Monday, September 24, 2007

Episode 15

Season 1, Episode 15 – The one with the defective van

Marimar is pleased to find herself in her grandparents home but asks for Sergio. Cruz explained it was her fault as she misses her grandaughter so much that she asked Sergio to leave her with them for a while although Sergio promised to come back for Marimar that day. While Marimar was asleep, Cruz noticed patches of blood on her granddaughter’s clothing. She suspects that the two had just consummated their marriage the night before.

Marimar discloses to Cruz her happiness and how she now knows that Sergio indeed does love her and she cannot wait to be with Sergio again. She acquiesced to stay until after breakfast but declared she must get back to the villa to be with her husband after.

Meanwhile, Sergio meets his new secretary Inocencia. At first Sergio suspects about a conspiracy but seems to have softened after he finds out how efficient and hard-working Innocencia appears to be.

Knowing Marimar is not in Sergio’s flat, Angelika orders Perfecta to get the jewelry set that Sergio gave Marimar. After much tossing around of the bed, Perfect finds the jewellery hidden in a shoebox and brings it to her boss. Angelika praises Perfecta for a job well done while she ogles at the jewellery set had been wanting to possess for the longest time.

Marimar sneaks back into the resort and Fulgoso reminds her that they really do not need to sneak in anymore as everyone knows her to be Sergio’s wife. However Marimar feels self-conscious in meeting Sergio again in her state – she hasn’t bathe or changed clothing and didn’t want to disappoint Sergio when they meet again. So, seeing the sprinklers are activated, she asks Fulgoso to join her take a bath in the garden. She is screaming and running around happily, chasing Fulgoso when Sergio sees her. He smiles at the scene he is witnessing and calls to his wife, asking what she is doing. She explains that she’s been quite dirty and wanted to be clean before she sees him. He suggested a bath in their home but she reasoned she didn’t want to soil the floors. To this, Sergio runs after her and carries her home.

Now in a robe, Marimar helps Sergio dry himself up and Corazon bring in food for the couple. Sergio asked his wife to sit on his lap while they share their meal. Angelika sees the two quite happy to be together so she calls Innocencia to reprimand her for not keeping Sergio in the office.

Innocencia, afraid to suffer Angelika’s wrath calls Sergio on his phone telling him that he needs to attend to a meeting with the investors. Sergio grudgingly obliges apologizing to Marimar that he has to go but promised to be back as soon as possible.

Marimar was in the resort lobby when she sees Renato preparing to go fishing. As both share a passion for the sport, Renato invited Marimar to tag along. They were quite happy to share fishing tips and Marimar asked Renato if driving was easy. He told her it was quite basic and she should learn how to drive herself. They were on their way back when they met Angelika and Arturo on the road. The van they were using had problems. Renato asked his wife to ride with them, and Marimar opted to stay with the van to allow the couple some time to be by themselves.

Sergio was quite impressed at how Innocencia handled their investors. Seeing all seems well at the office, he told Innocencia to hold the fort as he wants to spend dinner with his wife. Innocencia, still following Angelika’s orders to keep Sergio away from Marimar, reminded his boss that they have planned a dinner with their investors. However Sergio left everything to her capable hands and left for home.

Marimar asks Choi if the latter can drive her around the resort to find Sergio as he promised to be back but still isn’t. Choi was about to drive her when Natalie calls Choi reminding him of a task that he must do. Alone in the van, Marimar tries to switch on the engine despite her lack of knowledge in driving. The van emits smoke, and Marimar in her panic locks herself up inside the van. Marimar tries to get out but is unable to find the button to unlock the van, now filled up with smoke. Sergio arrives in time with Arturo who runs off to get a duplicate key. Marimar passes out from inhaling too much of the gas. Sergio carries Marimar out but she is unconscious. He orders those around him to call a doctor quickly as he carries Marimar home.

My take: Seems like Renato has a tender spot for Marimar after all. He shows that he's not really that evil all the time, in fact, it would have been nice to see a longer scene with a Renato-Marimar bonding. Let's see how Sergio deals with that one.

