Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Duelo—June 11, 2007 “Boy, am I stupid!” says Alina. “You are really stupid!” says Coral.
Sorry for the length of this post—there was a ton of dramatic dialogue. Stuff I couldn’t really summarize all that well.
We open to marital discord between Emilio and Thelma over whether Thelma can burst into her soon to be ex-husband’s bedroom whenever she feels like it. [Fabiola Campomanes may be one hot wench en realidad but lately all she’s been doing is scowling and I am not the first to notice that when she does her face more than resembles that of a rat. ]
Emilio astutely points out that the only reason she regrets having tormented Alina is because she thought she was dead. Now that that’s proven NOT to be the case, she’s going to try to keep him from seeing her. Emilio tells her that she knows that he’s going to fight for her. Thelma scowls some more.
We skip over to the hospital where Gaspar is lying in a coma after having had the bejeezus beaten out of him in his failed lucha comeback. Luba is crying and praying to the Virgin of Peace (without her usual visual aid) to save Gaspar, to help him to hang on until she can undergo the liver transplant. She murmurs about how children are the only thing that are important. Children, like her little cub Gasparito.
Back to Thelma and Emilio. Thelma threatens Emilio that she’ll never give him a divorce and if he insists she’ll get custody of Emilito. [I know that there’s a bias in favor of the mother in custody battles but, let’s see—you drank copious amounts of booze during your pregnancy, once the baby was born, you threatened to throw him off a bridge and then last week, you tried to kill yourself. Not exactly a candidate for Mother of the Year.] Emilio is non-plussed. He figured she would go there. She taunts him again, that he doesn’t care about their son. He cuts her off and threatens that she could lose everything, including their son. Then he tells her to out of his room. Thelma bares her teeth at him and swears that he will regret this before she finally leaves.
We transition to the morning of the next day, with a beautiful pink- orange and blue sky. Adela is serving Soledad and Coral breakfast on the terrace at Coral’s mansion. Soledad inquires about Alina, whether she is awake. Adela affirms that Alina has been awake for hours walking around the house. They agree that after what happened last night when she met Emilio again, she’s probably still shaken up. Coral says that she must speak to Alina about Emilio. Just then, Alina walks up, looking goth in a gray and black sweater and jeans. She’s pouty and sullen and doesn’t want any breakfast. She’s NOT wearing THE heart pendant but appears to be wearing some other pendant. Adela hears the doorbell ring and goes to answer it. Coral starts in to explain what Angel and she had tried to do. Just then, Adela shows up with the visitor—it’s Emilio and he demands to talk to her right now. [He looks just as bad as she does in some bug-eye-Elvis sized dark sunglasses and a black leather jacket.] Alina gets up and asks everybody to leave so she can speak to Emilio alone
We hop over to Veracruz, to the Montellano canefields. Hugo and Alfonsina have evidently made up and are packing up to go on the lam back to Sierra Escondida to find THE BOX. Hugo is making sure he has the blank checks when suddenly Don Loco’s sleazy lawyer walks into the office with a revolver cocked in his hand. “Well, well,” he says unpleasantly. Alfonsina asks stupidly what he’s doing there. “I’ve come to kill you” says SL, lowering his weapon at Hugo.
Back to the other showdown, between Emilio and Alina. The other women leave. Alina stands up and tells him that they have some things to clear up. Emilio asks her why she hid from him that she was alive. “To protect myself until my father’s trial was over” she replies. “Why didn’t you tell me of your plan?” he insists. Alina gets huffy—“You think I planned all this?” “I took the potion that Luba gave me because I was desperate. I wanted to die. Because if I couldn’t be with you, I didn’t want to marry anyone.” “I didn’t know how I could go on living.” “So, says Emilio, you did it because you love me?” “Yes” says Alina, “and now I see it was for nothing because you are back with your wife.” Emilio says, “No, that’s not true.” Alina counters, “Oh yeah? Last night I saw you kissing her. It didn’t look like you were suffering.” “Oh, yeah?” says Emilio “and how long did you plan on making me suffer with your death?” “Don’t you get it that I am still here because I love you?” He sounds pretty pissed when he utters that last sentence and he grabs her roughly to kiss her. Alina resists and pushes him back angrily. “Once again with your stolen kisses!” she hisses at him. “I hope you enjoyed it because it’s the last one you are going to get.” “You think you’re going to forget me?” says Emilio. “Yes!” says Alina. “I’m not going to deny that I had a tiny piece of hope left that you and I could love each other…but after what I saw last night…it became utterly clear to me that your place is beside your wife.” “No!” says Emilio. “I am going to divorce Thelma.” “Ay!” says Alina, exasperated. She sits down. “I don’t believe you.” Just then, Rodrigo walks in claiming that the door was open and he decided to just come on in. Emilio scowls at Rodrigo, Rodrigo is stony faced back at him. Alina looks from one to the other, squinting into the light.
If you were wondering where the three other women went, they are in the living room where Don Max recently met his fate. Evidently, Coral has found a magnificent carpet cleaning service because the same rug is still there without any evidence that a guy was stabbed to death with a poker on it. Adela is peeking out the window into the garden at the other trio going at it out there. Adela is hoping that Alina and Emilio kiss and make up. Coral is worried about their stupid pride getting in the way. Soledad, the prude, is sure that the only reason that is keeping her daughter from Emilio’s arms is that she doesn’t want to be the cause of a divorce. Coral shakes her head at Soledad as if to say, You have no idea, babe.
Back to the standoff in the garden. Emilio asks Rodrigo to leave. Rodrigo gives some lame excuse like he’s in charge of Alina’s security and he can’t leave. Emilio thanks him for his service and says he’s not needed at the moment. Alina protests that Emilio is acting like an jerk, he’s always acting like he owns her. As far as she’s concerned, they are done talking. She tells him to leave. Emilio is incredulous. “You are asking me to leave after you hid that you were still alive from me?” Rodrigo chimes in “You heard her, Emilio. Either go, or I’ll kick you out.” “Look, says Emilio, I don’t want to cause a ruckus. But I’m not giving up either.” Alina looks darkly at him. “I will fight for your love, Alina. Until you understand that our destiny is to be together.” Rodrigo puts his arm around Alina. “Well, then Emilio, it’s better that you know that you will also have to confront me. “I am not going to give up on her love either. “What do you have to do with this?” asks Emilio. Alina interrupts to say that she and Rodrigo are going out. What’s more, he’s asked her to marry him and she has agreed to become his wife. If Emilio wasn’t played by such a bad actor he’d be impactado into the commercial. Instead all he does is grimace and squint into the camera.
We come back into this SAME interminable scene between Emilio, Alina and Rodrigo. Emilio of course, asks for clarification of what Alina just said before the commercial and Alina repeats that she’s going to marry Rodrigo. Emilio asks her if that is her final answer and Alina gives a little smirk and says “yes.” Emilio complains that if he had known about this he wouldn’t have come to see her. Alina doesn’t like the way this sounds and starts mewling about how she has a right to a fresh start, just like he’s doing with Thelma. Rodrigo starts trying to get Emilio to leave again. Emilio finally says that he will still separate from Thelma because she has done nothing but blackmail him with their son. Alina says that she can only believe what she sees, just like he did when he saw her in bed with Orlando. And besides, she doesn’t want to be the cause of breaking up his family. She smirks again, this time with moral superiority. Emilio starts to disagree. Rodrigo AGAIN starts in with the getting Emilio to leave. Emilio tells him to stuff it, he’s leaving. “Goodbye, Alina. I hope you find happiness.” He goes. Alina looks stricken. Rodrigo holds on to her tightly with a grim smile, like he thinks she’s going to run away.
Back to Veracruz—Sleazy Lawyer holding a gun on Hugo with Alfonsina trying to stay out of the line of fire. Hugo tries to argue that he thought DL double crossed him by stealing back the money he had been paid for his testimony. The lawyer listens but is unimpressed. Alfonsina whimpers and SL tells her to shut up. She’s using Hugo’s body as a shield but with the canon that SL is holding, at that range, the bullet would easily go right through Hugo into her. Hugo tries to argue with the lawyer that he’s not the type to kill in cold blood. SL laughs at Hugo.
Back to Rodrigo and Alina who are now sitting at the table. Clueless Rodrigo is elated that Alina has just agreed to marry him. Alina doesn’t look so happy about it. Rodrigo whines that maybe she just said that to get rid of Emilio. [YA THINK?] “I’d understand…sniff sniff.” Alina looks guilty and answers in a small voice “Of course I want to marry you…” she still looks unhappy. Rodrigo is all smiley again. [WHAT A LOSER!] Alina looks tortured once again, with the lip biting and regret written all over her face.
Once again with SL, Alfonsina and Hugo. [SHOOT THEM ALREADY, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE!] blah blah blah. OK this is a bad sign and yes---Hugo manages to overpower SL, grab his gun and knock him on the head with it. Alfonsina thanks Hugo for saving her but Hugo is all business. He did it for himself and the money. He grabs money out of SL’s wallet and they hurry up their original plan to leave for SE. They don’t kill him but figure they’ll be long gone by the time he wakes up. They grab their stuff and leave, DL’s ridiculous portrait hanging next to the door.
Over at Emilio’s Puebla mansion, he’s pouring himself a brandy and moping about why he seems destined never to be happy and never to be with Alina. He doesn’t get why she doesn’t believe that he will be divorcing Thelma. Just then Thelma walks in, triumphant. She knows he went to see her and from his demeanor, she knows it didn’t go well. Emilio tells her to go away, as usual.
Alina and Rodrigo are kissing in the garden. It is the worst kiss I’ve ever seen. It’s like both of them are forcing themselves to kiss the other. It breaks up fast when Soledad and Coral come in. Soledad innocently says that she thought Emilio was still here. “No, Emilio and I…we resolved everything that we had to resolve…” says Alina. Rodrigo jumps up and announces that Alina has agreed to marry him. Soledad looks surprised. Coral looks suspicious. Alina smiles wanly.
Over at Casa Valtierra, Emilio has accused Thelma of trying to fix up the dinner date with Rodrigo and Alina to shock him. Thelma dramatically says that back then, everybody thought Alina was dead, the dinner had nothing to do with Alina. Emilio doesn’t buy it. What’s more, he’s not going to let her continue to bother Alina. Thelma tells him she doesn’t think he should worry about Alina anymore. “she has someone to take care of her now.” “And that’s not you!” She struts over to the brandy and pours herself a glass. Emilio warns her that it’s not over yet. He’s going to confront Rodrigo and anyone else who tries to get between him and Alina, including her. Thelma knows she’s got him where she wants him and she pushes again---“I don’t think you should be worried about me. It’s Rodrigo you should be worried about. I don’t think he’s going to let you get between him and Alina.” “Besides, I don’t think it’s good for you to be humiliating yourself like this. You should just accept that she’s never going to be with you. She already has her Captain…. Captain.” She walks out of the room laughing with her glass of brandy.
Back to the Hospital where Luba is in conference with Gaspar’s doctor. The weird little man who is some kind of fight manager helps to facilitate the discussion because Luba has been transformed in this foreign setting, from a smart, crafty witch to a stupid, clueless peasant. The doctor tells her that they will have to do some tests to see if her organs are compatible with Gaspar’s. She finds it hard to believe that her son’s body is not compatible with hers.
Back at Coral’s mansion Soledad thinks there is something not quite right about Alina rejecting the love of her life (as impossible or inappropriate as he was) and immediately accepting a marriage proposal from a guy that she’s only known for a few weeks. When Coral butts in to say that she can’t have forgotten Emilio that fast, Soledad tries to interrupt her as if the suggestion is impertinent. Coral stands her ground this time but Rodrigo, pathetic excuse for a guy that he is, says he knows what it’s like to try to forget someone and move on [YES but your wife was DEAD, you aren’t likely to meet her at every other corner]. He knows that his job will be to try to make Alina forget Emilio and to make her happy. He kisses Alina’s hand. Alina looks like she can’t decide whether this is cute or smarmy.
At Casa Valtierra, Thelma is buttoning up Emilito’s onesie while talking to the SA. She recounts her conversation with with Emilio and finishes up on how Emilio is still humiliating her by pursing the reluctant Alina. SA tells her that she was the one who accepted this situation. Thelma disagrees. She never accepted this. She is going to come up with a plan to separate them. When SA protests, Thelma starts screaming at her to shut up and not get in her way.
At Coral’s, Rodrigo has gone back to the base. Soledad confronts her daughter alone and wants to know the truth about this sudden engagement. Alina gives it up almost immediately that her pride was hurt when she saw Emilio kissing Thelma and it was the first thing she could think of to say that she knew would hurt Emilio. She’s not sure she wants to marry Rodrigo, she was er…confused. Soledad says, “So basically, you accepted Rodrigo out of an attack of jealousy. That was a really bad thing to do…don’t you see that from all that has happened with your Father?” “Why couldn’t you explain that to Rodrigo?’ Alina looks sheepish. “ He was so happy, I couldn’t break his heart.” Soledad looks disapprovingly. Coral pokes her head in the door. “Sorry for listening, but you need to know something Alina.” “Emilio didn’t lie when he told you he was going to divorce Thelma. Angel told me that even before he found out you were alive, Emilio had already asked Thelma for a divorce. Emilio didn’t deceive you.” Alina is impactada into the commercial.
Out of the commercial, Alina is in a rage. “SO WHY WAS HE KISSING HER THEN?” she demands. Coral says, “It was just a kiss. And besides, I have no doubt that that chick could force him to do it. Look, Angel told me that that crazy bitch never stops trying to blackmail him. She’s threatened to kill herself.” “Wow” says Soledad. “That woman is crazy.” Now it’s Alina’s turn to smack herself upside the head. “Boy, am I stupid! I thought that they had reconciled because he thought I was dead.” “You are REALLY stupid” says Coral. “What’s going to happen now?” Alina buries her hands in her face and groans. “I don’t know.” Coral continues “you can’t be playing with Rodrigo’s feelings!” Soledad finally butts in here. Yeah Yeah, we covered that before you got here. Alina pipes up that she made a promise to Rodrigo and now she’s going to have to keep it. And anyway, he’s a good guy and she could learn to love him. Soledad nervously fusses with her daughter’s hair.
Over at Casa Valtierra, Thelma has apparently decided that she has to get rid of Alina-Flor, whatever her name is. She’s got to kill her. She confides in the SA who is horrified. She’s also got to settle accounts with Angel who undoubtedly planned that little reunion at Coral’s boutique. SA argues that he did it for Emilio’s good. Thelma jumps on her that she’s insinuating that Alina is for Emilio’s good but she explains that no, Angel tried to argue on her behalf that Emilio give her another chance. It would do no good to try to pick a fight with Angel as well. Thelma is livid. SA decides it’s a good time to leave. Thelma insists that Angel hates her. SA tells her that if she harms Angel, Emilio will hate her even more. Thelma claims that Emilio need never know…unless the SA betrays her. SA tells Thelma that she’s her niece and that she would never do that. She embraces her. And she thought bubbles that because she cares about Thelma; she isn’t going to let her go through with any plans would make her fall any lower than she has already.
Hugo and Alfonsina are at the bus station in Veracruz going to buy tickets for San Mateo. Alfonsina suddenly says that they can’t go to San Mateo, first they have to go to Puebla. Hugo looks at her like she’s crazy. She’s wanted in Puebla for killing the clerk in the hotel. Alfonsina says she has a plan so that she will not be recognized. Hugo wants to know more but Alfonsina insists that all he has to do is watch and she will execute the plan. Hugo agrees to go with her. NO THIS MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. DON’T EVEN TRY. NOTHING ELSE TO SEE HERE, LETS JUST MOVE ALONG TO THE NEXT SCENE.
At the Boutique de Coral Claudia has just made a sale. Angel just happens to be in the neighborhood and stops by. He’s wearing a black sweatshirt that says “I’ve been in the Taj Mahal.” At least, I think the last line says “Taj Mahal.” Caudia tells him that the customers have been coming in at a good pace all day but that neither Coral nor Soledad have been in. Angel tells her that he’s not there to see them. He wants to invite her to go have a meal with him. A late lunch, I guess, since he mentions 3 o’clock. Claudia accepts and looks pretty happy about it.
It’s still girltalk time in Alina’s room at Coral’s. Soledad, whatever her flaws can see that marrying Rodrigo when she is in love with someone else is not a good idea. She’s suffered enough in a bad marriage to not wish any of the same kind of hell on her own daughter. Coral chimes in that she knows she’s being nosy but she wants to talk to Alina alone. Soledad realizes that this whole situation is really too complicated for her tiny brain to handle and she tells Coral that she’ll be going along to the Boutique to see how things are going there. Coral sits down on the bed, across from Alina and addresses her directly. “Look, I know that Rodrigo is a nice guy, a teddy bear [peluchito—am I translating that right?] But tell me, does he get you hot like Emilio?” [actually the word she uses is estremecer, shiver or shake but you get the picture.] Alina sees why this is not a conversation she can have with her mom present. She sighs, no. Compared to Emilio, with all his faults, Rodrigo is, shall we say, a little light in the loafers. “That’s exactly it, says Coral. Love without Passion, is nothing more than affection.” “What do I do?” asks Alina. “Tell Rodrigo that you were mistaken. What you feel for him is friendship. Nothing more.“ Then, go to Emilio. Tell him that you love him and you can’t love anyone else.” Alina looks scared. “I can’t do that!” Coral urges her—“and what happens when Emilio divorces Thelma because he can no longer stand that witch. Will you go to him then?” Alina gets all wobbly and hides her face in her hands and groans. She gets up and walks out of the room. Coral looks doubtful that Alina has the cojones to go through with what she knows she has to do.
Still in Puebla, we are back at the jail, where a soccer game is taking place. DL and batneck are plotting DL’s escape. DL has big plans once he escapes to kill all the people who tormented him in jail, one by one.
Elsewhere in Puebla, Mariana, Malena and Ricardo are having lunch. Malena wants to know what Mariana’s plans are now that she’s confronted DL and he didn’t believe her story. Now she’s thinking of going after Alfonsina. After all, it’s her fault that all this happened. Ricardo doesn’t like the sound of that. He’s worried about her having a relapse. Malena agrees. Mariana says there is no hurry in pursuing Alfonsina since she probably thinks she’s in the clear. First, she wants to take advantage of the fact that Alina and Soledad are in town so that they can be present for her wedding. Ricardo almost drops his fork. He is ecstatic.
At Coral’s, the prosecutor, whose name escapes me, arrives. He is there to take Alina for the DNA test. Soledad seems oddly nervous, while Alina is very confident. Could it be that Soledad really did cheat… Noooooo! Anyway, they all leave at the same time, with Soledad heading to the Boutique and Alina to the DNA test place.
In a café, Angel has met up with his older brother. Emilio looks pretty awful, with his Elvis sunglases. He looks like he’s hung over. He needs to talk to somebody before he goes crazy. He tells him that Alina is engaged to Rodrigo Ochoa. Angel is impactado.
Coral and Claudia have made another sale. Coral tells her to go ahead and take her lunch break. It’s almost 3.
At the prison, the soccer game is heating up. In the background shanks are being exchanged and batneck provokes a fight. This is pretext for the riot.
Angel and Emilio discuss the details of what Emilio knows about the Rodrigo-Alina thing. Angel isn’t buying it. He’s sure that they are just friends. Emilio says that maybe that is how it started. Angel is uncharacteristically firm. He tells Emilio that he must fight for Alina. Emilio adds that Alina is afraid that she will be blamed for his divorce. Angel says it doesn’t matter, he must make her see reason, she doesn’t love him. Emilio is buoyed by this information and smiles, saying that he’s going to fight. He gets up and leaves. Angel realizes he is late for Claudia. He figures he might as well blow her off completely and go see his doctor instead.
Back at the Prison riot, fists are flying. Batneck and DL stay out of it until the guards come then they give the signal and the inmates turn on the guards. Jailbreak!
Next we go to Rodrigo’s apartment. Mauricio, Dra. Aida Loca’s dud boyfriend fills him in on the big bustup. He tells it like she broke up with him but I remember it more like, she got caught and he walked out on her, but no matter. Maurico tells Rodrigo that Dra. Loca is in love with her patient…Alvaro Montellano. Rodrigo is impactado. He’s never known the identity of this mystery patient before.
At the jailbreak in progress, who should show up but Sergio. Somehow he’s just been sent over to this section and good timing too, or so he thinks. Don Loco is not interested in his help. Sergio is ticked off and warns the guard that DL is escaping.
Over at the DNA lab, Alina is having her blood drawn. She’s happy to get this out of the way. General Ochoa shows up to take custody of the results and chats with her. She tells him that she’s grateful to Rodrigo for guarding her but now she doesn’t really need protection anymore since her Dad is in jail. Ochoa is solicitous and asks her what she thinks of doing next. She tell him she’s always been interested in medicine, she learned a lot from Luba about herbs and she’d like to study some more. General Ochoa says he has a propostion for her.
At Rodrigo’s apartment, He’s serving coffee. Mauricio asks if Rod had any idea that Aida was in love with a patient. Rodrigo says no but he’ll talk to her. She has to put this behind her. Mauricio says he loves Aida and doesn’t want to lose her. Rod can’t believe she could lose everything…for this guy. The doorbell rings. It’s Emilio. He’s demanding a chat with Rod. GEE WHAT MONSTEROUSLY BAD TIMING, EMILIO! Rod looks like he wants to slug him.
At the jailbreak, DL and batneck sneak out past the guard. They scale a wall and some pals are waiting with a rope to rappel the rest of the way out.
At Rodrigo’s Mauricio can see the thunderclouds and he beats a hasty retreat. Emilio wants to have it out with Rod. Alina loves him. The only reason why she isn’t running to him is that she thinks that she is causing his divorce. Rod goes into the whole, leave her alone, you had your chance, she deserves to be happy, blah blah blah. They are both ready to fight for her.
