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Chapter Sixty-Two is the 18th episode of Season 3 of Jane the Virgin.
Synopsis[]
TOUGH QUESTIONS – Jane (Gina Rodriguez) has to learn how to handle her new love life, especially when the guy she is dating introduces her to his grandmother. Petra (Yael Grobglas) learns some interesting information about Chuck (guest star Johnny Messner). Xo (Andrea Navedo) and Rogelio (Jaime Camil) are eager to share their news with Jane but want to try to take her feelings into consideration. Meanwhile, when Mateo starts asking questions, Jane and Rafael (Justin Baldoni) are forced to sit down with him and explain how their family came to be.
Starring[]
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Quotes[]
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- I've gotten over the temporary guilt caused by YEARS of negative sex-messaging and I am ready to celebrate that with Fabian. Naked
- — Jane to Xo
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- The problem is the whole Madonna/Whore-paradigm is reductive! I'm a real person, who you know nothing about
- — Jane telling Fabian how it is
Trivia[]
- Although Jane doesn't specifically confront her, Alba's own experience of being humiliated for having sex before marriage, which she projected onto both Xo and Jane, is mentioned by Jane to Xo in a conversation about her fling as Jane growing up with sex negative messaging. This is the first time Jane actively states that the flower story had a scarring effect on her views on sex.
- Jane gets a job writing a 'dating as a 28-year-old widow' column for Cosmopolitan. This prompts a Sex & the City theme.
- The episode goes meta on tropes and criticism:
- The Narrator apologizes for a "bad" narrative transition due to tonal shifts between heightened telenovela moments and the down to earth romance stuff.
- The sequence with discontinuity in Rogelio holding one dog, then two in a different outfit.
- Alba and Jorge say 'I love you'!!
- Chuck tells Petra he loves her!
- Rafael finds out Petra heard his message and says almost the same words as when he tried to seduce her in 2010: "Say yes".
- Jane and Fabian finally have sex.
- Jane and Rafael tell Mateo the story about how strange was the way their family came to be.
- FLASHBACKS
- To when, into her teens, Jane had nightmares about the "virginity flower" Alba gave her.
'Secrets'[]
- Petra receives Rafael's message that he's in love with her.
- Chuck knew Scott from getting hotel intel and met the woman who possibly murdered Scott.
- Chuck describes her to the Miami PD sketch artist. Chambers drops it by the penthouse; Petra and Rafael both recognize her.
- Xo and Rogelio are hesitant to have a big wedding, fearing it'll upset Jane.
- Jane seems disappointed that Rafael is seeing Petra and the girls, instead of coming with her to the telenovela blessing.
- Mateo is told the story of how he came to be.
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