Saturday, January 16, 2016

Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #99 1-15-16 Maximo, the Monster!

Ciao, MIVAC Peeps!  Ah, it was a great show!  I'm not messing with you, trying to prolong your anticipation, but let's get the smaller stuff out of the way first.  Here is the first of two installments!

Diana and Vitto

Diana cries to Vitto that this whole mess is her fault and she feels so guilty and she's sooo repentant!  Vitto tells her not to worry, his focus is on paying the ransom and getting Betito back.  They meet the next day with a hoodied and shaded Anibal who demands to be shown the money if they want to see Beto; Vitto demands to know Beto is well first.  Anibal grabs the aluminum briefcase with the money after a brief struggle, flinging Vitto and Diana to the ground.  Anibal growls that the money had better be right or Beto will die, and takes off!

Gael, Gigi and Papi Chulo

Gael calls Augustin "Papa" (awwww) as he introduces him to Gianna, Benni and Roxi.  We learn that the Chulo one is a writer.  Roxi sort of apologizes for jacking him up earlier while reminding him she wouldn't have done so if he had come right out and said who he was.  Augustin graciously apologizes and accepts responsibility.  He invites them all to lunch but Roxi and Gigi have to go to class and off they run.  Uh oh!  Gigi collapses just a few steps away and everyone runs to help her!

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Friday, January 15, 2016

Antes muerta que Lichita #80 1/15/16 Augie is GOD... or at least he believes he is... and he again convinces Alicia to move to US. Bea moves in with Alex and Kenny (Say WHAT???!!)

The mystery guy turns out to be Santiago de la Vega, the owner of the whole chain ‘People’s Café’.  He introduces himself to her, shakes her hand… (the guy could not be more of a gentleman)… won’t let her apologize. He did not tell her who he is just because she did not give him a chance (she wouldn’t stop talking).   (yeah Alicia! Like you can stop talking fast right now too!).  HE reminds her that when he met her in L.A. she sent a cell phone flying his way.  Then she gets a bit proud and obnoxious when he is only trying to congratulate her on their being able to close his store.
Roberto and Gumaro. Rob is telling Gum that Luciana told Rob about Augie’s ‘accident’ was not a car accident and was not overseas. It was in a small town here in Mex and it was a bullet wound.  So Roberto will continue investigating on his side, asks Gumaro to do same. 
Now it is Elsa who is tattle-tongue with Santy.  Nacho assures him that they did clean fair competition. Santy says he is here to recognize that and congratulate them. His people made a mistake opening a store here, his company is more for stands at big corporate offices, not local neighborhoods. Obnoxious Magos has her personal comments about having worked at PC for a couple days and the coffee was pricey.  Elsa voices her concern about the employees of the Peoples Café. Santee assures them that all his employees were relocated, no one was let go.  He also congratulates them on the marketing campaign… and unbeknownst to him, he actually TELLS Nacho and Elsa that Alicia is the Creative Director at Iconika USA. This drops the jaws of both Elsa and Nacho. Poor Alicia is having a ‘wanna get away?’ moment.
Roberto brings Luciana’s photo of Augie at hospital bed to the cop guy.  They again end up arguing since both of them are ready to call each other on the ‘deal’ they had made.
Alicia tries to explain herself to her parents.  Nacho tells Santy that they are so proud of their ‘nina’ but the problem is she is leaving their side to be Director over there.  Elsa says yeah but it’s the law of life. And all children leave … SOMEDAY (get it, Magos?).  Elsa and Nacho go to tend the business…
Roberto and Gumaro are again talking while Gumaro fixes the blue mustang (not exactly an original car color for mustangs of that era… esp if you paint even the radiator grill Yikes!)
Back to Santy/Alicia… he is amazed that she had come up with the marketing campaign of the coffee shop all by herself. HE admires her even more.  Some guy that works for Santy comes to meet him there to get him to sign some papers.   Meanwhile Alicia texts someone to come meet her when they can. She turns around and Santy is gone.
At Iconika… Nestor is feeling like yelling at the receptionist girls who are payimg more attention to their cell phones than him or Braulio…  The girls have about half a dozen employees in front of them waiting to get their attention but they are totally ignoring everyone. Nestor says he wants to know who is keeping up the agenda of meetings for Don Augie.  He yells at them even louder.  Shushette turns around to him and says ‘your temporary role is showing to be a bit too much for you’.  In comes Roberto and with one word gets everyone to shut up.
At the house, Luciana is crying at the garden… Gumaro comes over and tries to chit chat with her and she wants him to show her how to care for the bonsai trees… he gets closer to her and whispers that she needs to sweet-talk and even sing to the plants.  Then he puts his arms around her. And holds her hands while she trims… (are these two falling for each other for real?)
Roberto asks where Elias is, but Shushette tells him Elias must be feeling really bad after learning what his ex-wife was up to behind his back. Then they all talk that Elias knew about her affair…
Shushette says there is a client coming to a conference for their campaign… seems like no one at the company has done any work on a campaign theme or anything for this client… In comes Augie walking in (I would guess he is here to attend the conference for the non-existent campaign presentation).
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Pasión y Poder, ep. 53, 54 & 55, Thursday, January 14, 2016. Oh god. Cain and Abel who?


