Monday, March 28, 2011
La Fea Más Bella #273-274 3/29/11 No hay patrón sin cliente. (You can't be a patron without a client.)
Capitulo 273.
Read Beckster's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Origel tells the cuartel that if his reporter finds Aurora at the address, they win the contest.
2. Carmina and Esther probe into Aldo’s personal life, claiming it’s for the book. No dice.
3. Sara, Marta, and the reporters interrupt the commercial shoot.
4. Even Fernando recognizes the importance of the Full Circle theme! He says, “Lety is copying me. She’s doing what I did when I was president. Now all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together.” He believes Lety has another man.
5. Fern goes to the shoot. Jax steps up and cancels the contract. He watched the pilot and it was a dud and his company doesn’t want to sponsor it, so they don’t need the commercials. Fernando boldly takes charge and announces, “We’ll produce a TV show for you!” Jax is so impressed by Fern’s boldness that he accepts. And Lety gazes at her hero. Jax tells Fern to make sure the show is a good showcase for RetroMod.
6. Lety tells Caro that she’s going to support Fern in any way she can. Another failure would hurt him too much. Omar and Luigi tell Fern it’s impossible, but he’s confident his company can do it. Caro promises her support.
7. In Reception, Fernando dances around the subject, trying to ask Lety if she had a date with another man. Fernando follows Lety into the elevator, they exit into the vortex side-by-side, and walking across the vortex, Lety drops behind Fernando.
8. Esther and Carmina walk Aldo home. Carmaniac surprises him with a beso en la boca as a goodbye.
9. Ali gives Marcia the honor of paying for the hall, food, and music for her wedding. Marcia refuses the honor. So Ali calls her papi, and it appears that he offers to pay half her expenses, but Ali could’ve faked the call. Ali tells Tom the news. She intentionally breaks his glasses.
10. Fern tells Lety that he committed Conceptos to do a TV show, and he nervously asks if she approves. Marcia walks in, “How could you do such a thing? We know nothing about TV shows!” and smashes his dream. But Lety says, “We can learn, can’t we?” Fern is so thrilled, he can hardly breathe. He jumps up and says, “Then you support me, Lety?” Lety puts her stamp of approval on the project. Marcia decides to support his project too, and Fern impulsively gives her a big hug, then he sees Lety’s face, springs back, and gives Lety a big hug too.
11. Ahh, but who will bell the cat? IOW what will their show be about? They throw out suggestions. Marcia leaves. Fernando suggests a show about pirates, and he imitates Fernando Colunga.
12. Then Fernando gets serious.
F: Um, um, I have a question for you, Doña. Why did you support me so much?
L: It makes sense. I have confidence in you. And you have a good eye for business.
F: No, but tell me the truth, okay?
L: The truth?
F: Yes. You already know very well what I’m talking about, don’t you? Are you still in love with me? Accept it, Doña Lety, because I can’t live without you.
13. And they almost kiss.
Capitulo 274.
Read 5ft Latina's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Fern and Lety almost kiss, but they spring apart. Lety claims that she loves Aldo very much. Fern says forget it ever happened. He admits he’s impulsive, and he got carried away because she supported him so much. She says he deserves it. He says he’s trying with all his might to respect her decision. She warmly says she understands and says he doesn’t need to apologize.
2. The executives meet to brainstorm plot ideas. Fern says the show should be about the great Casanovas of history.
3. Paula wins the drawing. She’ll get the trip to Acapulco from the Aurora contest.
4. Fern works late on his plot idea. Lety checks in on him. Aldo follows and asks if she’s ready to leave; he’s cooking for her tonight (I’m thinking it’ll be leftovers since he didn’t get to enjoy what he had prepared for last night). Lety decides to stay to help Fernando, and Fernando tries to conceal his delight until after Aldo leaves.
5. Paula nervously tells Jaimito that Saimon is now her novio. No worries – Jaimito says Saimon is the best dad she could’ve found.
6. Fern tells Omar that he finished the script but he’s worried that it’s not good enough.
7. Tom is worried on his wedding day. He has not yet met Ali’s papi who is supposed to pay for half the wedding. Tomasa overhears the cuartel say that Ali is divorced. She stops the ceremony. In the sacristy, Ali says she’s paid for her past errors, but she’ll give Tomasa grandchildren. Tomasa accepts and the priest takes their vows. With only one witness.
8. Fern spends the reception capturing ideas to add to his script.
Read Beckster's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Origel tells the cuartel that if his reporter finds Aurora at the address, they win the contest.
2. Carmina and Esther probe into Aldo’s personal life, claiming it’s for the book. No dice.
3. Sara, Marta, and the reporters interrupt the commercial shoot.
4. Even Fernando recognizes the importance of the Full Circle theme! He says, “Lety is copying me. She’s doing what I did when I was president. Now all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together.” He believes Lety has another man.
5. Fern goes to the shoot. Jax steps up and cancels the contract. He watched the pilot and it was a dud and his company doesn’t want to sponsor it, so they don’t need the commercials. Fernando boldly takes charge and announces, “We’ll produce a TV show for you!” Jax is so impressed by Fern’s boldness that he accepts. And Lety gazes at her hero. Jax tells Fern to make sure the show is a good showcase for RetroMod. 6. Lety tells Caro that she’s going to support Fern in any way she can. Another failure would hurt him too much. Omar and Luigi tell Fern it’s impossible, but he’s confident his company can do it. Caro promises her support.
7. In Reception, Fernando dances around the subject, trying to ask Lety if she had a date with another man. Fernando follows Lety into the elevator, they exit into the vortex side-by-side, and walking across the vortex, Lety drops behind Fernando.
8. Esther and Carmina walk Aldo home. Carmaniac surprises him with a beso en la boca as a goodbye.
9. Ali gives Marcia the honor of paying for the hall, food, and music for her wedding. Marcia refuses the honor. So Ali calls her papi, and it appears that he offers to pay half her expenses, but Ali could’ve faked the call. Ali tells Tom the news. She intentionally breaks his glasses.
10. Fern tells Lety that he committed Conceptos to do a TV show, and he nervously asks if she approves. Marcia walks in, “How could you do such a thing? We know nothing about TV shows!” and smashes his dream. But Lety says, “We can learn, can’t we?” Fern is so thrilled, he can hardly breathe. He jumps up and says, “Then you support me, Lety?” Lety puts her stamp of approval on the project. Marcia decides to support his project too, and Fern impulsively gives her a big hug, then he sees Lety’s face, springs back, and gives Lety a big hug too. 
11. Ahh, but who will bell the cat? IOW what will their show be about? They throw out suggestions. Marcia leaves. Fernando suggests a show about pirates, and he imitates Fernando Colunga. 12. Then Fernando gets serious.
F: Um, um, I have a question for you, Doña. Why did you support me so much?
L: It makes sense. I have confidence in you. And you have a good eye for business.
F: No, but tell me the truth, okay?
L: The truth?
F: Yes. You already know very well what I’m talking about, don’t you? Are you still in love with me? Accept it, Doña Lety, because I can’t live without you.
13. And they almost kiss.
Capitulo 274.
Read 5ft Latina's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Fern and Lety almost kiss, but they spring apart. Lety claims that she loves Aldo very much. Fern says forget it ever happened. He admits he’s impulsive, and he got carried away because she supported him so much. She says he deserves it. He says he’s trying with all his might to respect her decision. She warmly says she understands and says he doesn’t need to apologize.
2. The executives meet to brainstorm plot ideas. Fern says the show should be about the great Casanovas of history.
3. Paula wins the drawing. She’ll get the trip to Acapulco from the Aurora contest.
4. Fern works late on his plot idea. Lety checks in on him. Aldo follows and asks if she’s ready to leave; he’s cooking for her tonight (I’m thinking it’ll be leftovers since he didn’t get to enjoy what he had prepared for last night). Lety decides to stay to help Fernando, and Fernando tries to conceal his delight until after Aldo leaves.
