In spite of Kristen’s warning about the Brigade, the others voted her out in Big Brother 12 Episode 13, leaving the 4 person alliance pretty well in charge of the house. We left off at the start of an endurance competition for HOH.
Hayden wants nothing more than to win HOH so that he can send Brendon & Rachel home because Kristen deserved to be there a lot more than they do. I’ll have to take his word for that because she’s been invisible the whole time, both in terms of competitions and strategy. If not for their showmance, I wouldn’t have even known she was in the house.
Kathy is the first person out of the competition at 12 minutes. She says she’s doing it for the house. Her strategy apparently is to pretend that she sucks, but ultimately I don’t think she’s really doing much pretending. As the first person to fall, she is the only have not for the week.
Enzo falls at 26 minutes, comfortable in the fact that his allies will be there to do the dirty work for him.
At 36 minutes, Brendon drops, answering the prayers of the whole house. Rachel is angry with him because she’s won a couple of multiple guess competitions. She tells him he did a good job, but he doesn’t believe she’s sincere, mostly because she’s not.
Lane drops at 46 minutes. Britney falls shortly thereafter, rationalizing it by claiming she threw it. Hayden is gone seconds later.
This leaves Ragan and Matt once again to battle for the endurance HOH win. After 1 hour and 10 minutes, Ragan drops, giving another HOH win to Matt. Let’s see if he throws this one away like last time.
Rachel’s theory is that she’s the target because she won HOH twice. Regardless, he’s still viewed as the bigger threat, whether she got lucky at a couple competitions or not. She keeps pushing Brendon away, as usual, and for some reason he’s unsuccessfully trying to patch things up with her.
Matt sees Pandora’s box. Is he going to open it? Knowing Matt, I’d say yes. That is the correct guess. He now has the diamond power of veto, which will allow him to save himself or someone else on the block and nominate the replacement. He can use this at one of the next two evictions and must keep it a secret. This power allows his head to swell even bigger than it already is, in spite of the fact that he really hasn’t done anything yet except run his mouth a lot.
His lie explaining what happened is that his reward for opening the box is a dollar. Nobody believes him, except for Enzo, but he doesn’t think they buy it anyway.
Good thing they offered it to who they did because that means that CBS now has the opportunity to proceed again with the twist that blew up in their faces week 1 (because it was stupid). Ragan is offered the opportunity to be the new saboteur. His reward for pulling off three sabotages per week for the next two weeks and surviving the next two evictions would be $20,000. He has opted to do it because America voted for him (20 grand doesn’t hurt either). I hope he gets voted out this week just to screw over the twist.
When Rachel comes to make her plea to Matt, Ragan is sitting there with him. She tells him they’re obviously a pair. Wait. What? This comment and the ensuing argument is a nice way to make an enemy out of Ragan, one of the people in the house who may possibly not be against her.
The saboteur’s first act is to thank Matt for releasing a new saboteur into the house.
Nominations
Kathy is safe.
Ragan is safe.
Britney is safe.
Lane is safe.
Enzo is safe.
Hayden is safe.
Rachel and Brendon have been nominated for eviction.
Not one person is surprised by this obvious move, but at least it’s not a throw away move.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 15, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.