Saturday, February 05, 2011
Triunfo del Amor #25 2/4/11 Guillermo Bares His Fangs To Oz; Max Has Marriage In Mind
Cap. #25
Hello, Boils and Ghouls. What’s cookin’? It feels more like Cuentos de la Cripta [Tales From The Crypt] as Viewerville returns to Bernarda’s House of Horrors where Padre JP has just learned of Tomasa’s unexpectedly hasty departure and been introduced to Fausto Candela, the latest addition at Burnie’s creep-filled crematorium. (If you’re getting a good case of the willies from these two, you’re not alone!) JP mentions there’s a foul smell of something like burned meat (or FLESH!) coming from the chimney. He’s puzzled because the chimney is spotless, like it’s not been used. He demands to know what Mama’s been doing in there! (Forget it, JP. You wouldn’t believe it, anyway.) Mama turns around and stares strangely at her son, totally certifiable, as he waits for an answer.
At Maria Desamparada’s (chug-a-lug!) apartment, Linda-Who? is all bent out of shape. Maria and Nathy are giving her the evil eye while being forced to listen to her self-serving rant. Linda is yelling at them, telling them apparently that what they think doesn’t matter to her! Osvaldo Sandovaaaaal is going to come back to her; he’ll be hers and she’s not going to stop [no sacar el dedo del renglón= literally to not take one’s finger off the line of script] until she’s managed to get him back where she wants him! Maria warns her of a little thing I like to term fatalistic payback and says the hurt she causes others will come back to bite her in the end. Linda could care. “ --Enough of that. We’ve got to get going!” Nat wants Maria to tell Fabian “Hi” from her. Linda The Friendly Ho asks “who?” Nat gets to brag a bit herself about a guy for once. She explains that he is a friend of hers that works at the Casa de Modas and who also likes the movies. Linda is impressed that Nat’s been keeping him a secret from her (with good reason)! Nat says a bit snippy-like that he’s only a friend and she, for one, would rather be single than destroy a family! Message received loud and clear. Linda’s smile does a 180 reverse flip as she and Maria leave for work.
Back at Burnie’s, JP still wants an answer from Mama. She dismisses the question as absurd. She can’t imagine where he would get such a silly idea! Fausto speaks up and takes the heat, so to speak. His explanation is that he set a fire last night because Sra. B was chilled and this morning he found a dead animal that must have fallen down during the night and gotten roasted. He, feeling guilty about it, cleaned the fireplace up earlier that morning. JP is satisfied and says he’s glad his mother has somebody around to do the heavy scut work there. Burnie says he’s also to be her chauffeur and she’ll find a new housekeeper right away. Problem solved. Fiendish-looking Fausto watches furtively with his one good eye. (Word verification: goosebumps)
At the Sandoval’s manse, there’s a tearful reunion. Everyone gets sappy about strong family ties that bind. Feel the love? Oz does. Nothing will separate them ever, he says. (Unfortunately for Oz, he’s a day late and a peso short now that Linda The Lurker is on the prowl.) FF>>
At Televisa, Guillermo is showing Ofelia his secret snapshot of Linda kissing Oz in his hospital room. Ofelia gets a wickedly delicious kick out of it, especially now that Victoria has unwittingly given her rival a job as a model. “--Little does she know she’s throwing a scorpion onto her back.” Gui crows about how Oz always says there’s no woman like Victoria and then continues seeing his lover on the side. Ofelia wonders why Gui took the picture and wonders what he plans to do with it. Gui says he’s not wasting the weapons Good Fortune sends his way. Some day it will come in handy. They then start giggling conspiratorially over their next tryst when hubby Pedro shows up. He wants in on the joke. Ofelia lies about their making plans to practice their lines over at Gui’s place. He says great, since that will free him up to work on some scene outlines [trozos]. Seems the joke’s on him.
Back at the Sandovaaaaal’s, Fernanda is in the garden getting something out of her purse when Cruz comes up and says “Hi.” Brat-Baby lets the impertinent working slob know in no uncertain terms he needs to learn his place. She’s not about to speak to a lowly little gardener, she says, and struts away. The smitten Cruz tells himself that she’s like a wild mare who needs only to find somebody that knows how to tame her--and it’s plain as day that he thinks he’s that somebody.
A bit later that morning, JP pays another visit to Vick at the office. He’s apparently asked her why she gave Tomasa the money. Vicki is explaining it was repayment for the money Tomasa lent her years ago when she left Burnie. “She was the only one who took pity on [compadecerse de] me. I told her she could come work for me since I knew that she couldn’t stand the way your mother treated her.” “--Well, I suppose she used the money to leave since she didn’t say good-bye.” Vicki can’t believe Tomasa would leave without telling her! It just isn’t like her! Vicki immediately suspects his mother did something to her and says as much. JP wants to know what she means. Vick tries explaining how Tomasa could have argued with Burnie after showing her the money Vicki gave her and then told her that Vicki had offered her work. “--Your mother might have done something to her!”
JP asks if she hates his mother so much she’d think she was a murderer? (I guess JP has conveniently forgotten the lengthy, tear-filled discussion about the hell she put Vicki through when she was preggers with his bastard kid.) Vicki essentially says, well yeah! She could! He warns her that slandering [difamar] is a sin. Vicki insists that she knows his mother better than he does. His mama has him fooled, but Vicki knows who she really is and what she could be capable of! JP, being a Man Of The Cloth, forgives her for what she’s just said about Mama, and adds he really came to discuss Maria. He mentions the fact that Maria donated her entire bonus to the Church for the needy. Vicki essentially says bully for Maria. JP says he came to tell her this personally so that Vicki would recognize Maria’s value and her many virtues --and her decency. He doesn’t want her to ever reject Maria. Vicki looks officiously disconcerted.
Back at Burnie’s, Fausto has passed his dependability test and Burnie is pleased at the way he thought so fast on his feet. He did well covering up for her about the smell in the chimney, she says. Fausto offers to introduce her to a woman he knows named Eva who would be terrific as a housekeeper. She agrees to meet her but won’t promise anything. He says fine, but first he has a favor to ask: he wants to pray with Burnie.
In the fitting room at the Casa de Modas, meanwhile, Vicki introduces the smiling Linda to Pepino and Antonieta as their newest model-to-be. They’re to put a dress on her and give her their report. Pepi and Toni recognize her immediately and are fumble-bumble impactados with the news she’s going to work there.
In another wing of the modeling studio, Max and Maria are giggling in between stolen kisses. Oscar walks in on them by accident in mid mouth-meld.
When Vicki leaves Linda alone with Pepi and Toni, the two let the unsuspecting tart in tights know in no uncertain terms they know she’s Oz’s lover and they want her gone five minutes ago. Toni takes charge since Pepi’s literally choking with anger. Linda’s got her nerve, she says, asking for a job from her lover’s wife! Despite Toni telling her that they both saw her and Os kissing each other at the restaurant, Linda plays innocent. She claims they’ve got her mixed up with somebody else. Pepi demands that Linda swear she’ll never approach Osvaldo again; Toni is a bit more practical. She tells her to just get out and they’ll make some excuse up for her. Linda refuses (natch) and says she is there to try on a dress and if they don’t get to it she’ll tell Vicki herself that she’s going out with Osvaldo!! Pepi and Toni are faced with a nasty stand-off.
Meanwhile, Oscar’s phone goes off and Maria and Max notice him standing there with his mouth open and drawing flies. Oscar excuses himself and starts to rush away but Max goes after him. Max explains that he and Maria are truly in love and would appreciate if he would keep their secret. Oscar, red-faced, stutters out sure thing.
Back in the fitting room, Toni threatens to claw Linda’s eyes out if she dares to say a word to Vicki about her and Os! Linda tries a sympathy dodge. “--What a nasty way to treat me on my first day at work!” Toni hisses back that she’s so obnoxious she’s ready to slap her and throw her out of the place right then and there! Linda snaps back at her to get her the dress or she will tell Vicki everything now herself! Pepi and Toni freak at that. Pepi gets her a dress. While Linda goes to put it on, he swears to Toni he wants to kill Linda. (We’re right there with ya, pal!) He has to make do with the mannequin, unfortunately, in the meantime.
Back at Crematory Central, Fausto is ready to fetch Eva for Burnie, but Burnie says she’s going with him. No way she wants to stay stuck in that place with all the ghosts that haunt her continually. Fausto takes her arm and explains he can’t because it’s a long ways away and very dangerous. She says fine, he can take her somewhere she wants to go first and then leave her at her son’s church, the only place she feels really safe. He says fine and they’re off like a herd of turtles.
In the fitting room again, Linda comes out in the dress (more like falls out of the dress, considering models don’t usually have basketballs for boobs). Pepi growls that he’s never seen a dress look so bad on a body before. Linda, though, is in love with it. Pepi tries explaining that a gown has to lay properly on a model so that the design of the dress --not the model--is shown to full advantage. Unfortunately, Linda’s multitudinous curves are fighting for top-billing right now. ”-- This will never do! Never!” More man-handling of the mannequin ensues while Linda continues admiring herself in the mirror and Toni leaves to get Vicki. Once Vicki’s in the fitting room Toni tells Pepi to explain. Linda takes over the conversation....”--Sra., it started out as a game, or rather a harmless flirtation--” Pepi stops her with a couple of well-timed grunts. Linda says she thought they wanted her to tell. Pepi explains that Linda’s ...er...just too well endowed to model for them. He refuses to work with Linda and that’s that! Linda whines that she still really wants to work for Vicki’s company.
Toni tells Vicki that, despite her promising pearls to the Virgin, the girl simply doesn’t have the proper qualities [clase=quality bearing] for the prestige of their line [categoría de éste negocio]. (Quick thinking, Toni! A woman I can totally admire!) Vicki takes the two of them aside and says she’s obligated to give the girl a job. (Yeah, that’s because if she doesn’t, Linda will sue her assetts off and end up owning the company herself! Good thing for Vick that Linda thinks small.) Toni says pay her off, give her a gift of some sort and get rid of her. Vicki can’t go back on her word, though, she says. She asks Linda what other talents she has. Linda says she trained in cosmetics and hairstyling. ¡Perfecto! They’ll put her in that department. Linda thanks her effusively and then, while Vicki isn’t looking, the three stare daggers at each other.
Toni tells Vicki that, despite her promising pearls to the Virgin, the girl simply doesn’t have the proper qualities [clase=quality bearing] for the prestige of their line [categoría de éste negocio]. (Quick thinking, Toni! A woman I can totally admire!) Vicki takes the two of them aside and says she’s obligated to give the girl a job. (Yeah, that’s because if she doesn’t, Linda will sue her assetts off and end up owning the company herself! Good thing for Vick that Linda thinks small.) Toni says pay her off, give her a gift of some sort and get rid of her. Vicki can’t go back on her word, though, she says. She asks Linda what other talents she has. Linda says she trained in cosmetics and hairstyling. ¡Perfecto! They’ll put her in that department. Linda thanks her effusively and then, while Vicki isn’t looking, the three stare daggers at each other.
Back on the set at Televisa, Ofelia slickly asks Oz if he’s heard the news yet. Oz asks what news? “--Don’t worry. You’ll hear soon enough.” She oozes off the set and pointedly ignores his puzzled expression.
Maria continues to practice the prance on the catwalk for Vicki. Max walks in. Vicki seems to be oblivious to the two’s conspiratorial smiles at each other. A minute later, In walks the infamous Jimena who surprises Max with a major mouth-meld as Vicki beams in approval. Ruh-roh!! Maria is waiiiit-just-a-friggin’-minute-here impactada as this pushy Puss ‘n Parisian Boots puts her paws ‘n claws on Maxie and reclaims her property. Max goes with the flow. Well, it’s more like he stands there, arms at his side, and lets Jimena have her way with him. He finally pulls away to get some air and then curtly excuses himself. Vicki grabs Jime and the two embrace happily. “--How wonderful to see you again!” Vicki says she really feels badly about what happened between her and Max. Jime says nothing really happened. Vicki says, no matter, they’ll discuss it later. More hugs and how-are-ya’s. Maria gets tired of standing there like a third wheel and starts to leave. Vicki calls her back and introduces Jimena as their company’s star model. Maria is like well, big whoop! However, she smiles politely enough to mask it.
Jimena gives Maria the once over. Vicki finally introduces Maria --but only as her new project launch. Ah! How long has she been working for her? Since about the time Jimena left for Paris, says Vicki. Isn’t she beautful? She represented us in our designers’ award show and we won! Yes, says, Jimena a little less than enthusiastically, very beautiful. Introductions, such as they are, are over and Maria is back to third-wheel status again while Vicki assures Jimena that whatever went wrong between her and Max, it will certainly be rectified and the two of them will be back together in no time. Jimena swears that she didn’t do a thing! Nothing ever happened, really it didn’t! Vicki says they’ll discuss it later. Just promise that she’ll do her best to reconcile with him. After all, Jimena is the only woman she wants as Max’s wife! (Duhn-duhn-duhnnn!) Maria might as well be the dirt under their shoes.
Back on the Televisa grounds, Oz is saying good-bye to some fan and acting wanna-be. Gui comes up and gives Ozzie a big bear-hug. Gui then excuses himself and says he’s got an important meeting right now with the studio’s Big Cheese and he’s running late. Oz asks him what it’s about. Haven’t you heard? No, says Oz. Oh, well, Gui says he’s just been given the lead in the 9:00 telenovela. Prime Time! Ah, says Oz, a big confused. He congratulates his BFF and tells him he’s on a roll! [tener buena racha= having a winning streak] Pedro walks up and greets Oz. “--Well, I guess you’ve heard.” Oz says, yeah, but he doesn’t understand since the big wig had already promised him the part. Pedro says not to worry, because he’s got a hunch they’ve got bigger plans for Ozzie.
Jimena is waiting for Vicki in her office and holding a picture of Max on her lap. Vicki walks in and starts the heart-to heart with her. Does she still love Max? And, truthfully, did she cheat on Max and is that what made him break up with her? Jimena swears nothing happened, that it was all malicious gossip from some envious rival. She loves Max, loves, loves, LOVES Max!! More hugs and smiles. (Ugh! ¡Ya, basta! My insulin level is off the charts!) Vicki tells Jimena she wants her back modelling for her. Besides, it’s the only way to stay close to Max, otherwise, she’ll lose him for good.
Meanwhile, Max and Maria are at a nearby restaurant discussing Jimena’s return and his mother’s reaction. Max tells her not to pay attention to anything his mother says or does. Maria, though, says she specifically told Jimena that she only wants Jimena as his wife. “--What does it matter to you what she says?” Besides, the only woman he loves is Maria, and that should be clear by now. It doesn’t matter if the whole world is opposed, he’s ready to do whatever it takes not to lose her. He doesn’t care if his mother never wants to see him again her whole lifelong. Maria says it’s best now if he tries to talk to her and explain their situation. She’s sure if he tells her they’re in love that she will end up understanding it. Max says fine, he will. They kiss on it.
