“I want to send him home so bad… So all his little MMA fighters can say the drag queen sent the fighter home”

Monday evening splits the house into two vote plans that don’t know about each other. Kamu and Devens spend a half hour in the backyard counting votes to send Mallory home if Jason wins the Blockbuster — Lala stays because she’s a number who never wins anything — and plotting to pull Yash away from Drew, whose keep-Mallory argument Kamu now reads as a slip that exposed him. Meanwhile the other plan grows underneath them. Angela runs Mallory’s count for Lyric and adds her own name as the seventh vote. Dee tells Barrett she’s willing to show her cards to keep Mallory, and Barrett spots the eighth: Haley hates Lala enough to flip. Jason, alone upstairs on the block, prays for an HOH and names exactly who he wants to send home, then he and Lyric land on Devens as the power holder — off a pass-the-phone joke from Barrett. And at 7:33 the trio makes it official, hands in, by stealing Haley’s alliance name. The Giggle Girls. Thanks for the name.

4:30 pm Deven and Kamu

Kamu: “I said, if neither freaking Jason or Mallory go home, I feel like it was a wasted HOH.”
Devens: “100%.”
Kamu: “Like, dude, I blew up Jason’s whole game doing the whole tea party massacre thing. I backdoored them. I put up Mallory and I had to explain why. I had long, long conversations with her to try to cover my tracks. Same with Lala.”
Kamu: “But all for what? All to get Lala out this week?”
Kamu: “Imagine if you blew up Rome’s game and then — who else was on the block last week?”
Devens: “It was Melody.”
Devens: “No, it’d be worthless.”

Devens: “I literally want Jason to win.”
Kamu: “You actually do want Jason to win?”
Devens: “Really, it’s more so that I just want Drew and Barrett to have to declare a side. Because I don’t think they’re against us, but I don’t think they’re against the other side either.”
Devens: “They are playing middle. They pick depending on who wins the next HOH. That’s who they’re with.”
Devens: “So I would love for them to have to show themselves before that, in case the other side wins. Then maybe we can deflect on them instead of us.”
Kamu: “Dude, if Jason does win though, man, I need you guys to win that HOH, because I will go up 10 out of 10 times.”
Devens: “Absolutely. And I think I would too. But dude, I’m gunning for it. There’s no doubt.”
Devens: “I’m going for it even when it’s not good for me. I just want to win all those things.”

Kamu: “It’s hard to go back to regular living, bro. Especially — I might be a have-not next week. So I’m like, from having nothing to have it all, back to having nothing again.”
Devens: “I’m very prepared to be a have-not next week also. And you know how I could avoid that? It’s by winning HOH.”
Kamu: “Dude, if we just go back and forth. I’ll be a have-not next week, you be the HOH, and we swap. Dude, I’d be down to do that the whole game.”
Devens: “Let’s shake on it. Let’s just do that.”

On Yash:
Devens: “I’d be wide open for that conversation with Yash. Like I said, man, my biggest fear is that he goes.”
Kamu: “I think he’d be more down to work with me than Drew, because I was the one that told him about Rome trying to get him out of the house.”
Devens: “And I’m the one who hardcore kept him off the block last week. And he was like, dude, I’m with you. I appreciate this.”
Devens: “And he’s got to see everything Drew’s doing, too. But Drew is not a subtle guy in terms of the fact that he’s going back and forth all the time.”
Devens: “It’s him, by far more than anybody. Who’s in all the groups.”
Devens: “Should we just do a three-person, kind of like what we’re doing with Taylor?”
Kamu: “I’d be down for it. I think sometimes with these side alliances, man, I think that less is more.”
Kamu: “When you walked inside and it was just the two of us, I said to him — just so you know, bro, I got you.”
Kamu: “And he was like, dap me up. He’s like, dude, I freaking love you, bro. I got you, too.”
Kamu: “And I said, I know that we’ve never formally made an alliance. But dude, I’d love to actually lock something down with you and put a name to it.”
Kamu: “And he was like — hey, but you know, what’s known doesn’t got to be explained. And I was like, no, no, I know. But I still want to make something official, bro. And he was like, dude, absolutely.”
Kamu: “I wanted to talk to you because I would like to pull him from Drew. Because I think that Drew is trying to pull him over there.”
Devens: “Yeah, I think that that’s a good call. That’s a real good call.”

The count:
Devens: “If we look at it right now, we should have the votes, right?”
Kamu: “To get rid of Mal. Dude, I counted 6-5. Last night I was looking at the memory wall, I counted 6-5. But there should be 12 people.”
Kamu: “I don’t think I counted for the winner of the Blockbuster.”
Kamu: “I would assume that Jason would be Lala and that Taylor would be Lala.”
Kamu: “But you already know, if it’s a tiebreaker, you know where I’m gonna go.”
Kamu: “I don’t think we even have to talk about if Lala wins, honestly.”
Devens: “I don’t think that’s going to happen. Honestly, if it did, I would almost rather send Mallory home, but that’d be asking too much.”
Devens: “I think that would really go against the house big time. We don’t want to shake things up. This other way, it’s like, oh, we’re forced into picking a side.”
Kamu: “So I think it’s kind of a win-win scenario we’re in for.”
Devens: “I know that Haley was presenting the other side for Lala, but I don’t think she’s an issue at all, right? She’ll definitely go Mallory.”
Kamu: “I wish she didn’t do that, though, because then Drew tried to bandwagon her idea. Like, Haley’s right, you know?”
Devens: “But how quickly he did that, it was just like, okay.”

