Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Refugio Para el Amor #54-55 Tue 7/3/12 Luci Takes Rosa’s Place and Makes the Torreslanda House a Home
Happy 4th of July!!!!
Max
finds Rosa in the chapel. He has her swear there in front of God that
everything she told him is true. She swears it. He then swears in front of God
that he had nothing going with Aurora. Luci is not his child; she’s the child
of Aurora and Claudio Linares.” Rosa looks impactada, but does she believe him?
Dona
Aquiles gets Luchita good and drunk on all that champagne he had Copio bring.
Once the fat lady sings it looks like it’s over, because Luchita passes out on
the couch. Don A.’s plan worked to perfection. He tells Copio to get rid of her
first thing in the morning.
Paz
speaks with Magda and Don Serapio about what to do with her house. She wants to
talk to Luci about it. Serapio thanks Paz many times for the dinner and heads
out. Paz can’t stop thinking about why Rosa has kept quiet and hasn’t revealed
Luci’s true origins. Magda thinks Rosa has kept her mouth shut because she’s in
debt with Luci. When Paz and Rosa meet face to face, then she’ll be able to
confront her about everything. Paz agrees, because Luci has a right to know who
her parents are. Magda corrects her. Luci’s parents were, and will always be,
Paz and Galdino.
Rod
brings Luci back to Vio’s. She's obviously still upset about the Gala visit. Rod
doesn’t like seeing her sad and upset. Nothing and no one with ruin their
happiness. Luci says that Gala is right about one thing—Luci stole her man. Rod
says he never belonged to Gala. “But you were going to marry her.” Rod says he
was lazy and was going through with it because they had been dating for so
long. But he didn’t know what real love was. Luci taught him. He’s going to
present her to his parents as the woman he loves and wants to spend the rest of
his life with. She hugs him, but doesn’t seem convinced. She’s worried about
what’s going to happen. He reminds her that he’ll always be at her side, and as
long as he’s there, nothing will happen to her. Kisses. But Luci still looks
uncertain.
Max
can’t sleep, but now that her conscience has supposedly been eased, Rosa is
sleeping like a baby. “Luci is the daughter of Aurora Linares.” He rubs his
head like he has one of Rosa’s headaches.
Luci
tells Estella about Gala’s visit. She doesn’t feel comfortable living in that
apartment. She imagined living in a little house with vegetation and lots of
sunlight, like in her pueblo. She wishes she and Rod could go live in her little
town in the north. Here in the city she feels so unprotected. There’s a knock
on the door and it’s Claudio. She gives him a big hug. They discuss the Het Het
properties and she thanks him for all he has done and how well he’s treated her.
He says it doesn’t compare to the affection she has shown him. He doesn’t have
a family and she and her friends have given him a sense of family. Luci
apologizes for not telling him about her marriage. He tells her there is no
need. He just wishes her happiness. She invites him to her church wedding. He
doesn’t know if he can make it, because he’s leaving on a trip tomorrow.
The next
afternoon, Vio is blown away by seeing Luci in her new city girl outfit. We don’t
see it until Rod walks in. He’s also blown away. Luci is wearing a charcoal,
knee length pencil skirt with a bit of flair at the back hem, a muted purple
blazer with charcoal piping, and sky high black heels. She looks really unsure
about the outfit, but Rod encourages her.
Mati is
dressing Pato and they are talking about the family meal with Luci that
afternoon. Mati is not sounding very hopeful, but Pato thinks it’s about time
that Rosa knows that Rod and Luci are in fact already married. Hannah runs in
yelling that they’re here! She and Pato leave and Mati looks anguished.
Rosa
tells Connie that she’s going to ask Luci not to marry Rod. She’s already asked
Rod and Max, who didn’t listen to her. Connie begs her find out if what she
thinks is true. She tells Connie that she told Max and he denied it. But she
doesn’t believe him. (Good grief!)
The
whole family is in the living room and excited. They all welcome Luci (who
stumbles a bit in her heels) with open arms. Rosa, however, has her back turned
to them all. When she turns and sees Luci dressed in such a classy manner, she
starts envisioning Aurora is standing there. She says Aurora’s name and falls
into a dead faint. Connie, Hannah and Rod rush to her aid. Luci leans over her,
gently calling her, and cradles her head while everyone rushes for something to
revive her.
Gala is
having her usual bitch session in her office with her two girlfriends. She’s
offended by how Rod kicked her out of the apartment and made her leave the
keys. Fernanda is agreeing with Gala
that Luci stole Rod. But Valentina, ever the voice of reason, says that Rod
isn’t some little kid that can be lured away with candy. Fernanda tells her to
shut up, but Gala actually agrees with her. But she is still convinced that
she’ll get him back.
Max,
Mati and Connie have taken Rosa to her bed. Max leaves to call the
cardiologist, and Mati remembers how high strung Rosa was as a child. “I don’t
need a doctor. I need to cure my soul.”
She says that she told Max the truth. But look what’s happened anyway. “Luciana
is Aurora—come back to chastise me. Nothing has happened to Max. Nothing! Rod
and Luci can’t get married because they’re half siblings.” Connie and Mati look
at each other like, what are we going to do with this nut? “They don’t know the
terrible sin they are going to commit.”
Downstairs…
well, let us all savor this moment. Frigida is serving Luci and calling her
señorita. Rod comes down and updates everyone. Max is speaking to the
cardiologist and they will need to do other tests on Rosa. However, Max and
Pato will still go on their trip to Boston. Pato tells Luci that he will come
back from the trip with good news. Max rejoins the family. The doctor is on his
way. They must all make sure not to upset Rosa. She needs tranquility.
(Considering she’s the one causing all the drama, that will be difficult.)
Gala
continues to whine that at this very moment Luci is occupying the place that is
rightfully hers. Rod’s life and his
heart—and his fortune too, Valentina helpfully points out. Fernanda feeds her a
cookie. LOL! Julie arrives and invites the girls out to eat, and to drink
champagne, of course. Gala’s assistant brings in all the arrangements she’s
made for Don Aquiles.
In Het
Het, Copio tells Don A. how Luchita woke up with a massive hangover and is
probably right now still trying to sleep it off. Surprise, surprise! Luchita
bursts in, more perky than ever. She’s ready to give the Don what he missed
last night when she fell asleep. She blows him a kiss; he dodges it and looks
worried.
Aldo is
hungry and goes to the kitchen to pick at the food. Max catches him while he’s
trying to call Lorenzo. (Thank goodness it wasn’t Vicky!) Aldo says it’s
business related, but Max just scowls at him and tells him to get to work. Max
has the rest of the family sit at the dining table and asks Luci to sit in
Rosa’s chair at the head. Frigida is not pleased. Max informs her that Rosa is
eating in her room with Connie. Once the meal is over, Luci entertains them
with tales of Het Het. Everyone is happy and all smiles, even Max. She tells
them how she met Rod and Pato the first time. Max asks Luci her parents’ names.
With that piece of info, it’s all coming together for Max now. He thanks Luci
for making them feel like a family again.
Luci asks permission to make them all her special coffee and rushes to
the kitchen. Max says her it’s her home and she can do what she wants. Melissa
tells Rod that Luci is going to make him a great wife, and Hannah invites them
to Boris’ party. Rod says they have too much wedding stuff to do.
In the
kitchen, Frigida stares coldly at Luci as she prepares the coffee and asks for
the location of something. Frigida snippily says that Luci has already
forgotten that she was a servant in this house. Luci hasn’t forgotten. She
remembers very well where she and her family come from—her mother who makes
ceramics and her father who worked the land. “Oh, what class!” Luci says it’s
not class; it’s pride. Her parents taught her to respect herself and to respect
others. She calls Frigida a buttinsky (metiche) and goes about her business.
In the
dining room, Max is having a great time with the kids. They make fun of Hannah
always being late and rushing around, and Max talks about Rod and Pato when
they were that age. Max acknowledges that it’s been a long time since they’ve
been like this. Luci comes out and tells them that soon they’ll start to smell
the delicious aromas of the coffee. Max says that it will make the house smell
like a home (hogar). Awww!
Vio
prepares dinner at her place and wonders how Luci is doing at her meal with the
in-laws. She envies her. Marcial makes a surprise visit. She invites him to eat
with her, but what he’s craving is her. He starts devouring her with kisses.
Fabian
and Lorenzo are also eating, but on the roadside. Aldo calls and asks if they
still want to go to the party. Aldo again tells him he can bring Fabian. He
then asks if Lorenzo was able to get hold of the Inferno keys. Nope. Well not
to worry. Aldo says he’s almost cracked the passwords to get into the accounts.
Luci
accompanies Pato to his room. He keeps correcting her when she falls into using
Usted with him instead of Tu. She is so happy and proud of him for fighting to
regain mobility. He says it’s all due to her. She was the one who motivated him
when she first came to the house. She says that the will to live was already in
him. Pato compliments her on her outfit. She thanks him, but admits she misses
her long skirts and belts/bands, and her feet hurt like crazy in those darn
heels. Pato tells her he has a surprise for her. He has her take a folder out
of a drawer. It’s all the paperwork she needs to prepare for and take her
secondary school exams. Hannah will go with her tomorrow. Luci runs to him and
kisses him. Rod comes in and she shows him what Pato did for her. They forget
he’s there for a second as they get all touchy feely, and poor Pato looks like
he’s dying inside.
As they
say farewell, Hannah tells Luci they still have more shopping to do—for the
wedding dress and for H&M’s dresses as well. Luci shakes Max’s hand in
thanks, but he takes her hand and kisses it while thanking her. After Rod and
Luci leave, Max and Hannah agree that Luci is lovely. Hannah wants him to
convince Rosa. (Good luck with that!)
It seems
like the town seamstress is too busy to make Magda and Paz their wedding
dresses. They will either have to make them themselves or figure something else
out. (I notice that Paz is finally out of her black mourning clothes.) Ariche
runs in. He has a surprise for them. His mom has bought white material to make
him a new outfit for Luci’s wedding.
Aldo is
in Inez’s office, still trying to break the code. They high five because
they’ve finally gotten in. Aldo begins to read some info and names in a file. He
reads the name of the lead business partner/shareholder of Inferno and jumps
back in surprise.
The
bitch session of Julie, Gala and her friends continues in a restaurant.
Valentina thinks it will be hard to break them up because they are already
married. Gala scoffs that it’s just a civil marriage. She (Gala) was already
living with him. Valentina points out that Rod obviously prefers Luci. “Shut up
and eat Vale!” Julie thinks Luci is obviously after the Toresslanda fortune.
(Of course SHE would think that.)
Max has
a conversation with Mati and Connie in the home office. He’s worried about
Rosa. She’s obviously losing it. From the look of Mati, it seems that she is
too. She’s sitting in the chair and crying and sniveling. Max leans in and asks
Mati if she always knew the truth about what Rosa did with the baby. Why didn’t
she tell him? “It wasn’t my secret to tell, Señor.” Max is pissed. “Giving a
child away is a crime! 20 years without telling me a single word!!!” Max can’t believe that Mati kept this secret
from him. Connie jumps to her defense and says she kept the secret too. Max is
beyond impactado.
Rod
brings Luci to Vio’s. He’ll be back to pick her up later to eat and to do more
wedding planning. She needs to get moving on picking the wedding dress too.
Luci admits to him that she didn’t choose the one she tried on because that’s a
lot of money to spend on just a dress. Rod doesn’t think it’s *just* a dress.
