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The Old: Leticia and Rodrigo commiserate about being miserable over coffee, and Rod picks up on Leti’s jealousy over Sergio stepping out with Gloria. Nora greets Marcelo and Lucia at the foot of the stairs with the Plot Pistol aimed right at them. She blames Lucia for all her woes, and swears that if she can’t have Marcelo, neither can Lucia! She fires a shot that goes wild and destroys a talavera pot that was minding its own business. Marcelo rushes her and they wrestle wildly for the gun. Another shot rings out in the middle of the struggle, and Marcelo, Nora, and Lucia all seem paralyzed with shock.
The New: Marcelo realizes that neither he nor Nora were hit by the bullet, and he snatches the gun from her hands while her guard is down. Lucia calls out his name, and when he and Nora turn to face her, they see a stream of blood running down the right leg of her green dress, from where the bullet entered her thigh. Lucia’s shock turns into intense pain, and she begins to scream and collapses to the floor. Marcelo drops the gun and quickly goes to cradle Lucia as her pain and screams intensify. Two gunshots, one shattered pot, and many screams later, Alonso and Rebeca finally emerge from their heated bedroom argument, and run down the stairs demanding to know what the hell is going on. Al is overwhelmed and totally confused by what he sees. In reply to his question about what happened, Marcelo looks from the gun to Nora, who is rooted to the foot of the stairs, wild-eyed, a silent scream stuck in her throat. There’s no time to waste arguing, and so Marcelo and Alonso take hold of Lucia and carry her away so that she can be transported to the hospital.
Rebeca remains alone with Nora. She looks from the gun to Nora, and screams at her, demanding to know what she’s done. She continues screaming at her as she shakes her. Nora escapes her grasp, runs upstairs, and locks herself in her room, with Rebeca hot on her heels.
Leti finally makes it home, in time for an interrogation from a worried Sara—Leti left her phone and her car, but no note. Sara is utterly confused when Leti says he was with Rod, but their discussion is interrupted by a call from frantic Al. Sara says she’s on her way, then tells Leti that Lucia was shot! Leti’s going to the hospital too.
Rod also finally gets home and tells Sergio he took his advice and went to see his depressed daddy. Sergio’s night wasn’t the greatest either. He thinks he made a mistake inviting Gloria to the wedding. Rod gives Sergio his own advice—fix things before it’s too late. (“Pon el remedio, antes que ser demasiado tarde.”) He then mentions he had coffee with Leti. “Looks like she’s in as bad a shape as I am—we’re both alone.” Sergio seems taken aback to learn his guy bestie and gal bestie went out together.
In the hospital, Marcelo has to calm Al down, who’s demanding to be able to see his daughter! He then moves on to demand more info about where Nora got a gun. Marcelo tells him, and now Al is pissed that they didn’t tell him about this sooner. When Marcelo says they thought they could handle it, Al points out the obvious that they couldn’t and didn’t!
Back at Casa Gaxiola, Rebeca is back downstairs, staring at the trail of blood Lucia left behind, and the gun that’s still on the floor where Marcelo dropped it. She has a mini freakout as she remembers Federico shooting himself in the head in front of her with that very gun. She picks it up gingerly, then places it on the ground once again, trembling.
Sara and Leti join Al and Marcelo in the hospital. While Sara goes back to see what info she can get about Lucia’s condition, Leti waits with Marcelo and a very worried Al. Sara comes back some time later to tell them that luckily, the bullet didn’t hit any bone or vital arteries, and Lucia will be fine. She’ll be out of it because of the drugs, but they’ll be able to see her as soon as she’s moved to her room. Marcelo and Leti run off to the room to wait for Lucia, but Sara keeps Al behind to tell him that the hospital has to report any bullet wounds, and the police will be coming at some point.
