♪♪
- You're watching an extended episode
of "The Challenge."
Stay tuned after the episode
for some final words from our terminated agents.
- ♪ MTV ♪
- Previously on "The Challenge"...
- Let's go!
- Go Emmanuel.
- Whoo!
- The veteran alliance is still going strong.
Myself and the rest of the rookies
want to see it crumble.
- Check. - That's it.
- Losing today basically means
I'm 100% in elimination.
- It's no disrespect to Big T; I just feel like it's
my time to go down there and put my fate in my own hands.
Right now it'd be best for me to get a stronger partner.
- If you do not pick a rookie-vet team,
whoever is The Agency guaran-frickin-tee they're going
to be coming for your ass
to whoever does that.
- I do not take kindly to threats.
Ashley, I'm gonna come back and address this moment.
- I will send Priscilla down. - Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah, Priscilla, come on down.
Tonight you are playing, Race to Escape.
- Jeremiah and Priscilla, they make it look like they're
one person traveling up the pole together.
- Done. It's done, it's done. Let's go baby.
[cheers and applause]
- [bleep] yes.
- Well, Berna and Hughie,
I really hope we see you in the future.
- Good job, Berna. - Good job, Hughie.
- Buh-bye.
- Jeremiah, are you gonna stay together?
- I'ma have to do what's best for me and go with Tori.
- Tori, you've been stolen from Ed, come on down.
- All right, Terminator. - Priscilla.
- In deliberation, something was said,
and it seemed more like a threat.
I don't like threats. Joshy, come down.
- [gasps and cheers]
- Priscilla.
You have completely screwed everything up.
The vets war has officially started.
- Good luck. - Let the games begin.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[funky music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah, baby. - Let's go.
- Whoo! Yeah, buddy.
I basically [bleep]ed up their game.
I came out firing shots, stirring the pot,
unsettling the whole balance in headquarters.
So if I don't win this week, then my head
is on the chopping block.
I know trouble is already brewing.
- These girls are heated today, that little speech you gave.
- They're mad at me.
- You definitely shook up the house.
- You did.
- They're mad at me, but it's just like,
the vet wants the rookie to protect the vet,
but the vet is not gonna protect the rookie, so...
- Exactly. - Let the games begin.
- I agree. Let's go. - Let's go.
- Priscilla, she made one of the biggest
moves in the game so far, and now there is no
rookie-rookie team, so I think we might just be an easy
target to throw in the girl
that kinda ruined it all for us.
I'm honestly scared [bleep]less.
Ohh, who am I gonna cuddle with tonight?
[insects chirping]
- Well, I had no idea that was gonna happen.
- No, she definitely--I mean, I don't blame her, dude.
Like she's not wrong when she says the whole
house is gonna gun for her regardless,
like that's 100% what's happening.
So then she just threw a little bone in the plan.
Is it a wrench in the plan?
What do you throw, a bone or a wrench?
- Now all of the vets are scrambling.
because this week at headquarters,
a vet is being voted down into elimination.
I gotta give Priscilla credit, but even though
it was a boss move, it's gonna come with consequences.
- Yeah, how else would I know?
- [laughs]
- Let's not take away from what we've done here.
- I know. - All the vets came together,
bro, we've been running the [bleep]
out of this game. - [laughs]
- So, I mean, we gotta give ourselves a pat
on the back, 'cause we've been doing our [bleep]ing thing.
- We killed it, we killed it.
- I mean, like you said, now it's time to clock in.
All the vets can walk around here like we're
one big happy family.
But it is now time to get your troops together,
and be ready, because it's about to get ugly.
- Whoo! Let the war begin, baby.
- Ahh!
[bleep]
- [laughs] Yeah.
- Sit with your ex-partner.
- I'm a little depressed about it but...
- Yeah.
- This is what pisses me off, Cory goes to me and Kyle,
I think--well, he goes to me and he's like,
"Oh, I think that they're gonna pick you or Kyle,"
I'm like how do you know that?
He goes, "Well she told me." I said, "Really?"
- Me too.
- 'Cause what he said in the kitchen right now,
when me and Tori were talking, and he goes,
"Well, it's game on, it's been fun."
[bleep]ing dukes it up with me and Tori, I'm like...
- Yeah,
he keeps saying to me that like, it's not gonna last forever.
It's not gonna last forever, we might as well
just get the game started rather
than doing this whole rookie-rookie team.
- I think they're trying to get me in there,
that's why they did that.
Everyone thinks because I'm a two-time
champ that I don't need to win again,
but I do, it means so much to me,
I want to be a female with three wins.
I have been targeted by these vets for the past few seasons,
so I am so frickin' nervous right now.
and if we don't all--
- They've got flaky numbers.
- They have flaky numbers but
So what he did, he just protected all
the three rookies that he has, right?
And then that's when the shots are taken at us.
I'm not Cory's number one, I'm not his number two,
[bleep] he recruited Jeremiah, a rookie, before me.
So I think that now I'm starting to realize that
Cory's starting to become a bigger problem
than a lot of people think he is.
[funky music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
- So this is the game so far, right?
There's ten teams left.
I just broke it down into the three groups.
So basically what's going on is, it's Devin and his crew,
it's Big Brother, and then it's us.
Me, you, Jeremiah. We'll rock it together.
The people that I know are with Big Brother, Josh, Kaycee,
Nany, Emmanuel.
And in Devin's crew, it's Devin, Kyle, CT, and Ed.
In the middle is Logan; we don't
really know where Logan stands.
I mean, we're in decent shape.
I don't know what Devin's plans are,
I don't know what he's trying to do.
- We're just trying to put ourself in the best
position to win.
We gotta figure out what Devin's doing.
We gotta figure out what Josh is doing,
because those are gonna be the deciding factor on if
I'm the house vote, or if I'm not the house vote.
