Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Triunfo del Amor #35 2/21/11 In which Max dresses for a wedding but the bride is wearing black.
St. Bernarda, Victoria and Padilla stare at the gold watch. They all know Padilla stole it, however much he may deny it. Wait a minute, says the canny St. B, how do you two crazy kids know each other anyhow? We were lovers, answers Padilla.
Linda got word to ScuzzBoy that the FerBeast wanted to see him. And now that they are together, he tells her he hasn’t called because of her mother’s threats. The FerBeast is incensed and wants to raise a stink but ScuzzBoy tells her that would only put Ma on alert. It’s better for them to keep seeing each other on the sly.
Max and Fabián are chewing over the scene with St. B and Victoria’s Secret. Today, our Max is wearing a very formal looking collar and tie. He looks like he’s a member of the wedding – probably the groom. All that’s missing is a boutonniere. A secretary tells Max that Victoria wants to meet him for lunch so they can talk about something important. Max hopes she intends to tell him the hidden truth about her life.
ScuzzyBoy tries to convince Fer to rent a room with him: If you love me, show me. Come away with me. (Escápate conmigo.)
At the Casa de Modas, Pipino is pleased with the models, especially his stars, the golden-clad Ximena and María D in elegant black. MD and Xi give each other the stinkeye.
María D comes upon a tearful Toni. Toni warns María not to fall in love with the wrong person. She doesn’t want MD to suffer the way she herself is suffering. But MD knows that Max is the right man for her and she’s sure of his love.
Fer and Scuzzy are in her car outside the Casa Sandoval. He has his marching orders from Papa: Get her to a hotel and knock her up! But oddly, his boyish charms aren’t working. He gets frustrated and grabs her. Let go of me, she cries. Cruz, a trained first responder, sees that his Damsel is in Distress. He pulls Scuzzy away from Fer, throws him out of the car and punches him out. What did you do to him, animal? yells the ungrateful FerBeast. She then mounts his back like a small monkey and Cruz twirls the two of them around a few times. Meanwhile, ScuzzBoy scuttles away muttering: No vales la pena, jardinerito. (You’re not worth the trouble, little gardener).
Fer is mad or pretends to be. Once again she threatens to tell her parents and get Cruz fired. Go ahead, he says, and while you’re at it, you can explain that you’re still sneaking around with that human slime.
Back at the office, Max lets María know there’s been a change in plans. His mother needs to talk to him so he’s off to meet her. Max mentions that he suspects that his father is cheating on Victoria. María looks like she just swallowed the last spoon of gruel at the orphan’s table: sooner or later, she reflects guiltily, he’ll find out that Linda is Osvaldo’s floozy.
In the make-up room, Linda is ready to work on Ximena. Don’t you touch me, you bozo, screams Xi, apparently still smoldering from the Nair facial. (Some people can really hold a grudge.) You’re so inept you shouldn’t even be here, she says. Linda smiles smugly: Victoria hired her and only Victoria can fire her.
María D is in a taxi on her way to see St B. She’s convinced that Bernarda is innocent. There has to be some explanation for what Max told her.
Back at Bernie’s, Victoria’s torture continues while the sainted one herself watches with satisfaction. I wasn’t your lover, cries Victoria. You raped me! And Padilla answers stoutly: You trapped me. You were just out to get my money!
I think that Padilla is telling the truth, says St. B. He’s been my tenant for years and he’s an honest man. Now your husband will find out about your past with this man. Caso cerrado!
Enter the smiling María D. She greets Victoria with a kiss. She’s surprised to see her there, she says. Bernie explains that Victoria isn’t making a social call. She came to torment her and to clean her conscience with her lies. Victoria has had enough. She leaves and María runs after her: Yo la acompaño. (I’ll see you out.)
Once they are outside, Victoria says look, kid, we have our differences, but I like you. And I’m telling you this for your own good: stay away from that woman. She’s very clever but she’s totally perverse. She’ll entrap you with her lies:
Me hizo conocer el infierno; por su culpa perdí lo que más amaba.(She made my life hell (literally, she made me acquainted with hell); because of her, I lost what I loved most.)
But she’s going to pay for what she’s done, vows Victoria.
Fausto is watching the scene from the window.
Inside, Bernarda tells Padilla that she backed him in front of Victoria but she knows perfectly well that he stole the watch. She flings it on the table and demands he refund her money. She doesn’t want anything that reminds her of the Sandovals. Padilla reluctantly peels off a few bills and hands them to her.
Osvaldo and his BFF Guillermo are at work, walking and talking as boys will do. Os says he loves Victoria but he cares for Linda too. Just in a different way. You know. A dirty way.
But Gui says he wouldn’t know because he has never truly loved a woman; he just has affairs with them. Os contradicts him:
Tú sí has conocido el verdadero amor.(You have indeed known true love).
He continues: Your love for Leonela Montenegro was the real thing and it was the reason you and I were estranged for so many years. Leonela Montenegro -- The woman I married, Max’s mother.
We leave that conversation just as it is starting to get interesting to go back to Bernie’s. María has come back inside and apologizes for popping in like she did but she was uneasy about what St. B said to Max and what she said to Victoria just now. Bernarda will explain it to her – it’s a long, dreadful story --- but only if María swears not to repeat it to a single soul. Victoria is a bad woman, a liar, a sinner. She has her whole family bamboozled but she’ll pay dearly for what she’s done when the truth comes to light. Stay away from that woman or she and her son will make you suffer more than you imagined possible!
Back to the boys at Televisa:
Gui says: She preferred you, she married you, she gave you a son, she died. Let’s not talk about Leonela any more, okay? Okay. Blood pressures are just beginning to come back to normal when Oscar bursts on the scene, eyes blazing. I need to talk to you, he says to Osvaldo.
María stumbles as she is making her escape from Bernie’s and Fausto catches her. They exchange a long soulful look.
Osvaldo is startled by Oscar’s demand. Is there a problem with Victoria or my son? he asks. Don’t be a hypocrite, says Oscar. He wants to talk privately but Os gives him the brush-off. Finally Oscar loses control. He says loudly enough for people around them to hear: How dare you appear in public with a lover, and a vulgar woman at that, one who’s not fit to shine Victoria’s shoes (no le llega ni a los talones de Victoria, literally, she doesn’t reach Victoria’s heels).
Fausto apologizes to María. He didn’t mean to frighten her. No, no, she says, she’s not afraid of him. She thanks him for helping her. She was just upset over something St B said. Fausto warns her not to believe everything people tell her:
Algunos mienten para perturbarnos el alma y apropiarse de ella.(Some people lie to disturb one’s soul and take possession of it.)
Maybe you’re surprised to hear me use fancy language like that, he continues. It’s because I spent a lot of time reading; books were my refuge when people rejected me.
María is touched. You must have suffered, she tells him, but I can see you’re a good person. Thank you again. And God bless you.
The FerBeast is on the phone with Scuzzy complaining that he left her alone with the gardener. Yes, she’ll tell her parents what Cruz did so he’ll get fired, but Fer is still mad at the Scuzz. He went too far. Still, that damn gardener is gonna pay!
That’s what worries Don Napo when he says to Cruz: You hit the daughter’s boyfriend? What were you thinking? Mira la cara de perro panteonero te traes! (Look at the expression on your face --you look like a graveyard dog!) But the jerk was taking advantage of her, insists Cruz. Still. He and Napo know the real reason he punched out the Scuzz: Jealousy (celos).
At the Televisa cafeteria, Gui tells Os he’s spending too much time in public with That Woman. But how did Oscar know about her? Os is explaining that Oscar has always been in love with Victoria…
… Gui makes a hasty exit (Victoria is my friend, he says) as That Woman is spotted making a beeline to Os’s table.
Victoria and Max meet at the restaurant. His wedding formalware is disguised by an artfully knotted black wool scarf thrown over it. Victoria isn’t here to talk about her past. Here’s what she wants to know:
¿Es cierto que tienes una aventura con María D?(Is it true you’re having an affair with MD?)
He answers:
No, eso no es cierto. Yo amo a MD y nos vamos a casar.(No, that’s not true. I love MD and we’re getting married.)
At the apartment, Nathy and MD are talking about the same thing. MD knows that Victoria is fond of her (me aprecia), but that doesn’t mean she wants her in her family. Who am I? she asks. An orphan who doesn’t even know who her parents were.
Ah the delicious irony. Victoria challenges Max’s choice of María D as his bride because he knows nothing about her family or her past. (Although on second thought, Victoria does have a point. St B is MD’s grandmother. If he knew that, would he still want to marry her?) Max stands firm. He knows her soul is clean and generous. And he knows he loves her. Nothing else matters.
At Televisa, Osvaldo is not pleased by LindaHo’s invasion into his workplace. He tries to keep her tentacles away and tells her to cool it with the ‘mi amor’s’. He expects discretion (hah!) and doesn’t want to jeopardize his family because of her foolishness. She finally gets the message but not before telling him she has a birthday in a few days. She starts to leave and then comes back to tell him one last thing. (At this point, Osvaldo is just about tearing his hair out in frustration and embarrassment. Good.) She says:
No me regales nada para mi cumpleaños; con tu cariño me basta.(Don’t give me a gift for my birthday; your affection is enough for me.)
[At home we are yelling at the tv: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!]
Victoria tells Max that he should marry Ximena because she and Xi’s mother are old friends and everyone always expected them to get married. Really, Victoria? Is that all you got?
She is deaf to Max’s insistence that María is the woman he loves. And that he’s a grown man. If he marries María D, says Vic, don’t count on her support. No problem, says Max. You’ll have my resignation today. From this moment, I no longer work for you.
Nathy is telling María that if Victoria loves Max like a son, she’ll allow him to choose his own happiness. But María isn’t so sure. Victoria is cold and calculating and MD doesn’t know how she’ll react to Max’s announcement.
We at home are all very proud of Max when he tells Vic that nothing is more important than María. But his mother thinks he’s acting like an adolescent. She warns him:
Cuando la pobreza entra por la puerta, el amor sale por la ventana.(When poverty comes in the door, love goes out the window.)
Max says her way of thinking is sad. And for all their money, she and his father don’t seem very happy. Max loves her like a mother. If she loves him like a son, she’s the one who will have to change her opinion.
Victoria is left alone at the table. Badly played, Victoria, badly played!
At the Casa de Modas, Gui has slithered past the reptile barriers and caught up with Ximena in the hallway. He grabs her arm. They do their little I hate you -- I own you – You used me thing . Toni comes upon them. Gui says he’s there to buy a dress. He’d like Ximena to model it.
