MONDAY UPDATE ON TIMELESS LOVE EPISODE 156
Maritata sniveling to Antonio, attentive but unmoved, insists that Tata gets real already.
We are introduced to Auggie’s latest purchase, Saul, the one that got away from Tata. Auggie wants Saul to woo Tata away. . .far, far away.
Kari gets her divorce decree and is thus free to marry Super Laz. . .”dicen que las flores no dejaban de cantar tu nombre, tu nombre cariño” Juan Luis Guerra serenades us. . .
Nastynez crawls out from under his rock at The Rock to meet Renata who asks him to tell the truth about the feigned death plot. What you gonna give me in return, he leers. . .
New stuff:
Renata doesn’t dignify his leer with a reaction. All Renata has to offer him is the opportunity to clear his conscience. Ah, that’s just cheap romanticism that doesn’t go far here in the pen sniffs Nastay. Seems a cash cushion will make life easier. . .[gulp! Oh no, don’t do it Renata!]
The youngsters, Anibal and Alison stroll through the house at La Bonita. He remarks that he is treated well here despite being Auggie’s son. His motorcycle is still not out of the shop and it’s curious that at first Auggie wanted him to scram but now he wants him to stick around so they get to know each other. Aye, this puts a light in Alison’s eyes, she’s like, cool, that means you’ll be around more? Well, not cause I want to, but I need to Anibal looks away, pained. Why, what’s up? Anibal takes Alisons hands and vows to give her the whole truth but she has to swear not to tell a soul!
Back at The Cruz de Desamor Saul questions the logic of Auggie’s plan. . .Auggie quiets Saul’s qualms with a briefcase full of cash. . .is that enough for you to go to the parish and convince Marina to begin a new life with you. You bet your sweet bippy it is grins Saul! It’s a deal!
As we watch the sad, jaundice-toned replay, Anibal tells the story of his Mom dying of cancer about two months ago. . .there was always just him and his Mom, she never married. It was her dying wish that he know of his roots. . . she instructed him to take out a box from the nightstand. . .within the box was the proof that Augustin Dunant is his Father. Poor Hortensia had kept the letter in which Auggie told her to get an abortion and the check to pay for it. How romantic. [What’s the male equivalent of a skank?] Anibal doesn’t know what he’s going to do with the letter, he’s not sure what his next step will be. Alison entreats Anibal to stay, maybe with time his Dad will accept him and even come to care for him.
Ahhhh, Hon enjoys a hot cup o’ joe while he cruises the news in the morning paper. “Waaaah!” His comfy concentration is interrupted by the cute report of a baby’s cry. Hon calls to Con as he gets up to investigate. BUSTED! What are YOU doing with this baby HERE. Connie stammers she is taking care of her for Corina. Hasn’t Regina warned you you cannot get involved with this woman. She explains that Cornia has gone to her house to get more clothing and other things she needs. Hon maintains that the baby cannot stay in their house. No, it’s only for a couple of days pleads Connie. Whoa! Now it’s Hon’s turn to jut HIS jaw.
Awww, Chema of the dreamy eyes and cheek-sweeping lashes shares a subtle smile and ushers us to the next commercial break. . .and a lovely Adriana welcomes us back. . .
Isidro and Ines discuss Renata’s return to La Bonita: this complicates Isidro’s efforts to confirm his suspicions. Ines convinces Isidro to talk to Antonio and enlist his help in getting Renata’s finger prints. After all, Antonio himself promised Regina that he would help her find her daughter: we’ll help him keep his word!
Well, Hon is not making much headway with Connie, she’s got a serious baby buzz again! You can’t get involved with a child that’s not yours, who sooner or later will have to go and it’s going to break your heart! Well, I’ve thought about that, why don’t we adopt! No! No! No! Neither of us are of the age to start taking care of a baby! Connie’s buzz dissolves into a pout.
Matias, Adriana and Julieta sit in a café discussing the Chema situation. Julieta thinks it’s very strange that Chema doesn’t want to talk to them but has made a special point to have his Dad call them to ask them not to miss the grand opening. Adri and Mati thinks he just needs to time to sort his feelings out and don’t think anything is amiss, Julieta is not convinced.
