Previously on Rebelde Way: Papa B is coming to school to deal with the protest! What will Pablo do! The answer is: nothing important, because they don’t interact at all in this episode, and nobody is in any danger at all.
So Papa B comes storming into the school to yell at Dunoff for his inability to control the ~rebeldes~. Dunoff’s all, “But, but, it’s not my fault!” and Papa B tells him to go deal with the rebeldía before Papa B decides to make him sleep with the fishes. In the meantime, he’s just gonna go chill in Dunoff’s office and not confront Pablo at all.
Oh, and Gloria’s back. She’s all chirpy but we otherwise don’t find out anything else about her relationship with Antonio, which is fine by me.
In the classroom, the kids are passing around food and wondering what to do. Javier points out what I did in the last episode, which is that they can just do their sit-in protest here, where they’re already locked in. Why do they keep making me agree with Javier? I feel dirty. All the kids fret that they’re going to get kicked out, and like, they’re willing to fight for their rights, but they’re not willing to fight that hard. Pablo surprisingly backs Javier up and says that they should keep protesting, and everyone else is like, “Oh, well, if you say so” because they’re a bunch of lemmings.
Francisco and Mia come back from the cafeteria to find Blas blocking the classroom door. He refuses to let them in and hustles them off all defeated. Dunoff comes up and tells Blas to open the door so he can talk to the kids. Blas instead suggests leaving them alone — eventually they’ll lose patience with the protest and start turning on each other, and then they can take advantage of the chaos. I hate Blas but honestly, this scenario seems likely. Dunoff is like, “Blas, have I ever told you how much I value your contributions to this school?” Dunoff, do you pay him to occasionally help you torture the kids and spend the rest of his time hitting on underage girls?
Fernanda steps out of nowhere and “congratulates” Mia on organizing this whole protest thing and then ditching them when it counts. Okay, but…Fernanda is also ditching the protest? I don’t understand.
Over at Sonia’s house, Lujan is being all emo about what she found in Ricardo Fara’s book. What could it be! Hilda comes in and says that she’s written up a complaint against Blas — it only took you like two years of working with him, damn — because she can’t let what he did to Lujan stand, even though he’s otherwise a wonderful person. WHAT? Hilda, have you even been awake for the last two years? Anyway, Lujan refuses to sign the complaint. Why? Why do we all like Blas all of a sudden?
Meanwhile, Marizza is at Martavio’s house, trying to put a fitted sheet on a mattress. HA! She’s all, “How do the plebes live like this!” Eventually Martavio has to step in to help her, and he’s like, “Are you telling me you’ve never made your own bed before?” and Marizza’s like, “No? Do most people not have maids to do that?” Martavio resolves to turn Marizza into less of a brat. Good luck with that, Martavio.
Then Martavio gets a call from Sonia, asking him to meet her at school. He’s like, “Fine, whatever, gotta go, Marizza was trying to make tea and somehow managed to turn the gas on and we’re all going to die.”
In Mia’s room, Sol is putting on Mia’s perfume and makeup to try and attract Blas. What is even the point of this? Is she trying to prove that she can steal Blas on her own or not? Whatever, I don’t care. Fernanda’s like, “This is bad idea,” but also doesn’t try that hard to stop her.
In the cafeteria, Mia and Francisco are talking when Manuel comes in. Mia immediately starts talking about how they have to do something about the protest, because they wouldn’t want to be TRAITORS OR COWARDS LIKE SOME PEOPLE, NOW WOULD THEY? Manuel just rolls his eyes and walks out, and Francisco’s like, “OMG, how could you say such things about Manuel? He is such a good person, he didn’t deserve that.” Get fucked, Francisco. Then Marizza comes in and wants to know what the hell is going on, and Francisco and Mia very dramatically tell her that everyone is stuck in the classroom. They sound so dejected. It’s not like anyone’s dead, you guys!
