Previously on The Challenge, a storm was brewing.
[thunder crashing]
SHANNON: I heard there was a little Big Brother drama.
ALYSSA: My season-- X is my best friend,
but he was never working with me.
Alyssa is easily probably the closest ally I have
from the Big Brothergroup.
If you're actually wanting to have my back here,
I would appreciate it if you did.
I was actually Xavier's pawn
in that whole season and honestly
what I'm excited about is getting my revenge on him.
Everyone's like, "Oh, Shan,
you're super social strategic player,"
and I'm like, I really just try to make friends
and I'm not really deviously plotting.
SHAN: Let me just use my social skills,
my friend-making skills to my advantage because
it could save me in this game.
TJ: This challenge is called
"Hang on, man."
♪ ♪
This is very complex.
She's handing me
pieces that don't even fit.
You got this, Tasha.
LEO: Who you're partnered with,
it could make or break you.
JAMES: Oh...
♪ ♪
-KYLAND: Let's go! -[air horn blows]
-[whooping] -Wee. Yeah!
Tasha, James,
unfortunately, couldn't get it done.
I'll be seeing you both in the Arena.
Kyland and Angela,
choose one team to go against James and Tasha.
Who's it gonna be?
Dome and Cash.
Tonight you are playing Plug-and-Play.
♪ ♪
Move faster. Move faster!
Check, check, check.
-[air horn blows] -Cashay and Domenick win.
-I love you. -TJ: James, Tasha, take care.
And now it's time to see what the Algorithm has to say.
♪ ♪
TJ: All right.
There it is, in all its glory.
DEREK: This random algorithm is going to put your best friend
with someone that you want out.
And when that happens, if you have weak alliances,
someone's going to turn on you
and throw you into elimination.
First up.
We have...
Leo and...
Desi.
DESI: As someone who played Amazing Race three times,
you think that Leo is just good at everything,
but we haven't seen Leo excel
anywhere, and he just can't help
but compare himself to a cat
in almost every conversation you have with him.
So we'll see if he lands on his feet.
TJ: Next up we have...
Kyland.
Kyland's partner is...
Alyssa.
ALYSSA: I'm happy about working with Ky,
and I'm nervous about working with Ky.
OnBig Brother, we kind of clashed.
KYLAND: Alyssa, me and the remaining Houseguests
are in an alliance.
You should never feel dumb or played
in any way for not realizing we were working together.
ALYSSA: We didn't really communicate well and this is
a partnership. Communication is key.
TJ: Ben.
Azah.
Enzo.
Cashay.
David's new teammate is...
Justine.
The Challengewants me to fall in love.
They keep giving me these Love Islandgirls.
Luckily for me, I feel like I got
the best Love Islandgirl.
TJ: Xavier.
-Shan. -XAVIER: In just about
every challenge, Shan has performed pretty well.
We don't really know each other.
We know of each other, so this gives us a chance
to hopefully build our relationship together.
Danny.
Kyra.
Derek. Sarah.
Tyson. Tyson's new teammate is...
Cayla.
CAYLA: I just hit the jackpot.
I have Tyson.
He has proven himself
twice already.
God,
I hope this is my turn to get the money
to qualify me for TJ's final.
TJ: Domenick.
Angela.
Which means...
Cinco and Shannon.
[applause and cheering]
TJ: I hope you like your partners, but if not, too bad.
Get out of here, I'll see you soon.
♪ ♪
JUSTINE: And I'm with David.
This algorithm is stressing me out.
People at this point don't consider David
as a strong player,
so I am a little bit worried
being partnered up with him this week.
Is there any one pair that we're scared of?
-Yes. -CASHAY: Who?
JUSTINE: Kyland and Alyssa?
CASHAY: We're not scared.
They're Big Brotherstrong, and they're not
getting rid of Big Brother.
They're keeping their numbers
because they want it to be
all Big Brotherin the final.
So you have nothing to worry about
if a Big Brotherperson wins.
You can look at this like,
"Oh, I feel good. I feel like I'll probably be safe."
By the way, I think everybody feels like us.
We're gonna have to just start throwing people in.
JUSTINE: I already have my money. I can just
try to lay low and make it to the finale.
So I'm in a pretty good spot,
but I want to maintain that.
I want to maintain where I am, I don't ever want to
go into elimination.
[exhales sharply]
I know the background
of every Survivorplayer in this compound.
I know what Shan did on her season.
She's a very cutthroat player.