- Priscilla has so many targets on her back,
but I see Bettina probably going down before Priscilla,
because Priscilla is gonna be like,
okay, I've already been down there,
why don't--why don't you send Bettina?
If they make me the house vote, I'm going big.
- I get it.
- And right now is crucial, like you said,
we need to win so we gain control in this house.
That's the only way that we will.
- And we need somebody that we trust to win.
Spies, Lies, and Allies.
[funky music]
- You see the thing like, at least for me,
personally, I feel like it's hard to open up
and really talk game to people, you know, 'cause I have a lot
of good ideas, and I like to bounce them off,
but sometimes I don't get a lot of feedback.
And I hate when that happens, 'cause I almost feel like
I'm talking to myself sometimes here.
It's--it's tough.
[light music]
- You be trying to cut up on me.
- I know, I already don't mind saying your name in the chamber,
I don't mind hitting you down there.
- It's all good. - It's a good daily.
- But let me come back, let me come back.
- Try it, try me.
I kind of feel like an outcast,
because a lot of these people see me as a threat,
and I have a target on my back,
because I have won a final.
- You are the elite agents,
and you are also $900,000 richer.
- [screams]
I just feel so alone, and it sucks.
But I have my little safe space.
It's Jeremiah, so that makes it all better at
the end of the day.
It's good having you in here, though.
- Oh, you like me being with me?
- Mm-hmm. - Mm.
Mm. - Be quiet.
♪ ♪
- I just wanted to see kind of what moves you wanted
to make, because I know that you have a lot of power
in this house, you have a lot of people that are backing you.
And, you know, I include myself as one of those people.
- Yeah, and I genuinely-- believe me when I say this--
wanna see a veteran non-champion win this game.
So as far as like the house vote goes, I see a clear option.
- Ed and Ashley.
- The way I'm playing this game is veterans first,
and then veterans who have never won before.
I love CT, I don't wanna see him in a final.
I have mixed feelings about Ashley anyways,
and I don't wanna see her in a final.
So those two have big targets on their back.
It's nothing personal against her.
- Right.
- You got two rings,
you gotta earn it.
- Yeah.
- You should be fine, bro.
♪ ♪
- Looks like you have to keep your numbers really close.
So I made that you and Josh are really close, but like,
it's really important that you have conversations--
start having conversations with people.
And then I have also my partner, obviously,
I think the move that we have to make
is attack your partner.
Kill, kill, kill.
Everyone is fine, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine.
But I'm thinking about this challenge,
this elimination, today, today, today, today.
- Yeah, yeah.
Logan wants to plot against Cory and Nelson because
he doesn't believe that they are working with him,
and he also doesn't think that
Cory and Nelson want to run a final with me.
That puts me in quite a predicament,
however, I quite respect that gameplay.
- Don't keep her out too late Logan, I trust you.
All right, love you.
- Night, love you. - Night, ya'll.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, agents,
welcome to your next mission.
[cheers and applause] - Hell yeah.
- It's called Bombshell Battle.
- Ooh.
- Guys.
- Behind me, there's a giant crater
filled with mud, and different colored bombs.
There's one color for each team.
You and your partner are gonna start
at your detonation station.
When I say go, one partner at a time will race
down into that muddy pit, gathering one of their
colored bombs, bring it back, tag your partner,
they're gonna go down and do the same,
until you've gathered all four of your
colored bombs, at which point one of you will
race down and grab the silver bomb,
which is the most important bomb,
because that is the one that you need
to move on to the next round.
We're gonna continue this process
until there is one team left standing.
- [bleep] - Wow.
- The last team standing at the end with the silver bomb,
will win today's mission and become our Agency and be
the only team safe from elimination.
Got it? - Got it.
- All right, good luck. [cheers and applause]
- We didn't come here to play nice.
- Gonna get down, gonna get dirty and we're gonna
get this dub.
- We came here to play with balls today,
we're gonna [bleep] these other teams up.
We're big body team over here.
He picked me for a reason. - We ain't playing no games.
- No, we're gonna [bleep] somebody up today.
- It's our first time working together.
But I have no shadow of a doubt that we ain't gonna kill it.
I did make a few waves in last elimination.
Josh has a few friends in the game,
they're gonna try and help us out.
And we've just got the ability, I believe in us.
So I think we're gonna kick ass.
- If anyone gets in our way, it's game over for real.
Kill bodies, all the bodies.
Heads are coming off today.
Let's go.
[laughs]
- All right agents, you ready?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Whoo!
[air horn blares] - Go!
- [shouts]
- All right agents, you ready?
♪ ♪
Go.
- Bombshell battle, baby.
We gotta run down in there,
grab four bombs that are our
colors, get them back to our detonation station,
and then get the fifth bomb which is a silver one.
Now there’s only five of them. And there’s 10 teams.
So you bet your as it’s gonna get ugly in here.
- Ed throws all of our bombs over towards our side.
We are playing smarter, not harder.
- You know, I’m thinking I’m finna go in there,
I’m finna get the move and high-stepping.
Ah, ah. Man is muscle.
Then I’m sinking to the bottom.
I’m moving in slow motion at this point.
Ah. Ah.
- Grab the rope. Grab the rope.
- [bleep].
[all shouting]
- Come on, Cory!
♪ ♪
- Come on Big T. Come on, come on.
- Go Ed, go, go, go
- Throw it.
- Good job. - We are fast as hell.
I’m the first one to get the silver bomb and get it to
my station.
I’m happy about it.
- Come on Logan.
- Logan goes in and grabs that silver bomb.
Nobody’s touching him and we have done exactly
what we wanted to do.
- I was born ready, baby.
- [bleep].
- Get him Josh, get him.
- There’s only five silver bombs. There’s one left.
Six guys, one ball, a whole lot of problems.
[dramatic music]
- Ed tries to run behind me
thinking he’s going to be safe.
Wrong, eat that shoulder.
