‘The Bachelor’ Recap: Joey Faces Down His “Worst Nightmare” On Fantasy Suites Week
12.03.2024 - 04:13
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SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor.
In the opening teaser for tonight’s episode of The Bachelor, we’re met yet again with the clip we’ve been wondering about all season.
As he returns to his room post-date during Fantasy Suites week, Joey finds a note tucked into his hotel room door, which reads “Joey, we need to talk,” and promptly freaks out. “I don’t understand. What is this?” he asks, fearing that his “worst nightmare” might be on the verge of coming true.
As it turns out, we’re in Tulum, Mexico, where Joey is weighing a difficult choice between his top three picks: Daisy, Kelsey, and Rachel. At this point, he confesses, he’s falling in love with all three women. Still, he continues to struggle emotionally, as he gets closer to the finish line, worrying that the woman he chooses in the end won’t choose him in return.
Joey’s first date of the week is Rachel, who before their rendezvous, is visited by The Golden Bachelor‘s Susan for a little motherly advice, and admits that she’s in love with our Bachelor. When Rachel speaks to her past experiences of being cheated on in relationships and her fear that the pattern will repeat, with Joey picking another woman over her, Susan encourages her to let her guard down, having rediscovered on The Golden Bachelor the importance of loving herself.
Ahead of the date, Joey shares that Rachel brings out a different, more silly side of him, and while she’s at times not been as emotionally available as the other women, every experience he’s had with her has been special. On their date, the duo take a leap of faith, jumping into a cenote, or sinkhole pool, from platforms at different heights. All is well until they jump from the