Caray, Caray!

Leftovers: Cande is noticing that Mari seems to be coming to like El L. Mari says she can love only one man, and that’s JM. Cande says yeah, but he’s not available.

Fresh from the oven: Onelia calls Stef at the judge’s house and says Viviana wants Stef to come by tomorrow. Stef says sure, what’s up? Onelia says she thinks Viv wants to ask about JM’s history with Mari.

Mari is in her room holding up the tiny pants she’s sewn. She talks to her future baby, telling it that it will be somebody, not a nobody like her, and she’ll take good care of it because it’s all she has in this world. Mari dances around a little and tells the baby that she hopes it has a lot of JM, he’s so handsome. Then she wonders why she can’t get JM out of her mind and why she’s thinking about him all the time.

At castle San Roman, Viv is in a hallway talking to JM. She wonders why he’s leaving so early and he says he has some stuff to do, then he’s going to go by and see Rocio – they’re taking her bandages off today. Viv pretends not to know who Rocio is. JM asks if she wants to come along, but she says her nerves are too delicate still to see a sick person.

They start down the stairs and JM says the reason I asked is because you say I don’t take you out enough. Viv says think of something better than going to visit the sick. JM says he understands.

Balbina has let Stef in and she greets JM and Viv. Stef says she just came by to keep Viv company a bit. Viv says you’re Stef, right? Stef picks right up and says She’s getting so much better! JM says she’s not completely fixed, but with time! He leaves and the ladies (!) repair to the living room. Viv says I’ve been waiting for you, and Stef says what’s up?

Scene of the hacienda. Why do they keep their cows in the courtyard? No wonder there are always peons out there sweeping. El L. is petting his horse while Cosme attends to its hooves. El L. asks about Pirana, and Cosme says he’s run away, since he knows what El L. would do to him. El L. says it’s a good thing for the out-of-towner.

Cosme says it’s weird that nobody knows her name, and that Cande is careful not to say it in front of anyone. Cosme says you saved her from Pirana, right? Was she grateful? El L. says very. Cosme says excuse my mentioning it, but you’re kind of interested in her, huh?

Mari is sitting in the chicken coop (yuck) and is remembering what Cande said about her showing interest in El L. She picks up a few eggs and thinks to herself that a person could fall in love with El L., but her heart is taken. She thoughtbubbles about her wedding night kisses with JM. The theme song plays and she looks real pretty with the blurry sheep in the next pen as a backdrop.

Viv and Stef again. Viv says they have an enemy in common. She says Mari is the only one of them JM really loves. Viv wants to know about Mayita saying that Mari is coming back, bringing a baby with her. True? True, says Stef, Mari’s expecting JM’s baby. Viv is impactada.

Now the sheep seem to be in the with the horse in a grassy courtyard. Manly El L. is toting hay bales. He tells Cosme there will be no more women for him. Cosme says methinks the Leopard doth protest too much. He suggests a nice, pure love to perk El L. up.

El L. tells Cosme that Mari’s expecting, that she hid that like she hides her name. Her pregnancy is sacred, he would never put the moves on a madonna … er … expectant mother. He looks tortured, runs his hands through his hair and stares at the sheep.

Stef tells Viv that Mari is hiding out in a hacienda in the countryside, but don’t tell JM. Viv can’t get over that she’s pregnant. Stef says of course we have an (evil) plan

Mari, still in the coop, is chatting affectionately with a hen and her chicks. She goes to pet one and the hen pecks her. Ow! she says and El L., who was nearby, is immediately on alert. He comes in and tries to pick up a chick, and the hen pecks at him too, but finally he gets a chick and hands it to Mari, who gives it some lovin. She plays with the chicks and El L. actually laughs.

Stef tells Viv their plan would help her too. That baby is a threat to Viv’s marriage, so will she help? Viv warily asks how? Money, says Viv. My aunt and I don’t have any, and neither does Amador. (But Amador is a big-deal TV director!) Viv says money I’ve got. What’s in it for you? Stef says I want revenge – Mari cost me everything and I’ve been left in the street.

El L. and Mari are still laughing over then hen. Mari understands her, and El L. says you have the maternal instinct. Did you get it from your mother? Mari turns serious and says no, I didn’t even know her.

At the judge’s house, he is trying to persuade Ceci not to go, but she says the padre must have some news and Ceci wants to know how Mari is. The judge says you’ll probably get bad news that’ll make you cry. Ceci wants to know if Mari is thinking of them. She wants her to know that she loves her and that she repents that when was there they treated her horribly, not to mention that she had abandoned Mari when she was a baby.

The judge hopes she gets good news from the padre. Martirio, who has been preparing tea and listening, smiles a fake-empathy smile as Ceci leaves.

Mari and El L. are leaving the coop and she explains that Cande is not her real mother, but that she got to know her when she was already grown up. She tells him that she was brought up in an orphanage but that she’s not a real orphan. Her mother gave her up, but her parents are alive.

Stef is at the end of telling Viv her recent story – that she is not the real lost child of the Velardes and that she can stay in the house just until Mari reappears. She doesn’t know what will become of her when that happens. Viv wants to know about her and JM, but Stef says ask JM. Viv says I did and he wouldn’t answer. Stef says he will if you press him. Are you going to donate to our plan?

Count on me, says Viv. Stef says poor Marichuy! She’s not even going to have the opportunity to know her child because we’re going to disappear her.

Mari tells El L. that supposedly her mother gave her up because she was sick and thought she was going to die, but Mari thinks she just didn’t love her. El L. says doesn’t the padre know who her parents are and Mari says yes, but I didn’t want to know. Where were they when I needed them? Now they don’t owe me anything, not a smile, not even love. It was painful and it’s made it so I don’t believe in anyone.

El L. says life has been hard for you. Mari says that’s why I’m going to give my child so much love and warmth. El L. says maybe you could use their help when the baby comes. Mari says I’ll take care of everything. Funny, huh? My mother abandoned me and it taught me how to be a mother.

Ceci has arrived at the church and is grilling the padre. He says Mari is doing great. She wants to know if Mari asked after her. The padre says he told her how Ceci is suffering but Mari still didn’t want to have anything to do with them. Ceci anguishes.

In the hacienda kitchen, Mari thinks of El L. and what Cande said about her liking him.

In the paddock, El L. thinks of Mari and what Cosme said about a good love. The horse thinks about grass. El L. smiles to himself.

Viv is asking Stef why Mari left JM the morning after their wedding, and why she isn’t using the baby to get him back. Stef says it was something in their past. Viv says JM won’t tell her and now Stef won’t either. Stef says well, JM…

He walks in and says so it’s you telling her all these stories! What are you saying about me? Stef thinks fast and then says Viv was asking me why Mari left you. She has the right to know. Come on, tell Viv what happened in the past between you and Mari.

Poor Mari is out on the lawn, scrubbing clothes on a washboard. Poor clothes that are going to wear out in no time. She is remembering a man telling her to think it over and to save her love if she can. I don’t know whose voice that was - the padre’s?

El L. walks up and says he was looking for her. He hands her some red tiger lilies and looks a bit awkward.

Stef says to JM aren’t you going to tell her? JM says do me the favor of shutting up. Stef fakes being kind and says please, she’s your wife. I can tell her unimportant things, but the important things – you have to tell her. Con permiso. (Stef really played her hand well!)

Viv says well? Why did you abandon her? What happened between you? What? WHAT? JM just looks at her.

Now we’re at Nelson and Elsa’s. He’s holding up a copy of his poetry book, My Naked Soul. He’s pretty pleased. Elsa says don’t you want to know where the money to publish it came from? Nelson says naw, you know I’m not into money stuff. Elsa says my mama gave it to me. Nelson says great. Elsa says that’s not important to you? Nelson says they have so much, it’s great that they are willing to share.

Elsa says we don’t live in this dream world that you’ve got going in your mind. Try to support yourself, make an effort to get what you want. Nelson says here’s this poetry book! Elsa is exasperated. Nelson says you wanted it published. Elsa says well I guess you’re happy. Yes, says Nelson, who starts reading aloud from it while Elsa shakes her head.

The padre and Ceci covering the same ground. She wants to know if there’s some way she can get closer to Mari and he says not right now, she’s too wounded by her past. But he tells her to give it time, and with her prayers and her love, God will help out. Give it a couple of months.

El L. says he found the lilies down by the river in a steep area. Mari says isn’t it dangerous to go there? He says a little. She says you went there just to get them for me? He says yes.

JM tells Viv it was something way in the past and besides Mari has disappeared from his life. Viv says I want to know when you’re going to be my full-service husband. JM says not until you’re cured. I want to try hypnosis. I want to know what happened in all that time you are missing. Viv says that’s in the past too. JM says I need to know.

Viv says I don’t need to remember. I love Mayita as my own daughter and you as my own husband. Everything can be like before. She goes to kiss him, but Nanny Blanca walks in just then. Viv goes ballistic and screams why do you always interrupt? What do you want? Blanca looks cowed and JM stares at Viv.

Elsa says to Nelson don’t you realize you’re destroying me too? He says don’t reproach me, don’t criticize me. Elsa says maybe I’m not cut out to be the wife of a poet. Nelson says you’re disappointed in me, aren’t you? Elsa says I don’t want to be disappointed – help me to love you like I did before.

Nelson says nothing is permanent, everything changes like the clouds do. Even love. He walks out and Elsa looks sad.

Mari says don’t go taking risks to get flowers again. El L. says do you like them and she says a lot, they’re beautiful. El L. says the most beautiful creation in the world is the human being. He touches her chin and says you for example, you’re lovely. She looks doubtful and he looks shy.

Blanca says Mayita wanted to show you a picture she drew. She really wants to see you. Viv asks impatiently where Mayita is and Blanca says in the garden. Viv says I’ll go see her, but don’t take advantage while I’m gone. She leaves.

Blanca apologizes to JM and he says no need, and that she actually saved him from a difficult situation. Viv is getting unbearable, and he feels he should apologize to Blanca. Blanca says no need – sometimes when a person is upset, it’s best to talk to someone who understands. JM says you understand me? Blanca says I just know sometimes how that feels.

JM’s psych-guy antennae shoot up. You have problems? he asks. Blanca says I’ll tell you one day when you’re not all stressed. I just have some things within me that I don’t understand. JM says best to get some help. Blanca says your help! JM says what’s the problem, your shyness? Blanca says that’s part of it, but there’s other things.

Wow, El L. is waxing poetic! He tells Mari that there is a light in her eyes, her skin, her breath. Mari looks doubtful. El L. says I don’t even know your name. Lala (that would be Cande) calls you my daughter, Micaela calls you Chamaca. Since you’ve been here I’ve never heard your name. What is it? Mari looks around nervously.

JM says he will help and Blanca says in the meantime, you can think of me as your confidant – I’ll help in any way I can. JM looks puzzled.

Mari fudges and says her name is the same as the flowers. El L. is thrilled that he picked just the right ones, lirios. He says that makes them mean all the more to him. He grasps the stems, but also her hand holding the stems. He realizes his mistake and steps back.

Weeping: Ceci tells the judge no dice with Mari. He says how can that damned girl make you suffer so much? He hugs her.

