After Renny's nomination of Jerry and April, they both take it differently. Jerry talks about how he was in the Marines at 17 and big boys don't cry, and all that macho bullshit, while April emotionally admits in the Diary Room that it stings a little. Guess which one of them I believe? Ollie's just glad that he succeeded in convincing Renny not to put the two showmancers up against each other.
Dan is disappointed enough in the nominations that he suspects Ollie made a secret deal with Renny. In the storage room, he and Memphis realize that if Ollie or April wins this week's Power of Veto competition, Renny is likely to put up either Memphis or Dan. Too bad Dan throws all his competitions. Or "throws" them, as the case may be.
Ollie's already thinking one step ahead, assuring a tearful April that if he wins PoV, he'll save her. Well, duh. Ollie tells her not to get down, and she tells him that she's only looking sad for everyone else's benefit. They almost get into a whisper-fight over it, but it's done quickly. Too bad.
Keesha comes to visit Renny, trying to figure out what she's thinking. Keesha's got those annoyed-ears she gets sometimes. She needs to work on not doing that. Renny just says she likes Ollie, and Keesha nervously DRs that depending on who wins the PoV, Renny's replacement nominee could be Memphis, Dan or even Keesha herself. And Renny doesn't help any when she tells Keesha that people shouldn't feel overly safe.
Jerry lies in bed talking to himself. That is all.
Time now for the PoV drawing. Of course Head of Household Renny and nominees April and Jerry are in by default. Renny draws Dan, April draws Keesha, and Jerry draws Ollie, much to the apparent pleasure of both him and April. Renny appoints Michelle as host, and April and Ollie dash right off to celebrate the results of the drawing like they've already won the PoV. Don't get too comfortable yet, you two.
And Memphis and Dan sit with Keesha and complain about Renny's nominations, and how it has created the possibility of a worst-case scenario where Ollie wins PoV. Memphis is completely over Renny at this point. Keesha's going to have to choose between them before long, and I have to say I don't see Renny winning that match-up. Unless "winning" means "having Keesha ditch you," which I am not necessarily ruling out, mind you.
For the Veto competition, the houseguests go into the backyard at night and find it totally Halloweened out. Of course, the scariest part to Ollie is the big fake crow. Michelle is wearing a reaper cloak and red dye and fake cobwebs in her hair as she instructs the PoV players to examine the setting for five minutes. When the time's up, the six PoV players take position behind podiums as Michelle explains that the goal is to earn three points, which they'll do by guessing amounts of different stuff in the yard. There's some unnecessarily complicated stuff about staying and folding, but the surprising thing is that the phrase "without going over" doesn't seem to play a part in this competition. Heads will roll, I'm sure.
The first challenge is to estimate the length in inches of the giant python in the yard (alas, it's in a tank, and thus will not smother anyone). After everyone shares their guess, and they all get to hear each others', each player has the option to stay or fold. Only Jerry and Renny stay, and Jerry wins the point while Renny has to drop out. Then they have to guess the total number of pins stuck in all of the voodoo dolls of the houseguests. My guess: "Not nearly enough." Jerry, April, and Keesha stay on their guesses, but Jerry's the closest and he's got two points. The good news is that April's guess is the wrongest, so she's out, leaving only Ollie playing for her. On the question, they have to guess how many giant cockroaches are inside a black box that Keesha declined to stick her hand into during the preparation phase. While we wait for the bids to be written, Dan DRs that this is a good time for him to quit throwing competitions, lest someone else win PoV and he winds up as a replacement nominee himself. You think?
Keesha, Dan and Ollie stick with their bids, but Jerry has enough of a lead that he feels safe folding and letting someone else get the point rather than risk elimination. Which is too bad for him, because he would have been the closest. Dan wins the point, and Keesha's out. they have to estimate the volume of blood in various containers on a table. Dan DRs about reading his competitors' tells, and when he stays and they both fold, he wins his second point by default. Ollie's feeling the pressure, with April's forehead in its angry-Klingon configuration and pointed directly at his zero-point-having ass. For the question, they have to guess the number of nails in a bed of nails. All three players stay with their guesses, but Dan's the closest, so he wins PoV. Jerry regrets having been one "stay" from winning it, and Ollie is also feeling bad about letting April down. Uh, April lost too there, champ. She DRs that she'll do whatever it takes to get Dan to save her. Dan DRs that Renny "messed up" the nominations, and now he might have to use the PoV to fix it.
