Previously on Rebelde Way: An OMINOUS FAX arrived! What could it be about? It turns out to be from Dunoff, who tells them that Martavio is no longer their chaperone on account of his drinking problem, and also he’s cutting their trip short since clearly it’s out of control. I mean, he’s not wrong. Martavio’s not an alcoholic, but he is incompetent in every other way. The kids all pitch a fit that he can’t make them go back to Elite Way. Whatever. They’ve already been in Bariloche for like a million years.
The boys go back to their room to whine about it some more. Francisco finds the letter addressed to Pilar, and decides to open it. It’s Augustina’s letter, telling Pilar that Tomás is only with her out of convenience, and Tomás is like, “Say WHAT?” Pilar comes by right then to read her letter, and Tomás scrambles to hide it from her. He’s like, “LOL, I guess your lost your letter! I’m dumb like that!” Pilar’s like, “Oh yeah, what’s that paper in your hand, then?” Hee. I love how much smarter she is than him. She’s not smart enough to keep pressing the issue, though, and the boys manage to get her out of the room. Guido says that it’s Tomás’s prize for coming in first in a farting contest or something, and Pilar’s like, “OK, bye.”
Meanwhile, Sol and Fernanda are crying together over the failure of their respective schemes. Hee. Even funnier is that Mia, Feli, and Lujan are like right next to them, and they’re all studiously ignoring each other. A letter gets slipped under their door, and Marizza goes to grab it: “Mia, it’s for you.” Mia, who was being emo with Feli a second ago, snaps out of it and is all, “OOOH, FOR ME?” It turns out to be from Manuel, asking to meet up with her.
Over in some hallway, Manuel has also received a letter, supposedly from Mia, asking him to meet her. Manuel is wearing the ugliest sweater known to man. Did someone on the crew have something against Felipe Colombo? Everything he wears is tragic. Manuel is a little suspicious — the note is typed, and Mia would never do something so impersonal. Francisco’s all, “Whatever, this means she wants to make up with you! Maybe she’ll finally put out!” I mean, not in so many words, but you know that’s what he’s thinking.
Mia goes to meet Manuel anyway, and she’s like, “What do you want?” and he’s like, “You called ME here.” They realize Francisco set them up, and they start ranting in unison, and then they get uncomfortable that they’re still on the same wavelength. Manuel asks if she wants to talk anyway, since they’re here and all. Mia: “No.” Heh. Manuel tells her that he didn’t like seeing her with Pato, and Mia snipes, “Well, if you’re this upset over a kiss, imagine how I felt about what you did with Sabrina.” BURN. Mia snaps that what she does with Pato is none of his business, and Manuel demands to know what, exactly, she did with him. Mia refuses to tell him and flounces off.
The next morning, Nacho tells them that Martavio’s not going back to Buenos Aires with them on the bus. He’s like, “IDK, he’s off somewhere that’s not here.” For some reason, the kids remain shocked that Martavio is incompetent. As they leave, Lujan runs in all upset that her computer’s missing. The receptionist gives it to her, and there’s an envelope from Pedro. Pedro’s given Lujan the password, and also hopes she’ll go forth in search of love next. Pedro is way too involved. You met her like a day ago, dude.
Up in the mountains, Vico is trying to decorate. She puts a mason jar with a couple of picked flowers in it on the table, which is meant to be sad but does look kinda like something you would see on Pinterest. Rocco comes by and tells her that their class is going back to Buenos Aires today, and tells her that she should come back with them. Vico points out that he’s sending her really mixed messages, and Rocco says that he saw how happy Mia’s letter made her, and he knows Vico wants to go back with them.
Martavio has lunch with the lawyer lady, and tells her that he’s decided to stay and return to being Martin. He’s tired of all the responsibility that comes with being Octavio! If he means “doing the bare minimum to keep the kids from killing each other and themselves”, then I don’t know how he can be tired of it, since he wasn’t doing that at all. Lawyer lady points out that the kids will be leaving soon, but Martavio doesn’t want to go see them, since he doesn’t like goodbyes.
Then, weirdly, Marizza voiceovers that they had two surprises that day: one was that Vico came back, and the other was that Martavio prepared a campfire for them. Not sure how he did that from the other side of town, but okay. The kids sit around the fire while Marizza reads a letter from Martavio about how the greatest moments in life happen during the smallest, and other inspirational bullshit. It’s like nighttime, by the way. Are they leaving Bariloche today or not? All the kids are ~inspired, and take turns making wishes and throwing stuff into the campfire. Pablo says he wishes for “what we don’t say, but we feel,” with a significant look at Marizza. Then Rocco breaks out his guitar and they have a singalong. It sure is convenient how they all know the lyrics to this song! Seriously, when are they going back to school?
Back at school, all the parents are milling around waiting for their kids. Augustina sees Papa Guido and is all twitterpated to meet her boyfriend’s dad, but he has no idea who she is. Augustina is crushed, and wails that she told EVERYONE in her family about Guido. Even her grandma! Guido’s dad is like, “Awkward” but quickly covers and tells her that he’s just thrilled to meet her.
