Saturday, April 07, 2007
Zorro-Friday, April 6, 2007: DOUBLE WEDDING
Here is Part One of the recap. Unfortunately, hubby thought it would be nice to remove the extra keyboard from the laptop to repair a friend's computer. By the time I had a useable keyboard the TV with the DVR was spoken for.
Today’s episode opens at the double wedding church ceremony with Olmos walking in unnoticed. Padre Tomas is reading the vows part your promise to honor, obey, be faithful, etc. to Alej and Dena and they both respond with I do, and Esme is all smiles and Monty looks like he’s thinking yeah right. FS looks at MP like he wants to tell her the vows and MP gives small smile, the too lovebirds are probably doing some mental telepathy. Padre Tomas says the requisite if anybody present opposes this wedding, speak now or forever hold your peace.
Yumi then comes in (hey I thought she wasn’t going or not allowed to go dressed in her native garb) but was stopped by a guard at entrance to the main church hall. Yumi just wants to give honor to Alej for his wedding because he has been good to her and her people and the guard tells her sure go ahead but do it somewhere where it isn’t a bother. She backs away, sits down and starts to play a melody on an instrument, it looks like a flute almost but I know it isn’t because you blow into it like a clarinet. I guess nobody hears this melody playing, must be loud in that section of the church.
Padre Tomas has declared Alej & Dena man and wife and they kiss, hey they have background music too. Mangle looks at Diego probably wishing he would kiss her like that and I wouldn’t be surprised if he gave her a peck on the cheek. Diego smiles after a few seconds (probably felt like an eternity to Mangle) and she smiles back. Monty looks at Esme regretting their marriage but Esme doesn’t notice she’s too busy clapping and giving her best Colgate smile. Cat claps wishing that Tobi was with her probably and not with FM. FS claps too and looks happy for his sis, either that or because he has a shot with MP. It’s amazing how quickly he did an almost 180 (after convincing himself it wasn’t his dagger and therefore he didn’t kill Regina. I am not convinced it wasn’t him yet).
Cut to the prison, where SK is begging the guard, Aguirre (Auggie) to let the Viceroy see her. Okay you know what I am kinda curious to see who this Viceroy is but at the same time I don’t know if I can take another weird/funny looking character. I am figuring we are going get our dwarf addition to the cast after all, can you imagine? She begs him saying it is an opportunity of a lifetime, ½ of her immense fortune. The Auggie asks how much we talking about and SK says all the jewels couldn’t fill her cell? I didn’t catch the word. The guard doesn’t believe her and what’s to know why a rich person would be in jail. SK tells him she can’t get into it but risk it, it’s worth it. He is really considering it but tells her he can’t, Monty will kill him, he prefers to continue with the deal he made with the hunchback. SK is impactada, at least I think she is, it’s kinda hard to tell behind the “iron” mask, what hunchback? SK begs him again saying he’s a kind person underneath but no luck. Auggie tells SK that she will be hidden were not in even God will find her, apparently he doesn’t know God to say that. SK is dejected.
Back at the nunnery, Nutty is talking about MP, calls her a hypocrite. Nutty hears water running and asks who is there. She follows the running water sound and goes to the bathroom, and finds the Slave taking a bath. Nutty is impactada to find him there, turns her back and asks Camba (is that his name?) what he is doing there. Camba gets up and says some stuff in his native language.
Back to the prison where Auggie throws SK into what looks like a tunnel that was carved into a wall (hey I wonder if this is one of those tunnels SAM was talking about) and cover it with a grate. The guards are in a hurry it appears that the Viceroy is on his way.
At the church its Mangle & Diego’s turn for the vows. Padre Tomas tells them they are here to be united in marriage and this holy sacrament is guided by love and apart from that its worthless. Therefore, he will continue the Mass so they can reflect on their future and afterwards he will perform the marriage ceremony. Esme looks on hopeful and wondering what Diego is going to do. Diego looks at Esme while Padre Tomas turns around and asks God to forgive him and a little help in delaying the ceremony would be nice. Enter a guard to whisper to Piza that the Viceroy has arrived? I don’t know because we cut to Padre Tomas saying the blessing in Latin. Piza then asks the guard if he is sure. Not for nothing but its kinda annoying when they ask that, are you sure? I actually want to hear somebody say, to be honest I am not sure, I just wanted to interrupt a very important thing that you are doing just to annoy the crap out of you. Monty and Olmos make a face like they heard what was said, but how can that be, if they didn’t hear Yumi playing outside unless the super sonic ears only happens when there is whispering. Monty stares at Esme probably angry that he has to sit through the wedding while he wants to get in on the chisme. Diego meanwhile just looks like he wants to be somewhere else and MA looks annoyed, probably reading his thoughts.
Back at the nunnery, Nutty is asking and begging Camba to cover himself but Camba doesn’t speak Spanish and has no idea what Nutty is saying. You know no matter how many times you say it Nutty, it’s not going to make him understand. It’s like when people speak louder when talking to someone who doesn’t speak the language. Hello, they are foreign not deaf. Nutty is just uncomfortable and without turning around hands Camba the blanket or whatever she was holding and again tells him to cover himself. Camba looks at the blanket (probably thinking I wanted pants) but wraps it around him.
Back to the tunnel and hey two rodents scattered by, relatives of Lucrecia maybe? Hehe nepotism exists even in the animal cast. SK tells Hermes what’s going on. Hey when did Hermes get there? Hermes yells out free the queen and guard tells him to shut up the queen is too far away to hear him. SK tells Hermes, you are not helping. Actually she tells him that you promised you wouldn’t reveal who I am but Hermes says but what they are doing makes me angry. I thought Hermes didn’t believe her, unless hey Hermes is being sarcastic, heh. SK says that its not known on whose side the Viceroy is so it can be dangerous if it was known she was there. Hey wasn’t she telling Auggie sometime ago to let the Viceroy see her, make up your mind, do you or don’t you want the Viceroy to find you. Hermes tells her obviously your side but SK isn’t so sure, in Spain there are those h4t her to return but others who want her dead. Hermes tells her he will defend her with his life. SK says that they have to keep quite for now and may God helps us. Hermes looks away and rolls his eyes. I knew it he WAS being sarcastic.
Piza and a guard run into a dude dressed in a penguin suit who wrongly assumes Piza is Monty. Piza corrects him and asks who he is. Ricky (oops Penguin Suit (PS) never gave his name, I mixed that up) is the private secretary to the Viceroy, Enrique Castillo y Leon (per captions). He wants to see Monty but Piza tells him it will be impossible since Monty is at a very important function but if there is a message for Monty, Piza will deliver it. PS laughs and tells him that he doesn’t have a message from Viceroy because Viceory is already waiting at el Callao. Piza is impactado and PS tells him Viceroy is probably conducting an inspection as they speak and the guards have the place surrounded. Olmos was hidden hearing this little exchange as Piza and the guard walk by. Olmos tells the air that SK’s like is in danger with Viceroy in the prison.
Cue Amor Gitano
Tobias is helping FM get into his overcoat and tells him they missed the ceremony so he just asks him to sit down and get comfortable. Tobi then asks FM about how he designed his fencing technique. Tobi even demonstrates sort off using his rich people cane or pimp cane, whatever its called. Tobi asks FM what inspired him to design his fencing technique (sorry I had confused esgrima-fencing with escribir-write). FM asks him design what? Tobi-your style of fencing technique. FM smiles oh yes the technique, what technique. By golly I think he is senile, LOL. Tobi’s smile turns into a frown.
Back to the wedding, Padre Tomas is reading Diego the vows, you promise to love, honor, obey, etc. Diego probably feels a little hot under the collar with all eyes on him, but manages an I do. Padre Tomas does the speak now part (hey what about Mangle, doesn’t she have to say I Do or is Padre Tomas putting in a loophole, you sly dog you) and since nobody speaks, he declares them hubby and wife. MA grins like the cat that ate the canary but MA asks PT what about the rest of it. PT-What rest of it? MA does a side glance to Diego. PT- Oh yes, the groom may kiss the bride. MA goes to kiss Diego and he’s not into it and when she unlocks her lips, he wipes his. Everybody claps and Piza informs Monty about the Viceroy and he and Esme leave. Diego sees them leave.
Back to Camba and Nutty where Camba barges in sort of to where Nutty was waiting for him. Nutty gets spooked. Camba says some stuff and Nutty tells him you look fine come on and they make it to her bedroom. They start having a Lost in Translation type of moment (all Camba can say is amba mitoley or something like that, was he paid to just repeat that over and over?) which results in Camba hiding under the bed and Nutty telling him he can’t stay there. I would really like to understand what the heck he is saying even if Nutty can’t.
Back to the church, where Padre Tomas is concluding the ceremony and and blesses both couples. Alej & Dena kiss and Mangle leans into kiss Diego and neenerneenerneener she gets his cheek, take that you hussy!
Monty is dragging Esme and she ain’t having it, she demands that Monty tell her why they left like that. Monty tells her that Viceroy has just arrived and it is an inopportune time to know his wife and orders the guards to take her home. Esme says she can find her own way but Monty says no, the guards are taking her end of discussion. Esme leaves but not before yelling at the guards to not touch her. Monty tells Piza that its odd that Viceroy is already there without written notice. Piza tells him he imagines it has something to do with hearing news that the inspector he sent was killed. Monty orders the extra guard to leave and when he does, Monty tells Piza that he hopes SK was hidden before the Viceroy got there. Piza tells him not to worry, SK will not be found. Monty tells Piza to tell FS Viceroy is there and now he will know the truth about SK, I guess he was bluffing when he told a drunk/poisoned FS he already knew.
Esme is being escorted by the guard when Olmos spots her and tries to call her over. Esme pretends her ankle twisted and when the guard tries to help her, she gets angry at him for trying to touch her. She gets the guard to go off for a hunt for a cane and talks to Olmos. Olmos warns Esme not to try anything to help break her mom out as the Viceroy’s messenger has sent word, he is already at the Callao and to hold back the gitanos as the prison is guarded and to pray that Viceroy doesn’t find SK. Esme is confused and wonders why the Viceroy shouldn’t find SK. Olmos tells he if Viceroy finds her, she will die. Olmos warns Esme to stay away from prison because Viceroy can’t know SK is there or that she has a daughter. Olmos leaves before Esme can get more information. Esme looks around and is impactada briefly then goes back to feigning injury.
The two couples are showered with petals as the march down the aisle. FS runs into MP (oops they are walking together behind the couples) and he looks happy and she ends up catching MA’s bouquet. He tells her he feels reborn and can’t wait for them to walk down the aisle together. MP tells him woaw buddy, hold your horses or something to that effect. FS can’t help, watching the couples reminded him of when they were going to wed and it confirmed that his love for her hasn’t changed.
PART TWO
He anxiously awaits the day they become one. FS turns turn Alej and wishes him the best and they pat each other on the back. Alej then tells him that he knows he’s wishes are sincere. FS then tells Dena that she has the best man in the world and he knows they will be very happy. Dena smiles and tells him her dream has come true, thank you. FS gives his congrats and kisses her cheek. FS is sooo complex its unnerving, I want to hate him but sometimes it’s hard. MP then apologizes for getting there late, but she had to say goodbye to the nuns in training. She also says that she was given a dispensation to settle some unresolved matters. Alej tells her he hopes she gets those answers and MP is happy that he has found happiness and wishes both of them the best.
Dolores goes to her Diego to tell her she will miss him because while he will be living at the hacienda she won’t take care of him like before. Delores gives him a hug and wishes him the best. MA feels a little left out and asks Delores what about me? Delores tells her to take good care of her boy because he is a good person (ain’t that the truth, even if he was a little annoying before with the Esme stuff). MA promises to do so. Enter Bernie to sign (he passes his hand over his face) and Diego responds with I like you too. They shake hands and share a hug.
Then its MP’s turn and she hugs Diego. Diego tells her she looks pretty and asks if she will stop being a nun. MP tells him about this dispension thing and she doesn’t want to talk about it now, maybe another time. She congratulates the couple and kisses MA on the cheek. MA looks at her angrily.
FS then gives his congratulations and is all smiles. MA tells FS that they will give him lots of grandchildren, hmpf. I don’t see MA pregnant, she doesn’t strike me as the pregnant type. I hope Diego doesn’t touch her during this whole marriage. FS then congratulates Diego and tells him he acted like a gentleman and worthy of having the de la Vega last name (well I don’t think he had a choice unless he wanted to duel and who said Diego isn’t a gentleman huh, I think he is totally a gentlemen, a cute gentleman). Diego just looks on and half smiles (I think he is thinking LIAR, you’ll get yours). Then Alej comes and he and Diego hug and pat each other on the back give each other congrats.
Piza informs FS that Monty has advised him that the Viceroy has arrived. FS is surprised and Piza informs him that he thinks he is there for the woman in the “iron” mask.
Cut to the jail, where we get Ricky (oops PS, I forgot Ricky's not his name) and I guess it’s the Viceroy (it’s not the dwarf darn I was kinda hoping oh well). Viceroy informs Monty that about a week ago he sent an inspector, (has it been a week I thought it was longer, I mean one week passed before the wedding and Esme is still early in her pregnancy 6 weeks maybe?) that never returned because he was supposedly assassinated by a bandit. Monty tells Viceroy that his information says Zorro robbed then killed the Viceroy. Viceroy tells him that it is his understanding that Zorro steals money not an assassin so don’t you think your accusation is a little strange (Another person who doesn’t believe Zorro killed Viceroy, interesting.). But Zorro himself will confess it to me because I imagine you trapped him already right? Ha, if you only knew. Monty looks a little nervous but says no its only a matter of time. Viceroy tells Monty that time is something that can work against them and because he hates wasting time, he’ll tell him why he’s there. Viceroy tells Monty that he has it under good authority that for some time there is a woman being held prionser in whom he is very interested, take me to her cell. Monty plays dumb, a woman here there are no women here. Viceroy does the fake BS sneeze and tells Monty you will be imprisoned here if I find out you are lying to me. He doesn’t believe in coincides and the death of his inspector tells him that weird stuff is happening here. Monty slightly irriated tells Viceroy he’s telling him the truth and says we’ll prove it right now. He knows the woman is there and won’t rest until he finds her.
Back at the wedding, MA asks Diego what’s wrong and FS tells MP he apologizes but he has to go he has important matters to tend to but he’ll catch them later at the reception. MP also says she is leaving, will be going to meet Cardinal. FS looks worried and tells MP I thought you weren’t going back. MP tells him she has some doors to close and would like to talk to Cardinal about it, see ya later. FS then tells everyone else he has to go because Viceroy has arrived and he has to appear before him. Diego then asks FS isn’t it strange that such an important person would visit without notice. FS says yes but that’s the way things happen sometimes without prior notice and excuses himself. MA then wonders out loud why the Viceroy would come to an insignifant town.
Back to Esme and the guard. MA is walking with a cane (I wonder where he got it from?) and in pain after each step. The guard scratches his head and gets close to Esme. You know what he kinda reminds me of somebody I saw in a movie that I can’t place right now. Darn it, it’s going to bug me until I can figure it out. Esme lashes out and asks the guard if he’s going to follow her inside because she’s not escaping much less with twisted ankle. Guard tells her fine but go hope. Esme gives a sarcastic thank you and continues hobbling. Enter another guard who distracts this guys attention and Esme makes her escape.
Cut to the gitanos where Laisha is asking Jonas what’s the hold up we got to free SK and get out of this hell hole. Renzo tells her that he agrees he used to be in a hurry to free SK but he’s learned to be patient that we rush things. We have to wait till Esme gives us signal. Laisha is angry and says Esme has not been through we they had to go suffer and they call her their princess. Renzo-stop talking about her like that. Laisha-Miguel gave his life to save la Reina and the same thing is going to happen to us if we don’t get out of here. Jonas then tells Laisha that he feels anger about Miguel’s death but for him everything has to be done right. Renzo agrees, today is the day but everything has to be carefully calculated, Esme will give the signal. Laisha calls them naïve and says she doubts Esme will risk her life to save a mom she’s never known and she'll make up any ol’ excuse not to do this today. You know what, I am starting to not like her right now.
The happy couples are at the hacienda and the employees have welcomed them and are throwing a mini celebration. MA doesn’t like it I guess and calls it weird, bad choice of words. Diego tells her don’t worry inside are the important people you invited. MA wishes she bit her tongue and tells Diego that it’s a little hot how about we go inside for something to drink. Diego tells her you go in, I am going to check out this reception a little bit. MA tells him not to be long.