Max has phoned María and now she joins him in the restaurant. He tells her about his conversation with his mother. She still wants him to marry Ximena but that’s impossible because he doesn’t love her. Did you once love her? asks María. Max looks thoughtful. I thought I loved her but it wasn’t really love. It wasn’t until I met you that I understood what love was. And whether other people like it or not, you and I are going to get married.
Not without your mother’s blessing, says María. I’m not going to marry you if it means separating you from your family. We shouldn’t see each other any more.
Ximena walks the runway in a tight white dress while Gui looks on lasciviously. Xi looks like the “before” actress in a Paxil commercial. Gui tells Toni he’s going to buy the dress even if the woman he’s buying it for isn’t nearly as beautiful as Ximena. When Toni leaves, Xi reproaches him: You want everyone to know I have a lover? He answers: I want to show you you belong to me and you’ll never get rid of me.
Victoria is back in the office. Toni can’t believe what she’s hearing. Max resigned??? Victoria face is stony. Max is obsessed with María Desamparada, she says. If he wants to ruin his life, let him.
Toni is aghast. She tells her friend that she’s pushing Max away with her foolish insistence that he marry Ximena. She has already lost one child. Does she really want to lose another?
We love each other and we’re getting married, says Max. And that’s that.
Nuh uh, says our prissy orphan girl. She won’t let him lose what she has wanted all her life – parents! – in order to marry her. Don’t be ridiculous, says Max (¡no seas necia!). You are the only thing that matters to me. That may be true right now, says María, but later you’ll regret giving up your family. I can’t let you make that sacrifice for me!
Finally we all escape the two stubborn women as we glide along with William in his kayak.
Linda got word to ScuzzBoy that the FerBeast wanted to see him. And now that they are together, he tells her he hasn’t called because of her mother’s threats. The FerBeast is incensed and wants to raise a stink but ScuzzBoy tells her that would only put Ma on alert. It’s better for them to keep seeing each other on the sly.
Max and Fabián are chewing over the scene with St. B and Victoria’s Secret. Today, our Max is wearing a very formal looking collar and tie. He looks like he’s a member of the wedding – probably the groom. All that’s missing is a boutonniere. A secretary tells Max that Victoria wants to meet him for lunch so they can talk about something important. Max hopes she intends to tell him the hidden truth about her life.
ScuzzyBoy tries to convince Fer to rent a room with him: If you love me, show me. Come away with me. (Escápate conmigo.)
At the Casa de Modas, Pipino is pleased with the models, especially his stars, the golden-clad Ximena and María D in elegant black. MD and Xi give each other the stinkeye.
María D comes upon a tearful Toni. Toni warns María not to fall in love with the wrong person. She doesn’t want MD to suffer the way she herself is suffering. But MD knows that Max is the right man for her and she’s sure of his love.
Fer and Scuzzy are in her car outside the Casa Sandoval. He has his marching orders from Papa: Get her to a hotel and knock her up! But oddly, his boyish charms aren’t working. He gets frustrated and grabs her. Let go of me, she cries. Cruz, a trained first responder, sees that his Damsel is in Distress. He pulls Scuzzy away from Fer, throws him out of the car and punches him out. What did you do to him, animal? yells the ungrateful FerBeast. She then mounts his back like a small monkey and Cruz twirls the two of them around a few times. Meanwhile, ScuzzBoy scuttles away muttering: No vales la pena, jardinerito. (You’re not worth the trouble, little gardener).
Fer is mad or pretends to be. Once again she threatens to tell her parents and get Cruz fired. Go ahead, he says, and while you’re at it, you can explain that you’re still sneaking around with that human slime.
Back at the office, Max lets María know there’s been a change in plans. His mother needs to talk to him so he’s off to meet her. Max mentions that he suspects that his father is cheating on Victoria. María looks like she just swallowed the last spoon of gruel at the orphan’s table: sooner or later, she reflects guiltily, he’ll find out that Linda is Osvaldo’s floozy.
In the make-up room, Linda is ready to work on Ximena. Don’t you touch me, you bozo, screams Xi, apparently still smoldering from the Nair facial. (Some people can really hold a grudge.) You’re so inept you shouldn’t even be here, she says. Linda smiles smugly: Victoria hired her and only Victoria can fire her.
María D is in a taxi on her way to see St B. She’s convinced that Bernarda is innocent. There has to be some explanation for what Max told her.
Back at Bernie’s, Victoria’s torture continues while the sainted one herself watches with satisfaction. I wasn’t your lover, cries Victoria. You raped me! And Padilla answers stoutly: You trapped me. You were just out to get my money!
I think that Padilla is telling the truth, says St. B. He’s been my tenant for years and he’s an honest man. Now your husband will find out about your past with this man. Caso cerrado!
Enter the smiling María D. She greets Victoria with a kiss. She’s surprised to see her there, she says. Bernie explains that Victoria isn’t making a social call. She came to torment her and to clean her conscience with her lies. Victoria has had enough. She leaves and María runs after her: Yo la acompaño. (I’ll see you out.)
Once they are outside, Victoria says look, kid, we have our differences, but I like you. And I’m telling you this for your own good: stay away from that woman. She’s very clever but she’s totally perverse. She’ll entrap you with her lies:
Me hizo conocer el infierno; por su culpa perdí lo que más amaba.(She made my life hell (literally, she made me acquainted with hell); because of her, I lost what I loved most.)
But she’s going to pay for what she’s done, vows Victoria.
Fausto is watching the scene from the window.
Inside, Bernarda tells Padilla that she backed him in front of Victoria but she knows perfectly well that he stole the watch. She flings it on the table and demands he refund her money. She doesn’t want anything that reminds her of the Sandovals. Padilla reluctantly peels off a few bills and hands them to her.
Osvaldo and his BFF Guillermo are at work, walking and talking as boys will do. Os says he loves Victoria but he cares for Linda too. Just in a different way. You know. A dirty way.
But Gui says he wouldn’t know because he has never truly loved a woman; he just has affairs with them. Os contradicts him:
Tú sí has conocido el verdadero amor.(You have indeed known true love).
He continues: Your love for Leonela Montenegro was the real thing and it was the reason you and I were estranged for so many years. Leonela Montenegro -- The woman I married, Max’s mother.
We leave that conversation just as it is starting to get interesting to go back to Bernie’s. María has come back inside and apologizes for popping in like she did but she was uneasy about what St. B said to Max and what she said to Victoria just now. Bernarda will explain it to her – it’s a long, dreadful story --- but only if María swears not to repeat it to a single soul. Victoria is a bad woman, a liar, a sinner. She has her whole family bamboozled but she’ll pay dearly for what she’s done when the truth comes to light. Stay away from that woman or she and her son will make you suffer more than you imagined possible!
Back to the boys at Televisa:
Gui says: She preferred you, she married you, she gave you a son, she died. Let’s not talk about Leonela any more, okay? Okay. Blood pressures are just beginning to come back to normal when Oscar bursts on the scene, eyes blazing. I need to talk to you, he says to Osvaldo.
María stumbles as she is making her escape from Bernie’s and Fausto catches her. They exchange a long soulful look.
Osvaldo is startled by Oscar’s demand. Is there a problem with Victoria or my son? he asks. Don’t be a hypocrite, says Oscar. He wants to talk privately but Os gives him the brush-off. Finally Oscar loses control. He says loudly enough for people around them to hear: How dare you appear in public with a lover, and a vulgar woman at that, one who’s not fit to shine Victoria’s shoes (no le llega ni a los talones de Victoria, literally, she doesn’t reach Victoria’s heels).
Fausto apologizes to María. He didn’t mean to frighten her. No, no, she says, she’s not afraid of him. She thanks him for helping her. She was just upset over something St B said. Fausto warns her not to believe everything people tell her:
Algunos mienten para perturbarnos el alma y apropiarse de ella.(Some people lie to disturb one’s soul and take possession of it.)
Maybe you’re surprised to hear me use fancy language like that, he continues. It’s because I spent a lot of time reading; books were my refuge when people rejected me.
María is touched. You must have suffered, she tells him, but I can see you’re a good person. Thank you again. And God bless you.
The FerBeast is on the phone with Scuzzy complaining that he left her alone with the gardener. Yes, she’ll tell her parents what Cruz did so he’ll get fired, but Fer is still mad at the Scuzz. He went too far. Still, that damn gardener is gonna pay!
That’s what worries Don Napo when he says to Cruz: You hit the daughter’s boyfriend? What were you thinking? Mira la cara de perro panteonero te traes! (Look at the expression on your face --you look like a graveyard dog!) But the jerk was taking advantage of her, insists Cruz. Still. He and Napo know the real reason he punched out the Scuzz: Jealousy (celos).
At the Televisa cafeteria, Gui tells Os he’s spending too much time in public with That Woman. But how did Oscar know about her? Os is explaining that Oscar has always been in love with Victoria…
… Gui makes a hasty exit (Victoria is my friend, he says) as That Woman is spotted making a beeline to Os’s table.
Victoria and Max meet at the restaurant. His wedding formalware is disguised by an artfully knotted black wool scarf thrown over it. Victoria isn’t here to talk about her past. Here’s what she wants to know:
¿Es cierto que tienes una aventura con María D?(Is it true you’re having an affair with MD?)
He answers:
No, eso no es cierto. Yo amo a MD y nos vamos a casar.(No, that’s not true. I love MD and we’re getting married.)
At the apartment, Nathy and MD are talking about the same thing. MD knows that Victoria is fond of her (me aprecia), but that doesn’t mean she wants her in her family. Who am I? she asks. An orphan who doesn’t even know who her parents were.
Ah the delicious irony. Victoria challenges Max’s choice of María D as his bride because he knows nothing about her family or her past. (Although on second thought, Victoria does have a point. St B is MD’s grandmother. If he knew that, would he still want to marry her?) Max stands firm. He knows her soul is clean and generous. And he knows he loves her. Nothing else matters.
At Televisa, Osvaldo is not pleased by LindaHo’s invasion into his workplace. He tries to keep her tentacles away and tells her to cool it with the ‘mi amor’s’. He expects discretion (hah!) and doesn’t want to jeopardize his family because of her foolishness. She finally gets the message but not before telling him she has a birthday in a few days. She starts to leave and then comes back to tell him one last thing. (At this point, Osvaldo is just about tearing his hair out in frustration and embarrassment. Good.) She says:
No me regales nada para mi cumpleaños; con tu cariño me basta.(Don’t give me a gift for my birthday; your affection is enough for me.)
[At home we are yelling at the tv: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!]
Victoria tells Max that he should marry Ximena because she and Xi’s mother are old friends and everyone always expected them to get married. Really, Victoria? Is that all you got?
