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Previously onThe Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras...
Today is the mini final.
Laurel and Nehemiah, you are out of the game.
Our winners, Tori and Kyland.
The house is really split into two.
Bananas has his Angels: Aviv, Jenny and Rachel.
Then you have me, Jordan, Cory, Kyland, Olivia, and Michele.
And Josh is playing the middle right now.
Good job, Theo. Good job, Nana-Man.
I'm definitely frustrated with Josh playing the middle.
Guys, you're both killing it!
I'm sick of your fucking attitude.
Bananas wins.
Bananas, I need you to select three women,
except Tori, because she won the challenge,
to be our new targets.
Uh, Olivia, Michele, Cara.
All right, you're our new targets.
You take a swing for the king,
you better not miss.
I don't want to be here,
but I don't want to have to throw it, you know?
That's my dilemma.
Could I possibly hang up the whole "Competitive Evelyn,"
go in there, not give it my all, let KellyAnne win?
I think I could, but I don't know.
Oh, shit.
Goddamn it.
Go on, Nana-Man.
There's a storm a-brewing,
and it's Bananas coming back to exact his revenge
on Olivia and Michele and Cara Maria.
I mean, listen, you're guilty by association.
Cara, she's playing the oblivious card.
"Oh, wait a minute, there's lines drawn in the sand?
"There's alliances? My hair's red?
I'm dating a Keebler Elf?"
PAULIE [high-pitched]: Dude, I'm trying to grow here.
I am the alliance dismantler.
All you have to do is just find one weak spot,
poke at it a little bit,
and the entire house comes crumbling down.
All right, let's go talk shit about the targets
and how awesome I am.
You have Angels for that.
- I do. - We're just over here,
the little devils.
Uh, yeah, that's-that's true.
Johnny and his Angels
have just been sitting around,
massaging each other's feet.
Toes out, everyone.
Get the dogs in.
Angels unite! Whoo!
Live your best foot fetish life.
I will not kink-shame. But he doesn't want
to massage my feet.
So I guess we'll never be in an alliance.
Cara's just jealous that you won't rub
her foot, 'cause she has a fucking bunion.
Michele, I heard you were getting mad at Josh
for cheering for me.
- Yeah. - Why?
If he's cheering for you,
he's cheering against me.
I'm allowed to cheer for both
- of my friends. - I'm not saying that you're not.
It's not fair that I'm always
at the end of her wrath
and I'm always at the end
of her meltdowns.
And I'm at the point where I've taken it
the whole game, but I'm done.
- Every time you get upset... - Josh,
when you have your feet to the flame,
you freak the fuck out.
- Leave me alone. - You can't determine
who Josh can and can't be friends with
- or who he can cheer for. - I'm not trying to determine it.
Why are you bringing me into it?
- I'm already a fucking target. Leave me alone! - Because--
- No, because you-- - I'm not bringing you into it.
- Leave me alone! Leave me alone! - Who-- Why--
Now that they're cooking like that...
- Yeah. - ...do it, like,
- 15 seconds and then flip 'em. - Okay.
So he has to choose
who's a better friend, is what you're saying.
I don't care if he has his friends!
He's allowed to have his friends. That's not my problem.
And I would have given anyone shit. I was heated.
- He was sitting next to me. - Which is bullshit.
I'm trying to show Michele how to cook,
and she's trying to argue with Bananas
while holding my spatula.
Girl, my tortillas are gonna burn. [chuckles]
- Give me my spatula back. - It's still getting
- to the heat, but, like... - Because Bananas does something--
- Don't do this right now. You don't want to fight with me. - Okay, I'm not. I'm saying--
And you already have asked me not to fight with you.
- Please don't bring me to that point. - I'm not trying to fight
with you. I'm not trying to fight with you.
Don't. Then just shh!
Nobody's saying that he can't have other friends.
- So why are you screaming? - Nobody's saying that.
I'm not trying to argue with you.
Hold on!
They're just trying to now create
the rift between us.
Don't let it happen.
You guys have been doing this to Josh
- the entire fucking game. - I have not done anything to Josh!
You guys didn't tell him that he had to pledge his allegiance
- or you guys were gonna-- - No, I did not. That had nothing
- to do with me. - Well, you guys didn't try and hold his feet to the fire
- and say that he had to nominate himself? - Why would-- But, dude,
I didn't want-- I didn't want to either.
- You know I didn't. - Michele, Bananas
is gonna try to rile you up.
This is his strategy.
Don't feed into that. And Josh--
he can be friends with everyone,
but he can't be allies with everyone.
I feel like the faster that Josh can understand this concept,
the quicker he can stop being confused
when people get upset at him.
I'm just saying, dude,
if you're gonna play that way,
then just own up to it, dude.
Listen, he won
fair and square. Just the arrogance
and cocky behavior is just, like,
so off-putting to me. Like, I think
it's so disgusting. I've had enough of it.
A lot of what I'm feeling
right now is just grieving
the loss of Theo.
Because I live in America
and Theo lives in the U.K., if we want
to continue outside this, it's gonna be really hard.
Although I'm upset,
I would love to make a final
and win the entire game,
because I want to prove it to myself
that it was not a fluke,
I am strong and I'm worthy of being
a Challenge champion.
Now that I'm halfway through this game,
I feel like I'm actually more prepared
for the rest of the game.
I'm also now, like, really hungry, because, like,
I do have a bad taste in my mouth for things he said.
Because you know what he wants? He wants all the girls
always up his ass,
giving him attention constantly.