Oh, goody, things are about to pick up! Here’s Fina and Berta who is informing malamama that the money is in the car and she’s not bringing her another peso! Roberta tells Fina that Regina traced the ransom money and has recovered it from Fina’s accounts. Maldita! spits Fina, but she’s not finished: Inside Empresas Monterrubio is somebody who will tell Roberta exactly what she has to do to get the money Fina needs! “voy a buscar a nuestra asesora financiera.” I’m going to get our financial manager chirps Fina with a bow.
Connie has regrouped and argues that plenty women her age have happily cared for newborns. . . .good for them but we don’t need it counters Hon. I have emotional needs as well that caring for a baby can satisfy. . .well, when Adriana has children you can meet those needs as Abuela, not as Mother! This is Hon’s last word and as soon as this bundle of (not) joy is well, she and her mother have to leave this house! Hon cautions that he thinks Cornia is taking advantage of Connie. Connie is like a pink record player with one broken disc and she just keeps going at Hon with her one tune but Hon stands firm: you’re breaking the rules of Regina’s Hope and taking this too personal.
Holy loco-motion, it’s Blanca, the asesora financiera ! Roberta, working in the credit and collection section of EM is supposed to get clients making payments to make the checks out in her name and split the ill-gotten gains with Fina!? [Okay. Anybody feel free to chime in here, I’m not sure how this is going to work even if Roberta was not unscrupulous, grasping and with zippo business saavy?!]
Okay. Lovebirds back at Hoosegow Light. Renata explains that NauseousNesme has agreed to “tell the truth” in exchange for dinero. . .Jero is as surprised as I was, this is like blackmail, no, don’t do it he says. Renata sees this as a simple incentive or gratuity for doing what needs to be done. [Once again, am I missing something here? How is the purchased word of psycho-perverted-lush going to help Jero?] Just for our Carlos, doubts are settled with kisses and sweet nothings from one side of the sun-drenched bars to the other! “Cuando me enamoro. . .” Renata takes us to break with her sexy inhalation of the heady bouquet of a freshly-picked bunch of grapes. . .
A radiant Kari meets Super Laz at the Po-Po station, divorce decree in a green-means-go folder. I feel Laz is restraining himself from one of his award-winning gritos when he simply picks Kari up off her feet in a joyous embrace. Green does mean “go” as Kari proposes the get hitched right here and now! Laz is way past ready. Off they run hand in hand cute as can be to the Registro Civil. [I love the Kari song so much sometimes I don’t even hear what the two of them are saying but I got this loud and clear!]
Ho boy, here’s Ms. Ain’t got a professional bone in her body – Prissy – working amongst bubbling flasks and beakers questioning Charlie about Matilde, and marveling that he not only fell for such a country bumpkin but that his mother accepts her as well. Charlie confesses that at first it was not so but she won her over. Prissy calculates that she’s got a new card she’s gonna play in that Charlie never told Matilde they were novios. [I thought Matilde found this out?] Carlos attitude is “lo que no fue en tu año no te hace daño. (If it’s not in your era, it shouldn’t scare ya). We hear Prissy’s wheels-a turnin’ as Charlie hobbles off to look for Renata.
Uh oh, back in Sunnydale Hoozegow Jero is juro-ing to Renata that nothing is going to separate them. [This is known as anvil whispering!] Jero agrees that Nesme’s nasty palms may be greased [sickening metaphor, isn’t it?] They discuss and then dismiss the lying Doctor Ezaguirre as an arse-covering, ethically-challenged wimp. Anywho, Renata is to get cash from the safe at LB for Nas-T. I don’t know if this is noble or stupid: Renata doesn’t want Carlos to take the money to Nesme, she wants to do it herself! At least she promises not to go alone and there’s more smooching between the bars. .
A smiling Saul pays TaTa and Padre a visit at the parsonage. “Saul, que haces aqui? ” This is Saul, asks Tio Padre, the man that made you suffer so much? [Oh Lord, there’s a pattern here]. Git yo’ ass outta here, snarls Padre, neither me nor my niece want anything to do with you! Saul pleads that he’s come to ask her forgiveness, he’s looked for her everywhere, please listen. Padre opens the door, Saul begs and Marina sits there, her usually quivering lips agape.
Speaking of lips, back to the Horny Hoozegow where Renata tries to kiss her way out of telling Jero that it was Auggie who told her he was in jail. Jero is pissed. Oh he was just trying to be helpful and offering his support. Don’t be naïve, Renata Jero pleads, having backed out of kissing range. Dunant’s a bad person. Renata manages to drag him back to her lips, which Jero fights, trying to tell Renata about Auggie and Roberta’s shaggin’ behind her back while she was engaged to Auggie. No importa, no importa she cries, chanelling Matilde as she swallows Jero’s protests in kisses. [Ok, Carlos, this time it was annoying!]
