The Big Sleep

Plot
The episode opens up with Team Boss and Team Victory celebrating their second joint victory, only this time they're in the luxury cabin.

In the main banquet hall, Kacvinsky sits with Collin, Cohen, Marisa and Ian, the five laughing and eating breakfast, a few seats down from Nathanael, Alli, Caelan, Nathan and Matt who do the same. Lizzie chats with Alex and Catherine on the couch by the fireplace, and Samantha and Eugenia come in laughing carrying more plates of steaming hot food.

 Eugenia (CONF):  The perks of winning? Eating food that isn't Chef's disgusting slop

Chef (CONF): Excuse me?

In the workout room, John, Trevor and JP lift next to Andy, Sam and Emily, the six talking about how they're so lucky such an amazing strategy came out of Transylvania and if they keep it up they can guarantee lasting a few more weeks.

 John (CONF):  This is a sick setup

Joseph sits on the front porch with Serena, Rachel and Kalee. Rachel tells the three she wishes she was on a team with them, as she feels on the outs when it comes to Team Victory.

 Joseph (CONF):  I feel for Rachel, I mean honestly I'm surprised she's already outlasted Bailey

Cooper sits on the other side and reads with a cup of coffee and Sydney comes onto the porch out of breath, having just gone for a morning run around the island.

Upstairs in a hallway, Cassy, on her way to get ready in the bathroom, overhears Caroline blowing up to Channing and Camila in one of the bedrooms that they need to get Cassy out of the game as soon as possible.

 Cassy (CONF):  Um ok I feel like that came out of nowhere?

Camila argues they'll need her physical strength until the team phase, but Caroline argues they don't want to keep her around until it's too late and they're hit with a surprise merge.

An upset Cassy storms away, wanting to find Kacvinsky and Rachel to talk strategy and ensure that Caroline is the next voted off of their team should they lose.

Liz, angry about the fact that they are going to be ganged up on, decides to take it upon herself to figure out how to turn the two teams against each other.

 Liz (CONF):  If they are going to play that way, so am I

She paces back in forth in Team Firecrotch's cabin, trying to devise a strategy to ruin this new happy alliance. Beside her, Connor, Evan, Justin and Ashton are talking about stepping up their game, Myra and Ruchi sit in silence and Ellie, Ilan and Becca watch longingly as they see Kacvinsky, Samantha and Eugenia dancing through one of the luxury cabin windows.

 Becca (CONF):  I mean how is this fair, this is their second time enjoying luxury together and we haven't even won one fucking challenge

Alma is on a run, Brandon is still asleep and Katie plays cards with Clayton and Aaron.

Suddenly, Chris blows the airhorn, summoning all of the contestants to the elimination ceremony.

 Brandon (CONF):  Oh yikes this can't be a good sign

The scene flashes to everyone huddled around Chris, who tells them their next challenge will be what he likes to call...the Awake-a-thon!

 Serena (CONF):  Wow what a name *rolls eyes*

The last person to fall asleep wins for their team, and the challenge will run until the other forty-five contestants have bit the dust.

The scene flashes forward to the twenty-four hour mark, and not a single contestant has fallen asleep.

 Channing (CONF):  *groans* I am sooo bored

Caelan, hoping to disrupt the harmony between his team and Team Victory, sneaks over to where Nathan, Lizzie and Ian are sitting and starts softly playing a lullaby through his phone. All three have droopy eyes already, and within minutes they're asleep on top of one another.

A few minutes later, Chris walks out with a tray holding seven cups of coffee, telling the contestants it's more fun for him if they stay awake so he wants to help them out. He says it's first come first serve, and a montage shows Marisa getting shoved out of the way, Becca and Samantha running shoulder-to-shoulder and Evan falling to the ground, before ending on Chris's face horrified.

Ashton, Aaron, Liz, Caelan, Matt, Connor and Andy are the first to the coffee and within twenty minutes, all are asleep. A lot of the contestants look confused, but Cooper doesn't seem phased.

 Cooper (CONF):  Chris spiked the coffee with sleeping pills or something, that felt obvious

An hour or so passes and Cohen, Channing and Rachel are so tired they fall asleep, a little bell signifying they're all out of the challenge.

 Cohen (CONF):  *yawning with bags around his eyes* This challenge has to be what hell feels like

Another full day passes with only Marisa, Brandon and Becca falling asleep. Cassy is listening to her iPod for pump-up music, Catherine and JP are holding each other accountable and Kacvinsky decides that if he doesn't stop moving, he will stay awake. Nathanael and Alli are talking, encouraging one another, Ellie sits down by the dock with Eugenia and Ilan, intense in conversation, and Justin ties himself to a tree so tightly he's forced to remain standing.

Another ten hours pass, and now Kalee, Justin and Camila are out cold, with Justin having collapsed and taken the tree with him. While Cassy is walking to the bathroom, her iPod falls out of her pocket. Liz, seeing an opportunity to take advantage of this, subtly steals it and slips it in her pocket.

 Liz (CONF):  *bags around her eyes* Hopefully this works

Chris sends everyone who fell asleep off to the cabins, leaving the twenty-seven who are still awake there. It has been fifty-eight hours so far, and the contestants seem to be catching their second wind. Since they started at midnight, it is now ten in the morning. Another boring fourteen hours pass, and Caroline, JP and Joseph are the only ones to have fallen victim to sleep.

Kacvinsky and Sydney are deep in conversation, hoping it will keep each other awake for their team. Catherine, sad that JP fell asleep, decides to talk to Collin. Unfortunately for her, the conversation seemed to put him to sleep and soon he's out cold. Ellie, John, and Alex fall asleep on top of each other. Eugenia and Trevor also pass out while looking at the stars.

