Caray, Caray!

We start with Coyote and his loyal dead pets learning that Feo killed Libia.

Evil Uribe is fretting to Ruth because he can’t get close to Soledad, that the house is surrounded.

Pa Uribe tells Root someone tried to kill el Padre and he found a dagger in the horse stalls so knows it was Fer that tried to kill him. He has it hidden and won’t tell her where it is. Root adds to the hatred by telling Pa said Fer tried to abuse her last night, but Coyote saved her. Uribe warns her she needs to stay close or her enemies will get her. Root wants to leave here for a new life but first wants to find out who her brother is, and she thinks that Sole and her brother might actually forgive him if he tells the truth that he was a victim of Gabi and they can all go somewhere and live together far away from here. What is she smoking? These people have sworn vengence for 40 years and all of a sudden they are going to play nice nice? Didn’t they already live somewhere else for a long time anyway? Hmm…

Ruth tells Pa she’ll see if she can’t change things, she’s going to look for Sole. She tells him…don’t move. He’s thinkin’ “I won’t but I’ll drink this fifth of tequila….”

Fer gives money to Gabi as and advance on the contract they signed. He does it as a sign of his “loyalty” for Gabi she accuses him of having something to do with Ruth, of course he denies it and yells at her for trusting a guy whose full name she doesn’t even know over him? Well, he does have a point there.

Ruth is interrogating Sole and tells her she knows her Dad and he really loved Sole. She wants to know who he bro is. Bro, with pets in tow, shows up and admits to her he is the brother.

Ruth is all excited. Sole leaves them to chat. He tells her how much he wished that he could have gotten to know her, but life didn’t allow it. She syas they still have time to be together and start over. He says he almost wishes she wasn’t around him. He can’t tell her why and asks her to leave, but he’ll look for her later. She begs him not to disappoint her that he is her only hope. She gives him a huge backwards hug. He makes that funky sad smile and proclaims he will have to disappoint even against his will, sorry, he’s got to kill Daddy, or something.

Fer is yelling some crap at Gabi but she’s not listening. Oh no, she’s telling herself she thinks it’s best if he thinks she does believe in him, and if he betrays her she’ll undo him. She then says she has to go see the padre and asks him to come in.

Ruth goes to look for Pa but he’s not there. She wants to tell him who his son is but he betrayed her and left. And we see indeed he drank nearly that whole tequila bottle. I’m surprised he could walk anywhere.

Gabi shows up to see the padre but Juan wants to prevent her from going in. Juan warns Feo he suspects him of doing this but Feo says nope, besides I’ve confessed to him many times that makes it impossible for me to kill him. Juan says watch out, if he dies you will be first on my sh*t list.

Gabi tells Pad that she never really repented, ha! He goes into shock and she tells him nothing would thrill her more than if he died. Nice. The nun goes for the doc and Juan comes in and is told by Pad to go and find the bishop.

Ruth is on happy pills as she paces and wonders where her drunkard Pa went off to so she can tell him who’s her bro.

Juan essentially kidnaps the bishop from Puebla.

Feo returns Ma to rest and proclaims that damn priest has more lives than a cat. That’s because he lives in Telenovela land. He walks into his office and who is there but evil Uribe who shows him the bag that had the hidden dagger in it. Evil Uribe says now they are even that he knows the secet so don’t f with him.

Juan returns with the Bishop who kicks Juan out. Finally this guy has some balls. Tad wants to reveal a secret of confession to the bishop. Bish is impactado.

Ruth and Crabbi’s turn to face off. Crabbi throws out insults about Juan rejecting her and that they are the sameshe knows Ruth pulled the serpent on the babies. Nope, Ruth doesn’t want to end up like her it gave her pleasure to be bad to people but Ruth had no choice but she will be saved. Ruth swears she will be saved by her brother. The son of the only woman that Ricardo really loved. Crabbi will know soon enough who he is. So take that.

Coyote is spying on Ruth leaving the hacienda and he deduces that something is bothering her. He wonders if he should give up his revenge to help her out. He has to think really hard about this. I say don’t think too hard lest you crack that egghead of yours. He recalls that Feo killed Libia and decides that Juan needs to know this.

Bishop refuses Pad’s request. Pad’s talking anyway he decides. Let God judge him.

Juan gets the news that Coyote wants to see him. He tells Oscar he has to go because it’s about Libia. Somehow evil drunk Uribe marches on the scene. He makes fun of Juan as the hero and Juan says look I know you offed Raquel you had a motive, remember those documents. Justice will catch up with you and you’ll pay. Urbie jibes, yeah just like it did the killer of your parents, you lost. This was great. Buffed Juan is no match for the Uber drunk Uribe and he clocks him to the floor. Uribe gets up eventually and wonders what Juan is going to Coyote for and maybe he needs to see Gabi about it.

Gabi goes to see Sole. She wants to know who the son is. Sole of course isn’t giving up the goods. Crabi curses her and then comes back with a can of gas and waives it in front of Sole’s face. She can of course smell what it is and screams. The thing I’m wondering is, this happened once before, so wouldn’t your next move be to try to run out the door? I know she’s blind and all, but she knows how to get to her front door I think, she could at least try while psycho beatch is pouring gas all over the place. But, alas, she waits too long and gets knocked out with a giant cross instead. Now she’s done for.

Uribe catches up with Coyote on the road to his house and wants to ask him what he’s going to tell Juan. He tells him it’s about a Reyes death, why? Might you have something to do with one? He says people have thought so, but I killed no one if Gabi said so it’s a big fat lie. Hmmmm Coyote whips out his trusty peace of snakeskin and says well what’s this??? Uribe looks impactado. Coyote says I know you killed Raquel, but I’ll have to deal with you later. His gunmen move it to make sure of that.

Looks like Sole is coughing so maybe she’ll be ok.

Coyote is not far now, but of course he almost runs into Gabi as she is trying to get away. He tells her to watch her driving. She wants him to hang out a little, but he says nope, I have to talk to Juan, sorry. She says, Juan he’s my enemy what business do you have with him? He says well that’s just it. How stupid you are. I got close to you to do away with you, you are my enemy, I am the son of Uribe and Soledad you idiot. Gabi is impactado.

We are left with a millisecond of a brawny guy in a giant sombrero busting in the door on the burning house. Guess Juan saves the day?? We’ll see tomorrow.

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EPISODE 91:
* JM and Omar are talking in the study - Leo tells JM that he is searching for a young lady.

* Beatrix walks out of the house and is confronted by Amador, who checks out her notebook with all the information about her son's baptism. He starts to become very interested in HIS son (Yea, right, now you want to be a daddy). Nelson watches as Bea y Amador go toe-to-toe over the whole paternity issue and whether or not Amador is welcome to come and about his new found interest in HER son. He steals a kiss and Bea is totally disgusted. (Baptism will be on Thursday).

* Omar and JM continue to discuss women - they need them but at the same time they run away from them. Omar and JM then discuss Viv's death and the trial.

* At the hearings, the prosecutor (Lic. Villar) grand stands his objections to Padre's testimony in the case.

* Omar and JM talk about Blanca, the nanny, standing accused of the murder. JM tells Omar her name is Blanca Silva.

* At the theater, MC is sitting in the audience focused on learning her lines. Ceci walks down and sits right next to MC. Ceci is happy to see her again. MC doesn't feel the same way - she's impacto and wants to know why Ceci is there?

* JM tells Omar about Blanca's role in the murder and about Viv faking her own death so she could be free and single, when her money ran out, she came back and faked mental illness. Leo is intrigued. JM then mentions Marichuy by name.

* Ceci explains that she wanted to see MC again. MC is still hurting from the way Pat and Steffie and Tia Isa ganged up and forced her to leave the mansion. Ceci tries to explain and apologize. MC doesn't want to hear it and spouts off against Ceci, Pat and everyone - especially Ceci who MC says just stood by and said nothing. MC continues to rant against Steffie, saying Steffie is her daughter and she's only a street kid that they let stay at their house. MC tells Ceci never to return to see her again. Ceci cries.

* JM tells Omar about his continuing love for Marichuy.

* MC continues to scold Ceci about Pat's attitude towards her and that she should tell her husband about her life now, it's good, it's just, she's not stealing anymore, and repeats all the insulting nicknames that Steffie and Pat had used against her. Ceci cries and her heart break even more.

* Ceci cries and asks if there's any chance that MC will forgive them. MC says no. MC isn't interested in listening to Ceci anymore and asks her to leave. Ceci gets up and walks to the aisle. Ceci turns to look at MC, cries, and leaves. MC looks towarsds the stage and covers her face to hide her tears.

* JM and Omar continue their conversation. Leo says that he's staying at a local hotel; he's trying to stop thinking about someone. JM asks about the lady.

* Nelson is laying on the sofa inside the house. Elsa is rocking Bea's son in her arms. Nelson is melancholy over his illness in impending death. He thinks that some time in the near future another man will be in Elsa's life.

* At the door to the theater, Ceci and Amador talk about the visit with MC. Ceci is disillusioned. Amador gives her some advise about MC. Amador goes into the theater.

* Amador walks over to where MC is still sitting in the audience chairs. He talks with her about Ceci's conversation. MC is still fuming against Ceci and the harsh treatment she received in the past. Amador changes the subject with news about her career plans.

* Omar mentions to JM the lady that lived at his hacienda and recently gave birth. Omar mentions that they were happy and planning their wedding. Omar calls her "Liria".

* Amador talks with MC about interviews and classes in acting, and leaving town.

* Omar continues to tell JM about Liria and her son. JM comments about dreams. Omar mentions the reality of how Liria left and he really wants to confront her to find out why she left so suddenly. He thinks it's hopeless to find her and thinks of giving up. JM advises him that if he loves her, he should continue to search. In fact, JM offers to help Omar in the search of "Liria."

* JM's lawyer brings him the paper - and the news about Blanca's insanity defense may just be accepted. JM is happy about the news.