At the jailbreak, Batneck is urging DL to climb the rope. But DL can see what batneck guy can’t—a guard with a sniper’s rifle, pointed at batneck guy’s head. Pop. Batneck guy falls over dead. DL surrenders. Jailbreak is over. On his way out, he sees Sergio with the guards and realizes that it was he who tipped off the guards that they were trying to escape. DL is pissed and hurls threats at Sergio that he’s going to pay for his treachery.
Alina is now sitting in General Ochoa’s office. He has suggested that he could recommend her for a place in the Military Nursing training program. Alina looks excited by the prospect although she is not sure that she would qualify. Apparently, all they need is a high school degree, so Alina is already qualified. Ochoa says he’ll put in her recommendation immediately so that she can get going right away. Alina is elated. Ochoa suggests they go tour the school now. Alina asks to make a phone call and Ochoa leaves the room to give some orders and says he’ll be back right away to take her.
Over at the Prison, DL is being hustled into Solitary Confinement. He’s in a tiny dark room with only a skylight. He continues cursing Sergio.
In puebla, Alfonsina is buying her “disguise” which apparently is just some frumpy indigenous peasant clothing and beribboned hair. Without her rack, abs and tush on full display, nobody will recognize her. It’s positively brilliant.
At the boutique, Soledad is getting Alina’s phone call. She’s happy for her daughter. She tells her she’ll be excited to talk about it with her later and they hang up. But, in the midst of her happiness Soledad starts having orange flashbacks about Don Loco’s cruelty toward her. She remembers slapping him and him knocking her to the floor. She starts crying. Coral sees her friend is having a bad moment and walks over to her. Soledad pretends that she’s crying from happiness that her daughter is excited about her new opportunity. But, she remembers the suffering…Coral tells her to forget that guy…he’ll never get out to harm them. They go to attend a new group of customers who have just walked into the shop.
At Casa Valtierra, Thelma is shouting for Angel, the maid tells her that Angel went out early. The SA tells her to calm down. Is she still thinking of dressing down Angel for setting up the Alina-Emilio reunion? Thelma says she needs somewhere to put her rage. She swears that that nosy invalid will feel her anger. SA looks horrified.
Over at the Hospital where Gaspar is a patient, The Virgin of Peace is paying him a visit.
Angel arrives at the boutique super late to apologize to Claudia. She’s already gone. Angel is nervous. Not a great impression to leave “the one” he has been spouting off about. Coral tells him that she looked a little sad when she left. Angel dishes out his lame excuses. Coral tells him that he’s a dweeb. He stood her up and now she’s thinking he’s a jerk. She’s going to require a really good apology. Coral tells him that she’ll tell Claudia he was there. Angel rushes out. Coral smiles to herself and exclaims “What is it about these Valtierra men that drives us crazy?”
Meanwhile, Alina is doing the grand tour of the Military nursing school. If she does go, she’ll definitely be the hottest nurse there. No sign of nurse Suzy and her tight whites. These Nurses are all business and snappy salutes. When they get back to the general’s office, Rodrigo shows up and notices her big smile. He is happy that she’s happy.
Angel has made it back to Casa Valtierra. He’s been coughing a little more. Thelma descends upon him like a vulture and starts berating him for setting up the meeting at the Boutique opening. Angel says that his brother has a right to be happy, “and with you he’s not.” Thelma starts to tell him it’s none of his business when Emilio walks in and tells her to shut up. He tells her that regardless of her engagement with Rodrigo, he’s going to fight for Alina’s love. Thelma is superslowmo impactada, although I’m not sure why because this should not be news to her.
Next up: the return of the singing Captain Valtierra complete with a 10 piece Mariachi band serenading Alina, just like old times….Que Romantico! But Thelma has plans that involve AMENAZAS and Rodrigo getting a taxi for Alina while Thelma waits in another taxi. Emilio files for divorce and his lawyer is none other than Mauricio, Dr. Loca’s erstwhile boyfriend. And yes…it’s ULTIMOS CAPITULOS folks!
We open to marital discord between Emilio and Thelma over whether Thelma can burst into her soon to be ex-husband’s bedroom whenever she feels like it. [Fabiola Campomanes may be one hot wench en realidad but lately all she’s been doing is scowling and I am not the first to notice that when she does her face more than resembles that of a rat. ]
Emilio astutely points out that the only reason she regrets having tormented Alina is because she thought she was dead. Now that that’s proven NOT to be the case, she’s going to try to keep him from seeing her. Emilio tells her that she knows that he’s going to fight for her. Thelma scowls some more.
We skip over to the hospital where Gaspar is lying in a coma after having had the bejeezus beaten out of him in his failed lucha comeback. Luba is crying and praying to the Virgin of Peace (without her usual visual aid) to save Gaspar, to help him to hang on until she can undergo the liver transplant. She murmurs about how children are the only thing that are important. Children, like her little cub Gasparito.
Back to Thelma and Emilio. Thelma threatens Emilio that she’ll never give him a divorce and if he insists she’ll get custody of Emilito. [I know that there’s a bias in favor of the mother in custody battles but, let’s see—you drank copious amounts of booze during your pregnancy, once the baby was born, you threatened to throw him off a bridge and then last week, you tried to kill yourself. Not exactly a candidate for Mother of the Year.] Emilio is non-plussed. He figured she would go there. She taunts him again, that he doesn’t care about their son. He cuts her off and threatens that she could lose everything, including their son. Then he tells her to out of his room. Thelma bares her teeth at him and swears that he will regret this before she finally leaves.
We transition to the morning of the next day, with a beautiful pink- orange and blue sky. Adela is serving Soledad and Coral breakfast on the terrace at Coral’s mansion. Soledad inquires about Alina, whether she is awake. Adela affirms that Alina has been awake for hours walking around the house. They agree that after what happened last night when she met Emilio again, she’s probably still shaken up. Coral says that she must speak to Alina about Emilio. Just then, Alina walks up, looking goth in a gray and black sweater and jeans. She’s pouty and sullen and doesn’t want any breakfast. She’s NOT wearing THE heart pendant but appears to be wearing some other pendant. Adela hears the doorbell ring and goes to answer it. Coral starts in to explain what Angel and she had tried to do. Just then, Adela shows up with the visitor—it’s Emilio and he demands to talk to her right now. [He looks just as bad as she does in some bug-eye-Elvis sized dark sunglasses and a black leather jacket.] Alina gets up and asks everybody to leave so she can speak to Emilio alone
We hop over to Veracruz, to the Montellano canefields. Hugo and Alfonsina have evidently made up and are packing up to go on the lam back to Sierra Escondida to find THE BOX. Hugo is making sure he has the blank checks when suddenly Don Loco’s sleazy lawyer walks into the office with a revolver cocked in his hand. “Well, well,” he says unpleasantly. Alfonsina asks stupidly what he’s doing there. “I’ve come to kill you” says SL, lowering his weapon at Hugo.
Back to the other showdown, between Emilio and Alina. The other women leave. Alina stands up and tells him that they have some things to clear up. Emilio asks her why she hid from him that she was alive. “To protect myself until my father’s trial was over” she replies. “Why didn’t you tell me of your plan?” he insists. Alina gets huffy—“You think I planned all this?” “I took the potion that Luba gave me because I was desperate. I wanted to die. Because if I couldn’t be with you, I didn’t want to marry anyone.” “I didn’t know how I could go on living.” “So, says Emilio, you did it because you love me?” “Yes” says Alina, “and now I see it was for nothing because you are back with your wife.” Emilio says, “No, that’s not true.” Alina counters, “Oh yeah? Last night I saw you kissing her. It didn’t look like you were suffering.” “Oh, yeah?” says Emilio “and how long did you plan on making me suffer with your death?” “Don’t you get it that I am still here because I love you?” He sounds pretty pissed when he utters that last sentence and he grabs her roughly to kiss her. Alina resists and pushes him back angrily. “Once again with your stolen kisses!” she hisses at him. “I hope you enjoyed it because it’s the last one you are going to get.” “You think you’re going to forget me?” says Emilio. “Yes!” says Alina. “I’m not going to deny that I had a tiny piece of hope left that you and I could love each other…but after what I saw last night…it became utterly clear to me that your place is beside your wife.” “No!” says Emilio. “I am going to divorce Thelma.” “Ay!” says Alina, exasperated. She sits down. “I don’t believe you.” Just then, Rodrigo walks in claiming that the door was open and he decided to just come on in. Emilio scowls at Rodrigo, Rodrigo is stony faced back at him. Alina looks from one to the other, squinting into the light.
If you were wondering where the three other women went, they are in the living room where Don Max recently met his fate. Evidently, Coral has found a magnificent carpet cleaning service because the same rug is still there without any evidence that a guy was stabbed to death with a poker on it. Adela is peeking out the window into the garden at the other trio going at it out there. Adela is hoping that Alina and Emilio kiss and make up. Coral is worried about their stupid pride getting in the way. Soledad, the prude, is sure that the only reason that is keeping her daughter from Emilio’s arms is that she doesn’t want to be the cause of a divorce. Coral shakes her head at Soledad as if to say, You have no idea, babe.
Back to the standoff in the garden. Emilio asks Rodrigo to leave. Rodrigo gives some lame excuse like he’s in charge of Alina’s security and he can’t leave. Emilio thanks him for his service and says he’s not needed at the moment. Alina protests that Emilio is acting like an jerk, he’s always acting like he owns her. As far as she’s concerned, they are done talking. She tells him to leave. Emilio is incredulous. “You are asking me to leave after you hid that you were still alive from me?” Rodrigo chimes in “You heard her, Emilio. Either go, or I’ll kick you out.” “Look, says Emilio, I don’t want to cause a ruckus. But I’m not giving up either.” Alina looks darkly at him. “I will fight for your love, Alina. Until you understand that our destiny is to be together.” Rodrigo puts his arm around Alina. “Well, then Emilio, it’s better that you know that you will also have to confront me. “I am not going to give up on her love either. “What do you have to do with this?” asks Emilio. Alina interrupts to say that she and Rodrigo are going out. What’s more, he’s asked her to marry him and she has agreed to become his wife. If Emilio wasn’t played by such a bad actor he’d be impactado into the commercial. Instead all he does is grimace and squint into the camera.
We come back into this SAME interminable scene between Emilio, Alina and Rodrigo. Emilio of course, asks for clarification of what Alina just said before the commercial and Alina repeats that she’s going to marry Rodrigo. Emilio asks her if that is her final answer and Alina gives a little smirk and says “yes.” Emilio complains that if he had known about this he wouldn’t have come to see her. Alina doesn’t like the way this sounds and starts mewling about how she has a right to a fresh start, just like he’s doing with Thelma. Rodrigo starts trying to get Emilio to leave again. Emilio finally says that he will still separate from Thelma because she has done nothing but blackmail him with their son. Alina says that she can only believe what she sees, just like he did when he saw her in bed with Orlando. And besides, she doesn’t want to be the cause of breaking up his family. She smirks again, this time with moral superiority. Emilio starts to disagree. Rodrigo AGAIN starts in with the getting Emilio to leave. Emilio tells him to stuff it, he’s leaving. “Goodbye, Alina. I hope you find happiness.” He goes. Alina looks stricken. Rodrigo holds on to her tightly with a grim smile, like he thinks she’s going to run away.
Back to Veracruz—Sleazy Lawyer holding a gun on Hugo with Alfonsina trying to stay out of the line of fire. Hugo tries to argue that he thought DL double crossed him by stealing back the money he had been paid for his testimony. The lawyer listens but is unimpressed. Alfonsina whimpers and SL tells her to shut up. She’s using Hugo’s body as a shield but with the canon that SL is holding, at that range, the bullet would easily go right through Hugo into her. Hugo tries to argue with the lawyer that he’s not the type to kill in cold blood. SL laughs at Hugo.
Back to Rodrigo and Alina who are now sitting at the table. Clueless Rodrigo is elated that Alina has just agreed to marry him. Alina doesn’t look so happy about it. Rodrigo whines that maybe she just said that to get rid of Emilio. [YA THINK?] “I’d understand…sniff sniff.” Alina looks guilty and answers in a small voice “Of course I want to marry you…” she still looks unhappy. Rodrigo is all smiley again. [WHAT A LOSER!] Alina looks tortured once again, with the lip biting and regret written all over her face.
Once again with SL, Alfonsina and Hugo. [SHOOT THEM ALREADY, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE!] blah blah blah. OK this is a bad sign and yes---Hugo manages to overpower SL, grab his gun and knock him on the head with it. Alfonsina thanks Hugo for saving her but Hugo is all business. He did it for himself and the money. He grabs money out of SL’s wallet and they hurry up their original plan to leave for SE. They don’t kill him but figure they’ll be long gone by the time he wakes up. They grab their stuff and leave, DL’s ridiculous portrait hanging next to the door.
Over at Emilio’s Puebla mansion, he’s pouring himself a brandy and moping about why he seems destined never to be happy and never to be with Alina. He doesn’t get why she doesn’t believe that he will be divorcing Thelma. Just then Thelma walks in, triumphant. She knows he went to see her and from his demeanor, she knows it didn’t go well. Emilio tells her to go away, as usual.
Alina and Rodrigo are kissing in the garden. It is the worst kiss I’ve ever seen. It’s like both of them are forcing themselves to kiss the other. It breaks up fast when Soledad and Coral come in. Soledad innocently says that she thought Emilio was still here. “No, Emilio and I…we resolved everything that we had to resolve…” says Alina. Rodrigo jumps up and announces that Alina has agreed to marry him. Soledad looks surprised. Coral looks suspicious. Alina smiles wanly.
Over at Casa Valtierra, Emilio has accused Thelma of trying to fix up the dinner date with Rodrigo and Alina to shock him. Thelma dramatically says that back then, everybody thought Alina was dead, the dinner had nothing to do with Alina. Emilio doesn’t buy it. What’s more, he’s not going to let her continue to bother Alina. Thelma tells him she doesn’t think he should worry about Alina anymore. “she has someone to take care of her now.” “And that’s not you!” She struts over to the brandy and pours herself a glass. Emilio warns her that it’s not over yet. He’s going to confront Rodrigo and anyone else who tries to get between him and Alina, including her. Thelma knows she’s got him where she wants him and she pushes again---“I don’t think you should be worried about me. It’s Rodrigo you should be worried about. I don’t think he’s going to let you get between him and Alina.” “Besides, I don’t think it’s good for you to be humiliating yourself like this. You should just accept that she’s never going to be with you. She already has her Captain…. Captain.” She walks out of the room laughing with her glass of brandy.
Back to the Hospital where Luba is in conference with Gaspar’s doctor. The weird little man who is some kind of fight manager helps to facilitate the discussion because Luba has been transformed in this foreign setting, from a smart, crafty witch to a stupid, clueless peasant. The doctor tells her that they will have to do some tests to see if her organs are compatible with Gaspar’s. She finds it hard to believe that her son’s body is not compatible with hers.
Back at Coral’s mansion Soledad thinks there is something not quite right about Alina rejecting the love of her life (as impossible or inappropriate as he was) and immediately accepting a marriage proposal from a guy that she’s only known for a few weeks. When Coral butts in to say that she can’t have forgotten Emilio that fast, Soledad tries to interrupt her as if the suggestion is impertinent. Coral stands her ground this time but Rodrigo, pathetic excuse for a guy that he is, says he knows what it’s like to try to forget someone and move on [YES but your wife was DEAD, you aren’t likely to meet her at every other corner]. He knows that his job will be to try to make Alina forget Emilio and to make her happy. He kisses Alina’s hand. Alina looks like she can’t decide whether this is cute or smarmy.
At Casa Valtierra, Thelma is buttoning up Emilito’s onesie while talking to the SA. She recounts her conversation with with Emilio and finishes up on how Emilio is still humiliating her by pursing the reluctant Alina. SA tells her that she was the one who accepted this situation. Thelma disagrees. She never accepted this. She is going to come up with a plan to separate them. When SA protests, Thelma starts screaming at her to shut up and not get in her way.
At Coral’s, Rodrigo has gone back to the base. Soledad confronts her daughter alone and wants to know the truth about this sudden engagement. Alina gives it up almost immediately that her pride was hurt when she saw Emilio kissing Thelma and it was the first thing she could think of to say that she knew would hurt Emilio. She’s not sure she wants to marry Rodrigo, she was er…confused. Soledad says, “So basically, you accepted Rodrigo out of an attack of jealousy. That was a really bad thing to do…don’t you see that from all that has happened with your Father?” “Why couldn’t you explain that to Rodrigo?’ Alina looks sheepish. “ He was so happy, I couldn’t break his heart.” Soledad looks disapprovingly. Coral pokes her head in the door. “Sorry for listening, but you need to know something Alina.” “Emilio didn’t lie when he told you he was going to divorce Thelma. Angel told me that even before he found out you were alive, Emilio had already asked Thelma for a divorce. Emilio didn’t deceive you.” Alina is impactada into the commercial.
Out of the commercial, Alina is in a rage. “SO WHY WAS HE KISSING HER THEN?” she demands. Coral says, “It was just a kiss. And besides, I have no doubt that that chick could force him to do it. Look, Angel told me that that crazy bitch never stops trying to blackmail him. She’s threatened to kill herself.” “Wow” says Soledad. “That woman is crazy.” Now it’s Alina’s turn to smack herself upside the head. “Boy, am I stupid! I thought that they had reconciled because he thought I was dead.” “You are REALLY stupid” says Coral. “What’s going to happen now?” Alina buries her hands in her face and groans. “I don’t know.” Coral continues “you can’t be playing with Rodrigo’s feelings!” Soledad finally butts in here. Yeah Yeah, we covered that before you got here. Alina pipes up that she made a promise to Rodrigo and now she’s going to have to keep it. And anyway, he’s a good guy and she could learn to love him. Soledad nervously fusses with her daughter’s hair.
Over at Casa Valtierra, Thelma has apparently decided that she has to get rid of Alina-Flor, whatever her name is. She’s got to kill her. She confides in the SA who is horrified. She’s also got to settle accounts with Angel who undoubtedly planned that little reunion at Coral’s boutique. SA argues that he did it for Emilio’s good. Thelma jumps on her that she’s insinuating that Alina is for Emilio’s good but she explains that no, Angel tried to argue on her behalf that Emilio give her another chance. It would do no good to try to pick a fight with Angel as well. Thelma is livid. SA decides it’s a good time to leave. Thelma insists that Angel hates her. SA tells her that if she harms Angel, Emilio will hate her even more. Thelma claims that Emilio need never know…unless the SA betrays her. SA tells Thelma that she’s her niece and that she would never do that. She embraces her. And she thought bubbles that because she cares about Thelma; she isn’t going to let her go through with any plans would make her fall any lower than she has already.
Hugo and Alfonsina are at the bus station in Veracruz going to buy tickets for San Mateo. Alfonsina suddenly says that they can’t go to San Mateo, first they have to go to Puebla. Hugo looks at her like she’s crazy. She’s wanted in Puebla for killing the clerk in the hotel. Alfonsina says she has a plan so that she will not be recognized. Hugo wants to know more but Alfonsina insists that all he has to do is watch and she will execute the plan. Hugo agrees to go with her. NO THIS MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. DON’T EVEN TRY. NOTHING ELSE TO SEE HERE, LETS JUST MOVE ALONG TO THE NEXT SCENE.
At the Boutique de Coral Claudia has just made a sale. Angel just happens to be in the neighborhood and stops by. He’s wearing a black sweatshirt that says “I’ve been in the Taj Mahal.” At least, I think the last line says “Taj Mahal.” Caudia tells him that the customers have been coming in at a good pace all day but that neither Coral nor Soledad have been in. Angel tells her that he’s not there to see them. He wants to invite her to go have a meal with him. A late lunch, I guess, since he mentions 3 o’clock. Claudia accepts and looks pretty happy about it.
It’s still girltalk time in Alina’s room at Coral’s. Soledad, whatever her flaws can see that marrying Rodrigo when she is in love with someone else is not a good idea. She’s suffered enough in a bad marriage to not wish any of the same kind of hell on her own daughter. Coral chimes in that she knows she’s being nosy but she wants to talk to Alina alone. Soledad realizes that this whole situation is really too complicated for her tiny brain to handle and she tells Coral that she’ll be going along to the Boutique to see how things are going there. Coral sits down on the bed, across from Alina and addresses her directly. “Look, I know that Rodrigo is a nice guy, a teddy bear [peluchito—am I translating that right?] But tell me, does he get you hot like Emilio?” [actually the word she uses is estremecer, shiver or shake but you get the picture.] Alina sees why this is not a conversation she can have with her mom present. She sighs, no. Compared to Emilio, with all his faults, Rodrigo is, shall we say, a little light in the loafers. “That’s exactly it, says Coral. Love without Passion, is nothing more than affection.” “What do I do?” asks Alina. “Tell Rodrigo that you were mistaken. What you feel for him is friendship. Nothing more.“ Then, go to Emilio. Tell him that you love him and you can’t love anyone else.” Alina looks scared. “I can’t do that!” Coral urges her—“and what happens when Emilio divorces Thelma because he can no longer stand that witch. Will you go to him then?” Alina gets all wobbly and hides her face in her hands and groans. She gets up and walks out of the room. Coral looks doubtful that Alina has the cojones to go through with what she knows she has to do.
Still in Puebla, we are back at the jail, where a soccer game is taking place. DL and batneck are plotting DL’s escape. DL has big plans once he escapes to kill all the people who tormented him in jail, one by one.
