- Previously on "Queens Court..."
the king's friends and family stormed the castle.
- He's a gentleman, but he's also very intentional.
- He's a classy guy.
- I appreciate that.
- Lavon's wingman helps score points with Evelyn.
- Grand slam.
We was looking for a base hit.
[laughter]
- While Michael's shady past had the red flags flying.
- I've lied.
I've cheated in relationships.
- Well, if you lied and cheated on me, you wouldn't get grace.
- What?
- Never.
- Mac kept playing it way too cool...
- I'm guarded.
It's my defense mechanism.
- Leaving the door open for Ty's first kiss.
♪ ♪
- I can't breathe.
- Gatsby finally pushed Tamar over the edge.
- I want him to go home...
now.
- We haven't had enough organic time.
- I think you've had plenty of time.
And I think your time is up.
- With his main rival gone, JR felt exposed.
- There's a lot more stress on me
now because Gatsby's not here.
Now you can really tear apart who I am.
- The ladies kept elimination a buck.
- The past few days, I've seen you kind of withdraw.
Tyrone kind of turning the heat up on me.
- Like, I don't know why you're single.
Like, why do you think you've had
so many failed relationships?
- Is that my fault... - I don't know.
I'm just asking.
- Michael shocked them all.
- Yeah, I've never wanted to feel
like I was competing for you.
This is going to be my last night.
- Wow.
- Holy [bleep].
- ♪ I'm turning heads ♪
♪ Fulfilling desires ♪
♪ Pull up a chair, enjoy the show ♪
- ♪ We're going to get a lot of peaches and cream ♪
♪ Uh-uh uh-uh hey ♪
♪ Go running and you will find the queen ♪
♪ Uh-uh uh-uh hey ♪
- What? Oh, nice.
[laughs]
- Listen, Nivea, you had the right idea with
this damn chinchilla, child.
[laughter]
- Whoo!
- Knocked out, see.
- Hey, we live to see another day.
- Another day. Yeah, man.
They're keeping me around.
- Two of the OGs.
- Hey, we're still here.
- Listen, I thought it was interesting.
I thought Michael's...
- Class act dawg.
- Class act.
And you know what? I'm happy.
You know why?
Because now I get to focus on the connections
that I'm really making.
- Right.
- So now where we at?
[laughter]
- Well.
- You are down to the wire, to the fire,
to the winner take all.
- Well, like... right.
But like Evelyn, said now we can focus on that,
and we see what it's supposed to be, which is great.
But back to added pressure for me.
- Yeah, dawg.
- And you had Puff...
- Yeah.
- ...to explore and see what's really going on.
- Yeah.
- And, y'all, I got to find out
what's underneath it all with Mr. JR.
- Yeah. - You do.
- Yes you do. - Yes, you do.
- You really do. - Get to digging.
- Get to digging! [laughter]
Yes. I'm excited.
And guess what, guys.
I'm so proud of you two. - Aw.
- Like, y'all have come a long way, baby.
- I'm proud of us too.
- You know, it's been a journey.
- We're almost there.
- Almost there.
- I'm going to be looking at you like...
- I'll be looking at both of y'all.
- Looking at all of us. Yeah.
- Yeah. - What a process.
- ♪ We're set to ball ♪
♪ We push that ball and raise it higher ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey man, let me holler at for a minute, bro.
- What's happening, man?
- Ah.
Man, you know... you know, it...
I want to share something with you.
There's been kinda some things that I've observed.
You know, one thing I've learned with my experience
with Nivea is to open up.
You mentioned something about, you know,
when we're talking about family,
you say, I don't have any family.
You say, my mother's not here, no father.
I don't have a family.
You know, you brought your best friend from the military.
And just like I have pain, you have pain.
I recognize another person has went through pain.
So it would be wrong, and it would be...
I would be... I would be remiss if I didn't share
something to help you, man, because I
see the greatness in you.
And you know, I don't know if you're aware of this,
but I saw Jeremy...
- This Tamar, is my best friend, Circe, of 25 years.
I love this brother.
Like, I trust my life with him.
- I saw the humility.
I saw your gratitude to have your best friend there.
And Jeremy is a great guy, I believe.
But I'm going to be honest with you.
I don't like JR.
- [laughs] OK.
Respect.
- I think the reason why, you know, you try to...
I don't know... maybe be grandiose, and JR, I'm this,
I'm that, I'm this, is maybe because, I would assume,
like me, you grew up without not... not much.
And so when you grow up the way we grew up,
we always want redemption, you know, for things
that we didn't have.
So I respect the hell out of what JR has accomplished.
But at the same time, intentions is one thing,
but delivery is another, brother.
You understand what I'm saying?
- Yeah.
- You know, I think JR protects Jeremy
just like Mac protects Mark Anthony.
I don't know what your...
your dynamic is with Tamar.
She seems to kind of really like you.
But if you really want to make a deep connection with her,
you should show more of the Jeremy side.
- Man, you're spot-on.
You're right.
JR does protect Jeremy, because the rest of the world
doesn't need to know about Jeremy to a certain extent.
If my delivery with being JR is...
is not creating that right message, then man,
I'm here to check myself on that.
And I absolutely see why Tamar is
questioning why I'm too perfect, because I'm not,
you know.
And I know that for a fact.
But you know, Mac ain't going to let
people know you ain't perfect.
JR ain't going to let anybody know he ain't perfect.
- Those are... those are our super heroes
that we had to create to protect ourselves.
- Respect. Respect.
Well, Mark Anthony, it's a pleasure to meet you, brother.
- Hey, J... JR.
- And I appreciate you pulling me aside,
because you know, you didn't have to do that for me, man.
But the fact that you have, I'm...
I'm thankful for it, brother.
- I think she'll really like Jeremy, man.
