Wednesday, 22 October 2014 on NBC1 Cande, in the defaced Amadork shrine (aka the bedroom), gasps and sputters to Marichuy that Juan Miguel is waiting in the living room. Marichuy, always the gracious hostess, sobs as she tells Cande to tell him to leave and never return. BabyJM voices his objections. Out in the parlor, Juan Miguel is not to be put off so easily. He refuses to leave, so Mari comes out to talk to him. He is not pleased to hear that she’s living in Amador’s place, but mostly he’s there to berate her. He is appalled at the way she treated Omar, taking advantage of his hospitality and letting him fall in love with her, while lying to him the whole time and then leaving without notice. Oh, wait, that’s not really why he’s paid a visit either. He wants to see his son. Marichuy is her twitchy-faced, thinking-up-a-quick-lie version of impactada. Fresh new scenes (but made with lots of leftovers): The defense attorney visits Blanca at the jail. Balbina is testifying today, and he thinks her testimony will be very helpful. Blanca is concerned because Juan Miguel is not in the building to helpfully sit in the hallway. Israel calls Stef from New York, where he is wearing a suit and looking smug and swanky. He tells her he went there to earn lots of money, which he has now done, so he can return to México all successful, and he did it all for her. I thought he was still in school. What the heck kind of job can you just walk into like that and make so much money so fast? Probably I don’t want to know. I am thinking Nuevo Israel is not an improvement. Juan Miguel tells Marichuy that Omar told him that she had a baby. Mari feels that the important thing here is to clarify that, no, Omar does not know about JM and Mari’s history. JM furiously tells her that one day Omar will find out everything, and it would be better if he heard it from her. But, back to business, he wants to see his son. “…um…why?,” asks Marichuy. “What kind of stupid question is that?! Because he’s my son!!,” says JM with a great deal of frustration. Marichuy tells him that’s impossible, because their son died. Oh, that is LOW, Marichuy. Are we sure she’s not one of the villains? Over at Castle San Roman, Onelia is inexplicably still in residence and demanding to know why Balbina is dressed nicely. It is because of her appointment at the tribunal. Onelia’s mood-o-meter is stuck on “blind fury” so of course she rages at Balbina for intending to tell the truth about what she saw and heard. Israel is telling Stef that he remembers what she said about not wanting him because he didn’t have money, so now he has money, and he’s going to give her everything she wants. Oh, gag. He says he loves her. Like, “amo,” not “quiero.” He asks her if he’ll have a chance with her, and, ever the romantic, she says that depends on whether he really has enough money. Israel, please spend a few of those hard-earned dollars to buy a clue. It’s the wisest investment you’ll ever make; you’ll thank me later. At first Juan Miguel is shocked and sad to hear of the baby’s death, but then it occurs to him that the lying liar who lies may be lying, so he asks for details. Marichuy says the baby got sick, and Omar wasn’t at the hacienda, so she brought the baby to the city. “Why didn’t you look for me?,” asks JM. She says it all happened so fast, and she doesn’t want to talk about it because it’s sad, but maybe it’s better this way for her to not have anything to remind her of JM. I can’t really believe any mother would say that, and if JM was any good as a shrink he probably wouldn’t either. He asks why she agreed to marry Omar. Isabela is downright peeved that Stef is considering that nothing chofer; that would just be dangerous and complicate their little scheme. I’m not sure how. Stef says he’s studying medicine and making lots of money (I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but I’ve always had the impression that it took some time to transition from “studying medicine” to “making lots of money”), so Isa concedes that he might be acceptable, but only if he’s a millionaire. In what currency, Isa? You need to be clear when you’re setting restrictions on other people’s lust lives. Marichuy declines to discuss her feelings about Omar with Juan Miguel. JM is furrowing his brow like he’s trying to prove to someone a mile away that he hasn’t had Botox. Marichuy tells him to get lost, and he flounces out. Yet another tearful encounter in which no one took the opportunity to say anything clarifying or helpful. Someday I’m going to write a telenovela in which everyone finds out what’s going on immediately. There will still be conflict. Cande chews Mari out for saying BabyJM had died. She thinks it’s bad luck. Marichuy thinks she had no choice, because JM might take the kiddo away if he knew he was still alive. JM and the defense lawyer whose name I can never remember talk about the day’s trial proceedings, in which Balbina discussed the differences between Blanca and Ivette. This is the longest trial ever. I don’t think OJ Simpson’s went on this long (the murder one, I mean), and it had way more evidence. Omar passes through and says he’s going to see Lirio. JM looks pained but of course doesn’t say anything. Marichuy returns to her dressing room after a ragingly successful first act. Olga tells her she’s a natural artist. Another big flower arrangement has arrived. Ceci is still in the hospital, but she’s sitting up and eating now while she talks with Patricio. Blah, blah, platitudes about how he was so worried but now that she’s doing so much better he can finally sleep. She asks him to bring her some newspapers so she can read about Marichuy. From the look on his face, the mere thought of Marichuy’s success is more than enough to cancel out his happiness about his wife’s recovery. The flowers are from Marichuy’s costar, and she’s sad that they aren’t from her mother again. Olga asks if she isn’t curious to know who her mother is. If Marichuy wasn’t so obstinately refusing to think about it, she would already know. Padre Anselmo has told her that they are people she knows (well, he strongly implied that) and that they are fairly wealthy. Throw in the fact that they would have to be