Thursday, November 18, 2010
La Verdad Oculta #46: Bertha pushin' David's buttons -- and more importantly, Santiago's
Bertha won't divulge her source about Carlos's diamond ring and protests David can easily determine if she's lying, whereupon David speeds off to do so. At Santiago's, he makes one excuse after another why Gabriela can't contact him at work. Her next question is even worse.
Santiago's unnerved when Gabriela reveals she learned from Bertha he visited a grave supposedly their mother's, marked "Marta;" and when he denies it, she flatly calls him a liar and begs him to talk about this possible relative. When Santiago desperately claims the mother is buried in San Luis Potosí, she points out they've never even visited.
Saved by the door, Julieta enters with Leonardo and explains he put Carlos in his place about the returned ring. Then David arrives, cold and distant to Gabriela. At the hotel suite, Caramelo mystifies Asunción and Juan José, agitating to procure electronic toys like Angela's, about which they are clueless.
At the bedbug hotel, Marcos admits his heightened fear of discovery and outrages Susana by even considering ditching the diamonds. She suggests hiding them and himself in the tunnel house; but he wants to check with Elsa first. Susana insists he should take care of hiding and leave the rest to her.
Back at Juan José's, his main focus is preventing Caramelo from calling Mauricio her uncle; but he agrees to buy whatever new toys she wants. Caramelo exits, and when Asunción notes to Juan José that his jealousy indicates Juan José's in love with Elsa, Asunción warns he'd better tell her.
At Mario's, when David angrily accuses Gabriela about the ring and other doubts sown by Bertha, Gabriela can only weakly explain she thought he'd be angry and that he shouldn't think badly of her. Tearfully she asks why he distrusts her so.
Susana pays a furtive visit to Elsa and assures her Marcos is fine, learning the police are watching and that neither she nor Juan José revealed anything -- but that they both think Marcos should turn himself him. Elsa is mystified by Susana's story of "Juan José" feigning ignorance of the jail break over coffee; and Susana will contact her tomorrow.
At Mario's upstairs in their suite, Gabriela entreats David to believe nothing occurred with Carlos; he gave her the ring to cause trouble, and she didn't even know what was in the box. She took it to not offend her then-employer; David has no right to doubt her like this!
It's not everyone's opinion: Bertha invents stories, because she hates her! Gabriela implores. He has to believe her; she'd never do anything to hurt him. She loves him: he's her everything! Look into her eyes, she begs, taking his chin. David does and can't resist holding Gabriela and kissing her again. Making up is so very easy to do.
At the hotel suite, Juan José happily informs Asunción he's inviting Elsa to dinner; and when Asunción assumes Juan José and Alejandra have broken off, Juan José blankly stares and denies it. Why should they? Exasperated Asunción needles Juan José by prompting Caramelo about her "Auntie" Alejandra, friend of her "Uncle" Mauricio.
At the AFI, Ramón brings Leonardo a file showing Marcos's picture and finger prints with his truck license under a false name, and they're sending the information to all the jewelers. They exit to make a little visit to the hotel address given.
Across town Gabriela wanders the cemetery, seeking the grave with Marta's name and dates on it; and she notes the location information. Meanwhile, in Mario's chambers, Abelardo is just telling "Mario" he had Mario interred in the family plot, when David enters and is astonished to hear "Mario" was at the movies, which he never attends -- a gaff on Santiago's part.
After nervously weathering a business conversation on a new advertising campaign, "Mario" is relieved to see David exit and pleads with Abelardo to know how long this is supposed to go on before he's discovered! Abelardo insists Santiago should relax -- he is almost exactly like Mario, he assures him.
At the cemetery office, when Gabriela requests information about the grave, she's surprised to hear the woman's name is Márta Saldívar de Guzman -- and that the burial was paid for by Yolanda Rey! At Mauricio's office, he invites her to help host a welcome dinner for some U.S. business visitors and will pay her extra.
Marcos phones Susana to tell her the tunnel house was locked and to change hotels, not using her name. He'll meet up with her later, he says. She reports that Elsa wants to see him and hangs up to phone the hotel office for their checkout bill.
Elsa has a nice scene, trying on prospective outfits for her upcoming hostess duties. Presently, a smiling Juan José knocks and invites her to dinner and dancing -- turning into a stormy frown and snide remark upon learning she has work plans with Medina. At his departing back, disappointed Elsa calls after him to no avail.
Leonardo and Ramón visit Susana's hotel room too late, learning she just left and that the "husband" was already gone the night before. They plan to look him up via the truck at the DMV. Meanwhile, a resentful Juan José boots Asunción and Caramelo out of the SUV with toy money and cab fare, in a rush to get to Alejandra's.
Roberto considers investing his $5 million pesos in BMW's for himself and two mini-skirted friends during a frolic at the dealership. At the welcome dinner, Mauricio is so ecstatic at Elsa's beauty and intelligence that he offers to make her head of public relations, which includes a company car. When she objects she doesn't deserve it, Mauricio searches her face closely and is tempted to convince her with a kiss.
Marcos ambushes Susana at a public park, and she tells him their new hotel -- and her idea of returning the diamonds to the shoes they originally came in to hide them. When things cool off they can sell them again. He still has some money from leasing the truck to Roberto; he wants to work, but is afraid -- and doesn't even want to visit Elsa now. He just wants them to go to ground for a while.
Juan José sneaks up on Alejandra at the studio, eliciting a giggle and setting a fun tone; he wants her to take him to a really good restaurant. A while later in a sharp looking location, Juan José is suddenly very self conscious; but insists he wants her to put a restaurant like that in the Mirador. When she agrees to use a Minimalist style, he objects he wants a great, big one -- making her laugh.
Then rather wishing to talk about something that he does understand, Juan José brings up the subject of luck. When Alejandra points out few have had luck like his, Juan José protests that for the preceding eleven years he had the absolute worst luck. And then Alejandra wants him to explain everything to her.
Back at Mario's, Bertha stirs David's pot by inferring Gabriela took off the moment David left that morning for who knows where. David heads straight for the phone and can't find Gabriela at Santiago's; but Dora's following behind and diffuses the situation, revealing Gabriela told her she was going to the cemetery.
This simple explanation throws David into a rage at Bertha, figuring she sent Gabriela off on some nasty gossip again. She strenuously objects, but he's past tired of her meddling with one or the other of Gabriela's family; and when threatened with ejection from the house, Bertha heads for "Mario's" office for backup.
Santiago and Abelardo, jollied by a classic mariachi concert on TV, are suddenly thrown into disarray by a pounding on the office door. With Santiago finally getting his wig on straight, the two cousins boil in through the office door yelling their positions.
When Bertha arrives at the part where she saw Gabriela's old man standing in front of his little girlfriend's grave at the cemetery, "Mario" disappears, and the real Santiago jumps to his feet, yelling in defense of his family -- astonishing the cousins and dismaying Abelardo.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Llena de Amor #69 Wed 11/17/10 There's Light At The End Of The Tunnel.....But It's A Looooong Tunnel
Lots of action tonight. Most of it dreadful. But a few good things happened. Let's start with the good: Marianela isn't pregnant. Just anemic. And Ilitia finally...finally! tells Kristel that Orangey Mauricio tried to take advantage of her.
The rest?....pretty much all bad. Oliver tracks Gretel down to the looneybin but Bernardo sneaks her out just in time and stashes her in the wine cellar of the house. And only he and Fedra have the key. Mauricio hooks up with the Godfather in jail and plans vengeance on Fedra...by taking out a contract on her favorite son Emanuel. And Bernardo has come up with a fake will leaving all the General's money to Emanuel. Oh wait!...that's good news since we know he's actually going to end up with Marianela. But our bad guys don't know that. And neither does poor Mari. She's suffering a major depression and believes the worst of Eman. And maybe she should. He's a complete doofus, is he not?
So that's the short version. Here's the expanded scenario. We begin the evening with Mari being very Greta Garbo. She just vants to be alone in her misery over Emanuel's purported betrayal. Can't say I blame her.
Elsewhere, Paula's confiding to Oliver (who seems to be fully and miraculously recovered from his bullet wound) that she's very worried about Gretel. But he really loves her, doesn't he? This brings forth a real feast of reason and flow of soul from our cop. " Before I met Gretel, my only desire was to become a top police officer. But my heart was empty. Then she came. She completed me. Even with all the craziness and all her problems, I just want to be with her. Protect her. Give her the strength she needs. Because she gives so much to me. Hopefully I can find her." And so forth. Paula's reassured and gets ready to leave. I'm screaming at her to give him the friggin' note already. She turns, starts out the door and.....says, "Oh, pardon me, some very nervous woman gave me this note to give to you." Aha. Gretel's at the Sagrado Corazón psychiatric hospital. So Oliver heads right over there..
All by himself.
Okay, put him in the same Dunce's Corner with Emanuel.
And speaking of Dunces....We're now at the prison where Kristel is draped all over Mauricio, vowing to get him out so they can live happily ever after....without kids. Fedra arrives and isn't buying this sweet tale. I'll help you all right she sneers. I'll help you rot in prison, you creep! Next she rips Kristel out of his arms, grabs her face and says Take a good look. This is the last time you'll see her!
