Caray, Caray!

Viewerville settles in. They expect a confession.

Vic: Years ago, I fell in love with someone I shouldn't set my heart on.

Os: Victoria...

Vic and Viewerville:  No, don't interrupt. (Too late, I heard the phone ringing)

Slut Maid enters. JP is on the phone. Vic tells him to call back. Oz tells her to take the call. Damn you, Os!!!!

In da club
RatTattScuzzBoy spikes Fer's drink. Fer gets Funky.

JP says he and Vic have to see each other about hija. Vic asks if he's decided to confront Mom from Hell. JP says he'll confront the whole world if necessary. He will keep his promise to return her child to her.

Fer is not feelin' so great. TatRattScuzzBoy takes her home and date rapes her. Bastard. When the deed is done he lights a cigarrette and blows smoke in her face.

Max is polishing his kayak.

No. Really. He is polishing a kayak. It's not a code I swear.

Guy paddles by. Falls out of kayak. Hits his head. Max to the rescue!

Maria prays. JP enters. "Maria Desamparada, (drink!) Why are you crying?" Maria would rather tell him in the confessional. JP asks if it's that serious. Maria says that's for him to judge.

Coach thanks Max for saving Up the Creek boy. Shows Max a picture of trophy he's going to win. (Useless scene.)

Maria confesses.

RatTattScuzzBoy snoring. Knock at the door a maid is trying to wake Fer. She awakes with a start. What are you doing here, Fede? You invited me! RatTattScuzzBoy scurries out the window where he is spotted by Cruz.

JP asks what viewerville has been wondering since last week: Where were your principals? Your beliefs? Maria says she's in lerve and it's real and for true, but he wouldn't understand 'cause he's never been in love. Maria changes subject to Vic and how she'll never accept her and that she wants someone else for Max's wife (I may need correcting on this translation.)

Cruz rakes. Fer and Gabi are leaving. Fer can't remember what happened last night. Her car is dirty. She asks Cruz to clean it. I'm a gardener he says. You're an employee she retorts. You do my bidding. Well, I don't go around sneaking out of windows like a thief. Fer gets the picture and shuts him up. He says he'll keep his mouth shut forever for just one little smile. Fer gets haughty. Cruz says daddy. Fer panics and gives him one of those "eat mierda" kind of smiles. Gabi thinks Cruz is cute. Cruz says something I don't understand.

On the set. Gui apologizes to Os. They hug and make up. The entire crew applauds! (Yay! We're still on schedule and under budget!)

Fer enters Max's office. Fab looks like he's finally seeing the real Fer. She asks if he's mad about the music mix he made that she threw away. He says no not at all. Fer moves in for a little lovin' and pulls a PSYCH! on him. Fer and Gabi laugh (like hyenas...be-yotches.) Nati enters. Fabian plants a big ol' smoochie on her and introduces her as his girlfriend. I get all excited and write notes to myself in all caps and then reason takes over and I realize he's being a big jerk and using Nati. Max must have rubbed off on him.

Weekend at Burnie's
Maria Desinformada is visiting and telling Burnie how understanding JP is. It's like he's her real and for true father. She gets such a warm fuzzy when they hug (but not in a creepy way.) Burnie flips her lid. He's a priest! he can't have kids. She settles down. She asks Maria to forgive her. She says JP needs pure folks like her around him. Not those nasty sinner types. (Um, I'm not a Catholic, but isn't "being around sinners" part of the job description?) Maria leaves.

Burnie performs a soliloquy: I'm sick and tired of this damn obsession JP has with finding his child. I have to stop it from happening and get that woman and her little dog, too!

Vicks Office
Vic says she was just about to tell Os everything. Toni wants to know why she didn't. Vic says she realized it would be the worst thing for her family...for Os to find out about not only falling in love with a forbidden man, but to have had a child with him, too? Wowzers. Toni asks if Vick thinks Os will react negatively. Vic goes on  about how she and Os need to be united now more than ever if they are going to save Fer fro RatTattScuzzBoy.

Back to Fab: Fer is glad he's got a girlfriend. Fab says it's very serious. They are going to get married. Fer wishes them the best and leaves. Fab the rat bastard asks Nati to forgive him. He needed to make Fer realize he doesn't care, although he really does. I'm so mad right now I'm throwing stuff. Nati tells him not to worry about it. It was just HER FIRST KISS AND ALL. I curse Fab from the depths of my soul and hope Burnie gets a hold of him, too.

Jimena returns to the chicken coop (dressing room) and there is plenty of fake friendy for all. The witch and the other model fill her in about Maria and Jimena announces the real star has arrived (loose translation.) She says something about when she's owner after she and Max marry. Maria leaves. The other girls let Jimena know about her competition and tell her Max has his eye on Maria.

Maria runs into Fer in the hall and there is a confrontation which ends with Fer reminding Maria that she is insignificant.  Maria goes to the bathroom (where she always goes to cry. Sheesh.) Max shows up (Dude, it's the Ladies room, c'mon!) For the 2nd time this evening someone is asking Maria why she's crying. She tells Max his sister is hates her and he makes a move to leave and confront Fer. Maria stops him and tells him she's afraid the family will never accept her. He comforts her and they sneak in some bathroom smoochies while their theme song plays.

Pipino is pissed. He's just seen one of LindaHo's makeup jobs. I think he threatens to get rid of LindaHo 'cause she threatens to tell about Os.

Max runs into JP and they go to Max's office to talk. Max knows he's there about Maria Desamparada (drink!). JP says he promised to protect Maria and Max says he did too. Max says they are going to get married. JP asks what madre thinks and Max says HE makes his life decisions. Speak of the devil, here comes Victoria. She wants to know what's up.

Fer is with Pip and Toni. She has a fiesta and she needs a dress...like yesterday. (be-yotch)

Vic says she didn't realize Max knew JP. Max explains about the first communion thing. JP says he needs to talk to Vic. They go to her office. Max tell the Padre he's a man of his word. Jimena comes in and flings herself at Max. He's all EW! Leave me alone.

Milagros and Napo FF>>

Fabian asks Nati out. She says yes and asks where they should meet. He has the nerve to call himself a gentleman and says he'll pick her up.

Jimena: I love you! beg beg beg.
Max: NO NO NO
Jimena via thought bubble: you won't get rid of me that easily!

Milagros and Napo FF>>

Victoria overhears Maria reporting to JP about Burnie's freakout.

Fausto and Eva are getting instructions never to enter Burnie's private and sacred inner sanctum unless authorized by Satan herself her. It's where she gets her God on and receives his instructions.  Fausto explains to Eva that Burnie asks for justice for sinners and Burnie admits that she sometimes has to help things along (with jugs of gasoline, poison and pokers.)