* Vince is sitting in his wheelchair, looking out the window. He thinks about his life and that Rocio is now with Doctor. Mom stops by to visit. She does her best to cheer him up and convince him to move back home - she and his dad have fixed up a room for him to use as his studio and everything. She admires his paintings. He asks her for help tomorrow. She agrees.

* Rocio talks on the phone to Doctor. She hangs up and thinks about Vince - she prays for a way to get back together with him. Rocio makes a call on her cell phone. Vince reaches for his cell phone and answers it. Rocio says hello, vince, it's me, Rocio.

* Elsa and Bea are outside in the garden discuss Amador's badgering about the baptism and him attending as the father. Bea wonders about Ed's feelings. Elsa thinks Ed will understand.

* Rocio asks Vince if she can visit right now. Vince pauses and says no she can't visit him. He thanks her for the phone call and hangs up. Vince celebrates because he knows she still loves him.

* JM and Omar meet Rocio at the stairs in the front hall of the castle. Rocio is sad and runs upstairs. JM asks Omar to go to the jail and visit Blanca with him.

* MC thinks about Ceci's visit at the theater; about her mother and her son. Amador comes over with career news.

* JM and Omar leave the castle to visit Blanca.

* Ceci is in her car, driving, and thinking about Amador's advice. Ceci can't forget about MC and promises herself that she needs to see MC again - she needs to talk with her. Ceci drives recklessly on the streets and makes other motorists honk at her.

* Backstage at the theater -- MC and Amador are in the middle of a photo session. MC isn't in the mood but goes along with it for Amador's sake.

* Omar and JM meet with the attorney in his office. The attorney remembers Blanca mentioned "Omar" during one of their visits.

* MC shouts to a director on the landing above her. Director leaves. Amador gets her ready for a television interview with a "La Oreja" reporter. Amador informs the reporter about the trip planned for Alejandra Robles and that she is a true professional that the audience will adore. Amador does most of the talking.

* Omar talks with the attorney and JM about Blanca Silva.

* Rocio snaps and argues with Nellie in the front hall.

* Omar gets a phone call - he needs to leave for the hacienda, it's an emergency. Omar tells JM that maybe another time he can meet Blanca. JM walks him out the door so Omar can return to the castle.

* Rocio and Nellie continue their debate in the front hall.

* Outside on the patio, Pat and Steffie discuss Steffie's obsession with marrying JM and seeing every lady that comes in contact with JM as her rival. Pat suspects that Steffie had something to do with Blanca being in jail.

* In the prison visiting room, JM meets with Blanca. He tells her about how the hearing is progressing, her defense strategy. He asks her something and she starts to stutter and get really nervous.

* Pat scowls at Steffie, as she whines about his accusation. Pat apologizes. He sits down and wonders where Ceci is. He shocks Steffie with news that Ceci went to visit MC at the theater.

* In the apartment, MC is at home with JM Jr. and Cande. She and Cande discuss her work and her wish to hear JM Jr. call her 'mama'. MC then talks with Cande about all the interviews she had to do. Also, MC tells Cande about Ceci's visit at the theater.

* Steffie and Pat discuss Ceci's visit with MC at the theater. Steffie doesn't approve. Pat supports his wife. Steffie wonders if Pat is trying to offend her so she will leave the house voluntarily.

* JM tells Blanca about his good friend, who is almost like a brother to him.

* Pat and Steffie continue to discuss Pat's decision to recognize MC as his daughter. Martirio brings the phone out to Pat. Pat talks with the Red Cross employee about Ceci being in a serious car accident. Pat and Steffie are impactado.

ADVANCE: Decisive moments tomorrow -- Will Ceci survive her car accident? What happens when JM finds Cande, MC and JM Jr. on the Mexico City streets?

Labels: Cuidado

Mauricio tells DB (in return for putting out her cigar) that Marisela is in the big apple (la gran manzana- NYC) with Luisana. He tells DB that Marisela has no intention of returning to the Arauca.


Meanwhile Santos has found the information about the soil analysis at La Chusmita. He rapidly figures out that DB has been lying to him for a long time. Melquíades tries to get the papers back but Santos says that Melquíades doesn't scare him. Melquíades demands the papers from Santos. "What are you going to do?" asks Santos, "Are you going to shoot me or knife me? Isn't that what DB would usually do?"

Mujica's nephew, Bartolo, spouts poetic nonsense to Altagracia and she swoons with admiration.

Meanwhile, Mujiquita is cleaning out Pernalete's desk. He finds the evidence bag for the ring that was taken from Julian Barreto's severed hand. The ring isn't in the bag but Mujiquita knows where to find it. He goes to Pernalete's house where Federica and Josefa are fighting about the proceeds of their business. He pulls the ring off Pernalete's finger.

Santos tells Cecilia that he is furious but he will only say that is a terrible betrayal.

We also don't see the person who has kidnapped BP except for his thick lips and a strange ring.

In the capital, the doctor tells DB that the fertility treatments haven't worked and she can't get pregnant. She tells him to keep trying until they succeed or she decides to stop.

Mujiquita also finds an evidence bag with the some of the (charred) remains of the body in the jeep identified as Meléndez. Mujiquita doesn't want it but Bartolo puts it in a drawer. Finally Mujiquita finds the evidence bag with the blowgun dart that Dr. Arias determined was used to drug Meléndez in the hotel. Mujiquita handles it carelessly (fortunately, it wasn't a poison dart) and gets drugged himself.

Santos goes to Danger's house and wonders if DB had him killed.

Santos goes to town and comes into Mujiquita's office just in time to hear Dr. Arias' conclusions about the poison dart, Orestes Prieto's death and Melendez' being drugged.

Altagracia tells Genoveva that she wants to marry Bartolo. Pajarote and Carmelito overhear and decide to check Bartolo out for their absent buddy, María Nieves.

Mauricio tells an invisible Marisela about DB's visit.

In a taxi, DB says to herself that she is glad Marisela isn't around because if she were, she would be an enemy and DB doesn't recommend that anyone make an enemy of DB.

Santos is riding and drinking. He tells himself that DB isn't capable of doing something like that.
He flashes back to the day of the flower beauty contest (Concurso de los Flores) when Orestes Prieto died.

Santos goes to see Eustaquia who is putting flowers in a vase. He asks her if it isn't true that pure-blooded Indians like Melquiades use blowpipes (cerbatana) in hunting. Eustaquia drops the flower vase. Santos asks Eustaquia to tell him that DB didn't order Melquiades to kill Orestes Prieto. He demands that she tell him whether Melquíades is a kller. Eustaquia only says that DB adores Santos. She won't answer his question.

Santos shows Eustaquia the papers about the oil. He tells her that the paper is a translation into Spanish that DB sent away to have done. "She and I live together," says DB, "Your boss, who says that she loves me more than anything in the world, has been lying to me since the beginning. Your boss is and continues to be the same as when I met her. She hasn't changed."

BP spills his guts and it rapidly becomes apparent that the questioner is Sapo, the last rapist. I'm not sure if he was involved with Danger before or whether BP recognized him from the picture of the rapists.

Santos tells Eustaquia that Lorenzo was correct in calling DB the "devourer of men" ("la devoradora de hombres"). Eustaquia tells Santos that DB loves him. "She doesn't love," replies Santos, "she owns, she posesses and what she can't buy she steals." He tells Eustaquia that he wants the truth. "It was always under my nose and I didn't want to see it," he says, "Why? Because I loved her. When I saw your boss dying, I understood that this woman that I loved and hated at the same time with the same intensity, this mysterious woman who had such a terrible live, merited a second chance to live and I thought I was the only one who could give her that. My God, what a conceited idiot I am! Me, the salvation of lost causes. Lorenzo told me that a thousand times. Everyone told me and I didn't listen. And now I'm the one falling into the bottomless pit that named DB. Eustaquia, I can't continue to love your boss. I want to save what's left of my life." Eustaquia begs him not to say that. She says that DB will come back and clear up all his doubts. Santos replies that DB will only lie to him again.

On the boat back to Progresso, DB is sure that Marisela is gone and was only an accident in her and Santos' life.

Santos tells Eustaquia that he is sure now that DB was behind Marisela leaving. DB threatened her and she left. Santos says that he will find Marisela. He says that he was so stupid. All this times, DB was laughing at him. She lied to him. She doesn't love him. He says that she's a liar. Eustaquia says that DB isn't bad. She acted out of fear that she would be left alone, that Santos would abandon her. Santos tells Eustaquia that DB will be left alone because all she has succeeded in doing is defraud him. The only thing he feels for her now is a profound disillusion. "It's over, Eustaquia," I am sorry to tell you that from the bottom of my heart I feel that that it's over."


In prison, MN formally asks Antonio for Altagracia's hand in marriage.

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Due to my unplanned attention to the SuperBowl game, here's a very rushed recap of Friday's episode. Please fill in anything I missed or correct anything that I got wrong. I'll try to add the vocabulary I gathered to the comments later.

Adrian is escorted into Marichuy and Cande’s apartment by Cande. She is very excited to point out that the building has an elevator. Once up in the apartment, Adrian is surprised to see a baby and Marichuy fills her friend in on the history of her marriage & annulment with Juan Miguel, all due to the return of Viviana from the dead. And now, she tells him, it is a year later and Viv’s been murdered (dead for real now) and JM apparently prefers the company of the murderess to me.

Nelson is reading in the garden and Ed shows up. They exchange comments about how they think the other doesn’t like them, all because of Elsa. Ed says that Elsa is her own person, she doesn’t belong to either Nelson or Ed (how very enlightened of him). Nelson believes he lost Elsa. What, questions Ed. Yes, I lost her when we couldn’t have a child.

Mercedes is at Vicente’s and learns he’s ready to paint again. She happily throws off the dust covers from his easel.

