Turmoil and a Tarantula

This episode is in Belize. There are 6 girls. All of them will go. Well, 2 will go home alone, and 4 will go home with home town dates.

Ben shows up in a girlish tank top. I would say he looked gay, but I don't want to insult gay men. They know how to dress better than that.
Moving on, the girls get a really cool house to stay in. They all hate Courtney. Don't we all. Low down on the dates - 3 one on one (without roses) and then 1 group date with a rose.

First date, goes to Lindzi. She's excited, the others, not so much.
Nicki is starting to break down. Hold it together girl.

Ben picks Lindzi up for their date in, of course, a helicopter. Seriously ABC, get out of the helicopter phase.
They end up jumping out of the helicopter into a big and very deep circle in the ocean. 500 feet deep. However, there was a boat right there. And I'm sure a couple of life guards. They take the obligatory gag-inducing (for me) "Leap of Faith".
They have dinner and make small talk about their families. Moving on.

Next date card arrives and it for Emily. Take that, Courtney! She cries how not fair it is, and how mean Emily is. What? Because Courtney has just been Miss Congeniality.

Back to the Lindzi date.
Lindzi: I'll never forget today's date.
Me: Kind of like a brush for your hair.
Now they do a "letter in the bottle" thing. Really? Lame, lame, lame, lame. They throw it in the water, and I call them litterbugs. Where did that term "litterbug" come from? Where was I? Oh yeah, their date. They sit by the water and kiss. She'll be in the final 4.

Back at the house, Kacie and Nicki continue to hate Courtney (don't we all), Emily is so excited about her date, and Courtney is getting her air guns ready. I have no idea what happened to Rachel.

Emily gets an upgrade from the helicopter and gets a prop plane. They are walking around the city, shopping and seeing the local sights. Ben then has a great idea! Let's get local lobster for dinner. Oh, no, the fisherman guy is sold out. But guess what? He offers to take them out to catch their own lobster.

Emily: Ben is very spontaneous!
Me: This was all previously set up, and he is well aware of the plan....

They jump in and catch 2 lobsters. I'll have to say, she did catch one and was holding it. Me, as soon as it moved, I would screech like an 8 year old girl and fling it. No telling where it would have ended up, but likely, Ben's hair.

Back at the house Courtney cries to Lindzi, the camera and then crawls in bed. Stay there, would ya?

Now Ben and Emily are eating the lobster they caught. Ben asks her if she thinks she would want to take him to meet her family. She again apologizes for the Courtney fiasco, and rebounds nicely. The date looks like it is going well and I think she's going to get a rose.

Courtney tells the other girls she wants Rachel to go home. And she says if she doesn't get the last one on one date, she won't be staying.

The date card arrives and it goes to her. Blech. She gloats, the other girls shoot daggers at her. Gee, girls, don't waste your time with daggers, Courtney had guns, and she ain't afraid to use them! Stupid B.

The Courtney date is to climb a Mayan ruin. She tries to ruin their date, but fails to do it, because Ben is an idiot.
They climb to the top, and she starts nagging him about the other girls, and maybe their spark is gone, and she just doesn't know if she would take him home to meet her family. Ben then panics and tells her what she wants to hear. Dummy, should have just sent her home then.

But Courtney knows she has won this round and celebrates by shooting off her stupid air guns.

At dinner, she then tells him how she wouldn't be friends with any of those other girls and they are nothing but plain vanilla. (I like vanilla). And she claims she was so nice to them! LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!

Ben: I don't want to be with a girl that no one likes.
Me: Then why do you keep picking her?

Final date, Ben wakes up Rachel, Nicki and Kacie to go swimming with sharks. Rachel is really scared and gets to hold hands with Ben the whole time. Finally, they get out of the water and have lunch, where Kacie gets the rose. The only surprising part is Kacie and Nicki warn Ben about trusting Courtney. Rachel avoids the conversation, just like Ben's brain does.

Time for the cocktail party.
Speaking of Rachel, I hate her feather earrings, but love her cute dress.
The girls arrive at the cocktail party, and are once again cut off early from the cocktail train, as Ben has made his decision. Before that, they make conversation, and try to suck down their drinks. Too bad they are frozen pina coladas. Emily asks who is nervous. And they all discuss it, of course, Courtney is not nervous and is ready to party. And reminds the girls that there are other guys in the world besides Ben. Which, in her defense, is true. Then she has more stupid comments using her little girl voice. Ugh.

Ben arrives and asks to speak with Courtney. Emily, Nicki and Kacie start to do the happy dance.
Rachel: Do you think he pulled her aside because she is, or isn't getting a rose?
Nicki: 50/50.
Me: Again, great insight, as there are only 2 choices.

Ben then gives a rose to Nicki and then to Lindzi.
Final rose, to Courtney. NOOOOOOOOOOO.
Look, remember Jake, and how he picked the girl everyone hated? See how well that worked out? Sigh.
Emily and Rachel both cry. And Courtney skips and shoots off her stupid guns again. Again, I wish I knew where Rachel got her dress. It was too cute.
Courtney shows her class with "See ya, wouldn't want to be ya". Yeah, Ben, that's who you picked.
Previews, usual home town dates and awkward moments with parents.
Out takes, Courtney has a bonding moment with a tarantula as it walks on her arm, and it seems to like her. I guess one spider recognizes another, no matter their form.