♪♪♪♪ You're watching an extended episode of "The Challenge."
Stay tuned after the episode for the final words
from the eliminated challengers.
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪
[upbeat music]
- Whoo! - Good job!
- Ah, [bleep].
- Mom and Dad are home!
- My anxiety is ten out of ten right now.
I threw in two people that are coming back in the house.
I'm just trying to realize that this is just
a storm cloud over my head.
Tomorrow, that storm cloud is gonna be on somebody else.
So just hang in there.
- Yay!
- You [bleep] crushed that, dude.
- I'm so proud of you.
- You are a strong woman.
And clearly, tonight is just, like, making you hopefully,
like, remember that.
- Yeah, no, I know. - Do you know?
- Like, very weird today,
having that whole conversation and stuff
with Michele and all that.
And I feel like I wasn't getting the truth,
and that's what's so important to me.
I felt like I wanted to, like, rip--
- I know.
Well, it didn't make it any better that she was
the only person cheering on the other team.
- Awkward.
- Kim, maybe bring them to her. Hurry up.
Don't stop, Kim.
- That was really awkward.
- Super awkward. - Yeah.
- I know that Michelle was cheering for Kim and Colleen.
I could hear her.
And that was motivating me
to come back into the house.
You're just annoying at this point.
Can you just shut up and disappear?
- Anyways, change. - Yeah.
- Let's have a cheeky bev. - Okay.
- Celebrate, love you.
[dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Whoo! - Let's go, baby!
- ♪♪ Shut up and let me go, this hurts, I tell you so ♪♪
♪♪ For the last time, you will kiss my lips ♪♪
♪♪ Now shut up and let me go ♪♪ Hey!
♪♪ I ain't freakin', I ain't fakin' this ♪♪
♪♪ I ain't fakin', I ain't freakin' this ♪♪
♪♪ Shut up and let me go ♪♪ Hey!
- You do things better than everyone with less.
And then I was watching you, and I was like,
"You're doing so well." and, like, watching you
struggle a little bit.
- Come on now.
Come on now. - We're fine.
We're good.
- I don't know. It just--I was like, [bleep].
- Yo, thank you.
I truly believe that it is because I was born
without a hand that I made it a point
to be grand at everything because that's how I thought
I would have to fit in.
So if you have something that you think holds you back,
use it to propel yourself forward.
- I know you've overcome a lot, but, like, you never complain.
You never bitch about it.
You never say it's a hindrance.
And that's so awesome.
That's one of my favorite qualities about you.
We both share that,
even though our experiences aren't the same,
being the representation we needed growing up.
Those little moments of, like, "I have a daughter,
"who looks just like you, and she's Jewish.
And it's so nice that she can see herself."
And...
- It's incredibly humbling. - Yes.
[upbeat music]
- I love you, Aneesa. - I love you.
- I want to just check in on you,
make sure you're doing good.
And I know that, like, this is not necessarily
the greatest place to try and figure out
your emotions and grieve.
- I came here because I wanted to do it
because I know that my mom would be so sad if I didn't.
But at the same time, like, I want you to know,
that is my motivation to get through this season.
And honestly, Johnny, having you as my partner,
that made me feel so much better coming into this game.
After losing my mom, I've definitely
been struggling in this game.
The best thing about being partnered with my ride or die,
Bananas, is that he always makes me laugh,
but he's also here for the right reasons.
He's here to win.
And I need somebody like that by my side.
- I just want you to know that as bad as it gets
and as turbulent as times get,
that I'm someone-- and I hope you know this--
that you can always depend on.
And you can come to me to talk about...
- I know that. - Anything.
- I know that, Johnny. - Anything.
- I know.
- Obviously, Nany is my ride or die.
And come hell or high water, I'm gonna be there for her.
There's, in my opinion, nobody more deserving
than her for a first win.
We're gonna win this bitch, or we're gonna die trying.
- Yep. - All right?
- Yep, that's what we always do.
- We're gonna win this mother[bleep],
or we're gonna die trying.
- Yep, love you. - I love you more.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Exercise is kind of like my meditation.
It's my moment alone.
And up comes good old Jay.
He just threw me into the Zone last night.
What could you possibly say to me in this moment
that's gonna make me care
about your thoughts or feelings?
- Oh, are they? What did you say to them?
- I said it.
That rat piece of [bleep] garbage sent me down here.
And when I called you garbage, I meant that you were garbage.
I feel a little betrayed,
but I'm not a [bleep] rat like the [bleep] piece
of garbage that threw me down here.
- So Chinese Takeout is--
- I think the band is broken up.
I'm down to start writing songs about, like, you know,
our breakup.
- Awkward situations are sometimes fun.
So I'm just poking the bear while he's working out.
He's poking back, but at least we're talking.
And, you know, every good friendship
is based on insults.
So the band might come back together.
I don't think we broke up. I think we're just on a break.
- I mean, every break should get a little messy, you know?
When I called you garbage, Jay,
I meant that you were garbage, bottom of the dumpster,
leaking out, like, into the sewer,
like, with the [bleep] rodents and infested rats.
Like, that is on the level of human that he is.
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Do you think I should go talk to Horacio?
- You didn't really tell me what happened.
You just, you know--
- He was one of the people that I had a connection with
and told me so much about himself.
Then last night, he basically told me
that, like, before he came here,
he was, like, talking to some girl.
And now I feel very weird because feelings developed.
And I was like, "I don't want that."
And so then I just moved out of the room.
Horacio and I have been chatting and flirting.
I'm slowly finding out that he has a girl
that he's talking to at home, and that girl is the girl
that he is pursuing to be his girlfriend.
So it's a [bleep] position to be in.
Now I'm like, "Well, I feel really weird now
because now--I thought you were single."
I feel like I have to just, like,
shut my emotions off, which is fine.
I'm so used to doing that. I can do that.
But it's just, like, annoying because it's like,
can I just talk to a guy that doesn't have
something weird happening where it's stopping the progression?
I feel hurt.
And I told him that.
I said, "I feel hurt by what you did."
It's like you try everything to not get hurt,
and that's just what continues to happen.
[soft music]
So whatever.