Nobody cares about me.  Boo-effing-hoo-hoo.

Daniela takes absolutely no responsibility for her actions and yet somehow convinces both Agustín and Regina not to tell Daddy about her latest Grim Tale. 

Nina's charming homage to Marge Simpson, pearls and all, is wasted on Humberto.

Nina feigns confidence in her husband's love, but she is obviously shaken by Humberto's revelation that Arturo and Julia were once engaged; not only that, they were recently together in Puerto Vallarta.  Humberto and Nina agree on this much – it is to their mutual advantage to keep Arturo and Julia from mating.  Humberto drives home the point:  If Eladio finds out that Arturo is sniffing around Julia, he'll kill him.

When Humberto leaves, Nina searches frantically through Arturo's desk and bureau drawers, but apparently finds nothing.  She vows to confront Julia.

We're getting professional help.
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Antes muerta que Lichita. #79 1/14/16 "The Aftermath"

Alternative Title: The Many Faces on Don Augusto the Grand Impostor

For those who missed the recent turn of events Alicia narrates the saga and reminds the audience of a few things:
- Sandra's has a childish tantrum leading her to inform Bea of Alicia's and Augusto's alleged affair
- Don Augusto making creepy and inappropriate advances towards a very naive Alicia
- Roberto giving his 100% with his puppy dog face upon hearing above news
- Finally, the @*#&! show of a meeting where affairs, secret babies and true parentages were revealed.

I am working on the tears to play up the anguish factor
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #98 1-14-16 The resurrection of Pilar!

Ciao, MIVAC Peeps!  We know the big story in tonight's show is the miraculous appearance of Pilar, Pedro's Mother, long thought to be dead, but let's summarize other action before we get to that.

Diana arrives home and finds her Mom tied up and unconscious.  Anibal tied her up, kidnapped Beto and is demanding a huge ransom.  She goes to Vitto for help who pledges he will pay the ransom.  Domingo protests as Vitto is going to use money earmarked to keep La Dolce Vita afloat.  Diana is grateful!

Looks like we ARE to understand, as I predicted, that Eloisa's misadventure in the barrio and involuntary/temporary status as a beggar would cause her to have a change of heart.  Eloisa gives away a bunch of her clothes and shoes to the needy and plans to sell a lot of her jewelry and give the proceeds to charity.  She also decides to accept Fiorella's suggestion that inequities don't just exist outside El Rancho Los Angeles but in it as well.  Fiorella thinks the house staff should be able to dress as they please.  Eloisa not only agrees but has Fiorella fitted for a pretty floral dress as per Fifi's request and allows Quina, Simoneta, Fidel and Benni to dress as they please.  No more uniforms!  She does advise against too loud colors.  Eloisa even conducts her first table etiquette lesson with the house staff, enlisting Roxi to be her assistant.  This is just the beginning of Eloisa's teaching them some bougie manners!

