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TJ: Previously on The Challenge USA...

Today, it is a double elimination.

-Whoa! -TJ: You do not want to lose.

As the vets fought to take control of the game,

it was Chris who hatched a plan

to protect himself by throwing the challenge.

CHRIS: The only way to keep our names

out of nomination...

-Oops! Dropped my discs. -(shouting)

...is to help Team Red win.

-(cheering) -MONTE: I am heated.

There were deals made behind closed doors,

and I couldn't get ahead of that.

-You're welcome. -TJ: But best-laid plans

don't always work out...

DESI: Chris admitted it was his idea?

WES: Bananas told me.

-TYLER: I'm voting for Chris. -WES: I will, too.

TJ: ...as the Green team led the charge to vote Chris

into elimination anyway.

Six votes.

And, as the pressure mounted on one of The Challenge's

-strongest competitors... -DESI: I'm just like,

am I doing anything right?

...Desi took control of the game and proved

that she could be as strategic as the best.

ALYSSA L.: Amanda.

That's what Desi's wanting, and Desi's my girl.

-TJ: Amanda. (laughs) -(laughing)

(laughing)

I love that our plan ultimately worked out.

TJ: As both Chris and Desi won their eliminations,

Luis and Challenge vet Amanda were sent home.

And Desi defected to the Blue team.

And now, the vets' numbers are dwindling down.

Just four of them are left in the game.

Also, can a shorthanded Green team

-still compete? -That's the next checkpoint.

We got to hurry up and get to it.

WES: I don't think we need to.

I have the strategy.

I just need my team to trust me.

-I can't run two miles with that. -Let's go for the dub.

MICHAELA: We are not going to do everything he says

-whenever he says it. -TJ: Will Team Red continue

their winning streak...

C-H-A-L-L-E...

TJ: ...or will the new Blue team members help them

dominate the competition?

WES: Watch Red, they're right behind us.

Let's go, let's go!

* *

* *

-(cheering) -(applause)

(chanting): Blue looks good on you!

Blue looks good on you! Blue looks good on you!

ALYSSA S.: I did not see it coming,

that Desi was gonna defect in my spot.

But being on the Green team could be a good thing.

Since I was on the Blue team,

I feel like I built some really good relationships

over there, they're a strong team.

So if they win, I hope they don't put

my name up on the chopping block.

And now I know that I have Tyler and Monte,

who I'm super close with in this game.

So, hopefully we work well together

and maybe pull out this next win.

Whenever you vote in someone, they come back,

so it's a little bit different.

-And then do what? -Huh?

-BOTH: And then do what? -"And then do what?"

...and take all you little bitches out.

This is not Big Brother.

MONTE: Nobody said it was.

CHRIS: I mean, you're playing like it.

How?

Take it as you want.

I'm either the best player ever or the worst player ever.

After Survivor, articles were written about me

that I was the most undeserving winner to ever play Survivor

because I lost, got voted out, and was able to make their way

back into the game and win that million-dollar prize.

And so, if you vote me in,

you better buckle up, because I'm here to win this game.

Good luck. Your days are numbered.

TORI: I am pleasantly surprised.

I think it's pretty clear now that the lines are being drawn

between the rookies in this game.

So as of right now,

the vets aren't a threat, and this is

a complete advantage for us.

CHRIS: Sorry, Alyssa. Have fun on Green.

CASSIDY: Who do you think voted for me?

-ALYSSA L.: I think it's pretty clear. -Is it Amanda and Wes?

-TIFFANY: Yeah. -Is it that clear?

ALYSSA L.: Yeah.

Do you think Wes thought more people were voting for me?

-TIFFANY: I don't know. -As the wheels are turning

and I'm trying to figure out out who voted for me,

I'm starting to see Wes

puppeting from the shadows,

and it's making me nervous.

He has... (sighs)

...played it like he is a prisoner on his team,

he has no power, and I'm starting to get

a little suspicious of that play.

I mean, he is a legend for a reason,

and I know he's got something up his sleeve.

-Damn it. -(Monte laughs)

We're building trust. You're lying to my face.

Are you gonna sit here and say that we lost, like,

-a valued member to the Green team? -WES: N-No-- No.

I now am exposed, unnecessarily.

It's, like, not gonna be rocket science to figure out

how Cassidy got any votes at all.

It's bad enough that they convinced me to vote

for someone that I might not have voted for.

On Blue, I prefer Cassidy.

WES: Okay, that's what I'll do.

The Green team has just implemented a very

successful blindside against a Challenger,, and they loved it.

