“Can We Say It in a French Accent?.. We Are Da B-O-M” *updated*

Yash won OTEV, and Drew puts the odds of the veto being used at five to 10 percent — so Haley, Angela and Dee are almost certainly the three walking into Thursday. Nobody went to bed. By 1 AM, Drew and Barrett had spent fifteen minutes in the backyard giving a brand-new alliance a name, working through Bra Nation and Motley Crue before landing on the BOM — Band of Misfits, Devens’ phrase, delivered in a French accent. By 3 AM Drew was in his fourth room of the night, telling a fourth person a fourth version of the plan.

BB28 Time Capsule tally

The BB Time Capsule is a multi-week America’s Vote twist running Weeks 2 through 7. Each week America votes one houseguest into the capsule, that houseguest plays alone, and they come out with either a power or a punishment. One trip each — once you’ve been in, you’re out of the pool.

Two powers won, three punishments handed out, and one week still to come.

12:10 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Dee is talking about Kamu turning on Yash and Devens.

Dee: “At times you have to follow your heart a little bit more in terms of, all right, who are the people that I like best? One thing that Melody and I were talking about was like, bro, Kamu, how have you been working with these two people since day one and you turn on them?”
Drew: “Literally what we were talking about. And it was like, how the f— is no one clocking that?”

Drew moves to what happens if the Icons win power next week.

Drew: “Because if Devens wins or you win HOH next week, you know what I mean? He’s the first person in the room and he’s not leaving. He’s going to be posted up there the whole week.”
Dee: “Wait, what do you mean, posted up?”
Drew: “Posted up meaning he’s not leaving the room.”
Dee: “Oh — like HOH. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.”
Drew: “What did you think I meant?”
Dee: “I thought you meant posted up like on the block. I know what posted up means.”
Drew: “No, but like, he’s the first person in the room and he’s the last person to leave. He like lives there.”
Dee: “Oh yeah, I know. It’s fine, though. I’ll make sure he doesn’t do that. I promise you.”
Drew: “I hope you win, because I want to see him try.”
Dee: “Yeah, no, he will try, because that’s what he does with everybody. That’s literally his game. Which — look, I get it, do what you gotta do. But you’re not gonna run that shady s— with us.”

Dee turns to Haley.

Dee: “And God knows what Haley’s saying too. She’s going up to everyone. And now she’s besties with Taylor. I’m like, bro, what? Yeah, no, f— that.”
Drew: “I’ll tell you what me and Barrett and Melody and Mallory are going to be doing this week, though. Just don’t get sussed out.”
Dee: “No, I won’t. Tell me.”
Drew: “Because right now, Yash’s plan is get the Icons out.”

Drew’s next line about the veto is partly buried under Dee. The sense of it, and of everything he says about the veto later in the night, is that he does not want it used — a save means a replacement nominee, and he thinks he knows who that would be.

Drew: “Because I feel like he would probably go up. Especially with Kamu in his ear.”
Dee: “Absolutely, he would. And he would listen to Kamu more than you. And he feels threatened by you for sure.”
Barrett: “Kamu?”
Dee: “Yes. Well, both Kamu and Yash. Mostly Kamu.”

Dee then sets the rule for the week.

Dee: “So for this week, what you guys need to do is not talk to me and Devens or Angela. Like, at all. At all, literally. And I will not take anything personal. I don’t care.”
Dee: “That’s why I came outside — because I asked Melody right now who’s outside. And she just said, you two. And I’m like, oh good, great. Because everyone’s busy sleeping or whatever.”

They talk over each other about who thinks they have whom. Dee lands it.

Dee: “Taylor thinks she has Mallory and Melody wrapped around her finger. Which is good — let’s just let them think it. But it pisses me off, because who cares?”

Drew: “At the end of the day, we have the votes. They may be in power and they put who goes up, but we decide who goes home.”
Dee: “Yeah, of course. I don’t give a f— who Yash says is his target. You’re not voting.”
Drew: “Everyone’s like, oh, Haley’s going to win the Blockbuster. Haley sucks.”

12:13 AM — Yash, Taylor and Mallory (HOH)

The feeds flip upstairs. Yash is counting the vote out loud.

Yash: “They are up against each other.”
Taylor: “Haley’s going home.”
Yash: “But like, maybe not. Because look, these are the people who would vote out Haley.”
Mallory: “No, I think Drew would vote out Haley too.”
Yash: “You think so?”
Mallory: “I mean, I haven’t asked him directly, but just based off the logic — Haley has put him up.”

12:14 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Back outside, Drew is telling Dee where her votes are.

Drew: “Just know, like — you’re not leaving this week.”
Dee: “Yeah, I believe that. I just don’t want anyone to want to leave.”
Drew: “Haley, obviously. Regardless, you have five votes to stay no matter what happens, which is amazing. So your main mission is to save Angela this week.”
Drew: “I don’t want to tell Angela that. I don’t want her to stress out.”
Dee: “She’s going to be stressed. She’s already been stressed. She could also win. And her birthday’s on Monday too.”
Barrett: “She has won more Big Brother competitions than I have.”
Drew: “Me as well.”
Dee: “Did you know that on her season she got nominated seven times? She told me that today.”

They check who is still awake and where. Dee reports the have-not room is closed and that Haley, Angela and Devens are in bed. Then Drew starts building his cover story.

Drew: “I also am going to tell Haley, like—”
Dee: “Tell her whatever you need to tell her.”
Drew: “I’m going to tell her that she’s good.”
Dee: “Tell her you hate me. Tell her, because she’ll believe it. Just tell her you hate me. Or whatever the f— you want to come up with. You don’t even have to tell me what you told her, because I don’t care.”
Drew: “Yeah, I don’t want you to be stressed. I would rather have you know, obviously. We can fake a fight.”
Dee: “Yeah, we can do whatever.”

Barrett sketches the staging: time it so Haley walks in on the tail end, asks what that was about, and the answer she gets is that Dee is upset because she couldn’t get a guarantee she’d be kept.

Dee: “Amazing. That works. Perfect. Let’s do that.”
Drew: “I’m going to keep telling her that she’s good no matter what.”

Drew’s aim, as he lays it out, is that Haley walks into the Blockbuster believing the house wants the Icons out — that she goes in, in his words, “a little less game-ready.”

Drew: “But f— them. I’m done. Next week I want the three nominees.”

12:18 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

The feeds cut and come back mid-conversation. They are on Taylor.

Drew: “And then to me, Taylor is a bigger social threat than Yash. Yash is a competition threat, but Yash is kind of just a yes man. He’s gonna be like, whatever you guys want.”
Drew: “Taylor scares me. But once Kamu’s out, all she has is Yash and Lala.”

Barrett is asked whether Taylor has ever tried to start an alliance with him.

Barrett: “She tried to form, like, three with me.”
Dee: “Really?”
Barrett: “One was with Mallory, just Mallory. One was with just Lyric — the same week she voted Lyric out. She wanted to call it the Nursery, because we all got murdered together in the nursery. In the Jack the Ripper comp. Literally named it two days before voting out Lyric.”

Barrett then moves to a more recent pitch — a bigger group Mallory floated to him yesterday. He runs through the names he can remember, including Yash, Lala, Taylor and Melody, and can’t recall whether Drew was on the list.

Barrett: “I don’t actually remember if you were included.”
Barrett: “I phased out as soon as she said alliance with Taylor.”
Drew: “Mallory hasn’t told me. Ask Mallory when she comes on here. I don’t think I’d be involved in that. I would be surprised, though, that she would want to be in an alliance with Melody and not me. Because that feels funny.”
Dee: “I’m telling you, she thinks that she has Melody and Mallory like this.”
Dee: “I think she thinks I’m dumb.”
Drew: “That’s really funny, though, that she’s trying to work it. Hey man, everyone’s going to play their own game.”
Dee: “I think also what she’s thinking in her head is she doesn’t want us on the jury. Because we haven’t even played the game with her. So she’s obviously like, I wouldn’t vote for her.”

