Caray, Caray!

This recap is by Marta

Julio tells Vicky Justa is her mother… Vicky is frozen in shock

Eva and Deborah on Alicia’s bed, Eva has a gift for baby. Deborah says its his first gift. Alicia says not quite, Tony gave him his first gift… and has been very nice to Alicia ever since she told him she was pregnant. Eva and Deborah look at each other wondering whats up with Tony.

Bimb: No!!, it an’t be her!! (to Justa) No, you cannot be my mother!!
Jus: I am your mother, dear daughter, You are my baby, my ninita!! I did not know it until today.
Bim: No!! I cannot be her daughter!! I don’t want to be her daughter!!
Jus: Don’t tell me that please!!
Bim: You are Eva’s friend!! You can’t be anything of mine! This is a joke from fate!! Fate canot do that to me!! IT can’t!!

(Bim runs out, Justa faints on Julio’s arms)

Kids and Jackie are ready to leave…

Eva and Deb.. Eva tells Deb about her chat with Detective Varela about Jojo’s suspicion about Marcela killing Bruno and Rosaura…

Julio wakes Justa up with some cloth… Justa whines/mopes about Bimb not accepting her… Justa is worried about Bimb’s attitude, she just ran away… Julio says it was a very impactful moment for her… give it time… Justa very scared…

Bimb in car remembering when Leo rejected and treated her bad… since he saw how stupid she behaved with Dano, her crazy actions, he never cared what happened to her anymore, especially when he learned she wasn’t even his sister, he cared about her even less…

Then she remembers Marce’s words, my daughter would have fulfilled my plan, would have done anything necessary to get rid of Eva, my daughter would not have hessitated to pull the trigger, would not have failed me,… you are nothing of mine… you are nothing but a bastard child, product of an affair of your father with an ordinary office worker…

Bimb: This can’t be happening to me!!

Deb and Eva… Deb congratulates Eva on tellin the detective… Eva is surprised, what other things has she done that we don’t know?… Deb says you pay for everything in this life… they are sure Marce will spend the rest of her life in jail… Eva says there is something else… tells Deb it is certain that Dano and Lileach are together… maybe its for the better, so I won’t keep hoping… Deb guesses correctly that Eva still loves him… Deb tells Eva that if she still loves Dano she should not marry Leo, have to end that engagement.


Vicky keeps speeding through town and police begin pursuing her…

Cruella and Gallo… he has his charm mode on… he tells her the plan is in place already. Will be a bit complicated, she doesn’t care… Gallo gives her the details, Marce gets excited… there are risks… Cruella says she will do her part, make sure your folks do theirs… Gallo says you sound very sure of getting out… Marce says yes, I want to get out to take revenge on all those who have betrayed me…

Vicky still on road, yelling nonesense…
Bimb: Nooo!! They will lock me in the nuthouse!! No, God, NOOO!!

Driving the cars go on a sandy road, perhaps toward beach… a truck is coming… seems Vicky crashes against the truck… yup, she is flat on ground, bleeding…

(we have an after-show. Commercial… Monday starting at 7pm…)

Eva and Deb… Eva tells mom have thought about it several times but it is not fair with him, he has shown me he loves me and the kid… in time she will learn to love him. Deb insists Eva has to give herself the chance to change her mind… isn’t it true that the hurdle to marry Dano was that you discovered he had run over your dad? Isn’t it true too that Dano insists he will prove his innocence, then give him time to do it!!… Eva insists that too many things have happened, can’t believe in him… Deb insists…

Renata runs out crying, Eva asks what is going on, but Renata won’t stop… Eva tells Deb in the whole time have known Renata, have never seen her cry… must be something really serious.

Ambulance takes Vicky, seems car banged up against huge boulders on road side…

Kids have taken Jackie to some outdoor restaurant, perhaps the one Dano took Eva too, the night before they split… Fran is sitting around watching and signaling the kids…

Eva comes to Renata’s room to ask what is going on… why are you crying..

Deb is caressing Alicia, who could be the baby’s dad for you to be so afraid to say it?

Gallo and Leo meet… what can I do for you? Need you to find Tony… tonight he has a job… don’t want to deal directly with him. Gallo asks why. Leo says Tony is still mad at him for stealing his girl. Gallo laughs… Leo says for now all that he cares about is for Tony to do his job… can only stand him because you (Gallo) protect him… gives him the address and keys… when he does the job, you call me…

Kids show Jackie that Fran is out there… Fran tries to put on the charm complimenting Jackie on her looks, she gets ironic saying she looks just like always, but thank you. Lets leave him alone, must be waiting for ‘su amor’… kids pull on Jackie to go meet up with Fran… it is a small world after all… Adr says ‘if we had planned it it would not come out so well’… Fran smirks to stop him from spilling more …

Kids try to excuse themselves, but Jackie pulls them back.. they try again… Fran won’t let Jackie follow them… Don’t have to get another table, we all fit here…

Jackie asks aren’t you waiting for your great love?

Fran: That is just what I want, because my great love, Jackie… has just arrived.

Jackie: that can’t be true.

Fran: It is true, the woman I love is you… I was so stubborn not to see that I had happiness so close..

Jackie: Stop lying are you crazy??

Fran: Crazy I was before! It is Not a lie… the kids knew it… my heart told me every day… in each meal plate (LOL!!), in each stare… I only want to grow old with you, have our kids, to treat you right… you are the woman of my live… (kiss), kids are observing from far, celebrating…


Renata tells Eva she just confessed to Julio and Justa what she had done in the past.

(spills the truth to Eva too… Eva totally oblivious then is very impactada and then worried about Renata)

Eva is in disbelief… Renata says Julio is right, there is no justification of forgiveness.

Eva: I always thought there was something in your past that did not let you live in peace, that made you a bitter and rencour filled woman.. but I never imagined it was something like this!

Renata: I am so ashamed of what I did, not only with my sister but also with you. Ever since you arrived at this house I treated you bad and unfairly… because I did not want you to be close to Julio, I envied you, I was jealous of you… You won his love and that way you were pulling him further apart from me..

Eva: Do you realize that with your sick love you destroyed not only your life but others?

Renata: You are right, and now I want to appoligize to you… please forgive me.. for all the harm I did to you and the harm I tried to do to you…

Eva: All is forgiven… now we have to ask God to forgive you for all you have done… and that will happen.. have faith…

Jackie slaps Fran… she does not believe him… so he shouts to all in the restaurant (just like Dano did a while back) that this woman is the prettiest and the woman of his life… Jackie tells them not to believe him, that he is a liar, that he had told her he loved her as a sister… he insists he was confused then and he wants to love her now… he finally understands what is to love a woman and to give yourself to a woman…

Jackie won’t let him hurt her again… Fran cannot convince her… Jackie leaves before they can stop her… Fran is depressed … tells the kids everything went wrong…

Justa gets home… Ricardo was worried… are you alright? Where were you?
Justa: I was at Julio’s house…
R: Why? What were you doing there?
J: To talk to him.
R: I don’t get it, you had told me you and Julio had nothing to talk about anymore.
Justa tells him what Renata came to confess to her something she never imagined…

Julio is meeting with detective… the detective tells him what happened with the car… sorry to tell you she is at the hospital… in critical condition…

Ricardo cannot believe it… Victoria is my daughter, the one I had with Julio! That is why I went to see him. While I was there Vic arrived. It was terrible. She rejected me. She yelled at me.

Tony is reporting to Gallo… Gallo gives him the address… again another delivery job.
Tony insists he wants to get out of the business.. Gallo warns him Leo wants him dead and he is alive still only because Gallo is protecting him.

