paula agrees that she’ll say nothing. As she hangs up the phone, she tells an impactada Marely that Moni wants to talk with her.
Kike tells Fern he’s got to get going, and Fern bids him goodbye, but there’s a hitch in Kike’s plans. Delirio is right behind him. With Nidia. Nidia tells Delirio thanks for coming with me, but I’ll go it alone now. She looks meaningfully as a worried Kike. She tells Delirio she knows he has lots of work and she doesn’t want to take more of his time. [Ed. Note: Looks like a firm dismissal, folks.] He bids her goodbye with an endearment (my little sunflower bud? Capullito de girasol).
Nidia forcefully tells Kike she has to talk to him. He faces off with her hesitantly and submissively; he’s at her orders. Fern watches from his seat at the desk behind Kike. Nidia excuses herself to Fernandito, and tells Kike to get going. He walks off quickly. She and Fern eye each other….is it electricity? Is it disgust and annoyance? Is it about half and half? She turns and follows Kike. With a swing like that, she needs a porch. He watches…..but what the heck is that look?
Juan is trying to explain to Pastor. He wants Pastor to promise to take it calmly. Pastor tells him that Juan knows he’s the calmest person on the planet. Juan starts to stammer through it and decides to spit it out: “the Licenciada Paula and I are in love.” Juan beams at Pastor. Pastor, on the other hand, is impactado and desolate. He stands and begins to shake his head, close to tears. “No, no Juan, it can’t be!” His voice hits the Threshold of Discomfort at about 110 decibels Sound Pressure Level. Everyone in the restaurant looks. Juan tells him it is. Pastor seats himself, putting his head onto his hands and crying loudly. Juan looks over his shoulder at all the people looking at them.
Nidia has revved up to full speed ahead with Kike. She reams him a new one. She wonders what on earth possessed him to kidnap her daughter. He tries to interrupt. She wonders how he could do this to her! She’s been like a second mother to him! He tries to interrupt. She reminds him that he knows how much her deceased husband esteemed him. He would have given anything to see Kike and Yadi married. He tries to interrupt. She chastises him for thinking about living together, and gives him a list of reasons why it’s a Bad Thing. Kike makes the “time out” sign and tells her to listen to him. It wasn’t HIS idea! He agrees with her and he didn’t TAKE Yadira. No??? No!!!! He tells Nidia she’ll have to pardon him, but Yadi tricked him into coming to her room, and provoked him when she started to undress….Nidia doesn’t want to hear that part! Then he tells Nidia that Yadi came looking for him at school and practically forced him to take her in. If she wants to verify it she can ask Juan.
Juan asks Pastor to please do him a favor and shut up. Pastor keeps yelling. All the while that he was giving Juan a hand, and it was impossible to be happy, and he kept on defending Juan from those who would do him dirt. Juan tells him he appreciates all that Pastor has done for him, but really, he’s always been a friend. Juan notices all the onlookers and yells that Pastor is a great friend. “He’s my compa!” (Compadre, pal).
Kike assures Nidia that if it’d been up to him, he would have brought Yadi home last night. He doesn’t understand, but she’s obsessed with him. He’s desperate. Nidia wonders if he’s telling her the truth. She clearly wants to believe him. He swears he is, he’s not playing her, that’s God’s will. You know how much I loved your daughter. You know I would have died for her, but it’s all different now. I care nothing for her. Nidia says she’s working hard to believe this. He tells her it’s true, and she can go by his house and talk to Yadi. She’ll be doing them both a favor. Nope, she says, you’d better go with me. Kike wants to draw her a map and give her the address—he has a lot of work at the moment. They go back to the desk and Fern looks up, wary. Nidia looks triumphantly at him. She strokes herself and he starts to say something, but can’t. Could there really be something here? Nah. Kike gives her the map and address, and tells her to let him know if she needs anything, because she can count on him. She thanks him. She tells him that she hopes he’ll find love again, and calls him “my son.” Kike thanks her, takes his leave, and runs off to get his transporting done. Fern and Nidia are left staring at each other. They’re not alone, though….this is still Grand Central and the world passes through here each day. Does it matter to Nidia? Nope. She sits on the corner of the desk and looks dejected, so Fern, gentleman that he is, gets up and pats her on the shoulder. “Is anything wrong?” She throws herself into his arms. He reluctantly holds her and strokes her hair, then hears something that makes him look down to see if she’s crying or purring.
Pastor is still on a roll. He wants Juan to tell him one thing, the truth, and nothing but the truth. Do you love HER? Or is what’s happening with her simply a whim? Tell me the truth, I demand it. Juan tells him if he wants the truth, then yes, he loves her more than he has ever loved before and more than he will ever love again. He says Pastor should believe it, there are no more lies, no matter how much it hurts him, hurts CL, whoever. He adores this woman, and no human will ever change that. Pastor stands up, and Juan asks why? They’re not done talking. Juan tries to talk him back, but Pastor turns around and immediately falls into the arms of the guy behind him who stood up just in time to catch Pastor….in dead faint. It’s a mimisqui that would make Luigi Lombardi sit up and take notice. Juan lowers him to the floor gently and calls for water.
Delirio is still talking with Gutis, upset because he hasn’t got the information he wants yet and that they’re pressuring him and he doesn’t know what he can tell them about not finding the info. Gutis, totally nonchalant about all this, and playing with his shades while he talks on the phone, wonders that’s the mystery. They exchange barbs about the info, and Delirio tells Gutis he can’t keep making excuses. Gutis gets frustrated and tells him enough, already, don’t be crying here. Last night I left it for you on the desk top. Delirio turns over some papers and sputters.
Nidia still has Fern detained. She tells him it sucks to be her. How come children pay their parents like this with tears of blood? After all this dedication! Why? Why? She scans the area for warm bodies, and detecting none but Fern’s at the moment, slinks up to give him a full-body press (not noticing the person passing behind them several feet). He reluctantly tolerates her throwing herself at him, while she tells him her life is so unfair! Here she is, more alone than ever, she’s just realized…..alone, abandoned, without a firm little chest to give her support. All this is, of course, punctuated with stroking down her sides and a hoist. She continues that there are no arms to pamper her, as she strokes his long arms and gazes up into his face two feet above her.
Delirio is delirious! He tells Gutis that it’s marvelous what he’s found! Of course, Delirio has barely opened the document he just picked up, but it’s marvelous. Gutis says they can make a few little calls, get organized, and then…blackmail hovers in the air, unspoken but tangible. Delirio realizes he’s brilliant, though it pains him to say it. But Gutis is not happy; he reminds Delirio that they have a pact for which Delirio as of yet has done nothing at all. “But what are you talking about, my king? What?” It’s Yadira, of course. Delirio assures Gutis that he’s working on this child on Gutis’ behalf. He can be very sure of that. Gutis certainly hopes so, for Delirio’s own good.
Nidia pushes Fern almost back to the wall as he sits on a desk against it, and she suggests that they save this discussion for another day in another place. Fern finally gets his bearings and takes charge. He eases her up and away from him, flips her around a little and pushes himself farther from her, holding her arms. “Doña Nidia, you know what I think about that.” She flips him back to sit on the desk, holding him by the arms, and sits him down, flirting some more [ni que te estuviera pidiendo algo del otro mundo, it wasn’t like I was asking for something to write home about? I looked this one up and found it could be very racy, judging from the websites the phrase brought up. Yikes! Help here is welcome]. She only wants a few quick seconds of his time. He’ll be able to help her “clarify” her life. She strokes and rubs. “That’s all.” He tries again to stand up.
We find ourselves looking up at Juan’s concerned face, people standing behind him. “Are you feeling better?” The view shifts and we see a man holding Pastor up slightly from his position on the floor, with Juan holding a cup to his lips. “Drink a little water.” Juan dabs a napkin lightly at Pastor’s face after helping him with the drink. “Are you feeling better, better, better, better?” We hear the echo fades in Pastor’s ears. “Give me your little hand.” Juan and the guy help Pastor to his feet and Juan pulls a chair out for him. Juan thought bubbles that this hit the poor guy like a mule kick. Pastor weeps that this has to be a nightmare, a punishment. He shakes his head and blubbers. Juan encourages him to calm himself; they’re bringing him a little cup of tea. The drama continues.
Licenciado Perafán is in CL’s office. He has brought the incriminating book from the catacombs for CL’s review. CL thanks him; that’s what they were needing. Delirio tells him how much work it was to find this info for him. And, as you see, when I commit to something, it’s until death! He snaps his fingers. [Ed. Note: what an irritating habit! I have a colleague who does that often, and sometimes want to shake that colleague. I keep myself in check, though. With Alirio I probably would cut loose, however.] Delirio is beaming ear to ear, and making his usual expansive gestures to punctuate his grand success. “Ah, but CL, buddy, you and I still have a bit of unfinished business, right?” CL wants to know what. “Sure, you remember that about my assistant?” CL informs him sure, but I have bad news, Ivonne didn’t accept it. Delirio foolishly tells CL that he had thought for sure that CL was the one who made the decisions in Farell Industries, (and implies that now he sees that’s not the case, tsk). CL squares his jaw and tells Delirio through gritted teeth that sometimes he takes the well-being of his people into account. Delirio pushes more buttons by telling CL that he understands perfectly; if he were in CL’s shoes he’d do exactly the same thing and not let Ivonne out of his sight [okay, I interpreted very loosely here. Also, I’d like to make an observation that I’m not sure, but I think Delirio made a really risqué comment here, instead of saying “I’d do exactly the same (mismo), the word “mismo” Alirio pronounced “misma” which could have been a reference to doing Ivonne, her. But a schoolmarm wouldn’t actually know about that, so I could be way off base]. CL remarks that Delirio can’t know how much that reassures him to know that. Delirio asks if it would be too much for him to ask that CL let him talk with this little girl and see if he can convince her.
The next thing we know, Delirio is panting over Ivonne’s desk. He asks her how she is, what can she tell him? Nothing! He doesn’t take the hint, but continues that he’s noticed how alone she is when it’s time to eat, and he wonders if she’d go with him to a cozy little Mexican place, with tacos and tepache to die for. “Are you inviting me to EAT??” “Well, yeah, how does that seem to you, precious?” “BAD! Many thanks but NO thanks!” Ivonne is yelling. The office gossip-mongers should have fun with this old boy hitting up on Ivonne [Ed. Note: I tried to find Roberto d’Amico’s birth date on the web and it’s not given. Anyplace!] “Little queen, don’t be so surly with me! Accept my invitation. It’ll be worthwhile for you, because I have a business offer for you….” Ivonne gives him a fake smile and says that it doesn’t interest her, no thanks. Delirio presses on, because he’s just sure this is something she’d find worthwhile, if she’d only listen to him (he calls her precious, doll). If she doesn’t think it worthwhile, he won’t insist. [Ed. Note: Hah. We already have plenty of evidence to the contrary.] “You know what, Licenciado Perafán?” “What?” He asks and leans far over her desk. Ivonne shakes her finger in his face and yells “Leave me in PEACE!” Marely sits up and looks over at them, startled and possibly wondering que the h*** her stepfather is doing over there.
Back in Ivonne’s corner, Delirio says, “Look, doll, don’t get like that. It’ll be worth your while; I want what’s best for you.” Ivonne’s fuse is about burned out. She tells him that he keeps bothering her and she’s not responding. She wants to know in what language she can tell him that he’ll understand she’s not interested in ANYTHING to do with him. She’s not interested to be his assistant, doesn’t want his invitations to drink tepache, and she isn’t interested in anything at ALL.” She gives him her very best stink eye and storms off. Delirio, like the Bobo doll that never falls over, bobs upright again and says, “this doll’s an original.” [Okay, I interpreted loosely again.] He sidles over to Marely’s desk and complains that all he wanted was some info he needed, with the most cordiality he would muster up, you know me, and look at how she treated him, like a crazy woman. What’s up with that child? She has no class! Marely just stares at him. One can hope she’s as disgusted as we feel.
The lowbrow in question is in CL’s office, bellyaching about Delirio to the big boss. CL makes a wisecrack and Ivonne fusses at him about not starting with his stupid smile that unnerves her (wears her down). CL says that instead of wasting energy fighting uselessly, don’t you think it’d be better if you studied? She could soon begin a new career, with a promising future, a productive one. Ivonne’s annoyed. She doesn’t want him talking nonsense. He tells her whatever; if you want to be this guy’s assistant, perfect. If you DON’T want to be this guy’s assistant, perfect. The only thing he wants is that she won’t bother him with her stuff, because he is sure that he has things much more important to think about. She thinks a second, and walks toward the desk. In a questioning voice, she says “I want to go out tonight...” He tells her that’s a great idea, she needs a distraction and needs to reduce her neurosis a bit. Oh, that’s not exactly what she had in mind, it seems. “I want to go out with you!” He looks mildly impactado. “What a shame. I can’t.” “Sure, you can.” He murmurs dissent, and puffs on one of his infernal cigarettes; he’s clearly bored. She tells him he’d best be thinking about where he’s taking her and it’d best be someplace elegant; that’ll really give him something important to think about. She flounces out of the office.
Juan and Pastor are coming down the escalator to the garage at Farell Industries, and Pastor tells Juan, “Hasta aquí nos trajo el río” Well, it all comes down to this or here we are (my interpretation, it’s a Columbian dicho). Juan remarks that it looks like it. Pastor tells Juan he appreciates that Juan’s been honest with him. Juan remarks that Pastor knows better than anyone that Juan doesn’t like lies, and Pastor chuckles and reminds him that there were times before that Juan doesn’t want to make Pastor recall, which contradict his assertion. Juan replies okay, okay, but I’m a reformed man—by love. Pastor wants Juan to know that he’s going to do everything he can to help Juan. Juan thinks that battle is more than lost. Pastor tells Juan if he only knew how expertly Pastor can manipulate the big boss—he wouldn’t believe it. Modesty aside, Pastor continues, he can do with the boss what he feels like. From here, Juan will not be leaving. [Ed. Note: Pastor just got mega points with me. He can be a really solid guy, and right now is one of those times.] He tells Juan to have a good day, and Juan tells him to have one, too. He calls Pastor as Pastor goes to leave. Pastor turns again, Fern in the background. Juan thanks him for his understanding and makes guy-type gestures. Pastor sighs, “Juanito, what am I to do with you?” He goes. Juan smiles fondly after him, thought bubbling that there’s really a lot of nobility in this little bald guy, and if he hadn’t been fairly sure it could be misunderstood, he’d have given the guy a hug.
A smiling Ana is asking Paula by phone if Paula wants to have lunch. Paula has to turn her down for Monica. Can’t Paula cancel? Nope, impossible. Ana is disappointed, because she wants to tell Paula something that has the potential to be life-changing. Paula wants to know why Mamá can’t just tell her, already. Ana smiles broadly—this will be best told face to face, personally, and it’s a surprise for her. Paula just cannot go. Ana sighs and says she’ll see her in the evening and they’ll talk. Paula wants a little head up right NOW. Ana smiles again and tells her all she can say now is it’s something that could change their lives for the better. “Really?” “Yes, Paula.”