Marcelo and Leti greet a mostly asleep Lucia as she’s wheeled in, then leave Al alone with her. He crouches by her hospital bedside in a way that reminds Viewerville, and certainly must remind him, of the day Adriana died in that very same hospital. He strokes and kisses her forehead, and tells her he can’t lose her too.
Magdalena and Mario have made it all the way to the airport in D.F., but Magda can’t get into honeymoon mode. She keeps thinking that the arrival of Rebeca at their wedding was like a bird of ill omen (ave de mal agüero), and even though she’s never gotten along well with Nora, she’s worried about her. She thinks they should call to see how she is. Mario kisses away her worries—they’d know by now if anything bad had happened, and gets her hyped for their honeymoon in Cancun. She still has a bad feeling (presentimiento) that something is wrong once they arrive in Cancun, but Mario talks her down again.
Al is determined to not to leave Lucia’s side until he can take her home the next day. Marcelo, Leti and Sara remind him that he has to take care of his own health and rest. He’s only convinced to go when Sara tells him he needs to go home for Nora. Al then starts to worry about Nora and how his poor baby is doing after shooting her sister. He leaves Marcelo in charge of taking care of Lucia. Marcelo asks Al to recover the gun for him when he gets home. He then calls Momster to tell her he’s staying in the hospital with Lucia, who had an “accident”. When she gets off the phone, Mili tells Rafaela she’s sure Lucia’s just faking it, to keep Marcelo by her side and away from Mili. “Why do you always have to think the worst of that girl? What is it exactly that you don’t like about her?” “Everything! Absolutely, everything!”
Al gets home and finds Rebeca sitting on the stairs, staring at the trail of blood. He gives her the update on Lucia and asks for one on Nora. Rebeca saying she doesn’t know and hasn’t seen Nora since they all left, is just unacceptable to Al. Rebeca is feeling all kinds of sorry for herself and sobs that Nora doesn’t want to see her. Al wants to know why she never told him that Nora had the gun. If she had told him, perhaps he could have prevented this from happening (he’s also starting to clutch at his heart attack arm). Al starts talking about the legal trouble Nora will likely be in, and Rebeca’s not having it. She wants Al to call Mario back from his honeymoon and keep her baby out of jail. Al refuses to ruin Mario’s honeymoon, but he will find a way to help Nora—perhaps Dr. Andrade can give testimony about Nora’s mental health that would help. R: My daughter is not crazy! A: I swear that I’m not so sure anymore.
Al knocks on Nora’s door. She’s unresponsive, but this time he’s prepared and has the keys. He and Rebeca find Nora on the floor, curled up in the fetal position. He picks her up off the floor, and she swears to him that she didn’t want to hurt anyone. Al assures her that he believes her, lets her know that Lucia will be ok, and hugs and kisses her to try to comfort and calm her. Nora looks completely broken, and Rebeca seems to know that she broke her. Rebeca runs out of the room to have a cry in the hallway.
The next morning, Marcelo feeds Lucia green hospital Jello. She thanks him for taking care of her, and tells him how terrified she was that he’d get hurt when Nora pointed the gun at him. Marcelo laments that she was the one who ended up getting hurt, and says that now Nora will have to pay the consequences. Before Lucia can answer, Detective Juarez and his junior detective arrive to take Lucia’s statement. To Marcelo’s shock and consternation, Lucia says the shooting was all HER fault—the result of her inexperience while handling a gun. Marcelo lets them know the gun is his and he has all the registration paperwork. Detective J is all kinds of suspicious of Marcelo, but his underling (who interviewed Marcelo after his stabbing), says he has all of Marcelo’s deets. Marcelo just has to come down to the station ASAP with that gun and the paperwork. After the cops leave, Lucia has some ‘splainin’ to do. She tells Marcelo that she didn’t rat Nora out because she’s her sister, and she has more than enough problems at the moment, without jail being one of them. Marcelo is NOT in agreement that this is the best way to help Nora. Lucia thanks him for not ratting her out (desmentir) in front of the cops.