Kamu on his conversation with Drew:
Kamu: “The most telling thing last night — I couldn’t believe that we had this conversation.”
Kamu: “I said, everything is risk-reward. I said, if we’re worried about Lala skating by, okay, well then the risk is Lala ends up going home as the ninth person. She’d be top nine, worst comes to worst, because the Toolshed would be top eight.”
Kamu: “Because nobody in the Toolshed would have to attack each other while Lala’s still in the game. I said, that’s the worst.”
Kamu: “I’m like, worst case scenario between Lala and Mallory. I’m telling you.”
Kamu: “But I said, worst comes to worst with Mallory, bro — she wins HOH on Thursday and puts two of us up. I said, that’s a lot more threatening, if we’re looking at risk-reward when it comes to the two of them.”
Kamu: “I said, also, for me — dude, I got to protect my alliance. I have to protect the people that I’m rocking with.”
Kamu: “And Mallory straight up told me that if she won HOH, she would put Dee and Devens up.”
Kamu: “Dude, and this was the crazy part. He goes — yeah, but you have to understand that she’s not totally honest, because she’s also said that she would put you, Chuk and Haley up.”
Kamu: “And I said, so Drew — if your argument to me is that I shouldn’t trust her because she’s talking about putting Dee and Devens up, and that she might put me up instead? That makes me want to take her out even more.”
Kamu: “And he was like, oh, that’s fair. I think he had to have slipped up by saying that, because bro, that was the worst argument of all time.”
Devens: “She absolutely won’t go for anyone except you five. It’s like, you realize you’re working with all five of us, right, Drew?”
Kamu: “Yeah, it’s like — hey, just so you’re aware, dude, she was lying when she said she wanted to put Dee and Devens up. She wants to put you up instead. That’s why we should keep her.”
Devens: “And he’s going so hard for Mallory, and yet he wants us to believe he’d be fine with sending Melody home.”
Kamu: “Well, he’s only saying that because he knows he has no interest in actually winning HOH.”
Kamu: “So if you’re not going to win HOH and ever have to show your cards, then of course you’re going to lie to people and say, oh, I would totally put these people up — that you would never actually have to put up, because you would never actually win HOH.”
Kamu: “That conversation was the most eye-opening. In my eyes, Drew would be in such a better place with me if that conversation never happened.”
Kamu: “I went to sleep thinking about it. I woke up this morning thinking about it.”
Devens: “And Barrett — I understand why you’re trying to protect, like you’re trying to leave that back door open, that you can go running out and leave us in a burning house.”
Devens: “And hang out with the people that set our house on fire.”
Kamu: “Exactly. That’s a great analogy.”

Kamu: “The way that I kind of see it is, let’s just make it to the top eight first, because this game changes like crazy.”
Kamu: “It’s good to think ahead, to a point. But you shouldn’t cut an alliance that you’re really close with, who wants to take you to the top eight.”
Kamu: “As opposed to burning bridges now — because dude, now you might not even make it to the top eight anymore, because you’re putting a target on yourself by playing in the middle.”
Devens: “And not for nothing, but Survivor, it’s only 26 days. And you could do the coolest stuff in the world before the merge. No one cares.”
Devens: “You try to bring that up at Final Tribal, people will just ignore you and ask you a different question.”
Devens: “In this game, you only have to be better than one person. And no one’s going to care that we got somebody out in week two.”
Devens: “If you get to the jury, that’s when the game starts, really. None of these people we send out now have a vote.”
Kamu: “Not to mention, if it weren’t for the memory wall, dude, I’d already forget Ashley.”
Devens: “When we get to week eight, right now is going to seem so freaking long ago. And there’s going to be so much more people in here.”
Devens: “We’re all going to have blood on our hands. He’s going to be sitting there trying to not win HOHs. That’s going to end up biting him in the butt, because he’s going to end up getting put up.”

Kamu: “Before that conversation even happened, Dee, Angela and Chuk came to me. They were like, yo, just be careful with Drew. Angela’s really skeeved out.”
Kamu: “Haley — I love Haley, but I don’t always take her opinion of people seriously. She’s a bit emotional. Like, if she had it her way, she legitimately would take out Lala. That’s not smart, though.”
Kamu: “So I don’t always take her opinion of people seriously, but I trust her. She’ll vote with us.”
Kamu: “And out of all of them, Dee was probably the one that I took the most serious. Because I’m like, what is she seeing?”
Kamu: “If I came up to you and I was like, hey, bro, don’t trust Yash — wouldn’t you be like, wait, but why? And I just wasn’t given a good reason.”
Devens: “And then Drew came along and gave you an example.”
Kamu: “Dude, the whole, hey, I know you’re worried that she wants to put your alliance members up, but dude, she actually wants to put you up. We should keep her.”
Devens: “That’s wild. That’s wild.”
Devens: “Dude, you need to go to bed on time tonight, because you’re letting stuff like that out.”
Kamu: “He got up to take a shower right after that.”
Devens: “I like him, but I do think he’s playing real hard. And I do think we should force his hand.”

On Taylor:
Devens: “Especially if we get Yash on board, then it should be a no-doubter. We have the thing with Tay. We have the thing with Yash.”
Devens: “Tay is going to vote for Lala even regardless of our alliance.”
Kamu: “I think she’s campaigning for her.”
Devens: “But if she feels like that’s what we want, she’ll feel a lot better with us. And we can just lock that in. And I’ll talk to her about that.”
Devens: “I trust her. Right now, I definitely trust her.”
Kamu: “I don’t think for a second she would put us up.”
Kamu: “The one thing that I am trying to pay attention to a little bit is, it does kind of sound like she’s having a lot of side conversations with people. Because even last night Chuk was saying — Taylor pulled me aside and says that she wants to work with me.”
Kamu: “Did she show you the M&Ms?”
Kamu: “I was waiting for him to talk about that.”
Devens: “If he had done that, I would have been like, oh, damn. We got to think more seriously about Taylor.”

On the name:
Kamu: “Hey, is there an alliance called the Treehouse that you know of?”
Devens: “No, I’ve heard people call it the Treehouse.”
Kamu: “I was just wondering, because earlier when you said Treehouse, I didn’t know if you slipped up by mistake, so I didn’t say anything.”
Devens: “I call the Toolshed every wrong thing in the world. Every team name. The tower. The toolbox. The treehouse.”
Devens: “Toolshed’s literally the dumbest name I’ve ever heard.”
Devens: “Treehouse is honestly so much better than the Toolshed. The Treehouse is fantastic. We’re the tool hut. We’re the Toolshed. We’re a bunch of tools.”
Kamu: “Dude, it would be kind of funny if Drew went against the Toolshed, though, because he was the one that named it.”
Devens: “Even when he named it, I’m like — is he in his DRs calling us a bunch of tools? I can’t believe they went for that.”
Devens: “I was like, that was your dream? To call someone a Toolshed?”
Devens: “I didn’t even care. I was like, whatever. In that moment, someone put it up there. I didn’t. It was fine.”

