Previously: Susie had a plan to get the Life Shield, and sent Rachel into the Inferno against Jenn. Jenn pulled off an upset victory, and I do mean "upset," as Rachel had a hiccupy-sobbing meltdown and ran away without even saying goodbye.
Post-Inferno. It's smash-cut-tastic drunken-montage fun times courtesy of Ace's toxic orange punch. And Ace's blurry ass, which is a centimeter of crack away from getting an agent and a walk-on in Entourage. Danny voices over disparagingly about the "drunken idiots in the house" -- over footage of himself, floating in the pool with one of his bafrillion douchey fitted caps on, carefully protecting his beer from chlorine contamination. Shut up, Danny.
Fast-forward to 3 AM and Ace, Johnny Bananas, and Danny deciding to "fuck with" the girls. Ace is singing Air Supply to Susie, apparently (we don't really hear that, more's the pity), and shaking her bed, and she's like, "Get out. ... Seriously, get out! ... FUCKING GET OUT!" but he won't, so she hits him in the face. She doesn't seem that fussed about it in the interview -- she needed to smack him, she smacked him, he left, done -- but the morning (or later, it's hard to say), Cara and (especially) Colie get all screamy about bad touching and privacy, and Bananas is like, "Whatever, don't go on this show if you don't want to get harassed by asshats." This is both an excellent point and completely beside the point at the same time. Well done, Bananfucius. Ace is put out that Susie cuffed him; Timmy tries to broker a peace between them, to not much avail.
The commercial break includes a Real World promo in which Colie makes out with every dude in Colorado. What're you trying to say, MTV?
Challenge time! It's another needlessly complex task involving starting a fire, which will then burn through a rope, which will dump the opposing team into the water from a platform, but to start the fire, the teams have to collect their supplies from another platform which is also in the water, while the team members on the platform try to dump water on them to soak the supplies. The Challenge itself is rather dull to watch, but it sets in motion our two "story" "arcs" -- The Redemption Of Ace (described by both others and himself throughout the episode as, well, something of a disappointment performance-wise), and The Continuing Suckage Of Danny (explicitly referred to by Kenny, who's like, "We listened to you on the battering-ram thing, and we lost, so simmer").
Swimming. Supply-collecting. Hapless attempts at fire-starting. Both teams finally figure out that they should rub steel wool on a battery to get some sparks going, but although Danny suggests it to the Bad Asses first, it's the Good Guys who get it going and win the Challenge, thanks to Ace. While Danny stomps around pissily post-loss, Ev interviews that Danny's "leadership" is more like bossiness that doesn't work.
Inferno deliberations. The alleged strategies in play here are always kind of obscure to me, divorced as they often are from reason and sense, but the upshot is that the BAs are picking to win the Inferno, while the GGs are picking to win the whole shooting match by taking out a strong BA guy. So, the BAs pick Davis, because he seems easy to beat, and the GGs pick Danny, because it will leave a power vacuum at the top. Nobody listens to Danny, and the team hasn't won dick since like the first episode, so I don't know why you don't send someone less obviously ineffectual, but whatever, that's the play.
Danny is pissed because he thinks the GGs think he's not a threat; he isn't, but the GGs don't think of it that way, which Ace tries to tell Danny, but Danny isn't buying it.
Ace and Susie patch it up. Ace admits he probably had a whap coming because he's "not very good of a singer," and he pronounces it "sing-ger," which is cute. ... Oh, leave me alone. He'll be gone soon, he always is.
Meanwhile, Danny is insecure some more to Johnny Bananas while shoving some kind of meat-stew-looking chunks of something or other into his roidhole and talking with his mouth full. Bananas looks bored while VOing that Danny is admitting defeat before he even gets into the Inferno with that attitude. Shut up, Danny.
week, Danny is calm and gracious. ... Obviously not. Danny is a pissy drama queen about not wanting to lose anymore. The teams flail around on a climbing wall. Aneesa looks dumbfounded by something.
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