Big Brother 28 Spoilers: “I still don’t know if I can evict him”

2:40 PM — Dee and Angela

Dee is still turning Devens over, and she says so before she starts.

Dee: “I’m just talking it out loud.”
Angela: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk it through.”
Dee: “It doesn’t mean that this is it.”

What she cannot get past is being told two things at once.

Dee: “He’s telling me I’m his number one, then also telling me you three have a final three. I felt like — ahh, that’s f—ed up.”

She checks her own evidence and finds it thinner than she wanted.

Dee: “If we’re just thinking he’s telling them a final three, what if that’s not true?”
Dee: “No, no, no. He didn’t tell me that they had a final three. He told me that the three of them had a thing.”
Angela: “That’s what you say. And that is the truth.”

And that is where Angela stops being a sounding board and starts writing the script. What Dee has is not a final three, but Angela has a version of it that will land.

Angela: “You say that. You never tell them that. No, not the final three. But you’re always like — he says he has you guys in the back. He has you in the back, you guys.”
Angela: “He points out and laughs at the fact that you do sit next to him. Like he’s the leader or something.”
Angela: “Really make them feel s—ty that he’s been doing that.”

Then the closer she wants Dee to use on them.

Angela: “And is that somebody you want to go play a game with? Because he could do the same thing — and could be doing the same thing about you to them.”

Dee wants something firmer than a feeling before she moves.

Dee: “What can we do today to get more evidence? You know what I’m saying? To have more hard facts. What can we do?”

Angela’s answer arrives without a pause, and she is delighted with herself.

Angela: “We just make up anything. You’ve been teaching me that.”
Angela: “Make it up and then lie. We can do it together.”
Angela: “I’m gonna make s— up, and I’m gonna lie, and I’m gonna embellish.”

They plan the week after, on the assumption it works.

Angela: “When he goes, we can tell Lala and Taylor. Or maybe we don’t — we just keep with the boys. We got to keep with the boys.”
Dee: “To go either way. Because at the end of the day, we can go wherever we could.”

Dee has a fallback ready for the version where it goes badly.

Dee: “Drew and Barrett are pissed off at us? Guess what. We’re going to go with Yash. And Yash can’t even put us up anyway.”
Dee: “It wouldn’t make sense for Drew and Barrett to be mad at us.”
Angela: “No. At least not openly.”

Back to the evidence problem, and who has to go and get it.

Angela: “He’s closer with you.”
Dee: “Yeah.”
Angela: “He’s not telling you s—, but he might tell you. Ask him some questions.”

She writes those out too.

Angela: “Hey, you’ve been spending a lot of time with them up there. What are they giving you? What’s going on? Why are you feeling so good with them?”
Angela: “Ask him why he feels so confident with them. What have they promised him? Is there anything going on that you know? You still have that alliance thing going on with them.”
Angela: “Get something out of him.”

Dee has tried this before and got nothing.

Dee: “One time I asked him — who do you feel closer to, Drew or Barrett? He never gave me an answer.”

So this time she is going in with a costume on.

Dee: “And then I’ll just play it like I’m nervous for him or something.”
Dee: “Yeah, I’ll ask him that today. Why he feels so confident with them.”
Angela: “Okay.”

One more person is bothering Angela, for the same reason.

Angela: “Also, Melody is so confident. Like, what’s going on?”
Dee: “Yeah, of course she is. She’s with Drew, and he’s telling her everything.”

And then, after all of it — the script, the questions, the plan for the week after — Dee says the only honest thing in the conversation.

Dee: “I still don’t know if I can evict him.”

3:30 PM — Barrett (Gym, alone)

Back in the gym by himself, working the vote out loud. He starts by settling this week.

Barrett: “I don’t think I want to keep Lala around.”
Barrett: “Yash’s point about her being a better competitor and more likely to win is exactly why I don’t want her in this game.”

And there is a cheaper reason on top of it.

Barrett: “At the very least, the Crossovers are wanting Lala out, and I can just at least abide by that.”
Barrett: “If Devens won the Blockbuster, then it’ll seem like at least we were in cohesion for some vote.”
Barrett: “It’s gotta be either Devens or Lala this week.”

Then he loses ten minutes to a question nobody asked him.

Barrett: “Who are the other first jurors? Who are the other ninth placers?”
Barrett: “Who the f— got ninth place on every season?”

He gets two of them immediately and then grinds to a halt, listing whole casts from memory to find the one who went out ninth. Bowie, Jag, Felicia, Cirie, Cory, America. Turner, Michael, Kyle, Alyssa, Brittany. Azah, Kyland, Hannah, Tiffany, Alyssa, Derek X, Claire, Sarah Beth. The verdict on all of it is the same.

Barrett: “Motherf—er, I don’t know.”

And then he gets to the thing he actually came in here to think about.

Barrett: “Double eviction for this Thursday. And we got Devens out right before that.”
Barrett: “I’m gonna eat.”

He does not eat. He keeps going, and the next name out of his mouth is the one that matters.

Barrett: “Can I convince Melody to get rid of Yash?”
Barrett: “If we got out Devens and Yash in the same night, that would be insane.”

