♪♪
- 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,"
the house gets turned upside down.
[dramatic music]
- Today's mission is called Undercover Comms.
- Let me off!
- Go! [air horn blares]
- Nany's really good.
I'd really love to have her as my partner.
- [yells]
- Fastest overall team is Fessy and Esther.
Congratulations. [applause]
- I would like to be put against people
who haven't really fought because we have.
- I agree with Michelle. - Corey L and Michelle
can try their very best in this deliberation,
but, honey, us vets are gonna stick strong.
- Fessy lets me know that Amber is one of his targets
this week, and I think that this is
the dumbest move that this kid can make.
- All right, agents. Welcome back to the Lair.
You chose Corey L and Michelle.
Let's go. - Let's go.
- Esther, which man do you want to send down?
- Hughie. - We're going with Hughie.
- All right, Hughie, come on down.
Which woman do you want to send down here?
Unfortunately, it's Amber B.
- Y'all see the biggest snake in the house right now?
Y'all see it?
- Esther? - Amber.
- Okay. So, Amber, come on down.
- I don't think these people know what a damn alliance is.
- You're gonna [bleep] up your number one game,
you [bleep] idiot.
- This is what happens when you're [bleep] someone.
- Tonight, you're playing Down To The Wire.
[air horn blares]
[cheering] [air horn blares]
- Corey L, Michelle,
this ends your time here on "The Challenge."
- Love you, Michelle. - Amber, Hughie,
do you two want to stay together as partners?
- No. - No.
- All right, Hughie.
Which agent do you want to take?
- Nany. - [chuckles]
- Now, Amber?
- Devin. - Yeah!
- So, Ashley, Josh,
and Emy and Gabo, now you two are partners.
- I'm screwed right now.
Me and Emy, we're both rookies.
We're gonna have a big target in our back.
- Josh is mad at me.
I took a shot at Amber. So now she's pissed off.
- Fess just turned an ally into his biggest enemy.
[electronic beeping]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Crushed it.
- Amber, bad ass! Get in there, babe!
- Whoo! - Yeah!
[all cheering]
- I got Devin!
- Hell yeah. - Oh, Hughie! Oh!
- Amber's pissed.
Even if she knew her name was floating around,
she didn't actually think Fessy was gonna pull the trigger.
And to be honest, Esther has no relationship with Amber.
So this was easy for her.
This is just how it happens sometimes.
Oh, she left you a love letter.
- "You danced with the queen, so you can do anything.
[bleep] it up for me, baby."
- Aw.
- First day without Michelle. I feel like a widower.
- Are you okay? Are you all right?
- Yeah, I'll be fine.
- You told her you loved her.
Did you tell her to her face though?
- No.
- So you just screamed it at her when she walked?
That's like a hard thing for a woman to live with.
- I know. - Okay.
- For me too. - I'm sorry. Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine. I'll be fine. - Okay, come here.
- I honestly don't believe that Michelle and Emanuel
were in love.
I mean, everyone needs a good cuddle every once in a while.
But no, that's not gonna last.
I'm sorry, that's tough. I know how it feels.
- I mean, Emanuel's cute, you know?
That's all I got to say about that.
- I just wanted to make sure you're okay.
- I'm okay. I'm fine.
I'm just feeling like the game just started for me.
- Yeah. - 'Cause I was with you.
I was safe, you know?
I really want to win "The Challenge."
I want to help my family so bad.
And above that, I want to buy sports cars, watches,
and I just want to party all day, all night.
Now I'm in danger, and I love this feeling,
you know, because I have two moods...
- Yeah. - Good vibes and gladiator.
To keep on the good vibes,
sometimes I have to be gladiator.
- I know.
The fact that we are going our separate ways for now,
it makes me a little sad.
He is now the rookie-rookie team,
and he knows that he is next on the chopping block
because of the veteran alliance.
- You happy for Hughie?
- Yeah. He did really well, so--
- Yeah, he proved that he's good.
And Emy's strong. - Good.
- The show must go on, baby.
- [laughs]
- I swear on everything that I love, Amber,
I tried to look out for you, I tried to stop this.
- I'm the most loyal person here, Josh.
- I know you are.
- This is why I didn't want to work with "Big Brother"
because I literally am always
at the bottom of the barrel of y'all.
- My plan, moving forward, I feel like I just don't need
to be so naive and just dumb anymore.
A lot of people didn't want to see me back.
Heh, joke's on you.
You just put a fire in my ass.
To me, this isn't an alliance.
- Amber, I don't know where she went wrong in her life
or why she feels like the way she feels all the time.
I mean, understood, you feel lonely,
ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
Like, Amber, calm down.
- Listen, he [bleep] up my game.
It's like, are you an enemy or are you a [bleep] friend.
I think the biggest mistake I made was trying
to protect Fessy's game and not telling Amber
that she was possibly gonna be thrown down.
There is no "Big Brother" alliance anymore,
and I'm out. I'm checked out.
He has three [bleep] things to say to me.
And it's, "I'm sorry. I [bleep] up."
And literally, he's gonna do right by me
or I will be his biggest [bleep] enemy in this house.
- Yeah, same.
[thunder rumbling] [rain pattering]
- She never even talked to me once
until when I mentioned to Josh that I might say her name.
Now all of a sudden, I'm the [bleep] bad guy.
- You made the best decision for you.
- And he doesn't understand it.
He thinks because, like, I looked out for myself,
that's a direct shot at him.
- Fessy made the first shot. He took a shot at Amber.
Amber's technically a vet, and I think the war's on.
