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TJ: Previously on The Challenge: USA...

MAN: Come on!

TJ: As the remaining players

battled as individuals,

the core members of the Secret Garden

kept their alliance strong...

MICHAELA: I think swing big

because these people are not trying to help us make money.

...while The Challenge veterans did the same.

Michele played both sides,

keeping Survivors and veterans close...

...leaving the rest of the players on the outs.

I'm not going home. I'm coming back.

TJ: At the Go the Distance challenge,

Michaela secured her first challenge win after conquering

her fear of heights.

No more heights!

BANANAS: And she took the advice

of second-time winner Faysal

and nominated Cassidy and Chris

into a double elimination.

I go against Wes tonight.

TJ: Chris wanted to swing big in the competition...

I don't know what to do.

...and pulled off a shocking upset,

eliminating a Challenge legend from the game.

-So, goodbye. -You're a legend.

-Thank you. -TJ: Survivor and lone wolf Cassidy

also dominated again in the ring,

sending a Big Brother player home and putting a pause

on Tyler and Alyssa's ongoing romance.

ALYSSA S.: I'm gonna miss you.

TJ: And now, with 12 players remaining,

the competition gets physical.

With less players in the game,

tough choices will need to be made

and friendships will be tested.

Who will risk their loyalties

for a shot at the $500,000 prize?

* *

MICHAELA: Good job, Cassidy and Chris.

Come here.

Whoo, whoo.

Now that Wes is out of the picture,

I feel like my biggest targets are

Tyler 'cause I feel like he's always gonna vote for me

'cause we have an anti-alliance.

And Fess.

Fess has nominated me two separate times.

Those two need to go. I'm just ready to take 'em out.

It's me versus the world right now.

Stealing the show, man. Stealing the show.

CASSIDY: My closest ally in this game is myself.

You have to win this game for yourself.

Chanelle, Michaela, Desi won't have my back.

Tori nominated me and Michele has relationships

that stem beyond just this season.

In the end, only one man

and one woman are gonna win the money anyway,

so you have to do it

on your own at some point.

And how you feeling, Ty?

-Lucky. But sad. -TORI: Yeah.

TYLER: Just lost Alyssa in this game

and now I'm completely alone and isolated.

But I do have my right-hand man still in the game.

I do have Faysal.

He's kept me safe before, so I'm ready

to kick off that underdog story

that's been brewing up this whole time.

(laughs)

TORI: Yeah, the widowers.

Mm-hmm.

CORY: I feel like that final's coming up real soon.

In a perfect world, I want a crew that nobody saw coming.

I want strong girls in the final.

I want Desi, I want Michaela,

I want Chanelle, I want Tori.

So I'm trying to build my own crew

while the vets still think I'm rocking with them.

That way I could cover my back from all sides.

(video call ringing)

GIRL: Hey.

-There's Daddy. -There's my daddy.

CORY: Hi, mama.

TAYLOR: Say, "Daddy, I army- crawled across the whole room."

What?

-Aw... Hi, Maya. -Hey, Daddy.

TAYLOR: Come here, come here. He wants to see you.

It's hard being away from my kids, honestly.

I'm trying not to get emotional, but it's real, man.

Has it been rough?

It's tough. Oh, my God.

We are with the wolves.

-Like, it's... -TAYLOR: Yeah.

Say, "You got it, Daddy. You got it."

I came here for one reason--

to win and to bring that money home to my family.

We're gonna put it on a house

and we're gonna all celebrate.

Mwah. I love you, babe.

I love you, too. Hang in there.

* *

CHANELLE: Obviously, Survivor has been targeted

the last few eliminations.

I don't really trust Cassidy that much,

and I don't really trust Chris that much.

But guess what.

We've been able to continue to win daily challenges,

and I just hope

that we're all going to make it to the end together.

All right, everyone,

welcome to your next challenge here on The Challenge: USA.

Today is going to be sick.

For centuries, oil wrestling has been

part of the culture here on the Mediterranean coast,

which is exactly why we are bringing it to you.

Today's challenge is called Slippery Business.

To begin, you're all gonna be doused in oil

and then put into a ring for combat.

