Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion S1 E7

## Plot

A woman exits a nail salon when her purse is stolen by a thief on a motorcycle. Ultra Violet takes the purse back and returns it to the woman. Black Scorpion lifts up the thief, and his motorcycle crashes. Suddenly, Cruz looks at the woman and recognizes her. He's so stunned when he sees a huge engagement ring on her finger that he drops the thief, who runs away, and then Cruz himself disappears. Violet talks to him about how weird he was acting. He stopped using his Black Scorpion voice and let a criminal go. The woman is Lily, his ex-girlfriend. He either broke up with her to protect her from his enemies after he became a hero, even though it probably broke his heart to do so, or she broke up with him after he was forced to ditch her on their dates due to his new double life as a superhero. It's the second one. Nina and Juan tell Violet about Lily after she asks about her. She broke up with Cruz three years ago, and he was pretty crushed by it. Violet thinks that's why he's so cranky, so if she finds him a new girlfriend, her life would be easier. She decides to set him up with Coach Park because the two are alike. Nina needs to find a substitute gym teacher while the regular one is on vacation. Violet tells her mom to hire Cruz for the substitute position. Nina agrees, and gets him to say yes by reminding him that he owes her after he forgot her birthday last year. Violet tries to introduce him to Evelyn, but it doesn't go very well. Meanwhile, Maya thinks that a boy named Alex has a crush on Violet because he smiled at her. She does her own crazy matchmaking to try to get Violet to have lunch with Alex, but she decides to use her powers to get Coach Park to eat lunch in the gym with her uncle. However, Cruz is shooting hoops, and the basketball misses and knocks Evelyn's lunch to the ground. She's angry at him and storms out, even after he apologizes and offers to buy her another lunch, because she doesn't want to owe him. Another woman is in the gym and laughs. She thinks Coach Park deserves it, because she always eats her yogurt in the teachers' lounge. This is Catalina Rivera, the new guidance counselor. She's hiding from the students so she doesn't have to hear about their problems. It's her job to listen to them, but not 24/7. She loves empanadas, and jokes that she'd commit a crime to get her hands on them, or at least buy them instead of paying her rent. She and Cruz hit it off, which Nina sees. Violet left after Coach Park did though, so she has no idea, and tells Tiago about it. She asks her dad what he does when Nina gets mad at him. He buys her flowers. Also, I love that Tiago is still designing luchador costumes. It's the same thing with Violet and Maya still being friends with Evita, Hannah, and Gracie after the sleepover episode. I love subtle continuity nods like that. Violet gets flowers for Coach Park. Maya is laughing at a meme that Alex sent her. Cruz puts a sticky note on Catalina's yogurt so no one else eats it. However, then Coach Park comes in with the flowers, and the note claims that they're from Cruz. She isn't interested in him. Violet tells him that she sent the flowers. He tells her to stay out of his business and stop meddling in his life, because she just did the exact opposite of helping him find love. Violet tells Maya that she's the one who likes Alex, so she should tell him. Cruz finally tells Violet that he likes Catalina. She apologizes for messing everything up. He knows she meant well. Even though he's always yelling at her, she just wants him to be happy. Even though niño means little boy in Spanish, when Violet calls Cruz that, it could be short for padrino, which means godfather. Anyway, she tells Ms. Rivera that she was the one who sent the flowers, and that Cruz likes her. Maya talks to Violet and reveals that Alex is gay, but they decided to be friends. See? Adding diversity isn't that hard. It's just that there's so many minorities that need more representation in terms of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, neuro-atypical, etc., and then there's intersectionality on top of all that. Anyway, the girls see Catalina and Cruz agree to go out on a date to a restaurant.