Caray, Caray!

Lots of action tonight. Most of it dreadful. But a few good things happened. Let's start with the good: Marianela isn't pregnant. Just anemic. And Ilitia finally...finally! tells Kristel that Orangey Mauricio tried to take advantage of her.

The rest?....pretty much all bad. Oliver tracks Gretel down to the looneybin but Bernardo sneaks her out just in time and stashes her in the wine cellar of the house. And only he and Fedra have the key. Mauricio hooks up with the Godfather in jail and plans vengeance on Fedra...by taking out a contract on her favorite son Emanuel. And Bernardo has come up with a fake will leaving all the General's money to Emanuel. Oh wait!...that's good news since we know he's actually going to end up with Marianela. But our bad guys don't know that. And neither does poor Mari. She's suffering a major depression and believes the worst of Eman. And maybe she should. He's a complete doofus, is he not?

So that's the short version. Here's the expanded scenario. We begin the evening with Mari being very Greta Garbo. She just vants to be alone in her misery over Emanuel's purported betrayal. Can't say I blame her.

Elsewhere, Paula's confiding to Oliver (who seems to be fully and miraculously recovered from his bullet wound) that she's very worried about Gretel. But he really loves her, doesn't he? This brings forth a real feast of reason and flow of soul from our cop. " Before I met Gretel, my only desire was to become a top police officer. But my heart was empty. Then she came. She completed me. Even with all the craziness and all her problems, I just want to be with her. Protect her. Give her the strength she needs. Because she gives so much to me. Hopefully I can find her." And so forth. Paula's reassured and gets ready to leave. I'm screaming at her to give him the friggin' note already. She turns, starts out the door and.....says, "Oh, pardon me, some very nervous woman gave me this note to give to you." Aha. Gretel's at the Sagrado Corazón psychiatric hospital. So Oliver heads right over there..

All by himself.

Okay, put him in the same Dunce's Corner with Emanuel.

And speaking of Dunces....We're now at the prison where Kristel is draped all over Mauricio, vowing to get him out so they can live happily ever after....without kids. Fedra arrives and isn't buying this sweet tale. I'll help you all right she sneers. I'll help you rot in prison, you creep! Next she rips Kristel out of his arms, grabs her face and says Take a good look. This is the last time you'll see her!

Mommy Dearest now has her daughter at home and informs the staff that she's to stay in her room until she learns to behave decently. Paula is concerned with her pallor and suggests maybe she should remain in the hospital. Nuthin' doing. That's what she gets for being immoral, snaps Fedra, and if any of you even try to pass a message to her from Mauricio, you'll be out of her so fast your head will spin.

Our Lone Ranger has arrived at the psychiatric hospital. Bad Doc spots him and phones Bernardo. Other Doc stalls him and says there's nobody by name of Gretel Ruiz y de Teresa in the joint. Good Nurse tries to intervene. Drops a bunch of folders. Including the Red Folder. Asks Oliver to pick it up and aha! it's the list of in-patients and Gretel's name is in it. HAHAHAHAH.

Mientras tanto, Mauricio is working on Plan B. Since Kristel wasn't able to get him out, he's trying to hook up with the Marlon Brando impersonator/Mafia Boss. If you want to work for me, when you're on the outside, you'll be my slave, croaks the big boss. Mauricio's down with that. But he also wants to send a message to Fedra Curel.
Why?

She humiliated me. Tried to take me down.

Great. I like that attitude. Ya want her murdered?

Nope. Too easy. I want her to SUFFER. So let's kill her favorite son, Emanuel.

Fine with me. But remember son....Fedra's put a price on your head. So be careful....even with your own shadow.

Our Fedra is lounging around the office at home when Ilitia blows in. In high dudgeon. How could Fedra countenance her precious son hooking up with that asquerosa gordita!? Sorry, sighs Fedra. I don't intend to move a finger to help you. And don't disturb my son. Ilitia is impactada.

But when we come back from the ads, we see she and Fedra are cozy and like old times. Sharing a cognac and chuckling with evil glee. Yup, you guessed it. Ilitia's in on the plan and is so happy to think she'll one day soon be marrying a multimillionaire widower. A young hunky one to boot.

Back to Miserable Marianela. Her desire to be alone has been roundly ignored. Brandon is all over her, kissing and stroking and sympathizing. Netty comes striding in with chicken veggie soup and orders to eat it. Mari clutches her rag doll and doesn't want to. Doc arrives, grim-faced and informs them he has news. Bad news.

And we switch back to Fedra and Ilitia. Don't you love how they do that?

Emanuel enters and knows something is very wrong. Indeed. Mom fesses up that she just couldn't hold it in a minute longer and confided Manny's wicked delicious plan to Ilitia. Fedra then makes a discreet exit. Or it would be discreet if she weren't wearing horrid thigh high zebra striped boots.

Our little model, while not wishing death on anybody, mind you, is thrilled at the thought of consoling a rich widower. In fact let's get busy right now she suggests and do a little preemptive consolation. Eman's moving around the room, crawling under the desk, stalling, punting and weaving, while Yo Soy Sexy plays in the background. He finally fobs her off with "this is neither the time nor the place but how about a little honeymoon at the beach this weekend." Ilitia thinks it's a grand idea. Phew. He's bought a little more time.