Cut to Diego and Bernie in a bedroom how did he do that? Cuz I know he’s not in the Bat Cave. Diego is changing out of his wedding duds and tells Bernie that the Viceroy is there. Alej thinks its to save SK but he has doubts. Diego doesn’t think the Viceroy would bother coming over to LA unless he had some interest in SK. Diego asks what does SK have to do with the Spanish crown (you and me both Diego). But not to worry, Zorro will personally give the Viceroy a Welcome. Bernie signs what looks like a no and Diego remembers the reception. Diego then tells Bernie cover for me, tell my dad I went to get a wedding present or whatever works for you.
Back to the gitanos getting ready for their rescue, packing weapons I guess into a cart. Enter Esme to warn them not to go to prison, the Viceroy is there now and if he finds SK he’ll kill her. Laiesha tells everyone I knew it, this woman won’t let us free our queen. Esme is hurt and doesn’t understand why she is acting like that. Laisha tells her you didn’t help me free Miguel when I asked you to, you are not one of us. Listen lady, you are still harboring about that, Zorro freed Miguel, let it go. Renzo tells Esme it will be when she says its okay and asks looks to Jonas for agreement. Jonas hesitates before saying yeah sure. Oh boy, Laisha is sowing disharmony in the camp, great. She’s getting really close to Duelo whirlpool, she better step back. Esme is upset.
Some guards are allowed into the prison and the door is locked behind them. Zorro sneaks by and gets close to a wall, Yea, it’s been a while since I saw him on my night to recap. Zorro smiles and grabbles his way to the roof, hey what happened to the background music.
We cut to Monty showing the Viceroy where the majority of prisoners are housed, more lifers or at least been there a while apparently. Monty assures Viceroy if there was a woman in the prison, she wouldn’t survive being housed next to these animals. Viceroy tells Monty fine I’ve seen enough, this place stinks. Viceroy tells Monty he’ll be at Govnur’s house but will leave guards behind to continue inspection. M-Wise decision, your Excellency the air in the place could be dangerous to your health. Yeah sure and the BS your saying ain’t too healthy either. Monty smiles, ewww it gives him a more rat like look if you ask me. Viceroy orders guards to continue their search and to leave no stone unturned and all that. Viceroy tells Monty holding SK doesn’t benefit him but she is on the other hand very important to government. Turn her over and your situation will be benefited. Me thinks Viceroy is not a good guy too, of course Diego did say that and Diego is very smart; cute and smart a winning combo. M-what more could I possibly want? V- You can aspire to more responsibilities for the crown than your ambitious dreams could have imagined. Monty likes this idea very much I can see the wheels in his rat like head turning. V-Titles only permitted to those with royal blood. The sky’s the limit in exchange for an insignificant woman. Viceroy pats Monty on the cheek and tells him don’t make decision now, just let his mind and intelligence to make that decision (and don’t forget ambition). Viceroy leaves but not before saying, It’s better to be on the side of Queen.
FS gets the prison and meets Viceroy and they pat each other on the back like old friends. Viceroy is happy to see a familiar face. FS says you should have just told me you were coming I woulda baked a cake. Acutally he says you shoulda told me about your visit, I woulda had everything ready for your coming. Viceroy tells him not to worry he didn’t come officially on anything to do with his leadership. FS then asks why the visit. Viceroy tells him, a matter to be discussed later. Monty of course opens his trap to tell FS that Viceroy thinks there is a woman being hidden in the prison. FS fake laughs and thinks it’s a joke or an excuse to check into Monty’s work. Viceroy says I don’t joke and don’t need an excuse to check Monty’s work. FS says of course, your excellancy and Monty informs how serious by saying the pay for the info. Viceroy asks Monty to be more reserved because he wants the situation handled with discretion and asks them if they know what the word means. Judging by what has happened from Monty’s end don’t think so. I mean Monty was the one making a lot of noise before sending SK to the canyon. FS to change the subject tells Viceroy he can go ahead to city and he has prepared everything for the stay at hotel Sanchez Moncada. While Viceroy is waiting outside, FS asks his son-in-law (yerno) to meet him in the office.
Cut to MP talking to Cardinal. Cardinal tells MP she is under dispensation she should be at home. MP knows but she couldn’t leave without letting go of some hidden secrets. MP tells Cardinal that her faith and devotion are the same and intact but there have been moments where she has betrayed her vocation. MP tells Cardinal that all she wanted was to stay at convent and continue with her mission but there were personal problems and a wound that wouldn’t heal. Cardinal says that it appears that FS stole away one of God’s servants. MP doesn’t know if that’s true but what she knows is that she destroyed a man whom she thought was guilty of a crime he didn’t commit. MP hopes that Cardinal understands that she can’t serve God with such a load on her conscience. Cardinal asks MP if she still loves FS. MP says yes with all her heart.
FS asks Monty who told Viceroy that SK was there. Monty says he had nothing to do with it and isn’t he the one risking his life. FS is not fooled for Viceroy to be around somebody said something and it’s a matter between them. Monty is sure it was somebody else and tells FS that he is risking himself without knowing anything. I thought he knew, liar. Viceroy is positive SK is in the prison. FS assumes SK has been moved and Monty tells him Piza and his men hid her probably in the old sewers. FS tells Monty that Viceroy can’t find SK its jeopardizing for both of them. Monty tells FS he is beginning to have doubts and it might not be able to continue hiding SK FS hopes Monty won’t betray him. Monty-Viceroy has offered me heaven and earth and I don’t want to be accused of conspiracy against Spanish court. Meanwhile Zorro is listening to FS and Monty. Either FS tells Monty who she represents to royal court or he will be forced to turn her over.
Meanwhile at the wedding reception, Mangle seems to be enjoying herself. Dena spots Esme who confirms her suspicion that something happened. They go to talk inside and MA is probably wondering why she is there. Esme tells Dena what Olmos told her about Viceroy. Dena wants to know why but Esme doesn’t know, Olmos didn’t explain. Esme is worried but Dena reminds her worry is not good especially in her condition, much less now that she is carrying Diego’s son and darn it darn it, MA is listening in, aughhh freaking nosy busybody, I want to hang her, mangle her.
END OF EPISODE.
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Acorralada #59 4/5/07 – Thursday – Here Comes the Bride. . .NOT!!!!!!
24-hours later, Little Doormat (who actually cleans up quite nicely), still in her wedding gown, continues to flash back to how Lunkhead dumped her in their hotel room after their wedding vows and drank himself into a stupor at the hotel bar. "This is the second time you've made a fool of me! I should have known you were just paying me back for what F/G did to your family! I never should have believed you really loved me!" Gaby dramatically rips off her veil for emphasis and throws it on the ground. Meanwhile, Larry is clutching the bars of the jail faux-crying. "Gaby, Gaby, Gaby. You probably think I stood you up. If only you knew what happened! I love you, Gaby!"
Caramel enters Pancho's hospital room. She is fawning all over him saying how much she loves him. She asks who could have shot him. Pancho tells her he tried to leave the smuggling business and "management" shot him for being a traitor. Caramel is beside herself. She loves him so much! If anything happens to him, she'll simply die! She's going to stay by his side until he recovers! "Caramel, my love. You can't. SHE'S here!" C—"I don't care if she's come to see you. I'm here now." Pancho then breaks the news that it's a little more complicated. He's now married to Peyote. Caramel is impactada!
F/G, Diana, Diego, and Lala are discussing how afraid they are that Peyote and Caramel are going to discover Pancho is married to both of them at the same time. Lala bemoans the fact her son is a bigamist.
Max is asking Granny DS if she would prefer to stay in the tiny apartment or go live with Dianita at the mansion. Granny wants to know if Max will come live with her as well. "Ain't gonna happen," says Max "We'll have to meet at a park." Bruno tells Max she knows this offer is an excuse to see "that little nurse." Max tells Bruno to take a hike. Bruno walks off in a huff. Yolanda thinks the family should stay together, but Max says it's up to Granny DS. Of course Granny DS wants to live happily ever after at
At first Caramel doesn’t understand how Pancho can be married to Peyote, since Caramel and Pancho are still married. "We just separated because we had a fight, we're not divorced." Slowly, Caramel gets it! Once Caramel starts catching on, she becomes unhinged. She calls Pancho a pig and says she hates him. She tells him what he's doing is illegal and he's going to end up in jail. Pancho tries to smooth things over, but there are just some things that can't be smoothed. Being married to two fieras at the same time happens to be one of them. Caramel continues to yell at Pancho until Lala comes in and tries to quiet the fracas. Caramel asks Lala, "You knew he was married to both of us?" Lala is speechless. Her dopey sons have done her "proud" once again!
Diana is suddenly Little Miss Executive and giving orders to Emili-Oh and Beatriz. Diana has gone from being a nurse, a receptionist, and a seamstress, to a VP of a huge manufacturing company overnight. Of course our plucky heroine can leap all the obstacles in a single bound. Just another one of those suspension-of-all-reality plot lines. She's telling Beatriz to bring her some coffee and wanting Emili-Oh to answer all the correspondence. All while maintaining that signature glazed look of hers. Suddenly Camila and Sylvie burst in. Sylvie is in a fuschia 20's flapper-style wig. Camila can't believe the wallflower nurse is now an executive. Neither can I.
F/G and Granny M are discussing the upcoming move to the mansion. Suddenly Gaby bursts into the room in her wedding dress and collapses in a chiffon heap onto the floor.
Insults are exchanged among Camila, Sylvie, and Diana. Camila and Sylvie make fun of Diana. Diana, in response, acts haughty and calls Camila a parasite. I believe Diana offered Camila a job getting coffee and offered Sylvie a job cleaning bathrooms. Camila tries to point out that Diana is trash. Diana reminds Camila that she (Diana) has held a real job and isn't a parasite. She then says something about Sylvie being a stripper for rich old men. Etc. Diana then alludes to Sylvie's baldness and Sylvie runs out crying. Perhaps one of our viewers can expand upon this scene. Camila follows Sylvie out. Emili-Oh apologizes for his sister's and cousin's behavior. Diana tells him not to worry.
The scene in Pancho's hospital room continues. Caramel can't believe Lala has deceived her; after all they've shared! Pobre de Caramel – everyone seems to know about Pancho and Peyote except Caramel. Caramel runs from the room and sees Diego. She asks if he knew all along about Pancho and Peyote's marriage. Diego looks sheepish. Caramel runs out of the hospital. ***So how long until she ends up happily with Jorge, the Bar Stud? One look at Jorge's face and you can tell he loves his boss' daughter.***
F/G and Granny M are trying to revive Gaby. F/G wants to know why Gaby is dressed like a bride. Gaby sobs that she and Larry were supposed to get married in a church, but Larry stood her up! F/G is impactada!
Larry is hooting and hollering in his jail cell. He has rights! He has the right to call his wife! The soundstage is empty except for poor Larry. It sucks to be Larry right about now.
Paco's cell phone is on a beach blanket ringing. Paco runs up to answer with his white shirt billowing in the breeze. It's Diana. She wants to tell him how hard they're working at the factory, and how they are going to be moving into the mansion. Diana mentions F/G has tried to call Paco several times but hasn't been able to reach him. "Those darn cell phones," says Paco. "They're unreliable." ***Now why on earth would Diana call Paco? She has no idea F/G is her mother, so it's not like she's calling someone who could potentially be her step-dad. Paco's just the "friend of a friend." I guess I'm giving this too much thought. I forgot to check reality at the door.*** At any rate, Paco tells Diana he's still working on buying the bar and has decided to stay in Key West for a few more days. He hangs up and who should slither up but Octave. She's looking marvelous in her red bikini. Paco seems to think so as well. Paco asks if she'd like to go for a run with him. Octave declines saying she'd rather read a book. Paco then announces he's going to take a run for a half hour. He is actually jogging in cargo shorts and a buttoned-down gauze shirt.***What's up with that? I've never seen a real jogger wear that get-up!***After Paco leaves, Octave checks his cell phone to make sure F/G hasn't called. She then announced to the camera that Paco is hers. All hers!
Yolanda walks up to Max and wants to talk. Bruno refuses to work around the apartment. Yolanda then points out she doesn't like seeing Max drink so much. Max responds he drinks to ease his pain over Diana. He's lost her forever. Yolanda says "You never know" as Max and Diana's love song plays in the background.
Doc Evil and Andres are drinking their dinner at Paco's. Doc Evil is lamenting that he's going to lose his license to practice medicine because of that maldita. Andres looks up and there is Marfil in the doorway. He sidles up to her and makes some comment that I couldn't quite understand. I'm sure it wasn't important. Marfil can't believe Andres made her come to a place such as this. Andres walks off and Marfil heads to the bar. She is stopped by Doc Evil. "What's a beautiful, respectable woman, such as yourself, doing in a place like this?" M—"I could ask you the same thing!"
Diana walks up to Diego, who is in the hospital waiting room. She asks how Pancho is doing. After some small talk, Diana mentions that Granny DS is coming to live with them at the mansion. Diego calls her a hypocrite. He knows the only reason Diana wants Granny DS to live with them is so she can see Max. Diana, of course, denies it. We then have the typical jealous exchange between these two before Diana walks off. ***I failed to mention this before, but from behind, Diana's blue and black dress looks like a bathrobe. Could this be the robe she bought at the mall before Maxito was born?***
Pobre de Larry is still in his jail cell. There's not another soul in this
At the Little House in the Hood, F/G (who is wearing a satin version of Diana's black and blue bathrobe, except F/G's dress has capped sleeves like a bridesmaid's dress) is telling Diana that Gaby got left at the altar. F/G continues to spew venom and fire up Diana about those pesky Irascibles. Diana says she's going to bathe and feed the baby, then counsel The Little Doormat.
Marfil and Doc Evil are whining about Diana. Marfil suggests that Diana should disappear. Doc Evil seems to like this idea.
Gaby is still crying on Granny M's shoulder. "Larry made a fool of me! He was so sincere!" Granny M runs off to get a pill to calm Gaby's nerves. Pilar comes barging in and tells Gaby (in front of F/G and Diana) that it was all a set up. Larry purposely left her at the altar. While Gaby was at the church, Larry was with Pilar making love to her at her apartment!
Marfil and Doc Evil decide to join forces and hatch a plan to kidnap Diana. Doc Evil balks at first. Marfil asks him if he's scared. "I'm not scared, it's just that I have enough problems with the drug-stealing allegations. I'd rather not add kidnapping to the list." Marfil points out she has two accomplices, Isabel and Andres. Doc Evil apparently has forgotten about Andres. "Great idea! Andres would sell his soul to the devil for a few bucks!" points out Doc Evil.
Pilar is raving on and on about Larry's prowess and how much of a fool Gaby is. Gaby is inconsolable. Finally F/G tells Pilar to get out. Pilar makes a crack about F/G being an ex-con. F/G calls Pilar "nasty" and throws her out the door. Gaby just stands there and sobs.
Larry is sitting on his bunk bed in the empty jail cell. In the empty jail, for that matter. His shirt is unbuttoned half-way and his tie is loosened. All he can do is shake his handsome head and utter, "Gaby. . .Gaby!"
The kidnapping plot is developing. Marfil knows of a deserted beach way off the beaten path. Diana will be alone and no one will ever find her. Doc Evil thinks Marfil is brilliant! Sign him up!
F/G is still going on and on about the evil Irascibles and warning Diana not to fall into their traps. Diana tells F/G not to worry. The doorbell rings. F/G is off to console Caramel. Lala is dropping of Diego. Once Lala leaves, Diego ominously tells Diana they need to talk!
Andres lets himself into Isabel's darkened apartment. He calls out but there is no answer. He goes to the back bedroom but Debora is gone! He tries calling his aunt's cell phone but there is no answer. Where is everyone?
Marfil walks into Emili-Oh's apartment as Max is leaving. He tells her he needs fresh air. They have the usual fight in which she wants to save their marriage and Max says there's nothing to save. He loves Diana. Finally he leaves and Marfil is left standing there in her perky polka-dot top, with glycerin tears of true dolor rolling down her cheeks.
Typical fight between Diana and Diego. He's accusing Diana of having Granny DS move in so she can see Max. She's denying it. He tells her he's starting to hate her. Diana says "Marfil is filling your head with poison. My motives are pure and noble!" Diego—"You’re anything but pure and noble!"
Marfil and Bruno are in one of Emili-Oh's bedrooms. Bruno says she overhead the discussion between Max and Marfil. Marfil reiterates that Max is still stuck on that little nurse, but Diana is never going to win. Bruno wants to know what Marfil plans to do about it. Marfil replies that tomorrow she's going to kidnap Diana!
