The boys, part 1

Ryan P: The solar energy company guy. You could see Ashley light up like a firefly's butt when he started talking about how big a company he'd built. He'll go far. Because she's irrational, maybe not far enough.

JP: The NY construction manager, with the Euro close cut. She'll go for the suave factor.

Ames: The portfolio manager/J. Peterman character who's done everything and done more of it than everybody. Two Ivy League colleges! Twenty-eight marathons! If there'd been more time they probably would've told us he's run with the bulls! Makes flaky pastry! Gilds his own loogies!

Ben C: The lawyer from New Orleans ("lantern jaw," so I can spot him in a crowd), who made a point of referring to himself as "passionate" and "romantic" repeatedly. How far will he go for love? Do we have this season's Casey?

Ben F: The Sonoma winemaker, tho it appeared when he was talking with Ashley that winemaker is more of a sideline than a label for his true soul. But it's tres chic to say that's what you do, so we'll stick with it. Besides, girls love to picture themselves strolling between rows of vines, barefoot, in a peasant skirt, casting long shadows behind themselves in the golden late-afternoon sun.