And the girls that don't, he wants nothing to do with them.
You can try letting him massage your feet.
It might edge you up the food chain a little.
Oh, my God. I'd rather...
choke on this target band.
Well, I know
my feet massage days are-are not ever gonna happen, so...
Fuck. Fuck these bunions.
Me either.
And I need a foot massage.
I've been clocking in hours in this tar...
- target band. - Let me see your feet.
You've got cute feet.
- Hideous. It's hideous. - You can't be in his alliance. You have a long toe.
He knew exactly the moment he saw Aviv's feet,
she was an Angel.
I'm never gonna be an Angel.
Oh, we don't want to be Angels.
Boring.
When one of us wins at the end,
after we fucking tooth-and-nail fought there,
it's gonna feel way better than sliding in
under the wings of Johnny.
Okay.
We'll be here.
It's so good to clear your mind in here.
All right, let's do it.
All the way in.
All the way out.
And fast.
Slow it down.
Can you move your arm?
I cannot lift it.
Jordan would die before he quit.
Good job, Jor.
Josh, your word
from here on out is worth fuck all, dude.
This game's turned me into somebody that I'm not.
All right, last one.
Hold at the top.
Relax.
I got it! I got it! I got it!
The fuck is wrong with you?
All I keep thinking is,
when he comes at you and stuff, Michele,
he's trying to come up with a big show or an excuse
as to why he keeps coming after you.
- Yeah. - But it's like
you were never gonna come before any
- of those girls anyways. - No.
So it just is game and numbers.
Everybody's at this point where they're making
a list of top four.
But the thing is, it's like-- four people don't matter.
It's top two.
Jordan. Josh. You.
Even though Josh is playing
both sides in this game,
I'm gonna have Josh's back,
because I'm always gonna rock
with the vacation alliance.
Yeah.
So, tell me
about your life, Rach.
This is the Era One preparing for the challenge.
Well, listen, we've been here so long,
we're on our second hair dye
- and almost our third period. - We still get our periods.
Yeah. We're not that old.
I feel like, with this target, my back is
against the wall and, in a way, I welcome that.
Because I think when my back is against the wall, I come out.
And worst-case scenario,
I'm in that Arena, I get another elimination win
and I change the game.
I'm not feeling so hot about my position anymore.
Kyland is most likely never going to an elimination ever,
so he can't save me
from being a target.
Going into this next challenge,
I am feeling a little bit
like I'm on an island.
Welcome to your next challenge here
in beautiful Vietnam for this season
of The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras.
Congratulations, Bananas.
You got to choose three new targets.
And, shocker, you chose Olivia,
Michele,
and Cara Maria.
Now, this is called 40 Yard Dash.
As you can see, there is
a giant "40" carved
deep down into this field.
Now, in this "40,"
there are six puzzle pieces
and all kinds of obstacles.
When I say go, you'll race into the 40
and start gathering your puzzle pieces as fast as you can.
One at a time,
bring them back to your puzzle station
and complete the puzzle.
First man and woman to get this done
will win today's challenge.
Last-placed woman, I'll see you in the Arena no matter what.
Last-placed man, you'll be penalized at the next challenge.
Now, Michele,
you got last place at the last challenge.
You have a one-minute disadvantage right here.
All right? Good luck, everyone.
Let's get it done.
This is something that time is truly of the essence,
and I'm gonna be a minute behind everybody else.
So, just hoping that I can
make up that minute somewhere.
This is a really important challenge to win,
because if I win this, I can't be a target
in the next challenge, and then, obviously,
Kyland keeps winning everything, so if we can get Kyland to not
win one challenge, that'd be nice, too.
I know if I don't win today,
the likelihood of me getting voted in is 99.9% sure.
Rachel and I decided we're gonna do this together,
because if you're female
and you're not an Angel,
you need to be coming last today.
Ladies, you'll start,
then 30 seconds later,
the men will follow, and 30 seconds after that,
Michele can start.
All right, ladies, you ready?
Go!
Go, girls.
Here we go.
Uhp.
Fuck it, I don't have time for this shit.
I'm doing this entire challenge shoeless.
Oh, shit.
That's what they look like.
All right, gentlemen, you ready?
Go!
Oh!
Oh, shit.
Good job, Cara. All right, Olivia, keep that pace.
On the girls' days, it's more important
for the guys to win, because if you win,
then you can't be selected as a target.
Therefore, you're not going anywhere,
unless you get last place in a challenge
and you get that penalty.
My mind is focused,
and it's time to prove to my girl Taylor
that I can bring home that championship crown.
All right, Michele, ready?
Go.
Okay.
- Yeah, Cara! - Cara.
She came for me on Battle for a New Champion.
She chose me, I went against her, I beat her.
There's some sort of hidden animosity there,
but I'm probably most like Cara out of anybody here.
Not only have I had to go into the Arena now twice,
but also, I'm finding myself
falling lowest in a lot of the daily challenges.
Good job, Aviv. All right, Tori.
Feeling like I'm having to scrape my way through,
and I'm struggling with, like, my own value in this game.
I think other people have a perception as well about me,
and so, I have a lot to prove.
All right, Michele.
Today we're playing 40 Yard Dash,
and you have six puzzle pieces
that you have got to get to your puzzle station,
put it together and be the first finished.
The male winner would take himself off of the target board
as well as have the power to choose
what girl goes into elimination.
The female winner will be safe from elimination.
Good, Bananas. Well done.
Keep that pace, Jordan. Keep going.