She is deaf to Max’s insistence that María is the woman he loves. And that he’s a grown man. If he marries María D, says Vic, don’t count on her support. No problem, says Max. You’ll have my resignation today. From this moment, I no longer work for you.
Nathy is telling María that if Victoria loves Max like a son, she’ll allow him to choose his own happiness. But María isn’t so sure. Victoria is cold and calculating and MD doesn’t know how she’ll react to Max’s announcement.
We at home are all very proud of Max when he tells Vic that nothing is more important than María. But his mother thinks he’s acting like an adolescent. She warns him:
Cuando la pobreza entra por la puerta, el amor sale por la ventana.(When poverty comes in the door, love goes out the window.)
Max says her way of thinking is sad. And for all their money, she and his father don’t seem very happy. Max loves her like a mother. If she loves him like a son, she’s the one who will have to change her opinion.
Victoria is left alone at the table. Badly played, Victoria, badly played!
At the Casa de Modas, Gui has slithered past the reptile barriers and caught up with Ximena in the hallway. He grabs her arm. They do their little I hate you -- I own you – You used me thing . Toni comes upon them. Gui says he’s there to buy a dress. He’d like Ximena to model it.
Max has phoned María and now she joins him in the restaurant. He tells her about his conversation with his mother. She still wants him to marry Ximena but that’s impossible because he doesn’t love her. Did you once love her? asks María. Max looks thoughtful. I thought I loved her but it wasn’t really love. It wasn’t until I met you that I understood what love was. And whether other people like it or not, you and I are going to get married.
Not without your mother’s blessing, says María. I’m not going to marry you if it means separating you from your family. We shouldn’t see each other any more.
Ximena walks the runway in a tight white dress while Gui looks on lasciviously. Xi looks like the “before” actress in a Paxil commercial. Gui tells Toni he’s going to buy the dress even if the woman he’s buying it for isn’t nearly as beautiful as Ximena. When Toni leaves, Xi reproaches him: You want everyone to know I have a lover? He answers: I want to show you you belong to me and you’ll never get rid of me.
Victoria is back in the office. Toni can’t believe what she’s hearing. Max resigned??? Victoria face is stony. Max is obsessed with María Desamparada, she says. If he wants to ruin his life, let him.
Toni is aghast. She tells her friend that she’s pushing Max away with her foolish insistence that he marry Ximena. She has already lost one child. Does she really want to lose another?
We love each other and we’re getting married, says Max. And that’s that.
Nuh uh, says our prissy orphan girl. She won’t let him lose what she has wanted all her life – parents! – in order to marry her. Don’t be ridiculous, says Max (¡no seas necia!). You are the only thing that matters to me. That may be true right now, says María, but later you’ll regret giving up your family. I can’t let you make that sacrifice for me!
Finally we all escape the two stubborn women as we glide along with William in his kayak.
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La Verdad Oculta #110: The spit hits the fan
Adolfo's beach-house goon backs off plugging terrified, gagged and tied Zaida between the eyes. At the penthouse, when Dante bullies Adolfo to let him interrogate Zaida about Garnica, Adolf stabs a gun in his face -- until he suddenly notices horrified Bertha entered behind him, stopped in her tracks by the sight.
As Bertha escapes to her room, Dante gets the drop on Adolfo and disarms him, exiting with Adolfo's pistol after promising to put a bullet in his heart one day. Upstairs terrified Bertha phones Alejandra at Mario's for help, but her sister assumes Bertha's making things up and that she had something to do with "Mario's" fall.
Alejandra hangs up on Bertha after ordering her out of their lives; and nearby David thinks that Bertha lured "Mario" to the staircase with the object of having him pushed over the rail. Alejandra wonders what could be keeping Juan Jose, while from his car Dante sets up a smuggling fall guy and orders that Elsa be sprung from jail.
Presently, Juan José appears at Mario's, reporting where he's been to Alejandra's flaring nostrils. Back in Bertha's room, she resorts to phoning and hysterically pleading with Carlos, who looks daggers even at her name on his caller ID. He scoffs that Adolfo would kill Bertha, nastily pointing out she's Adolfo's handy little pet now.
Carlos is spitefully glad she's finding out just what Adolfo's like; and he's not running over there to save her. She doesn't matter to him anymore; and what's more, Carlos jabs rudely that he's dating somebody much better and wiser, before he hangs up abruptly on Bertha's impassioned pleas.
At that moment, Adolfo enters Bertha's bedroom, locking them in, and jeers at Bertha for appealing to her Prince Charming for rescue. Adolfo roughly remonstrates with her, grabbing Bertha's arms -- and then her throat -- while she hyperventilates, grits her teeth and rivets her saucer-wide eyes on him.
She had no cause to worry; but Adolfo has trouble -- and she'd better not interfere! In Mario's office, with Alejandra suspicious and prodding, Juan José explains the situation with Zaida's letter and Elsa's release to her, David and "Mario." They all agree it was a dangerous mission, but Alejandra begrudges him a bit more.
At Bertha's, she's reduced to desperately screaming on bended knee at Adolfo's feet like a child for him to let her go. He points out regrettably that she indeed has no where to go: nobody believes her, nobody wants her. Pulling wailing Bertha to her feet, he earnestly contends she is irrevocably tied to him.
So upset she's almost drooling, Bertha desperately tries to convince Adolfo she wants nothing from him now, except to be released. But Adolfo has two options for her: she can stay with him; but if she decides to leave, she'd better go somewhere he'll never find her. Because if he does find her, he'll murder her.
Oddly regretful, Adolfo rips the phone out of the wall, grabs Bertha's cell and locks the door behind him, leaving Bertha shouting and begging on the floor within. Across town at Juan José's, Alejandra lets loose a jealous rage on Juan José that he still feels for Elsa and risked their love and everything to release Elsa from jail!
Juan José caves, moaning that he just wanted to rub something in Adolfo's face for once. But she's not forgiving him that easily and stalks upstairs in a huff. At Elsa's, Mauricio is just consoling Elsa over her horrible jail experience when Ulises enters and surprises them with news it was Zaida's letter that got her out, not the missing key.
At the internet cafe, Édgar and Valentín read in Garnica's account Adolfo's email to incognito Carmelo making an assignation with him that night at the Sagittarius. Adolfo knows he's not Garnica, but likes his gall and has a proposition. Édgar gets the bright idea to deep-six Carmelo by forwarding this double-crossing info on to Dante, naming Carmelo.
In the dining room at Mario's, David reminds Gabriela not to remark about Márta's murderer when she and Julieta go for the meeting with new sibling Carlos. Back at Elsa's, Ulises elaborates the events surrounding and contents of Zaida's letter to amazed Elsa and Mauricio.
Over at Dante's, he's just reading the damning email and planning Carmelo's demise when Juan José phones to meet at a very public place to exchange the real Zaida letter. In a restaurant, Julieta is hoping to Gabriela she won't slip the upsetting truth, when Carlos appears and plops down between his beautiful, forgiving sisters to learn all about them.
Downtown on a very public flying gangway arched over a cavernous busy commercial center, Juan José exchanges the real Zaida letter; and Dante observes Juan José is the only one ever treated him that way and lived, so there'd better not be a second occasion if Juan José knows what's good for him.
On the patio at Juan José's, Abelardo reveals Asunción's textbooks from the adult education institute to the kids, whereupon Chicles scandalizes them wondering with accompanying hand gesture if adult education means curvy adult teachers, too.
Subdued Zaida arrives at Adolfo's; and Dante phones to threaten if he doesn't get to interrogate her, too, that Adolfo will never see the authentic letter incriminating him. Back on Mario's patio, Abelardo assures Asunción the institute's materials are free and the only aim is his success, such as writing a heartfelt letter to Caramelo one day.
Elsa phones Juan José's, where snippy Alejandra facetiously congratulates her on exiting jail before passing the phone to Juan Jose, who upsets Elsa at first with news of Caramelo's latest plight; but soon she understands the situation and also thanks Juan José for using Zaida's letter.
But when she insists Juan José should turn the letter over to the police, he nastily retorts that neither she nor "that big-mouthed Mauricio" will report anything to the police, who will just censure him. He only used the letter to spring her from jail. She agrees and just wants to visit Caramelo.
Upon hanging up, Alejandra is not convinced by Juan José's assurance that Elsa is happy with "her boyfriend, Mauricio." At the penthouse, a tearful Zaida observes despite Adolfo's denial that it turns out the letter she wrote did indeed serve to spare her life.
Nevertheless, he insists she explain Garnica's death, which she does through a tearful, nightmare-like memory. Garnica cannot be alive; and after considering who could have had access to Garnica's things, they both conclude Édgar and Valentín could be behind the fake emails and blackmail. Adolfo's hiring a hacker to find the source.
Zaida is terrified to be sent to Dante's; and despite her romantic overtures, Adolfo's not in the mood and just insists he can forgive her if she feigns and convinces Dante that Garnica is still alive. Meanwhile Elsa visits Caramelo, who she observes doesn't seem to have missed her much.
But Elsa just wanted to see her anyway and know she's well; and after the current custody explanation from Asunción, sadly but generously agrees it seems to be what's best for Caramelo. At Carmelo's, he puts aside answering Juan José's difficult email requiring proof in favor of agreeing to Adolfo's invitation to meet.
At the internet cafe, the comely technical assistant helps Édgar and Valentín transfer a load of cash from Garnica's account to their "friend's" account in Houston; and she is so blown away by how rich they are that she falls all over herself making dates with them for herself and her friend -- and fails to suspect the rather dicey demeanor of the two thieves.
Unfortunately, the dates will have to wait until the next night -- because that same evening they have something better to do; a "business" appointment. That night, through the lens of someone's video camera, we see a big, black town car cruising in and out again of the Sagittarius parking deck.
Inside his office, frustrated Adolfo waits fruitlessly for "Silverio Rodriguez." Giving up, Adolfo exits to his car -- only to find a slumped Silverio in the back seat, staring forever off into space.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
La Fea Más Bella #221-222 2/21/11 The Week Starts With a BANG! WHAM! KAPOW! Alt title: The One You Want Doesn’t Want You
Capitulo 221.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Fernando intends to ask Lety exactly what she told Aldo.
2. Marcia packs for her trip, remembers the spat in the boardroom, and concludes that their relationship is going from bad to worse.
3. The cuartel finds Aldo’s picture in Lety’s purse. Lety tells how they met, and that they kissed twice. Irmita says Luigi left Ruli because of Aldo. Lety assures them that Aldo doesn’t play for the other side.
4. Aldo swears to Tom that he has no interest in Alicia.
5. Paula tries to push Lety toward Aldo, but Lola says Lety still loves that bum Fernando. PG counsels Lety while Fern listens at the door. PG says two men have Lety on their mind. The generous one values her and has seen her soul. The other one gets bluer by the day. Irmita worries about that one suffering.