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Pasion y Poder #50, 51, 52, Wednesday 01-13-2016

Apparently Univision cramped in three episodes on Wednesday night. I will do my best to summarize the 2 hours that aired.



Hour 1

David and Eladio continue their talk at the bar. Eladio grew up poor, but with a strict father. David has always been scared of his father. Eladio swears he will change, bla, bla, bla. David loves his father despite everything.

Julia and Art comtinue their chat over the phone. Julia wants to give her marriage another chance. Art wants to talk when she returns to the city.

Erick cries on his expensive, blood-stained shirt while in jail. The guard moves him to another cell.

Connie and Art chat about Erick, the baby and their future. Art reassures her that she and his grandchild will be taken care of. Connie says that Erick is innocent.

Regina and Miguel talk about Connie and her health and whether or not she lied in her statement to the police. They need to support Connie no matter what.
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Antes muerta que Lichita. #78 1/13/16 "Elías and Fátima to the Rescue"

Looks like high DRAMA tonight!! So let's get right to it.

Alicia has arrived at Augusto's mansion and wants to talk to Beatriz. She wants to clarify some things. Beatriz does not know how she has the nerve to show up. She'd slap her out of her home but she does not want to offend the Divine Redeemer. Luciana of course has to join in and calls Alicia a snake among other things. Beatriz calls her a sinner and asks about the trip she made to LA with her husband. Alicia tries to tell her about the trip being a work trip. Augusto must have told her about it. Luciana tells her that Augustolied saying he was going to New York and ended up in LA. Valeria tries to calm Luciana down and take her out of there. Luciana insists on staying. Alicia mentions the confidentiality expected by Augusto about the LA office. Beatriz calls her a liar and an evil woman who is out to steal her husband. Beatriz reminds Alicia that there is a God who sees all. She hopes he really punishes her. Beatriz refuses to hear any explanations. Valeria finally takes Beatriz to her room and asks Alicia to leave so Beatriz can rest. Luciana tells Alicia to leave before she throws her out in a condition worst than that of the Christ of Iztapalapa. Alicia and Luciana physically face off like two junior high girls ready to fight, huff and puff and then both back down. Alicia leaves. Luciana thinks Alicia was really scared of her.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #97 1-13-16 HOT ZIGGETY DAWG! Some real action, Muchacha Peeps!

Ciao a todos, I mean a tutti.  Heck, how y'all are?  This is my first summary.  Let's see how well I do summarizing versus writing a novelette!

Right off the bat, my beloved Patio Peeps, one of you have a chance to make a contribution to tonight's summary because silly me started the recording late and I don't know what happened in the first segment!  I was able to figure part of it out but I don't know how Fifi explained that yummy huggin' she was giving Pedro so feel free to fill in, Peeps!

(This is what I was able to figure out.)  Freddie takes Eloisa to the bank and withdraws bribe money to pay off Vargas, ACorp accountant, who had demanded two years salary in exchange for the information about to whom monthly deposits were being made by ACorp.  He takes a suitcase full of money and gives her the address, not the name, of the recipient.  The address is of a mental hospital!  More on that later.

Eloisa wakes up face down on the pavement in a, shall we say, humble part of town.  She tries over and over without success to get people to tell her where she is.  Mostly people ignore her but she manages to get enough change from a couple of passersby to call the Rancho.  Pedro answers.  The family marvels that Eloisa was able to call what with her dementia.  Pedro confesses that Eloisa faked dementia to expose someone in the family whom she thought was trying to kill her.   Sergio takes off with Fidel.  Assvaldo mocks Pedro's desire to go with them.

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Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #96 1/12/16 Beware the Hooded Menace!!

Recap by Sneaky Two Shoes!  Grazie Tantissimo!!

(Lotta stuff happened so skipping the old - straight to the new.)

Gael tells Gia that Agustin wants to see him again. Gael's all up in the air about it- doesn't know if he wants to know him and confesses almost using again. Gia swears she will be with him day and night, all the time to help him through this and she reminds him how dangerous it is for him to take drugs and tries to help him see the situation calmly. Gael thinks its too late for he and Agustin to have a father/son relationship  now, he's not a kid anymore. Gia tells to meet Agustin and maybe all he wants is a little love. Gael isn't sure he can give it to him. He agrees this time for Gia to go with him to the meeting tonight.