And we can't really trust X either
because of what he's done in the past.
All this together makes me nervous
about who to trust and who not to trust.
I feel good about me and Sarah and then when I look at
the other matchups, there's nothing else.
There's no other matchup, that I'm like,
-"Oh, that's like, super strong." -Yeah.
The number one ally I have in this game is Derek.
We came fromBig Brother. We were both backstabbed.
Basically, me and Derek
were pawns in Xavier and the Cookout's game.
We really want them to know what that feels like.
You assume you're gonna win? [laughing]
DAVID: InThe Challenge,
you get respect when you perform well.
To all the Big Brotherfans out there:
this is notBig Brother.
I want to win this game.
I want to win the half a million dollars.
And I have something to prove.
Cheers.
♪ ♪
How you feeling about the game overall?
I feel like there were the Big Brotherpeople,
I feel like there were the Survivorpeople.
The Amazing Racers were probably
somewhere in the middle.
XAVIER: Yeah, they were, like, trying to figure out:
"There's only three of us, so we can't really..."
Right, right.
-The Love Islandpeople. -The Love Islanders.
Yeah, I feel like that's how the house has been split.
But I think
after this week, it gets really hard
-to play that kind of game. -Yeah.
You're the best insurance policy that I have.
-[laughing] -And I'm probably the best
insurance policy that you have at this moment.
I may not trust
Xavier as a game player because he's with Big Brother
and they're shady.
But I do trust him as a partner and I trust his brain
because the Big Brotherpeople
won't go for the Big Brotherpeople,
and the Survivorpeople won't go for the Survivorpeople
like, if they're matched up. So I'm like,
"This is good insurance." I'm like, "Yay!"
XAVIER: There's more than likely
gonna come a point where you're like, "Okay,
"do I choose friendship or what's gonna be best for me
moving forward in this game" type of thing.
I was the winner
of season 23 ofBig Brother.
I was on with Derek,
Kyland, and Alyssa. And though
we had to do some backstabbing manipulative deception,
I have moved past it. I'm long past it.
If the situation between me and Kyland were reversed,
I would just be like, "All right,
he got me before I got him."
♪ ♪
[laughing]
Why does he look like that?
SHAN: What is he about to...?
That look on his face is terrifying.
-Diabolical. -[laughing]
TJ: All right, everyone.
We're playing one of my favorite games. Trivia.
ALL: Oh!
Fuck.
-Let's go. -[applause and cheering]
SHANNON: Oh.
It's trivia.
And I'm like, why did I get Cinco?
We couldn't have done something
endurance-wise or some heavy lifting?
Today we're calling it "Falling off the knowledge."
Or "Falling off the no ledge."
-Get it? -[forced laughter]
I didn't write that. No, that wasn't mine.
♪ ♪
To begin,
I'm gonna place you and your partner on a ledge,
250 feet above the ground.
Then, I'm going to be asking you a series of questions.
Get the answer right, great.
Get the answer wrong,
you will be plummeting 150 feet straight down.
So I hope you brought your thinking caps
and maybe a change of underwear.
Ho, ho, ho.
This game is going to be played in three rounds,
which will produce a winners' round
and a losers' round.
If you win today, you will receive
$10,000 to be split in your Challengeaccounts,
and be safe from elimination.
And remember, you are also playing to earn your spot
in the first ever
global Challengechampionships streaming
exclusively on Paramount+.
If you lose today, I'll be seeing you in the Arena.
There's going to be some doo-doo pies getting dropped.
We're gonna be up 150 feet.
There's definitely gonna be some doo-doo pies ready.
I'll tell you that.
TJ: Good luck, everyone. Let's do it.
-Ready? -I think we'll be okay.
Ain't this some shit.
♪ ♪
TJ: All right.
So, how's everyone feeling?
Nervous.
I don't know. Chilling.
DANNY: To my wife, Kiki,
I love you.
If I die,
everything's yours. You can take it.
Buy whatever you want,
as many shoes or purses.
You deserve it.
Ho, ho, this is gonna be a good one.
First question.
Here in Argentina,
the official language is Spanish.
What other countries
have Spanish as their official language?
-Danny and Kyra. -Mexico?
Correct.
Okay.
-Peru. -TJ: Correct.
-Spain. -It's in the name. Correct.
-Chile. -Correct.
Danny and Kyra, back at you.
Brazil.
Nope. Nope.
