Caray, Caray!

Luigi says he’s getting drunk. He asks Aldo if he’s going to accept Luigi’s offer. Guillermo advises Aldo to accept. Aldo accepts. The whole table toasts. Luigi says they’ll start the project tomorrow. Luigi will prepare an exquisite space for Aldo. Luigi wants to make it sure that this project will have nothing to do with Conceptos, because everything is pretty much going to hell. Aldo says something about not abandoning the construction of his restaurant and his book that he’s writing. Luigi calls Aldo a Pandora’s Box. He wants to know about the book. Is it a book about love. Aldo agrees and says it’s about love. It’s called “The Flavor of Life.” I suppose Aldo would like to change his and Lety’s names to “The Flavor of Life.” Luigi seductively fans himself.

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Hello friends,

I've just tagged all the recaps I did in 2005-2006 when Alborada was airing - see the sidebar. These recaps led to the birth of the "Caray, Caray!" blog - devoted, amusing readers over at Pratie Place became the original crew who first came over here with me. (See Alborada recap #29, March 2006, for first mention of the new blog.)

I hope this is of historical interest. Thanks, all.

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Scene opens with Maximo, Angel and Emilio are discussing. Emilio is telling them of his plan to bring Flor to the hacienda for the party with the hookers. Angel protests and Emilio insists that “that girl needs a lesson.” Maximo lights a cigar and asks him what he’s thinking of doing. Emilio says that he wants his friends to enjoy the natural beauty of the place, the river and a certain Wildflower. (Flor del Campo). [I don’t think this can be translated in any way that doesn’t sound ominous for Flor/Alina] Angel protests loudly and says that he’s not going to let him and his friends have their fun with this poor girl. Angel stalks off, coughing. Maximo says, “What happened ? Sounds like he’s mad.” Emilio says “My brother thinks it’s going to be a disaster, but he doesn’t even know my friends really well.” Maximo says, “Leave it to me, your friends are going to have a really great time.”

Thelma and Orlando are back at her apartment. We left her in the last episode in confusion at his telling her that the waiter who impregnated her was mentally retarded. Orlando says, I can’t believe you didn’t notice.” I was totally drunk off my ass,” says Thelma. I didn’t realize anything. Orlando says, “I imagine that this piece of information must cause you a lot of grief.” “You know, I wonder if the child you carrying will be mentally retarded like his father?” Thelma says. “Enough! You love torturing me.”

Luba is scolding Gaspar for being away. Gaspar presents her with a yellow and blue plaid flannel coat with a blue satin lining. She is enchanted and immediately becomes sweet. She tries it on. It sure looks fetching with that Mexican peasant skirt and blouse and that thing that looks like a pair of castanets around her neck. I can just see her, wearing it over that getup, smoking one of her doobies.Gaspar reaches into his bag and pulls out another present, a pink off-the-shoulder bridesmaid’s dress for Flor. Or at least it looks like a bridesmaid’s dress. Gaspar holds it up and Luba immediately turns serious. She explains that that stubborn Flor got herself hurt by going to the hacienda. She takes off the overcoat and hands it to him. She goes to check on her at the back of the cave.Flor isn’t looking so good. She complains of a fever. Luba goes to get her cures. Flor says she heard voices. “Did Emilio come back.” No Luba tells her. But Gaspar is back! Flor is happy to hear the news. She wants to see him but Luba tells her to stay put, she’ll return with the medicine.

Emilio goes to see Angel who is painting, wearing a hoodie like the Unabomber. “Why did you get mad?” asks Emilio. “Because you want to hurt that girl.” “But who is going to hurt her?” says Emilio, “I never said that.” Your friends will have their fun with her says Angel. No says Emilio, I wouldn’t permit that. Emilio says “I want Flor to realize that what she’s doing is wrong.” [I am assuming he’s referring to the reputed stealing and begging that OTHER PEOPLE have told him that she does. Uh, huh, you want to bring her to a house full of hookers and teach her she should be leading a clean and upstanding life? I’m sorry, but this makes absolutely NO SENSE at all. Or I’ve really missed something here]Angel counters, “When your friends drink, they don’t respect anyone.” Emilio shoots back, “they respect ME. They will not do anything unless I say.” Emilio tells Angel to stop worrying about this girl. Think about it. Flor is going to have advantages now that we are here. [I listened to this last sentence a bunch of times and since Emilio used the verb alegar, I think, he meant that she was going to get educational opportunities from their being there. If anyone can help me out, I’d be much obliged.]

Back to Thelma and Orlando. Orlando says, I’d better go.” “I have a lot to do.” Thelma still wants to know where Emilio is. “We have a deal. You have to wait” He says touching her face. She turns away angrily.

Adela meets with Soledad. Adela tells her that Don Loco is meeting with Hugo about the Cane Fields. Soledad wants to know if Adela has seen Alina. Adela says yes, and she’s fine. Did she tell you why she didn’t leave? Adela doesn’t know . Soledad, asks her if it’s true and says “you aren’t deceiving me?” Adela is nervous but grabs her hands and swears she’s not. I’m not sure what Adela’s up to here.

Luba is taking care of Flor/Alina’s wound. Luba is telling Flor that Emilio didn’t seem like that great a guy to her. She explained that she lied to him and told him that Flor was bad, a thief who was going to rob the hacienda, etc. because she was worried that he was a pal of Don Loco’s and that he’d tell him that Luba had befriended her. Flor shrugs. “Big deal,” she says. “Let him think what he wants. He’s not the same man that I knew. “ “The man I fell in love with I will keep here in my heart.” “ It was all so fast.” Luba is pleased with the progess her wound is making.

Emilio and Angel go back to talking about Flor. Angel says she’s just a poor girl. Emilio disagrees. “She’s not a poor little thing, she became like a fury when I tried to help her.” Angel says, “but you said she looks like Alina.” “Yes,” says Emilio, “but Alina is dead.” “And this girl is so different.” Angel says, but you have to understand, this girl didn’t have the same upbringing as Alina.” “No, says Emilio, YOU have to understand. They are very different.” He leaves in a huff.

Thelma is sobbing to her Aunt Rebeca that she’s been impregnated by a mentally retarded guy. That’s what Orlando told her. And he has no reason to lie. [Yeah, I’d trust a guy with his own transparent agenda against my lover.] Rebeca says “you’ve got a problem.” “But there’s not too much you can do, at this point, at least, unless you don’t want to marry Emilio.” “But that’s what I want most! “ Sobs Thelma.

Back at the cave, Gaspar presents the pink bridesmaid’s dress to Alina. She’s enchanted. Gaspar tells her he has a secret. He begins to tell her about his night of passion with his Munequita until Luba interrupts. She tells him to go eat and that Flor has to eat too. She hands her a plate. Luba tells her not to go back to the hacienda. Flor disagrees. She has to go back to talk to her mother. She wants to tell her that Emilio has changed.

It’s night and Santos and Rosita are meeting again secretly. Santos is talking about getting some money together so that they can marry soon. Rosita is not in such a big hurry. Santos doesn’t want her to have to work at the hacienda anymore so that she doesn’t have to be around that lech, Don Maximo. He likes it even less now that Emilio is there too. Santos tells her about the plans to bring the ladies of the evening to la Rinconada hacienda. Rosita is shocked, "to la Rinconada!" Yes, says Santos. I don’t want you to be there.

Emilio has an orange flashback about Alina/Flor in the cave, at the moment that he discovered that she wore the silver heart pendant that he gave to Alina. “Why can’t I stop thinking about Flor? He asks himself. Alina is dead!”

Alina/Flor is talking to Luba about Emilio’s noticing her heart pendant. “Are you sure he saw it?” asks Flor. “Yes says Luba.” “And he said it didn’t belong to you.” ”You’d better take it off so that he doesn’t see it again. He’s going to try to take it back to give to the Patron.” Flor refuses at first. “This pendant is mine. He gave it to me.” Luba says, “Flor, I know it’s yours. But if he sees it again, there are going to be problems.” Flor reluctantly gives her silver heart to Luba for safekeeping. She has an orange flashback of when Emilio gave it to her. She asks Luba to take good care of it. Flor says, “When I ask for it back, you will give it to me.”