Laura’s parents have also showed up, though they’re all pissy about having to take off from work to be here. Lola is snippy and they’re snippy right back, and oh look, here comes the fourth-year class. They all run to meet their parents, except for Marizza and Mia, because Papa C and Sonia haven’t shown up. OMG, do you think they could be…together? Just kidding, Marizza and Mia don’t come to that conclusion, because that would wrap up this plot and we can’t have that.
Cut to: Sonia and Papa C eating and making out in bed. Heh. I think they’re at Casa Colucci? Hard to tell. Papa C thinks they should finally tell Marizza and Mia that they’re dating, but Sonia thinks Marizza’s going through too much right now, what with Martavio and all. Papa C thinks that sticking Marizza in close quarters with him might make her deal with her parentage a little more, but then Sonia starts fretting that Marizza will like Martavio better than her. Papa C’s like, “Don’t be silly!” but I mean, Marizza has repeatedly shown herself to be a TERRIBLE judge of character, so I get the concern.
Sonia gets a call from Michi, who is…working at the Elite Way cafeteria. Why? How? Wait, nevermind, I don’t care. Michi yells at her that the kids have come back from Bariloche. Sonia’s out of bed like a shot to go see what happened; meanwhile, Papa C yells “NO!” while eating a croissant and refusing to leave the bed. I relate real hard to Papa C in this scene.
Mia, Vico, and Feli walk into the cafeteria and see Michi. Mia’s big mad to see Michi at her school, and needles her about doing cafeteria work when she’s supposed to be a ~performer. Mia would get roasted on Twitter if she tried to have that opinion in 2018. She wails that when she tried to call her dad, his secretary told her that Papa C was on a vacation “for pleasure.” She thinks that Papa C and Michi were together — even though Michi’s literally right here? — and freaks out.
The kids go into the office and start torturing Gloria. Heh. Rough life, Gloria. They want to speak with Dunoff, but she tells them that he’s in a meeting and will meet with them later. As they leave, Gloria gets a call. It’s Nacho calling for Mia, and Manuel loses his shit and tries to like punch Nacho through the phone. Francisco has to haul his psycho ass away, and Manuel ropes him into helping him figure out what happened with Mia and Nacho. It’s none of your business, Manuel!
Meanwhile, Diego is trying to help Marizza with her bags. OMG, I completely forgot Diego existed. Wait, why didn’t he go on the trip again? He’s on the rugby team right? LOL, I don’t even remember. I don’t think it was ever mentioned, actually, because fuck continuity. He tells her that he’s broken up with Paloma, and asks if she thought about him while she was in Bariloche. “Yeah, when I was hooking up with other guys, I thought about how you’d be in bed,” Marizza snipes at him. Diego looks offended by the idea that Marizza slept with other guys, even though what she said was kind of a compliment, when you think about it.
Marizza goes into her room, where Lujan is staring at Blas’s computer. She says that she has the password, but now she isn’t sure if she wants to go through Blas’s things, because she doesn’t want to know what he’s up to. DUDE, ARE YOU KIDDING ME. This is just like when fucking Veronica Mars went through all that drama to find out who her real dad was and then threw away the paternity test. LUJAN, I DIDN’T WATCH YOU STALK HIM AND AGONIZE OVER THAT STUPID PASSWORD FOR TWENTY EPISODES FOR YOU TO JUST GIVE BACK HIS COMPUTER.
Martavio whines to Lawyer Lady that — okay, I think her name is Charo, which only has one connotation for me, and I’m sorry. Anyway, he whines that for the first time in his life, he feels like a loser, because he can’t get Marizza to love him. You didn’t feel like a loser when you were rocking that wig we first saw you in, Martavio? Charo tells him that there’s something about his daughter that she didn’t tell him. We cut away and then cut back to Martavio freaking out on Charo for not telling him that Marizza came to see him at the clinic. Martavio’s like, “So she does love me after all!” and decides that he has to go back to Buenos Aires. He’s still wearing that stupid neck brace, though, so I’m still unable to take him seriously.
Guido’s adorable mom adorables that she just loves Augustina and she’s so happy that Guido’s in love. Guido blusters that they’re not like, in love, he’s just using her to stroke his ego and he’s actually thinking of dumping her because she’s clingy. Romantic! Then Augustina rocks up and says that she arranged for her family and Guido’s family to have dinner together. It’ll be super fun and not awkward at all! Guido’s like, “Aw, hell no,” and calls on Tomás — who’s just walked in with Pilar — to bail him out. Tomás is like, “Hey, Guido, how’s your headache, my dude? You know, the one you’ve been having all day?” and Guido’s like, “Right, that headache!” and Pilar has just walked out without her boyfriend because I guess she doesn’t care. Heh. Then Augustina walks up to Pilar and asks if she received her letter. Pilar’s like, “What letter?” Augustina is about to tell her, but then Tomás rocks up and drags Pilar away.
