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“Jane the Virgin” recap (1.12): Will the real Sin Rostro please stand up?

This week’s episode was intense. We’re finally given some answers about the craziness that is going on in Jane’s world.

The flashback took us to the time 10 year-old Jane borrowed Abuela’s favorite earrings, which she was forbidden to wear. Of course, Jane lost the earrings and planned an escape but was stopped by Xiomara mid-getaway. Through tears, she explained to Abuela how sorry she was for losing the earrings. Abuela seemed okay with it and told Jane these words: “You are my flesh and blood. There is nothing you could do that is unforgivable to me.” It sounded more dramatic spoken in Spanish.

In the present time, Jane is asked to write the next episode The Passions of Santos by Dina and the other writers. She thinks they asked her to write it because they really like her writing. Later, Nicholas, Rogelio’s assistant, gives Jane the story document of the episode she is supposed to write. It turns out that they’re killing off Santos, Rogelio’s character. Nicholas acts as though he was aware this was happening, but then mentions that Rogelio has been difficult lately and the networks is done with him.

Rogelio can’t understand why they would want to kill him off the show. Jane proposes that, maybe, if he’s humble enough and talks to the writers about it, that he’ll get to keep his job. But, for Rogelio that is easier said than done. Jane finds herself having to speak for Rogelio. Dina says it’s already been done. They can’t change it. Jane decides she won’t write the script that kills off her father.

Emilio, Luisa and Rafael’s father, is back. Rose and Rafael are surprised to see Emilio so soon. Emilio tells Rose of a surprise trip the both of them are going on, but he won’t mention where. Rose goes to Rafael because she’s afraid of going away with Emilio. She still thinks Emilio is Sin Rostro.

Petra is still afraid that Milos will show up any minute, so she and Magda have been hiding out in the high security suite. This means Petra hasn’t been doing her job as event coordinator. Rafael demands that she take an upcoming meeting or he won’t sign her paycheck. Since she needs the money, she agrees to go.

At the meeting, Rafael introduces her to a man who wants to plan a wedding. When the man turns around, it’s none other than Milos in the flesh. Petra is freaked out. Milos just had to see her. If she sits and listens to him, then he’ll leave if she wants him to.

Milos explains that he remembered how Petra always stopped to pick up coins in the street. He was waiting for Magda, Petra’s mother, to walk by alone but when he saw Petra with her, he threw the coin on the ground because he knew she’d stop to get it. When Petra bent down he then threw the acid into Magda’s face. The acid was never meant to be for Petra. Instead of jail, Milos said he was sent to anger management. He asks for Petra’s forgiveness.

Shortly after, Jane finds Petra crying in a stairwell of the hotel. Petra actually opens up to Jane, telling Jane about Milos and her past.

Jane and Rafael meet up with Luisa in therapy. On the way there, Rafael warns Jane about what Luisa will say, and how she’ll apologize but to not believe Luisa because he’s been down that road before. Just like Rafael predicted, Luisa apologizes. When Rafael mentions Luisa’s “lie” of her and Rose having a thing, Luisa swallows her pride and says she was delusional. She’d say anything to get out of that place.

Rafael mentions to Luisa that while she’s been going through her thing, he’s been dealing with a lot as well. He tells Luisa about Sin Rostro and the crazy things happening at the hotel, like the bell boy he and Rose found with a cork screw in his neck. The mention of the cork screw flickers on a light inside of Luisa, like she might know something we don’t.

In the bathroom Luisa is creepily waiting for Jane to come out of the stall. She has an envelope in hand. It’s an apology to Rose. Luisa asks Jane to give it to Rose for her. Jane, being the kind-hearted person she is, obliges.

Back in Rafael’s suite, Jane is about to change for her shift when her phone rings. She asks Rafael to see who it is. He looks for the phone in Jane’s purse but finds Luisa’s letter instead. Rafael takes the letter and makes sure Rose doesn’t see it. Jane can’t understand why Rafael is acting this way toward his sister. But Rafael says there is a lot of history between him and Luisa that Jane just won’t understand.

While on her shift, Jane gets phone call from Luisa. She asks Jane if she gave the letter to Rose. After finding out Rafael kept the letter, Luisa then calls him. He doesn’t answer. She leaves Rafael a message telling him to read the letter.

