Jane the Helicopter Mom
"[Here's what I do know for sure. Michael would want you to write the best book you could.]"
— Alba to Jane
Jane meets her book editor and starts rewriting her novel while attempting to improve her and Mateo's standing with the other women at the preschool. Rogelio meets with his lawyer to try getting out of his lawsuit. Petra deals with her new relationship with Chuck.
Tropes:
- Amoral Attorney: Rogelio's lawyer is a sleazeball who runs a smear campaign to get Rogelio out of breaching his contract.
- Bait-and-Switch: At the beginning of the episode, all we know about Jane's book is that it's a retelling of her love story with Michael, but with a happy ending. When she meets her editor, he starts gushing about railroad tycoons and robber barons, making it seem like he's gotten it mixed up with someone else's manuscript.Narrator: To clarify, her love story with Michael as imagined in the early 1900s at the dawn of Miami's great hotel boom.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Evidently, Jane's new editor might act like a shallow frat boy, but he gives Jane insightful advice on her writing, and part of Jane's arc in this episode is seeing past the former.
- Dastardly Whiplash: One incarnation of "Rake", the Rafael analogue, is a top-hat-and-suit wearing, moustache-twirling robber baron who underhandedly deals with "Martin" to win "Josephine" for himself.
- Gender Flip: In-universe, Rafael's assistant Krishna is a man named Kristoff in Jane's novel.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Petra sprinkles Czech words into her dialogue when drunk.
- In Vino Veritas: Petra is more sincere and honest after several flutes of champagne.
- Rage Against the Author: The fictional version of Alba complains about not getting a role in Jane's novel.
- Retraux: Since Jane's novel is her and Michael's love story reimagined as an early 1900's historical romance, her imagine spots while rewriting casts the characters in a sepia-tone period film.
- Sexy Coat Flashing: Petra does this when she goes to confront Chuck. It's seen from the back.
- Show Some Leg: How "Zara" distracts "Rake" in his office — she shows him a rip in her stocking. Xo is grossed out.
- Uptight Loves Wild: The classy, well-mannered Petra is somewhat embarrassed of her new relationship with the sloppy, rude Chuck, but she's mainly conflicted about pushing Scott's corpse over to Fairwick property.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: Bruce attempts to propose to Xiomara and enlists her students' help to do so, but Rogelio arrives and derails the whole thing.
