On The Bachelor tonight (February 11, 2013), Sean Lowe narrowed his field of remaining ladies to the final four who all will get a hometown date next week. Which four women got a rose tonight and who got sent home? Keep reading tonight’s episode recap which comes courtesy of our first time bloggers Julie and Avik!! Here we go….

Sean wanted to break the rules again. Sean, your rule-breaking Bachelor. Sean is more optimistic than ever that his wife is here in St. Croix. The girls think their suite is amazing. They think the island is amazing. They think Sean is amazing. AshLee thinks the hotel “smells new”. 

Tierra explains that she needs her space and requests a rollaway bed. How else will she be able to play the victim this episode? Maybe she’ll make sure the rollaway collapses on her in her sleep.

AshLee gets the first one-on-one date card. It reads, “Let’s get carried away… Sean.” AshLee says, “Every time I’m with Sean I get carried away”

Tierra calls AshLee a cougar, because she’s 32.

No date roses this week, rose lovers!

ONE ON ONE WITH ASHLEE
Sean is crazy about AshLee for so many reasons….Sean and AshLee have to swim to the catamaran. Sean brings up the creepy psychosexual blindfold episode from Canada. AshLee rides Sean like a dolphin to get to the catamaran.

Swimming to the catamaran brings back her memories of being abandoned as a child, just as everything reminds her of being abandoned as a child. AshLee’s crying in her confessional.

Meanwhile back at the beach, the non-Tierra girls are talking about how Tierra doesn’t “deserve” a hometown date. Lesley says, “I want to roll away her rollaway bed into the freaking ocean.” They really hope AshLee is talking about Tierra so that Tierra goes home, and so that none of them have to bring her up. Because as we know, the girl who sells out the villain always goes home.

OH SNAP, AshLee totally is selling Tierra out. She calls her a “pouty pants” to Sean. BUT this time! Sean believes it. Because AshLee was an orphan. Then they mimic that movie-scene where they’re making out on the beach and the waves crash over their body.

BACK AT THE SUITE
Tierra hopes her name is on the date card, because what else is new? Tierra gets it! She’s worried about being attacked by bugs and the sweatiness. She wanted a boating date, but instead it’s a day out on the town. She’s worried about her make-up. Tierra, making straw out of gold since six weeks ago.

BACK AT ASHLEE’S DATE
Sean asks, “Is there anything that we haven’t covered that we should cover?” “Yes, actually” ASHLEE HAS A SECRET. IT’S A MAKE OR BREAK MOMENT, Y’ALL. There’s a lot of build-up to this reveal. She’s clearly nervous, and Sean is totally confused but warm and understanding. IS IT A BABY? SHE PUT A BABY UP FOR ADOPTION OMG. Oh, she got married when she was 17. Big whoop. Got together Freshman year. Married junior year. Broke up by senior year.

Sean shows that he’s okay with it by kissing her, because that’s his way. He kisses instead of talking about feelings. AshLee says, “His answer was flawless,” because his answer was kissing.

AshLee inexplicably stands on her chair and screams “HELLO ST. CROIX!” to show that she’s wild but not as wild as she was in high school. Sean eats it up. OH CRAP. She’s the first to drop the l-bomb of the season. Sean contractually isn’t able to return it so he kisses her.

AshLee has released the l-bomb, and now it’s all over the place. Love, love, love. I don’t see anything coming between them.

ONE ON ONE WITH TIERRA
Sean has a lot of questions about Tierra, because he hasn’t seen the villain edit that we’re watching at home. According to Tierra, shopping with Sean was so amazing because he knows her so well. Tierra wears all her charms at once like a crazy tacky mess. The Bachelor producers arrange a street parade with some native St. Croixians (St. Croixers? St Croixese?)

BACK AT THE SUITE
AshLee fills the rest of the girls in on her time throwing Tierra under the bus. The girls are worried she didn’t do a good enough job, but are hoping that this is the end of the road for Tierra.

