11:38 AM BBT: Kirsten talks with Mecole upstairs on the balcony
Kirsten says a personal conversation she had with Cirie came back to her from someone that she doesn't talk to, and says Reilly told her that the situation that started in the room and went to all the different rooms was started by Cirie
Cory and Cirie join Mecole and Kirsten upstairs
Cirie gives Kirsten a hug
Kirsten tears up
Cirie tells her they'll talk later
Kirsten tells Mecole that it wasn't just Reilly. Cory told her that and Jared told her that
Felicia says you have to learn how to be okay and not feel the need to always inject yourself, and you can tell when it's genuine and natural and when it's planned. ... She's had several conversations with Jag and she wants to figure out how devoted he is to that side and she knows he's devoted but down the road
Mecole says they all started in that room together. She feels like he is the master planner of saying let's pull this together and make this something. Reilly hadn't won HOH on day one, so that had been established before she won. She doesn't believe Reilly was the one who said let's pull this together and make this thing. She doesn't believe Matt would've done it.
Felicia says part of her believes it was Reilly. She's a nice girl. She doesn't think Jag would've been bold enoug hto say you want to start an alliance? She sees Reilly doing that. She could be wrong but that's her instinct. She had a conversation on the front of the nominations then yesterday. On the fron to fthe she quasi asked her that day if she's started aligning with anybody and she said she really likes MAtt and Jag. That day those were the only two names. Yesterday she mentioned she likes Blue, she brought up Blue and Cory first. She didn't even mention Matt and Jag, so that let's you know she already has Matt and Jag and she's pulled in Cory and Blue. So she knows if she has Blue she has America. Those two go hand in hand. She'd mentioned to America she'd love fo rthem to work together, but when she heard Reilly say s that she said leave that sh** alone.
Mecole says she feels like America's involvement is based on proximity. She doesn't believe they see her as a strategist or someone who has a high probability to win HOH or win veto.
Felicia says she's just part of their numbers right now. She'll be one of the first they get rid of
Mecole says she thinks America and Blue are disposable, just a number fo rthem. But let's say one of this side were to win and put one of them up, she believes the other side would have no problem sending them out
Felicia says if they won HOH they'd have to go for two power people. Not the ones that don't matter. Everybody's afraid to make the power move, but it'll let them realize they just got rid of their biggest threat, now they have a chance to go all the way because they weren't going all the way with them sitting in the room. Put up a Jag and Reilly or a Reilly and Matt and force them. If somebody comes off just backdoor the other one. So they're forced to vote off one of their brainhouses right off the bat. Going after Cory ehh. She's no tunderestimating Cory but he's at the bottom of their group.. He's disposable to them too.You have to go after the ones who are running sh**.
Mecole says if she had to say the trio that's leading the charge, it would be Jag Reilly and Matt.
Felicia sasys she believes it's Jag, Reilly and Cameron. Matt is following.
Mecole says she was just ognna say it's important not to underestimate the Reds, the Camerons of this game. THey know that base don appearance, Jag Reilly and Matt look like the front, the ones doing it. But she doesn't believe for one second, as vocal and active as Red is, he has nothing to say and he's just goin galong. Allowing somebody else to mastermind his game. Nor does that believe that for Cameron
Felicia says Red is on their side
Mecole says she hasn't been in the room.
Felicia says she's said they keep saying they have to wait it's too early. They're gonna wait so long that there isn't gonna be anybody to go get. They have to create this alliance now before they get them on their side. Everybody just wants a place to land, so the first person that comes and talks to them, that's who they're rolling with. So even though they're laughing and talking with Red, they still see him as (??). They assume too that since he's in the room. So they haven't touched anybody in Comic. They haven't touched anybody in their two rooms. Only their room and the Have Not room, and they don't want the Have Nots except for. The only one in the Have Not room they've messed with is Jared, and she doesn't realize that Jared isn't with her. Cory is buying in because he saved her. She doesn't like Luke and she doesn't like Hisam. So after this vote, the house is gonna be 8-8. nd if they can win head of household, they have to win.
Mecole says she believes that they need Luke if possible.
Felicia says she's waiting for an opportunity to get Luke by himself and ask himis he in that alliance over there? What are they talking about? She just asks questions point blank because you catch people off guard and they're stunned that you asked, but you'll be able to tell if they're telling the truth or not becase they won't have time to make up the lie. So she's just gonna say "So Luke have they pulled you in to the other side of the alliance yet?" And she's gonna say they've heard some stuff so she's just trying to find out. And if you really pay attention he's by himself a lot. So she believes Reilly was telling the truth when she said if she has to put somebody up it would be Luke.
Mecole says the likelihood of him winning HOH next week is very high, and if he wins, you don't know.