Good thing that there's a game to focus on
because I don't have to really put this as my priority.
- I feel like you should talk to him and just--
- I don't have anything to say, Moriah.
Like, what do I say?
♪♪ ♪♪
- Are you and Laurel good? What's happening?
- [chuckles]
There was a misunderstanding.
I don't wanna hurt her in any kind of way.
So for her, if it's best to take a step back,
you know, I respect it.
I don't know how to label it.
Yes, there's a girl I was talking to,
but I really, really care for Laurel.
I didn't communicate well enough.
And, you know, that ended up hurting her,
which ended up hurting me.
And it's definitely not what I wanted.
It sucks because honestly, she's the person
that I talk to most in this game.
And I feel, like, besides you, I feel very super confident,
like, talking to her about anything, you know?
- I know your heart, and you're not
intentionally hurting anyone.
But I definitely think you should have a conversation,
so you guys can get on the same page of respect.
- I don't wanna lose her. She's a very good friend.
But I think she just needs
a little bit of time and a little bit of space.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ We've gone way too fast ♪♪
♪♪ For way too long ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ And we were never supposed to make it ♪♪
♪♪ Half this far ♪♪
♪♪ And I lived so much life, lived so much life ♪♪
♪♪ I think that God is gonna have to kill me twice ♪♪
♪♪ This down to make you press rewind ♪♪
♪♪ And send a message I was young and a menace ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ We've gone way to fast ♪♪
♪♪ For way too long ♪♪
- Welcome, everyone, to your next challenge
on this season of "Ride or Dies,"
where you're playing for your share of $1 million.
- Whoo, let's go!
- Today is going to be badass.
No doubt about it. - I like badass.
- I love this challenge, all right?
Today's challenge is called Down the Line.
[dramatic music]
To begin, you and your partner are
gonna start across this field, and when I say go...
[air horn blares]
You will race to your colored zone.
Then you're gonna start digging
for two bags of puzzle pieces.
Once you find the first bag, one of you is then gonna
race all the way down to the bottom platform,
where you'll find a zip line crank.
That zip line crank will release a stopper.
The more you crank, the further you can zip line.
Your partner is gonna have to continue digging
until they come across the second bag.
At that point, they'll race to the top platform.
Once you're up there, you're gonna be zip-lining.
Hopefully, your partner has cranked that stopper down
far enough to where you don't have to swim your ass off.
So once you reunite with your partner,
you're both gonna dump out your bags,
get all your puzzle pieces together,
and solve the word puzzle.
First pair to get this done will win today's challenge,
be safe from elimination, and also hold all the power.
Today's challenge is gonna be played
in two heats randomly selected.
Good luck, everyone.
- Whoo! - Let's go!
- We got a puzzle. Here it comes, pivotal moment.
- Yeah. - Must win.
- I mean, I feel like we're gonna win.
I mean, Devin's a puzzle king.
And I'm cranky, so I'll be good at cranking, right?
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - So we'll figure it out.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Are we trying to go back-to-back, Michelle,
on some big wins or what?
- I think we might need to go back-to-back on some big wins
because we might have gotten ourselves into a little bit
of trouble because we know some people are
definitely a little angry at us.
- We need to come out and perform well
because our name has been called,
and that could spark someone else to hop on that train
and start calling our name as well.
- I will be doing the cranking today.
And my ride or die will be doing the swimming.
- Are you yanking my crank?
- What's the next question, please?
[dramatic music]
- All right, everyone, ready!
♪♪ ♪♪
Go! [air horn blares]
- [yells]
- Whoo! All right, everyone, ready!
[dramatic music]
Go! [air horn blares]
- Ahh! - Let's go!
- Whoo! - Let's go!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Good job!
- This looks exactly like what I came here for.
We're digging. We're running.
We're doing a puzzle. There's a zip line.
This is something that's in my wheelhouse.
I am good at endurance running. I'm good at solving puzzles.
Today's win is really important
because I do not want to go back down into the Zone.
Everything is at stake.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Okay, here you go.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Okay, Moriah!
- Found it, found it, found it. Here, help.
- Is that it? - Can you help me?
- Yeah.
- Wait, is that--
- That is it. - Go, get out of here.
- Go, Nany!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Go. - Bye, good luck.
I love you. - Love you too.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Go, Jakk!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Aneesa, let's go! - Go, Aneesa!
♪♪ ♪♪
Oh, look at the crank. Look, look at the crank.
Oh, the crank is moving. Moriah's moving.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Let's go, Devin!
♪♪ ♪♪
Devin is the first one to get to the platform
with his puzzle pieces, and I'm ready to go.
I mean, this is an incredible lead right now,
and we have to capitalize on it.
So let's go, Devin. Hang from that little string.
♪♪ ♪♪
There we go, Devin!
♪♪ ♪♪
Good job, Devin!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Good job, Johnny! - Good work!
- Good work, Johnny.
- Okay, 'cause we can't solve on the floor.
we're just gonna look at everything all together.
I'll work on the bottom. You work on the top.
Just try to make letters.
- You finding it either?
♪♪ ♪♪
- Let's go, Bananas!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Yes, Johnny, yes!
Well done.
- Good job, Johnny. - Yeah, good job, let's go.
♪♪ ♪♪
- [bleep] - We've got squad.
♪♪ ♪♪
I don't know, I'm just putting [bleep] up here.
- Okay.
- Bro, I swear I'm not a dummy!
- You guys are doing great.
- No, we're not.
- There's only two down there, Jordan.
- And your swim is gonna be nothing.
The girls brought the ball all the way down.
You guys got this.
- Come on, Laurel, don't give up.
You got this, girl. - Let's do this.
Let's do this.
Let's separate out vowels and consonants.
- Okay.
- [bleep] off.
That's what it means. - A, E, I, O, U.
- Johnny, stop being a [bleep] idiot.
Focus.
I'm stressed out.
And it seems like the more stressed I get,
Bananas just keeps laughing.
And that's stressing me out even more.
I'm so frustrated.
And I cannot believe that we're in this situation.
- Squad?
Sorry.
- He needs to realize that that's
just not how I play this game.
