Mallory went up to the HOH room to make peace, and it cost her. Dee told her to her face that Taylor was the target, hugged her at the door, and ten minutes later told Devens the opposite — that in the best case scenario Taylor wins and Mallory goes home. By 4:35 PM the two of them had agreed to do it without telling Drew and Barrett, and the whole plan now rests on Mallory losing the Blockbuster.
Where the week stands: Dee is Head of Household for the second time this season. Lala won the Power of Veto and used it on herself, and Mallory went up in her place. Drew, Taylor and Mallory are on the block with eleven houseguests left, and the Blockbuster comes next.
The name Dee is saying is not the name she is playing: she has told Mallory, Drew and the gym that Taylor is her target. Ten minutes after Mallory left the HOH room she said the opposite to Devens — “in the best case scenario, Taylor wins, yes, and we send Mallory home” — and Devens said it plainer: “I think Mallory has to go. That’s the main thing. Mallory would put us up. She’s a better competitor than Taylor.”
Coming upstairs to make peace is what hurt her: Mallory spent half an hour clearing up what she had said in the meeting, promising she would not put the Icons up, and asking one question — “I’m assuming that you want Taylor to be the one who goes?” Dee said yes. Then, alone with the camera: “her coming up to me doesn’t help the scenarios. Because the plan was that we need reasons to take her out. But she’s actually being very nice.”
Dee told Mallory what Taylor had been told, and it was the reverse: “Taylor thinks it’s between you and Drew. Just so you know… I can’t tell her you’re my target.” She then scouted the Blockbuster with her own nominee, rated Mallory’s odds at “one in two, not even one in three,” and said she liked the house rumour that it is the rope comp: “Taylor’s not going to get herself out of the rope.”
The decision is a blindside, and Drew and Barrett are the ones being blindsided: Dee’s first instinct was to tell them — “we cannot blindside them” — and Devens talked her off it across fifteen minutes. His closing argument: “I think we blindside them and ask for forgiveness.” Hers, once she got there: “I say we… we just f—ing risk it” was his, and “that’s blindside, though” was hers. The count runs through Haley and Lala, and they think Yash will not vote Taylor out, which means no tie and no HOH tiebreak — Devens: “so your hands will be cleaner than Angela’s and mine.”
Barrett has already half-guessed it: at the same time, in another room, he was telling Drew that Devens had spent the day sounding him out — asking his ideal eviction order, then floating Mallory as a threat “after now being on the block.” Barrett took the logic apart: “well, you put her up. She wouldn’t have been mad if you didn’t put her up.” Then the answer: “that’s what made me think, okay, this was your thoughts from the start… was this just always the plan, to just immediately do this s—?” He has also drawn a line: “what kind of player am I to sit here and be like, yeah, let’s evict one of my best friends.”
The public line does not change with the plan: Devens, on what he will keep telling the house, “that Taylor’s way — until we change our mind about anything.” Dee: “me too.” What actually hardened it was not strategy. Dee spotted a group standing at the memory wall, decided one of them pointed at her, and said, “yeah, your bestie’s not going to be here next week.”
Where the split is: Dee has now given her word on Taylor to everybody who asked for it, and the plan in the room is Mallory. Every version of this ends with her standing up in front of the people she promised, and the only thing that decides how bad it gets is the Blockbuster. If Mallory wins it and comes back into the house, the four the Icons are afraid of is still four, and it is now four that knows.
4:10 PM — Dee and Mallory (HOH)
Mallory came upstairs on her own. The feeds join them already underway, with Dee walking back through the reasoning that put Mallory on the block in the first place.
Dee: “And then I asked you, okay, who would you put up? And you said Yash, Lala and Haley, right?”
Mallory: “Yeah.”
Dee: “But then that made me think, and I did tell you that. I said, well — if Yash didn’t put you up last week and I don’t put you up, who would be that third person if you keep your word for both? You get what I’m saying?”
Mallory says the premise was wrong.
Mallory: “Well, I never told Yash I wouldn’t put him up if he didn’t put me up. He just never even considered me.”
Dee: “Oh, I see what you’re saying. See, I don’t know that. In my mind, you guys have been — you know, he literally just won HOH, didn’t put you up. You haven’t put anyone up, so no one’s mad at you.”
Mallory: “Yeah, no, I didn’t make any deals with Yash. He just never considered me.”
Then she deals with the meeting, and with what Lala told the room she had said in it.
Mallory: “Part of why I didn’t speak up is I really just don’t like talking in big things like that. I talked to Lala privately after, because she pointed at me during the whole thing, and what she said wasn’t true.”
Mallory: “So I was like, one — big discussions like that, I’m uncomfortable being involved in. Please don’t bring my name up. And two, what you said wasn’t true about me or Melody.”
Her account of what was actually said in that room, which she is certain of.
Mallory: “I know for a fact, when we were here in this room, Melody said she would put up the three people that voted her out. Like, point blank period.”
Mallory: “And I said I wanted to put up Kamu and Haley. My answer was less point blank than what Melody said.”
Dee: “So — left room for interpretation.”
Mallory: “Left room for interpretation.”
Lala had told it as though both of them named names.
Mallory: “She said both me and Melody said that. Neither of those are true. Melody is 100 per cent sure — three people she would put up. I said more like, I’m not sure, but I would put up these people, and I don’t know.”
Mallory: “So I was telling all of that, and I guess she said she just remembers it differently. Yeah, I know for a fact that’s what happened. You remember it differently — like, that’s okay, right?”
Mallory then lays out the way she says she has always played it, which is the opposite of what the block implies about her.
Mallory: “Knowing this show and how much I’ve watched it, working in a majority alliance I do believe is what is best going forward. As much as I love Yash, I wouldn’t want the entire alliance to fall.”
Dee: “No, no. It’s too late now.”
Mallory: “Yash and I are friends. I don’t think he’d put me up, but we’re not in anything solid. Like, we never have been once in this entire game.”
Her proof is a vote.
Mallory: “I mean, Yash wanted to keep Kamu. I didn’t vote to keep Kamu. He voted out Melody. We are not doing this game on the same page, which is fine.”
Dee: “Right. You could still be friends even if you’re not on the same page.”
And then Mallory asks the only question she came up here to ask.
Mallory: “So then I guess my other question is — I’m assuming that you want Taylor to be the one who goes?”
Dee: “That she’s my target, yes.”
Mallory: “Okay. Yes. It makes me feel better. 100 per cent.”
“That she’s my target, yes.”
— Dee, on Taylor
There is one way that comes apart, and Dee names it immediately.
Dee: “The only worry that I maybe have is if she wins Blockbuster. Does that make sense? That’s a much harder decision for sure. Because it’s now you and Drew.”
Mallory: “Yeah, and I really want me and Drew to stay, obviously.”
Dee: “Of course. And honestly, those are very low chances too.”
She will not say never, and she has a recent reason not to.
Dee: “I’m not going to count anybody out, because last week everybody was counting Angela out, and she won. So not going to count that out. But the chances are very freaking low for her to win.”
Dee then admits what she actually thought, which is more honest than anything she said before the ceremony.
Dee: “I definitely appreciate you coming up here. And I feel better that we were talking a little bit more openly, for sure. And I meant it — I did mean it. But in that moment, I did feel like you would still put me up. You know what I mean?”
Mallory: “Yeah, I get that too.”
Mallory has already worked out the shape of the decision from Dee’s side, and says it back to her without any edge on it.
Mallory: “The way I’ve been trying to think about it is, you probably think most likely me and Drew can both stay. And with doing a renom — if you already thought maybe there was a chance in the back of my mind that I would put you up anyway, you make less enemies, kind of, if you already thought that I might put you up.”
She had not expected to need any of this reasoning.
Mallory: “I really wanted to move forward with Mosh Pit. So I thought I was good this week.”
Dee: “And I never in a million years thought that I would have to renom, either.”
Then Dee explains why that earlier meeting was staged the way it was, with witnesses.
Dee: “There’s a reason why the whole meeting happened with you and Melody in the room too, because I felt like Drew was super shady. And I did feel that up until the noms as well, and I told you everything.”
Dee: “He knows we both said stuff about each other, and I know the stuff he said, like he knows the stuff I’ve said. And I made sure that you and Melody were both in the room so you could see it, and so you were not worried.”