BACK ON THE DATE
Over delicious frozen drinks, Tierra plays the victim and tries once again to throw everyone ELSE under the bus. Tierra and Sean sit down to a dinner that they won’t eat. Tierra calls Sean out on being distant over the day, and our lovable unaware Bachelor didn’t think he was being distant, but acknowledges that he was. BTW, Tierra kind of totally looks like Jamie Lynn Spears.

At dinner, Tierra’s ready “to play the game better than anyone else.” Tierra stumbles through saying she’s “falling for Sean” in the least convincing way possible, and she whispers, oddly, that she’s falling in love with him. Was she hoping that the producers wouldn’t hear?

Sean says, “I’ve finally come to a conclusion that she’s probably not nice to the other girls, but she’s being genuine when she says she’s here for me.”

BACK AT THE SUITE
The girls debate whether or not Tierra will explode at some point in the near future. From previews, we know that she will.

4:42 AM GROUP DATE TIME
Sean goes into the suite with a flashlight. Lindsay screams that she’s naked because as we learned last week, she sleeps that way. Sean takes some creepy pictures of them, and Catherine looks amazing in her Polaroid.

Catherine: “I’m like the least maintenance person ever. I just need to pee and I’m good to go.” WINNER.

They get to be the first people in America to see the sunrise. The girls fake being excited about this. Or maybe they really like it. It’s hard to tell.

Road trip. So basically they spend the day driving around the island. They go to a “Sugar Mill” so Tierra doesn’t even get to be special with that. More driving.

We get a close-up of a donkey’s nostril, and the girls pretend to love every second of it, but they seem pretty grossed out. More driving. Over some drinks, they cheer over “the best road trip” Sean has ever taken. More driving. Treehouse. Desiree is clearly the best at getting time with Sean on the group date. Catherine awesomely says it seems like a double date: Catherine and Lindsay, Desiree and Sean.

BACK AT THE SUITE
Lesley gets her generic coded love note that was clearly not written by Sean.

BACK ON THE INTERMINABLE ROAD TRIP
Why does Des sit in the front seat the whole time? Lindsay was caught by surprise that Des is flirting with Sean, even though that’s the whole point of this show.

BEACH. Sean prank dunks Catherine, no, sits on her shoulders, and it’s kind of adorable. Sean picks up and twirls Lindsay around, and it’s kind of adorable. Sean brings up her crazypants first night when she wore a wedding dress and got totally wasted, because how can you not think about that? It was so awesome.

Catherine “randomly” “finds” a beautiful perfectly-formed conch shell. Sean is totally sunburned because his skin is transparent. Catherine opens up about her father’s suicide attempt and subsequent deportation to China. Oh, Catherine. Just when you thought her traumatic episode as a 12-year-old witnessing a death was her main tragedy, Catherine ups her tragedy quotient, and she’s weirdly real and strong about it. You guys, Catherine is the best. I’m sorry.

BACK AT THE SUITE: Lesley says the rest of them have grown stronger because of Tierra. Oh man, they’re really trash-talking her, and we’re led to believe that she can hear everything. “Enough is enough,” declares Tierra. DRAMA IS COMING, ROSE-LOVERS.

BACK ON THE BEACH: Sean and Des have their alone time, and it’s not adorable. Des cries because… emotions? It’s not clear exactly why. But she loves her family, they’re so special, and she wants to see them see her happy. Or something.

ROSE TIME. Catherine has this one locked up, right? No! Lindsay gets the rose.

The whole plan about seeing the sunset falls apart because it’s overcast. Take that, producers!

ONE ON ONE WITH LESLEY
Do these two have any real chemistry? Ok, so, Lesley’s awesome and hilarious and real. I never forget that she’s on the show, but I do kind of forget that she’s dating Sean, y’know?

“This used to be an old ____ factory.” What did Sean say? Fruit? Rib? Hard to say, but it doesn’t really matter.