Aitana's fam plots together. Ai thinks Elo knows Fi and Pietro are together and that's why she cut Fi in to the will. Beg thinks Pietro and Fi are plotting together to take advandtage of Elo's dementia and they can tell the board about it and get Pietro out. Aitana's mom thinks the board won't care that Pietro is fooling around with the help. Beg sends Ai to RLA to snoop around and see if Pietro and Fiorella do have something going on. Ai and her mom protest Beg's using her and treating her like a soulless puppet. (apparently the family who plots together doesn't stay together.)  Ai's mom warns her no nookie with Os while she's at the rancho.

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Lichita 1/12

I love Alicia's angry texting... she really assaults the phone! Also I like how they have adapted the new communication medium (texting) to fit the old novela standby (overheard conversations) by having her yell out loud as she texts. The new guy overhears and gets hit in the face when she gets mad and flings her phone.

They get him an icepack and start talking. She's glad she's a Mexican (no offense to her Cuban and Columbian workers) so they can understand one another and not press charges for any injury.

He hints that he sought them out (and he's not revealing how he knew that they were going to open up the U.S. subsidiary or where to find it) because he thinks they're going to be huge in L.A. and Iconika's work in Mexico had a huge impact on his brand. Alicia goes to look for her phone, and when she returns he's gone without even leaving his name.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Pasión y Poder Martes 1/12/16 #47, 48, 49


Chapter 47: Lies and Whispers

The murder investigation will go on and it looks like most of the press is just as malleable and hungry as in the US. Maybe more so. I'm not sure if audience appetite for scandal is equal or greater, but it certainly isn't less. That means I could be here for quite a while. That's alright; I love drinking frozen margaritas at my ringside seat for this modern version of Romeo and Juliet. It's not Verona, but there is Puerto Vallarta.
D.D.

Arturo and Julia kissed on the boardwalk. It was almost as though time had stopped twenty-five years ago. Or that they forgot what had happened in between. It didn't matter either way because they were interrupted by the retro ringtone of Arturo's cell phone. Due to the situation he couldn't ignore it. As he pulled it out Julia looked around, aware that Efrain was spying on her for Eladio.
Arturo, the police were here,” Nina told him over the phone.
What happened? What did they say?”
They have a warrant for his arrest and they were looking through the whole house.”
No, no, no, no. Augustin told me they'd be expecting him the day after tomorrow.” Julia began walking away to go back to the hotel.
They said he needs to present himself or be considered a fugitive. Can you imagine?”
If you had told me about this before this wouldn't have happened!” Arturo took a breath. “Now, calm down. Don't worry. I will find our son and bring him back.”
Arturo, please. Don't let them arrest Erick. Please, I beg you.”
Please calm down. Everything will be resolved.”
He ended the call and looked for Julia. She was not to be seen.
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Antes muerta que Lichita 1/11/2016: while the D team is sinking the mother ship, Alicia and Roberto yell at each other in L.A. Also, a "meet cute."

The subtitles were almost useless tonight, so, viewers who understand rapid fire Spanish, please fill in the blanks!

Roberto shows up at Ikonika USA and most of the conversations he has with Alicia, at high volume and a mile a minute, are general insults, he accuses her of hanky panky with the boss, also, she doesn't want to share the luxury hotel suite with him but he insists it's his right as a Toledo y Mondragon family flunky.

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Pasion y Poder #46 20160111

GLA

Franco asks Eladio for Gaby's hand in marriage.  Eladio asks Gaby to leave.  Eladio stands and sticks out his hand and pulls Franco practically over the desk.  He congratulates Franco and tells him that he's not getting a penny from the Bank of Gomez-Luna, even if they should marry.  Eladio reminds Franco that he's poor, broke and homeless.  Franco assures Eladio that he really loves Gaby and he will give her everything.  He goes on to tell Eladio that he taught him to work hard, so he knows how to get a job.  Eladio is impressed and says that he might give Franco his job back if he finds Aldo.  Eladio tells Franco that he fired Francisco for effing up a car deal.  He didn't know that Francisco was a dumb as a rock.  Eladio snaps his fingers and Franco bolts from the office to find Aldo. 