Vic is annoyed that JP has insinuated himself into her life. Os, Max. Grrrr! Why are you here?

Ok. Here's where I let you all down because I missed a lot of the Spanish. Please, Les suplico, Les ruego, ayúdame.

Nuns are in the kitchen makin'...cookies? (Where is Eduardo Yañez when you "knead" him? har har. Couldn't resist) and The nuns are reminiscing about the first year the orphanage was open. At that time, it was in the Sierra in Jalisco, an area so remote that it was hard for anyone to reach them, including the authorities. There were two girls taken in that year, MD and María Magdalena and NEITHER ONE WAS REGISTERED. This is important because it means looking in the registries is a dead end. The nuns also remark that both MD and MM continue visiting them and that they have taken very different paths in life. (That portion brought to you by NovelaMaven who has saved my hiney and filled me in. Gracias!)

JP and Vic are at the registry office checking out a book o' records. Vic starts crying and whining that she's looked everywhere and memorized practically every record book. She can't find her hija and she could be dead. Cut to JP walking the streets and talking to random people.

Model practice. On the catwalk. Jimena bumps into Maria who falls right into Max's arms. He whisks her away. LindHo gives Jimena the stinkeye and thought bubbles: Damn Skinny Chick. You will pay. (Say what you will about her, she's gonna stick up for our Maria.)

Later, Jimena la Flaca walks into the makeup department and want's a facial. I'm pretty sure LindaHo uses Nair.

It burns!
My face!

LindaHo acts innocent.

JP actually finds a woman who may know something. (And again, I miss important info. Grrr. Please fill in.) She said Victoria had come by many times asking the same questions. But recently the woman's sister had visited and they got to talking about the incident. The sister remembered a little girl  matching María's description being picked up in the street by some nuns. (Another save by NovelaMaven. She is my hero!)

Cruz and JuanJo. Cruz, being a gardener, plants seeds of doubt and I FF>>

LindaHo is giving Fer a makeup job and Fer likes it (of course.) LindaHo leaves and ... heads for Os's room. She comes up behind him and ...he thinks it's Vic. Really? Dumba$$. He is not happily surprised when he turns around. Slut Maid enters and sees them k.i.s.s.i.n.g

Max and Maria at the apartment. Maria's ankle is hurt. Nati offers to stay. Max cuts into her line to say NO!

Max says he talked to JP (and your not so dependable recapper missed what he said about it, but it didn't last long so maybe it wasn't important?) Max cooks. Pasta! Shrimp! Lettuce! Onions! He gives Maria a light up thingamabob aaaandddd...

Cue the kayak!

I'll be back tomorrow if ya'll can stand it!

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Capitulo 203.
Read Chapel Hill Fiddler’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Lopez gives Tom an office with a real door, not just a door for Harvey. Tom is jealous when he sees Ali flirt with Aldo. Lopez installs Lety in the presidencia.

2. Aldo blocks Fernando’s way. He introduces himself then leaves rudely. Fern doesn’t like that guy; he’s arrogant. He gets stuck on the name. Must be foreign.

3. Lety shows her father the cave. He’s offended that she worked in there, but she shows off its wonders. He ends up preferring the cave.

4. Omar the Imbecile tells why Fern can win Lety back. Fern says that she won’t listen to him. She thinks he said those things to manipulate her regarding Conceptos, and he implies that’s Omar’s fault. All she wants is to forget about him.



5. Omar suggests that a woman can’t fall out of love that fast. Fern says of course she can, after what they did to her. She’s changed. He doesn’t want to torment her anymore.

6. Lety asks herself, “Why did he keep this bag full of lies? Why did he leave me his trash?”


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7. Ali and Luigi argue over Aldo. Aldo steps off the elevator, Lety heads straight for him, and they make goo-goo eyes for 20 seconds. Ali and Luigi are boggled.

8. Aldo says he came to DF to be close to Lety and help her. The cuartel thought he was Luigi’s, um, special friend. Aldo says, “With total clarity, I told him that the position is only about work. I don’t want to be close to him. That’s how it is.” Liar! Lety thinks maybe Aldo agreed and Lui didn’t. Aldo answers, “That’s his problem.” Lety says that Conceptos should run the entire Food Tourism campaign.

9. Ali reports to Marcia that Aldo is Lety’s special friend instead.

10. Omar thinks Fernando’s projects are an excuse to talk to Lety. Fern gets serious: they need to work together so he can help rescue his father’s company. Marta tells Fern that Lety’s in the board room with her friend Aldo the papito.

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Capitulo 204.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Aldo asks Lety if her heart still suffers for Fernando. Then he apologizes for getting too personal, but he pushes again, asking, “Do you think about him?” Lety shakes her head no. Aldo leaves happily. Lety can’t stop the memory of Fernando declaring his love last night.

2. Per Lety’s request, Alicia poisonously tells Marcia she’s supposed to report to Lety in the board room.

3. Marcia asks Lety why she didn’t come to Marcia’s office instead of ordering her to the meeting room. (On what planet does the president go begging to his subordinate’s office?) Lety and Marcia face off. See the transcript. Marcia says Lety can’t order her around. Lety says they need to communicate better to avoid problems, and that the rules apply to Alicia too.

4. The witches torment Alicia, telling her she’ll be fired. Lety tells her to not believe anything until she announces her decision. Alicia is relieved and her little child nature comes out for a moment.

5. Marcia is surprised that Fernando will still work at the office. Lety says he asked for it, and she’ll keep her promise to stay away from him, but the company needs everyone’s help. If Marcia doesn’t want him to work there, Marcia needs to tell him herself. YOU GO, GIRL!

6. The meeting gathers. Marcia’s still at the head of the table. Fernando greets Lety and almost kisses her. Marcia has to remind him to greet her (rude snub from Fernando in that culture), and he kisses her shoulder. Lety notices. In Lety’s fantasy she stabs Omar’s hand and he begs her.

7. Marcia delays the meeting while she nags, torments, and badgers Fernando. Lety steps out and tells Marcia she’s going to sit in her own seat when she returns. Fern is seething with jealousy. He asks Lety about Aldo. Marcia asks if Lety’s ever going to start that meeting (and who delayed it in the first place?). Fern tells Marcia he knows she’s going to scrutinize his every move.

8. Ali tells Luigi to go to the meeting. Luigi refuses to take orders from Lety and he throws a tantrum. Really he’s afraid she’s going to fire him.

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Spanish Lesson. Lety faces down Marcia.