I think she'll really like Jeremy, brother.
- ♪ Eyes wide open ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Gonna make me funky ♪
- Man, dude, how many people left?
- Five?
- That is crazy.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- Hey!
[applause]
- Down to our starting five, baby.
- Let's hit it, baby. We ready.
- How's everybody doing? - Good.
- Yeah?
I know we're getting down to it, one elimination left now.
It's time to have your final one-on-one date.
Are you guys nervous at all?
- Nerves are there.
- Yes.
- So whoever put their best foot forward,
that's the man that's going to be
the last man standing, so...
- You got to come with it if you, you know, at this stage,
right? You know, this is... - This guy here, you know.
- There's some folks that are not here right now
because, you know, they didn't put a whole lot of thought
into some of the things they're doing.
- I got a lot of respect for Lavon.
He's a slickster, now. He's a smooth criminal.
I give him that.
So I really just got to bring it,
because any minor little slip-ups,
you know, it could be very detrimental.
- How do you feel coming down to the end, Mac?
- All you can show is your effort and your attitude.
And I just would rather live with the fact
that, hey, no regrets.
Put it out there.
And what's meant to be will be.
But it won't be because you didn't try...
because I can control the try.
I can't control the result.
- That's the same.
I feel the same way.
- And it's different for you, man,
because you're the only guy now for a...
- I don't take it for granted.
The truth is that there's probably more pressure on me.
You have one person in front of you
that you can ask deeper questions
of and really make sure that you are ready for this person.
She doesn't have to choose me.
She could decide that, you know what,
I'm not ready for a relationship.
And I'm OK with that, because I feel like I'm
great with this growth. - Love that.
Because that's... that's true for all the ladies, right?
All three of them can walk away and just
go, hey, this is... time is not right, and move on.
But as long as you guys know, and that, hey,
you saw the real me.
That's all I can do.
- That's it.
- Do you feel like you have that...
that wall up a little bit sometimes,
that you don't let people in?
- Absolutely.
- From my experience, I was a lot of the same way of having
that guard, even with Holly.
My dad been a coach all... all my life.
It was all about discipline.
It was all about never let them see you sweat, right?
Don't... that... because that's a sign of weakness.
- Oh, yes. Right.
- And we let that carry over to our personal lives
as well, where someone that you really care about,
you're like, I'm not going to let her see us sweat, I...
I'm not going to open up, I'm not
going to be vulnerable, when in essence,
that's what they want, right?
I hope you guys take away from this, that is,
that this helped you grow.
It helped you grow.
When I say that, the five of you that are left,
it's the right five, man.
It really is.
It's the right five.
Let's keep it all the way going to the end, though, right?
- Let's go. Let's go.
Hey! - Yeah!
- Appreciate y'all.
- Let's go.
[upbeat music]
- Good mortinga.
- How you feel, friends?
- I feel a lot of pressure.
- Tamar took the words out of my mouth.
Pressure.
- [laughs]
- I'm ready for it to be over.
- Yeah.
I'm like...
- I want to get to the end, and...
- What do you feel about JR?
Because it's like he's the only one here.
- I don't know.
- There's no picking, obviously.
- Well, it's... it is... it's a choice.
And the choice is picking between taking a risk-risk...
- Mm.
- ...and being safe with me.
- Mm. - Mm-hmm.
- I'm 45.
I don't have time to, like, play Russian roulette
with my heart.
Like, it's just not... - Yeah.
- Right.
- And although I believe what he says, I think he's genuine.
But I don't know.
- Right.
- Or maybe I'm just supposed to be by myself.
And that's OK too.
I mean, it's [bleep] up, but...
- But you're not gonna be by yourself.
- No, it is. Nobody wants to be alone.
- Or maybe it's not his... you know.
- You know, it's like you want to know that this
is more outside of this. - Right.
- And I get it.
And I think you'll get that answer.
I feel like we're all tired at this point,
and we miss our kids, families.
- Oh.
It just feels so, like, deep, and real.
And it's... I'm scared at the same time, because I'm like...
- It's scary.
- ...you know, what is this going to look like?
And I wouldn't expect anybody to just get up and leave
their son, and, you know, I get that,
because I feel the same with Leo.
- Have you thought about relocating?
- No.
I don't want to move here.
[laughter] - Me neither, bitch.
Listen, I did this. It's a lot. I'm not even gonna lie.
- I don't.
That is... so that's the other thing.
- Do you think that Lavon is the one?
- I don't know.
You know, I guess we'll just take this [bleep] one day
at a time and see what... what happens.
- And then it coming to an end is making me sad too.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, because he's here.
- He's here.
So it's like, I have to leave.
- So what is he saying that it looks like?
- We have... we've kind of talked about it a little bit.
But not a lot.
I guess I'll talk to him about that on the date, you know,
because it's like, I didn't think that [bleep]
was going to work.
I'm not even about to lie.
[laughter]
- Seriously, like how is... right?
- No, seriously.
And I was open to it, you know what I mean?
- Of course.
- Like, I didn't expect a...
- Yeah. - That is beautiful.
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm.
OK, let's get cute.
- OK.
- Go on these dates and see what this is.
- All right.
- Oh, my god, I love you so much.
Oh, my god.
[gentle music]
- ♪ Dreams, do they turn into lovers? ♪
- Oh.
Oh, my lamb. - Oh, yeah.
- [laughs]
- Oh, yeah.
- So, I know you needed it.
- I do.
[laughs] Mmm.
- So what we're going to do, have you change into the robe.
- Yes. - Yes.
Ooh. I like it. - [laughs]
- I like it.
- Don't make me laugh.
- This is my final date, so I planned
this great big massage.
Ooh.
Looking lovely.
Move these out of your way, baby.
The last time I was giving Nivea a massage,
I massaged her calves, and I got a kiss.
