Caray, Caray!

I hope it's okay to pimp this here!

I know I'm not the only one to make screencaps on Caray Caray, but just in case some of you fellow recappers are looking for a tutorial, I decided to while away some time and wrote a tutorial for us on my own blog, which you can read here. It's for both Mac and PC and I try to recommend free software when possible. I don't think this is the definitive tutorial, and I'm sure there are better ways for some of the things I show, but this is at least one way to do it.

A few screenshots from the tutorial, because you know how I love my screenshots:

Using the free video software VLC Player (for Mac and PC) to make "snapshots" from any video.

Cropping a picture in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

Lightening a picture in the free software that comes with your Mac.

Hope this is helpful to someone! Again, the tutorial is on my own blog (it's the only post I have there at the moment!) and it's for both Mac and PC.

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Let me explain…no, there is too much…let me sum up:

Cinthia can't seem to resist Efrain, but she's trying.

Ana Paula doesn't think she ought to be talking to Fed about her personal life, given that he's Rog's ex's dad.

Efrain and Cinthia get busted by Consuelo. Kissing, people, get your minds out of the gutters!

Rog meets Gustavo and Mercedes. They say they're staying in town, but Rogelio insists they stay at the hacienda. Rog asks Gustavo to give him the dirt on the construction project.

Consuelo asks why, if Cinthia could have any man she wants, she went after Consuelo's own worthless boyfriend. Cin encourages Efrain to go after her to keep Rogelio from finding out.

Efrain asks her to keep quiet without considering her feelings, which doesn't go over well.

Ana Paula goes to visit Rio, though she's forbidden to ride him.

Consuelo agrees to keep it quiet to keep from hurting Efrain. Cinthia hears Consuelo say that she's only using Efrain and he's not good enough for her. She interrupts the conversation and tells Consuelo to pretend none of this happened. Consuleo cries that it's Cin's fault she's not getting married now. Cinthia blames Efrain for messing around with Consuelo in the first place. She knows what a woman scorned is capable of and reminds Efrain to make sure she doesn't talk and sends him back to her room to scoot out the window.

Rogelio says he warned David that he couldn't screw up the environment for a few bucks. He's glad Cinthia isn't going to marry that dumbass after all. Cinthia comes in and greets Gus and Mer. Rog is fussy that Cin didn't give him any warning and now he's going to have to throw some sleeping bags down on the floor. But he keeps insisting there's room for them and orders that their bags be brought in.

Margarito comes to get Hugo because Rogelio needs help with their visitors. Ana Paula refuses to go back in the house with him, so Hugo has to deputize Simon to keep an eye on her. AP and Marg would both love to just ride off into the sunset.

Consuelo cries in the kitchen and tells Maria she's not getting married after all…because they can't afford it. Maria smacks Efrain with his hat for all the wrong reasons. Consuelo won't talk to him and goes back to work.

Federico goes to get info from Bruno about Ana Paula and her family problems. He noticed she's worried about her brother and vows she'll never be without the help she needs. He's decided he really likes her.

Rog tells Maria to tell Ana Paula to join them for dinner. Dun, dun, dun.

Bruno calls Rosaura to find out if Miguel's with her. He figures she knows and is trying to hide him, but apparently not. They agree to keep in touch. She slips up and says she hopes Miguel doesn't ruin her plans and covers it up just as badly as she always does.

Gustavo says the shopping center is a great idea, but Rog says David has to do it legally. Cinthia goes to show Mercedes the hacienda and her horse. Consuelo is dispatched to find Ana Paula.

Maria scolds Hugo and tells him to get the bags inside quick and go back to being Paula's jailer.


Dany goes into town to look for Miguel. Maripaz gives her a hard time.

Ana Paula and Margarito go for a ride, but she worries about getting lost. He encourages her to just keep the horse going and says no one will find them.

Consuelo wants Efrain to just leave her alone since she already promised not to tell. She won't forgive him for what he did. He tries to say this is a brand new affair, but she remembers finding his hankie in her room way back when.

Cinthia and Mercedes are hanging out with the horse when Simon comes up and lets slip that David gave her the horse. Cin says he was trying to buy her, but she can't be bought…not like her sister-in-law. Not like Gustavo's ex, chimes in Mercedes.

