Caray, Caray!

• Yolanda settles Rosalba in at her home in Altamirano while Estela hides under a table, eavesdropping.  Yoli notes when trying to leave a phone number with her aunt that she has somebody else’s (similar) cell phone and not her own with her. She shrugs it off until realizing that whoever has her phone, will know that she called DEA Dave on it since she forgot to erase the call.  Yoli sees that El Cañengo will be Rosie’s bodyguard, but at a distance.  He puts locks on all the doors and brings food for her.  Yoli says her good-byes as Rosie tells her to remember her decent upbringing and hopefully she’ll get free of the narcos and start leading a proper life and earning a proper living.

• John learns from Oscar that the town folk freeze up when anybody mentions Los “Bolches”(?), the local syndicate run by Eladio, aka, The Bald-headed Bully-Boy. They are reluctant to discuss anything to do with him, he tells his brother.  Oscar wants to do a little bullying of his own to get people around there to talk, but John reminds him to keep their heads down and let things ride a bit.




• Gone Gal de Olivia, meanwhile, is walking towards town to her meeting place.  She waives down a bus and gets on. Snarly Arley pulls in front of it and stops it from taking off.  He waives his gun at Olivia and forces her back off the bus at gunpoint, then drives her back to the hideout.  She screams and whines in protest.  (Sorry, you dimwitted dame, but what did you expect?)

• At the hide-out, Carlita is watching over the now sedated Amanda when Zulima walks in under the pretense of looking in on one of her charges.  She sneaks Yoli’s cellphone onto the floor and pretends to have just found it while Carlita’s back is turned.  Carly keeps it to give to Yoli.

• Outside, Liv walks up with an apology for Oscar who isn’t about to listen to her empty-headed excuses. (Can you tell how this character just makes all my remaining teeth ache?) Oscar says when he gives an order to stay put, he expects to be obeyed.  Bette walks out, trying to defend Liv.  Both get punished.  Snarly takes them into the barn and hangs them up on pole hooks, then hoses them down with a fire hose full of icy water.

• Just before Cañengo drives Yoli back to the airfield, John calls him for a report.  Cañengo says there’s nothing odd or strange been going on and Yoli’s flying back now.

• In Tres Fuegos, at the agency’s offices, Daverto is trying to get some skinny on Simpson, but Monica tells him it’s personal stuff meant for him and her.  (???)

• At the bar, Liv gripes to Bette about their treatment and Bette says that’s their life right now.  Get used to it. Liv still wants to call Roberto and tell him she won’t be able to make it to their meeting, despite Bette’s repeated warnings. Sneaky Cynthia overhears and suggests using the free office phone.

• Meanwhile, Daverto has just called Liv’s mother(?) to see if she’s heard from her daughter.  She mentions something about Roberto going to meet her somewhere and he takes down the information.  (I think.)

• In the bar office, Lamebrained OLivia calls Roberto on his cell and runs her mouth off hurriedly giving him directions to the bar, much to Bette’s horror.  Roberto heads along into Villa Antigua and Papacito is still following unnoticed right behind him on his motorcycle.


• Back at Rosie’s, Estela comes out of hiding.  Rosalba is not in the mood for her charming B.S. and says as much.  Estela asks if she can stay with her since she has nowhere else to go now.  They argue over Yoli’s supposedly taking up with narcotrafficantes and her now being a murderess.  Yes!  She killed Erenesto!  They have a video of her at the hospital a couple of minutes after he was killed, while Rosie was being treated there.  “--Well, if she did, he deserved it.  He did rape her!”  Oh, says Estela, self-righteously. “--That’s what Yolanda says, but unfortunately we’ll never know, now, will we????”

• Yoli weeps during her flight back to Villa Antigua as she remembers her aunt’s words to her. (FF>>)

• Vaquero gets orders from John to be ready to bring Yoli back right when she lands.  Oscar asks what Cañengo had to report.  John tells him what the guy said.

• John re-emphasizes to O that he isn’t doing anything more than keeping an eye on Yolanda’s movements.  Oscar tries to convince him he’s being foolish.  When’s he gonna realize she’s sold them out?  John says if she has and Oscar’s right, then she’ll get disappeared just like anyone else who’s betrayed them in the past. (Is that the gleam in Oscar’s eyes that the camera has caught?)