Elsewhere in Puebla, Mariana, Malena and Ricardo are having lunch. Malena wants to know what Mariana’s plans are now that she’s confronted DL and he didn’t believe her story. Now she’s thinking of going after Alfonsina. After all, it’s her fault that all this happened. Ricardo doesn’t like the sound of that. He’s worried about her having a relapse. Malena agrees. Mariana says there is no hurry in pursuing Alfonsina since she probably thinks she’s in the clear. First, she wants to take advantage of the fact that Alina and Soledad are in town so that they can be present for her wedding. Ricardo almost drops his fork. He is ecstatic.
At Coral’s, the prosecutor, whose name escapes me, arrives. He is there to take Alina for the DNA test. Soledad seems oddly nervous, while Alina is very confident. Could it be that Soledad really did cheat… Noooooo! Anyway, they all leave at the same time, with Soledad heading to the Boutique and Alina to the DNA test place.
In a café, Angel has met up with his older brother. Emilio looks pretty awful, with his Elvis sunglases. He looks like he’s hung over. He needs to talk to somebody before he goes crazy. He tells him that Alina is engaged to Rodrigo Ochoa. Angel is impactado.
Coral and Claudia have made another sale. Coral tells her to go ahead and take her lunch break. It’s almost 3.
At the prison, the soccer game is heating up. In the background shanks are being exchanged and batneck provokes a fight. This is pretext for the riot.
Angel and Emilio discuss the details of what Emilio knows about the Rodrigo-Alina thing. Angel isn’t buying it. He’s sure that they are just friends. Emilio says that maybe that is how it started. Angel is uncharacteristically firm. He tells Emilio that he must fight for Alina. Emilio adds that Alina is afraid that she will be blamed for his divorce. Angel says it doesn’t matter, he must make her see reason, she doesn’t love him. Emilio is buoyed by this information and smiles, saying that he’s going to fight. He gets up and leaves. Angel realizes he is late for Claudia. He figures he might as well blow her off completely and go see his doctor instead.
Back at the Prison riot, fists are flying. Batneck and DL stay out of it until the guards come then they give the signal and the inmates turn on the guards. Jailbreak!
Next we go to Rodrigo’s apartment. Mauricio, Dra. Aida Loca’s dud boyfriend fills him in on the big bustup. He tells it like she broke up with him but I remember it more like, she got caught and he walked out on her, but no matter. Maurico tells Rodrigo that Dra. Loca is in love with her patient…Alvaro Montellano. Rodrigo is impactado. He’s never known the identity of this mystery patient before.
At the jailbreak in progress, who should show up but Sergio. Somehow he’s just been sent over to this section and good timing too, or so he thinks. Don Loco is not interested in his help. Sergio is ticked off and warns the guard that DL is escaping.
Over at the DNA lab, Alina is having her blood drawn. She’s happy to get this out of the way. General Ochoa shows up to take custody of the results and chats with her. She tells him that she’s grateful to Rodrigo for guarding her but now she doesn’t really need protection anymore since her Dad is in jail. Ochoa is solicitous and asks her what she thinks of doing next. She tell him she’s always been interested in medicine, she learned a lot from Luba about herbs and she’d like to study some more. General Ochoa says he has a propostion for her.
At Rodrigo’s apartment, He’s serving coffee. Mauricio asks if Rod had any idea that Aida was in love with a patient. Rodrigo says no but he’ll talk to her. She has to put this behind her. Mauricio says he loves Aida and doesn’t want to lose her. Rod can’t believe she could lose everything…for this guy. The doorbell rings. It’s Emilio. He’s demanding a chat with Rod. GEE WHAT MONSTEROUSLY BAD TIMING, EMILIO! Rod looks like he wants to slug him.
At the jailbreak, DL and batneck sneak out past the guard. They scale a wall and some pals are waiting with a rope to rappel the rest of the way out.
At Rodrigo’s Mauricio can see the thunderclouds and he beats a hasty retreat. Emilio wants to have it out with Rod. Alina loves him. The only reason why she isn’t running to him is that she thinks that she is causing his divorce. Rod goes into the whole, leave her alone, you had your chance, she deserves to be happy, blah blah blah. They are both ready to fight for her.
At the jailbreak, Batneck is urging DL to climb the rope. But DL can see what batneck guy can’t—a guard with a sniper’s rifle, pointed at batneck guy’s head. Pop. Batneck guy falls over dead. DL surrenders. Jailbreak is over. On his way out, he sees Sergio with the guards and realizes that it was he who tipped off the guards that they were trying to escape. DL is pissed and hurls threats at Sergio that he’s going to pay for his treachery.
Alina is now sitting in General Ochoa’s office. He has suggested that he could recommend her for a place in the Military Nursing training program. Alina looks excited by the prospect although she is not sure that she would qualify. Apparently, all they need is a high school degree, so Alina is already qualified. Ochoa says he’ll put in her recommendation immediately so that she can get going right away. Alina is elated. Ochoa suggests they go tour the school now. Alina asks to make a phone call and Ochoa leaves the room to give some orders and says he’ll be back right away to take her.
Over at the Prison, DL is being hustled into Solitary Confinement. He’s in a tiny dark room with only a skylight. He continues cursing Sergio.
In puebla, Alfonsina is buying her “disguise” which apparently is just some frumpy indigenous peasant clothing and beribboned hair. Without her rack, abs and tush on full display, nobody will recognize her. It’s positively brilliant.
At the boutique, Soledad is getting Alina’s phone call. She’s happy for her daughter. She tells her she’ll be excited to talk about it with her later and they hang up. But, in the midst of her happiness Soledad starts having orange flashbacks about Don Loco’s cruelty toward her. She remembers slapping him and him knocking her to the floor. She starts crying. Coral sees her friend is having a bad moment and walks over to her. Soledad pretends that she’s crying from happiness that her daughter is excited about her new opportunity. But, she remembers the suffering…Coral tells her to forget that guy…he’ll never get out to harm them. They go to attend a new group of customers who have just walked into the shop.
At Casa Valtierra, Thelma is shouting for Angel, the maid tells her that Angel went out early. The SA tells her to calm down. Is she still thinking of dressing down Angel for setting up the Alina-Emilio reunion? Thelma says she needs somewhere to put her rage. She swears that that nosy invalid will feel her anger. SA looks horrified.
Over at the Hospital where Gaspar is a patient, The Virgin of Peace is paying him a visit.
Angel arrives at the boutique super late to apologize to Claudia. She’s already gone. Angel is nervous. Not a great impression to leave “the one” he has been spouting off about. Coral tells him that she looked a little sad when she left. Angel dishes out his lame excuses. Coral tells him that he’s a dweeb. He stood her up and now she’s thinking he’s a jerk. She’s going to require a really good apology. Coral tells him that she’ll tell Claudia he was there. Angel rushes out. Coral smiles to herself and exclaims “What is it about these Valtierra men that drives us crazy?”
Meanwhile, Alina is doing the grand tour of the Military nursing school. If she does go, she’ll definitely be the hottest nurse there. No sign of nurse Suzy and her tight whites. These Nurses are all business and snappy salutes. When they get back to the general’s office, Rodrigo shows up and notices her big smile. He is happy that she’s happy.
Angel has made it back to Casa Valtierra. He’s been coughing a little more. Thelma descends upon him like a vulture and starts berating him for setting up the meeting at the Boutique opening. Angel says that his brother has a right to be happy, “and with you he’s not.” Thelma starts to tell him it’s none of his business when Emilio walks in and tells her to shut up. He tells her that regardless of her engagement with Rodrigo, he’s going to fight for Alina’s love. Thelma is superslowmo impactada, although I’m not sure why because this should not be news to her.
Next up: the return of the singing Captain Valtierra complete with a 10 piece Mariachi band serenading Alina, just like old times….Que Romantico! But Thelma has plans that involve AMENAZAS and Rodrigo getting a taxi for Alina while Thelma waits in another taxi. Emilio files for divorce and his lawyer is none other than Mauricio, Dr. Loca’s erstwhile boyfriend. And yes…it’s ULTIMOS CAPITULOS folks!
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La Fea Más Bella #294A 6/11/07 Well, it's hit the fan now!
Aldo wants to know what's going on. Lety thinks it's just because she forgot her glasses, so she puts them back on, but then notices what she's wearing. To cap it off, Tomás hands her a mirror and she's so impactada that she takes the glasses back off. Fernando and JR come over and JR says "Que impresion" (what an impression; how impressive). Tomás is trying to tell Lety "I told you so," but it's way too late for that…there's just no way to come back from this. Fernando says he thinks they're busted. Lety tells Aldo she can explain, but Aldo coldly says it's clear what she did with the help of Fernando and Tomás. Fernando then tries to explain, but Aldo cuts him off and says nothing can justify what Lety did. Now it's Tomás' turn, but Aldo cuts him off as well saying that he could have expected anything from Fernando, but Tomás? "Que desilusion tan grande" (What a big disappointment). Lety asks Aldo to listen to her for a second and Fernando pulls Tomás and JR away (but it looks more like JR sticks around to listen).
Lola and El Cheque: El Cheque is being released and the guy behind the desk tells him he hopes El Cheque will think twice next time before he gets behind on his payments. El Cheque swears he'll pay them first out of his paychecks from now on. Lola looks pretty doubtful. El Cheque gets his manila envelope of belongings back. El Cheque tells Lola he's not going to live with Jasmine anymore, he doesn't love her, he won't pay her bills and so now there won't be any more problems, "mi amor, Lola." Lola replies "Dolores" (ooh, burn!). She wants to know if he understands that this is all the fault of Jasmine, that quita maridos (husband-stealer; homewrecker), bandida (thief). El Cheque wants to have a chat with Lola over some taquitos.
Tomás and Fernando lament the failure of their brilliant plan. JR says this was a totally awesome evening. He thinks it rocks that Lety is Aurora. Millions of people are going to watch the program and it should be a big hit because of what happened tonight. Fernando wants to know what tonight has to do with it, but JR says nothing, see you tomorrow. They don't know what JR's planning, but Fernando swears he'll kill JR if Lety gets hurt any more and Tomás says he'll help.
Lety has apparently told Aldo the whole truth. Aldo's all bitchy that she didn't trust him with the truth earlier. Shut up, Aldo. (I know, I know, she had it coming, but that doesn't excuse him for being patronizing about it!) Blah, blah, blah, Lety lied to herself, blah, blah, blah, revenge, lies, making others suffer, blah, blah, blah, you haven't learned anything…again, Shut up, Aldo! Aldo says Lety finally found what she really wants in life…Fernando. Ooh, you know what, I take it back, Aldo, you are wise and you speak only truth…preach it, brother! Lety denies it (no, Lety, embrace it, embrace the Fer side!). Aldo's not buying what she's selling either. He says he didn't imagine the kiss between Aurora and Fernando. He calls it a bajeza (a despicable thing to do) that Lety had to dress up as a diva to kiss Fernando (I changed my mind again, shut up, Aldo, I'd do it too!), he calls it mezquindad (a miserable thing to do) and barbaridad (an atrocity). He says he's desilusionado (disappointed) with Lety and walks off, telling the guys to take Lety home. Fernando says Aldo's being unfair to Lety. Lety cries her overly-made-up eyes out and asks Fernando what to do. Fernando consoles her and says he and Tomás are there to protect her, but Tomás remembers Alicia is waiting for him, so Fernando will take Lety home. Lety says she's got to take off her makeup and change clothes. Fernando looks like he's sad, but he wants to jump up and down all at the same time. He settles for holding Lety. Ay, Don Fernando, tan divino!
Lola, El Cheque, and los taquitos: El Cheque is trying to put the moves on Lola, but in a kind of desperate, pathetic way. He's finally realized that Lola's a good mother and was an "excellent" wife. Lola's taking this well, not eating out of his hand, but not griping him out either. She doesn't think he's understood things yet. She thinks they can stay friends, since now she knows she can make it on her own and doesn't have to depend on anyone. She thanks El Cheque for the tacos and leaves.
Tomás comes home to find the bedroom door back up. He overhears Alicia (allegedly, I thought) talking to Papa about how Tomás runs around at night without telling her where he's going, he doesn't feed her, he doesn't give her money, she feels so alone. Tomás wants to talk to Papa and clear things up. He takes the phone and greets his "suegrito" (little father-in-law) and calls him "Don Papa de Alicia"…but alas, Tomás says "he hung up." Alicia weeps and says he always hangs up, he always leaves her, he always goes, he always does the same thing to her. She cries and lies down on the bed and Tomás looks worried. Sorry, I can't help it, but I feel really sorry for Alicia. It doesn't excuse her behavior, but it sure does explain a lot.
Aldo's on the phone to Carmina telling her he just needs to be alone, but Carmina is getting in the Carminamobile to rush to Aldo's side, whether he wants it or not. Go, Stalker Chick! Now's your chance!
The Moras: If you cry at the drop of a hat, you might want to get the hankies out now. Tomas: "Chiquita, understand me, I felt really strange when I heard what you said to your dad. I suddenly think I don't know you that well, Alicia Ferreira. I always liked you, I fell in love with your beauty, but you don't let me asomarme (you don't let me in) what you have here [in your heart] hidden. I never thought you were capable of…" Alicia: "Tomy, I'm going to explain it to you." Tomás:" No, Chiquita, I understand" Alicia: "Really? You're not mad?" Tomás: "Of course not, I just found out something that moved me." Alicia: "Ay, Tomy, what are you talking about?" Tomás: "Alicia, you have a great pain and even you haven't realized you're carrying it around." Alicia tries to laugh it off: " Ay, Tomy, I don't know what you're talking about, of course not." Tomás: "You don't know? Well, I do. But I'd like to understand more, know what's happening to you. Chiquita, I don't want you to suffer." Alicia: "But I don't suffer." Tomás: "Yes, you do. And now that I realize it, I don't know how, but I love you more." He moves in to kiss her, and it looks like she was going to kiss him, but Tomás kisses her on the forehead. Alicia: "But I'm great, look at me. You know." Tomás: "Yes, Chiquita. Good night." Alicia: "Good night, Tomy." He hands her her phone, leaves the room, and closes the door as Alicia looks, dare I say it, thoughtful. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the only scene I've seen with the two of them that hasn't completely grossed me out. I only pray they don't regress!
Fernando is driving Lety home and she has re-Lety-fied. It looks like she's wiped out from crying. Fernando tells her not to cry any more because it breaks his heart ("parte mi alma", literally "splits my soul"). He says Fry Daddy will be back once he realizes Lety did it for him. Lety says Aldo hates lies and he'll never forgive her. Fernando says it gives him flojera (he's sick of), Aldo with his intachable (impeccable) morals, but then he tells Lety he's kidding. Lety says Aldo is right and they were a couple and no se valen los engaños (it's not good to deceive). Fernando says she shouldn't be sad, he'll start getting over it with every soup he makes. Lety says she's lost him and she won't see him again. Fernando says she can count on him for whatever she needs. She thanks him and says he should go home and he can take her car if he wants (oops, I didn't notice they were in her car!). He says he'll get the door for her and helps her out of the car. He says he doesn't want to leave her alone, but she tells him not to worry and to go home. Fernando says "están las llaves pegadas" (the keys are in the car) and walks off.
JR is on the phone to the dude from the gossip show. They have some kind of brilliant plan that comes complete with creepy music. Everyone will watch the show. Mexico will have a big surprise tomorrow, and Leticia Padilla will become a public figure. Creeps. Those two make me sick.
Lety is in bed crying and Mama comes to visit. Lety says she made the worst mistake of her life. She tells Mama about the crazy evening. Mama's supportive, but she asks how Lety could think the plan for the evening was a good idea. Lety tells Mama about Aldo and what he said to her and that she lost him forever. Mama consoles Lety as we go to credits.
Tomorrow: Well, we don't exactly know, but we're on the road to the grand finale and there are more surprises in store.
Lola and El Cheque: El Cheque is being released and the guy behind the desk tells him he hopes El Cheque will think twice next time before he gets behind on his payments. El Cheque swears he'll pay them first out of his paychecks from now on. Lola looks pretty doubtful. El Cheque gets his manila envelope of belongings back. El Cheque tells Lola he's not going to live with Jasmine anymore, he doesn't love her, he won't pay her bills and so now there won't be any more problems, "mi amor, Lola." Lola replies "Dolores" (ooh, burn!). She wants to know if he understands that this is all the fault of Jasmine, that quita maridos (husband-stealer; homewrecker), bandida (thief). El Cheque wants to have a chat with Lola over some taquitos.
Tomás and Fernando lament the failure of their brilliant plan. JR says this was a totally awesome evening. He thinks it rocks that Lety is Aurora. Millions of people are going to watch the program and it should be a big hit because of what happened tonight. Fernando wants to know what tonight has to do with it, but JR says nothing, see you tomorrow. They don't know what JR's planning, but Fernando swears he'll kill JR if Lety gets hurt any more and Tomás says he'll help.
Lety has apparently told Aldo the whole truth. Aldo's all bitchy that she didn't trust him with the truth earlier. Shut up, Aldo. (I know, I know, she had it coming, but that doesn't excuse him for being patronizing about it!) Blah, blah, blah, Lety lied to herself, blah, blah, blah, revenge, lies, making others suffer, blah, blah, blah, you haven't learned anything…again, Shut up, Aldo! Aldo says Lety finally found what she really wants in life…Fernando. Ooh, you know what, I take it back, Aldo, you are wise and you speak only truth…preach it, brother! Lety denies it (no, Lety, embrace it, embrace the Fer side!). Aldo's not buying what she's selling either. He says he didn't imagine the kiss between Aurora and Fernando. He calls it a bajeza (a despicable thing to do) that Lety had to dress up as a diva to kiss Fernando (I changed my mind again, shut up, Aldo, I'd do it too!), he calls it mezquindad (a miserable thing to do) and barbaridad (an atrocity). He says he's desilusionado (disappointed) with Lety and walks off, telling the guys to take Lety home. Fernando says Aldo's being unfair to Lety. Lety cries her overly-made-up eyes out and asks Fernando what to do. Fernando consoles her and says he and Tomás are there to protect her, but Tomás remembers Alicia is waiting for him, so Fernando will take Lety home. Lety says she's got to take off her makeup and change clothes. Fernando looks like he's sad, but he wants to jump up and down all at the same time. He settles for holding Lety. Ay, Don Fernando, tan divino!
Lola, El Cheque, and los taquitos: El Cheque is trying to put the moves on Lola, but in a kind of desperate, pathetic way. He's finally realized that Lola's a good mother and was an "excellent" wife. Lola's taking this well, not eating out of his hand, but not griping him out either. She doesn't think he's understood things yet. She thinks they can stay friends, since now she knows she can make it on her own and doesn't have to depend on anyone. She thanks El Cheque for the tacos and leaves.
Tomás comes home to find the bedroom door back up. He overhears Alicia (allegedly, I thought) talking to Papa about how Tomás runs around at night without telling her where he's going, he doesn't feed her, he doesn't give her money, she feels so alone. Tomás wants to talk to Papa and clear things up. He takes the phone and greets his "suegrito" (little father-in-law) and calls him "Don Papa de Alicia"…but alas, Tomás says "he hung up." Alicia weeps and says he always hangs up, he always leaves her, he always goes, he always does the same thing to her. She cries and lies down on the bed and Tomás looks worried. Sorry, I can't help it, but I feel really sorry for Alicia. It doesn't excuse her behavior, but it sure does explain a lot.
Aldo's on the phone to Carmina telling her he just needs to be alone, but Carmina is getting in the Carminamobile to rush to Aldo's side, whether he wants it or not. Go, Stalker Chick! Now's your chance!
The Moras: If you cry at the drop of a hat, you might want to get the hankies out now. Tomas: "Chiquita, understand me, I felt really strange when I heard what you said to your dad. I suddenly think I don't know you that well, Alicia Ferreira. I always liked you, I fell in love with your beauty, but you don't let me asomarme (you don't let me in) what you have here [in your heart] hidden. I never thought you were capable of…" Alicia: "Tomy, I'm going to explain it to you." Tomás:" No, Chiquita, I understand" Alicia: "Really? You're not mad?" Tomás: "Of course not, I just found out something that moved me." Alicia: "Ay, Tomy, what are you talking about?" Tomás: "Alicia, you have a great pain and even you haven't realized you're carrying it around." Alicia tries to laugh it off: " Ay, Tomy, I don't know what you're talking about, of course not." Tomás: "You don't know? Well, I do. But I'd like to understand more, know what's happening to you. Chiquita, I don't want you to suffer." Alicia: "But I don't suffer." Tomás: "Yes, you do. And now that I realize it, I don't know how, but I love you more." He moves in to kiss her, and it looks like she was going to kiss him, but Tomás kisses her on the forehead. Alicia: "But I'm great, look at me. You know." Tomás: "Yes, Chiquita. Good night." Alicia: "Good night, Tomy." He hands her her phone, leaves the room, and closes the door as Alicia looks, dare I say it, thoughtful. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the only scene I've seen with the two of them that hasn't completely grossed me out. I only pray they don't regress!
Fernando is driving Lety home and she has re-Lety-fied. It looks like she's wiped out from crying. Fernando tells her not to cry any more because it breaks his heart ("parte mi alma", literally "splits my soul"). He says Fry Daddy will be back once he realizes Lety did it for him. Lety says Aldo hates lies and he'll never forgive her. Fernando says it gives him flojera (he's sick of), Aldo with his intachable (impeccable) morals, but then he tells Lety he's kidding. Lety says Aldo is right and they were a couple and no se valen los engaños (it's not good to deceive). Fernando says she shouldn't be sad, he'll start getting over it with every soup he makes. Lety says she's lost him and she won't see him again. Fernando says she can count on him for whatever she needs. She thanks him and says he should go home and he can take her car if he wants (oops, I didn't notice they were in her car!). He says he'll get the door for her and helps her out of the car. He says he doesn't want to leave her alone, but she tells him not to worry and to go home. Fernando says "están las llaves pegadas" (the keys are in the car) and walks off.