Back at the nuthouse, Other Doc's still stalling Oliver. Oh...that Gretel. Well, she responded so well to treatment she was in and out, just like that. Zip.

Alright. Enough with the suspense. Is Marianela pregnant? Nooooooo. She's anemic. At least that's what the basic exam says. But Doc Arnoldo wants to do more tests. Meanwhile, now hear this. Her Life Is In Danger if she doesn't rest and eat well. That's a little overstated. I was anemic one year in college (tea and white rice don't constitute a healthy diet) and I was tired as hell but otherwise in no danger of expiring. But you know how telenovelas go....And.... Guess what? Our Miss Marianela just wants to die anyway. She's tired of suffering. Life has been so cruel. If she could only join mommy and daddy up in heaven. That's all. Really.

Oh no! Now we see Bernardo hauling Gretel over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. He dumps her down in some little alcove of the wine cellar, chortling Welcome to Switzerland. Hope you enjoy your little "caso de reposo". You'll serve out your sentence here my lovely. Gretel whimpers that she's going to tell her Dad. No way. Fedra and I are the only ones who have the keys to this place. Curses! Foiled again. Sorry Oliver.

Fedra, meanwhile, is doing damage control. She's assembled the house staff and accused them of stealing some bottles of red wine. Bernardo skulks out and admits he was the guilty one. Aha! I'll take it out of your salary then you swine. But hear this, the rest of you! If I find any of you hanging around the wine cellar you're fired!

Well, with that out of the way, we can return to the drama at the pension. Netty's all aflutter because Marianela is dying. Gladiola vows to bring her back with her irresistible picadillo, beans and rice plus fried plantains. The Mexican wonder drug.

Enter Emanuel. To hateful looks.

Upstairs: Marianela is still moaning to Brandon that she wishes she had gone up in that helicopter with her mom. Then all this would be over.

Take Home Message. From Brandon. We've all come to this world to struggle and to fight....to be happy.

Next question: What did Emanuel do to you to make you feel this way? Wanna know the answer? Tough. We've got more ads. Hang in there. Oh yeah. You already know anyhow.

Downstairs: Netty has upped the ante, screaming at Emanuel to GET OUT!!!! YOU'LL HAVE TO KILL ME BEFORE I LET YOU SEE MARI. YOU'VE HURT HER ENOUGH!

Eman's his usual low key self. He notes that sometimes you fall in love with folks you shouldn't. Like she fell in love with his dad.

Don't talk to me about that night! It's over! I'm never seeing your father again!

Upstairs: The dirge continues.

Mari: Don't ask me what happened that night. It's too painful.

Brandon: Well, Just know that I'll always be here for you.

Mari: He fooled me, misled me. He made me believe he loved me, when all he really wanted was my inheritance, my money.

Brandon: I'm gonna kill him!

Mari: Noooooo. Don't hurt him!

Brandon: Sorry. Can't promise anything.

Downstairs: The fracas has escalated. Doris, Glad and Netty are shrieking. Eman's persisting. Brandon descends and bars his way. Dogfight coming' up.

But first. Fedra. She's doing a righteous number on Emiliano and his trashy affair with that equally trashy actress. While SHE, the Injured Wife! has always been faithful to him. But Emiliano's had enough. He can't breathe the same air as Fedra. She's suffocating him. He's out of there!

Waaaay Downstairs: Now we're in the General's lair and he's fussing that he just wants that nasty Fedra in front of him so he could deal with her. Paula tartly reminds him that if he'd stayed upstairs where he belonged, he could have protected his family. Delicia arrives to tell General the licenciado Pacheco wants to see him. Turns out there are problems with the will. Seems the word is out that the General is not of sound mind. Therefore the will he just drafted to give Marianela all his worldly goods won't be accepted. General flies into a rage. Licenciado looks frightened. Stammers and stutters that he'll try and sort things out but it will be tough.

Upstairs: Fedra and Bernardo are chortling over his latest fake will. This one gives all the General's money to Emanuel. Fantastic!

Back to the pension: Doris zips upstairs to plead with Marianela to come down before Brandon and Emanuel come to blows. Mari refuses. Doris descends and blurts out: She never wants to see you again. Brandon juts his chin out. Eman punches it. Now you're gonna get it yells our naco policia.

Back to the Manor: Kristel's room: Ilitia's making a True Friend visit. Kris wants to talk about visiting her babe in jail and Ilitia wants her to understand how stupid she is to have anything to do with that scum. You deserve better. No I don't. I'm not even a "whole woman" anymore. And what did he ever do to you that you should talk about him this way?

Want to know? Well here it is. He tried to take advantage of me...abuse me, admits Ilitia.

And there we end.

Previews:
Brandon vows that for every tear Mari shed, he's going to collect in blood.... Emanuel's.
And Emanuel somehow gets to Marianela and tells her about his secret plan to mislead his very own mother and protect her. Will she believe him?