Mommy Dearest now has her daughter at home and informs the staff that she's to stay in her room until she learns to behave decently. Paula is concerned with her pallor and suggests maybe she should remain in the hospital. Nuthin' doing. That's what she gets for being immoral, snaps Fedra, and if any of you even try to pass a message to her from Mauricio, you'll be out of her so fast your head will spin.
Our Lone Ranger has arrived at the psychiatric hospital. Bad Doc spots him and phones Bernardo. Other Doc stalls him and says there's nobody by name of Gretel Ruiz y de Teresa in the joint. Good Nurse tries to intervene. Drops a bunch of folders. Including the Red Folder. Asks Oliver to pick it up and aha! it's the list of in-patients and Gretel's name is in it. HAHAHAHAH.
Mientras tanto, Mauricio is working on Plan B. Since Kristel wasn't able to get him out, he's trying to hook up with the Marlon Brando impersonator/Mafia Boss. If you want to work for me, when you're on the outside, you'll be my slave, croaks the big boss. Mauricio's down with that. But he also wants to send a message to Fedra Curel.
Why?
She humiliated me. Tried to take me down.
Great. I like that attitude. Ya want her murdered?
Nope. Too easy. I want her to SUFFER. So let's kill her favorite son, Emanuel.
Fine with me. But remember son....Fedra's put a price on your head. So be careful....even with your own shadow.
Our Fedra is lounging around the office at home when Ilitia blows in. In high dudgeon. How could Fedra countenance her precious son hooking up with that asquerosa gordita!? Sorry, sighs Fedra. I don't intend to move a finger to help you. And don't disturb my son. Ilitia is impactada.
But when we come back from the ads, we see she and Fedra are cozy and like old times. Sharing a cognac and chuckling with evil glee. Yup, you guessed it. Ilitia's in on the plan and is so happy to think she'll one day soon be marrying a multimillionaire widower. A young hunky one to boot.
Back to Miserable Marianela. Her desire to be alone has been roundly ignored. Brandon is all over her, kissing and stroking and sympathizing. Netty comes striding in with chicken veggie soup and orders to eat it. Mari clutches her rag doll and doesn't want to. Doc arrives, grim-faced and informs them he has news. Bad news.
And we switch back to Fedra and Ilitia. Don't you love how they do that?
Emanuel enters and knows something is very wrong. Indeed. Mom fesses up that she just couldn't hold it in a minute longer and confided Manny's wicked delicious plan to Ilitia. Fedra then makes a discreet exit. Or it would be discreet if she weren't wearing horrid thigh high zebra striped boots.
Our little model, while not wishing death on anybody, mind you, is thrilled at the thought of consoling a rich widower. In fact let's get busy right now she suggests and do a little preemptive consolation. Eman's moving around the room, crawling under the desk, stalling, punting and weaving, while Yo Soy Sexy plays in the background. He finally fobs her off with "this is neither the time nor the place but how about a little honeymoon at the beach this weekend." Ilitia thinks it's a grand idea. Phew. He's bought a little more time.
Back at the nuthouse, Other Doc's still stalling Oliver. Oh...that Gretel. Well, she responded so well to treatment she was in and out, just like that. Zip.
Alright. Enough with the suspense. Is Marianela pregnant? Nooooooo. She's anemic. At least that's what the basic exam says. But Doc Arnoldo wants to do more tests. Meanwhile, now hear this. Her Life Is In Danger if she doesn't rest and eat well. That's a little overstated. I was anemic one year in college (tea and white rice don't constitute a healthy diet) and I was tired as hell but otherwise in no danger of expiring. But you know how telenovelas go....And.... Guess what? Our Miss Marianela just wants to die anyway. She's tired of suffering. Life has been so cruel. If she could only join mommy and daddy up in heaven. That's all. Really.
Oh no! Now we see Bernardo hauling Gretel over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. He dumps her down in some little alcove of the wine cellar, chortling Welcome to Switzerland. Hope you enjoy your little "caso de reposo". You'll serve out your sentence here my lovely. Gretel whimpers that she's going to tell her Dad. No way. Fedra and I are the only ones who have the keys to this place. Curses! Foiled again. Sorry Oliver.
Fedra, meanwhile, is doing damage control. She's assembled the house staff and accused them of stealing some bottles of red wine. Bernardo skulks out and admits he was the guilty one. Aha! I'll take it out of your salary then you swine. But hear this, the rest of you! If I find any of you hanging around the wine cellar you're fired!
Well, with that out of the way, we can return to the drama at the pension. Netty's all aflutter because Marianela is dying. Gladiola vows to bring her back with her irresistible picadillo, beans and rice plus fried plantains. The Mexican wonder drug.
Enter Emanuel. To hateful looks.
Upstairs: Marianela is still moaning to Brandon that she wishes she had gone up in that helicopter with her mom. Then all this would be over.
Take Home Message. From Brandon. We've all come to this world to struggle and to fight....to be happy.
Next question: What did Emanuel do to you to make you feel this way? Wanna know the answer? Tough. We've got more ads. Hang in there. Oh yeah. You already know anyhow.
Downstairs: Netty has upped the ante, screaming at Emanuel to GET OUT!!!! YOU'LL HAVE TO KILL ME BEFORE I LET YOU SEE MARI. YOU'VE HURT HER ENOUGH!
Eman's his usual low key self. He notes that sometimes you fall in love with folks you shouldn't. Like she fell in love with his dad.
Don't talk to me about that night! It's over! I'm never seeing your father again!
Upstairs: The dirge continues.
Mari: Don't ask me what happened that night. It's too painful.
Brandon: Well, Just know that I'll always be here for you.
Mari: He fooled me, misled me. He made me believe he loved me, when all he really wanted was my inheritance, my money.
Brandon: I'm gonna kill him!
Mari: Noooooo. Don't hurt him!
Brandon: Sorry. Can't promise anything.
Downstairs: The fracas has escalated. Doris, Glad and Netty are shrieking. Eman's persisting. Brandon descends and bars his way. Dogfight coming' up.
But first. Fedra. She's doing a righteous number on Emiliano and his trashy affair with that equally trashy actress. While SHE, the Injured Wife! has always been faithful to him. But Emiliano's had enough. He can't breathe the same air as Fedra. She's suffocating him. He's out of there!
Waaaay Downstairs: Now we're in the General's lair and he's fussing that he just wants that nasty Fedra in front of him so he could deal with her. Paula tartly reminds him that if he'd stayed upstairs where he belonged, he could have protected his family. Delicia arrives to tell General the licenciado Pacheco wants to see him. Turns out there are problems with the will. Seems the word is out that the General is not of sound mind. Therefore the will he just drafted to give Marianela all his worldly goods won't be accepted. General flies into a rage. Licenciado looks frightened. Stammers and stutters that he'll try and sort things out but it will be tough.
Upstairs: Fedra and Bernardo are chortling over his latest fake will. This one gives all the General's money to Emanuel. Fantastic!
Back to the pension: Doris zips upstairs to plead with Marianela to come down before Brandon and Emanuel come to blows. Mari refuses. Doris descends and blurts out: She never wants to see you again. Brandon juts his chin out. Eman punches it. Now you're gonna get it yells our naco policia.
Back to the Manor: Kristel's room: Ilitia's making a True Friend visit. Kris wants to talk about visiting her babe in jail and Ilitia wants her to understand how stupid she is to have anything to do with that scum. You deserve better. No I don't. I'm not even a "whole woman" anymore. And what did he ever do to you that you should talk about him this way?
Want to know? Well here it is. He tried to take advantage of me...abuse me, admits Ilitia.
And there we end.
Previews:
Brandon vows that for every tear Mari shed, he's going to collect in blood.... Emanuel's.
And Emanuel somehow gets to Marianela and tells her about his secret plan to mislead his very own mother and protect her. Will she believe him?
Vocabulary:
empinando el codo = drinking a lot, propping up the bar (what Bernardo supposedly did)
las patitas en la calle = your little feet in the street....getting thrown out (Fedra's threat to staff)
te saco a patadas = I'll throw you out (Brandon to Emanuel)
te tapaste con una pared = you ran up against a (stone) wall
casa de reposo = rest home
perro sarnoso = mangy dog (Bernardo)
revolcando con esa basura = rolling in the hay with that trash (Fedra to Emiliano)
te daré tu merecido = I'll give you what you deserve (Brandon to Emanuel)
Dicho of the Day
El comal le dijo a la olla. El burro hablando de orejas. Both in English mean The pot calling the kettle black. Think of Fedra's chutspah taking Emiliano to task for a roll in the hay with Netty.
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La Verdad Oculta EP45 11/16/2010 - The curious case of the Preciousss Cuffffff-link
* After the kiss the embarrassed JJ starts to giggle and murmurs if Ale's uncle really thinks he's innocent then they have much to talk about, and please tell him he'll visit him next day. Alejandra, who's completely speechless and perplexed, quietly nods and after JJ leaves she tries to reboot her steaming brain cells.
* In the morning David and Gaby visit the new, gruffy Mario/Fausto/Santiago in his bedroom, however, he's not in the mood to appreciate the genuine love the young couple shows for him. No, thanks, bye. After the young couple leaves he has a minor panic attack and whines about being unmasked soon. Abelardo first tries to encourage him, but after losing his patience he threatens him with Mario's favourite weapons: calling the police and telling everything to Gaby. A few minutes later Bertha storms into the bedroom (as usual) to poke her nose into his business (as usual), but the frightened man scolds her for intruding so rudely. *Viewerville: Yeah!* Abe advises him to be more amable with the family members.
