Caray, Caray!

Recapper Sara here, filling in for Jardinera.


It is a momentous night. For tonight Viewerville says good-bye to two hour episodes. At least for now. Who knows what Univisión has up it's scheduling sleeve.

From last night:
Max is reviewing the orphan records that Vic has just given to him. He asks if she has anything else that could help with the search. Slowly Vic opens the cabinet. She brings out ... the rag doll. Dramatically she passes the rag doll torch to Max as if to say "Go forth, my son. Find mi hija." Bittersweet music plays and tears flow. (And as Kat said, wowzers William's eyes are red. Is he allergic to the fake tears?)

At the same time, María is passing by a doll stand in the market. She picks one up and memories come flooding back. She even remembers when it was placed in her crib when she was a newborn. (Really Mejía?) She gets dizzy and is helped by the lady working the stand.  María isn't sure what happened to her but...this doll (esta muñeca) dramatic, pregnant, meaningful pause.
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At the Casa de Modas, Toni has entered Vic's office, looks at the doll then Vic and everything clicks. "Does this mean then..?" Toni asks. Max confirms that he knows. "Finally!" Toni congratulates Vic for having the courage to tell the truth. (And Max managed to stay awake...unlike daddy.) Vic says it was late in the telling. Max says he loves his mom even more (despite the XXX-factor business.) Vic thanks Max for his understanding. Max promises to find Vic's daughter...his sister (knowing what we know...ew.)

Meanwhile, Maite Perroni is channeling her character from "Mi Pecado"...or at least wearing the wardrobe... and making her tortas ahogadas (Made famous in this episode.) But hark! There soundeth a knock on the door. It's XXX-factor! She laughs. "Well lookie here. The star model making tortas." She can't wait to tell all the other model-hos back at the Casa de Modas. Ji/Xi asks why María is in this hovel being a cheap cook. She notes that she doesn't seem to have the support of Max. Nope, Maria says. I have something better. His love. Ji/Xi asks when María is going to realize that Max is just playing with her. Things escalate...
Paraphrase:
Maria: if things are so great, why are you here?
Ji/Xi: I'm the wife. You failed to make him marry you.
Maria: You failed to make him love you, so nannie nannie boo boo.
Ji/Xi gives María a eat mierda look.

In Vic's office there is more crying over the doll. Pip and Oscar enter. The three stooges friends ask Vic to lunch. She agrees but wants to know if they knew about the affair and why they didn't tell her. Impactados (in triplicate).

The gals are still fussing over Max. "Max sought me out in Miami!" "No! You are the abandoned wife! He doesn't love you!" Ji/Xi goes in for a slap and Nati runs in to intervene. Ji/Xi slaps Nati! Nati smacks the crap out of Ji/Xi

We interrupt this recap so I can rewind this and watch the slap (or was it a punch?) again and again and again...

Nati throws the BSC Ji/Xi out of the apartment. Ji/Xi calls them salvajes (savages) and nacas (plebs).

Max is telling Fabian about his noche de amor on the sofa de amor and all about he and María are going to be  together forever. Bless his heart.

Cruz and Napo are in Milagros' apartment looking for her. (Listen closely, folks...I'm telling you it's incidental music from STuD!) Later they make their way to María and Nati's place and tell them that Miligros is missing.  They've looked everywhere. They all go off to look for her.

Vic is berating her friends for not telling her. They make excuses. We didn't want to hurt you; a marriage is between two people; not our business. Toni reminds her that she told her not to ignore her marriage. Oscar excuses himself for a teleconference with the new partner's lawyer (abogado del nuevo socio.) Toni and Vic have a minor stare-down which is interrupted by Burnie the Brazen (not to be confused with Burnie the Brazier) "You haven't come to see me in a while and I'm losing my patience."

Cruz, Napo and the entire neighborhood spread out to look for Milagros.

Vic fills Toni in about the phone call. Vic is convinced Burnie knows where the lost hija is and therefore has Vic in her clutches.

The search for Milagros through the streets of the D.F.  I fast FF>>Maria, Nati, Cruz and Napo return home...  I begin to FF>> but then on a whim I hit play...I catch "¡maldita Linda! (damn that Linda!)" I FF>> a little more and then hit play. Aw... poor Napo! He never told Milagros how much he loves her.

During the commercial for the Mexico vs. Paraguay match I think I see JuanJo. Milagros was right!

Vic is at Burnie's and wants to know where her hija is. Burnie wants to know if Os mentioned their conversation.
Vic: Of course. Os tells me everything.
Burnie: Except about his lover
Vic: Where's my hija (change of subject, good tactic Vic.)
Burnie: I don't know. Even if I did I wouldn't tell you. It's my revenge (venganza)  for your making my son fall into sin.

Vic gets angry. More ravings from Burnie and accusations about Vic's mothering skills. You abandoned her. "I didn't abandon her. I lost her. It's different. (No la abandoné. La perdí. Es differente.)" Says Vic. "It's the same. (Es lo mismo.)" says Burnie.

Linda learns about Milagros. Boring. Get back to Vic and Burnie.

Vic: How can you be so hard. You are also a mother. Have you no compassion for me? (¿No siente campasión por mí?)
Burnie: No. Of course not. (No, por supuesto que no.) On the contrary. I revel in your sorrow. (Al contrario. Gozo con tu pena.)
Vic: I see you continue to be the same ruthless woman as always. (Sigue usted siendo la misma mujer despiadada de siempre.) It was a mistake on my part to think you would be moved by a mother's pain. But I know why you can't live in peace. (And here's where I begin to paraphrase...)
Burnie: You don't know jack.
Vic: I'm sure you did something to Tomasa.
Burnie: She went back home with all that cash you gave her.
Vic: I found out she hasn't been seen back home. And I know all your secrets. PJP would have a cow if he knew. Oh, and remember Gonzalo and Rosalía? The ones you burned alive. That's where all your crazy started!
Burnie: Get out!
(Exit Vic.)
Burnie: (to tormenting spirits) Leave me in peace! (She picks up a framed picture of PJP and uses it as a shield.)

María, Nati and Linda...still talking about Milagros. María rubs her belly and suddenly thinks she knows where to look. Linda doesn't go with them. They leave and Linda talks to herself. She's tired of their reproaches and wants to see Osvaldo.

Toni and Vic. Max and Os. Blah blah blabbity blah blah.

María and Natí find Milagros at JuanJo's grave. She's been there for two days. (I really can't believe that no one thought to look their before.) María and Nati try to get Milagros to come home.  Milagros says that she is taking care of her hijo; that now she doesn't have anything. But no! María takes her hand and says:
I'm asking you, in the name of the baby I'm expecting (Se lo pido, en el nombre del niño que espero...fantastic look of surprise from Carmen Salinas!) I'm asking you, for the memory of JuanJo (Se lo pido, por la memoria de JuanJo...) for the memory of your son (por la memoria de su hijo...)...Venga con nosotros. They get Milagros to agree to come home. (Really, really touching scene. *sniff*)

Maria and Nati return home after their trying day and Linda comes in from the bedroom. She is leaving a voicemail for Os and she is pissed. And so is María. She kicks Linda out. Viewerville does the happy dance!

Milagros is still saying JuanJo is alive. Israel's widow comes to visit.

Linda on her way out of the apartment, but takes the time to tell her soon-to-be ex-roomates that they are gonna pay. She says ya'll accuse me like ya'll are so pure (she calls them blancas palomitas...which I know is meant more like pure white doves...but I can't stop thinking about popcorn lol) She goes on to remind María is knocking boots with a married man AND preggers out of wed-lock. What *would* the nuns think? Then she turns on Nati and throws JuanJo in her face. He wanted Linda 'cause she was a real woman. Seriously, Linda has got to go.

After Linda leaves, María is still worried. Linda has no money and no place to go. (María, hon', you are too sweet.)

María needn't worry. Linda is calling Gui right now. Of course, Gui offers his techo (roof.) After getting off the phone he tells his dog (real canine...Ji/Xi is nowhere in sight) that he's going to take everything away from Osvaldo (Voy a quitar todo de Osvaldo.)

Milagros...Israel's widow...Memories of JuanJo...Linda bashing FF>>

Linda has arrived at Casa del Sicko and suggests they sleep together as she slimes on him a little. Gui says he won't share his bed...but Linda can stay in the maid's room (cuarto de servicios.) She takes her suitcase to the room and makes a great show of wiggling her butt as she makes her exit. (In the background, Gui's nude picture is inconsistently blurred.)

The health department makes a visit to María's tortas stand.

Ji/Xi makes a visit to Gui where (finally!) he asks if she isn't worried that all the alcohol will damage the baby. Ji/Xi starts to say something revealing about the baby when Gui tells her to quiet down. Linda comes it. Ji/Xi freaks, but after thinking a bit calms down and suggest she and Linda go have a little chat. The two hos leave. Gui comments that it is odd how women hate each other one minute then are best friends the next.

Linda spills the embarazada beans and Ji/Xi wants to know by whom (wow, Ji/Xi really is dim.) Linda says she will have to pay quite a sum to find that out.

The health dept shuts down the tortas stand.

Vic and Toni.
V: You are my best friend, why didn't you say anything.
T: I didn't want you to suffer.
blabbity blabbity boo.

Os and Vic
V: Here's your money from the sale of the shares
Os: Ok
Fight.
Vic: I won't stand a failure
Os: We need to reconcile
blabbity blabbity boo. Part Duex.