A montage shows Ruchi collapse on the ground and passing out, Myra softly closing her eyes with a bell ringing right after, Emily leaning her head on Cooper's shoulder, both asleep, and Nathanael and Alli snoring on top of one another.

 Sam (CONF):  *bags around his eyes* Man this challenge is brutal

The camera pans past Ilan snoring, Cassy asleep sitting up against a tree, Alma drooling, Katie waking up and realizing she's out, Serena with messed-up hair and lands on Clayton loudly burping upon waking up.

After this, only five remain: Kacvinsky, Catherine, Samantha, Evan and Sam. Chris says he's impressed with the willpower of these five, but he knows what's going to break them. He lugs a giant phonebook onto a pedestal, and begins reading the names and numbers one by one. Kacvinsky and Catherine almost instantly drop out, but Samantha challenges saying he'll need to do better than that.

 Evan (CONF):  *bags around his eyes* Why the hell would you ever say that Samantha

This leaves one member on each team remaining, and the camera pans over to the cabins, with Chris's boring voice reading the names and numbers over the transition. Cassy is absolutely livid that someone stole her iPod. All the eliminated members of Team Victory look on scared. Matt offers up the explanation no one stole it and it was simply misplaced, and Cassy gives him a death glare.

When Caroline tells her to calm down, Cassy turns to her and exposes the fact that Caroline and her allies want to take her down. She looks at Kacvinsky, on the verge of just coming clean and outing their alliance, when Liz steps in. She says she found this in Andy's bag, which was weird because she remembered it was Cassy's.

 Lizzie (CONF):  Ok Andy what the actual hell

An embarrassed Cassy gratefully accepts it, thanks Liz and apologizes to her team. Despite this, the others still look a little worried at her outburst.

 Nathan (CONF):  Yeah...that was insane

 Sydney (CONF):  I can't believe Andy would do that...

Another hour goes by and Evan, Sam and Jen are still going strong. Finally, exhaustion hits Sam while he is on the toilet, with a cameraman finding him sound asleep with his pants around his ankles. This sends Team Victory to their first ever campfire ceremony. As Chris is about to announce it over the intercom, Samantha unexpectedly drops as well, meaning Evan wins for Team Firecrotch. Given the other contestants are out and about (as it's been a few days), Chris announces the results over the loudspeakers. The scene shows Ellie, Ilan and Becca sprinting out of the messhall, Alma and Ruchi running from the girls side of the communal washroom with Justin and Clayton running from the other and Ashton, Aaron, Liz, Connor, Brandon, Katie and Myra bursting out of the cabin, ending with all of them converging on an asleep Evan at the campfire ceremony and going absolutely insane. They toss Evan (who looks miserable) in the air, cheering and jumping up and down, psyched they won their first challenge.

The members of Team Victory look nervous, having to head and vote a second member off of their team.

At dinner, Caroline sits with her alliance and tells them they have to stick to the plan, especially after Cassy's little tirade. A few tables down, Nathan, Matt and Sam sit together, the three agreeing about needing to axe Cassy for the team's benefit. Well, Matt and Nathan agreeing as Sam is out cold.

Kacvinsky sits with Eugenia, Cohen, Ian, Rachel, Cassy, Sydney, Channing and Cooper, and Cassy is making a plea to them as to why they should keep her around. She argues Caroline is a much bigger strategic threat, and they need to take her out while she's vulnerable.

 Ian (CONF):  I mean Cassy makes a good point...

Everyone dances around the subject, before Cooper bluntly tells Cassy that it may not matter, because she's going to draw votes after her little slip-up at the cabins over an iPod. Cassy says she understands, but they need to be thinking about this strategically. Over the intercom, Chris announces it's time for the campfire ceremony, and the members of Team Victory file out, the gaze of the other two teams present.

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At the elimination ceremony, Chris tells Team Victory that he likes cheering for them and he's sad they're back for their second visit. He hands out the first marshmallow of the night to...

Cooper.

Cooper just smirks in response.

Cohen. Matt. Emily.

Emily, enthusiastic even through the lack of sleep, hugs Cohen, Matt and Cooper individually, the latter of whom doesn't look please.

Rachel. Eugenia. Kacvinsky. Camila.

Kacvinsky runs over and tackles Camila, and Rachel and Eugenia excitedly run up to claim their safety.

 Rachel (CONF):  I'm feeling great, I mean surviving my second elimination ceremony?

Ian. Sam. Lizzie. More hugging and cheering.

Nathan. Sydney. Channing.

Sydney sighs loudly with relief, as does Channing as her and Nathan cordially hug.

That leaves the bottom two as Cassy and Caroline. Chris tells them that they both managed to garner some votes, but only one will be taking the Dock of Shame to the Boat of Losers. Caroline looks absolutely shocked she received any votes, and Cassy keeps eying members of her alliance who all seem to be avoiding eye contact. Chris draws out a long pause, before handing the last marshmallow to...

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Cassy looks devastated, although not surprised. She apologizes to the team again for losing her cool, and although there's silence at first, Emily forgives her, prompting the rest of the team to follow-suit. A group hug follows, with Chris gagging at how "lovey dovey" (in his words) this is. Cassy reminds them that most of them will experience this so to be ready, because it sucks, before walking the Dock of Shame and boarding the Boat of Losers.

 Cassy (CONF):  Man...I just really didn't expect to go out this early, I really thought I'd do better...this sucks

Everyone gathers at the end of the Dock of Shame, watching Cassy get pulled into the distance, when Chris says that's enough of that.

PARTY.