Caray, Caray!

Capítulos 198 & 199

By the light of the inevitable and eternally full moon of Mexiloon, Fernando is nourishing Gabriela’s ever-increasing sense of paranoia by trying to talk her into allowing herself to be buried alive in order to make everybody think she’s dead so they can blow this taco stand and avoid being caught by their enemies (the ones that Feo hasn’t successfully offed yet). (Query 1: How does he plan to make the doctor think she’s stopped breathing and essentially reached room temperature, not to mention pull off the ruse long enough to have the wake, the mass and the burial? Query 2: Wouldn’t it just be easier to fake suicide?) He says he would dig her up immediately afterwards himself and they would head for parts unknown with the money she’s put together from the sale of the hacienda and what’s in her personal accounts.

Gabi’s survival instinct kicks in re: her childhood fears, and she refuses to go along with the hare-brained idea. She won’t discuss it any further because it’s freaking her out. (Speaking of freaky, what’s with Feo’s 3-day old stubble and the filthy clothes again? He sneaks in and out of that bungalow and their bedroom continually and can’t take the time to clean up or shave in between failed murder attempts? Phew! Forget smelling salts. The stench from all that b.o. and the halitosis should have brought Sarita to her senses way before Franco found her!) Fer tells Gabi he’s got to go back to retrieve something they took from him, and to just think about the idea then leaves.

At the clinic Franco learns Sarita’s fine and just needs to sleep it off. The others show up at Sarita’s bedside chattering up a storm and ask where Franco found her. He explains she was knocked out in the cottage with her shirt ripped open. They wonder who could have attacked her and if she was left untouched. No, it seems she was fine. He croons her awake and she immediately claims –ta-dah!!--that Fernando Escandon is A-L-I-I-I-V-E! Caritas impactadas all ‘round.

Gabi gets back to her office and begins to lose it. She’s started talking to herself again, but what’s worse is now she’s answering, too. Gabi keeps repeating aloud that she cannot allow herself to be buried alive and Fernando has got to be told no-go.

In town at the little clinic, nobody actually believes that Fernando is alive and they tell Sarita that the knock on her noggin has got her all confused, but she is certain it was him she saw. Juan asks if she got a good look at him and she says no, because things were still fuzzy, but she knows it was him. Everyone argues with her that it’s impossible because he was blown to bits in the truck explosion. Slowfia comments to Juan that Fer cannot possibly still be alive. (Why are we not surprised?) He pulls Sofia aside and confides to her that he has his suspicions about it being Fernando but can’t explain till later. Juan then goes back to the group and asks Franco if he saw or noticed anything suspicious at the bungalow, but Franco admits that when Sarita came to and started groaning his first thought was to get her to a doctor. Besides, he adds, Padre Tadeo insisted that whoever he might find there he was specifically to ignore him.

Fer, in the meantime, returns to the sacristy (Padre Tadeo’s little office in the church) and starts rummaging around in various hidy-holes for his money as Nabor walks in on him.

At the Double R (Hacienda de los Robles-Reyes) meanwhile, Hortensia walks in on Rigo and Eugenia and overhears their talking about his tumor. He admits to her that it’s returned. The three of them tearfully console one another and determine to leave it all up to Divine Providence.

Back at the sacristy, Nabor accuses Fernando and screams that apart from lying about his death to everyone he’s now pillaging around in the sacristy and defiling it by trying to steal whatever’s valuable. Fer yells back that he’s only taking the stuff to make up for the money of his that they found and took from him. Nabor is surprised to find out that what he found in the bag was Fernando’s and says he’s glad he doesn’t have it to give back to him now; that Padre Tadeo has it. Fer tries to leave with his knapsack full of valuables (okay, so maybe it's a pillow case he stole off somebody's clothesline) and Nabor makes the mistake of trying to stop him and gets beaten up and kicked in the mouth for his troubles.

Outside Rigo prays to a shrine of the virgencita and asks that since he’s resigned to going with her would she protect his loved ones. He goes inside to the sacristy and finds Fer beating up on Nabor, screaming at him to tell him where the priest put his money. Nabor yells at Rigo to high-tail it for the Reyes’s and tell them that Fernando is really alive. Rigo runs out. Feo runs out right after.

Back at the clinic, Juan tells Sofia that she and her sisters are going to have to move to the Double R with them before things get any worse around there. She refuses to leave Mama alone in the hacienda because she’s so sick. Jimena tells her that normally she’d understand but the three of them are in danger and more so now that somebody attacked Sarita. Juan says they cannot be expected to protect them otherwise, especially if they have no idea who their enemy is. Sarita asks him if he believes her about Feo being alive. He says he does and that he’s always suspected that the creep faked his death.

Oscar disagrees and says they saw him blown to bits inside his truck, but Juan says he remembers he told Oscar when he shot that bullet through the window that the person in there didn’t move. As far as he’s concerned, Fernando put somebody else in there to take his place to make them believe he was really dead. Franco agrees with Juan. Just then Rigo comes running into the room and yells excitedly that he just saw Fernando Escandon alive in the sacristy. The men all run to the church to find him. Sarita asks Sofia if it could be true that Fer was the one who attacked her.

Fernando ends up in the graveyard looking for a place to hide for the night. (With all the ghouls there, I’m sure he’s in the company of fiends…er …friends.)

Back at the little clinic Sofia begs Sarita to tell her that Fer didn’t do anything to her. Sarita is crying at the mere thought that Fer would attack her like that.

Juan and his brothers find Nabor all bloodied and beaten in the sacristy. Nabor informs them that Fer just left and took all the valuables from the church. They run out to search for him and nary a peep about telling Comisario Muttonchops.

Back in her office at the Double E (Hacienda de las Elizondo y del Escandon a Escondidas) Gabi nurses another brandy and wonders where her beloved Feo has gone and what it was he had to get back. She’s mad at life now that everything is going sour and everybody seems to be against her. (Same ol’, same ol’ yada yada.) She’d love to run away but being buried alive won’t be part of the plan if she does. Feo’s just got to understand.

At the clinic Sofia and Jimena are trying to comfort Sarita. Sarita says that she remembers now that there was somebody else there in the bungalow with her and Fer. She can’t remember who, but the voice was familiar. She says she doesn’t think the attack was meant for her, either. It seemed that it was a trap set for somebody else. Sofia is impactada because she suddenly remembers that Mama made a big deal about insisting Sofia should stop everything to go over to the bungalow immediately to see what she could find out about what might have happened to Root. She tells her sisters that she thinks the trap was set for her. Sarita and Jimena are surprised to hear that Mama and Fer would have collaborated together to attack Sofia. (¡Qué horrible!)

That night Quintina goes out to dinner at some fancy restaurant in Puebla City with her new bidnez associate and his wife. We get a PSA from the Mexican Government about how the average rube should order their meat in “polite society” and what a finger bowl is. The guy and his wife laugh at Quintina’s supposed wit and they laugh and chuckle amongst themselves as she endearingly (not) flicks water at them from her finger bowl. (¡Qué encantadora! Yes. Charming. Apparently, you are allowed to splash water from the finger bowls at the table like a bunch of kindergarteners as long as you remember to order your food with your pinkies properly poised. FF>>)

We beam back to Cd. Serdán where Juan, Franco, and Oscar have apparently found Pad Tad in his office and they’re complaining about the padre knowing all along that Fernando was alive. According to the priest, it’s enough for him that if not in this life, then in the Afterlife, Fer will suffer in sulfured surroundings. Juan is frustrated that the priest never bothered to tell them…er…warn them, but the priest can’t quite get them to understand that he couldn’t break his vows, especially when after he tried to, God brought him back to life. Juan can’t reconcile Tadeo’s having left them all like that at the mercy of a total sociopath. “Baloney! My brothers and I saved your life, Padre!” The priest insists that he couldn’t be disrespectful to the virgencita, etc., etc. Oscar gets angry now. “Despite innocent lives?” Padre Tadeo yells back self-righteously some mumbo jumbo that yes, when words aren’t as appropriate as silence, it’s better to keep quiet.

Pad Tad calms back down a few seconds later and says anyway, he’s not the one to give them the answers they require; there’s someone else that they should be asking, not him. Juan says he knows who, but as for him, he’s not sure he can ever believe Tadeo again. They storm out of the church in disgust leaving Pad Tad yammering on about his only being the servant of God and a soldier of Christ (and Viewerville agreeing with the Reyes’s that when it comes to helping them fight E-e-evil, he’s been every bit as useless as a three-dollar bill or, shall we say, teats on a bull).

Meanwhile, Feo stumbles into the cemetery’s tool shed to spend the night. He can’t stand the place. He was born for greater things. Anyway, he thinks about all the people that he’s killed and that many of them are buried there.

Sofia tells her sisters that what happened to Sarita could have been a trap for her. She is convinced that Fer’s always wanted to get back at her since she’d always despised and spurned him. She tells them then how Mama had specifically sent her to the cottage to find out what had happened to Root and if it hadn’t been for Rosendo coming to get her to help check on Mr. Ed, she’d have been the one in the bungalow instead of Sarita. So, apparently, Fernando must have mistaken Sarita for her. Jimena still finds it hard to believe that Mama, as harsh and demanding as she might be, would actually have tried to have somebody off one of her own daughters.

