Caray, Caray!

-Well, not so good, we have to sleep in separate beds!

-That's bad!

-Not so bad, he kicks and he wouldn't let me sleep!

-I know! I mean, that's good!

When Patricia arrives to Rogelio's home, the doctor is still there giving the last instructions. Then Rogelio starts to argue with Alma about the twin beds they need to sleep in tonight. Of course, Patricia is careless and mocks the reason why that happened, going to the extreme to make sexual jokes regarding the ''little problem''. Rogelio is devastated, he is being hit from all fronts. Alma, who should be staying in her penthouse at least until Rogelio gets better, decides to spend the night. The Unefón rings, and Alma tells them that Pancho López, from the main offices in Toluca, wants to see her immediately, so tomorrow, she will be traveling once again (would they belong to the high mile club?). Patricia, whose list includes sowing seeds of doubt in Alma's soul, makes fun of both until she gets what she wants, and tells  Alma to find out who Rogelio really is. 

Tomorrow will be a big day, so without a good night kiss, Rogelio and Alma go to bed and turn off the lights.

Amores Verdaderos Cap 160 6-25-13—Evil wears very red lipstick

A quick overview, more coming later:

EVENTS NOT LISTED IN ORDER, MAY NOT BE ENTIRELY ACCURATE

* Nikki and Guzmancito discuss their grim financial circumstances. Nikki is resolved to tough it out. She looks through the help wanted ads; some promising positions (dead-end jobs) but each has something wrong with it. At least she's willing to consider dead-end jobs, though. Good for you, Nikki!

* The Furry Fornicator is going to seal the deal on a new house for Kendra-the-Ho. She's crowing in triumph. She's also got the FF to sign over insurance papers in hers and Mia's name, leaving Nikki out of the equation entirely.

* Paula wonders to herself how long she can keep her illness a secret. Makeup covers up the bags under her eyes and her pale complexion for now, but how much longer?

* At the grand opening of Lili's garden goes well—at first. Roy the Boy is becoming more and more likable  as he embraces his garden assistant job under his "pretty boss," Lili. Drama plays out amidst the plants, however. Paula attends because Lili asked. Vicki and she bury the hatchet. Also Vicki buries the hatchet with Cande, now that she knows that Cande wasn't the ho that was off globetrotting with Anyballs when Vicki's mom was on her deathbed.

* Adriana confronts Cande now that she knows that she's Lili's "aunt." Why didn't Cande say anything? She and Anyballs are peas in a pod! Cande is so full of guilt that she's about to spill the beans ("She's more than your niece, she's your . . . !") but she chickens out at the last minute and just says that Lili regards Adri as a "second mother" and Cande urges Adri to make the most of that, as Lili really needs a mother-figure right now.

* Lili gives a tearful thank you speech to all the visitors, ending it with a heartfelt thanks to her mom, Christina.

* Kendra-the-Ho goes to visit Nikki and cause trouble. Nikki really isn't in the mood for it and keeps on telling Kendra to get the hell out. Kendra, of course, won't. She cries crocodile tears and pretends that she's "sorry" for all she's done. Nikki doesn't believe. Before the Ho leaves, she tells Nikki that Lili's big Grand Opening is today, and that Lili is the one taking advantage of Anyball's generosity, now that Nikki is on the outs with Anyballs.

* Nikki shows up at the Grand Opening to bum everyone out. She makes a jealous scene and bitches about Gramps and Lili. Lili says that Nikki is jealous (too true!). Nikki is ushered off and Gramps tries to smooth things over for the guests. Nikki tells a concerned Vicki that Gramps is closing doors for her and the Little Ape. Vicki seems surprised by this. (What? You think he wouldn't do that, after what he did to Carlos all those years ago?)

* Vicki approaches Anyballs about him blackballing Nikki and Guzmancito. Gramps says he doesn't have to explain anything to anyone. Vicki says she's an exception. He defends his douchebaggery by saying he doesn't approve of Guzmancito. This is all unacceptable for Vicki. She wants to help Guzmancito, as she later tells Big Angel. Big Angel understands, but advises her to be careful when offering help, as Guzmancito is like he is—poor, but proud.