Sol comes up to hit on Blas some more. Dunoff HILARIOUSLY walks in on them and pulls Blas aside to give him a talk about spending too much time with the fourth-year students. “Or fifth year, or any year.” HEE! Even Dunoff knows what’s up. Blas smarms that his job is to spend time with students — both male and female — and Dunoff’s just like, “You know damn well what I meant.” Heh.
Dunoff goes in to talk to the kids, because I guess he changed his mind about letting them destroy each other? Or maybe he realized all ideas that originate from Blas are terrible and probably also illegal. Anyway, he blusters that he totally supports their right to protest, but maybe they could do it more politely. Some pertinent social commentary from this show! Unintended, I’m sure. The kids point out that they very politely wrote him a letter, which he ignored, so now they’re protesting. Dunoff says that he’ll talk to Carmen — the kids keep insisting that they want to be involved in the talk and they won’t move until they get their way, but then Dunoff threatens to bring Papa B in here, which shuts everyone up. Heh. As he leaves, he reminds them that it’s quite difficult to find a spot in another school this late in the year, should they be expelled.
Sonia shows up at school and tells Marizza that they need to talk. I thought she wanted to talk to Martavio? Whatever, I don’t care. Sonia says that it’s about Lujan, which gets Marizza — and Mia and Francisco’s — attention.
In the office, Carmen is having a meltdown over the protest, while Gloria half-heartedly fans her with a folder. Hee. Dunoff comes in to talk to her, and Gloria’s like, “Oh, btw, Papa B left, so all that drama was for nothing.” Except not really, because then Papa B calls anyway to yell at him and I don’t really know why this is necessary.
Outside, Sabrina comes to see Manuel. They walk into school together, where Mia and Francisco happen to be sitting in the main hall. Mia storms off, and Manuel and Sabrina are like “Whatever.” Manuel got the key to the art room off of one of the security guards, and he gives it to Francisco and tells him to go free their classmates. Francisco gushes some more about how Manuel is an amazing person and not at all a cheating douche.
In the classroom, all the kids are deflated by the possibility of getting kicked out. Pablo speechifies to them that they may get kicked out, but his dad is actually abusive and he’ll probably kick Pablo out, but Pablo’s not afraid! He’s staying put! Javier comes to stand by him and it’s really weird. I never know what’s going on with these two on any given day. He puts his arm around Pablo: “We have to be united.” “Exactly,” Pablo says, shrugging him off. HEE. The rest of the kids are like, “Oh, okay, if you say so” (again, some more).
Francisco and Mia come in bearing snacks, and then Dunoff comes in and says that Papa B wants to talk to Pablo. Pablo refuses to leave the room and all the kids cheer for him and I’m just gonna tell you that Papa B doesn’t show up at all for the rest of this episode so it doesn’t matter.
Marizza goes to see Lujan, who refuses to tell her why she won’t report Blas. Marizza makes it about herself, as usual, and goes off about how SHE left HER comfortable house with her new dad, and she came ALL THIS WAY because SONIA TOLD HER TO, and Lujan won’t even TELL MARIZZA ALL OF HER PERSONAL PROBLEMS? So selfish!
Sabrina tells Manuel that her family is moving to Europe and leaving her behind, the way families on this show always seem to do. Since Sabrina’s officially living on her own and has the house to herself, Manuel can come over and have sex with her anytime! She doesn’t say that in so many words, but whatever, it’s implied. (She actually ties his shoelace for him. Love yourself, Sabrina.) She goes on about how she feels like she has to stay here because of her responsibilities, and Manuel’s like, “OMG, you’re so beautiful and mature.” Not like his underage girlfriend who wasn’t ready to have sex! I hate him. Anyway, since her dad’s fucked off to Europe, that would make Sabrina the band’s new manager, assuming everyone is cool with that. Manuel’s like, “Well, uh, actually.”
Sonia goes to see Martavio at school — semi-weirdly, because wasn’t she the one that wanted to meet with him? Whatever — and tries to give him money for Marizza’s allowance. Martavio thinks Marizza should be cut off so she can learn to live like a commoner. He’s like, “She doesn’t know how to make her own bed!” and Sonia’s like, “Making beds is for plebes!” She frets that if Marizza’s deprived of her material comforts, she’ll come running back to Sonia, but Sonia wants Marizza to come back for her, not because she misses never having to do chores. Martavio convinces her to let Marizza stay with him and learn how to take care of herself.