Padre Anselmo is still testifying on Blanca’s behalf. He tells the court that Blanca wasn’t responsible for the crime which was committed.

Marichuy and Adrian discuss Purita and Adrian lets her know that he blames his mother. I think MC was encouraging him to not be so hard on his mother, which makes me think she needs to practice what she preaches. I might have gotten that wrong, let me know if I’ve messed up on translation. MC asks Adrian to keep it a secret about the baby and he agrees.

Stefi and Isa arrive at the hacienda. They find Nacho hard at work and start to ask him about Leo. Since they haven’t read the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, they just end up insulting Nacho and he’s not willing to give them any news on Leo’s whereabouts. Mica shows up and tells Nacho she’ll take care of the “ladies”. She tells them that Leo’s not at the hacienda and they tell her they need to leave him a message. They tell her to tell Leo that the woman he’s looking for is not named Lirio, it is Marichuy. If these two were any good at reading people, they’d be able to tell this wasn’t brand new information for Mica, who pretends she’ll pass the message along to her employer (at least I think she’s pretending, since she’s known how MC can be found and hasn’t told Leo as of yet). They leave a note about where he can find MC. They head back to town and seem pretty confident that Mica will deliver it to Leo.

Humberto is at the castle and asking Rocío for news about Beatriz’s baby’s baptism. He finds out the date and is excited because he doesn’t have appointments that day. Pretty presumptuous to think he’s invited, but what do I know, maybe he is invited. He gets up to leave and tells Rocío to remember that he loves her. She doesn’t reply.

Becky visits Vicente and they talk about Israel a bit and then they start to talk of Marichuy. Becky tells Vic that she heard about MC from Rocío. Vic looks moved to hear Rocío's name and we see he’s been working on her painting. Becky says she thought he was trying to forget her. He doesn’t respond to that directly, but instead shows Becky that he’s got some slight movement in his legs.

Rocío flashes back to some of the happy times with Vicente and then hears Humberto say he loves her. She's conflicted.

Vicente works with some dude in hospital scrubs, named Sergio. Vicente gets Sergio to help him stand up from the wheelchair. Vicente waves his arms to keep his balance, but he succeeds in standing on his own.

Padre Anselmo says that Viviana did not live the purest life and perhaps what befell her was a form of punishment from the Lord. The Lawyer is shocked at what the priest is insinuating (as am I, I have to admit). The Lawyer asks about PA’s relationship with Juanmi. PA says he admires JM and knows him pretty well. The Lawyer questions JM’s involvement in Viv’s death and PA says that all JM tried to do was protect Blanca from unjust punishment, he had nothing to do with it otherwise. He adds that he knows Blanca, as two people—first he met her as Blanca, but soon after saw her as Ivette. They are two different people, the priest tells the court. The fact that the priest seems to think she's suffering under this disorder seems to rock the courtroom.

Ceci cries to Patricio about how PA was not at the church. Pat reminds his wife that PA is testifying for JM. They talk about Ceci’s conversation with JM and how JM thinks that MC might have been back in town to get papers for her wedding. Ceci is upset to think that their daughter might be getting married without them.

Marichuy talks to Olga about Purita and Adrian. Olga asks about Leo and MC tells her about how Leo got his nickname. Olga asks about MC leaving him, when they were to get married. MC says she hopes he’ll find someone new, who can really love him.

Stefi visits JM and he asks why she’s always coming around and why she failed to mention that MC was at the house. Stefi says she thought Rocío would have given him the 4-1-1. He says she didn’t, not until recently. He runs through what he knows and Stefi says she’s got nothing more to add other than MC telling her that she’s leaving D.F., to go some place Far, Far Away (perhaps to hang with Shrek and Fiona). To be with whom?, JM asks. Stefi says, “Come on, you know that we don’t have that kind of relationship, there’s no way MC would tell me.” He buys that answer. Then, Stefi asks about Blanca’s case and JM fills her in on the latest, and how the court isn’t accepting the idea of her having multiple personalities.

Padre Anselmo tells the court (with accompanying flashbacks) about meeting Blanca when Rocío brought her to the church for help. He says that she confessed to him that she killed Viviana. The Lawyer questions why the priest hadn’t come forward with this information and PA reminds him that confessional secrets are binding.

Leo goes to visit JM at the castle. The two men are happy to see each other and hug. They talk about how many years it has been since they've seen each other and JM asks Leo what he’s been doing. Leo talks about his travels, and how he’s there today because he’s looking for a woman.

Marichuy tells Cande how Amador has suggested he might have her wearing a wig. She goes on to tell Cande how her name will be on the marquee and Cande clarifies that it will be MC’s professional name, Alejandra Robles. MC says how her picture will be in magazines.

Meanwhile, Pat is reading and comes across an article about the play MC’s doing, along with her picture. He goes and shows it to Ceci. Stefi appears to be shocked that MC might be located with such ease. Ceci is happy to know that they’ll soon be with their daughter. Pat basically tells her, hey I’ve shown you how to find MC, which you want so badly, but don’t ask too much from me, I’m not the one bound and determined to be reunited with her. Pat leaves and Stefi asks her what she’s going to do. Find her, Ceci answers. What if she rejects you? Stefi questions.

MC adds her personal touch to the apartment. She takes photos of her, Cande, and the baby and puts them up over the photos Amador has of himself around. She thinks of Juanmi and how Padre Anselmo’s been wanting to tell her who her parents are.

Amador visits Nelson and gets some news about the upcoming baptism of his son. He learns that Beatriz named the baby Eduardo. He’s not too happy to hear that his son is being named after Ed. Nelson tells him that Ed is adored by everyone at that house, and that Nelson, himself, doesn’t think Ed’s such a bad guy. Just then Beatriz comes outside and sees Amador talking with Nelson.

Marichuy’s in the theatre, sitting in the audience during a rehearsal. Ceci walks in and spots her. Ceci comes up to Marichuy and says her name. Marichuy looks up and says “Usted?” END OF EPISODE

Labels: Cuidado

The entire town stands motionless, throughout the dark and stormy (but with a full moon) night, waiting to see if PadTad has “recovered”. Meanwhile, Eeyore, Mariachi and Capricho swear a blood oath that they will never ever work on a show like this again, and they pledge eternal brotherhood, para siempre. Sofia “leaves” the hacienda again, and Juan, Oscar and Franco try to figure out (again) where he left his doo rag (it’s on his pants, but he put them on “backwards”). On the other side of town…..wait a minute, wrong telenovela! Oh well, wouldn’t it be nice if ours was as fun as that, but Tontas is a “light comedy”, so let’s see what fun stuff happened.



Unfortunately, this was the leukemia episode. As we saw last time, Chava has leukemia, and in this episode, we see how all the people in his life find out, and how each one reacts. It tells us something about their character.

We begin with the Doctor telling Candy the results of the tests. Candy is shocked and distraught, staggers out of her office into the hall, and sinks to the floor. Santiago arrives, and when she tells him, he’s immediately supportive, telling Candy that leukemia is not considered a mortal or deadly disease any more, and Chava will be okay. The Doctor comes out and reaffirms this. He tells Candy that leukemia means “white blood” in Greek, and that’s where the name came from. It’s an excess of white blood cells. But there are treatments, such as chemotherapy, and bone marrow (médula ósea, in Spanish) transplants. Candy is still dazed and sobbing, and Santi says maybe we should go to the cafeteria and talk more calmly about this. Soledad and Meño come in, and Meño goes to comfort Candy, who is inconsolable.

Meanwhile, in our other theme for tonight, Alicia finds a bill for some womens’ clothes she didn’t order. She thought it was a present, but no, Patricio fesses up that they were for “the mother of his son”. Alicia is not too happy that Pat seems to be seeing more in Soledad than just “the mother of his son”, and warns him that if he continues with this, she’ll kill him. Pat’s too cool for this, and just throws out his better idea. Why don’t we get divorced? This was NOT what Alicia was hoping for.

Candy, Santi, Meño and the Doctor are talking in the cafeteria. The doctor discusses the treatment options, but Candy is still worried that Chava could die. Santi takes her hand and tells her Chava will be okay. Santi, Meño and the Doctor all pledge their support. Candy needs to go for a walk, and Santi goes with her. The first thing she’s worried about is how she’s going to tell Chava. She feels like dying, but Santi reassures her, telling her she’s a good mother, and will know how to tell Chava. He hugs her. The music plays a theme I’m going to call SIS (Santi is supportive).

Charly is arguing on the phone with his Mom, who had just told him Meño was gay. Charly doesn’t believe it, thinks Ma is making this up because she’s depressed or angry. She cautions him that he’s in for an unpleasant surprise, but he doesn’t buy it, and says he’ll prove Meño is straight.

Alicia is giving Pat a bit of a shoulder massage, while he continues to use the word pioja (louse) every two seconds, even calling her one in what he must consider a playful way. (As someone pointed out – I think it was Margarita – Pat’s two favorite words are “louse” and “sexy”). If he ever gets together with Candy, I hope she cures him of this, because these are not really too flattering for him). Alicia asks what Pat would do if she had a lover, and he responds that before killing him, he’d get divorced. Alicia notes that he has now mentioned divorce twice. Is he serious? Apparently so, as Pat coolly observes that they could still “just be friends”.

Candy and Santi are walking now, in a park or garden, with flower bushes and a high stone wall below them. Santi says it’s a magic place. He comes here when he has a wish. He shows Candy what to do. You take a flower petal, make a wish, and blow the petal off of your hand. No matter where it falls, an angel will come down, and take your wish to God. She wishes for Chava to be cured, and blows the flower from her hand, but she still is worried. (not to break the mood, but I sort of thought the actors were slightly laughing in this scene, because both flowers only flew about two feet and got stuck in some bushes, instead of floating down over the stone wall). Santiago says that he once heard that we’re all angels, but there’s just one wing, and the only way we can fly is to hug each other. SIS plays again. (Santi is sure ready with a bunch of magic places and treatments. There was a place on the beach, where there was something with two halves of the orange, last week he taught Candy the scream your name technique, and now blow the magic flower. There may have been more, but I can’t remember).