* Marcos pays a visit at a jewelry and shows his precious diamonds to the jeweler. The man examines the diamonds and apparently realizes they have been stolen, so he asks to be excused for a minute and gives someone a call. Marcos gets frightened and he leaved the shop hurriedly, leaving the gems behind.
* In the Genovés villa the Guillén sisters have a girlie afternoon. Julieta enthusiastically tells Gaby she'll go to cinema with Leonardo, and they are both happy that finally Fausto lets her to date someone. Gaby asks her sister a favor: there's a ring on her dressing table that Carlos gave to her, would she be so kind to take it back to him? Julieta definitely doesn't want to return to Sagitario anymore but Gaby manages to convince her. Gaby misses her father much and plans to visit him with David. A very bad idea comes to her mind: she asks Mario if he would like to accompany them. Whaaat? No way, no, no, no, I can't. No. No... And he runs away.
* While the niece of Medina and Caramelo have fun together in his pretty Sims3 condo, Elsa and Mauricio enjoy each other's company. However, he gets a call from Alejandra who asks him about JJ's fortune, gold bars and other fairy tales. He proposes to visit her next day to talk about the situation.
* In the garden the sisters are also talking about the mysterious Sr. Ocampo who used to be a poor man whose name was JJ Victoria, but now he has a tons of money that he found under his kitchen... Strange, isn't it? But she thinks he's a good man. And handsome, giggles Julieta. As usual, Dora accidentally eavesdrops some elements of their conversation, but fortunately the tray and the two glasses of orange juices survive the moment.
* Leonardo is interrogating the jeweler when Robertogollum shows up in the shop. The One Cuff-link became the One Ring and he can't hide his enthusiasm when he puts is on his finger. Leonardo notices his anxiety and also the amount of cash he has. Ha asks the jeweler about Rob's ring and he learns it used to be a unique cuff-link.
* The sisters enjoy the sun in the garden... Until Bertha shows up and starts to ask about their mom. Was her name Marta? No. Do you have any relative who's called Marta? No! Then she must have been a lover of your dad. Julieta explodes: don't dare insult our father! Bertha laughs at the enraged girls and she tells them she saw Fausto visiting a tomb of a Marta who died 20 years ago.
* Fausto is about to leave the house through the tunnel when Bertha knocks the door. She complains about the rudeness of Julieta but Fausto puts her in her place. *Although Fausto is jeopardizing the mission, Viewerville thoroughly enjoys the humiliation of Bertha.*
* JJ nervously tells Asunción that Alejandra knows everything! The situation is worrying, but he is honestly interested in her. Oh man, you're an emotional shipwreck. Doorbell. JJ orders Limón to open the door, and Caramelo happily tells him that she and auntie Elsa had lunch in the flat of uncle Mauricio. Oh-oh.
* At the seaside house Adolfo, who's completely losing his cool, elegant goodfather manner, tells Félix what happened and how much money he lost recently. He gave 5 million pesos to Roberto Zárate, but that idiot didn't succeed to kill Mario and then he disappeared. They must find that bastard! He doesn't accept any excuses from Félix, he'll do the job, like it or not!
* Ramón reports to Leo that Marcos Rivera Munoz was the man who tried to sell the diamonds in the jewelery. Wow, Elsa Rivera's brother? By the way, jewels. Do you remember the burglary at the Guillén flat? Fausto told him that a cuff-link was stolen and he just saw the exact copy of that jewel... On the hand of Carlos Ávila's friend. Oh, and Fausto is such a strange guy. He's a good man but he acts like he has something to hide.
* Alejandra tells her anxious uncle that Juan José Victoria Ocampo would like to talk with him. Juan who? Abelardo saves the day: you know, the man you met on the wedding party. Ale wants to talk with Mario in private and after Abe leaves she starts again the story of JJ who's so innocent. Sorry, my dear, please refresh my memory. Innocent of what? *Viewerville: ...* Later Abelardo tries to tell him JJ's story but he's fed up with the Genovés household and leaves immediately through the tunnel.
* Gaby asks Abelardo about the Balmori sisters, how long do they live there? For a few months. And where is their mother buried? In the crypt of the Genovés family.
* Juli gives the ring to Carlos who rudely sends her away, just when Leonardo arrives at the office. Sir Leo orders Carlos to excuse himself for his behaviour, and when Carlos objects and tries to have an alpha male dispute, he forces him to his knee. Poor Carlos, you're an omega male.
* JJ visits Elsa to talk about her visit at Medina and to act like a jealous jerk again. JJ's lines, Elsa's lines.
* In Sagitario Bertha looks for Roberto because she needs to talk with him. By the way, she liked the way Carlos behave on the wedding, and our omega male tells him the story of the ring he gave to Gaby. He's very amused when he finds out that Berthita and the newlyweds live together in Mario's house, and they agree to team up. Dolphie shows up but Bertha doesn't have time to chat, she quickly leaves. Adolfo prohibits Carlos to hit on her and when he laughs at him (Why, do you like her? Come on, she's much younger than you!) he slaps him hard. I told you, omega.
* In the Genovés villa Bertha sadly tells David that Gabriela makes fool of him. Did she tell you that Carlos had given her a ring?
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* In the morning David and Gaby visit the new, gruffy Mario/Fausto/Santiago in his bedroom, however, he's not in the mood to appreciate the genuine love the young couple shows for him. No, thanks, bye. After the young couple leaves he has a minor panic attack and whines about being unmasked soon. Abelardo first tries to encourage him, but after losing his patience he threatens him with Mario's favourite weapons: calling the police and telling everything to Gaby. A few minutes later Bertha storms into the bedroom (as usual) to poke her nose into his business (as usual), but the frightened man scolds her for intruding so rudely. *Viewerville: Yeah!* Abe advises him to be more amable with the family members.
* Marcos pays a visit at a jewelry and shows his precious diamonds to the jeweler. The man examines the diamonds and apparently realizes they have been stolen, so he asks to be excused for a minute and gives someone a call. Marcos gets frightened and he leaved the shop hurriedly, leaving the gems behind.
* In the Genovés villa the Guillén sisters have a girlie afternoon. Julieta enthusiastically tells Gaby she'll go to cinema with Leonardo, and they are both happy that finally Fausto lets her to date someone. Gaby asks her sister a favor: there's a ring on her dressing table that Carlos gave to her, would she be so kind to take it back to him? Julieta definitely doesn't want to return to Sagitario anymore but Gaby manages to convince her. Gaby misses her father much and plans to visit him with David. A very bad idea comes to her mind: she asks Mario if he would like to accompany them. Whaaat? No way, no, no, no, I can't. No. No... And he runs away.
* While the niece of Medina and Caramelo have fun together in his pretty Sims3 condo, Elsa and Mauricio enjoy each other's company. However, he gets a call from Alejandra who asks him about JJ's fortune, gold bars and other fairy tales. He proposes to visit her next day to talk about the situation.
* In the garden the sisters are also talking about the mysterious Sr. Ocampo who used to be a poor man whose name was JJ Victoria, but now he has a tons of money that he found under his kitchen... Strange, isn't it? But she thinks he's a good man. And handsome, giggles Julieta. As usual, Dora accidentally eavesdrops some elements of their conversation, but fortunately the tray and the two glasses of orange juices survive the moment.
* Leonardo is interrogating the jeweler when Robertogollum shows up in the shop. The One Cuff-link became the One Ring and he can't hide his enthusiasm when he puts is on his finger. Leonardo notices his anxiety and also the amount of cash he has. Ha asks the jeweler about Rob's ring and he learns it used to be a unique cuff-link.
* The sisters enjoy the sun in the garden... Until Bertha shows up and starts to ask about their mom. Was her name Marta? No. Do you have any relative who's called Marta? No! Then she must have been a lover of your dad. Julieta explodes: don't dare insult our father! Bertha laughs at the enraged girls and she tells them she saw Fausto visiting a tomb of a Marta who died 20 years ago.
* Fausto is about to leave the house through the tunnel when Bertha knocks the door. She complains about the rudeness of Julieta but Fausto puts her in her place. *Although Fausto is jeopardizing the mission, Viewerville thoroughly enjoys the humiliation of Bertha.*
* JJ nervously tells Asunción that Alejandra knows everything! The situation is worrying, but he is honestly interested in her. Oh man, you're an emotional shipwreck. Doorbell. JJ orders Limón to open the door, and Caramelo happily tells him that she and auntie Elsa had lunch in the flat of uncle Mauricio. Oh-oh.
* At the seaside house Adolfo, who's completely losing his cool, elegant goodfather manner, tells Félix what happened and how much money he lost recently. He gave 5 million pesos to Roberto Zárate, but that idiot didn't succeed to kill Mario and then he disappeared. They must find that bastard! He doesn't accept any excuses from Félix, he'll do the job, like it or not!
* Ramón reports to Leo that Marcos Rivera Munoz was the man who tried to sell the diamonds in the jewelery. Wow, Elsa Rivera's brother? By the way, jewels. Do you remember the burglary at the Guillén flat? Fausto told him that a cuff-link was stolen and he just saw the exact copy of that jewel... On the hand of Carlos Ávila's friend. Oh, and Fausto is such a strange guy. He's a good man but he acts like he has something to hide.
