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-:05 Hidy ho, there Big Brother Fans! It’s that time again - I’ll be posting ass it happens recap as soon as the show starts - so sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale… (extra points for the next line!)

:00 Last time, on Big Brother 9 - it’s recap time!

:02 We rejoin the houseguests just after the nomination ceremony, where Mattie/Natalie and Alex/Amanda were nominated. Amanda says she’s not surprised at all. They’re one of the strongest competitors and will hang on to the week. Alex says 75% is Amanda’s fault because she opened her mouth. Alex brushes Amanda off, and Mattie tells us that James is a double crosser that went back on his word. The kid with the pink hair must go down, I made a deal with the devil and he must go down.

James says he doesn’t feel bad about it - this is Big Brother, you do what it takes to get to the end. He and Chelsia play around a bit in the HOH room, and tells us that she’s here to play a game. She has to look at it that way.

Natalie goes in to talk to Mattie while he makes his bed, and asks him what he’s thinking, he says he’s mad. He says he won’t go into the POV Cocky though, he knows he has to win.

Cut to Alex outside, where Amanda comes out to talk to him, and he says give me time, and leave, and give me time. He has a positive attitude toward the game, but a negative one toward her. She tries to say it wasn’t just about her - but he knows it is. Tells us so in the DR. He swears he won’t be negative to the house, but needs his space and tries to think positive.

Country music! OMG. Allison tells us it feels good not to have the target on her back for a week. She and Natalie are having a shoot off with cleaning supplies. “We’re not bored at all. Ha.” Meanwhile Amanda is working Sheila and asks where Allison is, because she got Sheila to keep her safe, no what? Sheila says she sees things she don’t like and Allison is copping an attitude. She tells us that she feels betrayed by Allison now and she got played.

Cue dramatic music…. James, Mattie and Adam talk about the fact that he shook his hand, and now he’s on the block when he seemed to be a straight up dude. James just says “You’re playing big brother, bro.” James tells us Matt and Alex are afraid. James is going in for the kill. They call James a tricky bastard and James just says hey, it’s a game. He says just play hard has hell for POV. Alex says James and Chelsia nominated them - he gets past this week, it’s revenge.

:09 Commercial.

:12 And we’re back, as Sheila asks Allison to talk and tells her that she’s been feeling a vibe from her and she feels she’s mad at her. She keeps saying she turned her back on her and ignored her. Sheila felt like she was only a friend while she was on the block, and she says Amanda was all “where’s your girl” and she feels abandoned.

:14 Time to pick players for the Veto Competition. The random couple picked is Sharon and Joshuah. And they choose Adam (8Ballah!) to host the competition.

Meanwhile Mattie is telling Alex the obvious, that one of them has to win POV, because he hates James and Chelsia - doesn’t care if he’s a loser, but wants to send one of them home. James busts in on them, laughing “What up losers!” Mattie tries to talk trash, and James just smiles and walks out.

:15 It’s time for the veto competition - get your gear and meet him by the back door. James worries he’s screwed if its physical. Everyone gets hard hats, and they go outside and see a lot of Jericho things - Mattie says it looked like electrical generators, he’s a roofer, so he felt pretty good and like he had an advantage. Chelsia thought of her dad who’s a line man and was confident.

Lives drastically changed, and they’ve been cut off from the rest of the world, new developments sugest they can restore contact. Solve the puzzle, and win POV and allow the house to receive outside info. Inside barrels of peanuts, there’s cables of different lengths, hit the button, if the light goes on, you’ve got them in the right order. Get ready! GO!

And they’re off, dumping peanuts EVERYWHERE. Amanda said they’d both tip the barrel over and she’d hook them up. Natalie has problems opening some, and James is going nuts. The wires are all different lengths, they poles were closer, then got farther apart, and there was only one solution. Sharon said it was definitely more mental then physical, because you had to get them in the right order.

They’re working hard and fast, and Josh and Sharon are neck and neck with Alex and Amanda with Matt and Natalie close behind. They forgot one, had to run back and get it and… Josh and Sharon win POV with seconds to spare!

:21 Alex says they lost by just a couple of seconds, and Matt says it was must win, they didn’t, and now he’s just praying. They get a ticker tape of outside information - Amanda is excited that McCain is the republican front runner, then also Barack Obama for the democrats. There’s Brittany Gossip. Then - The Hudson River Virus is threatening those cut off from the outside world.

Matt is all “….should I be worried?” James hopes it’s another clue to lead him to something else, and his mind is racing.

:23 Commercial!

:26 We’re back to see Allison telling everyone they have a natural tendancy to groom men. Sheila tells us that Allison is hanging out with everyone but her! She goes off on Natalie, telling her she’s done, and she’s been played and goes off on how she’s phony, and Natalie tells us Sheila needs to learn to keep things in and wait. She’s calling her every name in the book, as Josh listens in from the other room. Sheila tells us that she feels utterly betrayed by her.

She goes on and on to Mattie too, saying she saved that Bitch from being on the block! Mattie says she’s a basket case, and a loose cannon in the house. Meanwhile, Sharon is listening in this time, and Sheila keeps calling her every name in the book. Sharon runs upstairs to tell everyone what’s going on, including Allison and letting her know what’s going on. Allison is dumbfounded. Ryan says he was really angry about what Sheila was saying about his partner. Allison tells us that she had had it with her. Allison heads down to talk to Sheila. Cue dramatic music!