Marcia takes the head seat in the conference room and orders Lety to sit.
Marcia: You don’t give me orders. You’re not above me, not even close.
Lety: Then why don’t you be the president and I can leave? Then no one could give you orders, and we could avoid confrontations.
M: Are you threatening that you’ll resign?
L: No, I’m just leaving the path open so you can have what you want.
M: You know perfectly well you can’t resign. If you want my head, why not just say so?
L: Because I need you here. Don’t you remember? And since you need me so your company is not lost, we’re in this together.
M: You can’t come in here and give me orders. And you can’t change the rules and let your friends arrive whenever they wish. They’re going over my head because the president is their friend. I won’t allow that.
L: And I won’t let you throw them into the street.
M: Don’t lecture me. I know their situation. But they can’t arrive whenever they like, just because they have money problems.
L: I agree. But we’re talking about people, not objects. .. .. You don’t really intend to fire the cuartel. You’ve always defended them. They see you as someone just who understands them. You’re bothered because they were celebrating my new position. If it were for being late, you’d have to fire your friend Alicia. She arrived later than them, as always.
M: I get it. I can’t fire one without the other?
L: No, that’s not the idea. If we’re going to succeed, we can’t go on this way. A lot of the problems between you and me have come from a lack of communication. You listen to Alicia, and I listen to the cuartel. Neither version is objective nor reliable. The problems will continue if you and I don’t speak clearly.
M: Then what about the cuartel? Do we let them keep arriving late?
L: No. But we do something short of firing them. Write them up and give them a warning.
M: The cuartel?
L: And Alicia. We can’t keep playing favorites. As you said, the law is the law.
M: Speaking of Alicia, will you keep her on as scty to the president?
L: Let’s deal with the situation of all the scty’s first, okay?

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Friday: MariVicky insists she doesn’t want Eman to kiss her, and that he’s out of bounds anyway because her best friend Marianela - ta DUM! - still loves him.

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Muñeca and Brandon have arrived home to her place, and she thanks him for dinner and for bringing her home, but he got on her nerves wanting to talk about the Lirio the whole time. She insists that neither Fidel nor Eman are connected to the Lirio in any way, and isn’t Brandon maybe just a weensy bit obsessed about the whole thing, and isn’t maybe, just maybe, his attraction to Ilitia is influencing the direction of his investigation? He catches her meaning and says he’s not doing it out of jealousy of Eman, he’s too professional for that. Muñeca smiles that passion can make people do stupid stuff (the telenovelas plots sure are proof of that).

Well, look who comes waltzing in! It’s Ilitia back from Paree already, saying she jumped on the first plane home so she could be with her beloved. I’m dying to be in his arms, she says, scratching her scalp idly. She wonders what Brandon is doing at her folks’ house so late. Work, sez he, and then he asks why, if she misses said beloved so much, did she come straight home to her mama’s?

Because she wanted to bathe and pretty up for him after the flight, assures him. No need, says Brandon, because your beloved is off on a trip with Vicky. Muñeca, who has been watching this exchange with amusement, winces.

Back to the soggy hacienda! Instead of being ecstatic about the “she still loves you” news, Eman is fried. He says Mari never would even tell him face to face if she loved him, or if she hated him. And after he thought he’d never again feel for any woman what he felt for Mari, he’s feeling it now for Vicky. Destiny! he declares. No use fighting it!

But MV slips away, reminding him that he’s married, and no way is she going to be somebody’s lover. Forget it!

Zip! We’re back at the big house. What’s wrong? clueless Emil asks Bernardo, who, as we recall, has materialized in the living room where Gretel was just about to tell her father about her uncle’s unscheduled flight over the balcony rail lo, these many years ago. You look like you’ve seen a ghost, says Emil. Bernardo solicitously replies that he and Fedra were so worried about Gretel, but here she is. Eman notices that his daughter is looking pale, and Bernardo helpfully suggests that maybe she’s about to have one of her crises. Gretel, horrified, wants to bolt.

Emil holds on to her, reassuring her that he won’t let anybody harm her, but she runs out, terrified. Bernardo says he has some matters to attend to, but Emil barks that he’s not going anywhere.

Hacienda again. MariVicky is lying in bed, smiling, remembering the red-hot kisses between the red-hot sheets of the agency soundstage. She hears something go bump in the night and lights a candle and peers out the window. She shrieks, then screams for Eman.

Big house: Bernardo oozes that he always has cared so much for the kids, ever since they were young. Emil rages at him that he saw the look of terror on Gretel’s face, and he needs to realize that Emil knows that he and Fedra kept her caged like an animal for two years. Bernardo explains that Gretel was having a breakdown, and besides she was about to marry that loser policeman.

Emil explodes that nothing he’s saying justifies what they did to her, and he’s the one who decides what’s best for his children. If it had been up to him, Bernardo would have been fired years ago. Bernardo curls a lip slightly and tells him too bad that his firing is something Emil would have to consult with his wife about.

Emil grabs him by the lapels and growls that from now on, Bernardo better step gingerly (andar con pies de plomo, lit. walk with lead feet) because if Emil finds out that he’s laid a finger on any of his kids, he’ll kill him. He imprisoned your daughter, Emil, kill him now! Aw, no such luck. Instead, he gives him a little shove for emphasis and stomps off which leaves Bernardo free to do some thoughtbubbling: What if you knew that this child that you’re defending so hard is not even yours?

Hacienda: Mari is cowering in bed, the fire-spitting professional woman reduced to a hysterical ninny, and Eman has arrived with a flashlight. Eeky shrieky it’s a terrible animal! she says, pointing, and, following her finger, we see a small, wet monkey cowering against the wall. Eman tells her not to scream or run or it’ll turn savage, but to hold very still, to hug him really close. She does, legs and all, and he tells her to notice how the little thing has calmed down.

Big house: Bernardo enters Fedra’s bedroom and when she spots him, she’s overcome. She runs over and hugs him, though he doesn’t hug back, and says she was so afraid she’d lost him forever. Really? You were worried about me? he asks. Pouting for maximum effect, she tells him she was afraid he’d gone off to Veracruz to die like Chemo. Don’t ever leave me like he did! It’ll kill me. Bernardo scoffs that she doesn’t care if he lives or dies. She swears that she was ready to tell Tiburon to go looking under every rock to find him.

Bernardo’s sure that she could always comfort herself with her lover. Don’t even mention him, that cheating rat! she says. I caught him messing with Kristel. Instead of looking gleeful, Bernardo presses his lips together in disgust.

