Lone Ranger

Plot
The episode opens up with Team Victory in first class again. Most of the contestants are talking about how exciting it is they are dominating the game. In line to use the confessional, Joseph tells Kacvinsky that Caroline told him at dinner the other night she plans on blindsiding his alliance and eliminating Nupur for disagreeing with her in the previous challenge. He is curious as to how Joseph knew about the alliance in the first place, but decides to be forward about it and goes back to first class to confront Caroline, who claims that's the first she's heard of it. Kacvinsky then goes to ask Lizzie, who says that this is news to her as well. That leads to Kacvinsky starting to question Joseph's motives. Sam on the other hand is still having trouble trying to pry information out of some "potential alliance members".

In economy class, Caelan is angry at Serena, because Alex tells him Serena was playing him by being a mole. For Team Firecrotch, Ruchi is really relieved Riefy got eliminated because she knew about her and Brandon. Myra on the other hand suspects something is going on, and questions Ruchi who denies everything.

The contestants end up at an abandoned film lot in Hollywood, and Chris tells them this is where their next challenge is. But first, he says that they are going to pay tribute to the next batch of ten eliminated contestants, like they did back in the Grand Canyon. The scene flashes to Elizabeth stuck in the water with Colin saving her, Alli getting shot by Mama Alien in Area 51, Aaron running from the bulls in Spain, Evan rowing with his team on the gondola in Venice, Rachel trying to paint the flag in Greece, Jacob running up the volcano, Brittany forgetting the clue at Toy Story Mania, Marisa trying to coax her turkey into racing, Zack hurling snowballs during the snowball fight and finally Riefy getting stuck to the pole back in the Yukon.

Next, Chris guides them to set eight, where a wild west film set awaits them. Chris tells each team to split into three groups, one with three people, one with six, and one with the rest of the team. The three groups of three end up being

 Team Victory:  Lizzie, Nathan, and Ian

 Team Boss  : Kalee, Serena and Joseph

 Team Firecrotch:  Liz, Ashton and Brandon

Chris tells them they will be participating in the Western Shootout challenge, where they will shoot targets. Then there are three teams of six:

 Team Victory: Kacvinsky, Caroline, Nupur, Sydney, Colin and Emily,

 Team Boss: Andy, Caelan, Jen, Catherine, Alex, and JP

 Team Firecrotch: Ruchi, Myra, Connor, Nicole, Clayton, and Katie.

Chris tells them that those twenty-seven will be competing in the challenge and the third group will be sitting out this challenge. That means Nathanael, Sam, Cooper and Channing won't be competing. Channing and Sam look upset, while Nathanael looks indifferent and Cooper seems relieved.

First up is the shoot off competition. At an abandoned western town set, Chef is dressed as a bandit and is running back and forth from behind barriers. Chris announces whichever team gets the most paint of their team's color onto Chef after five minutes wins the challenge. He shoots the starting gun and the contestants being shooting at Chef, who curses under his breath and complains of being underpaid. Ian shoots Chef three times before running out of ammo. He looks at Chris, and Chris shrugs saying each is filled with a different amount of paint.

A montage shows Lizzie and Nathan pecking each other as both nail Chris with gold paint, Ashton cursing as she keeps missing, with Liz laughing, and Kalee and Serena each hitting him only every few shots.

Chef, half-covered in gold paint, soon gets shot down by Joseph and Brandon. All the teams are firing, and after five minutes, he is about half covered in turquoise paint, and around 1/4 in gold and 1/4 in orange. That means that Team Boss wins the first part and Team Victory and Team Firecrotch tie for second. He says that means the former has an advantage, as Team Boss will be the cowboys in the cattle-wrangling challenge.

Chris brings them to another part of the set, in what looks to be a western ghost town, and the six members from Firecrotch and Victory are all wearing utter hats on their heads, while the six from Boss are wearing cowboy hats. Chris announces that if a team gets completely roped by the other teams, they lose. Ruchi points out that only the cowboys have lassos, and Chris replies that isn't his problem. He yells go and the "cattle" scatter.

Team Boss heads after the cattle. Within second, Team Firecrotch begins to fall victim to Team Boss's lassoing. Alex, Catherine and JP had lasso Brandon, Myra and Nicole, and Andy, Caelan, and Jen corner Connor, Ruchi and Clayton and lasso them all at once. Connor and Clayton are giggling as Ruchi rolls her eyes, and Alex, Catherine and JP are all snickering. Ashton tells them to take it seriously, but eventually even Ruchi gives in to the giggling. Nicole curses and Brandon and Myra look dejected.

This leaves just Team Victory and Team Boss. Nupur spots a bunch of lassos behind a barrel, and alerts the rest of her team, who are successfully evading Team Boss's attempts at capturing them. Nupur tosses lassos out to her teammates, who turn the tables and end up lassoing all the Team Boss members. Kacvinsky and Nupur team up to get Caelan, Sydney gets Jen, and Colin, Emily, and Caroline get Alex, Catherine, Andy and JP. Chris is shocked that the cattle actually ended up roping the cowboys, and that means Team Victory wins the challenge yet again. They cheer, with Channing, Sam and Cooper running over and hugging and congratulating their team. Chris announces Team Firecrotch will be eliminating someone yet again.

At dinner, Ashton tells her alliance to stick with the elimination order and eliminate Nicole. Despite this, Katie, Connor, and Nicole think that Ashton's poor leadership is the cause of their loss today and their loss in the Yukon, and believe she should be eliminated so they talk to Connor and Ruchi about potentially swinging votes Ashton's way. Clayton looks like he's the deciding vote, and isn't sure what he's going to do with that power.

At the elimination ceremony, Chris arrives with Hollywood Movie awards, and says they are todays safety items. The first "Gilded Chris" as he calls them, goes to Katie. She throws her fist in the air as Chris tosses her the award.

The next awards go to Liz, Clayton, Brandon and Connor.

Liz yells "oh hell yeah," as Clayton scoops Connor and Brandon into a hug.

The next two go to Ruchi, and Myra. Myra loudly yells with relief, causing Ruchi and Liz to laugh.

The bottom two are Nicole and Ashton, and both looking extremely nervous. The last Gilded Chris award goes to...

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……….Ashton.

Nicole sadly takes the Walk of Shame, but says she has had fun and was glad to have made it this far.