Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Guapos 07-08-08 "Que Sera Sera"
Wow another visit to loco mansion.
We see Flor pacing a deep path into the carpet as the ever patient “New Hugo” tells her to calm down, he trusts Mili. Al has been through a lot.
---Please someone cut back on Hugo’s meds, I want him to get a little fired up. Instead he is like some kind of Eastern Mystic. Que sera sera,
FYI..(Thanks to Wikepedia) The phrase was lyricist Jay Livingston's own variation[5][6][7] on "Che sera sera," a fictional motto which he had seen in the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa.)
Authentic renderings of the phrase "whatever will be" in romance languages include:
French Ce qui sera
Italian Quello che sarà
Portuguese O que será
Spanish Lo que será
Catalan El que serà
This greatly explains when being a smart ass I have uttered this phrase, my husband would say, I don’t know what you are saying, I thought he just didn’t like the message. Geez…all this time I thought it was Spanish.
I like Al must live and learn. Lo que sera
Now meanwhile over at the soccer stadium, Al is lamenting his uber rotten life. The nights have been cold and gray. He is shivering, he needs Mili’s kisses, her hugs, the touch of her skin. “Help me,” he says. Geez didn’t he use much the same lines on Flor when he found out Mili was his sister. This guy…Hey I had a flat tire, let me dip my pen, Hey my shoe-string broke, let me dip my pen, hey my girlfriend, shoved my preggers girlfriend down the steps and she lost my fake baby, let me dip my pen, Hey I just found out I been groping my sister, let me dip my pen. Okay Okay I know it was a bit traumatic, but he doesn’t know that Flor has been lying to him for three years, so the fact that he left his 8month and three week pregnant wife standing back at the reception from hell, really doesn’t get any points from me.
Anyway, he now says Mili is the only one he ever loved, she is the only one for him in the world. Mili says she has always loved him. It is like watching the experiment scheduled for this summer at CERN, the SuperCollider, hydrogen and anit-hydrogen collide, giving us a view of the “Big Bang”.
Whoa, this close and God shines a light on our little atoms. Really it is Padre Manuel, but he is an agent of God. Just like a dose of cold water, our kids separate. Padre Manuel calls them down.
Back at the home of misery, Flor still just won’t shut the hell up. She goes on and on about what type of person Mili is, just the type to skip out on her Wedding Night and steal another’s wife, So typical of her class. Yes friends, the lower class women are fabled for their ability to marry and run off with some one else on their Wedding Nite, Egads, everyone knows this. Hugo patient man that he is has had about enough. He finally tells her that if Al goes with Mili, it is not Mili’s fault, it is everyone else, all the secrets, the lies. Mili and Al have both suffered for all this time. He lets Flor know that she too has been in on the charade all this time. Hugo just wants Mili to be happy. Flor with her little nose stud scowl (she is a bit of a ferret face), mocks Hugo. You married her knowing she loved Al? It is your Wedding Nite and someone else is taking his place. Hugo finally tells her to shut-up.
Rocky sneaks into Val’s room. Val also hates her parents, that is okay Val, we all hate your parents. She and Rocky do a little kissing, hugging. She tells him that Andrea and Nestor have moved in. Val says nothing will ever split them up. Rocky wants to ask Consti for Val’s hand. Afterall Consti is an honorable man. Damn Rocky, you just don’t learn do you? Val is not really keen on this idea.
Now over to the convent for a lecture, Que Sera Sera, you are married to Hugo and you young hombre have wife and kid on the way. You must move forward. Sister Chunky comes in with her glowering at Al and does the I got my eyes on you. Padre makes Al & Mili promise not to do the deed.
Audience I have a question, being a adult buffet Catholic, okay I know you are supposed to not tell stuff from a confession, but what if the person isn’t sorry and they are screwing with someone elses life? I mean Padre knew the whole time that Al wasn’t Mili’s brother and Luci was just keen on lying cause Mili was a nasty servent’s bastard. So isn’t keeping quiet really kind of like lying?
Okay so Padre tells them to go home and no monkey business (this covers no hawt monkey sex).
Flor and Hugo are still in the living room, she has caught a second wind and the only thing I can guess is that Consti did not replace the pistol in his desk after Karla tried to whack Damien, cause I am sure a bullet to the brain would have been much less painful than listening to Flor rant and rant and rant.
Out front Mili and Al are in the SUV. Al brings up the Wedding Night, like “You know what happens on a Wedding Night”, Mili just kind of nods. Al, “I wanted to be your first”. Mili is like, me too, Que Sera Sera.
---At this point, I’m thinking does Al just want to knock one off in the Suv?---
Back to the yammering….Thank Gawd Al & Mili walk in, Hugo stops braiding his tie into a noose and Mili runs into his arms. They go upstairs. Flor starts in on Al. Where were you, I’m pregnant, you left me and your hija and ran off with Mili.
---This hija thing is like a moot point, hija is like in bubble wrap, she wasn’t left on the front steps of the convent---
Al tells her he isn’t in the mood or STFU.
Now I just so don’t get this? Like a room downtown would have been out of the question. Having a honeymoon in that nest of vipers on a good day would not have been a good idea, tonight this just screams wrong.
In Mili’s room the bed is covered with petals from every rose in Mexico City, there is a huge vase of roses. Hugo asks her how she is. Fine, it was very hard for Al to hear all the lies and secrets. Hugo says, it is fine no hard feelings, I will set you free.
---Geez I feel I am strangely falling in love with Hugo and I usually don’t go for selfless guys, still Damien is my first choice---
Mili tells Hugo she wants to stay with him, she feels safe in his arms, he protects her.
This declaration is only lacking the cliché “I love you like a brother”. I am sure that has been left out due to her earlier unsisterly feeling towards Al when she thought he was her brother. They chat a bit about what a total RatBastard Consti is plus, Luci being a vendictive BSC drunk. Still Luci has had a sad life, Hugo counters. Now fans we know that Mili being the good little Catholic girl that she is, promised the evasive Padre that she wouldn’t be doing any deed doing with Al and how can she avoid that? By staying married to Hugo. Hugo tells her they can take it slow.
Hugo stop, you are making me feel like I should be a better person.
I forgot, in Al’s room, Flor is playing the poor poor pitiful abandoned wife role what strategically holding her belly baby bump. Al says I just found out all these lies and rather than help me, it is all about you.
He just keeps telling her he isn’t in the mood.
Now he creeps down the hall to listen outside the bedroom….Ewwwww
Flor catches him and drags him back to their room. Not your best moment Al.
----Now I’m not sure what we are supposed to think, I guess nothing happened cause we go straight from here to the next day---
Andrea and Consti are all happy love-birds in the bedroom, Andrea says she is now the senora of the house.
Downstairs, everyone is a bit down after the whole wedding debacle, Rocky is very happy and says he has his chica back. Everyone is happy. Hugo and Mili come in to eat with the vents, everyone welcomes Hugo. Lina is giving Mili the eye, Mili is like not now…we so know there is going to be girl discussion later. Brau announces that Andrea & Nestor have moved in…Mouths drop..It is so modern. Brau says no comments & no gossip. Pleeeeeeeeeezeeee.
Lina is dusting upstairs and singing to her ipod, Andrea comes out and tells her to tone it down, Andrea is resting. “At this hour”, Lina answers. Andrea tells her to go get breakfast, she is now the Senora of the house. Luci comes out and says get me breakfast, I am the senora of the house. This leads to cat calling insults…after Consti for money, you are old…blah blah blah.
Consti is sitting in the living room cutting an apple, no cares in the world. Al walks in and Consti has such a smirk on his face. “Well Consti”, Al says. Consti is like it’s all good. Al says, “You married my mother for money, that is why you always treated me bad, cause you had to take me as part of the deal.” Consti just continues to smirk. I so wanted Al to go all Aztec Warrior on his Ass. This is pretty painful cause you can see Al is seriously hurting. Consti just continues to smirk, “Nestor is a nice guy, rich has his own company and donated a lot to my campaign”. The more he talks the more furious Al becomes. Nestor comes in and Al walks out. Nestor and Consti gentlemen that they are, sit reading the paper in the living room.
Mili sees Val in the hall and congratulates her on getting back with Rocky. Val thanks her and pulls her into her room, Val apologizes for ever treating Mili bad, and how bad her parents are. It is a case of can you believe what freaks my parents are? Val feels bad for Al, Mili tells Val she must help Al. He is so alone. The girls (Val still doesn’t know that Mili is her ½ sister) hug.
Now Al is in the garden with Ferret faced Flor, Al has had it with his family, “Why, Oh why did we ever come back to Mexico?” Well cause of Mili, Flor answers. Now Al wants to run far and fast from the family. Here comes Domingo Soprano and slutty sister. Domingo wants to talk to Consti and leaves Flor with her sister.
Domingo leaves with Consti to the study. Nestor is feeling awkward, he tries to talk to Al, but Al excuses himself as he says he needs to talk to Hugo (who has just walked in). Nestor, you’ll get used to it, everyone act strange in this house. Nestor wanders off. Que Sera Sera
Hugo, tells Al he is sorry for all the drama and lies. Al beats around the bush. Hugo says just ask me whatever you want. Well we all know this is leading back to the Wedding Night. Mili comes in and says……..(Okay I totally forgot what she said, I’m sure it will be replayed tomorrow night), but the drift is as she puts her arm around Hugo, I am his wife…leaving Al to have a muy impacted look.
Personally folks….I don’t believe it.
Consti you set off my “Suckdar Meter” tonite, the smirking and eating the apple. You are such a prick and smirking at someone who is hurting like that. Yeah a nice word would have really cost you a lot wouldn’t it. I don’t care what Padre Evasive says, nothing short of an organ transplant would make me forgive these Asshats and considering the damage that has been done to said organs, a transplant would probably be out of the question anyway.
Tomorrow night, Al will walk in on Flor and Sis as they discuss how she has hidden the truth about his Bastardity from him for years.
This prompts me to question the Bastard issue…since it was brought up at least three time per episode, this would have been a perfect time to banter the term about.
We see Flor pacing a deep path into the carpet as the ever patient “New Hugo” tells her to calm down, he trusts Mili. Al has been through a lot.
---Please someone cut back on Hugo’s meds, I want him to get a little fired up. Instead he is like some kind of Eastern Mystic. Que sera sera,
FYI..(Thanks to Wikepedia) The phrase was lyricist Jay Livingston's own variation[5][6][7] on "Che sera sera," a fictional motto which he had seen in the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa.)
Authentic renderings of the phrase "whatever will be" in romance languages include:
French Ce qui sera
Italian Quello che sarà
Portuguese O que será
Spanish Lo que será
Catalan El que serà
This greatly explains when being a smart ass I have uttered this phrase, my husband would say, I don’t know what you are saying, I thought he just didn’t like the message. Geez…all this time I thought it was Spanish.
I like Al must live and learn. Lo que sera
Now meanwhile over at the soccer stadium, Al is lamenting his uber rotten life. The nights have been cold and gray. He is shivering, he needs Mili’s kisses, her hugs, the touch of her skin. “Help me,” he says. Geez didn’t he use much the same lines on Flor when he found out Mili was his sister. This guy…Hey I had a flat tire, let me dip my pen, Hey my shoe-string broke, let me dip my pen, hey my girlfriend, shoved my preggers girlfriend down the steps and she lost my fake baby, let me dip my pen, Hey I just found out I been groping my sister, let me dip my pen. Okay Okay I know it was a bit traumatic, but he doesn’t know that Flor has been lying to him for three years, so the fact that he left his 8month and three week pregnant wife standing back at the reception from hell, really doesn’t get any points from me.
Anyway, he now says Mili is the only one he ever loved, she is the only one for him in the world. Mili says she has always loved him. It is like watching the experiment scheduled for this summer at CERN, the SuperCollider, hydrogen and anit-hydrogen collide, giving us a view of the “Big Bang”.
Whoa, this close and God shines a light on our little atoms. Really it is Padre Manuel, but he is an agent of God. Just like a dose of cold water, our kids separate. Padre Manuel calls them down.
Back at the home of misery, Flor still just won’t shut the hell up. She goes on and on about what type of person Mili is, just the type to skip out on her Wedding Night and steal another’s wife, So typical of her class. Yes friends, the lower class women are fabled for their ability to marry and run off with some one else on their Wedding Nite, Egads, everyone knows this. Hugo patient man that he is has had about enough. He finally tells her that if Al goes with Mili, it is not Mili’s fault, it is everyone else, all the secrets, the lies. Mili and Al have both suffered for all this time. He lets Flor know that she too has been in on the charade all this time. Hugo just wants Mili to be happy. Flor with her little nose stud scowl (she is a bit of a ferret face), mocks Hugo. You married her knowing she loved Al? It is your Wedding Nite and someone else is taking his place. Hugo finally tells her to shut-up.
Rocky sneaks into Val’s room. Val also hates her parents, that is okay Val, we all hate your parents. She and Rocky do a little kissing, hugging. She tells him that Andrea and Nestor have moved in. Val says nothing will ever split them up. Rocky wants to ask Consti for Val’s hand. Afterall Consti is an honorable man. Damn Rocky, you just don’t learn do you? Val is not really keen on this idea.
Now over to the convent for a lecture, Que Sera Sera, you are married to Hugo and you young hombre have wife and kid on the way. You must move forward. Sister Chunky comes in with her glowering at Al and does the I got my eyes on you. Padre makes Al & Mili promise not to do the deed.
Audience I have a question, being a adult buffet Catholic, okay I know you are supposed to not tell stuff from a confession, but what if the person isn’t sorry and they are screwing with someone elses life? I mean Padre knew the whole time that Al wasn’t Mili’s brother and Luci was just keen on lying cause Mili was a nasty servent’s bastard. So isn’t keeping quiet really kind of like lying?
Okay so Padre tells them to go home and no monkey business (this covers no hawt monkey sex).
Flor and Hugo are still in the living room, she has caught a second wind and the only thing I can guess is that Consti did not replace the pistol in his desk after Karla tried to whack Damien, cause I am sure a bullet to the brain would have been much less painful than listening to Flor rant and rant and rant.
Out front Mili and Al are in the SUV. Al brings up the Wedding Night, like “You know what happens on a Wedding Night”, Mili just kind of nods. Al, “I wanted to be your first”. Mili is like, me too, Que Sera Sera.
---At this point, I’m thinking does Al just want to knock one off in the Suv?---
Back to the yammering….Thank Gawd Al & Mili walk in, Hugo stops braiding his tie into a noose and Mili runs into his arms. They go upstairs. Flor starts in on Al. Where were you, I’m pregnant, you left me and your hija and ran off with Mili.
---This hija thing is like a moot point, hija is like in bubble wrap, she wasn’t left on the front steps of the convent---
Al tells her he isn’t in the mood or STFU.
Now I just so don’t get this? Like a room downtown would have been out of the question. Having a honeymoon in that nest of vipers on a good day would not have been a good idea, tonight this just screams wrong.
In Mili’s room the bed is covered with petals from every rose in Mexico City, there is a huge vase of roses. Hugo asks her how she is. Fine, it was very hard for Al to hear all the lies and secrets. Hugo says, it is fine no hard feelings, I will set you free.
---Geez I feel I am strangely falling in love with Hugo and I usually don’t go for selfless guys, still Damien is my first choice---
Mili tells Hugo she wants to stay with him, she feels safe in his arms, he protects her.
This declaration is only lacking the cliché “I love you like a brother”. I am sure that has been left out due to her earlier unsisterly feeling towards Al when she thought he was her brother. They chat a bit about what a total RatBastard Consti is plus, Luci being a vendictive BSC drunk. Still Luci has had a sad life, Hugo counters. Now fans we know that Mili being the good little Catholic girl that she is, promised the evasive Padre that she wouldn’t be doing any deed doing with Al and how can she avoid that? By staying married to Hugo. Hugo tells her they can take it slow.
Hugo stop, you are making me feel like I should be a better person.
I forgot, in Al’s room, Flor is playing the poor poor pitiful abandoned wife role what strategically holding her belly baby bump. Al says I just found out all these lies and rather than help me, it is all about you.
He just keeps telling her he isn’t in the mood.