Our little Kristel is joining Lower than Low Lorenzo in a fancy restaurant, where he flutters around her. He’s worried about Fedra’s reaction to having seen them, and Kristel says she was too, but it worked out great because Fedra moved up her wedding date with Mau. Lorenzo protests that she just did it to break up what he and she have together.

Whoa, “easy, calm down” says Kristel in her hip top-model wannabe English. There’s nothing between us, but I really appreciate how you’ve helped me with my modeling. You’re just jealous of my “baby boo” because he has somebody so hot. She’s all cheery and suggests that they “move on” with their lives. Lorenzo kneels tableside and holds her hand, and says he wants to know how he can see her, so they can develop what’s growing between them. She throws cold water on that idea, so he asks her why she came to dinner. She tells that first, she wanted to thank him for his help, and second, she wants him to know that outside of work, there’s nothing between them. She skeedaddles out, he chasing after. He’s left with a waiter staring at him and two customers having a giggle at his expense.

Back to B&F, BFFs: Bernardo is ready to go kill Lorenzo, but Fedra tells him to leave it to her. Bernardo explodes that she would let him live after he’s drooled all over her daughter. Fedra tells him it’s her business, and she’ll decide what happens, and when it all stops.

Then she wants to know where he was all that time and why he left without saying anything. He tells her about Oliver and Mano knocking him out, about the cellar and the rats, and that Max helped, and that it’s Gretel getting her revenge. She’s insane! (desquiciada, lit. unhinged).

Fedra wonders how he got out, and he mentions Nereida, but says that’s not important. The important thing is that Gretel was here talking to Emil. Fedra is sure Gretel will tear her eyes out. They have to do something!

Hacienda: Eman now has the little monkey sitting in his hand. MariVicky is squealing like there’s a spider the size of a dinner plate in the room. Eman pulls her leg a little bit about the fierce animals out there and puts the little guy out of the window. MV begs him to close the window and clings to him in fear. Mari did better with the giant snake, for heaven’s sake.

Big house: Bernardo tells Fedra that Emil and Gretel were talking about the past, and if he hadn’t appeared when he did, Gretel probably would have told Emil about how Luis Felipe met his untimely end. Looks like Fedra has lost control of her. Fedra starts scheming. They have to think of something that will mark her for life, so that she’ll have to keep her mouth shut.

Bernardo suggests telling Gretel the truth and Fedra flutters her eyelashes, pretending not to understand. Bernardo grasps her shoulders and tells her Gretel is Maximo’s and Paula’s bastard (Fedra weakly protests she never knew) and, leaning over her all wild-eyed, he hisses that she never told him, never trusted in him, that she always put him below that Lorenzo Lopez. This is what he saved her life for? She’s an ingrate, and he ought to have let her fry in that ship and then end up at the bottom of the sea.

Fedra wriggles loose, but he grabs her again. Emil doesn’t know, huh? And he doesn’t know that Eman is Jose Maria Sevilla’s son either, does he? What else are you hiding from me? Axel and Kristel could be Lorenzo’s! He gives her a shake. Fedra, loose again, waggles a finger and tells him he’ll regret it.

Your poor husband says Bernardo. What all he doesn’t know about his children! Emil has walked in, and says he wants to hear about it now.

Hacienda: MariVicky has the flashlight now and Eman has nailed the window shut, saying he’ll protect her with his superpowers. Look! It peed on me, he says, holding his hand out for her to sniff. He leaves, teasing her and she tries to fall asleep, but hears more sounds. She grabs the bedding and flees downstairs where Eman offers to sleep in the bed while she stays downstairs, but no, she’s afraid to be alone.

Big house: Out with it, says Emil. Bernardo tells him that they were just chatting about Gretel, and how she was there. Fedra adds that she was sorry she wasn’t there to see her. Emil frostily asks Bernardo to leave.

Alone with Fedra now, he reproaches her, saying that his own daughter had to sneak into her home just to see him and talk to him. Fedra in turn reproaches him for letting her go, since she’s not right in the head. He growls that Gretel isn’t insane.

Fedra, as usual going on the offense, says she’s deeply offended, that he’s very judgmental, that he never let her explain her actions, and that everything she’s done has been for her children and for him. He swears to her that when he has enough proof to uncover her lies, he’s going to put her out in the street. He leaves and she proclaims that nobody is going to throw her out of her house.

Vicky thinks maybe Eman could sleep on the floor (too damp, he says), or in the chair (too hard), and he says the only way is for them both to sleep in the hammock. Finally, after a lot of back and forth, she agrees if he promises to turn his back to her. She climbs in and he tells her back to back won’t work in a hammock. He puts his arm around her and they sway peacefully.

When Eman wakes in the morning, MV is gone, but the little monkey is there. Eman finds a note stuck into the hammock which tells him that MV is off scouting locations.

Back in Mexico City, Ilitia is leaving a cranky message on Eman’s cell. Her mother tells her not to talk to him that way, but Ilitia’s mad that she’s been calling him all night and his cell is turned off.

Just then Brandon walks in with a cup of tea for Muñeca. Ilitia is shocked that he’s there, but her mother reminds her that they’re under a round- the-clock watch. Ilitia thinks he ought to do his watching outside, not in the house. She tries Eman’s cell again, then sniffs that she’s sure Vicky planned the whole thing and that he’s cheating on her.

Doris and Jorge are having morning coffee in what looks like a hotel lobby. Jorge’s been trying to reach Eman all morning, but no luck. However, both think it’s a good sign that the sun is out again, and they hope they can get over the bridge and start their shoot, which I hope is an indoor one, as it’s going to be a muddy mass of broken limbs outside.

In the background, we see Andre giving some lady a goodbye kiss, then he joins Jorge and Doris, who rolls her eyes. He tells her it’s her fault, she rejected him last night. She tells him he better watch out for his health, sleeping with strangers. He laughs and says if he dies, he has a great makeup artist, hahaha. Sleazebag.

Ilitia tells her mama that she’s going to go find Eman, since no man is trustworthy, one short skirt and they’re babbling idiots. Muñeca tells her not to offend Brandon, who is still standing there. Ilitia is sure that he’s dying of jealousy because he’s hot for the little Spaniard. Brandon, giving the knife a little twist, says that it’s not that she’s gorgeous, a major babe, it’s who she is inside, her big heart. Plus she’s not bipolar. He jumps a bit away.

Ilitia comes after him, and Muñeca has to step between them. They decide not to fight and Ilitia calls her dad at work and asks him where Eman might be. He tells her about them being at the Ruiz y de Teresa hacienda, so she says she’s going to head right over. Lorenzo tells her that Vicky’s out to get Eman, and she has to save her marriage.