Vocabulary:

empinando el codo = drinking a lot, propping up the bar (what Bernardo supposedly did)
las patitas en la calle = your little feet in the street....getting thrown out (Fedra's threat to staff)
te saco a patadas = I'll throw you out (Brandon to Emanuel)
te tapaste con una pared = you ran up against a (stone) wall
casa de reposo = rest home
perro sarnoso = mangy dog (Bernardo)
revolcando con esa basura = rolling in the hay with that trash (Fedra to Emiliano)
te daré tu merecido = I'll give you what you deserve (Brandon to Emanuel)

Dicho of the Day

El comal le dijo a la olla. El burro hablando de orejas. Both in English mean The pot calling the kettle black. Think of Fedra's chutspah taking Emiliano to task for a roll in the hay with Netty.

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* After the kiss the embarrassed JJ starts to giggle and murmurs if Ale's uncle really thinks he's innocent then they have much to talk about, and please tell him he'll visit him next day. Alejandra, who's completely speechless and perplexed, quietly nods and after JJ leaves she tries to reboot her steaming brain cells.



* In the morning David and Gaby visit the new, gruffy Mario/Fausto/Santiago in his bedroom, however, he's not in the mood to appreciate the genuine love the young couple shows for him. No, thanks, bye. After the young couple leaves he has a minor panic attack and whines about being unmasked soon. Abelardo first tries to encourage him, but after losing his patience he threatens him with Mario's favourite weapons: calling the police and telling everything to Gaby. A few minutes later Bertha storms into the bedroom (as usual) to poke her nose into his business (as usual), but the frightened man scolds her for intruding so rudely. *Viewerville: Yeah!* Abe advises him to be more amable with the family members.

* Marcos pays a visit at a jewelry and shows his precious diamonds to the jeweler. The man examines the diamonds and apparently realizes they have been stolen, so he asks to be excused for a minute and gives someone a call. Marcos gets frightened and he leaved the shop hurriedly, leaving the gems behind.

* In the Genovés villa the Guillén sisters have a girlie afternoon. Julieta enthusiastically tells Gaby she'll go to cinema with Leonardo, and they are both happy that finally Fausto lets her to date someone. Gaby asks her sister a favor: there's a ring on her dressing table that Carlos gave to her, would she be so kind to take it back to him? Julieta definitely doesn't want to return to Sagitario anymore but Gaby manages to convince her. Gaby misses her father much and plans to visit him with David. A very bad idea comes to her mind: she asks Mario if he would like to accompany them. Whaaat? No way, no, no, no, I can't. No. No... And he runs away.



* While the niece of Medina and Caramelo have fun together in his pretty Sims3 condo, Elsa and Mauricio enjoy each other's company. However, he gets a call from Alejandra who asks him about JJ's fortune, gold bars and other fairy tales. He proposes to visit her next day to talk about the situation.



* In the garden the sisters are also talking about the mysterious Sr. Ocampo who used to be a poor man whose name was JJ Victoria, but now he has a tons of money that he found under his kitchen... Strange, isn't it? But she thinks he's a good man. And handsome, giggles Julieta. As usual, Dora accidentally eavesdrops some elements of their conversation, but fortunately the tray and the two glasses of orange juices survive the moment.

* Leonardo is interrogating the jeweler when Robertogollum shows up in the shop. The One Cuff-link became the One Ring and he can't hide his enthusiasm when he puts is on his finger. Leonardo notices his anxiety and also the amount of cash he has. Ha asks the jeweler about Rob's ring and he learns it used to be a unique cuff-link.



* The sisters enjoy the sun in the garden... Until Bertha shows up and starts to ask about their mom. Was her name Marta? No. Do you have any relative who's called Marta? No! Then she must have been a lover of your dad. Julieta explodes: don't dare insult our father! Bertha laughs at the enraged girls and she tells them she saw Fausto visiting a tomb of a Marta who died 20 years ago.



* Fausto is about to leave the house through the tunnel when Bertha knocks the door. She complains about the rudeness of Julieta but Fausto puts her in her place. *Although Fausto is jeopardizing the mission, Viewerville thoroughly enjoys the humiliation of Bertha.*

* JJ nervously tells Asunción that Alejandra knows everything! The situation is worrying, but he is honestly interested in her. Oh man, you're an emotional shipwreck. Doorbell. JJ orders Limón to open the door, and Caramelo happily tells him that she and auntie Elsa had lunch in the flat of uncle Mauricio. Oh-oh.



* At the seaside house Adolfo, who's completely losing his cool, elegant goodfather manner, tells Félix what happened and how much money he lost recently. He gave 5 million pesos to Roberto Zárate, but that idiot didn't succeed to kill Mario and then he disappeared. They must find that bastard! He doesn't accept any excuses from Félix, he'll do the job, like it or not!



* Ramón reports to Leo that Marcos Rivera Munoz was the man who tried to sell the diamonds in the jewelery. Wow, Elsa Rivera's brother? By the way, jewels. Do you remember the burglary at the Guillén flat? Fausto told him that a cuff-link was stolen and he just saw the exact copy of that jewel... On the hand of Carlos Ávila's friend. Oh, and Fausto is such a strange guy. He's a good man but he acts like he has something to hide.



* Alejandra tells her anxious uncle that Juan José Victoria Ocampo would like to talk with him. Juan who? Abelardo saves the day: you know, the man you met on the wedding party. Ale wants to talk with Mario in private and after Abe leaves she starts again the story of JJ who's so innocent. Sorry, my dear, please refresh my memory. Innocent of what? *Viewerville: ...* Later Abelardo tries to tell him JJ's story but he's fed up with the Genovés household and leaves immediately through the tunnel.