Now he creeps down the hall to listen outside the bedroom….Ewwwww
Flor catches him and drags him back to their room. Not your best moment Al.
----Now I’m not sure what we are supposed to think, I guess nothing happened cause we go straight from here to the next day---
Andrea and Consti are all happy love-birds in the bedroom, Andrea says she is now the senora of the house.
Downstairs, everyone is a bit down after the whole wedding debacle, Rocky is very happy and says he has his chica back. Everyone is happy. Hugo and Mili come in to eat with the vents, everyone welcomes Hugo. Lina is giving Mili the eye, Mili is like not now…we so know there is going to be girl discussion later. Brau announces that Andrea & Nestor have moved in…Mouths drop..It is so modern. Brau says no comments & no gossip. Pleeeeeeeeeezeeee.
Lina is dusting upstairs and singing to her ipod, Andrea comes out and tells her to tone it down, Andrea is resting. “At this hour”, Lina answers. Andrea tells her to go get breakfast, she is now the Senora of the house. Luci comes out and says get me breakfast, I am the senora of the house. This leads to cat calling insults…after Consti for money, you are old…blah blah blah.
Consti is sitting in the living room cutting an apple, no cares in the world. Al walks in and Consti has such a smirk on his face. “Well Consti”, Al says. Consti is like it’s all good. Al says, “You married my mother for money, that is why you always treated me bad, cause you had to take me as part of the deal.” Consti just continues to smirk. I so wanted Al to go all Aztec Warrior on his Ass. This is pretty painful cause you can see Al is seriously hurting. Consti just continues to smirk, “Nestor is a nice guy, rich has his own company and donated a lot to my campaign”. The more he talks the more furious Al becomes. Nestor comes in and Al walks out. Nestor and Consti gentlemen that they are, sit reading the paper in the living room.
Mili sees Val in the hall and congratulates her on getting back with Rocky. Val thanks her and pulls her into her room, Val apologizes for ever treating Mili bad, and how bad her parents are. It is a case of can you believe what freaks my parents are? Val feels bad for Al, Mili tells Val she must help Al. He is so alone. The girls (Val still doesn’t know that Mili is her ½ sister) hug.
Now Al is in the garden with Ferret faced Flor, Al has had it with his family, “Why, Oh why did we ever come back to Mexico?” Well cause of Mili, Flor answers. Now Al wants to run far and fast from the family. Here comes Domingo Soprano and slutty sister. Domingo wants to talk to Consti and leaves Flor with her sister.
Domingo leaves with Consti to the study. Nestor is feeling awkward, he tries to talk to Al, but Al excuses himself as he says he needs to talk to Hugo (who has just walked in). Nestor, you’ll get used to it, everyone act strange in this house. Nestor wanders off. Que Sera Sera
Hugo, tells Al he is sorry for all the drama and lies. Al beats around the bush. Hugo says just ask me whatever you want. Well we all know this is leading back to the Wedding Night. Mili comes in and says……..(Okay I totally forgot what she said, I’m sure it will be replayed tomorrow night), but the drift is as she puts her arm around Hugo, I am his wife…leaving Al to have a muy impacted look.
Personally folks….I don’t believe it.
Consti you set off my “Suckdar Meter” tonite, the smirking and eating the apple. You are such a prick and smirking at someone who is hurting like that. Yeah a nice word would have really cost you a lot wouldn’t it. I don’t care what Padre Evasive says, nothing short of an organ transplant would make me forgive these Asshats and considering the damage that has been done to said organs, a transplant would probably be out of the question anyway.
Tomorrow night, Al will walk in on Flor and Sis as they discuss how she has hidden the truth about his Bastardity from him for years.
This prompts me to question the Bastard issue…since it was brought up at least three time per episode, this would have been a perfect time to banter the term about.
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Pasión de Gavilanes, Mon., July 7, Juan and Ruth get out of the cabaña and into the pit
Juan and Ruth
I'm back from a very nice mini-vacation.
First, the boring part- Armando and Rosario. They hate each other; they love each other; they try and kill each other. Who cares? These two deserve each other.
It was actually amusing that Dínora, who had no compunction about torturing Juan would react so strongly when the matones were going to rape Ruth.
Juan gets a little payback on Dínora, not nice but understandable. Ruth had to point out that maybe they should get going before the matones came back.
So Franco finds Juan's cross in the burnt up cabaña. When did Juan lose it? As far as I can tell, he didn't have it on in from the beginning of the scene in Thursday's episode when he pretended to agree to Dínora's demands. He has it on in a scene that was cut from Wednesday's episode but is on You Tube. Between the scene where Fer and Dínora are talking and she says that there is just one thing that is keeping her around and where Norma comes out on the balcony, there is a scene where Juan is sleeping and he is clearly wearing the cross. He has a dream that he is in church getting married to Norma and then she turns into Dínora and she and all her family are laughing at him. There is the suggestion that Norma is picking this up because at end of the dream, Norma suddenly wakes up, checks the baby and goes out on the balcony.
Picky details- It probably would have been as cold in the cabaña at night as it was out in the open. Juan's shirt was completely destroyed by being used as a rope for him to climb out of the hole? It looked like it just got ripped up some. His pants would have made a better rope - stronger material and longer but whatever.
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Guapos: Monday 7/7/08- "Luci Rocks the Mike and Turns Al's World Upside Down."
At Rodeo, Sor Cachete offers up well wishes to the newlyweds and then sings a song.
Val is bored and sitting at a table with Ramses. Bobby gets Ramses to leave under the pretext that a reporter is outside wanting to interview him and take some pictures. He leaves Val alone at the table and Rocky grabs her from behind and carries her outside ---no one in the very crowded club notices this at all, apparently so enthralled with the singing nun----hello “Sound of Music” anyone?
Outside, Rocky tells Val the truth, that he never took money to end it with her. He only agreed to let Val “free” to go to Paris, Connie’s the one who tossed in the payoff idea and Rocky had to go with it because it was the only way Val would be willing to end it with him. She doesn’t believe him at first, but his true emotions show through and how can she not believe him. They end up kissing.
Al offers up a song to the newly weds. Hugo “marks” his territory by kissing Mili on the cheek. She’s just not that into Hugo, she’d rather stare at Al, obviously pining for what isn’t. Florencia has steam coming out of her ears during the song.
Ramses looking for Val, asks Braulio for some help. He flirts and offers to help him locate her. Meanwhile Mili’s posse tells Pedro that Ramses is Braulio’s new novio. Pedro doesn’t like that one bit and he walks over to check out the situation.
Drunken Luciana decides to take the stage and mike. Constancio attempts to get her down, but she’ll have none of that. She says this song is for Connie and begins to warble. Everyone finds the situation strange and uncomfortable.
Val is happy to realize that Rocky never stopped loving her. She can hear her mother singing inside and they decide to go check it out.
Connie stands throughout the entire song, a look of disgust on his face. Luci’s song is insulting (anyone find it on YouTube? If so, check it out if you missed it).
After the song is over Connie tries to get her down off the stage telling her she’s humiliated him and herself. Nestor even tries to get her off the stage, but she’s not done. She wants to let everyone know how happy she is for Hugo and also for her unborn grandchild. It doesn’t stop there, she informs the crowd that Connie’s been having an affair with his secretary and that she wants a divorce because she, herself, is in love with another man…..the love of her life. She then blurts out that she’s got something to tell Al and she hopes he’ll forgive her. Connie tries to stop her, but Luci’s on a roll. She tells Al that Connie’s not his daddy, Nestor is. Oh yeah, Nestor, Al is really your son.
Connie tells Al that Luci’s crazy. Al calls Luci a liar. Flo tries to calm him. Al doesn’t want to hear it from her, he heads out of the club, pausing to look at Mili on his way out. Mili goes after him and Hugo tries to stop her, but ends up letting her go when she insists that Al can’t be alone right now.
Connie and Nestor exchange looks….Connie is stunned. He then applauds (with a slow clap) Luci as she exits the stage. Pedro hops up and tries to get the music started, this is a party after all.
Outside, Mili comforts Al as he realizes that his “parents” have ruined his life. He also realizes that this means he and Mili aren’t brother and sister.
Connie is upset with Nestor. He’s opened his home to this man, and offered friendship. Connie tells Luci she’s sick and says something about a name change (implying that Al should change his name? or that Luci should be Lucifer? Anyone?). Connie walks away and Luci tries to explain to Nestor. He’s confused because the paternity test said he wasn’t the baby daddy. Luci admits she had the test results falsified. Why? Nestor asks. She was afraid he’d reveal the truth to Al. Nestor says “So it is better to reveal the truth to him here in front of everyone? (Excellent point). Luci asks Nestor’s forgiveness and hugs him. It looks like he’s caving.
Rocky comforts Val as she grasps all that has been revealed this evening.
The downstairs staff discusses the big reveal.
Ramses finds Val in Rocky’s arms. He tries to get them to stop. Rocky essentially tells him to get a clue. Brau is there to offer comfort, but Ramses wants nothing to do with him.
Al realizes that Regina was not his grandmother. Mili says she was in all ways that matter. Al says he’s empty inside and that he feels all alone and betrayed. He adds that his parents have messed up Mili’s life, too. He questions Mili as to what he’s supposed to call Connie now.
Nestor tries to sober Luci up with coffee. Flo comes up to her and lights into her about telling Al the truth, now he knows he’s not Mili’s brother. Luci is of the opinion that that doesn’t matter because Mili’s married and Al’s expecting a baby with Flo. Little solace to Flo.
Andrea lets Connie know that she thinks a divorce would be a good thing, and really not that much of a scandal. Nothing they can’t handle, especially in light of the big reveal tonight. They leave the club and run into Mili and Al sitting outside. Connie expresses his remorse that Al had to find out this way. Al tells him to hold the remorse, because he’s probably enjoying all of this. Realizing now isn’t the time to try to talk to Al, Connie turns to Mili and says that he’s sorry her wedding day was marred by all of this. Connie and Andrea leave. Mili suggests that she and Al head back in, but he’s not ready to face his mother and Nestor. He tells Mili that right now he only wants to be with her. He asks her to go some place, away from there, with him. She agrees.
Padre Manuel wonders to the Sisters why Luci let the truth be known now (OK—this isn’t rocket science, the lush thinks that now that Mili’s married it was safe to tell Al the truth and besides it was a good way to humiliate Connie, hoping he’d divorce her).
Karla starts talking a little smack about Luci. Damian doesn’t want to hear it. He tells Karla to zip it and besides, Luci is Senora Luci to her. Karla says we’re going to be sisters-in-law, I think we can tutear.
Flo and Hugo go looking for Mili and Al. They ask Gloria if she’s seen them. Gloria lies and says nope, but Gamuza spills the beans and tells them that Al and Mili left together.
Back at the mansion, Damian tries to be the voice of reason with Connie and Luci. He’s brilliant plan is for Nestor and Andrea to move into the house. This way they’d avoid scandal and keep everything under this roof. Inside, Connie and Andrea will be a couple and Nestor and Luci will be a couple. Outside, it will appear that Connie and Luci are still together. They end up agreeing to it and toast to their plan.
Val and Rocky rehash that he loves her. She apologizes for behaving poorly towards him since she’s returned. They decide to kiss and make up.
In the mansion foyer, Hugo attempts to calm Flo down and explain that Al is understandably upset with what he’s learned tonight. Flo doesn’t like the idea of Mili and Al being together. Hugo says that it doesn’t bother him because he trusts Mili. Flo reminds him that Mili is with Al on her wedding night, not with Hugo.
Val and Rocky enter the house and they cover up their relationship to Flo and Hugo.
Connie and Luci come out to the foyer and both want to talk to Val. She’s not interested in hearing what they have to say. Damian tells Val about the new living arrangements and Val tells them they all are crazy. Val takes off. Andrea says it must be too much for her to take in one day. Luci says she’s wiped out and she heads upstairs. Andrea joins her and they walk up the staircase like best friends.
Domingo, Marisela, and Mateo rehash the evening. Mateo (in true Eddie Haskel fashion) says that it is terrible when a marriage ends after so many years. Domingo likes him and tells Mari that he’s much better than that Bobby she was dating before.
Mili and Al are at the soccer field, sitting in the stands. He declares his love for her and how much he needs her. He tells her that she’s the only love of his life and she tells him likewise. They kiss. END OF EPISODE.
Val is bored and sitting at a table with Ramses. Bobby gets Ramses to leave under the pretext that a reporter is outside wanting to interview him and take some pictures. He leaves Val alone at the table and Rocky grabs her from behind and carries her outside ---no one in the very crowded club notices this at all, apparently so enthralled with the singing nun----hello “Sound of Music” anyone?
Outside, Rocky tells Val the truth, that he never took money to end it with her. He only agreed to let Val “free” to go to Paris, Connie’s the one who tossed in the payoff idea and Rocky had to go with it because it was the only way Val would be willing to end it with him. She doesn’t believe him at first, but his true emotions show through and how can she not believe him. They end up kissing.
Al offers up a song to the newly weds. Hugo “marks” his territory by kissing Mili on the cheek. She’s just not that into Hugo, she’d rather stare at Al, obviously pining for what isn’t. Florencia has steam coming out of her ears during the song.
Ramses looking for Val, asks Braulio for some help. He flirts and offers to help him locate her. Meanwhile Mili’s posse tells Pedro that Ramses is Braulio’s new novio. Pedro doesn’t like that one bit and he walks over to check out the situation.
Drunken Luciana decides to take the stage and mike. Constancio attempts to get her down, but she’ll have none of that. She says this song is for Connie and begins to warble. Everyone finds the situation strange and uncomfortable.
Val is happy to realize that Rocky never stopped loving her. She can hear her mother singing inside and they decide to go check it out.
Connie stands throughout the entire song, a look of disgust on his face. Luci’s song is insulting (anyone find it on YouTube? If so, check it out if you missed it).
After the song is over Connie tries to get her down off the stage telling her she’s humiliated him and herself. Nestor even tries to get her off the stage, but she’s not done. She wants to let everyone know how happy she is for Hugo and also for her unborn grandchild. It doesn’t stop there, she informs the crowd that Connie’s been having an affair with his secretary and that she wants a divorce because she, herself, is in love with another man…..the love of her life. She then blurts out that she’s got something to tell Al and she hopes he’ll forgive her. Connie tries to stop her, but Luci’s on a roll. She tells Al that Connie’s not his daddy, Nestor is. Oh yeah, Nestor, Al is really your son.
Connie tells Al that Luci’s crazy. Al calls Luci a liar. Flo tries to calm him. Al doesn’t want to hear it from her, he heads out of the club, pausing to look at Mili on his way out. Mili goes after him and Hugo tries to stop her, but ends up letting her go when she insists that Al can’t be alone right now.
Connie and Nestor exchange looks….Connie is stunned. He then applauds (with a slow clap) Luci as she exits the stage. Pedro hops up and tries to get the music started, this is a party after all.
Outside, Mili comforts Al as he realizes that his “parents” have ruined his life. He also realizes that this means he and Mili aren’t brother and sister.
Connie is upset with Nestor. He’s opened his home to this man, and offered friendship. Connie tells Luci she’s sick and says something about a name change (implying that Al should change his name? or that Luci should be Lucifer? Anyone?). Connie walks away and Luci tries to explain to Nestor. He’s confused because the paternity test said he wasn’t the baby daddy. Luci admits she had the test results falsified. Why? Nestor asks. She was afraid he’d reveal the truth to Al. Nestor says “So it is better to reveal the truth to him here in front of everyone? (Excellent point). Luci asks Nestor’s forgiveness and hugs him. It looks like he’s caving.
Rocky comforts Val as she grasps all that has been revealed this evening.
The downstairs staff discusses the big reveal.
Ramses finds Val in Rocky’s arms. He tries to get them to stop. Rocky essentially tells him to get a clue. Brau is there to offer comfort, but Ramses wants nothing to do with him.
Al realizes that Regina was not his grandmother. Mili says she was in all ways that matter. Al says he’s empty inside and that he feels all alone and betrayed. He adds that his parents have messed up Mili’s life, too. He questions Mili as to what he’s supposed to call Connie now.