At first, Rafael refuses to read it, but Jane convinces him in her own way. Luisa’s mistake gave Jane the two most important things in her life. She then asks Rafael to read Luisa’s letter.

Rose shows up at Rafael’s suite claiming she’s afraid to go on the trip with Emilio. They walk and talk around the hotel and find Emilio chatting with the sub-contractor who’s working on construction outside of the building. The sub-contractor is the same guy Rafael went to see in the last episode, who also happened to beat up Michael.

Michael, who is now suspended due to Nadine telling on him, is doing an investigation of Sin Rostro on his own. He makes an appointment to visit with the plastic surgeon the hotel uses. While in one of the rooms, the doctor gets a phone call from Michael’s brother who is pretending to be an irate patient so that Michael can do some investigating. Michael pulls up some information on the computer in the room. He finds what he’s looking for and prints out the documents. Just as the last page is printing, the doctor heads back to the room. The last sheet prints, Michael grabs it, and the doctor walks in.

Michael takes this information to Nadine stating that Emilio is Sin Rostro.

Rogelio asks Jane to write his final script. If he’s going to die, then he wants her to be the one to write the greatest death scene ever written. While trying to write the script at home, Jane notices that Abuela is wearing the earrings Jane bought her to replace the ones she lost back in the flashback scene. This brought an idea to her for the script.

Rogelio reads Jane’s script and loves it. In the script, Nicholas, Rogelio’s assistant, is playing the son of Santos who will become the star once Santos is killed. This comes as a shock to both Rogelio and Jane. It turns out that Nicholas was scheming all this time behind Rogelio’s back so that he could get his big break.

In Rogelio’s death scene between his character and the son, the last words he utters are the same words Abuela told Jane when she was ten years old. Everyone was moved by Rogelio’s performance. Through tears, Jane says to Rogelio, “You were incredible, dad.” It’s the first time she’s ever called him dad. This gets Rogelio emotional too.

While this is going on, things are cooking up at the hotel. Petra is walking back to her suite while leaving a voice message for Lachlan. She notices a coin on the floor. Suddenly, Milos comes up from behind. He places his hand over Petra’s mouth, so her screams can’t be heard, and he pulls her away.

He then takes Petra into her suite, with a knife to her throat. Milos threatens Petra, while Magda watches from her wheel chair. He says that now that he has her again, she’ll never leave him. Petra says she’d rather die than be with him again. “Suit yourself,” Milos says. He then slices Petra’s throat. Petra falls to the ground. Magda cries out, “No!” and runs over to Petra.

“Mother, you can walk?” Petra is alive. See, Milos has been trying to tell Petra that Magda is a liar. She lied to keep Milos and Petra apart. When Milos grabbed Petra in the hall, he did it to talk to her. He explained to Petra that Magda can walk and wanted to prove it to her. That’s when they came up with the idea of “killing” Petra in front of Magda. Infuriated with the fact that Magda had been lying all these years, Petra throws her out of the suite. Magda walks out, leaving behind her wheel chair.

Rafael finally reads Luisa’s letter to Rose. In the letter, Luisa warns Rose about Emilio. Luisa was in Emilio’s room, alone, drinking a bottle of wine the night the bell boy was killed. Luisa left the room for a moment and when she returned she noticed the cork screw she used to open the win bottle was missing.

Jane walks in after Rafael finished reading the letter. He finally admits to Jane that he believes his father is Sin Rostro.

Meanwhile, Emilio and Rose are outside by the construction site. Emilio wants them to leave that very night, but Rose doesn’t seem too thrilled by this idea. She playfully pushes Emilio into the construction area. She does a little strip tease, throw her panties at him, and walks away. While waiting for Rose, Emilio is knocked to the ground from cement suddenly gushing out of the cement truck.

The cement stops flowing and we’re shown Emilio, like a cement statues laying on the ground, and Rose holding the on/off switch for the cement truck in her hand. She pushes a button and more cement flows from the truck onto Emilio. He is completely covered, with no trace of him in sight.

Rose makes a phone call to Rafael. She leaves a voice message. With fear in her voice, she tells Rafael she can’t find Emilio anywhere. She thinks he might have already left the country. Rose then hangs up the phone. Her name, ROSE, pops up beneath her on the screen. ROSE then turns into SIN ROSETRO, the letter E is in red, telling us that Rose is Sin Rostro. She dusts herself off and walks away with a smirk on her face.

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