Previously...
Shit.
On Are You the One?...
Shit's getting weird.
I'll sneak them all day long.
Brooke's number one right now, hands down,
'Cause she is beautiful, she's my type.
And I almost feel like it's too good to be true.
You're my little koala. I like it.
I have a habit of jumping really quickly into things.
That's, like, my style.
I was watching Brendan, and I'm confused, you guys.
I'm so confused.
Welcome, friends, to your first matchup ceremony.
Business is booming.
I'm waiting to see these beams light up. Turn them on.
What?
- What? - No.
Blackout.
As you can see, behind me,
there are 11 beams of light.
Each beam represents a perfect match.
Eleven beams are 11 perfect matches,
getting you closer to winning that $1 million.
Million dollars.
But, remember, if you get no beams,
that means a blackout
and your prize is cut by $250,000.
And the number of perfect matches is...
I feel like there are some power couples stepping up.
I think we'll definitely be able to have one or two beams up,
at least.
- Come on. - Come on.
Come on.
- Come on. - We gotta get one at least.
- I'm actually nervous. - Come on.
I'm waiting to see these beams light up. Turn them on.
Turn them on. Hurry up.
Come on, man.
- What? What? - What?
- Blackout.
- No, no, no. - No.
- No one. - Are you serious?
Fuck this shit.
Clearly, my calculation is wrong.
This isn't a fucking joke, bruh.
Two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars gone.
- Bruh, I'm fucking... - Week one, gone.
That's a blackout.
That means no one is sitting next to their perfect match.
Clearly, we're all thinking about this the wrong way.
I'm pissed. I'm pissed.
Keep your hearts open and make every moment count
'cause obviously it's also counting
towards your money.
You can head back on to the house,
and I'll see you later.
I'm playing my fucking heart, bro.
This is some fucking ho-ass shit, bro.
I've fallen in love with this girl,
so it's very hard. All I do is think about her.
Wherever she is, I want to be by her all the time.
This shit is crazy.
♪ Circling back again
♪ We're in love Not as friends ♪
♪ Funny how it never works
♪ Next week I'll be back with you ♪
♪ I felt used Before I met you ♪
It's really upsetting for me.
I'm here to find my perfect match.
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
And I wanna fucking cry.
♪ It aint right
Fuck.
Yes, we're drinking. We're drinking it up.
For what? There's nothing to fucking celebrate.
Bugger.
We are definitely doing something wrong.
Full blackout.
We're gonna have to reshuffle everything we've been doing,
and take a good, hard, long look at ourselves
'cause this is pathetic.
What, you don't have to drink to celebrate.
You can drink to be depressed.
We're trying to change what we did wrong in the past.
And I think everybody needs to get on board with that
and we need to work together as a team.
This is not a me game and I game.
Ladies, let's go downstairs.
I like winning,
but I'm very much still playing this game.
Well, we lost $250,000.
To be the first cast in history
to ever receive a total blackout of the first matchup ceremony
is just, like, beyond embarrassing.
Two-fifty, gone.
The mistake I made was not being selfish
'cause I was gonna pick Julia
which might've stopped the blackout.
If guys are more focused
on who they actually want to be their match
instead of who actually is their match...
We've all been thinking this whole way through,
like, strategy
or, like, what did the matchmakers
match us up with,
but I feel like
all what they want in this experience
and what we should do
is just, like, really put our hearts out...
That is what they're saying.
We're going with our head, just not with our heart.
Go for the connection and don't even, like,
don't even be busy with, like...
I follow my heart.
You actually, like, the first and only couple
that actually feel like something.
You guys went in there with your hearts.
Leo was all over you.
Like, he was about to, like, marry you.
For real.
I still have feelings for Leo,
but, um, we're just not a match.
I mean, I got it, I got figured out early
because I didn't want tension to happen
or just like... I don't know. It's, like, we'll figure it out.
I want to find a lifelong partner,
and I'm obviously still interested
in getting to know you,
and I still want us to go figure out,
like, who our matches are and what's going on.
- Let's go talk, come on. - All right, all right.
I don't care what the matchmakers have planned for me.
At this point, I want Brooke.
Before we found out we weren't a match,
we were already talking about her being in LA
and me bringing my dog and stuff,
and it just working out great.
I know I'm getting emotional, man.
I don't cry. Like, this shit's tough.