* Vicki and Big Angel are discussing in a private corner of the garden, the bad blood between Nikki and Lili. They don't know what to do. Big Angel doesn't approve of the way Nikki talked to Lili. Lili has wandered by and overhears this. She stays to hear Vicki and Big Angel talk about "their relationship" and so the truth is out. She is all teary and unhappy and about to confront them when Roy the Boy pulls her away to tell her that they've got a big client! And there will be more where that comes from!

* On the way back home, Nikki passes by a restaurant with a "waitress wanted" sign. She goes in and asks for a job. Turns out the waitress they just hired hasn't shown up, so Nikki is going to get a chance! She is thrilled and gloats that regardless of Anyball's interference, she and Guzmancito will succeed, and the hell with Lili! Her little garden will fail, mwahahaha! Admiration and sympathy points for Nikki are all erased as she gloats at the thought of Lili's failure.

* The Ho is gloating with Espanto about her latest triumphs with the Furry Fornicator. He's getting them a house! She hints to Espanto that both the FF and her little sickly niña Mia are getting to be a drag. Espanto gets the message—he balks and says he's killed before, but killing a BABY?!?!? Even he won't sink that low! The Ho tells him that for the proper amount of cash, he'll manage. (Is this THE most evil character ever? I wonder!) Meanwhile, the FF has an upset—he isn't going to get the money to pay for the house after all. He's in a snit. When he tells the Ho the news, she has a shrieking fit. He hangs up on her—he doesn't need this crap right now! (Salsa-Dude is listening to this and chuckling to himself because he knows how furious the Ho will be.)  The Ho complains to Espanto about this latest upset, but talks about the FF has more funds (his stock in the new account UltraBelle) which will be coming soon. She'll be swimming in money! Espanto leers greedily behind her.

END OF EPISODE!

AVANCES: A sloshed-up Furry Fornicator seems on the cusp of spilling all the family secrets in front of everyone. MUST SEE TV!!!

Más y Más Lagrimas

Luna llena

Jorge Alfredo and Maria enjoy bonito amor to ranchera music (“Entre Tus Brazos”).

Proximo Dia

Mendoza Apartment: Amalia looks at a family photo as she thinks about Maria going her own way. Maria enters and she promises her blessing for her to marry Jorge Alfredo. Happy music for the moment but the anvil approaches.

Jorge Alfredo's Apartment: He talks to Roddy about Oscar. Roddy still doesn't want to accept Oscar as his father. He tries to convince the boy that rancor eats up the soul and it isn't good to hold onto it. Roddy looks like he might listen.

Resumes that Knock'em Dead (Not)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Happy,  Eve of the Summer solstice.

We start off by getting bits: of Jesus telling Vero that he loves Alma and couldn’t tell her because she looked so happy in her wedding regalia  and Alma crying to Chatita about how she didn’t tell Jesus that she loved him.  She didn’t’ want to break up his united family, of  Vero, Jesus and Val.  Everything in its place!!!  (If I didn’t have to recap, I may have skipped this episode)   Chatita tells Alma that she knows the story but Alma doesn’t look happy for a woman in love. She tells Chatita that Rogue was arrested at the wedding.

Rogue is talking to Cantu his corrupt lawyer, who brings him medication for his zipper problem. And he has an idea as to how to use Fern to help his case.  He is still working on the idea. Ferny is still thinking about Rogue’s words, how it is all his fault.  The doorbell rings and Jessica and Alex (2 hoe hoe hoes) are at the door.

In the warehouse Ricardo sets up a dinner with an ipod for the high fluting Marisela because he is homeless.( Side note- my priority may have been to get a room to sleep in, as opposed to serving dinner- just saying)   Hmmm- the table is on a forklift.     Ricardo is slowly winning over the rich wannabe.  He recites a line from Ortega, Gasset  and Tagor and of course Marisela has never heard of them.  (She needs to read more if she wants to hang with the rich and famous, she is as dumb as a doorknob).  He is looking at her qualities, her beauty and her lips and then plants a smooth one on her.

 Elias is thinking about Val’s letter to Jesus and how Vero and Jesus were kissing..  He calls Marisela.