What she has never been able to explain to herself is why she and Mallory never became anything.
Dee: “Why hasn’t there been this relationship, you know? And a part of me always felt like, okay, well, maybe because I put her up week one she feels some sort of way with me, which is completely understandable.”
Dee: “But then it makes me think — well, why not, if she’s gonna put me up. Same thing Josh did, to make everybody happy. His literal word for word was, Dee, I’m putting you up. And that scares me, because I put you up week one too, you know?”
Dee: “And then in my mind I’m like, well, you and Yash are like this, so she’s not going to put Yash up. This is, like, all in my mind.”
They say the thing out loud, in both directions.
Mallory: “But you are not my target.”
Dee: “You’re not at all.”
Mallory: “Okay, good. That makes me feel good.”
Dee will not pretend the bad version is impossible.
Dee: “The hard part that I would toe with would be you and Drew. And I’m being completely honest.”
Mallory: “I believe you. And obviously that’s worst case scenario for me too.”
Dee: “Yeah, no, that’s worst case scenario for both, for sure.”
So they scout the Blockbuster together, which is a strange thing for a Head of Household and one of her nominees to be doing. Mallory’s read on Taylor is that the one comp she has won was a lie-detection game rather than anything physical.
Dee: “It was kind of more personal, kind of seeing if somebody’s lying. But she’s not good at puzzles. She’s not good at physical things.”
Dee points out that Drew has already won a Blockbuster, and rates Mallory’s odds out loud.
Dee: “Even with the nerves, you’re good.”
Mallory: “Of course it’s still going to be nerve-wracking, but yeah — I think I can perform okay under pressure.”
Dee: “You have one in two chances of winning. Not even one in three. Not counting her — not 100 per cent, like a 90 per cent.”
Mallory’s plan is to go and study.
Mallory: “I’m going to talk with Angela, because she’s done a lot of Blockbusters.”
Mallory: “Wait, has she done it seven times?”
Dee: “No, because she got vetoed. She got nominated seven times.”
Mallory: “But she’s done a couple, and she’ll know others — like, Tucker did a lot. So she’ll know stuff from him. The one that she won just last week, there’s like a strategy for it.”
Dee has heard which one it might be, and likes the answer.
Dee: “Everyone’s kind of saying it may be the rope thing. And that in itself is great. I was like, Taylor’s not going to get herself out of the rope.”
Mallory: “Yeah, I think I could do that one.”
Then Dee tells her what Taylor has been told, which is the opposite of the truth.
Dee: “And Taylor thinks it’s between you and Drew. Just so you know.”
Mallory: “Like, between me and Drew.”
Dee: “Like, oh, my target. I can’t tell her you’re my target. So, just so you know.”
Mallory: “Okay, that makes sense.”
“Taylor thinks it’s between you and Drew. Just so you know… I can’t tell her you’re my target.”
— Dee
And she has a line ready for the week, built on a number she is not enjoying.
Dee: “I was like, I’m gonna leave it up to the house, because I put four people up and I want to get out of it.”
She means it, she says, unless the vote ties and it lands back on her anyway. Mallory does not think it will get that far.
Mallory: “I feel like that is probably how most people kind of feel too, just because Taylor’s ruffled a lot of feathers. So I feel like that’s probably where everybody is. Yeah — just, she can’t win.”
Dee: “Yeah. That is the worst case scenario.”
Mallory: “Yeah, that would really stink. Most likely that won’t happen.”
Dee: “Because that would be the one where you have to do the most politicking. If she wins.”
What is left is two people who have spent a week avoiding each other admitting they were both avoiding each other.
Mallory: “Well, I feel better. Thank you.”
Dee: “I feel better too, honestly. Genuinely, thank you for coming and talking, because I was going to give you your space.”
Mallory: “No, and I appreciate that too. I do need space sometimes, just to be less emotional when I talk.”
Dee’s explanation for why she is up here alone so much doubles as a description of the whole game.
Dee: “That’s why I come up here a lot alone. Or not even in here — just by myself a lot. You have to think. There’s nothing else to do in this game but think.”
“You have to think. There’s nothing else to do in this game but think.”
— Dee
Somebody is waiting outside the door. Dee asks whether she should tell them to give Mallory five minutes.
Dee: “Can I hug you?”
Mallory: “Yes. Thank you. And I’m so sorry.”
Dee: “It’s okay. I know it’s really hard. I’ve never been in that position, but I know it’s — oh, Mallory. It sucks. I’m telling you.”
4:20 PM — Dee and Devens (HOH)
Mallory has gone back downstairs. Dee is alone in the HOH room, and she turns to the camera.
Dee: “Aye, aye, aye. I thought that was a great conversation. I’m glad she came up to me. But her coming up to me doesn’t help the scenarios. Because the plan was that we need reasons to take her out. But she’s actually being very nice.”
“The plan was that we need reasons to take her out. But she’s actually being very nice.”
— Dee, to the camera
She works through what Mallory promised her about a future nomination.
Dee: “But the thing is, a part of me wants to believe that she really would put up Yash. But the thing is, when Yash hears that, Yash will probably tell her that he can’t put the three of us up, so she better, like, come up with something else. You know what I’m saying? Because who would she put up? Let’s say she doesn’t put up Yash.”
Devens comes in.
Dee: “I just talked to Mallory.”
Devens: “How did that go?”
Dee: “It went well. It went well in the way that I feel like we have a lot of catching up to do. Well, obviously it doesn’t help the case. I genuinely thought she wasn’t going to talk to me, so that would have given us more of a reason. I told her my target is Taylor. You know, everything stays the same.”
Production comes over the speaker and asks Devens to reattach his microphone.
Dee: “My gameplay… thinks she needs to go. Emotionally wants her to stay, right? So that’s where I’m kind of leaning. Here’s the thing. In the best case scenario, Taylor wins, yes, and we send Mallory home. But that’s probably not gonna happen, right? Because Drew and, uh, whatever. Here’s my worry.”
“In the best case scenario, Taylor wins, yes, and we send Mallory home.”
— Dee
Dee: “Drew wins, and now it’s Taylor and Mallory. And for the past whatever days, we’ve been telling them Taylor. And right now she hasn’t done anything, you know, other than not talk to me, but she just came to talk to me. And this is just scenarios, because we need to talk it through. Is there a world — we’ve got to weigh out both options. Either way, them leaving anyone is good for our game, so that’s great.”
Dee: “Is there a world where she stays, we show them, hey, we meant it, and here’s us proving to you. But now the backlash could be they’re still a four strong. They’re still four strong. But then on the positive, we get to tell them whatever. Like, you saw that I f—ing, like, we took Taylor out. And you cannot put us up, right?”
Devens: “But that’s still a risk. They’re more unhappy with you than they were this time last week.”
Dee: “Huh?”
Devens: “They’re more unhappy with you than they were this time last week.”
Dee: “I don’t get it.”
Devens: “Like, their talk is that Dee said no one from the Mosh Pit gets nommed. And no one gets re-nommed. So they are not going to go forward with us. Those two girls.”
Dee: “Even after she stays?”
Devens: “Those two girls are not going to go forward with us. She’s got to go if she’s up there.”
Dee: “Then we do that, because gameplay understands that.”
Devens: “They have four, and Taylor and Barrett will go with them.”
Dee’s objection is not the plan. It is who has to stand up and own it.
Dee: “Okay, so then we need a plan, the other group without her. So here’s what I’m worried about, because right now I’m taking all the heat. We need a plan with Barrett and Drew. We’ve got to figure out a way, because we cannot blindside them.”
Devens: “I know.”
Dee: “We have to tell them, but everything is falling back on me. Because if I’m breaking the tie, I gotta get up in front of everyone, and if it’s Taylor and Mallory, Drew and Barrett are gonna be looking at me like, save Mallory — and I don’t save her? Right, even more f—ed up.”
Devens: “So what is our plan? Drew already sees some of the writing on the wall. He told me yesterday in the gym.”
Dee: “Because I talked to him in the gym here, and I told him Taylor’s still my target.”
Devens: “Okay, well, this was yesterday in the gym. He’s just like, I feel like Mallory might be the one that goes. And I’m like, I don’t know. But he and I have been talking.”
Dee: “F—, the three of us probably shouldn’t be here together.”