I told everyone. I was like,
"After tonight, it's gonna start to be a fucking shit show."
People are gonna get pissed. People are gonna get butthurt.
You know, shit's just gonna get fucking real.
You gotta start talking to everybody.
And that's how it's gotta come. It comes natural.
- Even out in real life? - She's obviously...
- Even in real life? - Bro, I mean...
I look across and I just smile, bro.
How respectful I am to her.
You did that to your exes, though, too
- that were just like her. - No, I didn't, bro.
I did not treat my exes with respect like that, bro.
Leo, he's not giving himself that opportunity
because he's still stuck in his old ways.
Leo's here to fix himself, right?
We're all here to fix ourselves.
I know you really care for this girl and everything,
I get it, it's real,
but you need to open your heart 'cause there is good girls here.
Oh, there is, for sure. I agree.
Bro, you need someone who's gonna settle you down.
Sure, maybe Brooke had a couple traits
but guess what, you don't know Brooke outside of here.
When you find the one, she's gonna turn you.
You need to get out of your shell.
You need to do stuff that you won't usually do
and go for the people that you don't usually go for,
and at the end of the day,
that's what it's all fucking about.
I do want the right person and I do wanna find love,
but at the same time, I'm not gonna settle.
I want Brooke.
And if Brooke doesn't want me, that's her loss.
Drink the pain away from just losing money.
Drink the pain away.
I'm good. I just wanted to come talk to you.
I feel my base connection right now would be
would be with Aqel.
I feel that we are forming a really strong friendship.
My leg brace came unscrewed three different times
and it frstrated the hell out of me.
It's okay to feel frustrated.
When it breaks, I just can't do all of the things that I can do,
and just, like...
Unfortunately, had a very, very, very serious
motorcycle accident.
I was hit by a car.
I was fully paralyzed from the waste down.
I was in a wheelchair for nine months.
And life was hell.
A lot of people left in terms of friends.
I really had to just learn how to traverse life by myself.
I just kept a smile on my face
because that's just who I am as a person.
But it was hard.
I know you put on a brave face and everything, which is great
that you're letting yourself have this moment.
You're gonna screw it back on, you're gonna get up.
You're gonna put on that bright happy face
and you're gonna keep it pushing just the way you have been.
Seeing Aqel be that vulnerable with me and allowing me
into what he feels is a disadvantage
and that insecurity of his,
I feel more of a connection with him in that sense
because he doesn't let people in that easily.
- Need any help? - No. I'm good.
It's just, I just...
You know it's okay to ask for help too, right?
I know that's probably one of your downfalls...
- Hardest things... - And hardest things to do.
I mean, let me try.
We got this. We got all night to figure it out.
She's the person I came to, and she's the one
who comforted me and came to my rescue in a sense,
and made me feel a lot better, a lot stronger,
mentally and emotionally.
Stand up.
Fucking hell.
- Thank you. - Of course.
I decided to pull CC aside
to just try and get some things to front and center.
I'm sorry.
I never ever, ever would want to disrespect you.
I don't really know what to say right now.
Can you accept, like...
I don't know because you weren't even around
and I was downstairs, breaking down,
because everybody else came up to me
- that were telling me... - Yeah, but I...
I didn't know that till now.
It's fucking embarrassing and I've been through a lot.
I watch all these guys
say these amazing things about these girls.
Brendan gets up there and all he fucking says is...
Business is booming.
- Oh. - "Business is..."
Oh, my God.
It was bullshit.
- I've been fucking hurt. - I know you hurt.
I know you have, CC. I know you have.
There was no excuse, no excuse.
I said... What I said was rude.
And I owned up to it.
I deserve more. I deserve more.
I need a guy who's gonna fucking get it.
I have nothing more than anything but respect for you.
And I find you so fucking beautiful.
That's why I chose you
because I genuinely thought you were my match.
So I don't... What do you mean by that?
I don't know, but I'm sorry.
I didn't make you feel like the princess that you should be
and I don't always say the right things.
I don't always act the right way.
I guess I'm still figuring it out.
He felt really, really bad and I guess he wants
me to kind of give him a chance.
You want me to come with you?
Are you?
We definitely had some sexual tension
and me and her, sexually, we got along pretty well,
you could say.
