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At the fábrica, the moment of truth has finally arrived. At long last! After much dilly-dallying, soul-searching and going round to Nazario’s house for Lala Milk and self-serving advice, Marcelo looks Alonso straight in the eyes and delivers his confession. The truth gushes out of him like word-vomit: Sudden, brusque, nauseating and in a copious flow. Marcelo declares that he relocated to Puebla with the sole purpose of revenge-boinking Alonso’s cheating wife because he deems her responsible of causing the suicide of her toyboy lover, his late lamented kid brother, Federico. Marcelo also admits that he took Rebeca to bed and nearly danced the mattress mambo with her, but he changed his mind at the last minute because he is in luuurve with Lucía! Oh and Lucía knows about all this and was his accomplice in concealing the truth from Alonso! So, to sum up: I infiltrated your life under false pretenses, betrayed your trust, enamored all the women in your family, turned your house into an asylum and made your darling daughter, my fiancée, cover up all my lies! You can go ahead and clutch your chest now!
Alonso is shocked and wounded by these revelations. He can’t believe Marcelo turned out to be such a shameless rascal (un cínico) who outdouched Puebla’s favorite douche: Rodrigo Zúñiga. Alonso accuses Marcelo of coldly devising his devious revenge plan by gradually getting closer to the Gaxiola family, gaining employment at their fábrica and earning Alonso’s full trust, only to seduce his wife and his daughter! Amador Zúñiga was so right to warn Alonso about Marcelo’s nefarious intentions! Moreover, Alonso can’t believe that Lucía has accepted Marcelo’s proposal in spite of knowing all this. He vows to personally ensure (de mi cuenta corre) that Marcelo’s marriage to Lucía never takes place. Before getting chucked out of Talavera Gaxiola forever, Marcelo has one last knife to twist into Alonso’s weak ticker: Rebeca used a false identity when she was involved with Marcelo’s brother. The late lamented Federico knew her as Adriana Murillo and died thinking Adriana was the married woman he fell in love with. Alonso’s heart audibly shatters into a million pieces upon hearing this. He physically throws Marcelo out of his office, screaming his head off and ordering Normita to alert security that Mr. Escalante can no longer set foot in the fábrica. Normita gives Marcelo a «Duuude, what did you do?» look.
Marcelo phones Lucía at the hospital to inform her that her daddy has survived the truth bomb explosion but he gets a busy tone. He asks a nurse to check his fiancée’s hospital room landline. Why isn't there ever a cellphone within a 3 mile radius of this girl?
At Marcelo’s apartment, Mother Terror cradles Federico’s photo and cries. Her head is full of questions about the Plot Gun and Marcelo's insistence on concealing the identity of her dead son’s lover.
Alonso roars into Lucía’s hospital room like a freight train. A hopping mad, heartbroken and sorely disappointed freight train. He insists on taking her home right away but Nazario stops him. She can’t leave without her doctor’s authorization because that would jeopardize her health. Fine! Alonso agrees to wait for Lucía’s doc to officially discharge her. In the meantime, he’s going to the house to settle scores with Rebeca (ajustar cuentas). He’ll come back later to take Lucía home. And she had better say her goodbyes to that jerk Marcelo ‘cause she will never see him again, let alone marry him! Over my dead body! (¡Sobre mi cadaver!). Lucía tearfully pleads with her father to listen to her but he storms out. Nazario catches up to him and tries to defend Marcelo. The young man committed a mistake but he luuurves Lucía above and beyond everything else in this world. Alonso is disappointed that Nazario knew the truth all along and covered up Marcelo’s lies. Alonso doesn’t know if he can ever forgive Nazario for this betrayal.
Marcelo finally gets ahold of a devastated Lucía. She wants to see him before her dad takes her away. However, Marcelo must swing by the Ministerio Público to show them the Plot Gun’s permit. He asks his ladylove to try and calm down. « Don’t forget that I love you and that soon we will be together again. Please don’t forget this!» Nazario comes back and announces that Alonso is so infuriated, he can’t be reasoned with right now. «Hay que esperar a que se amansen las aguas. We must wait for the [troubled] waters to calm down.» «What am I going to do if he doesn’t change his mind, padrino?» Nazario reassures her that her father’s ire will eventually subside and he will change his mind about her wedding plans. Alonso won’t risk losing his daughter’s affection over this.
At Casa Gaxiola, Rebeca flashbacks to the moment she asked her daughter what she can do for her to be happy again and Nora replied: « I want you to stay away from me!» She checks on her spawn and finds her fast asleep. Nora looks so peaceful, like a sweet and innocent baby demon. On her way out of the house, Rebeca bumps into Tere, who is looking all spruced up and ready for her date with Lalo. Rebeca seems to have forgotten that her housekeeper gets a half-day off on Saturdays, so she asks her to stay a wee while longer until she comes back or until her husband returns from seeing Lucía at the hospital. Nora can’t stay all alone in the house. Her level of crazy requires constant supervision. Tere reluctantly agrees.
