Opening monologue: Sometimes we have all our dreams in the palm of our hand, but then everything changes. We’re crushed and we can’t get up, but we have to.
Marcos overhears Marizza telling Pablo that she’s sneaking out to meet another guy and rolls up to them. Pablo’s like, “Ha! Awkward! Enjoy explaining yourself!” and runs away. “I didn’t know you were here,” Marizza says. “Obviously,” deadpans Marcos. Heh. Marizza covers and says she was just trying to piss off Pablo. Marcos cottons on that Marizza still cares way too much about Pablo’s reactions, and she’s like, “How dare! All I feel for him is pure hatred; there is no sexual tension here at all!” Marcos asks what Marizza’s phone call with her “friend” was all about, naively assuming said friend is female. Marizza’s like, “Right, I called her and we’re gonna meet up! See ya!” Marcos is smart enough to not completely buy this.
Back in the students’ disciplinary gym class, everyone else has tapped out, except Lujan. Ha! Clearly, lifting all those weights in her room has paid off. She finishes the set that Blas assigned, and he just blows his whistle and demands she do another ten pushups. Manuel sticks up for Lujan, asking, “What do you have against her?” Excellent question, Manuel! Blas doesn’t like that at all, and sends Manuel to the principal’s office. Bizarrely, this does not spin off into a ten-episode subplot about Manuel nearly getting expelled. Instead, nothing really comes of it, and in the meantime, Mansilla comes in and BSes that the kids have an exam in ethics class, so Blas is gonna have to put his corporal punishment program on hiatus.
Meanwhile, at the theater: “I can’t believe I’m competing with my daughter for a man!” Sonia wails to Pepa. Uh, Sonia, no you’re not — if Marizza was actually in the running for Luca’s affections, that would be ILLEGAL. Well, actually, I guess not illegal in Argentina. But it’s illegal in my country, and in my soul, dammit! Pepa goes off to get lunch, and Nacho rocks in, being a blight on an otherwise pretty good episode. He tells Sonia Pepa’s being stingy with her money and Sonia, who you will recall raised Marizza, immediately jumps to give him some. She doesn’t have any cash, though, so she writes him a check. They promise to keep it a secret from Pepa.
Then Papa C shows up, all sarcasm. Sonia calls him “Culo-cci.” I can’t believe it took them this long to do that joke. He tells her to back off Luca, because he knows she’s a gold-digger. Sonia decides to fuck with him and cackles that he’s found her out, and it’s all true! She’s going to marry Luca and take him for all he’s worth! MWA HA HA! They put their faces way closer together than is necessary, as usual.
Mansilla is getting ready to usher everyone out of class, but then he notices that Marcos and Marizza are missing. “I don’t know about Marcos, but Marizza snuck out of class and I’m pretty sure she ran away from school. But I don’t really know,” Pablo says. HEE. He’s such a shit, and I kind of love him for it. Lujan is all offended, as she always is whenever someone isn’t 100% committed to Marizza Motion. Mansilla’s like, “Shit, I gotta go intervene on her behalf, as usual. Uh…okay, bring in something that has meaning to you, and we’ll talk about it later.” Isn’t that show and tell?
Mansilla goes to the office and uses Gloria’s phone to call Marizza. How come all the teenagers have cell phones, but the adults don’t? He tells her she has an hour to get back, or he’ll have to let Blas get his power abuse on. Marizza’s like, “Whatever.” It looks like she’s at the same sushi restaurant that Manuel and Mia had the most awkward double date of all time at. Luca shows up, and he kind of weirdly tells her that she’s very pretty and if she were older, they would totally have a thing. Don’t encourage her, Luca! But wait, then he says that he’s old enough to be her father, and the age gap matters to him. THANK YOU LUCA, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE. Luca should go beat up Blas for perving on his niece. Marizza says that she understands, but before she leaves, she wants to try something:
Luca pushes her off and tells her not to do that again, but not before Marcos catches them. Oh snap! He runs away, and Marizza, having been rejected, follows shortly after. The waiter by the door is just like, “Awkward.”
Everyone shuffles back into the gym with their chosen object. Mansilla tells them, “So you’ve all picked an object that’s important to you, and now you’re going to tell the class why.” This is literally show and tell. I’m glad they’re finally realizing the level these kids are at emotionally. Guido thinks talking about his emotions sounds girly, and Mansilla says, “This is the year 2002, we’re all human and we all have feelings.” Dudes, sexism was over in 2002, and we didn’t even notice! Anyway, Luna volunteers to begin, and tells the entire class about her top secret diary, which she keeps in order to tell Flor what life is like in a real school, on account of Flor being mysteriously ill and all. At least Luna clarifies that Flor can’t talk and can barely walk, so her stumbling around with Marizza makes some kind of sense now. All the kids are all moved and shit, even Pablo and Douchey Diego. I actually hope they show all the kids’ little speeches. I wanna know why Pilar cares about a fucking tambourine so much.