Outside, the cops are still suspicious. Detective J wants a report from the doctors on the trajectory of the bullet, and if Lucia could have really shot herself by accident, as she claims. They think she might be covering for someone. “Lately, that girl’s family has been in a lot of legal trouble.” Junior detective reminds Juarez that Marcelo was a recent stabbing victim in front of the family’s business. “That’s a lot of problems for one family…”
Al gets the gun from Rebeca, who has locked it in her nightstand (ironically under a photo of Nora). As she hands it to him and asks him to get rid of it, she mentions that this gun has provoked many tragedies. Al informs her that Dr. Andrade is seeing Nora right now and will go on seeing her, and too bad if Rebeca isn’t in agreement!
In her room, Nora is in her bed, staring off into space, as Dr. Andrade does all the talking. He stands up so that she can’t avoid seeing him. “The moment has come for you to decide if you want help, or not….Nora, if you want to continue with therapy, you know where to find me.” He leaves, but he seems to have somewhat broken through Nora’s fog. Once downstairs, he tells Al that things went badly, but he made it clear to her that they can’t help her if she doesn’t let them. Al asks Roman if he could make a statement about Nora’s mental health to the police. Roman agrees to give his medical opinion, if needed. He asks after Lucia’s health before he departs.
Poor Tere has been left out of the loop of all the drama, but knows something really bad went down. Al sits her down to tell her.
In the hospital, Marcelo has been pensive ever since the cops left. He tells Lucia that he’s going to tell Al everything TODAY. He can’t keep quiet anymore. Lucia tries to talk him out of it, but he won’t be swayed. Leti comes to visit with Lucia, giving Marcelo a break to go home to shower (and go have that long-delayed conversation with Al). Lucia must pretend that all is well in front of Leti, but she’s obviously panicked about the bomb Marcelo is about to explode in the middle of her already fractured family.
The visit from Rod has put the pep back in Amador’s step. Brigida’s pleased to see him up, dressed, and not drunk. Amador points out that her concern means that she still cares for him. She wouldn’t have stayed with him this long if she didn’t, she counters. “I know it’s hard for you to believe, but the only woman I’ve ever really loved is you.” She throws Ligia in his face, and he quickly says it was nothing more than a fling. Brigida asks him straight up if he killed Ligia. Amador tempts Karma and Fate by swearing on Rod’s life that he did not kill that woman. Then he tenderly kisses Brigida’s hand and lips, and embraces her.
Marcelo comes home and tells Mili the official story of Lucia accidentally shooting herself with the gun Fede shot himself with. Mili freaks the hell out, and tells him to get rid of the damn thing already! Rafa wants to know the real story, since she knows Nora was the one who stole the gun from his room. Marcelo tells her, but warns her to stick to the official story, which is what they told the cops. Rafa is also Team Get-Rid-of-the-Damn-Gun! Marcelo says he will—after he tells Al the truth today.
Al arrives with clothes for Lucia, ready to check her out of the hospital. Unfortunately, that’s not happening because Lucia is bleeding out. After Al, Lucia and Leti have a group freakout, Sara later tells Al that Lucia is having a blood clotting/coagulation issue, and needs to stay for more tests. They’ll put her on meds to help her blood clot, and then she should be able to go home. Al tells Sara that he trusts her, and is leaving Lucia in her hands. He calls Marcelo with an update, and they make plans to meet at the office, where Al will give Marcelo the gun, and Marcelo will discuss something very important with Al. He’s just been looking at the Plot Earring, and seems more determined than ever to reveal the truth.
Back in Casa Gaxiola, Rebeca is trying yet again to get back into Nora’s good graces. “You don’t know how much it hurts me to see you this way. You’re the most important thing in life to me, and I can’t stand to see you suffer.” Nora turns her face away, even as Rebeca climbs onto the bed with her, and places her face inches away from Nora’s. Nora finally turns to face her mother, but only to tell her that she wants Rebeca to get away from her. Rebeca looks like she’s just been slapped. She retreats in defeat. Nora quietly cries to herself.