Jimena walks into Max and Fabian’s office and she asks where Max is. Fabian says he doesn’t know. He went out. She asks where. He says he doesn’t know. She leaves, but it’s obvious there’s no love lost between the two of them.
Vicki congratulates Oscar on the success of the ready-to-wear designs. It’s just what she asked him for: quality dresses at reasonable prices. Max walks in on the meeting and interrupts. He needs to speak to her urgently, but she says wait till they’re home tonight. She’s got to finish this discussion with Oscar. Max says fine, but he tried, so not to complain if she doesn’t like his decision later. He leaves.
Pepi is now giving Fab a hard time because he can’t find Max and Fab can’t tell him when he’s due back. Max walks in at that point and Pepi starts in with a cooking analogy about rabbits: “When you cook two rabbits, one of them gets burned--if the both of them don’t burn you first. Understand me?” He walks out spouting something about both of them getting vaccinated. Max and Fabian can’t make hide nor “hare” of it. (Sorry, couldn’t help it, it was such an easy lay-up.) Max changes the subject and asks his BFF for a big favor. Fabian doesn’t think he wants any part of it. Max says it has to do with something that could change his life and his future permanently. Fab’s intrigued.
Across town, Padre JP starts his quest to find his daughter. The detective in Missing Persons needs the age she was when she went missing. JP calls Vicki to ask. Vicki is griping to Toni about the scene Max just caused in her office when JP’s call comes in. He explains he needs the info because he’s going to correct the error he made veinte años before and get her daughter back.
Meanwhile, Maria goes to the church to pray that the virgencita helps Max’s mama understand that they love each other and that she will be a mother to her as well as to Max. (The irony of this request is not lost on Viewerville.)
Toni asks what Padre JP wanted. Vicki catches herself from giving away her and Padre JP’s secret while explaining that he was just trying to help her locate Maria. Somebody else calls (Oz?) and says it’s to let her know that he went back to the studio to work. She leaves word she’ll see him at home after she finishes discussing the Miami show.
We see Oz running through a take on the telenovela. It’s a wrap and in the can. Gui congratulates Oz and says no doubt the role as a lover fits him. Oz suspiciously asks what he means by that. Gui says there’s no ulterior motive, he’s aware and it’s obvious [de causa]. Oz says if he’s got something to say, then to be up front with it. Pedro wonders what the flippin heck [jolines] is up with the two of them. Gui says coolly, that nothing’s wrong. It’s just that Ozzie’s a bit upset now that the shoe’s on the other foot and the roles he used to get are going to him. “--I used to be his extra--” Oz calls him on it and says not be so ungrateful. He got Gui a lot of those parts for him. Gui says, well, perhaps, but it’s obvious that his career is on the down slide now. Perhaps, he cracks, because of paying attention to his lover! Oz starts towards him and the two have to be separated. Oz is incensed. “--Don’t talk to me like that! You don’t speak to me that way!” Gui looks down his nose at Ozzie and tells him he doesn’t know how to lose. “--It’s a shame you’re one of those kind, Osvaldo.” Oz starts yelling about what what an ungrateful jerk he is. The crew has to hold Oz back. Gui turns away, his composure in tact, and breezes off the set and out the door. Oz, though, is fit to be tied! He tells Pedro he just doesn’t understand why the guy would talk to him like that. Pedro gives him an assuring pat on the back.
In the meantime, Burnie has got Vicki’s van in her sights just outside the company parking lot and Fausto heads it off, nearly t-boning it off the road. The old broad snarls and then smiles evilly as Vicki screeches to stop and gets out to give the driver a piece of her mind. Burnie rolls down the window and Vicki is startled to see who just tried to T-bone her car. “--Hey! You were just about to kill me!” “-Je-je! Killing you is what I’d like to do and maybe some day I will manage it.” Vicki barks back at her about what she came about. Burnie says she came to clarify for her that Tomasa left. She was very emboldened by the money you gave her, Of course, we argued but she..er...left.” Vicki screams back that she doesn’t believe her. Tomasa wouldn’t leave without telling her good-bye! Well, says Burnie coolly, that’s what you say. I just came to warn you that I'm fed up with you pointing the finger at me every time that something bad happens. That was all, she says, and flicks her wrist dismissively.
Back in the barrio, Linda rushes into the apartment in a huff, complaining about Victoria. “--She is going to pay for it!” Nat asks what she’s yapping about now. Linda whines that because of that skinny jerk with his mama-mia’s and the faded blond lady, Victoria was convinced she wouldn’t work out as a model. Linda was relegated to the dressing rooms to fix up the others. Nat asks why “the declaration of war” from them. Linda moans and groans that it’s because she was an idiot and they saw her out with Osvaldo. They’re friends of Victoria’s and they got the better of her! Nat says, well, yeah! What did you expect? “--They even threatened to get rid of me, but we’ll see if they’re able to!” The phone rings and interrupts them. Nat manages to grab it before Linda does. Fabian’s on the other end and is making some kind of arrangements with her and she agrees to race over. Nat blows off Linda and rushes out the door without another word.
At the Casa de Modas, Fabian is getting off the phone just as Max rushes back in to his office. Fab asks Max if he’s sure about what he’s doing, especially since he hasn’t let his mother know. Max couldn’t be surer. Anyway, she didn’t want to make time for him and he refuses to lose Maria because of it. Fabian hands him a box with a ring in it and tells him Nat’s on the way also. Max checks inside and says, “Perfect!” (Wait a minute! He sends his buddy out to pick out a ring for the love of his life?) Just then Maria walks in and says she was told he wanted to see her. Max smiles at her and gives her the box. “--Here. Take this and it will explain it all. She opens the box and her eyes go wide. Inside the box is a ginormous gold wedding band. “--I’ve always told you how greatly I love you, but now I’m ready to show you. We’re going to City Hall [el registro civil = literally the city registrar’s office where they do civil marriages] and Nathy and Fabian are going to be our witnesses. Because...because you and I are going to get married right away.” Maria is speechless. “--Did you hear me? This instant!” She looks up at him and smiles. He looks back at her. They get lost in each other’s eyes. As Viewerville waits for “el sí” Uni decides it’s time to cue the darned kayak!
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Llena de Amor #123 (Mex. 128) Fri 2/4/11 No Soup For You!
It is a dark and stormy night...
Victoria finds herself alone with Emanuel at the remote hacienda of the Ruiz y de Teresa family. Now this is episode #128... 128 hours we've spent with this family (give or take a few commercial messages) and does anyone remember even once hearing this place mentioned? ... I thought not. Well, nevertheless here we are, alone with our main couple and Vicky was about to whip up a batch of Marianela's famous chicken soup...
Think about it for a moment, is there anything that is uniquely Victoria? She has Marianela's eyes, she smells like Marianela, she kisses like Marianela, she wheezes like Marianela, now it's Marianela's soup... oh, I forgot... there is that endearing Vicky lisp... nevermind.
Ouch! While we were distracted, she nicked her finger. You guessed it... she bleeds like Marianela... Sorry Emanuel, no soup for you. Just as well, a clap of thunder... lights go off... a startled Vicky clings to Manny... sipis, everything is right on schedule.
Back at the naco dorm, Gretel profusely thanks Netty for her successful intervention on behalf of Oliver. I doubt that Netty ever even entertained the prospect of any other outcome. Her concern at the moment is for Emiliano. She thinks that it's high time that Gretel reveal the truth to her dad. Gretel has one abiding fear in that regard... Fedra, who is ,
"...capable of doing the same to my father as he did to Uncle Luis Felipe."
Meintras tanto, like a feverish squirrel in search of that one special acorn, Lorenzo frantically ransacks the house in quest of the Lirio loot that Muñeca and Flor have stashed away.
Eman and Vicky are having a candlelit chat in the kitchen. He thinks she needs to eat something what with her being skinny and all.
"Are you trying to fatten me up?"
"Well a few extra grams wouldn't hurt."
"Well, I've never been fat and I never will be."
He reminds her that Marianela is fat and beautiful. I think it's time to change the subject, this conversation is not headed to a good place. Vicky leads in another direction. She doesn't want to talk of Marianela. That suits Manny just fine since now it's just the two of them here and certainly she must feel as he does, that there is something going on between the two of them and they are both adults.Now here we have the perfect opportunity for a major revelation as Vicky has difficulty keeping Marianela's childhood memories of this place separate from what she is saying. Eman's antenna goes up, but his pea brain is easily headed off at the pass and he ends up taking her to see the master bedroom.
If you recall, Brandon has paid a visit to Muñeca at her office and is poring over financial records in hope of establishing a case against el Lirio de Plato. Suddenly he discovers a fascinating fact that completely throws him off the scent.
"You adopted Ilitia?"
This was not information that Muñeca wanted to share with Brandon.
Aided by candlelight... does anyone think the power'll be restored tonight?... Manny and Vicky have found their way to the master bedroom.. Just one bed. There are other bedrooms but none have been prepared. Fancy that. Eman sees no problem. Lots of room. Vicky has a few impure thoughts as Manny explains sleeping arrangements. Back-to-back, even an intervening pillow if she wishes. No, she'll just... He assures her,
"Nothing will happen."
No. She's a restless sleeper. She'll make herself comfortable in the parlor.He asks,
"Are you really afraid to spend the night with me in the same bed?"
We'll let her think that over as we rejoin an increasingly nervous Gretel , flanked by a supportive Oliver, is trying to stammer out an explanation for her last utterance. An astute Netty already realizes that her fear stems from having witnessed Fedra's death of Mari's dad at the hands of Fedra. As Gretel melts down, Netty leaves the two alone and goes to make tea. Oliver croons soothing words to his frightened bunny, reassuring her that she was powerless to prevent Luis Felipe's murder.
Vicky cloaks herself in bravado.
"No way."
He asks her if she is afraid that he'll embrace her or perhaps even kiss her... but no, Manny is every inch the old-fashioned gentleman (caballero antaño) and decides to sleep in his little hammock with the chiminea to keep him warm. He'll be just fine. He reminds her to leave the door open to allow the heat from the chiminea to warm the room and then leaves. Our Vicky (or is it Marianela?) is feeling rather randy. After he's gone she mutters quietly,
"Emanuel, careful, it's more likely that I'll be the one to go out in the middle of the night to assault you... Marianela control yourself, por favor. Ay Dios mio, I won't be able to sleep. I'll spend the entire night thinking about him."
And with that, she lies down without even kicking off those high heels.
Muñeca tells Brandon the truth about Ilitia's roots. Unlike Eman, Brandon doesn't require a map. Muñeca pleads with him to keep her secret fo Ilitia's sake. Of course Brandon agrees and then realizes that this explains a lot. As he fondly enumerates Ilitia's character flaws, Muñeca has an epiphany of her own,
"You're in love with Ilitia, verdad?"
She asks, then adds,
"Just how far have you two gone?"
In the children's room, Lorenzo kneels at Cristian's bedside and touchingly addresses his sleeping son. He adores him and loves him dearly. He's sorry about the thing with his mom, but he'll make it up to him (resarcir). He kisses his forehead and then he has a sudden inspiration,
"Flora and Muñeca must have hidden the money here in the children's room."
He deduces that the brat (escuincle), Manzanita, would know.
Axel and Dee stroll into the kitchen arm in arm but quickly separate upon seeing a tearful Nereida cutting up an onion. He says,
"Buenas noches, Delicia. Thank you for this day, it was (here he turns and mouths maravillso) simple (sencillito), simple,"
and hurries off. Nereida notes that Dee looks quite happy and Delicia observes that Nereida looks bitter. They are joined by Paula who sees that Nereida is continuing to cry.
"Bernardo's still missing."
She's lost the love of her life. Dee offers that she should be jumping for joy then escapes. Paula agrees. Nereida seizes the opportunity to inquire about the size of the cellar and confirm that to enter its passages one must go through General Maximo's quarters. Well, we needn't have worried about poor Bernardo. Looks like the cavalry is on the way... wearing high-heeled shoes.
By refusing to answer her question, Brandon confirms Muñeca's worst fears. He tries to do damage control by telling her that it happened before she married Emanuel,
but this is small consolation. She knows that he still has feelings for Ilitia then listens as he babbles incoherently about his mixed feelings toward her daughter. She indulges herself by smiling at the sweet sincerity of his protestations then shakes it off and sternly warns him that it must never happen again.
A voice booms out of the dark shadows,
"Manzanita, Manzanita niña bonita, wake up, por favor, Mañanita."
It's Lirio de Plata. Well, close enough. He needs to know were the money is hidden. She has doubts.
In trying to convince her of his authenticity, this Lirio manages to attract the attention of Flor who has no doubts,
"Ay, señor Lorenzo. Besides amusing your wife, now you put on this disguise in order to entertain the children?"
Manzanita rats him out telling her that he is looking for the money. He protests that he's just trying to protect Muñeca and threatens that by not helping him find it, Manzanita will be responsible for Muñeca going to jail. He calls Flora a metiche and stalks out. Flora reassures the little apple that Muñeca is not going to jail as she tucks her back in.
Spooky music and a creaking door accompany Nereida into Maximo's bunker. He is asleep, vocalizing his pleasant dreams of Fedra,
"Serpent of Evil, I'm going to dispose of you... rat from Hell."
She slips past him and enters the labyrinth. Some labyrinth. Oh well... Bernardo is giving himself a pep talk as he turns over his chair.
Nereida rushes to his side and smothers him in kisses. Boy, is he ever glad to see her,
"Untie me!"
Not .
So.
Fast.
She wants to know what's in it for her.
Emiliano is in his cups. He stands at the bar but at least he is using a proper glass and not a
straw. Benigno intrudes. He tells Emil that it's bedtime. Emiliano decides to unburden himself upon the nearest ear. Sorry Benny... you're it. He whines about how he's finally opened his eyes and come to the realization that Fedra has had a negative impact on his life and that of his children. Well hold the presses for that news flash. Have you ever wondered if Emiliano is always somehow reading from yesterday's (or the previous week's) script? A wise Benigno counsels that a bottle of whisky won't solve anything.
"Now finish your drink and go to bed, I'll be taking the bottle."
He leans on the bar and quietly calls out for Gretel.
"I miss you so much. Where are you?"
"Here I am, Papá."
It's a Festivus miracle!
Turns out that in exchange for setting him free, Nereida wants to be mistress of the keys once more and oh yeah... Mrs. Bernardo. What a coincidence, during his incarceration the only thing he could think about is how much he missed being in her arms and how much he wanted to marry her. No kidding? She hurries to untie him, he grabs her and kisses her and... oh my goodness, now he's stripping off her clothes, hmmm, black bra... black panties... yikes ! It looks as though they're going to consummate this thing right here in the cellar with the rats as witnesses.
He kisses her shoulder and tells her that everyone in this house will respect her as la señora Nereida Pérez de Izquierdo.
"Oh no."
"¿No?"
There's a pause in the action as she corrects him,
"la señora Nereida Pérez Y de Izquierdo."