Lor’s secretary lets in Hinojosa, the accountant, a properly balding and serious-looking fellow, who tells Lor that he transferred the money into Lor’s personal account, but this time he’s going to have trouble covering it up because it’s such a large amount. Lor isn’t worried, he’s been doing these transfers for years and nobody’s ever noticed. Hinojosa tells him it’s different now that Vicky has taken over. Lor says she’s not here right now, and he needs the money for an investment he’s doing with Fedra. He’ll make his wad and return the money and no one will be the wiser.

Hacienda exterior, so exterior that the hacienda itself is not in sight. There’s Eman looking around at the scenery and thinking it’s just right for a shoot, and sure enough, it doesn’t look like it’s rained enough to wash out a bridge. Not a puddle in sight, the trees all nice and dry. He is able to reach Jorge who tells him the bridge is still out and they’re going to see if they can get a truck to get them and the gear across.

Five nanoseconds at the big house: Max takes Bernardo some breakfast but finds hysterical bondage queen Nereida instead.

Eman calls to Vicky – where has she gotten to? He goes looking in the woods, and near the river he sees an undergarment on a branch. Oh boy! Could she be swimming nude, he wonders. He takes a deep sniff of the undergarment and wonders why he’s so attracted to her. Sometimes he feels like he’s known her all his life, other times she seems so distant. He thinks a few lustful thoughts. He goes searching to see if she’s swimming in the river.

Bernardo has brought Fedra tea, and she wonders where Nereida is. Bernardo tells her he’s given her time to think over her priorities, and that she tried to control him and he wouldn’t have it. Fedra thinks that’s what you get messing with a servant. She says she realizes Bernardo is right, the way to shut Gretel up is to tell her the truth about her parentage, and she’ll tell her herself. Bernardo thinks Gretel will be relieved to find out she’s not related to Fedra, and Fedra, not the least insulted, is sure that relief will evaporate when she finds out that if she opens her mouth, Paula gets it.

Down by the riverside: Eman spots MariVicky swimming in the river in her bikini and snaps a few shots of her. She notices him and is embarrassed, but he persuades her to smile, telling her that she looks like a goddess. Her face lights up and he shoots some more. He walks into the water fully dressed and they end up in a passionate embrace, but not before we get a real eyeful of her fabulous figure.

Fedra is flopped on her bed, sweeping the last drops of tea out of her cup with her finger, then licking it off. Bernardo, half on the bed, is near her and they are plotting about how Gretel has to know that Paula is at their mercy. Bernardo points out that first they have to find Gretel so Fedra can tell her, but Fedra thinks that’s easy – just find Oliver and he’ll lead them to her. Bernardo says he’ll take care of the policeman, and Fedra can take care of Mano.

Bernardo wonders if Paula knows that Gretel is her child, and Fedra tells him of course not, and it needs to stay that way. They have to get Paula away from the general somehow. Bernardo says he’ll take care of it.

Max hasn’t untied Nereida, who is sobbing while he demands to know where Bernardo is. She wails that he tied her up and escaped. Serves you right, says Max, for invading my territory. I ought to leave you tied up for working with the enemy, he says, but finally he unties her.

He helps her into his room, not closing the door to keep the fearless rats out, and we are treated to an eyeful of her incredible figure too. This is a banner night for our male viewers, who have hit the jackpot, and maybe for us ladies too, who toast the TV screen, remembering when our stomachs were that flat. Max sits her on the bed, and puts his arm around her, telling her to take heart. Of course just then Paula comes in with his tray which she drops in horror.

Paula flees and Max tries to follow her, but of course he never leaves his cellar. Agoraphobia can really put a crimp in a romance. He covers Nereida with a sheet and orders her to run up and tell Paula the whole truth.

Bernardo encounters Nereida on the stairs and grabs hold of her angrily. She tells him she has to go tell Paula that she wasn’t doing anything with Max. Bernardo tells her he wanted her to see who’s boss and what he’s capable of. From now on she has to do everything he says if she wants to get her privileges in the house back. She’s to give Paula the impression that she spent the night with Max. You’re insane! she spits.

Want to spend the night with the rats again? Obey, or I can do things so bad you’ll wish you were dead. He gives her a rough kiss on the cheek. Got it?

More necking in the river, some very nice views of MV’s pert and perfect behind, and MV breathlessly asks Eman where all this is leading. To the end of the world, he says. More gushy lovetalk, more kissing. She’s been dreaming of this moment, she tells him. I have something very important to tell you! But he can’t quit kissing her to listen to any breaking news.

Oops, the shirt is coming off. In place of the usual waterfall, we have a bit of tumbling river water in the background, and, avert your eyes if you’re the shy type, close-ups of skin and gropey caresses and big sloppy kisses.


Avances: Brandon is driving Ilitia to the hacienda. We see them kissing! Marianela sits Eman down to tell him the truth, namely that Marianela is here. She doesn’t define “here” at least not in this snippet.

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Let’s get married right now, says Max. He has just given María what looks like a boxed bovine nose ring. Fabián and Nathy will be their witnesses. But María Desamparada says no:
No me voy a casar a escondidas como si estuviera haciendo algo malo. No así.(I’m not getting married secretly as if I were doing something wrong – not like that.)

The air in the Sandoval house reeks of Padilla. Padre Padilla smirks that since Victoria herself is of humble beginnings, she won’t object to Scuzz Boy for her daughter. She corrects him. She wants the best for her daughter and it’s obvious Scuzz Boy can’t provide that.

At the Casa de Modas, María is reflecting on Max’s proposal when Toni approaches her:
Tan joven, tan bonita, y tan preocupada por una tontería.(So young, so beautiful and so worried about something so foolish.)

María is surprised that Toni would consider love a tontería. It’s not that, says Toni. It’s just that Victoria has one set of plans for her and another for Max. Besides, María should put her career first. Once she’s established, then she can think about love. It’s too bad more girls don’t understand that they can’t depend on men – there would be fewer tears and fewer abandoned children.

You mean like me? asks María. Toni backpedals a bit – your mother must have been deceived by a man. That’s no excuse for abandoning a child, says María:
Si yo me quedara sola con un hijo, lucharía por él.(If I found myself alone with a child, I would struggle on his behalf.)

Back at the Sandoval house, the Padillas are settling in like fleas on a hounddog.

In the office, having done her best to talk sense into “Juliet”, Toni tackles “Romeo”. She tells Max:
…mereces un buen jalón de orejas y un par de nalgadas.(...you need someone to pull your ears back and give you a spanking)
[Hey! Down in front! They’re not looking for volunteers!]
He has no business courting María, she tells him, when he knows perfectly well that Victoria will never accept her as his wife. No good can come of it:
¡Conste que yo te lo advertí!(Remember, I warned you!/Let the record show, I warned you.)

