The Grape vine is active!

As soon as they leave, Isabella calls the doctor and threatens to ruin him if he told tales to Laura about their ‘agreement’. E.P cannot understand why Hercules was friends with a person like Jose. Hercules admits Jose was a good man deep down but the trouble with him that he was too adventurous and is glad Silvia will never meet him or find out. E.P is more than anxious to reveal the secret to Silvia and the whole neighbourhood; accusing him of not trusting her by telling her about it earlier on. Gloria exchange pleasantries with Laura who invites her to have lunch with her and Lorenzo. Titus gloats to his friends over who he’d tricked Tony into making that video for him. Tony shows up and in spite of Mimi’s restraint, they fight. Silvia asks Conan if it was true her father was around and stops him from attacking Alex who shows her the jacket and hat Jose had left behind. They go out to look for him and Conan phones Nattie to tell how the idiot Alex had told their cousin everything. Lorenzo is not in the best of moods at the restaurant, though Laura acts so lovingly with him. Gloria is visibly furious when Lorenzo tells them Orlando and Nattie were back together. Mimi calls the lady in charge of the competition to let her know about Titus’ cheating but as they hadn’t signed a contract with him, there was nothing they could do. Alex and Silvia get to the bus station but Jose is not there. She humbly apologises to him for her suspicions but he insists he only did it because he loved her. Jose is with Isabella, he wants to know more about Laura and why they hated each other. Of course she begins to tell him in detail. Lorenzo is told by Nattie that Silvia was his sister-in-law; Laura’s half sister! He’s astonished and very shocked- unable to believe it’s true but Nattie insists it’s true and she would be devastated if she found out. She asks him to keep Jose away from Silvia if he saw him again. Hercules is furious to hear what Alex had done, guessing Silvia was angry with him. Jose now realises Laura is a monster, wondering how he could have a daughter like her. But at least, Alex had assured him his other child Silvia was an angel. Isabella looked surprised, ‘Silvia?’
He showed her the photo Alex had given him, adding that she had no idea who he was and he was going to leave it that way. He takes his leave and Isabella gleefully goes over this very juicy information. Gloria sees Nattie taking to the secretary and sarcastically asks if she was marking her territory and reminds her of their agreement after they had exposed Orlando as a liar, accusing her of being a loose woman with no dignity. In turn, Nattie says she’s sick with jealousy. Isabella phones Laura to tell her she had heard she has a sister and very close to her. Laura isn’t exactly bothered. Silvia is unhappy they still haven’t found Jose, but suddenly they see him a few yards away. Alex hurries to him, but he’s not in a right frame of mind. Silvia calls out to him, ‘Dad?’
Turning round, Jose finally sees his other daughter...

A VERY OBSTINATE ALEX

Hercules tries to deny it, but Jose dares him to look him in the eye and lie again. Reluctantly he confirms it and agrees to have a serious discussion on the matter. He asks Juanito to call Conan and Nattie. Meanwhile, Orlando insists he loved Nattie and wants her back, but she tells him she’s scared, he had made her suffer in the past and doesn’t want to go through all that again. The phone rings and Nattie is told over the phone to go to the gym along with Conan. Silvia comes in as she hangs up, and is told they were only going out for a while. Laura assures the doctor she was still taking her medication and won’t give Isabella the chance to change her pills again. Isabella asks Lorenzo about Jose, asking if he fell for Laura’s role of the hysterical, worried daughter. Alex vows to deal with José if he loses Silvia. He runs into Conan, who tries to explain why he mustn’t tell Silvia anything but the phone rings and reluctantly, Conan has to go to the gym.
Hercules explains to Jose that Mechita had been so resentful when he’d left her that she had told Hercules never to tell Silvia about her father at all as well as not giving her his surname. E.P enters and is introduced, she remembers seeing him in the paper, recognising him as Laura’s father and is very shocked when her husband tells her he’s Silvia’s father as well- Laura and Silvia were half sisters! Naturally she wants to go out and tell everyone but Hercules restrains her with difficulty, telling her it would destroy Silvia if she ever found out. Jose asks him why he said that and E.P tells him his daughters hated each other as they were in love with the same man. Nattie enters and angrily interrupts her before she could say more. Hercules introduces Nattie to Jose, who is very pleased to meet her but she’s cold towards him. Tony and Mimi are at the boutique when he receives a disturbing call; Titus had presented the video Tony had made for him for the video competition! Lorenzo asks Orlando to let Isabella or him to talk to Estephano next time. Orlando in turn tells him he was back with Nattie for good, but Lorenzo is sceptical- he felt it was simply a ploy to make Horsy Gloria jealous. Nattie explains to Jose that her cousin was a sensitive, delicate girl, who had idolised Hercules for most of her life,  a hero and a very honest man- for her to find out he was her father, she’ll be very upset, they had to protect her. Jose protested they shouldn’t talk as if he was a monster, he was a changed man and it sounded like Silvia was anxious to meet him, like Alex said, and she didn’t sound like Laura. E.P confirmed that they were most definitely different from each other. Jose finally accepts their arguments, realising it was more to protect Silvia from finding out Laura was her sister. He says goodbye to them and Conan escorts him out. Tony vows to deal with that thieving Titus in his own way. Alex stubbornly refuses to budge when Silvia orders him out and tells her the person he wanted her to meet at the hotel was her father. Silvia doesn’t believe him, as it was a sore subject with her but he asks her to ask her family who all know about it, plus she has a sister. Silvia tearfully asks him who was he and where was he, but is told he had disappeared. She decides to go and see Hercules. Laura warns Isabella never to make any attempt on her life or her child again and is sure she has something to do with her doctor’s sudden weird behaviour but Isabella doesn’t bat an eyelid, as usual.