Credits roll.
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Destilando Amor Friday 04/06/07: A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Or, If It Weren't for Bad Luck She'd Have No Luck at All
At the patron's blowout wedding reception, Hilario and Sanjuana party hearty. She tells him that she's surprised by the patron, Mr. Rodrigo. "This is his big day. He should be off whispering sweet things in Isadora's ear about now. Instead, he's drinking with his workers and Mr. James." Hilario chalks it off to her just thinking of sex all the time, but he's down with that.
Ofelia gossips to Roman about the new house-girl, Sanjuana, and Hilario getting suspiciously friendly with one another during the party. She doesn't like her much but Papa Roman says, "Ph-h-ht! Stop playing mother hen. It's way time he had a serious girlfriend!" Then, Ofelia mentions how this wedding thing took them all by surprise. "I had come to think Mr. Rod was in love with Gaviota!" Roman shushes her up and warns her, "For whatever reason, Mr. Rod doesn't want anybody mentioning her name ever around here, much less in front of the new missus. Don't go opening your mouth, ok?" He wonders where Clara is this year.
Clarita is in the rundown hospital in P/pueblo and still delirious from Typhoid. She murmurs Gaviota's name over and over.
Gavi is traveling on the bus back to P/pueblo. She thinks to herself, "Sorry, Ma. I would have gotten back much sooner, but things got complicated." She again remembers (for those of us who weren't fortunate to be here from the beginning) in between catnapping, how she and Rod promised each other that they would wait to get married till he returned for her on the first day of spring. She is certain he's waiting for her with the same hopes that she has. She imagines him running to her and then taking her in front of a smiling priest who is ready to marry them. It is very late and into the wee hours of the next morning, but she thinks to herself "Rodrigo, I am on the way."
At the same time, James is helping Rod get up to his bedroom but Rod keeps goofing around in the hallway, trying for a way to avoid the inevitable. His new wife, Isadora, the bronzed blonde babe with the fabulous plastic parts has gotten into her black silky nothing to wait for him, still figuring she's gonna win him with her wiles. Then those conditions of his will supposedly go up in the smoke of his passion....or some such.
James pushes Rod in the room and scolds him about doing his husbandly duty. Fortunately, by the time Rod, sloshing from rotgut, slinks into the room The Siliconed One has fallen fast asleep. Rod trips over the coffee table, drunk as the skunk he's become, and accidentally wakes her. (Rats!!) He lays down flat on the floor 'cause everything else is spinning out of control around him. (Boy, I can really relate here. College days and upchuck-buckets by the bed or, wherever we managed to crash-land.....)
Isa manages to take Rod's shoes off. He gripes a bit, but he's so wasted we can forgive him. She tries next to get the big palooka up and into the bed, but he resists and then passes out at her feet. (Is she supposed to be a sympathetic character at this point or not? Dunno. If it weren't such a pitiful situation for this lovesick woman on her wedding night I might be choking down a giggle or two at James and Rodrigo's drunken antics.... BUT we cannot forget how she told her momma that her new hubby's tuxedo pockets were deep and Daddy should attach himself to those matrimonial coat-tails. 'Nuff said for me! Rewind and snicker!!)
Gavi finally arrives at the hacienda without anyone recognizing or seeing her. She walks through the garden by the pool which is still full of dirty glasses and liquor bottles. She thinks to herself there must have been one heck of a blowout the night before. She runs into Ofelia then on her way back to their little hut. She is surprised to see her back. "Why aren't you running around all through Europe?" After the small talk, Ofelia promises to go for Roman. "Stay close by."
Roman tells her how surprised they all are to see her around that way again. When she asks about the party from the night before, he tells her that Young Mr. Rodrigo got married the day before. She is muy impactada, absolutely speechless. "What? Why?" "--Everything took us by surprise. We just found out a few days ago he was getting married. Some city gal."
Roman continues (thanks be to the novela gods) with the juicy details of his story, "He was going around here in such an agitated state. How do you imagine us asking him what happened between the two of you? --Well, after his parents died he did return to wait for you. He was extremely happy, but then suddenly he changed. He seemed like some wounded wild animal. He even forbid us to mention your name."
Roman then tells Gavi that her mother still hasn't arrived for the harvest yet this season. "We thought she'd followed you." After Gavi gets over the initial shock she tells Roman she needs to find her mother right away. "The problem is I don't have any money." Roman offers her cash as an advance. Gavi lets it all fly away and says, "Wonderful luck I have. Now I'm going to be working for Rodrigo Montalvo!"
Gavi has Roman swear he will not tell Rod that she's returned to the hacienda. Isa goes downstairs to the kitchen to make Rod a gourmet breakfast once he wakes up, but she stops unseen in the doorway for a couple minutes to listen to the gossip between Ofelia and Sanjuana.
Saucy Sandy wonders if the new patron always belts them away like that. She and Ofelia then talk about "La Gaviota" and her mother's expected arrival and how there are very few women that help with the jima because it's difficult work and requires lots of strength. Sandy asks if they sleep with the field hands. Ofelia says not at all, they're decent. Though they are migrants, the former patron himself gave them their own hut at the hacienda.
Isa's antennae go up and she seems to begin to have an idea these two jimadoras might have something to do with her problem husband. Isa makes it clear to the two that from now on she herself will be the only one waiting on her husband.
Isa patiently suggests she help Rod get his bath but he rudely tells her no, that he's a grown man and his mother taught him how to bathe himself, thank you very much and then shuts the bathroom door on her. (Bronzed Bleach-Blonde Barbie is slowly realizing she has probably fallen in "luhhhhv" with the only straight guy in the universe who isn't interested in her charms in the least, silicon or otherwise.)
A bit later, Rod and Roman are discussing business needs for the period he is to be away on his honeymoon. (My hubby says the more he watches Rodrigo in action, the more certain he is that there is no way in hell he'd ever trust him to run a hacienda! It'd be Aaron all the way.) Roman seems antsy about something, so Rod has him 'fess up about what's eating him. (This is a relief for Roman, since it's obvious he is just dying to spill the beans.)
Roman breaks his promise to Gavi after a bit and tells Young Mr. Rodrigo that Gavi has returned to the ranch for the harvest. (Ruh-roh!) Rod is double-take impactado and once again "WTF?" is question numero uno in the muddled minds of one of our three young lovers who, always, but always, seem to be mentally one beer can short of a six-pack.
Rod and Isa are about to get into the truck to leave for the airport an hour or so later. She's anxious. He's stalling. As Rod's brain finally churns through what he's just been told, he takes Roman aside and asks how Gavi took the news. (I cannot help think this guy is really just a big dumb burly brut who bought his way into higher education at Cambridge with his Grampy's money. --Dolt! She's back at the agreed time, just like she said she would be. How did you think she was going to take the news that you'd dumped on her like this?)
Roman answers, "Very hard. I thought she was going to faint away. Now, though, what's worrying her is how to find her mother. She's really in a bind for money, too." So, Rod asks Roman to help her out with cash and make sure Hilario takes her looking for her mother. He asks him to also find out what actually went on in Europe and what she was really doing there all this time. (Hey, why didn't you think of this before and maybe take all those big bucks to hire a private detective like other rich galans usually do? I guess 'cause those guys never went through delayed puberty. So I guess we are supposed to cut you a little slack.)
Roman, answers it isn't his place and that Rod is the one who should be doing all the asking. "Help me out here, Roman!" "--I don't think she'll still be here when you get back." "--Well, talk to her, huh?" "--You need to understand that the business with the wedding hit her like a ton of bricks."
Isa is getting impatient waiting inside the truck. She gets out and sweetly offers to put their trip off a day so he can finish last minute business and be worry-free at the beach. Rod says that it's not necessary and they finally head off to the airport.
Back in the hacienda Ofelia is showing Saucy how to make up the patron's bed. "Why bother when the sheets look hardly slept in?" (Now she is my kind o' people.) Ofelia is a bit offended. "Don't get angry at me, Ofelia. I am only telling you what I see. --Hmm. Do you think he slept with Isadora? He sent her up to bed, but he stayed back drinking when normally most couples would be the first to leave in order to be alone together." "--Mind your own business" is the answer she gets.
Meanwhile, Roman goes back with a bit of food to Clara's hut and feels honor-bound to tell Gavi that Young Mr. Rod found out that she had returned. Gavi is livid 'cause she knows Roman broke his promise and told him. She asks where Rodrigo is and Roman sheepishly says he's left for his honeymoon. Oww! "Well, I may have betrayed you, but it seemed so wrong that you should be suffering over his wedding and him there, all smug and nonchalant, like nothing had happened."
"And what did he say?" (Thank you novela gods for again allowing Gavi --and us-- to get all the satisfying details so quickly.) "He wanted to know why you left and went to Europe, what you did there. He said I should give you some money." "--Well, how kind of the gentleman. Hey, I am not going to be indebted to the lord of the manor here. Just tell me when I have to start the jima again and we'll forget everything." He tells her this isn't the time to act prideful. First thing that matters is finding her mother safe and sound. "Tomorrow early Hilario will come for you."
Rod keeps worrying that when he comes back Gavi will already have left the ranch. It will be too late to talk things over. (Sorry, Burly-Bear. That train left the station 24 hours ago.) He makes a quick louie, burns rubber and races on back to the hacienda. He tells Isa she was right, there just are too many things pending at the ranch to go today.
When Rod and Isa pull up to the Big House again, he jumps out and walks over to Roman to ask if Gavi's still around. He answers yes and Rod races off. Isa finally loses patience and asks Roman what is going on. He says nothing out of the normal. Isa doesn't believe a word and stomps back into the house.
Rod runs through the agave fields and down the little path to Clara and Gavi's little hut. He peeks at her through the window. She's sitting on the floor, moping, with her head on her arms. Gavi looks up still in a state of shock and they share a long meaningful stare.
Yep. Rod is staring at her with a "Damn, what-did-I-do?" look. She stares back for a quick second and realizes that the moment they'd been waiting for has gone up in smoke as of the day before and it ain't never coming back. She slams the shutters in his face and locks the door. He bangs and yells, though, until she lets him in. "So, you went all over Europe, huh?"
Haughtily and choking back her rage she answers him. "Ha, so you see that traveling to other countries isn't just a privelege of the rich." (Double zinger. 20 points!) "Why did you go?" "It's not important." "--Of course it is important! It's important to me! Tell me the truth. At least tell me why people say ....you went there looking for me." "--That is just people inventing things." She wipes away a tear. "I left because I wanted to. I had to leave for reasons, well -- the reason I had to leave is my own business."
"Oh I guess so! I came back from London and found out. I couldn't believe it. What? Wasn't it the plan that we were to see each other again on the 21st of March?" He grabs her close. "So tell me and I want to know the truth!" "--Perhaps you should just shut up! You shouldn't go on thinking I went there looking for you..... I came back to look for my mother and as soon as I find her I am leaving! --heh! I found that London is a lot farther than I thought and you were more distant than I ever imagined!"
She pushes him away. "I am a different woman now. Fortunately, I now know how to calculate distances, real distances, and I do know now how to distinguish between love and lust." "I realized that, yeah!" he tells her. She is insulted. She pushes him out the door and slams it shut again. "--Don't you ever come back looking for me again, because the minute I find my mother we'll be vacating your shack!" (Wow, some high-toned vocabulary here for her, huh, Rod?) Through the door he screams at her, "Gaviota you have to tell me the truth! Tell me!" (Our little seagull has just scored a perfect 10! Yesss!!)
When Clara recovers consciousnes, the nurse explains how and why she's there, and assures her at the end of her shift she'll notifiy her daughter and the hacienda.
Isa is again determined to use all her skills to seduce Rodrigo. She is now in a red slinky something, with chilled champagne and strawberries.
Back at the hacienda that night, Rod and James have a little heart-to-heart about Gavi's having returned just like she said she would. "James, she's not the same as she was before. She's changed, she's full of irony and sarcasm. She is harsh. Life must have treated her badly. Because of it she is really more lovely than ever. Whatever she did to me cannot be undone. It is irreversible, just the same as my marriage to Isadora." (Yep, you have really screwed the proverbial pooch on this one, Burly-Bear.)
James says he needs to clarify things with her. (Talk about the blind leading the blind.) "No. Talking to her doen't make sense now. The best thing is to forget her. I ought to just forget her. She needs to go somewhere far away so I can forget her. She should go off somwhere I shouldn't have to ever see her again. (As always it's about him and what he feels. This reckless, feckless imbecile has just wrecked the lives of two innocent women who both love him.)
Gavi is left alone with her memories. Her mother's scolding when she learned Gavi had slept with a man she hardly knew, and a Montalvo to boot, haunts her.
Rod goes upstairs to his bedroom lost in thought. Isa surprises him with a couple of glasses of champagne. He tells her he appreciates her attention to detail, but it is totally unnecessary. They have a deal and he expects her to stick to it. She insists they're married and that all he needs is to relax. She seductively massages his shoulders. He begins to imagine Gavi dressed in red like a cabaret singer: red dress, long red fingernails, seductively puffing on a cigarette while shirtless men girate all around her. He snaps out of it and then runs out of the bedroom telling Isa that he feels like he's choking to death. She angrily slams their door shut.
The next morning Roman lets Gavi know that they've located her mother and she and Hilario leave to pick her up at the clinic.
Román meanwhile tells Rod that Clara has been found. Rod, aparrently, is in no mood to leave the hacienda with things still up in the air about Gavi. He informs Roman that he's canceling the honeymoon. He explains that he will try to clarify what went on with Gavi during this past year, and if she refuses he'll go to Clarita to find out what she is hiding.
Eventually Gavi, her mom and Hilario return from the clinic. Clara is extremely weak. She lays down on the bed in their hut. They have a sweet hug and she tells Gavi that she's missed her so badly. She must never ever leave her again. Clara's thoughts clear a bit and she remembers about the pregnancy. "Where is my grandchild? I want to get to know him." This brings tears to Gavi's eyes. (Lots of water has passed under that London bridge.) "Ma, I lost it. I lost my little baby."
Ofelia gossips to Roman about the new house-girl, Sanjuana, and Hilario getting suspiciously friendly with one another during the party. She doesn't like her much but Papa Roman says, "Ph-h-ht! Stop playing mother hen. It's way time he had a serious girlfriend!" Then, Ofelia mentions how this wedding thing took them all by surprise. "I had come to think Mr. Rod was in love with Gaviota!" Roman shushes her up and warns her, "For whatever reason, Mr. Rod doesn't want anybody mentioning her name ever around here, much less in front of the new missus. Don't go opening your mouth, ok?" He wonders where Clara is this year.
Clarita is in the rundown hospital in P/pueblo and still delirious from Typhoid. She murmurs Gaviota's name over and over.
Gavi is traveling on the bus back to P/pueblo. She thinks to herself, "Sorry, Ma. I would have gotten back much sooner, but things got complicated." She again remembers (for those of us who weren't fortunate to be here from the beginning) in between catnapping, how she and Rod promised each other that they would wait to get married till he returned for her on the first day of spring. She is certain he's waiting for her with the same hopes that she has. She imagines him running to her and then taking her in front of a smiling priest who is ready to marry them. It is very late and into the wee hours of the next morning, but she thinks to herself "Rodrigo, I am on the way."
At the same time, James is helping Rod get up to his bedroom but Rod keeps goofing around in the hallway, trying for a way to avoid the inevitable. His new wife, Isadora, the bronzed blonde babe with the fabulous plastic parts has gotten into her black silky nothing to wait for him, still figuring she's gonna win him with her wiles. Then those conditions of his will supposedly go up in the smoke of his passion....or some such.
James pushes Rod in the room and scolds him about doing his husbandly duty. Fortunately, by the time Rod, sloshing from rotgut, slinks into the room The Siliconed One has fallen fast asleep. Rod trips over the coffee table, drunk as the skunk he's become, and accidentally wakes her. (Rats!!) He lays down flat on the floor 'cause everything else is spinning out of control around him. (Boy, I can really relate here. College days and upchuck-buckets by the bed or, wherever we managed to crash-land.....)
Isa manages to take Rod's shoes off. He gripes a bit, but he's so wasted we can forgive him. She tries next to get the big palooka up and into the bed, but he resists and then passes out at her feet. (Is she supposed to be a sympathetic character at this point or not? Dunno. If it weren't such a pitiful situation for this lovesick woman on her wedding night I might be choking down a giggle or two at James and Rodrigo's drunken antics.... BUT we cannot forget how she told her momma that her new hubby's tuxedo pockets were deep and Daddy should attach himself to those matrimonial coat-tails. 'Nuff said for me! Rewind and snicker!!)
