Julie's in a khaki Star Trek TOS dress as she tells us that last week's double eviction proved that anything can happen. Yes, all is meaningless chaos, strategy is futile and any plans are pure vanity. We know.
After the previouslies and credits, we're back in the studio as Julie reminds us that Amanda and Helen are running the house, Spencer and Jessie are nominated, but others had better watch their backs. That's so vague it's practically a Mad Lib. So then we flash back to last night's Veto ceremony, which HoH and PoV holder Andy failed to take advantage of. Andy Diary Rooms that everyone is in on his plan to boot Jessie save Jessie, and it needs to stay that way. So far it is, going by what Jessie says in the DR. Out back, she checks with McCrae and Amanda to make sure she's still the pawn, and McCrae assure her that she is while Amanda snoozes in his lap. Not that they'd tell her if she weren't, because she isn't and they're not. Still, Jessie thinks it might be possible that Andy is lying to her and not Spencer. Go back to sleep, Amanda -- you look worried.
Jessie has sensed a certain distance towards her from Helen and Elissa, and asks Andy about it. Andy says it's probably all part of the act to keep Spencer from panicking, and agrees to check in with Helen. Which he does, pulling Helen and Elissa into the storage room to tell them to have better poker faces. They agree to work on it, despite how wearying Jessie is. Like she hasn't been wearying all summer.
Later, Helen, Aaryn and Elissa sit around in the HoH room speculating on what Judd was up to. Jessie's also there, but she's not taking part in the discussion because it's all over her head, but when they talk about how Judd never campaigned against Amanda (because in the parallel universe they inhabit, Judd was both MVP and a brilliant mastermind who was after Amanda), Helen points out that maybe Judd recruited Jessie to do it for him. Man, they are giving them both waaay too much credit. Judd was like the Chauncey Gardner of the Big Brother house, while Jessie's the -- I don't know -- Matt Damon in The Informant. But he's gone and Jessie's not, so she invites Helen downstairs to play pool and asks her what that accusation was all about. Helen claims to just still be mad about Jessie's maneuvering against Amanda a couple of weeks ago. This quickly escalates, but Helen shuts her down quickly, because Jessie's gone anyway and she doesn't feel the need to deal with her, which I'm sure Andy will appreciate. IT also pisses Jessie off to the point where she says, "It's time to blow up her game." Yeah, the fuse has already been lit, Jessie, but not by you.
Jessie goes out to complain about all this to Spencer and GinaMarie. "This house is full of liars," she says. "It's a liar's den." Well, welcome to Big Brother, Jessie. This is a relief to Spencer, for obvious reasons, and Jessie tells GinaMarie that Aaryn complains about her all the time. She also says that she plans to blow everyone out of the water this week. Way to give it away. Not that GinaMarie is subtle enough to question Jessie's motives for tattling on Aaryn to her, even when Jessie just directly told her what those motives were.
Aaryn finds Andy and Spencer lounging in the HoH room, and they're all aware that "Jessie is going to try to raise hell." What they don't know is that it's already on its way up, in the form of GinaMarie. She mentions that Jessie didn't say anything negative, other than that Aaryn talked shit about her. Stupid Aaryn can't leave well enough alone and tells GinaMarie to drop it. Aaryn has this self-destructive tendency to turn into Veruca Salt and stamp her foot when she's on thin ice, which despite the labored metaphor is obviously a poor coping mechanism. Neither Aaryn nor GinaMarie seem able to stop talking, and it quickly escalates to a fight. Aaryn belatedly tries to remove herself from the situation by getting up and leaving, but it's too late and GinaMarie follows on her heels, trying to provoke her into a fight. At which she eventually succeeds, while Jessie smirks evilly from her bed in the night-vision cameras. GinaMarie decides to wake up the whole house to announce that Aaryn's yelling at her. "She's just gone insane," Andy giggles. Eventually everyone's in the HoH room so that GinaMarie can act like the reasonable one, wondering why Aaryn is "snapping like a little Chihuahua" when Aaryn just wants this to be over. And I think everyone else wants to be back in bed. So… way to get played by Jessie, GM. Do you not see her smirking at everyone?
Group Chenterview, which is as banal as always. Julie asks Aaryn a banal question about why there are so many fights lately, and Aaryn gives a banal answer. She also asks Andy why everyone was so emotional after the unanimous vote to evict Judd last week and Andy answers, "Because Judd's awesome." Okay, maybe he's less awkward and off-putting in person, then. Julie asks if anyone's safe, and Amanda says nobody should ever feel safe, which she does all the time. Julie then asks Helen a question on behalf of some random Twitter poster, about when people are going to start making big moves. Helen says they have. Yes, Judd and Candice were huge threats. And thanks, Julie, for demonstrating that the questions you're given to ask are so lame that literally anybody can ask a better one.