It’s her wedding dress! Luci refuses to
argue with him. She’s not spending that much money on a dress. He leaves and
she gives him the blessing. Then she immediately slips out of her high heels
and unbuttons the blazer, looking very relieved. A messenger comes to deliver a
gift box with a rose attached, for Mrs. Luciana Jancinto de Torreslanda. The
small card says, “For the lady of my heart.”
The larger card asks her to forgive him for forgetting to take care of
this before. All of this leaves Luci smiling from ear to ear. But she’s
perplexed by what she finds inside the box. The first item in an expensive,
touch screen cell phone. The wallpaper is a picture of her and Rod on their Het
Het wedding day, which we can tell she loves. The next item is a fancy wallet
with a picture of Rod inside. Once again Luci loves this, but she doesn’t look
the least bit pleased to also find a credit card, for Luciana Jacinto de
Torreslanda, and a wad of cash inside the wallet. The third item is a checkbook. She shoves
everything back in the box and keeps the cards and rose only.
Marcial
and Vio are having a meal at an outdoor café. She is surprised by how hard she
has fallen for him, but he says from the first moment he saw her he knew she
was right for him. He says he’s never known anyone like her. She wants to know
what’s next for them, especially after what just happened between them. (Roh roh?!!!
Que the hell? Did they do it and just not show us? Is this a post-cositas meal?)
Marcial looks just as taken off guard as we are, but he knows Vio means
marriage and says so. She seems to think this is an actually proposal of sorts,
but the face we see as he hugs her is one of deception and uncertainty.
Back to
Max, Connie and Mati in the study. Now he’s venting his rage at Connie for
being part of this trio that lied to him and made a fool of him for 20 years
about Aurora and Claudio’s child. Connie has Mati leave so that she and Max can
continue arguing privately. She tells
him that both he and Rosa have rotten attitudes. Both have helped to drag out
(arrastrar) this lie. His egoism and Rosa’s sick obsession have caused this.
Neither one of them listens or tries to understand, and they drag all the rest
of them into the middle of their madness! And it’s not fair. (No se vale.)
Pato
comes in to speak with Rosa, who is in bed. He asks how she feels and what’s
going on with her. He notices that she’s anguished and nervous, and knows it
has nothing to do with heart or blood pressure troubles. He begs her to confide
in him because it hurts him to see her this way. He can’t even imagine what it
is, she says. “I haven’t been a good woman. I’m not the good woman that you all
think I am.” “With me, you’ve been the most strict mother, but also the most
tender. You’ve taught me by example, and that’s what I value, mama. I love you,
and so do my siblings and my father. And when there’s love, you can overcome
anything.” Rosa gets cryptic again and tells Pato if only he knew, but she
doesn’t get to reveal anything because Connie announces that the doctor has
arrived. Rosa doesn’t want to see any doctors, and looks more crazy eyed than
ever.
Claudio
brings fresh flowers to Aurora’s grave. The graveyard director says he will
need to sign additional forms soon. When Claudio says that won’t be possible
because he’ll be travelling, the director tries to pull a fast one by saying
Rosa can sign for him while he’s away and take care of everything. Claudio must
hear the audience yelling at him not to do it, because he tells the director
NOT to bother Rosa with this and that he’ll take care of it personally when he
returns from his trip.
Aldo is
so happy about his discovery and that he’s basically floating through the
Torreslanda offices and flirting with every girl he sees.
Gala
goes to the Inferno to make plans with Lastra for the attack against
Luci. They’ll do it in Casa Torreslanda. She mentions Don Aquiles and Lastra
remembers him from Inferno.
Rod,
Marcos and Gabriel horse around at the office and talk about the magazine exposé
and the waitress Rod defended. Since they assume Gala got these photos
recently, they assume the waitress must still work there. They think they
should go back to have a bachelor’s night, so Rod can see her again. Rod
reminds them that he’s a happily (already) married man.
Don
Aquiles has decided, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Luchita is determined to
get her night of love and nothing will deter her, so he’s going to pay up. His
reputation is at stake. She’s going to have the night of her life! (She’s going
to touch heaven.) Luchita happily hears this through the door.
Here's the rest of the recap…
Marianita
tries on her hot pink wedding outfit, with wings, for Luci and Estella. She
thinks that if Luci invites her mama to the wedding then she will come. Both
Estella and Luci know that 1) they don’t know how to reach Ofelia, and 2) an
illegal immigrant can’t cross the border back and forth at will. They tell
Marianita that Ofelia most likely won’t be able to come, but cheer her up by
telling her Ariche will.
Gabriel
and Marcos suggest to Rod and Pato that they go to Plaza Garibaldi for Rod
and Luci’s noche de despedida (bachelor/ette night). Pato can’t since he’s
going to see the specialist in Boston, but he doesn’t want them to wait for
him.
Frigida
bitches to Mati about Luci sitting in Rosa’s place. Mati tells her to get over
it, accept it, and keep her big fat mouth shut.
The doctor
tells Rosa that they need to do more tests. He’s still trying to figure out
what’s wrong with her. (Isn’t it obvious!) Rosa says she wants to sleep. She
wants to sleep forever. After he leaves the room with Max, the doctor tells him
that he thinks Rosa’s problem might be neurological, but he wants to do more
tests. What he is observing is that whenever there’s an upsetting incident,
Rosa disconnects as a defense mechanism. (Dude, that’s psychological, not neurological.)
Gala
sends a copy of the magazine to be hand delivered to Luci. “OK Luciana. Let the
games begin.”
Max is
deep in thought about the Rosa situation when he’s interrupted by Aldo. Now is
definitely NOT the time to be getting on Max’s bad side, but Aldo is either
crazy or has a huge set of rocks, or both. He tells Max he needs to talk to him
about the Inferno. Max says he told him to stay away from places like that, but
it looks like he’s going to have to take other measures with him. Aldo says he
wants to work there. “What’s it matter to me? What do I have to do with that
place?” “Everything, uncle. You’re the owner.” (Ha! Max did NOT see that
coming.) He gives Aldo the death glare, but Aldo just stares right back. Aldo
continues to tell Max what he knows, but says he won’t say anything. Max denies
it at first, but then gets up in Aldo’s face and says if he thinks he’s going
to blackmail him, then he’s VERY mistaken. He grab’s Aldo’s lapel and says he
better shut his mouth or he’ll find a way to shut it. Aldo tells him to calm
down. What he wants is to become a successful impresario like Max. Max laughs
at this. Aldo says he needs this job (to learn how to be an impresario), and
Max needs someone clever and hardworking like him to have his back. “Yo soy
tio.”
Vio
comes home and tells Luci that she and Marcial did IT. Luci is in shock and
asks Vio if she’s ok.Vio is floating on air, so Luci is happy for her. The best
thing is that he’s in love with her and wants to marry her. (Anvils galore for
Vio.) A messenger comes to deliver the envelope with the magazine. Just as Luci
is opening it, Rod surprises her with an embrace and kisses. The envelope is
soon discarded to the counter of a cabinet as the two continue to smooch.
Luci
tells Rod that the only things in the box that she needs are the rose, the
cards, and the photo of him. The rest are his. “And this? (pointing to the photo)
Is this yours?” Luci flirts back and says that he indeed is hers. She has him
sign the back of the photo, saying that he’s going to querer and amar her this
whole life, and the next, and the next. “Tu mushashon.” They kiss on it. She
then puts the photo in her old wallet (which lacks a wad of bills and credit
cards).
Padre
comes to see Rosa. He wants the update on Max. She told him the truth and he
did nothing. He’s going to condemn his own son to committing a mortal sin.
Luci
asks Rod’s opinion of her second city girl outfit. This one is a version of her
country girl outfit. She’s wearing a floral maxi dress, a wide leather belt,
and a delicate lace vest. She’s also wearing higher heels, which makes it a lot
easier for Rod to kiss her without bending down so far, I notice. He loves her
look, but really, he just loves kissing her a bunch. He tries to make her sign
the credit card, and the bank also needs her signature. She refuses. “Luciana
de Torreslanda! Everything I have, everything I am, is for you.” They don’t
resolve the matter but leave quickly on an important matter, according to Rod.
Vio comes out of the bedroom and sees all the loot. Luci says it’s Rod’s. Rod
asks Vio to convince Luci to keep it all later. They leave and Vio gathers up
the loot to put back into the box. Serena comes home and gushes about Rod. Vio
offers coffee and a snack, because she has something big to tell Serena. Vio
runs out to get the food, while Serena digs the table mats out of the bottom of
a drawer to set the table. When she puts everything back in the drawer, the
envelope with the magazine goes with it.
Meanwhile,
Gala meets with her mama and amigas. She says that Luci will either be prompted
to tell Rod the truth when she sees the magazine, or she’ll hide it. She is
sure Luci will hide it, and probably in the depths of a couch. Gala’s logic is
that if she had told Rod the truth, Rod would be calling Gala right now to
bitch her out about the magazine. Valentina later suggests that they arrange a
hen night for Luci—a costume bachelorette party where they dress up as devils…
Padre
tells Rosa that if Max won’t confess the truth to Rod, then she has to do it.
No. That’s Max’s job, says the nut job. He needs to confess his deception.
Padre isn’t convinced. If Max knew Luci was his child he would never allow the
relationship between Rod and Luci. Rosa says Padre doesn’t know Max. “Good God
Rosalena! I know your husband. The only thing you’re doing is living in
torment.” (Rosa’s face during this entire conversation looks like a petulant
child who is determined to have things her way.) She tells Padre not to torment
her more. He demands that she tells Claudio the truth about his child. She won’t
find peace until she does so.
Rod has
taken Luci to the family jewelers to choose and get fitted for their wedding
bands.
Claudio
and Melissa meet about her thesis. He tells her he’s leaving finally for his trip—it's business, not vacation. He asks after her mother. Melissa mentions Rosa’s
continued health issues, and her fainting. She thinks it has to do with Luci
and explains about the latest fainting spell when Rosa said Aurora’s name.
Max
starts shoving Aldo and telling him that blackmail is a crime. Aldo says they’re
family. Max says he better be grateful that they’re family, because the last
thing he wants to do is cause his mother and sister pain by sending him to
jail. Aldo says to think of it as an exchange. Max doesn’t send him to jail,
and he’ll remain silent as a tomb. Max says he’s going to think about what to
do with him. “What’s to think about uncle? Let’s be partners.” Max throws him
out of the library. Aldo has the last word and asks Max to at least change his
job at the company—some sort of promotion from driver/delivery boy, to
something else. He bumps into Padre on his way out the door and asks for his
blessing.
Padre
gets right to the point with Max and says he wants to speak about Luciana, the
daughter of Aurora Linares. (Signature Max eye roll.)
Melissa’s
news about Rosa now has Claudio thinking about Aurora and getting sad. He tells
Melissa he spoke to Luci the day before, but won’t be able to make the wedding because of his
trip. Melissa describes how happy Rod and Luci are and how much they love each
other. It reminds Claudio of his relationship with Aurora. He’s smiling with
tears in his eyes. He thinks because Luci looks so much like Aurora, seeing her
dressed differently had a deep impression on Rosa. Luci is special for him. She
was born the same day as his baby who died with his wife. He apologizes to
Melissa for getting all nostalgic, but he always feels Aurora’s presence, as if
she’s trying to tell him something that he doesn’t understand. Melissa is happy
that he feels comfortable enough to confide in her. He promises to concentrate
on helping her complete her thesis and present her final doctoral exam.
Luci and
Rod chat about Rosa over dessert. He asks Luci to come with him to the house to see Rosa later.