Nestor tries to sober Luci up with coffee. Flo comes up to her and lights into her about telling Al the truth, now he knows he’s not Mili’s brother. Luci is of the opinion that that doesn’t matter because Mili’s married and Al’s expecting a baby with Flo. Little solace to Flo.
Andrea lets Connie know that she thinks a divorce would be a good thing, and really not that much of a scandal. Nothing they can’t handle, especially in light of the big reveal tonight. They leave the club and run into Mili and Al sitting outside. Connie expresses his remorse that Al had to find out this way. Al tells him to hold the remorse, because he’s probably enjoying all of this. Realizing now isn’t the time to try to talk to Al, Connie turns to Mili and says that he’s sorry her wedding day was marred by all of this. Connie and Andrea leave. Mili suggests that she and Al head back in, but he’s not ready to face his mother and Nestor. He tells Mili that right now he only wants to be with her. He asks her to go some place, away from there, with him. She agrees.
Padre Manuel wonders to the Sisters why Luci let the truth be known now (OK—this isn’t rocket science, the lush thinks that now that Mili’s married it was safe to tell Al the truth and besides it was a good way to humiliate Connie, hoping he’d divorce her).
Karla starts talking a little smack about Luci. Damian doesn’t want to hear it. He tells Karla to zip it and besides, Luci is Senora Luci to her. Karla says we’re going to be sisters-in-law, I think we can tutear.
Flo and Hugo go looking for Mili and Al. They ask Gloria if she’s seen them. Gloria lies and says nope, but Gamuza spills the beans and tells them that Al and Mili left together.
Back at the mansion, Damian tries to be the voice of reason with Connie and Luci. He’s brilliant plan is for Nestor and Andrea to move into the house. This way they’d avoid scandal and keep everything under this roof. Inside, Connie and Andrea will be a couple and Nestor and Luci will be a couple. Outside, it will appear that Connie and Luci are still together. They end up agreeing to it and toast to their plan.
Val and Rocky rehash that he loves her. She apologizes for behaving poorly towards him since she’s returned. They decide to kiss and make up.
In the mansion foyer, Hugo attempts to calm Flo down and explain that Al is understandably upset with what he’s learned tonight. Flo doesn’t like the idea of Mili and Al being together. Hugo says that it doesn’t bother him because he trusts Mili. Flo reminds him that Mili is with Al on her wedding night, not with Hugo.
Val and Rocky enter the house and they cover up their relationship to Flo and Hugo.
Connie and Luci come out to the foyer and both want to talk to Val. She’s not interested in hearing what they have to say. Damian tells Val about the new living arrangements and Val tells them they all are crazy. Val takes off. Andrea says it must be too much for her to take in one day. Luci says she’s wiped out and she heads upstairs. Andrea joins her and they walk up the staircase like best friends.
Domingo, Marisela, and Mateo rehash the evening. Mateo (in true Eddie Haskel fashion) says that it is terrible when a marriage ends after so many years. Domingo likes him and tells Mari that he’s much better than that Bobby she was dating before.
Mili and Al are at the soccer field, sitting in the stands. He declares his love for her and how much he needs her. He tells her that she’s the only love of his life and she tells him likewise. They kiss. END OF EPISODE.
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Fuego, Monday 7/7 (#50): Fr. Tadeo plays with fire
Alternative titles:
My Three Dads
Fuego en la Panadería
Did someone order a cheesecake?
Short version:
Crabi sloshes a few gallons of gasoline around the front of the bakery, muttering "they'll pay," while Sofía fondles tomorrow's bread and waits for Juan who was supposed to fetch just that one heart-shaped pan and come right back.
Juan, Pablo, the padre, and Quintina are tormenting Oscar with the good news that he's been accepted into the seminary and is to show up first thing tomorrow morning. Oscar is not swift enough to pick up on the joke, and his dimples are nowhere to be found.
Nutty Crabi repeats that Juan and Sofía will pay, and they don't deserve to live, because they filled her with rage and shame. She throws her good lighter (which hopefully has an inscription on it, maybe something like "this lighter is the property of Gabriela Elizondo, and Juan and Sofía will pay") at the puddle of gasoline and watches it go up in flames. The gas burns obligingly.
Inside the bakery, Sofía pulls the blanket around herself with a little smile. (Perhaps it smells like Brut cologne.)
The guys and Quintina are still teasing Oscar about the priesthood. Just when I'm afraid there's no end in sight, Oscar finally blurts that he's not going to become a priest. Phew! No - the joke's still not done. Juan and the padre pretend to be totally shocked and confused by Oscar's denial. Flustered, he vehemently affirms that he never intended to be a priest. "I did it for love." Juan scolds him for joking about matters of the Lord. (Franco smirks and/or chews in the background.)
Gabi is enjoying her handiwork waaaaay too much. From the look on her face, this is even better than that time when she stroked her shoulders. "The fire waits for those who have sinned," she howls, half-crying, half-ecstatic. "It burns all of the damned! Nobody humiliates Gabriela Elizondo! Nobody!" She then turns her face skyward and begins a prayer that could be a Hail Mary, or some other standard Mary prayer, or possibly a prayer that all inside are burned to a crisp - sorry, I'm not sure - there are no captions for this part and her words are lost in the loud music and crinkly fire sound effects. She takes her gas can and drives off as the flames climb up the front of the bakery.
Now it's Tadeo's turn to scold Oscar. "I feel very deceived." Oscar admits he was an oaf, but he was desperate because he's in love with Jimena.
There's more redundant discussion of this, and then Oscar gets on his knees and begs the padre's forgiveness. Finally the padre admits he knew Oscar's "calling" wasn't for real, and he just went along with it to see how far Oscar would take it. "I'm going to give you a good punishment so you'll learn." (Oooh! Ooooh! I hope it's a spanking!) Oscar apologizes again to the padre and to Juan and Franco. The brothers snub him; Oscar takes on a wheedling tone; Franco and Juan laugh loudly in his ears. All is forgiven.
(Please, let us never speak of this again. Even The Jamie Kennedy Experiment didn't last this long.)
People on the street are taking notice of the big fire, even though there's amazingly still very little external damage. They're screaming and calling for water.
Inside, Sofía casually turns toward the window and seems really shocked to see the fire, even though it looks as though she's been sweating for a while and her eye makeup is smeary. Cut to people outside running up with puny buckets of water, and the bakery is filling with smoke and flames (must have jumped through the keyhole or mail slot) and Sofía is starting to panic for her baby.
The guys (+ Quintina) are sitting casually around the kitchen table. Juan sniffs the air and asks Q if she left anything in the kitchen. He smells something burning... finally he remembers that he's the one who left something... "Sofía! The bakery!!"
They all run to the front, where they can see the fire through the glass door; Juan is ready to bust through it when a big flaming stick magically falls from the other side, making that door unusable (like if he breaks the glass the big flaming stick will be in his face). They run out to the street, where the bucket brigade is in full force (the front of the building still barely scorched). Sofía is cornered by the flames inside, crying for Juan.
Juan breaks the glass door in the storefront and makes a beeline for the back room. Unfortunately there are some flames in the way, which he doesn't seem to notice. Franco and the padre pull him back. Sofía cries helplessly, though it looks as though she may have taken a moment to reapply her makeup - good thinking.
Gabriela drives down the Mundo de Fieras Memorial Deserted Highway and stops at Ye Olde Evidence Dump. It's an abandoned lot with the remains of a razed building, or maybe just random unsalvageable construction refuse and/or miscellaneous large trash items. With her bare, fingerprinty hands, she hurls the gas can as far as her little arms will throw it. Comically, it bounces off of something and lands just a few feet away from her.
She sags against the doorway of her car; could her sanity finally be catching up with her? Or are her 18-hour support hose beginning to fail?
Juan lets some people douse him with water. He runs into the baking room, where Sofía (not coughing yet) is passing out. We catch a glimpse of one of Juan's S-in-a-heart cakes. He stumbles through the smoke, flames, and bakers' racks, and finds Sofía on the floor, very happy to see him. "Save us, save our child! I can't lose him, save us!" He picks her up. Yay! The day is saved.
Or is it? Several loud explosions shoot flames through the now glassless windows. Oscar and Franco scream in horror, knowing that their brother and his lady are surely dead!
Oscar and Franco run towards the building. Tadeo hauls Oscar back; Hortensia's sons restrain Franco. Good thing, too, because Juan is perfectly okay - he's just trying to find a way out of the inferno. But the brothers break free of their protectors; now Hortensia's sons have to hold the padre back.
Juan comes out with Sofía in his arms; they do a quick status check and Juan thanks God they're alive. The other guys continue fighting the fire, but seems to be a lost cause at this point, even though the paint job still looks pretty good.
At the comisaria, Mapache's cellmate Nabor (the guy who was accused of running Bernardo over) is freaking out and calling for help. Looks like Mapache's been dead for a while, because the foam's all gone now. Finally the guards show up, and Nabor tells them about the poisoned sandwiches and shows them the bag and wrappers; the guards wonder who brought them, since the only person who came in was Father Tadeo.
At the hacienda, Raquel and Feo are still drinking and flirting. He is really laying it on thick, and she's loving it. "Oooh, you're terrible, Fernando!" Yuck. "With so much gallantry, anyone would fall into your arms." Blech! She asks where Gabi went - "I got the impression when she left that she was kind of mad." He vaguely tells her that something suddenly came up with the hacienda, but she won't be long.
Raquel says she drank too much and had better go, but she stands up too fast and nearly falls over. Feo tells her to stay, chat some more about her travels, and have a little more cognac. (The perfect remedy for when you get the spins? Or maybe he's run out of Super-Sleepytime Tea!) She happily consents to this and starts yapping about Venice - which, she giggles, is ideal for lovers. Feo drinks to that, and the invisible snake rattles its tail as Raquel's eyes flash coquettishly over the rim of her brandy glass.
The guards at the comisaria are telling the comisario that Mapache was dead when they showed up, and Nabor said someone left poisoned sandwiches, but Tadeo was the only person who came in. "He came in twice." The comisario asks Nabor what he discussed with Tadeo; Nabor says Tadeo asked if he wanted to confess, and he said no. The comisario says Mapache had said he could give them a clue about something.
Nabor has a lovely flashback of Mateo foaming at the mouth and saying "Fernando Escandón." Nabor looks at the comisario, looks at the floor, and says "no, he didn't tell me anything. Nothing, nope." I don't think the comisario believes him, but I guess Nabor doesn't want to put himself in a situation where he can never eat a sandwich again.
The fire at the bakery is finally out, but there's smoke everywhere. Clutching a small framed picture or book with the Virgencita on it, Franco tells Juan there's nothing left. Oscar says "we lost everything." Juan says it doesn't matter, because they're all okay, and they'll fight to go on and bring back their bakery. (Darn, I was hoping they'd open another nightclub.) The brothers agree. Tadeo shows up and says as long as they keep that faith and brotherhood, nothing will hold them back.
Juan says he should take Sofía to the house. "Oh my goodness," Quintina moans in the background, and asks Rigo to get the doctor. They are all coughing. Hortensia tells Hilario that she and Q will go back in and see if they can recover any more stuff; he warns them that the things inside are still going to be hot.
Gabriela returns to the hacienda, holding a handkerchief to her nose - almost as if she were crying. (Probably over the loss of her lighter.) Whatever emotion she was having dissolves as she sees Raquel and Feo standing very close and laughing. Raquel, at least, seems happy to see her and asks where she went. Gabi composes herself and apologizes for leaving to take care of a "contratiempo" (setback). Raq says don't worry - she's had a great time with Gabi's son-in-law. "Fernando is every woman's dream!"
Gabi (still with the hankie around the nose): "I know, though not everyone shares your opinion. There are some women who have rejected him." Feo sulks. Raquel excuses herself to leave, and nearly trips into Feo's arms. Gabi eagerly offers to escort Raq to her truck. (She's apparently a big fan of drunk driving.) Feo thinks maybe Raq shouldn't drive. He calls for Rosendo to take her home, and they'll return her truck later.
As Feo and Gabi walk Raq to the front door, Raq asks Feo why Rosendo's taking her home - why not Feo? Gabi looks sour. She gets even sourer when Eva shows up: "What were you doing out so late?" Eva says she was helping Grandpa with his cottage. Gabi says her house is not a hotel where Eva can come and go as she wishes. "And don't think I've forgotten how you confronted me this afternoon. But we'll talk tomorrow."
Drunk as she is, Raquel notices and comments on Gabi's mistreatment of Eva, and offers the woman a job! Then Raquel adds, "Oh, I haven't had the chance to tell you about Ruth! She's my daughter! My only daughter!"
(Doesn't this happen every time you have company or go somewhere? The best conversation doesn't kick in until right around doorknob-time.)
Gee. I wonder how old Ruth is. Like if she just happens to be roughly the same age as Rosario.
The super-ultra-mega-impactada look on Gabriela's face tells me I might be onto something. Eva notices it, too, though I'm not sure if she's thinking what I'm thinking.
Rosario and the Fly Girls are dancing at the Bad Love Bar, just in case that creepy look from Gabriela and Eva's reaction to it were too subtle. Rosario spies Armando meeting with his goons.
Sofía is in Libia's old room, coughing for the doctor. (I guess only the bakery burned; I had thought the house would go with it, or at least be made uninhabitable by smoke, since aren't they adjoined? No? Maybe there's some space between the house and the bakery?) The doctor says Sofi's stronger than they thought, and Juan needn't worry so much. He wants to look at some burns on Juan's arms, but Juan refuses, saying he can do that later but wants to worry about Sofía now. (She's coughing quite a bit.) She assures him that she and the baby are okay.
Franco is telling Rigo and Hilario that the oven wasn't lit, so someone started the fire. Oscar agrees that someone wants to hurt them, and the fire was set. Quintina reminds them of the cut brakes on Hortensia's truck; Hortensia reminds them of the plot to frame the brothers for Petra's murder. Hortensia's boys also find it very odd. Oscar wonders why it's happening.
Tadeo has listened to all of this with an increasingly angry face. Finally he storms out without a word.
Feo and Crabi are having another three-way with Brandy in Crabi's study; she tells him she took his advice and worked off her hate. He closes the heavy wooden doors and asks how she feels. "Good. I showed that no one makes fun of Gabriela Elizondo."
(Maybe I should make sure I check the batteries in my smoke detectors.)
Feo smirks and says "now do you understand why I like you so much? You're a strong woman, decisive. There are few women like you. Very few." He nuzzles her neck. "That's why I need you at my side. Together, we will be invincible!"
But all of his cheek-kissing causes her to overheat, and she pulls away and protests that she's not into love scenes. "You have to learn that when I say no, it's no."
"And YOU have to learn that I am not going to accept your rejection!" he says, grabbing her around the middle and kissing her ear. She tries to wiggle away, but he plants a big one on her mouth, and at last she gives in with frightened peeps of self-loathing.
The doctor checks Sofi's pulse health and says she needs to recuperate. Sofía again tells Juan she's fine. He says he doesn't know what he would have done if he had lost her. He would have died! He still doesn't want the doc to look at his burns, but Sofi insists. "Do it for me." Juan winces as the doctor puts something on his burns.
Gabi is still protesting to Feo in between kisses, saying she's not in the mood. "Why not? Everything went the way you wanted. You carried out your vengeance!" She says sure, for now, but they don't know what will happen tomorrow. She breaks away and tells him to leave her in peace; they'll have time for "us" afterwards.
She flees, but he follows her into the foyer. "Time? When? When will that time be?" He kisses her roughly and she pushes him off again; who knows what might happen next, but for Tadeo's timely arrival (I don't think he saw anything). He point-blank asks which one of them it was.
Oscar and Franco accompany the doctor back to the dispensario to visit Pablito, who is still at his grandmother's side. They apologize for their lateness and say they had a slight problem. Pablito shushes them and says she's asleep; however, he looks nervous when the doctor lifts Grandma's hand to check her pulse. The doctor doesn't say anything, but puts her hand down and listens with the stethoscope.
He doesn't listen very long. Pablito isn't watching and Oscar doesn't catch on right away, but Franco seems to realize that something is wrong. It becomes much more obvious with the doctor pulls the blanket over Grandma's face. Oscar looks at his brother and quickly stands. Pablito gets up too. The doctor kindly touches his chin.
