Pedro Spites Sarah With The Truth & Thrëâtens Her. Rosa Is Left Devastated When Prospero Decides To Leave Her For Good. Sarah Confronts Her Mother Over Her Lies.
The episode starts from where Pedro and Sarah were talking about her paternity but she does not believe Pedro’s claims. Sarah tells him that he’s only saying that to hurt her because she rejected him. Pedro asks her if she thinks she’s that important to him. They insult each other and Pedro tells her to go ask her mother the truth. Sarah still defends her mom. Rosa yells at Deborah for ruining her life and is ready to jump at her and tear her apart but she’s restrained by Prospero who later leaves her to go look at the letters.
Rosa who is now being restrained by Adela tells Prospero that he should not read the letters but Prospero reads them; he’s filled with pain that he even smiles to avoid crying. Rosa asks Próspero not to believe Déborah because the letters are not even real. Deborah tells them all that all the writing is in Rosa’s handwriting. Simon steps up to tell Deborah to shut up and Deborah leaves because her mission is accomplished, but before she leaves she has to tell them all to enjoy the wedding.
Prospero now cries real tears, saying he always believed he was Rosa’s løve of her life. Rosa says he really is but no the letters speak a different story. Próspero decides to leave and Rosa tries to chase after him but she’s stopped by Julieta who asks if the accusations are true. Rosa can’t even answer that she goes back to pick the letters but she gets overwhelmed by sad feelings and ends up lying on the floor. Alondra and Jessica are comforted by their men.
Pedro keeps following Sarah and telling her that she should leave Juan alone and get rid of the child she is carrying because they came at the ranch with her mom to swindle them. He makes it clear to her that Tadeo will be the only heir of all these. Sarah now believes that Pedro is crazy but she’s going nowhere. If he doesn’t want to see her he better leave himself. He goes ahead and assures her that if she does not leave the farm he will end up k!lling her and all the brothers if possible. Sarah walks away.Juan and Mateo are talking about Pedro’s situation and Juan tells him that they should not jump into conclusion or make a quick judgement.
Mateo tells him to his face that he’s only protecting Pedro because they are blood brothers. Juan tells him that he should never say that to him again, he feels the same responsibility to all of them. Besides who reports a family member. Mateo is sure Pedro stopped seeing them as brothers a long time ago – he only cares about himself and Tadeo. Juan is still in denial that they shouldn’t report Pedro because Severiano didn’t report him in the first place. Mateo tells him that he has been thinking about the issue with Julieta and is sure that Pedro had a hand in that.
Sarah is nervously walking and is also in denial about her paternity. She doesn’t believe her mom would do that. She remembers about her last moments with Dante and asks herself why he couldn’t tell her the truth and again she says it can’t be true. Juan and Mateo talk in the study and he keeps telling Mateo that they have nothing to prove that Pedro helped Julieta. Mateo tells him that everything points to Pedro and to add to that he’s not the same brother they all knew. Pedro appears asking if Mateo is going to Adela’s wedding and he says yes. Pedro wants to leave because what he came for can wait.
Juan asks him about the last time he saw Dante and he plays dumb, saying that Dante should just be fired because he left without sorting out his issue concerning Tadeo. Salvador and Modesto are discussing what happened to poor Prospero and how the same thing happened to Sal years ago. Salvador tells his brother that there’s something he never told him and that has always remained a doubt in his mind. He tells him that Severiano once told him that Paloma was Sev’s daughter!!! Modesto immediately tells his brother that Paloma is his and he should never doubt it!! We see a flashback to Severiano and Modesto in the camp;
Modesto is concerned because Irma continues to visit Severiano and Severiano tells Modesto that he had already ended things with Irma as he already told Modesto. He agrees that he will have a talk with Irma about coming around. Modesto is back in present day and he tells Salvador that Severiano’s sins haunted him and he was never able to let them go and live in peace; Salvador still can though! He should drop all this rancor and enjoy what’s left of his life! Salvador nods in agreement.