in a certain age range, and that narrows it right down. Omar, ever the polite visitor, barges through the apartment looking for Lirio. Cande says she’s out, dondeabouts unknown. Omar doesn’t buy that. Pat is still blaming Marichuy for Ceci’s accident, and graciously and considerately orders Ceci to forget about that brat. I think he’s lucky Ceci is still incapacitated. If looks could kill, he’d have been sailing the Styx right then. Marichuy still says she doesn’t want to know who her mother is. Olga gently encourages her to reconsider. Time for the second act. Omar demands information from Cande, but she refuses to give him any. She thinks he should hear things from Marichuy. He thinks so, too, which is why he is looking for her! He’ll wait until she returns. Cande begs and pleads for him to leave. JM is at home, relaxing in a suit and tie, as one does. Wait, no, he isn’t relaxing, he’s looking saggy-eyed and worrying, which causes Rocío to worry about him. Omar returns and says he only saw Cande and she wouldn’t tell him anything, not even about the baby. JM tries to think. It looks like it hurts. Marichuy arrives home and Cande reports that El Leopardo! dropped by. Mari can’t believe it. Did she really think he wouldn’t? Cande says she didn’t tell him anything, but he’s going to come back, for sure. Omar tells JM that Cande wouldn’t tell him where Marichuy had gone, and you can tell JM is just itching to say something, but he doesn’t. Omar says he’s going to find out what’s going on. Vicente and Rocío stroll through the park being all lovey-dovey. Rocío has converted Vicente to her weird neckwear ways. Muchas smooches; nothing really to report but at least someone is happy. Juan Miguel sits at a table in his fabulous garden and frets more handsomely than he was fretting the night before. The horizontal forehead wrinkles are more fetching than the vertical pinch between the eyebrows. He still doesn’t know what to do, or what would happen if Omar found out that Mari and JM were married. Just a guess, I’m thinking one thing that would happen is that he’d be angry with them both for not saying anything. Let’s find out soon. Ivette has taken over and is screaming and shaking the flimsy jail bars. She is losing it even more than usual and yelling that the walls are closing in on her and she wants to be free and she isn’t dead. She screams for Omar to save her. The guards decide they have to shut her up. They grab her and she says she’ll kill them. Marichuy nightmarishly remembers her talk with Ceci at the theater. She imagines Ceci’s accident, which in her gory mind happened on a dark cliff and involved a huge explosion. Ivette somehow overpowers two guards, but a third comes along and gets hold of her. The lawyer calls Juan Miguel and tells him about Blanca’s episode while Omar eavesdrops from about two feet away. Omar really isn’t the most well-mannered man, is he? Onelia gives another performance of her usual rant. JM leaves to see Blanca, and Onelia continues screeching at Omar about how EVERYONE is on Blanca’s side. The whole family, the servants, Padre Anselmo Vidal, everyone. The only part of that Omar heard was “Padre Anselmo Vidal.” He looks thoughtful. Thought doesn’t seem to hurt him as much as it hurts JM. He asks Onelia whether she knows the priest. Blanca’s now in a straightjacket and subdued. JM comes along and is brave enough to go into her cell. She gets to take the straightjacket off. She cries, and he promises to cure her and get her out of there. She says he’s the only one she has. Gee, now he HAS to marry her. Ornerylia tells Omar that PA is corrupt and has sold his soul to the devil for money. Omar puts up with her diatribe long enough to find out that PA knows JM’s wife, Marichuy. More thinking. Marichuy cries to Cande about her nightmare and how guilty she feels about Ceci’s accident. She thinks her dream might have been a premonition about Ceci dying. Clemencia receives a letter from Adrian, which she doesn’t even have to read because his ghostlike face appears on the paper and speaks to her. He apologizes for the way he left and forgives her for what she did to Purita, and says he loves her. She’s thrilled. Where did he go, Hogwarts? Omar goes to the church and tells PA that he already found Lirio, and Juan Miguel went with him to see her. PA is muy impactado. Marichuy calls the hospital and is mucho relieved to hear that Ceci is out of danger. The doctor tells Ceci she can go home soon. The doorbell rings at the casa de liars. Mari says if it’s Omar to let him in. “Y si es mulcas?,” asks Cande, and I don’t know what that means exactly but she’s asking about JM. No, don’t let him in. Either way, don’t let the baby cry. The mystery guest is Omar. He looks sad and says, “Why, Lirio? Why?” JM tells Rocío what happened with Blanca. They don’t know who the man is for whom she was yelling. Omar tells Mari that he had pinned all his hopes on her, and she made him so happy. He reminds her of the time when he said she was like a bird that had taken refuge in a storm and would someday fly away, and she promised she would never leave him. Then she just left without even saying goodbye. “WHY?” She says she has her reasons. He wants to know what they are. Stefi visits Ceci and cheers her up by reminding her that Marichuy is the root of all evil and Patricio will never accept her. Ceci tells her to stop, because the accident was not Marichuy’s fault and she will never stop trying with her daughter even if she is rejected a thousand times, and not even Pat can stop her. “What if you have to choose between Patricio and Marichuy?,” asks Stef. Ceci glares at her but doesn’t point out that a husband like that is hardly worth having, which is just as well because Stef wouldn’t understand anyway, seeing as how she thinks husbands are just bank accounts. Stef is wearing a completely indecent dress; it covers nothing. Marichuy asks Omar to forgive her. She couldn’t love him the way he deserved, and she couldn’t “jugarte chueco” (chueco means twisted; she couldn’t play dirty or deceive him). He asks who the other man is. Amador walks in just then. Omar, of course, is horrified.
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