5. Paula nervously tells Jaimito that Saimon is now her novio. No worries – Jaimito says Saimon is the best dad she could’ve found.
6. Fern tells Omar that he finished the script but he’s worried that it’s not good enough.
7. Tom is worried on his wedding day. He has not yet met Ali’s papi who is supposed to pay for half the wedding. Tomasa overhears the cuartel say that Ali is divorced. She stops the ceremony. In the sacristy, Ali says she’s paid for her past errors, but she’ll give Tomasa grandchildren. Tomasa accepts and the priest takes their vows. With only one witness.8. Fern spends the reception capturing ideas to add to his script.
Labels: fea-2010
La Fea Más Bella #271-272 3/28/11 A costume party, a slumber party, and a transfer of power.
Capitulo 271.
Read k-Fuego's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Jax says Lety must be there to sign the contract. Fern tries to reach her and finally calls Aldo, who says Lety said she was going to the Jax meeting (remember, Lety told Fern she was going out with Aldo). Lety arrives but then Jax wants Aurora. Lety pushes him and signs the contract, then leaves and changes into Aurora.
2. Omar stops Aurora in the hall. He begs her to give him another chance. He’ll do anything for her. He’ll be her slave. She tells him to disappear. Aurora signs the contract and leaves.
3. At the publisher’s office, Carmina wants to work with Aldo face to face, not by e-mail.
4. Jax describes the project. RetroMod will sponsor a TV show. The Aurora commercials will tie into the pilot, and will continue through the series. Lety faints.
5. Luigi gives Ali her wedding gift – a whip and handcuffs. He mentions that Tom is Aurora’s agent, and he asks Ali to find out what she can about Aurora’s tastes.
6. Omar tells Lety that he’s suffering because he loves Aurora and she doesn’t love him. She’s making him pay for all he’s done. Fern has an especially happy smile for “his Lety” because they just signed the contract to earn the money to get Conceptos back from Aldo to get Lety back from Aldo.
7. Ali tells the cuartel that she can marry in the church because her first marriage was not in the church.
8. Aldo harshly interrogates Lety about where she went, and Fern steps in to defend her. Lety says she was simply late, and Aldo claims he was just worried for her. GSNAK. He informs her that she is coming to his house tonight to celebrate the start of the new book.
9. Fern tells Luigi to start the commercials, stat! Lui tells him that he has to film them off site, and this is news to Fern. Omar begs Aldo for his job back.
10. Fern finds Omar taking liquid therapy. Fern thinks that Omar isn’t really in love, he’s obsessed, because Aurora’s the first woman to blow him off. Omar asks, “What good is love, if it only makes you suffer?” Fern accepts that maybe he’s right. F: You know what we need to do? O: Suicide? F: That’s one option. I tried it once. But if you don’t do it with conviction, it really hurts. No. They decide they should renounce women. They won’t let any women in their life.
Capitulo 272.
Read Alma's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Marcia walks into the boys’ apartment and announces that she’s moving in. The boys are stunned. Fern is worried that she wants to restart something with him, but at least she’ll keep the place tidy. Marcia orders them to pitch in. She also claims the master bedroom.
2. Tom and Ali go to the church for marriage instruction. The woman reminds them of the sanctity of marriage and the importance of children.
3. Things are heating up at Aldo’s, and it looks like he’s gonna’ have better luck than he had at San Miguel Regla. Lety says that as a famous chef, he has many beautiful women chasing him. Aldo says there’s only one woman in his life. Just then, Carmina shows up in something low and strapless. Forward, much? We see Aldo doesn’t save all his angry glares for Lety. Carmina says that she had questions about the book, but she came with wine rather than a notebook. Lety decides she wants to leave too, despite Aldo’s protests.
4. The boys’ slumber party. Where do I begin? Who gets the bed? Fern tries to cheat at chin champu, but that doesn’t work. He tries a pobre mio face. Tampoco. He’s afraid that if he sleeps in the living room, Marcia will jump him during the night. Tampoco. So he climbs into bed with Omar and they settle in, until Fernando hollers, “Don’t spoon me!!!”
5. In the morning, Omar is caressing Fern’s foot, dreaming that it’s Aurora. Fern says Omar talks in his sleep. Omar says Fern grinds his teeth which means he has worms.
6. Because she’s jealous, Lety asks Aldo to cancel the meeting with Carmina. He assures her of his undying love. GSNAK. Carmina and Esther agree on Aldo’s hotness.
7. Fern arrives at work with Marcia just like the old days, but Fern clarifies. Omar lives with them, and Marcia adds that they’re like tres hermanos. Both Marcia and Aldo are surprised that Lety didn’t seem jealous.
8. Fern proudly tells Aldo that thanks to the expo and los tres hermanos selling their assets, Conceptos can pay Aldo half the debt. Aldo’s in no hurry, but Fern is very eager to get control of his company back. Fern asks Lety to help him with the forms for the transfer, and she says, “Yes, I’ll help you.”
9. Ali is sure that Marcia moved in with Fern to win him back, but Marcia corrects her. She wants to play Wendy to Peter Pan and the Lost Boy (Fern & Omar).
10. Lety tells Fern she can’t go to the shoot because she has something personal to do. Although Fern tries seven ways to Sunday, she refuses to say more. See the transcript. She asks him to not tell anyone she left. She just wants him to be happy, and he asks if she’s happy. She says her life has gotten complicated. Fern concludes that maybe Lety is seeing another man.
11. At the shoot, Aurora tells Luigi to go fetch her an herb tea and kiwi salad.
Spanish Lesson. Lety's Stepping Out.
L: Can I ask you a favor? Just take my messages. You don’t need to tell anyone I left the building.
F: Ahh! Not even Aldo? (He’s flirting and she giggles.)
L: No, not even him.
F: Wait! (Serious.) You believe me, don’t you? That I have absolutely NOTHING to do with Marcia.
L: Yes, that’s what I’m given to believe. Don Fernando, the only thing I want is for you to be happy.
F: And you, Lety, are you happy?
L: Almost always. But there are moments when.. All of a sudden, my life has gotten very complicated. (Lety leaves. Fern talks to himself in the cave.)
F: How could her life become complicated? It’s about work, right? No, she said it was something personal. I don’t understand. She has her life very much in order. She’s transparente (no hidden agenda; what you see is what you get). Nobody can think ill of her. Nor suspect her of something done in secret. That’s the opposite of me, when I was seeing two or three women at the same time. Yeah, my life sure was complicated. Ah, but what times those were. When Lety protected me so no one would discover my infidelities. (It suddenly dawns on him.) NO!!!
Read k-Fuego's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Jax says Lety must be there to sign the contract. Fern tries to reach her and finally calls Aldo, who says Lety said she was going to the Jax meeting (remember, Lety told Fern she was going out with Aldo). Lety arrives but then Jax wants Aurora. Lety pushes him and signs the contract, then leaves and changes into Aurora.
2. Omar stops Aurora in the hall. He begs her to give him another chance. He’ll do anything for her. He’ll be her slave. She tells him to disappear. Aurora signs the contract and leaves.
3. At the publisher’s office, Carmina wants to work with Aldo face to face, not by e-mail.
4. Jax describes the project. RetroMod will sponsor a TV show. The Aurora commercials will tie into the pilot, and will continue through the series. Lety faints.
5. Luigi gives Ali her wedding gift – a whip and handcuffs. He mentions that Tom is Aurora’s agent, and he asks Ali to find out what she can about Aurora’s tastes.