Pato
comes to speak to Hannah about their mama. Pato doesn’t think what’s wrong with
her has anything to do with her heart. It’s more serious than that. It’s
something that has to do with Luci and Aurora Linares. Hannah knows nothing
about Aurora and Claudio since she wasn’t even born. Pato doesn’t remember
much, but remembers that Aurora was really lovely and sweet. Hannah wonders if
it’s Luci’s resemblance to Aurora that caused the fainting spell. She’d love to
see a picture of Aurora and thinks Luci can get them a photo. Pato is surprised
to learn that Luci is friends with Claudio, who helped her with some legal
trouble. “Are you sure?”
Luci and
Rod come to see Rosa. She sits turned from them in cold silence. Rod leaves
Luci alone with Rosa to go see Pato. (Why would he do this?! He knows his crazy ass mama hates his wife with a passion.) Luci asks Rosa if she can ask her a
question. “Who is Aurora? Why when you saw me did you say Aurora? Who is she?”
Avances:
Rosa asks Luci to break up with Rod, if she loves him. There’s a powerful
reason why she should.
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Abismo de pasión #80 7/3/12 : On the road to the Yúcatan
By Jack Kerouac as told to NovelaMaven in the vision hut behind EJ’s cement cenote.
I drove 25 hours without stopping and now I boomed noisily into the sleepy heat of La Ermita; even though I was all sweaty and raggedy and still a little drunk from that last bottle of tequila and the intoxicating heat of the wild Mexican night itself, I went directly to look for Rosendo and the old Pro Ce gang -- old don Lucio and his lovely, sweet wife Blanca, big handsome Braulio and his girl Lola, and kind old Maru, Rosie’s faithful secretary. I was also hoping to see Estefanía, and I do mean see, as in catch a glimpse of, espy, not do anything else because I knew she was married to some old guy and she loved that lucky bastard with all the shining, luminous, starry intensity of her beautiful heart and soul entire.
Rosie was an oldtime hipster with a weakness for the worst women – and I do sincerely mean the absolute, bottomofthebarrel worst, soul-dead and heartless. I knew he was secretly and from afar, mad, crazy in love with Estefanía and had ended up married to a shrew named Alfonsina and he used to try to soothe his sorrowful lot by tomcatting around some. But Braulio said Rosie was dead, had been for many years, and so was Blanca, the sweetest woman I had ever known; and the saddest news of all -- the morning star over the Yúcatan was also extinguished, that is, dear, darling, beautiful Estefanía was also dead. She and Rosie had died in a car crash and the wicked tongues said they had been lovers and were running away together.
Two days later, the old guy had married Steffie’s sister though by the time I got there, their marriage was bitter ashes.
The last time I saw them they were just kids but now Rosie’s boy Damián and Steffie’s girl Elisa were all grown-up and breaking hearts and having their hearts broken in a reciprocal fashion and not; and Gael and Paloma, were still running and dancing and nipping at their heels, their grand hearts bursting with desire and friendship and love and jealousy.
The Rectory
Damián repeated the Big Lie to Lupe, that he and Elisa couldn’t marry because they were children of the same father. Damn! No one had ever seen Lupe this angry before. His face darkened like a stormy September sky and he roared and he got right up in Damián’s face: “It’s a lie! Estefanía and Rosendo were never lovers!” Dam was doubting and was looking for Padre’s proof because Augusto, he had proof, an actual, scientifically valid test that showed unequivocally – that is to say it could not be wrong, it admitted of no doubt – that Elisa was not the old guy’s daughter. Well no, he did not produce the actual results, the words on the page, the certified copy; in fact it was Carmina who forced him to tell us ...
Cielo Abierto
Gabino was there waiting for Augusto and the whole time they talked, he never stopped cutting and chewing his habaneros; and through a mouthful of orange spittle and spite, really and truly disgusting, as he leaned way too close into the old guy’s face, he offered to buy Augusto’s lands . He had saved up a little money working in the Pro Ce all these years ... Too bad for Gabino because that mean blue-eyed bastard was going to have to shuffle back to his hidey-hold empty-handed -- there wasn’t enough desperate in the world for Augusto to sell to this scheming con man, Alfonsina’s personal pitbull.
[I noticed a few nods of satisfaction at the not quite deserted Augusto table on the Patio and I thought I saw Carlos raise a glass.]
Hacienda Harango
Damián’s mother sat on an elaborately carved chair that screamed money, entitlement, power. Her disconcertingly large eyes were locked in a wide-open stare no matter what the rest of her face was doing and the over-all effect was terrible and frightening. Flor, a beautiful little girl, sweet but spoiled, who had come to La Ermita expecting to seal the deal with Damián, was groveling in a most pathetic fashion, begging Alfonsina to withdraw the charges against her daddy, Guido, who now languished, lonely and penniless in the jail in Mérida. Alfie’s response: “Give me a grandchild and your daddy goes free”.
Alfonsina then dismissed the drooping, wilted Flor and immediately thereafter picked up the phone to set up a meeting with someone ...
Who’s the AlfaBitch now?
Alfonsina sat back, and wow, yes, she had to admire the black heart and perversity and that’s right, let’s recognize it, utter mad genius of her opposite number, Carmina Castañon – for now we knew it was she, Elisa’s aunt, that Alfie summoned on the phone. Whooee! Carmina convinced Augusto that his daughter wasn’t his daughter! Damn! But Carmina wasn’t going to get any money out of this, if that’s what she was planning.
La Cantina
Don Lucio headed straight as an arrow to his friend Augusto’s table in the cantina where Augie was trying to quiet his conscience with a bottle of tequila, which in my experience is an effective but temporary solution; the men didn’t seem to hear the whacked-out woo woo sopranos in the background and good thing too because they were sad and scary. Augie was sorry and all – and the guy looked sorry, I will say – he didn’t want to hurt Elisa but he couldn’t let her leave with Dam, he couldn’t keep silent.
“Just do me one favor”, began Lucio ...
Outside Casa Castigo
There was Flor dogging Elisa’s steps, blaming her for every single Dam thing that had gone wrong in her life. And Elisa told her bitterly that she could have Damián [although it was strange how her little girl short pants were warring with her new world-weary attitude.] “There’s nothing between us anymore.”
But Flor went too far and she showed her thorns and said Elisa was just like her mother (de tal palo, tal astilla) and she called Elisa a cualquiera . For this nasty slander of my old friend, the princess of the Yúcatan, Estefanía, whap, Elisa slammed Flor in the chops and told her to rinse her mouth out before talking about her ma. [And while I’m not a violent person, I have to say Flor had it coming.]
[I glanced over at the Patio where a few folks were distancing themselves from the Italian table.]
Inside Casa Castigo
The aunt was pretending to be human and she was saying she was sorry Elisa was hurt but it would have been monstrous if she had married her own brother, but Elisa knew that the aunt was satisfied with herself and not a bit sorry. And if she had spoken up with the intention of holding on to her husband, well ha, Miss Orange Slush, you lost him long ago.
In el centro of La Ermita
Gael and the curandera’s pretty granddaughter, Paloma, were trying to find a comfortable position in the weird bolted-down outdoor chairs when that truly awful peyos-wearing sharp-chinned harpy by the name of Ingrid came bopping down the street and splashed a little venom their way: “I thought you were in love with Elisa” she said nastily and with the clear intention of stirring up trouble between Gael and Paloma.
Meanwhile Florencia had lost her bravado and was back at Hacienda Harango, crying all alone and sad and small and she heard in her head the doctor telling her she probably couldn’t have children and Alfonsina telling her that having a child was her ticket out of hell. Man.
Inside Casa Castigo, Dolores handed Carmina a white envelope with a note inside. A boy had brought it to the door ...
In the church, Lupe was on his knees praying for forgiveness for something he was about to do ...
I had fond memories of The Blue House from when Rosie let me crash there years ago and the old gang came down from Frisco and we were crazy and young and hopeful and hungry. But monsters lived in the house now. Sharp-chinned Ingrid swooped in and that pitiless gangster Gabino jumped on her: What did she think she was doing, going to see the aunt? Didn’t she realize how dangerous Carmina was? Even more dangerous than Alfonsina? Ingrid narrowed her eyes and jutted her witchy chin out a little further: “What did you do that gives her power over you? You might as well tell me because you know I’ll find out sooner or later.”
Don Lucio’s house
When a knock sounded at the door, Lucio reminded Augusto that he was a guest and he needed to behave himself. Then Lucio let in Doc Tovar, Edmundo to his pals and a waving red flag before that old bull, Augusto, ever since he found out the doc had done Carmina though the sad truth was more like Carmina had done the doc and done him dirty. But Edmundo had something to say and Lucio was making sure Augie listened, like it or not.
Back at the church ...
... Now, when I saw the aunt arrive, I understood what padre Lupe was steeling himself for. He was the one who sent her the note asking her to see him and now he was ready to confront her lies; she was a monster and he wasn’t going to be her accomplice anymore. “You’re a priest. You can’t break the silence of the confessional” gloated the Demoniacal Rotten Orange and she moved in close and toyed with his rosary. “I’m also a man”, I heard Lupe tell her. He was prepared to break his vows, and even if it cost him the priesthood, he was going to speak the truth about her and Rosendo. Unless -- and here he grabbed her by the back of her neck and I could see she finally got it, Lupe was serious – unless she spoke up and made it clear that Augusto was the one and true father of Elisa. “Now get out!”
[I could hear chairs scraping and voices murmuring approvingly and in the distance I saw a small crowd surreptitiously carrying CarayCaray banners and pitchers of sangría over to the Lupe table on the Patio. Others, though, were edgily clearing out of the Lupe area, fearing a great rain of anvils.]
At Lucio’s, Edmundo spilled all the funny stuff about the DNA test, how the aunt asked him to fake the results – he refused – and how she hijacked the results of the second test before anyone could see them. And Lucio reasoned and wheedled and pleaded and even invoked the memory of our beloved Estefanía, and at last he got Augusto to sign a paper authorizing the lab in Mérida to release the results of both tests to Edmundo.
[The crowd was far away but the murmur had become a roar and some were standing on the Lucio table and calling for the wave.]
In a mute, sad, private ceremony in the stables of the Hacienda, Dam Stoopid removed his amulet from around his neck. And in her room at Casa Castigo, Stoopid Elisa was tucking her amulet in a drawer.
Casa Tovar
Quique was lounging despondently in his bed and not a bit receptive to his ma’s advice to forget Flor and find a nice girl who would appreciate him – not such bad advice really but pretty much a waste of spit. Anyway, Quique explained Flor’s hour of need with her dad in jail and all and the Bumble jumped all over that -- another proof that the Eye-talians were trash and another reason to forget Flor. And by the way, where’s your sister? “Um. At a girlfriend’s house.”
Tawdry hotel scene
Quique may have meant to do a favor for his sister but that was a big fat ugly lie because Sabrina was with the opposite of a friend since Paolo lookatmeImsopretty Landucci was definitely no one’s friend. Even as the near-naked narcissist was telling Sabrina he was falling in love with her, he was checking himself out in the mirror; and it made me want to weep thinking of all the sad little girls in all the hotel rooms with all the Paolo’s in the world.
Lucio’s house
After Augusto signed the release form, Edmundo and Lucio made their arrangements to go to Mérida the next day to pick up the real, true, untampered with lab results, and furthermore they agreed that no one would talk to Elisa or Dam until they had said results in hand. Then Lucio and Augie started walking back to Casa Castañon because Lucio wanted to see Elisa.
Rectory
Dam Stoopid brushed right past Lupe because he wasn’t in the mood to talk although Lupe was and urgently and importantly so.