Ivonne gives Pastor an earful about Perafán. The nerve of that guy, trying to make her his assistant! She babbles on about CL being no help at all, all you men are the same, present company excepted, and notices Pastor is in some other world. She claps her hands at him and he comes out of his trance. “Are you listening to me?” “It’s over, Ivonne.” She wants to know what’s over. His relationship with Juan is over forever. She points out that nothing really happened. He sadly tells her that deep down he always had a secret hope that if nothing was said to the contrary, there was always a possibility of them ending up with something, a connection between the two of them. So now, why’s it all over, she wonders. He tells her that Juan is the lover of someone she knows, and detests. “Don’t tell me, Marely?” “No, Paula Dávila.” Ivonne is impactada and speculative at the same time.
Chelo is dusting as Moni comes to tell Chelo she’s leaving. “And what shall I tell him if the Mr. calls?” “Mmm, tell him that I’ve gone to see the Doctor.” “Ay, Sra. Mónica, I’ve never heard you tell lies!” Chelo is scandalized. Moni tells her there’s always a first time, and besides, it’s a righteous lie (white lie). She won’t make it a habit. It’s for a good reason. Chelo lectures Moni that she sure hopes so, since this could turn her into a liar fast. Chelo wouldn’t like that to happen to her. Moni says it won’t. She smiles and waves to Chelo, who wishes her luck as she leaves.
Paula is bracing herself to go to lunch with Moni. She tells Marely if anyone calls, tell them she’ll return about 4:00, 4:30 p.m. Now to go see if she can save Juan’s hide (pellejo, hide/skin) in this company. Marely wants to know what Sra. Mónica has to do with Juan and his situation. Paula thinks a lot, and she’s going to take advantage of the opportunity to get her to intercede for Juan with CL. She has a lot of power, Paula tells Marely, so Paula can kill two birds with one stone. The last thing Paula wants to do is prolong her exposure to CL. Paula leaves and strides across the lobby, while the camera takes us to CL’s office where he’s fingering the phone, clearly wanting to pick it up and call….Paula gets to the elevator, waits a second until it comes, and gets on it as CL finally calls and Marely answers. “Paula?” “No, it’s Marely.” CL is embarrassed, but asks if she’ll hand the phone to Paula. Marely informs him she’s gone to eat. CL wants to know if she left long ago, and Marely tells CL she just left moments ago. CL wonders if she knows, by chance, with whom Paula went to eat. Marely is panicked as we are reminded that any similarity to real life is purely a coincidence.
Monday: Will the gossip mill have a meltdown as Paula and Juan walk out arm in arm? Will CL get vengeance because he's been thrown over for a lowly CHAUFFEUR?
Vocabulary-note there are some in the recap I didn’t put in the list because the translation I guessed at and it might not be correct
no canta un gallo – it’s clear (a rooster couldn’t sing clearer)
que la importa un comino – she doesn’t give a d*** (a grain of cumin isn’t important to her)
que le cayera gordo – you can’t stand me (I fell fat for you!)
¿le muevo la aguja? – do I move the switch? (do I trip your trigger, do you care about me?)
camisa de fuerza - strait jacket
tomar decisions al vuelo – make decisions on the wing/on the fly, think on your feet
si no le importa que meta mi cuchara – if you don’t mind me meddling (if it’s not important to you that I’m mixing my spoon in it)
yo pico de cera - I mind my own business
*Mimisqui – a very unique infirmity suffered by Luigi Lombardi, the flamboyant television production guru of La Fea Más Bella, usually occurring when he perceived himself under extreme duress, for example, when he REALLY didn’t like something or someone
Jeanne
Labels: Juan
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Destilando Amor, 09/28/07: MINE'S BIGGER THAN YOURS!
It's school daze with Dr. Dazzle competing against the Mescal Manic de Montalvo. The two rivals look at each other in the hotel lobby and Alonso breaks the silence first. "Go for a drink?" "Yeah. Let's go." Rod and Alonso make their way to the bar while Gavi gets situated in her room.
After squaring off about the chairs, Alonso tells Rod they've got a problem and its name is Aaron Montalvo. He complains that Aaron has become a headache for Gavi and that he has been purposely, pointedly rude and especially aggressive towards her, actually the both of them. Additionally he has spoken pejoratively about his tequila with the visitors. (I love the way this guy casually throws out these $4 words like others sling the 4-letter kind.) Alonso explains he's worried about the reputation of both the CRT and Rodrigo, but especially Gavi's.
"Aaron is harming you both and I don't like it at all. He is insisting that she will not be allowed to enter the hacienda. If she's refused the trip will be canceled. I'm holding off making any decision till I get your opinion." "--I am the only one who gives orders at Montalveña. Anything else?" Alonso continues that he believes Aaron's been sabotaging Rod's new tequila with the prospective clients and Rod is not surprised. "Look," Alonso says. "it's my job to protect the interests of the CRT and of the tequila producers, and that would include you."
Rod is impatient and rude again. "--Anything else?" (For a guy who needs all the help he can get from Santoveña's department, Rod doesn't realize how lucky he is he has such a consummate professional like Alonso. I ask you, how many of us would take that kind of grief from a business associate and not just lose it after a couple of drinks, hmmm?)
Alonso continues that he wants to clear up all the apparent misunderstandings so that the three of them might be better able to work without any unnecessary stress. Rod, though, tells him, man-to-man, that the only real problem between them is that Alonso happens to be interested in the same woman, the woman that Rod loves.
Upstairs in her room Gavi is putting away her bags and settling in. On her bedstand she notices a second orchid and it has a card from Rod:
"As I suppose others might have had the idea to give you flowers, I hope this orchid is
satisfactorily distinguishable from amongst the others. It is, the same as you, unique.
Today I am celebrating more than ever the fact you are alive and are near me.
-- Happy Birthday, Rodrigo."
satisfactorily distinguishable from amongst the others. It is, the same as you, unique.
Today I am celebrating more than ever the fact you are alive and are near me.
-- Happy Birthday, Rodrigo."
Back down in the bar Rod gripes to Alonso. "Not only are you interested in the same woman, but you're falling in love with her, right?" Alonso interrupts to object to discussing their personal problems and to suggest they simply put an end once and for all to these types of "occurrences" for Gaviota's sake. "--Occurrences?? I'd say more like 'groping' ! Sure, I'd like to put an end to it all, but how can I not be jealous when I phone Miss Franco and find you there in her room?"
Alonso frowns and tries to explain that it was all a mistake, but Rod doesn't want to hear it. "One mistake after another after another..." "--Look, I'm not arguing with you about this. I just want you to know that this morning there was another incident." He explains how earlier in the morning he stopped by Gavi's room to wish her a happy birthday, that the door was specifically open, but that Aaron just happened to pass by and now was insinuating that he and Gavi spent the night together when nothing of the sort took place.
Rod jumps on this. "Well, it seems you had good reason to want to speak to me in such a hurry. You figured I'd hear your version first instead of my cousin's!" Alonso defends himself and shoves it right back at Rod and tells him what's what. "I don't have the slightest desire to justify myself to you! The only thing worrying me is that Gaviota might do her job undisturbed, that the guests are satisfied with their stay and that businessmen such as yourself might have the chance to sell your tequila! So, stop tormenting us with your jealousy and understand that there is nothing going on between us and nothing has happened. I am aware there is a relationship between you two, but she and I have done nothing. If you don't believe me, then you should believe her!"
Rod won't take no for an answer, but then, he has Alonso's number. "Perhaps you're right. But I do know that you're pursuing her." "--If you think I'm hounding her, I'm not!" "--Oh, no, because you're more subtle. Very suave. Very particular. Like the little hanky for every time she spills a tear; the shoulder to support her when she's overburdened, or the helping hand you lend her. You are counting on lots of time and luck, the luck that has evaded me these past three anxiety-filled years pursuing her, fighting for her love."
Rod goes in close and looks Alonso dead in the eye. "I've encountered all sorts of obstacles, all kinds of them! But, you, the only obstacle you have is me, the man that she loves. You have come at a very difficult moment for Gaviota. You have known how to be patient, how to smother her with nice gestures and so on." He bangs his fist on the table, resolute. "But it's like this: I'm not going to be kept from her love; and even though you and I make all sorts of pacts you're not going to avoid me still fighting for her love until we are happy together."
Alonso is still frowning. He does all he can to swallow and count to ten before he answers. "You have every right to do as you please. As far as I'm concerned, in the name of the CRT as well as my own, I want her birthday to be a happy one, so stop pressuring her and questioning her. I would be eternally greatful." "--All right. You're right. I'll do my part." Alonso offers to drink on it and Rod grudgingly agrees.
Gavi calls Dani and tells her about Rod's surprise arrival in Guadalajara so she wouldn't have to spend her birthday alone. Gavi is also adamant that Rod understands there is absolutely nothing going on between her and her boss. Dani warns her that her brother is impatient having to wait these last few months and his jealousy is driving him mad. She is afraid that it might cause problems, so Gavi should be especially careful and show him just how much she cares for him.
Gavi says then she's only left with two options: either be turned into his mistress while overlooking his wife and child or to quit her job and sit patiently by till he sorts out his family's financial mess with the Duartes. She is not about to do either. Dani tries to explain to Gavi that for Rod, it is difficult to know she's working all day long next to such a charmer like Alonso Santoveña. He could really end up in an insane asylum if things don't progress like they should and Dani is really worried. Gavi tells her not to joke about it like that.
(Ok, ok, ok. Even I have finally reached the point of no return with Rod's jealous rages, his childish tantrums and brutish insults, even his literally tracking her every move. This is in a wholey different universe from Tracy and Hepburn or Thin Man movies with "Nick and Nora Chase". Gavi's been walking a mental tightrope all week and I'm wincing right along with her. In fact, the hubster commented that by the time this trip is over Gavi will be calling Isadora up and beggin' her to keep his sorry rear!! --Nope, Rod's situation has gone beyond cute or the romantic, has rushed well past boorish and cannot adequately be covered in 'Can This Relationship Be Saved?', having now crossed over somewhere into the suffocatingly oppressive.)
Unfortunately for Dani, Elvis has walked in on her conversation and overhears her glowing assessment of Alonso Santoveña. Suddenly he becomes jealous. He tells her that he hopes Gavi and Rod get back together so Santoveña will be free for her. He's not sticking around to see it. Good-bye and have a nice life.
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Aaron pops into the bar and sits down with them while giving backhanded compliments to Alonso's ability to mend fences and handle "professional" relations. Then he gets down to the business of Mariana Franco's visit to Montalveña. Before Rod can get a word in, Aaron reminds Rod that although he inherited Montalveña, he is also one of Don Amador's grandsons. Rod tells Aaron he doesn't have to worry about seeing her there because he's not being invited in.
Aaron is snit-worthy impactado (and nobody, but nobody does snit-worthy like Sergio). "Heh-heh, I don't have to have permission to visit Montalveña." "--You're wrong. This time you do." "--Y-y-you are excluding me for your...'special guest'?"
Rod grins like the Cheshire cat and even Alonso, the stiff, cracks a sly smile. Aaron never saw this one coming and he screams at them that he is part of the group and demands that he be allowed to join the others. Rod shoots back, "YOU don't demand ANYTHING!" and he procedes to set Aaron straight. He tells him that these special considerations of his are not just because of what Gavi means to him or the place she holds in his life, but because she's also come as a representative of the CRT to promote his tequila. On the other hand, Aaron, his own first cousin, has spent the entire tiime discouraging those businessmen and poisoning the atmosphere with his filthy comments. "You are not welcome at Montalveña. I don't intend on selling you a single bottle of my tequila and you know full well I don't."
Aaron turns to Alonso and asks the CRT's position on this since he's an active member in good standing. Alonso replies that if the hacienda owner doesn't want him present then he can't do a thing to stop it. Aaron says there's no reason for him to continue on the tour then. Alonso agrees and says it makes no sense for him to. He should leave the group immediately.
Before he leaves, Aaron tries driving the knife in even further. "Don't you know there's something between the two of them?" "--Stop it!" "--She and Santoveña are just using you and if you want to continue playing the fool, then go ahead." He walks out in a huff. Rod looks at Alonso and laughs. "We've just gotten a load off our backs!" They drink to that.
Gavi walks in a little afterward and asks what gives with Aaron. They tell her he's decided not to continue the tour. She's definitely down with that and tells them the guests are waiting in the lobby. Alonso leaves and Rod asks her to wait a minute while he pays the bill. He asks if Alonso gave her something for her birthday, like chocolates or another book, or... flowers? He realizes from her expression that it was flowers. He guesses it was another orchid just like his. She tells him that she preferred his and considers it special because it came from him. (This is so pathetically grade school.)
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Back in Sin City, Hilario is leaving for a workout at the gym. He's annoyed when San Juana comes back in from shopping for groceries and tells her he's not coming back to eat and may not get back till very late. He leaves and SJ still figures eventually he's going to come around and will be eating out of her hands soon enough. (I have no patience with this character so let's just FF>>)
Across town, The Breakfast Club is together again in Isa's apartment. Sofia tells Minnie the condition that Frankie arrived home in the night before, and admits that ever since the morning that she found his shirt with the buttons ripped off they've not been having sexual relations (not with each other, at least). She says she thinks he arranged for his panther-woman to come to Mexico City while he is there. Isa pats Sofia's hand sympathetically and shakes her head.
Minnie cannot believe Frankie would lower himself to get involved with a townie. Sofia wonders whether he might have many lovers or just one. Minnie says she figures he's got only one lover and it could be another like La Gaviota. Isa can't help but snicker out loud. She catches herself and says they're all obsessing on Gaviota and all it does is depress them. Sofia says that's not the point. What matters is that her husband is cheating on her.
Frankie wakes up from his beauty sleep and gets on the phone with Stefano. He tells his cousin that Isa is incredible and is becoming one big bad vice for him. He just wants more and more of her.
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Rod is really enjoying his role as host and grand tour guide. More though, it's a matter of keeping Alonso from having the chance to dazzle Gavi with his expansive command of facts and figures. The group drives along and as the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, Alonso tells the driver to stop for the group to take some pictures. Rod insists that the driver continue on a bit further, because he knows a much better place for that. So they drive on.
Back in Guadalajara Aaron calls Minnie to tell her that Rod has dis-invited him and has forbidden him from entering the hacienda. He tells her not to worry though, that the threesome can't last much longer, that it is a time bomb that he will make certain explodes. Just then Sherilyn arrives with her bags and starts crawling all over him. Aaron tells Minnie he's got a couple more days he needs to spend there to attend to "bidnez" matters. He plans to stick around since he's made appointments to speak with several foreign importers and producers.
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Rod has the driver stop and they all get out. While the businessmen are wowed by the beauty of the landscape and start photographing their surroundings, Rod and Alonso get into a regular spittin' contest over who knows more facts about the agricultural production of the region and surrounding municipalities. Every time Rod gives out a fact, Alonso has to top it. (It's like ok, so you've both got Ph.D.'s. We know you guys are smart as well as handsome, and ok, so maybe Rod didn't really sleep through all those advanced ag lectures like we thought, but you're boring everybody already.) They eventually head off towards the organic agave fields of Montalveña.