Meanwhile, Saul has taken a seat and Tata is listening. Saul feigns surprise at her preganancy and use of a wheelchair. How big of him, he still wants to talk to Tata even though she’s pregnant. Padre, like us, shakes his head in disgust.
Laz and Kari in the Registro Civil explaining their crazy, mixed up courtship. All the papers are in order and Laz gives a 2 on the Richter scale grito. Okay, cool, do you each have two witnesses? Nooo. . .hang on you crazy kids, un momentito says to RC official and she leaves. Well, who should be walking by the large internal windows of the RC office but Renata? They anxiously beckon her in and pull her in on the happy plot. Renata squeals, one witness down, three to go.
Tata and Saul talk in the courtyard, he’s gonna rebuild his life, blah, blah, blah, he knows his ADDICTION hurt her but he’s a new man and he continues to get his beg on, big time.
Padre seeks refuge in consultation with Antonio about this Saul who is the cause of Tata closing her heart to love, losing herself in her profession and low-cut cleavage-baring blouses . [emphasis mine] Saul destroyed her past but Jeronimo represents the present and future Padre explains. Padre is worried that Tata is vulnerable and may become reinvolved with Saul as a way out of her problems. Donde hubo fuego, cenizas quedan. Where there was fire, smoldering embers remain.
Our Darling Chema is at a travel agency and has called Selene on the phone, inviting her to the grand opening of his restaurant. . .where we find Julieta and Chema’s Dad. The worry together about Chema’s state. .
Hmmmm. Chema is buying tickets to Paris? Yes. Pah-ree. It’s a dream of his, he always wanted to go there and study with the great Chefs. Nunca dejes para mañana lo que puedes hacer hoy. [To prove this is also a learning space, those who don’t know the meaning of this saying, your assignment is to look it up].
Oh Boy! Tony is talking to Isidro on the phone about helping him get Renata’s finger prints! Isidro gets right to the point: He thinks Fina and Roberta are breaking one off in everybody and he wants to extract the appendage as it were. I want proof of what I suspect that Roberta IS NOT the daughter of Regina. But there was a positive DNA test and Roberta has the same congenital heart defect as her Dad, Roberto. Yeah, but fingerprints don’t change and Roberta’s do not match those on the birth certificate of the baby Roberto and Regina registered! Isidro answers Tony that he’s not saying Roberta is faking the heart defect but that Renata could also have one. Tony agrees to help get the prints!
And as the flowers sing her glorious name, Super Laz and Kari are pronounced Marido y Mujer in the company of Renata and three other witnesses the official gathered.! They share their first marital kiss as we are treated to a montage of the cheers, tears, trials and tribulations of our beloved and patient Novios!
Meanwhile, back at La Bonita Carlos startles Mati with one of his endearingly cute gestures: the presentation of a paper flower [methinks thou shalt need more than that after Prissy filleth her ear] Mati plays hard to melt, declaring her annoyance over his friendship with Prissy. Said Prissy has just thought-bubbled her skank application: “No, he will not have eyes only for you. Your eyes will return to me. This “Matilde” will soon be a thing of the past. I’m not going to permit you to continue with this foolish, absurd idea of marrying her.”
Now Saul is hauling Marina around in her chair continuing to put the beg on [her listening adds at least another couple of paragraphs to the excellent psych eval EJ gave her the other day] He offers to take care of her babies, to be their Father. Oh, he’s going to give her a new life, be the couple they never could be before [hmmm, this is giving her pause, a decades-missing crack-head promising a new life. . .], he’s going to give her the family she always wanted. . .All Tata can offer is “don’t insist, Saul”. With this half-assed protest he shifts it into high gear. . .Oh, you’re the love of my life, let me win you back. I don’t want to lose you again. Thinking on this most attractive tale, Tata fades to grey. . .
[Aw shoot! I thought I was going to get the outing of Roberta, had a title picked and everything. So forgive my slightly lame title. Oh well, it could be in no better hands than my friends who have capped and recapped this number from the beginning.]
Preview: The Batty Bobsy Twins ramp their plan into the next level, Auggie and Saul do the same and oh my goodness, did I see Chema slipping into darkness?
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