After Al told Tere the gossip, she called Lalo, who told Normita, and now they are both telling Nazario, who’s ticked off that Al didn’t call him last night to tell him his goddaughter had been shot! He’s ready to rush off to the hospital, but Lalo and Normita convince him to wait for Al to arrive to give them the update on Lucia’s condition.
When Al finally arrives at the fabrica, Marcelo is already waiting for him in his office. Al’s worried that the police will arrive at any moment to take Nora away. Marcelo explains that Lucia took the blame for the shooting, and didn’t involve Nora’s name in any way. Al is surprised, but not shocked. It’s just the kind of noble/selfless thing Lucia would do. She’s too noble at times. Marcelo agrees, then asks about the pistol. Al hands it to him, and tells him to lock the damn thing up. Marcelo confesses that this is the gun his brother took his own life with. “And even so, you keep it?” Al is also Team Get-Rid-of-the-Damn-Gun! Marcelo explains that it belonged to his father, and is one of the few reminders he has of him. Plus, he doesn’t want to forget what happened to his brother, and that what he did was because of a woman who betrayed him.
M: Remember that I was about to tell you who she is?
A: Yes, but I imagine that this is hurting you a lot, and it’s not good to be reminded of it.
M: It’s VERY important for me to clarify this. I ask your forgiveness for the pain this is going to cause you, but I think it’s time for you to know.
The words start tumbling out, and Marcelo begins to quickly tell Al how that woman was present when his brother took his life, that she fled and left him there without knowing if his brother were dead or injured (herido), and that she left a souvenir behind next to his brother’s body. Marcelo takes the earring out of his pocket, and places it in front of Al.
M: Do you recognize it?
A: (Al’s eyes begin to fill with tears.) Is it Rebeca’s?
M: Yes. Rebeca is the reason I’m here. I came here looking for her to avenge the death of my brother!
The Old: Leticia and Rodrigo commiserate about being miserable over coffee, and Rod picks up on Leti’s jealousy over Sergio stepping out with Gloria. Nora greets Marcelo and Lucia at the foot of the stairs with the Plot Pistol aimed right at them. She blames Lucia for all her woes, and swears that if she can’t have Marcelo, neither can Lucia! She fires a shot that goes wild and destroys a talavera pot that was minding its own business. Marcelo rushes her and they wrestle wildly for the gun. Another shot rings out in the middle of the struggle, and Marcelo, Nora, and Lucia all seem paralyzed with shock.
The New: Marcelo realizes that neither he nor Nora were hit by the bullet, and he snatches the gun from her hands while her guard is down. Lucia calls out his name, and when he and Nora turn to face her, they see a stream of blood running down the right leg of her green dress, from where the bullet entered her thigh. Lucia’s shock turns into intense pain, and she begins to scream and collapses to the floor. Marcelo drops the gun and quickly goes to cradle Lucia as her pain and screams intensify. Two gunshots, one shattered pot, and many screams later, Alonso and Rebeca finally emerge from their heated bedroom argument, and run down the stairs demanding to know what the hell is going on. Al is overwhelmed and totally confused by what he sees. In reply to his question about what happened, Marcelo looks from the gun to Nora, who is rooted to the foot of the stairs, wild-eyed, a silent scream stuck in her throat. There’s no time to waste arguing, and so Marcelo and Alonso take hold of Lucia and carry her away so that she can be transported to the hospital.
Rebeca remains alone with Nora. She looks from the gun to Nora, and screams at her, demanding to know what she’s done. She continues screaming at her as she shakes her. Nora escapes her grasp, runs upstairs, and locks herself in her room, with Rebeca hot on her heels.
Leti finally makes it home, in time for an interrogation from a worried Sara—Leti left her phone and her car, but no note. Sara is utterly confused when Leti says he was with Rod, but their discussion is interrupted by a call from frantic Al. Sara says she’s on her way, then tells Leti that Lucia was shot! Leti’s going to the hospital too.