Along the way Rod expounds on the beauty of the countryside and the type of people who live there and he tells the group he has so many fabulous memories among these fields. He describes how those who live amongst the agave dream of sleeping under luxuriously leafy trees with the sun above. He and Gavi exchange glances while he tells them all that there is a legend around those parts that whoever falls in love in these fields never is the same again. They never recover from it because to fall in love in these fields is to fall in love forever.
One of the guests asks if Rod fell in love in them. He says he most definitely did, with a migrant jima cutter who came back once a year only for the spring harvest. Now though, Alonso's heard enough and he abruptly tells the driver to stop. The tour-bus has finally arrived at Montalveña's organic agave fields.
James is there and Rod introduces him to the group as his best friend and his master brewer. One of the businessmen, Millar, remembers James. He tells the group that James is an internationally recognized wine expert and so the Montalvo tequila could not be in better hands.
Gavi greets the old gang of jima cutters. One of the other guests asks Gavi about her nickname and she has a chance to tell the others how she started out as a jimadora years ago with her mother. Rod explains that she used to come every year at the spring harvest and would sing constantly. That's how he met her and why the spring agave harvest is so important to him.
Alonso, not to be one-upped, and to keep things on a more professional level, jumps in with a brief and glowing backgrounder on Gaviota's accomplishments and experience in the area of tequila production. He comments to the group that she's done her job so well that soon she could be busy taking an important ambassadorship abroad. (So maybe his loogie is bigger than Rod's loogie after all.)
Both Rod and Gavi are more than a little surprised and confused. He is upset and she says she is tired of the verbal sparring. All that matters to Rod is whether she would seriously abandon him like that. She tells him this comes out of the blue. Her boss never even mentioned it to her. He's more than a little suspicious of the timing. "What a coincidence, huh?" She says that the only thing she knows for sure is that she loves him.
Rod calms down. In the background Alonso looks on and obviously resents seeing them together, but watches mesmerized while Gavi caresses Rod's cheek. She tells Rod that although their deal is to only discuss business, it doesn't mean that she's changed her feelings about him and she loves him more than anything in the world, but she cautions him: if trust is lost, then all is lost. (Figure it out, cowboy.) She walks back over to the group.
Rod says to himself he does trust in her love. The one he doesn't trust is that shark over there who every second is trying to steal her love away from him. He calls Dani right away with an idea and a special favor.
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Minnie is griping at the others that it's so humiliating to have Rod shut them out of Montalveña like that just to please that social climbing female. "So. What in the hell are you all looking at me like that for?" Isa tells her it's useless . Gaviota simply has become too powerful and has the entire CRT as well as all the ag secretaries backing her, not to mention Rod at his end. This starts Sofia off, who begins screaming indignantly that her brother has really overstepped the line and has to be stopped once and for all.
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At the distillery, Rod and Alonso discuss Ardent Passion's six months' aging process and we get a complete step by step of tequila processing from start to finish. Alonso gives a brief history of Rod's ancestors from the mid-eighteenth through the early nineteenth century through the present, explaining how their industrious nature eventually led to the Montalvo's being the leading family of tequila producers in the country. Rod explains that his grandfather led the effort towards the trademark naming and recognition of tequila as a specific type of spirit.
Before they leave to go on to the hacienda Gavi pulls Rod aside and tells him she's not continuing on to Montalveña with them. She knows his family considers her persona non grata and she doesn't want to cause anymore problems. He walks her over to Alonso and asks his help at convincing her she should join them inside the main house for dinner. Alonso tells her it is a mandatory part of her job and she must join them at the hacienda and walks off towards the others. "See, you must always listen to that little boss man of yours." "--Oh, he's a friend when it's convenient for you, huh?"
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Snacking on sushi with the others, Minnie gets the idea that they still have time to get Pilar to force Rod to refuse Gaviota's entrance into the main house. She'll tell Pilar what Aaron told her about Gavi having spent the night with her boss. Sofia says the old woman is a waste. Nobody will support them or believe them any longer. Even Aaron's plans have failed. She starts dialing Aaron's number to see what's what, but he's being otherwise entertained by Sherilyn and refuses to answer. Thinking it's just another jealous rant from Minnie he beats at his cell phone with a couple of cold tortillas, breaks a sherry glass and goes back to his afternoon delights.
Minnie assures them that Aaron still has something up his sleeve. Sofia says it may not happen till after the trip and that's a couple of days off. What are they supposed to do till then, sit around staring at each other?
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Eventually Rod, Alonso, Gavi and James and their visitors arrive at the main house. Rod pulls Gavi over to the side and formally welcomes her there. He says he wants her to feel at ease and she should enjoy herself. She admits it won't be easy and she tells him how she remembers when he caught her and her mother sneaking a look at telenovelas after they broke the flowerpot, and how he nearly ran them off. Rod says that would never have happened because by then he'd already set his sights on her.
As Rod and Gavi enter the main hall together through the magnificent front entrance, she cannot believe she's actually there as an invited guest.
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Acorralada #182 Friday 9-28-07 The Jig is Up!
We start with the Sylvie's and Mariposa's arrival interrupting the wedding between Puncho and Pru. Pru is so excited to see her primo prima! Puncho is purposely keeping his back to the melee. The priest finally breaks up the happy reunion and wants to get the wedding under way. Puncho is quaking in his boots.
A confrontation at the police station occurs between Dimwit and Marfil. I'm not sure how this discussion started, but it has to do with Dimwit and Maxi-Moron. Marfil says, "Oh yeah? Well I'm married to a millionaire now!" Dimwit tells Marfil, "Although you may be married to a millionaire, you don't love him and obviously aren't happy. At least Maxi-Moron loves me more than you!" Dimwit righteously struts out and the Lt. Gomez comes out to get Marfil.
Maxi-Moron is telling Emili-Oh he feels bad about how he treated Marshmallow. When he called the bodega, they told him Marshmallow and Godmum had left
Lt Gomez and Marfil spar verbally. She wants to know if he is accusing her of Princess Fi's disappearance. He replies that's not what he wants to talk to her about, although that case is still open and sooner or later he'll solve Princess Fi's disappearance. He wants to talk about the kidnapping of Dimwit's baby. Marfil sneers that it was her twin sister who did that. Lt. Gomez asks if she has proof. Marfil replies do you have proof I did it? Lt. Gomez says she's very astute. Marfil says she's wasted enough time, and basically if he's not going to charge her, she's leaving. As she's walking out she points out that it doesn't look good that he hasn't solved Princess Fi's disappearance.
Dimwit has come to visit Iggy, who is handcuffed to the hospital bed. Just when he thought his luck couldn't get any better. "To what do I owe this visit, Dimwit?" Dimwit replies, "I've come to enjoy your downfall, Iggy!"
Pru wants to introduce her primo prima and Sylvie to her future husband. Puncho tells the priest he wants to get on with the wedding, introductions can be done later. The priest points this out to Pru who says, "You're right." Puncho thinks his luck may just hold out after all. The vows start and Pru is all excited, she doesn't want to wait through the whole vow part. She keeps saying, "I do! I do! I do!" The priest then says, "Francisco Suarez, do you take. . ." Suddenly Sylvie asks Mariposa, "Did the priest just say Francisco Suarez?" Uh oh!
MM calls Pedro, but Marfil has answered the phone. "Don't you want to speak with me?" asks Marfil. "No. Let me speak to Pedro," replies MM. Marfil is miffed. MM asks Pedro if everything is OK. He is worried. Pedro says all is well. After Pedro and MM hang up, Marfil wants to know if MM mentioned her. Pedro says no and beats a hasty retreat from the room.
Iggy asks Dimwit if she's taking pleasure in his demise. Dimwit admits she is, but tells him she actually pities him more. He was such a good doctor; the best in the hospital, but he was more intent on causing her pain than focusing on medicine. That determination caused him to align with such low-lives as Marfil.
Lorenzo has come to visit Fidiota. He's worried about how she's doing, now that she's in a wheelchair. Fidiota says all is well in her world. She got her factory back, her home, she found her daughters (note the order in which she lists what she's thankful for), and has a great hubby. She's also going to be a mother again after so many years. Lorenzo asks if she's trying to console him. "Not at all. I'm just pointing out I'm surrounded by good friends such as you. I'll just have to enjoy life from a wheelchair."
More of Dimwit pointing out Iggy's life could have been so much better if he had just stuck to what he was really good at…medicine. Now he's going to spend the rest of his life in jail. Iggy looks constipated. Dimwit leaves and we see a cute cop standing outside the hospital room. The camera pans back to Iggy, who starts crying.
Now Fidiota is telling Lorenzo Octopus is nothing but a bad memory now. She's got so much to look forward to in the future, including a new baby. Lorenzo brings up Paco, who is getting ready to move to
Sylvie interrupts the vows to beg the priest to get to the part where the priest asks if anyone objects. The priest relents and gets to that part. Sylvie pulls an Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter, "Ooooooh, Ooooooh, Pick me! Pick me!" When the priest acknowledges her, Sylvie runs up and spins Puncho around. "It IS you!" She then goes ballistic and assures Pru that Pru is better off without Puncho. She then outlines all the horrible things Puncho has done, and that he is wanted by the police in
Now Fidiota is pulling the "poor me" role with Granny DS. She hopes her baby isn't embarrassed to have a mother in a wheelchair. She always liked to go the beach, get her feet wet, etc. Now that will never happen. . ."Pobre de mi!" Granny DS tells her to pray to one of the saints; perhaps the saint will grant Fidiota a miracle! Fidiota pauses for a moment and gets this big smile on her face. "You know, you're right! I'm going to go to church and pray! I need to have faith!" Sappy music plays.
Marfil calls for Pedro. She tells him she wants him to take her on a honeymoon. Perhaps to the coasts of
MM is telling Emili-Oh he is worried about Pedro. Emili-Oh asks if Marfil is capable of killing Pedro for his money. MM says, "Of course! And much more!" MM goes on to say he's tried to get Pedro to leave Marfil, but Pedro refuses. Pedro loves Marfil.
Marfil and Camila are plotting on a way to keep Dimwit and MM apart. Further, Marshmallow has asked for a divorce. Now, nothing will keep MM and Dimwit apart! Marfil says she'd rather be dead than see MM and Dimwit happy together. Camila agrees.
Dimwit is recounting her day with Caramel and Gaby. She tells them about her exchange with Marfil. Of course the conversation rolls around to MM. She doesn't know if she can be with MM; so many bad things have happened to them. The wounds are so great. Caramel says Dimwit had better cauterize the wounds. Gaby agrees. "You don't want to lose MM like I lost Lunkhead." Head tilt. Glassy-eyed stare.
Emili-Oh comes home and is surprised to see Marfil visiting Camila. "I thought you two were rivals." Camila assures him that's in the past. Camila starts pumping him for information about Dimwit. Emili-Oh gets mad and says he's not going to get involved in any plans to hurt Dimwit. He reminds Camila this is his apartment and he can throw her out any time he wants. Looks like meek little Emili-Oh is laying down the law!
The priest is trying to comfort Pru. Mariposa and Sylvie return and start filling her in on all the evil things Puncho has done. Pobre de Pru. She thought Puncho really loved her!
More "girl-talk" among Caramel, Gaby, and Dimwit. Of course it's all about their men. I think Caramel feels bad that she's the only one who's happy. Gaby says she's the only one who has truly lost her man; ChewKey turned Lunkhead against her. Dimwit says when Lunkhead returns, he'll see that everything ChewKey said was a lie. ***I have to throw in a comment here. Lunkhead is supposedly going to marry ChewKey when he returns, but he's never called her and found out about her being committed? No one has called him about Octopus? Puh-leaze!***
Doc V and Dulce are having a heart-to-heart talk. He's sad that Marshmallow left without saying goodbye. Dulce starts with the predictable telenovela speak, "You are young, good looking. . ." Doc V starts getting all teary-eyed. He loves Marshmallow so much!
Roddy wheels Fidiota into the Iglesia de Milagros, Santa Barbara. Fidiota wants to be left alone to pray. Fidiota prays for all the things that pertain to her and her kids. Roddy is praying to Jesus for all the things that pertain to him (ChewKey and Fidiota). Finally Fidiota prays to walk again. She tries to strike a deal with the Virgencita. If she can walk again, she promises she will never hate another person as long as she lives. Huh? Perhaps it might be a good thing to never be so consumed with hatred even if you CAN'T walk again. Doc V's mom has come to Perfumes 'R Us looking for Dimwit. Dimwit says what a shame, she needs to go to the hospital to work now. DVM says, "We can go together. I can surprise m'ijo Doc V!"
Puncho calls Diablo and tells him how Sylvie ruined his wedding plans. Puncho tries to coax Diablo to come to
MM is lamenting his mother's untimely demise. She did horrible things, but didn't deserve and ending like that! If only she could have died a peaceful death at a hospital surrounded by family. Camila shows up to "comfort" MM. She doesn't want him to be sad and alone. She then starts kissing him. Yuck!
Marfil has shown up at the place of a bruja. Apparently the bruja has some super-duper deadly poison, in which one drop can kill an entire army and at the same time has no antidote. Where do these people come up with all these "mystery poisons?" At any rate, Marfil forks over a thick stack of money. Pedro's days are numbered. Marfil wants him dead before he changes his will. I haven't seen the last few episodes, but I believe I read he has already changed it.
Camila has come to console MM, now that his mother is in heaven, ***HA! I don't think so!*** Yolanda is in jail, and Lunkhead is far away in
Doc V's mom keeps trying to set up Doc V with Dimwit. She wants to see them together, happy, and providing her with a battalion of grandkids. Doc V isn't biting. He thinks it's adorable that his mom likes to play cupid.
Roddy and Fidiota discuss their warm fuzzy feelings after being at church and praying.
Emili-Oh shows up at the hospital to warn Dimwit that Camila and Marfil want to tell MM about her second pregnancy. He tries to convince Dimwit to go back to MM. MM says no way. Diablo will kill them all. Finally Emili-Oh hands her his cell phone. Call MM now and make up!
Credits roll.
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Amar Sin Limites #52 Thursday, 9-27-07 Aahndres Takes a Lickin' Will He Keep on Tickin?
Azul is still whining about her fight with Diego and how Diego won't listen to her. Azul doesn't understand why GCSSD would have said he (GCSSD) went back to work for Mo because of Azul. Emilia says she has no idea.
Hospital: GCSSD is giving his "meaning of life" speech to the comatose Inez. He wants Inez to live. He also makes a comment about Azul's life being in danger. If he's so hyped on life and living, why is he such a chain smoker?
Mansion Misero: Mo continues his manipulation of Katy, using her as a tool to get Azul back. He tells Katy Azul is sick. When Katy starts freaking out, he tells her not to worry. He swears Azul will be OK and that one day they will return to live as a family.
