Just when you think Elite Way can’t sink any lower, they hire a pedophile who fired 1/3rd of the teachers and expelled the entire fourth year class. Presumably Etchamendi is like, “Excellent, exactly what the school needs!” So Font’s getting his perv on with Sol, and it is DEEPLY DISTURBING. Thankfully, Sol manages to escape his clutches, and Rocco pops in front of the window, having filmed the whole thing.
At Erreway’s band rehearsal, Mia and Manuel are trying to get Marizza and Pablo back together via the power of music. Marizza and Pablo cotton on quickly, and they’re like, “The 10 things I hate about you is that I DO ACTUALLY HATE YOU,” and they storm out. Manuel and Mia are like, “Well, they stormed out together, that’s progress.”
The next day, when they go back to school, Mia tries to convince Marizza that she and Pablo are meant2b. Marizza shuts her down, and they change the topic to Sonia’s dance troupe troubles. Mia’s like, “Your mom needs singers and dancers? You know who sings and dances?” If I were Marizza, I’d be like, “Everyone in this freaking school,” but she doesn’t say that. Instead she’s like, “Omg, who, I have no idea,” and Mia volunteers Erreway’s services. Sure, instead of a whole lineup of dancers, Sonia can make do with four. Sounds like it’ll be fine.
Since Mia’s on better terms with literally everyone than Marizza is, she goes to convince Pablo to be in Sonia’s show. At first he doesn’t want to, but Mia reminds him that Sonia has enabled their every irresponsible move, and they owe her. Pablo’s like, “True”, and agrees. Cutely, Mia gives Pablo a kiss and a hug. I’m glad they’re remembering that these two are friends.
Meanwhile, Lujan is still having love trouble with Marcos. She cries to Laura that she knows she’s been acting crazy with him, but she doesn’t know how to stop and now he thinks that she doesn’t love him, and then they’re gonna break up because he says he’s in love with her (what?) but he’s still rejecting her all the time (what?), and their love is doomed to fail! (What?) Laura follows that about as well as I did, and suggests that maybe Lujan should be just a little less obsessive, and then maybe things will clear up. Lujan sniffles and agrees, and “Crazy For This Girl” starts playing in the background. Man, I loved that song as a tween. It has absolutely nothing to do with Marcos and Lujan, though? I’d say it’s the absolute opposite for their situation.
Mia tells Sonia she has the solution to her problem, and presents Erreway. “Where are the dancers?…Oh,” Sonia says. Heh. In a bizarre fit of responsibility, though, she decides that she has to clear it with their parental figures first. Pablo tells her that he’ll handle Papa B, Manuel says that he’s been emancipated from his mom (I’m guessing he was like, “Yeah, I’m going back to Argentina to be on this telenovela permanently, and now that the revenge story is over there’s literally no reason for me to acknowledge you ever again”), so that just leaves Mia. Being that Papa C is out of the country, Sonia decides that it’ll be easier to win over Andres.
Personally this gives me no confidence whatsoever about Erreway’s dancing skills, but whatever, it’s Sonia’s funeral.
Dante goes to find Lola, and tries to tell her that Francisco has a huge, embarrassing crush on her sister. “Listen, either you’re desperately in love with me, or you really want someone to break your face,” Lola snarks. Hee. She refuses to believe him, and Dante’s like, “Whatever, I’m just tellin’ it like it is.”
Marcos tries to make up with Lujan, and she assures him that there’s nothing wrong. She won’t let him make out with her, though, and when he suggests sneaking off to neck during free period, but she blows him off.
Marizza is all twitterpated over Pablo agreeing to help her mom. She’s like, “Omg, maybe the tenth thing I hate about him is that I don’t hate him at all.” They almost make up, but then Papa B shows up. He loudly announces that he’s SUPER PROUD of Pablo for TESTIFYING AGAINST HIS MOM and ENSURING THAT HER LIFE IS RUINED FOREVER. Marizza gets mad at Pablo for lying and impeding the path of great justice, and Pablo protests that his mom is evil and deceptive. Like all women! Marizza’s grossed out by his descent into redpillism, and they’re back to fighting.
Marcos helps Belen with her math homework, and she’s like, “Marcos, you’re a genius, a prince among men! I must thank you with my tongue!” Jesus, Belen, I know you’re excited about having more than one line in this episode, but chill out. Lujan sees them and nearly blows her top, but then she forces herself to be cool, with the side effect that she basically tells Marcos that she doesn’t give a single shit who hangs he out with or what he does. In fact, she’s thrilled that Belen wants his body! And she’s still not free to make out later, bye.
Papa B won’t let Pablo perform in Sonia’s show, because the mayor’s son can’t be seen in a cabaret. What would that do to his image? Hookers and blow, on the other hand, are totally find. Pablo tells Papa B that the press won’t find out, and Papa B agrees. He wants to know how Pablo plans on keeping the show a secret, but Pablo won’t tell him. “A Bustamante always gets what he wants, right?” he says. That’s code for, “We’re not gonna explain anything that we can’t just gloss right over.”