ALEX's PLAN BACKFIRES

Hercules is relieved they were able to find Jose on time, thanks to Nattie but Conan reminds him there was still Alex to worry about, he could still go ahead to tell Silvia, not understanding how he’d found out in the first place. E.P comes in with beauty cream all over her face, she wants to look younger but Hector tells her she doesn’t need it. The next morning, Alex goes to the gym and immediately he greets Conan, Conan angrily hits out at him for what he tried to do. Angry in return, Alex warns him he’ll break his face if he attacked him again, adding that when anyone asked him not to do something, he goes ahead and do the opposite. Conan warns him to keep his mouth shut as it was none of his business; Silvia intervenes and stops the fight. She’s on her way to the factory but Alex tells her he has a surprise for her on the way. Reluctantly she agrees.

Laura and Lorenzo are in bed (from the look on Lorenzo’s face, he hadn’t enjoyed himself one bit); she leaves the bed to draw a bath, after she asks him to take a bath with her. Meanwhile, Lorenzo has a flashback; about the night he and Silvia  first made love.
Gloria asks Isabella why she was looking so radiant all of a sudden. Silvia suspiciously asks Alex why the surprise was in a hotel. Tony listens to Mimi’s womb, insisting he understood what their baby was saying. E.P barges in and they both tell her they have set a date for their wedding. Alas for Alex (but in my opinion, it’s just what he deserves), Jose wasn’t at the hotel and Silvia was absolutely furious, naturally believing he had lured her there for sex, refusing to listen to him and walks away. Lorenzo calls Nattie to find out what she was going to tell him about Silvia, as it made him worry. Nattie assures him it was nothing serious. Silvia angrily tells Nattie to throw Alex out if he dared set foot into the office; Nattie assured her she’ll throw any cheating scumbag out. Famous last words, Orlando walked in, dripping disgusting charm and tells Nattie he needed to talk to her. Silvia leaves him alone. He insists he loved her and missed her and wanted her back in his life. Nattie in return tells him all she felt for him was disgust and absolute rage, but he urges her to be serious. She tells him he’s filth, a hypocrite and a womaniser and wants nothing to with him but when he suddenly kisses her, she doesn’t push him away. Isabella expresses her annoyance to Lorenzo about Orlando telling Estephano about her arrest, bad mouthing him in general. She doesn’t want anyone talking to Estephano without her consent. Laura’s doctor comes by the house to run more tests on her. Laura wonders why he looks nervous when she mentions Isabella’s name. Jose shows up at the gym and confronts Hercules for not telling him about the child he had with Mechita, demanding to see Silvia.

CUANDO SEAS MIA'S FINAL EPISODE(CONTD.)

A while back, at a visitor's request, I posted the last two episodes of WHEN YOU ARE MINE but most of us don't know that the one on our screens was the abridged English version. This is what happened after the wedding in the uncut Spanish version (with subtitles instead of English dubbing).
Now, after the wedding ceremony....

Paloma went upstairs with Lenora to take off her wedding veil before going down to the courtyard where the wedding banquet was being held. Soledad came in  and handed Paloma a letter that arrived earlier from the doctor who treated her when she passed out some days back, presumably the letter contains the results of medical tests and analysis Paloma did.

People are gathering at the wedding reception; Diego, Aurelio and Jeremy drink a toast together, Avellaneda and Giancarlo(Soledad's Italian fiance) are deep in discussion, talking about the valor and strength of the people of Mexico: “We raise ourselves from whatever failure, whatever tragedy, to start again.”

