SNIPPET: ISABELLA IS NOW IN BIG TROUBLE!

Alex tells his mother about Lorenzo’s project and urges her not to agree with Silvia about it, but E.P. is overjoyed about it; they will make a lot of money from such an opportunity. Alex begs her to say no when Silvia phones to inform her about it, but she ignores him, full of enthusiasm.
The receptionist tells Mimi and Tony the competition has closed, but noticing the woman in charge is nearby, raps on the spot, and it impresses her very much (Frankly, I think Mimi sucks) and accepts their entry after all.
Lorenzo warns Isabella not to bother Silvia in any way. Isabella accuses him of threatening her. Silvia comes in and isn’t pleased to run into Evil Isabella again, but she insists she stayed to hear what she had to say. Lorenzo is pleased that she and the other entrepreneurs have agreed to the proposal. Isabella insincerely praises Silvia’s work and leaves them alone.

Silvia asked him why he was still working with that awful woman after everything she’d done to them. Lorenzo admits he had wanted to dissolve their partnership, but for now, he couldn’t because of the foreign clients she’d brought in, assuring Silvia he no longer trusted Isabella. Silvia said she’ll wait for him to call her about the contracts, and he thanks her. They regard each other longingly again, but Silvia leaves him sadly.

Tony’s video is played (Mimi’s ridiculous rap again, yuck!) to the co-coordinator, who is really impressed and promises to broadcast it on TV, offering an editing job to Tony, but Mimi reminds him he still has to watch the boutique.
Laura asks Lorenzo about the mortgage, but he tells her not to worry about it; she’s concerned that he hasn’t told her about it. He also tells her about the project and Silvia’s role.
Silvia assures E.P. they’ll make good money on the project, trying to take credit for Silvia’s talent. She informs the girls that the wedding will be held at the gym. The detective returns to the office with a warrant for Isabella’s arrest, but Erica tells him she’s out.
Lorenzo is told by Erica about the cop’s visit, and he was on his way to her hotel to arrest her. Laura is pleased! After Lorenzo leaves, Laura phones a journalist and gives her Isabella’s address.
Mimi and Tony find Conan and Lysette in a cuddling mood and give them their good news. Orlando is pleased to see a sulky Nattie who comes to pick up the contracts for Silvia. Hercules enters Silvia’s office, half deciding to tell her his secret. Nattie turns down Orlando’s offer of lunch, wanting to keep it professional, but Orlando gets too personal, and she gets very cross and wants to leave, but he insincerely apologises and promises to behave.
The detective gets to Isabella with the warrant, but she demands to know what proof he had against her. He replied, her fingerprints have been found all over Laura’s medicine bottle. She insisted she was a close friend of the family who visited often, and her fingerprints would be all over the place. The detective, however, added that her prints were found inside the bottle as well. Isabella ordered him to leave; he didn’t have conclusive evidence since he hadn’t taken her fingerprints. But the detective informs her that the police did have her prints on record; they were recorded on the day she was arrested for prostitution some years back.

An extremely stupid look(like the one she wore when Lorenzo confronted her about the doctored photos) came on Isabella’s face…

