Atrévete a Olvidarme                                                 Summaries/Resúmenes de los USA/EEUU  Dec. 7, 2004 – Jan. 7, 2005 [GRAN FINAL]

 

Mexico (Televisa).  7/29/01 - 9/01.

USA (Univision) 12/7/04 – 1/7/05

 

 

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These previews/summaries come from different sources. If they appeared to be the same, we listed all the sources. If they appeared to be different, we listed them separately. Generally, the summaries differ only in the amount of detail, and we have tried to put the briefest summaries first. You may share them, but you may not sell them or include them in anything you sell. In addition, you must give credit to all the sources and to Telenovela-World (for the collection).

 

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SINOPSIS

 

     www.esmas.com. Sinopsis.  Andrea Rosales es una joven que ha vivido en el pequeño pueblo minero de Real del Monte desde que tiene uso de razón.       Su belleza física va de la mano con una fortaleza interna que la hace anteponer el bienestar de los demás al de ella misma. Al iniciar la historia, Andrea está comprometida para casarse con Manuel Soto, un apuesto ingeniero minero.  Daniel González es un joven idealista que jamás habría imaginado que tenía vínculos con Real del Monte. Pero un accidente que pone en riesgo su vida hace tener una visión que lo hace ir a ese pueblo a buscar a su abuelo, Gonzalo Rivas Montaño.  El viaje de Daniel se convierte en destino cuando surge el amor entre él y Andrea. Para muchos de los habitantes del pueblo comienza a repetirse la historia de amor que había vivido Gonzalo con Elena, y que terminó en tragedia tanto para él como para Real del Monte, pues los eventos del pasado hicieron que Gonzalo cerrara la mina que poseía.  Cuando Andrea rompe su compromiso con Manuel, igual que  hizo Gonzalo con Olga, el desamor que siente Manuel se convierte en venganza, como sucedió en el pasado.  Ernestina Soto, hermana de Manuel, es una hermosa y ambiciosa mujer que se propone conquistar a Daniel, al saber que él será quien herede al viejo y rico Gonzalo.    El interés personal de Manuel por hacer que Daniel se vaya de Real del Monte se une al de don Cecilio, el dueño de la única mina activa del pueblo y supuesto amigo de Gonzalo. Cecilio Rabadán está interesado en conseguir la mina de Gonzalo y Daniel es un estorbo en sus planes.  Ante el temor de que Daniel termine muerto, Andrea decide sacrificarse y separarse de él. Manuel aprovecha el momento y vuelve a buscarla. Andrea acepta regresar con él, para que Daniel se decepcione de ella y quede libre tanto del dolor  de la separación como de la posible maldición.  La trágica muerte de Santiago, padre de Andrea, trae consigo una importante revelación que hará que Andrea se sienta profundamente decepcionada y piense que no puede confiar en ningún hombre. Para rematar, don Cecilio pide la liquidación de una deuda que tenía Santiago.  Manuel ofrece pagar la deuda a cambio de que Andrea se case con él. Andrea rechaza la propuesta e intenta conseguir un préstamo, sin buenos resultados. La depresión la lleva a subastarse en el burdel del pueblo, por una noche.  Daniel se entera de la subasta e intenta detener a Andrea, pero el dolor que hay en ella sólo los separa más. Andrea, Manuel y Daniel se atreverán entonces  a desafiar su propio destino...

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SUMMARIES/RESÚMENES

USA FIRST WEEK:  DEC. 7-10, 2004

 

Telenovela-World:  Summary from Dec 7-Tuesday-Episode #1   Author: Alta (---)  Date:   12-07-04 13:50 PST

     Translated from Televisa Productions

     The story begins in Real del Monte, Hidalgo where Andrea 'La Guapa' (Adriana Fonseca) gives her 15th birthday dress to Lucina (Francesca Guillen) for her celebration. Refugio (Patricia Martinez) gets emotional and thanks Andrea for giving her daughter such a nice gift. Andrea looks for Lucina and she catches her and El Gato (Jorge Poza) kissing. She tells her brother and the young girl that they need to be careful and wait. Lucina thanks Andrea for her gift and says she's excited about her upcoming dance. Two henchmen harrass Joel and tells him he's going to pay for snooping where he's not supposed to and cut a cross in his hand. Andrea talks about her boyfriend Manuel (Alexis Ayala) who is scheduled to return to town very soon. Andrea's mother Sabina (Ana Martin) jokes with the birthday girl. In Mexico City, Daniel (Jorge Salinas) and Liliana (Yolanda Ventura) are on their way to do some investigative reporting when Daniel tells his girlfriend that he wants to celebrate their anniversary and she tells him she's working and to busy to think about personal things. They take pictures of men moving merchandise when the police arrive and arrrest the thieves. Ernestina (Mariana Seanoe) tells Gonzalo (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) that he has to take his medication and recalls when he was younger (Alberto Estrella) and met Elena (Rebeka Tamez) who happens to be his fiancee Olga's (Alejandra Barros) half-sister and she realizes that there is an immediate attraction between them. The henchmen kill Joel and chop his head off. Father Buenaventura (Jaime Lozano) is informed that another miner has been killed and all blame it on the 'Lost One', Elena and he tells him that figure doesn't exist. Daniel and Liliana argue about their relationship, he wants to get married and have a family and she doesn't. Everyone learns of the death and ask who it could be since he has no head when Lucina asked for her father and Refugio checks the body and says it's her husband Joel from a mole on his knee and everyone is shocked. Rosendo (Juan Carlos Bonet) shows up at the wake and is confronted by Andrea and her family and has no other choice but to leave. Daniel tells Liliana he doesn't want to lose her and they make love. The next day Daniel is on his way to a location and suffers an accident and is seriously injured. Cecilio (Jose Carlos Ruiz) visits his friend Gonzalo and tells him he's being questioned about the murders since he's the owner of the mine and his friend asks him if he also believes his late wife's spirit is responsible and he says he doesn't believe that. He reminds him that he vowed revenge on the townspeople for lynching Elena for believing she was a witch. Daniel is taken to the hospital. Back in Real del Monte Refugio doesn't want to bury her husband without his head but the townspeople convince her to bury his body as Lucina recalls her father. The doctors fear the worse when they examine Daniel as his parents (Arsenio Campos and Macaria) arrive at the hospital. The town of Real del Monte learn the state is sending federal officials to investigate the murders when one of the workers says the person to blame is Rosendo but they ask him if he has proof. The doctor informs Daniel's parents that if he doesn't improve he's going to have to operate. Gonzalo arrives at the wake and asks all present if they believe his wife Elena's ghost has anything to do with the recent deaths when he sees Andrea who is wearing a cross that belonged to Elena and Sabina tells him she gave it to her daughter. He leaves swearing at all present. Rosendo believes he got away with Joel's murder and that it's being blamed on Elena when Ernestina arrives and tells him she loves him. Lucina wants revenge for her father's death but Andrea tries to tell her not to ruin her life. Santiago (Juan Pelaez) tells his wife Sabina that his daughter Andrea is brave and she tells him he molded her that way. Cecilio's daughter returns home, divorced. The funeral procession begins as Rosendo tells two workers to listen in on any information Refugio divulges. She tells Santiago, Refugio and Andrea what her husband saw the night before and that Rosendo caught him red-handed and Andrea says that he had him killed. Daniel keeps getting worse and the doctor says he's going to operate or he'll go into a coma. Daniel flat lines as doctors try to revive him and he sees a bright light. Elena appears to him and tells him that it's not his time to die and to look for his grandfather Gonzalo.

     The previews for this week show Manuel returning to town and asking Andrea to marry him and Daniel meeting Andrea.

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USA, 12/13-17/04

 

 

Telenovela-World:  monday summary  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-15-04 05:16 PST 

     if i have mistranslated anything, and someone can correct me, feel free. i'll do my best for tuesday's episode later on today. here goes:

     andrea and lucina show up as the fight continues with manuel getting knocked down. andrea gets mad at him for fighting with daniel. manuel tells andrea to keep away from daniel, but she sez he’s just a guest at the lodge. he tries to sweet talk her, but she already acts like she doesn’t really love him, even though she sez she does and you can tell they’ve been together for awhile.

     daniel goes to a cantina full of miners. the two main henchmen of rosendo make smart remarks to him in their drunkeness, which he ignores. daniel gets a beer, drinks it, pays for it and is leaving when one of them jumps up and grabs him by the jacket. daniel headbutts the guy, who falls down. the other henchman tries to throttle daniel, but daniel isn’t quite as borracho as they are and he fights the guy and kicks his ass. then the other guy gets up and daniel slams his head into a pillar. some of the other miners come out, but don’t do anything and daniel leaves. he’s a marked man now.

     ernestina is scheming with rosendo. she is putting something which i assume is poison in gonzalo’s medication; he’s kinda drunk. i can’t figger out her relationship to the old guy. i guess just someone caring for him. later, gonzalo welcomes two men; a priest and the guy who went with andrea to the building with the packages, who i assume is a licensiado. this guy is looking at ernestina in a meaningful way behind the other two men’s backs like they’re in cahoots or something. all the men start playing cards. the poisoned medication is still sitting there and ernestina keeps looking at it nervously. gonzalo tells them one day while he was drunk, he asked olga to marry him, even though elena had not been dead long. (i *think* olga and elena are sisters or half-sisters or something like that.) he sez he paid dearly for doing that. he thinks back to he and olga being in bed the first time and they’re making out and he’s calling her elena. ooops. naturally, she gets mad and storms off. “she made me pay,” he sez. don gonzalo goes to get more money to bet and while he’s gone, the padre and licensiado laugh about how gonzalo has a shrine in the mine to elena, and how he talks to and sees elena still. the licensiado keeps raising the ante, but gonzalo beats his hand. the padre leaves and the other two play on. (i get the feeling that everyone is trying to get the mine from gonzalo or at least ruin him, but i’m not sure on that since my spanish is such crap.)

     manuel and andrea go into the lodge and the madam and her whore seem very interested in manuel. everyone is really nice to the hookers. daniel shows up looking very hunky with his hair all messed up from the fight. he and andrea sit down and she asks him why he’s sweating! LOL! he tells her it’s hot. they’re whispering and looking like lovers as the hookers watch them. daniel is teling andrea since his accident, things have really changed for him. evidently his seeing elena when he almost died has really affected him, since he saw the pic of her and knows it was his grandma.

     andrea and sabina (her mom) talk and andrea sez she’s confused and bummed out. she sez she doesn’t feel the same about manuel ‘cuz he seems to have changed and gotten aggressive and jealous. sabina asks andrea if she likes daniel. andrea sez she doesn’t know. sabina tells her manuel is a good man.

     the two henchmen who got their asses kicked by daniel whine and cry to rosendo, who tells someone on the phone to wait for him and they all take off.

     santiago, daniel and andrea are talking at the lodge and manuel shows up. andrea wants to leave. manuel starts up with daniel again.

     andrea and manuel are eating with the padre and manuel’s mom and talking about getting married. everyone wants them to but andrea. manuel again brings up daniel, like an idiot. now all andrea and manuel have for one another is words about daniel. manuel should shut up and get on with it. you can see andrea is pulling farther away each minute. he looks really ugly when he gets mad, too. daniel, on the other hand, just looks more gorgeous.

     andrea’s walking down the street and, of course, sees daniel. he tells her by moonlight, she looks more beautiful. now he’s really trying to get her to stay and hang out under the stars with him. she sez no ‘cuz of manuel. daniel’s telling her he’s really jealous of manuel and they kiss. ruh roh! sabina sees them and gets very worried ‘cuz andrea is really kissing him like she loves it. RUH ROH!

     now, this womin i wasn’t sure about yesterday, she’s the licensiado’s daughter... she drives up to gonzalo’s with her mom. mom sez it’s incredible these things are happening and she gives the daughter money. she asks, “can’t your father wait ‘til tomorrow?” the daughter goes in with the chauffeur and talks to ernestina. she wants to know why ernestina is there all the time and ernestina tells her she lives there now. she goes to the two men and evidently, gonzalo is her god-father. she’s bringing her father money so he can gamble some more and she’s really embarrassed to do it.