-That is incorrect. -[Kyra screaming]
[groaning]
[laughing]
TJ: Danny, Kyra, you're in the losers' round.
Are they gonna put us down?
We're going into the losers' round
and if we lose that, we are going into elimination
and once again, I don't want to go home.
Danny,
that was no bueno.
And now it's real.
Yo!
Cinco's face. [laughing]
I hear "Koosh!"
[whirring]
And I look over again
and they're gone. I just hear the rope...
[whirring]
Oh, hell no.
-All right, next question. -Oh, no.
Yo, this is really going to be us
if we get a question wrong.
CINCO: Ooh!
Shit!
[laughing]
♪ ♪
We're alive!
SHAN: Danny and Kyra fell first.
[Kyra screaming]
Xavier and I,
we're not gonna be placed in the losers' match.
It's trivia and I never want to drop,
so I'm like, let me work towards that.
[whooping]
I bet that shit is really funny
while you're standing on solid ground.
It is so funny.
Next one's a doozy.
People are, like, at brunch right now.
TJ: There's one reason
we're all here. Money.
♪ ♪
List one of the top eight
most tradable currencies
and what country they're from.
Should we say U.S. dollar?
Oh, yeah. U.S. dollar. America.
That is correct.
The euro,
traded in several countries in Europe,
one of them being Italy.
We'll take that.
The peso, which can be found in Mexico
or the Argentinian peso.
-Incorrect. -[Shan shouting]
[shrieks]
[laughing]
-TJ: That's sick, right? -Ah!
The whole rig shook.
[Shan shouting]
Ooh-whoo. Oh, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo.
Oh, look at that. I just press the button. Boom.
See you later, alligator.
Wouldn't want to be you. [laughing]
We're down to two teams left!
Who doesn't want to fall?
-I damn sure don't. -I don't.
I love that we get to see them do it first.
I love it. I fucking love it.
TJ: Next question.
Top ten heaviest animals.
Cinco and Shannon.
Let's do whale.
Correct.
-Domenick and Angela. -Elephant?
Elephant is correct.
-Hippopotamus. -Correct.
-Rhinoceros. -That is correct.
-Great white. -We'll say great white shark.
That's an animal.
Yes, it is.
-It's still an animal. -It's a fish.
It's an animal.
[exhaling]
Whatever it is,
I have bigger fish to fry. I don't care.
Whatever.
That is incorrect.
[Shannon yelling]
-Oh! -SHANNON: We good. We good.
We good. We good.
[laughing]
-They took our rhinoceros. -TJ: That is incorrect.
A plankton-feeding shark. That is actually the answer.
Dom, Angela, you move on to the winners' round.
SHANNON: I just don't understand.
Great white sharks are so heavy, though.
Can you pick one up?
But we didn't lose, so we're not
in the losers' bracket, which is good.
TJ: All right.
How's everybody feeling?
So far so good?
-Doing great, TJ. -Don't look down.
TYSON: If I had lined up the entire household
and they were like, "Choose one person for trivia,"
every time I'm pointing Cayla.
She's good at stuff. She's got the look.
She's got
some wisdom in that face.
Name an actress that has portrayed Catwoman
on the big screen.
[whooping]
Fuck, let's go!
First question is
Catwoman.
I love cats.
We're ready to answer.
I love cats. Bring it on! Mm.
DESI: Oh, God, if Leo makes one more comment
about a cat, I think I might scream.
SARAH: I like Leo as a person, but he acts like
he doesn't take anything serious.
All right. Stop, Leo. [chuckling]
SARAH: He's, like, making jokes. A lot of the girls
have talked about not wanting to pair up with him,
and I completely agree.
-Halle Berry. -TJ: Correct.
DEREK: I cannot name you
a single actress that has played Catwoman ever.
Alyssa and Kyland need to win the challenge.
Kyland is a movie head.
He could probably name what size shoe the actress wears.
Anne Hathaway.
TJ: That is correct. Sarah and Derek.
Bro, who watches...?
I... [exhaling deeply]
Scarlett Johansson.
Fuck.
I mean, that's a good answer.
-Yeah. -Thank you.
-Thanks for playing. -[Sarah yelling]
TJ: You're in the losers' round.
-[laughing] -DEREK: Oh!
Fuckin' Dr. Evil, bro.
SARAH: Now I'm sweating bullets and I'm like,
"Okay, Derek,
you're not as smart as everyone said you were,"
and...
"get away from me."
We all know that the U.S. has 50 states.