Max and Fab
Max: Things with the family are worse
Fab: you still got María
FF>>
Max: I'm worried about María. She's got it rough right now and I fell like it's my fault.
Fab: Look, I'm good friends with Nati. I can get closer to her to see if we can help them.

Nati and María raid the piggy bank, but even the piggy bank is broke. Nati offers her savings and at first Maria refuses. Finally Maria takes it, but flat refuses to allow Nati to quit school to work. It's her last semester, she's a great student and she's almost done!

During yet another Max/Os conversation about the marriage, flowers are delivered to Vic's office. Os reads the card. It's not signed.

Pip and Rox together in designer hell FF>>

Linda gets fired for coming to work late.

Cruz visits the girls and thanks them for their help and notices they are short on food.

Vic is talking to the sender of the flowers. It's Gui. He sweet talks her and says if she needs to talk/get things off her chest (desahogarse...I think), she should give him a call.

Milagros is still quasi-catatonic. Cruz talks about the lack of food at María's. Milagros perks up. She can't have María going hungry. She heads for the kitchen. Napo helps her.

Linda goes home to Gui and tells him about getting fired. She asks for a loan and he says he is not Osvaldo. You gotta work fo' yo' livin'....ho.

Ji/Xi is whining about her apartment. Max says he has to be there for his parents right now. They fight. Max wants to know what more Ji/Xi wants from him. In the best whiny, spoiled, child-pitching-a-fit voice she says "Buy my penthouse. Not for me, for the bebé"

LindaHo bassoon theme. Gui and Linda gettin' it on.

Fer is on the patio. She hears Cruz whistling. She runs to him (in slow mo.) She is so happy to see him. She hugs him but then gets a hold of herself. He's back and not leaving. With everything going on, Fer didn't even have time to tell Dad and Bro about Cruz leaving.  Fab comes to check on Fer.

María and Nati have a garage sale.

MamaRox tells Ji/Xi she needs to convince Max that María is preggers with someone else's baby. (She kind of just walked in and started this conversation. I sort of feel like we missed the scene where she even found out María was preggers.) Ji/Xi whines she's not getting her penthouse and that she and Max will be living with his parents.

Os and Gui. Os whines, Gui confesses Linda is living with him. Os feels guilty about Linda and her situation. He gives Gui some money to pass along to Linda. Gui convinces Os to stay in Ofelia and Pedro's apartment. He's got "copies" of the keys. They can go look at it now.

Vic prays.

Nati talks genetics. Milagros brings food.

Gui gives Os the tour of the apartment.

Ji/Xi comes into Vic's house and plops on couch. Fer is upset and tries to talk to Ji/Xi about it, but Ji/Xi could give a rat's butt and leaves. Fer has a look....you know she's not liking Ji/Xi.

Os is in the apartment. I hope he doesn't find a body.

Gui delivers the money to Linda and tells her Os is staying at Ofelia and Pedro's pad. He leaves and Linda hauls her over-exposed arse over to the apartment....exactly as Gui thought she would. Gui says this is gonna be fun (Esto va a ser muy divertido.)

Os is in the jacuzzi...or is it the hot tub time machine? Suddenly we are treated to flashbacks of happier times with Vic. "Victoria" he says "You are my only love."

Max arrives with the suitcase. Vic is overjoyed they will be living with her (I puke.) The phone rings and a voice asks "do you want to know where your husband is?"

Os in the tub. Towel on his face. I smell bunny soup, do you? (shout out to Doris!)

Linda feet sneak in. Clothing is being dropped. (Linda must have learned about the blindfold trick from Ji/Xi during their earlier conversation.) Linda hops into the hot-tub and Os flips. Same ol' same ol' why are you here? No No No, blabbity blabbity blech.

Enter Vic's booted feet. She's gathering the clothes as she goes. She sees Os and Linda in the tub and goes crazy. Obviously they show more on Mexican TV 'cause all we get is a full frontal blur right before Vic grabs her hair and tries to drown her (sorry, Carlos.) Os pulls Vic off Linda. So much emotional screaming I can't understand a thing. Vic goes after Linda again.

Cue the kayak!

Avances:

• Linda throws a glass!
• Vic takes off her ring!
• Fer cries!
• Linda catches Ji/Xi making out with Gui!
• Linda gets hits by a car (again!)
• María says "no puede ser"! (Puede ser that Linda is dead?)
• 1 hour episodes (¡No puede ser!)

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Ordinarily on Fridays in DF I unleash the little hamster and let him roam freely following wherever his little rodential whims lead us. Sorry little fellow, thanks to the suits at Univision there will be no free-range aimless wandering about Mexico for us tonight. Nopis. It's up on that wheel with you and let's see if we can put some coherence to this mishmash of information we have in front of us this evening.

Part I, Brandon, We Need To Talk


Ilitia has prodded her own little hamster rewarding us with a... :

Flashback!

Brandon and Ilitia. It was good sex... but was it safe sex? Yikes!

"Five weeks you say? No, no, no! I'll die! No, no, no!" Sipis. It all adds up. A naco spermatozoan has found refuge in a supermodel ovum and even as we speak, a dark fetal poli is nestled safely in that warm pampered womb.

Fedra is shocked... shocked to find Alfredo in the massage room frolicking with Delicia, "Delicia, you slutlet! Wait'll I tell Axel." Poor Delicia is dismayed and flees. Fedra likes the cut of Alfredo's jib. She just might have a little job for him later.

*At the agency, Victoria rants. Anyone really care? Yes! This is an important scene as Vicky swoons. Soooo... looks like Ilitia is not the only one expecting the stork. Remember, you heard it first here, folks. Doris strokes and fans her. No doubt... embarazada.

Ready to film, but Jorge comes in and tosses verbal ice water on Andre, The lipstick people don't want Andre as a spokesperson.

*Losers. Alfredo and Lorena discuss Axel's upcoming nuptials. Lorena hopes they will be very happy together. Gretel joins them, exchanges unpleasantries with Lorena, then Al keeps Gretel from pouncing on her to rip her hair out by the roots.

Noticing that Gretel is a tasty morsel, he begins chatting her up. Hasn't seen around the campus lately. She tells him of her journalistic plans and he is almost as impressed with her plans as he is with her cleavage.

Doris speaks up in defense of him but he doesn't want her as his guardian angel. Jerk.
Andre is an angry young man... he almost knocks Eman down as he stalks off... Vicky takes the opportunity to carp at Emanuel a bit. Shouldn't he be at the gynecologist's with his wife?...next!

Gretel is all set to blow off Alfredo when a jealous Oliver strolls up. She takes the opportunity to needle Oliver by agreeing to meet Alfredo for dinner tonight and later perhaps they can go to a club. He calls her mamita which turns Olivers simmer up to boil. Alfredo splits. Gretel glowers. Oliver grovels. Gretel goes.

*Ilitia has come to visit mom. Problems . Muñeca admits that she's never been pregnant but is willing to listen.

*Eating grapes again, Eman consults with Benigno. This baby thing has botched things up between him and Victoria de la Garza. Well, yeah. But what about between her and the other? "Other?" "El Lirio de Plata.." Now I have no captions for this, but I'm willing to believe that Benigno has discovered a loophole.

*José Maria has arrived at the naco dorm, runs into Brandon. He offers Brandon a beer and tells him about his new job at la Buena Vida. Brandon's heard of it and knows the owner well. Emanuel Ruiz y de Teresa. Brandon thinks the place is a front for el Lirio de Plata. José M offers to keep hiseyes and ears open to suspicious activity for Brandon. "Who do you think is el Lirio de Plata, anyway?" Brandon tells him, " I don't have proof but am certain it is Emanuel Ruiz y de Teresa."

Ilitia comes clean with her mom, "You were right. The child I'm expecting is not Emanuel's. It's Brandon's.
A pouting Vicky is joined in her room by a hunky Lirio de Plato. I see she has maintained the Ruiz y de Teresa open door policy.

*José asks why Eman is the prime suspect. He tells him that Eman always seems to turn up at the scene of eLdP's crimes. Being the good cop that he is he pumps JM for information about eLdP. He tells Brandon that it was the name of a boat over twenty years ago. Brandon wants more but JM pleads ignorance. Brandon thinks the key may be why the boat was called el Lirio de Plata. José M thinks the more important question is why is a criminal now calling himself el Lirio de Plata? Brandon leaves without even taking the first sip of his beer. Cap'n Joe is apparently no mental giant, he wonders what it all must mean. Yep, that's Emanuel's daddy alright.

El Lirio de P wants to take Vicky someplace. Why not? She's trying to forget Emanuel, anyway. He promises that she'll be safe with him. Oh drat... she was hoping perhaps not.

*Muñeca suspected as much. Ilitia tells her that when Eman finds out hat she is five weeks along, he will suspect the truth. I'm not so sure. He doesn't strike me as being all that good with math. After all, he watched the ultrasound of a five week baby and never suspected anything amiss. I think she could pull this off. Muñeca tells Ilitia that she must tell Manny the truth.
*Delicia is abed and not feeling very well. Hasn't she learned by now that one must never eat anything prepared by Fedra?

Delicia is now asleep in her bed. The door opens and we see some familiar feet. Fedra has brought a guest. It's creepy Alfredo. Delicia's been drugged.

*Fedra tells Al to strip.

Ilitia is terrified that Emanuel will discover the truth. Muñeca tells her that the marriage is a shipwreck. Best to be truthful and move on. She reminds her that Brandon is the child's father and of how she felt when she discovered that Muñeca is not her birth mother. "You're right. I know what I have to do." ¿Que? Who is this girl and what has she done with our Ilitia?