More weeping: Elsa is sitting alone in their apartment, sorrowful. A popsicle appears in front of her face, with Nelson attached to it. He says forgive me what needs forgiving. That thing about love dying, that was just a saying. I don’t think our love will die. Elsa sadly says I’m leaving you.

Dr Handsome shows up to take off Rocio’s bandages. JM walks in. (That’s a lot of male pulchritude to cram into one lens - I’m going blind here.) The doctor is charming and gallantly flirty. Time to take the bandages off! Rocio is excited.

Viv is lying on the bed with her head in Onelia’s lap. Onelia fiddles with Viv’s hair and asks why she wanted to see Stef so bad and Viv says to ask about JM. Onelia says why do you think she’d know more than I would? Viv says actually you’re wrong. Onelia says really? Viv tells her that Mari is going to have JM’s child.

The bandages are being unrolled. (I’m channeling a certain old Twilight Zone episode - anybody remember it?) The doctor studies Rocio’s face, which we can’t see. She says why are you looking at me like that? She reaches up to her face, but the doctor says don’t touch! Rocio says why won’t you let me see? Give me a mirror! JM is smiling. The doctor says first we have to clean you up a little.

General meeting of Baddies, Inc. Stef and Isa are listening while Amador tells them he’s found just the person to spy on Mari, a nobody from the area. He tells about going to the hacienda, how Cande gave him hell and how El L. threw him out, but he’s going back. He’s sure Mari didn’t know he was there.

Mari is in her room putting her flowers in a vase and Cande is really enjoying the story of where they came from. She dances Mari around. Mari says don’t read too much into it, I think he was just sorry to be so cranky with me before and he’s trying to make it up to me. Cande says yeah, right. Mari says there’s nobody for me but JM, father of my child.

Cut to JM in Rocio’s room. The doctor is satisfied and Rocio gets her mirror. We see her and there are just very faint scars on her cheeks. She’s thrilled and says she’s like she was before. JM congratulates the doctor. Rocio grasps his hands and thanks him he says you’re welcome, muñequita. Rocio admires herself some more. Amazingly, her hair is shiny and clean.

Elsa tells Nelson that he’s not interested in their marriage, or even their love. What am I doing married to you? He says listen… She says Don’t touch me! Leave me alone! I don’t want to listen, I don’t want to even see you! It’s all over between us. She runs out.

JM is coming down the stairs of at castle San Roman. Viv confronts him about why he’s going out alone at night, can she come? He says she’d get bored. She probes some more and he says he’s going to a bar to unwind. She says hmmm.

Balbina comes down the stairs saying something is wrong with Blanca. She knocked at her room and nobody answered. Viv says go on in, she’s an employee. JM runs up to see. Viv rolls her eyes and follows.

Mari is in the hacienda living room sewing. El L. says I thought you’d gone to bed. She says she ate too much and needs to digest a bit. He tells her she should say “tu” to him, he’s not that old. She says but you’re the lord of the manor here, though you look young. She says she wants to tell him something.

JM is knocking at Blanca’s door. We see inside, and she’s not there. But they are outside the door and can’t see in like we did, and Balbina says maybe she’s dead! Viv says don’t be so dramatic, she’s not there. JM says go get the duplicate key.

Mari is all excited and stumbles over her words, but she finally spits out that she wants El L. to deliver her baby. He turns serious and so does the music. Forget it! he says. Get another doctor.

JM and the others go in Blanca’s room. She’s not there. Balbina says she’s searched the house. Viv says she’s probably out walking the streets – some woman you’ve brought into our house, JM!

Mari says I thought we were friends and you get all cranky with me again. Too bad, says El L. Mari says who could I get? Who could I trust more than you? You know what? A while ago Micaela told me you are a doctor and you could deliver the baby and I was scared – my hair practically stood on end. And now you’re scaring me again. El L. says you should be scared.

Mari says you’re not fierce. You can be sweet, tender. Don’t be a jerk.

Balbina says I think it’s very odd that Blanca would leave without telling me. Viv says maybe she went for some romantic encounter, though it’s hard to imagine that pathetic little thing having a romance.

Balbina says I’ll go tell Mayita that Blanca can’t come, and she leaves. JM says to Viv why don’t you go to Mayita? Viv says so you can leave? JM says it’s shameful that Mayita called for her nanny, not for her mama. Viv says is it my fault Mayita doesn’t love me, and that you don’t either? (Hint: yes.)

Mari says look, I want to put my life in your hands. El L. says don’t do it. Mari says and even more, the life of my child. El L. says don’t do that either. I’ll find you a good doctor who will guarantee that you both will be safe. Mari says but they say you’re a very good doctor. El L. says I can’t practice – I’ve forbidden myself. Mari says tell me why. He says I can’t tell you or anybody else.

Viv says to JM I don’t know why you brought me back into you life if you don’t love me - you’ve probably never loved me. JM gets snotty and says don’t throw a scene. Viv calls him cold, a man of ice. She asks if he was like that with Mari. JM says good night and leaves. She runs after him.

El L. says something I didn’t get, then says he can’t harm others, nor himself. Mari wants to know if that has to do with the two dead innocents. He says he quit medicine two years and fled back here and became an uncivilized man. Never will the life of others depend on these hands, he snarls. Closeup of his hands. This is a doctor who takes the “do no harm” thing very seriously.

Viv is lying on her bed and says to herself I never thought my own husband wouldn’t want to be with me. And it bugs me he’s so worried about the nanny. She sits up: could there be something between JM and the nanny? She’s so mousy… but there’s something mysterious happening with her. She must be hiding something, and I’m going to find out what it is.

El L. is alone in his room thinking to himself that he can’t help Mari, she’s pulling at his heart, that’s why. Too bad JM San Ramon took up psychiatry – he’d be the perfect doctor for her. (Wouldn’t an ob-gyn be a better choice?) Yes! I’ll go into the city and see him.

Avances: JM meets dolled-up Blanca in the bar. Stef and Viv shake on a pact. Looks like Amador is coming to the hacienda again or maybe that was the old shot. Mari says something to El L. that I didn’t understand.

Labels: Cuidado

I apologize ahead of time for this recap, I think maybe the scenes aren’t in order, but I believe Tio Elf glamoured me right in the beginning. (I learned from HBO’s TrueBlood that Vampires can look you in the eye and glamour you, which means you will let them suck your blood, take your money & forget what happened). I think maybe Elves can do the same, cause all I really remember with great detail is that Tio Elf outfit.

We review Juan’s conversation with his Elf like uncle. Seriously WTF is up with that heavily embroidered? Well either he has a gig as Santa’s helper or it is vacation time at Keebler. Anyway Tio Elf tells Juan, that Ber was no killer. He says Gabi was lying and after all who profited by the death of the Reyes parents? Jeez not us the viewing audience. Ahhhh Ricardo Uribe.

Next we see spurs on the hardwood, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Juan knocks Ric down, draws back his fist..Ric pulls out a pistol with a very long barrel, ah compensate much? Anyway he shoots the gun, he blows Juan’s head off. As if!!!! That would have been so great, Pablito would have been set for life. He is the only one who knows how to make the 7,000 calorie Sofie Pan. Soon like any good dealer he would have had fat patrons Jonesing for carbs & fat. The kid would have had it made.
However, Ricardo only shot the rafter. Loser. So Juan threatens him some more. Says he doesn’t believe Ricardo was the owner of the hacienda, no papers. So on so forth… Ricardo says Ber was happy to take the money in exchange for the land.

As Juan leaves Raquel enters, tells Ricardo that all hell will break loose. I guess having the crap smacked outta of her for thirty or forty years has not dimmed Raquel’s desire to get the last word in…just once.
Ricardo threatens Raquel a bit more.

Sofie is all Scarlett rebuilding Tara, she is going to put in a pump to bring the river water up to the fields of non-growing a freeking thing. She tells Fer that he must work or go to jail. He gets handed a giant scythe thing that he promptly puts up against a tree as he watches the rest of the common folk labor. Fer jumps up just in time to avoid having his life end due to the falling scythe. The ghost or angel or figment of Fer sexually frustrated brain, Ros swoops down to tell him that he is a murderer and he will pay. Fer is sweating big time. No puede ser, X fifty. Dude is having a seriously bad day.

Juan rides up and tries to talk to snotty Sofie who is in her wicked Lil House, leather coat outfit. She is now officially a businesswoman. He tells her that Ricardo Uribe says he paid Ber the bucks for the land.
Sofie just dismisses Juan cause she is Woman & she had a really cool leather coat and equally cool leather hat.

Root is lying on her bed, in one of Sofies ninas, white shirts, it must belong to one of the kids cause it sure doesn’t fit Root, she is wearing lowrider jeans with leather chaps and leather gloves. I guess she doesn’t want to leave finger prints as she strokes herself. Mostly she thinks how much she hates Sofie. I think a lot about how much I hate Sofie, but I am much more versatile than Root, I can hate Sofie, while I am vertical and fully dressed.

Gabi is standing in her room looking in a wardrobe, Sofie comes in and she slams the wardrobe door really quick. Maybe that is where she keeps her blow up doll, Reggie, he is so buff and loves her so much and never, evah talks back.

Sofie comes in and says Ricardo Uribe says he paid Ber for the land. Gabi says yes indeed this is the truth. Sofie is left to lick her lips and wander off with her pink eyes. Gabi drags out a picture and starts in thinking how Sofie must suffer, cry and suffer. As if? Where the hell has Gabi been thru this crapfest? Sofie has done nothing but suffer and whine. Anyway, Sofie must do this cause Ber was not her father, Ber was not her father (we get the lovely echo)
--Cut to break—

Okay We get the taunting…yadda yadda yadda, finally Gabi spits out…
Another was your father…Another
I guess Gabi didn’t know Another’s last name. It was just Otra.
---Yeah big dramatic moment there…like we really thought it would be revealed---

Okay Tio Elf comes by to see, Gabi.
Once she realizes he doesn’t have that weeks shipment of Club Crackers, she tells him to get out. He is all shades of Elfen pissed, there goes any chance bitch had for the pot of gold. He tells Gabi she is a liar, his brother JJRobles never loved her, didn’t even like her and thought she was a tranny. JJRobles was true to his wife and Ber never killed the couple, cause Ber too thought Gabi was a tranny and was too busy nailing Eva and scopeing out young babes to ever get jealous over Gabi. With that in your face, Tio Elf whirls on his little magic heels, (elfin curled toed boots with cowboy heels) and sets off for his Santa’s helper stint in Puebla’s ToysRUs. Gabi gets no respect.

Gramps & Santa are up in his room, gluing faces of dead folks in a scapbook & trying to do their best Sherlock Holmes to solves the many murders of Mexidoom. Gabi comes in and like a thirteen year old with a playboy, the book is slammed shut. Gabi acts like she doesn’t care, but of course she does. Instead she tells Santa to stay away from Fer. Now that is so sad when you are like sixty and you have to tell your future eighty year old stepmom to keep her paws off your forty year old husband.

Now for some comic relief, Quitana picks up one of the towngossip sisters for a ride in Quitana’s motorcycle taxi. This leads to hijinks as they arrive at the church and the lady’s hair is all messed up and she accuses Quitana of trying to kill her. Oh the hilarity.

