Temptation Episode 3

 

After spending the night at the hospital, Kang Min Woo rushes over to check on his son first thing in the morning. He tries to pay Na Hong Joo a babysitting fee but she refuses. He then offers her a job as nanny to Roy. He'll pay her way better than any hospital will and she'll definitely get her weekends off. Hong Joo says she'll think about it.

 

Se Young and Cha Suk Hoon return to Korea. Someone really goes to town on their violin as the couple part ways at the airport. When he gets home, Suk Hoon wants to talk but Hong Joo would rather do housecleaning to avoid any unpleasantness.

 

Back at the office, Choi Suk Ki asks about all the money that was transferred to Suk Hoon's bank account. Se Young replies, "Nunyabiznez."

 

Hong Joo decides to stick it to Suk Hoon by accepting Min Woo's job offer. Suk Hoon again tries to make things up with her and begs her forgiveness. Hong Joo just curls her lip up and says they need some time away from each other.

 

 

A new character is introduced: Se Young's whiney younger sister, Yoo Se Jin.

 

Musical interlude.

 

 

Min Woo comes to the summer house to check up on his son. As he's leaving, Roy and Hong Joo walk out to see Min Woo to his car. Up on a hill, Park Han Soo is taking pictures. He shows the digital picture to Hong Gyu and says doesn't the woman look like Hong Joo? Hong Gyu, perhaps in denial, proclaims you can't really see the woman's face clearly. Of course it isn't his sister hanging around a cheating married man. Of course.

 

Se Young keeps mooning over Suk Hoon. Oh, that bicycle ride. Oh, how he waved down a taxi and opened her drink.

 

Even though they've been hired by Han Ji Sun to catch her husband in the act, Han Soo plans to show the pictures he took to Min Woo in hopes of getting a little extra blackmail money on the side. Min Woo, who's used to paying these guys off, laughingly agrees to pay for the pictures and even asks Han Soo to do a little job for him.

 

Hong Gyu hasn't seen his sister in days so decides to call her. When he learns Hong Joo has gotten a haircut and a new job as a nanny, he realizes it was his sister in the photos after all. Hong Gyu starts to drive over to the summer house to confront Hong Joo when he's in a minor fender bender with Se Jin's car. The two young people get out and start taking pictures of the accident - and of each other. Yeah, I figured they'd be paired up.

 

Se Jin had come by to drop in and visit Min Woo. Please don't tell me she's one of his side things. How do they know each other? Why so pally?

 

Hong Gyu tries to get Hong Joo to quit her job and get away from that notorious playboy. To show how serious he is, Hong Gyu quits his job with Han Soo. Hong Joo is glad her brother isn't going to be out spying anymore but she's not about to quit her job.

 

Yet another musical interlude.

 

Min Woo is taking his pasty wife out to dinner at Se Young's hotel. They all run into each other down in the lobby. Ji Sun, perhaps feeling threatened, rubs it in that at least she's married and has kids. Isn't there anyone Min Woo could introduce to the very single Se Young? Se Young fights back by asking Min Woo if he's told his wife yet about what happened in Hong Kong. What was that person's name again? Was it Roy? Somebody call the fire department as there are burns all around.

 

Also in the hotel is Suk Hoon who is here to meet with an old college buddy for drinks. The buddy, Choi Young Chul, thinks he's helping by arranging for Suk Hoon to bump into Se Young. Perhaps Suk Hoon can get a job here at the hotel. Suk Hoon and Se Young act like they hardly know each other. Once again somebody saws the hell out of their violin.

 

During their private dinner together, Ji Sun begs for them to move out from Min Woo's mother's place. Either that or send Mom packing to Boston. (Why is Boston so popular in Kdramas right now? That's all they talked about in Angel Eyes was Boston.) Min Woo makes it clear he's not about to leave Mommy.

 

After that pleasant dinner conversation, Min Woo drops by the summer house to sing Roy to sleep. He stays around to have a glass of wine with Hong Joo out on the back patio. A well-lubricated Min Woo whines about his problems. Hong Joo is on her way to being slightly well-lubricated herself when Suk Hoon arrives. Cue the violins!

Temptation Episode 2

 

We start the episode back in time a bit. A young Cha Suk Hoon is being interviewed for a job at Yoo Se Young's company. Ultimately she turns him down, though. When he barges back into the building to demand answers as to why he didn't get the job, Se Young explains to him he's too much of a goody two shoes to make it in the cutthroat world of business. So this is how Suk Hoon and Se Young knew each other from before.