I play to win every single time.
- Ooh, good one, Nany, pairs.
Ow! - [bleep], God!
- I was just-- - You're a [bleep] idiot.
- Nany and I just aren't on the same page.
Be mad at me in private.
Nany, you can be mad at me for whatever you want.
But the fact that you're doing this
in front of the rest of the teams,
it's not a good look for us.
I bet that's not a word, assault your partner.
I bet that's not a word.
- I don't give a [bleep] what it is.
Shut the [bleep] up.
[dramatic music]
- Well done!
- Whoa, Jordan! - Jordan, keep going!
- Come on, Jordan! Let's go!
- Come on, Jordan!
- Pairs, good one, Nany. Ow!
- [bleep], God!
- I was just-- - You're a [bleep] idiot.
- I can't tell right now with kind of what's going on
with the team dynamic here.
I think we're experiencing our first disagreement
and fight as ride or dies.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Holy mother[bleep]!
Let's go, Fessy! - Let's go, Fessy!
♪♪ ♪♪
- The pressure is on.
Half of the house is pissed off.
I can feel it. Michele and I have to win.
And we need our alliance members to step up their game.
I need my people to win or I need to win
because they're all coming for me now.
- All the way down, Johnny!
- Go deep, Laurel, go deep.
- Let's go, Jay! - Let's go, Jay!
Let's go, Jay! Let's go!
Let's go, Jay! You got time!
Come on, do it!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Come on, Jay! Whoo!
- I, "Tims."
- We have a G. We have an A.
We have an M. We have an I.
We're like, "Gamio? Like, what does gamio mean?"
No, that's not a word.
[bleep]
- Come on, Laurel! Let's go, girl.
- Since Laurel moved out of Horacio's room,
I'm not exactly sure where her head is at coming into this.
I know she really is hungry for a win.
But she's also a little focused on a lot of different things
at the same time.
So I hope that that doesn't come into today's game,
and we can just get it done.
- There you go. Keep going.
Let's go!
Keep going. - Come on, Laurel.
Don't give up, girl. You got it.
Keep digging.
- I can even [bleep] find the bag.
I can't do anything right.
That's how I feel. And I don't wanna cry.
It's just [bleep] frustrating.
This is [bleep] annoying.
It's like I have this [bleep] huge reputation,
and can't even [bleep] find a bag.
- Okay, let's think.
♪♪ ♪♪
I like this. - Oh, my gosh, give me the G.
- How you doing there?
- There seems to be a few words that people
are struggling to get.
We know that this is all about partnerships, allies.
And so Jay automatically goes to his Spanish heritage,
and he finds the word amigo.
I'm so, so grateful.
I never would have thought of that.
And I'm just looking at him like,
"Thank God you are my partner."
- Check, check, check! - Check, check, check!
- That's correct. [air horn blares]
- Wow!
- Good job, guys. - That's a survivor.
- Damn it.
- Why are Jay and Michele the only team
that is winning right now?
This is the last person that I want to win.
Jay and Michele have already sent us in.
So if Jay and Michele win,
that means I'm gonna get sent in again.
♪♪ ♪♪
- All right, everyone, ready!
♪♪ ♪♪
Go! [air horn blares]
- Ahh!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Yeah, Nelly! - Go, Nelly!
- Nelly!
- Come on, babe, you got this.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Good thing we got Fessy standing all the way up front,
so we can all get a real good view of what's going on.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I think it's right here. Over here.
- Right here.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go! Just go.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Keep going, Amber!
- Come on, Kayce. you got this, baby.
- Stop, stop.
- Kenny, go, go!
- You gotta go! - Go, Kenny!
Go! - Go!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Let's go, Olivia!
- There's a couple pairs that I feel like
they don't wanna get blood on their hands.
Olivia and I are in a very different boat.
We're a rookie-rookie pair, so we have a big target.
So I don't mind getting blood on my hands
because either way, you're coming for my blood.
So let's do it.
Let's see who gets their hands bloody first.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Keep pushing, Olivia.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Let's go, Nelly!
[indistinct yelling]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Come on! Oh, [bleep], my arms.
- There we go. - Yeah, Darrell!
- There you go, Jay!
- Come on, Amber!
Come on, Darrell!
- It's not over!
- Baby, baby, don't give up!
Kaycee, Kaycee, dig, baby, dig!
- Find that bag!
- Watching Nany encourage Kaycee,
I can feel this pain.
I know what it's like to be in this game
with a loved one.
Tori and I have watched each other go
through some pretty tough situations.
And your gut and your heart are just in knots
the whole time they're going through it
because you want to run out there and help them so badly.
- Come on, baby, keep going. Keep breathing.
Don't give up, Kayce.
I just don't want Kaycee to lose hope or to give up.
I know she won't, but maybe she needs
that little bit of encouragement to keep going.
- You got this, Kayce!
- Let's go!
- Darrell, get your feet up when you reach the bottom!
- Keep your legs up! Let's go!
- Come on, Amber, let's go!
- Ah, they're all five letters. - It has to be five letters.
- Five-letter word? - Yeah.
- All with friendship.
- I can't.
- Yes, you can!
♪♪ ♪♪
[all cheering]
- Go!
- We should check other languages too.
- No, no, no, it's not gonna be in a different language.
- It could be amigo. - I know, but I--
- No, can you think of anything?
- Oh, my God, I'm [bleep] crazy.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Three.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Put it here. Is that a word?
- I freakin' hope so.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Check, check! - Check!
Check.
♪♪ ♪♪
[air horn blares]
- Let's do it!
- Let's go!
- We finally get a victory.
I don't know if it was faster than Jay and Michele,
but, hey, this is our first victory.
I hope the time is fast enough.
We really wanna get this power.
We wanna make some big moves.
- Hell yeah!
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Whoo!
♪♪ ♪♪
- All right, everyone, congratulations
on a great challenge today.
- Whoo! - Yeah, it was something.
- The two teams to get it done the fastest in their heats
were Horacio and Olivia...
- Whoo! - Jay and Michele.
- Yeah! - Let's go.
- Good job.
