Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Eva Luna #85 Mon 3/7/11 Topsy Turvy and a Little Inside Out
(This recap was written by jardinera) Episode #85, 3/7/11
Things are suddenly upside down and inside out this time in Eva Looney-land. First the redux deluxe: Tony is overjoyed at having just gotten paid what Leonardo owes him. He leaves to head for home--on foot. Leo tells El Gallo to take care of Tony; Marcela arrives at Bruno’s for a little lovin’. Bruno wonders why Marci is back to her cheery self. Marci says she’s feeling in control of things once more. She takes a moment to warn him never to forget that nobody plays loose and fast with her without having Hell to pay; over coffee, Victoria tells LIliana that she’s not really going to a photo shoot the next afternoon; she’s actually going to some hotel for a little afternoon delight with Bruno, not just because she needs him to be her eyes and ears at the agency with Eva, but he’s not exactly bad in bed, either and her ego’s been bruised. Lileach manages to suck the time and place from V-icki for later use.
As luck would have it, Matilde drops Pablito’s poison-filled bottle of formula while handing it to Eva and the glass bottle shatters.....Viewerville cheers!
Tony the Tiger turns into a virtual pussy cat when three tough guys with knives hold him up and steal the whole wad of bills (20 grand) out of his pocket. (Nobody walks home in the dark with twenty large on them. Ever heard of a frickin’ cab?) Again, Viewerville cheers.
Marci tells Bruno she wants an unforgettable whoopi-makin’ session with him. She promises to sign his contract afterwards, but it’s got to be doubles or nothin’. She wants double the fun if she signs and she wants to feel sensational. Bruno promises she won’t be disappointed.
The next day, Tony apologizes to Adrian for not being there when his father died. He will be going to the funeral, though, and the two of them promise to care for each other like brothers from now on.
At Eva’s, Leo begs off from attending Tomas’ funeral. Marci shows up and see’s Pablito happy and very much alive little face. She’s obviously pissed her plan to kill him fell through somehow. She gets snitty and tells Renata to serve her breakfast in her room.
Next door, during breakfast, Ick-toria sits down with Laurita and mentions she heard Laurita’s little “destitute” friend’s father died. Laurita doesn’t like her calling Adrian that. Icky says she’ll says whatever she feels like. Laurita tells her she’s unbearable and it’s no wonder her father would want any other woman but her; even Liliana when they first met on the yacht that afternoon was nicer than Icky! Laurita races off to brush her teeth. Suddenly Icky wonders why she never knew about Dan and Liliana meeting on their yacht.
Everybody from the boarding house as well as Eva, Laurita and Daniel are at Tomas’ funeral. Eva offers to take Laurita home from Justa’s after the funeral before going in to work. FF>>
Meanwhile, Lileach thinks to herself that Eva’s son being Dan’s complicates thing a bit, but not much because as soon as Dan leaves Ick-toria, she’ll be there right behind him to pick up the pieces (literally). Suddenly, Icky walks over and asks what Lil and Dan have goin’ on together and why she never mentioned already knowing Dan from the yacht earlier. Lil says Dan didn’t want her to mention it. Icky was so jealous she would never accept a mere friendship between a man and a woman. Icky swears she’d better steer clear of Dano because she’s capable of doing anything when it comes to her husband and another woman. LIl says she’s got no problems when it comes to herself, but Eva’s another story. Either way, Bimbutt want’s Lil to keep away from Dan, period! After Icky storms off, Lil tells herself she’ll knock Ick-toria out of the way and has the means to do it.
At the agency, Leo questions his mother about why she seemed so disappointed at breakfast. He felt she looked like something had gone wrong. Marci says something had: she’d expected them to find Pablito dead this morning. Leo is incredulous-impactado at his Mama’s callous and shockingly murderous ways.... (I guess he must draw the line at little babies?) She felt that since Eva loves the baby most in this world, and since it’s the only tie to Dan, they needed to get rid of it, especially now that Dan knows it’s his. Leo agrees but says that doing anything to the baby would destroy Eva emotionally and she’d cancel the wedding. They’ll have to find another way. Marci agrees and says she got ahead of herself. She advises that the next best thing is to get rid of Dan and his daughter now that he’s told her his marriage to Icky is kaput. The sooner the better because that also puts Leo’s marriage plans at risk. Leo nods in agreement.
Back at Eva’s, Deb has come to plead her case to Tilde and has an envelope documenting all the bills she paid over the years to various private detectives trying to find her daughters after her husband took them from her. Tilde gets a large charge of telling her this is what she gets for cheating on her brother with another man. Deb says she thinks it’s Tilde who’s using her brother as a personal excuse to keep her away from her daughters and grandson. Eva comes out at that point and chases her away. She lost her right to be recognized as their mother when she abandoned them. Deb says one day they’ll realize that what she’s told them was all true, then walks off. Tilde asks Eva to help her keep her father’s reputation pure and unsullied.
Leo calls Tony with another job for him to do that day. He ‘s got to come by the house asap. Tony says that’s great because he lost his wad on the way home. Leo hangs up and smiles to himself about what a good job El Gallo did --so, it seems Leo was behind the robbery and is welching on what he owed Tony!
Back at the agency, Bruno gives his kissin’ cuz the contract to make formal corrections--after the fact. Then he plans on picking it up from her and scooting with the money. He tells her he plans one more afternoon tryst with the Bimbutt. His cuz warns him he shouldn’t chance it, but Bruno isn’t listening.
At Dano’s, Icky is swearing never to let Dan go free.
Next door, Leo shows up at Alicia’s room for a quickie. She’s ticked that she’s nothing more than a sex object. After a bit of give and take, Leo starts pushing all the right gimmee buttons and Ali let’s him take what he wants. Meanwhile, Tony shows up at the driveway and asks Renata to let him know he’s there. Ren walks into that wing of the house and hears some commotion coming from Ali’s room. They’re in the middle of gettin’ busy by then and don’t see Ren peek through the doorway at them. (One more magic bullet for Ren to use if and when necessary.) She walks back to the front door and tells Tony that Leo’s busy and he’ll have to wait. Tony gets a little too pushy so Ren finally tells him he’s busy with Alicia. Tony realizes that translates to “getting busy” with Alicia and curses Leo.
Back at Dan’s, Icky tells herself to think fast. Once she’s recharged after a roll in the sack with Bruno, she tells herself, she’ll be clear-thinking enough to figure out a great plan to neutralize Eva.
Eventually Leo and Ali appear. Tony’s job is to take Eva to the agency to work. Leo asks Tony about how he lost his cash. Tony explains about the three characters who robbed him, how they had noticed him winning at the casino and must have followed him. Leo says well, it’s not so bad since this time they let him live. He turns to Ali and bruskly tells her to get moving. They all three get into the SUV for the trip.
Next door at Dano’s, Lil has dropped by to rat on her “BFF”with Dan and get Icky out of the way. He tells her Icky’s apparently still in a photo shoot someplace. Lil says that’s precisely what she needs to talk to him about.
Leo tells Tony that he’s got to make a stop first before dropping Ali off. She complains that she’ll be late and promised Giorgi that she wouldn’t be. Leo gets miffed and says he can call him then and he’ll tell him to lay off her. Ali thinks that’s like writing it out for everyone that she’s late because she’s been boffing him. He tells her she’s not to mention a word about the two of them being an item. Ali says no problem from her end, but that doesn’t mean somebody else wouldn’t figure it out on their own. This ticks Leo off even more and he tells Tony to stop the car. He’s ready to dump her at the side of the road. He opens the car door and warns Ali that if she want to continue threatening him she can get out there and then. She starts to take him at his word but he shuts the door and prevents her leaving. “--This is to show you how easy it would be for me to put you out of my life. Got it?” Point taken. Tony is disgusted that the arrogant bastard would treat her this way. Tony starts the SUV back up and they drive off.
In the mean time, Lil comments that maybe Dan should consider that since he and Icky are essentially separated, Icky might be finding consolation somewhere else. When Dan tells her to stop beating around the bush, Lil says Icky’s been lying and he should know it. She gives him the address and the room of the hotel he’ll find Bimbutt and Bruno boffing at that very moment.
Eva drops by the boarding house to pick up Laurita and while she’s there she takes the opportunity to hand over a letter to Justa from Don Julio. While they chat, Eva admits to Justa that DJ was the man who protected and provided for her the past 18 months and that he’s become a second father to her during all this time. Justa’s muy impressed and wants the details, but Eva says it’ll have to wait for another time. Right now she needs to know whether Justa will read the letter. Justa doesn’t know whether to accept it and to read it or not because her life is changed and DJ isn’t a part of it now. That’s why, Justa explains, she’s not bothered to tell the truth about him to Don Ricardo; so no matter what’s written inside it, he can’t continue to contact her like this. Eva offers to do what she can to dissuade him.
Tony lets Ali out at the agency after Leo’s been dropped off. He takes the time to tell her she’s better than this and that he still loves her and wouldn’t dream of treating her so callously. She is only worried that he’ll tell Eva. Tony has no reason to, he says. He’d give anything though, to have the girl he knew back when at the boarding house. Ali can’t believe that he’d still be in love with her despite all that’s gone on between her and Leo. Tony says they deserve a second chance; he knows he’s made mistakes but so did she. Ali says well, she just can’t do it. It’s simply impossible. He has got to understand there are no more “opportunities”. It’s Leo for her, tho’ she’d give anything not to feel the way she does about Leo. She races into the building and leaves Tony heartbroken.
Back at the no-tell hotel (gotta say this room looks quite a bit tackier than the rest), there’s a knock at the door. Bruno gets up to answer it, saying it must be room-service with the champagne he ordered. He answers the door with a humongous gloat on his face, but it suddenly turns to shock as ...“SURPRISE!” ….Daniel storms his way past and spies a nekkid bimbutt in the bed. “--Well look who it is! The woman who’s soooo jealous of me, who’s soooo in love with me!!” V-eeeek!-y is begging to explain, but Dan says this scene doesn’t need any explanation! He turns to Bruno, grabs him by the neck and throws him on the floor with fisty cuffs galore. “--Wouldn’t you just know it would be you who she’d be here with!!” Eeeek!-y squeels in fright and begs him to stop or there’ll be problems. Dan stops himself and lets Bruno up for air. (The rug burn on his butt probably hurts like hell, though! Je, je, je!) “--If I don’t kill you here and now it’s because I don’t want to dirty my hands! But you’ve done me a favor, anyway! Now I know the type of woman I married! “ The still eeek!-ing Icky tries telling Dan that it isn’t what he thinks. He screams back that it’s exactly what he thought. What kind of photo session would she call it? Who cares, anyway? He’s leaving them to enjoy the rest of their time together! Dan slams the door on the two of them and heads down to the parking lot. He gets ready to get into his car when who should appear out of nowhere but Lileach! “--What are you doing here?” (That’s what we’d all like to know! Talk about your blood-suckers!)
Back at Justa’s, the kids beg Eva for a bit more time together. She says that’s impossible today, but promises that the three of them will share a day together just the three of them. Maybe the day after tomorrow if not the next.
Lileach tells Dan she followed him supposedly expecting the worst and was feeling rotten about what she’d started. He wonders if she really came to warn her BFF that he was on the way. She denies it and says she only wanted to stop him from committing some crazy thing or other. (But, if she had gotten a chance to sneak in behind him she’d have loved poking her head in the door, she’d have loved seeing Icky’s extreme mortification. I’m certain all of Viewerville sure did!) He tells her the only crazy thing he did was to marry Icky in the first place. She suggests they go for a drink. Dan would rather go home. She convinces him to accept the invitation because even though he may not need to talk about it, she feels so horrible about what just happened that she does.
Marci asks Rosaura (Bruno’s kissin’ cuz) where Leo and he are. She says Leo went out and she has no idea about Bruno, but she’ll call and try to locate him. Marci says no need. She handle that herself.
Bruno, meanwhile, is majorly pissed and wonders how Dano found out and found him and Icky. Icky blames him. If he’d asked who it was before stupidly opening the door then none of this would have ever happened!! (Seriously, what hotel doesn’t put fish eyed peep holes in the door these days?) He says he hopes that he doesn’t tell Marcela. Icky yells back that she could give a rat’s patoot who tells her. She just doesn’t want Dan to leave her. Bruno says she’d better get used to the idea. She races out and tells him never to darken her door again..... (No problem. It wasn’t in the plan.) He tells himself he could care, but the thing he won’t do without is Marci’s milliones de stolen money.
Justa reads Julio’s letter which essentially tells her he hasn’t stopped loving her all these years. Julio, at the same time, admits to Garcia that he wrote the letter hoping she’d understand he doesn’t care that she’s married. He knows Garcia disapproves of his actions, but he won’t stop hoping they’ll get back together until Justa convinces him that she’s doesn’t still love him also.
Back at Eva’s later that afternoon, Marci finds Renata laying out baby bottles. “--Oh, so now you’re nana to the little bastard?” Ren explains that she simply had to get more of them since one broke the night before. Marci mumbles something about how she understands it all now. Ren asks what she means, but Marci cuts her off and tells her to start a bath for her.
At the boarding house, Marisol and Francisco are discussing a “honey do” list for him at the market. FF>> Franc leaves for work and Mari gets a visit from her friend at the club warning her that Damien will come after her at any time. She did sign a contract, after all, and still owes him money. Mari doen’t seem worried and swears she won’t go back no matter what. She has Franc now and he promised to defender her.
Eva pays Jackie a visit while bringing Laurita home. Jackie looks a mess and Eva tells her she’s got to forget Franc now and look for somebody else to help make her forget him. Jackie tells Eva if she hasn’t really been able to forget Daniel then she can’t exactly expect her to forget about Franc!
During coffee at Lil’s hotel restaurant, Lil tells a whopper about having warned Icky thousands of times to break it off with Bruno and to repair her relationship with Dan. He says sourly that that relationship ceased to exist a long time ago. Lil loves her “BFF” dearly, but she totally disagrees with what Icky has done to him, she empathizes. Dano has finally got his thinking cap back on now. He asks Lil if she’s such a good friend then why did she betray Icky this way? Lil says she could see what Icky was doing and it offended her so much that she would rather betray her friendship than continue standing on the sidelines. He says in the long run it was better it all happened like it did. He never really loved Icktoria and knows he should never have married her. Lil agrees and says that it was obvious; she thinks for that reason and for the benefit of both him and his daughter--as well as Icktoria-- he should get a divorce ASAP!
Marci is trying to reach Bruno, but all she gets is his voice-mail. She tells him to give her a call because she needs to talk to him. He’s pouring himself a stiff one at the apartment and refuses to pick up. The only thing left between them is those millions of dollars of hers waiting for him. He calls the cuz and tells her to have the papers ready for him.
Adrian and Ric share a tender moment talking about Adrian’s thoughts of possibly becoming a doctor so he can help save the world..... There’s a knock at the door and Julio is there hoping to chat with Justa. Ric gives Julio a moment of evil eye but treats Julio like old friends and thanks him for paying his hospital bill.
Justa, though, has gone to Julio’s looking for him. The major domo tells her he’s gone out and doesn’t know where, nor when he’s due back.
Bimbutt gets home and the last thing she expects to see, let alone appreciates seeing, is Jackie chatting it up with the likes of Worsty Enemy Numero Uno! She scolds Jackie and then kicks Eva out.
Next door, Marci’s finished her bath and finds a mysterious box on the bed. Lots of haunting nasty laughing accompanies its accusatory “assesina” note. Marci freaks; she yells he can’t kill her because she killed him first! Ren walks in at the ruckus and picks up the box, then reads the note: “Assesina?”
Dan comes home and enters the bedroom. No more lies. The act is finito! He found her with another man in bed. What else is there to say? She swears it was because she was in so much pain because he’d never really gotten Eva out of his mind. (Yeah, the ol’ blame it on Eva b.s.) Bimbutt tries getting down on her knees and begging to explain, but Dan says talk to the hand cuz his handsome face ain’t listenin’ any longer! She doesn’t love anybody but herself and there’s nothing left between them, so get up and get over it! She swears he can’t leave her or--He asks ”-- or what?” She’ll run back to her mommie to have her help her with another attempted suicide?
Next door, Marci continues to freak. Ren stays cool and calm and suggests that the note makes a very serious accusation. Marci wants the box and the note dumped. She wonders who sent it. Ren says she doesn’t know since she only found it left on the doorstep. Marci swears somebody wants to drive her crazy. Ren offers to bring her some tea and then takes the box out of the room with her.
Icky cries to Dan and says he’s being totally unfair to her. Dan wonders why she’s always the victim here? It’s his fault for getting with Eva, she whines. He corrects her and says no, he was with Eva before marrying Icky. Their marriage was a big lie. He was depressed and furious; so he only married her to get back at Eva. She knew that and also knew he never loved her. V-icky says it’s not true, cuz if he didn’t love her then why did he haul off on Bruno? Dan says it was out of pride not out of love! This is killing her, she pleads. He says that they’ll end up killing each other if they stay together!
Rosaura brings Bruno back the corrected contract and he tells her how Dan found out and nearly busted his chops over the whole thing. Rose says she told him so. That’s not what he wanted to hear. He grabs the document in a race to get to the bank, empty out the account, and then head for the sunny shores of Europe before Marci realizes what’s going on. Rose warns Bruno not to even think of cheating her out of her share of the dinero. Bruno says he’ll contact her once he’s found a place to hide out.
Marci drinks her tea and wonders who found out what she did to Julio. It’s obvious they know and want to drive her crazy.
At the same time Mari comes out and sees Julio there with Ric. She mentions that they already know each other because he came by while Ric was in the hospital. Justa couldn’t talk just then. Ric wonders why Justa never mentioned it to him. Justa arrives home at that point and looks guilty when she notices that Julio is there waiting to see her.
Back at the Villanueva’s, Icky tells Dan that they can get their life together again if they want to. Da points out to her that’s the operative word, but that’s the point: he doesn’t want to and he’s told her that very plainly. “-- Well, then, if not with her, then Eva, or maybe Liliana?” He swears he’s got nothing going on with her friend. She swears he does. “--Go on! Go ahead and take consolation with those women of yours!” He gets ready to leave the bedroom and she immediately begs him not to leave her. He says he’s not the one leaving. Nope, he’s getting the Big D first thing tomorrow, so she can just take her things and get the effin’ out of his house NOW!
(This recap written by jardinera and posted by Elvira)
Things are suddenly upside down and inside out this time in Eva Looney-land. First the redux deluxe: Tony is overjoyed at having just gotten paid what Leonardo owes him. He leaves to head for home--on foot. Leo tells El Gallo to take care of Tony; Marcela arrives at Bruno’s for a little lovin’. Bruno wonders why Marci is back to her cheery self. Marci says she’s feeling in control of things once more. She takes a moment to warn him never to forget that nobody plays loose and fast with her without having Hell to pay; over coffee, Victoria tells LIliana that she’s not really going to a photo shoot the next afternoon; she’s actually going to some hotel for a little afternoon delight with Bruno, not just because she needs him to be her eyes and ears at the agency with Eva, but he’s not exactly bad in bed, either and her ego’s been bruised. Lileach manages to suck the time and place from V-icki for later use.
As luck would have it, Matilde drops Pablito’s poison-filled bottle of formula while handing it to Eva and the glass bottle shatters.....Viewerville cheers!
Tony the Tiger turns into a virtual pussy cat when three tough guys with knives hold him up and steal the whole wad of bills (20 grand) out of his pocket. (Nobody walks home in the dark with twenty large on them. Ever heard of a frickin’ cab?) Again, Viewerville cheers.
Marci tells Bruno she wants an unforgettable whoopi-makin’ session with him. She promises to sign his contract afterwards, but it’s got to be doubles or nothin’. She wants double the fun if she signs and she wants to feel sensational. Bruno promises she won’t be disappointed.
The next day, Tony apologizes to Adrian for not being there when his father died. He will be going to the funeral, though, and the two of them promise to care for each other like brothers from now on.
At Eva’s, Leo begs off from attending Tomas’ funeral. Marci shows up and see’s Pablito happy and very much alive little face. She’s obviously pissed her plan to kill him fell through somehow. She gets snitty and tells Renata to serve her breakfast in her room.
Next door, during breakfast, Ick-toria sits down with Laurita and mentions she heard Laurita’s little “destitute” friend’s father died. Laurita doesn’t like her calling Adrian that. Icky says she’ll says whatever she feels like. Laurita tells her she’s unbearable and it’s no wonder her father would want any other woman but her; even Liliana when they first met on the yacht that afternoon was nicer than Icky! Laurita races off to brush her teeth. Suddenly Icky wonders why she never knew about Dan and Liliana meeting on their yacht.
Everybody from the boarding house as well as Eva, Laurita and Daniel are at Tomas’ funeral. Eva offers to take Laurita home from Justa’s after the funeral before going in to work. FF>>
Meanwhile, Lileach thinks to herself that Eva’s son being Dan’s complicates thing a bit, but not much because as soon as Dan leaves Ick-toria, she’ll be there right behind him to pick up the pieces (literally). Suddenly, Icky walks over and asks what Lil and Dan have goin’ on together and why she never mentioned already knowing Dan from the yacht earlier. Lil says Dan didn’t want her to mention it. Icky was so jealous she would never accept a mere friendship between a man and a woman. Icky swears she’d better steer clear of Dano because she’s capable of doing anything when it comes to her husband and another woman. LIl says she’s got no problems when it comes to herself, but Eva’s another story. Either way, Bimbutt want’s Lil to keep away from Dan, period! After Icky storms off, Lil tells herself she’ll knock Ick-toria out of the way and has the means to do it.
