- Whoo-hoo!
- I'm home again. [laughter]
- Whoo!
- Congratulations.
Yeah.
- I think all the other contestants are proud of us.
Check. [horn blares]
- All right, Kim and Colleen.
They made it look easy.
- But of course, we have still a big target on our back.
We need to win.
If not, we are going into the elimination
again and again and again.
- Good job! Good job!
- Thanks, man.
- People have been seemingly taking the easy road,
basically nominating rookies,
and Jay and I are the closest thing to rookies
after all of those pairs go.
And so I'm feeling like if we don't win,
we're pretty much headed in the Zone next.
- And now, get a shower.
You smell like this... - Yeah.
- Hot water.
[laughter]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[electronic buzzing]
[shouting]
[upbeat dance music]
♪ ♪
- I've been cooped up in veterinary school
for four years.
This pool party is the best pool party I could ask for.
♪ ♪
- Nelson and Olivia are getting really close.
They're both goofy. They're both crazy.
They're both wild, and I think that's something
that Nelson needs is somebody that will let him be himself
and someone who'll also keep him entertained.
♪ ♪
- Bananas is not usually my type,
but since his personality is so amazing,
I do think that Bananas is cute.
But my mom told me to be careful for him.
She told me that he's a sneaky snake.
♪ ♪
- If we don't win the next challenge,
Olivia and I are definitely back in the Zone.
When I'm talking to Olivia it's more like
just game, game, game, game, game.
And when I have a setback, I can talk to Laurel.
It really just relaxes me.
I can be myself.
♪ ♪
- This is a very social game.
You gotta be able to socialize with everybody,
and I don't know none of these cats,
but I don't expect nobody have my back
but me, myself, and I.
I trust Veronica, and that's it.
Me and Veronica just need to win.
Once we win, we can start making power moves
and bringing people in.
[suspenseful music]
I just feel, when we do win, like,
we should probably start thinking about...
'Cause there are a lot of people
that are [bleep] connected.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- And, like, we do have a disadvantage,
because we came in late.
Ever since Darrell and I were nominated,
we're feeling a little bit more like
we're on the outside of the game.
The stronger veteran teams--
we are probably last on their list for protection.
It's not gonna be an easy ride for us.
- No it's not.
Not at all, but I kinda like it.
I kinda like the underdog feeling, you know?
- Yeah. - I kinda like it.
[laughter]
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- Yo, Devin.
Are you going to that lame party tonight?
- If I'm forced to go, I will.
♪ ♪
[both singing]
- Jakk is actually a poet and a writer,
and he decides that he wants to write
soor sg with Jay.
And we decide that we want to have an emo night,
sparked from this song.
♪ ♪
- Ahh!
♪ ♪
- No one understands me.
♪ ♪
- Man, I don't know what an emo is,
but I guess I'm supposed to dress up in all black,
put on an earring,
and try to bang it out with these cats.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
- You all suck. - You all suck.
- Life sucks.
- Do you think emo people know how to do their makeup?
Come on.
- I feel, like, really connected to Veronica.
We have a lot of history,
and I think it's like an unspoken thing.
Don't be so [bleep] emo about my makeup.
- Oh, right.
Don't be so emo about your emo makeup.
Aneesa and I just naturally gravitate towards each other,
but I don't really know e sit on her list.
It's definitely a conversation that we should probably have
at some point.
♪ ♪
- Me and Jay wrote this song, and it's like--
- We're Chinese Takeout. - We're Chinese Takeout.
- Whoo!
- And this is our song called-- - I'm obsessed with you!
- Laurel's our #1 fan.
- Whoo!
- This is our song called "Adeline."
- "Adeline." - "Adeline."
BOTH: One. Two. Three. Four.
♪ Every single time that I went to bed ♪
♪ You broke my heart ♪
♪ And these tears were shed ♪
♪ Close the blinds, and I close my eyes ♪
♪ Virginia Beach and all those lies ♪
♪ Na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na ♪
ALL: ♪ Na na-na na-na na-na ♪
♪ Na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na ♪
♪ Na na-na na-na ♪ - Na na na!
Come on.
[cheers and applause]
- [bleep]. - Whoo-hoo!
- Yeah! Encore!
- Jay and I have really established this strong,
almost brotherhood.
You know, it's good to have somebody that I can just
have fun with, be myself with,
and just be a really good bro, you know?
- Honestly, that was the best thing
I've ever been a part of. - Yeah. You know?
- Never felt anything, till that moment.
- Finally thought of something. [bleep].
- One more song.
- Jakk is one of the most interesting
and funniest people.
He's also got a very cool heart.
I love this dude.
I've never met such a character.
The connection that we are building right now--
I could see this dude actually being
one of my close friends.
[upbeat dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- We're getting down to the point
where the game's, like, starting.
I just feel like I've felt something off about Laurel
since the beginning.
I've felt that there was something weird going on.
I felt like she was the one who got me thrown in last time.
- But Jakk and Jay are kinda like this.
- Yeah.
There's friction between me and Laurel,
and so what really takes the precedent here,
the friendship or the rivalry?
And what's gonna be enough of a reason to throw somebody in?
Hopefully she sees the logic that there's bigger threats
or something, but if she wins, then I'm just gonna [bleep]
prep my uniform. [both laugh]
- I have Michele as a roomie,
and I'm so happy that she's my roomie,
but she gets so paranoid.
It's kinda cute.
It's kinda funny to watch,
but I feel so bad, at the same time.
Like, Michele, calm down.
It's okay.
[intense electronic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, everyone. How you doing?
Welcome to your next challenge.
[cheers and applause]
- Well, you all look like royalty.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Yeah, and that's perfect, because today
we have a very special challenge
outoou by Burger King. - Burger King!
[cheering]
- Yeah! We love Burger King!
- All right.
Today's challenge is called Royal Relay.
- Whoo!