* Gaby asks Abelardo about the Balmori sisters, how long do they live there? For a few months. And where is their mother buried? In the crypt of the Genovés family.

* Juli gives the ring to Carlos who rudely sends her away, just when Leonardo arrives at the office. Sir Leo orders Carlos to excuse himself for his behaviour, and when Carlos objects and tries to have an alpha male dispute, he forces him to his knee. Poor Carlos, you're an omega male.



* JJ visits Elsa to talk about her visit at Medina and to act like a jealous jerk again. JJ's lines, Elsa's lines.

* In Sagitario Bertha looks for Roberto because she needs to talk with him. By the way, she liked the way Carlos behave on the wedding, and our omega male tells him the story of the ring he gave to Gaby. He's very amused when he finds out that Berthita and the newlyweds live together in Mario's house, and they agree to team up. Dolphie shows up but Bertha doesn't have time to chat, she quickly leaves. Adolfo prohibits Carlos to hit on her and when he laughs at him (Why, do you like her? Come on, she's much younger than you!) he slaps him hard. I told you, omega.



* In the Genovés villa Bertha sadly tells David that Gabriela makes fool of him. Did she tell you that Carlos had given her a ring?

Aribeth

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Eva Luna Episode 11—November 16, 2010

Please note: Some descriptions of scenes were “condensed” because it is too exhausting to try to recap every.little.edit of this telenovela! (They cut back and forth between several scenes rapidly at times.)

Eva is in her room, and can’t stop thinking about The Kiss that she shared with Daniel. Leonardo comes in and interrupts. He wants her to take his gift of some earrings. They go just perfectly with a necklace she has. She doesn’t want to take the earrings but he keeps flattering her and presses her to accept them. Leonardo finally gets Eva to accept the darn earrings, and then creepily says that maybe she’ll wear them when she goes out with him. Slimeball. Eva looks slightly disgusted at his suggestion.

Victoria is trying to patch things up with Laurita, after really ripping into little Laurita for accidentally running into her with her bike earlier. Laurita says how upset Victoria made her, and Victoria smiles and says that she didn’t mean to be rude, and let’s make up and don’t tell your dad what happened.

Tony the lollypop-sucking deadbeat is trying to lure Alicia by offering to give her his newly acquired motorcycle, and after some temptation on Alicia’s part (IDIOT!) she somehow finds the strength to refuse him and hurries off, saying that she’s got to study.

Renata is telling Marcy (Gloved weirdo) about how Julio wants Eva to have a room at the house, because Eva is his assistant. Marcy is not happy and walks off to do something about it.

Victoria is continuing to suck up to little Laurita. She is suggesting that Laurita learn about modeling, but Laurita is not keen. Laurita figures out that Victoria wants to ship her off to Europe. Victoria denies this, but when Daniel comes in, Laurita tells him what Victoria suggested.

Daniel notices that Laurita is a little warm, like she’s coming down with a fever. She says she’ll go to her room. Victoria tells Daniel that she didn’t mean to upset the girl, and Daniel, vexed, tells her to please be careful what she says to Laurita, because she was really scared about being shipped off to Europe. (Victoria, dear, you are not going to separate these two. Father and daughter are stuck together like Super-glue!)

Marcela is grilling Julio about how come he wants Eva staying at the house, and what’s going on here. Julio seems to be enjoying this. He doesn’t see what the big deal is. Marcela gets angry and says to not play games with her in her own house. Julio reminds her that it’s his house, as he holds the title. Also he says he wouldn’t mess around with a woman in the same house where his kids are, and besides, Eva could be a sister or a granddaughter. Marcela seems mollified but expresses anger at the thought that her husband would mess around in her own house. Julio laughs.

It’s morning, and Francisco is trilling on to Jackie about his True Love, Marisol. Oh yeah, Jackie is thrilled to be hearing all about this! Jackie is going away for a few days to visit her mother and Francisco will have to cover, like helping Laurita with her homework. Francisco doesn’t want to, of course. Francisco’s phone rings (it’s Marisol!) and he wants Jackie to answer and say that she’s his secretary. Jackie refuses, disgusted. Francisco and Marisol exchange big whopping lies to each other, and then finally make a date for dinner that night. Jackie overhears all of this and tells Francisco that he is the worst of the worst.

Renata is chewing out Eva for being three minutes late. Eva reminds Renata that their clock is three minutes fast. Renata tells her to not talk back. Renata spews some bitter nonsense and then huffs out of the room.

Laurita has a fever and a sore throat. She’s got to stay in bed and take medicine. Daniel offers to stay home from work to look after her, but she says that Jackie can do that. Jackie looks like she’s going to cancel her visit to her mom and looks unhappy about it.

Daniel is talking to Victoria and saying that he’s going to have to cancel because he’s got to stay with Laurita, since Jackie has postponed her visit with her mom twice now already. Victoria says she can’t be there, because she has a photo shoot and can’t risk getting sick. She assures Daniel that she’ll find a solution for this.

