Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay

Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay Format Drama, RomanceStarring (see cast) for complete details. Country of origin PhilippinesNo. of episodes 200 Production Running time 45 Minutes Broadcast Original channel ABS-CBNOriginal run July 2, 2002– 2003External links IMDb profile

Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay (How Long I Have Waited For You) is a Filipino soap opera, produced by ABS-CBN and Star Cinema. It started in 2001 and ended in 2003.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production Credits
4 Trivia

Plot

Lorna Tolentino stars as twins Lorrea and Lorrinda Guinto. They grow up with the family Francis Ventaspero (Ricky Davao). Lorrea and Lorrinda fall for with the same man Boris (John Estrada). One night Lorrinda couldn't meet with Boris and she asks Lorrea to pretend to be her. They make love. Francis rapes Lorrea. Lorrea is pregnant and the question arises to francis and boris as who is the father of her child Andrei

In an attempt to get away from the Ventasperos, who kidnapped her son away from her, she gets her child from the mansion. The of francis father gets killed. Lorrea gets blamed.

In the pier, she went down to get Andrei food but is caught by police. Andrei is left with an acquaintance met on the boat. The boat sinks but Andrei is saved by somebody (name unknown). The one who saved him named him Yuri and eventually dies.

The brother of the guy who saves Yuri takes care of him.The guy is bad.He force Yuri and Ivan to work to earn money.He often tells Ivan that he dreams of a woman crying at the pier waving at him. (Andrei on the ship, Lorrea crying and waving incessantly at him).They ran away to Manila and eventually ended up with a child syndicate. Ivan gets busted by police and Yuri escapes. He is adopted by Mirdo (Ronnie Lazaro).

Years went by. Lorrea in jail, and meets Lorrinda inside. Lorrinda asks Lorea if she wants one day of freedom, as Lorrinda, through her special privileges, gets out of jail during nights. She agrees but then the cell was bombed by Brigitta Vertero (Bing Loyzaga), who is in love with Henri Argos.

Lorrea assumes the life of Ingrid, through Boris' prodding, in a hope to find her son. Lorrea is now Ingrid Medrano a.k.a Red Butterfly, mistress of drug lord Henri Argos (Edu Manzano), and stepmom to Helaena (Rica Peralejo), Katrina (Bea Alonzo), and Nikos (Alwyn Uytingco). Once again, Yuri meets his unknown mother now pretending to be Red but they do not know each other.Mirdo and Yuri live at a place called Sittio Nuaves. He befriend with Kayla.one day,Yuri got an offer from one university in Manila.so he went to Manila and met Helaena,leaving his father and kayla.but after a few months, Kayla and Mirdo will follow Yuri to Manila.after a few incident, Yuri and Helaena becomes friends. Yuri falls on Helaena, much to Kayla displeasure cause Kayla loves him.They become boyfriend and girlfriend, but Yuri realizes that his "pards", Kayla (Dimples Romana), is the one he truly loves. Mirdo then will work with Helaena's father, Henri. Mirdo and Henri used to be friends. Mirdo wants save Henri from being caught by the police. Lorrea then marry Henri in order to save Borris.

Yuri and Ivan also meet again but due to Yuri's blunders, Ivan goes to jail and his adopted mother commits suicide. As revenge Ivan tells Lorrinda that her son Andrei is dead. Ivan says to himself "If I can't have a mother, then Yuri will not have one also."

Eventually Henry Argos criminal empire falls apart and he dies, Yuri also witnesses Red shoot his adoptive father and Briggitta's evil sister Lady Morganna (Jean Garcia) arrives on the scene to screw up the lives of the Argos children and Red, with the help of Dimitri Mijares (Johnny Delgado.Everybody tries to escape, and they were ambushed. Henri dies. Kayla is hit. All hell broke lose when Henri is caught as the drug lord, leaving his kids astonished and penniless. On the fateful day that Helaena went to Yuri's house, she overhears Yuri saying to his adoptive father Mirdo that Kayla is the one he loves and not Helaena.