Franco and Gaby retreat to his glass office for a little PDA.  Franco tells her that he can't get her a ring because he's unemployed right now, but he will get her something better.  Marintia, the secretary with benefits, returns enters the office, so Franco introduces Gaby as his fiancé to his mistress/secretary.  Franco wants Marintia to find some address for him pronto.  Marintia congratulates them, but shows her true feelings once the couple has departed.  She's not down with this.  She calls them imbeciles.
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse, Monday 1-11-16 Eloisa is "tan cuerda como siempre," As sane as ever!

Ciao, Muchacha Patio Peeps!  Well, let's get back to our story after an unexpected weekend off!  We pick up right where Sneaky left us on Thursday in the living room of the Angeles Ranch with the collective Angeles jaw on the floor upon hearing that HALF the Angeles fortune has been left to Fiorella Bianchi, faithful personal assistant of Eloisa!  Predictably, Federica, Assvaldo and Sonia lay in to Fiorella with accusations of goldigging and bewitching the loca Eloisa and Pedro vociferously defends her.  Julieta also defends her vigorously and suggests Fiorella go off to her room and she will personally get her if Eloisa needs anything.  Pedro, Eloisa and the Lawyer, Robles, go off to the study to talk, as Eloisa puts it, "away from the vultures."

We also had just witnessed the touching scene where the Papi Chulo, Augustin, finally confesses to Gael that he is Gale's Father.  Augustin manages to tell Gael that when his Grandfather found out about his relationship with Gael's Mother, he made Augustin leave the country!  This is all too much for poor Gael who runs screaming from the room crying loudly "No, no, no, no, NO!"  Alina comes in and confirms with the stricken Augustin what he told Gael.

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Yo No Creo en los Hombres Lunes 11/11/16 #121, Pt 3 Gran Final


Chapter 123 (Gran Final): Blood, Guns, and Tears

Claudio drove to the location demanded by the kidnappers. They called and gave him his instructions and their threat if he didn't deliver the ransom. He agreed. The detective stayed in the car. Claudio walked out into the middle of the street. The kidnappers brought Max out of their car between them. One aimed his pistol at Max's head while the other aimed his at Claudio. They demanded that Claudio slide the suitcase with the money to them. One picked it up and the other said, “Here's a gift from a woman who loves you. You get to see your son die.”
They shoved Max down to his knees. A sniper fired at one of the kidnappers while the other fired at Claudio. The downed kidnapper got up just far enough to fire another shot, hitting Max in the right shoulder blade. Police fire and both were down.
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TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Señora Acero, Fatmagul, and La Querida del Centauro: Week of January 11, 2016

Hola Telemundians.  Here is this week's page for discussion of Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Señora Acero, Fatmagul, and the newest addition to Telemundo's offerings, La Querida del Centauro.  Señora Acero's final episode airs this Monday; beginning Tuesday, La Querida del Centauro will appear in the same time slot.  A quick plot summary from Sara: "It's about some badass female that is sent to a maximum security prison for males. There she and a drug lord start a relationship." More information about this new novela, including photos, trailers, and the first episode, can be found on Telemundo's website

Meanwhile, both Celia (now in últimas semanas) and Bajo el Mismo Cielo (últimos capítulos) are drawing to a close.  Telemundo has been airing promos for Eva La Trailera, a new novela that is likely to begin once Bajo ends, probably in the last week of January.
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Saturday, January 09, 2016

Pasión y Poder Episode #45 Janurary 8th 2016 Erick is found, Aldo flees, and Artie calls Nina by her full first name: Ernestina.


Watch out, Aldo 

Oh, Eladio is really mad now. He threatens to off the little pipsqueak with the one earring if he corroborates that it was indeed him who ratted him out to the authorities. 