- Well, he put me on the spot.
- He expects, when you win, to do what's best for his game.
When in reality, that's not what's best for your game.
- If he's supposed to be looking out for me,
if she's not benefiting my game,
and I'm supposed to be your [bleep] number one...
- Yeah. - Then why do you want her
in the game if it's gonna hurt me?
- Exactly. Exactly.
- He's trying to just sit too pretty.
Where is he? - Probably in the pool house.
- Well, ask Tori.
They're having a [bleep] "Notebook" moment.
[thunder rumbles]
- Yeah.
- I don't understand why Josh is putting his game
on the line for Amber. I don't trust her.
And I just don't like how she moves in this game.
- And it'd be one thing to be upset, but, like, to blow
that [bleep] up, I don't know.
- Hopefully, you guys can hash that out.
- Even though I know it's better in the long run
if I go to Josh and apologize for hurting his feelings
or feeling like his voice wasn't heard,
I don't feel like I have anything to apologize for
because he's the one who blew up my spot.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- No, we're just friends who share.
- Here you go, princess.
- Oh, thank you.
- Like that. Good.
- It's good. So good. - Okay.
Boom, boom.
- Yes, I enjoy rolling around the grass with Logan.
I mean, have you seen Logan?
Of course, I'd like things to go further romantically.
Get your head out of the gutter.
But yeah, I think Logan likes himself some Big T.
I'm gonna be an assassin after this.
I want to attack everyone in the house.
- I spend a lot of time with Big T
because I really love her personality.
It's so fun. It's very, very nice.
- There's never been this much romance
in "The Challenge" house.
Everywhere you look, there's a couple.
And I'm over it. Where's my person?
- Oh! [chuckles]
- So we're partners now. - Yes!
- I'm really, like, flattered that you chose me as a partner.
- Thank you. - I did not see that coming.
I swear to God, Hughie,
I literally had no idea that that was gonna happen, so--
- Yeah. I was just a bit worried actually.
I just didn't want anybody to be like, "Oh, [bleep],"
because I've freaked out a bit on some of the challenges.
- You're good, Hughie. - Thank you so much.
- Like, I've seen you show up in every single challenge.
You may have freak outs here and there,
but, like, you get the job done.
- I think Hughie picking Nany is a smart move.
She obviously knows what she's doing.
And I know she's got good connections with kind of
all the vets in the house, so you get a strong competitor.
But you also get somebody who's, like, solid,
that's going to be there.
- You have what it takes. - Thank you.
- No more freak outs
and just do what you do and you can compete.
- And I promise you, I'm not gonna let you down.
I have to make sure that me and Nany work really well together.
I really listened to her
'cause I didn't always listen to Ashley.
And I have to change my tactics now
and stop being so bloody naive.
Listen to people who have expert experience
and shut up, Hughie.
Thank you. - Love you, Hughie.
- Love you. - We got this, kid.
- Let's smash it. - Yes.
- Is it my shot? - Yes.
- Ohh! [all yelling]
[laughter]
- We are the champions!
- How you feeling today?
- Yeah, me too.
I was anxious today, walking around the house.
You know, I didn't find my place.
- No one gives a [bleep] about us.
- Of course, I'm on the chopping block.
This is what vets do, make rookie-rookie teams
and get rid of rookies.
I'm partnered with Gabo, rookie-rookie pair.
It's gonna be a mess.
We're not on the same length at all.
I feel like you're always having fun.
And it's not about having fun.
- Yeah, I have fun, you know?
I have fun 'cause I wasn't safe.
- Yeah.
- And I was just chilling, you know, good vibes and stuff.
- Now it's not chilling anymore, stop chillin'.
- Emy and Nany are total opposites.
When I'm with Emy,
I'm just feeling the bad vibes around her,
which is not cool.
I'm looking for the good vibes.
The first thing is who will win tomorrow's challenge.
- We got to win that [bleep]
'cause we're all here for a reason.
I just want to show these guys I deserve to be here.
[dramatic music]
[alarm blares]
- Ooh! - Oh, yeah!
- Yeah!
- It's happening!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Ready.
♪ ♪
- Welcome to your next mission.
- Yeah! [cheering]
- Let's [bleep] go.
- Whoo!
- Today is gonna be very muddy.
- Oh! - Ah, I like dirty.
- Oh. - Oh, [bleep].
- Today's mission is called Mindfield.
- Yeah.
- For this mission, you and your partner
are gonna have to come together while working apart.
To begin, you and your partner
are gonna start at your detonation station
right here in the middle of the Mindfield.
Then when I say go, you will race in opposite directions
through various obstacles, collecting your puzzle pieces.
You're gonna have to collect them one at a time,
come back, and drop them off at your station.
Your final puzzle piece will be inside your partner's safe,
which can only be unlocked by solving a math problem.
Once you've collected all of your puzzle pieces,
you will build your puzzle,
and then set off a bomb by pulling a lever.
First team to do that will win today's mission,
be safe from elimination, and become our Agency.
The rest of you are on the chopping block.
Who's ready to get dirty?
- Oh, yeah. - Go get it.
- I was born in the mud.
- That is true. He is a pig, so--
[laughter]
- This [bleep] looks insane.
It looks like a bootcamp.
It's like a "Challenge" bootcamp.
And even if you're quick through that mud, ultimately,
you have to depend on your partner.
So honestly, it's gonna be rough.
- Game face. - Rawr!
- We're gonna have fun. We're gonna have fun.
We're gonna do our best. - Whoo!
- All right, are you ready, agents?
[air horn blares] Go!