6. Omar tells Lety that he’s suffering because he loves Aurora and she doesn’t love him. She’s making him pay for all he’s done. Fern has an especially happy smile for “his Lety” because they just signed the contract to earn the money to get Conceptos back from Aldo to get Lety back from Aldo.7. Ali tells the cuartel that she can marry in the church because her first marriage was not in the church.
8. Aldo harshly interrogates Lety about where she went, and Fern steps in to defend her. Lety says she was simply late, and Aldo claims he was just worried for her. GSNAK. He informs her that she is coming to his house tonight to celebrate the start of the new book.
9. Fern tells Luigi to start the commercials, stat! Lui tells him that he has to film them off site, and this is news to Fern. Omar begs Aldo for his job back.
10. Fern finds Omar taking liquid therapy. Fern thinks that Omar isn’t really in love, he’s obsessed, because Aurora’s the first woman to blow him off. Omar asks, “What good is love, if it only makes you suffer?” Fern accepts that maybe he’s right. F: You know what we need to do? O: Suicide? F: That’s one option. I tried it once. But if you don’t do it with conviction, it really hurts. No. They decide they should renounce women. They won’t let any women in their life.
Capitulo 272.
Read Alma's original recap, then come back here to discuss it.
1. Marcia walks into the boys’ apartment and announces that she’s moving in. The boys are stunned. Fern is worried that she wants to restart something with him, but at least she’ll keep the place tidy. Marcia orders them to pitch in. She also claims the master bedroom.
2. Tom and Ali go to the church for marriage instruction. The woman reminds them of the sanctity of marriage and the importance of children.
3. Things are heating up at Aldo’s, and it looks like he’s gonna’ have better luck than he had at San Miguel Regla. Lety says that as a famous chef, he has many beautiful women chasing him. Aldo says there’s only one woman in his life. Just then, Carmina shows up in something low and strapless. Forward, much? We see Aldo doesn’t save all his angry glares for Lety. Carmina says that she had questions about the book, but she came with wine rather than a notebook. Lety decides she wants to leave too, despite Aldo’s protests.
4. The boys’ slumber party. Where do I begin? Who gets the bed? Fern tries to cheat at chin champu, but that doesn’t work. He tries a pobre mio face. Tampoco. He’s afraid that if he sleeps in the living room, Marcia will jump him during the night. Tampoco. So he climbs into bed with Omar and they settle in, until Fernando hollers, “Don’t spoon me!!!”
5. In the morning, Omar is caressing Fern’s foot, dreaming that it’s Aurora. Fern says Omar talks in his sleep. Omar says Fern grinds his teeth which means he has worms.6. Because she’s jealous, Lety asks Aldo to cancel the meeting with Carmina. He assures her of his undying love. GSNAK. Carmina and Esther agree on Aldo’s hotness.
7. Fern arrives at work with Marcia just like the old days, but Fern clarifies. Omar lives with them, and Marcia adds that they’re like tres hermanos. Both Marcia and Aldo are surprised that Lety didn’t seem jealous.
8. Fern proudly tells Aldo that thanks to the expo and los tres hermanos selling their assets, Conceptos can pay Aldo half the debt. Aldo’s in no hurry, but Fern is very eager to get control of his company back. Fern asks Lety to help him with the forms for the transfer, and she says, “Yes, I’ll help you.”
9. Ali is sure that Marcia moved in with Fern to win him back, but Marcia corrects her. She wants to play Wendy to Peter Pan and the Lost Boy (Fern & Omar).
10. Lety tells Fern she can’t go to the shoot because she has something personal to do. Although Fern tries seven ways to Sunday, she refuses to say more. See the transcript. She asks him to not tell anyone she left. She just wants him to be happy, and he asks if she’s happy. She says her life has gotten complicated. Fern concludes that maybe Lety is seeing another man.11. At the shoot, Aurora tells Luigi to go fetch her an herb tea and kiwi salad.
Spanish Lesson. Lety's Stepping Out.
L: Can I ask you a favor? Just take my messages. You don’t need to tell anyone I left the building.
F: Ahh! Not even Aldo? (He’s flirting and she giggles.)
L: No, not even him.
F: Wait! (Serious.) You believe me, don’t you? That I have absolutely NOTHING to do with Marcia.
L: Yes, that’s what I’m given to believe. Don Fernando, the only thing I want is for you to be happy.
F: And you, Lety, are you happy?
L: Almost always. But there are moments when.. All of a sudden, my life has gotten very complicated. (Lety leaves. Fern talks to himself in the cave.)
F: How could her life become complicated? It’s about work, right? No, she said it was something personal. I don’t understand. She has her life very much in order. She’s transparente (no hidden agenda; what you see is what you get). Nobody can think ill of her. Nor suspect her of something done in secret. That’s the opposite of me, when I was seeing two or three women at the same time. Yeah, my life sure was complicated. Ah, but what times those were. When Lety protected me so no one would discover my infidelities. (It suddenly dawns on him.) NO!!!
Labels: fea-2010
Saturday, March 26, 2011
New telenovela Teresa: cast of characters.
Mariano - Aarón Díaz: Handsome, noble, sensitive, generous, a hard worker; jealous and proud. He drives a taxi to support himself, which embarrasses Teresa. He was raised poor but with much affection; he soon learned he wouldn't get what he wanted unless he worked for it. He abandoned his study of medicine to become a driver when his mother became ill. Afterwords, he resumed his career in order to be able to marry Teresa, but he realized that being professional, hard-working and honorable would not be enough to keep her.
Teresa - Angelique Boyer: Sexy, intelligent, self-confident, tenacious, direct, but too vain, proud, ambitious, calculating and hurtful. She is very aware that men are drawn to her and uses it. She has good taste and decides to study not just to get ahead academically but to be able to rub elbows with people of the world. She's convinced she was born in the wrong place because her origin is humble - her father is a mechanic and her mother washes clothes. She blames all her problems on poverty, without realizing that she is so ambitious nothing will ever satisfy her.
Arturo - Sebastián Rulli: Attractive, intelligent, cultivated, distinguished lawyer and professor. Some of his students fear him, all except Teresa who always has an intelligent response to his questions. When he was very young his parents were assassinated; investigations suggested that his father was involved in fraud. Instantly people turned their backs on him, even his fiancee. For fear of being deceived and suffering again he decided not to get personal with any woman.
Aurora - Ana Brenda Contreras: Pretty, sweet, refined, and with good taste, generous, of good sentiment, nevertheless she lacks fortitude. She is somewhat ingenuous and believes Teresa is really her friend. She falls in love with Mariano but discovering he loves her friend, she steps aside. Incapable of telling him her interests lie elsewhere, she studies medicine to please her father.
Luisa - Fernanda Castillo: Romantic, dreamy, timid, rather than exhulting in her beauty it sees she wants to hide it and not attract attention. She loves her brother and sees him as a father. Learned to take care of the house and responsibities she shouldn't have to shoulder. Teresa helps her grow confident in herself and improves her self-esteem by helping her dress better and behave differently.
Refugio - Silvia Mariscal: A good, moral man, conservative, self-effacing, humble, uneducated but no fool. He loves his two daughters, but he feels closer to Rosita than to Teresa. He always fights with Armando for the marked preference he has for Teresa. Refugio tries to deny that Teresa has taken the wrong road.
Armando - Juan Carlos Colombo: Uneducated but a good man, a mechanic with no grand aspirations, but seeing that his daughter does have them, he decides to help her. He loves his wife and adores Teresa because she was his first daughter after they'd tried to get pregnant for a long time - also because she's pretty, healthy and strong, while Rosita is weak and timid/depressed.
