Como La Flor is the seventh episode of season 2 of Roswell, New Mexico and the twentieth episode of the series overall. It aired on April 27, 2020.
Synopsis[]
Official synopsis:
- OLD WOUNDS — Liz (Jeanine Mason) is forced to revisit a painful part of her past when her mother Helena (guest star Bertila Damas) shows up at the diner unexpectedly. Michael (Michael Vlamis) urges Maria (Heather Hemmens) to seek help after she experiences a strange vision, and Kyle’s (Michael Trevino) attempt to get Steph (guest star Justina Adorno) to open up doesn’t go as planned. Finally, Helena’s arrival in Roswell sends Rosa spiraling. Nathan Dean and Lily Cowles also star. Barbara Brown directed the episode written by Danny Tolli & Carolina Rivera (#207). Original airdate 4/27/2020.
Plot summary[]
Act I:
Isobel gives Rosa a lesson in powering up a light bulb but so far she’s unsuccessful. Rosa thinks maybe the whole zapping Max back to life thing was just a fluke. Max suggests a different approach but Rosa’s quickly out of control. She doesn’t want Max anywhere near her and in her anger, she bursts a bulb.When she stomps away mad, Liz admits she’s worried her sister’s going to hurt herself…or someone else.
With the lesson now over, Liz is working her shift at the café when in walks her mother, Helena. Liz, stunned, doesn’t embrace her return. Helena tries to make a joke, but it falls flat. Liz tells Helena that they are closed. When she doesn't leave, Liz finally asks why her mom’s decided to grace them with her presence and she reveals that a call from Liz’s dad prompted her visit. When Helena asks Arturo how long it has been, he answers by saying it’s been seven years. The last time they were physically around each other being at Jim Valenti's funeral.
Arturo apparently contacted Helena just to get her to sign over her part of the diner to Liz as part of his process for obtaining residency. Helena showed up because she didn’t want to just sign it over; she wants money for her half. But she won’t discuss it until they all sit down for dinner later that day. Liz tells her mom dinner will be at seven, and tells her to try and not be a decade late this time.
Elsewhere, Max, Isobel, and Michael discuss Isobel hooking up with a female bartender at Planet 7 while drinking beers at The Wild Pony. Isobel comments on the woman’s “thoughtful” manicure and admits she might see her again. She suggests if Max and Liz don’t work out, he should ride a cowboy instead. Isobel deduces that she should have known all along since aliens don’t really care about human gender constructs.
Max however, just isn’t into this conversation and they finally ask what’s up. He confesses that what he thought were just nightmares he had as a kid about being chained up, might have been memories from before they were put in the pods. Isobel thinks he should just forget about it and Michael agrees with her saying Max does not need any added stress right now. Michael then smiles at Maria who is serving drinks, which prompts Max and Isobel to make fun of him. Isobel mentions how Michael is acting like a combination of the heart eyes emoji and the emoji with the cowboy hat right about now.
Back at the Ortecho’s house, Rosa is looking for a red jacket she can wear to the family dinner since her mom hated it on her. Always calling her a ‘’mujercita’’.Rosa explains to Liz that she can’t leave her technically little sister alone with Hurricane Helena at dinner, and says she needs to keep her sister safe from their mom. She refers to Helena as Liz’s kryptonite, but Liz thinks if Rosa puts in an appearance Helena will find some way to profit off it.
Michael and Maria get flirty while she’s behind the bar. They discuss dinner and then suddenly Maria has a vision of Kyle trapped in a beam of bright light. When Michael asks her if she is okay, a shocked Maria reveals that she thinks Kyle Vanti has been abducted.
Act II:
Max heads over to see Sheriff Valenti to beg for his job back. He reminds her he’s never had a vacation or taken a sick day and has worked there since he was 18. She takes him back, but he’ll be on desk duty for the next six months.
At the hospital, Kyle takes off some bloody medical gloves and sighs deeply as Steph walks into the OR. She tells him that he did the best he could, but Kyle only tells her she shouldn’t be here since it’s not been sterilized yet. As Steph is walking away, Kyle asks her why she’s always at the hospital. He jokingly asks her if she’s a ghost that only he can see. She lies and says she’s doing admin work for her dad since he’s always here, therefore she is always at the hospital too. Their conversation gets interrupted though when Michael knocks on the glass in the gallery room to get Kyle’s attention.
Max joins Liz and Arturo for dinner with Helena and Liz wishes Max would have worn his uniform. It turns out Helena hates cops.
