Archive

“Jane the Virgin” recap (1.4): Heartbreak

Let me start by saying that, unfortunately, there was no lesbian sexy time in this episode of Jane the Virgin. In fact, there was no sign of Dr. Luisa. But, we were graced by Rose’s presence. She was worried about Luisa, and whether or not she had fallen off the wagon. Rose leaves Luisa a voice message stating that if she isn’t back in time for the hearing, then Jane will receive a default judgment and Rafael loses his share of the hotel. We want more “Ruisa” (Luisa and Rose)!!!!

The episode begins with Jane, Michael and Xiomara sitting around the dining room table, dressed with wedding magazines, busy planning the wedding that is a week away. While everyone around her is happy about the wedding planning, Jane sits with an unhappy look on her face. She blames it on the pressure of planning the wedding in such a short amount of time. Later that night, with Michael asleep next to her, Jane has a sex dream of Rafael going down on her.

The next day, Jane tells Xiomara about the dream. Xiomara’s advice is for Jane to avoid Rafael until her feelings for him go away. Not so easy, especially when the man is technically her boss. At work that same day, Rafael is waiting for Jane at the bar to ask her to write an article on the hotel for the magazine. Since the dream, a halo glows around Rafael’s head whenever she sees him. Jane agrees to help him out. After a dream like the one she had, how could she say no!

After that, Mr. Solano tells Rafael that he is upset about the memorial he threw in Zazo’s honor, with the investigation still going on. He feels that Rafael needs supervision, and since he won’t be able to stick around and supervise, he brings in the VP of his company, Lachlan. Lachlan was promoted over Rafael, years ago, when Rafael was still a playboy. And turns out, Lachlan was engaged to Petra when Rafael swooped in and stole her heart. That is, if she has a heart. And as you might have guessed it, Lachlan is as dirty as Petra. Overhearing Rafael’s plans for expansion, he meets with Petra where she agrees to help him with his own plans for expansion so he can one up Rafael.

That afternoon, Jane and Michael attend a pre-cana with Fr. Ortega. Pre-cana is a meeting non-married couples are to have with a priest before they can get married in the church. The awkward Fr. Ortega describes marriage as a vehicle that will hit bumps in the road. Aside from Jane being pregnant, the second bump is Jane having feelings for Rafael. After telling Fr. Ortega about the pregnancy mishap, he asks Jane if there was a physical connection between her and Rafael. She hesitates, a very long hesitation. This didn’t sit right with Michael. Jane then explains the sexy dream she had of Rafael. Michael leaves for work infuriated with Jane.

Back at the hotel, Jane makes it a point to tell Rafael that from that day forward she will no longer speak with him and will only communicate with Petra in regards to the baby. Her reasoning is the fact that she’s suing Rafael’s sister, Luisa. But, before she can do that she comes across Rogelio in the pool area, who is stalking his daughter again. She runs away from Rogelio after he tells her getting married in a week is too soon. Now she is creeped out by him and runs off, but not before running into Rafael about a hundred feet away. Jane tells Rafael they shouldn’t speak anymore. He inches forward and she inches back. Jane falls into the pool and Rafael, being the chivalrous guy that he is, jumps into the four feet of water to save Jane. They both find it comical and are mid laughter when Michael passes by and sees them. Jane runs after him but Michael doesn’t want to hear what she has to say. Instead, he tells her, “I want to be with you forever. But if you have feelings for another guy, I don’t think we should be getting married.”

Jane goes to Xiomara for advice about her situation with Michael. She advises Jane to “bang him with gusto.” But, since Jane isn’t banging anyone just yet, Xiomara tells Jane to do her own version of banging with gusto. So, Jane does what she does best. She writes Michael a sexy, XXX rated letter because, after all, she’s a virgin, not a saint. The next morning she takes the letter to Michael’s job and places it in his bag. After a while of not hearing from Michael, she goes back to the station to ask him if he read the letter. Just before arriving, Michael is in a meeting where he is told that if there is no other suspect, then Petra is going down. Jane arrives and asks if he read the letter. He read the letter all right. The letter being the magazine article about the hotel she was to write for Rafael. Which means that Rafael read the XXX rated letter.

