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With Brendon on the block against an ally, Brenchel kicked their game play in to high gear on Thursday's Big Brother episode in an attempt to keep him from getting evicted a second time this season.
"I did not fight my way back in just to be evicted again," Brendon told his fiancé, who, in turn, made his nomination all about her.
"It's my fault for not winning the HoH," she whined. "I don't want to lose you."
Eventually the tears stopped long enough for the couple to put their noses to the grindstone to try and get Shelly evicted instead.
"I heard Shelly said that if she won HoH she was putting you on the block," Rachel told Porsche – one of the swing votes for the week.
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Getting off the block is normally the nominees' first priority – but not on Wednesday's episode of Big Brother!
"The fact that I am on the block this week is the least of my worries," Shelly said, still reeling from the "lies" Rachel told about her earlier in the week.
Further pushing Shelly's fears aside was Daniele's claim that she and fellow nominee Adam were not her targets this week.
"As long as you're not lying to me, we're golden," Shelly told Daniele, forgetting that gold can tarnish quickly in the Big Brother House.
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Daniele's "worst nightmare" came true when Brenchel was reunited. And with the odds stacked against her going in to the Head of Household competition, things did not look good for the veteran on Sunday.
"My heart could literally explode right now," Daniele said as she faced the reality that her main opposition was back in the house.
"Why bother being here? Why would America vote Brendon back in this house?" asked Kalia. "Everything I did was for nothing. Absolutely nothing."
But not everyone was devastated to see Brendon return.
"I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders," Jordan said of not having to "babysit" Rachel now that her "bookie" is back.
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It was eviction night on Big Brother, but Thursday's show was all about the returning-houseguest twist.
Lawon ended Wednesday's episode by asking to go up on the block thinking that if he was evicted, "I have a 99 percent chance of coming back in to the game with super powers."
But the joke was on him, because, as the Chenbot put it with a sly smile on her face Thursday, "there is no special power." All that was missing was a maniacal, evil-genius laugh.
Lawon used his nomination to show off his "acting skills" by pretending to be shocked, but "Sketchy" Shelly put on her detective hat and began to interrogate the newly nominated houseguest.
"When he starts lying he gets a bad boy persona," Shelly said of "Lawonderful" who thought he was giving "the performance of a lifetime."
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After the nomination of Jeff and Rachel, the Big Brother house was a house of tears with stress levels reaching a season high as one player threatens to walk out of the game and another asks to be evicted.
"Keep yourself under control," "Sketchy" Shelly told Rachel as she began to accost her enemy Danielle.
"You have more class than this," she added, clearly delusional, as Rachel began to tear up.
"Everyone is manipulative and mean. They hate me," Rachel whined with mascara running down her face as she packed up her things after telling Jordan she was planning on leaving the house. "What do they want from me? What am I supposed to do?"
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"Danielle started a war," Rachel declared at the beginning of Sunday's episode of Big Brother. And as one might expect, "war" brought tears and drama.
Kalia began the episode continuing her cry-fest from Thursday after winning Head of Household.
"Emotions run high in this house," she told Rachel as soon as she got her head back in the game and began strategizing her nominations.
"I do respect you as a competitor," Rachel told her, despite having called her a "super floater" all season.
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"History has not been kind to the pawn," host Julie Chen said at the beginning of Thursday's Big Brother. And with Jordan nominated next to Brendon – the true target – one veteran was guaranteed to go home this week. But which one?
"It's kind of obvious who needs to go," Head of Household Daniele said, but some of the newbies did not see it that way.
"I have been riding both sides of the house," Shelly said of being torn between Daniele's wishes and keeping her ally, Brendon.
"Making toys at the North Pole is easier than playing Big Brother," said Adam, clearly a bit crazy from being forced to wear an elf suit all week.
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On Wednesday's Big Brother, Head of Household Daniele threw down the gauntlet after nominations. "My target is Brendon," she said. "Big moves get you really far in this game."
"I think she wants to kick out a guy that she feels she can't compete against," Rachel told Brendon in a moment of sanity.
"Worst case scenario, I go home but we're going to be married for the rest of our lives," Brendon replied in a scene that played out as a melodramatic soap opera complete with music and close-ups right out of a telenovela ... or an episode of The Hills.
"You have a big one of these right here," Brendon continued, poking Rachel's chest. "Actually it's a little lower."
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With her back against the wall, Daniele took the Head of Household title, leaving her fellow Big Brother veterans shaking in their boots ahead of Sunday's nominations.
After her main ally was sent home Thursday, Danielle admitted, "My plan blew up in my face." So walking in to the Head of Household competition, she did what she does best – she played to win.
And Adam and Lawon did what they do best too – they lost a competition that other houseguests referred to as "just another day at the gym."
Somewhat more surprising were the next three eliminated: veterans Brendan, Jeff and Jordan. But while Brendan and Jordan became Have-Nots, golden-boy Jeff became the lucky recipient of $10,000.
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"This week is not a week of nominations, it's a veto week," Rachel said at the beginning of Wednesday's Big Brother. For once, she actually made an educated statement.
With both Dominic and Adam – the duo nominated by Rachel Sunday – both thinking they were on the block as a "pawn," the house was scrambling going in to the veto competition.
"I want to play with Daniele and you two," Dominic said, telling Brenchel exactly what they wanted to hear.
And with Brendan thinking, "maybe this is the best time to back-door Jeff and Jordan," Dominic was playing hard to make sure he would be around to stab Brenchel in the back down the line.
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