I'm actually very excited because if it's
Michele and I or Olivia and Horacio,
someone's going down.
I honestly want it to be Olivia and Horacio
so that they can make a really big move,
and not all the heat is on me.
I need to spread the fire around a little bit.
- However, the fastest team of the day
and one team that is safe from elimination...
♪♪ ♪♪
- The fastest team of the day
and one team that is safe from elimination...
♪♪ ♪♪
is Jay and Michele.
[all cheering]
[dramatic music]
- They're going back-to-back!
♪♪ ♪♪
- So now you're the only pair safe from elimination.
And I need you to go back to the house,
deliberate, and nominate four pairs for interrogation,
one of which you will ultimately select
to go straight into the Zone.
Got it? - Yep.
- This is the absolute best and worst-case scenario.
We have won two in a row,
as if our target wasn't big enough.
Now it's getting even bigger.
And we have to make tough decisions once again.
- All right, it's getting cold out here.
Everybody, get outta here. I'll see you soon.
- The last time Jay and Michele saved us,
I think the house came down on Jay and Michele
and they took a lot of heat.
So I don't think that they are gonna
be all that jazzed about saving us
a second time in a row.
So yeah, this is basically worst-case scenario.
- Damn.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Whoo!
♪♪ ♪♪
Okay, but then who else--
I'm protecting everyone right now.
Oh, man, I've made a deal with the devil.
Me and Devin made a one-day deal
that if me and Jay win or him and Tori win,
we're not gonna say each other's names.
I sure as hell did not think that me and Jay were
gonna pull out a second win.
It sucks. - It really sucks.
- Just be careful.
I mean, I would do things differently
'cause I've only made promises to certain people.
I'm not making deals with the other side of the house
because it's tricky.
I feel good with Michele, but I'm starting to peep things
that I just don't know, like, where she's at in the game,
who she's working with.
Something just feels off, and I hate this feeling.
♪♪ ♪♪
- So what's going on?
- So, I mean, we don't really have a ton of time.
And we don't have a ton of options either.
- I know.
- I'm talking to Jordan too right now.
- We got the memo.
- Either way,
we don't really wanna piss any more people off, you know?
We genuinely were just gonna go with sort of a format
of, like, throwing people who were said before.
- Makes total sense. - Yeah.
- We went into interrogation.
You guys were like, "Hey, we really only put you in here
'cause we didn't know where you stood."
And we go, "Oh, well, we thought
we already stood with you."
- I know.
At this point, if you guys had won,
I would assume we'd be one of your four because--
- No.
We're not gonna go tit for tat.
We're not gonna keep coming for you guys 'cause you put us in.
But if you keep putting us in, we're coming for you.
Jay and Michele winning this round, it's gonna show a lot.
They said that they threw us in last time
because they didn't know where we stood.
Well, now they do.
So I hope we're good, but I don't trust them.
You guys gotta do what's best for you.
- Honestly, we hear you. I absolutely love you.
- Yeah.
- All right, do y'all's thing.
I know that we didn't wanna put any,
like, [bleep] stress on you.
- No, no, no.
Thank you for coming to talk, for real.
- Yeah.
- Okay, Jay, let's-- - Love you, guys.
See you later. - Love you too, baby, yeah.
[bleep]
- That definitely changes things.
♪♪ ♪♪
So we gotta nominate four teams.
Obviously, Laurel and Jakk, super easy, done deal.
So that's one. So now we need three more.
And, Bananas, I don't wanna save him anymore.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Last interrogation, me and Jay caught a lot of heat
for not saying Nany and Bananas' name.
For us, it's kind of a no-brainer
that they should be going in this time.
- So we got Laurel and Jakk, Bananas and Nany.
We can't do Tori and Devin 'cause of the deal.
- Can't do Amber and Chauncey.
- This is my problem with that.
Chauncey and Amber are dead weight.
- My heart doesn't feel good about that.
What are our other options?
Darrell came up to me, and he was like,
"I understand whatever you decide to do."
♪♪ ♪♪
- If we do Kaycee and Kenny,
Kaycee will never trust me again.
But she will understand that I gave her
the opportunity to save Nany.
- Yes.
- But then that saves Bananas again.
- Do you really believe this?
If we don't pick Aneesa and Jordan,
do you really believe that they're not
gonna say our names next time?
- No, they're already pissed.
We've already said their name.
How can we make it so that if Laurel goes in as the direct,
who can we put down there that would have each other's back
over Bananas so that Bananas could end up
going against Laurel?
'Cause then at least we eliminate one of the enemies.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Ugh, here we go.
Damn.
- Oh.
- Yes! - Oh, wow, what a shock.
- Hmm. - [whistles]
- Finally, Jay and Michele are making some smart moves.
Four big pairs, and I absolutely love to see it.
- Kaycee and Kenny, damn.
- I am trying to avoid going against my girlfriend
for the second time because last time was in the final,
and it was not fun.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Well done, Nany.
- We were crying and bawling our eyes out,
you know, two people in love.
I feel like they're heartless.
- All right.
I didn't expect all of that.
I mean, maybe me and maybe you.
- I definitely knew it was me.
- It is blatantly obvious,
regardless of what conversation we could have had,
that Michele and Jay are trying to [bleep] us.
You literally put us in, potentially,
with Kaycee and Nany, with two girlfriends.
You think that they're not gonna save themselves over me?
- They're so fake.
They promised us, "We're not gonna throw you in
if we win the game."
- They promised you that? - Yeah.
- Oh. - Had a little chat.
I can't believe I literally called Jay, like,
one of my closest friends and somebody
that was like a brother to me.
I'm getting, like, nauseous.
I need--like, do you guys have Tums?
[bleep] fraud ass.
- It is what it is honestly. - It is what it is, yeah.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Do you guys have any idea what you're gonna do?
'Cause this is not what I was expecting.
- What were you expecting?
- For you to throw in the same people that you threw in.
- Last time? - Mm-hmm.
- I thought there was a little bit
of understanding yesterday.
You said you were gonna try to show
that there's trust there.
You literally gave your word. - Okay.
Well, what I said was that
we were gonna try to move forward.
- Well, you know what's gonna happen if you put
certain people down.