Casita de los Padres: Diego has accompanied Mama and Papa back home. He's going to go back to the vigil, but he fears for Mama's heart. She tells him vigils always make people think about death, "but don't worry, I'll be around for awhile." They hug and Diego leaves. After Diego has gone, Mama announces she's going upstairs. Papa then starts complaining about Mama talking to Anibal. Mama shoots back, "What about you hugging Isela?" Papa claims that is different. Isela is just a friend. Paco was like a son to her. Mama doesn't believe it. I don't either.
Casa de C & A: Arnaldo and Ceci are hanging out and discussing their relationship woes. Arnaldo tells Ceci about the fight he had with GCSSD and Julio. Julio doesn't seem to care if GCSSD accepts them as a couple or not. Ceci tells Arnaldo about her fight with Aahndres. Arnaldo wants to know if he can stay at the apartment with Ceci; he doesn't want to go home. Ceci says it's a shame that she and Arnaldo can't console each other mutually, as she gloms onto his arm.
Casita de los Padres: La Familia – Mama, Papa, Lidia, Piero – have returned from the funeral. Piero tells Papa they will be starting "work" next week. Papa wants to know what the job entails; he wants to be useful. "Don't worry," assures Piero. "You will be plenty useful." The doorbell rings and Papa goes to answer the door while Piero is droning on about Lidia to Mama. It's the Police!! They've come to arrest Piero for the murder of Paco. Everyone is impactados!
Eva's Enclave: Eva's having breakfast on the penthouse patio and Ivan's looking over the edge and talking to his hand. Apparently Diego's on his way up. They run to the front door and Diego punches Ivan. Diego accuses Ivan of killing Diego's beloved Abuelo. Eva runs to break them up, ordering Ivan to leave her alone with Diego.
Hospital: Emilia walks into Inez' room and finds GCSSD sleeping with his head on Inez' legs. Emilia looks sad.
Eva's Enclave: Diego is yelling at Eva and blaming Ivan for Abuelo's death. Eva denies it. The gloves are off and the fight is on. Diego then says her business isn't as pure as she's led him to believe. Eva admits she isn't pure, but that doesn't mean she'd kill his family. Diego is furious and the spit flies. Meanwhile, it looks like Eva's gray eyes are going to pop out of her head. Finally Eva blurts out that Aahndres is the one who killed Abuelo at Mo's direction. Orchestra of Doom. Commercial.
Hospital: GCSSD just happens to awaken as Emilia is standing there. She doesn't want to bother him. "No bother," assures GCSSD. Emilia wants to talk to him. She'll wait outside.
Eva's Enclave: Diego and Eva are still fighting. She's claiming she had nothing to do with Abuelo's death. She would never want to hurt her beloved Diegito. Diego doesn't believe her. He demands proof! Eva then says she works for a super-secret organization like Interpol and that she and her group are trying to bust Mo's empire! Diego sardonically says he feels much better knowing that Interpol is interested in Abuelo's and his BFF Paco's deaths. She then explains her super-secret group is trying to save the world by preventing Mo from infecting the planet's population with some sort of plague Mo is producing and manipulating. Eva tells Diego "This is the first proof. Ivan took this from Mo's box." She hands him a widget. Actually, it looks like Paco's driver's license. Now why her possession of Paco's driver's license is proof is beyond me. ***Is this enough intrigue for you, Ferro?***
Mansion Misero: Mo bawls out Aahndres for doing a lousy job in hiding the bodies. Aahndres tries to say he was just carrying out orders, it's not his fault. Mo and Burgay ordered the hits. Mo shouts back, "Well I sure as heck didn't ask you to whack Abuelo!" Mo starts shaking Andres – whose face, by the way, is still black and blue from his prior beating from Ivan, Diego, and/or Mistress Leo. I keep expecting his nose to start bleeding at any moment. ***Look at those big brown doe eyes! I want to give him a big hug!***Aahndres finally slinks out holding the bridge of his nose like he has Excedrin headache #893.
Eva's Enclave: Is Eva wearing a peach colored Gunne Sax dress from the 70's that's been cut down into a top? Eva says she'll get Burgay on the phone to explain everything to Diego. Diego says he's not about to believe anything coming out of Burgay's mouth. Eva and Burgay are all accomplices. This discussion continues until Diego's phone rings. It's Papa calling to say he needs Mo's phone number. Piero has been arrested for the death of Paco. Piero wants Mo to hire an attorney. Diego tells him not do anything, Diego will come home. After Diego and Papa hang up, Diego wants to know how Piero is connected to
Mama asks Lidia if it's possible that Piero really did it. Mama points out that Piero doesn't necessarily inspire confidence. Lidia snaps back that while Piero may have done some despicable things, he's most certainly not a killer! Lidia stomps off and runs up the stairs.
Casa de C & A: Azul is being her typical pouty self and whining about Diego. Ceci tries to defend Diego's response and Azul jumps down her throat, telling her to shut her mouth. Azul then starts with the "poor me" speech. Ceci and Arnaldo try to calm her down. I think Ceci welcomes her to the world of solteros. Of course Azul is too self-absorbed to ask Arnaldo what happened, but Arnaldo goes on to blame his misery on "Your father." I think everyone just needs their own half gallon of ice cream. That will solve all their problems!
Hospital: Emilia wants to talk about Azul. Azul spent the night with Emilia. Azul wasn't feeling well so Emilia kept an eye on her. GCSSD is worried Emilia left Azul alone. "Not to worry, I left her with Ceci and Arnaldo." They discuss Azul's illness and GCSSD explains he went back to work at Mo's in order to save his daughter. GCSSD admits he told Diego he returned to work at Mo's because of Azul, and perhaps Diego took that to mean Azul had gone back to Mo and asked GCSSD to join her. Emilia begs GCSSD to straighten out the misunderstanding with Diego because Azul really loves Diego, and as sick as she is, her fighting with Diego is making things worse.
Casa de C & A: Arnaldo is talking about his fight with GCSSD. More conversations about their respective relationships when the doorbell rings. It's Katy coming to visit with food and flowers. The flowers are from her daddy, who is waiting downstairs should Azul want to see him. Yes, Mo is using Katy shamelessly to manipulate Azul. Commercial.
Hospital: GCSSD is complaining about the quality of the food. Finally he says they need to talk. Emilia is sending him mixed messages about his relationship with Inez. I'm not sure what this whole exchange is about, but finally Emilia decides she's got patients waiting and she needs to leave. GCSSD gives us one of his classic "QtH?" looks and thought bubbles, "Women. Can't live with them. . .can't have sex without 'em!"
Eva's Enclave: Eva tells Burgay to tell Diego about his grandfather. Burgay says Mo ordered Andres to kill Abuelo and gives details about how they figured out it was Aahndres. Diego wants to know why Mo would have Andres kill an innocent old man who's never done anything to anyone. Burgay says Mo was getting back at Diego for messing around with Azul. Diego definitely buys this story. ***Of course Eva could have ordered the hit for the same reason, but Diego doesn't think about that.*** Eva asks Burgay to leave her and Diego alone. Eva challenges Diego to confront Aahndres to his face and look into his eyes. Once he does that, he'll know who's telling the truth! Diego still wants nothing to do with Eva.
Casa de C & A: Katy, Azul, Ceci, and Nanny are all hanging out eating jello. Katy is worried Azul is going to die. Azul assures her that is not the case. Katy then mentions something about Azul being sick like her daddy. She doesn't want everyone she loves to die and leave her. Azul asks, "Is your daddy sick too?" I think Katy says he seems a little off. Azul says he's probably just tired as well.
Hospital: Arnaldo shows up at the hospital cafeteria. He and GCSSD have a very terse conversation about Inez and Azul. I think Arnaldo must have said something about Azul and Diego, because GCSSD says he'll fix things with Diego when he has time. They sit in silence looking at the plate of donuts in front of the camera, then GCSSD starts tamping his cigarette. Arnaldo takes that as a cue and says he's going to bring Inez her things. At this point, I have a feeling Inez isn't going to know if he brings her things or not.
Eva's Enclave: Burgay and Eva are discussing the story Burgay told Diego. They think Diego is going to buy it. Eva then asks the status of the clothing store they are going to buy for Diego. Burgay is working on it; it will take another few days.
Hospital: Arnaldo brings a photo, presumably of GCSSD about 20 years ago, Inez (or her sister), and young Azul and Arnaldo. I've paused the DVR and can't decide if the guy in the photo resembles GCSSD 20 years prior. Thoughts? Discuss amongst yourselves. GCSSD walks into Inez' room as Arnaldo is setting up the photos and a CD player which plays Pachelbel's Canon. GCSSD thinks this sentimental nonsense is a waste of time. Arnaldo disagrees. They glare at one another until GCSSD announces he's going for coffee.
Casita de los Padres: Lidia is in a snit because Diego hasn't shown up yet to help out Piero. "Diego's never liked him!" Lidia leaves to go to her house. I thought she and Piero were living with Mama and Papa. Not sure what this is all about, but we have a commercial.
Den of Iniquity: Morticia is whining to Isela about the call she took that came in on her mother's hotline. Something to do with a hot dog. Morticia thinks her mother's job is disgusting. At first Isela laughs, but of course, Morticia sees nothing funny about it. More discussion ensues about Morticia's options in dealing with the hotline. Suddenly Isela says she has an idea. . .
Hospital: More squaring off between GCSSD and Arnaldo. Arnaldo is hurt his father won't talk to him. GCSSD is mad because Arnaldo will never make him a grandfather? I didn't understand this part.
Eva's Enclave: Eva and Ivan are discussing Diego. Eva likes the idea of throwing Aahndres under the bus. If Diego thinks Aahndres is responsible for Abuelo's death, then perhaps Diego won't be snooping around as much. I think they then discuss making Aahndres disappear. Did anybody catch this part?
Casa de C & A: Apparently Mo has shown up to gather Katy. He tries to give Azul back the keys to the car he bought her. Azul doesn't want the keys or the car. This goes on for awhile until Ceci says, "Fine! I can use a car!" Ceci then takes the keys. Mo does his best to look sickly and pathetic. Funny, he didn't look sickly and pathetic when he was shaking my telenovio, Aahndres. Commercial.
Azul and Ceci are discussing Mo's motives when the doorbell rings. Katy comes bursting in hysterical; Mo has passed out!!!
Mansion Misero: Diego is beating the tar out of Aahndres and calling him an Abuelo-killer.
Casa de C & A: Katy is still whimpering hysterically and Mo is lying in one of those positions you normally see outlined in chalk on old murder/detective shows. The only thing missing is the outline. Azul tries to wake him up. She tells Ceci to call an ambulance.
Mansion Misero: Diego is STILL beating the tar out of Aahndres and calling him an Abuelo-killer. Leo rushes in and tries to get Diego to stop. That obviously doesn't work so she runs outside to get Frick and Frack, Ivan's Security Dudes. Leo tells them to come quickly, Aahndres is getting killed. They take two steps like they are going to follow Leo inside, then they turn around and start laughing and hanging out. Meanwhile, Diego is. . .***let's say this all together now*** "STILL beating the tar out of Aahndres and calling him an Abuelo-killer." Leo goes to the drawer and takes out a gun, points it, and shoots. Now Frick and Frack start running.
Credits roll.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
La Fea Más Bella #34B-36A Missing Recaps 13-16, by Kim P.
If you're interested, Paula from Telenovela-World is keeping a cross-reference between these recaps and the original Univision air dates/episode numbers.
Missing Recap 13: When your boss tells you to go home... GO HOME!!
We're in reception and PM is telling the cuartel what Lopez is doing. He calls her again and she says she's with Saimon and the cuartel and can they come too, but he tells her it's in her best interest to get rid of them and come alone. I think he threatens to fire her if she doesn't. She agrees to meet him alone in 15 minutes. The rest of the cuartel are trying to get Marta to call Lopez's house, but she's afraid and doesn't want to. They say something to PM that I don't get, and she says she'll quit before she allows him to do anything. Sara shows her how to defend herself using Juana as a dummy. PM and Saimon talk, I think he says he'll go talk to Fernando, but she says no. Just then a hot chick walks in asking for Fernando and Saimon begins to drool.
PM calls Lety to let her know that a Fatima Bosh (?) is there for Fern, and tells her what's happening with Lopez, that Fern told him he could handle the situation so this is how he's handling it.
Omar and Fern are still talking in his office. He's balancing a pencil on his lip, so I'm guessing he's not paying a whole lot of attention. Lety tells Fernando that Fatima's there and he gets all excited while Omar makes some Omar-type comment. He yells at Lety about something and he and Omar talk stuff I don't get. Lety asks him if he told Lopez to handle the PM problem and Fernando says no, he told Lopez to reprimand her but not to dismiss her. She smiles and thanks him and immediately goes back to her office to tell Saimon this, but PM's already gone. Saimon offers his arm to Fatima to take her to Fern's office. Meanwhile Fern is lighting candles, turning on music and rearranging furniture. Omar brings in some wine and they talk man-talk, and Omar says something about Alicia.
Fernando wants to be alone with Fatima and goes into Lety's office and tells her to go home early, but she, for some reason (I thinks she's a closet masochist) decides she wants to stay and tells Fern she has a lot of work to do. He tells her ok, but under no circumstances is she to come out of her office until he tells her to, and I think he tells her not to say anything to Marcia. He leaves her office and sees Fatima and they start talking. Fatima tells Fern she knows Marcia's out of town and she wants to spend all night with him. He pours some wine and he and Fatima start to get it on. At first Lety listens while looking at her picture of him (ew!! Is there such a thing as a Hearing Tom in addition to a Peeping Tom?), but then she gets sad and cries and covers her ears to drown out the noise. Hard to feel sorry for her, it was her choice to stay. Oh well...
Meanwhile Saimon calls Marta and tells her what Lety said about Fernando. He wants her to call Lopez's house, but she still doesn't want to. He tries to reassure her that it will be ok.
At the Blue Dragon Bar (in case there's ever a trivia quiz on it), Lopez is hitting on PM. He tells her that Alicia resigned because of what happened and Omar's really upset. He tries to touch her hand but she pulls away. His cell phone rings and as he's pulling it out of his pocket he pulls out his toothbrush and toothpaste (ok, that just made me urp a little). PM is as disgusted as I was. He tells her the call is just someone from Conceptos and he doesn't answer it. They talk more stuff that I don't get but I feel like I need a shower from hearing it.
At Alicia's house, she's on the phone to her dad and tells him the same stuff Lopez just mentioned. She mentions she needs money and she thinks he hung up, but he didn't. She then tells him about Ariel's harassment and couldn't daddums help her out with just a little buckage? A knock at the door, she hangs up and answers, it's Omar, with flowers. At first she won't talk to him, but as soon as he starts to walk away she changes her mind.
Saimon is still begging Martha to call Lopez's house, but she's afraid because she knows Lopez will know it was her who called. Saimon asks her who's more important, her boss or PM? I'm guessing she chose her boss because Saimon tosses the phone down, then picks it up again to see if Marta is still there.
At Lety's, her 'rents are in bed and she calls. Usual crap about needing to stay late, no come home, can't must work, blah blah etc. Pop asks when she'll be home and she hears the two F's (Fern and Fatima) being mushy and tells her dad she doesn't know.