Maybe I would have voted for Amanda,

and then I wouldn't have had to make a new enemy.

(whistles)

First off, I'm glad

you did it to Amanda and not me,

but it also means that you're gonna do it to me

when the time is right.

I'm a very sad ginger.

MICHAELA: But we're gonna make you proud tomorrow,

'cause we're gonna win.

-WES: We are. -Hiya.

-Hiya. -I want to make sure

that Wes understands that even though

we are not going to do everything he says

whenever he says it,

we still see value in him

as a part of our team, because I don't want his strength

and his smarts and his strategic ability

to turn against me in this game.

-MONTE: One, two, three. -ALL: Green team.

-CORY: What's your natural hair color? -CASSIDY: It's this one up here.

CORY: Okay.

CASSIDY: It's, like, red-- it's, like, auburn.

No, just 'cause I have a little daughter,

and she has red hair and blue eyes.

-CASSIDY: Aww. Oh, my gosh. -Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Not-- No kids, but I have a niece and nephew

who I really care about very passionately

because my sister passed away a couple of years ago,

and she left behind two kids.

Yeah, I really love them, they're sweet.

-CORY: I'm sorry to hear that. -Yeah.

How did she pass? Was it expected or...

She kind of dated a-a really bad guy,

and he got her into drugs and she overdosed.

CORY: Mm.

I mean, I have never lost a sister,

so I don't know how that feels, but I've lost

some people, and it is tough.

What makes this game so unique is everybody comes

from different backgrounds, fighting for something.

I think she's a fighter, and I'm excited to see

what she can do.

It's actually such a huge epidemic

in our country, and nobody talks about it.

There's many different things

that motivate me to win this game.

I want to take care of my family,

and to give them what I know

my sister would want to be able to give them if she was here.

She was a very fiery person, but... (sniffles)

Um, like, I just miss her.

Just her energy.

* *

(indistinct chatter)

BANANAS: Everybody, come look!

Wes is going in the pool naked!

(laughs): Hurry! Hurry!

MICHELE: I got to see it. I got to see it.

(laughter)

(indistinct chatter)

(laughter)

WES: There is always a target on my back,

and that's the problem: it makes it harder for me

to win than anybody else,

but that's not gonna stop me from trying.

I just got to find a way

to, like, lull them all into submission.

And so, the name of my strategy at this moment is called

the Funny, Entertaining One.

And how I get away

with all this, like, camouflage

and smoke and mirrors is I just be that guy.

It's gonna need to be a strategy like that.

Like, that's gonna be the type of shit that I pull.

(laughter)

WES: I have to win,

at all costs.

CASSIDY: I'm never gonna be safe in this game

unless I win.

MONTE: Going into this challenge,

it is super important for the Green team

to take this thing home.

I mean, last week, we clearly got bamboozled

by having two teams go against us to make sure

that we did not win.

So, if we do not win, the Green team is gonna be

at risk yet again to lose another member.

TJ: All right, everyone, welcome to your next challenge

on this season of The Challenge: USA.

-(whooping) -Let's go, baby!

How's everyone feeling?

-Good. -All right, well,

today's challenge is going to be awesome.

It is called Unboxed.

FAYSAL: Yes.

To begin, each and every one of you

is gonna have a giant box with a puzzle inside of it

that is proportional to each of your body weights.

You must carry this box through the forest

in search of a finish line.

Along the way, you'll see several puzzle stations.

If you start a puzzle station,

you cannot leave it until you solve it.

If you solve your puzzle, you can leave the box behind.

It's that simple.

At the first stop, there is a station for each team,

but after that, it is first come, first served.

And only one team can stop at each of the next stations.

So if someone is there, then you'll need

to continue carrying all your boxes.

Whoever gets to the finish line first

will win today's challenge and be the only team safe

from elimination.

Good luck, everyone. Let's do this.

-Good luck, guys. Good luck. -Good luck.

CASSIDY: In the past, we've done great at communicating,

especially in high-pressure situations, and we have Desi

on our team now, which is a huge physical asset.

And she's super smart, and I think

we're just gonna work together great as a team.

I think we're gonna continue to do that and we're gonna win.

MICHELE: My concern is,

do we take the time to try to solve these puzzles

or do we try to power through?

Losing time on a puzzle could be what makes or breaks the lead.

So, i-- there's a puzzle within a puzzle.

WES: Most of the time, having less players

is a big disadvantage, but occasionally,

it's a very big advantage.

We have to have less total boxes get across the finish line.

And so, I have the strategy.

After the first checkpoint,

forget the puzzles and just do the run.