Comandante Juárez verifies the Plot Gun’s permit and asks Marcelo to please «refrain from lending it to others to avoid further problems!» Marcelo acquiesces but it’s safe to assume that the Plot Gun will continue to do the rounds and cause mayhem in Colorlandia for the forseeable future. Juárez enquires about Marcelo’s relationship with the Gaxiolas. Marcelo replies that he works at the fábrica of Don Alonso and that, very soon, he will be marrying his boss’s daughter. Not after today, you won’t! Juárez is particularly interested in Marcelo’s opinion of Mrs. Rebeca Murillo de Gaxiola. Marcelo ponders his answer and opts for this cryptic description: Rebeca is «una mujer muy particular, a very special woman», the kind he wouldn’t be able to get along with. Juárez prompts him to elaborate but Marcelo wonders if he is being interrogated. Juárez assures him that this isn’t an interrogation. The detective is merely trying to enlist his help as a friend of the Gaxiola family to decipher (descifrar) Rebeca’s character, so to speak. He asks Marcelo if he knows Ricardo Márquez. Through hearsay (de oídas) only. Why the question? Because of a few incidents that Ricardo has had with Rebeca and for which Juárez is trying to gather (recopilar) some information, that’s all. Marcelo is intrigued by this golden nugget of dirt on his archnemesis.
Speaking of Tricky Ricky, he is at home receiving an earful from his landlady for getting behind on his rent yet again! Daniela bumps into her at the door and wonders why she looks so cross. Ricardo claims that he hasn’t paid his rent yet because his money is tied up in long-term investments and he is experiencing some cashflow problems at the moment. Daniela falls for this because she isn’t fluent in deadbeat. She offers to lend him the rent money. He acts all proud but says he’ll think about it.
Alonso goes to Casa Gaxiola, looking to square off with Rebeca. Tere informs him that his wife has gone out. He tells Tere she can leave; he’ll take care of Nora himself. He doesn’t look good and Tere offers to stay and help out but he curtly orders her to leave. He checks on Nora who asks how Lucía is doing. She seems worried about her sister in her usual Not-sorry-I-did-it-but-terribly-sorry-I-got-caught way. She perceives that something is wrong with her dad and he confides to her that some changes are coming to this house. What changes? He’ll tell her all about it when he’s done gouging her mother’s eyes out when the time comes. Until then, he needs her to be relaxed and to stay in her room. She tearfully asks him to forgiver her for not being a good daughter. You can say that again! In the immortal words of Fred Sanford: «Everytime I look at you, it makes me wish that birth control was retroactive!» Alonso gives her a look brimming with fatherly love: «Mi amor, you are an incredible daughter! A marvelous one! And let me be clear here, I love you with all of my soul!» «As much as you love Lucía?» «Exactly as much!» This seems to soothe her anxiety a bit. Before leaving, Alonso gives his daughter a sweet smile and blows her a kiss.
Back at Puebla’s favorite hospital, Lucía is a distressed and hysterical crying mess. Nazario is worried about her. He goes looking for Dr. Sara Ezquerra or some horse tranquilizer, whichever he encounters first. Enter Dr. Román Andrade in all his indecent yumminess. He is here to check on Lucía and inform her that he won’t issue the doctor’s note attesting to Nora’s cuckooness without Lucía's prior consent. Lucía has bigger problems right now. She breaks into sobs and Dr. Andrade gives her a comforting hug, perfectly timed to coincide with Marcelo’s arrival. The jealous galán displays his best sourpuss face in response. Dr. Andrade takes his leave and asks Lucía to contact him if she needs anything. Marcelo interjects that she won’t be needing anything, thanks a lot, you can pish aff now. As soon as Dr. Andrade steps out, Marcelo turns to his tearful ladylove : « What’s this guy doing here and why were you glued to him and crying ? (¿porqué estabas colgada de él llorando?)». Really, Marcelo? Really? That’s too many strikes, buddy. Fetching Papasito card revoked. Lucía replies that this is no time to be jealous. Marcelo reluctantly concurs but let the record show that the headshrinker has the hots for Lucía. Nazario brings Dr. Ezquerra who tells Lucía that she is free to go home. She also offers to prescribe medication to calm the young woman’s exalted sensibility.
At Casa Gaxiola, Alonso is getting restless and Rebeca is still a no-show. He starts throwing Rebe’s clothes on the bed, while breathing heavily like an amped up bull ready to charge. Or a bull ready to have a heart attack.
Gloria goes to Casa Ezquerra to tell Lety TMZ all the gossip from Mario’s wedding but she’s really there to find out whether her frenemy is interested in Sergio. Lety dismisses her and calls Rodrigo to meet up for coffee and a chinwag. Sergio overhears Rodrigo making plans with his beloved chismosita and gets jealous.