Name all the states that start with "N."
Tyson and Cayla.
North Dakota.
New Hampshire.
Nebraska.
TYSON: New York.
Nevada.
New Mexico.
North Carolina.
Uh-oh.
-Leo and Desi. -New Mexico?
-They already said New Mexico. -TJ: This is it.
-North Dakota. -All right.
North Dakota.
Oh, that was already said, I think.
-Thank you for playing. -[Desi screaming]
[Leo groaning, screaming]
[laughing]
Oh, my God!
[laughing]
New Hampshire. I don't know.
Kyland, Alyssa, name the first ten
presidents of the United States.
George Washington.
Thomas Jefferson.
-John Adams. -TJ: Wow.
You guys got the top three right out of the way.
Cayla and Tyson.
-Eisenhower. -Garfield.
Nope, no way. That's wrong. Peace!
The cat?
[laughing]
Meow.
Sorry, dude.
[Cayla screaming]
[Tyson screaming]
TYSON: Oh, my God.
The scream, the scream... That was a legit scream.
DOMENICK: Out of all the Survivors out here,
Tyson is my biggest concern.
I see him having conversations with Big Brotherpeople,
so I'm happy not to see him take down another win.
I'm feeling real good that my biggest competitor
out here has now fallen through the floor.
-Look at my leg shaking. -It's all good.
TJ: Kyland, Alyssa,
you're moving on to the winners' round.
ALYSSA: I know
I am just not going right into elimination,
so that's kind of a relief, but obviously I still want to win
because that gives me some power to make some moves,
and I definitely have
that revenge on Xavier on my mind.
[laughing]: Oh...
TJ: Name an actress
who has won an Academy Award
for Best Actress
or Best Supporting Actress in the last ten years.
Enzo and Cash.
CASHAY: I'm an actor.
As soon as he said that question, I was like,
"What's an actor?"
-Cate Blanchett. -That is correct.
Ben and Azah.
I don't know. Do you know one?
I don't really do a lot of trivia.
My family and I live very humbly in a farmhouse.
We don't watch a lot of TV. We don't watch a lot of movies.
-Lupita Nyong'o. -Correct.
Yes.
Sandra Bullock.
DAVID: My favorite Sandra Bullock movie
is, uh...
TJ: That is incorrect.
Sorry.
[screaming]
It's good, it's a good time.
David, Justine, you're in the losers' round.
JUSTINE: I'm trying not to let
other people's opinion on David get to me or get into my head.
But, TJ, you and your perfect algorithm could kick rocks.
[laughing]
All right, next question.
Name me one of the World Atlas
top ten most popular sports.
-Soccer. -Basketball.
-Tennis. -Rugby.
-That is correct. -Thank God, okay. What else?
Boxing.
-[hyperventilating] -Are we going?
I'm gonna shit my pants.
Oh, that's incorrect. Sorry.
[screaming]
[Enzo screaming]
TJ: Did you see her face?
Her face was priceless.
Ben, Azah, you will move to the winners' round.
-Yes! You saved us so much. -[laughing]
TJ: All right, everyone.
This is the losers' round.
First team to fall is going straight into elimination.
TYSON: Sarah is fromSurvivor.
It seems like she has my back
but she voted me out twice onSurvivor.
I can never fully know
if Sarah is on my side,
so if she loses,
is not gonna hurt me at all and it could help.
♪ ♪
TJ: It's time for the losers' round.
Remember, the first team to fall
is going straight into elimination.
Hockey, like The Challenge, requires skill, teamwork
and a whole lot of strategy.
Name an NHL team
that has won hockey's Stanley Cup.
SARAH: "I don't like Catwoman and watch movies like that."
That should be right up your alley, bro.
And you shit the bed on that one.
So, now what?
I got this one.
Derek, just stand there and keep your mouth shut.
Chicago Blackhawks.
Very nice, Sarah.
New York Rangers?
Whoa.
-That is correct. -KYRA: I did not want to be
in the bottom with my girl, Justine.
In my eyes,
I know that my Love Island girls have my back.
We are trying to stay away from eliminations.
Danny and Kyra, let's go.
I don't know.
You have a pro athlete on your team.
I don't know shit about hockey.
[laughing]
Damn, what's the Pittsburgh team?
Pittsburgh.
What team is in Pittsburgh?
A hockey team.
TJ: What are they called? The Pittsburgh...?
The Pirates are baseball.
