Telenovela Alborada, #15

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Friday: Luis tells Felipe, as they ride through pretty countryside, that if he had met Antonio under other circumstances, he would have liked him. He's not happy, though, thinking of Antonio trying to make babies with Hipólita. "I know he's her husband and has boinking rights, but I was FIRST in her life..." This makes me like Luis less.
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Having found out that her daughter is alive, Victoria is determined to go out right away and find her "or I'll feel like a jailed tiger all night." Her mom Sara tries to stop her - "it's one thing to be impetuous in a god-forsaken podunk, but here in the city it's dangerous to attract attention." Victoria visits Doña Elvira's house with a trumped up story; she discovers that Elvira took this adopted daughter - named Marina - to the Guevara Palace in order to have one less mouth to feed. Elvira planned to give Marina to Luis to be his very own whore, but he didn't want her, so Doña Isabel took her on.

Later Victoria fumes to her mother Sara: "My daughter, a whore?" "Isabel's a good woman, maybe Marina is safe with her." Victoria wants to swoop right over there and take Marina (whose name used to be Sofía) away, but Sara reminds her: "Many years may have passed, but the hatred of our race endures. If people find out she's a Jew, it will go badly with us."

Cristóbal is hoping Luis and Felipe get back from the beach soon enough to be his seconds in the duel. Catalina is wretched, blaming herself for Cristóbal's imminent death by sword. "It's the worst day of my life, I should never have left the convent." The brutal Francisco is very uninterested to hear that his stepdaughter Hipólita is near death, he only wants to hear how his blackmailing scheme is going. "Juana wants to see you tomorrow."

Juana rants to her sister-in-law Isabel that Diego has lost his mind, gets crazier every day. Isabel: "He acts like he's king of the world, caray, caray!, he's turned into a demon." Juana gets tearful and this makes Isabel feel tender and want to help - can the two of them, working together, stop the duel?

However, when in a lapse of logic Juana proposes that the best thing would be for Isabel to forgive the promissory note - "we'd pay you a little on it, of course!" Isabel draws away saying: "Don't try to blackmail me - pay me the money or give me the palace!"

The midwife tells Esperanza she, and the unborn baby, are out of the woods. The bleeding has stopped. But she must be peaceful, eat well, get plenty of rest. [Good advice for all of us - Ed.] Mirtha wants to go back to the cigar-smoking gypsy and get some healing potion but Esperanza says no.

Gasca's ransom note arrives. He wrote it with his left hand so nobody would recognize his handwriting. Juana, condescendingly: "I didn't even know you COULD write!" Gasca, Modesta and the baby sneak out through the kitchen and go off to Valverdes. A guy in a cape that great shouldn't have to carry suitcases, it spoils the whole effect. Juana, dressed like Lady Macbeth, waves goodbye in the dark.

RAFAEL MADE SOUNDS IN THIS SCENE!

Juana is going kind of soft on Rafael. "I'd like to have a REAL grandson of my own, by Diego, but I fear it's impossible. The only real one is you, Rafael. You look so much like my brother (the former Count). I'm beginning to love you too much."

In the fields, Luis is staring at the campfire and passing his hand over it. Felipe says: "Ever since I met you, you've been fascinated by fire." "Yes, it's something I can't control and don't understand - a mixture of attraction and fear." "Maybe it's related to that SCAR ON YOUR LEG." "Yes, my mother told me that scar was from an accident when I was playing with Diego." Or maybe, he muses, he's fascinated by the stories of his aunt and uncle (really his parents) dying in that fire way back when...

Ramon and the mute (the first kidnappers, who took Hipólita to the beach) are grumbling about being sent by Gasca ("I don't like that guy") to find Sara, La Poderosa. They run, coincidentally, into Sara's daughter Victoria who reminds them it's their fault the beach settlement was abandoned. They are invited to tell their story to Sara the next day.

Catalina and her brother Andrés talk about Marina, who loves Andrés. In case you've forgotten, Marina was raped by the demonic Diego when she went to his chambers to protect this very Andrés! Who now says: "Could I be with a woman who's been with another man? No, she's no longer the one for me."

Perla overheard this and says: "That's men for you, they'll sleep with whomever, but then they only want to marry holy virgins!" (It's true that Diego took Andrés to the brothel.)

Catalina's father, who's always going on about honor, comes through the courtyard and, seeing Perla for the first time, gives her a lingering and lascivious look which she returns. Blech!

Marcos urges Cristóbal to call for a pistol duel, since Diego is so good with swords. Pondering the kidnapping of Rafael, they muse that, if those were just delinquents in soldier suits, then Sara may know of them. They resolve to visit her.

Francisco buttonholes Cristóbal yet again and yammers on about his daughter's honor being compromised. "Who'll want to marry her after this?" Cristóbal should have said: "Who would marry a daughter with an awful father like you?" I want something REALLY BAD to happen to Francisco.

Luis finally gets home. "Welcome back sir, your true love Hipólita has been injured onto death and your son has been kidnapped." Hipólita continues to groan, "Who are you? Who am I? Where am I?"

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