The Golden Bachelor Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Deadline

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Gerry Turner had some powerful selections to make on this week’s episode of The Golden Bachelor.

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There is only one extra spherical of dates earlier than hometowns, and that call is weighing on everybody. Some of the ladies are feeling safer than others about the place they stand with Gerry — and their fears are solely heightened when Jesse Palmer reveals that solely three ladies will probably be transferring on, as an alternative of the standard 4 contestants that make it to hometowns.

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Faith, specifically, is searching for some readability on her reference to Gerry. But, she shortly finds a possibility to debate it with him since she’s chosen for this week’s one-on-one date.

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That means Teresa, Ellen, Susan, Sandra and Leslie will probably be departing on a bunch date with Gerry later within the episode.

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It seems, Faith isn’t alone in her confusion. Gerry refers to her as his “big question mark,” and he’s hoping their solo date will present some much-needed understanding about their emotions for each other. He must know there’s loads of room to develop with Faith.

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After choosing her up from the mansion, Gerry surprises Faith with a helicopter journey throughout Los Angeles. Though she claims to be afraid of heights, she handles the journey fairly effectively. Must have one thing to do with having her beau by her facet! They, in fact, make a fast flyover on the mansion earlier than circling via downtown Los Angeles after which heading west to the coast. Just off the Santa Monica pier, Gerry and Faith land on a yacht, the place they’ll be spending the remainder of their day.

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They make a champagne toast, after which they dive into the deep finish. Faith opens as much as Gerry about her childhood. She says she was homeless as a teen, and her dad and mom weren’t round, which led her to relationship lots of people who weren’t “emotionally healthy.” She sees stability with Gerry, however she has a tough time being weak. Gerry validates her feelings, encouraging her to really feel protected with him and expressing that he does need to kind a deep emotional reference to somebody. He should see one thing promising in that dialog, as a result of he affords her the primary hometown rose.

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Back on the mansion, the opposite ladies are having a little bit of a tough time. Leslie and Ellen are feeling a bit insecure about the place they stand with Gerry, and seeing another person go on a date with him definitely isn’t serving to. But, they need to placed on a little bit of a faux smile when Faith returns able to reveal the main points of her date. After listening to a number of the extra romantic particulars, many of the ladies seem to be they remorse asking the way it went within the first place.

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Good factor they don’t need to wallow of their insecurities for lengthy. Gerry is taking the women out for an evening on the Santa Monica pier.

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It’s a pleasant, light-hearted solution to break up a number of the anxiousness and push everybody to let free a bit of. The group traipses across the pier enjoying whack-a-mole and ring toss, consuming cotton sweet, profitable stuffed animals, and zooming round in bumper vehicles. Gerry additionally takes a possibility to do just a few solo actions with every of the ladies to present them time to talk.

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Teresa is up first, and he or she’s excited to speak to Gerry as a result of she desires to inform him she’s in love with him. Gerry appears very touched by her phrases, although he doesn’t say them again (a element that Teresa positively clocks). But, he does admit in a confessional that he has sturdy emotions for her, even when he’s not able to say the “L” phrase simply but. Nothing mistaken with taking it sluggish, Gerry!

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Gerry and Leslie open up fairly a bit to one another, as Leslie reveals she’s had a tricky few days. In truth, every of the ladies have a heartfelt dialog with Gerry.

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Despite an total enjoyable evening, the temper is somber as Gerry picks up the group date rose. He ruminates over who to present it to, however in the end decides that he wants extra time to assume. He publicizes he gained’t be giving out a rose and, as an alternative, will hand out two roses on the subsequent rose ceremony. The ladies really feel considerably relieved by the gesture, since that they had all satisfied themselves they wouldn’t be the one to obtain the rose that evening. However, it simply means one other day of hysteria forward earlier than they’ll know their destiny.

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While the women may need needed to sit with that anticipation, we don’t. The episode skips proper to the rose ceremony, the place Gerry tells the ladies he hasn’t slept as a result of he’s been so in his head about this resolution. At least he desires them to know he’s taking it severely.

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Gerry affords roses to Leslie and Teresa. That means Ellen, Susan and Sandra are headed dwelling (with out Gerry).

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Susan and Sandra appeared to count on their departure. Ellen is a bit blindsided, and Gerry takes the chance to stroll her out. He tells her she was his most troublesome resolution, and he needs her effectively. Ellen is clearly shook up, however she admits she wouldn’t have modified the expertise.

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Next week, hometowns! The Golden Bachelor airs Thursdays on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/PT.