Previously on Rebelde Way: Marizza’s on her way to a second location with Javier, when Pablo calls and tells her that Javier lied about his parents pulling him out of Elite Way. Marizza’s all, “OMG…if Javier said his parents were making him go to a different school…but they aren’t…then…does this mean Javier LIED?” Yes, yes it does, Marizza. Come on, I’m losing years off of my life here.
Marizza accuses Javier of lying to her while Pablo listens on the other end. She’s all, “How very dare!” and storms off. Pablo hangs up and cackles to Tomás that Marizza and Javier are DEFINITELY over now. Tomás is like, “Are you sure? ‘Cause that was way too easy.” Pablo’s like, “Stop saying words.”
Before you get your hopes up like I did, I’ll just spoil it and say that Tomás is right, and Marizza forgives Javier in like five minutes. You’re killing me, Marizza.
Meanwhile, Vico and Rocco are at the club. Vico goes on stage, and of course the entire crowd loves her. In fairness: Victoria Maurette can actually sing. The crowd is so crazy for her that eventually Rocco gets up there with her and they do a whole set, and everyone just rolls with it. Rocco tries to demand more money from the promoter for their good reception, and the guy’s like, “I’m not paying two teenagers more than I have to.” Rocco hustles Vico out, announcing that they’ll be taking their talents elsewhere.
Mia and Lucas make it inside the theater, but Mia is all cut up over seeing Manuel and Sabrina together. No, Mia! They’re doing you a favor! She tells Lucas that she can’t keep seeing him, and Lucas says that they can still see the movie together as friends. He promises that he won’t make her do anything she doesn’t want to do. Ah, the bar is low, but Lucas is managing to step over it. Take notes, Manuel. Lucas and Mia watch Amarte duele — which, for those of you who never had to watch it in Spanish class, is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in Mexico, between a rich girl and a poor boy. That shit hits Mia where she lives, and she starts bawling in the theater. Lucas cuts their date short and takes her back to school.
Wait, wrong show. This is Mia:
Weirdly, they show a bunch of scenes from Amarte duele in the show. Is…is this legal?
(Hilariously, the guy that plays Manuel in Rebelde was also in Amarte duele. Don’t think too hard about how that would work.)
Back at school, Pablo’s phone rings. He jumps for it, thinking it’s Marizza. It’s just Guido, though. Pablo doesn’t hang up on him, even though I would. Pablo wants to know where Guido is, and Guido’s like, “Oh yeah, I ran off on a hunting trip with my ex-girlfriend’s dad who has some serious violence issues. Don’t wait up!” Pablo and Tomás are like, “Whatever.” To be fair, that is also my reaction whenever we get a hint that Guido is in danger.
Marizza has also come back to school, and she cries on Lujan’s shoulder that boys are always lying to her. Why does she seem to always attract lying douchebags? Is it her? Aw, Marizza, don’t feel bad. All the boys on this show are lying douchebags, except for Rocco and Pablo on a good day. The odds are against you here. Lujan suggests that Marizza is so upset over Javier because she has feelings for him, and Marizza denies it — nevertheless, she really thought that they had something good. “Maybe it’s because of the hole in his head, but he’s really just…an amazing person,” Marizza sighs. WHAT? It’s so hard to like you sometimes, Marizza. She wibbles that Javier has done so many amazing things for her. Because he wants to get into your pants, girl!!! Lujan’s like, “But then why would he lie to you?” Because he wants to get into your pants, girl!!! (x2)
Pilar tells Tomás that her mom is staying in Buenos Aires, although her parents are still separating. He’s adorably excited for her, and they make out and run off to class together. Sol and Fernanda pop out from behind the staircase and express disgust at how cute Pilar and Tomás are together. Rude! I refuse to listen to this slander about my OTP! Sol says that she has another idea to break them up.
Manuel and Sabrina are still sitting around at his job. Jesus, Sabrina, go home. After his shift ends, she invites him back to her place so that she can keep stroking his ego (among other things). Manuel accepts.