"Of course!"
"Sounds better with the alcurnias (lineage)"
"With alcurnia, Y de Izquierda, mi vida."
He invites her to sit down for the ritual of love. She's game. Calling her his angel from Heaven, he kisses her arm, pulls it gently behind he back and begins to bind her wrists.
I've never heard of this ritual of love. Must be a Mexican thing.
"What are you doing?"
Uh oh, this ritual of love has taken a nasty turn. He tells her that he is leaving her there. How dare she blackmail him? He ties the gag around her mouth and exhorts her to enjoy her honeymoon... with the rats.
In the dressing room of la Mala Noche, the Queen of the Night is despondent. The head pirate guesses that the Queen won't be dancing tonight, but he guesses wrong. It's the one thing that can lift her spirits.
"Bernardo warned me."
Drat that Lorenzo! Oh my, how she misses her Bernardo.
The reunion between Gretel and Emiliano is very touching. He asks about her health. Has she been taking her medicine? Gretel informs him that she has never been better and doesn't need no stinkin' medicine. She's with a man who loves her... proving that he up on current affairs he guesses,
"Oliver?"
He wants her to come home. Briefly put,
"No way. No how."
He weeps and pleads.
"You have to let me go, Papá, para siempre."
More lagrimas y por qués. Emiliano is a clueless boob, but he dearly loves his daughter.
Vicky is restless... and horny. It must be the rutting season for skinny Spaniards, We've never seen her quite like this. She sits up in bed and frets. She can't quit thinking about him,
"¿Por qué Dios mio, por qué, por qué?"
She asks the question that we've been asking for... well, the last two years.
"Why did I leave without giving him a chance to explain? It was all my fault. "
She gets up and goes into the room where he is sleeping in the hammock. She stands over him and debates with herself. She wants to wake him up, tell him the truth about Victoria de la Garza and then... She actually says out loud that she is dying for love of him. She turns to walk away but his hand snakes out and grabs her hand,
"You're not going anywhere."
At a motel somewhere on the road to the hacienda, Jorge, Andres, and Doris worry about Vicky and Manny. They needn't. Jorge has arranged for rooms,
"All we can do is wait here tonight and hope that the storm passes."
Andres knows the road and if this rain doesn't stop, no way they're going to be able to reach the hacienda,
"...see you guys in the bar."
Doris seems very worried about her friend having to spend the night alone with Emanuel,
"What a disaster."
After having boldly stepped forward, Vicky meekly tries to retreat. He asks why she was watching him.
"I was a little cold and wanted to be near the chiminea."
He offers her the hammock and even offers her a lesson in hammocking, lifting her and depositing her in the hammock.
Wow! It's warming up in here. Here tells her the truth is that she came in to be near him and that the mechanics of the hammock would facilitate closeness. She wants to be serious. He is. He tells her that he is bewitched,
"...loco, loco. I'd give anything to kiss you. ¿Sabes?"
Doris and Andres have changed clothes and he joins her in the bar where she is snacking on
cheese cubes and meatballs while sipping a drink.
"I'll have what she's having."
"It's a soft drink."
"Then I'll have a beer."
He has plans for the evening which include her. She does not share his enthusiasm and reminds him of Jacki. He informs her that he got bored with her and her jealousy. Doris calls him descarado (cheeky). He admits it,
"In fact, I'm so cheeky that ,my love, I came here tonight to ask you to spend the night with me. How about it?"
Wow! Bold and refreshing. No beating around the bush for this lad. Doris does not seem as impressed as I am. As he reaches to caress her face, she recoils in apparent disgust. Hey it was worth a shot.
Victoria (or is it Marianela?) and Emanuel warm themselves in front of the fire.
He leans in for a kiss. ¡GOLLLL!
Sadly, la Reina dances.... sadly.
Her fans love her.
Speaking of sad, our poor sad doofus Emiliano actually asks this,
"I want to know the reasons why you won't return to this house?"
I'm not kidding. Those are his exact words. Gretel tells him. Well, he wants the whole truth. She struggles internally then says,
"Fedra is perverse, Papá. A woman with no morals, without scruples. She's the world's worst liar."
Ummm, Gretel, honey, I think pretty much even your daddy already accepts those facts. She goes on,
"I was eight years old, when Uncle Luis Felipe died... "
as she is about to finally reveal the horrible secret she guards, up walks ... Bernardo, looking fresh as a daisy,
"¡Gretel!"
Maybe next time.
"No Emanuel, no, no, we shouldn't have done that. It wasn't right. It wasn't correct. You're married."
"Perdón, I was just demonstrating the kiss we have to give tomorrow in the filming. Sorry."
She asks him not to toy with her . He wants to know why suddenly she seems to have changed her attitude toward him. Before if he had tried to kiss her she would have taken his head off.
"This time you seemed to enjoy it."
They argue back and forth with a threat of a slap followed an angry defiance but I'm wearying of this incessant badinage and am wanting to post this recap. Clearly, just like the promise of soup, there seemed to be the promise of... well, suffice it to say there will be no nookie for you, at least in this episode, Emanuel.
Oh, Vicky did drop one final bomblet as they argued about Marianela,
"...she still loves you."
Carlos
Victoria finds herself alone with Emanuel at the remote hacienda of the Ruiz y de Teresa family. Now this is episode #128... 128 hours we've spent with this family (give or take a few commercial messages) and does anyone remember even once hearing this place mentioned? ... I thought not. Well, nevertheless here we are, alone with our main couple and Vicky was about to whip up a batch of Marianela's famous chicken soup...Think about it for a moment, is there anything that is uniquely Victoria? She has Marianela's eyes, she smells like Marianela, she kisses like Marianela, she wheezes like Marianela, now it's Marianela's soup... oh, I forgot... there is that endearing Vicky lisp... nevermind.
Ouch! While we were distracted, she nicked her finger. You guessed it... she bleeds like Marianela... Sorry Emanuel, no soup for you. Just as well, a clap of thunder... lights go off... a startled Vicky clings to Manny... sipis, everything is right on schedule.Back at the naco dorm, Gretel profusely thanks Netty for her successful intervention on behalf of Oliver. I doubt that Netty ever even entertained the prospect of any other outcome. Her concern at the moment is for Emiliano. She thinks that it's high time that Gretel reveal the truth to her dad. Gretel has one abiding fear in that regard... Fedra, who is ,
"...capable of doing the same to my father as he did to Uncle Luis Felipe."
Meintras tanto, like a feverish squirrel in search of that one special acorn, Lorenzo frantically ransacks the house in quest of the Lirio loot that Muñeca and Flor have stashed away.
Eman and Vicky are having a candlelit chat in the kitchen. He thinks she needs to eat something what with her being skinny and all.
"Are you trying to fatten me up?"
"Well a few extra grams wouldn't hurt."
"Well, I've never been fat and I never will be."
He reminds her that Marianela is fat and beautiful. I think it's time to change the subject, this conversation is not headed to a good place. Vicky leads in another direction. She doesn't want to talk of Marianela. That suits Manny just fine since now it's just the two of them here and certainly she must feel as he does, that there is something going on between the two of them and they are both adults.Now here we have the perfect opportunity for a major revelation as Vicky has difficulty keeping Marianela's childhood memories of this place separate from what she is saying. Eman's antenna goes up, but his pea brain is easily headed off at the pass and he ends up taking her to see the master bedroom.
If you recall, Brandon has paid a visit to Muñeca at her office and is poring over financial records in hope of establishing a case against el Lirio de Plato. Suddenly he discovers a fascinating fact that completely throws him off the scent.
"You adopted Ilitia?"
This was not information that Muñeca wanted to share with Brandon.
Aided by candlelight... does anyone think the power'll be restored tonight?... Manny and Vicky have found their way to the master bedroom.. Just one bed. There are other bedrooms but none have been prepared. Fancy that. Eman sees no problem. Lots of room. Vicky has a few impure thoughts as Manny explains sleeping arrangements. Back-to-back, even an intervening pillow if she wishes. No, she'll just... He assures her,
"Nothing will happen."
No. She's a restless sleeper. She'll make herself comfortable in the parlor.He asks,
"Are you really afraid to spend the night with me in the same bed?"
We'll let her think that over as we rejoin an increasingly nervous Gretel , flanked by a supportive Oliver, is trying to stammer out an explanation for her last utterance. An astute Netty already realizes that her fear stems from having witnessed Fedra's death of Mari's dad at the hands of Fedra. As Gretel melts down, Netty leaves the two alone and goes to make tea. Oliver croons soothing words to his frightened bunny, reassuring her that she was powerless to prevent Luis Felipe's murder.
Vicky cloaks herself in bravado.
"No way."
He asks her if she is afraid that he'll embrace her or perhaps even kiss her... but no, Manny is every inch the old-fashioned gentleman (caballero antaño) and decides to sleep in his little hammock with the chiminea to keep him warm. He'll be just fine. He reminds her to leave the door open to allow the heat from the chiminea to warm the room and then leaves. Our Vicky (or is it Marianela?) is feeling rather randy. After he's gone she mutters quietly,
"Emanuel, careful, it's more likely that I'll be the one to go out in the middle of the night to assault you... Marianela control yourself, por favor. Ay Dios mio, I won't be able to sleep. I'll spend the entire night thinking about him."
And with that, she lies down without even kicking off those high heels.
Muñeca tells Brandon the truth about Ilitia's roots. Unlike Eman, Brandon doesn't require a map. Muñeca pleads with him to keep her secret fo Ilitia's sake. Of course Brandon agrees and then realizes that this explains a lot. As he fondly enumerates Ilitia's character flaws, Muñeca has an epiphany of her own,
"You're in love with Ilitia, verdad?"
She asks, then adds,
"Just how far have you two gone?"
In the children's room, Lorenzo kneels at Cristian's bedside and touchingly addresses his sleeping son. He adores him and loves him dearly. He's sorry about the thing with his mom, but he'll make it up to him (resarcir). He kisses his forehead and then he has a sudden inspiration,"Flora and Muñeca must have hidden the money here in the children's room."
He deduces that the brat (escuincle), Manzanita, would know.
Axel and Dee stroll into the kitchen arm in arm but quickly separate upon seeing a tearful Nereida cutting up an onion. He says,
"Buenas noches, Delicia. Thank you for this day, it was (here he turns and mouths maravillso) simple (sencillito), simple,"
and hurries off. Nereida notes that Dee looks quite happy and Delicia observes that Nereida looks bitter. They are joined by Paula who sees that Nereida is continuing to cry.
"Bernardo's still missing."
She's lost the love of her life. Dee offers that she should be jumping for joy then escapes. Paula agrees. Nereida seizes the opportunity to inquire about the size of the cellar and confirm that to enter its passages one must go through General Maximo's quarters. Well, we needn't have worried about poor Bernardo. Looks like the cavalry is on the way... wearing high-heeled shoes.
By refusing to answer her question, Brandon confirms Muñeca's worst fears. He tries to do damage control by telling her that it happened before she married Emanuel,
but this is small consolation. She knows that he still has feelings for Ilitia then listens as he babbles incoherently about his mixed feelings toward her daughter. She indulges herself by smiling at the sweet sincerity of his protestations then shakes it off and sternly warns him that it must never happen again.A voice booms out of the dark shadows,
"Manzanita, Manzanita niña bonita, wake up, por favor, Mañanita."
It's Lirio de Plata. Well, close enough. He needs to know were the money is hidden. She has doubts.
In trying to convince her of his authenticity, this Lirio manages to attract the attention of Flor who has no doubts,"Ay, señor Lorenzo. Besides amusing your wife, now you put on this disguise in order to entertain the children?"
Manzanita rats him out telling her that he is looking for the money. He protests that he's just trying to protect Muñeca and threatens that by not helping him find it, Manzanita will be responsible for Muñeca going to jail. He calls Flora a metiche and stalks out. Flora reassures the little apple that Muñeca is not going to jail as she tucks her back in.
Spooky music and a creaking door accompany Nereida into Maximo's bunker. He is asleep, vocalizing his pleasant dreams of Fedra,
"Serpent of Evil, I'm going to dispose of you... rat from Hell."
She slips past him and enters the labyrinth. Some labyrinth. Oh well... Bernardo is giving himself a pep talk as he turns over his chair.
Nereida rushes to his side and smothers him in kisses. Boy, is he ever glad to see her,"Untie me!"
Not .
So.
Fast.
She wants to know what's in it for her.
Emiliano is in his cups. He stands at the bar but at least he is using a proper glass and not a
straw. Benigno intrudes. He tells Emil that it's bedtime. Emiliano decides to unburden himself upon the nearest ear. Sorry Benny... you're it. He whines about how he's finally opened his eyes and come to the realization that Fedra has had a negative impact on his life and that of his children. Well hold the presses for that news flash. Have you ever wondered if Emiliano is always somehow reading from yesterday's (or the previous week's) script? A wise Benigno counsels that a bottle of whisky won't solve anything."Now finish your drink and go to bed, I'll be taking the bottle."
He leans on the bar and quietly calls out for Gretel.
"I miss you so much. Where are you?""Here I am, Papá."
It's a Festivus miracle!
Turns out that in exchange for setting him free, Nereida wants to be mistress of the keys once more and oh yeah... Mrs. Bernardo. What a coincidence, during his incarceration the only thing he could think about is how much he missed being in her arms and how much he wanted to marry her. No kidding? She hurries to untie him, he grabs her and kisses her and... oh my goodness, now he's stripping off her clothes, hmmm, black bra... black panties... yikes ! It looks as though they're going to consummate this thing right here in the cellar with the rats as witnesses.
He kisses her shoulder and tells her that everyone in this house will respect her as la señora Nereida Pérez de Izquierdo.
"Oh no."
"¿No?"
There's a pause in the action as she corrects him,
"la señora Nereida Pérez Y de Izquierdo."
"Of course!"
"Sounds better with the alcurnias (lineage)"
"With alcurnia, Y de Izquierda, mi vida."
He invites her to sit down for the ritual of love. She's game. Calling her his angel from Heaven, he kisses her arm, pulls it gently behind he back and begins to bind her wrists.
I've never heard of this ritual of love. Must be a Mexican thing."What are you doing?"
Uh oh, this ritual of love has taken a nasty turn. He tells her that he is leaving her there. How dare she blackmail him? He ties the gag around her mouth and exhorts her to enjoy her honeymoon... with the rats.
In the dressing room of la Mala Noche, the Queen of the Night is despondent. The head pirate guesses that the Queen won't be dancing tonight, but he guesses wrong. It's the one thing that can lift her spirits.
"Bernardo warned me."
Drat that Lorenzo! Oh my, how she misses her Bernardo.
The reunion between Gretel and Emiliano is very touching. He asks about her health. Has she been taking her medicine? Gretel informs him that she has never been better and doesn't need no stinkin' medicine. She's with a man who loves her... proving that he up on current affairs he guesses,
"Oliver?"
He wants her to come home. Briefly put,
"No way. No how."