Have faith in your athletic ability

to get to the finish line, even with the weight.

And I just need the rest of my team to trust me.

TJ: All right, everybody ready?

-Go! -(air horn blows)

Watch your feet. Watch your feet.

-Watch your feet! -DESI: Oh, my God.

-WES: Hyperdrive, baby. -MONTE: Cool.

CHRIS: Let's go.

They ain't got what we got.

-BANANAS: Alyssa? -ALYSSA L.: You got to help me

-lift it over my head. -You want it on your head?

-BANANAS: Come here. -No-- No, no, no, no.

TYLER: Safe to say these things

are not easy to carry whatsoever.

They're large, they're awkward,

and they're heavier than I anticipated.

So, yeah, this is gonna be a long run.

-Is it bad? -Oh, my God.

MICHELE: It's really essential that I win today

because I feel the eyes on Survivor.

All seven of us are still here, so it just makes sense

for people to start looking at Survivor

as "We need to slim down the Survivor number."

-(grunts) -Just drop it and readjust.

CORY: Go on the end. Let's go.

WES: I have to win.

I just see me being the one

that is going in if we don't win.

MONTE: Michaela, you're a badass.

TYLER: We have a solid lead.

I know Chris has taken shots at me

and Monte in this game.

He's a sketchball,

so this is, like, the extra motivator we need.

WES: Michaela, come back.

Come get Alyssa.

MICHAELA: I'll help.

-(grunts) -I got you.

Let's do it together.

-Okay? You ready? -Uh-huh.

Let's go. Let's jog a little.

We know the biggest person on our team is Monte,

so we're gonna get rid of Monte's box...

That's the next checkpoint there.

We got to hurry up and get to it, though.

WES: I don't think we need to.

I can't run two miles with that.

WES: Let's go for the dub. Just trust me.

Okay.

...and then go along with the plan

that Wes proposes.

And we're just gonna haul butt to the finish line.

-That's not a word. -ALYSSA S.: The Challenge--

-so that's a G. So, G. -MONTE: That's a G.

-C-H-A-L-L-E? -E.

-So what is this? -Yeah.

MONTE: And then, we're saying that's a G.

BOTH: G-E.

-FAYSAL: Come up, right? -SEBASTIAN: Yep, go for it.

The risk of today's challenge is

you don't know what puzzle you're gonna get.

Fortunately, my puzzle right now is math.

Which, I happen to be good at math.

What times what equals 48?

CHRIS: Um...

Six times six is 36,

-36... -Times six.

FAYSAL: Yeah, so that's six.

That was six, which means

that is eight, which means eight...

JOSH: There's ten pieces. Good job, guys.

I am pretty confident

in my puzzle skills,

but as soon as we start laying them out,

I realize that I've never seen a tangram like this.

-This shit is hard. -Uh, maybe turn it.

No, no, hold on. Hold on.

Uh, that's eleven.

No, six is 17, this is 11.

-So, 11, 11 times six. -Six is six.

-FAYSAL: Minus 8. 58. -58?

FAYSAL: This is it. Chris, come on, bro.

Yep, yep. I got you.

FAYSAL: It definitely feels good to set the tone early,

but we need to keep this lead,

because if not, there's definitely gonna be

two Blue names up for nomination.

ALYSSA S.: G-E-N.

MICHAELA: G-E-N-I-U-S.

-Genius. Genius. -MONTE: Genius? Check.

-All right, we got an order? -Go, go, go, go.

-One, two... -Nice hustle, nice hustle.

Uh, right here?

-TIFFANY: Turn it this way. -MICHELE: This way.

This one, this one.

-MICHELE: Yes. Done. -JOSH: Check.

-Let's go. Let's go. -All right. Come on, Tiffany.

DUSTY: This is it, guys. This is our play right here.

-MICHELE: Cory, let's go. -JOSH: Gotta go!

-TORI: Good job, Blue. -ALYSSA L.: Almost there.

BANANAS: Get 'em ready to go!

CHRIS: Come on! Let's go, Seb!

-BANANAS: Open your box. -Come on, baby. Focus.

BANANAS: This is where strategy comes into play.

We are in the lead, so we decide

to try and take a crack at the second puzzle

and lighten our load even more.

MONTE: Come on, y'all.

-(panting) -ALYSSA L.: You got us...

-ALYSSA S.: Let's go, let's go! -CHRIS: What the fuck?

SEBASTIAN: Damn it. I have no idea.

CASSIDY: We see Green team pass us.

If Green team wins again, I don't know if I'm safe.

BANANAS: Come on!

