90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days Recap, Season 4 Episode 14
By: Tiffany Wong
Tags: Entertainment, TV, Reality TV, Pop Culture

“At this point, I’m not thinking about the failed meetings before,” David says. “There’s been nobody else that makes me feel like I feel with her. It’s that feeling that I have that makes me think, ‘Oh, I’m in love.’”

At the restaurant, they sit next to each other, not across from each other (a running pattern of their dates) and at one point, David goes in for a hug. The length of it is uneasy to watch, especially since he loves the cheek-to-cheek action.

After detaching themselves from each other (guess who initiated that?), he explains to Lana that the K1 visa requires them to be engaged before they head back to the U.S. He asks her what she needs to know about him to know that he’s The One for her. Her answer is vague — she needs more time before she can be sure.

Then, our lil horndog David invites her to his hotel room. She’s a bit shocked and says she thinks it’s a bit early for that.

He’s not so jazzed anymore.

Erika (24) and Stephanie (29) // Port Augusta, Australia

After three weeks in Australia, Steph is finally heading home to the U.S. Her mom still doesn’t know about her bisexuality, so she’s planning on bottling up her emotions from this trip. Sounds healthy.

While she checks into her flight, she looks around, hoping Erika would surprise her and show up at the airport to say goodbye. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen (you can count on Tom and Varya to pull a move like that), but Steph says that she doesn’t regret coming here. She learned a lot about herself during this trip and she’ll always have a piece of Erika in her heart.

After traveling for 48 hours, Steph is back in the U.S. She and Erika are apparently no longer on speaking terms and have removed each other on social media. She’s too tired to be sad.

Thankfully, her mom, her mom’s friend, and her two dogs are at the airport to welcome her home. Her dogs are SO EXCITED to see her that she hugs them before she hugs her mom.

Her mom Magda says she can’t wait to hear how the trip went and Steph accidentally lets a look of dread slip.

“It really bothered Erika towards the end that I didn’t know when I would come out to my mom,” Steph says. “It’s hard because I had this really emotional experience and I am sad. All I really want to do is talk to my mom about it, but I can’t, so it’s a lonely feeling.”

It’s hard not to compare Steph’s situation with Erika’s. After the breakup, Erika confided in her mom, who was patient and comforting. Steph has no one.

In the car, Magda asks about the trip and Steph talks about cage-diving with sharks. She describes her trip to the Outback with as much enthusiasm as if she were telling her about waiting in line at the DMV. As a mom, I’d think it’s strange that my daughter sounds so listless after returning from a trip across the world, so I’m sure she’s aware something’s up.

“Are you telling me everything?” Magda asks suspiciously.

Steph… doesn’t come out. Instead, she tells her mom that there was one night that wasn’t great — a blatant lie since we’ve seen Erika and Steph argue almost every single night on that trip. She says that Erika might’ve gotten the wrong impression of her because of how she presents herself on the internet.

Magda says that she hopes they’re still friends.

“Mhm, yeah,” Steph says as she looks out the car window.

Lisa (52) and Usman (30) // Kaduna, Nigeria

“Please do not disturb?” Ooooooooh, you know what that means!!!!

JK, Baby Girl Lisa and SojaBoy are in the middle of a fight lol. Sorry to get your hopes up.

Lisa’s demanding that Usman propose because it’s the day before their wedding. Little does she know, he was planning to propose to her the night before, but if you remember, last night was when Lisa confronted him about this girl he’d been messaging “I love you”s to on Facebook. Not great timing.

“I’m done. I don’t fucking care,” Lisa says as she walks out and slams the door. Obviously, she does care. I also would love to count the number of times she’s said these two phrases throughout the entire season. My guess is nine.

Usman admits to a producer that there’s more pressure to resolve their issues now because his family is coming to the city later in the day.

“USMAN,” Lisa calls out from the hallway with a very Mom voice. He hangs his head down as he walks through the door, like a guilty child.

Although she says that it’s part of American culture, it’s strange that Lisa is demanding a proposal that will definitely lack romance. He has nothing planned and time is running out, so when would he even have the time to ask?

The couple somehow talk it out in the hotel hallway and return to their room. As Lisa tries to find a hairbrush in the bathroom, Usman tells her to come out. He’s down on one knee. Folks, he is proposing outside of their hotel bathroom.

Lisa says yes with tears in her eyes. A reminder: 20 minutes ago, they were fighting.

In the afternoon, Lisa and Usman meet up with his family in the lobby. Mohammed (Usman’s older brother, whom we’ve met before), Faruq (Usman’s other older brother, whom we’ve never met before), Faruq’s daughter, and Mommy (The Fuckin’ Queen) are here! Faruq and his daughter even traveled seven hours to come to the wedding.