Good job, Cory.
That a boy, Josh.
I'm friends now
with three of the female targets,
Cara, Olivia and Michele.
Best-case scenario would be
one of Banana's Angels
loses the challenge.
That way, we don't have
one of the targets going against each other,
and it's not cannibalizing our own side.
KYLAND [panting]: That's insane.
All right, let's get this one.
Working with Jenny in today's obstacle course
shows me just how powerful it is when women work together.
No other player today
decided it would be a good idea
to do the same routes together
and get the pieces for the puzzle at the same time.
This solidifies just how much I love Jenny.
- Thanks. - Let's go.
All right, Olivia. Go, go, go.
That's it, Derek.
Jordan, keep going.
I am trying to play
a chill game this time around.
It's really hard when I'm tied
and aligned with Rachel and Tori as well as Johnny.
The guy's constantly in some mess.
But at this point, I need this win
as a boost of confidence, and going into
the next challenge, I don't want to be a target.
No slowing down.
We are
in Satan's butthole.
It is beyond excruciatingly hot.
I might just roll around in the mud
like a little piggy for a minute.
Fuck, it's bad. It's hot.
I'm holding it up, I'm holding it up. Go.
Being a target is obviously
not a great thing.
Michele and Cara,
these are two girls that I don't want to go against.
And at this point in the game, no one wants to go in the Arena,
but if we keep trying to avoid it,
we're gonna be picked off one by one.
It's very clear.
So, I want to get rid of some competition,
and I also want to take out Johnny Bananas.
Go, just go. I got it.
Jordan's doing parkour.
I'm sitting there just trying to get my feet out of the mud.
I saw about seven shoes in the mud.
Whoever is running in their bare feet right now,
may the Lord be with you,
because this is not fun.
Bananas and I aren't working together.
But we have this weird
rivalry relationship...
that it would just be better
that I didn't win, so I know
the next person would not
choose him or choose me as a target.
Because if I have to choose between Olivia or Michele
and Cara, I'm gonna have to essentially
show a card here, so I like him being here.
Yeah, Jordan! That's how it's done.
Picked up all his pieces and already solving.
Hell yeah, Jenny. Right there behind him.
Right, then.
Let me see what the fuck we're doing.
Michele, go, go, go.
Josh, got to pick it up, man.
Oh, yeah, that looks great.
Come on, Olivia. They're all incorrect.
No, that's incorrect.
No.
But that looks really cute.
Why would you check that?
I want to phone in a friend.
Where's Nelly T when you need him?
Check!
- Check. - Check.
- Nope, nope.
Everybody is shite.
I mean, what the fuck?
What the hell am I looking at right now?
I got to put a bunch of balls in the shape of a pyramid?
Yeah. Never done that before.
I cannot see where these pieces go.
It is, honestly, an absolute shit show out there.
There has to be a way.
Done a lot of things with my balls before,
never made them into a pyramid.
No, Josh. Not even close.
You make the best designs.
- Check. - That's how it's done, Jordan.
Not only was this win
crucial for taking me off the board as a target,
I needed to make a statement that, Kyland,
you are not the only one who knows
how to do a puzzle, buddy.
Kyland thought he was gonna come in here
and just quietly three-peat? I don't think so.
All right? I can still win a daily.
I'm the only one left in the trenches.
It has been a dogfight for me,
and I found myself in a situation
with a disadvantage again
and on the fritz with half of this house.
I'm hoping that this time disadvantage is not the thing
that makes or breaks this challenge for me.
Let's go, Michele, you got a chance to make up
that time right now.
No.
Is that correct? It's a pyramid.
Yes. Good job, Cara.
- You're in. - Fuck yeah!
Oh, fuck me!
Yay.
This moment is so frickin' needed.
Cara "In the Clutch" Maria.
- Well done. - I am not going into elimination today.
I won my way out.
Did not need a man to save me. I saved myself.
I am the man.
- Check. - Good job, Olivia.
Although I'm happy I'm not last, God forbid
Michele gets last place.
That means that me and her are gonna go
automatically against each other.
Correct.
Well done, Kyland.
Correct.
Good job, Jenny.
- Check. Check. - Rachel, you're good.
- Check. - Check, check.
Check.
All right, Tori. Good job.
- There it is, Josh. - Check.
Derek. No, it's incorrect.
Good, Bananas. Well done.
It comes down to me and Derek,
and I'm just looking up
at the puzzle gods like, "Please, come to me."
At the end of the day,
nobody else is protecting me, so I don't need
a disadvantage right now.
No, it's incorrect.
- Check. - Good.
Derek. Derek, good.
Who builds a pyramid with balls? It doesn't make sense.
But disadvantage heading into the next challenge.
It's not looking good.
All right, it comes down to two.
Come on, Mich.
Come on, Michele.
Come on. Come on.
Come on, Aviv. Come on.
Let's go, Michele.
I am praying
that Aviv pulls through,
because the last thing we want to see is Aviv
in the Arena.
Come on, Michele, let's go!
Come on, Michele. Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go!
All right, it comes down to two.
It comes down to Michele and Aviv.
And with Cara Maria already safe,
Michele cannot get last place.
If she does, her and Olivia will have to go
into elimination against each other.
Come on, Michele, you're still in it! Yes!
Yes! Let's go! Yeah.
Come on, Michele, let's go! Yes! Let's go, Michele!
Let's go, let's go!
Check.
All right, Aviv, well done.
Good job, baby.
- I lost my shoes in the first pit with you. - I know.