- No, no, no Joshy.
I want the bomb as well.
- Josh looks like one of those, like, spitfire pig roasts
with the apple in his mouth, in the middle of a
[bleep] Mud Pit.
- I need this silver bomb.
There’s no more rookie-rookie team.
The war has begun, we want to be the first people
to take the first shot.
- Go in there and take it from him.
- Go, let’s go.
- I’m pissed off because I’m looking
around and I see vets that I’ve been
playing and kind of protecting this whole game.
- Ed you’re choking me [bleep].
I swear to God; get the [bleep] off me.
- I’m the only rookie girl who hadn’t been in yet and
there is a chance that me, Cory will be in the household.
So Cory is fighting for his life,
he’s fighting for my life and it’s
more important than ever for us to win this time.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Go.
- Oh.
- That’s all I needed to see.
I had the gut feeling that I couldn’t really trust
Cory in this game and he just proved it to me
in working with a rookie against me.
- The vets all see that Cory is trying
to work with Jeremiah, AKA a rookie.
Oh my God.
It’s not a good look.
[all shouting]
- Obviously I’d prefer to have it myself,
but best off sending Ed and Ashley through.
I know I’m safe if Ashley wins.
Amanda’s our number one girl.
- [bleep]. - Yeah.
[air horn blares]
- I see who the [bleep] ganged up on me. Noted.
Bet, noted.
You got people that I’m thinking that are my friends
choking me out.
Putting a knee on my neck, kicking me holding me down,
one arm holding the other leg down.
And these people are--I played three seasons with them.
Crazy thing is I played loyal and I played a straight up game.
A lot of these mother[bleep]
don’t work like that and it’s noted.
Cory, Kyle, who else? I mean, everybody.
I don’t even know, it was like five,
six people on top of me the whole [bleep] round.
One thing I’m [bleep].
- Say my name, bruh. No, keep [bleep]
saying my name, bruh.
Because I keep hearing you say my name--
- I said I want to win, bro. - Yeah, so do I.
And I said one on one, let’s do this.
Then why are you still bitching about it?
-This is what I said, if you were by your rope,
I would’ve played defense and helped you.
- Cory knows he’s on the chopping block.
But let’s be real, Josh thinks he’s on the chopping block too.
Josh is partners with Priscilla,
so of course he’s gonna fight for his life right now.
- I’m going down there right now, I don’t give a [bleep].
- Me too. - Stop [bleep]
saying my name, bruh.
- You want to go down, we could go down.
There’s a lot more than just a Mud Pit in this
competition too. - I know.
It’s a final, something you ain’t been to,
so shut the [bleep] up, bro.
- Cory, calm down.
Josh has too many friends in the game.
Your ass is on the line.
You letting your anger get the best of you.
Stop before you put yourself in a hole you cannot
dig yourself out of.
- It ain’t nothing.
- Shut the [bleep] up, Josh, shut up.
- I said Cory didn’t look out for me.
- I want to win, bro. - So do I.
- What do you think I’m gonna do, just hand it to somebody?
I don’t care.
He had the [bleep] ball, so I go after him.
You think we’re down there playing patty cake?
- I'm glad to see your true colors, Cory.
- It's a competition, though.
I want it just as bad as you, bro.
That's why that competitive fire comes out.
- Same.
- All right, round two.
Emanuel and Kaycee.
Logan and Nani.
Devin and Amber.
Nelson and Big T.
Ashley and Ed.
Agents, ready.
[air horn blares] Go!
- There's a series of bonds and a giant pit of mud.
In relay race style with your partner,
retrieve your colored bombs,
get them back and then get a silver bomb.
And when things get physical,
I get the hell out of the mud pit.
- In this round, I do have Kaycee and Emanuel
with me, so it's nice because if Kaycee
happens to see my bomb anywhere near her,
she's throwing them close to me and vice versa.
- Ash is absolutely killing it out there.
She whoops ass this round.
We are miles ahead of everybody else.
- Go. Go.
- Hold the rope.
- Go.
- Go Kaycee go. Go Kaycee go.
- Go, go, go.
- Grab them all Big T. Grab them all Big T.
Go Big T, go Big T.
- You're in, you're in, you're in.
Silver now.
Amber's got to fight for the silver bomb.
And if she gets it,
we're in the next round.
[all shouting]
- No, no, no.
Hold onto it.
- This is my chance to get my hands on Amber,
wrap her up, throw her to the ground.
And then she literally sits right on top of me.
[all shouting]
- Nany I'm sorry,
I straddled your girlfriend.
Ha.
- [bleep].
If Ashley and Ed win this overall,
that is a target that is directly fired on my back.
I know Ashley's ass wants to see me in that Lair.
[cheering]
- Go, Big T!
[cheering]
[dramatic music]
[air horn blares]
- Woo. Yes. Yes.
- I didn't think anyone expected this from me, but surprised ya.
- You did work. You did work, baby girl.
- All right, third and final round.
We got Ed and Ashley. Nelson, Big T.
And Logan and Nany.
Ready.
Go! [air horn blares]
[cheering]
- Kill him, Nelson.
Get Logan.
I'm competitive, I want to win, okay?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Go Nany go.
- Oh my gosh, this is crucial.
If Ed and I do not win today's mission,
we're probably going into elimination
[all shouting]
- Go Nelly go.
Go. Go Nelson.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Come on.
[heavy breathing]
[panting]
- What are we doing?
- I don't want to let go.
- All right, All right, take it.
Take it, take it.
Listen, if you attack me now you're
not going to be safe, so protect me.
If you fight, not safe.
- What do I do?
Do I fight for my life? Or do I make a deal?
[air horn blares]
[cheering and applause]
- I definitely think that we owe Nelson a huge thanks.
That last move that he made allowed us to win.
So shout out to Nelson, we definitely owe you.