But can you imagine giving her a full-body massage?
Yeah.
- Are you serious?
I want you to get used to this.
- I'm shaking in my boots.
- I want her to feel my heart beating.
Whenever I'm massaging her, I want
her to know that if we do make that leap,
she's never going to be left alone.
- [indistinct].
Oh, my, my, my.
He puts the baby oil on him, child,
I was like, I can't do this.
This is porn.
Uh, god.
Uh.
You're showing out right out.
- Yes, I want you to feel me.
- Oh, [indistinct] nice.
Mmm. Oh. You got it.
You felt that.
- Mm-hmm.
- Mmm.
FDA-approved.
- Yeah.
- When I was raised...
- Mm-hmm.
- ...I never did see my mom and my dad or a girl fight.
And then, when I got with my exes, it was, like,
totally different.
With my relationships, you know, it was always...
it take two.
- Right.
I'm not saying that I was perfect.
- So tell me this.
What were y'all fights about?
- Like, they were trying to, like, just turn me
into somebody that I wasn't.
Because I'm friendly.
I love to speak.
- Mm.
And, like, you're doing too much.
- Yeah. So when I had to...
- But, you never, like, thought to yourself, like,
am I doing, like, a little more than I think?
- No, because to me, I just felt
like I was just speaking... - Oh, my god.
- ...just being nice.
- A lot of men don't realize a woman is flirting with them.
Of course, she's going to think you're flirting back,
'cause you're not saying OK, um...
you're not trying to leave the situation.
And you think you're being friendly.
That's not what it looks like.
Dang, I'm quite flirtatious.
However, I act differently when taken.
I'm not going to be with somebody that...
and I still feel like I want to flirt with other people.
That means there's not a good match.
- Nope.
- Mm-hmm.
- Damn, this [bleep] is amazing.
[laughs]
- You OK? - Mm-hmm.
[funky music]
- ♪ [indistinct] ♪
♪ Future's so fine, never looking back ♪
- Welcome, welcome, welcome, [indistinct].
- Wait.
Did you add these, or they were here?
- When I peeked out the venue, I saw that they had,
and I said this is going to be a perfect spot.
- Oh, cute.
- Yes, yes, yes.
I ended up doing a speakeasy from Prohibition.
I really want to make this date a little rough
around the edges but then whimsical
and romantic at the same time.
This speakeasy stood for everything
that she's been through... all the battles she's fought,
all the tears, all the bad relationships, bad marriages,
everything that she fought through
to get through to this princess and this pure woman
that she is today.
- This is a really, really cute place.
- So we're going to have a few signature
cocktails that I picked out.
- Oh, you did?
- That my guy here is going to whip up for us.
[upbeat funky music]
- This is your first.
- This is the Santa Miara. The...
- How do you say it?
It's the Santa what? - Miara.
- Miara. Yes.
♪ ♪
- That thing is strong.
- That's good.
- [bleep] is strong.
- It's strong to you? - Yeah.
It's not to you?
- No, it's not.
- Yeah.
- Whoo! OK.
That hit.
- It has a little kick to it.
A big kick, yes.
- [laughs] A big kick. - [laughs]
- You're going to be tore from the floor.
[laughter]
So how do you feel on this journey?
- I look at it as if things happen the way
it's supposed to happen. - We've come a long way.
- A long way.
- We've come a long way.
- Yes, I love it.
- How do you think your mother would feel about me?
- Honestly?
- Yeah.
- My mother would probably jump up and probably do
a praise dance. - Really?
Aw. - Yes.
- Well, maybe I'll meet her one day.
- Hopefully so.
Hopefully and prayerfully so. - Yeah.
Do you look like your mother?
Who do you look like?
- [sighs] I've been told I look like my dad.
I got his ears.
I have big ears. So...
- I never thought that.
- You don't see that?
- I never thought you had big ears.
- That's a first. - Did you get teased at school.
- I was teased.
I was teased, because I used to...
I do this.
- Oh, my god.
[laughs] That is hilarious.
- Crazy, yes.
- I just got to say, just looking
at you, like you just...
I don't know.
- Thank you. - I don't know.
You just... you almost make me nervous.
- Really? - Yeah.
I'm getting a little warm. - Are you?
- Yes. A little warm and tingly.
It's all good, though. - Yeah?
[laughs] A little warm and tingly.
- I'm good. I'm good.
Let's toast.
Toast to longevity.
- Yes.
[upbeat funky music]
- Oh!
Oh!
Thank you.
This looks amazing.
This is yummy, yummy time.
Mmm.
Mm-hmm.
- Going to taste these potatoes.
- That is the best.
And the potatoes.
- Ask me anything. Ask me right now.
You can ask me anything.
- Baby, I have so many questions.
- Ask me.
Right now, ask me any questions.
- OK.
Do you want to get married?
- Do I want to get married? - Mm-hmm.
- Yes.
Yes, I do.
- So what will we do... like, you're in Texas.
I'm in Atlanta... if we did decide to continue?
I mean...
- You are?
- Absolutely.
- That's good.
It's going to take time, but through time, we'd be good.
Because we've got to look at it,
like, if we're going to do this regularly with, you know,
the kids too, we've got to make sure that they
are cool with it too. My 13-year-old...
- Talk about... mm-hmm.
- ...and first thing, she going to be like, Dad,
you know, if you like her...
- Uh-huh. - ...I like her.
You know what I'm saying? So...
- Oh, she's like that?
- Oh, yeah.
- And my sons, I have one daughter but three boys.
And I believe, like, daughters are too
protective over their fathers.
And I... my sons are of me.
So they're definitely going to look at you sideways.
- Look at me a kind of way?
- Like, oh, here she goes, thinking somebody care
about her, and they don't.