Drew recounts a pep talk Taylor gave him.

Drew: “She came up to me during that conversation that you walked in on, and she was like, you’re gonna have to go on the block a couple of times, and that’s okay, you have to rebuild trust with people.”
Drew: “She told me, you have to figure out the five to six people that you trust and then you gotta lock down. And I was like, okay, thank you so much, Taylor. And she was like, I got you, baby boy, don’t worry. And I was like, does she think calling you baby boy is gonna soften you up or something?”
Barrett: “I mean, you feel the daggers from her when we’re just playing pool.”
Dee: “Dude, I swear she was sitting in that corner.”
Barrett: “Creepy as f—. Maybe she’s not doing anything by it, but I feel like there are so many times where she’s like—”
Dee: “She’s always at work. There’s no fun.”
Drew: “I think she’s a winner. Like she’s got winner energy. I think Angela pointed it out.”
Drew: “But I need her gone.”

12:23 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Dee counts the weeks to jury and Barrett goes to the archive.

Dee: “So we have three weeks including this one for jury, right?”
Barrett: “We’ll get through this, guys. I think we will. I always try to think of where we’re at in terms of other seasons. Right now I think this is the week in 26 when Tucker went. Which is weird.”
Drew: “Because I feel like he was on the season way longer. But I guess he wasn’t — he was just doing a lot, he was winning a lot. It’d be really weird and slightly poetic if Angela went this week, you know what I mean? The same week Tucker went. I don’t want that though. No, I want Haley gone.”
Dee: “We can get to the end, guys. We just have to shut our mouths and f—ing play them like they think they’re playing us.”
Drew: “Do you think that they think we’re playing them at all?”
Dee: “I think they’re so cocky that they don’t.”

Barrett: “I think we overestimated Haley and Chuk for a bit. Kamu, I don’t want to ever overestimate.”
Dee: “How did we overestimate Haley and Chuk?”
Barrett: “I just don’t think they knew the game as well as I thought that they did, and so they were very obvious about everything they were doing. They probably thought that they were running things.”
Dee: “They definitely thought they were.”
Barrett: “They had zero clue that you even outed their alliance that they had with you. I think that would shock them, that we all knew that.”
Drew: “It made me laugh this past couple of days with Haley, because Haley thinks we’re good.”
Dee: “I think she has a different game in her head than what’s actually happening.”
Barrett: “She called me and Chuk her rocks.”
Dee: “And then she said that when Lyric left, her bestie left.”

12:26 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Drew has a Haley story he keeps losing the thread of.

Drew: “So I’m pretty sure, obviously Kamu is convincing Yash that Haley is going to work with them.”
Drew: “Oh — Haley told me, she was like, it’s so weird that Yash put me up, because if he wants to work with me and Kamu and stuff, why would he ever put up an ally? And I’m like, you remember when you were HOH and who you put up? I was like, well, we were in an alliance and you put me up.”
Dee: “Even if you say pawn, it’s not.”

Dee: “I don’t even keep up with the s— that Haley tells me, because I can’t. I’m not even gonna try to comprehend, because 95% it’s a lie or it’s something that you’re actually believing yourself. She told me that she told Yash, put me up, it’s okay, I’ll make it easy on you — and now you’re saying this.”
Drew: “She can’t even keep up with herself. It’s just confusing. I’m confused every time she’s here.”

Drew: “Oh — did you eat any of this pasta?”
Dee: “No. Is there still some left?”
Drew: “Taylor put some aside for you.”
Dee: “Oh, she did?”

12:28 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Barrett brings up a checkers game he’s been chewing on.

Barrett: “Were Chuk and Yash actually playing checkers when they played checkers, or were they talking game? Because I go back and forth on that all the time.”
Dee: “They were definitely talking game.”
Barrett: “But about what?”
Dee: “They viewed Yash as an idiot. I’m telling you, they view everybody as an idiot. Which I’m pretty sure is what Kamu and Yash are feeling right now. Because Kamu’s getting all up in Yash’s head. And I think he thinks he has, obviously, Yash, Haley, you, Mallory, Melody and Devens. That’s seven right there.”
Drew: “And obviously Taylor and Lala, that’s a given.”

Drew describes going up to the HOH room earlier — he’d come out of the gym, Yash was going on about his kiwi, and Drew raided the HOH fridge because he was hungry. Haley, Kamu and Taylor were already up there.

Barrett: “Mallory just abandoned the HOH room earlier.”
Drew: “She what? We sent her up there because she was like, yeah, Yash wanted to talk to me.”
Drew: “Because I went up there when we got new bags. Kamu was like, I gotta go tell Yash. So I was like, oh dude, let me come with you — and I just want to see who’s in the room. And it’s Haley and Taylor. And I was like, dude, Yash, we got new bags. I think I just wanted to see if they were up there just chatting to Yash.”
Barrett: “And they all left. Immediately after Mallory went out there.”
Dee: “Are you serious? They can’t even fake it. Are you f—ing serious, bro? Like, at least talk to somebody as a person. You don’t even have to talk game if you don’t want to.”

12:29 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Drew goes back to the beginning.

Drew: “I do think the best thing we did was, like, day two or three — making the crossovers.”
Barrett: “You know what? I agree.”
Dee: “How on Big Brother — alliances, how long do they normally last? Because on Survivor it’s rare that you get four. Twos, duos are common. Threes are also common, but they always f— each other over pretty quickly.”
Barrett: “Typically I feel like you don’t find those kinds of alliances until closer to jury. Very rarely do you have a good solid five like we did.”
Drew: “Usually people try to make too big of an alliance. Like the Tool Shed — that’s exactly what happened. Eight people. Disaster. Eight people is always destruction in Big Brother. Four to five is usually where it’s at.”

Drew: “I see a world where it’s us five. I would f—ing love that. I’m not even bulls—ting you.”
Dee: “Genuinely, I’d love that. I see us five, or us four if we end up losing. I would never take it personal at that point if you come for me.”
Drew: “I don’t plan on coming for you guys until there’s no one else left.”
Barrett: “Literally no other option.”
Drew: “It’d be so cool if any five of us won it. Because we were like, cool, day two, and we just rock solid the whole time. What a world.”
Drew: “And we’ve already proven the fact that we’re loyal with the whole, like, keeping Melody thing.”
Barrett: “Yeah, and we’ve also proven that we can go days without talking to each other and then be like, alright, let’s f—ing go. Which I think is the best part.”

Drew: “We won’t need to be like, I can’t talk to Dee, I can’t talk to Angela.”
Dee: “I can’t talk to Devens.”
Dee: “Melody and I talked for a long time. She’s cool. I want to hang out with her more.”
Barrett: “When I win HOH and don’t nominate any Icons, it’s going to be clear.”
Dee: “Yep, you’re going to put all three of us up. I know it. That’d make for good TV.”
Barrett: “Put all three of you up? Devens will be like, I have an idea. You put me on the block.”

12:33 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Drew walks Dee through what her winning the Blockbuster actually does.

Drew: “You’re good this week. I just hope you save Angela. I think that’s the main thing. You saving Angela gets us to get Haley the f— out of here.”
Dee: “Wait, what do you mean you hope I save her?”
Drew: “Save her meaning, if you win the Blockbuster, it’ll be Haley and Angela — and we just vote out Haley.”
Dee: “Do you have a doubt in your mind that I wouldn’t evict Haley? In a heartbeat.”
Drew: “No, the reason I’m saying this is, if Haley wins, then Angela has to go. So you winning the Blockbuster saves Angela from going.”
Dee: “Yes, absolutely.”

Dee: “Maybe Angela can tackle Haley during the Blockbuster and give me more time to win, and it’s game over.”
Drew: “She can just start screaming or something. She should get into a f—ing major fight with Haley before. Dude, she would do it. She would do it and she’d be good at it. Because Haley would be rattled. After fights she tries to play tough, and she’s like, didn’t bother me. But it bothers her.”
Barrett: “I don’t know if that’s intentionally been done before.”