Consuelo is glad she found out Efrain was a dumbass before she married him and was stuck with him for life. She still doesn't want him to get hurt, though, so she won't say anything to Rogelio. Hugo comes in to summon Efrain to form a search party for Ana Paula.

Gustavo asks about Rogelio's wife and he pretends everything's fine and waxes rhapsodic about how awesome AP is. Bruno comes in and is introduced to Gustavo. He has a heart attack and dies on the spot. No, he doesn't, but he looks like he's going to.


Maripaz is all upset worried that Dany wants to get back together with Miguel.

Rogelio notices Bruno looks upset. Gustavo says he just has one of those names and passes a tequila from Rog to Bruno. Bruno says he ate something that didn't agree with him and excuses himself.

Rosaura calls Federico to ask him for help with Miguel in case Rogelio won't help them. Fed is up to date on the situation and wants to help. He'll get a new lawyer if need be. Rosaura asks for a loan. TACKY!

Bruno calls his henchman and says they've got to get Gus and his sister out of there ASAP.

Gus and Rog talk about the hacienda. Maria comes in and asks to speak to Rog privately.

They go into his office and she tells him AP is missing and she sent men out to look for her. She thinks Paula ran away, especially since Miguel is missing too. Rogelio throws a temper tantrum.

From outside, Bruno hears him shouting for Hugo. He runs in and gets himself yelled at. They tell him Ana Paula ran away and so did Miguel. Bruno says he'll go out looking for her. Rogelio blames it on Hugo and he doesn't care that they have company.

Cin and Mercedes come back to join Gustavo and they all hear Rogelio screaming like a madman.

Cin goes to see what happened and gets sent to join the search.

Cin tells them it's time for them to take a tour and when she sees Hugo, she tells him to go directly to Rog.

Rog comes in and starts demanding to know where his wife is. Useless excuses. Hugo gets a whip to the face. Rog vows to kill Hugo if they can't find AP. Hugo goes back to the search.


Yes, AP and Margarito are lost. She wants to go back, but he doesn't know how to get back. They approach a path he's familiar with.

Hugo and Simon search.

Miguel rides with his trusty bottle at his side. He consults his horse for directions, but no answer is forthcoming. He hopes AP got out. He collapses to his knees and drinks some more.

Efrain coordinates the search.

AP isn't scared, but she is worried. Margarito is more worried about being busted for getting away with her.

Bruno's hench ogles Maripaz. She asks about his scar and he says it brings back bad memories. Bruno comes in, looking for Ana Paula and hustles hench outside.

The "tour" has gone on until dusk. Fed comes in and greets Mercedes, Cin, and Gus. Rog comes in and announces AP is indisposed and won't be joining them for dinner. Fed is worried, but Rog says she's just dizzy and has a fever. Mercedes offers to check her out, being a nurse and all.


Rog says the town doc is on his way. Rog won't be joining them for dinner either, since he doesn't feel comfortable leaving his wife's side. Gus and Mercedes think it's better if they stay in town. He uses the excuse that he needs to be in town super early. Rog relents.

Efrain opines it's better if AP does fall in the river, rather than face Rog. He goes back to the house, leaving the hands to continue the search.

Vanessa is in San Gabriel. She talks to Esteban and whines about her crappy trip.

Rog talks to the staff, in his finest overbearing dumbass form. They realize Miguel, Dany, AP, AND Margarito are all missing. Rog shoos them out, complaining he has to do everything himself.

Chio visits Esteban to invite him to a sale at her store. She invites him to dinner to forget his troubles with Vanessa. He opts out, but agrees to coffee tomorrow.

AP wants to rest, but Margarito wants to keep going. The horse, having more sense, refuses to walk any further. All three of them are hungry.

This is all too much for Rog. He was hurt when Van wouldn't marry him, but he understood her not wanting to marry a man who would never walk. But he can't understand why AP is doing this to him.

AP and Margarito hang out by a tree. In the rain. AP still wants to go back. Marg says no way…Rog will kill them!

