Opening monologue: Why are we always so ready to fight, even when we’re together? We should both make peace, because we’re ~meant2b. This could be about Pablo and Marizza, or maybe Pablo and Facundo.
So when we last saw Pablo, Facundo had cut the brakes on his car, sending Pablo into a car crash. Gasp, shock! Will he survive, or will this be like Marissa Cooper on The O.C.? Just kidding, there’s no suspense at all. We immediately see that he’s fine, although rather freaked out.
Meanwhile, Marcos has received some bad news. His dad comes to school and gives him a letter from his mom, where she’s like, “Yeah, I don’t love you enough to stick around, peace out.” But more nicely. Marcos is all sad, and Lujan’s like, “I must comfort him!” His dad tells her to leave them alone, which is well enough since Marcos wants to go find his mom and yell at her.
At Casa Provenza, Nico’s parents debate whether or not Luna is Jewish. Nico’s dad is like, “Maybe he was just joking when he said she wasn’t. It’s not a very funny joke, but I’ll accept it!” He’s all like, “Mansilla would never lie to just help a bunch of teenagers carry out ever dumbass whim in their heads!” Mama Provenza still doesn’t believe, though, and has a plan: they’ll invite Luna over for dinner, and test how Jewish she really is. Oh, no. I’m getting secondhand embarrassment just thinking about this.
The future Colucci-Rey family comes storming back into school, with Mia shrieking at Marizza to stop messing with her family. Eventually Papa C and Sonia have to pull them apart and try to send them to their rooms while the grown-ups go look for Luca. Then Gloria rolls up and says that someone is looking for either Sonia or Marizza, she wasn’t sure which. “It’s your boyfriend,” she says. What? Gloria, a hint: if he’s over 40, he’s probably not Marizza’s boyfriend. Sonia and Marizza run off, and find Luca hanging out in the lounge. As you do! I know when I’m pissed, the first place I run to is a high school. Sonia and Papa C hide while Marizza extracts a dramatic speech from Luca: he’s leaving for Spain 4eva, but he knows Sonia was trying to do the right thing. He’s written her (and Papa C and Mia) a letter, because he doesn’t want to say goodbye face-to-face to anyone. Except Marizza, like her ego needed more inflating. He tells her that she’s a special young lady, blah blah, and they hug. But then everyone else comes out of the woodwork, and he has to say goodbye to them anyway. It’s all very emotional, so of course it gets interrupted with a phone call. Pablo wants Marizza to come to the auto shop to talk about the car.
Sandra and Cata take a day off, leaving Guido in charge of the cafeteria. You know what? They should know better by now. Guido’s inevitable fuckup is going to be their own damn faults. Inevitably, Tomás comes in and he’s like, “Guido! Abandon your responsibilities!” Guido’s like, “No, I’ve changed!” and then Tomás is like, “It’ll be fun!” and Guido’s like, “Okay!” SIGH. They kick everyone out of the cafeteria and leave it unattended, which is exactly what Guido said he wouldn’t do. Sigh.
Over at one of the tables, Lujan expresses her concern for Marcos to the rest of the gang (Luna, Nico, and Manuel). She doesn’t know what’s wrong, but she will! They must steal his incredibly personal letter from his mother and invade his privacy by reading it! Never change, you guys. Nico and Luna peace out, and Manuel tells Lujan he’s going to try and set up a meeting with Angelita.
Sad piano music plays over Sonia and Luca’s emotional goodbye. It’s boring. He forgives her for lying because she was just trying not to hurt him, and he knows they weren’t meant2b. They got along the moment they met, which is never a good thing in a telenovela! He tells her that he knows she loves someone else, and she’s like, “Who?” And he’s like, “There’s only one guy you’ve been fighting with since you met him, figure it out!” They hug and he leaves, hopefully for good this time. If I have to watch a repeat of this scene with Mia and Papa C, my hair’s gonna fall out.
In the chem lab, Luna tells Nico that she’s super happy that their relationship is better than ever. They’re making out again, they’re not keeping any secrets or telling lies…Nico’s like, “Yikes. Uh…I’m thirsty. I’m gonna go get a Pepsi Twist (TM)!” Pepsi wants you to know, always drink Pepsi Twist when you’re lying to your girlfriend! Then Mansilla rocks up and he’s like, “Man, Luna, lies are so bad for your relationship, I really think you and Nico should just come clean.” Luna’s like, “…about what?” and Mansilla’s like, “Oops.” Luna predictably does not take it well, and Nico begs her to understand that lying to his parents is the best option, for some reason. Gloria comes in and gives Nico the message that his parents want to have dinner, and Nico tells Luna they’ll have to keep up the charade while they’re there. I mean, if Summer Roberts can do it, Luna can too. (I did not mean to reference The O.C. twice in one post. But it’s a perfect show, so you know, what am I supposed to do?)
At the auto shop, the mechanic tells Pablo that someone wanted to hurt him, so he should watch out. “You mean someone did this on purpose?” Marizza derps. No, the brakes just cut themselves, Marizza. Pablo says he knows who did it: Simon! Dammit, Pablo. You’re not a good detective. They decide they must get revenge, because duh.
Marcos tries calling his house to no avail, while Lujan creeps in the background. This is rapidly becoming normal behavior for her, it’s a little worrying.