Drew: “I’m sure it’s happened by accident. But if Angela goes there and rattles the s— out of Haley, it’s either going to make her want to win it more, or it’s going to make her be like—”
Dee: “I don’t want to be here anymore, and I don’t care if I go. Because she’s already been saying she doesn’t want to be here. So if Angela just starts screaming at her right before — dude, that would be the greatest. That’s not a bad idea.”
Drew: “It’s not a bad idea. It’d be right before we have to sit down and get ready for the live.”
Dee: “No, it has to be right then and there. Because if it’s right before, you still have a few seconds to recollect yourself.”

Dee: “That two minutes that you’re playing the game — before you start playing the game, Angela just goes over and starts f—ing screaming. Or, hey Haley, do you remember when… And that buys me time.”
Drew: “I want her to do it right before we have to sit down, so Haley can’t talk to anybody. So she has to sit there in silence and take it all in and be in her head about it, and let it marinate for an hour or 30 minutes. Because then she has to sit next to Angela. And if they start arguing on the couch, that’s even better.”
Barrett: “That’s definitely a thing that’s never happened before. Two people arguing on the couch during a live event.”
Drew: “All right, live shots in three, two, one.”
Barrett: “It would be silent. They would just get live shots of everyone looking really f—ing—”
Barrett: “They would still record it, and then maybe on Sunday they would be like, this is what was happening. Julie would probably have to make an announcement during the live show before the voting, to be like, this has been a weird hour.”

Drew: “We just have to make sure the veto doesn’t get used, which I don’t think it will. It would be dumb for him to do it because it’d piss everybody off.”
Drew: “Here’s the thing about the Blockbuster. They make you sit there and you’re waiting to play, and they want you to stand on your spot. So you can’t go and fight there. But during the game, I’m pretty sure you can do whatever you want. So if Angela wanted to just be up in Haley’s face the whole time—”
Dee: “That’s what I’m saying. Go be up in her face.”
Drew: “If it’s like a puzzle and she’s just like, I hate you. Is that too far? Yeah, it is probably too far.”
Dee: “It is. But if it’s going to keep you in the game, is that really bad? No, this is a job. This is a job. I’m clocking in.”

Barrett pictures the two of them stuck in glass tubes catching balls, one of them screaming at the other through the glass.

Barrett: “Just muffled.”

12:38 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Drew changes subject entirely.

Drew: “Hey, how do you feel about hiding the bags? The new bags.”
Barrett: “Come on, man. Come on, man. A month in.”
Dee: “Honestly, I think it’s poetic, because we did that like the first week, right?”
Barrett: “That was like day four.”
Dee: “And it was like almost 6 a.m.”
Barrett: “We watched the sun come up at the end of that night.”
Drew: “Rome was still here.”
Barrett: “I think everybody was here. Yeah, you were HOH.”

Dee: “I’m down to do it. There’s four bags, right?”
Drew: “Yeah, I say we hide one.”
Dee: “Wait, did anyone already play? Who already saw the four bags?”
Drew: “Me and Kamu. Me and Kamu ran and told Devens. And then we ran and told Yash.”
Dee: “So let’s wait till people see it more. I think it’d be kind of obvious that it’s one of you guys. Let’s do it tomorrow night.”

Drew circles back to Haley one more time, and floats bringing Lala in on it.

Drew: “I’ll be so down for Angela to just f—ing rattle her ass right before. Get Lala to hop in. Like, if Lala and Angela team up on Haley. No, but Lala cannot know that.”
Dee: “That’s bullying. This is for gameplay purposes. If Lala goes in, this is going to be personal.”
Drew: “But it would mess her up even more.”
Drew: “But you got this, D. I think you could do this.”
Dee: “Thanks, dude. No, I’m actually weirdly excited.”

Drew: “That’s how I felt. I was like, oh, I’m excited to play. Was I nervous that maybe I could go home if I was sitting next to Lyric? Still, yeah. But I don’t think I was, because I had you guys. And you’re in the exact same spot right now.”
Dee: “That’s what we told you last week too. No matter who, you were going to stay.”
Drew: “I can’t wait for us to be sitting there and it’s like, and the winner of the Blockbuster is… Angela will be like, what the f—? I’ll take it, but what?”
Dee: “You guys are underestimating her.”
Drew: “Oh no, I think Angela’s dope. I just think she gets in her head. And she got in her head a little bit today before the veto.”

12:40 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Dee: “I love Angela with all my heart. She’s in a house with all younger people. I’m sure there’s feelings of, am I gonna be accepted? Not now — obviously she’s loved. I think she feels pretty good with us. And her first experience was s—. She seems to understand the situation this week very well, and she’s taking it very well.”

Drew: “Comparatively, she was in a five-person alliance, right? The first or second week. And it blew the f— up. Two weeks in.”
Barrett: “She blew it up. They tried to form an alliance with her, Quinn and Joseph, and she thought it was a lie. She thought they were lying to her. She was HOH and Quinn went up there and was like, I want to form an alliance with you. And he was like, do you like the idea? And she was like — like it? I love it. And then cut to her in the DR being like, I think they’re lying to me.”
Dee: “Dude, I gotta watch her season again.”

Dee starts in on Angela’s HOH-room speech from that season.

Drew: “Knowing her history, why the f— did we make an alliance? I have no f—ing idea. She was here for redemption.”
Barrett: “Probably the best thing we could have done.”
Drew: “Dude, she’s been nothing but great.”
Barrett: “I love working with her. In fact, I would go as far as to say the best secretive part about our alliance is that nobody could connect me to Angela.”

Barrett: “Kamu’s a little bit.”
Drew: “Kamu’s connecting you and Dee a little bit.”
Dee: “Well, we’ve always spent time together, though.”
Dee: “Why did he say something about us?”
Drew: “Well, when they were saying they were worrying about Barrett, they were like, yeah, Barrett’s pretty close to Dee and Angela. And Devens. They said all three. If not — f—ing Kamu and Yash feel close with Devens, you know what I mean?”
Barrett: “Yeah, I was about to say — look in the mirror.”
Drew: “You know how it is when you’re in power.”
Barrett: “They’re just jealous, man.”

Drew: “But yeah, thinking about it in that way, we really were like, f— it. We really said, we don’t know you and you’re crazy. Dude, I mean, me and Barrett know you and Devens. You guys don’t even know who we are.”
Dee: “Yeah, I know. You’re like, we’ll take the 22-year-old kid.”
Drew: “Yeah, it’s the vibes. And the 6’5 guy.”
Dee: “It’s the vibes. How did it even come about? I don’t really remember it too much.”
Barrett: “I think we just were obsessed with y’all.”

Dee: “I do remember we were in the bathroom, and that was when we were like, yo, we feel good, right?”
Drew: “Barrett wasn’t there. It was just us four. And I was like, guys, wait — can we please include Barrett? I love Barrett.”
Dee: “Stop it. That’s amazing.”
Barrett: “I remember sitting at the kitchen table, and I was between you and Angela, and you and Angela were talking, and Angela liked me, and she was like, we gotta keep him, he’s good, he knows the show. And I was like, huh, okay. I accept — because it was the first time anyone had said anything to me like that, really. And I was like, I would never say no to this.”

Dee: “How was your game week one? Because my perspective was that you were laying low, which obviously you should.”
Barrett: “I definitely felt like I was laying low, because I felt good — because we’d formed our thing. And I felt like, okay, I don’t need to make this obvious at all. But I was also very easily connecting with Devens and Drew a lot.”

The clip ends mid-thought.

12:45 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Drew goes back to his own week on the block.

Drew: “I think you got it. I mean, you guys — when push came to shove for me and Melody to both stay, I was like, I have to win. There’s no way I blow it now and let Lyric win after you guys stuck your neck out. Not even for that — for you to stay.”
Drew: “And right now, I think Angela is your Melody.”
Dee: “Yeah, absolutely.”
Drew: “Because you need to save the blonde girl from going home.”
Dee: “I do need to save the blonde girl.”
Drew: “You need to save the blonde girl. I had to save the blonde girl.”