-(air horn blows) -When I say go,

you will do whatever it takes to get all of your opponents

out of the ring. If you touch anywhere

outside of the ring, you're out.

-Whoo-ee! -(air horn blows)

The last man and woman standing in their round

will win today's challenge, be safe from elimination,

and also be selecting two players,

one man and one woman,

to put at risk of elimination in the Arena.

-Got it? -ALL: Got it.

All right. Good luck.

* *

(women whooping)

TJ: Get it done.

-Let's go, boys. -All right.

(women howl)

-TORI: All right. -CHANELLE: Italian Stallions.

CORY: I used to wrestle in the eighth grade.

I'm ready to wrestle some of these dudes

and show 'em what's up.

We want to get Chris out first.

We voted him in twice.

I don't feel bad for one second.

Sorry, Chris, but you got to go.

This is gonna be fun.

I'm really trying to stay out of trouble as best I can.

Between Cory, Fessy and Josh, there's a lot of, uh,

muscle there.

I'm just gonna try to maneuver

as best I can out there, not try to make any big moves,

and hopefully use some of these guys'

big muscles against them.

Oil it up.

TYLER: This challenge is about slipperiness,

and I've been slipping and sliding my way through

this entire game.

So I'm just gonna play defense

and play slippery and try to hide.

MICHELE: All right, Bananas!

This is the best part of The Challenge for me so far.

-I can't handle this. -(laughs)

All right, fellas. You ready?

-Go! -(air horn blows)

TORI: Let's go, boys!

-Okay. -Oh, poor Chris, man.

TYLER: So right off the bat,

Chris is getting absolutely jumped

and absolutely mauled by all those dudes.

This is great news because...

they're not jumping on me.

(girls whooping)

This is not a wrestling match.

I am getting jumped right now.

Y'all are massive and you got to gang up on me?

TORI: Yeah, Cory!

D-I-R-T-Y.

* *

It is hand-on-hand combat.

We are wrestling.

And any part of your body goes out of the ring,

you are out.

Listen, we know the game plan.

We got to get Chris

out of here,

and then may the best man win.

We want to see it.

CASSIDY: It's hard to watch the guys

ganging up on Chris, and...

I feel his pain at this point.

Chris was kind of a dead man

walking in this challenge,

as well as myself, but it is still hard to watch.

MICHAELA: Oh, why are they ganging up on Chris?

They're not even fighting the other ones.

They're just standing there.

(man growls)

I kind of feel bad

that Chris is getting jumped.

The men are playing this match

the way that they've been playing the Hopper.

I don't know. That's pretty cowardly to me.

-(air horn blows) -Okay, you're out.

-Good job, Chris. -Good job, Chris.

-Great job, Chris. -Good job, Chris.

Getting eliminated on this challenge is infuriating.

TJ: Let's go.

CHRIS: I feel like anyone who wins...

I already automatically have a target on my back.

-Someone take Tyler. -Go ahead, Bananas.

Let's go, Bananas. You put him in.

-Get after. -Go ahead.

-There we go. -Yeah, let's go.

Let's go.

BANANAS: Myself, Fessy, Cory and Josh have

the same mindset.

By any means necessary,

make sure that Chris and Tyler do not win.

Who wants this more?

BANANAS: Tyler's a lot more squirrelly

than I thought he was gonna be.

-(grunting) -Good job, good job.

-(air horn blows) -TJ: Both out.

-Hey! -Whoa!

TORI: Good play, boys.

I'm trusting that if Fessy, Cory

or Josh win, I'll be safe.

Grab his foot and throw it out.

DESI: Fessy has basically touched no one

his entire time in the ring.

He's just sort of negotiating these one-on-one matches

between everybody else.

I don't know who made Fessy the boss of this

or why all of the guys are going along with it,

but somehow they are.

* *

(air horn blows)

TJ: All right, Josh is out.

TORI: All right.

Good job, Cory. Good job, Fess.

-Good job, guys. -Good job, Josh.

Way to fight, guys.

All right, let's go. This is it.

It all comes down to this.

It's me against Fessy.

I need to win this one.

-Go. -(air horn blows)

DESI: Cory is clearly a little bit gassed

because he's been fighting this entire time

while Fessy's just been standing by.