He said a terrible thing,
but this is now and how you hold yourself
and be a little stronger a nd say no to him,
he doesn't deserve your time, if that's the way he's happy
to publicly speak about you to the world.
Me and Brendan, we still like each other.
I still want what I want and we're having a good time.
♪ Okay you
♪ You see a pattern Your point of view ♪
♪ Gotta move backwards
♪ You should take your little finger ♪
♪ and just point it the mirror baby ♪
♪ Baby you're the problem
Brendan and CC went to the Boom Boom Room.
You're stupid.
Everybody's stuck on the same two, three people,
and then shit that what happens with CC,
especially last night, it pushes people away.
It's like, well, he don't even want to get to know you
'cause I already know you're still hung up
- on this motherfucker. - Yeah.
I feel a lot of people are just playing
with, you know, sexual interaction
and stuff like that.
People are kind of moving around a little bit
but there's still people who are spending majority of their time
with certain people.
So that's kind of gotta come to an end.
They literally don't want to give me a chance
because they're interested in other people
just based on their looks,
that they're physically attracted to.
Do you know what? When I tell you I feel that,
I feel like no one found me attractive
until I got dressed up yesterday.
We got a blackout
and that is something that I don't feel like
everyone is catching on.
We've been so stuck in our old habits.
So, hopefully, this week is the week
that shows us and gives us a lot more information.
So what's happening?
I just wanna sort of check in with you
and, I don't know, wanna see if you're all right
and just see where your head's at.
I came in pretty hot into this household
and I feel like I'm dropping into my old ways.
CC is cool.
Sexually, we're amazing,
but she reminds me of one of my first exes.
I know that she's not good for me.
I mean, it obviously sucks that we're not a match,
but I still have those feelings, you know.
I still want to explore things
without obviously pissing off the house.
I definitely think we should
try and move forward as much as we can
and get to know, you know, others
and try and just put our stuff as a backseat.
It does suck, at the end of the day,
that, you know, you kind of just wanna
stop things, but...
Yeah, but it's hard because I'm just trying to think
what is the best for us, you know?
Like, it happened so quick,
and then we found we're not matches,
and then I sort of am just trying to think,
like, what is best for what we're doing, you know?
Yeah. I don't really agree.
I mean, we had sex and now it's like,
okay, well, I don't really want
to explore anything with you anymore.
I don't exactly like giving myself up
in that type of way either
just to be made to feel stupid.
It's like now he just doesn't wanna speak to me, whatever,
and it hurts.
I don't wanna turn this into something
that it couldn't be maybe in the future
because I fucking am yoyoing you around.
Now if you cut me off because of whatever...
It's not that I want to cut...
When we literally could have still tried to do this
and do the whole thing in the house as well.
It is going to make it so that there is no future.
This hurts me.
When he pulled me aside,
I thought it was gonna go a lot differently.
Whatever you want.
That's not whatever I want like that.
You're talking down to me. You're saying I'm talking shit.
I'm genuinely here because I care about you.
And I'm genuinely hurt right now,
so if I'm shutting down,
I just... Can you just...
Fucking shit.
♪ Your word against mine
♪ Yeah, we are the who do you believe ♪
♪ We are the who do you believe ♪
♪ I know the problem is you is you is you ♪
♪ You think the problem is me
All right, everyone. It's challenge time.
Let's start with the good news.
You made it to week two.
But your first matchup ceremony
was quite literally a dumpster fire.
None of you found your perfect matches
and you had a blackout.
You've got time to turn it around.
At the end of the day, you're all here
because you want to find your real love,
but in order to do that, you need to open yourselves up
and share everything about your lives,
including your baggage.
Oh, no.
Your next challenge will give you some insight
into who is sharing and who is listening.
This challenge will be only played by the men.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah.
Here's how this is gonna work.
Each man will walk up to the challenge area.
You'll place a tile with a photo of your female housemates
into one of three pillars.
You'll be asked a question,
and your task is to place the women
in order of most to least,
based on that question.
Who qualifies to go on the date will be determined
by your performance and...
Oh, oh...
What's inside of this sealed envelope.
Julia-Ruth, you're gonna hold onto this for me.
Do not open it, okay? I'm trusting you.
Okay. I've got it.
Okay, Mikey, you are the first.
How did I know?
Head on down to the challenge area.
♪ When I wake up No yawning gotta stay up ♪
Who is the most recently single?