Devens: “But there’s no blue corner anymore, right?”
Devens: “Angela’s just in the red corner because she asked her under wrong information. She thought that she had the green light. I guess she thought that Dee gave her a look like, yes.”
Devens: “She came to me all stressed out and flustered. I was like, oh, okay, I don’t care. That’s fine.”
Kamu: “She came out, I was on the hammock, and she’s like, if you have to put me up as a replacement, I understand.”
Devens: “She was joking.”
Kamu: “And the biggest reason to name it something new was to make Angela feel like she’s been a part of this since the beginning, and not jumping in as the last person in the line.”
Devens: “I told you that Drew said, like, drop Toolshed in front of y’all.”
Devens: “It does get a little bit tricky to keep up with all your lines.”
Devens: “Angela said that Drew said something about you three last night. Dude, am I getting that right?”
Devens: “People keep dropping that in front of me, but I haven’t had a conversation about it.”
Devens: “To me, I’m like, which three, bro? The only other three is the big guys or the icons.”
Kamu: “Did he say that to Angela, or did Angela hear?”
Devens: “I was under the impression that he had accidentally dropped that to Angela or something like that.”
Devens: “And if that’s true, then yeah, he’d be talking about me.”

Kamu: “Which would be real messy. But after that, I’m more inclined to believe that he’s just not getting enough sleep, because he is up late every night.”
Kamu: “I was in bed but I had my TV on, and I saw him and Melody. Dude, it had to have been like three o’clock or something like that.”
Kamu: “They were up together for hours, because everybody else was asleep. So I was like, bro, there’s no way.”
Devens: “When you said that you would put her up — there’s no way you’re putting her up. You’re just doing that for us. You’re just doing that to get us information on a minority alliance.”
Kamu: “No, he’s playing in the middle, and Barrett is too, man, because they do feel like they’re at the bottom.”
Devens: “And I’m sure part of them would love to take the second half of the game with a physically weaker bunch of players to win the HOHs and stuff. But we’re just not going to let that happen.”
Kamu: “But like what you said yesterday with Survivor — dude, you can try to take the weak players to the end, but they will have more numbers. And they will use their strength in numbers.”
Kamu: “They may be weak individually, but they will team up to take out the biggest threat. And then they battle it out at the end.”
Devens: “That’s exactly right.”
Kamu: “For me, it would be so dumb for me to attack you. It would be so dumb for me to attack Dee. In my opinion, I think it’d be dumb for you guys to attack me.”
Kamu: “We’re kind of all shields for each other right now.”
Devens: “Totally agree. It’s like — you’ve seen 300, right? It’s one of my favorite movies ever.”
Kamu: “You know in the movie when the Persians shoot the arrows and they all come together?”
Devens: “The turtle shell. Dude, they freaking have the turtle shell. I feel like that’s us.”
Devens: “We are like this with each other, 100%. It’s such a long game. We’re not even a third of the way. It’s week three.”
Devens: “If you and I got bad vibes with like nine players left, you start thinking scenarios. But right now? What are we doing?”

Kamu: “If I were them, I’d be like, oh, I want to ride this wave as long as possible and then make moves.”
Devens: “Knowing that there’s going to be double eviction, knowing that there’s going to be times when you’re so at risk.”
Kamu: “And knowing that at some point in time, there may be certain cracks. Dude, maybe Haley and Chuk have a huge falling out. And then you get in there.”
Devens: “And these twists and powers are going to come up.”
Kamu: “Yeah, to try to jump ship now, dude, is so irresponsible. In my opinion.”
Devens: “Even keeping both sides open — how long do you think you can do that? And the answer is this week, if Jason wins.”
Devens: “What do you think that would look like if they won HOH next week? I think I’m going up.”
Kamu: “On the other side of the house, if they were to win, it’s probably going to be Mallory and Jason. Bro, I’d put both of them up on the block. Like, I’m going up.”
Devens: “No, I think I’d go up with either of them also.”
Devens: “I think Haley would, for sure.”
Devens: “I mean, I do think you’d be a bigger target than I am, because you’re more recent.”
Devens: “Like, I put Jason up, but Rome was clearly my target. You put Jason up, but he was clearly your target. And I didn’t put Mallory up.”
Devens: “Honestly, yes, you’d be in worse shape than I would.”
Kamu: “I don’t know if they would try to backdoor me or put me up first or what.”
Devens: “That’s like — how do you say, hey, do me a favor and just put me up initially?”
Kamu: “They’d be like, oh, yeah, so you can play veto?”
Kamu: “But if they did, I’d be grateful, of course.”
Kamu: “But what I really want to do is make sure that they get smoked in the freaking HOH. It just sucks that I can’t play.”
Devens: “But I think we’ve got a good run, especially if one of them is not there to play. We got a really good roster.”
Devens: “That’s why we can’t take out Lala, bro. That’s why we can’t take out Lala.”
Kamu: “It’s a gimme for us. It makes no sense unless you’re in an alliance with Mallory.”
Devens: “All right, we’re on the same page.”
Devens: “I’m trying to be, you know, in a better position with these live feeds for the next 18 months.”
Devens: “If I get a chance to talk to Tay, I will.”
Devens: “And tell Yash to feel free to talk to him.”

Where it stands

Kamu has changed his answer. On Sunday he and Dee agreed Mallory was the bigger threat if Jason survived. Here he says the week is a wasted HOH unless Jason or Mallory goes, and he’s counting the votes to send Mallory home. Devens is with him. Lala is the one they both say they can’t take out, because she’s a number that doesn’t win anything.

That is the exact opposite of what the backyard group decided last night. Melody, Mallory, Barrett, Yash and Lyric spent forty minutes building a seven-vote plan to keep Jason. Kamu and Devens spent this half hour deciding they want Jason gone and Mallory second, and they’re targeting the same two swing votes: Yash and Taylor.

Devens wants Jason to win the Blockbuster anyway, for a different reason. It forces Drew and Barrett to pick a side before the next HOH, and if it goes wrong the heat lands on them instead.

The thing that changed Kamu’s mind about Drew was one line. He told Drew that Mallory said she’d nominate Dee and Devens. Drew’s counter-argument was that she’d actually nominate Kamu, Chuk and Haley — offered as a reason to keep her. Kamu went to sleep on it and woke up on it.

And two things neither of them knows. Taylor showed the M&Ms to Chuk as well; they’re checking for exactly that and stopped one question short. And the man telling Kamu they’re all shields for each other has been holding the Diamond Power of Veto since Friday.