Juana - Cynthia Klitbo: A seamstress by trade, a widow who is congenial, happy and comical, always helping the neighbors. She never was able to have children and her husband died, leaving her a pension on which she can live decently. She's the "rich one" in the neighborhood. She always wanted a daughter and has sort of adopted Teresa, tolerating and aiding her in all her caprices.
Esperanza - Fabiola Campomanes: Pretty, sweet and helpful, but has low self esteem. It was hard but she managed to pay for her schooling as a nurse, but never has practiced her profession. She lets everybody think she's working in a hospital as a nurse to explain the money she has - which really comes from her lover Rubén.
Héctor - Oscar Bonfiglio: Serious, paternal, strict, a distinguished doctor, talented and affectionate. Born to a middle class family, with his work he's made a lot of money. Despite being a millionaire he's never stopped working for public institutions and helping the poor.
Rubén - Manuel Landeta: Audacious, wealthy, a hypocrite with double standards. Married to Mayra for 20 years, a rich submissive woman whom he can manipulate to his own ends. While he gives people to believe he is a decent lawyer, a good husband and father, in reality he cheats on his wife. But when he meets Esperanza, he thinks it will be easy to have a fling with her; in time he understands he wants her too much and cannot leave her.
Aída - Margarita Magaña: She's pretty but short, which has her almost traumatised. She wears designer clothes and is jealous and arrogant. She's rich, spoiled, and superficial, everything has been handed to her on a silver platter. she lives with her parents and thinks they have an ideal marriage. She wants Paulo for her boyfriend because he's the best partido? at the school. She envys Teresa for being prettier and smarter. 
Paulo - Alejandro Nones: Handsome, rich, loves football and plays well. He loves Teresa but not enough to keep her when he finds out she's poor. He has a weak character and is controlled by his mother, to the point of getting engaged to Aída just to bother Teresa.
Ramón - Juan Sahagún: Mariano's father - simple, honorable, centered, humble, a hard worker with good values, defender of women, he detests machismo. He dreams of seing his son, his greatest pride, becoming a doctor - he's sure it will happen. The neighborhood feels like a family due to the attentions of Refugio and Juana. 
El Johnny - Luis Fernando Peña: The second son of Nachita the caretaker; he works as mechanic's assistant in Armando's shop. He's serious, responsible, a hard worker. Like Esperanza, he's had to work since childhood to help with expenses. He loves Fabi, the daughter of the workshop's owner (who will never allow his daughter to go out with Johnny).
Fernando - Daniel Arenas: Born in Spain, he's been in Mexico for five years, studying to be an engineer; he's inherited his father's construction company. He is part of the "jet set" but is neither arrogant nor snobbish. He's an excellent catch: sexy, healthy, adventurous, he loves to travel, he loves music, food, good drink, his yacht, and golf.
Rosa - Jessica Segura: Teresa's younger sister, weak and not as attractive. She's excited about her quinceanera (15th birthday) when she'll dance with Johnny. She knows her father doesn't love her as much as he loves Teresa and though she always wants to earn his approval, she has no resentments. She likes gymnastics, but can't take part because of a heart defect.Labels: synopsis-cast, Teresa
Who wants to blog TERESA? TdA is moving to 10 pm
Honestly, I wouldn't know about this if one of my kind and loyal bloggers hadn't alerted me. Triunfo del Amor will air for two hours this coming Tuesday; then on Wednesday it moves to 10 pm and we have the premiere of Teresa at 9 pm.
Current TdA bloggers and anybody interested in Teresa: Please respond to me directly (caray@mappamundi.com) and let me know what you're planning (if you are a current blogger) or that you're interested (if you want to hop on board). THANKS
UPDATE: Vivi tells me that both Llena and Eva are also in their final chapters! There will be a brief period of overlap - she suggests that if somebody wants to move to Teresa but is still hard at work on the previous novela, "discussion headers" could be posted until the previous show wraps up.
Current TdA bloggers and anybody interested in Teresa: Please respond to me directly (caray@mappamundi.com) and let me know what you're planning (if you are a current blogger) or that you're interested (if you want to hop on board). THANKS
UPDATE: Vivi tells me that both Llena and Eva are also in their final chapters! There will be a brief period of overlap - she suggests that if somebody wants to move to Teresa but is still hard at work on the previous novela, "discussion headers" could be posted until the previous show wraps up.
Labels: eva, llena, recappers-needed, schedule, Teresa, triunfo
The new novela, Teresa: plot summary. Airs 9 pm starting Wednesday, March 30
Folks, I have been absent for a couple months researching Yiddish cabaret music from Warsaw Poland between the world wars. I just couldn't get into any of our current shows, and I don't have a tv in my room any more! Hopefully something will come along soon that I can like, but this one ain't it. Here is the summary, though...
The game of seduction has a name: Teresa
We always want much more than we have, but how far will we go to get it?
Teresa was born poor and couldn't accept it. Her parents helped her study and get ahead, sure that with a career their daughter could improve her cultural and socio-economic standing.
Mariano, her first love and the only man Teresa loves - in her fashion - also helped her. Her love is egotistical - she considers Mariano to belong to her and nobody else, believing he could never fall in love with another. She leaves him after a three year relationship, dazzled by Paulo's wealth, the best ? of the school for rich folks where she studies on scholarship.
Calculating, always with an ace up her sleeve, she conceals her relationship with Paulo from Mariano, from her family, and from everyone in her neighborhood. She takes equal care to hide her humble status from Paulo.
When Paulo discovers she is poor, his promise to marry her is forgotten and he wants her to be his lover, but she rejects him, and he in turn takes up with Aída out of spite.
Aída and Paulo humiliate Teresa, revealing her poverty and lies in public, so she decides to get reventes and swears she will never be trampled on again - she will get what she wants, no matter what the cost.
Teresa is aided by her professor, the prestigious lawyer Arturo de la Barrera; she subtly seduces him while pretending not to notice the sentiments she has awakened in him.
At the same time, she resumes her relationship with Mariano, because she is dying of jealousy when she finds out that her millionaire friend Aurora has fallen in love with him.
But then, Teresa is not inclined to wait for the 'love of her life' to drum up with money and a career; she decides Arturo will suit her better. Pretending that her parents don't love her and in fact even beat her, Teresa wangles an invitation from Arturo's sister Luisa to come live in the home of the la Barreras.
Living there she drives the professor crazy and lovesick, he wants to explode and confess his sentiments but he contains himself since he promised Teresa's father he would wait until she was no longer his student.
Teresa despises her parents and wants to cut her ties with them completely since all they do is make her vulnerable to ridiculte.
Refugio, her mother, though hopeful of change, has never deceived herself about what kind of person Teresa is, but her father Armando falls into an acute depression because he adores his daughter and will sacrifice himself for her, even to the point of going to prison.
Just when Teresa graduates and is on the point of marrying Mariano, she breaks up with him to accept Arturo, who takes her to Europe for a while ... but then she meets Fernando, Luisa's fiance, a handsome multimillionaire of noble birth, a man who could bring her into a more sophisticated world. Her eyes glitter at the thought of entering the jet set. She decides to conquer her best friend's man...
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Triunfo del Amor #75-76 3/25/11 Part 1, Burn Job in the Barrio / Part 2 --If At First You Don’t Succeed…..Burnie Opts for Plan B.
Cap#75
Everything is in flames as batty Bernarda, Padilla, and El Alacran drive off. Milagros is nearly passed out on the kitchen floor of her apartment from the smoke; downstairs on the floor of their bedroom, Nathy has noticed that Maria has blacked out and she's screaming in panic, hopelessly hoping to get Maria to respond. Outside, Padre Juan Pablo and the rest of the neighbors can only watch and wait as the fire consumes the apartment building until Juanjo and the gang arrive to put it out and save the others still left inside the building.