Francisco’s playing pool with Laura, and tries once more to get her to go out with him. She refuses again, which he accepts fairly gracefully. He says he knows she’s focused on fixing things with Lola, and he won’t interfere for both of their sakes. Naturally, Lola misses this bit when she decides to eavesdrop, and only hears the next part of the conversation: “You love Lola, huh?” Laura asks, and Francisco affirms. Lola is all twitterpated.
Marcos rants to Manuel that he has no idea what’s gotten into Lujan. Manuel points out that Marcos wanted her to stop hanging all over him, and Marcos is like, “Yeah, but like, I didn’t MEAN it!” Then Manuel puts a beanbag on his head and Marcos chases him around the room kicking the beanbag. Like Manuel needs even more brain damage than he already has.
Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
Font comes into the cafeteria and announces to the class that they’re all still expelled. Guido’s like, “Oh. We thought you were gonna change your mind.” Hee. Feli works up the nerve to say that she thinks he’s going a little too far, and Font’s like, “Stop saying words.” He tells them to start packing their bags. Not even God can help them now! After he leaves, the kids ask Pablo if he spoke to his dad about Font, and Pablo’s like, “Whoops, I forgot.” When did Pablo say he was gonna get his dad to fix things? Maybe I skipped that. Whatever, it has no bearing on the plot anyway.
Maria Jesus has officially moved into Casa Colucci, and is consistently wearing lipstick colors that don’t look good on her. Maria Jesus tells Andres that she wants to thank him (like in a sexy way), and offers to cook him dinner. Andres doesn’t pick up on any of her subtext, and derps that dinner sounds fun.
Lujan seethes to Laura that Belen had her hands all over Lujan’s man, and then, when Lujan said they shouldn’t hang out, Marcos AGREED with her! Ah, the frustration when being passive-aggressive doesn’t go in your favor. My 16-year-old self relates more than I want to. “I should have punched her nose into her brain!” Lujan wails. Heh. Oh, Lujan. Laura has to hold her back from beating the shit out of Belen, and tells her that she has to calm down.
Etchamendi is surprisingly actually kind of upset with Font for expelling the entire fourth year. He’s like, “You can’t expel an entire class without asking first.” Font’s like, “But they were being rebelde!” Etchamendi notes that the students’ parents will all be pissed, and how are they going to keep having zero extracurriculars or extra facilities without that tuition money? He threatens to go to the school board, but Font smirks and says that he knows the other board members very well, and he knows all their dirty secrets, so that’s not going to work. Uh…is he implying the rest of the board members are pedophiles, too? It’s a city-wide conspiracy!
Mia goes to check on Chopy, and runs into Blas. Run, Mia! Sadly, she doesn’t. He invites her to come with him to get supplies for Chopy, and Mia’s like, “My boyfriend is crazy jealous over us, and also you’re a sex offender so…no.” Blas acts all hurt that she doesn’t trust him, and guilts her into going. God, he’s so gross. I hate that Font has come and usurped his position as most hateable person in the school.
Rocco and Font present his video project to the school board. Font’s all, “This video will prove that I’m doing awesome at principaling and also that I am not a pedophile.” Ah, except the video is compiled of all the scenes we’ve had of Font being a perv, culminating in him trying to kiss Sol. Uh, if Rocco was filming that from outside the window, how come the camera angle is from inside the room? (Answer: because they were too lazy to even film janky footage for Rocco’s tape, and literally just reused the scene from earlier.)
Literally this is shot directly opposite from where Rocco was supposed to be standing.
All the school board members are shocked, shocked! So shocked they have to take off and put back on their glasses!
Rocco announces that he did some Altavista searching, and he found out that Font was dismissed from his last jobs for unclear reasons. Wow, so this entire thing could’ve been avoided by a simple background check. Oh, Elite Way, how are you still open? Also, shout-out to the other schools for not reporting him for inappropriate contact with students. I guess all the schools in the RW universe are equally terrible.
Etchamendi dismisses Rocco, who gives Font a sarcastic little salute on the way out. Hee. The school board announces that they’re going to force Font to leave, and give the reason as a health problem, which…is just going to perpetuate this cycle all over again. But whatever, he’s gone, and Blas takes back the crown for reigning king of creepiness.
Pablo and Marizza fight, again, some more. Manuel and Mia, on the other hand, remain grotesquely lovey-dovey. Manuel asks Mia if she’s free to play tonsil hockey later, but she says she’s going out with Vico and Feli.
Marizza goes back to her room, and Lujan asks if she broke up with Ivan. Marizza protests that Ivan needs her, and if she breaks up with him, his heart will give out. Literally. I don’t think Ivan planned this out too well. I mean, he’s kind of already peaked re: things he can hold over Marizza. I mean, what’s he going to do when he wants her to put out? Say his dick is going to shrivel and fall off (and kill him)?
