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It's been a day of work in the Big Brother house. 

About halfway through the day, feeds went down for a few hours for the POV ceremony and preparation for the dinner, which the house earned as a result of Peter's task from Marsha the Moose.

Putting on the moves during bedroom lockdown

Alec woke up after sleeping off last night's fight with Emmett and Jillian and immediately went to work entertaining the house and trying to get firmly on everyone's good side. He's not actively campaigning against Topaz, but... he's not exactly not campaigning, either. It's a fine line. He'll sell himself without selling her out. 

His Hail Mary, as he outlined last night, is to promise Emmett and Jillian that he would actively sit out the next Head of Household competition, a promise he's privately told Peter that he intends to stick to. 

For one week, anyway. After that, he's going after Jillian and Emmett with a vengeance.

Trying to get a word in edgewise with Talla on speed

Somehow in all the chaos of the last few days, it seems like Topaz didn't truly believe she was going on the block until it happened, so she's been much grumpier tonight, hanging by herself while Alec works the house. 

She vented to Talla - naturally, she's angry that she could have won the competition and trusted Jillian, who's now broken all three promises that she made. (Jillian disputes this, saying she only broke two of the three, and that putting up Topaz as a replacement pawn doesn't actually violate what she promised her. Sure, Jillian, whatever helps you sleep at night, especially as you contemplate sending Topaz to jury.)

I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel

Emmett, meanwhile, is torn - he seems to switch from Topaz to Alec and back again depending on who he's talking to. As angry as he was after the conversation with Alec last night, something about it resonated, and he wondered all day today if he's better off keeping Alec instead of Topaz. 

He's also trying to pressure Jillian into going for a 2-2 split vote in which she would break the tie, because... well, he's not giving a great reason for it, though it would be super for his game... in a final two against her.

Good thing that invitation to her sister's wedding is in pencil.

A head scratcher

Jillian at this point is changing with the wind too, though her wind smells suspiciously like milk and tattoos. She's worried about being a target next week, so Alec's sit-down promise is tempting, especially since Topaz isn't offering anything like that.

In the meantime, she and Talla are going after Topaz for the dregs of a mostly fake girls' alliance later tonight, and Topaz's reaction to that may well determine whether Jillian supports keeping her in the house, or decides that Emmett's split-vote and Alec's sit-down HOH are more tempting to her game.

Talk to the hand

Andrew is not budging at all - Emmett tried to float the idea of keeping Alec and he unleashed a torrent of reasons why that was a bad idea. There's no doubt in Andrew's mind that Topaz needs to stay, so if a house flip happens, don't expect him to be a part of it.

Shielding

Peter is locked and loaded to do the campaigning against Topaz that Alec refuses to do, already starting to sell her vengeance to Emmett to try to preserve the Shield.

Alec said to Peter tonight that his life is in Peter's hands. It seems like they may have worked out that Peter will have to do the campaigning against Topaz, since wherever Alec is in his torrid soap opera of a relationship at this point, he just can't bring himself to do it.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones

Talla, meanwhile, has been on crack today. She spent some time after the task reveal dancing around the house jabbering to Tom's monkey Mr. Jones, until Big Brother broke down and confiscated it. They instead gave her a card that said "Do you love it?", her catchphrase, which she's been alternately wearing, talking to, and promising to marry.

In the middle of all of this, she's working as Jill's lackey in this arrangement with Topaz. It seems like she wants the guys out of the way one way or another, and Alec is simply another means to this end.

So right now, the votes are looking like this:

Andrew: Voting out Alec

Talla: Voting out Alec

Peter: Voting out Topaz

Emmett: Could vote out Topaz or Alec 

Jillian: Could cast the swing vote either way if Emmett votes out Topaz.

Alec is probably still going home, but things aren't looking quite as dismal as they did twenty-four hours ago.

And, hey - what ever happened to that "mundo power"? No one is acting like they have it, especially not Jillian, so we might be looking at a Wednesday night public vote, in which case, it really will be anyone's game.