On the way back to Casa Castigo ...
Augie told Lucio how he turned down slimy snake Gabino’s offer to buy his lands but he was still intending to sell to pay off his debt to the AlfaBitch.
Once at the house, Lucio went off looking for Elisa and Augusto found himself alone with the aunt who had used the last few hours to come up with a way to dodge Padre Lupe’s bullets: “We have to consider the possibility of a lab error, that is to say, maybe Elisa is not Rosendo’s daughter after all.” And Augusto looked right back and couldn’t believe he heard right: “All these years you’ve been telling me Elisa wasn’t my daughter – and now you’re not sure?”
Rectory
Lupe greeted Gael with the news that he was going to take the bus to Mérida the next day -- there was someone he had to see -- and reassured Gael that yes, he was fine but the person with the problem – and maybe he could help him – was Damián. Then he sat Gael down for a serious talk.
At Casa Castigo
Elisa shot out of her room in a cloud of little girl fury and she absolutely with all her soul refused to hear any talk of possible errors in the who’s your daddy contest: “You’ve sown a seed of doubt – now that you’re not my pa, I don’t want to live here anymore.”
[And as I told my good and faithful friend Braulio later, while it’s a dam shame it had to happen just precisely like this and we all would have been better off without the SCREAMING, it was about time for her to get out of that house and away from the aunt; and away from that pasty-faced sad old shambling pile of dun-colored rags who squinted at the world through shattered lenses, this wreck of a man who used to be Augusto Castañon.]
Take a deep breath, lie back and relax in the cooling waters of the cenote.
Avances: Elisa moves out and leaves the field wide open for Flor. Dam tells his mother that if Elisa is his sister, she should give her half of what he is entitled to of the family fortune.
I drove 25 hours without stopping and now I boomed noisily into the sleepy heat of La Ermita; even though I was all sweaty and raggedy and still a little drunk from that last bottle of tequila and the intoxicating heat of the wild Mexican night itself, I went directly to look for Rosendo and the old Pro Ce gang -- old don Lucio and his lovely, sweet wife Blanca, big handsome Braulio and his girl Lola, and kind old Maru, Rosie’s faithful secretary. I was also hoping to see Estefanía, and I do mean see, as in catch a glimpse of, espy, not do anything else because I knew she was married to some old guy and she loved that lucky bastard with all the shining, luminous, starry intensity of her beautiful heart and soul entire.
Rosie was an oldtime hipster with a weakness for the worst women – and I do sincerely mean the absolute, bottomofthebarrel worst, soul-dead and heartless. I knew he was secretly and from afar, mad, crazy in love with Estefanía and had ended up married to a shrew named Alfonsina and he used to try to soothe his sorrowful lot by tomcatting around some. But Braulio said Rosie was dead, had been for many years, and so was Blanca, the sweetest woman I had ever known; and the saddest news of all -- the morning star over the Yúcatan was also extinguished, that is, dear, darling, beautiful Estefanía was also dead. She and Rosie had died in a car crash and the wicked tongues said they had been lovers and were running away together.
Two days later, the old guy had married Steffie’s sister though by the time I got there, their marriage was bitter ashes.
The last time I saw them they were just kids but now Rosie’s boy Damián and Steffie’s girl Elisa were all grown-up and breaking hearts and having their hearts broken in a reciprocal fashion and not; and Gael and Paloma, were still running and dancing and nipping at their heels, their grand hearts bursting with desire and friendship and love and jealousy.
The Rectory
Damián repeated the Big Lie to Lupe, that he and Elisa couldn’t marry because they were children of the same father. Damn! No one had ever seen Lupe this angry before. His face darkened like a stormy September sky and he roared and he got right up in Damián’s face: “It’s a lie! Estefanía and Rosendo were never lovers!” Dam was doubting and was looking for Padre’s proof because Augusto, he had proof, an actual, scientifically valid test that showed unequivocally – that is to say it could not be wrong, it admitted of no doubt – that Elisa was not the old guy’s daughter. Well no, he did not produce the actual results, the words on the page, the certified copy; in fact it was Carmina who forced him to tell us ...
Cielo Abierto
Gabino was there waiting for Augusto and the whole time they talked, he never stopped cutting and chewing his habaneros; and through a mouthful of orange spittle and spite, really and truly disgusting, as he leaned way too close into the old guy’s face, he offered to buy Augusto’s lands . He had saved up a little money working in the Pro Ce all these years ... Too bad for Gabino because that mean blue-eyed bastard was going to have to shuffle back to his hidey-hold empty-handed -- there wasn’t enough desperate in the world for Augusto to sell to this scheming con man, Alfonsina’s personal pitbull.
[I noticed a few nods of satisfaction at the not quite deserted Augusto table on the Patio and I thought I saw Carlos raise a glass.]
Hacienda Harango
Damián’s mother sat on an elaborately carved chair that screamed money, entitlement, power. Her disconcertingly large eyes were locked in a wide-open stare no matter what the rest of her face was doing and the over-all effect was terrible and frightening. Flor, a beautiful little girl, sweet but spoiled, who had come to La Ermita expecting to seal the deal with Damián, was groveling in a most pathetic fashion, begging Alfonsina to withdraw the charges against her daddy, Guido, who now languished, lonely and penniless in the jail in Mérida. Alfie’s response: “Give me a grandchild and your daddy goes free”.
Alfonsina then dismissed the drooping, wilted Flor and immediately thereafter picked up the phone to set up a meeting with someone ...
Who’s the AlfaBitch now?
Alfonsina sat back, and wow, yes, she had to admire the black heart and perversity and that’s right, let’s recognize it, utter mad genius of her opposite number, Carmina Castañon – for now we knew it was she, Elisa’s aunt, that Alfie summoned on the phone. Whooee! Carmina convinced Augusto that his daughter wasn’t his daughter! Damn! But Carmina wasn’t going to get any money out of this, if that’s what she was planning.
La Cantina
Don Lucio headed straight as an arrow to his friend Augusto’s table in the cantina where Augie was trying to quiet his conscience with a bottle of tequila, which in my experience is an effective but temporary solution; the men didn’t seem to hear the whacked-out woo woo sopranos in the background and good thing too because they were sad and scary. Augie was sorry and all – and the guy looked sorry, I will say – he didn’t want to hurt Elisa but he couldn’t let her leave with Dam, he couldn’t keep silent.
“Just do me one favor”, began Lucio ...
Outside Casa Castigo
There was Flor dogging Elisa’s steps, blaming her for every single Dam thing that had gone wrong in her life. And Elisa told her bitterly that she could have Damián [although it was strange how her little girl short pants were warring with her new world-weary attitude.] “There’s nothing between us anymore.”
But Flor went too far and she showed her thorns and said Elisa was just like her mother (de tal palo, tal astilla) and she called Elisa a cualquiera . For this nasty slander of my old friend, the princess of the Yúcatan, Estefanía, whap, Elisa slammed Flor in the chops and told her to rinse her mouth out before talking about her ma. [And while I’m not a violent person, I have to say Flor had it coming.]
[I glanced over at the Patio where a few folks were distancing themselves from the Italian table.]
Inside Casa Castigo
The aunt was pretending to be human and she was saying she was sorry Elisa was hurt but it would have been monstrous if she had married her own brother, but Elisa knew that the aunt was satisfied with herself and not a bit sorry. And if she had spoken up with the intention of holding on to her husband, well ha, Miss Orange Slush, you lost him long ago.
In el centro of La Ermita
Gael and the curandera’s pretty granddaughter, Paloma, were trying to find a comfortable position in the weird bolted-down outdoor chairs when that truly awful peyos-wearing sharp-chinned harpy by the name of Ingrid came bopping down the street and splashed a little venom their way: “I thought you were in love with Elisa” she said nastily and with the clear intention of stirring up trouble between Gael and Paloma.
Meanwhile Florencia had lost her bravado and was back at Hacienda Harango, crying all alone and sad and small and she heard in her head the doctor telling her she probably couldn’t have children and Alfonsina telling her that having a child was her ticket out of hell. Man.
Inside Casa Castigo, Dolores handed Carmina a white envelope with a note inside. A boy had brought it to the door ...
In the church, Lupe was on his knees praying for forgiveness for something he was about to do ...
I had fond memories of The Blue House from when Rosie let me crash there years ago and the old gang came down from Frisco and we were crazy and young and hopeful and hungry. But monsters lived in the house now. Sharp-chinned Ingrid swooped in and that pitiless gangster Gabino jumped on her: What did she think she was doing, going to see the aunt? Didn’t she realize how dangerous Carmina was? Even more dangerous than Alfonsina? Ingrid narrowed her eyes and jutted her witchy chin out a little further: “What did you do that gives her power over you? You might as well tell me because you know I’ll find out sooner or later.”
Don Lucio’s house
When a knock sounded at the door, Lucio reminded Augusto that he was a guest and he needed to behave himself. Then Lucio let in Doc Tovar, Edmundo to his pals and a waving red flag before that old bull, Augusto, ever since he found out the doc had done Carmina though the sad truth was more like Carmina had done the doc and done him dirty. But Edmundo had something to say and Lucio was making sure Augie listened, like it or not.
Back at the church ...
... Now, when I saw the aunt arrive, I understood what padre Lupe was steeling himself for. He was the one who sent her the note asking her to see him and now he was ready to confront her lies; she was a monster and he wasn’t going to be her accomplice anymore. “You’re a priest. You can’t break the silence of the confessional” gloated the Demoniacal Rotten Orange and she moved in close and toyed with his rosary. “I’m also a man”, I heard Lupe tell her. He was prepared to break his vows, and even if it cost him the priesthood, he was going to speak the truth about her and Rosendo. Unless -- and here he grabbed her by the back of her neck and I could see she finally got it, Lupe was serious – unless she spoke up and made it clear that Augusto was the one and true father of Elisa. “Now get out!”
[I could hear chairs scraping and voices murmuring approvingly and in the distance I saw a small crowd surreptitiously carrying CarayCaray banners and pitchers of sangría over to the Lupe table on the Patio. Others, though, were edgily clearing out of the Lupe area, fearing a great rain of anvils.]
At Lucio’s, Edmundo spilled all the funny stuff about the DNA test, how the aunt asked him to fake the results – he refused – and how she hijacked the results of the second test before anyone could see them. And Lucio reasoned and wheedled and pleaded and even invoked the memory of our beloved Estefanía, and at last he got Augusto to sign a paper authorizing the lab in Mérida to release the results of both tests to Edmundo.
[The crowd was far away but the murmur had become a roar and some were standing on the Lucio table and calling for the wave.]
In a mute, sad, private ceremony in the stables of the Hacienda, Dam Stoopid removed his amulet from around his neck. And in her room at Casa Castigo, Stoopid Elisa was tucking her amulet in a drawer.
Casa Tovar
Quique was lounging despondently in his bed and not a bit receptive to his ma’s advice to forget Flor and find a nice girl who would appreciate him – not such bad advice really but pretty much a waste of spit. Anyway, Quique explained Flor’s hour of need with her dad in jail and all and the Bumble jumped all over that -- another proof that the Eye-talians were trash and another reason to forget Flor. And by the way, where’s your sister? “Um. At a girlfriend’s house.”
Tawdry hotel scene
Quique may have meant to do a favor for his sister but that was a big fat ugly lie because Sabrina was with the opposite of a friend since Paolo lookatmeImsopretty Landucci was definitely no one’s friend. Even as the near-naked narcissist was telling Sabrina he was falling in love with her, he was checking himself out in the mirror; and it made me want to weep thinking of all the sad little girls in all the hotel rooms with all the Paolo’s in the world.