At the agency, Leo questions his mother about why she seemed so disappointed at breakfast. He felt she looked like something had gone wrong. Marci says something had: she’d expected them to find Pablito dead this morning. Leo is incredulous-impactado at his Mama’s callous and shockingly murderous ways.... (I guess he must draw the line at little babies?) She felt that since Eva loves the baby most in this world, and since it’s the only tie to Dan, they needed to get rid of it, especially now that Dan knows it’s his. Leo agrees but says that doing anything to the baby would destroy Eva emotionally and she’d cancel the wedding. They’ll have to find another way. Marci agrees and says she got ahead of herself. She advises that the next best thing is to get rid of Dan and his daughter now that he’s told her his marriage to Icky is kaput. The sooner the better because that also puts Leo’s marriage plans at risk. Leo nods in agreement.
Back at Eva’s, Deb has come to plead her case to Tilde and has an envelope documenting all the bills she paid over the years to various private detectives trying to find her daughters after her husband took them from her. Tilde gets a large charge of telling her this is what she gets for cheating on her brother with another man. Deb says she thinks it’s Tilde who’s using her brother as a personal excuse to keep her away from her daughters and grandson. Eva comes out at that point and chases her away. She lost her right to be recognized as their mother when she abandoned them. Deb says one day they’ll realize that what she’s told them was all true, then walks off. Tilde asks Eva to help her keep her father’s reputation pure and unsullied.
Leo calls Tony with another job for him to do that day. He ‘s got to come by the house asap. Tony says that’s great because he lost his wad on the way home. Leo hangs up and smiles to himself about what a good job El Gallo did --so, it seems Leo was behind the robbery and is welching on what he owed Tony!
Back at the agency, Bruno gives his kissin’ cuz the contract to make formal corrections--after the fact. Then he plans on picking it up from her and scooting with the money. He tells her he plans one more afternoon tryst with the Bimbutt. His cuz warns him he shouldn’t chance it, but Bruno isn’t listening.
At Dano’s, Icky is swearing never to let Dan go free.
Next door, Leo shows up at Alicia’s room for a quickie. She’s ticked that she’s nothing more than a sex object. After a bit of give and take, Leo starts pushing all the right gimmee buttons and Ali let’s him take what he wants. Meanwhile, Tony shows up at the driveway and asks Renata to let him know he’s there. Ren walks into that wing of the house and hears some commotion coming from Ali’s room. They’re in the middle of gettin’ busy by then and don’t see Ren peek through the doorway at them. (One more magic bullet for Ren to use if and when necessary.) She walks back to the front door and tells Tony that Leo’s busy and he’ll have to wait. Tony gets a little too pushy so Ren finally tells him he’s busy with Alicia. Tony realizes that translates to “getting busy” with Alicia and curses Leo.
Back at Dan’s, Icky tells herself to think fast. Once she’s recharged after a roll in the sack with Bruno, she tells herself, she’ll be clear-thinking enough to figure out a great plan to neutralize Eva.
Eventually Leo and Ali appear. Tony’s job is to take Eva to the agency to work. Leo asks Tony about how he lost his cash. Tony explains about the three characters who robbed him, how they had noticed him winning at the casino and must have followed him. Leo says well, it’s not so bad since this time they let him live. He turns to Ali and bruskly tells her to get moving. They all three get into the SUV for the trip.
Next door at Dano’s, Lil has dropped by to rat on her “BFF”with Dan and get Icky out of the way. He tells her Icky’s apparently still in a photo shoot someplace. Lil says that’s precisely what she needs to talk to him about.
Leo tells Tony that he’s got to make a stop first before dropping Ali off. She complains that she’ll be late and promised Giorgi that she wouldn’t be. Leo gets miffed and says he can call him then and he’ll tell him to lay off her. Ali thinks that’s like writing it out for everyone that she’s late because she’s been boffing him. He tells her she’s not to mention a word about the two of them being an item. Ali says no problem from her end, but that doesn’t mean somebody else wouldn’t figure it out on their own. This ticks Leo off even more and he tells Tony to stop the car. He’s ready to dump her at the side of the road. He opens the car door and warns Ali that if she want to continue threatening him she can get out there and then. She starts to take him at his word but he shuts the door and prevents her leaving. “--This is to show you how easy it would be for me to put you out of my life. Got it?” Point taken. Tony is disgusted that the arrogant bastard would treat her this way. Tony starts the SUV back up and they drive off.
In the mean time, Lil comments that maybe Dan should consider that since he and Icky are essentially separated, Icky might be finding consolation somewhere else. When Dan tells her to stop beating around the bush, Lil says Icky’s been lying and he should know it. She gives him the address and the room of the hotel he’ll find Bimbutt and Bruno boffing at that very moment.
Eva drops by the boarding house to pick up Laurita and while she’s there she takes the opportunity to hand over a letter to Justa from Don Julio. While they chat, Eva admits to Justa that DJ was the man who protected and provided for her the past 18 months and that he’s become a second father to her during all this time. Justa’s muy impressed and wants the details, but Eva says it’ll have to wait for another time. Right now she needs to know whether Justa will read the letter. Justa doesn’t know whether to accept it and to read it or not because her life is changed and DJ isn’t a part of it now. That’s why, Justa explains, she’s not bothered to tell the truth about him to Don Ricardo; so no matter what’s written inside it, he can’t continue to contact her like this. Eva offers to do what she can to dissuade him.
Tony lets Ali out at the agency after Leo’s been dropped off. He takes the time to tell her she’s better than this and that he still loves her and wouldn’t dream of treating her so callously. She is only worried that he’ll tell Eva. Tony has no reason to, he says. He’d give anything though, to have the girl he knew back when at the boarding house. Ali can’t believe that he’d still be in love with her despite all that’s gone on between her and Leo. Tony says they deserve a second chance; he knows he’s made mistakes but so did she. Ali says well, she just can’t do it. It’s simply impossible. He has got to understand there are no more “opportunities”. It’s Leo for her, tho’ she’d give anything not to feel the way she does about Leo. She races into the building and leaves Tony heartbroken.
Back at the no-tell hotel (gotta say this room looks quite a bit tackier than the rest), there’s a knock at the door. Bruno gets up to answer it, saying it must be room-service with the champagne he ordered. He answers the door with a humongous gloat on his face, but it suddenly turns to shock as ...“SURPRISE!” ….Daniel storms his way past and spies a nekkid bimbutt in the bed. “--Well look who it is! The woman who’s soooo jealous of me, who’s soooo in love with me!!” V-eeeek!-y is begging to explain, but Dan says this scene doesn’t need any explanation! He turns to Bruno, grabs him by the neck and throws him on the floor with fisty cuffs galore. “--Wouldn’t you just know it would be you who she’d be here with!!” Eeeek!-y squeels in fright and begs him to stop or there’ll be problems. Dan stops himself and lets Bruno up for air. (The rug burn on his butt probably hurts like hell, though! Je, je, je!) “--If I don’t kill you here and now it’s because I don’t want to dirty my hands! But you’ve done me a favor, anyway! Now I know the type of woman I married! “ The still eeek!-ing Icky tries telling Dan that it isn’t what he thinks. He screams back that it’s exactly what he thought. What kind of photo session would she call it? Who cares, anyway? He’s leaving them to enjoy the rest of their time together! Dan slams the door on the two of them and heads down to the parking lot. He gets ready to get into his car when who should appear out of nowhere but Lileach! “--What are you doing here?” (That’s what we’d all like to know! Talk about your blood-suckers!)
Back at Justa’s, the kids beg Eva for a bit more time together. She says that’s impossible today, but promises that the three of them will share a day together just the three of them. Maybe the day after tomorrow if not the next.
Lileach tells Dan she followed him supposedly expecting the worst and was feeling rotten about what she’d started. He wonders if she really came to warn her BFF that he was on the way. She denies it and says she only wanted to stop him from committing some crazy thing or other. (But, if she had gotten a chance to sneak in behind him she’d have loved poking her head in the door, she’d have loved seeing Icky’s extreme mortification. I’m certain all of Viewerville sure did!) He tells her the only crazy thing he did was to marry Icky in the first place. She suggests they go for a drink. Dan would rather go home. She convinces him to accept the invitation because even though he may not need to talk about it, she feels so horrible about what just happened that she does.
Marci asks Rosaura (Bruno’s kissin’ cuz) where Leo and he are. She says Leo went out and she has no idea about Bruno, but she’ll call and try to locate him. Marci says no need. She handle that herself.
Bruno, meanwhile, is majorly pissed and wonders how Dano found out and found him and Icky. Icky blames him. If he’d asked who it was before stupidly opening the door then none of this would have ever happened!! (Seriously, what hotel doesn’t put fish eyed peep holes in the door these days?) He says he hopes that he doesn’t tell Marcela. Icky yells back that she could give a rat’s patoot who tells her. She just doesn’t want Dan to leave her. Bruno says she’d better get used to the idea. She races out and tells him never to darken her door again..... (No problem. It wasn’t in the plan.) He tells himself he could care, but the thing he won’t do without is Marci’s milliones de stolen money.
Justa reads Julio’s letter which essentially tells her he hasn’t stopped loving her all these years. Julio, at the same time, admits to Garcia that he wrote the letter hoping she’d understand he doesn’t care that she’s married. He knows Garcia disapproves of his actions, but he won’t stop hoping they’ll get back together until Justa convinces him that she’s doesn’t still love him also.
Back at Eva’s later that afternoon, Marci finds Renata laying out baby bottles. “--Oh, so now you’re nana to the little bastard?” Ren explains that she simply had to get more of them since one broke the night before. Marci mumbles something about how she understands it all now. Ren asks what she means, but Marci cuts her off and tells her to start a bath for her.
At the boarding house, Marisol and Francisco are discussing a “honey do” list for him at the market. FF>> Franc leaves for work and Mari gets a visit from her friend at the club warning her that Damien will come after her at any time. She did sign a contract, after all, and still owes him money. Mari doen’t seem worried and swears she won’t go back no matter what. She has Franc now and he promised to defender her.
Eva pays Jackie a visit while bringing Laurita home. Jackie looks a mess and Eva tells her she’s got to forget Franc now and look for somebody else to help make her forget him. Jackie tells Eva if she hasn’t really been able to forget Daniel then she can’t exactly expect her to forget about Franc!
During coffee at Lil’s hotel restaurant, Lil tells a whopper about having warned Icky thousands of times to break it off with Bruno and to repair her relationship with Dan. He says sourly that that relationship ceased to exist a long time ago. Lil loves her “BFF” dearly, but she totally disagrees with what Icky has done to him, she empathizes. Dano has finally got his thinking cap back on now. He asks Lil if she’s such a good friend then why did she betray Icky this way? Lil says she could see what Icky was doing and it offended her so much that she would rather betray her friendship than continue standing on the sidelines. He says in the long run it was better it all happened like it did. He never really loved Icktoria and knows he should never have married her. Lil agrees and says that it was obvious; she thinks for that reason and for the benefit of both him and his daughter--as well as Icktoria-- he should get a divorce ASAP!
Marci is trying to reach Bruno, but all she gets is his voice-mail. She tells him to give her a call because she needs to talk to him. He’s pouring himself a stiff one at the apartment and refuses to pick up. The only thing left between them is those millions of dollars of hers waiting for him. He calls the cuz and tells her to have the papers ready for him.
Adrian and Ric share a tender moment talking about Adrian’s thoughts of possibly becoming a doctor so he can help save the world..... There’s a knock at the door and Julio is there hoping to chat with Justa. Ric gives Julio a moment of evil eye but treats Julio like old friends and thanks him for paying his hospital bill.
Justa, though, has gone to Julio’s looking for him. The major domo tells her he’s gone out and doesn’t know where, nor when he’s due back.
Bimbutt gets home and the last thing she expects to see, let alone appreciates seeing, is Jackie chatting it up with the likes of Worsty Enemy Numero Uno! She scolds Jackie and then kicks Eva out.
Next door, Marci’s finished her bath and finds a mysterious box on the bed. Lots of haunting nasty laughing accompanies its accusatory “assesina” note. Marci freaks; she yells he can’t kill her because she killed him first! Ren walks in at the ruckus and picks up the box, then reads the note: “Assesina?”
Dan comes home and enters the bedroom. No more lies. The act is finito! He found her with another man in bed. What else is there to say? She swears it was because she was in so much pain because he’d never really gotten Eva out of his mind. (Yeah, the ol’ blame it on Eva b.s.) Bimbutt tries getting down on her knees and begging to explain, but Dan says talk to the hand cuz his handsome face ain’t listenin’ any longer! She doesn’t love anybody but herself and there’s nothing left between them, so get up and get over it! She swears he can’t leave her or--He asks ”-- or what?” She’ll run back to her mommie to have her help her with another attempted suicide?
Next door, Marci continues to freak. Ren stays cool and calm and suggests that the note makes a very serious accusation. Marci wants the box and the note dumped. She wonders who sent it. Ren says she doesn’t know since she only found it left on the doorstep. Marci swears somebody wants to drive her crazy. Ren offers to bring her some tea and then takes the box out of the room with her.
Icky cries to Dan and says he’s being totally unfair to her. Dan wonders why she’s always the victim here? It’s his fault for getting with Eva, she whines. He corrects her and says no, he was with Eva before marrying Icky. Their marriage was a big lie. He was depressed and furious; so he only married her to get back at Eva. She knew that and also knew he never loved her. V-icky says it’s not true, cuz if he didn’t love her then why did he haul off on Bruno? Dan says it was out of pride not out of love! This is killing her, she pleads. He says that they’ll end up killing each other if they stay together!
Rosaura brings Bruno back the corrected contract and he tells her how Dan found out and nearly busted his chops over the whole thing. Rose says she told him so. That’s not what he wanted to hear. He grabs the document in a race to get to the bank, empty out the account, and then head for the sunny shores of Europe before Marci realizes what’s going on. Rose warns Bruno not to even think of cheating her out of her share of the dinero. Bruno says he’ll contact her once he’s found a place to hide out.
Marci drinks her tea and wonders who found out what she did to Julio. It’s obvious they know and want to drive her crazy.
At the same time Mari comes out and sees Julio there with Ric. She mentions that they already know each other because he came by while Ric was in the hospital. Justa couldn’t talk just then. Ric wonders why Justa never mentioned it to him. Justa arrives home at that point and looks guilty when she notices that Julio is there waiting to see her.
Back at the Villanueva’s, Icky tells Dan that they can get their life together again if they want to. Da points out to her that’s the operative word, but that’s the point: he doesn’t want to and he’s told her that very plainly. “-- Well, then, if not with her, then Eva, or maybe Liliana?” He swears he’s got nothing going on with her friend. She swears he does. “--Go on! Go ahead and take consolation with those women of yours!” He gets ready to leave the bedroom and she immediately begs him not to leave her. He says he’s not the one leaving. Nope, he’s getting the Big D first thing tomorrow, so she can just take her things and get the effin’ out of his house NOW!
(This recap written by jardinera and posted by Elvira)
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Eva Luna #85 Mon 3/7/11
Llena de Amor #143 (Mex. 148-149) Mon 3/7/11 A night of pointed conversations and pointy knives
Tonight’s show was chock full of important dialog, so brace yourselves!
Friday: Ilitia has called the cops who now surround Muñeca’s house which of course contains our leather-clad hero, the Lirio whose Plata must be quite tarnished because he’s all black.
Ilitia gloats, but our Lirio tells her if she’d ever worked with the orphans, she’d appreciate what he’s doing for them. He hands the briefcase full of money to Muñeca. Ilitia tries to threaten him with a tall decorative pot, but he calmly takes it from her and tells her nobody gives him orders. For extra points, he calls her Loca. She kinda digs his macho-ness. Outside, the police yell warnings.
Back at the big house, Emil is wistful that Eman and especially Marianela aren’t there. Netty assures him that Mari is closer than he thinks, and MariVicky makes big eyes at her. Emil hopefully asks if Netty’s spoken to her, but Netty fudges that Mari may be far away, but her heart is with them. Emil droops.
Jorge comes in and informs them that he’s just spoken to Mari and she’ll be showing up soon. Kristel hopes that whale doesn’t move back in, and Gretel curtly lets her know that it’s Mari’s right. Emil tells her he hopes that when Mari comes, Kristel will treat her as a friend. Kristel delivers a delightful cascade of fresa-speak, which boils down to “no way.” MariVicky tells her she’ll have to move out then.
Kristel asks who MV thinks she is to order her out. Well, there’s only one thing a telenovela character can say in a situation like this: Soy yo que la mando en esta casa (I’m the one who gives orders in this house). Love that line, even though I’m not sure what the “la” is doing there.
A car pulls up outside Muñeca’s and the police surround it, guns pointed. Inside, it’s Fidel and Benigno who look surprised. Turns out Eman, in his civvies, is in the back seat. Brandon orders them all out.
Max declares that it’s the beginning of the best days of the Ruiz y de Teresa, and it’s all thanks to MariVicky. Kristel, steam coming out of ears, thoughtbubbles that first MV took her fiance and how she wants to take her family.
On cue, Nereida serves champagne for a toast and Delicia looks a little tearful.
Fedra swishes in the front door, and, spotting them, exclaims that it’s wonderful that her family organized a toast to her return. She asks Nereida to hand her a glass. Max throws his down and pulls out his pistol. Not one more step, you evil serpent! I’m capable of killing you on the spot!
Which of course is telenovela-speak for I’m all bluster and no bang. He rattles on about how he isn’t going to let her poison this family anymore. She calmly says if she’s going to be executed, she has the right to some last words.
Max isn’t interested, he just wants her to do an about-face, walk out and keep going and never come back. She asks if she doesn’t do that, he’ll kill her, yes? You know I’m capable of it, he says... nobody wants you here, nobody needs you, you’re just a rock in the road (estorbo = hindrance) for this family.
She tells him that this is her house, that is her husband, and those are her children. She’s not leaving, so go ahead and shoot. Max pulls back the slide and racks a round. MariVicky trots over in front of Fedra and tells Max she doesn’t want him to be a murderer. Gretel tells him she doesn’t want him in prison the rest of his life because of Fedra. Feh, says Max, I’m an old man and it’d be worth it to save the family.
Drop it, begs Gretel, do it for my papa. Don’t, pleads Max. Do you want me to lock myself up in the cellar again? Because that’s what I’ll do until she leaves this house. Gretel tries another tack: Don’t turn into a killer like she is, don’t become the thing you hate.
That does it. He lowers the gun and heads for the cellar. This guy has only one idea… why doesn’t he try some of the other time-honored ones, like locking himself in the bathroom and sulking, or holding his breath until he turns blue? Paula chases after him, pleading.
Now Eman, Benigno, Fidel and the police are standing around inside Muñeca’s. Ilitia tells him he just missed the Lirio. Brandon snorts that Eman knows the Lirio very well. Eman laughs to Ilitia that Brandon thinks he’s the Lirio and that Fidel and Muñeca are his accomplices.
Benigno thinks it’s perfectly normal for a guy to visit his mother-in-law. Brandon scoffs some more and asks Oliver if he agrees. They both nod, but their too-big helmets don’t.
Muñeca gulps and wonders to herself if Brandon is right.
Fedra tells the assembled (which of course no longer includes Max, king of the Mole People) that Bernardo faked Eva’s signature and she knew nothing about it. MariVicky snorts that if Bernardo did it, it was at her orders. Fedra asks that if she was guilty, would Bernardo have implicated himself? Emil thinks he would even cut his head off for her. She apologizes for believing so blindly in him…. she did loan a lot of money to Eva, and never had her sign any papers, so Bernardo must’ve done it to protect her.
MariVicky says Eva never would have borrowed that much money, and Fedra asks how she would know – did she perchance know Eva? Netty jumps in, agreeing, and saying that Fedra turned Eva into an alcoholic, taking advantage of her grief over her husband’s fatal accident to destroy her, the same way she tried to destroy Marianela and even her own children.
What I did for them, Netty, I did out of love. Emil steps up to the bat. When Kristel was in danger of dying in the hospital, you couldn’t support her. Was that out of love? Out of love you destroyed Axel’s youth? And out of love you separated Emanuel from Marianela? You imprisoned Gretel in a cellar for two years, and that was out of love? Puh-lease!
There is love that kills, it’s unforgivable! gasps Fedra, dropping to her knees. Forgive me! I know I’ve done a lot of harm. I know you can’t forgive me overnight, she weeps, but I beg you all to let me stay with you, to gain your love and forgiveness little by little. Gretel!
Hypocrite, says Gretel. Fedra goes on: You are my children, and for all my mistakes, I’ve loved you, you’re the most important thing I have in this life, let me show you I’m ready to change.
Gretel coldly tells her that she knows she will never her forgive her - Fedra is the worst thing that ever happened to her in her life.
Emil has had it – he goes to her and pulls her up, telling her to knock off the farce. It’s not a farce, she weeps, she had time to think in that cell and she realized how wrong she had been about everything. Even the worst of criminals deserve a second chance, she begs.