Dee is picking at a nail while they talk.

Dee: “Sorry, guys. I’m trying to pull my nail off and it hurts.”
Dee: “It’s also a miracle, because I think if I had to vote out Melody, I don’t think Mallory would have forgiven me for that one.”
Barrett: “I think you got it. It worked out. That would have been such a s—ty move anyway.”
Drew: “Oh, it would have just given them another person.”
Dee: “Just even talking to Melody today, I think about that and I’m like, man, we all made the right move.”

12:46 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Dee asks Drew to put a number on the veto.

Drew: “No, I’m super hopeful, especially if the veto doesn’t get used. I’ll be like, oh, we got this.”
Dee: “What’s the percentage you think?”
Drew: “I said five to 10%. I think it’s very low.”
Dee: “Okay, that’s good.”

12:47 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

The feeds pick back up on Kamu. Dee is working through how he turned on the people he started the game with — his two most loyal allies, as she puts it, his friends.

Drew: “I generally think it’s because the vote flipped the week before. And there was just some sort of mistrust.”
Barrett: “Yeah, he freaked out. Haley said that Kamu definitely did not trust her. And they had to have a huge conversation about it.”
Dee: “That’s kind of funny.”
Barrett: “Which also makes me sometimes be like, I don’t know if I understand Kamu at all.”
Dee: “I don’t understand him either. He’s been avoiding me a little bit, too.”

Drew: “Well, Kamu’s just been feeding me bulls— about Dee for the past two weeks. He’s been saying, like, Dee was the one that wanted me to go up. And Dee was the one that wanted me to go home. And I’m like, okay, for sure. I believe that.”
Dee: “Please don’t tell me anything else that man says. I genuinely don’t care to know.”
Dee: “That’s why they’re so f—ing close, him and f—ing Haley.”
Barrett: “They just bulls— each other, I think.”

Barrett then brings up something Kamu did to Mallory during his HOH week.

Barrett: “He told Mallory that Lyric said all that s—.”
Dee: “I don’t understand.”
Barrett: “Is he just trying to pull in Mallory for some reason? He just had Mallory in a conversation and was like, I just want to tell you something. Lyric told me that you were going to put me up, and all these people up, when I was HOH.”
Barrett: “He apparently was hinting at this conversation with her for like three days in a row, and that’s what it was. Yeah, let me tell you something about your friend that’s not here anymore — information that you already have.”
Dee: “Get the f— out of here.”
Dee: “He’s interesting.”
Barrett: “He loves playing this game, though, I will say.”
Drew: “I do think he’s having a lot of fun. But I do think he’s overplaying a lot right now.”

12:50 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Barrett: “I would just rather all of us be here when everyone else figures that s— out.”
Drew: “I don’t think they will. Yeah, they’re not. I think we have to just take them out and they’re going to be mad at us.”
Dee: “I don’t care. I literally don’t care.”
Dee: “I also don’t want to look back and be like, I played scared.”
Barrett: “No, no reason.”

A noise carries across the yard and they stop to listen. Barrett decides it was water.

Dee: “No reason to play scared.”

12:51 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Barrett: “Well, guys, this has been a lot of fun.”
Drew: “Yeah, well, we’ll keep partying next week, too.”
Barrett: “That’s right. Just know it has been so much fun. We’ve had the best time ever.”
Barrett: “It feels like we’ve all been so good at communicating, too. There’s times where we all don’t hang out all the time and you have thoughts, but then you talk again and it’s like, oh.”
Drew: “I don’t think I withhold anything from you guys. That’s why I feel like this is real. So if you guys are playing me, I’m like, well, good job.”
Dee: “There’s no way to fake it this long. You know the alliance I was faking.”

Drew: “Did you ever tell them about the other one? I don’t think you did.”
Dee: “Never. They’re going to find out in October.”
Barrett: “That’s why a part of me is, you know — even though Kamu was pissed or whatever, I get it.”
Drew: “He feels betrayed, for sure. He thought he locked you in early. And he’s like, why did my day one, day three alliance… Yeah, I get it.”
Dee: “But that’s not where my loyalty was. And it sucked that it was like early.”

12:52 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Barrett runs the post-mortem on the eight-person alliance.

Barrett: “I don’t think even had we continued with both and figuring it out, it would have exploded either way. It’s just the people that were in it. There was too many egos involved. Way too many.”
Drew: “And it wouldn’t have ended good for any of us five, I think, had they continued to stay.”
Barrett: “I mean, if Haley just wanted to go through her HOH week and just keep riding with it and just say, I don’t care, anybody but the eight, let’s talk it out.”
Dee: “I agree. But she so easily swayed it. To just being like, making it weird.”
Barrett: “It wasn’t going to last. Because if that happened at the first chance that she had HOH, imagine the next HOH, you know?”
Barrett: “And honestly, good, because it gives everybody an excuse to put them up. Everything happens the way it’s supposed to.”

12:53 AM — Drew, Barrett and Dee (Backyard)

Drew starts watching the door.

Drew: “I’m just worried that Kamu’s gonna wake up and eat a bowl of cereal at midnight like he always does. He’s gonna see us.”
Barrett: “I’ll go. I’ll go. I’m super tired.”
Drew: “There’s a chance. I don’t think he’s up yet. I have not seen anybody walk by.”
Drew: “Is Mallory still up there?”
Barrett: “She’s in the DR. Melody’s in DR. Oh, I’m sorry — Melody went to the DR. I don’t know.”

They work out how to leave without being seen together: Barrett goes in first, Drew and Dee stay out another five minutes.

Dee: “Love you guys. Thank you for everything, for real. This made this week way better.”

12:55 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

Dee has gone inside. Drew tells Barrett something Melody told him.

Drew: “Yeah, I guess she told Melody she had a power and used it and it didn’t work or something. Probably to build trust with Melody.”
Barrett: “That’s f—ing crazy.”
Drew: “But don’t say that I told you. Don’t say that Melody told you.”
Barrett: “She didn’t say what it was, though.”
Drew: “No. Just wait for her to tell you. I’m sure she’s going to tell you.”
Barrett: “Well, yeah, she is.”
Drew: “And just keep it to yourself. Don’t tell Devens. Don’t tell anything. Because it’s going to lose trust with me and lose trust with Melody.”
Barrett: “No, it’s not worth it. That sucks, though.”
Drew: “That she what?”
Barrett: “She didn’t tell me.”
Drew: “It doesn’t matter anymore if she doesn’t have it.”
Barrett: “I wonder what it was, though.”
Drew: “But generally, dude, don’t say anything.”
Barrett: “There’s no benefit to me saying that s—.”

Drew: “But just keep playing dumb. But, like, that means Devens has it.”
Barrett: “For sure. I mean, he might as well have told us. He pretty much did, I think. I wonder what he has, though.”
Drew: “I would love to know what he has, because if it’s something crazy like — I swear, coup d’etat, you could take yourself off on eviction night and switch somebody.”
Barrett: “I can’t imagine Dee got a power that she tried to use and it didn’t work, and then Devens has a power that is, like, OP. Like that would be crazy. I feel like he probably has, like, an extra veto, though. Because did you hear about his plan? He wanted to go up on the block.”
Drew: “That’s what I told you. Remember I told you in front of Devens? I was like, this is what your plan was. You wanted to go up on the block.”
Barrett: “Oh, okay. So you do know.”
Drew: “Remember I was telling you in front of Devens while we were sitting there?”
Barrett: “I guess I do.”
Drew: “You probably zoned out because I’m a kid and you guys get annoyed when I talk.”
Barrett: “No, we don’t. Shut up.”