- I mean, we're gonna have a target on our back regardless.
- Yeah, but would you rather have the target be of a team
that doesn't win challenges, which is us,
or a team that does win challenges?
- That's a very good point.
- So take that into consideration.
- Yeah.
- There's a possibility that, you know, we come back
in the house and, you know,
we can maybe talk about those things.
I agree with you. I get really hot.
And I do take time.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I didn't know my girl had it in her to do the poker face.
Like, this is somebody who hates doing this,
would literally rather gnaw her own arm off
than have to be fake nice to somebody.
It's the greatest thing I've ever seen, and it's free.
- But the fact is that we don't have a plan right now.
- Yeah. - And I heard what you said.
I think it makes a lot of sense strategically, honestly.
- The main [bleep] reason that you're in here is because...
- Let me know the main reason. - Your girl is on the board.
- Okay.
- I didn't wanna ruffle more feathers because, well--
- So you don't wanna ruffle more feathers,
but you just ruffled two more teams
when you could have just ruffled one more team.
You get what I'm saying?
- Yeah, but they're not gonna beat Laurel and Jakk.
Like, Veronica's gonna beat Laurel.
Let's be real.
- So it sounds like the point is,
you guys want Laurel and Jakk out,
even at the cost of more blood on your hands.
- We need a better team to beat the prime target
instead of the prime target keep coming back and gunning
for me every single time.
You guys have said our name before.
- And we wanted to put Kaycee in to make
sure that she protects you.
- The second we saw it, we figured that's
what was going on, so we appreciate that.
- How do you know that Kaycee is not
going to go into elimination, is my question.
- We don't know that. - Exactly.
- But we wanted to give you both a higher chance
instead of just putting you there.
- Okay, I just wanna let you know, if Kaycee does go
into elimination, I'm not gonna be happy.
- I know.
- And if she goes home,
I'm sorry, but the game is on.
♪♪ ♪♪
- They're doing us a favor, Nany.
- I understand that. I understand that.
- All right, well, thanks, guys.
- Thank you. - Good win.
I know you guys are in a really [bleep] position
twice in a row.
Even though Nany and I may not see eye to eye
and get along all the time, this just goes to show
how much I care about my ride or die
that I am willing to sit here across the table from Jay
and placate this guy because it is taking every ounce of me
to not projectile vomit all over his face.
♪♪ ♪♪
- We didn't wanna [bleep] up more feathers.
We obviously did, but--
- I don't know what to believe anymore.
I don't know.
It's gonna be what it's gonna be.
- Ultimately, we're just getting down to the point
that we have to nominate more than 1/3 of the house.
- You don't have to explain to us how to play this game.
- Yeah, no, I know. - We've been doing this.
- I know.
- So are Laurel and Jakk your vote to go in?
Or you don't even know what you're gonna do?
- Yeah, that's our plan. - I don't believe it.
- What? - I don't.
I can't.
I mean, how can we believe anything?
You tell Jakk you're gonna help him out.
You tell Bananas you're gonna help him out.
You're telling me you're gonna help me out.
What'd you tell Kenny?
- Listen, Jordan will do whatever he wants to do.
If he's really wrong, sure, I'll step in.
But right now, I don't feel like he is.
- You wanna be the main vote?
- Jay, what the [bleep]? Stop!
That's not what he's saying. Stop.
- Was I wrong in anything I said?
Did you tell Jakk you were gonna help him out?
- No.
- Did you tell Bananas you'd help him out?
- No. - Okay.
- We're trying to figure out what we're doing.
We're moving at warp speed.
- Hey, so just say what you're gonna do.
Don't do what you did in that room.
Don't act like we're friends.
- We heard your perspective. We literally heard it.
We sat here pondering because you guys
made a lot of good points.
- Yeah.
Just don't say one thing to someone and then do another.
It just makes you weak.
- Don't call me weak, though, bro,
'cause that's bull[bleep], nah, bro.
No, it's [bleep] weak to call other people weak.
That's [bleep]. - Don't act--
- No, that's [bleep] weak. - Okay.
- That's [bleep] weak in itself.
- You're kinda embarrassed. It's fine.
- Embarrassed about--you're putting words in my mouth.
I'm not none of those things.
That's you, bud.
How am I embarrassed? That makes no sense.
I'm embarrassed for the big moves that I'm making?
If I was embarrassed, I wouldn't
have done it again, bud.
I'm doing it.
Don't [bleep] portray your feelings on me.
- Guys!
We're clearly not getting very far.
And you guys are gonna do whatever you're gonna do.
But this is [bleep].
♪♪ ♪♪
- Let's throw them in.
It's just a game.
You're all right.
This game is gonna get messier and dirtier
every week it goes on.
- We get so caught up in this game.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I would rather be putting names on the board
than being a name on the board.
So [bleep] that. You're here for your family.
♪♪ ♪♪
[dramatic music]
- I think you need to sit down,
and I wanna talk to you.
- Okay.
- Just sit down.
♪♪ ♪♪
Please, Johnny, for the love of God,
like, I know you won seven challenges.
You're a challenge legend.
I respect that, and I love that about you.
And that's why I love having you by my side.
But, like, I'm really trying to get my first win.
So today, you messing around in the challenge,
like, now we're in this position.
And all I wanted was-- and when I'm, like,
really trying hard--
- Let me ask you a question.
Okay, I'm just saying that they were a question mark.
And now we know.
- They need to go.
- And we would've had to put names on the board that--
- We wouldn't have wanted to, but we would have had to.
I get it. I understand that.
I do. - Okay.
But from here on out, I'm gonna put in maximum effort
into making this thing work.
[soft music]
- I definitely think that right now,
Bananas is hearing me out.
He realizes that he probably should've gone harder
in the challenge because he sees the position
that we're in as a pair and the position that I'm in
with potentially going against my girlfriend
in an elimination.
I'm going in tomorrow like I'm playing.
- Okay.
- I don't care who I go against.
This is the first time I am not afraid
of going and doing it myself.
- Yeah, I know.
So it's more clear than ever
that if I can get it together,
work together as a team, we're gonna
turn this thing upside down.