He knows exactly what it would be called, too.

Barrett: “It’d be the perfect middleman move to take out one person from each side.”

Then he plays the whole double out, both halves, counting votes for a Head of Household he has not won yet.

Barrett: “Devens gets out, then it’s… yeah, Dee and Angela.”
Barrett: “If it was Dee and Yash sitting there after the veto, you need three votes.”

He runs the ballot and it does not work.

Barrett: “Lala would have voted Angela. Melody would have voted Angela. Taylor would have voted Angela. So that’s not gonna work.”

So he redraws the board twice, out loud, until it does.

Barrett: “Put up Angela and Lala.”
Barrett: “Put up Angela and Lala. Someone wins veto and takes down Angela. Put up Yash. Now it’s Yash and Lala.”
Barrett: “Dee, Angela and Drew to vote out Yash.”

Which gives him the rule.

Barrett: “So to get out Yash, I’d have to keep the Icons off the block.”

And he sees the flaw in his own plan before anybody else can.

Barrett: “But the risk is that if I keep the Icons off the block and put Lala and Taylor up, I hope that Yash doesn’t get picked for the veto and we just backdoor him.”
Barrett: “But if Yash won that veto, I’d just tell him to use it, and then I’d put up Dee and Angela.”

Somebody walks in and it is over.

Barrett: “Hey. I had some Cajun fries.”
Barrett: “How were they? Not really very good.”

5:45 PM — Devens, Dee and Angela (Gym)

Dee has come down from the Head of Household room and she is not in a good mood about it.

Dee: “I just walked out because I don’t want to f—ing talk about guy s—.”
Dee: “And then I just, like, left without saying anything, and then I grabbed a Coke and water.”

Then she finds somebody’s things on the gym floor.

Dee: “Bro, whose stuff is this? Every single time. Ew, the boxers are there.”
Angela: “There’s boxers? Dang.”

Devens walks in on the end of it.

Devens: “What do you want to talk about?”
Dee: “I don’t know, but I don’t want to be up there.”
Devens: “We’re just eating candy.”
Dee: “And I didn’t want to eat more candy either.”

He offers her the Head of Household shower and she turns it down on grounds that have nothing to do with the game.

Devens: “Do you want to shower up there? I’ll shower down here.”
Dee: “No. Not like, no. If nobody was in the room, yeah — but you know what I’m saying? It’s weird.”
Angela: “A lot of guys. A lot of guys.”
Angela: “Just guys in general.”
Devens: “Yeah, I get you.”

Angela asks him how he is doing. What comes back is the whole thing, in one sentence, from the man it is about to happen to.

Devens: “Like, if I was on Survivor, I’d be freaking out because I feel so good. I’d be like, I know I’m getting blindsided. I feel way too good.”

Dee answers it with cover of her own.

Dee: “The only thing that’s worrying me is that Drew and Barrett have not talked to me at all about game. So, like, are they ignoring me for a reason?”
Devens: “No, I feel like I haven’t talked to you guys very much either. But no — I’m super confident in them. And I’m super confident in you guys.”

And then Angela runs the interrogation almost word for word as she drafted it three hours earlier.

Angela: “I just — I guess I don’t get the confidence thing.”
Devens: “From me?”
Angela: “Yeah, with them. I just don’t understand.”
Devens: “I mean, we’ve talked about it a lot. I just think that they’re definitely going to vote to keep me.”
Angela: “What are they telling you that makes you feel so confident?”

She pushes on the arithmetic, and he has already done it.

Angela: “Only one can.”
Devens: “Well, both, if it’s a tie.”
Angela: “Right. If it’s a tie, yeah.”

His other evidence is that the two people on the block beside him have both given up on beating him.

Devens: “Even the other people — like Taylor and Lala — think it’s a done deal that I’m staying.”
Dee: “They both came to me to help their case.”
Devens: “And I mean, if they get me, good for them. They got me.”
Angela: “They would have to deal with our wrath. And I think they know that.”
Devens: “Yeah, it would be stupid.”

So he has stopped campaigning entirely.

Devens: “I’m not doing any type of threats or anything. I’m not even bugging them much anymore.”
Devens: “I feel very confident. Almost too confident, but, like, very confident.”
Devens: “It’s not even something I’m talking about with other people. I’m at peace.”

Dee asks what Melody thinks, and his read on her is sharper than anything he has managed about himself.

Devens: “I think she legitimately knows where everything stands, and knows that they have to win too. That side has to win too.”
Dee: “Yeah. To keep her safe.”
Devens: “I do think she knows she’s in, like, a precarious spot.”

He thinks the other side might even be his.

Devens: “I feel like I might even have Yash and her vote, if it’s me against Lala. Like, they might just go with the house on that.”
Devens: “That’s what Yash said when we were goofing around. I don’t think he’d do it out of any sort of loyalty — you just want to be on the right side.”
Dee: “Yeah, that is what he does.”

And the fallback, which he does not think he will need.

Devens: “And I’m going to win the Blockbuster, so I’m not worried about that.”
Angela: “Yeah, you are.”
Devens: “Exactly who we want to send home. And not worry about any of it.”