Sofie wanders in to visit her three kids, who are basically locked up in that small room with the three rent a nuns & Eva. Sofie comes in to greet them like any good plantation owning female would as the children bond to their Mammies. Sofie dumps more gloom and doom on Eva who is such a willing scrapegoat. I would totally love to have an Eva.

Meanwhile Root decides to hate Sofie even more and goes into Sofie’s room to dig up anything that could screw Sofie over. I think this is a lame ass idea as we know Princess would have nothing bad or evil in her room. Root finds the Evil Snake belt.

Root takes it to Pa Snake. This is my belt he exclaims what was Sofie doing with it in her room? Hmmmm
He comes up with the idea of kicking the crap outta Raquel to find the answer.
Meanwhile Raquel while still wearing her Judy Garland glasses is talking to Gabi, Gabi has had enough Drama for one day and orders Raquel to take off the glasses, Raquel has the black eye. Ewwwww Gabi gets the story that Ricardo smacked her and guess what it isn’t the first time.

Root runs into to Ma and Gabi, Root says that Pa is pissed deluxe over the belt being stolen.
Gabi gets all huffy and says she will take care of it.

Raquel confronts sticky finger Fer over the belt. She says he swiped it while he was boinking her and now Ricardo was going to kill both of them. Jeez Fer is all sweaty and nasty and his day just keeps getting worse and worse.

Fer wanders into Gabi’s bedroom which I guess is his too. He calls out her name a couple of times, she is not there. Then he remembers that Root hates Sofie and Root is staying in his room.

Fer is now in his room, searching through the drawers. Root comes in she starts questioning Fer about taking a shower. I really don’t recall what was said, but he is shirtless and looks pretty good, after all he is glistening with the sweat of having the crap scared out of him by the ghost of Ros and doing labor with an extremely toxic hangover. For awhile it looks like Root and Fer are gonna play hide the salami, but Fer’s very, very bad day continues and yet another woman leaves him high and dry.

Meanwhile the three hornster females that live with Don Clemente are talking about hookin up with the Reyes boys. JuliAnna finds Sofie and tries to talk to her about Juan. Of course Sofie is all, oh he is free so don’t talk to me about it. JuliAnna keeps trying to talk to Sofie, Sofie continues with her holier than thou, act until JuliAnna finally faints. Yeah nice to know you just made a dying person spend twenty minutes of their remaining life trying to talk to you, while you refused. Yeah Sofie real nice, I guess it is fair to say Sofie didn’t know JuliAnna was dying, of course it is also fair to say JuliAnna didn’t know Sofie was such a Douche.

Next scene Sofie is doing her best concerned good person look to Don Clemente. He tells her JuliAnna is very ill. Gee, if Sofie would have known that she was probably would have trimmed five minutes off the torture time. Doc Worthless comes down to say JuliAnna is not long for this world and she wants to see Juan.
Juan is baking when Sofie comes into the kitchen, of course he lights up, thinking she has come to see him. She only relays the message that JuliAnna has one foot in the grave and the other is slipping.

Juan goes to see JuliAnna and she asks him if she is sick? Is this not just the worst story line? Jeez is she gonna be surprised when she dies, I hope she hasn’t made any long term plans. Juan skirts the issue and tries to put her in a better mood. She says she would like a Seranata, which I guess means she wants the boys to come over and sing. Although if Franco is not available perhaps Ava Maria at her funeral would suffice.

Gabi enters the Cabana & tells Ricardo that Ber had a snake belt. No way, mine was unique. Gabi laughs it off. They speak of the RoblesReyes murder and that makes Gabi think of other festive times past. Gabi goes on a snake hunt and next thing you know, she and Ric are bumping buckles and it is only a matter of moments before the snake is freed from his cage.

Okay I remember nothing about what is coming up…
I think a lot of this is out of order, but damn nothing ever happens, it is the same over and over and over…except that whole elf thing which really threw me. I must comment again, that was the most bizarre twinkle toed costume I have seen in a long while.

Labels: Fuego

Hmmm...I've started this recap three times. The first two times disappeared. Is the universe trying to tell me something? Okay, let's get right down to it. One. More. Time.

First the obligatory rehash: Patricio, while saying he's married, nevertheless is willing to give his "name" to Beto if DNA tests show he's actually his son. And when he meets Beto, he lights up like a Christmas tree. Clearly here's a man who wants to have a family of his own and hopes to do a better job than his alcoholic dad. A more likable side of Patricio...at last. And Candi is giving macho lessons to her uncle (why didn't he ask a guy for Pete's sake?) and says "Cuidadito con ese dedito" (Careful with that little finger) Tio Meño has a habit of sticking it out ever so delicately and stroking his eyebrow. Won't do....won't do at all. And finally, my favorite scene, Santiago snuggled up in bed (be still my heart) remembering tender times with Candi, especially those kisses,and thinking that he might be falling in love. Absolutely!


All right....now onto the new stuff, which unfortunately is a lot like the old stuff, minus the sweet kisses. Santiago has made an early morning visit to Candi's place and waylaid Chava outside the house. He's delighted to see him practicing soccer. Atta boy. Gotta train day and night to get good. Sacrifice. Sacrifice. (My cat is now walking around the keyboard. It will be a miracle if this thing gets written and posted.) Santiago explains that he needed to go to the office but stopped by to see Chava first. Yes, Chava. Candi is hiding nearby trying to listen as big guy and little guy talk. Chava's okay about them being potential novios because he'd like a papa like Santiago. He listens to the doc's heart again, and yep, our Santi proves to be a good person. And hey, Santi would like to have a son like Chava. Sure he has two lovely daughters, but a guy needs someone to play soccer with. And who wants to worry about makeup and stuff like that? But this is our little secret. Don't tell mom, don't tell anybody. Chava promises. And Santiago leaves looking very satisfied and whoops....gets doused by some mysterious fountains that suddenly spring up. This is telenovela foreshadowing. Just when our galan thinks he's got it made, something happens to douse his dreams. Yeah, you know where this is going don't you?...down the tubes.

And another romance going down the tubes? Well , yes......Patricio and Alicia. He's asking her if she wants to have children...'cause he'd like a whole bunch. She hedges until he leaves and then mutters Children! What a horror!

Brief scenes of our respective households dealing with adolescents. Charley is plugged into his headphones, singing along so loudly that Candi is having trouble grilling Chava about his conversation with Santiago. She learns nothing. Little guy knows how to keep a secret. The mirror scene is at Santiago's mansion where the niece is trying to talk Granny and Uncle into a big monetary present for her 15th birthday to pay for those breast enhancements. (I'm sure there's some PSA associated with this storyline but it makes me totally queasy). Uncle's thinking cake and party and princess dress; niece is thinking money for silicone. She disguises it as a request for money to travel to Europe. Also quashed. Granny and Uncle decide to open an account and add to it very slowly so in a few years, when she's OLDER and more MATURE, she can go to Europe. Curses, foiled again!

And one more mirror scene, an older uncle, Tio Meño,is trying to talk some sense into his foolish niece as well. Candi is fretting about yesterday's kisses and whether or not it was wrong. And how many kisses have you had in the last seven years? asks Tio. Wouldn't you like to have a boyfriend who likes you, who loves you? Candi chews her lip, a typical gesture when she's thinking.

The monetary negotiations at Santiago's are interrupted by the majordomo telling him Marissa has called and wants him to come over for a surprise. Santiago pleads work but Mom steps in and says After what happened the other night, the least you could do is go! Doc checks in with secretary Hortensia, learns there's only one patient waiting, tells her to delay and he'll get there later.

Another queasy making scene. Eduardo and his devoted wife Chayo who wants to know what's up with the pink cigarette lighter she found in his pocket. Is he cheating on her? Eduardo panics, stammers, makes up wild stories about it being Rosita's, no, Santiago's, no, don't say anything, he's a secret smoker, doesn't want anyone to know, but how could you suspect me!!!??? aren't you sorry you doubted me!!!?? no good-bye kiss for you! and off he runs, leaving his poor bewildered wife feeling guilty and sad. As Ferro would say, what a tool!!!!

Marissa meanwhile is seducing Santiago. Never mind that he just decided he's in love with Candi. "La carne es debil" (the flesh is weak) especially when sexy black underwear is being tossed around.

I guess the writers love irony because the very next scene is a beautiful church with bells pealing melodiously and Patricio coming to talk to his old friend the priest (and yikes! it's Omar, the unfaithful husband from both Querida Enemiga and Guapos. He looks quite distinguished as a priest, I must say.) Patricio is clearly troubled and in a bad place but gets a talking to about moving on from the past and Candi. However, the priest adds that Love doesn't die. Only bodies. And yet, Patricio can't explain it...but he feels that somehow Candi is nearby. He can "feel" her. (If he only knew! And from the previews, it seems he's about to.)

Meanwhile, back at the office, Alicia is sucking up to her in-laws. She has invited them without Patricio's knowledge (which infuriates papa) and the mood darkens as dad, an "alcoholico regenerado" (recovered alcoholic) says he can now drink moderately with no problem (that ain't what the 12-step programs say, good buddy.)

We jump now to the offices that Candi and her uncle are painting and discussions over whether or not she'll start an "institute for the soul". Women's souls, of course. Not sure if Candi would even admit men have them! The phone rings and it's Raul, wanting to know when in the H...he's going to meet Meño niece, as promised. "Se me fue el avion" (I forgot) apologizes Tio and passes Candi the phone. Raul is being very peremptory and directive, telling her she HAS to come in tomorrow and meet him. After she hangs up, she mutters that he doesn't know who he's dealing with.

I'm going to compress some scenes now. Drives me crazy sometimes the way these episodes jump around. So first, the Candi/Santiago meeting. They run into each other in the office building, he offers "to take her to Paradise" but it just turns out to be his office. Then he tells her he's done nothing but think of her all day but whoops....there's that big hickey on his neck. He dismisses it as a "moretón (bruise) caused by tsi-tsi flies no less. There's the usual back and forth, he protests he never meant to hurt her, he would never "delatar" (betray) her but of course that hickey keeps telling a different story. She wants him to stay away from her, from her son and assures him that the Candi who'd believe men and fall in love died 7 years ago. He reminds her that her heart is still alive, but she isn't listening. Santiago's mom walks in at this point, wonders what Candi's doing there if she isn't a patient or a friend (Candi denies both those titles) and the scene ends. (Some of the editing in this baby seems a little choppy, don't you think?)

The family scene at Patricio's office is going from bad to worse. Patricio arrives all huffy, protesting that he's very busy. Too busy to give your father a hug??!!yells Dad. You never had time for me, retorts Patricio. A major paternal tantrum ensues with Dad sweeping everything off the desk, claiming everything is his, Patricio's "success" would never have come about without his financial backing (probably true, come to think of it) but then pow! he drops to the floor with a heart attack.

We have a complete 180. Patricio is desperate, yells at Alicia to call an ambulance, follows dad on stretcher pleading with him to be strong. Don't die on me Dad. I NEED you!

Meanwhile, Beto's mom is explaining to him that he needs to go to a lab tomorrow and have a blood test. Does it hurt? Only a little. Why do I have to have it? Because I say so. Tickle tickle tickle, end of discussion.

