Jane the Virgin recap: 'Chapter 32'

In last week’s episode, Mateo accidentally pressing a button on his mom’s laptop keyboard led to his mom accidentally friending Michael’s new girl. Nightmares do come true! And this week, his technology
-related offense is arguably even worse. Jane heads to the kitchen to tell her family that she’s finally cracked her novel — hooray! — when they realize Mateo is missing. Any moment where Mateo’s location is in question is almost unbearably tense thanks to that little stunt Sin Rostro pulled right after his birth, so panic quickly sets in before Xo happily finds him crawling on the floor. Phew.

The crawling, adorable Mateo soon wreaks havoc though by running into Jane’s laptop cord and therefore sending the attached computer flying to the ground. A glass of orange juice follows. To recap: Within a matter of seconds, Jane’s computer has been slammed onto the hard floor and soaked in a sugary drink. It is seemingly dead. And guess where that story Jane was so jazzed about is?

This crisis of sorts sends Jane to the computer store, where she meets a big-eyed charmer played by Scream Queens’ Diego Boneta. They flirt, and Lina notices. Jane, however, does not. Classic clueless Jane can’t see a dreamboat vying for her attention even when he’s right in front of her.

Lina takes Jane’s denial that they were flirting as a sign that Jane needs to start dating as soon as humanly possible, so she secretly sets her bud up a Cinder profile. Yes, Cinder is Jane the Virgin’s genius replacement for Tinder. The app’s likely namesake eventually found her Prince Charming, so maybe that’s a good sign for Jane? But then again, this is Jane Villanueva we’re talking about. When she says she wants to have a meet cute instead of a meet-on-the-Internet cute, she means it.

That doesn’t mean she doesn’t try, though. After the first date she’s unknowingly tricked into going on fails — or, more accurately, doesn’t begin — Jane decides to give online dating a shot. She goes on a date with a cute guy that seems to be going well until he abruptly leaves, which we later find out is because he texted his friend to save him. “She’s clingy,” he texted. Rude, but also, Jane was busy daydreaming about their future together so reading her as a little too serious wasn’t exactly unwarranted.

Jane is again punished for her romanticism later on when she and Lina run into the computer guy at a bar. He invites them to a skate park, where Jane ends up skinning her knee after an obligatory shot of Computer Guy (as Lina dubs him) very dreamily teaching her how to skateboard. This is the stuff of teenage girls’ dreams — or at least my dreams when I was a teenage girl begging my dad to take me to Warped Tour — so this scene is Peak Romance. And it gets better: After Computer Guy doctors up Jane’s knee, he spits some hilariously, almost painfully, corny lines at her (“You can’t let the fear of falling keep you from flying,” he says, reading from his MySpace page, circa 2006) before they make out. Jane got the meet cute she wanted, and it’s a cute skater boy. Maybe Mateo should mess with her computer more often.

And…then the bombshell drops: Jane suggests they do some more making out that weekend, but he rejects her offer. Because he has plans. With his girlfriend. Who is, of course, not Jane. This meet cute just got meet ugly, and it might mean the ending of dating for Jane — for now, at least.ew,youtube