Reina de Corazones(Queen Of Hearts) Episode 3

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Reina has lost all memory of the last eight years. She believes it is now October 12, 2006. (This is the precise day she met Nicolás, but her memory cuts off a few hours before that time.) The last thing she remembers is tripping on some steps -- she was wearing high heels and she wasn't used to them. And then she woke up in this hospital room.
 

She remembers her friend Connie and her job as a seamstress. But she knows nothing about her husband or her daughter or her career. 

The only person she recognizes is her predatory half-sister Delfina, who somehow squeezes past Victor and his embargo on Reina's past. Doctora Alzoagui? Reina can't believe it! She has been so near-sighted all her life, but she can read the small letters on the doctor's nametag. Could a bump on the head cure myopia? No, it's laser surgery that can do that. Maybe that's the turning point.

 Reina comes to understand that people are telling her the truth, and that a big chunk of her memory is missing. She is diagnosed with severe focal retrograde amnesia, and it's anybody's guess as to whether those missing eight years will ever come back. Victor thinks that's not such a bad thing...

 We learn that Reina has been living in Victor's house for eight years and is a hugely successful designer with a reputation for being somewhat remote and inaccessible privately.

Nicolás Five years earlier, Agent Smith (Laura Flores) spirited Nicolás away from prison so he could work for her in the CIA.

 He was given a new identity, Javier Bolívar, and underwent intensive physical and mental training. His few friends were told he had died. Estefanía mourned him and left flowers on his empty grave. 

After three years of successful missions for the agency, Javier is ready for his greatest challenge: he is to make Reina Ortiz fall in love with him. Smith intends to use Reina to get at her husband, Victor de Rosas. Javier still believes that Reina did him dirty. 

He tries to turn down the mission, but Smith won't allow it. 

Javier is instructed to install cameras on the grounds of the de Rosas mansion. He manages to do it successfully, though he does have a skirmish with several security guards. Estefanía Stefi's partner Andrés is in Europe and she is flying solo in her casino. 

Nicolás explains his return from the grave by feeding her a line about escaping from prison and establishing a new, well-documented but illegal identity. He tells her his purpose in life is getting vengeance on Reina.

 Curiously, she has a similar and compatible life-goal -- getting vengeance on Victor. They decide to join forces. Inexplicably -- and hilariously -- she has the hots for Javier. They writhe and pose on a pool table together. Stefi also befriends Victor's ex-wife Susana when she meets her in the casino one evening. 

Stefi tells Susana that she had a daughter who died at birth. Victor There's not much new about him tonight. We get to see Victor with his friend, the honest cop. We also get some glimpses of Greta, his mouthy adolescent daughter. Victor reams out Isidro for the ineptness of the home security team. 

Lázaro and the homeboys Lázaro doesn't realize that it was Nicolás/Javier who got him out of prison. He believes that Nicolás is dead. 

When he steps outside the prison gates, his son Roman runs up to greet him. Juanjo and Connie are there too and obviously happy for him. Miriam, Roman's mother, stands apart from the others and kind of sneers. We recognize Miriam as one of Estefanía's employees at the casino. 

Later, Lázaro tells them all that he was trained as a nurse in prison and he's going to look for work in that field. Miriam kind of sneers. 

Connie thinks Reina snubbed her years ago (though she didn't -- it was the odious bitch Delfina). She misses the old Reina. 

The End of the Episode Reina's homecoming is watched intently from CIA headquarters. All the phones in the de Rosas house are tapped. And Javier is ready for his mission!

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