The Ruins Episode 6: Ruining on Empty

You cannot be a veteran, or challenger, in this game and not be a shady motherfucker. The episode begins with Susie and Johanna really wanting Veronica to go in against KellyAnne so either one can take the other person out. And privately, I mean very privately, Johnny calls out Evan and says he's only strategizing to save himself. (Remember, Kenny and Evan are friends, Kenny and Johnny are friends, but Evan and Johnny were never that close. As a matter of fact, Evan took out Johnny in the Gauntlet 3).

Shockingly, Veronica begins a conversation with a couple of the Challenger girls about possibly throwing the challenge.

So for nominations, the Challengers don't have much of a choice. Everyone is nominated from the team to go in minus Kim who won her ruin last week. So sad for them :-(. Johnny immediately says Susie, Veronica, and Johanna are going to go in (DUH, they are the only girls left.) Then he says Syrus, himself, and Derrick will go in.

So the challenge this week is to throw fruit over a wall, catch it on the other end, run it to a table where teammates will carry the fruit to a basket. The team with the most fruit at the end will win. The Champions fruit is flying over the wall completely crazily. Brad throws his fruit over the wall with it all staying close to each other EXCEPT weak little Kimberley throws her fruit in the air and it doesn't even go over. Both teams are doing fairly well until it starts storming. Do I even need to tell you who wins?

Cohutta is nervous considering he has the most money in his bank account compared to Brad and Dunbar. Johnny starts secretly telling his team that Syrus is dead weight and they should get him off their team.

In deliberation, Veronica knows she going in and JoJo, Susie, Johnny all say they want her against KellyAnne. Oh yeah, so does Derrick, who gets a bunch of slack from Veronica who says straight up calls him a coward to his face. For the guys, Johnny and Derrick say they decided for a number of reasons they want Syrus to go in and he choses Cohutta (the bank account). Syrus confesses to Brad that he's upset with the alliance. Veronica overhears Johanna, Susie, and Evan saying they want Veronica to come back so they can throw her in everytime and she gets pissed.

The ruins game the two guys and two girls will playing is hog tie where each player is suspended upside down and must get to the other end, grabbing a key along the way, unlock themselves, and run to hit a gong. Syrus starts out EXTREMELY fast except has trouble unlocking himself. Cohutta is very calm and ends up winning it. Syrus is ticked and now Cohutta has $18,000+. Then KellyAnne and Veronica go at it and they are taking much longer than the guys but KellyAnne ends up winning evening out the teams with 7 players each.

So later that night, Johnny comes up with an idea to put syrup on a sleeping Derrick and then cover him in feathers. Derrick

jumps off his bed and tackles Johnny and Johnny gets upset with Evan who doesn't come to his defense (what is this, the third grade?). Will this cause a new divide in the
team? We shall see...NEXT WEEK!