TUESDAY 5TH MAY, 2018...UPDATE ON "FALL INTO TEMPTATION"
EPISODE #9,
SHOWN ON UTV
DEAD & BURIED ;
1 RESUSCITATED ;
WHAT'S NEXT ?
Santi is distraught, having identified the body as Carolina and having had to watch them take her away in an ambulance. Antonio tells Santi to go home and tell his children. Laura observes from a short distance away as Nando is told to make sure Santi gets home unmolested by the press.
Meanwhile, at the hospital, there is chaos as Miriam tries to revive her son by screaming and carrying on. Luckily for her, they manage to bring Dam back to life and stabilize him. Andrés arrives and comforts Miriam.
At Raquel’s house, the four kids are waiting for any news from Santi. Raq gets a phone call, but it’s not Santi. Instead she learns of Dam’s cardiac arrest. She must go to the hospital so she arranges for Lola and Nico to take a cab home and someone will drop Benji off at daycare. Mia gives Fede the evil eye and asks if now he’s content. He responds in kind and Raq interrupts before the argument can escalate.
The medical examiner unzips the bag with Carolina’s remain while simultaneously Raq, Mia and Fede arrive at the hospital in a very agitated state. Lola and Nico are now home and wondering what might have happened to their father, to their mother. Nico thinks the worst. Lola tells him to stop, he’s only making her feel more guilty, but won’t say why.
The doc comes out to tell the Beckers what Dam’s state is. The prognosis will have to wait until more tests are done. Raq wants to consult further with the doctor and Miriam takes the opportunity to hurl one of her cutting remarks, “Your husband is in very serious condition and you want to discuss the exact date for his death?” Raq calmly repeats her request of the doc and steps aside with him, leaving Mia in her grandmother’s arms and Fede looking through the glass partition into the ICU where his father lies.
Nico continues to try to reach his father when Santi enters the house. The kids want to know how their mother is, hurt, ok, not wanting to come home, what? The anguish on Santi’s face says everything. He tells them she’s dead and steps forward to embrace his older children. It’s painfully emotional and tears flow. He hangs on to them so as not to lose them, too.
Andrés takes leave of the family at the hospital to return to work. Raq then turns to Miriam, who is giving her the most nasty acidic look, and tells Mir never to say anything like that again to her, much less in front of her children. Mir spits venom in return as she hisses at Raq, “Have you forgotten you have a husband you abandoned in his worst moment?” Raq replies, “You are mistaken, I haven’t forgotten I have a husband and he’s the one who forgot he has a wife while he was sleeping with Carolina, or do I have to remind you of that.”
Tres Años Antes - Nico and Fede are running away from their “altercation” with Joaquín. He got a walloping. Fede is out of breath and needs his inhaler. He stops long enough to send Mia a message.
Carolina is at the super picking out some fresh fruits and veggies when she becomes conscious of Damian approaching her. She moves toward him. He assumes the role of a passionate man in love: he can’t work, can’t sleep, can only think of her. He feels they should talk. She finally takes his hand and agrees, as long as it’s not in public.
Mia gets the text message from Fede and thanks each, one at a time. She looks up from the bed with what passes for a smile, barely.
Andrés calls in his buddy in their perverted diversions and tells him to set up a meeting with some other men and that woman (Carolina) and humiliate her, thoroughly. In return for this favor, Buddy wants him to leave Lola alone—it’s dangerous as both those girls are minors. Andrés says he’s not passing up an opportunity like this when she is the daughter of that “cook,” who’s having an affair with his cousin. Lola is his ace in the hole to get that woman out of the way. Buddy tries to dissuade him, but Andrés claims he has to stay on the right side of his aunt. So, Andrés says to Buddy, “You know what you have to do.”
Santi and his workers are on the job at the Beckers. The guys leave for the day. Mia appears. Santi is a bit cautious about being alone with her, based on her earlier empty accusation. She asks what Lola said about her—about what happened in Acapulco. Santi says Lola said nothing; she keeps her own counsel. He wonders why she is asking. She says everybody thinks she’s crazy. Santi says he doesn’t, nor do his workers. She asks for pardon and then leaves. Raq has overheard everything and she’s so pleased. Asking forgiveness is a big step forward for Mia. She hugs Santi and they have a very warm embrace as she thanks him, each smiling over the other’s shoulder.