SNIPPET: HERCULES' SECRET

Silvia is shocked at Lorenzo’s news but he reminded her it was what she had wanted. She painfully agreed, congratulated him and listened to his proposal about her and other small clothing factories she knew in the area subcontracting the order he’d been given, he didn’t have enough labour and she would be well paid. Silvia liked the sound of it, especially as she would be co-coordinating the whole operation.
After a lot of pressure, Hercules finally admitted that the letter had been written and sent by Silvia’s father. He had known him because he’d been the one who introduced him to Silvia’s momsie in the first place. He had denied it because he wanted to protect Silvia from her father; the man had fled Mexico because he had been involved in illicit dealings and went to live in Venezuela and dealt in precious stones. He had no idea what he was doing with his own now. Nattie and Conan asked why he had lied, and he told them that on her death bed, Mechita had made him swear an oath he’ll always look after Silvia and must never tell her about her father, not ever. But Nattie doesn’t agree, Silvia is unhappy because she doesn’t know who her father is, his name or how he even looks like. But Hercules insists it was better if Silvia remained ignorant of the whole thing and was determined to keep his promise to Mechita.
Gloria gives Orlando the documents sent by the bank, he remarks Laura won’t be pleased to hear the house is to be mortgaged before asking her why she had asked him that strange question the other day- Gloria told him about the cop that came to see Isabella.
Silvia told Lorenzo she’ll have to talk to E.P and consult other people in the area, to see if they would be willing to take on the project; Lorenzo asked her to give him feedback as soon as possible. Silvia looks uncomfortable when he talks over the phone with Laura, wanted to know if he’ll be home for lunch. As he’s reluctantly about to take his leave, he obviously wants to kiss her but she sits down, preventing him.
Nattie doesn’t agree about keeping such an important secret from Silvia but Conan insists it was their duty to keep their promise they’d made to their father. Alex comes up wanting to know what they were talking about, but was coldly told to mind his own business.
Mimi persuades Tony to submit his video clip to the competition she’d heard about on the radio. Gloria gives the bank documents to Laura to sign, which surprises her as Lorenzo never said a word about it.
Nattie is told by Silvia about Lorenzo’s reconciliation with Laura. Silvia notices her cousin didn’t seem surprised by the news, She admitted Orlando had told her. Silvia admits it hurt and shocked her; she now regretted she had made Lorenzo go back to Laura. Changing the subject, she also told Nattie about the business proposal, which Alex overhears but feels E.P wouldn’t go for it and tries to discourage her.(he doesn’t her and Lorenzo make eyes at each other again!)
Isabella is furious to hear from Lorenzo that he’d chosen Silvia to do the job. She immediately starts bad mouthing her but Lorenzo defends his ex-girlfriend and angrily orders her to keep her opinions to herself, what he says goes and he was still CEO of the company. Isabella insolently assumes Silvia must have been so happy but when he tells her Silvia is thinking about it, says the ‘little vixen’ was playing hard to get. Lorenzo tells her to leave his office.
Laura talks to her doctor and calls the inspector to tell him she had a vital contribution to make in the case.
Silvia has good news; the other entrepreneurs are enthusiastic about the project. But she asked Nattie to be the go-between as it’s hard for her to be around Lorenzo. Nattie reluctantly agrees as she doesn’t want to cope with Orlando and Horse-face Gloria again.

SNIPPET: ANOTHER SHOCK FOR POOR SILVIA!