Gavi finally arrives at the hacienda without anyone recognizing or seeing her. She walks through the garden by the pool which is still full of dirty glasses and liquor bottles. She thinks to herself there must have been one heck of a blowout the night before. She runs into Ofelia then on her way back to their little hut. She is surprised to see her back. "Why aren't you running around all through Europe?" After the small talk, Ofelia promises to go for Roman. "Stay close by."
Roman tells her how surprised they all are to see her around that way again. When she asks about the party from the night before, he tells her that Young Mr. Rodrigo got married the day before. She is muy impactada, absolutely speechless. "What? Why?" "--Everything took us by surprise. We just found out a few days ago he was getting married. Some city gal."
Roman continues (thanks be to the novela gods) with the juicy details of his story, "He was going around here in such an agitated state. How do you imagine us asking him what happened between the two of you? --Well, after his parents died he did return to wait for you. He was extremely happy, but then suddenly he changed. He seemed like some wounded wild animal. He even forbid us to mention your name."
Roman then tells Gavi that her mother still hasn't arrived for the harvest yet this season. "We thought she'd followed you." After Gavi gets over the initial shock she tells Roman she needs to find her mother right away. "The problem is I don't have any money." Roman offers her cash as an advance. Gavi lets it all fly away and says, "Wonderful luck I have. Now I'm going to be working for Rodrigo Montalvo!"
Gavi has Roman swear he will not tell Rod that she's returned to the hacienda. Isa goes downstairs to the kitchen to make Rod a gourmet breakfast once he wakes up, but she stops unseen in the doorway for a couple minutes to listen to the gossip between Ofelia and Sanjuana.
Saucy Sandy wonders if the new patron always belts them away like that. She and Ofelia then talk about "La Gaviota" and her mother's expected arrival and how there are very few women that help with the jima because it's difficult work and requires lots of strength. Sandy asks if they sleep with the field hands. Ofelia says not at all, they're decent. Though they are migrants, the former patron himself gave them their own hut at the hacienda.
Isa's antennae go up and she seems to begin to have an idea these two jimadoras might have something to do with her problem husband. Isa makes it clear to the two that from now on she herself will be the only one waiting on her husband.
Isa patiently suggests she help Rod get his bath but he rudely tells her no, that he's a grown man and his mother taught him how to bathe himself, thank you very much and then shuts the bathroom door on her. (Bronzed Bleach-Blonde Barbie is slowly realizing she has probably fallen in "luhhhhv" with the only straight guy in the universe who isn't interested in her charms in the least, silicon or otherwise.)
A bit later, Rod and Roman are discussing business needs for the period he is to be away on his honeymoon. (My hubby says the more he watches Rodrigo in action, the more certain he is that there is no way in hell he'd ever trust him to run a hacienda! It'd be Aaron all the way.) Roman seems antsy about something, so Rod has him 'fess up about what's eating him. (This is a relief for Roman, since it's obvious he is just dying to spill the beans.)
Roman breaks his promise to Gavi after a bit and tells Young Mr. Rodrigo that Gavi has returned to the ranch for the harvest. (Ruh-roh!) Rod is double-take impactado and once again "WTF?" is question numero uno in the muddled minds of one of our three young lovers who, always, but always, seem to be mentally one beer can short of a six-pack.
Rod and Isa are about to get into the truck to leave for the airport an hour or so later. She's anxious. He's stalling. As Rod's brain finally churns through what he's just been told, he takes Roman aside and asks how Gavi took the news. (I cannot help think this guy is really just a big dumb burly brut who bought his way into higher education at Cambridge with his Grampy's money. --Dolt! She's back at the agreed time, just like she said she would be. How did you think she was going to take the news that you'd dumped on her like this?)
Roman answers, "Very hard. I thought she was going to faint away. Now, though, what's worrying her is how to find her mother. She's really in a bind for money, too." So, Rod asks Roman to help her out with cash and make sure Hilario takes her looking for her mother. He asks him to also find out what actually went on in Europe and what she was really doing there all this time. (Hey, why didn't you think of this before and maybe take all those big bucks to hire a private detective like other rich galans usually do? I guess 'cause those guys never went through delayed puberty. So I guess we are supposed to cut you a little slack.)
Roman, answers it isn't his place and that Rod is the one who should be doing all the asking. "Help me out here, Roman!" "--I don't think she'll still be here when you get back." "--Well, talk to her, huh?" "--You need to understand that the business with the wedding hit her like a ton of bricks."
Isa is getting impatient waiting inside the truck. She gets out and sweetly offers to put their trip off a day so he can finish last minute business and be worry-free at the beach. Rod says that it's not necessary and they finally head off to the airport.
Back in the hacienda Ofelia is showing Saucy how to make up the patron's bed. "Why bother when the sheets look hardly slept in?" (Now she is my kind o' people.) Ofelia is a bit offended. "Don't get angry at me, Ofelia. I am only telling you what I see. --Hmm. Do you think he slept with Isadora? He sent her up to bed, but he stayed back drinking when normally most couples would be the first to leave in order to be alone together." "--Mind your own business" is the answer she gets.
Meanwhile, Roman goes back with a bit of food to Clara's hut and feels honor-bound to tell Gavi that Young Mr. Rod found out that she had returned. Gavi is livid 'cause she knows Roman broke his promise and told him. She asks where Rodrigo is and Roman sheepishly says he's left for his honeymoon. Oww! "Well, I may have betrayed you, but it seemed so wrong that you should be suffering over his wedding and him there, all smug and nonchalant, like nothing had happened."
"And what did he say?" (Thank you novela gods for again allowing Gavi --and us-- to get all the satisfying details so quickly.) "He wanted to know why you left and went to Europe, what you did there. He said I should give you some money." "--Well, how kind of the gentleman. Hey, I am not going to be indebted to the lord of the manor here. Just tell me when I have to start the jima again and we'll forget everything." He tells her this isn't the time to act prideful. First thing that matters is finding her mother safe and sound. "Tomorrow early Hilario will come for you."
Rod keeps worrying that when he comes back Gavi will already have left the ranch. It will be too late to talk things over. (Sorry, Burly-Bear. That train left the station 24 hours ago.) He makes a quick louie, burns rubber and races on back to the hacienda. He tells Isa she was right, there just are too many things pending at the ranch to go today.
When Rod and Isa pull up to the Big House again, he jumps out and walks over to Roman to ask if Gavi's still around. He answers yes and Rod races off. Isa finally loses patience and asks Roman what is going on. He says nothing out of the normal. Isa doesn't believe a word and stomps back into the house.
Rod runs through the agave fields and down the little path to Clara and Gavi's little hut. He peeks at her through the window. She's sitting on the floor, moping, with her head on her arms. Gavi looks up still in a state of shock and they share a long meaningful stare.
Yep. Rod is staring at her with a "Damn, what-did-I-do?" look. She stares back for a quick second and realizes that the moment they'd been waiting for has gone up in smoke as of the day before and it ain't never coming back. She slams the shutters in his face and locks the door. He bangs and yells, though, until she lets him in. "So, you went all over Europe, huh?"
Haughtily and choking back her rage she answers him. "Ha, so you see that traveling to other countries isn't just a privelege of the rich." (Double zinger. 20 points!) "Why did you go?" "It's not important." "--Of course it is important! It's important to me! Tell me the truth. At least tell me why people say ....you went there looking for me." "--That is just people inventing things." She wipes away a tear. "I left because I wanted to. I had to leave for reasons, well -- the reason I had to leave is my own business."
"Oh I guess so! I came back from London and found out. I couldn't believe it. What? Wasn't it the plan that we were to see each other again on the 21st of March?" He grabs her close. "So tell me and I want to know the truth!" "--Perhaps you should just shut up! You shouldn't go on thinking I went there looking for you..... I came back to look for my mother and as soon as I find her I am leaving! --heh! I found that London is a lot farther than I thought and you were more distant than I ever imagined!"
She pushes him away. "I am a different woman now. Fortunately, I now know how to calculate distances, real distances, and I do know now how to distinguish between love and lust." "I realized that, yeah!" he tells her. She is insulted. She pushes him out the door and slams it shut again. "--Don't you ever come back looking for me again, because the minute I find my mother we'll be vacating your shack!" (Wow, some high-toned vocabulary here for her, huh, Rod?) Through the door he screams at her, "Gaviota you have to tell me the truth! Tell me!" (Our little seagull has just scored a perfect 10! Yesss!!)
When Clara recovers consciousnes, the nurse explains how and why she's there, and assures her at the end of her shift she'll notifiy her daughter and the hacienda.
Isa is again determined to use all her skills to seduce Rodrigo. She is now in a red slinky something, with chilled champagne and strawberries.
Back at the hacienda that night, Rod and James have a little heart-to-heart about Gavi's having returned just like she said she would. "James, she's not the same as she was before. She's changed, she's full of irony and sarcasm. She is harsh. Life must have treated her badly. Because of it she is really more lovely than ever. Whatever she did to me cannot be undone. It is irreversible, just the same as my marriage to Isadora." (Yep, you have really screwed the proverbial pooch on this one, Burly-Bear.)
James says he needs to clarify things with her. (Talk about the blind leading the blind.) "No. Talking to her doen't make sense now. The best thing is to forget her. I ought to just forget her. She needs to go somewhere far away so I can forget her. She should go off somwhere I shouldn't have to ever see her again. (As always it's about him and what he feels. This reckless, feckless imbecile has just wrecked the lives of two innocent women who both love him.)
Gavi is left alone with her memories. Her mother's scolding when she learned Gavi had slept with a man she hardly knew, and a Montalvo to boot, haunts her.
Rod goes upstairs to his bedroom lost in thought. Isa surprises him with a couple of glasses of champagne. He tells her he appreciates her attention to detail, but it is totally unnecessary. They have a deal and he expects her to stick to it. She insists they're married and that all he needs is to relax. She seductively massages his shoulders. He begins to imagine Gavi dressed in red like a cabaret singer: red dress, long red fingernails, seductively puffing on a cigarette while shirtless men girate all around her. He snaps out of it and then runs out of the bedroom telling Isa that he feels like he's choking to death. She angrily slams their door shut.
The next morning Roman lets Gavi know that they've located her mother and she and Hilario leave to pick her up at the clinic.
Román meanwhile tells Rod that Clara has been found. Rod, aparrently, is in no mood to leave the hacienda with things still up in the air about Gavi. He informs Roman that he's canceling the honeymoon. He explains that he will try to clarify what went on with Gavi during this past year, and if she refuses he'll go to Clarita to find out what she is hiding.
Eventually Gavi, her mom and Hilario return from the clinic. Clara is extremely weak. She lays down on the bed in their hut. They have a sweet hug and she tells Gavi that she's missed her so badly. She must never ever leave her again. Clara's thoughts clear a bit and she remembers about the pregnancy. "Where is my grandchild? I want to get to know him." This brings tears to Gavi's eyes. (Lots of water has passed under that London bridge.) "Ma, I lost it. I lost my little baby."
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Acorralada #58 Wednesday 4/4/07 Here comes the bride . . . again (or "Fool me once . . .")
Sorry this is so late, folks. Life intervened. (Actually, I had to go back and watch some missed scenes, but I fell asleep.)
Andres is in the Little House, where Debora is tied up. She is remembering how she got kidnapped after the party by two masked men. She asks him to help her escape.
Max and Marfil are resuming their argument in Emilio’s living room. He is drunk. She says she has always loved him. He says no. They talk about how she was unconscious for two years, he no longer loves her, doesn’t she realize, now he knows what class of woman she is. It’s not really making much sense. I am too bored to care.
Fedora is lip synching at the bar. Caramelo and Jorge are talking about Caramelo’s lost relationship. He says she’ll be over Pancho in a couple of months. Then Caramelo is talking to Gaviota. Gaviota can’t reach Paco on the phone. She’s been trying to call to tell him the good news that now she has time for love.
Caramelo is happy for her. All women suffer for love, they conclude.
At Hospital TeleMiami, Gaby and Diana are waiting to see how Pancho is. While they wait they rehash the usual irrational Irascible hate. Gaby is upset by all of Gaviota’s hate. More blah blah blah.
Debora and Andres continue talking.
At the hospital, the operation on Pancho is a success. I guess that he and his brother won’t be competing together as a wheelchair volleyball team.
Back to Little House and Isabel comes back. He says to her, guess who’s in there—that’s my wife. He wants her to let Debora go, but as best as I can understand it, she says she can’t help him because she’s being paid by someone else (so blood is not thicker than water). Anyway, she says, Debora’s a traitor. He warns her not to let anything happen to his dear spouse.
Pancho and Paola speak by his hospital bed. He looks drunk, but I suppose it’s the anesthetic. They bill and coo. Isn’t it wonderful that he has recovered. What a close call. Someone wants to silence him—we don’t know who. He tells her not to tell Lala.
Gaby goes over to the church with her dress and talks to the priest.
Diana and Max are talking at the mansion. He has come to collect Granny’s dolls. They talk about Granny moving in, but Fedora won’t allow it. Diana says she will convince Fedora. Max says that when she acts like this, she’s like the old sweet Diana. But after a moment’s hesitation, she goes right back to Detesting Diana. She says his family deserves everything they’re getting. Once she was in court being judged, now it’s their turn, etc.
Max gets kind of angry, and raises his voice above his usual monotone. Lips remain in lemon-sucking position, however. He asks her what she feels about him, and she says just compassion and pity. He storms out to get the dolls, but his storming is reduced in impact due to his goofy white shoes, which are beginning to look like circus clown shoes.
Rene and the Bonbon are talking. She says his visits do her a lot of good. Her old friends are not taking her calls. More of their odd May-December flirtation. Rene tells Yolanda she’s not so old. She says she doesn’t want to go out with such a young guy.
Paco and Octave are walking on the beach. She is wearing a surprisingly subdued sundress in white cotton with blue flowers. They are talking about how they stayed up all night—talking. Now we hope we’ll get some background, but of course, since she is a fleeing felon, we’re not going to get much.
He says that so many years they were waiting, and with all the time that time, he never knew anything much about her. She reminds him that she was a married woman and had to hide things. She tells him that she has three children (and thought bubbles that “my daughter Paola is yours.”). He reminds her that he told her yesterday that he also has a daughter and hopes that they all will be great friends (we know that Paola and Caramelo are already great friends . . . ).
She then wants to confide in him. She loves him still but fears that he loves another. He says he was very truthful with her the day before, that he told her that with all the years apart, he took up with someone else (anyone else get this? He makes it seem as if he’s been with Fedora for a long time, but she hasn’t been out of prison long. I’m confused).
But he never stopped thinking about her (Alicia) and he doesn’t want to lose her. You are the only thing I want. Octave thought bubbles that the “other woman” must be Fedora. She won’t let him go back to her. Paco is mine!
Gaby is in the church with the priest. The priest tells her she’s one of the most beautiful brides he’s ever seen. Larry is driving over in his gigantic SUV, wearing his tuxedo. Pilar is following him and calls Kiki.
Gaby is praying to God in the church to thank him for this wonderful blessing.
Gaby really does look pretty. Her wedding dress is much better than the first one.
Fedora is still trying to reach Paco. Leaves her third message. Guess she’s not going to reach him again because he’s frolicking on the beach with Octave. It’s a miracle she can move her body. Her face doesn’t move.
Back to Larry: We see the diabolical plot of Kiki and Pilar. Larry stops the car at a stop sign and Kiki walks in front of the car and simply hurls himself at the front of the stationary vehicle and falls to the side to fake an accident. The hurling stunt is pretty funny, as he has to heave himself pretty high up to be on the hood of the SUV. Pilar is watching and calls police anonymously.
Nancy and Diana talk. Nancy tells Diana that Diana shouldn’t deny that she loves Max. Diana does deny it. Nancy looks dubious. Then she prays for Diana. (I suppose if Diana gets back together with Max, the way is clear for Nancy to have Diego.)
Larry is arrested. Pilar laughs from her hiding place. Obviously that blind servant was left at the altar, she exults!
Gaby tells the priest that Larry asked her to marry him just as a joke. You really have to feel sorry for Gaby here. She's also just about the only innocent person left in this mess, aside from Granny DS.
Paco and Octave are frolicking on the beach. She wants him to stay. He mentions Caramelo. No, let her be, says Octave. Let’s rediscover and reinvent ourselves. (well, she was planning on plastic surgery. Won’t that option be out now?)
Let’s recoup our lost time. Then Paco begins thought bubbling that he is a traitor to Gaviota.