4:40 pm Jason and Lyric

Jason: “You ate already? Did you eat your chicken?”
Lyric: “Not yet, no.”
Jason: “Did you want some of the chicken? It’s in the back storage fridge. It’s wrapped in my thing. Just take one of the meals.”
Lyric: “No, I’m going to wait until you’re done so we can eat together.”
Jason: “But I’ll split my chicken with you. This is a big piece, so I’ll split it in half.”
Lyric: “Girl, yes.”

Lyric: “Oh, my God. Are you okay?”
Jason: “Yeah, I was in here laughing. Because I’d just be thinking to myself and coming up with, like, what I’m going to say and stuff.”
Jason: “And I was just thinking, if I can — when I win HOH and get one of them out, I’m going to have the best laugh of my life.”
Lyric: “Everyone’s saying that you have the power.”
Jason: “Oh, they are? Who’s everyone?”
Lyric: “I was talking to Kamu, and he was like, I thought Jason had the power. That’s so silly.”
Jason: “That’s so silly. No, America hates me, remember? I told them that.”
Lyric: “But if you do, I’m, like, stoked for you.”
Jason: “I would tell you. I would tell you, but I don’t have it.”
Lyric: “Yeah, I don’t have it either.”
Jason: “I don’t have it. I think Devens has it.”
Lyric: “I think so, too.”
Jason: “And after what Barrett said — did you hear the pass the phone? You know how we’re doing the pass the phone thing? He’s like, I’m passing the phone to someone who definitely doesn’t have the power. And it was to Devens.”
Jason: “And so I think low-key there’s something to that too. I think it’s Devens.”
Jason: “I just hope — this is what my prayer is. I hope he doesn’t have the power to switch nominees.”
Jason: “Because if I get HOH and I want to come for them and he switches my nominees, it’s going to make me look crazy.”
Jason: “Especially to the girls, when Mallory’s already feeling weird with me.”
Jason: “So that’s why I’m like, I want Mallory to win next week. That would be the best case scenario, I think, forever.”
Jason: “I think we’re kind of all in agreeance that we have to send Lala home. Which sucks. I talked to Taylor. It’s what we have to do.”
Jason: “Couldn’t even think about it, because it was so saddening to think about. But now, at this point of the game —”
Jason: “I feel like we need me here too.”
Lyric: “Boo, I would be broken. It’s not gonna happen.”
Jason: “Yeah, I love you so much.”
Lyric: “I love you more.”

Jason alone:
Jason: “I have the power. Please. Oh my God.”
Jason: “I want to send him home so bad.”
Jason: “So all his little MMA fighters can say the drag queen sent the fighter home.”
Jason: “Oh my God. God, please.”
Jason: “Please, let me be the one.”
Jason: “Only I make a fool out of me.”

Jason: “Oh my God, what if I get the power to switch nominees? That would be sickening.”
Jason: “That would be crazy. Stop, that would be so crazy.”
Jason: “That would be amazing. Amazing, crazy amazing.”
Jason: “That would be amazing, universe.”
Jason: “That would be sick. Boots.”
Jason: “Girl, that would be so crazy. Stop.”
Jason: “You gotta win, bitch. You gotta win.”
Jason: “Come on. Come on.”

Working out:
Jason: “All right, I’m brain farted out. She’s not coming up with it today, Diva.”
Jason: “Silly. Silly, illy, illy.”
Jason: “One more minute, let’s go. Come on, core tight.”
Jason: “Come on, big girl. Come on, big girl.”
Jason: “I see you, big girl.”
Jason: “Come on, diva. Come on, queen.”
Jason: “Hit it. Hit it. Let’s go. Go, go. Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.”

Jason: “I miss gay people.”

Downstairs:
Jason: “You’ve been waiting? Girlfriend.”
Jason: “My chicken. I’m gonna go get my chicken.”
Lyric: “Okay, I cut an avocado too, so we can put it in it.”
Lyric: “I don’t want to take your food.”
Jason: “Take it, Diva. I’m going to make more chicken tomorrow.”
Lyric: “Are you sure? Can I just have the chicken? Is that okay?”
Jason: “Take it. Take whatever you want. Take the rice, too. I have so much rice.”
Lyric: “No, no, no. It’s okay. I’m not going to eat rice.”
Lyric: “Thank you, boo-boo.”
Jason: “But you gotta put your sweet potato in there. Do you want just half, or do you want the full thing?”
Jason: “I thought sweet potatoes were orange.”
Lyric: “Yeah, but this is yellow. But smell it. That is a sweet potato. It is one. The white sweet potato.”
Jason: “This tastes so good already.”
Jason: “It tastes like butter. It tastes like sweet butter.”
Lyric: “What the heck?”
Jason: “That’s a mind f***. This is my brain.”
Jason: “Because it messes with your mind. You’re like, hold on. Because that, to me, looks like a regular potato.”
Lyric: “No, I just ate a PB&J and an apple with caramel. I eat this at home. I literally eat chicken and sweet potato.”
Lyric: “Because sweet potato is a super healthy carb, apparently.”
Jason: “I love chopping mine and boiling it.”

Jason: “I’m going to start prepping food. I just make two meals and then I’ll cook the rest just so people can eat. But at least I have my little meals.”
Jason: “I want to start doing that so I don’t have to think about food. Especially during the day. You take one day to knock it all out and then you can chill.”
Jason: “I’d be worried everyone’s going with the meat, and I’m like, s***, then I ain’t going to have meat.”
Jason: “But they were saying, if no one cooks it, they’re never going to eat it. So you might as well cook it. And that’s why I just make some extra. And whoever wants it, come get it. But I make mine.”
Jason: “I ask for a lot of chicken. So they bring us, like, three or four slabs of it.”
Jason: “Okay, I’m going to go. I’m going to lock in.”

Where it stands

Jason and Lyric both land on Devens for the power, and Jason’s evidence is a party game. Somebody passed the phone to the person who definitely doesn’t have it, and it went to Devens. Devens has been holding the Diamond Power of Veto since Friday.

His prayer is specific. Not to be saved — to win an HOH, and to be the one who sends a particular houseguest home, so that it gets told a particular way on the outside. He also has a second prayer, which is that whoever holds the power can’t switch nominations, because if his HOH gets overwritten he looks crazy in front of the girls.