Losers. Oh, loser always.
Well, at least you're not going directly in.
Dude. What the fuck?
A fucking pyramid puzzle?
Congratulations, Jordan and Cara.
Absolutely killing it.
Well done to both of you.
Cara Maria, winning makes you safe.
Congratulations.
I'll take it.
So the losers of today's challenge, Michele and Cory.
So we had three targets on the table.
Michele, Olivia and Cara Maria.
Cara, since you won, you're off the table.
Michele, since you lost, you're automatically going in.
Which means, Olivia,
the decision has been made for us.
There is no need for a Chamber, and you are
going in the Arena against Michele.
Whoo!
Michele, you play stupid games,
you win stupid prizes.
And, Cory, you'll be penalized at the next challenge.
If you don't win, you go in.
All right? So start winning. Get out of here.
I honestly feel really guilty right now,
because if I hadn't lost,
Olivia wouldn't be forced to go in,
and now I'm up against my best friend.
Of course, it's a great day for Bananas.
He's gonna take me or Olivia out.
I'm having a great day.
I know what I'm doing.
I know that I'm kind of pushing.
I know I'm gonna get a reaction.
So do you. So do you.
I am shocked with Michele.
This isn't hurting Johnny. This doesn't affect
his life, but this could affect
Aviv's life.
So it is such a bad look.
Like, it doesn't need to get like this.
I agree. I agree.
I agree.
I agree it ain't a good look.
So funny how when girls get backed into a corner,
all of a sudden, they just turn into catty,
nasty fucking human beings, dude.
- I've never noticed it until... - I'm not being nasty.
I'm not being nasty.
No, I've never noticed it...
- I'm not being nasty. - ...to this extent.
No, you are. You guys, you know what it is?
It's like, "We have no path forward in the game."
So what we're gonna do is just start taking low blow
fucking comments.
I want to get the fuck home.
Like, "Can we please save this till we get back in the house,
and then you guys can rip each other's heads off?"
You're not taking blows at me. You're taking low blows at her.
- No, I'm taking low blows at you. - And she does not deserve that.
Oh, my God.
What the fuck is going on, and why am I involved in this?
I understand that there's a lot of tension between Michele
and Johnny, however,
you know, for them to then come after me,
you know, I don't appreciate that.
- You know what you're doing. - No, you're blowing it
- up right now, so... - You know what you're doing.
- I said it in the silence... - No, you didn't.
- No, you said it... - Yeah, I said it back here.
- Yes, I did. - No, it was not under the silence of your breath.
- You know what you're doing. - Okay.
Michele knows at this point
that I have basically won in every single realm of this game.
The position that she's in right now,
where she is dead last,
and she has gone from being fully protected
in this game to now having to go into elimination
against her "best friend,"
she has to find some other way
to try and take a jab at me.
It's just making it more obvious
how desperate Michele is right now.
For crying out loud, dude, she already lost.
You want to kick her when she's down?
- Leave her alone. - Yeah.
You're right.
You can low blow, but whenever anybody else does it...
Okay.
- Okay. - All right.
If there was ever a win
that came with an amazing bonus, it was not having
to go to Chamber and listen to these
best friends cry about going against each other.
And now us going against each other.
I'm so fucked.
I know it's sad.
We had to do it sometime.
I mean, Cara "Clutch" Maria.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
Like, is so consistent
in multiple situations throughout the seasons.
It's been that exact...
- it's like, you know, she needs it... - It's time.
- ...it's on. - Turn it on.
I don't know where that is.
I'd like to pull it out more often,
but I think this is what made it happen.
If nothing else, I'm just grateful that I got
to play this game with you for as long as we did.
I mean, we had a hell of a season, sis.
Don't cry.
Don't cry. Go back in.
I've already battled Nurys
at the beginning of the season
and had to look my friend
in the face while I competed against them.
Go!
Oh!
And now, knowing
what I have to do again,
it's really hard.
If it's physical,
do I go to the limit of possibly
hurting my best friend just to stay in this game?
Whoever comes back will just scrape through.
Mm-hmm.
It's like, have you ever seen the movie The Exorcist?
Like, when the evil spirit is, like,
in its death throes and it's finally, like, really about
to be eliminated,
it's when they get the most desperate
and they get the nastiest.
And I think that's what we're witnessing right now
because, uh, my toe touched Aviv's
on the bus and Michele basically tried to turn it
into something that it was not and I thought
- that was highly inappropriate. - Well, it is very--
And I'm sorry for you.
I think you are.
It is not a factor
if toes touched,
because in The Challenge,
people are constantly massaging your back...
...taking care of each other.
We are in an environment where all we have is each other.
This is how they somehow manage to get further in games,
by creating bullshit and then people get caught up.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- We're way smarter than that. - Yeah.
Michele is reaching
for anything that she can get under Banana's skin with.
And it's unfortunate
that Michele is taking the route of going personal
and bringing Aviv into it because she is not accustomed
to this gameplay. And for Bananas,
you've already targeted him.
He's not gonna stop.
You might as well just ignore him if you want to stay
sane in the game.
What we need to focus on is one of us has to win
the next challenge, save you, and let this game
- turn into a whole nother ball game. - Right.
My dad says, you control somebody
to the degree you throw them out of control.
Michele is in a complete tailspin,
and I am in full control.
I'm in, like, cruise control.
And she's about to hit the ejection seat
and fly straight out of the aircraft.
Well, now I'm in a position that,
when I do come back, I obviously have to choose people.