Javier puts on a trench coat and blonde wig to sneak into Marizza’s room at night. Not weird at all! I swear to God, this is like how they had a record of the Golden State Killer buying a bunch of rope and duct tape and dog repellant and the police were all like, “Herp derp who could this serial killer who ties up his victims and gets past their dogs be?” WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR MARIZZA TO REALIZE JAVIER IS CREEPY? Lujan tries to beat him up — God love her — and Marizza’s like, “No, you’ll hit him on the hole in his head!” Marizza, are you still — oh my God, whatever. All the girls except Lujan run out, leaving Lujan alone with Javier. Javier bleats that he just wanted to talk to Marizza, and Lujan hears him out, even though she shouldn’t. Hit him again, Lujan!
Rocco walks Vico home, and compliments her again her performance. Vico says she should sleep at her house so she can make breakfast for her dad in the morning, and they have a sweet but kind of emotionally tense goodbye.
Feli is gushing to her stuffed alligator about how well her date with Francisco went and how in love with him she is. Oh, Feli, no. Mia comes back and Feli’s all like, “Didn’t you love Amarte duele? Wasn’t it romantic? Isn’t it the best movie of the year?” Why are they plugging this movie so hard? It was already a year old by the time the second season of Rebelde Way was on anyway. I’m confused. Anyway, Mia sniffles that it reminded her too much of her and Manuel. The protagonists of Amarte duele fought for their love, and she didn’t fight for Manuel! Okay, but the guy in Amarte duele didn’t spend the whole movie pressuring the girl into having sex and then cheating on her when she wouldn’t put out. Mia’s like, “Maybe if I had fought for us, we would’ve been more like the Amarte duele characters!” Feli’s like, “You didn’t stay till the end of the movie, huh?” Hee.
Lujan finds Marizza sitting outside being emo, and tells her that she should talk to Javier. No, Lujan!
The next day, Dunoff comes into the cafeteria all emo over his impending divorce. He’s slept in his clothes, which Michi immediately takes notice of, and Dunoff starts whining that he’ll never get used to being separated — there’s no one to make him coffee or to iron his shirt! Ew, fuck off, Dunoff. Your grown ass should be able to make coffee yourself. Michi sadly does not tell him as much, and instead offers to iron his shirt for him. This of course involves Dunoff having to take off his shirt right there in the cafeteria. I see no way that this could go hilariously wrong!
In Pablo’s room, the boys wake up to Rocco loudly playing his guitar. Oh, Rocco, no. I like you, but please respect the roommate code. He tells Pablo that he wants to renegotiate the rent of his camera, and annoys Pablo into just giving it back to him.
Marizza gives in and agrees to hear Javier out. Ugh. He BSes to her that he lied to help HER, since she was so upset over her parents, and he thought running away together would help. Marizza falls for this. Javier tells her that she’s the only person he cares about here, and they have a hearty chuckle together. I hate everything about this. When girls start disappearing from Elite Way, they are 100% going to find them in a crawl space under Javier’s house, mark my words.
Weirdly, Rocco seems to have wanted to his camera back to…sit in the hallway and make an emo video about how everyone treats him badly? I have no idea. Anyway, he angles the camera just so, and he sees inside the cafeteria windows. Naturally, he sees Dunoff with his shirt off, and Michi messing around trying to put it back on him after she’s ironed it. Being Dunoff and Michi, it looks hilariously inappropriate, and Rocco’s like, “No way!!!” Kind of whatever, though? I mean, Dunoff’s not with his wife anymore.
Lujan and Marizza walk down the hallway, discussing Marcos’s plan to break into Blas’s house. Lujan muses that the problem is finding a time when he definitely won’t be here. But what a coincidence! Marcos just found out that Blas has a faculty meeting today, and he definitely won’t be at home! He can’t wait to go break into his house with Lujan! Lujan, who you’ll recall overheard Laura saying that Marcos thinks she’s pitiful, snaps that she changed her mind. “I don’t understand,” Marcos says. “You never understood me, so what’s new?” Lujan snipes. Burn! Marcos stalks off all mad.