Fedora and Diana are in the bar talking about moving in to the mansion. Diana wants Granny DS to move in She says she’s a good woman with a mind of a child. Gaviota wonders if the Irascibles will permit it. She agrees to the plan.
Someone comes in to tell them that Pancho is shot, Caramelo overhears and runs to hospital.
Diego and Lala are talking at the hospital.
Diana and Caramelo go to the hospital.
Gaby cries.
Larry is in jail. Couldn't he have called the priest with his cell phone before he was arrested? Oh, yeah. That's why we call him Lunkhead.
In the hospital, Pilar finds Kiki waiting for treatment for his fake wounds (funny—they’re all in the same ER, but each group doesn’t see the other. I suppose that the Pancho group is no longer in the ER but in some surgical wing). Pilar fills him in on the success of the plan. Gaby will now hate Larry more. But they need a special finishing touch. Kiki will make Pilar pregnant, but they will tell everyone it’s Larry’s baby. Kiki loves this idea, as it will really solidify his relationship with Gaby. Pilar lies down on the gurney, spreads her legs and Kiki hops on. This is the only way to describe this stomach-churning situation. Yech.
Gaby is worried as time passes. She begins to think Larry is doing this as vengeance for his family.
Max collects the dolls. Diana says she wants to see Granny. Her saintly love for Granny is a bit much, especially with her latest behavior. Diana tells Max to have Granny move in.
The Irascibles are gathered at their new homeless shelter, otherwise known as Emilio’s apartment. Granny says she likes the new place, but she really misses the old place. Marfil tries to get the old lady to stop yammering, but Max tells Marfil to shut up. They discuss where Granny will live. Granny wants her “Dianita,” as usual.
Gaby is remembering her first wedding in Las Vegas as the horror of the second wedding sinks in. She continues to think that Larry set her up to make fun of her and for vengeance.
Larry is in jail lamenting that he knows what Gaby must be thinking.
Caramelo goes to the hospital to see Pancho and apparently bypasses the other family members. Who did this, she asks. “The Organization.” She tells him how much she loves him. He is torn between two loves. He tells Caramelo that Paola is there, and she says it doesn’t matter. Then he tells her that he married Paola. She is impactada.
Andres is in the Little House, where Debora is tied up. She is remembering how she got kidnapped after the party by two masked men. She asks him to help her escape.
Max and Marfil are resuming their argument in Emilio’s living room. He is drunk. She says she has always loved him. He says no. They talk about how she was unconscious for two years, he no longer loves her, doesn’t she realize, now he knows what class of woman she is. It’s not really making much sense. I am too bored to care.
Fedora is lip synching at the bar. Caramelo and Jorge are talking about Caramelo’s lost relationship. He says she’ll be over Pancho in a couple of months. Then Caramelo is talking to Gaviota. Gaviota can’t reach Paco on the phone. She’s been trying to call to tell him the good news that now she has time for love.
Caramelo is happy for her. All women suffer for love, they conclude.
At Hospital TeleMiami, Gaby and Diana are waiting to see how Pancho is. While they wait they rehash the usual irrational Irascible hate. Gaby is upset by all of Gaviota’s hate. More blah blah blah.
Debora and Andres continue talking.
At the hospital, the operation on Pancho is a success. I guess that he and his brother won’t be competing together as a wheelchair volleyball team.
Back to Little House and Isabel comes back. He says to her, guess who’s in there—that’s my wife. He wants her to let Debora go, but as best as I can understand it, she says she can’t help him because she’s being paid by someone else (so blood is not thicker than water). Anyway, she says, Debora’s a traitor. He warns her not to let anything happen to his dear spouse.
Pancho and Paola speak by his hospital bed. He looks drunk, but I suppose it’s the anesthetic. They bill and coo. Isn’t it wonderful that he has recovered. What a close call. Someone wants to silence him—we don’t know who. He tells her not to tell Lala.
Gaby goes over to the church with her dress and talks to the priest.
Diana and Max are talking at the mansion. He has come to collect Granny’s dolls. They talk about Granny moving in, but Fedora won’t allow it. Diana says she will convince Fedora. Max says that when she acts like this, she’s like the old sweet Diana. But after a moment’s hesitation, she goes right back to Detesting Diana. She says his family deserves everything they’re getting. Once she was in court being judged, now it’s their turn, etc.
Max gets kind of angry, and raises his voice above his usual monotone. Lips remain in lemon-sucking position, however. He asks her what she feels about him, and she says just compassion and pity. He storms out to get the dolls, but his storming is reduced in impact due to his goofy white shoes, which are beginning to look like circus clown shoes.
Rene and the Bonbon are talking. She says his visits do her a lot of good. Her old friends are not taking her calls. More of their odd May-December flirtation. Rene tells Yolanda she’s not so old. She says she doesn’t want to go out with such a young guy.
Paco and Octave are walking on the beach. She is wearing a surprisingly subdued sundress in white cotton with blue flowers. They are talking about how they stayed up all night—talking. Now we hope we’ll get some background, but of course, since she is a fleeing felon, we’re not going to get much.
He says that so many years they were waiting, and with all the time that time, he never knew anything much about her. She reminds him that she was a married woman and had to hide things. She tells him that she has three children (and thought bubbles that “my daughter Paola is yours.”). He reminds her that he told her yesterday that he also has a daughter and hopes that they all will be great friends (we know that Paola and Caramelo are already great friends . . . ).
She then wants to confide in him. She loves him still but fears that he loves another. He says he was very truthful with her the day before, that he told her that with all the years apart, he took up with someone else (anyone else get this? He makes it seem as if he’s been with Fedora for a long time, but she hasn’t been out of prison long. I’m confused).
But he never stopped thinking about her (Alicia) and he doesn’t want to lose her. You are the only thing I want. Octave thought bubbles that the “other woman” must be Fedora. She won’t let him go back to her. Paco is mine!
Gaby is in the church with the priest. The priest tells her she’s one of the most beautiful brides he’s ever seen. Larry is driving over in his gigantic SUV, wearing his tuxedo. Pilar is following him and calls Kiki.
Gaby is praying to God in the church to thank him for this wonderful blessing.
Gaby really does look pretty. Her wedding dress is much better than the first one.
Fedora is still trying to reach Paco. Leaves her third message. Guess she’s not going to reach him again because he’s frolicking on the beach with Octave. It’s a miracle she can move her body. Her face doesn’t move.
Back to Larry: We see the diabolical plot of Kiki and Pilar. Larry stops the car at a stop sign and Kiki walks in front of the car and simply hurls himself at the front of the stationary vehicle and falls to the side to fake an accident. The hurling stunt is pretty funny, as he has to heave himself pretty high up to be on the hood of the SUV. Pilar is watching and calls police anonymously.
Nancy and Diana talk. Nancy tells Diana that Diana shouldn’t deny that she loves Max. Diana does deny it. Nancy looks dubious. Then she prays for Diana. (I suppose if Diana gets back together with Max, the way is clear for Nancy to have Diego.)
Larry is arrested. Pilar laughs from her hiding place. Obviously that blind servant was left at the altar, she exults!
Gaby tells the priest that Larry asked her to marry him just as a joke. You really have to feel sorry for Gaby here. She's also just about the only innocent person left in this mess, aside from Granny DS.
Paco and Octave are frolicking on the beach. She wants him to stay. He mentions Caramelo. No, let her be, says Octave. Let’s rediscover and reinvent ourselves. (well, she was planning on plastic surgery. Won’t that option be out now?)
Let’s recoup our lost time. Then Paco begins thought bubbling that he is a traitor to Gaviota.
Fedora and Diana are in the bar talking about moving in to the mansion. Diana wants Granny DS to move in She says she’s a good woman with a mind of a child. Gaviota wonders if the Irascibles will permit it. She agrees to the plan.
Someone comes in to tell them that Pancho is shot, Caramelo overhears and runs to hospital.
Diego and Lala are talking at the hospital.
Diana and Caramelo go to the hospital.
Gaby cries.
Larry is in jail. Couldn't he have called the priest with his cell phone before he was arrested? Oh, yeah. That's why we call him Lunkhead.
In the hospital, Pilar finds Kiki waiting for treatment for his fake wounds (funny—they’re all in the same ER, but each group doesn’t see the other. I suppose that the Pancho group is no longer in the ER but in some surgical wing). Pilar fills him in on the success of the plan. Gaby will now hate Larry more. But they need a special finishing touch. Kiki will make Pilar pregnant, but they will tell everyone it’s Larry’s baby. Kiki loves this idea, as it will really solidify his relationship with Gaby. Pilar lies down on the gurney, spreads her legs and Kiki hops on. This is the only way to describe this stomach-churning situation. Yech.
Gaby is worried as time passes. She begins to think Larry is doing this as vengeance for his family.
Max collects the dolls. Diana says she wants to see Granny. Her saintly love for Granny is a bit much, especially with her latest behavior. Diana tells Max to have Granny move in.
The Irascibles are gathered at their new homeless shelter, otherwise known as Emilio’s apartment. Granny says she likes the new place, but she really misses the old place. Marfil tries to get the old lady to stop yammering, but Max tells Marfil to shut up. They discuss where Granny will live. Granny wants her “Dianita,” as usual.
Gaby is remembering her first wedding in Las Vegas as the horror of the second wedding sinks in. She continues to think that Larry set her up to make fun of her and for vengeance.
Larry is in jail lamenting that he knows what Gaby must be thinking.
Caramelo goes to the hospital to see Pancho and apparently bypasses the other family members. Who did this, she asks. “The Organization.” She tells him how much she loves him. He is torn between two loves. He tells Caramelo that Paola is there, and she says it doesn’t matter. Then he tells her that he married Paola. She is impactada.
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La Fea Más Bella #248 4/6/07 I wish I knew how to quit you
or, "Doesn't your dog deserve Alpo?"
"He told me that he loved you," says Moty. Oh - it's Julieta. "And you know what? I believed him. What happened, dear? Did he make a scene? Do something bad?"
Lety angrily questions how her mother could have believed Fernando. What did he say? Julieta recounts their conversation and said he seemed very earnest; that he had split up with Marcia, and hadn't been with another woman since he and Lety were together.
Lety reminds Julieta that when she first heard the story, she said Fern's behavior was unpardonable. Julieta says he's truly repentant; she could feel it.
"But mom, today he read my diary! That was the last straw. I'm not going to ache over Don Fernando anymore." Lety throws the bag onto the floor. Julieta shows her the napkin bearing Fern's heartfelt words: Only God knows how much I love you. Only God knows. Fernando. A faint smile forms on Lety's lips as she reads it.
Meanwhile, Fern goes home to the Mendiola homestead, exhausted. He's gloomy and realizes he can't even call his ol' buddy Omar. Surely, he wouldn't even take his call.
Lety prepares to burn the cards and letters in a plate on her bedroom desk. An apparition of Alpo (on her bed) tells her that fire purifies, and will soothe her pain. Just as she's about to set fire to the first letter, an apparition of Fern (standing at her side) tells her "I wasn't able to throw away these mementos, yet you're going to burn them?!" She ignores Fern's apparition, and burns one of the cards (with difficulty). She opens the diary and sees the tear-stained page. "Those are my tears, Lety" Fern's apparition says. She holds the flame to her diary anyway, then immediately changes her mind and puts it out. She stands in front of the smoldering letter, her features contorted with doubt.
Chattering happily to herself, Alicia drives home in her long-lost Swigglemobile. Tomas, still running, catches up. He's not mad - he's laughing at her clever joke. He asks her to let him up to her apartment for a drink of water. She says no, he'll never be up there again. He offers to help fight off any thief that might be lurking up there. She tells him that any thieves would be lurking down here, wanting her car. He then offers to go up to check for gas leaks. She tells him she'll die before she ever lets him into her apartment again. She leaves him on the street and ignores his request for a goodnight kiss. He blows a kiss at her retreating form and says to himself, "Alicia Ferreira de Mora, never say 'never-ever.'" He drives home happily.
Alicia finds a letter slipped under the door of her apartment. She hopes it's a check from some long-lost uncle. (I've had the same thought for years, every day when I check my mail, but it hasn't happened yet.)
Indeed, it is a check! It's the kind of "check" where someone wants to check to see whether she realizes she hasn't paid her rent in five months. She has ten days to vacate, or they'll evict her. She's shocked that they would do such a thing after just a mere five months of nonpayment. She wonders where she's going to live.
Martha is at home with her gordo lobo (fat wolf). They talk about getting a new car, I suppose with the special deal offered in conjunction with Bored Motor Company in a previous episode. She is in favor of it. Paco is not, but she talks him into it.
After three minutes of commercials, it's the next day. (We didn't even get to see the sun go down!) Lety is wearing a clay-colored blazer with black skirt. She tells the nosy cuartel that she went out with Alpo last night, but then Fernando came to her house looking for her and her mom told him where she was. She starts to tell them more, but Tomas interrupts to tell her he's got the final numbers from the expo. Lety and Tomas go to her office, leaving the cuartel hungry for more gossip.
The cuartel grump about Fern. Irma admits she helped him because he's in love with Lety. Lola and the others say they prefer Alpo for Lety. Sara insists they take a survey. Irma is alone in supporting Fern. She scolds them gently.
Tomas tells Lety they made 1,753,000.80 dollars on the expo, falling somewhat short of their goal. (All of the pencils are point-up in Lety's pencil-cup.) Tomas blames Luigi, but Lety blames herself. She tells him she's going to call a board meeting to tell them of her failure. Lety and Tomas reach across the desk and hold hands.
At his rental home which I hope he will soon vacate, Alpo looks up from whatever he's doing and is surprised to see his dad. I guess Alpo doesn't lock his door. And why should he - a rich guy staying in the DF doesn't need a burglar alarm, watchman, or staff. Not if he's a guru like Alpo. He can just hypnotize any intruders with his necklace and his dazzling smile and then talk them to death about the Flavor of Life.
But I digress. Fausto says he got a tip from his friend at the bank that Alpo is doing some sort of transaction. (What's the name of this bank, so I know not to ever do business with them; gossiping about transactions is a big no-no.) Alpo tells his dad he's selling the restaurant as soon as possible. He wants to go back to his home in Acapulco.
Fausto is surprised. He thought Alpo wanted to be with Lety. Alpo says the idea was to take Lety with him to Acapulco and win her heart. Fausto offers to hire Alpo to come work for him instead; Fausto's getting old, and he wants Alpo to take over his construction business.
Long story short, that's not what Alpo wants. Without Lety and his life by the sea, he'd die of sadness. Just then, PM calls to let him know they're having a meeting. Alpo and his dad hug and Alpo leaves Fausto alone there in the house to just help himself to whatever he finds and sell it on eBay.
Alicia meets with Marcia in Marcia's ultra-green office. Alicia is wearing a matching green bustier; Marcia is wearing something flattering, for a change - a purple dress. (I'm jealous, because I look awful in purple.) It's cut way too low for the office, but then, when she's standing next to Alicia or PM it seems pretty conservative.
They puzzle over Fernando's whereabouts; Marcia worries about him and says she feels so alone. Alicia has a great idea - she's worried about Marcia, so perhaps she should move into Marcia's place. Marcia turns her down sharply. Her nights are sad now, but with Alicia, they'd be hell.
She stomps out of her office, leaving Alicia there to just help herself to whatever she finds and sell it on eBay. (I'll grant you that Fausto might be trustworthy, but not Alicia. No way would I leave her alone in a room full of my stuff!)
In the conference room, Humberto, Mama Bozo, Fernando, Ariel, and Lopez wait for the meeting to begin. (Why is Lety always the last to show up?) Humberto wonders why they're meeting. Ariel makes an irrelevant remark about Fern's "brilliant deals." Lopez begins to laugh, then thinks better of it and squeaks his scalp. Ariel goes on about how glad he is that Fern broke up with Marcia. For once, Mama Bozo (probably more concerned about Marcia than about Fern) shushes Ariel.
Marcia shows up, followed closely by Alpo and RoboPop, whose voice is being dubbed yet again. Ariel greets RoboPop and Alpo with "how nice, the intruders have arrived." Teresita scolds him again for his rudeness! (Omar's not there - remember he quit. Oh how I miss him.) Humberto again says he's worried about this unannounced meeting. RoboPop says he doesn't know what it's about either.
Lety and Tomas show up. Ariel rudely wonders aloud what unpleasant surprise she has for them today. He is now shushed by RoboPop! Humberto shushes both of them. Tomas hands out the reports. Lety cuts to the chase: they didn't make enough money to make their first month's debt. Tomas tells them they're 350,000 USD short, thanks to Luigi's expenses.