6. Aldo takes Luigi the stuffed bear from Ruli. Luigi sees Aldo bring it but he pretends to sleep. He finds the card saying, “I want you at my side forever,” but it’s unsigned, so he’s sure it’s from Aldo.
7. PG tells Lety that the generous one will surprise her. She has difficult days ahead. And a woman from another country will cause her much pain. Lety calls Mama for advice. She recognizes that maybe Aldo is interested in her. Mama says this man could be a dream come true. Lety says Aldo is super nice and she needs his strength. But they’re just friends, and she’s going to forget everyone’s suggestions that there’s something more.
8. Fern tells Omar that if there is another man in Lety’s life, he’ll lose her forever. Omar thinks he already has.
9. Fern can’t stand that PG talked to Lety. He wants to know who the other guy is. PG knows Fern’s love is sincere, so Fern wants PG to tell Lety that. PG says Fern needs to fight for this love, and he should use this trip to straighten out his thinking.
10. Luigi hears Aldo tell Caro that he’s afraid to declare his love because there’s still “el otro.”
Capitulo 222.
Read Alma’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Tom sees Ali crying for her cell phone and he apprehensively loans her his. He says, “Whatever else you need, count on me.” She looks lovingly at his phone.
2. Marcia takes the Dress of Inviability to work and pronounces the incantation, “One Dress to bring her man, and in darkness bind them.” The One Dress to Rule Them All affected Marcia’s mind. Once she obtained her “Precioussss” it became her obsession, it turned her more evil, and she would not part with it under any circumstance. Someone should throw that thing in the fire!
3. Ali takes the One Dress for her wedding to Aldo. See? Already the Precioussss has made her believe delusions too!
4. Tomy (without a necklace) hears “wedding” and storms (with a necklace) into the rage room (Aldo’s office). Tom surprises him with the news that he (Aldo) is engaged to Alicia. Tom feels badly betrayed by his new friend. Aldo says, “Alicia doesn’t interest me at all. I’m in love with Leticia.” Tom couldn’t be happier. He encourages Aldo to declare to Lety. Aldo hustles Lety out for a walk.
5. Marcia finds Fern in her office and she lays the canceled-wedding dress on her desk. He flees the room quickly, as if a dog farted. Alicia, as heartening as Job’s friends, says, “Did you see that? He was here for awhile, but as soon as you arrived, he left.”
6. Ali and Luigi try to convince each other of their delusions that Aldo wants to spend his life with them. Tom tries to gently persuade Ali that she could be mistaken. Finally he spits out, “Aldo loves Lety.”
7. Alicia shoots out like a bullet to tattle to Marcia. Marcia sprints out of the room as fast as a neutrino to break the news to Fernando. (Most people save their schadenfreude for their enemies.) He goes ballistic and blasts out of the room at warp factor 8, saying he has to talk to Lety about travel allowance. When he finds out she left with Aldo, he goes supernova.
8. For the rest of this episode, I’ll condense as much as I can. It’s too packed to summarize. Here are the bare facts.
Aldo tells Lety he loves her. He doesn’t care if she’s still in love with Fern.
She says she loves another. He wants a chance to fight for her love.
Marcia is broken hearted because of how Fernando reacted to her news. Duh!
Marcia whines to her mirror, mirror on the wall, “What has she got that I ain’t got?” (Yeah, I mixed my allusions. So shoot me!)
Fern accuses Aldo of cheating. He came in under the cover of the food project, but his real purpose was to capture Lety’s love.
Aldo shouts that he loves Lety. All Fern can do is shout “I love. I love.”
Fern: Shut up! Aldo: What are you going to do about it? Fern: mucho. Fern walks toward Aldo. Aldo punches him in the face. Aldo: Eh? Did that hurt? Aldo tries to take her away. She refuses. Lety: Look, Señor Fernando..
Fern punches Aldo. He tells him not to invade his (Fern’s) territory, and pulls Lety toward him, but she pulls away. Then Aldo grabs her but she pulls away from him too.
Aldo: the only territory you want to defend is Conceptos. You have no affection.
Fern: Get lost! Leave us alone! Aldo: Us? You and who? Fern: Me and my nov.. .. Lety. Aldo: Let her decide. You lost the right to defend her, long ago. Aldo punches Fern. Fern falls. Lety rushes to him. “Don Fernando..” Then she stops herself. “You should leave. Please.”
Fern: Lety is president and she has a commitment to me!
Here is a fun picture from Angélica's wedding Saturday.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Fernando intends to ask Lety exactly what she told Aldo.
2. Marcia packs for her trip, remembers the spat in the boardroom, and concludes that their relationship is going from bad to worse.
3. The cuartel finds Aldo’s picture in Lety’s purse. Lety tells how they met, and that they kissed twice. Irmita says Luigi left Ruli because of Aldo. Lety assures them that Aldo doesn’t play for the other side.
4. Aldo swears to Tom that he has no interest in Alicia.
5. Paula tries to push Lety toward Aldo, but Lola says Lety still loves that bum Fernando. PG counsels Lety while Fern listens at the door. PG says two men have Lety on their mind. The generous one values her and has seen her soul. The other one gets bluer by the day. Irmita worries about that one suffering.6. Aldo takes Luigi the stuffed bear from Ruli. Luigi sees Aldo bring it but he pretends to sleep. He finds the card saying, “I want you at my side forever,” but it’s unsigned, so he’s sure it’s from Aldo.
7. PG tells Lety that the generous one will surprise her. She has difficult days ahead. And a woman from another country will cause her much pain. Lety calls Mama for advice. She recognizes that maybe Aldo is interested in her. Mama says this man could be a dream come true. Lety says Aldo is super nice and she needs his strength. But they’re just friends, and she’s going to forget everyone’s suggestions that there’s something more.
8. Fern tells Omar that if there is another man in Lety’s life, he’ll lose her forever. Omar thinks he already has.
9. Fern can’t stand that PG talked to Lety. He wants to know who the other guy is. PG knows Fern’s love is sincere, so Fern wants PG to tell Lety that. PG says Fern needs to fight for this love, and he should use this trip to straighten out his thinking.10. Luigi hears Aldo tell Caro that he’s afraid to declare his love because there’s still “el otro.”
Capitulo 222.
Read Alma’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Tom sees Ali crying for her cell phone and he apprehensively loans her his. He says, “Whatever else you need, count on me.” She looks lovingly at his phone.
2. Marcia takes the Dress of Inviability to work and pronounces the incantation, “One Dress to bring her man, and in darkness bind them.” The One Dress to Rule Them All affected Marcia’s mind. Once she obtained her “Precioussss” it became her obsession, it turned her more evil, and she would not part with it under any circumstance. Someone should throw that thing in the fire!
3. Ali takes the One Dress for her wedding to Aldo. See? Already the Precioussss has made her believe delusions too!
4. Tomy (without a necklace) hears “wedding” and storms (with a necklace) into the rage room (Aldo’s office). Tom surprises him with the news that he (Aldo) is engaged to Alicia. Tom feels badly betrayed by his new friend. Aldo says, “Alicia doesn’t interest me at all. I’m in love with Leticia.” Tom couldn’t be happier. He encourages Aldo to declare to Lety. Aldo hustles Lety out for a walk.5. Marcia finds Fern in her office and she lays the canceled-wedding dress on her desk. He flees the room quickly, as if a dog farted. Alicia, as heartening as Job’s friends, says, “Did you see that? He was here for awhile, but as soon as you arrived, he left.”
6. Ali and Luigi try to convince each other of their delusions that Aldo wants to spend his life with them. Tom tries to gently persuade Ali that she could be mistaken. Finally he spits out, “Aldo loves Lety.”
7. Alicia shoots out like a bullet to tattle to Marcia. Marcia sprints out of the room as fast as a neutrino to break the news to Fernando. (Most people save their schadenfreude for their enemies.) He goes ballistic and blasts out of the room at warp factor 8, saying he has to talk to Lety about travel allowance. When he finds out she left with Aldo, he goes supernova.
8. For the rest of this episode, I’ll condense as much as I can. It’s too packed to summarize. Here are the bare facts.
Aldo tells Lety he loves her. He doesn’t care if she’s still in love with Fern.She says she loves another. He wants a chance to fight for her love.
Marcia is broken hearted because of how Fernando reacted to her news. Duh!
Marcia whines to her mirror, mirror on the wall, “What has she got that I ain’t got?” (Yeah, I mixed my allusions. So shoot me!)
Fern accuses Aldo of cheating. He came in under the cover of the food project, but his real purpose was to capture Lety’s love.
Aldo shouts that he loves Lety. All Fern can do is shout “I love. I love.”
Fern: Shut up! Aldo: What are you going to do about it? Fern: mucho. Fern walks toward Aldo. Aldo punches him in the face. Aldo: Eh? Did that hurt? Aldo tries to take her away. She refuses. Lety: Look, Señor Fernando..
Fern punches Aldo. He tells him not to invade his (Fern’s) territory, and pulls Lety toward him, but she pulls away. Then Aldo grabs her but she pulls away from him too.
Aldo: the only territory you want to defend is Conceptos. You have no affection.
Fern: Get lost! Leave us alone! Aldo: Us? You and who? Fern: Me and my nov.. .. Lety. Aldo: Let her decide. You lost the right to defend her, long ago. Aldo punches Fern. Fern falls. Lety rushes to him. “Don Fernando..” Then she stops herself. “You should leave. Please.”
Fern: Lety is president and she has a commitment to me!
Here is a fun picture from Angélica's wedding Saturday.
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Eva Luna #74 Fri 2/18/11 Leo Lies to Dan; Eva Starts Cracking the Whip; and Jackie and Franc Get Together
Cap. #73
Confusion is the name of the game for Daniel in this next face down with Eva. Dan walks into Eva’s office unannounced and Eva rudely tells him to knock or be announced next time but he insists he’’s an associate and expects to speak freely whenever he needs to. He smarts off about then keep the door locked if you’re having a “private moment” in here. She says she’ll do whatever she feels like it and teases him about being jealous. He gets angry and asks if she’s waiting for him to kiss her (cave-man style or something, I guess). Eva teases him with a near kiss and he resists. She asks if she frightens him now because she’s not the same stupid fool of an Eva he knew before. He’s hurt and confused by her attitude --but as turned on as ever.
Dan gives her what for about leaving him waiting at the church and then fooling around with Leonardo while he was totally faithful to her, then forging signatures and running off with his money. She angrily denies it all and says he lied about her to make her look bad to the authorities and never deserved her love, but soon he’s going to pay dearly for all the hurt and harm he’s caused her! Dano asks what in the world she’s talking about. Doesn’t matter she says, but as far as she’s concerned the only guy who deserves her love is Leo! Just then Alicia bursts in and excuses herself. No problem, says Eva, Sr. Villanueva was just leaving.