JR is on the phone to the dude from the gossip show. They have some kind of brilliant plan that comes complete with creepy music. Everyone will watch the show. Mexico will have a big surprise tomorrow, and Leticia Padilla will become a public figure. Creeps. Those two make me sick.
Lety is in bed crying and Mama comes to visit. Lety says she made the worst mistake of her life. She tells Mama about the crazy evening. Mama's supportive, but she asks how Lety could think the plan for the evening was a good idea. Lety tells Mama about Aldo and what he said to her and that she lost him forever. Mama consoles Lety as we go to credits.
Tomorrow: Well, we don't exactly know, but we're on the road to the grand finale and there are more surprises in store.
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Juan Querendon El primer capitulo
I want to apologize for not posting a full recap. I got the bulletin late about the show premiering tonite in the odd time slot. I missed the first ten minutes, but here is what I got:
Juan is shooting some hoops with some guys and doing some cute showboating. And looking kind of cute in his white shirt... but I digress. He notices three guys standing there watching him and they have guns. He does a voice over explaining who they are and my recorder kind of messed up on that part, I did hear him say one of the gun toters was a brother to one of his flings. He runs away carrying his clothes and the guys give chase. Juan manages to hide and make a getaway from the men. He catches a bus and implores the driver to let him on the bus explaining that there are some fellas trying to kill him. The bus driver lets him on and they continue on their route. He gets off the bus in the city and admires the surroundings and does a voiceover about how he is going to a relatives house or the relative of somebody he knows til the heat dies down in his village. In his voiceover he mutters something about how that fateful day he encountered the woman who would steal his corazon...
In the next scene, the girl, Paula, is in the parking lot with her mother at the airport. Paula has just returned to the city. They exchange niceties about how good the other looks and then hop in the car and drive away. They chit chat about her studies, the flight, etc.
P and her mother are stuck in traffic and Juan's taxi that he is riding is next to their car. He looks at her. She looks at him. He smiles. She smiles back. He waves. Her smile gets bigger. He voices over about how smoking hot she is and how impactado he is by her sonrisa (smile). He knows he will never be the same.
P and her mom arrive back at the casa. Paula's mother has decorated the house with welcome home posters. Paula admires the decor. She then noticies that they are not alone and looks muy impactada. It is her father, whom she is not happy to see. She looks disgruntled and says she appreciates what he has done for her and her mother, but they had a deal and he is not honoring it. She says she will pay him back for what he has done for them and he says it is not necessary. Her mother tells her that her father would like to speak to her and she tries to leave them alone to talk. Paula says no, don't leave. Her mother asks her to hear him out. She agrees to hear what he has to say.
It has now turned dark and Juan is creeping outside some house and presses the call button. A sassy lady answers and is none too happy about being bothered and asks who goes there. He explains her cousin gave him the address and he introduces himself. She admires his form and cops some cheap feels on Juan.
Paula and her dad are talking. He tells her he realizes he made some mistakes in his past. He tells her he is ill in his alma and needs her to forgive him. In this exchange between her and her father we learn that Paula's mom and him were lovers and P is the result of that union. She expresses her sorrow of not feeling like one of his real children and how she had to deal with the fact that offspring of the type of relationship she was born of are not treated or revered as the other kids. She is in obvious pain over not having him in her life full time or when she needed him the most. He's crying, she's crying. He tells her that he does not have a lot of time left. She says not to be so pessimistic. She talks about the day she turned 15 and he was not there and she was the only girl at the party who didn't have a father. She tells him his words mean nothing to her now and asks him to leave. He does, but not before giving her a kiss on her forehead and telling her that he wants to repair the damage he has done to her and her mother.
Juan is shooting some hoops with some guys and doing some cute showboating. And looking kind of cute in his white shirt... but I digress. He notices three guys standing there watching him and they have guns. He does a voice over explaining who they are and my recorder kind of messed up on that part, I did hear him say one of the gun toters was a brother to one of his flings. He runs away carrying his clothes and the guys give chase. Juan manages to hide and make a getaway from the men. He catches a bus and implores the driver to let him on the bus explaining that there are some fellas trying to kill him. The bus driver lets him on and they continue on their route. He gets off the bus in the city and admires the surroundings and does a voiceover about how he is going to a relatives house or the relative of somebody he knows til the heat dies down in his village. In his voiceover he mutters something about how that fateful day he encountered the woman who would steal his corazon...
In the next scene, the girl, Paula, is in the parking lot with her mother at the airport. Paula has just returned to the city. They exchange niceties about how good the other looks and then hop in the car and drive away. They chit chat about her studies, the flight, etc.
P and her mother are stuck in traffic and Juan's taxi that he is riding is next to their car. He looks at her. She looks at him. He smiles. She smiles back. He waves. Her smile gets bigger. He voices over about how smoking hot she is and how impactado he is by her sonrisa (smile). He knows he will never be the same.
P and her mom arrive back at the casa. Paula's mother has decorated the house with welcome home posters. Paula admires the decor. She then noticies that they are not alone and looks muy impactada. It is her father, whom she is not happy to see. She looks disgruntled and says she appreciates what he has done for her and her mother, but they had a deal and he is not honoring it. She says she will pay him back for what he has done for them and he says it is not necessary. Her mother tells her that her father would like to speak to her and she tries to leave them alone to talk. Paula says no, don't leave. Her mother asks her to hear him out. She agrees to hear what he has to say.
It has now turned dark and Juan is creeping outside some house and presses the call button. A sassy lady answers and is none too happy about being bothered and asks who goes there. He explains her cousin gave him the address and he introduces himself. She admires his form and cops some cheap feels on Juan.
Paula and her dad are talking. He tells her he realizes he made some mistakes in his past. He tells her he is ill in his alma and needs her to forgive him. In this exchange between her and her father we learn that Paula's mom and him were lovers and P is the result of that union. She expresses her sorrow of not feeling like one of his real children and how she had to deal with the fact that offspring of the type of relationship she was born of are not treated or revered as the other kids. She is in obvious pain over not having him in her life full time or when she needed him the most. He's crying, she's crying. He tells her that he does not have a lot of time left. She says not to be so pessimistic. She talks about the day she turned 15 and he was not there and she was the only girl at the party who didn't have a father. She tells him his words mean nothing to her now and asks him to leave. He does, but not before giving her a kiss on her forehead and telling her that he wants to repair the damage he has done to her and her mother.
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Monday, June 11, 2007
Destilando Amor 6/11/07 My lover stands on golden sands
First off let me say for those of you who have been sweatin the past couple of months (our time...21 months TeleNovela time)....Well fear not...
Love is in the air Everywhere
I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound ....
(this side trip into blatant pop music...in no way express your recappers personal
music taste...I just call em as I see em)
We start off with Minnnnnnerrrrrvvvvva pushing Aaron, far beyond what I would have considered self protective or wise...she is cutting in on his phone time with Swarmy Onate...trying to find out details on MariAnna/Gavi & Rod...Aaron throws the phone down...
(In no way do I advocate domestic violence...but jeeeeeeezzzzzz sometimes)
Gavi is walking along the beach contemplating...what else? Rod of course...when "Holy Visions Batman..."there he is right behind her, looking rather fine in some white beach pants. She is muy impacted...huggs kisses.....He scoops her up (and yes cause he is a manly man...he can do his own scooping, he does not have to rely on a stunt scooper)
Next Aaron is rehashing the hash with Patricio, (I really like Patricio..just sayin)...anyway Aaron is continuing to put the screws to Patricio regarding the devious business transactions...I would give more detail, but I really don't get it...It just suffices to say Patricio has that same look on his face that Keanu Reeves had on his face when he finally figured out who Al Pacino was in "Devil's Advocate", yep Pat; you sold your soul.
Now Gavi & Rod are all shades of blissful back on the beach...apparently everyone else in that locale is still cleaning up garland after the Feliz Navidad celebrations...cause they are quite alone...much kissing hugging...good time all round...Rod informs Gavi that he told Isadora/TWB he wanted a divorce cause there is only one woman for him..that being Gavi....HOWEVER (damn you Hanna Barbara and your anvils), he returned to the apartment after Sofia informed him, Isadora was sitting at home, taking the laces outta her high top chucks and braiding a noose...We viewers of course know this was yet another, butter would not melt in her mouth Sofia lie....Rod laments on how he feels bad about screwing over Isadora, as she is one fine mujer......
Meanwhile his fine mujer is twistin tongues in a hot tub with Francisco...Francisco makes the faux pas of telling TWB..that she is his muse...just like the muse of that fine poet DaVinci...
"Leonardo DaVinci?" she scoffs, "He was a painter and sculptor, not a poet"...I am at home thinking yeh but he wrote that really cool book about his code...ooooppsss wait, that is my faux pas...Hey TWB...you got this guy for a fling not as a ringer on Jeporady...jeeeezzzz
(side note....isn't that fine house they are knocking flip flops in....the house that was used in "Amigas & Rivals"?)
Clarita is at home in the Gavi free zone...knock knock knock...."Don't open the door", I am at home yelling at the TV...but of course she does and Minnie just butts right in..Where is MariAnna...well Clarita in her normal, I'm not quite right, wide eyed manner answers that MariAnna is on a business trip and queries who she might be...Minnie lies and says she is Rod's secretary...Minnie is busy using her T-1000 terminator eye to scan and digitize the entire apartment...after some more questions and your can see Minnie mentally placing the info in a file to upload to the mother ship later...she lets herself out....Clarita is thrilled to have had such an elegant associate of Gavi's grace their humble abode...Really Clarita needs a handler.
Now cut to a priest knocking at Dry Gulch Acres...I have a vision of a priest with a heavy Irish accent..requesting some Skippy for the wee ones back at St. Patricks Orphange...but no it is the helpful local padre, checking up on Acacia and child molestor Meliton...Meliton is asleep and Acacia can't remember the priest..the priest begins to tell her tales of her childhood..her first communion, her wonderful Tia...how her Tia loved little Acacia...meanwhile Meliton is hiding behind the door taking it all in. Acacia finishs by telling the priest how gosh by golly swell her Tio Meliton is to her, what with him being her only living relative and all. Meliton has a smirk & a "Oh I am so gonna tap that" look on his face...
James is back over at Rod's Hacienda listening to the wooden music box tink out music dreams of star crossed love...James is lamenting in Spanish...and I find this odd...if you were talking to yourself, would you not revert to your mother tongue? I would think James would talk to his self in English, but he is in toment over Acacia and having no contact with her, fearing what has happened to her in the evil clutches of Meliton. James is dressed in his usual Western attire..I just have trouble seeing him in his duds…but unlike other naysayers I do not want him to ride off into the sunset with Sofia…not out of any greater good idea, but simply because it delight me to no end that Sofia wants and can not have him.
Speaking of little Miss Twinset….Granny Pilar and Sofia are sitting around Casa de Boring when Minnie stops in to spread more toxic poison...She is sure that Rod and MariAnne are boinking and having a good time doing it somewhere....
For an episode that was supposed to be romantic...I spent much of it just saying STFU to the screen..
Here come Danielle & Elvis...they are the light hearted breath of fresh air in this segment...well that can't happen..Elvis gives the living mummy (really just wrap the linen strips back around her body and put her back in her her shroud) a beso...Pilar rudely pulls away from Elvis away and grills Danielle for being out so late...yeah is is like 8:30, unaccompanied with her novio...Danielle is all hey just skip the 20th century and move outta the 1800's right on into the 21st century...Sofie knees tightly locked; ie looking all like yeah, I am still a virgin Granny; I am the only good one in the family...
back to the various La Playas....
TWB is having dinner with Francisco...she is staring off in space...no doubt thinking about her crappy marriage...taking advantage of the pause...He Amor scoops her up and carries her off...we see him start to scoop and then the camera pulls back...very far back...I think it was a stunt scooper..I don't think he could carry her...
Now let us transfer over to the other couple...Frankie and Annette...no seriously Rod & Gavi...he is declaring his undying love...cause she is the only one...physcially and spirtually...yadda yadda yadda...they have amusing chit chat..."I'm the boss & you are my secretary" Gavi tells him that she changed everything to MariAnna, how she got the job...so on so forth...of course it was too keep a link to Rod...Rod keeps saying mi Gaviota...
Father Pat stops back in to visit James...he tells James that Acacia is fine and seems quite happy..the Padre says that perhaps Meliton has repented and given up his molesting ways...
okay I just gotta add...millions of dollars & law suits, scandals galore and they still don't get it...
Back over in DF...Danielle is packing her bags...she basically tells Sofie that the family sucks and they treat Elvis badly, they are stuffy and in other words..."Later Days and Better Lays"...She is outta there.
Mineva arrives home and Aaron is laying on the bed giggling at something on the laptop...I guess Pamela has a Web Cam set up in Miami and he is wondering how long DumbAss is gonna stand by that pool waiting..He switches off the laptop...Minnie switches off the light and we are lead to believe..work is about to begin creating the antichrist...
Gavi and Rod go upstairs...across the bed it says Gaviota & there is a figure of a SeaGull all made outta rose petals...Once again I am grimacing as I am typing this...
Dude last time all it took was a fifth of Tequila...Oh well the sadder but wiser girl...of course maybe I should cut Rod a break...it has been nearly three years since lil Rod went for a walk...
Rod still suffering from that whole impulse control problem can not stop himself from asking, "by the by just for my own peace of mind...have you been boinking any other guys"?...Gavi looks him in the eye and says, you are the first and only cause I love you so much..Yep that woulda been my story too, I don't care if I would done the entire eastern seaboard of Great Britian, up the top of Scotland and down through Wales, well this satisfied our young galan and we see Gavi's dress drop to the floor...Rod always the stickler for detail...
Now to DF...this time it is Isa father...he is sitting in the living room...thought bubbling his conversation with her about how it would not behoove the family at this point for her to give up her sham of a marriage...he has guilt all over his face..now here comes TWB's mother..."Que the hell" she asks, it is tarde, why are you up? He laments telling TWB to stay in her loveless marriage..he brings up the artificial insemination..looking like by gawd it just isn't natural...
"Hold on there buckeroo," states Ma...you done lost all the family wealth...now we see a thought bubble of when Pa was playin Texas hold-em on ESPN2, he lost all his chips on one game...Damn all most of the women on this show are serious money grubbing bling lovin ho's (except for Sofie who is a serious money grubbing conservative dressing ho).
Speaking of TWB & Francisco, they are in bed, she gives him a few pesos and the boot she "vants to be alone"...Now she gets to lie in bed and speak badly of her poor misunderstood husband...she hates Rod and little Rod too.
Danielle and Elvis are happy sitting in a coffee shop denouncing her L7 totally square family...(Pilar and Sofie, will probably heap this crap on poor Tio Bruno)...
The Next Day……..
Gavi and Rod are lying in bed….she has her head on his manly chest…Rod is sleeping..
(yep a new activity will wear you out)
Minnie and Aaron arrive at the office, Minnie in her usual "People First" manner screams at Eliva to phone Rod’s Hotel and see if he is there. Seriously in some Old Testament way I think God sealed Minnie’s womb cause she is such a total bitch.
Sofie tells Granny Pilar…that Danielle done run off with the house boy….turn the dogs loose…wait that is wrong I’m getting my centuries mixed up…
Rod awakens Gavi is not in bed…she is on the balcony singing….in a total shout out to "HBO’s Rome" Gavi has created a smart Roman Toga for her self out of a sheet and Rod like wise looks like a young stallion from a Roman Bath House donning a towel about his waist…He jokes they should send a letter or a telegram…seriously can you even send a telegram anymore…I don’t think so, I think they retired Morse Code…anyway saying they renounce their jobs….
Love is still in the air…
Rod take advantage of it….get your freak on while you can….cause I hear the train whistle…Wiley that tunnel you just painted on that canyon wall….don’t look now, but a real train is gonna come thru it…Acme Anvils are gonna start dropping..
Previews….Gilligan…I mean Rod wants to live on the beach with Gavi until Isadore hangs herself…
Aaron is in bed with Pamela…& it looks like they get caught…
Love is in the air Everywhere
I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound ....
(this side trip into blatant pop music...in no way express your recappers personal
music taste...I just call em as I see em)
We start off with Minnnnnnerrrrrvvvvva pushing Aaron, far beyond what I would have considered self protective or wise...she is cutting in on his phone time with Swarmy Onate...trying to find out details on MariAnna/Gavi & Rod...Aaron throws the phone down...
(In no way do I advocate domestic violence...but jeeeeeeezzzzzz sometimes)
Gavi is walking along the beach contemplating...what else? Rod of course...when "Holy Visions Batman..."there he is right behind her, looking rather fine in some white beach pants. She is muy impacted...huggs kisses.....He scoops her up (and yes cause he is a manly man...he can do his own scooping, he does not have to rely on a stunt scooper)
Next Aaron is rehashing the hash with Patricio, (I really like Patricio..just sayin)...anyway Aaron is continuing to put the screws to Patricio regarding the devious business transactions...I would give more detail, but I really don't get it...It just suffices to say Patricio has that same look on his face that Keanu Reeves had on his face when he finally figured out who Al Pacino was in "Devil's Advocate", yep Pat; you sold your soul.
Now Gavi & Rod are all shades of blissful back on the beach...apparently everyone else in that locale is still cleaning up garland after the Feliz Navidad celebrations...cause they are quite alone...much kissing hugging...good time all round...Rod informs Gavi that he told Isadora/TWB he wanted a divorce cause there is only one woman for him..that being Gavi....HOWEVER (damn you Hanna Barbara and your anvils), he returned to the apartment after Sofia informed him, Isadora was sitting at home, taking the laces outta her high top chucks and braiding a noose...We viewers of course know this was yet another, butter would not melt in her mouth Sofia lie....Rod laments on how he feels bad about screwing over Isadora, as she is one fine mujer......
Meanwhile his fine mujer is twistin tongues in a hot tub with Francisco...Francisco makes the faux pas of telling TWB..that she is his muse...just like the muse of that fine poet DaVinci...
"Leonardo DaVinci?" she scoffs, "He was a painter and sculptor, not a poet"...I am at home thinking yeh but he wrote that really cool book about his code...ooooppsss wait, that is my faux pas...Hey TWB...you got this guy for a fling not as a ringer on Jeporady...jeeeezzzz
(side note....isn't that fine house they are knocking flip flops in....the house that was used in "Amigas & Rivals"?)
Clarita is at home in the Gavi free zone...knock knock knock...."Don't open the door", I am at home yelling at the TV...but of course she does and Minnie just butts right in..Where is MariAnna...well Clarita in her normal, I'm not quite right, wide eyed manner answers that MariAnna is on a business trip and queries who she might be...Minnie lies and says she is Rod's secretary...Minnie is busy using her T-1000 terminator eye to scan and digitize the entire apartment...after some more questions and your can see Minnie mentally placing the info in a file to upload to the mother ship later...she lets herself out....Clarita is thrilled to have had such an elegant associate of Gavi's grace their humble abode...Really Clarita needs a handler.
Now cut to a priest knocking at Dry Gulch Acres...I have a vision of a priest with a heavy Irish accent..requesting some Skippy for the wee ones back at St. Patricks Orphange...but no it is the helpful local padre, checking up on Acacia and child molestor Meliton...Meliton is asleep and Acacia can't remember the priest..the priest begins to tell her tales of her childhood..her first communion, her wonderful Tia...how her Tia loved little Acacia...meanwhile Meliton is hiding behind the door taking it all in. Acacia finishs by telling the priest how gosh by golly swell her Tio Meliton is to her, what with him being her only living relative and all. Meliton has a smirk & a "Oh I am so gonna tap that" look on his face...
James is back over at Rod's Hacienda listening to the wooden music box tink out music dreams of star crossed love...James is lamenting in Spanish...and I find this odd...if you were talking to yourself, would you not revert to your mother tongue? I would think James would talk to his self in English, but he is in toment over Acacia and having no contact with her, fearing what has happened to her in the evil clutches of Meliton. James is dressed in his usual Western attire..I just have trouble seeing him in his duds…but unlike other naysayers I do not want him to ride off into the sunset with Sofia…not out of any greater good idea, but simply because it delight me to no end that Sofia wants and can not have him.
Speaking of little Miss Twinset….Granny Pilar and Sofia are sitting around Casa de Boring when Minnie stops in to spread more toxic poison...She is sure that Rod and MariAnne are boinking and having a good time doing it somewhere....
For an episode that was supposed to be romantic...I spent much of it just saying STFU to the screen..
Here come Danielle & Elvis...they are the light hearted breath of fresh air in this segment...well that can't happen..Elvis gives the living mummy (really just wrap the linen strips back around her body and put her back in her her shroud) a beso...Pilar rudely pulls away from Elvis away and grills Danielle for being out so late...yeah is is like 8:30, unaccompanied with her novio...Danielle is all hey just skip the 20th century and move outta the 1800's right on into the 21st century...Sofie knees tightly locked; ie looking all like yeah, I am still a virgin Granny; I am the only good one in the family...
back to the various La Playas....
TWB is having dinner with Francisco...she is staring off in space...no doubt thinking about her crappy marriage...taking advantage of the pause...He Amor scoops her up and carries her off...we see him start to scoop and then the camera pulls back...very far back...I think it was a stunt scooper..I don't think he could carry her...
Now let us transfer over to the other couple...Frankie and Annette...no seriously Rod & Gavi...he is declaring his undying love...cause she is the only one...physcially and spirtually...yadda yadda yadda...they have amusing chit chat..."I'm the boss & you are my secretary" Gavi tells him that she changed everything to MariAnna, how she got the job...so on so forth...of course it was too keep a link to Rod...Rod keeps saying mi Gaviota...