12:57 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

Drew: “I’m telling you, dude, let’s keep riding this wave. I think we have to.”
Barrett: “We have no choice. No, I have no interest in going anywhere outside of the people that I have in the game right now. That’s where I’m at. To be honest with you, I found my people 40 days in.”
Drew: “I do think the best thing for us is to keep riding the wave with the Icons. And it’s just so much better now that FAP is rocking with them. It’s like, bro, we are either going to be the most insulated in the group or the most likely to go up whenever each side wins.”
Barrett: “That’s the game. I’d rather play that way than — I can’t do the game of let me try to be fake with everybody, because it’s not going to work, one, at this point.”

Drew: “I’m never putting you up, though, if we get to final seven.”
Barrett: “No, same to you.”
Drew: “This is our game. I don’t even think we’re the middlemen anymore. I think we’re the connector. I think we’re bringing people closer together.”
Barrett: “We’re the glue.”
Barrett: “No, I will never put you up as long as I am in this game. Unless we get down to a final — unless it’s literally final f—ing four. I have no other choice.”

Drew: “But yeah, this is lit. I’m having so much fun. I hope you are too, man.”
Barrett: “I actually didn’t think I would make it this far in the game.”
Drew: “I was worried I was going to be out week one, to be honest. And then week four came along and I was on the block and I genuinely felt like Cedric. My alliance put me up on the block.”
Barrett: “You were mad worried about that.”
Barrett: “But you’re further than Cedric. You’re further than Zach last year.”
Drew: “Yeah, let’s keep rocking with it, bro. I feel like we’re in a good spot. We just can’t let Lala or Taylor win. Because I genuinely think it would be you, me, Devens. I don’t see a world where it’s not.”

Barrett describes Taylor walking past them all day looking at the memory wall, and pictures the three of them sitting up there — then Devens pulling out whatever he has.

12:59 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

They both want the next America’s vote.

Barrett: “I do think you’ll get one, dude. I think people like you. I mean, that’d be cool. I’m not gonna bank on that.”
Barrett: “Next Friday. I think it could be you.”
Drew: “I think it could be you. I do think you’re probably shown more in the episodes because you’ve been on more videos. You’ve made it further into the game and you’re closer with Mallory. I don’t think I’ve done very much.”
Barrett: “But you’re like — I don’t know, you got the charisma, I feel like. I bet your DRs are popping.”
Drew: “I’m sure people think I’m super annoying.”
Drew: “I think you’ve got a very leveled, like, people can get behind you. I think I’m probably slightly more polarizing than you are.”
Barrett: “I think you’re probably easier to digest than I am.”
Drew: “That’s why I think you would get it.”
Barrett: “I appreciate that. I still think you’re a very viable option.”

Barrett: “With that said, after Mallory and Melody, I’m fully planning, if I do get to sit in that chair, just to be going—”
Drew: “Close your eyes.”
Barrett: “Like, what’s the f—ing point? Call on the power of the Jordan Almond.”
Drew: “But don’t come out in a costume.”

Drew: “I think if one of us gets it, don’t tell the other one explicitly, but we should have like a… you know what I’m saying? We need to have a look. That’s not obvious. If not, like, just drawing a banana in front of somebody.”
Barrett: “Almost that kind of code.”
Drew: “I want to give you something, or you to give me something. And then me looking up to you, or you look at me going like… you know what I’m saying? Like that would be lit.”
Barrett: “I would love that.”

1:02 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

They run the list of who has already had a trip, and land on Yash for the next one. Drew walks through why he thinks Devens earned his.

Drew: “I think he has, like, a lot of aura from the Mr. Beast thing.”
Barrett: “I’m lying. Angela had it that week.”
Drew: “Yeah, so then he had a killer week of, like, HOH, veto, put Rome up, blah blah blah, created the alliance, caused a lot of drama. And then they gave him power.”
Barrett: “And then the next week was just calm. And then Dee got it from that one, just because she was the last Icon. Melody and Mallory — I’m really not shocked by it at all. They’ve had a rough go.”
Barrett: “An actual rough go of it. Unlike some people claiming they have had a rough go of it.”
Drew: “Do you feel like you’ve had a rough—”
Barrett: “No.”

Drew: “I know, I feel bad telling them. Like, oh yeah, this has been terrible. Because in reality, it kind of hasn’t been for us.”
Barrett: “We’ve just been stressed in the normal sense, I think. By not having any sort of say or power. And we were f—ing breezing through those first two weeks with Dee and Devens as HOH. And they were nearly in shambles.”
Drew: “And then it was Kamu, and I was okay with Kamu. And then week four, like, not great. Week five, not great for you. Week six — this is week six, right?”
Barrett: “Week four was the hardest week, I think. Because Haley became unpredictable. And you were on the block. And Melody’s on the block. And it just didn’t seem like anything was going to work out in the favor. And then Lyric, thank God, was the replacement. Like, they should not have done that.”

1:04 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

Drew: “What alliance name should we have? Bra Nation?”
Barrett: “Bra… no one’s going to want their name to be involved in it.”

They work out the size — six or seven, hopefully seven — and decide against putting a number in the name in case they lose people. Drew wants an acronym.

Drew: “I also love the initials aspect of it, because I love FAP. I’m down to make another one that’s somewhat along those lines.”
Drew: “Band of Misfits, though, would be pretty hard. It’s what Devens would probably want. He’s like, I just want a band of misfits.”
Barrett: “He’s been saying that. That’s actually not bad. Band of Misfits. Motley Crue.”
Barrett: “I feel like we would take on the Band of Misfits moniker pretty well. It also may inspire us.”

Drew: “BOM.”
Barrett: “Just BOM?”
Drew: “B-O-M. BOM. Band of Misfits. We are the BOM.”
Drew: “We can’t call it the Bomb Squad. You have to say it. BOM. We are the BOM.”
Barrett: “I like that. Let’s pitch that.”
Drew: “I think Melody and Mallory would co-sign that s— really quick.”

The riff runs on from there — “bum,” “bum voyage,” “bummy, bummy houseguests.”

Barrett: “Can we say it in like a French accent?”
Drew: “We are da BOM. Band of Misfits, we are da BOM.”
Drew: “I think we should do it, bro. I think Devens would be down for it to be Band of Misfits, but call it da BOM.”
Barrett: “Da BOM. We are da BOM.”
Barrett: “Yeah, that’s it. That’s the name.”
Drew: “That has to be it. It’s too catchy. We’ll be in the crossovers. We’ll be in the… BOM. And FAP.”

1:07 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

Barrett: “It is crazy. I don’t think anybody knows about the crossover.”
Drew: “I don’t think anybody does.”
Barrett: “I didn’t even say it then.”
Drew: “Me neither.”
Barrett: “I said it in Haley’s goodbye. I didn’t say what we were called. I just said I’ve been working with them.”
Drew: “I don’t think you should say it, in case there’s a battle back.”
Barrett: “They don’t play goodbye messages if there’s a battle back. I just remembered. Because Julie’s always like, well, what if I told you? And then the interview kind of ends.”

Drew: “But first, before we play goodbye messages — what if I told you? What would you do? What would you do if there was a battle back?”
Barrett: “I’m sorry, are you John Quinones?”
Drew: “They’re like, there’s been an alliance working together since day two — and it’s our faces. They’ll be like, that’d be sick. But I want to know what the other alliance is called, though, you know what I mean? Like, who’s the other side? Do they have a name? I know there’s another big alliance that we just don’t see, and I just want to know.”
Barrett: “Or the duo or trio that after the season will be like, the f—?”
Drew: “I know. They were a thing.”

1:10 AM — Drew and Barrett (Backyard)

They check whether Mallory has come down from the HOH room yet, then wrap it up.

Drew: “Anyways, dude, love playing this game with you, and I want to ride this s— as far as we can.”
Barrett: “I hope you know there has never been a shred of doubt that I wanted to ride this game with you.”
Drew: “I never felt it. Okay, good. I felt like ever since we were the first people to be on that hammock, it was a sign. It was love at first sight. Two long, lanky boys working together.”
Barrett: “Just like in the same way that Rachel fell in love on the hammock, you know?”
Drew: “That is true, sir.”