-MONTE: Oh, my God. -(panting)

BANANAS: Come on, dude.

-We got to keep going. -SEBASTIAN: "Chance of a lifetime."

-SEBASTIAN: Check. -Yes. All right.

DESI: We have to go.

-Let's go, let's go. -Let's go, let's go.

ALYSSA L.: Everyone on your team

is gonna have their own crate.

In every crate, there's a different puzzle

and it's just such a weird,

uncomfortable-size box

that it is so hard to carry on your own.

WES: This sucks.

Watch Red, they're right behind us.

MONTE: Hey, nice and easy pace.

-(panting) -Nice and easy pace.

MICHAELA: Come on.

WES: Red's right behind you, guys.

MONTE: Nice and easy trot. Nice and easy trot.

Red's stopping.

JOSH: Green is gonna gas.

We got to get rid of a box.

While the Green team has had a pretty big lead,

the best strategy for our team to try to catch up

is to get rid of Cory's box 'cause it's the heaviest.

CORY: "Decode and answer."

T-R-Z...

Coming off of a Red team win,

the best thing for my game

is to keep Red team strong.

Somebody says they're confident with a puzzle,

-let them do it. -MICHELE: This is G.

-G... -TIFFANY: Oh, this is "challenge."

C-H-A-L-L-E.

MONTE: Y'all got it in you. Come on.

-I'm gonna throw up. -Hey.

-Hey. -No, you're not.

In this game, it doesn't matter

the number of boxes that we can get opened up.

You just have to win.

Hopefully, they get tired

before the finish line, 'cause right now,

we can definitely make it to the end faster

than any other team.

(panting)

MICHELE: Uh, C-H-A-L-L-E-N.

Where's "H"?

-We're not worried about Red. -Come on.

-Let's go. We got 'em. Hey, come on. -Come on.

Yo, is that the finish line right there?

Those are the flags.

That's between us and the money right now.

I'm trying. I keep slipping.

-MONTE: Oh, my God. -Come on!

-Come on, Alyssa, you got this. -They're right there.

-Go, go, go, go. -We have to go.

That's the finish line.

Come on.

-Go to "T." -There it is.

(air horn blows)

TJ: Nice job.

Hey. You all right?

Great strategy.

-Yeah! -Whoo!

ALYSSA S.: So our communication today was

absolutely key because there was

a lot of times where I felt like I couldn't keep going,

but without, like,

Monte, Tyler, Michaela, Wes,

all of them just helped me keep pushing.

Having that safety this week and being able

to determine what we're gonna do next is power.

So proud of you. So proud of you!

TJ: All right. Well done, everybody.

Great job. Great challenge.

Congratulations, Green team.

You win today's challenge, and you are safe from elimination.

And now, I need you to go back to the house

and select one man and one woman to send

into the Arena and put at risk of elimination.

CASSIDY: The Green team once again took the win

and so having my life in Green's hand

is literally the worst case scenario for me.

I'm just hoping that I built enough social bonds

to protect me in this upcoming elimination.

I'll see you soon. Get out of here.

-Roger that. -Thanks, TJ.

We're going to break up the Survivor block on Blue.

DUSTY: Okay. Tell us what to do.

Just let's get to business.

It's an offer of

a temporary ceasefire between

Tyler and Monte versus

the Challengers, and that includes you.

If I have the ability to come up with a couple of names

that work well for both my game

and their game, I can keep a Challenger's name

out of my team's mouth.

The last time Green won, they gave me no power.

Is there any way that you guys would do a compromise?

But I don't know if it's really a compromise if you're

the only one that is asking for a compromise.

The vote has been said. Tori and Bananas

are going up for elimination.

Now, I can save Tori,

Bananas,

all the other players that I am here to protect.

Back off the vets. Turn it into Survivor-Big Brother.

I'm gonna go out there and broker that.

Yeah. Deal.

(thunder rumbling)

* *

MICHAELA: I'm ready to be in the safe seat.

I'm ready to make decisions

to help open up room

for me to progress in the game.

There's power in numbers, and I would

like for us to utilize that power, and

I hope we do something smart.

Well, well, well,

congratulations, Green team.

We are back on top.

Damn right.

WES: I say we get right into it.

Does anyone have anything to say?

MICHAELA: Can we be on the same page

about not putting two Survivor names up there?

The reality is that puts my game at risk

because it puts me in the crossfires,

and there's whole other groups of people

that have been unscathed.

I'm just curious if anybody has any thoughts.

MONTE: Well, are we looking for a full-fledged vote on Blue

or are we also considering Red?