Jordan's off the table. I've already said his name.
Kyland's off the table, obviously.
- Right. - I have four people.
Last season,
me and Kyland had a bit of a tit for tat.
My vote today is for you, Kyland,
because it's you or Jay.
And obviously Jay is my, uh, number one person.
But now...
we enter this game, and we have worked side by side,
and I'm so grateful because I want
our paths to move forward together.
We both are Era Four newbies,
kind of the underdogs, and me and Kyland are proving
that our two brains are better than one.
Basically, where I stand is, I'm gonna put in Josh.
- Okay. And Bananas. - And Bananas.
You know you'll put him in.
So it's between you and Derek
for the people who I say.
I could tell you right now,
you're higher on my list than Derek has you on his list.
I know that he's Olivia's number one,
and I am close with him.
He hasn't been in one elimination.
- Yeah. I know. - I've been in two.
At this point, Jordan is safe,
so in terms of my targets, I obviously know
that I'll be putting in Bananas and Josh,
and I don't think Cory ever plans on saying my name,
and I don't think he plans on me saying his.
But the situation is difficult
because I have given my loyalty to Derek as well.
So I don't know what I'm gonna do,
and I feel really torn in this moment.
Right.
I am not gonna judge them,
but don't judge me, either.
I've done nothing but support Michele.
I've done nothing but support Olivia.
I'm here to focus on the game.
All this other stuff is bullshit and noise,
and I need to stay as far away from it mentally as I can.
Yeah.
Me and Cara
have never talked game, really.
We've never even played the game
together on the same side.
But now we're looking at each other like, "Who's left?"
And by Theo going home,
it opened up a spot on Cara's roster, which...
...I'm ready to slide right in there.
You're my number one lock.
Michele.
Boop.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
I have to say this, that I was thinking
that it's not "Johnny's Angels," it might be "Rachel's Angels,"
but I don't know if anybody else thinks that.
I can't help it, I gravitate towards good, genuine people.
And if I started this thing with you
and you push me away, that's not on me.
I know that Michele and Olivia are looking
at me, at possibly making me a target.
And at this point in the game,
I'm not scared anymore of going down in the sand.
I also stand by my friendships,
and I'm not gonna turn on Johnny now
because it's gonna affect my game.
So if my ties with him is what's gonna have people
targeting me, then you know what?
Throw the shot my way and I'll find a way out of it.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
Fucking hell.
You idiot.
Okay.
Yeah.
Michele is on
full Michele-down mode right now,
and I think this is ridiculous.
You don't have anyone to blame other than yourself.
I am truly at a breaking point.
I'm definitely having a meltdown.
I am going against my best friend.
I know that I'm gonna hurt Derek, Josh or Cory,
who have had my back in this game,
and it's just like, when is it gonna let up
and when is it ever gonna stop?
So this is the first time
that we don't even have to have a Chamber tonight.
As happy as I am for Cara Maria
to get her win because she was a target,
it's sad because Olivia and Michele
have to go against each other now.
These two are two of my closest girls.
Olivia's my number one, and this is her best friend.
This is what we did not want to happen.
We've already seen it with Tori and Kaycee.
Now that it's Olivia and Michele, like, this sucks.
I win, and I don't
even have to make a decision.
If I was gonna have to make a decision
against Olivia or Cara,
that was going to essentially turn them against me.
And remember, both of them are in the positive
of "if we think they would work with Jordan."
So we don't need to make that decision,
and if we don't have to, let's not.
- Yeah. - ...but that's why
- I wanted to say something... - Yeah.
...'cause I was like, I...
- I didn't think it was personal. - No, it's not.
- It got a little personal for me. - Mm-hmm.
Not because of-- that I thought that was the intention,
but obviously, I was just like, well,
- that's not what's actually happening. - Yeah.
Yeah, he-he taunts and...
- Yes. - ...teasing me and pushes me
until-until I get there.
And it's truly not about you.
It's just you were the, you were the nearest Angel.
He has been my friend.
- Yeah. - I mean, I met him here and we've connected,
and I like him, but...
Like, you didn't have to do that.
You didn't have to do it in public.
I am sorry for that.
Aviv caught a stray
from my comment to Bananas, and I want to make sure that
she doesn't feel that it's personal.
It's not us against each other.
So, anyway, that's all.
I just was like, I haven't had an opportunity to tell you guys.
I appreciate that, dude, honestly, I really,
genuinely do,
- because animosity grows so quickly in here. - I know.
- And there's a lot of assumptions. - Yeah.
I'm a little bit irritated at myself
for kind of stooping to his level.
I'm supposed to act better than that,
and it shouldn't get personal between us.
This is just the game.
Sorry you're in this situation, but women need to support women.
- So that's-- just wanted to have that. - Thank you.
Honestly, I really appreciate it.
- You're welcome. - Truly. I really do.
Listen, the targets? I know what I'm doing.
Josh, Cory and Johnny Bananas.
I'm ready to fire.
Done.
Oh, yeah, he's right.
- Yeah... - That's hard to do.
No, it's hard to do.
If I come back, I have to say names.
Yeah, and your options are slim.
- Do you know who you're gonna pick? - This is how I see it:
Kyland, first of all, has,
- like, helped us as much as he has been able to. - Yeah.
Derek is an underdog, too,
in this game, where he usually always gets saved
and used in some type of way and gets out of the game
before he gets a chance to go to the final.
I want, if I have power, to save some of the people
that can't fight their battles by themselves.