Mommy on that queen shit again.

“I just can’t imagine someone at that distance to love you without even seeing you physically,” Faruq says after meeting Lisa.

The Hausa fam head to their hotel room, where they gather to pray. But before that happens, Mommy and Lisa have to perform a Muslim tradition of washing their feet and hands to wash away their sins. Then, they pray.

Faruq breaks the fourth wall.

Later at night, Lisa, Usman, Faruq, and Mohammed get dinner together. Lisa thinks it’s a great time to tell her future brother-in-laws about her relationship problems because she doesn’t think Usman always listens to her and he might listen to his brothers. She also says that she wants the brothers to be honest with her because “that’s [the] one [thing] that Usman and I have, is honesty.” Funny how the night before, she caught him flirting with a fan on Facebook and called him a liar.

Faruq is trying his damnedest to hold it together.

Usman says that this isn’t something to bring up now. In his confessional, he also says, “When Lisa wants us to discuss the problems we are having in front of Faruq and Mohammed, I am offended. If they get to know what is really going on, they may not support the marriage.”

Lisa doesn’t back down, and they end up airing their dirty ass laundry to the brothers the night before their wedding. She says he’s stubborn. He says she’s controlling. Faruq says she can’t expect her husband to be with her all the time. Mohammed says that the husband is the master of the house.

Faruq tries to calm everybody down to talk things through, but Lisa refuses to let her husband “criticize” (her words, not mine) her. “I traveled 7,000 miles to marry this man. I tried and I failed,” she says to the table before storming off.

Weird that Lisa was the one who brought up the problems she and Usman have, but is the one who chooses to leave.

“It’s super embarrassing because these are my family and she’s displaying this attitude in front of them. This is never a Nigerian woman to behave in front of any in-law,” Usman says. “At this point, I don’t know if there will be a wedding tomorrow.”

Ash (38) and Avery (32) // Melbourne, Australia

It’s Avery’s last day in Melbourne before she goes back to Seattle.

“It literally feels like I’ve been in relationship boot camp for the last two weeks,” she says. “It’s been amazing and it’s crazy.”

On a walk by the lake, she and Ash talk about their future — he can’t move to the U.S. just yet because his son is still young, Ash will have to travel back and forth for this relationship, Avery knows it’s not realistic to have Ash in Seattle, etc. Both know that this relationship will take work. Ash also knows that he is going to marry Avery, but he doesn’t propose.

In her confessional, Avery admits that she thought she’d be engaged by the end of her trip, but now knows that there have been challenges and it’s just not right to be engaged yet. She’s glad they’re on the same page.

Throughout this conversation, they never talk about Ash’s sexist beliefs. I guess that’s not an issue anymore?

But, a plot twist: Ash is working on getting an Australian passport because it’s easier to obtain a visa with it than with his Mauritian passport. It seems like it’s the first time Avery is hearing about this, but she doesn’t seem concerned.

He says applied for the Australian passport two months ago, but it might take three months to a year until he actually gets it. At this point, I don’t even know if I believe he applied for the passport, given his bad track record of sugar-coating things. It seems like Avery does.

Their plans of marital bliss are banking on him getting that passport.

The next day, they head to the airport. Avery’s going home and it’s sad sad sad. They have no idea when Ash’s passport application will be approved and after that, when his visa will be approved. Until then, they’re not sure when they’ll see each other in person again.

Before Avery checks in for her flight, they part ways. It’s kind of heartbreaking.

The robot can cry!

“I’m gonna miss having my best friend,” Ash says outside of the airport with tears in his eyes. “It’s like she’s my partner in crime and I’m gonna miss that.”

Ed (54) and Rosemarie (23) // Calocan, Philippines

Y’all, it’s the end of an era.

Ed’s back in the U.S., feeling defeated.

“I don’t want to tell people what happened because I’m a failure,” he says.

His mom and Teddy the Pup are there to pick him up at the airport and Teddy is going wild (maybe the dogs of this episode are the MVP).

“How’s Rose?” his mom asks.

Ed gulps.

“Rose is out.”

He pauses.

“No Rose,” he says. “No Rose.”

He starts tearing up in the airport while looking off into the distance.

In the car, Ed tells his mom that he asked Rose what she wanted from their relationship and she said that she wants two more kids — as if she told him for the first time on their trip (she didn’t). He doesn’t want to father more children at his age. He also tells his mom that Rose never wanted to talk about her past, glazing over a lot of the problems the couple faced.

“In the end, it was too much for her,” Ed says. “She didn’t think I trusted her.”

