In My Opinion ..for what its worth..Karen was too busy worrying about the jury instead of playing the game.........puddin 8-)'
KAREN KO'D, DREW NEW HOH
Following through on their plan, Drew and Diane boot out Karen, keeping Cowboy for their alliance. Nakomis immediately gets her game on, knowing she will need to be sharp if she wants to stay in game. Drew wins Head of Household for the third time, narrowly eclipsing Cowboy and setting the scene for a tense week of alliance building and end-of-game scenario planning.
DIANE PLAYS BOTH SIDES
Diane feels pretty good about her position. Drew and Cowboy have her back, and Nakomis and Karen unclear about where her true allegiances lie. Karen pretends she's doing okay, assuring Diane, "I'm not freaked out or anything."
Over cards Karen gives Nakomis and a close analysis of the situation as she sees it, her first concern being her exit path: "Am I the back door? That's so undignified. Diane made a commitment to you and to me: Final Four. Drew made the same to Cowboy: Final Four." She adds that Diane will do whatever Drew wants, so it's probably going to be a vote against Karen. For her part, Nakomis tells Karen, "If there's a tie, Cowboy will leave."
But though Karen and Nakomis are true and honest, they are up against the scheming ways of Diane and the two remaining boys, Cowboy and Drew. Cowboy tells Drew that he plans to be natural this week. He then admits, "At one time I wanted to go with my sister," but now he senses is out to get him.
Diane then sits in the backyard with Karen and Nakomis and has them believing that she is not necessarily voting Karen out. Karen doesn't believe that Diane can lie that well, but at the same time feels like she might be going out.
HORSEMEN BATTERED, BUT NOT BEATEN
The two remaining Horsemen talk strategy and make it clear that Diane is the odd one out in their power triad. Drew details how the plan has gone well to date with Diane winning the Veto, Diane removing Drew from the block and now Diane and Drew voting Karen out. Cowboy then asks the truly important question: what happens next? Drew tells Cowboy what he wants to hear: that Diane doesn't win HoH, and it will be the two of them. Cowboy is psyched, realizing he could be one of the Final Two. At that very moment, Diane shows up, telling them to break it up. She then asks Drew straight up, "You're not going to screw me over for Cowboy after all this? Promise? Swear?" Drew assures her that he is not going to screw her over.
JULIE & THE HOUSEGUESTS
When Julie Chen asks Drew what he thinks about losing two housemates in 48 hours, he replies that it's been kind of weird and the House feels like it's been cut in half. Julie then asks Diane whether she thought she would get this far in the game. Diane's answer: "Of course I did." We glimpse a different side of the BIG BROTHER 5 House when Julie asks Karen what she would do with the money. Karen simply replies, "I'm trying not to contaminate myself with illusions of grandeur at this time."
THE KAREN FILES
As Karen is on the block, it's time for a look at how she's played the game over the course of the summer. She tells us, "I have a detailed, complicated strategy that does not involve bad behavior," and then we get to find out just what this slow burning, under-the-radar woman from New Jersey has been up to. It hasn't been easy. Even though she is only 30, she says she feels as if she has really had to get juvenile to make it in the House. She's kissed Diane, she's sun-tanned to a crisp, and she has cried...and cried...and cried.
But Karen's biggest point is that people seem to have forgotten that it's the Jury that decides who will win BIG BROTHER 5. For her money, Karen has done a good job of trying to be friendly with everybody who has been tossed out of the House. We then see a montage of Karen escorting the evicted HouseGuests out the door, ready with a hug and a kiss every step of the way.
NAKOMIS & JULIE DISCUSS THE FUTURE
In the HoH room, Julie asks Nakomis if she was surprised by Diane's decision to take Drew off the block. Nakomis says that she really wasn't. For Nakomis, it just cemented where the division in the House is, and that Diane isn't really somebody she can necessarily trust. Next, Julie wants to know how Nakomis plans to get to the Final Two, and Nakomis replies, "When opportunity knocks, answer your door." In a bit of foreshadowing, Nakomis notes that she feels good if Karen is still in the House; if Karen isn't, Nakomis does feel vulnerable.
THE TWINS, WILL AND MARVIN...OH MY!
At the beautiful Jury house, Will and Natalie are tanned, rested and ready for the new arrival. They stand. They wait. It's Adria! Will is very nearly speechless, but at the same time thrilled as he recognizes that even though he's not getting the money, neither are the twins. With his trademark flair, he laments that he is going to be living with Tweedledum and Tweedledee. "It's like one brain operating two bodies."
When Adria whips out the tapes and the three of them watch her eviction, Will is ecstatic. He asks Adria about her now famous departure speech, and before she can finish her answer, Natalie begins to answer at the same time. This leads Will to remark later, "They're like two psychotic cocker spaniels gnawing at the same piece of meat." Just as Will is settling in for a crazy week, just him and the twins, Marvin comes waltzing down the stairs, the victim of the double eviction week. Marvin shows that while he may be out of the game, he's not completely finished when he reminds the other three that it is up to them who wins the $500,000.
LIVE VOTE
Julie calls the Live Vote to order and offers Karen and Cowboy the opportunity to try and sway the HouseGuests one last time, as there are only two eligible to vote, Drew and Diane. Karen lays down that everybody is in the game for different reasons. She says she has been in the game as she would be in real life, adding, "I'd like to stay if you'd like to have me." Cowboy seconds Karen's emotion. And the vote is on.
Diane goes first and, seemingly with great pain, nominates Karen. Drew enters next, and, as planned, votes to evict Karen, sealing the portrait artist from New Jersey's fate. After Diane returns to the living room, Julie informs Karen of the news and though not surprised, Karen is plenty put out. As she stands up she says to Diane, "Thanks for back-dooring me." Karen and Nakomis exchange a few words and Nakomis is about to start talking dirt about the remaining HouseGuests when Karen admonishes her to keep it to herself. Diane attempts to make a plea that it was all about the game and Karen holds true to her feeling she was back-doored.
NAKOMIS BRINGS THE GAME
As Karen settles in for her post-eviction interview with Julie, Nakomis is already working the game, hugging Diane, Drew and Cowboy saying it's all a game. She immediately begins giving Diane the benefit of her attention, warmth and compassion saying, "It's all a game. Everybody knows that. It's a good game move. Don't worry about it."
Karen wells up with tears but doesn't break down. "I knew it was coming, I was kicking myself." Karen and Julie discuss Karen's not using the veto to save Adria, essentially because of promises made earlier to Diane. Karen is wracked and spent, both emotionally and physically. She is exhausted from putting up with the "juvenile" shenanigans of Drew and Diane.
BEFORE OR AFTER
The game must go on. Drew, Diane and Cowboy arrange themselves in three different sections of a circle. In front of them is the word "AFTER"; behind them the word "BEFORE." Julie asks the HouseGuests eight questions, each of which involves two events. If one event happened before the other event, the HouseGuest should step back and onto the word "BEFORE." If the event happened after, they are then to step forward onto the word "AFTER."
For a period of time, it is neck-and-neck between Drew and Cowboy, but in the end Drew pulls ahead and wins with a score of 8 out of 8, thus winning HoH and assuring himself a place in the Final Three.
Will Drew put up Nakomis and Diane, or will it be Nakomis and Cowboy? Will Diane sleep in the HoH room, or will she get pulled back into a girl-power alliance with Nakomis? Find out this Saturday at 10PM ET/9PM PT on BIG BROTHER 5.