I love the way you look at me.
- No, because I care about you.
- And I... I want them to see that.
It's... it's priceless.
I was... like I said, I've been struggling
with facing this connection with you,
because what if he's playing?
Because I cannot go through that again.
- I see something, like, special.
And I see something special with us.
And I... and I want this.
I really want this.
- Yeah.
Thank you.
- You got to dance with me later, right?
- OK.
- Later, yeah.
It'll be a special dance.
Let's wrap this dinner up.
- At the end of the day, there are a lot of women like me
who still feel like this scared little girl that does
not want to get hurt again.
- What do you say that?
[laughter]
- Mmm!
- Mm-hmm.
When I'm, like, looking at him, in his eyes,
and I'm, like, feeling these feelings for him,
all that [bleep] is scary.
And trying to let go of that and just
trust myself.
- ♪ Run, run, run, can't catch me ♪
♪ Mm, I'm rising up, baby ♪
- This is a sweet ice cream nightcap.
- Wow! - Yes.
We've got some cookie dough,
some mint, chip, coffee, strawberry,
and vanilla, and chocolate.
- Are you trying to make me fat?
- Definitely not. Definitely not.
Nowhere near. Nowhere near.
And what will be your flavor of choice?
- I'll do mint chocolate chip.
- Mint chocolate chip.
And I'll just... - One scoop is fine.
- One scoop is fine?
- Where are we sitting?
- We're going to go over and sit on the couch.
- My date with Puff was definitely romantic.
And it's so fun to, like, feel that way, right?
You're giddy.
You're like, oh, my god.
- You're gorgeous.
I'm a hands-on affectionate type of guy, like that.
But you know, I got to keep it PG with you right now.
- [laughs] Yeah, you do.
- You got to keep it PG with you right now.
- [laughs]
Puff checks all the boxes for me.
He's handsome.
He has a great body.
He's respectful.
I'm like, OK, this is interesting.
So what does a relationship with you look like?
Like...
- Well, I want to be that guy at the house.
If I'm not doing anything, you're not doing anything,
we're going to have that time together.
But regardless of how long you've been together, like,
dating is important.
- Mm.
- Like, you need to have time with people.
Like, I want to be home cooking,
doing all kind of things. - Mm.
- Just making sure you are all right.
- [laughs]
- You know?
We don't have to have any more kids.
We just adopt a dog.
- I have five. - You've got five?
[laughs]
- I have five dogs. - Yeah.
So.
- Yeah.
- Other day I was thinking.
I was like, yeah, she has... you know,
she has an eight-year-old.
29.
It's like, do you have a feeling
that I fit in your world?
Are you... can you see me in your world?
- I can. - You can?
- Mm-hmm.
- OK. That's good to know.
- Yeah.
You've been easy.
Like, I want my man to be my best friend.
- Right.
- You know, like we can sit, and we can talk,
and we can kiki... yeah... about anything.
- About anything. - Yeah.
- And that's the thing.
You should... you should be able to sit
and talk about whatever... - Mm-hmm.
- ...you know. - Well, that's important.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Well, good to know. I like that.
- Yeah. - I like that.
I like that. I like that.
I feel it.
- I had a really nice time tonight.
I really did. - Thank you.
All right, well, give me a hug.
- Yes.
- [chuckle] - Mm.
Definitely. I love it.
- ♪ I'm feeling some kind of way ♪
♪ I'm feeling some kind of way ♪
- So I finally get a chance to have a date with Tamar
where there is no interruptions.
I definitely think there's some pressure.
I've dealt with some things in my past,
and it's, truthfully, embarrassing for me,
but something I have to own up to.
- Oh, wow.
- Hello, Tamar. - Hi.
- Welcome.
And I think Tamar has made me safe to open
up about who Jeremy is.
So we have a table set up with dinner.
- Oh.
- Follow me, please.
- Thank you.
- Well, this is nice.
- We have dinner.
- T and J?
[laughs] - Mm-hmm.
You can see it now.
- Oh, I... I see.
[laughs]
- There had to be at least 20-dozen
of roses in that place.
Oh, he was JR-ing in his best element.
- Are you hungry?
- This is beautiful.
- You are beautiful.
- The man don't waste no time.
He came here for business.
[laughs]
- So, bon appétit. - Thank you.
It looks beautiful.
- The salmon and the shrimp.
I actually love shrimp.
I love salmon.
Boiled crawfish.
- They're like little roaches. I don't eat that.
- Mm.
Sucking the heads on the crawfish.
They are good.
So anyway, I wanted to introduce you
to another part of me that I feel like we haven't
had a chance to talk about.
You've met JR. You've not had an opportunity
to truly meet Jeremy.
Keep putting my accomplished foot forward,
as opposed to sharing all the things that I've been through
and who I am at the core.
- OK, well, spill.
I'm ready.
- During my childhood, there were a lot of things
that I went through that kind of made
me this compartmentalized guy.
The truth is, I have abandonment issues.
So my father was never around.
- You've never met him?
- Never met him.
Yeah.
My mother was a rolling stone and dealing with her demons.
But times where my mother would come in 4:00 or 5:00
in the morning, and she had just shot heroin.
- Oh, wow.
- And that would happen a lot.
- I'm so sorry for your trauma.
[gentle music]
So you're saying that this perfect person
that you are painting is a defense mechanism?
- My way to move forward was to just accept it
and put it behind me.
But I realize it makes a side of JR
a little more robotic, a little less emotional.
The side of Jeremy, the humble guy
who understands what failure and...
and defeat looks like, it's difficult to immediately
trust somebody else.
- Yeah.
- Casually dating, for me, was a way to protect myself.
But truth is, in... in the deeper core of my deeper
fabric, it hurt the most, because it reminded me
of not having a father.
I was reckless.
