Refugio Para el Amor #35-36 Tue 6/19/12 DESTINY (aka Rod Torreslanda) Comes Knocking on Paz and Luci’s Door

Just the bullet point facts tonight folks, typed up in real time. Fill in any nuances I might have missed. If anyone would like to try their hand at recapping, we’ve got a few open spaces.

-Violeta brings Claudio Luci’s family’s deeds. Claudio is not surprised the Torreslandas made Luci’s life hell. He starts the investigation into the properties. He’ll miss Luci, but will keep in contact with her. He’s sure Don Aquiles is playing dirty with the properties issue.

-The Gossip Girls come to spread the word that everyone knows Paz’s house is for sale by Don Aquiles, and some gorda is interested in buying it. Magda is sure Luci’s lawyer friend will solve the problem.

-Violeta tells Estella she thinks it’s so romantic that Rod came looking for Luci. She’s sure he’ll continue looking for her, like in a fairytale. Estella says she gave him the money to return to Rosa.

-Rosa tells Padre what’s done is done and now it’s time for them to continue with their lives. She wants Padre to convince Pato of this. She also wants to now be at peace, which will be easier now that Aurora look-alike Luci is gone. She’s not going to lift one finger to bring the truth about Aurora’s baby to light.

-Claudio has some sad time at Aurora’s grave about Luci leaving.

-Rosa bitches to Connie about Rod returning to Mexico to see Luci, and gloats about getting rid of Luci. Connie is frustrated by her sister’s crazy attitude. Rosa says Connie would do the same to protect her family. Connie denies it and points Rosa to the truth about what’s really bugging her—Luci’s resemblance to Aurora. Rosa admits it.

-Claudio gets more legal red tape run around in his quest to move his wife’s and child’s remains.

-Gala has a fit with Brigida over the phone because her homing device on Rod stopped working. Brigida will get the info for her on Rod's location.

-Julie and Gala are determined to find out more about Luci’s past. Julie is sure Rosa will continue to be an ally. Better a divorcee for her son, than a servant.

-Rod hears Rosa admit her hatred for Luci is because she looks like Aurora. He gives her back the money she gave to Luci and reams her out. Max comes in and Rod announces that he’s going after Luci. Rosa’s threats against Luci have just made him see more clearly how much he loves Luci. Rosa has a breakdown and weeps on the floor. “Don’t do this to me Rodrigo, please.”

-Rod tells Pato Rosa’s latest tricks against Luci. Pato tells him that if he really loves her, then look for her and make her happy!

-Paz and Madga are stunned and happy to see Luci back.

-Rod asks Violeta where Luci went. (Can’t he guess?) Violeta isn’t talking. Rod begs and pleads his case.

-Luci tells the moms that she didn’t have the skills and experience needed to help the paralyzed young man she worked with, and missed them (Paz and Magda). Magda wonders if maybe she could have recommended Vio for the job. Uhm…Vio's happy with the job she has. Luci does not reveal the truth. Luci assures them that her lawyer friend is still working on the properties case. Magda wonders if this lawyer has other interests in her. Nope. He feels like a father to her. Luci is no longer afraid of Aquiles. She’s shocked to hear Aquiles is selling their house, but has faith that Linares will help them.

-Aquiles tells Procopio that what he did to him (the beat down) is just a taste of what he could do to him. He’s still plotting to get his little dove, Luci.

-Luci’s painting a pot when there’s a knock on the door. It’s Rod! (She really should have asked who it is now that she’s back in Don Aquiles country. She got lucky.)

-Padre visits Pato, who seems to be in a better mood. He shows Padre what he can do with his right hand. He’s decided to dedicate himself to recovering. He’s in a good mood because he’s sure Luci will be back. Rod’s gone to get her.

-Rod hugs Luci and kisses her passionately. She pulls away. She came back to the pueblo to get away from this impossible love. He clarifies that he didn’t take Gala to Miami with him. He loves Luci and wants to be with her.  He embraces her again and says he knows she loves him too. Rod says he’s decided to confront the whole world to be with her. (His mother, Gala, etc.) She starts ranting about how impossible it all is, so he shuts her up with another passionate kiss.

-Gala whines to Rosa that it’s her fault things developed between Rod and Luci, since she warned her about it. Rosa doesn’t want to hear it. She thinks they need to do something drastic. Gala recommends they hire an investigator. They want to find something in her past to use against Luci. Frigida has just what they need. She knows of someone who's been threatening Luci, with the initial “L.”