I feel like we got to go full-fledged Blue.

Blue has eight people. It's a numbers game.

-Yeah. -TYLER: I'll just be

the first one to say

I'm standing by throwing in Chris.

And I feel the same.

I still feel like our games

are just opposing forces at this moment.

Well, the blindside

that you guys did

to Amanda and I, I now

made a new enemy because of what y'all did.

And I would like you guys to back me

in getting out of that a little bit

by spreading some of that blame out.

Basically, I want to vote for Cassidy.

See, I'm not putting two Survivor people.

That-that can't happen.

That Survivor group, I'm not with all of them.

I don't even like all of them. However,

I don't want to take a pocket of people

who have a reason not to vote for me and give them a reason.

That is the exact same speech

I gave in that chair.

Need to sit here every time. We can rotate.

I completely respect that, and I understand that,

but at the same time, we're getting to the point

in the game where it's like...

we got to trust that

we're gonna keep each other safe

-and the votes... -We can't keep each other safe.

We're in the smallest group.

But we can by winning.

All of us are taking heat.

The more Michaela is talking in this situation,

saying that you want to keep Survivor strong,

that makes me want to

split Survivor up even more.

So, it's a necessity to get some Survivor numbers

dwindled down in this house.

I would prefer not Cassidy.

So nobody's considering Tori?

Why is that?

'Cause I don't want to say a name of somebody

that has a lot of connections that might come back.

Who else is left there? Just Desi and Cassidy.

Yeah.

WES: Okay. That was a fantastic conversation.

Good brainstorming, a lot of good points.

Ready to vote?

MICHAELA: Clearly, there's a full frontal

attack on people from Survivor,

and I don't think that's coincidental.

I don't know what's behind it,

but I think it's the vets.

* *

Shit.

Oh, shit.

(groaning)

-Double Survivor. -Survivor?

Battle of Survivor.

At this point in the game, you can tell it is

Big Brother and it is Survivor,

and these two are firing shots at each other.

Meanwhile, you got the O.G. Vets

taking a step back.

Let those two

keep firing away at each other,

and let us just play it cool.

It's you, Cass.

I did not say your name.

And we will do everything in our power

to make this a men's nomination. I promise you.

CASSIDY: Who voted for me? All the guys?

-Michaela? -Not Michaela.

CASSIDY: Honestly, I'm pissed.

They became Wes's minions in that vote.

They allowed one person to control

the entire team when they had

the numbers to protect Survivor,

to protect Big Brother.

They throw me in

like a sacrificial lamb.

That's just fucking cowardice. And they let Wes

-get in their head. -ALYSSA L.: Yeah.

Boys, where you at? You want to come explain yourselves

or what?

They're cowards. They're hiding.

It's just crazy that Survivor and Big Brother

are going at it so hard.

(laughs)

Sweet.

Seeing my name up there just confirms again

there are plenty of people

in this game that still

see me as a threat.

-Sorry, brother. -You're not sorry.

If you were sorry, you wouldn't put me in.

WES: This is exactly what I wanted to see.

Cassidy and Chris right now are irate,

and the vets, we're going to use that

to our advantage.

Hey, hey, hey.

-(laughter) -(indistinct chatter)

CASSIDY: So, at this point,

I'm a little annoyed because my game is at risk.

But I am a fighter,

and I will not go out easy,

so if they're gonna come after me, good luck.

(cheering)

TYLER: Challenge: USA!

(cheering)

(laughs)

I'm not, like, upset because I haven't,

like, I haven't lied to anyone.

I haven't been dishonest.

I've protected the people that I care about.

Wes-- He's got his little apprentices

that he's training up to be

little Challenge villains.

Monte, what are three things

that make you the perfect man?

-I'm open-minded. -Okay.

-I know how to communicate. -Good.

And I love really good.

Most of the house is single.

The ladies of the house decided they wanted to have

a mini Bachelor competition,

where the gentleman would present ourselves

to the ladies with three reasons

why we are the most eligible bachelor in the house.

I'm charismatic.

I have a 800 credit score

-with a six-figure bank account. -(cheering)

I'm gonna give you all the affirmations that you need.

ALYSSA S.: Tyler, obviously, is so handsome.

He is just so in touch to who he really is,

and it is like a breath of fresh air.

-I love cooking. -WES: I'm not on your level.

WOMEN: Ooh!

I don't deserve any of you.

(cheering)

See you later.

-(overlapping chatter) -No.

It was just a game.

ALYSSA L.: Cassidy, she's obviously taking it personally

with Wes, but

I don't want it to be the reason why she might go home.