I created children knowing that I wouldn't be able to be
with them every night.
And so I went to counseling.
- I'm glad to know that, you know,
you are healing that part.
JR needs to be comfortable with Jeremy,
because he's the missing link.
[laughs] JR is a good guy.
He's funny.
He's a gentleman.
But Jeremy is the man you fall in love with.
I feel like I'm putting the pieces of a puzzle together.
That's what I feel like? - Am I a puzzle?
I don't mean to be a puzzle.
- Oh, you're a puzzle.
But the good news is, the pieces are in the box.
Cheers. [laughs]
Because people are running around here
with missing pieces, child.
- Well, there's that. There's that.
[light funky music]
- ♪ I want to make a move ♪
♪ I don't want to lose ♪
♪ No ♪
- I got something especially planned for you today.
- Mm-hmm.
- I do.
- Oh, my lamb!
Look at the babies!
[goat bleating]
Hello, little darling.
Look at you.
Oh my lamb.
- So what I planned for Nivea on this final one-on-one date
is, like, we've got this country-style good food,
let her go to play with some animals, and just take
her back to the elements, man.
Take her back to her childhood.
- You're so precious.
Y'all hung-er-y.
So you've done this before, have you?
- Yes.
- That was my first time ever feeding a billy.
- Yes.
I spent a lot of time in the South growing up,
a lot of my formative years.
So I wanted her to understand, you know, this is who I am,
and this is where I come from.
I'm OK with sharing that.
- You want to... oh, you mean. - Wow.
- How you going to come bum-rush him?
- He took him away.
- That's what's up.
Well, thanks, guys.
They're like, yeah, bye.
You ain't got no more food.
This is awesome.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
Oh, yes.
You better feed me.
- I got the country-style chicken.
We've got the good greens here.
- Ooh! - Mac.
How you going to have Mac without some [bleep] mac
and cheese, baby?
And... for you.
- Oh!
Aw!
Thank you, Mac.
Thank you.
- What I've learned about you, you appreciate
the simple things in life. - Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I like stuff like this, but I didn't know you did.
- See, every summer, when I was a kid,
my grandfather used to bring me to Mississippi, because
my folks are from Mississippi. - Oh, mm-hmm.
- So I would go down to the country, fish and all that.
I mean, I ain't the only one that can... that can fish...
- Right, right, right. - ...you know I mean?
And chop wood. But, yeah.
- I didn't know that, though. You never told me that before.
- Yeah, country boy values, city boy swag.
That's what it... ooh! - Ooh!
I like it. - You dig?
Country boy values. - Right.
- But yeah.
- We're finna eat.
- Yeah, let's get ready to go eat.
- Let's go and eat. - I'm ready... I'm ready to eat.
- This is so cute.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ The sound of you and me tonight ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ I'm loving everything you say you like ♪
♪ ♪
- Hi.
- What's going on?
- What am I walking into?
- You don't know what you're walking into?
Good to see. You're beautiful, by the way.
- Hi. Thank you.
- I think it's important in this moment as she's deciding
who she wants to date that she just sees that I'm authentic,
you know.
She has a major decision to make.
I mean, this is going to affect the rest of her life,
you know.
So what I've decided to do is just
something a little more intimate, you know, something
in the home.
And I hope it touches her.
I know you like pets.
- Did you fly my dog in?
[dogs barking]
- You like rescue puppies?
- I like all puppies.
Stop!
No way!
Hi!
Oh my god.
Come here.
- While she's been away from home so long,
I figured if I'd bring just a little bit of home here
on our date tonight, that it could be the difference-maker
between Puff and myself.
They just go towards the pretty woman.
- [laughs] You like dogs?
- I do like dogs.
- You like five dogs?
- That's a lot, but I'd get used to it.
Do you like eight dogs?
I can't do eight.
I cannot do eight.
- Just try to pay attention to what's important to you.
So...
- I mean, you're paying attention.
- [laughs]
- I don't... like, I'm, like, speechless.
- Oh, you're speechless. - Yeah.
- Uh!
- I'm never speechless.
I'm speechless. Just...
- Wow.
I love it.
[dog yelps]
- So I wanted to ask you...
- What you want to ask me?
- I know your men are grown.
Do... do you think they would like me?
- They would love you.
They'd be like, "Dad, why you didn't meet her earlier?"
- [laughs]
- Do you think your kids would like me,
or would they be like...?
- You would be, just being honest,
so different from what they're used to in the men
that I choose, unfortunately.
You're much more stable.
- Mm.
- I think they would be shocked that I was even,
you know, drawn to you, because unfortunately,
I've kind of messed up their trust
in me in picking somebody. - Really?
- Yes.
There's been some really bad examples.
Like, I don't keep things from them.
Very open with them.
We talk about any and everything,
because I had that same problem with my parents.
- Did you?
- Mm-hmm.
Even though drugs was involved on both of my parents.
But we were very, very close.
They were my best friends.
It's important to me to... for them to see
my growth in that way as well.
- That's... that's good.
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, that's why you and I get along,
because... because we both connect on some real [bleep].
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, you've been through, like you said,
you know, your parents were substance abusers.
You experienced that as a kid.
I went... I... I had child-abuse issues.
- Oh, wow.
- That's when my great-grandmother
took me over. - Mm.
- So yeah, so when I tell you I got a story...
- [sighs]
- ...baby.
- Man, you never know what somebody been through.
- When you're a father, and you're raising those boys
like that, the way I was raising them, you know,
coming from...
- Mm-hmm.
- ...a very unstable situation, I would rather put
everything into them and less into me
and know I did a great job.
- Right.
I wouldn't even be here without them.
Like, I never knew my kids would save my life.
- Mm!
- Absolutely did not see that coming.
- You gave them life, and they saved your life.
