Eli, who has just been reunited with his mother Gloria, tells her all about the trials and tribulations he has gone through. His mother, on the other hand, is adamant about all this, but tells him that the only thing that kept her going all through these years was her yearning to be with her son again. Eli is glad that his mom is on her road to recovery.

Meanwhile, Gloria finds Eli’s birth certificate, and regains a lost part of her past. She remembers finding out that her infant son has mysteriously disappeared. She remembers running out in the rain, desperately seeking him. And she remembers overhearing Corazon on the phone with Fidel, arranging her son’s disappearance. And thus she gets in touch with the root of her depression. Angrily, she confronts her sister, who is shocked to learn that Fidel meant to kill her nephew.

Jackie also confronts her dad, who tells her that the case against Eli has been lifted as the decision of a loving father, when in reality he only gave in to Oca’s blackmailing. He then manipulates Corazon into keeping mum about the whole matter, saying that it was Gloria’s treachery that broke his heart and led him to do what he did. Obviously, the scheming Fidel is still far from a change of heart.

Finally, JB overhears Gloria and Eli, and waits for the latter outside. He tries to offer Eli money so he would leave ‘his’ family alone, but Eli rejects this – and the two reluctant cousins still remain mortal enemies.