There is definitely going to be a lot of pressure
being the Agency but honestly,
I feel like I have done nothing this entire season.
So I'm ready to play this game.
I feel good that I finally won something.
- It was a fight, I always fight.
- [sobbing]
I don't really know what's happening right now.
This whole season, I really don't know what's going on.
And I'm just [bleep] playing numbers for everyone.
I'm just [bleep]
sick of coming in third place.
I'm such a [bleep] loser, [bleep].
- Congratulations Logan and Nany, getting it done.
[cheering and applause]
By winning today's mission, you are now The Agency
which means you're the only team safe from elimination.
Everybody else, you're in danger.
Go back to headquarters.
Deliberate and nominate one team to send into The Lair.
Agency, you will then choose
who goes against our compromised agents.
This should be very interesting.
[applause]
Get out of here.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- 'Bout time, Logan.
- Yep. - 'Bout time.
- Woo.
- Woo-hoo.
[cheers and applause]
- This is where we're at now.
I'm already having conversations with people to try
to get Cory as house vote.
You need two more votes, who are the other two that we could get?
Devin and Tori, I'll talk to both of them.
I'm gonna talk to both of them tonight.
- That's not gonna happen.
- You can't--you can't set your mind--
- It's not gonna ha--you're not--oh my God.
- Okay, are you gonna have some trust in me?
Let me try. - Okay.
- Let me try, you can't panic Ashley.
- Because I'm a two-time champ, I'm freaking out right now.
I am not ready to go into elimination, and I don't think
there's anything anyone can do to help me.
If you have a blow up in here--
- I'm not having a blow up,
you're just not thinking logically.
Like, that's what I said before.
I went in today, you're really not.
The past two seasons, I've had to deal with all of this.
And that's what I've been trying to tell you now,
this is why my ass is on the line today.
I'm telling you, these boys want me out.
It's not just the girls, it's the girls and the boys.
- I don't want you out, Ashley. - I'm not saying you, Josh.
- And also I'm going to do what I can
to protect and look out for you right now.
- Ashley is paranoid for no [bleep] reason.
Dude, it's gonna be fine. Just wait.
[Britney Spears' "Do Somethin'"]
♪ ♪
- Cheers. Cheers.
- To the greatest game the world has ever seen.
[cheering]
- ♪ I see you looking at me ♪
♪ Like I'm some kind of freak ♪
♪ Get up out of your seat ♪
♪ Why don't you do somethin'? ♪
♪ I see you looking at me ♪
♪ Like I got what you need ♪
♪ Get up out of your seat ♪
♪ Why don't you do somethin'? ♪
- How are you feeling? - I'm feeling good.
But obviously I know the step that I've made is very ballsy,
and comes with a target on my back.
- Look at me, okay?
Let me tell you something.
That's the same move I would have made if I was you.
Okay?
I know that she's concerned about the move that
she made at the last elimination.
But I think Priscilla needs to know
that I am not coming for her at all.
There's bigger fish to fry, and she can relax.
If your name is not thrown out tomorrow,
you don't go into that elimination.
Like, moving forward in this game.
Like, you got me? - I've got you.
Like, regardless of anything, and I respect anything that
happens because I trust what you want to do.
I've got you. - Good.
That's all we need to say. - Yeah.
- That's all we need to say.
- I really respect Nany.
And I really like her not only as a person,
but as a competitor, too.
And we have a general understanding.
But I just don't know if I can trust her.
- ♪ I see you looking at me ♪
♪ Like I'm some kind of freak ♪
♪ Get up out of your seat ♪
♪ Why don't you do somethin'? ♪
- I think we're in a good spot no matter what.
I think if me an Ash do go down, Agency 's probably
gonna send a rookie-rookie team down.
I mean, tomorrow we're gonna find
out for sure-- - Do you want to go in?
- I mean, not really.
- If you do, would you choose someone else if you came back?
- Taylor or Kaycee.
Don't tell anybody, but-- - I won't.
- [laughs]
- Hey guys, what's up?
- I was telling him, I was like, thank you
for being there for me this season.
Like, 'cause I'm trying to figure out, like,
I'm just like, no one's talking to me.
When no one talks to me I always.
You know how I get paranoid as [bleep].
- No one's ever talked to me, period, all season long.
Bitch, welcome to my life.
Like, literally, no one has talked to me about [bleep].
- Is that because we're in the champs club?
- Yes, welcome to the club, princess.
- I'm a little nervous right now.
I don't know what's going on, no one's talking much game to me.
It's hard being in here and being a champ.
And I'm starting to realize that winning the money
is not easy y'all.
I do not like this target on my back.
I really don't.
- These are my friends, I thought,
and the first thing when I come into the house,
they're like, get her out, get her out.
And I'm like, oh my God, like. - Yeah, that hurts.
- I'm not asking to stay to the end,
but like, just be honest with me.
- Yeah, yeah, I feel you on that.
- I'm so proud of you.
And I'm so proud of us.
I feel like we did so well today.
But honestly, I feel like right now, like,
as The Agency, we need to use our power wisely.
- Yeah.
I want Cory and Bettina.
If we put Cory and Bettina
I think the best option is Jeremiah and Amber.
- Honestly, I like that idea.
Because I--as much as I like Amber, I lost to her last season
in the final, because she's so good.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I’ve had conversations with people about
what we should do.
But what I want to make sure that we do is that we lock
those in today.
I need all the help I can get to secure that Ashley’s
the house vote.
Anytime you’re on the chopping block,
you want to have conversations with people.
So right now I’m gathering a couple people that I trust.
You got to try to get the numbers on your side,
and that’s what I’m trying to do.
I need help.
You know, I need you guys to do
what you do best and go and talk to people.
- I’m fine with doing this as a move.
♪ ♪
- If Amanda wants you to vote for Cory,
why wouldn’t you?
Why save Cory?
- I know Cory wants to swing big.