Netty has had it too, she declares she’s not spending another second in the house and she marches out. Emil tells her he’ll see her home, then tells Fedra they’re going to have a serious talk later. Fedra says she knows she’s lost him forever, but she’s never stopped loving him. Goodbye, Netty, she says.
Liar! spits Netty. Fedra says she understands, and tells her God bless. She turns to the others and says she knows it’s not her house anymore, but Marianela’s. Right, says Jorge, and until my wife returns, Vicky gives the orders here.
Fedra says that she came to fight (ah ha! says Vicky)… to fight for her family, for her children. The house doesn’t matter. She tearfully begs Vicky not to throw her out – she doesn’t have anyplace to go, and she wants to be with her children. Vicky grants her wish, not because she believes her, but because she wants to keep her plenty close to keep an eye on her.
Una Familia con Suerte – muy pronto! Will that be our next 7 p.m. show?
Back at Muñeca’s, more yucking it up about Eman being the Lirio on everyone’s part but the police’s, who want to take him down to the station. Muñeca has recalled kissing his ungloved hand, and goes over and takes his hairy paw for a confirming feel and tells Brandon that Eman is the most honest fellow in the world and couldn’t be the Lirio. She knows! thoughtbubbles Eman.
Fedra has gone up to her bedroom and is astonished to find her furniture, he clothes, her shoes gone. MV comes in and tells her to leave the room. Fedra asks her if she would be so kind as to tell her where her things are. The trash, sez MV. Fedra is quick on her feet and thanks MV, saying that she has done her a favor, because now she can start afresh from zero.
MV narrows her eyes and asks Fedra if she really thinks she (MV) believes that Fedra doesn’t mind losing her house, her things, her jewels. Fedra tells her the most important thing she has is here (pressing her hands to her bosom), her heart full of repentance. MV laughs, and tells her she can drop the act, there’s no use pretending. True, smiles Fedra, because one of us is pretending here, and it’s not me.
Fedra guesses that MV is staying in her room. Right, says MV. Fedra wonders where she’ll stay. MV ticks off all the rooms that are taken, but says Bernardo’s in the servant’s quarter is available. Fedra smiles and says that as long as she has a bed and clean sheets, she doesn’t care where she is. She thanks MV for her hospitality, curtsies, and leaves.
More back-and-forth at Muñeca’s. Ilitia tells Brandon he’s jealous, and Muñeca repeats things about his fine character. Brandon gives up and leaves, taking his men. Eman looks at Muñeca like “whew!” and she arches her eyebrows.
In her room, Kristel is on the phone with somebody saying something really bad is coming down. Fedra walks in and wonders who she’s talking to, and Kristel fudges that it’s Ilitia. Fedra notices a suitcase on the bed, and asks if she’s going somewhere. Kristel says no, it’s some clothes she saved for Fedra since MV took all Fedra’s stuff. Fedra says she’s touched at the thoughtfulness.
She comes around to where Kristel is sitting on the bed and remarks that they have the same taste. Kristel cowers and begs her not to hurt her. Fedra tells her no, she forgives her. It’s not her fault - she’s such a pretty girl, but such a stupid girl. Lorenzo used her when he saw how upset she was about Maricio, and she didn’t know what she was doing, did she? No! says Kristel, scared.
You knew exactly, says Fedra, you shot to kill. She reaches towards Kristel who cowers some more, but she just picks up a garment behind her on the bed. She thanks Kristel again and puts it in the suitcase which Kristel leaps up to close up for her. Some shoes too, please! says Fedra, taking the suitcase, and when you see Lorenzo, give him a kiss for me. She sends Kristel an air-kiss on the way out,
At his office, Lorenzo is on the phone demanding a private plane, ready within the hour. Mauricio comes in to his office, locking the door behind him. He wants to settle some scores – Lo lost him Garduno’s respect and his place as his right-hand man, and then he took his novia. Mau rolls up his sleeves. Lo laughs and does some air-martial-arts moves. Mau gives him a head knock with his forehead. Lo stomps on his foot. Both retreat, crying “ow!” The battle is on.
Fedra is having tea outside when Jose Maria walks up and says he’s heard the lady of the house is having some problems. Fedra dismisses Nererida. JM remarks that these are some digs, and she’s living the life of a queen. She tells him to leave.
Netty is telling Eman that that man is the key to Fedra’s past.
Fedra has popped up out of her chair and we see she’s in one of Kristel’s dresses, fortunately in her favorite chocolate color, but much too short for a middle-aged lady. She asks JM what he’s doing there – she’s a married woman. Married to what? Money? Greed? Lies? I’ve come with questions and I’m not leaving until I get the answers, Juana Felipa.
She tells him Juana Felipe is dead, she died in a shipwreck, and now she’s Fedra Curiel. JM tells her everybody’s talking bad about her – that she’s stolen, lied, even murdered. What has she turned into?
She turns her face away. Why can’t you look at me? What are you pretending to be, Juana Felipa?
I’m not pretending to be anything, she spits at him, I AM Fedra Curiel, and I turned myself into what I had to be when you abandoned me, when you had the wonderful idea of dying. Just when I needed you the most, you disappeared.
You can’t blame me for the fire in which I almost lost my life, retorts JM. I spent 27 years in jail for a murder I didn’t commit, but you had the opportunity to choose your path, but you, you chose the easiest way.
Well, aren’t we being critical, says Fedra. You’re the one who made me what I am, you who denied your own child because it wasn’t convenient, so you could be lord of the seven seas.
MV tells Jorge that Fedra knew that she couldn’t unmask her. Jorge tells her to calm down, or she’ll get another asthma attack. MV rants that Gretel can’t say what she knows because she’s afraid of what Fedra will do to Paula or Oliver. She feels so frustrated. He gives her a big hug and just then Eman and Ilitia walk in and see them.
JM tells Fedra that he couldn’t be sure the child was his. She might have been pregnant when she joined him on the boat. He knows what her past was and she wasn’t exactly a saint. No, she agrees, but I was the woman of a buccaneer, a buccaneer who didn’t know to assume his responsibility.
It’s not important, he waves off. This child, was it born? Does it live?
Jorge explains to Eman that MV was stressed out because his mother had come home. This is news to Eman. Ilitia gloats that Fedra will put MV in her place. Jorge tells her to knock it off. Eman reminds him that he was going to give up MV to fight for his marriage to Mari, and MV says he was just being a friend.
Eman asks where Fedra is and MV tells him probably in Bernardo’s room. Ilitia is shocked. Jorge points out that they should be glad she lets them stay there at all, since it’s Mari’s house now and MV is in charge. In fact, Eman should buy a nice house and move into it with his wife, because “they” don’t want them there anymore.
Eman asks MV if she’s going to let Jorge talk to them like that, to throw him out the house where he’s lived all his life? MV tells Jorge she has to talk for him a minute. They leave the room.
Mau and Lorenzo look plenty the worse for wear. Both are beat-up and tired. Lorenzo puffs that Mau should get out before he really clobbers him. He goes to open the door and Mau pulls a big knife and stabs him in the back. Yaaaaa! yells Lo, his eyes huge. He falls to the floor and Mau snaps a photo of him with his cell phone, saying he’s repaid a favor to the Reina de la Noche, laughs wickedly and leaves.
Jose Maria asks Fedra why she’s torturing him, not telling him. She says she had the torture of a memory - that he’s the one who said a son of his couldn’t come from the womb of a woman like her. Aw, I was drunk, he says. You know perfectly well that when I took you onto my boat, I made you my woman – forever.
Ah, I was always very little to you. The child I was carrying wasn’t good enough for a pirate like you. Tell me, was my womb cursed?
JM scoffs that she knew perfectly well that when the child was born, sooner or later he would know by just looking at it that it was his, because she was his woman.
Was, says Fedra. He grabs her by the chin and demands to know what happened with the child. He lets go just as Emil arrives in the garden and demands to know what that man is doing there.
Jorge and MV come back from their talk and Eman kids around just a bit, but says that if anybody throws him out, it has to be Marianela herself. Vicky tells him that what’s happening between him and her needs to be put end to, and he needs to take his wife and move out. Both Ilitia and Eman’s eyes pop.
Emil says he’s surprised to find JM there, and even talking to the señora. He’s aware that JM was connected to Bernardo in the past. Are he and Fedra by any chance old friends too? Simultaneously Fedra says no, and JM says yes.
Emil says he realizes they didn’t have time to agree on an answer, so he’ll go with the “yes.” Fedra thinks fast: she says that she knew he and Bernardo were friends, but she knew him as an employee of her father, the great Aristotle Curiel, so not really a friend. Emil says he’s glad to know somebody who can tell him about Fedra’s past.
Oliver tells Doris he has to get into the house, to Gretel somehow. She has a brainstorm, and says he can show Gretel that he will do anything for her, same as Gretel did for him. Anything! he vows.
Eman is mad, and says Marianela would never support the decision to throw him out. Jorge assures him Mari completely supports Vicky. Eman tells Vicky Mari would never do anything like that. Vicky says fine, we’ll wait until Marianela comes, and she’ll tell you herself. She and Jorge exit.
Ilitia pops off about Vicky and Eman tells her she has to speak respectively of her. Ilitia can’t believe it, and asks if he’s in love with her. Hopelessly, he says. Ilitia looks miffed, but not crushed.
Jose Maria backs up Fedra’s story, saying he was close to the family. Emil asks if why, then, he’d never come to visit Fedra before, and why is he here now? Jose says he’s been out of the country all this time. Emil says it’s fishy to have somebody like him show up after all these years. (I think it’s fishy that our super-honorable pirate is suddenly lying through his teeth.)
Fedra asks him not to be rude to JM, he’s offending her too. JM grandly states that it doesn’t make him less of a man to have Emil doubt his honesty. The strength that creates peace only comes when one owes nothing to anyone, he pronounces.
Huh? says Fedra. Emil says he’s not interested in his philosophical ramblings, he just wants to know what brings him there. JM says there’s no point in telling him since he doubts his word, and, as he sees that Emil doesn’t want him there, he’ll leave. See you some other time, he says to Fedra.
He leaves and Fedra sits back down to her coffee. Fedra tries to chitchat, but Emil tells her not to change the topic. They have to discuss that man. Fedra instead tells him that Vicky told her to sleep in the guest room where Emil is, but she knew that would bother him, so she decided to stay in the servants’ quarters, in Bernardo’s room.
Emil is amazed that Fedra Curiel accepted to sleep in a servant’s room. She (fake) bravely says yes. Well, ploy foiled because Emil, smilingly very slightly, says she’ll have to put up with it until Marianela gets there and straightens everything out. Fedra says she figured he wouldn’t want to share a room with her. Right, sez he, because our marriage was over a long long time ago.
Eman tells Ilitia to get used to it, they are over. Ilitia, who doesn’t seem devastated says, seemingly as a formality, that maybe she could throw herself out a window or something, but he says to please understand, that threats won’t work, that he’s trying to be friendly and not be aggressive, but it’s over. She says she doesn’t want him to say those things. Eman is saved by Fidel, who has come to take her to the airport for her modeling assignment.
Fidel leaves with her suitcase, and Jorge comes in and asks her how she can leave at this pivotal moment. She tells him that she signed a contract, and besides she likes her work, which seems to be all she has left. She tells him to make sure that Eman and Vicky stay apart and aren’t left alone together even for a minute, because Eman just told her that he’s crazy in love with Vicky.
Eman is creeping around upstairs, looking for somebody. He runs into Fedra, who says she guesses he was looking for her. Um yeah, hi, he says. She says that of all her children, he was the one she expected to come look for her and give her a kiss and all she gets is “hi”?
Eman says he just doesn’t know what to say. He doesn’t know if he’s sad or shocked that she’s come home. Aren’t you glad to see me? she asks. Eman kind of shrugs. She says that he’s the one who judged her the most harshly, who let that policeman he can’t stand drag her off like she was a criminal, but she is innocent.
Why don’t you say anything? I’m waiting. Ask for my forgiveness. Eman just looks at her.
At Netty’s Jose Maria is sitting at the dining room table reading the newspaper about the Lirio who steals from mafiosos and other baddies, but so far hasn’t been caught. JM pulls a huge knife and stabs in into Netty’s table, demanding to know who this fellow is and how is he connected to him? This is unlikely to endear him to lovely landlord Netty.
Sure enough Netty walks in and is shocked that he has a knife like that. He tells her he’s had it all his life (in jail???) and now it’s really stuck in the table. Netty grabs onto it too and they both pull. She ends up with it and is amazed to see “Lirio de Plata” inscribed in it. She asks JM what he has to do with that man.
Eman apologizes and says he can’t ask his mother to forgive him because he doubts her innocence. She gives him the Bernardo story, and tells him that it’s very important to her that he believe her. Eman says sorry, but she and Bernardo shared a lot of secrets, and they shared a past that included Jose Maria Sevilla who she refuses to tell him about. Does she expect him to believe that Bernardo acted behind her back?
She thinks he’s being very unfair. With a finger, she dabs the small tear on his cheek, then says she’s going to her room.
Doris apparently has been working late and as she goes down the hall, she hears Help! which spooks her. A single hand comes out a door, followed by bloody Lorenzo who says he’s dying. He slumps to the floor.
Muñeca is telling Ilitia that if she leaves, she’s leaving an open path for Eman and Vicky. Ilitia tells her that she signed a contract, and where the heck is that guard Brandon was supposed to get for her? In the background, we see smiling Brandon approaching. She smiles too when she sees it’s him.
Gretel answers the door at the big house, and OMG it’s Oliver in drag, not looking too bad. With a bit too much hair-flipping, and a higher voice, he says he want to talk to Gretel Ruiz y de Teresa. Gretel looks doubtful and Fedra, who arrives behind her at the door, stares at him wide-eyed.
Muñeca asks Ilitia what she’s playing at. Muñeca assures her that she needs a chauffeur and body guard, and Brandon promises to take good care of her.
Oliverette has gotten as far as the home office where Fedra and Gretel look at her like she’s some freak creature suspended in alcohol in a laboratory bottle. Oliverette says she was contracted to treat Gretel by none other than Emil himself. Fedra and Gretel are in the dark about any expected psychiatrist. Oliverette asks Fedra to leave her alone to talk to her patient. Fedra seems very pleased to do so and leaves graciously. Oliverette, smiling, steps close to Gretel who seems amused.
Delicia has brought MV to a restaurant (I think – it has a big sign that says “Elite”) that looks and sounds like a wind tunnel. There is one single table, and a single server. Delicia says Axel set it up. She giggles and runs off just as Eman comes up and tells MV that it was his idea to have dinner and talk, after the conflict of today. What does she say? Yes, or yes?
Avances: Kissing! First, necking, and I think that’s Mauricio that Fedra is making out with. Kristel comes in and is shocked. Brandon and Ilitia kiss. Eman and Vicky kiss. Fedra chloroforms Vicky and it looks like she’s going to inject something into her as Nereida watches.
Friday: Ilitia has called the cops who now surround Muñeca’s house which of course contains our leather-clad hero, the Lirio whose Plata must be quite tarnished because he’s all black.
Ilitia gloats, but our Lirio tells her if she’d ever worked with the orphans, she’d appreciate what he’s doing for them. He hands the briefcase full of money to Muñeca. Ilitia tries to threaten him with a tall decorative pot, but he calmly takes it from her and tells her nobody gives him orders. For extra points, he calls her Loca. She kinda digs his macho-ness. Outside, the police yell warnings.
Back at the big house, Emil is wistful that Eman and especially Marianela aren’t there. Netty assures him that Mari is closer than he thinks, and MariVicky makes big eyes at her. Emil hopefully asks if Netty’s spoken to her, but Netty fudges that Mari may be far away, but her heart is with them. Emil droops.
Jorge comes in and informs them that he’s just spoken to Mari and she’ll be showing up soon. Kristel hopes that whale doesn’t move back in, and Gretel curtly lets her know that it’s Mari’s right. Emil tells her he hopes that when Mari comes, Kristel will treat her as a friend. Kristel delivers a delightful cascade of fresa-speak, which boils down to “no way.” MariVicky tells her she’ll have to move out then.
Kristel asks who MV thinks she is to order her out. Well, there’s only one thing a telenovela character can say in a situation like this: Soy yo que la mando en esta casa (I’m the one who gives orders in this house). Love that line, even though I’m not sure what the “la” is doing there.
A car pulls up outside Muñeca’s and the police surround it, guns pointed. Inside, it’s Fidel and Benigno who look surprised. Turns out Eman, in his civvies, is in the back seat. Brandon orders them all out.
Max declares that it’s the beginning of the best days of the Ruiz y de Teresa, and it’s all thanks to MariVicky. Kristel, steam coming out of ears, thoughtbubbles that first MV took her fiance and how she wants to take her family.
On cue, Nereida serves champagne for a toast and Delicia looks a little tearful.
Fedra swishes in the front door, and, spotting them, exclaims that it’s wonderful that her family organized a toast to her return. She asks Nereida to hand her a glass. Max throws his down and pulls out his pistol. Not one more step, you evil serpent! I’m capable of killing you on the spot!
Which of course is telenovela-speak for I’m all bluster and no bang. He rattles on about how he isn’t going to let her poison this family anymore. She calmly says if she’s going to be executed, she has the right to some last words.
Max isn’t interested, he just wants her to do an about-face, walk out and keep going and never come back. She asks if she doesn’t do that, he’ll kill her, yes? You know I’m capable of it, he says... nobody wants you here, nobody needs you, you’re just a rock in the road (estorbo = hindrance) for this family.
She tells him that this is her house, that is her husband, and those are her children. She’s not leaving, so go ahead and shoot. Max pulls back the slide and racks a round. MariVicky trots over in front of Fedra and tells Max she doesn’t want him to be a murderer. Gretel tells him she doesn’t want him in prison the rest of his life because of Fedra. Feh, says Max, I’m an old man and it’d be worth it to save the family.
Drop it, begs Gretel, do it for my papa. Don’t, pleads Max. Do you want me to lock myself up in the cellar again? Because that’s what I’ll do until she leaves this house. Gretel tries another tack: Don’t turn into a killer like she is, don’t become the thing you hate.
That does it. He lowers the gun and heads for the cellar. This guy has only one idea… why doesn’t he try some of the other time-honored ones, like locking himself in the bathroom and sulking, or holding his breath until he turns blue? Paula chases after him, pleading.
Now Eman, Benigno, Fidel and the police are standing around inside Muñeca’s. Ilitia tells him he just missed the Lirio. Brandon snorts that Eman knows the Lirio very well. Eman laughs to Ilitia that Brandon thinks he’s the Lirio and that Fidel and Muñeca are his accomplices.
Benigno thinks it’s perfectly normal for a guy to visit his mother-in-law. Brandon scoffs some more and asks Oliver if he agrees. They both nod, but their too-big helmets don’t.
Muñeca gulps and wonders to herself if Brandon is right.
Fedra tells the assembled (which of course no longer includes Max, king of the Mole People) that Bernardo faked Eva’s signature and she knew nothing about it. MariVicky snorts that if Bernardo did it, it was at her orders. Fedra asks that if she was guilty, would Bernardo have implicated himself? Emil thinks he would even cut his head off for her. She apologizes for believing so blindly in him…. she did loan a lot of money to Eva, and never had her sign any papers, so Bernardo must’ve done it to protect her.
MariVicky says Eva never would have borrowed that much money, and Fedra asks how she would know – did she perchance know Eva? Netty jumps in, agreeing, and saying that Fedra turned Eva into an alcoholic, taking advantage of her grief over her husband’s fatal accident to destroy her, the same way she tried to destroy Marianela and even her own children.
What I did for them, Netty, I did out of love. Emil steps up to the bat. When Kristel was in danger of dying in the hospital, you couldn’t support her. Was that out of love? Out of love you destroyed Axel’s youth? And out of love you separated Emanuel from Marianela? You imprisoned Gretel in a cellar for two years, and that was out of love? Puh-lease!
There is love that kills, it’s unforgivable! gasps Fedra, dropping to her knees. Forgive me! I know I’ve done a lot of harm. I know you can’t forgive me overnight, she weeps, but I beg you all to let me stay with you, to gain your love and forgiveness little by little. Gretel!
Hypocrite, says Gretel. Fedra goes on: You are my children, and for all my mistakes, I’ve loved you, you’re the most important thing I have in this life, let me show you I’m ready to change.
Gretel coldly tells her that she knows she will never her forgive her - Fedra is the worst thing that ever happened to her in her life.
Emil has had it – he goes to her and pulls her up, telling her to knock off the farce. It’s not a farce, she weeps, she had time to think in that cell and she realized how wrong she had been about everything. Even the worst of criminals deserve a second chance, she begs.
Netty has had it too, she declares she’s not spending another second in the house and she marches out. Emil tells her he’ll see her home, then tells Fedra they’re going to have a serious talk later. Fedra says she knows she’s lost him forever, but she’s never stopped loving him. Goodbye, Netty, she says.
Liar! spits Netty. Fedra says she understands, and tells her God bless. She turns to the others and says she knows it’s not her house anymore, but Marianela’s. Right, says Jorge, and until my wife returns, Vicky gives the orders here.