Back at the Double E, Tio V.O., Juan and his brothers confront Gabi with what they’ve learned and now suspect. “You knew that Fernando Escandon was still alive and you hid him in the bungalow!” She denies all and insists Feo’s dead and that they’re trying to drive her crazy by bringing him back up to her now. Oscar tells her to stop lying. “Not only did you know he was really alive, but you helped him set a trap to attack one of your daughters!” She insists that she cannot understand how they could dare accuse her of something so vile. Vicente says they know she wants to confuse the issue, but this time she’s not going to succeed. None of them believes her.

Juan says they know that she and Fer put on a show for them all, but they’re not idiots. (Pardon me while I swallow a snicker and try unsuccessfully not to choke on that ill-timed sip of my copa.) He reminds her that they aren’t forgetting that their sister spent her last few hours in this damned hacienda, either. Gabi becomes bug-eyed impactada. “Yes, we know that she came here to Bernardo Elizondo’s funeral wake, and that you treated her like crap! Like crap! (That's a loose translation but go with me here.) Because of it, she raced out of here eating herself up with rage and sadness! Fernando Escandon raced out to follow her, to kill her, and kill her he did! He killed her! I will only say one thing to you: we know he is alive and we are going to get pay-back! A life for a life!” Gabi screams back at him that if that’s the way it is, he should just go ahead and kill her right then and there. "So, get even and kill me!"

Juan warns her not to tempt him. Gabi’s on a roll, though. “--And then you will kill Sofia from the pain of killing her mother!” Juan shoves it right back at Gabi. “Her mother? Are you referring to Eva? Because YOU certainly aren’t her mother! Eva is her mother and it’s only because I love and respect her that I haven’t told her. I am warning you: soon enough Justice is going to catch up to you --and we are going to make sure of that ourselves!” Gabi plays the anger card again and screams at them to get out of her house because they’re driving her crazy. Oscar sneers, “Ha! You’re already crazy.” He turns to the others and says, “Let’s go.” Juan looks her dead in the eye and warns her again as he turns to leave, “Very soon!” Now Gabi starts mumbling over and over (as the director hits us over the head with the symbolism) and she backs herself into one of the corners of her, now, very confining little office. "Fernando was right! They’re closing in on us! They’re closing in on us!”

After dinner, Quintina and her quasi-Chippendale wanna-be’s shake their pantied patooties in a private show for the new business associate and his wife. (Creepy. Very creepy –and really ba-a-a-d choreography…. FF>>)

The Reyes’s return home. Juan’s bugged that Feo hasn’t shown up anywhere yet. Franco wonders if he could have split, but Juan says no way since the leech is stuck like glue to Gabriela Elizondo because she’s his gravy-train. Besides, he says, Feo’s not going to give up his main objective which is to kill them all. They decide it’s best to get the women and bring them back to the hacienda right away and so they head back into town for them.

Back at the ghoul-shed, Feo swears he’ll make sure that neither the Reyes’ nor Sofia will be able to live happily ever after.

Franco is again watching over Sarita who is now sound asleep in hopes of recovering from the knock to her noggin. Totally ignoring the fact that the love of his life is in definite need of some major recovery Z-z’s, Franco is so moved by his love that the urge to sing overcomes him. He belts out another ballad, complete with magical elf orchestral accompaniment. Thankfully, the drugs the doc gave Sarita are damned good ones, and she manages to sleep through the ruckous this time. (Viewerville is not so fortunate, but it has learned to appreciate modern technology and that eighth wonder of the world, the FF>> button.)

Morning once again returns to Cd. Serdán and Gabi shows up bright and early at the church to throw off suspicions about her and Fer plotting to do in her daughters. Padre Tadeo doesn’t believe that she really is concerned at all about Sarita. She shouts back at him that of course she is, as much as she would be for her other daughter, Jimena. Tadeo says it wouldn’t seem so from the way she treats them. He adds that he cannot understand how she continues to prefer Fernando to them. She tries shouting him down and insists that Fer is dead, but he interrupts her before she can finish her sentence. “He’s alive! Alive!” She stops in mid-scream. “--Enough already! Everything has its limits and mine were reached quite a while ago!”

Padre Tadeo then angrily reminds Gabi that she’s been excommunicated and wonders what she’s doing there in the house of God. She doesn’t answer so he reminds her that he’s obliged to beg her to repent. She won’t and howls at him that he’s never to set foot in her house again and says that she’ll do likewise. She storms out and heads over to the clinic to see Sarita.

A few minutes later Gabi enters the clinic, dressed in her black leather trench coat like a Nazi SS officer, as the music’s crescendo reminiscently rises like something out of some B&W ‘50’s Z-rated horror flick. (Viewerville eagerly waits to see if the cross on the wall behind her spins around like a compass and ends upside down ala The Exorcist. --I think pea soup sales just took a dive in Méjico). She stands there looking at Sarita and can’t understand why she doesn’t feel a thing for her daughters. Gabi then sits down on the bed and tries to wake her. Sarita opens her eyes and remembers Fer and Mama’s conversation in the bungalow and Mama begging, “Don’t go, Fernando!” Sarita blurts out, “It was you with Fernando in the bungalow the night I was attacked! It was you! It was your voice! It was you!” Gabi keeps denying it and screams in frustration that Sarita is a wicked, mean daughter, but Sarita won’t stop insisting it was her. Gabi gives up and races out of the clinic, leaving poor Sarita heartbroken. “It was her….” Sarita whimpers.

A while later Sarita tells Jimena what happened during Mama’s visit. Jimena is tearfully impactada and says it’s difficult to believe that of Mama but then, she also knows her sister doesn’t lie about things, either. They’re both heartbroken because, as Sarita acknowledges, the ugly truth is that Mama really doesn’t love any of them at all.

At the same time, the Reyes’s are galloping along one of the back-roads into town when they spy Fermin walking along in the same direction. They surround him and force him to stop. Juan starts in on him. “Just where are YOU going, you devil? Are you planning on fooling Padre Tadeo again?” Fermin says no, just the reverse. It’s true he was a coward, but no longer. He’s going back to give his statement and to give up all the goodies on Fer. He’s telling the authorities about the murders Fer committed and will admit he kept mum about them all, beginning with the murders of Right-armando and Rosario. The brothers are share-a-stare impactado.

Sofia now pays a visit to Padre Tadeo at the church and tells him that she suspects what happened to Sarita was meant for her, and that Mama and Fernando were in cahoots together in planning it. He tells her that the time has come for her to demand The Truth.

A bit later, Gabi is coming down the back stairs of the Double E and thinking to herself that with the money from the sale of the hacienda and what she has in her personal account she and Fer can live well and far, far away from the long arm of the law. She’s lost in thought when Sofia shows up and confronts her. Sofia says she wants to know exactly what happened in the bungalow the other night. Gabi, her usual snippy self, says Fernando attacked Sarita and that’s all there is to know. Sofia says, au contraire ma mère (in Spanish, of course). Fer attacked Sarita by mistake and the one he really wanted to hurt was her; that the worst of it is that Mama agreed to it. Gabi tries to deflect again. “Are you accusing ME?” Sofia says yes, and what’s more, they even wanted to hurt her, maybe even to kill her!

Gabi plays the incredulously insulted mother card. “How could you say something like that? You, my very own daughter! –Oh, but now I understand everything! It was you who put those crazy ideas into Sarita’s head and forced her to accuse me! YOU are the one who has preached to your sisters, not the other way around and, as always, the rotten apple spoils the barrel.” Slowfia denies it sweetly, and continues to eat her favorite: humble pie. Mama launches into another tirade ASAP. “Of course it’s true and you and your sisters agreed to single me out and undoubtedly would enjoy seeing me die behind bars!”

Gabi starts to walk away but Sofia isn’t quite finished yet. “Enough with the emotional blackmail, all ready! I didn’t say a thing to Sarita. I came here to say that you were the one who sent me straight to the bungalow. If it weren’t for Rosendo, I am sure that Fernando would have killed me!” Gabi changes tactics and starts with the crocodile tears. “Where do you get this foolishness? The only reason I sent you is because you insisted on finding out what happened to Root! How was I supposed to know that Fernando was alive and hiding out there in the bungalow?” (Damn! I’ve got the pattern down pat in ten months. Slowfia’s lived with this b!tch for two decades and she still can’t see past this pile of maternal bull-puckey.) Gabi starts to walk off again, and again Sofia stops her. “I just came from speaking to Padre Tadeo. He told me it’s time to demand The Truth, Mama. That’s precisely what I’ve come for. Why do you hate me so much and why would you rather become a murderer-- in order to see me killed off?”

Gabi lets fly with another signature lollapalooza slap and nearly knocks Sofia over. She screams about how utterly wicked she is. (Sofia checks to see if her teeth are all still there.) “How could you speak to your mother that way???” Sofia makes the mistake of actually trying to smart back. “It’s YOU who’s forgotten that I am your daughter.” Gabi whips around and raises her arm for round two. Eva steps out of nowhere to get in between the two of them and takes the blow for Sofia at the last instant. Eva then takes the back of her hand and whaps Gabriela a good one on the jaw, not once, but twice --just for good measure. “Don’t you dare! Don’t touch my daughter again! Don’t. Touch. My. Daughter. Again!”