- To win today's challenge,
you're gonna have to have some serious speed
and excellent communication.
Today's challenge is a relay collecting
four points of a crown.
You are gonna be using these boats,
but also, you're gonna have to swim.
Everybody here is doing every job
at some point during this relay.
- Whoo!
- The first pair to collect all of their crown points
and assemble their crown will win today's challenge,
be safe from elimination,
and receive a very special prize
from Burger King.
You win, you're each getting $5,000.
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
- I am all for that.
Give me the $5,000.
Let me get some Burger King.
I'm trying to be a queen for the day.
- Good luck, everyone. - Yes.
Let's go! [applause]
[regal orchestral music]
♪ ♪
- We actually went on a date a few years ago.
- Yes! - And we went--
he took me rowing for the first time,
I'm excited.
It's bringing back memories. Like, let's go.
- For all you [indistinct] Nelly T fans,
I'm here for you, baby, and I got your back.
Let's go get this win. - Yep.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- All right. Everyone ready?
Go! [air horn blares]
- Whoo-hoo!
- Let's go. That's it.
- Let's get a pace, Olivia. Just keep the pace.
- Let's go, Amber. Let's go.
- Great job, Michele.
- This is, like, brutal, dude.
- There you go!
Nice and easy, Aneesa. Great job!
- Olivia, look at where you're going, Olivia.
- Nurys, to the right.
- Perfect, Laurel. Perfect.
That's it, Laurel! Grab that piece!
- [bleep] Yeah.
All right. Bring it home.
- Whoa. First up is Laurel.
Michele's real close second.
- Great job, Michele.
- Like a bat out of hell, Laurel is ahead of me,
and she's the last person that I want to see winning,
so I need to kick it into high gear.
- Anybody's race.
[dramatic music]
- Whoa. First up is Laurel.
Michele's real close second.
Anybody's race.
- Come on, Olivia!
Let's go.
- I was a lifeguard, but I was 14 years old,
and I was working at a water park.
Basically, I wanted to work there to flirt
with the other lifeguards.
So although I got my license, I'm scared.
- Olivia, straighten up.
Straighten up, Olivia!
- Flip and go!
♪ ♪
- To the left.
There we go.
Breathe. Breathe.
- Anybody's race.
- I'm trying not to get pressed
that Laurel is moving faster than me.
I always swam distance in high school,
and so I know that pacing yourself
is gonna be really important when I have to lug
this heavy puzzle piece back.
- Laurel might be gassing out.
Michele is going hard.
- You got this, Laurel.
- Michele-- she's taken the lead.
- We all knew that Michele and Jay were gonna be
pretty good at this challenge.
I mean they both come from "Survivor,"
but I'm not feeling all that comfortable
about where we sit if Jay and Michele win.
We've already sent them in,
so they have every reason in the world,
if and when they win, to throw us in.
- Nice.
Nice job.
Great job.
- Jay's in there.
[intense electronic music]
♪ ♪
- Come on.
I got it. All right.
♪ ♪
- Come on. Come on.
Yeah. Keep coming. Turn and flip.
Let's go. - Yeah, Aneesa!
♪ ♪
- Amber, you're almost there.
You're right here. This is it.
[dramatic rock music]
- Go. - I'm up.
♪ ♪
- Oh, Nurys. Poor Nurys.
- I know. - Yeah.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Wow. Look at Jay.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, Jay!
- Jordan is killing it.
- He's flying.
♪ ♪
- Jakk, flip around!
Flip around!
Jakk, turn around.
He's swimming in the opposite direction,
and it's definitely adding minutes,
and it's not looking good at this point in time.
Jakk, turn around!
♪ ♪
- Good job, Jay!
- Hey, dominating performance, Jay.
Get it going. This is your race to lose.
No stopping.
Let's go.
♪ ♪
- Come on.
- Sorry.
- Let's go.
♪ ♪
- We're gonna push off the side.
- Push off the side. Let's go.
- I don't want-- - Use your hand.
- I'm nervous to leave.
- Aneesa, you got that.
♪ ♪
- You're catching them, Horacio.
It's anybody's game.
- You're almost here. You're almost here.
♪ ♪
- Here we go. Here we go.
Keep it going. - Got it. Got it.
- Let's go!
- [indistinct]
- Get balanced! Let's do this.
- This is also different than a regular rowboat, too,
'cause you're so low to the water.
- This boat that might have been picked out
from the Smithsonian Museum.
It looks like it's straight from 1592.
Literally a rescue boat from the Mayflower,
and Laurel has great form on this.
You would think that maybe she's taken a time machine
and rode with a pilgrim before,
because she is absolutely killing it.
We're okay.
- Got it.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Reverse around here. I got this.
[indistinct]
- Michele and Jay,
followed closely by Aneesa and Jordan,
but Olivia and Horacio are catching 'em right now.
- Go. Pull up here.
There you go.
Great. Let's go.
- [groans]
- Perfect.
[bleep] yeah, Laurel.
- [groans] - There you go.
- And Olivia's a [bleep] beast.
- Wow. Look at that stroke.
- [groans]
- Who's swimming over there? Is that Chauncey?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I'm so proud of you.
- Don't look. - Sorry.
- Grab the thing. Keep it going. Grab it.
- Ahh!
Our boat's sinking!
TJ, what do we do?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Yep, yep.
There you go. Okay.
♪ ♪
- All right. Amber and Chauncey,
your game is over.
You sunk your boat. You guys are done.
It's almost impossible, but somehow you did it.
[laughs]
- Come on now.
- We're fine. We're good.
- I don't have a left hand to hold onto the oar
and rotate it, so I can't really
figure out how I'm gonna do it.
I'm working on it.
- It is incredible to watch him.
I mean he's never complained about having a disability.
It has made him work so hard,
and that's probably why he's so good at everything.