Fedra says that she came to fight (ah ha! says Vicky)… to fight for her family, for her children. The house doesn’t matter. She tearfully begs Vicky not to throw her out – she doesn’t have anyplace to go, and she wants to be with her children. Vicky grants her wish, not because she believes her, but because she wants to keep her plenty close to keep an eye on her.
Una Familia con Suerte – muy pronto! Will that be our next 7 p.m. show?
Back at Muñeca’s, more yucking it up about Eman being the Lirio on everyone’s part but the police’s, who want to take him down to the station. Muñeca has recalled kissing his ungloved hand, and goes over and takes his hairy paw for a confirming feel and tells Brandon that Eman is the most honest fellow in the world and couldn’t be the Lirio. She knows! thoughtbubbles Eman.
Fedra has gone up to her bedroom and is astonished to find her furniture, he clothes, her shoes gone. MV comes in and tells her to leave the room. Fedra asks her if she would be so kind as to tell her where her things are. The trash, sez MV. Fedra is quick on her feet and thanks MV, saying that she has done her a favor, because now she can start afresh from zero.
MV narrows her eyes and asks Fedra if she really thinks she (MV) believes that Fedra doesn’t mind losing her house, her things, her jewels. Fedra tells her the most important thing she has is here (pressing her hands to her bosom), her heart full of repentance. MV laughs, and tells her she can drop the act, there’s no use pretending. True, smiles Fedra, because one of us is pretending here, and it’s not me.
Fedra guesses that MV is staying in her room. Right, says MV. Fedra wonders where she’ll stay. MV ticks off all the rooms that are taken, but says Bernardo’s in the servant’s quarter is available. Fedra smiles and says that as long as she has a bed and clean sheets, she doesn’t care where she is. She thanks MV for her hospitality, curtsies, and leaves.
More back-and-forth at Muñeca’s. Ilitia tells Brandon he’s jealous, and Muñeca repeats things about his fine character. Brandon gives up and leaves, taking his men. Eman looks at Muñeca like “whew!” and she arches her eyebrows.
In her room, Kristel is on the phone with somebody saying something really bad is coming down. Fedra walks in and wonders who she’s talking to, and Kristel fudges that it’s Ilitia. Fedra notices a suitcase on the bed, and asks if she’s going somewhere. Kristel says no, it’s some clothes she saved for Fedra since MV took all Fedra’s stuff. Fedra says she’s touched at the thoughtfulness.
She comes around to where Kristel is sitting on the bed and remarks that they have the same taste. Kristel cowers and begs her not to hurt her. Fedra tells her no, she forgives her. It’s not her fault - she’s such a pretty girl, but such a stupid girl. Lorenzo used her when he saw how upset she was about Maricio, and she didn’t know what she was doing, did she? No! says Kristel, scared.
You knew exactly, says Fedra, you shot to kill. She reaches towards Kristel who cowers some more, but she just picks up a garment behind her on the bed. She thanks Kristel again and puts it in the suitcase which Kristel leaps up to close up for her. Some shoes too, please! says Fedra, taking the suitcase, and when you see Lorenzo, give him a kiss for me. She sends Kristel an air-kiss on the way out,
At his office, Lorenzo is on the phone demanding a private plane, ready within the hour. Mauricio comes in to his office, locking the door behind him. He wants to settle some scores – Lo lost him Garduno’s respect and his place as his right-hand man, and then he took his novia. Mau rolls up his sleeves. Lo laughs and does some air-martial-arts moves. Mau gives him a head knock with his forehead. Lo stomps on his foot. Both retreat, crying “ow!” The battle is on.
Fedra is having tea outside when Jose Maria walks up and says he’s heard the lady of the house is having some problems. Fedra dismisses Nererida. JM remarks that these are some digs, and she’s living the life of a queen. She tells him to leave.
Netty is telling Eman that that man is the key to Fedra’s past.
Fedra has popped up out of her chair and we see she’s in one of Kristel’s dresses, fortunately in her favorite chocolate color, but much too short for a middle-aged lady. She asks JM what he’s doing there – she’s a married woman. Married to what? Money? Greed? Lies? I’ve come with questions and I’m not leaving until I get the answers, Juana Felipa.
She tells him Juana Felipe is dead, she died in a shipwreck, and now she’s Fedra Curiel. JM tells her everybody’s talking bad about her – that she’s stolen, lied, even murdered. What has she turned into?
She turns her face away. Why can’t you look at me? What are you pretending to be, Juana Felipa?
I’m not pretending to be anything, she spits at him, I AM Fedra Curiel, and I turned myself into what I had to be when you abandoned me, when you had the wonderful idea of dying. Just when I needed you the most, you disappeared.
You can’t blame me for the fire in which I almost lost my life, retorts JM. I spent 27 years in jail for a murder I didn’t commit, but you had the opportunity to choose your path, but you, you chose the easiest way.
Well, aren’t we being critical, says Fedra. You’re the one who made me what I am, you who denied your own child because it wasn’t convenient, so you could be lord of the seven seas.
MV tells Jorge that Fedra knew that she couldn’t unmask her. Jorge tells her to calm down, or she’ll get another asthma attack. MV rants that Gretel can’t say what she knows because she’s afraid of what Fedra will do to Paula or Oliver. She feels so frustrated. He gives her a big hug and just then Eman and Ilitia walk in and see them.
JM tells Fedra that he couldn’t be sure the child was his. She might have been pregnant when she joined him on the boat. He knows what her past was and she wasn’t exactly a saint. No, she agrees, but I was the woman of a buccaneer, a buccaneer who didn’t know to assume his responsibility.
It’s not important, he waves off. This child, was it born? Does it live?
Jorge explains to Eman that MV was stressed out because his mother had come home. This is news to Eman. Ilitia gloats that Fedra will put MV in her place. Jorge tells her to knock it off. Eman reminds him that he was going to give up MV to fight for his marriage to Mari, and MV says he was just being a friend.
Eman asks where Fedra is and MV tells him probably in Bernardo’s room. Ilitia is shocked. Jorge points out that they should be glad she lets them stay there at all, since it’s Mari’s house now and MV is in charge. In fact, Eman should buy a nice house and move into it with his wife, because “they” don’t want them there anymore.
Eman asks MV if she’s going to let Jorge talk to them like that, to throw him out the house where he’s lived all his life? MV tells Jorge she has to talk for him a minute. They leave the room.
Mau and Lorenzo look plenty the worse for wear. Both are beat-up and tired. Lorenzo puffs that Mau should get out before he really clobbers him. He goes to open the door and Mau pulls a big knife and stabs him in the back. Yaaaaa! yells Lo, his eyes huge. He falls to the floor and Mau snaps a photo of him with his cell phone, saying he’s repaid a favor to the Reina de la Noche, laughs wickedly and leaves.
Jose Maria asks Fedra why she’s torturing him, not telling him. She says she had the torture of a memory - that he’s the one who said a son of his couldn’t come from the womb of a woman like her. Aw, I was drunk, he says. You know perfectly well that when I took you onto my boat, I made you my woman – forever.
Ah, I was always very little to you. The child I was carrying wasn’t good enough for a pirate like you. Tell me, was my womb cursed?
JM scoffs that she knew perfectly well that when the child was born, sooner or later he would know by just looking at it that it was his, because she was his woman.
Was, says Fedra. He grabs her by the chin and demands to know what happened with the child. He lets go just as Emil arrives in the garden and demands to know what that man is doing there.
Jorge and MV come back from their talk and Eman kids around just a bit, but says that if anybody throws him out, it has to be Marianela herself. Vicky tells him that what’s happening between him and her needs to be put end to, and he needs to take his wife and move out. Both Ilitia and Eman’s eyes pop.
Emil says he’s surprised to find JM there, and even talking to the señora. He’s aware that JM was connected to Bernardo in the past. Are he and Fedra by any chance old friends too? Simultaneously Fedra says no, and JM says yes.
Emil says he realizes they didn’t have time to agree on an answer, so he’ll go with the “yes.” Fedra thinks fast: she says that she knew he and Bernardo were friends, but she knew him as an employee of her father, the great Aristotle Curiel, so not really a friend. Emil says he’s glad to know somebody who can tell him about Fedra’s past.
Oliver tells Doris he has to get into the house, to Gretel somehow. She has a brainstorm, and says he can show Gretel that he will do anything for her, same as Gretel did for him. Anything! he vows.
Eman is mad, and says Marianela would never support the decision to throw him out. Jorge assures him Mari completely supports Vicky. Eman tells Vicky Mari would never do anything like that. Vicky says fine, we’ll wait until Marianela comes, and she’ll tell you herself. She and Jorge exit.
Ilitia pops off about Vicky and Eman tells her she has to speak respectively of her. Ilitia can’t believe it, and asks if he’s in love with her. Hopelessly, he says. Ilitia looks miffed, but not crushed.
Jose Maria backs up Fedra’s story, saying he was close to the family. Emil asks if why, then, he’d never come to visit Fedra before, and why is he here now? Jose says he’s been out of the country all this time. Emil says it’s fishy to have somebody like him show up after all these years. (I think it’s fishy that our super-honorable pirate is suddenly lying through his teeth.)
Fedra asks him not to be rude to JM, he’s offending her too. JM grandly states that it doesn’t make him less of a man to have Emil doubt his honesty. The strength that creates peace only comes when one owes nothing to anyone, he pronounces.
Huh? says Fedra. Emil says he’s not interested in his philosophical ramblings, he just wants to know what brings him there. JM says there’s no point in telling him since he doubts his word, and, as he sees that Emil doesn’t want him there, he’ll leave. See you some other time, he says to Fedra.
He leaves and Fedra sits back down to her coffee. Fedra tries to chitchat, but Emil tells her not to change the topic. They have to discuss that man. Fedra instead tells him that Vicky told her to sleep in the guest room where Emil is, but she knew that would bother him, so she decided to stay in the servants’ quarters, in Bernardo’s room.
Emil is amazed that Fedra Curiel accepted to sleep in a servant’s room. She (fake) bravely says yes. Well, ploy foiled because Emil, smilingly very slightly, says she’ll have to put up with it until Marianela gets there and straightens everything out. Fedra says she figured he wouldn’t want to share a room with her. Right, sez he, because our marriage was over a long long time ago.
Eman tells Ilitia to get used to it, they are over. Ilitia, who doesn’t seem devastated says, seemingly as a formality, that maybe she could throw herself out a window or something, but he says to please understand, that threats won’t work, that he’s trying to be friendly and not be aggressive, but it’s over. She says she doesn’t want him to say those things. Eman is saved by Fidel, who has come to take her to the airport for her modeling assignment.
Fidel leaves with her suitcase, and Jorge comes in and asks her how she can leave at this pivotal moment. She tells him that she signed a contract, and besides she likes her work, which seems to be all she has left. She tells him to make sure that Eman and Vicky stay apart and aren’t left alone together even for a minute, because Eman just told her that he’s crazy in love with Vicky.
Eman is creeping around upstairs, looking for somebody. He runs into Fedra, who says she guesses he was looking for her. Um yeah, hi, he says. She says that of all her children, he was the one she expected to come look for her and give her a kiss and all she gets is “hi”?
Eman says he just doesn’t know what to say. He doesn’t know if he’s sad or shocked that she’s come home. Aren’t you glad to see me? she asks. Eman kind of shrugs. She says that he’s the one who judged her the most harshly, who let that policeman he can’t stand drag her off like she was a criminal, but she is innocent.
Why don’t you say anything? I’m waiting. Ask for my forgiveness. Eman just looks at her.
At Netty’s Jose Maria is sitting at the dining room table reading the newspaper about the Lirio who steals from mafiosos and other baddies, but so far hasn’t been caught. JM pulls a huge knife and stabs in into Netty’s table, demanding to know who this fellow is and how is he connected to him? This is unlikely to endear him to lovely landlord Netty.
Sure enough Netty walks in and is shocked that he has a knife like that. He tells her he’s had it all his life (in jail???) and now it’s really stuck in the table. Netty grabs onto it too and they both pull. She ends up with it and is amazed to see “Lirio de Plata” inscribed in it. She asks JM what he has to do with that man.
Eman apologizes and says he can’t ask his mother to forgive him because he doubts her innocence. She gives him the Bernardo story, and tells him that it’s very important to her that he believe her. Eman says sorry, but she and Bernardo shared a lot of secrets, and they shared a past that included Jose Maria Sevilla who she refuses to tell him about. Does she expect him to believe that Bernardo acted behind her back?
She thinks he’s being very unfair. With a finger, she dabs the small tear on his cheek, then says she’s going to her room.
Doris apparently has been working late and as she goes down the hall, she hears Help! which spooks her. A single hand comes out a door, followed by bloody Lorenzo who says he’s dying. He slumps to the floor.
Muñeca is telling Ilitia that if she leaves, she’s leaving an open path for Eman and Vicky. Ilitia tells her that she signed a contract, and where the heck is that guard Brandon was supposed to get for her? In the background, we see smiling Brandon approaching. She smiles too when she sees it’s him.
Gretel answers the door at the big house, and OMG it’s Oliver in drag, not looking too bad. With a bit too much hair-flipping, and a higher voice, he says he want to talk to Gretel Ruiz y de Teresa. Gretel looks doubtful and Fedra, who arrives behind her at the door, stares at him wide-eyed.
Muñeca asks Ilitia what she’s playing at. Muñeca assures her that she needs a chauffeur and body guard, and Brandon promises to take good care of her.
Oliverette has gotten as far as the home office where Fedra and Gretel look at her like she’s some freak creature suspended in alcohol in a laboratory bottle. Oliverette says she was contracted to treat Gretel by none other than Emil himself. Fedra and Gretel are in the dark about any expected psychiatrist. Oliverette asks Fedra to leave her alone to talk to her patient. Fedra seems very pleased to do so and leaves graciously. Oliverette, smiling, steps close to Gretel who seems amused.
Delicia has brought MV to a restaurant (I think – it has a big sign that says “Elite”) that looks and sounds like a wind tunnel. There is one single table, and a single server. Delicia says Axel set it up. She giggles and runs off just as Eman comes up and tells MV that it was his idea to have dinner and talk, after the conflict of today. What does she say? Yes, or yes?
Avances: Kissing! First, necking, and I think that’s Mauricio that Fedra is making out with. Kristel comes in and is shocked. Brandon and Ilitia kiss. Eman and Vicky kiss. Fedra chloroforms Vicky and it looks like she’s going to inject something into her as Nereida watches.
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La Verdad Oculta #120 Finale: All tidy, with a bow
After Juan José launches himself into the jungle, disgusted Leonardo maintains that's just why he didn't want the civilians along and orders Ramón to form an assault group. Up on the cliff, Adolfo marshals his small force against the attack, where he notes angrily they sent Juan José instead of Carlos.
But no matter, they have his woman, too; and he wants Juan José alive, to see the three hostages he's having brought up. They're mistaken if they think he won't kill each and every one, Adolfo shouts to the wind. Below the house, two goons capture Juan José, completely visible to Leonardo through field glasses.
So now they have another hostage, Leonardo grits out. The assault group is ready; and they advance, crouching through the thick underbrush, with orders to retake all the hostages alive. Meanwhile back in the D.F. at Mario's, Dora prays earnestly to be forgiven the constant urge to unburden herself to David about the identity of his father.
She knows it would kill him to learn the truth; and she prays for strength to endure again the anxiety and sadness of lying to him all these years. Back at the beach house, surrounded by guns and ammo, Adolfo empties the bottom of the bourbon bottle and nervously sweats out the wait for the attack.
Drunkenly brandishing his pistol, he laughs maniacally, threatening the women with a stray shot; just when the goons muscle Juan José onto the patio. Alejandra's hysterical at the sight and hearing Adolfo's order for the goons to shoot him with Juan José's own gun, before the women are taken below again.
Down on the beach Leonardo & Co. hear the shot, as do the women in their makeshift jail, making Alejandra lose her mind in terror and grief. But below the house, in fact, it's the goon who bought it; and Juan José absconds with his gun after overpowering him. The AFI assault commences from the rocks in earnest, and the battle is on.
The women can only jump back to relative safety and watch as outside the fight rages. Adolfo urges his troops on, but they are few and falling like flies; as Dante infuriates Adolfo by leaking out, he shouts at Dante's back for being a coward and keeps shooting. In the underbrush outside, Édgar, Valentín, a goon and Dante head for the launch.
Back in Mario's quiet study, things are nevertheless tense there, too. Yolanda comforts Santiago worrying especially about pregnant Gabriela, and she urges him to have faith everything will turn out well. Suddenly thoughtful, Yolanda reveals she's been pondering all the things she's done to protect Adolfo and why.
She's going to tell Santiago why, because tearfully she explains the secret is become an unbearable weight that's eaten her inside for years; and she makes him promise to keep the very personal, serious secret. Yolanda says her father was a cruel, merciless man; and her mother weak. They grew up surrounded by hatred -- and perversion.
Yolanda knows it's no justification, but it made Adolfo what he is. And suddenly it dawns on Santiago -- that Adolfo is Yolanda's brother! He is, she admits; but that isn't all of the story. When they found out the dirty secret of their origin, the two of them only had each other to rely on.
They reacted differently to the truth, with Adolfo full of hatred and revulsion -- and her wanting to hide, to disappear. Like when she tried to take her life and Carlos saved her; she doesn't want to try that again, which is why she desires to share her secret with Santiago.
Her name is not really Yolanda Rey, which is her stage name: her real name is Yolanda Ávila Ávila! Shocked Santiago hears that not only is Adolfo her brother -- and her cousin -- but that their parents were brother and sister.
Back at the beach, the AFI finally rush the house; while outside at the dock, the deserters board the launch. Adolfo's men are just about to murder Carlos and David when from behind, Juan José ambushes the goons and turns the tables. The good guys then hear the launch powering away and turn to blast them in a huge orange ball of flame into tomorrow with unerring shots to the fuel tank.
The AFI assault force enters the house and holds fire as Adolfo grabs the three hostages in front of him at gun point on the edge of the patio jutting out over the rocks far below. He demands the helicopter in ten minutes, or he'll eliminate the girls. He mocks David for trying to play the hero and trade places with Gabriela.
Leonardo orders Adolfo to lower his gun, because his men are going to kill him long before he's able to kill the girls; to which Adolfo shocks Leonardo threatening to never learn how his parents died if they shoot him. Adolfo entices him closer, explaining to vulnerable Leonardo that his father was probing smuggling in Durango.
And that Adolfo arranged for his mother and father to die in a fiery crash into a canyon; not only that, he arranged for a dirty doctor on his payroll to murder Leonardo's wife in the hospital! Leonardo hardly has time to react, when at that moment, Adolfo's gun clicks on an empty barrel -- and then another -- and another!
The girls desert Adolfo, leaving him teetering on the edge above the precipice; and then he tumbles over on a long fall to break his head open on the rocks below, with son Carlos yelling and running to the railing with Leonardo. Leonardo gazes at the splayed body below bitterly, regretting Adolfo didn't get what was truly coming to him.
Julieta comforts Leonardo for saving their lives, and as they embrace he cries that he's so tired of death; so tired. While across the patio, Carlos weeps piteously at the twisted figure below; Adolfo was bad to him, but he was still his father and he still cares.
How sad he had to end like this; how sad! Carlos sobs. David consoles Carlos, apologizing that it was Adolfo's destiny. As Alejandra runs to embrace Juan José, and Gabriela embraces David, their tension begins to break as they rejoice, relieved.
David is just promising Gabriela never to keep hidden truths again, when Dora phones; and David finds it oddly curious that what Dora was most anxious to know was who had killed Adolfo. Ramón approaches Julieta and Leonardo to report it appears several men were escaping on the exploded launch, including Dante.
The patio's blue pool of water is glassy and tranquil again in the twilight sky, reflecting the mood of the reunited couples, gathered around it and more relaxed AFI officers, who did their jobs. Back at Mario's, Yolanda is not finished surprising Santiago; there's even more to the story.
Adolfo drowned his unhappiness in alcohol and took advantage of all the women associated with his theater troupe. In particular, on one occasion he became insensibly drunk and set upon a pretty cleaning girl -- and raped her. This act, Yolanda continues, also resulted in a child. The woman -- was Dora!
Dora was a good girl and felt humiliated; Yolanda urged her to get away from Adolfo, whom she feared, and take her child far from him. Yolanda promised never to tell, which is why Yolanda never revealed anything about the accident at the hotel. Doesn't he see now, she asks: David is also the son of Adolfo Ávila!
And no one can know; no one! Santiago swears willingly for the good of everyone that this will remain their hidden truth. Some considerable time later, across town at a church to the applause of many and under bowers of roses, limousines pull up and deposit their beautiful cargo of four brides dressed in white with veils.
To a string quartet's wedding march, dapper tuxedo'd Asuncion leads Alejandra; Santiago his two daughters Gabriela and Julieta; and Abelardo leads Bertha down the aisle to meet their grooms in a huge, quadruple wedding, followed by flower girl Caramelo and ring bearer Chicles, who cleans up nicely.
In the crowd, Mauricio together with Mina smile and applaud as Juan José kisses radiant Alejandra's hand; and Dora beams happily as David joins Gabriela; grinning Santiago guides Julieta to pleased Leonardo; and Yolanda looks on approvingly as Carlos, grinning ear to ear, takes laughing Bertha from Abelardo at the altar.