I think most people expect Fessy to be

the clear and easy winner of this challenge.

FAYSAL: Now that it's down to me and Cory,

this is definitely in my wheelhouse.

I'm looking to get my third individual challenge win

in a row.

Come on, boys!

-TORI: All right. -Hell yeah, boys.

Yeah, Cory!

Way to fight.

Yeah!

FAYSAL: Cory is my boy, but...

I've played football my whole life.

This is what I do.

(air horn blows)

-Yeah! -TJ: Cory wins.

(cheering)

CORY: I don't care how big you are.

I got the win. Let's go.

Grabbing an individual win is big at this point in the game.

I'm gonna protect Bananas, protect Josh and Fessy,

and everyone else has got to go.

TJ: Good luck. Get it done.

* Bow, bow. *

Yeah.

MICHAELA: I am excited about today's challenge.

This is gonna be a physical one.

There's five Survivor girls plus Tori.

Oil up.

And I'm expecting her to be out of the ring first.

CHANELLE: I have a lot of strength on me.

A lot of muscle on me.

I kind of want to take out Cassidy

'cause she tried to call me out yesterday.

There are girls there in that alliance

who haven't even been down in this sand once.

And I've come into the sand, come out twice on top.

I might put the paws on her first.

* *

All right, ready?

-Go. -(air horn blows)

CORY: They're ganging on Tori.

I quickly realized I am five on one.

All right, let's do it.

Who wants this smoke?

Push 'em to the edge.

Five versus one, Tori.

(groaning)

(air horn blows)

Good job, Tor.

TORI: If it was one-on-one matches, I mean, come on.

We all know that I would have beaten everybody here.

Oh, oh, oh, Chaney with the sneak attack.

CASSIDY: I am holding my own against Chanelle.

I used to do jiujitsu.

I do boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai,

so I think people expected

the girls to just pick me up and carry me out,

but I'm like, "Hell no, you are not doing that to me."

(whooping)

Whoa!

JOSH: The women are tough.

They start attacking each other like hyenas.

I'd rather fight the guys

ten rounds than go against the girls.

They are scrapping right now and going at it,

and it's kind of scary.

My respect to all of them.

They're putting up a really good fight.

Stay low. Stay low.

I give Michele her props

'cause she's willing to take on everybody,

but she has no follow-through.

(groans)

And the moment she puts her hand on me,

it's time for her to go to the losers' bench.

(indistinct shouting)

(air horn blows)

-JOSH: Way to fight, Michele. -CORY: Way to go, Michele.

Way to go, ladies. Good fight.

I look over at Cassidy.

She's not working with my alliance,

so I'm like, screw it.

We might as well wrestle.

CHRIS: Just wrestle, let's go.

JOSH: Good job. Stay low.

Good job, Michaela.

-Ooh. -Yeah!

MICHAELA: I consider myself one of the more physical women here.

Just because I conduct myself in a professional manner

doesn't mean I won't get dirty in this game.

-JOSH: Michaela with the sneak. -CORY: I see you, Michaela.

-(air horn blows) -TJ: Desi, you're out.

Cassidy, you're out. You're out.

Oh!

-All right. Let's go! -JOSH: Here we go!

The heavyweight champ.

TJ: Michaela versus Chanelle.

Ding, ding, ding!

I do not recognize the Michaela standing in front of me.

I can see fire in her eyes.

She is one of my closest allies in this game,

but I need a win for my confidence,

and I have a lot of brute strength.

I outweigh every girl in this house,

and so I do like my chances.

(men cheering)

CORY: Get her to the edge.

(all exclaiming)

(whooping)

Wow!

MICHAELA: We are in an alliance with each other,

but I need safety just as much as she does,

so let's go.

-TORI: Good job. -MICHELE: Good fight, guys, good job.

(shouting)

(screaming)

Did these girls just come out of, like, a WrestleMania?

Because, like, where are these moves coming from?

We see, like, the scorpion

and, like, the clam-chop,

and I'm like, "What is going on?"

(all shouting)

It's an epic battle.

TYLER: Don't stop, don't stop.

-Don't stop. Keep going. -Don't stop.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going.

