Caray, Caray!

Friday: Oopsies! While Ilitia is kissing Eman, he calls her Marianela. Muñeca comes to the big house and accuses Fedra of having an affair with Lorenzo. Maximo emerges from his basement, locked and loaded. He points his gun at Fedra.

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You gotta hand it to Fedra, who stares at him defiantly and tells him to go ahead and shoot. Why Muñeca doesn’t have the presence of mind to step away from big bull’s eye Fedra I have no idea, but anyway Benigno and Paula arrive, so they get to hear Fedra say to Max that he must’ve known what she was getting at when she was talking about Gretel, right? Gretel? says Paula.

Maximo tells Fedra he’s not going to let her manipulate him. Kristel runs in and stands in front of her mother protectively while Benigno struggles with Maximo for the gun, which goes off. Benigno looks stunned. Our little Benigno! Are you okay? says Max. I’m fine, you? says Beningo. Max is fine too. Gosh, this show is just chock full of chuckles. Anyway, now Axel has come to his mother’s side too, and glares at Max.

Meanwhile, upstairs Ilitia guesses Eman must be in love with Marianela. He tries to fudge that it’s all fake, for her money, and maybe some pity. Ilitia says he said her name so lovingly, and realizes he’s in love with Mari.

Netty is curious about the papers Mari was hiding, but Mari says it’s just letters from school friends. Netty notices the doll has a rip and says Gladiola will fix it, then says she was thinking about what Mari said about Eman not being Emil’s son. She remembers Luis Felipe’s letter from Veracruz to Eva she found which said he had some hot information about Fedra’s past. Maybe the two things tie together! We’re way ahead of you, Netty.

Max tells Muñeca not to try to stop him, Fedra’s stolen her husband. Fedra gets cocky, shoves her two kids away and taunts him that he’s a coward, too scared to leave his basement and face life. Gwan, shoot! So he does.

Fedra looks surprised, looks down (nope, not the treasured ta ta’s, lower under the left rib cage. Quick, Dr Carlos, what’s there? Liver? I forget.) Anway she stares at her bloody hand, sits and looks surprised for a while, then falls to one side in a faint. Everybody goes into a flap except Maximo who smiles slightly. Alex, never having read the Telenovela Cliché Handbook, quick calls an ambulance, then Eman arrives, sees what happened, and yells at Max. Max says he’s just doing what he had to to save the honor of the family.

Now we’re at the prison where all the inmates look about the same to me and all growl through tight lips while looking beady-eyed and menacing. Mauricio seems to be making escape plans with the two fellows who originally beat him up. At least I think that’s who they are. One figures he’s been in 30 years, so what’s to lose? Mauricio says in a couple of hours, he’ll have a way to distract all the guards, then he struts off down the prison hallway. Where does he get his hair gel, anyway? Does he trade cigarettes for it? Anyway, he then chats separately with Caiman, figuring he’d like to be in on it too.

Caiman asks the two baddies if they forgot they’re supposed to be making Mauricio’s life hell. They say it’s an opportunity to escape.

Lorenzo arrives dancing in Emil’s office, saying look! I’m free! Emil sternly tells him not to imagine he can use their business to cover up illicit stuff. Lorenzo insists it was all Mauricio. Emil is unsure, then says sorry, his world seems to be coming unraveled right now. He tells Low that he’s asked Fedra for a divorce. Low is shocked (fake or real?).

Emil: I found out what kind of woman she really is, that she’s been deceiving me all these years.
Lorenzo: Gulp.

Caiman is calling Brandon on a phone in the prison hallway, which a.) is in plain hearing of any prisoner who might be nearby and b.) is most probably tapped by the prison guards. But we know these shows don’t bear close scrutiny so we shrug and move on, hoping for juicy stuff which is what we watch these things for anyway. I think Caiman tells Brandon about the proposed break out. He hangs up and the baddies and Mauricio ask him who he was talking to. He fudges, and they say they’re keeping their eyes on him.

Caiman thinks to himself that Mauricio can go on and escape if he wants to because Fedra has plans for him.

Back to Mari’s bedroom. Netty tells Mari that Eman probably knows that he’s not Fedra’s son and that he’s in cahoots with her. If anybody finds out he’s not a Ruiz y de Teresa, he won’t inherit, but if he tells Mari he loves her and gets her to marry him, then jackpot! Mari defends Eman, saying he’s not like Fedra and is truly trying to protect her. He looks at her so lovingly, she can just tell! He gives her goosebumps! Netty doesn’t buy it.

Emil tells Low that his love for Fedra is dead. Low ventures to ask if there’s another man, and Emil says he doesn’t even want to go there because he knows he’d be capable of murder. If on top of everything else, he finds out… Low cuts him off, saying he’s sure Fedra’s been faithful. Why, they were a model couple! Emil says well, that’s over now, and he’s going to find out Fedra’s past.

His phone rings. It’s Eman telling him Fedra’s been shot by Max.

Everyone is hovering over Fedra. Max asks Benigno if she’s dead. Nope, says B. Max figures he better shoot her again, but Eman takes the gun away. Fedra comes to and is able to stand up. He tells her to get out, and she snarls that the Ruiz y de Teresa will get out before she does. It’s HER house.

Baldie and Moustache, the two baddies who have been sent to get Eman are still watching the house when the ambulance shows up. They figure the police might show up, and they can get Eman later.

Fedra tells the paramedics to wait outside, she’s going out under her own steam and she’ll be coming back through that door the same way. It’ll take more than a bullet to stop Fedra Curiel, she pronounces.

Mauricio and the other guys start a prison fight. The guards come in and break it up.

Eman is chatting with his mother in the hospital. She wants Maximo thrown out of the house, but Eman says it’s Max’s house too. Fedra says she’s going to bring charges and have him committed. Eman says well, he’s a little nuts, but still, the nuthouse? Fedra curses the Ruiz y de Teresa, and Eman wonders why she does that all the time. Why do you hate us so much?

The tables have turned! More prisoners have flooded into the prison hallway and they’ve overcome the guards. With the guards’ guns they try to shoot out the locks which for some reason doesn’t work. They rattle the bars and shout. Behind them, around a corner, we see Brandon and Oliver in riot gear. They decide they need backup. (Duh! TWO guys in riot gear to handle a prison riot – this was their plan?) Oliver then thinks he’ll go take them on. Brandon pulls him back and tells him he’s suspended as of this second.

Mari talks to herself, convincing herself Eman really loves her, then picks up the letter and reads. It says Juana Felipe Perez was the woman of Captain Jose Maria Sevilla on the boat Liria de Plata up until it sank at sea one night. It caught fire near the yacht Olympia which belonged to a Greek magnate whose wife’s name was Fedra Curiel, which is the name Juana used to get into our family.

Dios mio! says Mari.

The police in riot gear have arrived in force and get the prisoners under control. A few run for it, Caiman and Mauricio among them. Oliver sprints after them. He manages to disarm Mauricio with some cool martial arts moves, but one of the guys (is that Garduno?) grabs him and holds him for Caiman to shoot. Caiman aims the gun, but his hand is shaking. Shoot me! says Oliver. I’m a dead man anyway. Caiman can’t. He throws himself on the ground and assumes the position, hands behind his head. Oliver overcomes the fellow holding him, then here comes Brandon. Everything’s under control, says Oliver, not looking very triumphant.

(Caption for the melodrama-impaired: Oliver’s heart is broken, see, so he’s throwing himself into possibly fatal situations in the hope he’ll get killed, another victim of the evil Fedra. Oh, the agony of it all!)

Out in the hospital waiting room, Muñeca tsks over Fedra getting shot. Kristel tells her not to be such a hypocrite, she heard her with her very own ears accusing Fedra of having an affair with Low. What??? says Ilitia, who is there too.

Gretel is rocking back and forth, probably because she has to go so bad, but also because she’s swearing to get Fedra and expose her. Flashback to her seeing Luis Felipe minutes before Fedra chucks him over the railing. He’s telling Fedra the papers she’s looking at are copies. She falls to her knees and begs LF not to tell, for the children’s sake, for the sake of Emil, who is the person she loves most in the world. She begs some more in the same vein, asking him not to wreck the family. He coldly says she’s a fake. She tells him that it’s logical that she covered up her past, since she loved Emil so much.

LF retorts that a woman who loves her husband so much doesn’t have a lover, and he knows she’s been messing with Lorenzo for years. Little Gretel weeps.

Grown up Gretel keens Noooooo!

Paula and Benigno are down in Maximo’s room trying to get out of him what made him suddenly leave his cellar and go up and take a pot shot at Fedra. Paula remembers she mentioned Gretel and starts getting hysterical that Fedra has killed her or something. Max says no.

Marianela reads on: According to a sailor who survived the sinking, Juana F. Perez was pregnant by Captain JL Sevilla. Mari lights up – Eman must be his son!

Eman asks his mother why she thinks he and she are different from the Ruiz y de Teresas. She says because they’ve always been united, they think the same way, they’re stronger, braver. Not like those cowards. (I’m glad she made this little speech because I was starting to get a little inferiority complex about not being a Ruiz y de Teresa, particularly when Carlota and Max make it sound so bitchin and holy. Nice to know they’re wimps.)

Eman says look. I’ll always be with you, taking care of you, defending you, and I’ll never question you because I know that everything that you do, you do for your family. Fedra is pleased and thanks him. He asks her to be honest with him and tell him who he is. I don’t care about being Emiliano’s son, sez he. The only thing I care about in this family is their bank account. Fedra is overcome with emotion. That’s my boy!

So I’m the son of Jose Maria Sevilla, right? Come on, we’re accomplices! She strokes his face and tells him he’s earned it. She’ll tell him her whole history. They both look tearful. She begins: You are…

Emil bursts into the hospital room. He just heard! Eman and Fedra give each other a signal that they’ll talk later. Eman leaves, and Fedra goes into wronged spouse mode, sulking that she wishes Max had killed her since her husband is leaving her. She says she’s going to get Max sent to jail. Emil says she can’t do that – he’s ill and jail would kill him. That’d be good, she says. Or… she won’t bring charges if Emil forgets the divorce, dumps Netty and stays with her forever and ever. No way, says Emil.

Okay, so far: There’s been a shooting. The paramedics and hospital obviously didn’t tell the police, Eman chuckles that his uncle is a character who’s maybe a tad off, and Emil thinks jail would kill him. Welcome to Telenovelaland where the ordinary laws don’t apply, maybe not even gravity.