Lucio’s house
After Augusto signed the release form, Edmundo and Lucio made their arrangements to go to Mérida the next day to pick up the real, true, untampered with lab results, and furthermore they agreed that no one would talk to Elisa or Dam until they had said results in hand. Then Lucio and Augie started walking back to Casa Castañon because Lucio wanted to see Elisa.
Rectory
Dam Stoopid brushed right past Lupe because he wasn’t in the mood to talk although Lupe was and urgently and importantly so.
On the way back to Casa Castigo ...
Augie told Lucio how he turned down slimy snake Gabino’s offer to buy his lands but he was still intending to sell to pay off his debt to the AlfaBitch.
Once at the house, Lucio went off looking for Elisa and Augusto found himself alone with the aunt who had used the last few hours to come up with a way to dodge Padre Lupe’s bullets: “We have to consider the possibility of a lab error, that is to say, maybe Elisa is not Rosendo’s daughter after all.” And Augusto looked right back and couldn’t believe he heard right: “All these years you’ve been telling me Elisa wasn’t my daughter – and now you’re not sure?”
Rectory
Lupe greeted Gael with the news that he was going to take the bus to Mérida the next day -- there was someone he had to see -- and reassured Gael that yes, he was fine but the person with the problem – and maybe he could help him – was Damián. Then he sat Gael down for a serious talk.
At Casa Castigo
Elisa shot out of her room in a cloud of little girl fury and she absolutely with all her soul refused to hear any talk of possible errors in the who’s your daddy contest: “You’ve sown a seed of doubt – now that you’re not my pa, I don’t want to live here anymore.”
[And as I told my good and faithful friend Braulio later, while it’s a dam shame it had to happen just precisely like this and we all would have been better off without the SCREAMING, it was about time for her to get out of that house and away from the aunt; and away from that pasty-faced sad old shambling pile of dun-colored rags who squinted at the world through shattered lenses, this wreck of a man who used to be Augusto Castañon.]
Take a deep breath, lie back and relax in the cooling waters of the cenote.
Avances: Elisa moves out and leaves the field wide open for Flor. Dam tells his mother that if Elisa is his sister, she should give her half of what he is entitled to of the family fortune.
Labels: abismo
Monday, July 02, 2012
Abismo de pasión #79 7/2/12: A Virtual FLOOD of Tears
Alternate Title: Pithed recapper curses the heavens while Elisa cries (and cries and cries)
Bullets tonight. Every week I have the intention of watching ahead online and crafting a masterpiece, but I never do. So you all get stuck with the craptastic "watch in real time, take notes and curse the crappy CCs" recaps.
Lo Refrito
Bullets tonight. Every week I have the intention of watching ahead online and crafting a masterpiece, but I never do. So you all get stuck with the craptastic "watch in real time, take notes and curse the crappy CCs" recaps.
Lo Refrito
- Gab and the arrest of Gweedo. Flor, Gweedo and Paolo are color coordinated.
- Elisa chooses to go away with Dam when Pop goes the lying ho' bag Sleazel with her BS about them being half siblings. Cue the waterworks in 3...2....1
Lo Nuevo which is a lot of Elisa crying so how "nuevo" is that?
- Elisa says Tía is just making it up to hurt them (true) and Dam Shocked wants proof. Horacio never appears to tell about the truck robbery and Doc Tovar does not pop in for a visit so we get to hear Toad tell the BS story again about the paternity test results. Sadly, says Toad, I've destroyed the results. How convenient, says the
Church LadyElisa. - Dam and Elisa head for Elisa's room. Tears, no puede sers and lárgates.
- Carnita (thanks Audrey's husband!) joins Toad in his office and the delusional beech thinks things are going to go back to the way they were. She slimes on him and he accuses her of revealing the truth so he wouldn't leave with Elisa. She admits it. If they hadn't stopped Dam and Elisa, who knows how far it would have gotten? Padre, Gael and Pal arrive to interrupt. Carnita gives the BS excuse that no one is in the mood for visitors and they are sort of shuffled out the door.
- Gab, Brau and Alf confab. They need the the Pro Ce working again. Brau suggests the Castañon harvest. Alf balks. She'll pay the habanero farmers herself. She's got her personal accounts. Brau leaves. Gab kisses butt. Alf tells him to find a way to sink the Castañons.
- Elisa cries to Lola. Through the wailing, tears and no es ciertos we discover that Lola came to the hacienda after Elisa was born. Elisa loves Dam like a man. He can't be her bro 'cause that's just gross.
- Sabrina is mad at her mom for being a metiche IRT the Paolo situation. Enrique takes mom's side. Sabrina flounces out. Flor arrives and begs Quique to take her to Mérida to visit Papá Gweedo.
- Toad talks to Elisa. He's sorry. She accuses him of lying just to get her to leave with him. His new leaf was a ruse. He never cared for her. Now she finally understands why he despised her and was cruel all these years. She wishes he had been honest from the beginning and maybe she would have been spared the suffering she is now enduring (Viewerville would have appreciated that too.) He not only destroyed her image of him as her father. He destroyed her dreams, too. He hates her that much? He wants to know why she fell for Dam. Why couldn't she have fallen for someone else? Elisa replies (all together now) PORQUE EL CORAZÓN NO SE MANDA!!! Toad thinks she can find someone else. Toad even suggests Gael (dammit. I guess we *are* going to go there. How many episodes left?GAH!) Elisa screams and cries and dájames and vetes.
- Carnita thinks Elisa should be grateful to Toad for having taken responsibility for her all these years. Toad lets Carnita know that he may have stayed in La Ermita, but things between them are the same. Did I already mention that Carnita is delusional? She actually offers to go talk to Elisa. Thank goodness Toad turns down *that* offer. I could not have recapped that.
- Dam PithedandConfused arrives at Casa Harangue-o. Tonia explains she's not supposed to let him in. He confronts his mother. He needs to know how long Rosie and Steffie were involved. He asks if it could be true that he and Elisa are half siblings. Alf can neither confirm nor deny it. But it's possible. She knows Dam is Rosendo's, but she doesn't know about Elisa.
- Toad gets into the crying game (ha!) at Steffie's grave (which is covered with fresh dirt QTH?) He blames her for everything. Ass. Ramona creeps up. She told him that the next time she saw him at Steffie's grave he'd be on his knees begging for forgiveness. He says that will never happen. What Steffie did to him and his daughter cannot be forgiven. Ramona tells him that she cannot let him leave La Ermita without him knowing the truth...which he won't know for now because she gets caught up telling him about the accident and Steffie's last words. She never gets to the truth because STOOPID CRYING ELISA interrupts and tells Toad to get the heck away from mommy's grave. He leaves. Ramona tells her she shouldn't have interrupted. and Elisa cries into the fresh dirt (again I say QTH?)
- Horacio is working in his butcher shop. Gab comes to call and can't believe Horacio would open his little business in Blanca's shop. Gab needs Horacio's help with the Assgusto Conundrum. Horacio informs Gab that el patrón is selling all his lands and leaving. Srsly, Horacio? You just blab everything, don't you?? I am so done with your table. DONE!! (Sorry, Blue Lass)
- ING rifling through things at the Casa Azul. She gets an idea.
- Elisa cries at Steffie's grave. She has so many doubts and needs her help. She never believed anything anyone said, but now she finds out that she and Dam are half-siblings?? She refuses to believe it! Dad swears he saw the paternity tests. No puede sers and more tears. Dear God make it stop. She's the most unhappy woman in the world. Viewerville is the most miserable group in the world tonight.
- Gab reports to Alf about the sale of Toad's land. She asks how he would like to own those lands. He says he can't afford it, but Alf tells him she's got the money. Does he want to own the land or not?
- ING comes to call on Carnita and tells her she knows all about Carnita's carnal knowledge of Rosie. Maybe they can do a little business.
- Elisa and Dam see each other at the cemetery to the musical accompaniment of Junto a Ti (Alex Sirvent and Ximena Herrera. Note to self: look that up on iTunes.) Dam says their being there is a waste of time. Neither of their parents can answer their questions. Elisa is running out of strength. Dam Determined will get to the bottom of this. Their parents may not be able to help, but he knows someone who can. (It better be a damn doctor and tight security paternity tests.)
- ING wants to know how much Carnita paid Kenia. ING promises she will be more expensive. Carnita tells her to leave. She's wasting her time since she (Carnita) has no money. ING wants the house. Carnita says no way she is handing over the house. She wonders why Gab sent her. Carnita says she can take Gab and ING down. ING does not now the kind of scum she is spending her nights with. (Carnita is super scary tonight.) ING asks Carnita to tell her. Carnita tells ING to talk to him herself. Ask him about what he did a few months ago. Carnita lets ING know that she has no idea who she's dealing with.
- Carnita calls Gab and tells him if ING blabs, she will blab. (Anvils for ING?)
- Lola and Lucio rehash the half sibling business. Lucio offers to talk to Toad and Elisa.
- Carnita wants Horacio to get the plane tickets from Gab. Horacio thinks that's a mighty dangerous job and tells Carnita she better cough up sufficient payment. Her silence is not enough
- Alf wants to talk to Flor, but Tonia lets her know Flor left a while ago. She's visiting Papá Gweedo in jail. She and dad need to get Alf her money back AND get to the bottom of this BS. (There's a Flor table, right? I like her. She's got spunk.) Quique offers to help. He's not just doing it for Gweedo, but he knows Alf is behind all the problems his family is having too. Revenge is a dish best served with a free Gweedo and an ever so grateful Flor.
- Pal and Gael rehash the episode. Pal mentions her grandmother has been acting weird and it makes her nervous.
- Ramona wonders why destiny has conspired against her telling the truth. At least Ass won't be leaving. She is going to tell the truth even if it means all of La Ermita trembles.
- Gab is waiting for Toad at Cielo Abierto. He heard it was for sale. Awww hell.
- Dam Sad tells Padre he and Elisa will never be together. When Padre asks about love and why Dam has become so Dam Pessimistic, Dam spills the BS half-hermanos beans. Padre splutters MENTIRA!! MIL MENTIRA!! and I start screaming TELL THE TRUTH!!!! TELL THE TRUTH!!!!!!! I am only half satisfied with Padre's "Rosendo and Estefania nunca fueron amantes" response.
Avances:
- Girl Fight!
- Dark, brooding threatening Padre.
Labels: abismo
Refugio Para el Amor #52-53 Mon 7/2/12 Gala Learns What Mama Loves Best/Vicky Learns What Her Sugar Daddy Hates Most/Max Learns the Truth
Gala and
Julie show Rosa the hot off the presses issue of her magazine with a cover
story exposé on “hot clubs of the moment” featuring Luci in her devil girl
costume. Rosa is sure Luci won’t admit it’s her in the photos, but Julie tells
her not to worry about that. This is just one little piece of their big, well
thought out plan.
Aldo
meets with Inez, the Torreslanda computer tech. She seems willing to help him
get into the account he wants to access on his computer, until he admits the
account isn’t his. He eventually begs
and sweet talks her into doing it, but he’ll need to leave his laptop with her
overnight and she’ll work on it when she has time. He reluctantly agrees to
leave it with her.