Mama Bozo worries that the judge is going to shut them down this time. Ariel whines. Marcia says, "Fernando, say something!" but Ferni is mute. Erasmo tells Lety there must be another way. Humberto says he's sure Lety has some strategy to solve the problem. Lety sadly says no, she doesn't. She acknowledges that her leadership of Conceptos was a failure. Therefore, she's resigning. They are impactados.
(In the early days of this novela, when Chris Ferro was recapping, he kept count of how many times Lety quit and how many times she got fired. I forget what the score was, but it was impressive. It's really not something you want to see on a person's resume.)
Alpo says Lety is not a failure. What happened was the fault of everyone who participated in the project. Marcia disagrees - she and Fern did exactly what they were supposed to do. I disagree too! I wish Donald Trump were here to talk some sense into these idiots!
Ariel (who does NOTHING for Conceptos) accuses Lety of abandoning ship like a rat. Erasmo says she will do no such thing. Humberto agrees and tells Lety she can't quit. Lety is crying and says she can't. She made her best try and it didn't work out. She can't be there any more. Ariel says they never should have allowed such a clown to be in charge in the first place.
Lety runs out crying to her office. Alpo follows. She tells him she can't go to Acapulco with him and forget about everything, because she's obligated to stay here. Alpo whines that she already accepted his offer. She says she's sorry, but she's just realizing that they've humiliated her very much here, and she's not going to let them do that.
He asks why she insists on saving this company. (Is this the kind of attitude you want on your team when you're fighting against bad odds?) She says she'll never feel good about herself if she doesn't. If she lets the company sink, she'll feel useless. He gives her a hard time for sacrificing her happiness for them. She says she wants to be happy, but she can't be happy with a failure like this for the rest of her life. A person can't live with such mistakes; they have to confront them. Alpo kisses Lety's hand. He says "that's why I love and admire you."
(What a load of horse-hockey! I mean, really, if she'd said anything else, like "to hell with those ingrates - let's go," I'm pretty sure that would have earned her a "that's why I love and admire you" too.)
He touches her face and says "It was bossy of me to try to get you to go to Acapulco." He says the company is a big wall between the two of them. (Not big enough for my tastes!) Lety says, "Someday we will knock it down." (I assume she's referring to the wall and not Conceptos. ;-)
Out in the Vortex, Alicia looks at her eviction notice, smirks with an idea, and discreetly dials her desk phone. Her cell phone rings. She calls attention to this and loudly narrates "Padre José"'s side of the conversation - he needs an awful lot of money. She can't give it to him, because she's terribly poor herself, but her wonderful friends will help her out. She hangs up, sighing loudly. With exaggerated sympathy (which goes right over Alicia's head), Sara offers her a snotrag. Alicia tells the cuartel her tale of woe. It was the priest at her parish. ("You go to church?" Lola cries. "That's a sacrilege!")
They all begin to exaggerate sympathy. She tells them a poor parishioner is going to be thrown out into the street for not paying her rent. She asks them to reach into their noble hearts and give her some money. Sara blasts her and the others laugh and make fun. "So you're not going to give me anything?" Alicia asks, just to be sure. She tells them they're going to hell.
Back in the boardroom, the rest of the committee mumble amongst themselves, reviewing the report. Tomas tries to speak up, and stutters. Ariel insults him and says if he can't speak well, he shouldn't speak at all. Darth Bozo appeals to Fernando to do something. Stealing my thoughts again, Marcia says "what do you want him to do?"
Ariel says the moment has arrived for a drastic decision. He'll assume the presidency. Humberto says he needs Lety. "I don't need her for anything," Ariel replies. Darth Bozo reminds him of his manners. Bet the senior Mendiolas are really regretting giving him that bike for his saint's day now, huh?
But Ariel is on a roll! He is smiling! He says it's time for them to take back the reins to their company. He addresses these comments to Marcia, Darth Bozo, and Humberto, ignoring Fern, who excuses himself. Erasmo tells Humberto he'll deal with Lety.
Alpo retreats to his office for a phone call. He tells his restaurant guy he's leaving for Acapulco right now - call him back on his cell. Meanwhile, Fern visits in Lety's office and asks if she's really going to quit. He says it's because of him. Because she's that mad at him. She's afraid he's going to bother her. He assures her he won't let that happen. Only she can save the company, so he's going to leave. He quits. Now she won't have to be afraid that she'll open a door around the office and find him on the other side of it, because he won't be waiting there. And she can answer all of her calls, because it won't be him on the phone. Fern reminds her that she asked him to leave her alone, and now he's going to do it. He swears to it. He's not only going to quit Conceptos; he's going to quit Lety.
The cuartel tells Alpo that Lety is talking with Fern. He leaves her a note. "I have to leave right now; I'll call you later. Remember that I love you and that love is freedom." (I am still savoring the irony of that last sentence.) He gives the note to PM, who has to guard it from the curious eyes of the cuartel!
Fern asks Sara to call the travel agency. He wants to go on a trip. He tells them he's quitting so that Lety can work in peace. He's a hindrance to her. The cuartel (even those on Team Alpo) are sad. PM says handsome men are never a hindrance. They beg him not to leave. He says he'll miss them.
Irmita tells the cuartel he's not going to leave. She'll go talk to him.
Alicia comes out of the bathroom with her clown kit and asks why they're so sad. Lola says they're sad for "that poor woman" who will soon be without a home. "The one from Father José, remember?" Lola prompts.
Alpo tries to catch a cab outside Conceptos. All the passing cabs speed by, full of people. The next one that shows up stops, but it's Mr. Martha and he's on his way in to see Martha. Alpo says it's really urgent, and for some reason this changes Paco's mind. (I'm telling you, he Alpo hypnotizes people to do his bidding! We have to give Lety credit for resisting him even a little!)
Lety is listening to the water fountain in her office. You remember - the one that Fernando gave her. That guy who she doesn't want anything to do with who's about to leave her life forever. RoboPop rips her a new one for trying to break her agreement with Humberto. "I never thought you were capable of such monumental irresponsibility." Lety whines in reply. She felt pressured and scared. He's especially mad that she asked his permission last night to go to Acapulco without telling him about this. She tells him she's going to stay until Conceptos is free of its debts. He tells her to stop crying and give the news to the Mendi-Roels. They're very worried. As for him, he's going home. "You can do it," he tells her.
Tomas and Lopez leave the boardroom, but the others stay. I'm fairly sure the Mendi-Roels won't steal anything, but I'd feel better if there was a camera on them or something.
Oh, right.
Ariel says they should never have trusted someone like Lety and her minions. Darth Bozo points out that he never trusted Lety in the first place. Humberto says he wants to go home - he's very nervous. Darth Bozo offers to call him if anything else develops with Lety. Marcia asks if he's feeling okay, and now I'm kinda getting worried about ol' Humbo. He says he'll be fine.
Darth Bozo wants to talk to Fernando. OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT??? She's wearing green eyeshadow that is really too much with that hair color. Marcia asks if she plans to ask Fern to talk Lety into staying. Ariel says that if they don't hear from Lety in ten minutes, he'll leave too. (Okay with me if he wants to leave sooner.)
Humbo leaves the boardroom just as RoboPop is leaving Lety's office. The two meet in the Vortex, and perhaps feeling themselves threatened with the possibility of a dull and vapid conversation, they agree to go somewhere else to have a private talk and a drink.
Irmita watches Fern packs his things. "Please don't look at me that way like you feel sorry for me," he asks. He tells her this is best for both himself and Lety. Irma says that his quitting is not the worst of it. He says no? It's not awful that he's leaving, forever, the company that his father created? Irma says no, the worst thing is that he's going away from Lety. Fern says that she can go away with Alpo, and honestly, he thinks that's a much better option for Lety.
Irma says Alpo's a nice boy, and he's surely ideal for some woman, but... "YOU are Don Fernando," she tells him. She tells him he's the guy. They sit down and he asks if she really believes that. She says she's known him since he was a little boy, and now she can see in his eyes that he's truly suffered much for Lety, and he's sorry for what he did.
He acknowledges that he's suffered since he lost Lety, and he's had to look at life in a different way. He's not the same Fernando Mendiola Irma knows. If he could go back in time before he hurt Lety, he would arrancar (this is a tricky word, but I'm going to go with "rescue" as in "snatch from the brink of destruction") her heart. He deserves everything that's happened. Irma says no - people who are in love should be together and find true love. And it looks to her like they're in love like no one else.
Fern says he loves her so much that he doesn't want to hurt her. He has to go, so she can be happy.
Alpo gets Gerardo's call at the airport. He says he needs to "arrange some things." He wants G. to find an agent to buy the restaurant. G. is very surprised. Sell it? Is there a problem? Alpo says it's a long story, but fortunately we are spared for the moment. :-) Alpo says he'll explain later. He also asks G to contact a development company (inmobilaria) named Casacom and make an appointment for him. G begs for an explanation, but Alpo doesn't have time to give him one!
Meanwhile, back at Conceptos, Lety is writing in her diary. WITH A PENCIL. This really bugs me! Use a pen!! She's telling her diary she would have liked to have disappeared with Alpo. Just then, Carolina shows up. "I think I'm never going to be happy," Lety says.
Out in the Vortex, Tomas kneels in front of Alicia's desk and asks what's wrong. She says, "I have many problems. Imagine, I, Alicia Ferreira, me, I'm left with nothing, no car, no cell phone... I am nobody." Tomas says he would do anything to make her happy. "Yes?" she asks. "What would you do?" They start giggling and snorting (yes, Alicia, snorting) with laughter. Ariel interrupts and loudly announces, "HOW NICE! Conceptos is sinking, and you're in the throes of romance!"
Alicia denies that there's anything between her and Tomas. They were just talking about business. Tomas tries to protest that she's his chica, but Ariel's head is somewhere else. I'm thinking somewhere the sun doesn't shine. He says that if he were the president, everything would change.
Everyone stares at him, impactadisimos!
Next week
Marcia and Lety have a heart-to-heart so intense, it turns both their noses red. Join us Monday for a tag-team recap!
"He told me that he loved you," says Moty. Oh - it's Julieta. "And you know what? I believed him. What happened, dear? Did he make a scene? Do something bad?"
Lety angrily questions how her mother could have believed Fernando. What did he say? Julieta recounts their conversation and said he seemed very earnest; that he had split up with Marcia, and hadn't been with another woman since he and Lety were together.
Lety reminds Julieta that when she first heard the story, she said Fern's behavior was unpardonable. Julieta says he's truly repentant; she could feel it.
"But mom, today he read my diary! That was the last straw. I'm not going to ache over Don Fernando anymore." Lety throws the bag onto the floor. Julieta shows her the napkin bearing Fern's heartfelt words: Only God knows how much I love you. Only God knows. Fernando. A faint smile forms on Lety's lips as she reads it.
Meanwhile, Fern goes home to the Mendiola homestead, exhausted. He's gloomy and realizes he can't even call his ol' buddy Omar. Surely, he wouldn't even take his call.
Lety prepares to burn the cards and letters in a plate on her bedroom desk. An apparition of Alpo (on her bed) tells her that fire purifies, and will soothe her pain. Just as she's about to set fire to the first letter, an apparition of Fern (standing at her side) tells her "I wasn't able to throw away these mementos, yet you're going to burn them?!" She ignores Fern's apparition, and burns one of the cards (with difficulty). She opens the diary and sees the tear-stained page. "Those are my tears, Lety" Fern's apparition says. She holds the flame to her diary anyway, then immediately changes her mind and puts it out. She stands in front of the smoldering letter, her features contorted with doubt.
Chattering happily to herself, Alicia drives home in her long-lost Swigglemobile. Tomas, still running, catches up. He's not mad - he's laughing at her clever joke. He asks her to let him up to her apartment for a drink of water. She says no, he'll never be up there again. He offers to help fight off any thief that might be lurking up there. She tells him that any thieves would be lurking down here, wanting her car. He then offers to go up to check for gas leaks. She tells him she'll die before she ever lets him into her apartment again. She leaves him on the street and ignores his request for a goodnight kiss. He blows a kiss at her retreating form and says to himself, "Alicia Ferreira de Mora, never say 'never-ever.'" He drives home happily.
Alicia finds a letter slipped under the door of her apartment. She hopes it's a check from some long-lost uncle. (I've had the same thought for years, every day when I check my mail, but it hasn't happened yet.)
Indeed, it is a check! It's the kind of "check" where someone wants to check to see whether she realizes she hasn't paid her rent in five months. She has ten days to vacate, or they'll evict her. She's shocked that they would do such a thing after just a mere five months of nonpayment. She wonders where she's going to live.
Martha is at home with her gordo lobo (fat wolf). They talk about getting a new car, I suppose with the special deal offered in conjunction with Bored Motor Company in a previous episode. She is in favor of it. Paco is not, but she talks him into it.
After three minutes of commercials, it's the next day. (We didn't even get to see the sun go down!) Lety is wearing a clay-colored blazer with black skirt. She tells the nosy cuartel that she went out with Alpo last night, but then Fernando came to her house looking for her and her mom told him where she was. She starts to tell them more, but Tomas interrupts to tell her he's got the final numbers from the expo. Lety and Tomas go to her office, leaving the cuartel hungry for more gossip.
The cuartel grump about Fern. Irma admits she helped him because he's in love with Lety. Lola and the others say they prefer Alpo for Lety. Sara insists they take a survey. Irma is alone in supporting Fern. She scolds them gently.
Tomas tells Lety they made 1,753,000.80 dollars on the expo, falling somewhat short of their goal. (All of the pencils are point-up in Lety's pencil-cup.) Tomas blames Luigi, but Lety blames herself. She tells him she's going to call a board meeting to tell them of her failure. Lety and Tomas reach across the desk and hold hands.
At his rental home which I hope he will soon vacate, Alpo looks up from whatever he's doing and is surprised to see his dad. I guess Alpo doesn't lock his door. And why should he - a rich guy staying in the DF doesn't need a burglar alarm, watchman, or staff. Not if he's a guru like Alpo. He can just hypnotize any intruders with his necklace and his dazzling smile and then talk them to death about the Flavor of Life.
But I digress. Fausto says he got a tip from his friend at the bank that Alpo is doing some sort of transaction. (What's the name of this bank, so I know not to ever do business with them; gossiping about transactions is a big no-no.) Alpo tells his dad he's selling the restaurant as soon as possible. He wants to go back to his home in Acapulco.
Fausto is surprised. He thought Alpo wanted to be with Lety. Alpo says the idea was to take Lety with him to Acapulco and win her heart. Fausto offers to hire Alpo to come work for him instead; Fausto's getting old, and he wants Alpo to take over his construction business.
Long story short, that's not what Alpo wants. Without Lety and his life by the sea, he'd die of sadness. Just then, PM calls to let him know they're having a meeting. Alpo and his dad hug and Alpo leaves Fausto alone there in the house to just help himself to whatever he finds and sell it on eBay.
Alicia meets with Marcia in Marcia's ultra-green office. Alicia is wearing a matching green bustier; Marcia is wearing something flattering, for a change - a purple dress. (I'm jealous, because I look awful in purple.) It's cut way too low for the office, but then, when she's standing next to Alicia or PM it seems pretty conservative.
They puzzle over Fernando's whereabouts; Marcia worries about him and says she feels so alone. Alicia has a great idea - she's worried about Marcia, so perhaps she should move into Marcia's place. Marcia turns her down sharply. Her nights are sad now, but with Alicia, they'd be hell.
She stomps out of her office, leaving Alicia there to just help herself to whatever she finds and sell it on eBay. (I'll grant you that Fausto might be trustworthy, but not Alicia. No way would I leave her alone in a room full of my stuff!)
In the conference room, Humberto, Mama Bozo, Fernando, Ariel, and Lopez wait for the meeting to begin. (Why is Lety always the last to show up?) Humberto wonders why they're meeting. Ariel makes an irrelevant remark about Fern's "brilliant deals." Lopez begins to laugh, then thinks better of it and squeaks his scalp. Ariel goes on about how glad he is that Fern broke up with Marcia. For once, Mama Bozo (probably more concerned about Marcia than about Fern) shushes Ariel.
Marcia shows up, followed closely by Alpo and RoboPop, whose voice is being dubbed yet again. Ariel greets RoboPop and Alpo with "how nice, the intruders have arrived." Teresita scolds him again for his rudeness! (Omar's not there - remember he quit. Oh how I miss him.) Humberto again says he's worried about this unannounced meeting. RoboPop says he doesn't know what it's about either.