Speaking of the two F's, they're on the couch kissing and talking. Fatima asks Fernando if he's really going to marry Marcia and he tells her he doesn't want to talk about it. While they're talking, she's slipping off his tie and they kiss a lot more.
Omar is begging Alicia to forgive him, he doesn't know what PM was up to, she was crazy and he lost control, same story he fed Fernando. Alicia says she'll forgive him under two conditions: first he has to fire PM, secondly he has to marry her. He tells her PM is under Fernando's protection so he can't fire her, and I think he also just flat-out refuses to marry her. She gets sad and he leaves.
Back to the bar, PM tries to leave, I think Lopez is getting drunk, and he grabs her. She says something about his wife and just then his phone rings and, of course, it's his wife. He can't let her hear the music, so he goes to the bathroom to answer.
Lety is still listening at the door, que stalkerish. I'm having a hard time drumming up pity for her here. Did I mention she had the chance to go home but didn't???
Back to the Blue Dragon, Lopez answers the phone in the men's room and tells his wife he's working. Meanwhile, we get a rather pointless scene of Saimon pacing in Conceptos' reception and Celso and Sanson come in. They talk, I think about a woman being up with Fernando. Then we're back to the bar again, and while Lopez is gone PM asks a lady next to her to borrow her cell phone and calls Saimon. He tells her what Fernando had said, but the bar is so noisy she can't hear him. She tells him where she's at and hangs up because Lopez returns. She tells him she needs to leave, but Lopez wants to dance.
The two F's are still making out in his office and Lety finally has enough. She covers her ears and starts singing to block out the noise.
At Ariel's house he answers the door and it's Alicia. He invites her in and she says she needs to talk to him and he asks her if she quit Conceptos and she tells him no. He asks her if he no longer disgusts her (actually, after I saw him at Magic Mountain in L.A. he didn't disgust me either, he was so adorable, but until then I was full-on with Alicia on that). She says she only told him that because she was mad but she wants to be friends. He tells her he's only interested if there's sex involved (ok, I take it back, Magic Mountain or no Magic Mountain). She doesn't want him to compromise her relationship with Omar and, like the jerk he is, he says what relationship, 'cause that little incident at Conceptos kinda proved Omar wasn't taking it too seriously. She says she needs her job and he says then you have to accept my proposal (he says apuesta, which I thought meant "bet" but I guess it means "deal" or "proposal" as well), and he heads off into the bedroom. She thinks about it for a minute, then follows him in.
Lety calls her 'rents and Mom asks if she's going to be working all night. Pop is listening in and gets really pissed. Lety tells them she's working on a very special project and not to worry because there are a whole bunch of people working late that night, the other secretaries and Lopez. I guess she placates them. She says she'll see them tomorrow and hangs up.
Lopez and PM are dancing. She mentions she has to work tomorrow but that doesn't stop him. He's puttin' on the moves, she's pushing them off. I'm not sure, but I think she says something like "I'm not like that" and he says "you were, with Omar" or something equally disgusting. She's asking him to stop, he's married, and he starts kissing her neck. She's trying to fight him off when a woman in a nightdress and curlers shows up and scratches him down his back. He turns to look and freaks, it's the little woman. He tries to make an excuse, asking where Fern and Omar are, but she's not buying. Wifey sees the toothbrush and paste and puts two and two together and really starts screeching like a banshee. He denies everything, of course, but she drags him off by his ear, threatening the whole way, while everyone watches and PM laughs. The barman shows up with the bill and gives it to PM, but she doesn't have any money.
Fernando and Fatima are still at it at the office, but decide to go somewhere else to finish their business, leaving the music on and Lety holed up in her office, crying. We get to hear Aqui Estare again (great song). Should'a gone home woman! Jeez Louise!
Missing Recap 14: Alicia, Lety, and Lopez get unlucky
We're back at the bar where Lopez is being emasculated again. PM gets the bill and can't pay again, the two F's leave again and Lety cries again. Angelica sings that she's right here again, and I'm telling Lety she should have gone home when she had the chance again. Lety crawls up onto her desk and lays down, crying. Ok, I may not feel too sorry for her, but that part WAS kinda sad.
Paula Maria is arguing with the barman, she doesn't have any money. She offers him her watch, but just at that moment Saimon the P-Whipped shows up and offers to pay, but it's more than he has cash for. He offers his watch, saying it's Swiss, and the barman accepts. Sorry, still can't get over the fact he's doing this for someone who was busted trying to bang the VP. Anyroad...
We cut to Ariel telling Alicia he's going to want a lot of sex. She says she doesn't want that kind of relationship, but you already know what he had to say about that and he heads into the bedroom. She thinks about it for a minute, then follows him in. He's lying there on the bed in an oh-so-NOT-sexy pose and I can't believe she didn't run off screaming at the sight.
We go back to PM and Saimon. She tells him what Lopez had proposed and he gets righteously pissed, and tells her that Fernando had ordered Lopez not to dismiss her. She thanks him for saving her, and thanks some saints for sending Mrs. Lopez along at the right time. Saimon tells her don't thank the saints, thank Marta for giving him the number or making the call, sorry I'm not clear who actually made the call. PM is a little worried that Marta will get into trouble, but being the selfish cretin she is, that worry flashes in and out of her mind about the same length of time as a lightening bolt hitting the ground, then she's back to being all over Saimon. They dance, then he picks her up and carries her out. Saimon takes her home and tells her he thinks Omar was a jackass whereas he's single and would love to be with her and her son. She says now she knows she has a guardian angel and gives him a kiss on the forehead. He wants more so she gives him a very quick kiss on the lips and runs off. He gets dreamy and says "beso" over and over. Ok, he's p-whipped, but that's kinda cute.
Next day Fern talks to Celso, then walks into reception. Marta is crying to PM about the trouble she's going to be in for giving out Lopez's number when Fern walks in. PM thanks him for his help with the situation and he makes her promise not to pull a stunt like that again.
Fernando walks into his office and sees that it's still a mess from last night. He starts moving furniture back and yells for Lety (was it her job to clean up after him?). He walks into her office and finds her asleep on her desk. At first he's pissed and wakes her up, asking why his office is still such a mess. She says she'll get Juana to clean it up and he gives her crap for sleeping on the job. She tells him she spent the night because he told her not to come out until he said so, and she heard the music still playing so she stayed put. He can't believe it and asks her again, you mean you spent the night here in the office?
Missing Recap 15: Lopez tries to do his thing
Lety affirms that yes, she spent the whole night there because he didn't tell her he'd left. I'm not sure of the whole conversation, but I think he says nothing happened, he and Fatima left, and he apologizes for leaving her there all night. She gives him the report she finished during the night and he tells her to go home. Omar comes in teasing him about how unprofessional the office looks, and wants to know all the details of last night's little adventure with Fatima. He's thinking this means adios Marcia, Lety is listening and likes this part. But Fern tells him no, it's like it always is, when he first sees a woman he really wants her, but afterwards he feels empty. The only one he still has any feelings for is Marcia (Lety's sad), and he's not sure if that's due to love, affection, or custom. Omar tells him he should keep looking (Lety's happy), but Fernando is skeptical and says that he's been doing it too long and so far Marcia's the best one he's found (Lety's sad). Lety comes out and offers to clean up but Fernando tells her to go home and he'll see her tomorrow. Omar wants to know was'sup and Fern tells him how she spent the night there and it was his fault. Omar the Ever-Sympathetic just laughs.
Lety tells PM she's leaving as Saimon comes into the reception with a big stuffed bear for PM. She loves it, but then she gets a call from an old boyfriend and sets up a date with him and Saimon is sad.
Omar is still laughing that Fernando left Lety in the office all night. He asks if she means so little to Fernando. Fern feels terrible about it and tells him that he's impressed that Lety trusts him and follows his orders unconditionally and he wants Omar to respect that. He says she's proven she's loyal to him and he has total confidence that Conceptos is in her hands.
Tomas runs into Lety as she's getting off the bus and wonders what's up. She tells him (against all orders of course) about F.I.'s loan to Conceptos. He again wonders if Fernando will want back his Filmo Imagen money but Lety tells him she doubts it because it's not enough money to help.
Fernando and Omar talk more about Lety and Conceptos, and make a joke about Alicia.
Alicia comes into reception, glares at PM, and gets onto the elevator. PM tries to talk to Saimon but he's unhappy and is barely responding. Clueless PM wants to know why, what's wrong, but he just tells her how stupid he is. She says something about the bear and throws it back at him. He yells at her, she snaps back, and he wusses down again.
Fernando and Omar talk about PM, then Omar tells Fernando that Alicia wouldn't forgive him unless he married her, and he pretends to strangle himself and Fernando pretends to stop him. He says he used that as an excuse to break up with her. I think Omar then says he thinks Alicia's going to quit, and he and Fernando pretend to cry about it, but then I think Fernando tells him basically don't bet on it.
Lopez comes into reception wearing sunglasses but you can still see scratches all over his face. He also has first aid tape on the back of his head. PM calls Lola to warn the cuartel that he's coming up. He stops at Alicia's desk and tells her about his conversation with Ariel. Alicia replies something that I don't get and I think she tells him she's not quitting after all. She suddenly notices his face and asks what happened, and he replies but I'm not sure what he says. Lopez tells Marta to come into his office and goes to do the lick/scratch thing but hurts his head. Lola and Alicia have one incredibly rare solidarity moment and share a laugh at his expense.
In his office, he asks Marta why she gave out his home number. Marta protests that she gave the number to Saimon because he said it was urgent. The cuartel and Saimon are listening at the door, of course. Lopez tells Marta that she caused big problems with his marriage and she's fired. The cuartel want Saimon to go in and stick up for Marta, but he's afraid. They shove him in anyway and he has trouble talking. Lopez asks why Saimon called his house. I'm not sure of his answer, but he mentions PM and Don Fernando. Lopez up and fires Saimon too. The cuartel run to Fernando and tell him what Lopez is up to. During that time, Marta finally grabs the pair of balls that Saimon isn't using and argues back to Lopez. This emboldens Saimon so he takes his balls back from Marta and tells Lopez he knows that Don Fernando didn't tell Lopez to handle things and threatens to tell Fernando what he did.
Just then, Fern walks in like a gorgeous knight in shining armor and stops anyone from getting fired. He wants to know what Lopez is doing and Lopez tells him it's a personnel issue. PM asks Fern if he didn't say that PM was only to be reprimanded and not fired and Fernando says yep, that's what I said, was I unclear to you? Lopez covers his butt and Fern says fine, anything else? Lopez says no. Fernando asks about the scratches on his face and Lopez says something about a cat. Sara asks if it was a male cat or a female cat. Fern teases him about the scratches, then leaves. Irma gives Lopez hell for what he tried to pull. The cuartel all leave, making meowing noises. Saimon stays behind and basically tells Lopez mess with PM again and you'll have to deal with me. Lopez orders him out of his office and does that disgusting scalp squeaking as only Lopez can do, but this time it hurts due to the scratches (good!).
Omar and Fernando head toward Luigi's office to discuss the shampoo commercial and see that Alicia has come to work. Fernando says something I don't get and shoves Omar toward her. She tells him that Ariel asked her not to resign and Omar looks like he swallowed a bug.
Omar tells Fernando that Alicia is now seeing Ariel and Fern is not happy. He's worried that she was dangerous before but now it's worse 'cause she's angry. She's going to tell Ariel that Conceptos doesn't have any clients and he'll want an audit and bye bye presidency. Omar says that the shampoo commercial that Luigi's working on is now even more important. Fernando agrees and says this time he'll do whatever Luigi wants even though it's going to be expensive. Then I can't tell if my tv signal is bad or if Fernando's cussing out Luigi, but it sounds like he's getting bleeped.
They go to Luigi's office where a musician is playing a synthesizer. Based on Luigi's comments, I guess he writes a lot of music for telenovelas and is very popular in real life. Luigi wants to hire him to write the music for the commercial. Fern asks if he costs a lot and the musician says yes, but Luigi says no, not a lot, a WHOLE lot! Fernando says ok, which surprises Luigi.
Lety's home writing in her diary, saying how much it would hurt her to see Fernando fail and she's flattered that Fernando trusts her. We see Fernando working, looking at his picture of Marcia and sighing while Lety voiceovers that she's the most important woman in his life, but he doesn't see her as a woman. Back to Lety, she's drawing hearts along the top of the diary page.
Next morning Tomas and Erasmo are going through some boxes. I think it's computer stuff. They talk to Lety, I'm not sure about what, and she tells them to be careful as they lift the heavy boxes. She talks to her mom about her dad and him having a job, I'm not totally clear. They mention Fernando. Tomas butts in and F.I. is mentioned, so I think they're discussing getting dad a job with Filmo Imagen, which has me confused because I thought they discussed this topic before in Lety's bedroom.
Back at Conceptos, Fernando is complaining to Omar that Luigi is costing them a fortune on this commercial. Lety comes in and says good morning and Fern snaps at her. Omar tells him to calm down, maybe they can save money in post-production. Fern asks Lety how much money is in Filmo Imagen and she tells him. He's surprised by how much money is there. He tells her they're going to have to take another loan from F.I. Omar is nervous about this, but Fernando begins to list everything they have to pay.
Luigi is on the phone to someone, but I'm afraid I don't understand this at all. Marcia and videos get mentioned.
Fernando is talking to Omar and Lety interrupts. She's very nervous about having Conceptos in her hands. She says something about the banks and Fernando says something about Luigi's commercial. Fernando tells Lety that in order to stave off their creditors, it's necessary (again she sits at attention when he says that word) to completely embargo Conceptos to Filmo Imagen. Lety's eye twitches with impactadaness. If anyone can fill in this conversation, please do, I'd love to know all that was said.
Missing Recap 16: Luigi's new model
Fernando again says that it's necessary (attention Lety), Lety protests again, but Fernando and Omar try to convince her. Fernando reminds her that F.I. is a real and legal company. She goes to her office and stares at her picture of Fernando and rubs the rag he gave her (freaky!). Fernando and Omar are still discussing it when she comes back and tells Fern he can count on her to do whatever is necessary to help. He tells her thanks and she gives him one of her patented scary dreamy looks. Omar teases him about it.
Marcia is back from her trip and comes into reception. She talks about Luigi and his models with PM. Saimon is carrying boxes for her. She gets on the elevator and when she gets upstairs Alicia greats her heartily. She starts whining about everything that's happened but Marcia doesn't really want to hear it and gives her a bottle of perfume she bought her. She gives a gift to Saimon too, as well as a gift for Lola.
In Fern's office, Lety hands Fernando some info. Marcia comes in and they kiss, making Lety's eye twitch. She gives Fern a present, which he hands off to Lety without opening, and I think she tells him she bought some stuff for the wedding. He tells her he'd love to talk about it but right now he's working on something. She asks if it's a problem and he says no. She says fine, she'll be in her office. They kiss again and Lety makes an ugly face at her.