Caramelo likes what she sees when Juan José pulls back Alejandra's veil; and each couple in turn reveal the brides, including Julieta with Ramón and Leonardo's daughter, Paula, looking on. Leonardo makes Julieta smile declaring how very pretty she looks. Each couple participates in the ceremony as it advances through the vows, rings and symbolic coins.
At the close of vows, in the audience, Mauricio threads Mina's hand with his and asks in a whisper whether she will marry him. Eyes wide with surprise and pleasure, Mina agrees and lowers her lids just briefly in thanks and relief for finally sending a good looking, good man who loves her!
The priest pronounces the quartet of couples married, and as they seal it with a kiss amid applause and cat calls, Santiago sends thoughts Gabriela's way from himself and in Mario's stead, that they are both satisfied today to see them setting off on their new path; while Dora thanks God and vows with renewed determination that David will never learn the terrible secret.
Asunción watches Juan José and thanks God for finally giving Caramelo her family and Juan José the happiness he deserves; as now-peaceful Mina watches Carlos and Bertha embrace enthusiastically and Yolanda wishes despite all Carlos's father did to him that from this day forward his way will be blessed.
Not a dry eye in the house as Santiago watches Leonardo kiss Julieta and speaks fondly in thought with his absent Márta, saying that wherever she is, she can see that their daughter will be happy. All the couples enjoy their wedding kisses as Caramelo showers everyone with flower petals and the audience showers them with congratulations.
Abelardo plays tour guide through the near future, first to introduce Gabriela and David's baby boy who looks like Mario -- and the news they are expecting again, with Gabriela insisting on working until she can't anymore, and David adoring his executive mom.
Then to a lawyer's office, where Juan José and Julieta rejoice with Leonardo at the news that Juan José is acquitted of all charges without a stain on his name -- and that they can legally adopt Caramelo now. Caramelo's ecstatic at the news she's going to have a baby brother, too.
Across town, Juan José has gone into business with Jorge with a brand spanking new, high-tech wood shop, where they produce a line of elegant furnishings for their successful upscale design store chain. With all the publicity of the case and Adolfo's death, Santiago returns to acting, even bigger than before; and Yolanda does, too.
Santiago and Yolanda share a chuckle on their television studio set after their writer scoffs at an idea Santiago has concerning a man passing for another person and fooling everyone, including family and the police. Who would believe that!
Fabulous original Mario returns in a scene Abelardo remembers where Santiago even fooled him as the double; and successful student Asunción stops by Abelardo in the office to discuss his favorite Spanish authors and poets. In the garden, Dora enjoys her role as grandmother to all the children, including Chicles who typically smashes a window with his soccer ball.
Abelardo expects to hear news Julieta will be bringing a new grandchild any time, while on Leonardo's beautiful ranch, he guides Julieta on horseback around the green, admitting sometimes he misses the adrenaline rush of police work; but that he's very glad to be at peace there on the ranch now. Paula seems happy to have a new mother, too.
Elsa visits Marcos in prison, looking relaxed, and pleases him saying she has found her place helping others and will be in charge of "Casa Hogar Caramelo," dedicated to helping the thousands of street girls like her. At his architectural office, Mauricio smiles at Mina, who beams back at him. They work together there now, in advance of their upcoming wedding.
Carlos and Bertha opened a chain of restaurants, as it turned out that Adolfo never disinherited him -- and he shared the fortune equally with Yolanda. Bertha contributes as an image designer for the chain. Abelardo tells the story that the infamous diamond shoes disappeared without a trace; but in fact, we see that Chicles carries a few of the brilliant gemstones around in his pants pocket.
Standing in Mario's office doorway, Abelardo is sure that his much-missed friend Mario would be happy at the way everything turned out as it should. His family is good; they're all blessed, or at least not restlessly pursuing happiness.
And if we want to know how David reacted to the news that Adolfo is his father, well, he still hasn't been told. He'd suffered enough; and as Abelardo closes the front door at the Genovés house, he says that for the time being, it remains between the story and us, the very last "hidden truth."
Or is it. After everything is tidily wrapped up in a pretty box, we arrive in New York City to put a bow on the gift that is this story. In an office there, Dante enjoys a nice laugh over the phone, explaining the joke on everyone back at the beach house dock, that he supposedly failed to board the launch to go back and help Adolfo.
But Dante simply absconded instead; and there he is, with his blonde female companion looking on. He hangs up as she turns, where we see she is not perhaps Zaida -- but Susana! And looking satisfied like a sleek cat after a dish of cream.
Things are very different in America this time, she notes with pleasure. And Dante promises her he'll treat her to a fine restaurant that he used to frequent with an old business partner, Adolfo Ávila.
THE END - "Dedicated to true lovers."
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Triunfo del Amor #47-48 3/7/11 A Tale of Three Cities
Part one of two in which:
In Miami, Ximena plants a flag on Maxlandia; Max punches out Joaquin; and Victoria shows her claws to María.
In Mexico City, Bernie bamboozles two priests; Guillermo smacks around Ofelia; a fireman fights for his life; and Max finally sees his father with Linda.
In Acapulco, the full moon loses its charm.
Miami:
The hotel. The night after the triumphant fashion show and Max’s win in the kayaking competition.
A replay of my least favorite plot contrivance: Desperate woman tricks hero into boinking her thereby spoiling the fairy tale romance of the stars for at least the next 50 capítulos. [Feel free to skip the next 3 paragraphs.]
Max is sprawled out stinking drunk on the bed in his hotel room. Our hero! At the door left carelessly unlocked, a figure in a red dress and black wig appears. Is that you, my love? he asks. Yes, my love, it’s me. He mumbles apologies for acting like a jerk before.
Ximena – the wannabe María in the stolen red dress and wig – blindfolds Max with his skinny tie and gets to work unbuttoning and unzipping.
Max believes he’s with the woman of his dreams, not the stalker of his nightmares. María, mi cielo, mi amor, he says. He wants to remove the blindfold but Ximena won’t let him. She knows there’s not enough dark in the night sky to disguise her pale and desperate face.
In another room of the hotel María is lying in bed quietly pensive when she hears a knock at her door. It’s Victoria! The lady storms in looking like Elmer Fudd who’s just been had by that Wascally Wabbit. She is fed up (harta), she says. She rants that MD will never marry Max – she’s an intruder in their lives, a fortune hunter who’s only interested in her son’s money. A social climber (trepadora). Leave Max in peace!
Toni and Pipino agree the show was a big hit and Victoria must be pretty happy about it (or she would be if she did happy). But now Pip wants to know more about Vic’s lost daughter...
...Toni has told him the whole sad story. Ah, says Pip, that’s why Victoria looks so melancholy at times. But now there’s good news, says Toni. Victoria has finally found her daughter. The only problem is she’s staying with Bernarda, Padre Juan Pablo’s mother. Pip is puzzled. Toni explains: It’s because JP is the girl’s father!
And at that moment, Victoria’s actual lost daughter, María Desamparada (expósita), is still on the wrong end of her mother’s rant: MD tried flirting with Osvaldo first, says Victoria. Only when that effort failed (because he would never, ever be unfaithful) did she turn to Max. María hints that perhaps Victoria should rethink her assumptions about Osvaldo:
Le aconsejo que no esté tan segura.
(I advise you not to be so sure.)
Victoria seems momentarily taken aback but then plows on: You are not marrying Max. He’s marrying Ximena, like it or not! Victoria Fudd stamps her little trotter.
María won’t let Vic intimidate her. She holds out her ring as proof: Max and I are engaged. Vic says bitterly:
No cabe duda, ¡eres una mala mujer!(There’s no doubt about it – you’re a bad woman! caber, lit. to fit, so there is no room left for doubt)
Mexico City:
Speaking of bad women…Bernarda awakens with a start and sees Fausto standing beside her bed holding a pillow. Wisely, he chooses not to tell her he had been contemplating suffocating her. Instead he says he heard her scream, and came in to check on her. The pillow? It was on the floor.
St. Bernarda kneels before her personal altar and vows she will kill again if she has to. But no one will make JP stray from the path she herself chose for him so he could save her soul.
Padre Jerónimo, the same elderly priest who welcomed Juan Pablo back to the seminary and listened to his confession of carnal sin 20 years ago, now pops up on the scene once again. He has been transferred to the parish as the new asesor. (He would be what… like 90 years old now?) Domingo introduces himself to Jero as the sacristán (sexton). [So apparently Domingo is not the world’s oldest juvenile. Relax, Osvaldo, your title is safe.] JP is relieved to see his old mentor and anxious to speak to him in private.
After the brutal way she treated her, Bernie is trying to smoothe things over with María Magdalena. (Just because you’re a serial killer doesn’t mean you leave your manners at the abattoir door.) She concedes:
Quizas yo haya sido un poco dura contigo.(Maybe I have been a little hard on you)
But Bernarda has suffered so much because of Victoria. And now, she tells the girl, it’s important to etch this in your memory -- Your mother abandoned you because you got in her way (estorbabas). And I have proof that she was a bad woman!
In the church, Juan Pablo tells his mentor that he finds himself confronted with his past: He has a daughter named María Magdalena. Padre Jerónimo says that one’s deeds in life are what count. And he has been an exemplary priest.
Bernarda smugly presents her proof to María M – It’s that bastard … I mean bastion… of honor, Papa Padilla. He recites the horse hockey that Bernie concocted – he and Victoria were lovers, MM got in the way of Vic’s ambitions so she abandoned her in the street. Padilla was so outraged by Vic’s behavior that he left her. And that’s why Vic hates Padilla so much: he can bear witness to the terrible person she really is.
At the scene of the fire:
The badly injured bombero is lifted into an ambulance. His rescuer, JuanJo, will accompany him. Cruz encourages his buddy: Aguanta, he tells him. (hang on.)
At the hospital: Nathy, Milagros and Alma, the pregnant lady, wait anxiously. (No one seems to be looking at Nathy’s Scarlet Letter today.) The injured man is Israel, Alma’s husband. He tells them JuanJo risked his life trying to save him.
Back at Bernie’s: As soon as Eva takes María M out of the room, Bernarda applauds Padilla’s performance. He casually mentions that in his most recent run-in with the law, he met a guy who might be able to help with the Victoria problem. (He means the Scorpion. Won’t Padilla be surprised when he learns Bernarda and the Scorpion are already as good as kissin’ cousins, what with him being her fake daughter’s pimp and all)
He’s not expecting what happens next. He pulls out a cigar and casually clicks on his lighter. Bernie, seeing the flame, freaks out shouting: ¡no lo soporto, no lo soporto! (I can’t bear it.)
[And NovelaMaven Novelties sees the possibilities for a new retail line: t-shirts, sweats, beanies all bearing the logo: ¡No lo soporto! ¡No lo soporto! Wear it while you watch!]
Miami:
The other María, la desamparada, wakes up in her hotel room and feels bad about quarreling with Max. She has to see him right away. Nothing can come between us, she thinks.
And if she feels bad, imagine how Max feels! He wakes up and reaches for his María D and instead finds Ximena smiling out from a black wig. He is appalled. What the… what are you doing here, Ximena? Don’t you remember? she smiles maddeningly. We made love last night!
Max edges away from her, pulls on his pants and tells her to get out. All’s fair in love and war, she smirks. You made love to me and now we have to get married.
And there we have it, my friends -- the impeccable logic of a sociopath, a nineteenth century virgin or a lazy telenovela writer who is painting by the numbers.
Acapulco:
Osvaldo has recovered from the effects of the full, and I do mean full moon. When Linda pouts that the weekend is over, he reminds her that she knew the rules of the game from the start. And if she doesn’t like them, that’s fine. They can end it right now.
Miami:
Victoria’s phone call to Micaela, the Sandoval housekeeper, is interrupted when Ximena bounds in with great news!
¡Pasé la noche con tu hijo!(I spent the night with your son!)
Ewww! This is more than a little icky so let’s leave the two Women Without Boundaries and rejoin our now slightly tarnished hero –
Max stands in the steaming shower trying to get the Ximena off him. [Out, out, damn skank!] No puede ser, no puede ser, he repeats to himself. ¡Qué imbécil! he says. And we have to agree. Cuz blindfolded or not, drunk or not, how could he?
María D is standing dreamily in front of her mirror when she hears a knock on her door. She opens it to find a huge bouquet of roses with a note:
Con todo mi afecto y mi admiración.(With all my affection and love.)
There’s no signature. It must be from Max, she thinks, and calls him to thank him. (We know it’s not from Max – who’s always all ‘te amo con todo mi corazón’, and ‘mi cielo, mi vida’. So how come she doesn’t know?)
She’s puzzled when he says he didn’t send the flowers. But he has something to tell her. Thinking he’s feeling bad about last night’s spat, she tells him not to worry:
Te perdonaría absolutamente todo – bueno, menos un engaño.(I would forgive you anything – well, except cheating on me.)
Uh oh. Foreshadow City!
Max and María arrange to meet.
Joaquin thanks the bellhop for delivering the flowers to María.
Acapulco:
Linda realizes she has made a strategic blunder and in trying to fix it, appears to make matters worse. It’s just that it feels horrible knowing you’re going to abandon me, she tells Osvaldo. I’ll never abandon you, he answers, but I’ll never abandon my family either. And her chilling response, delivered while holding a butter knife blade over her wrist:
Yo soy capaz de cualquier cosa si me dejas.(I’m capable of anything if you leave me.)
And Os seems to register for the first time that he is in Bunny Boiling Territory.
Mexico City:
Juan Pablo introduces Padre Jerónimo to the guys and shows off the carpentry workshop to his mentor.
Back at the hospital: Israel’s doctor looks grim. Alma sobs on Millie’s shoulder while Cruz, Napo and Nathy stand by helplessly.
Two Back-to-Back Smack Scenes (BBSS):
BBSS 1: While Ximena is in Miami, Ofelia keeps Guillermo’s bed warm. Right now she is marvelling at Osvaldo’s shamelessness. How dare he appear in public with that whore! (Really, Ofelia? Really?) That’s why I wanted to blow his cover with Victoria but your hypocritical (santurrón) husband wouldn’t let me, says Gui.
Says Ofelia with a knowing smirk: You still haven’t forgiven Os for that thing with Leonela, right?
Whoa!!! She’s not prepared for Guillermo’s rage! He smacks her savagely and says: Never mention that woman again!
Miami:
BBSS 2: In the lobby of the hotel, Joaquin is trying to flirt with María. Max comes on the scene just in time to see him kiss her hand. Max says sweetly to María, give me a sec, darling, and then turns to Joaquin and punches him in the nose. Very hard. Hard enough to knock him down. Says Max:
¡Me tienes harto!(I’m fed up with you! Literally, you have me fed up. Which makes two fed-up Sandovals in Miami today.)
Ximena phones her ma to tell her the good news – She blindfolded Max when he was falling down drunk and had sex with him by pretending to be his girlfriend. Now she can force him to marry her! Good thing, says her ma, because we’re broke. What??? Ximena is impactada.
Victoria has seen Max’s knockout punch and she is mortified. She insists he apologize to Joaquin. Max refuses. For a moment it looks like she’s going to send him to his room without supper.
He knows why I did it, retorts Max stubbornly.
I thought Max was a gentleman, says Joaquin, but I was wrong. And next year you brawling bozos from Mexico can take it somewhere else, because you’ve worn out your welcome at this hotel!
Max is unconcerned:
No te preocupes, en esta ciudad lo que sobran son hoteles.
(Don’t worry, in this city there are plenty of hotels).
As soon as Joaquin walks away, Victoria tells Max that he’ll never again use violence to sort out problems in her business. Max sets the record straight:
No fue por tu Casa de Modas que lo puse en su lugar; fue porque le faltó el respeto a María Desamparada.(It wasn’t because of your fashion house that I put him in his place; it was because he didn’t show respect to María D.)
Ximena’s mother tells her their life style is just a facade. They don’t have a cent left. She has sold all her jewelry bit by bit and now every piece she owns is fake.
When the dust has cleared, Victoria follows María to her room and blames her for causing trouble by flirting with Joaquin. María sets her straight: She wasn’t flirting. Joaquin sent her flowers and thought that gave him the right to flirt with her. Max put him in his place. You may be mad, she tells Vic, but I’m proud that the man I love is willing to defend me.
Victoria is not amused. You’ll stay in your room until we leave Miami, she tells María. And remember, I have your passport. Just before she leaves, Victoria turns back and says:
Sabes que todo lo que hago es por tu bien.(You know that everything I’m doing is for your own good.)
Acapulco:
Adam and Eve, aka Os and LindaHo are checking out of the Garden of Eden. And now they – or he, at least, feels shame. A stranger asks him if he is Osvaldo Sandoval and he says no.
Miami:
María tells Max that Victoria won’t let her go out and play. Max is incensed. Does she think she owns people? he asks. Open your window, he tells her.
He makes his way through the service area of the hotel and back stairways to María’s room and climbs in through the window. They kiss and then escape together. When they reach the lobby, Max tries to tell her about last night but before he can do so, he is interrupted by a couple of girls who recognize him as the winner of the kayaking competition. Soon a small crowd of giggling women surrounds him and they want photos with their hero. María is happy to oblige them by taking the pictures.
Pip and Toni come down to the lobby too. He is gotten up in a long-sleeved black and white striped Dr. Dentonesque jumpsuit (I can’t see if there’s a flap in back), and sports a black and white paisley print sun hat and oversized pinkish shades. His skin is very sensitive, he explains. And the sun ages one so.
They notice the girls swarming Max. While Pip happily inserts himself into the middle of the group and hams it up, Toni takes the opportunity to warn María that Vic will have a conniption if she sees her. Toni is right, María tells Max. He reluctantly agrees to postpone their talk until later; but before he leaves her he says:
Nada más quiero que sepas que pase lo que pase, te amo con toda mi vida y siempre te voy a amar.(I just want you to know that whatever happens, I love you with all my heart and I will always love you.)
Mexico:
Juan Pablo is surprised to hear that María M is in Bernie’s house. Mea culpa, mea culpa says Bernie beating her breast, I am guilty. I didn’t tell you the truth because I wanted to avoid a confrontation with Victoria. Besides, I thought it would be a good thing for María to stay here in this pious home under my protection. Bernie turns to Padre Jerónimo and asks his opinion.
The good padre doesn’t know the details, but he’s sure St. Bernarda must be right, especially considering the blood ties that bind her to the girl. Then Bernarda turns to Eva for support. Oh yes, says Eva, you treat the girl as if you were her own mother. (como si fuera su propia madre.) JP is happy to hear this but he’d still like to see MM.
Israel is in critical condition in the hospital. His wife, Alma, weeps at his bedside. In another room, JuanJo appears to be in fairly good condition. He has some burn dressings on his arm. He tells Nathy and Millie that he wants to see his friend. Nathy urges him to be patient.
In the waiting room, Napo remarks that it doesn’t look good for Israel. And Cruz says:
No se vale. A Israel se tiene que salvar.(It’s not right. They have to save Israel.)
Apparently María Magdalena has been allowed out of her cage for display in front of the padres. Bernarda stands behind her chair and rests her hands on MM’s shoulders. She only wants to teach her to respect and love God and lead her to the path of virtue, says Bernie. Juan Pablo asks Padre Jerónimo for his opinion. He backs Bernie. A thousand percent.
Bernarda looks satisfied. And why not? Another day, another priest bamboozled. She strokes MM’s hair. MM looks terrified.
Miami:
María Desamparada is also about to be allowed out of her cage. She is all packed and ready to leave for the airport. One more detail -- she puts Joaquin’s roses in the trash. Victoria comes to her door to tell her it’s time to go. She’s surprised to see the discarded flowers. María explains that although they’re beautiful, for Max’s sake she thought it was better not to keep them.
Now everyone is back in Mexico City.
Os has assumed his public persona. He and Linda stand several feet apart at the airport. A fan approaches Os and asks if he can take a picture with him. Os obliges. Linda looks miserable.
María and Max ride back to her place in a taxi. He says: In a few days, we’ll be married… or at least I hope so (o eso espero). María is concerned: Why did you say it like that? What’s the matter? Nothing, says Max. Don’t pay any attention to me.
In another airport taxi, LindaHo perches on Os’s lap. He explains to her that he has to spend the night with his family.
Max and María get to María’s place. He helps her out with her suitcase, kisses her and begins: Would you still love me if…
But once again he is cut off, this time by the sight of his father helping LindaHo out of the second taxi. He says:
Papá, ¿qué haces con Linda?(Pop, what are you doing with Linda?)
Os pulls off his shades to give himself a moment to think up a good lie.
Part two of two: Two pregnancies and a funeral
In which a hero dies; Bernarda learns María Magdalena is not her granddaughter; and Padre Jerónimo learns that St. Bernarda is a monster; LindaHo breaks JuanJo’s heart; and María’s pregnancy brings her great joy -- for about five minutes.
Victoria gets back to Casa Sandoval before Osvaldo does. How did Fernanda behave? she asks Micaela.
Back in the barrio, Os is where we left him – standing there on the sidewalk like a big dope, holding his shades in his hand. It’s Linda who comes up with the lie. She tells Max that they needed a make-up artist on location and Os offered her the job so she could earn a little extra money. And Os is such a gentleman, he offered her a ride home from the airport.