How nice. Fedra has taken up photography and is taking snapshots of a gorked Delicia and a buff (and in the buff) Alfredo. This is low, even for you, Fedra. She has him bite her shoulder.

*OK, that' enough. She reaches into her blouse, pulls out a check and hands it to him. He'd like to stay on awhile. You creepy little ratbastard!

Meintras tanto, Leon has come by. Muñeca offers him a drink.

He's come by to invite Muñeca out for dinner. She declines. He understands, but by the way, what does she think about the ring he has brought for her?

Alfredo is alone with Delicia, but thank goodness an impatient Axel is home and is knocking at the door, "Delicia, what is happening? Open the door mi Amor." Creep Boy gets dressed.

Muñeca has already been married to a criminal. She doesn't want to go back down that road. Sorry Leon. Leon is truly smitten. He's ready to give himself up... turn his life around. Well that changes everything. Let's hear more.

*Brandon is freshly showered and strolling about the parlor chatting with his mom. She's worried about Doris. He reminds her that she spent two unsupervised years up north. That does not reassure Gladiola. Door's open, Ilitia glides in.

"Brandon, we need to talk."

El Lirio de Plata has brought Vicky to a hospital room where two boys are sleeping. They are at a convent that takes in orphans. These boys are sick and need help. He has brought her here to show her where the stolen money is going. She's impressed. The boys are glad to see him. El Lirio de Plata never forgets his friends and he has brought a garbage bag full of gifts for them to enjoy and share.

*Axel's in the kitchen complaining to Paula. He's worried about Dee... as well he might be. She reassures him telling him not to worry. Sure. She pats his cheek as

Axel runs into Alfredo as he comes out of... Delicia's room? (if you just watched the Univision version, that's the impression you'd have.) Actually he pops into the kitchen. Nevertheless, "What are you doing in my house, imbecile?"

Gladiola is not pleased. Ilitia says that it is urgent that she speak with Brandon. Brandon is none too pleased himself, but asks his mom to give them five minutes. Her tantrums (berrinches) don't take long. Gladiola tells him to cover himself up and reluctantly leaves them alone together.Ilitia wants to discuss the child that she is expecting.

A man of his word, Garduño calls Comisario Tejeda and tells him that he's ready to make a deal. "First thing tomorrow." Of course there are conditions, but Garduño thinks a judge will be interested. He's bringing names, dates, places... enough to dismantle the Organization. Tejeda is skeptical, but agrees. Muñeca is enthralled. Not only will she wait for him... she'll visit as often as allowed and will bring the Maratón board. OK, I added that last bit... but I'm sure she will.

He has another call to make. He calls Ordaz to tell him to prepare all the red book documents. He's going to turn himself in. Ordaz is not happy... and neither is Lorenzo who happens to be with the lawyer. Lorenzo says, "I told you so." He knows Muñeca. After all, he's been married to her for twenty years. Ordaz pomotes Lorenzo to Boss right then and there with only token reticence on Lo's part. He quickly takes charge, "Of course Gorduño's gotta die." Hey, that goes without saying.

Axel, poor dim child, still wants to know what Alfredo is doing in his house. "You've got two pretty sisters." Actually he came to help Kristel plan a fiesta at the club. Hey, works for me. Seems to work for Axel. Poor dim child.

Brandon, still wrapped in a towel around the waist (I wonder if he ever got around to exhaling while we were away?) asks Ilitia to leave. She still hasn't said what she came to say. He tells her to get to it then. Then, (and this surprised me) tearfully she tells him that she does not want this child. I. Am. Disappointed. In. Ilitia.

El Lirio de Claus distributes his gifts. He tells the boys that nobody should know that he's been here. The boys ask if Vicky is his novia. "I wish."

Part II, Hasta Nunca, Garduño... ¿Me Estás Siguiendo?
"No one who feels a love so special and so grand for the children can be criminal." Vicky beams with pride as el Lirio de Plata hands out gifts and bonds with the boys. I'm not so certain... Lorenzo appears to have boundless love for his children and yet he has just been promoted to Criminal # Uno. Nonetheless, it's refreshing to see Miss Bitterweed crack a wisp of a smile. The kid in the blue pajamas suggests that eLdP marry the pretty lady and take them to live with them. He gets an extra gift for this. Uh oh. The door opens and Ted Baxter pops in holding a flashlight. (I thought that he had died.) So much for our little secret visit. Ted calls for HELP!

Garduño is admiring the ring he bought for Muñeca when he is joined by the new Meester Big, Lo. Apparently the criminals don't lock their doors either. Julie, a nation is crying out for your lock franchise. Ordaz joins the party, "The two of us (los dos) have an important matter to straighten out (arreglar) with you." Garduño tells them that they are wasting their time if they think he can be persuaded to change his mind. Ordaz informs him that his associates are very unhappy with him and to emphasize the point goons with guns pour in from both sides. Garduño draws his own pistol and orders everyone out. It apparently not yet occurred to him that he is no longer Boss Baddy. Finally, Lo apprises him of the change in leadership. "You are history, Garduño."

Vicky's anxious to leave. ELdP suggests via the window. She wonders at his fixation with windows, but sure, "¡Vamonos!" The boys urge them to hurry but eLdP reassures them, "Don't worry, this isn't the first time that I've had to leave in a rush."

Garduño still doesn't see the big picture as he points out Lo's inadequacies for such a big job. He threatens to kill Lo, who urges him to go ahead, "Muñeca will never forgive you for killing the father of her children." "You just had to bring up Muñeca." Garduño is on the verge of tears. he hands over his pistol, "You want to direct the orchestra? Do it." Did this man not watch the Sopranos? Every single one of us knows what comes next. "Hasta nunca Leon Garduño." Lo plugs him right through the heart. He tells the goons to bring him Mauricio. He kneels and retrieves the ring from Garduño's lifeless hand.

*Jairo and Gretel have come to a club to have a beer. She's interested in becoming a journalist. He's interested in Gretel. Looks as though they are in La Buena Vida, but I'm not certain.

They get their beer. He moves in beside her and puts his arm around her. They sip the beer. Oliver arrives with Doris. Visual deathrays are exchanged across the room.

Brandon is still wrapped in a towel as he sits on the sofa and asks Ilitia why she doesn't want this baby. Before she can answer, her quickly acknowledges that he has nothing to do with the matter... it's between her and Eman. She pleads for him to listen to her.He tells her he's listening, but then complains about her choosing him to talk about such a thing because he's the cop, the gorilla, the brute, her garbage bin (bote de tu basura). "No, you're not a brute, Brandon, you're an idiot (tarado) and unfeeling. You don't know what's happening to me." He points out that she has everything that she ever wanted. She insists that she doesn't want this baby. "Don't say that. Life is sacred. It's not for you to decide if this baby is born or not." She tells him that it's her body and she doesn't want to have this baby." She storms out without telling him that he is the baby's father. I know that I shouldn't be surprised, but I honestly expected this one time, that she would tell him the whole truth of the matter.

*Emiliano and Tio Max commiserate over Eman's misfortune of having Ilitia get pregnant. Emiliano muses about how it's too bad that Manny's not in love with his wife, but he's not really sure who he loves because he's said that he was in love with Marianela and is now saying that he loves Victoria de la Garza. Flaunting TN rules, Max smugly gets right to the point. "Doesn't matter. She's the same woman." Your can almost picture Emiliano's little hamster struggling to provide sufficient power to process this. His face does a number of contortions, takes, and double takes. "Say what?"

Oliver complains that Doris drug him here to see this. She tells him that she had dated Jairo and though she never cared much for him, he always managed to steal a kiss. Gretel complains to Jairo of her disappointment in Oliver whom she thought was her perfect match. Jairo thinks that she should look elsewhere and to help head her in the right direction, kisses her forehead. Oliver goes beserk and leaves. Gretel whispers an unheard sad, "Goodbye, Oliver Rosales, para siempre." Yeah... sure... next!

*In la Mala Noche, la Reina de la Noche is announced. She dances in her new duds. As she does her chair dance, the newly crowned Meester Big oozes in leaving a slimy trail. Bernardo looks on... displeased.

*More Max and Emiliano. Emi thinks that it's unhealthy for Jorge to be hanging around since he's not Marianela's husband. He's also worried that she might kick them all out. Max doubts that. Max learns of Axel's wedding. In retrospect he should have followed his heart himself. He advises Emil to not lose Netty. He growls and snarls at the thought of Fedra.

La Reina de la Noche is in her dressing room with Bernardo. She has a new outfit... more revealing but even less flattering. Fedra, in the right clothes, you'd make a bulldog break his chain. However, for you sweetheart, less coverage is not necessarily better. Maybe you could learn a thing or two from Netty about dressing for work.

Bernardo's upset that Lorenzo is here. The Queen assures him that she did not invite him and has never even mentioned la Mala Noche to Lorenzo. They quarrel. Bernardo doesn't trust Lo. La Reina calls Bernardo a traitor. Fortunately Bernardo leaves as Lorenzo Menso enters. The two exchange pleasantries, each offering the other a free trip to Hell.

Vicky and eLdP must have found an open window because they're back in Vicky's room. Hey, she's smiling. She's glad that he took her along. She tells him that he's a lot like Emanuel. Well, duh! He wants to be her novio and lifts the mask to steal a kiss. I'm wondering why Mexico's mask makers don't make opening for the lips. Remember the trouble Furia Enmascarada (Gancho) had eating pozole with that mask on? With great timing Jorge arrives and is scandalized to see them kissing. He is clutching a dish to whack eLdP with, but thinks better of it, but he's really pithed.