Downstairs in Mad Marcela’s new cubby-hole of an office, Deborah’s there having to listen to Marci’s tirade about what low-lives Eva and Ali are. Deb gets muy uncomfortable but has to hold her tongue. Deb asks if Marci should have fired Ali. Marci screams at her for defending her, but Deb coolly covers her tracks and says the girl’s possibly the best make-up artist she has and it would be a major loss to the modeling division, is all. Marci warns her against betraying her and though Deb tries to calm her down, Marci just gets angrier and angrier. Marci won’t take suggestions about the business from ANYONE! She’s fed up with Deb’s control and good sense, she says, and kicks her out of her office.
Upstairs Dan leaves; Ali wonders what’s going on and if Eva’s still got the hots for Dan. Eva denies it and says she’s totally over him. Ali obviously thinks otherwise but she doesn’t dare say another word! She changes the subject to her getting fired by Marci. Eva plans to correct that error in Marci’s judgment!
At Don Julio’s Hide-away House, Dr. Garcia tells him that Justa is in fact alive and that Renata herself has now told him. Julio is surprised and upset that Ren lied to him all these years. He and the doctor decide she’s his only link to finding Justa now. DJ has something tricky in mind.
Dan goes to Leo’s office to discuss Eva. Leo puts him in his place hinting that the “relationhip” between Eva and Leo shouldn’t matter considering he’s a married man. Dan agrees, but says he knows the two of them discuss so many things that he wonders if he knows what in the world he could have done to make her hate him so much. Leo says he knows, but it’s not his place to say. Tuff nuts for Dano. Leo reminds him of the pictures he showed him of them in bed. How can he forget? Dan didn’t mention them yet to her because he wondered what she’d say if he threw the relationship in her face. (Bad choice cuz otherwise he might have actually gotten somewhere.) He says the shameless wench had the nerve to deny it all! Leo gets him to agree to keep those photos just between the two of them. He knows she deny it all, and that’s the only reason he took them, so he could prove their relationship to Dan. Dan is disgusted and says they are one in the same. Leo agrees with a chipper smile on his face. We are made for one another. Dan storms out of the office and Leo chalks up another win.
Eva visits Marci and tells her she can’t fire Ali. Marci says DJ didn’t put a dime into this business and so it’s hers to do with and to whom whatever she has a mind to! Eva says no, not really! Has she forgotten that after DJ’s death she had Arismendi, Inc. purchase the modelling agency? So therefore, the whole enchilada belongs to Eva! If Marci doesn’t take Ali back then Eva will shut down the modeling agency. Tuff Nuts for Marci!
That night Jackie visits Eva at her new mansion. Jackie asks if Eva still feels the same about Daniel, but she quickly denies it and asks Jackie to change the subject. They talk about Laurita and the way Victoria threatened and tricked her into asking her father to be sent away to boarding school. Ick-toria somehow made her believe that something bad would happen to her father if she didn’t accept her as her step-mother. Eva remembers back to the scene at the house when Laurita snuck over to visit and Icky came to take her back home. Eva says she’s sure she’s been manipulating Laurita and wants to visit her at the school.
Bimbutt de Icky, is giving hubby Dan back rubs and whatever after he’s admitted that Eva started throwing her weight around at the office. He’s bummed, but not about that--more about what Leo’s been feeding him. Icky thinks to herself that she’s got to get pregnant before he finds out that Eva’s child is his.
At the strip club, Damian tells Marisol that he read about her singing in the papers and threatens her the next time she misses working to do a thing like that again, he’ll cut her face and then fire her!
The next morning, Eva visits her fathers grave and cries about how much she misses him and his good advice. She is upset that Leo’s (tall) tales were the truth and Dan’s going to pay! FF>>
Bimbutt finds out she’s got an underdeveloped uterus and can’t carry a child. (Well, at least she doesn’t have to worry about losing the model figure of hers, so what’s she got to complain about?) There are other options, but Icky says the baby has to come from her body! No way that will be possible, says the doc. Icky goes home and has a tantrum in the bedroom over it. “Damn that Eva and that kid of hers!!”
At Justa’s, she and Don Ricardo find out from the police that there’s been a bulletin put out against Tomas. They’re going to the church to pray about it later. There’s a knock at the door. It’s Renata. She tells Justa she’s inherited DJ’s house in Mexico City and wants to share her inheritance with her. It would only be right. Justa suspects she’s only trying to clear her conscious after all the harm she’s done to Justa over the years. Ren swears it has nothing to do with that. Ren explains about the letter the doctor friend of Julio’s left for her after Julio saw her a few days before his death.. Justa’s not interested now that she has a new life with her new husband, Ric. The only link between her and Julio now is their daughter who she still wonders about. FF>>
At the motel, Tomas comes back with a bottle of booze and starts beating up on Adrian. He runs into the bathroom to escape him. Tomas stands banging on the door and somehow Adrian bangs the door open and it catches Tomas on the nose. Tomas falls backward and hits his head on the wall. He falls to the floor. Adrian sneaks out and see him on the floor, possibly dead. Unfortunately, he’s starting to stir. Adrian high-tails it out of the motel room.
Jackie and Francisco get ready for their date. FF>>
Deb and Eva come to terms on her new publicity campaign. She confides that Marci has been very openly negative in her remarks about Eva, but she has determined that none of what Marci says could possibly be true. It’s very apparent to her that Eva is in fact a very decent person. Eva admits that besides Ali, her Tia Mathilde, and her son, Pablito are all she has left of her family. Her father died in a terrible auto accident when he took her to show her some place. What about her mother? The woman deserted them when they were little and merits nothing from them. She confesses that because she has the same name as her mother, she treated her suspiciously at first and apologizes. She meant no disrespect. Deb asks if she might be mistaken about why her mother left. Eva says this is what her father told them and she has no reason to doubt what he said. She changes the conversation back to business and Deb tells her she’s impressed with her professionalism. Discussion over.
Mari admits to Giorgio that despite all the lies between her and Franc, she may very well want to get him back. FF>>
Eva has sent for Tony. She tells him she was surprised to see he works for the agency. He pretends not to remember the blackmail he tried on her the last time they spoke. She reminds him about his threats to harm Ali if she didn’t pay him $10,000. He tries to argue with her but she shuts him up immediately and fires him. “--Get your things and go down to get your severance check. You’re fired!” Leo hired him, he yells back, and only he can fire him! No, she says, I own all of this and I’m the one who can fire you. She has too many things going on with the business to have to worry about having a crook like him wandering about! He threatens to get even. She tells him to get out--out of her sight and her life!!
Tony slams the door and runs to Leo to complain. “--And that’s the way she is!” Leo wonders what he means that that’s the way Eva is. Tony leaves a few of the more truthful details out of his explanation that Eva never liked him dating her sister and they were always fighting over him going out with her. Leo is incensed to find out that Tony knew Eva and where she was the entire time he’d been hired to find her. Tony is forced to admit that he did and that he lied to Leo about it. He blames it on Ali, saying she asked him to be discreet and say nothing to anyone. Tony says well, by that time she’d gone and he really didn’t know where she’d gone. (He conveniently leaves out the part about tracking her down to the country house and blackmailing her.) Tony begs and says not to forget he knows all of Leo’s business and needs a confidant. Leo says fine, he’ll talk with Eva. In the meantime, Tony’s got to lay low and stay away from the agency and out of Eva’s sight.
Ali walks into Leo’s office after and starts trying to seduce him. He pushes her off and says they have to be more discreet around there, especially with Eva running things now. Ali’s honked off at him, but when it comes to Eva she says she has to admit that she can’t stop thinking about Leo anymore than Eva can stop thinking about Daniel. Leo asks what she means. Well, it’s so obvious that even tho’ Dan is married to his sister, he’s still in love with Eva and Eva with him, says Ali. Leo gets a taste of his own medicine possibly when Ali adds that the last time she went to see Eva, she and Daniel were standing so very, very close together..... Doesn’t take much for Leo to guess what that means and what he’s got to do.
Dr. Garcia calls Ren up and tells her to come over right away. He’s got something important to discuss. She’s on her way, she says.
Jackie and Franc spend time together and flirt with one another. She uses all her charms on him. He tries telling whoppers again. She reminds him he doesn’t have to. He agrees it’s more comfortable not having to lie. He moves in for The Kiss but Jackie dashes away. A bit later they discuss how this is the first time he feels fine being himself. She starts to share an apple with him. He starts to take a bit and then looks into her eyes. She’s looking into his and he forgets about the darned apple and they kiss. He pulls back, and seeing there’s no one else around, he lays the most sincere lip-lock on her that he’s ever given anybody. Jackie goes with the flow.
Bruno plans his strategy to bilk the last bit of money from Marci that he can. He enters her office. She is sopping drunk and tries to seduce him. He fights the gag attack and tries talking her out of drinking so much at the office. He figures he’s got her where he wants her, drunk as a skunk and easy to control. He tries to take her back to her place, but she talks him into going to his apartment.
Icky calls up Tony and arranges to meet with him to see how far he will go to make some quick cash.
Leo walks into Dan’s office for a chat. Dan’s not in the mood and tells him to leave. Leo says he’s not to blame for what’s eating at him and he’s got something important to tell him. Dan is looking like “what more stuff about Eva is he going to rub my nose in?” Leo says he knows he’s upset that he and Eva spend time together, and that Dan’s trying to be a good husband, but he’s afraid that Dan’s letting himself get carried away by the past and is thinking too much about Eva. As his happens, he and Eva were together a second time. Dan doesn’t believe him. Leo says, oh it’s true! That’s the reason he was allowed to continue to live in the mansion after Eva took it over. They spent that first night she was back together. Dan’s frown reaches the ground.
Renata arrives at the address Dr. G. gave her. She’s faint-away impactada when Julio appears and says he’s the one needing to speak with her.
Ick-toria and Tony meet at the bar. She asks him how much it will cost her to have him kill Eva. (Tony talks tough, but I don't think he's got what it takes to really murder. Bimbutt's made the wrong choice, IMHO.)
Leo insists to Dan that he and Eva are very much in love and always have been. In fact, there’s a very strong link between them that she told him about just last night: that Eva’s child is Leo’s!
