Becky’s master plan to blindside and target Vanessa for eviction this week went off without a hitch on Wednesday night’s episode, but we all know Vanessa by now and she’s not going down without a fight.
The episode picks up right after the nomination ceremony, aka Phase 1 of Becky’s backdoor Vanessa plan. But Steve isn’t feeling very confident on the block at Becky’s hand once again. And Vanessa is stressing out because Becky wouldn’t make a deal with her before the nomination ceremony. So Vanessa is a little worried.
Shelli reminds us that she’s not ready to go yet and since she already knows that Becky has a plan to backdoor Vanessa, Shelli is feeling a little better this week than she did last. But the plan still has to play out just right and Shelli knows she needs to be the one who wins the Power of Veto.
Shelli, still nervous, asks Johnny Mac if the plan is actually to backdoor Vanessa. John says yes he definitely believes it. Shelli wonders what she should do if she picks houseguest choice during the veto draw. John tells Shelli to pick him, but she thinks Vanessa will be very suspicious if she doesn’t pick her.
John decides to tell Steve that the house is onto Vanessa and that the plan is to backdoor Vanessa. He tells Steve that if he gets HG choice, he has to pick him. Steve isn’t happy about this news because he’s been working with Vanessa. But he knows that this will at least keep him safe. John asks Steve to not win the veto and let someone else win to use the veto on Shelli. So Steve I like “You want me to just stay on the block the whole week?” Johnny Mac says “uhhh yeah.” That’s a paraphrase, but that’s how it went.
We get a quick Austiwins montage … and it looks like Liz is starting to develop feelings for Austin. Or she just wants to be less embarrassed when she leaves the Big Brother house. She does tell us that she does plan on getting him to chop off his pony-tail beard. At any rate, Julia is still disgusted by him.
At the veto draw, Becky picks Austin, Shelli gets housegues’st choice and picks Vanessa (which she wasn’t supposed to do). And Steve picks Meg. And everyone reacts to Shelli picking Vanessa just like we and she knew they would. Shelli tries to explain herself, but people remain pretty annoyed.
It’s time for the Veto competition. And it’s the timed comic book competition. Meg is up first and seems to be doing a pretty solid job. She only has to try three rounds to lock in her time. Becky is up next and seems to be taking too long on her strategy and she knows she took too long.
Shelli’s veto round is next and her strategy is to memorize four comics at a time. And her attention to detail will surely help her. No. She does terribly and it takes her several tries to figure it out. Austin’s up next and he’s more concerned about his comic book cover saying he has body odor. Austin didn’t do so terribly, but he can’t figure out what he has wrong for a bit.
Steve is up next and seems to have the best strategy so far. He’s not fumbling and not freaking out and it seems to be working for him. Vanessa is the last person up and she’s struggling. She thought this was her competition because it involved memory, but she still struggled. So now it’s time to find out the times.
- Meg’s time was 15:37
- Becky’s time: 17:02
- Shelli finished with 25:31
- Austin’s time: 21:20
- Steve finished with 13:57
- Vanessa was saved for last … and her time was 21:44.
So Steve won the Power of Veto. And Vanessa is worried. So she goes on a pre-campagin. She starts asking around about what’s going on and reminds James that they all gave their words not to nominate each other this week and focus on Shelli with Johnny Mac as a pawn. When James acts a little odd, Vanessa’s paranoia spikes. So she decides to go talk to Becky.
Becky continues to tell Vanessa that she’s not going up and that she’s as paranoid now as she always is. But that’s not enough for Vanessa. So she keeps making her rounds and looking for deals. She finally seems to believe that she’s safe this week so she relaxes.
But the veto ceremony when Steve uses the veto on himself, Becky shocks Vanessa by going back on her word and putting her on the block. But Vanessa tells us to not count her out yet. Don’t worry, Vanessa, none of us are counting you out.
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