Monday brought quite the mess for the Big Brother 26 house and there was a lot of attention on Quinn Martin after Tucker Des Lauriers toss a few truth-bombs at the Veto Ceremony. Now we’ve got Quinn playing defense and scrambling to resolve some potential trust issues around his many alliances.
Part of that chaos on Monday was Tucker revealing Quinn’s power to anyone who hadn’t already known about it. Now most of Quinn’s allies did know, just not through Quinn directly (everyone say Hi to Kimo!), so Monday evening included talks on why Quinn hadn’t been more open with his supposed close allies and what he was going to do to remedy it.
Quick refresher, the Big Brother Deepfake HOH will let Quinn takeover anyone’s HOH reign in the first four weeks of the season. He’ll be able to set the noms, etc. just like an HOH would, but he’ll be doing that behind the guise of the hologram in the living room while being presented as the HOH even though it’s not (hence the Deepfake part of the power name).
You’ll remember Quinn is working with The Collective and The Pentagon. Overnight he met with Brooklyn, Cam, Cedric, and Joseph, so most of The Pentagon and half of The Collective, to talk about what had happened. Quinn explained that he wasn’t so open about having the Deepfake HOH because he didn’t want that to be the reason HGs wanted to work with him. Sure, that works for the first week or two but once you’re embedded in your alliance then what’s your excuse, Quinn?
Quinn explains to the group that no matter who has the HOH in week 4 that he’ll use the Deepfake power “so I can absorb the blood.” He says that by not telling them sooner he put them in an uncomfortable spot and violated their trust, so he wants to make up for it. Quinn has a plan for those noms too.
Quinn names off his nomination plans for next week: Makensy, Kenney, and either Tucker or Angela, whichever of the latter is still around next week.
One possible hang up though. What if Quinn isn’t around next week? Makensy played her America’s Veto at Monday’s meeting which took her off the Block after Cedric remon’d her. That means the viewers will vote to send someone to the Block. According to our reader poll, the top pick for that role is Quinn himself at more a third of the vote with Joseph in second around 20%.
So if Quinn goes up does he go out the door? Ehh, probably not. Kenney and Tucker would be up on the Block with him and there’s still the Arena to contend with. Even if Tucker escapes the Block in the Arena again this week then Kenney will be a tempting target for enough of the HGs that at the moment I think it’s reasonable for Quinn to survive long enough to use his power next week.
After both of those Upgrade Powers nearly slipping away quietly in their fourth week we’re now likely going to see both get used. Team Chaos is getting some good action this week in the Big Brother house and we’re here for more of it!
What do you think of Quinn’s plan? Does he need to use that power for sure and what of his nomination plans? Anyone else he should be keeping an eye on instead of the usual nomination targets we’re seeing each week?