Julio goes to get Justa, Vicky had a critical accident… Ricardo tells Justa to go with Julio he will stay to wait for Adrian.…

Leo and Lileach meet at an outdoor café… Lileach still warns him Eva still loves Dano. You just take care of trapping Dano more… Lileach has to make Dano believe they really made love and that she had nothing to do with Eva going there… she has another card to play… somewhat risky but necessary.

Gallo calls Leo, Tony is on his way to the job… Leo asks Gallo if everything is ready for tonight, want Tony dead… make it seem like the deal failed…

Dano alone on his couch remembering waking up in bed with Lileach… being confused with no memory fo what happened after he arrived tired… and then remembers confronting Lileach about this being a plan… Lileach responding offended and hurt… if you believe it, then kick me out… Dano asks himself if it could be that Lileach is lying to him? At that moment Lileach comes to tell him she has to talk to him…

Jackie is remembering Fran’s words… still thinking it is another one of his lies… Fran comes to try again… she is still stubborn… it is time for our friendship to be over… (kiss)

At hospital Justa tells Julio God has to save our daughter…

Doctor comes to tell them Vicky is still clinging to live, even though she didn’t even have the seatbelt on… not certain she will survive, they stopped the internal bleeding in surgery but her head contussion is still dangerous.

Julio asks the Doctor to be honest. Vicky is in coma.

Leo and Eva at the house…
Leo: its time to agree on the date of our wedding… I cannot wait any longer… I want you to be my wife… love you… (he is about to kiss her when we go to t-mobile commercial about the niece telling her aunt about the novela) After commercial Eva pulls away…
E: Leo, I was not expecting to talk about this now.
L: My mom’s trial is over. Things are settled now… My love, no reason to postpone it. Look at me. You asked me for time and I gave it to you. What is wrong now?
E: You took me by surprise.
L: Ok, but you cannot deny that it is time to put a date on it. I propose that you let me set the date.

D: From your face, I would say this is serious..
L: Yes it is. I have not stopped thinking of what we talked at the office…
D: me either.
L: It really affected me that you could think that I planned for Eva to see us together. That is why I have decided something… to leave your house… (turning the angle so she looks like the victim/weaklin) I really would not want to because I have nowhere to go but unless you ask me otherwise, I will leave tonight…

Eva is very uneasy but allows Leo to set the date… in a week…
E: Leonardo…
L: Thank you, Eva! Thank you! You make me the happiest man on the face of the earth!
Renata comes running to tell them Vicky had an accident and is in coma…

Jackie is making Fran follow her around house, grabs a huge pepper grinder and threatens to hit him… Won’t let him hurt her again. Fran tells her he loves her and he knows she loves him too… she finally admits it… If I love you and you love me… what is the problem? … Jackie is still having a hard time to believe him… but when he leaves the kitchen, she is confused.

D: NO, Liliana, you don’t have to leave.
L: Thank you.
D: What I want you to have very clear, is that I love Eva.
L: I know, but I want to remind you is that she believes you killed her father and she is accusing you of her dad’s death… she will take you to trial, and will marry Leonardo.
D: We will see about that…

(Julio calls Dano to let him know about Vicky’s accident, Dano impactado)

Leo: Poor Vicky, hopefully she will make it. Eva I have to go to hospital. I know she tried to hurt you but she is my sister and I feel I need to be by her side.
Eva: In moments like this, the past doesn’t matter.
Leo: You are right, and that is why I will dare ask you to come with me.

Tony and Ricardo… Tony totally surprised Vicky is Justa’s daughter. Ricardo tells Tony he no longer is afraid that he might lose Justa. Now he just feels happiness that she finally recovered her daughter. Have prayed to prevent her the pain of losing her daughter again. Tony is also happy for Justa recovering her daughter.

Julio and teary bug-eye are praying at hospital chapel… for Vicky…
Justa: Now that I have her back that I know she is not dead as I believed, you can’t take her away from me. Save her please!!
Jul: Lord, I know my daughter has made many mistakes, but I beg you to give her another chance, to let her pay for her sins and give her another chance to realign her life. Don’t take her from Justa now that you finally returned her to her. And please guide me so that from now on I will be the father that Vicky needs.

Tony offers to stay and watch Adrian so Ricardo can go to hospital… But Ricardo says go do your job… They hug and say take care. (I have a bad feeling about this ‘goodbye’)

Renata tells Tia Matilde that what is happening to Vicky is not her own fault, it is the product of a scruples-less mother and my own evil… Tia Matilde is interested in more details. Renata says better you hear it from me. Vicky is daughter of Justa and Don Julio.

Leo and Eva join Justa and Julio at hospital. Julio tells them unfortunately Vicky is in coma, and tells them about the accident while Vicky was running from the police. Julio tells Leo that Justa is Vicky’s real mother.. Leo very impactado.

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I'll start things off with Capitulo 192: Two, two, two chicas in one

Last night we left our galan asking bitchy Mari can’t they just go back to being friends?

Tonight she’s in a better mood and responds Sure, she’ll always care for him. Smiles, tears and hugs.

That’s it for our two seconds of pleasantries because over at the Animal Farm the masked menagerie is getting out of control. Not only are they loudly calling each other by their first names but they are disagreeing on how to handle Netty (who is currently out cold but could wake up at any moment). In the midst of the cacophony St. Bernardo thought bubbles that Jose Maria spent 27 years in prison for a crime that he, Bernardo, committed. He lost his love, never knew his son, so no way will he let Kitty kill Netty. He tries to reason with Fedra that 1) she is the primary suspect so will likely end up in jail for murder and 2) Mari and Vicky will pay everything they own for ransom so Netty is worth more to them dead than alive. Doesn’t she want her property back? Kitty’s not biting, the actress stole her machos and she’s gotta die. Low protests that he’s Fedra’s only macho and the St. Bernardo insists he’s a pit bull, not just any dog. OK that’s fine but where is the rat in all this?

We get a brief respite courtesy of the two fresas who are griping about Eman hanging out at the pension and going after not one but two chicks. Kristel warns that Iliita had better be careful or she’ll wind up alone. “Like you?” needles Ilitia.

Mau the Ratface is still at the hideout and it looks like Dandy is delivering lunch. We find out that Mau’s secret priapistic weapon is Coctel de Mariscos which helps maintain a rapey snake’s virility you see. He’s got very particular plans for Netty in that regard, revenge for all the wrong that the RydTs and their friends have done to him. I notice Dandy didn’t bring breath mints; poor Netty.

The debate rages inside the bowels of the Animal Farm. Low finally manages to calm the furious feline with the suggestion that a slow, torturous death is preferable to a quick one, not to mention that Netty is the tool for controlling Mari and Vicky. Good enough for the lioness, she’s on board and dashes out for some personal business tossing a quick “Go to hell!” to Mauricio in passing.

Low warns Bernardo don’t even think of betraying Fedra and he makes his exit, instructing Mauricio not to let Netty out of his sight. Ningun problema promises Mau, slurping his shrimp Viagra.

Low gets a phone call from Mayela who demands to speak to him ASAP. She’s got a serious problem and he’s the only one who can help. If he doesn’t agree to meet her tonight then she’ll tell Muñeca and Ilitia who she really is. He grumbles but agrees. Mau overhears Low and instructs Dandy to follow Lowrenzo to get the dirt because Mau still wants to become the Patrón of everything.

Ilitia reassures Kristel that she’s got what it takes to be the #1 Super Fashion Super Cool Top Model of the world and when she is she’ll never be lonely again. Every man on earth will throw themselves at her feet. Kristel’s all “What are we waiting for? Let’s go see Mayela right now!”