Jose is still imprisoned by the drug runners. He holds a little picture of Mariana and Marianita. He has an orange flashback of the last time they were together on the day he left. Marianita tells Mariana that her little sick friend Estrellita asksed about her papa. Mariana asks if he told her anything. She says no. But she wants to know when she is going to see him. Why can’t they go look for him. Mariana puts her off and Marianita says that she’ll take all her medicine and do all her radiation treatments and THEN they can go see him.

Back in the drug runner’s jail, Jose is sitting with his hands bound. Aldo comes in and says he will take a letter to mail for Jose. He gives him paper and pencil and Jose quickly writes something and Aldo takes it but is intercepted by the drug runners. They take the letter and warn order him at gunpoint not to do it again. They can’t risk anyone finding out where they are.The stagecoach full of hookers in their short skirts and boots is on the muddy road to the hacienda. It gets stuck and Coral gets them all out so that the men can push. Lots of whistles and cat calls.


Back to the Rinconada and Emilio walks into Angel ‘s room. [Where in the heck did they find a yellow suede military old style jacket? You’d have to be confident of your manhood to wear something like that out in the country!] He touches the portrait that Angel has been working on of Flor. Angel comes in. “So when she did pose for you?” Emilio asks. “No,” says Angel. “I did it from memory.” “She left that much of an impression. “She’s a sweet girl,” says Angel. “Sweet!?” says Emilio. “How do you know if you don’t even know here?” There’s a knock at the door. “Come in.” coughs Angel. It’s the maid, Vera. She announces that Emilio’s guests have arrived. He tells her to show them to their rooms. He’ll be there to greet them in a minute. When Vera leaves, Emilio turns back to Angel and says “I hope you’ll behave well with my friends.” Angel tells him not to worry. After Emilio leaves, he turns to Flor’s picture and thought bubbles, “I won’t let anyone make fun of you.”

Maximo sneaks up behind Rosita while she’s cleaning and grabs her around the waist and begins to assault her. She tries to fight him off. Angel happens to come into the room at that moment and asks what’s going on. Maximo lets go of Rosita and she runs out of the room. “What bad timing you have, nephew!” says Maximo, annoyed. “You were going to take that girl by force, eh?” says Angel. Maximo gives a look of consternation. “What are you going to tell me about women?” “I know what I’m doing.” (Yo se mi cuento.) Angel looks troubled as Maximo walks away.

Emilio is necking with Coral. She’s wearing a short denim skirt and a fetching white blouse tied up like a halter top. He asks her if she likes her room. She thinks it’s great but she’d be happy to be in a hut so long as she could be with him. She tells him that there are four girls with her. She says she tried to get five but the four she got will liven things up, or something like that.

Looking way over dressed, in her pink bridesmaids dress and bare feet or maybe sandals, Alina/Flor is handing out cough syrup to a bunch of little kids brought by the Priest. The priest thanks her and says she should be resting. She says no, who else would give the kids their cough medicine? [I Dunno, maybe the Priest? Luba? Geez, I hope that’s only a cold and not tuberculosis.] Gaspar gets in line on his knees and pretends to be one of the kids in line. When Flor gets to him, she laughs and says, Gaspar! you don’t have a cough! [Yuk Yuk Yuk]


Maximo is talking to Emilio in what appears to be the study of the hacienda rinconada. [Aside: I love these telenovela rich guy studies, with their huge desks and fancy furniture. Oh, and ubiquitous cut crystal decanter full of brandy and matching glasses! I aspire to an office like that some day. Emilio’s even has a globe. Sorry…back to the story.]

Maximo asks if they should invite Don Alvaro Montellano to the fiesta. Emilio says, hey why not. He really seems to hate this illegitimate daughter of his. He has people shooting at her with shotgun pellets. He makes her live in a cave with a witch and mentally retarded guy. [Idiota, in this case I think is the more scientific definition, person of a certain low IQ]. “Nephew,” says Maximo, “that doesn’t prove that she’s his bastard daughter.” “I’m sure she is,” says Emilio. “And knowing that he hates her, you still want to bring her to the party?” asks Maximo. “Yes, I do.” Says Emilio. Maximo puts down his glass of brandy. “I think you like the little thief!” “I will admit she’s pretty” says Emilio. “And she looks like a woman I once knew.” “I’d like to bring her to the fiesta to teach her a lesson but I doubt she will come.” “Oh, no,” says Maximo. “She’ll come. I will arrange it.” “Tonight this party will have Alvaro Montellano and Flor del Campo.”

Maximo goes to Don Loco’s place to invite him to the fiesta. He tells him he has to go to the party because Emilio believes that Alina is dead. If he doesn’t come, Emilio may start thinking that maybe she’s not….[Please, somebody, does this make any sense at all? Maybe it doesn’t have to since Maximo only has to convince Don Loco who is already off his head paranoid.] Maximo also asks if Don Loco reached an agreement with the authorities. Loco says yes, it was expensive but in the end, they made a deal. “Convince yourself, Maximo. Here in Sierra Escondida, I am in control.” Says Don Loco.

Elsewhere at Don Loco’s, Soledad is lighting candles in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Alvaro enters and she gets up and walks away. He announces that they are going to a party at the Rinconada Hacienda. And she’d better behave. And remember, to say that Alina, their daughter is dead.


Thelma and Orlando are talking. Thelma asks what his game is. Orlando says he’s doing it to eliminate a powerful rival. “That’s all.”


Rosita and Alina are walking along the river. Alina in her pink dress and Rosita in blue. Rosita is complaining about how Don Maximo tried to rape her again but that Angel saved her. Alina asks, why don’t you leave that place? “I need the money ” Rosita says. Alina says, “I don’t know what to tell you Rosita.” Rosita says, hopefully she and Santos can marry and they can leave that place forever.

Emilio comes to Luba’s cave looking for Flor to invite her to the fiesta. Luba’s rude to him. At first she says that Alina’s doing badly and has a high fever. She’s sleeping. When Emilio pokes back the curtain to see and she’s not there, Luba feigns surprise and chagrin that she’s gone again. Emilio goes out saying he knows she hangs out around the river.

He meets up with Angel who is just arriving on horseback, coughing his head off. Emilio is ticked. He tells Angel that she’s not there. Angel barely gets a word out for all the coughing. Emilio knows why he is there, to warn her to stay away from the fiesta. He orders Angel to come back with him to La Rinconada. Emilio accuses of him of betraying him. Angel gets more worked up and coughs some more but he manages to get out that he thinks that Emilio is doing worse by trying to take away someone’s freedom. And he’s used to getting away whatever he wants. “We’re not going to argue here” Says Emilio. “Let’s go back to the hacienda.” They mount their horses.

Alina/Flor is walking with Gaspar and she tells him that she used to wear dresses like that when she was Alina Montellano. Gaspar tells her she looks like his munequita. Alina says she’s not, that the muequitas walk like this. (She does a little hip swiveling sexy walk which makes me think that she has figured out that by munequitas, Gaspar means prostitutes.) Alina asks him how he knew this dress would fit her so well? Gaspar says his munequita had one just like it, only red. [As I recall, Thelma’s dress was a evening length sheath with a slit up the thigh and a cleavage revealing halter top. I think it had rhinestones too. The pink dress that he got for Alina is a tea length off the shoulder number with a tight bodice and cap sleeves. It resembles Thelma’s dress as much as Bo Peep’s outfit resembles Marilyn Monroe’s dress in “The Seven Year Itch.” ]

Gaspar points at her breasts and she slaps his hand away embarrassed. Gaspar wants to tell her about his night of passion with Thelma again but he admits that his mom doesn’t want him talking about it. “Well then, we won’t” says Alina.


Soledad and Adela are talking, with Soledad sitting at her dressing table getting ready for the party. Adela is telling her how beautiful she looks. She should always fix herself up like that. Adela tells her she should have fun tonight. Ifigenio, from la Riconada told her that some friends of Emilio are there and some girls. “Oh, how nice!” Says Soledad,” I’ll be able to talk to some ladies.” [Somehow I don’t think Coral and her Friends are what Soledad is thinking of.]
Meanwhile, Coral and her friends are cavorting around a room getting ready for the party. One of them is complaining about how far away they are and that there isn’t even phone service. She’s glad they are getting paid.


Gaspar and Alina approach Don Loco’s hacienda. She asks him to ask for Adela and if Adela isn’t around, to ask for Nora. Gaspar gets distracted. “Nora’s pretty!” says the now girl crazy Gaspar. Alina is exasperated and tries to get him to repeat her instructions but he’s all confused. She sends him off finally hoping he’ll get it right. She wants to talk to her mom, but also wants to know if her dad is around.