Episode 14

Season 1, Episode 14 – The one with the packed lunch

Marimar is unhappy about not being able to see Sergio for long periods of time as the latter is lately quite busy with meeting the investors for their resort.

Angelika comes up with a suggestion for Marimar – why doesn’t she go and bring lunch to Sergio instead, that way she will be able to meet him. Excited and grateful for Angelika’s suggestions, Marimar sets off to ask for Corazons help in the kitchen. She helps Corazon prepare Sergio’s favorite food and packs it in a basket to take to her busy husband.

Sergio is in a closed-door meeting with their resort's foreign investors. Arturo accompanies Marimar to the meeting and implores the secretary to let them in. While Arturo is discusses with the secretary, Marimar sneaks in. She excitedly shares how she prepared lunch for Sergio but the investors and Renato see this as a nuisance and orders Sergio to send her away. Tensed and caught between the pressure of his father and the investors, he scolds Marimar because the latter just would not listen to his pleadings of leaving them alone. Hurt, Marimar goes back to her grandparents' island with Fulgoso.

Back in the island, Marimar does not show herself to her grandparents. She had just told them how great her life is at the Santibanez resort and she does not want them to worry about her. She hides on a nearby cliff as she emotes to Fulgoso about how Sergio had chastised her when she only wanted him to know that she loves him so much and how she took great pains to prepare that special lunch for him.

Sergio finds Marimars note in the lunch basket she left behind. He feels sorry for his harsh actions and goes looking for his wife. When he could not find him anywhere in or near the resort, he suspected she went to her grandparents. Sergio arrives at their home only to find out that Marimar has not been there. This alarms Pancho and Cruz, suspecting that the two had a quarrel.

Sergio finds MariMar and the cliff where he had proposed marriage to her. He apologises about his actions earlier and asks her to do anything that she wants, even slap him, in order to make her feel better. However Marimar does nothing of that sort instead she says that having Sergio with her, is more than enough to make her happy. Touched at how simple yet profound Marimar’s desires are, Sergio kisses his wife tentatively at first and more passionately as heavy rainfall engulfs them.

The two consummate their marriage for the first time. Later Marimar lies contentedly asleep, Sergio reprimands himself at what he has done. He shouldn’t have been so careless. Now he is in too deep and Marimar deserves a lot more than his empty promises. With his guilt still nagging at him, he carries the still slumbering Marimar back to her grandparents’ hut. He assures them that he will come back for her in the morning.

Pancho asked for Sergio’s confirmation whether he and Marimar did have a misunderstanding and the young man admits this. He said that they have patched things up now and that he will return for Marimar the very next day.

Meanwhile, Angelika plans to use Inocencia to lure Sergio and drive a huge rift between her ex-lover and Marimar.

My take: Bitin ata ako dun sa unang pagtatalik ni Sergio at Marimar. Panggulo pa yung ulan! More details please, next time!

Episode 13

Season 1, Episode 13 – The one with the expensive jewellery

Again Arturo finds Sergio asleep in the same place and wakes him up. Renato arrives and asks Sergio if he is really serious with his plans, to which the young man confirms. While fixing more files, he comes across a framed photo of his mother wearing expensive-looking jewellery. He asks Arturo to open the safe and he retrieves the jewelley set.

Sergio goes home to Marimar only to find her quite distressed that he did not spend the night with her. He apologises to his wife, explaining to her that he had a lot of things to do at the office because he wanted to take a more active role in the running of their business. As a pece offering, he gives Marimar the jewellery saying that this was given to him by his own mother who made him promise to give this to the woman he will someday marry. Since Marimar is his wife, this is rightfully hers now.

The set is a necklace, bracelet and a pair of earrings. Marimar who never really wore any kind of jewellery before, doesn’t have pierced ears to wear the earrings. To this Sergio calls the local nurse to pierce Marimar’s ears.

Sergio lovingly hugs Marimar and holds her hands as the nurse does the minor operation. “Parang kagat lang ng langgam yan!” he assures her (Just like an ant bite, nothing more). Once the first ear was pierced, Marimar implores if it is possible to just have one ear pierced suggesting she will just wear one earring at a time. Sergio gently coaxes her to have the other ear pierced as she needs to wear both.