Marcia asks Lola for a report. Saimon thanks her for the gift. Luigi runs in and they do a diva greeting and chat, I think about her trip. Some models come in looking for Luigi, I think they're supposed to be auditioning for the shampoo commercial and he has Saimon take them somewhere. Lola gives the report to Marcia and she and Luigi go into her office. He complains about his model problem and she shows him the veil material she bought. He wraps it around his head and prances around in it while she reads the report and says it's a disaster. She heads off to confront Fernando and Luigi follows as far as the executive lobby. Lola stops him and asks him a question about the models' contracts, but he just gives the usual fea ugly ew go away digs. Marcia goes into the conference room where Fernando, Omar and Lety are working and wants to know why all the contracts have been canceled. She tosses her report at him and he picks them up and reads them. She makes some wise crack at Lety that I don't get and Fernando tells her Lety is practically the VP of Finance since Olarte got fired. Naturally this goes down like a ton of bricks and Marcia sarcastically claps for her. I'm sorry, my Spanish isn't good enough to figure out why Marcia thinks the company's problems are all Lety's fault. Fernando tells Marcia the orders were his and everything will be fine, and Lety leaves, to go out into the executive lobby and talk to the cuartel. Fernando's doin' some 'splainin' that I don't get a lot of, but he mentions that they got nothing from the L.A. trip. Marcia asks "nothing?", and Fernando replies nothing concrete, but we got ideas. They do more talking that I don't get, but I think mostly he's trying to paint he picture as rosier than it actually is.
Luigi is in the studio auditioning models. He complains when the cuartel walk in, they want Irma to go to lunch with them. He says they're too busy and makes them leave. Just then Marcia calls him and asks him to come to a meeting, so he tells Irma to choose a model.
The cuartel are in reception and leave for lunch as some models are sitting there. Saimon does his usual "pretend to be an executive" bit, I guess that never gets old.
Luigi shows up in the conference room with his dog, and he, Fernando, Marcia and Omar discuss it for a minute. Marcia asks how the shampoo commercial is going and Fernando and Marcia explain to Luigi that it's their only gig right now. There's more conversation that's over my head. I'm not sure but I think the 35 mm camera gets mentioned again.
In the lobby, Saimon sends the next model up to audition just as another model walks in. It's Jazmin, the woman who stole Lola's husband! Saimon drools and dances and puts her on the elevator to audition before the other models already sitting there.
Alicia sends food into the conference room and heads back to her desk as Saimon and Jazmin get off the elevator. Alicia eyeballs her and shudders and says something about nacos. I guess she summed Jazmin up as low class trash pretty quick.
Irma thanks the current models as Saimon brings Jazmin in. Irma tells her she thinks she's seen her somewhere before but can't remember where. Jazmin says she doesn't think so. Irma gives her something to change into which apparently is just some material to wrap around herself. Saimon starts to help wrapping Jazmin up but Irma boots him out.
Back in reception, the cuartel come back, apparently talking about Alicia. They notice that Saimon isn't there just as he's coming off the elevator. He's busy dancing and swooning over the new woman. They ask what he's doing and he tells them something about the new model that I don't get. PM, the chick who JUST got busted for trying to bang another man there at work, is jealous. Saimon dances off.
Jazmin is modeling for Irma. She tells her that she likes her but that Luigi still needs to approve her choice. Jaz walks away to change while Irma continues to wonder where she's seen her before.
Back at the meeting, they're continuing to discuss their problem. I'm not positive, but I think Marcia is going to make calls to try to drum up some business. She leaves and Luigi mentions the bet and that Fernando lost since they have no bidness. Fern tries to back out of it, but Luigi tells him "no Ferni, a bet is a bet," and leaves. Omar teases him about being Queen of the Night, and Fernando responds with something I don't get but I'll bet it ain't so nice.
Marcia and Alicia talk in the bathroom but I'm afraid I don't get it. If anyone can fill in, thanks!
In the lobby, Lola sees Jaz and starts buggin'. Alicia asks what's going on and Lola starts telling her about Jazmin. Just then Luigi calls and Jaz is supposed to go back to his office. Everyone holds Lola back as she tries to steal Sara's Roller Derby Chick persona and go all amazon on Jaz's butt. Just then Lopez comes out and wants to know what the commotion is. The cuartel don't speak so Alicia tells him Lola was picking on this poor innocent woman, while Jazmin gives her fake pout. Lola sticks up for herself and tries to explain but Lopez tells her it's HER problem and tells Jaz to go to Luigi's office as asked. She flirts with him (EEEWWWWWWW!!!) and thanks him.
Luigi and Irma are talking and he wants to know where the new model is. Irma says she doesn't know, she called Alicia and told her to send her back. Just then the skank ho, I mean Jazmin, walks in. Irma introduces her to Luigi, who tells her to turn around. He likee.
Lola is still wigging out and the cuartel are trying to calm her down. They go to Luigi's office and Lola says she needs to talk to him. Naturally he doesn't want to, but she talks anyway and tells him he can't hire Jazmin. He wants to know why, snottily of course, and Irma asks what the problem is. Lola tells them Jazmin is the ho who broke up her marriage. Irma is impactada and says she's very sorry, she didn't know. Luigi tells Lola she can't give him orders in his own office and she says fine, she'll talk to Fernando, and Don Humberto, and Dona Teresita, and Marcia, and Ariel, and all the heads of Conceptos if that's what it takes. Luigi pretends to be worried, then does the exact opposite to spite her and tells Jazmin she's got the contract. Lola faints and the cuartel drags her out. Jazmin says something sarcastic and Luigi calls Lopez and tells him he needs to see him. The cuartel try to calm Lola down in the bathroom. PM comes in and they tell her what's going on. Meanwhile, Luigi is working with Jaz when Lopez comes in. He's openly drooling over her and Luigi calls him on it. He tells Lopez he doesn't want the cuartel bothering her. Lopez needs to borrow Jaz for a few minutes to do the paperwork, and Luigi says ok but hurry, he has to start filming the commercial. They leave and Irma asks Luigi to please not use Jazmin. He replies with something I don't get and reminds her that she's the one who chose her.
The cuartel come out of the bathroom and run into Alicia. The usual insults fly. Lety takes Lola in to Fernando's office. He wants to know why Lety's late from lunch and she explains that Lola has a problem. She then heads to her office so Lola can explain in private. Lola tells Fernando that Luigi is hiring the woman who ruined her life.
Alicia has run and tattled to Luigi that Lola has run and tattled to Fernando. Fernando walks in to Luigi's office and Alicia calls him the representative of the cuartel de las feas. He gives her a look and she leaves. He asks where the new model is and Luigi tells him she's in Lopez's office signing the contract. Fernando says he wants to talk about a personal matter and Luigi gets a hopeful look on his face (I LOVE Sergio Mayer, he's so perfect at this!). Fernando says NO, it's about the new model and the problem she's causing with the cuartel. He asks Luigi to please use another model, he must have had several candidates. Naturally Luigi gets obstinate and says he wants her and Irma was the one who hired her and it's too late because she's already signing the contract. Fernando caves a little too easily and says fine, whatever, it's going to be your problem then. Luigi says and another thing I really don't want the cuartel coming into my office. Fernando says Oh, I get it, this is personal against Lola, right? Luigi denies it, then reminds Fernando of their bet and that as a gentleman he has to keep his part of the deal and dress up as the Queen of the Night or Luigi will resign from the company.
Jazmin is signing her contract while Lopez is drooling and ogling her a**. He's flirting with her and, unlike the cuartel, she's lapping it up like a kitten with cream. When the contract's signed, he takes her hands and welcomes her. He brushes his eyebrows (yes, that's as disgusting as it sounds), takes her arm, and leads her back to the studio.
Fernando stops by Lola's desk to tell her that he couldn't stop Luigi from hiring Jazmin, and Lola cries.
Jazmin goes into the bathroom and Alicia walks in. Jaz thanks her for sticking up for her against Lola. Alicia tells her about the cuartel and to be careful of them and to come to her if she has any problems with them.
Marcia is at Lola's desk and Lola is telling her about Jazmin. The very same skank walks by and Lola cries harder.
Omar and Fernando are in Fern's office talking when Marcia comes in. Omar leaves and Marcia mentions Lola. Fern tells her he tried to talk Luigi out of hiring her but wasn't able to because Luigi wants her and she already signed the contract and there's nothing he can do. She says ok, then asks him something about tonight that I don't get, then they kiss. Fern asks her not to say anything to anyone about the company's problems, to just keep it between herself, him, Omar and Luigi. He asks her especially not to tell Alicia or Ariel.
Back in Luigi's office Jazmin is on the phone to Flaquito, telling him she got the job. Luigi shakes his head, I think he's already disgusted by how much time she spends on the phone but I'm not sure. Flaquito is in his office and is surprised that she got the job at Conceptos. He's worried about what Lola will do.
Marcia doesn't want to keep quiet about the problems and mentions their families. Fernando says fine and something about his head and the presidency. She says he's being ridiculous and stalks out and he makes fun of her behind her back. Lety comes out and with the embargo paperwork for him to sign, and warns him that once it's registered there's no going back. He tells her not to worry, the worst has happened (or nothing worse can happen, or something along those lines) and asks her where to sign. She stands right next to him to show him, looks at him dreamily and puts her hand right next to his. It looks like she's about to take his hand in hers, but he impatiently brushes her hand out of his way so he can sign, and she hurries back to the other side of his desk. She expresses more doubts and he tells her not to worry, he's sure Luigi's commercial will bring them more business.
Alicia is enjoying watching Lola cry as Marcia tells her there's nothing she can do and Luigi's going to use Jazmin for the commercial. Marcia really does feel sorry for her here, which is nice.
Fernando goes into Lety's office and asks for the loan check. He asks her why F.I. has so much extra money, and she makes a face.
Missing Recap 13: When your boss tells you to go home... GO HOME!!
We're in reception and PM is telling the cuartel what Lopez is doing. He calls her again and she says she's with Saimon and the cuartel and can they come too, but he tells her it's in her best interest to get rid of them and come alone. I think he threatens to fire her if she doesn't. She agrees to meet him alone in 15 minutes. The rest of the cuartel are trying to get Marta to call Lopez's house, but she's afraid and doesn't want to. They say something to PM that I don't get, and she says she'll quit before she allows him to do anything. Sara shows her how to defend herself using Juana as a dummy. PM and Saimon talk, I think he says he'll go talk to Fernando, but she says no. Just then a hot chick walks in asking for Fernando and Saimon begins to drool.
PM calls Lety to let her know that a Fatima Bosh (?) is there for Fern, and tells her what's happening with Lopez, that Fern told him he could handle the situation so this is how he's handling it.
Omar and Fern are still talking in his office. He's balancing a pencil on his lip, so I'm guessing he's not paying a whole lot of attention. Lety tells Fernando that Fatima's there and he gets all excited while Omar makes some Omar-type comment. He yells at Lety about something and he and Omar talk stuff I don't get. Lety asks him if he told Lopez to handle the PM problem and Fernando says no, he told Lopez to reprimand her but not to dismiss her. She smiles and thanks him and immediately goes back to her office to tell Saimon this, but PM's already gone. Saimon offers his arm to Fatima to take her to Fern's office. Meanwhile Fern is lighting candles, turning on music and rearranging furniture. Omar brings in some wine and they talk man-talk, and Omar says something about Alicia.
Fernando wants to be alone with Fatima and goes into Lety's office and tells her to go home early, but she, for some reason (I thinks she's a closet masochist) decides she wants to stay and tells Fern she has a lot of work to do. He tells her ok, but under no circumstances is she to come out of her office until he tells her to, and I think he tells her not to say anything to Marcia. He leaves her office and sees Fatima and they start talking. Fatima tells Fern she knows Marcia's out of town and she wants to spend all night with him. He pours some wine and he and Fatima start to get it on. At first Lety listens while looking at her picture of him (ew!! Is there such a thing as a Hearing Tom in addition to a Peeping Tom?), but then she gets sad and cries and covers her ears to drown out the noise. Hard to feel sorry for her, it was her choice to stay. Oh well...
Meanwhile Saimon calls Marta and tells her what Lety said about Fernando. He wants her to call Lopez's house, but she still doesn't want to. He tries to reassure her that it will be ok.
At the Blue Dragon Bar (in case there's ever a trivia quiz on it), Lopez is hitting on PM. He tells her that Alicia resigned because of what happened and Omar's really upset. He tries to touch her hand but she pulls away. His cell phone rings and as he's pulling it out of his pocket he pulls out his toothbrush and toothpaste (ok, that just made me urp a little). PM is as disgusted as I was. He tells her the call is just someone from Conceptos and he doesn't answer it. They talk more stuff that I don't get but I feel like I need a shower from hearing it.
At Alicia's house, she's on the phone to her dad and tells him the same stuff Lopez just mentioned. She mentions she needs money and she thinks he hung up, but he didn't. She then tells him about Ariel's harassment and couldn't daddums help her out with just a little buckage? A knock at the door, she hangs up and answers, it's Omar, with flowers. At first she won't talk to him, but as soon as he starts to walk away she changes her mind.
Saimon is still begging Martha to call Lopez's house, but she's afraid because she knows Lopez will know it was her who called. Saimon asks her who's more important, her boss or PM? I'm guessing she chose her boss because Saimon tosses the phone down, then picks it up again to see if Marta is still there.
At Lety's, her 'rents are in bed and she calls. Usual crap about needing to stay late, no come home, can't must work, blah blah etc. Pop asks when she'll be home and she hears the two F's (Fern and Fatima) being mushy and tells her dad she doesn't know.
Speaking of the two F's, they're on the couch kissing and talking. Fatima asks Fernando if he's really going to marry Marcia and he tells her he doesn't want to talk about it. While they're talking, she's slipping off his tie and they kiss a lot more.
Omar is begging Alicia to forgive him, he doesn't know what PM was up to, she was crazy and he lost control, same story he fed Fernando. Alicia says she'll forgive him under two conditions: first he has to fire PM, secondly he has to marry her. He tells her PM is under Fernando's protection so he can't fire her, and I think he also just flat-out refuses to marry her. She gets sad and he leaves.
Back to the bar, PM tries to leave, I think Lopez is getting drunk, and he grabs her. She says something about his wife and just then his phone rings and, of course, it's his wife. He can't let her hear the music, so he goes to the bathroom to answer.
Lety is still listening at the door, que stalkerish. I'm having a hard time drumming up pity for her here. Did I mention she had the chance to go home but didn't???
Back to the Blue Dragon, Lopez answers the phone in the men's room and tells his wife he's working. Meanwhile, we get a rather pointless scene of Saimon pacing in Conceptos' reception and Celso and Sanson come in. They talk, I think about a woman being up with Fernando. Then we're back to the bar again, and while Lopez is gone PM asks a lady next to her to borrow her cell phone and calls Saimon. He tells her what Fernando had said, but the bar is so noisy she can't hear him. She tells him where she's at and hangs up because Lopez returns. She tells him she needs to leave, but Lopez wants to dance.
The two F's are still making out in his office and Lety finally has enough. She covers her ears and starts singing to block out the noise.