Emilio and Angel are back at the hacienda, fighting about Alina/Flor. Emilio challenges Angel’s manhood. Angel shoots back,” is that what it means to you to be a man? Hanging out with a bunch of dancers and taking advantage of a innocent girl?” They start yelling. Angel starts coughing but manages to say, that he’s more of a man than he is. He says he’s made a decision. He’s breaking all ties with Emilio. He’s leaving him alone with his friends. He starts up the stairs, coughing all the way. Emilio gets even madder. He yells after him, “the sooner the better.”

Maximo is talking to Ifigenio and Castulo, two workers at the hacienda. He says he’s going to give a present to his nephew Emilio. He’s going to get Flor del Campo to the fiesta. He hands them a stack of cash. He sits them down to hear his instructions.Don Loco is talking to Hugo back at his hacienda,

Don Loco is getting ready for the party. He is worried about having accepted the invitation and having told the lie that Alina is dead. “What if they see Alina? asks Hugo. Don Loco spritzes himself with cologne. Hugo says he probably won’t see him, he’s leaving very early in the morning for the Cane Fields. Don Loco tells him to send Mariana money, but to tell her not to ask for more, that he’s not rich. [I guess not after paying all those bribes!] Also, to tell her not to come to the hacienda under any circumstances. “Tell her that I’m always travelling, it’s hard to find me,” etc. Hugo agrees and reiterates that he’s loyal to Don Alvaro. Don Alvaro says something like, and I expect you to continue to be. Alvaro returns to grousing about the party and his wife.

Nora and Gaspar are talking. She tells him that the Senora isn’t at the hacienda, they left she doesn’t no where.

When Gaspar goes, Sergio goes up to Nora and asks her why she was talking to “that guy.” He sounds jealous. Nora takes the opportunity to taunt him by saying that Gaspar is very handsome (“bien guapote.”) “Too bad he is bad in the head.”

Two men show up in brush where Alina is waiting. Donkey goes after them defend her and the men beat him with sticks and rocks until the poor dog is lying on the ground. They grab Alina screaming about Donkey and carry her away.

Emilio, in his bathrobe is getting ready for the party. Maximo comes in and announces that Flor will be at the party. Emilio asks how and Maximo is evasive. With the help of some freinds, they’ve assured that she’ll be there. “You know, says Emilio, I’ve been thinking about giving up the idea in order to make peace [presumably with Angel]. Maximo gets mad that Emilio is backing out. Maximo says there’s no going back now. Emilio agrees and says he’ll be glad to see the look on Don Alvaro’s face when he sees his bastard daughter. They talk about how Angel will react and Emilio remarks that Angel is really worked up about this girl. Maximo says “Ah, Angelito likes the girl!” He puts his arm around Emilio and says, “That’s good, because I was starting to think…no, forget it.” He says, and laughs. He walks away calling, “THE GOOD NEWS IS MY NEPHEW LIKES GIRLS!” [I guess if you’re a guy and you aren’t assaulting the staff and visiting the whorehouse every night in Sierra Escondida, you must be gay.]

Gaspar finds Donkey and cries that he’s dead. He carries him back to the cave.

Angel and Emilio are chatting before the fiesta. [At least Emilio got rid of that yellow suede jacket and is now in a linen jacket and nice white shirt. It’s now Angel who is looking artistic in a dark blue jacket with a lot of buttons. ] Angel is still argumentative. He tells Emilio, “I don’t think things are going to turn out the way you planned. Alvaro Montellano has already arrived with his wife.” Cue the ominous music. Emilio is impactado. [Why I’m not exactly sure. It’s not like he had the arrival of Alina, Don Loco and Soledad timed to the minute.]


Gaspar arrives at the cave and tells Luba that some men carried off Flor and killed Donkey. Luba takes a look at Donkey and says he’s not dead! She can cure him! Back to the tense conversation between Emilio and Angel. It turns out that Emilio was impactado because he didn’t think that Soledad was going to be there. He is still thinking that Flor is the product of some hanky panky by Don Loco and one of the local girls. He didn’t want to bring Dona Soledad into it. He’s sure that she won’t be happy to see Flor. Angel shakes his head. “Flor isn’t coming.” Angel says, “That’s what you think.” Uncle Maximo “assures me that she will says Emilio.” “Tonight she will take the place of honor at the dinner table.”


Alina/Flor is in a storage room by herself, crying about Donkey. She has an orange flashback of the men beating him. Santos enters. She cries out ‘Santos! “Where am I?” Santos explains that she is in the basement of La Rinconada. “What am I doing here?” Santos says that Don Maximo ordered that she be brought there. “WHY?” So that she can be with his nephew Emilio. “Don’t worry” Santos assures her. “I’ll be watching and I’ll make sure that nobody does anything to hurt you.” She tells him tearfully. “They killed my dog!” Santos shakes his head. “Desgraciados!” Back to the Cave. Gaspar storms off to try to save Flor. Luba tries to stop him but fails. She prays to the picture of the Virgin to take care of Gaspar. He’s capable of killing the Patron!


Back to Angel and Emilio arguing. “It’s too late to change my plans” says Emilio. “I know” says Angel, coughing. “But be careful that one day this doesn’t all come back to haunt you.” [I couldn’t quite catch the next phrase. Something like “to become embittered” or to purse innocent girls.”] Angel says “so what I told you did sink in.” “You love me, even when I tell you the truth. I love you too, you are my brother, my only family. It hurts me that you are about to do an injustice to Flor.” Angel grabs Emilio’s shoulder for emphasis. “One day you are going to regret this injustice.” Emilio retorts, “What injustice?” “So you’ve turned into stone?” says Angel. “ I hope you haven’t fallen in love?” “Fallen in love?” asks Emilio surprised. “With who?” Angel shrugs? “I don’t know, with some honest girl.” “Did you think I was going to say…” “Flor? Asks Emilio. “And why not,?” asks Angel. Emilio’s getting angry at this point. “You are already so obsessed with her you don’t even want the suggestion that you might be in love with her” Angel says. Emilio tells Angel to get out and after he does, he says to the air, “I am not in love with Flor.” He throws something at the door for emphasis.

The girls are sitting around moping with Coral. Coral warns them that if they don’t play nice, they won’t get paid.


Angel goes down to receive the guests. He’s talking to Soledad. Soledad tells him that “before she died” her daughter told her a lot about Emilio. She’d like to talk to Emilio alone, if possible and asks Angel if he can make it happen. She wants to talk to him without her husband around. She explains that Alvaro doesn’t like it when she talks about Alina. Angel nods.V


Vera the maid brings a bunch of makeup, a comb and a mirror to help the unenthusiastic Alina pretty up before the fiesta.


Gaspar is at the Don Loco’s Hacienda, he is intercepted but demands to see Flor. He pushes off the two men and Adela approaches him and she tells them to let him go and to let her talk to him alone. After they leave, she swears to him that Flor is not there.

Angel is still talking to Soledad. He tells her that maybe she should tell her husband she’s sick and go home. Really, she shouldn’t have come. This party is only for the men. At that point, Emilio walks up to Soledad and welcomes her. Soledad tells him that she really wants to talk to him about her daughter Alina. Just then, across the room, Don Loco calls out—go ahead Soledad, we’re all listening.


Luba is back at the cave praying and stirring one of her potions. Gaspar goes back to the Cave, crying that he doesn’t know where Flor is.


For Soledad, the jig is up! Soledad makes some small talk and retreats. Don Loco comes up to her and grabs her arm and walks her out when Emilio offers to show her the garden.
Angel notes Soledad’s strange behavior and how she seems to be afraid of her husband.


Alina/Flor is talking to Vera the maid. Vera is telling her that Don Maximo brought her especially to please his nephew Emilio. Alina says, “he could have asked.” Vera tells her he probably wants her to meet his friends. Alina complains that she doesn’t want to meet them and she turns to leave. Vera tells her not to, that for sure they will stop her.


Emilio is showing Soledad and Don Loco the view and points out how they will be building a highway through there. Don Loco not fond of that. He says that they don’t need such modern things. [Yeah, how are you going to be able to kidnap people and hold hostages when cell phones and roads are easily accessible in Sierra Escondida?]