Lo seems to have found out all about Juana Felipe Pérez. He tells her that her secret is safe, but she knows him better than that, "What do you want?" He reviews with her the ups and downs of their relationship over the years, '...including trying to kill each other, and here we are, no, we continue on together, Fedra, and our skin is much more sincere than all that could have said to each other." I'm lost with Fedra here... "¿Eh? What does our skin say? " He's just saying that they belong to each other and to seal the deal he offers her... the ring Garduño offered Muñeca. Classy. "you mean divorce Emiliano?" No need. That's Fedra Curiel. He's asking Juana Felipe Pérez to marry him. Say what?

Jorge jerks Vicky away from youknowho. They exchange insults. Vicky says that it's time for eLdP to go. He goes. A possessive Jorge asks Vicky if she's OK. Well he's miffed. First Brandon, now this guy... Jorge thought that he was next in the line of succession. It's not fair!

Dee's and Axel's wedding day. Gladiola is helping Letty convert the pension into a wedding chapel and they've done a darn good job. Doris is impressed. Maybe someday...

It'll happen she is assured with her all in white with a seven meter train. Gladiola adds that first she needs to give up on that guy. "You know whom I'm referring to." Andre, are your ears burning?

*Brandon is interviewing Ted at the convent, "With a woman you say?" The boys think she was his novia. Brandon takes a moment to explain to the boys that eLdP is no hero. Nopis, he's one of the bad guys. One of the boys remembers, "The lady's name is Victoria. Thanks, kid. Brandon muses aloud, "So Marianela was with him." "Victoria," Ted corrects. "Ummm, yeah, Victoria."

Delicia thanks Marianela for agreeing to be her madrina. Jorge offers his services as padrino. "Ummm, we' ve got some else in mind... thanks anyways, Jorge." The groom arrives with his sister, Gretel, and his dad, Emiliano. Emi clasps Netty's hands. She bats her eyelashes. Jorge is still concerned about the padrino and deflates when Emanuel enters and announces that he was chosen for that honor.

*Looks like Lo and Fedra have shared a nap on her red sofa. I wonder what would be revealed on that sofa under a UV light? She looks at his watch flees in a panic. .

Paula shows up. Oliver, too. Gretel asks why he hasn't brought one of his conquests. Axel, sensing trouble, asks her to cool it, at least for today. Netty thinks it's time for a toast.

*At la Buena Vida, Bernardo shows up . José Maria joins him for a drink. They chat, Fedra's hitman stands up and shoots at JM but Bernardo jumps up and takes a bullet in the arm for his Capitán.

Fedra is in a clothing shop and needs a knockout, in-your-face dress...now! She has a wedding to stop.

*Brandon arrives.

Here's the bride, all smiles, and a knockout smile. The service is underway.

Meintras tanto, Fedra is stuck in traffic.

*José Maria dresses Bernardo's wound. Bernardo warns JM against Fedra even as he defends her. JM wants to know what has become of the Bernardo he once knew. Then he accuses him of being in love with Fedra. We already knew that Cap'n... next!

Lots of intense meaningful glances. Emanuel and Marianela install the traditional lasso . Rings are exchanged.

Fedra's ready to explode. She abandons her car, telling the workmen to keep an eye on it (good luck with that), sets out on foot, and in one of the funniest visuals I've ever seen, drops out of sight over a precipice of an excavated sidewalk. The workman shrugs and delivers the best line of the episode, She fell! (¡Se cayó!)
En el nombre del Padre, del Hijo, y del Espiriyu Santo, los declaro marido y mujer."

Applausos. Beso. Fedra's here! She grabs a drink. She's got photos!


Double yikes!

But the kids are married.




Well, this has been an adventure. A technical glitch just as I was finishing delayed things for almost an hour. The little hamster is exhausted and has threatened to call the SPCA. A Pox on Univision. It's Millertime.

Carlos

Labels: llena

LA REINA DEL SUR
Part One: A Comment -- feel free to skip the purple prose and go directly to the summary below.

¿Se acabó la luna de miel? ¿Pa’qué te digo que no si sí?
Let’s get a few things straight. For my money, this is still the best acted, best written Spanish language telenovela-formatted dramatic series I have ever seen. Yes, that’s a mouthful –

Spanish Language Telenovela-Formatted Dramatic Series

Because calling this a telenovela sets up false expectations. A traditional telenovela tells the story of a set of characters over time; there are subplot excursions, to be sure, but essentially everything is in service of filling out the dramatic arc. A good part of the pleasure for the viewer is in figuring out how the pieces will eventually fit together; we don’t doubt for a moment that they will fit together.

Remember Aurora? You know, that promising original sci-fi novela starring lovely and gifted Sara Maldonado and everyone’s favorite hunky good guy, Jorge Luís Pila? The show that inherited so much viewer goodwill from its predecessors, El Clon, and ¿Dónde está Elisa? that many of us (myself included) were willing to accept the absurd premise that Eugenio Siller’s twenty-something Lorenzo had morphed into Pila’s forty-something self? (As for the silliness of the science – let’s just acknowledge that technical and scientific accuracy aren’t high on Telemundo’s priorities, adjust our beanies accordingly, and move on.)

I watched as the plot of Aurora took unexpected and -- to me, at least -- unwelcome twists and new characters were introduced with backstories that gave the lie to what I thought I knew. I finally gave up on Aurora when I realized that the problem was me, not them. Telemundo was aiming this one at adolescents and young adults. Definitely not fodder for most of us at CarayCaray.

¡Me cayó el veinte!But now, after a couple of weeks of La Reina del Sur I understand something else: both this new show and Aurora resemble episodic television adventure shows more than they do traditional telenovelas. In each episodio, there is a mini-adventure. Something happens and is resolved. Usually at the same time, a small subplot plays itself out as well. Because the show is aired daily, an ‘episode’ may extend beyond a single evening. But the only story arc that we can expect to continue from the first cápitulo to the last is Teresa Mendoza’s life and times.

In the past few years, I’ve been a little out of it as far as English-language adventure series are concerned, but I imagine that Lost was a bit like this. Super fans could probably tell you everything that had happened to their favorite characters from day one; but casual viewers could tune in to any episode and enjoy a satisfying one-hour story. Years ago, The Fugitive had a long run (sorry); we knew he was looking for the elusive one-armed man, but on the way, we could count on him for a thrilling evening’s adventure.

I’m guessing that the first two capítulos of La Reina that were shown here make up a single episode in the fourteen part version to be shown on Spanish television. That version is likely more faithful to the book and more novelistic in structure. But our version is geared to (if I were unkind, I’d say ‘panders to’) our pan-American tastes for plot movement – threats, chases, judicious doses of beautiful young bodies, male and female. The structure of the book doesn’t exactly lend itself to neat segments of plot so the writers have been busy embroidering. The result? The Adventures of La Mexicana, based on the novel La Reina del Sur. They’ve given us a daring escape from a frustrated DEA agent here, a gutsy foray into a Moroccan orphanage there. Even Teresa’s anonymous ‘grief sex’, although based on an event in the book, is fleshed out into a glimpse into the life and death of sympathetic policeman, Jaime (Juan Pablo Raba).

Maybe that’s why the novela Eva Luna turned out to be such a hit. I watched it early on and found it unbelievable that the producers would gamble everything on Blanca Soto, a drop-dead gorgeous beauty queen with very little skill as an actress and a voice that can only be described as challenging. But they were right on the money! People wanted lots of plot movement, no matter how ridiculous the storyline, and were happy just looking at Blanca, especially when she was paired with Guy Ecker (who must have spent most of his scenes standing on a box so he wouldn’t appear to be staring at Blanca’s chin.)

Here in La Reina del Sur we get plot up the wazoo including chase scenes, sex scenes, and fist fights, gun fights, knife fights; splendid acting; marvelous location shots; and a chance to listen to interesting and varied Spanish dialects. So I’m not complaining. I’m just sayin’…---------------------------------------------------------
LA REINA DEL SUR
Part Two: Friday’s Episode, in brief
Santiago and Lalo head out to sea with a full consignment of drugs in spite of Teresa’s gut feeling – un presentimiento -- that something bad is going to happen. “Yo no soy el Güero” he tells her as he goes out the door.

In Yamila, Soraya notices that Dris is in an unusually expansive mood.

The Gallegos are in Moroccan waters when a Coast Guard vessel appears, seemingly out of nowhere, and orders them to halt. Santiago and Lalo begin to dump their cargo overboard; then Santiago tells Lalo to hold on. Santiago accelerates, the Coast Guard starts shooting and Lalo is hit and falls in the water. By the time Santiago realizes what has happened, he is too far away to help his friend. He manages to make it back to Melilla but Lalo is captured by the Moroccan officials.

The captors torture Lalo until he gives up Coronel Chaib’s name as the one he and Santiago were working for.

In Melilla, Santiago connects briefly with Suleiman and asks him to tell Teresa he is safe and to ask Chaib to get Lalo out of jail. Then he flees to Algeciras, Spain.

If Teresa and Santiago think Chaib is going to help get Lalo out of jail, they are tragically mistaken. When Chaib learns that Lalo has given him up, he curses the day he listened to Teresa. And he decides that 15 years in a Moroccan prison is not punishment enough for Lalo – he has his captors cut out his tongue.

The women – Teresa, Fátima, Soraya and Sheila – figure that someone must have ratted out the Gallegos. Soraya remembers Lalo’s big mouth and Dris’s big ears that day in the restaurant. Ha sido Dris, she says. (Which is a very European use of the present perfect: La Mexicana would surely have used the simple preterite and said “Fue Dris”) Yes, they all agree, it was Dris. He did it out of jealousy.