Damn, this is a fucking tough one for me.
I am stumped here. I'm stumped.
As soon as I see the question...
I'm gonna choose Dew,
but I don't think it was the most recent one.
I feel like the guys in the house
need to come to the girls more.
We really need to sit down
and have these deeper conversations
not just like, "Oh, I'm vibing with this person."
"Oh, what do you like? Do you like pink? Do you like blue?"
You've got nice eyes, though.
Thank you. That's so nice.
What, are they, like, gray?
- Gray-blue? - I mean...
I don't think that's how we're gonna meet what we need.
Believe it's CC from talking to her.
Put that in number one.
Maybe I should've done more chatting
when I was doing my talks with the lovely ladies.
Anissa really, really sweet,
but she's been single for a very long time.
CC, I remember her saying that she was recently single.
CC is going as my number two.
I'm going off of what I've seen
how they talk about it because you can tell
a lot about when some trauma happened
based on the comfortability level
of how they speak about it.
You bet big, you win big.
This is you time for redemption, gentlemen.
The women who are the most recently single
are CC at three-and-a-half months,
followed by Jordanne at four months.
And then Taylor at five months.
Let's find out who won.
Julia-Ruth, do us the honors, please.
Open the envelope.
The two highest-scoring men get to choose their dates.
- Wow. - Wow.
The man with the highest score is...
- Hamudi. - What's what I'm talking about!
Congrats.
And the man with the second-highest score is...
Leo.
Come on up!
Hamudi, tell us who you're choosing to go on a date with.
Um, today I'll be choosing Anissa.
I choose Anissa because we had a few things in common
that we talked about,
and I actually wanted to find out more about her.
Obviously, in the house, it's very hard
because everyone wants to talk to everyone.
So you don't have that deep conversation together.
Go for it, Leo. Tell us who you are taking on your date.
She's been through a lot of trauma
and she's still healing from her emotions.
She deserves this date more than anyone.
I'm taking, on my date, CC.
I picked CC on this date today
because I wanted some time out of the house
and I could see that she was struggling in the house.
But I wanted to take Brooke.
I have a lot of emotion. I have a lot of feelings.
And that relationship has to end,
and it's just hard for me to do.
On this date, you will have an entire amusement park to roam
and get to know your dates.
Oh, wow.
You guys can head on out. Your dates start right now.
While our couples get their dates on,
the rest of you are gonna get your truth booth on,
which means you will pick one of these two couples
to send into the truth booth.
Remember, it's the only way to verify
if a couple is a perfect match.
I'll see you guys later for the truth booth.
- Does this have rollercoasters? - Yes.
Wow.
- Oh, my God. - That's all for us.
Everything.
It's literally a private park. Nobody's around.
And we can go on any ride we want.
Oh, my God.
My hope today is that Hamudi and I can really connect
in a deeper understanding of one another.
Put your hands up. Honestly, honestly.
♪ You're coming with me
♪ Let's take a dive
♪ May have to bring more
♪ That 45
♪ So we're trashy
♪ That's what I like
♪ We're on the rooftop jumpin' off the side ♪
♪ Are you f-f-f-f-falling
♪ Are you falling with me
Let me show you how it's done.
- Shit. Shoot. - I win.
I'm good at winning.
As I'm trying to talk and get to know CC,
what's running through my head
is that I just can't vibe with her.
You want to find out.
Then she'd get competitive in a disrespectful way,
almost a little too much where I was like,
This is... Oh, my gosh.
I saw you eyeing something the moment you walked in.
That one right there.
I'm just happy you got your bear.
You deserve that.
- All right. - Who you got, who you got?
Easy choice, this one.
All right, little Mountain Dew, what are you thinking?
I think he's picked her up to cheer her up
because she's been a bit down.
When he said she deserves this date and chose CC,
I don't think he was choosing
- for the right reasons. - No.
And especially after a fucking blackout.
We can't give people pity dates at this point.
Obviously, I'm still a little butthurt
from the fact that Anissa wasn't my perfect match,
but it did seem, based on talking to the two of them,
that they had a lot of commonality,
the sort of family-oriented, stuff like that.
I had a lot of conversations with Hamudi.
I've been asking him,
"Who do you think would be your perfect match?"
And he was like, "I think it's either Anissa or it's you."