Rod
drives and plays with his ball. No, not his rocks. It’s the ball Ariche gave
him, and he remembers the deal he made with Ariche (to take care of Luci). He calls Luci to tell her how much he loves
her, and Hannah and Melissa, who are listening in the background with Luci,
tease them. H&M want to keep
shopping. Luci thinks they’ve already done enough shopping, but they take her
into a shoe store. Later, Rod sneaks into the shoe shop and surprises Luci with
a rose. They get kissy, H&M giggle, and Luci blushes.
At the
school, Boris plans with some of his friends how they will all get to the lake
house for the party, so that everyone doesn’t have to take a car. Some will go
in his parents’ cars, some with him, etc. Lula comes over to gloat since she’s
sure Hannah’s parents won’t let her go to the party without Lula. Too bad, so
sad for you Lula. Boris rubs in her face that they already gave her permission
to go, and not only that, they gave him permission to be Hannah’s boyfriend.
Pato is
having a bit of a down moment and asks Mati if she thinks he will someday
recover enough to find someone to marry, and to have his own family. All Mati
can say, is that he’s always been a good boy/man, and any woman would be lucky
to have him.
Rod strolls
with Luci, H&M, and all the shopping bags. He asks if she found a wedding
dress she likes. The girls jump in and talk about the one dress she tried on,
in which she looked like a queen. Rod corrects them—like a princes, his
princess. Luci says she’d prefer to find a more simple dress. He tells her not
to leave it too long since the wedding is in two weeks. He then drops the bomb
on her that he wants them to have dinner with his parents.
The
Blonde B/Witches continue their meeting at Gala’s place. Gala wants Rosa to
pretend like she’s cool with Rod and Luci’s relationship until they’re ready to
give the final blow. Rosa says she can’t since she HATES that woman so much.
H&M
and Rod try to convince Luci that the dinner with the parents is a good thing.
She’ll win them over. Luci looks like she’s going to be sick. She knows Rosa
won’t react well. She fears she’ll run her out of the house. Rod says if she
does that, then he’ll leave with her. H&M says they’d leave with them too,
and bring Connie and Aldo with them. And Pato and Mati too, Luci says. They
joke about bringing Frigida along. Rod reassures Luci and kisses her hand.
Rosa
calls Luci a social climber (trepadora), and a hypocrite. (Oh, spare me! Pot, meet kettle.) Gala and
Julie tell Rosa about Don Aquiles and how Luci ran out on not paying her dad’s
debt to him (doesn’t seem to matter that payment would mean her
marrying/sleeping with the old fart). He’ll give them what they need if they
pay him. Rosa’s on board with paying him whatever it takes. Gala crows about all
their evidence against Luci-- the magazine article and photos of her, Lastra, and
Don Aquiles. (I don’t think any of this amounts to much, but whatever.) Rosa gives some bullshit justification that
the only thing they’re doing is telling the TRUTH. She then thought bubbles: “Luci
herself will cause the separation between her and Rodrigo. So I don’t need to tell the truth.” Rosa asks Gala to take Rodrigo far from here
after he dumps Luci.
Paz and
Madga find Procopio skulking around Paz’s house with some other guy. His boss
wants them to clean the house and help Paz move in. Paz and Magda run them off
and inform Procopio that Paz will move back in when she darn well feels like
it, and she doesn’t need Don A’s help, thank you very much. Magda thinks he’s
just trying to get in good with Paz, so that she won’t have his butt thrown in
jail. Ariche runs up to them, excited that his mama is going to buy him a new
pair of sandals (huaraches) for Luci’s wedding. Don Aquiles interrupts this
happy scene to bluster at them. He wants to know the wedding date. They tell
him off, and he grabs Ariche by the lapels and lifts him up to his face to
threaten the info out of him. Ariche’s not backing down. He’s a man! (Ariche has the biggest set of rocks in this
whole tn.) Magda makes him release Ariche, then stomps on one of his cowboy
boot clad feet, leaving Aquiles hopping around and hollering in pain. Procopio
watches the whole scene with delight. Magda and Ariche high five.
Rod
takes Luci and all her bags home (to the vecinidad). He won’t let her help him
carry the bags, but she can help him by taking his car keys out of his pants
pocket. Heh, heh. Luci is embarrassed at first, but then she’s game and flirts
right back as she gets the keys.
Rosa
reveals to Gala and Julie that Rod and Luci will marry in two weeks. Julie
thinks they need to get Aquiles to D.F. right away and pay him well for his
expenses (gastos), since people don’t do anything for free. Rosa notes that
Julie doesn’t either. Gala wonders how Max will react to their plot against
Luci. Rosa says he will be the first to be in agreement with the separation of
Rod and Luci. It will also suit him. With that cryptic comment, she leaves.
Frigida calls Gala with stale info—the wedding is in two weeks. Frigida sure
was slow to get that hot piece of gossip to the Blonde B/Witches.
Max
comes to the office on the phone with Vicky. He demands that they meet up in
their love nest that afternoon, doesn’t matter if she has a lot of work. Like a
good little slave, Vicky does all she can to make sure she gets there. She begs
her boss Nicole to let her go, even though they have a lot of customers that
day. (Why Nicole hasn’t fired her already is a mystery.)
Julie is
blown away by how easily Rosa gave up tons of cash to them. Gala thinks Julie
is pushing it too far. Since she’s headed out, she asks Julie to give her the
big check Rosa just wrote so that she can deposit it. Julie refuses. She’s
going to be the “administrator” of this money. They’ll use part to pay for the
photos and Aquiles, and the rest she’s keeping as her “commission.” Gala is
annoyed by this and tells Julie that she should at least use that money to pay
the loan she took out on the NYC apartment. “Did you really believe that story
that I’d taken out a loan on my NYC apt.? How little you know me my love. I
would never do that. The apartment is my only asset, and I care for it more
than I do you.” (Yes people, she really just said that to her daughter.) Pissed off Gala says she can see that, and
leaves for work. Julie blows her a kiss
and says she loves her. Then she turns to her real love, the check, and says
Rosa is the best business she’s come across in her life.
Padre
Honesto has come to see his supervisor, the Bishop (last seen as Padre Severino
in CME), about the news Rosa just gave him about Rod and Luci being siblings.
He doesn’t know if it’s true, but if it is, he can’t marry Rod and Luci. But
how does he find out if he’s bound by the secrets of the confessional? The
Obispo tells him there’s a difference between someone giving a confession and
someone taking you into their confidence and telling you something. He gives
Padre Honesto leave to speak with Max to find out if it’s true.
Rosa,
wearing an ice blue wrap dress, that matches her eyes and her icy personality,
goes to see Max at the office. We all know where he is, but his secretary has
the usual story that he left for a “meeting” and can’t be reached.
Meanwhile,
he’s waiting at the love nest and is supremely annoyed at Vicky who runs in
late. She had to finish with a client. Like a true daddy, her sugar daddy
orders Vicky to sit down in the chair. He needs to talk to her. “You know very
well that I don’t forgive lies and betrayal. Why didn’t you tell me about
Aldo?” Vicky looks like a poor little
deer in the Mac truck headlights.
Luci’s
back with the whole vecinidad gang in Estella’s apartment. They are amazed at
all the shopping bags and all that Rod is paying for. Luci says it was Melissa
and Hannah that pushed the shopping thing. Lorenzo’s ears perk up at Hannah’s
name. You mean, that pretty girl that I met? They all tease him. Luci tells
them about the beautiful wedding dresses, in particular the one she tried on
and loved. Now we find out why she
didn’t buy it. She tells them that she looked at the price tag after she took
it off and saw that it costs a fortune, even more than all the money they owed
Don Aquiles! We see in her flashback that the dress costs 60,000 pesos ($4,500
US). They all can’t believe it.
Rod
talks to Pato from the office on the video phone. Rod tells him he and Luci
will be having dinner with the parents soon to talk about the wedding. Pato
tells him to prepare himself for rejection.
Rod says that if Rosa doesn’t accept Luci, then they’ll just pack up
Pato’s stuff and move him into their apartment, because Rod won’t be setting
foot in that house again. Pato tells him not to exaggerate. He just asks that
he take care of Luci, love her and respect her, and above all, value her
love. That’s what he most desires. Rod
makes the understatement of the year and notes that Pato cares (quiere) for
Luci. Pato, with longing in his voice says, “I care for her (but he’s really
saying it in the love sense) SO much.”
Rod is clueless. He gets off the video chat with Pato because their
mother has come to see him. “Speaking of the king of Rome!” (Speak of the
Devil.)
The Ice
Queen enters Rod’s office and casually does a dust test on Rod’s things. One of
the secretaries brings in the “fashionable clubs” edition of Gala’s magazine,
especially sent by Gala for him. Rosa acts like she’s just seeing it for the
first time. The note attached says Gala thought Rod would be interested and she
hopes he likes it. Rosa makes some digs about the kind of women who work in
these places. Rod takes a closer look at the picture of Luci and says he’s sure
that’s the girl who they encountered when they went to Inferno. He remembers
because she was so pretty. He stares at the picture a bit too long and Rosa
closes it up and sends him to get her tea. When she’s alone with the magazine
she scoffs and says: “And I felt guilty because I gave you away Luciana. But
look where you ended up.” When Rod comes back, he tells Rosa news she already
knows-- he and Luci will marry in two weeks. They are the two most important
women in his life and nothing would make him happier than the two of them
getting along. He knows he loves Luci as much as his dad loves her (Rosa). (Bad
comparison dude.) The Ice Queen runs her hands along the cover page of the
magazine and says nothing. Rod says they’re coming to eat at the house
tomorrow. It looks like she’s about to
reveal something about Luci that she believes will make him change his mind,
but they are interrupted by a call. It’s Padre Honesto who’s come to see Max.
Rosa rushes out quick to intercept the Padre.
Vio
thinks that Luci should just enjoy letting Rod spend all this money on her.
Luci doesn’t agree. She doesn’t want Rod to think she’s taking advantage
(aprovechar). Lorenzo agrees with her—their family doesn’t do that. Vio suggests that they go affordable wedding
dress shopping. Fabian and Lorenzo want to go too, to buy suits for the
wedding, but Vio says they can rent them and she’ll show them where. Marianita
also wants to buy her dress for the wedding, a pink one. They all head off for
shopping, minus Estella.
Max
demands answers from Vicky about Aldo. He accuses her of having given Aldo her
phone number at the company party where they met. She denies it. Being that
Jero is Aldo’s boss, she’s sure he got it easily somehow. “Your father told me
that Aldo has come looking for you. And he doesn’t think that looks right.” He
hopes Vicky isn’t letting Aldo see her. Vicky goes all sex kitten and tells Max
of course she isn’t. Max seems to believe her for now. He gets up to leave, but
warns her: “I love treachery, but I hate traitors.” Vicky looks a bit scared but tries to cheer
herself up by looking at the pretty bracelet he just gave her. (Run Vicky!
Run!)
At the
big house, architect Hector has finished the elevator for Pato. (Wow! We never
even saw the workmen.) He has a special remote for Pato that attaches to his
finger and allows him to open, close and summon the elevator with his hand that
has mobility. Very cool! The elevator doors are designed the same as the wooden
sliding doors throughout the rest of the house. Pato tells the architect about
going to see the specialist in Boston and about becoming more hopeful every
day. Frigida listens in through the door and says to herself that it’s all a
waste of money, since he’s never going to get up from that wheelchair. Bitch.
Rosa
tells the Padre that she’s going to speak to her husband and tell the truth, so
no need for him to speak to Max. (Come on Padre! Don’t believe the crazy lady!)