Dr. Andrade goes back to his practice and finds Rebeca waiting for him. She wants to know if he can really help her daughter get out of her funk. He asks her if she is prepared to be in therapy. She retorts that she is prepared to sell her soul to the devil for her daughter's sake.
Lucía is still wailing on her hospital bed. Poor thing must be dehydrated by now. Nazario and Marcelo try to contain the waterworks: We need to wait, your daddy is a sensible man (un hombre sensato), he’ll come to his senses eventually. Yada yada yada. Marcelo tells Lucía that the thing that affected her father the most was finding out that Rebe used Adriana’s name in her sexcapades. Nazario wonders what's taking Alonso so long. He must be battling it out with the old battleaxe.
Rebeca is at church and the walls are not bleeding. She prays to God by way of challenge: If you really exist then help me get my daughter back, since you're all powerful and whatnot. Milagros encounters her there and remarks that she never pictured her as a devout woman. In other words, what are you doing here, you heathen vitch? I can ask the same of you, Mother Terror! I'm here to visit Federico's ashes. After Milagros leaves, Rebeca goes down to the crypt to say "What's shaking?" to her toyboy lover's ashes. Padre Samuel spots her and introduces himself. He asks if he can be of any help but Rebe replies "No, thanks" and scurries away.
It’s evening time. Alonso fell asleep on the pile of Rebe’s clothes. Lucía calls him to ask him to come get her at the hospital. She knows he is disappointed in her but wonders if this changes his love for her. Absolutely not! He assures her that his love for her will never change even if he is disappointed in the man she chose to marry. He insists that she should never doubt her father's love. After she hangs up, Marcelo says goodbye for the seventeenth time and finally leaves. Lucía cries in her godfather’s arms. Everything will be fine, child.
Alonso knocks on Nora’s door to let her know that he’s going to bring Lucía back home from the hospital but Nora is not in her room. She went to see Lucía at the hospital. Nora tells her sister she is sorry about shooting her and it was not her intention to harm her. She also lets her know that their dad seems angry and is acting strange. He was asleep when Nora left the house. He said that things will change. Lucía asks whether he spoke with Rebeca. No, he didn't. What’s going on? Lucía replies that they’ll all talk when they are at home.
Rebeca finally makes it back to Casa Gaxiola. Alonso orders her to pack her crap and get the heck out. «I warned you that if you ever besmirch Adriana’s name, I would kill you!» He confronts her about everything that he has discovered about her today. And don’t try to deny it, I have a Plot Earring to prove it! AHA! He displays the Plot Earring and Rebeca tries to take it away from him but ends up knocking it out of his hands. The Plot Earring lands under the bed, ready to be discovered and to expose Rebeca when the time comes. Whora Major admits her guilt: Yes, I did it! I cheated on you with Federico and I slept my way through the 32 states of our glorious Mexican Republic because I needed to feel like a woman, which is something that you could never give me! Alonso doesn’t care about her whoring ways. What hurts him the most is that she used Adriana’s name. Why did she sully his wife’s name? Because she bloody well felt like it, that’s why! This is the last straw for Alonso, who can no longer contain his utter disdain: «I can’t wait until the divorce is finalized! You get the heck out of here right now and I’ll send you your $hite later! Out!» He forcefully drags her all the way to the vestibule. «Get out! I’ll tell your daughter what you truly are!» «This is my house too!» she protests. « No, it isn’t! This is Adriana’s house! I built it for her, for the only woman I have ever loved and will ever love in this life!» Rebeca flies off the handle and screams repeatedly: «Adriana is dead! Dead! Dead! And you know why she is dead? ¡Porqué yo misma la aventé de ese barandal! Because I personally threw her over that balustrade!» Alonso looks up at the spot Rebeca is pointing at, totally flabbergasted. Rebe continues to spew out her venom: «And I didn't do it because she discovered my fling with Ricardo but because she found out that I was in love with you. She wanted to separate me from you and I wasn’t gonna allow it. That’s why I killed her!» «The one who’s gonna die is you!» yells Alonso as he starts to choke her at the bottom of the staircase. Alas, an inopportune heart attack stops him from finishing his good deed. Clutching his chest, he stumbles towards his study and Rebe follows him viciously saying: «You married her without even looking at me, without even realizing that I loved you. I was in love with you and I couldn’t stand the idea that the two of you were so happy together and that you were about to have a daughter that I hate! That’s why! That’s why I killed her!» He fumbles in his desk drawers for his pills. When he finally finds them, Rebeca snatches the bottle away from him. «I’m not going to leave even if I have to kill you!» He collapses to the ground then looks up at her, his pleading gaze begging her to reconsider, his extended hand waiting for her to give him back his pills. Her eyes fill up with tears as she witnesses the love of her life take his last breath. Sweet, loving, soft-spoken Alonso lived most of his adult life an unhappy and deceived man and died a disappointed and betrayed man.