Emiliano is hanging out at the pension kvetching to Gladiola that this mess is all his fault for putting Netty in a vulnerable position. (Yep, true.) He apologizes ad nauseum (and they left it all in!) to Gladi, to Mari, to Emanuel and now he wants to apologize to Victoria. Uh, she’s got a headache, lies Mari. Eman volunteers to get her and when Mari jumps up in a panic he eyes her suspiciously. Gladi also jumps up, “no people in the rooms”. Emi scoffs and orders Eman to run upstairs this very minute.

Eman is halfway upstairs when he changes his mind (or decides to give Mari an out). He sez Vicky’s such a crank he doesn’t want to bother her, better her best friend go up, ya think? Emiliano asks why they are all acting so weird, he himself will go get Vicky. “No no no!” they all yell. Gladi will get her headache remedy and Mari will go upstairs. Emiliano’s little hamster wants to run but it just can’t find the wheel.

Netty wakes up and realizes she’s in the doghouse. I wonder, did she hear Bernardo whispering that he wouldn’t allow Fedra to kill her? “Please Mr. Dog,” she pleads, “get me out of here, I didn’t see your faces. Please Mr. Dog, Mr. Dog? Bowow?”

Comisario Tejeda’s got Jose Maria in interrogation and wants to know about JMS’s connection to El Lirio de Plata, the thief who bears the same name as JMS’s boat. JM speaks in bullet points: 1) Dunno the thief, I was in the hospital with a heart attack; 2) I’m in love with Netty and I know you like her too; 3) Netty’s life is in danger and you should be spending your time trying to find her, not questioning me.

Nearby in her lonely cell Doris, fake flesh clinging to her face, weeps for Andres. In his own cell Andres, also looking like a flesh-rotting zombie, recalls Gladi’s words, if he loves Doris he’ll leave her alone and let her live a normal life. Yeah, what she says, adds flashback Brandon.

Aha, I knew Jacqui was a zombie! She’s also got fake body parts and doesn’t notice that Andres’ face appears to be melting. She’s paid his bail, Doris is back with her brother (lie!) and Andres should leave with her. Friends, OK? Let’s go to your house.

It’s nighttime at La Mala Noche and the leather-clad avenging duo of Oliver and Gretel has arrived. Gretel assures Oli that this is the place where Fedra transacts all her dirty business. After a brief discussion about the memories, pros and cons of Gretel being La Reina de la Luna they bust in on Fedra drinking champagne in her dressing room. “Drunk again!” accuses Gretel. “Tell us where you have Netty Pavon!” demands Oliver. I’m not sure but I think Fedra tells them she made mole out of her.

Lowrenzo, wearing his real pig face, not the pink one, arrives at Mayela’s in a snit because his time is precious. He warns her not to use the truth of Ilitia’s birth against him because she doesn’t know what he’s capable of. Uh, yes she does, she remembers her model Begonia who got pregnant to trap Low and then poof, she disappeared.

A breathless Vicky runs downstairs, apparently poor Mari is upstairs resting from her mad dash to get Vicky. Emi is suspicious, poor little hamster, and Eman tortures Vicky by pretending to run upstairs. He twists the knife by gloating that he and Mari made up.

Gretel insults Fedra (Cualquiera!), Fedra throws champagne in Gretels face and vows she doesn’t know where stupid Netty is. “Are you sure Fedra?” demands a just-arrived Jose Maria, “you know nothing about the woman I love?” Big eye roll from Fedra. This is NOT how she likes to warm up for her nightly chair dance.

The shrimp-breathed rapey snake excuses Bernardo from guard duty so he can have some alone time with the lovely victim. He smells her (again with the smelling!) and unbuttons his shirt. Yikes!

Mayela gripes that she’s got no contracts and she’s about to lose her business, her life, she needs money. Kristel and Ilitia walk into the apartment just in time to hear Lowrenzo yell “It’s just money you want? I paid you for many years to make sure that neither Muñeca nor Ilitia ever knew the name of Ilitia’s real mother. I won’t do it again.”

Oopsie! Low and Mayela notice the top model and wannabe, get tongue-tied, and Low demands to know what they heard. Ilitia’s about to blow it but Kristel butts in, “Zero minus zero is what we heard. We just got here, why what did you say?” The fresas quickly add that they want Mayela to turn Kristel into the next top model. Great idea, gushes Lowrenzo. Sorry, the agency is having money problems, corrects Mayela. No worries see me in the morning and I’ll inject some money into the biz promises Lowman. After he leaves Ilitia says she’s all for discussing Kristel as top model but first she wants to talk about her mother. Yep she heard, who is the woman?

Eman and Vicky: She tells him he’s not important to her and he goes all sarcastically bratty (I love it!), pretends to cry boo hoo, but that’s OK because he doesn’t care about her either, nyahhh. He’s decided Mari always was and always will be the love of his life, so there. Vicky’s one expression is mad, or maybe bored, but probably not glad. After some more he said she said she finally succeeds in pushing him out the door. Vicki mumbles something about “I don’t know your name but I remember you well, El Lirio de Plata.” Hey folks, I don’t write this crap, I just report it.

Fedra is loaded and denies all knowledge of that low-life Netty. Oli and Gretel stumble out of the room amid emptry threats and in frustration. After the young’uns leave JMS grabs a wobbly Fedra and threatens she WILL tell him where Netty is.

Gross, the rapey snape starts fondling blindfolded Netty. She begs him not to touch her as he replaces his mask and approaches his prey.

A dreadful ending, or would be if we didn’t have part two at our fingertips.

Take it away Kristoise:

Capitulo 193: Scenes have been merged/reorganized into 3 main plotlines

The short version
1) Low paid Mayela to keep the identity of Ilitia’s mom secret; Ilitia used to care, but now she realizes Muneca is all she needs. And our two fresas are going to start their own modeling agency, so take that, Mayela!
2) Doris and Andre are shacked up even though everyone but Doris realizes that she is better off without him.
3) The meat in this plot sandwich: Netty is rescued by a) Dandy, who accidentally
food poisons the rapey snake, b) Chema, who has been tipped off by Bernardo; and c) Emiliano, who has followed Chema. Emil gets a clue that Fedra is not who he thinks she is (but don’t worry, clues are like water off a duck’ s back for him). Fedra pulls a doozy of a guilt trip on Eman for thinking she kidnapped Netty; they reconcile.

Now, the long version:
ORIGENS: ILITIA
Mayela’s apt:
Ilitia wants Mayela to tell her who her verdadera madre is, but she ain’t sayin. Kristel interrupts (“ stop it!”) to chastise Illy for being so selfish as to take over the meeting that is supposed to be about launching her super top model career just so that she can find out who actually gave birth to her. (Maybe that’s why she said gynelogical instead of genealogical?) Ilitia powers on, though, as Kristel sits back and sulks. Mayela has no info for Illy. Her birth mother left years and years ago, current whereabouts unknown. So why drag this up now? Better to just leave it be. Illy ain’t buying it. For some strange reason, she just wants to know who her mother is.

Illy gives Mayela one more chance to reveal her mother’s name, and then threatens to withhold Low’s money from the modeling agency until the truth is revealed (can she do that?). Mayela points out that Illy works there, so that’s a bit short sighted. Clearly Mayela has never paid much attention to how Illy thinks. Kristel, however, knows exactly how short sighted Illy is, and pulls her aside to remind her super amiga that Kristel needs the agency for her own career. Illy’s not worried though, they will just take daddy’ s money and start their own super top model agency and what’ s more, Illy will personally manage Kristel’s career. Now those are two up and coming young businesswomen that I would feel safe investing in. With much swishing of hair, the dynamic duo flouncily flounces out of Mayela’s apartment.