[laughing]
KYRA: I don't know anything about sports,
so I'm literally like, "Okay, we're going in."
Penguins.
-Fuck. I don't know. -We're done.
That's correct.
[cheering]
[laughing and whooping]
Shit.
Pittsburgh, they usually win a lot.
The penguins are icy animals, so put those two together,
you got the Pittsburgh Penguins.
All right, Sarah, Derek. Here we are.
-Washington Capitals. -That is correct.
Las Vegas?
They get there all the time.
No, no.
Sorry.
[David screaming]
[laughing]
David, Justine, you will move straight to elimination.
DEREK: David is a great guy.
We have theBig Brother connection,
but when he gets it wrong
I am on cloud nine.
Danny, let's go, baby.
Yeah!
DEREK: Danny might be
more ecstatic than me.
He's sending out a freaking Dragon Ball Z
Kamehameha...
[shouting]
...into the atmosphere.
It is the best feeling in the world to avoid elimination.
-[shouting] -ALYSSA: I want Derek Xiao to the end.
I want to run the final with Derek.
And I know Derek is revengeful as well,
but he definitely wants to
play it smart, just like I am.
Anything that's gonna benefit him,
I'm gonna do my best to work with that, and vice versa.
TJ: All right, everyone,
this is the winners' round.
The last team standing will win today's challenge.
Name the federal holidays in the U.S.
CASHAY: We're nervous about Alyssa and Kyland.
TwoBig Brother people.
With Big Brotheras a whole,
you just literally don't want to trust them.
It's that simple.
-Christmas. -Correct.
-Columbus Day. -Correct.
AZAH: July 4th, Independence Day.
That's a good one.
Memorial Day.
DOMENICK: President's Day.
-Thanksgiving. -Labor Day.
Martin Luther King Day.
Next up.
Here we are.
Here it is.
No, don't, don't, don't. Don't say anything yet.
We're coming. We're almost there.
Five, four,
three...
Easter.
That is incorrect.
We're so dropping. [laughing]
[screaming]
TJ: Whoa. It sounded a little faster than normal.
All right.
Zodiac signs.
Name them.
Cancer.
-Aries. -Leo.
Fuck me.
That is a person, but okay.
-Aquarius. -Pisces.
-Taurus. -Sagittarius.
-Scorpio. -Gemini.
This is fun. Just answering questions.
Killing it.
Um, Leo? Did they...?
-Pisces. -Pisces, Pisces.
-You said Pisces, right? -Yeah.
-You said Pisces. -Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Hey, thanks for playing.
[Domenick screaming]
[laughing]
TJ: You did it, you did it. Congratulations.
-Yes! -Oh...
Are you gonna drop us?
-No, no, no, that's not funny. -Oh, God.
KYLAND: The entire time
Alyssa and I spent in theBig Brother house,
our relationship was pretty rocky,
but since then, Alyssa and I
have had a lot of opportunities to hang out.
I have twoChallenge wins under my belt.
Getting my girl Alyss qualified to run in the final,
it's just another bonus.
TJ: Kylan, Alyssa, congratulations.
You never fell.
Yay!
SHAN: There's twoBig Brother players in the mix,
but I'm partnered with Xavier, so at this point I'm feeling
pretty good because I know
that he's close with Alyssa.
By winning today's challenge,
you win $10,000 to split in your Challengeaccounts,
which also qualifies you to run my final.
And you are safe from elimination.
DOMENICK: Kyland is a beast.
I believe Tyson thinks
he's untouchable.
I believe Angela thinks they're untouchable.
Kyland's not there yet, but he's getting there.
On the other hand, we have David and Justine.
Unfortunately, you lost today's challenge,
so I'll be seeing you two in the Arena.
Kyland, Alyssa, it's time to go back to the house
and decide which team
you want to send into the Arena to go against
Justine and David.
And I'll get that answer in the Arena.
See everyone there.
-Get out of here. -JUSTINE: I'm filled with
some rage.
I'm not feeling too confident
in the partnership with David right now.
I don't trustBig Brother to begin with.
Alyssa and Kyland winning adds
a cherry on top of this horrible, horrible day.
♪ ♪
KYLAND: We're home.
-ALYSSA: Honey, I'm home. -KYLAND: The winning team.
Winning squad's home.
XAVIER: Congratulations.
Your first daily challenge win, Ky.
-On trivia? -XAVIER: Two-peat, attaboy.
Oh, I knew he would be brilliant.