There is a knock at the HOH door.
Dee: “Can you give us five minutes so it doesn’t look obvious? Because Yash is right there.”
Devens: “I hope we didn’t sketch her out, but I don’t think we did.”
Dee: “No, no, no, no.”
Devens goes back to what Drew told him after the veto ceremony.
Devens: “He already told me, like, after she was nommed, he’s like, that bridge is burnt. Melody and Mallory are pissed.”
Dee: “They’re not going to be with you, so we can use that. But why haven’t we already used it then? Why are we waiting until tomorrow if they’ve already done that? But I didn’t know that. You didn’t tell me that.”
Devens: “I did tell you that.”
Dee: “No, you told me that they would put up the Icons or something like that. Oh, that’s the comment from yesterday?”
Devens: “Yeah, exactly. That they’re burnt against us, that they would put us up.”
Dee: “Okay, then that’s enough.”
Devens: “And I was paving the way with Barrett this morning in the gym before you came in. It was just he and I. Drew wasn’t there yet. And we were just talking about it.”
Devens: “And I was like, the thing that makes me nervous — if Mallory wins next week, she might put up Taylor, she might put up Lala, she could put up Haley. And she probably puts up me. And he was like, yeah, that’s the word.”
Dee: “Then that’s enough. Then why are we f—ing worrying about it? Now we need to sit with them, because if I have to stand up and make a choice, I don’t want to blindside them. And today at the gym I literally was like, you know it’s still Taylor. I agree. But there’s still a world.”
Devens: “And I also talked to him — this was in the conversation with Barrett.”
Dee: “Just him or both?”
Devens: “Just him at this point. I was like, dude, what is your perfect timeline of things happening? And he was like, well, you know, we’d get rid of Yash. We’d get rid of Haley. We’d get rid of Taylor.”
Devens: “And I was like, the thing is, Mallory and Melody have to go at some point. And I said, dude, there’s still like a big worry on my part that you guys are four and can control the vote. So I’ve been paving the way for this.”
Dee: “So interesting. So you’re paving the way.”
Dee: “And I’m telling them statistically she stays, so we gotta figure this out.”
Devens: “Well, maybe that’s good. Maybe that does take some of the heat off you.”
Dee: “No, it’s great.”
Devens: “Because I’m okay with coming in and being like, listen —”
Dee: “No, it’s not even about that, because I gotta tell them too. I’m the one who would be breaking the tie.”
Devens: “Right, because I don’t want you to take all the heat for them. My worry is — do we tell them?”
Dee: “In what way? Because if we sit, two of us together, you get what I’m saying?”
Dee: “We can’t be like the three of us and tell them.”
Devens: “Well, we can bring all five of us together and talk about it. And I can say, let me just be honest — Angela and I can say, listen, as long as there’s the four of you…”
Dee: “Maybe Angela can say it, because Angela hasn’t really — I don’t think she’s talked to them, you know?”
Devens: “That’d be great, but basically, they need to understand, as long as there’s four of them, that’s very threatening to us. And I overheard them talking about how they might not trust the Icons. Like, we need to get rid of one of them.”
Dee: “Wait, that’s even perfect.”
Devens: “We need to get rid of one of them. And it shouldn’t be a problem because we’re getting rid of them anyway. Listen, whether it’s now or three from now, one of them’s got to go. Mallory would put us up. She’s a better competitor than Taylor.”
Dee: “Yeah, of course.”
Devens: “We got to do what we got to do.”
Dee: “And they’re going to be pissed about it. My concern is…”
Devens: “Like, not hurting them. But if they stray from us — I mean, either way we’re in this game, right? The bad thing is if she comes back, now they can go as a four against us. A hundred percent.”
Devens: “Are they going to want to go with Lala and Taylor? They can, yes, for a vote. They can, but I don’t know that they’ll want to.”
Dee: “They absolutely will, to take one of us out at least. They will all put their differences aside and come for us.”
Devens: “They could. Or they could still stay Crossovers and understand — like, I don’t think Drew’s going to be that big.”
Dee: “The only way they stay Crossovers strong is if one of us wins HOH, obviously. If we don’t, and people decide to put the three of us up, they’re going to be okay with that because it’s not them. The same way they’re okay with Yash keeping the three of us off the block and it’s anybody else.”
Dee: “So it’s just that line of, how honest can we be with them? If we trust them, why would their four be a — you know what I’m saying?”
Devens: “Okay, if they’re with us, why does their four need to be here? If they’re with us, we got to get rid of people. I think Mallory has to go. That’s the main thing.”
Dee: “I just don’t know how we’re going to tell them that, though. And when. Do we wait until tomorrow? Because tomorrow’s another day. Because today in the gym, I was like, Taylor’s my target. Because what am I going to tell them?”
Devens takes the other road.
Devens: “If you truly believe that they’re against us no matter what if we don’t win HOH, then why don’t we blindside them? That way if she wins, we haven’t burnt that bridge.”
Dee: “Yeah, yeah. Because the worst case scenario is that we burn that bridge and she comes back and they have four to turn against us.”
Devens: “Correct. Yep.”
Dee: “But I mean, listen, if we blindsided them, they’d be hurt, but they have no option but to — I think that’s a better thing. And then it’s like, dude, we did it because we don’t want you to be in on this.”
Devens: “Now Mallory goes, but she knows you had nothing to do with it. She knows you weren’t aware of it.”
Dee raises the vote count, and where Haley already is on it.
Dee: “Okay, then those votes — because now here’s another problem. Haley this morning was sitting here and was like, hey, why don’t we take Taylor out? We have to start thinking about jury.”
Dee: “And I was like, yeah, but Mallory’s a better competitor. You get what I’m saying? And she’s like, oh, I talked to Angela. Angela said…”
Dee: “But we need Haley’s vote. And also, Haley is easily manipulated. So Drew and Barrett could be manipulating her into thinking that as well. Haley is big on this vote too.”
Devens: “Yeah, totally. We need Lala’s too.”
Dee: “I don’t think we could tell the guys. We can’t. Because right now, her and I are good. Not only will they work to save her — she just came to talk to me. I told her, I’m like, I’ll get Taylor. But if she does win, and she eventually knows that she’s the target, that’s bad. But at least we have a chance of her winning and not knowing that she was the target.”
Devens: “Exactly. So that if they have a four strong, at least she didn’t think she was the target. So maybe Barrett and Drew wouldn’t put us up. She’d still put us up. But maybe those two wouldn’t.”
Dee: “I think my biggest worry is, we don’t tell them, and Thursday comes, and it’s between Taylor and Mallory, and I have to break the tie.”
Devens: “But if you have to break the tie, I’ve already voted against Mallory. Angela’s already voted against Mallory. You’re just another vote.”
Dee: “Yeah, but I gave them my word that Taylor’s my target, you know what I’m saying? Because that’s part of the blindside, which is whatever, but…”
Devens: “You gave them your word.”
Dee: “Yeah, Taylor’s my target. Not my word, but I told them that.”
Devens: “Right, that’s what we’re all saying.”
Devens: “So if you want to change that, we can change that. We can tell them, but I don’t know that that’s the way to go.”
Dee: “Of what? Telling them?”
Devens: “Yeah.”
Dee: “Yeah, no, that’s true.”
Devens: “I think we blindside them and ask for forgiveness. Because at that point — okay, one of them went. Melody and Mallory are already gonna put us up. That bridge is burnt in my eyes. The only question is, would Drew and Barrett put us up? And if we keep Mallory, I don’t think they would — if we tell them ahead of time, or blindside them.”
“I think we blindside them and ask for forgiveness.”
— Devens
The recording ends there, mid-sentence.
4:35 PM — Devens and Dee (HOH)
Still in the HOH room, still on the same question. Devens is working through what they would say to Drew and Barrett afterwards.
Devens: “Or they could stick with the Crossovers that’s brought them this far. And we have all the excuses afterwards to be like, you guys were four, we were really uncomfortable with that. Mallory was gonna put us up. I overheard you talking about what a threat we were. We didn’t want you to feel bad because you were in on it and part of it. We thought it’d be better if you were just not in on it, so that you could be honest with Mallory, you could be honest with Melody.”
Dee: “Is there another way?”
Devens: “And they’ll feel used and abused for sure.”