     next, some guys are unloading big boxes from a bobtail truck and putting them in a building. rosendo is talking to ernestina on the phone. he sez something about he’s working on something that will fulfill their destiny.

     manuel and his mother are eating and the padre is there talking about joel (the original guy who got his head chopped off) dying without confession and how sad it is. manuel asks if ernestina visited joel before he died, and the padre sez yes.

     sabina sees on the news the story about the miners dying mysteriously that daniel has given to liliana at Es Mas, and everyone freaks out that rosendo will really be pissed off when he hears the story is out. andrea sez she’d like to see his face right now.

     you hear a phone ring and rosendo answers it. ernestina is telling him about the news. he tells her not to worry.

     andrea gets mad at daniel for reporting what’s going on in the town. he’s holding her hand and asking if it bothers her when sabina walks in and they act guilty.

     rosendo and the henchman take a statue of an archangel from a store and put it in a box.

     the miners are talking down in the mine about the news story. they think rosendo is going to be in trouble and things will be ok.

     andrea and lucina are leaving in the jeep that got shot at. they end up in an alley and park in front of an SUV and go in the shop where rosendo stole the statue. amazingly, the statue is back and the girls choose it for a gift. rosendo sees them leaving with it and asks his henchman, “where is the archangel going?” he goes in the shop and yells at the vendor. his henchmen tell him they’ll get it back, don’t worry, but rosendo storms out in a huff. the vendor and the henchmen look at one another and shrug.

     ernestina sees daniel when he comes to gonzalo’s (remember, daniel is gonzalo’s grandson) house and tries to kiss him, but he backs away. she tells him he doesn’t waste any time and they talk about the news story. she starts kissing on him again and he’s really pushing her away, but darn it! he’s just not strong enough for her! silly. the camera pans left and you see manuel standing in the doorway, watching them.

 

     Telenovela-World:  tuesday summary  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-15-04 08:20 PST   

     PLEASE...if i'm messing up, please correct me. i will learn that way and i don't mind that kind of criticism.

     manuel yells at daniel to let ernestina go, even though he’s trying to get her off him the whole time. the boys almost fight, but gonzalo shows up and they stop. ooooook...ernestina and manuel are brother and sister. din’t know that before. gonzalo tells manuel just ‘cuz ernestina works there doesn’t give him the right to get in fights. ernestina tells manuel the same thing after gonzalo and daniel go off together. they argue about how she’s acting slutty and he sez rosendo is gonna dump her and she sez they’re gonna get married. haha. i don’t think so. manuel tells her there’s lots of men and she uses daniel as an example, which pisses manuel off.

gonzalo tells daniel even though ernestina is throwing herself at him, he can’t act like a jerk and daniel agrees and apologises. gonzalo sez ernestina is terrible and if it weren’t for his friendship with the padre, she would spend most of her time in the street. he sez manuel is a good guy but ernestina isn’t a good girl.

     gonzalo starts showing daniel the legal documents and books for the mine. daniel wants to know why there is no documentation for why the mine was shut down, i think, i’m not sure. gonzalo sez he did it for personal reasons. he talks into a recorder about closing the mine for personal reasons but daniel tells him there could be exploitations if there is no documentation. i guess daniel talks rosendo into telling why ‘cuz he gets out a tape recorder and rosendo starts telling the story. he closed the mine for vengeance against the jerks who lynched his wife, elena.

     the archangel is brought home. they’re gonna paint it white, like the angels. manuel tells andrea about seeing daniel kissing ernestina. they get in another fight about it, then he sez he’s returning to work and he’ll see her later.

     at es mas, liliana and the editor(?) talk about her going to help daniel and that he, the editor, has a plan.

     rosendo tells ernestina he won’t be happy ‘til he gets back the archangel.

     gonzalo wants daniel to become his administrator, but daniel sez he can only do it in his free time. gonzalo is disappointed by this. daniel tells him since his accident, he feels like it’s his responsibility to report the truth. gonzalo asks if daniel isn’t really interested in his money why is he there? he sez ‘cuz of the image of elena he saw and ‘cuz they’re blood. he wants gonzalo to get over his resentment and pardon the people who lynched elena, but gonzalo doesn’t think he can.

     manuel and the licenciado are discussing something about the documents which i assume mean for the mine. me spanish fails me at this point, hope someone can fill in what they were actually saying.

     ernestina tells andrea, sabina and lucina she’ll marry rosendo soon and they act like, “yeah...sure...”. lucina tells her rosendo is a bad man. then ernestina sez daniel kissed her. sabina sez she shouldn’t be kissing other guys besides rosendo. andrea shows ernestina the ring manuel gave her. they start talking about the archangel and ernestina cleverly asks to see it. she asks where the bathroom window is and who sleeps in the room where the archangel is.

     daniel tells gonzalo he’s going to see the girl he likes. gonzalo tells him to be really careful.

     santiago and the other miners come out for lunch. he and sabina talk about andrea being unable to choose between manuel and daniel. santiago sez she’ll marry manuel and there’s nothing more to say.

     the licenciado’s daughter comes in the room where manuel is and gives him a photo album with andrea’s pics in it. then she tries to rub on him and he gets a bit nervous. she asks him why he never tried to get it on with anyone else, meaning HER, and he sez ‘cuz he was never interested. she wants to know if he’s sure that andrea feels the same and manuel sez they’re gonna be married.

     sabina thinks andrea is mad ‘cuz daniel and ernestina kissed. she tells andrea what her father said. daniel comes in and santiago asks him to talk. i think he sez he heard daniel is really interested in andrea, which he vaguely denies. andrea has just come from the bath and her bedroom door is left open when sabina leaves the room. the towel drops and, of course, daniel is going into his room and sees her. she gets mad and he sez the door was open and it was an accident. she asks if he saw and he sez everything and she smacks him across the face.

     daniel hears guitar music and it’s andrea thinking about when they met. daniel thinks of their first kiss, then andrea does, then daniel thinks about seeing andrea unclothed.

     everyone is getting ready for lucina’s quinceañera. her boyfriend, el gato, has a mariachi band for her and is singing with them. he gives lucina flowers and asks for a kiss, but andrea won’t let them. they’re in the courtyard and manuel kisses andrea. daniel sees them, but doesn’t seem to bothered by it.

     when they all leave for the church and daniel goes his own way, ernestina seizes the opportunity to steal the archangel. they bring a substitute which is painted white. the one they take isn’t painted. i’m still not sure what the big deal with this one archangel is. if someone can clear that up, that’d be great. the archangel is returned to rosendo.

     in the church, manuel and daniel eye one another; daniel is smiling, manuel is not. daniel introduces himself to the padre and asks if he can visit him later. he sees andrea and asks if she forgives him for seeing her unclothed just as liliana comes up, which andrea isn’t too thrilled with.

     [in paragraph 3, i mean gonzalo, not rosendo nt]

    

Telenovela-World:   wednesday summary  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-16-04 07:38 PST

     liliana arrives and there’s some guy really watching daniel load up the recording and photographing stuff in his little SUV. daniel notices and they give one another dirty looks.

     the madam receives a whole wad of money from rosendo and doesn’t know why.

     liliana and gerard (a co-worker from es mas) check in to the lodge. ernestina is there and meets them. liliana is hanging on daniel, who looks very uncomfortable to have his two honeys seeing him with his REAL girlfriend. the creepy guy watching daniel is being really obvious when he comes in the lodge and keeps staring at daniel.

ernestina tells lucina she changed the archangel for a white one and andrea is suspicious. they have words.

     andrea overhears liliana telling daniel she loves him and sees them hugging. later, liliana takes a shower and drops her towel, but daniel just stands there and she asks if he loves her and he sez no, but they can be good friends.

     one of the townswimmin tells andrea her husband is missing (i think).

     cecilio, daughter and her aunt are talking and he sez something about the daughter getting a husband.

     daniel tells andrea that liliana isn’t his girlfriend, but andrea just acts disgusted. he tries to kiss her and she’s backing away and, OF COURSE, liliana comes down and sees them.

     liliana asks for rosendo to come to the lodge for an interview. andrea is a bit surprised and, i think, kinda scared ‘cuz she knows what rosendo really is...dangerous. he comes to the lodge and then they go to the shop where the angel was stolen. they go in the storage room. he shows them all the statues of the archangels he has and acts all proud. daniel wants to know who makes them for some reason and rosendo sez, “artisans.” liliana goes right to the statue ernestina stole and tries to pick it up and it’s really heavy. they all leave.

     sabina and liliana meet. sabina looks at liliana funny, like she has a false smile. daniel starts asking sabina about olga and elena. santiago joins them. manuel goes on vacation and he and andrea kiss goodbye while daniel watches. sabina tells about elena’s death and rescue attempt where many miners died from the toxic fumes. liliana asks if they believe elena’s ghost or spirit killed the miners. sabina sez she doesn’t think that.

     lucina sez she wants to go out with some of the boys and andrea doesn’t want her to go, but lucina talks her into it. RUH ROH! soon, she’s making out with el gato and she keeps trying to stop him from going too far, but finally gives in. they’re almost undressed, but andrea walks in again and saves lucina from el gato, who should be el raton. lucina thanks her and they talk about the consequences of sex before you’re ready.

     cecilio’s daughter and aunt (evarista) go to talk to sabina. the daughter, who wants manuel, is so false with andrea when she enters. andrea seems genuinely nice to her. sabina makes an amulet for evarista and tells her to wish for what she wants it to do.

     a miner takes daniel to the mine that, for 50 years, no-one has gone in. he tells daniel to be careful if he goes in it. he tells daniel he’ll come back for him, but daniel sez he’ll walk back. the miners watch daniel go in and are shaking their heads. this is where gonzalo has that shrine to elena. weirdly, there are lights on down in this mine that nobody has gone in for 50 years. daniel is thunderstruck by the shrine. it is exactly in the spot where elena was found dead. gonzalo shows up and gets just a bit pissed off.

     liliana and her party are looking at the elevator cables as part of the interview. rosendo is again acting quite proud of what is his. then they go down into the mine and santiago is showing them the work they do.

     ok, manuel is on holiday and he’s in a bar checking out all the wimmin with nothing on. TYPICAL. andrea can’t kiss daniel, but he can pick up slutty wimmin in bars. he knows these wimmin from before, too, it’s quite apparent. two guys in the bar are whispering when they see manuel. when the slutty friend of manuel’s leaves, one of the men asks her who he is. she tells them and walks off.

