Ryan and Joshuah continue to have a secret alliance. After confirming that, Ryan goes to commiserate in private with Sheila, where they talk about how unfair it is that everyone lied to James and they're the only ones paying the price. "You and I need a miracle," Sheila says. Ryan thinks about his chances of beating Sheila in the PoV competition and doesn't look too concerned.
Time for another "Bible Buddies" sequence, in which Matt and Adam read about the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail and their connection to Indiana Jones. Matt suggests Adam take his money and go find the Ark if he wins. Sure, Adam's face will melt off, but that might be an improvement.
Outside, Sheila takes an opportunity to apologize to Adam for being mean to him at the beginning of the game. I'm sure the fact that she's nominated has nothing to do with the timing of her sucking up.
James, Chelsia, Joshuah, and Natalie sit around the hot tub talking about how unhappy Ryan is to have James back. They also still haven't figured out who cast the third vote to keep James out, although they've narrowed it down to Matt and Adam. Well, Natalie knows it was Matt, but she's not telling. In fact, she's going out of her way to throw "A-Baller" under the bus, privately whispering her "theory" to Sharon, who isn't remotely fooled.
Joshuah discovers an "ominous" "clue:" Big Brother has spelled out POV in the guinea pig cage, using wooden toy blocks. Because nothing ever happens in this house for days at a time, everyone totally freaks out at this minor occurrence. Nobody more so than Sheila, who says that if anyone else wins the PoV and doesn't take her off, she's going to be pissed. According to her, "it never should have happened this way." Whatever that means. She should get the boot just for assuming that Big Brother is ever fair. Natalie and Matt advise Sheila to "study" the guinea pig cage all night long. I wish I could give Natalie credit for wanting to mess with Sheila's head, but I don't see Natalie being that diabolical. Even so, Sheila's head is well and truly messed with, and she has decided that Matt and Natalie -- and Adam, for some reason -- don't actually have her back, like she thought. So guess what she does: she goes and lies down and cries, boo hoo hoo.
Chelsia is in the lead with the most blocks, but she falls off, so she's out. With an hour and a half done, it's down to James and Joshuah. Ryan hopes that Joshuah will win it and take him off the block, which seems about as likely as Matt giving Natalie daily massages. It's moot, however, because James wins it. "That's what you call a clean fucking sweep!" he crows. Ryan looks forward to "another week of hell." Yeah, I'm looking forward to about eight.
After the PoV competition, Sheila talks to Matt, Natalie, and Sharon about voting to keep her, and gets pissed off when Natalie says she'll have to think about it. Sheila goes to complain to Adam about Natalie's soft support, and he's typically noncommittal with her. She acts all offended and shocked that nobody has her back. Seriously, you guys, you came into this house to protect Sheila, right? Otherwise, what are you here for?
James plays pool with Matt and Adam, but he still doesn't know which one of them is lying to him about voting to keep him out after last week's eviction of him. Which is weird, because I thought they'd resolved this during Sunday's episode. I guess not.
Sheila makes a move with James, bitching to him in rather crude terms about Adam. James agrees with Sheila, because he's still got a pair of suspects. "Maybe one of them will leave because of it," James says.
James goes and wakes up Adam to summon him to the HoH room. James sits there with his hood of his sweatshirt up all Emperor Palpatine (the effect somewhat ruined by the cargo shorts he's wearing) as he tells Adam that people are throwing him under the bus. As for James, he's still not convinced that Adam wasn't the third vote. Adam protests so fervently that James is unconvinced, failing to take into account the fact that Adam always talks like that.
morning, James quietly tells Joshuah that he's planning to use the Veto, although he's not saying who his replacement nominee will be. When Chelsia comes out of the bathroom, he takes her out to the back yard to tell her that he's going to put Adam up for not voting him back in, but also for strategic purposes. Sure it's strategic. "I wish I could just fucking evict everyone," he adds, because he is four.
James and Chelsia head up to the HoH room to discuss possible scenarios: take Ryan off or Sheila off before nominating Adam? Fortunately, he decides to talk to Sheila first, to make sure he has her vote if he backdoors Adam. Using the guinea pig cage as a pretext, Chelsia "secretly" sends Sharon up to see James, and she makes a big show of pretending to go up there just to use the HoH bathroom. She sits down with James, and the idiot goes into this whole long preamble about how he's going to blow everyone's mind with what he plans to do at the most dramatic PoV ceremony ever! A bored, Sharon drones, "Well, you know Matt was the third vote to get you out of here." So now James is the one who's blown away, especially when he hears that Natalie is claiming to everyone that Matt was innocent of that vote. So James decides to take Sheila off the block and put up Matt with Ryan.
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When Chelsia returns, James tells her his new plan, which she says will make Natalie crazy. James remembers the deal with Natalie, but since Matt's been lying to him, "screw him." Chelsia looks like she has her doubts about James's plan. As usual.
Veto ceremony. Ryan feels defeated, and Sheila is her typical aggrieved/entitled self. James gives Sheila and Ryan a chance to speak for themselves before he announces his decision. Sheila says she's "protected people," and has now realized she needs to be in the game for herself. So let her stick around and do that, won't you? Ryan claims that he's tried to be honest, and he wants to stay. With that out of the way, James says that he's decided to Veto Sheila, who breaks down in tears as James gives her the medallion. He says that he nominated Ryan and is keeping him on the block to "return the favor." As for the replacement nominee? He names Matt. Only he doesn't say anything about Matt being the third vote; he just says he's decided to break up Natalie's alliance with Matt. I see James is still playing his cards close to his idiotic string-tie tattoo.
"He wins," Matt DRs, actually sniffling. Ryan feels better about his chances for surviving another week, since the only player people want out more than him is Matt. And Natalie is pissed. "God will avenge me!" she vows in the DR. But will He give her a massage? Sheila gushes about "what type of person James is," because to Sheila, the best "type of person" is the type who does nice things for Sheila. Until the time that type of person pisses her off. James gloats in the DR that he's getting his revenge, and he'll be happy about whichever one of them goes. That makes two of us, but then that's true for me every week.
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