Dee: “Because a part of me doesn’t want to blindside them, but then another part of me doesn’t want to blindside them so that they don’t think that we’re working against them. And then the other part of me is like, we have to blindside them in the case that Mallory wins and comes back. So which one weighs out more than the other? Because I don’t think they’d turn on us right now.”
Devens: “I think if we tell them ahead of time, they’re still going to feel used and abused. Because they’re going to say, whoa, we don’t want to do that. That wasn’t the deal. And we’re going to be like, too bad. We’re not taking your input.”
Dee: “Well, no, we can say it in like a loving way.”
Devens: “They’re not stupid.”
Devens: “I don’t think you understand how upset they are with you.”
Dee: “No, I do, I do, I do.”
Devens: “Okay.”
Dee: “And I don’t care either.”
Dee asks him why he is telling her this.
Devens: “No, I think you want to know about Mallory. I’m just saying, like, I want you to really understand that they’re already thinking about things. And they’re gonna be just as upset with me when I vote her out. That’s when it’ll be obvious that I was in on it the whole time. Or at least, obvious that I was in on the voting-her-out part of it.”
Dee: “So should we just risk it then?”
Devens: “I think so.”
Devens: “I’d love for you to get Angela’s input on stuff and everything, and we’ve got plenty of time. But right now, I say we… we just f—ing risk it. If we feel like we can count on Haley and Lala’s votes, then we blindside.”
“But right now, I say we… we just f—ing risk it.”
— Devens
They count it out.
Dee: “And what about Yash? Where do you think Yash would go? I think he would vote, obviously, Mallory out. So that’s five, and I wouldn’t have to break a tie either.”
Devens: “Right, unless she’s up against Drew. But then it’s like we have Barrett.”
Dee: “If it’s 4–4 with Drew, obviously I get up and I save Drew. It’s not a big deal. My thing is getting up and, like, Taylor and Mallory, and I’m the one that has to, like — hey, I’m voting, you know? Because I could have saved her in that moment.”
Dee: “Even if no matter who went against, ultimately the decision comes down to me of saving her or not saving her.”
Devens: “Yeah, but I already voted against her, put her there. So it’s the same.”
Dee: “Even if you, Angela, voted against her, I’m still the one making the decision.”
Devens: “I mean, I don’t think they’re stupid.”
Dee: “Well, I can save her and, like, it saves us all. Well, actually it wouldn’t, because then that looks bad on you and Angela. Because you voted against. So either way, that’s going to be even worse.”
Devens: “I want to just keep thinking about it, meet up, talk about it later.”
Dee: “No, not really. I think we’re ready. I mean, should we talk to Angela?”
Devens: “I mean, you can.”
Dee: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. And see where her head’s at.”
The public line does not change with the plan.
Devens: “I mean, I’m going to keep riding with the…”
Dee: “You’re going to keep riding with what?”
Devens: “That Taylor’s way. Until we change our mind about anything.”
Dee: “Me too.”
Devens: “We need Haley and Lala.”
Dee: “Lala wouldn’t vote out Taylor. The one that’s kind of shifty right now is Haley.”
Devens: “Lala’s easy. You wouldn’t have to break a tie, because Yash… Yash we would need, but Yash wouldn’t vote out —”
Dee: “He wouldn’t vote out Taylor.”
Devens: “Right, so you wouldn’t have to break a tie. So your hands will be cleaner than Angela’s and mine.”
Dee: “Whoa.”
Devens: “F—.”
Dee: “But then what are you going to say in that moment?”
Devens: “I don’t give a f—. She’s got to go. I’ll figure it out. I’ve been paving the way for it. Just like, she’s the bigger threat. She’s going to put me up.”
He runs the speech he would give Drew and Barrett.
Devens: “You guys don’t need her for anything, because you’re in the Crossovers. Like, seriously. Why are you guys holding on to these girls? There’s no reason for you guys to be so attached. If you’re going to give me a hard time about it, you’re suspect. You’re the one who’s unloyal.”
Dee: “No, of course. You guys are f—ing fishy.”
Devens: “That’s what I meant. I heard you guys in the hammock. It’s like, you guys are so suspect of us. You think I’m going to let you keep your other majority alliance here?”
Dee: “Hell no. Come at me. Come at me. You already were going to.”
Devens: “Yeah, they’re going to bail on us if she’s here, honestly. If the four of them stay, we’re screwed.”
Dee: “I’ll get Angela’s input, but it’s definitely better to —”
Devens: “Even if we don’t get caught with our hand in the cookie jar. Mallory just stayed and we voted for her to stay. We’re screwed. They’re going to come. The four of them are going to turn on us.”
Dee: “There’s a chance she does win and come back, so… having the conversation probably wouldn’t even — and f— it, yeah, she’s already out of the game if we do get her out.”
Devens: “We give them more time to try to turn the vote with Haley and blah, blah.”
Dee: “Where are they gonna go?”
Devens: “Like, we’re still their best path forward. Because they think if we get down to a five or six, they can beat us in the challenges.”
Dee: “And they might be able to. Well, they totally can. Because they studied the game more than we have. So then how do we want to play?”
Devens: “Yeah, she’s got to go.”
Dee: “Yeah, that’s what I was just thinking. She’s got to go.”
Dee can see a group of houseguests standing in front of the memory wall.
Dee: “Yeah, you motherf—ers looking at the wall. Yeah, your bestie’s not going to be here next week.”
“Yeah, you motherf—ers looking at the wall. Yeah, your bestie’s not going to be here next week.”
— Dee
Dee: “Look, look, look, look, look. Did she just point at you? Who did he point at?”
Devens: “I thought he pointed at you.”
Dee: “I also saw that he pointed at me. Did that little f—er point at me?”
Devens: “It looked like he pointed at you. Am I crazy? I don’t think so. Like, he could have been pointing at Barrett. He definitely wasn’t pointing at Haley.”
Dee: “Can you imagine? I go up to him and be like, I saw you pointing at me.”
Devens: “He would go.”
Dee: “Oh, yeah, you got me f—ed up. Why are you guys looking at the wall right now? If you already know where the numbers are at, why are you looking at the wall? No, f— it. That just made me mad. That’s blindside, though.”
Devens: “I think it’s the only way.”
Devens: “And we did it for their own good. We don’t want them to have to keep that secret.”
Dee: “That’s not where I would go. I would definitely say she was going to put me up.”
Devens: “Well, that too.”
Dee: “That’s where I would go, whatever you want to say.”
“And we did it for their own good. We don’t want them to have to keep that secret.”
— Devens
Dee says something at the screen — “get out of here, Mama” — and they start wrapping up.
Devens: “I’m sure we’ll check in again. Why are they standing in front of the wall like that? We’ve got a ton of time. I’ll go look at the wall with them and be like, ooh, what’s up?”
Dee: “All right, cool.”
Devens: “Yeah, if anything changes, hit me up. Whatever we do, we’ll do it together.”
Dee: “Yeah, for sure. I’ll talk to Angela too.”
Devens: “Yeah, sweet. Thanks for letting me use the shower.”
Dee: “Of course.”
4:20 PM — Drew and Barrett (Storage room)
Drew is counting votes from the block. The first name he checks is Angela’s.
Drew: “You don’t think Angela would vote me out over Mallory? I don’t think so, right?”
Barrett: “I don’t think so.”
Drew: “I just know she likes the girls.”
Barrett: “I have not gotten that indication that she would ever do something like that.”
Drew: “Me neither. I just want to see if you thought so.”
Drew: “I do think she would do, like, Crossovers, whatever. So yeah, it feels like they’re still gonna vote Taylor out, right? Do you still get the vibe that they want Taylor out if it’s next to Mallory?”
Barrett: “Yeah.”
Drew: “All right. Which is good.”
Barrett has one thing that does not sit right.
Barrett: “I mean, Devens worried me a little bit with that earlier today.”
Drew: “What did he say? I was going to ask you right now.”
Barrett: “He was asking me who my ideal order was for evictions. And I had said pretty much all the way down to Mosh Pit order, my default answer. And he just mentioned that he was more worried that Mallory, after now being on the block, would be pissed off and better at competitions.”