-Right there. Keep going. -(indistinct shouting)

TORI: Right there. Go.

-Get her, get her! -Don't look. Don't look.

Right there. Go. Push, push!

(overlapping shouting)

(air horn blows)

Hey!

Two in a row and I'm safe.

This is the perfect opportunity for me to make a big move.

Way to go, ladies!

CORY: Good job, ladies.

* *

Great challenge today, everyone.

Two people in particular absolutely killed it today.

That was Michaela and Cory.

You are the only two safe from elimination.

Now I need you to go back to the house

and nominate two players,

one man and one woman, to put at risk of elimination.

All right? Get out of here, everyone.

CORY: This is a big moment because

now you got to make a decision.

So I'm sitting back, looking at all the guys

like, should I swing big?

Should I swing small?

'Cause if you swing and you miss,

you're gonna feel the repercussions.

* *

* *

(indistinct chatter)

-(laughter) -(whooping)

MICHAELA: Two in a row.

I'm playing this game to prove to myself

that I really am a champion.

-(high-pitched): Okay. -Ninja Michele.

I'm here to get to that final

and I actually want a shot at winning,

which means some of these people who have seen the final before

need to go.

CORY: Josh finally got that mud pit

-he's been asking for. -I know, man.

Michaela and Cory are in power right now.

I definitely trust Cory.

Michaela is somebody

that we're building that trust.

I looked out for her

the first two individual wins that I had.

I'm hoping she'll look out for me

on her two individual wins,

and we can just call it even.

I'm like...

Last time Michaela won,

Michaela just gets a little bit

of an idea in her head that maybe she puts up Tori.

-Am I comfortable what? -Voting Tori.

CHANELLE: Like, when I think about Michaela's Survivor game,

she's just so used to having to play

a very proactive game.

Whereas in The Challenge,

I think it's maybe better sometimes to do less,

like protect your allies,

protect yourself, and get to the end.

Come on in, sister.

-Hey. -How you feeling, champ?

-Good. -CHANELLE: What you, what you gonna do?

MICHAELA: Feel like now's the time to take a shot.

If we put Tori up today,

somebody goes against her.

Reasonable chance of beating her.

She's not unbeatable.

If we don't do it,

we play stupid today like we did last time,

then, next week, what happens if Tori wins?

So, why not secure ourselves by making this the girls' day?

-So what are y'all's thoughts? -I understand your, like,

willingness to lean in to risk because you're not on the block.

MICHAELA: Their position is,

if Tori is nominated,

they feel like they would catch

the lion's share of the votes.

Which is true.

The flip side of that is,

if we don't nominate Tori, no one else will.

Do you take the bullet now

or do you take the bullet later?

I respect whatever decision you make.

Um, I do think it puts the two of us more at risk.

When Tori won the individual challenges,

she protected us for two votes in a row.

So we now have

this allyship with her.

That's one. Two, Tori is tough.

She can be intimidating.

So there's a part of your mind that's, like,

maybe we shouldn't make it a girls' day.

CORY: All right, Michaela, I'm following your lead.

You've been here more than I have.

MICHAELA: Going into the nominations,

I'm gonna plan to take the same approach

as I took with Fessy,

and hopefully we can come

to a win-win solution for the both of us.

So let's just cut to it.

What do you think on the girls' side?

My mind is thinking about,

the final has to be right around the corner.

-Mm-hmm. -This is a time to take a risk.

So I would like today to be a girls' day.

I think swing big. Go Tori on the girls' side,

And force the girls to vote each other.

Mm...

MICHAELA: What's your hesitation?

I don't want to go Tori.

-Why? -Because I don't think she would go me.

I want to protect the people that would protect me.

MICHAELA: Tori and Michele,

those are two people that are off the board

for pretty much every man who wins.

So as we continue to dwindle numbers in the house,

if they don't go in,

me or one of the two people I work closest with

get increasing likelihood

that we will get put against each other

in a final elimination.

And that is what I'm trying to avoid here.

What is your ideal endgame here?

I want Cassidy's name up there.

For what purpose? What does that do for you?

'Cause she knows that I voted for her last time.

What value is that to anyone?

