With 3 days remaining after the PoV meeting till the next live eviction, and the vote having quickly crystallized into Brendon, Jordan and Kalia as probable votes to evict Lawon and Dominic, Cassi, Adam and Porsche as probable votes to evict Shelly, the battle shapes up as one both nominees quickly begin to realize that neither of them feels confident in fighting: the battle for Evil D!ck's vote. As Lawon sits at the table eating his slop, Shelly walks by and Lawon says to her, "You know, ain't it something that both of our futures in this game come down to the vote, basically, of one person: the most unpredictable guy who ever set foot in the BB house. Even though it's you or me, I sympathize with you having to deal with him." Shelly says, "It's probably gonna be as much decided by the other voters lobbying him as by us lobbying him. He's gonna be so sick of us all after this week that he'll wish he never came back into the BB house." Lawon says glumly, "Ain't that the truth?" Lawon finishes his slop and goes outside and sits in one of the lounge chairs alone, the other HG having formed into two groups inside based on who they supported, with Evil D!ck laying in the hammock and Shelly in the shower. A bit later Cassi comes out and sits down beside Lawon, and he gestures towards Evil D!ck and says, "I suppose he knows what's coming, eh?" Cassi says, "Yeah, it's awful in there. Both sides are having their own huddles in there, then they're lobbying the hell out of each other trying to sway each other's votes. I had to get away from it, but you can bet they'll be out here looking for D!ck next to lobby him. I wish the damn vote was tonight." ##### hears them and says, "Been there, done that," and rolls on his side to sleep till the other HG get out there.

The next 3 days see the lobbying, deal making, conniving and arguing reach such unprecedented heights that the volume of material posted on BB internet sites more than doubles its normal volume for that time of the game and subscritions to the live feeds spike 20% in 2 days. The action culminates in several loud, nasty arguments, with Jeff somehow in the middle of most of them with most of the other HG pi$$ed off at him, Jordan herself none to happy with him, and the nominees themselves, though both lobbying actively, actually out of the worst of the arguing. At th height of it all, while the invective and namecalling are going hot and heavy in the kitchen, Lawon and Shelly adjourn to the backyard with only Evil D!ck joining them. They both take the advice that was given them and quietly and calmly try to convince D!ck that it is to his advantage to keep them in the game. D!ck says "I have to think not only of the game itself, but also what will make these people easiest to live with for the next God knows how many weeks. You heard them in there. Buncha f---ing wackjobs. If I'd a known it would be this bad I'd never have come back."

The ugliness continues all the way through Thursday, even up till the live show starts, even through the HoH Room lockdown. D!ck decides that since Jeff is being such an insufferable a$$hole, arguing and fighting with everybody in the house, he will put the onus on him to break a tie and suffer the cosequences of having to do so. D!ck thus decides to vote to evict Lawon, thus forcing a 4-4 tie, and Jeff votes to evict Lawon. As Lawon takes the walk of shame, another huge argument breaks out with Jeff calling Evil D!ck a sonofab!tch, and only D!ck's realization that Jeff could easily kick his a$$ and Jeff's realization that doing so would get him kicked out of the game prevents them from coming to blows.