Pablito wails in denial, begging for it not to be true. Oscar tells him Grandma is in heaven, resting with God. Pablito is inconsolable, crying "she's left me all alone." "You're not alone," Franco says, "you have us, we'll always be with you."
He wants his granny. Oscar nearly beats the poor kid up trying to reassure him that they'll take care of him and that they love him very much. "My grandmother loved me very much!" the boy protests. "Why'd you go, Abuelita? Why did you take her, God?"
Man, this kid can cry. I finally get a death scene, and it's SAD!
Crabi and Feo are playing dumb with the padre. He says one of them set fire to the bakery. "Duh, there was a fire at the bakery?" Feo repeats as Gabi dabs her face nervously with the Hankie of Guilt. Tadeo says "Sofía was inside, she and her child could have died." Gabi tells him he has no right to accuse them. He says he's sure one of them did it, despite their denials.
"We don't have to take your insults," Feo hisses. Tadeo says the truth insults no one. Gabi says she had thought he was a friend of the house, but now she sees he's not, and instead of bringing peace and love (as if it's something you can transport in a box!) he's only brought them hate and hostility. He's the real reason her family is destroyed.
Tadeo says she doesn't see her faults, and if anyone destroyed her family it's her, and her cruelty and selfishness.
Hysterical, she kicks him out and tells him never to come back. (Notice how Feo always lets her do all the talking?) Tadeo finally leaves, frustrated. Feo beams at his sweetie.
Juan shows up with his arms all bandaged up and gives Sofía some tea, which is probably not spiked with anything except love and possibly some ambient schmutz. She asks why he's looking at her that way; he says she doesn't know how frightened he was when he saw her trapped among the flames. More "I woulda died if something happened to you or the baby." She says it's all over now, and she's so grateful to have met him; he's saved her so many times, from sadness, reviving her heart with his caresses and tenderness; she thinks it's his little sister (who she still doesn't know was Libia) who put him in her path. "I wish I could have met her."
Juan? You wanna say something? He's wincing like he wants to say something.
The Uribe guys plus boyfriend are again crowing over how awesome their nightclub looks. Octavio tells them their opening act has already arrived (I don't see her so I guess he hasn't inflated her yet). Boyfriend (poor guy, someday I'll know his name) asks if she's as spectacular as "Gisele." "Much more," Octavio gloats. Her stage name is Maracuya, the Passion Fruit. They toast all of their hard work.
(WOOO! What was that loud noise and flash between scenes? If you have a machine that can play back very slowly, you'll get brief glimpse of Maracuya... if you really can't wait a few more minutes. Teases!)
Pablito is at the Reyes house now, telling Juan about his grandmother. The brothers and Quintina listen, teary-eyed. Juan gives him a bear hug and gives him a pep talk about how Pablito's had to deal with his own problems since he was very small; but his grandmother lived long enough to raise him well. She's happy up there, together with Pablito's parents.
And now Pablito has a new family, Juan says. He'll be like their much smaller brother. Oscar says no - he'll be like their child. Quintina says she'll be his aunt.
Father Tadeo arrives to check on Sofía. (I guess Pablito is chopped liver?) Oscar asks the Padre where he went so abruptly before, without saying anything. Before Tadeo has to answer, the comisario shows up with his not-very-good-guards, wanting to take Tadeo downtown. The brothers do not react well to this turn of events and don't want to let Tadeo go. Comisario says he's not under arrest - they just want to know about his visit last night. "That guy Mapache was poisoned - he's dead."
Maracuya has arrived at the new nightclub. She's wearing a big headset, and she has sunglasses on top of her head (or is that a big black bow), and crazy black hair pointing in all different directions, and an interesting black sorta-dress type of thing. Benito says she's even more spectacular than he imagined. (He must be pretty excited, because his voice sounds high and nervous.) They ooh and ahh over her; they exchange pleasantries; she is very professional and they all tell each other how lucky they feel to be in business together. I think she tells them that the most important thing in show business is to show up.
The run-down old Bad Love Bar looks pretty skanky by comparison. Armando is groping the cigarette girl. El Coyote - I think that's what they call him, the guy who attempts to collect Feo's gambling debts - tells Armando that his boss has seen Rosario's show, and he wants to sponsor a tour. Armando says it's impossible, because she's the main attraction at this place. He very patronizingly pats Coyote's chest, which causes about a dozen men to zoom in with guns pointed at Armando. "My boss doesn't accept a 'no'," he warns, baring his teeth. "And this time will not be an exception." Armando graciously accepts the offer, in that case, but says he'll have to clear it with the bar's owner first. Coyote is amused and says Feonando Escandón is a great friend of theirs, and no doubt he'll enthusiastically agree to let the boss take Rosario on tour.
Feo rubs Crabi's shoulders (I'm not sure if she notices) and tells her to calm down. "I'll always be at your side." (Easier to get the knife in that way, right?) He says no one can prove that she's the one who set fire to the bakery. She's not so sure. He says he'll say they were together all evening, and Raquel will agree, because she drank a lot and won't remember anything. Now (rubbing her back) they need to rest because it was a tough day for both of them. He tells her not to worry, and he'll find a way to resolve any inconvenience. (More with her shoulders.)
Flustered, she thanks him and tries to wish him a good night, as if she doesn't notice his mouth on her neck. Clearly she does notice, though and pulls away - somewhat absently. He gives up and leaves.
"The first inconvenience to resolve is Father Tadeo," she thought-bubbles.
Tadeo tells the comisario he only came by once. The guards admit they were playing cards, and only saw that there was a guy wearing a cassock. Tadeo brilliantly deduces that someone must have put on a cassock so they'd think it was him. This would mean that there are more people involved in Petra's murder, who were afraid he'd turn them in.
Feo resumes his search for the accusatory little notes that Bernardo left behind. He is interrupted by Armando knocking frantically at the door. Armando apologizes for coming to the house, but it's urgent. Feo is ready to pimp-slap him, but Armando stuns him with the news that a "sinister man" (I guess Armando has never met El Coyote before) came by saying that some guy named "the boss" wants to take off with Rosario. Armando said no, but the man threatened him and said Feonando would agree to it. Feonando disguises his displeasure by lighting a cigar.
Armando also reports that Mapache won't be a problem; he's been sent to the other world. Feo approves. However, Armando adds, Mapache had been locked up with Nabor, the drunk who hit Don Bernardo; and they say he spoke with Father Tadeo. They don't know if he told him something.
"Padre Tadeo, Padreo Tadeo," Feo mocks in frustration. "He's looking to be put out of my way forever. Para siempre."
Next time:
Feo acts like a jerk.
Oscar gets a new job.
My Three Dads
Fuego en la Panadería
Did someone order a cheesecake?
Short version:
- Gabi burns down the bakery, but no one is seriously injured. Feo gets Raquel drunk in hopes of using her fuzzy memory as an alibi for Gabi.
- Drunken Raquel offers Eva a job and tells them her daughter Ruth is in town. Gabi reacts. Eva notices.
- Oscar's blasphemous bluff to join the priesthood is neutralized.
- Pablito's granny dies; Pablito goes to live with the Reyes.
- Tadeo is questioned in Mapache's death and realizes there is a conspiracy. Nabor fails to mention Mapache's foamy last words blaming Feonando.
- Gabi and Feo continue their demented dance of seduction.
- The Uribes hire Maracuya to open the nightclub. Meanwhile, the Bad Love Bar is losing Rosario to Feo's bookie.
- Feo and Crabi independently decide to get rid of Tadeo.
Crabi sloshes a few gallons of gasoline around the front of the bakery, muttering "they'll pay," while Sofía fondles tomorrow's bread and waits for Juan who was supposed to fetch just that one heart-shaped pan and come right back.
Juan, Pablo, the padre, and Quintina are tormenting Oscar with the good news that he's been accepted into the seminary and is to show up first thing tomorrow morning. Oscar is not swift enough to pick up on the joke, and his dimples are nowhere to be found.
Nutty Crabi repeats that Juan and Sofía will pay, and they don't deserve to live, because they filled her with rage and shame. She throws her good lighter (which hopefully has an inscription on it, maybe something like "this lighter is the property of Gabriela Elizondo, and Juan and Sofía will pay") at the puddle of gasoline and watches it go up in flames. The gas burns obligingly.
Inside the bakery, Sofía pulls the blanket around herself with a little smile. (Perhaps it smells like Brut cologne.)
The guys and Quintina are still teasing Oscar about the priesthood. Just when I'm afraid there's no end in sight, Oscar finally blurts that he's not going to become a priest. Phew! No - the joke's still not done. Juan and the padre pretend to be totally shocked and confused by Oscar's denial. Flustered, he vehemently affirms that he never intended to be a priest. "I did it for love." Juan scolds him for joking about matters of the Lord. (Franco smirks and/or chews in the background.)
Gabi is enjoying her handiwork waaaaay too much. From the look on her face, this is even better than that time when she stroked her shoulders. "The fire waits for those who have sinned," she howls, half-crying, half-ecstatic. "It burns all of the damned! Nobody humiliates Gabriela Elizondo! Nobody!" She then turns her face skyward and begins a prayer that could be a Hail Mary, or some other standard Mary prayer, or possibly a prayer that all inside are burned to a crisp - sorry, I'm not sure - there are no captions for this part and her words are lost in the loud music and crinkly fire sound effects. She takes her gas can and drives off as the flames climb up the front of the bakery.
Now it's Tadeo's turn to scold Oscar. "I feel very deceived." Oscar admits he was an oaf, but he was desperate because he's in love with Jimena.
There's more redundant discussion of this, and then Oscar gets on his knees and begs the padre's forgiveness. Finally the padre admits he knew Oscar's "calling" wasn't for real, and he just went along with it to see how far Oscar would take it. "I'm going to give you a good punishment so you'll learn." (Oooh! Ooooh! I hope it's a spanking!) Oscar apologizes again to the padre and to Juan and Franco. The brothers snub him; Oscar takes on a wheedling tone; Franco and Juan laugh loudly in his ears. All is forgiven.
(Please, let us never speak of this again. Even The Jamie Kennedy Experiment didn't last this long.)
People on the street are taking notice of the big fire, even though there's amazingly still very little external damage. They're screaming and calling for water.
Inside, Sofía casually turns toward the window and seems really shocked to see the fire, even though it looks as though she's been sweating for a while and her eye makeup is smeary. Cut to people outside running up with puny buckets of water, and the bakery is filling with smoke and flames (must have jumped through the keyhole or mail slot) and Sofía is starting to panic for her baby.
The guys (+ Quintina) are sitting casually around the kitchen table. Juan sniffs the air and asks Q if she left anything in the kitchen. He smells something burning... finally he remembers that he's the one who left something... "Sofía! The bakery!!"
They all run to the front, where they can see the fire through the glass door; Juan is ready to bust through it when a big flaming stick magically falls from the other side, making that door unusable (like if he breaks the glass the big flaming stick will be in his face). They run out to the street, where the bucket brigade is in full force (the front of the building still barely scorched). Sofía is cornered by the flames inside, crying for Juan.
Juan breaks the glass door in the storefront and makes a beeline for the back room. Unfortunately there are some flames in the way, which he doesn't seem to notice. Franco and the padre pull him back. Sofía cries helplessly, though it looks as though she may have taken a moment to reapply her makeup - good thinking.
Gabriela drives down the Mundo de Fieras Memorial Deserted Highway and stops at Ye Olde Evidence Dump. It's an abandoned lot with the remains of a razed building, or maybe just random unsalvageable construction refuse and/or miscellaneous large trash items. With her bare, fingerprinty hands, she hurls the gas can as far as her little arms will throw it. Comically, it bounces off of something and lands just a few feet away from her.
She sags against the doorway of her car; could her sanity finally be catching up with her? Or are her 18-hour support hose beginning to fail?
Juan lets some people douse him with water. He runs into the baking room, where Sofía (not coughing yet) is passing out. We catch a glimpse of one of Juan's S-in-a-heart cakes. He stumbles through the smoke, flames, and bakers' racks, and finds Sofía on the floor, very happy to see him. "Save us, save our child! I can't lose him, save us!" He picks her up. Yay! The day is saved.
Or is it? Several loud explosions shoot flames through the now glassless windows. Oscar and Franco scream in horror, knowing that their brother and his lady are surely dead!
Oscar and Franco run towards the building. Tadeo hauls Oscar back; Hortensia's sons restrain Franco. Good thing, too, because Juan is perfectly okay - he's just trying to find a way out of the inferno. But the brothers break free of their protectors; now Hortensia's sons have to hold the padre back.
Juan comes out with Sofía in his arms; they do a quick status check and Juan thanks God they're alive. The other guys continue fighting the fire, but seems to be a lost cause at this point, even though the paint job still looks pretty good.
At the comisaria, Mapache's cellmate Nabor (the guy who was accused of running Bernardo over) is freaking out and calling for help. Looks like Mapache's been dead for a while, because the foam's all gone now. Finally the guards show up, and Nabor tells them about the poisoned sandwiches and shows them the bag and wrappers; the guards wonder who brought them, since the only person who came in was Father Tadeo.
At the hacienda, Raquel and Feo are still drinking and flirting. He is really laying it on thick, and she's loving it. "Oooh, you're terrible, Fernando!" Yuck. "With so much gallantry, anyone would fall into your arms." Blech! She asks where Gabi went - "I got the impression when she left that she was kind of mad." He vaguely tells her that something suddenly came up with the hacienda, but she won't be long.
Raquel says she drank too much and had better go, but she stands up too fast and nearly falls over. Feo tells her to stay, chat some more about her travels, and have a little more cognac. (The perfect remedy for when you get the spins? Or maybe he's run out of Super-Sleepytime Tea!) She happily consents to this and starts yapping about Venice - which, she giggles, is ideal for lovers. Feo drinks to that, and the invisible snake rattles its tail as Raquel's eyes flash coquettishly over the rim of her brandy glass.
The guards at the comisaria are telling the comisario that Mapache was dead when they showed up, and Nabor said someone left poisoned sandwiches, but Tadeo was the only person who came in. "He came in twice." The comisario asks Nabor what he discussed with Tadeo; Nabor says Tadeo asked if he wanted to confess, and he said no. The comisario says Mapache had said he could give them a clue about something.
Nabor has a lovely flashback of Mateo foaming at the mouth and saying "Fernando Escandón." Nabor looks at the comisario, looks at the floor, and says "no, he didn't tell me anything. Nothing, nope." I don't think the comisario believes him, but I guess Nabor doesn't want to put himself in a situation where he can never eat a sandwich again.
The fire at the bakery is finally out, but there's smoke everywhere. Clutching a small framed picture or book with the Virgencita on it, Franco tells Juan there's nothing left. Oscar says "we lost everything." Juan says it doesn't matter, because they're all okay, and they'll fight to go on and bring back their bakery. (Darn, I was hoping they'd open another nightclub.) The brothers agree. Tadeo shows up and says as long as they keep that faith and brotherhood, nothing will hold them back.
Juan says he should take Sofía to the house. "Oh my goodness," Quintina moans in the background, and asks Rigo to get the doctor. They are all coughing. Hortensia tells Hilario that she and Q will go back in and see if they can recover any more stuff; he warns them that the things inside are still going to be hot.
Gabriela returns to the hacienda, holding a handkerchief to her nose - almost as if she were crying. (Probably over the loss of her lighter.) Whatever emotion she was having dissolves as she sees Raquel and Feo standing very close and laughing. Raquel, at least, seems happy to see her and asks where she went. Gabi composes herself and apologizes for leaving to take care of a "contratiempo" (setback). Raq says don't worry - she's had a great time with Gabi's son-in-law. "Fernando is every woman's dream!"
Gabi (still with the hankie around the nose): "I know, though not everyone shares your opinion. There are some women who have rejected him." Feo sulks. Raquel excuses herself to leave, and nearly trips into Feo's arms. Gabi eagerly offers to escort Raq to her truck. (She's apparently a big fan of drunk driving.) Feo thinks maybe Raq shouldn't drive. He calls for Rosendo to take her home, and they'll return her truck later.