Father Pat stops back in to visit James...he tells James that Acacia is fine and seems quite happy..the Padre says that perhaps Meliton has repented and given up his molesting ways...
okay I just gotta add...millions of dollars & law suits, scandals galore and they still don't get it...
Back over in DF...Danielle is packing her bags...she basically tells Sofie that the family sucks and they treat Elvis badly, they are stuffy and in other words..."Later Days and Better Lays"...She is outta there.
Mineva arrives home and Aaron is laying on the bed giggling at something on the laptop...I guess Pamela has a Web Cam set up in Miami and he is wondering how long DumbAss is gonna stand by that pool waiting..He switches off the laptop...Minnie switches off the light and we are lead to believe..work is about to begin creating the antichrist...
Gavi and Rod go upstairs...across the bed it says Gaviota & there is a figure of a SeaGull all made outta rose petals...Once again I am grimacing as I am typing this...
Dude last time all it took was a fifth of Tequila...Oh well the sadder but wiser girl...of course maybe I should cut Rod a break...it has been nearly three years since lil Rod went for a walk...
Rod still suffering from that whole impulse control problem can not stop himself from asking, "by the by just for my own peace of mind...have you been boinking any other guys"?...Gavi looks him in the eye and says, you are the first and only cause I love you so much..Yep that woulda been my story too, I don't care if I would done the entire eastern seaboard of Great Britian, up the top of Scotland and down through Wales, well this satisfied our young galan and we see Gavi's dress drop to the floor...Rod always the stickler for detail...
Now to DF...this time it is Isa father...he is sitting in the living room...thought bubbling his conversation with her about how it would not behoove the family at this point for her to give up her sham of a marriage...he has guilt all over his face..now here comes TWB's mother..."Que the hell" she asks, it is tarde, why are you up? He laments telling TWB to stay in her loveless marriage..he brings up the artificial insemination..looking like by gawd it just isn't natural...
"Hold on there buckeroo," states Ma...you done lost all the family wealth...now we see a thought bubble of when Pa was playin Texas hold-em on ESPN2, he lost all his chips on one game...Damn all most of the women on this show are serious money grubbing bling lovin ho's (except for Sofie who is a serious money grubbing conservative dressing ho).
Speaking of TWB & Francisco, they are in bed, she gives him a few pesos and the boot she "vants to be alone"...Now she gets to lie in bed and speak badly of her poor misunderstood husband...she hates Rod and little Rod too.
Danielle and Elvis are happy sitting in a coffee shop denouncing her L7 totally square family...(Pilar and Sofie, will probably heap this crap on poor Tio Bruno)...
The Next Day……..
Gavi and Rod are lying in bed….she has her head on his manly chest…Rod is sleeping..
(yep a new activity will wear you out)
Minnie and Aaron arrive at the office, Minnie in her usual "People First" manner screams at Eliva to phone Rod’s Hotel and see if he is there. Seriously in some Old Testament way I think God sealed Minnie’s womb cause she is such a total bitch.
Sofie tells Granny Pilar…that Danielle done run off with the house boy….turn the dogs loose…wait that is wrong I’m getting my centuries mixed up…
Rod awakens Gavi is not in bed…she is on the balcony singing….in a total shout out to "HBO’s Rome" Gavi has created a smart Roman Toga for her self out of a sheet and Rod like wise looks like a young stallion from a Roman Bath House donning a towel about his waist…He jokes they should send a letter or a telegram…seriously can you even send a telegram anymore…I don’t think so, I think they retired Morse Code…anyway saying they renounce their jobs….
Love is still in the air…
Rod take advantage of it….get your freak on while you can….cause I hear the train whistle…Wiley that tunnel you just painted on that canyon wall….don’t look now, but a real train is gonna come thru it…Acme Anvils are gonna start dropping..
Previews….Gilligan…I mean Rod wants to live on the beach with Gavi until Isadore hangs herself…
Aaron is in bed with Pamela…& it looks like they get caught…
Labels: Destilando
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Duelo June 8 - Alina is ALIVE
Don Loco has the gall to say to the judge that he sentenced him without any proof, just the testimony, and they were all lying. I love to see this after months of “this flimsy note with no names on it is all the proof I need.” Live by the sword, die by the sword, Don Loco. Too bad for you. Crazy chick doctor storms off in a huff, but Elias takes the time to savor the moment.
Somehow Emilioooo already knows what happened with Don Loco’s sentencing, back at his house, he tells Angel that DL will spend a long time in jail. Angel then tries to get Emiliooo to go to the boutique’s opening party that night, he has a surprise for him. Emiliooo agrees to go. Does Alina know yet that she is being used as a surprise? Angel also says his condition is finally getting better, and he met a girl. Smiles all around.
Crazy chick doctor goes to see Don Loco and sedate him. She is going to leave, but he asks her to stay. For some reason, well I guess because she’s crazy, she does. After DL passes out she starts kissing him, her face disappearing in DL’s moustache. GROSS. A nurse sticks her head in the room and sees what is going on, then wisely makes a quick retreat. I hope she’s going to get the boss and get La Doctora Loca fired.
Elias finds Alina and Rodrigo and delivers the news of Don Loco’s sentence.
Angel and Coral talk while Claudia sets things up in the background at Coral’s new store. They think that tonight is finally the time for Alina and Emiliooo to finally find each other again.
Elias tries to talk some sense into Alina and
Angel and Coral talk about Emiliooo, Alina, Thelma, etc. Angel decides that he’s had enough talk, he wants to go put the moves on Claudia. Coral encourages him. Nice boss, perhaps she’s remembering how it was at the meson, she thinks she’s the house madam and Claudia is one of her girls? In a few minutes she’ll tell Angel he owes her some money for any extra time in the champagne room.
SA tries to tell Thelma to give up on conquering Emilioooo. Thelma has gone back to tight jeans and shirts that show us her endowments. It’s a great look for her. She has on some shoes or boots with heels, so she struts rather than walks. It works. Anyway, she says again that Emiliooo will be at her side forever. For having the nerve to suggest divorcing Emilioooo, Thelma smacks SA across the face. She gets ready to throw SA out on the street when Emiliooo breaks it up and says that SA isn’t going anywhere, and he tells Thelma again that he wants a divorce, and that’s final.
At the hospital, whoever the sleazy guy is with Luba (the wrestling manager?) says he needs to register them at the hospital. Luba lies and says their names are something Lopez. The manager knows better, so he takes her aside and asks her why she is lying. At least he had the decency to take her aside, maybe he isn’t so sleazy after all. He just looks like it.
Alina,
Luba explains to the guy that she and Gaspar are wanted by the law, but it’s all a big mixup. He believes her and helps her.
Mariana and Malena talk about Mariana’s conversation with DL, Malena is mad that she spoke with him. Mariana is also part of Alina and
Thelma talks to little Gasparito and says she just needs to get Emiliooo to feel the old passion for her that he used to have, that’s how she’ll get him back. Well, for starters, she’s going to have to compete with Alina’s daily battles with her shirts, that’s not an easy fight. He has the choice between a super bitchy hot chick, and a really dumb hot chick. Cripes who do you pick there? I guess for him, he’ll pick the dumb one. I wouldn’t be able to handle it after a while, her believing everything anybody tells her, but for him I guess that’s perfect. On this show, Coral’s the one who really has it going on, but she has that ‘hung up on Emiliooo for waaaay too long’ mark against her. There isn’t really an admirable woman on this show, every hot woman is either evil or really dumb.
The reunion with Mariana continues. Mariana says DL told her Alina was dead, then says that she told DL the truth. Alina says what truth? Mariana admits that she was the woman of Jose Gomez and had a daughter with him. The note was from him to her.
Another great Asi es la Vida commercial. Any guys watching this show, don’t fast forward through those commercials.
Mariana tells how she tried to kill herself, then says everything is her fault.
Thelma struts her fine self into Emiliooo’s office to talk to him. I understand why he doesn’t want any part of her and I agree with him, but she looks great. There is a saying, at least among men, that goes like this – “Just remember, no matter how hot she is, there is some guy somewhere RIGHT NOW who has absolutely had it with all of her shit.” For Thelma, this couldn’t be more true. Emiliooo looks like he’s made of plastic or wax or something, something isn’t right there. She says she’ll give him the divorce, and custody of his son, if he spends the night with her and makes her feel like he used to. She knows it will all be a lie but she wants a good memory of him.
The reunion group start to discuss if DL will try to escape when Malena, who has suddenly become the Ferro-Approved voice of reason, says enough about DL already, let’s change the subject. They all laugh and agree, like at the end of a sitcom – ha ha ha freeze frame. Yes, it looked like that because I paused the recording when they all laughed. Alina announces the opening of
DL’s lawyer visits him. DL hopes the lawyer can help him. Then he starts to talk about escaping. Like we didn’t all see that one coming. He says he’ll see him in
Emiliooo accepts Thelma’s offer, just so he can end all this. Not tonight, he has something to do. Thelma wants to go with him. She sweet talks him and he agrees to let her go. He says she can go, but only if she keeps her promise and after that he never has to see her again. Jeez, and she still wants to try and keep this guy? After he says that? Her self-esteem must be about zero.
At the opening, Angel is chatting up Claudia, everybody is just hanging out and drinking champagne. Coral’s dress is cut down to her waist, she’s really showing what she’s got. Any side-cleavage fans should be happy here. Coral pulls Angel aside to worry about when Emiliooo comes, Angel tells her to chill.
At the hospital the doctor doesn’t have good news. Gaspar needs a kidney transplant. Luba sputters like a sneezing dog. That is her version of impactada I guess.
Emiliooo and Thelma arrive at the party,
Alina greets Rodrigo in the living room of Coral’s house, they leave. As soon as they leave, the phone starts ringing. The ladies trying to call her off, no doubt.
Gasca screams for help, he’s all tied up. Alfonsina points a gun at him and tells him to shut up. He says they can still split the money and she can decide what to do with THE COFRE. She doesn’t answer.
Coral and
Alfonsina yells at Gasca some more and threatens to kill him. He asks what good is he dead? He tries to sell her on some plan to get even more money from Don Loco.
Luba cries over Gaspar and prays to the virgin for good measure. Bleah. I hate hospital settings, I thought maybe we were done with that on this show. The other guy comes in and Luba says she is too poor to pay for the operation. The guy says it was his responsibility, he will pay for the operation. He says that Luba can give him one of her kidneys. Now she cries from joy and promises Gaspar that he will be fine after all. We still have time for the miracle cure and him getting his brain back.
Emiliooo is super pissed at Angel for inviting him to this party and setting him up. Angel admits to knowing that Alina was alive before. Angel says he set the whole meeting up for him, to end his suffering. He just didn’t plan on Thelma being there, obviously.
Gasca keeps fast talking his way out of getting shot. She tries to order him to say where the cofre is, but he makes her put away the gun. She has no choice but to go along with him if she wants the cofre.
Emiliooo goes off on Angel, he is about to strangle him when Elias pulls him off. Thelma tells
Back at Coral’s living room, Rodrigo says it is time to talk. No more excuses. She tries to give him the old “I don’t want to talk about it.” Whatever. She starts ugly crying again and saying how she wasn’t ready for this to happen blah blah blah. Rodrigo, my friend, this is your cue to make tracks. Seriously. This is your last chance to get out. I know you won’t take it, but I wish you would. Rodrigo says Emiliooo thought you were dead, he was just trying to make things right with his wife, I guess. She whines about it, I guess in woman logic you are supposed to just KNOW if your true love is REALLY dead or not.
Elias is going to explain to Emiliooo about Alina being alive when the general interrupts and tells the story himself. Angel tries to explain again, saying that he knew Emiliooo wouldn’t be able to have a good life with Thelma, so he set up this meeting. Of course in Three’s Company fashion it all backfired. Perhaps Angel could have just told Emiliooo about Alina rather than staging this big reveal? Naw that makes too much sense. Thelma is still yelling at
Alina is still whining and Rodrigo missed his chance to bail. She actually has the nerve to cry on his shoulder, literally. Rodrigo has a look on his face like he knows he is about five minutes late on trying to get the hell out of there. I can see it in his eyes. “Oh man what am I still doing here this chick is psycho dammit I should have just bailed when she said she didn’t want to talk about it DAMMIT.”
Emiliooo calmly listens to and understands what
Alina whines “How can all this happen to me? Why?” What a self centered bitch. Rodrigo figures she’s vulnerable, so he tells her she’s pretty when she’s crying and tries to kiss her. She totally cockblocks him and he leaves. On his way out, he swears to always be at her side, now more than ever. Dude, you are getting to leave. Just go! Alina has orange flashbacks of hairy-armed Emiliooo giving her the heart necklace, along with a variety of other memories of the heart necklace and making out with Emilioooo. She says to the room that she needs to forget about him but she can’t.
SA can’t believe the news that Alina is alive. Thelma starts in about something and SA says sure and now you’re going to want my help, right? Thelma acts pissy and says she already apologized so get over it already. Thelma swears that Alina will be sorry she isn’t dead. SA decides she’ll help after all. SA is like the ugly girl at school who will go along with anything just to be part of the clique.
The nurse that saw crazy chick doctor kissing Don Loco is telling the gossip to another nurse. Wait – like 10 hours have passed in the outside world, but only five minutes in here? Is there some kind of hospital time warp? Dra. Loca’s fiancé overhears the chisme, just then Dra. Loca comes in to get her coat. The nurses laugh at her when she leaves.
Angel and Claudia are the only ones left at the party. She tells him that she is glad to just be his friend, he asks why. She says that she heard Coral say that Alina was somebody very important for him. He says yes, at one time he loved her a lot.
Crazy Doctora Loca and Mauricio arrive home, she wants to know what his deal is. He tells her that he overheard about her having something going on with Don Loco. She immediately looks guilty.
Angel says his love for Alina is in the past, now he cares about her like a sister. Claudia buys it.
Crazy Doctora Loca admits to getting frisky with Don Loco. She actually wants the guy to understand it. Whatever. The guy is pissed off, but he sounds like he’s reading his lines off of a card. They decide to break up. Well he decides, she agrees, he leaves, she cries.
Emiliooo moons over Alina when Thelma enters and prohibits him from getting back with Alina. Emiliooo says she doesn’t get to prohibit anything, and she doesn’t get to come into his room. He rightfully calls her out on her previous plan, that she wouldn’t go through with her deal, and that she knows that he’ll try to get Alina back. Thelma glares at him. The producers, after a couple seconds, apparently suddenly remembered that it was the end of the show, so they quickly made her slo-mo impactado. Sorry fellas, you were a little slow on the slow-mo button there.
Monday: Alina tells Emiliooo that she and Rodrigo are going out, and he proposed, and she’s going to marry him. Apparently Rodrigo is a complete idiot, he doesn’t realize that Alina is marrying him just to get back at Emiliooo. Either that or he has no pride.
Labels: duelo
La Fea now sharing time slot with Juan Querendon!!
BULLETIN!!
From our recapper Nina, who received this information directly from somebody at Univision:
"LA FEA MAS BELLA" starts airing in a shorter, half-hour duration, starting at the same time, effective Monday, 6-11-07
Apparently new novela "YO AMO A JUAN QUERENDON" debuts Mon. at 8:30-9!!
So this week, our La Fea bloggers will be blogging from 8:00-8:30
And the new Juan Querendon team should start from 8:30-9
The Juan Querendon team is:
Monday: Lucy
Tuesday: Amanda (staying on from La Fea)
Wednesday: Kris (staying on from La Fea)
Thursday: Sylvia
Friday: Jeanne
From our recapper Nina, who received this information directly from somebody at Univision:
"LA FEA MAS BELLA" starts airing in a shorter, half-hour duration, starting at the same time, effective Monday, 6-11-07
Apparently new novela "YO AMO A JUAN QUERENDON" debuts Mon. at 8:30-9!!
So this week, our La Fea bloggers will be blogging from 8:00-8:30
And the new Juan Querendon team should start from 8:30-9
The Juan Querendon team is:
Monday: Lucy
Tuesday: Amanda (staying on from La Fea)
Wednesday: Kris (staying on from La Fea)
Thursday: Sylvia
Friday: Jeanne
Zorro: Friday, June 8, 2007: Esme names her little one, its 110 days and counting and Tobi confronts Cat
Show opens where we left off, Monty po’d that Esme had escaped and he figures out that she escaped through the window. Monty promises Esme that she won’t get far. He calls for one of his thugs.
Meanwhile Esme is in the dark trying to find her way through the woods and assumes that Monty and men know she has escaped.
Monty is ripping his men a new one, calling them idiots and all that while they are in surprise that she escaped. Monty orders them to find Esme else they will be decapitated. Everybody leaves except SAM. Monty gets mad that SAM is there and asks if he understood his orders and threatens to kill everybody (this includes you SAM) if Esme doesn’t appear. SAM takes the hint and is off. Well he didn’t rub above his eye but he must be having a splitting migraine.
Back to the MP & Diego discussion. Diego can’t believe that FS killed his mom. MP is sorry for not telling him sooner. She didn’t dare denounce FS because Regina was a Spanish lady at the time and FS would have received the death penalty. So instead she cancelled the wedding and became a nun as way to find God and ask forgiveness for keeping silent. Diego promises revenge but MP begs Diego not do anything stupid. Diego asks why and MP gives him a huge rehash of what we already know. MP tells Diego that God will make FS pay for all his deeds. Diego doesn’t make any promises because not only did FS take his mom but also Esme.
Back to FS defending MP’s honor with that dude in the tavern. The guy wants to know who FS to defend MP so, her husband. There is sword fighting between the two men and FS gets the upper hand and the guy is flat on the table. FS gets all noble and won’t stain his hands with blood but threatens the guy with running him through should he even mention the name Maria Pia.
At Tobi & Cat’s, Pito confirms FFM (fake fencing master)’s passing. Cat’s distressed being that he was fine in the morning meanwhile Tobi looks guilty. Pito using his CSI techniques deduces that FFM died of shock. Tobi is not interested about how FFM died he wants to bury him but Cat is insistent on knowing why he died. Pito tells them that FFM’s heart exploded like a melon (ummm is that forensic/medical language, I’m no expert but I think not). Tobi asks Pito to close FFM’s eyes and haul him away. Pito sadly informs Tobi that rigor mortis already set in so FFM’s eyes will stay open and without authorization from next of kin he can’t take the body. Tobi & Cat inform Pito of that they have no info not even an address so Pito tells them they will need a military order before he can take the body, until then it’s theirs.
Back the dark woods where SAM is asking the air/Esme if she’s around to please respond. I don’t think SAM realizes how big the woods are, it’s not a closet SAM and I believe she’s had a pretty big head start. He tells the air/Esme that if she was going to escape she shoulda consulted him first, he would have helped her escape. Back to Esme tiptoeing it looks like. She tells her little baby that once they escape they will be very happy. She’s hears the men on her tail.
Cue Amor Gitano, I wonder if we’ll see all of these opening credits?
Commercial for Madre Luna and all I can say is ewwww. A guy has to let go the love of his life, marries another and has a son with her. Now as a cruel twist of fate the son is in love with the women the guy had to let go. ***Shudder***. She’s like a lot of years older than this kid sooo icky. Are the powers that be trying to draw viewers or disgust them?
Diego and Maria continue in their rehash of what we know. Alej knows that FS killed Regina and resulting rift in friendship. Diego was going to be told but then he got amnesia and then Esme’s “death”. Diego talks about his lack of memories of this time and nightmares. MP says Diego probably repressed those memories as a defense mechanism. MP tells Diego that he can’t let these ghosts of the past dominate him.
Back to Esme’s treck, she hides under a minicliff while the bad guys are trying to find her. Esme’s pretty confident and tells Diego, Jr. (yup she’s named him already) that they are safe. She flashes back to Diego telling her how he got the name Zorro. Esme prophesizes that Diego, Jr. will be a brave man who will do great things. Awww, I like this scene, it gets me all gooey inside.
MP and Diego return to hacienda. Mangle is upset that Diego left her alone all day. Oh poor you, you were crying over the Michelin man and didn’t give a fig now you are upset that Diego left you alone? Mangle is surprised to see MP Diego tells her she left convent. Mangle wants to know the skinny but Diego gets miffed and tells her to stop bothering MP. Mangle apologizes to Diego and says she was having a bad day. Diego tells her she isn’t the only one and informs her he’s going to bed. Mangle gets angry that Diego keeps dissing her. Diego finally tells Mangle what we were all thinking, the role of victim doesn’t suit her and likens her to a scorpion (waits for the prey to let down his guard and stings). Mangle gets all teary eyed but Diego isn’t buying. The only time he’s seen her cry was in the morning and he still doesn’t know why she shed them.
At Tobi’s, Cat offers to visit Piza to get the military order releasing the body. Tobi looks at Cat and asks why her and not Tobi. Cat tells Tobi that since Tobi is always busy in the morning she thought she should go. Tobi informs her that taking care of FFM kept him busy who only came to ruin their lives. Cat gets upset because Tobi is who brought him to find Zorro and now he’s dead. Tobi makes his first mistake when trying to get out of a murder rap offers responds to unasked questions. Tobi does his best OJ impression and says it was 100% definatley not his fault (not sure if OJ said it like that but you get the idea). Cat looks at him impactada and says I never said it was and asks what really happened; he was the last one with FFM. Tobi denies that anything occurred, the guys heart stopped that’s it.
Olmos looks at Mangle through the giant peep hole. He tells himself to be patient. He will soon run his hands through her velvety skin (I woulda thought it was scaly considering she is reptilian) and hear her moan.**shudder*** He has a moment with his pillow.
Diego has a grey nightmare and remembers the death of his mom at FS hands. He calls FS an assassin and promises revenge.
Tobi spies Piza leaving the jail. He calls him a disgraceful egghead (cabeza de huevo desgraciado). Piza tells Mejias (?) that if Monty asks for him he went to supervise the search. Tobi follows him.