Emilio lets the couple go on ahead while he consults with one of the workmen. He confirms that they have Flor, she’s in the basement of the Hacienda.


Don Loco harasses Soledad about her attempt to talk to Emilio about Alina. They go back to Emilio and all three head back inside for the party.


Back at Luba’s cave, Luba and Gaspar are having a frantic conversation about Flor’s whereabouts. Suddenly it dawns on Luba where Flor is.


Santos arrives at Rosita and her Daddy Braulio’s house. She says that Flor needs their help.
Back at the Rincondada they are serving dinner, with Angel, Maximo, Soledad and Don Loco at the table. Emilio, sitting at the head of the table announces that he has decided for the occasion to invite a local girl, humble of origin to dinner. Don Maximo interrupts to say not to expect a fine lady. Emilio says she’s “like a Cinderella” and it’s good for her so that she can learn to comport herself like a lady. Soledad also begins to interrupt but Don Loco cuts her off and explains that since the death of their daughter, his wife has become “embittered.” [Yeah, guy, she oughta be bitter at you for locking her up for 2 years]. Emilio calls to Santos to bring in the girl. It’s Alina, in her pink dress and her hair combed for once. Don Loco and Soledad are impactado. Everybody stands up.

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We get to savor, again, the Banana's realization that she is now secretary to, not Don Humberto, but Lety! No puede ser! "Hey, it isn't April Fool's Day, don't fool around like this. This must be a nightmare! Luigi, pinch me! Ow, not that hard!" Assured it's fact, the Banana is in collapse.

Fern grins, the other shareholders are disgruntled. Alicia begs Marcia: "Don't leave me in Her clutches! I just insulted her dad out there!" Told that tomorrow Lety will decide who stays and who gets fired, Luigi wraps his arms around Alicia's massive, uh, ribcage, as far as they will go; both sob as Fern smiles and waves.

In the hall the cuartel cheers, air is pumped. Alicia scowls at them as they gloat over their newly influential friend. "Lambisconas (see below)! In the novelas they also fire the gossips."

Fern slams the door in Omar's face, then both bundle into the office. Fern mopes: "Lety's a new person, she surely still detests me, she's going to fire both of us." One-note Omar suggests that a reconquest would solve this problem nicely. "Shut up for once in your life, Omar, your advice is idiotic. The wagon has left - it's too late for that." "But if you're fired today, tomorrow you can lose your car, your house, your club membership..."

Alicia is sobbing in Marcia's office. "I won't be able to sleep tonight and I can't afford a sleeping pill, much less a bottle of booze to help me forget my bad luck." Lety enters. "What are YOU doing here?" Alicia snarls. Lety asks her to clear out. "As you order, Licenciada," is the sarcastic reply, but Lety calmly ignores the sarcasm, waits for her to leave, and begins.

"From now on, Marcia, we'll have to talk together a lot and work as a team." "All you care about is getting revenge against me and Fern." "If that's what I wanted, I'd never have given the business back. I asked you to stay because the business needs you and so do I. You're fundamental." "But you hate me!" "No, I never hated you, even when you fired me, much less now." "Well, I never liked you. And what you did to me was much worse than what I did to you." "Of course it was. I shouldn't have gotten involved with Fern, and believe it or not, both you and I ended up losing." Marcia smirks as she announces: "Fern and I have resumed our relationship." (Cut to Fern, alone, dreaming of Lety.) "We're trying to put back together what you destroyed." "Congratulations. History won't repeat itself - I'm remaking my life and, truly, I don't want to be around Fern, don't worry."

The cuartel continues to speculate: who will be fired tomorrow? Surely the Oxy? They've been deprived of the inside scoop for months now and their appetite for gossip is beyond ravenous.

The Oxy says when she's fired she won't go hungry, she has important friends who've made her incredible job offers. She won't be in tears - she'll go home, sit in her Jacuzzi with ice cream and caviar and white wine, and listen to "cultured music, like Bach or Mozart or Beethoven or Paquita La Del Barrio [see below]."



She and Helmet-head then sashay in tandem over to Marcia's office. "When should I offer my resignation?" Marcia's head hurts and she doesn't want to think about it. Helmet-head wants to eat ("I'm starving!" enthuses Alicia) and invites Marcia. "Or maybe you'd rather be with Fern? ("Or maybe you're panicked he'll see Her," suggests Alicia.) "Now that She's back, you'll have to learn to manage your life well," lectures Helmet-head.

The feas have decided on a Girls Night Out with Lety to celebrate her ascension. Simon whines that he wants to go along. PM says no. Simon surmises they'll be going to an antro (which those of us following Mundo de Fieras know as a strip-joint/pole-dancing club). PM says no, it will be someplace quiet...

Meanwhile Aldo is dining at "Candelabria" with Caro, who is, distressingly, wearing ultra-tight beaded pigtails and as much makeup as Joan Rivers, almost as much as Jocelyn. [She looks like a scarecrow, who did this to her and why?] Aldo is yakking cheerfully about Lety. "I wanted to tell her right away how I've fallen so completely in love with her, but I saw she was in a difficult situation and it wasn't the right moment for a declaration." Caro says, be patient. "Yes, things have to come at their right time no matter how much we want them sooner. Love turns us into teenagers. I was always lousy at wooing women, and now especially Lety, who is so special. I don't want to upset her, I'll have to wait for exactly the right time."

The cuartel can't wait to party down. "If we leave a little early, that's ok - cause WE'RE with the PRESIDENT." Marta wonders aloud if the infamous wedding cancellation had been connected somehow to Lety's leaving, Lety makes the worried puckered-O mouth. The feas say "We'll gossip all night and you'll tell us everything."

Yazmin waits for Lopez. Seeing her, he licks his paw, rubs it over his bald head and non-existent combover, and then meatily grabs her hand with his licked paw (YECH!). He says: "I don't write the checks, but I can help ... let's go someplace we can relax." (Guácala!) Yazmin agrees.

Lety appears and tells Yazmin she'll cut a check tomorrow and take care of everything. Lopez hurries to add, "But, Yazmin, we need to discuss it anyway..."

Luigi enters and shrieks to see Lety. Hearing she's going to help Yazmin, he suggests sarcastically that they light a candle to Saint Lety.

He then tells Yazmin she can have her job back: he needs her to model underwear. Lola goes ballistic. The cuartel say Lety would have to approve a re-hiring. Luigi says "I'm completely independent and can do what I want, or I'll quit." Yazmin telephones her boyfriend, Lola's husband, whom she calls Skinny (he's aka El Cheque), to gloat; she strokes her thigh as she coos to him, dissing "the menopausal one" (Lola). Flaquito/El Cheque asks to speak to Lola. "You have to stop harrassing me, if you interfere with Yazmin getting her job back, there won't be money for the kids, blah blah..."

Lety appears and Lola complains to her about Yazmin. Lety says she has more important things to worry about. She utters the words she will use to deflect the cuartel's suppositions, requests, and demands through the rest of the episode: "Later! Later!"

Hearing that Lety will solve her problem tomorrow, Yazmin walks out on Lopez.

As Fern is slipping out of the office Marcia bustles up behind him. "Are you leaving?" "Yes, there's nothing more for me to do." "Where are you going?" "I dunno." "Alicia and your mother and I are meeting at a restaurant, do you want to join us?" "OK" "And what will you be doing before that?" "I dunno."

The cuartel charges through the hall; because Lety is with them, Marcia kisses Fern ostentatiously. Lety and Fern stare at each other. "Those two (Marcia and Fern) are so amorous!" giggles one of the girls. Marcia gets in the elevator with the Feas, expecting Fern to pile in too, but he says, "it's full, and anyway you'll probably be talking about that woman stuff." When the elevator door closes he staggers and makes a little prayer which I didn't understand.

Simon is still whinging down in reception as the cuartel emerges from the elevator discussing where they'll go to party, and how they'll manage without a car. Then Fern steps out of the elevator alone... He and Lety exchange an electric glance... The feas march between them and then away... Fern has a chance to say something to Lety... Does he? No, he does not. She follows behind the feas, slooowwwwlllyy... He had his chance.

