Refugio Para el Amor #17-18 Wed 6/6/12 Ezra goes comatose while blogging and you're going to have to fill in the blanks

Luciana has been enjoying her day off! She calls home. Her mom is worried, but she assures her that she knows a good lawyer (Linares?).

Frigida is, well, frigid to the girl when she gets back in.

Who's this dude who brings them the cake?

Mean mom finds out Luci is just 19. That's actually believable.

Rod has a gift for her, the fiancee dares her to hug him. He accuses her of jealousy. She is still a bitch.

Evil mom gets a headache. Uh-oh.

Aldo, the cousin who got so drunk, has now lost his truck. But a cop helpfully informs him that it got towed because it was in an illegal zone.

The mistress is freaking out, about being in the wife's house doing her nails.

Jana gives Luci a big hug when she returns. By the way, the present was from Pat.

ya volvio la "patrona." Frigida is a jerk, but Luci just wants to see her present. There's some kind of jewelry in it, and the lame theme plays.

Rosalena and Max fight. Her headache is worse. She met up with Claudio Linares, who is out of jail. Yikes, she's eaten up by regrets over what happens. She screams at Max... it was HIS FAULT! breakdown. Flashback to "HIS FAULT" - some game of dice and beer.

July (Gala's mom) and this other weird lady have a boring conversation. They decide to go shopping in Miami.

The nicer maid warns Luci how dangerous the necklace is. She wears it anyway, but tells frigida she doesn't know where she got it. Frigida gets a twitch.

Mom finally takes an interest in Luci. She knows something about her Dad.

When the boss leaves, Frigida goes a-snooping, investigating Luci's stuff for the origin of the necklace. I think she's gonna steal the cell phone.

But the real danger comes from Gala - she wrecks the letters, flushes the necklace, and makes some threats. Luci gets in one good line: having respect for others is worth more than all your fortunes.

She's sobbing and frigida comes in and says "that's what you get when you mess with me."

Gala's mom congratulates her on handling the "situation."They're chuckling together.

The lawyer has news for Luci: she is completely acquitted!

Back in Indianville, Paz has a bad feeling - she knows her daughter is hurting. Oh noes, this kid is so awful.

Violeta just got dumped.

Pat's parents come to yell at him for giving the servant a day off. Seriously?

An MRI for Pat. Haha the novela set includes a very accurate MRI.

Oddly, she's saying her pueblo is in the north, despite having mentioned a bus to Chiapas.

Rod sees the necklace is gone. Awkwardness ensues.

Pat gets carted straight to the hospital. Rod gives him a pep talk, and Pat admits that he is in love.

The kindly lawyer has taken Luci out for Lunch, and she gives him the story. He realizes that she loves Pat, but she realizes that she loves Rod. I'm totally unconvinced.

Evil mom goes to padre to try and get the Luciana away.

Haha, the designer is here, and Rod "yes, dear"s her. This show really puts me to sleep. I found myself nodding in and out.

Now for our silly/cuddly clown of a villain. I'm so amused that I forgot what he said.

I'm taking over for a minute while Ezra eats his dinner.

Pat looks happy, he's full of hope. He tells the padre he can never hope to love or be loved. However, if he can't recover completely, he prefers to die.

The awful ice-cold parents look at each other with desprecio. I came into this too briefly to know what's going on. "Claudio lost and I won," Max says. [Claudio either could now take all their good stuff away or perhaps that was in the past.] Him: "You were always jealous of Aurora." Her: "And you were always jealous of Claudio."

Rod and Gala walk along, Luciana and her lawyer see them. He's jealous - who is that man she's with? They continue talking in the car and he asks her how the family she's working for treats her. She says the kids are great but the mom, Rosalene is - a little - odd. Roselene Torreslanda. Finally he knows who she works for - and he shows shock and horror.

Gala bribes Brigida with a new pocketbook. "You deserve it for loyalty to ME and for all the future spying you will do for ME."

After the commercial the lawyer leaps out of the car with tears in his eyes. Max ruined his life.

Here Ezra began again. But he didn't finish exactly ...

Linares continues telling Luci: "Max accused me of fraud and I went to the jail for 20 years. It was very bad for my wife and daughter. I'm worried that his kids are just as bad. He was my friend, then stabbed me in the back." Oddly, Linares remembers the wife as a good woman. Luciana reassures him that the sons are nicer than their dad. She and the lawyer hug.

The padre tells Roselena it's a bad idea to try and convince Pat to abandon the woman who gives him ganas de vivir. She looks as thoughtful as you can with a frozen face.

Pat's finger is working better: he can write again! Well, he can make two marks with a magic marker. 

Back in "het het," the conniving goofballs (Aquiles and his sidekick) have a plan - they'll follow Lorenzo, Luci's brother, when he goes to the city and surely seeks her out. Aquiles grabs Archie and fails to get any information out of him.

No one will tell Luci what the mystery about the lawyer is.

There is a silly montage.with club music.

FINALLY! Pat can work a remote control! Maybe he can change the channel and we'll be done with this nonsense! But actually, Jana brings in a motorized wheelchair with a big bow on it. He says that, wheelie or no, he won't attend the big super special party. They beg, and then he says he'll go, but only if Luciana goes with him! Gasp! Frigida, now on the payroll of Gala, eagerly listens in. She calls Gala and tells her the bad news is, Luciana is invited to the party, the good news is, she doesn't have anything but crummy peasant clothes to wear.

Gala, preening and preening, plans for her grand night and says no photos will be allowed of anyone but her and Rod. She wants to be the center of attention AS ALWAYS.

Luciana finds a mysterious pink satin strapless dress and 5" heels. She looks up and happily thanks her virgencita (would the virgencita approve of this outfit?). Cinderella city!