 

Telenovela-World:   thursday summary  [USA, 12/16/04] Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-17-04 07:32 PST

     please correct me if i've mistranslated. please!

     gonzalo makes daniel swear he won’t tell of the shrine to elena. their bond becomes closer. gonzalo drops daniel off and asks him to think more about becoming his administrator full time.

     daniel is at the desk of the lodge when manuel calls andrea. daniel is winking at her while she’s talking. boy, i’d hang right up. manuel hangs up the phone and there’s the slutty womin from the bar. TYPICAL.

     olga’s daughter(?) is having a dream of when she was a kid and saw gonzalo after he killed olga(?).

     gerard wakes daniel up and sez they’re leaving. rosendo is driving and 3 of his henchman accompany them. daniel comes out too late to say goodbye as they drive off. rosendo is buying them lunch and sez something about the recording and liliana and gerard give one another suspicious looks. the two of them leave.

     andrea thinks about how daniel makes her feel alive for the first time in her life.

     gonzalo tells elena’s portrait that when he joins her, his affairs will be in good hands after he gives daniel full control. ernestina hears gonzalo telling the lawyer he wants daniel as his sole heir. she schemes on daniel againn.

     daniel finds a note telling him to get out of town. later, 2 henchmen see daniel and want to get him, but rosendo stops them and tells them to wait.

     andrea is posing for a portrait done by cecilio’s daughter, who asks her about the cross. andrea wants her to paint the cross on her portrait.

     margarita(?) is killed. i think she told andrea something about rosendo a couple days ago and how he found out, i dunno.

     la coronela asks one of the hookers about her date and she’s telling coronela about santiago, but i don’t know what. santiago will probly end up dead soon.

     sabina is telling daniel that andrea is marrying manuel, but it sounds like she’d rather have daniel for a son-in-law. she tells him to leave andrea alone, though. daniel tells her andrea loves him and that should be enough to make sabina happy. he sez maybe andrea is his destiny, but sabina sez he’ll cause tragedy. a kid runs in and tells them andrea has gone to rosendo’s office.

     andrea walks to the mine and is seen by all the miners and the two henchmen come out, but don’t see her as she sneaks past them. she takes the cross off, sneaks up behind rosendo and holds it to his neck, but he overpowers her and starts kissing on her. GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luckily, daniel and sabina come in just in time, and there’s a small tussle. rosendo tells them they’ll pay and andrea sez he’ll pay, too. the two henchmen are holding daniel and rosendo tells him he doesn’t care whose grandson he is.

     andrea notices her cross is missing, but daniel has it. she’s mad at him and doesn’t want to talk to him. it’s about liliana. he wants her to talk to liliana but she won’t. he tells her she’s not just another girl, but he loves her. she sez she’s already promised to manuel. he wants her to tell manuel to shove off and he will give her the cross, but he knows she can’t do that. she walks off and he keeps the cross. damn, he’s so gorgeous.

     santiago, sabina, lucina y el gato are eating...pardon my ignorance... is that andrea’s brother? el gato? i think he’s andrea’s brother now, which i never tripped on before or which my poor spanish kept me from realising. andrea comes in, crying. santiago asks where the cross is and she sez daniel has it. santiago is mad at andrea for having the Es Mas people come snooping around. sabina tells andrea to tell her father the truth, i assume about her and daniel. she asks does he want her to marry manuel when she’s in love with daniel? he tells her what a good man manuel is...yeah, while he’s picking up hookers in bars on his vacation...but she doesn’t care.

     daniel walks in on gonzalo having a chat with elena’s portrait. there is an uncomfortable moment, then they talk about daniel loving andrea. gonzalo is mad that daniel has the cross. he wants it, but daniell won’t give it to him, so gonzalo gets mad and tells him to leave. they argue again about the bad ways gonzalo has acted since elena’s lynching. daniel sez it’s a shame that each day, gonzalo gets older and more alone. gonzalo tells daniel he wants him to get out and never come back.

     ernestina sits with daniel in the garden. he wants her to tell him how his abuelo really is. she pretends to ask if he’s having problems with rosendo and he sez no, with andrea. now she’s jealous.

     ludivina serna meets cecilio and sez she knows him from a long time ago at la coronela’s bar. he can’t remember her, but she acts very mysterious and mentions marco ruelas.

 

Telenovela-World:  friday summary  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-20-04 08:31 PST

     daniel and gonzalo are still arguing, but they end by making up. daniel sez he needs to talk to gonzalo and gonzalo wants to know if it’s about his mom, hanna. hanna is the one who had the dream of being a little girl and coming in and seeing gonzalo crouching over olga(?) with a gun in his hand. gonzalo thinks back to this same time, but we see that olga(?) has really shot hersleg and gonzalo picks up the gun. he tells how sabina worked there when she was younger with elena and the herbs. they’re fighting about hanna seeing her mom shot. sabina gets fired. daniel asks if gonzalo wants to reconcile with hanna, but he doesn’t seem to think it’s possible.

     liliana goes to visit hanna, who tells liliana she wishes daniel would marry her. liliana just seems to shrug off that idea as a waste of time. she tells hanna daniel loves someone else now. liliana tries to convince hanna to go visit real del monte and see gonzalo, but hanna is adamant that she’ll never set foot there again.

     ick. manuel returns from his holiday with whores, bringing presents to everyone due to his guilt at doing the wrong thing. can ya tell i don’t like manuel? d: manuel sez he has a “sensational” surprise for andrea. heh. sensational for him, maybe.

     andrea and ernestina get into a fight about rosendo and what a creep he is. andrea slaps ernestina and when ernestina goes to slap her back, daniel is right there (ah, the knight in shining armour!) and he grabs her and tells her to get out. andrea keeps asking daniel for her cross and he wants to know if she loves manuel. she keeps playing hard to get or maybe she truly is confused about her feelings. he sez he wants her to love him like he loves her. he still doesn’t give her back her cross.

     eduarda has the two orphans of margarita and tranquilino, and rosendo comes up. he gives her an envelope full of money and acts like he’s being beneficent. he gives her his number in case she needs anything. she kinda acts like she really believes he’s being nice.

     el gato and lucina...again with the talk of how much he wants sex.

     when andrea returns to the lodge, sabina tells her there’s a surprise in her room. it’s a wedding dress from manuel, who comes out of the shadows and asks if she likes it. she just looks down with a frown on her face. lucina leaves. andrea sez she likes it but why did he buy it. santiago and sabina come in, saying it’s bad luck to see andrea dressed in the bridal gown, which she really isn’t, but daniel is holding it up in front of her while they look in the mirror. santiago poopoos sabina’s fear. he tells the two how happy he is. suddenly, manuel gets mad, but santiago stops him and sends him home. manuel sez, “adios mi amor,” but andrea only sez, “adios manuel.” santiago sez he wants to talk to andrea in private.

     rosendo welcomes the weird guy who’s been hanging around; he kicks his own henchmen out of his office to do so. the guy killed the wife of tranquilino, who i think was the miner that got pushed in the hole. he has the packet of dope that tranquilino was going to use as evidence(?) the guy wants to know what he should do about watching daniel; rosendo sez just tell me everything he does and who he hangs out with and gives him money. ernestina comes in and is pissed that andrea slapped her. rosendo kinda laughs at her after saying he likes andrea and ernestina wants to know what’s between him and andrea. as if andrea would. but then, rosendo and ernestina make up.

     manuel shows el gato a gun and asks if he likes it. the gun is for el gato. RUH ROH. el gato asks manuel about andrea and then acts weird when manuel tells him he bought her a wedding gown.

     santiago again bugs andrea about who she loves and how bad and ungrateful she is not to marry manuel. i guess ‘cuz he’s rich, she’ll embarass the family if she doesn’t. every time she asks if he wants her to be happy, he sez yes, but acts mad about it. he begs her not to break off with manuel. she very, very reluctantly agrees. ick.

gonzalo dreams of elena after they pull her out of the mine collapse...i am so confused about this...don’t they keep saying she got lynched? or is that just an expression for a mob killing someone? anyway, she’s laying in bed dying and begs him to help her. now he’s old gonzalo again and he runs out of the room and goes down to his desk, gets out a letter opener and he must be sleepwalking or something, ‘cuz it then goes back to the dream where he’s going to kill elena. then he goes back in his bedroom as old gonzalo and holds the letter opener up like he’s gonna stab himsleg to death. ernestina and epitacia stop him.

     daniel comes down to breakfast and santiago accosts him and sez he wants daniel to get out of town.

     manuel and his mom are eating with the padre and talking about the house he bought from cecilio. they act all happy and manuel tells the padre he wants him to marry them next week!!! RUH ROH!!!

     coronela tells rosendo about meeting andrea, and they plot against her. coronela warns rosendo not to forget who he’s talking to and warns him not to cross her.

     daniel again argues with gonzalo, who’s in bed, about stopping his vindictive ways against the whole world. gonzalo just can’t let go. they also talk about hanna and gonzalo asks for forgiveness from her.

     manuel yells at ernestina that their mom and the padre want her to stop hanging out with rosendo. she asks if the padre knows who their father is and manuel sez of course not. manuel slaps her for sassing him back and she slams the gate in his face.

     andrea is posing for rita, cecilio’s daughter, again. andrea is crying and rita asks if andrea’s having money problems. andrea sez she’ doesn’t want to marry manuel since she’s in love with another. andrea sez she’s gonna dump manuel, even though santiago doesn’t want her to rush her decision.

     gonzalo’s doctor comes to see him. ernestina tells of the sleep walking and how gonzalo won’t take his medicine. gonzalo tells daniel the doctor hasn’t a clue about loving a womin with all your soul.

     daniel calls the lodge, lucina answers and he asks for andrea. lucina tells him where she is and gives him the number. he calls and when andrea asks where he is, he tells her at his grandfather’s. when he tells her who his grandfather is, she acts disgusted and sez she and he have much to discuss and clear up. manuel comes to the house and sez he din’t know andrea was being painted by rita. cecilio gives andrea his arm and they leave, so manuel gives his arm to rita, who looks very smug about that. they’re eating and talking about tranquilino y margarita dying. there’s something about the FBI investigating. they toast manuel and andrea on their upcoming marriage, but rita looks like she’s having the vapors or something.

     rosendo tells ernestia via phone that he has a problem that needs fixing. he sez he’s going to talk to cecilio about it. she tells him she’ll wait, but her patience is wearing thin. rosendo gets a call from cecilio requesting to see him.

     hanna and husband talk about never telling daniel who his grandfather is. ummm...i think that’s what they’re saying. can someone please clear this up for me? how is it that hanna doesn't know daniel has already met his own abuelo?

     daniel and gonzalo eat and talk about gonzalo marrying olga when he loved elena, who then planned to marry manuel soto.

     manuel takes andrea to the house he intends to live in with her. she is less than enthusiastic about the whole thing and he’s basically dragging her around the house. then he takes her to the bedroom and she really gets disgusted.. he starts kissing her and they lie down on the bed. she tells him no and he starts forcing himsleg upon her. truly a rat.

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USA, 12/20-24/04

 

Telenovela-World: USA, 12/20/04 - Doña Eduardo tells Don Cecilio that Rosendo gave her money for some purpose ( I think for the care of the orphaned children), then tore off the part of the receipt with her signature. She is concerned.  Cecilio assures her that there is no problem.  He will take care of it.

     Andrea rejects Manuel.  He calls her a cualquiera, is very rude and, I think, slaps her. She returns the engagement ring.

     Cecilio confronts Rosendo, warns him not to leave the children unprotected.

     Daniel tells Gonzalo he’s sure of his feelings for Andrea and hers for him.  When Gonzalo reproaches him for giving up one woman for another like that, Daniel asks him if he thought of Olga when he started courting Elena.

     Andrea tells her mother that she returned her engagement ring.  Manuel slapped her.

     Manuel tells his mother that he doesn’t know what is wrong with him.  Lately everything he does turns out wrong and he ends up hurting people.  Then he tells her that Andrea loves another. 

     Patricio doesn’t understand Hanna’s hatred toward Gonzalo and tells her that she should explain it to him or reconcile with her grandfather.

     It turns out that both Manuel and Ernestina were adopted when he was 2 and she was 1. Manuel asks Padre Buenaventura how he found him.  The Padre says that he knew Manuel’s mother when she was dying, but doesn’t know anything about their father.

     Manuel confronts Rosendo about Ernestina. Rosendo’s goons start to interfere, but Manuel’s mother and Rita appear and prevent the fight.

     When Daniel returns to the inn at night, he notices that the door to Andrea’s bedroom is open.  He goes in and looks at her sleeping.  Then he touches her and she wakes up.  They talk briefly.  He kisses her.  He obviously wants more, but she says no, not here, not in her parents’ home. He leaves.

     In another bed, Ernestina tells Rosendo that Manuel is right.  Rosendo doesn’t plan to marry her. He doesn’t respond directly.  He tells her that Andrea broke up with Manuel because of Daniel. 

     Ludovina visits La Coronela.  She tells La C that she has a story La C will want to hear.

     Andrea confesses to Padre Buena that she loves another.  The Padre suggests that she is just confused. Andrea responds that she is very sure of her feelings.