 

Back in the present, Kang Min Woo and Roy are out shopping when they run into Na Hong Joo again. This gives Min Woo the chance to give her the eye again as well as formally introduce himself. He attempts to pay for Hong Joo's purchases but she politely refuses. A woman who doesn't want his money? Min Woo is intrigued. (He's also creepy, but that's beside the point.)

 

Upstairs in the hotel, Se Young and her piano music are making their dramatic offer to buy Suk Hoon for three days. She doesn't make it any easier on him when Se Young deposits some of the money into Suk Hoon's bank account. He has one hour to decide, then the offer is off the table.

 

Suk Hoon tells Hong Joo about Se Young's incredible offer. Understandably Hong Joo is all, "Oh, hell no!" and wants to go start a cat fight. Suk Hoon tearfully admits he's desperate enough to give the offer serious consideration. Hong Joo tells him she's going downstairs to catch a taxi to the airport. If he doesn't come down and join her, then she'll go back to Korea alone.

 

She goes back to Korea alone.

 

 

Suk Hoon goes to Se Young's suite where she lays down the rules to his temporary slavery. The word "No" will not be in his vocabulary. He's to not talk about Fight Club or anything about their private lives. Finally, absolutely no contact with Suk Hoon's wife. (This is all an oral agreement, and as everyone knows, an oral agreement isn't worth the paper its written on.) Suk Hoon takes the battery out of his phone (Because DramaKoreans don't know what an Off button is for.) and moves in with his new owner.

 

Hong Joo is at the airport, cursing Suk Hoon for being a fool, when she once again encounters Roy and his creepy dad. Womanizer Min Woo is quick to note Hong Joo is traveling without her husband. He talks Hong Joo into traveling with them up front in first class in order to help take care of the boy. On the plane Min Woo tells her all about his 99 problems but Hong Joo clams up when it comes to talking about her problems.

 

Se Young has an office set up for her boy toy. She claims she's going to have him do "research." Suk Hoon is tempted to try and contact his wife but he fights it. After landing in Korea, Hong Joo (upset that she hasn't gotten any messages from her husband) gives her phone number to Roy in case he ever wants to talk to her. You know Roy's creepy dad is gonna get that number.

 

 

Hong Joo returns home to her father, Na Shi Chan (played by Choi Il Hwa), and younger brother, Na Hong Gyu (played by Lee Jung Shin). She explains Suk Hoon stayed behind in Hong Kong for business reasons. One of Hong Joo's major worries is that her dad put up his house as collateral for Suk Hoon's business. Dad doesn't know about the huge troubles and that his house is in danger of being repossessed.

 

Min Woo decides to stash Roy away at the family's summer house. In Hong Kong, Suk Hoon tries to instill some values in Se Young. Se Young reminds him money is money, screw values. Privately, Suk Hoon sneaks around Se Young's verbal rules by calling his brother-in-law to check up on how Hong Joo is doing. Se Young busts him on it but then decides to be lenient and do away with the third rule.

 

Musical interlude.

 

Hong Joo is looking for (and not finding) work in the nursing field. So logically she blows the last of her money for a makeover. Suk Hoon and Se Young go to Engrish business meetings with Random White People. Thank goodness the music is too loud to clearly hear what they're not saying. That evening Se Young and Suk Hoon have an intimate dinner together.

 

Hong Gyu takes a job with the shady Park Han Soo (played by Ahn Se Ha). They apparently go around taking pictures of cheating spouses. Ah, and tonight's target is Kang Min Woo. Min Woo was really heading over to see his son when he gets a call from nagging wife Ji Sun saying their newest daughter is in NICU.

 

Mellowed out by good food and good wine, Se Young gives Suk Hoon permission to call his wife and explain everything. He assures Hong Joo that he's been doing nothing these past two days but writing reports and going to meetings. Hong Joo is all pissy at him for not coming home with her and selling himself to Se Young.

 

 

After hanging up on Suk Hoon, Hong Joo gets a phone call from Roy, begging her to come over and make the monsters go away. She calls Min Woo to try and get him to go check on the boy. Min Woo explains about his ill daughter and begs Hong Joo to go over and spend the night with Roy. He'll compensate her. (Yeah, I'm sure he'll compensate her, alright.)