Elias interrupts Marsela’s kiss.  He asks – if she is with Chatita.  Of course not.  He needs to see her and she flat leaves Ricardo to run to Elias.  Ricardo doesn’t have a freezer to freeze the food for another day.  Poor fool.

Ferny is not interested in seeing either of the 2 loose ladies.  His brother is in jail and he is not in the mood.  Alex lied that she is going out with Ferny, and he couldn’t remember her name.  So Alex spills the beans – that Rogue paid her to relieve him from his Discua depression, while a stunned Jessica stands there.  Ferny was happy that his brother thought of him.  Alex’s message- tell your bro to pay me or I will sue him!!!

Rogue relives his last moments of freedom, literally, oh sorry digressing, when he and Alma were announced as man and wife,  Paty, the backstabber is speaking to Domi, Rogue’s maid, while the dog is growling at her. (He has  more sense than the humans)  Paty wants him to rot in jail for getting married to Alma, and then  proceeds to break his picture.  She yells that she loves him, (I am ready to fast forward, oops I can’t)

Alma is still talking about how Rogue needs her more than ever she has to help her husband and complete her promise. Chatita asks her if she is going to divorce him??  Thank you, Chatita- who knew that she would be the forgetful voice of reason.  She tells Alma- bad beginnings will have bad endings.  Alma starts talking and shares about her loveless childhood.  (Where is the good doctor when you need her?? Oh right, she is crazy and plotting to marry Elias)  Chatita gives her the motherly hug and attention that she has so lacked for years.

Vero doesn’t hear Jesus and wants him to give her another chance for love.  She will fight to earn his love even though he has confessed that he loves someone else. (Calling Dr. Phil and Steve Harvey

Jesus puts in another bid for Vero to give Elias another chance.  Vero is not hearing it.  She begs for another chance for Jesus and Jesus is listening, oh no!!  He doesn’t want to play with her feelings, give her false illusions or hurt her.  She finally gets it or does she???

Jessica enters Ferny’s apartment for any gossip or sex that she can acquire.  Fern has had it with Rogue. 

 Elias shows up at Chatita’s and Chatita lets him know that Marisela can’t be up too late and no funny business because she is listening.

Jessica presses Ferny for gossip and I hope that she will slip and tell him the truth.  He tries to minimize what is going on to throw her off of the trail.

Elias  wants to talk  and tells Marisela that Marta is not the problem. Marisela slips in that Marta is the problem for her, but Elias doesn’t pay her any mind.  His problem is that Vero wants to marry Jesus.

Jessica knows that Paty is having an affair with Rogue , she remembers the video but keeps digging to find out why Rogue is in jail. He sticks to the – I made up a story that implicated my brother and sends her on her way.

Marisela lets Elias know how she feels for him but Elias is stuck on Vero and his marriage.  Marisela tries to convince Elias that he will kill himself trying to fight for his marriage.

Tonight’s bedtime story won’t be about the Queen and the Helper because the Queen got married. .Valentina asks Jesus to come close (what an old soul)-  she wants to know what does he feel in his heart?  He can trust her?? She lets him know that she overheard his conversation with her mother  and he reminds her to stay in a child’s place.  Val reminds him that the adult stuff she can feel in her heart and it affects her. He loves her more than anything and he will protect her like a Superhero.  She tells him that she prays nightly that she is thankful that he returned to her life and she is glad to know him.  She loves him.  She is another reason why I don’t fast forward.

 Alma is playing the role of the good wife and is waiting helplessly while her husband is in jail.  Jesus brings her coffee and tries to get her to rest and she cries on his shoulder.  That it was all a disaster.

Chatita gives Val – arroz con leche-rice pudding- yummy- and tells her to eat it so that she will grow up to be a beautiful girl.

Alma is getting on my nerves, because she should be crying that she married Rogue, sorry I digress.  Jesus is pained to see her like this and she is happy to have her best friend Jesus at her side.   Val calls Jesus on his cell to find out when is he coming home.  Val tells Alma that she and Chatita love her.  Alma takes Jesus’ advice and goes home to rest.