Pedro says the last time he saw Dante was when detective Mateo outted Julieta at her baby shower. Mateo tells him to be serious and Juan says Dante never would have disappeared like this. He doesn’t think it’s a kidñäpping either since no ransom has been requested. Pedro suggests it could be pay back. Dante used to do all daddy’s dirty work (I want to know just what kind of dirty work daddy had done) and it wouldn’t be surprising if someone fought back. Juan questions whether it was just dad’s dirty work. Dante hasn’t done anything for Pedro? Pedro shrugs and says he doubts Tadeo’s custody battle led to Dante’s dëâth.
Mateo can’t believe Pedro can speak so casually about the possibility of Dante’s dëâth since he was more than their lawyer; he was part of the family! Pedro says he was too close to the family for his taste. Juan thinks Pedro should be more worried about Dante, unless of course, he knows something? Pedro asks what Juan’s problem with him is. He says he feels more and more alone in this house every day, like a pest or as if he did something horrible. He tells him to speak up and Juan agrees to be direct and asks Pedro if he helped Juli fake the DNA test result. Pedro pauses and then attāçks Mateo for putting ideas into his brother’s head. Mateo retorts that Pedro is guilty, he helped Juli.
Pedro asks if Juan is going to believe Mateo and Juan tells him that they’ve discovered too many of Pedro’s lies, he’s lost his credibility. Juan wants to know what happened to their bond as brothers – the five of them. Pedro plays the victim card saying he can’t believe his brothers think so badly of him. He picked Mateo up off the ground when he was drunk, is this how he repays him? Mateo asks Pedro how is he repaying them? Pedro looks directly at Juan and tells him he can go ahead and believe everyone over him, he doesn’t care anymore; but he tells his brother that he is breaking the promise he made to him as kids! He warns him not to come crying to him about it later.
Mateo apologizes to Juan for fighting but says Pedro leaves him no choice. Juan says this is getting out of control and he worries about how it will end. Sarah is now alone in her apartment wondering how she could be so stüpid to not know Dante is her father. Juan calls and Sarah lies and says she is perfectly fine but she needs to resolve something at home. She doesn’t tell him what. Juan tells her things aren’t great there either and he had a big fight with Pedro but he doesn’t want to talk about it right now. He just needed to hear Sarah’s voice, he needs her by his side. They trade ‘I løve yous’ and agree to see each other later that night.
Juan goes to talk to Pedro and he’s having a pity party. Pedro wishes he was dëâd. Because Juan is supposed to protect him from everything, above and beyond their other brothers and he doesn’t! His mother comes and tørtüres him and he doesn’t stop her!! Juan doesn’t know what Pedro is talking about and Pedro says Aurora is driving him crazy, she won’t leave him alone and she torments his thoughts. He begs his brother not to let her, to make her stop! Prospero is packing up to leave and Rosa is trying to get him to stay any way she can, including demanding he forgive her using the logic that if she forgave him his infidelity then he should forgive hers. She says it’s unfair how men are expected to be forgiven of their infidelities while women are held unforgiven.
Prospero takes exception to the whole man vs woman thing especially since Rosa has emasculated him their whole marriage. He lays into her for manipulating him throughout their whole marriage and says that he put up with it because he loved her but her deception is different than his because she’s lied to him their whole marriage.Prospero says the worst part is that he still løves her but he just can’t take anymore. Rosa asks how it’s possible that he would throw away all their years of marriage? Isn’t he capable of forgiving the woman he claims to løve, and Prospero looks truly disgusted that she’s still trying to manipulate her even now.
Juan comes downstairs just as Simon, Paloma, Mateo and Lucas are arriving home. He’s surprised the wedding is over so soon and Lucas gives him the news that Deb ruqined the big day by revealing Rosa was another one of daddy’s dalliances! Lucas actually sounds amused as he informs his brother that there are løve letters and everything. Dad sure was a piece of work. Juan worries about Simon and how he’s taking the news and Simon says this has hurt them all in the past and continues to hurt (and he sounds hurt as he almost cries) in present.
Juan and Lucas both chime in and tell Simon that they can’t even imagine how hard it was for him to keep these types of secrets in the past and Lucas admits that even though they judged him in the past he probably would have reacted the same in Simon’s shoes. Paloma says she’s noticed that he isn’t so intensely affected and she wonders what’s changed. Simon says he finally understands that his father paid for all the damage he caused while he was alive and in some ways, he feels liberated by the revelation (???) Lucas pats Simon’s knee and Juan pats his face, Simon gives a little half-smile….this whole scene feels a little strange.