Helena shows up and seems to really enjoy Max’s company. She’s happy Liz has found such a good guy and reveals that she didn’t like Diego, Liz’s old boyfriend. It turns out that while Helena hasn’t been in contact with her, she has been cyberstalking Liz over the years.
Back at the hospital, Maria’s worried she might have a degenerative brain disease since it runs in her family. She explains that in addition to her mom, her grandma suffered from one too. She explains that in the end, she always assumed it was only a matter of time, till she was next. Which makes Kyle think that might have caused the hallucination. Kyle offers to run a scan and asks for the medical records for Mimi and Maria's grandmother other test results.
At the diner, Liz isn’t taking it easy on her mom. She reminds her how she used to drive drunk and Helena shows off her 10 years sober token. She confesses to having stopped drinking when Rosa died and believes Rosa got the best and the worst of her personality traits.
Rosa as it turns out has been eavesdropping on their dinner and races back to her room, causing the lights to flicker all over the café as she becomes emotional.
Max suggests a toast to Helena’s sobriety as Rosa picks just that moment to crank the radio upstairs. She shorts it out soon after it begins blasting loud music from its speakers.
Act III
Liz takes a break from dinner to check on her sister. Rosa’s upset and blames everything on Max screwing with her DNA. Liz tries to get her sister to stay calm, but Rosa just feels like she’s being locked up..
Liz texts Isobel who shows up fairly quickly to hang out with Rosa. Rosa doesn’t want a babysitter and Isobel suggests they can get into some trouble instead. Rosa seems up for that.
Downstairs, Helena puts Selena’s song “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” on the jukebox, and tells Max that if he’s going to date her daughter, she needs to see him dance. She calls him a natural, but Liz is over this whole evening and unplugs the jukebox, demanding they discuss the diner. Liz wants a number – any number – so they can finish the deal once and for all. As they argue all the lights go out again.
Meanwhile, Isobel and Rosa head out to do a little graffitiing. Isobel writes “In Pod We Trust” while Rosa paints something that looks like a black hole. Isobel thinks Rosa’s painting is actually Rosa looking into her own doom. Rosa believes it’s in her DNA to be screwed up and she was broken long before Noah. She thinks Isobel was also broken and that’s why Noah also preyed on her.
A short while later and back in the hospital, Kyle delivers the news to Maria that she’s not an alien. She tentatively thanks him and then Kyle delivers a bombshell. Maria’s grandmother had the same fake insurance company that his dad had listed when he was treated for cancer caused by aliens. It’s an insurance company set up by Project Shepherd to cover personnel injured by aliens at Caulfield Prison. Which in turn means that Maria’s grandmother got sick at that prison, too.
With Helena and Arturo temporarily out of the diner, Liz tells Max to go home and rest. Rosa is gone so he’s actually the one who made the lights go out this time. Liz thinks her family makes him anxious which isn’t good for his heart. He mentions not being made of glass.
Arturo and Helena return and Arturo wants Max’s help to look at the wiring. Which leaves Liz alone with her mom. Helena keeps pointing out the present she brought for Liz and finally Liz agrees to open it. It turns out to be a pair of pink sneakers and Helena’s proud she was finally able to get these shoes that Liz wanted years ago.
Helena moves closer but Liz doesn’t budge. She does, however, agree to retrieve some prom photos her mom wants to see. The lights come on as she returns with the photos and Liz spots a jar of Space Jam on the counter. It’s the same jar she placed in front of the safe before her mom arrived.
Liz left the dial of the safe on three and now it’s close to 80. Furious, Liz wants to know how much Helena just stole from the safe. Liz can’t believe her mother would steal from the family and grabs her mom’s purse to look through.
Meanwhile, Rosa has just tossed a brick through her mom’s car’s window. She looks through it and finds a bottle of Oxycodone. She douses the car with lighter fluid but decides against lighting it at the last second.
Inside the Crashdown, Liz discovers Helena stole Arturo’s mother’s ring and is absolutely stunned at her mom’s treachery. Liz yells at her mom, reminding her she lost all rights to the family heirloom when she deserted them. Helena fights back claiming Rosa forced her to leave, but Liz is having none of it. Rosa was only a teenager and wasn’t responsible.
Rosa watches through the diner’s front window as Liz and Helena argue. Helena believes she pushed Liz to be extraordinary yet she’s slinging burgers and dating a white cop. Liz reveals she felt she was never good enough for her and that her mom’s a selfish woman. She blames her mom for destroying their family and the Valenti family too. Liz, now no longer able to filter anything, also admits she knows Rosa isn’t Arturo’s daughter and that Helena was about to be exposed and that’s why she left town. It’s all Helena’s fault that Rosa relapsed and was going to leave town.
