We were live again, but I must say with Chima gone, the drama quotient was muted. (Did you read Chima's apology for calling Russell a 'terrorist'? Did you know Russell was Lebanese-American? Is Chima really so important that she needs to release statements to clarify things?)
It's all about gamesmanship now.
Our girl Jordan had a good week as HOH; she put up Lydia and Natalie for eviction and, she said, took bubble baths each night, a method she prefers to showers.
And that wasn't the end of her power reign.
The POV: The game was called Before and After; Julie named an event that happened in the house, and the houseguests had to name whether it happened before or after the second event she named. Russell was the only one who didn't compete. It came down to Jordan and Michele; they matched so often, they needed a tie breaker. The tie breaker was to name how many truffles were in that mud pit game they played; closest number without going over wins. Michele guessed 50; Jordan guessed 60. The answer was 100. So Jordan, won the POV!
She chose to not use it and leave Natalie and Lydia up for eviction.
Dealmaking: Russell tells Michele that he's stayed a loner and so has she. So he wants to take her with him to the final 2; his fellow villian, he says. Jeff enters the room and they are mum. Russell considers he and Jeff even. Russell says Jordan should have taken out Russell or Michele.
Natalie, Kevin and Lydia hatch a plan to save Lydia and Natalie by coming up with a lie to break the alliance between Jeff, Jordan and Russell. Kevin tells Jeff that he overheard Russell saying that he wanted to split up Jordan and Jeff, by ousting Jeff. Jeff falls for it; he tells Jordan, who insists Kevin wouldn't lie. As noted by the deal making above, it's a lie with some accidental truth. Bosley and his Two Angels, the name Natalie, Lydia and Kevin have given themselves for this plan, jump up and down with glee in the next room.
Still, their act was before Jordan won POV, so it didn't work, as planned. But it probably set the tone for next week and if Jeff wins the HOH next week, Russell goes up. And Russell would probably put up our girl Jordan and Jeff.
The eviction: Natalie's please-keep-me speech talks about having a rough week, how she lost her allies, including her best friend (?) Chima, and that she's all alone and would like to continue the journey. Lydia says she just wants folks to vote for the houseguest that advances their game.
Jordan can only vote in the event of a tie.
There's no tie. Only her sugar bear Kevin votes for Lydia. Bye Lydia. Still in her super hero costume, she hugs Kevin and leaves.
Outside, she tells Julie that Kevin is the only one she wants to win. She also says, with much disdain and exasperation, that her bond with Natalie was like getting the little sister she didn't want. She says she thought she had connected with Michele, but that Michele showed her true colors, so the gloves came off. She says Jessie might face a beatdown in the jury house.
The realization: That beatdown refers to the fact that while they were bonding, Lydia and Natalie finally realized that Jessie was playing the both of them. Natalie asked Lydia how many times Lydia and Jessie hooked up. Lydia refused to answer; Natalie said she knew a number but wanted to hear Lydia's number. Kevin realizes Natalie is playing Lydia, but keeps quiet. We see Day 10 footage of Jessie and Lydia doing something nasty under the covers in the HOH room. Kevin points out that to Jessie, Natalie was Plan A, Lydia was Plan B. The mournful weeping of saint Jessie is over. Now the girls are glad he's gone. Lydia says they've been brought closer together by realizing Jessie's deceit. Of course, that was before she was evicted and called Natalie the little sister she didn't want.
The HOH competition: Everyone but Jordan competes. The game is called recycle and the players must throw cans down a tube, and stack 24 of them. They have an hour; the show has 5 minutes. So, you either can go online to see who won or see you on Tuesday.
Assistant Features Editor Adrienne Johnson Martin would like to have her life turned into an animated cartoon. 