Padre is relieved. If it’s not true, then she will be separating two young
people who love each other greatly. (Like she cares.) She says she knows exactly what she’s doing
and she’ll put an end to this situation. Everything will be different from now
on. (Please note that although her voice is calm and rational in this scene,
her crazy hands are working overtime. Look down Padre!) He thinks God has heard
his prayers.
Lorenzo calls Aldo. Aldo says can’t go to Inferno that night, but is this close to breaking
into the black four leaf clover account. He invites Lorenzo to come to Boris’s
party with him. He tells him to bring his “brother” Fabian along too. The more the
merrier!
The
vecinidad gang has fun in the city center looking at all the tall buildings,
eating street fruit, and shopping.
Magda
and Paz look at the fabric they bought for their dresses. Ariche thinks they’ll
look beautiful, but not as beautiful as his Luciana.
Rod
calls the jeweler and orders the wedding bands.
Gala’s
gal pals congratulate her on the cover article. Valentina (the blonde one)
thinks Luci looks pretty and reminds Gala that Rod chose Luci. They shut her up
as usual by encouraging her to eat something.
Looks
like Magda really stomped on Don A’s foot good. His toe is all black and blue, and
he’s crying like a baby as Procopio soaks his foot. He orders Procopio to go to
his house and get him the boots that are a looser fit. Yes, he wants BOTH feet
of the boots, dammit! Gala calls to set the date for his arrival. She tries to
entice him by saying she’ll pay for all the costs. Don Aquiles is offended by
the thought of a woman (vieja) paying for him. Gala tells him Luci and Rod are
getting married in a few days, so it’s urgent. She then calls Julie and tells
her Aquiles accepted, and Julie needs to go talk to Rosa, now.
Rosa has
dropped Padre off at the Church. He tells her that when she speaks to her
husband she really needs to listen. (Ha! Like that’s going to happen.) He hopes
God helps her. She says she’ll need it.
Gala
marches into Rod’s office. She’s happy he got the magazine and smugly asks if
he recognizes the waitress. Rod looks at the cover photo hard and seems to be
making some connection, but he just says it’s the young lady (señorita) who
served them at Inferno. Gala bad mouths the waitress, and Rod asks why. She’s
acting as if she knows her. She says she does. She interviewed the manager
(Lastra) and he described perfectly the kind of woman who works there. But
she’s not going to argue with Rod. She’s glad to see him. He looks good. Rod
knows she’s up to something, but since he can’t figure it out, he just gives her
a silent skeptical look and accepts her words of congratulations on his
upcoming marriage. She leaves looking smug, but then nearly loses it right
outside his door. She then cries in the elevator and says she loves him. Rod looks hard at the magazine cover of Luci once again.
Luci,
Vio and Marianita find a wedding dress store they like and send off the boys to
the suit rental place. Vio and Marianita try on matching hot pink dresses.
Marianita also has fairy wings. Luci tries on an A-line wedding dress with a
few sparkly accents. She looks
beautiful, but she’d look beautiful in anything. What she really loves about it
is the price—10,050 pesos/$750 US. (Or it could be 1,050 pesos/$80 US. I saw
this on a little computer screen and it went by quickly. Either way, a LOT less
than the other dress). They meet up with the boys, but instead of suits,
they’ve found two cute girls to spend the rest of the day with. The girls
continue their day out, having fun in the city plaza.
Julie
arrives at Casa Torreslanda before Rosa returns and orders her usual mimosa to be
brought out to her on the lawn. Frigida takes the opportunity to continue her
espionage with the Blonde B/Witches and relieves Mati of the duty of serving
Julie. She also brings her designer bribe bag with her, using the silly excuse
that it needs some air. LOL! What she really wants is for Julie to keep her
promise of filling the bag up with pesos for all the info she’s been passing
on. Neither she nor Julie realizes that Pato, who now has more freedom of
mobility throughout the house and grounds due to the new elevator, has seen
Julie pass a check to Frigida. Frigida says it’s not easy for her to pass the
info on quickly because Mati is always watching her. Julie tells her that
everything needs to work like clockwork and Frigida is a key piece. Pato
surprises them both by wheeling up. He coldly asks how Julie is. He wastes no
time in saying how strange it is that she just gave a check to Frigida. Frigida
hightails it out of there. Julie makes
up some b.s. excuse about giving Frigida a check so that she can buy flowers
for Rosa, since Frigida surely knows Rosa’s favorites. Pato doesn’t believe a word of it, but Julie
is saved by Rosa’s arrival.
Procopio
has made the mistake of walking by Ariche with Don Aquiles’ comfy red boots.
Ariche slips a lizard into one of the boots. The scamp! At Magda’s house, she
and Paz are talking about Aquiles’ reasons for trying to make nice lately.
Magda knows it’s just because he’s scared that Paz might throw him in jail,
which has made his rocks shrink to pebbles. Paz isn’t actually sure she wants
to move back into her house, without her Galdino and her kids. Magda asks her
to stay with her permanently and they can keep each other company. Over at his
office, Don A. is still being a baby about his toe. He gets a nice little
surprise when a lizard tries to run up his leg as he puts on his comfy red
boots. Poor Procopio gets the blame, and nearly gets the business end of the
Don’s belt.
Julie
reports that Aquiles is ready to come to D.F. when Rosa gives the signal. Rosa
thinks the perfect time will be when Max takes Pato to Boston to see the
specialist. No one in the family will be here to defend her. Right on cue, Max
comes home and confirms that he and Pato are leaving in two days for Boston.
That’s the day they will attack Luci, the B/Witches decide.
Don
Aquiles meanwhile justifies taking revenge on Luci to himself. “You humiliated
me. I lay my fortune and properties at
your feet. And the worst is that I lay my heart at your feet. And that’s what
hurts me most.” Procopio interrupts
these musings, and he and Aquiles plan an evening of wine and food, because
life goes on. Luchita is listening at the door and is excited that Don A has
put so much thought into their night of amor. She runs off to get herself
pretty—lots of perfume and a sparkly top.
Oscar
calls Connie to invite her out. Upstairs in the big house, Pato is showing
Hannah and Boris his cool elevator remote.
Max comes in and stares through Boris. “What did you say your name was
again?” Poor Boris. Max and Pato plan the Boston trip. Pato is happy they’ll be
back in time for the wedding and asks his dad for a big old hug. Max happily
obliges. Boris invites Pato to his
party, but Pato wants to be able to go on his own when he does. Hannah gets all
swoony about how beautiful Luci looked in the wedding dress she tried on. Boris
puts his arm around Hannah and says that hopefully soon she’ll be trying on
wedding dresses too. Hannah looks uncomfortable. Max clears his throat, looks
Boris up and down and calls him muchachito (little boy). “Aren’t you going a little
fast, *Boris*?” (Major eye roll from Max.) It’s not fast for Boris. He’s been
in love with Hannah since the first day of grade/primary school.
The boys
finally come home to Estella’s. Serena is fast asleep on the kitchen table,
exhausted from her day job as a nurse and her night job at Inferno. The boys
wake her up to get ready for work. Lorenzo speaks about being on the cusp of
something big with Aldo.
Aldo
meets with Inez the IT girl. She hasn’t gotten to his laptop yet, but she does
have a decoding disc she was going to use later. Aldo sweet talks her again
into letting him try with the decoding disc and takes his laptop back. He says
she’s the kind of woman you can’t find these days. She’s an extinct species!
Vicky
gets home and tells her dad about the hard day she had. She goes to start
dinner, and he leaves for the bakery.
Vicky scolds herself and says she will be left like the dog with the two
sandwiches (el perro con las dos tortas)—with neither her Osito, nor Aldo. She
calls Aldo, but then hangs up quickly when her dad knocks on the door. He
forgot his keys. She thinks better of calling Aldo. Max will kill them both if
he found out, and her dad would die of shame.
Julie
and Rosa have taken their plotting indoors. Rod calls Rosa to say he’s not
coming by to see her that evening because he’s preparing dinner for Luci at his
apartment. Rosa is so NOT down with that. It’s not proper for him to be alone
in his apartment with that muchacha. Rod reminds her that that “girl” will be
his wife and there’s nothing wrong with it. They will be coming for dinner at
the big house tomorrow. Julie hears the whole conversation and then prepares to
leave just as Oscar arrives to pick up Connie. Julie gets offended that he
invited Connie out and not her. Sand has taken the place of Oscar’s rocks this
evening, so he is shamed into asking Julie along too. She then invites Carola
to some out with them! (Oh, Oscar! Really dude?) Ever the lady, Connie hides
her true feelings about this arrangement pretty well and they head out. Rosa
shakes her head at these strange modern dating games. Julie calls Gala and
informs her about Rod and Luci’s dinner.
Luci is
all alone at Vio’s cooking up something delicious. Rod arrives and convinces
her, with some work, to come to his place for dinner instead. He wants her to get to know the apartment that will be THEIR home, and to chat about wedding
plans. He gives his boy scout’s honor that he will bring her back home early. Later at the apartment, Luci and Rod are
finishing off a romantic candlelit dinner with kisses, when all of a sudden
someone turns on the lights. It’s Gala! She says perdon, but sure as heck
doesn’t mean it. Luci are Rod are both shocked and pissed. Rod asks what the
heck she’s doing there. She says she
thought he wasn’t home and she was just coming to pick up her things. Luci’s
had enough and picks up her purse to go. Rod stops her, puts his arm around
her, and says that the one who’s going is Gala.
Rosa
tells Max that Padre was looking to speak with him earlier about Luci and Rod.
(Cue Max eye roll.) Rosa tells Max that the Padre wanted to speak to him about
the wedding—a wedding that can’t happen. (Cue heavy sigh from Max.) Mati
interrupts to give Rosa her medication. Rosa protests that the medicine makes
her feel worse, but she takes it. (Oh, please let that be Prozac.) They
continue their conversation alone. Max wants to know what fantasy Rosa made up
for the Padre. “It’s reality. Yours and mine. Because of your bad actions, hate
is coming after those we most love- our kids.” (Cue major stink eye from Max.)
Gala
continues the innocent act. She’s sorry, but how was she to know they would be
there? “This is MY apartment Gala.” Gala reminds him that he gave her a set of
keys. Rod tells her if she needs to get her stuff, do it tomorrow when he’s not
there. He’ll let security know to let her in tomorrow. He tells her to take her
blonde ass out of his house and to leave the keys on the cabinet. Gala’s
parting words are to Luci. Luci can rest easy. Gala only came to get what’s
hers, not to steal what belongs to another woman. Hint, hint. Luci is so hot,
she won’t even let Rod touch her. He promises it won’t happen again.
Max
tells Rosa that the only one doing their kids harm is Rosa. Now, what the hell
fantasy does she have in her head? Rosa tells him that Aurora’s child is not a
fantasy. She’s just as real as the two of them.
Max is about to leave the room in disgust when Rosa’s next words stop
him in his tracks. She tells him that the little girl isn’t dead. She’s
Luciana. (Cara impactada de Max.)
In a
karaoke restaurant, Julie and Carola are warbling as Oscar and Connie look on
and laugh at them. Oscar proposes a toast to Connie. Julie and Carola drink to
that, and it looks like they have drunk to many other things that evening.
While those two order more drinks, Oscar and Connie have a private chat. He
notices that she seems really worried about something. She admits she’s really
worried about Rosa. Oscar tells her not to worry because Rosa loves to suffer.
If she’s not suffering, then she doesn’t feel good. Julie jumps in and blames
Rosa’s problems on Luci. Had she not come along, then Rod and Gala would have
been married by now and pregnant already. Connie has a look of thank the Lord
that didn’t happen on her face. Connie pokes fun at Julie about all the
grandkids calling her grandma. Ah hell no, says Julie. She’s Julieta to
everyone. Julie to close friends and family (and grandkids). Connie toasts to
Abuela Julie and shares a laugh with Oscar.