And I was proud of you, too.
-I did nothing, I guess, Ky. -No, no, no, we both...
I was saying I knew he was gonna be good at this.
I felt like you would be strong, too.
The unique position that we come from that
you don't come from is the position of
having a trust broken here in the game.
XAVIER: I came into this game expecting
anyone from Big Brotherlooking and ready to take a shot at me
if it presented itself,
especially people from my season in particular because
I backstabbed pretty much all of them.
I did what I had to do on Big Brotherto win.
It's plain and simple as that.
On Big Brother 23,
things didn't end on the best page
with Xavier and I, but since then,
we've actually spent some time rebuilding that relationship.
But on a strategic level, we can't trust him in the game.
I mean, if you guys want to throw me into elimination
because of Big Brother, that's perfectly fine.
Um, if I come back,
I'm coming for both y'all asses.
Just know that.
I'm going to join Survivor. [laughing]
Eh, what's new?
We're gonna have a nice little war.
He's coming after us. What the fuck is new, Ky?
Whoa! Oh, no.
I thought that X was Alyssa's number one in this game.
And I thought she was his.
So,
if this is the move that she's feeling
we should make right now,
it's hard for me not to consider this.
♪ ♪
KYLAND: Welcome, welcome.
How're you guys?
JUSTINE: As good as can be.
DAVID: It feels like,
I guess if I were your-- in your shoes,
Shannon and Cinco.
JUSTINE: Obviously that is a Love Island-Love Island,
so we don't know
where your guys' heads are at
in that regard, but...
I personally do not want to go up against Cinco, so...
Uh...
As far as Xavier and Shan, how do you guys feel?
What do you guys look at there?
♪ ♪
I don't know if it's a ruse because X is Big Brother.
I know that they're strong.
KYLAND: And obviously there's Big Brother,
but we're-we're just, you know,
-we want to look thoroughly. -Yeah.
JUSTINE: I'm gonna take advantage of that
because I personally do not want
to go up against Cinco and Shannon in there because
I still need Love Island to be strong in the house.
I personally would be open to that one.
♪ ♪
We're just gonna see. I mean, honestly,
I'm not worried about going in at all.
I'm pretty sure me and Cinco are going into the elimination.
Two Love Islanders, people see you
and they're like, "Oh, they're an easy target."
My anxiety
is very high at this moment.
CINCO: Right now, let's just get our mindsets
on getting ready for tonight.
KYLAND: We have to figure out
dynamics in-- beyond the next elimination.
-Thanks, guys. -KYLAND: Thank you, guys.
-Appreciate it. -KYLAND: Appreciate it.
♪ ♪
What're you guys thinking?
Are you guys playing for me?
What is happening here?
I am supportive of whatever you guys want to do
and I will roll with whatever punches.
We need to talk to Angela
and make sure she's fine with it.
KYLAND: Yeah.
Big Brotheris now eating itself,
which couldn't be more
perfect for me.
If I have more Survivors in the game,
I'm not in a bad place.
-ANGELA: Hey, guys. Congrats. -Thanks.
Two teams have been talked about.
It's Shannon and Cinco.
And Shan and X.
I mean, I...
Obviously, we're gonna have to take shots
-at each other eventually. -Mm-hmm.
ANGELA: Me and Tyson both have targets on our back
because we have shown the house that we are great competitors.
So,
if they want to do it, they have my blessings.
They can get blood on their hands,
and the rest of the house is going to see them
as wild cards.
And that takes pressure off of me.
You could just throw it all on Shan.
Make her freak out, and then X just feels like
he was partnered with the bad apple.
I think we blame everything on Shan.
ALYSSA: I do trust Angela.
I feel like we have a really good personal connection.
And I want to make sure people have my back
and by people, I mean
the strongest players.
I'm gonna back Survivorheavy and so is all of Love Island.
You know what I mean?
Because at the end of the day, my main goal is
that Big Brother doesn't take over the house.
SHAN: It wouldn't make sense forBig Brother
to eat their numbers because Survivors
are gonna stick Survivorstrong,
and they don't trust Big Brother.
Kyland is insufferable.
Alyssa is like a little weasel.
She's always looking and watching
and I just don't trust her.
They throw each other under the bus left, right and center.
That's a part of y'all's nature.
If Shan gets thrown in tonight,
she's going to lose her shit.
This can't be talked about.
I know I've been saying I want to take a shot at Xavier,
which-- that is what I want to do,
but I want to do it at the right time.