He has been telling me he has so much in common with Anissa.
So I do not wanna miss out on that chance right now.
- Cheers. Cheers to us. - There you go. To us.
This date's really important after last night's blackout.
I'm a really open person,
but I feel like I still have to knock down a wall.
Or like an onion, right? I'm peeling it back.
It will take me a while before I can open up slowly.
This is very important for me
to actually find out a bit more about her
and to see if this could be it.
Once I feel comfortable, I can start sharing things.
Okay, so it's just till you get comfortable.
Till I get comfortable, yeah.
Okay.
We're both very family oriented. We're both ambitious.
Those things are matching up.
I don't know who else in the house
he would be a perfect match with if we weren't.
I always think ahead. I don't think for the moment.
Where do you see yourself in five years.
Opening more hairdressers, new business.
Yeah, obviously, have a family, definitely.
On that note, how do you feel about adoption?
Adoption. Never thought of it, actually.
I do feel like I can spill whatever baggage if need be
and he would be understanding of it.
The only reason I share that with you
is the possibility of infertility.
That's something that I am very open with
because it's only fair to tell you from the jump.
That's the thing.
I haven't actually thought about it that deep.
Obviously, I want my own kid, you know what I mean?
That one question she asked me,
what happens if I don't have kids,
that kind of changed my mind. I want my own kids.
You know, this could not be for me,
but as a person, she's amazing.
So why you been single?
Me and my ex were together, on and off, for 12 years.
- Wow. - These last four years
of our relationship,
he essentially ended up having kids on me
with other women.
- Wow. - Yeah.
And that's why... I don't even wanna get emotional.
- Oh, my God. - It's all right.
[Hamudi It's okay.
You got too emotional now. That's all right.
Him having kids with other women,
it really, I guess, it hurt me
because of the condition that I have, right,
the possibility that I can't have kids,
so I felt very inadequate, you know?
- Yeah, yeah. - That's why,
through the cheating, and the manipulation,
and the gaslighting, I stayed.
I feel like she's still fighting
through her past relationship trauma.
She cried about it quite a bit.
It's gonna make it very difficult
to bring somebody in my life
that's already having past traumas.
Moving forward, I'm taking what I learned from that relationship
and I'm putting it into my next.
If I'm giving you very sensitive things about my life,
and you're not reciprocating that back
or you're not being compassionate in a sense,
I can't do it past the friendship part.
IT won't get there.
Look at these drinks.
- Oh, my God. - They're so pretty.
Wow, that thing's as tall as you.
I just don't understand
what Leo was thinking, picking me.
You know we don't vibe like that.
In the real world, if I tried to go up to you at the bar,
say, organically, would you swerve me?
I don't know.
The chemistry between CC and I is nonexistent,
to say the least.
It depends...
Are you physically my type? Probably not.
You don't think I'm cute, huh?
It's not that you're not cute.
You're just not normally what I'd go for.
I'm sitting here, trying to ask a question,
and I'm like, "Holy shit, I ran out of questions."
The sun is so hot.
Well, there's water, actually. I'm gonna get some water.
I'm licking the heck out of the salt.
You think, um...
So it's not going good.
Um, yeah. It's... That's... Yeah.
That shit was like watching paint dry.
I didn't really learn too much on this date.
I kind of came into this, knowing I wasn't feeling Leo,
and I definitely know I'm not feeling Leo now.
I don't have very many friends that are girls
would put me in my place like you would, so...
I can teach you a thing or two about how to treat a girl.
- Really, huh? Yeah. Okay. - Mm-hm.
Well, why you letting Brendan walk all over you?
That's what I wanted to say.
But I actually learned to take a breath
and bite my tongue, and just let it be about CC.
But I really wanted to open my mouth.
But, you know what, I'm kind of glad I didn't
because now I get to confess it here on this camera.
♪ Now you're down As soon as I'm up ♪
♪ Oh you wanna talk Boy now you wanna look ♪
♪ Since you left Feels so right ♪
♪ Oh, no, no, no Never back in my life ♪
♪ Oh my God Six missed calls ♪
♪ And I don't even miss you at all ♪
Tell me everything. How was the date?
I faced one of my fears. I did get on a rollercoaster.
We weren't having a romantic connection,
but a friendship one, I did think that that was there
until I got vulnerable with him.
I teared up.