The next day- Jesus tells Val that she has to study so that she can be a Licenciada like Alma.

Mommy Dearest calls Xochy for breakfast.  Xochy still wants answers about her dad. Xochy tells her momma to make breakfast with her own hands.  Mommy holds the crumpled up magazine photo of the handsome galan and says- if you only knew the truth.  Is that model, her dad, is her dad handsome?  Que the heck???

Ricardo reads the headlines about Rogue being arrested. (Hmm- where is his friend that’s in the press??)

The agent has a theory about the money in the warehouse, are Uri and Rogue connected?  She is going to interview Rogue.

Cantu visits Ferny and notes how much whisky he has consumed.  Is he trying to drown his sorrows?

Everyone at Avon is a buzz about the arrest.  Susana speaks up for Rogue, saying that the arrest was a misunderstanding and it will all be cleared up.  All of the idiots are standing around speculating and NOT working as usual. Jessica who is always scheming wants to know who is in charge- Cardenas says it would be Ferny and in unison everyone says- desencanto!!! Thank goodness, Alma shows up to work.  Now maybe something can get accomplished.

Alma tells them that in the first place what happened to Rogue doesn’t not affect Avon.  Everyone needs to be disciplined and not to gossip about her husband.  Alma says that her husband has been arrested and everything will work out to his favor.  She thanks them for their concern, but then tells everyone to get back to work.  She then thought bubbles back to the wedding and when Rogue is arrested. 

This is January the 5th. Good day for a wedding!! 

Amores Verdaderos Cap 155, 6-18-13—Gramps, you old scamp

Brief overview. Getting a late start. Hope to fill in blanks later. Discuss amongst yourselves.

It's all about what Anibal wants. . .

Bulleted list, summary. May not be in order. May be fraught with errors!

* Anibal is determined to introduce Cande as his wife-to-be. She's a bit hesitant, but whatever. He drags her to the mansion and drops a bomb on Vicki. Vicki has a sh*t hemorrhage when she discovers that Cande is classified as the "love of his life." "Is she the woman you were galivanting around with when my mom was dying?" Poor Cande tries to set the record straight, but Anibal won't take any of this crap and tells Vicki that they're just going to have to suck it up and accept Cande. The Furry Fornicator wanders around with a glass of booze in his hand and makes snarky comments. When Anibal is asked how come it's okay for him to marry someone of a lower class and financial status, he says it's okay for him to do it, he's an old geezer (oh wait, no he denies that later) but anyway, he's got money and he can do what he wants, dammit! Unlike Vicki and Nikki, who are saddling themselves to good-for-nothing mooches. Big Angel doesn't like hearing himself classified as a good-for-nothing.

* Nikki and the Little Ape are still happy. Keep an eye on these two, I think I see an anvil in the horizon. Nikki tries to fix dinner, but she BURNS THE PASTA. No puede ser. The Little Ape says okay and they order pizza. They are talking about the families and catch up on things. Gramps cancelled her credit cards, blah blah, Little Ape says that's okay, blah blah, Little Ape is going to get a great job—I wouldn't count on that yet, Guzmancito!—Nikki makes some snarky remarks about Lili, the bad blood is still there and it's gonna be BAD when their real blood connection comes out.

* Anibal has Cande twisted in knots, believing that she's got to still conceal the truth about everyone's parentage. He tells her that if Adri knows the truth, they'll both get sued. Cande says, well, we would have it coming, right? Anyway, Cande gutlessly promises to keep the secret for longer, all the while thought-bubbling about her guilt. Whatever.

* Roy the Boy is coming along in his goal for humanhood. He opts out of a night on the town with Omar to read about gardening and earthworms, and seems genuinely interested! Omar shakes his head. It looks like Lili is starting to thaw a little.

* Adri asks the silver-haired Carlos where this relationship is going. Carlos, to his credit, admits that he's a love 'em and leave 'em kind. He doesn't plan on getting married or having kids, he is too stuck in his ways. Adri says that she's "too old" to think about settling down now (really?) and they agree to just "see how things go." Don't waste your time on this one, Adri! Throw him back in the water! I am waiting for her old flame (and Lili's baby-daddy) Vicente to show up.