At bedtime, April and Ollie lie in bed whispering about what they're going to do to secure Dan's veto of her nomination. April recalls the $5,000 in gold bars she has from her share of the $10,000 prize in a PoV competition from a few weeks ago, which she decides to offer to Dan. "Jerry's going home," Ollie assures her. Of course they don't know that Dan already has his 20 grand in America's Player money. And didn't Jerry get a share of that as well? He might just offer Dan thirty pieces of silver, and then all bets are off.
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In case you missed it, Dan is considering using the veto on Jerry in order to force Renny to put up Ollie. He's failing to take into account the fact that Renny kind of has it in for Memphis as well. But in any case, he decides to have a private meeting with Jerry in the storage room to find out if Jerry still hates him and plans to take him out the chance he gets (which will be never, but Dan is nothing if not a careful player). Of course now that Jerry's on the block and Dan's got the PoV, Jerry apologizes for the things he said last week and throws himself on Dan's mercy. Dan is seriously considering turning his one remaining enemy into a friend. Which sounds like a good idea, if he doesn't in the process turn a friend into an enemy. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Later, Dan and Memphis discuss their move, and they agree that Ollie needs to go, if only for their own protection. Good luck with that.
Dan has decided that it's time for a haircut, so of course he goes to the alleged hair salon owner in the house. Yikes. Can you imagine anything worse than having access to one hair stylist, and having it be Renny? But she just wants to come at him with the clippers without talking about what she's going to do first. He prays while she cuts until she threatens to "scalp the crap out of [him]." Maybe it would have been a good idea for Dan to at least wait until she wasn't HoH any more. But he's happy with the end result, and we can start being distracted anew by the gelled-up breaking-wave look he keeps showing off in the Diary Room.
The smaller dining room table has been moved in, which has the typical banal yet profound effect on everyone save Renny. Referring to the old, larger table, she unsentimentally says, "It was a bitch to dust." Hear, hear. Although if it was getting that dusty, maybe they aren't eating often enough.
April makes her approach to Dan while he's lounging in the pool. Not sure what's been taking her so long, unless it was just the editing. They talk a little about his contentious history with Jerry, and April says that if he uses the veto on her, he'll have the benefit of having two people watching Dan's back (her and Ollie) which is better than just one (Jerry). I guess that all depends on how many knives Dan wants in there. April makes a clumsy offer of some cash, and then Dan goes off-script by coming out and asking if Ollie and Renny made a deal. Taken off-guard, April says she doesn't think so. It's weird to hear her being both truthful and correct at the same time. Anyway, Dan says he'll think about it. I think he has a macro for that at this point.
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But before Dan makes a decision, he tells Memphis that he needs to talk to Renny first about who her replacement nominee would be. When he visits the HoH room, he keeps clanging his PoV medallion against the edge of her glass tabletop as he sits down. He starts by asking if she made a deal with Ollie, and she rather coldly says it's just that she likes Ollie. Dan asks her what she'd do if he took Jerry off the block. Renny acts like she never even considered the possibility, and the only answer she gives is, "I'd probably look at you as a traitor." Dan warns her that she needs to start thinking about who she can trust, and she says she trusts Dan -- to keep the nominations the same. But she's giving him this scary, threatening glare that says, "I can always reset my clippers to 'carotid.'"
With the PoV ceremony coming up. April's worst fear is seeing Jerry vetoed and Ollie put up in his place, which she thinks would certainly result in her eviction. Jerry dares to hope that what might happen is just that. Dan calls the veto meeting and lets Jerry go first in his defense. Jerry basically says "I'm old, I have illusions of myself as a street fighter, I'm sorry I called you Judas." April says that she respects Renny's nominations, and doesn't expect Dan to use the veto. That is actually a brilliant strategy on April's part -- if Keesha had the PoV. Before making his decision, Dan says how much he appreciated each of them coming to him to talk. Especially the money offer. But he is...not using the veto.
Afterward, Dan DRs that he used the veto ceremony to make people paranoid about the whole money thing. Jerry says something about being in the eye of the storm. Ollie DRs that since his plan to de-nominate April didn't work, he's going to have to get to work on saving her from the eviction vote. April herself is realistic about her chances for staying, and has a plan all ready to go: "I'm going to be a total bitch!" Wow, you think she can pull it off?
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