He weeps and pleads.
"You have to let me go, Papá, para siempre."
More lagrimas y por qués. Emiliano is a clueless boob, but he dearly loves his daughter.
Vicky is restless... and horny. It must be the rutting season for skinny Spaniards, We've never seen her quite like this. She sits up in bed and frets. She can't quit thinking about him,
"¿Por qué Dios mio, por qué, por qué?"
She asks the question that we've been asking for... well, the last two years.
"Why did I leave without giving him a chance to explain? It was all my fault. "
She gets up and goes into the room where he is sleeping in the hammock. She stands over him and debates with herself. She wants to wake him up, tell him the truth about Victoria de la Garza and then... She actually says out loud that she is dying for love of him. She turns to walk away but his hand snakes out and grabs her hand,"You're not going anywhere."
At a motel somewhere on the road to the hacienda, Jorge, Andres, and Doris worry about Vicky and Manny. They needn't. Jorge has arranged for rooms,
"All we can do is wait here tonight and hope that the storm passes."
Andres knows the road and if this rain doesn't stop, no way they're going to be able to reach the hacienda,
"...see you guys in the bar."
Doris seems very worried about her friend having to spend the night alone with Emanuel,
"What a disaster."
After having boldly stepped forward, Vicky meekly tries to retreat. He asks why she was watching him.
"I was a little cold and wanted to be near the chiminea."
He offers her the hammock and even offers her a lesson in hammocking, lifting her and depositing her in the hammock.
Wow! It's warming up in here. Here tells her the truth is that she came in to be near him and that the mechanics of the hammock would facilitate closeness. She wants to be serious. He is. He tells her that he is bewitched,"...loco, loco. I'd give anything to kiss you. ¿Sabes?"
Doris and Andres have changed clothes and he joins her in the bar where she is snacking on
cheese cubes and meatballs while sipping a drink.
"I'll have what she's having."
"It's a soft drink."
"Then I'll have a beer."
He has plans for the evening which include her. She does not share his enthusiasm and reminds him of Jacki. He informs her that he got bored with her and her jealousy. Doris calls him descarado (cheeky). He admits it,
"In fact, I'm so cheeky that ,my love, I came here tonight to ask you to spend the night with me. How about it?"
Wow! Bold and refreshing. No beating around the bush for this lad. Doris does not seem as impressed as I am. As he reaches to caress her face, she recoils in apparent disgust. Hey it was worth a shot.
Victoria (or is it Marianela?) and Emanuel warm themselves in front of the fire.
He leans in for a kiss. ¡GOLLLL!Sadly, la Reina dances.... sadly.
Her fans love her.
Speaking of sad, our poor sad doofus Emiliano actually asks this,
"I want to know the reasons why you won't return to this house?"
I'm not kidding. Those are his exact words. Gretel tells him. Well, he wants the whole truth. She struggles internally then says,
"Fedra is perverse, Papá. A woman with no morals, without scruples. She's the world's worst liar."
Ummm, Gretel, honey, I think pretty much even your daddy already accepts those facts. She goes on,
"I was eight years old, when Uncle Luis Felipe died... "
as she is about to finally reveal the horrible secret she guards, up walks ... Bernardo, looking fresh as a daisy,
"¡Gretel!"
Maybe next time.
"No Emanuel, no, no, we shouldn't have done that. It wasn't right. It wasn't correct. You're married."
"Perdón, I was just demonstrating the kiss we have to give tomorrow in the filming. Sorry."
She asks him not to toy with her . He wants to know why suddenly she seems to have changed her attitude toward him. Before if he had tried to kiss her she would have taken his head off.
"This time you seemed to enjoy it."
They argue back and forth with a threat of a slap followed an angry defiance but I'm wearying of this incessant badinage and am wanting to post this recap. Clearly, just like the promise of soup, there seemed to be the promise of... well, suffice it to say there will be no nookie for you, at least in this episode, Emanuel.
Oh, Vicky did drop one final bomblet as they argued about Marianela,
"...she still loves you."
Carlos
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La Verdad Oculta 99: Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
Mini Summary: The gang at JJ’s celebrate the return of the kiddies; no one calls Elsa; Yolanda spends the night at JJ’s but sneaks out early in the morning; JJ asks Ale to marry him tomorrow and she accepts; David tells Gabi just enough truth, and gives her plenty of loving, to keep her satisfied (for now); battered, bruised and broken Edgar becomes roommate to an awakened and recovered Susana at the hospital; the hospital calls Edgar’s only phone contact- Adolfo, who finds an unconscious Edgar; Elsa takes a hard look at herself, her attachment to and jealousy over JJ, and her treatment of Mauricio—she decides she wants Mauricio in her life; the kiddies share their tale of kidnapping, Yolanda and Edgar with the gang and Leo; Caramelo gives Yolanda a promotion to Tia, and demotes Elsa to Tia; the writers give us an easy way out of this custody nightmare by having Caramelo choose to live with the newly solidified family at JJ’s (new mommy and all); Elsa accepts this, but does not accept being bullied by Dante and his goons; Edgar convinces Susana to team up with him to hide from Adolfo’s wrath—they leave the hospital before Adolfo shows; Leo throws Adolfo off his game by taunting him with his latest failed attempt at assassination (it was a guard that was killed by Hernandez, not JJ); Susana fruitlessly searches her apartment for the money and the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter diamonds; at their hotel hideout, Susana tells Edgar all about the money acquired from selling THE LETTER, and shows him THE PICTURE, THE SHOES, and THE DIAMONDS.
Full Recap: Limon has lost consciousness and his wig, and JJ has lost the power of speech, at the sight of the two beaming kiddies, safely delivered to the front door. They are both soon joined by joyous Lucha and Ale, and the kids and adults join together in happy hugs and kisses. Limon reminds Ale of the power of faith. From now on, she’s a believer! This giddy scene is interrupted by the entrance of Yolanda, who lets them know that she came with the kids. Caramelo elaborates further by telling them Yolanda was kidnapped (fue secuestrada) with them. Ale introduces Yolanda to everyone as a friend of her Tio Mario. She is immediately invited to sit down and to eat, and asked if she needs a doctor for her head wound. She takes a seat, turns down the offer for a doctor, and since Chicles already took the two lady-folk to dinner, she is only in need of a bath. They gladly offer her the bath facilities and convince her to also spend the night, with much urging. Lucha is so happy to have her little scamp back that she promises to never scold (regañar) Chicles again (we’ll see how long that lasts). Caramelo moves Yolanda to tears by declaring her to be Tia Yolanda for how well she took care of them during the ordeal. Chicles also thinks Edgar deserves props, leading Ale to wonder what Edgar they are speaking of. They all shoo away the bad thoughts to once again celebrate the return of the kids.
It would be nice if they actually thought of spreading some of that joy on to Elsa, because she is spending a sleepless night of regret and worry. Luckily, she has Kindhearted Ulises to share her woes. Woe #1: Her heated argument with Ale, when what happened to the kids could have happened to anyone. She realizes that her rage (coraje) had to do with feeling that Ale stole JJ from her. Woe #2: JJ was never hers to begin with. He never loved her. Woe #3: Mauricio The Wonderful came into her life, helped build her confidence in herself. And what does she do? She kicked him to the curb. (mandar al diablo/send to the devil) She’s so stupid! She’s done everything wrong. Woe #4: Her little girl is missing, and what if they don’t find her?! She can’t even think about it or what might be happening to her. Ulises thinks she’s having one of those moments, when she’s at a crossroads of confusion and regret thinking about her life. He thinks it’s best if she goes to bed to get some sleep, and pray to San Jose for a miracle. The next thing she needs to do is to stop being stupid about Mauricio. In addition to being an absolute babe (bonbon), he’s also a good man and he loves her like crazy.
Ramon, who is really burning the candle at both ends, calls Leo from the office. They’ve identified the two corpses found at the kidnap site- Pablo Cantu and Luis Delgado (aka Ears). They used to do business with Felix. And their fingerprints appeared on Ale’s car, so they for sure were involved in the kidnapping. All most likely under the orders of Adolfo.
At the hospital Pretty Eddy, who isn’t looking so pretty at the moment, has just been wheeled in to Susana’s room at the hospital. She obviously doesn’t recognize him with his face swollen to twice its normal size and black and blue. Two doctors are attending to the pretty patient who was comatose until recently. They are pleased with her recovery. She gets released tomorrow, but has no friends or relatives to pick her up.
At Adolfo’s, he and his partner (socio) Dante have just come to an agreement. Dante will go see the girl tomorrow. Just as Dante leaves, Adolfo receives a call from the hospital. They found his number in the phone of an unconscious man- around 35 years old, black hair, strong, formerly handsome… Adolfo knows who it is, but says it’s the relative of one of his servants.
Back at Elsa’s, she has not taken Ulises advice to go to sleep, but she has taken his advice to stop being stupid about Mauricio. She calls Mauricio and asks him to accompany her to JJ’s the next day to find out if they’ve learned anything new about the kids. She’s dying of anxiety over the kids and can’t sleep. Mauricio tries to calm her down and asks if she wants him to come over. She turns down the offer since it would be too much to ask of him, but she still wants him to come with her tomorrow. Mau wonders if she just wants him to come with her because she doesn’t want to go alone. She brings a big smile the big guy’s face by telling him the reason why she wants him to come is because she wants to see him.
At the hospital, Adolfo is trying to figure out what happened to Edgar and making sure the police haven’t been brought into the matter. As he talks to the nurse and a comatose Edgar, Susana trembles in fear on the other side of the curtain, recognizing the familiar evil voice. He tells the nurse that he’ll be back tomorrow to transfer him to a private hospital. (Either Eddie will get the same private medical care as Felix, or he’ll be joining Garnica on that “aquatics team.”) A while later, the nurses gossip about the poor man and his injuries- multiple fractures in his arm, and bruises all over his body. And how’s Sleeping Beauty? ( La Bella Durmiente) She’s awake, has all her faculties and no permanent damage.
At Casa Genoves, David and Gabi are showing us that just because you’re married, doesn’t mean you can’t still bring the sexy. They bask naked in afterglow under the sheets. Gabi is promising she can keep a secret, if David tells her all. She wants him to have confidence in her. David decides to tell her a bit more about the plan to foil Adolfo’s plans to kill JJ with a fake hit (asasinato falso), and that’s what he, JJ, and Leo were celebrating when she called (he leaves out Fausto/Mario). Never one to be satisfied with sketchy details, Gabi starts to ask more pointed questions about the whos/whats/whens/wheres/and whys. David puts a halt to her questions, asking her to just trust him. And he has no idea who the mystery woman who has been calling is either. He doesn’t have “amigas”; she’s the only woman in his life. Gabi wonders if it could be a former girlfriend. David doesn’t know and doesn’t care. He’ll speak to whoever it is next time. What he does know is he loves her with his whole soul and he doesn’t want to be with anyone else, he simply can’t. He only wants to be with her. They get back to married couple loving.
At JJ’s it seems that the phone actually works, because Ale is speaking to Leo and telling him about the return of the kids and Yolanda’s involvement. Your recapper is too angry at our two otherwise lovable protagonists to share in their joy about the return of the children, or to really care about JJ’s proposal to Ale get married the next day. She says yes. I’m done with this scene. (Ok, Ale also said some stuff about the guilt killing her, loving Cara and wanting to be her mom.)
Early the next morning, Tia Yolanda sneaks out of the house. And at the hospital, Edgar has woken up from his drug induced sleep and getting news of his injuries from the doctor. He’s obviously in a LOT of pain. On the other side of the curtain, Susana is being discharged and given back all the items she came with, including THE PICTURE and THE SHOES. She clutches the precious shoes to her as the nurse advises her to wear flip flops instead. The doctor joins in. High heels like those are a no no for someone in her condition. She could lose her balance. In addition, she will likely have occasional lapses in memory, but it’s normal. She needs to take it easy and do her rehab exercises, until her body and mind fully heal. Back on the other side of the curtain, Edgar’s doctor tells him about Adolfo’s visit and that he’s coming back today to “transfer him to a private hospital.” Edgar doesn’t like the sound of this and decides he needs to leave, NOW, broken bones and bruises be damned. He tells the doc that he’s got a cousin who’s a doctor who can care for him at home. The doctor wants him to at least make a statement to the police about the guys who beat him up, but Edgar refuses. All he needs are his anti-inflammatory and pain meds prescriptions.
Yolanda returns to her condo and heads straight to Juanita’s room to search the mattress for THE LETTER. She is shocked to find not only the mattress missing, but all of Juanita’s things.
Back at the hospital, Susana get’s discharged just as Edgar is being dressed and put in a sling by the nurse. He finally sees her face, recognizes her, runs after her, and catches her just before she catches a taxi. He hobbles up behind her, scaring her, but convinces her to get into a taxi with him right away before Adolfo arrives. If Adolfo finds them, he’ll KILL them! They pull out just as Adolfo pulls up. He is shocked to find out from the nurse that Edgar already left.
At JJ’s, the whole gang is up, dressed and has visitors—FaustiMario and Leo. I’m guessing there was plenty of time to call Elsa. They explain about Yolanda disappearing before daybreak. FaustiMario is sure Adolfo must be threatening and controlling her, and Ale marvels at how some women will still stick to a man who harms her. Caramelo thinks Yolanda is good peeps (buena gente). The two kids tell Leo the whole story of the kidnapping from the beginning, horrifying the adults with all the scary details. Chicles gets to the part about Edgar letting them escape. Ale thinks it’s a miracle that Edgar, although one of Adolfo’s men, let them escape. They all argue the point about whether someone like that could have good in them.
In the taxi Susana explains how she ended up in the hospital. Edgar tries to talk her out of going back to her apartment since he’s sure Adolfo is on their trail. She insists she has to go to pick up a few things.