Charly’s upset, and Meño asks him about it. Charly was arguing with someone (his mother), but he really doesn’t want to tell Meño now, and wants to go see his novia. But he notices that Meño is upset, and Meño tells him about Chava. Charly is concerned, and offers to stay or help in any way needed, but Meño says it’s better for him to go see his novia now. As he leaves, Meño thought bubbles that Charly should never find out that Meño’s gay.

At the Institute, Bárbara, Lulu, Chayo, Ceci and Marissa are discussing the sad news about Candy’s son. Lulu’s uncle died of it, but Chayo’s more positive and hopeful because of modern medicine. Ceci thinks people can still die from it, but Chayo urges them all to try not to let Candy see them with such sad faces. Marissa says nothing, but walks out of the discussion, looking worried (but maybe not so much for Chava, but for herself and Santiago).

Chava himself is oblivious to the grown-ups’ preoccupations, and is playing happily with a toy plane while Gregoria fights back tears, and Meño urges her to try to laugh, so Chava won’t pick up on their worries. He tries to laugh himself, but it doesn’t come out too well.

Another depressing discussion is taking place, this time Chayo telling Ceci that if Ed gave her all those flowers, he feels guilty, and must be having an affair. Ceci wonders if she’ll stay quiet as usual, and Chayo doesn’t know what to do. She dreads (me da pavor) that he might leave, and the nights she spent at the Institute were terrible, she feels incomplete without Ed. The worst part – she thinks Ed’s lover is not just a little adventure, but something serious, that he’s been seeing the same amante for a while.

Raúl and Ed are talking about the same thing. Raúl thinks Ed’s time with his lover is taking him away from the guys. Ed upset about the situation, and says Santi’s been no help. And he’s upset that Chayo is still going along suffering in silence. For once, he wishes she’d kick, scream or claw! At this point, Ed’s cell rings, and it’s the amante. This time Ed tells her he cannot go out with her tonight, has she forgotten he's married? All this time he’s absentmindedly choking Raúl, who isn’t so happy to be on the receiving end of Ed’s confusion.

Marissa has called Santiago (still consoling Candy at the stone wall) to let him know that all the ladies at the Institute know the situation, and will be supportive. After hanging up, Santi promises Candy money, doctors, his friend the specialist or anything else Candy should need, and she is truly grateful.

Charly and Lucía are also talking about Chava. They’re worried, too, but each time they hug to reassure each other, Donato appears with a bullhorn saying “No hugging allowed”. Charly then tells Lucía the other thing on his mind. He wants to get Lulu together with his Dad (Lucía doesn’t realize this is for Charly to prove his mother wrong). Lucía has a great idea, how about a romantic dinner, in the form of a blind date! They scamper off to plan, as Donato’s bullhorn warns them against going into a “forbidden zone” (upstairs).

Continuing with our light entertainment for this evening, Alicia is now stalking Soledad. Soledad leaves her house, and Alicia (in another great outfit of sparkly black clingy dress and thigh-high grey suede boots) walks toward same house, holding something sinister in her hand.

At Santi’s house, Marissa tells Isabel about the leukemia, and right in front of Rocío’s half opened door, tells Isabel that Chava could die. Of course, Rocío heard.

By this time, Soledad’s back from the market with a few groceries. I guess what Alicia was holding really was sinister, because written in spray paint on the front of Soledad’s house are the words “You’re dead, bitch”, along with a smiley face. How nice of Alicia to add that little extra touch. Sole knows who did it, and calls Pat.

It’s getting dark, and Santiago has been with Candy all day. They’re outside her house. She’s more tranquil now. She knows she has to be strong for her son. Santi tells her not to try to do it alone. Accept the support from her uncle, her mother, and her friends. She thanks him again, and as she goes into the house to somehow tell Chava, she gives Santi a look of deep appreciation for the strength he’s provided to her this day, and Santi returns the strong, assured look. The music’s a little happier. But after Candy leaves, we see Santi looking the other way, very worried, almost crying, with his pupils sort of spinning (the way they did in LFMB when he lost Lety).

It’s time for Candy to tell Chava. Chava wonders why she’s crying. She asks him to get Merengue. He brings back the cat puppet, and the puppet says he has a tummy ache. Chava is surprised that Merengue is sick, but Candy says it’s okay, because Merengue will get well, just like you. Chava happily shows his muscles, saying he’s not sick. Candy quietly relates that Chava is a little sick, and is going to have to go to the doctor a lot, and won’t be able to play fútbol, or do a lot of other things. With Merengue’s help, she gets Chava to laugh, and they pretend to have a laugh war, but Candy’s laughs barely hide her concern.

Pat arrives at Soledad’s to see Alicia’s grafitti, He says it could have been a kid, but Soledad saw a red car out of the corner of her eye, and knows it was Alicia. She’s crazy. What is Pat going to say to her? Nothing, but he’ll take care of the situation.

Lulu is showing a mysterious note to Chayo. The note is composed of letters cut out of a magazine (the way people do with ransom notes) , and is unsigned. It’s very colorful and happy, tho. In it, the writer says he needs to see Lulu, he’s a timid fool, let’s meet in the park. We know Charly and Luc wrote it, but Lulu thinks it’s from Meño, who’s too timid to sign it. She gets all excited, asking Chayo what to wear, what makeup, how to do her hair, talking a mile a minute, so much that Chayo can’t even get a word in.

Santiago is now reassuring Isabel and Marissa about Chava, saying that Chava is going to be okay, but we don’t have to worry Rocío yet. Isa tells Santi that Rocío already knows, and Santi also takes this in, but says we’ll all work together. Marissa then touches her tummy and asks “what about my baby?”. Great timing. Santi doesn’t get into any discussion, just repeats that everything’s going to be okay.

Beto arrives home to see Pat painting the front of his house (the grafitti has been covered up). He wants to know what’s going on, and Pat just tells him it’s a work of art. Beto says his Dad used to paint the wall before he left, and Pat says maybe Beto should call his Dad and ask him to come visit, and they can all paint. Beto wants to try his hand, so Pat gives Beto the paint roller, and they have a nice father/son bonding moment, painting the wall.

Now Meño has also received a note (prepared by the juvenile matchmakers) inviting him on a date. He shows it to Candy, and he’s excited. Who’s it from? He has someone in mind (a guy, I believe), but Candy says it could be Lulu. Meño can’t believe Lulu is really that determined (lanzada), but Candy says Lulu sure is. However, it could be someone else. Meño’s heart is palpitating at the possibility, but feels guilty to be happy about this. Candy thinks it’s fine to have something to be happy about. Okay. Meño will go on the date, but if it is Lulu, he’ll get out of there pronto (salgo disparado como tapon de cidra – literally, get away like a cork from a bottle of cider, I think), without Lulu’s realizing. Candy agrees, it’s a deal.

Santi is comforting Rocío on the sofa. Rocío wonders if Chava’s sickness is like a cold. Santi explains that it’s more than that, Chava will probably have to go to the doctor a lot, and maybe even the hospital, but he’s going to be fine. Rocío then asks if God’s punishing Chava, since a girl at school said illnesses are punishments from God. Santi says the girl is completely wrong, God is good, and would never do something like that. Chava will be okay (SIS theme plays again).

Well, even the Abandonados are out of hijinks. They’re sitting around a table eating dinner, with long faces, drinking wine instead of beer. Some of them say we shouldn’t be too sad, so let’s at least have a toast to Chava’s health, which they do, in a restrained way.

Pat is fuming mad at Alicia, knows she painted Soledad’s wall, and says the next time you do anything like that, will be THE LAST. Alicia is not to be deterred, and asks if Pat’s in love with her. Pat reiterates, he was only in love one time (with Candy). Maybe Alicia shouldn’t have asked.

Raúl briefly gives his support to Candy, and leaves. Candy can’t sleep, so Gregoria will get her some tea while she works on her column, when the doorbell rings, and it’s Santi again.

Meanwhile, Raúl is now discussing the situation with Marissa, who really doesn’t care as much about poor Chava as she does about poor Marissa. She can’t believe Santi said he was in love with Candy’s “youth”. She’s no old hag. Raúl asks whether Santi might just be marrying Mari out of obligation, because of the baby, but Marissa says no way, he loves me, he’s just confused. Raúl wonders if Marissa’s fooling herself, maybe she should just break up with Santi. Mari insists Santi will change, as soon as they get married, just as he did with Paulina. Raúl doesn’t understand what Paulina has to do with this. Well, she left him alone with a kid, and he changed. No problem. But Raúl says Candy’s not Paulina, Santi might really love her. No way, says Marissa, maybe Candy just wants his money! Raúl gets mad about this part, and pleads with Marissa to get real. She’s acting like novias of alcoholics, who think as soon as they get married, the guy will stop drinking. Marissa doesn’t want to hear this either, tells Raúl all he does is yell, it’s like a drill on her ear, go yell somewhere else. Or maybe it’s like a right handed punch (derechazo, also a right handed pass with the cape in bullfighting). Well, go punch somewhere else. Raúl goes off maybe to do just that.

And now, we finally have a “Fuego” moment, as the half charm that guy left for Candy the other day magically glows as Candy lights a candle in front of Chava’s picture (only we can see the magic, tho). Santiago has stopped by just to give her one more moment of support (and play the SIS theme), but the real reason (as far as we’re concerned) he stopped by was so he could also see the magic amulet glowing. He picks up the amulet and asks Candy where she got it. Someone just gave it to her, saying that (and then he finishes for her) when she finds the other half, she’ll have true love. She is a little astonished he knows, but after he leaves, she squeezes the talisman, and prays to God for Chava to be cured.