Osvaldo ignores a call that comes in on his cell while he’s in a meeting with his boss, Pedro. Pedro notices that the call seems to bother Os. He startles Os by asking him: Do you have a lover?

Linda – the unanswered caller – throws the phone across the room just as Nathy enters the apartment. She is furious that Os won’t take her call. Nathy tells her to resign herself to the truth: Os isn’t for her. Besides, she has JuanJo. Linda agrees that JuanJo wouldn’t be a bad option – he is very brave, he risks his life to save others:
-- pero tiene un gran defecto – es pobre!(-- but he has one big flaw – he’s poor!)

Are Linda’s ears burning? Because in a neighboring apartment, her name comes up. Millie and the boys are talking about love. Millie wants to be sure that JuanJo has found his soulmate, someone beautiful inside and out. Is Linda that person? JuanJo is sure she is. And she accepted his proposal. Well why not, says Millie, you’re quite a catch. Napo and Cruz look uncomfortable.

Pedro is telling Osvaldo how important it is to manage his private life discreetly. He is interrupted by a messenger who hands him an envelope. It’s the report they’ve been waiting for: the investigation of the shooting on the set shows it was accidental. Os knew it. No one would want to kill him.

Victoria prays for a way to save her daughter from Scuzz Boy. As she heads back downstairs, she is horrified to hear what Padilla senior is saying to Fer: Victoria reminds him of a beautiful girl who used to work in a clothing factory. She had a daughter…

Then it wasn’t my mother, pipes up Fer brightly. I’m her only daughter.

Nathy and María are discussing how MD turned down Max’s proposal. Nathy understands why she did it, but still, after they had been together… Linda enters in time to hear this choice piece of gossip: So María and Max did it! She smiles knowingly.

Fabián, meanwhile, is telling his friend Max that he never thought he’d see a woman turn him down. Max is kind of glad though: it shows that María Desamparada loves him for who he is and not for what he has. And what about Ximena? asks Fabián.

Indeed. What about Ximena. The ‘illicit sex’ theme plays as a backdrop to Ximena and Guillermo’s mutual pawing. Really? Xi and Gui? For an unattractive guy, he certainly gets a lot of action. Didja miss me? she asks.

Max tells Fabián that when Ximena cheated on him, she killed whatever love he felt for her. Fabián remarks:
Siempre has hablado de este engaño pero nunca pudiste probarlo en realidad.(You’ve always talked about her cheating, but you could never really prove it.)

Maybe not. But the Xi and Gui show is heating up.

At the Casa Sandoval, Padilla Senior threatens to expose Victoria’s past if she won’t accept his son for Fer.

Scuzz Boy’s eyes are popping out of his head as he looks at photos of yachts and helicopters and Fer tells him the family owns a house in Miami and an apartment in New York.

At last the visit is over. Padilla senior scurries out like a cockroach. Victoria looks at his empty whisky glass and then hurls it across the room. It shatters.

The roomies are still comparing life philosophies. LindaHo contends that only a moron (tarada) would refuse to marry Max Sandoval:
Dejaste ir la oportunidad de tu vida.(You let slip the opportunity of a lifetime.)
María is adamant. Max loves her and they’ll marry at the right moment. But Linda insists that the moment has come and gone. He’ll never ask again.

Xi and Gui are at the Sex and Food stage. Then… saved by the doorbell. It’s probably Ofelia, thinks Guillermo.

Life Lesson According to LindaHo:
Todos los hombres están hechos de la misma madera.(All men are made of the same wood)
[I guess she would know.]
Max is never coming back, she predicts.

The doorbell rings: Max is back! Yay! Smooch smooch.

Gui guessed wrong about his visitor. It’s Osvaldo and he is steamed! As soon as Gui opens the door, Os punches him (even though the wound in his side is still healing and the effort causes him pain). Where does Guillermo get off telling people that Osvaldo has a lover??? Guillermo retorts that he knows about Linda and he has proof… Os cuts him short:
Ten mucho cuidado Guillermo porque no voy a permitir que nadie destruya a mi familia.(Be very careful Guillermo because I’m not going to let anyone destroy my family.)

Once Scuzz Boy and Pa have gone, Fer starts in on Victoria. Wasn’t she ever young? Wasn’t she ever in love? Yes, answers Vic, although my youth was very different from yours. When you’re young you can make mistakes that scar you for life. Fer looks up: Did that happen to you? Yes, says Victoria, and you don’t know how much I’ve suffered because of it.

Nathy tries to get LindaHo out of the livingroom so Max and María can have some privacy. She’s not budging. Max then graciously invites all the girls to his home for dinner. When he says he’ll just call home to let his parents know, Linda asks if he’s calling his mother or Osvaldo. How do you know my father? asks Max.

Osvaldo is still arguing with Guillermo while Ximena hides in the bedroom. He says:
Voy a defender mi relación con Victoria a costa de lo que sea – advertido quedas!(I’ll defend my relationship with Victoria at any cost – you’ve been warned!)
He leaves and Guillermo slams the door after him. Then Ximena emerges from the bedroom wrapped in the regulation Telenovela postcoital sheet. So Osvaldo has a lover, she says. Interesting.

Back home, Fer asks Victoria to tell her what happened in the past. Some day I’ll explain it, says her mother. I don’t want you to suffer like I did. And I’m ready to defend you tooth and nail (con uñas y dientes, literally with nails and teeth). I’d die of pain if I lost you, says Victoria.

Xi tells Gui she only came by to say goodbye. Hah, says Gui, You need me. Xi curses the day she met him, but for someone saying goodbye she isn’t in a big hurry to leave.

Back at María’s apartment, LindaHo tells Max that everyone knows Osvaldo Sandoval – he’s a famous actor! And also he came to see her in the hospital when Victoria’s chauffeur ran her over…

Whoa, says Max. And he turns to María: Why didn’t you tell me any of this, mi cielo?

Victoria unburdens herself to Toni – Padilla is threatening to expose her past unless she lets his pestilent offspring marry Fer. Well maybe the moment of truth has come. And Victoria says:
Con tal de salvar a mi hija, estoy dispuesta a revelar mi secreto a Osvaldo.(To save my daughter, I’m prepared to reveal my secret to Osvaldo.)

And at that moment Osvaldo enters and asks:
¿De qué secreto hablas, Victoria?(What secret are you talking about, Victoria?)