Mari realizes she has the goods on Fedra, but she’s afraid Eman will be crushed when he finds out Emil isn’t his father. She wonders how she can unmask Fedra without him finding out the truth. Doris runs in and tells her that Max shot Fedra.

Paula and Benigno can’t get out of Max whatever it was Fedra said that set him off. They leave and he sits and thinks about Fedra telling him to ask his sister. No, she must be lying. Gretel can’t be his daughter.

Gretel gets up and paces – who is this woman? The one who killed her uncle, the one from La Mala Noche, the one who was having an affair with Lorenzo… she just can’t be her mother. She sobs for Oliver to forgive her.

Eman comes in and tells the three in the waiting room that everything’s okay and they can go on home. Ilitia wants to have a serious talk, but Eman says too much going on right now, so later.

Now that we have a look at the waiting room people, Kristel seems to be gone and Lorenzo is there with Ilitia and Muñeca. Ilitia makes a catty comment about leaving her parents alone so Muñeca can gossip - she’s saying he’s having an affair with Fedra. He says to be understanding, her mother is just insecure, so she gets jealous. Muñeca says I’m not jealous, I’m fed up with you and with your daughter’s attitude. She leaves and Lorenzo tells Ilitia to try please, for him, to be nicer to her mother.

Emil comes storming into the waiting room, yelling that he’s packing his bags and leaving. He’s followed by Fedra, dressed in her regular clothes, limping and yelling curses after him. Low and Ilitia are wide-eyed, and then he tells her that Emil is a difficult guy.

At the station, Oliver and Brandon tell Mauricio he has a chance if he tells them what he knows about Baldomero and Basurta (that would be Baldie and Moustache), and their boss Garduno whose lawyer just got him out. Brandon remembers seeing B &B talking to Mauricio at the beauty contest.

Some guy in prison theatens Caiman, wanting to know why he didn’t shoot Oliver. Caiman says he didn’t want to be in prison the rest of his life for murder.

Eman is visiting Max and tells him that what he did was not good. Max laments that he’s not the shot he used to be, and maybe it’s too late to fix anything anyway. Eman says he’s going to clear the name of Ruiz y de Teresa, even if he has to take on his own mother. He leaves and Max reflects that Eman is his greatest pride. Even if he doesn’t have the blood of the Ruiz y de Teresa coursing through his veins, he may turn out to be the very best of them.

Emil is packing and Fedra, who’s home now, is begging him not to run off on her. He tosses some shirts in the suitcase and marches out with it saying his mind is made up. Bernardo, who apparently can wander into their bedroom, brushes by Emil heading off and warns Fedra she doesn’t seem to be able to handle him like she used to. She swears she’s going to get everything back under control. Step one: Mauricio. She wants Caiman to kill him. Bernardo is stoked. Gawd, he loves his job.

Lorenzo apparently can just wander into the bedroom too. May I visit the patient? Bernardo rolls his eyes and leaves. Fedra coquettes and they nuzzle. He kisses all the spots that hurt, and goes on to kiss others, then lays her carefully on the bed and they kiss.

Another visitor to the bedroom! It’s Kristel who comes in to ask something and then stops, horrified.

Avances: Axel grabs Delicia and kisses her. Somebody comes in and sees them – is that Lorena? Eman proposes, ring and all.

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Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 97 to 99. Then come back here to discuss it.

Capitulo 99.

1. Fernando stomps on Omar for calling Lety names, and the very next thing Omar says is that he will prepare the cards for while he’s away.

2. Fern is very scared that Lety won’t like the card because he wrote it himself. They both look for excuses to touch, and they’re both reluctant to part. Fern says to himself, “I don’t know what’s happening to me today, but it must be something good because.. I’m happy.” Marcia tells Alicia, “He’s in love and it’s not me. I have the feeling he doesn’t even know how much he loves her.”

3. Today’s card says, “Knowing your past doesn’t push me away from you (tú), far from it. It brings me closer. I want you to forever forget that past and go back to having faith in yourself, your body, your skin, your way of loving. Because me consta (?) your sensuality.” She tells him it’s the most beautiful card he’s ever written.

4. Marcia comes to say goodbye, and rather than a goodbye kiss, he just gives her a light touch on the shoulder from behind. Whereas he gives Omar a hug and says “Auf wiedersehen,” but Omar thinks he says “Olvidense,” and he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to forget.

5. Fernando calls his parents to inform them about Cannes. He tells them he doesn’t know if he’s in love, he only knows that he’s going to marry Marcia. Two babes flirt with him and he doesn’t like it.

6. Omar can’t stop laughing as he gleefully types the letter of instructions to Fernando. See the translation. He puts everything in the red bag, puts it on his own desk, and leaves for Germany. Ominous music plays. Later Sara finds the red bag.

7. At lunch, Marcia asks Lety if it’s worthwhile for her to fight for Fernando, or if she’s already lost him. Afterwards, Lety wrestles with her conscience. She knows she should break up with Fernando but she can’t. See the transcript for “My Dinner With Marcia” and “Hamlety’s Soliloquy.”

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Capitulo 100.
Read Amanda’s original recap, then come back here to discuss it.

1. Fernando feels bad that he didn’t attend to Cristina RP and made a scene in front of her. He asks Lety to arrange for Cristina to meet him in his office, but he tells Lety not to be jealous. Quite the contrary, Lety knows that he dropped everything for Paty M but he virtually ignored Cristina, and she’s warmed by his call.

2. Sara gives Lety the red bag for Fernando. Lety’s dying of curiosity so she opens the bag and finds an engagement ring and a proposal. But it was a fantasy; she leaves the bag closed. Mama Julieta counsels her, “Some secrets should never be told. What if what you find out is worse than the pain of curiosity?”

3. Fernando sees Roman’s gang outside Conceptos, and he remembers Lety’s story. Amid punches, Fern tells Roman, “Don’t mess with Lety, you got it? People like us shouldn’t exist, Roman, neither you nor me.” Roman asks what Fern has against him, and Fernando answers, “Remember your bet over Lety? Well, now Lety has someone to defend her. Don’t mess with her again or you’ll have me to answer to. If you even get near to her again, I’ll make you pay.” He warns Celso not to tell anyone what he did.

4. The kids find the bag, eat the candy, take the toys, and leave the envelope with the cards and The Letter in Fernando’s briefcase.

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Spanish Lesson
My Dinner With Marcia.
M: Leticia, we’ve never gotten along.
L: Perdón. You’ve never behaved well with me. I have nothing against you.
M: Whatever. Let’s set aside our positions. I want to talk woman to woman. Since you came, you’ve become Fern’s right hand. Not just in work. His agenda and appointments. Everything. You have managed to win things with Fernando that I haven’t been able to accomplish. I suspect that one of your strategies is to pit yourself against me (jugar en mi contra).
L: No, no. I’m at Fern’s side but I’m not against you. If I was your secretary I’d be at your side.
M: (Sarcastically) Of course you would. You and I are rivals for Fernando. Simply because you’re his assistant and I’m his novia. So there is naturally conflict between us. But we’re both women. Have you ever been in love? Are you in love now?
L: Yes. M: with Tomas? L: No. I mean yes.
M: Women love differently. With the heart, men with the head. We live for them, 24 hours a day. Nothing matters more than our men. We women are together in this. We need solidarity. I know your relationship is more stable than mine. Right?
L: Um, um, probably.
M: What is your opinion of my relationship with Fernando?
L: That’s none of my business. Too personal, too private.
M: Not for you. You manage a big part of Fernando’s intimacy. You’re the only one who can tell me about my relationship with him. I don’t intend to criticize or judge you. I neeeed to listen to you.
L: Why me?
M: Omar is his best friend, but they have solidarity. He’d never help me. On the contrary, he’d be happy if I didn’t marry his friend. Pleeease tell me.
L: I respect your relationship with Fern. It’s something fundamental in his life. You’ve fought hard for him. You deserve him.
M: I know. But I’m losing him. I know he’s having relations with another woman. I’m not going to ask the name of his amante. I just need to know, is it worthwhile for me to insist that he marry me? If you say no, I won’t ask for explanations, I probably already know.
L: Of course it’s worth the trouble, to marry Don Fernando.
M: What am I saying? Any woman would want to marry him. But I’m afraid he’s marrying me just to avoid problems. I’m losing him, right? Please tell me. I’m dying because I don’t know what’s going on. I can’t imagine life without him. Put yourself in my shoes. Imagine that you’re losing el hombre de su vida.
L: Doña Marcia, you ask as if I’m able to understand men. I’m no expert about love, much less men.
M: You know I’ll be leaving Fernando in her hands. I can’t do anything to stop it. I guess I wasted my time here.
L: No, wait. I understand you. I don’t know whether he has stopped loving you. Maybe he’s just confused. You two have had a lot of problems. If you’re novios, it’s because you found things that made you love each other. Rescue those things and win him back, so things go back to how they were. I can see that you’re profoundly in love with Don Fernando.
M: That was my plan for this trip because I knew it would be my last chance. But I’m leaving and he’s staying. I don’t even know what I’ll find when I return. I don’t know what will happen between him and me. Thank you.

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Hamletys Soliloquy.
I know it’s wrong to be in a hidden relationship with an engaged man, but for the first time I feel loved. And loved by the man of my dreams. When I’m with him I don’t know who I am. Or maybe I’m the real me. I forget my values. Even my family. But how can I reject love when I feel it so close? When I thought it would never come to me? That for me it would just be a cruel joke. That’s it! I’m going to break it off with Don Fernando. There! I’ve decided.

But when I’m with him, I lose my resolve because I love him so much. He is all that there is. Why did I have to meet him when Marcia was in his life? God help me. Even though she treats me badly, I don’t want to cause Marcia pain. I’m in this world to love. I don’t want anyone to suffer.

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Daniel comes home to a questioning Victoria. Where have you inquires Victoria? What are you doing here at this hour asks Daniel? Waiting for you replies Victoria, but I asked you a question first. Where were you? I was visiting someone says Daniel. He leans in to kiss Victoria on the check on she smells him. This makes him mad and he starts asking her why. Did you think I was with another? Well if you don't tell me who you were with then what do you expect replies Victoria. Whatever you want responds Daniel. I am not in the mood to argue.