That's my goal this season, is to help Nany
finally cross that finish line and get that first dub.
- Okay.
- How are you guys feeling?
- Good, good, I mean, we needed this to happen
for it to be more clear.
They didn't throw us in before us,
so we felt like we kinda had to save them.
But now, you know, they took the first hit, you know?
- Exactly.
- So it's kinda like, it's clear.
And it's clear that they're [bleep]...
♪♪ ♪♪
This is just messy all around.
This is the calm before the storm.
And I know who my tight people are.
And I'm still taking mental notes
and peeping game on what's going on
around me because things are getting
really sketch around here.
- Fine, I'm just saying we need to pull one and two.
- Yeah.
♪♪ ♪♪
- All right, listen.
Here's the thing.
I wanna talk to you,
and then I see you [bleep] all over...
- Horacio. - Horacio.
I tried to be respectful.
I really didn't know what I wanted to do.
And I didn't know where you were
with your things and whatever.
- Yeah.
Horacio has somebody back home
that is gonna be his girlfriend.
I basically don't wanna put myself in a position
where I get hurt.
And I do have a connection with Fessy.
I kind of want to explore it for myself,
so I am engaging in flirting with Fessy.
He's a nice guy.
- I love spending time with you.
I think you're beautiful.
I think you're great.
I've really enjoyed our time here together.
I'm not trying to be messy this season, but it just finds me.
Do you want a hug?
- [laughing] You're so heavy.
- No, I don't.
- I do see Fessy and Laurel a bit, you know, together.
I wouldn't use the word jealous.
Or maybe, yes, let's use the word jealous.
I care so much for Laurel.
I don't want her to get hurt.
Unfortunately, I did that already.
I did hurt her.
But I just don't want her to get hurt even more.
Fessy, you know, he's been around a bit.
So I just don't want that for Laurel.
- This is not my good side.
Wow.
- [laughing] Yeah.
- Okay. Come on, pull it together.
- No, I mean, in that way. - No, thank you.
- Laurel is the type of woman who
she usually gets what she wants.
And I think that's kinda what is going on here.
Like, she sees me,
and what she wants, she's gonna try to get.
[mellow music]
[Laurel giggling]
♪♪ ♪♪
[energetic music]
♪♪ Here we go here we go, here we go ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Jay and Michele made me feel so comfortable
to where I actually believed it,
and then flipped the script.
And it's like, what the [bleep] just happened?
- Mm-hmm.
Hey, what's up? Good. How are you?
- No, I'm not okay, Michele.
I think you already know exactly why I'm upset.
- Okay, well, then I apologize because I--
- Well, an apology is fine, but at the end of the day,
I'm going in,
and I may lose my girlfriend tonight.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I get everything that you're saying.
I take full responsibility.
Like, I'm trying to do what's best for me
and Jay in this game. - You made your decision.
Don't feel guilty, and I think that's pretty much
the end of this discussion.
I don't really wanna have a conversation with Michele
because I don't trust her.
And the fact that she even wants to talk to me right now
is really annoying.
Once you break my trust once, it's really hard for me
to, you know, re-establish that trust.
I don't have anything to say. I don't trust you.
So just stay away from me and let me focus
on what I have to do, and that's going to
elimination tonight and hopefully come back.
- Okay.
- God!
Why did she have to sit here and say sorry and then
talk about friendship? Like, go away.
Don't ever talk to me again. - Girl, bye, I just met you.
Take your apology tour somewhere else.
I don't give a [bleep].
- People like me and Nany will never forget
that you're a liar or a manipulator.
And this will come back to you.
I just can't help but go off on a tangent
on how I truly feel about this person.
This person is horrible.
The whole situation sucks. - Yeah.
- I feel bad about, well, Nany.
Do you remember when Nany voted you in
and you cried really hard?
- I know, but then, like, we came to,
like, I thought, a place of peace.
And then I, like, did it back to her.
- Who else were we gonna throw in?
- I know. - Yeah.
- I'm feeling a lot of guilt.
- You shouldn't.
Of course, they're gonna make you feel bad
because they're not in power.
- I know. I feel like a bad person.
- Why? - I don't know.
Like, the Nany and Kaycee thing is [bleep] me up.
- We can't please everybody in this game.
You just can't.
The fact that Michele is giving me her heart
right now is really cool.
The love and respect level that I have for this girl
just went, like, [bleep] 10 notches.
It's like a fulfilling moment.
It just feels good.
So I guess...
I'm gonna have to ride or die and give her my heart
right back and win this [bleep] game.
- Ooh, the moon!
[howling]
[Portugal. The Man's "Feel it Still"]
- ♪♪ Can't keep my hands to myself... ♪♪
- I go into every elimination prepared for battle.
And I will be coming back into this game.
And, Jay and Michele, you better be on notice.
- ♪♪ Am I comin' outta left field ♪♪
♪♪ Ooh whoo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now ♪♪
♪♪ I be feelin' it since 1966 now ♪♪
♪♪ Might be over now, but I feel it still ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ Ooh ooh, I'm a rebel...♪♪
- What is that?
- Oh...my God.
- [whispering] I don't understand.
- ♪♪ I can feel it still ♪♪
♪♪ Might've had your fill ♪♪
♪♪ I can feel it still ♪♪
- All right, everyone, welcome back to the Zone.
- Whoo!
- Let's go!
- Jay, Michele, as the challenge winners,
you had to interrogate four pairs,
one of which you're gonna make fight for their lives
in this game.
So let's bring 'em out.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Now's the time.
Jay and Michele, which pair do you wanna
send into the Zone right now?
- At this point in time, TJ, in the game,
it's getting more difficult to vote down four teams
because emotions are getting involved.
- Things got fiery.
- Tonight will be...
[suspenseful music]
- Jay and Michele, which pair do you wanna
send into the Zone right now?
- Things got fiery.
- It's hurting emotions,
and emotions are getting involved.
So tonight will be...
♪♪ ♪♪
Aneesa and Jordan.
It feels great saying Jordan and Aneesa's name
because, I mean, dude, you were so disrespectful.
So I'm just gonna throw you down,
and you can deal with it yourself.