- Whoo!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Go! - Let's go!
- All right. Are you ready, agents?
Go! [air horn blares]
- Let's go!
- [groaning] - Let's go, go!
- This mission is called Mindfield.
We have several different checkpoints
that we have to go through and collect puzzle pieces,
create the puzzle, and boom, detonate our station.
- I don't know what it is about mud.
I'm like a little monkey or a chameleon.
- Berna comes from "Survivor."
If anything, this is Berna's time to show us
what she's capable of, and I feel like
there's still a lot more for us to see.
[dramatic music]
- This [bleep] sucks!
- Emanuel is going through this course like the Flash.
This dude crazy, bro.
I knew Emanuel was an athlete, but right now, he killin' it.
♪ ♪
- Come on, bitch.
- Right now, we're having to crawl through the mud,
and although I've lived all around the world,
a country girl never loses her roots, honey.
So this doesn't bother me one bit.
- It would be amazing,
and it's so important to win this challenge today
so we don't have to go down into the Lair, baby.
And I want to prove all these people in the house,
maybe I have hardcore muscles, but I'm a good athlete too.
♪ ♪
- Logan and I are gonna kill it.
I want to win for him.
I want him to know that he's a valued part
of this partnership.
He's good, and he can get [bleep] done.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [bleep].
- Putting the muscles to work, baby.
Whoo! These biceps are--
Mwah, mwah. Ahh!
♪ ♪
- Right now, I'm in the front.
I'm in the lead. I can win.
I see it. I feel it.
But it's all about the math right now.
What do you know about math?
Growing up in the circus,
I was in acting school and acrobatic school.
I never really had the thing with math.
- What? I'm sorry. Did you say circus?
That's a thing. You mean like recess?
No, apparently, she didn't take math in school.
She took circus.
- 1,000.
- The most important thing in today's mission is brains.
You can be the fastest person,
but if you can't get the maths, you are screwed.
Good thing, I can do maths, so at least
I can pick up the weight where Nelson falls short.
- Goddamn.
I never finished high school, to be honest.
So math is just not my thing.
We don't get along together.
I can do simple things,
but this [bleep] is a whole other level, bro.
- This is where I'm a little stumped.
900--9,000-- 9,400 minus 50.
Nine--9,350.
- Oh, I can't see it.
- Divided by four. [indistinct]
[indistinct chatter] - [groans]
- This is real.
Like, we legitimately--
1/3 of the cast doesn't know how to divide by 2.
How are you still alive?
- We are doing a great job.
We need the code of Aneesa to get the last one
...win this thing.
I need it.
I don't like to play and lose and lose and lose.
So the only thing that makes me happy is winning.
- [groans]
- Thanks, Aneesa.
- Let's go, Nany.
- This time, I'll be the fastest girl.
- Oh. Ow, ow! - Careful!
Are you okay?
[Aneesa groaning] Aneesa?
- Oh, my God, my shoulder.
- You guys, send a medic! - My shoulder's out!
[Aneesa groaning]
[dramatic music]
- [groaning] Ow, ow.
- Careful! - Ow.
My shoulder's out! - Okay.
- Sit back. - [groaning]
Just the shoulder, just fell on that shoulder.
I'm fine. Ow.
Just give me a [bleep] painkiller and put it back in.
- Up there. Just be careful.
- Now I can't breathe.
It hurts. [groaning]
Ow.
- Aneesa, I'm worried about you
because you are my partner
and also you're my friend.
So I hope you're okay.
This is the thing that I care
and also please come back because I need you.
- I love you, Aneesa!
- Let's go. Let's go.
- There's a lot of trust in the Mindfield mission.
You have to solve a math equation, come back,
tell your partner so they can then open their safe.
So I just really hope that Kyle gives me the right answer
'cause I am not trying to do this multiple times.
- Let's go. Let's go.
- What is it? 2,250?
- This game is based off the strengths of both of you,
like you and your partner.
Fessy is strong. He's smart.
And we are killing it.
Let's keep this winning streak going on.
- Do 2-2-5-0.
- 2-2-5-0.
- And then 7-2-5-0.
[indistinct shouting]
- 9,180. What's yours? 9-1-8-0.
- Okay, mine's either 2-3-0-0 or 3-2-0-0.
- Hit me again. - 2-3 or 3-2-0-0.
- 2-3-0-0?
- Or 3-2, I don't remember.
- 2-2-5-0. Let's go.
- I don't care if you can bear crawl through a mud pit.
I don't care if you can climb over a wall.
What I really care about is you adding, subtracting,
multiplying, and dividing an eighth grade math problem.
It's all I need from you.
- All right, come on, Bettina.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
What'd you get? - 8,150.
- And yours? - [indistinct].
- Okay.
- I've got an amazing partner.
She's all for me doing well.
I'm ready to prove myself.
I'm ready to get as far as I can in this game.
The big guns is out.
It's not opening.
[groans]
It's not right.
- My brain is not working right now.
This math thing is a whole other level.
I don't really get it.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- Me and Emanuel are the first team to get
to our detonation station with all of our puzzle pieces.
Now it's time to solve this thing.
And I don't know about Emanuel's puzzle skills,
but we're gonna have to come together and get this done.
Yeah, like that.
- Go, Bettina!
Come on.
["Tick Tick Boom" by The Hives playing]
- Berna, get out of my way.
Excuse me, bud. Thank you for that last puzzle piece.
- ♪ Yeah, I was right all along ♪
- Crucial, she did her part. My turn. Get out.
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- 8-5-5-0.