Back to Esme’s wanderings where she notices that behind the hill is de la Vega hacienda.
Mangle apologizes for having breakfast so early but baby Monty (I just added that) has its own schedule. MP bids everyone good morning and takes her seat. Dol enters and tells Diego that he looks like a truck run him over, hehehe, nothing gets by her. Diego says he didn’t sleep well. Alej marvels at the table settings and Dena walks in and tells him that Yumi and her did it together. Alej proposes that they all go on an outing. Dena gives Yumi a look and Diego and Mangle share one too.
Esme desperately needs water and sees a river. She runs to it and alas its only a mirage (espejismo). She tells her son to endure a little more. She assures him they will be safe there.
Diego is out, he has matters to attend to in the city and Mangle is out, she has to mail a letter. She invites for Diego and her to go and he offers to take the letter to the port. Mangle tells him that she wants to go for a stroll and say hi to her dad. Diego grudgingly accepts. Alej then limits the outing to around the hacienda, considering it’s a huge property I don’t think it will be a two minute walk.
Back to Esme wandering and viola she gets to a river. She gobbles up the water and if I was her I would dunk myself right in.
MP is talking privately with Diego and tells him she noticed the tension between him and Mangle. MP tells Diego he doesn’t want their relationship to change with the new information but Diego assures her the marriage was only to protect family honor. MP reminds him she is his wife and mother of his child. Diego tells her he has his reasons for being distant. MP asks Diego to explain how will he raise his child in a harmonious household. Diego tells MP that he already discussed an agreement but Mangle hasn’t given him an answer. MP asked him to understand that pregnant women are very sensitive and now isn’t the time to propose such agreement. Diego tells MP that about his nightmare and how Regina looked very much like Yumi. Mp asks Diego to forgive her for not telling him sooner about Regina’s death and she’s confident he will assimilate it in a right way.
Mangle bursts into Olmos room (I thought she was going to knock next time) and catches him arranging his blondish color wig. Mangle is all impactada and asks what’s he doing and just cackles at him. Olmos immediately takes it off and puts his regular dark hair wig on. Unfortunately for him its askew which gives Mangle the uncontrollable giggles. Mangle wants to order something from the Indian witch that gave her the potion the other day (that has to be incorrect it was many episodes ago, and I am sure months have passed). Olmos wants to know why but Mangle just laughs and calls him naïve for thinking he will know everything about her. Mangle asks Olmos how far he will go to know what’s inside her. Olmos arches a brow and Mangle tells Olmos he has a dirty mind, what she meant was what was in her mind, her thoughts. She tells him to mind his business about why she needs the potion and reminds him that she’s keeping silent to her dad about the money he’s stealing. She leaves in a fit of giggles calls him a dead dog. Olmos tells the mirror he would go to hell for his beloved Mangle and only 110 days left before potion works.
Esme is enjoying what looks like an orange by that river she found. She tells little Diego that pretty soon she’ll get the hacienda to see Diego.
We cut to the gitanos taking a trek with their belongings. NAC and Renzo are walking side by side and NAC falls. NAC has sprained her ankle it seems but that’s okay Renzo has an idea. He takes her piggy back style and they catch up to the camp. Of course, Laisha doesn’t like it and begins a tirade about how non-gitanos become more important than actual gitanos once they join the clan. Suzi tells Jonas that Laisha is very jealous of NAC (ya think?) but it will be a while before Renzo falls in love again. Jonas doesn’t think the bitterness that has accumulated in Laisha’s soul is a good thing and hopefully she recovers soon. It reminds me of something Yoda said in Star Wars Episode One…sadness leads to anger which leads to hate and hate leads to the dark side.
Cat and Piza are making out heavy duty somewheres while Tobi looks on. You know Tobi if you keep watching them together you will never get the image out of your head. Piza tells Cat it excites him when she dresses in black, makes him think she is a widow. Cat doesn’t want to talk about death and Cat asks for the military order for FFM’s body. Piza says fine and asks if at the same time they could bury Tobi. Piza sooo wants to put a bullet in Tobi but Cat doesn’t want to kill him. Piza tells Cat that he suspects Tobi knows about them and if it excites her. Cat tells him he would die of shock (HA!) and they basically get busy all the way into commercial.
Diego and Yumi run into each other and of course we see Mangle spying and listening in from a distance. Mangle has to go, she’s getting to be privy to a lot of secret information which is very bad. Diego asks what she has and Yumi tells her it’s a remedy her grandma prepared for Dena. Yumi being Regina’s lil sis gets rehashed and the the custom about inheriting the sister-in-law. Yumi feels uncomfortable but Diego says that since Alej is married to a Spanish wife, it’s a kind of a moot point. Then I suppose we are talking about this just so Mangle can hear? Enter Mangle who does the there you are thing and tells him she’s ready to go into the city. She sees Yumi and pronouncing the name but either for real or on purpose trails off. Yumi helps her out and says her Christian name Guadalupe and Mangle agrees that sounds better and basically ignores she’s there and reminds Diego she’s ready. I hope Yumi has realized that Mangle is a witch.
Esme wakes up from her nap hears a carriage go by. She immediately gets up and continues her trek.
Piza makes it to the shack where he gets updated on Esme’s escape and no success in locating her. SAM tells Piza that Monty hasn’t returned and is probably tracking Esme.
We cut to Tobi coming home to find FFM in a pine box. Cat tells him that she was able to get the order from Piza. Tobi asks Cat how she was able to get the order being that he went to meet Piza but was told he had an important errand to attend to. Cat tells him she accidentally found him in the street and asked for the order then. Tobi calls cat a mujersuela (slut right?) how could she do this to him. Cat said she only wanted to help. Tobi gets that evil look in his eye and starts choking Cat and asks her if she helps a lot sleeping with Piza.
SAM assures Piza that he didn’t help Esme escape and Piza begs him to lower his voice. SAM in a lower voice tells him that Esme is a brave woman. Piza says or stupid being that Monty will kill her if he finds her. Piza assumes that Esme will try to find refuge somewhere safe and he knows where. SAM nods and immediately does an impactado face, the de la Vegas. Piza says that would be fatal because Monty is probably thinking the same thing.
In the carriage, Mangle tells Diego that this little trip is a good idea being that he evades her constantly. They need to have a serious talk. Diego tells he they always talk seriously. Mangle wants to talk about the separation agreement. Diego is all ears. Mangle tells Diego that nobody has ever treated her like Diego has. Diego tells her nothing in life is free. Mangle is about to slap Diego in reply to his agreement but he detains her hand. Diego tells Mangle to be careful because his patience has limits, Mangle tells him hers too and plants one on him while Diego tries to pull her off. Of course they travel by Esme who sees the force kiss and interprets wrong.
END OF EPISODE
Meanwhile Esme is in the dark trying to find her way through the woods and assumes that Monty and men know she has escaped.
Monty is ripping his men a new one, calling them idiots and all that while they are in surprise that she escaped. Monty orders them to find Esme else they will be decapitated. Everybody leaves except SAM. Monty gets mad that SAM is there and asks if he understood his orders and threatens to kill everybody (this includes you SAM) if Esme doesn’t appear. SAM takes the hint and is off. Well he didn’t rub above his eye but he must be having a splitting migraine.
Back to the MP & Diego discussion. Diego can’t believe that FS killed his mom. MP is sorry for not telling him sooner. She didn’t dare denounce FS because Regina was a Spanish lady at the time and FS would have received the death penalty. So instead she cancelled the wedding and became a nun as way to find God and ask forgiveness for keeping silent. Diego promises revenge but MP begs Diego not do anything stupid. Diego asks why and MP gives him a huge rehash of what we already know. MP tells Diego that God will make FS pay for all his deeds. Diego doesn’t make any promises because not only did FS take his mom but also Esme.
Back to FS defending MP’s honor with that dude in the tavern. The guy wants to know who FS to defend MP so, her husband. There is sword fighting between the two men and FS gets the upper hand and the guy is flat on the table. FS gets all noble and won’t stain his hands with blood but threatens the guy with running him through should he even mention the name Maria Pia.
At Tobi & Cat’s, Pito confirms FFM (fake fencing master)’s passing. Cat’s distressed being that he was fine in the morning meanwhile Tobi looks guilty. Pito using his CSI techniques deduces that FFM died of shock. Tobi is not interested about how FFM died he wants to bury him but Cat is insistent on knowing why he died. Pito tells them that FFM’s heart exploded like a melon (ummm is that forensic/medical language, I’m no expert but I think not). Tobi asks Pito to close FFM’s eyes and haul him away. Pito sadly informs Tobi that rigor mortis already set in so FFM’s eyes will stay open and without authorization from next of kin he can’t take the body. Tobi & Cat inform Pito of that they have no info not even an address so Pito tells them they will need a military order before he can take the body, until then it’s theirs.
Back the dark woods where SAM is asking the air/Esme if she’s around to please respond. I don’t think SAM realizes how big the woods are, it’s not a closet SAM and I believe she’s had a pretty big head start. He tells the air/Esme that if she was going to escape she shoulda consulted him first, he would have helped her escape. Back to Esme tiptoeing it looks like. She tells her little baby that once they escape they will be very happy. She’s hears the men on her tail.
Cue Amor Gitano, I wonder if we’ll see all of these opening credits?
Commercial for Madre Luna and all I can say is ewwww. A guy has to let go the love of his life, marries another and has a son with her. Now as a cruel twist of fate the son is in love with the women the guy had to let go. ***Shudder***. She’s like a lot of years older than this kid sooo icky. Are the powers that be trying to draw viewers or disgust them?
Diego and Maria continue in their rehash of what we know. Alej knows that FS killed Regina and resulting rift in friendship. Diego was going to be told but then he got amnesia and then Esme’s “death”. Diego talks about his lack of memories of this time and nightmares. MP says Diego probably repressed those memories as a defense mechanism. MP tells Diego that he can’t let these ghosts of the past dominate him.
Back to Esme’s treck, she hides under a minicliff while the bad guys are trying to find her. Esme’s pretty confident and tells Diego, Jr. (yup she’s named him already) that they are safe. She flashes back to Diego telling her how he got the name Zorro. Esme prophesizes that Diego, Jr. will be a brave man who will do great things. Awww, I like this scene, it gets me all gooey inside.
MP and Diego return to hacienda. Mangle is upset that Diego left her alone all day. Oh poor you, you were crying over the Michelin man and didn’t give a fig now you are upset that Diego left you alone? Mangle is surprised to see MP Diego tells her she left convent. Mangle wants to know the skinny but Diego gets miffed and tells her to stop bothering MP. Mangle apologizes to Diego and says she was having a bad day. Diego tells her she isn’t the only one and informs her he’s going to bed. Mangle gets angry that Diego keeps dissing her. Diego finally tells Mangle what we were all thinking, the role of victim doesn’t suit her and likens her to a scorpion (waits for the prey to let down his guard and stings). Mangle gets all teary eyed but Diego isn’t buying. The only time he’s seen her cry was in the morning and he still doesn’t know why she shed them.
At Tobi’s, Cat offers to visit Piza to get the military order releasing the body. Tobi looks at Cat and asks why her and not Tobi. Cat tells Tobi that since Tobi is always busy in the morning she thought she should go. Tobi informs her that taking care of FFM kept him busy who only came to ruin their lives. Cat gets upset because Tobi is who brought him to find Zorro and now he’s dead. Tobi makes his first mistake when trying to get out of a murder rap offers responds to unasked questions. Tobi does his best OJ impression and says it was 100% definatley not his fault (not sure if OJ said it like that but you get the idea). Cat looks at him impactada and says I never said it was and asks what really happened; he was the last one with FFM. Tobi denies that anything occurred, the guys heart stopped that’s it.
Olmos looks at Mangle through the giant peep hole. He tells himself to be patient. He will soon run his hands through her velvety skin (I woulda thought it was scaly considering she is reptilian) and hear her moan.**shudder*** He has a moment with his pillow.
Diego has a grey nightmare and remembers the death of his mom at FS hands. He calls FS an assassin and promises revenge.
Tobi spies Piza leaving the jail. He calls him a disgraceful egghead (cabeza de huevo desgraciado). Piza tells Mejias (?) that if Monty asks for him he went to supervise the search. Tobi follows him.
Back to Esme’s wanderings where she notices that behind the hill is de la Vega hacienda.
Mangle apologizes for having breakfast so early but baby Monty (I just added that) has its own schedule. MP bids everyone good morning and takes her seat. Dol enters and tells Diego that he looks like a truck run him over, hehehe, nothing gets by her. Diego says he didn’t sleep well. Alej marvels at the table settings and Dena walks in and tells him that Yumi and her did it together. Alej proposes that they all go on an outing. Dena gives Yumi a look and Diego and Mangle share one too.
Esme desperately needs water and sees a river. She runs to it and alas its only a mirage (espejismo). She tells her son to endure a little more. She assures him they will be safe there.
Diego is out, he has matters to attend to in the city and Mangle is out, she has to mail a letter. She invites for Diego and her to go and he offers to take the letter to the port. Mangle tells him that she wants to go for a stroll and say hi to her dad. Diego grudgingly accepts. Alej then limits the outing to around the hacienda, considering it’s a huge property I don’t think it will be a two minute walk.
Back to Esme wandering and viola she gets to a river. She gobbles up the water and if I was her I would dunk myself right in.
MP is talking privately with Diego and tells him she noticed the tension between him and Mangle. MP tells Diego he doesn’t want their relationship to change with the new information but Diego assures her the marriage was only to protect family honor. MP reminds him she is his wife and mother of his child. Diego tells her he has his reasons for being distant. MP asks Diego to explain how will he raise his child in a harmonious household. Diego tells MP that he already discussed an agreement but Mangle hasn’t given him an answer. MP asked him to understand that pregnant women are very sensitive and now isn’t the time to propose such agreement. Diego tells MP that about his nightmare and how Regina looked very much like Yumi. Mp asks Diego to forgive her for not telling him sooner about Regina’s death and she’s confident he will assimilate it in a right way.
Mangle bursts into Olmos room (I thought she was going to knock next time) and catches him arranging his blondish color wig. Mangle is all impactada and asks what’s he doing and just cackles at him. Olmos immediately takes it off and puts his regular dark hair wig on. Unfortunately for him its askew which gives Mangle the uncontrollable giggles. Mangle wants to order something from the Indian witch that gave her the potion the other day (that has to be incorrect it was many episodes ago, and I am sure months have passed). Olmos wants to know why but Mangle just laughs and calls him naïve for thinking he will know everything about her. Mangle asks Olmos how far he will go to know what’s inside her. Olmos arches a brow and Mangle tells Olmos he has a dirty mind, what she meant was what was in her mind, her thoughts. She tells him to mind his business about why she needs the potion and reminds him that she’s keeping silent to her dad about the money he’s stealing. She leaves in a fit of giggles calls him a dead dog. Olmos tells the mirror he would go to hell for his beloved Mangle and only 110 days left before potion works.
Esme is enjoying what looks like an orange by that river she found. She tells little Diego that pretty soon she’ll get the hacienda to see Diego.
We cut to the gitanos taking a trek with their belongings. NAC and Renzo are walking side by side and NAC falls. NAC has sprained her ankle it seems but that’s okay Renzo has an idea. He takes her piggy back style and they catch up to the camp. Of course, Laisha doesn’t like it and begins a tirade about how non-gitanos become more important than actual gitanos once they join the clan. Suzi tells Jonas that Laisha is very jealous of NAC (ya think?) but it will be a while before Renzo falls in love again. Jonas doesn’t think the bitterness that has accumulated in Laisha’s soul is a good thing and hopefully she recovers soon. It reminds me of something Yoda said in Star Wars Episode One…sadness leads to anger which leads to hate and hate leads to the dark side.
Cat and Piza are making out heavy duty somewheres while Tobi looks on. You know Tobi if you keep watching them together you will never get the image out of your head. Piza tells Cat it excites him when she dresses in black, makes him think she is a widow. Cat doesn’t want to talk about death and Cat asks for the military order for FFM’s body. Piza says fine and asks if at the same time they could bury Tobi. Piza sooo wants to put a bullet in Tobi but Cat doesn’t want to kill him. Piza tells Cat that he suspects Tobi knows about them and if it excites her. Cat tells him he would die of shock (HA!) and they basically get busy all the way into commercial.
Diego and Yumi run into each other and of course we see Mangle spying and listening in from a distance. Mangle has to go, she’s getting to be privy to a lot of secret information which is very bad. Diego asks what she has and Yumi tells her it’s a remedy her grandma prepared for Dena. Yumi being Regina’s lil sis gets rehashed and the the custom about inheriting the sister-in-law. Yumi feels uncomfortable but Diego says that since Alej is married to a Spanish wife, it’s a kind of a moot point. Then I suppose we are talking about this just so Mangle can hear? Enter Mangle who does the there you are thing and tells him she’s ready to go into the city. She sees Yumi and pronouncing the name but either for real or on purpose trails off. Yumi helps her out and says her Christian name Guadalupe and Mangle agrees that sounds better and basically ignores she’s there and reminds Diego she’s ready. I hope Yumi has realized that Mangle is a witch.
Esme wakes up from her nap hears a carriage go by. She immediately gets up and continues her trek.
Piza makes it to the shack where he gets updated on Esme’s escape and no success in locating her. SAM tells Piza that Monty hasn’t returned and is probably tracking Esme.
We cut to Tobi coming home to find FFM in a pine box. Cat tells him that she was able to get the order from Piza. Tobi asks Cat how she was able to get the order being that he went to meet Piza but was told he had an important errand to attend to. Cat tells him she accidentally found him in the street and asked for the order then. Tobi calls cat a mujersuela (slut right?) how could she do this to him. Cat said she only wanted to help. Tobi gets that evil look in his eye and starts choking Cat and asks her if she helps a lot sleeping with Piza.
SAM assures Piza that he didn’t help Esme escape and Piza begs him to lower his voice. SAM in a lower voice tells him that Esme is a brave woman. Piza says or stupid being that Monty will kill her if he finds her. Piza assumes that Esme will try to find refuge somewhere safe and he knows where. SAM nods and immediately does an impactado face, the de la Vegas. Piza says that would be fatal because Monty is probably thinking the same thing.
In the carriage, Mangle tells Diego that this little trip is a good idea being that he evades her constantly. They need to have a serious talk. Diego tells he they always talk seriously. Mangle wants to talk about the separation agreement. Diego is all ears. Mangle tells Diego that nobody has ever treated her like Diego has. Diego tells her nothing in life is free. Mangle is about to slap Diego in reply to his agreement but he detains her hand. Diego tells Mangle to be careful because his patience has limits, Mangle tells him hers too and plants one on him while Diego tries to pull her off. Of course they travel by Esme who sees the force kiss and interprets wrong.
END OF EPISODE
Labels: Zorro
Saturday, June 09, 2007
La Fea Más Bella #293 6/8/07 Aurora rides again... and it's a DUI!
(Part 2 is up now. Scroll till you see purple.)
That's #291 by Univision's count; 293 hours of semi-unrequited love.
I don't like it when something that I've grown attached to ends. The first time my parents took me to see a movie - Mary Poppins - they were astonished when I started crying during the happy ending. I wasn't crying because of what was happening in the movie - I was crying because I didn't want it to be over. I would cry bitterly at the end of a trip to the zoo or the beach or especially a day at my beloved, now defunct Lincoln Park (and yes, I cried when they shut the place down too).
As I've gotten older, I've become increasingly reluctant to finish books that I've been reading. I get to the last dozen or so pages and a feeling of dread washes over me. Soon this wonderful universe that I've been visiting will cease to exist... or it mysteries will no longer tempt me... in any case, the magic's about to end. I've got a book that's the last of a series... I've had it for years... never cracked it open. I have the last two episodes of Farscape on a tape that I've never watched. Sometimes I've even sad as I get to the last bites of a good meal.
Is it any wonder, then, that as I sat waiting for the 8:23 train to arrive (I missed the 6:48), I wasn't upset that I wouldn't be home to watch tonight's episode "live"? Is it any wonder that even now, I'm totally absorbed by the Mexico/Cuba fútbol game... even though I supposedly hate soccer? Is it any wonder that I'm suddenly battling an unprecedented urge to vacuum the stairs?
But there are things in life that are worth seeing through to the end. I have faith in Fernando. I have faith in fictitious love, if not the real thing. I even have some faith in Lety. So I will forge on bravely.
And so away we go. Spin, little DVD-RAM disk, spin!!
The old lock-up-the-deadbeat-dad trick
The wedding festivities are interrupted by two policemen with a warrant for Efren's (aka El Cheque's, aka Flaquito's) arrest. Lola is horrified. Yazmin/Jasmine/etc. screams at Lola, blaming her for the trouble. Lola screams back that El Cheque owes her two months' child support. The judge warned him, and now here are the consequences. She, Lola, is well-informed and she knows that it (failing to pay child support) is a prosecutable offense.
The homewrecker's witty reply is "Don't tell me that, it's a lie, I'm not going to believe it, I'm not going to listen." Lola dismisses her and worries about her kids. The cops drag ol' Flaquito away. He says he's afraid to go to jail, tells Jaz/Yas that he loves her, and begs Lola not to let the kids know what's happened. Lola is distraught.
The old lock-'em-together-in-a-room trick
Caro calls Omar a womanizer. "Look who's talking," Omar retorts. Caro is stunned by this remark. "You know very well what I'm talking about," he hints. She demands an explanation. He explains that he saw a man come out of her house early one morning and they were talking about something electrical and incredible that had happened the previous night. She laughs at him, but not as raucously as he deserves. She agrees that that man had done a fabulous job for her. "And you're saying it to my face?!" Omar whines.
Caro laughs again and says yes, he fixed a blown circuit. She had bought a lamp for when... "for when we'd live together... uh... for when you would visit me..."