Diana and Daniella catch up with their brother Diego, who is  impatiently waiting for his wife  to join the party. Everyone applauded when she finally descends the stairs with Lenora at her heels  and the band starts playing. There is an exchange of kisses between the newly married couple and then Paloma  whispered in her husband's ear.
A stunned look on Diego's face and  his excited response is “What?? Are you sure?”

Daniela calls for everyone's attention. Diego made a speech; it was the  happiest day of his life,  the great love of his life, and the only woman he has ever loved, has married him, and on top of that she just gave him the news; THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!!!

At that news, everyone yelled and applauded , filled with joy and happiness. The dancing begins with Diego and Paloma, and as the party goes on, everyone all end up dancing…

Seven Years Later...

Diego( still his handsome self, his hair curlier &arather longer than we last saw it) is walking in the fields calling out "Paloma!"

But instead of his wife, a beautiful little girl is crouched among the plants, she looks up as her papa approached.

"Hija, your mother's waiting for us!” Diego looks in her basket, checking out the coffee beans his little Palomita had proudly gathered before heading back to the house with her. If  one looked closely, Diego's wedding ring is flashing on his finger.

Back in the house, Paloma is looking for Aurelio, calling him but a sweet looking boy answered instead, popping out...  it's Aurelio jnr. But then Aurelio Snr. appears after she asked Jnr where his Dad was.


Avellaneda, Inez and Juan Francisco are taking a walk about how wonderful things were at Casa Blanca. They are joined by Juan Francisco's new wife... Margarita, his former secretary at El Cafetelaro and Paloma's best friend, and they walk back to the house.

As she's chatting with Martha who arrived for a visit, she smiled and held out her arms to her youngest who toddled up to her, picking the little girl up. Diego enters with little Paloma on his shoulders, followed by a small group of children; one of them a dark skinned boy(Daniella and Harold's son obviously).Diana’s and Jeremy’s little boy crying for his Mama, while Ricardito (Miguel and Berenice's son, adopted by Diego and Paloma) is sprawled out on a bench, fast asleep.
In the sitting room, little Dieguito and Soledad are watching a telenovela together , but he turns to his (still youthful looking) grandmother to say “I like the telenovela that you told to me better” and asked her to tell it again.
“It doesn’t have a title yet, but it’s the story of a girl and her mother, who collected coffee and her name was Paloma…”
“Like my mother?”
“Yes, like your mother. And how one day she found her principe azul, and his name was Diego…”
“Like my father?”
Martha, Diego & Paloma smiled from the doorway, watching. Diego puts his arms around his wife, exchanging a significant look.
And the courtyard at Casa Blanca is shown all prepared for a banquet, with family and friends all seating themselves at the table...such a happy, loving atmosphere (including a slightly older Jeremy wearing glasses, carrying his son), a serious looking  Harold speaking to his own boy. And Mariano does show up, though a little late and looking rather shy as if afraid of intruding, (who the hell invited him?).
 Paloma hugs him, happy to see him, and says there’ll be time for the two of them to talk later, as Diego welcomes him too. Paloma  proposes a toast and it’s four cheers for Hacienda Casa Blanca from everyone! There are final shots of all the happy couples...

                Juan Francisco and Margarita, Diana & Jeremy, Dani & Harold, Soledad &  Giancarlo...

                                and then a final kiss between Mr. &  Mrs. Sanchez Serrano.

                                          now, it's really...   THE END 

Click HERE to read about the ORIGINAL version of this wonderful telenovela and HERE for the NEWEST version. Peace out! XXX

SNIPPET: EVIL ISABELLA'S NEW PLAN

Jose is of course shocked at this revelation about Hercules’ niece being his daughter and agrees to stay and meet her, wondering if Silvia looked like her late mother. Laura puts on a seductive dress and perfume for Lorenzo but he’s still cold and indifferent, preferring to stay at home instead of going out to dinner with her. Laura is offended- he obviously still cares more about his unborn child than her and tries to convince him that she loved him. But Lorenzo obviously doesn’t love her anymore. Conan told Hercules that José decided to got to Chile instead of Venezuela to start a new life and it had been Alex who had taken him away from the first hotel, to make himself Silvia’s hero. Jose meets with Alex, eager to hear about this other daughter. He’s assured Silvia would be more than happy to meet him and is shown a photo of her. He is very moved, Silvia did look like her mother.
Nattie guessed correctly that Alex planned to introduce Silvia to José in order to redeem himself and admits she’d almost told Lorenzo that his wife and former lover were sisters. Isabella meets with Laura’s doctor with a proposition. When he refuses to listen , she blackmails him. Laura pressurizes Lorenzo to treat her more lovingly but he snappishly tells her he no longer trusted her after her lies, lies and more lies. Laura does not feel they could continue with the present arrangement.
Silvia asks Nattie to tell her what she was hiding, but she insists it was Orlando she was still thinking about. Hercules angrily scolds Alex about doing things without his consent. He admits it but claimed he only wanted to do what was best for Silvia. Hercules said it would destroy her since she’d been idolizing him when he’s the opposite of a good father and warns him to stay away from matters concerning his family. Alex sulkily consoles himself with the knowledge that everyone would have a shock the following morning. Laura makes a show of packing her things and Lorenzo apologizes, promising to try harder.
Laura’s doctor, with an expression of hate on his face, asks Isabella for time to think about what she’d said.