Finally the firemen arrive and our three heroes enter to rescue Millie, Maria, and Nathy.
Meanwhile, Max makes it home and returns to the whingeing entreaties of his scheming spouse. Max tells Jimena that his mind is made up and there’s no reason to stick it out till her little critter is born. Life with her is totally unbearable cuz she’s totally certifiable! She accuses him of the same ol’ lies but he insists he's been truthful from the start, not to mention that she asked for it by tricking him that night in Miami. She fooled around with a man she knew didn’t love her! Jimena is just as adamant that he did love her and if it hadn't been for that interloping female he still would! (Viewerville says a quick prayer of thanks for the inventor of remote control and immediately hits their mute buttons. --I guess Jimmie thinks if she screams louder than Max does then the lies she tells are that much more credible, and she automatically wins the argument--the kind of people who are always the MOST irritating in a screaming match!)
A few blocks away, Burnie lights a candle for those she's supposedly condemned to death in the name of Holy Justice. Not only is she no longer afraid at the sight of a struck match, she holds the whole darned matchbox in her hand and prays with it in place of a rosary. Aparrently she's concluded in her own twisted way that because she burnt them to a crisp in this life, she's saved them from eternal Hellfire and damnation in the next. (Works for me! The woman has an a-maz-ing mind, doesn’t she? It’s just that it’s the kind you'd need breadcrumbs to find your way back through.)
At the same time Burnie is delighting in delusions of divinely sanctioned and just deserts of those she's damned, Vick notices a pain in her chest and has a premonition that somebody close to her must be in some kind of danger. (Ah, there it is! The returning "Call of the Blood" that Viewerville has been waiting for. Unfortunately in Vicki's case it's still not more than a muffled whelp.....)
Across the hall in Max and Ji's bedroom, Ji continues the fight. Max gets a little tougher with her and begs her not to make him despise her. (Oh face it, Max! Tell her the truth. You do despise her!) He drives off to catch a breath of sanity in the barrio.
Jimmie gives another bat-shit-crazy smile and tells herself that with all that she's going to do to him he's certain to end up despising her.
Downtown at the Casa de Modas, it's another late night for Antonieta. Guillermo, planning to pump Toni for anything noteworthy about the Scandal-vals, surprises her with an invitation to dinner. Toni has lots of work to do, she says, but rather than turn beguiling Gui down flat, she invites him to her place to make din-din for both of them there. Gui accepts and even offers to help her with her paperwork as well. They walk out to the elevator together as the ever obtuse Oscar has just stepped out into the hallway.
Oscar takes notice and races to ask Lucy who the man was that Toni was leaving with. Lucy explains that that was the famous actor Guillermo Quintana and that they were seemingly going out to dinner together. Oscar frowns and runs to Pepino to ask him if he knows what's between Toni and this actor she just left with. Pipino confesses to Oscar that Antonieta has been in love with him but has now had to turn her sights toward more attainable terrain. Oscar admits he has never had the faintest idea Toni felt that way about him. Pepi mentions how Gui apparently won her over with the bottle of champagne he sent over to their table at dinner the night before. "--Not that it matters since you've already lost her!" Oscar doesn't follow. Pepi explains that she saw Oscar swapping spit with Roxana. Oscar tries to explain that the woman ambushed him unexpectedly in his office and forced herself on him. Pepi isn't so sure. FF>>
Over dinner at Toni's place, Gui broadly hints that he's looking to settle down if only he could find the right kind of woman. It would be one like her, he flatters. She'd be decent, virtuous, attractive... blah blah blah. Toni is a bit surprised, she says, considering she never thought she was the type to interest him.
Juanjo brings out Nat while Naco and crew rescues Milie and the gang start to count heads. (How hard can it be? There are only three!) It seems to take forever till somebody remembers that Maria Desamparada is still inside. Nat screams over the din that she's lying passed out on the floor right next to where they found her, but now the captain of the firemen says it's too dangerous to go back in.
Max drives up just then, sees the flaming building, and learns that Maria is still trapped inside. He races over and then tries to enter the building to rescue her, but he's held back by the others and is told firemen are already inside looking for her. (Again, how hard can it be to find her since JJ saw her lying there right next to Nat?) Max refuses to wait any longer. Life has no meaning without Maria!! He races into the apartment to try to save her.
Fausto is now in the crowd and he sneaks a peak at the chaos from behind one of the firetrucks as JP prays for Maria's life and Max's safety. Clueless Vicki prays simultaneously that whoever it is that's in danger is protected from harm.
Padre Jeronimo now walks in on Burnie in front if the altar in JP's sacristy. She and Padre Jerry begin to grouse about her questionable intentions. Whatever she's praying over, it can't be good, snipes Jerry. Ste. Burnarda immediately lectures him about how all the saints at one time or another were persecuted. Padre Jerry changes topics and says he heard she'd been to see the bishop and has been forbidden to take communion. He thinks all things considered, it would be better if she just doesn't return to the church. She tells him he and the bishop can both go pound sand because she no longer accepts their authority. "--You are people who don't know how to recognize either just acts or saintliness!" She swears that she'll end up triumphant one day and that they will realize in the end that she was always right. They have challenged her to a duel to the death, she rants, and to death it will be! Yes, and they will be the ones to burn in eternal Hellfire!!
A bit later, back at Toni's much more tranquil digs, Gui thanks Toni for dinner and asks to see her again. He suggests cooking for her at his place next time. She hesitates but finally agrees. Gui manages to then casually bring up Osvaldo and his family. Toni mentions there were problems from before that still haven't been resolved at the Sandovals, but she thankfully doesn't go into specifics.
At the manse, Vicki goes in to check on Fernanda who says obviously she's just fine. (Ah! It's comforting for Viewerville to note that Brat-Baby is beginning to feel better and is back to being the obnoxious, over-indulged and mouthy bitch she's always been.) The Ferbeast now growls because Mama didn't knock first. Vicki mentions that she's had a feeling something was wrong with her or Max and Oz so she had wanted to check on her. Fer snaps back that if Vicki was really that worried about her daddy she wouldn't have let him leave in the first place. Vick whines about betrayed Love's pain but Fer tells her to talk to the hand. "--Just stop flogging yourself already!" Fer tells her she needs to just. get. over. it. "--Get a new life cuz nobody here wants to hear about the old one any longer!" (Gawd! Nobody in Viewerville does anymore, either!)
Toni sees Guillermo out and then gets the warm and fuzzies afterwards. A moment later her cell rings. It's Oscar calling but he freezes and can't manage to say a word. He hangs up. Toni calls somebody (but we don't know if it's Pepi or Oscar) and asks if they can come over.
Back in the burning barrio a few minutes later, Max reappears at the doorway of the apartment building with Maria in his arms. He carries her to the sidewalk and applies mouth to mouth resuscitation. Maria miraculously comes to. Papa JP and the others say a couple of Hail Mary's.
Upstairs at the Scandal-vals once more, Jimmie approaches Vicki in the hallway to ask if Vick got Max to agree to stick around till her baby was born. Vicki tells her that she failed and that Max still wants the divorce ASAPP. However, she says, she did speak with Maria earlier, who said she would see about convincing Max not to leave Jimmie before the baby comes. Ji is visibly impactada once she hears that the competition is still alive. Vick asks why she's suddenly so jumpy. (What does it matter? She’s always jumpy about something.) Ji says it's her nerves; that they've got her imagining things, not to mention that she's worried out of her mind with the baby and Max's dumping on her. Vicki advises Jimmie that she needs to do her part to cooperate and be cordial with Max in order to keep harmony in the house. Ji says it's precisely Max and Oz who've caused the disharmony there, and all because of their cheating--and that cockroach who now wants to steal her baby's father away from her! Vicki looks empathetic, but it seems like Jimmie's high-strung histrionics are now wearing thin even for her.
