Jane is faced with another tough decision to make. Instead of having to choose between two guys, this time she has to choose between teaching and taking a writing internship.
Things have been going really well for Jane at the school. It’s been hard to tell since we haven’t been show much of her work life since that incident with her stepsisters transferring into her class and giving her hell. It turns out her students love her, even the stepsisters. The students love her so much that they gave Jane the highest score on her teacher evaluation, so the school offers her a full-time position.
That same day Jane visits Rogelio on the set of his show. He announces to everyone that Jane is the new writing intern, without even offering her the gig. Being a professional writer has been Jane’s dream, and since she can’t decide which job to take, she decides to do both the internship and teaching. Immediately, Rogelio takes Jane to sit in with the writers of the show. They ask for any ideas she might have and decide to use the one idea she gives in the show. Things seem great, right?
Wrong. Jane goes back to the set on the day that they’re filming the idea she pitched. But, when she see what they were filming she realized that Rogelio told the writers to act as though they liked her idea. She confronts Rogelio and tells him she’s upset because she has an important decision to make and she can’t have him doing things like that. Rogelio agrees. He then asks Jane to write him a scene. This way he can see whether or not she’s a good writer.
In addition to working the internship and teaching, Jane is prepping Rafael for dinner with her family. She’s quizzed him on all the things he’ll need to know for Xiomara and Abuela to like him, especially since Xiomara isn’t too fond of him.
At dinner, the topic of Jane’s decision about work comes up. Abuela says Jane should take the teaching position. Rafael agrees with Xiomara that Jane should take the internship because writing is her passion. What Xiomara doesn’t agree with is Rafael telling Jane that while she takes on the internship, he’d support her financially. One might think this is a nice gesture, especially since the guy is loaded. But Xiomara, Abuela, and Jane are strong, independent women and she doesn’t like the idea of Jane depending on Rafael financially. Rafael mentions he’s family and it’d be helping out but Xiomara makes it clear that Rafael isn’t family. He begs to differ stating that he is family now, especially since he’s the baby’s father. Xiomara’s response to his baby daddy remark? “Not on purpose.”
Xiomara eventually goes to visit Rafael to apologize for her behavior at dinner. Rafael apologizes as well. He asks Xiomara why she doesn’t like him. She feels that Rafael isn’t right for Jane. He sees the world from atop of that hotel, while they live their lives down below.
Back on set of The Passions of Santos, Jane watches as Rogelio reads the scene she wrote. She asks for his honest opinion. His opinion is that it sucks. She wanted the truth and he gave it to her but he does offer some sort of fatherly advice. “You can’t expect to become an expert overnight.”
Later, Rogelio visits Xiomara at home. She had been avoiding him because of her chastity promise to God. Rogelio arrives to find Xiomara looking a bit too comfortable. She is dressed in drab sweats and no makeup, but Rogelio doesn’t seem to care. After dinner and a lot of wine they end up in Xiomara’s bed. While things are getting hot and heavy, Xiomara envisions Abuela in bed with them. Abuela tells her, “God see everything.” Followed by, “Me too.” Xiomara screams and jumps out of bed. Rogelio screams too. He asks what’s wrong but she doesn’t give him an answer.
At the hotel, Lachlan returns. Petra tells him about Ivan and Milos, and how she owes Ivan money. She’s afraid of receiving tulips, which is Milos’s calling card for her. Lachlan places Petra and Magda in a suite that’s under security so they won’t have to be afraid. Lachlan sees this as an opportunity to either win back Petra or take advantage of her vulnerability. I’d say the latter, especially since later on we see Lachlan has placed yellow tulips in Petra’s bathroom. She doesn’t know it was Lachlan who placed them there and is afraid Milos will show up sooner than expected.
Rose is still concerned with the whereabouts of Emilio (Mr. Solano) and his possible involvements with Sin Rostro. Rafael tries to keep her calm but she’s adamant about going to the police if they find anything that connects Emilio to everything that has been going on at the hotel. This prompts Rafael to investigate on his own. Maybe because he knows something that he doesn’t want Rose to find out?
Rafael visits Aldicott Construction, the company that did all the work on the hotel, to find out about the tunnel. They deny having seen or worked on any tunnels at the hotel. As Rafael is leaving a worker stops him. The man tells Rafael that he knows who worked on the bathroom/tunnel of the hotel and will give Rafael the information for a small fee.
Rafael meets with the man who supposedly did the construction in the bathroom with the tunnel and the guy isn’t too happy to have Rafael there. He demands that Rafael leave. The man makes a phone call and tells the person on the line that “someone showed up asking questions.” All the while, Michael is taking photos of the interaction between Rafael and the unknown man.
When Rafael leaves and the unknown man walks away towards the back, Michael makes his way over to where the man left his phone laying out in the open. The man walks in on Michael looking through the phone and proceeds to knock out Michael with one punch.
While this was going on with Michael, Jane gets into a fender bender due to lack of rest and working too much. Xiomara makes her go to the hospital to get checked out. In the hospital room, with Xiomara and Rafael, Jane feels the baby kick for the first time. Rafael tells Jane that she needs to make a decision between teaching and the writing internship. Xiomara finally agrees with Rafael on something.
In another room, at the same hospital, are Michael and Nadine. Michael was beaten pretty bad by that guy. Nadine confronts Michael of his recent behavior and asks if it has anything to do with Jane. He says no, but Nadine believes otherwise.
Rogelio shows up at the hospital to check on Jane. Xiomara finally tells him about her vow of chastity. Shockingly, Rogelio says he’ll wait until Xiomara decides it’s the right time.
As Jane is about to leave the hospital, she gets a phone call. Turns out she’s still Michael’s emergency contact. She goes to visit with him. He looks at Jane with puppy dog eyes. Michael sees it as a sign that they’re both at the hospital at the same time. Jane asks Michael if he’s waiting for her. “Of course I am.” He tells her that whatever is going on with her and Rafael won’t last. But she says Michael is wrong. He asks Jane if at the end of the day she can see herself with Rafael. Jane says yes. Michael tells her he’ll change his emergency contact. Something that should’ve been done a long time ago, boo.
Outside of Michael’s hospital room, Nadine looks in through the window. She can’t hear what’s being said, but the adoring look in Michael’s eyes towards Jane says it all. Nadine calls their Lieutenant to say that Michael disobeyed the Lieutenant’s orders. And this, my friends, is why you don’t mix work with pleasure.
The next day, Jane goes back on set to tell Rogelio that she has decided to stick with the teaching job. Jane comes across the head writer of the show, Dina Milagro. Dina tells Jane that she read the scene she wrote. She proceeds to encourage Jane by stating the scene was really good and Jane has talent. Of course, this makes Jane change her mind. She decides to stick with the writing internship instead.
Cut to the writer’s room, where Dina and Rogelio’s assistant, Nicholas, are alone. Dina hangs up the phone and tells Nicholas, “It’s done. Jane’s staying.” And then they passionately make out. These two are definitely up to no good.