"Live together?" Omar asks like a happy little boy being offered a lollipop. Or a Furby. Whatever it is that the kids like these days. "You and me, me and you?"
"Who else?" Caro asks, adding mischievously, "unless you want me to ask the electrician..." He laughs, takes her hands, peers into her eyes, admits that he loves her, she says she loves him too, and he kisses her. Wow, his hands really are as big as his head. Nice.
They're still kissing. Those crazy kids.
Next day
Lety is babbling nervously to the Nuevo Leon lady that she can't personally be in charge of the campaign, but don't worry, she'll leave it in the hands of her assistant. Barbara, the Nuevo Leon lady, says that her boss Cristina insisted that Lety be in charge. Also, she heard that Lety's getting married, yay. Lety says that the wedding is kind of the reason she can't manage the campaign. Barbara has a suggestion: Lety can marry the love of her life in the Monterrey Cathedral, and do the campaign at the same time.
Barb is pretty excited about the idea; Lety is overwhelmed... that she, the fea, could marry in such an esteemed place. Lety eagerly accepts: she says it's the dream of every bride to marry in a cathedral. (So I guess Aldo is just going to have to stuff the boat then, huh?) "Monterrey, Monterrey, Monterrey," Lety sighs. (Not "Aldo, Aldo, Aldo.")
More mash notes
Marcia unfolds another anonymous note. "Hello my beloved, I hope you are well. I am moved to write to you again because I imagine that maybe you thought it was a joke in poor taste. Or even worse, something dangerous. I promise that it isn't. My interest is sincere; I am convinced that you are one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Your angelic face fascinates me - your marvelous eyes - so I'm sending you my email address again so we can begin corresponding, gaining first your confidence, and then your heart."
Marcia is intrigued. I still say this man is keeping way too many of the advantages to himself - he knows her name and where she lives and has even followed her around; he won't even tell her his name and yet she's supposed to trust him.
Well, maybe she can google his email address and find out if he has a myspace page.
The mystery of Luigi
Luigi lovingly caresses the face in the poster of himself that he has on the wall. "I can't go to Monterrey," he moans to Lety and Irma, patting his chest as if he's trying to induce a mimisqui. (Not to be confused with a maniguis!) He can't go to Monterrey, because he would have to go back and be born differently - liking women. Lety seems not to be interested in this and reminds him that they can't throw away this opportunity. Luigi refuses.
Lety puts her foot down. "This time, you're going to do what I tell you, or...." She trails off, realizing she's got nothin'. Luigi says "I'm not a horse!" He is starting to cry. He tells her he's about to speak to her sincerely, for the first time ever. He can't go to Monterrey, and he's not going to go. Never. NEVER. And if Lety insists, he will have to leave Conceptos.
Lety is sympathetic, but she doesn't understand. She asks him nicely for an explanation, but he doesn't want to give one. He gets overwhelmed and asks to be alone. "Please, get out, platypus!" Lety is speechless. Irma signals that she'll take care of Luigi; Lety leaves them.
Wow. Luigi really is crying. His whole face is red. He tries to turn Irma away, but she tells him that things happen for a reason; don't give up on this one just yet. She mentions forgiveness. "I can't, I can't forgive, Irmita," he says. He curls up in his chair and weeps for real.
Introducing... Mrs. Jack Tripper-Doubtfire
Aldo is saying that he'd gladly marry her in the Cathedral of Monterrey. What's important is that they get married. He kisses her and gets ready to take off - he has "many things to prepare." Lety invites him to the house dinner, but he says no, today they'll dine away, because they have many things to celebrate, one of which is that they're marrying in Monterrey, completing their marriage classes, etc. Smoochies. Then he reminds her that he has a chance to get back his old restaurant in Acapulco. He just needs Conceptos to pay him back.
But right now he wants they should go check out the catalog for wedding invitations, and look into decorations, music, chairs, tables, etc. She promises that she'll totally get into it so that their wedding will be a success. He hands her the business card from the restaurant where they'll have dinner at 8. More smoochies and Aldo leaves.
Ferni bounds in, cutely calling her "Doña Lets" and she happily calls him "Don Fets." He claims they have problems. (You're tellin' me!) He takes an orange (ORANGE!) highlighter out of her pencil-cup and starts fiddling with it. He whispers to Lety that Jax wants to have dinner with Aurora and Fernando this evening.
You can tell Fern is taking this threat very seriously by the way he's perched the highlighter on his upper lip. Can you imagine Aldo ever using his upper lip as a pen-tray? NO. And that's why I feel that he is utterly unsuitable for Lety. Lety is a very literate, well-educated woman. She often needs to have a pen around, for signing things, doing math, etc. Most people think it doesn't look very dignified to stick a pen behind your ear, and when you wear glasses it's hard to keep a pen there anyway. That's why it's important to choose a mate whose abilities complement your own needs.
Lety also takes this problem very seriously. She demonstrates this by balancing a pencil on her own upper lip. Too bad she got rid of the mustache, because the whiskers could have held it in place. As it is, it's just sorta hanging crooked, as if Lety doesn't know how to scrunch up her face properly.
Fernando goes on to say that Jax is about to give them some type of news, so it's necessary that Aurora attend. "Jax wants us to unite," he says. Jax wants them to dine with a Walter (he fishes a piece of paper out of his pocket to read) Stanleski, one of the richest media magnates of Europe - he saw one of their shows and he's fascinated with Aurora. Lety thinks that someone should tell Mr. (she takes the paper out of Fern's hand to read it for herself) Blahblehski that Aurora can't go. Jax says Aurora is needed to get this dude to sign a contract for millions of dollars. Fern's not sure what the millions of dollars are for, just that there would be a lot of money coming out of this guy.
Lety weakly protests that she already promised to have dinner with Aldo this evening, and... oh no. Does everyone see where this is going? This is going to be like that scene from Mrs. Doubtfire, combined with the episode of Three's Company where Jack had scheduled multiple dates on the same night. That's not going to be easy to live up to.
Naturally, Mr. (Julie checks her notes) Stanleski is only going to be in Mexico for one night, but Fern remembers that his prime directive is to protect Lety's relationship with Aldo, so he's just going to tell Jax it'll have to be some other time.
But I guess Lety isn't so eager to pass up an evening as Aurora with Fern. Fortunately, she has a great excuse: gotta pay Aldo. Not to mention get Conceptos back for Fernando and the Mendi-Roels.
"But what are we going to do?" Fernando asks. "I already know," Lety answers with conviction and a crazy gleam in her eye. "Lety and Aurora are going to eat tonight in the same restaurant."
Fern is worried about this plan. Lety reiterates the need to get this guy's money. He reluctantly agrees.
At the Deadbeat Dad Hotel
Lola visits El Cheque in jail. She has some clothes and a blanket and some food. He says he's there because of her. She says no, he's there because he didn't follow through on his fatherly obligations. She tells him the kids are worried about him. She shows him a photo of him with them. He's worried about what she told them, or if they saw him get arrested. She assures him that they didn't see anything, but they had asked for him and she had to tell them he had gone away. They miss him.
Ah, in a case of perfect timing, Jaz/Yas has come to visit as well. She is empty-handed, except for her purse, which seems to be a bit light in the wallet area today. Lola gets up to leave. He thanks her for the stuff and she's gone.
El Cheque happily turns to his beloved little chippie. She says she's missed him... so much... that she thinks it'd be better if her "name" were not associated with his for the duration of this "situation." El Cheque is aghast that she's worried about her reputation, but she claims she's doing it for his own good; that he knows that she loves him and that she'll be careful about his reputation so that Lola doesn't take everything away from him.
El Cheque abruptly accuses her (after all these months!) of only caring about him for his money. "You never really loved me, did you. Tell me."
"What do you think?" she replies coldly. Now that the party's over, the sweet fluffy little homewrecker is gone. She has dropped the act so quickly, I'm a bit dizzy just watching. She is even colder and more venemous than I ever would have imagined. "Did you believe, Fatso, did you think that I was going with you for your pretty face? Ha! It was always for the money, because you are no more than a fat guy filled with lonjas (markets?), insufferable and revolting."
Not so long ago, Efren Garcia had two women fighting over him. Today, all that's left is a photo of his kids. He holds it to his heart, looking remorseful.
Practice
Lety and Fern begin to develop the plan. Fernando is worried that Aldo will figure it out. Lety thinks they need an accomplice.
After the commercial, we're at the restaurant. Fern and Tomas (the accomplice) use a stopwatch to time Lety's transformation to Aurora. It's taking too long. (Hair up, black lace dress.) Lety complains that if they pressure her it will take even longer. Fern reminds her that there's going to be a lot more pressure soon. They continue badgering her until she emerges from the restroom - and then, they are speechless. For maybe half a second. Tomas says that was ten minutes; Fernando says wow. He is impressed. :-) They both beg her to do the Aurora voice. "Don't touch me," Fern hisses in imitation. She finally does it. Fern and Tomas laugh; then Tomas blows a whistle and reminds them to get back to work. Fern says she needs to spend maybe five minutes with Jax. Lety thinks it needs to be even quicker. She'll show up, tell Jax that she has another engagement and has to go. The diva treatment.
Fern wonders if Aldo will wait 15 minutes. Lety thinks he's smart (even though he can't balance a writing instrument on his upper lip) and will suspect something's up. Fern briefly mocks this, then remembers his Prime Directive (must... protect... wedding...). He tells Tomas that's why they need him - he's going to distract Aldo during all of this. Tomas wants to know how. Fern tells him to make something up. (BIG MISTAKE.)
Fernando tries to choreograph the scene. I don't know how he thinks he's going to have any control over where people sit, but I guess we'll see. Tomas refers to Lety as "Lety la fea," and Fernando corrects him. Lety explains why it takes so long to go from Aurora to Lety as well - all the things she has to do (do the hair, put on the mustache, etc.). "It's tough to be a fea nowadays," she tells them. Fern disputes the "fea" title again. He continues to describe his vision of how things will unfold. He figures by the time Lety comes out of the bathroom and comes to Aldo's table, it'll have been about 20 minutes. Tomas says his distraction will only be good for about that long, so Lety had better be on time. They squabble some more over minutiae and then take their places for another timed run-through.
Nice stalkers finish last
Carmina is in Aldo's office again. He's examining a couple of new Flavor of Life books. She's saying she supervised their printing personally, and tomorrow they'll be in all the stores, in the periodicals section (just in case anyone wants to look for it!). Aldo is very impressed with the books, if not with Carmina. He says these books are a signal that his wedding will be a success.
Unfortunately, even if you put the two books together, they're not quite heavy enough to effectively hit him in the head with.
But wait - not so fast with the head-thwapping just yet. Get a load of this: Carmina asks him if he'd like to go out to dinner to celebrate! Yes! She is STILL trying to get a piece of the Aldo-action! He says no, he's got an important engagement: he's having dinner with Lety!
Carmina looks disappointed that her clever seduction plan has failed.
Domestic bliss
Tomas kisses the side of Alicia's head and says "off I go." She wants to know where. "It's muy noche!" she tells him. He says he'd like to explain, but... he suddenly looks scared and makes for the door. She demands an explanation. She asks if he's steppin' out on her. "Are you jealous?" he laughs, snorting. Of course, she denies being jealous. He makes good his escape. "I don't like to be alone," she mutters sadly to herself.
Aurora spills the beans
Aldo says, "For the Flavor of Life!" He and Lety clink their wine glasses together. She congratulates him with a lot of words and forced emotion. She giggles something about hitting Carmina, or Carmina hitting her. Aldo says he's looking forward to spending this time with Lety, "you and I alone, just enjoying ourselves." Lety gets all goofy with him.
Fernando and Jax show up. To prevent Jax from seeing Lety, he pulls Jax around into a big hug. Fern signals to Lety, and Lety wiggles her eyebrows at him in reply. Aldo is concerned by Lety's apparently unprovoked twitching. Lety says she slept on her neck wrong, so he gets up to give her a massage. Now both he and Lety are facing towards Fern and Jax; Jax is recovering from the hug and about to turn around. Fern ushers Jax to a seat. Meanwhile, Lety experiences a miraculous recovery and gets Aldo to get back on his mark. I mean chair. I definitely did not mean to imply that Aldo was being treated as a prop in some insane charade without his knowledge. No sirree.
Jax wants to know when Aurora's coming. They talk briefly about some singer named Alejandro, I think. Fern reminds Jax that divas never arrive on time, and anyway, that magnate guy isn't here yet either. Jax points out that Walter what's-his-face is coming over from Frankfurt. But if he doesn't see Aurora, it will all be over. He's not going to want to sign, and they can say goodbye to millions of dollars that they can't lose.
Meeting with someone to sign a contract you've never seen, for millions of dollars to do you-don't-know-what, this is a good idea why? There are companies that do quite well for themselves by offering unbelievably large sums of money to small companies to do some project... the small company can't see the flaw in this... and it turns out that big company's project is so much bigger than the small company expected, that the ungodly sum was actually quite petite after subtracting out all of the expenses.
But I digress.
Fern tries to calm Jax and begins whistling loudly. Tomas whistles loudly in reply. There is some more gesturing, then Lety begins snapping her fingers. (She tells Aldo she's counting the minutes till the day of their wedding.) Aldo tells Lety he's got a big piece of news for her: he's made a big step towards getting his restaurant back. (Tomas is creeping along the floor toward them.) I don't get his explanation (it sounds like the restaurant's already in foreclosure??), but it's hard to pay attention to him while Tomas is still sneaking around with the whistle in his mouth. He takes a breadstick off of someone's plate and throws it at Aldo and Lety. Or maybe he only starts to. Lety suddenly exclaims, "I'm going! I'm going!", startling Aldo but appeasing Tomas. She tells Aldo she has to go to the bathroom right now. Tomas skulks around behind a plant and prepares to distract Aldo.
He has an idea. He goes and tells the chef that Aldo DomensaEEn wants to write about him. The chef is honored and thrilled. Tomas encourages him to speak at length with Aldo about all of his chefly secrets.
Meanwhile, Lety is doing the Aurora thing as fast as she can. She's in such a rush that she's being sloppy.
Aldo gripes about having to wait for Lety. Out comes the chef to tell Aldo all of his secrets. Aldo is bemused by the chef's impromptu visit, and points out that, chef-to-chef, he would never ask another chef to reveal his secrets. He asks the chef who put him up to this.
Tomas is looking at the stopwatch and urging Lety to hurry up. Lety warns him that she's driving him crazy, then wonders, if Tomas is there bugging her, then who's distracting Aldo? He tells her about the restaurant's chef.
Finally Aurora is ready. Tomas points out the chef to her and tells her to be careful. (The chef is calling Aldo "Saldo," which means "balance." Not sure I get the joke unless it's just the general amusement of another person getting his name wrong again.) Aldo is ignoring the chef and looking over his shoulder towards the bathroom.
Aurora walks right past Fern without looking at him and allows Jax to kiss her hand. Fern greets Aurora as well and takes her other hand. "Don't touch me," she reminds him. He drops her hand and tries not to smirk. (Tomas crawls along the floor to watch.) Fernando tries to make small talk and calls her Doña Aurora. She protests, don't call me Doña, there's only one of those - "may my friend La Felix rest in peace." (A reference to Mexican actress Maria Felix, who was known as La Doña.)
She warns Jax that she doesn't have much time. Jax tries to argue, but Aurora says that Fernando already told her about the big magnate Walter... (Fern hands her the paper so she can read, but she doesn't have her glasses on) Stanilaski. "Stasleski," Jax corrects her, miffed. Aurora says she doesn't want to wait for him, but Jax says he's the owner of the most important channels in Europe. Aurora stands and says that he can't be important enough to make Aurora Mayer de Salinas wait. Jax gets her to sit down again and says, "but you have to wait for him, right now, is that clear?" Aurora begins whining "I can't" in her Lety voice, but Fern cuts her off and says she needs to clear her throat. She does so with a glass of wine. I believe this would be her second - the first was with Aldo.
Speaking of Aldo, the chef is getting up and saying, "Please keep tasting, Mr. Saldo." Tomas, hiding behind some sparse-looking foliage, panics as Aldo looks at his watch and gets up to check the bathroom for Lety. Tomas jumps out to intercept him - thinking fast, he says he came over alone because his chica is busy "doing some things." He invites himself to sit down and tell Aldo all of his troubles, namely the gynecologist's alleged recommendations which have resulted in Tomas not getting any action for the last few weeks. And that's why he's here alone. If he stays at home, there's too much temptation.
Aldo's reply to this is completely drowned out by music and there's no caption. If anyone here can read lips in Spanish, we'd all be most grateful. :-)
Aurora hurries back to the restroom, complaining that she hates Walter "Malvaski." She's waving her arms around and seems slightly buzzed, but tells herself she has to go through with it. She reaches for some eye makeup remover.
A moment later, Lety emerges from the restroom. She gives Aldo a kiss, they toast, and she downs another glass of wine. Then she finishes his. (This makes four. Now I know for sure that Lety has never seen Mrs. Doubtfire - if she had, there's no way she would be drinking right now.)
Shortly thereafter, she's Aurora again. Walter What's-his-face has arrived. Aurora stumbles slightly as she approaches, and Fern hurriedly puts her in his chair. As he pushes her chair to the table, she looks like she's on a queasy amusement park ride. They all toast, and L'Aurorety guzzles drinky #5.
Next thing we know, Tomas is looking at his stopwatch again as Aurora dashes for el baño. She's now seriously impaired, but manages to pull herself together, more or less. Her granny blouse is untucked, but she's still wearing the right face and clothes and jewelry as she kisses Aldo and slumps in her seat, proclaiming "I love you so much, so much."
Now back to the bathroom. I don't know if she had another drink with Aldo just now, but the previous five we already know about (that's more than a 750 ml bottle's worth) are definitely catching up with her. She's draping the dress and wig over herself every which way and laughing in the mirror.
Somehow she finishes changing. She mushes her face against the bathroom window and crosses her eyes and grins goofily at the sensation of the cool glass on her lips, which are probably getting numb. She barely manages not to tear her dress as it gets caught in the door. She steadies herself between the wall and a potted plant, fixes her eyes on Jax's table, and proceeds with steely determination. Walter Blahblahski gives her drink number 6 (or 7) "for your beauty." She tries to toast to his something as well, but she slurs the last word. It sounds like "remate" which means "end." Hmm. She turns to Fern and whispers loudly at him to behave himself - "they're going to give us their business." Fortunately, Walter is charmed. Tomas grimaces nervously as Aurora finishes the drink.
She bumps into the bathroom door and then remembers how to work the doorknob. She laughs at herself in the mirror and tells herself that her boyfriend must be pretty desperate by now. She tries to drink out of the bathroom faucet, but can't reach. She mumbles some more as she reaches for her Lety clothes.
Walter is telling Jax and Fern that he likes Aurora, but unfortunately he has to leave. When he gets to Frankfurt, he'll send them the papers to close the deal. Fern happily agrees. Walter thanks them and gives Fern a big back-slapping hug. "How strong and fornidos (??) the Germans are," Fern says. Fern congratulates himself and Jax, and asks how many countries this will put their show in. Jax says that for now, it'll be 20 countries. Fern and Jax gloat over the immense amount of money they'll be making.
The evening's mission is accomplished. Conceptos will be able to pay off its debt to Aldo, and Aldo will be able to buy back his old restaurant. A happy ending is in sight. At this point, NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
Tomas is warning Lety that he can't distract Aldo any more, and that she needs to come out. She says she'll be out in minutes, or go to the dogs. (Something like that.) She assures Tomas that she's okay, so he goes to the bar. She is just a few steps behind him. She stumbles back to Aldo's table. "My love, my Sun" she crows loudly. Aldo looks up, stunned. "Another toast!" she howls, brandishing drink number 7 at least.
Now we can see why Aldo's so impactado. She's wearing Lety's jacket over Aurora's gown. She's wearing Aurora's face and Lety's hair. And there's a huge, scary, bright red grin on her face. Tomas rushes to her side, preparing to do damage control.
Aldo stands. He looks disappointed and bewildered. For a moment, Lety's grin seems to droop, as if she has figured out that something has gone wrong. But then she smiles again and wiggles her eyebrows at him.
Monday
Lety puts on her glasses, looks in the mirror, and realizes why Jax and Aldo are staring at her like that. Aldo's cold sore throbs with outrage.
That's #291 by Univision's count; 293 hours of semi-unrequited love.
I don't like it when something that I've grown attached to ends. The first time my parents took me to see a movie - Mary Poppins - they were astonished when I started crying during the happy ending. I wasn't crying because of what was happening in the movie - I was crying because I didn't want it to be over. I would cry bitterly at the end of a trip to the zoo or the beach or especially a day at my beloved, now defunct Lincoln Park (and yes, I cried when they shut the place down too).
As I've gotten older, I've become increasingly reluctant to finish books that I've been reading. I get to the last dozen or so pages and a feeling of dread washes over me. Soon this wonderful universe that I've been visiting will cease to exist... or it mysteries will no longer tempt me... in any case, the magic's about to end. I've got a book that's the last of a series... I've had it for years... never cracked it open. I have the last two episodes of Farscape on a tape that I've never watched. Sometimes I've even sad as I get to the last bites of a good meal.
Is it any wonder, then, that as I sat waiting for the 8:23 train to arrive (I missed the 6:48), I wasn't upset that I wouldn't be home to watch tonight's episode "live"? Is it any wonder that even now, I'm totally absorbed by the Mexico/Cuba fútbol game... even though I supposedly hate soccer? Is it any wonder that I'm suddenly battling an unprecedented urge to vacuum the stairs?
But there are things in life that are worth seeing through to the end. I have faith in Fernando. I have faith in fictitious love, if not the real thing. I even have some faith in Lety. So I will forge on bravely.