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Eva Luna #74 Fri 2/18/11
Sorry guys. Another one of my bad headaches. Thought I could wait to do it tonight, but these news meds are making me sleepy. So if someone can summarize for me I would appreciate it. I've been laying down all day hoping to get better later on to do it, but I should have asked for help a lot earlier. I apologize. Thanks to whomever can do this for me.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Triunfo del Amor #34 2/18/11 Revelations and Confessions -- Forced, Faked and/or Otherwise Useless
Capítulo 34
We take up as Bernarda and Maria Desamparada (chug-Hic!) are discussing the fact that Padre JP is Burnie’s only son when the doorbell rings. Maria brings in Max and introduces him. After the introductions, he admits he remembers Burnie from the nasty arguments at the house and her recent telephone threats. Maria thinks he must be mistaken but Max never forgets a face, he says. St. Burnarda has threatened to ruin his mother’s reputation and he asks her what she meant by that phone call. Burnie replies imperiously that she’ll tell all in due time and then assures him it is something very painful that “all of them should know about,” not only for his benefit but for hers as well.
Maria doesn’t understand. Max says he doesn’t either and doesn't need to. Max isn’t impressed with either Burnie’s rotten taste in Elizabethan frocks or her imperious mannerisms. He locks eyes with the bruja and tells Maria that the Sra. might wear the veneer of Padre JP’s mother on the outside, but she is someone--or something--else on the inside. “--There’s nothing sacred here, only evil.” And with that, he nearly drags Maria out of the place.
At Casota Scandal-val, meanwhile, Victoria and Osvaldo have just finished the marital mambo and she is in the mood to finally discuss her past. She weeps uncontrollably as she tells Oz she is pained by the way she always seems so indifferent to what happens with his job. Oz is sympathetic, and tells her he needs her greatly--more than ever--then hugs her close. She’s wants to tell him what’s been the cause of it, but she’s too embarrassed to see the look on his face once he hears it, she says. She has him turn away from her in bed. If he doesn’t, she explains tearfully, she might lose her courage. Oz says fine, but admits he’s pretty tired (and with good reason, considering he’s been shtumping Linda-Ho all evening). Vicki says she’ll be quick about it and starts her story about the long ago one-night stand with a young seminarian; their love child and being thrown out to fend for herself after; about being raped by one Rudolfo Padilla; and then, how she lost her daughter after being run over in the street. It takes all of about five minutes, but when she’s finished and asks Oz what he’s thinking, Vick sees Ozzie has already followed the Sandman off to Dreamland and apparently never heard a word of it.
At the firemen’s fair, Nathy continues to enjoy herself. FF>>
Vicky goes downstairs and gripes to herself about Oz falling asleep on her and hearing nary a single word; she’s not sure she’ll have the courage to try telling him again. Just then, Burnie phones to threaten her again. “--I warned you, but you thought I was threatening in vain. Now you’re going to find out just what I am capable of. Your step-son was just here and very soon your husband will know your real story.” Vicki is worried and fretfully asks her what she told Max, but Burnie simply hangs up on her.
At the same time, across town, Maria Magdalena makes a late evening visit to Mother Superior (Sor Clementina) as JP prays for guidance (and courage?) to be able to officially recognize his daughter.
Cruz sings for the crowd at the fair and is cheered. FF>>
Back at the Sandoval manse, Micaela gives Fernanda grief about Scuzzy Tattoo Boy not calling her and --of course-- not being worth Fer’s time. Fer throws a pillow at her from the bed and shoos her out of her room.
Speaking of Scuzzy, he’s waiting for Papa Rudy to make it home. Rudy limps in and tells him he was making a payment to that other vermin, Fermin, his loan shark. Scuzzy tells his papi that he’s worried about their plans with Fer considering what her mother told Rudy the other night. Rudy says he doesn’t think she’ll follow through with her threats and, no matter what, Scuzzy will marry Fer. They’ll just lay low for a time and then they’ll start visiting again.
Maria and Max are now having coffee out and Maria wonders if Max is correct about his assumptions cuz Sra. Burnarda is a priest’s mother after all. Max says just because she’s the mother of a priest doesn’t mean she wouldn’t hurt his mother; he is curious about her reasons. Maria asks what he plans to do about it. Max says he’ll ask his mother and if she won’t tell him, he’s determined to find out what’s going on by himself.
Nat comes home to a dark apartment and, once the lights are on, she finds lascivious Linda-ho (barefoot on the counter and dressed like the floozy she is in a flashy, faux silver and leopard-print mini) listening to tunes on her i-pod. Nat angrily pulls the ear buds out of Linda’s ears and starts giving her grief. Linda got home earlier than expected because Ozzie had to leave early so no one would suspect. Ohhh! But it was di-vi-i-i-i-ne. Linda makes the mistake of asking how things went at the fair and Nat goes off on her. “--If you’d gone you wouldn’t have to ask!!” Linda yells at her to stop acting like such a little nun cuz she’s not in any mood for sermons! Nat asks if she’s really so proud of being somebody’s lover? Linda says it’s an honor, and that there are scads of other’s --including Nathy--who’d love to be in her place! Sensible Nat reminds her that she’s only getting the wife’s left-overs while Linda’s stuck in the shadows getting second billing; and that the woman’s husband can only offer a few hours and then only uses her as if she were some sort of thing or other! “--And afterwards what? He leaves for his home and the woman he really loves. Is that what makes you feel so proud?” [enorgullecerse] Nat goes to her room totally disgusted while Linda is left in tears to cry alone. (Sorry, but Viewerville’s sympathy meter isn’t budging off zero.)
JP leaves the parish to speak with Maria-HO.
Juanjo stops by to check in with Linda while Cruz and Napo the Naco wait in the hall. Nat listens from the bedroom hallway as Linda lies to Juanjo that she’s been crying because she’s so angry she couldn’t go to the fair with him that evening. The dummy swallows it whole and then plants a big mushy macho smooch right smack dab on her mouth. Linda, after an evening of bedroom bliss beso-ing Ozzie, is disgusted enough to try to push him away, but fights the urge. (Trust me when I say Viewerville feels her pain!) They exchange a few turtle-dove coos after and then JJ tells her he wants to get married right away. She flirtatiously asks if he serious. (Viewerville’s gag-o-meter is at +9 and rising.) JJ says yes; and if he’s never had a fiancee before it’s only because he’s never found a woman like her before. (Like hubby always says, even a homely guy never thinks of himself as a loser.) Naco and Cruz are watching this from the hallway, rolling their eyes in disbelief. Juanjo calls her his queen and says he wants her to be the mother of his children. (The Viewerville gag-o-meter has just gone off the scale! Retch alert!! Retch alert!!) Linda giggles flirtatiously and says they’ll discuss it in the morning. It’s late. JJ leaves. Nat comes out and gives Linda a disgusted look. Linda asks if she heard. JJ wants to get married right away!! Now what’s she supposed to do, she asks. (I suppose handing him back that rock is a good place to start! Yeah, maybe when pigs fly!)
Vick gets another late night call from Burnie, despite the late hour, asking her to come see her the next day. Again Vicki demands to know what she told Max when he was there. If Burnie doesn’t tell her then she’s not bothering to come! Burnie says that would be a shame since she has something important to discuss with her concerning her daughter. Vick takes in a deep breath at that. Burnie abruptly hangs up on her again.
Back at Maria’s apartment, Cruz and Naco come back for a little heart-to-heart with Linda.
JP arrives at Maria Desareglada’s for another chat. She’s still not gotten back. He enters her room--uninvited--and calls out to her.
Naco and Cruz tell Linda they aren’t there to beat around the bush. They know she’s been cheating on JJ and they threaten to tell him the truth if she doesn’t do it first.
At Sor Clementina’s, Maria-HO tearfully whines that she’d give anything to be able to live with Sra. Victoria if she’s her daughter, but that her “significant other”, that “scorpion” [alacrán], won’t let her leave. Sor Clem tells her he has no right to force her into that life, that they raised her right and tries to convince her to give up the trade. She even offers to talk to him herself and to set the police on him if necessary. Maria--HO insists that she’s too frightened of him. The mother superior assures her that with Vicki she’ll find the love she’s never had and the strength to change her wanton ways.
Back at Maria-HO’s place, Pimp Guy boyfriend ambushes JP and beats him up. JP is knocked unconscious and falls to the floor. Maria-HO returns and sees JP lying on the floor, bloodied and down for the count. She screams at Pimp Guy that he’s there because she’s supposed to be a daughter of some wealthy woman and they could be rolling in dough if he doesn’t muck it up. Pimp Guy is all ears. He’ll clean him up himself in that case!
Back at the apartment house, Cruz dreams of his first kiss with Fer. He wakes up with a start at the slap part and knocks his head on Milagros’ curio cabinet. He thinks back to his dream as he looks out the window, and then says to himself something like she’s made him a believer. [Me traes hecho un reverendo.] Whatever. He knows he’s got it bad for Fer. FF>>
The next morning Vicki’s getting ready for work and asks Oz if he would stop loving her once he knew she wasn’t the woman he thought she was. (Now, by my standards, that’s a heck of a loaded question. If he were smarter than the average bear, he might have said ‘Whatever you were, I know what you are now, and that’s the woman I will continue to love.’ Unfortunately, Oz has nothing on Yogi The Bear.) Oz says well, yeah, he would. He was totally in love with the woman he met and he wouldn’t appreciate getting some big surprise after twenty years. (WRONG. ANSWER. DUDE!) Vick gets her back up. What about him, she asks. You haven’t changed any? You’re still the same as you always were? Yeah, he’s the same as ever, he tells her. (Viewerville wonders if he isn’t fibbing ju-u-u-u-st a tad there, or if he’s such a machisto at bottom that nothing he does or has done would count against him to his way o’ thinkin’.) Oz is tired of playing twenty questions here and asks what’s going on with her. Vicki gets a bit feisty as she explains how she was trying to tell him the heartfelt truth about everything that’s been bothering her, which she’d never been able to discuss with him before, and then he had the gall to fall asleep on her!! Oz obviously is still recovering from his marathon mating session with lusty Linda the night before. His answer is less than considerate. “--I warned you I was really tired last night.” “--So sleepy that you couldn’t stay awake to listen to what’s been torturing me all these years?” Max of the bionic ears walks in and rudely interrupts to ask if what’s torturing her has anything to do with Padre JP’s mother.
Ozzie’s asks Max what either the padre or his mother has to do with Vicki’s worrying. Vicki lets Oz have it “--That’s what I was telling you last night but you were asleep! So I am not going to repeat it now! Your thoughtlessness drives me crazy!!” Oz goes into defensive mode and gripes that it seems she’s the only one around there with problems! She angrily tells him he hasn’t a right to say such things! Oz says well, you know something? I’m tired of it! I’m fed up with this life we lead!! A life without love! A life that nobody wants--that I don’t want! He walks out of the bedroom. “--Osvaldo!!” Max prevents her from chasing after him. He lends her his shoulder to cry on instead and asks her to please calm down.