Arturo and Max return at the end of the argument just as Rosa’s anger takes over and she causes Helena’s car to go up in flames.
Act IV
The police arrive and no one knows who lit the car on fire. Liz makes the snide comment that given her mom’s reputation it could be anyone. Arturo wants Helena to take the ring and sign the papers. He just wants her out of their lives. Surprisingly, Helena agrees.
She warns her mom not to come back since there’s nothing left for her here in Roswell, New Mexico.
Helena admits that for the record, and what it’s worth, she really did want to see Liz.
After she’s gone Arturo and Liz sit down for dessert. He’s happy that now he’ll be able to get his green card. The mood turns serious though when Liz apologizes for revealing Rosa isn’t his daughter. Arturo confesses he always knew but it didn’t matter. He tells Liz in spanish that Rosa es su hija, siempre y para toda la vida (i.e. his – no matter what).
Max catches up with Helena as she’s renting a car. He demands the ring back but she calls him a con, a nobody, and someone who’s unworthy of her daughter's love. She thinks he’s just playing at being a hero. Max reveals that he dug into her background and knows she’s dating a politician named Dirk who apparently doesn’t know about Liz and Rosa. He wonders if Dirk knows anything about her and threatens to fill him in on her Roswell roots. She tells Max she doesn’t need to explain herself to him. Max replies that even if she did, he wouldn’t believe her.
Helena turns over the ring. “I was wrong. Maybe you do have huevos,” says Helena.
Over at The Wild Pony, Maria and Kyle toast to not being abducted and not being aliens. Michael joins them and he has news about Maria’s grandmother. There wasn’t a Patricia DeLuca at the prison but there was a mention of a Patricia Harris (i.e. her maiden name) who signed up for an experimental trial. Maria’s grandmother was one of the first human subjects in an experiment to create super-soldiers with alien abilities. The experiment was a failure and it shut down sometime in the 70’s when people started dying. Maria gets teary eyed, and says she kind of wishes she was an alien instead. When Michael says he doesn’t know how her grandma could get involved in such an experiment, Maria says she has an idea as to why. She brings Henrietta Lacks and the countless people who were experimented on in Tuskegee, Holmesburg. Maria tearfully admits that the DeLucas aren’t the first black people to be experimented on.
Kyle gets up to leave and rips his sleeve on something sharp. Maria has another vision and in it Kyle’s sleeve is torn when he’s abducted by aliens.
Kyle drops his keys in the parking lot and Maria runs after him. She yells at him to watch out as a bright light hits him when he stands up. It turns out the light is actually headlights from a car speeding right at him. Michael uses his powers to send Kyle flying out of the way so he’s not run over. Unfortunately, he lands on a broken beer bottle and a large chunk of glass is protruding from his stomach when they arrive to help him.
Act V
Michael returns to the bar after dropping Valenti off at the hospital. He thinks now that they know Maria’s illness is related to Caulfield they can find a cure. But Maria’s not so sure. She likes the idea that she saw the future today. “What if my genetic inheritance isn’t just injustice – it’s also actual superpowers?” she asks.
She’s pleased with herself for saving Kyle which means in turn he’ll be around to save even more lives as a doctor.
Meanwhile, Liz and Rosa settle in on the roof of the café and Rosa admits she was going to start the fire but couldn’t do it. However, she got angry when Helena made Liz cry and couldn’t stop her powers from manifesting. The sisters lean on each other as they realize their mom didn’t need them. But Liz points out if their mom can stay sober for 10 years, then Rosa can also pull through.
At the hospital, Kyle is stitching his own wound from the beer bottle injury earlier that night and Steph walks in. He asks him what she’s doing here so late, and she instead changes the subject, asking if he needs a hand with his stitches. She gets squeamish, and Kyle calls her out on it. Steph admits it's different when it is someone she cares about. Steph also admits that she doesn’t have many friends, and Kyle is the closest to a friend she has right now. She further reveals that from her experience, people tend to bail on her when things get real. Kyle kisses her and admits that the feeling is mutual.
A short while later Liz is back inside cleaning up when Max shows up. He hands over the ring and Liz doesn’t ask for the details.
Max reveals he’s learned Cameron’s car was impounded just a couple hours from Roswell. He’s going to check it out since she’s his friend. Liz understands but says she can’t lose him again.