Rog feels horrible for having broken down. Maria says it takes a real man to cry when he's hurt. "Whatever. I'm not doing this again. I'm not crying over a woman. Or anyone else. Paula and her brother will regret even being born!" He insists she'll apologize on her knees, because he didn't kill that guy, he'll prove it! Well, if she hurries home, she'll get definitive proof.

Whew! That's everything!

Tomorrow: a "crucial" episode, the search continues, the ranch hands find the horse.

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Good Greetings, my lords and ladies. I humbly submit myself as your guest recapper this fine evening. My qualifications you ask? As a lad I was educated in Latin and the classics, and my own tutor excelled in the Romance Languages as I believe you call them. He himself was born and raised in Spain, and as such I did learn a fair bit of that beauteous language from him. Methinks the characters in tonight’s play do have a dialect that is foreign and harsh to my ears, but, by your leave, I shall dispense with excuses, tarry no longer and try my hand at translating this drama (or unwitting comedy as I have been advised) for my esteemed audience. I bring you...El Talismán!
 

Act 1 - Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
 
A charmingly scantily-clad mistress and her suitor are interrupted by a rough-hewn miscreant and his boot-licking lacky. Aha! The lovely lady calls this paunchy, pox-marked pignut “Papa”, a tragedy for her. He orders his minion to aim his arquebus and shoot the gentleman. The lady throws herself in front of her love (Pedro by name), and cries that he did not trespass, she invited him to their lands called El Alcatraz. The gentleman Pedro says nothing, and in fact appears befuddled. Sir, are you or are you not going to protect your lady’s honour?

On another stage two young lovers, named Armando and Fabiola, bid a hasty adieu. The young master seems in a hurry to depart, especially when he spies another lass, golden tresses swaying in the breeze. Methinks this young jackanapes is up to no good.

In the forest two earnest young mistresses discuss a gentleman. He is married but his wife Mariana has been missing lo these many years. What if he declares himself widowed and she reappears? And did he really only love her as a sister when they married? The larger of the two, a veritable amazon if you will, Camila by name, frets excessively, and loves the gentleman. The smaller mistress, called Tracy, urges Camila to pursue the man, “those who dare not, win not”. Well said young miss. But then they mention the young gentleman by name. It is none other than Pedro! By my troth, I would vouchsafe that this Pedro is no gentleman. A wife gone missing, a lady on the hook, and now another one mewling and pining for him. Oddly, the two mistresses later repeat this conversation in a different location but with unchanged dialogue.

Back at the first stage the fly-bite of a father is in full-gorge, and makes to strike the daughter, whose name we learn is Lucrecia. At last Pedro awakes and springs into action, breaking the blow and commanding the vile father “Dare not to strike her!” Pedro, still bravely hiding behind his lady, taunts the minion and dares him to shoot. The father grabs the lady, so fetchingly clad in scarves and vapours, and swears this is a family matter. Now there is another lady behind Gregorio, lending support to him and shaking her fist at Pedro. “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child,” Gregorio bellows to Lucrecia (a loose translation, I admit).

Inside the domicile, Gregorio commands Lucrecia to begone from the castle. Lucrecia, arms akimbo, is a spirited wench and full of fire. She tells her swag-bellied father that she knows her mother left her an inheritance, thus she is as much an owner of the castle and lands as her father. (What laws be these? A woman, queen of the castle equal to her father?) She mentions a brother who is to inherit as well. She cares not what the whey-faced elder thinks, she will marry Pedro! (Not while he is married, methinks.)

Gadzooks, I like this plot already.

At another castle the rockablock Pedro natters to an elder lady about the stupidity of his actions. She vehemently and loudly concurs that he is nought but a roguish ratsbane. To wit, a complete idiot for visiting the castle of his dangerous enemy. But she is fond of the lad and worries only for his well-being.

On the grounds outside are three lads, one of which appears to live in a pigsty. The rank lad, Panchito by name, attempts to warn the others about the dangerous Gregorio, but the two handsome lads espy two young maidens (one of whom is dusky Fabiola, the other her fair sister) and peep through the forest as the maidens titter, each about their own true loves. Methinks these two are in love with the same varlot Armando, and he is tricking them. The maidens plan a rendezvous and one of the handsome lads dashes out of the forest and vows his love to the golden-tressed maiden, whose name is Florencia.