Rod also finally gets home and tells Sergio he took his advice and went to see his depressed daddy. Sergio’s night wasn’t the greatest either. He thinks he made a mistake inviting Gloria to the wedding. Rod gives Sergio his own advice—fix things before it’s too late. (“Pon el remedio, antes que ser demasiado tarde.”) He then mentions he had coffee with Leti. “Looks like she’s in as bad a shape as I am—we’re both alone.” Sergio seems taken aback to learn his guy bestie and gal bestie went out together.
In the hospital, Marcelo has to calm Al down, who’s demanding to be able to see his daughter! He then moves on to demand more info about where Nora got a gun. Marcelo tells him, and now Al is pissed that they didn’t tell him about this sooner. When Marcelo says they thought they could handle it, Al points out the obvious that they couldn’t and didn’t!
Back at Casa Gaxiola, Rebeca is back downstairs, staring at the trail of blood Lucia left behind, and the gun that’s still on the floor where Marcelo dropped it. She has a mini freakout as she remembers Federico shooting himself in the head in front of her with that very gun. She picks it up gingerly, then places it on the ground once again, trembling.
Sara and Leti join Al and Marcelo in the hospital. While Sara goes back to see what info she can get about Lucia’s condition, Leti waits with Marcelo and a very worried Al. Sara comes back some time later to tell them that luckily, the bullet didn’t hit any bone or vital arteries, and Lucia will be fine. She’ll be out of it because of the drugs, but they’ll be able to see her as soon as she’s moved to her room. Marcelo and Leti run off to the room to wait for Lucia, but Sara keeps Al behind to tell him that the hospital has to report any bullet wounds, and the police will be coming at some point.
Marcelo and Leti greet a mostly asleep Lucia as she’s wheeled in, then leave Al alone with her. He crouches by her hospital bedside in a way that reminds Viewerville, and certainly must remind him, of the day Adriana died in that very same hospital. He strokes and kisses her forehead, and tells her he can’t lose her too.
Magdalena and Mario have made it all the way to the airport in D.F., but Magda can’t get into honeymoon mode. She keeps thinking that the arrival of Rebeca at their wedding was like a bird of ill omen (ave de mal agüero), and even though she’s never gotten along well with Nora, she’s worried about her. She thinks they should call to see how she is. Mario kisses away her worries—they’d know by now if anything bad had happened, and gets her hyped for their honeymoon in Cancun. She still has a bad feeling (presentimiento) that something is wrong once they arrive in Cancun, but Mario talks her down again.
Al is determined to not to leave Lucia’s side until he can take her home the next day. Marcelo, Leti and Sara remind him that he has to take care of his own health and rest. He’s only convinced to go when Sara tells him he needs to go home for Nora. Al then starts to worry about Nora and how his poor baby is doing after shooting her sister. He leaves Marcelo in charge of taking care of Lucia. Marcelo asks Al to recover the gun for him when he gets home. He then calls Momster to tell her he’s staying in the hospital with Lucia, who had an “accident”. When she gets off the phone, Mili tells Rafaela she’s sure Lucia’s just faking it, to keep Marcelo by her side and away from Mili. “Why do you always have to think the worst of that girl? What is it exactly that you don’t like about her?” “Everything! Absolutely, everything!”
Al gets home and finds Rebeca sitting on the stairs, staring at the trail of blood. He gives her the update on Lucia and asks for one on Nora. Rebeca saying she doesn’t know and hasn’t seen Nora since they all left, is just unacceptable to Al. Rebeca is feeling all kinds of sorry for herself and sobs that Nora doesn’t want to see her. Al wants to know why she never told him that Nora had the gun. If she had told him, perhaps he could have prevented this from happening (he’s also starting to clutch at his heart attack arm). Al starts talking about the legal trouble Nora will likely be in, and Rebeca’s not having it. She wants Al to call Mario back from his honeymoon and keep her baby out of jail. Al refuses to ruin Mario’s honeymoon, but he will find a way to help Nora—perhaps Dr. Andrade can give testimony about Nora’s mental health that would help. R: My daughter is not crazy! A: I swear that I’m not so sure anymore.