Teresa confronts Dris: she knows he did it, even if she can’t prove it. But if anything happens to Santiago, Dris is a dead man.

A month passes. Santiago has found work running drugs from Algeciras. But he and Teresa are full of longing for each other. One day, Teresa comes home and finds Santiago sitting on the curb outside her apartment. They fly into each other’s arms and can’t tear their clothes off fast enough. As Fátima remarks with good humor: ¡Qué ganas tienen de revolcarse! (They’re sure hot to trot!)

Come back to Algeciras with me, says Santiago. Teresa turns to the light and says enigmatically:
Un día me voy a morir a esta misma hora. Me va a matar esta luz sucia que siempre entra por la ventana cada vez que empieza y acaba la noche.(One day I’m going to die at this very hour. It’s going to kill me, this dirty light that always comes in through the window when the night begins and when the night ends.)

Yes, she says turning back to Santiago. I’ll go with you. But on one condition – that you let me work with you.
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NUEVO RICO, NUEVO POBRE
This wryly funny Colombian comedy has reached the point where all the bad guys seem poised to salir con la suya. The one bright spot is that Rosemary and Andrés finally dropped their guard (and their pants) in Cartagena and now are willing to tell the world they are novios.

All through the honeymoon, la Flacuchenta esa has kept the absurdly priapic Brayan running for cold showers.

Meanwhile, back in Bogotá, little Ingrid thinks she’s been knocked up by the odious Miller (although I’m hoping she’s wrong – the pregnancy test she used was outdated.) The poor innocent Gordo is in jail. Don Leo has been beaten to a pulp by the local thugs and is in the hospital. Mundo Express has lost a ton of money under Brayan’s inept management and now has been audited and slapped with a huge fine. And slimy Mateo is plotting to steal the motorbikes that Rosemary and Andrés bought in Cartagena.

Could anything else go wrong? Well if Brayan takes the bait and commits an infidelity with one of the pro’s his wife is supplying him with, la Flacuchenta walks away with half of the Ferreira fortune. So far he has been surprisingly resistant to temptation.

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Okay, my friends. Your turn!

Labels: aurora, herederos, reina-sur, telemundo

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Capitulo 259.
Read Chapel Hill Fiddler's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Humberto recognizes that Lety must be special if she transformed Fernando. But he doesn’t like that she’s playing two men.

2. Lety tells Aldo this is new to her. Giggles, sweet nothings, and kissyface (abbreviated GSNAK hereafter). Aldo understands it will be hard for her to forget Fernando, especially since he’s being so noble.

3. Omar mocks because Aldo has to work for a living. Fern says that deserves admiration. Omar says Lety is able to make men lose their head. He prays he never falls under the spell of a woman like that. He says Aurora goes on dates with him but disappears.

4. Alicia abuses Marcia’s hospitality just like she did to Lola. Marcia tells her that she’s abusive, intolerable, and stupid.

5. Lety tells Tom that she chose Aldo. In the morning Aldo sends her roses.

GSNAK.

6. Fern tells Lety he told his dad he loves Lety. He’s not trying to pressure her, but it made him happy. He’s off to a meeting to drum up business, so he doesn’t have time to hear her important news.

7. Lety tells Caro that Aldo sacrificed everything for her, and she chose him. Caro tells Omar that Aurora’s not at all interested in him. He can’t believe that someone would reject him. Luigi insists that Lety comes to his office right now because he promised Aldo he’d try to get along with her.

8. When Fernando congratulates Aldo and says he respects him (because he sold everything and now he has to work), Aldo thinks it’s about Lety. He says, “It must be difficult for you to find out that Lety chose me.” Night falls.

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Capitulo 260.
Read Amanda's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Fernando tries to convince himself that Aldo said Lety chose him (Aldo), simply as a gag, to get Fernando out of the way.

2. Tom asks Aldo for advice for the lovelorn. Aldo says, “Love means giving the other person space.” (I swear, he said that with a straight face!)

3. Ali tries to talk to Tom but he blows her off. He says it’s obvious she doesn’t want him around so he’ll leave her alone. She tries to schmooze a lunch invite. He says, “I’m sorry. It’s all or nothing. And I decided, nothing.”

4. Fernando overhears Lety and Aldo, and it confirms that she chose Aldo. He goes to the conference room to cry, “How could you forget that you love me?”

5. Lety tells Aldo that Conceptos should pay him the profit they made from the food expo. Aldo says they need to keep that as capital for their next project. Then more GSNAK.

6. Caro goes to lunch with Omar, under the condition that he won’t talk about Aurora. He tries his usual shtick and she tells him where to shtick it.

7. Omar has been wracking his little brain to find a way to locate Aurora. In a rare moment of intelligence, he tells Paula that Caro knows all about Aurora, “so don’t let the cuartel bother her.” Then he sits back and lets the cuartel do his work for him.

8. Throughout the episode, Fernando runs away from Lety so she can’t tell him the bad news.

9. Tom’s plan is working and Ali turns up the heat so she’ll have a place to sleep tonight. She says, “Why can’t you help me?” He answers, “Because no matter how hard I try, I can’t win your love.” So she says, “I do feel something for you,” and gives him a big kiss.

10. Lety corners Fernando. He begs her not to say anything and avoid any further pain because he already knows the important part. He says, “I was a fool. Where did I get the genius idea to set you free to decide? (She hugs him.) Don’t say anything. I prefer to think that it’s all a dream. Or a nightmare.” She thanks him for the freedom to decide. He says, “Don’t thank me. In that moment I dug my own grave. Forget about me so you can be happy. At least one of us will be happy.”

Just to see you smile, Tim McGraw Thank you, Jenn. Great choice!

When you said time was all you really needed
I walked away and let you have your space.
Cause leavin’ didn’t hurt me near as badly
As the tears I saw rollin’ down your face

And yesterday I knew just what you wanted
When you came walkin’ up to me with him
So I told you that I was happy for you
And given the chance, I’d lie again.

Just to see you smile, I’d do anything.

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Labels: fea-2010

Good morning! It's time for our Friday ritual of coffee, snark, and Thursday night's Triunfo recap. Before I begin, let me set the scene. It's 6:25 a.m. I've been out late every night this week for rehearsals, and this morning, in what is becoming our new a. m. ritual at Casa Latina, the upstairs coffee maker (porque sí…soy la reina!) turned itself on at 6:10 a.m. At 6:15, near the end of the brew cycle, the regular alarm went off, at Mr. 5ft's insistence, since he doesn't get quite so excited about his morning milk-with-a-little-coffee-in-it and I shut it off. I prepared each of us a cup--his with lots of sugar, lots of milk, and as little coffee as I could manage; mine with agave nectar only, since we haven't brought up any soy milk for the upstairs mini-fridge (see above re: reina!). I handed off Mr. 5ft's coffee and brought mine downstairs, where I will now proceed to watch last night's episode and tell you what a great big load of nada went down. I haven't seen anything past midway through Tuesday (see above re: late rehearsals), but I'm sure I'm not missing much. These two hour episodes are killer. Y'all are troopers for hanging in there. And y'all doing the other recaps…I feel your pain! Y ahora, tu humilde servidora will get to the business at hand, while mi humilde servidor (aka Mr. 5ft) fixes my breakfast.

***This recap is complete!***

Part I:

Hey, Victoria gave up make-up for Lent? She and Os argue about who did what to whom. Os says he'll leave--he can't stand it either. Vic tells him to go, if he's not man enough to stick it out.

Padre JP gripes Max out for not leaving Maria D alone. He will brook no arguments! MD stops him before he can get in his plastic car and says she'll talk to him. PJP says "Fine, but you're only gonna suffer." Only until the final week, Padre.

Pippin is in a furious rage! Another mannequin feels the pain. Oscar's saying something, but I'm too busy watching Pip's act of mannequinicide. Oh, Linda's gonna keep chasing Os. That's not news. Toni vows to stop it. As if!

Linda hangs out, waiting for Os, observed by Victoria. Os valet parks his car.

Maria D tells Max his mommy's a bully who won't leave her alone. "If you wanna help me, tell your mom to leave me alone! I've got good reasons to fight and I'm gonna make it after all, cause I just gotta." That was all subtext for "I'm having your baby, you moron!"

Linda waves happily at Os, but then sees Victoria getting out of her car. Oh…Os was getting his car from the valet and was about to drive it off. He's surprised to see Vic, who came to pick him up from... work? He calls the valet to get his car and gets into Victoria's. Linda pouts.

Bernarda says she's not happy about what happened to Vic, but Vic tried to take her own life and it's a big sin, etc., snooze, snooze. Bernie doesn't want to talk about Vic, since PJP always defends her. She thinks people get what they deserve. Burn, baby, burn. Padre JP says she talks like she never sinned. We all know that's not true.

Milagros cries at Juanjo's grave. Really? He's dead? Don't tell me, I'll either piece it together by the end of this ep or I'll get it when I go back and watch the rest of the week. Pobre de Carmen Salinas. She's not a bad-looking woman, but appearing on camera with no makeup at any age is an act of extreme courage. She sits on his grave while just one tree rains down tears. She starts praying the Hail Mary.