Kids are running around the pension yelling out "Eva tiene novio." Marisol joins in and Eva gets upset. They all get together to sing Ricardo "Happy Birthday."

Victoria and Daniel keep arguing. He tells her go home because he doesn't want to fight. She tells him that if he is cheating on her he better watch out. She's not an idiot and to tell the "other" one to watch out to because she doesn't know who she's messing with.

Marisol and Alicia are teasing Eva about Daniel.

Ricardo goes to his room where he finds a gift on his bed.

Daniel thinks about Eva and says how she is driving him crazy. "For once I was not honest with Victoria. What have you done to me,woman? I am losing my head over you."

Alicia tells Eva how gorgeous Daniel is just in case she didn't notice. Eva begs Alicia to stop talking about him. It's been going on for more then an hour. Alicia wants to know everything that he told her. Eva tries to change the subject and wishes her well on her test tomorrow, but Alicia only wants to talk about Daniel. Eva gets her purse out and looks through it where she finds Daniel's letter. It says:

Eva,
Again I am hiding this letter. Speaking in a soft voice because I am sure at this time you have forced me away from your side. Probably calling me a liar or something else. That is why I have decided to write you this letter. To let you know clearly of how I feel. Tell your lips that I don't know why, but ever since I kissed them there is nothing else I miss more. Have a good night and have wonderful dreams that make you smile.
Daniel

Alicia is over the moon, but wonders why Eva isn't. Because I care for him replies Eva.

Ricardo thanks Justa for the book. She goes to leave, but he stops her. He tells her how he feels.

Daniel goes to pick up Leonardo since his car is having problems and finds out that Victoria is out. Eva walks by.

Victoria and Clauda are working out. She tells Claudia she's curious as to where Daniel was last night. Do you think with another woman asks Claudia? No, he didn't come home smelling like perfume. I need to get married to him ASAP. If there is another woman, she better watch out. For the love I have for Daniel, I am capable of killing.

Leonardo walks into the living room ready to go to work, but Daniel is no where to be found.

Daniel is waiting for Eva in her room. Eva walks in and he grabs her. He wants to know if Eva read the letter or ripped it up. She wants to know why he wrote her those things. Daniel says that every time he leaves her side he remembers things that he wanted to tell her. He always gets interrupted with a slap in the face, an insult or she just runs away. Or simply I didn't have enough courage to tell you. Eva tells Daniel he doesn't know what he's doing. Yes, I do replies Daniel. I am being completely sincere with you. You are crazy replies Eva. And your girlfriend lives here. Daniel struggles to hold onto Eva and tells her "Listen if you tell me you love me...", but gets interrupted by Leonardo. He asks Daniel what are you doing in Eva's room. Daniel says I came to tell her something. Ready to go to the office?

Victoria and Claudia are talking about Daniel. She wants to marry him so that she can be at all the grand parties with him at his side and everyone to see her with him. Claudia says don't you just want to be with him? Not to have woman envious of you? Sure replies Victoria. I want both things. Daniel has everything a woman wants and that's why I want him only for me. I will not tolerate another woman to get near him. Claudia comments that sometimes she sounds obsessive. I am obsessive replies Victoria.

Tony teaches Alicia to cheat.

Eva and Julio bond.

Marcela and that young idiot that I forgot his name flirt.

Alicia talks to Carlos and finds out that he got "mugged". Alicia feels bad for him and Tony says you need to be more careful. Especially who you hang out with.

Renata tells Eva that her new job will be to also take out Max on his daily evening walks.

Alicia is in class to take a test. She's nervous.

Leonardo is coming up the drive and sees Eva walking Max. Now that Eva is in charge of Julio, Leonardo wants her to go with him to the store to buy him a gift. He promises to return her before dinner. Eva agrees.

Leonardo calls Daniel to tell him that his car is finally fixed. And that he finally got accepted by Eva to go out. Remember I told you that all woman are the same. And to prove it he can see them together at the cafe at around 6. Daniel says he doesn't have time to see if Leonardo is telling the truth or not. Have fun. Bye. Daniel hangs up and is pissed.

Leonardo and Eva finish their gift shopping and he convinces her to get a cup of coffee.

Idiot guy is on the phone telling whomever on the other end that they have to be discreet. Otherwise they will find out why he is really there. Marcela comes for a visit and idiot guy locks the door.

Alicia gets caught cheating on the test.

Leonardo and Eva are walking and talking. He tells her that he can read hands. Daniel drives by seeing Leonardo holding hands with Eva. Then Leonardo spots Daniel and pretends to Eva that he is blowing a eyelash off her face, but to Daniel it looks like a kiss on the cheek. Daniel speeds off.

Idiot guy gets played by Marcela.

Tony flirting with a girl. Alicia upset about failing test. He runs to her. She tells Tony she got caught cheating.

Daniel at home saying that Leonardo was right all along. Eva is playing with both of them. Victoria pops over for a visit. What's wrong asks Victoria. Nothing replies Daniel. I'm just in a bad mood. Victoria wonder if she has done anything. Because if so, she can fix it. No, you haven't done anything replies Daniel. Forgive me. I'll forgive anything says Victoria. How about we go to our favorite hotel and I can show you just how much I love you? I'll come for you in a little while.

Leonardo is driving back home with Eva. They are chit chatting and he asks what is going on between her and Daniel. Nothing, why do you ask replies Eva. Just remember that Daniel and I are friends and he tells me everything says Leonardo. What has he said asks Eva. Leonardo says he can't tell her but after she asks a couple of times he says okay as long as you don't tell him I told you anything. He likes you and you would be another notch on his bedpost. You don't deserve that. I like you and don't want you to suffer.

Leonardo gives Julio is gift and thanks Eva for helping him. Eva leaves to get Julio's dinner and medicine. Leonardo asks Julio why he likes the game so much. Because you know who your enemies are. Leonardo leaves and Max barks at him. Julio laughs and says so you recognize that he didn't really care to get me a gift. There's another game being played here.

Leonardo tells Victoria that she shouldn't have sent Eva to Daniel's house. Victoria asks Leonardo do I need to watch out for Eva?

Monday: Daniel tells Victoria there will be no wedding; Daniel gets bitch slapped by Eva

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David has just declared to his missing in action faux daddy, FaustiMario, that if he doesn’t dissolve his partnership with Adolfo, David will stop working for the company and he and Gabi will move out! He drags Gabi upstairs as the cousins come down to see what all the ruckus is about. FaustiMario tries to convince them that nothing is wrong, but Bertha the Instigator won’t let it be. She tattle tales that David got into a fight with Carlos Avila, “por culpa de esa” (because that one- referring to Gabi in a very disrespectful way). She alludes to Gabi’s supposed involvement with Carlos. But once again, she doesn’t realize she is talking to Gabi’s beloved papa, and gets an earful in payment for her opinion. If she speaks about Gabi like that again, FaustiMario will throw her out! Princess Bertha can’t believe her ears.

Once FaustiMario leaves, Ale tells Bertha she deserved that tongue lashing. She’s been bashing Gabi and giving her a hard time since she came into the house, and Bertha needs to change her ways. Bitter Bertha is in no mood to listen. She calls FaustiMario an old fool (viejo imbécil), and Ale shakes her head in disbelief at her little sister’s stubbornness.

The next morning, Elsa is getting ready to leave her apartment for work when Susana suddenly comes busting through her door. Marcos desperately needs to see JJ right away. Elsa decides the old house under renovation would be the most secure place for the meeting. She gives Susana the address and they decide the meeting will be later that night.

At Casa Genoves, David is sulking in bed and Gabi is trying to get him to be reasonable. He has to get up and go to work. He can’t abandon his father, especially not now. Plus, his father is an elder (un hombre mayor). David is fed up. All his life he’s seen his dad being taken advantage of by Adolfo, either through weakness (debilidad) or some other reason. But now things have to change, because he won’t allow it. Gabi wants David to try talking to his father calmly and reasonably. He’s his father after all. David is adamant. Either his father breaks their association with the Avilas, or David won’t work for him anymore. Gabi leaves to see who has been ringing the doorbell below.

When she reaches the end of the stairwell, she sees that Abelardo has already ushered the guest into a waiting FaustiMario’s office. She stealthily makes her way to just outside of the doorway and listens. Adolfo angrily prohibits David from coming near Carlos or any of Adolfo’s business dealings. FaustiMario says he will talk to David, but it will be difficult to convince him. Adolfo doesn’t care. If FaustiMario doesn’t get David to back off, he will tell the whole world about Marta! Gabi’s eyes go saucer wide upon hearing this often repeated name. Abelardo discreetly shuts the office door when he sees that things are starting to heat up, so Gabi hears no more. Adolfo grouses some more about the scandal David caused (I think Carlos was equally or more to blame for that), and his threat to break their partnership. “Control your son, or deal with the consequences!” He marches out.

And is greeted by Bertha with a kiss outside of the office. They make plans for a lunch date. She walks him out the door and Gabi passes them trying not to attract their attention. She greets a finally dressed David, who is coming down the stairs and ready to start a fight with a second Avila in less than two days, when he sees Adolfo’s retreating back. Gabi talks him down.

In the study, Abelardo and FaustiMario worry about what they will do. David enters and tells his dad he wants to speak to him calmly. He once again makes what he thinks is a reasonable request. Please break the association/contract with the Avilas. FaustiMario tells him he can’t do that. Plus there is little time left on the contract anyway. Just four months. David thinks even a week more would be too long. FaustiMario says he’s too old and tired for such a fight. He wants to retire soon. He doesn’t want to make a fuss. David thinks that everyone has a limit and he’s obviously reached his. FaustiMario asks for a bit more patience. It’s just four months after all. David thinks if he and the lawyers could look at the contract, they could find a way out of it. FaustiMario refuses and uses the old and tired card again. He’s even been thinking about going to the countryside very soon. David’s anger suddenly turns to concern. He asks his father if he is once again ill. FaustiMario denies it. He’s just fatigued. He’s worked a lot and now wants to leave everything in David’s hands. Fausto has learned to tap into his soft cuddly side and for the first time channels Mario’s gentle nature perfectly. He pleads with David for some patience. David can’t deny his beloved father, and agrees.

FaustiMario then asks Abelardo to make the preparations for him to leave for San Miguel that very afternoon. David is shocked by the suddenness, but relents. FaustiMario gets him to promise one more time that he will stay out of the way of the Avilas. David leaves and FaustiMario breathes a huge sigh of relief.