- And they saved mine. - Ooh, that's genius.
- And they save it over and over again.
- You know, all... my thing was to always create
special moments, until time afforded
me to show you more who I am.
And that's all.
- I appreciate that.
- Yeah.
- Why are you looking at me like that?
- I'm just... I'm just enjoying this.
I haven't had this.
- Oh, OK.
- If you were seeing what I was seeing, you would smile too.
- Oh, my lamb.
Stop, man!
You're going to make me blush!
Thank you. - Blame God.
He made you.
I just got eyes, baby.
I'm just looking at what I see.
- Damn, you is laying it on so thick.
- I'm just saying...
I told you, I want you.
- Mm.
OK. OK.
Wow. - That was chill Mac.
This, ain't chill Mac no more.
- OK.
- Remember, he gone.
[upbeat music]
- So are they going back to the shelter?
- Yeah.
We still have them for a few hours,
though, if you want to come back.
I'm going to go take you home.
- Yeah, they're having fun here.
- Who would think to do this?
You know, like, she misses her dogs, she's out of town.
Let me get her three puppies to play with.
How cute is that?
It was just so thoughtful and so beautiful.
It's another date that I'm never going to forget.
- You know, we've been dating for a little while,
I guess you would call it.
Do you have any questions for me?
- Obviously, the distance is something to think about.
- Mm-hmm.
- What does that look like for you?
- I view it like two phases.
- Mm-hmm.
- So the first phase is, I think we have to continue
to get to know each other.
And if we get past that step,
you know, we can look at if you moved to Atlanta,
if I moved to LA.
And of course... [laughs] you're going to be like, hell, no.
- Oh, my...
- But... but of course my son would
definitely be incorporated.
I'm sure your kids would be as well.
- Mm-hmm.
- So it's something I've thought about,
but I have to break it up that way.
How do you see it?
- My life is so...
- Mm-hmm.
- ...structured with Leo.
- Mm-hmm.
- He has, like, school, and his friends, and baseball,
you know.
- Right.
I've never been the type of person that come
to take away from somebody.
I... I come to add value.
You know what I mean?
And I feel like I can trust you.
I think you can trust me too.
- Mm-hmm.
- So it made it worth trying.
- I can't juggle more than one dude.
[laughs] I can't now.
- Well, you're doing it right now.
You've got a couple of boyfriends.
- I do, I do, I do.
And it's hard.
- [laughs]
- It is hard.
- Aw.
- So I'd be remiss if I didn't decorate this entire place
for our dinner and not send you home with a beautiful
bouquet of long-stem roses.
I love long-stemmed.
- I'm going to set them on the table for you.
- Thank you.
- And then...
- You're so sweet.
- ...I want to just say something to you
before I give you this gift.
Tamar, this journey has been extremely
difficult, stressful, and yet it's helped me heal.
All the time I spend with you, I'm reciprocating
how happy you make me.
And so I want to give you a reflection of my heart.
- Oh, my god.
- And it says, JR, and it has a heart in the middle.
- Oh, my god. Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- It's so thoughtful.
- On that note, I would really love for you to be my lady.
- Whoa. [laughs]
- Will you accept my heart?
- I'll accept this necklace.
- OK.
- [laughs]
- And you think about it.
- Hold that thought. Wait.
- [laughs] OK.
- You know, that comes with a lot.
- Sure.
- And I want to make sure that if I say yes,
that I'm 100% ready, and that I feel like you are too.
- In some ways, I feel like God connected
our paths, because you've helped me heal a little bit.
- Me?
- Yes.
- How have I helped you heal?
- Sharing more about things that I feel
uncomfortable talking about.
I've just found a place of comfort with you.
Do you feel safe with me?
- I'm beginning to.
- You feel like you know what it takes to be
in a successful relationship?
- Yeah, because, you know, the truth is,
I wasn't always a safe place.
So for you to tell me that you feel safe with me
lets me know that the work I'm doing is working.
- I'm pouring my heart out to you
so that you know
there is no second-guess or doubt.
I'm in love with you, Tamar.
I am in love with you. - Whoa.
- OK.
- Hoo!
- No bull[bleep].
- Mm-mm-mm.
- I wouldn't ask you to be my girlfriend
or be in a relationship with me
if I didn't have some type of love for you.
So I hope that when you see the sincerity in my eyes,
in my actions, that you know it's not a bunch of B.S.
- Please, don't.
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, my... my hesitance.
- It's OK.
You can take all of what we talked about tonight
and weigh that out, because the ball's in your court.
- ♪ Yeah, I know that's what you needed ♪
♪ They take a second look when they see me ♪
- What is happening?
Guys, did we find love through this process or what?
- I found several. - You know?
- You did.
[laughter]
I think yours is a little complicated.
- Child.
- My date with Puff really changed how I've been feeling.
I'm glad I got that time with him, because I just...
I really like him.
- Oh, wow!
- I do.
I like Puff too. - Do you?
- I do. - I like both of them.
- Because I didn't get a whiff of who he was until they
moved in. - Same.
- And I'm like, oh, you're a good dude.
- And here she comes, bopping in.
- Oh, wow. - Hey, girl!
- Hey! - Look how she can't wait.
Hey, baby. - Oh, you look so cute.
- You look adorable.
- My tribute to Puff.
- Yes. - Girl.
- What were you saying?
I need to hear everything.
- Well... - Excuse me.
Excuse me. We about to elevate.
You were...
- So... so then Puff, I don't know.
Like, I feel like that date really changed how I've
been feeling... in a good way.
- Oh, what? - Yes.
- Do you believe that? Ain't that deep?
- A development. - I wasn't expecting that.
- New developments. I know.
But you know, he explained... you know,
I'm really interested in you.
He was genuinely excited, and he was, like, you know,
I'm happy to be here as long as I've been here.
