Barrett Pfeiffer

7:45pm HOH room – HOH bathroom – Dee, Haley and Angela
Dee – Its interesting that Yash would evict Taylor over Mallory. I guess that makes me feel even more of a reason to get rid of Mallory because that means that Mallory and Yash together is so bad to have in this game. Because they are really good competitors. Haley – wait hold on I did say one other thing I just hope and because I don’t want this to backdoor me .. or to backfire me I just said I just pray that Mallory wins then. If this is the case, I hope she wins. However I do want all my words to be out on the table with him because how was I supposed to navigate that conversation. Angela – I know, we have to tell people what they want to hear in a way just to get the conversations. Haley – Ok, I needed to make sure you guys knew my cards. Dee – I genuinely thought that Yash would vote to evict Mallory over Taylor based on my perception of how close they are but if now Yash is voting to evict Taylor over Mallory. That not only tells me, because they’re both f**king phenomenal competitors.. even more of a reason to get rid of Mallory.

Dee slept on the blindside and got cold feet, so she and Devens built a softer version: put it to Drew and Barrett first, and blindside them anyway if they refuse. They held the meeting, and Barrett told Dee to her face, in front of everyone, that he was angry — the first time he had done it. What neither of them knows is that Barrett and Yash, the two votes the whole plan runs on, had already decided separately to keep Mallory.

8pm Bedroom – Yash and Mallory
Mallory – Yeah I am feeling better in general. I am feeling better about the votes unless they decide they want to keep Taylor over me which I don’t think they will. I should be fine. And between me and Drew, I’m good. Yash – yeah. Mallory – I feel like I trust all of them. Yash – we just know these f**kers like to do that last minute sh*t. Mallory – yeah. I don’t need their votes if its me versus Drew. Yash – yeah if its you and Drew, you’re guaranteed. That’s why if like f**king Taylor wins.. (throws his hands up .. that Drew goes). That is a MASSIVE “W”. Mallory – Cause I think they want her to stay .. and Dee was like dumb to put me up. Yash – yeah. Yeah so tomorrow I am going to think about what she says tomorrow. I am just going to ask her each scenario what of happens. Mallory – yeah. Yash – because whatever she says is going to tell me what Angela and Devens are doing. Like they’re never going to go against each other. Mallory – Barrett told me that she thinks she has the numbers for (against) Drew but I don’t know who she thinks she has.

Mallory went up to the HOH room to make peace, and Dee told her exactly what she wanted to hear: Taylor is the target. Ten minutes later Dee was telling Devens the opposite — that the best case is Taylor winning the Blockbuster so they can send Mallory home instead. By 4:35 PM the two of them had decided to do it without telling Drew and Barrett, and Devens already had the line ready for afterwards: they did it for their own good.

8:35pm Backyard Hammock – Mallory and Melody
Mallory – Ah this sucks, I don’t even know what I would say in my speech if I’m against Drew. Because all I can talk about is how bad I want to be here but he wants to be here too. Melody – I know Dud. Mallory – Like how can it be ok that someone put us in this position. Mallory – I don’t know. He was saying all these same things when it was me and him too. And I know he was upset. Melody – I think he just wants to make you feel more upset. Mallory – yeah. Melody – because the last night that we were on the block together, like on Wednesday I was losing my mind like I could not stop crying I was so upset and he was like just so you know this has been hell for me too. I just think that he doesn’t want to make us more upset because he knows how upset we are. Mallory – yeah. That makes sense. Like I am just mad that Barrett can even play pool with her (Dee) right now. Melody – Yeah I get it, me too. Mallory – I am going to ask him why he’s having fun with someone that’s ruining my life. Melody – yeah I saw Drew go sit next to Dee earlier and I was like yeah I am leaving.

6:30pm HOH room – Dee and Mallory
Dee – I know you feel a weird vibe. And it is exactly what you’re thinking. I’m, just going to lay it all out. OK and here are my reasons, the only two people outside of the Mosh Pit that I could put up as an option. Haley and Yash and I’m being so forward with you and everything. Haley, I think will never put me up as a nom. And Yash, I didn’t put him up as a nom. If I don’t put him up as a renom, we’re even and he wouldn’t put me up. And if he comes back and wins, he will absolutely put me up. And he is the best competitor in the house and so my next thought is who in the Mosh Pit would I put up that I think would put me up.
Mallory – I wouldn’t put you up. I mean that. Dee – so I did think about that. So then if you won HOH, who would you put up? Who would your noms be?
Mallory – The people left not in Mosh Pit. Dee – which are who? Mallory – It depends who leaves. Dee – So let’s just say Taylor goes, Lala, Yash, Haley. And you would put Yash? Mallory – if that’s all his left. Dee – because I feel like you and Yash have been working very closely since like the beginning, you know.