 

 

Suk Hoon gets sloppy drunk on Pabst Blue Ribbon. (Honey, the beer is supposed to go in your mouth, not all over your chin.) But at least this finally gets us a shower scene. (About damn time, Show.) The next morning Suk Hoon is hangover-free as Se Young tells him he has fulfilled his contract. She's deposited all the money in his bank account as agreed. In return, Suk Hoon takes Se Young for a bike ride before they part ways forever.

Temptation Episode 1

Ah, temptation. Reminds me of this old gem:

 

 

 

Already the show has a problem. It stars Kwon Sang Woo. While I'll be the first to admit he's nice to look at, I've never been able to finish any show that has had him in it.

 

 

We see our four main characters arriving at the airport. Happy but poor couple Cha Suk Hoon (that's our Kwon) and Na Hong Joo (played by Park Ha Sun) arrive on the bus, while uber-slick Yoo Se Young (played by Choi Ji Woo) and jaded Kang Min Woo (played by Lee Jung Jin) arrive separately in their chauffeur driven cars.

 

On the plane, Se Young's right-hand man, Choi Suk Ki (played by one of the Old Man Who Is In Absolutely Everything - Joo Jin Mo), curls his nose up at having to share first class with Min Woo and suggests they report him as a terrorist.

 

Se Young is thinking about buying a hotel in Hong Kong, but she's got more personal problems preying on her mind. She thinks back to her gynecologist diagnosing Se Young as being in early menopause. Not only that, but she may also have to have a hysterectomy. Se Young doesn't have any children and says she's fine with that, but she has that look in her eye.

 

 

Back in coach, Suk Hoon has his own problems. His business partner has run off with all the money, leaving Suk Hoon holding the bag. He and Hong Joo are heading to Hong Kong hoping to corner the rat.

 

Now its time to go into Kang Min Woo's mind and see what his problem is. A woman is wheeled out in a hospital bed. Min Woo rushes over to congratulate Han Ji Sun on having a baby girl, their third. Hold everything! Ji Sun is played by Yoon Ah Jung, Lee Jung Jin's stalker from A Hundred Year's Inheritance. Don't tell me her stalking finally paid off and she finally got her man.

 

Anyway, Min Woo's mother is disgusted with all the girls. Ji Sun announces another pregnancy could kill her so no more trying for a boy. Min Woo needs a break from all the squabbling and so makes up a business trip to Hong Kong.

 

 

As usual, all these DramaKoreans are able to pack everything they need for a week in just one suitcase. Poor Suk Hoon is forced to speak painful Engrish with the locals to learn his business partner has killed himself and the money is nowhere to be found. There's nothing left to do but go to the beach and yell at the ocean.

 

Min Woo is on the prowl in Hong Kong. He's hoping to run into a bar singer, Jenny, that he had a fling with from before. (I find it funny how the actress carefully hides her mouth behind the microphone as the song is in English and I'm sure she doesn't know what the heck it says.) But when Min Woo gets to the bar, he's also forced to speak painful Engrish to learn Jenny has died from breast cancer. However, Jenny left behind a son. A son Min Woo didn't know he had - Roy.

 

Meanwhile on the beach, Suk Hoon looks through his dead business partner's bag and does happen to find a stash of three thousand dollars. Not nearly enough to pay back all the debt, though. Knowing that they're facing financial ruin and perhaps jail time once they return to Korea, Hong Joo suggests they take the 3k and blow it big time here in HK.

 

First they go to get a room at a fancy hotel. The same fancy hotel where our other two protagonists are staying. Now for some sightseeing and shopping. Hong Joo's eye is caught by some sparkly and expensive shoes. The saleslady tells them the shoes are reserved for someone else. After telling a painful sob story in painful Engrish, Suk Hoon gets them for his wife. (Just in case you didn't get the whole Indecent Proposal vibe by now.)

 

Min Woo goes to meet his son for the first time. Oh thank goodness, the kid knows Korean so Min Woo can stop speaking Engrish. Really, Show, why are you doing this to your actors?

 

 

The pain continues at a restaurant where its Se Young's turn to be tortured into speaking Engrish as she has a hostile business meeting. The man she is feuding with suddenly grabs his chest and drops to the floor. At a nearby table, Suk Hoon and Hong Joo hear the commotion and rush over. Hong Joo is a nurse and offers to help. For a brief moment Suk Hoon and Se Young exchange glances and strangely it is as if they recognize each other.

 

After the man is saved (by Suk Hoon doing all the work, not Nurse Hong Joo), Se Young just leaves her victim to go pick up some shoes, only to discover someone else got them. 