Marimar was showing off her jewellery to Corazon who said she remembers when Sergio’s mom was the one wearing it. She assures Marimar that indeed Sergio must love her so, for giving her this heirloom. Angelika sees the jewellry and remembers a time when she was asking for the same set from Sergio. She was just Sergio’s girlfriend then when Sergio showed her the set. She had wanted it ever since but since it wasn’t Renato’s, she never got the chance to wear it.

Marimar visits her grandparents with a bag full of groceries. She assures them that she is well and that Sergio is taking good care of her. In fact, she just received an expensive jewellery set from her husband – but chose not to wear it as she might lose it.

Angelika confronts Sergio telling him to stop this nonsense he is doing with Marimar. She tries to tempt him, passionately kissing him to which Sergio pushes her away reminding her that he is married to her father. Sergio emphasizes that he is also a married man and that Marimar is his wife. Nicandro sees Angelika kissing Sergio and reports this to Renato. Nicandro even dared to advise Renato to have his wife heavily guarded, giving Renato an idea.

Meanwhile Monica sees Innocencia asleep by the Santibanez gate and takes pity on the young woman. She said she will try to talk to someone who may be able to help her to which Innocencia is thankful.

Renato warns Angelika not to cheat on him and assigns her a bodyguard. He also meets with Innocencia whom he seems to take a liking to. He tells her that any relative of Angelika is also a relative of his. Innocencia reveals that when Angelika’s mother left her father, they moved to the city where they lived with Innocencia’s family. When Angelika’s father died, her parents raised Angelika as their own making her like Innocencia’s elder sister. Now, Innocencia’s mother is in need of help being ill in the hospital. Renato promises to help Innocencia’s family.

Sergio is drinking and asks Marimar to join him. Marimar gets drunk and the two were quite playful. Angelika now with her new bodyguard and Monica see Sergio and Marimar drunken and flirting. Angelika wanted to stop them but she couldn't do anything because her bodygoard may tell Renato about it. Having left with nothing to do, she pushes her friend Monica off the cottage. Monica falls and sprains her ankle giving Angelika an opening to call on Sergio's help but he declined saying he has to attend to his drunken wife first.

Later Angelika sees Inocencia back at Villa SantibaƱez she was about to throw her out again when Renato declares that he has appointed Inocencia as Angelika's female bodyguard.

Meanwhile Marimar pukes on Sergio, prompting him to carry his wife home. When Marimar asks Sergio why he didn't help Monica, he sagely replied: "Eh selosa asawa ko eh."

My take: Sergio is indeed falling for the lovely Marimar, despite his conviction that it is just for show...pero parang OA naman yung mga linya nyang mag 'ankla-ankla' pa! But then, siguro nga lasing lang sha....naging so deep sa alak...

Episode 12

Season 1, Episode 12 – The one where Sergio Introduces Marimar to the Staff

After their romantic hot tub scene, Sergio carries MariMar to their bed and showers her with tender kisses. He tells his wife to sleep while he attends to other things first. Despite wanting Sergio beside her, she lets him go and obediently sleeps by herself. Sergio is at the veranda, drinking beer while contemplating on his decisions these past few weeks. On another veranda, a moody Angelika chain-smokes. Renato calls for her to come to bed but she said she’s just finishing her cigarette. Later Sergio goes back to their bedroom and watches Marimar sleep. There’s this cute-kilig scene where Marimar takes Sergio’s arm and wraps it around herself and sleeps with both their hands clasped together. Sergio is absorbed in deep thought as he stares into their clasped hands which wears their wedding rings.

The next day, Marimar awakes to find Sergio gone. She meets Corazon who gives her a bag of clothes and her breakfast. Marimar eats heartily prompting Corazon to tease her about her first night with Sergio. Marimar reveals that nothing realling happened between her and Sergio last night. In fact she slept quite early and Sergio left, saying he had other things to do. This confuses Corazon and makes her plot to bring Marimar and Sergio together.