I don't want to make a move
that I'm gonna regret just based off revenge.
All I'll say is you cannot
trust Big Brother. [laughing]
♪ ♪
DEREK: I immediately see that it's a puzzle
and I'm scared.
I'm looking at Alyssa
and I'm shaking my head no,
because this is X's forte.
X, if he goes in,
is coming back out.
ALYSSA: Derek is telling me
not to do it.
Like, what the hell?
If he's scared, should I be scared? Do I do it?
Do I go with it? I don't know.
TJ: All right, everyone,
welcome back to the Arena.
Now, one way
of getting into the Arena is by losing a challenge.
So, David, Justine, come on out.
♪ ♪
[applause and cheering]
Alyssa, Kyland, you get to choose
one team to go against
Justine and David.
So, who's it gonna be?
-[whispers indistinctly] -Okay, you sure?
-Mm-hmm. -Okay.
KYLAND: All right, TJ,
this whole Algorithm business
has made a... already complicated game
far more complicated.
It's perfect.
Perfect, of course. But it's tough.
♪ ♪
It's looking like our best decision
for tonight is sending Shan and Xavier.
AZAH: Wait, what?
[laughing]
Shan and Xavier?
Alyssa, you put Xavier in there?
Bro! Yo, the tea is hot.
ALYSSA: It's obviously someone I do care about outside of this game,
but unfortunately,
he was partnered with someone that multiple people said that
we should be concerned about.
Xavier, Shan, come on down.
SHAN: I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat
for their issues with Xavier.
Like, they should just grow a pair
and just say we're petty AF.
XAVIER: Oh, Kyland.
Kyland, Kyland, Kyland.
You really don't know how to win these games, do you?
You're still stuck onBB 23, and so is Alyssa.
Are you playing to win or are you playing to get even?
That's where we differ. I play to win games.
ALYSSA: Do I feel bad? A little.
But he did the same thing to me, so...
Welcome to the club, buddy, I guess.
TJ: All right, well.
Tonight is a game called Smash In Puzzle Out.
As you can see, there are two giant steel tunnels.
Each tunnel has sections
that are sectioned off
by panes of glass.
You are gonna break those panes of glass
and crawl through the tunnel where you will find
a block puzzle.
You need to bring the block puzzle out
piece by piece all the way to the start.
First team to solve their puzzle
will win tonight's elimination round and take
the other team's money.
Here's the catch.
Every pane of glass
is color-coded for every teammate.
If you break your teammate's glass,
that's a five-second penalty
for every pane that you break.
And you have to pay that
before you start putting that puzzle together.
You got it?
Good luck, everyone.
[applause]
♪ ♪
SHAN: All I got to say is,
if you take a swing, you better connect.
And so we're gonna go in there. We're gonna give it our best.
XAVIER: I might just punch through all the glass myself,
take the delay and then
see what we can do from there.
DAVID: I'm upset.
I'm glad this is elimination
where I can break something
and I'm just gonna break this glass
and get back into the compound.
People in the house don't respect me,
and this is my opportunity to earn that.
JUSTINE: I'm even more ready to tackle this,
especially because I have money.
I'm not trying to let anybody take it.
♪ ♪
-TJ: All right, you ready? Go. -[air horn blows]
[loud shattering]
DEREK: X, he's out here for death.
If he comes back into this house,
I think all hell is gonna break loose.
♪ ♪
-TJ: Go! -[air horn blows]
[indistinct chatter]
CAYLA: This elimination
is absolutely nuts.
We've got Xavier just bulldozing through
and punching through all the glass.
So we're like, "Okay, he's taking the penalty."
But then, Justine and David
are not that far behind.
You go straight through right here.
[groans]
XAVIER: At this point, I-I don't care
about David and Justine, I don't care
about Shan, I don't care about Kyland and Alyssa.
I just know I have to break some glass
and put a puzzle together.
Take a piece. Yeah.
Go, Shan. Go, Shan.
♪ ♪
DEREK: Go, guys, go!
XAVIER: Go, Shan. We got to go, Shan.
♪ ♪
Come on, Justine. Go, go!
[groaning]
All right. Go.
Keep going, keep going.
You gotta keep going.
We're almost there. We're almost there.
-Hurry! -Let's go, Shan, one more piece.
[grunting] One more. There's one more piece.
I'll get the last one, I'll get the last one!
I got it. I got it.
TJ: This is a race.