In María’s apartment, there’s an awkward silence. Then LindaHo says: It’s a long story but … I asked María not to say anything. Bottom line: now I’m working at la Casa de Modas too! Good for you, says Max innocently. Nathy suggests they do dinner another day. Max and MD smooch smooch goodnight.

When Max is gone, Linda declares once more that she is gunning for Osvaldo. She knows that sooner or later (tarde o temprano, literally late or early) he’ll get tired of his wife and marry her.

Osvaldo and Victoria are alone now and he wants to know what she is hiding. She says:
Tengo deshecho el corazón. Es indispensable que haga a un lado todas las mentiras, todos los engaños.(My heart is broken. It’s essential to set aside all the lies, the deceptions...)
Os is puzzled. What lies? What deceptions?
Victoria continues: The moment of truth has come.

Not to Xi and Gui though. They continue their unsavory … what? banter? No, that’s too light. Verbal foreplay, maybe.

Victoria says: El engaño es como una traición. (Deception is like a betrayal). And Osvaldo gets all paranoid: You mean what they’re saying about me? he asks. Now it’s Victoria’s turn to be puzzled. Before either can clarify, Fer bursts in saying she’s going to a club with Scuzzy Boy. No you’re not, says Victoria. Go to your room!

Xi and Gui are at it again when the doorbell rings. This time it is Ofelia. She walks right in asking why it took him so long to get to the door. Then she sees Ximena.

Fer’s inopportune entrance has distracted Os and Vic. They stray into the old Fer fight, the “You always…” “You never…” that we’ve heard before. Victoria adds an extra twist of the knife when she says: You worry so much about your precious career, but your last film played to an empty house.

You might think Ximena and Ofelia would exchange air kisses and feign pleasure at seeing one another again. But no. These are both tough galletas. Each knows why the other is here, although Ofelia is mildly surprised. She knew Ximena was fooling around, but not that her lover was Gui. If Ximena tells Ofelia’s husband Pedro, then Ofelia will tell Max. And everyone will pay. The insufferable (and apparently irresistible) Guillermo can only shrug: I’m not a one-woman man.

Back to Osvaldo and Victoria: He doesn’t get angry at Victoria’s rather nasty attack. Rather, he seems to crumple. He tells her he not only failed as a film actor but now he has lost the lead in an upcoming novela. His public has gotten tired of him. An actor’s life is very short, he says. I don’t expect you to understand: you’ve always been successful and you’ve never lost anything…

Victoria interrupts him. You’re wrong, she says. I lost the most important thing in my life. That’s why I’m so opposed to Fer’s relationship with that boy. Then tell me about it, pleads Osvaldo.

Fer calls her friend Gaby to tell her she’s going out with Scuzz Boy even though her mother told her not to.

At the Padilla rathole, the elder Scuzz tells his son he has an ace up his sleeve: he knows Victoria’s Secret and he’s going to use it to control her.

At the dinner table, Victoria says she’ll do anything to keep the Padillas away from Fer.

Con razón. At that moment, Padilla Senior is mixing a potion for Scuzzy boy to put in Fer’s drink:
…para que se ponga flojita y se olvide de protegerse(so she’ll loosen up and forget to protect herself.)
[The stuff is pinkish in color. Maybe that will save Fer.]

Finally, we drop in on St Bernarda. She is deep in prayer: May Juan Pablo never ever ever ever find that child of sin.

We see Fausto Candela creeping around the balcony and then heading down to Bernarda’s prayerfest. She’s startled. She didn’t even hear him approach.

It took him a long time because he had to pick up Eva and there was a back-up of traffic crossing the Styx. (Or so they say. But I think they stopped to hoist a few in honor of the Packers victory.) But finally – ta da!
Acércate Eva! (Come here, Eva).

Then the two wicked-looking old women lock eyes as they take each other’s measure. Bernarda executes a perfect eyebrow sweep.

So now there are three weirdos in the house. One more and they’ll have enough for a regular mahjong game.

María lies in bed and remembers the rooftop idyll with Max.
Max lies in bed and remembers the morning after the night before.
María looks at the silly photos she and Max took together.
Both sigh: Mi amor…te amo.
At the club, Fer goes off to find Gaby while Scuzzy Boy orders drinks. Then he pulls out the potion his father prepared and adds several drops to one of the glasses. The clear liquid turns pink.

And at last, we are back to Victoria’s Secret. She begins:
Hace muchos años me enamoré de un hombre, un hombre en el que nunca debí poner mis ojos...(Many years ago I fell in love with a man, a man I should never have set my heart on…)

And while we wait until tomorrow to hear the rest of the conversation:

Sweet William in a kayak.

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At Mario's, jubilant Alejandra and Gabriela leave for the salon for Alejandra's wedding coif; but not before Gabriela disconcerts "Mario" over desiring an important conversation with him. Back in Édgar and Susana's room, he shocks her with news that during her coma not only was Roberto poisoned but that Garnica disappeared.

Édgar warns they shouldn't be seen together and he needs to allay suspicion by returning to Adolfo, whose orders to execute child hostages he disobeyed; thus Susana decides Édgar's basically a good person. At Adolfo's, enthused Dante is swooning over bringing high rolling Americans to their illicit archeological dig.

But Adolfo's subdued and presses to excavate more first, leading Dante to draw back and wonder at his tentativeness. Adolfo's sick and tired, so Dante offers him a pep talk recounting his meteoric rise to success and power. Still Adolfo feels all his bad deeds are coming home to roost and drag him under.

He's had success, but at a cost; and his sadness surprises Dante, who attempts to give misery company by acknowledging even though Dante repaid the jewel amount, he's still under investigation. And he's always admired Adolfo's strength to weather storms few others can. If they unite, they will emerge victorious.

Leonardo visits Yolanda who eventually simply explains what happened during the kidnapping. Though she never imagined Adolfo could do such a thing, Leonardo certainly did. And she reveals Chicles slipped the letter into the mattress of the missing maid, whose address Yolanda doesn't know. She agrees to ask Adolfo about it.

In Susana's room, her head still isn't working like it ought to; and suddenly she regrets confessing everything to Édgar. But he notes Susana also knows his secrets, which together can save their lives; so when Édgar requests she part with one of the diamonds to carry with him to Adolfo's, Susana agrees.

At the salon, Gabriela and Alejandra girl-talk, with Alejandra reassuring Gabriela no one is hiding things to hurt her -- right up until Gabriela asks whether someone has revealed things to Alejandra, and the stylist conveniently breaks in to change the subject.

In Mario's office, worried "Mario" discusses with Abelardo his intention to reveal only part of Márta's story during his inevitable meeting with Gabriela, leaving out Mario's paternity, her rightful heritage of millions, and that Julieta is only her half sister. Abelardo assures him little by little she will understand.