David joins Gabi at the breakfast table and she’s happy to hear that he and his dad have made up and he’ll continue to work for him. But he has bad news as well. They will not be able to go on their honeymoon trip that weekend as they had planned. He tells her about FaustiMario’s sudden trip and that it’s a very bad time to leave the business unattended. She understands, but they both look sad and disappointed (as are we in Viewerville if we won’t get to see any more hot love scenes).

Adolfo welcomes Felix 2.0 home. He has Felix take his sunglasses off so that he can admire his brand new (black) eye. Other than the fact that he looks like someone punched him in the face (maybe they can blame David), and that his new right eye NEVER blinks, he looks almost normal. The swelling and bruising will go away, but the damn thing will NEVER blink. Ok. I’m dwelling on this too much, but it’s creeping me out.

Adolfo has a new job assignment for Felix. Find that damn thief of his 5 million pesos, Roberto. He’s sure Roberto is hanging at some beach somewhere spending his money. He’s positive he did not leave the country. He authorizes Felix to take two of his goons with him. Felix is happy to be back in the game.

Mauricio is fawning all over Elsa again. The American clients were enchanted by her at the event. Elsa, however, thinks she still has much to learn. Mauricio is more than happy to help her whenever she needs it, but Elsa doesn’t want to bother him. Plus, she’s figuring stuff out on her own. Not letting an opportunity to see Elsa slip by, Mauricio asks her on a play date. Because Angela really wants to see Caramelo again (yeah, that’s the only reason). Elsa accepts his invitation.

Gabi sees David to the door at Casa Genoves. He’s still steamed about having to continue to work with the Avilas. She asks if it’s ok for her to go visit her sister that afternoon. David looks a bit peevish about it, but tells her ok before walking out the door. (I’m going to rant for a bit here. Gabi is not a child and she’s not a prisoner in that house. She should not have to ask David permission to go see her sister or to do anything else. If she’s not having an affair, or involved in something dangerous, illegal or immoral, then it’s not his business. Rant over.)

As soon as he leaves, Gabi goes into sleuth mode. She pulls out the phone book and begins to make a call. When she notices Bertha spying on her from the corner of her eye, she waits until she leaves. But Sneaky Bertha has remained just around the corner with her ear pressed to the wall. She hears as Gabi calls Leo at AFI. Leo is busy setting up an operation where he demands that there be 14 officers, at the minimum. He then gets news from Ramon that they’ve found the truck belonging to Marcos and know its location. He takes the call from Gabi before rushing out the door. She has something personal to talk to him about. Since he has to leave on an urgent matter, he promises to call her back later. Bertha narrows her beady eyes as she gathers more ammunition to use against Gabi and her family.

At a home furnishings store, Ale has brought JJ to choose items for his renovated house. She also lets him know her uncle has agreed to meet him that afternoon. He’s happy to hear it, but more giddy about being out with Ale. He makes fun of the modern furniture, which he doesn’t understand. He gets close and personal and asks her seductively to teach him…about these elegant things. She’d be happy to (encantada). They walk arm in arm around the store. When Ale walks ahead of him, he takes the opportunity to enjoy the view. When she suggests that he get double sinks for the principal bathroom, he wonders what for. She explains that if one day he has someone living with him, it will come in handy. While he’s shaving, she can put on her makeup or do whatever. JJ makes believe that he’s shaving while Ale is washing her hands. Ale looks a bit mortified, but highly amused. When he is done “shaving”, he takes her hand to his face and she caresses her Gillette man. He can’t resist kissing the palm of her hand, and neither of them can resist the passionate kiss that follows. (Woohoo!)

In Mario’s office, Abelardo is trying to talk FaustiMario out of leaving so suddenly for his “trip” without saying farewell to David, Gabi and the nieces. But FaustiMario has had it. He’s worried about being caught, and about someone coming close enough to see the makeup (maquillaje). If he’s really needed, Abelardo can call him. He then asks Abelardo for a favor. He needs 5 thousand pesos (he hasn’t been working after all, and neither has Juli). Abelardo is happy to be reminded, as he actually has FaustiMario’s first payment for his work right there in his pocket- 100 thousand pesos. Fausto is shocked and refuses to accept that kind of money. Abelardo assures him it’s what Mario wanted him to receive each month for taking his place. Fausto reluctantly accepts the money and thanks Abelardo. Then he asks for another favor. He’d like Abelardo to watch out for Gabi. David has shown that he has a violent temper, and that Bertha is just awful and after Gabi. If anything happens, please let him know.

JJ is looking over some business documents with little enthusiasm and much frustration when Elsa arrives at his door. He’s stuck on stupid and begins to give her a hard time (as if she has done something offensive by having other plans with someone else when he had a sudden whim to see her). She gets right to the point and tells him Marcos wants to see him. She tells him about the plan to meet at the house at midnight. Elsa tries some civil small talk by asking after Caramelo, but Limon has gone to pick her up from school that day. JJ’s only departing words to Elsa are to make sure her brother shows up.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Marcos will make that date. Leo and Ramon catch site of him eating lunch in his truck, corner him and chase him down. They get their man. Marcos…you’ve got some ‘splainin to do.

At the school, Limon joins all the other proud parents outside to wait for his precious Caramelo. She greets him with an excited hug and he treats her to a snack from the street cart. Caramelo tells him about all the things she’s learned. Even numbers, 1 to 5. She can help him and JJ manage their treasure now! Lol! Caramelo doesn’t understand why the treasure is just JJ’s when they helped find it too. Limon tries to set her straight, but the kid IS making sense. When Limon drops some of his snack to the ground, he reverts back to their old homeless ways, and bends to pick it up to eat it. Newly bourgeois Caramelo scolds him. “No seas cochino!” (Don’t be a pig!) It’s full of bacteria, microbes and germs. She explains it all to Limon in a nice little PSA for the kiddies (who should not be watching this telenovela).

Bertha has gussied herself up for her lunch date with Adolfo at his house. She has on an off the shoulder black top, and one of her micro mini pleated naughty school girl skirts. The first Avila man to descend the stairs is a battered and bruised Carlos. After a bit of bluster about the shape he’ll leave David in next time (sure), he notices Bertha’s lower half, and then his lower half takes over. “Hey. You know, you sure are fine.” (Estas guapísima.) Bertha takes the compliment like a woman who’s used to them. He sits down next to her, with great difficulty, and asks what’s up with her and his dad. He knows his dad really likes her. She thinks his dad is a very “interesting” man. Well, Carlos wouldn’t like it if she became his stepmom (madrastra) because it would be too much temptation. Bertha laughs this off, calls him a cynic, and gives him a motherly chuck under the chin.

Adolfo comes down to mark his territory and humiliate his son. The usual. He gives Bertha a kiss and kicks Carlos out. While he makes them drinks, Bertha rolls out her “you’re so trustworthy and intelligent, and poor, lonely, little old me needs someone to talk to” story. Adolfo is more than happy to be her sugar daddy/shoulder to cry on. “My uncle brought us to live with him when our mother died. But ever since that horrible Gabi moved in he’s treated us badly. And it’s not fair! We’re his only real relatives. David is not my uncle Mario’s son!” Adolfo is completely caught off guard by this bit of info. “Que dices?” (What are you saying?) Bertha embellishes further. David is just some poor woman’s child abandoned on Mario and his wife’s doorstep. “Vaya, vaya. Qué interesante.” (Well, well. How interesting.) Adolfo gets an evil glint in his eye. (Well, a bigger one than usual.)

Gabi is having lunch with Juli at the apartment and recounting FaustiMario’s strange behavior. Juli thinks it’s the same as their papa, who’s also been acting stranger than usual. She recounts his mysterious call from “work” in the middle of the night and his leaving. “It’s all strange (raro).” Gabi thinks there are many strange things about their father. She wants to figure it out and she thinks Leo is the only one who can help her. She tells Juli about the conversation she overheard between FaustiMario and Adolfo and that Mysterious Marta was once again mentioned. It seems to her that everyone has something to do with this Marta—their dad, Yolanda, and now Don Mario and Adolfo.

Bertha and Adolfo have continued their illuminating chat over their lunch. She continues her woe-is-me tale about her father’s bad investments, his death, Mario’s financial support of the family, her mother’s death, and their moving in with Mario. Everything was hunky dory until David married and moved in that Gabi. Then Mario changed. He became distant and less affectionate with them. They hardly ever see him. And when she told him that the fight between Carlos and David was Gabi’s fault, he reacted very violently and threatened to throw her out. “It’s not fair!” Adolfo agrees with her. “Of course it isn’t!”

Adolfo is more concerned with learning if David’s adoption was legal (likely looking for yet another way to steal the Genoves fortune). Bertha doesn’t know, but still doesn’t think it’s fair how Mario is treating his only blood relatives. Adolfo tells her not to worry. He’ll talk to Mario for her. Bertha is so grateful that her sugar daddy will take care of it all. Seeing as he is not only her uncle’s business partner, but also his friend (gag me, please), she is sure Mario will listen to Adolfo. She and her sister would have nowhere to go and no one to take care of them. Well, her sister would be ok, since she has her own career and company. But poor little old Bertha would be alone and vulnerable. Oh, whatever is she to do? Adolfo pledges his support, and promises not to tell anyone she’s the one who let the cat out of the bag about David’s parentage. (If I knew it was this easy to get a rich sugar daddy, I would have broken out the school girl skirt and off the shoulder top long ago!) She has things to do and has to run (nor sure what, since she herself admitted she doesn’t work), so he escorts her out with his arm around her waist. They make plans to see each other again.

Ale announces a very nervous JJ to FaustiMario. Abelardo briefs him on JJ’s history before he comes in. JJ thanks him for receiving him and FaustiMario encourages him to speak. He’s listening (lo escucho). JJ tells him that although Mario testified against him, and he spent all those years in prison, he’s recently come to find out what a good man Mario is. He swears he was not the one who killed the girl. FaustiMario wonders how he can be sure JJ is telling him the truth. JJ recounts the events of the fateful night at the hotel Mirador again (which we have now seen from about five different points of view). Ooh, nice. We see young JJ in his skivvies getting out of bed. After getting fingered (literally) by Adolfo, JJ headed back to his room for his shirt. He was apprehended by the police in the stairwell, as Adolfo tells him and the police that he SAW JJ do it. An angry and scared JJ is hustled away by the police.