Al knocks on Nora’s door. She’s unresponsive, but this time he’s prepared and has the keys. He and Rebeca find Nora on the floor, curled up in the fetal position. He picks her up off the floor, and she swears to him that she didn’t want to hurt anyone. Al assures her that he believes her, lets her know that Lucia will be ok, and hugs and kisses her to try to comfort and calm her. Nora looks completely broken, and Rebeca seems to know that she broke her. Rebeca runs out of the room to have a cry in the hallway.
The next morning, Marcelo feeds Lucia green hospital Jello. She thanks him for taking care of her, and tells him how terrified she was that he’d get hurt when Nora pointed the gun at him. Marcelo laments that she was the one who ended up getting hurt, and says that now Nora will have to pay the consequences. Before Lucia can answer, Detective Juarez and his junior detective arrive to take Lucia’s statement. To Marcelo’s shock and consternation, Lucia says the shooting was all HER fault—the result of her inexperience while handling a gun. Marcelo lets them know the gun is his and he has all the registration paperwork. Detective J is all kinds of suspicious of Marcelo, but his underling (who interviewed Marcelo after his stabbing), says he has all of Marcelo’s deets. Marcelo just has to come down to the station ASAP with that gun and the paperwork. After the cops leave, Lucia has some ‘splainin’ to do. She tells Marcelo that she didn’t rat Nora out because she’s her sister, and she has more than enough problems at the moment, without jail being one of them. Marcelo is NOT in agreement that this is the best way to help Nora. Lucia thanks him for not ratting her out (desmentir) in front of the cops.
Outside, the cops are still suspicious. Detective J wants a report from the doctors on the trajectory of the bullet, and if Lucia could have really shot herself by accident, as she claims. They think she might be covering for someone. “Lately, that girl’s family has been in a lot of legal trouble.” Junior detective reminds Juarez that Marcelo was a recent stabbing victim in front of the family’s business. “That’s a lot of problems for one family…”
Al gets the gun from Rebeca, who has locked it in her nightstand (ironically under a photo of Nora). As she hands it to him and asks him to get rid of it, she mentions that this gun has provoked many tragedies. Al informs her that Dr. Andrade is seeing Nora right now and will go on seeing her, and too bad if Rebeca isn’t in agreement!
In her room, Nora is in her bed, staring off into space, as Dr. Andrade does all the talking. He stands up so that she can’t avoid seeing him. “The moment has come for you to decide if you want help, or not….Nora, if you want to continue with therapy, you know where to find me.” He leaves, but he seems to have somewhat broken through Nora’s fog. Once downstairs, he tells Al that things went badly, but he made it clear to her that they can’t help her if she doesn’t let them. Al asks Roman if he could make a statement about Nora’s mental health to the police. Roman agrees to give his medical opinion, if needed. He asks after Lucia’s health before he departs.
Poor Tere has been left out of the loop of all the drama, but knows something really bad went down. Al sits her down to tell her.
In the hospital, Marcelo has been pensive ever since the cops left. He tells Lucia that he’s going to tell Al everything TODAY. He can’t keep quiet anymore. Lucia tries to talk him out of it, but he won’t be swayed. Leti comes to visit with Lucia, giving Marcelo a break to go home to shower (and go have that long-delayed conversation with Al). Lucia must pretend that all is well in front of Leti, but she’s obviously panicked about the bomb Marcelo is about to explode in the middle of her already fractured family.