You've been down there twice.
You might be the first three-and-oh club.
- Ooh! - Oh, I love that for me.
- Yeah. - That's definitely what I was trying to do here.
I was actually trying to go into all the elims.
- I was like, you know what? Give me the glory. - Yeah.
This game is more than just competing in challenges.
It's drama. It's surviving days, long days.
It's having someone you can laugh and make memories with.
And Michele is my soundboard here,
and she knows everything about me.
And to take someone's opportunity away,
it's really hard.
So, I am struggling right now.
If you can't see me, you can't pick me.
So don't be surprised if I'm like...
- You know? Doing one of these. - I'll be like...
I'm worried about being a target, you know?
I'm sorry I don't hang out with you all the time,
and I don't do crossword puzzles with you.
I feel like I've earned my way.
Think about what you're going to do afterwards,
either way.
Bottom of my heart, don't have a decision made.
I'm gonna let it just come to me,
whatever it is.
You are number one on my list.
Why am I not number one on your list?
Where did Derek come in to push me out?
It's selfish for me to sit here and bug you about it
and talk to you about it when, at the end of the day,
you have to go down in the sand and fight for your life today
against a best friend. Like, that's tough.
I don't know what's gonna happen tonight,
but I just got a weird feeling about this.
I don't know if there's ever been, like,
a more sad departure of situations.
I mean...
I mean, you would think that, like,
- someone kicked our dog or something. - I know.
I'm more like, I don't want to come back in here.
I know.
I'm like, God, it sounds like I'm gonna be--
If I come back in this house,
best believe I'll be in my bed crying tonight,
- crying myself to sleep. - Same.
Oh, my God, this place has made me soft.
This is a game.
But this goes so much deeper for me as a human
because I feel like I've never fully felt
supported in anything I do, other than by myself.
And that's why I am so strong.
And I don't rely on other people,
and I don't let people in because I don't need them,
because I don't want to be let down.
But it's a game and relationships are what matters.
It makes me feel like I finally belong somewhere, and...
...it's a really good feeling.
Is that Bananas?
- Are you making your own "T" band? - Yep.
You don't have to make one.
We'll give you one right after this.
- I like my own. - It's a little--
It needs to be a little smaller, don't you think?
- I want a custom one. - You're doing tape?
It's gonna suck, one way or the other.
Obviously, emotionally, it's gonna be hard
to go against Olivia, but Olivia is also a beast.
Not only am I nervous to go against her,
because that's my friend,
I also know that she's gonna show up and give it 110%.
And so, I have to give it 120.
I always envision me and Olivia being at the end together.
That's how I wanted to see this play out.
And the fact that we've made it this far is truly crazy.
But I realized that one of our paths is gonna end tonight,
and it's just sad that it has to come
at the hand of the other person.
Oh, do we have to climb up that?
- Oh, my God. - Building a ladder.
- Oh, they're ladders. - That is cool.
No. What the-- Why the fuck would I
have done something like this before?
All right, everyone, welcome back to the Arena
for your next elimination on this season
of The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras.
- Hell yeah. - Yeah.
Congratulations to Jordan and Cara Maria.
Great job.
By winning the challenge, Cara, you saved your own ass
'cause you're a target, and you won.
Jordan, you didn't have to make
any uncomfortable decisions in the Chamber.
Normally, you would've had the final say
on who's coming in tonight.
However, the game made the decision for us.
Michele, you were a target as well, and you lost.
So you're in here no matter what. Come on down.
- Thanks, guys. - Go on, Mich.
- You love it down here. - I'm no stranger to it.
- That's for sure. - No, you're not.
And Olivia, as the only target left,
there was no need for a Chamber. Come on down.
- Let's go, ladies. - Let's go, girls.
Tonight, you are playing Stranded.
Ooh.
As you can see, there are two giant DNA strands
right here in the middle of the Arena.
These are giant ladders, one for each of you.
Your goal tonight is to build these ladders
using different sized rungs from your station.
All right? There are 40 of them over there.
Two by two, you'll bring them over here, size 'em up,
build your ladder all the way to the top.
Once you get to the top, you're then gonna release that bag.
Grab that bag, jump down.
There are letters in that bag.
And you have to figure out a three-word phrase.
First person to solve their phrase
will win tonight's elimination and stay in the game.
Loser goes home.
- Got it? - Got it.
Good luck to both of you.
Go off, DNA crossword queens.
- Let's do this, babe. - [groans] Let's do this.
I feel really guilty that me and Olivia
are in the sand tonight against each other.
It's kind of a tough sitch.
I don't want to strip my best friend of this opportunity.
She's been crushing it in this game.
So, I'm gonna fight my ass off,
but my heart is definitely torn right now.
I am pretty good with my words when they're slicing up Bananas,
but, uh, otherwise, my head in this game
has been kind of scrambled.
And so I'm hoping that I don't get caught up
in that same trajectory during this word puzzle.
I do feel better now being in the Arena.
I do feel like I'm starting to slowly clock back in.
I want to be here.
It sucks that it's going against my best friend.
I mean, no one wants to go against their best friend,
so I'm trying not to think about that.
She is a professional crossworder,
so I'm a little bit like,
I'm gonna have to get up that ladder quick.
Otherwise, I think it really could be anyone's game.
So, I'm definitely gonna give it my all, and I'm gonna fight.
Let's get it, ladies.
All right, Michele, Olivia, you ready?
Go!
Good luck, ladies.
Let's go, ladies!