More brief interspersed scenes. Marissa's explaining to Santiago's mom how important he is to her. Chava's explaining to his mom about coming to school the next day for games and such. Rocio's crying to her granny because HER mom can't come to school. She's the only one without a mom, and Granny is no substitute for this one. Painful looks all around. I suppose the sexy but loathsome Marissa will try to insert herself into this scenario. Yuck.

We break for an ad and when we come back, lo and behold! it's Sven and Ole (thanks Paula, now I will NEVER get their real names straight) sitting at the restaurant table like they're clients instead of paid (off-key) Mariachi singers cum waiters. Tio Meño pops his cork and yells at them big-time. Also tells Charley brusquely to start working. (Is this part of Tio's macho pose?). Charley notes to Sven and Ole that Dad seems rather strange. They roll their eyes at each other and say nothing.

Santiago is gamely trying to console Rocio for her lack of a mother. He pulls out the letter he wrote and says it's from mom....and here's how it goes. I know I haven't called but that's because I'm so busy with work. But I love you very much. Mom. Nice dad/daughter hug.

More family matters back at the restaurant kitchen. Candi is counseling Tio to be honest with Charley about his gayness. Tio can't face it. After the tragic rejection when he told his wife, his family!! No, he just can't do it. Your son needs to know that you love him, insists Candi, but also that you're "different". No no, protests Meño, it's crazy!

More father/son troubles. Patricio's mom coldly tells him that things went downhill after he married Candi. All right but now I'm married to Alicia. Just as bad. The medical news is good however. Papa had a stent inserted and will recover. Patricio is clearly moved...and relieved that his father is going to live.

Santiago shows up at the restaurant, undeterred by the brushoff at his office and sits down at a table, requesting a song from Candi, rather than the badly off-key waiters. Nope. She only sings in the shower. Great! Let's head for the bathroom. She tips a floral vase of water over his head...There's your shower! And we have another ad. Oh, these crazy kids.

Santiago's protesting the inflexibility of the school, insisting that only moms can show up for the fun and games day. Rocio's closed up in her room crying and Granny's meditating on how she'd like to kill Paulina for letting Rocio down like that. (I must say, I'd feel exactly the same way if my daughter-in-law had abandoned my son and granddaughter. Grrrrr!) Later, Santiago comforts Rocio again, saying how helpless he feels when she cries for her mother. I want her here with me, weeps Rocio. Yes, but she's working, explains Santi, adding that he has a couple of quick surgeries to do (don't think I'd want to be his patient today) but then he'll meet her at school.

Another scene with Meño and Charley is thrown in here. Evidently it hasn't taken long for adolescent behavior to get on dad's nerves. Meño protests the ear-splitting volume of the rock music Charley's playing. But I thought you liked music! They disagree on whether "el rock" is music and Meño gives serious thought to getting ear plugs. (For several years we had two adult children living at home and it was like a dorm. Music playing, lights on and toilets flushing 24 hours a day. I feel for poor Meño.)

Beto's at the clinic, waiting for his blood test and sees Patricio come out. Patricio assures him it doesn't hurt, but Beto's suspicious about why Mom's "friend" is showing up in his life again. And in another part of the city, Candi is getting ready for her appointment with Raul. Don't forget your column, cautions Tio. What's it about? Extremists. Politics, you?! No, no, it's about women who are extremists about falling in love...who reject the idea....and end up alone and very sad. So are you falling in love, asks Meño hopefully. "Dios me libre!" (God forbid!)

And that's where this episode ends, but there are some interesting previews. One has Santi showing up at Mom's Day at school. Candi calls Rocio a princess. Well, that makes me a king then, smirks our doc.

And Patricio comes home late, explaining to the ever suspicious Alicia that he had to get a DNA study done. And what would you say if I told you I had a son? Impactado look from Alicia.

And lastly, Patricio shows up at the soccer game and ohmigosh...does he see Candi? Tune in tomorrow to find out if our gal's past is about to catch up with her.

Vocabulary, such as it is, is embedded.

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Our recapper wrote: Pardon me folks but I fell ill yesterday afternoon and I'm leaving on a trip today and it was all I could do to finish up at work and go home and pack. I thought I'd watch thsi am but that didn't work out so I'll probably have to post gradually as time permits today from Youtube. I wanted to give you a place to comment, and anyone can feel free to post details as they wish. Thanks for your patience as always!!!

Then Paula sent us this, thanks Paula!

"The Wind Blows Them Off; The Wind Blows Them Away."

At Meño’s house, Candy admits that she feels very alone.

Pat arrives home late. Alicia implies that he’s cheating on her. He blows her off and goes to his room to be alone, like always. He can’t stop thinking about Candy.

Santiago tells Donato not to worry; he won’t get fired. But one question. (Puts the squeeze on him.) “When MY GIRLFRIEND undressed, did you look at her?” Donato asks, “Do you want me to lie?”

Santiago find’s Marissa’s note on his mirror, “Why are you with me?” That’s exactly what he’s wondering, himself.

In Santiago’s office, Ed repeats Marissa’s question while he plays with the pink lighter last night’s hottie gave him. Santi’s trying to decide whether to stay with Mar. She was fine until Candy came into my life. Marissa’s pretty, she’s good in bed, and I like watching movies with her. She’s part-owner of my business, she‘s his good friend‘s sister, and Rocío likes her. Ed asks how Santi can turn his back on all that. Because his heart is complaining.

And why, Santi asks, does Ed stay with Chayo? Because he loves her, he loves everything about her. He cheats on her because it‘s exciting and he’s weak. Pobrecito! Santi remembers when his life was happy, with Paulina. She was perfect, our marriage was happy, my life was happy, and now I’m abandoned.

Isabela charges in and chews out Santiago for putting his girlfriend into the butler’s bed - Pervert! Santiago tries to look contrite instead of laughing. Meanwhile Marissa is telling her brother how angry she is about Donato in Santiago’s bed.

In his office, Pat admits to his buddy that he never loved Alicia. Candy is the only one he ever loved, so he married a substitute.

Sven and Ole beg Candy to forgive them for making her undress. Remember, that was what revealed to Santiago that she was the bride who died. A food fight ensues.

Marissa comes home and finds Santiago’s note on her mirror. “I’m with you because ‘me hace bien’.” Does that mean, “it makes me good”?

Santiago goes to Candy’s house, ready to collect his blackmail. She tells him he can shove his picture, and she’s not going to bed with him. He laughs at her because she’s the one with the dirty mind, interpreting every word as sexual. All he wanted for blackmail was a chance to spend a special day with her, to go someplace and forget all their friction, and get to know each other without all the fighting. To give their interaction - knowing each other - a fresh start.

Sven is trying to pick up a waitress, so she bites him. (I guess Candy isn’t the only abusive woman in this show.) Charlie comes in looking for his dad. Meño is stunned and drops a pan of spaghetti on his jacket (who would put a pan of spaghetti on a high shelf in the dining room?). Yo soy tu padre.

Santiago’s car breaks down. Candy accuses him again of trying to take advantage of her. He accuses her again of having a sick mind.

Pat goes back to talk to Soledad. He has decided to order a paternity test. Beto joins them, and Patricio is touched, seeing him. You can see Pat’s change in attitude about Soledad’s claim.

Charly and Meño talk. Papa is moved to actually be talking to his son, but their conversation is bumpy. Charly’s first question: “Why did you abandon me? Did you want to erase me from your life?” Meño insists Charly is important to him, but he dodges Charly’s questions.

Soledad found the pink lighter in Ed’s pocket, and she has her suspicions. She tries to ask him about his salary, but he only listens to the soccer game.

THEME: Nobody loves anybody! Santiago stays with Mar because she’s convenient but he doesn‘t love her; Ed says he loves Chayo but he won’t give up his hotties, Patricio married Alicia but never loved her. Wait a minute! More specifically, the MEN don’t love their women, because all men are pigs and all women love sincerely, so they suffer because of the pig-men. Isn’t that the man-haters’ creed?

At Chapala, a lake outside Guadalajara, Santiago tells Candy to close her eyes and listen to what the wind says. “Santiago likes you a lot.” Santiago confirms - that wind is very wise. He’s quite pleased with himself, and for once Candy is charmed. So charmed that she’s asking for more. As Santiago teaches Candy about the sunset, she asks what the sun says.

Never one to disappoint a woman asking for more, Santiago says that when the sun speaks, we have to obey or it will stop moving and be the end of all mankind. With a responsibility like that on her shoulders, Candy agrees to cooperate. The wind says “beso.” She gives him a peck. He says, you call that a kiss?! Then he shows her what a kiss is supposed to be like, and don’t we all agree? As Judy described it, “he lays some world-class as only Jaime Camil can do it kisses on her, ending with the classic hands tenderly wrapped around her face. His hands are awesome...and he uses them well.”

He asks, “Did you like the kiss,” but she changes the subject. He says he’s not leaving until she answers, so she says, “El que calla otorga” - silence indicates consent. Don’t you just love the full-body smile? She admits that it has been a very special day, and he reminds her that she is addressing him as “tu” (tutear). He thanks her for enabling the sun to set and night to return, because every night he thinks about her.

Beto is angry at Soledad for having a male friend. Women can only have amigas.

Pat is angry at Ali because he found her birth control pills. They had agreed to try to have children as God sends them. She claims the doctor prescribed them because she has “female problems,” but he says she’s lying.

Meño asks Chava his opinion of Charly. Chava listens to Charly’s heart and proclaims him good, because Chava can tell who is good and bad from listening to their heartbeat. Santiago brings Candy home, and Chava listens to his heart too. Chava proclaims, “Tu novio tambien es bueno.” Candy doesn’t know what to say, and Santi wants to slip the kid a fiver.

In contrast, at Santiago’s house, Marissa is manipulating Rocío to be in favor of papa marrying her. Santiago hears it and pulls Roc out of her clutches. He and Marissa exchange discreet insults, and Mar suggests he put Rocío to bed so they can go out and have fun. Santi would rather spend the time with Roc, but if Marissa wants to wait until later.. Mar bluffs - if you’re not eager to be with me, I’ll just leave now. Santiago is as delighted as Rocío at that. Bye, bye, Magpie!

Meño asks Candy to give him macho lessons. First lesson - no mariposas - butterflies, or fluttery gestures.

Santiago is lying in bed, remembering the day, remembering his tender moments with Candy in recent weeks (and her countless rejections), and singing Nadie se va a marchar. He concludes, “I think I’m in love.” (Would anybody catch the reference if I said, “I’m sleeping. I’m right in the middle of a good dream. When all at once I wake up…”?) By the way, although I like Camil’s singing just fine, I really dislike most of his songs. This one I really like, and two others.

Santiago calls Paulina to urge her to send even a short note to her daughter. She blows him off once again, so he forges a mommy-note, assuring Rocío that mama loves her.

In Santiago’s office, Marissa calls and he blows her off, but he doesn’t hang up the phone properly, so she hears him telling Ed that he wants to break up with her but doesn’t want to hurt her. She ponders, “I want to keep you forever. I could get pregnant. But what will I hold back, for your lie? Well, there’s the millions I’ve invested in your clinic..”