In the morning, Candy visits the doctor. His brother is a specialist, and in the meantime, they can start treatment, and maybe at some point, do a bone marrow transplant.

Bárbara is “helping” Chayo, saying all men are the same, Ed must love Chayo because he hasn’t divorced her yet, Ed’s one of the worst womanizers, lots of other helpful things. Thanks, Barb.

Raúl, like a bull in heat, bursts into Santi’s office to give him the derechazo Marissa demanded. He grabs Santi’s throat and while shaking him, tells him he’s a traitor, and he better marry Mari or he’ll be very sorry. Santi pushes him off, saying what kind of idiocy is this, what right do you have to come into my office and shake me (zangolotearme) like that! He says Marissa told him he she couldn’t get pregnant, so he was taken by surprise. Then you don’t want the baby? roars Raúl. No, I want it, it was just unexpected. And if you don’t calm down, I’m just walking out of the office and leaving you here. No, I’ll leave, shoots back Raúl bitterly. But you know what you have to do, he adds on his way out.

The doctor has come to Candy’s house to set out the regimen for Chava’s treatment. He tells Candy, Meño and Gregoria the new realities. From now on, try to avoid any contagious things with Chava. Only one or two people should be with him at a time. Anyone near him has to have totally clean hands, and they have to wear facemasks (tapabocas). You have to be very careful with his food. And even after the operation, he’ll have to be cared for very delicately. Is the operation dangerous, asks Candy? Well, the real danger would be not to operate.

Santi is typing a letter to Raúl on his computer, since speaking directly was causing too much anger. Santi is calmer now, and in the letter, he admits that he is in love with Candy. The love took him by surprise, and for a while he didn’t realize it. But don’t worry, Santi will marry Marissa. Santi loves his two daughters, but he’ll love the new baby just as much. The baby is innocent, and deserves to live a happy life. But Raúl, he adds, don’t ask me to be happy when I’m giving up the woman I love, and you don’t know how much it hurts me. Un abrazo, Santiago.

Pat was driving when Meño almost walked into his car. He gets out and asks Meño what’s wrong. Meño says Chava’s name, then thinks better of it, and says, sorry, I can’t tell you. He leaves Pat wondering what is going on.

Candy, wearing the facemask, goes to Chava’s bed, explains to him that he can’t play with Beto for a while, he’ll have to go to the doctor a lot, but later everything will be back to normal. Chava’s still in an excellent mood, and asks if Mom can bring the television into his bedroom. She will.

Gregoria came to tell Alicia the news, too (at least just about everyone knows now, they got that part over with – on my recap night, thanks a lot). Gregoria thinks Alicia should tell Pat, but Alicia says no way, he’s not going to find out, he doesn’t have to find out. At this point, Pat walks in, asks what do I not have to find out?, and we’ll have to wait until Monday for Alicia’s response.

Not quite the happiest of episodes.

But next time – Chava’s going to need a donor (what a surprise!).

Vocabulario

Médula ósea – bone marrow
Me da pavor – it gives me dread, or terror
Lanzada – determined
Salgo disparado como tapon de cidra – I’ll hurry away like a cork from cider (not sure of this one)
Derechazo – a right hand punch in boxing, a right hand pass in bullfighting
Zangolotear – to shake somebody
Tapabocas - facemasks

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Capítulo 187

As we in Viewerville begin another of our nightly forays into the land of Mexiloon, we join-in-progress as two-thirds of the Reyes Brothers’ brain trust is at the Double E (Hacienda de las Elizondo y del asqueroso ese, Escandon) watching Fernando throwing papers from his safe into a satchel. Ah-hah! Fer has left the mysterious little wooden chest behind so Franco immediately hands it to Oscar, the crip on the crutches, to open. However, before The Disabled One can perform this nifty balancing act, Fernando suddenly grabs the mystery-box out of his hand and stashes it along with the rest of his stuff into the satchel then exits stage left. (“It’s a fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Stanley!” --Sorry, but the similarity to Laurel and Hardy here is just too overwhelming to ignore.) Now all the incriminating evidence is gone in a flash cuz Feo’s got his stash.

At the same time back at Comisario Central, Muttonchops is forced to let Darth Rico go for lack of evidence. However, DV cannot leave town because there’s still a homicide investigation. Darth says no way he’d dream of leaving this berg till he’s finished what he came for. He makes a show of ambidextrously checking his two pistols and struts out the door. Padre Tadeo, who’s come to get Fermin released, walks out from the cell area and is told that Raquel Uribe was found dead at the bottom of a ravine and that Juan has accused Darth of killing her. Pad Tad thinks to himself that he hopes now Gabi will wise up and kick out that murderous bunch from her hacienda. He then takes Fermin back to the rectory.

Back at the Double E, Juan goes upstairs to his room after seeing Fer walk out the door with his man-purse. HIs brainiac brothers tell him what just happened. We get two minutes of Larry, Curly and Mo arguing about how they just let Fer get one over on them. The only thing missing are the eye boinks and the head-slaps.

Meanwhile, Feo enters the rectory office and hides his m'urse of goodies in the base of a pedestal underneath a statue of St. Francis of Assisi. (¡Qué ironía!) Padre Tadeo enters immediately afterward and asks him why he’s there. Feo fudges and says he has been waiting to speak to him and the priest lights into him immediately about being in no mood to hear a confession about his murdering Raquel Uribe. For only the second time in his life Fernando is honest and denies any knowledge that Raqui was offed. Fermin is unlucky enough to walk in behind Tadeo. Feo warns him about opening his mouth. Pad Tad jumps in to tell him to save it because Fermin fears not, that Fer’s time to pay for his wicked ways is fast approaching and BTW, Gabriela has now confessed and repented whole-heartedly of all her sins so not to go counting on help from her end either. Feo knows she’d actually have to have a heart first so he just stands there and smirks.

Speaking of the aforementioned Heartless One, she is now sitting in her bed and devising another plan to keep Jimena and Sarita with her at the hacienda indefinitely (if not longer). She tells herself that if Sofia leaves then they’ll follow her and she’ll be left all alone there. So, whatever it takes, she’s got to keep Sofia there for her own protection.

Sofia, meanwhile, is downstairs telling her sisters she’s leaving the hacienda because she’s finally had enough of Mama’s guff. Jimena says she’s coming too and asks Sarita if she’s still determined to stay by Mama’s side and give up her chance at happiness with Franco. (Yeah, Sarita. So how’s it working out for you so far? --Will somebody head to the drugstore in town and get Dr. Phil on the phone, cuz this gal is in definite need of some serious intervention.)

Somehow Padre Tadeo has lost track of Fermin and comes back into the rectory office looking for him. He spies a note supposedly from Fermin saying he’s run away because he’s too freakin’ afraid of Fer. Pad Tad tells himself that he must understand that not just anyone can face Eeevil. Speaking of which, the Blood-Sucker, Fernando (note the hanging garlic framing his malevolent mug at the market stall) stops to look at a number of nasty-looking knives. He thinks back to Padre’s words of warning. He snickers to himself and says no, it’s more like time has come to get rid of his enemies and knowing Gabi the way he does, there’s no way she is ever going to truly repent for her sins. He chooses the dagger he wants.

Night falls, and time stands still, as the everlasting “luna llena” (full moon) of Mexidoom rises. Gabi goes downstairs and tearfully begs her daughters not to leave her. Sofia says she’s getting what she wants most, her hacienda, and they’re leaving her to it. Gabi pulls a tantrum and cries that her daughters are all that really matter to her. She even gets on her knees just to make it look good. She promises to change her ways, but Jimena and Sarita tell her she’ll never change. (Hey, is that a suitcase in Sarita’s hands? Hmmm. Maybe Jimena’s a better life coach than I gave her credit for.) Gabi then promises to give her consent to their relationships with the Reyes’s. Just then Juan and his brothers arrive to take the three of them back to the Double R (Hacienda de los Robles-Reyes) with them. She whines and snivels on Juan’s shoulder and tells him she’ll even consent to them with her daughters. Just don't please take them away just yet. Everybody thinks the old witch has gone ‘round the bend.

Pad Tad and his faithful donkey, Platero –yes, the donkey does have a name—are walking back through the woods to the rectory after a very successful day ministering to the faithful when the Grim Reaper suddenly appears from behind in the moonlight. Fernando, jumps out at the priest from the bushes to crescendos of Phantom of the Opera-style refrains. Disguised once more behind a scarf, a serape and a huge sombrero, he attacks Padre Tadeo and stabs him in the gut. (Feo took the tiniest dagger in the bunch. Granted a four-inch blade can kill, but I still find it hard to believe that he actually was able to penetrate through two or three layers of smock and undies or whatever and mortally wound Tadeo. That little thing doesn’t look like it could cut butter, let alone mortally wound somebody. Silly me.) Lightning flashes from the heavens and Padre Tadeo helplessly drops to the ground as Fernando sneers at his handiwork and thinks to himself, “Good riddance, little priest!”

Juan is disgusted with the whole Mama scene and tells Gabi that it’s come to this because nobody can stand her any longer, and both Franco and Oscar tell her they won’t permit her or anybody else to abuse the women they love any more. She promises never to insult them or to interfere with the three couples again. Juan gives up in frustration then and tells Sofia and her sisters it’s their choice. He says they’ll stay there to protect them but just until her mother is recovered, though as far as he’s concerned he doesn’t believe a word of it. Sofia gives in and they all agree to stay on till she’s better. Mother Hen pecks her way back upstairs and her three little chicks follow. (Ugh.)

Oscar tells Juan and Franco he thinks she’s faking too, and it’ll be forever till they get their women back. Juan swears he won’t fall for that again and it will only be until Gabi gets better. (Ha! Oscar is on to something here. A woman with a heart condition that calls for surgery might not ever get well again. They could be waiting till Hell freezes over.) Franco reminds them that the priest told them she’d confessed her sins and repented, but Juan figures she deceived the priest.