The doorbell rings at JJ’s, and the kiddies as usual run to answer the door (haven’t these adults learned anything?). Elsa and Mauricio are shocked to see Chicles answer the door, and even more so when Caramelo leaps into Elsa’s arms a second later. “Como estas chiquita?!” After Caramelo assures her she’s well, a royally ticked Elsa enters the house and wants to know why they didn’t tell her the children were back. JJ looks like he can’t be bothered. Limon tries to act like all it all just happened and they were about to call her. Chicles chooses the wrong moment to start a 100% honesty policy and calls out Limon on his lie. He announces to Elsa that they arrived last night! “Do you think I’m an idiot or what?!” Ale jumps in and says they were all just so excited (emocionados) that they forgot to call her. (Thanks Ale. That makes it all better.) Elsa responds with sarcasm- “Oh, that’s totally understandable. Of course!” Caramelo looks up at her- “Please don’t get mad tia.” This pushes Elsa to her limits. She accuses the Insensitive Gang of influencing Cara to start calling her tia again. JJ doesn’t try to smooth things over, instead he tells Elsa that Caramelo will no longer live with her, but instead will live in HER HOUSE, with HER FAMILY. When Elsa says she’s her mother, JJ yells at her that she’s NO ONE’S mother. He and Ale are getting married and adopting her. Elsa throws his ex convict status and inability to adopt in his face. Mauricio decides to jump in to diffuse the situation. He asks JJ to let Elsa take Cara tonight and then tomorrow they can talk about it calmly. Since everything that comes out of Mauricio’s mouth, including common sense, sounds like a threat to JJ, he goes after Mau and yells at him to butt out. Leo holds JJ back from getting physical with him. “This business is between me and her (Elsa)!” Mauricio says he’s just trying to find a way for them to deal with this in the most just/fair way. (There he goes talking that common sense to JJ again. He should know better by now.) Remember that Elsa has the legal rights over Caramelo, even if you don’t like it. JJ doesn’t like it, so much so that he wants to break Mau’s face. Leo holds JJ back as he yells at Mau, Ale starts yelling as well, and Leo shouts them both down to calm themselves. Caramelo goes over to give her Tio Limon a hug and tells her Tia Elsa that she doesn’t want to leave him. This is music to Limon’s ears. “What did you say my love?” “I want to live here with you. I don’t want to be apart from my Tio Limon. I want to be with him always!” She also wants to be with the whole gang who live in the house. JJ looks at Elsa smugly, as she clings sadly to Mau. Mau tries talking common sense again and tells Cara that she has to live with Elsa because she’s her mom (Social Services would likely agree with this). Elsa stops him and graciously says to leave her. If she doesn’t want to live with me, so be it. When she leaves, JJ and the gang act like they just defeated the Evil Witch of the West. Ding dong the witch is dead. Cara is the only one who has remorse that her Tia Elsa left being so sad. Well she’ll just have to get used to it because you’ll be living here with us! Cara wonders if this means that Ale will be her mama. Limon loves this idea! (Could it be because Ale will be living in the same house? If she wanted to live somewhere else, without Limon around, he’d change his tune.) Happy, happy, joy, joy!
At her police sealed apartment, Susana discovers that the money and the butter diamonds have been taken. “Me robaron todo!” (They stole everything from me!) Her shouts bring the landlord who is none too happy to see her. She accuses him of stealing her money and her butter. He didn’t touch anything; it was the cops and he’s going to call them now to tell them she’s returned. Edgar tries to hustle Susana out of the apartment. When the landlord tries to detain them, he gets a swift whack to his family jewels from Eddie’s cane. He’s left rolling on the floor in agony as Edgar and Susana flee.
Adolfo is scouring the newspapers for news of last night’s hit on JJ when he is interrupted by a call from Leo. “What the hell do you want?! Make an appointment with my secretary!” Leo needs to talk to him right now. In fact, he’s in his house. “Que?!” He opens his office door and is greeted by the stern face of Leo.
Mauricio drops off Elsa at her door. She asks to be alone so she can think about everything that happened. Mau looks a bit put out, fearing he’s getting the cold shoulder again. Elsa asks him to have patience with her one more time. It’s just that what happened with Caramelo really hurt her. He knows. That’s why he wants to be with her to support her. But he doesn’t want to be taken for granted and ignored. She admits she has been self centered (egoista) in the past and taken advantage of him. But she loves him and she wants to be with him. She touches his cheek. Right now she just needs to be alone. He agrees to leave her alone, but he’ll be in his office if she needs anything. He goes in for the kiss on the cheek, but newly bold Elsa changes the trajectory and plants a firm smooch right on his kissable lips. They are in the midst of being transported by this kiss when Ulises interrupts. He’s happy to see the pair reunited.
Adolfo, however, is not happy to see Leo. This is harassment! If he doesn’t have a warrant for arrest or concrete proof, then he’s going to bring Leo up on charges of abuse of power. Leo’s not bothered. Proof is steadily coming to light. Adolfo still thinks they’ve got nothing on him. He’s not going to fall for these pressure tactics that they learn at the police academy. Unless Leo has an order from a judge, he needs to beat it. Leo’s ok with that. He just came for a social visit. He makes his way out, but then turns back to Adolfo. If Adolfo is looking for news of JJ’s murder in the papers, then he’s wasting his time. “Victoria no esta muerto.” The one Hernandez killed was a guard. Now they’ve got him in questioning and he mentioned a guy named Edgar Lopez, who he believes works for Adolfo. He used to work for the Genoves and is the prime suspect in Roberto’s murder. Adolfo plays dumb. He doesn’t know the guy. Leo goes on. This Edgar escaped from the cops after the attempt on JJ. Speaking of JJ, he gave the police the address of the location where two bodies were found. These same two were the ones who kidnapped two children from Ale’s car. “You don’t know anything about this?” Adolfo has had enough. He orders Leo to go. Fine by Leo. Soon he’ll have the pleasure of seeing Adolfo in jail.
Dante is at Elsa’s door with his two goons, outnumbering Elsa and Ulises. Ulises has her back as she tells Dante that she doesn’t want to talk to him and orders him to leave. He convinces her to talk to him, and Ulises to leave. Ulises says he will be in his apartment, but instead he sticks close by listening on the other side of the door. Dante wants to know exactly what Elsa told the cops. She defiantly tells him she told them the truth about what happened. That he had her sell jewels that didn’t have bills of sale, although he told her they did. He calls her stupid, since the problem was easily fixed with him giving the clients back their money. Elsa doesn’t know why he’s coming to look for her. The one who should be upset here is her, for him having involved her in something so disgusting (asqueroso). Dante doesn’t think he’s responsible for dragging Snow White through the mud. He’s done some investigating and found out she has a brother in jail for murder and smuggling. He’s sure she has the same criminal tendencies in the blood. Elsa tells them to get the heck out. Ulises senses the moment is getting tense and springs back into Elsa’s apartment. He threatens to call the cops if Dante doesn’t leave. He and Elsa stare them down as they exit. “Shoo shoo shoo.” Ulises begs Elsa’s forgiveness for having connected her with Zaida for the job. She tells him not to worry about it.
At the hotel Edgar explains that he’s hiding from Adolfo because he didn’t do something he ordered him to do. He has her order his meds though room service, since it’s too dangerous for her to go out. She will be his life line, and he swears he’ll protect her. He’s not going to hurt her. Now he wants her to explain the money and the butter.
At Casa Genoves, Ale interrupts Gabi and David’s meal with the happy news of the return of the kids. She then shocks them with the news of Yolanda and Edgar’s roles in the whole drama. Anyway, she has to head to the beauty salon, because JJ wants them to get married tomorrow! Gabi jumps up and gives her cousin (unbeknownst to her) a congratulatory hug. Ale convinces Gabi to come with her. They run off leaving David.
Back in the hotel, Susana has just given Edgar his shots, using her nursing aid experience from the States. Now it’s time to spill the details. She tells Edgar about the 1.5 million pesos that was in her bag, but hesitates. Edgar once again begs her to trust him. She begins the tale, detailing how she found Dora’s letter, then the photo of Gabi and the connection to the shoes she is wearing this very moment. Edgar’s still not getting the importance of all this. Then Susana takes off her shoe and shows Edgar what’s inside. Huge, sparkling DIAMONDS! Edgar is speechless.
Labels: verdad
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of February 7, 2011
ALGUIEN TE MIRA – últimas semanas
We’ve had horrible moments of graphic violence before but nothing like the sustained hideous sadism of Julián’s triple murder: Daniel’s lawyer, the lawyer’s secretary, and finally, Daniel himself.
Up to now, Julián has eluded justice with a combination of meticulous planning, skill and dumb luck. But this time -- this time! -- we were sure the forensic evidence would be irrefutable. The detectives would analyze the murder scene checking for things like gunshot residue, bullet trajectory, skill needed to resect a heart and suture the wound closed. And they would conclude that the scene was only staged to make Daniel Vidal appear guilty. They would know that Vidal was just a victim here. And this would lead them back to the police investigators’ prime suspect: Julián García.
Well. Obviously it didn’t happen that way. This Chicago Police Department is hobbled by forensic science more suitable to a 1940’s film noir than a modern-day thriller. Luisa Carvajal’s objections are drowned out by her superiors. They buy Julián’s staged crime. He goes free.
We move ahead several months. Despite Julián’s best efforts to incriminate him as the accomplice of Daniel Vidal, Rodrigo is finally exonerated and set free.
The bellies on Lola and Piedad are ready to pop. Even Lucía looks pregnant now -- whether it’s with a pillow or a baby, we can only guess.
Pedro Pablo is still in exile from the family home although amazingly, he has managed to keep clear of Lucía. Now that Rodrigo is free, Pedro Pablo will have to find somewhere else to live.
Benja is on the straight and narrow, living with Lola and the girls and seeing his kids regularly. He’d like to get back with Tati but she’s decided it’s her turn to be the wild girl. Uh oh. Alguien te mira, Tatiana!
Camila is a college girl. Let’s hope nobody tells her about Spring Break or the College Girls Gone Wild franchise.
Matilde is home with her parents and Emilio. Her emotional reactions to names and events are eloquent. Unfortunately, we, the viewers, are the only ones who can read them. Her doctor tells her parents about a surgical procedure that may help her. Julián does his best to scare them away from it.
In her campaign to win Rodrigo’s love, Valeria has finally taken the gloves off. Literally. Hat’s off, too. Not that it helps – he’s still obsessed with pea-brain Piedad.
Piedad promises to call him for the baby’s birth. She insists her engagement with Julián is still on but she is living apart from him until after the baby is born.
Julián’s Dr. Jekyll is determined to keep his Mr. Hyde at bay. You can almost hear him muttering under his breath: Must. not. kill. While the ever-more seductive Fantasma de Eva whispers in his ear: You know you want to.
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Okay. Your turn.
We’ve had horrible moments of graphic violence before but nothing like the sustained hideous sadism of Julián’s triple murder: Daniel’s lawyer, the lawyer’s secretary, and finally, Daniel himself.
Up to now, Julián has eluded justice with a combination of meticulous planning, skill and dumb luck. But this time -- this time! -- we were sure the forensic evidence would be irrefutable. The detectives would analyze the murder scene checking for things like gunshot residue, bullet trajectory, skill needed to resect a heart and suture the wound closed. And they would conclude that the scene was only staged to make Daniel Vidal appear guilty. They would know that Vidal was just a victim here. And this would lead them back to the police investigators’ prime suspect: Julián García.
Well. Obviously it didn’t happen that way. This Chicago Police Department is hobbled by forensic science more suitable to a 1940’s film noir than a modern-day thriller. Luisa Carvajal’s objections are drowned out by her superiors. They buy Julián’s staged crime. He goes free.
We move ahead several months. Despite Julián’s best efforts to incriminate him as the accomplice of Daniel Vidal, Rodrigo is finally exonerated and set free.
The bellies on Lola and Piedad are ready to pop. Even Lucía looks pregnant now -- whether it’s with a pillow or a baby, we can only guess.
Pedro Pablo is still in exile from the family home although amazingly, he has managed to keep clear of Lucía. Now that Rodrigo is free, Pedro Pablo will have to find somewhere else to live.
Benja is on the straight and narrow, living with Lola and the girls and seeing his kids regularly. He’d like to get back with Tati but she’s decided it’s her turn to be the wild girl. Uh oh. Alguien te mira, Tatiana!
Camila is a college girl. Let’s hope nobody tells her about Spring Break or the College Girls Gone Wild franchise.
Matilde is home with her parents and Emilio. Her emotional reactions to names and events are eloquent. Unfortunately, we, the viewers, are the only ones who can read them. Her doctor tells her parents about a surgical procedure that may help her. Julián does his best to scare them away from it.
In her campaign to win Rodrigo’s love, Valeria has finally taken the gloves off. Literally. Hat’s off, too. Not that it helps – he’s still obsessed with pea-brain Piedad.
Piedad promises to call him for the baby’s birth. She insists her engagement with Julián is still on but she is living apart from him until after the baby is born.
Julián’s Dr. Jekyll is determined to keep his Mr. Hyde at bay. You can almost hear him muttering under his breath: Must. not. kill. While the ever-more seductive Fantasma de Eva whispers in his ear: You know you want to.
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Okay. Your turn.
Labels: alguien, aurora, herederos, telemundo
Friday, February 04, 2011
Triunfo del Amor #24B 2/3/11 A triumph of dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.
Guillermo plays innocent in the matter of Osvaldo's for realz shooting.
Bernarda is pissed that Tomasa has run off and now she's got to answer her own damn door. Tomasa's gonna pay for this! She answers the door to a guy with a badly scarred face and asks him how he got through the gate. He says he's used to people looking at him with fear. Dead JP's Daddy's not-actually-dead kid? Wouldn't he be older than JP? Is JP just not exfoliating and moisturizing enough?
The director knows that the bullet was switched out, but he doesn't know who would want to hurt Osvaldo. Ofelia tells him to chill, they'll investigate, but he needs to just calm down already. Guillermo says it was probably just a mistake, and not unheard of. Damn! What the hell kinds of sets has he been working on? I don't even know why they'd bother to have live bullets available in the special effects department. Or that there wouldn't be copious security measures in place to keep realies from "accidentally" getting into the guns. Sorry…beanie slippage…. Pedro tells someone to summon the head of special effects so he can scream at them. The EMT says it was just a scratch, but he also hit his head, which is what they're more worried about. Os asks Guillermo not to say anything to Victoria, so she'll probably know inside of five minutes. Pedro calls a halt to taping until he's done firing the poor special effects guy. Ofelia asks Guillermo if it was him, but he keeps playing innocent. She wants to know if he really wanted to kill Os. Nah, he's such a sick bastard he probably only did want Os wounded so he can torture him longer.
The guy at Bernarda's door is Fausto. He's looking for work, but she says she doesn't need anyone. He says he can be her chauffer, her gardener, do windows, run errands, and so on. And he'll work for room, board, and a day off a week. She's intrigued, but she has to consult her son…and she has no money. She tells him to come back later for his answer. She asks his name again and he says, I kid you not, that it's "Fausto Candela." Which is a perfectly reasonable name to have, but given Bernarda's history, it's just too cheesy!
Back in the barrio, JuanJo and cousin Cruz discuss playing matchmakers and getting Milagros and Don Napo together. He wants to send Milagros a letter saying it's from a single guy looking for a woman who just happens to have her characteristics. JuanJo suggests they hand-write the letter, then go to the plaza and find someone to type it up for them, since his mom knows his handwriting.
In the hospital, Pedro says they investigated, but no one turned out to be guilty of having substituted the real bullet. Ofelia smiles and says it's like Guillermo said--it must have been an accident. "Obviously the real culprits aren't going to come forward because they fear punishment," she smarms, while looking at Guillermo. Guillermo passes on the info that the doctor assured them that neither the bullet wound nor the head bump were serious. And no, he didn't call Victoria, but he does think she needs to know. Pedro is going to put off filming Osvaldo's scenes until he's better. Osvaldo tries to get out of bed already, but he's still in pain. According to Pedro, he just needs a day of rest and then, like the doctor said, he can get back to his normal life tomorrow. Osvaldo says they're the best friends in the whole world. Guillermo and Ofelia smirk at each other.
