"But that's lust."

This week we got a double dose of Ashleys, the most dramatic break-up in Bachelorette history, NO rose ceremony, and Hurricane Nick!

To recap, Kaitlyn sees though Clint's attempts at "charm" just so he can keep hanging out with his "best best best friend" with whom he's become "very very very close" and asks him to leave.  JJ has a jerk move and they JJ and Clint fight while standing very, very, very close to each other.  With a "hey that tie goes really well with your shirt," Clint is gone and JJ cries in the bushes and slaps himself in the face before rejoining the other men.  Kaitlyn refills her wine and decides not to have a rose ceremony.

"New York is definitely a place I could see myself falling in love"

We're out of Bachelor Mansion and in NYC!  As we know from last season, Kaitlyn loves to rap even though she's absolutely horrendous at it.  The guys have a rap battle and are equally as terrible at rapping as she is, so hey, maybe Kaitlyn's husband is in this group of guys after all.  Sharleen, Nick V., and Ashley I. are all in attendance for some reason, which brings us to The Nick Situation.

Nick came to New York to meet Kaitlyn because they've been tweeting and texting each other.  Kaitlyn asks "why now?" which is a good question, seeing as if the show's history is any indication, she'll be single in a couple of months after the finale anyway and couldn't you have just waited?  Not if Nick and the producers have anything to say about it!  I mean, all the interesting (i.e. dramatic/weird/crazy/confrontational) men are gone and they need a villain, and, you know, villains gotta Viall.

For some reason, Kaitlyn has to consult the guys on what they think about throwing a new guy into the mix. Obviously everyone hates the idea, and Tanner reveals that he actually does watch this show by catching up the guys on Nick's role on Andi's season and how he confronted her about "making love" with him when she wasn't in love with him and how he's generally a terrible person.  Kaitlyn feels like she's in a tough situation, so goes outside, makes out with Nick, and then gives the group date rose to the only guy who supported her decision to consider inviting Nick on.

Kaitlyn wastes no time in catching Nick up to what's been happening this season.

The rest of the show is overshadowed by the Nick Situation.  Jared gets a glamorous one-on-one date with Kaitlyn and writes her a poem which is predictably as bad as all other poetry to have come out of this show.

Next group date, five guys show that they can't sing or dance or act and Kaitlyn and Cupcake Chris get to appear for like 2 seconds in Aladdin on Broadway.  Meanwhile, the rest of the guys are still fuming about Nick.

Much as I dislike Nick, Kaitlyn clearly has more chemistry with him than any of the other men.  She was ridiculously giddy when he showed up.  Or maybe, as Ashley S. notes, it's just lust.  Whatever it is, it's better TV than Ben H. and Joe sulking about losing the Broadway date or Kaitlyn and Chris admiring THE BALL.

Lastly, instead of a rose ceremony, we get 5 minutes of elevator music with a weird attendant watching Nick as he moves in with another group of men who will hate him.  Also Britt and Brady are still running around on beaches together and I still don't care.