Mia is still banging on about Papa C and Michi, but then Francisco rolls up and interrupts her. He tells her that Nacho called, and he’s all, “He wants you to call him back, lol, what a loser.” Mia defends Nacho — who, besides being kind of derpy and worshiping Martavio for some reason, didn’t seem that bad — and Francisco’s like, “Oh, you thought he was cool? Are you going to call him?” and Feli’s like, “What’s with all the questions?” Francisco clams up at being called out and runs away. Vico and Feli both figure out that Manuel sent Francisco to question her.
Javier’s friend calls him and tells him about some kind of competition, and Javier wants to enter. Who cares? Literally who cares what Javier is doing?
All the kids gather in the classroom to be lectured by Dunoff. When he comes in, they’re all, “How very dare you cut our vacation short!” He tells them that they’re an embarrassment to the school, and Manuel’s like, “Oh, but when we won the tournament, we weren’t an embarrassment THEN.” You guys didn’t win shit! You got that vacation because all the teams between you and the championship dropped out! Also, two of your classmates were charged with attempted rape on the trip, and then you were caught sneaking booze into the hotel, and also Martavio lost like five kids in the span of two days. ANY school would’ve hauled your asses back, and probably sooner than Dunoff did. He tells them that as punishment, their recess is going to be a study hall now. All the kids complain, even though that’s how every other school on that planet functions. Javier bleats that he like, was barely on the trip and he has a thing to do this afternoon, and Dunoff points out that Javier wanted to attend Elite Way, so he gets to be punished just like the rest of his class. HA! Suffer, Javier.
Laura is skipping this meeting for some reason, and Lola finds her in the cafeteria. She wants to know what Laura was doing with that child services file, and Laura BSes that she got up to some hijinks with Marizza and Marcos and they got arrested, and that’s what the juvenile record is all about. Lola’s all impressed that Laura has a bad side, and forgets about interrogating her.
Gloria calls Blas and leaves a message telling him to come back to school. Gloria, Blas has finally done us all a favor and stepped away from the underage girls. Let’s not ruin a good thing.
Mia tells Marizza about Nacho calling her and Manuel sending Francisco to stalk her. Marizza’s like, “I just told Diego that I slept with another guy and that got him off my back.” Oh, Marizza, no. Diego may be an annoying tertiary character, but he’s not nearly as psychotic as Manuel. Mia doesn’t realize this, and is like, “What a good idea!” So she goes to see Francisco and tells him that she knows he’s trying to get her and Manuel back together. He wibbles that he just doesn’t like to see them apart, because he ships them so hard. Or, alternately, Francisco thinks Manuel’s desire to get back with Mia is more important than Mia’s desire not to talk to him ever again. He literally tells her that Manuel deserves another chance. Manuel doesn’t DESERVE anything, Francisco. Anyway, Mia tells him that she and Manuel are never ever getting back together, because Mia went all the way with Nacho. Francisco freaks out, probably at the thought of a girl making her own decisions about her love life.
Vico’s dad comes to see her, and chirps that Gloria gave him permission to take Vico home for the day so they can talk about her trip. Vico reluctantly leaves with him.
Manuel finds Francisco and demands to know what Mia told him. Francisco’s like, “Uh, uh, nothing! She thinks he’s a cool dude!” and Manuel’s all, “A COOL DUDE, HUH?” He seethes that if Mia is involved with another dude, he’ll go insane. HOLY SHIT WHAT A FUCKING RED FLAG. I really thought this whole “Manuel being garbage” thing would be over once he and Mia broke up, but he somehow got even worse. Francisco goes back to Mia and whines at her that he doesn’t get how she slept with Nacho when she was in love with Manuel like a month ago. See, it’s okay for guys to hook up with rando girls on this show, but girls have to be Committed 4 Life before they have sex. Mia shrugs and says it was just puppy love, and what she felt for Nacho was ~real.
Guido, Tomas, and Pablo walk around and rant about the injustice of their punishment. Then Pilar rolls up and snaps that Augustina told her about the letter that she sent, and she wants to see it. Tomás is like, “Uh…sure! Let me go find it!”
Mia tells Feli about her plan to piss Manuel off, and how she told Francisco that she and Manuel just had a childish relationship. Then the music gets all sad, because Mia realizes that she and Manuel’s love was real, man, and “[her] life doesn’t exist without Manuel.” Okay, let’s not get crazy here, Mia. Your life was a lot less stalkery and violent before he showed up.
Over in Manuel’s room, he writes an emo letter to Mia about how much he loves her and how he totally didn’t mean to stick his dick in someone else. He tells Francisco that one day, when he gets Mia back, he’ll give the letter to her to show her that he never stopped being overdramatic about their relationship. Francisco sighs and says that Manuel should probably give up on that dream, because Mia slept with Nacho. Fucking Francisco!
So Manuel goes to Mia’s room and physically grabs her and throws her on the bed because he is actually psychotic. Goddammit, I should’ve known that this would be Francisco’s fault somehow.
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