$250,000, it can be life-changing money.

You know, I'm starting a business. I want that to grow.

-Go. -ALYSSA L.: I'm trying to finish

what I started last season.

I was so close

to the final, and I just want

to make it this time

with my friends, too.

(laughs)

(indistinct chatter)

(laughs)

You're doing good. Well, you're doing good.

JOSH: Cassidy,

we're having fun and getting to know each other.

We're just enjoying each other's company.

So, personally, for my game,

for selfish reasons,

I don't want her to go home now.

I am fumbling like an idiot. They're not impressed.

That's the pa-- The-- Paint that picture for me.

I like Josh's energy. I like him as a person.

He's handsome. He's cool.

I think we relate on a lot of things.

So, yeah, like, I-I enjoy being around him

and, like, hanging out with him.

And there goes a way.

(laughs)

TYLER: Damn,

what did we get ourselves into?

ALYSSA S.: Facing a lot of fears here,

which is, I guess, the whole part of it.

-That's the whole part of the challenge. -Yeah.

TYLER: With Alyssa S., it's nice to have somebody

that you can relate to,

that you feel comfortable with in this stressful environment.

And I would love to work with her in the game,

and, at the same time, it's like

she's a cool person, so it's like,

why would I not want to spend time with her

and work with her and do all of the above?

There's definitely some powerful people on our team,

which is, like, looked at good and bad, so...

(chuckles)

I can't trust anyone

besides you, Alyssa, and Monte.

BANANAS: We get on the bus, and Tiffany,

for 15 minutes, is in my ear, and she's like,

"It's Survivor against Big Brother, and we got to

-get rid of Survivor." -Whoa.

And I'm literally sitting there like...

Oh, my God.

We went from being, like, the main target in the house

that everyone's aligned against

to now we're, like, the s-swing votes,

and they're all trying to pull us into their thing.

The only way we're valuable and we don't become a threat

is if we do not look aligned, when, in actuality,

it's organized chaos.

You vote this way, you vote this way, I vote this way,

and all of a sudden, everyone's looking at it like,

"What did they do?" Like, obviously, us three will get

Fessy and Cory on board as well.

What we can do is put the names in the hat

because if we all put five names in a hat and we all pick one,

then I don't know which one you picked.

And that's just the one I vote for.

And that's just it.

BANANAS: Operation Hat Trick.

(whispers): Here's what we're gonna do.

We've written down these names.

Alyssa L., Sebastian, Chanelle, Tiffany, Desi.

We're gonna put these in a hat.

Whatever name you draw,

that's the name you vote.

Operation Hat Trick needs to be activated right now.

Bananas, myself, Faysal, Cory and Josh,

we're gonna put a bunch of names in a hat from all

these major alliances like Big Brother and Survivor,

we're all gonna pick one and vote a different way,

so that way we can hide behind each other's votes,

and nobody actually really knows who we're working with.

And that way, we're still an asset to these alliances.

(whispers): Okay. Just grab... grab a name.

TORI: Take these. You take these,

then you flush it down the--

BANANAS: Take it to the grave.

(laughs)

(alarm blares)

Well, Alyssa L.,

the cards were just not in your favor right now.

SEBASTIAN: We keep growing smaller.

I'm gonna give myself and Chris, who I love,

the best shot at coming out of there alive,

so my vote is going to Dusty.

Michelle, Chanel, Desi and myself

want to be Survivor strong, and so,

right now, for me, it's just "Who can Chris beat?"

CHRIS: Tiffany, Cassidy has a better shot at beating you.

I'm working with the Survivor girls,

so I promised Cassidy

that I was gonna give her the best shot at winning.

BANANAS: In the chaos and confusion

that Operation Hat Trick will cause...

I might just make it a little more chaotic and messy, Fessy.

By throwing a vote at Fessy,

this is just gonna further cause more confusion

than was already out there.

-We're gonna get through this one. -Yeah, we are.

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CASSIDY: Wes is targeting me.

That's-that's scary, but it's even more scary

that these people who I thought had my back

are now bowing down to his power.

So even if I survive this,

that does not mean that I'm safe.

TJ: All right, everyone.

Welcome to your next elimination round of The Challenge: USA.

(cheering, applause)

Congratulations to the Green team.

Well done.

You had to come back to the house

and select two people

to put at risk in the elimination tonight,

and you chose Chris and Cassidy. Come on out.

(cheering, applause)

Man, this is crazy. I just saw you in here.

Yeah, I'm a, I'm a popular guy these days.

TJ: Let's get down to the votes.