Speaking of which, the poor prelate is prostrate as the rain storm moves in. He asks for forgiveness and waits to die. Fernando takes off his disguise and looks over at him from a clearing in the bushes. “Poor Padre Tadeo. Well that’s life! Good things don’t last long.” Suddenly lightening flashes and causes two crossed branches to catch fire. (Holy symbolism, Batman!) Fer walks away in the opposite direction.

Back at the Double E, Oscar is still complaining to Juan about Gabriela’s faking. Juan says he’ll make sure the old lady doesn’t go back on her word and then he reminds them they still need to find their parents’ and Libia’s murderers and to see justice is done.

Upstairs, back in her bed, Gabi thinks to herself that she really hated all that begging and groveling she did in front of the Reyes’s to make sure that her daughters would stick around. She figures that at least Juan will be good protection against Fernando and if worse comes to worst she might even tell Juan about Fernando’s being the one responsible for killing his sister.

At the same time, Feo pulls up in front of the barn. Darth Rico just happens to be skulking in the bushes and sees him. He follows him into the barn and notices him hiding something but doesn’t know exactly what. Darth confronts him but Fernando says it’s nothing that concerns Rico, but he has heard that Raquel is dead and he’s sure that Rico murdered her. DV sniffs. “What can I tell you? She deserved it for fooling around with you!” He slugs Feo unexpectedly in the snout. Fer gets up and tells him he owes him for betraying his father and that it’s his fault he lost everything and committed suicide. DV tells him his daddy was a simple-minded fool the same as Fer and it’s “Wrestle-mania II” for a while till Rico falls to the ground and Feo pulls a nearby pitchfork on him. He’s got his foot on Rico’s neck and Rico is too winded to get out from under him. “You’re time has come!” He’s just about to spear him when Rosendo walks in on them and asks what’s going on. “Nothing. Ricardo was just learning about farming implements and I was demonstrating.” Fer thinks twice about things then and throws the pitchfork back into the hay.

The Reyes’s ride out to Libia’s grave to tell her even though they’ve given up on vengeance for the good of their women and their little daughters, they’re still gonna grab the guy what done her in. It starts to pour outside.

We beam back to the Double E where Gabi has sent for El Coyote. “Pardon the informality of my bedroom.” She hands him the bottle of pills Feo gave her and asks him to check to see if they’re really what’s written on the label because she’s afraid that Fernando is trying to kill her.

On the way back from the Bat Cave, the Reyes’s come across Pad Tad’s half-dead body lying in puddles of mud and they take him into town.

Alone, outside the hacienda, El Coyote takes the pills and crumples the snake trim he’s still carrying with him. “You’re time has come, Gabriela Aceveda, yours and Ricardo Uribe’s also. Forgive me, God, but this is much stronger than I.”

The Reyes’s arrive back in town. Juan carries Pad Tad in his arms and s-l-o-w-l-y walks toward the little clinic as the town folk suddenly appear in droves with torches. (Ok. Now, the guy is bleeding to death—not that we see even the first drop of blood on him—and the whole town, Juan included, gets hit with an attack of Tortoise-ites?) It’s raining cats and dogs outside. Juan suddenly stops in the middle of the town square to pray to the diosito to save the priest. (Now, is it just me, or, shouldn’t he do that AFTER he drops him off at the clinic????? I mean, normally these people run around like chickens with their heads cut off whenever there’s the slightest emergency, but now everybody suddenly gets the S-L-O-W-S????) “Don’t take him from us yet, Lord.” (Yeah, at least not till they get him into the freakin’ clinic!!)

Finally the good doctor races out into the rain and tells them Tadeo's still breathing (now that IS a miracle) and they take him inside and leave him there, knife wounds and all. The doc examines him. (No rush to get an ambulance or a truck to race him off to the ER at the hospital in Puebla City like they did for Gabi and for Sofia. Nope. Nothin’ doin’. I guess Pad Tad’s on his own with this one.)

While all this is going on in town, Darth starts to search the barn for whatever it was that Fer hid. Eventually he finds the bloody dagger (conveniently wrapped in plastic) and slides it under his jacket for safekeeping till the time is right to use it against Fer.

Back at the Double R, Hortensia, Quintina and Eva discuss the fact that Juan and his brothers have started looking into their sister’s death again.

Over at the Double E, Rigo comes to tell Sofia and the others what has happened to Padre Tadeo. He takes Sofia and Jimena to town with him and Sarita stays to look after Mama. Once they get to the little clinic Sofia gets the rundown on Pad Tad from Juan. Everyone is in the waiting room waiting for news. It doesn’t look good. He may not last. Nabor walks over and tells them that he can’t prove anything, but Fernando Escandon has been threatening the priest for a long while now. Caras impactadas all ‘round.

Back at the bungalow Root is looking for Papa Bear. Suddenly Fer (the busy beaver) jumps her and starts choking her because she won’t tell him what she said to get Juan to give her back that document she signed giving Fer half her inheritance. Out of nowhere Coyote appears and pulls him off her. Fer tells him to stick his nose out of it and he starts to go after Coyote, but the posse appear just as suddenly out of nowhere and cock their rifles. “You’re pretty brave as long as you’ve got your men aiming at me, but one of these days I’m going to get you when you’re all alone.” “—Anytime! And don’t mess with Root again or you’ll have to deal with me.” Feo threatens him again but Coyote just stares him down. Feo brushes off his hat and leaves.

Root wants to know why Coyote was there protecting her. He tells her they’ll get together the next morning and have a long chat, but he doesn’t have time right then for it. “You must learn (Grasshopper) that in order to survive one must be patient.” Root is mesmerized.

Back at the clinic, Eva rushes in to tell Juan and Sofia that the town is up in arms and looking to lynch whoever is responsible for attacking Padre Tadeo. (I say fine. It’s about time we get a little vigilante vengeance thing going where Feo is concerned.) Pad Tad regains consciousness just in time to make Juan promise he won’t allow the town to do something they’d regret later. Juan promises and then goes out to talk to the angry mob. Everyone mumbles. The Borg Sisters (resistance is futile) chant in unison, “Nothing that you might say will change our desire for revenge!” (Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do.) Juan wins out though, and he convinces everybody to pray.

Back at Hellhaven, Gabi tells Sarita that it’s too bad about Padre Tadeo, but after all, he was sort of looking for it by always meddling where he didn’t belong. Sarita can’t believe The New and Improved Mama would say such a thing, especially after getting right with God. Gabi is quick to correct her daughter’s errant thoughts. “I never separated myself from God, just from Tadeo’s parish. (Sorry, but I have always thought that huge cross on her wall should have been more appropriately turned upside down the way she practices religion.) They agree to visit him the next morning if he doesn’t croak first. Sarita drones on. Gabi nods as if she's listening but actually is lost in her own thoughts that it would be better for her if he dies now that he knows so many of her deep, dark secrets. The priest has just been a regular nuisance for her and she hopes to Hell that he does die.

The town prays for the priest outside the little clinic throughout the night and into the next morning. The good doctor checks Tadeo for vitals and tells Sofia and Juan that there has been a slight improvement. Juan and Sofia rush to his bedside and Juan whispers to him that he must make the effort to get better. He promises to never look for revenge again and to trust in the law. Sofia reminds the padre that the town needs him. He’s their hope and their faith, their word of God. (All right already. We get the picture.) Everything is sweetness and sunlight….

Meanwhile, Coyote is getting ready to drive back to Gabi with the pill bottle. He says to himself that the medicine has definitely been tampered with and if she continues to take it she will get worse day by day. (Woah there! What kind of new leather ghetto garb is our boy wearing now? Will you get a load of the fox collar on that leather jacket of his? Hey, far be it from me to say anything, but isn’t it like the middle of summer there?) Coyote tells himself that Fernando may want to kill her but he’s not going to succeed. Before he does, Coyote will do her in himself.

Coyote gets back to the hacienda and gives Gabi back her meds. He tells her they’re perfectly fine and to take one now to make sure she doesn’t mess up her schedule. She is all smiles and swallows a tablet. She fawns over how trustworthy a man he is. He says his respect for her is just as high, yada, yada. He asks her then why she feels Fer is trying to kill her. “He must owe on a few deaths, huh?” (Sorry, but that phrase threw me.) At first she balks, but he tells her that she needs to trust him and come out with it all so he’ll be forewarned should things come to that and he’s needed to protect her.

Gabi still is hesitant so Coyote says it’s obvious that she loves Fer much more than he loves her. She asks what he means. He explains that the night before he found Feo abusing Root and it seemed they had an odd sort of relationship. It seemed to him they had something going on between the two of them. (Anvil #2 has just dropped.) Gabi refuses to believe this. “It can’t be! He swore—“ “—Don’t get upset. I made a mistake.” He gets ready to leave her "in the hands of her husband whom she so greatly trusts.” Gabi calls him back and says he’s right, that she really does trust Coyote more than Fer. Coyote reels her in a little farther and says apparently not because she won’t open up to him like she used to.

Gabi finally gives in and says okay, to show Coyote how much she really trusts him she’ll tell him something only she knows. He’s all ears. “Speak to me in full confidence. I would never dare to betray you…..” “--I know. Okay. You’re right about Fernando. He’s guilty of a number of crimes.” Coyote knows he just hit pay-dirt. “Among them is the death of the Reyes’s sister.” Coyote realizes it’s not just pay-dirt. It's an all-out El Jefe sized gusher! “Yes," says Gabi conspiratorially. "Fernando murdered Libia Reyes.”

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Eduardo, where are you? I miss you!

This was a little weird. I guess Tontas ran long or something, because we jump right into the show without the usual previouslies and credits.

Padre Anselmo and Ceci drink tea in the garden at Casa Velarde. Ceci repeats her usual lines. Padre Anselmo tells her he is going to try to talk to Marichuy again and things will change. Let’s hope so. Ceci is a nice lady and she deserves some new dialogue.