He says the group is in agreement that Lala goes, and that he talked to Taylor about it. He is the one on the block.

And after Lyric goes downstairs he coaches himself through a workout, says he misses gay people, and cries. Then he goes down and gives her half his chicken.

6:17 pm Chilling

6:42 pm Anglea and Lyric

Angela: “It’s been a day. It’s been a weird day.”
Lyric: “I’m nervous. Mallory’s my girl.”
Lyric: “But I have faith. I have faith that she’ll stay, and then she’ll win the Blockbuster. First and foremost.”
Angela: “Do you ever look at the memory wall and count numbers?”
Angela: “That’s the only way to really do it. Because I feel like in my head I lose track of who’s who.”
Lyric: “It’s just hard to know where people will land. And so it’s uncertain.”
Angela: “I feel like there’s the numbers. But it is true — I don’t know who would do what somebody else would want them to do.”
Angela: “It’s hard to know in Big Brother. Sadly.”
Angela: “I love her here. I want her here.”
Lyric: “She’s my girl. I love her so much.”
Angela: “I adore her. I adore you.”
Angela: “But she’s doing a really good job of handling it. She’s being so strong. I think from her first week, a fire was lit and she’s been great ever since.”
Angela: “She was so sad, and I was like, I don’t want to see you this way. Please. You can do it.”

Angela: “The best that she can do is what she’s been doing, and that’s talking to people who she is iffy what their votes would be.”
Angela: “She already knows who’s for sure, for sure, you know?”
Angela: “Like, if I had to guess, it would be you, obviously. Taylor. Drew. Barrett.”
Angela: “Hold on. See, I don’t have the screen. Melody.”
Angela: “Okay, let’s just even count them now. Drew, Barrett, Yash, Taylor, Melody, you.”
Angela: “Who am I missing?”
Angela: “Me.”
Angela: “Now, that’s only if Jason doesn’t go home. I think that’s the target.”
Angela: “I think Jason stays — if he stays, she’s still on the block. Jason still votes for her to stay.”
Angela: “Oh, no, maybe not. Maybe Lala.”
Angela: “I don’t know about him. I don’t know.”
Lyric: “That’s the problem, though. I know someone has to go home, but the thought of Lala leaving makes me really sad.”
Angela: “I know, me too. You know I love her. We hang out all the time.”
Angela: “See, the numbers get kind of dicey. But it could happen still. It could work.”
Angela: “Let’s just manifest. I love Jason. I do. I love him. But you could manifest him not winning.”
Angela: “Mallory and Jason are both very, very good competitors.”
Angela: “And he’s a protector of you, I think, since Rome left.”
Angela: “But if you had to pick between the two, I feel like you’re going —”
Angela: “I’m not saying anything, by the way. You know that.”

On the tea party:
Lyric: “The thing with this game is, it’s tough when something like this happens, like at the tea party. Because it’s a lot of attention on you, you know?”
Angela: “Trust me, I felt his pain. I did. I could feel it. You’re sitting next to me, you must have felt it.”
Angela: “I saw him shaking. And I could feel him shaking like this. I was like, oh, my gosh.”
Angela: “I feel for him, to have your back up against the wall. But he still held his own. And he stayed in his seat. He didn’t get crazy.”
Angela: “And I thought Kamu handled himself so well. It was great.”
Angela: “So neither of them did the lunge forward. They did the lunge back.”
Angela: “And that is something I’m going to learn. Don’t get upset where you’re doing this to somebody. You can literally do this and be unbothered. Let’s talk it out.”
Lyric: “Yep, that’s true. Very true. Very cool, calm, collected.”
Lyric: “I think Jason has a lot of grace as well. Kamu did a great job too.”
Lyric: “But the after part — look at him now.”
Angela: “I actually liked it. I thought it was funny. I didn’t like when he did it around Haley’s head.”

Beetles get into the yard:
Angela: “No, no, no, no. Okay, he’s gone, he’s gone. Nope, nope, it’s right there.”
Angela: “There were two of them together in here. Nope, nope, nope.”
Angela: “Okay, sorry, I’m sorry, I’m not gonna scream so loud.”
Angela: “No. No. Get away.”
Angela: “They’re fat and furry. Why are they taunting us?”
Angela: “You think they just release them in here?”
Angela: “And then they knock themselves silly. Okay, they’re gone.”
Lyric: “Why do we always get stuck with bees? They must be attracted to our scent. Because we smell sweet.”
Angela: “I knew it. I knew it, you little sucker. You’re getting lower. You better stop it.”
Angela: “It’s going to get you. It’s above you. It’s above you.”
Angela: “He’s getting lower. He’s coming for me.”
Angela: “I’m just having fun hitting you with a pillow.”
Angela: “I’ve got my eye out. They’re not going to get you. See, there he comes. Here he comes right now.”
Angela: “Get back. Get back, buddy.”
Angela: “They fly over, and then they come back in. I’m like, you’re trapped. They keep hitting themselves up against the wall.”
Angela: “Chuk, it’s coming for you.”

Lyric: “I think tonight’s episode’s gonna be insane.”
Lyric: “What they put on there — because we have so much time of just chit chats. The important chit chat isn’t on there, and you’re like, f.” Lyric: “There’s some important chit chats you have where you’re like, bruh.” Lyric: “Just for the show, a chit chat. Just the most random s ever, that I always see.”
Lyric: “It’s never anything, like, serious.”
Angela: “You want to do an ab circuit?”
Lyric: “What world would I want to do an ab circuit?”
Angela: “Guess I’m hanging out with the wrong friend over here.”

Lyric: “I really do think that it will come down to Mallory and Jason. We won’t have to choose between them.”
Lyric: “I think Jason is going to win the Blockbuster.”
Angela: “Me too.”
Lyric: “But obviously, with that being the case, it’s sad.”
Angela: “I would just tell her whoever she’s iffy on —”
Lyric: “To have conversations with them.”
Angela: “Yeah, and to see what she can maybe do to better their game.”
Angela: “You have to offer things in here, unfortunately. Currency.”
Lyric: “Yeah, you do.”
Lyric: “But you know from the start, I told you I will always protect you in this game. I’ll never put you up.”
Lyric: “If I’m lucky enough to win HOH at some point. And I stay true to my word. I really do.”
Angela: “I know you do.”
Angela: “So, yeah, just talk, make her rounds where she needs to, and be genuine. I feel like people know when you’re fake.”
Angela: “I know when people are being fake to me. It’s easy to read.”
Lyric: “And she can get her butt in there and win the damn thing. Because that’s the best way to ensure her own safety.”
Lyric: “I think if anyone can do it, it’s her. She’s so athletic. I love her so much.”

