Bec and Danny might not be missing. But David’s bra is.
The real scandal of the evening.
Steven and Rachel arrive looking traumatised.
“I never wanna hear the word ‘fingerbang’ ever again,” Steven declares. “I’m very concerned someone’s gonna bring it up again.”
Oh, Steven. Someone will absolutely be bringing it up again tonight.
The PTSD is real.
Meanwhile, Bec’s still playing victim: “To be called a dumb c*** and freak over and over … what have I done?”
Before dinner, Juliette tries to apologise privately to Bec for all the vulgar name-calling after the fingerbang scandal at the retreat. Bec refuses to hear her out – not here, not now … and certainly not without an audience. This conversation will happen at the dining table, with a jeering crowd and bottomless wine.
Dinner begins with Bec declaring the others are jealous of her “wealthy, good-looking” husband with his “humungous package”.
Ew. Also, not true.
She pivots to Juliette.
“You came for me day after day. What did I do to deserve being called a dumb c*** and a freak multiple times?” she probes.
“I’ll tell you,” Juliette fires back. “[It’s because of] the comment you made about the fingerbanging.”
Down in the basement, the experts watching on CCTV collectively groan. They yearn for the simpler days of this show – with cheating scandals and toilet toothbrushes. A more innocent time.
Now Davina and Dean seem like saints.
Juliette exposes everything: Bec trash-talking Rachel for days, the fingerbang merch empire, all of it.
“That wasn’t said, babe!” Bec lies. “None of this is factual.”
That’s when Rachel speaks up – and shocks everyone. She’s sick of people using her as an excuse to execute their own vendettas. She criticises Juliette for using that language against Bec under the guise of defending her.
Juliette’s blindsided.
“For [Rachel] to turn so quickly? That hurt me. Because she’s the reason I’m in this situation!” she fumes.
She glances at her wing woman Gia, waiting for back-up. Gia stays silent. The alliance is crumbling.
The other wives rally around Bec. These are the same women who Bec has actively attacked and berated and insulted over the past four weeks. Bec’s mission to position herself as the victim has worked.
Meanwhile, Gia sits on the sidelines, watching her empire crumble. She needs a new weapon.
“Bec’s a calculated, evil person,” she tries.
Nobody’s biting. Time for the nuclear option.
“I’ve got texts of her talking s*** about everyone. She’s pathological,” Gia declares. “She should be very worried. I’ve got all this in screenshots. The things she said about them is so f***ed.”
At this point, we’ve had so many Mafs text message screenshots that Channel 9 should display them in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.
Release the screenshots!
Producers underscore this threat with menacing orchestral music. We get a preview of bleeped insults that are allegedly in the screenshots. But Gia won’t reveal them tonight. She’s saving them for Sunday’s commitment ceremony – in front of the experts. Or maybe she’ll wait until Monday – dangling them over Bec’s head. Total torture. Maximum damage.
Somewhere, the Channel 9 censor is icing her finger.
Married at First Sight screens Sundays to Wednesdays on Three and Three Now