Marichuy has fallen asleep at the table while studying her script at the new apartment. Amador lets himself in (should have changed the locks first thing, ladies!) and creeps over to her and sticks his lips right in her face, and it serves him right when she gives him a solid smack in the face as she is startled awake. She tells him she’s having a hard time learning the part because the character talks a LOT and it’s hard to focus because she keeps thinking about Blanca’s trial. Amador is disgusted that she’s still concerned about Juan Miguel’s life.

Purita mopes about chez mamá and stares at a picture and remembers Clemencia telling her to ditch Adrian because they’ll never be happy. Adrian walks in and they stare at each other, wordlessly and with much great significance, for sure.

Padre Anselmo is back at the church and receives a summons to appear at Blanca´s trial.

Purita is telling Adrian goodbye, and assuring him that she´s not leaving him because she doesn´t love him; just the opposite, in fact. Adrian is not happy with this and begs her to stay so they can be together and make their dreams reality. He kisses her, but she says he shouldn´t because she is a nun in spirit if not yet in actuality.

Padre Anselmo visits Marichuy and wants to talk to her about her parents. He´s going to tell her who they are, even if she doesn´t want to hear it.

Stefi wonders if she should have told Patricio where Marichuy is. Isabela says of course not.

Olga is seeing her little girl off at the summer camp convent bus stop. Purita says she´ll pray for her. Adrian runs up, still hopeful that she’ll be overcome by his awesomeness and persistence and reconsider, but is rebuffed. On the plus side, she says she’ll pray for him, too. A nun pushes her toward the convent van and they’re off.

Padre Anselmo goes on and on and on in classic telenovela major important news-sharing fashion about how he is really going to tell Marichuy, he didn’t before, but now he is, for sure, and she shouldn’t try to stop him or refuse to hear him, because it’s important, and he’s going to tell her, and before when he was going to tell her she was still upset about having been so badly treated, but that was then, and this is now, and so much time has passed, and so he’s going to tell her, and besides, now that she’s a mother herself she will understand better how much mothers care about their children, so he’s going to tell her who her parents are, and by now she should be ready to hear this important information, so he is going to tell her. Needless to say, the scene ends without PA telling Marichuy who her parents are.

At Castle San Roman, Juan Miguel asks Rocío why she didn´t tell him that Marichuy had been there. Rocío says she didn´t want to upset him, with everything else that was going on. (What could be more upsetting than having someone you really care about, who makes you happy even when she’s making you crazy, around in times of trouble?) He looks skeptical but she can’t think of any better reason than that because even though Rocío doesn´t know she’s a telenovela character, she recognizes when her actions are just lame and pointless plot devices. She tells him that Marichuy left after she told her JM was marrying Blanca, and that she asked about Mari’s wedding and learned that it hasn’t happened yet. Hmmm…JM´s little pea brain (90% of its functions are devoted to maintaining hotness, and most of the rest to self-destruction) works away and wonders how to make use of this good news that she is not married yet. Although, that news is like a week old, and in telenovela time that’s a full engagement plus a few days’ honeymoon.

PA begs Marichuy to give her parents a chance and allow them to get close to her and explain things. BabyJM plays with the curtains and is adorable. Marichuy is still stubborn and says if her parents weren’t poor and starving like she was, then she wants nothing to do with them.

Rocío tells JM that Marichuy just fled, so she didn’t have a chance to talk with her more. JM tells her about running into Mari on the street. Rocío is wearing the most hideous hair bow. Also she appears to be wearing sweats with high heels. An excellent side plot would be to send her on one of those “What Not To Wear” shows. At the very least, there should be a group hair accessory intervention. The glare off that shiny hair bow is making it very hard for me to focus on JM’s hotness, which is the real crime here.

PA tries to remind Marichuy that her mother was alone and thought she was dying. Marichuy is pitiless and says she, too, didn’t have the father with her when her baby was born, and she nearly died also. PA says that was different, and Marichuy had lots of help, and her mother had no one. Mari curtly says she doesn’t want to hear any more about it and walks out of the room.

Adrian arrives back home (where he lives with his mama, in a much nicer place than the other neighborhoodlums live in, and I love the shade of blue their walls are painted) and tells Clemencia (with barely suppressed hostility) that Purita has gotten herself to the nunnery, so tomorrow he’s leaving too, and that’s that. Clemencia is stunned that her brilliant plan backfired. Ha, I hope next time Adrian comes back, he brings home a girl of the sort they say you would never take home to your mama; that would show her. Judgmental twit.

Estafa is still at Isa’s place and getting ready to go find Marichuy at the theater and ruin her life some more. She’s wearing her detective trench coat so we know she’s serious about tracking things down. Isa wishes her good luck with her evil plans. The two witches cackle.

JM visits Blanca at the jail. Surprisingly, he does not seem to have thought to bring her a file baked into a fruitcake so that she can break out and murder more people, even though she totally deserves that because she’s a good person and would be a great mother and all, except for those pesky little homicidal episodes. She says Licenciado Losada doesn’t think PA’s testimony will be enough, and that they need to find someone from her past who knew her as Ivette. JM begs her to try to remember someone.

Marichuy is onstage at the theater, repeatedly giving bad line readings of “I’ve never danced in my life!” to Amador, who is getting a little frustrated and trying to get her to wave her arms and emote more. They continue with the rehearsal as Stef sneaks in the back. Amador praises Mari’s progress and Stef claps loudly and rudely. She tells Marichuy that she saw Leopardo. Marichuy thought he had gone back to the hacienda. If I understand Stef’s threatiness correctly, she is saying she’ll tell Leo where to find Marichuy. Which is lame, because Mari told PA she was willing to see Leo. Stef should get her information straight before she formulates a plot. Marichuy asks how she knows so much about Leo. Estafa smirks smugly.

Patricio drops by Isa’s place and she invites him to make himself at home. He looks around skeptically like that would never be possible. He stiffly and stuffily tells her he wants to know where Marichuy is. She plays stupid. He tells her Stef offered to get the brat out of the way, but he reacted too soon, before he could get more details out of her. Isa insists she knows nothing of this whole messy affair. Pat isn’t buying it.

JM tells Blanca they need to try everything possible to help her, so she’s going to be placed under psychiatric observation so they can make a scientific study of her case. She says she is renuente (reluctant), which makes him sigh and rub his face. He’s so fortunate to not be acne-prone. Or unfortunate, because if he was he would learn to stop doing that. Blanca looks catatonic for a moment and JM thinks she’s switching to Ivette, but she snaps to and says that Ivette must not be coming out to play lately because she doesn’t want to be locked up in jail.

Marichuy tells Stef to stay out of her life. As Mari leaves the theater in a snit, Stef mutters to herself that she’s going to get that orphan out of town whether she wants to go or not. Then she poses grandiosely on the stage and fancies herself a great actress.

Isab!tch insists to Patricio that Stefi would never ever be capable of doing anything bad ever, and especially not to him because she loves him like a father, and they really have no idea where Marichuy is, for realsies, no way do they know anything about it. Patricio still doesn’t believe her because of the whole Stef-offering-an-offing thing, and says he’ll never forgive her. Oh, we can only hope. At the very least he should cut off her allowance for a week or two.

Beatriz is at Castle San Roman with Elsa and her parents to invite Rocío and JM to the baby’s baptism. Francisco and Luisa will be the godparents.

Marichuy rides her bike back to the apartment, where Cande is playing music and dancing. Cande is not happy to hear that Stef found and annoyed Marichuy. “You’re never going to be free of that monserga (gibberish)!,” she says. Cande is even more impactada to hear that Stef ran into Leopardo. Mari fills her in on Stef’s nasty meddling.

The coven holds a briefing to get each other up to speed on the progress of their various cursings, lies, and evil deeds. They go on and on discussing their whole nasty history in great detail, all of which we already know so I won’t repeat it, to the point where I really hope Patricio planted a bug while he was there because it would be really awesome if they were both caught, filleted, and served to Amador’s wolf. They decide they need to focus on using Leo to get Marichuy out of Dodge para siempre. Isa smacks Stef on the shoulder so hard that she nearly falls out the window, which is really funny.

Cande agrees with me, that they need to change the apartment’s locks, because it’s just too convenient that Amador has moved them here into this place for which he has a key. She knows what he’s like, and makes an impassioned political speech about who they are and why they need to protect themselves. Marichuy can’t really hear this argument all the way from her cruise on de Nile, and thinks it isn’t necessary. She thinks Amador is only interested in her as an actress, even though Cande reminds her of the previous times Amador tried to rape her and pretended to be blind to take advantage some more and all that. Thank you, writers, for remembering! Marichuy blithely says that was a long time ago, like rapist tendencies are something that passes like a 24-hour flu. She leaves to feed the baby so she doesn’t have to talk about it anymore. What’s the big deal? Just change the locks!

Stef and Isa discuss how to go about stalking their prey. Then they leave the apartment, and Isa rudely leaves her garbage by a neighbor’s planters rather than hauling it all the way to the dumpster.

Padre Anselmo visits Nueva Casa again and tells Mari and Cande about Beatriz and Amador’s baby’s baptism. “Amador’s?!?!!,” says Marichuy. Yeah, I can’t believe PA would be so rude as to associate that sweet baby with that jackass either. They invite him to stay for a finger-lickin’-good lunch, but he has to go to the tribunal. He tries to explain to them about the double-personality French woman, but they don’t really understand. PA invites Marichuy to drop by the church sometime to talk about baptizing BabyJM.

Ceci visits JM at the castle and is shocked to hear that Marichuy has been by the house. He tells her he didn’t talk to her, but he understands that she is in the D.F. for something to do with her wedding. Ceci is impactada. JM mentions that he ran into Marichuy in the street and she confirmed she is getting married, but he does not know which lucky gentleman is the winner. He suggests PA might know.