Thursday. Candy discovers that Santiago got bitten by a leech, and she’s done with him.
Pat’s dad throws a tantrum and catches a heart attack.
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PJ/S checks out the recovering Moncho. Cantalicia continues to refuse to return to Las Cruces. Father Jacobo has come to Rio Claro to look for her though.

Ok, the big event is Antonio and Ángela's wedding. While the movers load up the Dominguez's stuff to leave the Donoso house and Walter is chomping at the bit for them to leave, Antonio disappears. PJ/S convinces Ángela to go out in the car with him. Miracle of miracles, she doesn't wear one of her tarty cowboy outfits but puts a on a nice dress! PJ/S takes her to a church where Antonio is waiting. Initially, she says that she doesn't want to have her situation force her into marriage.

However, PJ/S convinces her that he is an emissary of her father by giving her the "little shiny tear" (pequeña lagrima brillante), the diamond necklace that belonged to her mother and that PJ promised to give her on her wedding day. PJ/S tells her that he believes she loves Antonio and should marry him.

Thanks to the circumstances, PJ/S gets to give Ángela away.

PJ/S is overcome with emotion during the wedding.

PJ/S embraces Antonio and Ángela after the wedding.
Ángela and Antonio return to the house and Walter, who thought he had not only gotten rid of the former proteges of PJ but was going to be made the new administrator of the house and get to move into Abigail's room in the house, is crushed. Now the family he hated so much is staying around and has new privileges as relations of the co-owner of the house.

Enjoying the benefits of marriage, Antonio and Ángela get to have sex in a real bed instead of an old couch in the attic.

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First off I would just like to tell you all that today was a wonderful day. My nephew Christopher came home from Iraq. He is a soldier in the Marines and our hero. His bravery and love for his country is much to be admired. My girls were so happy to see him and would not leave his side for a second. We get to have him until Sunday then he has to go back to California, but will come back home for Christmas. Okay on with the show...



We start off with PA pulling up and being greeted by Marichuy (who is holding that damn bird), Cande and Micaela. He brings tamales and candy from the neighbors back home. Marichuy questions PA if he has told anyone of there whereabouts.

Patricio gets onto Ceci about Marichuy. He tells Ceci that Marichuy will never accept her and Ceci tells him to desist. She accuses him of wanting Marichuy not to forgive her so that he does not have to accept her as his daughter.

PA again tries to talk to Marichuy about her mother and the real reason she gave her up. Marichuy does not want to hear about it.

Elsa is attempting to cook and gets burned. She lashes out on Nelson about how they have no money and he critizies her on her cooking (I guess the little bubble that she was living in has burst)

Ceci is sitting on the stairwell asking and waiting for Marichuy.

Marichuy yells to PA that she does not want to know the name of her parents. She does not care. PA finally relents but tells her that when she finally finds out who her parents are she will be very surprised.

Again Elsa is complaining and starts in about her hands and her hair to Nelson. They yell hurtful things to each other but sort of make-up afterwards.

PA, Cande, Marichuy and Micaela are having lunch when Nacho? comes in telling PA that El Leopard wants to speak with him. PA thanks El Leopard for letting the girls stay and wonders if the girls are behaving. He tells PA about the incident with Marichuy and Panera? at the river. He tells PA that she is in danger since Panera is still out loose.

Elsa mom visits and brings gifts. She informs Elsa that Beatrice is living with them since Eduardo brought her.

Eduardo asks JM if he is going out with Viv. JM tells him that he will meeting up with Ivette. Eduardo warns him that is how affairs start, but JM says that he has one great love and that is with Marichuy. He says that he would go crazy if she was with another.

PA is ready to leave and asks Marichuy if she still does not want to tell JM about the baby. Marichuy insists that is what she wants. He warns her about leaving the hacienda alone. Marichuy goes into the living room and runs into El Leopard. He asks her who put the flowers in the room and she confesses that she did for PA. He tells her that his mother use to put roses in the room. He thanks her and hands her a red rose.

Elsa's mom asks her if it bothers her that Beatrice is living with them. Elsa says that it doesn't and thought bubbles to Eduardo proposing to her. Her mom begs her to let her help financially. (that will so go well if Nelson finds out)

Marichuy asks why he (El Leopard) is the way he is. He tells her that it is regret. Something that keeps him up all night and makes him cry when no one is looking. "What is it?" asks Marichuy. He admits because of him 2 innocent people died. Marichuy is muy impactada.

Marichuy is sewing a doll in the stables and talking to herself about how El Leopard is really not so bad. In walks Cosme and she asks him about the woman that made El Leopard the way he is. He tells her that she was a sweet like sugar, crazy like a storm and cruel like the fires of hell. So he went crazy because he lost her asks Marichuy. No responds Cosme, because of the 2 innocents that died.

Isa walks into the living room with Estephania and are talking about the plans they have for Marichuy. Estephania says that Marichuy will not be able to use the baby to get JM back. (what the hell is the plan? have I missed it?) Isa says that it would help if they had an accompliance there in the house. Estephania tells Isa that Viv is faking her amnesia and that soon JM will figure it out. If not she will help him along. (what a witch)

JM is in the bar and Ivette walks up and says something which I cannot hear with all that crappy music playing in the background. He says that her beauty brought him there and something else which I cannot understand because again of that damn music.

Marichuy asks who's fault it was that the 2 innocents died. Hers or his? Cosme admits that he does not know although El Leopard has been punishing himself since. He asks if Marichuy is interested in saving him because the love of a good woman will get him away from the hell that he has put himself in.

Back at the bar Ivette smiles and says that JM sure wants to know alot about her. JM says he likes to know the terrain that he is stepping into. She side steps his questions about her and instead asks him to tell her about his life. Why is he so sad? He responds by saying that he is unlucky in love. Probably because you did not know me first says Ivette. JM says that she is very generous and knows how to occupy any man's time. She responds "And what if I also want his heart". JM tells her that his is too hard to fill. She says that she will make him love her. (help me out with this conversation. some of it i did not quite understand which is really sad since i am fluent. but this puerto rican is having problems tonight)

Rocio is on the phone with Vicente and asks why he is not painting. Vicente is depressed and says that he will not be getting better but she will. Rocio insists that both of them must do all that they can so that they can get better. Her surgeon interrupts and she lets Vicente go. The surgeon tells her that tomorrow the bandages will be coming off.

JM and Blanca are discussing Mayita and her process on her writing. Mayita goes to visit Abuela in fantasyland. Mayita complains to Abuela about Viv denying seeing her at school. JM asks Blanca to sit down and she asks him if he is unhappy. He says you are getting to know me well that I cannot deny it. It is my fault for wanting a wife and family and not putting enough emphasis on love. He hints about his past with Marichuy and that he can not forget her.

Marichuy is walking down the road by herself talking to the dam bird again about JM. She admits that she loves him with all of her heart. At the exact moment JM is thinking about her and wants to know why he cannot forget her. He swears that he would move heaven and earth to find her.

Rocio and the surgeon are talking and he cannot wait to take off the bandages. She asks why? He recovers and says because I am your doctor. (he totally has a crush on her)

Amador pulls up and Cande spots him. She is muy impactada.

Viv is walking down the stairs and asks Blanca if JM has left yet. Why are you asking me responds Blanca. Viv says since you are so involved with everything in this house who better to inform me. Blanca tells her that JM is in the library. Viv goes and asks him about Marichuy.

Amador tells Cande to get Marichuy so that he can talk to her. She tells him to go.

JM asks Viv how she heard about Marichuy. She ignores him and says that I know that she came to be your wife but most importantly what role did she have in your past?

Ceci goes to Patricio and asks him to forgive her rudeness the day before regarding Marichuy. She tells him that if Marichuy will not forgive her then she will respect that and leave her alone, but she first has to explain what happened.

Amador and Cande are arguing. He insists that he will not leave until he speaks with Marichuy. El Leopard comes up on them and asks him who he is. The father of her baby?

JM is upset thinking that Onelia told her about Marichuy and how this will slow the process for Viv's recovery. Viv says that her mother did not know that she was revealing this information. Why did you marry her? Did you love her? JM does not want to talk about it. Viv insists that he answer her since she is his wife and has a right to know. JM says well if you insist, yes I loved her. Viv asks him if he still loves her.

El Leopard again asks why he is looking for Marichuy. Are you the father?

Viv is waiting for JM's response. Yes he admits that he still loves her. Does she still love you asks Viv. No, I don't think she does anymore says JM. So she abandoned you and right after the wedding. Wow, responds JM, you know everything. No says Viv I still do not know why she left you. Tell me she insists.

Marichuy is in her room remembering what Cosme asked her about her feelings for El Leopard.

El Leopard again asks if Amador is the father. Amador says no, I just want to talk to her. El Leopard tells him to leave. He informs Cande that he will be back.

Back in the library Viv is still pressing JM about the past that he has with Marichuy. Eduardo walks in and greets Viv. She pretends that she does not know him. JM introduces her to him and when Viv leaves JM tells Eduardo that someone has been telling her about Marichuy.

Marichuy walks up to El Leopard and says that she has many things to thank him for and also asks him to forgive her. He asks her what she has to thank him for. Well first she says for letting me stay here. Second for having the patience to put up with me and third for saving me from Panana. You are a good man that suffers, that feels, and that cries. I owe so for saving my baby's life.

Amador is at the bar looking for an accompliance. Someone to spy for him.

Marichuy tells Cande about her conversation with El Leopard and his response to forget about thanking him. She tells Cande about El Leopard's attitude towards her when he found out she was pregnant. How kind he has been. Cande asks her if she is falling in love with El Leopard. Marichuy denies it and says that she only loves JM.

Tomorrow: Viv and Estephania are planning to get rid of Marichuy.

Labels: Cuidado

Despite everything, I want to thank everyone who comments on my recaps. I know that I don’t really engage with all of you, but that’s because I don’t have much time. I read every comment and I appreciate all of you. I’d say that I do this because I love Mexican culture and I want to promote the Hispanic community among the bloggers, but then I’d be lying—I do it for the sex appeal. Now, I understand that some people are bothered by my political affiliations. Here’s the thing, Republicans lie and Democrats steal (or is it Democrats lie and Republicans steal?). Anyway, the point is, if you’re “offended” by what I say, just know that you’re only as retarded as I think you are.

Ah, I just knew FELS would go Danielle Steele on us. Remember: when the ratings drop, so do the panties. Oh! Just a wet dream. Well, if Root can dream it, she can do it—all of it. Isn’t it a pity that all of Juan’s day wet-dreaming stars Sofia? Gee, rough night. No one can sleep, and everyone is having sexual dreams. Must mean no one’s getting much. Then again, sometimes I don’t know what’s real and what’s not.

God, doesn’t anyone sleep around here? So far everyone is awake, and everyone wants to go to Puebla at 3:00 in the morning. At least that’s where Fernie took Santa. Well, what better time to do inventory in the Bakery. Uh oh. Someone’s on the roof, and I bet it isn’t Santa’s little reindeer. The boys round up the guns, but Juan’s baker’s apron prevents him from running and his aim gets all messed up when he has to shoot through bars. I think the guy got away considering Juan shot at the dirt.