- I know Laurel is really hungry for a win,
but at the same time, if Laurel and I
can't take this win today, I at least hope
that Horacio and Olivia can pull it off,
or even Jay and Michele.
Jay is my boy.
- Got it?
- I mean--
- On the way back, we already know what we're doing.
- Damn, boys.
Jay's almost there.
- Yeah.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah. Yeah. You're killing it.
- There you go. There you go!
- Don't make any stupid mistakes now.
- Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
- We're so [bleep] close, Jay.
- Good job, Jay and Michele!
♪ ♪
- I'm a [bleep] pro, TJ.
- Yeah, you are.
♪ ♪
- Done.
[air horn] - Well done.
- [sighs] - Wow.
[cheering]
- Good job, guys!
- We're coming in hot.
I'm so excited because now we've set the marker.
People gotta swim fast, and they gotta row perfectly,
because me and Michele just crushed this challenge.
I'm ready to get my $5,000, baby.
[dramatic tone]
- We deserve to be here.
We won the last... - And we need the win.
Yeah. Yeah. - Elimination, so yeah.
- We need the win. - We are self-confident.
- Absolutely.
[tense music]
- All right. Everyone ready?
Go! [air horn]
♪ ♪
- Let's go!
[cheers and applause] Whoo!
- Go, Nany!
- Nice and focused.
♪ ♪
- This challenge is going to be really difficult,
but Devin and I really need a win.
We've already been into elimination.
I'm not trying to go in again, so anything we can do
right now to work together and pull off this W,
we're gonna do.
- Good job, Kaycee.
- Almost there, Moriah. Come on.
Almost there. - Come on, Colleen.
- Good job, Kaycee!
- Let's go!
- Good, Tori, good.
There you go.
- Got this, Nany!
- There you go, Moriah. Straight up.
There you go. Come on.
- Flip it. Come on. Flip it!
Yeah.
- Turn around, V. You're almost there.
Turn around!
- Kaycee in the lead.
- Turn around, V! To your right!
- Veronica's going the exact wrong way.
[laughs]
- V, you're going backward!
Veronica!
- I would not be happy with Veronica as my ride-or-die.
I want to leverage power.
In order to do that, you need to win challenges.
I don't see Veronica and Darrell winning
any challenges anytime soon.
- Veronica, no!
No!
[dramatic music]
- Come on, Tori!
- Damn, she's a beast.
- Go, go, go.
- Let's go, Nany!
♪ ♪
- Go!
- Come on, Colleen. Focus. Focus. Come on.
Good job. Good job.
- Moriah's doing good.
- Good job, Kaycee!
♪ ♪
- Veronica's going the exact wrong way.
- No! No!
- No! - You gotta go this way!
You're going backwards.
Oh, my poor Shorty V is dying in the swim.
I ain't tripping, V, just don't give up.
- Keep going! Use your legs.
As long as you don't give up on me.
Just give me 100. whatever you got.
I'll take it. Yeah. Right here.
- Good job, Veronica. - Come here.
I'm gonna help you up. - [bleep].
- Let's go, Devin!
Fessy's on fire.
Let's see if he can keep that pace.
- Nice job, Devin!
Winning is really important to Devin,
because he truly is a "Challenge" champ.
He has proven, time after time,
that he is an exceptional challenger,
and I think the title--
it deserves you, and you deserve it.
[intense electronic music]
- Bananas is coming in hot.
♪ ♪
- Grab 'em like this.
- Okay. Like this?
- Grab 'em like you're pulling outside.
- Now which way? - Other grip. Other grip.
- What's Fessy and Moriah doing?
- Pull it. Pull it.
Switch your grip and pull.
- I don't understand.
I'm thinking, "Okay.
All I have to do is row, like I do at the gym."
Hell no.
I feel horrible letting Fessy down,
but also trying not to laugh.
- Like this. Grab underneath.
I am getting frustrated, but if I go off on Moriah,
and yell at her, and get mad,
this is only gonna hurt our partnership moving forward.
Just like that. Now, go down.
Stop switching your grip.
We're not gonna win 'em all, but I just want
to keep Moriah's confidence level at a high,
because that's gonna benefit us moving forward.
[quirky music]
- You got this. Yeah.
You got this.
Good job.
- Yep. Yep. Pull.
No. Other way. Other way.
- Moriah's not even rowing anymore.
- She's not.
- Gotta get the oars out of the water, Nany.
Gotta push down, Nany.
No.
- Johnny, I'm going the other way.
- Push down. Out of the water.
There you go. - [bleep]
- These morons cannot figure these boats out.
You've got Moriah and Fessy.
They're not even on the course anymore.
- I don't understand.
I don't understand.
- You've got Bananas and Nany literally doing 360s.
- Hold on.
Why the [bleep] isn't it working?
- Bruh, you've been doing this for 20 seasons.
How do you [bleep] this up?
- Yeah, Kaycee!
Get it [inaudible]!
- Push. Yes.
- Here we go.
Now we got a race.
- Come on, Tori!
- Now I need you going this way.
Power. Then power.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Keep going. Keep going.
- Good. Good.
- [grunts]
- Yes.
- Come on, Tor.
You're almost there!
♪ ♪
- Make sure they're flat like that. Yeah.
- Hey, y'all can't go back to the house, Fessy.
Going the wrong way.
♪ ♪
- Kaycee and Kenny in close second.
- [indistinct]
- Gotta get this switch. Gotta get this switch.
- Kaycee, you're about to be in first place!
♪ ♪
- Kim and Colleen, doing good.
- Every challenge is a chance to win and earn some power,
so this challenge is necessary to win for us,
because we want to have some power to kick some asses.
And let's go.
I start rowing, and now I'm like,
"Okay. Let's fly."
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, [bleep]. - I mean, look at--
they're doing amazing.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God.
Were they born rowing?
Did they, like, row out of their mother?
How did this happen?
♪ ♪
- It's almost like there's this, like,
halo sound coming from that boat.