Left behind, of course Simon continues moaning: "They say they're going somewhere quiet, but I don't believe them, you know how they are!" Fern: "It's not that I'm curious but that, that, that ... that that that... where are they going?" "I dunno, somewhere they can eat, drink, dance, make out..." "Make out??!!?" (Ligarse)

Fern continues: "Simon, you're so elegant, well dressed, perfumed, tell me, what are you going to do tonight? Want to toss down a couple whiskeys with me?" Simon got an A in impactado class, he is super thrilled, especially because Fern will pick up the tab. They discuss how good they both look, and Simon asks whether they should take his motorbike or Fern's car. Fern: "Oh, you want us to look like we're delivering pizzas?" (Simon pouts.) "Sorry, sorry, no, your bike is beautiful, precious, a veritable steed (Simon beams), but my car will be more comfortable." Spouting French and Italian, Simon combusts with pride. "From here to - the presidency!" he thought-bubbles out loud.

All the girls pile out of one taxi at some dump PM has chosen. They expect Lety to pay, but she only has 30 pesos. Why? "I left Conceptos without a cent and I've spent all my savings." They each dig up a few coins for the driver. The place looks awful. Marta says if her hubby saw it he wouldn't let her go in, but they're there, enough talk already: "So much singing and no opera! Let's go!" They tell Lety she needs a car, a super-car like her boyfriend's. "And you'll help us with loans! And you need a cellphone!" "Conceptos is in crisis. Later, later, later."

Luigi rushes into Candelabria, the restaurant where Aldo is bending Caro's ear about Lety. Delighted to see Caro, he drools a bit when introduced to Aldo and starts flirting. He flirts harder after Caro says, "My 'friend' is a world-renowned chef, Aldo Domenzain." Luigi hyperventilates, "Oh, that's lovely, I'm world-renowned also, I'm a famous movie director, I won a prize at Cannes." "I'm honored to meet you," says Aldo in a friendly manner. Luigi, emitting a fog of pheremones: "Ah, you're gorgeous, you have great skin." Aldo, graciously: "Thanks." Ruli calls and Luigi blows him off. He invites himself to have dinner with Caro and Aldo.

He turns to Caro and gushes: "You'll never believe who's the new president of Conceptos! It's the PLATYPUS! Leticia Nightmare (Padilla/Pesadilla) Solis! A horror!" And in a fatal aside to Aldo: "Oh, sorry, but the fact is she's really ugly." Aldo's eyes narrow - he lifts his chin - he starts to rise - and - oh, too bad! - the Golden Circle of Goodbye appears and the show is over. A continuación...

Lamibiscón: gluttonous, toadying, fawning. Bola de lambisconas = bunch of flatterers.

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One of our readers wrote: "Speaking of hunks, I am recommending that you all might want to try a new novela that just started on Jan 15--Acorralada. You haven't missed much yet. Perhaps we will want to start a new recap section. However, it is on in the afternoon, so you will have to record it if you're not home.

"I was casting about for a new novela to watch, and I didn't like the other nighttime shows. I am recording this one in the afternoon. This show is not as dark and violent as some of the others. I am new to novela land, as I just started watching LFMB on a whim last summer because I heard about the American version and I am studying Spanish. I enjoy the comic tone, but it appears that such style is not the usual."

If you're interested, drop me a line. We'll take anything you care to send - one a week, a periodic summary, whatever. Ferro started La Fea that way - he just took it on himself, and wrote up as much of it as he wanted and put it up.

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**********Hottie Disclaimer*********
In the on going "Battle of the Buffs", I gotta throw in a claim for Demian...granted he is not as aesthetically pleasing as the LFMB boys, but he brings a certain life experience with him....Besides he has that "one hit wonder" 80's haircut & I am so taken back to the days of my mis-spent youth. Instead of "when a man loves a woman"...our song could be "I Think We Are Alone Now". JC, I will address your burning hawtness later. PS. Omar & Fernando don't hate me, but I gotta root for the home team.

Well we open with a rehash of Dolores trying to convince Regina that all is well with JC. Dolores is well aware that JC has leukemia and she does not want to out him, therefore she feels quite dismayed lying to his mother, her best friend. Well Dolores this is a bit of a moral dilemma, I have no advice, since you are not getting a thirteen year old birth-control (that was in Dear Abby this past weekend, but actually she was seventeen)...

Now Miriam, Gabe and Nic go to try and spring Rog...too late he will have to spend the nite in prison...Egads, Rog has a suck personality under the best of conditions...I just don't see him hangin with the homies in OZ.

MA is visiting Otilla, who is all complementary and wants a Flacita MA to model in her show. MA is keen on the idea, realizes how badly it will upset her housemates.
Now to Miriam, Joselyn & Karen...I always get this "Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble" when I see the three "Weird Sisters" together. They are looking at some fashion drawings of Karen's. Ahh they are bellisima fashions for "Skanks R US". They decide to sabotage Otilla's fashion show...Now much hair twirling and cackling.

Gabe goes to see MA, she is a traitor cause she voted with Demian to merge the LOS DOS CONSTRUCTIONES. Gabe picks this as perfect opportunity to once again tell her how much he loves her. "You are my world" now flip the words around "My world is you" Nope MA is not having any of this nonsense, he hurt her and she will never forgive him. Once again her lips are saying NO...but damn everything else is saying yes, yes, yes..Nope Nada Nothing...He is all, you know you love me...in his best "Barry White Baritone". Almost a kiss...lips so close, they were actually splitting oxygen atoms. Nope she pulls back..(MA, in HS, girls like that got the reputation of being a tease). With tears streaming down her seamless make-up, MA tells Jack to hit the road.

Things are not going well for Rog in the Big House, he is being bullied by some toughs..yep there is Coyote...actually he is looking kinda hawt, in a prison be my pen pal kind of way. The boys start in Rog, for being a rich kid, they shove a cigarette in his mouth..I expect at any moment some huge guy to say "Boy, you got a real pretty mouth", in an Alabama accent.

Okay Okay, I can't hold out any longer...time to cut to the world's happiest couple...***Gawd am I the only person, who hates, yes seriously hates, their theme song and must it be played so loud that all the cheesy little figurines on my entertainment center do the hustle everytime it comes on***
It is our beloved's second anniversary, just typing that makes me feel like yes Spring is coming. JC covers up the fact that he is ill, by making the usual mindless banter with Paulina. Yes they are so in love, let's go to the beach and start our new lives.

*****JC commentary*****
He is clean shaven...maybe he was before and I didn't notice or maybe it is the chemo. JC is so pretty he is ethereal; like maybe his father was really Apollo, which could explain that burnished skin. I think the Greeks believed and I also read this in the "Thornbirds" years ago, that if a human is too pretty and too happy the Gods will rip it all away from jealousy. So try as you may Leo; JC's oracle may have already been Delphi'd.

That takes us to Leo who is guess what? Yes nailing a picture of the "Virgin Mary", to the wall at his Naco Health Clinic. Another guy comes in and the talk turns to love...***Yes I am well aware that in the secret world of Men, that is all they ever talk about, deep heart felt love, hair, fashion and if Angelina & Brad will marry***
Anyway Leo yammers on about MA...I'm sorry I couldn't follow this cause it is always the same lament...

Now let's go to Candelabra's house of Nacaness...MA is there with Luis David...Candelabra is talking how they are MA's familia; she needs to forget Gabe.
Leo comes in flashin his bedazzeled jacket... he decides to get everything out on the table. Leo tells MA that her heart is with Gabe and that she loves him and that she should try and work it out with Gabe. MA scoffs this in the beginning, but Leo persists and there is not a dry eye in the departmento.

Meanwhile, Dolores & Nic Nye the science guy are having a discussion about the merits of remote contols...Ahhh Demian Nic is on to you. Nic wants Dolores to go the police, but alas she can not until she makes sure Tiberto is not involved.

Demian is sittin around the Evil Mansion, in his study. He is running his finger around the top of a brandy sniffer, making the glass sing in a disturbing high pitch whine...Dogs thru out Mexico DF must be howling. As if summoning Tiberto, he appears, I'm expecting "you rang master?".

Demain tells Tiberto he must go see young Rog down in juvie hall the next day and express Demian's displeasure with Rog voting against the merger. Demian then says that he is going out. Tiberto is like "At this hour? Where are you going?" Poor Tiberto, I guess that Father & Son soapbox derby car is gonna have to be put off for another time. Demian answers he is just going out and tell Regina he had to go do some work. Demian leaves and Tiberto takes the glass and begins to make the sing..Ahhh Tiberto looks happy.