3:45pm Backyard – Melody and Drew
Drew – I told Dee that I had it (Nevernot Pass power) because I thought it would keep me off the block.. but it didn’t. Melody – And you told her what it was? Drew – yeah. I was like do you want to know what it is? The worst power ever. Are you mad at me? Melody – No I’m not mad, its just an interesting way to play the game. Drew – but I thought if I told her she would trust me. Melody – I guess it just concerns me that she probably did tell Haley like what the f**k is up with that. Drew – yeah I have no idea. Who knows. But I never told Haley, she asked me if I had it and I said no. The thing about Dee is she airs out everything. Its an interesting way to play the game.. like there literally is no secrets. Which makes me think that Lala and Taylor probably know. DO you think? Melody – I’m not sure. That’s why I don’t know why you even told Dee. Drew – she said I don’t know if I even trust you Drew, and I went up there and was like check it out. Melody – well that obviously didn’t work. Drew – its fine.. I thought maybe it would have worked.

Lala won the Power of Veto and is taking herself off the block, which leaves Dee one seat to fill and everybody in the house an opinion about who goes in it. Drew, already sitting in one of the other two, cornered her in the bathroom to lobby for Yash — “I want the smoke with Yash.” Melody and Mallory spent the same morning working out who they would rather hand the next HOH to, and got somewhere nobody expected: Melody would rather leave the game than share a jury house with Haley. “Dead ass, I’ll quit. I’m not even joking.” And Haley spent it upstairs drinking coffee with the Head of Household, being talked about in three other rooms.

Drew got nominated by four of the seven people in his own alliance on Friday, and at 12:47 AM he and Barrett went out to the backyard to work out what to do about it. Ninety minutes, everyone else asleep. They agreed the Crossovers are riding them and will cut them at final five, that Devens is the one who has to go because he has never been on the block, and that the final two they locked on day one or two is the only route either of them has left. Drew: “We’re the most blinded people in this game.” By the end he had gone further than that — he thinks he and Barrett will personally decide who wins this season.

9:15pm Upper Level Backyard – Lala and Taylor
Taylor recounts the whole fight/conversation with Angela to Lala.
Lala – Oh my freaking goodness. Taylor – so now she’s trying. That’s the shit I’ll be talking about now. She trying to make it seem like now did I say I walked out the bathroom and I just walked into the room and I said I heard you, and that’s all I said. And I walked into the room and she followed
me. I said let’s talk about it. So I started laying out every motherf**king fact, facts, well, I just never felt really good like into nothing. I said you have to realize how I feel every time I sit with you. Indeed y’all stop talking, and then Haley bring her old ugly a$$ in there talking about something. No, no, no, no. No. Trying to check me b*tch. I’m speaking facts. ’cause you just coming in on a conversation and don’t know what. What the f**K? I’m talking about ’cause you just coming in on a conversation and don’t know what the f**k I’m talking about.

HOH room – Drew and Dee
Drew – I tried! Dee – At least it wasn’t Taylor. Drew – who are you going to put up? Dee – I don’t know, I am going back and forth between Haley and Yash. Drew – I think Yash. Because then he is going to win it and Taylor is sitting there.. or I’m going to win it and Taylor is sitting there. Dee – and if Taylor wins? Drew – we vote out Yash. Dee – who do we have. Drew – Devens, Angela, Barrett and Melody… and then Mallory and Haley. Dee – oh I didn’t think about that. That’s a f**king big risk. Drew – Honestly if Yash is up there I think we should just get him out. Dee – yeah DUH! But I am saying its a big risk if he does win it (blockbuster). Drew – its a big risk next to Taylor. Dee – No you’re good no matter what. Its not about you, its a big risk for my game. Drew – yeah but I want to win and beat him and get Yash out of here. Dee – you want to win but that doesn’t mean its going to happen. We need to think about all the scenarios. Drew – I think Haley is with us. I don’t think Yash is with us. Dee – Yash is a better competitor than Haley.