Super Augie

Augie has been working overtime (and Artie better give him a big bonus for this) and trying to obtain some kind of legal protection (amparo) for Consuelo and Erick. Artie hopes to find his coward of a son before then. He just cannot believe that his offspring is behaving like such a coward. Uh, really Artie? You should know that he's one by now. He asks Augie if he thinks that Erick exterminated The Ratt. Augie doesn't think. Erick may be the scum of the earth, but he's not a murderer, or in this case an exterminator. Besides, he loved that little Ratt of his. Artie states: that sometimes for love we can do the craziest things. Regina enters and lets her dad know that Consuelo and her baby will be alright as long as Consuelo stays put. Artie asks Augie to please speed up the process to obtain the legal protection. Aye aye, captain. Augie is on it. He rushes off to do just that. Artie asks Regina what went down at The Ratt's birthday bash. He wants to know why Consuelo is being incriminated. 

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Yo No Creo En Los Hombes #122 Will there be any cast members left after tomorrow?

What a thrilling ride this TN has been. I'm thankful that I got to sub recap for this fantastic show, it's been an honor to do so. Thanks JdesdeNYC.

So here we go, we get about 15 minutes of repeat from Thursday. I pick up where we left off.

Clara is meeting with her pimp who is telling her that heaven is full of regretful people, so therefore, he’s going to forgive Clara and give her another opportunity to work for him, but it’s the last time. A relieved Clara thanks him. Ugh!
She asks him what exactly will she be doing. He replies that if she thinks he wants her to be a prostitute, that’s not what she will be doing. He runs a modeling agency, she would be an ‘edecanes’, a hostess, not an ‘edecarnes’, yuck, yuck, a flesh server. She’ll talk to men and whatever. Clara is looking quite sick at this moment. He hands her the business card of her new client, but before she can take it he reminds her that he gets his cut of the money for giving her the contact. He tells her to call him.
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Friday, January 08, 2016

Antes Muerta que Lichita #75 1/8/16... The pot gets hotter about Alicia and Augie-evil in US and the gossip spreads like fire via cell phones at the Mex office.

Aug-evil is trying to booze-out Alicia… She talks while half-dazed about deserving the position she is in… HE reminds her she almost married Alex for corporate ladder climbing… She keeps talking some nonsense.
At church, Alex walks away but Bea catches him to call him on listening to her confession. He is not happy hearing that his dad is cheating on his mom and his mom is playing the social sweep under rug strategy.
Back to Alicia and Aug-evil… She does not like that he cheats on Mrs Bea.  He keeps talking like none of this matters one iota to him.  He claims that he can set apart professional and personal relationships.  The subject of Sandra comes up.  Alicia won’t deny her professional talents but… (yeah BIG BUTT!!) 
She is wabbly and he has to catch her from falling. HE keeps trying to embrace her… ends up holding her face in his hands… and walks her to the bedroom (a little too touchy-feely if you ask me).  She slams the door on his face (unknowingly from her boozed status).  But from the last take of her face, we know she is at least partially aware of what is going on.
The priest and Daphne join the conversation betweek Alex and her.  Bea figures out that Alex being there is also something Daphne coordinated.  So the new plan of Daphne’s also involving the priest also failed.
Brisa and Braulio are in the apt…  She sits on his lap (that did hurt him).  They are planning on a new retreat/seminar… when she brings up that it will be more like a sex therapy course, he is instantly interested.
Roberto and Gumaro in apt…  They are talking about SHeyla’s whereabouts… Roberto has paperwork that shows Mateo has not left the country at any time.  He assumes she could have figured out a way to get someone else to take Mateo up to US. 
Brisa and Braulio are still dealing with her ex-roomie/ex-bf.  Braulio is holding the door and preventing the other guy from coming in.   Braulio and Brisa continue arguing whether the other guy can come in. 
Back in US… Augie-evil is still trying to get in Alicia’s room knocking on door. HE laughs it out that she fell asleep…  He gets a phone call from Bea… She demands he come back home ASAP.  HE is not happy.  She threats him that she will sue him so bad that he will end up pennyless if he does not return YESTERDAY.
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