Lesley is totally falling in love with Sean, because it’s the time in the season where that’s supposed to happen. But… really?

“We can have so much fun together, and I can totally see you as my best friend. But also have to have that crazy mad raw passion, and I definitely feel like we do have that” and then Lesley chokes on the l-bomb, because “everything has to feel right.”

Sean notices that Lesley’s tense and nervous, and their downward spiral continues. Lesley’s trying, but honey, it’s not working out. They kiss, and we’re maybe supposed to believe they’re into it, but it seems kind of boring. Lesley “never wants to get used to that.”

SISTER SHAY SITDOWN
Shay gives Sean some real talk. This woman is all business. She gets right down to it, and asks about proposals, who dropped the l-bomb, and protecting Sean from getting hurt by his pick (*cough* Ben and Courtney *cough*).

DRAMA TIME
Tierra sits AshLee down and confronts her about the bus-throwing-under and sabotage. AshLee is totally calm and awesome, and Tierra’s water is about to boil. This scene cuts back and forth with Sean describing Tierra. Tierra yammers on about where she’ll be when she’s 32, and AshLee continues to be, well, a 32-year-old about it.

AshLee brings up Tierra’s eyebrow, and Tierra says “That’s my face! I can’t help it.” [Twitter handle] “I can’t control my eyebrow. I cannot control my eyebrow.”

SEAN DECIDES TO BRING TIERRA TO SHAY TO HAVE A SITDOWN.
Screaming, screaming, screaming about nothing. Tierra: “I’m not perfect. Get over it.” Uh, I don’t think that’s anyone problem with you, Tierra.

Sean walks into the suite, and Tierra is crying on her cot. “Once again it’s the Tierra show” because well, yes, that’s basically what this season has become because the girls are all perfectly nice and normal, and Sean is perfectly nice and normal, and that wouldn’t sustain a season. Tierra once again brings how she has “such a big heart” and whenever she says that I think of that one movie with Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei where he has the baboon heart. You know what I’m talking about. UNTAMED HEART, that’s it.

Tierra tries to bus-throw-under AshLee, but homegirl should know that St. AshLee can’t be bus-thrown-under.

Sean walks out to get some air, sister Shay is standing around waiting for something to do, and then after a commercial break, Sean gets some clarity. He tells Tierra that he wanted to introduce her to Shay, and she has a meltdown. Sean says he’s crazy about Tierra, and has been since the very first day, and so… it’s best if she goes home now. Dude, Sean is the best at breakups. No one has been actually mad at him this whole season over a breakup. YET. Because the five girls left? They all think they’re going to win, and they’d be right to think that.

Sean: Are you going to be okay? Tierra: No. (Until the next season of Bachelor Pad, that is.)

And then Tierra finally says the quote that they’ve been playing in previews all season long. You know the one. “I can’t believe they did this to me. I just want to go home. I hope those girls got what they wanted.”

“I told myself going into here, nobody will take my sparkle away, I’m not letting that happen,” Tierra says after her sparkle has totally been taken away.

ROSE CEREMONY
The ladies don’t know what happened to Tierra. So they sit around and speculate. Sean comes out and tells them he knew that Tierra wasn’t going to be his wife, and so homegirl had to go. AshLee is creepy over the fact that she thinks he was speaking directly to her, because… she always think he’s talking to and about her. Ah, it’s that time in the season where the Bachelor decides to forego the cocktail party and the ladies freak out about what it all means.

So AshLee has a mini freakout about whether or not she’s also bringing the drama, in Sean’s eyes.

First rose goes to Des. Second rose to Catherine. So it’s between AshLee and Lesley. Cue Harrison to say it’s the final rose. And AshLee gets the final rose! And she gets the creepy music edit when she says, “This is my husband.” Catherine has a mini-freakout about Lesley leaving, because… she wanted him to end up with her? What’s going on? TO BE CONTINUED.

Next week: HOMETOWNS.