 

 

Min Woo is slowly bonding with Roy and takes the boy to a restaurant for dinner. He's interrupted by a phone call from his nagging wife. Min Woo pauses long enough to eye Hong Joo as she and Suk Hoon walk by. 

 

Se Young learns Heart Attack Guy will survive and is willing to settle with her for a large amount of money. Hmm, it happens to be the right amount of money that Suk Hoon would need to recover from his partner's embezzlement. Hmm.

 

 

Later that night some of our protagonists are asleep and some are awake. Hong Joo, wearing her sparkly new shoes, is planning to go kill herself so Suk Hoon can collect the life insurance. But before she can get there she encounters Roy. He woke up in the middle of the night and was trying to find a bus back to his old home. Min Woo comes running out looking for his missing son and finds him safe in Hong Joo's custody. 

 

Upstairs, Suk Hoon woke up and found Hong Joo's suicide note. He runs out of the hotel, desperately searching for her wife. A sleepless Se Young is out walking along the beach when she finds the sparkly shoes. She looks around and sees Hong Joo sloooooooowly walking into the water. Se Young rushes into the water and pulls the young woman back to shore. 

 

Se Young takes the despondent woman back to the hotel so they can both get cleaned up. Se Young reveals she knows Suk Hoon's name but she won't tell Hong Joo (or us) how she knows him. Suk Hoon arrives to pick up his wife. After the couple leave, Se Young and her piano music start forming a plan. The next morning she makes her offer to buy him for three days for the amount of money he needs to stay out of jail.

 

 

Kwon Sang Woo didn't have one shirtless scene in this entire episode. Not one!  

The Secret Agent's Memories Episode 2

Special Position

 

 

 

Ivan and Gerard Depardieu show up for their duel with the Italian Guy they challenged in the last episode. Ivan appears to have had plenty of liquid courage before showing up. After stumbling around a bit, Vanya is knocked to the ground and forced to apology to Italian Guy with the massive wig. Ivan and Gerard go back to a tavern to drink their woes away.

 

(Is this Russian humor? 'Cuz if it is, they've got a long way to go.)

 

The next morning a hungover Ivan is arrested and charged with murder. It seems Italian Guy with the massive wig is now dead. The man in charge of the investigation is one of the Anti-Menshikov league and offers Vanya a deal to get out of trouble. Naturally Ivan agrees to work for the Dark Side. Another man is publicly executed in Ivan's place so now everyone thinks Ivan is dead.

 

Ivan and his new boss, Ushakov, go to investigate the Italian Guy's apartment, the scene of the murder. As they wait in the shadows, Gerard Depardieu shows up and starts snooping around. Ushakov reveals himself, accusing Gerard of being the one to have killed Italian Guy and setting Ivan up for the fall. Say it ain't so, Gerard!

 

Sword fight scene. Good friends are now bitter enemies. Depardieu is taken into custody. The next day Ivan is informed that Gerard was stabbed to death in the prison. Wow, characters are dropping like flies on this show and it's only the second episode.

 

Ivan is taken to the prison to investigate yet another murder scene. Alone, Ivan is searching the catacombs of the prison when he finds a lady's fan with a hidden dagger inside. He recalls Marie had a fan with a hidden knife just like this one.

 

Ivan goes to confront Marie. She claims this is nothing against Mother Russia. Her mission was to get Italian Guy because his father stole a great deal from the Masons. Ivan tells her she's got a few hours to get out of town before he reports everything to Ushakov. As he's leaving her place, Ivan is set upon by that roving gang of shady characters who knock him out and hustle him off in a carriage.

 

When Ivan awakens it is to find himself back in the presence of his old master, Prince Menshikov. Ivan spills his guts. The prince is more interested in this missing Mason's treasure. Menshikov lets Ivan go and our secret agent is immediately picked up by Ushakov. Once again Ivan spills his guts.

 

Because of their association with dead Italian Guy, Fat Daddy and his giggling daughters are carted off somewhere. Ivan is broken hearted.

 

 

I'm so confused!!!!!!

The Time In Between Episode 2

It is 1936 and Sira and Ramiro have arrived in Tangier. They make friends with other Spanish expatriates. Sira discovers the hookah pipe and homosexuals. Ramiro discovers he enjoys spending Sira's money. This is when the cracks begin to show.

 

The typewriting academy isn't getting off the ground. Ramiro starts staying out all night, leaving Sira alone at the hotel. The cracks grow bigger.