Lety and Tomas show up. Ariel rudely wonders aloud what unpleasant surprise she has for them today. He is now shushed by RoboPop! Humberto shushes both of them. Tomas hands out the reports. Lety cuts to the chase: they didn't make enough money to make their first month's debt. Tomas tells them they're 350,000 USD short, thanks to Luigi's expenses.
Mama Bozo worries that the judge is going to shut them down this time. Ariel whines. Marcia says, "Fernando, say something!" but Ferni is mute. Erasmo tells Lety there must be another way. Humberto says he's sure Lety has some strategy to solve the problem. Lety sadly says no, she doesn't. She acknowledges that her leadership of Conceptos was a failure. Therefore, she's resigning. They are impactados.
(In the early days of this novela, when Chris Ferro was recapping, he kept count of how many times Lety quit and how many times she got fired. I forget what the score was, but it was impressive. It's really not something you want to see on a person's resume.)
Alpo says Lety is not a failure. What happened was the fault of everyone who participated in the project. Marcia disagrees - she and Fern did exactly what they were supposed to do. I disagree too! I wish Donald Trump were here to talk some sense into these idiots!
Ariel (who does NOTHING for Conceptos) accuses Lety of abandoning ship like a rat. Erasmo says she will do no such thing. Humberto agrees and tells Lety she can't quit. Lety is crying and says she can't. She made her best try and it didn't work out. She can't be there any more. Ariel says they never should have allowed such a clown to be in charge in the first place.
Lety runs out crying to her office. Alpo follows. She tells him she can't go to Acapulco with him and forget about everything, because she's obligated to stay here. Alpo whines that she already accepted his offer. She says she's sorry, but she's just realizing that they've humiliated her very much here, and she's not going to let them do that.
He asks why she insists on saving this company. (Is this the kind of attitude you want on your team when you're fighting against bad odds?) She says she'll never feel good about herself if she doesn't. If she lets the company sink, she'll feel useless. He gives her a hard time for sacrificing her happiness for them. She says she wants to be happy, but she can't be happy with a failure like this for the rest of her life. A person can't live with such mistakes; they have to confront them. Alpo kisses Lety's hand. He says "that's why I love and admire you."
(What a load of horse-hockey! I mean, really, if she'd said anything else, like "to hell with those ingrates - let's go," I'm pretty sure that would have earned her a "that's why I love and admire you" too.)
He touches her face and says "It was bossy of me to try to get you to go to Acapulco." He says the company is a big wall between the two of them. (Not big enough for my tastes!) Lety says, "Someday we will knock it down." (I assume she's referring to the wall and not Conceptos. ;-)
Out in the Vortex, Alicia looks at her eviction notice, smirks with an idea, and discreetly dials her desk phone. Her cell phone rings. She calls attention to this and loudly narrates "Padre José"'s side of the conversation - he needs an awful lot of money. She can't give it to him, because she's terribly poor herself, but her wonderful friends will help her out. She hangs up, sighing loudly. With exaggerated sympathy (which goes right over Alicia's head), Sara offers her a snotrag. Alicia tells the cuartel her tale of woe. It was the priest at her parish. ("You go to church?" Lola cries. "That's a sacrilege!")
They all begin to exaggerate sympathy. She tells them a poor parishioner is going to be thrown out into the street for not paying her rent. She asks them to reach into their noble hearts and give her some money. Sara blasts her and the others laugh and make fun. "So you're not going to give me anything?" Alicia asks, just to be sure. She tells them they're going to hell.
Back in the boardroom, the rest of the committee mumble amongst themselves, reviewing the report. Tomas tries to speak up, and stutters. Ariel insults him and says if he can't speak well, he shouldn't speak at all. Darth Bozo appeals to Fernando to do something. Stealing my thoughts again, Marcia says "what do you want him to do?"
Ariel says the moment has arrived for a drastic decision. He'll assume the presidency. Humberto says he needs Lety. "I don't need her for anything," Ariel replies. Darth Bozo reminds him of his manners. Bet the senior Mendiolas are really regretting giving him that bike for his saint's day now, huh?
But Ariel is on a roll! He is smiling! He says it's time for them to take back the reins to their company. He addresses these comments to Marcia, Darth Bozo, and Humberto, ignoring Fern, who excuses himself. Erasmo tells Humberto he'll deal with Lety.
Alpo retreats to his office for a phone call. He tells his restaurant guy he's leaving for Acapulco right now - call him back on his cell. Meanwhile, Fern visits in Lety's office and asks if she's really going to quit. He says it's because of him. Because she's that mad at him. She's afraid he's going to bother her. He assures her he won't let that happen. Only she can save the company, so he's going to leave. He quits. Now she won't have to be afraid that she'll open a door around the office and find him on the other side of it, because he won't be waiting there. And she can answer all of her calls, because it won't be him on the phone. Fern reminds her that she asked him to leave her alone, and now he's going to do it. He swears to it. He's not only going to quit Conceptos; he's going to quit Lety.
The cuartel tells Alpo that Lety is talking with Fern. He leaves her a note. "I have to leave right now; I'll call you later. Remember that I love you and that love is freedom." (I am still savoring the irony of that last sentence.) He gives the note to PM, who has to guard it from the curious eyes of the cuartel!
Fern asks Sara to call the travel agency. He wants to go on a trip. He tells them he's quitting so that Lety can work in peace. He's a hindrance to her. The cuartel (even those on Team Alpo) are sad. PM says handsome men are never a hindrance. They beg him not to leave. He says he'll miss them.
Irmita tells the cuartel he's not going to leave. She'll go talk to him.
Alicia comes out of the bathroom with her clown kit and asks why they're so sad. Lola says they're sad for "that poor woman" who will soon be without a home. "The one from Father José, remember?" Lola prompts.
Alpo tries to catch a cab outside Conceptos. All the passing cabs speed by, full of people. The next one that shows up stops, but it's Mr. Martha and he's on his way in to see Martha. Alpo says it's really urgent, and for some reason this changes Paco's mind. (I'm telling you, he Alpo hypnotizes people to do his bidding! We have to give Lety credit for resisting him even a little!)
Lety is listening to the water fountain in her office. You remember - the one that Fernando gave her. That guy who she doesn't want anything to do with who's about to leave her life forever. RoboPop rips her a new one for trying to break her agreement with Humberto. "I never thought you were capable of such monumental irresponsibility." Lety whines in reply. She felt pressured and scared. He's especially mad that she asked his permission last night to go to Acapulco without telling him about this. She tells him she's going to stay until Conceptos is free of its debts. He tells her to stop crying and give the news to the Mendi-Roels. They're very worried. As for him, he's going home. "You can do it," he tells her.
Tomas and Lopez leave the boardroom, but the others stay. I'm fairly sure the Mendi-Roels won't steal anything, but I'd feel better if there was a camera on them or something.
Oh, right.
Ariel says they should never have trusted someone like Lety and her minions. Darth Bozo points out that he never trusted Lety in the first place. Humberto says he wants to go home - he's very nervous. Darth Bozo offers to call him if anything else develops with Lety. Marcia asks if he's feeling okay, and now I'm kinda getting worried about ol' Humbo. He says he'll be fine.
Darth Bozo wants to talk to Fernando. OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT??? She's wearing green eyeshadow that is really too much with that hair color. Marcia asks if she plans to ask Fern to talk Lety into staying. Ariel says that if they don't hear from Lety in ten minutes, he'll leave too. (Okay with me if he wants to leave sooner.)
Humbo leaves the boardroom just as RoboPop is leaving Lety's office. The two meet in the Vortex, and perhaps feeling themselves threatened with the possibility of a dull and vapid conversation, they agree to go somewhere else to have a private talk and a drink.
Irmita watches Fern packs his things. "Please don't look at me that way like you feel sorry for me," he asks. He tells her this is best for both himself and Lety. Irma says that his quitting is not the worst of it. He says no? It's not awful that he's leaving, forever, the company that his father created? Irma says no, the worst thing is that he's going away from Lety. Fern says that she can go away with Alpo, and honestly, he thinks that's a much better option for Lety.
Irma says Alpo's a nice boy, and he's surely ideal for some woman, but... "YOU are Don Fernando," she tells him. She tells him he's the guy. They sit down and he asks if she really believes that. She says she's known him since he was a little boy, and now she can see in his eyes that he's truly suffered much for Lety, and he's sorry for what he did.
He acknowledges that he's suffered since he lost Lety, and he's had to look at life in a different way. He's not the same Fernando Mendiola Irma knows. If he could go back in time before he hurt Lety, he would arrancar (this is a tricky word, but I'm going to go with "rescue" as in "snatch from the brink of destruction") her heart. He deserves everything that's happened. Irma says no - people who are in love should be together and find true love. And it looks to her like they're in love like no one else.
Fern says he loves her so much that he doesn't want to hurt her. He has to go, so she can be happy.
Alpo gets Gerardo's call at the airport. He says he needs to "arrange some things." He wants G. to find an agent to buy the restaurant. G. is very surprised. Sell it? Is there a problem? Alpo says it's a long story, but fortunately we are spared for the moment. :-) Alpo says he'll explain later. He also asks G to contact a development company (inmobilaria) named Casacom and make an appointment for him. G begs for an explanation, but Alpo doesn't have time to give him one!
Meanwhile, back at Conceptos, Lety is writing in her diary. WITH A PENCIL. This really bugs me! Use a pen!! She's telling her diary she would have liked to have disappeared with Alpo. Just then, Carolina shows up. "I think I'm never going to be happy," Lety says.
Out in the Vortex, Tomas kneels in front of Alicia's desk and asks what's wrong. She says, "I have many problems. Imagine, I, Alicia Ferreira, me, I'm left with nothing, no car, no cell phone... I am nobody." Tomas says he would do anything to make her happy. "Yes?" she asks. "What would you do?" They start giggling and snorting (yes, Alicia, snorting) with laughter. Ariel interrupts and loudly announces, "HOW NICE! Conceptos is sinking, and you're in the throes of romance!"
Alicia denies that there's anything between her and Tomas. They were just talking about business. Tomas tries to protest that she's his chica, but Ariel's head is somewhere else. I'm thinking somewhere the sun doesn't shine. He says that if he were the president, everything would change.
Everyone stares at him, impactadisimos!
Next week
Marcia and Lety have a heart-to-heart so intense, it turns both their noses red. Join us Monday for a tag-team recap!
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Te tomaré una foto (lyrics and English translation)
This is the song Tiziano Ferro sang on La Fea last night; Fern asked him to dedicate it to Lety. It totally blew me way. You can hear it and see the video here unless/until somebody takes it down... you can buy the song from the download places too...
Since I won't be here Monday to do "my" night of La Fea, I thought I'd leave you with this... Some of you are much better at this than I am, so feel free to whale away on my translation in the comments ... it's really a lovely song.
I'll take your picture
I'll remember forever, even if you don't want me to.
I'll marry you, don't expect more.
I've looked for you and I've found you, all in a little bit of time,
And because I'm afraid of losing you I'll take your picture.
I'll remember forever, and I know you don't want me to.
I'll call you, because you won't answer.
It makes me laugh, now, to think of you being a game.
I lost you, and then I took another picture,
Because you'd escape quickly from my hand,
And a day will turn quickly into a year,
And you’ll forget me.
When it rains, profiles and houses resemble you,
and it will be so beautiful...
For you, joy and pain have the same flavor.
I'd just like this night to be over quickly
and [I wish] what you've always said to me would never come back.
And I want love, and everything you always knew how to give me,
and if you only want to wound me, then I want indifference.
I recognized your glance in that of a shopgirl.
Even though if you were here I would sense you feeling distant
To be more honest I feel very small
My biggest nightmare, my enormous dream
We're children of different worlds, (but) with the same memory
That a naive person draws and erases, the same story,
And you'll forget me ... (chorus)
The memory won't be enough
I want you to come back now.
Te tomaré una foto
Recordaré por siempre aun si no querrás
Me casaré contigo no te lo esperas mas
Te he buscado y te he encontrado, todo en un solo rato
Y por la ansia de perderte te tomaré una foto
Recordaré por siempre y sé que no querrás
Te llamaré porque tu no contestaras
Ahora me hace reír pensarte como un juego
Te perdí y entonces ya te tomo otra foto
Por qué escaparías pequeña ahora desde mi mano
Y un día se transformará veloz en un año
Y te olvidarás de mi
Cuando llueve, perfiles y casas recuerdan a ti
Y será hermosísimo
Por ti tienen un solo sabor alegría y dolor
Quisiera
Solo que ahora pueda pronto irse esta noche
Y lo que siempre me dijiste nunca mas regrese
Y quiero amor y todo lo que siempre sabes darme
Y quiero indiferencia si solo querrás herirme
Reconocí tu mirada en la de un pasante
Aun si estuvieras aquí te sentiría distante
Y para ser mas honesto me siento muy pequeño
Mi pesadilla mas grande mi enorme sueño
Somos hijos de mundos distintos de misma memoria
Que ingenua dibuja y borra la misma historia
Y te olvidarás de mi ...
No bastará el recuerdo
Ahora quiero tu regreso
Since I won't be here Monday to do "my" night of La Fea, I thought I'd leave you with this... Some of you are much better at this than I am, so feel free to whale away on my translation in the comments ... it's really a lovely song.
I'll remember forever, even if you don't want me to.
I'll marry you, don't expect more.
I've looked for you and I've found you, all in a little bit of time,
And because I'm afraid of losing you I'll take your picture.
I'll remember forever, and I know you don't want me to.
I'll call you, because you won't answer.
It makes me laugh, now, to think of you being a game.
I lost you, and then I took another picture,
Because you'd escape quickly from my hand,
And a day will turn quickly into a year,
And you’ll forget me.
When it rains, profiles and houses resemble you,
and it will be so beautiful...
For you, joy and pain have the same flavor.
I'd just like this night to be over quickly
and [I wish] what you've always said to me would never come back.
And I want love, and everything you always knew how to give me,
and if you only want to wound me, then I want indifference.
I recognized your glance in that of a shopgirl.
Even though if you were here I would sense you feeling distant
To be more honest I feel very small
My biggest nightmare, my enormous dream
We're children of different worlds, (but) with the same memory
That a naive person draws and erases, the same story,
And you'll forget me ... (chorus)
The memory won't be enough
I want you to come back now.
Recordaré por siempre aun si no querrás
Me casaré contigo no te lo esperas mas
Te he buscado y te he encontrado, todo en un solo rato
Y por la ansia de perderte te tomaré una foto
Recordaré por siempre y sé que no querrás
Te llamaré porque tu no contestaras
Ahora me hace reír pensarte como un juego
Te perdí y entonces ya te tomo otra foto
Por qué escaparías pequeña ahora desde mi mano
Y un día se transformará veloz en un año
Y te olvidarás de mi
Cuando llueve, perfiles y casas recuerdan a ti
Y será hermosísimo
Por ti tienen un solo sabor alegría y dolor
Quisiera
Solo que ahora pueda pronto irse esta noche
Y lo que siempre me dijiste nunca mas regrese
Y quiero amor y todo lo que siempre sabes darme
Y quiero indiferencia si solo querrás herirme
Reconocí tu mirada en la de un pasante
Aun si estuvieras aquí te sentiría distante
Y para ser mas honesto me siento muy pequeño
Mi pesadilla mas grande mi enorme sueño
Somos hijos de mundos distintos de misma memoria
Que ingenua dibuja y borra la misma historia
Y te olvidarás de mi ...
No bastará el recuerdo
Ahora quiero tu regreso
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Some "good ones" from Caray chosen by Marycelis...
... can be seen over at my Pratie Place blog. Thanks, Marycelis! I haven't had time to make my own selections recently but I'll try to do better in future...
Labels: announcements, humor
La Fea Más Bella #247 4/5/07 Fern & Lety Are In A Tizi
The doorbell rings at Lety’s house, and it’s Fern. Julieta seems a bit annoyed by his visit. He asks to speak to Lety. She tells him Lety is out. He guesses that surely she is with Aldo. She concurs but says he’s wasting his time, because she’s already made a decision to quit her job at Conceptos and leave with Aldo. Fern says he can’t allow that because he loves her. Julieta is suspicious of his claim. She says she knows how much pain Fern has caused her. He argues that Julieta only knows Lety’s version, not his, and pleads with her to listen to him and pulls out his secret weapon-- the puppy dog eyes (the sincere ones, not the ones he uses on Omar).
