Big Brother Guests Try to Corner the Saboteur

The mischief and mayhem known as Big Brother flew into full throttle for the first nomination ceremony. Everything hinges on The Saboteur.

At end of the first show, all talk revolved around the identity of The Saboteur. The talk continued, and the nominations reflect the talk.

Brendon Villegas, the 30-year-old high school coach from Riverside, California, separated from the group when The Saboteur doused the lights during the first episode. Brendon explained that he had to find his toothbrush and brush his teeth. You could hear a collective "Huh" from the many television sets across America.

Suspicion also fell on Andrew Gordon, the 39-year-old, off-center podiatrist from Miami. Andrew hid behind the sofas and got involved with throwing things when the lights were out because, he explained, he's a prankster. Big Brother bestowed immunity to Andrew who agreed to act as the host of the first HOH contest.

So, during Sunday's episode, the houseguests debated on the identity of The Saboteur, but decided that even Andrew is The Saboteur, for this week, they can't do a thing about it. They turned their sights to Brendon. The explanation was as simple as: he's weird, and he's a strong player. Brendon's toothbrush explanation didn't go over well.

With all of that playing in the background, the show launched into an immediate contest for food and amenities: a Have/Have Not contest. In Big Brother fashion, the houseguests were treated to another inventive way to get covered in slime. They were broken up into three teams. They had to crawl through caramel, dive into a bowl of popcorn and find a cutout of a tooth. Then they had to go back through the caramel and put it on a graphic of a smile. When one made it through the pit, the next team member would dive into the caramel.

Bottom line: the losing team will face a week of slop and have to sleep in a room fit for the dead, replete with maggots and bugs growing in jars about the room.

During that competition, the houseguests threw their Saboteur suspicion over to Kathy Hillis, the 40-year-old deputy sheriff out of Texarkana, Arkansas. She couldn't get through the caramel. She got stuck, quite literally, and while the other team passed her (went in, went through, found a tooth and made it back through the caramel) as she lay stuck trying to get out of the caramel (having been through the course). She stalled, then stuck, with part of her body hanging out of the caramel pit.

One houseguests aptly said that he has major concerns regarding the policing in Texarkana given her lack of physical ability. Supposedly.

When the losers made their way into the room from hell, Kathy gave a speech to Kristen Bitting, the 24-year-old Boutique Manager from Philadelphia. Kathy told Kristen she has to try harder, not in the form of a pep talk. It was definitely more to point out to the others that Kristen may not be up to speed. It might have worked had it not have been coming from a police officer who had just lost the competition for her teammates because she was stuck in caramel.

The Saboteur has played into all of this by putting a big X over the faces of both Kathy and Kristen. Kathy brushes it off quicker than Kristen, but hurts herself by giving Kristen a lecture on how to do better for herself.

In Hayden's Head of Household room, an alliance began to brew with Enzo, the Jersey boy, playing the king of the rat pack. After all five of the chosen had gathered in the room, Enzo decided they needed slang names, as well as an appropriate name for their gang. He kept likening his actions to setting up a mob and a crew. The others ate it up.

Lane put it into perspective. Lane Elenburg, the 24-year-old oil rig salesman from Decatur, Texas, came into the show with the idea of hooking up with someone smart. After Lane, dubbed "Beast", was inducted into the Big Brother mob, The Brigade, he confided to Big Brother that he had no idea what a brigade was, but he was now part of this one.

The members of The Brigade are: HoH Hayden, Animal; Matt, Brains; Lane, Beast; and Enzo who asked to be called Meow Meow. Now the fun of the season will be in watching Lane refer to Enzo as Meow Meow.

They hatched a plot on the first nominations. They agreed that The Saboteur is a woman, but they gave the stink eye to both Brendon and Andrew, not cool enough to be called a special name. They decided, with Hayden's approval, to nominate Brendon and his new showmance Rachel, the Vegas babe. The idea being Brendon's strong, so if they couldn't get him out during this first eviction, they would take his counterpart out, cutting his power, and probably his will to exist.

Rachel was completely taken aback at being nominated. Hayden's only explanation to her was that she hadn't taken the time to get to know him, so what else could he do.

Unless either Brendon or Rachel wins the power of veto this will be the shortest showmance on record. As soon as the Head of Household contest went down, Brendon revealed his scientific background to Rachel, the chemist. It's nerd heaven with a side order of Vegas showgirl. You could sense stars floating about both of their heads as they spoke.

The show closes with Annie who takes Ragan aside to tell him she has had a girlfriend for over a year. Ragan is thrilled Annie has told him something so personal. What will Kristen, who declared love for Ragan on first meeting, do about this?

Stay tuned for the Power of Veto Competition, July 14, Wednesday, 8 p.m.