I don’t think he’s ever going to be able to
because he’s never gonna win a [bleep]
daily with Bettina.
And the best thing we can do for people that are going
to cause us problems long term is keep them with a
[bleep] anchor.
I definitely-- - I don’t see Ashley as
a bigger problem than Cory, though.
- As a bigger problem, I don’t know.
But she’s not trustworthy to me.
- I’m picking Cory and Bettina because they wanted
to swing big.
Let’s get something straight here, this team has
done nothing on this challenge to keep the truce.
If anything, they’ve hurt it.
Swinging big, protecting the rookies.
No, man.
You got my vote.
- We were all focused on this truce thing with the vets.
I feel like anybody associated with not
being a part of that--
- Come here. [laughs]
- What I’m saying is, if-- - Let me do a mini deliberation.
First of all, actually, I just wanted to talk
with you and Ed.
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind going to final with you.
I mean, I don’t think I could beat you.
I think it would be a very close game.
There are other people, Amber B, that probably I
would not want to run the final with.
But when it comes to the Cory-Bettina situation,
he told Josh that his numbers were Priscilla,
Jeremiah, Bettina and Nelson.
So that’s pretty much him working
with all the rookies there. - Yeah.
- I’ve heard rumors that Cory’s politicking to get me
voted in as the headquarters vote.
Well, payback’s a bitch.
I’m a politician, baby.
So I think he had a big hand an ending the vet [bleep],
so he could keep his numbers around.
- And I think that that is becoming really clear.
- And that’s gonna stand for something.
-And I agree with that, and I think that we all--
- This is the first time I’m hearing...
- That you’re hearing any of this?
- Any of this.
But now this does pertain to me as somebody
in the position of a swing vote but I am going to want
to hear it in there, in front of everybody.
I want to know if he’s lying.
And if he is lying, then [bleep] you,
you’re going in.
- Yeah, you did it to yourself, careful what you wish for.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Agents.
You have 20 minutes to plead your case
and target your enemies.
- Okay.
I made a promise to two agents here.
Mr. Ed and Mr. Nelson, you are safe, completely safe.
It’s very important to keep your promises.
If not, you are a piece of [bleep].
[laughter]
In my opinion, so you can relax.
- Yeah. - As far as our decision,
we still haven’t
come up with a 100% plan for tonight.
So I feel like there’s a lot that people want to talk about.
I’m just going to let you guys kind of take
the floor and do what you got to do.
- I’ll start off.
It’s no secret, you know, that our
name’s been on the chopping block.
I feel like it’s between me and Bettina,
and Ed and Ashley.
And so I just want to hit a couple key points.
I played this game for nine seasons.
I never once have made a sneaky deal.
I never once have backstabbed anybody,
and I’ve always kept my word.
And in this game that is the strongest currency.
When it comes to Ashley who can trust her?
She stole $500,000 from Hunter.
- This guy’s belittled me, put me down, slut-shamed me,
and also threatened my life and my family’s life.
I’m keeping the money.
- She’s playing dirty.
- He has made it to many finals recently
by playing a clean game because he sits in the middle
with wherever all the votes are going.
Let’s talk about our super alliance,
which is obviously dead and gone.
He was the only one who knew who Priscilla and Jeremiah were
gonna pick, did not let anyone know.
- He told me at elimination.
- But then after yesterday we all saw
he only wanted to throw the ball to Jeremiah
which is his friend, I understand.
But not only is he in his friends,
he’s also one of his numbers.
He also said his numbers would swing big with him.
- You came up to me and said
you wanted to swing big, so the--
- No, I’ve never said swing big.
I’ve never said--who am I gonna swing big for?
- Ash, we know how you play this game.
Just because now your back’s against the wall.
This is typical Ashley behavior.
If you want to sit there and question my character,
I have nine seasons to back up what I’m about.
- Only thing I’ve ever done to anybody was Hunter.
That’s the only time I’ve ever backstabbed anyone
in--not in this room in the game period.
I’ve never backstabbed anyone.
- You wear snake earrings around the house,
you love to proclaim that you stole that money.
- Oh my God, it’s a joke.
- You love that.
You wear that as a badge of honor.
- Okay, yeah. Well then, who did I snake?
Who did I snake?
Cory calls me a snake, which is absolutely
hilarious because he has no facts.
No proof of anything besides that he’s working
with the rookies.
- You wear snake earrings around the house,
you love to proclaim that you stole that money.
- Oh my God, it's a joke.
- You love that. You wear that
as a badge of honor.
- It's crazy that the decision to not split a million dollars
with my literal worst enemy has came back to haunt me so much.
Because everybody in this game tells me
they would have done the same thing.
- Yeah, she took the money from her partner.
But if you're going to use a decision she made
a long time ago in a game where it
doesn't apply, you're just reaching for straws.
- Can I interject?
Because no one in here that's undecided is
going to decide based off of personal attacks.
- Yeah.
- I just want some clarification because the big point is whether
or not there was any instruction or conversation
with Priscilla to keep a rookie-rookie team alive.
- I can clear that up. One thing I'm not is a sheep.
The move I made was only for my own reasons.
So let's pump the brakes on that.
I didn't speak to Cory about that at all.
I spoke to Nelson and told him,
are you okay with me switching partners?
- I'm not buying it for a second.
I can tell Priscilla's lying.
And that just solidified my vote.
- I mean, it's pretty clear all the vets work together.
We had this alliance, that's how we got to this point.
But when you snatch the ball from me and you hand it
to a rookie, we start to think--
- We got to stop [bleep] bringing up the Mud Pit.
He was attached to Tori, so if anything I was trying
to help Tori.
- The reason why I'm bringing it up,
we have to make a decision and when things like
that happen, it felt like where does that leave me?
- For the vets in this room, if you think I'm not playing
ball with you guys, that's ridiculous right now.