Yuri and Mirdo are kidnapped separately. A voice instructs Lorrea to shoot Mirdo in order to save Yuri, with Yuri seeing the whole thing. Mirdo dies. Lorrea pulls the trigger but it is actually somebody else that hit Mirdo. Yuri vows revenge. Lorrea is then blown up. But she falls for Boris Arcangel and marries him.everybody thought the Lorrea die in an explosion that smashed her half of her face.Lorrea goes into hiding with francis and heartbroken as she thinks Yuri is dead.

Eight years later Lorrea resurfaces when she discovers Yuri is alive and she goes to Dimitri's place to look for him. She works as Morgana's gardener for a while before her true identity is discovered. She then marries Dimitri who tries to make up for the havoc he caused in her and Yuri's life. Brigitta also dies at this time. She took poison in jail.

Fast forward and Helaena becomes a prostitute. Anilov, Dimitri's son, whom he is at odds with, because Dimitri's favorite is Anilov's sister. She died because of drugs (that Argos supplies), has a party planning company. He falls for her. And makes her to work for his company. And has an alter ego "Mr. X", which Helaena has talking sessions with. Yuri treats Morganna as his second mom. Boris married Morgana, without Boris knowing about what Morganna did.

Yuri, is now a lawyer. He was adopted by Dimitri, who felt guilty about the whole thing. Kayla is in Europe. He meets Katrina and they fall in love. Katrina, recognizes Yuri but Yuri does not. Kathrina wanted to avenge her sister at first. But eventually falls in love too. The scene where Helaena found out about their relationship was a real highlight.Finding out Lorrea is alive, Boris starts to fall in love with her again, to Morganna's dismay. Morganna and Dimitri doesn't see eye to eye anymore. Morganna killed him.

Lorrea's face is fixed through surgery. Yuri and Helaena then realise that Lea is Lorrea. Yuri then prosecutes Lorrea as the killer of his father. Dimitri defendes the case and wins. In the end, it is revealed that Lorrinda is alive and had amnesia. The senate hearing where Lorrea is being charged with drug trafficking proved to be the most riveting. Yuri prosecuting his own mother. Anilov defending.

Helaena and Anilov finds out that Yuri is Lorrea's son. They tell Yuri but Yuri does not believe. He thinks that Lorrea is still Ingrid Medrano / Red Butterfly and since that both Lorrea and Lorrinda had no birth certificates, he thinks she is lying. (the birth certificates had long been pulled out by Lorrinda to erase trace on her). Lorrea is locked in a cell. They have a fight and Lorrea's hand is scratched. Lorrinda appears before Yuri and Yuri says it's not possible. He looks at her hands and sees no scratch. He then believes that Lorrea is her mother and that she in fact has a twin.Morgana then tries to kill Lorrea but she end up killing Borris in public.Morgana then kill her self in jail.In the end,Helaena will marry Anilov and have a son. After Borris and Morgana die,Lorrea takes care of their daughter, Alyssa. Katrina become a lawyer. Yuri is now a law lecture in a university. Yuri accept Francis and Lorrea as his biological parents.

Cast

Lorna Tolentino as Lorrea Guinto/Lea Mijares, Lorrinda Guinto/Ingrid Medrano/Red Butterfly
John Lloyd Cruz as Yuri Orbida
Rica Peralejo as Helaena Argos
John Estrada as Boris Arcangel
Edu Manzano as Henry Argos
Jean Garcia as Morgana
Bea Alonzo as Katrina Argos
Ricky Davao as Francis Ventaspejo
Johnny Delgado as Dimitri Mijares
Ronnie Lazaro as Mirdo Orbida
Bernard Palanca as Anilov Mijares
Bing Loyzaga as Brigida
Shaina Magdayao as Guinivere Martinez
Alwyn Uytingco as Nikolai Argos
Dimples Romana as Kayla Reneza
Jhong Hilario as Ivan