Isobel and Michael are drinking at the bar when she asks if Noah chose her because she was already broken. Michael thinks that couldn’t be farther from the truth. She explains she really needs to understand more about herself now and wants to look into their past, even though they agreed to leave it behind them. Michael feels the same way. He wants to look forward but keeps getting sucked back in. He wants to dig for answers and find a cure for Maria’s illness in the process.
Act VI
Rosa’s alone on the roof when she pulls out the bottle of pills. She hesitates before pouring one out and popping it into her mouth.
Cast and characters[]
Starring:
- Jeanine Mason as Liz Ortecho
- Nathan Dean as Max Evans
- Michael Vlamis as Michael Guerin
- Lily Cowles as Isobel Evans-Bracken
- Tyler Blackburn as Alex Manes (credit only)
- Heather Hemmens as Maria DeLuca
- Michael Trevino as Kyle Valenti
- Trevor St. John as Jesse Manes (credit only)
- Amber Midthunder as Rosa Ortecho
Guest-starring:
- Carlos Compean as Arturo Ortecho
- Rosa Arredondo as Sheriff Michelle Valenti
- Justina Adorno as Steph
- Bertila Damas as Helena Ortecho
Co-starring:
- Greg Farinelli as Deputy Joe
Mentioned:
- Jenna Cameron, Max asks Joe to run her plates
- Jim Valenti, Rosa's biological father
- Mimi DeLuca
- Patricia "Patty" DeLuca (née Harris), Maria's grandmother who was experiment on at Caulfield
- Dirk, Helena's boyfriend who ran for city council
- Diego, Liz's ex-fiance
- Prasong, owes Michael "like twenty bucks" from when Michael beat him at pool
Powers[]
Music[]
- On April 28, 2020, Chris Mollere, the show's music supervisor tweeted out the list of songs used in this episode:[1][2]
| Song | Performer | Scene[3] |
|---|---|---|
| "This World" | Cactus Groove | Arturo suggests Liz make a milkshake for Rosa; Elena arrives at The Crashdown. |
| "Drive" | Shelly Fairchild | At the Wild Pony, Isobel, Michael and Max discuss the flashbacks that he has been experiencing. |
| "Mrs. Vinegar"" | Mathis Hunter | Michael attempts to pay his and Isobel's bar tab; Maria experiences a precognitive flash that leads her to believe that Kyle was abducted by aliens. |
| "Good For Zero" | Big Stone City | Rosa's erratic powers begin to cause her stereo to start blasting out music in the middle of Elena's toast. |
| "Way Down Below" | Big Stone City | Rosa listens to music when Isobel walks into her room. |
| "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" | Selena | Elena insists that Max dance with her, until Liz gets upset then unplugs the jukebox. |
| "Blood from a Stone" | Honey County | Michael tells Maria and Kyle what he found out about Caulfield's experiments and Patricia DeLuca; Kyle rips his shirt as he leaves, leading Maria to realize her vision was a premonition. |
| "Best I Can Do" | Elizabeth Moen | Maria confess to Michael that she thinks she may have inherited powers from her grandmother. |
| "Keep on Coming Back" | Wagons | At The Wild Pony, Isobel asks Michael if he thinks that Noah choose her because she's broken. |
| "Where Is My Mind" | Pixies Cover | sobel and Michael agree to look into their past; Rosa takes one of the pills that she stole from her mom's car. |
Trivia[]
- On October 16, 2019, Carina revealed that the seventh episode title was confirmed to be: Como La Flor.[4]
- Production code is: T48.1020.
- The episode is named after the song Como La Flor (English translation: 'Like the Flower') by Selena Quintanilla, released in 1992.
- Isobel references Spiderman when she tells Rosa that with great power, comes great responsibility.
- Rosa calls Helena, Liz’s kryptonite, a reference to Superman’s weakness from the comics of this super hero.
- Steph refers to Kyle as McDreamy, a popular character in the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, a show Jeanine was part of the recurring cast until joining Roswell.
Quotes[]
Gallery[]
Promotional Images[]
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Videos[]
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External links[]
Como La Flor on the Internet Movie Database
References[]
- ↑ Tweet from Chris MollereRoswell, New Mexico - 207 - Songs In Episode Part I. April 28, 2020.
- ↑ Tweet from Chris MollereRoswell, New Mexico - 207 - Songs In Episode Part II. April 28, 2020.
- ↑ S2 · E7 · Roswel, New Mexico- Tunefind
- ↑ Carina Adly MacKenzie Oct. 16, 2019 post (@cadlymack) - Instagram