Back at Burnie's, Eva takes an earful because Fausto is AWOL. Eva tries to lie that he had something important to attend to, but Burnie says she knows she's full of crapola. Eva admits she was only covering for Fausto, which takes Burnie by surprise. Eva explains that he went off on his own because he thought the Sra. was about to do something bad. Burnie goes into another of her self-deluded rants about only punishing sinners and those who persist in punishing her,i.e., those who manage to get in her way. Eva dares to voice the question. "--Like Tomasa?"
At the fire again, some of the firemen catch Fausto hiding between the fire trucks near the apartment building and blame him for starting it; this whips up the crowd and the infuriated residents want to lynch him on site till Maria comes to his defense. X-Padre JP lectures the crowd not to accuse somebody without hearing their side of things first. He asks Fausto then to explain what he was doing watching in the shadows like that. Fausto tells him that he was there making sure that nothing had happened to Maria because he knew she lived in the building. He hid because fire frightens him. Maria asks if those scars on his face are from a fire. He nods and tells her that his parents died in the fire. The crowd seems satisfied.
Burnie tells Eva she's thinking of getting rid of her and Fausto since they've stopped being useful to her. Eva suggests Burnie’s just a bit bewildered and that it wouldn't suit Burnie to dismiss them at this point in time. Eva then reminds her how they've been completely loyal and discreet about her "activities." Why, her son the priest has continually asked them both numerous questions and yet she and Fausto have both kept completely quiet about her "crimes." Burnie laughs, but it rings a bit hollow. "--You talk as if I'm some kind of murderer." It's like two dueling dogs in a pit are circling and growling threateningly at each other. (Viewerville's money's on Eva!) Eva looks her dead in the eye and doesn't flinch and inch. "--You and I know that nun didn't die of natural causes." Point made. Burnie backs off to lick her wounds in private.
A bit later that night, Oscar, Pepi and Toni show up at Vick's to discuss what Oscar learned about Tomasa's disappearance. It's not much, he admits. Vick agrees it’s all pretty murky, but she's certain Burnie offed her because the old gal wouldn't just up and leave like that. Toni thinks Burnie might be a nasty old broad, but she doubts she would do something like that to another human being. Vicki assures her that Burnarda is capable of that and a lot more. Vick then pulls out the picture of Fausto's parents and asks Oscar to get whatever information about them that he can, especially anything about their relationship to Burnie. Oscar asks Vicki why she and Burnie hate each other so much. Vicki finally admits to him that it's because Burnie accuses her of having seduced her son back in the day. “--Juan Pablo was my first ‘man’ and we had a child together who, unfortunately, went missing [extraviarse].”
Back in her bedroom, Ji starts talking to herself again. She's angry that Maria is still alive. "--That cockroach! She has more lives than a cat!" Jimmie takes solace with the nearest (and conveniently placed) liquor bottle, telling herself that Maria is no match for her. She'll destroy her!! “--If Max can't be happy with me, he's not going to be happy with anyone!” Ji pops the lid off a full bottle of pills and begins slugging them down with the booze.
Across the hall again, Oscar assures Vicki that he'll find out as much as he can for her. Pepi and Toni then try to persuade Vick to come back to the office because things there are getting out of hand; they feel like they've been set adrift with no captain at the helm. Oscar agrees and adds that the sales have begun to drop off. Vicki confesses to the group that she has absolutely no interest in the business now. (Naw, she would just rather wallow in self-pity.) Her husband cheated on her, her son and daughter are distancing themselves from her now, and her first daughter is still missing. Only finding her long-lost daughter will give her back the strength she needs to carry on.
--Fin P. 1.
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If At First You Don’t Succeed…..Burnie Opts for Plan B.
Part 2
Cap #76
During the commercial break we are left wondering if Toni will be gullible enough to fall prey to Guillermo's flattery, if Fausto will really be accused of being a firebug, if Max will ever find out that Maria's pregnant with the real mini-max/maxina, if Victoria will ever return to work before the business goes bankrupt, and if Jimena will very soon do us all a big favor by successfully O.D.-ing from guzzling those Downer Cocktails of hers.
The fire in the apartment house has been put out while Uni allowed its prolific and prosperous sponsors to hawk their goods. Nat, Maria and Max are now standing outside the church's dispensary, which Padre Juan Pablo has given over to the newly homeless as a temporary shelter. Max is getting ready, though reluctantly, to leave Maria and Nat there for the night.
Inside, Millie and the gang console each other with selfless thoughts that in spite of their being left with nothing, they still have each other and Dios will provide the rest. Millie tells Juanjo how proud she is that he’s returned to his job and then takes a moment to also thank Napo for saving her life. Napo promises he'll buy her a new dishwasher and fridge, and hints broadly that it's much more than her mysterious macho-man of a secret admirer will do for her. She thinks he must be right and that the guy must have been playing with her heart the same way his Rosa has been. Napo tells her to be careful what she says about his Rosie! (Zzzz!)
Back outside the building again, Max tells Maria that he thought his heart had stopped beating when he saw her lying unconscious on the floor in the middle of the flames. She says the only thing she felt was sadness because she thought she'd never see him or have a chance to caress his face again. Max says that won't happen because in no time at all they'll be together and nobody and nothing will ever separate them again. (Famous last words which always signal the worst is yet to come and the best will again be delayed.) Maria says she's going to be the happiest woman in the world because her dream about having a family will finally come true. He suggests that the next day they look for a place of their own to live in, but Maria puts a halt to that immediately. It's not because she doesn't love him, she says. It's because just before the fire broke out his mother came to ask her to try to convince him to hold off leaving Jimeana until she has her baby. Max says no way. (I say it's time to put a DNA test on the front burner!!) Maria is embarrassed because she gave her word to his mama. He says he doesn't care about that; his mother and Jimena had no right to ask them to do that and there was no reason to, either! To heck with their constantly sacrificing their feelings for those two ingrates! Maria has a sudden coughing attack and Max rushes her back inside to check with the doctor.
In another part of the little clinic, JP asks Fausto if his mother might have had something to do with the fire and if that's why he was lurking about earlier. Fausto won't answer him directly. He repeats he was only there to see that nothing happened to Maria. JP says that means then that he knew she was in danger. Fausto's cryptic reply is that he knows things and that one day the two of them will have to have a long and serious talk together, but only when the time is right. Fausto then walks off. JP seems more anxious than ever about the mad and maddening things his mama seems to be up to.
The clinic doctor gives Maria a quick check but doesn't see anything to worry about. Coughing is obviously to be expected after breathing in all that smoke, he says. Max reluctantly agrees to go but promises that he'll be back by the next morning to take Maria to the hospital to have her thoroughly checked over. Millie and the rest of them hold their breath to see what Maria will say to this. Max tells her not to worry about the other stuff because he's bound and determined to make his separation from Jimmie a done deal. This time Maria doesn't object and she even adds that she thinks the doctors will give him some really great news. They kiss good-night and everyone takes a breath. Max, JP and the doc all leave. Nat and the others ask if she really wants Max to know she's expecting his child. Maria smiles from ear to ear and says she does because she knows Max loves her.
Outside again, Max and JP are now arguing over whether Max should separate from Jimmie so soon. JP agrees with Victoria that a few more months shouldn't make any difference. Max tries to explain what an emotional Hell living with Ji has been for him. JP says he's not for divorces per say, but has no control over any union that hasn't been blessed by Dios. Max says it wasn't Dios that forced them together like this and he's leaving her, period! Victoria has to learn that in life there are limits and she better learn those boundaries like yesterday! No more sacrificing his and Maria's happiness for others any longer! Besides, he adds, JP has known his mama for a long while and so he should be able to help her find her way back from the land of the lost that her blaming his father has left her in.