The visit from Rod has put the pep back in Amador’s step. Brigida’s pleased to see him up, dressed, and not drunk. Amador points out that her concern means that she still cares for him. She wouldn’t have stayed with him this long if she didn’t, she counters. “I know it’s hard for you to believe, but the only woman I’ve ever really loved is you.” She throws Ligia in his face, and he quickly says it was nothing more than a fling. Brigida asks him straight up if he killed Ligia. Amador tempts Karma and Fate by swearing on Rod’s life that he did not kill that woman. Then he tenderly kisses Brigida’s hand and lips, and embraces her.
Marcelo comes home and tells Mili the official story of Lucia accidentally shooting herself with the gun Fede shot himself with. Mili freaks the hell out, and tells him to get rid of the damn thing already! Rafa wants to know the real story, since she knows Nora was the one who stole the gun from his room. Marcelo tells her, but warns her to stick to the official story, which is what they told the cops. Rafa is also Team Get-Rid-of-the-Damn-Gun! Marcelo says he will—after he tells Al the truth today.
Al arrives with clothes for Lucia, ready to check her out of the hospital. Unfortunately, that’s not happening because Lucia is bleeding out. After Al, Lucia and Leti have a group freakout, Sara later tells Al that Lucia is having a blood clotting/coagulation issue, and needs to stay for more tests. They’ll put her on meds to help her blood clot, and then she should be able to go home. Al tells Sara that he trusts her, and is leaving Lucia in her hands. He calls Marcelo with an update, and they make plans to meet at the office, where Al will give Marcelo the gun, and Marcelo will discuss something very important with Al. He’s just been looking at the Plot Earring, and seems more determined than ever to reveal the truth.
Back in Casa Gaxiola, Rebeca is trying yet again to get back into Nora’s good graces. “You don’t know how much it hurts me to see you this way. You’re the most important thing in life to me, and I can’t stand to see you suffer.” Nora turns her face away, even as Rebeca climbs onto the bed with her, and places her face inches away from Nora’s. Nora finally turns to face her mother, but only to tell her that she wants Rebeca to get away from her. Rebeca looks like she’s just been slapped. She retreats in defeat. Nora quietly cries to herself.
After Al told Tere the gossip, she called Lalo, who told Normita, and now they are both telling Nazario, who’s ticked off that Al didn’t call him last night to tell him his goddaughter had been shot! He’s ready to rush off to the hospital, but Lalo and Normita convince him to wait for Al to arrive to give them the update on Lucia’s condition.
When Al finally arrives at the fabrica, Marcelo is already waiting for him in his office. Al’s worried that the police will arrive at any moment to take Nora away. Marcelo explains that Lucia took the blame for the shooting, and didn’t involve Nora’s name in any way. Al is surprised, but not shocked. It’s just the kind of noble/selfless thing Lucia would do. She’s too noble at times. Marcelo agrees, then asks about the pistol. Al hands it to him, and tells him to lock the damn thing up. Marcelo confesses that this is the gun his brother took his own life with. “And even so, you keep it?” Al is also Team Get-Rid-of-the-Damn-Gun! Marcelo explains that it belonged to his father, and is one of the few reminders he has of him. Plus, he doesn’t want to forget what happened to his brother, and that what he did was because of a woman who betrayed him.
M: Remember that I was about to tell you who she is?
A: Yes, but I imagine that this is hurting you a lot, and it’s not good to be reminded of it.
M: It’s VERY important for me to clarify this. I ask your forgiveness for the pain this is going to cause you, but I think it’s time for you to know.
The words start tumbling out, and Marcelo begins to quickly tell Al how that woman was present when his brother took his life, that she fled and left him there without knowing if his brother were dead or injured (herido), and that she left a souvenir behind next to his brother’s body. Marcelo takes the earring out of his pocket, and places it in front of Al.
M: Do you recognize it?
A: (Al’s eyes begin to fill with tears.) Is it Rebeca’s?
M: Yes. Rebeca is the reason I’m here. I came here looking for her to avenge the death of my brother!