Felicia says that's why somebody needs to grab him before HOH. They need to figure out how to bring him to this side. It won't be expected, and just say he can be a quiet undercover radar, they won't say nothing. They won't tell him they have numbers.
Mecole says when she was talking to COry the other day he said he didn't believe that Cory has had any conversation with Reilly since she's been HOH.
Felicia says Reilly told her that. She told her she hasn't talked to him and that she doesn't care for him. She told her the firs tday they did those games, and they were on the thing, evidently he said something to her like "Oh I'm never gonna let you beat me" and she took offense abou tthat, and she said oh he gotta go. And they have not spoken. So that's why she says they can get Luke. He's just sitting in the middle neutral right now.
Mecole says she does believe that when they need him, Reilly will bite that bullet.
Felicia says but she may be arrogant enough to think, he didn't talk to her, so she's never gonna talk to him. She doesn't give a f*** what he does, so they can have him. If they really do have Red and Luke, they have 9.
Mecole says her concern is Bowie. Is that something that's absolutely strong?
Felicia says she truly believes that Bowie is on their side
Mecole says she just feels like when they'ev had serious conversations, she doesn't feel like she's heard her voice in those conversations. You can only be sitting back and not playing for so long
Felicia says she only really talks when there are three or four people in the room. As the room gets bigger she goes quiet. When it's her, Cirie, Izzy and her. She's been in a room when it's just her and Bowie. In fact, she was saying yesterday they see her as an outcast, they don't wanna have anything to do with her.
1:38 PM BBT: Jag talks with Reilly in the HOH room
Reilly tells him Hisam is going to talk to her
Jag says he had a conversation with Hisam, and he was worried that there might be a change in plans, but after their talk he felt better.
They talk about Kirsten doing better.
Reilly says that's why she's like ahh, Hisam is just really skeptical of what's happening in there.
Jag talks more about his conversation with Hisam, and him saying they're the outsiders.
Reilly says she feels like because she's HOH, it's easy for her to be the target next week for someone in the 8 person alliance, because there's no reason to put anyone else up. She and Matt would be in trouble, and for some reason people associate her and Matt are a couple. She would assume her and Matt or her and Luke or her and Cory because people are skeptical of Cory.
Jag says if he was in her position he would probably think the same because he overthinks. He would tell her if she needed to treat lightly. He thinks it'll be good. The folks he thinks are probably most up in the air that might not be safe are maybe Luke maybe Cory.
1:50 PM BBT: Cory talks with Reilly in the HOH room
Reilly says she feels it's been an abnormal amount of head of household conversations. No one can stop talking. Even last night, people were talking. Once teh backyard opened, everyone got this breath of fresh air. No one knew anything to do other than talk, and now people can go outside. People have an outlet.
Cory says things are gonna get more subtle because things are spread out now. All the strategy talk feels pretty straightforward.
Reilly says she's solid
Cory says solid to the bone, and more importantly solid with her. Some of it's the nomination stuff matters a ton
Reilly says she was so happy Felicia accepted the offer because she was worried about him from the first night. She couldn't stop thinking about him, she felt so bad.
Cory says after that conversation he was like she's his one but he just couldn't talk to her.
Reilly says next week one of the eight of them has to win HOH because if someone that she's not close with outside of their eight, like she knows Felicia and Cirie have her
Cory says he had a conversation with Cirie where she was basically like because he thinks people think not that they're close but she saved him from the nomination. So he was telling her like in that conversation when he was trying to get himself off the block, Reilly was like she loves Cirie, she loves Felicia, and that was music to his ears. So he thinks they're like if they win HOH, if it's not one of the eight. If it's them, they have to figure it out, that's always the name of the game
Reilly says exactly, she thinks right now, she was telling Jag she's worried for next week if one of the eight doesn't win because she's been up here basically having appointments. Everyone else has been down there able to bond. Especially the Comic room people. She hasn't stepped foot in that room. She's not close with Meme and whoever's down there. She's not close with Izzy. Hisam, as a person she feels close with him, but gamewise she thinks he is skeptical of the people who've been in and out of her HOH room. He's very nervous about an alliance being formed and she thinks he's a very smart observant person and he in his head is gonna be like if there's something going on and he's not part of those conversations, he's gonna need to do something about that and he's gonna have to do it himself. So she feels next week if one of the eight doesn't win she's probably gonna go up.
Cory says whatever they think the power is she's one o fthe people they think has to be because she's HOH
Reilly says right and she was lucky that Kirsten did what she did to shoot hersel fin the foot because that gave her an easy out to capitalize on.
Cory says everyone else to a certain extent feels like she didn't target them, so he feels like that's a little goodwill she should have with everyone outside of maybe Felicia, but Felicia she said she feels good about.