-Luci doesn’t want to be the cause of Rod separating from his family. All he needs to know is whether she loves him, then he’ll be prepared for anything.  He’s pleased she’s not calling him Joven anymore. He wants to hear her call him Rodrigo. She’s got a better name for him…Muchachón (mushashón). They seal it with another kiss.

-Luci and Rod make like Demi Moore and Patrick Swazye in Ghost and play in the clay. He asks her to marry him and gets a face full of clay when Luci caresses his face in surprise. He wants to ask her mother formally for her hand. He rushes out to prep for the big ask, and Procopio follows him, and then reports back to Aquiles.

-Pato initiates a meeting at Torreslanda to tell them he’s taken over some projects because Rod’s gone to San Francisco del Alto (Het Het) to find Luci. Max loses it. He calls Rod to asks what the hell he’s doing there on personal business when they have so much real business pending in D.F. Rod feels his personal business is more important and hangs up on Max.

-Lastra gets frustrated that he can’t reach Luci. He’ll use the brother to get to Luci. Ivan brings up how interested Aldo seems in their business.

-Lorenzo wants to make Lastra and the Torreslandas pay for what they did to Luci. Vio thinks the best vengeance will be for Luci to marry Rod Torreslanda. He who laughs last, laughs best. She wants Lorenzo to be careful about messing with dangerous people like Lastra. Forget vengeance. What he needs to concentrate on is Linares getting their property back.

-Luci is grinning from ear to ear when Magda and Paz return. She tells them Rodrigo came to find her and wants to marry her. Mom and Madga want an explanation about who this guy is. Who is he? Where did you meet him? Magda starts running around making coffee and getting things ready.

-The Torreslanda guard tells Lastra to take his ass to the street and away from the gate. Lastra then calls the house and gets Frigida. If Luci doesn’t respond, I will come looking for her at the house. Frigida can’t believe her luck.

-Rod actually shows up. I was worried Aquiles would break his legs or something. Paz nearly passes out when she hears his full name—Rodrigo TORRESLANDA. Madga catches her before she falls. They have her sit down. She catches her breath and tells them she’s fine. Paz keeps staring at Rod and chugs down some water.

-Flashback alert! Young gardeners Paz and Galdino, and some little boys playing in the background (Rod and Pato?) Luci, Rod and Magda want to take Paz to lie down. She doesn’t want to be rude to Rod.  When he strokes her shoulder in concern, she nearly passes out again.

-Rod tells Paz that he loves Luci and wants to marry her. Paz wants to know if his parents are in agreement. I’m a grown man and no one interferes in my decisions. Magda wonders if they aren’t rushing things. Rod points out that they actually met long ago, right here in the pueblo. All this DESTINY is too much for Paz. She decides to go lie down. Luci takes her and Rod worries about her to Magda. Magda just thinks it’s a mother’s natural reaction. She’ll be fine. What Paz wants most is the happiness of her children.

-Paz asks Luci who is this young man and how did they get to know each other. Doesn’t she know there’s a great difference between them. Luci tells her she knows this is the man that she wants to spend the rest of her life with and she loves him. Paz asks his parents’ names and nearly has a heart attack when she hears Maximino and Rosalena TORRESLANDA. She fakes being ok and has Luci leave her alone. Then she has a major meltdown. “Help me Galdino! What am I going to do with this heavy truth?”

-Magda brags about Violeta being a night nurse. Rod is surprised to hear this but doesn’t argue the point. Ariche comes over and wants to know who the muchachón is. He’s not pleased to hear he’s Luci’s novio. He looks the big guy up and down.

-Frigida reports the latest Lastra call to Gala.

-Julie gossips with one of her friends about how Rod could dump a prize like Gala. Julie keeps the Rod has a disease story going. Gala’s health is more important than the money she would have gotten, plus, Gala doesn’t need the money.

-Gabriel and Marcos tell Pato that Rod can check on the foundation they started while he’s up north. Pato does not want them to bug Rod with work. He’s off seeking his happiness. Pato also looks really happy.

-Paz pretends to be asleep, but is really crying in her room. Magda knows something is wrong and that it has to do with Rod. She begs Paz to stop crying and to calm down. Paz hyperventilates about Rod’s parents and how they’ll react.