 

Sira hasn't been feeling well and goes to the doctor. She's pregnant. Sira rushes back to the hotel to tell Ramiro the news only to find a letter from him. Ramiro has already lit out for greener pastures, taking all her money and jewels with him. He's sure she won't mind. Oh yeah, he also advises her to get out of Tangier quickly as there are a couple of dudes he owes money to and they may take it out on Sira when they can't find Ramiro.

 

With one suitcase (and a fetus), Sira heads to the nearest bus station. She hops on the first bus out of town, which happens to be heading to Tetouan. Along the way she has a miscarriage. While recovering at the hospital, Sira learns war has been declared in her home country and all traffic has been closed between Spain and Morocco, so she's stuck there.

 

When Sira wakes up she discovers she's handcuffed to the hospital bed. Now she's really stuck. The cops have caught up to her for the unpaid hotel bill. Also, she's now being accused of having stolen the jewels her father gave her. Hmm, seems Dad's legitimate son had a beef with his old man giving the family jewels away to a bastard.

 

One cop seems slightly sympathetic towards poor Sira. He helps her find a place to stay and convinces the hotel to give her a year to pay the debt off. He takes her to stay with a woman named Candelaria, who may be the pistol packing mama from the first episode.

 

And that's it. That was a rather short episode.

The Secret Agent's Memories Episode 1

Time to get my Russian on!

 

 

The Patrol

 

As the aged secret agent Ivan Samoylov (also called Vanya) starts his memoirs, he writes of the time when Peter the Great was Peter the Dead. Tsarina Catherine wasn't very interested in the whole "ruling Asia" thing, so it was a Prince Menshikov who was the real power in all the Russias.

 

 

Ivan was back in town for his father's funeral and to have a meeting with Prince Menshikov. But not before he has some flirt time with a couple of pastel-dressed sisters - Varvara and Sophia. One of the sisters conveniently drops her handkerchief for Ivan to retrieve. 

 

Before his meeting with Ivan, Prince Menshikov is meeting with another shady character and talking about the Pope, the Masons, marrying his daughter to Prince Peter, and perhaps becoming Emperor himself. As Shady Character is taking his leave, he's set upon by other shady characters and whisked away.

 

Ivan is hoping the prince will help the young man get a post in the regiment. First, though, Menshikov has a small task for Ivan to do. He's to escort a carriage from the border to the city. No peeping or talking to whoever is inside, got it? 

 

Meanwhile, whoever kidnapped Shady Character got him to talk and they now know about the secret carriage Menshikov is expecting. Also more talk about Masons and some guy named Falinelli who supposedly had a lot of money stashed away somewhere. I sure hope this all becomes clearer to me.

 

 

Ivan has drafted a couple of dragoons to help him escort the secret carriage everyone seems to know about. Doesn't that one guy look like Gerard Depardieu? Well, he does to me, at least. I mean, if you squint really hard. And hey, I just now read that Depardieu lives in Russia now. Coincidence? Anyway, back to the story. A shot rings out and our trio rides into action. They discover the secret carriage and a dead coachman, but no horses or the secret passenger of the secret carriage. 

 

There's a burned out monastery nearby; perhaps the secret passenger has been taken there. Our trio ride to investigate. Sure enough there are some fur-clad banditos guarding a bound man and woman. Ivan waits until nightfall and then rides alone into the bandits' camp. He warns the head bandito that tomorrow two detachments of soldiers will be here to hang every one of them. Surely these two foreigners aren't worth dying over. He suggests the head bandit keep the horses and whatever was stolen out of the secret carriage, but to let the secret passengers go. Head Bandito wants to wait until tomorrow. If they see these supposed soldiers heading this way, they'll do as Ivan says. But if there are no soldiers, then Vanya gets it and gets it good.

 

Ivan waits until everyone is asleep. He frees the man and woman and sends them off in the direction of where his two dragoons are waiting. They get away but Ivan is captured by the bandits. Gerard Depardieu wants to follow orders and get the two secret passengers away to safety. The strong-willed woman grabs a pistol and insists on saving the man who just saved them.

 

 

As the banditos tie Ivan up, his rescue party attacks. Fight scene! (While its not the most competent fight scene ever choreographed, I appreciate the show's attempt to keep the pace up.) The bandits are either killed or run off. Oh no, one of the bandits was only playing dead and he just shot the non-Gerard Depardieu dragoon! Sad times.