1:32 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Taylor is talking about Chuk’s exit.

Taylor: “He’s just so emotional. He didn’t hug Lala, so I feel like I’m guilty by association.”
Yash: “Nah, I think at the end of this, bro, people realize we have such a unique shared experience anyway.”
Drew: “It’s a game. It’s a game. We’re playing like real-life Monopoly, bro. Real-life Total Drama Island.”
Yash: “It is real-life Total Drama Island.”
Drew: “That was a good show.”

Yash turns it to business.

Yash: “Drewski, how have conversations been down there with everybody?”
Drew: “Like, regarding what?”
Yash: “Just, like, because I know Dee’s been chit-chatting with you a bunch. Like, how’s that looking?”
Drew: “Yeah, I think she’s just trying to see… I think she knows we’re cool. So she’s trying to see where your head’s at.”
Drew: “I think she’s worried. And I think Angela’s worried. I think they’re all a little sussed out, obviously. Especially now that you won the veto. So they know that something ain’t changing.”
Drew: “But I don’t see her making any plays yet. I also feel like she probably doesn’t think I’m a swayed vote.”

Drew then tells Yash he went at Dee directly.

Drew: “I was like, yeah, so would you put me up if you won? And she was like… no. And I was like, okay.”
Yash: “You actually asked her? You’re a beast, bro.”
Drew: “I was just curious to see what she would say.”
Yash: “And she said no?”
Drew: “She was like, no, I wouldn’t. I was like, cool.”

1:34 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Taylor: “I was like, what made her think that was a good game play?”
Yash: “She must not have realized what she did. Me and you are tight.”
Drew: “I was a little confused that she went up there and said this.”

Drew puts it in his own terms — imagine walking into an HOH room and saying it out loud.

Drew: “I do not trust Taylor. I don’t trust Yash. And I sure as hell don’t trust Mallory and Melody.”
Yash: “I want their asses up. When I tell you she gave it up with no hesitation.”
Drew: “That’s like the same s—. Yeah, I’m putting up Taylor. That’s like… what? You’re putting up Taylor? That’s like if Devens won and I was like — you know Dee has to go up, right? Like, what?”

Yash walks the whole thing back from the start of the day.

Yash: “And it was crazy, too, because it was the first convo in the morning. Also, in the morning, I don’t like to chit-chat much because it takes me a minute. So we’re down there and she’s like, can we go up and talk? I was like, yeah — let me just wait a little bit so I can have my coffee and s—. And we get up here and talk.”
Yash: “When you start to say, like, hey, can we talk? You know what’s coming, bro. Like, they’re going to ask you, what would you do? So, like, I’m John Quinones. What would you do?”
Yash: “But then I sit there and I’m like, okay, if you were in my shoes, what would you do? She gave it up. No thinking, no hesitation.”

Yash: “She said, yeah, so I’d put up Haley and Drew.”
Yash: “And I’m like, what? I was like, are you dumb? I was like, tell me you don’t know what’s going on in this game without telling me you don’t know what’s going on.”
Drew: “So yeah, I did. I was like, hey, would you put me up if you won? Just curious. I don’t think she knows this game. I really don’t think she knows what’s going on.”
Yash: “But good. Keep doing what you’re doing. I trust you.”

1:36 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Drew: “She’s not talking to me because I think she knows that maybe I know.”
Yash: “She knows you know.”
Drew: “I would be surprised if she doesn’t think I know.”
Yash: “You asked her. That was a dead giveaway.”
Drew: “Exactly. Don’t even play in my face right now.”
Yash: “I mean, it seems like people are aware of her antics and stuff.”
Drew: “But I feel like today I could tell she’s been frantic. She’s making moves. But the thing is, I don’t think it’s gonna be with me, because she’s probably [thinking] I’m a lost cause. She’s like, all right, so I don’t have Drew’s vote — but who else can I get?”
Yash: “I would imagine she’s gonna try hard with Barrett.”

Yash says he isn’t worried about that one — he thinks Barrett rides with them.

1:37 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Yash lays out what he wants the house to see, and what he doesn’t.

Yash: “We don’t need people knowing I don’t want Haley going, but it’s kind of okay if people find out.”
Taylor: “I’m just asking because you and Odie are mad close. Does your vote — could you influence Odie? But then, I feel like the only person she’ll be like, f— no, is if she’s sitting next to Haley.”
Drew: “I think it would be a hard ask for her to be like no, because I do think if Haley wins… maybe Melody goes up.”
Taylor: “Ain’t no maybe.”
Yash: “Yeah, like, probably, right?”
Taylor: “Let’s be real. Ain’t no maybe.”
Yash: “You can’t even reasonably ask her to do that.”
Taylor: “She’ll be an idiot.”
Yash: “Wait, Melody said that?”
Drew: “Bro, during her HOH. And part of me feels like, would I have seen the block if Melody didn’t do that? I was like, maybe, maybe not. I think maybe I was guilty by association.”
Taylor: “She told me that’s why she put me up. I was guilty by association. Jason. She looked me in my face and said… oh, my God.”
Drew: “Really?”
Taylor: “So you’re guilty by association. But you’re putting me up because of it.”
Taylor: “And then she brought up the whole thing where Jason was saying, like, she’s this and Angela’s that. And I was just like, okay, you done? Don’t do that. And she was like, why didn’t you tell nobody? I said, because I nipped it in the bud.”

1:39 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Drew: “I do think the Blockbuster is probably between Haley and Dee, though.”
Yash: “We need Haley to just bring that s— home. They did get out at the same time today, so I do think it’s gonna be closer than we think. Because look, if Haley comes off, we’re golden.”
Taylor: “I don’t think I can get Lala. I’m not gonna lie.”
Yash: “To vote out who? To vote out Dee.”
Taylor: “Is Haley though?”
Yash: “No, no, no, no. If Haley wins it. If Haley wins it, I’m saying we’re golden. Because she ain’t voting for Angela. Right?”
Taylor: “Oh, hell no.”
Yash: “Yeah, I’d be shocked. So if it’s Angela and Dee, Lala’s voting Dee out. You’re voting Dee out. You’re voting Dee out. Kamu’s voting Dee out. Haley’s voting Dee out. Five, we’re good.”
Yash: “How many do you need? Five. So if Haley wins the Blockbuster, this f—ing s— is a dub.”
Yash: “It gets dicey if Haley’s up there against Dee. If she’s up there against Angela, Haley’s probably going to go home.”
Taylor: “Because nobody’s going to want Angela. Which is not great.”

1:41 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

The feeds come back mid-thought, on the nominee Yash doesn’t actually want gone.

Yash: “She’s just up because she has to be up. But, like, I do not want to see her leave.”
Taylor: “If Angela’s sitting next to Haley, I think Haley’s done for. I don’t think there’s no saving that.”
Yash: “What would the votes be?”
Taylor: “Not gonna lie, I really do think it’s not gonna work. It’s not gonna work.”
Yash: “Because we would have three… you three, but then how the f— would we get the extra two?”
Taylor: “But for me, like, even my vote — it’s like, I don’t want to vote out Angela over Haley.”
Taylor: “The only idea of it is like, we can’t let the Icons take it. That’s the only thing that made me be like, we can’t let the Icons take our season. But in real life… Angela don’t count in it.”
Yash: “I know what you mean, and I agree. And also, yeah, I guess that is true. If Haley goes, it’s not the worst thing.”
Taylor: “The Survivors take our season.”
Drew: “Yeah, like, let’s stay Big Brother.”
Yash: “But my mindset on Haley is that, like, just for this week — this is a rare opportunity in which someone who is a competitor has nobody she’s working with, and she is cool with working with us. This is a rare opportunity where we can get someone with us where if they win, we win.”

