"Why do all the girls hate you?" he asks.
"I'm too smart and don't like painting my nails" Olivia responds.
Ben is skeptical, but he doesn't rescind the group date rose, and instead, Jennifer, a brunette, goes home.
Ben tells the remaining ladies they're headed to the Bahamas! Upon arriving and squealing about their new hotel rooms, Chris Harrison makes an appearance with the first date card (a one-on-one for Caila) and to inform them there will also be a dreaded two-on-one this week.
Caila's one-on-one basically became a background montage to the beginning of the end of Leah. Remember Leah? Me neither because she was the "who's that?" of every rose ceremony so far. But not today. Today Leah is sad because she's the only one who hasn't gotten real alone time with Ben and now Caila gets a SECOND one-on-one. Leah cries and and we see Ben and Caila kiss some fish and jump off a yacht holding hands.
Leah's sobfest over for now, we get to see Ben and Caila's evening chat. Ben's concerned because Caila smiles too much and basically asks her to cry for him. Caila has a confusing monologue about how she feels like she loves him but feels confused and feels afraid of hurting him and feels understood and feels like she understands him and the audiences feels like she's speaking a different language because no one knows what happened. Ben says he's confused but also thinks "it's almost attractive that Caila can be confused" so she gets the rose.
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"This is like a bar in Dallas. There's pigs everywhere" -JoJo |
Back at the mansion, Emily calls her twin to bitch about Olivia, again, while Olivia bitches about how young Emily is (they are the same age).
In the evening portion of the group date, Ben tries to smooth over the awkwardness of the day, and Leah tries to throw Lauren B. under the bus. Ben asks Lauren B. why someone would say she acts differently with the girls and Lauren B. gets really upset as well as us viewers because she's seemed so sweet all along. The other girls ask what's wrong when it's apparent Lauren B. is upset, and Leah straight up lies about bringing Lauren B. up with Ben. Amanda gets the group date rose for no other reason than we all forgot she was there.
Later, after the date, Leah sneaks off to see Ben. "I'm not here to sabotage someone," Leah says before trying to sabotage Lauren B. by telling Ben that Lauren B. is malicious and catty. Ben doesn't take the bait and sends Leah packing. And that's the end of probably the shortest lived villain in Bachelor history.
Deep intellects have no place on this show, Olivia. And by "deep intellects," I mean "love languages." |
Ben then takes the rose and asks Olivia to walk with him. Ben gives a speech about how he can't reciprocate the "I love you" feelings Olivia expressed and walks back to Emily with the rose. They boat off, and Olivia is deserted on an island in what looks to be the start of a hurricane. Everyone everywhere cheers and it's almost more satisfying than Farmer Chris leaving Kardashley and Kelsey in the Badlands last year. Almost.
Time for the cocktail party. Wait, Ben cancels the cocktail party and heads straight for the rose ceremony! Gasp! Drama! Except not really, because in every season ever, once things get serious, the Bachelor/Bachelorette always cancels at least one cocktail party. Anyway, everyone gets a rose except Lauren H., who is beautiful and wonderful and a teacher, and girl, you are going to do fine back in the real world.
Girls we said goodbye to in the last couple of weeks (since the to be continued threw everything off):
Jubilee, aka #JubileeforBachelorette! Let's get diverse with the leads already and also, Jubilee is literally a hero;
Jennifer, who it's unclear if Ben and her had even met yet,
Leah, who tried to get rid of Lauren B and it backfired enormously,
Olivia, who really only had herself to blame because she was living in "Olivia world" where Ben and her were already married;
and Lauren H., so now no one needs a last initial anymore.
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