Pedro and the Good Lady, whom he calls Aunt, are on the other side of the forest, and another fetching lass runs up and cries in dismay that Claudio and Gabriel have gone to the enemy castle.

It is Claudio who loves Florencia, and she implores him to leave, she must off to the church and pray with her sister. The maidens have acrobatic talent, and walk on spiked shoes.

How now? Yet another character, she is sad. Aha, she is mother to the varlot Armando, and tells him she should never have made a devil’s bargain with a villain named Antonio Negrete. She displays a voluminous drapery in bright color, a hideous garment of some sort, and asks the lad if he met the Negrete maidens. The ill-nurtured, jolt-head of a lad brags that within a week he will have successfully wooed them both.

Gregorio’s minion, whose name is Valentin, has worked his bowels into a twist, and he cries to the Gods that he knows not what Gregorio will do since he did not kill Pedro as commanded. The pig-lad Panchito is in the room (sleeping of course), hears these mutterings, and asks if  Valentin is embattled with his own father. (His father? Gregorio is this puttock's father?) Valentin warns him to keep silent, lest someone hear this truth. At that moment a churlish, clay-brained clackdish enters the stage; it is none other than the true heir Antonio Negrete. He is in a foul humour and, upon discovering that Valentin did not put a bullet into Pedro, flies into a fury, splashing his aqua vitae about the room.

Act 2 - Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
 
Florencia admits to her sister that she cares for the lad Claudio, but she does not love him as she loves Jose. (Who is the jackanapes, cloaked in a false name, lest you forget. I, myself, am becoming confused.) Florencia claims Jose has enchanted her. This I believe to be true, as I have observed both Jose and Claudio. Claudio is heartfelt and handsome, while Jose/Armando is a bootless, beef-witted barnacle.

Inside the castle the rabble and row continues, and Lucrecia vows she only wants Pedro. She will give up her inheritance, let Gregorio have it all, and sign away both her share and Antonio’s...perchance. “Perchance?” queries Gregorio. He laughs and says he will not make contracts with his offspring, they are to obey him. Lucrecia wants Gregorio to help her as she will one day be Lady of Pedro’s lands, called El Talismán. Gregorio snorts that Pedro loves Camila, and will never marry Lucrecia.

Elsewhere in the castle Antonio has calmed himself, and jealously curses his sister for loving the “common native” Pedro. (Even though Pedro is a landowner and, as such, in a higher caste than Antonio.) The pig-lad asks isn’t Antonio doing likewise, as he is in love with Camila? (Camila, the amazon maiden who loves Pedro.) Antonio claims he is different, he is a Negrete. This implied insult to the bastard son causes much ill-feeling as you might imagine. The pig-lad defers to his better (as is his station), and as he departs Antonio hurls his last insult, calling Panchito an upstart crow, as vile an invective as one could fling at a bastard. Alone, Panchito vows that one day Antonio will regret his words.

Antonio secretly removes a vial and places it on his fathers study. He snarls that the pig-lad believes Gregorio’s blood flows through his veins. He asks Valentin to whom will he pledge his fealty, to Gregorio or to Antonio? Valentin believes Gregorio will never forgive him, and so throws his lot in with the poisonous malcontent.

Camila’s small companion, called Tracy,  believes that Antonio and Lucrecia devised a plot whereby Camila was tricked into thinking Pedro’s wife is still living at El Talisman. Camila wants to go to Pedro but is afraid. Tracy believes they can go through the kitchen, which seems an odd plan to me, for why can Camila not announce herself at the front gate?

In the forest Pedro and the elder lady spy the young lads who have sneacked back onto their lands escorted by the bastard Panchito. Pedro lashes the lads with harsh words, and reminds them that the boar-pig Gregorio would kill them if given the chance. Panchito decides that helping Pedro woo Camila will be the best way to exact revenge upon his half-brother Antonio.