Demian is having dinner with her...by her I mean cloying skanky Joselyn...yuck...she acting all breathless and sexy drinking her wine and Demian is seriously chomping at the bit...if he was any more excited that eyepatch woulda snapped like a sling-shot and possibly killed Joselyn across the table.

Nic & Dolores come into the Evil House and Regina comes down to greet them, alas the wife is always the last to know.

Gabe is at his apartment re-playing the office scene between he and MA for the thirty-fifth time in his head...He loves her...She will be his, oh yes she will be his. Then he thinks back on "Noche de Passion", ewwww not again, that whole thing just creeps me out, he is all sprawled on the bed. the Joselyn/MA interchanging....shut-up and stop wondering, some guys go their whole life waiting for something like that....No seriously, don't you think he should put the pieces together...Lord man, you can't remember anything, you are not an alcoholic nor a drug user...figure it out...for the Love of God, why can't Nic Nye Science Guy figure this out, he knows the details as Gabe will tell anyone who will listen.

Now in a hotel room Demian is buttoning up his shirt, skank Joselyn is sitting at the table. I know Demian does not look drugged, but I can't believe my Demian would do something like that. I have faith in you Demian, I know Joselyn led you astray.

Meanwhile MA is at the Good Mansion in bed with Luis David, she is yammering on and on to the kid about the whole Dad thing...for the love of Gawd the kid has enough to worry about with the bad heart.

The maid is down the hall with Joselyn's kid, who apparently never sleeps and cries like 24-7, MA comes in to see what's up. She takes the baby from the maid & profoundly states the baby has a fever, rushes out for meds and in the next scene the kid is sleeping like a little angel. That kid is some actor. MA feels a strange bond to the kid. She remarks on what a fine little kid he is.

JC & Paulina are celebrating their anniversary, by riding in a double decker tour bus thru Mexico DF...yeah whatever. Oh look there is the angel statue. That is the angel of Independence, right on the main drag Reforma, I got some awesome shots of the statue when we were stuck in endless traffic earlier this month. It appears to be pretty cold, but our lovebirds are sitting right up on top, not talking cause yes my figurines are crazy dancing again to the love song. So since they couldn't talk over the music, JC & Paulina just kiss alot. I am totally glad that the God's did not decide to make the statue fall on them.

Joselyn returns home, Miriam tries to talk to her, but she rushes upstairs...Oh no I just remember, Demian now has two jewels in the triple crown....if he nails Karen he has a trifecta.

Next day...Tiberio is talking to Rog at the prison. He tells him Demian is most displeased with Rog, then Tiberto is like "Have a Nice Day" snicker snicker.
He leaves and Coyote grabs Rog....Oh yeah Coyote wants to know about the Demian connection, cause Miriam, Joselyn & Demian have left him to rot in jail....Vengence, he is gonna tell all to Rog.

Once again at the office, Gabe is talking about how his kids are his primary concern. MA is a bit skittish, but I believe he is wearing her down. I believe he may wear her down as long as he doesn't bring up a threesome with Joselyn.

Now finally the Weird Sisters are gathered and cackling over a key to Otillas.

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Sergio is pleased with himself after shooting Alina in the leg, Alina whimpers and slides along the ground to get away. She is acting like both of her legs don’t work, dragging herself with just her arms.

Mariana is awake in the middle of the night worrying about where Jose is. Malena tells her to pray.

Emiliooooo strikes a dramatic pose in the middle of the forest in the dark as he recalls making out with Alina. He asks out loud for Alina to forgive him for all of the bad thoughts he had about her.

Alina cries that she can’t go any further.

Soledad walks into her room in a towel, fresh from the shower. Don Loco enters the room, you can tell by his hat that it’s him. He really is a caricature of a ‘bad guy’, you see him coming by the shape of his silhouette, the big cowboy hat. He tells Soledad that she’s pretty and she ignores him. He manages to put in a crack about her being a traitor but she is his, only his. He always loved her. She says no, a man who loved would never do the bad things he does. Ya think? She says again that Alina is his daughter, she wants to prove it with DNA. He says ok. Really? He says yes, whatever she wants, and goes to kiss her. She says no, not yet, not until her innocence is proven and he makes up for his cruelty, then they can talk about being together. He leaves and she sits down to have a good cry. She thanks the virgin, our show’s sponsor.

Thelma and her aunt try and figure out where Emilio is. The aunt mentions how Orlando knows that the baby isn’t Emilio’s, Thelma says that he knows all her secrets, she is in his hands. I hate to say it, because her character is so awful, but Thelma is the sexiest lady on the show. Perhaps it is because she is the only one that gets to dress attractively, but still.

Angel is wondering where Emilioooo is. The servant says it is dangerous outside at night, so maybe something happened. Again something about not getting out alive from the forest at night.

Emilio is striking a different, but equally dramatic, pose in the forest again. He has found a shaft of moonlight to light his face while he ponders.

Thelma flashes back to Gaspar getting busy with her back at the whorehouse.

Angel asks the servant about Flor, yes she knows her. Angel asks who her parents are. The servant has no idea.

Alina whimpers some more and tells the dog not to worry. She has made something to stop the bleeding from some plants. She sends Donkey off to find Rosita.

Don Loco, he who is so concerned with married people remaining faithful, is at some bar with a girl on his lap. She is trying to kiss him or something but he is too busy smoking to be bothered. Maximo comes in and joins him. The girl leaves. Maximo asks him what he is thinking about. He tells Maximo of his conversation with Soledad. He goes over all of his ‘proof’ of her guilt. He doesn’t know what to think, but he will get the blood test. Maximo thinks he is being a wimp. Maximo says if he takes her anywhere for that she’ll accuse him of keeping her locked up and he’ll get in trouble. Hmm, never thought of that, says Don Loco. I guess his two minutes of being sensible have ended. Too bad, but if he found out he was Alina’s father the show would be over already, shortest novela ever.

Thelma and her aunt can’t sleep. Thelma was having a bad dream again about Gaspar. Aunt tells her to forget about him, but she can’t. She is worried that the baby will be like him. She says she was thinking of an abortion. The Aunt, what a wonderful influence she is, says “How can you obligate Emilio to marry you if you aren’t pregnant?”

Maximo returns home, where Angel is drawing. He can’t believe that Emilio hasn’t returned yet. Angel says he went to talk to Don Loco about Alina, Maximo tells him that Alina died. Angel coughs. I think that should have been the name of the show, “Angel Coughs” sort of like “Jesus Wept.”

Donkey finds Rosita and her boyfriend (Santos, right?) making out in the dark somewhere. I guess they aren’t afraid of “nobody getting out alive” from the forest at night. Rosita says “Lassie, what’s wrong? Is Timmy stuck in a well?” From two barks of the dog, the couple determine something is wrong with Alina and they follow Donkey away. I wish this really was Donkey, we need the comic relief. Bark Bark Bark “What is it Donkey?” “You know what everybody like? Parfaits!” ha ha ha ha

Don Loco (again you can tell due to the shadow of his hat) sneaks into Soledad’s room in the dark to mumble things about loving her, she won’t do it to him any more, whatever. She wakes up, he accuses her of the DNA test being a trick to turn him in to the authorities, etc. She tells him that he’s sick. He says yes, sick, but not stupid. He leaves, she cries, same old thing.

Sergio is telling his buddy how awesome it was when he shot Alina “Dude it was so awesome, she was like right there, and I was like over there, and I was like ‘boom’ and she totally went down, I got her in the leg, it was bitchin.” The other guy thinks he may have gone too far. Sergio says he was just following orders, the other guy says some day this might come back to haunt him. “Be careful, Sergio, because everyone in Sierra Escondida loves her very much.”

Alina whimpers very loudly, Emilioooooooooooooo! comes to the rescue. He sees her and says (he’s sooooo romantic) “you again?” He crouches down next to her and somehow doesn’t recognize her at all. He sees her face in his weepy daydreams all the time, then here she is in front of him and he has no idea it’s her. Give me a break. Wow. They keep coming up with more and more unbelievable stuff in this show. Anyway, he asks her what happened, she shows him her leg, he says she must have gotten shot stealing something. “I’m not a thief!” she screams at him, he says somebody told him she was. “Not everything everybody says is always true” she says, he says nothing a thief says is always true either. Maybe he should go hang out with Don Loco? They both believe exactly the opposite of the truth all the time, they are perfect for each other. He rudely asks her what her name is, she keeps crying rather than answer him right away. I’m having a hard time getting past this scene. They are sitting RIGHT NEXT to each other and he doesn’t know it’s her. And she, the big dummy, doesn’t say anything. Arrgh.