I have been all about this and I'm so [bleep]
proud to be a vet.
And I'm so happy that we have played this game
the way that we have.
- Then why did you throw the ball to Jeremiah?
- Because he was by my rope.
- Why didn't you throw it to Kyle?
- Because Kyle was playing with Josh.
- Kyle's a vet, Jeremiah's a rookie.
- These people are searching for bull[bleep].
They are picking every little thing because
they just don't want me in this game.
- Amanda, how can you sit here and defend Ashley?
You sacrifice yourself to go in for her and she
stole half million dollars from our friend
and she only sent you a [bleep] $500 gift card, that's it.
- Why are you mad about that?
- That's bull[bleep].
Because that's so selfish, you're the
most selfishest person to play this game.
Everybody knows in the room she'll say anything to anybody
to make it to another final.
That's why she's always eliminated
at the beginning of "The Challenge."
- Doesn't matter, she's my friend.
- She's your friend? - Yeah, she is my friend.
- A friend that gave you $500 after winning
a million dollars, how you can call that a friend?
- Nelson is so upset that Amanda put her ass on the line
for me one season, when honestly honey, you put
your ass on the line for Cory and what did he do for you?
Has he sent you any money?
Has he repaid the favor?
I think not.
Nelson, don't act like you're not friends with me
outside this game.
Outside this game, why can't I talk?
- Outside the game is different, you're a whole different person.
- But when you come into this game,
you put a whole different mask on, Ash.
- Okay, okay.
- And you know it.
- I know I'm on the bottom of many lists.
I'm not on the top of anyone's list besides this
girl sitting right here, so why in the living hell
would I ever want to end this what we had going?
- I know we can do this all day but my [bleep]
neck is on the line and I feel pissed off right now,
because I feel like people don't trust me
now and that really upsets me, yo.
- Agents, your 20 minutes are up.
Lock in which one team you want to compromise.
Choose wisely.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music continues]
- [snickers]
- All right guys, well, Bettina and Cory,
this decision is nothing personal.
It's a game. We love all of you guys.
- Best of luck, guys.
- Good luck.
[applause]
- I think Ashley is, I don't like her.
- Yeah.
- I don't believe anything that comes out of her mouth.
- Telling you, I don't want to hear that [bleep] Kyle.
Because you obviously do believe
things that come out of her mouth.
- Oh, shut up Cory, man.
- You're saying you don't believe anything Ashley said.
So why did you vote the way that you voted?
- I didn't.
- Bro, your lies don't work on me, brother.
- Oh, shut up man.
You want to talk about [bleep] lies?
You want to talk about being a bitch?
You [bleep] voted me in last season.
- Yo, watch your [bleep] tone.
Don't [bleep] call me a bitch, bro.
- What are you gonna do?
- I'm not gonna touch you because I'm smarter than that.
- This is why I don't [bleep] trust you.
Because every time anything goes wrong in here,
you bought someone, you jumped on that--
- I'm not going to anybody.
You just said you don't trust anything Ashley said.
You're the one calling me a bitch, bro.
I'm sitting here calm and composed.
- [bleep] off.
Whatever.
I have no loyalty to Cory and I don't give a [bleep]
about him going into The Lair.
I'm sick of being treated like a snake.
Because at the end of the day, everyone in here is a snake.
Everyone lies.
I just admit it.
- Shots fired.
Stop being friendly with these [bleep].
- How are you? - I'm all right.
- It sucks.
Like, I would love to stay with you but we can't do,
because then we'll have house vote next week too.
Because it's always advantage to just vote the same.
- She's the best. - Yeah.
- Yeah, but tonight...
[dramatic music]
- I'm a rookie.
Logan's got the power and he made a deal with Ed,
so it's more than likely going to be me.
- ♪ Woke up this morning, I feel so bad and important ♪
♪ I looked in the mirror, I'm different ♪
♪ I finally made a decision ♪
♪ All the rejected that lost the lack of respect in ♪
♪ Themselves 'cause people get hectic ♪
♪ They hurt you and make you feel helpless ♪
♪ They're not brave like you, they're too scared to do ♪
♪ Anything that's different, anything that's new ♪
- It will be a bit scary to go into
elimination but I also feel prepared.
I've been considered as a layup since day one.
That I this is something I can do.
♪ ♪
♪ This power is yours for the taking ♪
♪ This power is yours ♪
♪ Take it ♪
All right agents, welcome back to The Lair.
[cheers and applause]
I sent you back to headquarters to deliberate
and nominate one team to send into The Lair.
And in what was a very intense deliberation you chose
Cory and Bettina.
So Cory and Bettina, you are compromised.
Come on down.
[applause]
- Listen, I didn't leave my family
at home to come here and glide my way to a final.
I will prove to you guys why I'm the best and this is
just an opportunity for me to shake things up.
- Now we got to get you some opponents.
Logan, Nany, by winning the last mission,
you are now The Agency.
So Logan, we'll start with you.
Which man you want to send down?
♪ ♪
- Jeremiah.
- All right, and Nany?
- My vote is also going to be for Jeremiah.
- Okay, Jeremiah come on down.
[applause]
- All right, Nany, which woman you want to compromise?
- This person is beautiful inside and out.
- I'm preparing mentally right now.
It's like ripping a Band-Aid off slowly.
I don't like the feeling at all.
- When it comes to Bet,
it's like anything is on the table.
Anything goes.
So right now I don't know what to expect.
- This person is beautiful inside and out.
But she is also a "Challenge" champ.
So for obvious reasons, my vote is for Amber.
She whooped my ass in the final last season, TJ.
- I love you, Nany.
- What about you, Logan?
- Yeah, I want to keep the love together.
So Amber B.
- Amber, come on down.
- All right. [applause]
- Good luck Amber - Here we go Amber.
- This is great. Amber won last season of "The Challenge."
Cory came in second place.