Tomasa comes home to a very crabby Bernarda. She decides to tell the truth. Bernarda calls her a traitor. She throws her out of the house and Tomasa is only too happy to go and never see her again. She tells Bernarda that Vic gave her a wad of cash and an offer of work. She's going to go tell Padre JP that Bernarda's got the dead tormenting her, because that's just not normal. She's also convinced that Bernarda killed Don Octavio for wanting to go tell JP that Victoria was preggers. And she just says all this to her face. Damnit, Tomasa! Bernarda lets her have it with a fireplace poker and sends the money wafting out of the envelope.
Maria is all upset, thinking that Linda was right about men only wanting one thing. Nathy suggests they go up to the roof, look at the stars, get some fresh air, and talk. Maria's not in the mood. She just wants to mope. Nathy insists and drags her out of the apartment. Maria whines and complains the whole way up the stairs…until she sees the romantic setup on the roof. Good thing she wore her formal peignoir. She tells Nathy she's not in the mood for jokes. Max, however, is in the mood for something.
Bernarda sees Tomasa's body and starts backing away. She knocks the pictures off the mantel and starts crazying that Tomasa deserved it. Actually, she's pulling the pictures down and dropping them on the floor, which is kind of random.
Max says it's no joke, he's serious, and the night is just getting started. He tells her he's never done this before. They sit down at the table and Max says he wants to confess something to her…"The day was a farce, just so I'd have time to arrange all this. And Nathy was my accomplice, but she didn't know what I was doing." He kind of formally thanks her for giving him her virginity. The white roses are supposed to symbolize that she's still pure, in her heart. Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, but it sounds really cheesy and somewhat misogynistic when he says it out loud. He hired a violinist. And he also hired a full moon, cause he's Max and he can do that with the power of his hotness combined with his big fat wallet. He dances with Maria, but then he starts giving the violinist a free show. I bet that guy sees a LOT of action on his job. Smoochies…smoochies…dancing smoochies…smoochies dancing. Max says he knows he's the first man in her life, but he swears he'll be the last too. Smoochies. The candles are burned almost the whole way down.
Nathy talks to Fabian and tells him the plan went off without a hitch. He can even hear the violinist through the phone. Nathy gushes over how romantic it is. Fabian suggests they go to the movies together and leave the two "tortolitos" (lovebirds) alone. I appreciate that he seems to genuinely like her and doesn't act like he's doing her a favor. I'm going to be annoyed when he doesn't realize he likes her until after her makeover.
Max finally opens the bottle of wine so they can toast to their love, their happiness, being together forever, and the sad day she spent without him so he could surprise her. She toasts with him. He also wants her to know that his only wish in this life is to be with her, and he'll be with her no matter what happens. They toast again. Maria says she really did suffer a lot and he'd better not do it again! He swears he won't…unless it's to do something like this again, ja ja ja. They keep drinking and smiling. Is it wrong of me to wonder where the food is? You can't be having these marathon lovemaking sessions on an empty stomach! Geez, Max! Feed the poor girl already and quit getting her drunk!
And the crazy logic for the murder…"You swore before Christ that you wouldn't say anything and since you broke your oath I had to kill you. Don't you understand that my mission is to get rid of all the sinners in the world?" She actually lights a match and lights the fire in the fireplace without freaking herself out. She wonders out loud what she's going to do with Tomasa now. Fausto (*snicker*) comes in and says he'll take care of it. "How did you get in?" "That doesn't matter. What matters is that this is the chance I've been waiting for to show you that I will serve you unconditionally." She offers him Tomasa's money for helping her. He accepts, but says he doesn't want money. He just wants to serve her. She's religious and she reminds him of his parents, but above all, they both know that sinners need to be punished. "And where you'd get that idea from? How do you know I think that way?" He says not to ask and just know that her most faithful servant has finally arrived. She agrees, but says he's on probation and she'll get rid of him if she's not convinced. He says he'll make himself her accomplice to seal the deal. He'll burn this sinner's body, since she's surely burning in hell already. He kisses her cross. Ewwwwwww! I have three potential theories for how this all turns out, some of them not mutually exclusive: (1) they're going to sleep together, (2) he's going to be the one who ends up killing her, (3) they're going to kill each other.
Victoria tells Antonieta that she's so happy she saw Tomasa again and repaid her debt. Victoria says it was thanks to Tomasa that she was able to survive. Oscar comes in to announce the completion of the ready-to-wear collection.
They all go to Pipino's workshop. Antonieta marvels at how the designs all look expensive. Pip gives Oscar the credit, for making Victoria's idea a reality. She says it's just what she wanted. Oscar has the budget ready for her to review and the costs really were low, he says. Pip doesn't give a hang for cost. He says the collection is going to be a great success. Antonieta thinks the dresses are ideal for women without a lot of money to spend. Victoria is dying to see one on and asks Antonieta to model.
The cousins are back, crowing over their success. They say she'll finally get a "sopa de su propia chocolate" (a soup of her own chocolate; a taste of her own medicine, but they seem to mean it more like "she always helps other people and it's about time someone helped her"). Milagros overhears and wants to know what they're doing. JuanJo says nothing and then starts teasing her about rooting for the Chivas. He is apparently a Club America fan. Before she can find out what's going on, Don Napo comes running in saying there's a big fire, they've called out all the trucks, and they need all the help they can get. JuanJo goes running out and then tells Cruz to go with them. As Cruz runs out, Milagros gives them her blessing…most of it after they've left the room.
Antonieta shows off the blue floral dress and Oscar seems to see her for the first time. Victoria's phone rings and she says "Osvaldo? Balazo?" (gunshot) and then goes running for the hospital. Oscar goes with her. Pip says to Antonieta that with that dress on, he thinks Oscar's eyes popped out. "That's how you should dress! More youthful. Not so formal." He swears Oscar really was looking at her and she giggles.
The fire is going strong at the building.
At Bernarda's house, the fire in the fireplace is also going strong as Bernarda says that Tomasa's body is burning like her soul is burning in hell. Fausto gives her a creeeeeeepy look.
Burning building. Firemen in action. People getting saved.
Bernarda's house. She jumps up form her chair by the fire and gets dizzy. Fausto is concerned. "I imagine that you must be terrified at seeing the fire too. I say it because of your face. What happened?" Fausto says it was an accident he's never been able to forget. He gives her the creeeeeeepy look again.
Burning building. People getting loaded onto ambulances. The fire is over. Juanjo says his cousin outdid him. Don Napo says that fireman are the most loving chaps, cause they save people's lives without even knowing them. The chief offers Cruz a permanent job and Cruz accepts…oh, but then who's going to teach Fer about the *cough* flowers growing in her *cough* garden?
At Osvaldo's bedside, Ofelia says they whole effects department should be fired. Pedro won't rest until he finds out who did it, because he suspects it was someone who wanted to hurt Osvaldo on purpose. Guillermo says no way, everybody luuuuuuurves Osvaldo. Victoria comes running in with Oscar. She's not put off by him calling it an accident and demands a full investigation. Pedro says he absolutely will. Osvaldo tells her to calm down already, it's nothing. The doctor just wants him to stay under observation. Victoria wants to stay with him, but Guillermo says it should be him. Victoria won't leave. Osvaldo reminds her how much work she has to do and says he's fine. Vic says she thought she was going to die when she got the call. Life has no meaning without him! Pedro says they ought to leave Vic and Os to their hospital smoochies.
Max tells Maria she looks beautiful in the moonlight. She's so happy to be with him. He's the happiest man in the world. He wants to see her everyday and sell tortas, ja ja ja. Smoochies.
Linda, still in the hospital, sees the news about Os's "accident." The reporter helpfully tells the whole world that Os is right up there in his suite on the 6th floor.
Vic is still going on about how much she loves Os and would die without him. Os says he once read that someone wrote that they weren't as afraid of dying as of becoming useless. He gets that now. Vic says they need to think that every age has it's beauty.
Linda is on her way.
Vic says death is irrevocable and she hates the thought of death catching up to them one day. Os says growing old means not doing a lot of things,
"No son muertos los que en dulce calma,
la paz disfrutan de la tumba fria,
muertos son los que llevan muerte el alma
y aun estan con vida."
He's (slightly mis-)quoting the first stanza of a poem by Columbian poet Antonio Muñoz Feijoo. The other two are:
No son los muertos, no, los que reciben
Rayos de luz en sus despojos yertos.
Los que mueren con honra son los vivos.
Los que viven sin honra son los muertos.
La vida no es la vida que vivimos.
La vida es el honor y es el recuerdo.
Por eso hay muertos que en el mundo viven,
Y hombres que viven en el mundo muertos.
It means, "They are not dead who in the sweet calm, enjoy peace in their cold tomb, dead are they who carry death in their souls and still have life. They are not dead, no, they who receive rays of light in their stiff remains. Those who die with honor are the living. Those who live without honor are the dead. Life isn't the life that we live. Life is honor and is being remembered. That is why there are dead men who live in the world and men who live in the world dead."
Vic kisses him.
Linda continues her stalking. She sees Vic and Os through the window in his room. He convinces Vic to leave, finally (dumbass!). Linda has to run so they don't pass her in the hallway. She sees Vic, Oscar, Ofelia, and Pedro waiting for the elevator and sneaks into Osvaldo's room. She starts kissing him and says she was sooooo worried about him. He reminds her it's over. She reminds him she's nuts and isn't going to let him off the hook. She threatens him with his wife. He threatens her with the cops. He says he's sure she provoked the "accident" so she could meet Victoria. He asks her again to leave. Speaking of stalkers, Guillermo approaches. Osvaldo physically shoves her out of the room just in time for Guillermo to get a picture on his cell phone. Linda passes by his open window and pouts.
Back in her room, she munches on Lays (heh) while watching the news and saying they should have killed him outright and made his wife suffer!
Fer and Victoria watch the same news program. Fer is upset that no one told her what was going on. She was scared. She doesn't know what she'd do if anything bad happened to either of her parents. Vic says "Now you know how I feel when you do crazy shit!" She says anything she does to keep Fer safe is justified, cause she's a mom.
Padilla meets some shady guys to try to borrow money. He swears he'll pay on time, with interest. The guys say either he pays up on time or he dies. That's the way it goes. Padilla agrees and gets handed a briefcase full of cash, presumably.
Vic tells Fer that family is the most important thing in this life. Fer asks her to stay until she falls asleep and Vic agrees. Fer makes room for Vic in bed and snuggles up.
Maria tells Nathy she no longer has any doubts that Max really loves her. Nathy still can't understand how Maria agreed to…um…you know..that she and Max…that Max and she…. Maria says until last night she didn't know what love is. And you can only talk about "physical love" when you've been in the arms of the man you love. So wise she is, after one night in a hotel. Her whole narrative is bodice-ripper worthy, "When he kisses you…when he caresses you…to feel the heat of his skin…little by little that passion awakes and you're on fire inside…and then you sink, like you're falling straight into heaven…or hell." She doesn't know if she did the right thing or not, but love conquered her and she gave herself to him…and to the fire of luuuuuurve! The girls giggle.
The next day, Osvaldo gets checked out. Guillermo wonders what Vic was paying for, since Osvaldo's stay was paid for by the production company. She says it was Linda's bill, the girl her chauffer ran over. Linda is walked into the little lobby by her roommates. Vic says she needs to report to the fashion house to get her assignment. Linda smarmily says she's glad that Mr. Sandoval is feeling better too. Maria and Nathy give her dirty looks for that comment.
Padre JP wonders where Tomasa is. Bernarda says she left the house last night because Victoria gave her a bunch of money and they argued. Tomasa said she hated Bernarda and wished her dead, and then she left. "See what happens because I'm such a good person! I didn't deserve that!" Fausto comes in and is introduced. PJP assures him that he feels compassion for him and thinks he must have suffered a lot. Fausto says PJP has the same good heart as Bernarda. Bernarda says Fausto is a very devout man, which is part of why she hired him. PJP says he smells something really strange coming from the fireplace. He thinks it smells like burned meat. "Mom? What did you do? I beg you to tell me what you did." Staring match.
Sweet William Levy in a kayak!
Tomorrow: Bernarda makes another attempt on Vic; Maria meets her rival, Jimena, who is determined to get Max back. And like a dumbass, he kisses her. Sheesh!
Bernarda is pissed that Tomasa has run off and now she's got to answer her own damn door. Tomasa's gonna pay for this! She answers the door to a guy with a badly scarred face and asks him how he got through the gate. He says he's used to people looking at him with fear. Dead JP's Daddy's not-actually-dead kid? Wouldn't he be older than JP? Is JP just not exfoliating and moisturizing enough?
The director knows that the bullet was switched out, but he doesn't know who would want to hurt Osvaldo. Ofelia tells him to chill, they'll investigate, but he needs to just calm down already. Guillermo says it was probably just a mistake, and not unheard of. Damn! What the hell kinds of sets has he been working on? I don't even know why they'd bother to have live bullets available in the special effects department. Or that there wouldn't be copious security measures in place to keep realies from "accidentally" getting into the guns. Sorry…beanie slippage…. Pedro tells someone to summon the head of special effects so he can scream at them. The EMT says it was just a scratch, but he also hit his head, which is what they're more worried about. Os asks Guillermo not to say anything to Victoria, so she'll probably know inside of five minutes. Pedro calls a halt to taping until he's done firing the poor special effects guy. Ofelia asks Guillermo if it was him, but he keeps playing innocent. She wants to know if he really wanted to kill Os. Nah, he's such a sick bastard he probably only did want Os wounded so he can torture him longer.
The guy at Bernarda's door is Fausto. He's looking for work, but she says she doesn't need anyone. He says he can be her chauffer, her gardener, do windows, run errands, and so on. And he'll work for room, board, and a day off a week. She's intrigued, but she has to consult her son…and she has no money. She tells him to come back later for his answer. She asks his name again and he says, I kid you not, that it's "Fausto Candela." Which is a perfectly reasonable name to have, but given Bernarda's history, it's just too cheesy!
Back in the barrio, JuanJo and cousin Cruz discuss playing matchmakers and getting Milagros and Don Napo together. He wants to send Milagros a letter saying it's from a single guy looking for a woman who just happens to have her characteristics. JuanJo suggests they hand-write the letter, then go to the plaza and find someone to type it up for them, since his mom knows his handwriting.
In the hospital, Pedro says they investigated, but no one turned out to be guilty of having substituted the real bullet. Ofelia smiles and says it's like Guillermo said--it must have been an accident. "Obviously the real culprits aren't going to come forward because they fear punishment," she smarms, while looking at Guillermo. Guillermo passes on the info that the doctor assured them that neither the bullet wound nor the head bump were serious. And no, he didn't call Victoria, but he does think she needs to know. Pedro is going to put off filming Osvaldo's scenes until he's better. Osvaldo tries to get out of bed already, but he's still in pain. According to Pedro, he just needs a day of rest and then, like the doctor said, he can get back to his normal life tomorrow. Osvaldo says they're the best friends in the whole world. Guillermo and Ofelia smirk at each other.