As Feo and Gabi walk Raq to the front door, Raq asks Feo why Rosendo's taking her home - why not Feo? Gabi looks sour. She gets even sourer when Eva shows up: "What were you doing out so late?" Eva says she was helping Grandpa with his cottage. Gabi says her house is not a hotel where Eva can come and go as she wishes. "And don't think I've forgotten how you confronted me this afternoon. But we'll talk tomorrow."
Drunk as she is, Raquel notices and comments on Gabi's mistreatment of Eva, and offers the woman a job! Then Raquel adds, "Oh, I haven't had the chance to tell you about Ruth! She's my daughter! My only daughter!"
(Doesn't this happen every time you have company or go somewhere? The best conversation doesn't kick in until right around doorknob-time.)
Gee. I wonder how old Ruth is. Like if she just happens to be roughly the same age as Rosario.
The super-ultra-mega-impactada look on Gabriela's face tells me I might be onto something. Eva notices it, too, though I'm not sure if she's thinking what I'm thinking.
Rosario and the Fly Girls are dancing at the Bad Love Bar, just in case that creepy look from Gabriela and Eva's reaction to it were too subtle. Rosario spies Armando meeting with his goons.
Sofía is in Libia's old room, coughing for the doctor. (I guess only the bakery burned; I had thought the house would go with it, or at least be made uninhabitable by smoke, since aren't they adjoined? No? Maybe there's some space between the house and the bakery?) The doctor says Sofi's stronger than they thought, and Juan needn't worry so much. He wants to look at some burns on Juan's arms, but Juan refuses, saying he can do that later but wants to worry about Sofía now. (She's coughing quite a bit.) She assures him that she and the baby are okay.
Franco is telling Rigo and Hilario that the oven wasn't lit, so someone started the fire. Oscar agrees that someone wants to hurt them, and the fire was set. Quintina reminds them of the cut brakes on Hortensia's truck; Hortensia reminds them of the plot to frame the brothers for Petra's murder. Hortensia's boys also find it very odd. Oscar wonders why it's happening.
Tadeo has listened to all of this with an increasingly angry face. Finally he storms out without a word.
Feo and Crabi are having another three-way with Brandy in Crabi's study; she tells him she took his advice and worked off her hate. He closes the heavy wooden doors and asks how she feels. "Good. I showed that no one makes fun of Gabriela Elizondo."
(Maybe I should make sure I check the batteries in my smoke detectors.)
Feo smirks and says "now do you understand why I like you so much? You're a strong woman, decisive. There are few women like you. Very few." He nuzzles her neck. "That's why I need you at my side. Together, we will be invincible!"
But all of his cheek-kissing causes her to overheat, and she pulls away and protests that she's not into love scenes. "You have to learn that when I say no, it's no."
"And YOU have to learn that I am not going to accept your rejection!" he says, grabbing her around the middle and kissing her ear. She tries to wiggle away, but he plants a big one on her mouth, and at last she gives in with frightened peeps of self-loathing.
The doctor checks Sofi's pulse health and says she needs to recuperate. Sofía again tells Juan she's fine. He says he doesn't know what he would have done if he had lost her. He would have died! He still doesn't want the doc to look at his burns, but Sofi insists. "Do it for me." Juan winces as the doctor puts something on his burns.
Gabi is still protesting to Feo in between kisses, saying she's not in the mood. "Why not? Everything went the way you wanted. You carried out your vengeance!" She says sure, for now, but they don't know what will happen tomorrow. She breaks away and tells him to leave her in peace; they'll have time for "us" afterwards.
She flees, but he follows her into the foyer. "Time? When? When will that time be?" He kisses her roughly and she pushes him off again; who knows what might happen next, but for Tadeo's timely arrival (I don't think he saw anything). He point-blank asks which one of them it was.
Oscar and Franco accompany the doctor back to the dispensario to visit Pablito, who is still at his grandmother's side. They apologize for their lateness and say they had a slight problem. Pablito shushes them and says she's asleep; however, he looks nervous when the doctor lifts Grandma's hand to check her pulse. The doctor doesn't say anything, but puts her hand down and listens with the stethoscope.
He doesn't listen very long. Pablito isn't watching and Oscar doesn't catch on right away, but Franco seems to realize that something is wrong. It becomes much more obvious with the doctor pulls the blanket over Grandma's face. Oscar looks at his brother and quickly stands. Pablito gets up too. The doctor kindly touches his chin.
Pablito wails in denial, begging for it not to be true. Oscar tells him Grandma is in heaven, resting with God. Pablito is inconsolable, crying "she's left me all alone." "You're not alone," Franco says, "you have us, we'll always be with you."
He wants his granny. Oscar nearly beats the poor kid up trying to reassure him that they'll take care of him and that they love him very much. "My grandmother loved me very much!" the boy protests. "Why'd you go, Abuelita? Why did you take her, God?"
Man, this kid can cry. I finally get a death scene, and it's SAD!
Crabi and Feo are playing dumb with the padre. He says one of them set fire to the bakery. "Duh, there was a fire at the bakery?" Feo repeats as Gabi dabs her face nervously with the Hankie of Guilt. Tadeo says "Sofía was inside, she and her child could have died." Gabi tells him he has no right to accuse them. He says he's sure one of them did it, despite their denials.
"We don't have to take your insults," Feo hisses. Tadeo says the truth insults no one. Gabi says she had thought he was a friend of the house, but now she sees he's not, and instead of bringing peace and love (as if it's something you can transport in a box!) he's only brought them hate and hostility. He's the real reason her family is destroyed.
Tadeo says she doesn't see her faults, and if anyone destroyed her family it's her, and her cruelty and selfishness.
Hysterical, she kicks him out and tells him never to come back. (Notice how Feo always lets her do all the talking?) Tadeo finally leaves, frustrated. Feo beams at his sweetie.
Juan shows up with his arms all bandaged up and gives Sofía some tea, which is probably not spiked with anything except love and possibly some ambient schmutz. She asks why he's looking at her that way; he says she doesn't know how frightened he was when he saw her trapped among the flames. More "I woulda died if something happened to you or the baby." She says it's all over now, and she's so grateful to have met him; he's saved her so many times, from sadness, reviving her heart with his caresses and tenderness; she thinks it's his little sister (who she still doesn't know was Libia) who put him in her path. "I wish I could have met her."
Juan? You wanna say something? He's wincing like he wants to say something.
The Uribe guys plus boyfriend are again crowing over how awesome their nightclub looks. Octavio tells them their opening act has already arrived (I don't see her so I guess he hasn't inflated her yet). Boyfriend (poor guy, someday I'll know his name) asks if she's as spectacular as "Gisele." "Much more," Octavio gloats. Her stage name is Maracuya, the Passion Fruit. They toast all of their hard work.
(WOOO! What was that loud noise and flash between scenes? If you have a machine that can play back very slowly, you'll get brief glimpse of Maracuya... if you really can't wait a few more minutes. Teases!)
Pablito is at the Reyes house now, telling Juan about his grandmother. The brothers and Quintina listen, teary-eyed. Juan gives him a bear hug and gives him a pep talk about how Pablito's had to deal with his own problems since he was very small; but his grandmother lived long enough to raise him well. She's happy up there, together with Pablito's parents.
And now Pablito has a new family, Juan says. He'll be like their much smaller brother. Oscar says no - he'll be like their child. Quintina says she'll be his aunt.
Father Tadeo arrives to check on Sofía. (I guess Pablito is chopped liver?) Oscar asks the Padre where he went so abruptly before, without saying anything. Before Tadeo has to answer, the comisario shows up with his not-very-good-guards, wanting to take Tadeo downtown. The brothers do not react well to this turn of events and don't want to let Tadeo go. Comisario says he's not under arrest - they just want to know about his visit last night. "That guy Mapache was poisoned - he's dead."
Maracuya has arrived at the new nightclub. She's wearing a big headset, and she has sunglasses on top of her head (or is that a big black bow), and crazy black hair pointing in all different directions, and an interesting black sorta-dress type of thing. Benito says she's even more spectacular than he imagined. (He must be pretty excited, because his voice sounds high and nervous.) They ooh and ahh over her; they exchange pleasantries; she is very professional and they all tell each other how lucky they feel to be in business together. I think she tells them that the most important thing in show business is to show up.
The run-down old Bad Love Bar looks pretty skanky by comparison. Armando is groping the cigarette girl. El Coyote - I think that's what they call him, the guy who attempts to collect Feo's gambling debts - tells Armando that his boss has seen Rosario's show, and he wants to sponsor a tour. Armando says it's impossible, because she's the main attraction at this place. He very patronizingly pats Coyote's chest, which causes about a dozen men to zoom in with guns pointed at Armando. "My boss doesn't accept a 'no'," he warns, baring his teeth. "And this time will not be an exception." Armando graciously accepts the offer, in that case, but says he'll have to clear it with the bar's owner first. Coyote is amused and says Feonando Escandón is a great friend of theirs, and no doubt he'll enthusiastically agree to let the boss take Rosario on tour.
Feo rubs Crabi's shoulders (I'm not sure if she notices) and tells her to calm down. "I'll always be at your side." (Easier to get the knife in that way, right?) He says no one can prove that she's the one who set fire to the bakery. She's not so sure. He says he'll say they were together all evening, and Raquel will agree, because she drank a lot and won't remember anything. Now (rubbing her back) they need to rest because it was a tough day for both of them. He tells her not to worry, and he'll find a way to resolve any inconvenience. (More with her shoulders.)
Flustered, she thanks him and tries to wish him a good night, as if she doesn't notice his mouth on her neck. Clearly she does notice, though and pulls away - somewhat absently. He gives up and leaves.
"The first inconvenience to resolve is Father Tadeo," she thought-bubbles.
Tadeo tells the comisario he only came by once. The guards admit they were playing cards, and only saw that there was a guy wearing a cassock. Tadeo brilliantly deduces that someone must have put on a cassock so they'd think it was him. This would mean that there are more people involved in Petra's murder, who were afraid he'd turn them in.
Feo resumes his search for the accusatory little notes that Bernardo left behind. He is interrupted by Armando knocking frantically at the door. Armando apologizes for coming to the house, but it's urgent. Feo is ready to pimp-slap him, but Armando stuns him with the news that a "sinister man" (I guess Armando has never met El Coyote before) came by saying that some guy named "the boss" wants to take off with Rosario. Armando said no, but the man threatened him and said Feonando would agree to it. Feonando disguises his displeasure by lighting a cigar.
Armando also reports that Mapache won't be a problem; he's been sent to the other world. Feo approves. However, Armando adds, Mapache had been locked up with Nabor, the drunk who hit Don Bernardo; and they say he spoke with Father Tadeo. They don't know if he told him something.
"Padre Tadeo, Padreo Tadeo," Feo mocks in frustration. "He's looking to be put out of my way forever. Para siempre."
Next time:
Feo acts like a jerk.
Oscar gets a new job.
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Querida Enemiga Monday July 7 - A couple instances of almost sex
Greetings all – I have missed you this week, we fell behind on watching episodes at my house so I didn’t read anything here until everyone had moved on to the next day already. I can’t make myself read the recaps ahead of watching the show, it feels like spoilers. Hopefully this week that won’t happen and I can get in on all the fun conversations in the comments. On with the show -
The nun looks feverishly through the file cabinet, she doesn’t understand because Mother Superior (QDEP) was meticulous, but Sara’s and Lorena’s files are both missing. Outside the door that was conveniently left cracked open, Chalo listens in to the whole thing.
At the poor people house, Zulema is starving and dying for a snack. Diana enters the kitchen and is her usual weepy, grouchy self. She finally caves in and tells Zulema that she’s pregnant and Bruno wanted her to get an abortion. Much crying, but not more than is tolerable. This show is setting records left and right for not going overboard on the crying. How refreshing.
At the orphanage, Alonso is doctoring all the little girl orphans, who are all in love with him. So is the short nun. The tall nun thinks he’s nice, but the short one has a thing for him it appears. I can’t imagine the celibate life they have to lead.
Zulema wants to confront Bruno but Diana doesn’t want her to. Diana confesses that she still loves Bruno (Why? We have yet to see one redeeming quality of this guy. He doesn’t even care about his patients at the clinic. And you ladies can tell me if I’m right or not, but he doesn’t appear to be tan guapo either). Zulema comforts her and says she’ll always be there to help and support her. Diana asks her to not say anything to Julian and Omar, she wants to find the time herself to tell them. Then we can get a scene with them saying “why didn’t you tell us?” to Zulema. I can’t wait. (sarcasm alert)
Chalo fills in Sara via cell phone of the goings-on at the orphanage. He wants to come to
Lots of goodbyes at the orphanage. Alonso leans over and says “what, no hug?” to the little girls, the short nun that’s horny for him says “oh of course!” and runs up and latches onto him. It was pretty funny. She detaches herself and lets the girls say goodbye. Chalo shows up and gives Lorena a quite inappropriate hug, hip to hip. Alonso refrains from beating the crap out of him, not sure how he held back. After Lorena and Alonso leave, the nuns start in on Chalo for acting so weird.
Paula is dressed up to go out, Toribio is there to babysit Betina. I have to say that Paula has the potential to be much hotter, she obviously has a great body, she is a good actress to act so psycho and make herself completely unattractive. Great acting job by her so far. She is a very convincing crazy as hell ex. I can’t believe she doesn’t even work, she is devoted to obsessing about her ex-husband full time. Poor Betina. Even her dad’s new girlfriend is a total wench.
Alonso appears to be brooding in the car, I expect a fight about Chalo. I am wrong. He says he was thinking about what a nice place she grew up in, how everyone obviously loves her, etc. He then tells her that he loves her. He looks deeply in her eyes to tell her this. While he’s driving. Smooooth. The car starts acting up, it’s overheated. I suspected Chalo again, maybe he messed with the car, but that never appears to be the case. They are far from any town so Alonso says they’ll call a mechanic. Side note – my sister-in-law’s transmission gave out halfway between
Jackie is being a huge bitch and Dario is being a macho ass and they fight, both of them being kind of selfish, though I’d have to take Dario’s side if I were forced to pick. She is basically yelling at him for not giving her a solution to her problem at work, he says just forget it and quit, he’ll maintain her. That’s not very sensitive of him, but what does she expect him to say about her problem? Ugh she thinks just getting more and more bitchy is the solution and he does what I would do and leaves for a while.
I guess Alonso and Lorena didn’t have to wait as long as I did, they are already in a motel room somewhere while it rains outside. The mechanic won’t fix the car until tomorrow, so here they are, together in the rain again. Alonso puts his best mack on Lorena with the whole fate/rain thing and moves in for the kill. She backs him off but he is determined. He’s very pushy I’ve noticed. She says she’s not ready, she was raised to do the right thing. He says they can get married right away then it would be ok. She says no, first she wants to study and begin her career. Then they can talk about getting married. Then, to show us how naïve and gullible she is, she says they can share the bed, she trusts him. Later he’s still awake, probably in pain from his blue balls, while she sleeps. He moves touch her but stops himself. Also, he is wearing a T-shirt fresh out of the package, it still has the fold line down the front of the shirt. They couldn’t iron that before filming?
Julian shows up at Rosy’s house and they get to making out with a vengeance. She tells him that Maruja is gone, so….. he is all over it and rips his shirt off. She acts offended and says that isn’t what she meant…. she meant in her room, not here! They run off for some good fun.
Paula, Maruja, and the other friend (I’ll call her La Otra because I can’t remember her name) are out at a bar complaining about how to meet men. Hint – don’t spend all your time and energy thinking about your EX. Trust me on that one. Anyway Maruja is a total wet blanket whiner and finally gets up and leaves. Yeah good plan, that will bring the men running. In real life, Julian would already be finished back at the house so this wouldn’t be a problem, but being a TV show they are bound to be making sweet love all through the night, so they will get caught I’m sure. La Otra tells Paula to turn around and smile at this old guy at another table, she does and the guy gets up… and walks right past them. With all this turning around, they spot Dario at the bar tossing back shots. Addendum to the ‘one church, one hospital’ novela rule – one bar. Paula approaches him to gloat that he appears to be unhappy, he claims that all is well and leaves the bar.