Jane runs in heels back to the hotel, and right into Rafael’s office. She explains the letter mishap. He is relieved and explains that nothing can happen between them because he sees her as a sister. Talk about a mood killer! With words like that, her feelings for Rafael abruptly vanish and so does his halo. She takes back her letter and makes her way over to a hotel room where Petra and Michael are having a discussion.

Unaware that Petra is in the room, Jane confronts Michael that he has been distant since they found out she was pregnant. And the reason why she was having those feelings for Rafael are a result of his distance. She wants to marry him but not unless things go back to the way they were. Back in the hotel room Petra schools Michael. She tells him that he’s putting all his energy into protecting her because he doesn’t want to have to take care of someone else’s baby.

Michael takes another look at more video footage of Zazo and Petra in Zazo’s room. He realizes that there is an indention in the wall, now, that wasn’t there just before the murder. So it couldn’t have been Petra. Just as two detectives are on their way to arrest Petra, Michael takes them back into the room. The indention was made by a bell boy’s luggage rack. And bell boys wear gloves. Hence the reason why there are no finger prints other than Petra’s. So they are off to investigate all the bell boys that work there and Michael runs off to speak with Jane.

In another part of the hotel Rafael is in a meeting with his father, Lachlan, and some other important looking people discussing expansion plans. Lachlan, with the help of Petra, makes it seem as though it is all his idea. But, what he doesn’t know is that Rafael had weeks of research on the expansion and came prepared with documentation and information leaving Lachlan to fumble over his own words.

It turns out that Petra was actually helping Rafael. They celebrate over champagne in their room, after the meeting. Petra was only pretending with Lachlan so that Rafael can one up him. After a toast between the two, Rafael asks Petra, “So how long were you screwing Zazo?” She’s at a loss for words. Rafael then tells her they’re done, and thanks her for her help. Daaaaaaaang! Didn’t see that one coming, did ya Petra? I was wondering when and how Rafael would tell Petra he figured out she was Zazo’s girlfriend.

Michael shows up at the wedding dress shop wear Jane is trying on wedding dresses with Xiomara and Abuela. Michael makes his way into the dressing room, but walks in backwards so as not to see Jane in the dress. He tells her how sorry he is and that all he was thinking about was her keeping another guy’s baby. But he didn’t stop to realize that it’s also her baby. And he loves her, which means he’ll love the baby and he’s okay with her wanting to keep the baby if she chooses. If hope she was recording everything he said because I don’t know if I trust him. But, like the love birds they are, makeup and tell each other how much they love each other. Jane gives him the XXX rated letter. Michael goes off on his merry way and Jane stays to try on more dresses.

While trying on a dress, Rogelio is lurking outside. He draws a crowd of what looks like hormonal teenage girls, and he runs inside to get away from them. Jane is confused why he’s stalking her, again. Xiomara says it’s OK for him to tell her. Rogelio blurts out, “I’m your father.” They tell Jane they knew each other in high school. It’s too much for Jane to take in. She cries in anger over the news. She’s heartbroken over the fact that her mother lied to her all of those years. She tells them all to leave her alone. They leave, and poor Jane sits crying in a wedding dress. Is this foreshadowing of what is to come?

And now for something completely out of left field. In a dark parking garage, Petra is speaking Czech with a scary looking dude. He’s asking her about the money. She has the money for him, but whatever the amount is isn’t good enough for him because now he wants more. She tells him that she nearly got blamed for murder getting him the money. This explains what she was doing in those surveillance photos and why she wouldn’t tell Michael what she was doing. Before the scene ends, the man mentions “Natalia.” Petra looks scared by this. Could this be her real name? Is this an offspring of Petra’s that no one knows of? Is “Natalia” code word for something between them? Now I want to know! This show does this to me every time. And I love it.

But wait: That wasn’t the end. The ending of the episode is even better. Later that night Jane is in bed, alone, thinking about how she was betrayed by her mother. Eventually, she prays for sleep. We are shown another sexy-time dream of someone going down on Jane. A head pops out from under the covers and it’s Rafael. Cut to Rafael frantically waking up from the sexy dream he was just having about Jane. My oh my, how the tables have turned.

Lesbian Apparel and Accessories Gay All Day sweatshirt -- AE exclusive

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Back to top button