“I’m going to be extra careful so I don’t scratch you on the first date.” Ericka Ajanae’ Webb delivers the joke face-down on a massage table, half-laughing and half-nervous, while Brittany Banks spreads oil across her back. It is the lightest line in the November 13 first-look clip — and the most revealing, because Ericka has spent this whole season saying she has never been into women.
The road to that table started at the first-night party on October 12, when Ericka walked away with two necklaces — one from Brittany, one from Jamal Menzies. Her attention sat with Jamal first: she also drew early interest from Michael Ilesanmi and Razvan Ciocoi, while Brittany waited in the background. The five things to watch before Episode 7 flagged this date as the moment the season’s quietest storyline would get loud.
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By Episode 6, “The Girl Who Saw Red,” which aired November 9, viewers were asking where Ericka had gone — and whether Brittany was even in the episode. What nobody could see was that Brittany had never left Ericka’s orbit. She kept showing up, and when a real one-on-one date finally arrived, she picked something no one else at the resort had tried: a couples’ massage, with her own hands doing the work.
Oil, Nerves, and the Effleurage Lesson
The November 13 clip, an Entertainment Tonight exclusive, opens at an outdoor massage setup in Puerto Rico. Brittany explains her technique as she works — effleurage, oil spread from the top of the neck toward the sides of the back — while Ericka lies still and tries to look relaxed. She admits Brittany’s touch made her nervous at first, because the whole experience felt new. Then the nervousness turns into something else. Ericka calls the massage sensual. She says she feels “turned on.”
In her confessional, she goes further, admitting the moment makes her consider whether she should “explore a little bit more.” For a woman who arrived saying she had never been attracted to women, that is not a small sentence. It is the whole season tilting on its side.
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Ericka does not stop there. She has never had a relationship with a woman, she says, yet she feels attracted to Brittany — and the two share a lot in common. Then comes the line fans are already quoting: “maybe men are the problem.” It lands as a joke, but also as a crack in the story Ericka has told about herself since the premiere. The red-flag ranking of every Season 2 couple already had Brittany and Ericka filed under “watch closely” — and now we know why.
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Brittany, for her part, is not rushing it. She says the date feels good, but she is holding back from getting too intense — because Ericka has no intimate experience with women, and Brittany knows curiosity from the real thing. She is treating the massage as a gauge, not a finish line. Open about dating both men and women, she waited five weeks for a real opening with Ericka. She is not going to spend it now by pushing too hard and scaring the answer away.
Reddit split as always. Some cheered — “I miss Ericka,” one wrote; “Maybe she is curious, Brittany is hot!” added another. Others called the moment uncomfortable, or purely platonic. Episode 7, “The Girl Who Had Second Thoughts,” airs Monday, November 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on TLC. If Monday’s episode shows Ericka choosing Brittany over Jamal, was the massage the moment she stopped saying “never” — or will she look Brittany in the eye and tell her it was only curiosity after all?