Back at Paula’s house, Betina and grandpa Toribio dance to some pop music, he sits down before he has a heart attack. They eventually decide to get some ice cream. Betina says she likes having him there, it helps her forget the problems with her parents.
Julian and Rosy are under the covers have a grand old time when the front door opens and closes. They freak out and Julian ends up laying on the floor next to the bed to hide. Worst hiding job ever. Rosy turns out the light and pretends to be asleep, bare shoulders and all. This is a novela, nobody sleeps with any part of their body uncovered. It’s all long pants and long sleeves for pajamas. Maruja comes in to see what the noise was and sees Julian on the floor and starts freaking out. Rosy, even though Julian has no shirt and his pants are down, claims that they were watching TV. “This room doesn’t even have a TV!” screams Maruja. She drives Julian out and chases Rosy around the room, hitting her with her purse. It actually looks a bit abusive if you ask me. Out in the living room, Julian puts his clothes on and leaves.
In the morning, Jackie finds Dario on the couch and wakes him up and tries to act sweet. He isn’t having it. He reminds her that he divorced Paula precisely because he was sick and tired of these scenes, think about that! I think he makes a good point. I’m not deifying him, he cheated on his wife, but I think here he makes a good point.
Betina is going to school, Paula fidgets and finally asks Betina to find out from Dario how things are with Jackie, if they are fighting. Betina reluctantly agrees, she just wants to please her mom and her mom is totally taking advantage of her. I hate this woman. She is loathsome.
Lorena and Alonso finally arrive back home. She has that test to take later on that day, so they get kissy and say goodbye. Inside the house, Rosy has her bags packed and is leaving. Maruja comes into the room and yells about what happened to fill in Lorena. Rosy actually does leave, Maruja yells some more.
Zulema is looking at a picture of Diana when she was little and cries. Diana comes in and Zulema tells her to go ahead and go to work, she is going to go talk to Bruno.
Maruja claims to not care if Rosy comes home or not.
Zulema finds Bruno at the clinic and introduces herself as Diana’s mom, Bruno is a little freaked out.
At work, Maruja tells the chef to tell Rosy to cut the peppers smaller. Rosy is two feet away, so it is that childish “I’m not speaking to you” game she’s playing. Rosy says fine. Maruja says no, even smaller, tell her chef. Rosy says fine. Chef finally says why are you telling me to tell her? Maruja says Rosy doesn’t deserve to be called her daughter! Rosy’s jaw drops about a foot, it is quite impressive.
Zulema tells Bruno that Diana loves him and is suffering. He says he’s sorry but this doesn’t fit into his plans! She says that Diana is keeping the baby and she and the family will raise it. A baby is a blessing. Bruno says he doesn’t see it that way. Zulema tells him too bad, some guy later on will accept Diana even with her child and Bruno will miss out on the whole thing. She says goodbye and leaves.
Rosy and Maruja scream at each other in the kitchen. Maruja calls her shameful, Rosy says she is so old fashioned and acts like she has seen a ghost just to hear the word ‘Man.’ Maruja comes thisclose to hitting Rosy but then walks away, Rosy freaks out and starts stabbing a pepper to death with a very sharp knife. These two sure do play anger and frustration well.
Sara finds Lorena out on the street and says how was it? Lorena says what, the test? No, the trip to the orphanage! Instead of answering, Lorena asks Sara why she lied to the nuns, saying she was following Lorena to
Rosy and Maruja continue their fight, now including flour and other food. Someone yells that Jackie is coming.
Lorena says no way, but Sara insists that Lorena help her cheat.
Jackie gives Maruja a hard time about flour on her face, Maruja says she was making a cake. When asked to produce the cake, the chef sticks himself between them with a cake in his hand and says right here! Whew, chef saves the day. EDIT - I don't remember if it was before or after Jackie came in, but the chef asks Maruja if she's a lesbian, after what Rosy said about her freaking out from hearing the word 'man.' It was pretty funny, chef said "well that's what I understood." This of course sends Maruja into a further tizzy. I think it might have been what prompted the food fight.
Sara sits behind Lorena and does the pssst what’s number 12 thing, Lorena won’t answer her so Sara just leans forward and steals her paper, dropping her own blank paper on Lorena’s desk. I am actually appalled by this. Lorena has been blind to Sara’s two-facedness (is that a word?) but this has to open her eyes a bit. I hope. I can’t stand it if she turns into the standard dumbass main female who believes everything everyone tells her.
Dario and Betina have lunch, he gets a call from Jackie in the middle of it and is very short with her and hangs up quickly. Betina gets it out of him that they are fighting. From a safe location, she calls home where Paula has nothing better to do than pace and obsess about Dario. La Otra is there with her. Paula tells Betina to stay with Dario the whole day and find out more. La Otra can’t believe it and says basically “WTF Paula.” Paula asks La Otra about her friend the male stripper, she has some plan. Is she going to hire the guy to be her date to make Dario jealous? Maybe she’s going to send him to Jackie’s to screw with them? Who knows.
At Diana’s (and Vasco’s) workplace, Zulema tells Diana about her talk with Bruno. Diana cries. Vasco appears and meets Zulema for the first time, she introduces herself as “the wife of your uncle!” Vasco asks her some questions about his uncle and the past.
After the text, Lorena is mad (obviously) but Sara says nothing went wrong, don’t worry about it. Then she gets all schoolgirly and says it will be like so great! Like, they can study together! Awesome! Lorena is less than excited about that.
Zulema tells Vasco that Omar should explain what happened himself, so they go together to her house. Omar meets Vasco, they get along great. He tells Vasco that he was basically booted out of the family for falling in love with a woman who already had kids.
Oh for crying out loud, this has turned into Heridas de Amor, with the scenes changing every 25 seconds. I guess it’s fine when you are just watching, it really keeps things moving, but to recap it is torture. Anyway back at the house, Lorena suggests trying to find Rosy, Maruja says she must be with her good for nothing boyfriend and suggests changing the subject of conversation.
Omar tells Vasco about his baby with Zulema that ‘died’. Vasco is getting quite upset with his grandmother over all this, with good reason. Vasco is turning out to be a decent fellow. At first when he appeared I expected him to be a burnout, but he has turned out ok. I hate his wardrobe and hair but that’s just the surface.
Alonso comes over to see Lorena and asks where Rosy is. Lorena explains that she left and Alonso smartly changes the subject to ask about the exam. She says fine, and tells him about Sara being there, but not about the cheating. Alonso asks her to make a cake for a patient’s birthday, Lorena says of course. Awwww.
Julian comes home, Alonso says hey man what are you doing here? When he finds out it’s his ‘cousin’, he gives him a big hug. Zulema sets the table and says they are going to have dinner, as a family. We get it, happy family.
Later Vasco goes home, he asks Hortensia about Omar. She won’t tell him anything, finally Vasco says he was just with him. She immediately blames Vasco finding out on Jaime. Vasco says “He knew?” Now he’s even angrier, his dad knew the whole thing all along. Jaime arrives just in time for this part. Vasco says Omar sent a message – he is happy with his family. Hortensia says yeah happy, poor and with that vulgar woman. Vasco has had enough, he can’t believe this, he is leaving this house right now!
Tomorrow – Vasco must have meant it, because he is going to stay at Zulema’s house. Boy, if Rosy is there too, that house just got full. Also, Sara manages to make some trouble between Alonso and Lorena.
Labels: enemiga
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Caray Caray!
in case you missed the latest episode of the Univision program, "La Rosa de Guadalupe", here's my photo capture of Marcelo Cordoba as the handsome hero, in modern suit and glasses. His character's name is Esteban, who is the colleague and best friend of Zaida, played by Eugenia Cauduro. -- Jody :)
Labels: Alborada, amar, enemiga, Fuego, guapos, Pasion, stars
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Al Diablo Con Los Guapos #115, Friday 7-4: Get me to the Rodeo on time
New stuff starts right after the handshake between Mateo and Constancio, aka Team Let's Screw Luciana…Over.
Lina doesn't know what to make of Bobby bringing her flowers. He says he brought sunflowers because everyone always brings roses and he wanted to be original. Awww, that's sweet. About damn time he caught a clue. Lina loves them, she's just weepy because no one's brought her flowers before. She's going to put water in them and take them upstairs. Florencia comes in after Lina leaves and rags on Bobby for having the same problem as her husband…they like the "chachas"…I'm guessing she means "low-down-filthy-good-for-nothing-servants" and not just "muchachas." Florencia accuses him of doing it to try to get over her no-good, cheating sister. Only she doesn't use all those words. Bobby denies it. Florencia tries to talk about how terrible Marisela feels, but Bobby doesn’t give a crap.
Braulio, who darted through the living room in the last scene comes back in, having let Ramses in. He coos over Ramses' tan, which needs working on, apparently, since he hasn't been hanging around the pool lately. Ramses is looking for Valeria and Braulio trips over the vacuum cleaner Lina was using in his mad dash up the stairs. Talk about cramping a guy's style. He screams that Lina's gonna get it as he continues running up the stairs, vacuum cleaner and all.
Damian tells Constancio he has a surprise. Peralta is back. Oh. Yay. More indecipherable business machinations. Constancio's over what Peralta did before. He's apparently got some new scam to propose. Apparently the president of the party had to quit because of some scandal and it cast a pall over the whole party. The party needs a new president and Peralta wants it to be Constancio. Constancio eats this up with a great big spoon. He thinks it's just what he needs. Peralta mentions the divorce and says he's got to slow it down until he gets elected. Damian says he'll take care of it. There's a strange pause and all I can figure is that Peralta let a smelly one rip, judging from the looks on everyone's faces.
The younger set make plans to go to Coyoacan. Bobby wants to invite Lina and Valeria is surprised, but not upset about it. It looks like an 8-some: Valeria and Ramses, Alejandro and Florencia, Bobby and Lina, and then Mili and Hugo, who just showed up. Now Florencia tries to cry off because of the baby. Mili announces that she and Hugo aren't going to leave the house after they get married after all, earning her a huge hug from Alejandro and yet another big fat stink-eye from Florencia.
Rocky's less bandaged, but still pretty non-understandable and bruised. He's outside watering the plants. Horacio tells Rocky that he's got to get the car ready to drive the youngsters out to Coyoacan. Horacio comes up with an idea, but he doesn't tell Rocky what it is yet, just says something so that he can tell Valeria what happened without needing to talk.
The six who decided to go to Coyoacan are out having a good time, eating mostly.
Damian is still begging for help to get rid of Karla. Constancio won't do anything until Luciana calls off the divorce. Same argument as usual. Damian complains about the Andrea being a complication. Luciana walks in and Constancio gives her one compliment and then can't take it anymore and tells her she looks just as disagreeable as always. He tells Damian to take care of the situation and then takes off. Damian tries talking about how Luciana cheated too, but she's not in the mood to hear it from her own brother, who should be on her side. Ah, but Damian's never been that kind of brother.
And now we see Horacio's brilliant plan. Rocky is there, dressed as a mime. Valeria actually likes mimes. What does that say about her? Rocky the Mime asks her to participate in his little show. He mimes that he loves her and gives her a rose. Then he invites Hugo to mime aiming at him with a big gun. Valeria keeps trying to guess who Hugo is supposed to be, but she can't get that Hugo is supposed to be miming her dad. Rocky can't take it anymore and mumbles out "It's your dad, Señorita Valeria." And that will be the end of our "Rocky tries to tell Valeria what really happened" segment of the evening.
Bobby and Lina say goodbye at the house. Bobby says he wants to dance with her all afternoon and evening tomorrow at Mili's wedding. They kiss, but Lina's still skittish. Bobby looks like she had Novacaine in her lipstick. Valeria comes up and makes fun of him. He reminds her about dating the chauffeur. She's talking about how she's glad her eyes were opened, since those relationships never work out. Bobby tells her he used to like her, but Rocky really loves her and all the crazy stuff he's done is because he loves her, not her money--why else would he dress up like a mime? Valeria gets ticked off. Bobby says he's done with his crush on her and he never saw her as happy as when she was with Rocky. He says Rocky deserves for her to listen to him after all that happened. Then he leaves. I love Valeria's dress, by the way.
Mili and Hugo are taking their last moonlight walk before their wedding. Hugo's going to go inside and start resting up for the big day. Mili wants to spend some time alone outside. They kiss goodnight and Hugo goes inside. Alejandro appears from behind a tree and walks behind Mili for a few steps before he asks if he can steal her from the altar again. Wow, that's some poor taste right there! He does still think she's his sister and he is married. He tells her he's joking and that he wants tomorrow to be the nicest day of her life, since she deserves it. Mili hugs him and rests her head on his chest.
Next thing we know, we're in the Rodeo, where some guy starts talking about the purpose of marriage. And here I thought this was supposed to be a civil ceremony. The guy asks the important questions and both Hugo and Mili say yes, not without a big pause on Mili's part. He asks for objections and no one has any. He declares them "legally united in matrimony" and Hugo and Mili kiss. She's a pretty unhappy -looking bride. We go to commercials before we can find out if this is real or a dream.
Now it's party time at the Rodeo. Valeria wants to dance, but Ramses won't dance with her--he says he doesn't like the music. Bobby takes Lina out to dance. Florencia asks Alejandro to dance, so the novios aren't out there alone, and Alejandro asks the bump if she wants to dance with him. The baby kicks in response. Oh, now, that would be cute if Florencia wasn't such a heinous beeyotch. Obviously, they can't kill off the baby, so somehow Florencia will have to be gotten rid of, cause I don't see her being reasonable about sharing custody. Anyway, the two of them get out and dance. Karla is trying to get Damian to dance with her, but no joy. Damian and Constancio talk about the locale and Damian tells Constancio to dance with Luciana, but Constancio doesn't think that's going to work. Luciana's not having a good time, but Nestor seems to appreciate the ambience.
Back in the kitchen, Socorro, Rocky, and Horacio are getting the wedding tacos ready. Mmm, tacos. Seems like Rocky has lost all his bruises and can talk now.
Marisela is crabby because Bobby is dancing with Lina. Florencia comes over to sit at her table, as does Luciana, who complains about the high concentration of naco-ness. She really turns up her nose at the tacos. Those three have no taste. Florencia even covered her nose. They talk about Luciana's allegedly impending divorce and her desire for revenge.
Karla is still trying to dance with Damian, but he sneaks away from her. She calls him "pimpollo" again, which sounds like it should mean "chicken pimp," but it's actually rosebud. I think I'll stick with Chicken Pimp, though, it's much more fitting for Damian.
Mili and Hugo go over to say hi to Gamuza and Yolanda. Mili says she's sorry Romulo couldn't be there, but since he'd already posed as her dad in front of Constancio, well…. Gamuza and Mili inform Hugo that they are novios forever, despite Mili and Hugo being married and Gamuza takes Mili out to dance. Poor kid's never going to dance with girls his own age if he doesn't get any taller! Too bad the writers didn't think of that when they decided to skip ahead three years.
Karla finds Damian and drags her Chicken Pimp out on to the floor.
Bobby leaves Lina on the dance floor to go talk to Alejandro. Alejandro tries to say everything's ok, but Bobby just says he understands. He tells Alejandro not to get upset. The Robledos, Sr and Jr, and the skanky guy show up, upsetting Bobby.
Mili and Hugo visit the God Squad table. Sor Cachete wants to be godmother of their firstborn…Mili freaks out at the mention of babies. Dude, Sor Cachete would be an awesome godmother. Hugo promises Padre Manuel that when they do get married in the church, he wants Padre Manuel to officiate.
Constancio and Andrea sit together complaining about how drunk Luciana is getting.
Nestor tries to get her to slow down with the drinking, but she makes the usual excuses about why she needs the alcohol.
The kitchen crew are still working on the food, but Lina and Rocky convince Socorro and Horacio to get out there and dance. Lina puts on the hat and apron and goes to heat up some more tortillas. Of course, Mateo's rat finky friend and his skank ho date walk in right then. He makes some nasty remarks and Bobby comes in to defend her, getting the two of them to walk out. Rocky wants to know what's up, but Bobby's still being prickly. Lina asks the boys to make nice and Bobby tells Rocky he wants to be friends. Rocky barely shakes his hand and they smack each other a bit, in the way of, well, boys, and then everything's ok between them and Bobby goes to chop some onions and chiles, apron and all.