     Ernestina overhears Daniel tell Gonzalo that Andrea confessed that she loves him.Gonzalo tells him that it won’t be easy.

     Andrea goes to meet her father at his workplace.  He mother doesn’t want to go alone, but she isn’t worried. 

     Santiago meets Natividad in the cemetery.  He has a message from Rosendo about the money - unless Santiago wants his daughter to know everything.

     While Andrea is driving to her father work site, she thinks of Manuel and Daniel.

 

Telenovela-World:  monday summary [correction: Tues., 12/21/04 summary]  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-22-04 07:46 PST

     some old guy is telling santiago he’ll come with the money tomorrow...is santiago a rat? why is he being paid? i don’t think it’s the same guy who rosendo has watching daniel’s movements.

     manuel comes to the lodge, writes a note and gives it to sabina. he acts very sad, then sez he'll be back later. tough for him.

     gonzalo and daniel are emailing patricio, hanna’s husband, in the hopes that she will participate and forgive her father. gonzalo is amazed at the technology. daniel tells him to talk to hanna and, at first, he’s reluctant. then he sits down and damned if he’s not the fastest newbie typist i’ve ever seen!!! he’s zooming over that keyboard! d: patricio shows hanna the emails, but she just sez she hates her father and won’t ever forgive him and leaves the room. you see gonzalo getting up from the computer sadly, saying she’ll never answer him. daniel sez he must understand how hanna feels about what she saw when she was little.

     andrea goes to the mine to see her father to tell him she’s chosen daniel, which pisses him off. he’s telling her how selfish she is and that she’ll regret not marrying manuel the rest of her life. ha! NOT! she just can’t convince him. rosendo walks up as she’s leaving and he and santiago look meaningfully at one another as she pushes rosendo out of the way.

     manuel is in the car with cecilio talking about the important documents, which i’m still not sure what they are about. dd! help! manuel complains about ernestina being with rosendo, but cecilio sez she’s old enough, which is weird considering how he acts later in the episode.

     cecilio is on the patio of gonzalo’s house and he overhears him telling daniel about how olga poisoned hanna’s mind and then she saw him with the gun in his hand...i think. cecilio seems awfully interested, like he doesn’t know the history, but maybe he just wonders who gonzalo is talking to. gonzalo thinks back to when olga finds him and elena making out in the mine. in the flashback, he tries to explain (as if there’s anything to explain, he’s busted making out with his wife’s sister. doh!), but olga runs out. the flashback ends as cecilio walks in and gonzalo accuses him of eavesdropping. cecilio is introduced to daniel and they make small talk. cecilio implies gonzalo is not telling daniel the whole truth of what happened.

     sabina is watching a movie and boy, is she into it. manuel comes back and asks for andrea again, then sez he’s going to mexico on business for cecilio. as he goes down the street andrea comes from behind him, but they don't notice one another. she goes in the lodge and sabina tells her manuel just left. andrea doesn’t care and sabina bugs her about wanting to marry daniel. she sez she’s not marrying anyone just yet and goes to her room.

     coronela has the new old whore, ludivina, in her room. she’s all dolled up. daysi comes in and coronela kicks the other two whores out. daysi sez don natividad rincon is at the bar. ok, this is the guy who was talking to santiago about bringing money.

     hanna sez all the years of therapy have done no good and all she wants is to forget everything. patricio sez she’s not better ‘cuz she doesn’t want to be and tries to convince her to forgive gonzalo.

     cecilio finds out daniel is interested in andrea from gonzalo. cecilio thinks andrea will be waiting for manuel when he gets back from mexico. ha. then something about the tragedy of gonzalo repeating itsleg with daniel(?)

     andrea is in the church and in comes manuel. he does the whining and crying again and tries to kiss her and then gets aggressive once more. in the church! shameless. she gives him back the wedding gown, which she had in a paper bag. LOL! manuel slaps her. yeah, that’s the way to make her like ya, ya jerk. he sez, “i love you more than life and this is how you repay me?” then he rips the gown and storms out. andrea asks for forgiveness.

     rosendo comes to gonzalo’s for ernestina and cecilio sees him. rosendo is awful polite to cecilio. ernestina comes up as cecilio is telling rosendo how decent she is. rosendo starts to smart mouth, but she interrupts and surprises him. cecilio tells rosendo to take a hike. then he tells ernestina that the town sez she’s with rosendo for his money and that she should have more respect for the padre and her brother.

     andrea is burning the wedding gown in the garbage bin. sabina brings water and puts out the fire against andrea’s wishes.

     manuel drives and thinks back and cries. i hope he’s thinking about what a complete ass he’s been, but probly not. is the box in his hand the ring andrea gave back to him?

     daniel is in an office where a guy is typing and he wants to know who’s suspected in the death of margarita. the guy sez everyone is.

     ok, i think santiago and cecilio are talking about andrea not being his kid. dd! help again!!! something about the lodge, too. it’s not in his name or he doesn’t own it or something?

     manuel is in mexico and the two guys from the bar are watching him. his whore friend shows up. he’s crying to her about love hurting, so they decide to make the hurt go away by fucking, or so manuel thinks. really, she’s leading him into a trap. while the whore pretends to “freshen up”, manuel calls andrea!!! completely disgusting. “hi honey! i’m in a hotel room with a whore! i love you!” anyway, the two guys follow them to the room. they knock and the whore opens it. they rush in, push her out, she yells for help and when manuel goes to the door, they beat him up and take his suitcase of papers. luckily...or not...andrea hears it over the phone, which the two bad guys and the whore don’t know he’s talking to andrea.

     andrea tells her parents she heard someone beating up manuel. she wants to go to cecilio to tell him what she heard. the little man at cecilio’s doesn’t want to let them in, but rita comes down to ask what’s going on.

     you see the two guys dropping the whore off at her car in a parking garage and one of the guys gets out with a gun with a silencer and walks up behind her and the episode ends.

 

 

Telenovela-World:  wednesday summary [12/22/04]  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-23-04 07:11 PST

     even an old grinch like me is busy this time of year, so i only caught a few things today.

     andrea goes to mexico to see manuel. while there, the tv is playing and he hears about his whore being killed. cecilio comes in, andrea leaves and cecilio asks manuel who the womin was that was in his room. manuel tries to act innocent, but cecilio tells manuel he’s not stupid.

     daniel finds out manuel was with a womin at the hotel.

     rosendo gave ernestina what i assume was an expensive necklace. later on, after they have sex, he promises to marry her. pfffffft.

i think the police came and talked to manuel and cecilio told him to lie about the whore being there.

     oh boy...liliana and hanna show up at the hotel and see rita, andrea and daniel. very uncomfortable moment. then rita tells cecilio, who’s in manuel’s room, that hanna is waiting to see him; he seems surprised by that.

     everyone seems to think andrea is confused ‘cuz she wants daniel. what’s to be confused? he’s always kind to her. i doubt seriously he’d EVER slap her. and all manuel does is get mad and act as if there’s some law that he and andrea should be together. what a poor loser.

     liliana is berating daniel about andrea, but when hanna shows up, he tells them both how marvelous his love is for andrea, kinda catty-ish.

     manuel and andrea are yelling at one another and the doctor tells her to leave, which she gladly does, with a frown on her face. she meets daniel in the lobby and her face lights up to see him.

 

Telenovela-World:  thursday summary [USA, 12/23/04]  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-27-04 08:01 PST

     daniel asks andrea out to dinnor.

     sabina and santiago argue about rosendo trying to kiss andrea. santiago wants to go after rosendo, but sabina stops him, warning him about the problems that would ensue.

     daniel talks to his editor about his suspicions that someone’s trafficking drugs in real del monte.

     the doctor asks andrea not to argue with manuel.

     rita finds out daniel invited andrea to dinnor.

     epitacia calls ernestina rosendo’s whore for accepting that necklace. ernestina again sez they’ll be married soon, but epitacia knows better and laughs. ernestina accuses epitacia of being in love with gonzalo. that makes epitacia mad.

     rosendo is at the whore house and that ludivina sees him and acts like she doesn’t want HIM to see HER. gonzalo goes to see the whore who looks a bit like elena and whom he calls elena. he gives her a ring, seeing himself at first as his young self. coronela seems quite interested that these two are together. i assume she hopes gonzalo will tell the whore something while he’s thinking it’s elena.

     cecilio is worried that someone might’ve seen manuel with the whore who got killed.

     liliana is at hanna’s house for dinnor. cecilio and family arrive.

     sabina shows up at gonzalo’s house and rosendo comes up, too. sabina wants to talk to gonzalo, who’s at the whore house, so sabina goes to talk with epitacia. this seems to worry rosendo. epitacia tells sabina rosendo isn’t welcome in this house, but ernestina has foolishly invited rosendo into her bedroom and epitacia overhears them talking. epitacia is on the phone with someone named señor cura, about the two of them being together. sabina seems quite satisfied that they’re gonna be busted.

     santiago comes home from work and wants to know where sabina is. ludivina shows up and wants to talk to him and he looks around guiltily. he tells ludivina she shouldn’t’ve come around again. maybe this is andrea’s real mother?????? but santiago wants to know who’s behind some plan and ludivina tells him it’s coronela. or maybe this is andrea’s real mother???

     daniel and andrea have a romantic dinner. she admits to daniel that sabina isn’t her mom and that her mom was killed. he wants to know how she died, but andrea sez she doesn’t know. she doesn’t say whether santiago is her father or not.

     gonzalo comes home and sees sabina and first tells her to get out, then he tells the chauffeur and epitacia to leave them and sabina starts telling him off about not talking to hanna. he sez it’s sabina’s fault hanna hates him and it’s olga’s fault elena is dead(?) anyway, sabina doesn’t want daniel loving andrea since it’ll be like the history of young gonzalo, only instead of one man and two wimmin, it’ll be andrea and manuel and daniel.

     cecilio tells rita she’s stuck up for thinking real del monte is so backward. they start talking about elena’s ghost and hanna starts getting nervous. patricio doesn’t seem to know much about it. daniel and andrea come in and there is total silence. when daniel sez he’s going back to real del monte, liliana sez it’s a shame since vicente, the editor, wants to give daniel a new job, which she eventually gets. everyone tries to tell daniel not to leave, but it’s no good.

     the padre catches rosendo leaving the hacienda and then gonzalo comes in with epitacia, who tells gonzalo that rosendo was in ernestina’s bedroom.

     sabina finds out ludivina came to see santiago, even though lucina can’t tell her who ludivina is. they talk about how andrea will end up badly if she goes with daniel. it’s really not the same situation as gonzalo, olga and elena, since andrea no longer loves manuel and wants nothing to do with him. sabina asks santiago about who came to see him. he tries to act like nobody did, then hasta explain and sez it’s just someone he used to know and that she wanted his help. you can tell sabina doesn’t believe a word he’s saying.

     santiago tells rosendo he better not try to come around his daughter again, rosendo gets sassy, santiago either knees him in the crotch or punches him in the stomach, they have a few more words, and rosendo limps off.

     ernestina gets told off by the padre and her mother about rosendo and what a fool she’s being for believing his lies and she sez nobody but rosendo loves her. she’s not wearing that necklace. does she ask them if they’re her real parents? the padre looks...sad...guilty? dd...do you know what’s going on with that?

     when the dinner party is over at hanna’s, daniel and andrea are kissing outside and liliana sees them and acts like it’s just now dawning on her that they’re novios. she sneaks off behind them, tears in her eyes.

     santiago calls the whorehouse for ludivina and wants to see her. sabina brings him his lunch. when he tries to kiss her goodbye, she dodges him.

     rosendo and ernestina are in bed and she's going through his wallet. is she getting her pay for the evening? he once again puts off marrying her.

     for some reason, rita tells andrea that cecilio is very worried about her treatment of manuel. why would rita do this? she was sucking up to manuel earlier and now she's kinda sticking up for him so andrea will marry him. i guess the confusion is starting.

     daniel has a final dinner with his parents, and they argue about him breaking up andrea's relationship with manuel. hanna wants him to go back to living how he was before he went to real del monte.

     manuel leaves the hospital. cecilio doesn't want manuel telling andrea something, i can't tell what. she comes in the room and is short with cecilio, who leaves immediately. manuel asks if she has a problem with him and she sez he gave her crap for coming to dinnor with daniel at his parent's. manuel again gets all huffy and rags out on her, saying how sad it is that she doesn't love him like he does her. dude...vinegar don't catch no flies. she tells manuel that daniel respects her. manuel sez he also respects her, but she sez, no you don't. suddenly he starts acting really pathetic and tries to cry and make andrea feel sorry for him. ick. he's such a creep. when he hugs her, he gets a look on his face like he's scheming and doesn't mean a word he's telling her.

     daniel turns down vicente's offer of a new job. it seems as if it's already been decided that liliana will get that job, however, when vicente tells daniel liliana is his new boss.