Dam has taken Caro to an overlook. He’s still using his persuasive charm to hook her into continuing whatever it is they’ve just started. She demurs but finally confesses to how she feels. So, she’s taken the bait and swallowed it. Dam only has to reel her in. He lifts her onto the hood of his car and does her right there. Risky behavior, but isn’t that where the thrill is? In any event, we see no more of them as their theme song and their passion ends with the camera turning on Lola, back at the house.
Lola is furious to find the house occupied by her brother (finishing up a shower—gratuitous pec shots) and Fede when she wanted to be alone. To add to her pissiness, Patricia shows up. She’s come to “release” Lola from her indenture to her with those men and shoves some money in her hand so she can go on that trip (the one Lola told Caro she didn’t want to go on). Nico sees them and hassles her about what Pat gave her. Lola walks away from them. Fede tells Nico that Mia sent her thanks.
Caro and Dam are returning from their tryst at twilight in a light rain. They must have had time to do a couple of rounds. Caro recognizes how late it is and wonders what she’ll tell Santi. Dam offers to come with her and help her with an excuse, but she thinks the less they are seen together, the fewer suspicions they’ll raise. He asks, assuming an affirmative answer, does that mean they’re going to continue seeing each other? Caro isn’t sure. He wants to know when he can see her again. She doesn’t know, she’s not sure. In fact, since she met him, she’s not sure of anything.
A little later, Raq and Dam are in bed. He’s lying stiffly on his back, eyes open. Raquel is looking at him lying on her side. There is a great deal of adoration in her gaze. She finally speaks, “It’s incredible how each time you look better, more handsome.” He reaches to touch her cheek and tells her she’s beautiful. She doesn’t believe him because he doesn’t say so any more. He excuses himself by telling her he has a lot on his mind. She comes back with—everywhere else but here (in bed). Raq wants to know what he’s thinking…or of whom he’s thinking.
We leave them there to see what’s going on at the Alvarado household. Dinner is over and the kids scatter. Santi, righteously, but rightfully wants to know where Caro has been and why she was so late. Caro stammers that she had to stop at the super to pick up a few things she forgot. He muses that normally she does that early in the day in order to be home and pick up the house. They begin to argue, but Caro quickly realizes she can’t or won’t be able to wriggle out of this one, so she quickly apologizes for sounding so rude. Santi replies, only half joking, that he’ll forgive her if she gives him a kiss. She avoids his advances and that gets his dander up again. He wants to know why she’s rejecting him. Again she realizes her mistake and claims she’s not rejecting him, quickly gives him a little peck on the lips and continues to clear the table. She starts to hand him some dishes only to realize Santi has walked away.
Mia is ready for bed—phone in hand, when Fede comes in and they go over the Nico-Fede-Joaquín rumble.
Looking in on Dam and Raq, they’re still talking. She tries to talk him into a little weekend getaway for two. Dam claims he and Andrés have to meet with some people interested in starting a franchise. Raq doesn’t think that is an acceptable reason. Weekends have always been for themselves and she doesn’t want him changing things around now. He says he’ll talk to Andrés as Raq becomes more and more amorous. He responds to her stimulation and they make love very energetically.
As Raq and Dam turn over, it is Caro and Santi that come into view, making love just as energetically. Then it’s back to Raq and Dam and then…DAMN, it’s a Halloween Mira Quien Baila commercial crap interjecting itself. When the interruption is over, Caro and Santi have finished and she rolls off of him and her face fades into her death mask.
Epoca Actual - The medical examiner has finished and is recording his findings. The 38-year-old woman died instantly from one bullet from a 9mm. gun, shot in the heart and in the lungs. Instant death. She also had contusions on her extremities and her head and was approximately 8 weeks pregnant. Antonio has the results and must now tell Santi. Nando says now that it’s a homicide, they’ll have to find the perp. Tonio avers that Dam is now both a victim and a suspect. Nando wonders what his motive might be. Tonio thinks Dam might have found out about the pregnancy and wanted to get rid of it. Regardless, they’ll have to follow every lead. Everyone connected to Caro is now suspect.
Andrés brings Mir a cup of coffee in the hospital. Rueda arrives to tell her that Caro was murdered with a gun and Dam was the last to see her alive, so it complicated things for Dam. Miriam thinks it might be the husband who found out she was cheating, while Andrés thinks the same of Raquel.