Next day, Chez Muneca:
Ilitia, in a surprisingly mature moment, tells Muneca that she has a right to know who her real mom is. Muneca recounts her tale: she was unable to conceive, Low knocked up this girl who didn’t want a baby. But M doesn’t know her name, just that she was really young (15 anos! even for Low, that’s low), and had to leave the agency. So, Illy was god’s gift to M. Illy very sweetly tells M that she always wanted to be like her, and they have some hugs. This is why you just can’t hate Ilitia.

Muneca says that she is Illy’s mom, even if she didn’t incubate her for 9 months.
Illy agrees and says she doesn’t even want to know who her real mom is, Muneca is
all she needs. They are so happy. ‘But out of curiosity’ , says M, ‘why the sudden
interest?’ ‘Well’ , says Illy, ‘ I overheard Mayela and dad talking about how he had paid her not to tell you or me who my real mom is. But whatevs, I don’t care anymore’. It looks like Muneca might still care.

AGAINST ALL ODDS: The Doris and Andre version
Back at the pension, an oddly cheerful Brandon assures Mari and Gladiola that Netty is sure to be found soon, no need to worry. Right, because those coppers always get their man. Except for the lirio, fedra, bernardo, garduno, low, mal. Am I forgetting anyone? Well, Brandon does point out in his defense, that they have caught that well-known serial vacationist Doris, who was locked up overnight for attempted romantic getaway in the first degree. Que? ‘You can’ t do that’ says Mari. Glad explains that they are just worried about Doris taking up with that walking virus ese. Mari counters that it is one thing to worry and another to put her in jail. By the authority vested in Mari Vick, Brandon is ordered to release Doris so that she can come home and worry about her madrina with everyone else. ‘Don’ t worry; I already released her’ sez Brandon.

Breakfast Chez Andre:
Andre is sad. Jacqui is mad that Andre is not appreciating her for paying his fine and making him breakfast. Plus he gave her HIV, in case he forgot. Doris bursts in and says she is nunca! going back to the pension with her stupid brother.

Doris and Andre discuss their relationship and how everyone thinks they shouldn’t be
together because they can’t have a future. Jacqui agrees. And so does Andre, because he luuurrves her too much. Doris is the lone holdout because of her grand amor. Their sappy declarations push Jacqui over the vomit edge, and she takes off with a ‘don’t come looking for me when she dumps your sorry a$$” . More sweet talk where Andre tries to be noble but his resolve is weak and Doris won’t take no for an answer. They will be juntos and happy. But seriously, folks, Doris is still sporting the faux-hunchback of her vieja costume.

Later, Chez Andre: Doris is settling into Andre’s place and Andre is treating Doris like a queen, fixing her meals, buying things girls like, like shampoo. And he is caballero enough to sleep on the couch as well. He has never has such a loving relationship before, and he wants her to be super comfy and at home, and he wants to do everything to make her happy. Doris notes how much Andre has changed (and I wonder if she'll still like him, since, yes, he is basically a completely different person now). They are sweet nothing-ing again, and, although I am happy for Doris, I am with Jacqui on the asco. And now we are well into the next day and Doris is still wearing the fake hunchback.

THE MAIN EVENT: NOT WITHOUT MY NETTY
Criminal lair:
A blindfolded and bound Netty is begging Malicio not to touch/hurt her. After sliming
on her a bit, Mal masks up, tells her to shut up and is describing what fun they are going to have when Mal starts itching like mad. Netty points out that he’s breaking out in hives and he should go to the hospital. The dodgy street mariscos? Nope, it’s good ol’ San Antonio (bendito) putting in some OT for his most loyal gal.

La mala noche:
Chema is all up in Fedra’s seriously sloshed face. She manages to slur that she doesn’t have Netty, “get it through your thick skull, yo!” And furthermore, she doesn’t care if Chema loves her, or who Netty marries or whatever. Chema ain’t buying it. Fedra slinks away to demonstrate that Netty’s got nothing on her assets, but Chema disagrees, says that a woman as beautiful and noble as Netty can’t even be compared with a hussy like her, which brings us to today’s coup de grace—Fedra throws her drink in Chema’s face only to discover that she already drank it all. Whoopsy.

Chema again demands to know where Netty is. Fedra pleads ignorance, but refills her drink and invites Chema to stay and have a look around, presumably hoping he’ll check under her dressing gown.

The next morning at the pension, Gretel and Oliver are telling Emil that they found
Fedra, but she denied knowing where Netty is. Por supuesto. I mean, did they really
think she would just fess up? Emil can’t take it anymore and has a bit of a hissy fit. Mari comes in to calm him down. Brandon and Oliver head off to work and Olli promises to find Netty. Emil, Gretel, and Mari discuss how surely Fedra has Netty and is a woman with no limits and they shudder to think what she might be up to. Emil says it is time for them to share with him the dirt that they have on Fedra.

Gretel agrees with Emil, they should tell him all they know, that he is married to a
woman who doesn’t exist. Como? Emil is shocked. Mari says she will tell all. But of
course, she has to wait just one quick minute. The flashiest of flashes, if you will. First she has to go get the papers from her room, and needs Gretel to help with those heavy papers.

Up in MV’s room, Mari and Gretel debate telling Emil all about Fedra/Juana Felipa. Pro: he can marry Netty right away, as his marriage is a sham. Con: he’ll find out that his wife was a prostitute and Eman isn’t his son. Que lastima. The pros have it.

Bernardo has called Chema from a payphone and Chema with the 411 on Netty. B
unburdens his guilt for ruining Chema’s life, what with the 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit and all. But he won’t be responsible for him losing the woman he loves again. B wants Chema to rescue Netty to win her affection away from Emil. He’ll tell him where she is, but Chema has to promise never to tell Eman that he’s his verdadero padre. Chema’s like ‘sure whatever’ and writes down an address as Emil peeps around the corner.

Mari and Gretel come back downstairs to find Gladiola there, but Chema and Emil both gone. Obvio, they must have found out where Netty is and gone to fetch her. Really? That’s the only reason you can think of that they aren’t in your immediate range of vision? Everyone prays.

Criminal lair:
Mal yells at Dandy about the dodgy mariscos. He spent the night sick in the hospital (I have to admit, I smiled at his description of his pain). Dandy makes up for the food poisoning with the juicy gossip about where Low went last night—to Mayela’s and Illy and Kristel were there too. Mal is stoked to potentially have some dirt on low. Bernardo arrives all in a state and whips the gang up, something about having to move Netty right away.

Chema appears as they are moving Netty, but Emil has beaten him there. Everyone has guns, and the bad guys are in masks. I think Mal shoots at Chema, and B knocks out Dandy. We have a standoff, Chema vs Mal and Emil vs B, which is a better position, hero-wise, because B has Netty. Emil grabs Netty and the good guys all back out of the lair, Chema clutching his chest as he powers through his latest heart attack.

Chez RYT: Dee is heading out and Axhole wants to know where she’s going. Dee
awesomely reminds him that they are DI-VORCED and she doesn’t have to tell him
nada. He humbles himself and asks nicely and she says she’s going over to the pension. He wants to go with, but she ain’t havin it. Good for you, Dee; stay strong. Eman comes in as Dee leaves, and the fellas commiserate, then decide to head to Low’s to see if they can find Fedra and get some info on Netty's dondeabouts

Speaking of the departamento de soltero, Fedra is cranky when she’ s hungover, snapping at both Nereida and Low over breakfast. Fedra gets a little of her mojo back by planning her tortures for Netty, but Low is sick and tired of the whole kidnapping business.