 

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USA, 12/27-31/04

 

Telenovela-World:  monday summary  [USA, 12/27/04]  Author: riv (---)  Date:   12-28-04 07:03 PST

     santiago meets ludivina in a cemetery. joel’s wife is putting flowers on his grave and she overhears them talking. santiago wants to talk to coronela and sez he doesn’t have much time(?) ludivina tells santiago rosendo is her son. ew!

     ernestina gets kicked out of gonzalo’s hacienda. she’s begging him and saying she wants to change. what crap. he sez the only way she can live in his house is if she never goes back with rosendo. she promises she won’t, but that’s probly crap, too.

     rosendo is talking to some guy about explosives and miners having a hard time breathing. not sure about all they talked about. the guy maybe is setting up a trap, or has set one up in the past, for the miners to die in(?) rosendo gives him the ever-present envelope of money.

     gonzalo goes to the whore house. ludivina whispers something to la coronela. gonzalo thinks about his conversation with sabina about his history repeating itsleg with daniel. he throws his glass and coronela clams him down. he’s crying about elena and coronela comforts him. they talk about the love triangle and coronela urges gonzalo to break up daniel and andrea.

     manuel comes home to his mom. he and andrea say they’re not getting married, but are just good friends now. his mom doesn’t like it, but the padre sez there’s good reason for them not to be married.

     daniel is in a police station(?) or maybe it was the electric company, since he mentions that later to don cecilio. he wants to take some documents, but the man he’s talking to won’t let him. this must be the guy who’s in rosendo’s pay that is mentioned later in the episode.

     lucina’s mom tells sabina about santiago and ludivina meeting in the cemetery.

     daniel meets with cecilio. something about opening up el paraiso mine again. cecilio laughs at him. daniel thinks it would make work for the townsfolk.

     sabina is mad about santiago seeing the other womin who she doesn’t know. andrea walks up and sabina tells her santiago has a girlfriend.

     hanna is with her psychiatrist talking about cecilio being dangerous for daniel(?) then she talks about gonzalo making her feel creepy for many years. she thinks she’s no good and it’s all gonzalo’s fault. she thinks back to a night when she saw a man she din’t know(?)

     andrea tells lucina she met daniel’s parents and the two of them giggle. they seem to think this means that everybody thinks it’s cool for daniel and andrea to be together.

     daniel is with his dad, who seems to be unhappy at first about andrea, then when daniel explains, his father accepts their love.

cecilio tells rosendo the documents manuel had were stolen. rosendo sez his people in mexico will control daniel’s nosiness at the energy company; relating back to the guy who won’t let daniel take the papers.

     andrea asks santiago about the womin and he sez he knew her when she was pregnant and that the father abandoned the baby. then she wants to know why she doesn’t have any relatives. santiago manages to dance around that issue, though. santiago leaves and asks god to help him to stop having to tell lies to everyone, which i assume means about his past.

     ernestina finds gonzalo asleep and can’t seem to wake him. she calls the doctor, but after she does, she looks kinda smirky at gonzalo. the doc comes and makes gonzalo get in bed. daniel comes in, too. gonzalo sez he’s afraid daniel’s romance with andrea will cause sadness, and begs daniel not to make the same mistakes he made. daniel proposes that gonzalo open up el paraiso mine again, which he doesn’t want to do. they argue about it some more. ernestina overhears daniel telling gonzalo he’s gonna revise the papers for the mine and that two guys stole the papers from manuel. then a guy is talking to cecilio. it now seems to me that cecilo’s the one who sent the two guys to beat up manuel. now ernestina knows about manuel having a whore in his room that got killed. she sez rosendo might be able to help manuel (get andrea back?) and he reluctantly agrees to talk to rosendo. ernestina breaks her word to gonzalo and goes to rosendo to ask that he help her brother. rosendo sez he hates daniel, too, and agrees to help.

     i get the impression santiago thinks something is going to happen to him. he keeps making reference to him being old and he tells andrea he wants her to be left in the hands of a good man, like he’s gonna die or something. he rags out on her to marry manuel again and seems to be forcing her to do it.

     daniel tells andrea how gonzalo thinks their relationship will end in tragedy. andrea doesn’t seem to know much about gonzalo. daniel kisses andrea as santiago walks in. santiago wants to talk to daniel. he tells daniel he doesn’t want his family hurt. he wants daniel to leave so andrea can marry manuel and make the town happy. pffft.

 

Telenovela-World:  summary for some day...  [Wed, 12/29/04?] Author: riv Date:   12-30-04 15:05 PST

     sorry, my ISP changed something and i got a new IP number and they din't even tell us so my router stopped working and...you know how it is. anyway, this is wednesday's summary. i think i...i dunno what happened, i lost a day somewhere.

     rosendo is with a doctor who’s saying they must hurry and do something, i don’t know what.

     when gonzalo hears of the mine explosion, he claims history is repeating itsleg. then he finds out daniel got hurt and worries.

     daniel and santiago are taken to the hospital. at first, daniel is awake, then sees elena’s spirit and asks if it’s his time. gonzalo shows up and tells andrea to shove off again. daniel tells gonzalo he’s been with elena again, then he lapses into a coma. the doctors say daniel has had a bad hit on the head.

     ernestina is talking to the padre, who blames rosendo for the explosion, but ernestina sez he wasn’t even in town when it happened. the padre doesn’t like ernestina sticking up for rosendo.

andrea tells manuel it’s her fault daniel was hurt, but manuel sez it was just an accident and nobody’s fault. she starts with the “i’m confused” crap again and, for once, manuel is understanding and comforts her.

     andrea calls daniel’s parents to tell them the news and they rush to the hospital. hanna blames gonzalo for daniel being in a coma due to his past sins coming back on him. gonzalo tells her she can talk to him whenever she wants, but she sez she never will.

     rosendo sees the official from the energy company and shows him pics of his family that i assume were taken clandestinely by a henchman of rosendo’s, and asks if he wants something bad to happen to them. he tells the guy to meet him in a bar and tells him if he doesn’t play along with rosendo’s plan, his family will be hurt.

gonzalo wants to move daniel to another hospital. the doctor asks daniel’s parents to wait before deciding to move him.

     santiago has an operation and is ok. he finds out daniel is in a coma.

     gonzalo tells his doctor he wants to die and will he help him.

     cecilio blames manuel for the accident. he leaves to see gonzalo, swearing. he gets to gonzalo’s and tells him not to worry ‘cuz daniel is strong. gonzalo sez he was a crappy parent to hanna ‘cuz she wasn’t elena’s daughter. cecilio tells gonzalo rita needs a husband(?) the padre is there thinking back to talking to ludivina about her having sex with these two old farts, i don’t know if she means when they were young or just recently. the padre tells gonzalo he’ll only be free of his pain if he talks to hanna and gets her forgiveness.

     elena’s spirit tells daniel she’ll explain everything if he waits to return from his coma.

     hanna goes to sabina and asks her to perform magic to help daniel. sabina doesn’t want to, then agrees. she sez the doctors can do nothing for daniel. the signal is lost for a few seconds here. hanna tells sabina to use her powers and to use andrea as the “virgin”, but that one scene of her and manuel making love seems to negate that power, if it really happened, which it seemed like it did from the look of disgust on andrea’s face. sabina sez she can’t do anything and it’s in god’s hands.

     manuel and ernestina’s madrina shows ernestina a pic of her parents and manuel when her mom was pregnant with her. ernestina thinks the padre is their father, but her madrina sez no. she sez ernestina’s father left them right before ernestina was born. then she sez something about him going to find work and never returning, yet she knows he’s not dead. what happened to the mother is not clear to me.

     sabina seems to change her mind. she prays as hanna leaves the lodge, then andrea comes in and begs her to help daniel. she sez she’ll go back with manuel so history won’t repeat itsleg, but sabina tells her history has already repeated itsleg.

     ernestina and manuel argue about their parents. he blames rosendo for the mine explosion again. he sez he almost killed daniel and ernestina sez he’s a hypocrite ‘cuz in reality he wants daniel dead.

     andrea goes to the hospital to say goodbye to the comatose daniel. the doctor tells his parents he is brain dead.

     sabina and andrea go to elena’s shrine to perform the magic. as they do, daniel recovers his senses, but not before elena’s spirit tells him that he’ll get another chance and that andrea will save him. he hears her calling to him to wake up and the monitors beep.

     hanna comes to the lodge and then andrea and sabina come in. hanna sez daniel wants to see her. andrea sez she will never see him again.

     cecilio tells manuel rosendo is returning to his job, which i assume was given to manuel, although i don’t remember or did not catch that part. manuel seems very disappointed. but this means cecilio sent rosendo away so that he wouldn’t be blamed for the explosion, which i thought yesterday.

     hanna tells patricio andrea will go back with manuel and he wonders what kinda womin she is. hanna tells him it’s better this way. they go to see daniel, who’s awake now. they say it’s a miracle that he now shows no signs of injury. they tell him andrea will go back with manuel. daniel doesn’t believe them. he keeps insisting she’s won’t do it.

     lucina wants to know why andrea’s hands are bandaged. frankly, i don’t know why they are, but i assume something to do with the magic.

     manuel is with andrea. he’s being really nice and not a’tall macho, but andrea still looks really grossed out by the prospect of being with him. he tells her he’s having problems with cecilio. he asks her if it’s really true that she’s broken it off with daniel.