 

We learn the male secret passenger's name is Chevalier La Chanier. He offers Ivan some reward money for rescuing them. Ivan turns it down as he feels they failed their initial mission. Gerard Depardieu is not happy. The woman offers the solution of them getting back into the carriage and acting like none of this ever happened. Ivan, too honest for his own good, insists he'll still give a full report once they reach the capital. Gerard is still not happy.

 

 

Ivan drives the carriage into the city. They're being observed by the Anti-Menshikov league. While the secret passengers of the secret carriage that everyone knew about are safely delivered to the prince, the Anti-Menshikov's now have their collective eyes on Ivan. Perhaps he could be of some use to them.

 

With Ivan's mission supposedly over, we now have to go back and catch up with the giggly sisters from the beginning. They serve a small purpose as their fat dad has some tapestry that supposedly is also a treasure map. If only there was some scrappy hero to decode hanging artwork.

 

The entire cast is gathered at an assembly at the palace. Ivan and Gerard are awarded souvenir swords for their recent work. Chanier and his female companion, Marie (could've sworn she was going to turn out to be Sophia Augusta Fredericka), are also there to have whispered conversations with some guy.  Vanya and Depardieu get drunk and challenge this same guy to a duel.

The Time In Between Episode 1

The Time In Between is based on the novel by Maria Duenas, which at the moment is only $1.99 over at Amazon. I may have to look into that.

 

The episode begins in October of 1936 in the Moroccan city of Tetouan. (There's supposed to be a little dash over the e in Tetouan but again I don't know how to do that.) Somewhere, behind drawn drapes, our young heroine is dressed only in her slip as another, older woman starts attaching guns and all sorts of weapons to the heroine's body.

 

 

Sira Quiroga (played by Adriana Ugarte) introduces herself to us. She claims to be a simple seamstress, the same vocation as her mother's. They lived in the Spanish city of Madrid. Sira didn't get to play much with the other kids as she had to help Mom out with the sewing at an upscale dress shop. (While I wouldn't call it a sweatshop, they're still using child labor.) It's just Sira and her mother, Dolores, as Dad is nowhere in the picture and Mom doesn't want to talk about him.

 

After this brief life history of our heroine, we know go to the year 1934. Sira's lame friend, Paquita (I mean lame as in she limps) has gotten engaged to a Communist and the girls are going out to celebrate. As usual with newly engaged women, Paquita wants everyone to be engaged and she works on hooking Sira up with Ignacio (played by Raul Arevalo).

 

 

Things seems to be going well. Sira has her work. Ignacio plans to become a civil servant. They begin to date. Dolores approves of him. Paquita marries her commie. What could possibly go wrong? 

 

Well, I'll tell ya. First off, the lady who runs the shop where Dolores and Sira work is going to have to close the place down. Thus our heroine is out of a job. Ignacio suggests she learn typing and become a civil servant like he is. They're at a shop comparing typewriters when Sira encounters Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome, also known as Ramiro (played by Ruben Cortada).

 

In fact, let's take a moment to appreciate Ruben in all his glory.

 

 

 

Okay, back to the show. Ramiro is the manager of the shop and personally shows Sira around the shop. Just like me, Sira can't stop staring at this man. Good golly, how tall is this guy? Ignacio, stop being stupid and notice how your territory is being threatened.

 

The next day Sira (alone) goes to the shop to pick up the typewriter. Apparently in Spain, part of buying a typewriter is going out for drinks with the drop-dead gorgeous store manager. Actually, that makes sense. Ramiro confesses he can't stop thinking about her. Sira runs away in fright, afraid to admit she also can't stop thinking about him.

 

Oh no, the typewriter is broken. She'll have to take it back to Ramiro's store and fight the sexual tension some more. Poor thing. Apparently in Spain, part of getting your typewriter fixed is sleeping with a tall Cuban male model. Damn, I need to move to Spain!

 

Sira finally works up the courage to break things off with Ignacio. Dolores doesn't take the news very well. They argue, with Sira moving out and in with Ramiro. Time goes by in sexual bliss. Then one day a very disapproving Dolores shows up with a stiff invitation for Sira to finally meet her birth father, Gonzalo (played by Carlos Olalla).

 

 

Dad is worried about his life and the possibility of civil war erupting. He gives Sira a bunch of money and jewels in the hope that she and Dolores will flee the country before the violence breaks out. Dolores refuses to run from anything or anyone. Ramiro very easily talks Sira into investing the money in a typewriter school and opening a branch in Morocco. 'Cuz when you think of Berbers, you think of typewriting.