1:43 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Taylor: “Okay, be honest, Drew. I ain’t gonna say nothing. If it’s Haley and Angela, who would you keep?”
Drew: “And there’s no right answer. Because you know I’m with you. I could see both sides of it, obviously. Like, from a competitive standpoint, you’re like, dude, Haley could run this s— and just start—”
Taylor: “Killing it.”
Drew: “And start killing it. And also, she’s been known to misconstrue information.”
Taylor: “And she put both of us up.”
Drew: “And she put you and me up. So it’s hard to be like, let bygones be bygones. She put me up, she put her up, she put Melody up. And all three of us are still here. So part of me is like, no. And from a competition aspect, is it better to have Angela here?”
Yash: “So then we could just win.”
Drew: “It helps us a little bit.”
Yash: “I did not realize she put up you two.”

Drew, going through the HOH snacks, needles him about it.

Yash: “One Oreo? At this point, have the Fruity Pebbles and the Fruit Loops.”
Drew: “But no, see, that’s the thing that I’m like — is she just saying [it] because right now she’s desperate. But don’t get me wrong, I would work with Haley. I’m going to say that. And that’s if she stays. I slightly believe her because she doesn’t have anybody else. So she would have to.”
Yash: “So guys, this is a win-win.”
Taylor: “But I don’t want to vote out Haley. I don’t want to vote out Angela.”
Drew: “Haley wins, right? We keep her. Haley wins — who is she putting up? Not us. Lala.”
Yash: “If it’s Lala, I’m sorry, but… she deserve it, though. Lala, you did that yourself.”
Drew: “But she put up Lala. She put up Melody. That’s a bad one. And then if Melody’s up there, I think I’m sitting right next to her. Or you again.”
Taylor: “That’s what I’m saying. She gonna put me or Drew back up. She would put up Angela or Dee.”
Taylor: “She’s putting up Lala, Odie and Dee. And me and Drew — me or Drew will be the renom.”

1:45 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Yash: “Okay, but now look. If Angela wins HOH, who goes up? It’s still probably some of us. Drew.”
Drew: “No, listen, here’s the thing. Just real quick. In the scenario that Haley wins, I’m up next to her. In the scenario that Angela wins, I’m next to you. The real question is—”
Taylor: “Who’s more likely to win?”

Drew: “Who’s most likely to win and who’s most likely to put me up? The answer is both of them are going to put me up. All three of the people on this block are probably putting me up. So this is a great week for me.”
Yash: “No, come on. I got you, bro. I got you, bro.”
Taylor: “As for Drew, his question would be who’s more likely to win, which is Haley.”
Yash: “Haley’s more likely to win, I guess.”
Drew: “No, that’s fair. But for me, it’s like I’m going up regardless if they win. No matter if any three of these people are back, I’m sitting up.”
Yash: “You’re looking at these three like eeny, meeny, miny, moe. I don’t care. Take them all, bro.”

1:47 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Yash: “Any of them going out is good for me.”
Taylor: “Angela’s definitely putting your ass up. I want you to know that.”
Yash: “But I don’t know if she’s going to win.”
Taylor: “Who else? Look at this. Who would Angela put up? Angela would put up me and Yash. She would put up you. She would put up both of y’all.”
Taylor: “She would put Drew, Yash, and either Odie or Barrett.”
Drew: “I think that’s a really great guess. It would be Melody or Barrett.”
Yash: “Wait, s—, you’re right.”
Drew: “S—. And sitting next to Barrett’s the scariest.”
Yash: “You know what, bro? Any one of these motherf—ers can go and I’m cool. I don’t want Haley to go because I know she’s not putting me up, and I don’t think she’s putting you guys up.”
Drew: “She’s already put us up. We’ve already seen our faces — we know what she would do. All three of the people she put up initially are here. She would just run it back. We would be renoms.”
Yash: “I think she would put like Devens, Lala, and Dee or Angela. And then renom could be Barrett.”
Taylor: “The renom would probably be Devens.”
Yash: “And even Barrett, because Barrett’s the best pawn we have.”
Yash: “And it’s easy for me to say because she f—ing actually nominated your guys’ asses. So it’s different. But bro, it was a different Haley we’re talking about.”
Drew: “That is the same Haley.”
Taylor: “She’s just in bad circumstances.”

1:49 AM — Yash, Taylor and Drew (HOH)

Taylor spots Melody on the HOH screen.

Taylor: “Can I call her up? What is she doing? Is she outside? She’s looking for you, Drew. Because y’all the only two that be up this late.”
Drew: “I’ll be back.”
Taylor: “Yeah, go get it.”
Yash: “Go do what y’all do, man. Love you, bro.”
Drew: “Can I bring her up?”
Yash: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re just shooting the s—.”

Drew leaves. Taylor keeps working the Haley scenario with Yash.

Taylor: “Bro, if we’re all working together — me, you, Haley, Kamu, Drew — she’s not putting any of us up. As I said, the renom would probably be Devens. She don’t trust Devens. Dude, she would put up Lala, Odie and Dee. And she would renom Devens.”
Taylor: “So you’ll keep Haley over Angela? My thing is, she won’t have the votes. Even with me.”
Yash: “Yeah, and it puts everyone in a tough position.”
Taylor: “In a position where they got to do something.”
Yash: “For someone they’re not even rocking with.”
Taylor: “That don’t make sense. Because Odie knows she’ll put her up. Lala knows she’ll put her up. Dee knows she’ll put her up.”

They watch Drew find Melody on the screen.

Yash: “Drew good people.”
Taylor: “Drew is good people. I like this Drew.”
Yash: “And I can see him with you. He’s good with you.”
Taylor: “I told you that.”
Yash: “Because you’re a teacher, that’s why. Guidance counselor.”
Taylor: “Let’s see what Odie Sanders said. Bruh, that’s what the f— I’m saying.”
Yash: “What are they doing? They’re probably making out on the stairwell right now.”
Taylor: “They’re trying to piss us off. Look at them. They are so funny.”

Drew comes back in.

Yash: “Did I scare you?”
Drew: “Yeah, a little bit. I was going in to be like, hi, y’all.”
Yash: “Did you look at us pointing? Yeah, that was lit. That’s why I switched it to the other side.”
Taylor: “That was hilarious, actually.”

3:01 AM — Drew and Melody (Bathroom)

Melody is still on the veto comp.

Melody: “I can’t believe I played in OTEV today. What the hell?”
Drew: “No, I actually forgot to tell you. I swear.”
Melody: “Do you think Yash is telling the truth? Like, there’s no way you would lie about that.”
Drew: “I also think Kamu’s probably telling him that Kamu wants Dee gone.”
Drew: “I still feel good about Dee.”
Melody: “I do too.”

Much of what follows is whispered and hard to make out. Drew lands on where he wants the week to go.

Drew: “I’m still down to keep Dee. Best case scenario is Dee wins Blockbuster, then we don’t have to show any cards. We just vote Haley out.”
Melody: “Exactly.”

3:07 AM — Drew and Melody (Prototype Room)

They move out of the bathroom.

Melody: “It’s so weird to be able to see the backyard.”
Drew: “I want Dee to win it. Best case scenario.”
Drew: “Because I don’t really believe that she’d put me up.”
Melody: “I don’t either.”
Drew: “I somewhat trust Yash more. He’s just easy to flip.”

Back to OTEV, and Melody’s day.

Melody: “I can’t believe I competed in OTEV. And I had a punishment today.”
Drew: “Third in OTEV was lit. And you didn’t get any of them wrong. And you lost a shoe.”

Melody on Taylor.

Melody: “For how smart Taylor is, she’s just not a gamer. Like, at all.”
Melody: “Always keeping motherf—ers based off emotion. She’s like, no, Angela can’t leave.”
Melody: “Why?”

She runs the same line back with Lala in it — that Taylor calls Lala her number one.

Drew: “I don’t want Angela to go, though.”
Melody: “I mean, yeah, again, I do, I do.”
Drew: “I want Dee here because she wants Yash and Kamu — anyone but us.”

Drew holds two fingers together.

Drew: “Yash and Taylor are like this, though.”