- I know CT's the best at puzzles,
but we got here first.
- ♪ Ends up thrown in your face ♪
- This is the time. We got to win.
- ♪ Exhibit B, what you see? ♪
♪ Well, that's me, I'll put you back in your place ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Yeah, I done it before and I can do it some more ♪
- Come on, Ashley!
♪ ♪
- Check.
- ♪ Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom ♪
♪ ♪
[whistle blows] - [groans]
- Boom, boom, pound button.
It [bleep] worked.
Your boy with another puzzle dub. Ow!
[cheering] - Go Berna!
- [bleep]!
- Thank you. - Why?
- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. It was my fault.
- You shouldn't hurry up there. We just stayed there.
You had a lot of time.
- But my mind couldn't work.
- Gabo is a strong competitor.
But that's all, unfortunately.
He's not good at maths.
He says he's not good at puzzles.
You're more of a party person, not of a fighter.
Two times the code was bad.
I, from the first time, did it well.
- Emy and Gabo have an absolute 0% chance
of winning any missions.
This could be arguably the worst team ever assembled.
And although they both look like they've murdered
several people in their lives,
I don't think that's gonna be a strong enough bonding force
to get these two over the hump.
- You guys didn't stop. Get your head up.
Keep your head up.
Keep fighting. Remember?
You can go lay down, you can go feel bad for yourself,
or you get back up and you fight back.
What are you gonna do?
- Fight. - Fight, fight.
You always fight. - Yeah.
- You have the power. [laughs]
- I'm so happy. You and me are going nowhere.
Here's me. - Hey!
- I'm so happy. - I'm so happy for you.
- All right, great mission today, agents.
- Yeah! [applause]
- Whoo! - Very impressive.
Aneesa got hurt scaling that wall.
She went to the hospital.
Hopefully, she gets checked out and is able to return.
But we'll see. All right?
- Love you, Aneesa! - Love you, Nees.
- Love you, Aneesa.
- Now, Berna and CT,
congratulations, you absolutely killed it.
[cheers and applause]
You are now the Agency.
So you are the only team that is safe from elimination.
The rest of you are all on the chopping block.
Got it?
Go back to headquarters,
deliberate and nominate one team
to fight for their right to stay in the game.
And then CT and Berna, as our new Agency,
will choose any man and any woman from any team
to send into the Lair to go against our compromised agents.
All right? Get back to Headquarters.
I'll see you at the Lair. Get out of here.
- Yeah! - Whoo!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Good job, CT and Berna! [cheers and applause]
- Yeah, it was a good day. - Whoo!
- We don't know if Aneesa's off for sure, we don't know.
With the injury that she had, it wasn't that bad
because I know-- I hope it's not that bad.
- It's that bad. - Yeah.
- If you have to go to the hospital like this, it's bad.
- I know.
- If you don't get, like, playing, it's bad.
I need Aneesa by my side to protect me.
With Aneesa, I'm very protected.
And without Aneesa, I am just a rookie.
And everyone want to eat rookies.
So I have to think tomorrow, I go to the elimination
and I win, I pick my partner.
- Yeah. - It's easier.
- No. No, no, no, no. - Why not?
- I don't think it's smart to go into elimination.
You don't know what the elimination is gonna be.
And we don't know who the house is gonna be.
The house is gonna lean towards voting in Gabo
because it's a rookie-rookie team.
- For me, it's easier to win this elimination against Gabo.
- No, don't go telling anybody
that you want to go into elimination.
Don't make it easy for anybody.
- In being in such a bad spot with Kaycee and Fessy,
luckily, I've made a really good friend with Logan.
He's a friend of mine that I know is gonna be loyal to me.
And I don't want to lose this kid.
You stay quiet and you wait to see what happens with Aneesa.
God willing, that she's good and she comes back in...
- Yeah. - And if she doesn't,
then you wait it out and you don't go into this one.
♪ ♪
[smooth music]
- Hey. Hi. How are you?
- Good. - What happened?
What happened? Oh. What?
- It's just dislocated. - But you're the queen.
- I'm going. [Aneesa sobs]
- What is it? - Yeah.
- Ah, she's got to go home. - Oh, my--
- I can't continue in the game.
Sometimes life just works this way.
Now it's, you know, the road to recovery
and getting my body back together.
And if you think a dislocated shoulder
is gonna stop me, it's not.
- I'm sorry. - No stop.
Don't you dare apologize,
Aneesa Stephanie Cinnamon Squidion.
You better [bleep] walk out of here with your head high.
- I will. - Okay?
- Just help me shower, please. I'm so gross.
- Yeah, it would be an honor to help you shower.
Aneesa is, number one, my best friend in this house
and even outside of this house.
And for me to be in this game without her,
I definitely feel exposed and open.
So I don't know what to expect going forward.
- I'm sorry. - Oh, Aneesa.
Stop apologizing, babe. Watch your shoulder.
- Yeah.
[Aneesa sobbing] - Sorry.
- Sorry, no sorry. It's okay.
- I wanted to do so good for you and I [bleep] up.
- No, no, no, no. It's okay.
Devin can take care of me.
- Mmm. Okay.
- Thank you for everything.
Thank you. Thank you for everything.
I am in the wild, in the jungle,
and I am the rookie.
And now I don't have anyone to protect me.
So everyone is gonna jump over me 100%.
- Logan's by himself.
There's blood in the water.
And I know the boys can smell it too.
- I love you. - I love you.
- Thank you, mister.