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USA, 1/3-7/05  FINAL WEEK

 

Telenovela-World:  monday summary...let's see...correct spelling...correct day! w00!  Author: riv (---)  Date:   01-04-05 09:37 PST     

     cecilio sees manuel and rita arm-in-arm, but dismisses rita. she sez she will wait for manuel’s dinnor invitation. cecilio wants to know how things are going between them. cecilio sez he’s talked to rosendo, who denied having anything to do with the mine explosion.

     liliana and hanna talk about how they think daniel will come around if given enough time. as if. i think one of them actually said something about how daniel needs their help. (ha! that’s a laugh! he’s the only one, along with andrea and lucina, who doesn’t need help and knows exactly what’s right and what’s wrong.) daniel and patricio show up. daniel seems quite pissy to everyone and snottily sez the hotel is quite beautiful, but he knows why hanna has invited everyone there...to get him back together with liliana. liliana gets all upset, the stupid womin, and walks off. hanna berates daniel for being rude. the pot calling the kettle black, imho. daniel calls liliana a victim of hanna’s games.

     ernestina wakes gonzalo. he asks if she went with daniel, but she sez his parents have just left the town. i find it weird that she doesn’t know he’s left, too, or i’m mistranslating again what she said. gonzalo seems happy at the news, however, and thanks...elena! does that mean he’s happy hanna’s wigginess about elena has driven her away?

     rosendo returns to see coronela. she asks if he has doubts about what ludivina and she told him about who his father might be. he doesn't seem to.

     hanna tells daniel he has a bright future, just not with andrea, and he tells her she’s crazy to think that. he actually sez to hell with liliana.

     andrea tells lucina that sabina has done magic and returned to her old way of life due to hanna’s request to save daniel.(?)

     liliana cries to vincencio about not being able to reconcile with daniel.

     ludivina sez something about blood tests to rosendo. she sez she’s sure cecilio is the father. rosendo doesn’t care...both the candidates have money that he can get.

     manuel is with the padre, who thinks just ‘cuz daniel has left town, manuel will find it easier to get andrea back.

     now, i don’t remember seeing this part, maybe they’re harking back to a few episodes ago...but andrea is mad about something ernestina said about daniel. did andrea find out gonzalo is trying to get ernestina to suck up to daniel? lucina sez andrea might as well reconcile hersleg with not being with daniel. andrea is saying something about why did ernestina go see daniel in the hospital(?)

     suddenly, daniel is telling liliana how he hasta go back to how his life was before. he sez she’s a good friend and he loves her, but you can tell he means just as a friend.

     manuel walks in on rosendo and cecilio. cecilio closes a folder he was looking in. he and rosendo try to look innocent, but fail miserably; it is, however, completely lost on manuel. rosendo apologises that the mine explosion happened on manuel’s watch, and that he told the miners it wasn’t manuel’s fault. ha. no sh*t, sherlock. manuel gives cecilio two books, the project he promised cecilio. something about better methods for exploiting the mines.

     hanna can’t wait for the day that daniel forgets real del monte and all that happened there. she thinks daniel will never go back there. patricio sez something about daniel trying to convince gonzalo to open el paraiso again.

     cecilio goes down in the mine with manuel. a couple miners look very suspicious while hanging around. what was cecilio saying about rosendo and protection? manuel starts talking about modernising the workings of the mine. it seems cecilio thinks if they leave it, nobody will lose their job.(?) i'm assuming he doesn't wish to modernise due to the mine being a cover-up for drug trafficking and how that might be discovered if things were different.

     santiago gets ready to come home from the hospital. he tells sabina that he feels as if he might die soon. then he tells her that andrea isn’t his daughter. sabina is floored. i’m getting lost now. i guess if she din’t know that, she isn’t andrea’s mother, eh? and i guess andrea knows this. ???

     lucina and el gato have a tender moment. i get the feeling something bad is gonna happen to el gato.

     santiago tells andrea no matter what, he loves her. he asks if it’s true that she’s over daniel. but she sez even though daniel is gone, she’ll never go back with manuel. he tries to convince her to do it anyway.

     daniel tells patricio he wants to be back in real del monte with gonzalo. daniel’s family and liliana leave the hotel. daniel is riding with liliana in a separate car, but they follow daniel’s parents. liliana talks about working with daniel again. he wants to know why she’s being so “understanding”.

     ernestina tells gonzalo nobody knows where daniel and his parents have gone. he’s mad nobody told him daniel was leaving.

     cecilio is hitting on ernestina...could he not be her father?

     rosendo and his two henchmen are talking. the henchmen say they think that manuel is being put into rosendo’s position by cecilio. rosendo seems to have a plan to rectify that.

     cecilio tells gonzalo they’re expected at the whore house later on. you next see ludivina getting all gussied up by the elena-lookin’ and the tiny tim-lookin’ whores. i guess the two silly old farts are in for a big surprise.

     gonzalo tells cecilio that daniel wants to open el paraiso again. cecilio starts trying to talk gonzalo out of it, seeming very nervous. finally i realise el paraiso is hiding more than gonzalo’s memories, as cecilio sez.

     el gato and manuel walk in on rosendo and his henchmen in the cantina. manuel accuses rosendo of causing the mine explosion. what an idiot. does he think he can take on all three of these monkeys? well, he soon gets held by two and, while another takes el gato outside, rosendo prepares to pummel manuel. rosendo sez someone’s mother is a whore...either ernestina’s/manuel’s or andrea’s??? just as manuel is about to get his ass kicked, the lady who took the orphans walks in and manuel gets away, acting the whole time as if he got out of it himsleg.

     daniel, et al, return to his parents’ house. daniel tells liliana he’s tired. they joke and liliana is glad he’s in a better mood; her body language sez she thinks daniel will soon be hers. she leaves and he goes in the house.

     andrea tells her guardians she doesn’t want the investigation into the drugs and accidents to stop. sabina wants them to so there will be no more problems in town.

     coronela welcomes the two silly old farts who might be rosendo’s father. ludivina comes down the stairs. cecilio acts freaked, gonzalo is looking at her like, “mmmmmmmmmmmmmsnortpant.” he doesn't recognise her. coronela tells them her name and now gonzalo is mad that cecilio din’t tell him she was back in town. gonzalo’s not the least bit scared of her. she sez she’s been living with friends of cecilio’s, which upsets cecilio some more. gonzalo gets mad again that he wasn’t told this. cecilio seems very uncomfortable. she tells them that rosendo is her son. they act disgusted.

     rita is now coming on to manuel on the couch of her house. she gives him a drink.

     ludivina tells the two silly old farts one of them is rosendo’s father. they look at one another and are shaking their heads in denial. they laugh at her attempt to blackmail them. seriously, how would a whore know who the father was short of a blood test? i’m sure at the time she had other johns besides these two silly old farts.

     hanna wants daniel to work with liliana.

     liliana is whining about daniel to vincencio. she sez she knows daniel is really in love with andrea and seems to think he has good reason to be, since it's "true love".

 

Telenovela-World:  tuesday summary  Author: riv (---)  Date:   01-05-05 07:19 PST 

     i missed some stuff due to my crap spanish. could someone please fill in the little details i left out? thanx!

     vicencio tells liliana that sooner or later, daniel will forget andrea. HA! liliana even realises that isn’t going to happen any time soon. she can tell true love when she sees it.

     daniel thinks about how he’s in love with andrea like gonzalo and elena were in love. he thinks he needs to forget everything. or maybe he should just go back to real del monte no matter what happens.

     the two silly old farts are drinking and gonzalo sez the whores are crazy to think one of them is rosendo’s father. gonzalo seems sure, cecilio seems scared. cecilio wonders what would happen if ludivina were right about one of them being the father.

     ickickickickickick rosendo and ernestina first drooling on one another, then arguing about how he treats her. he slaps her and she tells him she hates him, which he laughs at. she sez she’s leaving for a new honey, he sez she’ll come crawling back, she sez never and leaves, rosendo tries to look smug, but has a bit of a worried look on his face. she has some dirt on him. she could mess him up.

     gonzalo is talking to his desk chair about how rosendo can’t be his son. epitacia and ernestina are watching. it seems olga is sitting in the chair. he’s trying to convince her he couldn’t be the father. he sez he never had sex with anyone but elena while they were married. uhhh...that can’t be true. olga’s spirit just gives gonzalo a dirty look. she doesn’t believe it either.

     daniel tells his parents he wants a lawyer to check out the workings of the mine. liliana shows up. hanna asks about some project she and daniel will be working on.

     andrea tells manuel that rosendo is the main suspect in the accidents at the mine. she asks if manuel is after the job of running the mine.

     everyone at es mas is glad to have daniel back.

     gonzalo tells his doc about ludivina claiming he or cecilio could be rosendo’s father.

     sabina give santiago a letter she wrote to andrea telling her she’s not santiago’s daughter. santiago tears it up.

     manuel is telling cecilio how to better work the mines. rosendo sez los jales has only quartz, of no value to anyone. cecilio tells manuel to study los jales to make sure that’s true.

     santiago and andrea go to the mine for workers’ comp. the guy in the office is surprised they're asking for it and tells them they gotta ask rosendo. as they leave the office, they meet cecilio, who sez he’ll take care of the workers’ comp. they go in the office while andrea and manuel wait outside. andrea asks if manuel wants rosendo’s job. he sez he’s only conducting tests, but she doesn’t seem to believe him.

     ernestina wants to talk to cecilio, but evarista tries to stall her. cecilio drives up then and ernestina starts asking him about being rosendo’s father. evarista tells ernestina to get out of her house. cecilio sez it’s not her house, but his. he and ernestina walk off together.

     the lady who took the orphans and seems to be some town official is seen by santiago and andrea, who hands her a notebook. her proof about rosendo. this is the lady who also took money from rosendo, and she shows false interest in andrea’s notes.

     ernestina and cecilio show up at gonzalo’s. the two silly old farts argue about who’s the father AGAIN. cecilio asks if gonzalo never wanted a son, but gonzalo sez if it wasn’t elena’s son, he wouldn’t care about it.

     evarista and rita talk about rosendo maybe being rita’s brother. she doesn’t want any siblings. i guess so she gets all the money when cecilio dies or something.

     andrea and santiago are arguing heatedly about the notes given to the orphan keeping lady. sorry, i don’t know her name.

     cecilio is acting like rosendo is gonzalo’s son and laughing. then gonzalo asks what if he’s YOUR son? then he asks what if neither is the father? evarista and rita show up, wanting the men to explain. the wimmin suggest a DNA test to find out the truth. gonzalo sez he doesn’t want any testing done and that cecilio is the father. gonzalo finally gives in to the tests.

     sabina tells andrea she must stop listening to her heart about daniel. again with the manuel whine marry him whine crap. andrea is about as sick as i am of hearing about that.

     cecilio tells rita and evarista he doesn’t really want rosendo as a son. evarista sez they should change the test results if it turns out cecilio is the father.

     suddenly daniel is in the hospital in an MRI machine. the doctor there tells liliana that daniel seems ok as long as he has no dizziness or headaches.

     cecilio tells manuel if rosendo is his son, big deal. manuel seems worried about his status if rosendo is the son of cecilio. cecilio tells manuel to go with rita.

     daniel is thinking about el paraiso. he gets a pain in the back of his head and elena is talking to him, telling him he must return to real del monte. of course, daniel must think that is a very good idea.

     manuel is getting lovey with rita. she tells manuel about the father/son thing as if he doesn’t know already. in the next minute, manuel’s in the lodge with with i assume is the painting rita did of andrea, trying to kiss andrea, who dodges him.

     daniel shows up at gonzalo’s, who is happy to see him. then he’s not happy to find out daniel only came to see andrea. daniel sez he’s obsessed with andrea like gonzalo was with elena.

     ICKICKICKICKICK they’re doing it again!!!!!!!!!! rosendo and ernestina. so disgusting. rosendo is only trying to get info out of ernestina anyway.

     manuel tells andrea of his plans to modernise the mine workings. then he tells her he wants things to be like before. daniel just happens to see all this and looks really angry. andrea’s family stands behind her as she tells daniel to please leave. santiago gets in daniel’s face and he leaves. andrea looks really sad.

     hanna finds the note daniel wrote patricio about going back to real del monte. she wants to know why patricio always defends the things daniel does that she deems incorrect.

     gonzalo explains the father/son thing to daniel. daniel wants to protect the blood test results.

     cecilio brings a doctor to get blood from rosendo. as rosendo readies his arm for the needle, gonzalo and HIS doctor show up and want some blood from rosendo, too. rosendo doesn’t mind giving everyone in the whole friggin’ world his blood, as long as he ends up with a rich father, although he sure doesn’t express that feeling. cecilio asks gonzalo, “don’t you trust me?” when gonzalo asks cecilio the same question, he acts as if maybe he doesn’t trust gonzalo.

     santiago is lying down, feeling weak. andrea sez it’s her fault. they talk about how love is precious. sabina walks in and sees andrea sitting on the bed with santiago, who is stroking andrea’s cheek. she seems to think it’s improper for them to be like that, since santiago isn’t andrea’s real father.

     daniel takes rosendo’s blood away and sabina once again tells andrea to return to manuel.