Then he apologises for the two people he has been neglecting.

Devens: “Obviously, I appreciate you guys. It’s like, I almost take you guys for granted. That’s why I’m putting in time with them.”
Dee: “Do your thing.”

Then Dee asks him something she has never asked him alone, and says so.

Dee: “Do you think it’s the right thing to send Lala home?”
Devens: “Yeah, I do.”
Dee: “Why?”
Dee: “Because you asked me this in front of Drew and Barrett, but we’ve never talked about it.”

His answer is three reasons deep, and the third one is about her.

Devens: “I think she’s the bigger threat in competitions. I think that her vote doesn’t do us any good anymore.”
Devens: “As a group — unless we want to turn on the guys, and I don’t want to turn on the guys.”
Devens: “I think they’re nervous about your relationship with her, just like you’re nervous about their relationship with Melody. So I think it’s just, like, take her out.”

Angela argues the other way, and she is unusually blunt about why.

Angela: “She’s very easily convinced to do what we would want her to do. Whereas Taylor would be like, f— b—-es, you all three do well. She don’t have any alliance or allegiance to any of us.”
Angela: “Where Lala, we could work with her and mold her in the way that we want her to go. The boys would not be able to do that, but we would be able to do that.”
Angela: “That’s why I only consider her, for that reason alone.”

And then the sentence underneath all of it.

Angela: “Personal aside, this is a game. I want to go as far as I can go. With her, I’m gonna go further. With Taylor, I’m not — and neither are you.”

Devens will not have it, and he is dismissive in a way he usually is not.

Devens: “I think that she’s got a much bigger chance at winning, taking on a member of the Crossovers, than Taylor does.”
Angela: “Look it — Taylor’s due. Something’s gonna come her way and click.”
Devens: “That’s just my opinion.”
Angela: “I totally get your opinion. I love hearing it. And I’m listening.”
Devens: “Taylor’s just such a non-entity in any way, shape or form.”

Dee has her own grievance from earlier in the day.

Dee: “She, like, pissed me off earlier today.”
Devens: “Taylor? Oh, she pisses me off every day. What’d she do to piss you off?”
Dee: “She was just trying to make her rounds. She was like, no, you’re good. She was like, yeah, I’d be better for your game than Lala.”
Dee: “She doesn’t even give me reasons why or anything. Just, I’d be better. And I’m like — not really, because Lala wants to work with us.”

And a thing Lala said about Devens, delivered to his face as a compliment.

Dee: “Then she asked me about you being a killer. And I’m like, yeah, that’s a killer you want on your side.”
Dee: “She has nobody.”

Angela sees the whole board and does not like her seat on it.

Angela: “100%, Taylor’s putting the three of us up. That’s a given. She’s not putting those boys up. She’s putting us up.”
Angela: “With Lala, we actually have a fighting chance.”

Dee finds the flaw immediately, and it is the same flaw in everything they have tried this week.

Dee: “How would we present it to them? We have a fighting chance, but you guys don’t. Get it?”
Angela: “I do get it. But I feel like there’s got to be a loophole somewhere here. Because… s—.”

Angela folds, and the reason she gives is the one she has been giving all week.

Angela: “Well, it is Drew’s HOH, and I think that is what he wants, so I’m going to do what he wants.”
Angela: “I’m listening to you because you hang out with them more, you know more. You’re friends with them more than I am, so I’m cool with doing what you’re recommending.”

Devens gives her the reason behind the reason.

Devens: “I don’t think that they’re super dead set on one of them. Our discussion today has been, we’d rather send Lala home — but either one is great.”
Devens: “They do want me to win, so that they can send Lala home. Because she’s better at comps.”

And then he says the thing he has been circling, which is that he will not do anything that makes the guys doubt him.

Devens: “I especially just don’t want to create any sort of distrust.”
Devens: “I feel like you might have similar feelings about Drew and Melody. He didn’t want to put her up. He’s fine with her going home. You might not want to put her up, even though you’re fine with her going home.”

They let the case for Lala die where it stands.

Devens: “Probably not worth making the case.”
Angela: “No, it’s not.”
Devens: “I’m just trying not to rock the boat.”
Angela: “Well, there’s always a scenario — she wins a thing, you stay, she stays.”
Devens: “I don’t think there’s any chance, because I’m gonna win.”

Then the three of them thank each other, at some length.

Devens: “No, I love you guys.”
Angela: “Love you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
Devens: “Odds are very high that I’ll be more panicky tomorrow, but…”
Angela: “If you trust them 100%, and you’re the one who’s dealing with it, then I trust that you’re trusting them.”
Angela: “I really haven’t felt negative at all today about it. I’m just looking at them and I feel complete trust.”

Devens: “And I’m just trying to let them know that I do trust them 100%.”
Devens: “Oh, they know. They know you’re locked in. They know you guys are locked in.”
Angela: “The commitment is strong.”
Devens: “Just keep it there.”

He leaves them on it.

Devens: “It’s crazy that we’ve gone this far. And this time tomorrow night, we can all feel better.”
Devens: “Not on the block.”
Angela: “That sounds good to me.”