["Dance Monkey" by Tones And I playing]
- ♪ They say, oh my God. I see the way you shine ♪
♪ Take your hands, my dear, and place them both in mine ♪
- I love going to the club, show off my dance moves
'cause everybody knows Ed dances.
Want to see like a move?
- ♪ Dance for me, dance for me, dance for me ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
- A little pop like this. I mix it up.
Hand stuff, you know? You know, whoop, whoop, boom.
- ♪ Move for me, move for me, move for me ♪
- I'm definitely happy being partnered up with Ed.
He's just got one of those personalities that you're like,
"Are you even a real person?"
- He's just going.
- I'm a professional dancer.
And Ed needs some dancing lessons.
- ♪ And when you're done I'll make you do it all again ♪
♪ All again ♪
But we are not good as partners.
- This partnership is not good,
and we just have to switch partners as fast as we can.
I had a partner, Nany.
And I had a really good connection with her.
- Gabo wants to go in because he wants to get
his baby Nany back.
I don't take it personal.
I can't wait for him to leave me.
Honestly, just please go and fly like a butterfly.
...making it better.
It's gonna be a guy elimination.
- We don't know that.
But based on how everything's going with Aneesa
being sent home, that's probably what's gonna happen.
- And if it's gonna be physical,
there is a chance that I can stay in the house.
- Yeah.
- I am 1,000% okay working with you again.
- Trust is very important in this game.
And I would go battle for Nany. She's a good person.
And I like these kind of people around me.
The thing is that I have no experience in these games.
I'm not an athlete.
- But you are though.
Do you see how good you've done in every single challenge.
You underestimate yourself and your abilities.
And that's not okay 'cause...
I have been underestimated my entire "Challenge" career.
So when I see other people, especially rookies,
doubt themselves,
I feel like they just need somebody there to be like,
"No, no, no. Like, you can do it."
Whatever you do tomorrow,
just know that I will be rooting for you.
And if you choose me back...
- I heard that you wanted to go in.
- I prefer to play alone.
But Josh told me, "Don't go in."
- So I do like you go in tomorrow,
likely against Gabo, you got to be ready,
you run the risk, you come back--
- You pick somebody strong, and we run this [bleep].
The best thing for me
is for you to have a strong partner.
- I think it's good to go against Gabo
because Gabo is not good in a lot of things.
So I have a lot of possibilities to win that.
- That's the plan. - Yeah.
[dramatic music]
- So Logan's thinking about it because he then
gets to pick his partner.
It's essentially--
- He's gonna go in sooner or later.
- And he says, "I prefer to play alone."
- If Logan wants to go in, I'm not stopping him.
Go on, Logan. Better you than me, buddy.
'Cause he wants to go in. Boom, my hands are clean.
- I don't understand these rookies.
They want to go in.
Every veteran in this room
deserves a massive pat on the back.
I'll give myself one right now.
Well done, veterans. Well done.
- This is great how it's working out.
- They're starting to nominate themselves.
- Yeah. - Okay, which is great.
- Do they realize there's no skull twist?
[laughter]
- Life of the party. - Whoo!
[laughs]
- Best party of the year.
- Yeah!
- Ahh.
- Logan is a good kisser.
Logan is a very talented man.
He's very good at using his hands.
Oh, my God. I said too much now.
Can we scrap that?
- Big T is like an octopus in the bed.
But I said that she used the tentacles.
- [chuckles]
- You're quite the chef. That salad's quite good.
- Mmm, it's not bad. - It's healthy.
- Mm-hmm.
- What's going on with you guys then?
Is it like a relationship? Is it sexual?
Is it--what's going on?
Them two together are hilarious.
Big T's like, "Hey, Logan,
I would love to get in your undergarments."
And Logan's like,
"Hey, Big T, I just want to play puzzles all day.
I don't want to get in your undergarments."
- You're such a dick, Kyle.
- Do you like Logan? - I like everyone.
- Obviously. - Wow.
- I mean, he is pretty sexy, isn't he?
- I like everyone apart from you.
- Why are you mad at me?
- Because it's the same thing. I'm immature.
I'm acting like a child. - Are you not? Are you not?
- So you guys discredit everything that I say,
you and Fess have constantly discredited in this game...
- That is not true. - When all I do is play for us.
I don't play for me.
It would be much easier if I played for Josh.
I don't play for Josh, I play for you, for the three of us.
- Are you kidding me?
Dude, you're taking this way too [bleep] personally.
Your thing is just all about you, you, you.
- It's not about me. - Yes.
As much as you say it's not, it is.
- It's not about me. - You're right, you're right.
So you know you what,
you can do your own thing this game, fine.
You do your own thing in this game and best of luck to you.
Best of luck to you. I love you. I care about you.
But it's--I'm done. I'm over it.
- So am I.
- I'm over it. So good luck to you.
- Good luck to you too.
- Josh is my brother.
But damn, like, he really cannot control his emotions.
And so when he's going off and throwing this tantrum, look,
I'm not gonna sit here and keep wasting my breath
and my energy trying to calm you down, dude.
We're done. We're done. We're done.
No more conversation the rest of the season.
- I don't need to talk to you.
- Hey, you tell me that one time, it's good to go.
- It's about time I stopped putting people before me
in this game and I start playing for me
and I start playing for my family
and focus on why I'm here.
I have the strongest support team back home.
I think that no matter how many people are against me,
I feel like the luckiest person
because my family is always in my corner.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Agents, you have 20 minutes to plead your case,
target your enemies.
- So, as a disclaimer, we don't plan on any funny business.
We're gonna try to keep the peace like we've been talking.
For one, we have one person who is dying to go in.
