Ryan brings us up to speed on Natalie's eviction: as it turns out, he and Adam agreed behind the scenes to split the vote between Natalie and Sharon, to put Sheila in the position of having to break the tie. "Why did you guys do this to me?" Natalie keeps whispering in flashback as she hugs everyone goodbye. Add one more thing to the long, long list of things Natalie doesn't get.
Ryan then gives us the best news so far: With Natalie's exit, Team Christ is now over and will never be resurrected. Every time an annoying alliance nickname dies, a recapper gets his wings.
Immediately after Natalie leaves, Sheila airs her irritation at having had to break the tie, but the fact that Natalie gave her cover by proclaiming her undying loyalty to the boys before the vote prevents her from building up a good head of steam. Which of course just annoys her even more. Sharon, meanwhile, expresses her astounded (and loud) jubilation in the DR at still being there after five nominations in a row. Is that a record? But all is not well: Ryan's got a post-eviction bone to pick with Adam. It seems that the two of them agreed to keep it a secret as to which one of them voted which way, and Ryan caught Adam whispering to Natalie that he voted for her to stay. And Ryan is annoyed. Adam denies everything to Ryan, but cops to it in the DR. Ryan, in turn, DRs that Adam will have to face repercussions for throwing Ryan under the bus. Dude, this "bus" everyone keeps talking about is going to need a new transmission soon.
Replay of Ryan's tiebreaker win in the HoH, after which Ryan looks forward to seven days of safety, Sharon remains confident in her secret alliance with Ryan, and Adam worries that Ryan's new distrust of him may play out to Adam's disadvantage. And of course, as soon as it's over, everyone starts accusing each other of knowing someone else in the game, due to that question in which Julie asked if it was fact or fiction that a preexisting relationship was still underway in the house. They all deny it in the DR, except of course the two guinea pigs, who squeak on the seat while helpful guinea pig-to-English subtitles read, "It's us, we're sisters." Shut up, guinea pigs. But Sheila and Ryan explore the theory that they're somehow long-lost relatives.
Later that evening, Adam and Ryan call Sheila out, saying something's up with her. She wants to go find the Bible right now, so everyone can swear on it, and of course her predictably overwrought reaction just makes Ryan more certain that something's fishy with her. Later, outside, he and Adam play mini-golf while trying to figure out how Sheila could be related to Sharon. Inside, Sheila and Sharon talk about who voted Natalie out. Sheila wonders who the renegade voter was, but Sharon claims to know. With Adam going in and out, Sharon and Sheila covertly discuss the vote that just happened. Sheila, naturally, is taking Adam's defection personally. And meanwhile, outside, Ryan and Adam talk about Ryan's power as the "biggest HoH yet." Ryan's glad he can nominate based on who he thinks is bullshitting him. Which makes Adam nervous, as intended.
Ryan's HoH room turns out to not have any pictures of Sheila with Ryan's family, much to Sheila's relief. Ryan reads his letter from Jen, in which she claims to be watching him on the live feeds 24/7, although in a nice way. Ryan is, in the manner of all HoHs, freshly motivated.
Adam decides to start talk like a robot for a while, just for fun. "Can you get any more annoying?" Sheila wonders. Adam keeps it up so long and gets on Sheila's nerves so much that somehow it actually comes around to funny. Hey, nobody's more embarrassed to admit that than me.
Sheila goes to Adam and gets him to promise to save her. Adam noncommittally agrees, and doesn't even seem impressed when Sheila claims she'd rather end her own game before Adam's. Try threatening him some more, Sheila. That always seems to work.
Up in the HoH room, Adam and Ryan discuss over Ryan's snacks what Adam said to Natalie before her eviction. Ryan still suspects Adam of telling her, "I voted for you," but Adam is maintaining that he only said, "What do you want me to do?" The editors have Ryan's back here, though, playing the relevant clip complete with subtitles under Adam. And those subtitles read, "I voted for you," even though the audio there isn't any clearer than with the guinea pigs. Ryan claims to believe Adam to his face, but in the DR he remains unconvinced and pissed off. And Adam is worried that he made a big mistake.
There's a "luxury" competition to watch a new movie, What Happens in Vegas with Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz. Everyone's just way too excited about this, and when they go out to the backyard and find out that the prize also includes getting to go to the premiere in L.A. on May 1, as well as meeting the cast and going to the after-party and all that, they're just about ready to stroke out. The players are broken into teams, with Sharon drafting Ryan and Sheila and Adam less than thrilled to be stuck with each other again. Ryan reads off the needlessly complicated rules, and they get ready to go. Since the game involves smashing candy-glass wine bottles over each other's heads to find rings inside, they all have to wear goofy wigs with helmets hidden inside. The smashing commences, with Sheila and Adam getting a touch too into it. When it's all over, Ryan and Sharon have six spots on the nine-spot game board and Adam and Sheila have only three. So now it's time to spin the wheel to see who wins. It's Ryan and Sharon, who are thrilled. Sheila, of course, is so put out she can barely speak. Which, if you've been watching Sheila this season, you know is pretty damn put out.
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When they go inside, they all sit down at their dinky new four-person table. Sharon, alas, seems to have abandoned her close-mouthed strategy in favor of hooting and howling all the time. I am officially no longer pulling for her if she keeps that shit up. Her voice is grating enough when she's speaking normally. Later, she and Ryan go outside for the movie screening, with the backyard all decked out like a drive-in theater, with cars for Ryan and Sharon to sit in. They watch the movie. I'm not recapping the clips, so forget it. And they don't end up making out like I'm sure the producers were hoping. Especially not after that letter from Jen.
Ryan calls Sheila into HoH to warn her that he's putting her up, but she shouldn't worry about it, since Sharon and Adam will be going after each other. Whatever that means in this context. Sheila wants to talk specifics: if she ends up nominated against Sharon, it's going to be up to Adam to make the final decision. And of course, Adam's two closest allies don't know what he'll do. They also agree that Adam kind of screwed them both with what he said to Natalie.
Sharon and Ryan make plans to talk secretly while Sheila's busy with laundry and Adam's busy with the Bible. Sharon agrees with everyone else that Adam isn't trustworthy, and encourages Ryan's complaints about him. Sharon says they just need to figure out a way for Ryan to nominate Adam with arousing suspicion. The editors are really trying hard to make it so it doesn't look good for Adam. Which of course tells me that things are looking pretty damn good for Adam.
As Ryan deliberates over his nominations, Adam worries about his words to Natalie biting him in the ass; Sharon is confident, and Sheila is feeling like the outsider. Which you'd think she'd be used to by now. Ryan says that he's just trying to figure out the best way to get to the final two as he loads up the key box with its one key.
Ryan calls the nomination meeting and hefts the key box up onto the new table, which isn't much bigger than the key box itself. Since only one person besides the HoH isn't nominated this week, Ryan pulls that key, and it's Adam's. Ryan claims that he kept Adam safe to reward both of them for the tough week they had last week. You know, all the stress of keeping everyone guessing and making sure they knew who was in charge. Sheila is fighting tears, and losing, because she loses everything.
In the DR, Sharon remains confident that she and Ryan can get her off the block together. Adam is worried that whoever wins PoV will basically be voting someone off, so his worst-case scenario is Sharon winning. And Sheila manages to dry her eyes to complain in the DR that not only is she nominated, she's shackled to Adam for 24 hours. She holds up the locked bracelet she's wearing, and another angle reveals that Adam is sitting in there with her. "Uch," Sheila says. Okay, that little scene was totally staged, but that was quite a convincing "Uch."
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