Following Mike’s departure after the two-on-one date, at least producer plant was sent home as arch nemesises (nemeses? nemesi?) Juan and David were both sent packing in The Bachelorette Season 5 Episode 4.
Everybody goes to Whistler, BC, Canada, a ski resort town a couple hours outside of Vancouver.
Michael gets the one-on-one date. Jillian just about let him go last night (maybe), so she wants to see if there’s a connection there on this solo date. They start off ziplining. Jillian feels like a kid again. That night, they go to a champagne place, where they see hundreds of bottles dating back to the 1800s. At dinner, Michael says he’s a cheesy hopeless romantic. Jillian doesn’t know what she’s looking for, but she is ready to ask someone to do this forever. He broke up with someone eight months ago, and this is his first dating experience since then. He was happy the first night when Jillian breakdanced with him because it was a relief since he doesn’t know a lot of girls who like to let their hair down like that. Michael makes her laugh, and there’s never a lack of conversation, so he gets the rose, although she still has some concerns that she’ll need to figure out.
The guys at the house are still trying to figure out the girlfriend thing. Is it a lie? Is it real? Is Wes a bigger phony than he seems?
The group date is for Wes, Robby, Kiptyn, Tanner, Ed, Jake, Reid, and Mark. They will be going snowmobiling. Jillian selects Robby to ride with her, while the rest of the guys can ride in groups of two. This is every Canadian girl’s dream. Robby apologizes for his outburst at the rose ceremony. She thinks he’s honest and doesn’t believe she has to worry about him having a girlfriend. Next up is Tanner. Is he going to reveal a name? No, he’s just going to leave it up to her. Wes could see someone thinking he’s there for the wrong reasons, what with his CD coming out and all. He doesn’t want to talk about it any more. Jillian likes that he’s kinda bad ass. I don’t think she’ll like it for very long. After asking Kiptyn to feel her butt, Jillian reveals that she doesn’t suspect him. She doesn’t know what he’s actually saying to her… she just keeps thinking how cute he is. Reid has gotten off to a slower emotional start with her. He’ll definitely be married with children in a few years. So anyway, who’s the one with the girlfriend? He tells her everybody’s got a girlfriend, if not multiple girlfriends, and that he’s got some wives.
Ed seems distant from everyone. He’s wondering what he’s doing there, having had a conference call with his boss that morning. If he wants to stick around, he’ll probably be unemployed. Ed receives the rose so he knows she wants him to stay. Does he want to keep the rose, or does he want to give it back? He accepts it. Jake’s pretty confident he will not be at the next rose ceremony. A recession is not the best time to play with your job.
Jesse gets the other one-on-one date. They will be flying to a glacier. There’s not a lot of talking when they’re riding over, but they both think the view is breattaking. When they land, everything’s untouched like nobody’s ever been there before. This is the best day Jesse’s ever had. It even beats his 6th Christmas when he got his Tonka truck. He’ll remember this forever. After they play in the snow for a while, they fly back to get dinner. He’s been in love once before. She let that slip on the glacier, but now it’s time for the tough questions. Is it too soon? He says it’s been almost half a year, so now he’s ready to be in a relationship and commit. Do they still talk? Oh, god no. As for her, she’s ready to bail on Vancouver and is open to moving to her man’s city for a couple years. He loves her voice, which he could fall asleep to… she just wants to know how he could fall asleep to nails on a chalkboard. After dinner they get in a hot tub, presumably prompting Jillian’s parents to turn off the TV. He wants to know how he’s going to explain this day to everyone. Tivo. Excited to see what comes next, Jillian gives Jesse a rose.
Ed needs to talk. He spoke with his boss again, and with that said, he will be leaving. Jillian’s hurt, but at least they’re figuring it out before they go too far. While he’s letting her down, he has to leave, or he’ll be letting down a lot more people. Before he leaves, he asks to keep the rose. She just wishes he would have thought about this before he came here, a valid complaint since it can’t be a surprise to him how long this process has turned out to be, unless he was expecting to be sent home at the first rose ceremony. Jillian threw away everything she had for this opportunity. Really? Everything?
Chris asks if Tanner is someone Jillian can trust. Her response: if he is there to fall in love with her, he should focus on that, not calling the other guys out (no matter how many times she asks him to spill apparently).
Jillian’s ready to get down to business. No need for a cocktail party.
Roses
Michael (individual date)
Jesse (individual date)
Reid
Kiptyn
Robby
Jake
Tanner
Wes
Following Ed’s earlier departure, Mark, who was spared elimination on last week’s two-on-one date, has now been eliminated. He’s reconsidering putting his walls up, although he has been cheated on 4 times. Since he didn’t come here to sell records and doesn’t have a girlfriend, he doesn’t feel like he got a fair chance.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Bachelorette 5 episode 6, which airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.