Slowfia, the eternally confused, cannot understand the meaning of what she just heard. “Eva! What are you saying?” “—The truth, the truth that I should have told you as soon as I learned it. Come on. I’m going to tell you. Let’s go.” Gabi tries to stop them. “Eva, shut up!” Eva refuses. “NO! Never again will I ‘shut up’! I want everyone to know, beginning with my daughter.” To Slowfia: “Sofia, you are not this…this … woman’s daughter. (Telenovela rules forbid Eva from actually using cuss words.) You are my daughter. You are the daughter I’ve been looking for my whole life long. Yes, you are my daughter, my real daughter. My really, real daughter!” Sofia is knock-me-over-with-a-feather-impactada and can only stare as Eva’s words ricochet around in her brain. “Yes, you are my daughter, my real daughter. My really, real daughter!”

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Wed., Feb. 4 -
Isabel and PJ/S announce to the other residents of the Donoso house that they are getting married. The rest of the episode is everyone's reaction to that news. Their reactions are negative ranging from Rebeca and Simón who are vehemently against it to doubt and confusion from others. Only Antonio tries to defend PJ/S.
Here he gets the call from Isabel to come to the house.
Isabel making the announcement of their engagement.

PJ/S tells Gaetana that everyone is against him now.

Rebeca is inconsolable and Walter tries to turn her grief into hate.
The news hits the factory.
Thurs., Feb. 5 -

Antonio goes to see PJ/S. In spite of being warned that surprises were coming, Antonio is concerned about PJ/S's behavior. PJ/S advises him that worse is to come.

Rebeca comes to see Cantalicia and is about to take her to tell her story to Isabel when Felipe interrupts them. He throws Rebeca out.

Rebeca goes to see PJ/S and calls him (right out on the loading dock with Simón watching) an opportunist and tells him to leave Isabel alone. PJ/S points out to her that when she wanted to marry him, she didn't feel that way. She threatens to tell Isabel about his sordid past. PJ/S says that is ok with him.


Rebeca asks to borrow Walter's gun.

PJ/S tries to explain his conduct to Ángela (who looks so much better and more mature without the bright yellow eye shadow) but she doesn't understand or trust what he is doing marrying her enemy right after he threw Valeria over.

Driving home, PJ/S gets the spasms of pain that indicate that Salvador wants his body back. "Not again, please God," begs PJ/S.

Labels: cuerpo

Marisela tells DB that she has come to claim the hacienda that DB offered her on her birthday. "You refused it," says DB. "Well, I want it now," replies Marisela and reminds DB that she signed the property deed transfer. All Marisela has to do is sign it to complete the transaction. DB asks if Marisela is crazy. DB is the same Doña as ever. Marisela says that she isn't afraid.

Santos is horrified that Cecilia let Marisela go to El Miedo. Cecilia says that Marisela does what she wants to and Santos should not follow her to El Miedo. Santos says that he has a bad feeling about what might be happening there.

Los Mondragon put poison in the the drinking place of Don Encarnación's cattle.

DB says that Marisela must have forgotten about the fact that she killed Meléndez. Marisela says that she didn't kill Meléndez. She pushed him to keep him from killing DB but she doesn't know if he died then or later. DB convinced her to leave the place. Marisela says that now that her father is dead, she doesn't care if she goes to jail. She has no problem in going to the police with DB and explaining the whole thing. She thinks DB won't come out of it so well because she has many things to explain and Marisela will end up with La Barquereña anyway.

Federica tells Pajarote and María Nieves that Bartolo can't "turn mattresses." The two vaqueros pay her to let him sleep it off and find out if he is 'strange' or not.

The terneras want to do something to celebrate Genoveva's birthday but she doesn't like parties. They decide to call Marisela and see if she has any ideas.

Santos comes to El Miedo and is greeted by Melquíades.

DB tells Marisela that what is her is hers and no one will take it away. If Marisela thought that DB would run away in fear from her, she was wrong. Marisela says she just came to tell DB her plans. DB says that it is time to strip off their masks. "You have come because of him," says DB, You saw him in the Capital and you have followed after him like the bitch in heat (perra en celo) that you are. Say it. You are here because you are in love with my man."

Pajarote's heart melts when he sees Genoveva with Gervasia's baby. All the ternera couples leave the patio and MN and Pajarote are alone.

Marisela tells DB that she has not come because of Santos. She has spent the last year getting rid of her dreams. She has come only to do justice for her father. "Lies," says DB, "you continue to be in love with him. You want to humiliate me by taking what is mine. Understand me, you won't end up with my hacienda or my man." "Doña," says Marisela, "don't you get tired of being the way you are (no se cansa de ser usted)?

Melquíades tells Santos that the takes of his master (ama) wherever, whenever and against whomever threatens her. He says that whoever harms DB is harming him and he will repay that harm with blood. Santos says that he isn't afraid. He dares Melquíades to finish what he wants to do with his blowgun. Melquíades replies that someday DB will give him the order and he'll be very happy to follow it.

DB asks why Marisela is looking at her like that. Marisels says that DB must feel very unhappy and alone. She says that DB's house is sad and dark and she is falling into it. DB tells Marisela not to feel sorry for her. Marisela says that she can't help it. DB is her mother in spite of all her meanness. She repeats to DB that she did not come back to get Santos. She came for justice. She says that she will see DB in court.

Pajarote marvels at how strange women are. He tells MN that Genoveva, for example, is unpleasant and bad tempered but when she looks at a baby or makes old Melesio laugh, she is pretty. MN tells Pajarote his 'fruit' theory of women. Some women, like Altagracia, are provocative. When you see them, you want to take a bite. They are round and delicious like an apple. Other women, like Genoveva, are like pineapples - prickly and unfriendly on the outside but sweet and delicious on the inside.

The next morning Melquíades tells DB that Santos was at El Miedo last night waiting outside. He followed Marisela when she left but didn't speak to her and she didn't know he was there. "It was as if he was protecting her from you," says Melquíades.

Genoveva repeats to the terneras that she does not want a party for her birthday. She leaves. Marisela says that Genoveva never said that she didn't want a barbecue down by the poza. Everyone thinks this is a great idea.

Pajarote comes to get Federica's report on Bartolo. She says that he is an expert in turning mattresses right side up and upside down.

DB tells Eustaquia that Marisela is capable of taking Santos away from her.

Santos introduces Andrés to Marisela as her lawyer for the litigation with DB. Marisela tells Santos not to interfere in her decisions but she ends up hiring Andrés.

Marisela comes into the bar to invite the vaqueros and Santos to the barbecue.

While Mujiquita is trying to get the name of the head of the corporation he represents out of Fausto, Andrés come in and files the papers to start the process to make legal the cession of the property known as El Miedo from DB to Marisela.

Marisela brings bathing suits for Genoveva and Cecilia to the barbecue and insists that they put them on. Everyone goes swimming.

After Andrés has left, Mujiquita expresses fear for what will happen when DB finds out about this.

Bartolo comes to the barbecue. Pajarote spikes the fruit juice he is going to give him but Genoveva asks for it instead.

Santos comes to sit by Marisela at the barbecue. She asks if he has any remorse for being here, looking at her that way knowing that he was with DB in this poza so many times. Santos gives the familiar, 'that was in the past,' response. Marisela replies that was what he said about Luisana when he got involved with DB. Santos asks why she is attacking him and she replies that she is only speaking the truth. She leaves saying that he makes her sick. Santos tells himself that at least she feels something for him - hate is an emotion. He wonders if it is true that hate is only a step from love.

Mujiquita comes to see DB. He says that he has good news and bad news. She asks for the good news. He says that he has learned the name of the head of the corporation Fausto represents but DB does not recognize it.

At the barbecue Antonio stares at Cecilia in her teeny white bikini (no stretch marks and a nice flat belly after the baby).

Cecilia decides to leave. Antonio asks her to leave Toñito with him and Lucía. Cecilia agrees.

Mujiquita tells DB that the bad news is that Andrés has formally made a demand for the restitution of her hacienda to Marisela. DB curses and says, "She did it, the wretch did it."

DE hears about the death of his cattle.

El Sapo is happy to hear that DB and Marisela are fighting for an hacienda. He says that his is good for their plan.

At the barbecue, Marisela takes a dare to climb a tree.

A drunk Genoveva makes nice with Pajarote. She asks him to kiss her. They kiss.

Marisela climbs the tree and falls on top of Santos. At this moment, DB arrives.

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Impactados galore: Ed tells the courtroom folks that Viv wasn’t pregnant. Do you know what you’re saying? they say. Yup, he says and I can prove it.

Omar isn’t anguished telling JM about those lovely days with Lirio, in fact he looks blissful. JM not so much. JM says stop! I’m going to tell you the truth about her. She doesn’t love you the way you think. She’s with another man. She just plays around with men’s feelings. NO! says Omar. How can you talk that way about somebody you don’t even know? Show some respect! If you insult her, you insult me.

JM says but she’s with Amador. Omar says I know, but he doesn’t deserve her and I’m going to put him out of the picture.

At the apartment, Amador is flopped on the couch and Mari is looking nervously out the window. She tells him that JM came last night. She tells him about his and Omar’s friendship and how JM knows she had a baby and thinks it’s his. She says she told a big wonking lie that the baby was his (Amador’s). The cellos grumble a bit, but Amador smiles.

