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Britney was the final casualty of the Brigade in Big Brother 12 Episode 27. Part 1 of the final HOH competition left the contestants hanging on.

At 19:14, Enzo is the first person to fall. He doesn’t think either of the others will be taking him if he doesn’t win the next two rounds. Hayden and Lane both feel the same way, and they don’t intend to make deals with each other. Enzo goes inside to make some food, which he brings outside an hour into the competition to watch the show. After 2 hours and 35 minutes, Lane falls, and Hayden wins this part of the competition.

If the information provided in the TV listings were to be believed, one person would be evicted tonight, but Julie explains they’re all going to appear on the final night instead.

We go back to the jury house with the arrival of Ragan. Kathy’s still whining about Matt’s lie. Oh, get over it already. Ragan says it’s tough to watch himself getting evicted on the DVD, as if the result is a surprise. After they watch the show, Matt now has to reveal his lie to Ragan. Like Matt, Ragan also lied, about his job and the fact that he has a PhD, which he now reveals but considers a relatively trivial lie and okay because lying is okay as long as you’re the one doing it. This somehow leads to yet another argument between Ragan and Rachel. He believes that her wearing her heart on her sleeve was stupid gameplay (it was). Yeah, because he’s so calm and collected.

It’s now time for part 2 of the HOH competion. It’s morph-o-matic. They are given 2 minutes to unveil Frankenstein photos and identify the two faces contained in each one. This hardly seems like it would be Lane’s strong suit, but then again, I’m not sure we’ve found what Enzo’s strong suit is. Lane finishes in 1:13, identifying all 5 photos correctly in his first try. Enzo finishes in 1:43. That will put Lane up against Hayden in the final part of the competition.

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Following his HOH win in Big Brother 12 Episode 26, Hayden nominated Britney and Lane.

No matter how much the jury hates her or how much Lane would side with her before the Brigade (again), Britney is still the target this week.

It’s time for the most important power of veto competition of the season. Dun dun dun. History tells us it’s some sort of memory competition. They are given 8 clues on the top and 8 on the bottom, and they will have to match the faces on the double-sided movie posters to the clues. Hayden’s matching up the clues as he puts the posters up. Britney plans to lay out all the clues first and then put them up. Lane is thoroughly clueless. Enzo is just tossing up random posters without a great deal of regard to whether they’re correct. With his first guess, Enzo has 5 wrong. However, with his first try, Hayden gets all 8 correct and wins veto.

I can’t imagine what he would hope to gain by changing the nominations.

Julie tells us that all secrets eventually come out. Like the day 2 alliance that’s been hidden all summer, in spite of the fact that Kristen told the rest of these idiots about it weeks ago. Enzo and Hayden would like to reveal their alliance, but Lane doesn’t like it because that’s a vote that may be angry with him. That’s what he gets for playing both sides. He has a choice. Reveal it tonight or wait until tomorrow. Might as well let her sleep on it. With the cat out of the bag, Britney realizes she’s going home.

Hayden opts to not use the power of veto, leaving the nominations the same, and giving Enzo the sole vote for eviction.

Vote
Enzo: Britney

By a vote of 1-0, Britney has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Her initial overreaction aside, Britney says she does not harbor any ill feelings to the guys, who she never suspected because she thought she was working with them all along. They each offer up their apologies for duping her in their closing remarks.

America is granted the opportunity to vote for their favorite houseguest to win $25,000. This vote can include those who did not make the jury (who have no chance anyway), as well as those still left in the house.

The last HOH competition of the season begins with an endurance round. They’ll have to hang there the longest… while being lowered and smashing into walls. Of course, it’s never as simple as it first seems. Between the two walls is a waterfall.

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Ragan was voted out in Big Brother 12 Episode 25, and we left off at the start of a competition for HOH in which the contestants have to decorate their tree with 18 ornaments and a star on top.