Barrett: “Which is such a stupid thing, I think. Because it’s like, well, you put her up. She wouldn’t have been mad if you didn’t put her up. I get that he’s not ever entirely wrong, but that’s what made me think, okay, this was your thoughts from the start. And then he also mentioned again that he definitely had concerns about the four of us.”
Drew: “Really?”
Barrett: “And that’s when I started thinking, like, was this just always the plan, to just immediately do this s—?”
“That’s when I started thinking, like, was this just always the plan, to just immediately do this s—?”
— Barrett, on Devens
Drew: “Well, the good thing is, like, it would cut the girls over us.”
Barrett: “Yeah. But it’s like, I don’t know how much of a fight to put up with it versus just being like, oh, yeah. Because what kind of player am I to sit here and be like, yeah, let’s evict one of my best friends. Happy to do it. It’s one thing sitting next to you, because — yeah, happy to do it then. Not happy, but you get what I mean. But sitting next to Taylor, it’s like, I’m not just going to… What kind of ally would I ever be if I let you just do that?”
Drew builds the argument he thinks would work on Devens, and it is a jury argument.
Drew: “For me, it’s like, I thought from Devens’ perspective it’d be like — I don’t think Mallory or Taylor would give him a vote at the end. Even if they both are in jury. I think that’s the idea you have to tell them. If you get rid of Mallory, she could be persuaded, especially if you and me are in the jury, to vote for you. But if you don’t get rid of Taylor, you’re for sure allowing one of Taylor or Lala to be in the jury, and they would never vote for you.”
Barrett: “It’s not bad, though.”
Barrett: “I was also thinking, if nothing else — if we wanted to try to pull in Yash a little bit more this week, for whatever reason. I don’t know in what way we could let him think that, if it doesn’t end up being, like, you versus Mallory. Or… no, never mind. I don’t know what I’m thinking. I’m just trying to clue him in more on what’s happening this week.”
Drew: “That’s on you right now. I get to play dumb because I’m on the block. The worst case scenario, what drives me insane, is sitting next to Mallory.”
Haley comes in, still in workout clothes.
Haley: “Well, f—. I just f—ing hate — like, you want to finish our ab workout? He just left. We didn’t even freaking do an ab workout, but that was my invitation. Worst little brother ever.”
Drew: “I just don’t like Taylor. She just annoys me.”
Haley: “I didn’t even finish my workout. I just did 15 minutes.”
Drew: “Do you want us to sit up there with you? Be your bodyguards?”
Haley: “Now I need someone to entertain me while I do f—ing stairs.”
Haley has just been campaigned at, in the gym.
Haley: “She’s like, do you want to talk game, and I was like, sure.”
Drew: “Is that how she opened it?”
Haley: “Yes. And then she just said, like, I don’t owe her anything.”
Drew: “Can I hear her pitch?”
Haley: “I’m just, hey, I’m voting with the house. I don’t have an obligation. I’m just going to say I don’t have an obligation to anybody.”
Barrett: “Oh, that was much nicer than what I said, I guess.”
Drew: “What did you say?”
Haley: “Angela flat-out told her no. Okay, let me rephrase. I’m sorry, that was not the full truth. But basically she said no. And she said, I’ll let you know Thursday. So basically that’s, like, a no. But what did you say?”
Barrett: “I basically told her, I was like, if it’s you versus Mallory, you know how it is. And that was that.”
Haley: “What’d she say?”
Barrett: “And she was like, I understand, straight up. And then we kind of just talked about, like, how much social — she’s like, I feel like I need to socialize more, but when I socialize more, does it help me? And I’m like, well —”
Drew: “She spent six f—ing weeks in her bed.”
“She spent six f—ing weeks in her bed.”
— Drew, on Taylor
Mallory and Melody come in and the room turns to food. Haley and Mallory leave. Melody stays.
Melody: “Aw, I can’t wait to see your friendship bracelets.”
Drew: “Me and Barrett.”
Melody: “No.”
Drew: “Yeah, no. Like, I can’t be in a room with Taylor right now. I just can’t look at her, like, pissed-off face all the time. It’s pissing me off.”
Melody: “Who? Taylor. Oh. Wait, is that what you guys were talking about?”
Drew: “Yeah, I went to the gym just to, like, see if Barrett was up there. And then it was Taylor and Haley. And Haley was like, oh Drew, let’s do our workout. I was like, nah, I’m gonna do that later.”
Drew: “She was like, that was me trying to tell you to f—ing stay so Taylor would stop talking to me. Which is great news — that means everyone doesn’t like Taylor. Which means all we have to do is win Blockbuster.”
Melody: “Do it.”
“That means everyone doesn’t like Taylor. Which means all we have to do is win Blockbuster.”
— Drew
The three of them spend the next stretch trying to work out what the Blockbuster will be.
Drew: “You were in the room when Josh told me. I was like, yeah, the one with the ball. I would assume the ball one is somewhat, like, physical. You know what I mean? So this next one’s probably, like, a f—ing puzzle or, like, a bulls—.”
Melody: “You and Mallory will smash a puzzle.”
Drew: “Hopefully, yeah.”
Melody: “I mean, have we seen Taylor do a puzzle? We saw her do the pipe thing, but have we seen her do another puzzle? No. I don’t think so. But I just want something somewhat physical.”
Drew: “I don’t want to spot the difference. What would you consider the one that you did?”
Melody: “Physical. So then they did do two physicals back then.”
Drew: “So they’re not gonna do three. They might. This is gonna be a f—ing spot the difference or something.”
Barrett: “It could be. That’s, like, anyone’s game. Spot the difference.”
Drew: “Like, of two different rooms.”
Barrett: “It also could be — would you count the first week one, like the one from last year? Actually, no, because they had that one, I remember. That was different. The one that Kelly won first week last year.”
Drew: “With the crown?”
Barrett: “Yeah, where there’s all the jumbled words. Is that the same one you’re talking about?”
Drew: “No, there was two similar. That was that one, and then there was the one that I’m talking about. The one that Adrian, I think, went home on. There literally was, like, two identical rooms. Spot the difference between the rooms.”
Barrett: “Oh, okay. How did they lock in their answers on that?”
Drew: “I feel like it was very similar to the one that Yash won the first week. Where it was like, count how many people and faces there are. And then you just write a number on a thing.”
Barrett: “Oh! You’re right.”
Then Barrett mentions what Taylor is hoping for.
Barrett: “I asked her what she hoped it would be and she said the ropes.”
Drew: “Taylor?”
Barrett: “Yeah.”
Drew: “I have more faith in Mallory winning the ropes than I do. But…”
Barrett: “I have faith in both of you to win the ropes.”
A gap in the feeds. When they come back, Haley is throwing food.
Haley: “Want to play hot potato?”
Drew: “Of course. Catch.”
Melody: “How are you?”
Barrett: “I’m doing good. I feel trapped.”
Melody: “Hopefully it’s HOH up here. What do you want? And not veto.”
Barrett: “Open up that glass door and tell him.”
Melody: “Hey! This better be f—ing HOH. I’m going crazy.”
Barrett: “This better be what I think it is!”
Haley: “Dude. If I don’t want to have a conversation, I don’t want to have a conversation. I need to have a conversation. Don’t throw it.”
Drew: “Ready?”
Haley: “No, keep it. I’m so f—ing hungry. Because I don’t want it to hit something.”
7:20 pm
As the Old OBB saying goes FEEDS ON FIRE
7:53 PM — Yash and Mallory (Pod Room)
The feeds join them with Mallory already counting votes.
Yash: “If it’s you and Drew, I vote out Drew. You know that.”
Mallory: “Absolutely. Haley told me she will vote for me over Taylor, but over Drew… I think people want to keep Drew, but the numbers aren’t there.”
Yash: “I’m going to be clear — if Drew is in there, I’ll probably vote him out.”
Yash: “Have you talked to Taylor yet or not?”
Mallory: “She asked me before I talked to Dee, like, if it’s between her and Drew, what I would do, and I was like, I mean, I definitely want you here, but it depends.”
Yash: “Oh, like, if it’s Taylor and Drew, who goes home?”
Mallory: “Yeah, I think it’s Taylor.”
Yash: “It depends on what they want.”
Mallory: “Dee told me that Taylor’s the target.”
Yash: “Okay. And I don’t know that. Obviously, because we don’t talk.”
He decides to go and ask her himself.