And I heard him say...
-"Gonna be crying." - Yeah, "That's gonna be crying."
- I didn't say it that way. - You did say that.
I think you talking shit now. What I'm saying...
Let me finish. No, let me finish.
So I'm not asking you to carry my baggage.
I want you to be compassionate and understanding,
and if you can't do that, you're not my match.
I guess he assumed that I still miss my ex,
which is not true at all.
I was crying based off of the condition
that made me feel inadequate to be with my ex.
Twelve years is a long time to come out of a relationship
and trying to heal yourself,
and I feel that's still there, you know what I mean?
Letting her past let you say who she is now,
- but she's not that now. - I understand.
I know, but I don't judge anybody on their past.
It did seem Anissa and Hamudi had a lot of commonality,
but it seems that was very surface.
Leo and CC, how was the amusement park?
I don't know why he was so fucking butthurt.
I don't know if it's 'cause I don't fucking like him,
but, "I wasted this date trying to make you happy."
I never, I didn't even see it coming.
Nobody told you to fucking pick me.
CC was coming off like a firecracker.
I've never seen CC act like that before.
We get back, we're sitting in the trailer,
and I basically just said I kind of wasted a date
and that I just did it
so she'd have a good day and make her happy.
And that's when she popped off.
It's just a bunch of bullshit,
and then he comes in here,
"I'm not gonna say it like that."
Well, let people know who the fuck you are.
Shit, that's pretty fucked up.
He's only thinking about himself in this situation
and not the other people in the house.
After a blackout, you'd think you'd be
thinking very strategic and logical about
making the right connection on a potential match,
not just picking someone for the sake of picking someone.
When you picked CC for this date, Leo,
were you genuinely interested in getting to know her?
I had nobody, really, in my mind
who I wanted to pick and go on a date with.
And that's just me being honest, saying from the heart.
I was kind of selfish about it,
and, you know, I just needed to get out the house.
This is not a reason to go on a date
and go in a truth booth because we're wasting our time.
I didn't want to find a perfect match.
I wasn't ready to go in a honeymoon suite
with who I didn't get to know more.
So I was also kind of worried about that.
So I knew CC wasn't my match.
So, lowkey, I did it in a selfish way.
Did something happen?
He came back butthurt sad
that, obviously, we aren't a match.
You really think I'm into you?
I don't think you're into me at all, really.
- And I'm very not into you. - You should know it.
I don't care what CC thinks about me,
to be 100% honest with you.
In a minute, we're gonna find out
which couple you choose to send into the truth booth,
the only way to verify if a couple is a perfect match.
If they are a perfect match, the couple will move out
take their relationship to the next level
in the honeymoon suite
or Fight Club, I don't know.
If it continues this way, we're all going home broke,
and we all wasted our time here, looking for our perfect match.
The couple going into the truth booth is...
Hamudi and Anissa.
Hamudi and Anissa, it is your turn
to go into the truth booth. Head on down.
On paper, we were compatible,
so I was like, "Yeah, it's gonna say perfect match,"
and I want it to for the house,
but, man, it was just such a long walk down those stairs.
It was awkward.
Oh, my God, what if this is a match, guys?
If it comes back perfect match, I'm like, I don't know.
I want to be with someone that I want to be with them
and they wanna be with me as well.
That's gonna be a hard one tonight
and we're gonna just have to find out.
Any second!
Here we go.
Thank God.
Shit.
I have Hamudi really high up on my list.
Now that she isn't his perfect match,
my chances obviously become bigger.
Waste of a truth booth.
Uh, no truth booth is a waste of a truth booth.
We need to be smarter, so much smarter.
We all need to go back now
and take a deep dig inside ourselves.
We need to start being vulnerable.
If we all say we're really here for love,
why the fuck are we not making connections?
We do not know what we're doing.
We need to all start back from square one.
Bring it in.
We're playing this game bad.
We fucking suck at this, bro.
But then no match, it's like, "Shit."
For me, I feel it's a little better
'cause now I know for sure two people are not my match.
So now I'm down to nine, right?
So now it's time to narrow it down through them.
So I'm getting a little closer, I feel, in that sense,
but it's just a toss-up.
I feel like I really need to start
making more connections with people.
Good morning, beautiful.
Good morning.
- Just wanted to... - Oh, my God, how cute.
Yeah, see, see.