Outside, Fer gets ready to drive off in her mini-vertible but stops as she sees a red rose lying on the car seat. She looks around for Cruz and smiles, but then has second thoughts and starts to throw it away. Suddenly she changes her mind and decides to keep it. As she drives off, Cruz comes out of his hiding place in the bushes and nods with a big smile. “--What a night, Auntie!”
Back inside, Vicki tearfully tells Max she doesn’t know what to do about his father. She tried to open up to him and he fell asleep. She even suggested to him that she’d leave her job if that’s what he wanted--anything so as not to lose him! Max wonders what his answer was. She says he didn't want her to be unhappy by having to quit work, but she’s even more unhappy because of the disdainful way he acts and speaks to her. Max says he could see this coming, and they thought a vacation would help. Vicki says he’ll refuse and he accuses her of having no time for loving him! Max says not to worry because things will work out. (Yeah, but as Viewerville knows, it won’t be any time soon.)
Linda arrives at work and is bothered by what Naco and Cruz threatened the night before. She runs into Fer and they start chatting. Fer tells her to use the familiar “tú” with her now since they’re both young and get along so well. Fer reminds her when Linda offered to help her with her boyfriend if she ever needed it. Well, that time has come.
At the same time, Papa Padilla, model father that he is, advises Scuzzy on how to insure Fer and he get married: just get her pregnant. Scuzzy doesn’t think it will be that easy and says she takes precautions. “--Don’t ask her permission! Only eunuchs ask permission! Just do it! Take her to a fancy hotel, buy a bottle of champagne, and seduce her--or you’ll lose her for good! Now you either get her pregnant or you look for another place to live!!” Scuzzy asks Papa if he’s really capable of kicking him out of the house. Rudy says just try me!
Once again at the Scandal-val’s, Vicki heads into the dining room for breakfast. A chastened Ozzie is there waiting for her. He asks her to sit down with him. She does. She sighs and then asks what he plans on doing. He takes her hand and answers. “--To ask your forgiveness.” He apologizes for falling asleep while she was trying to open up to him and he also apologizes for the mean way he just spoke with her. Vicki’s still upset, but they manage to get through breakfast, anyway. FF>>
Back in the barrio, Nat and Millie are having a heart to heart. Nat tells her she’s pretty much resigned to the fact that no guy is going to be interested in her. Millie tells her what we’ve all been dying to: “--You have to help yourself along! Spruce yourself up! [acicalarte] Do something with your hair, start wearing some blue contact lenses instead of those owl-eye things if you want some nice boy to cuddle up [apapachar] with you.” Nat gets a little giggly. Millie wonders if she’s still a virgin. Nat giggles again. Of course she is. Millie is relieved. Good girl! The two hug with mutual affection.
Cruz runs into Naco on the jogging track. There’s some discussion about the love letters he’s gotten. Cruz almost lets the cat out of the bag. Naco jogs off. (If somebody could give a decent translation of the slang and what it was all about, all the better. I was lost with the specifics of this conversation.) Afterwards, Cruz wants to kick himself because if Naco and his aunt realize what he and Juanjo have been doing exchanging those made up love-letters between the two, he’s in deep do-do.
A bit later, Nat’s walking alone in the park and sees two lovers kissing. She wishes Juanjo would kiss her that way.
JP is recuperating in the hospital. His superior is there visiting and he tells the other priest that he feels Dios has not forgiven him his past sins from his youth. The old priest tells him not to blaspheme.
Nat is now eating out with Fab Fabian. He laughs and says they’re both in a fix cuz both of them are in love with the wrong people. The difference, she says, is that he at least has a chance with Fer where as she doesn’t have a sliver of a hope with Juanjo. Fab thinks she’s wrong. He tells her she’s got plenty of great qualities. (We notice he doesn’t mention her looks.) She sighs and says everyone tells her the same thing, but no guy ever gives her a second look. She realizes she doesn’t have Linda’s physical attributes, nor Maria’s beauty, and wonders why guys have to be so interested in the physical. Fab does a poor job at explaining the intricacies of the male and the way one’s sexually wired. He gives up and offers to buy her dessert instead.
At the office, Vicki nearly catches Maria and Max smooching it up in the hallway.
Back at the hospital, JP’s superior is disgusted to see that Maria-HO and Pimp Guy are there visiting him. The man could have killed him he beat him so badly and needs to be locked up! JP is more forgiving. (and way too naive for a priest, doncha think?) He wants to listen to what they have to say. Pimp Guy says he’s very happy JP isn’t reporting him to the police and he’s very sorry for what he did. He just misunderstood JP’s intentions toward Maria-HO. JP says he understands and was only trying to help her reconnect with her mother. Maria-HO starts to plead her case to both priests and says if she finds her mother she would be happy to leave the life. She’s not a bad person, really she isn’t and ...yada, yada. Pimp Guy admits to rotten parents and says they’ve both lived like animals. They beg for forgiveness and JP blesses them. He and his superior talk the two of them into going into the chapel and making confession if they truly want to change. They follow the old priest to do what’s necessary to make the hook-up with Sra. Victoria’s dinero.
Vick, meanwhile, is over at Burnie’s now. Eva is listening behind the closed door, natch. “--What did you want to tell me about my daughter?” Burnie replies that if her daughter has become a hooker it’s because Vick is a bad, bad person and she will not let Vicki destroy her son! Vick reminds Burnie that she’s not exactly as pure as the wind driven snow herself, considering the way she threw Vick out of the house years ago to starve. Burnie sneers back that she’s well aware of Vicki’s game to steal her son’s tranquility just to find her bastard daughter! Vick gets incensed and yells back that she won’t allow her to speak about her daughter like that. She blocks a would-be slap from the old dame. “--I will hit, too, to defend myself!!” Vicki suddenly notices the diamond watch Burnie’s wearing and demands to know who gave it to her. Burnie doesn’t see why it matters. Vick says well, it does because it belongs to her daughter!! “--My husband gave it to her on her birthday and the same day somebody stole it!”
Rudy walks in on the two of them unannounced and greets Vicki. Burnie asks if the two know each other. He answers that they do and says with a toothy smile that he didn’t realize the two of them were friends. Burnie says no, they’re not friends, but Vick is extremely interested in her watch and how she came by it. Would he be kind enough to explain it to her? Vicki doesn’t really need any explanation. One look at Padilla and she is certain she knows. Viewerville awaits to see how Padilla wriggles his way out of this one as Uni cues the kayak.
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La Verdad Oculta 109: Two Damsels in Distress, Saved by One Letter
Vivi has gone out to play in the beautiful spring-like weather! The recap will be up sometime over the weekend when she’s tired of being out in the sun and the 60 degree weather. Want more? Well, ok. Here are the highlights: JJ and a kind bystander save FaustiMario (of course); everyone thinks Bertha was part of the plot to do him in, but she swears she's innocent; Adolfo is not pleased; Tia Yolanda visits the kiddies at Casa Genoves (aka enemy territory); JJ shows the gang the “mai” he received from Garnica- they decide to give “Garnica” an identity test; Yolanda begs “Mario’s” forgiveness, admits she switched the rings, but refuses to say why she can’t free herself from Adolfo; cracks form in the partnership between the Three Goons and Edgar and Valentin decide to make some trouble on their own; Ulises finally remembers Zaida’s letter, which tells all about Adolfo’s and Dante’s dirty dealings- he informs JJ; Gabi tells “Mario” that he can’t take Fausto’s place, although she’s accepting the idea of his being her bio dad- at times he really reminds her of her dad; Dante orders Carmelo to find Garnica; the two sisters decide to reach out to their brother Carlos and make plans to see each other; Adolfo orders his henchman to “liquidate” Zaida for betraying him and letting Garnica escape alive; JJ (stupidly) goes to Adolfo’s condo alone, and threatens to give Zaida’s letter over to the cops if Adolfo and Dante don’t find a way to set Elsa free, immediately; Adolfo rushes to stop Zaida’s liquidation, just in the nick of time.
Full recap: FaustiMario is hanging by a thread, or rather a finger, from the railing over the lobby of the hotel Mirador. Our hero JJ, and another heroic bystander, pull FaustiMario up and safely onto the stairs. After assuring that the very relieved and breathless FaustiMario is ok, JJ and Ale begin to wonder who was the guy who pushed him, if what just happened was an accident, and what was Bertha doing here. When Fausto explains that she was there to meet him, Ale narrows her eyes in suspicion. She heads up to the restaurant to find out what her sister is up to. She thinks her little sis’ excuse about wanting to mend fences with their uncle is bs, and informs her of “Mario's” near death experience on the stairs. Why did Bertha run off? Bertha says she just headed to the restaurant because that was where they agreed to meet. Ale takes Bertha to check on their uncle, since Bertha is so concerned for his welfare. After asking how he is, Bertha decides it’s best if they save their discussion, particularly the subject matter of Adolfo, for another day. She quickly rushes off under the suspicious gazes of Ale and JJ. JJ and Ale accompany a still shaky Fausto to his car.
At JJ’s house, Lucha wants to know how Limon is dealing with Abelardo’s custody of Caramelo and her staying at Casa Genoves. Turns out he’s not freaking out as much as he did last time because he knows Abelardo isn’t trying to take Cara from him. Yolanda calls wanting to speak to Caramelo, and is encouraged by Limon to cross over to enemy territory at Casa Genoves to see the kids in person. Limon and Lucha stamp and certify Yolanda as “good peeps.”
Bertha returns home to Adolfo to inform him about what happened. She didn’t get to speak to her uncle because someone pushed him on the stairs and almost killed him. Adolfo is clearly upset about the ALMOST (casi) part, and not about the killing attempt. Then he gets more upset that it was JJ who saved the day. “How fortunate. What luck that nothing happened.” Bertha seems to pick up the hint of irony in his tone, and looks at him suspiciously. (Is her brain finally starting to function?) “Adolfo, you told me that you weren’t going to expose me (exponerme) to anything dangerous. And you try to kill my uncle by pushing him over the stairs!?” Adolfo gets indignant. “How dare you say something so stupid! No way!” He storms out demanding not to be disturbed.