And two, we have another person that's been speaking about,
you know, taking the destiny in their own hands.
Ideally, if the moon and the stars were to align with us.
If Logan, from what I understand,
if he was the house vote
and he wanted to go down anyway, more than likely,
we're only gonna have to say one name.
So any girl, no girl is going down with him.
- There is a bet going around headquarters
that there's probably only gonna be a male elimination
since Aneesa had to go home.
I hate that my friend had to get hurt,
but this might be the best thing that's happened
to my game in a while.
- I really don't want to see Logan go down to the Lair
because, historically, when you send yourself down,
you do tend to go home.
- I want to go down, yes, it is the truth
because I want to pick my partner,
and it's the best way.
But I don't want to be the house vote
because if I am the house vote,
then I don't know if you are gonna send Gabo.
- I'm sending Gabo. - We're sending Gabo.
- He wants to go in, so absolutely.
- No, but when we say your name here right now,
we will not change it.
- We have no reason to screw anybody over.
I'm not gonna do that to myself or my partner.
- But it's safer--it's safer for me to do it the other way.
- This is as good as it's gonna get, Logan.
You know you're going in,
you know who you're going against,
you know it's gonna be one on one.
- This is the best you can-- - I mean, that's--
- I also think we're making this
harder than it should be because CT is literally
telling us he wants the path of least resistance.
He's putting this out in the open.
So if he goes against that, that's gonna [bleep] his game,
which I don't think he wants to do
because everybody has been playing such a, like,
straightforward game, for the most part so far--
- Really? [scoffs] - What?
- Really? A straightforward game?
[laughs] Really?
- Is this what we're gonna do? - Really?
- We're gonna talk about this again right now?
- No, we'll talk later. - Okay. Okay.
- But I just want to make that clear.
Did that really just come out of your mouth, Fessy?
A clean game?
You out of all people are the last person
that needs to speak about a clean game.
- Gabo, I have a question for you, if that's okay.
- Sure.
- As somebody who has voted themselves in in the past
and lost, like, there's a risk that comes with going in.
Like, why do you want to go in?
- Right now, my position is not easy.
I have a partner Emy. She's an amazing partner.
But she's a rookie too.
So this partnership is dangerous.
- You don't want to be in a rookie-rookie pair.
Who would you pick then?
- I would choose my ex-partner Nany back.
- Aw! [laughter]
- I don't want to lose my partner.
This is my saving grace.
This is literally survival of the rookies this season.
And you need a veteran partner to survive.
If I lose Nany, I'm screwed.
I chose your partner.
You have every right to choose her back.
As does everybody in this room.
It's not the situation, we're all playing a game.
But what pisses me off is what goes on around it.
That's what annoys me.
- I feel that you're talking down.
But we were friends before you chose Nany, right?
And my partner was Nany. - Yeah.
- So I could ask the same question, why you chose Nany?
- If you came to me and you said, "Hughie, if you
"go into this elimination, you come back and win,
please will you not pick Nany."
I never would have done that,
even though I was advised to do that.
I never would have. So I stick to my word.
I only get upset 'cause I'm a nice person
and I expect you to do the same as me.
- You're a nice person? - I'm a really nice person.
- Let me--let me talk. - Let Gabo respond first,
and then you can ask questions.
- Can I talk? Can I talk? - Can you talk?
I don't know. Speak.
- Hughie. Gabo, go ahead.
- I'm just--I'm pissed off at the situation.
- Okay, let him respond.
Is this really happening right now?
Like, what world am I in?
I have these two rookies fighting over me.
- He's acting like he's exposing me
when I'll admit it-- I'll stand up right now.
- Can I finish my talk? Sit your ass down!
- If you go pick Nany--
- He's acting like he's gonna expose me.
I'll admit it. I'll stand on this chair.
I'll admit it to the room. You ain't exposing me.
- I think Hughie is just really dramatic.
Sit your ass down. You took his partner.
He wants to go down there and get his partner back.
Deal with it.
- He's acting like I'm a snake and I'm a bad person.
- Hughie, sit down! - I'm not a bad person!
I'm admitting to what I've done.
- Hughie, we got [bleep] to talk about!
- Hughie, calm down, bro!
- Hughie, relax, brother.
This is like so unnecessary.
- You ain't exposing anyone!
I just feel all of this energy brewing up.
I am dying for blood. I've got so much venom.
Gabo is about to have it.
- Sit down. - I'm saying it.
So you ain't exposing anyone.
- Hughie, stop it! - Hughie, Stop! Come on, bro.
- You're gonna end up going in
if you keep running your mouth like this.
[dramatic music]
- Hughie, stop it!
- Hughie, stop! Stop, bro. Come on, bro!
- You're gonna end up going in
if you keep running your mouth like this.
♪ ♪
- Agents, your 20 minutes are up.
Lock in which one team you want to compromise.
Choose wisely.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[device beeping]
♪ ♪
- Okay, agents, are you ready?
- Yes. - Okay, let's go.
[beeping]
- The compromised agent is Logan Sampedro
for the first time.
I'm feeling ready.
I know I have to battle. So just send me Gabo.
- All right, well, on that note,
we want to be the first to say good luck.
May the best man win tonight.
[applause] - Good luck, guys.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's just so weird because I'm just getting to know Logan
and obviously like, yesterday, like, was fun
and we spent a lot of time together.
And to just to watch him go into elimination, possibly,
like, go home straight after that is just so intense.
- Of course, it's not like you have this vision
of where it's gonna go,
but it was just nice seeing you together.