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
Uh-oh. Oh, shit. It's suspension.
- Come on, Four. - Let's get it, ladies.
All right, Michele, Olivia, you ready?
Go!
Go, ladies!
Oh, my God.
Go, girls!
Good job.
Way to fight, Michele.
Uh-oh. Oh, shit. It's suspension.
Tonight's elimination is called Stranded.
Michele and Olivia are gonna have to race up
this huge ladder that basically looks like a DNA strand.
They'll have to go to their boxes,
find the correct size rungs, put them in their place.
They'll go all the way to the top
and release a bag of letters.
Go over to their puzzle solving station,
and find a three-word phrase.
Whoever does it first wins.
Let's go, girls.
Oh, God. They're all different, aren't they?
Okay.
Oh, it doesn't fit.
Wow. Trial and error.
I'm feeling pretty good about this elimination.
I do rock climb back at home.
These rungs are so close in size
that if you are an inch off, it's gonna be wrong.
So, although I think there's a strategy to organizing them,
I don't want to waste my time.
For my strategy,
I want to get this ladder done as fast as I can.
- Nice. - Good job.
There she goes.
So, I'll measure twice, cut once, right?
That's this guy.
My strategy for this elimination,
I want to arrange the rungs
in order to make sure that I'm aware
of their sizes so I can easily navigate through
and place my rungs and move up the ladder,
hopefully in an efficient way.
But Olivia's kind of a bull in a china shop.
She just goes straight for it.
I mean, I don't know which approach
is gonna win out at this point.
Let's go, Mich.
Too small. Too big.
Too small.
Let's try both of you.
Too big.
Okay.
Good job. Come on, jump.
I'm rooting for Michele.
She hasn't made it official.
She hasn't really told me what she's gonna do.
And I'm thinking there's a chance
she could stay true to me.
So my only hope
is if Michele can go down there and win,
stay true to her word and not make me a target.
Okay.
- Yeah. - There it is. - Nice.
Yeah, watch your feet, Olivia.
Good job, Liv.
Oh, God.
Yeah. No-no forcing it.
No.
- Oh, God. - Come on, Mich, focus.
Wow. Style and fashion.
Nope.
Good job, Liv. Crushing up there, babe.
Oh, be careful.
- Oh, my God. - That was not leisurely.
That's what happens when I get distracted.
Between Michele and Olivia,
regardless of who wins this Arena,
I do know that there is gonna be one winner,
and that's me,
and they hate that.
And I love that they hate that.
She can see Alaska from up there.
Bitch.
Yeah. Good job.
Good job, Michele. Way to work, girl.
- Come on, Michele. - Whoo!
- Whoa. - Nice.
There are so many reasons that I want to win this game.
Obviously, the money and my family.
But as this game has progressed, I've had such an uphill battle,
and my "why" has totally shifted.
And now it's just I need to prove
to myself and to everybody else
that I am a champion.
Stay in it. Move fast.
Good job, Olivia.
See, there we go. Good work.
You need six more.
I feel like I always have underestimated myself.
But at the end of the day, I do want
the title of being a Challenge champion, and I want
to be a mom more than anything.
I want a family,
and I want to give my children
the life that I never had.
I am just a normal
small-town girl from Alaska,
came from a family of six,
barely had anything,
made fun out of mud pies on the dirt.
I want to win a million dollars
and change my life and my family's life.
And this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
and I'm gonna make the most of it.
Oh! Oh, God.
- Fuck. - No worries. Don't stress.
- You're okay. - Don't stress, Mich. It's fine.
- You're all right. - Fuck me.
Stay in it, just move.
Good job.
You got two more.
- Whoo! Whoo! - Good job, Michele.
Put it in your... tuck it in. There you go.
- Come on, kid. - Tight race.
Anybody's race.
This is your game. Let's go.
My heart is definitely with Michele.
Even though we haven't been on the same page
in the second half of this game, I know
how much fight she has in her.
This girl's a Survivor
champion for a reason,
and I want nothing more than to see her prevail today.
Something a little longer.
Jump off.
- Oh, God. - Oh!
Oh, what? It's all good.
You know where to go.
Yep, yep.
Yes. One more, Liv.
One more rung.
Nice strategy, Michele. I like it.
Thank you, TJ.
Stuff 'em in there. Keep it moving.
Yes. Go. Climb up.
Keep going, Michele. Come on, Michele.
All right, Olivia's got it done.
She's gotta get that bag.
You gotta get up a little higher.
Drop it.
Well done.
- Yes! - One more.
- Two more, Mich. - Well done, Michele.
Two more short ones, Mich!
You're still in it, babe.
Put them all out so you know
what you're working with.
It should be easy. I'm not getting it.
Stay calm, Olivia.
Take a breath.
Your girl's already dyslexic, okay?
When I'm looking at letters,
I'm literally basically
looking at hieroglyphics,
so I'm like...
I end up putting an "O"
and putting "not," but I'm like, "not what?"
Not going home? Not staying in the game?
Like, literally nothing is happening upstairs.
I don't fucking know.
Yes! Get up there, girl.
One more. Nice and easy. You're right there.
Good job, Olivia. Way to work, girl.
There you go.
Good fucking work, Mich.
Drop it!
There you go. Drop!
- Good job, Michele. - Michele,
this is your fucking game right now. Go.
Fuck. Come on.
Go, go. This is your fucking game.
Olivia has letters all over the table.
It's kind of a hot mess,
and now, this is anyone's game
because Michele is great
at word puzzles.
