Salinas arrives in London.
Carlos Fontalvo calls Avellaneda with the good news that Marcia is in town. However, Marcia lies to her dad and says she left the diskettes.. but when he leaves her apt, she pulls them out of her purse smiling, seems she will be playing some games with them.
Carmenza, in London, is cooking all kinds of stuff for Mr. Thomas. and she is somehow communicating with him. this is pretty funny how she tries to get herself understood and all she can talk about is colombian food... but he has had enough food...
she gives him some aguardiente to help down the 'chicharrones'. MrT: 'this is strong stuff! my head is going round and round!...'
Gaviota arrives at the apt with Salinas, Salinas is happy to be eating homemade stuff after so long...
Carmenza asks Gav in private what Salinas is doing there... yeah right! she won't bite the story of he's there for work and work alone... he is there for her...
At Ivan's office, Bernardo and Manuel are very worried. Ivan fakes not knowing better and tells Manuel he is paranoic. Bernardo admits he is also. Lawyer keeps lying saying they just want to clarify some points. Bernardo is not so easy to convince.
Lucrecia calls Ivan, seems she is spying on him all day since Lucia told her what she told her. IVan yells at her if he is not home in half an hour then she can yell. Bernardo stays behind and talks to Ivan in private, is worried that this lawyer is not good. Let's get another lawyer! Ivan says just take it easy.
On his way out Ivan gets a call from Marcia. (guess he will be late arriving home again lol) Marcia summons Ivan to her apt.
Marcia summons Ivan for the next day at 7pm. Ivan wants to do it earlier, but Marcia catches the clue and mocks him that he has a curfew with his wife. Oh by the way, she is recording all her calls with Ivan. Bernardo, who was standing by Ivan during the call, is very worried about the diskettes.
Salinas who stayed for dinner at Gav's apt, sits down with Carm and Gav for drinks, he explains the whole subject of the coffee 'pact/agreement' to Carmenza who was tired of Gaviota coming home to tell her about it but she did not understand any of it.
the maintenance of the 'pact' is beneficial for the producers since it stabilizes the price of coffee and the value of their crops, and breaking the 'pact' is beneficial to consumers like the US, who want the price of coffee to come down and to be able to negotiate with individual countries for price levels.
Ivan builds a huge argument when he gets home, i believe intentionally, to try and convince her to lift the curfew of 7pm so he can go to Marcia's tomorrow night without a big argument with Lucrecia about it. He is successful in making her feel guilty and lift it.
Gaviota basically has to beg the secretary of the american rep in London. She gets angry after hanging up and the colombian rep is surprised and tells her things are handled differently in London. The rep casually tells her that CE has stopped all export of coffee and the Vallejos are avoiding public appearances and contacts, but does not know why. Gaviota asks Salinas, he does not know, but suggests to ask Avellaneda. If anything is happening at CE, surely Avel knows what it is. She is puzzled/concerned.
(ahem!!! ... in a commercial, in what seems to be a talk show Margarita Rosa announces that out of all the partners she has worked with the one that kisses best is 'sebastian', a.k.a. Guy Ecker).
At the courthouse, as expected, Manuel arrives with his own lawyer. Bernardo is also there but they won't let him come in now.
Ivan is at the office, his lawyer comes to let him know that his suit against Sebastian has already been placed... but don't expect to get anything of value out of it. IVan says what he is looking with it is to clear up his image with the american banks...
Lawyer warns him that the family won't like it.
Latorre comes to Cecilia's. asks where Cecilia is and Marcela tells him she is in bed. (nope) Latorre tells Marcela that Ivan has sued Sebastian for a whole lot of nonesenses. (Cecilia is listening behind the wall).
Marc: Pero porque?
JL: ' primero mantener su imagen de inocencia. Porque si fuera realmente inocente, hubiera demandado a Seb porque si no su facilidad hubiera sido sospechosa. Y segundo, apropiarse de la hacienda. EL sabe que la banca americana tarde o temprano va a pedir indemnizacion a CE. Y como va a pagar, Marcela? Como va a responder? Con la hacienda!!
Mar: Pero es que eso YO no se lo voy a permitir!! Mejor dicho, yo me voy a CE!! A ese tipo le gusta que le peguen y eso es lo que yo voy a hacer!!
Cecilia has heard enough, comes out, scaring both Marcela and Latorre.
Cec: Usted no va a ninguna parte, Marcela. Quien va a CE soy yo.
Marc; Abuela, Tu no estas en condiciones.
Cec: Como que no estoy en condiciones? Este es un asunto entre Ivan y yo. Ivan esta en la oficina? (JL Says he thinks so)
She wants to go to Ivan's office asap, needs to talk to him personally right now.
At the courthouse, the D.A. tells Manuel about all the evidence and witnesses that are against him. At all this evidence, he will have to respond for it. Manuel asks if that means he is going to jail. D.A. says the length of time depends on whether he is willing to facilitate to the court who else participated in the felony. However, Manuel does not admit/declare that Seb asked him to falsify the documents. He had no contact with Seb.
(end of ep 148)
Posted on Jan 3, 2005, 9:58 AM from IP address 198.232.250.51