Big Brother

After the usual recap covering the second episode, the HouseGuests react to Jessie's nominations of Chima and Lydia. Chima said that she volunteered herself as the pawn for the Athletes/Brains alliance. Jeff said he was shocked about who was going up and it made him feel like an outsider in his own alliance. Lydia broke down and cried and the majority of the HouseGuests seemed to be consoling Lydia, which upset Chima who then felt that she was not safe as the pawn.

Laura felt like an outsider, a woman without an alliance. Russell informed Jessie of this and pitched his case to Laura to join his alliance. Laura agreed to the plan. Jessie was nervous because Russell also told him that Jeff was not with the Athlete/Brain alliance, hence the reason for adding Laura as a member of the alliance.

A montage was shown of Braden acting goofy.

Players were then picked for the veto competition - Jessie, Chima, Lydia, Russell, Natalie, Jeff. Jessie selected Casey as the host. The name of the game was "Pop Goes the Veto." The six players had to "pop" zits on a giant face, pull out tiles with letters from the holes and form the longest word correctly using the letters they pulled from the zits. As Lydia said, the substance in the zits smelled cheesy and raunchy.

In the end, Jessie spelled "continously" (incorrect), Natalie spelled "Last", Chima tried to spell "Superficiality" and ended up with "Super", Russell spelled "Shotgun", Jeff tried to spell "Technotronics", Lydia tried to spell "Civilization." Thus, Russell won the power of veto.

In confessionals, Russell ripped on Jeff, who was busy flirting with Jordan. While Russell and Jeff were working out, Russell decided to embarrass Jeff by making fun Jeff's trying to spell "technotronics," which isn't even a word. Jeff argued back after Russell said he would knock Jeff out. Then Natalie argued with Jeff about how Jeff does not seem to be part of the Athlete clique.

Lydia then admitted that she will do whatever it takes to get off the block and stay in the house. So, she turned to Russell for advice and some gameplan discussion. Lydia then made a pitch to Jessie and Natalie that she should stay because she is sincere. Instead, if Russell does use the PoV, Jessie should put up Braden because he, according to Lydia, is "getting away with everything." Russell told this to Ronnie and he told Jeff, Braden and Jordan about this plan. Russell confronted Ronnie about whether Ronnie spilled the beans and Ronnie denied it. In a confessional, Russell said that Ronnie overplayed his hand and put himself in the line of fire.

At the veto meeting, Russell chose to use the power of veto on Lydia. In her place, Jessie put up Braden as a replacement nominee.