- Yeah.
Like, the possibility of him going home
has made me realize I actually do like him.
- Ohh. - Yeah.
So I was just like, "Oh, that was interesting."
With Logie and Big T, they are definitely having fun.
There are some genuine feelings there also.
But just be careful.
- I'm trying to like keep it level and cool.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
But, like, anything can happen.
- Anything can happen.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I want to go down so bad in the Lair.
I want to prove that these are not just popcorn muscles,
and I want to get back Nany.
♪ ♪
- I'm not afraid because I knew I have to go there
for fighting in any moment.
So always ready for that.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- What the [bleep] is this?
- Okay. - Ooh!
- 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,
fight for their right to stay in the game.
And the team that you decided to compromise
was Logan and Aneesa.
However...
Aneesa has been deactivated.
She is no longer medically cleared
to continue on in this competition.
But, Logan, that doesn't get you off the hook.
Come on down.
- Go, Logan. [applause]
- Good luck, Logie! - Let's go, Logan!
- Logan, go out there and make Aneesa proud.
She is looking down on us from the stars.
- Logan.
- She wants you to [bleep] win, Logan.
- All right, Logan, how you feeling?
- Feeling great.
I want to choose my new partner here fighting.
- Well, good luck. - Thank you.
- Now for our Agency, CT and Berna,
you are tasked with sending down
one man and one woman
to compete in tonight's elimination round.
So, CT,
which man do you want to send down here?
[tense music]
- Oh, we're gonna go with Gabo.
- All right, so that's one vote for Gabo.
And, Berna, what about you?
- I go with my partner on that. We say Gabo.
- All right, Gabo, come on down.
[cheering]
- I'm ready for it. Let's do it.
I hope it's gonna be physical.
♪ ♪
- Two great men.
- Now Aneesa went home tonight,
but I never said this is a male elimination.
I never said women are off the hook.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God, you guys.
- I am shaking.
[suspenseful music]
- I never said this is a male elimination.
I never said women are off the hook.
♪ ♪
I mean, they are, I just didn't say it.
[laughter] - Oh, my God!
- Oh, God. TJ! [laughter]
- Why does he do that? Oh, my God.
- Golly! - Don't ever assume, okay?
- That part.
- All right, Gabo, Logan,
tonight you are playing Higher Assets.
Your goal is to solve that puzzle right there behind me.
- Ah, [bleep]. [laughter]
- Come on, Gabo.
- Now behind me on that giant structure,
20 feet in the air,
there are two answer keys, one for each of you.
When I say go, you're gonna scale that rope,
look at your answer key.
You'll come back down, start solving that puzzle.
You're gonna do this as many times as you have to
to get that puzzle solved.
First agent to get this done
will win tonight's Elimination Round
and stay in the game.
The losing agent is deactivated immediately and sent home.
- Got it. - Good luck.
- Thank you. [cheers and applause]
- Come on!
- Finally, it's my opportunity to prove myself.
So this is perfect because I can pick my new partner.
I have all my country here in the back,
but I can support it.
I don't know the skills of Gabo.
I think he's strong, but I'm gonna win for sure.
- It's a big pressure on me 'cause I'm the first Hungarian
to be on "The Challenge."
I'm not really a puzzle guy.
I was hoping for we're gonna have
some physical contact stuff.
My IQ is not that high.
But...what's the other one?
EQ. Yeah, my EQ is quite high.
- I'm just praying that Logan wins 'cause I do not think
he's gonna take my partner from me.
Please, Logan, beat Gabo and send him home.
- Go, guys!
- I'm 100% rooting for Gabo,
and I'm so flattered that he threw himself into elimination
to choose me back as a partner.
This is gonna be a good match.
- Let's go, baby.
- All right, Gabo, Logan, you ready?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Go! [air horn blares]
♪ ♪
- Move faster, Gabo. Move faster.
Move faster.
- I'm training to be a fireman.
One part of my training is to climb a rope
just with the hands.
So I'm ready for this.
- Oh, yes, Logan. - Use your legs.
- Hmm. Logan looks quite good climbing that rope.
I can't lie.
- Come on, Gabo. - Come on, man.
- Keep it up. - Okay.
- Gabo, hurry up! You gotta go.
You're from Hungary. You need to be hungry
for this money. Okay?
Get your ass up that rope.
♪ ♪
- [indistinct]
I guess we're going. I guess we're going.
Let's go. - Good job, Gabo.
- Logan is one of the smartest people in this game.
I think that he has all the skills
to win tonight's elimination.
Go, go!
- Looks easy, but the pieces
are in different positions.
So I have to remember everything.
It's a little tricky.
- That thing--
The rope climbing is easy for me,
but the memory is not.
Oh, God.
My memory is full with songs.
[gentle music]
I don't have free space to this kind of [bleep].
- Good job!
- You're good, Gabo.
- Come on, Logan!
- Concentrate, Gabo.
- Logan, you can look down... - Breathe, Logan, breathe.
- And check your work. - Stay calm, stay calm.
♪ ♪
- Keep moving, Gabo. Good job.
- Turns out those gigantic arms of pumped Gabo aren't fake.
This kid is moving up this rope incredibly quickly.
- This here.
♪ ♪
- Let's go, Logan.
- Good job, Gabo.
- Well done, Gabo.
- Keep going, Logan! - Well done!
- Good job! - Check it.
♪ ♪
- Logan, that's not right.
- [indistinct]
- Take your time.
Take your time. One by one.
- Gabo, make sure you're checking your work, Gabo.
- Logs, you're in the lead. Go row by row.