Meanwhile Sergio is woken up by Arturo. He had fallen asleep in his mom’s office desk. He intends to take an active part in the management and development of the Santibanez resort and is catching up on the many reports he’s missed in the many months he’d spent abroad. Arturo asked him why he seems to be avoiding Marimar and he explains that he has no intentions of consumating his marriage with Marimar given that he only wanted to get back at his father and Angelika. He does like Marimar and cares for her so if he does not go beyond their contact at present, he would feel much better as she wouldn’t be as hurt than if they had been more intimate.

For lunch, she gives the couple a huge platter full of seafood aphrodisiacs to which Marimar declines stating that those are her friends. She asks for chicken instead while Sergio feasts on the colorful and delicious looking lunch.

He then formally introduces Marimar to the resort staff when Renato arrives and shows his displeasure as to how Sergio seems to be upstaging him. Angelika tells Renato that she finds Sergio a better husband to Marimar than Renato is to her for at least Sergio introduced Marimar to the staff as his wife while Renator never really did that for her.

Corazon overheard Sergio set a massage appointment with the resident masseuse, and took Marimar to the spa. Conniving with the masseuse, Corazon had arranged for Marimar to take the place of the masseuse when it is Sergio’s turn to be massaged. This way, the newlywed will have the opportunity to be on their own and perhaps have that “union” that seems to be lacking.

Meanwhile, Angelika and Monica are set to go out shopping when a cousin of Angelika’s, Inocencia (Nadine Samonte), seeks her help but Angelika sends her away threatening her cousin that should she see her again in the premises, she will not think twice about running her over.

Sergio arrives at the spa that causes both Corazon and the masseuse to leave Marimar abruptly. She hides herself as Sergio enters and lies on the table. With his back to Marimar, he does not know that it wasn’t their regular masseuse who was massaging him. He urges the masseuse to press harder when Marimar speaks “But I don’t really know if I’m doing this right!” Startled, Sergio sits up and is clearly amused at to how far Marimar would go just to please him.

Facing the standing Marimar, Sergio asked her is she really wanted to learn how to do massages. She says yes and he places her hands on his shoulders. He pulls her into a tender embrace and just when the mood is about to become romantic, Sergio feels the beginning rumbles of his stomach. He remembered his lunch of seafood indulgence and leaves Marimar quickly.

Thus, round two is lost leaving Marimar to sleep all alone in bed and Sergio sleeping in his mother’s desk in the guise – well not really – of an upset stomach.

Quotables: Marimar to Sergio on the seafood platter "Sige ikaw na lang kumain, mukhang mga magulang yan ng mga kaibigan ko sa dagat eh." How could she tell? Oh well...

Episode 11

Season 1, Episode 11 – The one about Marimar’s Party

Angelika is busy fixing Marimar’s face, giving her make-up and advise on how to behave in the party. Monica and Fifi look on surprised at how naive Marimar is.

When the guests arrived, Angelika present Marimar to them. She looked like a clown in her overly-made-up face and a very unflatering smock. Despite this, Sergio proudly introduces Marimar to everyone as his wife which only angered Angelika more.

She then tasked Monica to talk to Sergio while she makes Marimar drink some alcoholic beverages. Not used to drinking, Marimar gets drunk immediately. Playing on her innocence, Angelika told Marimar that Monica is in love with Sergio and in fact the two are talking and flirting with one another.

This causes Marimar to be enraged as she attacks Monica and Sergio. The guests were in shock. In the scuffle, Sergio accidentally pushes Marimar and she fell into the pool. This caused Marimar to lash out at the guests asking whether it’s their first time to ever see a wet woman. Sergio asks her to come away with him but she refuses, saying this is her party and she will do whatever she wants. Renato, feeling quite embarrased, asked Sergio to take car of his wife and not create more scandal. He sees Angelika and Monica who seemed to be in a celebratory mood and suspected whether her wife had a hand in this.