Pablo comes to gloat at Javier that Marizza must really hate him now that she’s found out about his lies. Javier’s like, “Aha, you forget that Marizza is a terrible judge of character, and she has fallen for a totally new round of my lies!” He’s brought her a gift, and Pablo’s like, “Marizza will never accept that!” Except then Marizza shows up, and she doesn’t hate Javier, and she totally accepts his gift. (It looks like a bunch of burned CDs? 2003, man.) Pablo tries to throw Javier up against the lockers, but Marizza leaps to Javier’s defense, again, some more. They all start fighting, and then Blas comes to break it up. While he’s busy with Pablo and Javier, Marizza steals his keys.
Feli continues her bizarre promotion of Amarte duele, and she tells Pilar that she had an amazing date with Francisco. Pilar’s like, “The…same Francisco who disrespects women at any chance he gets? That Francisco?” You know, I just remembered that we already did this whole “Feli is hopelessly in love with Francisco” thing way back at the start of the season. Show, at least give her another rando to lust after. She hasn’t had a futile crush on Diego yet, has she? Anyway, Feli’s all feeling herself after one (1) date with Francisco, and it weirds Pilar out. They go to class, and there’s a note on Sol’s desk. Belen’s all, “OMG, Pilar, look at this heart-shaped note left for Sol! And it’s signed by Tomás! What could this mean!” Sol comes in and loudly announces that the card is SO CUTE, but it’s SO SAD that Pilar doesn’t know that her boyfriend is sending cards to other girls. “What’s sad is that you have to pretend that my boyfriend is hitting on you,” Pilar snipes. HEE! While they’re arguing, though, Fernanda sneaks over and puts something in Tomás’s pencil case.
Marizza gives Lujan Blas’s keys, and Lujan once again says that she’s not going. Marizza’s like, “Oh, I thought you were just saying that to spite Marcos.” She offers to go with Lujan instead, like Lujan could ever think that Marizza was going to pass on a chance to get up in someone else’s business.
Lola and Pablo are reunited, and Lola is all over him in joy that he’s come back from the clinic. Real talk, I totally forgot they’re meant to be dating at this point. Anyway, Pablo tells Lola that he has good news and bad news for her — and he has to tell her the good news first, except he can’t, because it involves some papers that he forgot. He calls Consuelo to bring them to him.
Rocco shows all the boys the video of Dunoff and Michi, and there’s much laughter and mocking. Then Feli rocks up to sit with them, and it is SO AWKWARD. She thinks she’s welcome because she and Francisco are a ~thing~, and she announces to everyone that she and Francisco went out the other night. All the boys needle Francisco while he tries to distance himself from her, and all of this goes right over Feli’s head. It’s really painful to watch. Michi seems to think so too, because she watches the whole thing with a face like “Yikes.” Michi knows what’s up.
Even Mia thinks that Francisco’s sudden thing with Feli is weird, because she goes looking for him during class time. Marcos tells her that Francisco is in his room, but he’s not there. Instead, Mia finds Diego, who’s like, “IDK where Francisco is, I just live here, man.” I’m starting to come around on Diego, you guys. He so clearly doesn’t give a shit about any of his classmates and it’s kind of beautiful. Mia looks around the room and remarks that Manuel’s bed is made. Diego tells her that Manuel didn’t sleep here last night, that’s why. Yikes. Just then, Manuel comes in, and he’s all, “Yeah, I spent the night at Sabrina’s, WHAT ABOUT IT.” He’s being a total dick and Mia shouldn’t give him the satisfaction of getting upset, but she’s all heartbroken anyway.
In the bathroom, Pablo rants to Tomás about what a buttface Javier is. Tomás is like, “Well, dude, you could’ve gotten him kicked out of school, but you didn’t, so this is kind of your own fault.” Heh.
At Vico’s house, some scary mafia dude comes by to talk to her dad. Vico says that he’s not in, and the mafia dude flashes a gun and tells Vico to pass on a message: her dad owes the Argentinian mafia hella money, and if he doesn’t pay up, he’ll be sleeping with the fishes.
Consuelo comes by to drop off an envelope for Pablo. Marizza cons her into handing the envelope over to her — she promises to deliver to Pablo, which, LOL as if — and makes off with it.