Tomasa comes home to a very crabby Bernarda. She decides to tell the truth. Bernarda calls her a traitor. She throws her out of the house and Tomasa is only too happy to go and never see her again. She tells Bernarda that Vic gave her a wad of cash and an offer of work. She's going to go tell Padre JP that Bernarda's got the dead tormenting her, because that's just not normal. She's also convinced that Bernarda killed Don Octavio for wanting to go tell JP that Victoria was preggers. And she just says all this to her face. Damnit, Tomasa! Bernarda lets her have it with a fireplace poker and sends the money wafting out of the envelope.
Maria is all upset, thinking that Linda was right about men only wanting one thing. Nathy suggests they go up to the roof, look at the stars, get some fresh air, and talk. Maria's not in the mood. She just wants to mope. Nathy insists and drags her out of the apartment. Maria whines and complains the whole way up the stairs…until she sees the romantic setup on the roof. Good thing she wore her formal peignoir. She tells Nathy she's not in the mood for jokes. Max, however, is in the mood for something.
Bernarda sees Tomasa's body and starts backing away. She knocks the pictures off the mantel and starts crazying that Tomasa deserved it. Actually, she's pulling the pictures down and dropping them on the floor, which is kind of random.
Max says it's no joke, he's serious, and the night is just getting started. He tells her he's never done this before. They sit down at the table and Max says he wants to confess something to her…"The day was a farce, just so I'd have time to arrange all this. And Nathy was my accomplice, but she didn't know what I was doing." He kind of formally thanks her for giving him her virginity. The white roses are supposed to symbolize that she's still pure, in her heart. Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, but it sounds really cheesy and somewhat misogynistic when he says it out loud. He hired a violinist. And he also hired a full moon, cause he's Max and he can do that with the power of his hotness combined with his big fat wallet. He dances with Maria, but then he starts giving the violinist a free show. I bet that guy sees a LOT of action on his job. Smoochies…smoochies…dancing smoochies…smoochies dancing. Max says he knows he's the first man in her life, but he swears he'll be the last too. Smoochies. The candles are burned almost the whole way down.
Nathy talks to Fabian and tells him the plan went off without a hitch. He can even hear the violinist through the phone. Nathy gushes over how romantic it is. Fabian suggests they go to the movies together and leave the two "tortolitos" (lovebirds) alone. I appreciate that he seems to genuinely like her and doesn't act like he's doing her a favor. I'm going to be annoyed when he doesn't realize he likes her until after her makeover.
Max finally opens the bottle of wine so they can toast to their love, their happiness, being together forever, and the sad day she spent without him so he could surprise her. She toasts with him. He also wants her to know that his only wish in this life is to be with her, and he'll be with her no matter what happens. They toast again. Maria says she really did suffer a lot and he'd better not do it again! He swears he won't…unless it's to do something like this again, ja ja ja. They keep drinking and smiling. Is it wrong of me to wonder where the food is? You can't be having these marathon lovemaking sessions on an empty stomach! Geez, Max! Feed the poor girl already and quit getting her drunk!
And the crazy logic for the murder…"You swore before Christ that you wouldn't say anything and since you broke your oath I had to kill you. Don't you understand that my mission is to get rid of all the sinners in the world?" She actually lights a match and lights the fire in the fireplace without freaking herself out. She wonders out loud what she's going to do with Tomasa now. Fausto (*snicker*) comes in and says he'll take care of it. "How did you get in?" "That doesn't matter. What matters is that this is the chance I've been waiting for to show you that I will serve you unconditionally." She offers him Tomasa's money for helping her. He accepts, but says he doesn't want money. He just wants to serve her. She's religious and she reminds him of his parents, but above all, they both know that sinners need to be punished. "And where you'd get that idea from? How do you know I think that way?" He says not to ask and just know that her most faithful servant has finally arrived. She agrees, but says he's on probation and she'll get rid of him if she's not convinced. He says he'll make himself her accomplice to seal the deal. He'll burn this sinner's body, since she's surely burning in hell already. He kisses her cross. Ewwwwwww! I have three potential theories for how this all turns out, some of them not mutually exclusive: (1) they're going to sleep together, (2) he's going to be the one who ends up killing her, (3) they're going to kill each other.
Victoria tells Antonieta that she's so happy she saw Tomasa again and repaid her debt. Victoria says it was thanks to Tomasa that she was able to survive. Oscar comes in to announce the completion of the ready-to-wear collection.
They all go to Pipino's workshop. Antonieta marvels at how the designs all look expensive. Pip gives Oscar the credit, for making Victoria's idea a reality. She says it's just what she wanted. Oscar has the budget ready for her to review and the costs really were low, he says. Pip doesn't give a hang for cost. He says the collection is going to be a great success. Antonieta thinks the dresses are ideal for women without a lot of money to spend. Victoria is dying to see one on and asks Antonieta to model.
The cousins are back, crowing over their success. They say she'll finally get a "sopa de su propia chocolate" (a soup of her own chocolate; a taste of her own medicine, but they seem to mean it more like "she always helps other people and it's about time someone helped her"). Milagros overhears and wants to know what they're doing. JuanJo says nothing and then starts teasing her about rooting for the Chivas. He is apparently a Club America fan. Before she can find out what's going on, Don Napo comes running in saying there's a big fire, they've called out all the trucks, and they need all the help they can get. JuanJo goes running out and then tells Cruz to go with them. As Cruz runs out, Milagros gives them her blessing…most of it after they've left the room.
Antonieta shows off the blue floral dress and Oscar seems to see her for the first time. Victoria's phone rings and she says "Osvaldo? Balazo?" (gunshot) and then goes running for the hospital. Oscar goes with her. Pip says to Antonieta that with that dress on, he thinks Oscar's eyes popped out. "That's how you should dress! More youthful. Not so formal." He swears Oscar really was looking at her and she giggles.
The fire is going strong at the building.
At Bernarda's house, the fire in the fireplace is also going strong as Bernarda says that Tomasa's body is burning like her soul is burning in hell. Fausto gives her a creeeeeeepy look.
Burning building. Firemen in action. People getting saved.
Bernarda's house. She jumps up form her chair by the fire and gets dizzy. Fausto is concerned. "I imagine that you must be terrified at seeing the fire too. I say it because of your face. What happened?" Fausto says it was an accident he's never been able to forget. He gives her the creeeeeeepy look again.
Burning building. People getting loaded onto ambulances. The fire is over. Juanjo says his cousin outdid him. Don Napo says that fireman are the most loving chaps, cause they save people's lives without even knowing them. The chief offers Cruz a permanent job and Cruz accepts…oh, but then who's going to teach Fer about the *cough* flowers growing in her *cough* garden?
At Osvaldo's bedside, Ofelia says they whole effects department should be fired. Pedro won't rest until he finds out who did it, because he suspects it was someone who wanted to hurt Osvaldo on purpose. Guillermo says no way, everybody luuuuuuurves Osvaldo. Victoria comes running in with Oscar. She's not put off by him calling it an accident and demands a full investigation. Pedro says he absolutely will. Osvaldo tells her to calm down already, it's nothing. The doctor just wants him to stay under observation. Victoria wants to stay with him, but Guillermo says it should be him. Victoria won't leave. Osvaldo reminds her how much work she has to do and says he's fine. Vic says she thought she was going to die when she got the call. Life has no meaning without him! Pedro says they ought to leave Vic and Os to their hospital smoochies.
Max tells Maria she looks beautiful in the moonlight. She's so happy to be with him. He's the happiest man in the world. He wants to see her everyday and sell tortas, ja ja ja. Smoochies.
Linda, still in the hospital, sees the news about Os's "accident." The reporter helpfully tells the whole world that Os is right up there in his suite on the 6th floor.
Vic is still going on about how much she loves Os and would die without him. Os says he once read that someone wrote that they weren't as afraid of dying as of becoming useless. He gets that now. Vic says they need to think that every age has it's beauty.
Linda is on her way.
Vic says death is irrevocable and she hates the thought of death catching up to them one day. Os says growing old means not doing a lot of things,
"No son muertos los que en dulce calma,
la paz disfrutan de la tumba fria,
muertos son los que llevan muerte el alma
y aun estan con vida."
He's (slightly mis-)quoting the first stanza of a poem by Columbian poet Antonio Muñoz Feijoo. The other two are:
No son los muertos, no, los que reciben
Rayos de luz en sus despojos yertos.
Los que mueren con honra son los vivos.
Los que viven sin honra son los muertos.
La vida no es la vida que vivimos.
La vida es el honor y es el recuerdo.
Por eso hay muertos que en el mundo viven,
Y hombres que viven en el mundo muertos.
It means, "They are not dead who in the sweet calm, enjoy peace in their cold tomb, dead are they who carry death in their souls and still have life. They are not dead, no, they who receive rays of light in their stiff remains. Those who die with honor are the living. Those who live without honor are the dead. Life isn't the life that we live. Life is honor and is being remembered. That is why there are dead men who live in the world and men who live in the world dead."
Vic kisses him.
Linda continues her stalking. She sees Vic and Os through the window in his room. He convinces Vic to leave, finally (dumbass!). Linda has to run so they don't pass her in the hallway. She sees Vic, Oscar, Ofelia, and Pedro waiting for the elevator and sneaks into Osvaldo's room. She starts kissing him and says she was sooooo worried about him. He reminds her it's over. She reminds him she's nuts and isn't going to let him off the hook. She threatens him with his wife. He threatens her with the cops. He says he's sure she provoked the "accident" so she could meet Victoria. He asks her again to leave. Speaking of stalkers, Guillermo approaches. Osvaldo physically shoves her out of the room just in time for Guillermo to get a picture on his cell phone. Linda passes by his open window and pouts.
Back in her room, she munches on Lays (heh) while watching the news and saying they should have killed him outright and made his wife suffer!
Fer and Victoria watch the same news program. Fer is upset that no one told her what was going on. She was scared. She doesn't know what she'd do if anything bad happened to either of her parents. Vic says "Now you know how I feel when you do crazy shit!" She says anything she does to keep Fer safe is justified, cause she's a mom.
Padilla meets some shady guys to try to borrow money. He swears he'll pay on time, with interest. The guys say either he pays up on time or he dies. That's the way it goes. Padilla agrees and gets handed a briefcase full of cash, presumably.
Vic tells Fer that family is the most important thing in this life. Fer asks her to stay until she falls asleep and Vic agrees. Fer makes room for Vic in bed and snuggles up.
Maria tells Nathy she no longer has any doubts that Max really loves her. Nathy still can't understand how Maria agreed to…um…you know..that she and Max…that Max and she…. Maria says until last night she didn't know what love is. And you can only talk about "physical love" when you've been in the arms of the man you love. So wise she is, after one night in a hotel. Her whole narrative is bodice-ripper worthy, "When he kisses you…when he caresses you…to feel the heat of his skin…little by little that passion awakes and you're on fire inside…and then you sink, like you're falling straight into heaven…or hell." She doesn't know if she did the right thing or not, but love conquered her and she gave herself to him…and to the fire of luuuuuurve! The girls giggle.
The next day, Osvaldo gets checked out. Guillermo wonders what Vic was paying for, since Osvaldo's stay was paid for by the production company. She says it was Linda's bill, the girl her chauffer ran over. Linda is walked into the little lobby by her roommates. Vic says she needs to report to the fashion house to get her assignment. Linda smarmily says she's glad that Mr. Sandoval is feeling better too. Maria and Nathy give her dirty looks for that comment.
Padre JP wonders where Tomasa is. Bernarda says she left the house last night because Victoria gave her a bunch of money and they argued. Tomasa said she hated Bernarda and wished her dead, and then she left. "See what happens because I'm such a good person! I didn't deserve that!" Fausto comes in and is introduced. PJP assures him that he feels compassion for him and thinks he must have suffered a lot. Fausto says PJP has the same good heart as Bernarda. Bernarda says Fausto is a very devout man, which is part of why she hired him. PJP says he smells something really strange coming from the fireplace. He thinks it smells like burned meat. "Mom? What did you do? I beg you to tell me what you did." Staring match.
Sweet William Levy in a kayak!
Tomorrow: Bernarda makes another attempt on Vic; Maria meets her rival, Jimena, who is determined to get Max back. And like a dumbass, he kisses her. Sheesh!
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Triunfo del Amor #24A 2/3/11 Triunfo de la Maldad
I'm not sure if 5 FT Latina has a recap in the works, but I thought I'd just post a place for us to comment. I'm also putting a thumbnail recap (from memory) as a comment below. Please delete it when the real recap arrives.
Update: Check out Kat's REAL recap -- posted separately -- now available for your reading pleasure! Thanks 5 FT!
Update: Check out Kat's REAL recap -- posted separately -- now available for your reading pleasure! Thanks 5 FT!
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La Fea Más Bella #199-200 2/4/11 Lety Ver 2.0. The Immovable Object.
Capitulo 199.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
La Candelaria. Luigi tells Caro and Aldo that all he knows is that Lety is president, she went who-knows-where, and she came back completely different. Aldo is highly amused. When Aldo is away from the table, Lui tells Caro he’s sure Aldo is interested in him. Gui says they’re looking for someone with Luigi’s skills for their project. Luigi assures them he’s their man, but he would need to work very closely with Aldo so he needs to provide him an office at Conceptos.
El Santuario. Lety calls home and tells Pop that she’s in an antro and reminds him she’s an adult. She brushes off his curfew. She informs Tom that he’s her new VP of Finance.
The cuartel comments on Lety’s transformation, and Lety says a special friend helped her. They order her to tell them why she left Conceptos, how she became president, etc. She can’t talk about it. Irmita stops the interrogation; they’re here to celebrate. Two guys come to the table; I’ll pick names for them. Butch asks Paula to dance and Chuck asks Lety. (Actually Chuck seems like a nice enough guy.) The cuartel speculates that the wedding was canceled because of another woman, and they speculate more about the couple, while Lety controls her face and suffers.
Placide. Saimon worries that Paula and Lety are out picking up men. Fernando takes a slug of water for courage. Fernando mirrors Saimon who pines for his princess and has a burning desire to talk to her. He tells Saimon that he’ll take him to find Paula. He tells himself that Marcia will kill him, but he has to see Lety. He can’t take it anymore.
Le Noir. Marcia says Lety doesn’t want to see Fernando. MamaT says Lety still loves him. Marcia agrees, but Lety believes the letter and is sure he just used her; she won’t be able to trust him again. She has no idea he fell in love. Alicia butts in that he still loves Lety (with friends like Alicia..). Ali points out Lety’s ugliness, but Marcia can’t avoid the fact that Fern fell in love with her, and he was shaken up when he saw her. MamaT stresses that they have to keep Fern far away from Lety.
Capitulo 200.