:31 Allison says I need to figure out what you’re doing. Sheila says that she owes her and Adam because they took her off the block, and the minute they got off she’s been treated her like shit and talked down to her. Meanwhile AMANDA is listening. in. Allison is like vice versa! What are you talking about? And Sheila calls her a phoney, and not to talk to her for the rest of the game. The yelling escalates, and Sheila keeps bringing up her education as the whole house listens in. They call each other Pathetic - and Ryan comes in to defend Allison, as Adam does. Sheila says they can’t be attacking me.

Ryan wants to know the reasoning behind this - and Sheila starts telling Ryan that Allison downtalked Jen, And Sheila says go ahead and play your game - while Amanda and Alex Celebrate in the other room

:33 Commercial!

:36 We’re back, as Sheila cries in the aftermath, and we see Allison running in the backyard, saying she doesn’t understand why she didn’t go to her first to Sharon, they’re recapping it all, and says you don’t know. We hear her breathing start to labor, and Sharon says out of nowhere, she had to go to the diary room. She ran into the house and goes inside, we see her ask if someones there and says her throat is closing, she needs an epipen, and we hear her start to cry.

We hear Tammy, the nurse offer the epipen. Meanwhile, Amanda says she needs sugar really bad, but is on slop. Natalie says she’s not eating hardly anything at all.

We hear the nurse ask Allison how she’s feeling. Shesays better. Then Amanda says she needs sugar, and that she’s not feeling good - and then she collapses, out cold! Natalie runs out and gets everyone and they all come to her aide, James pushes the button and yells for help, and Amanda wakes up, gasping for breath. Alex tells everyone about Allison, while the Nurse tries to help Amanda who’s gasping and freaking out. James holds her, as they try to get her to drink something, or suck on the gluclose. James and the Nurse hold her down, as Sharon holds her hair back, and Amanda is freaking out and won’t swallow. There’s siren in the background, as Tammy keeps telling her to swallow. Amanda comes back out of it, and James tells her she blacked out. She’s all ‘When?’ and he says just now, please drink the water. She doesn’t remember, and the EMTs arrive to take Amanda out on the stretcher, and collect Allison for her allergic reaction as well. As they’re wheeling her out, Amanda says again “I just need some sugar…”

:42 Commercial

:46 We’re back, as the houseguests talk about what went down, and Adam tells us he was impressed with James and how he handled the whole thing, and Natalie says it hit her, even if there’s negative feelings, they’re family. And They’re talking about whether they will come back or not. Joshuah says he felt bad for being rude and hopes she makes it back soon. She’s part of the Big Brother Family. Alex says they had their differences, but when something like that happens, it makes you think, and I hope she’s ok.

Mattie says James stepped up to the plate, and it looks out of character, and he’s very proud of his friend James for manning up like that. Alex talks about Allison being all swollen and huge, and Sheila says that she’ll never forgive herself if something bad happened.

:49 We see Amanda come back into the house, and go straight for her bed. Joshuah and Sharon find her there, and bring her out to say hi to everyone, and there’s hugs all the way around. Mattie and Alex tell her to head over to “that handsome man over there” and send her to see James. He says it doesn’t matter who it is, you do what needs to be done to help them out. Alex makes her a sandwich, and tells us that these people, even though they dislike her sometimes, they have feelings and cared about her health and she’s happy to be back.

They tell Amanda about Allison, and we see her come back into the house too, to hugs and welcome all the way around. She says everyone was glad to see she was ok, and it was a great feeling and she’s grateful to be there, because she’s not sure she would have gotten the urgent treatment needed elsewhere.

Allison and Amanda talk in the room, and how the house has forced them to be deceitful, and they need to change the way they are to each other, and Sheila joins in the love fest, and apologizing. Sheila tells us they’re not robots, they’re people, she has a child, they have feelings and love, and these are someone’s children, and she tearily says sometimes you have to remember it’s just a game.

:52 Amanda said that after she got back she really wants to stay, and is here to win. It’s time for POV Ceremony. Joshuah and Sharon do the stare at the wall bit, and Joshuah says strategically they could gain an allie by saving a couple, but you just have to make a decision and hope it’s the right one.

Sheila says she doesn’t feel safe, her fight with Allison caused ripples. Josh and Sharon open the meeting. Matt says he’s nervous, because he and Natalie are the most physically strong. But everyone knows the Pawn goes home. Alex says people will never use the veto, it is what it is.

:54 Amanda and Alex speak first, and Amanda says that she understands they want to respect the HOH decision, she won’t beg, and Alex says do what you need too, I just hope I have more time.

Mattie says he wants to stay too, but respects their decision, and Natalie says she doesn’t want to go back to the beaver state just yet, but she respects their decision.

Josh says that they love them both, Congrats for winning the first HOH and the first Veto, but unfortunately we’ve decided not to use the POV.

Mattie says it’s disappointing because he’s up against his boy, buit he’ll do what he has to do, it is a game. Alex says he’s still on the block - NY vs Boston, one is going down. Amanda says a little trip to the hospital won’t ruin her BB experience. If she gets off the block, the house better watch out.

:56 Who will be evicted? Find out tomorrow - live!