Either way, a strong player is going home.
And in terms of me and my game, this is a good deal.
- All right, agents.
Tonight you're playing Hang in the Balance.
All four of you are gonna start on one platform
where your puzzle pieces are located.
And when I say go, you're gonna have to work
together to transfer all of your puzzle pieces from one
platform to the other over a very odd-shaped beam.
You will then build your puzzle.
First team to get it done will win tonight's
elimination round, and stay in the game.
Losing team is deactivated immediately and sent home.
Good luck. - Good luck guys.
- I can say that Cory, one of my close friends,
so it kind of sucks that we got to go down
against each other but, you know,
I know he gonna give it a hundred.
I'm gonna give it a hundred and you know,
may the best team come out and win.
- This is nothing new to me.
I'm 3 and 0 right now, let's get that fourth win in.
It sounds like some people are threatened by me
because of the final, but...
I'm ready to get that win. I'm ready to get back in the house.
I'm ready to make it to the final again.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Yeah.
[laughs]
- Everything can happen, it's 50/50, of course.
But I feel like this is something we definitely can win.
- We're going against a couple so I'm just hoping that
they have some problems along the way.
Hopefully they start to fight and hopefully we can
beat them tonight.
- My motivation tonight is that
people have always considered me
the weakest person here.
So I really want to prove people wrong
and I don't want to let Cory down.
- If you can solve that puzzle quick, I will.
[laughs]
- I'm the puzzle queen.
I am good at maths, okay? - Oh, God.
We'll see how this goes. - Yeah, I think we can do it.
- Come on guys. [cheering and applause]
- Let's go. - All right, agents, you ready?
[air horn blares] Go.
- It's that first step, guys.
Steady. - There you go.
- Balance it out. Balance it out.
- There you go, balance it, balance it.
[bleep].
- Okay, we have to take it slower.
- Okay, very slow.
- Take your time, take your time.
- [bleep].
- Oh. - [bleep].
- You got to hold on.
- I'll help you with those, from the top.
- Nice and easy, pass them to Bettina.
[intense music]
- It's okay if you have it closer.
- Let me get closer to you, and we'll go slow.
- I'm leaning back.
- Oh.
- Maybe take less if you can.
- This is harder than it looks.
Jeremiah is heavy, he's like two of me.
And plus we're two different heights,
we can't lock our arms like we want to and nothing's working.
- Try just one piece to start.
- Come on, go.
This game is so, wow.
No one gets it. Like, it's really hard.
- Nice and easy, just focus.
- There you go.
- Back, back, back. Back, back, back.
No, no, no, back, back back.
[bleep].
- Oh.
- You guys should be counting the steps together.
- Try looking deep into each other's eyes.
- Baby steps, don't rush.
- Jeremiah, don't pull me.
- Don't rush. - Slower.
-Amber's doing this long crab walk thing and it's not
the prettiest technique but it's working,
so kudos to them, they figured something out.
- Stop.
- Amber takes the lead.
She basically wears the pants in the elimination
probably like she does in their relationship.
And she's telling him what to do and he's listening.
- See how she's doing it?
- Yeah, let's try it.
- Good job.
- Me and Amber got it figured it out.
We've got a good thing going.
We know what to do, so let's go down here,
get these other pieces, and use the same strategy we just used.
- Good work, guys. Good [bleep] work.
- It's too much, that's too much of a step.
- Nice and easy, nice and easy.
- Amber and Jeremiah look like they're doing really well
but I can tell their strategy is not sustainable.
Being that low and causing that much stress on his lower
back is just not going to be able to hold up.
- There you go, you're almost there.
You're almost there.
- I'm worried right now for Cory and Bettina because
they're not getting the job done.
But you know what they say about elimination,
you never give up.
If one thing is not working, adapt.
Try something else.
- Hold it. - Yep.
- Hold it.
- Good job. - Yeah.
[applause]
- Good work, guys. - God damn.
- You're doing great, keep it up.
- After changing the strategy,
it was like we got new fight in us.
Like, this is it. We will take them.
- Stay up, Amber.
- I want this so bad.
I'm just a target and people are poking me
and they're poking me but I want to prove
to myself that I have everything
in me to come back into this game.
- Oh, Amber's [indistinct].
- Look at her legs.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- [groans]
- Amber looks like daddy longleg out there,
going from side to side.
But Bettina and Cory, on the other hand,
they cannot get it together.
If I was Bettina, I would have took that pole and hit Cory
over the head because I would have given up already.
This is honestly hilarious.
- Get up. Good job, guys.
[cheers and applause]
- Cory, you've gotta move.
- I'm too old for this [bleep], God damn.
- We are getting our butts kicked right now.
My back is hurting, my forearms are shot.
I can't even open my hand right now.
But I'm not ever going to give up and neither is my partner.
- Great job.
- Hold your position.
- Great job, Amber.
- You're almost there. - Good job, guys.
- They got one.
- Let's go.
- Get that last one.
Kiss me.
- The more you go, the harder this gets because
your body just can't take anymore.
My hands just start shaking.
I'm slipping because he's sweating and I can't get a grip
onto him.
- Bettina.
- My arms are so dead.
- Fatigue is getting to me right now.
You know, me having to bend down to hold
her up to balance me, it's taking a toll on my back.
- Take two if you have to.
- Guys, this is what do you trained for, let's go.
- Let's go, baby.
Focus, it's not over yet.
- My arms are on fire.
It feels like they're gonna fall off any second.
It hurts so bad.
- Breathe, breathe.
- Shake it off, Amber. - Shake it off.
- Go Cory.
- We finally hit a moment where we say, okay,
let's switch up our strategy
and let's hold each other closer.
This is all about communication and just being one as a team.
- Nine...ten...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yes, yes.
- You're rushing, stop rushing.
- Three.
- [screams]
- Good job.
Cory, put the pin in the thing now.