- Think you wanna make a big move?
You have no idea the repercussions.
When you say
a monster's name... - Jordan.
- You can put that thing back in the closet.
- All right, so, Aneesa and Jordan,
you're playing no matter what.
Everyone else, take your place at the draw.
- Good luck, guys. - Good luck.
- I don't care how many deals Devin wants to make with them.
She's throwing my best friends into elimination,
so we're not playing together.
- All right, Jordan, Aneesa,
how do you feel about this decision?
- You get nowhere when you lie.
It's gonna be hard to get out of this one,
whether we're here or not.
- I thought it was funny Jay brought up emotions,
because it seems like his feelings got hurt.
- Okay. In front of you,
there are three daggers.
Now, one of those daggers is safe.
Bananas, Nany, go ahead and choose a dagger.
- I have faith in you. What do you wanna do?
♪♪ ♪♪
- Whoo!
Let's go, Nany!
- Wow!
- That was quick.
- You are safe from tonight's elimination.
As the pair that pulled the safe dagger,
you have to choose one other pair
to save with you right now.
Keep in mind, you'll send the other pair
straight into the Zone.
So who's it gonna be?
- Well, TJ, unfortunately, the winning team
put me down here with my girlfriend
and one of my best friends.
- Laurel's, you know, obviously closer to me
than pretty much anyone
that I've ever played this game with.
- But Kaycee is my girlfriend, and she's been my rock.
And she's been there for me every step of the way.
And I would never, ever put her in elimination.
So I'm sorry, but I know that you're gonna kill it.
- This is a [bleep] gut-wrenching
position to be put into, but I gotta back my partner.
- I do better in eliminations when I'm angry.
And this is almost setting me up to fail
because the last thing that I wanna know right now
is how much Johnny cares about me
and how much Nany cares about me
and how much anybody cares about me, like...
♪♪ ♪♪
Literally, [bleep] you, Jay, and [bleep] you, Michele,
for doing this.
[applause] - Yo.
- All right, tonight, you're playing In Your Face.
- Mmm.
- It's a good old-fashioned game of dodgeball,
kinda, all right?
To start, you're gonna race across the zone
and transfer all of your blocks to the top of your box.
This is gonna release your balls.
Now, here's the fun part.
You're gonna grab those balls, and you're
gonna chuck them at the faces of your opponents.
- Whoo!
- One of you is gonna be playing
offense the entire time, while the other one
is playing defense, trying to block your opponents' balls.
The first pair to get it done
will win tonight's elimination round
and stay in the game.
For once, on "The Challenge,"
you can smash each other's faces.
So get it done.
- Let's go, quarterback!
- Jakk is gonna play defense, and I'm gonna play offense.
- There are some, like, agility skills that come in handy
with that and some things that, you know,
give a little bit of an advantage.
- Jay and Michelle are very cryptic.
They think the less they say, the less bad [bleep]
they're doing.
Really, you just look like a punk.
You look like you don't have enough nerve
to do what you really wanted to do.
- I believe that we are supposed to be in this game
still, and we will.
When we get back, the house will be turned upside down.
- All right, everyone, ready!
Go! [air horn blares]
[group shouting]
- Come on!
- Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
- You got this, Laurel! Keep moving.
- There you go! Start carrying them back.
Let's go! - Oh, okay,
that's what time it is, four at a time.
- Good job. Love this technique.
- I tell Aneesa, "I know you can carry
"four of these bricks at one time.
Reach your arms through, grab two on each arm, and go."
We will knock this thing out faster than them."
- Good job!
You're strong, Laurel. You're strong.
Keep moving.
Hustle, Laurel! Hustle!
- You gotta go!
I personally would like to see Laurel and Jakk
come back just because of my connection with Laurel.
She has a very special place in my heart.
- Come on, Laurel, you got this!
- Good job, Jakk!
- Jordan and Aneesa are killing it
picking up four bricks at the same time.
I already knew Jordan could do that,
but I didn't know Aneesa could do that.
So she definitely is the MVP right now.
Keep going! Keep going!
- Push it through right now! There you go!
Go! Go! - Good hustle.
Good hustle. - Let's go, baby!
- Good.
Opening.
- Dang.
- Go, Jordan! Go!
Jordan, now! - Come on, Laurel!
- Right there, guys. Come on, Laurel!
- Jordan, now!
- Oh. - Oh, wow.
- Good job, Jordan! Keep it up! Let's go!
Lock it in, Jordan! Let's go!
- Come on, Laurel!
- I've played dodgeball, and I've been in the goal
as a young kid, with my brother
just kicking soccer balls at me and throwing lacrosse balls.
So I feel like maybe I could just
stir up some of that childhood stuff and block some.
- Let's go! - Laurel, breathe.
Breathe, Laurel!
- Jordan, bring more balls with you.
- Good job, Jordan!
- I wish I was down there throwing the balls
because I would love to peg some of these
mother[bleep] in their face.
- Come on, Jordan. Good job, Jordan!
Let's go, baby! Let's get it.
Losing Jordan and Aneesa tonight would be tragic,
not just for my game, but, like, for me emotionally.
I feel like Jordan and I have had a lot of conversations,
but I don't feel like we're done talking.
I'm not ready for him to leave this game.
So they need to come back.
- Good job, Jordan! Keep it up!
Focus your throw.
- I really wanna win again.
And I'm just gonna remind myself what I'm here for,
which is to compete and get [bleep] done.
- Laurel, try a different angle!
- I'm right back at baseball practice.
I'm right back at football practice.
Put the ball through the hoop.
And I'm gonna get back in this house.
I told you, Jay. I told you, Michele.
We will win. You will see us again.
And right now, I don't see anybody stopping us.
- Good job, Jordan! Keep it up.
Let's go!
- Laurel, bring more!
- Lock it in, Jordan, let's go!
- Yes, Laurel! Yeah!
- Yes! Good job, Laurel!
[dramatic music]
[grunting] [encouraging yells]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Good, keep going! Grab more balls with you!
- Laurel hit Jordan right in his face!
Light his ass up!
Nice! Good job, Laurel!