I mean, that's value to me.

I'm going with the people

that I feel the least connected to.

The people that I feel would come for me

if they had the opportunity.

So you're not thinking

in terms of girls' day, guys' day.

You're not thinking in terms of genuine probability.

I mean, for you to sit there

and try to downplay how I'm thinking, I'm not...

I'm not. I'm asking you a simple question

to understand what's in your mind.

I don't know what you actually want.

I told you directly what I want.

-Okay, what do you want? -I want Cassidy.

Cory, I don't think you're listening

-to what I'm saying. -Why are you acting so irritated?

-I am, I am kind of irritated. -How are you irritated?

We just started to talk.

You're irritated 'cause I didn't agree with you?

No, it's not 'cause you don't agree.

It's 'cause I'm not-- I-I...

CORY: Tori's off the table because

she's one of my numbers in this game.

And then on top of that, she has a high likelihood

of winning one of these individual challenges.

And she could directly throw me into nomination.

I don't want that smoke.

What balls are you open to on the girls' side?

(sputtering)

Cassidy or Michele.

-We're making progress, but still... -Making progress.

...maybe put Tori next to Michele.

MICHAELA: No, 'cause you're not open to Tori,

so I'm not gonna fool myself.

I think it's safer for me to just make a dumb move.

We'll do Tyler and Cassidy.

I know Tyler wants to work with you.

MICHAELA: Tyler has had five, at least four times

-to work with me and he has not. -Okay.

-So... -Fair enough, I didn't know.

How about I pick Tyler, and you,

you pick one of the girls?

That's a...

That's a fair trade.

MICHAELA: Being this close to the final,

people don't get the logic of nominating

one of the strongest women in the house,

and that's frustrating to me.

But I picked Tyler because I know that

Chris wants to get him out.

And I want Chris on my side

'cause I definitely am gonna need

some more numbers in this house

than the couple that I have.

TYLER: Surprise, surprise.

I'm the smallest guy in this house.

They underestimate me.

They have been this whole season, so, yeah.

I'm up there nominated with Cassidy, of course.

Damn, Chris, you are a Survivor, my friend.

Survived the nom.

I'm grateful that it's Tyler and not me.

I'm really crossing my fingers,

that everyone wants to make it a girls' night.

As hard as Cassidy's fought, maybe her time has come.

JOSH: How you feeling?

CASSIDY: I fully expected this.

They want to make an easy move.

They don't want to take any big shots 'cause

they're scared, I guess, or whatever.

But I've been down there before, and I'll prove it again.

MICHELE: What happened?

So... that's that.

TORI: Knowing that Michaela

threw my name out in deliberation hurts.

We had an agreement.

I won the first two daily challenges.

I looked out for them.

It's like, what are you trying to do here?

-Yeah. -Mm-hmm, yeah.

We have all the guys on our side.

Yeah.

BANANAS: The house is half the size that it used to be.

Regardless of what happens from here on out,

I could not be happier to be

in a house with a bigger bunch of dickheads.

-(laughing, clamoring) -To all of you!

(cheering)

TYLER: Right now my back's against the wall in this game,

but I know we've been stuck with each other for a long time.

So if y'all got to get some tension out of the way,

I will sit back and watch all these fools be fools.

(laughter)

I am just trying to find ways

to let some of this, this tension, this anxiety,

this constant low state

of fear out.

BANANAS: Do it, do it.

Get 'em, Cass!

(shouting, clamoring)

CASSIDY: We just needed a little bit of action in our lives,

I think.

It's all fun and games. I don't care.

Listen, give the girl a break because

she's been going through it.

She has not had the easiest path in this game.

So if she needs to let off some steam kissing me,

then have at it, girl.

-(screams) -(laughter)

JOSH: You know Chris is going to

try to pull a whole bunch of strings.

Me, you, Johnny, Tori, and Michele--

that's a solid five stack on Chris.

Getting Chris out is one of the best moves

for my game because he is a huge threat.

You know, I feel bad getting people

to vote for him, but

I know that down the line it's gonna benefit me.

But I think to the guys...

You're an existential threat at this point

to our alliance, Chris, so, nothing personal,

but all of our balls are going directly on your head.

