Despite a perfect chance to pin and take out Judas this week, Vanessa let Shelli and Clay takeover her Head of Household reign that left Austin safe and one innocent houseguest randomly targeted. Who who is Judas?
The episode picks up right after Liz and James won Battle of the Block and foiled the backdoor Austin plan. Shelli is of course freaking out because Clay is still on the block and Vanessa is preparing herself for a “bloodbath.” She tells Jackie and Shelli that she’s sticking to the plan even though she did not want to be the one to do.
“How did that happen?” Vanessa asks. Cut to James who was supposed to throw the competition. James is ready to do damage control, even though Liz pretty much won the competition on her own. And Liz realizes that James wasn’t pulling his weight. So Austin and her are suspicious that something is about to go down. So they, of course, think there might be a plan against her since they all know about the twin twist.
Austin decides to go check things out with Vanessa. He tells her his concerns and and Vanessa tells him everyone is upset just because Clay and Becky are still on the block. She assures Austin that the plan is to backdoor Steve, which is what he thought all along.
But Austin wouldn’t know who was the target this week because he is distracted by his nominee with Liz. As we saw, he literally stole a kiss from her and she’s not into him. At all. And we could tell that even before she told us that in a diary room session.
It’s time to pick players for the veto competition. Joining Vanessa, Clay and Becky in the veto competition are Shelli, via Vanessa’s houseguest’s choice, John and Liz. So Austin was not picked, but Liz was. So Vanessa is now worried about how to move forward with this plan. She’s not sure if she should tell Liz or just wait until after veto. Basically, Vanessa is starting to doubt the plan as a whole because that is what Vanessa does in this game.
After a quick Steve segment that is proof he’s one of the most pointless houseguests this season, it’s time for the veto competition. And they all have to dress like squirrels, reminding us how embarrassing this show actually is — not only to be on, but to watch.
In the end, it’s Clay who comes out on top and wins the veto, securing his safety for the week. So it should be no problem for Vanessa to move forward with the plan to backdoor Austin. Well, one would think. But again, this is Vanessa we’re talking about. And it doesn’t take long for her wheels to start spinning out of control and all over the place.
The first thing to get Vanessa going is how Liz acts when she and Shelli decide to tell her about Austin confirming the twin twist to Jason and that he wants to gun for Julia to get her out of the picture so he can have Liz all to himself. But Liz doesn’t really buy into all this Austin paranoia. She lets them know that he has her back (and most likely their backs).
And as soon as Liz reminds Vanessa that if he goes, they’re down a number. So suddenly Vanessa is ready to let Austin explain himself. She lays it out to him. She tells him how upset she is that he lied to her and that he has been playing super sloppy. Austin literally cries to Vanessa while pleading his case and Vanessa tortures him a bit but it starts becoming clear that this plan is losing steam and someone completely innocent will likely become Vanessa’s target, much like the week Jeff went home.
But who will it be? We’ll see.
Austin moves on to Shelli and Clay. He explains why he has been making mistakes in the game and that he doesn’t care to even win the game and that he’s going to be a number for them, blah, blah, blah. And since Shelli and Clay are so “loyal” when it counts, they buy into it all and decide they can help steer Vanessa in another direction.
But first let’s get a giant Outback Steakhouse commercial that makes me want to rip my eyes out. And just when i thought it couldn’t get any worse we get to see Shelli whining about missing Clay while he’s eating his Outback steaks. And if THAT wasn’t bad enough we get to see Shelli using her PedEgg on her feet. Can this episode end please?
Oh wait, no, we still have to watch Vanessa’s paranoia take over and make a completely innocent player the main target this week. And since she was quite spiraling out of control yet, Shelli and Clay come in and convince her to drop the Austin plan.
So who is the innocent person Vanessa decides to target? Well on the Live Feeds it was all a very disgusting story, but the TV edit left all of that out for blindside suspense purposes. So I’ll leave all that out as well because this is a TV-only recap.
At the veto ceremony, Clay uses the veto on himself and Vanessa names Jason, one of the most popular players among viewers, as the replacement nominee and this week’s target.
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