JJ tells Mario that he was just some poor kid, unable to afford good defense. And when Mario also testified against him about seeing him with the girl, that just put another nail in his coffin. Fausto is very affected by this tale. He can imagine how JJ felt at this injustice (he really, really can). JJ, of course, does not believe that Mario could possibly understand. He gets more agitated and Abelardo steps in to try to bring him down. He tells JJ that Mario never testified that he saw or thought JJ killed the girl. He only testified about what he saw. Fausto has been moved to tears, likely thinking about his own false accusation and life on the run. He tells JJ that he knows he can’t give JJ back those years he lost. JJ is affected by FaustiMario’s obvious distress. He tells him that he only wanted Mario to know the truth and believe him. He wants Mario’s help in finding the real culprit and clearing his name. Fausto jumps up from his seat. Of course he’s going to help JJ! (Abelardo looks like he’s thinking, “Oh great! Yet another thing to add to my long To Do list.”) He tries to get “Don Mario” to calm down. JJ has completely lost all of his fire, and is wiping away tears. He doesn’t want to cause any harm to Mario’s health. They shake hands. JJ tells him that all he wants to do is clear his name. Choking back tears, FaustiMario swears that he’ll help JJ do just that. The two unjustly accused men continue to clutch each other’s hand and look at each other with teary eyes.

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Well gang, tonight you're at the mercy of a disappointed Dr. Carlos and I'll tell you right up front, after a rather exciting week, nothing... and I mean nothing of any note or importance happens tonight. No dead cats, no jailhouse assaults, no cockfight in the parlor... nopis. Hints of things to come, but for tonight... nada. Tonight we get to see Marianela eat her fruits and veggies (the girl is anemic! She needs red meat, for goodness sake). So if your time will be better served by flossing the hamster or bathing the goldfish... then by all means...

So let's see if we can get through this as painlessly as possible. Oddly we pick up with a soused Emiliano conferring with a prickly Maximo. Sylvia covered this very nicely last night so being the lazy old fart that I am, I'm going to borrow her eloquence to get us started:

He has a very hard time spitting out what he wants to say but he finally manages to grunt out his question, was there something between Fedra and his brother Luis-Felipe? Brandon and Emanuel huff and puff at each other. Brandon is incensed when Mari asks him to leave the room. He tells Eman that for every tear he causes Mari, Brandon will collect it back in Eman’s blood. Max tells Emiliano how dare he soil his brother’s memory with such a question. Luis-Felipe was always deeply in love with Eva. Max says yes, LP was interested in Fedra, but only because he was investigating her to find out who she really is. Mari and Emanuel make up and he apologizes for causing her such sadness because he was a dumba** for not telling her his plan. She says she wanted to die. Eman tells her that if she dies he wants to die right behind her. They gaze at each other.

Thanks Sylvia.

An edgy Lorenzo is interrogating a put upon Flora about the whereabouts of the rest of his family. She has no idea where they might be and her expression suggests that it's not her highest priority. He tells her to shut up and get back to work. He fitfully pours himself a drink (Famous Grouse Scotch would be my guess) as he remembers a happier time frolicking with his son, the late (well, so he thinks) Cristian, in the park.

The kid is no judge of character because he seemed quite content in the hands of this psychopath.

Meintras tanto, his significant other is at the naco dorm looking for his other significant other, Begoña. She strolls in the always open front door and inquires of Netty and Gladiola if Brandon Moreno lives here. They look at her suspiciously. "Yes, he's my son," offers Gladiola. Muñeca introduces herself, "Camila Rivero," and tells them that Brandon had told her that Begoña lives there as well. They tell her that she did, but left suddenly for Italy and they haven't heard from her since. "Strange." At this moment Brandon pops in and happily greets Muñeca with a kiss to the consternation of the other women.

He walks her out, promising to let her know if they hear from Begoña. Well, good luck with that, I believe their resident clairvoyant has moved out. Brandon returns with a worried look...or maybe it's a touch of gas.

Now I've mentioned that I'm something of an Ilitia fan but I find her outfit a bit strange and confusing. She is in Manny's room getting a little seduction set up and is wearing a very sheer black nighty but, I guess out of some sense of modesty, she has on underneath purple bra and panties , detracting from the intended and desired effect. Of course these days our nightime fashion tends to be flannel or cotton knit, so what would I know about such things? Like a lusty lioness she paces the room and literally marks her territory. "Don't wanna wait for the Caribe beach. All's fair in love and war," she purrs as she fill the room with her spoor.

Turns out that Brandon is irked that Emanuel entered Mari's room, "by climbing the wall like a fly and crawling through the window like a rat." This sends an agitated Netty flying up the stairs just as Oliver shlumps in looking as though his best girl just dumped him... oh, that's right, she did. This is one dejected detective. "I saw Gretel. She's at her parents' house. She never cared for me."

Back in the wine cellar with Fedra and Bernardo, Gretel has learned that her mom is not completely reliable. She thinks that her compliance with Fedra's demands merits more consideration but... think again sweetie. For her trouble and pleading, she is treated to a sedating injection from a syringe

which her mommy has thoughtfully kept warmly nestled between those impressive bubis. As Gretel starts to melt to the floor Fedra gives her a couple of motherly kisses, picks up her bottle of wine and she and Bernardo leave Gretel alone to contemplate the impressive wine collection with which she shares the cellar.

In Mari's room, Netty metastasizes all over a stammering Manny, castigating him for treating Mari miserably, sneaking into her room uninvited, and mostly for having ever been born. Mari listens passively and finally the Eman gets in a word. If he can't get Mari to eat, he'll leave... forever. Since either result would suit her desires, she hesitantly agrees.

Our lusty lioness has settled onto Manny's bed to await her prey. Deciding to rehearse a bit, she picks up a pillow and asks it for a kiss. She must not have noticed that this is the Brandon pillow, but as soon as she kisses it she recognizes her well-tanned policeman, tosses him off the bed, and orders him out of her pretty little head.

She looks around to see if anyone noticed. Cute, very funny scene.

Under Netty's protective gaze Emanuel, like a mother titmouse, is coaxing bites of fresh produce into Mari's reluctant beak. This chubby little bird is anemic, Manny, some nice juicy worms or crispy grasshoppers would do more good. She needs some meat. He looks to Netty after a tiny morsel of broccoli is successfully delivered. She nods approval. He beams as he announces that he is spending the night, sleeping on the floor, of course. Netty wrestles with this, finally conceding to herself that this is Mari's only hope of survival. Oh, por favor. More food, and I swear I'm not making this up, it's WHITE RICE! Now all she needs is a sip of TEA and she will have consumed all of our Dr. Judy's essential food groups... Next!

Downstairs, Oliver is giving Brandon a play by play of his visit with Gretel. We were there to experience it with him...so...Next!

Netty shares good news and bad news with Brandon. The good: Marinela's eating. The bad: Emanuel is feeding. Our cocky cop focuses on the bad and wants to evict Manny. Netty thinks they should let him stay... at least until Mari improves...

Back upstairs, Mari has cleaned her plate and we are overdosed with cute. He hands her the ugly doll (a lame token of her daddy's affection) says he's jealous of the doll (I know, I know, it's making my teeth hurt), then sits on the bed and starts taking off his shoes...

Not so fast cowboy... she directs him to the couch where he snuggles a couple of purple pillows. Mari smiles that cloying smile of hers (you know the one) and thinks:

"I love yo Emanuel, with every minute that passes I love you more and I don't know if it's a mistake to believe you but I can't, I can't, I don't want to doubt you."

He wrinkles his nose...


NEXT!

At Castle Creep it must be morning because Nereida has brought Cristal breakfast and the sun is shining. Nereida listens as Cristal tells her of Ilitia's indictment of Mauricio. Now litia is no fan of Orangeboy but is even less fond of Ilitia. She suggests that maybe it was just the reverse... perhaps Ilitia attacked the Jaundiced One. She calls her a mátalas callando (?). She says that her abuela says, "Amigo el ratón del queso y sin embargo, se lo come (the mouse may be a friend of the cheese, nevertheless , he eats it )."

Said mouse wakes up in Manny's bed... no Manny... cause for concern?

Max is still outraged at Emiliano for even thinking that his brother might betray him with Fedra and shares his ire with Paula

who is now worried about Gretel since Oliver told her that she is no longer in the nut house. You mean she wasn't worried while she was there? Max observes that Paula is partial to Gretel. She explains that it's because she came along at the same time they lost their daughter. Hmmm.

Upstairs on the main floor, Fedra has good news for Emiliano. After pondering it all night long she has decided to forgive him for bumping the little cars with that needy spinster, Netty, and give him another chance. Surprisingly Emiliano is not yearning for forgiveness, much less another chance. In fact, he'd prefer a divorce. Hmmm, and Fedra was thinking more along the lines of a romantic trip to Paris.

Folks are up at Naco Central and someone has brought Mari breakfast... a bowl of fruit. I don't see a lot of iron in that bowl. Manny did spend the night which appears to have been good for Mari but rough on his back. A cheery Netty waltzes in, notes improvement in Mari and gently kicks Manny out, "I'll take over here, why don't you have breakfast downstairs?... before you... go home. He doesn't put up a struggle but seeing Mari's anemic breakfast, opts to catch a bite on the street. He gives Mari a sweet kiss under the watchful eye of an impatient Netty

who times the kiss, breaks it up, and kicks him out. "You look so much better." "All because of Emanuel. I love him, I love him, I love him!" Netty understands, but tells her that she can never be happy with him, "...as long as Fedra Curiel is alive."

Emiliano doesn't want Fedra to make one of her little scenes this morning. Fedra does... and does. She begins summoning the entire family at the top of her lungs. Axel arrives first then Delicia, Nereida, and Benigno. "Where is Cristal? Where is Gretel? Where is Emanuel?" "Well, Cristal is locked in her room,"Nereida reminds her. I guess she forgot that Gretel is locked in the wine cellar... ummm... in Switzerland. She is not thrilled to learn from Benigno that Manny didn't come home last night. Nereida escorts a drowsy Cristal down the staircase. She then dramatically announces to all those rounded up, "I have news for you. Your father asked me for a divorce!"