Silvia tells her uncle that she’d overheard something Conan and Nattie had said relating to him and her father, but Hercules insist he knew nothing about him, her mother never liked talking about him, her cousins were taking rubbish. Silvia is horrified to see it was E.P’s picture he was hanging up. Laura thanked horsy Gloria for her help that fateful day and ask if the police arrested Isabella. When Gloria says no in a surprised tone, Laura pretended she was joking. Mimi told Conan that she’d made up with Tony, but does not know she’s happy, she only knew she owed it to their baby to give him a second chance. Lorenzo asks Isabella why a policeman came to the office, she lies it was about Giacormo’s case which has reopened. She gives him the fax containing the agreement between them and Estephano. E.P models the restored dress for Alex, still planning on exercising and going on a diet (a daft idea to wear the dress she’d worn when she married Alex and Mimi’s father for her second wedding). She’s annoyed Silvia treats the workers ‘too nicely’. Tony visits Laura, with a message from Giacormo and asks her to come back to the boutique when she’s better, as he feels he could do better without Conan. Lorenzo decides to ask Silvia for her help, but Orlando doesn’t feel it’s a good idea since she doesn’t know he and Laura were back together. Orlando is annoyed when Gloria still hesitates to give him Estephano’s web address; she surprises him with a sudden question, did he think Isabella was capable of killing anyone?
Nattie is furious to see E.P’s framed photo on the living room wall, Conan is merely amused. Nattie wishes she could save their father from that woman, but Conan reminds her that you don’t choose who you fall in love with, did she choose Orlando? Changing the subject, he tells her about Mimi and tony; they’ve both matured although he still didn’t like Tony.
Hercules ask his kids why they put ideas in Silvia’s head, they had actually told her he knew her father after he’d already told her a long time ago that he did not. Nattie however said Silvia had heard part of a conversation between her and Conan but they had cleared it up; in turn she reminded him about a letter she’d found in his drawers when she was a little girl. He had told her them it had been a letter from Mexico from a friend who was in love with his sister, Silvia’s mother, Mechita. That man was Silvia’s father. Hercules was silent, he couldn’t deny it.
Laura assures Tony that once she’s cleared by her doctor, she’ll help him and Conan at the boutique (more like harass Conan since she never liked him); much to his relief since he doesn’t know much about the business and he and Conan don’t really get along. Laura also asked about Mimi and her pregnancy, sending her regards.
Silvia receives a surprise visitor, Lorenzo and is about to tell him again she can’t continue their affair. But he assures her it wasn’t like that, he only came about a business proposition and to tell her, before she heard it from anyone else, that he and Laura had reconciled. Silvia’s face is stunned (you asked for it, you silly girl).

SNIPPET: MISMATCHED COUPLES

The police handling Laura’s case pays a visit to Isabella; telling her of what she’s accused of and asks her to come to the station to have her fingerprints taken. But she insists she’s an old friend of the family who visits the house often, there was no evidence against her, and she was a respectable businessman who has never had a problem with the law. The detective promises to return with a warrant since she refuses to have her prints taken. After he leaves, she drops the jaunty attitude and looks worried. Horsy Gloria asks her who it was, but Isabella told her to forget about it. Alex gives his mum’s wedding dress to Nattie, asking her to repair it, since she had torn it after forcing herself into it. Nattie is still disgusted at the idea of E.P marrying Hercules but Alex doesn’t seem to mind the idea. Nattie is shocked to find out from him that Lorenzo and Laura were back together again, forbidding him to tell Silvia after he said it was the best thing for her as she’ll finally forget Lorenzo and go back to him. Lorenzo urges Laura to eat; Laura asks him if he was still in love with Silvia and whether they’d broken up at her bedside, as she didn’t want anything to interfere with their ‘happiness’. Lorenzo informs her they’d broken up a long time ago. Laura wants to organize a reunion party but Lorenzo is not enthusiastic about it and leaves the room again, to her frustration. Gloria warns Isabella that the only thing she’ll never support her with is committing murder, but Isabella arrogantly tells her she was not a murderer, that the detective was merely someone sent by Laura to harass her. Mimi visits Tony at the boutique; she’d been doing some thinking and decided to give him another chance, which he’s happy about it. They hug but Mimi’s face has an expression of doubt.
Silvia asks Hercules if he really didn’t know anything about her popsie, making him hit his finger with the hammer he was using. Nattie meets with Orlando to confirm what Alex had told her; refusing to stay and have lunch with him when he asks her. When she leaves, he’s full of confidence she’ll come back to him, since she preferred to ask him in person
(Can gays get therapy to enable them sleep with women instead?)

Actor and comedian Bernie Mac dies at age 50

Islam and Christianity preaches that no matter who we are in this world, death is a certainity. But it truly came as a shock to me to hear of Bernie Mac's death, such a funny and talented man! Hollywood is still mourning Heath Ledger who was just 28 when he died months ago, now this. We just have to hope there won't be another mourning any time soon, Morgan Freeman was in a ghastly motor accident in Mississipi last week, we all have to pray for him to pull through. As for Mr. Bernie Mac,May Allah rest his soul and comfort those he left behind. Amen.

R.I.P Bernie...