Axhole and Eman come in and demand that Fedra tell them where Netty is. I think F
suggests she’s off getting plastic surgery. But really, what does she care about Netty? She loves Low and Emil loves Netty, and they are both just going their separate ways. She admits that she is going to fight for some cash in the divorce, but that is only fair. It’s Emil that’s playing dirty by signing over his fortune to Netty. Fedra only wants her fair share from a long marriage. Eman counters that she played dirty (if he only knew) with her long affair with ese imbecil (another gem as Fedra assures Low that he isn’t an imbecile). Argument interruptus as Eman’s phone rings with the news from Emil that they have rescued Netty. Axhole runs out to spread the news.

At the pension: Vicky gets ready for her 2nd hearing for the most frivolous lawsuit ever as Glad receives a call telling them of Netty’ s rescue. Gracias a dios and good feelings all around. Axhole arrives with the news and gets some well-deserved sass from Dee about how they already know, but then she gives him an undeserved smile. We an only hope that the smile was for us and no the Axhole.

The lady herself arrives with her 2 rescuers in tow to much cheering. Of course, they will not be taking this up further with the police, as this is a telenovela and everyone would rather just forget about it now that we have other plotlines to move onto. Plotlines like the most frivolous lawsuit ever, which is where half the gang heads. As Netty and her rescuers settle in a bit, neither she nor Chema want to go to a doctor despite his apparent heart attack, and her being held hostage overnight. Chema is really grasping at straws by pointing out that they have that in common. Oy vey.

Back to Low’s former bachelor pad: Eman has stayed behind to apologize to his mom for thinking she had kidnapped Netty. In a truly virtuoso performance by our dear villainess, Fedra turns it all around. She isn’t going to let him get away with an easy ‘disculpa me’ and let bygones be bygones. Oh no. Here’s the gist of her guilt trip:
“How could you treat me this way, when I have done everything for you? Even though you were a result of Chema raping me, and most women would reject that child. But I, on the other hand, loved you even more because I was so alone (after Chema killed and burned her parents, natch) that having you was the only thing I had to get over the horror of what happened to me. And this is why I have always loved you more than your siblings, because you brought me back to life. I never told you the truth to protect you. But now you know everything,. Now go and celebrate Netty’s return with your dad and everyone else that she is taking away from me. Just leave me here alone to cry into my whiskey.” (ok, she didn’t say whiskey, but I made an educated guess)

At this point, Eman forgets to check if his mother’s lips were moving, so he doesn’t
realize that she may, just possibly, be lying. And to be fair, his little hamster has been doing an awful lot of work these days figuring out the whole Mari/Vick thing, so he probably is taking some time off. In any event, the man actually gets down on his knees and begs Fedra’s forgiveness. Seriously. On. His. Knees.

They make promises to each other: he will never abandon her again; he forgives her for keeping the secrets she did in the past and she swear that she has no more secrets (!!!) from him. She just wants to be a better person so that he will be proud of her (awww). They love each other sooooo much. Low comes in and tries to horn in on the love fest. Fedra knows that Low will stick his foot in it, so she ushers Eman out, trying to be gracious about Netty and la gordita. Low outwits her though, and manages to get in an awkward, ‘I love you too, hijo, I mean, Emanuel, I mean….’ as a puzzled Eman is leaving and a visibly annoyed Fedra looks on. As soon as the door shuts, Fedra drops the tears and relishes her triumph, “ didn’t I tell you I would have him on his knees asking my forgiveness?! I’ve got my son back where I want him, right in the palm of my hand. Bwahh-hahaha!”

Avances: Emil quizzes Chema about his mystery phone call; Low gets involved in the
most frivolous lawsuit ever.

Folks, after doing this, my appreciation for these awesome recappers increased mil ocho mil veces. They truly rock.



Dichos (from Sylvia):
I didn't have time to keep track of any good vocab but when I was in Mexico a few weeks ago I got some cool "dicho" mints, after dinner mints with a dicho or frase on the wrapper. Here are a couple that I thought might be appropriate to our show:

Los buenos recuerdos duran mucho tiempo, los malos más = good memories last a long time, but bad ones last longer.

El que se va a la villa, pierde su silla = Don’t change horses in the middle of the stream, or maybe it’s If you snooze you lose. (Lit. he who leaves the manor loses his seat)

UPDATE: Here's one from JudyB:
Del árbol caido hacen leña = everybody jumps on you when you're down (lit. everybody makes firewood out of a fallen tree fig)

Labels: llena

Capitulo 287.
Read Alma’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Lety gazes at Fern when he’s not looking. Aldo asks her to go along to Puerto Vallarta to see a man about a boat. Lety is too busy and can’t go, so he’ll go alone. Aldo says it seems like Lety doesn’t care about the wedding.

2. Even Luigi is starting to warm up to Lety. Tom tells Lety that Julieta told Aldo to get lost. Lety tells the cuartel what her mama did, and several of them think maybe mama knows best.

3. Fern asks MamaJ what she told Aldo. She says, “I asked him not to marry Lety. Lety told me what she was doing with Aurora.. Oopsie!” She will say this much: “Abra bien los ojos (open your eyes well)!” Erasmo asks what Fern wanted. MamaJ says, “He came looking for hope. I hope he found it.”

4. Fern finds the note Lety started for Aldo, and he realizes the handwriting is the same as Aurora’s note to him. Then he decides that his longing for Lety is making him crazy.

5. Omar asks Saimon how he can show Caro he loves her (other than doing what everyone else told him). Omar asks Tom how he can win Caro. Tom says he needs to make a sacrifice for her. (Lock up your chickens tonight, folks!)


6. Ali intentionally breaks Lola’s glasses. Tom takes her car keys and tells her she’ll get them back after Tom meets her father.

7. Fern uses both his phones to call Lety and Aurora, then he peeks through the door and sees Lety answer both. He’s thrilled that he figured it out, but then he asks himself why she does it, and why she’s hiding it, making fools of everyone.

8. Fern asks MamaJ why. She says at first it was to teach Omar a lesson. He realizes that Lety is keeping the secret because Aldo would be furious if he knew Lety made Omar fall in love with Aurora. Ergo Lety must love Aldo if she does all this to protect their relationship.

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Capitulo 288.
Read Julie’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. See the transcript. Fern tells Julieta that he won’t tell Lety nor anyone else that Lety is Aurora. He’s willing to lose absolutely everything so Lety can be happy with Aldo. Lety enters just in time to hear Mama say, “I would be so happy if Lety ended up marrying you.” Lety is furious. She says, “I get it. You two joined forces to separate me from Aldo.” Lety forgives MamaJ but tells her she needs to manage her personal life herself.

2. Tom removes the bedroom door so Ali can’t lock him out. She realizes that the only way to distract Tom from visiting her father is to give him something he likes better. She throws her clothes out from behind the screen and tells him to prepare for his gran noche. She sits on the bed and says, “It’s now or never.” He takes a flying leap for the bed. But then she says no. Tom decides “yes.” Afterwards, she gets her car keys back from him, and sweet talks him into making quesadillas. She says it’s too late to visit her papa, and “next time you should think more carefully.”

3. Lety tells Pop that Aldo went to PV to arrange a yacht on which to get married. Pop scolds Lety for making Aldo arrange everything, and for leaving him alone too much. When a man is ignored too much, he’s capable of behaving stupidly. Mama agrees that Lety needs to be more attached to Aldo. One would almost think Lety doesn’t like that idea.



4. Lety calls Aldo to apologize. She basically comes groveling back, and other than the statement, “You’re the one I love most,” his main response is, “Yeah, whatever.” She pleads, “You believe me, don’t you?” and he dodges the question. Obviously Aldo never earned the forgiveness merit badge.