How convenient. Os and Max can share the same taxi back to Casa Sandoval. Os and Linda shake hands and say goodbye. Like colleagues. Max and María kiss and he leaves without telling her about last night and the Ximena problem. When the boys are gone, MD turns to Linda accusingly: ¿Qué hiciste? (What did you do?)
At Casa Sandoval, a thwarted interrogation:
Victoria asks Micaela why she hasn’t answered her question about Fer. Before she can reply, Max and Os walk in together. Vic asks why they arrived together. Before they can answer, Micaela tells Max some firemen have been calling him and he goes off to return the call.
Ximena tells her ma she’s pregnant. She’ll wait a few days and then tell Max it’s his child. Her ma drinks to that. Take care of your health, says ma. Xi will drink to that. Max will be their ticket back to the good life.
Max leaves in a hurry just as Oscar arrives at the house to tell them Fer was in an accident. She’s ok but they wrecked Padilla’s car. Scuzzy was driving although both kids were drunk. Vic is ready to rip the FerBeast a new one but Oscar skillfully talks her down. (He promised Fer he’d be her advocate, he explains.) Os is grateful. From this moment, consider me your friend, he tells Oscar, extending his hand.
Max gets to the hospital where the injured firemen were taken. He stops in to see JuanJo. Nathy comes in with the news that Israel is dying. Max rushes into Israel’s room where Alma, Napo, Cruz and Milagros are already gathered. Max promises the dying man that he’ll take care of his family. With Nathy’s help, JuanJo makes his painful way to see his dying friend, his brother. Nathy and JuanJo promise to be good godparents to the baby. Israel says a tearful goodbye and dies in Alma’s arms.
The FerBeast, cervical collar or no, is still a beast and still defending Scuzzy. At least now Os is on board with Victoria and agrees that Fer can’t see ScuzzBoy anymore. The FerBeast is defiant. But Os has had enough: ¡Basta de tonterías y berrinches! (enough foolishness and tantrums) shouts that pater familias, Osvaldo Sandoval (whom some of you may remember in his most recent role, Pimp Daddy of Acapulco).
The scene is cut short by Micaela’s announcement that señor Padilla is downstairs. (Los busca el señor Padilla.)
Padilla pretends he is a normal person and is there to find out how Fer is doing after the accident. But Vic shouts him down and tells him to get out. Padilla says rather snarkily that nothing happened and there’s no need to get hysterical.
Os defends Victoria from Padilla’s insults. Get out, he shouts, and keep your kid away too. Padilla insinuates that he knows something damaging, but Os won’t listen to another word. He punches him out and Padilla is left to scuttle away. It’s not over, he mutters menacingly. It’s just the beginning.
When they are alone, Os tells Vic they should have done that a long time ago. They would have avoided a lot of problems.
Bernarda refuses to let scorpion guy see María Magdalena. At her signal, Fausto picks him up and throws him out like the bag of human refuse he is. Bernie looks on and smiles with satisfaction.
A neighbor has told María and Linda about the injured firemen and now, both out of breath, they arrive at the hospital where Napo gives them the tragic news: Israel has died. They want to see JuanJo but Cruz says that wouldn’t be a good idea:
A JuanJo no le gustaría que su novia lo viera en este estado.
(JuanJo wouldn’t want his girlfriend to see him in the state he’s in.)
María catches sight of Max and runs to him.
Napo grabs LindaHo’s arm and tells her not to dare break up with JuanJo right now. She’ll have to do it at the right moment but they won’t let her hurt him.
Back at the fake rich-guy apartment, Padilla kicks his progeny (who is also wearing a cervical collar) for wrecking the car and his chances with Fer. But Padilla has too much invested in Project FerBeast to give up now. And he has a number of little surprises for the Sandoval family.
Millie does her best to comfort JuanJo. Even though he is still recovering from his own injuries and really shouldn't leave the hospital, he is determined to go to the funeral to say farewell to Israel. Napo and Cruz help him into a wheelchair.
The funeral: Milagros, JuanJo, Napo, Cruz, Nathy, María, Linda and Max are present. Alma is inconsolable. Max presents her with Israel’s helmet and she places it on his flag-draped coffin.
Bernarda’s house: Victoria has arrived to claim the wrong María. Toni pulls the girl by one arm and Pip by the other. But María Magdalena doesn’t want to leave with them. Vic tells Bernie she knows full well that she poisoned MM against her. Well no one is going to keep her from taking her daughter back.
So take her, says Bernie. She found peace and God here but hey. Take her. And they do. Even though MM keeps howling in protest. [So I guess it’s okay for rich, powerful people to hold poor people against their will. I mean -- as long as it’s for their own good.]
Eva delivers an envelope to Bernie. It’s the DNA results showing MM isn’t JP’s daughter. She was right, she says, as always.
The roomies are on their way out of the apartment when María D has a dizzy spell. Nathy fusses over her while Linda rushes out to the pharmacy. She comes back shortly, hands a small packet to María and sends her to the bathroom. And Nathy must be the only person on the planet who is surprised when María comes out of the bathroom and says: Estoy embarazada. (I’m pregnant.) All three are thrilled -- and they know Max will be too when he hears the news.
The church is packed with sinners so the two Padres do double duty taking confessions. Jerónimo finds Bernarda in his confessional. What sin could a saintly woman like you have to confess? he asks with an avuncular chuckle. It’s true, she says, she isn’t a sinner.
Her only mission is to do justice in God’s name.
Hearing these words, Jero is puzzled and a tad uneasy.
She goes on. Years ago she had to make JP’s real father pay for betraying her -- for seducing her and leaving her pregnant when he was already a married man with a child, she had to intervene in the name of divine justice.
She burned him alive, along with his wife and child. And no one suspected her.
Jero sits open-mouthed with horror.
…That’s why I say that it’s my mission to exact justice in God’s name and with his divine help.
JuanJo is back home and LindaHo tells him they need to talk. JuanJo, she says: No me voy a casar contigo. (I’m not going to marry you.)
At the Televisa building, Guillermo gives Osvaldo a warm welcome back. Os admits he had a great time with LindaHo. Still, he can’t help feeling guilty. After all, he loves his wife. Beelzebub… I mean Guillermo… eggs him on in his infidelity and minimizes the importance of his guilt.
LindaHo tells JuanJo they rushed into things too quickly. She wants to break off their engagement. He’s not hearing her. He thinks she just has a normal set of jitters. All well and good, but he’s not calling off the wedding.
Triunfo de maldad: Ximena walks up to Max in his office and announces with a smile: Estoy embarazada. Estoy esperando un hijo tuyo, Max. (I’m pregnant. I’m expecting your child, Max.)
[Although I’m wondering why he’s there at all. Didn’t he resign?]
Max is open-mouthed. No, no, esto no puede ser! Says Ximena: We have to get married right away!
Poor old Padre Jerónimo is still in the confessional with bloody St. B. So you killed your own husband and Tomasa, the woman who served you faithfully all those years??? You’re sick, Bernarda, you need medical help! That first betrayal must have driven you insane!
It’s a shame you don’t understand me, says B with maddening calm:
...pero los mismos santos fueron incomprendidos en su tiempo(but the saints themselves were misunderstood in their day)
And you think you’re a saint! exclaims Jerónimo. What you should do is repent for your sins and beg God for forgiveness! [And I’m starting to worry about the old guy. Can his heart take this confession? Can mine?]
And Her Craziness replies:
Yo no necesito pedirle perdón a Dios porque solamente cumplo sus mandatos.(I don’t need to ask God’s forgiveness because I’m only obeying his commands.)
That’s why years ago I tried to run over Victoria’s daughter.
Jero gasps and turns to her:
You dared to spill your own blood! Because that girl is your granddaughter! (Te atreviste a derramar tu propia sangre -- porque esta niña es tu nieta!) Because that girl is your granddaughter! Thank God you failed and now María Magdalena is safe with her mother and far from your reach!
B. is surprised at Jero’s innocence. MM isn’t really Vic’s daughter -- although Vic believes that she is.
And speaking of evil and crazy: Ximena repeats to Max that he has to marry her. And now he looks like the one who needs to run into the bathroom to puke. She’s nuts, he says, he’s marrying María D. That was then, this is now says canny Ximena.
She rages, she coos, she shows Max how loony she is. Don’t you care about your child? Of course he does, he says. But please, for now, be discreet, okay?
Bernarda pulls out the DNA results and shows Jero that MM is unrelated genetically to Vic and JP. She’s no liar!
Bernarda has to tell JP the truth immediately, says Jero, so he can keep looking for his real child. Not gonna do it, says B.
No quiero que vuelva a exponer su misión como sacerdote.(I don’t want his mission as a priest to be at risk, once again.)
Jero can’t give B absolution until she repents and makes amends for her sins. No importa. She don’t need no stinkin’ absolution. God forgives her; He understands her. Oh… just a little reminder -- he is bound by the Seal of the Confessional. He can’t reveal a word of the atrocities she has just told him:
God be with you Padre! Have a nice day!
Napo joins JuanJo and Linda in Millie’s apartment and finds the atmosphere a little tense. Linda says she just told JuanJo that she doesn’t want to marry him. Not yet. And JuanJo says he told Linda not to worry, to take her time and wait until she’s ready. But they’re not going to cancel (suspender) the wedding.
María is on her way to tell Max her news but Toni waylays her. She needs her right away for a private show.
Ximena hasn’t wasted any time spreading her news. (So much for discretion, Max.) Vic is overjoyed to hear that Xi is expecting Max’s child. And best of all, says Vic: Max will marry Ximena and they can get rid of that María Desamparada once and for all! Toni joins them and Vic shares the glad tidings. Toni smiles uneasily.
LindaHo complains to Nathy that she tried to break up with JuanJo but he can’t seem to get it. What can she do to make him understand that she’s not interested in him?
Ximena walks the runway in the private show. Then it’s María’s turn. She makes it down to the end, turns back and is almost off-stage when she appears to have a dizzy spell. She manages to stay on her feet and makes it to the dressing room. Pip, concerned, follows her. She tells him she’s fine. Max comes in and Pip leaves the two alone. Each has something important to tell the other. María will change and they’ll go someplace where they can talk.
Back in the barrio: Milagros is on the warpath. She pounds on the door and then storms in to the little apartment, pushing right past Nathy to confront Linda: Listen brat, JuanJo loves you. Where do come off telling him that you don’t want to marry him? I’m warning you, she tells her, I can be fierce (una fiera, a wild beast) when someone makes my kid (cachorro, cub) suffer. First you tell him yes, then you tell him no. She goes on:
Escuincla babosa, de los sentimientos de mi hijo, nadie se burle, eh!(Slimy brat, nobody makes fun of my son’s feelings!)
Linda says she feels so confused!
Milagros mocks her ‘confusion’ and her lame attempts to justify herself.
Ay, ¡la manga que! (You’re a liar! You’re full of it!)
Here Milagros spits out a mouthful of threats involving Linda’s premature loss of both her big ass and her beauty (which I realize is redundant) and growing a big hairy wart on her nose. It sounds pretty scary to me, but Linda laughs scornfully and says:
¡Usted siempre con sus jaladas!(You and your exaggerations!)
Milagros’s final words, delivered darkly:
¡Quedas advertida! (You’ve been warned!)
She and Linda glare at one another.
JuanJo tries to drown his sorrows with tequila.
At the Casa de Modas, Ximena goes looking for María. Pip says she left with Max – oh, but that makes you jealous, doesn’t it? Me? rejoins Ximena. I’m not jealous of anyone. And his relationship with MD ends today, I betcha anything.
Ximena’s cell phone rings. It’s Guillermo and he wants to know how their baby is doing. She tells him she doesn’t need him anymore. She and Max are getting back together. If he agreed to that, says Gui, you must have blackmailed him into it and told him the baby was his.
Max and María are in a charming restaurant and their song plays in the background. María tries to tell him about the pregnancy but he insists there’s something he has to say first:
Espero que puedas perdonarme porque yo no puedo. Mi amor...Ximena ... Ximena está esperando un hijo... mio.(I hope you can forgive me because I can’t. My love … Ximena is expecting a child. My child.)
Cue the kayak. And give that man a lifevest.
In Miami, Ximena plants a flag on Maxlandia; Max punches out Joaquin; and Victoria shows her claws to María.
In Mexico City, Bernie bamboozles two priests; Guillermo smacks around Ofelia; a fireman fights for his life; and Max finally sees his father with Linda.
In Acapulco, the full moon loses its charm.
Miami:
The hotel. The night after the triumphant fashion show and Max’s win in the kayaking competition.
A replay of my least favorite plot contrivance: Desperate woman tricks hero into boinking her thereby spoiling the fairy tale romance of the stars for at least the next 50 capítulos. [Feel free to skip the next 3 paragraphs.]
Max is sprawled out stinking drunk on the bed in his hotel room. Our hero! At the door left carelessly unlocked, a figure in a red dress and black wig appears. Is that you, my love? he asks. Yes, my love, it’s me. He mumbles apologies for acting like a jerk before.
Ximena – the wannabe María in the stolen red dress and wig – blindfolds Max with his skinny tie and gets to work unbuttoning and unzipping.
Max believes he’s with the woman of his dreams, not the stalker of his nightmares. María, mi cielo, mi amor, he says. He wants to remove the blindfold but Ximena won’t let him. She knows there’s not enough dark in the night sky to disguise her pale and desperate face.
In another room of the hotel María is lying in bed quietly pensive when she hears a knock at her door. It’s Victoria! The lady storms in looking like Elmer Fudd who’s just been had by that Wascally Wabbit. She is fed up (harta), she says. She rants that MD will never marry Max – she’s an intruder in their lives, a fortune hunter who’s only interested in her son’s money. A social climber (trepadora). Leave Max in peace!
Toni and Pipino agree the show was a big hit and Victoria must be pretty happy about it (or she would be if she did happy). But now Pip wants to know more about Vic’s lost daughter...
...Toni has told him the whole sad story. Ah, says Pip, that’s why Victoria looks so melancholy at times. But now there’s good news, says Toni. Victoria has finally found her daughter. The only problem is she’s staying with Bernarda, Padre Juan Pablo’s mother. Pip is puzzled. Toni explains: It’s because JP is the girl’s father!
And at that moment, Victoria’s actual lost daughter, María Desamparada (expósita), is still on the wrong end of her mother’s rant: MD tried flirting with Osvaldo first, says Victoria. Only when that effort failed (because he would never, ever be unfaithful) did she turn to Max. María hints that perhaps Victoria should rethink her assumptions about Osvaldo:
Le aconsejo que no esté tan segura.
(I advise you not to be so sure.)
Victoria seems momentarily taken aback but then plows on: You are not marrying Max. He’s marrying Ximena, like it or not! Victoria Fudd stamps her little trotter.
María won’t let Vic intimidate her. She holds out her ring as proof: Max and I are engaged. Vic says bitterly:
No cabe duda, ¡eres una mala mujer!(There’s no doubt about it – you’re a bad woman! caber, lit. to fit, so there is no room left for doubt)
Mexico City:
Speaking of bad women…Bernarda awakens with a start and sees Fausto standing beside her bed holding a pillow. Wisely, he chooses not to tell her he had been contemplating suffocating her. Instead he says he heard her scream, and came in to check on her. The pillow? It was on the floor.
St. Bernarda kneels before her personal altar and vows she will kill again if she has to. But no one will make JP stray from the path she herself chose for him so he could save her soul.
Padre Jerónimo, the same elderly priest who welcomed Juan Pablo back to the seminary and listened to his confession of carnal sin 20 years ago, now pops up on the scene once again. He has been transferred to the parish as the new asesor. (He would be what… like 90 years old now?) Domingo introduces himself to Jero as the sacristán (sexton). [So apparently Domingo is not the world’s oldest juvenile. Relax, Osvaldo, your title is safe.] JP is relieved to see his old mentor and anxious to speak to him in private.
After the brutal way she treated her, Bernie is trying to smoothe things over with María Magdalena. (Just because you’re a serial killer doesn’t mean you leave your manners at the abattoir door.) She concedes:
Quizas yo haya sido un poco dura contigo.(Maybe I have been a little hard on you)
But Bernarda has suffered so much because of Victoria. And now, she tells the girl, it’s important to etch this in your memory -- Your mother abandoned you because you got in her way (estorbabas). And I have proof that she was a bad woman!
In the church, Juan Pablo tells his mentor that he finds himself confronted with his past: He has a daughter named María Magdalena. Padre Jerónimo says that one’s deeds in life are what count. And he has been an exemplary priest.
Bernarda smugly presents her proof to María M – It’s that bastard … I mean bastion… of honor, Papa Padilla. He recites the horse hockey that Bernie concocted – he and Victoria were lovers, MM got in the way of Vic’s ambitions so she abandoned her in the street. Padilla was so outraged by Vic’s behavior that he left her. And that’s why Vic hates Padilla so much: he can bear witness to the terrible person she really is.
At the scene of the fire:
The badly injured bombero is lifted into an ambulance. His rescuer, JuanJo, will accompany him. Cruz encourages his buddy: Aguanta, he tells him. (hang on.)
At the hospital: Nathy, Milagros and Alma, the pregnant lady, wait anxiously. (No one seems to be looking at Nathy’s Scarlet Letter today.) The injured man is Israel, Alma’s husband. He tells them JuanJo risked his life trying to save him.
Back at Bernie’s: As soon as Eva takes María M out of the room, Bernarda applauds Padilla’s performance. He casually mentions that in his most recent run-in with the law, he met a guy who might be able to help with the Victoria problem. (He means the Scorpion. Won’t Padilla be surprised when he learns Bernarda and the Scorpion are already as good as kissin’ cousins, what with him being her fake daughter’s pimp and all)
He’s not expecting what happens next. He pulls out a cigar and casually clicks on his lighter. Bernie, seeing the flame, freaks out shouting: ¡no lo soporto, no lo soporto! (I can’t bear it.)
[And NovelaMaven Novelties sees the possibilities for a new retail line: t-shirts, sweats, beanies all bearing the logo: ¡No lo soporto! ¡No lo soporto! Wear it while you watch!]
Miami:
The other María, la desamparada, wakes up in her hotel room and feels bad about quarreling with Max. She has to see him right away. Nothing can come between us, she thinks.
And if she feels bad, imagine how Max feels! He wakes up and reaches for his María D and instead finds Ximena smiling out from a black wig. He is appalled. What the… what are you doing here, Ximena? Don’t you remember? she smiles maddeningly. We made love last night!
Max edges away from her, pulls on his pants and tells her to get out. All’s fair in love and war, she smirks. You made love to me and now we have to get married.
And there we have it, my friends -- the impeccable logic of a sociopath, a nineteenth century virgin or a lazy telenovela writer who is painting by the numbers.
Acapulco:
Osvaldo has recovered from the effects of the full, and I do mean full moon. When Linda pouts that the weekend is over, he reminds her that she knew the rules of the game from the start. And if she doesn’t like them, that’s fine. They can end it right now.
Miami:
Victoria’s phone call to Micaela, the Sandoval housekeeper, is interrupted when Ximena bounds in with great news!
¡Pasé la noche con tu hijo!(I spent the night with your son!)
Ewww! This is more than a little icky so let’s leave the two Women Without Boundaries and rejoin our now slightly tarnished hero –
Max stands in the steaming shower trying to get the Ximena off him. [Out, out, damn skank!] No puede ser, no puede ser, he repeats to himself. ¡Qué imbécil! he says. And we have to agree. Cuz blindfolded or not, drunk or not, how could he?
María D is standing dreamily in front of her mirror when she hears a knock on her door. She opens it to find a huge bouquet of roses with a note:
Con todo mi afecto y mi admiración.(With all my affection and love.)
There’s no signature. It must be from Max, she thinks, and calls him to thank him. (We know it’s not from Max – who’s always all ‘te amo con todo mi corazón’, and ‘mi cielo, mi vida’. So how come she doesn’t know?)
She’s puzzled when he says he didn’t send the flowers. But he has something to tell her. Thinking he’s feeling bad about last night’s spat, she tells him not to worry:
Te perdonaría absolutamente todo – bueno, menos un engaño.(I would forgive you anything – well, except cheating on me.)
Uh oh. Foreshadow City!
Max and María arrange to meet.
Joaquin thanks the bellhop for delivering the flowers to María.
Acapulco:
Linda realizes she has made a strategic blunder and in trying to fix it, appears to make matters worse. It’s just that it feels horrible knowing you’re going to abandon me, she tells Osvaldo. I’ll never abandon you, he answers, but I’ll never abandon my family either. And her chilling response, delivered while holding a butter knife blade over her wrist:
Yo soy capaz de cualquier cosa si me dejas.(I’m capable of anything if you leave me.)
And Os seems to register for the first time that he is in Bunny Boiling Territory.
Mexico City:
Juan Pablo introduces Padre Jerónimo to the guys and shows off the carpentry workshop to his mentor.
Back at the hospital: Israel’s doctor looks grim. Alma sobs on Millie’s shoulder while Cruz, Napo and Nathy stand by helplessly.
Two Back-to-Back Smack Scenes (BBSS):
BBSS 1: While Ximena is in Miami, Ofelia keeps Guillermo’s bed warm. Right now she is marvelling at Osvaldo’s shamelessness. How dare he appear in public with that whore! (Really, Ofelia? Really?) That’s why I wanted to blow his cover with Victoria but your hypocritical (santurrón) husband wouldn’t let me, says Gui.