Luba sits and thinks in her cave, enjoying a smoke. Somewhere, I’m sure, Angel coughs.

Rosita and Santos are still running after the dog. She is sure that something bad has happened to ‘Flor.’

Emiliooooo yells at her again, what is your name? She tells him not to talk to her that way. He gets close to her and starts going on about knowing a woman that looked like her, those eyes, etc, ah well whatever lady. She finally tells him that her name is Flor. What happened to “Oh save me Emilioooo? I love you Emilioooo where are you to come save me?” Now it’s “Uh my name is Flor.” Cripes she deserves her cave. He says Flor what? She says just Flor. She says her mother died and her father abandonded her. He says Flor doesn’t sound like a name. He tells her he knew someone just like her, but she was better. (I didn’t understand what he said exactly, just that she was a loser) She says the same thing back to him, but that the guy she knew had a little class. He asks who that guy was, she says he doesn’t deserve to know. He pokes at her leg again just to get her to cry out, I think. After making her cry again, he starts to wrap up her leg.

Don Loco sucks on a cigar and hears voices. He is remembering what Maximo told him, that Soledad was setting him up with the DNA test proposal. Sergio comes in and tells him that he shot Alina. Don Loco responds by demanding some tequila.

Emiliooo has done some magic, he tells her that in a couple days she’ll be fine. He offers to take her home, she says she lives in the cave. He offers to take her there, she resists. He says he has to take her, she can’t walk. She’s wearing pink high-tops, where did she find those? Emiliooo holds her on the horse, thinking how much she looks like Alina. Flor, meanwhile, has managed to fall asleep in the most uncomfortable position possible. Emiliooo is caught up in his memory and kisses her, then they go off. He gets her to the cave and Luba is a bit freaked out at seeing Emilio there, even though she doesn’t know who he is. She pretends to him that Flor is a thief, I guess just in case he works for Alvaro. Emilioooo lays her down and then sees the necklace with a heart pendant around her neck, then realizes that it is Alina after all!

The dog is no Lassie. He has led Rosita and Santos to nowhere. Well, where Alina was before but now is gone. The dog keeps barking while Santos and Rosita start making out.

Don Loco yells at Soledad that she was trying to fool him by trying to take him to Puebla for a DNA test when it was a trick all along. She wants to leave, he says to meet your lover? The same conversation as always. He says she will live in this hell forever. She calls him Loco, he doesn’t respond, he doesn’t know his name?

Emiliooo says it can’t be, Alina is dead! She looks the same, the gold heart, what is going on?

Angel coughs. He discusses with Maximo how sad Emilio must be about the news that Alina is dead, that’s why he hasn’t come home yet. Maximo smokes and Angel coughs.

Emilio keeps calling her Alina. Luba comes in and tells him that her name is Flor, and oh by the way, get out. He asks where Flor got that necklace. Luba says “I told you she was a thief.” She says she’ll return the necklace to the proper owner. He asks Luba “who is she really?”

Santos and Rosita are laying down now in the forest, he tells her how much he loves her. Rosita, stay strong, this is how guys try to talk you into sex. “I’m going to the army tomorrow, this could be our last chance!”

Some guy shows up at Angel’s place, maybe it is Rosita’s dad? They all wonder some more where Emilio is. Angel coughs.

Luba says her name is Flor, and repeats the dead mother story. He asks who she lives with, she tells him of Gaspar. She starts to tell him more then changes her mind. She wants to know who he is. He won’t say and he leaves. Luba takes the bandage off of Flor’s leg, she mumbles that she’ll get the right herbs for her.

Emilio comes home and Angel wants to know what’s up, Emilioooo very rudely tells him to leave him alone. We’ll talk tomorrow. Angel is so taken back by this that he doesn’t even cough. When he is alone, Emilioooo weepily recalls some more good times with Alina.

Mariana has a tea party with her daughter and the other little girl. The other girl asks about Marianita’s dad, she tells her the story of Jose being gone.

Jose has a flashback of some hot secret meeting with Mariana, including shirtlessness and making out. He tells the night that he misses her. Arcadio comes in and asks if he feels better. Jose says no, Arcadio has some drugs for him, he brought some food too. Arcadio tries to talk Jose into joining the narco gang, just to stay alive. Jose says no.

Alina is awake, she says how much Emilioooo has changed! Luba says who? Uh oh nobody. Luba is going to make her some food. Alina tells her dog how Emiliooo seems so changed from before.

Emiliooo tells Angel that Flor is a thief, but she looks so much like Alina, he tells the story as he has heard it.

Orlando is looking for Gaspar, the guy at the bar tells him that Gaspar is a little off in the head. Orlando is impactado.

Adela and Rosita have found Alina at the cave, Adela tells her to take care of herself and leaves. Rosits tells Alina how she and Santos were looking and looking for her. Looking at each others tonsils is more like it. Alina tells her that Emilio brought her back. Emilioooo! She is impactada.

Angel coughs a lot. Angel tells Emiliooooo that Orlando is nobody’s friend, he’s a bad guy. Emilio doesn’t want to hear it. He tells Angel that Orlando and all the others will start building a military base here. And they'll bring in some girls too!

Rosita asks the obvious question, why didn’t she tell Emilio who she was? Alina says something stupid about not going against her father. Whatever. Rosita tells Alina that she and Santos are now ‘more’ than boyfriend/girlfriend. Rosita goes on and on about it. Great timing, right after Alina was telling her about being disappointed by the love of her own life. She is gracious and wishes Rosita well. When she is alone, Alina sees her heart pendant and wonders if Emilio saw it.

Don Loco and Hugo come into Loco’s office. Hugo tells Loco that Mariana called and wants more money. He says fine, send her a little more. Mariana claims to be sick, Don Loco thinks he’ll try and verify that. Hugo then asks for a raise. Don Loco gives him some crap about them being friends but if he wants to put a price on friendship, then…, Hugo says never mind.

Back in the cave Emilio is kissing Alina, then she wakes up, it was a dream. She is very clean and has makeup, not like you’d imagine a cave dweller. Her tight shirt is very white too. In the other room Luba is going nuts about various things when Gaspar returns. She is very happy to see him. She says she knew he’d need to be close to his mother. He says he was working to bring presents. He says it was at the devil’s cave and oh mom, I like the ladies! Luba doesn’t know what to think about this.

Orlando tells Thelma he has bad news for her – the father of her baby is mentally retarded. She doesn’t even look impactada, just confused.

Emilio is making plans with Maximo, Angel follows behind. Angel isn’t happy about all the guys coming, they won’t treat the local women well. Emilio said that in Flor’s case, she needs some punishment, she should meet his friends. What a nice guy.

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Gabe and Mariangela continue their spat. She's spatting and he's alternately listening and trying to reason with her. He's telling her she needs to chuck the hard, cruel act 'cause it just doesn't work with him. She plays the angry liberated woman who resents being called harsh when the same strength in men is considered a virtue. blah blah blah. Gabe tells her she is wrong to continue to punish him for something he cannot remember and doesn't believe he did knowingly (jumping in the sack with Joselyn and making babies, when he could hardly stand to be in the same room with her). He betrayed her and she will never forgive or forget. She thinks she's going to hit him hard with another sucker punch about the truth: "Ok. I was going to keep this to myself, but so that you can realize the depth of my pain...... Luis David is your son, but I will not allow you to have any control over him. I had him alone and I raised him alone." "Ah, so he is my son! I knew it!" He says he knows her too well and she knows he loves her and she loves him. He dares her to tell him that she still loves him. As they stare into each other's eyes she begins to weaken but the moment is lost when the doorbell rings and a gigantic bouquet of flowers arrives from......Demian. Gabe frowns as she reads the name on the card; at the same time Demian is smiling to himself that now the real destruction of his brother begins.

Otilia takes her average housewife models for their photo shoot.

Jos preens in front of the mirror and tells her mom she was right to throw Rogelio out on his ear for having robbed her. (Echh!! For once you really have to agree with these two. Disgusting, isn't it?)

