After sleeping away most of Tuesday we finally saw Jason Roy wake up to the Big Brother game and decide it was time to do something about trying to stay in the house.
Jason and his allies see a similar path to safety as I wrote about yesterday. They need to flip Shelli and Clay’s votes by making them paranoid about Becky and feeling the pressure to keep a falsely loyal player this week. Will it work?
Flashback on your Live Feeds (Free Trial) to 1:17AM BBT 7/29 Cams 1/2. The Houseguests are preparing for an early morning lockdown which makes them think it could be an endurance comp. Jason tells Meg and Jackie that he wants to use that potential as a reason to keep him since he’ll win the comp. Now I’m not sure why he thinks that’s enticing to the people who formulated his eviction, but it’s a keystone of the operation here.
Their first step is to send Meg in to work on Clay and Shelli. Once they’ve got a foothold with them then Jason go in to seal the deal. Listen again at 1:35 AM BBT as Jason details the plan: “Scare the s**t out of Clay and Shelli.” If that doesn’t work then they’ll try to scare Steve and John, but they know that’s even more of a long shot. Everyone agrees that Austin and Liz will never, ever flip for Jason as the “hate” him.
Through these talks they also feel certain that Steve is one of the flip flopping votes for Jeff (yep) and Liz was the other (yep) because she owed him for some previous event. Funny how they can figure this out but Vanessa can’t perhaps because Steve and Liz are on her “side” and she’s refusing to consider that someone close could betray her.
Jason points out another thing he could try is using what Becky has told him about her potential targets. She confided in Jason that she’d target Austin and Steve if she were to stay this week. Jason worries that having Steve and Austin in two separate couplings (Austin+Liz vs Steve+John) makes that too difficult to efficiently use against her to get the 2 votes.
To watch this plan in action jump ahead to 4:00 AM BBT Cams 3/4 as Meg work son Clay. Clay says he can’t go back on his word to Becky that she’d be safe as a pawn. Meg doesn’t let that stop her as she spends the next half hour getting in his ear about “what scares her.” Meg suggests Becky is a loose cannon that no one can predict what she’d do unlike a player like Jason who is a known quantity and a loyal one at that.
Move again to 4:30 AM BBT as Clay goes to wake up Shelli so they can discuss this with Meg. Shelli seems shocked that Meg wants to talk directly with Shelli which shows this was a smart move. Earlier Jason had said they need to go through Shelli and make it spread from her.
Meg assures Chelli that Jackie wants to work with them, not against. She instills fear about Becky staying this week and targeting them in bitter revenge while Jason would be far more loyal. Meg promises Chelli that Jason and she want to work with the two of them plus Vanessa so keeping Jason would be stronger for them than keeping Becky.
We also hear an interesting line from Meg about Austin. Shelli mentioned that Austin doesn’t want to win and will throw comps. Of course that’s a ridiculous assumption and Meg jumps on it to say Austin was making strange comments about how he’s going to stay and has a chance to make his impact on the game. Scattering the field with fear seeds is a good method with Shelli because it was her unfounded fears of Clay being a target this week that got the ball rolling on saving Austin and renom’ing Jason instead.
At 5:00 AM BBT Meg wraps up her talks and leaves. Clay tells Shelli he likes the idea of Meg and Jason, but worries about James and Jackie. They think the four of them have been bonding this week and could rally if Jason stays. Shelli briefly worries that Becky staying could make Jackie stronger but then remembers that Meg stumbled and suggested Becky and Jackie are drifting apart. Oops, Meg.
More bad news for Jason as Shelli pieces together their allies and positions. John is well Chelli. John is with Becky. John is targeting the “others” so if they vote out Becky then they might lose John. That’s not going to help Operation Save Jason. It gets worse.
Shelli decides they should lie to Meg that they’re thinking of keeping Jason so Jackie will agree to vote for Jason. Once Jackie votes against Becky they can use that to solidify the divide between Jackie and Becky for next week and beyond.
I do believe that Jason and his allies are pursuing their best option here by trying to flip Chelli, but they’ll need to keep working on it. Shelli can be convinced and Clay will follow. Not saying it’s easy or guaranteed, but applying enough stress and paranoia to Shelli as she’s already worried about being targeted alongside Clay could be the trick.
Jason will begin his part of the campaigning on Wednesday so don’t miss the action on the Live Feeds. Grab the Free Trial if you haven’t already and start watching to see what happens next.