About two-thirds of the way through Wednesday night's (April 14) "Bachelor," the show reveals the identity of Jesse Palmer's spy -- it's Jenny, the blonde personal trainer.

The revelation is decidedly underwhelming, since Jenny's covert position among the women is about as secret as Trista and Ryan's wedding. ABC handled the cover-up poorly, keeping her name out of press materials both prior to last week's premiere and after the first rose ceremony. Numerous people (your humble correspondent included) picked up on that and other clues, and Jenny's identity has been all over the Internet in the past week.

Where's Anderson Cooper, or even "Celebrity Mole" host Ahmad Rashad, when you need him?

Moving on: The episode opens with the remaining 16 women -- 16 because of Jesse's name confusion in the last rose ceremony -- moved into their house and host Chris Harrison getting his obligatory 90 seconds of non-rose ceremony screen time by explaining the date breakdown. Trish, because she got the "first impression rose" from Jesse last week, gets a solo date with him, while the others will go in groups with him.

The New York Giants quarterback takes the first seven women to Lake Tahoe for some sledding. Little of note happens, except we get our first hot-tub action only a couple of nights in, which may be a "Bachelor" speed record.

Instead, the show spends longer than usual with the nine women by the pool, the better to set Trish up as the Evil Gold-Digger. First, she decides to change from her regular bikini bottoms to a thong, the better to tan her backside for her one-on-one date. You know, just in case.

We're also treated to quotes about how she doesn't like kids all that much and her secret to keeping house: "Marry rich, order out, hire a nanny, hire a trainer." Jenny is in earshot for all of it and is dutifully taking notes.

The Trish trash talk continues the next day as stylist-to-the-stars Christophe -- he of the $200 haircut for then-President Clinton -- drops by to do Trish's hair and makeup. Some of the other women suggest frosted tips and blue eyeshadow for the 28-year-old model, but he sticks with his own ideas.

Trish ends the session -- which, weirdly, everyone sits around and watches -- by exclaiming, "I'm sorry, but I'm pretty f***ing fabulous."

Jesse, of course, is privy to none of this, and in fact seems quite taken with her. "She's confident, and that attracts me a lot," he says.

So much so, in fact, that he appears to have a little selective hearing loss when the subject of kids comes up as they eat dinner after taking in a private opera performance. He asks about it, and she responds by saying she's "toyed with" not having children at all.

After a possibly edited-in uncomfortable silence, Jesse says kids are "a huge priority," she allows she wouldn't mind one or two, but no more, as she doesn't want to spread her focus (or, presumably, the nanny's) too thin. Hey, at least she's being honest.

So, what's Jesse's take on all that? "She absolutely knocked it out of the park," he says. "We talked about kids and family. ... She's the real deal."

Group date No. 2 includes Jenny and involves the outdoors and a little football. Best we can tell, Jesse plays all-time offense. At dinner, Jesse tells the women that the life of a young, single pro athlete in New York isn't all it's cracked up to be. He's gotten tired, he says, of "waking up, and there's a stranger looking at you."

It strikes me that that's more of a third- or fourth-date sort of confession. (Not that I'm speaking from experience.)

Med student Kristy, especially, is taken aback by his frankness and starts to have doubts about whether Jesse is The Guy for her.

We then get the spy revelation, which is about as exciting as Palmer's Giants mop-up duty. Jenny deals the dirt on Trish and also says her early impression is that Oklahoman Tara would be a good catch.

That plays out a little more on rose night. Jenny does a little double-agent work, prodding the previously reticent Tara to ask for some alone time with Jesse. It works, and Jesse comes away glad she took the initiative.

Things don't go so well with Kristy, who takes our boy aside and tells him he's really great and all, but he's not the person she sees herself with for the long term. She asks him not to give her a rose. Jesse was planning to offer her a rose, so he's bummed, and maybe a little ego-bruised too. Good for Kristy, we say -- she wasn't going to pretend, and she even saved Jesse a little embarrassment by not rejecting him in front of the other women.

Jesse honors Kristy's request at the rose ceremony, but he doesn't share Jenny's opinion of Trish and asks her to stay around. In addition to her and his spy, he gives roses to Katie -- whom he mistakenly kept around last week -- Tara, Jessica B., Mandy Jaye, Karen, Suzie, the female Jesse and Julie.

Mandy C., Anne-Catherine, Amber, Celeste and Jean-Marie head home with Kristy, all pretty much tear-free. Which means the "stalker" of the show's teasers is still in Jesse's midst.

Jesse feels good about his decisions. The 10 remaining women are all "here for the right reasons," he says. "I think some of them really like me."