In The Vortex, Marcia asks Alicia if Fern has left. Alicia has no idea, and thinks maybe he went to look for Lety. Marcia doubts it because he doesn’t know where she is [Duh! That would explain why he would have gone to look for her!]. Marcia tells Alicia to find another ride, because she wants to be alone. Alicia brags about already having another ride who is there for her at the snap of her fingers. Just then her ride Tomas sprints over to them. Marcia gives her a look that says "Ick!" and leaves. Alicia tells Tomas she wants a big meal as they leave together. The ladies of the cuartel hold a conference call from their desks - which of course are already well within earshot of each other- to gossip about Tomas and Alicia.
At the Italian restaurant, which is more like a dark nightclub with lights flashing all around, Aldo yet again tells Lety that he needs more than ever. He says he needs her to care for his finances. Lety is uneasy and says that first she wants to see how things go at Conceptos tomorrow. Since this is not the answer he wants, Aldo shushes her. Their table is small and right next to a slightly raised stage. An MC comes up and announces Tiziano Ferro [A cute young Italian pop singer who has recorded Spanish versions of his Italian albums and has had notable success in Europe and Latin America…. Thanks to Wikipedia]. Tiziano sings a romantic number and which seems make Aldo think really hard about something (I am reminded of the frequent constipated look on Unibrow on Barreras De Amor). Lety looks confused.
Fern tells Julieta how sorry is for all his misakes. Julieta thinks it may be too late. Fern continues with his case. He says it started out as scheme, but… "You fell in love?" Julieta asks. Fern agrees and says she won him over with her sweetness and with what he thinks are the most sincere kisses he’s ever experienced.
Aldo stares intently at Lety, petting her hand and then rubbing his cheek with it. Tizi’s song is romantic and passionate, but the big dummy looks straight at the camera.
After his song, the M.C. comes back onstage and tells Tizi it’s an honor to have him there. Then they play a weird game in which they blindfold Tizi with a pretty light blue pashmina. Blindfolded, Tizi is led around the edge of the stage by the M.C. Girls rush to the stage and he holds their hand one at a time, looking for the "right girl" to kiss. He rejects one girl after another for way too long until he happens upon Lety’s hand and he says "this is her" He kisses her softly on the lips, then goes to pull the blinfold off. Lety braces herself expecting a look of horror from him, but he does not flinch. Instead he says his heart doesn’t lie and he see with his soul. He tells her she is bella. She thanks him. Aldo thanks him too. Applause and bravos from the audience. Lety admits to Aldo that she enjoyed the kiss.
Julieta asks Fern why he hasn’t told Lety he loves her. Fern explains that he’s told her many many times; he’s even brought the plastic bag o’gifts with him to show her, but ever since she found The Letter that Omar the Imbicile wrote, she doesn believe a word he says. He’s done everything in his power, even breaking up with Marcia, but he has not been able to convince her (Uh, did I miss a part where maybe he actually told Lety that he broke up with Marcia to be with Lety?) . Julieta thinks the damage may be irreparable and it may be better for Fern to leave Lety alone. Fern tells her that without Lety his life is meaningless. He begs Julieta for forgiveness. She forgives him.
He asks for where Lety is. She won’t tell him and he pleads. She again rejects him. Fern says he understands, and asks for one more thing. He asks Julieta to give the bag to Lety. He says he has taken garbage out of it, and everything left inside is pure truth, specially this one - he hands her the napkin . She reads the naplin, "God know how much I love you." Fern says he wrote it when she was in Acapulco [Months ago, when he first wrote on the napkin, Julie pointed out that it must be significant to the story because he put it in his coat pocket. Looks like she was right!]. Touched by his gift for graceful and religious prose, Julieta finally gives in. She tells Fern she will trust him because if he loves she needs to know it. Just for good measure, Fern gives her the puppy dog eyes again.
Aldo rehashes his Acapulco plans again.
At another club, Omar sits at the bar. He looks re-e-e-e-eally mad and mutters to himself. Carolina comes in sits next to him. She tries to talk to him about some project, but he’s not interested. She asks him what’s wrong. He tells her how he Fern came to blows.
Fern comes into the restaurant/club and surprises Lety and Aldo. Lety asks Fern how he found her, but he says that doesn’t matter. He sarcastically thanks Aldo for trying to steal his president. Lety interjects that it was her decision. Aldo suggests that they discuss it tomorrow, but Fern refuses. He tells her that everyone at Conceptos loves her, but most of all him. Aldo looks like a third wheel (which he is). Lety tells Fern to leave her alone. Fern, giving up way to easily, agrees and begs their pardon. Aldo tries to look understanding but it comes across as smug. Fern walks away and sits at the bar next to Tizi.
Fern strikes up a conversation with Tizi, then apologizes for bothering him and swears he’s not drunk. He asks Tizi if he could write a song with the words "Only God knows how much I love you". Fern asks "See that girl over there? " as he points to Lety. Tizi says not only does he know her, but he’s kissed her. Fern is impactado, but quickly recovers. He explains that she doesn’t like that guy she’s with, she loves Fern, and he can’t bear to lose her. He adds that he’s desperate and asks Tizi if he will sing his song called "Te tomare una foto" (I’ll take your picture) for Lety.
Tizi agrees and goes stage. He announces to everyone that he has a song dedicated to Lety from… he realizes he doesn’t know Fern’s name. Fern goes to stage to tell him. Tizi thanks him and pushes him offstage.
Caro asks Omar if he and Fern fought over Lety. He tries to cover up but Caro explains that she I know everything, including Omar’s antics. She says he and Fern are both at fault, and that they continue to act like juvenile. Omar tells her he likes a lot but this is not the time for her to rub it in.
Maybe it was too dark to tell or maybe I’m reading too much into this, but the song Tizi is singing seems to hurt Aldo’s ears. Lety looks at Fern at the bar, then back at Tizi onstage. Fern eyes tear up again. Lety is close enough to see this and she is somewhere between impactada and confundida (confused) by his tears. After the song, Fern glumly walks up to the mike and says "te tomare una foto." He walks to Lety’s table again and she stands up.
Caro asks Omar what are she is going to do. Omar says he doesn’t know. Caro’s friend shows up and the two leave, leaving Omar alone again. He goes back to his muttering about how been with Fern through good and bad.
Fern asks Lety if they speak alone. Alpo stands up and says he thinks Fern has gone too far. Fern calmly asks Alpo "Oh, do you think we should talk? Maybe we can get into another fight." Lety protests and Fern clarifies that he does not intend to fight, he just wants to talk to her. Alpo tells her he’ll be waiting for her and steps away (like 3 feet away to the bar). Fern asks Lety to give him an opportunity. He says he knows she loves him. Lety sternly asks how he would know. He evades the question and says he wants to show her how much he loves her. She says it took her much work to get him out of heart, but she has succeeded. She stubbornly adds that she doesn’t love him anymore.
Fern - showing us his judgment is still as bad as ever - takes out her diary from his jacket. He opens it to a stick drawing of them and tells her how adorable it is. Then he reads from it "…My heart can’t renounce him, he’s a traitor [this makes Fern’s eyes well up again], yet he doesn’t know there is another traitor in standing in front of him." Lety is appalled! He tells her he knows it was wrong to read it, but it was worth it because reading her true feelings gave him reason to leave again. Lety is unsympathetic. She tells him she will never forgive him for reading her diary. She never wants to see him again. Alpo comes back over and leads her away. Fern repeats his new mantra "Only God knows…"
After dinner outside a restaurant, Alicia tells Tomas she could not enjoy her meal because she’s so upset at the prospect of Aldo marrying Lety. She asks if she can drive herself home. Tomas agrees and she jumps into the car. She tells him to lean in so she can reward him with a kiss, but then drives off and leaves Tomas puckered up waiting.
Lety comes home to find the bag o’gifts on her bed. Julieta tells her Fern left it for her. Lety guesses that Julieta was the one that told him where she was. Julieta wants to know Aldo did when Fern showed up. Lety says Aldo was a gentleman and allowed them to talk. Julieta shares that she thinks Fern is sincere. She argues Fern’s case saying he broke up with Marcia, and that, after being with Lety, he has not been with anyone else. She points to the bag and says Fern could not throw the treasures out as Lety wanted. She shows Lety the napkin. She notes that it is a difficult situation and leaves. Lety reads the napkin, and there is a half-smile which melts into the circle of light.
Tomorrow - Lety's rendition of The Clash's revered anthem,"Should I or Should I Go?"
In The Vortex, Marcia asks Alicia if Fern has left. Alicia has no idea, and thinks maybe he went to look for Lety. Marcia doubts it because he doesn’t know where she is [Duh! That would explain why he would have gone to look for her!]. Marcia tells Alicia to find another ride, because she wants to be alone. Alicia brags about already having another ride who is there for her at the snap of her fingers. Just then her ride Tomas sprints over to them. Marcia gives her a look that says "Ick!" and leaves. Alicia tells Tomas she wants a big meal as they leave together. The ladies of the cuartel hold a conference call from their desks - which of course are already well within earshot of each other- to gossip about Tomas and Alicia.
At the Italian restaurant, which is more like a dark nightclub with lights flashing all around, Aldo yet again tells Lety that he needs more than ever. He says he needs her to care for his finances. Lety is uneasy and says that first she wants to see how things go at Conceptos tomorrow. Since this is not the answer he wants, Aldo shushes her. Their table is small and right next to a slightly raised stage. An MC comes up and announces Tiziano Ferro [A cute young Italian pop singer who has recorded Spanish versions of his Italian albums and has had notable success in Europe and Latin America…. Thanks to Wikipedia]. Tiziano sings a romantic number and which seems make Aldo think really hard about something (I am reminded of the frequent constipated look on Unibrow on Barreras De Amor). Lety looks confused.
Fern tells Julieta how sorry is for all his misakes. Julieta thinks it may be too late. Fern continues with his case. He says it started out as scheme, but… "You fell in love?" Julieta asks. Fern agrees and says she won him over with her sweetness and with what he thinks are the most sincere kisses he’s ever experienced.
Aldo stares intently at Lety, petting her hand and then rubbing his cheek with it. Tizi’s song is romantic and passionate, but the big dummy looks straight at the camera.
After his song, the M.C. comes back onstage and tells Tizi it’s an honor to have him there. Then they play a weird game in which they blindfold Tizi with a pretty light blue pashmina. Blindfolded, Tizi is led around the edge of the stage by the M.C. Girls rush to the stage and he holds their hand one at a time, looking for the "right girl" to kiss. He rejects one girl after another for way too long until he happens upon Lety’s hand and he says "this is her" He kisses her softly on the lips, then goes to pull the blinfold off. Lety braces herself expecting a look of horror from him, but he does not flinch. Instead he says his heart doesn’t lie and he see with his soul. He tells her she is bella. She thanks him. Aldo thanks him too. Applause and bravos from the audience. Lety admits to Aldo that she enjoyed the kiss.
Julieta asks Fern why he hasn’t told Lety he loves her. Fern explains that he’s told her many many times; he’s even brought the plastic bag o’gifts with him to show her, but ever since she found The Letter that Omar the Imbicile wrote, she doesn believe a word he says. He’s done everything in his power, even breaking up with Marcia, but he has not been able to convince her (Uh, did I miss a part where maybe he actually told Lety that he broke up with Marcia to be with Lety?) . Julieta thinks the damage may be irreparable and it may be better for Fern to leave Lety alone. Fern tells her that without Lety his life is meaningless. He begs Julieta for forgiveness. She forgives him.
He asks for where Lety is. She won’t tell him and he pleads. She again rejects him. Fern says he understands, and asks for one more thing. He asks Julieta to give the bag to Lety. He says he has taken garbage out of it, and everything left inside is pure truth, specially this one - he hands her the napkin . She reads the naplin, "God know how much I love you." Fern says he wrote it when she was in Acapulco [Months ago, when he first wrote on the napkin, Julie pointed out that it must be significant to the story because he put it in his coat pocket. Looks like she was right!]. Touched by his gift for graceful and religious prose, Julieta finally gives in. She tells Fern she will trust him because if he loves she needs to know it. Just for good measure, Fern gives her the puppy dog eyes again.
Aldo rehashes his Acapulco plans again.
At another club, Omar sits at the bar. He looks re-e-e-e-eally mad and mutters to himself. Carolina comes in sits next to him. She tries to talk to him about some project, but he’s not interested. She asks him what’s wrong. He tells her how he Fern came to blows.
Fern comes into the restaurant/club and surprises Lety and Aldo. Lety asks Fern how he found her, but he says that doesn’t matter. He sarcastically thanks Aldo for trying to steal his president. Lety interjects that it was her decision. Aldo suggests that they discuss it tomorrow, but Fern refuses. He tells her that everyone at Conceptos loves her, but most of all him. Aldo looks like a third wheel (which he is). Lety tells Fern to leave her alone. Fern, giving up way to easily, agrees and begs their pardon. Aldo tries to look understanding but it comes across as smug. Fern walks away and sits at the bar next to Tizi.
Fern strikes up a conversation with Tizi, then apologizes for bothering him and swears he’s not drunk. He asks Tizi if he could write a song with the words "Only God knows how much I love you". Fern asks "See that girl over there? " as he points to Lety. Tizi says not only does he know her, but he’s kissed her. Fern is impactado, but quickly recovers. He explains that she doesn’t like that guy she’s with, she loves Fern, and he can’t bear to lose her. He adds that he’s desperate and asks Tizi if he will sing his song called "Te tomare una foto" (I’ll take your picture) for Lety.
Tizi agrees and goes stage. He announces to everyone that he has a song dedicated to Lety from… he realizes he doesn’t know Fern’s name. Fern goes to stage to tell him. Tizi thanks him and pushes him offstage.
Caro asks Omar if he and Fern fought over Lety. He tries to cover up but Caro explains that she I know everything, including Omar’s antics. She says he and Fern are both at fault, and that they continue to act like juvenile. Omar tells her he likes a lot but this is not the time for her to rub it in.
Maybe it was too dark to tell or maybe I’m reading too much into this, but the song Tizi is singing seems to hurt Aldo’s ears. Lety looks at Fern at the bar, then back at Tizi onstage. Fern eyes tear up again. Lety is close enough to see this and she is somewhere between impactada and confundida (confused) by his tears. After the song, Fern glumly walks up to the mike and says "te tomare una foto." He walks to Lety’s table again and she stands up.
Caro asks Omar what are she is going to do. Omar says he doesn’t know. Caro’s friend shows up and the two leave, leaving Omar alone again. He goes back to his muttering about how been with Fern through good and bad.
Fern asks Lety if they speak alone. Alpo stands up and says he thinks Fern has gone too far. Fern calmly asks Alpo "Oh, do you think we should talk? Maybe we can get into another fight." Lety protests and Fern clarifies that he does not intend to fight, he just wants to talk to her. Alpo tells her he’ll be waiting for her and steps away (like 3 feet away to the bar). Fern asks Lety to give him an opportunity. He says he knows she loves him. Lety sternly asks how he would know. He evades the question and says he wants to show her how much he loves her. She says it took her much work to get him out of heart, but she has succeeded. She stubbornly adds that she doesn’t love him anymore.
Fern - showing us his judgment is still as bad as ever - takes out her diary from his jacket. He opens it to a stick drawing of them and tells her how adorable it is. Then he reads from it "…My heart can’t renounce him, he’s a traitor [this makes Fern’s eyes well up again], yet he doesn’t know there is another traitor in standing in front of him." Lety is appalled! He tells her he knows it was wrong to read it, but it was worth it because reading her true feelings gave him reason to leave again. Lety is unsympathetic. She tells him she will never forgive him for reading her diary. She never wants to see him again. Alpo comes back over and leads her away. Fern repeats his new mantra "Only God knows…"
After dinner outside a restaurant, Alicia tells Tomas she could not enjoy her meal because she’s so upset at the prospect of Aldo marrying Lety. She asks if she can drive herself home. Tomas agrees and she jumps into the car. She tells him to lean in so she can reward him with a kiss, but then drives off and leaves Tomas puckered up waiting.
Lety comes home to find the bag o’gifts on her bed. Julieta tells her Fern left it for her. Lety guesses that Julieta was the one that told him where she was. Julieta wants to know Aldo did when Fern showed up. Lety says Aldo was a gentleman and allowed them to talk. Julieta shares that she thinks Fern is sincere. She argues Fern’s case saying he broke up with Marcia, and that, after being with Lety, he has not been with anyone else. She points to the bag and says Fern could not throw the treasures out as Lety wanted. She shows Lety the napkin. She notes that it is a difficult situation and leaves. Lety reads the napkin, and there is a half-smile which melts into the circle of light.
Tomorrow - Lety's rendition of The Clash's revered anthem,"Should I or Should I Go?"
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