So enjoy.

You already did the damage of putting me up.

The least that I can ask for you to do is

to not force it to be a girls' day,

not pitch it to be a girls' day.

I'm gonna pitch it to be a girls' day

because guess what, Cassidy.

There are so many people in this house

who are protected,

and y-you don't fall in that bucket.

Unfortunately, I don't fall in that bucket either.

But when I saw the writing on the wall based on who was

getting votes when either Desi or myself

was nominated, I did things to pull us together

because we were the bottom.

Michaela gets some, like, pleasure

out of kicking a dog while they're down.

If you're gonna pitch a girls' day, fine,

but don't come to me and rub it

in my face that you're gonna do that to me.

You're attacking somebody who, like, you could have a,

-such a good chance of beating in a final. -I'm not attacking you.

That's only because you guys are playing scared.

You guys don't want to take shots.

And if that bites you in the ass at the end...

-It could. It could. -If fucking Tori goes and wins, then you know what?

She deserves it 'cause nobody took a shot at her.

I get it, Michaela, you don't need to sit here

and act like I'm a child, trying to make me look stupid.

All I'm trying to say, Cassidy...

-Your tactics are... -It's not tactics.

It's a, it's a logical conversation.

Your conversation style is very...

-interesting to me. -It's not about conversation style.

You play this game with pure logic.

You have no emotion in it whatsoever,

which kind of freaks me out.

And it, like...

-Y'all, I'm tired. -Yeah, that's what I thought.

Cassidy said a lot of things about me in this game.

I have no emotions, I'm too calculated.

I'm this, I'm that, I'm the third.

At the end of the day, she's just upset

with her own self and she needs somebody to take it out on

in this moment, and she's choosing me.

She's made her bed in this game

and I'm not gonna lie in it with her.

MICHAELA: Have you heard anything today?

Well, I know we haven't seen eye to eye

this entire time, but

I-I still want to push for a girls' day

as much as possible.

And I think, you know, of course, a girls' day

benefits me because I'm safe today,

but I think it benefits you.

You know, the next one will be a guys' day

if this is a girl, and you'll know this will be

a solid for me and I can repay it in any way.

Heading into the secret vote, if someone tells me

to vote one direction, I'm gonna vote it,

especially if they're going to help me take out

someone like Fess or Tyler.

Like, if I vote a girl, I just need those, like,

reassurances that Tyler is the main nomination on the next one.

Yeah, I think that's possible.

MICHELE: Okay.

It's nice

that the three girls--

Michaela, Chanelle, and Desi--

pull me into a room to hatch this plan with me because

maybe it means I have a sort of layer of trust with them.

Damned if you... Right.

-Mm-hmm. -Mm-hmm.

CHANELLE: Listen, as long as we're all on the same page...

-I'm solid. I ain't changing. -Same.

We're locked in.

Myself, Chanelle,

Chris and Michele are all putting

their votes on Tori.

That's four votes.

Although we know it's not a majority,

it is enough votes in the Hopper that...

the probability isn't bad.

(laughs)

(alarm sounding)

Wow.

Game on.

CORY: We got a light going on.

Well, they wanted to make it a girls' day, but "F" that.

Sorry, Chris, I'm riding the wave this time.

Everyone did it to me.

It benefits me to make it a guys' day.

It just gets me closer to the final, so...

Grandmother used to always say,

"If you try something once and it doesn't work,

don't ever try it again."

Or did she say,

"If at first you don't succeed, try again"?

I forget.

I am really hoping this doesn't come back to bite me.

So, good luck, Tori.

I'm so sorry.

It's like I want to put a girl because

I want the girl situation to just be done, but...

It's weird.

Everybody's known that I've been playing the middle

this entire game, and I knew that there was gonna be

a point that I had to choose

the vet side or the Survivor side,

and that time has come.

What's the point of being done with it

if it's not done properly?

I'm not sure what I'm gonna do right now.

Heading into the elimination, I feel in the clear.

I'm fully convinced that it's gonna be a girls' day.

I'm ready to read these votes.

I think it's gonna come down to Tori

going up against Cassidy today.