* Alejandra tells her anxious uncle that Juan José Victoria Ocampo would like to talk with him. Juan who? Abelardo saves the day: you know, the man you met on the wedding party. Ale wants to talk with Mario in private and after Abe leaves she starts again the story of JJ who's so innocent. Sorry, my dear, please refresh my memory. Innocent of what? *Viewerville: ...* Later Abelardo tries to tell him JJ's story but he's fed up with the Genovés household and leaves immediately through the tunnel.
* Gaby asks Abelardo about the Balmori sisters, how long do they live there? For a few months. And where is their mother buried? In the crypt of the Genovés family.
* Juli gives the ring to Carlos who rudely sends her away, just when Leonardo arrives at the office. Sir Leo orders Carlos to excuse himself for his behaviour, and when Carlos objects and tries to have an alpha male dispute, he forces him to his knee. Poor Carlos, you're an omega male.
* JJ visits Elsa to talk about her visit at Medina and to act like a jealous jerk again. JJ's lines, Elsa's lines.
* In Sagitario Bertha looks for Roberto because she needs to talk with him. By the way, she liked the way Carlos behave on the wedding, and our omega male tells him the story of the ring he gave to Gaby. He's very amused when he finds out that Berthita and the newlyweds live together in Mario's house, and they agree to team up. Dolphie shows up but Bertha doesn't have time to chat, she quickly leaves. Adolfo prohibits Carlos to hit on her and when he laughs at him (Why, do you like her? Come on, she's much younger than you!) he slaps him hard. I told you, omega.
* In the Genovés villa Bertha sadly tells David that Gabriela makes fool of him. Did she tell you that Carlos had given her a ring?
Aribeth
Labels: verdad
Eva Luna #11 Tue 11/16/10 Deadbeats and the slinging of manure abound.
Eva Luna Episode 11—November 16, 2010
Please note: Some descriptions of scenes were “condensed” because it is too exhausting to try to recap every.little.edit of this telenovela! (They cut back and forth between several scenes rapidly at times.)
Eva is in her room, and can’t stop thinking about The Kiss that she shared with Daniel. Leonardo comes in and interrupts. He wants her to take his gift of some earrings. They go just perfectly with a necklace she has. She doesn’t want to take the earrings but he keeps flattering her and presses her to accept them. Leonardo finally gets Eva to accept the darn earrings, and then creepily says that maybe she’ll wear them when she goes out with him. Slimeball. Eva looks slightly disgusted at his suggestion.
Victoria is trying to patch things up with Laurita, after really ripping into little Laurita for accidentally running into her with her bike earlier. Laurita says how upset Victoria made her, and Victoria smiles and says that she didn’t mean to be rude, and let’s make up and don’t tell your dad what happened.
Tony the lollypop-sucking deadbeat is trying to lure Alicia by offering to give her his newly acquired motorcycle, and after some temptation on Alicia’s part (IDIOT!) she somehow finds the strength to refuse him and hurries off, saying that she’s got to study.
Renata is telling Marcy (Gloved weirdo) about how Julio wants Eva to have a room at the house, because Eva is his assistant. Marcy is not happy and walks off to do something about it.
Victoria is continuing to suck up to little Laurita. She is suggesting that Laurita learn about modeling, but Laurita is not keen. Laurita figures out that Victoria wants to ship her off to Europe. Victoria denies this, but when Daniel comes in, Laurita tells him what Victoria suggested.
Daniel notices that Laurita is a little warm, like she’s coming down with a fever. She says she’ll go to her room. Victoria tells Daniel that she didn’t mean to upset the girl, and Daniel, vexed, tells her to please be careful what she says to Laurita, because she was really scared about being shipped off to Europe. (Victoria, dear, you are not going to separate these two. Father and daughter are stuck together like Super-glue!)
Marcela is grilling Julio about how come he wants Eva staying at the house, and what’s going on here. Julio seems to be enjoying this. He doesn’t see what the big deal is. Marcela gets angry and says to not play games with her in her own house. Julio reminds her that it’s his house, as he holds the title. Also he says he wouldn’t mess around with a woman in the same house where his kids are, and besides, Eva could be a sister or a granddaughter. Marcela seems mollified but expresses anger at the thought that her husband would mess around in her own house. Julio laughs.
It’s morning, and Francisco is trilling on to Jackie about his True Love, Marisol. Oh yeah, Jackie is thrilled to be hearing all about this! Jackie is going away for a few days to visit her mother and Francisco will have to cover, like helping Laurita with her homework. Francisco doesn’t want to, of course. Francisco’s phone rings (it’s Marisol!) and he wants Jackie to answer and say that she’s his secretary. Jackie refuses, disgusted. Francisco and Marisol exchange big whopping lies to each other, and then finally make a date for dinner that night. Jackie overhears all of this and tells Francisco that he is the worst of the worst.
Renata is chewing out Eva for being three minutes late. Eva reminds Renata that their clock is three minutes fast. Renata tells her to not talk back. Renata spews some bitter nonsense and then huffs out of the room.
Laurita has a fever and a sore throat. She’s got to stay in bed and take medicine. Daniel offers to stay home from work to look after her, but she says that Jackie can do that. Jackie looks like she’s going to cancel her visit to her mom and looks unhappy about it.
Daniel is talking to Victoria and saying that he’s going to have to cancel because he’s got to stay with Laurita, since Jackie has postponed her visit with her mom twice now already. Victoria says she can’t be there, because she has a photo shoot and can’t risk getting sick. She assures Daniel that she’ll find a solution for this.
Victoria visits her dad Julio and asks him to lend Eva, so she (Eva) can tend to Laurita and free up Daniel so he can go on his trip. Victoria then tells Eva to go get a change of clothes, she’s staying at Daniel’s house that night to look after Laurita. Eva is a bit impactada by this, but Victoria assures her that she’s the perfect person for the job. (Victoria is obviously still buying into the myth that Eva is interested in some other guy and is no threat.)
Eva still is unsure of this, but Victoria assures her that she’ll only be looking after the girl, that Daniel is going to be away working. Eva looks a little more relaxed about the idea and agrees to go.
Marisol is talking with Alicia and continuing to gush over how great Francisco is and is looking forward to their date that night.
Jackie is welcoming Eva to Daniel’s house and telling her where everything is. Jackie thanks Eva for covering for her, so she can visit her mom. Laurita walks in and hugs Eva and is thrilled to see her. She’s glad Eva is here instead of that other witch. (She stops herself short of saying “witch” but we know what she meant to say!)
Marisol and Alicia are chatting some more. Marisol talks about getting some cheepie prepaid cell phone, which will work for her purposes. (I guess for fooling Francisco?) Then the conversation strays to Carlos. Alicia is going to study at Carlos’s house and his mom is going to fix them dinner. Ah! Living with his mom? Marisol likes the sound of this. Carlos is much better than that Tony. (I agree!) Alicia says that she doesn’t think she’ll tell Tony that she’s going to Carlos’s house. (I think?) Marisol says that maybe Tony will finally leave her in peace if he figures out that she’s a person who intends to keep studying.
Laurita wants to show Eva a surprise. It’s Daniel, flat out on his back in bed, having caught the same bug that Laurita has. He’s too sick to travel so Eva is going to have to look after both of them.
After Laurita scampers off, Daniel apologizes to Eva for The Kiss from the other night, but she doesn’t want to talk about that. Eva is a bit freaked at the idea of playing nursemaid to Daniel too. She wants to go and see if Jackie can find someone else to take care of them, but Daniel pleads with her to stay. He doesn’t want to have his daughter to be looked after by some stranger.
Tony the lollypop-sucking deadbeat accosts Marisol at the pension and starts arguing with her about her trying to turn Alicia against him. Tony says disparaging things about Marisol’s profession, like she’s basically a prostitute. Ugh, this guy is such a jerk.
Daniel lets Francisco off the hook so he can go on his date with Marisol that night. Eva will be taking care of them and Daniel doesn’t want to get in the way of Francisco’s latest conquest. Francisco is elated.
Tony wants to know where Alicia is. Marisol says that she’s with Carlos, who is a really good guy, unlike Tony. Of course this upsets an already-jealous Tony.
Laurita is showing Eva her drawings, which have a picture of a woman that is supposed to be Eva. Laurita says that before she met Eva, she could draw her. She’s so glad Eva is looking after them instead of that Victoria. Her dad likes Eva a lot, too!
Marisol and Francisco are both on the road, going to meet for their date. They are each talking to themselves, giving themselves pep talks about how they can pull their respective huge lies off!
It’s late, a full moon, and Victoria is having a chitchat with her mom and sharing a brandy. Victoria can’t pinpoint why, but she knows something is wrong and she has this feeling that she needs to drag Daniel to the altar soon. There is no time to waste.
Daniel wakes up from his sick bed, has another remembrance of The Kiss. Then we cut to Eva, also having memories of The Kiss. Eva is telling herself to forget The Kiss. It never happened. Good luck with that, dear.
Eva is in Daniel's kitchen in the middle of the night, still thinking about The Kiss they shared the day before. Daniel comes in, wants to have a "talk," but she says that nothing happened. It was a big mistake. Then she snaps and says how does he expect her to believe him? She doesn't want to be one of his collection of women. He's got a girlfriend already, so leave her in peace! Daniel looks impactado.