Tiffany...

...four votes.

Damn, why y'all want me gone?

Like, what is going on here?

Faysal...

...one vote.

Desi:

one vote.

Alyssa. L....

...one vote.

Sebastian:

one vote.

SEBASTIAN: It's just weird to me,

like, who is doing this?

Chanelle: two votes.

CHANELLE: Who put these balls in?

I am perplexed.

And Dusty...

...four votes.

DUSTY: Oh, the secret votes are revealed, and...

I'm just gut-wrenched.

I'm racking my brain,

"Who could possibly have voted for me?"

In my mind, I'm thinking someone lied to me,

and I need to start figuring out where

the line is drawn and what I'm going to do.

TJ: If you have one ball

in that Hopper, that's all it takes.

All right, so let's fire that thing up,

see who's playing tonight.

(whirring)

All right.

Cassidy...

...you're playing tonight.

So, Chris, head back up to your team.

CHRIS: Thank God

I'm not going down there tonight.

I was lucky, but, geez, man,

that Hopper is scary.

-Go knock 'em down, girl. -MONTE: This really sucks

because Chris is coming back.

We thought we had the best chance

of taking him out and we missed.

But hopefully Cassidy goes home.

CASSIDY: There's a vote for Desi, a vote for Alyssa L.,

two votes for Chanelle.

Those make me extremely nervous.

But Tiffany has the most,

and you just never know in the game.

Tonight, your opponent will be...

Cassidy, your opponent will be...

-...Alyssa L. -(gasping, exclaiming)

TIFFANY: Crazy.

One vote.

ALYSSA L.: It's a very interesting

secret vote.

TJ: One vote.

My whole life, I have bad luck.

Like, of course. It's hilarious.

TJ: All right, well, tonight's game

is called Block Heads.

To begin, you're each gonna have your own individual cages.

You're gonna be locked in those cages.

Now, around the Arena

are flagpoles with your little flags on them.

When I say go,

you will roll your cage to each of your flags.

Now, you have four of them, all right? And they are numbered,

so you have to go in order,

grabbing the flag at each flagpole.

(cheering)

Once you've collected all four flags,

you're gonna beeline it to a light box

at the other end of the Arena.

You're gonna lay out your flags on the light box

that will reveal a code

that will unlock your cage.

First person to free themselves

and hit that button wins tonight's elimination round,

stays in the game.

Losers go home. Got it?

-(applause) -Good luck, baby.

Good luck, girls.

ALYSSA L.: I feel more confident

going against Cassidy, just because

I know she can get kind of worked up if something

isn't working her way.

CASSIDY: I knew that I was gonna be sent in the Arena,

whether it was tonight or it was later in the game.

I'm just gonna literally throw all my anger,

all my rage at Wes

and Tyler and Monte for fucking me over into this cage.

All right, everyone ready?

-(air horn blows) -Go.

-MICHELE: There you go. -JOSH: Lock in.

BANANAS: Come on, get those rolls going.

-Alyssa, you-- there you go. -MONTE: There you go.

ALYSSA S.: Good job, girls.

CASSIDY: This cage is so hard to move.

I have to literally throw myself like a hamster

in a wheel just to get this thing to move

maybe five feet.

(grunting)

DUSTY: Line it up, guys.

Line it up, too.

TIFFANY: I need Alyssa to win this elimination.

She is a number for Big Brother,

and she's also an emotional support human for me.

BANANAS: Roll that-- now roll it. You'll get a double roll out of it.

TIFFANY: Alyssa, I need you to roll, girl.

I need you to come back into this house.

-WES: Great job, girls. -MONTE: Good, good, good.

You can reach it.

(whirring)

DESI: There you go.

You're almost there, Lyss.

BANANAS: Keep it going!

There you go.

-BANANAS: Whoa! -MONTE: Alyssa L. is somebody

I'm closely aligned with,

but at the same time, whoever loses tonight,

it's weakening the Blue team.

That's my biggest threat during the next challenge.

(buzzes)

Nice job, Alyssa.

BANANAS: Cassidy, that's the fourth one!

Come back towards us one.

-(grunts) -CASSIDY: At this moment, I...

you know, Alyssa's gain-- I can hear her gaining on me.

I can hear they're coaching and guiding her.

I'm just trying to shimmy my cage, but it feels impossible,

and I don't know how I'm gonna pull this off

because Alyssa is literally right behind me.

CHANELLE: Hurry up.

Get your flag now.

Get your flag.

(buzzes)

(buzzes)

No, all the way back to the first one.