It's beautiful.
Kim looks beautiful.
♪ ♪
- I am fast as [bleep] in this moment.
- Come on, Devin!
- Pull the string. Pull the string.
Come on. Hold on.
Toward, toward, toward.
- What? What? - Look at the oar.
- I know. - I can't get it out.
Hold on.
- Michele and Jay, they are an incredible team,
so I mean, to beat them we have to be good.
We are praying to God that we can
get this finished in time,
because right now we have a lead.
- Good job.
Good job. Good Job.
- All right. Your back is on the thing though.
Your back's on this one. Your back's on this one.
Yes. Now we're off.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- We're almost at the last buoy.
- Damn. They're booking.
They're booking it.
♪ ♪
- Come on. Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go.
♪ ♪
Keep digging.
You got 20 big digs left.
♪ ♪
[air horn blares]
- Yeah! - Whoo!
- All right. - Well done. Yeah.
- Good game. Yeah!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Great challenge today, everyone.
Very, very tough.
♪ ♪
The two teams to get it done the fastest in each heat
were Jay and Michele.
- Whoo! - Good job.
- And Tori and Devin.
- Yeah!
- Whoo!
- Obviously, I want Devin and Tori to win,
because they're in my alliance,
and of course, that would keep me safe.
But if Michele and Jay win, I know for a fact
Bananas and I are in trouble, because we did vote them in.
- The fastest team of the day
and the winners of $5,000 each, from Burger King, were--
[dramatic music]
- The fastest team of the day...
Jay and Michele.
[cheering]
- Good job, guys.
- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- [bleep] me. - Good job, Michele.
- For me, I do want to take control.
Like, now is the time to get the momentum and--
- Make big moves. - Make big moves.
- Yeah.
- Now, it's time for you to go back to the house,
deliberate, and nominate four teams to interrogate.
One of which you'll be selecting
to go straight into the Zone.
Got it?
- I am so excited for them.
Like, that is my egg salad daddy,
my bro, my homie,
but also relieved for myself,
because having a friend take the win
means my name isn't gonna go in for elimination.
- Anyway, Burger King thinks that you're all royalty.
ALL: Aww.
- Thank you, Burger King.
- Okay.
- And that you all deserve a feast.
[cheers and applause] - Yeah!
Let's go!
- Let's go.
- Enjoy that feast. Get out of here.
I'll see you soon. - Whoo!
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
- Ahh!
Yeah! - A Whopper.
- Jay, in the beginning of the season,
was talking about making big moves and tossing vets in.
So knowing that this big-name team, Bananas and Nany,
threw them in, I hope that they deliver the favor
and throw them back in.
- I love Burger King!
- Thank you, Burger King.
- Burger King!
- Jay and Michele come from "Survivor,"
so they know how to socially get around.
- Yeah.
- So you gotta keep an eye on people like them,
'cause they gonna be making some big moves.
[cheering]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- So we gotta pick four teams to interrogate.
- Yeah.
This is gonna be make or break for our game...
- Yeah. - So I'm a little stressed.
- Well, I already know Laurel and Jakk puts you on edge.
- Absolutely puts me completely on edge.
- I'm okay with that.
- I am interested to hear what they have to say.
I know you're close with Jakk. - I am very close with Jakk.
- But I am really interested to hear
what Laurel will have to say.
- I wish Jakk was not attached to Laurel,
because Michele is really pushing for Laurel hard.
And also, they're not really winning anything,
so I'm not too worried about the backlash of it.
But also, Jakk is my friend, and I feel so bad,
but we gotta play the game.
Aneesa and Jordan.
- I'm fine throwing them in.
- Okay. Done deal. - Aneesa has said my name.
She put me into elimination.
- And Jordan both said my name, so I'm good to go.
- Great, so I'm fine with that.
- Kim and Colleen.
I don't think that they would ever go against me.
Honestly, they don't have a home,
so if we were to make them their home,
we could have another strong team be with us.
What about Bananas and Nany?
- The thing is I think that, if we don't say their name,
it will go a really, really long way with them.
- I don't trust Bananas and Nany.
Who else would you choose?
- Veronica and Darrell.
[tense music]
I feel like not putting in Darrell and Veronica's
gonna have a lot of blowback, for us.
Listen, right now it's a coin flip
between Nany and Bananas, and Veronica and Darrell.
- I believe Darrell though, over Bananas.
He doesn't just lie.
Bananas has told me and Nany has told me...
- But here-- - In my face, multiple times
like, "Oh, don't worry.
We won't do it again," and they do it again.
- My logic is telling me I should
put in Nany and Bananas,
but my heart is telling me not to.
I'm really, really struggling,
but we have to make a split-second decision.
Oh, my God.
Just say who you want. I'm--
- Uh, just pick one. Go.
You're better at this than me. Go.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I don't want to do this.
Not again.
♪ ♪
- Ooh.
- Let's play.
- I think everyone is surprised.
I mean I thought they were gonna make
big play moves in here, and to be honest,
they kinda dropped the ball.
They didn't put Banana and Nany in
when they were the ones that voted them in,
so it's like am I missing something?
- I did not expect that. - Yeah.
- I really didn't.
I honest to God thought that we were going in.
- So did I.
Maybe this was a mistake on their behalf.
They might have misspelled two of the names.
Maybe Jay and Michele aren't the mind game whizzes
that we all thought that they were.
Honestly, I guess we owe 'em one.
- Well, we definitely owe 'em one, if we can.
- Seeing Jordan and I on the nominee board is mind-blowing.
Why are we on the nominee board?
You had other choices.
- They're probably gonna send Kim and Colleen in.
- I'm a little blindsided.
I feel just stabbed in the back.
I've never felt this way before.
Honestly, Jay, thank you for showing me who you are.
- No days off here, huh?
- Nope. No days off.
- Is this the way it's gonna be every single time?