Yolanda arrives to Casa Genoves. FaustiMario is regaling Limon with tales of the near death experience and JJ’s heroics in the back yard. He greets Yolanda with suspicion, but she gets a much warmer reception from the kids. Caramelo rattles off the list of all her new uncles and aunts. Chicles says he’s doing the usual, which Yolanda knows means he’s up to no good. Big hugs and kisses for the formerly kidnapped trio. David and Gabi arrive and greet her with awkwardness, but understand why she and the kids would want to see each other after their terrible experience. Yolanda asks to speak to Mario privately, and shortly after they leave for the home office, JJ and Ale arrive. Gabi and David learn of the staircase incident and they all agree that it was done on purpose. They are all sure that Bertha set the meeting up on Adolfo’s orders. Gabi suggests the logical—bring Leo into the loop. But JJ nixes that idea. He still prefers the go it alone (well, with his BFFs David and Carlos) approach. He pulls out the “mai” he received from Garnica. David and Ale think they can’t be sure it’s Garnica. Gabi once again suggests that Leo could help them figure out the true origin of the e-mail. Nope. JJ doesn’t think that will solve anything. Plus he’ll just scold them about their latest cowboy antics. David thinks that there is likely a link to the appearance of the lawyer with knowledge of Gabi’s shoes (Carmelo) and this reappearance of Garnica. (Gold star for David!)
Mientras tanto (in the meantime) in the office, Yolanda is telling “Mario” about all the guilt she feels for being part of so many injustices. “Mario” is forgiving, especially since Yolanda has been a victim of Adolfo’s evil herself—most recently with the kidnapping. “Well, we all have our crosses to bear. And it seems that destiny wants Adolfo to be mine.” She begs “Mario’s” forgiveness for all that has happened, but knows it can’t change anything. Mario doesn’t think it’s her that needs forgiveness, but Adolfo. And the things that he’s done are unforgivable. For this reason Yolanda wants to tell him about something she did to right a wrong—something that can help prove that Santiago didn’t kill Marta.
Over at Goon Central, Carmelo is laying out the next steps of the plan. He’s going to tell Dante that he couldn’t find Edgar. Valentín needs to get back to work so that no one will become suspicious. Annoyed Edgar wonders what he’s supposed to do. Give him the shoes and sit tight is Carmelo’s reply. NO WAY! It cost Edgar his job and nearly his life to get those. Carmelo urges him to calm down and stick to the plan that will benefit all of them. Edgar decides to go along for now, but he doesn’t like to take orders from anybody, and if Carmelo decides to betray them, he’s got a photo of him with the shoes that will get him in deep doo doo with Dante. Carmelo reminds him that they are all in this together. All for one and one for all, and all that. Edgar doesn’t seem convinced.
Yolanda continues her explanation about how she switched Carlos’s real ring for the fake one Adolfo had created. “Mario” wonders wouldn’t it have been easier all around if she had told the cops what really happened at the very beginning. Yolanda thinks Adolfo would have killed her had she done so. “But the police would have protected you!” “But it’s not about my safety, it’s about…about…I can’t denounce (delatar) Adolfo. I can’t” “But why Yolanda!? Why?! What ties you to him?!” “I can’t tell you anything.” She flees the office leaving Fausto more baffled than before.
Carmelo better be careful because Eddie’s got that crazy look in his eyes that we all know so well. He wants to know when they’ll get to see all the cash (lana) they’ve demanded from Adolfo and Dante. Carmelo doesn’t know since he hasn’t received an answer from either of them yet. He’s demanded 10 million pesos from each of them. In exchange, Adolfo will get the shoes, diamonds, and the letter Valentin spoke of; Dante will receive info about how Adolfo is trying to double cross him. He’s sure they’ll have an answer tomorrow.
At Casa Genoves, Fred and Daphne (aka David and Ale) are trying to convince Scooby Doo (aka JJ) that there is no proof that the e-mail was actually sent from Garnica. JJ thinks he’s probably just afraid to show his face to him after his blackmail scheme. David thinks it best that they send “Garnica” a few questions to first prove his identity. Questions like: How did they meet? (David and Abe are shocked JJ trusted a guy who just turned up at his door saying he was a lawyer who knew JJ had a lot of money. JJ knows now that it was dumb.); Who was with them on the plane?; and Who was at the table when they signed the contract in Puerto Vallarta? Ale writes the message as they all look on.
Ulises returns to his apartment to find a stack of junk mail and bills at his door. As he throws them all in a drawer, he suddenly remembers an important piece of mail—Zaida’s letter! After a bit of hand wringing about what to do, he rips it open. “No manches!” (No f-ing way!) He calls up JJ right away with a quick explanation of the letter and a promise that it will knock his socks off (ir de espaldas/to fall to one’s back/be surprised). JJ explains to the group as best he can (Zaida, letter, Elsa, Ulises) and leaves.
Edgar and Valentin are having a stroll and a heart to heart. Edgar is not comfortable with Carmelo having his hands on everything. Valentin casually says that Carmelo doesn’t have EVERYTHING. Say what?! Valentin explains that there were a few other things in Garnica’s safe that he kept. Edgar is impressed. He obviously was in agreement with us that Valentin was not the sharpest assassin knife in the drawer. “Knowledge is power”, says Valentin.
In the back yard, Gabi and FaustiMario are having a chat about the baby and what Gabi wants- girl or boy. If she’s as sweet as Caramelo, then she wants a girl. No way in heck she wants a boy like Chicles! And what does she want to name the baby? If it’s a girl, then she wants to name her Gabriela, since she loves the name and it’s not her real name. If it’s a boy, then she wants to name him Fausto. FaustiMario can barely contain his proud tears (where’s David with a bear hug when you need him?). Gabi can’t wait to tell her father he’s going to be a grandfather. He’s going to go crazy and start buying baby toys and clothes. She can already picture him walking the baby in the park. FaustiMario really has to work hard now to not start bawling. Gabi continues that she doesn’t know if one day she’ll see him (Mario) as a father, but for her, Fausto, the man who raised her, will always be her father. FaustiMario understands perfectly, but would love for them to continue communicating the way they are now. Gabi agrees. Sometimes he even reminds her of her father! (Ahem…) FaustiMario thinks it’s because they’re both old dudes. Gabi wonders how her father is, and wonders why “Mario” is so quick to answer that he’s fine. Now that she’s pregnant, and feeling more emotional, she particularly wants to be surrounded by her people/family. “I understand. Your father won’t be far away for long.” Gabi gets up to go, and plants a sweet kiss on “Mario’s” cheek before she leaves. Fausto’s working overtime by this point to not let his tears fall.
Valentin shows Edgar the additional documents Garnica has—account books of Adolfo’s restaurants; a black book of important people, including Mario Genoves; info sheets of various people including Elsa and Marcos; and a pic of the famous helicopter. Turns out Valentin did not destroy the helicopter as he was ordered to. He hid it away. They both think JJ would pay pretty well for that info.
JJ at that moment has just arrived at Ulises’s. He immediately reads the letter. JJ figures Zaida wrote the letter because she thought they were going to kill her. This letter can help free Elsa! He runs out without explaining to (eager) Ulises what he intends to do.
Carmelo brings his apologies to Dante for not being able to find Edgar. No worries, says Dante, he has a new person for him to look for—Garnica. He thought the guy was dead, but it seems he isn’t. Dante thinks Valentin, one of Garnica’s men, knows the deal. He wants Carmelo to use his special skills to get info out of him about whether Garnica is alive, and where he’s hding.
At the Guillen apartment, Juli is having a Luis Miguel moment—singing the theme song while sorting beans. Gabi comes to visit and the two have some sisterly bonding over the baby on the way. Neither have heard from their father, but Leo assures Juli that Fausto is safe. Speaking of Leo, he’s been working a lot, but Juli is super excited about the upcoming return of Paula in two weeks (maybe Paula Drew can help our slow adults solve this case). Juli gives Gabi her first baby present- a unisex yellow and white sweater. They hug, and Gabi gets emotional and starts crying—so many things are happening, and their dad isn’t even there to share in the news of the baby. Juli thinks there’s plenty of time for him to enjoy the baby and for them all to be together. Gabi knows she’s right and that she’s being affected by pregnancy hormones. Juli concedes that their lives haven’t always been normal, and especially not lately, so it’s understandable. Has Gabi spoken to Carlos? Not recently. They are both now excited about the idea of having a big brother and think they should all get together. Gabi calls hard working Carlos to set something up. He’ll try to wrap up work early enough to see them that evening—if not, he’ll meet them tomorrow. The siblings end the call sweetly with terms of endearment. Carlos smiles from ear to ear. Juli is pleased to learn Carlos is working for JJ. They wonder how their father is holding up.
At the local internet café, computer novices Edgar and Valentin are getting the pretty employee to help them check their G-mail (Garnica mail) account. They see that there are responses to each of their three messages. The first they read is Adolfo’s. He’s already deposited the money to the account indicated. Now he wants his stuff. “That idiot Carmelo lied to us when he said he hadn’t heard anything about the money!” Uh oh! Eddie has that look in his eyes again.
Carlos and Urbina speak restaurant biz. Carlos thinks thing have been working well, but he has some ideas for modernization. Urbina’s down with that. He knows Carlos is experienced and thinks his ideas will be beneficial for the hotel.
Dante storms into Adolfo’s condo, with two armed goons at his back, and demands to speak to Adolfo. Adolfo, meanwhile, is in his office checking in on Zaida with one of his goons. She’s down at the beach, being watched by two other goons. When she comes back, Adolfo wants him to “liquidate” her!
He goes out to see what Dante wants. Dante refuses to send his goons out. The two old devils are just gearing up to have a verbal showdown, when JJ breezes in. Now they both turn their ire to their mutual thorn in the side. JJ pulls out Zaida’s letter and begins to read it aloud:
“I, Zaida Castellanos, in possession of my full faculties, declare that I was obligated/forced by Señores Dante Sevilla and Adolfo Avila…” Dante bids his goons to leave before they learn more than he’s comfortable with them knowing. JJ continues:
“…to become involved in shady/serious business. I was forced to become involved in serious crimes. These two individuals are…” This time Adolfo has him stop. JJ continues again:
“These two individuals are smugglers of precious jewels and archeological pieces, and responsible for other crimes. Among them, dealings with a criminal named Javier Garnica, whose cadaver, on Adolfo’s orders, was thrown in the sea in Puerto Vallarta. For all these reasons, I want to make clear that if something happens to me, or I disappear, the guilty ones were the men I just mentioned.”
Lies! All Lies. We’ve just been in communication with Garnica. “You don’t say?” (No me diga!) So why don’t you take this letter to the cops? “Because I want to do everything possible to demonstrate the innocence of Elsa Rivera!” JJ leaves the two with a copy of the letter, and a promise of the original IF/WHEN they find a way to clear Elsa of the charges against her and set her free immediately. As JJ makes his cocksure exit, Adolfo runs to the phone to stop the itchy finger of the beach goon, who has his gun cocked and pointed at the forehead of a bound and gagged Zaida. “You want to hear the gunshot boss?” “NO!!!”
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