Says Ofelia with a knowing smirk: You still haven’t forgiven Os for that thing with Leonela, right?
Whoa!!! She’s not prepared for Guillermo’s rage! He smacks her savagely and says: Never mention that woman again!
Miami:
BBSS 2: In the lobby of the hotel, Joaquin is trying to flirt with María. Max comes on the scene just in time to see him kiss her hand. Max says sweetly to María, give me a sec, darling, and then turns to Joaquin and punches him in the nose. Very hard. Hard enough to knock him down. Says Max:
¡Me tienes harto!(I’m fed up with you! Literally, you have me fed up. Which makes two fed-up Sandovals in Miami today.)
Ximena phones her ma to tell her the good news – She blindfolded Max when he was falling down drunk and had sex with him by pretending to be his girlfriend. Now she can force him to marry her! Good thing, says her ma, because we’re broke. What??? Ximena is impactada.
Victoria has seen Max’s knockout punch and she is mortified. She insists he apologize to Joaquin. Max refuses. For a moment it looks like she’s going to send him to his room without supper.
He knows why I did it, retorts Max stubbornly.
I thought Max was a gentleman, says Joaquin, but I was wrong. And next year you brawling bozos from Mexico can take it somewhere else, because you’ve worn out your welcome at this hotel!
Max is unconcerned:
No te preocupes, en esta ciudad lo que sobran son hoteles.
(Don’t worry, in this city there are plenty of hotels).
As soon as Joaquin walks away, Victoria tells Max that he’ll never again use violence to sort out problems in her business. Max sets the record straight:
No fue por tu Casa de Modas que lo puse en su lugar; fue porque le faltó el respeto a María Desamparada.(It wasn’t because of your fashion house that I put him in his place; it was because he didn’t show respect to María D.)
Ximena’s mother tells her their life style is just a facade. They don’t have a cent left. She has sold all her jewelry bit by bit and now every piece she owns is fake.
When the dust has cleared, Victoria follows María to her room and blames her for causing trouble by flirting with Joaquin. María sets her straight: She wasn’t flirting. Joaquin sent her flowers and thought that gave him the right to flirt with her. Max put him in his place. You may be mad, she tells Vic, but I’m proud that the man I love is willing to defend me.
Victoria is not amused. You’ll stay in your room until we leave Miami, she tells María. And remember, I have your passport. Just before she leaves, Victoria turns back and says:
Sabes que todo lo que hago es por tu bien.(You know that everything I’m doing is for your own good.)
Acapulco:
Adam and Eve, aka Os and LindaHo are checking out of the Garden of Eden. And now they – or he, at least, feels shame. A stranger asks him if he is Osvaldo Sandoval and he says no.
Miami:
María tells Max that Victoria won’t let her go out and play. Max is incensed. Does she think she owns people? he asks. Open your window, he tells her.
He makes his way through the service area of the hotel and back stairways to María’s room and climbs in through the window. They kiss and then escape together. When they reach the lobby, Max tries to tell her about last night but before he can do so, he is interrupted by a couple of girls who recognize him as the winner of the kayaking competition. Soon a small crowd of giggling women surrounds him and they want photos with their hero. María is happy to oblige them by taking the pictures.
Pip and Toni come down to the lobby too. He is gotten up in a long-sleeved black and white striped Dr. Dentonesque jumpsuit (I can’t see if there’s a flap in back), and sports a black and white paisley print sun hat and oversized pinkish shades. His skin is very sensitive, he explains. And the sun ages one so.
They notice the girls swarming Max. While Pip happily inserts himself into the middle of the group and hams it up, Toni takes the opportunity to warn María that Vic will have a conniption if she sees her. Toni is right, María tells Max. He reluctantly agrees to postpone their talk until later; but before he leaves her he says:
Nada más quiero que sepas que pase lo que pase, te amo con toda mi vida y siempre te voy a amar.(I just want you to know that whatever happens, I love you with all my heart and I will always love you.)
Mexico:
Juan Pablo is surprised to hear that María M is in Bernie’s house. Mea culpa, mea culpa says Bernie beating her breast, I am guilty. I didn’t tell you the truth because I wanted to avoid a confrontation with Victoria. Besides, I thought it would be a good thing for María to stay here in this pious home under my protection. Bernie turns to Padre Jerónimo and asks his opinion.
The good padre doesn’t know the details, but he’s sure St. Bernarda must be right, especially considering the blood ties that bind her to the girl. Then Bernarda turns to Eva for support. Oh yes, says Eva, you treat the girl as if you were her own mother. (como si fuera su propia madre.) JP is happy to hear this but he’d still like to see MM.
Israel is in critical condition in the hospital. His wife, Alma, weeps at his bedside. In another room, JuanJo appears to be in fairly good condition. He has some burn dressings on his arm. He tells Nathy and Millie that he wants to see his friend. Nathy urges him to be patient.
In the waiting room, Napo remarks that it doesn’t look good for Israel. And Cruz says:
No se vale. A Israel se tiene que salvar.(It’s not right. They have to save Israel.)
Apparently María Magdalena has been allowed out of her cage for display in front of the padres. Bernarda stands behind her chair and rests her hands on MM’s shoulders. She only wants to teach her to respect and love God and lead her to the path of virtue, says Bernie. Juan Pablo asks Padre Jerónimo for his opinion. He backs Bernie. A thousand percent.
Bernarda looks satisfied. And why not? Another day, another priest bamboozled. She strokes MM’s hair. MM looks terrified.
Miami:
María Desamparada is also about to be allowed out of her cage. She is all packed and ready to leave for the airport. One more detail -- she puts Joaquin’s roses in the trash. Victoria comes to her door to tell her it’s time to go. She’s surprised to see the discarded flowers. María explains that although they’re beautiful, for Max’s sake she thought it was better not to keep them.
Now everyone is back in Mexico City.
Os has assumed his public persona. He and Linda stand several feet apart at the airport. A fan approaches Os and asks if he can take a picture with him. Os obliges. Linda looks miserable.
María and Max ride back to her place in a taxi. He says: In a few days, we’ll be married… or at least I hope so (o eso espero). María is concerned: Why did you say it like that? What’s the matter? Nothing, says Max. Don’t pay any attention to me.
In another airport taxi, LindaHo perches on Os’s lap. He explains to her that he has to spend the night with his family.
Max and María get to María’s place. He helps her out with her suitcase, kisses her and begins: Would you still love me if…
But once again he is cut off, this time by the sight of his father helping LindaHo out of the second taxi. He says:
Papá, ¿qué haces con Linda?(Pop, what are you doing with Linda?)
Os pulls off his shades to give himself a moment to think up a good lie.
Part two of two: Two pregnancies and a funeral
In which a hero dies; Bernarda learns María Magdalena is not her granddaughter; and Padre Jerónimo learns that St. Bernarda is a monster; LindaHo breaks JuanJo’s heart; and María’s pregnancy brings her great joy -- for about five minutes.
Victoria gets back to Casa Sandoval before Osvaldo does. How did Fernanda behave? she asks Micaela.
Back in the barrio, Os is where we left him – standing there on the sidewalk like a big dope, holding his shades in his hand. It’s Linda who comes up with the lie. She tells Max that they needed a make-up artist on location and Os offered her the job so she could earn a little extra money. And Os is such a gentleman, he offered her a ride home from the airport.
How convenient. Os and Max can share the same taxi back to Casa Sandoval. Os and Linda shake hands and say goodbye. Like colleagues. Max and María kiss and he leaves without telling her about last night and the Ximena problem. When the boys are gone, MD turns to Linda accusingly: ¿Qué hiciste? (What did you do?)
At Casa Sandoval, a thwarted interrogation:
Victoria asks Micaela why she hasn’t answered her question about Fer. Before she can reply, Max and Os walk in together. Vic asks why they arrived together. Before they can answer, Micaela tells Max some firemen have been calling him and he goes off to return the call.
Ximena tells her ma she’s pregnant. She’ll wait a few days and then tell Max it’s his child. Her ma drinks to that. Take care of your health, says ma. Xi will drink to that. Max will be their ticket back to the good life.
Max leaves in a hurry just as Oscar arrives at the house to tell them Fer was in an accident. She’s ok but they wrecked Padilla’s car. Scuzzy was driving although both kids were drunk. Vic is ready to rip the FerBeast a new one but Oscar skillfully talks her down. (He promised Fer he’d be her advocate, he explains.) Os is grateful. From this moment, consider me your friend, he tells Oscar, extending his hand.
Max gets to the hospital where the injured firemen were taken. He stops in to see JuanJo. Nathy comes in with the news that Israel is dying. Max rushes into Israel’s room where Alma, Napo, Cruz and Milagros are already gathered. Max promises the dying man that he’ll take care of his family. With Nathy’s help, JuanJo makes his painful way to see his dying friend, his brother. Nathy and JuanJo promise to be good godparents to the baby. Israel says a tearful goodbye and dies in Alma’s arms.
The FerBeast, cervical collar or no, is still a beast and still defending Scuzzy. At least now Os is on board with Victoria and agrees that Fer can’t see ScuzzBoy anymore. The FerBeast is defiant. But Os has had enough: ¡Basta de tonterías y berrinches! (enough foolishness and tantrums) shouts that pater familias, Osvaldo Sandoval (whom some of you may remember in his most recent role, Pimp Daddy of Acapulco).
The scene is cut short by Micaela’s announcement that señor Padilla is downstairs. (Los busca el señor Padilla.)
Padilla pretends he is a normal person and is there to find out how Fer is doing after the accident. But Vic shouts him down and tells him to get out. Padilla says rather snarkily that nothing happened and there’s no need to get hysterical.
Os defends Victoria from Padilla’s insults. Get out, he shouts, and keep your kid away too. Padilla insinuates that he knows something damaging, but Os won’t listen to another word. He punches him out and Padilla is left to scuttle away. It’s not over, he mutters menacingly. It’s just the beginning.
When they are alone, Os tells Vic they should have done that a long time ago. They would have avoided a lot of problems.
Bernarda refuses to let scorpion guy see María Magdalena. At her signal, Fausto picks him up and throws him out like the bag of human refuse he is. Bernie looks on and smiles with satisfaction.
A neighbor has told María and Linda about the injured firemen and now, both out of breath, they arrive at the hospital where Napo gives them the tragic news: Israel has died. They want to see JuanJo but Cruz says that wouldn’t be a good idea:
A JuanJo no le gustaría que su novia lo viera en este estado.
(JuanJo wouldn’t want his girlfriend to see him in the state he’s in.)
María catches sight of Max and runs to him.
Napo grabs LindaHo’s arm and tells her not to dare break up with JuanJo right now. She’ll have to do it at the right moment but they won’t let her hurt him.
Back at the fake rich-guy apartment, Padilla kicks his progeny (who is also wearing a cervical collar) for wrecking the car and his chances with Fer. But Padilla has too much invested in Project FerBeast to give up now. And he has a number of little surprises for the Sandoval family.
Millie does her best to comfort JuanJo. Even though he is still recovering from his own injuries and really shouldn't leave the hospital, he is determined to go to the funeral to say farewell to Israel. Napo and Cruz help him into a wheelchair.
The funeral: Milagros, JuanJo, Napo, Cruz, Nathy, María, Linda and Max are present. Alma is inconsolable. Max presents her with Israel’s helmet and she places it on his flag-draped coffin.
Bernarda’s house: Victoria has arrived to claim the wrong María. Toni pulls the girl by one arm and Pip by the other. But María Magdalena doesn’t want to leave with them. Vic tells Bernie she knows full well that she poisoned MM against her. Well no one is going to keep her from taking her daughter back.
So take her, says Bernie. She found peace and God here but hey. Take her. And they do. Even though MM keeps howling in protest. [So I guess it’s okay for rich, powerful people to hold poor people against their will. I mean -- as long as it’s for their own good.]
Eva delivers an envelope to Bernie. It’s the DNA results showing MM isn’t JP’s daughter. She was right, she says, as always.
The roomies are on their way out of the apartment when María D has a dizzy spell. Nathy fusses over her while Linda rushes out to the pharmacy. She comes back shortly, hands a small packet to María and sends her to the bathroom. And Nathy must be the only person on the planet who is surprised when María comes out of the bathroom and says: Estoy embarazada. (I’m pregnant.) All three are thrilled -- and they know Max will be too when he hears the news.
The church is packed with sinners so the two Padres do double duty taking confessions. Jerónimo finds Bernarda in his confessional. What sin could a saintly woman like you have to confess? he asks with an avuncular chuckle. It’s true, she says, she isn’t a sinner.
Her only mission is to do justice in God’s name.
Hearing these words, Jero is puzzled and a tad uneasy.
She goes on. Years ago she had to make JP’s real father pay for betraying her -- for seducing her and leaving her pregnant when he was already a married man with a child, she had to intervene in the name of divine justice.
She burned him alive, along with his wife and child. And no one suspected her.
Jero sits open-mouthed with horror.
…That’s why I say that it’s my mission to exact justice in God’s name and with his divine help.
JuanJo is back home and LindaHo tells him they need to talk. JuanJo, she says: No me voy a casar contigo. (I’m not going to marry you.)
At the Televisa building, Guillermo gives Osvaldo a warm welcome back. Os admits he had a great time with LindaHo. Still, he can’t help feeling guilty. After all, he loves his wife. Beelzebub… I mean Guillermo… eggs him on in his infidelity and minimizes the importance of his guilt.
LindaHo tells JuanJo they rushed into things too quickly. She wants to break off their engagement. He’s not hearing her. He thinks she just has a normal set of jitters. All well and good, but he’s not calling off the wedding.
Triunfo de maldad: Ximena walks up to Max in his office and announces with a smile: Estoy embarazada. Estoy esperando un hijo tuyo, Max. (I’m pregnant. I’m expecting your child, Max.)
[Although I’m wondering why he’s there at all. Didn’t he resign?]
Max is open-mouthed. No, no, esto no puede ser! Says Ximena: We have to get married right away!
Poor old Padre Jerónimo is still in the confessional with bloody St. B. So you killed your own husband and Tomasa, the woman who served you faithfully all those years??? You’re sick, Bernarda, you need medical help! That first betrayal must have driven you insane!
It’s a shame you don’t understand me, says B with maddening calm:
...pero los mismos santos fueron incomprendidos en su tiempo(but the saints themselves were misunderstood in their day)
And you think you’re a saint! exclaims Jerónimo. What you should do is repent for your sins and beg God for forgiveness! [And I’m starting to worry about the old guy. Can his heart take this confession? Can mine?]
And Her Craziness replies:
Yo no necesito pedirle perdón a Dios porque solamente cumplo sus mandatos.(I don’t need to ask God’s forgiveness because I’m only obeying his commands.)
That’s why years ago I tried to run over Victoria’s daughter.
Jero gasps and turns to her:
You dared to spill your own blood! Because that girl is your granddaughter! (Te atreviste a derramar tu propia sangre -- porque esta niña es tu nieta!) Because that girl is your granddaughter! Thank God you failed and now María Magdalena is safe with her mother and far from your reach!
B. is surprised at Jero’s innocence. MM isn’t really Vic’s daughter -- although Vic believes that she is.
And speaking of evil and crazy: Ximena repeats to Max that he has to marry her. And now he looks like the one who needs to run into the bathroom to puke. She’s nuts, he says, he’s marrying María D. That was then, this is now says canny Ximena.
She rages, she coos, she shows Max how loony she is. Don’t you care about your child? Of course he does, he says. But please, for now, be discreet, okay?
Bernarda pulls out the DNA results and shows Jero that MM is unrelated genetically to Vic and JP. She’s no liar!
Bernarda has to tell JP the truth immediately, says Jero, so he can keep looking for his real child. Not gonna do it, says B.
No quiero que vuelva a exponer su misión como sacerdote.(I don’t want his mission as a priest to be at risk, once again.)
Jero can’t give B absolution until she repents and makes amends for her sins. No importa. She don’t need no stinkin’ absolution. God forgives her; He understands her. Oh… just a little reminder -- he is bound by the Seal of the Confessional. He can’t reveal a word of the atrocities she has just told him:
God be with you Padre! Have a nice day!
Napo joins JuanJo and Linda in Millie’s apartment and finds the atmosphere a little tense. Linda says she just told JuanJo that she doesn’t want to marry him. Not yet. And JuanJo says he told Linda not to worry, to take her time and wait until she’s ready. But they’re not going to cancel (suspender) the wedding.
María is on her way to tell Max her news but Toni waylays her. She needs her right away for a private show.
Ximena hasn’t wasted any time spreading her news. (So much for discretion, Max.) Vic is overjoyed to hear that Xi is expecting Max’s child. And best of all, says Vic: Max will marry Ximena and they can get rid of that María Desamparada once and for all! Toni joins them and Vic shares the glad tidings. Toni smiles uneasily.
LindaHo complains to Nathy that she tried to break up with JuanJo but he can’t seem to get it. What can she do to make him understand that she’s not interested in him?
Ximena walks the runway in the private show. Then it’s María’s turn. She makes it down to the end, turns back and is almost off-stage when she appears to have a dizzy spell. She manages to stay on her feet and makes it to the dressing room. Pip, concerned, follows her. She tells him she’s fine. Max comes in and Pip leaves the two alone. Each has something important to tell the other. María will change and they’ll go someplace where they can talk.
Back in the barrio: Milagros is on the warpath. She pounds on the door and then storms in to the little apartment, pushing right past Nathy to confront Linda: Listen brat, JuanJo loves you. Where do come off telling him that you don’t want to marry him? I’m warning you, she tells her, I can be fierce (una fiera, a wild beast) when someone makes my kid (cachorro, cub) suffer. First you tell him yes, then you tell him no. She goes on:
Escuincla babosa, de los sentimientos de mi hijo, nadie se burle, eh!(Slimy brat, nobody makes fun of my son’s feelings!)
Linda says she feels so confused!
Milagros mocks her ‘confusion’ and her lame attempts to justify herself.
Ay, ¡la manga que! (You’re a liar! You’re full of it!)
Here Milagros spits out a mouthful of threats involving Linda’s premature loss of both her big ass and her beauty (which I realize is redundant) and growing a big hairy wart on her nose. It sounds pretty scary to me, but Linda laughs scornfully and says:
¡Usted siempre con sus jaladas!(You and your exaggerations!)
Milagros’s final words, delivered darkly:
¡Quedas advertida! (You’ve been warned!)
She and Linda glare at one another.
JuanJo tries to drown his sorrows with tequila.
At the Casa de Modas, Ximena goes looking for María. Pip says she left with Max – oh, but that makes you jealous, doesn’t it? Me? rejoins Ximena. I’m not jealous of anyone. And his relationship with MD ends today, I betcha anything.
Ximena’s cell phone rings. It’s Guillermo and he wants to know how their baby is doing. She tells him she doesn’t need him anymore. She and Max are getting back together. If he agreed to that, says Gui, you must have blackmailed him into it and told him the baby was his.
Max and María are in a charming restaurant and their song plays in the background. María tries to tell him about the pregnancy but he insists there’s something he has to say first:
Espero que puedas perdonarme porque yo no puedo. Mi amor...Ximena ... Ximena está esperando un hijo... mio.(I hope you can forgive me because I can’t. My love … Ximena is expecting a child. My child.)
Cue the kayak. And give that man a lifevest.
Labels: triunfo
Monday, March 07, 2011
La Fea Más Bella #241-242 3/7/11 Fernando's Finest Hour.
Capitulo 241.
Read k-Fuego's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Luigi throws a tantrum because Aldo loves Lety. He dismisses the dancers. Irma says it’s not Lety’s fault Aldo loves her. Luigi tells the cuartel to dance in the show. They’re stunned that Aldo loves Lety. Irma suspects that Lety still loves Fernando.
2. Mariana Seoane sings for the event. Omar realizes she looks like Carla. Luigi announces that he resigns. He tells Lety that her type doesn’t belong in the world of glamour. The cuartel performs a novelty song to Banda Recodo. (The board hated it, but I hate Luigi’s shows, so what’s the diff?) Lui blubbers because the audience liked the cuartel’s act.
3. Carla congratulates Lety. Fernando starts to, but Aldo RUNS to her, interrupts Fern, and grabs her shoulders and face. Fern asks to finish but Aldo turns away and ignores him. Fern insists, so Aldo reluctantly steps behind her, still grasping her shoulders, pulling her against his chest. She breaks free and Fern congratulates her, but quickly Aldo yanks her back.
4. Aldo asks Luigi why he did it. Luigi says he was crazy for Aldo. How could he love that monster? Aldo says he’s too disappointed to talk. Lui brags that he’s the one who redirected the books.
5. Marcia steps between Fern and Carla and is sarcastic as usual. Carla asks for a taxi, but Marcia says Fern should take her to the hotel. Marcia rebukes Fern for never calling her for 20 days, and for strutting around in front of the world with that woman when he’s supposed to be her novio. Marcia: What happened between you two? Fern: Nothing. M: Are we still novios? Fern refuses to talk now. He’ll take Carla home, then go to Marcia’s to talk.
6. Luigi essentially tells Lety, “You won, I lost, and you’re here to rub it in.” Instead Lety flatters him for his commercials. She asks him to stay and he’s stunned because he saw her as an enemy who beat him. She flatters him some more and offers him a vacation on Conceptos’ tab.