Ed comes out from the hearing and tells JM mission accomplished. He takes off and JM is called in to testify. The prosecution asks him if he was happy in his marriage.

Amador laughs over Mari’s lie. He says I’m not even a good daddy to my own baby. That Dr. Ed thinks he’s going to take it on, but he’s wrong. Mari says you won’t tell JM the baby is his, promise? Amador puffs his pipe and relishes the situation. Okay, he says. What’s the squirt’s name? Mari says he’s named after JM, but JM doesn’t deserve that. He hasn’t been baptized yet, so maybe I’ll pick another name.

How about Amador? Mari scoffs and they toss around a few names. Amador comments that she has two guys crazy in love with her. She says she doesn’t love one, though he deserves it, and the other isn’t hers - even though he said he’d love her all his life, he’s always with some other woman.

The judge is visiting Ceci, who is having her hospital lunch. She asks why he’s so quiet. He says does she miss food at home? She says I don’t care, I don’t have much appetite – are you eating well? He says he’s not eating much either. She says what happened that you don’t want to tell me about? The judge says he spoke to Stef (Ceci rolls her eyes) about Marichuy. Ceci says you know I want to bring her to us. The judge says is it true that if you had to choose between us, you’d choose her?

JM tells the court people that he wasn’t happy with Viv – he wanted to make a family and a home, she wanted to just have fun. They ask if he ever mentioned divorce and he says yes. So you planned her murder? JM says no. Is Blanca in love with you? JM says she was very supportive of me. The lawyer yells she’s a very timid woman, and with your big psych-guy (read: evil) brain, you could easily manipulate her, turning into your murder weapon. She may have done the act, but it was your mind controlling her. (We have noted the probable dimensions of JM’s brain and it wouldn’t be able even to get her little toe to twitch, but his lawyer wisely doesn’t pursue that line of defense.)

Blanca starts squealing no, he had nothing to do with it. I did it! I’m guilty! Two guards hold her arms. Silence! the lawyer thunders, but she keeps squealing that it was her and her alone.

Ceci says it’s too bad Stef has so much influence over you and now you’re putting me in a position that shouldn’t even exist. You know I’ve always loved and respected you. Me too, says the judge. Who would you choose? Ceci says you have always received my unconditional love. The love for a husband and the love for a child are two separate things. You know how guilty I feel about having abandoned her. The thing is, you are her father and you too should want to accept and love her. The judge rehashes Mari’s crimes, her attitude, her lack of education. That’s my daughter! says Ceci and it hurts me when you talk only of her misdeeds.

Now JM is in weepy Blanca’s cell, trying to calm her. He repeats that he feels responsible for what happened (Viv’s murder). Blanca says Ivette would have killed him too. He promises he will rid Blanca of her evil twin. He presses his palm to her forehead and says fuera! fuera! Okay, he doesn’t, but he should have. They both are relieved that a fetus wasn’t killed after all. JM’s lawyer comes and asks if Blanca can continue, or do they need to recess until tomorrow? Blanca says she’s okay now. The lawyer leaves and JM promises him he’s going to fight for her, because now he needs her. How many men would give a speech like that with their hands on their hips?

Ceci retells how she almost died giving birth, etc., how guilty, etc. The judge tenderly tells her to stop, he just wants her to understand that Mari’s not worth it and he begs her to stop focusing on her.

Mari tells Cande about Amador saying it was okay that to say the baby was his. He was just concerned that JM might come after him. Cande says I don’t agree with your approach, but these are your choices. I don’t like them, though.

Now the lawyer’s grilling JM some more. He states that Blanca was a nanny, nothing else. Oh yeah? says the prosecution. How come you went out with her, hung out in bars with her, went to her apartment, huh? That was Ivette says JM. The prosecutor scoffs at the idea of split personality.

JM pops off, saying neither the prosecution nor any other person in the room has any qualifications or scientific knowledge to evaluate split personality. He tells them as a doctor, I’m going to prove that Blanca is innocent. JM’s lawyer smiles.

Mari is coming out of the apartment (or church, I can’t tell) and uh oh, Omar is there waiting. Hola she says. I want to talk to you says Omar.

Stef’s on the phone with Rocio discussing the hearing. By the way, says Stef, do you still have your houseguest? Rocio says he’s still here, and he found the person he’s looking for. We see the gears turn in Stef’s mind.

The prosecutor says how can we believe your testimony about Blanca’s mental health when you are here being accused? JM says that whole murder plan story was made up by Onelia. The two get in a shouting match and the judge tells them to behave. JM’s lawyer says JM has the right to have his say. The judge says okay. JM gets started.

Mari says to Leo that she didn’t think he’d come around again, but she’s nice with him this time. He says she’s worth fighting for. She says I told you I don’t love you the way you deserve. Omar says yeah, but I can tell you don’t love your husband Amador … do you? Mari doesn’t answer. I can tell, says Omar. Maybe you loved him once, but you don’t love him now. Mari says maybe it’s better not to talk about it. Omar asks why did you come back to him? You told me you had no legal ties to him. Is it because he’s the father? Are you planning to marry him? Tell me, do you love him?

JM makes a brief speech about split personality two separate people blah blah, Blanca sweet, Yvette evil blah blah. He wraps up saying that weeping woman you see is innocent, set her free.

Rocio, who is wearing some odd gray top that looks like she’s wrapped in a sheet, is sitting on the foyer stairs. Onelia comes down and goes on about the trial, JM, Blanca and the poor lost fetus. Nothing new here – maybe there is some clause in the actresses’s contract that she gets X number of scenes and so they injected one here.

The prosecution scoffs and JM goes on some more about multiple personalities. Don’t make me laugh, says the lawyer. It’s not my intention to amuse you says JM who blows some more psych smoke.

Omar says Amador’s not a worthy type and Mari shouldn’t lower herself. He says you deserve an upright man, who truly loves you. You sold me, Omar! Leave me and come back to the hacienda with me, he says. Mari says this is making me nervous. Omar says just say one word. Say yes, and we’ll grab your stuff and go back to the hacienda.

The trial judge wants to know if when one personality does something, the other doesn’t know? Doesn’t this guy ever watch old B flicks? The prosecution says are we actually going to consider his opinion? JM says it’s not an opinion, it’s medical fact – I have a lot of studies done by leading doctors. He pulls some thick manila folders from his briefcase.

JM’s lawyer takes the stack and offers it to the judge like it’s a velvet pillow with a ring on it. The judge takes it. JM’s lawyer says we request that an expert in these matters be brought in. Okay, says the judge. The prosecution lawyer subsides, tail between his legs. JM’s lawyer and JM share a smug smile. Blanca smiles big too.

Mari says no to Omar and says there are things she just doesn’t want to say. Omar says I’m not giving up, even though you say no, and even though JM tells me to forget you and go home. Mari brightens – he said that? Omar says he did, even while he himself is fighting for the woman he loves… (Mari smiles to herself) Blanca Silva. Mari’s face falls. Omar says he’s in court right now fighting for her, to save the woman he loves.

JM and Omar meet up at the castle. JM reports that the hearing went very well. Omar says he has good news too.

Meantime, Mari comes home and talks to Cande. She tells her about her chat with Omar and says he says the nicest things. He wants me to leave my life here and return to the hacienda. The hacienda theme music plays in the background. Cande likes this turn of events and agrees with Omar. Mari says what should I do?

Omar tells JM he talked to Lirio and thinks he may have convinced her. JM says you talked to her? Have you no dignity? Omar says how is it undignified to talk nicely to her to convince her to come back to the hacienda? Give it up, says JM, forget her. Omar says how can your reproach me when you’re in court fighting for Blanca? JM says Lirio’s with another man and has a child with him. Omar says she made a mistake and I’m going to help her out of it. How is it worse to make a mistake about a man than to commit a murder?

Mari asks Cande again what to do and Cande says it’s all so complicated. You know I was in favor of your marrying Omar – he has loved you from the git-go. Mari says my decisions are for my son. There’s JM who loves another woman, then there’s Alamdor who wants me to have fame and fortune (Cande holds her nose) and finally there’s Omar, who offers me and my son security and is the only one who truly loves me.

Cande says you shouldn’t feel pressed to decide right away. So what did you decide? Mari says I’m asking you! Put yourself in my position. Cande moves Mari from where she’s standing and stands in her place. Cande thinks and says I don’t know. What do you think?

Omar says maybe we’re a bit tense. But when brothers argue, it doesn’t affect their relationship, right? JM has his back turned and of course has his hands on his hips.

Judge Velarde drops in. He’s introduced to Omar and JM asks after Ceci. The judge brings up her visit to Mari which precipitated the accident. Omar is surprised. JM says yes, my former wife. The judge says he and Ceci are her parents. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, Omar decides to go on up and leave them. The judge asks about JM’s case and JM says the double personality defense seems to have picked up steam.

People are streaming into the theater. Mari, in costume in her dressing room, is listening to Amador who is telling about Blanca’s split personality. He thinks it would make a great piece for Mari to play – angel by day, devil by night. She says she doesn’t want to play Blanca. Amador laughs that she’s jealous.