Lujan brought her weights, God love her.
Papa Tatiana rocks up to the school, but quickly makes the mistake of asking Sandra where Nico is. “I didn’t catch your name,” she says. “I didn’t give it,” he tells her. “Well, let’s hear it then.” AWKWARD. I don’t remember his first name, but he gives his last name as “Rosen.” Good to know. Sandra immediately gets all pissy and passive-aggressive the second he says he’s Nico’s girlfriend’s father. He tells her that he has something very important to tell Nico, and she sloooowly drags herself out of the cafeteria to find him. “I’m going as faaaaaast as Iiiiii caaaaaan,” she tells Papa Tatiana. Sandra’s so petty.
Back at show and tell, Pablo is telling everyone about how his guitar makes him feel better about his dad problems. Mansilla asks who wants to go next, and Feli volunteers. She says, “Me, Feli,” which I haven’t mentioned but she does that a lot. Like she thinks people don’t know her name. Anyway, she says she’s a loser, and that’s why her most treasured object is a photo of her and Mia, because Mia’s friendship made her fashionable and changed her life. Oh, Feli. She bursts into tears and says she doesn’t want to leave Elite Way. Everyone’s like, “Awkward.” Lujan in particular is like, “Yikes…human emotion is hard.”
Mercedes shows up to go on a date with Papa C, but he’s all distracted by the Luca/Sonia situation. He tries to call Luca and Mercedes is like, “Ugh, you’re not calling your daughter again, are you?” Sympathetic! He yells at Luca that if Luca doesn’t come to Casa Colucci right now, Papa C’s cutting him out of the business forever! Mercedes is like, “What is your deal, dude,” and Papa C snarls that is deal is SONIA REY!!! Even Mercedes is just like, “Oh my God, whatever.”
He tells her that Sonia is digging for gold with Luca, and Mercedes gets a suspicious look on her face. I bet she’ll use this in another ineffectual plan that will go nowhere!
Luca hangs up with Papa C, and the camera pulls back to reveal he was with Sonia the whole time. Gasp! Sonia cackles and tells Luca that she told Papa C that she was planning to marry Luca for his money, and Luca says he does like one part of that plan: they should totally get married! They had one date, and it was only halfway a disaster, ergo they are meant2b! Sonia’s like, “Oh. I was just joking. Yikes.”
After class, Nico and Luna walk and talk about recent developments. Nico’s still on Manuel’s side about the whole Mia thing: “Mia is a bitch,” he opines. Shut up, Nico. What Mia did doesn’t even seem that bad, to me? I mean, she mildly dissed Manuel in front of the whole school. He should be used to that, right? Anyway, Sandra takes her sweet time getting to Nico, and tells him his “father-in-law” is here. Nico makes a break for the cafeteria, where Papa Tatiana is all aflutter: he is about to CHANGE THEIR LIVES! The music people want to meet the band! Nico is all happy, Papa Tatiana’s mustache is all happy, and they’re really cute together, actually.
Now Nico REALLY can’t break up with Tatiana.
Lujan finds Marcos being all emo, and he tells her that he saw Marizza kissing another guy. “She’s a piece of shit,” he says. Lujan tells him not to talk about Marizza like that, and Marcos asks, “How can you defend her?” Because Lujan would follow Marizza off a cliff, duh. No, just kidding, she admits that they were all lying to him, herself included. Welcome to the Truman Show! Of course, we cut away from the part where Lujan actually tells Marcos what happened. When we come back, he’s yelling at her that she and Marizza are both dead to him. Lujan’s like, “Holy shit, this is what human emotion feels like.”
Mansilla sits Feli down and is like, “Alright, time to work my magic.” She tells him about Augusto wanting her to leave school, and he’s like, “What kind of boyfriend would ask you to do that?” Right? Although, you’d think now would be a good time to get her parents involved. Mansilla asks if Feli would ask Augusto to give up all his friends, and Feli’s like, “Well, actually, he doesn’t really have friends, he spends all his time stalking me.” Creepy! Mansilla asks why she’s with him, as she’s not sure if she loves him, and Feli cries that no one else would be with her. Aw, Feli! Angeles Balbiani is really the MVP of the girls, acting-wise.
