Opening monologue: The only people who are never wrong are those who don’t stick up for their beliefs. Hey, I think I had that game on my Windows 98.
When we last left our heroes, Marizza had convinced Paula to run away, and dropped in on Pablo, who was wearing aught but a towel. I will say, I kind of love soap operas for just going straight for the id, corniness be damned. There was a remarkable lack of UST, though, because Papa B showed up half a second later and is now attempting to break the door down. Marizza tells Pablo to follow her lead, and they let him in and start BSing about how they ran away to have a torrid affair. Papa B’s like, “But you were with some other girl? None of this makes sense.” Welcome to the show, Papa B! Anyway, he makes them head back to Buenos Aires. Pablo doesn’t even get a chance to put his pants back on.
That worked out well!
Back at school, Pilar’s maneuvered Tomás into playing pool with Luna, against her and Nico. It goes badly for Nico, as expected. Tomás must be relieved he’s not the biggest fuckup in the room anymore. Anyway, of course Nico and Pilar lose and Nico is a dick about it, and challenges Tomás to a solo match. Ah, back to the phallic cue metaphors. Nico wins and tries to cockblock Tomás from hanging out with Luna (Tomás’s penalty is…having to replace the laundry detergent with flour? What is with these kids and flour?), but Tomás says he can do his penalty in two minutes, and he and Luna will hang out afterwards. Nico seethes.
In Mia’s room, all the girls are gushing over Feli’s anonymous flowers. She gets all excited that she has a secret admirer, so she’s understandably crushed when Vico finds a card and they’re from Blas. I’d burn the flowers and salt everything they touched, tbh. Mia immediately gets all excited over how sweet Blas is — this is like, rock-solid proof that he’s not an identity-thieving sex offender! Dammit, Mia. Vico, First Lady of Tact, snaps that he’s just trying to get into Mia’s pants and doesn’t give a crap about Feli, and Feli is all crushed. Mia says they’ll just have to give Feli another makeover, and then she’ll bring all the boys to the yard, and Feli says she’s tired and wants to be alone. Mia looks all shocked. Someone turning down a makeover? THE HORROR!
Manuel tells Marcos that he sent the messages to Guido and Tomás, so they’ll follow them and see which one goes into the basement for the Society meeting. “Tonight, the mystery is over,” Manuel says. I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
Papa B is getting ready to haul Marizza and Pablo back to Buenos Aires, but then Pepa rocks up and tells Pablo that Paula’s waiting to talk to him, and Pablo runs off to go see her. Frickin’ Pepa! Marizza should just kill her. Paula’s at like…some hospital? I dunno. Pablo blathers on about how nothing will ever separate them, but then Papa B rocks up and Paula wails that she’s breaking up with Pablo and never wants to see him again. She runs away while Papa B holds Pablo back. Marizza and Pepa roll up and they’re like, “Well, this is awkward.”
Nico cheerfully tells Manuel that when Tomás goes to the laundry room to do his penalty, Nico’s going to lock him in and go out with Luna. What kind of Wile E. Coyote plan is that? Manuel points out that he A) can’t lock Tomás in because they need to see if he’s going to the Society meeting and B) can’t go out with Luna, because they need to follow him all day. Nico’s like, “But, but, my plan to control her because I’m an insecure dick!” Nevertheless, he agrees.
Fernanda’s all hurt that Guido doesn’t want her to meet his family, so he reluctantly agrees to introduce them tomorrow. “Where am I gonna get a family by tomorrow?” he wonders. Heh. That’s your own damn fault, Guido. He ends up hiring some actors (and one of his uncles) to pretend to be Galician nobility. This will end well.
Tomás goes into the laundry room and Nico not at all subtly follows him. And not at all subtly tries to lock him in. It’s so unsubtle that even Tomás realizes what’s happening, and that’s pretty sad. Nico wails that he doesn’t want Tomás to go out with Luna. Tomás: “Oh, you’re afraid she likes me more than you!” Hee. And then! He dumps the laundry detergent all over Nico and locks him in the room.
…dudes, Nico just got played by Tomás. TOMÁS. If I were him, I’d change names and leave the country, because there is no living this down ever.
Mia goes to see Blas in the teachers’ lounge, in the middle of the night. DAMMIT, MIA. She thanks him for sending Feli flowers, and he’s like, “Anything to ingratiate myself to you!” I mean, in different words, but that’s the gist of it. He asks her out (while touching her leg, GROSS), and she says Feli is really upset and she has to stay with her. Mia offers to go out with him another day, but he’s all pissy and walks out. Good!
Meanwhile, Nico has to call Manuel to get him out of the laundry room, and so they’ve lost both Guido and Tomás. THEY GOT OUTWITTED BY GUIDO AND TOMÁS. This is truly the saddest episode of Rebelde Way ever. There should be a black-and-white montage with a sad Erreway song playing over it, that’s how sad it is. They eventually see the watcher (in his KKK outfit) walking down the hall, and follow him. They split up and Nico goes back into the laundry room, where the watcher jumps him. Man, Nico has no luck in this episode. Sucks to be him.