On their return, Gabriela enters Mario's office, while excited Alejandra rejoices with Abelardo on her upcoming marriage; he happily offers to plan their small celebration. Inside the office, "Mario" brings Gabriela up to date on part of Márta's story, including he was then married and she was murdered by Adolfo.

At Adolfo's condo, he just barely believes Édgar's failed execution story; but after considering the freak accident of Roberto's poisoning, decides he's just having a run of bad luck. Later Dante phones Adolfo with a plan to make Elsa a red herring to divert suspicion from them by framing Elsa for the jewel theft.

At Elsa's, Mauricio's counsels and soothes her that it's logical Caramelo would stay with the person who raised her; and surprises and delights her with the notion that a baby of their own could take her mind off this -- no, wait, how about FIVE babies? And this time she introduces the magic word, "marriage."

She takes a call from Caramelo with news of Juan José's wedding, and Elsa soberly explains she will return to "auntie" status. When Elsa confesses the sad thing is they are trying to take the child away, Mauricio thinks she's just confused and changes the subject by inviting her to dinner; and they share a warm embrace.

When Édgar makes a second apparently personal visit to Ulises to surreptitiously lift Elsa's apartment key again, Ulises gleans the understandably wrong impression and tries to make a little time with Édgar. He steals the key, and Ulises messes with Édgar's mind by not letting him exit without a kiss -- and then by kissing his hand instead.

Moments later upstairs, Édgar empties a small bag of clear gemstones into Elsa's fish bowl and exits. At Alejandra's architectural studio, she first teases Mina and then reveals with squeals that she's getting married the next day.

Adolfo visits Yolanda at home, and she claims she didn't report him, which so far appears the case to him. But she's incredulous he could be so sick as to execute children. They don't even have the infamous letter; what is he going to do, break into Juan José's house and check all the mirrors?

Yolanda recounts her story of their escape -- with the important difference that Édgar told them to run and left the keys. She confirms the thugs attacking him as they left, but Adolfo can't believe he'd be so stupid. Yolanda asks about maid Juanita's belongings, but he impatiently denies knowing and exits quickly.

Back at the architectural studio, Mina is just toasting Alejandra's upcoming "Mrs." -hood, when Juan José enters and calms his bride's wedding plan jitters with reassurances. At first Alejandra refuses to invite Bertha, when Juan José asks; but then she agrees to think about it at his noting Bertha's her only sister.

Adolfo makes Édgar sorry he returned by viciously jumping him with a revolver at the back of his neck the moment he appears at the condo. Adolfo's unhappy with the lame coverup of Édgar's disobedience. But Édgar thinks fast and bargains information about the diamonds for his life.

He's just about to spill the story when he pulls the single diamond given him by Susana out of his pocket, amazing Adolfo.

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Capitulo 201.
Read K-Fuego’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Tom says he’s Erasmo’s boss now. Wrong!

2. Alicia is horrified that she has to ride the microbus. She insults everyone, and then she doesn’t want to exit where the cuartel will see her.

3. The judge thinks they’re playing games with the legal system. He’ll postpone the liquidation of Conceptos, but he gives them only three months, not six, to teach them respect for the law. They have to pay off debts of $6.5M. Sanchez insists that reconciliation is better than battle, and he insists that Fern and Lety hug as part of that reconciliation. They hug awkwardly.

4. Fern begs Lety to let him work at the office to help dig Conceptos out of debt, and she agrees, calling him “Señor Fernando.” See the transcript.

5. The cuartel drools over Aldo and he takes them out to breakfast. Luigi hauls him away. Aldo’s talk to Luigi sure seems like flirting. Luigi sets up Aldo in his new office.

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Capitulo 202.
Read Julie’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Luigi introduces Aldo to Marcia. Hippy Ed could recognize a person’s inner self because he’s perceptive. Poser Aldo can recognize what Lety told him about people and seem perceptive.

2. Fern tells Lety they should work together because they both share in the problem. He’s responsible because he caused it. She reminds him that now the responsibility is hers, and the sooner they get out of debt, the sooner she doesn’t have to see him anymore. (Lety, you’re ugly when you’re mean.)

3. The cuartel tries to figure things out. The embargo lawyers are Lety’s lawyers. There were financial problems between Lety and Fern. Lety was very cold to Fern last night. Marta suggests, only half joking, that there was a romance between them.

4. They arrive late and Marcia lays into them. Alicia arrives even later with a big run in her stocking. Sara asks if the rules apply to everyone. Ali whines to Marcia that Lety’s out to get her. Marcia reminds her that she was late. Ali yammers on about the microbus and Marcia falls asleep. The cuartel poisons Lety against Marcia while Ali poisons Marcia against Lety.

5. Lety tells Lopez he has to consult with her before he fires anyone. She’ll talk to Marcia herself.

6. Aldo tells a caller that he’s opening the restaurant to win a woman’s heart. Alicia comes down to scope him out and sets her sights on him. Luigi arrives and says he’s already staked his claim. He kicks Ali out and Aldo kicks Luigi out.

Tu servidor recapper is going to save some time here. De hoy en adalante (from now on), whenever Alicia tells Marcia anything about Lety, she twists it to try to make Marcia hate Lety more. If Lety says, “Could you please ask Doña Marcia to meet me in the conference room,” Alicia reports it as, “Lety ordered you to report to her immediately in the conference room, and that’s an order! That’s exactly how she said it.” I don’t want to describe that every time, but know that it’s there. The cuartel does the same thing to Lety, though not 100% of the time. Any time I refer to Alicia or the cuartel talking to their patrons poisonously, I’m taking special notice that they are pitting one against the other.

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Spanish Lesson
F: This is not about anything personal. You made yourself perfectly clear last night. I want to talk about my position in Conceptos. I know you don’t want to see me.
L: I think it’s for the best, Don Fernando.
F: But I need to help pay the debts, especially with the horrible deadline the judge gave us. Lety, you need to rescue the company. We should work together just like before. In such a grave situation, you can’t afford to leave me on the fringe. You need me. Accept it. I’m willing to assist you in whatever you like. The challenge is too big - $6.5M in three months. That’s a titanic task. All I need is a space to work in. No, not your office. I can share Omar’s office. And use of a secretary? I would be very grateful. Yes, Omar too. He might be able to do something.
L: I can’t deny you entrance to Conceptos. And I need everyone’s help to succeed.
F: I promise, we’ll only talk about what is strictly necessary.
L: I have some ideas for projects. We’re in big problems, Señor Fernando.

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