Amador, who does watch movies, tells Mari about a film called The Woman of Seven Moons where a woman had split personality. He asks what JM’s big double trouble love is called. Mari says she doesn’t know but finally she says Blanca Silva and sticks her tongue out at Amador. Amador says it looks like JM will get off and that Blanca wept emotionally. Mari says how do you know, and he says JM told Judge Velarde who told Stef who told me. We had quite a long chat.

Stef said the judge would have sprung JM by now if he’d had the case. Mari says and he was so cold with me! Amador goes on some more about how JM is trying to free Blanca, and how Mari can help him by leaving him alone and letting him marry Blanca.

Seems like Amador’s way of preparing Mari to go onstage is to yell at her like he did on opening night, or to pour salt into her wounds as he’s doing tonight. She swats him on his way out of her dressing room.

Onelia gets another scene. She comes into JM’s room and here we go again with “mi pobre hija” and so forth. JM tells her that Viv wasn’t pregnant and maybe it just wasn’t a mistake, but a lie.

Rocio is visiting Ceci who’s back home at castle Velarde, looking somewhat the worse for wear. Now I see Rocio’s top better and it’s something tight (natch) with grey ribbons braided all over the front. It’s modest, but her ankle strap super high heels say do me. Since she’s young and pure, we must assume she’s shoe deaf. And the lacy short short pink skirt is talkin’ too.

Anyway, back to the visit. Ceci tells her that she fought to live. Rocio thinks that’s great. Ceci says can you help me? Rocio is all about doing good deeds, so she’s eager. Ceci wants her to help her get close to Mari. Rocio says she doesn’t know where she lives, but she can find out.

Avances: Omar says something to Mari I can’t understand and she says no puede ser! Blanca, now in the actual courtroom, turns into Ivette, grabs a guard’s gun and shoots JM a few times.

Labels: Cuidado

Santi tells Marissa that he can't marry her because he was with Paulina last night...in the bed. He'll understand if Marissa wants to break it off with him. Heh, nice try but it'll take more than a little infidelity to get rid of Marissa. She puts his hand on her big tummy, the best weapon in her arsenal, and tells him she'll help him bury his love for Pau.

Candy tells Meño that after all these years when she saw Pat and Alicia together she couldn't tell them what she felt and she doesn't know how she feels about Patricio.

A huge bouquet is delivered to Marissa, "With love, Santiago". She dashes it to the floor; does he think flowers will make up for his deceit? Raul shows up and she cries about Santi doing it with his ex. Raul tells her Santi's a womanizer, a cynic (in the sense that he's self-centered), and he'll never change. Raul disses Santi and Marissa defends him, he's trying to change, he was truthful. "Yes he loves me" she insists in the way that people do when they want to believe a lie.

Patricio's assistant bursts into Pat's office to tell him there is trouble at the warehouse. Pat guiltily covers his laptop but then jumps up and just leaves it on his desk. If I were the assistant I would be right over there looking for that porno. As we might have suspected, Alicia is ripping up pictures of the Aztec Princess with Caucasian Features. Pato yells at her that she's crazy. Ya think? He calls Don Elias to order more pictures and stalks out leaving Alicia alone in the warehouse to destroy more art. Not particularly bright, our Patricio.

Another flower delivery, this time for Chayo. They are delivered while Lalo is on the phone planning a night of delight and cheating with his amante. The flowers put a damper on his ardour however, and he reads the card, "Rosario, when I met you my life took on new meaning". The delivery boy beats a hasty retreat but out in the hall a laughing Candy tips him for a job well done. Lalo took the bait, mission accomplished.

Inside the apartment Lalo calls his amante to tell her he can't make it, there's been an emergency. Now who could have sent those damn flowers?

Candy is incredulous when Marissa tells her Santi boinked his ex and she forgave him. Mari tells her that Santi needs help and she won't let that woman impede her wedding. Candy suggests she go to therapy.

Patricio's dad arrives for a surprise visit. He's come alone and Pat's mom doesn't know. He wants to give Patricio a key to a safe deposit box. Pat must guard it jealously because the box contains documents that will shame dad and hurt mom. Pat must open the box if anything happens to dad. "You will find the documents, but also you will find an envelope with precise indications of what to do." I suppose this means Arturo will die soon. Hurry up.

Candy is at Santi's office reading him the riot act for bedding his ex, she says he needs therapy because he's a sexopath. He tells her he wants to show her something he wrote when he was 15. She agrees to go with the sexopath. Who needs therapy?

Commercial for Mañana es Para Siempre, el gran estreno Lunes 23!

Santi wants to show Candy a tree. He carved his initial into it when he arrived in Guadalajara and he swore he would carve the initial of the love of his life there too. He's certain that initial is a "C". He proceeds to dig up a wooden box (El Cofre?! Sorry that's from another TN) that he buried there for the tree to guard in case he lost his way. In the box is a saying, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also", it's something that Jesus said. (One of my favorite biblical quotes by the way.) He tells her he lost his direction and he believes that Candy can help him find his heart. He moves in for the kiss.

Over at the big house mommy dearest Pau insults Rocio's clothes. Who bought the horrid things? Granny? Well she has bad taste. Granny overhears and walks downstairs for the smackdown. Rocio is excused and the battle begins. Pau insists she's there for her daughter. Isabel says don't bother thanking me for all I did for Rocio, I did it for love and what you did was very bad. Pau shrieks she's Rocio's mom whether Isa likes it or not! Oh really, asks Isa, what's Rocio's favorite song? Does Pau know which doll she likes the best? What's her doggie's name? To give birth is easy, to be a mother is another thing entirely. Pau is speechless. Well played Grandma!

Surprise, Candy pushes Santi away. He's engaged to Marissa, he slept with his ex, he's all messed up. She admits she feels things when she's with Santi but she also feels things for Patricio who is her husband and the father of her child. Santi tells Candy he doesn't want to lie anymore. He'll be a good father to Marissa's baby but he loves Candy, he wants to marry Candy. "It's too late Santiago." she sadly replies. He looks like his heart is breaking.

Alicia's in a royal snit. She recalls Pat saying he'll leave her if she rips up any more pictures. She rips another picture. She recalls when Santi was hiding Candy at the soccer field. She has an idea and jumps in her car with the remaining picture. She symbolically runs over the torn Aztec Princess as she drives away.

Beto and Chava try to work out how they can be brothers if they have one father but two different mothers. They soon tire of these details and get back to playing.

Isabel finds Rocio in her room throwing all her "ugly" clothes and shoes in a pile.

Patricio stares at the key to his father's shame.

Hortensia tells Santi that Pat's wife is in the waiting room. Santi tells her she must NOT let Alicia in, tell her he's busy all day, tell her...Alicia interrupts and Santi loudly scolds Hortensia for keeping Alicia waiting. Al tells him she's come because she feels Santi can help her. She's very observant and she's observed that there is something between him and Candy, no? Santi insists they're just friends. "What a load of bull" says Al. She tells him she's fighting for her marriage and that Santi should fight for Candy, they'll be allies, OK? No, insists Santi. "Well then you won't mind that Patricio is selling her picture all over the place. It's the most perfect way for him to show his love for her. Have a nice day!"

Candy is surprised by a visit from her father in law the odious Arturo. He heard she was alive but he couldn't believe it. He starts insulting her but they are interrupted by Chava and Gregoria. Greg the blabbermouth blurts out "he's your grandson!" Arturo answers he doesn't have time to meet a new grandson, he's come to tell Candy what he thinks of her. Gregoria stops him and the adults glare at each other in impacted silence.

Post commercial Arturo's still at the door and Candy's not backing down. She reminds him that his alcoholism and mistreatment ruined his son, she didn't. He tells her there is no cure for the past, but she can help the future by staying away from Pat, blah blah blah. He's old and needs for Pat to return to the DF to take over the business. She'd better steer clear of Pat or else! Bonus points for Candy for standing up to that creep.

After he leaves Candy's first thoughts are of Chava. Gregoria said he asked why his grandpa doesn't love him and Greg didn't know what to say. Candy hugs Chava and tells him that Arturo is mad at Candy, not Chava. Chava brings up the one dad two moms subject and Candy explains that he and Beto are half brothers. Chava is curious which half of him is Beto's brother.

Arturo glares at Candy's picture and recalls her words that his humiliations ruined Pat's life. He repeats there's no cure for the past and flashes back to a suitcase full of money. In the flashback he tells Candy's dad Clemente to deliver it but this time he's coming along. He wants Clemente to tell that piece of trash that this is the last payment, if he continues blackmailing Arturo he'll kill him. Patricio interrupts these disagreeable thoughts.

Bulldog-face Marissa visits Raul for another whine session. He recommends she cancel the wedding. She recommends he impregnate Candy.

Arturo tells Patricio what really happened to Candy's dad. They went to deliver the blackmail money and when Clemente handed the suitcase off the two thugs pulled their guns. Clemente had a heart attack and died. Arturo didn't want to call anyone because he was afraid. Aha! So Candy didn't kill her dad, Arturo did! Last night Art had a bad pain in his chest and he was afraid again. Now he regrets many things, including being a complete jerk to Pat's mom.

Models? Us?? Sven and Ole are impactados at Candy's plan. Sven's shirt looks like he was the victim of a blueberry-eating albatross. Sven says No! Ole says Yes because he can never say No to Candy. Sven waxes eloquent that he is already pure romantic Galician, the result of years invested in girl-watching. His monologue about his absolute perfectness is interrupted by a phone call.