Darrell and I are gonna have to make
some strong allies in this game quickly,
if we want a chance to survive.
It's very obvious that we aren't anyone's favorite.
- I don't get it really.
- Why again with all the veterans?
♪ ♪
- I've only known you guys for a few days,
and I don't exactly know, like, where we stand in the game.
- Do you know who you're throwing in?
- No, but we're open to discussion.
- Oh, I was just curious if you knew or had an idea.
- No.
- I'm in awe that Bananas and Nany said your name,
but you didn't give it back to them.
- It's a numbers game.
We want our numbers in, and we want to break up
numbers that aren't with us.
- I wanna grow numbers and I want to have people that
are ready to rock with me, because every season
I go in I'm, like, by myself.
I'm always at the totem pole, in my head, so I'm like--
- But you have to understand that the way you've
put the people up on the board doesn't really
make sense for that necessarily.
Like, I don't know who you're trying to break up here.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- That was terrible.
- Every one of them's gonna be terrible.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's gonna be real bad. It's gonna get worse.
I bet you Laurel and Jakk are the final.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- I've never really talked game with either of you guys.
I would love to work together,
and the last thing I want to do
is throw a rookie/rookie pair in.
- I mean, this is a big shot against the veterans,
but there's another rookie/rookie pair.
- Yeah.
- For me, like, Olivia and Horacio have talked game
with me, but we've never really
had that conversation before.
- It's what it is.
- Yeah. - No.
♪ ♪
- We've never had any game conversations.
I haven't had any--
- Well, you have to start-- we have to talk.
We don't talk game, 'cause we're friends.
- I agree. - Tori is the only person
I made a promise to in this game.
- Jay and Michele's excuse
is so single-ply toilet paper thin
it's ridiculous.
This is a very, very stupid way to figure out
if a team is on your side or not.
- It always comes down to that. We're Survivors.
We're not deemed as trustworthy.
- This would be the untrustworthy thing!
- I know that, at one point, we're all gonna be in there.
Down there. Whatever. - Yeah.
- I'm not upset about that, but it's just
like you're not--like, Nany already threw you in.
And not to throw her under the bus,
but just as an example-- - No. She did.
- She did. - She already threw you in.
Why wouldn't she be up there?
♪ ♪
- Well, to start it all off, first of all,
I'm sorry to both of you. - Yeah. Sorry.
- Because I am in the [bleep] position ever right now,
in this game.
- I feel like, if you were on this side, like,
you would consider putting me on that side.
[dramatic music]
- 'Cause the numbers are dwindling, so it's like,
where would you go?
You're not gonna betray your friends.
♪ ♪
- Okay, so are you guys not gonna talk?
- Do you have a question?
♪ ♪
- I feel like-- I get a sense that you don't
want to be working with me.
If that's untrue, then I'm reading something wrong,
but that's how I feel, and I have to go with how I feel.
- And obviously, I know where we stand,
but I didn't know where me and Laurel stand,
'cause, like, you could say,
"Not Jay," and she could say,
"Well, that's our only option, because I have these promises
to these other people."
And then I'm on the bottom.
- You don't know where I stand?
Well, let me tell you.
I don't stand anywhere right now.
You're the one that's insecure,
and you're coming at me for I don't even know what reason.
- Well, I think you're making assumptions,
just based on me being friendly in the house.
And it would have been nice if you just would have
come to me and asked me instead of put me
in this position, be use this is
a not-great be in.
d I feel really ba d about that honestly.
♪ ♪
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- I think Aneeand Jorda.
doleep] know.
I think Colleen and Kim-- we can figure it out.
- And then Darrell I trust, but I don't see them winning,
so at the end of the day, it might have
to come down to who's gonna win and save us next.
- What the hell did I just do?
My brain hurts.
I have awoken the giants,
and I am terrified that they are gonna come out
and stomp on me.
I mean, hopefully we don't get murdered tonight,
in our sleep. Oh, my God.
- Bananas and Nany maybe should have been on the board.
[dramatic music]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- How's the house treating you?
- I was sitting there like, "Did we make the right move?
Did we not make the right move?"
But ultimately, you have to go with your gut,
and, like, my gut usually does not steer me wrong.
- Don't ever be swayed in this game by fear or emotion.
- We did what we thought was right, in the moment.
If it-- - And that's all you can do.
- And that's it.
By not saying Nany and Bananas' name,
I've basically earned an IOU.
We kept them out of the Zone completely,
and I'm hoping that our actions
speak louder than words, because this game is long.
It's gonna get messy, and an IOU goes a really long way.
- I'm not gonna lie. I was...
somewhat shocked when our name didn't
appear on the board, and--
- I think a lot of people were.
- At this point, anything I need to say to,
you know, butter their balls--
I'ma do it, and hopefully it pays off,
in the future.
I'm a, "Don't tell me.
Show me," person, and you guys, you know,
said a lot by the vote that you made today.
And when we have the chance to [bleep] repay you we will.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I feel so bad.
- You have to think.
Whoever you're calling out, you want to make sure
they're gonna go home. - Yeah.
- That way they're not coming back in pissed off.
So you put three pretty good teams up there, you know.
- Mm. - Laurel, I know, if she wins--
- Yeah.
Laurel's elimination record is--
- But do you think Laurel would ever make amends,
if she came back?
I feel like she's so hurt and so--
- It takes a second, yeah, but you've gotta let
people process their emotions.
I haven't shown Jay how upset and angry I am with him yet.
I'm still kind of giving him the jokey banter
I normally would,
and, like, yeah, I'm really pissed off.
Yeah, I'm this, but doing it with a smile on my face.
Jay and Michele still have a chance
to redeem their character, because they don't have
to pick us as the main vote.
But I think you guys'll make the right decision.
- I don't want to get screwed over again.
Make a bad choice and then go home next.
- Exactly, so don't make the dumb choice.
The only scapegoat you have, in this situation...