Lorenzo is visiting the crime lord, Garduño, in the big house. He wants to know why his baby ended up dead and he wants those responsible punished. Señor G calmly explains that it was an unfortunate accident and besides he is after all the crime lord and makes the important decisions, like who gets killed, himself. Lo should be grateful that he's out of jail. As consolation, he is sending a goddess to, "... distract your thoughts." Well, if you insist...

At home, as Muñica eats her breakfast, Flora fills her in, "El Señor was very annoyed when he arrived home last night and was up and gone early this morning." "Just as well..." Muñeca doesn't want to see him. Ilitia went to spend the night with her BFF, Cristal (well, sort of), and there's a precious new baby boy at la Casa Hogar. Muñeca plans to drop by and meet him this afternoon.

Frick and Frack, the bald and the bearded toadies responsible for the Cristian cockup have apparently tentatively located the little guy and are parked in the street outside la Casa Hogar.

The Ruiz y de Teresa family meeting is going rather well. Axel and Cristal prefer the status quo. They back Fedra. Emanuel wanders in and Emiliano fills him in, "I'm going to divorce your mother." "Oh my heaven."

Netty, aware now that Manny and Mari (hmmm Em&M) are not related, is pointing out the downside to Emanuel, in a word... "Fedra." She leaves Mari with that thought. Mari decides to punish the ugly doll and begins bashing its little head against her extra-firm mattress. Predictably it bursts open revealing what appear to be paper towels from a service station restroom. Someone has written on them so she sits down to read. It's the results of the investigation her father made of Fedra.

Meanwhile the family meeting continues. Emiliano has yet to find a sympathetic ear. The entire family turns on him. Cristal is shocked over the thing with Netty. Manny is especially harsh. Emiliano sees that everyone is against him but hopes that someday they will understand. Understandably, Axel, who has understood nothing since the show began, says that he will never understand. Understood? "You see? You're destroying this family." Emiliano thinks it'd be best if he talked with Fedra alone. The kids split. Fedra is crushed, but recovers quickly. "Forget the the divorce," she hisses, "I'm not going to make it that easy for you." They are interrupted by a knock on the door. A white flag, followed by a cowering Benigno, cautiously enters. The General requests a meeting with Fedra in the basement.

Mari furtively fingers her father's Fedra file and is once again recalling that fateful day that she discovered his crumpled broken body outside his office window and his final gasp, "the silver lily." It's all clear to her now, he meant for her to look inside the doll. Qué? Somebody help me out here. How do we get from silver lily to look inside the doll? Yet as brilliant as she is she still wonders why he put the papers in the doll. "Did he know that he was going to die? Did he want me to know the truth about Fedra?"

Let's see what Gretel thinks. Lying in an empty hot tub curiously cut into the floor of the wine cellar she remembers with greater clarity than ever that fateful day. Ill advisedly, Mari's dad showed Fedra the copy of the results of his investigation as he hit the high points:

"Juana Felipe Pérez was a prostitute from the port of Veracruz, concubine of a smuggler named José Maria Sevilla (known as Chema). She became pregnant before disappearing in a mysterious fire on the high seas. The ship's name was el Lirio de Plata."

"You are that woman."

Gretel, now fully alert, snaps to, " It's she, it's she! Fedra es Juana Felipa Pérez. Dios mio, no."

Brandon counsels Oliver that in time he will forget the pretty girl (la chava). Oliver doesn't think so but he's trying to concentrate on work.

Speaking of work, the latest intelligence from Caiman is that Mauricio has bonded with Garduño and an effort is being made to spring Mauricio.

Under white flag, Benigno ushers Ferdrainto General Maximo's headquarters. Both she and the general are unarmed. He offers her a seat. She tells him that Emiliano has asked for a divorce, but rather than be a divorcee, she'd prefer to be a widow. Maximo really doesn't want to be involved but warns her that Emiliano wants her out of his life. "Maybe the one widowed will be him and not you." She responds, "There's no room for doubt, you are completely insane." Well, what he really wants to know is, "...where is Gretel, and don't bother telling me she is in Switzerland because I won't believe that lie even for a second."

As if to remind us, join Gretel in the wine cellar,

"Dios mio, yes Fedra is Juana Felipa Pérez." She wants out. She wants to kill Fedra. (I think a line is starting to form for that.) She kicks the door, "¡Asesina, Asesina! You are a murderer, Juana Felipa Pérez!"

Fedra notes that Maianela was always Maximo's favorite. Why the sudden interest in Gretel? He tells her that it's none of her business but at least the Ruiz y de Teresa blood flows through her veins and the same can't be said for Emanuel. "You were pregnant before you met Emiliano." She denies this and says that Emanuel is Emiliano's child. Then she surprisingly ups the ante, "...but Gretel is not. Nor is she my daughter." "What are you talking about? Then whose daughter is she?" "Ask your sister, Carlota."

Actually General, just sit there for a moment and do the math. He does just that. "¡No puede ser!" Benigno returns. The general wants his pistol. The general loads his pistol. Benigno worries, "What are you going to do?"

Manny stumbles into his room, sits on his bed, and begins to undress. The bathroom door cracks open, "Baby." Surprise, it's Ilitia. "What are you doing here?" She gets right to the point, "My body needs yours, Baby." She kisses him. He wrinkles his nose, but not in that happy way.

Muñeca arrives at Crazy Casa looking for Fedra. Delicia shows her in. Fedra is glad to see her but Muñeca recoils as Fedra moves in to embrace her. As Cristal peers in from the hallway, Muñeca skips the small talk, "What's going on between you and my husband?"

Mari is puzzling over the pages her daddy left behind detailing the story of a 15 yr. old Veracruz hooker named Juana Felipa Pérez. "But what does this have to do with Fedra?" The anemia clearly has damaged her brain. Her critical thinking is interrupted by Netty bearing more food. Oh good, looks like a pork chop on her tray. She's curious and asks about the papers. Mari lies.

Ilitia clings to Manny like kudzu to an abandoned car. He caves and seems to be getting into it, "Marianela," he sighs.

Talk about a mood killer.

Fedra tells Muñeca that she is aware that Lo sleeps with any woman that crosses his path but hey... Muñeca insists but as Fedra complains that, "Yo soy una mujer digna (I'm a dignified woman)" they are joined by a loaded pistol wielded by an agitated Maximo,

"You don't know what dignity is!" Muñeca gapes, "¿Padrino?" Fedra is amused, "So the animal has decided to leave his cave?" He points the pistol, "I won't allow you to toy with something that is sacred to me." "¡Bernardo! ¡Emanuel! ¡Benigno! Someone come stop this lunatic!" "Arrabalera (riffraff) since you first arrived in this house you done nothing but sully the name Ruiz y de Teresa, but it's over. You are leaving here today! ¡Para siempre!"

Carlos

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Hola, Telemundo fans! It’s NovelaMaven and it’s my turn to start this week’s discussion page. I am following Aurora and Alguien Te Mira. Jean is keeping you updated on La Fantasma de Elena, and Los Exitoso$ Gomez.

But there’s only so much we can say in one post. Thanks so much to everyone who comments during the week and keeps the discussion alive!

Aurora: ¿Peor que en tus novelas, eh Ma?

Last week my local Telemundo reception kept getting scrambled. (All I could think of was some little guy on a rooftop in southwest Milwaukee trying desperately to jiggle the dish and clear up the signal.) So I started watching Aurora on the Telemundo website the day after each broadcast. I find that I like watching it like this, although it means I’m always a day behind. So this discussion doesn’t include anything that happened on Friday. Sorry!

Okay. This is all getting deliciously complicated:

(So complicated, in fact, that it cries out for daily recaps. Are there four crazy people out there who might be interested? I’m deliberately giving lots of detail today in the hopes of enticing people who have been sitting on the fence and may not have seen every episode. You know who you are!!!)

The focus has shifted to vengeance.
All of Aurora’s targets for revenge have, indeed, acted badly, some worse than others. But Vanesa has twisted the events of the past in such a way that they are unrecognizable. She convinces Aurora that Natalia and Lorenzo were a couple long before Aurora arrived on the scene. They planned to have Lorenzo seduce Aurora so they could control her money. He never loved her. Natalia backs up Vanesa’s story, making it seem credible.

Lorenzo, in reality, is nearly blameless. He never betrayed Aurora. His only sin was refusing to listen to her explanation after the fateful birthday party. Now Vanesa has cast him as the principal villain.

Twenty years ago Natalia was guilty of cowardice. She knew what Vanesa was up to but, because of some hold Vanesa had on her, she kept silent. It was, of course, Vanesa, not Natalia, who invited Lorenzo to that birthday party. (The contemporary Natalia has become much more Machiavellian, and much easier to dislike.)

Now Vanesa pretends that Natalia’s sin of cobardía was hers. Meanwhile she commits far worse offenses against her nemesis, Aurora.

Dr. Gustavo congratulates himself for saving Aurora’s life but she despises him for destroying her love.

Even though Inés is now repentant, Aurora still blames her for not standing up to Gustavo in the past.

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As we learn more about the Lobos family’s adoptive son, César, we realize he is a very dangerous character. He may be protective of Natalia and Nina, but he is a menace to just about everyone else. He and two of his thug buddies are planning Blanca’s abduction. (His biological parents will undoubtedly turn out to be involved in the story. Whose love child is César?)

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Blanca loses her enthusiasm for César when she catches him in bed with his ‘lawyer’.

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Aurora announces to los Ponce de León that she and Blanca will be living together in their own apartment.

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It looks like Dra Elizabeth has committed a murder, (and not her first one, most likely) on behalf of cryonics: When Jane Doe didn’t die according to plan, Elizabeth helped her along.

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With a little pulling of strings on Natalia’s part, Lorenzo is invited to work on a theatrical piece in Madrid. Natalia is desperate to get him to accept the job. She’ll do almost anything at this point to keep him away from Aurora.
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Nina is willing to take her obsession for Martín further than anyone imagined.

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What follows is more or less a recap of Thursday’s episode with some expanded references to previous events:

As part of her new plan to avenge all the harm she has suffered, Aurora seduces Lorenzo in her new apartment. As they are engaging in something that looks more like love than war, Aurora begins to slip back into the cold. Her lips turn blue. She can’t speak but she can move her eyes which are open wide with fear. She is aware of everything that is happening. A terrified Lorenzo bundles her up and races her to the cryonics clinic. Elizabeth takes charge and
works frantically to bring her around while Lorenzo prays for Aurora’s life.