    

Telenovela-World:  wednesday summary...i can't believe there are only 2 episodes left.  Author: riv (---)  Date:   01-06-05 08:34 PST    

     rosendo asks cecilio if cecilio will accept him as his son if the blood tests prove that he is. cecilio seems to say NO.

     andrea tells sabina she’s worried if daniel returns to real del monte.(?) sabina asks if andrea would rather leave. she sez NO so sabina sez, “why don’t you go back with manuel?” this disgusts andrea.

     daniel is in liliana’s office with the bucket o’ blood, so to speak. he sez it’s proof and makes it seem like it’s proof of more than just who the father is.

     manuel is telling cecilio stuff cecilio already knows. manuel is really being set up. i bet he ends up dead either in thursday’s episode or tomorrow. cecilio tells manuel to wait before acting on his information. manuel doesn’t seem convinced, but agrees anyway. maybe it’s dawning on him that he might be in trouble.

     daniel tells his mom she might have a half brother and he, an uncle. i don’t think that makes hanna very happy.

     manuel tells andrea he’s going to fight for her. andrea tells him she no longer has the heart to fight. andrea promises to do her best anyway. not sure about that part, but he tries to kiss her again and she again turns her cheek to him.

     more of rita and cecilio arguing about her being married as soon as possible. she sez she wants manuel to marry her ‘cuz he loves her, not just ‘cuz cecilio wants it to be.

     andrea and santiago are confronted by natividad, that icky old man that took money from santiago several episodes ago. he asks where his money is; andrea wants to know what he’s talking about. when andrea calls santiago her papa, natividad tells her that santiago is not her father and that her real father is dead. santiago tells him to shut up and get away, and natividad sez his silence has a price. andrea gets mad and asks santiago, “if you’re not my father, who are you?” sabina finds out andrea knows about her true parents. she gets mad at santiago ‘cuz he promised not to tell, but santiago sez it wasn’t his fault. something about a mistake santiago made in the past. alta, could you help on on that, please and thank you? (:

     andrea is having the situation explained by santiago and sabina. there’s that portrait rita painted; it’s leaning against the wall. it looks completely ridiculous. andrea is grinning like some cheesy cartoon. they could’ve made it a bit more subtle and arty instead of so cheap looking. anyway, andrea is mad at sabina for never telling her who her real father is, but santiago sticks up for her and sez sabina never knew the truth.

     gonzalo and cecilio are talking about rosendo. gonzalo sez he’ll never accept rosendo as his son. cecilio sez evarista and rita don’t want rosendo in their family, and who can blame them? the two silly old farts argue back and forth about who is the real father.

     andrea is in the church and the padre comes up. hmmmmmm... she tells the padre she’s confused. at least now there’s a good reason for the confusion.

     andrea plans to leave the house that isn’t hers. sabina tries to talk her out of it and then gets kinda mad and sez, “why don’t you marry manuel?” andrea sez she never will and she still loves daniel with all her soul.

     patricio and daniel are going over the mine papers. it seems like the government might be able to take the mine away from gonzalo. alta, could i bother you to clear this up also? thanx!

     sabina goes to la coronela and ludivina. ludivina sez she used to know natividad and neither of the old whores seems surprised that santiago is not andrea’s father. ludivina tells sabina that andrea’s real parents are dead, while coronela watches with a very suspicious and wary look on her face; she keeps shifting around nervously in her chair. (that cleft chin of ludivina’s looks so fake and silly. does she think she’s kirk douglas??? or powdered toast man???)

     sabina goes to gonzalo, sez she’s afraid andrea will be killed (is that what she said?) and asks if he’ll let andrea live with him. she sez andrea helped save daniel’s life, but he still tells her she’s "crazy as a goat" if she thinks andrea’s gonna live there. then she tells him that hanna was the one who asked that sabina perform the magic to help daniel. gonzalo can’t believe it. he sez andrea can stay, but only for one night.

     sabina tells andrea that natividad is mixed up in drug trafficking. andrea wants to know how santiago can be friends or acquaintances with someone like natividad.

     manuel sees rosendo and his two henchmen in the forest. later he tells rita he saw them receiving a shipment of drugs.

     andrea comes to gonzalo’s house. she, ernestina and epitacia are with him and he tells them to leave. as andrea goes, she turns back and smiles at him, then walks out. he gets a very tender smile on his face.

     manuel tells cecilio of what he saw. they talk about ruining rosendo.(¿verdad o no?)

     later that night, andrea is lying on the bed. outside, rosendo has been let in to the hacienda by ernestina. his henchmen are unloading yellow plastic bins of drugs into gonzalo’s hacienda. one of them drops a bin and andrea hears it. she gets up and looks, first seeing only rosendo and ernestina kissing. then she sees one of the guys go by with some of the bins.

     daniel asks liliana if he can go back to real del monte to investigate the drug trafficking. she doesn’t want him to. she sez the drug trafficking there is old news. she asks if daniel is in love with andrea. HELLO? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, SISTER? i’ve never heard daniel deny his love for andrea. she tells him to leave and cries.

     andrea and manuel find the yellow plastic bins covered with a tarp. it’s cocaine.

     sabina wants to know everything from santiago. she sez they’re all in danger now. he sez nothing can repair the damage and falls silent.

     ernestina and rosendo slobbering some more in rosendo’s office. manuel enters the front office and asks for his sister. manuel tells ernestina that mama fidela isn’t feeling well, which isn’t true, just an excuse to get her out of the office. manuel has the stupidity to tell ernestina what he knows about rosendo. i tell ya, stupid, stupid, stupid. he tells her she’ll end up in prison or dead if she hangs around with him.

     andrea goes snooping around gonzalo’s hacienda. she finds a room filled with cobwebs and covered in dust. she picks up a book. there are shelves filled with bottles and jars. must be elena’s magic herb room and her spell book. gonzalo catches her red-handed and is yelling at her for despoiling elena’s place. you see daniel driving and his head hurts and he sees elena. she seems happy. gonzalo is now crying to andrea about the past.

     rosendo is talking to natividad. i think he’s trying to find stuff out from natividad (alta...another clarification here, please?).

     manuel tells cecilio about finding the drugs at gonzalo’s. too bad cecilio already knows, eh?

     andrea brings gonzalo his medicine and sits by his bedside as he sleeps.

     rosendo is laying in bed with ernestina and wonders why andrea is living in gonzalo’s house. later he tells her he’s going away for awhile ‘cuz things are getting hot. it really pisses her off when he sez he’s not taking her with him. how many times does it take, sister? she sez she’s gonna rat him out. he tells her she better not as he strangles her. she gives him one month or she’ll see him in jail.

    

Telenovela-World:  thursday summary...it was over 4 pages in word...  Author: riv (---)  Date:   01-07-05 08:25 PST    

     again with ernestina telling rosendo he has one month to marry her or she rats him out. why are they repeating stuff when there’s so little time left? suddenly, ernestina and manuel are talking as if that month has already gone by. he sez he’s glad she decided to fink on rosendo; she’s really nervous about it.

     andrea is in elena’s garden as gonzalo comes up and tells her how much elena loved it there. elena walks down the stairs and takes gonzalo’s arm. he starts talking to her as andrea watches. elena tells him to let the flowers grow again. he asks andrea if she knows how to garden. she sez “a bit” and he sez that elena wishes andrea to care for the garden.

     daniel turns in his resignation so he can return full-time to his abuelo…and andrea.

     cecilio comes to see ernestina and manuel. he’s acting like he wants to be her boyfriend and they falsely flatter one another. ernestina sez she’s broken off with rosendo.

     rosendo and his henchmen are in rosendo’s office. they’re talking about manuel knowing too much and ernestina betraying rosendo.

     andrea is in elena’s herb room again. epitacia tells her it’s not right for her to be there. andrea sez she wants to clean the room up. gonzalo comes in, tells epitacia to go to the kitchen, and tells andrea she can clean in elena’s room. gonzalo is being really cute and nice to andrea.

     cecilio is with doña lalis, the town authority lady who took the orphans, talking about rosendo as if he’s afraid of him. cecilio sez rosendo’s always armed and always with guys who’ll kill for him. cecilio wants doña lalis to take care of rosendo, since she’s the authority in town. bwok bwok bwok, cecilio.

     daniel and patricio tell hanna that cecilio is trying to take the mine from gonzalo. daniel asks hanna to please forgive gonzalo. he tells her all her mental problems stem from her hatred for gonzalo and that if she’d forgive him, she’d feel better. he tells her gonzalo needs her love. hanna is skeptical.

     cecilio is talking to manuel about contraband...of minerals? can’t figger this part out. alta, could you please help?

     ludivina sees rosendo at the whore house. she tells him she’s worried about him ‘cuz natividad is hanging around. good lord, coronela is dressed like a clown. how undignified, even fo’ a ho’. ludivina thanks rosendo for coming to visit. he gives her a kiss on the cheek and leaves.

     andrea is cleaning well into the night. gonzalo tells her elena is really happy. the room looks beautiful. andrea tells gonzalo how unhappy she is that she and daniel can’t be together. he sez one never forgets their greatest love. andrea gives gonzalo elena’s cross back to him and he really appreciates it. gosh, that gonzalo is being so cute!!!

     ernestina sez to hersleg that she has a bad feeling. then you see the mine and some workers with some dramatic music playing. she’s then talking to manuel on the phone and sez that nobody came to pick up the yellow plastic bins, so she hasn’t called the police yet. manuel gets mad and thinks she’s gonna back out and yells at her. then he apologises, saying they’re both nervous, trying to lay some of the blame on her for his yelling. she sez she’ll call if anything happens.

     rosendo is at the mine with his henchmen. he asks if they went to gonzalo’s and were they seen? (hmmm...this part is escaping me. alta, i need your help on this, please?) the henchmen seem like they’re plotting against rosendo from their actions and the way they're looking at one another behind rosendo's back.

     manuel is in the...wait...whose house is that? anyway, manuel has a gun and cecilio knocks and comes in. manuel hides the gun in the back of his pants. something about teeth chattering and trembling? alta!!!

     doña lalis tells cliserio (i think he’s the head cop or something, not sure) that cecilio has betrayed rosendo to her. cliserio seems surprised that there’s drug trafficking going on in real del monte and that rosendo is involved. she sez they must watch rosendo. she tells him to put their men everywhere rosendo goes. he doesn’t seem too keen on that idea, but agrees to do what she tells him.

     cecilio and manuel come to gonzalo’s and ernestina answers their knock. cecilio’s flattering her again. manuel asks behind cecilio’s back if anything happened. epitacia tells andrea to answer another knock, this one on the back door. it’s creepy rosendo; he was expecting ernestina. andrea tries to shut the door on him, but he pushes in and grabs her by the arm and walks boldly in. manuel is wandering around as cecilio and gonzalo talk. he sees rosendo, but rosendo doesn’t see him. ernestina comes out and things start getting crazy. cecilio takes gonzalo inside while rosendo, andrea and the two henchmen go to the front of the house.

     patricio and daniel talk about daniel resigning. daniel sez his abuelo needs him due to his illness. gonzalo is a pretty spry old ill guy, if you ask me. daniel sez he’s going back to real del monte that very day.

     gonzalo wants to defend his hacienda against rosendo, but cecilio and manuel make him stay in the house and they go outside. cecilio sees the henchmen taking two of the bins out. rosendo comes out with a gun to andrea’s head. rosendo tells cecilio he has no choice but to break his word to cecilio. meanwhile someone has called the police. a carful of them show up with rifles and rush in and bust the two henchmen. they aim at rosendo. cecilio sez if rosendo kills andrea, rosendo will then die.

     daniel rushes into his room and starts packing hurriedly. he must have a bad feeling or maybe something has been cut out that has made him think he should hurry. maybe someone called to tell him what was happening.

     manuel is skulking around behind rosendo and andrea. when the police do nothing, andrea stomps rosendo’s foot and he lets her go. manuel takes the opportunity to shoot rosendo in the back, killing him almost instantly. andrea is horrified to see him die. cecilio tells the police they’ll do what he tells them to do. maybe this part needs better explanation. i think cecilio sez if cliserio is snart, he’ll say they killed rosendo to save andrea.

     ernestina mourns for that dead rat. what’s she asking him to forgive her for? she covers him with a shroud. oh honey, you could do so much better, even though sometimes you wear the eye makeup of a clown.