MICHAELA: I'm safe today, but still

I would like it to be a girls' day.

At the end of the day, I don't want to see Tori in the final.

So I'm hoping the plan gets executed the way we intended.

All right, everyone, welcome back to the Arena

-of The Challenge: USA. -(cheering)

As you know, this season two people,

one man and one woman, are going home

with $250,000 each.

(cheering)

Cory, Michaela, well done.

Solid effort at the challenge.

As the winners, you chose Tyler and Cassidy

to put at risk of elimination.

-Come on out. -(cheering, whooping)

The rest of you, you had to go place names into the Hopper,

so let's see what the votes are.

Tori.

Three votes.

DESI: Where's the fourth vote for Tori?

And I realized that,

in true Michele form,

she didn't vote for Tori.

Surprise, surprise.

I am deeply hurt by Michele's betrayal in this moment.

TJ: Chanelle.

One vote.

And Chris.

Six votes.

Again, Chris.

Let's see what the Hopper has to say.

I thought the chances of me going in were gonna be 50-50,

but the guys were probably drooling

to make it a guys' day, so I'm really

just hoping that the Hopper comes through for me once again.

CASSIDY: I've found this inner strength and courage,

so I'm holding on to that for dear life.

And if I have to go in tonight, I'm ready to go.

Cassidy?

You...

All right. Cassidy?

You...

are off the hook.

Yes.

I am selfishly relieved

that it's not me going in again,

but I do feel guilty and shitty about throwing

Chris in there again.

TJ: Can't catch a break, huh?

Not this season, Teej.

MICHAELA: This is not what I wanted, but

since I nominated Tyler, not Chris,

if Chris comes back, what I hope is that

I get lower on Chris's hit list and higher on his save list.

TJ: Chris, come on down.

MICHELE: I'm feeling

really guilty that I betrayed Chris, Desi,

and Chanelle, but what does it benefit me

to throw Tori in against Cassidy?

And then I'm running a final with Tori,

Desi, Chanelle, and Michaela.

Keeping Cassidy is in my best interest.

I want some girls in the final that I could potentially beat.

All right, fellas.

Tonight you are playing Barrel Tag.

It's just a good old fashioned game of tag.

(laughing): Oh, my God.

You're each gonna start by standing

on one of those barrels.

When I say go, you're gonna use the next barrel.

Place it forward in front of you,

jump onto that one. One of you is gonna be it,

which is gonna try and tag the other person.

The other person is gonna be trying to run away

from them the entire time

by just moving the barrels over and over again.

But if you fall off the barrel, you lose.

There are several obstacles that you can use

however you see fit.

Once you tag the person, then you're gonna switch places.

This is a timed event.

Whoever tags their opponent the fastest

will win tonight's elimination round

and stay in the game.

Loser goes home. Got it?

-Good luck. -CASSIDY: Good luck.

CHRIS: I wanted to start

taking down the Big Brother alliance,

and this is my opportunity.

I'm gonna break them.

I've never wanted to win any more in my life than tonight.

TYLER: It took me a while to get my footing in this game

and then the ground was ice and it was uphill.

Chris is pretty locked in, but I'm feeling pretty confident.

Tyler, you're it. Chris, you're running away.

Ready?

-Go! -(air horn blows)

JOSH: Let's go, boys. Get it done.

TYLER: My strategy is just to keep Chris guessing

as to which direction I'm going and throw him off.

CHRIS: My strategy is to beeline it to the other

barrels and start throwing them at Tyler.

If there's any challenge that's catered

to Tyler's strengths, it's this one.

This is agility. Tyler is nimble.

This isn't strength.

-BANANAS: Okay! -Good job, Ty.

-TORI: Good job, Tyler. -JOSH: Good job!

I am hoping that Tyler comes back.

Obviously, with our Big Brother connection,

I know he's gonna have my back.

Chris is somebody that we wanted to put down there.

And for my own personal gain,

I hope that he goes home today.

Oh, he can block him?

CHRIS: I am giving it everything that I have

to throw these barrels around.

Chris trying to ball him up a little bit.

Uh-oh, he's getting close!

But he got to me pretty quick.

MICHAELA: Jump!