(I was able to do a video capture of this episode and have made a streaming video clip of this scene. Since YouTube seems to want to block many telenovela clips, I hosted this on my own site. The site is very barebones—no viruses, I promise! It’s just a Flash clip—like what you get on YouTube.)
Daniel and Eva talk in the kitchen. (Right-click to have this link open to a new window.)
I am amused at how both Daniel and Laurita, who are supposedly afflicted with a horrible flu and fever, can become amazingly perky when the scene calls for it. For instance, Daniel is feverish and ill, but when he sees Eva he suddenly seems perfectly well and even looks like he’s moving in for a kiss. (I kept on thinking that he had better not kiss her and give her all his cooties!)
Francisco and Marisol are shoveling verbal manure at each other at the restaurant. Marisol talks about some ex in Spain. She also says that she thinks some guys are not interested in her for herself, but for her money. Francisco knows what that’s like. Oh these two are too much!
Francisco is so totally full to the brim with manure. He tells a story about his poor dear departed wife, Jackie, who was killed by a lion while working in Africa.
Marcy is smelling the flowers Bruno gave her and wondering what’s going to go on with him. Meanwhile, Bruno is gambling with Leo and Bruno wins. Leo is vexed.
More manure from Marisol and Francisco. They dance at the restaurant.
Victoria is talking to herself, wondering why Daniel hasn’t called. Then she says to herself that she’ll call the house the next day, acting all concerned about Laurita’s health. But there’s no way she’d look after the girl. Eva can do that.
Daniel walks down the hallway and stops in front of Laurita’s room, where Eva is. Then he slowly and regretfully walks away. Eva is inside crying. Laurita wakes up and wants to know why Eva is crying. Eva tells some lie about waking up from a bad dream.
Carlos the hottie and Alicia are studying math, but Alicia is having trouble with it. Apparently Alicia sucks at math. They call it a night and as they are picking up their pencils and stuff, their fingers touch and they have A Moment. Alicia starts in with a little speech about how she has a lot of complications in her life and all she can offer him is friendship. He says, sure, sure, he understands. But you can tell he secretly has other desires.
Here’s a clip of this scene with Alicia and Carlos.
Tony the deadbeat sucker boy goes to the bar where he hangs out and finds some fellow deadbeat friends, and has a request. He wants them to “take care” of a waiter named Carlos (oh no!). Fellow deadbeat friends will be happy to get right on it. Wow, I knew Tony was a creep, but he reaches new heights all the time!
It’s morning, and Victoria is at her precious photo shoot. I don’t think the lighting is very flattering to her (her eyes look all squinty) but whatever.
Some semi-flamboyant coworker of Marcela is telling her about some really important client that is waiting for her in her office. She seems amused by flamboyant guy’s enthusiasm. Flamboyant guy ushers her in to see this mystery guy, and then he sighs in relief.
Leo is talking to his secretary and she tells him that Daniel never went on his trip, he stayed home with the flu. She then goes on to tell him about Eva being there, yadda yadda, and that Victoria set it all up. Leo laments to himself as he picks up his phone that Victoria messed up and he’s going to have to fix it.
Eva is seeing to Laurita who is much better. Laurita wants to get up but Eva nixes that. Then she goes in to check on Daniel, who is flat in bed asleep. She tucks him in under his covers and lovingly touches his feverish brow as the phone rings. Victoria wants to know what’s going on and why is Eva in the bedroom of her boyfriend?
A clip of this final scene from the show.
That’s it for this episode!
As always, please everyone, correct any errors I make. I thank you. And as always, everyone, please check this recap’s comments for further corrections or elaborations on this episode.
Thanks!
Elvira
Please note: Some descriptions of scenes were “condensed” because it is too exhausting to try to recap every.little.edit of this telenovela! (They cut back and forth between several scenes rapidly at times.)
Eva is in her room, and can’t stop thinking about The Kiss that she shared with Daniel. Leonardo comes in and interrupts. He wants her to take his gift of some earrings. They go just perfectly with a necklace she has. She doesn’t want to take the earrings but he keeps flattering her and presses her to accept them. Leonardo finally gets Eva to accept the darn earrings, and then creepily says that maybe she’ll wear them when she goes out with him. Slimeball. Eva looks slightly disgusted at his suggestion.
Victoria is trying to patch things up with Laurita, after really ripping into little Laurita for accidentally running into her with her bike earlier. Laurita says how upset Victoria made her, and Victoria smiles and says that she didn’t mean to be rude, and let’s make up and don’t tell your dad what happened.
Tony the lollypop-sucking deadbeat is trying to lure Alicia by offering to give her his newly acquired motorcycle, and after some temptation on Alicia’s part (IDIOT!) she somehow finds the strength to refuse him and hurries off, saying that she’s got to study.
Renata is telling Marcy (Gloved weirdo) about how Julio wants Eva to have a room at the house, because Eva is his assistant. Marcy is not happy and walks off to do something about it.
Victoria is continuing to suck up to little Laurita. She is suggesting that Laurita learn about modeling, but Laurita is not keen. Laurita figures out that Victoria wants to ship her off to Europe. Victoria denies this, but when Daniel comes in, Laurita tells him what Victoria suggested.
Daniel notices that Laurita is a little warm, like she’s coming down with a fever. She says she’ll go to her room. Victoria tells Daniel that she didn’t mean to upset the girl, and Daniel, vexed, tells her to please be careful what she says to Laurita, because she was really scared about being shipped off to Europe. (Victoria, dear, you are not going to separate these two. Father and daughter are stuck together like Super-glue!)
Marcela is grilling Julio about how come he wants Eva staying at the house, and what’s going on here. Julio seems to be enjoying this. He doesn’t see what the big deal is. Marcela gets angry and says to not play games with her in her own house. Julio reminds her that it’s his house, as he holds the title. Also he says he wouldn’t mess around with a woman in the same house where his kids are, and besides, Eva could be a sister or a granddaughter. Marcela seems mollified but expresses anger at the thought that her husband would mess around in her own house. Julio laughs.
It’s morning, and Francisco is trilling on to Jackie about his True Love, Marisol. Oh yeah, Jackie is thrilled to be hearing all about this! Jackie is going away for a few days to visit her mother and Francisco will have to cover, like helping Laurita with her homework. Francisco doesn’t want to, of course. Francisco’s phone rings (it’s Marisol!) and he wants Jackie to answer and say that she’s his secretary. Jackie refuses, disgusted. Francisco and Marisol exchange big whopping lies to each other, and then finally make a date for dinner that night. Jackie overhears all of this and tells Francisco that he is the worst of the worst.
Renata is chewing out Eva for being three minutes late. Eva reminds Renata that their clock is three minutes fast. Renata tells her to not talk back. Renata spews some bitter nonsense and then huffs out of the room.
Laurita has a fever and a sore throat. She’s got to stay in bed and take medicine. Daniel offers to stay home from work to look after her, but she says that Jackie can do that. Jackie looks like she’s going to cancel her visit to her mom and looks unhappy about it.
Daniel is talking to Victoria and saying that he’s going to have to cancel because he’s got to stay with Laurita, since Jackie has postponed her visit with her mom twice now already. Victoria says she can’t be there, because she has a photo shoot and can’t risk getting sick. She assures Daniel that she’ll find a solution for this.
Victoria visits her dad Julio and asks him to lend Eva, so she (Eva) can tend to Laurita and free up Daniel so he can go on his trip. Victoria then tells Eva to go get a change of clothes, she’s staying at Daniel’s house that night to look after Laurita. Eva is a bit impactada by this, but Victoria assures her that she’s the perfect person for the job. (Victoria is obviously still buying into the myth that Eva is interested in some other guy and is no threat.)
Eva still is unsure of this, but Victoria assures her that she’ll only be looking after the girl, that Daniel is going to be away working. Eva looks a little more relaxed about the idea and agrees to go.
Marisol is talking with Alicia and continuing to gush over how great Francisco is and is looking forward to their date that night.
Jackie is welcoming Eva to Daniel’s house and telling her where everything is. Jackie thanks Eva for covering for her, so she can visit her mom. Laurita walks in and hugs Eva and is thrilled to see her. She’s glad Eva is here instead of that other witch. (She stops herself short of saying “witch” but we know what she meant to say!)
Marisol and Alicia are chatting some more. Marisol talks about getting some cheepie prepaid cell phone, which will work for her purposes. (I guess for fooling Francisco?) Then the conversation strays to Carlos. Alicia is going to study at Carlos’s house and his mom is going to fix them dinner. Ah! Living with his mom? Marisol likes the sound of this. Carlos is much better than that Tony. (I agree!) Alicia says that she doesn’t think she’ll tell Tony that she’s going to Carlos’s house. (I think?) Marisol says that maybe Tony will finally leave her in peace if he figures out that she’s a person who intends to keep studying.
Laurita wants to show Eva a surprise. It’s Daniel, flat out on his back in bed, having caught the same bug that Laurita has. He’s too sick to travel so Eva is going to have to look after both of them.
After Laurita scampers off, Daniel apologizes to Eva for The Kiss from the other night, but she doesn’t want to talk about that. Eva is a bit freaked at the idea of playing nursemaid to Daniel too. She wants to go and see if Jackie can find someone else to take care of them, but Daniel pleads with her to stay. He doesn’t want to have his daughter to be looked after by some stranger.