Yash: “But I’m going to either try to talk to her tonight or tomorrow. And just, like, just me and her, and see what she’s trying to say.”
Mallory: “Yeah, I’m going to wait to tell Taylor just in case she tells you something different. I don’t want to psych her out for that reason.”
Yash: “Okay, bet. And you can tell Taylor, too, that you’re waiting to hear what I say. Like, I’m cool with that.”
Yash: “But just win it, bro. Like, just make it easier.”
Mallory: “I know. That’s what I just keep thinking about.”
Yash: “Dude, you’re f—ing way better than both of them at competitions.”
Mallory: “So I’m trying to tell myself, like, I can do it again.”
Yash: “You can. Like, I know it in my bones. I know it in my bones that you can.”
Mallory: “I’ll at least put up a good fight.”
Yash: “No, you’re going to do it.”
Then a break in it.
Yash: “Dude, my stomach is, like, f—ed up in this house, bro.”
Mallory: “A cough drop came out of my mouth and I can’t find it.”
Yash: “Are you serious?”
Mallory: “Oh, I found it.”
Yash: “Yo. It, like, lands in her shoes. She puts her shoe on. What the f—?”
Mallory: “I’m feeling just better, unless they decide to keep Taylor over me — which I don’t think they will — and between me and Drew, I’m good.”
Yash: “We know that these f—ers like to do that last-minute s—. If it’s you and Drew, you are guaranteed.”
Mallory points at the ceiling and says the Icons want Drew to stay.
Yash: “And think about what that means. I’m going to just ask her each scenario what happens. Because whatever she says is going to tell me what Angela and Devens are doing too.”
Mallory: “Barrett told me she thinks she has the numbers for Drew.”
Yash: “To keep Drew. Do you think she would tell Barrett the truth, though? I think she would tell Barrett the truth, because he’s so closely working with you and Drew.”
Mallory: “Yeah, because Barrett would rather me stay, and Dee knows that.”
Yash: “No, no — would Dee tell Barrett the truth?”
Mallory: “I think so, because Dee is saying that Drew will stay over, and that’s not what Barrett would want. So if she was gonna lie —”
Yash: “She would say that, you’re saying? Okay, okay. When did she say that?”
Mallory: “Because Barrett was trying to tell her not to. And being like, you should put up Haley.”
Yash: “I just hope that it hasn’t changed that Drew is the target. Like, I hope that is still the main thing. Because that way, if you or her win, we’re still good.”
“I just hope that it hasn’t changed that Drew is the target.”
— Yash
Yash: “All right, I’m going to talk to her and see. Okay, but our combo is good. I’m going to wait until tomorrow, though, because I don’t want to talk to her then today and then tomorrow. I wanna ask her one f—ing time. Say, what are we doing? What are you thinking? And then call it a day. Just win it, bro. Just win it.”
Mallory: “I feel like even if I don’t win, I feel like I’ll still stay.”
Yash: “Yeah, for real. That is, like, making me more relaxed. Dude, if the two of you can stay.”
Mallory: “Like, amen.”
Yash says this one feels different from the evictions before it — the most complicated one yet, where the others were straightforward.
Yash: “It feels so nuanced.”
Mallory: “It feels like — Drew was the target, and now I guess he’s good with the Icons again.”
Yash: “Like, I think he’s like, what the f—? How?”
Mallory: “I don’t know.”
Yash: “How? I’m like, what the f—? That’s the exact reason now I’m like — go.”
His read on where the Icons think he sits is the reason he thinks they will give him a straight answer.
Yash: “So I’m gonna ask and see. Because as far as they’re concerned, they probably think I’m like Haley. Where I just don’t — I’m not aligned with anyone. Because after the vote didn’t go my way last week, I kind of told them, I was like, I don’t really know who I’m with anymore. Because the vote didn’t go my way.”
Mallory: “You’re a swing.”
Yash: “Exactly. They’re going to need my vote. In their mind. So they will tell me the truth. So I’ll talk to them tomorrow and see.”
Yash: “My time’s not yet. I’m too fired up now. Not yet. Also, bro, like, if you go, they might cakewalk into the three of them. Who’s going to put them up? Who can win and put them up? I just get worried that, like, their relationship is good enough where they can smooth it over.”
Mallory: “No. Not a word, not a peep. Because obviously he wants to keep that low-key, but, like, he’s really upset.”
Yash: “They use each of us to their advantage, and the second it’s time to discard, they’ll discard.”
Mallory: “But they keep getting away with it, bro.”
Yash: “No, not anymore. That’s why even with Drew, I’m like, Drew, how are you good with that again?”
Mallory: “Right, that’s why I’m trying to hope they think I’m like Drew, and if I stay, it’s all good.”
Yash: “It’s all good for you. And then I’m like —”
“They use each of us to their advantage, and the second it’s time to discard, they’ll discard.”
— Yash, on the Icons
Yash: “Ah, love you though, dude.”
Mallory: “Love you too. Come on. We got this.”
Yash: “We ain’t going to Jersey yet.”
Mallory: “Not yet. In October.”
Yash: “Yup. Yup, for real, dude.”
BB28 Alliances
Updated after the veto ceremony and the run of HOH-room conversations that followed it. Eleven houseguests left. Dee is Head of Household. Lala used the Power of Veto on herself and Mallory went up in her place — and by 4:35 PM Dee’s target had quietly changed.
- HOH: Dee, her second of the season.
- On the block: Drew, Taylor and Mallory. Lala came off with the veto.
- The target Dee is naming: Taylor. The target she is playing: Mallory. Devens: “I think Mallory has to go. That’s the main thing.”
- Powers live: Drew’s Never Not Pass, and nothing else.
- Powers spent: Devens’ Diamond Power of Veto — used on Dee, put up Kamu, Kamu evicted 9–1. Dee’s BB Bribe — paid to Yash, and he took it.
- What each side does not know: Drew and Barrett spent Friday night agreeing Devens has to go. Dee and Devens have decided to vote Mallory out without telling Drew and Barrett it is coming.
Active
Dee’s HOH Dee · Devens · Angela · Haley
Lala and Taylor were settled by noon Friday — “because they were conspiring against me, and that’s easy” — and the third seat moved from Haley to Yash to Drew across the afternoon. Dee, alone with her lunch: “I can go back on my word and put Yash up. But why would I do that when I can just put Drew up?” Devens had already signed off before she asked anybody else.
The Bribe, and it worked. At 10:11 AM she laid out the offer — “again, here’s the 5K, you cannot put any of us up for the next HOH that he wins” — with a threat if he refused: “and if he says no, I’ll f—ing backdoor you.” She keeps him off her block, he keeps the Icons off his. He took it.
Lala won the Power of Veto and used it on herself, and the seat went to Mallory. Drew had spent the previous morning in the bathroom asking for Yash instead — “give me the smoke, I want a Blockbuster.” It did not work. Dee afterwards: “even leaving you, I’m pretty sure people were like, what the f—?”
At 4:10 PM she told Mallory to her face that Taylor was the one going — “that she’s my target, yes” — and hugged her at the door. Ten minutes later, to Devens: “in the best case scenario, Taylor wins, yes, and we send Mallory home.” What she says publicly has not moved. Devens: “I’m going to keep riding with… that Taylor’s way. Until we change our mind about anything.” Dee: “me too.”
Taylor has been told the block is between Mallory and Drew. Dee, explaining it to Mallory: “Taylor thinks it’s between you and Drew. Just so you know… I can’t tell her you’re my target.” She then scouted the Blockbuster with her own real target sitting there, rated Mallory’s odds “one in two, not even one in three,” and said she liked the rope rumour: “Taylor’s not going to get herself out of the rope.”
The Icons Dee · Devens · Angela
The best they have had. Angela won the Blockbuster and took herself off the board, Kamu went home in her place 9–1 — Lala the only vote to evict Haley — and Dee came out of the endurance comp with her second HOH. Dee, alone afterwards: “Two HOHs, baby. Just why not keep making myself a bigger target?”
At 3:30 PM, hours after the ceremony, Yash named it in the HOH room: “and, like, bro — me, you, Angela, Devens. I’m rocking with that s—.” Dee: “No, you have my word.” Yash: “Thank God we’re back, bro.” Dee: “I thought I lost you there for a second.” Her plan from here, out loud: “we gotta figure out ways to get everybody else.”