Go back by the first one, Cassidy, let's go.

I'm rooting for Cassidy to win because,

number one, it helps to build

my Survivor alliance back.

Number two, Alyssa L. being out of the game

brings down the Big Brother number.

There you go.

(buzzes)

(indistinct shouting)

JOSH: To be real, at this point in the game,

I don't want to lose Cassidy.

She's obviously somebody that I

like being around, and there is a flirtatious energy

between us, so I really need her to lock in

and get that win because it's way too early for her to leave.

-Come on, Alyssa. -ALYSSA L.: I'm trying

to be able to get as close as possible

to these flags, but the windows are really small, too,

and I can only reach to, like, here.

I'm a little slower than Cassidy right now,

but I could catch up.

(indistinct shouting)

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(buzzes)

(buzzes)

CASSIDY: Now that I have these flags, I have

to put them together to get a code,

break out of this cage and slam that red button.

MONTE: Good, good, Alyssa, go ahead!

TJ: It's anybody's game!

CHRIS: Cassidy, you got to roll it back a quarter!

There you go. There you go. Good!

TJ: Keep going. Oh!

They both got four flags!

TYLER: There is a window

for Alyssa to power through this thing,

stay focused, and actually take this thing home.

If I know Alyssa, I know she is not one to give up.

I know she's gonna fight. I know she wants to be here.

I feel like Alyssa still has some gas left in the tank.

And she is gonna use every bit of it.

Ooh, it's anybody's game.

MONTE: Good, girl. Good. Good!

-One more. -Damn, this is close.

TJ: It's tight. It's a tight race!

Alyssa, you are right there!

Ooh, it's anybody's game.

-Damn, this is close. -MONTE: Good, girl, good!

Alyssa, you are right there!

Yep, rock that thing, there you go, girl.

-Good job. -MONTE: Good, good, good.

Once we get all four flags, we have to place them

all together onto a screen to reveal a code.

MONTE: Wrap that arm around.

ALYSSA L.: But I cannot reach this screen, and

the only way to get out of this thing is knowing the code.

(indistinct chatter)

MONTE: Push, girl!

-Keep it organized. -TJ: Who can read it first?

The problem is I get to this light box and I have

to be perfectly aligned with it and if you don't have

the flags perfectly placed together,

you can't read the code and I try to backtrack

and flip around, and nothing is working.

-This is crazy! -Stop it there!

-(shouting, clamoring) -That's it!

CHANELLE: Can you reach it, Cassidy?

-MONTE: One more row, Alyssa! -Fuck!

But finally, I see the light and I get the code.

(all clamoring, cheering)

Almost there!

CHRIS: Come on!

Get that lock off!

(cheering, shouting)

Come on, Cassidy!

TJ: Here she comes.

Cassidy wins!

-(horn blares) -(cheering, clamoring)

CASSIDY: I'm so proud of myself.

This is what I came here to do, was to test myself.

And I knew that I was capable of it.

And I know that a lot of people doubted me.

I'm ready to just take this bull by the horns

for the rest of the game.

JOSH: Way to fight, Alyssa!

I gave it my all. That's all I can do.

I'm glad that Cassidy gets to go back.

Even though she's older than me, I feel like she's like

a little sister to me, and I am rooting for her.

Well done, both of you.

Very, very good race.

(cheering)

Alyssa, unfortunately, there has to be a loser

tonight, which means you go home.

I really hope we see you in the future.

You're awesome. Take care.

-I love you! -(shouting indistinctly)

And now it's decision time.

Do you want to stay

with the team you built originally,

the Blue team?

Or do you want to defect

and go to either the Green or the Red?

I believe in energy. I follow that.

And I built the Blue team for a reason,

and I'm going to live or die by that decision.

-(Blue team cheering) -I'm going back to Blue, baby.

Can I go?

That's my fucking team!

-(Blue team chanting "Blue!") -Well done, everyone.

I'll see you at the next challenge. Get out of here.

CASSIDY: It is safe to say that I want Wes to go home.

I want to see a Monte go next to a Wes.

I want to put these two people who just fucked

me over in the Arena together

and at least get out one threat to my game.

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-Next on The Challenge: USA... -I know what you're up to.

Four balls hit me today.

...chaos erupts as Operation Hat Trick

tears alliances apart.

You are my number one objective to get rid of.

Go to hell, Dusty.

That is incorrect!

But will the vets' gamble backfire instead?

Somebody's going down. (laughs)

Wes has now made an enemy of me.

BANANAS: This is a problem.

You've dug yourself such a deep hole

there's no way of getting out.

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