Tony the lollypop-sucking deadbeat accosts Marisol at the pension and starts arguing with her about her trying to turn Alicia against him. Tony says disparaging things about Marisol’s profession, like she’s basically a prostitute. Ugh, this guy is such a jerk.
Daniel lets Francisco off the hook so he can go on his date with Marisol that night. Eva will be taking care of them and Daniel doesn’t want to get in the way of Francisco’s latest conquest. Francisco is elated.
Tony wants to know where Alicia is. Marisol says that she’s with Carlos, who is a really good guy, unlike Tony. Of course this upsets an already-jealous Tony.
Laurita is showing Eva her drawings, which have a picture of a woman that is supposed to be Eva. Laurita says that before she met Eva, she could draw her. She’s so glad Eva is looking after them instead of that Victoria. Her dad likes Eva a lot, too!
Marisol and Francisco are both on the road, going to meet for their date. They are each talking to themselves, giving themselves pep talks about how they can pull their respective huge lies off!
It’s late, a full moon, and Victoria is having a chitchat with her mom and sharing a brandy. Victoria can’t pinpoint why, but she knows something is wrong and she has this feeling that she needs to drag Daniel to the altar soon. There is no time to waste.
Daniel wakes up from his sick bed, has another remembrance of The Kiss. Then we cut to Eva, also having memories of The Kiss. Eva is telling herself to forget The Kiss. It never happened. Good luck with that, dear.
Eva is in Daniel's kitchen in the middle of the night, still thinking about The Kiss they shared the day before. Daniel comes in, wants to have a "talk," but she says that nothing happened. It was a big mistake. Then she snaps and says how does he expect her to believe him? She doesn't want to be one of his collection of women. He's got a girlfriend already, so leave her in peace! Daniel looks impactado.
(I was able to do a video capture of this episode and have made a streaming video clip of this scene. Since YouTube seems to want to block many telenovela clips, I hosted this on my own site. The site is very barebones—no viruses, I promise! It’s just a Flash clip—like what you get on YouTube.)
Daniel and Eva talk in the kitchen. (Right-click to have this link open to a new window.)
I am amused at how both Daniel and Laurita, who are supposedly afflicted with a horrible flu and fever, can become amazingly perky when the scene calls for it. For instance, Daniel is feverish and ill, but when he sees Eva he suddenly seems perfectly well and even looks like he’s moving in for a kiss. (I kept on thinking that he had better not kiss her and give her all his cooties!)
Francisco and Marisol are shoveling verbal manure at each other at the restaurant. Marisol talks about some ex in Spain. She also says that she thinks some guys are not interested in her for herself, but for her money. Francisco knows what that’s like. Oh these two are too much!
Francisco is so totally full to the brim with manure. He tells a story about his poor dear departed wife, Jackie, who was killed by a lion while working in Africa.
Marcy is smelling the flowers Bruno gave her and wondering what’s going to go on with him. Meanwhile, Bruno is gambling with Leo and Bruno wins. Leo is vexed.
More manure from Marisol and Francisco. They dance at the restaurant.
Victoria is talking to herself, wondering why Daniel hasn’t called. Then she says to herself that she’ll call the house the next day, acting all concerned about Laurita’s health. But there’s no way she’d look after the girl. Eva can do that.
Daniel walks down the hallway and stops in front of Laurita’s room, where Eva is. Then he slowly and regretfully walks away. Eva is inside crying. Laurita wakes up and wants to know why Eva is crying. Eva tells some lie about waking up from a bad dream.
Carlos the hottie and Alicia are studying math, but Alicia is having trouble with it. Apparently Alicia sucks at math. They call it a night and as they are picking up their pencils and stuff, their fingers touch and they have A Moment. Alicia starts in with a little speech about how she has a lot of complications in her life and all she can offer him is friendship. He says, sure, sure, he understands. But you can tell he secretly has other desires.
Here’s a clip of this scene with Alicia and Carlos.
Tony the deadbeat sucker boy goes to the bar where he hangs out and finds some fellow deadbeat friends, and has a request. He wants them to “take care” of a waiter named Carlos (oh no!). Fellow deadbeat friends will be happy to get right on it. Wow, I knew Tony was a creep, but he reaches new heights all the time!
It’s morning, and Victoria is at her precious photo shoot. I don’t think the lighting is very flattering to her (her eyes look all squinty) but whatever.
Some semi-flamboyant coworker of Marcela is telling her about some really important client that is waiting for her in her office. She seems amused by flamboyant guy’s enthusiasm. Flamboyant guy ushers her in to see this mystery guy, and then he sighs in relief.
Leo is talking to his secretary and she tells him that Daniel never went on his trip, he stayed home with the flu. She then goes on to tell him about Eva being there, yadda yadda, and that Victoria set it all up. Leo laments to himself as he picks up his phone that Victoria messed up and he’s going to have to fix it.
Eva is seeing to Laurita who is much better. Laurita wants to get up but Eva nixes that. Then she goes in to check on Daniel, who is flat in bed asleep. She tucks him in under his covers and lovingly touches his feverish brow as the phone rings. Victoria wants to know what’s going on and why is Eva in the bedroom of her boyfriend?
A clip of this final scene from the show.
That’s it for this episode!
As always, please everyone, correct any errors I make. I thank you. And as always, everyone, please check this recap’s comments for further corrections or elaborations on this episode.
Thanks!
Elvira
Labels: eva
Llena de Amor #68 Tue 11/16/10 Fedra joins Emanuel’s Besos4Pesos scheme.
Repeats…Fedra crams the cash back into the safe. Brilliant idea, Fedra, since you know that someone who is willing to steal can get into it. She and Spiderus snicker over the impending doom of la gordita. Then, yay, we get a repeat of Delicia telling Brandon and Oliver that TomCat is a goner, surely it’s the bruja’s fault, and if she finds them in the house she will skin them (despellejar) alive. Then we wing back over to Netty and Emiliano snoozling in bed all desnudos and discovered by Axel.
New stuff. Emanuel asks Marianela if she really thinks he would try to hurt her. She’s confused and doesn’t feel well, but it seems pretty obvious that the poison in the soup was meant for her. Eman remembers that he went out into the garden and left the soup unattended. A light bulb flickers in his head and he tells Mari he knows what he has to do to protect her. Unfortunately, he does not fill her in on his plan. As he leaves, he just tells her, “no matter what happens, don’t forget that you’re everything to me. I love you.”
Down in the office, Fedra tells Spidey she knows it wasn’t actually Marianela who stole the money, so who was it? He claims he doesn’t know and he found it hidden in the garden. Fed thinks he’s protecting that fulanita Nereida. Emanuel bursts in.
In the kitchen, Oliver moans that this is a waste of time and they have no idea where Gretel is. Delicia says of course they know! She went on vacation to Switzerland! “You see? That witch is even lying to her own family!” says Oliver. Brandon asks Delicia to tell Fedra that the police are demanding to see her. Delicia hesitantly agrees, but only if she can borrow a bulletproof vest.
Fedra’s busy insulting Marianela in her usual uneducated fashion. She tells Emanuel she’s not in the mood to hear him defend his musa de goteros. Emanuel just laughs and says the painter is Botero. He reminds Fedra that he is her favorite child. “Not while you’re in love with that whale, you’re not,” she says. He gets all giddy and confidential and laughs that Mari almost died but the cat was poisoned instead. “Hee hee! Tell me how you did it!” She is shocked and can’t believe he is accusing her of such a thing. He snickers some more and chuckles, “You really think I’m in love with la gorda? Please!” Fedra isn’t quite sure what he’s getting at. “I don’t care about her! She can keel over dead or blow up like a balloon for all I care! I just want to marry her so I’m left with all the money when she croaks prematurely! I’ve got to get all that money!” Well now, this is a language Fedra understands.
Axel storms down the stairs at the pensión, having apparently stood upstairs in shocked fury long enough for Emiliano and Netty to put some clothes on. They chase him down, wanting to explain. He thinks it’s all pretty obvious. The yelling draws the other ladies out of the kitchen and they are also shocked. Netty tries to defend herself, but Axel says she’s not his mom; his mother is a lady and Netty is a slut! Netty tells Emiliano to get out of her house and stay away from her forever. Yeah, that makes it way less like a cheap fling.
Emanuel is still chummily wheedling Fedra into his little “conspiracy.” He throws in a few fat insults to be extra convincing, but asks Fedra to stop saying stuff like that when he’s with Marianela, because it’s too hard for him not to laugh. “This is why you’re my favorite, mi amor! That’s my boy!” But then he goes too far. With Mari now hovering outside the door listening in, he confides to Fedra that he actually hit the sheets with the gordinflona and acted like he was in love, but it was horrible. Marianela cries as Fedra agrees that this was gross, but a necessary sacrifice. Together they are going to snag the money and eliminate Marianela!
Outside the pensión, Axel yells at Emiliano for taking up with this loose woman who has destroyed the whole family! Well, along with her awful niece, who has turned Emanuel and Gretel against their mamá. Emiliano says that is not how things are; maybe Axel doesn’t remember, but the marriage to Fedra was destroyed some time ago and Netty had nothing to do with it. Axel says fine, do whatever you want, but you will never be happy.