Angela: “And I love you guys together. I love you guys having friends in here.”
Angela: “I like hanging out with you girls. And we need that.”
Lyric: “I feel like on the outside, her and I — in college, I always tell her, I feel like we’re like roommates in college.”
Angela: “Lifelong friends forever.”
Lyric: “Lifelong friends forever. But I honestly feel that way about everyone, too.”
Angela: “It’s just terrible, because every week somebody has to go home. Every freaking week.”
Lyric: “And it doesn’t ever get easier. It gets harder, if anything.”
Lyric: “Because you get so close with the people, and the more time that passes, you get closer and closer, and someone leaves.”
Lyric: “And I feel like it doesn’t hit that someone’s gone until, like, three days later. That’s how I felt with Rome. I was like, wow, he’s really gone and not coming back.”
Lyric: “He could still come back.”
Angela: “Do you think so? They haven’t done that in forever. And this is the BB Time Capsule slash time machine. Come on.”
Angela: “And they don’t do it with players that leave mid-season. They do it with players that left in the beginning. Three. Sometimes four. But three, usually.”
Angela: “So we’ll know after this week, and then one more week, then we’ll know. If that’s playing.”
Lyric: “How would that affect you? If he came back?”
Lyric: “Oh, I think they would put a target on my back again.”
Angela: “Because I don’t feel like the target was on you because of him. Do you?”
Angela: “I think you were used to hurt him. In a way. From the alpha males.”
Lyric: “Exactly.”

Angela on being a repeat nominee:
Lyric: “You tell me, but when you’re put up there once, you’re like, okay — I actually have chances to take myself off.”
Angela: “And usually the people that are put up first are not usually the problem. Most usually.”
Angela: “And that was my experience with the season that I was on too.”
Lyric: “Were you ever like, stop, I’ve had enough?”
Angela: “There was no way I could, because I felt like I was already there and people just felt like it was easy. She’s done it before, and so it’s less people.”
Angela: “And it’s a really weird mindset. Just because I’ve done it before doesn’t mean I keep wanting to do it. I don’t want to be here. Give me a break.”
Angela: “They did it to the winner, Taylor. Taylor’s season, she was a pawn probably just as many times as I was, but she actually went on to win.”
Angela: “She’s beautiful. When I saw her in person I was like, whoa, you are stunning. Very tall too. I was literally looking up to her.”
Angela: “And she’s a really nice person. I spent a lot of time with her at Universal Studios. We went as a big group. And also Amazing Race.”

Where it stands

Angela ran Mallory’s vote count for Lyric and put herself in it. Drew, Barrett, Yash, Taylor, Melody, Lyric, and then, when she asked who she was missing, her own name. That is seven, which is the number the backyard group worked out they needed, and it is the opposite of what she told Dee on Sunday morning.

Both of them expect Jason to win the Blockbuster, which leaves Mallory against Lala. Lyric says she’d hate to lose either. Angela says she loves Lala and hangs out with her all the time, then tells Lyric to manifest Jason not winning.

Lyric made Angela a promise: she’ll never put her up, and she stays true to her word.

And Angela took a lesson out of the tea party. Neither Jason nor Kamu lunged forward. They lunged back. She says that’s what she’s going to learn.

7:06 pm Berrett and Dee

Dee: “I’m also trusting you, not just her word. I’m trusting you, I’m trusting her, simultaneously.”
Barrett: “I don’t think she’s been very honest about her concerns about you since the first week of the game, and they’ve lessened. And she’s been very honest about me talking to you.”
Barrett: “So I believe her on that. So I’d be shocked if she immediately went back on that.”
Barrett: “But I get it’s a risk. And thank you for wanting to take the risk. Seriously.”
Dee: “It’s hard. You know what I mean?”
Dee: “And it sucks because week two, her friends went out. Week three, she’s on the block again, you know?”
Barrett: “But I think they have greater enemies in their head than you. And it’s those three. Specifically Chuk and Haley.”
Barrett: “Specifically Haley. That’s who they are talking s*** about in there.”
Dee: “Right. I like that they just kept talking. I’m like, it’s not about me.”

Barrett: “So that would be those seven votes. And then maybe eight, if Taylor’s telling the truth.”
Dee: “I think that’s what they were saying Taylor was saying. That was what it was for — not Jason staying, but Mallory staying.”
Dee: “Would she go after Devens?”
Barrett: “Mallory? I don’t know. I don’t think so. At worst he would be a renom for her.”
Barrett: “Somebody just needs to make sure that she knows that that is a concern, if she wants those votes.”
Dee: “Yeah, of course. I haven’t talked to Devens about it, but if I was him, that would be a concern.”
Barrett: “Yeah, but that’s also why Drew wanted to talk to Devens, to see how down he would be.”
Barrett: “We probably just have to have her be like, you gotta promise some s***.”
Dee: “Yeah, of course.”
Barrett: “These are people you said literally week two, the HOH, that you would put up.”

Barrett: “That Mallory was saying that she would also put me up. Which is, like, a bold-faced lie.”
Dee: “How the hell am I supposed to know that? I don’t know.”
Barrett: “I don’t even know who told him that to begin with. Or if he’s just coming up with s.” Barrett: “Maybe Haley fi***ng knows. I don’t know.”
Dee: “Or maybe he could be. I don’t know. I don’t think he would come up with stuff.”
Barrett: “Hell, Haley hates Lala enough. Maybe she would keep Mallory.”
Dee: “Maybe we could convince Haley to do that.”

Dee: “I’m in a bad position. Kind of like if you were in the middle of something, you would have to think — even this week, I guess.”
Dee: “Although we’re talking about it, but I can’t talk about this with them.”
Barrett: “At the very end of the day, HOH can only do what the HOH wants to do, which is put people up. It’s not us to decide what he wants to do.”
Dee: “Yeah, but I’m still showing my cards based on the numbers. So it’s a pretty big risk.”
Dee: “Do you understand that?”
Barrett: “But yeah, it is a risk. And you are showing your cards.”
Dee: “And maybe there’s a way you want to. Which I’m willing to do. Because I trust you. I trust Drew.”

