![]() ![]() ![]() When he is finally out, he has to fight hard to gain the trust and love of young Carlitos, a mischievous troublemaker who, in turn, hates him because “he is not his real father.” After the incident previously mentioned, where Memo came home with the fiancée and in-laws, and Carlitos suddenly burst into the middle of the gathering, naked and screaming obscenities, leading to an argument between Memo and Jimmy, Jimmy and the boy finally have a heart-to-heart and find a catharsis, which moves Jimmy to change his life for the sake of his son Carlitos embraces him as his father, and they move away together to Texas. Sadly, Isabel dies giving birth to their child Carlitos (Paul Robert Langdon), which enrages and destabilizes Jimmy again, sending him to prison for battery and armed robbery. He reluctantly agrees, at the behest of Toni, to marry a Salvadoran woman, Isabel (Elpidia Carrillo), in order to save her from deportation at first, he wants nothing to do with her, but eventually, they grow closer, confide their deepest sorrows on each other and end up expecting a child together. Finally, Jimmy (played as an adult by Jimmy Smits), the youngest child and the bearer of the brunt of all the family’s trauma, grows up to be constantly at odds with the law.Guillermo “Memo” (played as an adult by Enrique Castillo), the second-to-last child, goes on to become a lawyer and “the pride and joy of the family.” However, he finds himself butting heads with his relatives when he brings a fiancée -and her parents- to meet everyone, and an embarrassing incident sours up the moment.Toni (Constance Marie), the other daughter, announces in her youth she wants to become a nun, only to later give up the habits and marry a former priest, David (Scott Bakula), much to her parents’ shock, confusion, and dismay.Irene (played as an older woman by Lupe Ontiveros), the eldest daughter, eventually marries and opens a restaurant where Paco himself is seen working as a waiter.Chucho (Esai Morales), the oldest boy and second child, after being on the run from the law for a bit in the wake of a gang-related accidental death he was involved in, ends up being shot and killed by the Police in front of his kid brother Jimmy (played as a boy by Jonathan Hernandez). ![]()
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