Nando and Laura are at home going over the case, but it gets a little too up close and personal, with motives, lovers, cheaters, pregnancies. She wants to know if Nando got his lover pregnant. Nando wants to get her off their personal topic—for one night at least. She wants to know why he is sharing all the reports with her. For fear? No, he wants to help her. She wants to know everything—that someone else knew they were lovers and decided to kill them, for vengeance, extortion, juarever. She needs a headline for her news report, ah: Double Homicide; she gets pregnant on purpose to unify their love and unite the two families forever. She only needs to learn the why of their betrayals. Nando thinks maybe they were merely in love. Laura looks at him, irritated by his simplistic explanation. Laura wants to know if Nando cheated on her because he was in love. Nando hangs his head without answering.
Antonio has shown Santi the autopsy report. He is stunned to learn Caro was pregnant. He immediately asks for a DNA test to be performed. He needs to know if the child was his or not. Tonio makes the call and tells Santi he’ll have the results in 24 hours. Tonio can’t promise the news will stay out of the press. They have their contacts. He thinks Santi’s children should learn it from him and to tell them everything.
Raquel and Fede have come to Santi’s house to comfort Lola and Nico. Mia arrives and heads straight for Nico to embrace him. Fede joins the two of them while Raq continues to hold a sobbing Lola. There is a funeral and an interment for Caro and her unborn child. Laura and a cameraman cover the service. Juan shows up, but keeps his distance. There is a shot of Vicente, but it’s not clear if he was in attendance. After the service, Santi tells an unbelieving Raquel about Caro being shot to death and her pregnancy, especially when he emphatically declares the baby might be Damián’s. Santi assumes they were having sex, a lot of it. He starts to get agitated over the betrayal and walks away. Mia and Fede are told about the murder and the pregnancy. Mia has a look of sadness mixed with anger.
Nando shows up at the company with a warrant to search Dam’s office. Andrés keeps asking what they are looking for. Nando answers several times he’ll tell him when they find it.
Santi apparently didn’t tell Lola and Nico anything. They see it on the news and confront him. He acknowledges that it’s all true. Lola stalks off reacting with fury while Nico sinks down on the floor disillusioned with his mother.
Nando learns from Andrés that he has reason to suspect someone in Caro’s family to be responsible for the murder and tragedy. He’s positive Caro was robbing Dam blind; first with the catering business, then with the remodeling jobs and then putting her daughter Lola to work in the company. Only a fool for a husband wouldn’t know his wife was cheating on him. Oh, states Nando, “So, according to you, Becker’s wife knew all about this.” “So say you, officer.”
Raquel is in her bedroom with her sister Cintia, trying to rest. Santi has come to see her and she indicates he can come up. Cindy isn’t horrified, but doesn’t think it prudent. Raq feels it’s ok between friends. Cindy leaves to go get Santi and tells her she notes that change in her demeanor when it comes to Santi.
In her anger at her mother, Lola is clearing out her mother’s clothes and getting ready to trash them. Nico enters and wants her to stop. She says it’s for their father who will suffer every time he opens the closet doors to be reminded of their cheating mother. Nico tries to defend his mother, but can’t. Instead he changes the subject and asks if she saw Juan at the graveside. Is she going to forgive him? [ed. note—I’m a bit confused here. I didn’t think Juan had done anything to her to require forgiveness, other than declare, inappropriately he was in love with her. Wasn’t it Joaquín? It might have been a slip of the tongue and Nico meant to say Joaquín, but I’m pretty sure it was Juan at the graveside. If I’m wrong, please correct this impression.]
Nando has come to the end of his search, it seems. He shows Andrés the last company audit that Dam ordered. It shows withdrawals appearing with Andrés’ name on it. Nando wants to know what was his relationship with Dam like.
Santi has come to ask Raq to help him find out what happened. He needs to know whose child it was. He’d like Raquel to authorize a DNA test to be done on Dam, so he can be sure if it is or isn’t Dam’s. Raq resists at first. Of course, we on the Patio know that when Miriam showed up at the house, claiming she can do what she pretty well chooses to do in the company house—which she plans to empty of the two sisters soon—she’s going to find Raq and Santi in a compromising position. And so she does. Yep, they are sitting on the bed holding hands and yep, Mir jumps to the conclusion she wants—collusion (the word of the day).
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