Mia goes crying to Blas about her uncle leaving. No! Dammit, Mia! He gives her back the photo Manuel stole, and like…tells Mia about his evil plan? He’s like, “Oh yeah, I paid this lady to pretend to know me because Manuel was digging for information about me, and then I busted him! Ohoho!” Mia is just like, “Omg, you’re so smart!” Dammit, Mia. At no point does she ask why he had to, you know, hire someone to help cover up his shady-ass past. Anyway, Blas cackles that “Angelita” will do anything for money. I wonder if Manuel might use that to his advantage? Literally in the next scene, Manuel calls Angelita again and offers to pay her double to tell him everything about Blas. She agrees.
“Oh, Blas! You’re so wacky when you’re abusing your power and threatening teenagers!”
Luna and Nico go over to his house, and his parents try to trap her with various Judaism-related questions. She gets past most of them, but fucks up when Mama Provenza asks her to make gefilte fish. Mama Provenza is like, “I knew it!!! I KNEW IT!!! AHAHAHA!!” She crazy, man. Nico snaps that he’s had it with them treating Luna badly, and they leave. Mama Provenza sniffs that his dramatics aren’t going to change her mind.
Sonia comes back to Casa Colucci with Papa C. Mercedes needles her about her presence, but Papa C defends Sonia. Sonia flashbacks to all the good times with Luca. It’s a much shorter montage than Nacho got. Man, he’s even less of a character than a 9-year-old. Rough life, Luca. Sonia starts crying and Papa C comforts her, and they have a nice moment until Papa C like, really awkwardly thanks her for getting rid of Luca. She flips out on him for thinking that she did it for him and not for Luca and storms on out of there.
Meanwhile, Guido and Tomás are playing DDR at the arcade. Remember arcades? The movie theater near my house had one — it might still have it, actually — and going to see a movie after school and then hang out in the arcade was the thing to do when we were twelve. I’m getting all teary-eyed over here.
Anyway, Vico calls and tells Guido that the cafeteria is all fucked up. Despite him locking it when he left, somehow people got in and now all the tables are messy. It doesn’t look that bad, but Guido starts flipping out about having to clean it. Tomás is like, “Yikes, this looks like work. I’m out.” Vico, though, offers to stay and help Guido clean. Aw, Vico. You’re better than this. When they’re done, Guido tries to mack it with her, but then Sandra comes back. Guido and Vico hide, and Sandra leaves, locking the door behind her. They’re locked in the cafeteria together! What hijinks!
DON’T DO IT, VICO.
Mia’s lying in bed emoing over Luca. Wow, she sure didn’t miss him this much for those 70 episodes before he showed up. Feli comes down, her hair looking quite cute:
She says she can’t stay mad at Mia when she’s so sad, and they make up. Marizza comes in, looks like she might not want to interrupted this nice moment, then barrels ahead anyway: she tells Mia she’s changed her mind about wanting a party, and since Sonia is her mom, she’ll help Marizza and not Mia. So there! “Sorry, darling!” she chirps. Heh.
The next morning, Pablo wakes Marizza up and tells her that he’s found out that Simon’s car is completely illegal — it doesn’t have any registration or license, apart from the whole illegal drag-racing thing. Marizza says they can just use Facundo’s car, but Pablo has another idea. They follow Simon and his friend, and watch them park Simon’s car and leave. Pablo notes that they’ve parked for an hour, and wonder what they’re up to. They try to break into the car, but get busted by a cop. Pablo calls Papa B and he gets the cop off their back, which doesn’t impress Marizza much: “Can’t you do anything without calling your dad?” she asks. This gives Pablo yet another idea, and he calls Papa B again to help them…get the car towed? Why did they need to break in to do that?
Everyone walks in on Guido and Vico sleeping in the cafeteria. Sandra flips out and says she has to talk to Mansilla, while Mia just stares at Vico disapprovingly. Hee!
She and Feli continue the stares of disapproval back in their room, and snip that it was very tasteless of Vico to spend the night with Guido. Vico snaps that she didn’t sleep with Guido, and they shouldn’t criticize her without looking in the mirror first. Mia takes that literally: “What did she mean?” she gasps, staring at her reflection. Oh, Mia. You’re not doing very well in this episode.
Marcos goes to his brother’s grave to leave a note for his mom. Lujan stalks him there, and reads the note. Oh, Lujan. He waits all day and his mom doesn’t show up. Lujan tries to comfort him, and admits to reading his letter. Shockingly, he doesn’t take that too well, and tells her to stop meddling in his life. He storms off, and the camera cuts to where Mama Aguilar has been watching them this whole time.
Manuel tries to get money from Tomás to pay off Angelita, but Tomás only has forty pesos. All those DDR games really add up, you know. Mia offers to bankroll Manuel, if he agrees to cover for her whenever she goes out with Blas. Manuel’s like, “Fine, whatever, give me the money.”
Tomás calls Guido over to his cafeteria table and is all, “So you totally banged Vico, amirite?” Guido denies it, but eventually gives in to his dickish nature and tells Tomás (and Fernanda and Random Amanda, who are eavesdropping and overacting in the background) that he and Vico totally did the deed.
Mia tells Blas that she got Manuel to agree to let them go out, and Blas is immediately suspicious: did Manuel want anything in exchange for this agreement. “Oh, just a ton of money,” Mia tells him. Oh, Mia. Blas figures out what’s going on and storms off to go kick Manuel’s ass. Then Vico shows up and she and Mia make up. Mia promises that she believes Vico, that nothing happened between her and Guido. Literally half a second later, Fernanda and Random Amanda pop up and chirp that they heard that Vico and Guido totally hooked up.
Marizza and Pablo take Simon to the auto shop, and Pablo cheerfully brings Simon over to see his car being destroyed…just as Facundo calls Marizza, bragging that he cut the brakes on Pablo’s car. Whoops.
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