Bernie says she's prayed to remain sin-free, that's all. PJP says we're all human and sooner or later, into each life, a little sin must fall. Burnie wants to change the subject. PJP is her son, confessor, and guide. He says that's exactly why he's asking her to tell Victoria the truth. "You want me to tell her Maria Desamparada is her daughter? Sor Clementina told me, so I'm sure, but there's no real proof. Don't worry, though, I took precautions. Remember this incident…I did it to take a blood test and compare it to Maria D." Fausto interrupts with the lab results. This is not quite as fun-filled as a Springer episode, but I guess it'll do. Burnie opens the results, sans drum role, and reads that the results were positive. "Maria Desamparada is your daughter." She hands PJP the results.

Part II:

Max whines to Fabian in his office. He lost the love of his life and his family is falling apart. Fabian says that's rough. Max thought his family didn't have problems before? Oh, so young, so innocent. His mom's having trouble. His dad at least accepts responsibility, but his mom won't. And as for Ximena, she just keeps using the baby as an excuse for everything. He's not sure how much longer he can put up with that.

Xi and Rox are apartment shopping. And Rox only wants the BEST for her baby. And the BIGGEST!

Milagros cries some more and finishes praying her rosary. She lies down on Juanjo's grave. Ok, a wife, maybe, but a mom? That's a little weird.

Vic and Os have dinner. She wants to show him she's making an effort. Is that Padilla in the background? Os says all her efforts made her a great designer. She says her "name" means nothing to her anymore. She's hurt and she doesn't even know why she's asking his forgiveness when he's the one who cheated on her. Os says he really does feel worse than she does. If she's not going to forgive him, then why bother. More whining about how he cheated, how she ignored him, etc. I won't dignify his stupid excuses by repeating them. Vic says men are stupid. "It's easy for the lover to be perfect since they don't have to put up with you 24/7." Os says he gets it now. Mama Vic keeps harassing him. It's not that I don't think he deserves it, but she keeps going over the same stuff over and over and I'm the one who has to listen to it. Hey, I didn't cheat on her, so why do I have to suffer?

Nathy is knitting something for The Baby. She and Maria D are all excited to meet The Baby. MD will give The Baby all the love she never had. Nathy tells her she needs to be happy so the baby will be happy. Linda's not home yet and they wonder where she is. MD says if she went after Os again, she's getting her eviction notice.

Bernarda accosts Os and tries to give him some info, but he isn't in the mood.

Gui, Pedro, and Ofelia toast the success of the miniseries. Pedro is sick of Ofelia making snarky comments about Os and Vic. Ofelia says she has to put up with him too and she can't take it anymore. Gui just snacks and watches the scene. Pedro says he's going home to Spain in 2 days and she's not going with him! "Oh, no, I'm the one who's not going to Spain, because I'm done with you!" She tells him not to come looking for her, not that he was thinking about doing it. She swears she'll go for the next guy she sees, etc. Pedro tells her to just get to it already. He apologizes to Gui for the scene, but Gui had a great time watching.

Part III:

Os went back to the house with Burnie. She says she knows more about Vic than he does. Os says no one knows her better than he does. "Are you sure? Did you know she was a maid in this house?"

Vic drinks and thinks about how Os isn't home yet. Is he with his lover?

Os says being a servant is a perfectly acceptable job. "Did you know that before she married you, she had a daughter?"

Pedro tells Gui he's going back to Spain tomorrow and if he doesn't see Ofelia again, it's fine with him. He's DRUNK but he swears he can drive. Gui lets him leave.

Os doesn't know why Burn is telling him all this, but he can tell she hates Vic. She was lying about Vic having a lover, so why should he believe her now? He says as the mother of a priest, she should know that lying is a sin. He takes off.

Maria D can't light the stove. She and Nathy don't know what to do. Maria has some fabric to make clothes for the baby. No, she's not thinking of telling Max about the baby. She hopes one day she'll be happy again, like she was when she and Max were together. Nathy asks what if Max found out about the baby and wanted to be with her, but Maria D says it's impossible. She won't be happy at someone else's expense, so her love for Max is an impossible dream. She never should have set her eyes on him.

Max looks out the window. He remembers walking with MD on the beach.

They split-screen to MD having trouble sleeping while Max is thinking of her.

MD is on the couch, looking out the window. She remembers being with Max on the beach.

Max picks up the phone.

MD's phone rings. It's Max, but he doesn't say anything right away. Finally he says he just wanted to hear her voice.

Ximena thought bubbles that she needs to get Max to sleep in bed with her so she won't lose him. She wants to go wake him up with a big wet sloppy kiss. Slurp, slurp.

Max just wanted to hear her voice, like he said, and tell her he loves her and she's the woman of his life. MD says it's hurting them. So is the separation. Max blames it on Xi. He wants to see her. He can't go on without her! In the name of everything they had together, she can't deny him this opportunity. Oh no? MD says it's crazy talk and NO! She hangs up and cries.

Xi lies in bed thought bubbling that Max is talking to MD again and she can't allow that or she'll lose him!

Part IV:

Vic keeps drinking. Now she wonders if something bad happened to Os. She hopes not or she'd never forgive herself. Os comes in. She asks him to forgive her, but he says he has nothing to forgive. So now she starts interrogating him. "We'll talk tomorrow." She accuses him of being with Linda. "Did you see her?" Os says he didn't , but she doesn't believe him. She can't believe him. OK, we're back to business as usual. He doesn't know how much longer he can take it!

Xi tells Rox she's sure Max went to see MD. She's furious and says she'll go find them. Rox advises that she take a sleeping pill and think about the baby. Um? No. Rox says Xi's dad cheated on her all the time and it got better when she stopped letting it bother her. After all, she was the wife and the others were just mistresses. Xi doesn't think that way. She hangs up on Rox and swears they won't be together.

MD answers the door to Max and they stare at each other.

Padre JP prays in the church. MD is his daughter, for realz. His confessor comes in and says "What's your damage now?" Meanie. PJP says he found out the truth…that MD is your daughter? He can talk about it because it's not a secret of the confessional, just something he suspected that's now confirmed. More questioning of PJP's vocation. He says he could never leave the church. He's a father to all the faithful.

Max asks to talk to her. MD says he shouldn't be there. He begs, in the name of their love.

Milagros dreams of JuanJo and starts saying "my son isn't dead" in her sleep. She jerks awake and says "Juanjo? Son? You're not dead, son. You're not dead. You need me." She prays for it to be true. She gets up and goes into his room and reminisces about their fútbol disagreements. She hopes what she saw in her dreams is true and he really is alive.

Pedro is gone, so Ofelia came back. She thinks she's going to move in with Gui. Ha, ha, ha! He says he doesn't want the company. He likes to be alone. Ofelia says the fun's over if Max finds out that Ximena's baby is really Gui's. She's going to use the info to hold onto him. "Yep. You're trapped, even if you refuse to admit it." Gui says let's speak calmly. Ofelia says she'll have a vodka, like Xi. Gui goes to get some, while Ofelia peruses the paperwork about the theater. Os would pay a fortune to find out about it. She plays calm when Gui comes back and sees her with the folder.

Vic asks Os if Linda is still trying to call him and get close to him. Will she back off so easily? Won't she fight for him? Os says it would be useless. He tries to get in bed with her, but she gets out of bed. "Is it possible to be reasonable when you're crazy in love with someone?" She can't get the image of the two of them out of her head. She keeps thinking about them making hot monkey love. She wants details. Os yells at her to stop it. "Your curiosity is morbid and doesn't get us anywhere! I don't want to talk about her." Vic wants to know that part of his life that she doesn't know anything about. Os refuses to tell her anything and leaves the bedroom.

Ofelia says she now has two juicy bits of info that the Sandovals would pay dearly for. Gui agrees, but says if she talks too much, she'll only cause problems. That won't work with him. "And how do you plan to avoid it?" Gui says he'll shut her mouth forever, choking her. "I've always hated women who talk too much, and you're the worst one! I'll do you a favor and shut you up forever." He seems to enjoy killing her. The dog barks and he shushes it.

Max tells Maria that he was drunk and upset, he went up to the room and got in bed, and he thought it was her and then in the morning he realized it was Xi. Maria D says when he said he was getting married to Xi, she didn't know the story. Max says he should have told her, but he never thought Xi would get pregnant. It gave his mom a way to blackmail him into marrying Xi. It's only the baby he's doing it for. MD believes him. There's sincerity in his eyes and she knows he's not lying. Max says he never stopped loving her. Ditto. He doesn't love Xi and when the baby's born, he'll take care of it and be a good dad, but he won't keep living with Xi. MD loves him too, but what about the two of them? Max says when the baby is born, he'll divorce Xi and marry MD. She says he might find out a surprise. Something that would make him happy. He's happy just being with her and he'll be with her forever. Smoochies. Yes, let's get that shirt off William, he's really warm under the lights. Oh, that's all….

Milagros also sees signs of JuanJo in the cards. Cruz answers the door to Don Napo. Cruz is off to work, but asks Napo to look after Milagros. She tells him to sit down and begs him not to stop coming over. She tells him about her dream, and the cards confirming it. She keeps crying that he's alive. Napo says he's sorry to keep reminding her, but the healthiest thing is for her to leave JuanJo to rest in peace. He doesn't like to see her crying. Milagros says he's just like everyone else. "Put yourself in my place and see how it feels!"

Linda goes looking for work.

Milagros keeps crying to Napo that JuanJo is alive.

Linda applies for a job as a stylist in a salon. She worked for Victoria, but she doesn't have references. The woman says she won't hire anyone without a recommendation, usually, but they just lost someone and they really need her to start right away. Linda says she won't be sorry! The woman brings her a broom and tells her to get started. Linda fumes.