Lucrecia, who I have come to believe is a saucy, folly-fallen strumpet, vows that she is more woman than Camila and will win Pedro’s heart. Gregorio is understandably mollified by this brazen stance and takes his leave, advising his daughter she can do what she likes but he will continue looking for his own nefarious ways to get El Talismán for himself. 

Now the lady who has silently watched this scene speaks, and calls Lucrecia sister-in-law. She laughs at Lucrecia’s misfortune for loving a man that will never love her. Lucrecia says in fact they are the same, for Antonio does not love his wife either. Antonio’s wife brags that at least she has two daughters by the man she loves. Zounds, but this family is a nest of vipers if there ever was one.

Camila and Tracy enter El Talismán through the servants kitchen, and the scullery maid avers that Pedro’s wife has been missing from the lands for many years, and when Mariana did live there she never shared a bed with Pedro. (Verily, this Pedro does seem more like a gelding or a mare, than a hero, to my eyes.)  But at that moment Pedro enters the scullery and the heretofore milk-livered Camila, without further ado, begs his forgiveness and embraces him in a manner most unmaidenly!

Act 3 - A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.
 
Antonio feigns surprise at finding his father’s medicine (the vial which he himself placed on the study) and gives it to Valentin to administer to Gregorio, thus ensuring that Valentin is linked to Antonio through perfidy. Valentin questions the urgency for administering the pills and Antonio, decadent, his fingers ever fiddling about his cod-piece and not temperate in his drinking, swears he does not want to kill his father, but rather he wishes to leave him live, disabled, a vegetable, because he wants his father to see him running the lands and giving orders without asking permission. Gregorio will be nobody other than the father of Lord Antonio Negrete.


Antonio’s wife, called Doris, advises Lucrecia that she has no chance of winning Pedro’s love as long as Camila is alive. “Then I swear I will kill her,” vows Lucrecia.

Gregorio flees to his room, clutching his heart and panting in breathless anger. Doris follows to aid him, but Gregorio only wants her to look beautiful for tonight. He is attending the great ball and she is to accompany him. I daresay this neglected but succulent plum is ripe for the plucking.

Pedro and Camila are happy at last, but the course of true love never did run smooth. Tracy and the scullery maid watch them kiss, and they are joined by another wench who quickly runs back to her own lands. She is maid to Lucrecia and she returns to El Alcatraz to tell her indolent mistress that she saw Camila embracing Pedro. Lucrecia vows to make Pedro feel so sorry for her that he will not reject her.

Pedro believes Antonio set the trap, but Camila believes Lucrecia set the trap. Camila even reveals to him that Lucrecia said she would have his babe. Pedro vehemently denies this and promises Camila is the only one who will bear his children. He swears he will get a divorce from the missing Mariana so that he can live life again with Camila at his side.

Oho! New characters, a dark-eyed wench and an aging and withered Ganymede. They are searching for something and find it, a bundle of currency hidden, but in truth not well enough. With this money he can impress Elvira, the mother of the lie-about Armando. And if her children don’t accept him he will boot them out into the cold.

Act 4 - Get thee to a nunnery*
 
The Ganymede, whose name is Renato, reveals that he has not met Elvira’s daughter, our heroine Camila. He calls the dark wench niece, but kisses her like a lover, and angers her when he vows to conquer Elvira and take her fortune.

Elvira, a shard-borne harpy if there ever was one, caresses her son’s face in a manner most questionable, and admires his eyes. She’s proud that he is tricking the Negrete maidens, and vows to get back at Gegorio through them. Armando, practically at the pap, (though she calls him man) wishes to please his mother, but is troubled by his pea-sized conscience.

Doris is summoned by a lady named Bridgette, but it turns out this Bridgette is no lady. She runs a house of ill-repute and Doris is one of her prize harlots and in great demand this very night. Doris has other plans and will attend the great ball with Gregorio. Bridgette warns her to be careful, some of their gentlemen callers might be at the ball and could recognize Doris, even though she plies her wanton trade in disguise. Doris vows that once she spends a night with Gregorio he will never share her with another and she will not return to the brothel.

Valentin delivers the tainted medicine to the lumpish lout Gregorio.

Antonio Negrete may be evil to the world, but he shows affection to his daughters. He commands them to summon their suitors to him tomorrow so that he can assess their intentions toward his daughters.

