Sunday, August 30: The winner of the HOH was revealed to be Kevin, who went back on his word to Jeff and put up Jeff and Michele for eviction.

Tuesday, September 1: Following the nomination ceremony, it finally starts to dawn on Jeff that perhaps Kevin is not the most trustworthy person in the house.  He and Natalie try to assure Jeff that Michele is the true target, but Natalie admits in the Diary Room that she was "lying straight to his face." 

Later, in Kevin's HOH room, he discovers the "doorway to Pandora's Box," which appears to have taken the place of the HOH bathroom.  Kevin's clue to what's inside the room is a picture of Pandora's box with a sign that says "To Release $10,000 put your hand in the hole [in the top of the box]."  Kevin weighs his options, but then decides that since he is a "greedy bitch," he will enter the room and stick his hand in the hole in the box.  Once he does so, however, his hand is locked inside the box, and the money gets released to the other house guests who are in the backyard.  Kevin is able to watch all of this on a video screen that is in the room with him.  A message on the screen then tells him that the key to release him from the box is hidden somewhere in the house.  When Natalie goes up to Kevin's room to check on him, he tells her about the box and the key, but she goes outside to collect more money rather than search for the key.  Jeff starts to think that there might be a catch to keeping the money, and when he goes up to see Kevin, Kevin lies and tells him that the only way they all can keep the money they've collected is to find the key that unlocks Kevin's hand from the box.  Once again, Jeff's gullibility comes into play, and he starts going around the house searching for the key.  He quickly finds it behind the couch cushions, but then proceeds to go outside to collect more cash rather than free Kevin.  When all was said and done, Jordan collected $1726, Natalie collected $1904, Michele collected $2563, and Jeff collected $3181.  After Jeff finally gave the key to Kevin, Kevin was able to snatch $626 for himself. 

Next up, the veto competition.  The house guests were clothed in spacesuits and separated into different rooms for the annual "guess whose faces make up this combo face" competition.  The backyard was set up like an alien landscape, and, one at a time, video screens brought up an image of an "alien" face that was made up of the faces of two of the houseguests morphed together.  Each house guest went out to the yard, one at a time, and had to guess who the two house guests were in each of the six pictures in the shortest amount of time.  The faces shown on the screens were as follows: (1) Casey-Kevin (2) Lydia-Ronnie (3) Jeff-Jordan (4) Natalie-Michele (5) Jessie-Laura (6) Braden-Russell.  The times the house guests received were: Kevin-3:05, Natalie-2:55, Jordan-5:09, Michele-1:52, Jeff-3:01.  Therefore, Michele won the POV and as a bonus, she won a Vizio home entertainment system complete with 55-inch HDTV screen.

Folliowing the competition, Michele tries to strategize with Jeff to convince Kevin to keep Jeff in the competition.  Jordan meanwhile is broken up because she believes she let Jeff down by not winning the veto.  She knows she'll go up as a replacement nominee, but says she'll campaign to have everyone keep Jeff in the house over her.  At the jacuzzi, Michele tries to turn Kevin against Natalie by proposing a final 3 deal with her and Jeff.  Kevin listens to what she has to say, and even says in the Diary Room that she's making sense, but we've seen enough Big Brother in our lives to know that this last-minute re-thinking of strategy rarely gains any traction (except with very gullible people like Jeff).  Sure enough, at the veto meeting, Kevin names Jordan as the replacement nominee once Michele takes herself off the block.

Thursday, September 3 (Day 61): Following the veto meeting, Natalie and Keivn are elated and Jeff, Jordan, and Michele are deflated.  Natalie is particularly pleased that she didn't have to get any blood on her hands in this whole process, but still reaps the rewards of Jeff's impending eviction.

Meanwhile, Jeff and Michele foolishly try to work on Natalie to get her to vote to evict Jordan.  First, Jeff approaches Natalie and begins negotiations.  Later, in the backyard, Jeff tells Natalie that both he and Michele will throw the next HOH competition guarateeing that Natalie will become Head of Household and be in the final 3.

At the live eviction, Jeff makes one last plea to Natalie to vote to save him and restates his deal to give her HOH and calls Kevin a backstabber.  Given that only five house guests remain, there are only two votes that will be cast.  Natalie votes to evict Jeff, and Michele votes to evict Jordan.  Therefore, Kevin, as Head of Household, has to break the tie, and he votes to evict Jeff.  Jeff leaves the house to a standing ovation from the studio audience, reaffirming his status as most popular house guest this season.  In spite of everything, Jeff also reaffirms his status as most gullible house guest and tells Julie that he still would have turned on Russell last week because he still felt that Russell was going to come after him, still believing the lie that Kevin and Natalie told him.  Last week, Russell told Julie that he would have honored his final four deal with Jeff.

The Head of Household competition is a true-false game, "Fact or Fiction," and only the three ladies left in the house are eligible to compete.  Jordan takes the early lead in round 1, but by question 7, there is a three-way tie of four points each.  The tiebreaker question was "In the HOH competition, "Can Do," how many total cans did all five competing house guests have in their tubes at the end of the game?"  Michele guessed 65; Natalie wrote 75, and Jordan wrote 24.  The correct answer was 91 cans, making Natalie the new Head of Household.  However, Michele almost won because we could see that her original answer was 80, but at the last minute she changed it to 65.

Natalie's win keeps the power in the hands of her alliance with Kevin, so it is no surprise as to which house guests are in danger of eviction next week.  Given that we are in the home stretch of this summer's competition, the game schedule shifts a bit in that Tuesday will be the live episode next week, where the veto competition, live veto meeting, live eviction, and part 1 of the 3-part final Head of Household competition will take place.  Next Thursday, the final Head of Household competition will conclude and the final two house guests will be known.  Finale night is on September 15, and will be a live two-hour show.