Meanwhile Sergio carried off Marimar to his pad and was calming her down. He told her he needs to go back to the party to bid the guests farewell and will be back soon. He left Marimar to the able hands of Corazon (Manilyn Reynes) who convinces Marimar that she needs a nice warm bath.

In the bathroom, Marimar is enjoying the bubbles when she accidentally turned on the jacuzzi causing her to scream about a monster in the water. Sergio who was apologising to guests and saying his farewells heard this and he ran to Marimar’s rescue. He smiles as he discovers what it was that scared her and when he bent to turn off the jacuzzi, he slipped and fell into the bath with his wife.

Their eyes locked and Sergio asked Marimar not to look at him that way. “What way”, she asked and he replied, “That way when you look like you want me to kiss you.” Marimar admits, “but I do want you to kiss me”, and just when they were about to kiss, Angelika with Renato hot on her heels pushes open the bathroom door.

Sergio asks for a bit of privacy and the clearly disappointed Angelika steps back. Renato agrees and declares that all seems well and that they should leave the two lovebirds on their own.

Sergio and Marimar continue where they were abruptly interrupted leaving Angelika to worry that Sergio seems to have indeed fallen for Marimar.

My take: Maldita talaga si Angelika but Katrina is getting better at acting ha. Also Monica is not as dim-witted as you'd think, giving her flirtiest best to Sergio. But sana pumili naman sila ng maganda-gandang mga guests kuning-kuning....eh kahit mukhang clown si Marimar at losyangeisha ang kasuotan, eh mas maganda pa rin sha sa mga guestings in gown. Mas mga mukhang dukha naman ang mga guestings! Next time, find better looking talents - kahit extra 0 yung papasa naman miembro ng alta sociedad!

Pero every shameful scene on Marimar's part and every ugly guest forgotten when that bathtub scene came on screen. Hay.....it sizzles....the heat is palpable, parang gusto ko rin mag-bubble bath!

Quotables: Marimar screams "Bakit, ngayon lang ba kayo nakakita ng babaeng basa?" Ang taray! And I love her when she put het foot down and declared "Di ako aalis, di pa party ko ito?" Go girl!

Episode 10

Season 1, Episode 10 – The one where Marimar and Sergio gets married

Marimar, Fulgoso, Pancho and Cruz were early at the Mayor’s office for Sergio and Marimar’s wedding. It is a happy day for these simple folks. Cruz laments that Marimar and Sergio are only getting a civil ceremony. Had it been up to her, she would have preferred a church wedding. However Marimar assured her that maybe after a year, she and Sergio will get a church wedding. The family then sat and waited for Sergio to arrive.

Angelika is in a bad mood because today is Sergio’s and Marimar’s wedding day but she is trying not to be too upset as Renato is keeping a careful eye on her. He even went on to tease Angelika whether they should attend or not. Renato is obviously enjoying how anxious and stressed Angelika is about all this.

Meanwhile Marimar and party have been waiting a long time for Sergio to arrive. The mayor told them that is Sergio does not arrive by noon, he will have to go because he’s got to keep an engagement in another town. Marimar is worried and close to tears but Cruz assures her despite not being too successful about it that Sergio will come and Marimar should have more faith.

Arturo enters Sergio’s room to see him on the floor, drunk and asleep. He wakes him up and reminds him that today is his wedding day. Sergio wakes up with an obvious hang over.

Marimar is now crying and wondering why Sergio stood her up. The mayor is about to leave when Sergio arrives and apologises to Marimar for being so late but assured her that they are getting married. He wipes her tears and asked the mayor to proceed with the ceremony.

Sergio takes Marimar to live with him in the Santibanez villa despite Renato and Angelika’s evident dislike of his new bride. Angelika takes a different route in ruining Marimar. She asks Marimar to be friends and bury the past. She then tells Marimar that she will hold a special party for her to introduce her to their circle of friends. Marimar thanks Angelika for her kindness.

Meanwhile Monica and Angelika proceeds with their plans of ruining the innocent Marimar.

My take: Had it been me, I'd have walked out the minute the groom is late. But well this is soap on TV and yeah...at bit over the top but well he did come, biceps and all so alright. Marimar is truly naive...but I guess that's how the story goes.