Breakfast today, it was nice, it was special,
you know, taking Anissa and having some alone time
'cause the house is hectic.
When my brace broke, it was truly frustrating
and when I was able to let go with you,
it just felt really comfortable.
Like, I don't make myself vulnerable to a lot of people.
For sure.
The fact that you were able to be there for me
was really nice.
I can't even describe how much I appreciate that.
I like those moments, you know what I mean?
It's something to keep in mind
as far as the connection that we have.
One of the biggest things I asked for was just acceptance
and understanding.
My brace, it's one of my biggest insecurities
and she just dismissed it like it's nothing
outside of just who I am.
I am someone who knows exactly what I have to offer
in terms of taking care of a woman.
And because you haven't had that,
you are someone who is deserving
of every inch of love, every inch of passion.
You've been through so much.
- Yeah. - And you deserve the best.
That makes me feel so good.
That really makes me feel so good.
Just being treated right, it's new.
I just don't see myself as someone
that deserves good things.
So when someone else sees that in me,
I mean, it's a beautiful feeling.
Twelve years, obviously, was a long time.
- I don't wanna do that again. - Yeah.
Like, I want to be certain.
Emotional connection is so much more important to me.
Of course.
You thinking that's some insecurity.
I wanna be there for you to remind you that it's not.
Aqel is very easygoing. He's funny.
So little qualities that I see in him,
he could potentially be my match.
I haven't had something like this in...
Shit, I don't even remember, you know,
so I really appreciate that I appreciate you.
- Thank you. - Anytime, anytime.
Tonight, we've got a matchup ceremony,
which I am pumped for
because I don't have to pick.
All right, all right.
The other girls are still playing with their hearts
and who they think that their perfect match is.
Welcome to your second matchup ceremony.
I know it was a tough week.
And I hope you've been asking yourselves
if you are here for the right reasons.
Now, remember, if you all find your perfect match tonight,
you walk away with true love and $750,000.
Still not easy to say, by the way.
But if even one person gets their match wrong,
then you return to the house and work harder
to find your perfect match.
But if you get no matches tonight,
then you blackout
and you prize money is cut again by $250,000.
No way.
I have faith in you guys.
Now let's get down to business.
Last week, you got no beams.
In the history of Are You the One?,
no season has ever seen a blackout
in the first week.
You guys made history.
But you've got another shot to turn things around tonight.
Last week, we let the guys pick,
and this week, ladies, when I call your name,
you're gonna step up and tell us
who you believe is your perfect match.
Once you select your match,
you and your boo are gonna place your palms
on the handprint touchpads,
locking you in as a couple.
- You ready? - Yeah.
All right, here we go.
First up, Anissa.
- Hi, Anissa. - Hi.
Who do you think is your perfect match tonight, Anissa?
So aside for some of the qualities I had asked for,
I had also asked for
that strong foundation of a friendship.
I really do hope Anissa picks me.
It'll mean a lot.
My perfect match tonight is Aqel.
Anissa, Aqel, lock in your vote.
Okay, you're locked.
CC, come on down.
How are you feeling?
The last few days have been a rollercoaster,
but I'm doing a lot better now.
The person I'm gonna pick to be my match
is just all around a great guy.
That person is Clay.
Clay. Lock in your vote.
Okay, you guys are locked. You can have a seat.
All right. Danielle.
- Sexy momma. - Thanks, thanks.
Work that skirt, girl.
Danielle, how as your week been?
Are you feeling any vibes in the house?
I'm feeling a lot of vibes.
Have you been contemplating between
different guys or you feel confident
that you know who you're picking?
After last week, it kind of confused me a little bit.
So who do you believe is your perfect match tonight?
I'm still getting time to know him.
We talked about aliens a little bit.
We talked about... Yeah. We got... Yeah.
You got in there, so who are you picking?
My perfect match is Eduardo.
Yo, that was mad left field. I've never seen them talk.
I would be terrified about what the hell the ladies are doing.
- Hi. - Hello.
Hi, Eduardo. How are you feeling about Danielle?
Is it out of this world, your connection?
She's an amazing woman.
Aliens is a topic that has come up.
What the hell?
Danielle and Eduardo, lock in your votes.
Eduardo was expressing to me
that he wanted to get to know me
in a very loving, nurturing, like...