Victoria visits her dad Julio and asks him to lend Eva, so she (Eva) can tend to Laurita and free up Daniel so he can go on his trip. Victoria then tells Eva to go get a change of clothes, she’s staying at Daniel’s house that night to look after Laurita. Eva is a bit impactada by this, but Victoria assures her that she’s the perfect person for the job. (Victoria is obviously still buying into the myth that Eva is interested in some other guy and is no threat.)

Eva still is unsure of this, but Victoria assures her that she’ll only be looking after the girl, that Daniel is going to be away working. Eva looks a little more relaxed about the idea and agrees to go.

Marisol is talking with Alicia and continuing to gush over how great Francisco is and is looking forward to their date that night.

Jackie is welcoming Eva to Daniel’s house and telling her where everything is. Jackie thanks Eva for covering for her, so she can visit her mom. Laurita walks in and hugs Eva and is thrilled to see her. She’s glad Eva is here instead of that other witch. (She stops herself short of saying “witch” but we know what she meant to say!)

Marisol and Alicia are chatting some more. Marisol talks about getting some cheepie prepaid cell phone, which will work for her purposes. (I guess for fooling Francisco?) Then the conversation strays to Carlos. Alicia is going to study at Carlos’s house and his mom is going to fix them dinner. Ah! Living with his mom? Marisol likes the sound of this. Carlos is much better than that Tony. (I agree!) Alicia says that she doesn’t think she’ll tell Tony that she’s going to Carlos’s house. (I think?) Marisol says that maybe Tony will finally leave her in peace if he figures out that she’s a person who intends to keep studying.

Laurita wants to show Eva a surprise. It’s Daniel, flat out on his back in bed, having caught the same bug that Laurita has. He’s too sick to travel so Eva is going to have to look after both of them.

After Laurita scampers off, Daniel apologizes to Eva for The Kiss from the other night, but she doesn’t want to talk about that. Eva is a bit freaked at the idea of playing nursemaid to Daniel too. She wants to go and see if Jackie can find someone else to take care of them, but Daniel pleads with her to stay. He doesn’t want to have his daughter to be looked after by some stranger.

Tony the lollypop-sucking deadbeat accosts Marisol at the pension and starts arguing with her about her trying to turn Alicia against him. Tony says disparaging things about Marisol’s profession, like she’s basically a prostitute. Ugh, this guy is such a jerk.

Daniel lets Francisco off the hook so he can go on his date with Marisol that night. Eva will be taking care of them and Daniel doesn’t want to get in the way of Francisco’s latest conquest. Francisco is elated.

Tony wants to know where Alicia is. Marisol says that she’s with Carlos, who is a really good guy, unlike Tony. Of course this upsets an already-jealous Tony.

Laurita is showing Eva her drawings, which have a picture of a woman that is supposed to be Eva. Laurita says that before she met Eva, she could draw her. She’s so glad Eva is looking after them instead of that Victoria. Her dad likes Eva a lot, too!

Marisol and Francisco are both on the road, going to meet for their date. They are each talking to themselves, giving themselves pep talks about how they can pull their respective huge lies off!

It’s late, a full moon, and Victoria is having a chitchat with her mom and sharing a brandy. Victoria can’t pinpoint why, but she knows something is wrong and she has this feeling that she needs to drag Daniel to the altar soon. There is no time to waste.

Daniel wakes up from his sick bed, has another remembrance of The Kiss. Then we cut to Eva, also having memories of The Kiss. Eva is telling herself to forget The Kiss. It never happened. Good luck with that, dear.

Eva is in Daniel's kitchen in the middle of the night, still thinking about The Kiss they shared the day before. Daniel comes in, wants to have a "talk," but she says that nothing happened. It was a big mistake. Then she snaps and says how does he expect her to believe him? She doesn't want to be one of his collection of women. He's got a girlfriend already, so leave her in peace! Daniel looks impactado.

(I was able to do a video capture of this episode and have made a streaming video clip of this scene. Since YouTube seems to want to block many telenovela clips, I hosted this on my own site. The site is very barebones—no viruses, I promise! It’s just a Flash clip—like what you get on YouTube.)
Daniel and Eva talk in the kitchen. (Right-click to have this link open to a new window.)

I am amused at how both Daniel and Laurita, who are supposedly afflicted with a horrible flu and fever, can become amazingly perky when the scene calls for it. For instance, Daniel is feverish and ill, but when he sees Eva he suddenly seems perfectly well and even looks like he’s moving in for a kiss. (I kept on thinking that he had better not kiss her and give her all his cooties!)

Francisco and Marisol are shoveling verbal manure at each other at the restaurant. Marisol talks about some ex in Spain. She also says that she thinks some guys are not interested in her for herself, but for her money. Francisco knows what that’s like. Oh these two are too much!

Francisco is so totally full to the brim with manure. He tells a story about his poor dear departed wife, Jackie, who was killed by a lion while working in Africa.

Marcy is smelling the flowers Bruno gave her and wondering what’s going to go on with him. Meanwhile, Bruno is gambling with Leo and Bruno wins. Leo is vexed.

More manure from Marisol and Francisco. They dance at the restaurant.

Victoria is talking to herself, wondering why Daniel hasn’t called. Then she says to herself that she’ll call the house the next day, acting all concerned about Laurita’s health. But there’s no way she’d look after the girl. Eva can do that.