Their suitors are one man, the lackluster Armando, who whines to his mam that their plot is becoming too complicated for his frothy, fen-sucked brain. Elvira warns him that above all else he must avoid falling in love with the daughters.

At the neighboring castle, Pedro proudly parades Camila through the grounds to let the minions know she will be the lady of El Talismán.

*In my day a subtle term for brothel.

Act 5 - Though this be madness, yet there is method in't
 
Lucrecia tells Antonio that Camila knows he was behind the plot to trick her into believing Mariana was living at El Talismán. Antonio swaggers in ruttish fury and manhandles his sister in a manner not entirely brotherly. For her part, Lucrecia entices his anger in a manner not entirely sisterly, and retreats at the approach of his advancing codpiece armor. He flies into a rage when she reveals that Camila now thinks the worst of him.

Antonio’s anger overcomes his sense and reason and he strikes his sister. Yet she continues to urge him on to violence, telling him he will never be the man Pedro is. He strikes her again and again, and she continues to entice him. He beats her senseless and friends, methinks this was all part of her plan.

The minions of El Talismán are happy to meet the new Lady, they would be fools to act otherwise. But she is gracious and promises Pedro they will never be separated. They agree they need to be very careful of both Antonio and Lucrecia and their plotting. They are in love, yet exceedingly doltish.

Antonio and Lucrecia are exhausted and in a heap. He pleads with her why did she drive him to such violence? She knows he can’t control his drunken anger. She smiles and tells Antonio with this bloodied and beaten face she will be able to achieve her goal.

Antonio is worried that Lucrecia will report him to the constabulary and to his father. Au contraire, she replies, she will tell Pedro that Gregorio beat her and thus throw herself on Pedro’s mercy.

Our final scene is a pleasant one, in which our ho-hum hero and heroine are blissfully unaware of the harebrained plot being contrived against them.
 
Pedro, droning and dizzy-eyed, assures Camila that his kisses now are better than the first time. (Ye Gods, the man who wrote that line should be disemboweled. Then drawn and quartered.) Camila, too much of a lady to say otherwise, allows him to prove it. 

And on that temporarily happy note my friends, the curtain closes on our preposterous play. Until tomorrow...

I am your humble servant,
Will,
Formerly Stratford-upon-Avon

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LQNPA Cap 41, Feb 22, 2012

I thought I'd start an abbreviated recap with mostly screencaps. Because you know how I love my screencaps. And if for some reason the other recap that we're all waiting for doesn't materialize, then at least we can have a discussion here. I hope this is okay.  [UPDATE: It doesn't look like the other recap is going to happen, so I guess this one is it!]

Cupcake is angered by Rohell's ultimatum. Miguel is willing to do whatever, but she won't stay here now that she knows what Rohell did to her novio!

After she says how hard it is for her to accept that the "marvelous man" she thought he was is in fact a murderer, he replies that if it's so hard to accept, maybe that's because in the bottom of her heart, she has doubts about his guilt. He wants to discuss this further but they are interrupted.

Fed makes a visit on the pretext of burying the hatchet with Rohell, an old friend and business associate. But he seems uncommonly interested and concerned with Rohell's bride. Here Fed has picked up the wedding photo in Rohell's office, as Rohell looks on with suspicion.

They shake hands and make up. It's for the best, they agree, and Rohell mentions that he doesn't want Fed's health to suffer over this strife. Rohell can't know that mainly Fed is willing to deal with him because then he'll have access to AP, his long-lost daughter.

Fed is able to talk with Dani and apologize for his bruja of a daughter firing Dani. No prob, says Dani. Then Fed gets what he came here for—to see Cupcake, his daughter. When she is brought in to see the guest, Fed, Rohell doesn't pass up an opportunity to make a big show of kissing his loving bride. Miguel looks on, seething. Fed doesn't really give a crap—he just wants to meet with Cupcake!

The two brujas, Vainessa and Elsa la Vaca, connect the dots and realize that Fed has gone off and may be planning on adding this new bastarda daughter to his will, or in some other way bestowing his assets upon her. Commence much screeching and howling.