The two men they count as theirs spent Friday night agreeing Devens has to go, and that a final five with the Icons ends with Drew and Barrett leaving first.
Dee’s instinct was to warn Drew and Barrett — “we cannot blindside them” — and Devens spent fifteen minutes talking her out of it. “If you truly believe that they’re against us no matter what if we don’t win HOH, then why don’t we blindside them?” Then: “I think we blindside them and ask for forgiveness.” By 4:35 PM: “I say we… we just f—ing risk it.”
It runs through Haley and Lala. They think Yash will not vote Taylor out, which means no tie and no HOH tiebreak — Devens: “so your hands will be cleaner than Angela’s and mine.” Haley is the loose one. She pitched Dee that morning on evicting Taylor for jury reasons, and Dee reads her as easily led.
Not the arithmetic. Dee spotted a group standing at the memory wall, decided one of them pointed at her, and got angry — “yeah, your bestie’s not going to be here next week… no, f— it. That just made me mad. That’s blindside, though.” Devens already has the after-the-fact line: “we did it for their own good. We don’t want them to have to keep that secret.”
The Dapper Dans Devens · Drew · Barrett · Yash
A joke about a handshake. Devens, telling Dee: “We were goofing around and we were like, we have to do a four-person dap. And of course Kamu walks in — he walks in everywhere. Five-person dap. We were in the hot tubs. It was public. And then someone else walked in. And then it flew up to 16. But that was us locking in that we were dap for dap.” Dee: “I hated every second of that.” Devens: “That’s our alliance.”
Devens, to Drew and Barrett: “I was also talking about how epic the moment is going to be when it comes down to when we finally decide that like our number one alliance is actually the Dapper Dans and we have to send either Dee or Angela home.” In the same conversation he vouched for the fourth: “Yash is 100% with the Dapper Dans until he dies.”
Barrett: “The Dapper Dans could have saved Devens.” Drew: “The Dapper Dans did save Devens.” Barrett: “The Dapper Dans evicted Kamu.” Yash was HOH and did not nominate Devens; Devens then spent the Diamond on Kamu. Whether the alliance caused that or is being used to explain it afterwards is the open question.
Drew wanted to rebuild it — “there’s only three of us left, excluding Devens… we have to be dude strong.” Hours after the veto ceremony Yash gave Dee his word on a four that does not include Drew or Barrett. Five thousand dollars bought him for the other side.
Drew and Barrett Drew · Barrett — locked
Older than every alliance either of them is in. Barrett: “You’re the only person who has f—ing offered me a final two.” Drew: “Arguably day one or two.” At 12:47 AM Friday they locked it. “Just know I’d never put you up.” — “I’m not putting you up either.” Drew: “The best chance we have at either of us winning is sitting next to each other. I don’t see any other way.” Both concede they lose to Mallory on charisma and to Dee on story.
They agreed a final five with the Crossovers ends with them going first — “probably me, then you” — and that Devens is the name, because he has never been on the block. Drew: “We’re the most blinded people in this game… they’re like, we’re gonna ride these kids as long as we can.” Then further: “We will be the domino to decide whether or not an Icon wins the game, or an FAP, or Yash wins this game.”
Drew spent the evening in the storage room trying to bring him in and got a refusal built to keep both doors open: “I might be a part of it, but I’m not gonna tell them I’m gonna do it. If y’all want to do it, y’all do it on your own.” His objection is the block itself: “D won HOH and put two members of the alliance that we made last week on the block. This is dumb as hell.”
Neither of them knows the vote has moved. Dee and Devens went back and forth on telling them and landed on not — Devens: “Melody and Mallory are already gonna put us up. That bridge is burnt in my eyes. The only question is, would Drew and Barrett put us up?” Drew told Devens in the gym he thought Mallory might be the one to go, which is the closest either of them has come.
Under strain
The Crossovers Drew · Barrett · Dee · Devens · Angela
Four of the five are still in it. The fifth is on the block, put there by it. Barrett spent an hour with Dee on Friday and finished on “I think you should do it,” having already told her “there’s nothing that Drew hasn’t done in the past week that doesn’t deserve for him to go on the block.” Lala got there from outside days earlier: “now they’re hanging with them and they’re on their side. But they’re the first ones they’ll put up.”
Drew and Barrett agreed the group is farming them and picked Devens, because he has never sat on the block, with a double eviction floated as the moment. Drew: “As much as I love Devens, I think he’s so cutthroat. He would just slime this out whenever he needed it to be.” They cannot move without confessing first — “the only way we save ourselves is telling them that we are Crossover” — because Devens holds the FAP name. “That’s probably what he’s waiting to do.”
Devens has already rehearsed the speech he will give Drew and Barrett afterwards, and the Crossovers is the whole of it: “you guys don’t need her for anything, because you’re in the Crossovers. Like, seriously. Why are you guys holding on to these girls? If you’re going to give me a hard time about it, you’re suspect.” The version he plans to open with is softer — “we didn’t want you to feel bad… we thought it’d be better if you were just not in on it, so that you could be honest with Mallory.”
Drew would carry Angela, and cites the Diamond as proof she is third: Devens spent it on Dee, not her. Barrett trusts Dee most and concedes the flaw in the same breath — “I think Dee would always have Devens over both of us.”
Mosh Pit Drew · Barrett · Melody · Mallory · Dee · Devens · Angela
Two members have said out loud it was never real. Mallory: “I was never planning on being loyal to Mosh Pit.” Melody: “If I was HOH, f— Mosh Pit.” Dee settled it herself, alone in the HOH room: “And the Mosh Pit’s not f—ing real, because they would come for me regardless.”
Drew, doing the arithmetic from the inside: “It really is funny that there’s four people that are in the Mosh Pit and I’m one of the people on the block. Every time the alliance wins, I go up.” Mallory joined him there at the veto ceremony.
Devens, relaying what the house is saying about Dee: “their talk is that Dee said no one from the Mosh Pit gets nommed. And no one gets re-nommed. So they are not going to go forward with us. Those two girls.” Mallory had gone up to the HOH room believing the opposite: “I really wanted to move forward with Mosh Pit. So I thought I was good this week.”
Drew On the block
In the HOH meeting he walked the room through the night Yash won HOH and answered his own question: “And I’m sitting there going, like, sure. I want Dee out.” Lala, an hour later: “Drew is a motherf—er. He’s a little f—ing snake.” Barrett told Dee to take the shot. By 1:50 PM Dee had stopped hedging — “again, the reason I’m saying this is because I’m putting him up.”
He had walked back into the storage room minutes earlier with the Never Not Pass and pitched it as a character reference: “they wouldn’t give me one if I was a traitor.” It keeps him off slop. It does not keep him off the block.
It landed anyway. “I’m the biggest liar in this house” — delivered at a table that was “five Crossover people in a row and then FAP on the other side. The definition of a split house.” Barrett: “I saw a complete personality shift with you. That’s what they want to see.” Drew’s plan is to ride it. “This week is just me being their bestie.”
He asked Dee directly for Yash in the empty seat. She put up Mallory.
Mallory On the block — and the target
Mallory came to the HOH room on her own and spent half an hour on it — correcting what Lala had told the room she said in the meeting, denying any deal with Yash (“he just never even considered me”), and offering the majority-alliance argument: “working in a majority alliance I do believe is what is best going forward.” Both of them said the words out loud. Mallory: “but you are not my target.” Dee: “you’re not at all.”
Dee, alone with the camera the moment she left: “her coming up to me doesn’t help the scenarios. Because the plan was that we need reasons to take her out. But she’s actually being very nice.” Devens supplied the reason instead: “Mallory would put us up. She’s a better competitor than Taylor.”
Studying. She is going to Angela, who has played the most Blockbusters of anyone left, and reaching past her for what Angela learned from Tucker. She thinks she can perform: “of course it’s still going to be nerve-wracking, but yeah — I think I can perform okay under pressure.” She does not know she is the one they are hoping loses.
Taylor On the block — named as the target, and not the target
That the week is between Mallory and Drew. Dee has told everybody else the reverse. Her reason, to Mallory: “I can’t tell her you’re my target.” Taylor is the name Dee gave Mallory, Drew and the gym, and the one Devens intends to keep repeating “until we change our mind about anything.”