At Ariel's house he answers the door and it's Alicia. He invites her in and she says she needs to talk to him and he asks her if she quit Conceptos and she tells him no. He asks her if he no longer disgusts her (actually, after I saw him at Magic Mountain in L.A. he didn't disgust me either, he was so adorable, but until then I was full-on with Alicia on that). She says she only told him that because she was mad but she wants to be friends. He tells her he's only interested if there's sex involved (ok, I take it back, Magic Mountain or no Magic Mountain). She doesn't want him to compromise her relationship with Omar and, like the jerk he is, he says what relationship, 'cause that little incident at Conceptos kinda proved Omar wasn't taking it too seriously. She says she needs her job and he says then you have to accept my proposal (he says apuesta, which I thought meant "bet" but I guess it means "deal" or "proposal" as well), and he heads off into the bedroom. She thinks about it for a minute, then follows him in.
Lety calls her 'rents and Mom asks if she's going to be working all night. Pop is listening in and gets really pissed. Lety tells them she's working on a very special project and not to worry because there are a whole bunch of people working late that night, the other secretaries and Lopez. I guess she placates them. She says she'll see them tomorrow and hangs up.
Lopez and PM are dancing. She mentions she has to work tomorrow but that doesn't stop him. He's puttin' on the moves, she's pushing them off. I'm not sure, but I think she says something like "I'm not like that" and he says "you were, with Omar" or something equally disgusting. She's asking him to stop, he's married, and he starts kissing her neck. She's trying to fight him off when a woman in a nightdress and curlers shows up and scratches him down his back. He turns to look and freaks, it's the little woman. He tries to make an excuse, asking where Fern and Omar are, but she's not buying. Wifey sees the toothbrush and paste and puts two and two together and really starts screeching like a banshee. He denies everything, of course, but she drags him off by his ear, threatening the whole way, while everyone watches and PM laughs. The barman shows up with the bill and gives it to PM, but she doesn't have any money.
Fernando and Fatima are still at it at the office, but decide to go somewhere else to finish their business, leaving the music on and Lety holed up in her office, crying. We get to hear Aqui Estare again (great song). Should'a gone home woman! Jeez Louise!
Missing Recap 14: Alicia, Lety, and Lopez get unlucky
We're back at the bar where Lopez is being emasculated again. PM gets the bill and can't pay again, the two F's leave again and Lety cries again. Angelica sings that she's right here again, and I'm telling Lety she should have gone home when she had the chance again. Lety crawls up onto her desk and lays down, crying. Ok, I may not feel too sorry for her, but that part WAS kinda sad.
Paula Maria is arguing with the barman, she doesn't have any money. She offers him her watch, but just at that moment Saimon the P-Whipped shows up and offers to pay, but it's more than he has cash for. He offers his watch, saying it's Swiss, and the barman accepts. Sorry, still can't get over the fact he's doing this for someone who was busted trying to bang the VP. Anyroad...
We cut to Ariel telling Alicia he's going to want a lot of sex. She says she doesn't want that kind of relationship, but you already know what he had to say about that and he heads into the bedroom. She thinks about it for a minute, then follows him in. He's lying there on the bed in an oh-so-NOT-sexy pose and I can't believe she didn't run off screaming at the sight.
We go back to PM and Saimon. She tells him what Lopez had proposed and he gets righteously pissed, and tells her that Fernando had ordered Lopez not to dismiss her. She thanks him for saving her, and thanks some saints for sending Mrs. Lopez along at the right time. Saimon tells her don't thank the saints, thank Marta for giving him the number or making the call, sorry I'm not clear who actually made the call. PM is a little worried that Marta will get into trouble, but being the selfish cretin she is, that worry flashes in and out of her mind about the same length of time as a lightening bolt hitting the ground, then she's back to being all over Saimon. They dance, then he picks her up and carries her out. Saimon takes her home and tells her he thinks Omar was a jackass whereas he's single and would love to be with her and her son. She says now she knows she has a guardian angel and gives him a kiss on the forehead. He wants more so she gives him a very quick kiss on the lips and runs off. He gets dreamy and says "beso" over and over. Ok, he's p-whipped, but that's kinda cute.
Next day Fern talks to Celso, then walks into reception. Marta is crying to PM about the trouble she's going to be in for giving out Lopez's number when Fern walks in. PM thanks him for his help with the situation and he makes her promise not to pull a stunt like that again.
Fernando walks into his office and sees that it's still a mess from last night. He starts moving furniture back and yells for Lety (was it her job to clean up after him?). He walks into her office and finds her asleep on her desk. At first he's pissed and wakes her up, asking why his office is still such a mess. She says she'll get Juana to clean it up and he gives her crap for sleeping on the job. She tells him she spent the night because he told her not to come out until he said so, and she heard the music still playing so she stayed put. He can't believe it and asks her again, you mean you spent the night here in the office?
Missing Recap 15: Lopez tries to do his thing
Lety affirms that yes, she spent the whole night there because he didn't tell her he'd left. I'm not sure of the whole conversation, but I think he says nothing happened, he and Fatima left, and he apologizes for leaving her there all night. She gives him the report she finished during the night and he tells her to go home. Omar comes in teasing him about how unprofessional the office looks, and wants to know all the details of last night's little adventure with Fatima. He's thinking this means adios Marcia, Lety is listening and likes this part. But Fern tells him no, it's like it always is, when he first sees a woman he really wants her, but afterwards he feels empty. The only one he still has any feelings for is Marcia (Lety's sad), and he's not sure if that's due to love, affection, or custom. Omar tells him he should keep looking (Lety's happy), but Fernando is skeptical and says that he's been doing it too long and so far Marcia's the best one he's found (Lety's sad). Lety comes out and offers to clean up but Fernando tells her to go home and he'll see her tomorrow. Omar wants to know was'sup and Fern tells him how she spent the night there and it was his fault. Omar the Ever-Sympathetic just laughs.
Lety tells PM she's leaving as Saimon comes into the reception with a big stuffed bear for PM. She loves it, but then she gets a call from an old boyfriend and sets up a date with him and Saimon is sad.
Omar is still laughing that Fernando left Lety in the office all night. He asks if she means so little to Fernando. Fern feels terrible about it and tells him that he's impressed that Lety trusts him and follows his orders unconditionally and he wants Omar to respect that. He says she's proven she's loyal to him and he has total confidence that Conceptos is in her hands.
Tomas runs into Lety as she's getting off the bus and wonders what's up. She tells him (against all orders of course) about F.I.'s loan to Conceptos. He again wonders if Fernando will want back his Filmo Imagen money but Lety tells him she doubts it because it's not enough money to help.
Fernando and Omar talk more about Lety and Conceptos, and make a joke about Alicia.
Alicia comes into reception, glares at PM, and gets onto the elevator. PM tries to talk to Saimon but he's unhappy and is barely responding. Clueless PM wants to know why, what's wrong, but he just tells her how stupid he is. She says something about the bear and throws it back at him. He yells at her, she snaps back, and he wusses down again.
Fernando and Omar talk about PM, then Omar tells Fernando that Alicia wouldn't forgive him unless he married her, and he pretends to strangle himself and Fernando pretends to stop him. He says he used that as an excuse to break up with her. I think Omar then says he thinks Alicia's going to quit, and he and Fernando pretend to cry about it, but then I think Fernando tells him basically don't bet on it.
Lopez comes into reception wearing sunglasses but you can still see scratches all over his face. He also has first aid tape on the back of his head. PM calls Lola to warn the cuartel that he's coming up. He stops at Alicia's desk and tells her about his conversation with Ariel. Alicia replies something that I don't get and I think she tells him she's not quitting after all. She suddenly notices his face and asks what happened, and he replies but I'm not sure what he says. Lopez tells Marta to come into his office and goes to do the lick/scratch thing but hurts his head. Lola and Alicia have one incredibly rare solidarity moment and share a laugh at his expense.
In his office, he asks Marta why she gave out his home number. Marta protests that she gave the number to Saimon because he said it was urgent. The cuartel and Saimon are listening at the door, of course. Lopez tells Marta that she caused big problems with his marriage and she's fired. The cuartel want Saimon to go in and stick up for Marta, but he's afraid. They shove him in anyway and he has trouble talking. Lopez asks why Saimon called his house. I'm not sure of his answer, but he mentions PM and Don Fernando. Lopez up and fires Saimon too. The cuartel run to Fernando and tell him what Lopez is up to. During that time, Marta finally grabs the pair of balls that Saimon isn't using and argues back to Lopez. This emboldens Saimon so he takes his balls back from Marta and tells Lopez he knows that Don Fernando didn't tell Lopez to handle things and threatens to tell Fernando what he did.
Just then, Fern walks in like a gorgeous knight in shining armor and stops anyone from getting fired. He wants to know what Lopez is doing and Lopez tells him it's a personnel issue. PM asks Fern if he didn't say that PM was only to be reprimanded and not fired and Fernando says yep, that's what I said, was I unclear to you? Lopez covers his butt and Fern says fine, anything else? Lopez says no. Fernando asks about the scratches on his face and Lopez says something about a cat. Sara asks if it was a male cat or a female cat. Fern teases him about the scratches, then leaves. Irma gives Lopez hell for what he tried to pull. The cuartel all leave, making meowing noises. Saimon stays behind and basically tells Lopez mess with PM again and you'll have to deal with me. Lopez orders him out of his office and does that disgusting scalp squeaking as only Lopez can do, but this time it hurts due to the scratches (good!).
Omar and Fernando head toward Luigi's office to discuss the shampoo commercial and see that Alicia has come to work. Fernando says something I don't get and shoves Omar toward her. She tells him that Ariel asked her not to resign and Omar looks like he swallowed a bug.
Omar tells Fernando that Alicia is now seeing Ariel and Fern is not happy. He's worried that she was dangerous before but now it's worse 'cause she's angry. She's going to tell Ariel that Conceptos doesn't have any clients and he'll want an audit and bye bye presidency. Omar says that the shampoo commercial that Luigi's working on is now even more important. Fernando agrees and says this time he'll do whatever Luigi wants even though it's going to be expensive. Then I can't tell if my tv signal is bad or if Fernando's cussing out Luigi, but it sounds like he's getting bleeped.
They go to Luigi's office where a musician is playing a synthesizer. Based on Luigi's comments, I guess he writes a lot of music for telenovelas and is very popular in real life. Luigi wants to hire him to write the music for the commercial. Fern asks if he costs a lot and the musician says yes, but Luigi says no, not a lot, a WHOLE lot! Fernando says ok, which surprises Luigi.
Lety's home writing in her diary, saying how much it would hurt her to see Fernando fail and she's flattered that Fernando trusts her. We see Fernando working, looking at his picture of Marcia and sighing while Lety voiceovers that she's the most important woman in his life, but he doesn't see her as a woman. Back to Lety, she's drawing hearts along the top of the diary page.
Next morning Tomas and Erasmo are going through some boxes. I think it's computer stuff. They talk to Lety, I'm not sure about what, and she tells them to be careful as they lift the heavy boxes. She talks to her mom about her dad and him having a job, I'm not totally clear. They mention Fernando. Tomas butts in and F.I. is mentioned, so I think they're discussing getting dad a job with Filmo Imagen, which has me confused because I thought they discussed this topic before in Lety's bedroom.
Back at Conceptos, Fernando is complaining to Omar that Luigi is costing them a fortune on this commercial. Lety comes in and says good morning and Fern snaps at her. Omar tells him to calm down, maybe they can save money in post-production. Fern asks Lety how much money is in Filmo Imagen and she tells him. He's surprised by how much money is there. He tells her they're going to have to take another loan from F.I. Omar is nervous about this, but Fernando begins to list everything they have to pay.
Luigi is on the phone to someone, but I'm afraid I don't understand this at all. Marcia and videos get mentioned.
Fernando is talking to Omar and Lety interrupts. She's very nervous about having Conceptos in her hands. She says something about the banks and Fernando says something about Luigi's commercial. Fernando tells Lety that in order to stave off their creditors, it's necessary (again she sits at attention when he says that word) to completely embargo Conceptos to Filmo Imagen. Lety's eye twitches with impactadaness. If anyone can fill in this conversation, please do, I'd love to know all that was said.
Missing Recap 16: Luigi's new model
Fernando again says that it's necessary (attention Lety), Lety protests again, but Fernando and Omar try to convince her. Fernando reminds her that F.I. is a real and legal company. She goes to her office and stares at her picture of Fernando and rubs the rag he gave her (freaky!). Fernando and Omar are still discussing it when she comes back and tells Fern he can count on her to do whatever is necessary to help. He tells her thanks and she gives him one of her patented scary dreamy looks. Omar teases him about it.
Marcia is back from her trip and comes into reception. She talks about Luigi and his models with PM. Saimon is carrying boxes for her. She gets on the elevator and when she gets upstairs Alicia greats her heartily. She starts whining about everything that's happened but Marcia doesn't really want to hear it and gives her a bottle of perfume she bought her. She gives a gift to Saimon too, as well as a gift for Lola.
In Fern's office, Lety hands Fernando some info. Marcia comes in and they kiss, making Lety's eye twitch. She gives Fern a present, which he hands off to Lety without opening, and I think she tells him she bought some stuff for the wedding. He tells her he'd love to talk about it but right now he's working on something. She asks if it's a problem and he says no. She says fine, she'll be in her office. They kiss again and Lety makes an ugly face at her.
Marcia asks Lola for a report. Saimon thanks her for the gift. Luigi runs in and they do a diva greeting and chat, I think about her trip. Some models come in looking for Luigi, I think they're supposed to be auditioning for the shampoo commercial and he has Saimon take them somewhere. Lola gives the report to Marcia and she and Luigi go into her office. He complains about his model problem and she shows him the veil material she bought. He wraps it around his head and prances around in it while she reads the report and says it's a disaster. She heads off to confront Fernando and Luigi follows as far as the executive lobby. Lola stops him and asks him a question about the models' contracts, but he just gives the usual fea ugly ew go away digs. Marcia goes into the conference room where Fernando, Omar and Lety are working and wants to know why all the contracts have been canceled. She tosses her report at him and he picks them up and reads them. She makes some wise crack at Lety that I don't get and Fernando tells her Lety is practically the VP of Finance since Olarte got fired. Naturally this goes down like a ton of bricks and Marcia sarcastically claps for her. I'm sorry, my Spanish isn't good enough to figure out why Marcia thinks the company's problems are all Lety's fault. Fernando tells Marcia the orders were his and everything will be fine, and Lety leaves, to go out into the executive lobby and talk to the cuartel. Fernando's doin' some 'splainin' that I don't get a lot of, but he mentions that they got nothing from the L.A. trip. Marcia asks "nothing?", and Fernando replies nothing concrete, but we got ideas. They do more talking that I don't get, but I think mostly he's trying to paint he picture as rosier than it actually is.
Luigi is in the studio auditioning models. He complains when the cuartel walk in, they want Irma to go to lunch with them. He says they're too busy and makes them leave. Just then Marcia calls him and asks him to come to a meeting, so he tells Irma to choose a model.
The cuartel are in reception and leave for lunch as some models are sitting there. Saimon does his usual "pretend to be an executive" bit, I guess that never gets old.
Luigi shows up in the conference room with his dog, and he, Fernando, Marcia and Omar discuss it for a minute. Marcia asks how the shampoo commercial is going and Fernando and Marcia explain to Luigi that it's their only gig right now. There's more conversation that's over my head. I'm not sure but I think the 35 mm camera gets mentioned again.