• At the bar, El Meanie de Mena walks into the ladies’ restroom after Amanda to make peace.  He sees she’s been crying.  He tells her they can still be friends. He cares about her after all.  No need to hate one another. “—Friends with privileges, if you want, even?  Ok?”  Amanda slaps him upside the head. He grabs her and points a gun at her head.  He’s only going to forgive her for that because of the hot and steamy nights they shared together.  Got it????  He struts out and she sobs.  (I’ve about had enough of her, too.  These guys are just goons with guns and gonads—a dangerous combination. It ain’t ever pretty and it wasn’t as if she didn’t know any better.  My sympathy stopped with that first sleezy sleep-over.)

• Yoli gets back to the hotel and searches for her cell phone.  She calls her number and finds out Carlita has it.  They will meet at the bar while Carlita waits for her bus.

• Eladio and his posse head off to get their guns back from the new owners of the Cielito Lindo Bar.  The old cop they’ve got on the payroll tells them it’s a perfect time to rush the place before they have too many customers as would-be witnesses.

• In the office El Capi hands over a bag of cash from the US deals (?).  Oscar and John discuss Yoli.  O says give me the word and I’ll blow her head off.  John says if she’d really sold them out the DEA would have been in on this and found them out already.  Oscar says this is still wrong.  It can’t work out between Yoli and John, ever.  John says not to touch a hair on her head.  If anybody has to deal with her, he’ll decide the when and the where.  She’s his and that’s that.

• At the same time, John’s got extra men sitting in the bar with their guns just in case something’s afoot. Snarly Arley makes a big deal of lording it over the gone-gals-now-returned bar-maids.  They better treat the guerreros extra nice tonight, he yells over to them  “—So get to work?”  He then purposely makes Amanda jealous by treating Sinthia extra lovey-dovey.

• Back in Tres Fuegos, DEA Dave tells Moni he’s worried that the Lucio’s have found out about Yolanda’s call and her wanting protection for her and her aunt.  Simp-sone walks in on the conversation as Dave’s leaving. He smoothly tries for, but cannot get any, information out of either of them.  Afterward Simp-sone and Moni head back to his place for a bit of strategic sack time.

• Sinthia reports back to Zuli about the hose-down from earlier.  She asks why all the extra gunmen are there tonight.

• Yoli arrives secretly to the bar, supposedly to surprise John as she tells Vaquero. She gets her phone back but doesn’t ask how Carlita got it, just figures they got their phones mixed up.  But, Carli tells her the mistaken phone isn’t hers.  Hmmm.

• Liv and Bette run into Yoli at the bar and she asks Liv if she met up with Rob or not.  Liv tells her the whole story, and how Oscar had them punished.  “—That’s torture!  Mena did that?  Oscar ordered it???”  She races into the office and pulls rank on Snarly Arley.  She catches him lying about it being John who ordered it.  “--Naw, it wasn’t.  It was Oscar.  So?  You like torturing women?  You get a big kick out of it or what?”  In the future, she warns him, if he messes with her girls he’s messing with her!  “--You come looking for trouble with me, then you’re going to find it!  Got it?” (This and what comes next was the only interesting parts of the episodio this time.)

• Liv is emptying the garbage when Rob finds her.  No sooner does he find her than Papito races up and starts haranguing her for going from being a narco’s mule to a two-bit lap-dancer in a four-bit bar.  They go inside to finish the conversation.  (We thus see that dense runs in the family.  Livia has come by hers honestly.)

• Eladio and his posse now enter the bar.  It looks as if the good-er guys have lost.  Vacquero must lay down his pistol.  Just then Meanie de Mena and his men ambush The Bully-Boy’s boys and another major firefight begins.

• John races back to the bar after being radio’d about the attack.

• John and his men walk in with machine guns of their own (finally) and he protects YO! and the gone girls.  Papacito, meanwhile, on the other side of the room, tells Liv and Rob it’s time to make a run for it.  Dimwit Daddy stands up and El Meanie de Mena shoots him down in cold blood.  (Yeah, as Viewerville sees it, Liv’s daddy was a threat to the Lucio’s security and he had to; Lamebrained Liv brought it on herself and the bubblehead’s got nobody to blame but her lonesome.)

• Baldy and his Bully Boys race back out of the bar but are stopped just outside doorway when Oscar pulls his Tommy gun on them.  Eladio’s rent-a-copper is waiting in the shadows, however, and shoots O in the back.  Blam!  Blam!  Blam!  Oscar drops.  Eladio and the posse head off to their trucks.  Eladio gives Pop Rent-a-Cop a salute before turning on his heel and sauntering away.  Pop hops back into his sedan after assuring himself Oscar’s down for the count and drives off.

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