BOTH: Is the rookie team.
- Anybody else is gonna be really pissed off.
[tense music]
You know, the only thing I can say is,
like, I'm pretty quick at making up.
- Yeah.
I mean you're talking to me right now, so yeah.
- Yeah, but I'm pretty quick at making up, so remember that.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- I feel like he thought it was easy
to throw me under the bus.
- Really? - Why else would he?
- Honestly, I don't know. Did he explain it to you?
- I feel like--no.
Like maybe he's not--
- Maybe he just thought that you would, like...
- Yeah. Maybe he--
- Let it go? - "Brush it off, bro.
I got you." Yeah. - Right. No.
You're not like that though. - No.
I have never gotten over anything anybody
has ever done to me, so--
- Believe me. I feel the same.
- I don't forget. - Me either.
- I'm trying not to act like my feelings are hurt.
I'm trying to be more, you know, strong,
but my feelings are hurt.
As long as you have my back.
- I do. - That's all I care about.
- I do have your back. - Okay.
It's really not easy for me to make friends,
and I don't have many close friends.
So for the first time in a long time,
I let my guard completely down,
and to kind of get betrayed again really just--it hurts.
- I feel like yesterday was the best that we ever did.
- Yeah.
- And, like, it didn't make one difference.
- No.
- It doesn't matter if, like, you're having fun or, like,
making relationships, in this house.
It doesn't matter. - Mm-hmm.
- Because you know, you make a close friendship,
and what did he do?
The first opportunity that he got,
he threw you in, and that's, like, a part of this game.
- Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
- I don't know. I mean, clearly it's up to you...
- I know. - What you're gonna do.
- My heart is in one place.
- I know.
Mm-hmm.
- And I think it really is just, like, talking to Jay,
and he has a soft spot for certain people.
- Mm-hmm.
- So I just don't want to get my hands that dirty.
- Great.
Michele tells us we won't be the main vote,
but how am I to believe that?
I don't know if I'll be able to trust her
or make any promises to her in the future.
Well, do the smartest thing you can for your team,
and I respect that.
You know, I'll still love you, in the end.
I mean, when it matters are you gonna save me
and/or give me the best chances to come back?
- Yeah. - Which I also think
is throwing somebody a bone,
you know. - Mm-hmm.
- Like, I may have to be down there because
you had to pick somebody, but at least
you help me while I'm there.
- Aneesa talks to a lot of people outside of this game.
She's really good at the political and social aspect.
I know that I'm not gonna be her #1.
I'm very aware of that.
- That's the plan. - Mm-hmm.
- That's the plan.
- We just really have to go back to the drawing board
when we get back.
♪ ♪
- There's a lot of very strong vet alliances,
and we don't fit into that.
And even though Aneesa and I are like--
you know, we get along. We're close.
But, like, she still is way closer
to the people... - To other people. Yeah.
- That she's been playing all these past seasons with
that I haven't been there. - Yeah.
- You know? - Yeah.
- I would want to save...
Aneesa and Jordan,
but the smartest gameplay for us,
would not be to do that.
- [chuckles]
No.
Yeah, I guess we'll figure it out
when we get there.
[bleep] it, we might still be going in.
If me and V gonna be part of the four teams
nominated every time, we might want
to start working with the other people
that keep going down there,
like Kim and Colleen, so we can just save each other
if we pull the safe dagger.
It might be smart, in my mind, to actually
save Kim and Colleen, as opposed
to saving Jordan and Aneesa.
♪ ♪
- I just wanted to come talk to you,
because we haven't talked since deliberation.
- Mm-hmm.
- But I just wanted to see, like, where we're at.
- I don't know what you mean by that.
- Okay. - I am in elimination.
- Yeah. - That's where I'm at.
- Yeah. - So what do you actually mean?
- I took what you said yesterday,
and I'm trying to figure out how to have
that conversation, but--
- But what are you, like, looking for?
Because you keep asking me where my head is at,
and it's like I'm telling you where my head is at.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But then you're telling me that I don't
want to have a conversation.
I'm having a conversation with you right now,
so I don't understand what you're saying.
- I'm trying to figure out how we can...
move forward.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Bitch, you sent me into elimination.
It's too late.
Do you think that I'm going to actually
say anything to you that is gonna
give you something of value?
No.
I'm gonna let you talk yourself into the ground
and make yourself look like an idiot.
And you want me to tell you what to do?
- Okay, Laurel.
Okay. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm just wasting my time.
I don't know.
I feel like I'm wasting my time, so...
I know that it's not connecting with you,
but I am trying.
I'm not the best at doing this.
- To be honest with you, I don't understand
why I'm even in this position.
I'm not even winning, so why am I here?
- Yeah.
- Why would you think that I'm after you?
I feel like you have these ideas in your head.
Do you know what I'm saying? - Yeah. I mean I--
- And, like, you're asking for a conversation now
when we could have had this conversation
before you put me in.
- Maybe all of this talk of me and Laurel not getting along
is just in my own head.
Maybe we made a major mistake.
Is the relationship between Jakk and Jay
stronger than my fear of Laurel?
I honestly don't know.
I just have to go with my gut,
and there's no looking back now.
- It's interesting, Michele.
[dramatic music]
It's very interesting.
♪ ♪
[tense dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I feel very nervous.
I just feel uneasy.
How should I be moving?
Do I need to have conversations with people?
I feel like I'm walking blindly right now.
♪ ♪
- Colleen and I--
we've been down for three times
in the elimination, and today is our fourth time.
Hopefully, Jay and Michele take a big shot,
and I'm not sure if they are tough enough
for a big shot.
♪ ♪
- Veronica is mentally strong.
She's mentally tough, and she will get the job done.
She's very low maintenance when it comes to the game.
She doesn't overthink things.
- I'm low maintenance?
♪ ♪
- Welcome, everybody, back to the Zone.
- Whoo!