Sol hits on Blas some more, and he’s like, “Oookay, let’s take this somewhere where Dunoff can’t catch me.” All the kids notice that he’s left his post outside the art room, and they decide to make a break for it. Javier announces that they’re going to take the classroom! The teachers will never be able to control them if they have key territory! This would be more convincing if that wasn’t already their classroom that they have to stay in all day. Anyway, the kids cheer for their new plan as “Crazy in Love” plays in the background. HEE!
Lujan finally breaks down and tells Marizza the whole sordid story that she found out from Ricardo Fara’s book: Ricardo Fara was some dude who was in trouble with the law for reasons that are not explained, because explaining them would get in the way of this BS plot. One day, he was out running from the police, as you do, and he ran into Baby Lujan, who was just chilling on the street, also as you do. Baby Lujan helped hide him from the police — not that it worked, but like, she tried. Fara never forgot her and promised to get his son to take care of her. One day, the son came to the orphanage looking for Lujan, and left her a ton of money. Lujan thinks that the son was Blas. See, this is why she can’t report him! He did one nice thing for her 10 years ago and that cancels out all his abusive and predatory behavior ever since! I swear to God. Marizza rightly is like, “Dude, Blas hates you, he’s only been shitting on you for 200 episodes,” but Lujan won’t listen to her.
Sol cries to Blas that Mia is just SO MEAN to her, and Blas is all, “Unpossible!” Sol wails to Blas that the other day, they all went to see Amarte duele together — “Have you heard of it, it’s a new movie!” OH MY GOD, AMARTE DUELE WAS ALREADY LIKE A YEAR OLD BY THE TIME THIS SEASON CAME OUT. I DON’T UNDERSTAND. Anyway, apparently Mia ditched her outside the theater and it was super humiliating. Blas is like, “So go see it another time?” and Sol’s like, “OMG, you’re so right, we should go on a date and see it together!” Blas doesn’t reject her, and he smiles in the CREEPIEST WAY EVER. Gross! So gross!
Over in the hallway, Dunoff is walking while all the kids go insane around him. He goes to yell at Blas for leaving his post — “I went to the bathroom,” Blas bleats, and Dunoff’s like, “YOU CANNOT GO TO THE BATHROOM!” Heh. I hate Blas but he could totally call OSHA about this. Anyway, Martavio shows up and Dunoff’s like, “Finally!” and Martavio gets all snippy that he doesn’t have classes today, ergo, he doesn’t HAVE to be here. Doesn’t he? All my high school teachers went to school even when they didn’t have class hours, since that’s when students could talk to them about making up work/needing extra help/running extracurriculars. LOL JK, I know the Elite Way teachers aren’t that involved. Anyway, Dunoff’s like, “Great, this is your problem now” and peaces out.
In the classroom, Pablo gets up and speechifies that they will fight on the BEACHES and on the COASTS and in the STREETS until people are aware of the grave injustices that take place at Elite Way! The hilarity is that there are some serious injustices happening there — like their continual employment of sexual abusers, the sheer amount of peer sexual harassment that goes unnoticed, the fact that none of the students are being adequately prepared for like, literally any kind of post-educational life — but no. Carmen is mean to pretty people. Viva la revolución!
They get ready to go marching out into the street, but Martavio stops them. He’s about to give them a speech about why being rebelde is good, but being rebelde in ways that make him have to do his job is bad — but then one of Rocco’s friends from the gay bar, Some Flamboyant Guy, runs up wailing that he’s so happy to find Rocco. He greets Rocco with a hug, and all the kids are like “OOOOOOH.” Vico watches uncomfortably. Rocco drags his friend off before everyone can keep mocking them, and Martavio rightfully calls the rest of the kids out for playing the victim and then turning around and bullying Rocco’s friend. Anyway, he promises to take care of the whole Carmen situation, but they have to stop protesting. Then he hustles Pablo and Javier into the classroom and tells them to wait for him.
