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“Jane the Virgin” recap (1.13): Letting Go

This week’s flashback takes us to a time where ten year old Jane is in the doctor’s office about to get a shot. Jane isn’t a fan of shots. Then again, who really is? A nervous Jane is holding back nurse’s hand, which is holding the needle. The nurse tells Jane to let go. It’s a lesson she’s still learning even to this day.

Abuela has a love interest. She’s been going to therapy due to Magda throwing her down the stairs and at therapy there is man she’s crushing on. Xiomara picks up Abuela and notices how Abuela acts around this guy. Later, Xiomara asks why Abuela never dated after Xiomara’s father died:”He deserved it.” Abuela felt she needed to honor his memory. Xiomara believes he would have wanted Abuela to be happy. Does this mean Abuela might have a boyfriend in future episodes?

Speaking of relationships, Jane and Rafael are excited to find out the sex of the baby at this week’s checkup. Well, Jane is excited. She’s obsessed with planning, so she wants to know the sex, even though she’s ninety-nine percent sure the baby is a girl. Rafael wants to keep it a surprise.

During the ultra sound, the nurse notices something, a bright spot, on the heart of the baby. She brings in the doctor, who then explains to Jane and Rafael that the bright spot on the baby’s heart is echogenic intracardiac focus. It could be nothing. Then again, it could be something bad. But, the doctor wouldn’t know unless he were to test it. There’s a one in 300 chance that the procedure could cause a miscarriage.

Petra is still fooling around with Lachlan. She tells Lachlan that she’s sorry she left him for Rafael, and that she’s excited for their trip to Spain that week. Meanwhile, Milos is not happy about this. He wants to get back with Petra, but Petra tells him she’s moved on. Milos isn’t the sort of guy to just give up that easy.

Lachlan brings in Danielle Sullivan, the Marbella’s CFO, to speak with Rafael about selling a percent of the hotel, since the hotel is losing more money than it’s bringing in. At first Rafael isn’t sure about it, mainly because he has the baby on his mind. Ultimately, he decides to sell his shares of the hotel.

Michael meets up with Rafael and Rose to let them know Emilio is Sin Rostro. Michael believes Rafael is lying about not knowing about anything that has gone on in the hotel. So, Michael and Nadine question Scott, Emilio’s assistant, about Emilio’s whereabouts the night Bellboy Tom was killed. Scott claims Emilio was with his girlfriend. Word on the street is that Emilio was cheating on Rose. Apparently, Emilio had reason to believe Rose was cheating on him, too.

Rogelio has been moping around on the internet since he was killed off of his telenovela. He’s also been avoiding his agent. Xiomara is annoyed by this and tries to motivate Rogelio to not give up on his career, especially since he worked thirty-nine years on becoming famous.

Jane tells Abuela and Xiomara about the issue with the baby. Abuela doesn’t think Jane should go along with the test and Jane makes a decision to not have the test done. Xiomara tells Jane to let go and move forward, especially since Jane’s graduation is coming up. But that night, all Jane can do is think about the baby and the possibility that something is wrong. So instead of sleeping, Jane researches echogenic intracardiac focus.

The next day she meets with Rafael to let him know she’s going forward with the test and he agrees with her decision. “The odds are in our favor,” he tells her.

Jane tells Abuela, Xiomara, and Rogelio that she’s forward with the test. She’s going to miss her graduation due to the procedure, since she’ll be on bed rest for forty-eight hours. The next day, Abuela, Xiomara, and Rafael are with Jane during the procedure. The procedure goes well, but they won’t know the results for another two weeks. Two hours later and Jane is worried because she still hasn’t felt the baby move. It’s all she can think about.Back at the hotel, Michael questions Rose about Emilio’s affair. She acts surprised. Rose claims Emilio told her he was working late at the hotel the night Bellboy Tom was killed. When Michael leaves, Rose removes what we all believed to be her real ginger hair. A wig. All this time. She phones someone to tell them they have to “move up the time line.”

That same night, Jane awakes Rafael saying she made a mistake. It was her first parenting test and she failed because she put her needs before the baby’s needs. Rafael assures her that everything will be OK. They already did the test. She has to stop worrying and let it go. She then feels the baby kick, reassuring her that everything is in fact OK.

Over at the precinct, Michael and Nadine are questioning Whitney Devore, Emilio’s girlfriend. Whitney claims she and Emilio were on the boat, together, the night Bellboy Tom was killed. Emilio called Rose that night to say he’d be out on the boat all night, alone. It clicks in Michael’s head that Rose was lying. Bellboy Tom wasn’t naming his killer, with his last words being Sin Rostro. He was identifying her.

Michael calls for them to bring in Rose. Minutes later a uniformed cops tells Michael they have a problem. Rose’s room is empty, and she is gone. Michael and Nadine get surveillance tape of that night. They can’t find Rose escaping anywhere. But they do notice a linen delivery truck that Rose could have possibly escaped in.

The next morning, Jane awakes to find her room decorated with graduation balloons. Abuela, Xiomara, Rogelio, and Rafael are giving Jane her own private graduation ceremony. They give Jane her graduation cap to wear while each of them give a speech on how wonderful Jane is. Rogelio’s speech is in left field, as usual. Xiomara’s speech ends in both her and Jane crying. And, Abuela tells Jane that this is a day she’s dreamed of, and Jane is the granddaughter she dreamed about. More crying ensues.

Later that day, the forty-eight hours are up. Jane says that she is not going to stress while waiting the two weeks for the test results. Rafael reminds her that with their minds on the test, they forgot to find out the baby’s sex. They both agree to let it go.

Rogelio tells Xiomara he finally got an offer for a new telenovela. It’s not a lead role, but it’s something. The only problem is that the novela shoots in Mexico. If he takes the offer, he’ll be gone for a year and a half. He told them he’d have to think about it. It’s a bitter/sweet moment for both him and Xiomara.

That evening, Lachlan and Petra are ready to leave for Spain. Well, Lachlan is and Petra thinks she’s ready. Petra is all packed and excited to go. She’s almost in the car when Lachlan tells Petra she isn’t going with him. She never was. And, he wants her out of the hotel. He warned her, in a previous episode, when he said, “Karma is a bitch.” Lachlan leaves while Petra stays behind, in utter shock.

The next morning Petra is trying to figure out where she’s going to live when Milos comes around. He tells Petra that he and his family bought thirty-three percent of the Marbella. He bought them, but the hotel for Petra, but under one condition. That condition being that he and Petra will own it together so they can continue to be in each other’s lives.

While that’s going on, Michael and Nadine are viewing surveillance tapes of the night Roman Zazo was impaled. The tapes show that Emilio, Rose, and Bellboy Tom were at the party seconds before Roman Zazo was thrown down to his death. So who killed Roman Zazo?

Cut to Rafael walking down a hallway toward someone. Rafael asks if everything went okay. The camera then shows us a very alive Roman Zazo.

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