Episode 9

Season 1, Episode 9 – The one where Marimar dreams of a wedding tragedy

Sergio arrives just in time to save Marimar from being raped by Nicandro. Sergio beats Nicandro and the beaten maniac ran away. Sergio gently wakes Marimar and when she woke up, she asks Sergio is he does loves her. He answers her with a tender hug and kisses.

When he asks her what caused her to leave her grandparents home, she cries about her ruined dress. Sergio laughs and assures her that she will have the most beautiful wedding dress she could ever want. He then takes Marimar to a wedding planner and they had a happy time choosing the best wedding gown.

Marimar shows off her beautiful new wedding gown to her grandparents and asks for Cruz to forgive her for ruining her old dress. Both elders asked her where she got her new dress and she happily declared that Sergio helped her choose it. Both grandparents were quite upset that they didn’t seem to be following tradition. According to custom, a groom should not see his bride in her wedding dress before the wedding day, otherwise this would cause bad luck. Marimar was quite upset about this and hurriedly took off her gown.

Sergio talks to Arturo about what happened to him, Angelika and Renato earlier that day and confides his hesitation about pushing through with his wedding plans. He is getting married in the morning.

Later that same evening, Marimar wakes up from a bad dream: it was her wedding day and on the altar she and Sergio are being married by Padre Porres with Pancho, Cruz, Fulgoso and Arturo as witnesses. They are about to kiss as husband and wife when an unknow woman shows up with a gun and shouts to stop the wedding. She then fires her gun at Marimar.
Lola Cruz assured Marimar that it is only a bad dream and that tomorrow, she will have a happy wedding day.

My take: Parang naligaw yung character ni Ashley Calibre (Katrina's role in Lupin) sa dream/nightmare wedding ng Marimar. Di nga kaya matuloy ang kasal?

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Episode 8

Season 1, Episode 8 – The one where Marimar almost got raped

Renato gives Angelika a cute dog which she named Fifi (voiced by Ruffa Mae Quinto). Angelika calls on her assistant, Perfecta (Mel Kimura) to take care of her dog.

Marimar is washing her wedding dress to make sure that it is sparkling white on her wedding day. She is talking excitedly to Fulgoso when she accidentally rips the lacey part of her dress. Troubled, she rushes off in search of Sergio to ask his advise about where to find a tailor who can fix her now-ruined dress.

On her way, she meets Nicardro who had been harboring a mix of lustful feelings and vengeance for Marimar. He pretends to be sorry for his harshness and asks Marimar if they could be friends. He offers Marimar a bottle of juice he had previously mixed with sleeping pills. When Marimar accepts his apology and offers her friendship, he encourages Marimar to drink the juice to which she obliged. She got dizzy and Nicandro carries her to an empty cottage. Fulgoso runs to look for Sergio at the villa Santibanez.

Angelika in desparation to stop the wedding goes to Sergio’s room and kisses Sergio passioantely. Renato arrives and sees the two lip-locked. Father and son engage in a boxing match where the enraged Renato wins over Sergio. Angelika stops them from hitting each other and Renato made her choose. Sergio implores Angelika to choose him but Angelika chose Renato instead. This caused Sergio to walk out and he sees Fulgoso who seems to be asking him to follow his lead.
My take: Parang masarap na nakakatakot maging Angelika. Imagine two gorgeous hunks are fighting over you. Ba't di na lang kasi sila mag-share...like Brooke Logan in the Bold and the Beautiful...diba mag-ama din sina Ridge and (forgot father's name).

Episode 7

Season 1, Episode 7 – The one where Angelika bribes Marimar

Angelika tells Marimar that Sergio comes from a rich family and would prefer a more sophisticated wife. She gives out at check of five million pesos to bribe Marimar into not going through with the wedding. Seeing how her grandmother seems to be ill, Angelika pushed Marimar that with five million she could do a lot of things, especially help her sick grandmother get better. But Marimar returned Angelika’s check saying that although they are poor and needed money her love is not for sale. She loves Sergio and she will marry him. This upsets Angelika who leaves immediately.