At the graduation party turned family tragedy:
The guys at this stag party in honor of Martín’s med school graduation bring in a big beribboned box from which two bimbos emerge. [We can see clearly that one of them, wearing a blond wig, mask, and bunny ears, is Nina. How is it that her brothers can’t recognize her? Tighten the beanie y listo!] Blondie throws herself at Martín; he does what’s expected. When he tries to pay Blonde Bimbo for her services, she peels off wig and mask and reveals her identity. When he sees it’s his own sister, Martín is overcome with horror. (It will take years of therapy to get past this one. As I said before, we need the guy from El Clon!)

Outside the bedroom, César is putting the moves on Bimbo 2. But he backs off quickly when he realizes it’s Nina’s friend Vicki. Then César rushes into the bedroom, takes in the scene and punches Martín in the nose. Fortunately he mistakes the postcoital scene for a precoital one or he would probably kill his brother on the spot.

Martín wipes his bloody nose and proclaims his innocence. He had no idea who the girls in the box were and neither did César. Martin: You think I did it on purpose? You think I’m capable of doing such a thing? Well, no, acknowledges César, I don’t, no. He puts a reassuring hand on his brother’s shoulder. It was just a few kisses, he thinks.

Apparently that’s what Vicki thinks too. But Nina corrects her: Sí pasó, pasó todo! (Yes, it happened! Everything!)

César wants to take Nina and Martín home, but Martín refuses to
go with them.

At the Lobos apartment, Dr. Gustavo pays Natalia a surprise visit. [There is a hint here that these two have a past. Could Gustavo be Nina’s father?] They talk about keeping Lorenzo and Aurora apart – Natalia still thinks they are talking about Beta Aurora. The conversation is cut short by Dra Elizabeth’s phone summons: Aurora has suffered a relapse! (recaída). Gustavo is on his way. (Salgo por allá ahora mismo!) But he leaves a message with Natalia: Tell Lorenzo we need to talk.

Aurora languishes in intensive care, a breathing tube in place and monitors flashing in the background. Even though she can’t speak, her mind is active. She believes she is dying and these are her last thoughts:
Mi hija no sabe que soy su madre.
(My daughter doesn’t know I’m her mother.)
Mi padre no recibió lo merecido por lo que me hizo.
(My father didn’t get his just deserts for what he did to me.)
Mi madre no pagó por su silencio.
(My mother didn’t pay for her silence.)
Natalia no se arrepentió de su traición.
(Natalia didn’t repent her betrayal.)
Lorenzo, mi venganza estaba comenzando y no pude terminar.
(Lorenzo, my vengeance was starting and I couldn’t finish.)
Martín, de verdad me querías; tú no merecías un amor tan imposible.
(Martín, you really loved me; you deserved better than an impossible love.)
Perdón, hija….

The monitor flatlines and Elizabeth hurries to Aurora’s bedside and begins chest compressions. Se nos va! (She’s leaving us!) Gustavo tries defibrillation but Aurora doesn’t respond. She is gone! Lorenzo and Martín rush in and implore the doctors to freeze her. You don’t get it, says Gustavo. There’s nothing we can do! Ella es Aurora, mi hija! (She’s my daughter, Aurora!) She came back from the dead once. She doesn’t have a second chance!

Aurora’s Funeral:
All the principals are in black. Inés finally tells Blanca that Aurora was her mother and Lorenzo is her father…

Not to worry…
The death scene and funeral are in Aurora’s mind! She continues to be very much alive and hooked up to ventilators and cardiac monitors in the clinic:
Así habría sido mi muerte, una triste despedida sin palabras.
(Is that how my death would have been, a sad, wordless farewell?)
How fortunate that my time hasn’t come yet because I still have a lot to do in this world.

Aurora comes to. Dra Elizabeth removes the breathing tube.

And after the worst party of Martín’s life:
César takes Vicki home and warns her against pulling any stunts like that with Nina in the future – imagine what could have happened! Vanesa flounces in wearing a revealing garment, maybe a nightgown? César politely offers his hand when Vicki introduces him and Vanesa arrogantly ignores it. [It almost makes you understand why he is looking to make his living preying on rich girls.]

Martín shows up at the clinic looking for his father and he learns that Aurora has suffered a crisis; and that it was Lorenzo who brought her in for treatment.

Gustavo scolds Aurora for her behavior and thanks Elizabeth for saving his daughter. He knows she was with Lorenzo and wants to know what precisely she was doing that caused her temperature to dip so low.

Vanesa berates Vicki for telling her she was going out with her girlfriends and then coming home late at night with César. Vanesa finds the bimbo disguise in Vicki’s bag and Vicki spills the beans: it was Nina’s idea. And she’s the one who ended up making love with her brother, Martín. Well not her brother by blood, but almost. ¿Peor que en tus novelas, eh Ma?
(Worse than in your novelas, eh Ma?)
Vanesa allows herself a small, mean smile. Peor, she repeats.

Lorenzo continues to cool his heels in the clinic (no pun intended), trying to get the arrogant Crionica folks to tell him what is happening with Aurora. He is joined by Martín, equally frantic to find out about Aurora.

Gustavo and Aurora are alone in the hospital room with the door closed. He demands details! Without them, he can’t prevent it from happening again. All right then.

She tells him: We were just about to make love. And then I felt cold and I couldn’t move and I couldn’t speak, but I could think. We were nude in bed and I felt alive, me sentí más viva que nunca… (I felt more alive than ever…)

We don’t understand why Aurora supplies the color commentary to her creepy father.

And said creepy father, seemingly a serial adulterer, doesn’t understand why Aurora would involve herself with Lorenzo, knowing he is married to Natalia. Her answer:
Porque me quiero vengar!
(Because I want vengeance!)

At the Lobos apartment:
César and Nina are greeted by an anxious, suspicious Natalia when they arrive home together. Are they hiding something? What about Martín and Lorenzo? They were at Martín’s graduation party but they don’t know where Lorenzo is.

Natalia tells César that Lorenzo lied – he was supposed to be with his friend Ernesto tonight. Listen, César, says Natalia, a lot of stuff happened while you were in jail. There’s this woman named Aurora…

And back in CryoLand, Aurora asks Gustavo:
Me vas a volver a secuestrar?
(Are you going to kidnap me again?)
Gustavo takes offense. Everything I did was for your own good, then and now, he says. Aurora grants that he was right about some things, wrong about others.

But let’s talk about this vengeance of yours, he says. She asks if he’ll help her get even with the people who have harmed her. If it involves punishing that Lorenzo guy, he’s on board. You betcha!

Here’s what Dr. Gustavo has to do: He must deliver a message to Lorenzo.

And so he does, with great enthusiasm:
Gustavo asks Lorenzo: What are you doing with my granddaughter?
And Lorenzo replies: I don’t owe you any explanations. You’re the one who owes me the truth: What happened to my Aurora?

And Gustavo gets to twist the knife that Aurora placed in his hand:
You still call her yours? Did you know that after her last birthday party, she went abroad, the happiest young woman in the world? That she had a child by Federico? And that for my daughter, you meant nothing?

And at los Lobos:
Natalia finishes telling César about Lorenzo and Aurora’s love, a passion from the past that has flared up with the return of the daughter. César promises Natalia that he won’t allow Lorenzo to make her suffer because of Aurora.

Back at the clinic:
Martín enters Aurora’s room at the clinic, strokes her hair, and promises to watch over her through the night.

Blanca, happily innocent of all the nasty stag party business and still unaware of Aurora’s crisis, arrives early at Lorenzo’s studio. She asks for help preparing for her exams at the School of the Arts. He is reluctant, but then agrees. She is out of sight, maybe in the changing room, when Natalia bursts in and fills the air with shrill reproaches for Lorenzo’s absence last night. Blanca hears her accuse him of spending the night with Aurora.

It is, in fact, Martín, who has spent the night with Aurora, keeping vigil at her bedside. She awakens to the sound of his voice singing to her. She reminds him: he shouldn’t waste his time on her.

Martín knows it was Lorenzo who brought her to the clinic. Why were they together so late at night? We were kissing, she says. Your father is my impossible love.

Martín is devastated. His father is a married man with a family! She tells him her only concern is avoiding hurting Martín himself. Well it’s too late for that, he says, and walks out.

Back at Lorenzo’s studio, Blanca hears Lorenzo say he was with Aurora at the clinic all night because she fell ill -- although she is now much better. Blanca leaves to go to Aurora. Natalia keeps hammering away at Lorenzo. She tells him Gustavo came to the house looking for him. Everyone, says Natalia, knows about you and Aurora.

Lorenzo retorts angrily:
Entre nosotros no hay nada!
(There’s nothing between us)
He went to see her because she wanted him to know something about her mother, nothing more. But you know what? I’ve decided! We’re going to Spain! Natalia’s face lights up. (Anyone else finding Natalia even more insufferable than Vanesa?)

César assures Nina he didn’t tell their parents about her horny conejito act. Little sister turns a deaf ear to César’s insistence that her feelings for Martín are wrong. (Ay, Nina, if even César, who has the moral compass of Tony Soprano, thinks it’s wrong, believe me, it’s wrong!)

Martín tries to get Dra Elizabeth to explain Aurora’s illness to him but she refuses. Just then, a tv report comes on about a missing person: Julia Castillo, a young woman who was spending a few days in Manhattan disappeared two weeks ago. The police have found no trace of her. Elizabeth recognizes that Julia is the dying Jane Doe she bought from the hospital to fill the empty capsule in the clinic; and the Jane Doe she murdered when it looked like she wasn’t going to die after all. Elizabeth’s interest is evident to Martín: Do you know her? he asks. Elizabeth just walks away without answering.

In Aurora’s clinic room:
Inés reproaches Gustavo for not telling her sooner about Aurora’s crisis. He makes a snide remark about her ignoring her messages because of her little pills, but she sets him straight: Blanca woke her up in the night with a pesadilla and she had to attend to her: she dreamed she was with her mother and it wasn’t Inés. Aurora hears this and reads it as a sign of Blanca’s increasing affection for her. And at that moment, Blanca enters and throws her arms around Aurora.

In a scary warehouse somewhere:
Apparently César hasn’t given up on his plan to kidnap Blanca. He shows his accomplices a nasty looking space where he plans to hold her captive. César wants to be the one to take charge of her. His accomplices discourage that: after all, she already knows him. She won’t recognize him, he says. They will do it tonight. During the recital.

