This episode opens in the aftermath of last week’s rose ceremony. We watch a plane disappear into the night that we’re supposed to think has Kelsey on board but it’s probably just some stock footage ABC had lying around.

Madison decides this is a good time to tell Peter about her virginity so she follows him outside of the airplane hangar for a private conversation. Instead of telling him about personal choices that she’s made she confronts him with what amounts to an ultimatum: if he sleeps with another woman before he proposes to her then it will be an issue.

Madison has every right to be proud of her virginity. That’s a commitment that I couldn’t imagine making. It’s not an easy choice and nobody should have any say in that choice or any other personal decision she’s made for herself.

Having said that, it’s entirely fucked up that she’s trying to tell Peter what he can or can’t do. It’s just as gross if Peter were to tell Madison that their relationship was over because of her virginity, in fact it’s probably worse. Also, Peter’s sexual prowess is a major theme of this season and she’s naive if she thinks his number isn’t in the high teens or low twenties.

Back to the episode. Instead of addressing her virginity, she dances around it and sticks to her ultimatum. Peter should be picking up what she’s putting down but he has the intellectual bandwidth of a dead gnat and needs a woman to scream at him with captions for him to be able to figure out what she’s feeling.

The show then travels to Gold Coast, Australia which is truly stunning. It’s a city I’m entirely unfamiliar with but it’s apparently the entertainment center of Australia and is largely (almost entirely) supported by tourism. We meet Peter walking along the beach and I’ve got to be honest, Peter has a mean Summer shirt game.

Hannah Ann, Victoria, and Madison arrive at their resort one by one to find that they’ll be staying in the same suite.

It’s awkward initially and it’s only going to get more awkward as Peter makes his rounds. Peter stops in to greet them with a terrible Australian accent and invites Hannah Ann out for a date.

He takes her Jet-Skiing. Dope. Everyone should Jet-Ski at some point in their lives but it doesn’t count unless you fly off and skip like a rock on the water at max speed. They each have their own Jet-Ski to start the date but leave one in the middle of the ocean so Hannah Ann can jump on Peter’s to up the romance. They wind up on a private beach and she tells Peter he’s free to have sex with the other women, which is exactly what Peter wants to hear.

They rub foreheads and make out while rolling around in the sand. Gross. Sand sucks and the beach is overrated. I’d recommend a thorough shower before the fantasy suite.

Later that night, Hannah Ann arrives for dinner wearing a horrific pink kimono-dress that simultaneously looks like a maternity dress while toeing the line of cultural appropriation. It’s a bad, bad look.

They have a clumsy (AND SWEATY) conversation over dinner where Hannah Ann, again, explicitly tells Peter that he can have sex with the other women without it bothering her. Peter is so horny for her but I think he’s most excited to know that at least one woman doesn’t care about how sexually active he is going to be, and let’s be real: we all know Victoria doesn’t give a fuck either.

Peter invites her to the fantasy suite, where they take on sip of champagne before having sex against an opaque glass door.

The next morning Hannah Ann heads back to the women’s room at the resort. Madison and Victoria ask her how her date went but they both know exactly how it went. To Hannah Ann’s credit she doesn’t rub their face in it. I would have.

Victoria is up next and Peter immediately apologizes to her for how their last date went. He tells her that he trusts her and isn’t worried about his ex telling him that Victoria is a home-wrecking demon. Look y’all, he’s come this far dealing with her crazy ass, he might as well seal the deal now and worry about the consequences later. For their date he takes her on a helicopter tour of Gold Coast (is it THE Gold Coast?) before they head to a rain forest.

At their picnic in the rain forest, he apologizes to her again. We’re getting baby-talk Victoria on this date. He hasn’t upset her yet and is letting himself be dominated emotionally so she’s happy for now.

Because there hadn’t been drama during their entire day together, Victoria decides to start some shit at their dinner. She says she’s a bad communicator because of issues with a long term boyfriend. She asks him to explicitly tell her what he needs from her. He starts to do this and she immediately shuts down.

He tells her she needs to stop acting like this when they’re together and while that sounds like he’s growing a backbone, he immediately goes supine for her because at this point he knows that’s the only way to get her to quit whining and have sex with him. He invites her to the fantasy suite and they have sex. Ok dude, you got what you wanted. It’s time to bail.

The next morning Victoria returns to the resort and Madison is obviously aware that both women slept with Peter. She storms off to pace almost immediately when Victoria comes back and isn’t in tears.

Later that day Madison meets Peter at the beach. Instead of spending the day there he tells her they’ll be spending it on top of a nearby skyscraper. They get into jumpsuits and a harness before making their way to the top. Pretty lame date compared to what Hannah Ann and Victoria got to do.

Meanwhile Hannah Ann and Victoria have a conversation about why Madison has been acting so weird. Hannah Ann tells Victoria that Madison hasn’t told Peter about her virginity but did deliver an ultimatum to him about sleeping with the other women. Victoria is disgusted and (GULP) she’s right.

Back at their date Madison and Peter sit down for dinner. Peter takes the lead and decides to address her ultimatum. She finally tells him that she’s saving herself for marriage and he…doesn’t look stoked. She frames her virginity as a way to give herself completely to her husband and I’m not a fan of this phrasing. You aren’t a commodity to be given to someone.

Peter actually handles this well. He tells her that he respects her choice but it’s not one that he made. She tells him that she’s already compromised her morals by being ok with him kissing other women but sex is too far for her. He’s honest with her and tells her that he was intimate with Victoria and Hannah Ann.

Upon hearing this she storms off to cry on the patio. She says she frustrated and mad at him because of the choices he made. Fuck off, Madison. After a few minutes he goes outside to console her. He apologizes and tells her he knows how tough this is for her but he doesn’t want to lose her.

She walks away crying as credits roll.