Amusing recap of the bitches departure bit in the episode....
Note the bold .......Romy/Aleisha were always gonski
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Nick knows the leader is Cat. She’s been trouble ever since she left her fold-up table at that Balinese craft fair and came into the mansion.
“She’s caused a shit stir in the house. And it’s just time to go,” he grunts to us.
The energy on the patio changes instantly when Nick walks out. He pulls Cat away. Her cockiness prevents her from picking up on the fact something may be wrong.
When it comes to taking down a mean girl, you can’t waste time. It’s not a delicate dance. Taking such care would indicate weakness, and that’s when mean girls attack. You’ve got to catch them without warning.
Cat thinks she’ll use this chat to present Nick with her ultimatum - but just as she goes to open her mouth, he cuts her off. There’s been a lot of trouble, he says, and she’s at the centre of it.
“I’m not mean!” she replies, almost losing the wig she insists on wearing at all these rose ceremonies. “I say things how they are!” This is a phrase often said by annoying people looking to justify all the mean and judgmental things they say.
“I have a heart of gold,” she insists. Her pleas are weak. We can see in her eyes not even she believes it.
She tells us she’ll be spewing if she goes home. “I want to win. And I’ll do whatever it takes,” she says coldly.
It’s hard to get huffy in a novelty toga without looking like an idiot, and Cat doesn’t rise to the challenge.
As she glares at Nick, her eyes spark. She almost forgot about Plan B.
Executing the backup plan to her scheme, she attempts to fake cry.
It doesn’t work. Nick’s smarter than that and he sticks to his plan to eradicate her. Cat still doesn’t take the hint. There’s only one thing left to do.
Nick walks her outside to a waiting car and opens the door. He makes her stand on the kerb while he climbs in. Seconds later, his head pops out of the sunroof and he re-creates the scene from
Mean Girls where Janice tells Cady what’s good.
“Cat, I think it’s time to leave,” he says.
And just like that, Cat is cancelled.
She throws herself into the back of the Uber.
Blaming everyone but herself, she declares she’ll return to her life turning Milo tins into bangles.
It’s left up to Osher to explain to everyone the drama that has just unfolded.
“They’ve discovered there’s a …
misalignment when it comes to values,” he concludes, offering a new spin on conscious uncoupling.
While most of the township celebrates the downfall of Catilina, her merry band of underlings struggle to handle the news. Cracks begin to appear immediately.
There’s no time to mourn. We’re all summoned into the rose ceremony. Indeed, one girl has already been kicked out, but that won’t affect tonight’s elimination plans. Two more have got to go. Will it be the ones we hope?
Tenille gets a rose and it sets Romy off.
“Is this a sick joke? Such a total load of shit. F**k this,” she spits to us.
She finds herself in the bottom three with Alisha and that new odd intruder lady Brittney.
There’s one rose left. Nick now knows who the mean girls are. Just letting one of them through means they win.
He stares at Romy and says her name, holding out the final rose. But it’s not so much an offer as it is a test.
As Romy skulks forward, he doesn’t blink.
“I’m not sure …” she tells him.
Brittney the odd intruder lady almost dies.
Nick drops the final rose back down on the silver platter and leads Romy outside.
“I don’t reckon I can [take it], hey,” she says casually.
He knows she can’t. This was his plan all along. Take away the head mean girl and all the others fall away. They’re nothing without each other. Nick knew they weren’t here for him — and they proved it themselves.
As he puts Romy in a car and it speeds off, the official two evictees of the night stumble out, ready to leave. Slight problem. We’ve already kinda used the two elimination Ubers that were booked for this evening. We inform them they’ll have to walk and promptly shut the carved timber door.
A new era begins in The Bachelor mansion. I feel alive. In my mind, that same happy song from the final scene in
Matilda plays.
Back inside the mansion, the girls don’t know how to feel.
Emotions are mixed — joy, pain, sorrow, love and betrayal. All they can do is stand still. In this moment, we’re given a scene that has the same complex beauty of one of those Jesus oil paintings.
It immediately becomes a true relic of modern Australian history.
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Lol Jamie-Lee’s moon boot.
Source:Channel 10