Root is tossing and turning, and with a bra like that, I would too (I mean, if I had... nvm.) She exposes her sistas to the cool night sky. The perspiration on her chest indicates that she’s charged when she sees her dad. She tells herself several times that it’s her dad, just in case she tries to make a move on him, too. She's not exactly what you'd call a blushing flower...

Seems like Raquel finally entered herself in that celebrity rehab program. I mean, why else does she walk around with Judy Garland hair, sunglasses, and scarf? Apparently Root destroyed Eva’s youth, and beat Root, or something. The moment of truth; Raquel removes the glasses to display her Ricky wounds. “He’s a bad man, Eva, you must leave.” Nonsense, Eva’s taken beatings with the best of ‘em. She even sort of likes it in a sadistic/religious way.

Root goes to see Daddy, and like everyone else, he couldn’t sleep either (anyone see a trend?). Maybe the producers think that the viewers won't notice as much shit at night, or it might be cheeper. She insists to know if he was getting any action while she was fast asleep. He went to see the Reyes’s mansion where he has something very important hidden. He won’t tell her what it is and she feels bewildered and betrayed; how much rejection can a girl take?

Apparently Gramps has sent Santa on a secret mission to sabotage Fernie. The true test is if Fernie can get it up with a 80+ died-haired woman. She’s good, but she’s not that good. She’s going for the “I pour you twenty shots, I drink one shot slowly” routine. You go girl, get him drunk then make a video and hold it against him so he can’t run for public office or date anyone in the state.

When Gabi can’t sleep she creates art—mainly by coloring Fernie’s picture with black paint. Now more than ever she’s sure that Ricky Uribe was the only man who really loved her, and keeps loving her. Let’s see… first it was Bernie, then Fernie, then it was Juan’s daddy, now it’s Ricky. Let’s not forget that the scenes change, but the dialogue doesn’t…

Oh my God, why is so much going on in the middle of the night? Eva, bless her three little brain cells, thinks it’d be a good time to shuffle on over to Juan’s house to tell him that she fought with Raquel; even though it was more like Raquel talked and Eva took the blows. She’s very confused and thinks that Ricky doesn’t know that Root is his daughter. Since Eva is no longer safe for Raquel, I mean at Raquel’s, she’s going to shack up over at Sofia’s Orphanage and Boarding House for Losers: We take anyone who might seem like a good investment. “You should have seen Sofia mouth-off to Gabi, so brave, so strong.” Yes, compared to being bitch-slapped by Gabi on a regular basis, that was a heroic moment for both Sofia and Eva.

Just to illustrate how freekin’ ridiculous this is, Santa put in a hard night’s work and ended up getting Fernie hammered at that same bar in Puebla. First of all, bars close; second of all, Fernie would not be conscious enough to lift the glass to his lips; third of all, Santa would have been knocked-out cold from the coffee hours ago. Fernie’s now one of those emotional drunks who relates childhood memories when he’s plastered. Of course, the alcohol is not talking at this point, so he’s very reliable. He tells Santa that Ricky Uribe ruined his family, making them poor. He’s now officially the poor little rich boy. This brings another meaning to that song about salty bar nuts.

Fernie stumbles home drunk and almost succeeds in taking his clothes off. All he needs is Eva to come in and “help him” so that she can get laid for the second time in her life and have an illegitimate kid—again! Maybe she’d be able to keep that one…

Santa comes back to a very buff, very self-conscious Gramps. He’s jealous that she spent the evening with such an attractive man. Well, it doesn’t count because he was drunk. Anyway, it was in the name of justice and self-preservation. Now, the plan is to find out more about Ricky and ruin Fernie…

The dreams keep coming, and the former Go-Go Girl Rosie appears to Fernie in a dream. She tells him that she has returned to ruin him. In case you didn’t hear her the first five times, she repeated it another five. What is it with repeating lines? I think the writers know that they have so little information that they want to reiterate it whenever they can so it seems like more. Just like every “Primer Impacto/ Noticiero Univision/ Ultima Hora” segment.

Now I’m just a youngin’, but I don’t know anyone who drinks two bottles of Tequila by himself, articulates the problems of his youth, drives home from Puebla, gets in bed, wakes-up minutes later, and recounts his dreams. It just doesn’t happen. But it did tonight, and Gabi has it in for Fernie when he wakes up tomorrow. Nobody chooses an 80+ red-head over her—no way, no how!

Creepy stalker scene. Now Sofia’s nuts, but I still think that deep-down in what remains of her brain, she is not attracted to a man who climbs into her room in the black of night and stares at her for hours talking to himself. Well, whether she likes it or not, Juan vows to visit her like this for the rest of his life. Sofia wakes up just after Juan leaves and has the premonition that he was there; puhleeze, there's no way she's that smart. Something about the air pressure. More like the scent of someone who hasn’t showered in days and hangs out in a barn/bakery with two other equally-hygienic men.

I’m proud of Sofia for taking the initiative to wear brown WITH an orange hair clip. We might have her in Land’s End before this show ends… Sofia storms into Fernie’s room to wake him up for work. If he doesn’t get his ass in gear, she’s gonna have him sent to prison. Now that’s a wake up call. She wouldn’t…

Poor Pad Tad clutches his chest and ponders; “when will all the evil end?” He is driven to tears as he realizes that Fernie is a danger to the Elizondo girls. Better late than never. Though I must say, you’re a freekin’ moron for knowing that Fernie is a rapist, murderer, and thief and not telling anyone about it. And don’t give me this shit about “secret of confession.”

Gabi ponders on her balcony, stroking her chin, she tells herself that she knows something that will take away all of Sofia’s privileges. You’ve been saying that for every episode, and still, nothing has changed.

Oh My God. I’d never thought I’d see the day when Sarita would dress within the fashion limits of the past decade. Sure, no human looks good in orange, but those are things she will learn with time. Some dudes bring the girls flowers, and Jimena would like to flirt with them, only she really doesn’t know how. Really, the guy’s only there so she can play him against Oscar and pretend to have moved on. It was sort of working till Oscar basically ripped the guy’s arm off and told him that he was married to Jimena with four kids. Would mentioning that they are adopted kids make a difference? Depends where you live really…

Tio Vicente tells Juan that his father and mother were in love with each other, and Gabi was obsessed with Juan’s daddy, much like she is with everyone else who has any remnants of testosterone. Suddenly she and Root have so much in common.

Uh Oh. Juan is dressed up in his Mariachi uniform. It can only mean one thing; he is about to kill Ricky! Juan is convinced, like so many times before, that Ricky killed his parents; it just happens that the names have changed, but still, he’s been wronged! Juan pins him into the corner, goes for the punch, and smashes Ricky’s face with the force of a Mack truck. But then, Ricky pulls out his gun and fires directly at Juan’s body, with no chance whatsoever of missing Juan’s heart or brain. Will Juan survive? Would we have a story without him? Will I get my hopes up? The answer lies in one, if not three of these questions…

Tomorrow: Fernie’s tired of taking orders from Sofia, and really wants to shake things up with Root. But what about Juan? Does anybody care? Does anybody notice…?

Labels: Fuego

Tuesday, December 9

Santos and Gonzalo (with DB listening outside the door)-

G: Are you in love with Marisela Barquero?
S: What kind of stupid question is that, Gonzalo? How could I be in love with that child. My God! If I am... If I am sleeping with her mother. (Outside, DB is relieved.) I told you. I am in love with Barbara. She is the woman that I want to share my life and even if she weren't, I would never have anything with Marisela. I took that girl in to protect her, to help educate her. That girl is sacred to me.
G: But this morning it bothered you when I brought up the subject.
S: True and I am still annoyed because it doesn't seem appropriate that you, who are my age, are fixated in a girl who could be..
G: Who could be my daughter? Santos, there isn't that much of a difference. And why are you protecting your relative this way? It's me, Santos. I'm not a stranger. Why does it bother you so much?
S: How could it not bother me if what you just suggested is a depravity?
G: I don't recognize what I am seeing in you. You have all the characteristics of a jealous man.
S: I am only being careful as if I were any parent.
G: No, Lorenzo Barquera knows that I like Marisela and the only thing he did was laugh himself silly at the rejections that she has given me. And I'm sure that he wouldn't oppose our romance.
S: You're wasting your time. Marisela is not going to accept you.
G: You see that is what I'm referring to. You are betting that Marisela will reject me, as if you had some interest in her. No Santos, you aren't convincing me. This jealousy is not normal. You feel something for your cousin.


Lorenzo, Cecilia and Marisela-
C: Be serious. Would it be so hard to fall in love with Gonzalo?
M: No, if he had shown up before Santos, it would have been very easy. It's too bad because it would have been nice to be the girlfriend of a man so.. what do you call it when someone is the way Gonzalo is, what is he, then?
L: Agreeable?
C: Handsome (buenmozo)? Intelligent? Manly (varonil)?
L: You really like this boy, don't you Cecilia?
C: For goodness sake! I am giving alternatives here to Marisela.
M: But I can't love him. Santos took my heart first and didn't leave a place for anyone else, not for second or third place. Santos... has taken up the whole thing.


Santos and Gonzalo (with DB listening outside the door)-
S: Affection. Affection is what I feel. I want to protect the girl who has been mistreated her entire life. Look, this girl has been so abandoned that it broke my heart the first time I saw her, Gonzalo. I care about her, yes, I care about her a lot, I will always love her like my little sister.
G: Fine. You've cleared that up. Now to the next thing: will you help me with your cousin, yes or no?
S: Again with the same subject! Do I look like a pimp (alcahuete) or what? No, I won't help you. Anyway, you don't have time for such things, Gonzalo or have you forgotten that you are being hunted. It's time to plan your escape.

DB comes in with the coffee and aspirin for Gonzalo. She tells Santos that he doesn't have to worry about Pernalete coming back to Altamira. Santos says that he doesn't trust Pernalete and there is still Melendez and the political police. He tells Gonzalo to return to Altamira and they will prepare for the rebels to cross the frontier tonight. When they are gone, DB says that she doesn't trust the 'capitalino' Gonzales but she will make the effort to smile at him. She calls for Juan Primito.

Cósme and the Poet wish that they didn't have to leave. They want to settle down with their terneras. At the Sandoval house, Carmelito tells the terneras that the rebels must leave Altamira that night. Melesia and Josefina are upset and run out. Genoveva tells Melesio that Josefina and Melesia just met these guys. He should tell them to stop being so foolish. Melesio tells Genoveva that he won't do anything. His granddaughters have been bitten by love (están picadas por el amor) and one never knows how severe the bite (mordedura) is.

In the bar of the hotel, Pernalete, BP and Danger are talking about the cattle they are stealing from Don Encarnación (DE). Mujiquita is also there. BP mentions a fine Angus bull (semental) of DE's but says that it is well guarded. Danger asks if BP is stupid. The bull bears the brand (marca del fierro) of DE and if they take it, he will know right away. Pernalete asks how they could be accused of robbery if the bull appears in someone else's corral. "Speak of angels," (hablando del rey de roma, literally, speaking of the king of Rome), says Pernalete as Antonio comes into the bar. An officer comes into the tavern who has been sent by Melendez to guard the river to prevent the rebels from crossing.