Reilly says Felicia she feels good about. Her keeping her safe and making this vote unanimous this week is going to be like her. This is their first trust exercise. She asked her to be a pawn because she truly wants her as a pawn. She promised her, she pinky sweared her this was gonna be a unanimous vote.
Cory says he hasn't heard a peep from one person.
Reilly says nobody's voting Felicia out of this house. Everybody's already under the impression. She was lucky someone had that reputation in the house and she could capitalize on it btu next week they're all loving to each other, they're all very close to anyone in power is going to be looking fo rthe easy way to get someone out and looking for at least one problem with someone to capitalize upon, and she thinks she's gonna be that easy out because she was the first HOH and she has power, and she's a comp beast. She's nervous
Cory says he doesn't think that' super unfounded but worse comes to worst, she's up against somebody else in the group, she knows (??) fighting for her, and he thinks Cirie and Felicia, and the people he's close to... he thinks the eight is solid and he feels like it's solid
Reilly asks if he hung out with anyone downstairs. Did he talk to Izzy?
Cory says he had one conversation with Izzy and he thinks it went pretty well but he feels like a lot of them have a good rappor twith Izzy
Reilly asks if Izzy asked him about... he didn't name any names right?
Cory says she said she feels like there's a power structure. He said he's not sure, if there is, he feels like maybe he's on the outskirts of it. He got saved which is good
Reilly asks if Izzy described, tell her everything. Did she say names? Did she say Reilly?
Cory says he heard from Cirie, you're seeing who walks in that HOH room. Which in his head that probably means her and probably Cameron, probably Jag. And then the question is who else are they throwing in there. Like Blue and America?
Reilly says they're very careful about coming in here. They're very solid and Jared is too
Cory says he thinks he's here the least and she saved him, and she saved Jared. It doesn't take a master detective to figure any of it out, but his answer to every time like what do you think is going on in the house is that this entire time he's trying to survive. Obviously he feels like he owes Reilly a debt. She saved him and he appreciates that but beyond, is there something bigger? If there is... he just doesn't know. He thinks people believe him because... he thinks it makes more sense to look at her and Matt in most scenarios Luke. Like 24-27, that kind of thing, whereas he feels a little bit more outsider so they're being a little bit more open to him. But the one thing from day one, if he ever hears a word of, so what do you think about Reilly? or do you think Reilly's a problem? He's gone straight to her
Reilly says she appreciates that. She feels like they carefully crafted their eight. They put in a lot of work this week to create this and made sure they had the right people to process it.
Cory says he thinks Luke might be their out. They think Luke is in this
Reilly says she thinks so too. Unfortunately, Luke is a good guy but to her, personally for her game, she knows he'd be a number if Matt told him to do something. He's their friend but they already have 8 people, he's not in that. Cory thinks he's a loner, Luke never talks game. He never came up.
Cory says she said she doesn't talk to Mecole? He feels like he has a really good connection with her
Reilly says she's great
Cory says if Mecole wins HOH, he feels like he can do a lot to make sure she's okay. Can he make her nominate Felicia and someone else, probably not. Definitely not
Reilly says no, she doesn't want that because she works with...
Cory says no he means just in general
Reilly says she doesn't want it to be her HOH and she doesn't want anything to do with Felicia and Cirie going anywhere
Jag returns.
Cory says if she wins, he could talk to her
Reilly fills Jag in on the conversation so far with Cory
Cory says he feels like when she says she doesn't have relationships, she knows that those of them that do they're gonna fight for her in teh conversations they have with them. And it's really early. Next week when she's not locked up in this room all day, she can get a lot of that done. If one of them wins, she's chilling the entire week, she has nothing to do. But talk to these people.
Reilly says right, she would have to scramble. That's whys he's like one of them has to win. They've carefully crafted this 8 person brigade. That's where her heart and focus is right now . One of them has to do it. They're gonna get to know her. The way she is as a person, she really overanalyzes. She's over this week. She's at week four. She disaster plans everything. She's just gonna blabber and come up with these crazy scenarios because that's what she does all day in her brain because she's crazy in that sense. Not to the point where she's gonna self implode but she just thinks things through and she has to talk them out with them even if she sounds like a lunatic. She was telling Cameron this yesterday he was like REilly chill. They literally have this alliane for this reason. She's the only one of them that hasn't been able to bond down there because she's been up here having appointments. She just feels like if she were in Izzy or Hisam's shoes and she didn't have someone to put up, she would put her up because that's the logical thing to do.
Jag says he feels differently about that, maybe that's because he's not up here. BUt the way he sees it is anyone he's talked to... everyone was able to have these conversations.
Cory says he also thinks it would be insane while she was HOH for them to be like, you know Jag, I don't know how I feel about Reilly. They're clearly buds
Jag says yeah maybe people aren't saying things to him