They go back to how the two of them first paired up.

Drew: “This is like what you said to me.”
Melody: “And then you said yes.”
Drew: “I said it all the time. Let me think about it. And I hung upside down.”
Melody: “I had no other choice.”
Drew: “That makes me feel good.”
Drew: “Why’d you pick me? Just because I was the last one? Really? Like, genuinely?”
Melody: “Yash I wasn’t sure about, because he kept going back and forth.”
Drew: “It makes me feel better. Because same.”
Melody: “I figured.”
Drew: “It was either you or Angela.”
Melody: “Is that true?”

They laugh.

Drew: “So I went to talk to Angela and she said no. She said no. So I was like, I guess I’ll go with the other one.”
Melody: “I actually really like Dee.”

Melody turns to the powers.

Melody: “So if Dee got the power, Devens definitely has it.”

She lays out her understanding of what Dee’s power was.

Melody: “She can offer the HOH five thousand dollars to like not put her up for the week. I guess she brought that to him and he said no.”
Melody: “I was like, so is it done? And she’s like, yeah.”
Melody: “That makes me wonder about Devens’ power.”

Melody’s read is that Dee’s power wasn’t much of one.

Drew: “Would you take five K?”
Melody: “Depends on who it was.”
Drew: “Kamu.”

Her answer is inaudible.

Melody: “They want to get Dee out for the same reasons we want to keep her.”

After a stretch of whispering, they land on voting Angela out and acting like that was always the plan.

Drew: “Whatever you say, we won’t believe it, but we want to confuse the s— out of everybody. And then when we throw Angela out, we’ll be like, I thought that’s what we were going to do.”
Melody: “Do you think you can do that? Or are you just being silly?”
Drew: “Part of me is like halfway in, halfway out.”

Drew: “Sometimes I say ideas that I think are silly and fun and seeing if you would buy them, and then I’m down for them.”
Drew: “Like I was telling Dee, I was like, low-key, have Angela blow up on Haley right before the Blockbuster. Rattle her a little bit.”
Melody: “What’d she say?”
Drew: “She was like, I think that’s a good idea. And I said, kind of — it’s a joke.”
Melody: “I’m not joking. Was Dee joking?”
Drew: “Mm-mm.”

9:45 am Sunday Morning

Feeds cut for wakeup.

9:48 AM — Dee and Devens (Hallway Bedroom)

Devens pulls Dee aside about the veto ceremony.

Dee: “We should probably talk today about tomorrow. Just because I was going through scenarios in my head. But also, I want to have fun.”
Devens: “What’s that?”
Dee: “Should we go in here really quick?”
Dee: “You want to tell them before, but if you tell them before, that gives them time to, like, apologize.”
Devens: “No, I don’t want to tell them before.”
Devens: “I’m so torn, because I don’t think there’s a way to save you and really appease them.”
Dee: “Yeah, 100%.”
Devens: “They’re too smart. So what if — I’m just going to let you go. I’m sorry.”

They laugh. Dee has a better idea.

Dee: “Is there a way to eavesdrop on them? Because I fit in the storage. And you lure them in there and then you leave. I jump out and say, I heard that.”
Dee: “And then you saved me. Not that you need an excuse, but that’s like a perfect excuse. I just want to hide.”
Devens: “It might be hard to get him in there, but that would be really funny. It’d be worth trying.”
Dee: “I mean, look, either way, Kamu will sit next to anyone. He goes home.”

Dee reports back on the backyard.

Dee: “I had a really good talk with Drew and Barrett last night.”
Devens: “Okay, good.”
Dee: “They still think I’m going home. Not home, but at the block. And then they were like, you’re going to stay no matter who you’re sitting with.”

Dee says the other side is now looking at Angela as the target if Haley comes off, and describes another conversation from last night that went well.

Dee: “And like, we like the same people. We dislike the same people. That’s right to the end. Then me and her bonded over Haley.”
Devens: “Yeah, I think Barrett and Drew are in.”
Devens: “They’re like, dude — you remember what I did with you at the power, where I was like, yeah, okay, sure, what’s your power? They were doing that with me. Ahh, guys.”
Devens: “But I mean, they know I have something.”
Dee: “Yeah, of course.”
Devens: “They’ll know soon enough.”
Dee: “Maybe that’s also why they’re like, you’re going to stay no matter what — because they know that I’m going to still be here.”
Devens: “Maybe. But they think — I mean, we were talking about the vote. It’s like, she’s fine. Like, oh no, I don’t know who you’re up against, you’re fine. But they do think Angela’s going.”
Dee: “Is there a world where Drew and Barrett don’t get blindsided?”

Devens: “Yeah. They know what’s up.”

Devens works out who gets told and when.

Devens: “What’s their story for after?”
Dee: “For after? I don’t know. Did I know all along, or no?”
Devens: “I feel like that’s not believable. Because I don’t want them to think I’m much closer with you than I am with them.”

Devens: “I’d rather just surprise everybody. Because if I tell you before I tell them, it makes us look closer than I am with them.”
Devens: “Or I can tell all three of you ahead of time, but I’d rather just do it in the moment.”
Devens: “As he’s going to close the box, I’m like, hold up.”

He starts coaching Dee on what she should say when it happens.

Devens: “So do you think it’s worth me saying something right before? Because otherwise there’s not really a spot for you to speak. I mean, you can always just get up and interject, but that’s your spot, where everyone’s looking at you.”
Devens: “And you could be like, I know why I’m up here. Like, Kamu, we were supposed to be — I was supposed to be in a, you know, whatever. What are you going to say?”
Dee: “We were supposed to be on the same page, and I know you had it out so that other people—”

Devens argues against aiming it at Yash.

Devens: “It makes it look like Yash is a wimp and not coming up with this stuff himself. Well, that’s fine, I get what you’re saying — but going after him is more strategic. So I would just be like, Kamu, this week it’s been obvious that you’ve been working against me. We were supposed to be working together. How many other people in the house have you committed that you’re going to work with, but you’re going to throw them up on the—”
Devens: “And that way it makes sense when I get up. It’s like, listen, I saw what you did to Dee.”
Dee: “That’s boring.”
Devens: “Well, you can do it with your flavor. But I do think those are the messages you want people to have — not just like, Dee’s pissed off, she’s a firecracker.”
Dee: “And then you still blindside them. That’s even worse.”
Devens: “I think this is the right move, but I’m still selfishly like, damn — I’m in good with Yash and Kamu. That could carry me a long way.”

Devens: “But I can’t save you and be with them. I’m gonna save you. That’s beyond the doubt.”

Then Dee raises the other option.

Dee: “But is there a world where we feel so confident in the vote that we don’t even have to use it this week?”
Devens: “Like if we really feel confident in Drew, Barrett, me, and two other people.”
Dee: “Not a hundred. Never a hundred, for sure.”
Devens: “I know, but enough that we could save it and hold on to this and blow it up in a little bit.”
Devens: “How confident do you feel that Melody would stick with you?”
Dee: “I just talked to her last night. But first time.”
Devens: “Because it seems like a pretty sure thing that we have the votes, but we’ll feel it out. We’ll feel it out. But I think this will probably be the way it goes.”

Dee runs the cost of waiting.

Dee: “I mean, the thing is, we could not use the power — but then next week we have to use the power if f—ing Kamu wins, because he’s going to put me up again.”
Devens: “Right. And then we’d have to put him up. We’d have to put you up. And now we have one less person. But if Kamu stays and then wins again next week, then we don’t have the power.”
Devens: “And I’m going up for sure, whereas I wouldn’t be going up if I don’t blow him up.”
Devens: “Which is also big red flags. And I’m okay with it, because it’s like, hey — you’re giving me an excuse to blow you guys up.”

Someone comes within earshot and the subject changes.

Dee: “What songs did they play today?”
Devens: “We’re just hanging out.”

10:56 am Kitchen

Dee made her standard butter breakfast.

Who’s working with who — Week 6