Mat the Rat introduces his grandpa to Marisela's dad. Domingo wants to talk business with Robledo Sr. Mat gets Marisela up to dance with him.
Padre Manuel tells Mili she doesn't look happy and she says she misses her viejita linda ("pretty old lady," aka Regina--and if she were here, she'd say "Viejita, las pelotas and what the hell do you think you're doing marrying Hugo when you're really in love with Alejandro?"). Constancio wants to talk, but Mili won't leave PM. Constancio says he wants her to be really, really happy because she deserves it for getting all the love and respect that she was denied before. He says all the people who hurt her are going to pay and the important thing is for her not to hold on to resentment or hate. He almost tells her she's his daughter, again, but changes it to "you are... nothing but sweetness." He asks for a hug and gets one. That was almost like one of those sweet moments with Regina where we knew Milagros was her granddaughter, but she didn't and it didn't matter because they loved each other so much. But it's hard to feel the same way about these moments with Constancio because he's still such an idiotic egotist that he won't tell her the truth! She deserves better.
After the commercial break, PM tries to convince her to tell Constancio what she knows, but Mili insists that he needs to be the one to talk. Hugo and Braulio both come up at the same time and PM tells them they'll have to share Mili from now on.
Luciana continues drowning her sorrows. Constancio says she's not leaving any for the rest of the guests. Luciana tells him to keep his eye on his secretary since Domingo Echavaria is over there flirting. As he goes over in that direction, PM intercepts and tries to compliment him on what he said to Mili, but Constancio gives him the brush-off.
Drunky Luci goes over to talk smack about Andrea to Domingo. Domingo leaves, but Andrea's not too upset. The two women spit venom at each other. The usual.
Horacio flirts with Socorro on the dance floor--"My love, if beauty were seconds, you'd be 24 hours." It's cheesy, but obviously it gets results.
Karla catches up to Damian yet again, but he gets away, again. So tedious.
Padre Manuel and Nestor go outside to talk. PM brings up Luciana's drinking, but Nestor's in denial. He's too busy being happy about the impending divorce. Damian comes outside trying to avoid Karla, who chases him out there. Damian fakes heart pain to get rid of Karla, but PM and Nestor are too quick to point out that he went back inside.
Luciana and Mateo conference about Luciana's revenge schemes. Mateo plays along, but we all know he's a double agent. Luciana's reached the drunken "I love you, man" stage.
Alejandro is getting upset about how much Luciana is drinking, but Florencia tells him to chill and they'll ask her to leave in a little while.
Rocky, Bobby, and Lina talk about Rocky's broken heart. Bobby tells Rocky that Valeria still loves him. Rocky tells Bobby that he can't get Valeria to listen to him and Bobby says he'll help. Gloria comes in to announce that Sor Cachete is about to sing to Mili and Hugo. Rocky rushes to grab his jacket and take off his apron and they all go out to the dance area.
Pedro announces that a representative of the church is going to dedicate a song to Mili and Hugo. Hugo gets considerably less applause than Mili. Sor Cachete takes the mic. Pedro comes over and congratulates Mili and Hugo as Sor Cachete starts to sing Sin Bandera's "Entra en Mi Vida":
Good evening, nice to meet you, you're just another girl
After five minutes, you're already someone special
Without talking to me, without touching me, something inside me has ignited
In your eyes it got late and I forgot about the time
These days by your side have show me that in truth
There's no predetermined time to start loving
I feel something so deep it has no explanation
There is no reason or logic in my heart
Come into my life
I open the door for you
I know that in your arms there will be no more desolate nights
Come into my life
I beg you
I started out being surprised by you, but later I started to need you
Good evening, nice to meet you, no one else exists now
After this time together I can't go back
You talked to me, you touched me, and you turned into my hope
I want you to be the owner of my heart
Come into my life…
Come into my hours, save me now, open your arms wide and let me come in
Come into my life…
While Sor is singing, Valeria tries to get Ramses to dance, but Bobby tells him there's a reporter wanting pictures or an interview or something and he leaves. Rocky then sneaks up, claps a hand around Valeria's mouth and drags her off as she tries to shriek. He gets her outside and she yells at him, of course. He accepts all the insults she throws at him, but says he loves her. She tries to go after him with a shoe, but he takes it away and won't give it back until they talk. He tells her the truth (your dad didn't give me money, he forced me to disappoint you so you'd go to Paris). We'll have to see if she believes it, but for now, she looks impactada!
On Monday: Drunken Luciana dedicates a song to Constancio…a song called "Rata Inmunda", and it's not a nice one from the little we hear of it so far! Oh, yeah, and she announces to the crowd that Constancio isn't Alejandro's father and that Nestor is his real dad. Yeah, I know…but will it stick?!
Lina doesn't know what to make of Bobby bringing her flowers. He says he brought sunflowers because everyone always brings roses and he wanted to be original. Awww, that's sweet. About damn time he caught a clue. Lina loves them, she's just weepy because no one's brought her flowers before. She's going to put water in them and take them upstairs. Florencia comes in after Lina leaves and rags on Bobby for having the same problem as her husband…they like the "chachas"…I'm guessing she means "low-down-filthy-good-for-nothing-servants" and not just "muchachas." Florencia accuses him of doing it to try to get over her no-good, cheating sister. Only she doesn't use all those words. Bobby denies it. Florencia tries to talk about how terrible Marisela feels, but Bobby doesn’t give a crap.
Braulio, who darted through the living room in the last scene comes back in, having let Ramses in. He coos over Ramses' tan, which needs working on, apparently, since he hasn't been hanging around the pool lately. Ramses is looking for Valeria and Braulio trips over the vacuum cleaner Lina was using in his mad dash up the stairs. Talk about cramping a guy's style. He screams that Lina's gonna get it as he continues running up the stairs, vacuum cleaner and all.
Damian tells Constancio he has a surprise. Peralta is back. Oh. Yay. More indecipherable business machinations. Constancio's over what Peralta did before. He's apparently got some new scam to propose. Apparently the president of the party had to quit because of some scandal and it cast a pall over the whole party. The party needs a new president and Peralta wants it to be Constancio. Constancio eats this up with a great big spoon. He thinks it's just what he needs. Peralta mentions the divorce and says he's got to slow it down until he gets elected. Damian says he'll take care of it. There's a strange pause and all I can figure is that Peralta let a smelly one rip, judging from the looks on everyone's faces.
The younger set make plans to go to Coyoacan. Bobby wants to invite Lina and Valeria is surprised, but not upset about it. It looks like an 8-some: Valeria and Ramses, Alejandro and Florencia, Bobby and Lina, and then Mili and Hugo, who just showed up. Now Florencia tries to cry off because of the baby. Mili announces that she and Hugo aren't going to leave the house after they get married after all, earning her a huge hug from Alejandro and yet another big fat stink-eye from Florencia.
Rocky's less bandaged, but still pretty non-understandable and bruised. He's outside watering the plants. Horacio tells Rocky that he's got to get the car ready to drive the youngsters out to Coyoacan. Horacio comes up with an idea, but he doesn't tell Rocky what it is yet, just says something so that he can tell Valeria what happened without needing to talk.
The six who decided to go to Coyoacan are out having a good time, eating mostly.
Damian is still begging for help to get rid of Karla. Constancio won't do anything until Luciana calls off the divorce. Same argument as usual. Damian complains about the Andrea being a complication. Luciana walks in and Constancio gives her one compliment and then can't take it anymore and tells her she looks just as disagreeable as always. He tells Damian to take care of the situation and then takes off. Damian tries talking about how Luciana cheated too, but she's not in the mood to hear it from her own brother, who should be on her side. Ah, but Damian's never been that kind of brother.
And now we see Horacio's brilliant plan. Rocky is there, dressed as a mime. Valeria actually likes mimes. What does that say about her? Rocky the Mime asks her to participate in his little show. He mimes that he loves her and gives her a rose. Then he invites Hugo to mime aiming at him with a big gun. Valeria keeps trying to guess who Hugo is supposed to be, but she can't get that Hugo is supposed to be miming her dad. Rocky can't take it anymore and mumbles out "It's your dad, Señorita Valeria." And that will be the end of our "Rocky tries to tell Valeria what really happened" segment of the evening.
Bobby and Lina say goodbye at the house. Bobby says he wants to dance with her all afternoon and evening tomorrow at Mili's wedding. They kiss, but Lina's still skittish. Bobby looks like she had Novacaine in her lipstick. Valeria comes up and makes fun of him. He reminds her about dating the chauffeur. She's talking about how she's glad her eyes were opened, since those relationships never work out. Bobby tells her he used to like her, but Rocky really loves her and all the crazy stuff he's done is because he loves her, not her money--why else would he dress up like a mime? Valeria gets ticked off. Bobby says he's done with his crush on her and he never saw her as happy as when she was with Rocky. He says Rocky deserves for her to listen to him after all that happened. Then he leaves. I love Valeria's dress, by the way.
Mili and Hugo are taking their last moonlight walk before their wedding. Hugo's going to go inside and start resting up for the big day. Mili wants to spend some time alone outside. They kiss goodnight and Hugo goes inside. Alejandro appears from behind a tree and walks behind Mili for a few steps before he asks if he can steal her from the altar again. Wow, that's some poor taste right there! He does still think she's his sister and he is married. He tells her he's joking and that he wants tomorrow to be the nicest day of her life, since she deserves it. Mili hugs him and rests her head on his chest.
Next thing we know, we're in the Rodeo, where some guy starts talking about the purpose of marriage. And here I thought this was supposed to be a civil ceremony. The guy asks the important questions and both Hugo and Mili say yes, not without a big pause on Mili's part. He asks for objections and no one has any. He declares them "legally united in matrimony" and Hugo and Mili kiss. She's a pretty unhappy -looking bride. We go to commercials before we can find out if this is real or a dream.
Now it's party time at the Rodeo. Valeria wants to dance, but Ramses won't dance with her--he says he doesn't like the music. Bobby takes Lina out to dance. Florencia asks Alejandro to dance, so the novios aren't out there alone, and Alejandro asks the bump if she wants to dance with him. The baby kicks in response. Oh, now, that would be cute if Florencia wasn't such a heinous beeyotch. Obviously, they can't kill off the baby, so somehow Florencia will have to be gotten rid of, cause I don't see her being reasonable about sharing custody. Anyway, the two of them get out and dance. Karla is trying to get Damian to dance with her, but no joy. Damian and Constancio talk about the locale and Damian tells Constancio to dance with Luciana, but Constancio doesn't think that's going to work. Luciana's not having a good time, but Nestor seems to appreciate the ambience.
Back in the kitchen, Socorro, Rocky, and Horacio are getting the wedding tacos ready. Mmm, tacos. Seems like Rocky has lost all his bruises and can talk now.
Marisela is crabby because Bobby is dancing with Lina. Florencia comes over to sit at her table, as does Luciana, who complains about the high concentration of naco-ness. She really turns up her nose at the tacos. Those three have no taste. Florencia even covered her nose. They talk about Luciana's allegedly impending divorce and her desire for revenge.
Karla is still trying to dance with Damian, but he sneaks away from her. She calls him "pimpollo" again, which sounds like it should mean "chicken pimp," but it's actually rosebud. I think I'll stick with Chicken Pimp, though, it's much more fitting for Damian.
Mili and Hugo go over to say hi to Gamuza and Yolanda. Mili says she's sorry Romulo couldn't be there, but since he'd already posed as her dad in front of Constancio, well…. Gamuza and Mili inform Hugo that they are novios forever, despite Mili and Hugo being married and Gamuza takes Mili out to dance. Poor kid's never going to dance with girls his own age if he doesn't get any taller! Too bad the writers didn't think of that when they decided to skip ahead three years.
Karla finds Damian and drags her Chicken Pimp out on to the floor.
Bobby leaves Lina on the dance floor to go talk to Alejandro. Alejandro tries to say everything's ok, but Bobby just says he understands. He tells Alejandro not to get upset. The Robledos, Sr and Jr, and the skanky guy show up, upsetting Bobby.
Mili and Hugo visit the God Squad table. Sor Cachete wants to be godmother of their firstborn…Mili freaks out at the mention of babies. Dude, Sor Cachete would be an awesome godmother. Hugo promises Padre Manuel that when they do get married in the church, he wants Padre Manuel to officiate.
Constancio and Andrea sit together complaining about how drunk Luciana is getting.
Nestor tries to get her to slow down with the drinking, but she makes the usual excuses about why she needs the alcohol.
The kitchen crew are still working on the food, but Lina and Rocky convince Socorro and Horacio to get out there and dance. Lina puts on the hat and apron and goes to heat up some more tortillas. Of course, Mateo's rat finky friend and his skank ho date walk in right then. He makes some nasty remarks and Bobby comes in to defend her, getting the two of them to walk out. Rocky wants to know what's up, but Bobby's still being prickly. Lina asks the boys to make nice and Bobby tells Rocky he wants to be friends. Rocky barely shakes his hand and they smack each other a bit, in the way of, well, boys, and then everything's ok between them and Bobby goes to chop some onions and chiles, apron and all.
Mat the Rat introduces his grandpa to Marisela's dad. Domingo wants to talk business with Robledo Sr. Mat gets Marisela up to dance with him.
Padre Manuel tells Mili she doesn't look happy and she says she misses her viejita linda ("pretty old lady," aka Regina--and if she were here, she'd say "Viejita, las pelotas and what the hell do you think you're doing marrying Hugo when you're really in love with Alejandro?"). Constancio wants to talk, but Mili won't leave PM. Constancio says he wants her to be really, really happy because she deserves it for getting all the love and respect that she was denied before. He says all the people who hurt her are going to pay and the important thing is for her not to hold on to resentment or hate. He almost tells her she's his daughter, again, but changes it to "you are... nothing but sweetness." He asks for a hug and gets one. That was almost like one of those sweet moments with Regina where we knew Milagros was her granddaughter, but she didn't and it didn't matter because they loved each other so much. But it's hard to feel the same way about these moments with Constancio because he's still such an idiotic egotist that he won't tell her the truth! She deserves better.
After the commercial break, PM tries to convince her to tell Constancio what she knows, but Mili insists that he needs to be the one to talk. Hugo and Braulio both come up at the same time and PM tells them they'll have to share Mili from now on.
Luciana continues drowning her sorrows. Constancio says she's not leaving any for the rest of the guests. Luciana tells him to keep his eye on his secretary since Domingo Echavaria is over there flirting. As he goes over in that direction, PM intercepts and tries to compliment him on what he said to Mili, but Constancio gives him the brush-off.
Drunky Luci goes over to talk smack about Andrea to Domingo. Domingo leaves, but Andrea's not too upset. The two women spit venom at each other. The usual.
Horacio flirts with Socorro on the dance floor--"My love, if beauty were seconds, you'd be 24 hours." It's cheesy, but obviously it gets results.
Karla catches up to Damian yet again, but he gets away, again. So tedious.
Padre Manuel and Nestor go outside to talk. PM brings up Luciana's drinking, but Nestor's in denial. He's too busy being happy about the impending divorce. Damian comes outside trying to avoid Karla, who chases him out there. Damian fakes heart pain to get rid of Karla, but PM and Nestor are too quick to point out that he went back inside.
Luciana and Mateo conference about Luciana's revenge schemes. Mateo plays along, but we all know he's a double agent. Luciana's reached the drunken "I love you, man" stage.
Alejandro is getting upset about how much Luciana is drinking, but Florencia tells him to chill and they'll ask her to leave in a little while.
Rocky, Bobby, and Lina talk about Rocky's broken heart. Bobby tells Rocky that Valeria still loves him. Rocky tells Bobby that he can't get Valeria to listen to him and Bobby says he'll help. Gloria comes in to announce that Sor Cachete is about to sing to Mili and Hugo. Rocky rushes to grab his jacket and take off his apron and they all go out to the dance area.