Barrett: “Ideally, Mallory could just win the Blockbuster.”
Dee: “100%. I would love that.”
Barrett: “We both get what we want. And we both don’t have to really show our cards in any way.”
Barrett: “Even though keeping Jason here would be entertaining as f***.”
Dee: “Yeah, of course.”
Barrett: “But I know that’s just too big of a risk for y’all. He’s a bigger risk than Mallory is for going after y’all.”

Barrett: “Let me count again. Angela.”
Barrett: “I f**ing wish Devens wasn’t in that alliance too. Because then he could just vote, and then you could stick with your vote and not show your cards.” Barrett: “Taylor is actually going to do it, though. Or Haley.” Barrett: “F. I think it can happen where you don’t have to show your cards. We just have to figure that s*** out tomorrow or tonight.”
Dee: “But I think we would never really know for a fact until the whole time.”

Where it stands

Barrett has Dee. She says she’s willing to show her cards and vote to keep Mallory, and her stated reason is that she trusts him and she trusts Drew. She is the person who put Mallory on the block in week one, and she says it sucks that Mallory is back up in week three.

The seven votes are now being counted for keeping Mallory rather than keeping Jason, with Taylor as a possible eighth. Angela counted herself into that same seven ten minutes earlier with Lyric. Neither of them has told Devens.

What Barrett is really working on is a way for Dee to get what she wants without anyone seeing her do it. He wishes Devens weren’t in the alliance, because then Devens could carry the vote and Dee could stay hidden. He thinks Taylor will do it, or Haley — his read on Haley being that she hates Lala enough to keep Mallory over her, and Dee’s answer is that maybe they can convince her. He wants it worked out tonight or tomorrow.

And both of them would rather Mallory just win the Blockbuster, because then nobody has to declare anything.

Barrett also says flatly that the claim about Mallory targeting him is a bold-faced lie, and he doesn’t know whether Kamu was told it or invented it.

7:33 PM — Mallory, Melody and Lyric, backyard

On Lala:
Melody: “I’m just irritated, because I was, like, making slop or eating slop around her earlier. And she was like, you’ll get through it. Or, like, just kept being like, I know, I know all about that slop.”
Melody: “And I was like, no, the f* you don’t. Like, why are you lying?” Lyric: “It’s hard, though. It’s tough, because that’s all you can eat.” Lyric: “And you’re like, oh, I’m going to take a shower to make myself feel better. Nope. Cold.” Lyric: “Oh, I’m just going to go to sleep to make it go by faster. Oh — enjoy the clinking. And the boom.” Mallory: “Also, another thing about keeping Lala. If she never wins anything, she never has to make any enemies with the other side.” Mallory: “Like, if one of us wins HOH and puts people up, that’s going to make them enemies. She’s probably never going to have to do that. She’s not gonna get blood on her hands.” Mallory: “Let’s say I win HOH, I have to put people up on the other side. And so if they get power, they’re probably gonna target me. Same for anybody else. If she never wins, she’s never gonna have to do that.” Melody: “Yeah, but then at a certain point, she is the bottom of our totem pole, too.” Melody: “Sorry, but you’re gonna have to leave.” Melody: “But also, like, why would they put up Lala? The other side?” Melody: “Yeah, but she is annoying as hell. Like, I love her, but I do still think she’s annoying. But I know she really rubs other people the wrong way.” Melody: “Like, Haley f*ing hates that bitch.”

Lyric: “Do we want to form an official alliance between us three?”
Lyric: “Do you want to do it right now?”
Lyric: “Should we just freaking call it the trio, because people are naming us that?”
Mallory: “Honestly, I’m good with the trio.”
Melody: “Wait, let’s add, like, an adjective or something, so it’s more clever.”
Lyric: “Here come the cameras.”
Melody: “No, they literally turned away. Oh, never mind. Oh, no, they are. They are.”
Lyric: “They heard the word alliance.”
Melody: “Well, no one else is out here anymore. They do call us the trio, but also I don’t want it to —”
Melody: “I want the trio, but also, like, the blind trio, or —”
Melody: “A targeted trio.”
Mallory: “That’s good alliteration.”
Melody: “We could literally steal Haley’s name. The Giggle Girls?”
Mallory: “The Giggle Girls? Why not? I’m good with the Giggle Girls.”
Melody: “Yeah, it’s funny, because it’s like, okay, cool, fine. Thanks for the name.”
Lyric: “I see the boxes coming up on the screen.”
Lyric: “The Giggle Girls.”
Mallory: “One, two, three.”
All: “Giggle Girls.”

Mallory: “Everyone thinks we’re working together anyways.”
Lyric: “Well, not now. I think we’ve done a good job.”
Mallory: “The first day, we weren’t even talking game at all. We’re just talking.”
Mallory: “I think the first game we ever talked was, like, I think people are calling us a trio.”
Mallory: “I think we’re doing a good job of spreading ourselves out, though.”
Mallory: “I think the only individual conversation I have left to have is Devens.”
Mallory: “I’m not trying to be too hard and be like, you kept me safe. Like, I would keep you safe.”
Mallory: “I’m winning this week. Like, I am. I literally see it. Blockbuster.”
Mallory: “I’m winning Blockbuster and I’m winning HOH. Period. Period. F*** you, motherfers.” Lyric: “If you win, we’re going to be close and kick back.” Mallory: “It’s going to be Disneyland. We’re going to Anaheim. They’re going to the Big Brother house.” Lyric: “Let’s just hope. I have a feeling it’s gonna be, like — not endurance, but physical. Like walking a plank, or timing something.” Mallory: “Damn, if it’s balance, I’m fed. Never mind. I feel like I could love balance.”

On the powers:
Melody: “Yeah, but also low-key, Devens is in it. Or Dee, too.”
Melody: “I doubt Devens would even be gunning for it anyway. Maybe even Dee — I don’t know if Dee would even want it.”
Lyric: “I think it’s Devens. I feel like it’s Devens or Jason.”
Lyric: “People are looking at me like I have it. I’m like, I do not. I would tell the people that I love. And I do not.”