Lujan says that she’s going back to school to get some answers out of Blas. Marizza helps her sneak back in and it’s boring. Why all this subterfuge? People waltz in and out of that school all the damn time. Worse comes to worse, they could always just knock one of the guards out and not get in trouble for it.
Rocco’s friend — Dani(?) — frets to him that his parents are going to kick him out for being gay. Michi overhears this and tells him that his parents should accept him for who he is. That’s, uh, nice and all, but not helpful in the least? Whatever. Vico comes in and tells Rocco that they have a class meeting; Rocco hugs Dani goodbye and freaks Vico out again, some more. Then Dunoff comes in and meets Dani and Michi quickly BSes that he’s here to inquire about enrollment. Dunoff’s like, “Ew, we don’t have any room in any class whatsoever because gay people are gross!” Dani peaces out, and Michi proceeds to totally rip Dunoff a new one and it’s amazing. She yells at him for being rude to Rocco’s friend and having a problem with gay people in the school but apparently not with a mob boss running the whole place. HA! Michi is dropping truths everywhere and Dunoff can’t handle it.
It turns out that Vico lied to Rocco about the class meeting to get him away from Dani. She’s all like, “If you don’t want people to think you’re weird, then stop hanging out with gay people!” Oh, Vico, no. Rocco snaps at her that hanging out with a gay guy doesn’t make him gay, and Vico is being a homophobic jerk right now. He storms off.
Blas is trying to comfort Carmen while she has a meltdown over the kids trying to get rid of her. Ha! He’s like, “There, there,” but then Martavio comes in and asks Carmen to grab coffee with him. Blas is like, “Oh thank God, feeling empathy for another human being is so difficult.” And here’s Lujan! She confronts him about giving her money when she was little and continuing to stalk her even today: is he doing it because his dad made him, or because maybe…deep down…he has a heart? And cares about her in a non-creepy way? Blas like, straight up laughs in her face and tells her that he hates her, and she SHOULD be dead but sadly isn’t, because she’s a trash person and she’s tacky and he hates her. Hilda comes in and shoos Blas out before he can like stab Lujan with a letter opener, and Lujan bawls in her arms. I mean…it’s sad and all, but also…it’s Blas. Lower your expectations, Lujan.
Martavio takes Carmen and the students to meet in the cafeteria, and he’s like, “Let’s all talk out our feelings until we feel better! Carmen, it really hurts the students’ feelings when you don’t let them get away with cheating on all their exams and skipping class. Guys, Carmen is still bitter about not being popular in high school, so go easy on her.” JK, Carmen refuses to talk to the students, and rants that she will NEVER listen to anything they have to say. Martavio’s like, “But, but, you’re being so mean!” Carmen snaps that they’re the ones who discriminate against people: they think they’re superior just because their parents are rich, and their rich people problems don’t interest her. I mean…she’s not wrong. Carmen is the ally in the class struggle we didn’t know we needed! All the kids are like, “She crazy,” and somehow that’s enough to change Martavio’s mind. He starts yelling at the kids for being entitled and rude, and like, true, but also…where did this come from? Then he sits down and gives a heartfelt speech about working together and how he’s sure they can work together for change. Martavio 2008: Yes We Can! Everyone kind of nods along, probably just to shut him up.
After that scene is FINALLY over, we cut to Lujan crying to Marizza over Blas yelling at her. Who knew that he was a terrible person! What a shocking turn of events! Blas approaches them and says that he can tell Lujan about her past: his father knew everything about Lujan, including who her parents were, and why they abandoned her. If Lujan follows him, he’ll tell her everything. Marizza bleats that they should wait for Hilda and runs off to fetch her, and Blas says that he’s leaving now, and Lujan can either follow him or not. The whole thing has a really weird kind of mystical soundtrack behind it. Is Blas going to Apparate them?
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