Daniel walks down the hallway and stops in front of Laurita’s room, where Eva is. Then he slowly and regretfully walks away. Eva is inside crying. Laurita wakes up and wants to know why Eva is crying. Eva tells some lie about waking up from a bad dream.

Carlos the hottie and Alicia are studying math, but Alicia is having trouble with it. Apparently Alicia sucks at math. They call it a night and as they are picking up their pencils and stuff, their fingers touch and they have A Moment. Alicia starts in with a little speech about how she has a lot of complications in her life and all she can offer him is friendship. He says, sure, sure, he understands. But you can tell he secretly has other desires.

Here’s a clip of this scene with Alicia and Carlos.

Tony the deadbeat sucker boy goes to the bar where he hangs out and finds some fellow deadbeat friends, and has a request. He wants them to “take care” of a waiter named Carlos (oh no!). Fellow deadbeat friends will be happy to get right on it. Wow, I knew Tony was a creep, but he reaches new heights all the time!

It’s morning, and Victoria is at her precious photo shoot. I don’t think the lighting is very flattering to her (her eyes look all squinty) but whatever.

Some semi-flamboyant coworker of Marcela is telling her about some really important client that is waiting for her in her office. She seems amused by flamboyant guy’s enthusiasm. Flamboyant guy ushers her in to see this mystery guy, and then he sighs in relief.

Leo is talking to his secretary and she tells him that Daniel never went on his trip, he stayed home with the flu. She then goes on to tell him about Eva being there, yadda yadda, and that Victoria set it all up. Leo laments to himself as he picks up his phone that Victoria messed up and he’s going to have to fix it.

Eva is seeing to Laurita who is much better. Laurita wants to get up but Eva nixes that. Then she goes in to check on Daniel, who is flat in bed asleep. She tucks him in under his covers and lovingly touches his feverish brow as the phone rings. Victoria wants to know what’s going on and why is Eva in the bedroom of her boyfriend?

A clip of this final scene from the show.

That’s it for this episode!

As always, please everyone, correct any errors I make. I thank you. And as always, everyone, please check this recap’s comments for further corrections or elaborations on this episode.

Thanks!
Elvira

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Pata, thank you yet again for the terrific pictures. Pata says no theme today, just some shots that she thinks are very fun. I agree!

Capitulo 93.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 93 to 94. Then come back here to discuss it.
Ha ha, you smelled the plastic flower:










Capitulo 94.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 93 to 94. Then come back here to discuss it.

Fernando's uncle shows up. It's Jaime Camil's real dad so I guess it's his daddy uncle. Or uncle daddy.










Fernando shutting the door when Lety tried to leave:



Did we get your attention? This is Luigi making a great face at the museum when he's imitating Picasso.

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[I missed the opening scenes. Juanita fills that part in very aptly --in the blue. ! Thanks! --ed.]

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Friday: Eman rustles up a breakfast soup for Marianela, and while he’s not looking, Fedra pours a whole vial of her potion into it. Gretel calls the police from the nuthouse, and actually reaches Oliver. Eman brings Mari the soup.

Before we start, I just can’t help griping about Mari’s hair which yeah, is the same as always, but tonight I hit critical mass with it, I don’t know why. What’s with the Betty la Gorda bangs? Are they real? She always has a headband or little braid across the top of them, so maybe they’re just glued on or something. And those ringlets. Barf barf barf.

Okay, I got that out of my system.

Mari thanks Eman for making the soup, but says she feels a little urpy and can’t try any.

Gretel is hiding behind a reception desk and the doctor finds her but just in time crumples from the sedative she stabbed him with. A moment to pause and reflect on that most gratifying scene on Friday… Okay, onward! The nurse finds Gretel too and tells her to hide better. Gretel is amazed to hear Oliver on the other end of the phone she’s clutching. Just then other staff find her and she screams for Oliver to save her, of course omitting to give the name of her location.

But Oliver is at the police station – he could just get the records of received calls, no? No. The police’s intermittent skills are slaves to our plot line.

Eman sets the uneaten soup on the bedroom dresser.

Oliver is very upset about Gretel’s call – he says he just knows she’s not in Switzerland. The Comisario tells him if he’s going to be bouncing off the walls like that, he’s going to take him off the case (or off work, I’m not sure which). Brandon tells Oliver to go with the guy who’s going to examine the bullets, and don’t let them out of his sight. Oliver’s worried Gretel will call again.

The Comisario tells Oliver that the first step is to get the goods on Fedra and Bernardo, then they can find Gretel. Meantime, Caiman is in the office hearing all these police insider goodies. Of course it’s natural that the police would keep a mascot in their office who’s had ties to organized crime because we’re in telenovelaland. See “intermittent skills” above.

Orderlies are strapping Gretel down while she begs them not to and insists her boyfriend is going to come get her. The Good Nurse looks on, troubled.

Seems there’s a prison gang the police have to deal with. Caiman says he’ll work as a mole.

Emil has showed up at Netty’s sunny, cheerful place, and Netty says she’s worried about Eman and Marianela, and about Oliver, who’s like a son to her and not what Emil thinks he is. Emil says he didn’t come about all that, he came about Us. He wants to forget about the outside world – it doesn’t exist. Netty says it does, and he’s married. He says but he feels so alone.