Read K-Fuego’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. At El Santuario, Saimon expresses all the anxiety Fern is feeling.
2. Marcia concludes that Lety believes Fern can’t stand her, and he can’t prove that he loves her. Other than Omar, only the three of them know, and they won’t tell. Lety promised she wouldn’t repeat the past, but Ali asks, “what if Fern goes to Lety?”
3. Chuck sits next to Lety and asks her to dance again. Fern steps up. “Buenas noches.” Lety gets self conscious because Fernando sees Chuck’s arm around her chair. Fern claims he came to bring Saimon. Saimon tries to counter that was Fern’s idea, and Fern shushes him.
4. Saimon sees Paula dancing with Butch and makes a scene. Lety asks for the check, but Chuck asks her not to leave and tells her, “Don’t be so crabby.” Oopsie! Fernando gets in Chuck’s face and does what he does best, what won Lety’s love on Day One: he defends Lety. Lety gazes at him like the old days. Fern almost kisses her spontaneously, but then they remember those days are gone. Saimon roughs up Butch and loudly breaks up with Paula.
5. Fernando begs Lety for a chance to talk. See the transcript. He hits all his most important points and gets nowhere, but at least she’s heard him. This was his first encounter with New Lety, the Immovable Object. Marcia calls with the same interrogation as in the old days.
6. Aldo tells Luigi that what’s ugly is how he talks about people. Luigi’s all atwitter for Aldo.
7. Pop says Mama says he has to change too. But she still has to follow his rules (normas: more like policies than laws). He can’t sleep until she’s home safely. Lety briefs Mama that Fern said he’s changed and he still loves her. Mama says, “Maybe? Just maybe?” Lety nixes that idea. He just did it for the company.
8. Fern goes to his dungeon and ponders to himself, “I lost her forever.” His jailer is worshiping at the shrine of the wedding dress. They’ve already fallen back into their old roles of oppressor and liar. She says his mother worries about what he’ll do since Lety returned. He says she’s not the same Lety as before. He’s given up on getting back with her.
9. Lety ponders, that Fernando’s look and his voice made her heart beat like crazy.
Spanish Lesson: El Santuario.
I haven't posted a transcript in a long time. I know that Kris posted most of this dialog, and in fact I used her wording in a few places. But Fernando's plea was so moving, I couldn't resist. I just had to post it. For those of you useing Fea to learn Spanish, this "Spanish Lesson" provides a good learning tool. Watch the scene with the transcript in hand, and try to understand how the characters' words match the English translation.
F: Lety, I need to talk to you.
L: I’m sorry. I don’t want them to wait for me.
F: It’s just for a moment.
Cuartel: Talk to him. Don’t be rude. We’ll wait for you.
F: Lety, since you left Conceptos we haven’t been able to speak.
L: We have nothing to say to each other anymore.
F: NO on the contrary. Quedaron cosas pendientes (there are still things left over). Very important things to clear up. Believe me, I’ve waited for this moment with great emotion.
L: You came to accompany Simon, not to talk to me.
F: No, I came with Simon because I knew you would be here. There are many things that I want to tell you about the letter you read. As you well know, I didn’t write it.
L: No, you didn’t write any of those cards you gave me either. I know those phrases of love weren’t yours..
F: It’s not like that.
L: Look, you don’t need to do this. Your business is saved and when the debts are paid off I’ll return it. You don’t have reason to give me any explanations, besides I didn’t ask for any.
She starts to leave. He takes hold of her arm. Their faces are close. Their faces are drawn closer.
F: No te me XG. Please.
L: Wrong. Very wrong, Don Fernando. It’s very wrong to me (me parece muy mal) because I don’t want to talk to you anymore.
F: I know you hate me. And forgive me for touching you. I understand everything you feel against me
but we are going to be together for six months.
L: No, no we’ll only see each other when there’s a committee meeting and that’s how it will stay.
F: No I can’t be so far from you, um, the company. Nor do I intend to stand here doing nothing (with my arms crossed). It’s that I, um, Conceptos..
L: Look. Tell me what you want from me. (Digame. Tú form.)
F: I know it’s hard. But I don’t want you to hate me. I’m aware of my errors Leticia. I know I behaved like an imbecile. Only God knows how horrified I am about what I did to you. I am paying in the worst way you can imagine for all of my shortcomings / failures. Do you know what? The whole world was against me, and I believe it was for the best that it happened, even though it destroyed other people with me, people that I cared about.
L: Look Don Fer. Before I came here to confront all of this I already forgave you. (Half smile, almost crying.) The truth is I don’t hate you anymore. (Big smile.) I forgave your deception (he reaches to touch her face), your false caresses (he pulls back hands; oopsie!), your cards. I forgave you.. that you went to my house and yelled at my father. You yelled that I wanted to keep your business.
F: Lety I didn’t know where you were. I knew absolutely nothing about you. [Estaba en lo que sido - I was beside myself?] What you wanted me to do. You didn’t even..
L: I even forgave you for interfering with my family. [He looks scared; maybe he’s starting to realize that he offended her horribly.] My family is the most sacred thing that I have. Yes, I will forgive you under one condition, that you get far away from me.
F: Fine, but you have to know that you are standing in front of someone who changed. I don’t want you to remember me as the person who hurt you. Instead I want you to think of me as a man who is learning the hardest lesson of his life.
L: (She turns so he can’t see her crying.) I don’t think about you anymore. I don’t want anyone to know that you were here with me. Please.
F: Bueno. That will be hard because there are too many witnesses.
L: I don’t want Marcia to know that you were with me, for nothing in the world. (Fern’s face: huh??) I don’t want to hurt her. Given that she’s afraid that the story between you and me will repeat. I don’t want you to put your relationship at risk for my fault because I can imagine how hard it was for you to get back with her. To get her to accept you again.
F: What relationship, Leticia? Por favor! Things are not like you..
L: Look, Don Fernando. I don’t need explanations anymore. Tomorrow we’ll see each other at court.
F: Lety, look. You have to listen to me. Damn it, this may sound ridiculous to you, and maybe I shouldn't say it, but you have to know this: I still love you, with all the strength of my soul. Verdad, do you believe me? Verdad, sí me cree. I’m in love.
L: Enough! How can you possibly think that I would believe you? I’ll tell you something. It’s obvious you haven’t changed a bit, but I have changed. I don’t need you telling me pretty things to make me feel good. I’ve learned to love myself and to respect myself around others.
F: (Begging.) Lety, please I respect you too. And if the problem is Marcia, I want you to know.. (His cell rings.)
L: Answer it! Please don’t go back to tormenting her. Dejame en paz! She leaves.
F: I love you. I love you, Lety. Very much.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
La Candelaria. Luigi tells Caro and Aldo that all he knows is that Lety is president, she went who-knows-where, and she came back completely different. Aldo is highly amused. When Aldo is away from the table, Lui tells Caro he’s sure Aldo is interested in him. Gui says they’re looking for someone with Luigi’s skills for their project. Luigi assures them he’s their man, but he would need to work very closely with Aldo so he needs to provide him an office at Conceptos.
El Santuario. Lety calls home and tells Pop that she’s in an antro and reminds him she’s an adult. She brushes off his curfew. She informs Tom that he’s her new VP of Finance.
The cuartel comments on Lety’s transformation, and Lety says a special friend helped her. They order her to tell them why she left Conceptos, how she became president, etc. She can’t talk about it. Irmita stops the interrogation; they’re here to celebrate. Two guys come to the table; I’ll pick names for them. Butch asks Paula to dance and Chuck asks Lety. (Actually Chuck seems like a nice enough guy.) The cuartel speculates that the wedding was canceled because of another woman, and they speculate more about the couple, while Lety controls her face and suffers.
Placide. Saimon worries that Paula and Lety are out picking up men. Fernando takes a slug of water for courage. Fernando mirrors Saimon who pines for his princess and has a burning desire to talk to her. He tells Saimon that he’ll take him to find Paula. He tells himself that Marcia will kill him, but he has to see Lety. He can’t take it anymore.Le Noir. Marcia says Lety doesn’t want to see Fernando. MamaT says Lety still loves him. Marcia agrees, but Lety believes the letter and is sure he just used her; she won’t be able to trust him again. She has no idea he fell in love. Alicia butts in that he still loves Lety (with friends like Alicia..). Ali points out Lety’s ugliness, but Marcia can’t avoid the fact that Fern fell in love with her, and he was shaken up when he saw her. MamaT stresses that they have to keep Fern far away from Lety.
Capitulo 200.
Read K-Fuego’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. At El Santuario, Saimon expresses all the anxiety Fern is feeling.
2. Marcia concludes that Lety believes Fern can’t stand her, and he can’t prove that he loves her. Other than Omar, only the three of them know, and they won’t tell. Lety promised she wouldn’t repeat the past, but Ali asks, “what if Fern goes to Lety?”
3. Chuck sits next to Lety and asks her to dance again. Fern steps up. “Buenas noches.” Lety gets self conscious because Fernando sees Chuck’s arm around her chair. Fern claims he came to bring Saimon. Saimon tries to counter that was Fern’s idea, and Fern shushes him.
4. Saimon sees Paula dancing with Butch and makes a scene. Lety asks for the check, but Chuck asks her not to leave and tells her, “Don’t be so crabby.” Oopsie! Fernando gets in Chuck’s face and does what he does best, what won Lety’s love on Day One: he defends Lety. Lety gazes at him like the old days. Fern almost kisses her spontaneously, but then they remember those days are gone. Saimon roughs up Butch and loudly breaks up with Paula.
5. Fernando begs Lety for a chance to talk. See the transcript. He hits all his most important points and gets nowhere, but at least she’s heard him. This was his first encounter with New Lety, the Immovable Object. Marcia calls with the same interrogation as in the old days. 6. Aldo tells Luigi that what’s ugly is how he talks about people. Luigi’s all atwitter for Aldo.
7. Pop says Mama says he has to change too. But she still has to follow his rules (normas: more like policies than laws). He can’t sleep until she’s home safely. Lety briefs Mama that Fern said he’s changed and he still loves her. Mama says, “Maybe? Just maybe?” Lety nixes that idea. He just did it for the company.
8. Fern goes to his dungeon and ponders to himself, “I lost her forever.” His jailer is worshiping at the shrine of the wedding dress. They’ve already fallen back into their old roles of oppressor and liar. She says his mother worries about what he’ll do since Lety returned. He says she’s not the same Lety as before. He’s given up on getting back with her.
9. Lety ponders, that Fernando’s look and his voice made her heart beat like crazy.
Spanish Lesson: El Santuario.
I haven't posted a transcript in a long time. I know that Kris posted most of this dialog, and in fact I used her wording in a few places. But Fernando's plea was so moving, I couldn't resist. I just had to post it. For those of you useing Fea to learn Spanish, this "Spanish Lesson" provides a good learning tool. Watch the scene with the transcript in hand, and try to understand how the characters' words match the English translation.
F: Lety, I need to talk to you.
L: I’m sorry. I don’t want them to wait for me.
F: It’s just for a moment.
Cuartel: Talk to him. Don’t be rude. We’ll wait for you.
F: Lety, since you left Conceptos we haven’t been able to speak.
L: We have nothing to say to each other anymore.
F: NO on the contrary. Quedaron cosas pendientes (there are still things left over). Very important things to clear up. Believe me, I’ve waited for this moment with great emotion.
L: You came to accompany Simon, not to talk to me.
F: No, I came with Simon because I knew you would be here. There are many things that I want to tell you about the letter you read. As you well know, I didn’t write it.
L: No, you didn’t write any of those cards you gave me either. I know those phrases of love weren’t yours..
F: It’s not like that.
L: Look, you don’t need to do this. Your business is saved and when the debts are paid off I’ll return it. You don’t have reason to give me any explanations, besides I didn’t ask for any.
She starts to leave. He takes hold of her arm. Their faces are close. Their faces are drawn closer.
F: No te me XG. Please.
L: Wrong. Very wrong, Don Fernando. It’s very wrong to me (me parece muy mal) because I don’t want to talk to you anymore.
F: I know you hate me. And forgive me for touching you. I understand everything you feel against me
but we are going to be together for six months.
L: No, no we’ll only see each other when there’s a committee meeting and that’s how it will stay.
F: No I can’t be so far from you, um, the company. Nor do I intend to stand here doing nothing (with my arms crossed). It’s that I, um, Conceptos..
L: Look. Tell me what you want from me. (Digame. Tú form.)
F: I know it’s hard. But I don’t want you to hate me. I’m aware of my errors Leticia. I know I behaved like an imbecile. Only God knows how horrified I am about what I did to you. I am paying in the worst way you can imagine for all of my shortcomings / failures. Do you know what? The whole world was against me, and I believe it was for the best that it happened, even though it destroyed other people with me, people that I cared about.
L: Look Don Fer. Before I came here to confront all of this I already forgave you. (Half smile, almost crying.) The truth is I don’t hate you anymore. (Big smile.) I forgave your deception (he reaches to touch her face), your false caresses (he pulls back hands; oopsie!), your cards. I forgave you.. that you went to my house and yelled at my father. You yelled that I wanted to keep your business.
F: Lety I didn’t know where you were. I knew absolutely nothing about you. [Estaba en lo que sido - I was beside myself?] What you wanted me to do. You didn’t even..
L: I even forgave you for interfering with my family. [He looks scared; maybe he’s starting to realize that he offended her horribly.] My family is the most sacred thing that I have. Yes, I will forgive you under one condition, that you get far away from me.
F: Fine, but you have to know that you are standing in front of someone who changed. I don’t want you to remember me as the person who hurt you. Instead I want you to think of me as a man who is learning the hardest lesson of his life.
L: (She turns so he can’t see her crying.) I don’t think about you anymore. I don’t want anyone to know that you were here with me. Please.
F: Bueno. That will be hard because there are too many witnesses.
L: I don’t want Marcia to know that you were with me, for nothing in the world. (Fern’s face: huh??) I don’t want to hurt her. Given that she’s afraid that the story between you and me will repeat. I don’t want you to put your relationship at risk for my fault because I can imagine how hard it was for you to get back with her. To get her to accept you again.
F: What relationship, Leticia? Por favor! Things are not like you..
L: Look, Don Fernando. I don’t need explanations anymore. Tomorrow we’ll see each other at court.
F: Lety, look. You have to listen to me. Damn it, this may sound ridiculous to you, and maybe I shouldn't say it, but you have to know this: I still love you, with all the strength of my soul. Verdad, do you believe me? Verdad, sí me cree. I’m in love.
L: Enough! How can you possibly think that I would believe you? I’ll tell you something. It’s obvious you haven’t changed a bit, but I have changed. I don’t need you telling me pretty things to make me feel good. I’ve learned to love myself and to respect myself around others.
F: (Begging.) Lety, please I respect you too. And if the problem is Marcia, I want you to know.. (His cell rings.)
L: Answer it! Please don’t go back to tormenting her. Dejame en paz! She leaves.
F: I love you. I love you, Lety. Very much.
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