"I want to sit down with you and separate time
to talk to you."
So that's why I chose Eduardo.
Mijntje, come on down.
- Hey, Mijntje, girl. - Hi.
Who is your perfect match tonight?
The guy that I'm choosing is Habot...
Hamudi.
Oh, my God, it was funny,
but, hey, mistakes happen.
- Hi, Hamudi. - Hello.
Lock in your vote.
Okay, you guys are locked.
You can have a seat.
Next up, we've got Brooke.
- Come on down. - Yay.
- Hello, pretty lady. - Hi, Brooke.
How has the week been for you?
Better. I'm really excited
to get to know all of these gentlemen.
Brooke, who do you think is your perfect match tonight?
Tonight I'm selecting Ollie.
- Ollie. - Hey.
- Hi, Ollie. - Hey.
What do you think? Do you think Brooke to be your perfect match?
You know what? I hadn't actually spoke to her much until today.
Okay. Brooke, Ollie, lock in your vote.
My perfect match is Mikey.
Sam.
Nathan.
Lock in your votes.
Jordanne, Brendan, lock in your votes.
Hi, Taylor. Who do you think is your perfect match tonight?
I think my perfect match tonight is Will.
Will.
Hi, honey.
- Hi, Will. - How are you?
You have a big smile on your face.
Does that mean you're happy about Taylor picking you?
Yeah, you know, we've gotten real deep with each other.
And it's just, like, real genuine.
Okay. Taylor, Will, lock in your vote.
You're locked. Okay, last woman of the night,
Courtney, come join me.
Hi, Courtney.
There is one choice left tonight,
but please tell us who your perfect match is.
I mean, it's no surprise,
but my perfect match tonight is Leo.
Leo.
- Hi, Leo. - Hey.
How are you? How are you feeling?
Tying to be better, but, first,
I would like to say something.
First of all, I owe the whole house an apology
for yesterday and my actions.
After things what happened with me and Brooke,
I wasn't taking this seriously as I should have.
And all I can do is grow from there.
CC... Hold on. I'm not done.
CC, I'm sorry for what I said to you
and I hope you can forgive me and look past it.
And I...
That was big of you, Leo.
I'm actually excited to show the real Leo.
And I'm gonna see where it takes me.
Courtney, Leo, lock in your vote.
Okay, you guys are locked. Have a seat.
Go, Leo.
All right, soon the beams will reveal
how many couples are a perfect match
but not who those couples are.
You're gonna have to work that out yourselves.
Behind me are 11 beams of light.
Each beam represents a perfect match.
Eleven beams is 11 perfect matches,
which means you win $750,000.
But, remember, if you get no beams,
that means a blackout.
Not gonna happen again.
It's not gonna.
If we blackout again, I don't know what we'll do.
The ladies came strutting tonight.
So let's see if they got this figured out.
Shit.
And the number of perfect matches is...
- We're gonna get two! - Come on, come on.
- Two. Two. - Come on. Two.
- Come on. - Another one, another one.
Great! Three for three.
- Four. - Go on three, go on three.
It's taking too long. I don't like that.
Two, we're two.
Hey, hey, that's better, that's better!
I was a little nervous.
We ended up getting two beams,
but, obviously, the girls, they did something right.
Two beams.
Now you guys are in the game. I'm so proud, by the way.
Yeah.
We got two beams tonight, two beams closer to figuring out
all the rest of the 11 beams.
You have information to work with.
Take the knowledge from your truth booths
and the previous matchup ceremony
and start to dig a little deeper.
We're already through two weeks,
so every moment counts.
Head on back to the house and celebrate for now.
You guys deserve it, okay. Good night.
Oh, fuck, yes.
- Fucking four bottles. - Four bottles.
Pop the bubbly.
I want to say I'm proud of every single one of us.
It's been super, super hard.
But here's to opening our hearts,
learning more about each other,
and having some motherfucking fun.
Cheers, guys!
Hamudi could be my perfect match.
Our connection is just getting strong and stronger every day.
Me and Mijntje, we ended up
sleeping in the Boom Boom Room.
I believe I want to get to know her a bit more.
You have no idea how confused I am.
- It's so tricky. - Let me be me.
Let me say what I have to say.
Some of these people in the house are just mean.
And I'm not a mean person.
I'm, like, I am a lover.
And the number of perfect matches is...