Emanuel is still going on and on, telling Fedra how easy it was to fool Marianela into believing he really wanted to be with her. Mari is still eavesdropping and crying. He claims all his displays of anger toward Fedra were just part of his brilliant strategy. They toast to their master plan. Fedra swigs her whole glass in one fell swoop and then can’t swallow it all and looks like she’s going to spit, the way all the elegant ladies do it. Emanuel explains to her that his plan won’t work if something happens to Mari before they marry, so stop with the attacks, okay? She agrees. He says then he’s off to bed to dream of his future as a merry widower. They hear a sound at the door and Eman opens it, but only Delicia is there, to tell Fedra that the police are there to see her.
Fedra slithers out to the foyer and asks Oliver, “how dare you set foot in my house, you garbage, after you kidnapped my daughter?” Brandon tells her they have no case against Oliver unless Gretel testifies against him. Oliver pipes up that Fedra is the one who kidnapped Gretel. Where is she stashed? Emanuel says there is nothing amiss; she has just gone to Switzerland to recover from all the trauma. Oliver says he knows that isn’t true because Gretel called him. She’s locked up somewhere, and he doesn’t know where because the call was cut off and the Telenovelaville PD has no caller ID or access to phone records. Emanuel looks concerned and suspicious.
Marianela cries in her bedroom, wondering how Emanuel could have deceived her and thinking back to their enchanted evening, now believing that all Emanuel’s lusty words of love and seduction were lies. She sobs about all this at length but I refuse to listen to anything she says in that awful whiny voice. A few flashbacks of Ilitia telling her Eman is only with her out of pity and Doris wondering if he really for real wanted to be with her break up the whining. Mari decides Netty was right. Emanuel was nothing but bad news. He tried to kill her!
Marianela packs her suitcase, with more flashbacks of the times she previously believed were happy.
Emanuel tells Oliver not to insult his mother. Fedra tries to physically attack two armed police officers, but Emanuel holds her back. Oliver states again for the record that he loves Gretel, would never harm her, and will not give up searching for her. Brandon and Oliver decide to leave, and Mari runs down the stairs and demands to be taken with them.
Gladiola brings Netty tea and tells her to stop being such a drama queen. Her life is not over. Netty cries that she’s wanted Emiliano for so long, and now that she finally had him, she has to give him up again. Gladiola decides she needs cookies, too. Netty takes a sip. “Aaaaah! It’s super hot!” “Yeah, I figured, from the state he left you in!” “I meant the TEA!” Gladiola tells Netty that no one is asking her to give up Emiliano. Maybe he’ll divorce the witch and live happily ever after with Netty. But Netty is afraid if they divorce, the kids will hate her, and she doesn’t want that. She is not a homewrecker. She is declaring war on love. Emiliano is dead to her.
Emanuel tries to stop Mari from leaving. “Let’s go, Brandon,” is her response. She leaves with the polis, and Emanuel is all distraught.
Paula asks Delicia what happened with Gretel and the policeman. Delicia says Fedra found them and separated them and sent Gretel off somewhere…to that place with the enchiladas they sprinkle cheese on top of. “Switzerland,” says Paula. Yes. Well, that’s what Fedra said, but Oliver swears she has Gretel locked up somewhere. Poor guy, he’s so in love with Gretel, he must be really suffering.
Emanuel rants to Fedra about how much more difficult it’s going to be to woo Marianela if she’s living in the pensión, with Netty and Brandon yapping their anti-Eman talk at her all the time. He needs to have her nearby! Axel lurches in and tells them he found Dad and that cabareta in bed at the pensión. They are amantes!
Netty apologizes to the other pensión ladies for compromising the decency of their happy home. They don’t seem particularly offended. She swears it will never happen again. The polis and Mari walk in, and Mari gets a very warm welcome.
Lowrenzo tosses and turns in bed and dreams of zombie Begoña asking why he had her killed and reaching out to grab him. “Nooooo!” he screams, waking Muñeca. He’s drenched in sweat.
The next day, Ilitia is asleep in a chair in Kristel’s hospital room. Kristel is up and dressed and takes advantage of Ilitia’s deep slumber to sneak out. She’s got to see her puchunguito.
Fedra’s upset. Emanuel assures her that she will not be usurped by that actress. She settles down a little. Emanuel says he’s got to marry Marianela as soon as possible. Emiliano walks in then and says he will not permit it. Fedra yells at him for hopping in the sack with that trashy cabaretera. Traitor! Emanuel tries to get her to calm down, asking whether she wants the whole world to know their problems. “Yes!” she yells. She wants the whole world to know that her horrid husband betrayed her! “I’ll kill you!” she shrieks, but Emanuel holds her back so she can’t. He reminds her to always be elegant. Ha. Emiliano says they need to talk. Fedra doesn’t want explanations, she wants to kill him. She acts rabid. Where’s the doc with the tranq jabs?
The gang is breakfasting at the pensión when Mari staggers in and faints.
Emanuel is still trying to referee the battle. Ilitia calls and tells them Kristel escaped from the hospital.
Don Máximo is mad that Mari moved out without saying goodbye to him. Paula isn’t listening to him because she’s worried about Gretel. Max remembers that Fedra wanted to lock Gretel up in a manicomio. He says it’s like Fedra isn’t even Gretel’s mother. Paula suddenly has something important to go do.
In the manicomio, Nice Nurse offers to help Gretel. She says she can get a message to someone outside. Gretel asks her to tell Oliver Rosales where she is.
Muñeca is trying to call Begoña, but she isn’t answering her phone. Lowrenzo tells her Begoña quit her job at the agency and left the country. Muñeca says Low will be in big trouble if she finds out that he ran Begoña off. He says he didn’t fire her.
In the prison, Agent Orange thanks Caimán for protecting him from the bullies. Kristel shows up to visit. She hugs Agent O.
Finally rid of Fedra, Emiliano tries to explain to Emanuel how things are. He’s in love with Netty! “Then why can’t you accept that I’m in love with Marianela? You do what you want with your life, but respect that I want to be with Mari!”
Mari has been tucked in bed, but she’s feeling vomity and runs off to the bathroom. Brandon goes to get the doctor.
Nice Nurse writes down all the information and promises she’ll see Oliver tomorrow. When the doctor comes in, Gretel pretends to be zonked out.
Malicio tells Kristel she should be glad about what happened, because they didn’t want that kid. But he’s missed her, oooh, she looks delicious. Kristel cries that she’s not the same as before. Maybe she was freaked out about that baby, but now she’ll never be able to have any kids. “Well, who told you I wanted to have children?” he asks, unconcerned. He just wants to enjoy life with only her. So she needs to get him out of prison.
Ilitia has gone home and is still worried about Kristel, but not too worried to tease her parents about looking like they didn’t get much sleep, either. Have they made up? Lowrenzo heh-hehs that they were up really late, um, chatting, nudge nudge, wink wink. Not so much, says Muñeca. Everything is not hunky-dory yet. Ilitia tells Muñeca she is lucky to have Lowrenzo there. If only Emanuel were so accommodating. Lowrenzo tells Ilitia she needs an ally to help her get the chains around Emanuel. Who better that Fedra? “Sure, she certainly knows how to do it,” snarks Muñeca. Ilitia wonders what the ironic tone is about. She thought Muñeca and Fedra were friends. Muñeca just says Lowrenzo knows Fedra really, really well, much better that she does, so he would know her skills.
Paula tells an officer at the station that she urgently needs to see Oliver Rosales. The officer goes to get him. Nice Nurse hands Paula a note and says it must get to Oliver, but she can’t wait and get mixed up in the matter.
Agent O tells Kristel he’ll marry her as soon as possible, but she needs to get her mother to buy his ticket out of prison. Kristel doesn’t think Fedra will agree to help him, but she says she will convince her. Fedra walks in and looks evil.
Doctor Arnoldo won’t really look at Netty as he tells them to make sure Mari gets lots of fluids, and he’ll get back to them with the test results. He leaves. Mari says she feels bad about showing up here, only to inconvenience them with her illness. She’s sure it’s her diet that made her so sick. “Really? Are you sure it isn’t…something else?” Brandon asks. Netty gasps. “The night you were with Emanuel, did you use protection?” Mari is annoyed at the intimate question. “You’re PREGNANT, Marianela!” Netty exclaims. Even though that was just a few days ago.
Avances: Mari tells Brandon about Emanuel’s hideous scheme. Emanuel visits the pensión and demands to see her. Drama…will it ensue?
Despellejar – to skin or flay; also to slander
Fulanita (fulana) – dismissive and disparaging term for a person, with no real specific meaning.
Musa de goteros – Fedra’s latest Mari-insult; it’s nonsense. If she said goteras that might mean muse of drips, or muse of aches and pains. But she really meant Botero. Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist who depicts people in a distinctly chubby style.
Puchunguito – affectionate nickname for one’s romantic partner
Enchiladas Suizas – They aren’t actually a Swiss dish; the Swiss just refers to the cream sauce on top.
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La Fea Más Bella #93-94 11/17/10 Things are unreal.
Pata, thank you yet again for the terrific pictures. Pata says no theme today, just some shots that she thinks are very fun. I agree!
Capitulo 93.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 93 to 94. Then come back here to discuss it.
Ha ha, you smelled the plastic flower:
Capitulo 94.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 93 to 94. Then come back here to discuss it.
