Hubris and the Head of Household competition proved to be a deadly combination for Matt as Britney grabbed the wheel of the HOH bus and drove it in the direction the fractured Brigade dictated—directly over him.
Last week Matt had the Diamond Power of Veto, but rendered it useless by wasting it on Kathy. This week, he threw a key HOH competition despite knowing his secret alliance members, Enzo and Hayden, were openly pushing for him to leave. Rather than credit Matt for their invincibility up to this point, they feared him as a winner and determined him a threat. Matt’s “diabolical super genius” should have kicked in and outed the Brigade, but his arrogant allegiance to them led him to believe he still had safety in numbers.
Leading lady Britney stood poised to finally evict the remnants of Brenchel and send Brendon packing. Enzo, up as a pawn and Brendon her target, she made her nominations. While Matt was smugly taking credit for orchestrating this week’s planned eviction, his Brigade turncoats brought Lane into the fold and were busy devising the Brain’s backdoor.
Lane approached Britney, but she was not too keen on his designs to get Matt out. Brendon remained her mark going into the Veto competition and she wanted everyone on board with her plan, but soon found out it was every man for himself.
In a game of reward vs. punishment, Hayden and Lane took the prizes. Britney’s HOH wishes be damned. Essentially the Veto went to the player willing to endure the worst punishments to become the winner. Not surprisingly, the two players on the block sacrificed the most. Enzo donned a Penguin suit and donated all of his clothes to charity. Brendon, not to be outdone, decidedly won by shaving his head, taking rancid chum baths every hour for 24 hours, handcuffing himself to another houseguest (Britney), and choosing to live three weeks as a Have-Not.
With Brendon off the block, it cleared the path for Lane to convince Britney to put Matt in that empty seat. Britney was easily becoming the Brigade’s puppet, but Matt tried pulling some strings of his own by gunning for his best friend Ragan. His attachment to the Brigade destroying his one true partnership in the house, Matt repeatedly threw Ragan under the bus Britney was no longer steering.
As reigning HOH no longer at the reins, Britney needed some help. Promising advice from a former houseguest, Pandora’s Box arrived just in time, but no strategy was included. Instead, Jessie Godderz from the past two seasons exploded into the room amidst a cloud of confetti announcing, “That’s right Britney, Mr. Pectacular is here!” Britney reluctantly got a gun show complete with work out tips, but if she had received a game hint; it should have simply been, “Open your eyes.