Who needs therapy? It's Alicia and she's playing Chopin's Funeral March for Candy. "This is the music you're going to hear on the day of my funeral, little sister, unless you leave Patricio in peace." Oops, Pat walks in and hears Al's little performance. "Are you crazy or what?" She jumps up and says sure she's crazy, but so is he for loving a woman who left him, lied to him, betrayed him. She tells him he doesn't know what she's capable of if he leaves her. They glare at each other.

Candy complains to her family that she's unable to find a model for her class. Chava volunteers but he's too young. Gregoria volunteers and says she used to be a model in Zapopan. After much snickering at the table Candy says it needs to be a young businessman, when she needs a woman she'll call Gregoria. Greg snips that when Candy needs a woman she can call Meño. Ha ha that was so funny I forgot to laugh.

Pat yells at Soledad's door but she refuses to open the bars to let him in. This is her house not his and he can't come over whenever he wants. They need to come to an agreement about arranging a visitation schedule.

Over at the Institute Santi wants to talk to Candy about her crazy sister. They walk in on Marissa talking to her big belly and recording herself. Do they want to say anything to her child? Santi balks but Candy nods that he should do it. He tells his baby through the recorder that he loves it and will care for it always.

Candy blabs some crap about the more a woman loves her partner the more she loves her baby and vice versa. Santi points out that sometimes partners divorce but they still profoundly love their child. Candy agrees and says this only proves she knows nothing about love. She tries to leave but Marissa forces her to talk to the baby.

Candy stares at Santi and tells the baby that it's very lucky because its mom and dad love it very much. She leaves the room in tears, Marissa is happy, Santiago is unenthused and trapped.

Pat acts all pathetic and hurt, is Soledad crazy? Sole says she was, she was stupid because she thought Pat was fighting with his wife and Candy was out. "I never fooled you" he insists. "You were alone, I was alone, I was clear with you and I never made promises, I'm very fond of you." She tells him just like he's fond of all women. He insists it's different with Candy, it was always different with Candy and he doesn't want to lose her again. He adores his son and needs him. Beto runs up and Soledad tells Beto his father has to leave; father and son sadly say goodbye. I don't believe in using children to make a point but I think it's a good idea for Soledad to set up guidelines. Too bad she probably won't follow them.

Candy staggers into the conference room and cries on Ceci's shoulder. Ceci kisses Candy's head and Candy jumps up like she's been electrocuted. She glares at Ceci with eyes that accuse.

Mañana: Santi is excited to see the ultrasound of his baby and he's sure it's a son.


A otro perro con ese hueso - What a load, I don't believe you, (lit. to another dog this bone)

Labels: Tontas

News: Stupidvision changed the “fin” date back to the 20th, as of the commercial I saw tonight.

Not sure what part of this was from last night – I didn’t see it and it wasn’t mentioned by Nickster. Tio and Juan are in the kitchen and Tio tells Juan he’s going to ask Maria Esperanza to marry him, but he wants to know how Juan asked Sofia. Juan reminisces. Ruth and Eva are worried about Root – she’s been missing too long. Sofia says they should go to the cabana and look around, maybe they’ll find something. Gabi overhears them talking. Feo is in the cabana and goes to hide when he hears Sofia and Eva coming in. Feo’s hiding behind the counter in the kitchen with his gun ready. They find the dagger. Eva thinks the dagger might be Darth Uribe’s and that Darth tried to kill Paddy Taddy. Gaby comes strolling in and tells Eva and Sofia to get out. Sofia wants to take the dagger to Officer Mutton Chops, because maybe it was the dagger used to try to kill Pad Tad, but Gabi won’t allow her to take it. Eva says Gabi is protecting a murderer.

Rigo tries to talk to Juan, but Juan’s mad because he thinks Rigo left them for dead in the cave. Rigo fesses up to fainting and says it’s possible the tumor is back. Rigo cries, and Juan hugs him.

Gabi says Darth is dead it can’t be his dagger. Two men come in and Gabi tells them to take Eva away. Eva says it’s not fair to put Sofia in this position, she’s leaving on her own. Sofia leaves with Eva.

The boys are talking in the kitchen about setting a date for their weddings.

Rigo is crying and talking to his son. Rigo asks G-d why this is happening to him now, when he has everything. Eugenia comes in and tells him he’s lying, he’s going to leave her just like her father did. She walks out.

Que milagro, it’s a partially full moon. Feo and Gabi are in Gabi’s room, she tells him Sofia found the dagger and she’s sure Feo used it to try to kill Pad Tad. Gabi says now she wants Feo to kill Sofia – she gets in her way, or she’s an obstacle (“me estorba”).

Juan and Sofia are talking in Sofia’s room. She’s told him about the dagger and they’re trying to figure it all out. Juan changes the subject to tell Sofia that the brothers have decided that they should have a triple wedding – Sofia is thrilled. They kiss.

Oscar and Jimena are in bed with their red satin pillow – he’s given her the engagement ring back. They’re muy feliz together. He puts the ring on her – more kissing. Shirtless Oscar has actually put on red devil horns to wear in bed. Now I know who buys the silly men’s thong underwear with the elephant trunk in the front that’s supposed to be funny.


The Frederick’s of Hollywood de Ciudad Serdan must be doing really well. Recession? What recession?

Oscar and Sarita are talking about getting married and how they were already married to each other once before because she was drunk. She kicks him in the leg again. He pretends to be really hurt, but he’s got an engagement ring for her too. Frederick’s must be right next to Zales at the mall in the pueblo. Anyway, Sarita is thrilled.

The hacienda is rockin’ again, so please don’t come knockin’ – all three couples are getting’ busy, and all three engagement rings sparkle and glow.

Later on Juan tells Eva about the triple wedding. Eva says she wants to make Sofia’s wedding dress. So far Sofia has had two now – the one that Juan bought her, and the two piece she was going to wear the last time. After she’s finally married, Sofia is going to open up a David’s Bridal right next door to Zales and Frederick’s. Juan is happy that Eva finally believes Sofia is her daughter. She says now she has no doubt. Before, with Rosario and Root, it was because she was just so desperate to find her daughter that she believed what Crabi told her. But this time it’s different, she feels it in her heart. Juan calls her his mother-in-law and they hug.

Sofia and Gabi are talking. Sofia wants to know why Gabi isn’t interested in figuring out what’s happened to Root. Gabi tells Sofia that like all of her daughters, Root was a traitor also. Gabi doesn’t care if Root is dead or alive. Sofia says her mother never stops surprising her – Sofia leaves. Gabi says she doesn’t care if Sofia dies just like Root. Gabi makes Joan Crawford look like Carol Brady.

Rigo is in the doc’s office in Puebla with Juan waiting for the results. The tumor is back. Doc says not to lose faith, they have treatment options. Juan tells him he can count on him and his brothers for everything.

Quintina is in town with her motorcycle. She asks a cute young guy if he wants a ride. He says no, but wants to know where he can find a woman named Quintina. She says she’s Quintina. He tells her he wants to take her out to dinner to the finest restaurant in Puebla. She’s ridiculously flattered.

Sofia is telling Pad Tad about the dagger she and Eva found in the cabana. The gang’s all there – the sisters, the brothers. Pad has a flashback to the night he was stabbed. They tell Pad they think Ricardo Uribe tried to kill him. Pad knows it was Feo so he changes the subject to talk about the three couple’s first “platica matrimonial” – marriage discussions. I suppose it’s like the classes you have to take here in the US if you want to get married in the Catholic church.

Up in Crab’s room, she and Feo are discussing the pending weddings. Gabi won’t allow the weddings to take place. Feo’s planning a trap for Sofia in the cabana to kill her.

Quintina is in the restaurant with her cute boy. He wants to be her business partner, but she wants to talk about them getting married. His wife walks in and he kisses her. Quintina tells him he’s a traitor. He explains he wants to be her business partner in the stripper show. Quintina is embarrassed.

Crabs tells Sofia she thinks Sofia’s right – they should try to find out what happened to Root. Sofia says yes, but she can’t right now. Crabs lays on the big guilt trip that everything always comes before her. Sofia says fine (of course). Rosendo comes running in to tell Sofia that her father’s horse is sick and he could die. Gabi is thrilled that Sofia’s time to die will come soon.

Sarita comes slinking up to the cabana door and thinks she’s heard a strange noise. She hesitates before going in.

Eugenia the drama queen is taking the baby and leaving Rigo. But he finally tells her about fainting and that the tumor is back. She cries and holds him.

Sarita goes into the cabana to look around. As she passes through a doorway she’s hit over the head. She’s unconscious on the floor, bleeding. At first Feo thinks he’s hit Sofia, but then realizes it’s Sarita. He actually says, “Estupida Sarita!” Once again, as Paula said, “Curses! Foiled Again!” Now when was the last (or the first!) time we saw Sofia wear jeans – never!! He can’t believe Sarita screwed up his plan to kill Sofia. He grabs a heavy candlestick to give her a final whack over the head with, but then stops and realizes he needs to think the situation through. He’s even more pissed off when he realizes Sarita is still alive.

