John McGuire isn’t afraid to go all out when his back is against the wall and that’s exactly what just happened this morning when his chances of a Veto save appeared to have run out.
Speaking with John, Vanessa explained that she wouldn’t be using the Veto as it’d just be too risky. With that confirmation John revealed to her the 5-HG “alliance” that had been created to target her for eviction this week. Cue the music, please.
Flashback to 10:25 AM BBT as John tells her that he along Austin, the twins, and Steve agreed to work together to get her out of the game. Vanessa didn’t know all that. She knew something was up, but not how deep those waters ran.
Ten minutes later Liz comes by and Vanessa confronts her about the 5-HG deal. Liz doesn’t have good answers for Vanessa, but manages to shift the blame to Steve. Vanessa was already on a push to see about keeping John this week so this plays in to that plan. Vanessa tells Liz she wants Steve gone.
Liz heads upstairs and is wildly upset about John revealing this. Flashback to 10:50 AM BBT. She’s cursing and cursing about John while discussing how she wants to hurt him. Julia tells Liz to cool it. She’s pretty far over the top.
Downstairs Vanessa sat quietly for several minutes before going to find Steve. Flashback to 10:51 AM BBT. She demands an immediate answer on whether or not Steve was leading the charge to get her out. Steve admits there was a 5-HG alliance created, but is mostly caught off guard while Vanessa is very upset.
Steve says he didn’t lead the rally to target her, but she doesn’t believe him. “It was you motherf**ker.” She tells him he has lost her vote and leaves as the chaos continues.
Stepping outside of the room Steve asks Austin, who has arrived, if he (Steve) created a 5-HG alliance to target Vanessa. Oops. Now Austin is being confronted about one of his side alliances in front of his other side alliance, Meg and James. Austin says that yes, it was Steve.
Austin, Liz, and Vanessa move to the Lounge where Vanessa starts her crying, sniffling routine. Flashback to 10:57 AM BBT. She promises Liz and Austin that she’s not mad at them. Vanessa says they were justified in not trusting her, but Steve has no reason to distrust her so she feels most betrayed by him.
They continue to loop around what’s been going on with the 5-HG alliance and how Vanessa isn’t mad and doesn’t blame them. She’s upset about John too for getting under her skin. Vanessa says, “it’s morning and it’s easier to get in my head because my meds haven’t kicked in yet.”
Vanessa is adamant that Steve needs to go this week. Speaking of Steve, he shows up and wants to come in but Vanessa isn’t having it. Back to their talk, Vanessa suggests it’d be better to keep John since he doesn’t know the game. John has actually kept it under wraps that he’s a super fan as well.
Liz and Vanessa leave while Austin grabs Steve and pulls him in to the Lounge. Flashback to 11:11 AM BBT. Austin says he had no choice but to burn Steve when he publicly asked who created the 5-HG deal in front of his other alliance. Austin isn’t trying at all to hide he’s working with everyone on all sides.
Austin says he wants to keep Steve and will campaign to keep him. He’ll keep working on Steve’s behalf to calm Vanessa and get the target on John instead. At this point the Feeds cut for the Ceremony. Get the latest spoilers on what happened with the PoV.
It’s sure to be a fun week as we watch to see who gets evicted on Thursday and who gets their way as both nominees remain top targets to be sent out to Jury.