- My arms aren't getting tired, they're just getting pumped.
Logan is tired. I might be able to catch up right now.
- Go, Logan. - Go, Logan, let's go.
You got this, Logan.
- Keep going, Logan!
- Oh, my God. Why is he stopping?
You can't stop moving in elimination.
I'm actually starting to get really nervous now.
- Let's go! - Go, Logan. Go.
- I am in trouble now.
So I need to do this this time.
If not, Gabo is beat me.
- Logan! - Up!
- Ahh!
- Go! - [indistinct shouting]
- Ahh!
- I would have murdered this. - Yeah.
- Tonight's elimination is Higher Asset.
Climb up a 20-foot rope to a key of the puzzle,
memorize that, come down.
Put the puzzle in the same order.
First person to do it wins.
- Go up. - Go, Logan.
- Higher.
- Gabo is done. Is that right, Gabo?
- Ask for a check if you think you got it.
- My brain is exhausted.
I just want to make sure it's all correct.
- Gabo is killing this elimination.
This kid is gonna actually pull this off.
He is going to win.
- I'm so [bleep] tired.
- Keep pushing.
- Check?
- It's not right.
- Check.
- Nope. That ain't right.
- Check. - Get back up there.
- Hold it. - Hurry up.
- I can't go up because I'm so tired.
So I just start changing some pieces
that maybe is the problem.
Like if have a triangle like this, I'm putting like this.
- Don't give up. - Gabo, ask for a check.
- He's checking his own work. - Okay. Sorry, sorry.
- Check. - He got it. He got it.
I'm praying to Mike "The Situation" right now.
[angelic music]
So I'm sure we're gonna win.
- It's not right.
- What?
- Go, go, go. Go, Logan.
- Logan, go! - Come on, Logan!
- Logan, this is $1 million, buddy.
- Focus! Focus!
- I have a chance now. One shot, one chance.
I just breathe and put all my energy in this climb.
- Take your time. - You got it?
- I have it.
- Back, Logan.
- Check. - That's it.
[air horn blares] All right, Logan wins.
[cheers and applause]
- Good work, Logan!
- The winner is Logan Sampedro.
[cheering]
- Logan wins. Hallelujah.
I'm sorry, Gabo, but please, you have to go home.
- Good work, Gabo. - Well done.
- Be proud of yourself, Gabo.
- You're smarter than you thought.
- Gabo, do the pump Gabo flex. Let's go.
- Pump Gabo. Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
[cheers and applause]
- Well, Gabo, it's safe to say there's never
been anyone like you here on "The Challenge."
- Yes.
- Hopefully, we'll see in the future.
Take care of yourself, man. Have a good one.
[cheers and applause]
- Love you guys.
I'm gonna miss you so much. - We'll miss you, Gabo.
I'm sad to see Gabo go.
I couldn't have asked for a better rookie
to be partnered with in this game.
- Be proud of yourself, Gabo! - Good job, Gabo!
- I'm just so sad that I have to leave this house behind.
Next time you see me, I'll be a man and the puzzle wizard.
- Well, Logan, came right down to the wire.
And you hung in there. That was sick.
[cheers and applause] - Good job, Logan!
- Now you have a decision to make.
You can either take Gabo's partner, Emy,
or infiltrate and steal any other partner up there
except for Berna, of course.
So what's it gonna be?
[suspenseful music]
- Boy.
Nany, come here.
[cheering]
- Let's go!
- Nany, for sure, is a good partner.
She can run. She can swim.
She's good on puzzles, has a lot of friends.
So it's a full pack for me.
- Sucks to be you, Hughie.
- How have I not thought of this being a possibility?
I went off on Gabo time and time and time again
only to have Nany stolen from me by the guy
that was in the shadows waiting all along to pounce.
- So, Logan and Nany, you are now partners.
- I appreciate you.
- Hughie, your partner was stolen.
Emy, your partner lost tonight's elimination.
So now you two are partners. Come on down.
- I'm getting used to this!
Hughie, my fourth partner.
We're not going to do a good team at all.
He cannot focus, and if I have a partner
who cannot focus, I'm losing my mind.
- A true international dream team.
[laughter]
All right, agents, take care. I'll see you soon.
[cheering]
- Come on. - Let's go.
- Let's do this.
- Ultimately, the vets are playing
the safest game possible.
But let's be real, that time is coming to an end very soon.
And soon enough, there's gonna be vets down in that sand,
and somebody's gonna go home.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's a [bleep] feeling to lose
and leave behind the house.
I met beautiful people here in the house.
- We'll miss you, Gabo.
- It's just so painful in the heart right now.
♪ ♪
I don't regret that I wanted to come in tonight to the lair.
[all cheer] I had to take the risk.
Unfortunately,
it didn't went well as I planned.
Check!
- It's not right.
- I [bleep] up.
I'm the first Hungarian in the US television,
which is television history.
I feel like I'm the first man in the moon right now.
Hope you guys gonna see me again.
I'm gonna learn puzzle,
run, swim...
Straighten my memory...
That thing.
And I'm gonna kick some asses if I'm coming back.
- Gabo, do the pump Gabo flex. Let's go!
- Pump, Gabo! [barks]
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Today's mission is called Turning Agents.
- [yelling indistinctly]
- I don't care who gets mad at me, eh.
Me and Berna aren't really talking.
- If you're a liar, we will see it.
- Red flags are going up.
- You wanna tell me that's not a blindside.
- This is not gonna end well.
- Who's gonna beat me, you?
- No, wait. [all shouting]