Lujan goes to find Marcos playing pool. He’s like, “So do you want to play, or talk, or do literally anything with me now?” and she’s like, “I’d love to, but I can’t! Bye!” and runs off yet again. Marcos complains to Manuel — also yet again — that she’s acting batty, and Manuel says Marcos ought to do something romantic to surprise her.
Pablo complains to Tomás about Marizza (again, some more) and all the crazy shit she’s doing. “She’s crazy, just like my mom,” he says. Tomás gets the same look on his face that I did when Pablo compared his girlfriend to his mother. Then Pablo’s like, “Hey…do you think perhaps a crazy person doesn’t belong in this school?” like he hasn’t tried to get Marizza kicked out a million times already. It’s never worked, Pablo!
“Please stop getting your Oedipal issues all over Marizza.”
Mia, Vico, and Feli panic at the thought of going to different schools after they’re expelled. Then Lola comes up and tells Mia that Blas is leaving with Chopy, so Mia leaves. Manuel comes in and notes that Vico and Feli are still here, and they don’t know what he’s talking about when he mentions Mia’s plans with them. He runs off looking for her, and sees her getting into Blas’s murder van. Uh-oh. Blas catches him staring and smirks, and Manul seethes.
Marizza tells Ivan that her feelings for Pablo are dead, and she wants to be with Ivan. Ivan smiles at her in a way that makes me think they’re gonna have to dig her body up from his garden later.
Maria Jesus puts on a slinky red dress for her dinner with Andres, but when she opens the door, Sonia is waiting there. Hee. Sonia’s come by to ask Andres’s permission for Mia to be in her show, but decides that needling Maria Jesus is just as well. They start having a pissing match over Andres, which is really embarrassing. Andrea Dworkin did not die for this, you guys! Andres eventually comes back and notes that something is on fire. Maria Jesus panics over her cooking and runs off to the kitchen. Sonia’s like, “I can’t believe you would let a literal child use the stove!” and Andres cottons on that she’s jealous. He quickly reassures Sonia that absolutely nothing is going on with him and Maria Jesus, and while he isn’t sure about letting Mia dance in Sonia’s show, he says he’ll think of a way to help.
Lujan and Marizza see Rocco escort Etchamendi to the doors, and shake his hand before he leaves. They jump to the conclusion that Rocco is snitching to Etchamendi, and decide that they must get revenge. Uh, were they not tipped off by him standing with Font when they all got expelled?
Lola squeals to Bianca that she heard Francisco say he loves her, straight from his mouth! Dante was lying! Then Francisco comes in and makes it worse by asking Lola what her thoughts on dating are. Presumably he’s asking for advice on how to get back into Laura’s pants, but poor Lola thinks he’s talking about her. Francisco says he’s always surprised by how mature Lola is, and kisses her on the cheek. Lola is like, “Our love is real!”
As they empty their bladders at the urinals, Tomás asks Pablo if he’s planning on getting Marizza kicked out of school by making people think she’s crazy, i.e. the exact same thing Papa B is doing to Mama B. Pablo’s like, “Depends on how crazy she acts,” which I guess is fair enough. He zips up and pats Tomás’s shoulder without even washing his hands. Ew. Man, Tomás puts up with so much.
Lola continues to be overly nice to Laura. She brings up the subject of dating Francisco. “Do you think it’s a good idea?” Laura asks, thinking that they’re talking about her. Lola’s like, “Of course, he’s in love, he said so himself!”, thinking that they’re talking about her. Oh, boy. This will end well.
It’s the middle of the night, but Etchamendi tells Gloria to summon all the fourth year students. “At this time?” Gloria gasps. Etchamendi’s like, “It’s not your job to have opinions, Gloria!”
Marcos decides that his grand romantic gesture will be to learn how to ride a bike for Lujan. Aw, that is actually pretty sweet. I would never learn how to ride a bike for a guy. He enlists Manuel’s help, and Manuel helps him wobble along the road. Where are they practicing? Why are they allowed outside of the school? Nevermind, I don’t care. Anyway, Manuel lets Marcos try to pedal alone, and Marcos promptly falls over. Bless.
The fourth year gathers in the lounge. They all go quiet and stare at Rocco when he comes in, but before they can say anything, Etchamendi enters. He announces to them that Font has been dismissed, and they’re getting a new principal. They want to know if that means they’re being un-expelled, and Etchamendi says that that’s up to their new principal. And their new principal is…Dunoff! Because why go out and look for an actually good principal when you can just re-hire the slightly less terrible one you had previously. Pilar, sweetly, looks ecstatic to have her dad back. The rest of the kids are like, “Yikes, we probably shouldn’t have stone cold kicked him out by a 51% majority.”
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