Max asks Victoria why she keeps getting Maria D fired. "How do you know what's going on with her? You're still after her, aren't you?" Vic says MD betrayed her by going after Max, by helping Linda go after Os. Max says he's on the side of justice, damnit!

A guy looks at the stove in the girls' apartment and says it's not in good shape. It would be just as expensive to fix it as to buy a new one. He charges them 200 pesos for giving them the bad news. Nathy says they'll just have to get a new one. MD only has 100 pesos and Nathy sent all her earnings to her family. MD says they'll use the pesos to buy torta supplies and get selling. Nathy says she'll go to the library and ask for an advance to see if they can buy a stove in installments.

Napo and Cruz are worried about Milagros. Napo suggests a doctor, but Cruz says no doctor can cure a mother of her sadness at losing her son. Cruz wants to take her back to the ranch for a while, but he wants Napo to come too. He's sure it will help. Napo agrees. Milagros is a good friend and he's got to help her out. Cruz goes to get some time off from work.

Victoria tells Oscar to fire the private detectives. She wants to hear no more about it!

Max comes to work happy. He tells Fabian nothing's up. Fabian is sure there's a reason. Max says he saw MD. The skinny pants that come in tight at the ankles? I vote "no." Ximena comes in to show him the apartment she wants. He says they have to wait. "Wait longer?" The company is in no condition. All of Os's shares have been sold and they're having to let employees go. Xi says that's not her problem. Fine, then, Max says--the answer is no because he says so. Xi says his child will be born without a place to put his crib! "Yes, fine, I'm terrible, so why'd you marry me?" Xi says she doesn't know. "Exactly! Me neither!" She storms out, leaving him the flyer.

Os comes to visit Vic at work. He's been thinking and she has every right to know where he was last night. Vic asks him how he got to Bernarda's . "She had it all planned, so she could talk smack about you. She said you have secrets. That you were her maid?" Vic confirms it. Os says she never told him anything. "We'll talk about it whenever you want. What else did she say?" "That before we got married, you had a baby. Is that true?" Max overhears. Vic says if they're going to talk about secrets, he's got to be ready to bare his soul too. Is he ready for that? "I used to be convinced I lived with the perfect man, who always told me the truth, but now I'm not sure. So I'm asking--are you keeping a secret? Are you ready to tell me the whole truth about your life? Fine, but you go first. I'll listen to all of it, but I want to know everything. And then I'll talk." That's SO not going to happen.

Milagros begs JuanJo to lead her to him. She heads out the door of the apartment.

Part V:

Max is still spying on his parents. Os says he might have secrets, but he doesn't think this is the best time to talk about them. He has a lot of doubts. Vic says then he has no right then to ask about what Bernie said. Os agrees they need time before they're ready to talk about their lives before they met. They wish each other a good day and he leaves. Max comes into Victoria's office. "I couldn't help overhearing the conversation you had with my dad." He wants to know the truth. Vic admits she had a baby before she married his dad. "I had a daughter before I married your father." Max is impactado!

Os remembers Vic's words. He can't accept the deal. He'd have to confess that Max's mom is alive and in jail for killing her lover. It would hurt Max too much to find out his mother's alive and a killer.

Vic tells Luci to hold all her calls for an hour. She tells Max to sit down.

Napo gets to the apartment and can't find Milagros.

Max understands Vic's suffering now. What he doesn't understand is why she didn't tell his father from the beginning. Vic says she was stupid and a coward. She was afraid he'd look down on her and she loved him. She thought the truth would separate them and she didn't want to lose him. She didn't want to lose Max as a son either. He says she never will.

Part VI:

No one's home to take Cruz's vacation request. Fer needles him. Cruz says he's unhappy and she assumes it's about her. He tells her his cousin died. Fer is sorry and hugs him briefly. He just says thanks and tell her parents thanks for the job because he's going back to the ranch. "But you're coming back, right?" He says there's nothing to bring him back. "Nothing?" Cruz sighs. Napo comes running up to say Milagros has disappeared and he has no idea where she is. Napo has a bad feeling. Cruz goes to help look for her, but he stops to ask Fer to say goodbye to her family for him. He reaches for her and she leans toward him, but he pulls his hand back walks away. That is the stuff, right there. That's how you do longing and unrequited love.

Burnie comes to the church. She wants to confess. The older priest asks if she's sorry for her sins. "I'll only talk about it in confession." He says he knows about MD. Not that anyone told him. She says he's lying. Crazy Burnie babbling. No, dude, she doesn't realize that she's nuts. That's why she's nuts. "I want Victoria to suffer." "But your son is also suffering." "Well, we all came to this world to suffer." CRAAAAAAAZY! He says she keeps sinning and she's unrepentant, so why does she want confession? She wants absolution and she acts like it's getting something out of a vending machine. She says the words and out pops absolution. The padre tells her that's not how it works. She actually has to be repentant! He realizes he's wasting his time trying to convince her. He withholds absolution and says he also won't hear her confession. So there!

PJP talks to a guy who's afraid of some powerful woman. He doesn't want any trouble. PJP says sometimes when we're afraid of violence, our fear causes injustices. We have to seek justice to feel better.

Burnie says he has an obligation. Yep, and he's meeting it. She says fine, she'll confess elsewhere. And she'll complain about him. "Go ahead. And make sure you also tell them about the people you killed."

PJP takes his leave of the guy and asks God why there's so much hate in Victoria's heart against Maria. The same hate his mother has against Victoria. He asks God to help him get rid of the hate.

Burnie says he won't close off the paths to the church. He tells her she's nuts and needs to see a doctor. "You're calling me crazy? Here, in front of a sacred altar of God, I can see you're the sinner. So my advice is, take care of yourself, because sinners are condemned to the fires of hell…in the next life, or in this one." She walks off. "God, illuminate your daughter Bernarda. She's a lost sheep. Help her and help me to guide her." PJP walks up. The other Padre says there's nothing going on. Nothing that he can tell him about, anyway.

Os is sorry he didn't get to say goodbye to Pedro. He figures that Ofelia went with him. Gui says they had a fight at his house. He figures they made up later. He asks for an update. Os says things are going pretty badly. Vic is torturing him and herself. Gui doesn't understand. Os says Vic is obsessed with finding out every detail of his relationship with Linda. Gui tells him not to tell her anything! It would be better to separate. Os doesn't want to. He loves her. This is just the punishment he deserves. Gui says if they're not going to be happy, then why be together?

Vic cries and Max comforts her. He says when he was a kid and he was afraid, she told him to remember he's really a brave prince and there's a light in his heart that would shine out and protect him from everything bad. He tells her to do the same. Think of being a brave princess, the bravest of them all. Especially when she tells his dad the truth. Vic promises when the time comes, she'll keep it in mind. She's proud of him for giving her that advice. Damn, William Levy's eyes are red!

Part VII:

Xi gripes to Rox that Max won't buy her a penthouse. What does she care about the company's problems?! Rox says she had other options, but she insisted on Max. Xi is sick of this. She's furious. She can't understand why her luck is so bad! Rox (I accidentally typed Tox, but that works too) says just get a divorce already and she'll find her a new millionaire.

Vic offers to show Max the files. He wants to help her find her daughter. "I've looked all these years!" Max says he wants to help and share that part of her. She's given him so much and he wants to repay it. Vic agrees to show him the files. She pulls out a stack of notebooks.

At the butcher's Maria D tries to buy some meat. It's too expensive. He offers to give it to her on credit, after he just told the woman before her that he doesn't. He kind of hits on her and she still takes it. Ew!

Max looks through the notebooks. He says Vic has suffered so much all these years. How did she survive the pain? Love, she says--for Maria, and Max, and Fer. And also Os's love helped a lot. Max is really disappointed that Os cheated on her. "Maybe if he'd known?" Vic says that's no excuse. Max says his love is really complicated, but now's not the time to talk about it. "Don't you have some memory, something that would help?" Vic shows him the doll Maria was carrying. "Maria," Max repeats.

Maria walks through the market and stops at a stall selling dolls. She flashes back to the accident.

Sweet William Levy in a kayak! Yay, the kayak is back!

Tomorrow: Vic busts Linda with Os, through no fault of his own; Linda tells Ximena that Maria D is pregnant (bitch!); Max and Xi fight; Vic confronts Burnie and says she knows about the fear of fire; Maria and Xi fight over Max and Nathy has to bust up a chick fight! Good times, good times!

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Recap by Marta:

Repeat of Deborah speech forgiving Tilde and saying they have to help the girls together forge a happy future…

Cruella: I am drinking more than I should (no sh!!)

LiLeach hearing from Slimeball himself that he killed Eva’s dad…

Julio teasing/scaring Cruella…

Birthday party, Laurita not happy with Eva, Eva introducing her mom around…

Renata summoning Slimeball to come home asap… mommy dearest is gone nuts…

Tony teasing Alicia..

Bimbutt planning her next step…

Lileach brainwashing Idiot low IQ man…

Renata warning Eva Cruella is nuts due to Don Julio’s games…

LiLeach all over Low IQ man…

Alicia/Leo… kiss… Eva comes in…

IW: What are you doing here Ali?


SB: Eva, was waiting for you.

IW: I know, but what was my sis doing in your room at this hour?, I thought she was going nite nite…

SB: I called just when she was going to bed…

IW: What for?

SB: To tell her what happened to my mommy…. My mommy swears my dad is ALIVE… I think it was due to her drinking, but she was so scared that she even fainted…

Ali: I hope she gets better…

IW: I also will go let you rest…

SB: Eva, wait… stay with me a bit longer… (Ali has a mini tantrum stump step)



LoIQMan: you are right… I have to get her out of my head, have to stop thinking about her… but the problem is still the same… I love her more each day… I can’t take her out of my heart…

Lileach: Think all the harm she is causing you. It is too much harm!