* Lili and Polita go out to the movies with Jean Marie. Happy happy. Lili and Polita also have some sort of chat, about Roy the Boy I think and maybe also about what a bitch Nikki is. I kind of dozed off during this part.

* Happy happy at Beatriz's household. Guillo did some artwork showing Leo the Low as an angel. It seems like Guillo is accepting how things are. Salsa-Dude refers to Guillo as "their" kid. Happy happy happy.

* The Furry Fornicator takes a photo of little Mia in the hospital and sends it via cell to Kendra the Ho. She is lounging around at a spa or something, living in the lap of luxury, while feeding the FF some line about her "Aunt Puchis's" sad, sad funeral. "Seeing her in that awful coffin was just awful!" she cries, as she slinks around in her fab hotel room.

* Nikki is chatting with the Little Ape and talking about how Gramps has cut off her credit cards, blah blah blah. "Grandpa will stop being angry with me soon, because I'm his granddaughter—his ONLY granddaughter!" Uh oh!

* Vicki is all outraged about Gramps wanting to marry Cande. She assumes that Big Angel knew about this beforehand and he's keeping more secrets. Poised to read the riot act, she's surprised that Big Angel knows NOTHING and is super impactado. She gets all sweet and sugary with him. He starts to connect the dots and wants to talk to Cande ASAP.

* Anibal is calling people and making plans, obviously trying to manipulate Cande. What a douche.

* Big Angel flashes back to seeing Cande beg forgiveness to a dead Christina (in front of the Virgen de la Guadalupe statuette) about something. He connects all the dots (Cande admitting that Chris's dad isn't dead, Chris didn't know who he was, etc) and starts to suspect that Anibal is Chris's baby daddy. He confronts Cande about this. She does her frozen roll-eye thing here and thought-bubbles that she can't tell Big Angel the truth quite yet. She admits that years ago she met Anibal and fell in love with him, but says she got lost when she found out he was married. She doesn't admit that Anibal is the baby-daddy. (I got a little confused here. Wouldn't Big Angel want some confirmation or denial of Chris's parentage, or does he assume/not assume that Anibal is the daddy?). Anyway, she says that Vicki thinks that she (Cande) is some sort of Grandma Ho now. Big Angel promises to clear that all up for Vicki.

There's more stuff I forgot, but this should be enough to get us started. Screencaps (hopefully) coming later.

Madres Egoistas

Lo del pasado

Oscar tells Fernando he will fight to win Maria. Idiota.

Lo de nuevo

Mendoza Apartment: Jorge Alfredo tells Maria he needs to resolve his problems by returning to El Lay, but tells her that he has other obligations, such as her family and Rodrigo. He'd rather stay.

Santos apparently cannot find his way out of the maze of a basement he’s found himself in. (Ask the rat that invited himself to your dinner last night. I’m sure he knows the way.) When JAntos hears voices he hides and, peeking around the corner of the wall, sees Giuliano El Gusano there.


Back at El Coloso’s apartment, Elvira asks Coloso (while Sr. Cock-a-doodle-do is enjoying the petting he’s getting) if El Col had had somebody get JAntos out of the way for him. He says that would’ve been a nice touch, but no such luck and anyway, he would rather do the deed himself, macho a macho.


Maria is getting sicker; her family worries and watches over her as she cries and frets in her sleep. Oscar pays a visit to Maria a bit later and Amalia allows him to sit by her bed. He confesses to Maria he’d dreamt of this moment—chatting with her in between the sheets--for years, but this is not exactly the way he’d imagined it. Maria innocently ignores him and moans that JA must be dead and that she wants to join him in the más allá [great beyond/afterlife]. He tries to convince her that she needs a man who won’t cause her so much grief and uncertainty. (No, she needs a jealous macho country loaf like you to drive her crazy instead.) But she tells him what she needs right now is a big brother. He’s okay with that until El Pochito shows up again.


JAntos is still lost in the maze when one of the thugs grabs him and ties him up again.


Back in El Lay, Derecho and Curtis’s captain demands convincing [contundente] proof and closure to the Santos Marinez de la Garza case ASAP. He gives them two weeks to close the case or it goes into the cold case files.