The
intense revelations continue at the big house. Max wants to know what the hell
Rosa is talking about. He can’t believe
the baby never died as SHE led them all to believe. Now that she’s told the
truth, she says her soul can finally be at peace. (I don’t think that’s the way
it works, Rosa.) “Now you know why Rod and Luci can’t marry? They’re half
siblings!” Max still can’t get over the fact that she has LIED to him all these
years! “But now you know the truth.” She walks out of the room like that solves
everything. “It’s your turn Maximino.
Let’s see what you do with this truth I’ve just given you.”
Upstairs,
Aldo and Pato have the decoder disc in his laptop and begin trying to break the
password code. They have it up on Pato’s big screen. All of a sudden Max walks
into the room. Uh oh. Aldo nonchalantly walks over to and in front of the big
screen so that Max can’t see the black four leaf clover. He and Pato exchange
nervous looks. Luckily Max is too distracted by his recent conversation with
Rosa to notice. Aldo’s cover is nearly blown when his phone rings and he
refuses to move from his strategic spot in front of the screen to answer it. It’s
Vicky, but he’s too late to catch her. Pato scolds Aldo for still going after
Vicky, since Max won’t like it. Aldo points out that it’s she who called
him. They continue trying to break the
code.
Gala
calls Don Aquiles as soon as she gets home. Unfortunately, Procopio is the only
one at the office. Gala leaves a message that the Don needs to come to D.F.
right away. She’s making all the arrangements for him. Procopio then brings
champagne to Aquiles at home. He’s
lounging on the couch in his purple satin robe and red boots. (Let that image
sink into your brain.) Before Procopio opens the door to Luchita, Aquiles tells
Copio to remember the “plan.” Luchita is
more than ready for her night of loving.
Rosa’s
in the house chapel and tells God and the Virgin that now she has been relieved
of her sin, and now no one can accuse her of the disgrace that’s befallen them.
(Oh boy, is she delusional.) “Now I don’t owe you anything, Aurora. Now it’s
Max, your lover, who has been charged with this truth.” Mati comes in and tells
her she should be resting. Rosa tells her she’s told Max that Luci is the child
he had with Aurora. Mati tells her she doesn’t know that this is the truth.
They are only her suspicions based on her jealousy. Rosa is sure that now that
Max knows the truth, he’ll want to send Luci far away. “And what about Claudio
Linares? What’s to become of this poor man who thinks his daughter is
dead?” Rosa says to let him stay as he
is—let him keep thinking Aurora was a saint and his daughter died with her.
“God, our Father has illuminated me.”
She thinks God has given her the power to resolve the whole matter in
the best way possible. (Crazy!!!!) “Thank you God. Thank you.” Mati looks on in
horror.
At the
apartment, Luci is still ticked off, and Rod is still apologizing. “This
apartment is where you were going to live with Gala, the woman you were going
to marry.” (I wouldn’t want to live there either. Plus, he and Gala did it in
the bed too.) Rod has her look at him and tells her they were born to be
together. “I love you so much Luciana, that it’s impossible for me to love you
more. This is your house, and here we will live together.” She promises to live
there at his side and they kiss.
As Pato
sleeps, Aldo continues to try to break into the account. Finally the code is
broken! But there’s another one right after. He gets to work trying to break
that one too.
Max
finds Rosa in the chapel. He has her swear there in front of God that
everything she told him is true. She swears it. He then swears in front of God
that he had nothing going with Aurora. Luci is not his child. "She’s the child
of Aurora and Claudio Linares.” Rosa looks impactada, but does she believe him?
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Amorocito Corazón Discussion #34-43 July 2-6
The first hour
- Isa decides it is for the best if she and 'Nando break up. She doesn't want to be to blame for the break-up of his family.
- Leo gets angry that 'Nando made Isa cry. The two go off to share a few drinks. 'Nando opens up about his situation with Doris, but swears Isa is the one for him. Both Leo and 'Nando talk about their fear of being alone. Leo admits he regrets leaving Sarita. (Meanwhile Sarita explains to Zoe that once a love is broken, it's never the same. Zoe looked pensive.) Leo asks 'Nando to keep their little chat secret.
- Willy makes his way to the archbishop's office and takes the blame for the *ahem* campaign for prevention.
- Mother Superior tells Lucía to take a vow of silence. Lucía starts wearing a dry erase board. "NO ME HABLES. VOTO DE SILENCIO." Mother Superior is not amused, but allows Lucia to use it for emergencies.
- Cecilio visits FFFFF in the hospital. FFFFF tells him about kissing Zoe. FFFFF tells Cecilio to call Zoe (not sure on the details.) He does but Zoe hangs up since she doesn't recognize the voice. FFFFF calls right back and explains it was his buddy Cecilio. For his part Cecilio seemed to recognize Zoe's voice.
- *sigh* Horty and Marisnot. Marisnot is Marisnot and wants to leave the house, but Mine stops her since that's what 'Nando wanted. Marisnot calls Horty who rushes to her aid. As they are leaving the run into Isa who tells them she is breaking up with 'Nando...right when he walks up. Horty and Marisnot don't really believe her and they flounce off. 'Nando tells Isa he loves her enough to fight the odds and eventually talks her out of breaking up. (The kissing is still "meh" in my book. Have I mentioned that I now think both Diego and Elizabeth are culpable? They only have chemistry if they DON'T kiss.)
- Guillerma nags Leo. He has some sort of attack. (Maybe the vapors?)
- Jazmín and Reina get busted by Padre...but he lets her stay.
- Doris comes to visit 'Nando and brings gifts for the girls. A perfectly times gastric gurgle makes Merifer think she felt the baby move. While Doris is there she finds out abut 'Nando's plan to take Isa out. Doris texts Poncho and tells him to do something to sabotage the evening.
I will return with hour two later this evening...
Labels: Amorcito
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Por ella soy Eva- Cast of Characters
Lucero is Helena Moreno: Single, she is an administrator for tourist businesses. A loving mother, intelligent, dedicated to making a good life for her son Lalito, 8 years old. She has had to deny her wish for independence in order to remain in the family home under the strict rules of her father and to work to cover Lalito's needs. Love is not her priority. She doesn't want to risk being hurt, or worse, having her son become fond of somebody who isn't worth it. Juan Perón conquers her with romantic gestures, wins her son's heart and her mother's trust. She becomes engaged and believes he is the love of her life. Unexpectedly she discovers he has been out to deciev her and steal her project. She will have to reconstruct her life and becomes rather cold and hard to survive her pain. 
Jaime Camil is Juan Carlos Caballero: Operations Vice President of Grupo Imperio. Efficient, competitive, able to ignore ethics in order to achieve his goals and steal information. As a friend he is loyal, generous and affectionate. His best friends, Santiago y Fernando, are like his family. He is the iconic Don Juan: sexy, virile, intellitent, charming, elegant and well-dressed, born to seduce, he has money and is part of the jet set. No woman can resist his charms. In order to steal her project he decides to win Helena, but finds in fact she's a wonderful woman, and, without noticing, he falls hopelessly in love with her and her son. Accused of a fraud he did not commit, chased by the cops, there is an accident and people think he's dead. When he finds out Helena needs an assistant when she joines Grupo Imperio, he pretends to be a widow and gets the job. He sets out to prove his innocence. 
Jaime Camil is Eva María León Jaramillo: She is a character invented by Juan Carlos, evidently of the working class, without family, a widow. Observing Mimi, 'she' becomes brusque, frank, uses florid language, and is very appealing. She is robust, tall, coarse, and comes to be seen as intelligent, wise, loyal, efficient, a good friend, and altogether a fine woman. 
Jesús Ochoa is Adriano Reyes: Antonia's brother, Plutarco's brother-in-law. Major share-holder and president of Grupo Imperio. A seducer, noble, gentlemanly and serious about work. He loves to be around beautiful woman but doesn't think highly of their capacities. This ugly attitude permeates Grupo Imperio. He is very disappointed when he believes Juan Carlos has betrayed him. Though he is a master of seduction, he feels very alone. He seriously falls for Eva. 
Helena Rojo is Eugenia Mistral: Modesto's wife, mother of Juan Carlose, she has been an actress all her life and became well-known, but when she married Modesto made her abandon her career to be wife and mother. She is friendly, assertive, educated, with some eccentricities that hint at her artistic past, nevertheless she has episodes similar to dementia although her diagnosis is not clear. 
Paty Navidad is Mimí de la Rosa: Owner of the apartment where Juan Carlos takes refuge after the accident. She is single, kindly, optimistic, generous, a hard worker, she tries to see the best in everyone. She is frank and open like the people of the north: happy, likes to party, tells jokes. Her talent for makeup was inherited from her mother who worked in the cinema and knew famous actors. She makes up everybody in the neighborhood so she's a celebrity. She transforms Juan Carlos into Eva. 
Mariana Seoane is Rebeca Oropeza: Plutarco's lover, coordinator of Public Relations at Grupo Impero and, like her kind, she has thousands of contacts in the tourism world. She is manipulative, cynical, astute, ambicious and greedy, but very amusing and appealing. And sexy. She's quite a trickster; she seduces Plutarco and looks to a secure future with high status and cool stuff. She expects him to obey her caprices but she has to put up with his having a spouse (Antonia). 
Leticia Perdigón is es Silvia Romero:Helena's mother, Eduardo's wife, Lalito's aunt. Housekeeper. She is patient, loyal, sensitive and dependable. It is her efforts that keep her marriage together, she believes marriage is for better or worse. She is serene, reserved, observant, wise, she loves her daughter and nephew, they are her main happiness.Labels: por-ella, synopsis-cast
Por ella soy Eva - English synopsis
This show is supposedly starting July 16 at 8pm, so the dreadful 2-hour Refugio marathons suffered by bloggers and fans alike are almost over. Ezra and I will be blogging this new one. Current and would-be bloggers of Refugio and/or Por Ella, leave me a comment below.
Juan Carlos Caballero (Jaime Camil), an incorrigible Don Juan, who uses women and does not believe in love, is a prominent executive in Grupo Imperio, an outstanding firm dedicated to tourist-related activities and business.
Using his famous talents as a seducer he pretends to be a businessman from abroad and tries to steal from Helena Moreno (Lucero) - a single mother and entrepreneur - her innovative project related to tourist development for a Mexican beach. Nevertheless, despite all predictions, getting to know her he finds himself in love for the first time.
Just when he's thinking of telling her the truth, he is busted and at the same time is unjustly accused of a huge fraud by the financial vice president of the company where he works. This villain is the perverse Plutarco Ramos (Marcelo Córdoba), who furthermore is the one who in reality has robbed Helena's important project and now, with the Tourism Commission, he is accusing her of stealing his idea.
Pursued by the police, Juan Carlos flees while within Grupo Imperio Plutarco decides to hire Helen to head up her own project. The young woman, unemployed and with an accusation hanging over her, feels forced to accept the post in order to demonstrate that she has been victim of fraud.
It's at this point that Juan Carlos, who is in hiding, discovers an opportunity to return in order to vindicate himself and recover Helena's love.
How to be near her without her noticing? How to figure out who unjustly accused him of this huge fraud? Juan Carlose decides, because of his love for Helena, to become Eva; in this way he will learn a lesson that changes his vision of life and his perception of women, and will become a man of integrity and power and, finally, bring him to real love.
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