I don't even know what I'm fucking spelling.
Just stay calm.
Stay calm.
- You guys are killing it. - I don't even know
what I'm fucking spelling.
Just stay calm.
- Stay calm. - Either of you
can be winning this.
It's only three.
Three. It's a catchphrase.
Don't stare at it blankly. Move them around
if you need to. If you see nothing,
move them.
There you go, Mich.
Olivia is looking pretty stumped,
and Michele is doing her
Michele hip.
And when someone starts
moving quickly on a puzzle and looks excited?
Could only mean a check is coming.
Uh...
Good work, ladies!
Good job, ladies. Stay in it.
Keep going, Olivia.
Keep moving them around.
Just try and get one word.
Stay calm, stay calm.
Keep calm, Olivia. Breathe.
Good job, Mich.
Come on.
Let's go, kid.
Check!
Check, check, check, check!
That is correct.
You fucking legend! Good work!
Fuck yeah, Michele!
Good job.
Good job, girl.
Oh!
- I'm sorry. - It's okay.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's okay. I was never gonna get that.
I can't do this fucking thing without you, dude.
Yes, you can. You're gonna be fine.
No, I really can't.
- Yes, you can. Yes, you can. - No, I really can't.
Oh, man.
Um, I'm obviously happy to win
and have an opportunity to stay in the game,
but I literally lost
my right-hand person here, and it's literally the only person
that I feel I can 100% trust, and now I feel
even more alone.
It's okay. Come here.
Having dealt with my brother,
having a near-death experience,
I know that I'm here for the end goal,
and so I just have to remind myself that this is all for
a bigger purpose, and that purpose
is me winning the final.
I'm just gonna have to kick it into high gear, I guess.
No, I'm good. I'm good.
I'm proud of myself. I played a fair game.
You really kicked ass.
I'm gonna see my friend eventually
back home, and hopefully, I can congratulate her
on winning the season, but being a part of this season
has been everything and more.
I mean, I'm a girl
that came from Love Island, for God's sake,
and has been underestimated the entire way.
To think that I'm good enough to be
one of five girls in Era Four,
out of the hundreds of people that have
ever played this game in 40 seasons
is just such a blessing.
It is the end of my chapter here,
and it is bittersweet.
And until I get that champion title,
I think I'm gonna come back and keep fighting for it.
And now I get to go see my man.
Bye.
Well done, Olivia.
Unfortunately, you lost.
Michele, with winning comes power,
so the pendulum is swinging, baby.
Here we are.
Now, I need you to select
three men to be our new targets.
You can choose anyone you want,
except for Jordan, since he won.
Well, I think it's obvious
that the pendulum...
Is that a makeshift target band?
Yeah, it's custom.
This is a custom Johnny Bananas target band.
Well, I'm gonna give you this one.
You can wear two T's. Wear two T's
for "totally terrible,"
which is the way that you play this game, Johnny Bananas.
I'm just gonna keep shooting. Eventually, he's gonna die,
- right? - Nope.
I'm like herpes. You can't get rid of me.
Tonight, it's a win
for Bananas and his Angels. It's a good night
because Olivia is going home.
The only way this could have gone any better
is if somehow was-- tonight was a double elimination, as well,
and both Michele and Olivia went home,
but we're not that lucky.
The other decision is a bit more difficult
because most of the guys up there are the guys that
I've been navigating this entire game with.
They're all my friends.
Kyland's off the table, which only leaves, um,
Josh, Derek and... and, uh, Cory.
Josh...
I nominate him as a target.
Because of my ties with Johnny,
I think I expected that, to be honest.
But I don't want to play a scared game,
and I truly feel like
I need to fight for my place, so even though
it's a really tough place to be in because,
at this point, we're so down
to little numbers, I am ready
to secure my safety, because at the end of the day,
the only way that I can be safe
is if I win, so that's what I gotta do.
I love Cory. We've been playing this game together,
and I love Derek, too.
Like, we spend 99% of our day together,
and the only person who's actually done me dirty
and deserves the target band is Bananas,
so the other one, I'm gonna do for Olivia,
because this person has had Olivia's back the whole game.
So, unfortunately,
Cory is gonna get my other target band today.
Here we are, Cory.
You're stuck with me.
Michele's the type of person
that you want on your side. She's a loyal person.
So, by her not saying me as a target, like,
that's my girl now. That's my ride-or-die now.
Like, Olivia going home can't be for nothing, you know?
Like, I have to make sure that we win this next challenge.
All right, so we have our targets.
Go ahead and rejoin the group then, Michele.
Yeah!
The eliminations are only getting more and more difficult.
The challenges are only getting more
and more difficult. And I don't see any signs of it
slowing down till the very end.
We're one step closer to that final.
- All right? - All right.
Get out of here.
Once again, I'm getting played.
So, um, doesn't feel great.
I have a disadvantage next challenge,
and now I have a target,
so I know I gotta put up or shut up.
I've worked too hard to give up now.
So, it's time to perform,
get the job done,
and try to avoid the sand.
I want to win this more than anything else.
- You're protecting Bananas. - Yeah.
You still have other friends in your corner.
- Yeah. - And you're you.
It's not you and Olivia, so you're shining.
I'm disappointed in you, Josh.
I've been burned by so many people,
I just automatically assume the worst.
Now you see this massive highway.
That can only mean one thing.
- Let's go! - Fuck yes!
With only 12 of us left in this house,
I need to show that I am a threat,
and I deserve to be in the final.
Go, Derek, go!
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