Julieta now alone in her room digs mama’s letters out of her purse and gets to reading. She crumples each as she reads but the third envelop, she comes to looks less like a løve letter and more like an official medical letter and has the letter head of a lab; (Who’s Juli’s daddy?) also notable, Rosa has said all along they were her letters TO Severiano and he never saw them but at least one of the letters Julieta read was addressed TO Rosa not from her.
The look on Julieta’s face grows quite serious as she reads… and viewerville can’t help but wonder if the crazy is going to stay tranquilized or if it’s about to come roaring back in full force! Deborah comes back to the apartment and is surprised Sarah wanted to meet her there. She starts in with all her sarcasm, saying that Sarah should be at Santa Catalina enjoying a romantic horseback ride with her beloved! She quickly realizes Sara is not okay though and goes from sardonic to concerned mother in about three seconds. She guesses several possible things that could be wrong but is unprepared for the question that finally comes out of Sarah’s mouth;
‘Is it true that I’m not the daughter of Severiano DelMonte?’ (Deb looks more wicked than ever in today’s makeup). More of Rosa trying to stop Prospero from leaving, and now they are in the entryway and Bertha, Jessica and Alondra are there as well. Rosa once again tries to say they both made mistakes.
Her mistakes drove Prospi into the arms of Deborah and Prospero’s mistakes drove her to Severiano!!! (Really? That’s the argument you go with to win back your husband?) For some reason she thinks it will help her case by explaining that she was vulnerable to Severiano because she thought she needed a real man! You know a real Alpha Man who knew how to give his own opinion and didn’t just defer to her – even strong women need to be protected from time to time!
Alondra knows this is stüpid and she tries to warn Mommy to shut up and stop making things worse, but Rosa doesn’t listen. Prospero tells her he can be strong and decisive and he’ll prove it; he declares he never wants to see her again! He tries to walk away again but Rosa again clings, begging him to forgive her and begging him to stay. She says she thought that she was in løve with Severiano but she knows now it was an illusion and ever since the day at the hacienda when Prospero protected her;
She’s realized HE is the løve of her life (it only took how many decades of marriage for her to come to this conclusion?). Prospero doesn’t believe her, he thinks he now understands why Rosa cried so much when Severiano died, she was still in løve with him!!! He is determined to leave and the girls are crying in each other’s arms and I can’t believe I am going to type this but I think Prospero SHOULD forgive Rosa!!!! Not because she deserves it but just because these two are made for each other in some weird way.
Big Surprise Alert – Deborah denies the truth and insists to Sarah that Severiano is indeed her father! Sarah doesn’t believe her for a second and tells her to stop lying. Pedro told her that her real father is Dante. How can she do this to her own daughter? Deborah immediately claims Pedro is a liar – which is true enough to be fair.
Sarah asks mom to please, just have the decency to be honest with her for once in her life! Deborah doubles down. Sarah tells her she is the worst mother in the world. She lied to her for her entire life and now she’s brought her into the Del Monte’s life to fight for an inheritance that doesn’t belong to her. Mama has manipulated her for her entire life but it’s over now, all Sarah wants is for mom to just go ahead and admit what Pedro said was true and finish ruining her life once and for all! Deborah finally nods, it’s the truth.
Prospero says he can’t stay because he won’t live his life being compared to her great løve Severiano DelMonte. Rosa says Prospero is the løve of her life. We see Julieta descending the staircase and her sisters are quick to beg her to say something to help, but Julieta says Prospero should go ahead and leave! He has no right to reproach her mother just like mom had no right to reproach him for Deborah!!! They are both the same and made for each other – hey I said the same thing but I didn’t have that cold-hearted tone in my voice when I said it…
Now that Deborah has finally come clean, Sarah starts listing off the damage Deborah has done with her lies, making her believe the wrong man was her father her whole life, lying to Severiano, keeping her from Dante, etc. Has mom forgotten that Sarah almost died while fighting for that inheritance? Deborah tries to insist she did it for Sarah’s own good but Sarah says no way, you did it for your ambition!!! Sarah lets her know that Pedro thrëâtened her and her child because of mom’s stüpid lie! Pedro thinks Sarah is complicit in the lie!