Capitulo 242.
Read Alma's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Marta loudly says, “We know Aldo loves you.” Aldo gloats and Fern suffers. Fern has to admit to Carla that he doesn’t expect a future with Lety at his side. Nor Marcia. Carla asserts that she’s his best option, and she asks him to live with her. She wants an answer tonight.
2. Ali and Marcia see Fern leave with Carla. Marcia says it means Fernando has let go of Lety. Ali points out that he let go of Marcia too. Marcia reminds Lety the night wasn’t all happiness – “tonight we both lost something, didn’t we?”
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3. Lety tells Carolina Fernando was so different tonight. He was really nice and treated her like a friend. She’s unsettled because she doesn’t know what Fern feels for Carla. Lety knows Fern never loved her, but she still holds hope. Ariel takes a few swipes at Lety but both seem to be in it for sport, not battle.
4. Fern tells Carla he’s going to Marcia’s to “define” their situation once and for all. Carla: You hurt her. Fern: (with remorse) It’s not the first time. Carla: Are you going to break up with her? Fern: I should’ve done it long ago. It’s been a mess for a long time. She forgave me too much. Things I never should’ve done.”
5. Carla asks if he’ll come to NY with her. Fern admits that she’s a great woman, and at another place in his life ... But now.. it’s not just Lety. It’s Conceptos too. “That company is my life. And I’ll luchar con todo – struggle using all that’s in me – to rescue it.” My father built it and he lost it because of me.
6. Fern breaks up with Marcia with compassion and assertiveness. He takes blame but also puts some blame on her. They once had a wonderful love, but then he started running around and she suffocated him. They fought all the time, but they never addressed their problems. Marcia begs him to stay. See the old recap for complete details.
7. At the party at Lety’s, Marta toasts because Aldo is in love. Julieta pressures Aldo to tell who he loves. He says it’s a wonderful woman, blah x3. Lety shows him the seascape in her room. He promises that one day soon they will kiss again like the did then. He leaves and Lety cries quietly, “I adore you but I can’t love you.”
8. Lety tells Mama, “Yes, Aldo loves me.” MamaJ couldn’t be happier, until she notices Lety’s face. Lety says, “I love someone who makes a mockery of me. And the man who truly loves me, I have to tell no.”
Read k-Fuego's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Luigi throws a tantrum because Aldo loves Lety. He dismisses the dancers. Irma says it’s not Lety’s fault Aldo loves her. Luigi tells the cuartel to dance in the show. They’re stunned that Aldo loves Lety. Irma suspects that Lety still loves Fernando.
2. Mariana Seoane sings for the event. Omar realizes she looks like Carla. Luigi announces that he resigns. He tells Lety that her type doesn’t belong in the world of glamour. The cuartel performs a novelty song to Banda Recodo. (The board hated it, but I hate Luigi’s shows, so what’s the diff?) Lui blubbers because the audience liked the cuartel’s act.
3. Carla congratulates Lety. Fernando starts to, but Aldo RUNS to her, interrupts Fern, and grabs her shoulders and face. Fern asks to finish but Aldo turns away and ignores him. Fern insists, so Aldo reluctantly steps behind her, still grasping her shoulders, pulling her against his chest. She breaks free and Fern congratulates her, but quickly Aldo yanks her back.4. Aldo asks Luigi why he did it. Luigi says he was crazy for Aldo. How could he love that monster? Aldo says he’s too disappointed to talk. Lui brags that he’s the one who redirected the books.
5. Marcia steps between Fern and Carla and is sarcastic as usual. Carla asks for a taxi, but Marcia says Fern should take her to the hotel. Marcia rebukes Fern for never calling her for 20 days, and for strutting around in front of the world with that woman when he’s supposed to be her novio. Marcia: What happened between you two? Fern: Nothing. M: Are we still novios? Fern refuses to talk now. He’ll take Carla home, then go to Marcia’s to talk.
6. Luigi essentially tells Lety, “You won, I lost, and you’re here to rub it in.” Instead Lety flatters him for his commercials. She asks him to stay and he’s stunned because he saw her as an enemy who beat him. She flatters him some more and offers him a vacation on Conceptos’ tab.
Capitulo 242.
Read Alma's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Marta loudly says, “We know Aldo loves you.” Aldo gloats and Fern suffers. Fern has to admit to Carla that he doesn’t expect a future with Lety at his side. Nor Marcia. Carla asserts that she’s his best option, and she asks him to live with her. She wants an answer tonight.
2. Ali and Marcia see Fern leave with Carla. Marcia says it means Fernando has let go of Lety. Ali points out that he let go of Marcia too. Marcia reminds Lety the night wasn’t all happiness – “tonight we both lost something, didn’t we?”.
3. Lety tells Carolina Fernando was so different tonight. He was really nice and treated her like a friend. She’s unsettled because she doesn’t know what Fern feels for Carla. Lety knows Fern never loved her, but she still holds hope. Ariel takes a few swipes at Lety but both seem to be in it for sport, not battle.
4. Fern tells Carla he’s going to Marcia’s to “define” their situation once and for all. Carla: You hurt her. Fern: (with remorse) It’s not the first time. Carla: Are you going to break up with her? Fern: I should’ve done it long ago. It’s been a mess for a long time. She forgave me too much. Things I never should’ve done.”
5. Carla asks if he’ll come to NY with her. Fern admits that she’s a great woman, and at another place in his life ... But now.. it’s not just Lety. It’s Conceptos too. “That company is my life. And I’ll luchar con todo – struggle using all that’s in me – to rescue it.” My father built it and he lost it because of me.
6. Fern breaks up with Marcia with compassion and assertiveness. He takes blame but also puts some blame on her. They once had a wonderful love, but then he started running around and she suffocated him. They fought all the time, but they never addressed their problems. Marcia begs him to stay. See the old recap for complete details.
7. At the party at Lety’s, Marta toasts because Aldo is in love. Julieta pressures Aldo to tell who he loves. He says it’s a wonderful woman, blah x3. Lety shows him the seascape in her room. He promises that one day soon they will kiss again like the did then. He leaves and Lety cries quietly, “I adore you but I can’t love you.”
8. Lety tells Mama, “Yes, Aldo loves me.” MamaJ couldn’t be happier, until she notices Lety’s face. Lety says, “I love someone who makes a mockery of me. And the man who truly loves me, I have to tell no.”Labels: fea-2010
Eva Luna #84 Fri 3/4/11
Daniel tells Leo he knows Pablito is his. Eva told him. And Pablito will bear his last name. Leo informs him that Eva wants Pablito to have his last name. Daniels doesn’t care. Are you going to take him from Eva asks Leo. Of course not replies Daniel, but I have rights. Well like it or not I also will be his father when I get married with Eva says Leo. Just to make it clear. You knew he wasn’t yours says Daniel. From the first time you told me. Yes, replies Leo. I lied to you.
Adrian wants to donate blood. Doctor refuses at first, but after much begging from Adrian she will see what she can do. Ricardo tells the doctor that Tomas doubts Adrian is his and the doctor decides to do a blood test.
Daniel grabs Leo by the lapels of his suit and tells Leo he will never forgive him for his lies. (If you only knew) Leo says he doesn’t regret it because Eva asked him too. She didn’t want him to know that Pablito was his. I swear I tried to change her mind (liar). That’s why I had to stay quiet when she said that I was the father. Well you should have told me says Daniel. We are supposedly friends. Yes, replies Leo. But we’re more then that. We’re like brothers. But this is about the woman I love and will soon be my wife. Because as far as I know the wedding is still on. Or has it been cancelled? No, replies Daniel. As far as I know not yet.
Liliana asks Victoria how she’s going to get Daniel back in her bed as Jackie walks in. She spills the coffee and Victoria yells at her. Jackie quickly leaves and Victoria tells Liliana that Jackie was in love with the chauffer and like an idiot lost him. Poor Jackie’s crying in the kitchen.
Francisco and Marisol waking up FF>>
Adrian is about to give blood to his dead beat dad.
Liliana giving Victoria advice on recapturing Daniel. If Vic only knew who she really needed to worry about now. Anyway Jackie comes in with a letter that was just delivered. Victoria starts reading and is not happy. She crumbles it up and tosses it towards Liliana. Liliana quickly unscrambles it and reads it out loud. It says:
Hello Victoria;
Just a few lines to remind you that I like your husband very much. That I have always liked him. And that I have no choice but to take him from you.
Eva.
Liliana tells Victoria that she has to do something otherwise Eva will take him from her. Victoria says she’ll kill her first. Liliana thinks to herself that Victoria needs to keep her hands dirty while she keeps sending her little letters.
Ricardo and Justa find out from the detective that Tomas killed a cop and it was all caught on tape.
Tomas wakes up and finds out thanks to his son, Adrian, he is alive.
Francisco and Marisol eating breakfast FF>>
Tomas freaks out. Doctor tells him to calm down. Tomas doesn’t want to die yet and asks the doctor for a favor.
Daniel comes into Eva’s office and tells her to cancel the meeting with Buick. The proposal is all wrong.
Adrian asks the doctor if his father will now be saved. Doctor says he’s very delicate but what Adrian did was very good. Tomas requested to see all 3 of them.
Eva tells Daniel she disagrees and explains why. He still disagrees. She says she’ll do the presentation herself. Daniel says afterwards they have a conversation pending. Eva says they have nothing to talk about. We have a son together replies Daniel. Doesn’t that matter? Don’t mess with my son says Eva. Our son corrects Daniel. He’s ours.
Adrian rushes in and hugs his dad who weeps and hugs him back.
Victoria stomps into Daniel’s office and wants to talk. She shows him the letter.
Tomas finally calls Adrian “hijo”. He thought that Adrian wasn’t his. He asks Adrian to forgive him for the way he treated him all these years.
More of Francisco and Marisol FF>>
Tomas thanks Ricardo and Justa for taking care of Adrian and asks for forgiveness. Ricardo says it’s all forgotten. Suddenly Tomas starts having a seizure.
Eva sends a message to Marcella. She reads it and crumbles it up.
Ricardo and Justa try comforting Adrian. The doctor comes out and tells them they did all they could.
What’s this asks Daniel. A letter from Eva saying she’s going to take my husband away from me replies Victoria. Daniel tells her that Eva will never send anything like this. Victoria starts yelling at him for defending her. Tell me you have nothing with her! I do replies Daniel. I have a son with her. Where are getting such stupidity from asks Victoria. Eva told me says Daniel. I am Pablito’s real father not Leo. She’s just telling you that to tangle you further into her web. No! yells Daniel. I talked to Leo and he confirmed it.
An attorney shows up at the hospital. She was sent by Tomas before he died.
More fighting between Victoria and Daniel. Victoria says have you forgotten everything that she has done to you? Stolen your money and left you at the alter? Daniel again tells her that Eva is incapable of sending her that letter. Victoria says then she wants Eva to tell her to her face and storms out. Daniel follows.
Leo is getting onto Eva about telling Daniel that Pablito belongs to him. Then he starts another whopper and tells Eva that Daniel threatened to take Pablito away from her. Eva says she won’t let him. I don’t think Leo gets the reaction from her he was looking for. Anyway Victoria bursts in yelling at Eva that she wants to talk to her about the letter she sent her and invent the lie that Daniel is her son’s father.
Bruno smoozing Marcella. FF>>
Eva tells Victoria that she doesn’t know what’s in the letter because she didn’t write it. Victoria calls her a liar. Eva also tells her that Daniel is the father of her child. Liar! yells Victoria. You are inventing all this to take him away from me. Leo tells her to be quiet. What Eva says is true. Victoria goes berserk and yells some more. Leo accompanies her out of the room. Daniel tells Eva that they have to talk, but Eva says she doesn’t want to talk about this anymore.
Bruno wants Marcella to come over tonight to make monkey love. Victoria bursts in.
The attorney says that Tomas before his death gave custody of Adrian to Ricardo and Justa.
Bruno leaves. Victoria tells Marcella that Eva told Daniel that he is the father of her child. Marcella says its time to end the life of that bastard.
Meeting starts with Buick.
Ricardo and Justa tell Marisol and Francisco that Tomas died.
Eva shines at the meeting.
Bruno planning on ruining Marcella. Phone call from Victoria wanting to see him tonight.
Buick gives the account to Eva. Daniel congratulates Eva. He praises her. She gets a phone call and tells Daniel that Adrian’s father died.
Adrian tells Eva and Alicia that his dad asked for forgiveness in the way he treated him. Eva and Alicia hug and console him. Knock on the door and its Daniel with Laurita.
Marcella finds out that Eva and Alicia are out and Tia is all by herself with Pablito.
Laurita consoles Adrian and says she can come over tomorrow to spend the day with him. Daniel finds out that Eva will be paying for the funeral of Tomas and asks if he can pay half.
Marcella tells Tia that the baby is crying and she runs up to see. Marcella puts the poison in the bottle.
Liliana is at the house with Victoria and tells her what happened today.
Bruno calls Marcella to make sure she’s coming. Bruno plans for her to sign some paperwork so that he can drain her bank account and run away with all her money.
Victoria tells Liliana that Eva told Daniel that he is the father of her child.
Tia comes back with the bottle and sees Pablito sleeping. Oh well now I’m going to have to wake you up.
Adrian talks to his dad. He says he will never forget him and loves him.
Victoria just finished telling Liliana about Marcella’s plan in poisoning the baby. Laurita comes in and says to Liliana that it was good seeing her again. Victoria gets suspicious and says I never introduced you to her. How would you have known her?
Tia feeds Pablito his baby food and is about to give him his bottle but he falls asleep again.
Liliana tells Victoria that she met Laurita the first time she came over. Victoria believes her. Daniel tells Victoria that Laurita’s friend died and they will be at the funeral tomorrow.
Eva comes home and tells Tia about Adrian.
Victoria tells Liliana about Bruno. He will be her eyes and ears in regards to Bruno. And he also satisfies her as a woman. Liliana wants to know where and when they are going to meet tomorrow.
Eva is about to feed the poison bottle to Pablito.
Monday: Will Pablito drink the bottle; Daniel catches Victoria and Bruno
Adrian wants to donate blood. Doctor refuses at first, but after much begging from Adrian she will see what she can do. Ricardo tells the doctor that Tomas doubts Adrian is his and the doctor decides to do a blood test.
Daniel grabs Leo by the lapels of his suit and tells Leo he will never forgive him for his lies. (If you only knew) Leo says he doesn’t regret it because Eva asked him too. She didn’t want him to know that Pablito was his. I swear I tried to change her mind (liar). That’s why I had to stay quiet when she said that I was the father. Well you should have told me says Daniel. We are supposedly friends. Yes, replies Leo. But we’re more then that. We’re like brothers. But this is about the woman I love and will soon be my wife. Because as far as I know the wedding is still on. Or has it been cancelled? No, replies Daniel. As far as I know not yet.
Liliana asks Victoria how she’s going to get Daniel back in her bed as Jackie walks in. She spills the coffee and Victoria yells at her. Jackie quickly leaves and Victoria tells Liliana that Jackie was in love with the chauffer and like an idiot lost him. Poor Jackie’s crying in the kitchen.
Francisco and Marisol waking up FF>>
Adrian is about to give blood to his dead beat dad.
Liliana giving Victoria advice on recapturing Daniel. If Vic only knew who she really needed to worry about now. Anyway Jackie comes in with a letter that was just delivered. Victoria starts reading and is not happy. She crumbles it up and tosses it towards Liliana. Liliana quickly unscrambles it and reads it out loud. It says:
Hello Victoria;
Just a few lines to remind you that I like your husband very much. That I have always liked him. And that I have no choice but to take him from you.
Eva.
Liliana tells Victoria that she has to do something otherwise Eva will take him from her. Victoria says she’ll kill her first. Liliana thinks to herself that Victoria needs to keep her hands dirty while she keeps sending her little letters.
Ricardo and Justa find out from the detective that Tomas killed a cop and it was all caught on tape.
Tomas wakes up and finds out thanks to his son, Adrian, he is alive.
Francisco and Marisol eating breakfast FF>>
Tomas freaks out. Doctor tells him to calm down. Tomas doesn’t want to die yet and asks the doctor for a favor.
Daniel comes into Eva’s office and tells her to cancel the meeting with Buick. The proposal is all wrong.
Adrian asks the doctor if his father will now be saved. Doctor says he’s very delicate but what Adrian did was very good. Tomas requested to see all 3 of them.
Eva tells Daniel she disagrees and explains why. He still disagrees. She says she’ll do the presentation herself. Daniel says afterwards they have a conversation pending. Eva says they have nothing to talk about. We have a son together replies Daniel. Doesn’t that matter? Don’t mess with my son says Eva. Our son corrects Daniel. He’s ours.
Adrian rushes in and hugs his dad who weeps and hugs him back.
Victoria stomps into Daniel’s office and wants to talk. She shows him the letter.
Tomas finally calls Adrian “hijo”. He thought that Adrian wasn’t his. He asks Adrian to forgive him for the way he treated him all these years.
More of Francisco and Marisol FF>>
Tomas thanks Ricardo and Justa for taking care of Adrian and asks for forgiveness. Ricardo says it’s all forgotten. Suddenly Tomas starts having a seizure.
Eva sends a message to Marcella. She reads it and crumbles it up.
Ricardo and Justa try comforting Adrian. The doctor comes out and tells them they did all they could.
What’s this asks Daniel. A letter from Eva saying she’s going to take my husband away from me replies Victoria. Daniel tells her that Eva will never send anything like this. Victoria starts yelling at him for defending her. Tell me you have nothing with her! I do replies Daniel. I have a son with her. Where are getting such stupidity from asks Victoria. Eva told me says Daniel. I am Pablito’s real father not Leo. She’s just telling you that to tangle you further into her web. No! yells Daniel. I talked to Leo and he confirmed it.
An attorney shows up at the hospital. She was sent by Tomas before he died.
More fighting between Victoria and Daniel. Victoria says have you forgotten everything that she has done to you? Stolen your money and left you at the alter? Daniel again tells her that Eva is incapable of sending her that letter. Victoria says then she wants Eva to tell her to her face and storms out. Daniel follows.
Leo is getting onto Eva about telling Daniel that Pablito belongs to him. Then he starts another whopper and tells Eva that Daniel threatened to take Pablito away from her. Eva says she won’t let him. I don’t think Leo gets the reaction from her he was looking for. Anyway Victoria bursts in yelling at Eva that she wants to talk to her about the letter she sent her and invent the lie that Daniel is her son’s father.
Bruno smoozing Marcella. FF>>
Eva tells Victoria that she doesn’t know what’s in the letter because she didn’t write it. Victoria calls her a liar. Eva also tells her that Daniel is the father of her child. Liar! yells Victoria. You are inventing all this to take him away from me. Leo tells her to be quiet. What Eva says is true. Victoria goes berserk and yells some more. Leo accompanies her out of the room. Daniel tells Eva that they have to talk, but Eva says she doesn’t want to talk about this anymore.
Bruno wants Marcella to come over tonight to make monkey love. Victoria bursts in.
The attorney says that Tomas before his death gave custody of Adrian to Ricardo and Justa.
Bruno leaves. Victoria tells Marcella that Eva told Daniel that he is the father of her child. Marcella says its time to end the life of that bastard.
Meeting starts with Buick.
Ricardo and Justa tell Marisol and Francisco that Tomas died.
Eva shines at the meeting.
Bruno planning on ruining Marcella. Phone call from Victoria wanting to see him tonight.
Buick gives the account to Eva. Daniel congratulates Eva. He praises her. She gets a phone call and tells Daniel that Adrian’s father died.
Adrian tells Eva and Alicia that his dad asked for forgiveness in the way he treated him. Eva and Alicia hug and console him. Knock on the door and its Daniel with Laurita.
Marcella finds out that Eva and Alicia are out and Tia is all by herself with Pablito.
Laurita consoles Adrian and says she can come over tomorrow to spend the day with him. Daniel finds out that Eva will be paying for the funeral of Tomas and asks if he can pay half.
Marcella tells Tia that the baby is crying and she runs up to see. Marcella puts the poison in the bottle.
Liliana is at the house with Victoria and tells her what happened today.
Bruno calls Marcella to make sure she’s coming. Bruno plans for her to sign some paperwork so that he can drain her bank account and run away with all her money.
Victoria tells Liliana that Eva told Daniel that he is the father of her child.
Tia comes back with the bottle and sees Pablito sleeping. Oh well now I’m going to have to wake you up.
Adrian talks to his dad. He says he will never forget him and loves him.
Victoria just finished telling Liliana about Marcella’s plan in poisoning the baby. Laurita comes in and says to Liliana that it was good seeing her again. Victoria gets suspicious and says I never introduced you to her. How would you have known her?
Tia feeds Pablito his baby food and is about to give him his bottle but he falls asleep again.
Liliana tells Victoria that she met Laurita the first time she came over. Victoria believes her. Daniel tells Victoria that Laurita’s friend died and they will be at the funeral tomorrow.
Eva comes home and tells Tia about Adrian.
Victoria tells Liliana about Bruno. He will be her eyes and ears in regards to Bruno. And he also satisfies her as a woman. Liliana wants to know where and when they are going to meet tomorrow.
Eva is about to feed the poison bottle to Pablito.
Monday: Will Pablito drink the bottle; Daniel catches Victoria and Bruno
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