Santos and Marisela-
M: What have I done that you don't want to talk to me, Santos? Have I done something wrong? Have I behaved badly with you? Why won't you talk to me? Don't you want to call me 'my sunshine' (mi sol) anymore?
S: I don't know. You are right. Look, Marisela, I can't remain silent. We have to talk and the time has come for us to have a serious conversation. First, I want to beg your pardon."
M: Why do you have to ask my forgiveness?
S: Because... well, I hadn't realized that you aren't that same dirty, unkempt girl that I found up a tree. Now you are very different, Marisela. A girl in bloom about to turn into a woman, my sunshine. You are so beautiful. I would have liked to always see you as a girl but I can't do that anymore. Look, Marisela, I didn't realize it but men already look at you and fall in love with you and ... you are lovely, Marisela. You have grown up in body and in soul and because of this I know that soon you will leave my side.
M: No, if you don't want me to, I will never leave your side.
S: No, Marisela, listen to me. Look, this has to happen even if if breaks my heart and yours.
M: Why Santos? I want to be at your side. I don't want to ever be separated from you.
S: Listen, Marisela. Don't make this more difficult for me. You don't know how this hurts me. I care about you (Yo te quiero). I care about you very much but I don't love you (no te amo).
M: Why, Santos?
S: Because I love someone else and you know that very well.
M: No! It's a lie, Santos. You don't love her. You don't love her. What happened is that you are bewitched, Santos.
(We can see that Juan Primito is listening)
S: No my sunshine. Witchcraft doesn't exist. It's a fairy story, it's backwardness (atraso). What I feel for DB is real.
M: No. That witch doesn't deserve you.
S: Don't speak that way about your mother. Your mother deserves my love and compassion. Your mother is...
M: That isn't my mother!
S: Ok. If you want to deny it, you have your reasons. She has changed, my sunshine.
M: She will never change. She has no heart. You know it. You know it!
S: Marisela, listen to me. DB will be a better person only if she is by my side. Didn't you see how
she agreed to give you La Barquereña?
M: She hasn't given me anything and she will never be a better person. Don't you understand? You are deaf and blind. She will always be the same criminal, murderer and thief. She will always be the same woman with no heart and no feelings. After all we have gone through because of her, how can you defend her, love her?
S: Because love can also pardon and understand, my sunshine. Look, Marisela, I want you to forget these things in your head. You aren't in love with me. All right? You don't love me. It's all a child's illusion, nothing more. You have your life ahead of you and very far from me, my sunshine.
M: You are unjust and cruel but if you want me to forget you, all right. I'll forget you.
S: No my sunshine, don't go, my sunshine!

Marisela goes running into the house. Cecilia tells Lorenzo that she will go to her. This is a woman thing.

Lorenzo goes out to ask Santos what he said to Marisela. "I think I broke her heart with what I said," replies Santos, "but my heart, Lorenzo, hurts like I was a condemned prisoner (condenado)." Santos tells Lorenzo that he destroyed Marisela's illusions. Lorenzo says that he did the right thing. Santos replies that he isn't sure. He hopes Lorenzo will forgive him for what he just did because he will never forgive himself for the tears of Lorenzo's daughter.

Cecilia and Marisela-
C: My child, try and be calm.
M: He told me, aunt, that he didn't love me as a man. That he can never love me.
C: It was that. Then, so much the better.
M: How can it be better, aunt?
C: Because it's better. I promise you. You now know what to believe in from the beginning and you don't have false illusions. Now you are free, my child.
M: Free for what? To suffer like a condemned person? I don't want to be free. I don't want it.

Lorenzo, the vaqueros, Santos and the rebels discuss their plan for crossing the river that night. Carmelito comes and tells them that the police are patrolling the whole river and there is a full moon that illuminates everything.

Juan Primito returns to El Miedo and DB anxiously asks him what he heard. JP says that Santos told Marisela that he dosn't love her. He loves another. "Who?" asks DB. "He loves you, mi Doña," replies JP. DB is as excited as a girl. She says to Eustaquia over and over that Santos said that he loves her, not Marisela. Then JP tells DB that Marisela was crying and Santos said, "Don't go my sunshine!" "my sunshine!" says DB, "He called her my sunshine?" DB is annoyed that Santos never called her anything like that.

Santos and the others decide to disguise the rebels as cattle herders and move some cattle across the river to higher ground during the day. They will do it tomorrow.

Cecilia tells Lorenzo that Marisela won't stop crying. She asks Lorenzo to talk to her.

Marisela says to herself that she is jinxed becuase the man she loves more than anyone in the world doesn't have eyes for her. She says that Santos doesn't love her. Why did think that he felt something for her? She flashes back to when Santos said he would call her, 'his sunshine'. Lorenzo comes in.

DB watches while Santos sleeps and dreams about kissing Marisela. The next morning DB tries to get Santos not to go with the rebels to the border. She is afraid something will happen to him. He promises that nothing will happen.

The rebels take sad goodbyes from everyone at Altamira. Marisela comes to see Gonzalo. First, she hits him and calls him stupid, a big mouth (bocón) and a gossip (chismoso). Then she hugs him and begs him not to leave. "Marisela," says Gonzalo, "but you detest me."
M: Yes, I hate you, I don't like you.. but I don't want you to leave. Please don't leave.
G: Are you crying for me? You don't want me to leave?
M: What is with you? Are you a fool (bobo) or and idiot (tonto)? I want you to stay. I need you to stay.
G: These tears of yours are the most beautiful thing that has happened to me in my life, Marisela.
M: Forgive me for saying such ugly things. The fact that I love Santos doesn't mean that I hate you. You are a very good man and I am a dunce (burra) who doesn't know how to say things.
G: Santos is your first love and your first love makes you act like an idiot. I understand. I just want you to know one thing, Marisela. I am only looking for one hope, just one. Please, don't forget me.
M: I will never forget you, Gonzalo. How can you think that I could forget that from the first day I met you, we have had so many collisions (tropiezos)?
G: Yes, you stepped on me, you fell because of me, I ripped your dress, you almost hit me with a bicycle... but I fell in love with you like an adolescent. As if it were the first time.
M: Oh Gonzalo! You are a disaster, just like me. We are a lot alike, aren't we?

DB decides Marisela is a danger to her. "He doesn't love her," she says, "but he cares about her and from concern to love is a small step."

Don Encarnación comes to see Antonio and asks if he is sure that the land and cattle that he has are his. He asks to see the deeds.

Andrés writes a poem to Melesia and the other terneras, including Altagracia, say that is so romantic. Maria Nieves overhears.

DB sends Melquiades to prevent Gonzalo from leaving.

Marisela tells Gonzalo to be careful. Gonzalo says that he is a natural risk taker and can't change. Marisela says that is ok. Everyone should be themselves.
"I am a fighter by nature," says Gonzalo, "and even though I know you are only thinking about Santos, I am going to fight for your love. You are the woman of my life. I will love you until I die."

Marisla hugs him and Santos tells him to let her go.

Wednesday, December 1o

Santos, the rebels, Maria Nieves and Pajarote take a final leave of everyone at Altamira and start the cattle drive. Melquiades is shadowing them. Their first encounter with the political police goes well. Santos shows them his identification, says that he is moving cattle to higher ground and he is allowed to pass.

Cecilia has to dismiss school because the passage in a book that she is using for verb-tense dication is about absent lovers and she and terneras dissolve into tears.

Don Encarnación (DE) comes to see Santos. He tells Cecilia and Antonio that he believes that Antonio Sandoval has stolen land and cattle from him.

Josefa tries to get back with Mujuquita. While she is in the hotel bar, Cecilia comes looking for Antonio.

Cecilia has come to tell Antonio about DE's accusation. They come close to reconciling but don't.

Federica gets the combination to her father's safe. Josefa comes over and tells her that Cecilia is with Antonio. Federica goes to Antonio's hotel room just as Cecilia is leaving. She gives Antonio the combination. He refuses to give her the promised advance on their honeymoon until he actually gets into the safe.

Mujiquita tells Pernalete that he has a toothache and runs to Altamira to warn Santos not to try and cross the border but Lorenzo tells him that Santos has already left.

DE tells Antonio and later Pernalete that the land that Pernalete gave to Antonio belongs to him and he will take the matter to court.

Santos, Pajarote and the rebels have to sneak past some border guards. Melquiades sees his opportunity and fires his rifle alterting the guards. The guards open fire. Gonzalo is hit in the arm but Andres is hit in the chest. Melquiades kills a guard who comes up to where the rebels are. The plan to cross the border is abandoned. Melquiades shows himself to the Altamira contingent and offers to cover their retreat.

(DB told Melquiades in no uncertain terms to make sure that nothing happened to Santos. Granted, Melquiades had a difficult task but by drawing the fire of the border guards, he put Santos in considerable danger and it was only by luck that he wasn't hit by the flying bullets.)

The cattle drive returns, not to Altamira but to El Miedo. DB checks out their approach with her binoculars. She sends Juan Primito to bring the news to Altamira and sends Leon for Dr. Arias.
(Badly wounded as he appears to be, Andres apparently was able to ride a horse.)

Marisela drives the praying terneras to El Miedo. Marisela embraces Gonzalo while Santos looks on annoyed and DB smirks.

Antonio opens Pernalete's safe and is looking at the deeds to his property when Pernalete comes in and demands to know what he is doing.

Labels: barbara

Repeats:

Marichuy strolls down the wooded lane toward the river, while Omar/El Leopardo meanders alongside on his horse. He asks if she doesn’t think it’s dangerous; isn’t she afraid? Isn’t she afraid of him? She says she goes out alone all the time; she’s fine; probably everyone is a little afraid of him, but she isn’t. She takes off and he says come back whenever you want, he won’t be waiting.

At the river, Piraña lurks and watches Marichuy swim. He strokes something in his hand but I can’t tell what it is.

New stuff:

Juan Miguel enters the bedroom and greets Viviana. He says he got home very late the night before. Viviana says she can’t stay inside all the time with nothing to do, so he suggests that she go out with her mother or with Mayita. She suggests going out with him, to a party to dance. He says she seems to be regaining her former character, and asks if she really doesn’t remember anything. She says not. REALLY, NOTHING?, he asks, skeptically (good boy). She puts on her most innocent blank face and says really, nothing.

Marichuy climbs out of the river in her wet jeans, because apparently she has not yet found her way to the nearest village for a swimsuit or at least some shorts, and finds a selection of produce displayed on a rock. She realices Piraña must have brought it like he said he would, and sure enough, he steps out of his Lugar de Lurk to say hello. Then he gives her a sob story about how no one loves him, not Leopardo, not any friends, not the parents he never knew (wow…he’s good. Got her soft spot fast.), not a woman. But she is kind and loving to all things, so could she love a guy like him? Marichuy looks a little blindsided.