Deborah tries to start the ‘damn that Pedro’ line, but Sarah says it’s consequences of Deborah’s lie. She wants her out of her apartment!
Lucas and Mateo catch up with Simon outside in the courtyard. They didn’t want to say anything in front of Juan because he has enough problems but they want to know something; a while ago Simon said Dad paid in life for what he did, what did he mean by that? Did something else happen during the accident? Is there something Simon would like to tell them? Simon says no, he’s not hiding anything – he walks off.
Lucas starts to go after him but Mateo stops him. He says Simon is obviously hiding something he’s not yet ready to talk about. Lucas utters the famous ‘We have to tell Juan’ line, but Mateo doesn’t think so. Simon would never do anything to hurt their dad. He’s probably hiding that they were fighting or something like that not some deep dark deed; they should just let it go and stop tormenting themselves. Lucas agrees.
Juan is studying some reports and looking worried. He makes a call and asks someone to verify that a transaction is closed. He looks at the photo of daddy and says how difficult it is to protect the family and more so when you have to protect them from themselves! I really hope he isn’t doing something stüpid to continue protecting Pedro! He flashes back on Pedro talking about Aurora tørtüring him and Juan not protecting him from her.
Deborah tries to play the pity card with Sarah begging her not to kick her out because she has nowhere to go. Sarah isn’t buying it this time, mom can find a place and she knows it. Sarah asks again about the child support and whether mom has all that money stashed away and Deborah still insists Severiano never gave her child support. She tries to blame Dante and say he forced her to go along with his plan and that Dante himself had the money but Sarah doesn’t believe her.
Where was the money when they almost lost the apartment? Sarah is going out and when she comes back, she wants Deborah gone!!! Deborah cannot move her this time with her tears and begging. And you know what hurts the most, more than all the manipulations? The fact that Deborah has always cared more about money than she did about Sarah.When all else fails Deborah tries the ‘you should be grateful because you met the løve of your life thanks to my lie’ approach but Sarah tells her she’s about to lose all her happiness thanks to that same lie!! Sarah walks out.
Juan walks the now cleaned out tortüre chamber and remembers how he and Pedro found it as children and how cool Pedro thought it was because it looked like a tortüre chamber! Pedro jumped up and down with glee wanting to play “Pedro the Tørtürer!!! He remembers Pedro grabbing and choking Aurora when he saw her in the study and swearing he’d k!ll her and he remembers a couple of Pedro’s other lies and confrontations. (Why are there candles in that empty room?).
Julieta is once again looking at the letters pilfered from Rosa and as she looks in the mirror she says ‘This changes everything!’ She stuffs the papers back in the envelope. Juan is still studying the empty chamber when he gets a voice message from Sarah saying that she isn’t coming to see him that night because she isn’t feeling well. Nothing serious but she’s tired and needs to rest. She will see him tomorrow at the office.
Rosa, now alone in her room, thinks back on her fight with Prospero. She stares at her marriage bed and goes to lie down. She thinks back to some of the many times she mistreated and rejected Prospero and she cries in regret. She goes back to the mirror. She doesn’t know when she turned into that woman, the one who despised her own husband but she wants to change!! She løves Prospero! She cries that her whole life is a lie and to demonstrate that, she REMOVES HER BLONDE WIG!!!
As she continues crying, we see Rosa’s true hair is short and brown. Juan is alone in his room saying he needs to know Sarah is okay when there’s a knock. It turns out Sarah isn’t smart enough to stay away from Santa Catalina after all. She’s there to be comforted by her man! She doesn’t tell him what’s wrong though just that she needed to see him. Deborah is moving into a hotel room. It looks like, Dante’s old room?? She is also crying and remembering the løving mother-daughter times with Sarah.
“I hate you! She declares out loud, I hate you Pedro Del Monte!!! You hit me where it most hurt but the same way you took Sarah from me, I am going to take Tadeo from you!” Sarah talks to her belly saying that the baby is her strength and she is going to fight for her! Juan comes back with safe-to-drink tea and asks what’s wrong. Sarah says she feels so alone. Juan says she has him and all their brothers. If only he knew.
