WEDNESDAY UPDATE ON THREE SIDES OF ANA EPISODE 80
We start this perfect length episode (with an added bonus of no repeat scenes!) with Ana Le rudely inquiring if stunned Sole is mute or deaf, or neither, in which case would she please answer her question on Viridiana’s whereabouts. Sole manages to mumble something on Viri being right back. Ana Le wants to know Sole’s position here – it is seamstress. Yes, that is obvious, contemptuously spits out Ana Le. Sole is offered sweet relief from this most unexpected company when Viri comes out, and Ana Le runs out to congratulate her. Sole scurries away to worry in the backroom in front of Ceci. She is trembling and in a whiny voice proclaims that she has a bad feeling, and wants to go home to her daughter.
With Sole out of their earshot, Ana Le wants to know if this seamstress is any good, and if she is, Viri must send her along with the dress to make it fit just right, since all that money was paid by Tio to make Ana Le happy. (I would probably not be remiss in my estimation that the entire viewership of this TN would like to offer a suggestion to take a pair of scissors to this dress to make it really stand out…or stand down.) Viridiana calls Ana Le out on making TioM spend so much money on this dress. Ana Le uses this opportunity to bring up Claudia, who was bidding against them, and since TioM had a past with her, he was trying to outbid. Viri somehow looks like she has Ana Le’s number.
Meanwhile Mariano runs into said Claudia outside and looks like he barely remembers her. There is a round of introductions – Claudia to Erni, Erni to Claudia, Erni to Nerina and vice versa. Erni thinks Nerina looks familiar, but they can’t quite decide where they met. Claudia uses the opportunity to let them chat and steals Mariano away to catch up. Erni invites Nerina to sit down with her, and it looks like Nerina’s dream of getting closer to Ana Lu’s real family is about to come true.
Ana Lu is at the pension telling Rem the harrowing story of encountering Marcelo.
Ana Lu is terrified of how cold and strange that man seemed to her. Rem is scared about this Jekyll-Hyde personality split, and now thinks she should have taken Santi to the doctors. There must be a pill for that, reasons Remedios. (You might be thinking about a different pill, Rem, but those are only 99% effective and your Mr. Hyde and Ana Lu might already be on their way to that 1%, as well as to making it to Urban’s list of clichés).
Nerina and Erni bond in the meantime. Erni tells her all about the terrible accident, loss of her daughter, Llora’s disability and Ana Lu’s disappearance. Nerina reminds Erni where Erni knows her from. Erni is delighted to make acquaintance of such a wonderful singer, who moved everyone to tears, even Llora’s friend Tin. Tin, you say? Now Nerina is moved to tears.
Santicelo and his over-gelled hair return to the mansion. He inquires about Ana Le and Leonor, who is not at all surprised to see him in a Marcelo mode, tells him she is at the fashion show. The RoboCop is off to get some sleep, but – one moment – he needs to first remind Leonor that what happened between her and his father should never happen again. Don’t worry, says Leonor, she knows her place. Do you really? – Marcelo wants to know, and it seems like they are talking about two different “places”. (Could Marcelo know what his papi is up to and disapprove?)
Ana Lu is still at it with her futile search for the box, with Rem helping her “find” the box that is actually peacefully sitting in Rem’s closet. Defeated, Ana Lu gives up the search, but declares she will keep her mouth shut until she has the evidence in hand, and only then will confront Sole. Little does she know she just spilled her entire plan to Sole’s confidante.
Mariano and Claudia catch up. He figured out from Nerina’s last name that this is Claudia’s mother. They discuss that they have grown apart and haven’t seen each other in years. Claudia declines to discuss further. She also asks for an apology. Mariano feels like it is him, who is owed an apology, after that glass of wine in the face. After a couple minutes of prodding and beating around the bush, Claudia gets it out of him that Jennifer is dead. Claudia caresses TioM to console him, and Ana Le points that out to Viridiana, who is standing next to her. It’s Viri’s good luck that she doesn’t have anything going on with Tio - he is a terrible womanizer, always has been and will never change. A woman needs to love him with all his defects, otherwise she will be disappointed. Subtle as a ton of bricks that one.
Ram, Llora and the gruesome twosome of Tin and Valeria crashing their date, are all having dinner. Tin wants to start planning for the upcoming music night benefit, but Llora expresses her doubt in being ready to play in public after her last experience. Ram is fidgety and really wants this musical night with Tin not to happen, so he suggests that Llora doesn’t need to play if she doesn’t want to. Tin points out Ram should support Llora by helping her overcome her fears. Ram loses boyfriend points and digs himself in deeper, as he refuses to give up on his stubborn fit of jealousy. Tin, meanwhile, continues to play a therapist to him and Llora and explains about understanding Llora’s insecurities and helping her with them. Finally Tin plays the disabled card, leaving Ramiro in the dust in this particular race.
Rodrigo figured out Miranda’s plan to “accidentally” run into Erni and he is on board. Meanwhile Erni is all but taken with Nerina. They soon change to familiar ‘tu’, and Erni invites Nerina to her house this coming Saturday to take tea with her and Llora. Nerina realizes Llora knows her already, but she made such strides in her plan of a detective and so she takes the card anyway. A couple seconds later Erni is dragged away by the matchmaker Miranda.
Elsewhere at the pension Rem is losing it over having to keep the secret from Sole’s box, but convinces herself that she promised and so she must.