Justo admits to AltaGracia that Giulio is a mercenary of the worst kind cuz he killed his own cousin. Unfortunately, they have no tangible proof and cannot counter sue the S.O.B. What’s worse is that all the police have managed to do is to slow things down [entorpecer] and stall out.


Olmo loses patience with his hired goofs guns and threatens that if they don’t finish off JAntos immediately then one of them is going to get the axe—literally.


Regino and his own set of goons follow Mil Amores figuring that Fernando will eventually lead them to his runaway punching bag of a bride.


Team DnC visit Justo to tell him they think his son had Bruno offed. Justo tells him he hasn’t the proof but he knows it was Giuli since the guy confessed during a phone call. Derecho notes they saw him traveling to Mexico City and has a sudden bit of insight. “—Either it was Giuliano and he’s a murderer, or it was Santos and he hired him, or the two of them are in cahoots together!” If that’s the case, then Giuli the Gem’s going to Mexico means his son’s life could be in danger, warns Justo! Something has to be done to protect him! (Viewerville has a beanie moment as reality slips in. It struggles to believe Justo would ever trust a pair of keystone coppers like Team DnC with his only son’s life.)


Mil goes to the Cyber Café and sends Altagracia an email that Santos has gone missing. While he’s there he surfs the news and sees the report on Bruno’s murder up in El Lay.


JAntos figures this is his last day on earth and thinks Olmo invited Giuliano down to watch the execution. He worries about Maria and what must be going through her head right now. “—Hopefully, with Fernando’s help she’ll overcome this pain and get on with her life.”


Amalia has a chat with Oscar about the cruelty of abandoning a child. He gets the message loud and clear. He asks isn’t it just as rotten of Gloria to have waited sixteen years to tell him he had a son? Amalia asks if he’d looked for her at all during this time. Sure, but her father sent her out of the country to separate the two of them and all the letters he wrote her were “bounced back” to him, he answers. Amalia suggests he get to know his kid. He’d be surprised the blessing he’d see as a parent sharing Rodri’s joys and sorrows or his little romances --not to mention many semi-adult tantrums….(Remind him to stock up on Just For Men. It’s designed with parenting in mind.) Oscar starts to consider the possibility…..


Mil runs into Rodrigo in the colonia and learns that Gloria’s gone for cancer treatments. He feels so alone, Rodri tells Fernando, especially with JAntos gone missing. Fer tries to convince Rodri that his daddy really is a melty marshmallow under all that burnt crust. Rodri refuses to have anything to do with him. Ok, says Fer. Well, for now you’ve got my friendly shoulder to lean on!


JAntos and Maria continue pining away for each other. Ruben’s goofy goons throw him into the SUV and head for the killing fields.


Fer doesn’t know he’s being watched when he gets a text from Roxy. (Viewerville wonders what the subtext is.)


Giuli and Ruben sign a business contract of some sort, but Giuli tells him that he needs 10 million deposited first before their business dealings can begin. Ruben isn’t the rube he appears to be to Giuli and asks why the pressure for so much cash up front. Giuli tells him he has lots of palms to grease [aceitar]. “--Ahmmme. I let you know when the money might be available.” Giuli doesn’t like the sound of that. Ruben decides he’ll have to think about it for a while and smiles broadly. (Viewerville quickly thinks of shark teeth now whenever Ruben grins.) Giuli plays it cool, but he’s not a happy camper. “—Sure. Take all the time you need. Sr. del Olmo.”


JAntos demands to speak with Giuliano to tell him he’s a coward and that if he’s planned this then it should be doing Giuli murdering him with his own hands! The goons tell him too bad, but they’re the ones who’ll be doing the honors, y punto. JAntos thinks his final farewell to Maria.


Back in El Lay, Wendy visits Michael in prison and confesses that Bruno was the guilty one after all. He snookered them both, she says. She asks in Bruno’s name to forgive him for having betrayed him. Michael hugs her and apparently does forgive all. (What a royal S.A.P.) She then tells him that she’s having Bruno’s baby. (Wendy may be a brat, but she’s nobody’s fool. With Mike free she has a ready-made daddy in the wings for Bronzo, Jr.)