Karen is worried that the designer's challenge date is nearing. Miriam says she has everything planned out. She says that she will get paid back what she's owed either from Rogelio or from Gabe, and nobody --but nobody-- plays around with her!

Later that day the two sets of member stockholders vote regarding the merging of their two construction companies. Nic takes the count and it is tied. Gabe has voted against it along with Rog and Jos and Pau.

At Demian's home dutifully diligent Dolores dusts the shelves in his office and she comes across something that looks like a giant television remote control taped behind a secret drawer. "Hmm. What's this?" (Apparently it's the remote control device that Demian used earlier to set off the explosions.....) She takes it with her it.

Mariangela must make the determining vote. She votes for the merger along with Demian, Regina, JC and Ti. Gabe seems to have expected as much. They all leave the board room and are accosted in the lobby by numbers of reporters all asking dopey questions. Right then the police show up with an arrest warrant for Rogelio for the charge of grand larceny. Gabe of course believes the charge is a mistake and there is no proof of this. So Gabe is impactado when he finds out the charge of stealing jewelry is from Miriam. "Joselyn, what is the meaning of this?" Her Oscar-worthy reply is, "I don't know, Gabe. Why, I am as surprised as you!" During the fray Juan Cristobal has a bout of nausea and weakness and asks Dolores - who just came out of the elevator-- to sneak him off to the hospital to see Leo in the ER and Leo immediately races him off to see the oncologist for a consultation. At the same time, Gabe and Nic follow the police out as Rog, screaming "Dad! Don't let them take me!" gets a free ride to jail from the Mexico City taxpayers. Mariangela has a momentary change of heart and stops Gabe on his way out to say that she will support him during this troublesome time. The gentleman in him says, "Thanks", but you just know he really wants to shove his fist in her mouth.

They arrive at the jail and Rogelio yells again to his daddy, "Don't let them lock me up!" Gabe is beside himself with worry. (No cable t.v. in Mexican prisons.) Nic says this is going to kick up a real scandal with the press having been there at the business ready and waiting. They figure Demian called them because somehow he knew ahead of time he'd win the vote. Finally Gabe gets to go in to speak with Rogelio. Rog, when asked about his side of the story, simply looks sheepishly at his feet while his father wastes time asking him to tell him the truth. It is obvious here from the way Rog looks down at his Gucci's what the truth is. Gabe loses his temper and yells at Rogelio: "What am I going to do with you? Is this the example I gave you? Is this the example I gave you????" (What? Gabe is shocked that his grown son is now a spoiled-rotten, rich, male-chauvinist playboy with a former stripper for an ex-wife and a gambling habit, with most all his shares in the business taken completely away from him and given over to her which resulted in his need for revenge and independence at all cost with the complete knowledge that his daddy's sense of honor and his big, fat fortune, would always buy him a way out of any jam? Hmm. --What? Gabe is still shocked? Oh, Gabe doesn't remember Rog's exemplar daddy having an ex-bitch-slut-trophy wife as well as a naive, ex-girlfriend his daughter's age, or each of their illegitimate kids he fathered, whom he's happy to "recognize" and to support while he treats his oldest son like his youngest? All this and Gabe is still shocked?) True to form, Rog has a gleem in his eye and a look on his face that shows he is silently waiting for his blind, deaf, and dumb father to chill out, put a plug in it, and pull out his damned wallet, which is eventually what happens. "But, you are my son so I'll take care of this, though you do not deserve it....." (Parents' famous last words!)

Nic tells Gabe afterward that there is nothing they can do except to get Miriam to recind the warrent and withdraw the charges. However, Miriam hasn't answered her phone at all. (You mean she still doesn't have call waiting on her phone down there? As rich as she is? Is Mextel that behind the times?) Gabe is really flustered now and yells that he's been trying to reach her by phone also and she isn't answering; he's going to look for her to speak with her in person.

Miriam gets another call from Jos who tells her to be prepared for Gabe's arguments since they came for his son and took him off to jail.

Mariangela is wise to Demian's flowers and dinner bribe. She shocks him by telling him in so many words she's knows what he's up to and that before she agrees to sign any of the merger documents she wants a thorough audit and examination of his company's books. It will avoid any nasty and unpleasant surprises. Now it's Demian's turn to be impactado. (None of us knew little Mariangela had it in her!)

Paulina notices that JC is missing and she and Regina look but don't find him anywhere. They find he has left his cell phone on his desk but has vanished from the office and the building. At the hospital, the oncologist explains to JC that what happened to him was normal and to be expected after taking radiology treatments. (PSA # 305. So do they get tax breaks every time they put one of those into the script?) The two women go to lend Gabe support at the jail. While there, Regina tries to cheer up Paulina by telling her that Demian and she have decided to give JC and her a second honeymoon trip as a 2nd anniversary present. (That seems to do the trick.) Pau starts jumping for joy.

Gabe goes over to see Miriam to clear things up. Miriam has a great time letting Gabe twist in the wind while she angrily tells him how Rog purposely set about stealing her jewels and replacing them all with fakes. She demands he reimburse her every centavo or his son will spend the rest of his days behind bars and the family's good name will suffer. Of course he offers her payment for the jewels if she revokes the warrant. She says to give her the check first and once she deposits it she'll get him released. He has no choice.

Jos and Miriam are back on the phone and Miriam says she'll get every cent back from Gabe, and will make Rog suffer in the meantime and for as long as she possibly can.

Afterward, Jos goes into Mariangela's office and complains to her about not loving Gabe after all since she voted against him in the stockholders' meeting. Mariangela yells at her and says pretty much, "Back off! I don't love him anymore. Duh, it's yesterday's news!"

Then Jos goes in to see Demian. They both gloat over their success in out-voting Gabe. Jos says everything went according to plan. Then she flirts with him and promises him some real action if he has an intimate celebration dinner with her that night. Demian gets so excited he cracks his pencil........

Back again at the office, Dolores and a stoic JC lie to Paulina and his mother saying that he took Dolores to the ER when she started to feel dizzy, something to do with low blood pressure. Pau changes the subject and tells JC about the anniversary gift of the second honeymoon. He thanks Regina.

Later in Mariangela's office, Mariangela tells Regina that she finally admitted to Gabe that Luis David is his, but she does not want him to get anywhere near him. She is very bitter about his betrayal with Jos. Regina is upset and tells her that Gabe couldn't have done something like that to her purposely. Mariangela answers back, "He did, though, and that is what counts, Regina! That is what counts!"

Tiberio complains to Dolores that he's seen her hugging on JC again. She tells him that she and JC have developed a caring relationship. She has open arms for him, too, any time he's ready to turn to her for support. He gets uncomfortable as she walks away.

Nic advises Gabe that Rogelio was transferred to the prison, where they will continue the procedings. Gabe says that cannot be because he has already paid Miriam what she wanted and she was supposed to withdraw the charges against him. So he rushes back over to Miriam's office to see what the problem was. Apparently she's just spent it on all the preparations for the designers' challenge with Otilia's group. Gabe comes rushing in and screams at her about why she didn't keep her end of the bargain. She says Rog is getting exactly what he deserves. He threatens to cancel the check and she says, unfortunately she already has cashed it. Then she gives in and goes with Gabe to the police station to withdraw the charges and gripes about it all as they leave.

Mariangela enters Tiberio's office and they argue about his not showing respect and getting up when a lady enters. He says she is still an employee to him. She answers that she is a voting member (and part-owner). She tells him she is having a full audit of their business done before signing the merger documents and she wants his report right away. If he doesn't understand then tell her and she'll talk to Demian about it.

Before Dolores leaves the office Regina tells her that she is worried about the way Paulina reacted when she couldn't find JC. "It's as if she suspects something is wrong with him." Dolores lies to her and says he is just fine. Regina says she believes it only because she is her friend and is saying this. She knows how much she loves her son and how she would not be able to stand it if anything happened to him. Dolores assures her that whatever happens she can count on her and her friendship.

JC and Pau return home. She says she was worried when he disappeared. He says he didn't feel like sticking around and Dolores asked him for help. They become very emotional about their love and life together when she asks where they should go for their second honeymoon. They think about returning to the same place they went the first time. He talks about the place where they began to share their life together. She wipes away his tears. "Tears of happiness" she tells him and the two kiss blissfully. Roll credits.......

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