One last piece, Shan.
DAVID: Dig deep, dig deep!
Come on, hop up, hop up, hop up.
XAVIER: Go, Shan. Go, Shan.
♪ ♪
Good job, Shan.
TJ: Xavier, you broke
all your glass and Shan's glass,
so you have a 50-second penalty.
We're just gonna eat the freaking penalty
because we've got enough heat in us to freaking eat
the freaking penalty. I am prepared
to set this house on fire.
You're right there, come on.
David, Justine, ten-second penalty.
JUSTINE: We only have a ten-second delay on this and...
Shan and X have a 50-second delay.
So this is really, really good for us.
TJ: Go. -I think this is the one right here.
Does that go on the outside?
I think it's some, like, flame or something.
Stars maybe on the outside?
DESI: David is always trying to prove something.
This is an opportunity for him to prove
to himself that he's worthy of being in the house.
There's a lot more riding on this challenge for him
than for anybody else.
Two, one, go.
SHAN: Okay.
DOMENICK: Moving it around.
SHAN: Do you see another corner for a star?
XAVIER: Yeah, hurry up. You got to hurry up.
SHAN: I look over and they're still
struggling with their puzzle,
so I feel like I've got the corners-- bang, bang, bang.
And I feel like we're about to have it...
But then, no, this can't go here.
This can't go here.
DAVID: That's the piece I got right here?
-JUSTINE: I think this goes like this? -DAVID: Which side's this?
-We got this. -Oh, my God, Xavier.
XAVIER: Keep going, Shan. Here we go.
-You got it? -We have this right here.
JUSTINE: I'm just thinking about
my family back home.
My parents, my mom.
I cannot
let my family down and
I'm not ready to go.
-Is that right? -This is good. This is good.
It has to go on the other side.
-Right here? Oh, hold up. -Try that one.
Yeah?
JUSTINE: Come on, come on. Is that right? Is that right?
Maybe put this here. Where does this go?
Try that. Try that. Try that.
-Wait. -Check, check, check!
JUSTINE: Is that right?
DAVID: Keep going, keep going, come on, keep going.
-[air horn blows] -All right.
David, Justine, you win. Great job.
[distorted]: Let's go! Let's fucking go!
Yes!
ALYSSA: Xavier,
the winner of Big Brother 23,
just was sent home by Alyssa.
I hope everyone had fun watching
my stress.
I will be waking up
with about five pimples tomorrow.
Um, stay tuned because let's have some more fun.
[grunts]
JUSTINE: Yes, David.
You did that. You did that, Justine.
DAVID: A statement has been made-- I bleed for this.
Justine is a beast. Listen, she's won aChallenge.
She's won elimination.
There's been people playing MTV's The Challenge
for 20 years doesn't have her résumé.
We only four challenges in. Check her out.
JUSTINE: He kept it going. Like, that puzzle,
I'm pretty sure was all him.
It was really great teamwork today.
We're going back to the compound.
-Put some respect on our motherfuckin' name. -That's right.
TJ: Well, Xavier, Shan,
unfortunately, you lost tonight's elimination round,
and you know how it goes in The Challenge.
This ends your time.
-Take care. -All right.
Like, Alyssa might be Megamind,
but she's not the sharpest pencil in the box.
Like, I just don't know what she was thinking.
I don't know, I just, it doesn't make any sense to me.
[cheering]
XAVIER: I playedBig Brother Season 23
and I backstabbed everyone and they're all
petty little bitches about it.
That's why Tyson and the rest
of hisSurvivor fucking juggernauts
are going to take y'all out
because you don't have any backup now.
I'm still rich, y'all broke and y'all are stupid.
-[cheering] -I love you, X.
AZAH: So we have
a Cookout group chat.
I am almost certain when... [chuckling]
...I get out of Argentina and back at home,
I'm going to see that Xavier has left the conversation.
Congratulations, David,
Justine, getting it done.
You now took all their money.
Go ahead and rejoin the group. Great job.
Thank you, TJ.
[applause and cheering]
TJ: So, let's see what the perfect
Algorithm has to say.
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TJ: Next onThe Challenge: USA...
If we can corral him and keep him,
-he's a strong competitor. -LEO: He's the same old Tyson.
SARAH: You want to go to war with me. Not against me.
I think there's someone
that's frustrated that you're winning,
but we don't understand why.
TJ: Welcome, and I hope you are ready to get wet.
It's anybody's game! Don't quit!