Like, I know I was at elimination, like, early.
We talked about, like, what our relationship would
look like if we were dating.
- I would travel.
Like, if I have to make it work,
I'm going to make it work.
Because at this point in life, that's... that's the only
thing we have.
- It sounds like a relationship planning session.
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - Wow.
- I know.
It added a layer for me.
It's... like, it made me like him more.
Yeah.
- Good for him.
- So what about the other one?
- We ended up going to, like, this house.
He was, like, so I wanted you to feel like home.
We went to the back, and he had three rescue
puppies for me to play with.
- I'm done.
- Can you believe that?
- There was no puppies for me. - Ain't no puppies for me!
- Oh, no. I have a hard...
I have hard decisions... - Right.
- ...to make.
- I mean, hold on just a moment.
- Yeah.
- OK, now I'm back.
So tell me, what happened on your dates, Nivea?
What'd you guys... what'd you do?
- Tyrone and I, we immediately got naked.
I'm just kidding.
[laughter]
Somewhat, technically.
He wanted to give me a massage.
And it was good just to be one-on-one intimate,
and... honestly it confirmed what I already felt with Ty.
- OK.
- [sighs] - And then.
- You already... you're already at the end.
And then what happened?
- And then Mac.
I value him. - Yes.
- And he has so many things about him that I
would want in a partner...
and, plus, he's local.
Like Tyrone is out of state.
I really like that Mac's kids are grown.
I am confused as hell, because I had
an epiphany after both dates.
I was like, hmm, they both represent different things
I want in a partnership.
That's why our attraction to one another
comes off differently, like...
- Right.
Yeah.
- Yeah, Ty's and I's lit, with passion,
and then he met me on a deeper connection, like, spiritually.
But I still am attracted to Mac.
But you know, I know now when I'm supposed to know.
- You will. - How about that?
- You will.
- I'll know.
- Oh, my goodness.
Well, Tamar, what about you?
What happened on your date?
- I went on a date with somebody else.
I went on a date with Jeremy... not JR.
- Who's Jeremy?
- JR. The J and the R.
[laughs] And so I went out with a real person.
He is flawed, and yeah, that... that for me was very magnetic.
- Wow, Tamar.
- I don't know where Jeremy been all this time.
- Right.
- For all I know, we could have been further along.
- Finally. - [laughs] For real.
Like, he didn't even say, you know,
the nice, all that JR talk.
He just walked me in the door and sat me down, and was like,
look, this is Jeremy, and I want you to get to know him.
- Oh, I like that.
- And just laid it out. - I just got the chills.
- I know. I love that. - Oh, my gosh.
- And laid it out.
Laid it out.
And he told me that he wanted me to have his heart,
and he told me he was in love with me.
And he asked me to be his...
- What?
- ...his woman right there.
- And what did you say?
- I told him I had to process what was going on.
[laughs]
- Yeah, I'm like, I need to...
I'm already... I'm on sensory overload right now.
- Overload.
But he told me that he didn't want
to wait until it looked like it was
just something he was saying.
He wanted me to really understand
this is how he felt.
- Wow.
- And he didn't want to let another moment
go by without me knowing how he truly felt about me.
- OK, Jeremy.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
[laughs]
- Every woman wants that moment, to be like,
yeah, like, this is the one.
But I'm in love with you?
Like, you can't take that back.
I just have to be sure if it's who I'm looking for,
not what I'm looking for.
- OK, so this is a big one.
Five men left, and we've got an elimination dinner party.
It doesn't get any more real than this.
Everybody we've got left is valuable to one of you.
So there's only one way to handle this.
For this elimination dinner party, everybody's invited.
- Just like, oh, gotta reschedule.
- Damn.
- All five men will attend.
And for some of them, this will be their final night
in this process.
OK, ladies.
I'll leave you to it.
Ta-ta.
- Well, just like every other elimination dinner,
the mixer is so important, because you can't just show me
Jeremy and he just disappears.
- Right.
- If JR walk his ass through this door...
- [laughs]
- ...it's over for him.
- Stressful.
[tense music]
- ♪ Like a lion hear me roar, roar ♪
♪ Say it with me if you want more, more ♪
♪ Like a lion hear me roar, roar ♪
♪ Say it with me if you want more, more ♪
- Fellas. - What's going on?
- Fellas, fellas, fellas. - How's it going?
How's it going?
- We've got a full house tonight.
- So this week, things are a little bit different.
All five of you were invited to tonight's
elimination dinner party.
- Gentlemen, you've made it this far, but for some of you,
a very long journey will come to an end tonight.
- I'm confident that I'm Evelyn's number one,
but it's not done until it's done.
So I'm not relaxed.
I'm not letting up.
And I'm going to let Evelyn know how I feel about her.
Let's get this done.
- OK, gentlemen.
Let the festivities begin.
- ♪ [indistinct] ♪
♪ Brains and booty all that's hot ♪
♪ I'm looking pretty ♪
♪ [indistinct] I'm looking fine ♪
- Oh! - Ooh!
- It just got hot in here.
Well, hello, ladies.
- Hey, hello!
Mwah!
- Wow, look at you! - Mwah!
- Yeah, man, I'm nervous. - Cheers.
See you guys later. - Enjoy.
- See you soon. - Thank you.
- Very soon.
- [indistinct].
- What's going on? - You want some of this?
- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
- Wow.
I ain't holding nothing back.
- [laughs]
- You know.
- Well, Ty,
I do worry about the long distance.
There's almost like no guarantee
that we're going to be able to spend the kind of time
I want to spend with you.
- I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
- It's kind of always been this...
this back and forth
12-round Ali-Frazier battle.
- I can still be cool with Mac, but I
can go harder in the paint.
- I might have a little advantage.