Britney’s dropping everything. Enzo has a different strategy of taking forever so that he doesn’t drop anything. With those two running behind him, this is Hayden’s competition to lose. As much drama as they make an effort to create, Hayden’s got a lead of 4 or 5 the whole way through. Since they’re only going to 18, that’s a pretty huge lead. Hayden wins HOH.

Lane’s not too thrilled about the HOH results. He would have preferred Britney as the winner.

Obviously, Britney is the first nomination. Now it’s just a question of who goes up against her. Turnabout is fair play. Lane needs to be nominated after last week. His loyalty to Britney should cause the other members of his alliance some concern.

Now it’s time for the weekly crying tantrum. Britney had her chance, just like Ragan. They had plenty of opportunity to break this up, but they chose to just let it keep going. I’m amazed everybody was so stupid to let them get this far. I expected this alliance to implode in week two or three.

They see a pig outside. It’s a luxury competition for $10,000. Each player will be granted 90 seconds to hide a coin, and then everybody will search for the others’ coins. Enzo hides his behind a wall decoration. Hayden hides his in the bottom of a closed cereal box while leaving the top sealed. Lane places his underneath the recycling bin. Britney places hers in an empty cereal box in the garbage. Then everybody races inside to tear the house apart.

Hayden goes for the trash, as Britney promptly loses her poker face, but he takes it outside to dump it out, leaving it out there without finding anything. This should throw the scent off Britney. He even later helps her out by saying to the others he already looked through the trash, which seems good enough for them. Enzo discovers Hayden’s coin first. Lane and Enzo are both looking around theirs to pretend there’s nothing around the area. Britney discovers Enzo’s coin. After checking the recycle bin at least 10 times, Britney finds Lane’s coin. Hayden certainly did her a favor at the beginning by removing her evidence from the house, and Britney wins the $10,000. I don’t think she really needs a bigger target, not that she wasn’t already the person they were trying to get rid of anyway.

Enzo and Hayden pose the possibility of getting rid of Lane. That way they’d be able to guarantee each other final two.

Nominations
Enzo is safe.

Britney and Lane have been nominated for eviction. Lane’s hope is to win the veto, take himself off the block, and send Enzo home.

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Enzo finally won something in Big Brother 12 Episode 24, leading to Lane’s dull decision of keeping Britney safe and using Hayden as the pawn.

Ragan is not ready to lay down and die. Unfortunately. He hopes to get Britney on his side and then get Lane to keep him around in the tiebreaker. Britney says he’s got some good points, but it’s really not overly relevant what she does. It’s up to Lane. His argument to Lane is that he hasn’t done anything yet, so his best move is to make a big bold move that stabs his three alliance members in the back, potentially throwing away half the votes anyway. I’m not sure how much sense making a move just for the sake of being able to say you did something makes.

We take a visit to the jury house. Haven’t seen that in a while. Kathy joins Rachel. Then Matt joins them, and neither of them want to see him, although they’re happy he’s been evicted. They all agree they hate Britney, which is a good reason for Lane to want to keep her in the house. These three are joined by Brendon. Oh yeah, Matt forgot to mention that there was a double eviction. And by the way, his wife’s not really sick. The women walk out of the room, treating him as if he’s evil.

Lane wants to bring Britney with him to the end, but his second choice is Hayden. He doesn’t want to be anywhere near Enzo in the finals. His lackluster gameplay aside, Enzo’s apparently played a great social game.

Votes
Enzo: Ragan
Britney: Ragan

By a vote of 2-0, Ragan has been evicted from the Big Brother house. He says they made a mistake by getting rid of him. He also says that if they kept him he would have won. Hmm.

Christmas has come early. The goal of this HOH competition is to be the first to decorate the Christmas tree, moving the ornaments on the other side of a fence up little by little and placing them on the tree. Britney’s dropping/breaking everything. Hayden is the first to place an ornament. It’s looking like this could take a while. Any time that happens, we know it’s going to get even more difficult. There’s a snowstorm on the way.

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