And so away we go. Spin, little DVD-RAM disk, spin!!
The old lock-up-the-deadbeat-dad trick
The wedding festivities are interrupted by two policemen with a warrant for Efren's (aka El Cheque's, aka Flaquito's) arrest. Lola is horrified. Yazmin/Jasmine/etc. screams at Lola, blaming her for the trouble. Lola screams back that El Cheque owes her two months' child support. The judge warned him, and now here are the consequences. She, Lola, is well-informed and she knows that it (failing to pay child support) is a prosecutable offense.
The homewrecker's witty reply is "Don't tell me that, it's a lie, I'm not going to believe it, I'm not going to listen." Lola dismisses her and worries about her kids. The cops drag ol' Flaquito away. He says he's afraid to go to jail, tells Jaz/Yas that he loves her, and begs Lola not to let the kids know what's happened. Lola is distraught.
The old lock-'em-together-in-a-room trick
Caro calls Omar a womanizer. "Look who's talking," Omar retorts. Caro is stunned by this remark. "You know very well what I'm talking about," he hints. She demands an explanation. He explains that he saw a man come out of her house early one morning and they were talking about something electrical and incredible that had happened the previous night. She laughs at him, but not as raucously as he deserves. She agrees that that man had done a fabulous job for her. "And you're saying it to my face?!" Omar whines.
Caro laughs again and says yes, he fixed a blown circuit. She had bought a lamp for when... "for when we'd live together... uh... for when you would visit me..."
"Live together?" Omar asks like a happy little boy being offered a lollipop. Or a Furby. Whatever it is that the kids like these days. "You and me, me and you?"
"Who else?" Caro asks, adding mischievously, "unless you want me to ask the electrician..." He laughs, takes her hands, peers into her eyes, admits that he loves her, she says she loves him too, and he kisses her. Wow, his hands really are as big as his head. Nice.
They're still kissing. Those crazy kids.
Next day
Lety is babbling nervously to the Nuevo Leon lady that she can't personally be in charge of the campaign, but don't worry, she'll leave it in the hands of her assistant. Barbara, the Nuevo Leon lady, says that her boss Cristina insisted that Lety be in charge. Also, she heard that Lety's getting married, yay. Lety says that the wedding is kind of the reason she can't manage the campaign. Barbara has a suggestion: Lety can marry the love of her life in the Monterrey Cathedral, and do the campaign at the same time.
Barb is pretty excited about the idea; Lety is overwhelmed... that she, the fea, could marry in such an esteemed place. Lety eagerly accepts: she says it's the dream of every bride to marry in a cathedral. (So I guess Aldo is just going to have to stuff the boat then, huh?) "Monterrey, Monterrey, Monterrey," Lety sighs. (Not "Aldo, Aldo, Aldo.")
More mash notes
Marcia unfolds another anonymous note. "Hello my beloved, I hope you are well. I am moved to write to you again because I imagine that maybe you thought it was a joke in poor taste. Or even worse, something dangerous. I promise that it isn't. My interest is sincere; I am convinced that you are one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Your angelic face fascinates me - your marvelous eyes - so I'm sending you my email address again so we can begin corresponding, gaining first your confidence, and then your heart."
Marcia is intrigued. I still say this man is keeping way too many of the advantages to himself - he knows her name and where she lives and has even followed her around; he won't even tell her his name and yet she's supposed to trust him.
Well, maybe she can google his email address and find out if he has a myspace page.
The mystery of Luigi
Luigi lovingly caresses the face in the poster of himself that he has on the wall. "I can't go to Monterrey," he moans to Lety and Irma, patting his chest as if he's trying to induce a mimisqui. (Not to be confused with a maniguis!) He can't go to Monterrey, because he would have to go back and be born differently - liking women. Lety seems not to be interested in this and reminds him that they can't throw away this opportunity. Luigi refuses.
Lety puts her foot down. "This time, you're going to do what I tell you, or...." She trails off, realizing she's got nothin'. Luigi says "I'm not a horse!" He is starting to cry. He tells her he's about to speak to her sincerely, for the first time ever. He can't go to Monterrey, and he's not going to go. Never. NEVER. And if Lety insists, he will have to leave Conceptos.
Lety is sympathetic, but she doesn't understand. She asks him nicely for an explanation, but he doesn't want to give one. He gets overwhelmed and asks to be alone. "Please, get out, platypus!" Lety is speechless. Irma signals that she'll take care of Luigi; Lety leaves them.
Wow. Luigi really is crying. His whole face is red. He tries to turn Irma away, but she tells him that things happen for a reason; don't give up on this one just yet. She mentions forgiveness. "I can't, I can't forgive, Irmita," he says. He curls up in his chair and weeps for real.
Introducing... Mrs. Jack Tripper-Doubtfire
Aldo is saying that he'd gladly marry her in the Cathedral of Monterrey. What's important is that they get married. He kisses her and gets ready to take off - he has "many things to prepare." Lety invites him to the house dinner, but he says no, today they'll dine away, because they have many things to celebrate, one of which is that they're marrying in Monterrey, completing their marriage classes, etc. Smoochies. Then he reminds her that he has a chance to get back his old restaurant in Acapulco. He just needs Conceptos to pay him back.
But right now he wants they should go check out the catalog for wedding invitations, and look into decorations, music, chairs, tables, etc. She promises that she'll totally get into it so that their wedding will be a success. He hands her the business card from the restaurant where they'll have dinner at 8. More smoochies and Aldo leaves.
Ferni bounds in, cutely calling her "Doña Lets" and she happily calls him "Don Fets." He claims they have problems. (You're tellin' me!) He takes an orange (ORANGE!) highlighter out of her pencil-cup and starts fiddling with it. He whispers to Lety that Jax wants to have dinner with Aurora and Fernando this evening.
You can tell Fern is taking this threat very seriously by the way he's perched the highlighter on his upper lip. Can you imagine Aldo ever using his upper lip as a pen-tray? NO. And that's why I feel that he is utterly unsuitable for Lety. Lety is a very literate, well-educated woman. She often needs to have a pen around, for signing things, doing math, etc. Most people think it doesn't look very dignified to stick a pen behind your ear, and when you wear glasses it's hard to keep a pen there anyway. That's why it's important to choose a mate whose abilities complement your own needs.
Lety also takes this problem very seriously. She demonstrates this by balancing a pencil on her own upper lip. Too bad she got rid of the mustache, because the whiskers could have held it in place. As it is, it's just sorta hanging crooked, as if Lety doesn't know how to scrunch up her face properly.
Fernando goes on to say that Jax is about to give them some type of news, so it's necessary that Aurora attend. "Jax wants us to unite," he says. Jax wants them to dine with a Walter (he fishes a piece of paper out of his pocket to read) Stanleski, one of the richest media magnates of Europe - he saw one of their shows and he's fascinated with Aurora. Lety thinks that someone should tell Mr. (she takes the paper out of Fern's hand to read it for herself) Blahblehski that Aurora can't go. Jax says Aurora is needed to get this dude to sign a contract for millions of dollars. Fern's not sure what the millions of dollars are for, just that there would be a lot of money coming out of this guy.
Lety weakly protests that she already promised to have dinner with Aldo this evening, and... oh no. Does everyone see where this is going? This is going to be like that scene from Mrs. Doubtfire, combined with the episode of Three's Company where Jack had scheduled multiple dates on the same night. That's not going to be easy to live up to.
Naturally, Mr. (Julie checks her notes) Stanleski is only going to be in Mexico for one night, but Fern remembers that his prime directive is to protect Lety's relationship with Aldo, so he's just going to tell Jax it'll have to be some other time.
But I guess Lety isn't so eager to pass up an evening as Aurora with Fern. Fortunately, she has a great excuse: gotta pay Aldo. Not to mention get Conceptos back for Fernando and the Mendi-Roels.
"But what are we going to do?" Fernando asks. "I already know," Lety answers with conviction and a crazy gleam in her eye. "Lety and Aurora are going to eat tonight in the same restaurant."
Fern is worried about this plan. Lety reiterates the need to get this guy's money. He reluctantly agrees.
At the Deadbeat Dad Hotel
Lola visits El Cheque in jail. She has some clothes and a blanket and some food. He says he's there because of her. She says no, he's there because he didn't follow through on his fatherly obligations. She tells him the kids are worried about him. She shows him a photo of him with them. He's worried about what she told them, or if they saw him get arrested. She assures him that they didn't see anything, but they had asked for him and she had to tell them he had gone away. They miss him.
Ah, in a case of perfect timing, Jaz/Yas has come to visit as well. She is empty-handed, except for her purse, which seems to be a bit light in the wallet area today. Lola gets up to leave. He thanks her for the stuff and she's gone.
El Cheque happily turns to his beloved little chippie. She says she's missed him... so much... that she thinks it'd be better if her "name" were not associated with his for the duration of this "situation." El Cheque is aghast that she's worried about her reputation, but she claims she's doing it for his own good; that he knows that she loves him and that she'll be careful about his reputation so that Lola doesn't take everything away from him.
El Cheque abruptly accuses her (after all these months!) of only caring about him for his money. "You never really loved me, did you. Tell me."
"What do you think?" she replies coldly. Now that the party's over, the sweet fluffy little homewrecker is gone. She has dropped the act so quickly, I'm a bit dizzy just watching. She is even colder and more venemous than I ever would have imagined. "Did you believe, Fatso, did you think that I was going with you for your pretty face? Ha! It was always for the money, because you are no more than a fat guy filled with lonjas (markets?), insufferable and revolting."
Not so long ago, Efren Garcia had two women fighting over him. Today, all that's left is a photo of his kids. He holds it to his heart, looking remorseful.
Practice
Lety and Fern begin to develop the plan. Fernando is worried that Aldo will figure it out. Lety thinks they need an accomplice.
After the commercial, we're at the restaurant. Fern and Tomas (the accomplice) use a stopwatch to time Lety's transformation to Aurora. It's taking too long. (Hair up, black lace dress.) Lety complains that if they pressure her it will take even longer. Fern reminds her that there's going to be a lot more pressure soon. They continue badgering her until she emerges from the restroom - and then, they are speechless. For maybe half a second. Tomas says that was ten minutes; Fernando says wow. He is impressed. :-) They both beg her to do the Aurora voice. "Don't touch me," Fern hisses in imitation. She finally does it. Fern and Tomas laugh; then Tomas blows a whistle and reminds them to get back to work. Fern says she needs to spend maybe five minutes with Jax. Lety thinks it needs to be even quicker. She'll show up, tell Jax that she has another engagement and has to go. The diva treatment.
Fern wonders if Aldo will wait 15 minutes. Lety thinks he's smart (even though he can't balance a writing instrument on his upper lip) and will suspect something's up. Fern briefly mocks this, then remembers his Prime Directive (must... protect... wedding...). He tells Tomas that's why they need him - he's going to distract Aldo during all of this. Tomas wants to know how. Fern tells him to make something up. (BIG MISTAKE.)
Fernando tries to choreograph the scene. I don't know how he thinks he's going to have any control over where people sit, but I guess we'll see. Tomas refers to Lety as "Lety la fea," and Fernando corrects him. Lety explains why it takes so long to go from Aurora to Lety as well - all the things she has to do (do the hair, put on the mustache, etc.). "It's tough to be a fea nowadays," she tells them. Fern disputes the "fea" title again. He continues to describe his vision of how things will unfold. He figures by the time Lety comes out of the bathroom and comes to Aldo's table, it'll have been about 20 minutes. Tomas says his distraction will only be good for about that long, so Lety had better be on time. They squabble some more over minutiae and then take their places for another timed run-through.
Nice stalkers finish last
Carmina is in Aldo's office again. He's examining a couple of new Flavor of Life books. She's saying she supervised their printing personally, and tomorrow they'll be in all the stores, in the periodicals section (just in case anyone wants to look for it!). Aldo is very impressed with the books, if not with Carmina. He says these books are a signal that his wedding will be a success.
Unfortunately, even if you put the two books together, they're not quite heavy enough to effectively hit him in the head with.
But wait - not so fast with the head-thwapping just yet. Get a load of this: Carmina asks him if he'd like to go out to dinner to celebrate! Yes! She is STILL trying to get a piece of the Aldo-action! He says no, he's got an important engagement: he's having dinner with Lety!
Carmina looks disappointed that her clever seduction plan has failed.
Domestic bliss
Tomas kisses the side of Alicia's head and says "off I go." She wants to know where. "It's muy noche!" she tells him. He says he'd like to explain, but... he suddenly looks scared and makes for the door. She demands an explanation. She asks if he's steppin' out on her. "Are you jealous?" he laughs, snorting. Of course, she denies being jealous. He makes good his escape. "I don't like to be alone," she mutters sadly to herself.
Aurora spills the beans
Aldo says, "For the Flavor of Life!" He and Lety clink their wine glasses together. She congratulates him with a lot of words and forced emotion. She giggles something about hitting Carmina, or Carmina hitting her. Aldo says he's looking forward to spending this time with Lety, "you and I alone, just enjoying ourselves." Lety gets all goofy with him.
Fernando and Jax show up. To prevent Jax from seeing Lety, he pulls Jax around into a big hug. Fern signals to Lety, and Lety wiggles her eyebrows at him in reply. Aldo is concerned by Lety's apparently unprovoked twitching. Lety says she slept on her neck wrong, so he gets up to give her a massage. Now both he and Lety are facing towards Fern and Jax; Jax is recovering from the hug and about to turn around. Fern ushers Jax to a seat. Meanwhile, Lety experiences a miraculous recovery and gets Aldo to get back on his mark. I mean chair. I definitely did not mean to imply that Aldo was being treated as a prop in some insane charade without his knowledge. No sirree.
Jax wants to know when Aurora's coming. They talk briefly about some singer named Alejandro, I think. Fern reminds Jax that divas never arrive on time, and anyway, that magnate guy isn't here yet either. Jax points out that Walter what's-his-face is coming over from Frankfurt. But if he doesn't see Aurora, it will all be over. He's not going to want to sign, and they can say goodbye to millions of dollars that they can't lose.
Meeting with someone to sign a contract you've never seen, for millions of dollars to do you-don't-know-what, this is a good idea why? There are companies that do quite well for themselves by offering unbelievably large sums of money to small companies to do some project... the small company can't see the flaw in this... and it turns out that big company's project is so much bigger than the small company expected, that the ungodly sum was actually quite petite after subtracting out all of the expenses.
But I digress.
Fern tries to calm Jax and begins whistling loudly. Tomas whistles loudly in reply. There is some more gesturing, then Lety begins snapping her fingers. (She tells Aldo she's counting the minutes till the day of their wedding.) Aldo tells Lety he's got a big piece of news for her: he's made a big step towards getting his restaurant back. (Tomas is creeping along the floor toward them.) I don't get his explanation (it sounds like the restaurant's already in foreclosure??), but it's hard to pay attention to him while Tomas is still sneaking around with the whistle in his mouth. He takes a breadstick off of someone's plate and throws it at Aldo and Lety. Or maybe he only starts to. Lety suddenly exclaims, "I'm going! I'm going!", startling Aldo but appeasing Tomas. She tells Aldo she has to go to the bathroom right now. Tomas skulks around behind a plant and prepares to distract Aldo.
He has an idea. He goes and tells the chef that Aldo DomensaEEn wants to write about him. The chef is honored and thrilled. Tomas encourages him to speak at length with Aldo about all of his chefly secrets.
Meanwhile, Lety is doing the Aurora thing as fast as she can. She's in such a rush that she's being sloppy.
Aldo gripes about having to wait for Lety. Out comes the chef to tell Aldo all of his secrets. Aldo is bemused by the chef's impromptu visit, and points out that, chef-to-chef, he would never ask another chef to reveal his secrets. He asks the chef who put him up to this.
Tomas is looking at the stopwatch and urging Lety to hurry up. Lety warns him that she's driving him crazy, then wonders, if Tomas is there bugging her, then who's distracting Aldo? He tells her about the restaurant's chef.
Finally Aurora is ready. Tomas points out the chef to her and tells her to be careful. (The chef is calling Aldo "Saldo," which means "balance." Not sure I get the joke unless it's just the general amusement of another person getting his name wrong again.) Aldo is ignoring the chef and looking over his shoulder towards the bathroom.
Aurora walks right past Fern without looking at him and allows Jax to kiss her hand. Fern greets Aurora as well and takes her other hand. "Don't touch me," she reminds him. He drops her hand and tries not to smirk. (Tomas crawls along the floor to watch.) Fernando tries to make small talk and calls her Doña Aurora. She protests, don't call me Doña, there's only one of those - "may my friend La Felix rest in peace." (A reference to Mexican actress Maria Felix, who was known as La Doña.)
She warns Jax that she doesn't have much time. Jax tries to argue, but Aurora says that Fernando already told her about the big magnate Walter... (Fern hands her the paper so she can read, but she doesn't have her glasses on) Stanilaski. "Stasleski," Jax corrects her, miffed. Aurora says she doesn't want to wait for him, but Jax says he's the owner of the most important channels in Europe. Aurora stands and says that he can't be important enough to make Aurora Mayer de Salinas wait. Jax gets her to sit down again and says, "but you have to wait for him, right now, is that clear?" Aurora begins whining "I can't" in her Lety voice, but Fern cuts her off and says she needs to clear her throat. She does so with a glass of wine. I believe this would be her second - the first was with Aldo.
Speaking of Aldo, the chef is getting up and saying, "Please keep tasting, Mr. Saldo." Tomas, hiding behind some sparse-looking foliage, panics as Aldo looks at his watch and gets up to check the bathroom for Lety. Tomas jumps out to intercept him - thinking fast, he says he came over alone because his chica is busy "doing some things." He invites himself to sit down and tell Aldo all of his troubles, namely the gynecologist's alleged recommendations which have resulted in Tomas not getting any action for the last few weeks. And that's why he's here alone. If he stays at home, there's too much temptation.
Aldo's reply to this is completely drowned out by music and there's no caption. If anyone here can read lips in Spanish, we'd all be most grateful. :-)
Aurora hurries back to the restroom, complaining that she hates Walter "Malvaski." She's waving her arms around and seems slightly buzzed, but tells herself she has to go through with it. She reaches for some eye makeup remover.
A moment later, Lety emerges from the restroom. She gives Aldo a kiss, they toast, and she downs another glass of wine. Then she finishes his. (This makes four. Now I know for sure that Lety has never seen Mrs. Doubtfire - if she had, there's no way she would be drinking right now.)
Shortly thereafter, she's Aurora again. Walter What's-his-face has arrived. Aurora stumbles slightly as she approaches, and Fern hurriedly puts her in his chair. As he pushes her chair to the table, she looks like she's on a queasy amusement park ride. They all toast, and L'Aurorety guzzles drinky #5.
Next thing we know, Tomas is looking at his stopwatch again as Aurora dashes for el baño. She's now seriously impaired, but manages to pull herself together, more or less. Her granny blouse is untucked, but she's still wearing the right face and clothes and jewelry as she kisses Aldo and slumps in her seat, proclaiming "I love you so much, so much."
Now back to the bathroom. I don't know if she had another drink with Aldo just now, but the previous five we already know about (that's more than a 750 ml bottle's worth) are definitely catching up with her. She's draping the dress and wig over herself every which way and laughing in the mirror.
Somehow she finishes changing. She mushes her face against the bathroom window and crosses her eyes and grins goofily at the sensation of the cool glass on her lips, which are probably getting numb. She barely manages not to tear her dress as it gets caught in the door. She steadies herself between the wall and a potted plant, fixes her eyes on Jax's table, and proceeds with steely determination. Walter Blahblahski gives her drink number 6 (or 7) "for your beauty." She tries to toast to his something as well, but she slurs the last word. It sounds like "remate" which means "end." Hmm. She turns to Fern and whispers loudly at him to behave himself - "they're going to give us their business." Fortunately, Walter is charmed. Tomas grimaces nervously as Aurora finishes the drink.
She bumps into the bathroom door and then remembers how to work the doorknob. She laughs at herself in the mirror and tells herself that her boyfriend must be pretty desperate by now. She tries to drink out of the bathroom faucet, but can't reach. She mumbles some more as she reaches for her Lety clothes.
Walter is telling Jax and Fern that he likes Aurora, but unfortunately he has to leave. When he gets to Frankfurt, he'll send them the papers to close the deal. Fern happily agrees. Walter thanks them and gives Fern a big back-slapping hug. "How strong and fornidos (??) the Germans are," Fern says. Fern congratulates himself and Jax, and asks how many countries this will put their show in. Jax says that for now, it'll be 20 countries. Fern and Jax gloat over the immense amount of money they'll be making.
The evening's mission is accomplished. Conceptos will be able to pay off its debt to Aldo, and Aldo will be able to buy back his old restaurant. A happy ending is in sight. At this point, NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
Tomas is warning Lety that he can't distract Aldo any more, and that she needs to come out. She says she'll be out in minutes, or go to the dogs. (Something like that.) She assures Tomas that she's okay, so he goes to the bar. She is just a few steps behind him. She stumbles back to Aldo's table. "My love, my Sun" she crows loudly. Aldo looks up, stunned. "Another toast!" she howls, brandishing drink number 7 at least.
Now we can see why Aldo's so impactado. She's wearing Lety's jacket over Aurora's gown. She's wearing Aurora's face and Lety's hair. And there's a huge, scary, bright red grin on her face. Tomas rushes to her side, preparing to do damage control.
Aldo stands. He looks disappointed and bewildered. For a moment, Lety's grin seems to droop, as if she has figured out that something has gone wrong. But then she smiles again and wiggles her eyebrows at him.
Monday
Lety puts on her glasses, looks in the mirror, and realizes why Jax and Aldo are staring at her like that. Aldo's cold sore throbs with outrage.
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