Fernando's uncle shows up. It's Jaime Camil's real dad so I guess it's his daddy uncle. Or uncle daddy.
Fernando shutting the door when Lety tried to leave:
Did we get your attention? This is Luigi making a great face at the museum when he's imitating Picasso.
Capitulo 93.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 93 to 94. Then come back here to discuss it.
Ha ha, you smelled the plastic flower:
Capitulo 94.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 93 to 94. Then come back here to discuss it.
Fernando's uncle shows up. It's Jaime Camil's real dad so I guess it's his daddy uncle. Or uncle daddy.
Fernando shutting the door when Lety tried to leave:
Did we get your attention? This is Luigi making a great face at the museum when he's imitating Picasso.
Labels: fea-2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Eva Luna #10 Mon 11/15/10 Cinderella Makes It To The Ball After All
Capítulo 10
Since Eva's dress is ruined (with chocolate milkshake courtesy of the disguised Claw-dia] she thinks she'll have to miss the awards dinner. She asks Marisol whether she has a dress she could lend her, and Marisol lends her a red dress. (And here I thought Eva was going to have whipped it up in 5 minutes from some material Dona Justa had lying around. Oh well, I guess I don't have to tighten my beanie just yet.)
Eva surprises everyone when she suddenly appears in a raspberry number and looks divine. The two bimbutts, Victoria and Claudia, act sympathetic about the accident with the dress and pretend to be glad she’s managed to get there. Daniel invites Eva to sit down next to him. He agrees with Vicky and smiles at Eva. Victoria notes that eager smile and secretly frowns.
At Daniel’s place, Jackie and Laurita are discussing Eva’s being invited back. Jackie thought they didn’t like each other after the problem with the pool dunking. Laurita says no, Daddy smiles when speaking about her so he still likes her. Jackie says yeah, after Eva left that time he did stare after her with a peculiar look on his face. Before she can explain that “look” to Laurita, Francisco walks in beaming and telling them how he’s in love. Jackie frowns and tells him he says that about all the women he goes after. Franc says this time it’s different, and no, he didn’t meet her at some nightclub. He avoids the details about the pick-up, but does tell them that she’s an actress and teaches acting, tho’ the student didn’t show—all sooooo respectable.
At the same time in the dressing room at the stripclub, Marisol is telling her friend about meeting Franc and that she’s never believed in love at first site --until today after meeting the man of her dreams. She’s thinking about wanting to get married and having her as a bridesmaid. All the better if he’s got some money, too. They giggle.
Waiter Guy comes to help Alicia with her studies. Tony’s with her and goes berserk. He pitches a tantrum and throws her books and notebooks all over the place. He pushes Waiter Guy down and kicks him around and screams at him to scramola. Alicia screams back and says no, Tony’s the one leaving! Tony heads out, though none too happy about it.
At the awards dinner, Daniel receives his award and invites his entire team up to the stage along with Victoria and Eva. Eva makes a short and sweet speech about how her daddy taught her to use simple words and sentences. She’s happy to have added a “grain of sand to this campaign”. Daniel laughs and tells the crowd that it was a grain of sand that sold millions of apples. Everyone applauds. FF>>
Back at the boarding house, Justa is typing up recipes she’s getting online. She stops to think about Ricardo hugging Marisol and is jealously thinking he’s got something on the side with the girl. Ricardo comes by to chat with Justa and she gives him a hard time. She gets upset when he asks if Mariso went back to work at the cabaret, aka, the stripclub, and asks her why she’s angry at Marisol. Justa says she wouldn’t care except now her “work” is coming home with her. She says it seems she’s hitting on her boarders, in particular him! She saw the two of them in his room and him caressing her face. She storms out and he smiles to think she might be jealous of him.
After the speech Dano leaves the table to mingle. Claudia and Vicky chat till Claw wants to catch up with Leo. Vicky and Eva share a toast to overcoming adversity and Eva’s managing to get there despite her dress problems. Eva says she didn’t want to disappoint Daniel. Vicky starts frowning again and asks if she really did it for him and if he is that important to her. Eva realizes how it sounded and quickly adds she didn’t really want to disappoint either of them. Vicky gets friendly again and asks Eva if she has some guy she’s serious about. Eva says not really. Well, actually there’s someone but he’s interested in somebody else. Vicky tells her to fight for him then. (Yeah, we’re all thinking that if she only knew…..) Eva then decides to get some air.
Tony is waiting for Waiter Guy as he starts to leave. He pulls a knife and they start fighting. Waiter Guy finally wins when he gets Tony’s knife away from him and holds it against Tony’s throat. He tells Tony next time to fight like a real man with his fists and then walks off.
Eva looks up at the moon and worries about her feelings for Daniel. Dano walks up to Eva. He tells her he thought she might be leaving without saying good-bye. Eva explains she was there for some air is all and he was with his girlfriend so….. Dano tries making small talk and invites her back for a visit sometime to see Laurita’s drawing. They kid about pushing each other into the pool. She finally says it’s late and she’s got to get going. He asks her to stay a while longer. She asks why he wants her to stay. He looks up at the moon and tells her that under the moonlight she looks more beautiful than ever. She asks why he’d say something like that. He lets himself get taken away with the moment and kisses her. She lets him. It’s true love under the stars and moonlight. Finally they break to catch their breath and they stare at each other. She is a bit shocked and embarrassed and races out, leaving him there. He starts to run after her and then stops. He gets angry at himself for not going after her. He finally starts to chase after her but Vicky finds him and starts chattering. She tries to get romantic but he isn’t into it. He stutters a bit and looks around. Finally he mentions that Leo and Claudia are coming over. This saves his bacon.
Outside while waiting for her cab, Eva smiles to herself as she remembers her various semi-romantic encounters with Daniel and the kiss they finally shared.
Back at the patio area, Vicky mentions the room she’s got reserved for their private celebration. He begs off saying he’s tired and needs to get some sleep because he has to be in early the next day. She tries to get him to change his mind but Leo agrees he’s worn out and does need to get back. Claudia and Leo decide to leave and he takes Vicky home. We get another signature frown from Vicky.
Once she’s home, Eva again thinks of Daniel and The Kiss. She wonders why it had to happen. He’s engaged. She’s thinking she might quit working at Leo’s but that would mean she’d never see Daniel again.
Once Dan gets home he thinks back to their kiss also and worries about protecting Eva from Leo and his bad intentions. He tells himself he’s got to get control and that he can’t get involved with her. Then he realizes that he already is.
Vicky, meanwhile, is getting ready for bed and is thinking she doesn’t have to worry about Eva any longer because she’s interested in somebody else.
Eva gets ready for bed and tells Alicia about The Kiss. Alicia’s ecstatic! She wants to know the details. Eva does tell her that it was a terrific kiss and made her feel warm and tingly all over. Alicia wonders if he said anything afterwards. Eva says she didn’t stick around to hear; she ran out right afterwards before he had a chance to say anything. Alicia says the guy must be in love with her. Eva says no and what does it matter since he’s already got a girlfriend. She might as well forget it. Alicia says no, she thinks they’re both in love and just refuse to accept it.
The next morning Eva’s taking care of Don Julio while Marcella and Vicky are out for a jog in the park. The two talk about Eva’s managing to get to the dinner after all. Marcy tells her that’ll teach her to come up with a better plan the next time! Vicky asks about the dinner date Marcy’s got that night. Marcy’s excited about it and says she’s feeling frisky.
Don Julio finishes typing a report and hands it to Eva. He says it’s a history of the Arismendi ad agency and has a lot of helpful information in it. She thanks him and promises to read it when she gets home. He asks her how the dinner went and she says something happened that was a bit frightening but she doesn’t go into it. She helps him with his filing and such. He compliments her deftness with his things. They share a tender moment which puts them in a compromising position when Renata barges in with clean towels. Don Julio tells Renata that he wants Eva to have her own room there in the manse to be able to read and review his papers since she’s his personal assistant. When she’s got free time from other duties she’ll be reviewing his work for him now. Renata suspects the worst but has no choice and huffs her way out of the door.
Back at the park Jackie and Laurita are getting their exercise. Jackies jogging and Laurita’s on her bike. Laurita accidentally rides into Vicky and knocks her over. Vicky starts yelling at Laurita. Jackie and Laurita explain it was an accident but Vicky is too angry to care. When the two finally leave, Marcy scolds Vicky for going off on Laurita. She tells her she’ll have to apologize before the little girl tells Daniel and turns him against her. Vicky says can’t make herself get chummy with Laurita. It’s just not in her makeup. Marcy reminds her it’s the only way she’ll be sure to keep Daniel on her good side.
Bruno has another visit at his hotel room from Mystery Guest. He laughs and tells Mytery Guest that the dinner was good for business and soon Marcella will swallow the hook.
Renata takes Eva to the servant’s room she readied for her and tells her she’s not sure how Sra. Marcella will react to the news when she’s told. Eva seems worried.
Alicia runs into Tony at the boarding house again and tries to ditch him because she’s got to study for a test. Tony says he’s got a surprise for her first. She gives in and follows him.
Eva tries to read the file she was given but can’t because she can’t stop thinking about Daniel and that kiss the night before. She is smiling to herself when Leo peeks in. “—You’ve fallen in love with him, right?” Eva doesn’t know exactly how to answer him.
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