Derecho phones his MC counterpart, Com. Malo, with a ‘tope sacret meesion.’ “--The other suspect we were following’s life is in danger. Keep an eye on Giuliano Rina.”

El Celoso and El Aventurero hop in the mariachimobile, driving to…somewhere. They nearly have an accident with Ruben’s goofy goons’ SUV. Col and the other driver get out and start screaming at each other about what backwater swamp they both learned to drive in, or some such. Santo’s hears El Col’s voice. He kicks at the door and begins yelling. Col hears the noise but has no idea what it could be. “—What have you got inside there? Mules?” Aventurero says he smells a rat and they threaten the others with calling the police. The other driver backs down and drives away. Col misses his chance to be the “heroe de la historia” for now but at least he decides it might be a good idea to take down the SUV’s license plate number. He keys it into his cell phone.

A few minutes later, Santos gets a chance to knock out the goon in the back seat with him, and to throw himself out of the SUV. He rolls into a huge garbage pile and loses consciousness. The two goons in the front realize he’s escaped and want to go back to pick him up but, there’s a patrol car up ahead. They freak and beat it.

Rodri and Mil join forces to first check around for JA and then they figure to stop by Ana’s place.

Wendy tells Mama about her good deed for the day and says she’s going to go visit Michael more often. Mama is muy pleased.

Comandante Malo and Officer Camel-o are tailing Giuli and Arny. They watch as Ruben and the others arrive together at the hotel. Mal and Cam ask for an introduction. Ruben greets the two and introduces them all. Afterwards, the comandante notes it’s a strange thing seeing their suspect and del Olmo hobnobbing there in Mexico City.

On the other side of town, Fernando notices that Roxy’s hubby, Regino’s, SUV is parked outside Ana’s apartment. He calls to warn her. Before she can get out, though, Regino and the boys invite themselves in and demand to know where Roxy has gone. They are destroying her apartment when Mil arrives and quickly drags her out. She and he manage to shut the door and lock Roxy’s hubby and goons in the apartment.

JAntos regains consciousness, uses a broken bottle neck to cut the wrist and leg ties, brushes himself off and finds a way back home. He’s a mess when Doña Pru and her sister greet him at the entrance to the colonia. They give him the rundown on Maria and her emotional breakdown once she found out he was missing. They suggest he get cleaned up before going over to see her now that he’s back. Otherwise he’ll upset and frighten her more than she already is.

Ana tells Fernando she’s had it up to her eyeballs and more with him and his little adventures. For all she cares he can take a flying leap at the moon! She storms off down the street and Fer feeds Rodri some senseless macho-babble about not needing to understand women, just needing love them…..

Outside on the steps to Maria’s apartment, Oscar tells the other mariachis that he owes his singing career to her. We get a musical flashback to the successful audition at Concho’s bar.

Amalia leaves a few more requests on the virgencita’s voice-mail. Seems she’s been a bit behind in answering lately.

The whole group is there waiting for Maria to give up the ghost when JAntos reappears, obviously a bit worse for wear, and enters her bedroom. He wakes her up with a kiss and words to the song “La Vida No Vale Nada Sin Ti” [Life’s Not Worth Living Without You].

v Back at the bar in the uptown hotel, Ruben says he’ll finalize the deals of the contract soon; Fabian adds they’ll see how the 10 million is spent; and then, continues Ruben, they’ll all travel to someplace full of gorgeous women. Fabian surprises everyone in the group saying he’s got a special surprise for them all.

Fer warns El Celoso off making a scene in Maria’s bedroom now and he reluctantly agrees. Actually everyone vanishes once they see that Maria realizes JAntos is back and at her bedside. She grabs his hand and caresses his bruised and cut face. “—I wanted to die. What have they done to you?” “—They tried separating me from you.” He admits he should probably never have fallen in love with her, but he couldn’t help it. From the first night they met he was in love. Ditto for her, she says. He rocked her world. “—Tell me now, who hurt you? Tell me who wanted to kill you?” Cara de how could she know de JAntos.