Juanjo takes a moment to ask Maria and Nat why Linda isn't living with them any longer. Nat and Maria defer to Millie to tell JJ that she's dead and gone. They take a moment to feel his pain.
Fausto has returned to Burnie's. He and Eva stand at attention while she warns Fausto that the next time he won't get off so easy for abandoning his duties. Burnie then storms out of the room. Eva complains that he nearly got them fired with what he pulled. Fausto tells her that Burnie set fire to the building that Maria lived in and tried to burn her alive. "--That woman is Evil Incarnate!"
Alone in her bedroom, Burnie thinks to herself that she's sure she has finally gotten rid of Victoria's daughter once and for all.
Max gets home and bawls out his mother for having the gall to speak to Maria about doing favors for Jimena after the nasty way she's treated her. Vicki says she only did it because she was afraid that Ji would do something crazy. (How about having the girl committed instead?) Max says Jimeana is a blackmailer and he refuses to be manipulated by her any longer! Vick stresses what it's like to lose a child and asks Max to think about what he'd feel like if Jimmie lost theirs. Max says that isn't going to happen and besides, today he almost lost the woman he loved when somebody purposely set fire to her building! Vick is wide-eyed-impactada and now thinks the premonition she had was because he'd been in danger when he'd gone to the fire. He explains Maria's out of danger, and now he's not giving in this time. He's going to divorce Jimeana ASAPP! [as soon as physically possible]
Max walks into the upstairs hallway. Jimmie stumbles out and starts slinging a few choice, though slurred, insults at her errant hubby. "--What? Did you finally get bored with the slut for a while?" "--Watch what you say about the woman I love; and anyway I don't want to argue with a drunk." Oh, she sneers, so now she has to be grateful to the cockroach because she's deigned to allow him to stay with her till his baby is born. Nope, Max says. Ji’s got it wrong cuz they're divorcing right away! Ji argues that Vicki promised her otherwise! He yells at her that it doesn't matter what his mother told her! He's not giving up his happiness to stay miserable for the next however many months with her! Jimeana goes ballistic here and screams like a banshee. She's not having the child unless he stays there with her till it's born! She's ready to kill herself!! (Two words immediately come to mind: Straight Jacket. Jimmie’s long past simply having him agree to wile away the months reading the paper in his slippers while she picks out baby clothes and furnishes the nursery!) Both Fer and Vick race out to see what the commotion's all about. Vicki tries calming Jimmie down again. Jimmie passes out once the adrenaline surge ends, the booze and painkillers kick in, and her brain short-circuits. (At least, I think that's what's just happened. Carlos, your cell is ringing!) Max and the others get muy worried for her baby.
Meanwhile, back at the dispensary, Juanjo doesn't think he can ever love again, but he hopes Linda’s in Heaven. Millie agrees to leave Linda-Ho’s fate to Dios and to have JJ try to rebuild his life on terra firma.
The doctor finishes examining Jimmie and tells the others what's so painfully obvious: that the abuse of drugs and alcohol has put the life of her child in danger. They keep watch over her for the night, but if things don't change, he suggests putting her into a hospital. (We assume it’s so the lush can dry out!)
After the doc leaves, Vicki tells Max to think long and hard about divorcing Ji now because the life of his child is in the balance. (Viewerville readies itself to make numerous animal sacrifices to the telenovela gods so that the writers will bestow him with enough sense to finally consider that Jimena might have been sleeping around after all, and that her kid could be somebody else's problem! --Three little letters, Max: D.N.A.!)
While Max watches over Jimmie through the night, Maria thinks back to all the times she and Max made love together and how he no longer wants to put off their chance for their marital bliss. She agrees there's no further reason to put things off and that in the morning he'll find out she's giving him a child, one that was created from love. (Viewerville sighs.)
The next morning arrives, but Max does not. So Papa JP and Maria go to the hospital together instead.
Max has been up all night looking after Ji. She wakes up as he gets a call from the office telling him they need him there for some problem or other. He tells Ji not to worry, that he'll have his mother watch over her now. Not good enough!! Jimmie crawls all over him, begging him to stay because it wouldn't be the same without him there! She knows he's going to take Maria to the doctor, she whines, because she heard him say so. She begs him to swear that he won't go see Maria.
At the same time, Vicki phones Burnarda to ask her once more to tell her who her daughter is. Burnie brags that she warned her she wasn't going to get her way. Yesterday, she says, she proved that she's capable of anything. Vick says she doesn't know what the broad’s talking about, but she's not going to stop until she finds out who the couple in that picture are! Burnie says Vicki doesn't scare her cuz she'll never find that out. Vicki growls back that she'll continue to hound Burnie until she tells her where her daughter is! Burnie tells her that her daughter should be dead (meaning the fire, we assume). Vicki refuses to believe that and says sooner or later she will have to admit to her who and where her daughter is! Otherwise, Burnie will have a major problem with the authorities! Click!
Fausto is about to enter Burnie’s room but he stops when he hears Burnie tell herself that if Vicki discovers who the couple in that picture are she's sunk. She'll have to plan to go off on a long trip-- someplace nobody can find her. Where?
Back at the Max's place, Jimmie's whining has worn Max down. Max promises not to see Maria. He then leaves to take care of the problem at the company. Ji tells herself that she can't let Max take Maria to the doctor because he's sure to find out then Maria's expecting--and her goose will be cooked!
Later that morning, Maria takes her ultrasound. The doctor explains the picture to them both. JP wishes Vick and Mama were there to see the little miracle. When he sees the imaged in the monitor he is suddenly eager to see his little grandson born.
Mama, though, is in the middle of screaming at her personal version of Dumb and Dumber--Padilla and El Alacrán. She’s madder than a hatter because Maria was rescued from the fire despite those two having followed her instructions to the letter. El Alacrán asks her for another chance to show her they can do what needs to be done.
Fausto rushes back to speak to Eva about what he just heard. "--The Sra. wants to flee [huir] from the law! She's planning a long journey where nobody will ever hear of her again!" Eva asks him what they are going to do if she never returns….
Burnie meanwhile, gives Alacran the go-ahead and says this time they'd better not fail! "--Victoria Sandoval will learn once and for all that she'd better not mess with me!"
Federico now calls Fer and begs for another chance to go steady again. He tries to convince her that he does think of something besides partying once in a while. Fer wants to call it quits, but then she figures what the hey and tells him that she will meet him in the same place as always.
Meanwhile, El Alacrán sneaks in over the Sandoval’s fence to cut the brake lines of Fer's mini-vertible.
At the Casa de Modas, Fabian (who I, for one, would rather see modeling pecs in speedo’s and a bow-tie rather than howling an off-key accompaniment to an otherwise romantic serenade) tells Max that Nat needs a friend more than ever now. Max agrees and they are about to head to the dispensary so Max can apologize to Maria for not showing up this morning. (Viewerville will forgive him for not thinking to call the dispensary to leave word for Maria that he got called in to the office unexpectedly. He was up for the last 24+ hours looking after his loony wife and couldn't think straight.) Before they can get out the door he gets a call from someone that he has to meet immediately.
Jimmie recuperates apparently and then drives herself over to the barrio to see if she can locate Maria. Ji strikes out playing twenty questions with a little boy playing ball in front of Maria’s burned out apartment building. FF>>
At the same time, Nat and Maria are taking a walk through the barrio. Maria sees a help wanted sign for someone who can sew. She speaks to the owner and gets hired. It’s easy work.