5. Fern talks to Lety’s picture. He knows the value of her sacrifice for Aldo because once she sacrificed herself for him.

6. Omar is moping and Fern tells him to go tell Caro how he feels; cowards end up alone. Omar says Fern’s not fighting for Lety either. Fern says that’s because Omar still has a chance, but Fern’s chances are gone.

7. Lety dreams that MamaJ arranged for Lety to marry Fernando. Fern and Mama call her in one direction, while Aldo calls from the other side. We cut to Fern who is dreaming the same thing. Aldo is dreaming that a giant octopus is beckoning, eager to embrace him with eight open arms. Well, maybe not. In Fern’s dream, Lety tells him Aurora won’t return because Aldo is her life and she doesn’t want to lose him. Fern wakes and promises that in the name of love, he’ll help her relationship with Aldo.

8. At the yacht, Carmina flirts with Aldo and he eats it up.

9. Fern tells Lety he will defend her wedding because what he wants most in the world is for her to be happy, and her happiness is with Aldo.

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Spanish Lesson. Fernando & Julieta

J: She has to be convinced dress nicer, normal, without the facial hair. Someone needs to insist that she tell everyone that she’s Aurora.
F: No, no. We need to leave her alone to manage things as seems best to her. If Aurora would cause conflict with Aldo, fine. Let her be buried and disappear forever.
J: Don Fernando, am I mistaken, or does your TV program depend on Aurora?
F: Yes, totally. And the possibility the $3.3M that I owe him.
J: Then you have to convince Lety to disguise herself again, and finish that blasted program.
F: It’s that.. can I be honest with you? Even if I’m a failure, and I lose the company forever, and my father loses the company he founded por mí culpa, I still can’t ask Lety to sacrifice her happiness with Aldo, just so I can succeed.
J: Don Fernando, how touching. Before, you were the opposite. You were able to sacrifice Lety, your novia Marcia, your family, and everything, all to keep the presidency.
F: Before! Before! You said it yourself. Today I’m a different person, and what I was before, is not what I am now. As I think about it, I’ve decided I can’t tell Lety that I discovered.
J: That’s good. You’re doing the right thing. She would feel very uncomfortable.
F: Do you know what? We need to make a pact. We won’t tell anyone that Lety is Aurora.
J: Done! Ay, you don’t know how moved I am (by what you’re doing). You have no idea. I would be so happy if Lety ended up marrying you.

Labels: fea-2010

Dan is in Eva’s office asking about Alicia. She is ignoring him and putting away things in the office as she rudely answers “She is much better thanks. Now if you could just leave, I have a lot of things to do.”

Clueless Dan asks her “What’s the matter, why are you so short all of a sudden?” Eva turns to face him and says “Your seriously asking me this?” Eva walks over to him and angrily says “Every time I start trusting you I end up being hugely disappointed!!” Dan still clueless tells her he doesn’t know what she is talking about. Eva walks away from him and tells him not to act so innocent. He tells her he doesn’t know what she is talking about. Eva asks “Who did you sleep with last night?” Dan says “What are you saying?” Eva replies “Are you going to deny that you slept with Lilly?” Dan tells her he doesn’t know where she got that idea and yes there is something I want to explain to you.” Eva cuts him off and says “I know exactly what I saw.” Dan asks her what did she see.. Eva tells him “Your dear Lilly called me last night and asked me to come over to talk.” Dan says “Talk about what.” Eva “A topic very important, woman to woman. And when I got there Jacky sent me to her room and I saw you in her bed” Dan is bugged eyed.


Jacky is chewing Fran out for telling the gardener that she had a dark secret past and that the men who go out with her suddenly disappear and if he goes out with her he will also disappear. Fran tries to deny this and Jacky calls him a liar.

Oh I forgot about this part, Leo is choking the life out of Lilly. She manages to free herself and tells him to never put a hand on her again. Tempers are flaring as Leo says waving his finger angrily in her face “Do you think you are looking at the face of an idiot? Nobody betrays me Lilly!!!!” (This looks like an angry idiot’s face to me.)


Lilly pushing his hand aside tells him she had nothing to do with what crazy Vicky did. Leo walks away from her as Lilly continues to say that Vicky is out of her mind and is talking pure nonsense . He asks her where did Vicky come up with the story about the place Lilly had her hid out at. Lilly overacting denies this and tells Leo she is incapable of doing such a thing. Then she tells Leo that Vicky is worse off than she thought. Leo tells her he doesn’t believe her one bit.

Fran is apologizing to Jacky and tells her he didn’t think she really wanted to go out with that guy. Jacky tells him he is really dumb and she’s not upset because of that. She is upset because he will never mature. Then she says how could she ever forget that he was an expert in lying and starts to walk away. Fran tells her not to leave. She asks if he wants her to stay so he can keep lying to her? He tells her the only thing he wants to do is beg her forgiveness. He tells her she was right he told the guy all that stuff.

Renata tells Justa that she has something very serious to tell her. Justa doing the suffering women bit tells her she hopes she didn’t come over to talk about Julio again. She tells Renata that story is over with for good. She doesn’t want to even talk about the subject. Renata tells her she understands she doesn’t want to know anything about Julio but she is wrong. The story between her and Julio is not over. Justa shaking her head tells Renata the person who is wrong is her. Their story is in the past. She tells she is living happily in the present with Ricardo and Adrian. Then she tells Renata not to take it the wrong way but it would be best if she leaves. Poor Renata tells her it has already been 20 years in the making and it is now time for her to know the truth.

Dan must have told Eva what happened the night before to his understanding. He tells her he doesn’t know how he ended up in Lilly’s bed. Eva looks at him and asks if he thinks she is so stupid as to believe such an outrageous thing. Dan tells her it may sound crazy but it is the truth. He tells her he has been trying to figure it out and the only thing he can think of is the drink was stronger than he thought and since he was so tired he lost consciousness. Eva smarts back “ Oh and for certain she put you in her bed and took advantage of you? You poor thing.” Than she slams her hand down on the table and says “Look Dan you don’t even believe that!!” Dan tells her he’s not saying that is what happened but he doesn’t know what happened. Eva now standing and very ticked off says “I saw you two together and no one can tell me differently, and later Lilly told me that you two were in a relationship.” Dan tells her she was lying and he doesn’t know why she would say that and he is going to go ask her right now. He storms out looking for Lilly and we can almost see dragon fire flaming out of Eva’s nose.


Lilly now acting all hurt approaches Leo and sweetly asks him how he could think such awful things about her. She attempts to touch his face and Leo pulls away with anger and tells her he doesn’t trust anyone. She calls him unjust and from the start she has done nothing that would cause him to distrust her. He tells her he believed that but once he talked to Vicky, and Lilly interrupts him telling him Vicky is a liar and a manipulator. And that he is all confused because of her crazy antics. The only thing Vicky is doing is looking for justification for all the crazy stuff she has done so everyone will forgive her and continue to believe her. Leo pauses for a moment to think this over. He tells her he doesn’t know which one of the two of them is trying to justify their actions.

Lilly calls him obstinate (terco/ obstinate or stubborn) and says his sister is sick in the head and all she wants to do is hurt every one and nothing has been going right for her. For some reason (I might have missed something) Leo jumps up and grabs Lilly by the throat and tells her if she dare put a finger to Eva she will pay for it. Lilly pulls away again and tells him she would never do anything against Eva because she knows how significant Eva is for him. She tells him “And to prove it you need to know I achieved what I promised I would do.” Leo asks her what? She tells him she made Daniel think they made love. Leo seems impressed by this and asks her how she accomplished that. She tells him the same way he made Eva believe she slept with him in the cabin. “I learn fast.”