Carmen walks in on Tomás and Pilar making out in class. She’s all, “What’s going on here?” and Tomás bleats, “It’s love, professor!” HEE! God, I love Tomás and Pilar together. I can’t help myself. Sol sasses Carmen that she only ever yells at the pretty people in class, so Carmen give Sol and Tomás a project to work on together as punishment. Sol is all pleased that she and Tomás are going to work together. TV and books taught me that love always blooms out of the romantic setting of high school homework! Anyway, Sol and Tomás leave, and Fernanda tricks Pilar into opening Tomás’s pencil case. She finds whatever Fernanda planted in there earlier, and she’s all disturbed. Don’t fall for it, Pilar! They are jealous of you and Tomás’s mega-adorableness!
Antonio comes by to see Gloria again while Martavio is there. In an effort to make Gloria look like less of a lonely spinster, Martavio lies to Antonio that Gloria totally has a kid, too. Yes, she has known the touch of a man and has had her eggs fertilized by one within the last twenty years. And here’s Gloria’s daughter now! Feli walks in and is like, “Gloria, my mom’s gonna come tomorrow to sign a thing.” Antonio’s like, “She just said you were HER daughter.” “Uh…more or less,” Feli says, and then she scrams. Hee. Antonio realizes that Gloria lied to him and storms out. Is this the fasted that Gloria’s ever killed a man’s interest in her? This might be the fastest it’s ever happened.
Back in class, Mia’s all emo over Manuel and Sabrina. She doesn’t even pretend to be paying attention to Carmen. Feli picks up on her mood and asks if she and Mia can leave class, and Carmen’s like, “No, but you can leave because you’re annoying me.” Feli runs out all humiliated, and Manuel and Mia stare angstily at each other across the room. Ugh. Show, you’re killing me.
Michi comes across Feli being all sad, and picks this moment to tell her that Francisco is a fuckboy. I mean, I guess Feli’s always kind of a sadsack, so there’s no better time to do it. Michi tries to subtly point out that Francisco isn’t into Feli, like at all, and she should probably stop letting him dick her around. Feli of course doesn’t want to hear this, and she storms off in a huff. Aw. Michi, I love you for trying!
Marizza tells Laura that the envelope for Pablo has Laura’s name on it. She is literally motioning at a blank envelope as she says this, so I don’t know if this means that she looked inside or if the show is asking us to use our imagination to compensate for their laziness. Anyway, they open the envelope and see that Pablo has gotten Lola’s adoption papers for her (presumably not realizing what they are). That’s…actually kind of sweet, in a bizarre way. Naturally, Laura freaks out that they have to hide this from Lola.
Marizza slides the envelope under her desk, which Pablo notices within 2 seconds of walking into the room. Heh. He demands it back, and Marizza’s like, “Never!” He chases her around the classroom for a bit and ends up knocking her onto Carmen’s desk. Naturally x2, Javier comes in at that moment and thinks he has to rescue his lady love from Pablo. He tries to fight Pablo, and Pablo kind of taps him on the head, and Javier falls over pretending to have gotten hit in his head hole (how big is that thing meant to be, anyway?!), which distracts Marizza long enough for Pablo to grab the envelope from her. That’s what she gets for helping Javier.
Vico tells Rocco about her dad owing money to some super shady guys with guns. Rocco promises to help her, but Vico say that maybe it would be best if she just…let things play out. Rocco realizes that Vico’s considering letting her dad get murdered, and he’s all shocked and appalled. Whatever, Rocco. You were the one that kept telling her to fix her situation. You can’t have it both ways!
Pablo hands Lola the envelope, and he’s like, “This is the good news.” The bad news is that he’s dumping her. He tries to break it to her nicely, and does the whole, “It’s not you, it’s me, you’re a great girl” thing. Lola cries and begs him not to break up with her, but Pablo stands his ground and is pretty decent about it. Honestly, I lowkey kind of liked Pablo and Lola together. I mean, she was really embarrassing and thirsty for his approval, but he was usually pretty mature with her and mindful of her feelings, which is a rarity on this show. RIP Pablo and Lola! As far as romantic false leads go, you guys were actually kind of cute!
Martavio and Sonia finally manage to corner Marizza. They tell her that they have to talk, and Sonia announces that she’s willing to give Martavio custody of Marizza, if Marizza wants it. Marizza’s all like, “Wait, I wanted you to do what I said, but not like THIS.”
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