Max meets with the private investigator he'd hired to look into the missing Maria. She hands him a photo.
Back at the manse, Vicki races after Fer as she's headed down the stairs on her way to meet Scuzzy Tattoo Boy. Vicki wonders why Fer's attitude towards her has changed so radically. Fer admits that she used to admire her mother, but she doesn't any longer. "--Why? Because my husband left me?" Fer says no. It’s because she's stopped being the strong, stubborn, relentless woman she used to be. She is only a shadow of herself, says Fer, and certainly not any kind of a decent role model for her now! "--You've given up. You're worthless and --you yourself made it your job [dedicarse] to do in the Victoria Sandoval you used to be!"
Nat and Maria are crossing the street, discussing the fact that Maria got the seamstress job, and that she starts working the next day. Jimeana sneaks up on the two of them and tells Maria that she's been looking everywhere for her. Why? To ask her to stop harassing Ji's hubby. Maria says sorry. No can do. We love each other. Well, says Jimmie, I'm having his baby! Maria, wiser than her few years would lead Viewerville to believe, lectures Jimeana: Life isn't forcing people to do things only because of that because what brings couples together is love, not children. --Sorry, says Jimena, but Max has to be with his kid. Nat pipes up and says Jimmie's right about that. Max needs to be with Maria because Maria's pregnant with Max's child--a child conceived with love! Ji won’t argue with that.
Scuzzy and Fer are chatting it up at the campus coffee shop they used to meet at. He tells her that he wants to be famous and knows he'll have to change to do it. So, as of tomorrow he will be an entirely new man. (Nothing like telling yourself 'There's always tomorrow.' A lot of good it ever did Scarlet, right?) Why not today, asks Fer. Well, admits Scuzzy, there's a race on today. He's got a bet going with a few buds and has to leave to take care of bidnez. It's in Toluca. He's got a few races. "--Waddayasay? Want to come with?" She hesitates but he tells her not to worry. She can see the great transformation of Federico Padilla. This is too much for Fer to resist and she accepts the invite, saying that at her place it's going from bad to worse anyway and they’ll never miss her.
Back in the barrio, Jimeana says then it's true that Maria’s pregnant. “--Linda told me.” Nat and Maria are pissed and want to know exactly what Linda said to her, and when Ji saw Linda last. Ji brushes them off. "--Your friend! Don't tell me! Then how come you two kicked her out of her own place?" Maria tells Ji it wasn't like that. “--Oh? Well, not that it matters to me, since she was nothing but a whore, but she's dead now and it's all your fault.” Well, all Ji says she really wanted was to assure herself that Maria was pregnant. She has no doubt that it's not Max's, and if Maria doesn't leave him alone, she'll have to tell Max the truth about Maria's baby. “--What 'truth'?” Jimena lies. Linda told her everything. She told her that it wasn't Max's baby and she even told her the name of the real father! Ji snaps her fingers dismissively in Maria's face. "--So! You leave him alone!" She struts off.
Later that day, Fer and Feddie take Fer's .5 cylinder cupcake on roller skates to Toluca. The bets are taken and Feddie wagers Fer's cupcake can beat somebody else's 4 cylinder Chevy. He's on! Fed tells Fer she can ride with him. She's up for that! The two cars vie for first place while El Alacrán looks on with his binoculars from some place further out and yuks it up.
At the Casa de Modas, Pepino and Oscar accuse Roxy to her face of stealing a number of expensive accessories. She sniffs and says the accusation comes from one of the worst designers in the industry. Pepi is ready to draw first blood. He calls her a chocolate (something?) mummy. Roxy's ready to rumble and says once she tells Victoria what he's just called her she'll kick him out on his assets. Vick shows up just then and agrees, but says Pepino's the best designer in his league and it's very difficult to find someone of his stature in the design world. Her posse is pleased as punch to see her back in the saddle again.
Somewhere in Toluca, the race heats up. Scorpion Dude makes the sign of the cross and giggles moronically.
Vick takes back her pink throne in her office. If she's back it is because she's been thinking that if JP and his mama know who her daughter is, it must be because she is alive. (Duh!) So, she'll find her eventually. Max enters Vick’s office and hands her a photograph. Vicki looks at it and chokes up. It's a picture of a 6 or 7 yr. old Maria in a parochial school uniform. Max tells her where he got the photo and says it was all the PI could get because the school closed down quite a while ago. Vicki's all bummed because she thinks they're no better off now than before. Max says at least she knows that her daughter survived and perhaps some family adopted her. Vicki says she realizes trying to hide the truth has caused a lot of people and herself a lot of grief. It's time she comes out with the whole story now, especially to Fer. She tells Max she plans on telling her tonight that she has a sister. That, she adds, may be the only thing that saves Fer from that loser, Federico Padilla! (No, she'll have Scorpion Dude to thank for that little miracle.)
Fed eventually needs to use his brakes. (For the life of me I don't see why. It was only a small mound of dirt with a tiny tree on top.) The car takes the little upgrade at 100 mph and they are airborne. The convertible rolls a couple of times and lands upside down. Feddie and Fer are unconscious. El Alacrán laughs himself silly and heads back to Burnie's.
The firemen arrive on the scene of the crash and determine that poor Feddie and all his fabulous artwork have traveled to that great tattoo parlor in the sky. Fer, on the other hand, still has a pulse and if they can manage to get her to a hospital in time --OMG! It's TOFIM! And it's Cruz who gets her pulled out of the car right before it explodes--and it's JJ who has to agree that he'll put all prejudice aside to help Cruz save Osvaldo Sandoval's daughter. Viewerville then gets four different views of the same explosion--just in case they didn't see it the first, the second, or the third time.
Scorpion Dude returns to wherever he left Rudy Padilla and jokes about the smooth way the whole thing worked. They were racing in the car together somewhere in Toluca. The girl got hers, but so did the boy she was in the car with! Rudy asks for a description of the boy Vick's daughter was riding with. Scorpion Dude says he couldn't tell, exactly, because he had to look through binoculars to follow it all. He was not much different from any of the other braggarts [fanfaron] though. The one thing he does remember is that the kid had a snake tattoo all down his arm. Padilla goes wild and starts to strangle Scorpion Dude. "--You killed my son!" "--How could I know?" (Good point, and one that Rudy should o' thunk of, considering!) "--Forgive me! Forgive me! How would I have known?" Scorpion Dude runs off. Rudy is left to mourn and to admit that he killed his own son. (Ok. Let’s blame it on Burnie and you can do us all a favor by offing the bitch.)
Cruz calls Max to let him know that Fer was in a car accident and is now faltering at Death's door. He then hangs up long enough to give Fer mouth to mouth. He miraculously revives her. (Good, cuz I don't think Viewerville could stand another round of Ave Maria a Capella from Pablo.)
At the same time, our deluded Doña tells herself that there's no doubt this is a punishment from God--another punishment from the Lord over Victoria. She then reverently kisses the cross hanging from her neck.
Max races home.
Vicki tells Michaela she's too bushed to answer any calls or to speak with anybody. She just wants to rest.
Max gets home and starts yelling for Vicki. Michaela tries to explain that his mother’s not up for visitors, but Max could give a rat's furry-tailed ass. He barges into her bedroom. Vicki tells him she's not in the mood to argue about some company problem. He tells her (and takes his own sweet time about it!) that he's not there to talk about company business. "--Well then what?" "--It's bad news." ‘--What? Is it your father?" "--No. He's fine." "--Then what's going on?" "--It's Fer. She's had an accident." Vicki is suck-it-in-and-knock-me-over-with-a-feather-impactada. Uni cues the kayak. --fin part 2.
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