- Let's go.
- Jay and Michele killed it at the last challenge.
By winning that challenge, you had to nominate
four pairs to interrogate.
You did that, and now you gotta select one of them
to go straight into the Zone and compete
for their life in this game.
So let's bring 'em out.
[dramatic music]
- Yeah! - Whoo!
♪ ♪
- Let's go.
- All right, so now's the time.
Jay and Michele, you've gotta select one of these pairs
to compete in tonight's Zone.
The rest of them are gonna take their place in the Draw.
Who's it gonna be?
[tense music]
- Well, TJ, this game is due--
a lot due to communication and connection.
♪ ♪
and we feel as though, you know, we didn't have
the best communication with one team.
So we're going with...
♪ ♪
Laurel and Jakk, unfortunately.
♪ ♪
- I mean, that is a huge swing.
Laurel is one of the GOATs in this game.
Like, every challenger
is a little intimidated by Laurel.
She's a beast, so this was a big play,
and I don't think it's gonna end well.
- I want to know how Laurel and Jakk are feeling.
- Feel a little betrayed, but you know,
I'm not the [bleep] rat [bleep] piece of garbage
that threw me down here, so...
- What happened?
- Jay and Jakk are-- were really good friends.
- Yeah. Were. - I guess.
- It wasn't anything against Jakk at all honestly.
Jakk was just tied to the wrong partner.
- Well, now we have the Draw.
In front of you, there are three daggers.
One of which is safe.
Your fate in this game is on those daggers.
♪ ♪
Let's get started.
Kim and Colleen,
go ahead and pull that dagger.
♪ ♪
That dagger is blank.
- Ah, no.
- All right.
Next up.
50/50 chance.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
That is a blank dagger.
- Yeah.
- Which means, Darrell, Veronica...
♪ ♪
By pulling the safe dagger,
Darrell and Veronica, you are safe.
And now, it is time for you to select one other pair
to be safe with you.
Which means you will be sending the other pair
straight in here, against Laurel and Jakk.
So who's it gonna be?
[suspenseful music]
- We feel like we're scapegoats,
and we're gonna be in this position every single week.
It would be nice to partner up with other scapegoats.
- At the end of the tunnel, I see a little light.
Maybe we have a chance to get out of the Zone.
- I think that I was waiting for something from Aneesa,
when we were all nominated, to give me some sort of, like,
assurance that-- you know, that we would
both have each other's back down here,
and I didn't get it.
- What is going on here?
Are you really about to save two rookies?
- I am petrified now.
Like, bitch, if you don't save me right now,
I am going to be so upset and surprised.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
- Darrell, Veronica, it is time for you
to select one other pair .
Who's it gonna be?
- If Veronica and Darrell send in Aneesa and Jordan,
they are sending in my ex-fiancé,
who I still love, and Aneesa, my best friend.
So this isn't just a slight onto their team.
Devin and I will be coming for you.
- I think that I was waiting for something from Aneesa,
to give me some sort of, like, assurance,
and I didn't get it. - Oh.
- But I'm gonna stay true to how I normally play the game,
and I'm gonna help friends get further,
and save Aneesa and Jordan.
- Wow.
- God. - What'd she say?
- We know that big moves need to be made in this game,
but we have so much history with Jordan and Aneesa
that it just doesn't seem right to not save them
and save someone that we both haven't really
formed any strong connections to.
- So you four, up there.
- Good luck.
- Now, Kim and Colleen, get over here.
- I think this is the first time people are beginning
to see how Veronica plays.
- I'm sorry.
- She will make a move and not care about it.
She plays her own game.
- I thought you knew that I wouldn't do--
I mean maybe I should have said something.
- Tonight, you are playing Give Me Some Slack.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
As you can see, there is a giant climbing wall
right here, in the middle of the Zone.
You and your partner are gonna be strapped up to this wall.
Now, on one side of the wall,
there are giant pieces with a combination
of colors and symbols.
On the opposite side are the matching pieces.
Your goal tonight is to match the colors
and symbols exactly as your partner
sees them on their side.
Communication is key, 'cause once you go up,
your partner goes down.
- Wow.
- And your partner's gonna have to communicate
exactly what they see,
and you're gonna have to recreate it.
The first pair to get this done will
win tonight's elimination round,
stay in the game, and rejoin the group.
Losing pair is outta here.
Good luck, everyone.
- Good luck, guys.
Good luck.
[dramatic music]
- Obviously, if we come back,
we are going to be extremely pissed
about being sent directly in.
Jay, do you have a backbone,
or is this Michele making the whole decision?
- During the last challenges, we were
very good in communication.
We will try to communicate as fast as we can.
- We are good planner.
We communicate well, so we'll stay calm
and do our best.
- Go, Laurel.
- All right. You ready?
- No quitting. - No quitting.
- Give it 100%... - All the time.
- Every single time.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Go!
♪ ♪
- Jakk. - All right.
- Read me the first one! - Okay.
Pink. Blue heart. - Okay.
We come up with a strategy where Jakk's
gonna scream the background color, and then the symbol,
and the color of that symbol.
I'm gonna go, and retrieve that,
and then I'm gonna put it down on the sand, solve it,
and then place those puzzle pieces up on our board.
Read me the second one!
- Ugh! Kim!
- Wait.
- Kim has a great strategy.
He climbs up, grabs as many puzzle pieces
as he can, lays them on the ground,
and that way he can see, whenever Colleen's
calling out to him, a piece that he needs.
- Give you the next one! - Okay.
The next one. Hold on.
I gotta get over there, Laurel.
- What is wrong?
- The pieces are the same!
- I know!
- [laughs]
- I need Kim and Colleen to win,
because I am so nervous that
if Laurel and Jakk come back in this house,
we're gonna be eaten for dinner.
- Okay. Orange green heart.
- Got it. - Wait, wait, wait.
Ah! Oh, [bleep].