LoIQMan: Even so, I can’t get her out of my heart, of my soul…

LiLeach: That is why you need my help. Accept it. Stay with me.

LoIQMan: Lileach, you are so pretty, and I am so thankful… but… it is better I go…

LiLeach: (after he leaves, she has a slight tantrum) Eva… darn Eva!... Now I know why Vicky hates you so much… now I want you dead too…


IW and SB, I see nothing but slime around a bed…

IW: Take it easy..

SB: I am gettin scared of everything going on… my sis sick and now my mommy too..

IW: That is why you have to be strong for the both of them. They are counting on you.

SB: If it was not for having you, I too would be going insane (go ahead, make my day!!)

IW: Don’t say that.

SB: It is the truth, Eva… you are my big relief at this moment.

IW: Ay Leo…

SB: I know you are trying to love me… that gives me hope to withstand everything that is going on… and listen to me… for you I won’t rest… until Dano pays for having killed your dad with jail time…


Eva finds Alicia in living room.. Eva confirms Don J was here… Eva thinks Julio was just trying to scare Cruella, Ali thinks he rather is tired of being ‘the dead man walking’. Eva reminds Ali noone must know he is alive..


SB in bed is thinking he has IW eating out of his palm… better hurry and marry her… before Ali or Dano do anything to put her against me…


Ali asks IW to leave SB… you don’t love him, he is not your happiness… you can’t marry someone out of appreciating what they do for you.. what if he has a lover?


Dano at home thinking of Eva and wondering why he still loves her after all she has done to him, remembers the end of their first escape together (red dress) nighttime by lake/palms. ‘we used to fight as a defense mechanism because we liked each other from the beginning’… I will prove SB killed your dad, don’t know how but I will prove it to you IW.


IW remembering when she asked LoIQM if they had a future, him telling her he would work for that forever… they have no choice but to be happy together…
IW: It couldn’t be… our (love) couldn’t be…



(next morning)… Fran is scrambling around their trashed room for his jacket… Busy wife is sleeping still… he yells at her to see his jacket all wrinkled and wet… she tells him to iron it… he whines … did u marry to have a maid or a wife? … a wife who can help me!!

Wife thinks about it again and promises she will wash and iron it… after she sleeps some more… FF>>


SB finds IW on her way out…tells her he gave mommy a tranquilizer and she feels better. He fakes having told her they have an appointment with priest at the church…

SB uses his best charm talk to convince her, even though she has an appointment at work.


LoIQM and Laurita are having breakfast very sweetly… her usual cereal and his usual stuff… Lau tells LoIQMan the bday was great except Eva was there… can’t forgive her because she had the police accuse him of something really awful. LoIQM is about to talk to her about that when LoonyBimbutt shows up… She looks normal, but LoIQM and Laurita are shellshocked… LoonyBimbutt asks LoIQM that maybe it is time to get Laurita out of the boarding house… Laurita asks her if she really feels good…

LoonyBimbutt keeps putting on the ‘feel much better’ act…


Deborah arrives at Former Misery Manor, Renata congratulates her again on getting back together with the girls… she deserved to have that. Deb tells Renata that maybe Cruella did her good instead of harm by revealing the truth to IW… Renata warns Deb that it might not be a good time to see Cruella because of the nightmares she had last night.


LoIQMan asks Doctor over phone about LoonyBimbutt’s ‘magical recovery’. Doctor wants to see them in his office today… ok… LoIQM convinces LoonyBimButt who keeps claiming she is not sick, she feels very well…


IW and SB are getting speech by priest to think about it very well, a marriage without love is not happy, it is more a sentence… it is easier to prevent the marriage than handle annulments… SB keeps insisting they will soon be husb and wife and will spend the rest of their lives with baby… IW hugs him but is not really convinced…


Deb and Tilde are happy watching Pablito together… Deb will return later, have appt. Tilde thanks her for her forgiveness… Deb says thank you for telling the girls the truth.


LoonyBimButt calls the office and finds out her mom is out sick…


Cruella is having nightmares… Deb walks around the door and comes in in time to hear her ‘I had to do it Monica.. .Pedro knows it, I warned him… so good you are dead… I would kill you both again, time and time again… so good you are dead… the FIRE!! .. THE FIRE!!... my hand! … my hand!!... darn it! … it is your fault I got burned!...

Deb: My God… could that be the reason for the glove? … could it be true what I am thinking? (she takes glove off Marcela and indeed her hand is burned…)


LoonyBimButt arrives to see her mother, Renata at first denies her the entrance by orders not to let her in, after the incident… LoonyBimButt swears she feels better… Renata still reluctant… your mommy is not in shape for visitors… she drank too much last night and swears having seen Don Julio here in the house alive… LoonyBimButt insists and then pushes her way in…


Deb is still with Cruella, thinking she has to find out who were Pedro and Monica and how they died… LoonyBimButt arrives very anxiously, Deb stays with LBB… Deb questions LBB about some Pedro and Monica… LBB tells her those were the names of Daniel’s parents… they died burned in a tragic accident…

Deb thinks: God… She killed them.. that is how she burned her hand!

Deb keeps on questioning Vicky about how Dan lost his parents…

They left the house toward the mountain and the car fell down the hill and exploded… Deb says Cruella seemed to be witnessing the accident in her dream… LBB says that could not be because her mother was out of the city that day…

Deb insists in digging once again (now you are going overboard Deb!! Watch your back from now on!)… are you sure? … yes, that is what they told me, why do you ask?


Fran is having breakfast at NewVille manor… Jackie is sitting with him… he whines about his jacket and how his house/room is a mess/trash bin… Jackie asks if he is happy with Marisol, he changes the subject to compliment the breakfast…

Fran responds faking a happily married man… Jackie is visibly upset but fakes being happy for him. She still offers to fix up his jacket…

Fran: Thank you… how I miss you… / I see that… (he puts a worried face once she walks away)


Marisol/Ali at board house are folding laundry, Marisol tells her about Fran’s whinning but she has other ideas of a future life, not exactly a dedicated full time house wife...

Ali tells her Tony still harasses her sometimes, but more worried about Carlos, scared he will show up again…

Said Carlos is getting hired by Giorgio for the agency…


Fran and Jackie discuss LBB’s ‘recovery’… Fran does not buy the story that easily… Jackie says if she is acting, she has her admiration, doing it very well… Door bell rings, another letter for LBB… Fran wants to open it but Jackie won’t let him, she takes it upstairs and puts it on the dresser for LBB.


At Dr office, Dr is giving LBB a green light… she excuses herself to bathroom but listens behind door as Dr tells LoIQMan that she is improving, slowly will come to her usual self, but still ‘delicate’ have to continue the treatment, but have to keep her as low-stress as possible…


IW has finally made it to Don J’s… his ‘apparition’ caused all kinds of havoc… SB is convinced it was a nightmare of Cruella’s… Julio says it was a risk to let her see him, but he swears to IW that he won’t do it again… IW says she thought he had decided to ‘reappear’ but he says no, its not time for that yet…


Jackie in LBB’s room finds the glass LBB has been drinking off and finds it strange, wonders if LBB has been drinking, but leaves the cup there and leaves…


Julio asks Eva what else is up… she tells him about their mother and the reconciliation. Julio says he always thought Deb was a good woman… IW tells him it was her dad who separated them… she tells him about when she went to Deb’s house and realized it was where her dad was trying to take her to… Julio congratulates her … now, is it true you accused LoIQMan of the accident? IW says it is true, SB brought the cops to the house… he wanted her to make the accusation… IW tells Julio that LoIQMan insists that SB is the one guilty … she tells Julio she hopes both SB and LoIQMan are wrong…


Cruella keeps swearing to SB that she did see Julio last night… SB leaves her alone after he brought her her dinner… Did Renata tell you LBB came to see you? Cruella is still very mad at LBB for sleeping with Bruno… SB says ok, LBB was stupid but she learned her lesson… promise me you will let her see you.

Once SB leaves Cruella alone, she keeps telling herself ‘no, I was not so drunk last night, nor do I believe that silly story from Renata that Julio’s ghost walks around… I don’t believe in ghosts… I saw him! .. I am sure!! He talked to me!!... he is alive… and I am not crazy!!... there is only one way to confirm it… (she calls her lawyer to find out what steps need to be taken to ‘exumacion de un cadaver’ (open up) Julio’s dead body.


Ali questions IW why she went to the church with SB… IW says why you insists that I not marry SB?? There must be something else, please tell me. Ali keeps giving her the excuse that IW does not love SB… IW insists SB is a good man and loves her and loves the baby, they will be happy, promise…


LBB in her room talks to herself ‘you are great, LoIQM will never be able to get rid of you.. the next step is to get him to love you again…’ (she sees the note that Jackie left on the dresser, gets mad, wrinkles it into a ball and throws it around…)



Previews show that:

Ali apparently confessing to Eva she loves Leo…

LiLeach warning Vicky that if she doesn’t kill Eva, Eva will keep Dano…

Deb running into Julio, Julio calls Eva worried Deb might talk… Eva tells Deb Cruella was killing Julio, Deb tells Eva about Cruella’s other victims… Pedro and Monica Villanueva, Dano’s parents…

We see Cruella finding out from LBB that Deb heard her nightmare, and later thinking she will have to return the visit to Deb (watch out Deb!!)

thanks,
marta

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