Dee’s read is that her one comp win was a lie-detection game: “she’s not good at puzzles. She’s not good at physical things.” On the rope rumour: “Taylor’s not going to get herself out of the rope.” Mallory’s read on the vote if it comes to her: “Taylor’s ruffled a lot of feathers… just, she can’t win.”
She only survives the week by winning the Blockbuster herself, which is the outcome Dee is openly hoping for. Dee: “in the best case scenario, Taylor wins, yes, and we send Mallory home.”
Haley Survived — third week on the block
The house cannot work out what she is doing. Devens has told Dee to keep her close. Dee talked herself out of a third straight nomination for the coldest possible reason: “That’s a perfect person for us to sit next to if we ever go up.” At midnight Mallory read Dee’s interest in her as fear: “I think D wants to do that because D is scared that Haley would fire her off.”
Melody, working out what happens if Haley takes the next HOH: “I don’t want to live in no f—ing jury house with Haley. And Haley doesn’t either. Dead ass, I’ll quit. I’m not even joking.” Mallory: “I’d rather live with Taylor than Haley.”
She is the person he is most afraid to sit beside. “The scariest thing for me is sitting next to Haley. This week.” His counter-plan, agreed with Barrett at one in the morning: “We need Haley to get in more fights this week.”
The blindside runs through her. She spent Tuesday morning in the HOH room pushing Dee the other way — “hey, why don’t we take Taylor out? We have to start thinking about jury” — and cited Angela as backing it. Dee’s answer was Mallory is the better competitor, and her private read is less flattering: “Haley is easily manipulated.” Devens’ count: “we need Haley and Lala.” Dee: “the one that’s kind of shifty right now is Haley.”
The leak Unresolved
Somebody in the HOH room the day the group agreed to target the Icons told Dee about it. Yash ruled out Taylor, Lala and Mallory and was left with Drew or Barrett. Melody had already landed on Barrett; Lala got there independently on Thursday night: “So who flipped it? Drew?” Friday narrowed the ground without closing it. Nobody has confirmed it and Dee has not said.
Broken
FAP Drew · Barrett · Melody · Mallory
Dee told Mallory that Drew knew Kamu was putting her on the block and was fine with it, and told Melody that Drew had described her as somebody you could whisper to at the last minute. Melody: “So you genuinely have been playing both sides this entire f—ing time.” Barrett had warned Dee that nominating Drew would cost her both women. Instead it cost Drew both of them.
Drew and Barrett spent Friday night deciding it is still their best play anyway. Drew reads the Time Capsule results as instruction: “It is legitimately Crossovers versus FAP… America’s telling us to go with FAP. Trying to let the middlemen know. Trying to let the jugglers know.” Neither of the two women knows that. One of them is now on the block.
By Monday evening in the storage room he had swung the other way: “Two nights ago I was like, yeah, I think FAP is the way to go. And now I’m like, damn. I think Crossovers might be the way to go.” He is still recruiting Melody and Mallory into something at the same time. Barrett is the one who has not moved.
Lala, Taylor and Yash Lala · Taylor · Yash · Mallory · Melody
Lala counted it out loud at four in the morning with Mallory sitting there: “I’m trusting you and Mal — I mean you and Melody… I can’t trust Barrett and I can’t trust Drew now.” Friday afternoon took it apart. Told she was being considered, Lala named Drew, Mallory and Melody as the people who pushed hers last week, and volunteered that her own target is Devens. Dee, once alone: “Lala, why would you tell me you’re coming after Devens? That’s my f—ing number one.” Melody and Mallory spent the same hour swearing themselves to Dee.
Lala won the veto and took herself off the block. Yash took $5,000 from the Icons.
Historical
Alliances that have already ended Yash and Kamu · Bermuda Triangle · Wolf Pack · The Bad Boys
Yash: “And they will never know the extent of our relationship.” He campaigned hard in the last week — “I’ve kicked it into overdrive now to keep your ass” — and told Haley to throw the Blockbuster so Kamu could eat. Angela won it instead and Kamu was evicted 9–1.
Named by Devens, then hollowed out by him when he used the Diamond to pull Dee down and put Kamu up, cutting Yash out of his own ceremony.
Historical, but it explains the grudges. Yash still reached for it when justifying why he did not join the anti-Icons push earlier: “not so much, because we have the Wolf Pack.”
Did not survive. Devens used his power against one of the five, Drew and Barrett went to the Icons, and Kamu was evicted.
The BB Time Capsule
All six trips are done. Full detail on the twist, every round and every power in the pool, is on the BB Time Capsule page.
- Week 2 — Angela: punishment. Hard-Boiled Detective costume.
- Week 3 — Devens: Diamond Power of Veto. Spent — saved Dee, nominated Kamu, Kamu evicted 9–1.
- Week 4 — Dee: BB Bribe, $5,000. Spent — paid to Yash for protection from his next HOH.
- Week 5 — Mallory: punishment. Adam and Eve, with Melody picked to serve it alongside her.
- Week 6 — Melody: punishment. Lady of the Latrine.
- Week 7 — Drew: Never Not Pass. Live. The last trip of the twist.
Dee’s BB Bribe Spent — Yash took it
$5,000 offered to one houseguest in exchange for an action that helps her game. Valid to the end of the season, and the target can turn it down.
Before the Week 6 nominations she asked Yash to keep her and Angela safe for the week. He said no. She dropped Angela and asked again for just herself. He said no again. On Friday morning of her own HOH she went bigger — “again, here’s the 5K, you cannot put any of us up for the next HOH that he wins,” meaning herself, Angela and Devens — with a threat if he refused: “and if he says no, I’ll f—ing backdoor you.”
She kept him off the block. He recapped the terms back to her at 3:30 PM: “I told her before noms, we’re even… if she doesn’t put me up, I’ll remember that.” Thirty seconds later he named a four: “me, you, Angela, Devens.”
Drew’s Never Not Pass Live — and worth less than he needs
He cannot be made a have-not for the rest of the season. The last trip of the twist.
Called in on Friday afternoon, hours before the nominations he expected to be part of. He told Barrett and Devens within minutes and had already worked out what else it was worth: “they wouldn’t give me one if I was a traitor.” Barrett’s verdict, hours later: “This is why I wish you had better things than a Never Not Pass.”
Where it stands
Every power the twist produced has now been used. The Diamond went off in Week 6 and the houseguest it put on the block is gone. The Bribe went off this week, and it bought the Icons the one player who had been hunting them — by Tuesday afternoon Dee and Devens were counting Yash’s vote in a blindside he knows nothing about. The only thing left in play is Drew’s Never Not Pass, which keeps him off slop and does nothing else — and Drew is on the block.
Kamu believed, before his eviction, that Dee had paid Devens the $5,000 to use the Diamond on her; Mallory has independently floated the same theory. There is nothing behind it but the timing, and both of them said so. The money went to Yash instead.
The last trip went to Drew, which the house did not see coming — the HOH room spent Friday lunchtime convinced it was Yash, timing his Diary Room visit and watching the spy screen. He has since decided it means something else entirely: that the powers split three to the Icons and three to FAP is America telling the middlemen which side to pick. He said that at 12:47 AM. By the following afternoon Yash had picked the Icons.
The Stunt casting is really a show killer.
i’m so tired of watching them perform big brother as if it were a survivor seasons complete with all their greatest hits of what they are supposedly famous for. That IS what this is if you watch the edited episode version.
and
y’know…
i don’t watch unblocked. but it was on the 2 hour so i watched and muted things that disgusted me.
The way they approached the mob issue of the season was to make it a Haley and Taylor issue… while giving comic relief to Devens. Like he isn’t the architect of the isolate and make everyone hate strategic plan in week 2. Like Haley is the only one that is making me turn off the feeds when the mobbing gets too much. Haley is the entire mob? Really??
For that I have noped Sgt. Porkchop, Taylor and Danielle Reyes for playing into that narrative. Jerry? who cares about Jerry. no really. who? Considering Taylor’s bb history… her playing into that narrative is a big disappointment.
Dead and buried.
1 would be bad enough but 3 doesn’t give the others a chance!
Honestly, it’s made watching difficult. The smugness + the lemmings with no game beyond waiting out their turn to be slaughtered has made it a dull season.
This show has been dying for a few years now