Nacho tries to cash Sonia’s check, but of course the people at the bank are like, “Yeah, you’re nine years old, so…no.” He takes it to his creepy older brother, and Older Bro says that he’ll cash it. He’s all pleased with Nacho, and showers affection on him. Ah, the cycle of abuse. Nevertheless, when he gets to the bank, the teller recognizes the check as the one Nacho tried to cash earlier, and is suspicious. He tells Older Bro to wait while he looks at the check, but Older Bro gets the hell out of there the second the teller walks away. The bank guard watches him leave suspiciously. I was going to ask if there was only one bank in all of Buenos Aires, but apparently if you want to cash a check, you have to go to the bank that issued it. See, this show is educational! Still, Sonia’s bank only has one branch?
Marizza rants to Luna about Luca shooting her down in favor of her mother. Why would a 40-year-old want to date another 40-year-old instead of a high schooler? Does not compute! Luna, as usual, thinks Marizza’s misadventures are wacky instead of disturbing. Then Sonia shows up, and she tells Marizza that she’ll break up with Luca if it’s what Marizza really wants. As usual, a dramatic scene change away from actually showing us their conversation; when we come back, Marizza is squealing to Luna that her mom thinks Marizza is cool with the relationship, but Marizza is going to fuck it all up for her! It’s gonna be so fun! Why is Marizza such a bad person?
Nico tells Pablo, Manuel, and Mia that they have to meet with the music people tomorrow. Of course, Mia decides that she wants to leave the band now, and as we all know, Erreway must always have four members. They start freaking out over what to do, although Marizza is just thrilled that Mia’s gone. I’m glad Marizza has her eye on the bigger picture. Pablo’s like, “If you haven’t noticed, they are obsessed with the number four. Manuel has to make up with Mia.” Manuel’s like, “What are you, drunk?” I mean, it’s Pablo, so…entirely possible.
Blas uses Gloria’s phone to call someone and tells them he wants to investigate someone. Gloria comes in and he tells her to go away, and she’s like, “SORRY for being at MY desk.” Heh. Poor Gloria, everyone’s jacking her desk today. After she leaves, Blas says he wants them to dig up some dirt on Santiago Mansilla. Dun dun dun!
Mia cries over leaving the band and Vico’s like, “Well, if it’s making you so upset, don’t do it.” Hee. Mia says she’s really sad about breaking up with Manuel, and Vico’s like, “You should talk to him; I can’t believe Manuel would be mean or obsessed with revenge.” HA! Oh, Vico, you’re so naive. Feli comes in and Vico tries to shoo her out, but Mia says Feli deserves the truth. For the third time this episode, we cut away from someone giving pertinent conversation, and come back when it’s over. Feli is sad that Mia is Manuel’s one true love, but admits that she knew all along anyway, and Mia’s friendship is more important to her than Manuel. Aw! They hug and cry and in the background, Vico’s like, “Feli, why are YOU crying?” Hee. Let the girl be emotional, Vico, damn. Feli says that she’s sad because she has to make an important decision.
I kind of love that Luisana Lopilato’s an ugly crier, by the way. She’s so abnormally un-awkward for a teenager that it’s a nice touch of realism.
Older Bro calls Nacho while he’s with Pepa, and he’s like, “That check is gonna get me in trouble, get over here now so I can yell at you!” And that’s the end of Nacho for this episode, thank God.
Meanwhile, Erreway emos that there’s no way out of their situation. There’s nothing they can do to get Mia back, nothing! Jesus, this entire school is always breaking out into song and dance, just audition someone. Maybe Belen; she has nothing to do so she’ll never leave the band. “Guys…our dream is dead,” Nico says. Heh. Don’t be so dramatic, man. Then Mia rolls up and she’s like, “Yeah, I changed my mind, I’ll be in the band.” Nico and Pablo fall all over her in gratitude. Marizza and Manuel are less impressed.
The Society jumps Marcos and drags him into the basement. They tell him this will be his last test: he has to figure out who’s been messing with the Society with all those notes, and bring them in for justice.
The next day. Erreway tries to get Gloria to let them out of school, but even Pablo flirting with her won’t get her to budge. He’s like, “You’re usually super thirsty, what’s up with you?” She agrees to ask Dunoff, but they know that won’t get them anywhere. Pablo says they have to take matters into their own hands. “You mean run away?” gasps Marizza. What? Like you don’t do it every other episode, Marizza!
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