SNIPPET: A SHOCK FOR JOSE

Nattie visits Lorenzo at the office and almost tells him about the relationship between Silvia and Laura after he mentions the TV message. When he leaves the room, she calls Conan to look for him at Lorenzo’s house. Laura warmly welcomes José back but insults him by offering him a check in exchange for something(I don’t know what, the audio was bad) whatever it was shocked him very much. Mimi goes to see Tony who is overjoyed when she tells him to speed up the day of their wedding. Hurt and angry, José tears up the check and leaves. Hercules returns home very tired, but refuses to tell his gossipy wife anything. Conan finds José just leaving the house. He introduces himself as Hercules’ son and José is very pleased to meet him, explaining why he’d left the first hotel. Conan gives him the money as instructed.
Lorenzo gets home and a tearful Laura tells him more lies. Lysette is given the news by Mimi and Tony about pushing up their wedding day. Conan says goodbye to José at the airport after a long conversation. Jose calls Alex on the cell phone he still had with him , to say goodbye. Alex desperately tells him not to leave the country; because he had another daughter!( oh, Alex… Hercules WILL KILL YOU DEAD!)

SNIPPET: ALEX IS VERY INTEFERING!

Hercules is really horrified, why of all women did Laura have to be Silvia’s sister? Conan wonders how his late aunt could have gotten involved with such a shady character in the first place and goes out to look for him, warning Hercules NOT to tell E.P about this recent development. Tony refuses to accept money from Lorenzo for the shirt he bought but Lorenzo disapproves, it didn’t set a good example. Tony also apologizes to him about his rude attitude when Giacormo was at the hospital and reveals that it had been Laura who had suggested that he and Orlando were behind the accident because he had refused to testify against Laura.
Mimi and E.P wonder why Alex looks so happy all of a sudden; he merely tells them Silvia was on her way to accept him for good(in your dreams fool, she loves Lorenzo). E.P thinks he’s high on something while Mimi calls him delusional.
Laura puts on a sickly martyr act as she speaks to the journalist who had interviewed José, she denies throwing him out, insisting he had misunderstood her. She films her own version of the whole story, asking him to come home.(what a bitch!)
Nattie asks Silvia to tell Lorenzo what Laura did, but Silvia doesn’t feel she has anything to gain and he already knows the type of woman he was married to and he was only with her because of the baby.(at least she knows he still loves her) but her cousin insists that Lorenzo was more than ready to leave Laura and marry Silvia-there were many divorced fathers. Silvia however wants him to have access to his child, if they got back together Laura would spite him by not allowing him to see the child. Silvia longs very much to know her own father. Nattie is about to tell her the secret but Conan interrupts her. After Silvia leaves the room, he scolds Nattie severely then tells her who Silvia’s sister actually is.
Lorenzo returns home as the interview rounds off but refuses to comment when asked to, it was between Laura and José. He’s disgusted at her method, calling it overdramatic and convenient for her.
Alex calls José, who is expecting his ticket back to Venezuela. He’s not interested in Alex’s surprise but Alex insists. Nattie looks at José’s photo in the paper, filled with shock that Silvia’s sister was actually that horrible Laura, all the more reason Silvia must never know. Conon resumes his search.
Lorenzo confronts Laura on what she’d told Tony. She admits it but claimed she’d been very angry with him back then. He remarked that it was getting more difficult everyday for him to believe anything she says now.
Alex tells Silvia he had something to tell her but she is in a hurry and goes out. Hercules tells Alex he was making a fool of himself with the way he was harassing Silvia who does NOT want to get back with him, urges him to leave her alone. But the stupid fool insists he was this close to winning her back. Conan phones to tell his father he still can’t find him. As Hercules leaves to join in the search, Alex smiles smugly since he’s the only one who knows where José was. Lorenzo acts very coldly towards Laura who accuses him of treating her badly. Jose sees the message on TV and is very happy. He phones Alex just as he’s talking to Silvia, telling him that his daughter had forgiven him and he was on his way back to her house. Despite Alex’s protests he hangs up, to Alex’s fury. Silvia is very confused at his weird attitude.