Man, the writers take the cheesiest, sleaziest, most worn-out seduction lines and put them in the good guys’ mouths. Where they actually work! Here’s more: This morning (sez Emil) I was driving to work but I ended up here, without having planned to. Tell me that I’m not alone!

Of course, if Cesar Evora told me the sun rotates around the earth, I’d say Yes, it does, and mean it.

Netty tells him he’s not alone, and as long as she lives, she’ll be by his side. They hug.

Lorenzo and Mauricio are being escorted out of the local jail, to head to prison. Brandon exults and Lorenzo and Mauricio throw threats. Mauricio tells Brandon that he’s going to pay. Just then Fedra appears and tells Mauricio that the one who’s going to pay is him. She hopes he molders in jail for the rest of his life. Lorenzo and Brandon arch their eyebrows in surprise and stare at Mauricio.

Emil blames himself for his family’s troubles – he is the man of the house, so it’s his fault. Netty reckons it’s Fedra’s fault. He tells Netty their marriage is over, and she suggests counseling or something. Nope. He takes her hands and tells her how tender and understanding she is and how he wished he’d formed a family with her. She would have loved that, she says, and adds he would have always felt loved and respected. He says that’s what he feels when he’s with her – loved. Oooh, nice kisses!

Fedra tells Mauricio that Kristel’s at death’s door, and all because he used her. She loved it, retorts Mauricio. Brandon has to hold Fedra back while Mauricio is taken off.

Okay, he’s gone and now Fedra tells Lorenzo about Kristel’s hysterectomy. He’s sorry to hear about it, and the next thing we know, Fedra is hanging on him, right in front of the cops, distressed that he got mixed up in a bad business. Of course just then Muñeca comes in, along with the comisario.

Fedra says it’s nothing, just hugging an old friend, and Muñeca wryly observes that Lorenzo is full of surprises lately. He swears he had nothing to do with the illegal liquor – it was Mauricio. An official comes up and says Lorenzo gets to be freed. Lucky, says the comisario, glaring at him. Muñeca looks doubtful. Lorenzo is thrilled – maybe his Farmville crops haven’t withered yet!

Netty’s worried Consuelo and Gladiola will come back from the market. Emil suggests a day together – lunch, theater, something fun. Netty’s ecstatic. They leave, laughing like kids.

Ilitia’s at the hospital with Kristel and she gets a call from Muñeca, telling her that Lorenzo has been sprung. Muñeca says maybe the police didn’t look hard enough for evidence or he hid it. Ilitia tells her mother to knock it off, then tells her she’s been with Kristel.

Kristel begs her not to hang up – did Mauricio get off too? Ilitia’s very happy to hear he’s off to the big house. Kristel thinks he’s been let go, but Ilitia tells her he’s going where he can’t hurt anybody any more, and she hopes he gets molested there.

The orange kitty laps up the chicken soup.

Mauricio gets checked into prison.

Mari and Em are jogging. Of course she falls, which makes him fall right on top of her, so they can kiss some more.

Mauricio, now in prison khakis, enters a big cell full of inmates who check him out. Caiman is there among them.

The kitty has more soup.

Netty and Emil are having a lovely lunch. They chink glasses, talk, laugh.

The police scientist in a lab, which looks very sophisticated and has four, count ‘em! four guys in lab coats working there, scans the bullets using fancy software.

Oliver looks worried. Gretel is strapped to a bed and despairs.

Netty and Emil neck in the back of a theater, and we see Mari and Eman up front, eating popcorn. They kiss too.

Mauricio tries to make macho chit-chat with a couple of prison guys and offers them money to be his protectors. They come close and tell him somebody’s already hired them to give him a welcome – Fedra Curiel.

Fedra and Bernardo have a debriefing session, now they’re home. He reports that Caiman had no trouble switching the bullets at the station, and that he’s there at the prison. Fedra says the guys she’s hired are going to make Mauricio’s life hell, but nice and slowwww-like.

The two guys slug Mauricio and tell him that’s what he gets for raping girls. Caiman comes in and pulls them off.

Bernardo is smooching Nereida who complains that he’s been neglecting her. Why doesn’t he ever take her out? He flops on her bed, saying they’ll be fine here. The pillow has something hard in it, he complains, picking it up. She tries to get it away from him and suddenly cash is flying everywhere.

Nereida says she won the lottery! Bernardo realizes it’s Fedra’s money. Nereida tells him that Kristel stole it and gave it to her to buy her silence. Bernardo thinks she ought to give it back. In fact, she’s to hide it in Marianela’s room so everyone thinks Mari took it.

Emil and Netty come home to her place, happy. They kiss, but she says they should stop at that. He kisses her some more and begs to stay the night. Next thing we know, they’re in the bedroom. Netty pulls away and says she’d always dreamed of coming into her room in his arms – but the dream had her in a wedding dress, not as the other woman. He tells her she isn’t the other woman. He feels lost until her looks into her eyes, then he knows that life is smiling on him after all. More kisses. Yum! Brandon should take kissing lessons from Emil.

Nereida stuffs the money under Mari’s mattress, then hears her coming and hides in the closet. Mari comes in and pets the surprisingly still alive kitty, noticing that it licked the soup bowl clean. The kitty jumps down off the bed and stares at the door Nereida is behind.