Jacky wants to know why Fran lied. What did he get out of lying and making sure the gardener took off. Fran shuffles a bit and says So that he would leave and not ask her out again. Jacky tells him she didn’t know it mattered so much to him that she was going to go out with some one else. He tells her it does matter to him. She asks him how come? Fran gets very close and touches her face and tells her “Even though you don’t believe this I worry about you and don’t want you to go out with just any old gardener type.” Jacky scoffs and sarcastically tells him “Thanks, but I can take care of myself.” Fran tells her the only thing that guy was looking for was “Well you know” and this sends Jacky off the edge as she tells him to stop interfering in her life and angrily storms off.

Fran is left scratching at his head saying “I sure put my foot in that one.” as Adrian and Laurita come out from hiding and Laurita says “Ya think?” Fran asks if they heard everything. They both stand their looking quite guilty as Fran calls them little gossips.



Fran turns from them and still scratching his head says “Now what do I do? How do I fix this?”


Leo is asking Lilly if Eva saw them. She tells him everything was perfect. Eva opened the door and saw her in bed with Dan and he should have seen her face. Leo looks very pleased. He now gets closer and has changed his tone as he sweetly asks her to tell him more. Lilly continues and tells him she acted really embarrassed and went after Eva and told her that her and Dan were in a relationship. Leo now kisses her sweetly and asks if Eva believed her. (I am gagging bile her) Lilly tells him of course. She swears that Eva left convinced that Daniel cared for her (Lily). Leo congratulates her and tells her that her plan went great even better than his plan at the cabin. He kisses her again and tells her that anyone that ever saw the pictures from the cabin would believe that they made love. He tells her it was a great plan but she is much braver than him She asks him now if he has any doubts in her. He tells her now that she has achieved her goal not to let any thing go wrong. They have to play their cards smartly now. She tells him that he can count on the fact that her and Dan will get married. Even if she has to ask him. He tells her the only thing that matters is that Dan marries her.

Renata and Justa are now sitting down as Renata turns to her and tells her she is responsible for her misfortune (desdicha .) She is responsible for all her pain and nightmares. Justa looks very confused and asks “My nightmares what are you trying to tell me?” Renata says “You were right. Your child wasn’t stillborn like I made you believe. Your child was born alive.” Justa’s eyes bug out as her jaw drops.


Lily goes to Dan’s office. She asks him if he has remembered the wonderful night that they had together yesterday. She slinks over to sit beside him and Dan quickly gets up and tells her no. She tells him she hopes it gets through his cloudy mind soon because for her it was a great night. Dan tells her he thinks she doesn’t have it very clear about what happened last night either. Lilly looks puzzled and asks why he would say that. He tells her he just talked to Eva and she told him that she (lily) called and asked her to come over to the house so she could see them together.

Renata tells Justa that she did hear her baby cry when she was born and that she lied to her telling her she was stillborn. Justa having a difficult time with this news asks her why she would do such a thing. Renata tells her so she could steal her baby. Justa quickly stands and moves away from Renata. She tells her she took her to that clinic to help Marcella with her plan. She tells her that neither one of them wanted her to have Julio’s baby. And they teamed up to take it away from her. Poor Justa is stumbling around in disbelief. She turns and asks her how she could do something like that to her, her sister. She tells her it was because she was jealous of her and hated her because she had Julio’s love and wanted to hurt her. Justa now in full out rage asks “Where is my daughter!”

Said daughter is visiting the family Mafioso. She is asking for his help. She needs a fake ID and a car so she can go visit her murderous mama in prison. He smiles and tells her to sit on down.

Lilly tells Dan it is true. Eva came to the house and saw them together in bed. Dan looks dumbified as he asks her why she never told him any of that. Lily tells him she forgot. Dan says “For gods sake Lily, you left the bed and went to talk to Eva, and even told her we were in a relationship.” Lily with a straight face tells him “Yes I told her that, and do you know why? Because we just finished making love. And that’s what I believed.” Dan now trying to sort this out says “ Did you plan all this out for her to see us together in bed.” Lilly acting all offended says “Of course not!!” Dan then says “How could you forget to tell me something that important?” She tells him it was because she was so upset that he didn’t remember anything that happened the night before and she was very disillusioned and hurt she goes to say “Excuse me for not thinking to tell you about Eva at that moment.” She says “If you really think I could do something like that than maybe it’s best if you kick me out of your house. You shouldn’t have any problems in doing that.” and she leaves acting all the injured party. Dan isn’t looking any smarter at this moment as he watches her leave.

Renata is continuing her sage with Justa. She tells her she gave her baby to Marcella. Justa just about has a stroke as she says “That woman? What did she do with my baby? If she hurt her I am capable of..” and Renata stops her and says “No she raised her as if she were hers.” She tells her Victoria is her daughter.
Justa says “Your telling me my daughter is Victoria Arismendi?” Renata confirms this as the melodrama gets very thick. Then she tells her she is the only one responsible for how things turned out. Because she took her from her and permitted Marcella to raise her in her likeness. (criara a su semejanza)

Back to Fran and his cohorts. Adrian asks if his face hurts from Jacky slapping him. Laurita says Jacky is mad at him. Adrian says she is really mad. Fran tells him he can’t give up now and the kids urge him on and their little plan continues. He has to let her know he cares for her and he hopes she doesn’t turn him down. (This was a cute little scene with the kids trying to build up his confidence to go after Jacky.)


Vicky gets in her new car and is off to see mama. In the meantime. Justa is justifiably going off on Renata. She says “You destroyed my life and that of my child and all for hate and for spite and hate that I don’t deserve.” Renata says “I know and I understood it the day they told us you died in the earthquake. The guilt I had to endure with all I had done but I didn’t have any other choice. And Julio loved Victoria as if she were his daughter so I decided to keep quiet for ever. Until the day I saw you alive than all my regrets returned and since than I haven’t been able to sleep in peace.” Justa turns to her and asks her pleadingly “Where is my daughter now? I want to see her. I want her to know that I am her mother.” Renata tells her she was at Julio’s place but she left.

Cue Victoria who is on her own road towards the truth.


(I know I am one of the few Tony fans out there, but I thought this was the best part of the night. “sweet” bad boy Tony versus “monster” bad boy Leo. You know who I am rooting for.) Tony enters Leo’s office.
He says he was told that Leo wanted to talk to him. He tells him to close the door. Tony asks him what he wanted. Leo tells him he wants to talk about his future. Tony says “My future?” Leo tells him he is going to tell him what he needs to do if he wants to keep on living. Tony gives him the look.


Vicky is escorted to the visitors room at the prison and timidly sits down at Marcella’s table. She doesn’t seem all that excited to see Vicky as she says “I knew it was you. It is about time you showed up.” She says “Even though I knew Claudia Jimenez was dead, only you could come up with taking that name to hide under.” Vicky tells her that El Gallo helped come up with the fake identity.” Marcella asks her why she came.

She tells her to clear up something. Leo told her she was adopted and she wants her to tell her that it isn’t true. Marcella looks at her with disdain as she says “ And here I thought you came to help me and to offer understanding.” Vicky is crying and says “tell me it isn’t true. Tell me I am your daughter” Marcella looks smug as she says to her “Leo was right . You are not my daughter.’

Vicky is still crying as she says she can’t be adopted. “I know I am your daughter and you are my mother.” Marcella stares at her with the eyes of a cold hearted murderer (Oh yea she is one)


She continues “I am not and I don’t care that you know.” Vicky is weeping and says “You are only saying this because you are mad at me. You can’t forgive me because I stepped out on Dan and now he wants a divorce. Right?” Marcela tells her she is right “I will never forgive you for that stupid act for two reasons. First, you messed up our plan to get all of Dan’s money and secondly because you had no right to mess around with Bruno.” Vicky looks truly shocked and a bit frightened as Marcella continues “Do you know why? Because he was my lover.’ Vicky’s eyes bug out at hearing this.