- Jakk! Stop freaking out!
- [bleep]! Okay.
- I have bottled up all of the aggression that I have had
over the last 24 hours, and this
is the time where I can channel that aggression
into something good, rather than just exploding on people.
Ah, [bleep]. Okay.
- No. It's okay. Don't-- - Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on. You're dropping me.
- Just give me the next one! [dramatic music]
- Orange pink.
Then a pink infinity symbol.
- Green. Blue heart.
- I need to go down. Put me down!
- This is a true ride-or-die elimination,
and we are seeing exactly why communication is so important.
- Next.
- Hustle. You gotta hustle, Laur.
- Jakk!
Let me down.
Let me down! - I am!
- Jakk and Laurel,
they feel kinda messy right now.
Their communication's pretty awful,
and from what we can see, Jakk is lost.
- [bleep] [bleep].
Ah! [bleep] [bleep].
- Jakk! Jesus [bleep] Christ.
- Arrow to the left! Infinity to the bottom.
- Check.
Check. [dramatic music]
- Is this really happening?
Are they going to beat Laurel and Jakk?
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Check. Check.
♪ ♪
- That's not right.
- Okay. Colleen?
- Check.
- [bleep] Dude.
ALL: Oh.
- That's [bleep] up. I had it solved.
- Yellow dagger. - Yeah.
- Okay. Pink. Blue heart.
- Read me the second one below that.
- Orange. Green heart.
- Green? No.
- That is it. No.
- Orange. Green heart.
- Jakk, what are you doing?
- Okay. The green--
I can't tell the difference between [bleep]
green and the yellow. - The [bleep].
Can you see anything?
We need to do this again, Jakk.
- [bleep]. - All right.
Jakk, start all over again, from the top left, okay?
- Okay.
- Laurel and Jakk deciding
to restart their entire puzzle?
I mean, this is truly a vet move.
Most people would come into this thinking,
"Let me find the one that's wrong,"
but you don't know where that one is.
- Pink. Blue heart. - Okay.
- With Laurel and I, I think our relationship
is definitely growing.
It's getting stronger day by day,
and I really, really care for Laurel.
I want her to stay. - Kim?
- Yes? - What is the wrong piece?
- I don't know.
- I like everything I see in Colleen.
She's a very smart woman.
She's beautiful, and I'm just hoping and praying
that she doesn't go home this early.
- Pink. Orange sword.
- Do the next one!
- Orange. Green chain link.
- Kim? - Yes?
- The last row is to the bottom.
A heart. The yellow heart?
- It's a red heart.
- There's a piece that's yellow-orange.
- Yes.
- That's the one on the left-hand side.
Third row down. Left-hand side.
- Green. Blue heart.
- It's yellow.
Yellow heart to the right.
- Say it again please. Sorry.
- Kim, maybe read them to her?
- Kim and Colleen, you're literally stalling right now.
What happened?
- What did you see? - It's pink and orange.
- Green. Blue heart. - Okay.
Let me down! - Okay. I gotta come up.
- What is on the piece?
Describe to me the piece.
[dramatic music] - Check that please.
♪ ♪
- Next row, okay? Orange dagger.
- Correct. - On the left side.
♪ ♪
[air horn]
- Laurel, that is correct.
[all cheering]
- Yes, Laurel!
- Yeah!
- Yes, yes, yes!
- Eat my ass you [bleep] rat piece of [bleep]!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah! We did it!
I feel so proud of you.
You've never done this before.
I feel like we've been increasingly
getting better at communication.
- Let me down, so I can hug my [bleep] best friend!
I don't know if anybody else would ever
say that your screaming voice is comforting,
but it tells me exactly what you're saying,
exactly how you're reading, and that's why we succeeded.
- I know. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Congratulations.
You two are still in the game.
Great job, both of you.
You?
Only one p wn ong.
- Oh, my gosh. - I know.
- Damn. - One piece.
- But very great competitors.
Couldn't be sweeter people.
Everyone... - Yes.
- Loves you two. - Love you, guys!
Love you, guys!
- Colleen, we had so much fun, and I am very impressed
how strong you are, how funny you are,
and you made my day, every day in this house.
- Take care of yourselves.
Ich liebe dich. Much love.
- Please come back! Come back!
- Love you, guys! - Take care.
- Of course, it's such a big dream to win "The Challenge,"
and now dream is--
Kim is always my ride or die.
[sighs] He's my--my love.
[tender music]
♪ ♪
- Love you, guys!
- I've gotten to know Colleen a little bit,
and it sucks that her time is cut short here.
I mean it's just gonna get boring in this house,
because I lost my cuddle buddy.
- Laurel and Jakk, wow.
Come-from-behind win.
- Coming off of two losses, it feels, like,
great to win an elimination again.
So proud of Jakk, and it's gonna
feel great to go back to the house,
'cause I know I have some support.
- Whoo! - Yes.
- Well, it took you bringing your ride or die,
Jakk, to break those curses, huh?
- I know!
- You two are still in the game.
Everyone else,
anything can happen, on "The Challenge."
Get out of here. I'll see you soon.
[cheers and applause]
- If I could rate my week in power
on a scale of 1 to 10,
I think Jay and I probably performed about a 2.
We actually sent home somebody who could
potentially be a number for us.
We seemed to piss off more people than we needed to,
and wasn't fun. Didn't do great.
Wouldn't like to do it again actually.
- I don't get what happened.
Michele and Jay made it very clear that it was just me
and just me alone that they sent into the elimination.
Had nothing to do with Jakk.
Well, guess what?
We're coming back in the house.
How do you like me now? Eh.
- There is a misunderstanding
between Laurel and I.
I don't want to hurt her.
- No.
- Ooh. Good one, Nany. - You're a [bleep] idiot.
- Nany and I just aren't on the same page.
It's not a good look for us.
- You can make it!
- Go, go, go! - Ahh!