Juan, Oscar, Jimena and Franco are waiting in Pad Tad’s office to have their first “platica matrimonial”. Sofia comes rushing in and apologizes for being late and explains about her father’s horse being sick. Jimena asks for Sarita, Sofia thought she was with them and didn’t see her back at the house. Franco says he’ll worry until they find out where she is. Also, it’s pretty hard to have a platica matrimonial with yourself. They decide to go look for Sarita. Pad looks worried.

Back in Crab’s office she’s talking with Feo who I thought was supposed to be in hiding. He’s explained to Gabs how he confused Sarita for Sofia. She says it’s Sarita’s fault anyway, what the heck was she doing in the cabana. He tries to play nice guy and says he didn’t want to hurt her daughter. She tells him not to worry about it, and again, that it was Sarita’s own fault for being where she wasn’t supposed to be. She says the only thing that really bothers her is that their plan to kill Sofia got screwed up. She only hopes that the hit over the head doesn’t leave Sarita hurt, because then she’ll become an obstacle for them. Feo says he would have thought that she’d feel a bit more for her daughter, wasn’t Sarita her favorite? Gabi says the only favorite she has now is herself! The only thing she cares about now is her happiness and her future. Feo says he’s by her side, what does Gabi want him to do? Gabs says put Sarita in her room, and when she wakes up they’ll tell her she had an accident and that they found her in the cabana. Who is “they”? Feo’s dead to the rest of the world, right?

Quintina tells the Maria sisters that Arturo only wants to be her business partner, and that she’ll never get married. Blah, blah – they give her their statues of San Antonio (Patron Saint of Spinsters, I’m sure.), who will help her.

Back at the cabana, Gabi and Feo are moving Sarita’s body, but have to be careful not to let anyone see them. Sarita starts to wake up and is mumbling something, but says Feo’s name. Feo hits her and knocks her out again. Gabi looks on. How can a mother actually watch her own daughter get hit like that!

Sofia and Jimena get back to the house and are looking for Sarita. At the cabana Feo and Crabs are nervous about Sarita remembering what happened – when she woke up she may have seen Feo. He tells her Sarita said his name. She’s sure Sarita won’t keep quiet. Feo says Sarita will turn Crabs in also. He offers to disappear from Crabs life forever so that he won’t cause her any problems. But she says no, he’s her happiness. They can’t let anything get in the way of their happiness. She tells Feo that like her, he’s not afraid of G-d, and that if they’re going to be condemned for eternity it may as well be for something worth it. He says, so you want me to kill Sarita? She doesn’t answer him and just walks out of the cabana. Even Feo looks shocked and thrilled that Gabi could be so cold-blooded, and that he gets to kill again. I actually think he may be starting to fall in love with Crabs for real!

Jimena and Sofia come down the stairs and run into Crabs. They tell her they can’t find Sarita. She tells them not to make a big deal out of it (“no hagan una tormenta de un vaso de agua” – don’t make a rainstorm out of a glass of water”). She asks if they’ve checked the store – they say yes, she’s not there. Gabs says she’s sure they’ll hear news of her soon and walks up the steps. The girls are shocked.

Full moon again! Obviously the whole day has passed, it’s nighttime and Franco comes in and tells the boys and Tio Elf that he can’t find Sarita anywhere. Franco is really worried, but the boys reassure him that she’ll be fine.

At the cabana, Feo, is caressing Sarita’s body with the dagger. He leans over her and tells her she was always his favorite.

PadTad is praying, he’s sure that Feo has done something to Sarita. He recalls his conversation with Sofia about the dagger she found in the cabana. The door of Pad’s office opens all by itself! Pad thinks, the cabana!

Back at said cabana, Feo is unbuttoning Sarita’s blouse – and telling her before he sends her off to the “other world” he’s sure she’s going to enjoy this as much as he will. He’s practically a necrophiliac!

Franco has arrived at Pad’s office – Pad has called for him. Franco asks if he knows anything about Sarita and Pad says yes, he think he knows where she is but before he tells him, he wants Franco to promise that he won’t do anything to compromise himself. Paddy is talking in “can’t tell what I heard in the confessional” code and Franco doesn’t understand. Pad says just go save Sarita, but be careful, and don’t do anything else if you encounter the person who you might encounter. Huh? Franco says he doesn’t care about anything but finding Sarita.

OMG, I can’t tell if Feo is in pain, or if he’s “finished”. I think I just threw up in my mouth. He feels inside his shirt and his hand is full of blood – his bullet wound is bleeding. He slaps Sarita across the face again hard. [Why is it her fault?] He gets up off of Sarita and says he’s got to take care of his wound or it’ll become infected again. He picks up the dagger and looks like he’s ready to kill her when he hears Franco calling for Sarita. Feo runs to hide and Franco busts in and sees Sarita with her shirt open, lying on her back over the coffee table. He runs to her and covers her up. He tries to wake her. Then he goes looking to see who else is there. Feo is waiting behind a door with the gun pointed – the door slowly opens, but Sarita starts to wake up and Franco goes back to her. Franco carries her out of the cabana. Curses! Foiled again, Feo!

Happily Gabi sits in her office thinking Feo must have carried out her instructions by now. She goes to the window and sees Fernando. She goes outside and Feo has told her what happened with Sarita and that he really needs to leave town this time. She says no, he only needs to hide out for a while. He tells her it’s too risky if he stays, and that maybe it should be the end for them both. She’s confused. He wants her to play dead too, but first she should sell everything without the girls knowing and then once she’s “dead” they can take the money and go far away. He says the girls can even bury her – she can pretend to be dead. She totally freaks out at the thought of being buried alive and screams no, she’ll never do it. He tells her to think about it, nothing will happen to her. He says it’s their only way out; she needs to think about it.


Franco has taken Sarita to the doctor’s office and the doctor says aside from the two hits she’s taken to the head, she’ll be fine. Now they just have to wait until she wakes up. Franco is staying the night to take care of her. Franco tells the sleeping Sarita he loves her. The rest of the clan comes barging into the dispensario. Franco explains what happened, and that Pad Tad told him to go to the cabana. He explains how he found her with half her clothes off and unconscious from the hit over her head. Juan says he suspects who might have done it.

Gabi is pacing in the office thinking over Feo’s proposed plan to be buried alive. [Note to Gabi: Time to buy the book “Bad Men and the Women Who Love Them: How To Leave a Co-Dependent Relationship with a Necrophiliac Serial Killer”.

Franco thinks his off-key singing will bring Sarita back to life and he’s right! She wakes up. The clan comes barging in again; they all want to know what happened. She says she’s alive and that Feo is alive too! Everybody is impactada!

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We start off with Omar questioning Marichuy if another man is the reason why she left. Amador walks in and Omar thinks that he is the reason. He suddenly pushes Amador against the wall.

Ceci tells Estephania that if she had to choose between Patricio and Marichuy she would choose Marichuy.

Marichuy tries to break up Omar and Amador. He questions Amador, but he refuses to answer. Marichuy asks Omar to leave.

JM and Eduardo are in the car and are talking about Marichuy and Omar. Eduardo tells him that he needs to tell Omar the truth.

Omar leaves Marichuy’s home. Marichuy tells Amador that she has to find another place to live.

Eduardo tells JM to forget about Marichuy. JM says he cannot.

Cande and Olga come back and tell Marichuy and Amador that Omar left. Amador says he is not scared of him. Cande and Olga go check on the baby and Amador asks Marichuy why Omar came to see her. She tells him that he wanted to find out why she left him. Amador comments that Omar thinks that there is something between them and tells Marichuy to let him go on believing that.

Omar goes to JM and tells him that he just came back from seeing Marichuy at her apartment. JM says “And?” Omar tells him that he will be packing up his stuff and going back to the hacienda. “What happened” questions JM. Omar tells him that he was disillusioned and that Marichuy is living with Amador.

PA asks Marichuy what she is going to do now. She tells him that she does not know and that JM came to the apartment also. PA asks her what she said about the baby and she confesses that she told JM that the baby was dead.

Omar is still going on about Marichuy and why she was not honest with him. He tells JM that Amador walked in with his own key. He say Amador when he first started looking for her and he told him that he did not know where she was. He was so angry he wanted to break his face. But Marichuy got in the middle and he had to calm down after seeing the anguish in her face. How could she have returned to him? Although he is the father of her baby. Unless she was thinking about the baby and what was best for him. JM says the baby died right? Omar tells him that the baby is alive.

PA chastise Marichuy for saying such an ugly lie. She defends her actions by saying that she fears JM taking her baby away from her. The baby is hers and hers alone. PA asks her what happened between her and Omar. Have you told him the truth? Marichuy tells PA that she does not want to hurt him more. PA tells her that Omar will eventually find out and he should know the truth. She reminds PA that JM has also not told him the truth either. Omar will be returning to the hacienda soon and I will never see him again.

JM asks Omar if he is certain that the baby is still alive. Omar says of course. Why do you think otherwise? JM says that they never saw the baby. Omar assures him that the baby is fine he was born strong and healthy. JM is happy and goes to find out the truth.

Marichuy has finished her performance and is greeted by Vicente, Rocio and Becky at the theater. She invites them to her dressing room and they compliment her on being a fine actress. Rocio breaks the news that she and Vicente are going to get married.