(air horn blows)

(cheering)

JOSH: Good job, Ty. Good job, Chris.

MICHELE: Wow.

TYLER: I tagged him quick.

I feel like my time is gonna be tough to beat.

All I have to do, maintain my composure

and hope this next round goes my way.

TJ: This time, Chris, you're it.

Tyler, you're running away. Got it?

CHRIS: I'm frustrated at my performance.

I have to get to him

-as fast as possible. -Go! -(air horn blows)

-Good luck, boys. -Go, boys! -Here we go!

Here we go!

(Chris groans)

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CASSIDY: Good work, Chris. Good job.

MICHELE: Good job, guys.

DESI: Nice job, guys.

MICHELE: Good job, guys.

Tyler's moving quick. I'm impressed.

I'm feeling like he's really doing a great job

of keeping away from Chris.

Damn, Tyler, move that butt.

Holy shit.

-(groans) -TJ: Chris is throwing it. -Good job, Chris.

-Good job, boys. -Chris is doing it.

Chris is going fast.

(groans)

No longer is it Barrel Tag. This is Barrel Sprint.

This elimination is my $250,000 elimination.

This is do-or-die,

and I'm not going home.

CHANELLE: Got to move faster.

BANANAS: Shorter gaps, Tyler.

(Chris groaning)

TYLER: All of a sudden,

I hear something rumbling my way

like a freaking bulldozer.

-(groaning) -Chris definitely has

a fire under him right now. But at the same time,

I'm locked in, too.

(groans)

Ruh-roh. Big ruh-roh.

-(groaning) -Go, go, go, go, go!

Go, go, go!

(Chris groans)

Get him, Chris!

-Go! -Whoo!

-Oh. -Run!

Get him!

(air horn blows)

-Oh! -(whooping)

-Good job, Chris. -Good job, guys.

-Damn. -Good job, man.

Good job, man.

Chris and I both just showed out,

and we both just showed why we made it this far.

I don't know how the times are gonna end up.

I tagged him super quick, so...

I feel like I deserve it.

I have no idea who won that one.

That was good. Very, very good.

DESI: This elimination was,

I think, the fastest one we've seen

this entire game.

Was pretty neck and neck.

Tight, tight race tonight, fellas.

Everybody really gave it their all,

and the times were close.

Chris, your time

was one minute and 20 seconds

to tag Tyler.

And, Tyler,

your time,

it was one...

...52.

(sighs)

MICHELE: Nice job, boys.

Way to battle it out.

Whew.

Well, Tyler, you lost tonight's elimination round,

so this ends your time here on The Challenge.

However, you are one of the most chill dudes I ever met.

-(chuckles) -I really hope

that we see you in the future, man.

-Thank you, man. -All right.

Take care of yourself.

(cheering)

Hell of a season.

-I love you guys. Go get it! -We love you, buddy.

TYLER: I'm just really proud of myself.

I got really close to that final,

but this was the experience of a lifetime.

So I'm just forever grateful and thankful to everybody.

TJ: Chris,

you are still in the game.

Great job, brother. Go ahead

-and rejoin the group. -Good job, Chris!

Good job, buddy.

A lot of emotions.

A lot of emotions.

It's just so hard

to fight alone for this long,

but I'm still here.

I'm still fighting, so... (sniffles)

They're gonna have to kill me.

BANANAS: Chris is battle-tested at this point.

He's definitely a threat in this game.

While it's been nice to watch him

just continue to eliminate people,

I think we're all looking at each other like,

"All right, well, now who's gonna eliminate this guy?"

He's definitely everyone's number one target.

We are danger close to my final.

So if I was you, I would do whatever it took

to get ready to win.

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

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TJ: Next on The Challenge: USA,

in the most difficult challenge yet,

Chris is on a mission for revenge.

CHRIS: I'm not a loser. Every move I make from here on out,

it's a $250,000 move.

TJ: But as we get closer to the final,

-will past lies and betrayals... -Who voted for me?

...come back to haunt the Challengers?

I'm a fucking mess. That's a fact.

-But I'm not a villain. -The first thing we agree on

in this conversation. You are a mess.

I'm a mess, but I'm not a villain.

(gasping)

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