- Good job, Jordan!
Good job, Jordan!
I'm definitely impressed at how good Jordan is,
but I'm also not shocked.
I feel like Jordan is superhuman.
He literally can do it all.
- Good job, Jordan! Keep it up!
Let's go! - Come on, Laurel.
You got this!
- Good job, Jakk!
- Great [bleep], Jakk. - Good job, Jakk!
- I'm deflecting as much as I can.
And something that actually really touches me
is that every time I do deflect a ball,
Jordan tells me good job.
He's probably one of the best players in this game.
So he's kind of keeping me motivated, even though he's
on an opposing team.
- Lock it in. Good job.
- Come on, Laurel!
- Good work, Aneesa. Good job, baby!
- Laurel, go low! Laurel, go low!
- Laurel doesn't even have enough strength right now.
Aneesa is doing a great job blocking shots as well.
And Jakk is struggling. It's tough to watch,
but we're just the better team. Simple as that.
- Accuracy, Laurel! Accuracy.
- Yes, Jordan!
- The ones that are lit, right? - Yeah.
The bottom center is hit.
- I'm not lit. - Come on, Jordan.
Yeah, Jordan! Lock it in. Last one. Let's go!
Finish the [bleep] game!
- Jordan, line one up!
- What did I tell you?
- Listen, I know you're pissed.
It's just a game.
But in this moment, I'm kinda shaking in my boots.
- What did I say?
[exciting music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Yes!
- Thanks, Coach.
[air horn] - All right, good job.
Aneesa and Jordan win.
- That sucks.
- Good job, you guys.
- Good try, Laurel. Good try, Jakk.
[somber music]
- Good job, Jakk. Good job, guy.
- Get him, Stucky!
♪♪ ♪♪
- [whispering]
Come on. Give me a hug.
- I'm proud of you.
- I'm very proud of you.
We're gonna win.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Time, Jakk.
Jordan, will you literally [bleep] them up, please?
- Yes, I will.
Laurel tells me, "Go and kick Jay and Michele's asses.
"Don't let their smug little faces walk to a final.
Make them pay for putting us in against each other."
And I will.
- [indistinct] coming for us.
Don't worry about it.
- Please. - I promise.
- I don't think I've ever loved you,
like, any more than I do now.
You're just.. you're so important to me.
And I'm so happy to just be here with you.
And I'm just really proud of you.
I'm just really [bleep] proud of you.
- I love you, Jakk.
It's amazing to be able to play this game with Jakk,
with my ride or die.
- I feel so good because I told you, Jay.
But you did great. - Thank you.
- I knew you could do it.
- This is the partnership that I never knew I needed.
- This elimination, it set us on fire.
♪♪ ♪♪
- What an elimination.
Jordan, Aneesa, wow.
- Thank you.
- Everyone here did really well.
You gave it your all. There's no doubt about it.
Honestly, Laurel, you're one of the goats.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
Yeah! - Whoo!
- Yeah!
- ♪♪ Stumble swiftly ♪♪
- Yeah!
♪♪ ♪♪
- Yes, girl. - Yes, queen!
- Um...
as hard as I am on myself,
and as much as I don't like this outcome,
it's nice to be acknowledged by TJ
and the people in the house.
I guess this one was not my game.
And that's tough for me to admit.
- Laurel and Jakk, unfortunately,
you ran into some beasts tonight.
You're great competitors.
Hopefully, we'll see you both in the future.
Take care. - See you, guys.
- Whoo! - Whoo!
- I just feel like it ended way too soon.
I know there was miscommunication between us,
but this friendship, we could keep it going.
- Keep your head up high.
- We love you! - Hey, take care of it.
- I got you.
- ♪♪ I'm a champion ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah ♪♪
♪♪ I'm a champion ♪♪
- Aneesa, you were back there.
I watched you the whole time, blocking your ass off.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- She couldn't score. - Yes!
- You showed why you dominate in eliminations.
- Beast mode baby!
- Whoo-hoo! Yeah!
- And, Jordan, from which ones to hit first
to carrying four blocks, you completely wrote
the blueprint on how to win.
Both of you absolutely dominated
that elimination for real.
So congratulations.
You win tonight's elimination round.
- Whoo-hoo! - You're still in the game,
going for the money. Great job.
- Thank you.
- All right, everyone, you see what time it is.
I'll see you soon. Get outta here.
- Whoo-hoo!
Let's go!
Yeah!
- If I were Jay and Michele, I would
not want the wrath of Jordan.
He's a very, very spiteful human being.
And he will come back and he will
go for them every chance he gets.
- Here I am.
- Were you worried? - No, I wasn't worried!
- You weren't worried? - No!
- Aneesa and I were fine just floating by.
But now, Jay and Michele have lit a fire up under us.
And we're gonna come back in this game for vengeance.
♪♪ ♪♪
[dramatic music]
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- We lost. - Yeah.
- You know, someone had to go home
and it's us.
- It was a strange game.
It was one of those things you really can't predict.
You have to just do it and go with it.
- Yeah. - And I think we did it.
- At least we got one win.
Jakk got his first elimination win.
He knows what that feels like.
- [bleep] yeah!
- It's not like we're going out
with having nothing accomplished.
Each step of the way, we built an even stronger bond.
- [bleep]
- We're still supporting each other through each success
and each failure
and I think that's in an of itself a win.
- Good job, guys. [applause]
- Even though Jakk and I are going home tonight,
Jordan and Aneesa are going back into the house,
and I know Jordan is gonna take care
of what I would have done.
I am a little disappointed because I won't get
to continue building...
Some of the relationships that started in the house,
but all's well.
It's okay.
I'm just sad to leave the game because...
obviously, I love to play and-- [clears throat]
It sucks to have to go home and it's just--
in, like--in this moment, it's sad.
I'll be okay, though.
[laughs]
- Sometimes you gotta be a wolf in sheep's clothing
to win this thing.
- Come on, everyone ready!
Go!
- Every time someone wins, Devin's nice to them.
- She has said that I'm the biggest snake in the house.
- What are you talking about? It's all actually
getting a little out of control.
- No, it's not. Devin, say it.