Marcella says “ He betrayed me with you!! And you have disappointed me over and over again.!!” Vicky is begging her not to say that to her. Marcella tells her if she were her true daughter she would have been able to carry out her plan. She would have been able to do exactly what she was told to do. What ever was necessary to finish off Eva the enemy. She would never had a trembling hand when it came time to pull the trigger. She would never have messed up so many times. Victoria is sobbing at hearing this.

Tony asks Leo what all the threats are about now. Leo tells him he knows what they are. He says “I know you went to talk to Eva. And asked her to forgive you for the stuff you did to her in the past and you told her you love Alicia.” We have a stare down as Tony says “ Yes I did. All of that is true. So what?”
Leo tells him he better not tell her about the little job he had him do for him because he will finish him off if he does. He bumps him insolently as he walks away. Tony says “Now that you called on me to talk about all this Leo I will take advantage of the little trip.” Leo says “talk” Tony starts talking about how Leo drugged Eva and put her in bed nude and took photos of her and does he think he is still afraid of him? Leo says and why aren’t you. Tony tells him it is because he is now the one making the threats. Leo looks at him and says You against me? Tony tells him “Yes, Me against you. And Now I will be very direct and clear!!”

Marcella tells Victoria she is nothing to her. She is nothing but a bastard product from one of her fathers little adventures with a common office assistant. Vicky asks her what is she talking about. Marcella tells her not to even think about asking who it is because she will never tell her. She continues “The name of this woman repulses me and now I hate you as much as I hate her.” Poor Vicky is now mumbling between sobs as she says “ Mama you are killing me.” Marcella tells her she is just as fragile and insignificant as her (Justa,) she says “I don’t love you. You are stupid” She gets up to leave rudely as poor Vick is left to suffer one more disastrous rejection. (I’m felling pretty sorry for her right now and think she’s almost more than paid up for the whole acid in the face incident.)

Leo is now wrestling with Tony and tells him not to dare threaten him. Tony tells him “For Alicia I am capable of doing that and much more!!” Leo says “All of this has to do with her?” Tony screams in his face “Yes because I love Alicia. I am warning you Leo don’t you dare get close to her and don’t you dare try to hurt her unborn child.” Leo screams back “You don’t scare me with your threats. You got that!!!” Tony says “If you do anything to hurt her or anything to hurt her baby, Daniel will find out that it was me who he was going to see that day for the auto part because you paid me to do it.” Leo backs down a bit at hearing this. Tony says “Do you know what will happen with Eva? She will receive those pictures that you took of her in bed when you drugged her and took all her clothes off. I swear that this time I am not playing around!!” Leo is really giving all this some deep thought. Now it is Tony’s turn to put the finger to the face as he tells Leo to watch out as he begs his leave.


The next scene is really cute but I am going to condense it. Adrian and Laurita are trying to convince Jacky to take them out to some cool new restaurant. We see Fran occasionally peaking around the corner in hopes that she will agree. She waivers back and forth.

Julio is talking to Dr. Garcia awaiting news about Vicky. In walks Renata with Justa right behind. Julio is quite startled to see Justa there.

So we were all on pins and needles to hear what Giorgio was going to reveal to Eva. What a let down. It was nothing more than how he has figured out that Marcella was more than likely responsible for the deaths of Bruno and what’s her name. FF>>>>

Justa is begging Julio to help her find Vicky. Julio tells her that he only just found out that Victoria was their daughter. Renata tells Julio that Justa knows everything. That she has kept this secret for many years and that she needs to tell them both something. She tells them that she is ready to pay for what she has done. She tells them to call the police and charge her with this crime. Julio says “You can’t pay for all the damage that you caused us with just that. And for me I think God should be in charge of your punishment” as he snarls at her. Justa turns to Renata and says acidly “Me too.” Julio now totally fed up with Renata asks Dr. Garcia to take her home.

Leo is having a flashback about the whole “Drug Eva, take off her clothes, get in bed and do some self portraits. He also is remembering giving Tony the memory card and asking him to get the pictures but don’t look at them. He also is remembering his prior little discussion with Tony threatening him about showing Eva the pictures. None of this is sitting very well with Leo as he takes a drink from his glass and hurls it across the room saying “I swear I will kill you Tony.”

Giorgio is still going on about his theory about Marcella . They even figure out how she could get back and forth from LA to Miami. FF>>

Adrian and Laurita are still trying to convince Jacky to take them out. I think she is about to bite. Fran is still hanging around the corner and is almost caught a couple of times. The kids have worn her out telling her if she goes she will be very happy. She finally gives in and agrees. We see a very elated Fran in the background as the kids are about to whisk her off.


We get a silly little happy dance from Fran once they have all left to get ready.


Julio and Justa alone at last. Julio says “ Who would have had thought that at the end of our story of love we would bear fruit.” Justa smiles and says “yes and it is the most precious. And you at least got to be close to her.” Julio tells her that he wouldn’t deny he was very fortunate to be so close to her. But truthfully he would rather have had it been with her beside him. Justa says well of course that would have been the best, but now what is important is that God is giving them the chance to rescue her. To help her. Face all her mistakes and start her life a new.

Deb is talking with Alicia and tells her she is happy to see her feeling better. We have some Mother daughter bonding. Deb is all excited that she is about to be a grandmother.

Julio is calling the police station to see if they have any news about Victoria. They have nothing to tell him.
Justa is about to leave and tells Julio she will go to Eva and Daniel and ask them to drop the charges against Victoria. Julio says he was thinking about that as well and that they should go together. Justa is now remembering when she first saw Vicky at the pension. She tells him she felt a great unexplainable emotion. But now she understands what it was. Julio says :It was “the voice of the blood.”

Justa says that is what it was. Julio tells her that from the first moment that Marcella brought her to the house and he had this tiny baby in his arms he felt a great love for her. And he soon forgot that she was adopted and always felt like she was his own daughter. At that moment we hear a sharp shrill “Papa”. Justa drops her purse as Victoria comes running to Julio.

She is crying and asking him to tell her who her real mother is. Dramatic music ensues as Victoria suddenly notices Justa standing behind her.

Deb is begging Alicia to tell her who the father of her child is. Alicia is crying and tells Deb if she tells her she can’t tell anyone. She is just about to spit it out when Eva comes waltzing in. Well that will have to wait till later.

Julio is asking Victoria how she found out. Who told her the truth. She tells him Leo told her she was adopted and later Marcella told her she was certainly not her daughter. Julio asks her if she went to see Marcella? Vicky tells him that Marcella told her she was his daughter with another woman. She wants to know if this is true. Julio tells her it is true but he didn’t know any thing about it until Renata told him what she had done. Victoria wants to know what Renata had to do with any of this. Julio tells her she will find out soon enough. He turns her to face Justa. Victoria stares for a few seconds and tells her she thinks she knows her. She has seen her before. Justa tells her “yes we met once at the pension when Eva introduced us. Victoria is trying to think this all through and has the little flashback of when she met Justa at the pension. Now Vicky freaks a bit and asks if Eva is there as well. Julio assures her she isn’t there. She asks him “Then why is this woman here?” Julio finally tells her that Justa is her real mother. We have exchanged looks. Victoria still very confused and Justa very hopeful.

And that’s where we end with my last Eva recap. It has been a great pleasure to be your Wednesday evening recapper.

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