In Istanbul, Turkey, we find out the big secret: Which Bachelor is a snake in the grass with a girlfriend back home? All of the previews and teasers have been showing a cowardly Bachelor skulking away as Ali chases him, having found out that the Bachelor has a girlfriend back home.
The drama starts right out of the gate. Jessie, a former castmate of Ali’s on The Bachelor, has information she needs to share. “I have information about someone who is one the show.” Someone is not there for the right reason, she tells Ali. “One of the guys has a girlfriend. And that’s Justin…I’m sitting with his girlfriend right now. Her name is Jessica.”
Jessica speaks in between muffled sobs. She tells Jessica that R Rated Justin hatched an idea to get on the show to make a splash in the entertainment world. According to Jessica, Justin said if he could get in the top three, the exposure would carry him afterwards. Then he would come home and marry Jessica. Jessica was in on it, which she says she now regrets. Is her regret because it was wrong or because she found out Justin had another girlfriend back home as well?
Ali took it quietly, letting the steam build up inside. After she’d hung up, she went straight to the men’s quarters with all of the men sitting on sofas. It was full-throttle tension. She launched into her story, as Justin watched her from the opposite sofa. One jaw dropped after another.
Then began what we’ve seen on previews, a cowardly bachelor trying to get out of the Bachelor compound, but having about as much luck as Jack getting out of the maze in The Shining.
The whole thing answers one age old question about karma. The answer? Yes, people, karma exists, and she’s one angry woman. “Justin, you are going to regret this,” Ali calls several times as he tries to get away.
Justin tried climbing through shrubbery in the courtyard when he couldn’t find a way out, much to the delight of the other bachelors watching from oversized windows in their suite. Finally, Justin had no way out but to walk past Ali. He sat near her but never said anything that meant anything. At one point he said he never planned to marry Jessica, the woman back home, that they were just good friends.
He walked away again, and as he shuffled his broken foot down the sidewalk, the show played a series of saved voice messages, presumably provided by Jessica. They all fell into the “Hey, baby, I miss you so much you can’t know. You need to know how much I love you.”
The remaining men are afraid that this will affect Ali and how she sees the rest of them. Perhaps she will be questioning the rest of them. “He’s (Justin) screwing with a very sacred thing to her,” said Frank.
Ali bounced back well. She planned her one-on-one date, with Ty. Craig was disappointed, as he’s yet to have an alone date with Ali.
Ali and Ty spend time in a Turkish bath, normally reserved for men only. It’s a very romantic setting, and Ali says Ty was the perfect way to calm things down after Justin. She tells Ty that he is always upbeat, always calms her down. She gives Ty a rose at the end.
Craig is hoping for a one-on-one, but the next group date is announced, and his name is included. It’s a grueling date, insofar as dates go. The men have to wrestle one another in olive oil wrestling. Craig, a lawyer, should not have had a chance in that one, but he won out of sheer will. The reward, one-on-one time with Ali. It’s perfect for him. Ali tells Craig that he always has something good to say, always makes her feel better. He finally feels like he has a chance. He got a trophy for winning the wrestling match, but it’s the one-on-one time that makes him a winner he says. “It feels almost better than winning a big case.”
That leaves Frank for the last one-on-one in Turkey. They travel through a bizarre. She puts on a belly dancer outfit, and he dons what can only be described as a really big hat. Frank and Ali are back on track after last week when she told him she was worried he was fading into the background. Ali gives Frank a rose.
Ali doesn’t hold the usual cocktail party. She says she already knows what she has to do by this point, so it seems cruel to have the men pitch for their spot on the show.
There are four men and three roses. In the end, it was Craig who was sent home. Ali told him she just didn’t think the romance was there. Craig is brokenhearted: “I was falling in love.”
The previews hint that Frank breaks Ali’s heart next week. We hear him say: “I can’t propose to a woman who doesn’t feel 100 percent for me.”
Chris L., 32, Cape Cod, MS, landscaper. Rose!
Craig R., 27, Philadelphia, attorney. No Rose!
Frank, 30, Chicago, retail manager. Rose!
Justin, 26, Toronto, CA, entertainment wrestler. SENT HOME IN SHAME
Kirk, 27, Green Bay, WI, sales consultant. Rose!
Roberto V., Charleston, SC, insurance agent. Rose!
Ty, 31, Franklin, TN, medical sales/musician. Rose!
Stay tuned for Monday's (July 5) show. The Bachelorette, ABC, Mondays at 8 p.m., EST.
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