     gonzalo tells andrea she isn’t there to open doors and wouldn’t’ve been endangered if ernestina had answered the door. she thanks him for being so worried about her.

     cecilio wants manuel to go with cliserio. cecilio tells cliserio that he should say they were waiting for rosendo to show up and they killed him, not manuel.

     ernestina cries on her bed. andrea tries to comfort her, but ernestina doesn’t believe andrea really feels bad for her. andrea tells ernestina that rosendo was a dirty rat. ernestina thinks it’s easy for andrea to say that since she’s got manuel. yeah, right. some comfort THAT is.

     gonzalo and cecilio talk about rosendo being their son. alta, could you fill this part in a bit more? i know i’m missing something and, at this point, it’s important to get everything.

     doña lalis is questioning manuel about what happened while a clerk types it up. she seems to be telling him not to tell the truth.(alta?) he wants to know if he’s going to be thrown in jail for shooting rosendo. cecilio is talking to andrea; she wants to help manuel. she sez she doesn’t love him, but still wants to help. cecilio asks if she’s sure ‘cuz rita is promised to manuel. andrea seems upset by this news. maybe she just doesn’t want manuel marrying anyone who would paint such a garish portrait of her. d:

     doña lalis goes to tell ludivina that rosendo has been killed. she sez the officers found out about rosendo’s drug trafficking and that they shot him. there is much sorrow. for rosendo’s sake, it’s good he was nice to his mom the last time they saw one another.

     daniel calls to find gonzalo in a really good mood. daniel sez he’s returning that day. gonzalo asks if daniel talked to hanna about forgiving him. daniel sez maybe she will. gonzalo doesn’t tell daniel that andrea is living in the house now. he gets a cute, foxy look on his face. does this mean he now wants daniel and andrea to be together after not wanting it almost the whole time?

     more andrea and manuel arguing. she tells manuel she doesn’t like him playing with rita. he sez he’s only doing it for cecilio, like that makes it ok. he gets that serial killer voice and tells andrea he loves only her. then he sez he killed rosendo for her.

     cecilio tries to console ernestina. he really wants to know how much of rosendo’s business she knows about. she sez nothing, but he doesn’t believe her. she admits she knew rosendo was doing something behind cecilio’s back, just not what. he asks about the drug trafficking, but she sez she din’t know anything. he sez he wants to protect her(?), but he’s being too nice. he asks her why doesn’t she tell doña lalis about her suspicions.

     gonzalo tells andrea if she needs anything, to come find him. then andrea wants to confess something to gonzalo. she tells him when rosendo had the gun to her head, she was thinking (something...alta!!!) and then she thought how it din’t matter if she died since she could never have her true love. i think. gonzalo asks if she wants to go back with daniel. she sez no, that can never be. she sez something about elena resting in peace. gonzalo smiles.

     doña lalis finishes taking manuel’s statement. apparently, it’s taken quite awhile (it looks like it’s night time now) and he asks why she’s making such a big deal of rosendo dying, she tells him that he might be in trouble since everyone knew he and rosendo had personal problems. she sez many miners have told how they fought, but manuel sez the miners are lying. something about manuel asking questions about the mine, “el cerezo”??? manuel acts guilty and, shaking her head, doña lalis tells him to go home.

     sabina is at gonzalo’s. they talk about andrea and what she went through and how ugly the incident was. sabina wants andrea to return to the lodge, but gonzalo insists she doesn’t have to. sabina is upset to learn daniel is returning that very night. gonzalo tells sabina that andrea doesn’t want anyone to interfere with her destiny.(???) then he sez that elena doesn’t want anyone to interfere with destiny. i’m confused on this one.

     oh...only one more episode. a truly sad day.

 

Telenovela-World: [USA, 1/7/05]  *sob* *blubber* *waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah*!!!!!!!!!!! the last summary ):  Author: riv (---)  Date:   01-10-05 07:43 PST

     from the episode before: sabina is at gonzalo’s. they talk about andrea and what she went through and how ugly the incident was. sabina wants andrea to return to the lodge, but gonzalo insists she doesn’t have to. sabina is upset to learn daniel is returning that very night. gonzalo tells sabina that andrea doesn’t want anyone to interfere with her destiny.(???) then he sez that elena doesn’t want anyone to interfere with destiny. i’m confused on this one. sabina and gonzalo share a tender moment.

     daniel is going up the stairs and sees gonzalo. hanna and patricio are with daniel and he leads hanna to gonzalo. she tells him she thought he was molesting her as a child. the chauffeur hears father and daughter talking. he runs to epitacia, who is his mother, which i don’t think i ever knew that before. epitacia and her son come in and the son sorrowfully tells it was his father who was molesting hanna. gonzalo kicks epitacia out of his house. hanna and gonzalo share cognac together. gonzalo tells hanna how much he loves her. andrea and daniel come in and hanna greets andrea with a smile...finally. hanna and patricio leave and this is the last we see of hanna and patricio. (i’m at a loss as to why they changed the story line. it would’ve been perfectly normal for them to just explain to hanna what happened with her mother’s suicide and let her finally just accept that as truth.)

     daniel goes in a bedroom and is surprised to find andrea laying in bed. is this his bedroom and gonzalo put andrea in it????????? foxy old guy. (: daniel wakes andrea up and before she’s fully awake, she sez his name. she wakes up and is also surprised to find him. they start kissing. daniel is telling andrea that they had something so special. she’s still trying to act like she won’t go back with him. andrea tells daniel she’s not santiago’s daughter. he sez he’ll help her face her problems.

     manuel shows up at gonzalo’s and is talking to ernestina. he wants her to take him to andrea, but she tells him daniel and his parents are here, telling him to leave. he won’, so she takes him to her room. as hanna and patricio leave, manuel sees daniel and andrea together. he‘s drunk and his words are slurred. he bursts out of the bushes he and ernestina were hiding behind. he starts acting really freaky. andrea smirks at him. then gonzalo tells manuel and ernestina to get out. manuel tells daniel he’s not gonna allow him to steal his womin. too late, buster. she’s stolen.

     cecilio shows up. gonzalo tells cecilio that daniel knows how cecilio was gonna try to steal the mine from gonzalo. gonzalo berates cecilio and tells him the mine is daniel’s.

     daniel and andrea go to da shrine in da mine. they sit in gonzalo’s comfy chair and kiss and talk. he asks her to marry him. she tells him she wants to make love with him. i usually hate scenes like this, but i love andrea and daniel so much, it brings tears to me eyes, matey.

     ernestina and manuel continue arguing in her room. something about the mine. ernestina tells manuel to leave. he tells her andrea will be his. ernestina is worried.

     for cryin’ out loud!!!!!! sabina is again telling andrea what problems she’ll cause going with daniel. this seems weird considering how she seemed to forgive gonzalo earlier.

     oh dear...manuel brings that awful cheesy portrait to...somewhere...he’s drinking straight from a bottle of whisky and talking to the portrait, asking it why it doesn’t love him and expecting an answer. godz, that portrait is just so bad and they show andrea looking beautiful, posing for the portrait, as it goes to commercial. he’s hopes the history of elena will repeat itsleg and make daniel crazy like gonzalo. he sez andrea will be only his.

     andrea is in the church and santiago comes in. she starts talking to him like she thinks he’s mixed up in the drug trafficking. he’s telling her to listen to what he hasta say, but she could never think what the truth might be, and she’s asking his forgiveness for thinking that he was mixed up in the drug thing. he tells andrea her father came and was causing problems in the town. then, he confesses to her that he killed her parents on his padrino’s orders. he was sposta kill the whole family, but he couldn’t kill andrea and took her in as his daughter to keep her safe. andrea gets really mad, quite naturally, and calls him an assassin. sabina and lucina are outside the church and andrea sees them, but turns around before they see her. santiago is never seen again, and later, sabina is reading a letter from santiago saying she’ll never forget, so maybe it was a goodbye from santiago.

     gonzalo wants daniel to take over the mines, saying he only wants to be reunited with elena. gonzalo thanks daniel for helping with hanna. he wants daniel to open the closed mines, which i assume means his shrine to elena will be no longer. they talk about wedding plans. gonzalo wants them to live in real del monte ‘cuz it seems like daniel isn’t sure where they’ll live. there’s something about does daniel want money or to run the mine...i’m not sure, but daniel finally agrees to open the mines again.

     andrea runs into manuel and ernestina. she tries to walk away but manuel grabs her and is roughing her up. he drags her off, ernestina following behind. he takes them to that room and is holding andrea before the portrait. maybe they made out in this room earlier when they were novios, it seems like he’s asking her if she remembers something. andrea tells manuel if he doesn’t let her go, he’ll end up in jail. now manuel is manhandling ernestina ‘cuz she’s trying to talk him out of his stupid actions. he kicks her out. manuel tries to force andrea to drink the whisky. geez, what a cretin. he’s really being disgusting. he even tries to hold her nose to get that whisky down her, then he starts hugging her. ernestina goes to cecilio, asking for help. she tells him manuel kidnapped andrea. back at the portrait, manuel is now being really pathetic about andrea not loving him anymore and they’re really arguing. manuel’s eyes look really freaky.

     cecilio goes to tell gonzalo and daniel about manuel. gonzalo tells him to get out until cecilio tells them manuel has kidnapped andrea and is holding her hostage.

     manuel keeps begging andrea with those creepy eyes!!! yeeesh!!! daniel makes ernestina take him to andrea, who’s in a little cabin about 30 minutes away. gonzalo calls cliserio. he’s still yelling at cecilio and calling him a disgrace. manuel tells andrea this is the end as he gets his gun out. ah yes, i love you, yet i’m ready to shoot you in the head due to my insane jealousy. andrea sez she’ll die before she goes with manuel. manuel shoots the portrait straight through the heart. andrea gets away and is outside, running, and manuel shoots at her and misses. she keeps running.

     ernestina, daniel, cliserio and his men show up at the cabin. manuel catches andrea when she falls down. (why do wimmin always fall down when being chased, be it by a man or a monster? never turn around to see how close they are! just keep running!!!) ernestina comes up and is begging manuel not to kill andrea. manuel puts the gun to andrea’s head as daniel jumps out of the bushes behind him and tackles him!!!!!!!!!! the gun goes off, daniel grabs the gun and manuel turns to see ernestina lying on the ground, shot high in the chest. cliserio and his men take manuel into custody.

     the two silly old farts come to the scene and see cliserio’s men carrying ernestina away. cecilio is really worried about her. and for good cause...he later asks her to marry him!!!!!!!!!!!! to his great sadness, she turns him down. she seems to think people will say she’s married him for his money...is that what she said, alta???

     ernestina is in bed and andrea is talking to her. ernestina must’ve only gotten a flesh wound or something. sure had a quick recovery. ernestina is sorry andrea doesn’t love her brother anymore. ernestina asks andrea’s forgiveness for treating her so badly, but the two ladies soon make up and smile at one another.

     now those two silly old farts are sharing brandies and laughing. gonzalo seems at ease now about cecilio trying to take over the mine. andrea comes in and they raise their glasses to her. they talk about how manuel will be in jail for quite awhile. they toast to daniel’s and andrea’s future. there is a weird moment when daniel wants andrea to take a drink and she won’t and he laughs, which looks like it might’ve been ad lib.

     andrea and daniel are leaving after their wedding. gonzalo sez when they get back, he wants to know that he’s a great-grandfather. sabina is now hugging daniel and has apparently forgotten all about how bad andrea will be for not marrying manuel. she cries as they leave and puts her head on gonzalo’s shoulder.

     gonzalo raises his glass to elena’s portrait, telling her what a good day it’s been. he asks if she remembers how happy they were when they were married. he sez he’s ready to be reunited with her. he’s telling her how much he loves her and she comes in, looking so beautiful. they kiss tenderly.

     as this great novela comes to a premature end, andrea and daniel talk about their future. oh...*sob* she wonders if destiny will repeat itsleg, but daniel thinks not. *bawling now*

 

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