They all have a meal out on the terrace. Rohell plays up being the adoring husband while Cupcake beams invisible hate darts at him. Fed looks on suspiciously—something ain't right, he can tell.

Rohell is called away on business, but leaves Hugo to hover over Cupcake. Finally Fed is able to chat with Cupcake without interruption. She tells him how sorry she is for the douchebaggery that Rohell did to Vainessa.

If she could do it all again, she never would have married Rohell, she tells him, as Hugo hovers in the background. Cupcake immediately feels comfortable around Fed. They even (conveniently!) talk about her mom, how much she loved her job as a secretary, and how fondly she spoke of her boss, who (coincidentally) shares the same name as Fed! Fancy that. Fed is almost beaming and over the moon at this lovely conversation.

Fed steps in as a papa and gives his crying Cupcake a hug. During all their conversations in this episode, she never does tell him what's really worrying her, (like, she believes her husband is a murderer) but it's obvious that something is making her melancholy. Hugo looks alarmed at the hug and rushes off to report this to Rohell.

Rohell rushes to the scene, suspicious. Both Fed and Cupcake explain that she was just remembering her deceased parents and he was comforting her. Rohell asks to speak to his wife alone.

They talk in private. He brings up his continuing to help her family. He's been assuming that Miguel is his trump card—she'll do what he wants just as long as he continues to support and help Miguel with his legal woes. But now she's casting doubt on that assumption.

She won't stick around and be his prisoner, now that she believes he's a murderer. The price is too high!

Miguel again proving to be the weakest link. He feels responsible for so much of his sister's suffering. He drinks himself stupid while simultaneously making himself a bad example to the impressionable Margarito.

Mersnotty pokes and prods and nags her brother until he agrees to join her in a visit to the hacienda, to see Sinthia. Mersnotty's spidey-sense is out of whack, because she pegs Sinthia is the perfect girl for Gus.

Oh he with the beautiful eyelashes agrees to go in this trip, but he doesn't seem nearly as enthusiastic or as confident about it as Mersnotty.

The Weakest Link—errr, Miguel, has left Cupcake a letter. It says he's left the hacienda, so that she won't have to feel obliged to stick around just for his sake. Cupcake is impactada.

Cupcake was napping in her bed, but Rohell interrupts. He wants her to continue playing the perfect bride in front of Fed. He's suspicious of Fed—"I don't trust people" Rohell says. He also brings up that she let him down. He wants her to comply with the contract, and by the way, there are a ton of butt-covering clauses in the contract (THAT SHE NEVER BOTHERED TO READ!), one of which says that for every day she doesn't comply with it, 10 days can be added to her sentence—errr, can be added to the length of the contract. She's furious and defiant.

Sin and Effer return to the hacienda. Rohell is right on Sin like a duck on a June bug, wanting to know where she'd been, how come it took her so long to get back, and wanting to know the true story about why she dumped David. Effer jumps in to cover for Sin and says she did exhaustive window shopping (but didn't buy anything, being the good sister that she is! LOL!) and visited a lot of churches. (I had to laugh at that part. Sinthia doesn't strike me as the church-visiting type!) This manages to placate Rohell for the time being.

Fed has more bonding time with Cupcake. He absolves her of blame over marrying Rohell. Dani told him of the troubles she was having and how Rohell helped out. He tries to probe for more info on how she's getting along with Rohell, but she won't say anything. So he goes to Rohell and asks him point-blank if he loves his wife. After balking at first because this is a personal matter, Rohell admits that he does. When asked if she returns this love, all Rohell will say is that "She'll be by my side forever."

Consuelo finds Sin and Effer in a compromising position. I think nothing more be said about this—the picture shows it all.

Gus and Mersnotty arrive at the Hacienda . . .

. . . and are welcomed warmly by Rohell!

END OF EPISODE!!

A few other details: Bruno hires Dani to work for him. This will keep her around the Hacienda for a while. Fed is invited to stay at the Hacienda for a while, since the roads are wet or something and it's dangerous to travel back to town. If I can think of anything else important, I'll add it here. More details of this episode will undoubtedly be included in the post comments.

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Recap by Marta Ivett

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