Fedra and Bernardo are having wine, and she says she’s upset about this Eman and Mari thing. While they’re talking, Eman approaches the door to talk to her, then stops, listening through the crack. Fedra laughs that Eman’s going to get high cholesterol from kissing that fatty, but fortunately they have meds for that. She says she’s going to take care of the problem, and she’s going to look great in the black dress for the occasion.

Outside the door, Eman is shocked.

Mari picks up the orange kitty and takes it to the bathroom for some water because unlike the rest of the planet, she didn’t leave down a water bowl. Nereida slips out.

Eman asks Benigno if maybe Maximo would be a good person to consult about his mother being so upset about him and Mari. Benigno doesn’t know. Eman asks him what military strategy is good for an enemy that’s closer that your own shadow. Pretend to be one of them, advises Benigno.

Fedra and Bernardo toast one another. Mauricio’s in prison, Gretel’s in the nut house, Axel’s on Fedra’s side, and Mari is soon to be dead. Most excellent. Fedra tells him about the potion she put in Mari’s soup. He tells her it takes 12 hours to act, and what’s more Mari’s going to exit the world in humiliation. He tells her about the money Nereida had and what she did with it. Everyone will think she’s a thief chortles Bernardo. Bwaahahaha.

Bernardo and Fedra burst into Mari’s room. Fedra accuses her of being a thief and sets Bernardo to searching the room.

The scales have fallen from Muñeca’s eyes. She’s on to Lorenzo and Fedra and nothing he cooks up as an excuse convinces her otherwise. She tells him he’s low-down scum and the only reason she doesn’t throw him out of her house and her business is because she doesn’t want to hurt Ilitia.

Eman and Benigno, Axel and the two maids show up in Mari’s room too. Eman tells them all to get out, Mari’s no thief. Fedra says no, they’re going to search. Mari tell them to go ahead and look. Bernardo lifts the mattress, and voila! Delicia looks the most amazed.

Oliver hands Bernardo the report – negative. Now they have nothing to hang on Fedra, Oliver wails. He’s frantic about Gretel – where is she? Bernardo promises they’ll find her.

We see Gretel despairing some more.

Back to Mari’s room: Axel wants to tell his father, but Fedra says he’s probably cavorting at Netty’s. She wants to call the police, Eman says he won’t let them accuse Mari, and Mari says nobody’s going to throw her out of her house. Fedra yells that she’s wrecked the family and all she wants is money. Mari calmly replies that she’s incapable of stealing, unlike Fedra who destroys everything she touches. Fedra lunges at her, but Eman catches her and tosses her so hard onto the bed that she rolls off the other side.

Eeeww! she says. What’s this? She’s fallen on the poor orange kitty, dead now. Fedra accuses Mari of killing it. They are all grossed out. Benigno looks closer and says that the color of its ears means that it was poisoned.

We don’t have long to contemplate what Beningo’s past was that provided him with this sort of esoteric Holmesian knowledge because now we see Lorenzo outside Muñeca’s closed door, proclaiming that he loves only her and he wants to go back to being the picture-perfect family they were. Since she can’t see him, he can punctuate his speech with some eye-rolling. From the other side of the door, Muñeca retorts that they’re not picture-perfect, her daughter is rejecting her.

He says that if he talked to Ilitia, she could see Muñeca for what she really is, her real mother. This last bit makes him roll his eyes so much they look like they’re going to fall out and bounce along the floor.

Muñeca has opened the door. You really think so? she says, but she looks very wary. Of course, he oozes, kissing her.

Fedra thinks fast and accuses Mari of poisoning the cat. Mari protests she just kept it in her room because it was lonely. Nereida says that when she came in with the laundry, the cat was eating from the bowl. All eyes turn to the soup bowl.

Eman says he made the soup. Fedra says that doesn’t matter, the point is that Mari wrecks everything. Everybody leaves, including Benigno who is going to go bury the cat, and Eman rushes to Mari’s side to comfort her. She pushes him away, saying the soup was poisoned and he was trying to spoon-feed it to her!

Fedra is stuffing her money back into her safe and mumbling at Bernardo. Looks like her poison idea didn’t work and Bernardo’s chocolate-lacing didn’t either. Bright side: Others may start to suspect Mari. But still, it’s been a flop. Bernardo suggests that accidents happen every day, tee hee. Fedra lights up.

Brandon and Oliver show up at their home away from home, the Ruiz y Teresa digs. Delicia is alarmed to see them. I didn’t do it! she says, putting her hands up. They’re puzzled and she tells them that somebody did the kitty in, and they’re next if they see them here. She draws her finger across her throat for emphasis. They say they want to speak to Emil. She tells them he’s out.

Ceiling shot of Netty and Emil in bed, content and love-talking. Still, it troubles her that he’s married. Oops – we hear voices – one of the ladies is yelling “you can’t come in!” and the next thing we know, Axel (who mysteriously knows which room is Netty’s) has burst in on them.

Avances: Eman, trying Benigno’s strategy, tells Fedra that Mari’s a fatty and means nothing to him. Apparently Mari gets downwind of that, for she’s heartbroken. She packs and phones Brandon to get her out of there.

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