YOU DIDN’T, ED.

Despite all that’s happened, there’s a part of Ed that hopes Rose will talk to him again.

Darcey (45) // Middletown, Connecticut

I thought there wasn’t anything else to say about Darcey, but here we are.

Darcey and her sister Stacey are picking up some sunflowers and heading to the cemetery. In the car (wow, lots of car convos in this episode), Darcey keeps repeating that “I’m good. I’m happy.” She’s done this in past seasons after a breakup, blanketing her feelings with a fake facade of I’m-over-him indifference. “No more negativity,” she says out loud, as if she were telling that to herself and the universe.

The twins visit the grave of their brother, who passed away at 27 from a rare form of cancer. He was their protector and rock, and every time they’re going through a rough patch, they go see him.

“He was a good person, and loyal and loving,” Stacey says. “Darcey deserves someone like that in her life.”

Geoffrey (41) and Varya (30) // Knoxville, Tennessee

We’re back at Geoffrey’s porch, after Varya showed up unannounced in the last episode, only to find her ex-fiance’s new girlfriend in the house.

The two women start battling it out, yelling “WHO ARE YOU???” to each other with Geoffrey in the middle.

At one point, he gestures to his son in the kitchen. “This is Paxton.”

Paxton, wave “hi!”

Geoffrey hasn’t talked to Varya since he came back to Russia and he told Mary that Varya’s “done and over with.” Yet, he is absolutely loving that these two women are fighting over him.

“It’s embarrassing,” Mary says in her confessional. “I feel like a fool.”

Varya and Geoffrey finally have a moment alone on his porch.

“I came here to show my serious intentions and now I feel really embarrassed,” Varya says to Geoffrey, coincidentally echoing Mary’s sentiment.

When she asks him about Mary, he says, “I came back and she was there.” What an awful way to describe how you started a relationship with someone.

In the middle of their conversation, Mary walks through the front door and in between them.

“Move, bitch,” Varya yells. I have no idea where all of this hostility is coming from, especially when she didn’t even know Mary existed until ten minutes ago.

“Why are you mad at her?” Geoffrey asks.

“I don’t know,” Varya says. “It’s my reaction.”

Mary turns around and walks back into the house, and Varya drops this line:

Mary comes out with red roses and says, “I guess you won’t be needing these anymore.” Then she leaves.

Geoffrey finally invites Varya into his house. But I want to know where Paxton is!!

“I’ve got two women that are vying for my attention,” he says. “Varya came all the way to Russia to try to re-energize our relationship when our relationship has completely fallen off. Then you have Mary that’s a complete innocent in this and I feel very, very bad for her.”

He asks Varya why he didn’t communicate with her and she says she has, she’s been texting him! But why didn’t she tell him she would be coming, he asks??

Varya asks about Mary and Geoffrey says that he and Mary were “moving in the direction of a relationship.” He, however, still loves Varya.

He asks her how long she’ll be here for and if she has a hotel. She said she had one, hence the luggage outside on his porch. He’s confused why she would think that they could jump back into their relationship after all that’s happened, but she’s confused about how he was able to move on so quickly after the proposal.

Geoffrey reiterates: There’s been no communication. Varya reiterates: There was on her side. Geoffrey then exasperatedly says that there was none on his end because he was moving on with his life.

“I don’t want to lose you,” she says to him.

In her confessional, she says, “I’m not going to surrender. I’m not going to give him to her.”

Later that evening, Geoffrey takes Varya out. He’s going to let her stay with him for the next two weeks “to see where things can go.” He also had drinks planned with friends that night. Mary was supposed to go with him (they’re her friends too), but instead, this idiot takes Varya.

At the bar, he introduces his ex-fiancee to his friends. They know all about her, but he fills them in on what happened this morning. Varya admits that she overreacted with Mary.

The two of them also rehash the proposal rejection in front of their friends (I’m getting Lisa-Usman flashbacks). Varya clarifies that she didn’t say “no” to his proposal, she said “not now.” One of Geoffrey’s lame friends points out that “You can’t spell ‘not now’ without ‘no.’” EL OH EL, GOOD ONE. TELL IT AGAIN.

Three of the friends and Mary prepare to play foosball when one of them says that Mary really cares about Geoffrey.

“Your soulmate should be your best friend,” Varya says to them. “You don’t need any other pretty girls to take care of.”

Off to the side, Geoffrey talks about his love triangle with another friend. “The situation with Mary was good,” he says within earshot of Varya.

Then, from the corner of the screen, we see a fifth friend show up.

IT’S MARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“She wants war,” Varya says. “She’ll get the war.”