Pablo, Marizza, and Papa B arrive back in Buenos Aires. That must have been a fun helicopter ride! Pablo yells at Papa B that he can’t go meddling in Pablo’s life like this; he chose Paula and their love is pure! Papa B calls Paula a “torranta“, and Pablo’s like, “You don’t know her!” “I know her better than you think,” Papa B says. OH SNAP. Is Pablo going to finally going to find out the truth about Paula? Ha, of course he’s not. Did you think this would only be resolved in forty episodes? Pablo yells that he doesn’t want to hear anymore and runs off, and Marizza stops Papa B from following. Pablo goes to the sad trailer, where he reminisces on the good times with Paula. Time for a black-and-white montage of all the times they made out! It’s not like they had any deep conversations they could show. Marizza finds him and he asks why she didn’t tell him that she knew about Paula. Because…you wouldn’t listen, Pablo? I mean, you still don’t know, because you didn’t listen to Papa B! Or maybe he realized the truth via the power of black-and-white montages. It’s hard to tell. Anyway, Pablo emos that he wants to be alone.
Manuel finds Nico in the laundry room, where the watcher tries to jump him as well. They wrassle for a bit, and the watcher escapes without Manuel getting a good look at him. Gosh, I guess we’re just going to have to drag this out for another billion episodes.
The next day, Mia and Vico announce to Feli that they’re going to help her go on a diet, and they’ve pasted nutrition information all over the wall above her bed. Oh, ouch. I know they’re trying to be helpful, but way to make her feel bad. Feli’s like, “Yikes.” Then Manuel comes in to see Feli. Mia’s all mad that he’s ignoring her, and she stomps out, with Vico following. Wow, I just realized Manuel’s dated all three of them. Awkward. Anyway, they have a nice conversation about how Feli’s beautiful on the inside, blah blah blah. This makes Feli feel better, because obviously validation from a boy is the only thing that will fix her problems! As he walks out, Manuel rubs it in Mia’s face that he knows Feli better than she does.
Pablo, meanwhile, is getting day drunk in the sad trailer. This is the most relatable I’ve ever found him, personally. He’s so drunk that he mistakes Marizza for Paula — which, you know, I’ve known a lot of alcoholics, and none of them have ever mixed people up before. I should’ve written this show. Anyway, he starts making out with Marizza in his drunken state, and she goes along with it until he passes out.
Manuel and Nico tell Marcos about how Nico’s pissing match with Tomás fucked up their investigation. Almost like it wasn’t foolproof! “The only thing we know is what kind of shoes he wears,” Manuel says. Then Nico gets a call from Mauricio (remember him? Their record label contact? I know, me either), who’s like, “What’s up, just dropping the teen band plot in the middle of your serious investigation plot.” Nico asks if it’s cool if the band only has three members, and Mauricio’s like, “Have you missed every other time this issue has come up? THERE MUST ALWAYS BE FOUR.” Anyway, they have a show tomorrow. Short notice! But I guess given how they have no homework or any other responsibilities, they can fit it in.
Papa C tells Mia he wants her to go to lunch with him and Mercedes. He tries to bribe her by saying they’ll plan her quince party while they’re there. Hee. He totally has her number. Mia BSes that she has plans and hangs up on him, and tells Vico that she really feels like she needs to be here for Feli. Aw, Mia. I’m having such conflicting feelings about you lately. But then Feli waltzes in and says that Manuel really helped her realize that she needs to make changes in her life, and she doesn’t need Mia and Vico’s help anymore. Mia is not pleased at all.
Tomás asks Luna out, and Pilar all too happily accepts for her and starts making suggestions over where they can go. Luna looks at her kind of weirdly, but then after Tomás leaves, she lets Pilar drag her off to get ready. So…I guess she didn’t figure out what Pilar’s up to, then. Maybe she and Tomás are meant to be. I mean, they’re about as smart as each other.
Manuel and Mia both run up to Belen, asking where Luna and Feli are, respectively. “What am I, an information center?” Belen shouts. Hey, be grateful you got any lines at all, Belen! Mia asks Manuel if he knows who Feli is going out with, and he just rolls his eyes and walks off. No, Manuel! Stay and be a know-it-all douche some more! I say this because that would be infinitely preferable to what happens next, which is that Blas comes in and he and Mia flirt a little about how she might go out with him today. No! NOOOOOO!
I’M NOT OVER THIS, AND I WILL NEVER BE OVER THIS.
Nico makes the mistake of asking Pilar if she’s seen Luna, and Pilar chirps that Luna went out with Tomás. “Bye, Nico!” she says, hitting him right on the bruise. Oh, Pilar.
Vico frets that Feli might have gone out to meet with Augusto, which can only end badly. She suggests that they take a page out of Manuel’s book and stalk her, but Mia’s like, “I can’t go, I made plans to let Blas be inappropriate with me!” Vico starts to ream her out about her bad life decisions, but then she stops and says she’ll just follow Feli alone. No, Vico! Drag Mia away from that relationship by her hair if you have to! Vico ends up following Feli into a building, and is all shocked by whatever it is.
Guido’s uncle shows up in his guise as Spanish nobility (which includes pronouncing everything with a really over-the-top Spanish accent) and dressing like it’s the 19th century. Also, he hired a transvestite to be Guido’s mother. Wow, I can’t believe Guido isn’t the worst fuckup in his family.
Manuel goes into the bathroom while someone’s already in there showering, and sees the watcher’s shoes among the pile of clothes. Tomás comes out of the shower, picks up his clothes and the shoes, and leaves. Manuel’s like, “Oh snap!”
This is the equivalent of the Watergate tapes.
…this is a red herring, right? I still maintain Tomás is too dumb to be in the Society. I WANT TO BELIEVE.
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