Beatriz and Elsa work on baptism-party planning. Elsa thinks hard booze isn’t appropriate, so they should have champagne. Beatriz worries that it’s inconsiderate to have a party when Nelson is so sick, but Elsa thinks it will entertain him; what he doesn’t need is more free time to think. I think Nelson will just be bummed that they’re having champagne instead of hard liquor.

PA defends Blanca at the tribunal.

Ceci goes to the church, but is told that PA is out and she should come back tomorrow. She is muy upset.

Marichuy laments that no matter how hard she tries, she can’t forget Juan Miguel. Flashback to the greatest hits of their courtship, and then my reception turns to psychotic black and green fuzz so I have no idea if there were avances or anything.

So, JM and Mari still didn’t talk, and no Leo, no Eduardo, no Vicente. Sigh, woe is me. On the plus side, Juan Miguel did not cry, not a once!

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We left our adorable plastic doctor face-down in back of a truck getting arrested by Metro Police, "I'm not a thief, I'm a plastic surgeon!" he whimpers.

Over at the restaurant Sven and Ole are eating the romantic meal of birria that Lulu prepared for Meño. She cries on Charly's shoulder that she and Meño are in love and she prepared the meal to declare her feelings to him but there are difficulties.

Santi's lawyer has managed to get Santi out of jail and his only injuries are a sore shoulder and a broken ego. He performs a rapid-fire recreation of the crimes against him and tries to call Candy from the police phone.

Instead of answering Candy prefers to recall numerous scenes where Santi was very sweet and romantic to her. Kissing, crying, eating palomitas late at night, dancing romantically under the stars. She hangs out at the playground and weeps; she's got it bad folks.

Lalo visits the institute to argue with Chayo, he's been looking everywhere for her, where has she been staying? She whips out her pillow and blankie and plops herself on the couch in the waiting room. Lalo begs her to come home, "I've been a fool, I miss you so much" he cries, a lone tear running down his cheek as they embrace. Crocodiles cry too.

Santi finds Candy and tells her why he stood her up. Candy's got news too, she's in love with Patricio. He glares, she glares, he glares. Santi doesn't believe her, she's in love with him. "What do you care," she asks, "you're getting married and Santiago Junior's on the way, right?"

Lucia and her gal pal swap tales about their first time doing it, they had to shut their eyes. Whatever. The friend asks if Lucia used a condom and calls her a dummy for not using one. Next time a condom, OK? I fear it may be too late for our Lucia.

Charly finds Meño in the kitchen and scolds his dad for standing Lulu up. Meño was busy buying fruit. (The irony of it all.) Charly tells his dad he acts kind of gay but luckily he knows he's all man. Meño tries to act macho...dressed in his pink shirt and lime green apron, doesn't quite work.

Back at the institute Ceci pops in to tell Candy how glad she is she's finally broken it off with Santi. When queried Ceci admits to being in love with "someone". Chayo intrudes and excitedly reveals she's going back home. Candy is surprised to hear she's been bunking at work.

In a heated exchange Gregoria reveals to Alicia that Chava is Patricio's son. Alicia breaks down in tears as Greg tells her to stop being a child and try to forget Candy exists, it's the only way that they'll both be happy. Now she has to go pick up the kid from pediatrics. (Uh oh.)

The ladies of the institute gather to congratulate Marissa on the baby but first a big hand for the one who provided the seed. (heh) Candy hands Santi a bag and pulls out a baby's outfit for the mini America fanatic. She hands him a tiny skirt in case it's a girl. Santi flashes back to a similar scene with Paulina, ah he was so optimistic back then. Marissa thinks it's an adorable little outfit although she's a Yankee's fan. Que??? Candy's look says it all, Marissa is a Yankee's fan and therefore all wrong for the futbol loving Santiago.

Back at his office Santi catches Lalo reading Candy's recent article. How could he read such bull? (Even though he says Candy is muy simpatica for buying the little America outfit.) Candy's article has converted Lalo and he is now very sensitive to the pain he has caused Chayo. They discuss ways to win her back and suddenly Lalo jumps up, he has an idea!

Boring scene at the institute where the new client Gloomy Rita discusses her life, she got married young, her kids are grown, nobody needs her, yada yada yada. Babs pronounces this is the reason behind Rita's depression. They all decide Rita needs to find a project that is hers and hers alone so that she will feel important. Oh, were it that easy to cure depression.

Gregoria goes to pick Chava up at the doctor's. She tells doc she had three kids and she knows his chronic fever and nosebleeds aren't normal so what's up? Doc tells her not to panic, he wants to run some tests on Chava. He pointedly notes that he has known Candy since Chava was born and he knows Chava is her life. Oh dear.

Pato's studying up on high end jewelry when Alicia shows up in a superhot red dress. (Why did she want plastic surgery?) They have an incredibly weird conversation where she tells him she's jealous that he has a son and she's jealous at the thought of all the little Patos that might be running around out there. He assures her except for that one little time he always used protection. She plays her hand, she wants a kid with him. She chews on his ear which explains why one is pointier than the other. He's so excited at the thought of having another kid that he says let's start now. They boink on the chair. No wait, he sees the sign on his open door "Never leave the door open because you don't know who can enter", how true in more ways than one. He shuts the door and they boink on the desk.

Lalo interrupts Chayo at work to give her a huge bouquet of roses. After he leaves she starts ripping their little red flowery heads off and angrily mutters he brought the flowers because he's not going to come home. Hmmmph, recidivist.

Candy has a flashback to when she told a toddler Chava that he would grow up big and strong to be president of Las Chivas.

The kindly doctor examines Chava and decides they need to take a little blood. Alone with Gregoria he lists Chava's symptoms, sweating, fever, nosebleeds, fatique, not to mention nodes and a swollen spleen. He says he'll visit Candy tomorrow at work to discuss the results with her. Meanwhile granny needs to take the worry off her face so she doesn't scare the kid.

Back at home Candy thinks it's odd that the doctor wants to visit her at work instead of her going to his office as usual. Gregoria swears the doctor didn't tell her anything else but she turns away from Candy, stricken.

Santi watches TV with his daughters and upsets Lucia because he won't let her watch her favorite 9:00 p.m. novela, the one with the hairy, fit men. (I wonder which one that could be FELS fans?) Just when Santi and Lucia are having the conversation about why she should call him papa not tío Marissa inserts her selfish self and squeals she's pregnant! Lucia's incensed and tells her TIO goodnight. Rocio's happy and Santi is...not thrilled. (Hombres encuadrados - I'm not really sure what that means, I thought encuadrado meant framed so I figure it means they have nice physiques? Can anyone clue me in?)

Candy and creepy cat Merengue put Chava to bed, she feels his forehead and becomes very sad. Later she prays that nothing be wrong with Chava, he's her life and reason for living.

Jaime and Isabel have a romantic dinner in PV. He wants to show her the piano in the restaurant and as she plays the keys her hands run across a tiny exquisite box shaped like a piano. OMG, there's a ring inside! So soon? Yes, he proposes, will she make him the happiest man in the world? Well? Well? Isa smiles...

Naughty Chava sneaks up on mama and scares her to death! He thinks it's a fine joke because mom has to put him to bed again, meaning we get yet another loving scene between mom and son meaning the heavy anvils are lining up dammit. Candy goes downstairs and talks to Meño. Meño says since Chava was born nothing is more important to her. Again with the "Chava is her life". She feels anxious and sad and asks Meño to pray with her.

Next morning they all have a noisy and frenetic breakfast and Meño takes a chipper Chava to school.

Rocia is ecstatic to see her abuelita and Jaime roll up in a cab. She tells Isabel that she's going to have a little brother and daddy's not going to love her anymore. Isa and Jaime share a worried look.

Uh oh, Chava's test results come in and the doctor looks concerned and rubs his chin.

Candy notes Charly is pensive. He's concerned that his sensitive mama will be affected by what Meño does. Candy notes they've been divorced for a long time and it's doubtful she cares. He tells Candy he's got a "surprise" (he says it in English) and he has "good news" (also in english) but since it's a "surprise" he can't tell her.

Over at daddy's clinic Rocio works on her anatomy coloring book, she wants to be a doctor just like papa. Isa relates her good news to Santi, Jaime proposed marriage! His reaction prompts Rocio to tell him "stop acting like a clown", more importantly she doesn't want a little brother.

Candy and Meño talk about Charly, she wants to know what Charly's gossip is all about. Meño supposes it's because Charly thinks that Meño's in love, God forbid. Candy says Charly is preoccupied about how this might affect his mama.

Raul visits Santi and announces he wants to be the godfather. Santi tells him Lalo already put dibs on that position but Raul is firm, Lalo can wait for other kids because Raul is the brother-in-law. The rule is the mother decides on the godfather and the dad decides on the godmother, OK?

Marissa plays It's-all-about-me with Rocio and lets her feel her baby tummy. They go on and on while Isabel and Lucia observe from the balcony. Lucia thinks Marissa is a fake and that Santi is blind. Isa sighs in resigned agreement and tells Lucia they're going to have to take a class in patience.

Charly calls his mama to tell her his papa is in love. She's shocked Charly knows the truth. "With another man?" she asks. "Don't be crazy," Charly scoffs, but mama sets him straight by blurting out that Meño is gay. Charly is muy pero muy impactado.

Over at the institute Santi asks Candy to be the godmother, "Let's have a hug comadre!" Chava's doctor interrupts and wants to speak to Candy in private. Our sensitive galán senses something isn't right and he looks worried and helpless.

The doctor tells Candy Chava's prognosis, her son has, we guessed it, leukemia. Candy staggers out into the hall and sags to the floor. Of course Santiago is waiting and he rushes to her. "My son is going to die, he has leukemia and it's my fault! Why? Why?"

tomorrow: A decisive episode


hombres encuadrados = hunks, well-framed men (I think)
una monada = an adorable/cute/lovely thing
las patrañas = cock and bull, tales, bull****

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