Pedro announces that a representative of the church is going to dedicate a song to Mili and Hugo. Hugo gets considerably less applause than Mili. Sor Cachete takes the mic. Pedro comes over and congratulates Mili and Hugo as Sor Cachete starts to sing Sin Bandera's "Entra en Mi Vida":
Good evening, nice to meet you, you're just another girl
After five minutes, you're already someone special
Without talking to me, without touching me, something inside me has ignited
In your eyes it got late and I forgot about the time
These days by your side have show me that in truth
There's no predetermined time to start loving
I feel something so deep it has no explanation
There is no reason or logic in my heart
Come into my life
I open the door for you
I know that in your arms there will be no more desolate nights
Come into my life
I beg you
I started out being surprised by you, but later I started to need you
Good evening, nice to meet you, no one else exists now
After this time together I can't go back
You talked to me, you touched me, and you turned into my hope
I want you to be the owner of my heart
Come into my life…
Come into my hours, save me now, open your arms wide and let me come in
Come into my life…
While Sor is singing, Valeria tries to get Ramses to dance, but Bobby tells him there's a reporter wanting pictures or an interview or something and he leaves. Rocky then sneaks up, claps a hand around Valeria's mouth and drags her off as she tries to shriek. He gets her outside and she yells at him, of course. He accepts all the insults she throws at him, but says he loves her. She tries to go after him with a shoe, but he takes it away and won't give it back until they talk. He tells her the truth (your dad didn't give me money, he forced me to disappoint you so you'd go to Paris). We'll have to see if she believes it, but for now, she looks impactada!
On Monday: Drunken Luciana dedicates a song to Constancio…a song called "Rata Inmunda", and it's not a nice one from the little we hear of it so far! Oh, yeah, and she announces to the crowd that Constancio isn't Alejandro's father and that Nestor is his real dad. Yeah, I know…but will it stick?!
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Fuego en la Sangre 7/4/08: Adding Fire to the Flames or From the Baking Pan into the Fire!
We begin as Juan now washes and massages Sofia’s hands and feet trying to get her feeling more relaxed. He wants to shower her with love. She tells him that she is truly better now and knows it’s time for him to begin baking for the next day’s business, but he says today he refuses to be separated from her. Sofia insists and says she would enjoy watching him work if only he’d let her sit quietly by in a chair near him. He kisses her and gives in.
Back at the Hacienda de Horrores Gabriela has parked her broom and is once again playing mirror- mirror in her bedroom. Tearfully she thinks back on her humiliation in finding out not only was Sofia pregnant by none other than that lowly bricklaying baker, Juan Reyes, but that Sofia’s marriage to Nonefer Nando was never consummated. She remembers Juan’s arrogance in riding that filthy beast into her grand entrance hall earlier that day to demand “HIS woman and child.” Under the painting of the Virgencita she recalls how Nonefer began to seduce her, her shamefully licentious if not totally incestuous response and her last minute rush from the bedroom before he could succeed in his attempt.
At the same time in his bedroom, Fernando stands in front of his mirror and fingers through his mussed hair. He is also remembering back to the events of earlier that afternoon. He recalls Juan Reyes daring him to stop him from carrying off Sofia and the way Gabriela screamed curses at the two lovers while he stood there calmly puffing on his cigar. He says to himself, “Nobody treats Fernando Escandón that way and gets away with it!” He thinks back to his seduction of his MIL and how it must have been Fate and says that nobody can stop it. Anyway, he figures, it’s not a bad idea financially to hook up with Gabi and she does attract him. (–Whoa!) He asks himself, “Does that woman really attract me?” He smiles as if he’s pleased to admit that she really does do something for him. (Mamasita, what a sickie!) He turns back to the mirror and smugly smooths his hair again and you can almost imagine a “666” on his scalp peeking out from that dorky part in his hair.
In the little infirmary Rosario speaks with Pablito and tells him she is Luis’ mother. She says he shouldn’t feel sad because she and the others will be there for him and he can come to play with Luis anytime. She turns to Oscar and Franco to tell them she’s glad they were let free without the need for a trial hinting that it was of course with a little help from someone, and then leaves. The two brothers wonder what she meant. Franco runs after her and asks what she was getting at. She tells him it was nothing and to forget it. He tells her then that he cannot stop thinking about her and wants to be alone with her. Rosario tells him her son comes first. They begin to kiss but she catches herself just in time and runs off after a definitive “No” which means "yes, but no."
Across town Juan is demonstrating his baking bag o’ tricks when his two brothers and Quintina arrive to give Sofia a huge welcoming hug. Oscar tells her how proud they are of her for confronting her family and leaving all of that behind her to just to follow his brother. She says all of her trials and tribulations were worth it provided she can now be here with them. Oscar tells her she is like a sister to them, and to consider the humble bakery as well as the house as her own. Quintina offers her protection as her guardian angel. (Uh-oh, we know that has got to mean trouble!) Both Sofia and Juan are overwhelmed at the positive reception.
At the hacienda, Augie shows Eva around his newly furnished digs in the cottage and asks her to work for him. Eva would like to but says they both know Jimena and Sarita still need her there at the hacienda. Augie says he’ll be living there from now on because he can’t stomach his daughter. Although he’ll miss his three granddaughters he will sleep soundly tonight knowing Sofia is now together with the man she loves.
Back at the bakery Sofia tells the others how much she will miss her grandfather and her sisters. She worries that her mother will make them pay for what she has done. She fears that perhaps Gabi may even send them far away from the hacienda to punish Sofia and perhaps she will never see them again.
Meanwhile, both Jimena and Sarita are asleep having bad dreams about their would-be lovers. Jimena dreams she’s making her confession and the priest who hears it turns out to be an angelic-faced Oscar. Sarita dreams about a chance encounter with Franco. Just as he is about to greet her Rosario catches his attention and he goes over to the sexily clad competition. Rosario and he begin sharing a steamy (well, for Sarita) kiss.
Oscar tells his brothers that if Crabiela plans on sending her daughters away for real then he’s going over there immediately to clear the air with Jimena. Juan warns him he could get shot the way things are at the hacienda right now. Oscar doesn’t care and heads off. Franco figures he’s got to do likewise. Juan cautions him but Franco says they’re grown men and know how to defend themselves. He tells Juan to think about Sofia and the child now. Juan admits to Franco they are the most important things in his life right now, but says his two brothers are life itself to him. They hug and Franco leaves to catch up with Oscar.
The sheriff is leaving and tells Dario and Palemon to be ready for anything since El Mapache is a dangerous kind to be locked up there. He is certain the guy is hiding something and knows way more than he is letting on and he’s not going to rest until he knows everything Mapache knows. As soon as he leaves, a not-so-dedicated Deputy Dario pulls out his deck of cards to play with Palemon. Dario hides them as Padre Tadeo walks in for his weekly chat with the prisoners.
On the other side of town in the office of the Bad Love Bar, Armando sends three of his men to rub out El Mapache and reminds them that Fernando doesn’t kid around and doesn’t like delays.
At the jail Padre Tadeo asks Mapache’s cellmate, apparently still in jail for Bernardo’s supposed hit and run, if he has anything to confess. The guy says no since he confessed last week and hasn’t had a chance to do anything sinful, being stuck in jail like he is. However, he says he’d like to chat with the priest about certain doubts he has about the death of Bernardo Elizondo, the man who was run over, when Tadeo has time. Tadeo says they’ll discuss it later. He asks El Mapache then if he wants to confess anything. Mapache says he has never confessed and so don’t bother him now. Padre T says fine and so we now know that once Mapache is offed he will definitely not be stopping by the Pearly Gates for a chat with St. Peter.
In the bakery Juan continues to show Sofia the tricks of his trade. They confess their love for each other and seal it with a veeeeery long session of sincere kisses.
Franco enters the balcony window of Sarita’s room and opens the drawer of her desk. He takes out the letters she wrote to him and reads: “The indifference of your love is more painful than the storm lashing the hacienda this evening.” He is overcome by her passion on the page.
On the other side of the house Oscar stands next to Jimena’s bed . She wakes up and sees him standing there. He confesses that the business about the seminary was only a lie he told in order to get her to react. He was desperate to have her back. She is angry and says she has suffered from all the lies he told her. He grabs for her and begs her not to get angry. She keeps telling him to let her go and they fall onto the bed.
Jimena pouts while Oscar tells her his heart was won and it was the only way he could get her “big snout” to react to him. (It sounded so dumb at first, but then, Jorge’s delivery is just so appealing that I’ll forgive the stupid script.) It’s not exactly the way a woman likes to be described and she tells Oscar as much. “I don’t have a big snout!!” He says it’s only a way of saying that he wanted to get her to stop being so angry with him. He calls her his little snub nose then to make up for it. Jimena pouts some more and tells him she isn’t snub-nosed.
Oscar asks Jimena not to be so unruly . “Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want!” she irritatedly spits back. “—I told you already. I came to say good-bye. Sofia said that your mother might send you and Sarita far away because of what happened.” “—No, she’s not going to send us anywhere.” Oscar fills Jimena in on what’s happened and says that her sister and Juan are fine and the doctor says she needs to rest a bit is all. He kisses her and tells her he only wants to be with her, to take care of her, his little snout. “I’m not a little snout,” she pouts, but she melts in his arms anyway and suddenly all is forgiven. (Finally, we get some really first rate sexual chemistry and well-delivered and timed repartee worthy of Hepburn & Tracy between at least one pair of arguing lovers. Glad I stayed awake a while longer.)
Franco reads another letter: “In the half-light of my room I write to you of my pain.”
Jimena and Oscar begin to get passionate until Jimena remembers she is a “good girl.” Oscar says fine, he respects her and will wait till they’ve been blessed by God in matrimony. He admits she’s just so pretty that he gets carried away. He says he’s never changed his mind even though so many things have happened between them. He still wants to marry her. Unfortunately, he reminds her, she’s engaged to another man. (Touché, Jorgé.)
Raqui Raccoon Uribe, aunt of Tall and Small Tweedle, comes to the hacienda looking for Gabi “despite the late hour”. Raqui tells Gabi that when she went to visit her at the hospital they had already given her a discharge and felt she should come right over. (Why how recovered you are, Grandmother Ridinghood!) Gabi smiles a big, false, “Why, thank you!” Fernando sees Raqui and Gabriela chatting together in the foyer and, still unaware of the two men upstairs in the sisters’ bedrooms, he comes down to join them. He lavishly slathers compliments on the easily flattered and rather flirty Raquel.
Gabriela gets jealous when Raqui praises Fernando over being “such a charming son-in-law.” As Feo walks Raqui into the living room to get her a drink, the Witchy One watches sourly with green-eyed resentment.
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Fernando has given the order to rub out El Mapache before he squeals to the police about Armando’s and his criminal operation and his henchmen are worriedly discussing amongst themselves how they’re supposed to get into the little jailhouse to get the job done. Either they bump off El Mapache or Feo will bump them off. Just then Padre Tadeo walks past. They lower their heads to hide their faces as he greets them.
A bit later one of the hit men apparently dresses up like the padre and walks in with a sack in his hand. Dutiful Deputies Dario and Palemon are in the middle of their card game. Deputy Dario looks up momentarily but all he sees is the back of a cassock out of the corner of his eye as the person walks by. (Conveniently he does not notice that the “priest” DOESN’T HAVE A SALT AND PEPPER GRAY BOUFFY-DO.) Deputy Dario mentions to the other deputy that it’s a bit strange that Padre Tadeo should be coming back again so late. The two figure he must have forgotten something and go back to their card game. The man in the cassock leaves a sack of pastries next to the cell bars. Mapache’s cellmate takes the bag but El Mapache grabs the bag out of the other guy’s hand and pigs down the goody inside.
Downstairs, Feo continues to flirt and flatter Raqui as Crabiela looks on. Finally Gabi can’t stand it any longer and walks off in a huff to the kitchen. She grabs a butcher knife and starts angrily stabbing a huge piece of rubber beef on the counter. Feo excuses himself to Raqui and catches up to Gabi there. He begins playing his MIL like the high-strung Stradivarius wanna-be that she is. “I see you’re angry, but I am not your enemy. Your own daughter and those damned dogs, the Reyes brothers, are the enemy.” He encourages her to take her hate out on them, not him. “Make them pay. Make them pay!” he hisses in her ear as rattler tails start shaking ominously in the background.
Upstairs in Sarita’s room Franco reads another love-letter: “Franco, I try to hate you, however, each day I love you more and every morning I eagerly await your arrival. But even though you are so near to me you are not mine and never will be.” He puts away her love-letters and thinks to himself “Thank you, Sarita, for such pretty letters.” He puts a finger-kiss on her lips and leaves the way he entered.
Oscar tells Jimena he’ll do things God’s way and promises to come see her tomorrow; in the meantime he’ll tell Padre Tadeo that he won’t be entering the seminary. He gives her a big kiss and leaves through the balcony window to join Franco. (I am definitely patting myself on the back for not sleeping through their scenes together this time!) Jimena blows him a sensual kiss.
Meanwhile our crazed Gabi has taken Feo’s words to heart and is outside in a shed looking for something.
Back at the bakery Juan has been showing Sofia how he makes his bread dough. (Anybody else sickened by her long hair so near to the work-table? Ah well, in for a penny, in for a pound.) Outside the bakery we catch a silhouetted glimpse of the scythe-carrying, Mexican-style serape and sombrero’d phantasm of Death. Inside again, Juan knocks over a cellar of salt from the table. (Superstition and foreshadowing are the name of the game in these things.) Juan starts looking now for a tray he wants to use to bake his Sofi cakes on. He thinks Quintina may have it and has to go back to the living quarters into the kitchen to look for it. The oven is off he says (for our benefit) and he notices how chilly it is in the bakery. He takes his serape and covers Sofia with it. He stops to tell her she is his whole life; she says he is hers. He kisses her again before leaving and shutting the door to the living quarters.
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After eating the entire bag of goodies that the “priest” left, El Mapache is literally foaming at the mouth and in agony (from which we can assume he’s been poisoned). His jail mate runs over to Mapache to ask what’s wrong. (Got to admit I was having gagging reflexes about now. They were certainly using the FX’s A-team for this scene! Blechhh!) El Mapache, through his creamed mustache, whispers with his last, dying breath, “I’m dying. El Escandón…..It was him. It was him that…. I’m dying….. It …was… him that….that….” he croaks, then dies.
Juan is searching high and low for a special baking tray when Oscar and Franco return safe and sound from the hacienda. Oscar admits he could have finally complied with their oath for vengeance made at Libia’s tomb but he cracked and failed. He couldn’t go through with it because he is in love with Jimena and he respects her. Franco asks Juan when he plans to tell Sofia the truth. Before he can answer Padre Tadeo shows up for coffee and a chat. He is all excited because Oscar has been accepted into the seminary and is to present himself there the very next morning bright and early to enroll.
Outside batty Gabi, driving slowly along in Feo’s black SUV, approaches through a couple of crafty camera shots like the bloodsucking vamp she is and flies towards her prey. Whoosh-thrump. Whoosh-thrump. She rummages around behind the seat and drags through a jug of gasoline. (Yes, the old “if-you-can’t-beat-‘em-burn-‘em” technique of Telenovela vengeance has been set in motion, though under normal circumstances, there is no way that a little painted and plastered, brick and mortar building could catch fire, but we are of course, in Telenovela-land.) Gabi stealthily crosses the deserted and dark little street and looks through the window at Sofia. “You all are going to pay! You all are going to pay! Whoever mocks Gabriela Elizondo pays for it with their life, even though it might concern my very own family (blood). Be that as it may, you’ll pay!”
Sofia is now sitting with her back to the street. Sofia gets up momentarily to look at the scrumptious (has to be for a pregnant female) varieties of pastries and rolls her man has made. She goes for a concha and smiles as Gabi continues to pour gasoline along the front of the building. Gabriela stands back and watches her daughter (who, being pregnant, I figure is probably famished and gobbling down that roll by now –Ok. Ok. Since it’s Sofia, it is more likely a voracious nibble than a gobble). In the moonlight, with the lighter in her hand, Gabi proclaims nigh orgasmic that Juan and Sofia must pay for all the harm and shame they have caused her; they do not deserve to live. She throws the lighter at the trail of gasoline. Woosh-Favoom! As Sofia looks happily around inside the little bake shop, the building explodes into flames.
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