On the fan vote:
Mallory: “But we should shout out you this week.”
Lyric: “See, but the thing is, if I had it, I’d be talking to people. You know what I mean?”
Melody: “I feel like — do you think people would listen to us?”
Mallory: “I think the reason it works is if, let’s say people were going to vote for me, vote for Lyric instead. People were going to vote for you, vote for Lyric instead.”
Mallory: “Instead of all the votes being spread out between the four of us, it’s all in one person.”
Melody: “Yeah, that makes sense. I don’t think anyone would be voting for me.”
Mallory: “Are you joking? What about your friends and family?”
Melody: “Yeah, I guess. That’s, like, five people, though.”
Lyric: “It’s just a shitty position. People that you’re close with are on the block. People who you can rely on are on the block.” Mallory: “I f***ing hate the block.”
Mallory: “I want people up there. I want people to stop being annoying as hell.”

The broccoli:
Mallory: “She was like, why would you put, like, a stick of butter in everything? Did I even tell you the steamed broccoli story?”
Mallory: “So this was before I was a have-not. She cooked a ton of s. And then she makes steamed broccoli.” Mallory: “I’m like, all right, I’ll have some. And then I’m eating it, I’m like, this is pretty good.” Mallory: “She’s like, oh, it’s because I put, like, a ton of butter in it.” Mallory: “I was like, bitch, why the f would you put butter in steamed broccoli? I feel like that’s crazy.”
Mallory: “So then I was pissed off, because I just ate, like, a ton of butter. I was like, I actually just wanted, like, a couple pieces of broccoli.”
Mallory: “And so now I’m just never eating anything she makes again, because I’m like, I guess you put a stick of butter in f***ing everything.” Melody: “Mallory, you’re so funny. She’s, like, trying to fatten us all up so she looks skinnier for her competition.” Mallory: “Just make my turkey dogs whenever you’re done with your five hours in the kitchen.” Melody: “It’s just funny to me, too, because I was in the kitchen with Taylor and Lala today. And Lala was stressing out. She’s like, I really don’t feel like cooking.” Melody: “And Taylor was like, so don’t.” Mallory: “Her whole thing at the tea party being like, I don’t know how to play, I just cook for everyone. Like, you’re preaching to the wrong person, because I want you to not.” Mallory: “It’s because you want the kitchen to yourself. I would just love to ever make scrambled eggs in the morning, like a psychopath.” Mallory: “Like, that would be crazy. To use the stove at breakfast time, I guess.” Lyric: “When I was making slop, I felt like I was invading. You know what I mean?” Mallory: “It’s just also that she’s never been a have-not. And I think that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.” Melody: “Which is totally fine, because there’s still two people who haven’t been have-nots. That’s just how the math goes.” Mallory: “Well, Angela has done it last season. So she at least understands, and she’s not complaining about doing it. Lala’s saying she won’t do it.” Lyric: “It sucks, but we’re on Big Brother, and everybody has to do it at least once, you know?” Mallory: “Like, I would never let someone go twice before I went once.” Mallory: “As much as this sucks, I just wouldn’t.” Mallory: “And if she did this every now and then, fine. But it’s literally every day.” Melody: “And then every single dish is dirty.” Mallory: “Every single pan and dish and everything.” Melody: “Being a have-not has made me way more irritable. Like, literally, s that would normally piss me off is just pissing me off even more.”
Melody: “I’ve had to walk away from things, like, about ten times just today.”
Mallory: “The cooking in the kitchen thing, it always bothers me. But now I’m at the point where I’m going to speak about it.”
Mallory: “Enough to the point that I want to vote her out.”

Lyric: “I’m not hungry, because I had chicken and freaking sweet potato with Jason.”
Lyric: “I just want mac and cheese. I literally just want to make myself Kraft mac and cheese on the stove.”
Melody: “It’s just so weird, because the first day I made it, it didn’t clump at all. And I’ve been making it the exact same f***ing way.” Melody: “And it’s not even, like, small-ass clumps. It’s, like, large. And it’s basically all the protein. So I’m just sitting there drinking, like, flavored milk.” Melody: “What the hell is the point of this?” Lyric: “Don’t worry. Tomorrow, you can eat anything you want at midnight.” Mallory: “Also, Lala’s using all the f***ing zucchini. Maybe I want it, but now I can’t eat it, because it’s going to be drenched in butter and olive oil.”
Lyric: “The garlic bread yesterday, I was like, why is this so good?”
Melody: “That’s what I smelled yesterday, too. The garlic bread. So good, though.”
Mallory: “I just don’t need someone to cook for everybody in the house. Especially when five people can’t eat it. And I’m one of them.”
Lyric: “It was hard when you guys had the mashed potatoes the other night. That was the hardest night, I think.”
Melody: “That’s why I literally don’t want to go inside, because that’s the exact same meal that they’re making. The salmon and the mashed potatoes. It’s so good.”
Mallory: “I’m gonna check on my ice cream. I just want mac and cheese.”
Lyric: “Like, don’t put this in the episode.”

Lyric: “I have a confession to make.”
Lyric: “So in high school, I started picking my head, like, as a nervous thing. And it caused a lot of dandruff.”
Lyric: “But it was, like, a nervous thing that I used to do. And now I don’t do it anymore, but sometimes I do it.”
Mallory: “I don’t even know what I do when I’m stressed. I don’t think I pick my head, but I think I pick my leg hairs. Like ingrown hairs and stuff.”
Lyric: “I can’t keep going in that hot tub. Do you see my legs right now?”
Melody: “Yeah, holy crap.”

Where it stands

The trio is an alliance now, on purpose, with a name, sealed with a hands-in count of three. They picked the name by stealing it from Haley — the Giggle Girls was one of the names Haley, Angela and Dee had been floating for themselves. Melody’s reasoning was that it’s funny. Thanks for the name.

They also have a plan for the fan vote. Rather than splitting it across all of them, they want everyone in their orbit to send it to Lyric, so it lands on one person instead of four.

Mallory says she’s winning the Blockbuster and the HOH, and the only conversation she has left to have is with Devens.

And Lala is losing them. Not over strategy — over the kitchen. She has never been a have-not, she said at the tea party that she doesn’t know how to play and just cooks for everyone, and Mallory’s answer to that is she wishes she wouldn’t. Mallory has now gone from finding it annoying to saying she wants to vote her out.