Omar reminisces about his argument with Amador at Marichuy’s apartment. He decides that he will not leave and will fight for Marichuy.
Becky wants to know why Marichuy will not tell them where she lives. Marichuy tells them soon they will have a chance to come and visit her. Vicente invites her for drinks to celebrate, but she declines. Marichuy tells Olga that she worries if they find out about the baby they will tell JM.

Cande is dozing off when the doorbell rings. She gets up to answer it and it’s JM who storms in. Cande tells him to leave but JM wants to see the baby. He walks into the bedroom and sees his baby. He smiles and touches the baby. Marichuy comes home and Cande tells her that JM is with the baby. Marichuy asks JM what he is doing here. JM says that you told me that the baby was dead. Marichuy repeats that she wants nothing to do with him. JM tells her that he knows and doesn’t want her to repeat it again. Marichuy tells him that there are finished, it has been more than a year. JM tells her that there are things between them even if not love. It’s there baby. JM wants to know if the reason why she left was to hide his baby from him. And why were you going to marry Omar? To have him raise my child? Marichuy tells him that the baby does not need anyone, but her. Olga gets onto Cande for not asking who was at the door before opening it. Olga insists that they will not let JM take the baby from the apartment. Marichuy and JM continue arguing. He wants to take care of his child. Marichuy tells him that the baby has her and she will take care of him. They continue arguing and Marichuy yells out that the baby is not his and tells him to leave. JM wants to clarify what she meant by that. She tells him that the baby’s daddy is Amador. Olga and Cande arm themselves with objects from the house to hurt JM if he takes the baby away. JM calls Marichuy a liar. You wanted a divorce so that you can be with Amador. I know all about it. He visited you at the hacienda. And now you are living at his apartment. You are a loose woman. Marichuy slaps JM and he leaves. Olga and Cande are ready to fight, but JM pays them no mind and leaves. Olga and Cande run into the bedroom wondering what happened between them. Marichuy tells them that she slapped him. Why asks Olga. Because he insulted him. And I told him that the baby’s daddy is Amador. Cande tells her that you should not have said that. Now he thinks that you are a bad woman. Cande is not in agreement with her lie. Marichuy defends herself that it was the only way she can keep her child.

JM walks into his house encountering Rocio who is waiting up to talk to him. She tells him that she, Becky and Vicente went to see Marichuy at the theater and how wonderful she was. She mentions Amador and JM bursts out that she is not to mention Marichuy or Amador and leaves.

The attorney goes to speak with Blanca and wonders how she feels up to testifying.

Onelia’s attorney informs her that Eduardo will be testifying today. She wonders what for. He had nothing to do with all this.

Marichuy is talking to JM, Jr. and wonders why she told JM that he was not his father. She swears to him that he will always be with her.

JM and Eduardo walk in and are met my Onelia and her attorney. She makes rude remarks walks off. JM and Eduardo continue into the living room. JM tells Eduardo that he cannot take more of this. Eduardo tells him not to pay any mind to what Onelia said and to tell her to leave. JM responds by saying the only way she will leave is by force.

Estephania tells Patricio that she had a talk with Ceci and that she does not blame Marichuy for the accident. Estephania tells him that Ceci will not rest until she has Marichuy. Patricio tells her that Ceci will have to decide between him and Marichuy. Estephania informs him to be careful, because Ceci will choose Marichuy. (Witch!!!)

Omar goes to JM to talk. JM wants to know why Omar did not go back to the hacienda.

Patricio asks Estephania why she said that. She tells him that it was Ceci who told her. Patricio says she will not leave him. They have loved each other for years. Estephania asks him not to tell Ceci what she said.

At the trial Eduardo comes in to testify. Blanca wonders what he is doing there and how he can testify in her defense. Eduardo drops the bomb and tells the court that Viv was not pregnant when she was murdered.

Omar tells JM that he does not want to go back to the hacienda with Lirio (Marichuy). Omar tells JM about everyday life at the hacienda with her. How they took long walks, went to the river, and there talks. JM tells Omar to quit talking about her. Omar asks why? JM tells him that if the truth will make you forget her then I will tell you.

Tomorrow: Will JM tell the truth to Omar about Marichuy/Lirio?

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I just got home from a dinner with the Governor, and I’m tired and I don’t care about this—sorry, this is all you get. By the bye, none of this makes sense to me, and I’m trying to do my art history flash cards at the same time, so…good night and good luck.

OMFG What the hell happened to this show? It seems like everyone else who was sub-standardly normal on this show took a bunch of recreational drugs and the rest is just a big headache and a really bad morning. What the hell is going on with ultra Minnie Mouse and Quinti the trick-turner overseer? They just discovered you could use voice synthesizers for something other than Franco’s “Ave Maria” serenades.

Fernie has visited the sacred cave of Libia’s flower. Apparently he talks to rocks, too. He goes to check out the dimensions for the perfect Reyes Tomb. Brothers and sisters should always be together, so I’ll burry you all together. Eat rock, flower.

Gabi is all like, no one ever loved me, and so no one else can be loved. That’s why the girls must stay home and not go out for sodas. Silly girls, did you actually think you were married adults?

Back at the cave of Libia’s flower, Fernie is struggling to water his pet rocks. He pours lighter fluid on the flowers and lights a match. Libia’s tomb is burning, but does she care?

Gabi lies awake missing her ex-husband and sometimes lover. When she was young and in her prime, she used to do it all the time, but now that she is old and gray, she does it every other day.

Ah! Explosion at the cave. Reflection time: do we enter burning caves in search of someone or something that has been dead for years? Do we explore the deepest part of said cave while the flames are burning behind us? Your local fire chief wouldn’t recommend it…

Well, how would you like to dream about your passionate lover and wake up to his sweating countenance and slimy hand on your mouth? Such is Gabi’s life. It pretty much sucks when you get used even in your dreams. As it turns out, Fernie never died, and only pretended to die to kill the Reyes, like all those other times. Funny that he can hold a gun to so many guys’ heads, but feels the urge to lure the Reyes gang into a cave. Does anyone else see the hilarity in this regression to nature? You see, the Reyes are bona fide barbarian Neanderthals—straight off the boat—so now their environment fits their personas. It’s the missing link in the Nature vs. Nurture controversy. Now, I can only hope that they eat Libia, then each other. It would be the perfect ending to one drugged-out ride.

All dressed up and no place to go. Just like the beginning of our tragic epic. It’s the circle of life, people. Mommy dearest has locked the girlies in their rooms and now all that’s left is a bunch of Judy Blume books and glitter nail polish. Jimena calls the purple sleeping bag!

So, Fernie’s into the whole “nurse” routine. Well, Gabi licks his wounds and he lies on the bed. I doubt he will perform to her dream-inspired standards, though he does have the sweat thing going on. Now Gabi says that she can’t live if Sofia or anyone else is happy. Ok, Mrs. Grumpy pants, we’ll all be self-loathing, bi-polar, marginalized housewives to facilitate your end-of-day happiness.

On another note, does anyone think that Juan/E.Y. bleaches his death, because the guy smokes like a chimney and drinks like a fish, and his teeth are whiter than pearls. Anyway, Juan finds a small rock that opens to the real world and he sees a dog—or maybe that’s a man—what’s the diff.; “all men are dogs!” Then he sees Oscar playing dead, but we’ve all seen enough of this show and others to know that that would never happen. Case in point as he coughs and opens his eyes. It’s all gonna be a-okay and we’re right on schedule for the sextuplet wedding. Yes, Sofia will have sextuplets at that juncture; Jimena and Sarita will follow suit later because David’s Bridal was running low on maternity gowns at the Puebla Outpost.

Everyone on this show who is supposed to be dead is really only sleeping, and then they go to the dispensary to be treated by the healing powers of Paddy.

I’ve always found that the minor actors are always much more passionate and slightly convincing in a cruise ship/high school play sort of way. Like the humble but young couple who have illusions of becoming the next Juan-Sofia couple. The one girl is all like, “where were you, who were you doing?” And he’s just trying to tell everyone about Juan entering a burning cave to find his dead sister’s living flower. By the way, did he ever find, or leave with, what he wanted? No. So it was just a case of wasted effort and tantalizing death for the hopeful viewer.

Now Juan is all confused, and of course, he goes to the person who always makes things better—PaddyTaddy. “Evil is all around us, have hope, God loves you.” “Thank you, Padre.” You know, these people don’t need to be saved from evil; they need to be saved from themselves. All the praying and pleading to faded statues has clearly not helped, maybe it’s time to turn to things like basic emergency prevention and proper response.

Here’s a good question: “who could have tried to kill you?” Well, lets see, there are only eight people left alive on this show, and there are six of you on team stupid # 1. I know adding is beyond your comprehension, but by virtue of who is standing next to you, it would have to be someone from team frigid bitch. Of course, as PadTad explains, Gabi is bad because she rejects God. So, she’s bad by choice. Clearly, he doesn’t understand that people on this show have no power whatsoever over themselves, and are merely victims of their biological gene pool/toxic living conditions. Well, it wasn’t the first time Gabi told him to leave her house and never come back…and it won’t be the last…though, I’ve been wrong before…

And we end tonight with Sofia, Eva, and Fernie all in Root’s apartment. They find a bloody dart stabbed into the coffee table and Fernie has his gun in hand. Death is insinuated, but impossible for our plot.

Absolutely nothing happened in this episode, like every other one, and you should probably just not even read this recap.

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