In the lobby, Saimon sends the next model up to audition just as another model walks in. It's Jazmin, the woman who stole Lola's husband! Saimon drools and dances and puts her on the elevator to audition before the other models already sitting there.
Alicia sends food into the conference room and heads back to her desk as Saimon and Jazmin get off the elevator. Alicia eyeballs her and shudders and says something about nacos. I guess she summed Jazmin up as low class trash pretty quick.
Irma thanks the current models as Saimon brings Jazmin in. Irma tells her she thinks she's seen her somewhere before but can't remember where. Jazmin says she doesn't think so. Irma gives her something to change into which apparently is just some material to wrap around herself. Saimon starts to help wrapping Jazmin up but Irma boots him out.
Back in reception, the cuartel come back, apparently talking about Alicia. They notice that Saimon isn't there just as he's coming off the elevator. He's busy dancing and swooning over the new woman. They ask what he's doing and he tells them something about the new model that I don't get. PM, the chick who JUST got busted for trying to bang another man there at work, is jealous. Saimon dances off.
Jazmin is modeling for Irma. She tells her that she likes her but that Luigi still needs to approve her choice. Jaz walks away to change while Irma continues to wonder where she's seen her before.
Back at the meeting, they're continuing to discuss their problem. I'm not positive, but I think Marcia is going to make calls to try to drum up some business. She leaves and Luigi mentions the bet and that Fernando lost since they have no bidness. Fern tries to back out of it, but Luigi tells him "no Ferni, a bet is a bet," and leaves. Omar teases him about being Queen of the Night, and Fernando responds with something I don't get but I'll bet it ain't so nice.
Marcia and Alicia talk in the bathroom but I'm afraid I don't get it. If anyone can fill in, thanks!
In the lobby, Lola sees Jaz and starts buggin'. Alicia asks what's going on and Lola starts telling her about Jazmin. Just then Luigi calls and Jaz is supposed to go back to his office. Everyone holds Lola back as she tries to steal Sara's Roller Derby Chick persona and go all amazon on Jaz's butt. Just then Lopez comes out and wants to know what the commotion is. The cuartel don't speak so Alicia tells him Lola was picking on this poor innocent woman, while Jazmin gives her fake pout. Lola sticks up for herself and tries to explain but Lopez tells her it's HER problem and tells Jaz to go to Luigi's office as asked. She flirts with him (EEEWWWWWWW!!!) and thanks him.
Luigi and Irma are talking and he wants to know where the new model is. Irma says she doesn't know, she called Alicia and told her to send her back. Just then the skank ho, I mean Jazmin, walks in. Irma introduces her to Luigi, who tells her to turn around. He likee.
Lola is still wigging out and the cuartel are trying to calm her down. They go to Luigi's office and Lola says she needs to talk to him. Naturally he doesn't want to, but she talks anyway and tells him he can't hire Jazmin. He wants to know why, snottily of course, and Irma asks what the problem is. Lola tells them Jazmin is the ho who broke up her marriage. Irma is impactada and says she's very sorry, she didn't know. Luigi tells Lola she can't give him orders in his own office and she says fine, she'll talk to Fernando, and Don Humberto, and Dona Teresita, and Marcia, and Ariel, and all the heads of Conceptos if that's what it takes. Luigi pretends to be worried, then does the exact opposite to spite her and tells Jazmin she's got the contract. Lola faints and the cuartel drags her out. Jazmin says something sarcastic and Luigi calls Lopez and tells him he needs to see him. The cuartel try to calm Lola down in the bathroom. PM comes in and they tell her what's going on. Meanwhile, Luigi is working with Jaz when Lopez comes in. He's openly drooling over her and Luigi calls him on it. He tells Lopez he doesn't want the cuartel bothering her. Lopez needs to borrow Jaz for a few minutes to do the paperwork, and Luigi says ok but hurry, he has to start filming the commercial. They leave and Irma asks Luigi to please not use Jazmin. He replies with something I don't get and reminds her that she's the one who chose her.
The cuartel come out of the bathroom and run into Alicia. The usual insults fly. Lety takes Lola in to Fernando's office. He wants to know why Lety's late from lunch and she explains that Lola has a problem. She then heads to her office so Lola can explain in private. Lola tells Fernando that Luigi is hiring the woman who ruined her life.
Alicia has run and tattled to Luigi that Lola has run and tattled to Fernando. Fernando walks in to Luigi's office and Alicia calls him the representative of the cuartel de las feas. He gives her a look and she leaves. He asks where the new model is and Luigi tells him she's in Lopez's office signing the contract. Fernando says he wants to talk about a personal matter and Luigi gets a hopeful look on his face (I LOVE Sergio Mayer, he's so perfect at this!). Fernando says NO, it's about the new model and the problem she's causing with the cuartel. He asks Luigi to please use another model, he must have had several candidates. Naturally Luigi gets obstinate and says he wants her and Irma was the one who hired her and it's too late because she's already signing the contract. Fernando caves a little too easily and says fine, whatever, it's going to be your problem then. Luigi says and another thing I really don't want the cuartel coming into my office. Fernando says Oh, I get it, this is personal against Lola, right? Luigi denies it, then reminds Fernando of their bet and that as a gentleman he has to keep his part of the deal and dress up as the Queen of the Night or Luigi will resign from the company.
Jazmin is signing her contract while Lopez is drooling and ogling her a**. He's flirting with her and, unlike the cuartel, she's lapping it up like a kitten with cream. When the contract's signed, he takes her hands and welcomes her. He brushes his eyebrows (yes, that's as disgusting as it sounds), takes her arm, and leads her back to the studio.
Fernando stops by Lola's desk to tell her that he couldn't stop Luigi from hiring Jazmin, and Lola cries.
Jazmin goes into the bathroom and Alicia walks in. Jaz thanks her for sticking up for her against Lola. Alicia tells her about the cuartel and to be careful of them and to come to her if she has any problems with them.
Marcia is at Lola's desk and Lola is telling her about Jazmin. The very same skank walks by and Lola cries harder.
Omar and Fernando are in Fern's office talking when Marcia comes in. Omar leaves and Marcia mentions Lola. Fern tells her he tried to talk Luigi out of hiring her but wasn't able to because Luigi wants her and she already signed the contract and there's nothing he can do. She says ok, then asks him something about tonight that I don't get, then they kiss. Fern asks her not to say anything to anyone about the company's problems, to just keep it between herself, him, Omar and Luigi. He asks her especially not to tell Alicia or Ariel.
Back in Luigi's office Jazmin is on the phone to Flaquito, telling him she got the job. Luigi shakes his head, I think he's already disgusted by how much time she spends on the phone but I'm not sure. Flaquito is in his office and is surprised that she got the job at Conceptos. He's worried about what Lola will do.
Marcia doesn't want to keep quiet about the problems and mentions their families. Fernando says fine and something about his head and the presidency. She says he's being ridiculous and stalks out and he makes fun of her behind her back. Lety comes out and with the embargo paperwork for him to sign, and warns him that once it's registered there's no going back. He tells her not to worry, the worst has happened (or nothing worse can happen, or something along those lines) and asks her where to sign. She stands right next to him to show him, looks at him dreamily and puts her hand right next to his. It looks like she's about to take his hand in hers, but he impatiently brushes her hand out of his way so he can sign, and she hurries back to the other side of his desk. She expresses more doubts and he tells her not to worry, he's sure Luigi's commercial will bring them more business.
Alicia is enjoying watching Lola cry as Marcia tells her there's nothing she can do and Luigi's going to use Jazmin for the commercial. Marcia really does feel sorry for her here, which is nice.
Fernando goes into Lety's office and asks for the loan check. He asks her why F.I. has so much extra money, and she makes a face.
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Acorralada #181 Thursday 9/27/07 Ding dong--the witch is dead . . . really!
First, I must apologize for my error of yesterday. I reported incorrectly (because of inattentiveness) that Emilio was not going to help Octavia get to the big duel. As you will see, he did help her.
Before we get to the big bitch slap fest, let's review some other plots:
Max and Diana seem to be making some progress at getting back together.
Diego calls his mother. She is worried that she hasn't heard from him, and they haven't heard from Pancho.
Paco leaves town.
Pedro overhears Marfil plotting against him. He tells Max about it, but reports that he has solved the problem by changing his will so Marfil won't get anything. Max will get everything. That will fix her. Er, but you'll be dead, Max says, and he doesn't want the money. He wants Pedro to live. Don't worry, Pedro has other plans.
More boring stuff about Max and Marcela, but it looks like they are through. At the bodega, it looks once again like Godmom and Marcela are living there. This week, they seem to be moving between the deli department and the cashier. The owner seems to want to date Godmom, and she flirts with him.
Pancho's wedding is about to start, at a church, no less, but no primo/prima in sight. Suddenly, enter Mariposa and Silvia. (Just after the priest has asked if anyone objects to the marriage.) Pancho realizes it's Silvia, so he tries to hide by facing away. Silvia trips and falls, so she doesn't see him right away. Credits roll at this point, so we will follow this part tomorrow.
But back to the big confrontation.
Emilio drives Fedora over to the site of the meeting. It seems to be a railyard, where trains are ending their runs. Fedora is sitting pathetically in her wheelchair, wearing her trademark red shirt with black silk flower! Imagine making sure to have on a silk flower for a fight. Emilio drives away in his Ford Expedition. Who is the bigger moron--Fedora or Emilio? Discuss.
Octy now shows up, and each taunts the other. It's the end for you. You tortured me for so many years etc., I am too bored to recap it verbatim. You can imagine. They start fighting. Soon, Octy has paralyzed Fedora down on the ground, and it doesn't look good for Fedora.
Meanwhile, back at the Mansion, the girls realize she's gone and they start calling around. Rodrigo reaches Emilio, who is driving away. He says Fedora made him promise not to tell where she was, so he can't. Bigger moron, I say. Finally, he reveals the location, and everyone rushes there. Emilio calls Max, and he is rushing to the scene as well. Then Emilio seems to get run off the road by an oncoming car, and we see him smashed against the driver's side window. Did he have on his seat belt?
The fight continues. Who should arrive, knife in hand, but Iggy, who has been lumbering around the same railyard in his zombielike way. Iggy plunges the knife into Octavia's back. It seems he is killing her not to save Fedora, but to continue his own crazed revenge.
Octavia rises, horrified, and staggers toward the train tracks just as a freight train is rolling by. At the same time, Max, Diana, and Rodrigo run up! What a climactic moment. Octavia drops to the tracks, and they all watch helplessly as Octy gets run over. Fedora sits there with her useless legs splayed out in front of her. Max, drawing on every molecule of acting chops that he might possess, drops to his knees in anguish, knowing his own mother is dead, but realizing at the same time that she was an incredibly evil woman who deserved to die. What cognitive dissonance! Diana runs between Fedora and her beloved Max, giving each glassy-eyed hugs.
At the moment of Octy's death, poor Yolanda feels a sisterly lightning bolt and is jolted awake in her cell, shouting "Octavia!" Later, Diana and Max visit her at the jail and they all rehash. Marfil reads about incident in the paper and show up at the station to see Max and Diana together. She is peeved. She didn't know about the Max/Marcela divorce. Don't worry. Diana is still married to Marfil's boytoy, Diego.
The next day, everyone is recapping the action to those who were not present. Lots of boring rehash. What is most confusing is that Emilio is fine without a scratch. Then I thought it was a trick, and it was Diego, but he was unscathed the next day also. Any ideas?
Before we get to the big bitch slap fest, let's review some other plots:
Max and Diana seem to be making some progress at getting back together.
Diego calls his mother. She is worried that she hasn't heard from him, and they haven't heard from Pancho.
Paco leaves town.
Pedro overhears Marfil plotting against him. He tells Max about it, but reports that he has solved the problem by changing his will so Marfil won't get anything. Max will get everything. That will fix her. Er, but you'll be dead, Max says, and he doesn't want the money. He wants Pedro to live. Don't worry, Pedro has other plans.
More boring stuff about Max and Marcela, but it looks like they are through. At the bodega, it looks once again like Godmom and Marcela are living there. This week, they seem to be moving between the deli department and the cashier. The owner seems to want to date Godmom, and she flirts with him.
Pancho's wedding is about to start, at a church, no less, but no primo/prima in sight. Suddenly, enter Mariposa and Silvia. (Just after the priest has asked if anyone objects to the marriage.) Pancho realizes it's Silvia, so he tries to hide by facing away. Silvia trips and falls, so she doesn't see him right away. Credits roll at this point, so we will follow this part tomorrow.
But back to the big confrontation.
Emilio drives Fedora over to the site of the meeting. It seems to be a railyard, where trains are ending their runs. Fedora is sitting pathetically in her wheelchair, wearing her trademark red shirt with black silk flower! Imagine making sure to have on a silk flower for a fight. Emilio drives away in his Ford Expedition. Who is the bigger moron--Fedora or Emilio? Discuss.
Octy now shows up, and each taunts the other. It's the end for you. You tortured me for so many years etc., I am too bored to recap it verbatim. You can imagine. They start fighting. Soon, Octy has paralyzed Fedora down on the ground, and it doesn't look good for Fedora.
Meanwhile, back at the Mansion, the girls realize she's gone and they start calling around. Rodrigo reaches Emilio, who is driving away. He says Fedora made him promise not to tell where she was, so he can't. Bigger moron, I say. Finally, he reveals the location, and everyone rushes there. Emilio calls Max, and he is rushing to the scene as well. Then Emilio seems to get run off the road by an oncoming car, and we see him smashed against the driver's side window. Did he have on his seat belt?
The fight continues. Who should arrive, knife in hand, but Iggy, who has been lumbering around the same railyard in his zombielike way. Iggy plunges the knife into Octavia's back. It seems he is killing her not to save Fedora, but to continue his own crazed revenge.
Octavia rises, horrified, and staggers toward the train tracks just as a freight train is rolling by. At the same time, Max, Diana, and Rodrigo run up! What a climactic moment. Octavia drops to the tracks, and they all watch helplessly as Octy gets run over. Fedora sits there with her useless legs splayed out in front of her. Max, drawing on every molecule of acting chops that he might possess, drops to his knees in anguish, knowing his own mother is dead, but realizing at the same time that she was an incredibly evil woman who deserved to die. What cognitive dissonance! Diana runs between Fedora and her beloved Max, giving each glassy-eyed hugs.
At the moment of Octy's death, poor Yolanda feels a sisterly lightning bolt and is jolted awake in her cell, shouting "Octavia!" Later, Diana and Max visit her at the jail and they all rehash. Marfil reads about incident in the paper and show up at the station to see Max and Diana together. She is peeved. She didn't know about the Max/Marcela divorce. Don't worry. Diana is still married to Marfil's boytoy, Diego.
The next day, everyone is recapping the action to those who were not present. Lots of boring rehash. What is most confusing is that Emilio is fine without a scratch. Then I thought it was a trick, and it was Diego, but he was unscathed the next day also. Any ideas?
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