Marimar is at the Santibanez villa waiting for Sergio when Nicandro spots her. He approaches her and tells her that she has caught a big fish in the person of Sergio. Nicardro asked her how she did it? Whether she used her “charms” and Marimar is obviously confused about what Nicandro is talking about. He continues to harrass Marimar, even went as far as snatching her arm and asking for a kiss. This enrages Marimar and Fulgoso who barks loudly and bit Nicandro on the leg. Sergio saw this and tells Nicandro to get his hands off Marimar. He also reprimands the man that should this happen again, he will be searching for a new job. Nicandro swear vengenace on both Marimar and Fulgoso.

Marimar tries to teach Sergio to dance but the young man admits to having two left feet when it comes to dancing. She shows his her moves and encourages him to follow her. He dances consciously and he sees how natural all this comes to Marimar. They hug and kiss again with Marimar expressly admiting her love for Sergio. This stunned Sergio who was unable to say the same thing to Marimar. This gives a cloud into their happy day – with Marimar left thinking that maybe Sergio does not really love her...but how come he asked her to marry him if he didn’t?

Angelika tells Monica that Sergio is only using Marimar to make her feel jealous but she is certain that Sergio still loves her. She is thinking of a way to get rid of Marimar so that she will have Sergio all to herself like before.

Meanwhile Renato confronts Angelika about a matter worth five million pesos. This amount had been taken off their joint savings. Angelika said she took it but did not use it and that the money is still available. Renato warns her about her feelings for Sergio and that he will kill her first before she ever betrays him.

Renato asked Monica out for lunch and interviews her about what Angelika has been telling her about Sergio.

My take: You relly begin to dislike Angelika at this point but pity her at the same time at how she's being treated by Renato.

Episode 6

Season 1, Episode 6 – The one where Sergio introduces Marimar to Renato and Angelika

Sergio brought Marimar to the Santibanez mansion to introduce her to Renato and Angelika. When Renato found out who she was, he reprimanded his son for his poor choice of a wife. Sergio retorted that nothing is wrong with his choice, his mother who had passed away herself chose a poor fisherman to be her husband. This caught the ire of Renato who didn’t want to be reminded by his own son about his impoverished past.

Sergio gave Marimar better fitting shoes and invited her to dine in a restaurant. When the latter found eating difficult using cutleries, Sergio tells the waiter to remove all cutleries as they have decided to eat with their hands. This pleased Marimar and surprised many of the other diners. The two however didn’t care and ate to their hearts content.

Marimar visits Padre Porres telling him about her marriage plans. She also asks the priest to teach her to write her and Sergio’s name so she is able to sign properly on her marriage contract.

Later, Marimar and Sergio were together and Marimar shows him what she’s learned. She also draws a picture of her and Sergio with a huge heart in the middle. This pleases Sergio as he hugs and kisses Marimar tenderly.

Sergio confides to Arturo how he likes Marimar but still loves Angelika. However he does not really want to go through with the wedding because he does not want to hurt Marimar. He is in a serious pickle on how he would be able to continue hurting and upsetting his parents without having to go through with the wedding.

Meanwhile Cruz gives Marimar a present, her wedding dress which she wore on her own wedding. She tells Marimar that a few adjustments are needed then the dress will be ready for Marimar to use. While sticthing the dress, Cruz got a dizzy spell which alarmed Pancho and Marimar. Marimar runs to Padre Porres and asks for advice as well as some medicine to help her grandmother. The priest tells her that maybe she should take her grandmother to a hospital to get a proper check-up to know what is really wrong with her. Being poor, Marimar said that this would be quite impossible to do as where would they be able to find the money to go through the expensive tests and medication. She goes home to find an unexpected visitor.

Quotables: Renato to Sergio "Ano ba naman yang babaeng pakakasalan mo? Alalahanin mo isa kang Santibanez."

My take: I like the way Sergio stands up for Marimar. If he is only using her to serve his purpose, napaka-gallant naman nya. He can use me anytime!