Nina thanks Vicki for helping her and keeping her confidence. When Vanesa appears, it’s clear she is in on the secret. But Vanesa assures Nina that she wants to help!

At the Cryonics Lab:
Martín sees the Ponce de Leon family – Inés, Aurora, Blanca and Gustavo – walking Aurora out of the clinic. Soft tinkling music plays. Martín music. Aurora assures Martín she’s fine. Then Lorenzo, enters the scene. We hear ominous angst-producing drum beats. Lorenzo music.
Says Gustavo brusquely:
Y usted – ¿qué hace aquí?
(And you – what are you doing here?
And Lorenzo answers, addressing Aurora:
Necesitaba saber como estabas.
(I needed to know how you were.)

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Alguien Te Mira

Things continue along their grim course…

Eva wakes up in a disgusting basement amid jars filled with the victims’ hearts. She manages to climb on a barrel and get to a window. She figures out how to remove the bars on the window and crawls out into a space surrounded by a tall, chain-link fence. She hears footsteps behind her. It’s her captor who, once again, overpowers her and brings her back to his hide-out.

Tatiana tells Rodrigo to keep away from Benjamin. He’s so angry he almost tells her about Benja’s extracurricular activities. But he holds his tongue.

Piedad is overcome with pains in her belly and fears she’s losing her baby. Tatiana takes her home. Even when she’s doing a good deed, she can’t keep her mouth shut. She upsets Piedad by trashing Rodrigo. Piedad nearly tells her about Benja, but she too manages to hold her tongue. Later, Piedad starts bleeding. She tries to reach Rodrigo, but he doesn’t answer. He shows up at her place hours later. The crisis has passed, but he wants to stay with her. He is still there the next day when Julian shows up carrying a white rose and looking none too pleased.

Benja goes to Camila’s apartment building seeking solace. He calls her from downstairs but she is already entertaining a gentleman caller, Renato. She meets Benja in his car, and starts getting very friendly until they are interrupted by her boyfriend. Benja and Renato fight. Benja leaves in his SUV. Renato rides off on his bike. And skanky Camila is left alone in the parking lot.

Julian continues in his role of ‘protector’ to Piedad and Matilde.

Benja goes back to the clinic where he sees Julian. The two make peace and Benja agrees to see not only Piedad’s but also Julian’s patients for the day. (Must not be a very busy practice!)

Mauricio is rotting in jail next to the crazy guy. Mauricio’s lawyer tells him he’ll have to hand over the sex tapes if he wants to be able to negotiate his release.

Carvajal also tells Mauricio he has to hand over the tapes. She notices Mauricio’s conversation with the policeman, Amador (who has been Mauricio’s deep throat in the department even though everyone was blaming Eva) and confronts him. He denies any involvement with Mauricio.

The crazy guy’s confession seems more and more motivated by a desire for ‘three hots and a cot’ than by actual guilt.

Tatiana is driving Matilde crazy by talking about Mauricio. At last, Matilde loses her temper, asks her never to mention his name in her presence: he is dead to her. Unfortunately, she can’t escape him after all. The DA’s office calls Matilde to give a statement in Mauricio’s presence. He finally admits that the sex tapes exist but continues to deny involvement in Eva’s disappearance. In the end, he agrees to tell the authorities where the tapes are.

Pedro Pablo has filed charges against Lucía La Loca. He’s also investigated her references and discovered that they were all falsified. None of the ‘employers’ listed had even heard of her. She herself is busy with target practice and cutting up the pages of her books into heart shapes.

And now Pedro Pablo’s and Lola’s baby girl is missing!
Lucía gets little María Jesus’s attention when Lola is in the mall with the two younger girls and somehow manages to get her away from her mother.

Lucía has also been busy in the family’s neighborhood. She has placed flyers in all the mailboxes accusing Pedro Pablo of being a sexual predator.

Stay tuned…


Part Two by Jean: Aquí está!

Los Exitoso$ Gomez-

Franco, Amanda and Ricardo are still trying to kill Marcela. Ricardo hires a kidnapper. Franco pays the ransom but the packets of money only have real bills on the top. I assume that he hoped that the kidnapper would kill Marcela in retaliation for not receiving the ransom. But Ricardo has not hired a very good kidnapper and Marcela convinces him to let her go. She pays him and he identifies Ricardo as the man who hired him. Marcela tells Franco that she knows that he is trying to kill her.

Sol faints and is ordered to bed. Apparently she isn't pregnant, though. At Marcela's suggestion, Alex of the weird hair, comes back to do the news with Gonzalo. She puts the moves on him big time and unfortunately he succumbs. Tomas and Charly go to Las Vegas, which gives Gonzalo a place to get it on with Alex.

Sergio convinces Dani to help him find out where Martín is being kept. They trick Dr. Carlos and find the apartment but only Sergio sees the comatose Martín. It all comes to nothing because Carlos moves Martín so that the apartment is empty when Gonzalo takes Sol there. Sol won't believe Dani because she didn't see Martín herself. Dani finally convinces Sol that Gonzalo isn't lying and she goes to see him only to find him with Alex.


La Fantasma de Elena-

Lots happened this week as usual.
Elena Lafe – After a good night’s sleep, she went from catatonic to amnesiac. While she was asleep, Dulce tried to kill her by injecting a poison in to her IV. Elena didn’t have an IV line in at any other time during her stay in the clinic but whatever. Dulce gets interrupted by Martín and Ruth. She kills a nurse in the bathroom of the clinic for no apparent reason. Maybe she just didn’t want to waste the syringe of poison. She may have also killed another nurse earlier to steal her uniform.

The now amnesiac Elena doesn’t want to stay at the clinic. The only thing she remembers is the ocean so Eduardo lets her go to her father’s hotel in the Keys with Laura. Montecristo follows them. He is going to tell Dulce where Elena is so that she can finish the job but when she finds out that Elena is so far away, she insists on Montecristo killing Elena.

The week ended with Monecristo befriending Elena on the beach and inviting her to go swimming where he presumably was going to try and drown her. Laura finds them before he can can do this.

Andrea’s wedding- Rebeca pushes the wedding date forward but Andrea is showing more symptoms and collapses during the ceremony. Katie Barbieri really gets to chew up the scenery as the anguished mother. Dr. Tibia may have some kind of a cure that involves a bone marrow transplant. Darío wants to be the donor even though he has a dicky heart but Eduardo is willing, too. No one will tell Andrea what is the matter with her.

Milady- We get to meet Milady’s father. At first, he isn’t sure he wants to meet his daughter. He shows up at the wedding and is supportive of Clara. Clara identifies Milady to him as his daughter and he decides that he wants to meet her. Clara asks Jesusa to tell Milady about this. She decides that she doesn’t want to meet her father but we know that won’t last.

Meanwhile, Michel realizes that since he is older than Milady, there are some holes in Clara’s story about him and Milady being half-siblings. Clara denies everything. Go for the DNA test, kid.

Nena, Anacleto, Latoña and the Twin-
Nena et al are about to go the police station with Latoña’s statement but La Gemela (LG) is watching the house. She follows them and in trying to escape from her, Nena’s car is hit by a train. Amazingly, they all survive and seek refuge in Padre Aguas’ place. They convince the Padre of the truth of their accusations and he calls Eduardo and asks him to come over to talk about something to do with his son. Of course, LG is listening and she gets to Padre Agua’s place first. The good guys have realized that LG is on the way and try to escape by car but LG ambushes them and apparently has locked them up somewhere.

That's it for me for a couple of weeks. I am going to Argentina. NovelaMaven will keep posting and I'll jump back in when I get back

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Capitulo 97.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 97 to 99. Then come back here to discuss it.

Today Fernando sees more clearly just how foul and revolting Omar is, and Fern pulls away from him. They even sit at the far ends of the table during the rehash. You see bits of Fern’s scorn throughout the caps.

1. Fernando tries to get through to Omar. Loosely, “The first man Lety fell in love with and gave herself to did it to win a bet. He did all the things we’re doing, and it almost destroyed her. When I leave her in the end, Lety will die of sadness.” Fern keeps trying, but Omar has no clue because he has no heart.

2. Fern won’t let Omar write today’s card because what Lety shared is too sacred, and Omar is too foul. Omar gets offended that his BFF doesn’t appreciate his writing, and Fernando kicks him out.

3. Saimon and Paula flutter like lovebirds all day. Marcia reprimands them for being late, but their giddy bliss and Saimon’s eagerness to get married are a stab to her heart after last night with Fernando.

4. Fernando tells Saimon to retrieve the always-packed suitcase at his house, and not let anyone know. Note, Fern told Marcia that he was late last night because he was packing for Germany.

5. Lety suggests that Fernando not go to Germany because he needs to arrange for editing equipment in DF. Marcia throws a rod. She saw the trip as her last chance to win back Fernando, and she thinks he plotted to get rid of her so he could be alone with his amante.

6. In several scenes in 97 and 98, people compete for the company and attention of Cristina Riva Palacios (CRP). In several other scenes, CRP sees Conceptos employees being cruel, childish, and nacos with each other, starting with Marcia loudly canceling the wedding in the vortex. Fern yells at her, loosely, “Fine! I’ll go to Germany with you, and forget about commitments to our clients! Are you happy???”

7. Lety tells Fernando she can’t take it anymore. She’s causing him problems with Marcia, and now with the company. She resigns from Conceptos and from his life.

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Capitulo 98.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 97 to 99. Then come back here to discuss it.


1. Fernando lovingly convinces Lety to not quit, then he kisses away her tears, and he teases and flirts so she stops crying. Quite a contrast to his reaction when Marcia canceled the wedding. And quite a warm, close moment between Fernando and Lety.

2. Omar tries to patch things up with Marcia and tells her she’s pressuring Fernando too much.

3. Fernando makes a scene with Marcia in the vortex, similar to hers earlier, but this time in front of Ricky.

4. Ricky and Cristina announce that Conceptos’ commercial is one of three finalists at Cannes.

5. Marcia agrees to go to Germany without Fernando for the sake of production.

6. Yuri calls Luigi to ask for his help in her upcoming concert event with Mijares.

7. Fernando stomps hard on Omar, telling him to stop calling Lety rude names. Omar reminds Fernando that he still needs to write today’s card. Since Omar won’t be able to write the cards while he’s in Germany, he decides to write them and arrange everything before he leaves. So that Fernando won’t have any problems.

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