- Let's go, Cory, you've got the rhythm.
You know what to do.
- Bettina is a dancer so she started to make, like,
some dance, like, one, two, one, two with Cory.
- Let's do this.
Ready? - Yeah.
- [cheers]
- Come on, Cory. - Let's get it, brother.
- Nice and easy, now.
- Last trip.
- Go, Josh.
- Go, go.
Lean back, lean back.
- We got three more pieces, that's all we need,
but Cory and Bettina are catching up.
They're figuring it out,
so right now we got to get a move on.
- Breathe, Cory.
- Let's go.
- Cory and Bettina are down significantly
but out of nowhere, they got the rhythm,
methodically moving across this beam, trusting each other,
they got their balance in check and this is anybody's race.
- Focus and count. Focus and count.
Focus and count.
- You’re right there.
- Yeah!
[applause]
- [bleep].
- That’s the thing with eliminations,
you could have a fast start and you could be in the lead
but anything can change down there.
And Jeremiah and Amber are proof of it.
[cheers]
- [groans]
- Cory and Bettina are actually catching up.
Oh, my Lord, I did not see this coming.
- Okay so, these are in the middle.
- I like to take the back seat.
I know my strengths and I know my weaknesses.
And this is one of my weaknesses.
- C’mon, you gotta put it in the hole.
- Except my hands--
Like, both of my hands are shaking.
- I just know my body is giving out on me
and my mind is telling me something else,
so the two aren’t working together and it’s frustrating.
- So, could this one go in the middle?
- Good job, Bettina.
[applause]
- Good job, baby. - Let’s go.
[air horn blares]
[cheers and applause]
- Good job, Cory. Good job, Bettina.
- Good job.
- Bettina is impressing a lot of people tonight.
I don’t think anybody really knew what Bettina was
capable of.
Until now. She’s way better than we thought.
- I’m so proud of you, you kept fighting.
That’s what it’s about. - That was hard.
- Bro, you guys killed that.
- Well done.
- [cheers and applause]
- Wooo.
Feels good.
- For all those people out there that
want to yappity-yap-yap, guess what.
We just got it done.
I’m a puzzle king!
- Cory somehow managed to win a puzzle
elimination without ever touching a piece of the puzzle.
Not sure if that’s ever been done before, but it has now.
[cheers and applause]
- That [bleep] is hard.
- Everybody considered me as the weakest person
in the game and I just won against a champ.
Woo.
- Three hours and one arm gone.
But we’re still here fighting.
- Yeah.
- They better watch out because we’re coming back,
we remember that we were the house vote,
we know that people don’t want us in that house so we plan
on shaking things up, switching up teams
and hopefully putting a stamp on it.
- Jeremiah and Amber.
Unfortunately you lost tonight’s elimination round,
so you are deactivated immediately.
You gotta go home. Take care.
[cheers and applause] - Bye, guys.
- Jeremiah and I are gonna stay in contact
after this and I hope
that something great comes out of it because I really like him.
Best believe I’ll be back because I’m not done yet.
- I’ve done stuff, like, I would have
never thought about doing before.
I jumped off a 40-foot cliff, man.
I conquered my fears here.
We gave it our all, we left it out there on the field,
so I’m not mad at it.
I came up with Amber.
So, you know, that’s a win for me.
- Cory and Bettina, congratulations,
you win tonight’s elimination round.
[cheers and applause]
- Good job, puzzle queen.
- That was awesome. - Just a couple of badasses.
You were way, way behind, came back and got it done.
That was impressive.
So now, by winning tonight’s elimination round...
- TJ, go ahead and ask me, who do I want as my partner,
because I’m about to shake it up.
- I’m hoping that Cory does not pick me.
I’m hoping that he picks Tori.
- If Bettina picks me, it’s gonna be short-lived.
I’ll make damn sure of that.
- You can rejoin the group.
Yeah, rejoin the group, go ahead.
- What? - What?
- TJ, what do you mean, go back with the group?
- I won’t--what? - Just go ahead up there.
- TJ, you definitely skipped the whole stealing part.
You know, when you win elimination,
you get to steal a partner, that part?
- What is going on, my man? What is the game plan here?
- It’s a prank. - No, it’s not.
- Oh, [bleep].
- But I don’t have a partner.
- I don’t have a partner right now.
So, like, does that mean that, like, we’re gonna pick new--
I have--I have literally no idea what’s going to happen.
No clue. I--and my brain is just bleh.
- [laughs] - Holy [bleep].
- Something is going on.
- Is it good? Is it bad?
I don’t know.
- What’s going on, brother?
- All right, agents.
In this game, you have to be prepared
for anything that comes your way.
I’ll see you soon.
- What?. I don’t--what?
- Oh, no.
- Oh, my God.
[chatter]
- Time and time again, this game has
taught me that I don’t know a thing.
- My heart can’t take it.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs] We had something good going at first.
Um, but you know, that fatigue starts hitting in,
and you know, the hands start losing feeling.
It’s hard to grip,
so we just couldn’t pull it off.
Sucks right now, but, you know,
we left it all out there on the table, man.
- Yeah, I mean, he was slippery.
I had to kind of put all my weight down.
He’s a big guy, I realized. [laughing]
All that weight, I cannot handle.
But we gave it our all. We did not give up.
I’m happy Cory’s going back into headquarters,
so it is what it is, you know? I’ll be back.
Kiss me.
We’re still getting to know each other.
I like him a lot.
Oh, my God. - [laughs]
- [chuckles] We did our best. - Yeah.
both: Ah. - Mm.
- I don’t think we’re playing teams anymore.
- We have some people who are partnerless.
We don’t know what is going on at this point.
- Now, I’ve told you time and time again
be ready for anything at any time.
Agents, it’s time to adapt.
- I’m expecting some kind of news.
- From now on...
[together] Oh! - I am shocked.