- The connection between me and Nivea is unbreakable.
- How does it feel to be at elimination?
This is your first time?
- I don't know what to expect, you know.
Like, I'm walking through it one minute at a time.
You're giving me the death stare, so I don't know.
- You know, both you and Puff are really amazing guys...
- Mm, yeah.
- ...regardless of people making connections.
Somebody has to go home.
- I understand.
Yeah.
- ♪ I can see that it's time ♪
♪ There's no changing my mind ♪
- You look good. - Thank you.
I thank you.
You know I'm going to be sharp for you.
- Yeah.
Yeah, Mac, you did not make it easy on me.
You constantly show me values that I
want in my next partner, my next husband.
[sighs]
- This is a mature space now, man.
You know what I mean?
You just evolve, man.
You've got to do something different.
- Hi, Puff.
- How are you doing, love?
- What's happening?
- Just wanted to, you know, let you know that
I was here for one reason and one reason only.
- It's not an easy choice.
- Right.
- But I can take both of you all.
- I understand.
I... listen, I know.
- I could leave here with nobody.
- Absolutely, right.
- What'd you get out of this, man?
- I still think she could freeze.
- Yeah, I think so.
- She can freeze, man.
You can only do and say so much.
- ...much.
One of us may be fortunate enough to move on.
Other... or we we... we both might be...
- It might be both walking out the door.
- We both... walking out the door together.
- Take a hand, bro.
- At least... at least... at least we have
some company on the way out.
- Yeah, we have some company, there.
- You look amazing right now.
- Thank you.
- I mean you never stop short of being amazing.
But...
- So what does "I love you" mean, coming from you?
- What does "I love you" mean? - Yeah.
- Wow.
I don't share that with everybody.
- Well, you shared it with me, so I should know.
- It means that I'm your...
your backbone, your shoulder to cry on.
This is true.
- I really don't have a lot to say.
I just...
This is a very scary moment for me.
Now that JR is being open with me,
I can't hide behind that excuse.
So now I have to either follow his lead
or continue to be in this safe place
that I've created my heart to be in.
[clear throat]
OK. - You want to move around?
- I... I do. - OK.
- I think I need to.
- OK, come on, Queen, just...
- Get some oxygen from somewhere.
- Whew!
- I'm going to find it.
- You are stunning.
Jeez. - Thank you.
[light music]
- I'm just focused on me ♪
♪ I'm just focused on me ♪
- Oh, yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- Yes. - Mm-hmm.
- Hello. - Mm-hmm.
- I love it. - Hello.
- Welcome. Welcome.
- Smelling good too. - Welcome.
Welcome.
- Yes.
- This Tamar, she takes a bath in perfume.
- [laughs] - Whoo!
- Every day, every night.
- Nivea.
Mm-hmm. - [laughs]
I was just trying to, like, shake
off some of this pressure.
- Mm-hmm.
- It's coming down to me deciding which...
what do I want the most in my life right now?
Where... you know.
Is it safety and comfort, and...
or is it passion?
Yeah.
- It is thick tonight!
- It is! - It is.
- Mm!
- Well, Queens, we've done this many times.
- Girl. - Ah!
- But tonight definitely kicked it up a notch.
- Absolutely.
- OK, Queens.
Let's have the gentlemen join us at the table.
- Good lord, God.
- ♪ How long do I travel down ♪
♪ This road before I reach you ♪
♪ Before I reach you ♪
♪ Yeah, it's been too long ♪
- Gentlemen, it's been quite a journey for all of you.
You're all amazing men, and there's a reason
that you've made it this far.
Ah.
But it's about that time.
Tamar, let's get started.
- JR, I really appreciate you allowing
me to meet the real you, because Jeremy is kind.
He's compassionate.
He is everything that a woman would want in a mate.
But I'm not quite sure if I need
to take this leap of faith or
travel this road by myself.
- You've been on an amazing journey, and being next to you
has allowed me to heal.
I'm so thankful for that.
- This is a work in progress.
So you will not be leaving tonight.
- Thank you so much, Queen.
- JR, congrats.
You're still in this.
[laughter]
OK, Evelyn.
The mic is yours.
- Oh, Lavon, Lavon, Lavon.
You have made me feel the safest I've
ever felt in my entire life.
I have to be honest.
The distance really scares the [bleep] out of me,
and a part of me just feels like
it's not going to work.
Puff, I have really enjoyed our dates,
you telling me I have nice feet...
[laughter]
...that I smell good every day.
But I have to be honest.
The reality is is that I've made a stronger
connection with someone else.
You are not my King.
- Respect.
- I know that you're going to make a woman very, very happy
one day.
And I believe that in my heart and soul.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- I almost cried.
I'm not even going to lie.
The fact that, you know, I...
I'm not her King, I gave it, you know, my best,
and I have no regrets.
She will forever, forever have a place here in my heart.
♪ ♪
Lavon, you are not leaving tonight.
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
Everything I need in a woman, you're three times that.
You know, I can't imagine moving
forward without you, either.
But I... I appreciate you.
Thank you.
♪ ♪
- Ooh.
Nivea, let's hear your thoughts.
- [exhales] Tyrone, I feel like it gets stronger every day.
I love that you're not at all what I thought
you were when I met you.
But I'm worried about once this
is over would I get the same Ty,
or was it just because we're here?
And I just don't know how we can make it work.
♪ ♪
Mac, you, like, gave me space, as you said,
to pursue other connections.
I honestly don't think that was the best idea.
You falling back opened the door for me and Ty.
I called you my safe space many a-times,
and I'm not really sure if that's what I want.
♪ ♪
You are such a great man.
You deserve real love.
And I appreciate you for connecting
with me in a genuine way.
- Absolutely.
♪ ♪
- So I have to tell you...
♪ ♪