Sole is still being brought to her senses, this time by Viri, while Ceci went back to work. Viridiana offers to present Sole to the guests as one of the key collaborators, but Sole declines. Miranda and Erni show up right then and Sole is introduced to Erni. The reunion of the sisters is lukewarm, marked only by a noticeable gulp that pale Sole takes upon realizing this is a woman that she stole a little girl from. Erni calls Sole a well-kept secret. Sole only hears the word secret and is all ears. Secret? What secret? Oh, oh, you meant I was the secret. No-no, not any secret, just a seamstress. She excuses herself, after pointing out that she needs to finish up and get back to the daughter she adores, and when she leaves the women decide they made her nervous. They discuss Sole’s wonderful qualities as a mother.
Ana Le and Mariano discuss the amount of money he spent on the dress. Mariano hopes Ana Le will at least wear it. He wants to go says congrats to Viri, but Ana Le is not to be left alone. Just then Rodrigo shows up and Ana Le’s antenna is up – she knows his appearance here is connected to her grandmother. She asks TioM who that is and, when told, ventures a guess that he knows Abue from some time ago. Ana Le wants to go meet him and Mariano uses this to excuse himself and finally go see Viri.
Ana Le is off to approach Abue, Rodrigo and company, who are awkwardly conversing at the moment. Miranda remarks on the destiny and chance that brought them all together. Ernestina does not buy this story: some chance! Erni also didn’t know Rodrigo owned hotel. She gives him a quick low-down of her situation: three granddaughters, triplets, from her daughter that Rod never met. Just then Ana Le joins the conversation and wants to know where Abue and Rod met. Rod almost spills the beans about being Erni’s BF, but is stopped by her intent gaze and corrects himself.
Viri is thanking her helpers - Sole and Ceci. Sole is chomping at the bit to get home and declines to stay for the glass of wine. Ceci is tired too and wants to go home, so she offers to drive Sole, and proceeds to try Sole’s patience by dawdling over some chores and asking Sole to smile. Meanwhile Nerina walks in looking for someone, sees Sole and the latter looks like she is ready to hit something with all of these surprises coming at her tonight. Nerina quickly leaves and Sole and Ceci are right behind her.
Mariano finally finds Viri to offer his congratulations on the successful show. They banter a bit about Claudia – Viri looks somewhat jealous, even if she didn’t let on as much during her conversation with Ana Le. Mariano tries to dismiss it by saying he is not even interested in Claudia – indeed the only woman he has eyes for is…. But Viri will not let him finish. To top it off she declares that she will personally deliver the dress to Ana Le, because Ana Le needs to be spoiled apparently judging by Mariano’s behavior. He tries to deny it and cover his actions of spending all the money with the good cause this money is going towards. Viri, though, astutely points out Ana Le is vying for attention and Mariano has just enabled her getting it. Hats off to Viri. She may yet stay alive through the end of the TN even with Ana Le on the loose!
Sole is finally home and excited to unburden herself with Remedios, who has been waiting up. Before Sole can explain though how much of a horrible, terrible, no-good of a night she had with all of those relatives of Ana Lu she had to see, Rem unloads the news of Ana Lu knowing about Sofia and that’s more than Sole can handle for one night and she faints.
Nerina is brought back home by the soul-less Claudia, who wants to know if this big pension is Nerina’s, which would mean she hid property during their court proceedings. Knowing Nerina only rents a room there calms Claudia. Nerina wants to know when she can see her daughter again, and the answer is never. Claudia will never forgive, and will also not give her Tin’s address, though the one thing she will do is ask Tin if he wants to see Nerina. Claudia rubs some more salt on the wound by pointing out it’s been six years that Tin has been in a wheelchair and Nerina didn’t care. Why start now?
Claudia takes a dramatic exit by asking Nerina not to be such a drama queen, and so Nerina finally comes in to the house, where Rem is still trying to revive Sole. The two of them join forces, and Sole finally comes to and is taken back to Rem’s room. Nerina is feeding her some water, while Rem is off to make tea. As soon as Sole regains some consciousness, she wants to know what Nerina was doing at the fashion show. Nerina does not deny she was there to meet Ana Lu’s family, but she wants to help Sole find a solution. Sole is asking her to get out in no uncertain terms, as she does not trust her any more. Nerina then tells her own drama story of meeting Claudia, her daughter, who still hates her. Rem comes back to the room in the middle of this dark share moment and awkwardly stands with a cup of tea.
Tin is back at his place remembering the night right after Ram broke into his house. It was Claudia, who he called and who came to help. She pointed out he needed to get rid of all the pictures and clean up. This unwanted guest could bring Llora and Mariano any day and too much was at stake for that to happen. (We wonder what game these two are playing together – whatever it is no doubt it is somehow connected with Ev’s master plan.) According to Claudia, Tin had nothing to offer to Gina and so she left him. He still doesn’t have anything to offer to a woman, even though he is with Llora. And please stop drinking, Tin – at least you will only provoke pity, and not disgust. (Gem of a sister here for sure).
Back at the pension, Remedios’s CPU is at 100% with everything going on. She tells her own story of the day of encountering Marcelo, his cold stare and feeling as if she meant nothing to this stranger. (Man, everybody in that room had some sort of kid drama this episode.) What was Marcelo doing there? He came to tell Ana Lu about Sofia. Sole starts panicking all over again and hyperventilating over finding an explanation for Ana Lu. Rem spills the beans on Ana Lu’s plan to keep quiet and look for evidence. It’s Sole’s turn to share and she tells them about meeting Ana Le and Erni, and the decision she made just now – she will take Ana Lu, by force if necessary, and they will leave this place forever, never to be found again!
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