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"Welcome back, Bachelor Nation! Ready to get real? Week two of Andi Dorfman&amp;apos;s journey on The Bachelorette was a bittersweet one to watch, as it featured the first one-on-one date with contestant Eric Hill, who died tragically in a paragliding accident in April. However, it also featured a group striptease, the season&amp;apos;s first two kisses, and an impressively embarrassing display of drunkenness from now-ousted bachelor Craig. Let&amp;apos;s recap!\r\nThe episode kicks off with a visit from host Chris Harrison, who brings with him the first of three date cards this week. &amp;quot;Eric,&amp;quot; it reads. &amp;quot;Love is everywhere.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nIt&amp;apos;s worth noting here that producers made the decision not to edit out Eric&amp;apos;s scenes after he passed away last month. Instead, they offered up the footage as tribute, and then dedicated the season to his memory. &amp;quot;In the coming weeks, you&amp;apos;ll see that Eric was a vibrant man,&amp;quot; Chris said before the premiere. &amp;quot;Every day, he impressed us with his passion and courageous spirit. He will be greatly missed.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nKeeping Eric in the show is probably a better option than pretending he was never on it to begin with, but that doesn&amp;apos;t mean it&amp;apos;s not sad or strange to watch his date with Andi. There&amp;apos;s kind of a dark cloud over it all, especially when he says things like, &amp;quot;This could be the key to my fairytale.&amp;quot;\r\nThe date starts with a trip to the beach, where Andi strips down to a white bikini and joins Eric in building sandcastles and making sand angels. &amp;quot;My face already hurts from smiling so much,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I feel like we&amp;apos;ve known each other for months.&amp;quot;\r\nSoon after, a helicopter arrives to whisk them away to part two of the afternoon: snowboarding on Bear Mountainwith Olympic snowboarder and Red Bull athlete Louie Vito. It&amp;apos;s actually kind of cute&amp;#x2014;particularly when Eric holds Andi&amp;apos;s hand and guides her slowly down the slopes. &amp;quot;I travel all over the place, and there were so many times I wished I could have someone by my side,&amp;quot; he says in a voiceover. &amp;quot;And here she is.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nLater that night, the two sit down for dinner at a private cabin near Big Bear Lake. It&amp;apos;s an emotional scene&amp;#x2014;for more than one reason&amp;#x2014;as Eric recounts having to text his parents to say goodbye during a terrifying encounter with two militants in Syria. He goes on to talk about how there are things he&amp;apos;d never do and risks he&amp;apos;d never take if he had a wife and kid to consider&amp;#x2014;which makes the circumstances of his death (and his acceptance of the date rose) all the more tragic.\r\n\r\nBack at the mansion, another date card has just been delivered. The message&amp;#x2014;&amp;quot;Let&amp;apos;s bare our souls&amp;quot;&amp;#x2014;is for Brian, Marquel, Bradley, Craig, Brett, Patrick, Cody, Carl, Tasos, Josh, Ron, Marcus, Nick S., and Dylan, who accurately predicts that he&amp;apos;s going to have bare more than just his &amp;quot;soul.&amp;quot; He and the rest of the bachelors join Andi at OHM Nightclub, where they&amp;apos;re greeted by a group of Magic Mike-esque dancers known as the Hollywood Men. Their mission, should they choose to accept it, is to oil up and strip down in front of Andi and a roomful of other screaming ladies&amp;#x2014;all in the name of charity, of course!\r\nThe men are divided into three groups: sexy firemen, sexy cowboys, and sexy soldiers. The only two not in one of these groups are Nick S. and Marcus, who have to perform solo dances as a sexy robot and a sexy pilot, respectively. Marcus is really the only guy who seems nervous at all&amp;#x2014;the rest of the bachelors are pretty comfortable taking off their clothes&amp;#x2014;but he&amp;apos;s definitely Andi&amp;apos;s favorite. &amp;quot;Hot. So hot,&amp;quot; she gushes to her pals, former Bachelor contestants Sharleen Joynt and Kelly Travis.&amp;#xA0;\r\nFollowing the show, the guys clean up and head to the group date cocktail party, where Andi plans to &amp;quot;get a little serious&amp;quot; with everyone. Things go pretty well at first&amp;#x2014;especially with former pro baseball player Josh M., who insists he&amp;apos;s not a stereotypical athlete and hasn&amp;apos;t even been out with a girl in five years&amp;#x2014;but they quickly take a turn for the worse. Craig, it turns out, cannot hold his alcohol, and is running around yelling and doing inappropriate things. &amp;quot;Craig has an overbearing personality as it is,&amp;quot; Tasos says. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t know how much he had to drink, but you can tell it&amp;apos;s more than he should have.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nAt one point during the night, he actually jumps into the pool fully clothed and then proceeds to strip down to his underwear. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s one thing to be really drunk and funny,&amp;quot; Andi says, as a producer corrals Craig into a room to change. &amp;quot;But at the same time, understand that you are on a date.&amp;quot;\r\nCraig&amp;apos;s antics no doubt put a damper on the rest of the night, but Andi carries on with the group date anyway, in part so she can spend some one-on-one time with Marcus. &amp;quot;Marcus is kinda standing in the background,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;But I always see Marcus in the foreground.&amp;quot; Translation: Marcus, will you accept this rose?\r\nThe next day, Andi meets Chris for a one-on-one date to &amp;quot;get their love on track.&amp;quot; They spend the day watching horse races at Santa Anita Park, where a strategically placed elderly couple gives them advice on making love last. &amp;quot;Just learn to trust each other,&amp;quot; the man says. Chris takes his advice and confides in Andi about breaking off a previous engagement, telling her, &amp;quot;When I proposed, I knew it wasn&amp;apos;t in my gut. I was using my head instead of my heart.&amp;quot; The confession earns him the date rose&amp;#x2014;and a private concert by This Wild Life, during which they dance and share the first of what will probably be many kisses this season.\r\n\r\nMoving on to the pre-rose ceremony cocktail party! Josh M. gets the season&amp;apos;s second kiss during some one-on-one time with Andi, but the main event of the evening is Craig&amp;apos;s apology, which he decides to sing. (Why do they always sing?) &amp;quot;I messed up the other night / I had too much Firefly / I bared my junk to 13 other guys / But I hope and pray that it&amp;apos;s all right,&amp;quot; he croons. &amp;quot;Oh, Andi / Please let me stay.&amp;quot;\r\nToo little, too late, Craig. Andi applauds the effort, but as she tells him later, she &amp;quot;couldn&amp;apos;t get past&amp;quot; his public display of drunkenness. Roses go to Ron, Dylan, JJ, Marquel, Andrew, Tasos, Josh M., Cody, Nick V., Patrick, Brian, Brett, and Bradley&amp;#x2014;in addition to the boutonnieres already awarded to Eric, Marcus, and Chris&amp;#x2014;which means Craig, Carl, and Nick S. are going home.\r\n&amp;quot;If I wouldn&amp;apos;t have made that mistake, who knows what could have happened?&amp;quot; Craig wonders. &amp;quot;That mistake I&amp;apos;m gonna have to live with for the rest of my life now.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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