Mayita and her dowdy nanny Blanca are sitting on the patio working on writing letters (like the alphabet, not like chatty missives to friends) when JM walks out and says good morning. Mayita jumps up for a hug and kiss and Blanca stands up and hovers like she’d like some too. Take a number, sister. JM dismisses Mayita by telling her to go say good morning to her Mami and tell her something happy, then tells Blanca that he met someone the night before who reminded him of her. He flashes back with alternating images of Blanca and Ivette so that we can’t possibly miss that they look exactly alike. He tells her all about how this woman was flirting with him, then says no, they can’t be the same, Blanca is much more serious. Good diplomatic move, there, saying serious instead of frumpy. Blanca looks all innocent while JM continues to scrutinize her, like even he can’t believe that much of a coincidence. He also looks kind of embarrassed and bashful throughout the scene for some reason. Did something actually happen with the bar tramp?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Marichuy is backing away from Piraña as he says he didn’t mean to scare or offend her, he just thinks she’s such a pretty girl. She says she’s already in love with someone else. El Leopardo?, he asks. No, no, no, she overprotests. That ugly character? No way, ugh, pitooey. With someone else, far away. Then she asks for some fruit and he cuts up a papaya for her with a much larger knife than you’d think anyone would need to carry around with him. I guess that’s what he was fondling earlier, and surely it’s symbolic in some way. Take your pick. While she eats the papaya, he gazes at her menacingly. Actually he looks totally normal, but the music lets us know that he is menacing.

Mayita runs squealing in to see Viv, carrying Cuate with her. Mums is not an animal lover, and tells her to get that filthy animal out of here; it’s gross. Mayita tells her that Marichuy gave her the dog, and is also going to bring her a little sibling. Viv is impactada.

Marichuy is talking to Piraña about how he is also an orphan, when suddenly she feels so drowsy that she just slouches over onto the rock to sleep. Piraña smirks. See, that is why no one loves you, jerk! No one likes rape drugs in her lunch!

Viv interrogates her daughter about the hermanito. Yes, yes, Mayita says, Marichuy said she is going to come back, and she’s going to bring me a little sibling. She runs off with Cuate while Viv looks perplexed and peeved.

Piraña pokes Marichuy to see if she is really asleep. He strokes her arm and she wakes up. She gets alarmed and tries to get away from him while he follows, creeping over the rock like a feral cat. She is having trouble standing or keeping her eyes open, and we see him perching on the rock like a vulture and grinning maliciously through Marichuy’s Blur-o-Vision.

In the hacienda courtyard, O/L does something horsemanlike to his horse while he asks Micaela how long those women are staying. She says a few months, why, does it bother him? He says yes, that young one is always around. Mic asks why he resents women so much and pries into his past, asking what happened to make him so bitter. It must have been a woman; did she die? O/L says no, but he wishes she had.

Marichuy tells Pirañucky not to touch her and to be respectful. He says she is so pretty she makes him do it. They struggle.

Micaela gets O/L to sit down and tell her, the woman who raised him, what that woman did to him. “She destroyed me,” he says. He goes on a bit about it being heaven, then hell, and the doors of happiness are closed behind him forever, while she hugs him and they actually look sort of cozy and sweet so we see that he isn’t really as prickly and scary as his reputation would suggest. He says it would take a miracle for him to be happy again. Doña Mic likes that idea, but he says he doesn’t believe in miracles anymore. Good thing Marichuy is around! She knows how to make them happen, and in ways that are only somewhat illegal! Okay, totally illegal, but for a good cause! Omar departs on the horsie.

Marichuy and Piraña continue to struggle, and she yells at him to let her go, she doesn’t want to be with him, etc. Eventually she collapses on the ground and realizes he has drugged her. He throws a net over her. He tells her, “Te pesqué mojarrito del rio” which I think means he fished her soaking wet out of the river. And now he’s going to eat her. He teases her by tangling her up in the net.

Stefi visits with Viv and tells her the hot gossip (well, hottish and freshish to Viv) that JM left her (Stef) for Marichuy, but their marriage only lasted a day. Viv wants to hear all about it.

Piraña tells Marichuy that she’s the best fish he’s ever caught. She yells for help, and he yells at her to shut up. Suddenly, Leopardo rides up on his pretty brown horsie. He yells at Piraña, but P just pulls his knife out and challenges Leo to a fight. They have a ridiculous-looking scuffle, sliding all over the river bank, but Leo manages to disarm Piraña and deliver a solid gut kick and a few punches.

Estafa tells Viv that Marichuy left JM because of something that happened in the past, but she doesn’t know what. Viv says it must have been something shameful. She tells Estafa she always suspected it was another woman who had come between them, but she can’t believe it was that street rat! Actually she calls her “zarrapastrosa”, meaning dirty, slob, poorly dressed. Aha!, Stef says. You haven’t lost your memory; you are FAKING!!! Viv looks embarrassed to have been caught by such an idiot.

Leo knocks Piraña into the river, then jumps in after him to continue the fight, which was a poor move because P gains the upper hand and tries to drown him. Marichuy wakes up and gets out of the net and yells at them to stop.

Estafa tells Viv not to waste time trying to lie to her. Viv tells her she’s very sharp, and points out the irony that Juan Miguel, the shrink, suspects nothing. Stef says he’s very perceptive; who knows what he’s really thinking? Well, I don’t think he’s that bright, but maybe the writers finally realized they were making him unbelievably stupid so now we are going to get a little revisionist history whereby he really knew or suspected more about everyone and everything all along. I’m all for it; I hate idiot galáns. Don’t be an idiot, Juan Miguel, because I love you and don’t want to have to hate you.

Marichuy yells at Piraña not to kill Leo, then throws a rock at Piraña’s head, enabling Leo to win the fight. She passes out again.

Viv tells Stef that she is faking amnesia to be near JM and Mayita and to get to spend some time with her husband, so he will fall in love with her again. Nothing says seduction like brain damage and/or vicious lies. When Stef asks where she’s been all this time, she says just wandering around. Viv asks whether Stef is going to betray her. Before she can answer, JM walks in and Viv is overly affectionate. JM addresses his questions about Viv’s health and nervous state to Stef.

Leo wakes up Marichuy and asks her if she is pregnant.

JM asks what the ladies (ha! They are not ladies!) have been talking about, and Stef tells him that he needs to pay lots more attention to Viv. He looks as though he senses conspiracy and makes a hilarious grimace at Stef as she leaves to give them some privacy. JM asks Viv if she wants to go out that night, and she flips out like she’s a teenage girl getting asked to a dance for the very first time. She wants music and dancing and getting dressed up! JM stares at her like she’s an alien, and she asks why he’s looking at her like that. Oh, nothing, he says, flashing a smile more for our benefit than for hers.

Marichuy confirms that she is going to have a baby. Leo is disproportionately affected by this news, and she says, “What? Is this the first time you’ve seen a pregnant woman?” He says no, unfortunately it is not the first time, and looks intense. What did Ivette do???

Leo carries Marichuy to her bed as Micaela yells for Nacho and Cosme. He tells Cande to let her sleep, then tells Mica and Cande what happened down at the river, which was just what he feared would happen. “Why didn’t you tell me she was pregnant?,” he asks Mica. The ladies stare at each other.

Viv snoops through Blanca’s room.

Mica tells Leo they didn’t tell him because he doesn’t seem interested in such things. He says they must take good care of Marichuy and not let her go anywhere alone. “Who can stop her?,” asks Cande. Are there no police in this area? If this guy is stealing cattle, assaulting people, and attempting rape right and left, why is he not in jail?

Viv goes straight to Blanca, who is sitting in the garden and appears to be doing one of Mayita’s little-kid basic workbooks for her, and demands to know why she has such expensive perfume in her dressing table. Blanca says it was a gift from an admirer. Viv doesn’t believe her, and asks if JM is paying her that much for taking care of Mayita, or for “extra work.” Blanca won’t dignify that with an answer. Viv tells her to find work in some other house; Viv’s a lot better so they don’t need her anymore.

Viv and JM sway slowly to some stupefying music at a really dull-looking party or restaurant, JM looking bored silly. He thinks back to talking with Rocío about the calls to the house soon after the plane crash which they thought were from Viv. JM asks Viv about them, and about her showing up at Mayita’s school. She feigns cluelessness, like she can’t figure out why he would be interested in such a thing. She continues to insist that she understands nothing of what he’s talking about. Why does he keep asking? He tells her that he’s concluded that she hasn’t lost her memory. He recites the evidence.

Padre Anselmo is building a fort out of chairs in the church hallway, which comes in handy when Purita comes in and wants to sit and talk. I guess his own office was unavailable today. She says she’s ashamed of her mother and now everyone teases her in the street and assumes she’s the same way. PA tells her to show some respect for her mother. Everything she did, she did to help her daughter, and she’s been very penitent. Purita leaves in a huff.

Viv continues to deny, deny, deny. JM says she’d better tell him the truth. Why did she want to escape? Where has she been, doing what, with whom? She insists she remembers nothing and storms out of the restaurant.

Marichuy cuts out a tiny pair of pants and talks to her baby about how excited she is for him (her?) to be born.

Juan Miguel sits in front of his elaborate breakfast and remembers Mayita telling him that Marichuy was going to bring her a little brother or sister. Then he thinks to himself how much he would have loved to have a child with Marichuy and have them both with him forever.

Marichuy daydreams about being able to take her child to JM and telling him it is his, and they could all be together, but no puede ser.

Blanca enters the dining room and is all awkward and formal about wanting to talk to Juan Miguel. She tells him weird things are happening, like she found in her room two bottles of perfume which she did not buy. So is this a split personality thing where only the wild one is aware of the other personality? Or is she just trying to create a trail of evidence for her innocence?

The church hall now has a bench. PA comes in and puts some things in a bag which was already there on the floor. I have no idea what that scene was for, but I like the music with the church bells in it.

Amador, Estafa, and Isab!tch sit in the car and watch PA leave the church and get into the old truck. They note the bag he is carrying, so it must be important, and decide he must be going to visit Marichuy. They follow. They really need a better hobby.

JM asks Blanca who she thinks put the perfume there. She says maybe Viviana. JM says sure, she probably did it as payment for things you do in the house. I couldn’t tell if he meant like as a reward, for being helpful, or like to get even, because she’s suspicious of what Blanca is doing there.

Cande tells Marichuy she shouldn’t go down to the river again, and Mari says not to worry; she’s learned her lesson. Cande asks why she’s been so quiet lately, and she says she’s just been thinking how happy JM would be if he knew about the baby, and he’d do everything to find her. Then she has to reassure Cande that it’s just a dream; she knows it won’t happen with his wife back.

Viv dismisses Blanca, and JM tells her she should be more nice about it. He tells her about the mystery of the perfume and asks if she knows anything about it. She says they don’t need that woman, because she can take care of her home, daughter, and husband all by herself, with the help of the rest of the servants. She just says by herself.

Doña Mica tells the ladies the padre is on his way. Marichuy arranges flowers to make things nice in preparation. Cande hopes he’ll bring lots of good gossip and leans casually on the taxidermified leopard as she chats, then is freaked out when she realizes what she’s been leaning on. Our three least favorite creepy stalkers continue to follow the padre through the countryside. They arrive at the hacienda; Marichuy and the other ladies are delighted to see PA. Amador spies from behind the wall.

Avances: Skankybarwench Ivette ramps up her pursuit of Juan Miguel. The three dark lords ramp up their pursuit of Marichuy’s misery.

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