-Rod tries to win Ariche over by having him give him a tour of the pueblo. Rod and Luci take every moment they can to kiss and coo, which annoys Ariche. The gossip ladies see Luci and Rod kissing in the plaza and assume he’s from the capital. They drool over Rod. Procopio also spies on them, but gets a nasty surprise when Ariche chases him off with his slingshot and some well aimed rocks to the butt.

-That milkshake Hannah is playing with looks delicious. Anyway, Hannah tells Lula all the drama going on at her house. She is sure, by continuing her studies, Luci will be a better wife for Rod than Gala. Boris comes over, and Lula leaves. He’s mad that Hannah’s had no time for him, and asks her to be his novia.

-Max wants Oscar to pay off the judge in a big way. Oscar doesn’t see the point. Plus, there is no way Claudio has enough money to beat them at the bribe the judge game. Max doesn’t care. He just wants to make sure the judge is not on Claudio’s side.

-Lic. Barrera is also worried about Judge Avila and tells Claudio. Claudio knows that the judge is a key piece (pieza clave) in all of this.

-Oscar asks Connie out to dinner, saving her from having yet another futile conversation with Rosa about leaving Luci alone.

-The three witches, Gala, Rosa, and Frigida meet about Lastra’s call. Gala uses the caller id to get Lastra’s number. She plans on calling him and does as soon as she gets back to her office. We’re both interested in finding that woman. Let’s do it together.

-Hannah tells Pato she told Boris she’ll tell him tomorrow if she’ll be his novia. (Clear as mud, right?) She’s not sure if she likes him that way, plus there’s the Lula issue. She decides Melissa will be the best person to give her advice, rather than Pato.

-Paz admits to Magda that Rod is the son of the woman who gave her Luci.

-Ariche is bragging to Rod that he’s the best with the slingshot, and Luci is pretty good too. He demonstrates his skills, then has Rod demonstrate. But Rod hits the balloon vendor instead. Oopsies! They buy all his balloons to make up for it.

-Procopio reports to Aquiles that some big, blond, blue eyed, city guy has come to steal his little dove away. No one will take his dove away from him!

-Paz continues the tale of how Rosa gave her the baby and money and made her promise to take Luci away so that she’d NEVER have to see her again. Paz doesn’t remember much about Luci’s parents. Just that the husband fell into disgrace and the mother Aurora died in child birth. Magda wants to know why Rosa didn’t keep the baby out of the goodness of her heart, as she was friends of the baby’s parents. Paz doesn’t know, but Rosa was always cold and distant. She hardly ever said a word to them. Magda thinks it’s DESTINY that put Luci back on that woman’s path. Paz is scared of what’s to come. Magda says it’s time Paz told Luci the truth. Luciana has a father who’s probably out of jail and looking for her. Luci has a right to be in that house as a lady of society, not as a servant like us.

-Rosa argues with the Padre again. Her job as a mother is to open her children’s eyes when they make an error. Later at the house, Julie rubs it in Rosa’s face that she can’t control her kids. Rosa says she’ll die before she lets Luci set a foot in her house.

-Pato tells Hannah that Luci would never come back to their house as a servant—she has too much dignity. If he were Rod, he’d marry Luci without thinking twice about it.

-Luci and Ariche dance in the plaza and Rod cuts in. Much happy dancing, swinging, and kissing.

-Don Serapio congratulates Paz on Luci finding such a great novio. Paz barley holds it together.

-Lorenzo tells Polo that Aldo wants access to the Inferno office. Polo thinks it’s a bad idea.

-Boris pressures Hannah into saying yes. She doesn’t look so sure. She interrupts Pato’s musings about Luci to tell him he now has a brother-in-law. Pato tries not to laugh at her.

-Rod and Luci stroll the streets of Het Het and shout out their love. She takes him into a little cave/amphitheater filled with candles, and they spin and shout their love at the top of their lungs.

-Another group of three witches (Gala, Rosa, and Julie) meet to talk about the investigation into Luci. Oscar and Connie interrupt. They are going on a date. No Julie, we did not invite you. Aldo calls to say he’s going out too. Rosa wants to make sure he’s not slumming with some low class girl like the other men in the family lately. Oscar and Connie go on their merry way (but not before Julie invites herself on a 3-person date with them that weekend), and leave the witches to do their bitching.

-Rod asks Luci once again to marry him in the romantic amphitheater of twinkling candlelight. They end the episode with a long, gentle kiss.

Avances: Gala and Lastra unite evil forces. Paz tells Luci and Rod that they will suffer.