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“Jane the Virgin” recap (1.15): Oh, Baby!

As a young girl, Jane loved asking questions. She asks Xiomara, “What does love feel like?” “It sort of feels like your heart is glowing.” Jane, being as smart as she is, wasn’t satisfied with Xiomara’s answer. Jane needed something more clear.

Is the baby healthy? That’s the current question Jane has on her mind. Jane and Rafael anxiously await the results. The doctor is late to call, so Jane decides to call the doctor instead. The baby is healthy. Upon hearing the great news, Rafael feels it’s time for Jane to move in but Jane isn’t ready just yet. She still wants to go along with her plan, which was to date, get engaged, and then have a baby. Even though her plan has taken a left turn with this baby, she still wants to try and continue with what’s left of her plan.

Michael runs into Jane at the hotel. He says he just saw Angelique Harper, one of Jane’s favorite authors who happens to be a romance novelist, who is staying at the hotel. Jane tells Rafael about it and he makes mention about the private reading the Angelique is having that night. Jane freaks out about meeting Angelique Harper and does a shimmy out the door.

Inspired by her favorite author, Jane goes home to write a romance story of her own. She takes the manuscript with her to the reading in hopes of giving it to Angelique. As Angelique reads from her story, she mentions Jane’s name. It’s as though she’s describing and speaking directly to Jane. Jane thinks she’s imagining this or that it just so happens to be a coincidence. Angelique tells Jane to stand. Jane continues to sit because, once again, she thinks she’s imagining it. Angelique tells Jane, again, to stand, which she finally does. Over walks Rafael with a ring box in hand. He gets on one knee and sweetly proposes to Jane. “Can we talk in private?” she whispers to him.

Rafael misinterpreted Jane when she spoke about dating and getting married. He thought that she really wanted to get married soon but that wasn’t what she was trying to tell him. Rafael doesn’t care. “Marry me,” he tells her. Jane goes home to tell Xiomara and Abuela about Rafael’s proposal. “I told him I’d think about it.” Xiomara and Abuela get into an argument because Abuela said Jane should marry Rafael. She married her husband after only knowing each other for forty-one days. Xiomara begs to differ.

Abuela finds a compatibility test from an old magazine she kept after meeting her husband. Abuela said her husband passed the test and they got married shortly after that. She proceeds to ask Jane questions from the test. Is he generous? Yes. Is he kind? Yes. Does he know you inside, down to your core? That’s the questions that stops Jane in her tracks.

Scott, who was Mr. Solano’s former assistant, is now Petra’s assistant. He warns Rafael that Petra is going to fire Lachlan. Later, Lachlan shows Rafael the sex tape between him and Petra. He wants to release the tape to get Petra off the board for good. If that tape is released, it would look bad on Petra’s behalf and would force her to step down or be taken down.

Xiomara thinks she might be pregnant. She missed a birth control pill or two this month, and her period is late. Rogelio notices something is up with her. She finally tells Rogelio that she thinks she might be pregnant. Rogelio says that it would be a blessing to have a baby. By the look on his face, Xiomara can tell that he’s lying. “Gotcha!” Rogelio is relieved, admitting that having a baby would be a disaster. Xiomara is enraged by this and admits that she was lying. Rogelio storms out.

Rafael and Jane meet on the beach and she tells him that she’s thinking of putting off writing for a few years to just focus on the baby. She asks Rafael what he thinks about that. He doesn’t agree with it because he knows that her love and passion is with writing. She tells him that he passed the test from Abuela’s old magazine. Rafael is hurt and upset by this. He doesn’t need a test to know whether or not he should marry Jane. He loves her and he wants to marry her. Rafael stomps off.

Jane knows that she should go after him. In fact, she imagines herself as a woman from cover of those romance novels running after Rafael. She’d tell him to stop, and that she wants to marry him too. Rafael, who looks like a guy from the covers of a romance novels, embraces Jane in a kiss. But, that was all in her imagination. Instead, she just sits there and watches Rafael walk away.

Petra and Aaron meet for dinner to talk about Roman. Petra orders vegetarian dishes on Aaron’s behalf. Unfortunately, Aaron doesn’t eat root vegetables because of his religion, Jainism. The conversation moves on to Roman. Aaron inquires about his mother’s necklace that Roman had in his possession. Petra tells him that she has the necklace and she’ll give it to him and that Roman gave it to her before he died.

Jane finds out that Xiomara might be pregnant and this upsets her. She yells at Xiomara for being irresponsible. “I just thought you’d be more thoughtful before you have another kid because…well, me.” Xiomara says is was an accident. Jane one ups her because Jane’s pregnancy is the real accident. Xiomara’s possible pregnancy is just reckless.

The next day Xiomara gives Jane the good news, that she definitely isn’t pregnant. And, it wasn’t an accident. Xiomara feels that being a mother is the only thing she’s good at. Jane, ever the mother of the two, tells Xiomara to take things slow with Rogelio. The conversation changes to Rafael’s proposal. Xiomara reminds Jane of the time she found Michael’s list of the savings he had to buy Jane an engagement ring. Jane was all smiles over seeing that list because she was sure of wanting to marry Michael. Xiomara knows that Jane isn’t ready to marry Rafael.

Xiomara visits Rogelio on set. Rogelio is relieved to find out the pregnancy was only a scare. Xiomara wants to move in together, since they are taking this relationship serious. Rogelio acts thrilled by this but he was a bit hesitant to agree. These two, living together under one roof? This I can’t wait to see.

Afterwards, Jane breaks Rafael’s heart by telling him she can’t marry him. She wants to wait until the time is right, until they’ve gotten to know each other better. Rafael wants to be alone to process everything.

Jane runs off to give her manuscript to Angelique Harper, who is supposed to be finishing up with a massage. Jane enters Angelique’s room with her manuscript in hand. Thinking that Jane is there to give her a massage, she drops her towel, giving Jane a free show, and thanks Jane for pushing back the massage and hour. Angelique agrees to read the manuscript but still wants the massage. Jane proceeds to give Angelique a disturbing back massage, which will lead to a massage of the derriere.

Rafael tells Petra that he has her sex tape. Later, he finds staff members watching the tape. It’s everywhere now. He warns Petra that the tape has gotten out and it must have been Lachlan who put it out there. It wasn’t Lachlan, though. Petra put it out there herself. She asks Rafael to work with her on getting Lachlan out of the Marbella. Later, they throw piles of accounting files onto Lachlan’s desk and demand he check every penny spent by accounts receivable. Or, he can just quit.

Jane runs into Michael after giving Angelique the massage. All giggles, she tells Michael about what just happened. They’re laughing and talking when, from afar, Rafael sees the interaction. It makes him wonder if maybe that’s the reason why Jane is hesitant to marry him.

Petra drops off the necklace to Aaron. Alone in his room, Aaron breaks open the pendant. Among the shattered pieces, he grabs what looks like a USB or some sort. He holds it in his hand and looks devilishly satisfied.

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