The Trust: A Game of Greed
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ButThe Trustshould have been left to bake a little longer.
Whats worse, like most social experiments, the series reveals our inherent biases in choosing whom to trust.
But first, our ever-beguiling Julie opens her offer to learn that she must vote at the next ceremony.
Furthermore, $15,000 from the Trust is hers if the person she votes for goes home.
(boooo) as it will set a new baseline of trust with the team.
Dont rule out Julies intelligence!
In uncertain situations, always follow someone elses lead to inform how one should respond.
Its just psychology 101, babe.
The Trust is currently valued at $273,000.
We dont see many people really salivating over this, which feels like a flaw in the game.
Brian immediately tells the group about the new Vault and their tantalizing offers.
Julie plays along by lying, claiming not to have taken her offer because she didnt want the consequences.
Our all-too-trusting (gullible?)
Any greedy person would want this to inform who to trust, right?
Bryce is toast at the next ceremony, and he knows it.
Lindsey gives him a crisis communication plan for getting back in good graces with his teammates.
Nevertheless, she cannot help thinking that he doesnt have the chutzpah to try and save himself.
Our tender $1,000,000 veal is meek before the slaughter.
Julie, Tolu, and Winnie successfully oust Bryce from the Trust.
Bryce wonders if there is someone else who may be in cahoots with the Julie-Winnie-Tolu trio.
The boys think they can convince Julie and Lindsey to side with them for this takedown.
Jake and Brian approach Lindsey first; she sees safety in this because Winnie and Tolu turned mean.
Lindsey seems to have forgotten that she is a full-blown adult who is playing a game.
Mean is something teenagers are because they dont have fully formed identities yet.
A new test awaits the team in the evening.
The game will end when all three candles of one person are blown out.
Maybe its just me, but that card looks the shiniest its ever been.
The boys look as if theyve been spanked.
Julie smartly owns up to voting for Jay just to throw a vote out.
Jay reveals she voted for Jake, leaving Julie to realize that Winnie voted for her (ouch).
Lindsey lies and says she didnt get to vote.
Meanwhile, Winnie steps away to the Vault.
Brooke is inside with an offer that she has to take if she opens it.
She firmly believes that Jake has to go.
Julie, the only other option is for Winnie to leave!
Selfishness isnt black and white, remember?
The group of very noticeably white men and women share their sentiments about Winnie and Tolus friendship.
Meanwhile, Tolu and Winnie are sick of Julies feminine wiles and waffling ways.
They ask her straight up where her loyalty resides: the Union or the Confederate.
Julie borrows from Lindseys weak arsenal of descriptors and calls them mean.
When did we as adults start to equate telling harsh truths with being mean?
She is second to Brian and even Gaspare.
At this point, Winnies charisma has taken a beating.
She is anxious and discouraged.
Winnie then approaches our gentle rancher, or rather, she rattles his doorknob before stomping in.
She narrows the culprit down to Lindsey.
Shes impressed but pissed.
Come evening, Brooke surprises them with poker night.
Each contestant receives a spread of cards that have each persons name on them.
Ranging from questions like Who is the life of the party?
to Who do you think is most likely to be here at the end of the experience?
But the final question is a landmine: Who is the most trusted ally?
Lindsey, trying to play as neutral as possible, picks Jay.
But the boys are not wily enough to think far ahead.
Gaspare and Jake throw in her name.
Just as Winnie deduced, Lindsey is being sneaky.
Poker night adds $25,000 to the Trust.
Jake unabashedly reaches across Julie to give Gaspare a high five.
Mama Jay looks forward to retiring from this hell of a vacation.
She hasnt seen any of the tropical birds she hoped to see.
After Jay departs, the team is called to gather around their dining table.
Brooke tells them that Jay took her offer and has left the house.
Tolu and Winnie are down a crucial ally.
Winnie and Tolu retreat to theirs, lamenting their loss.
The only person in the house who didnt see their friendship as a threat was Mama Jay.
The problem with social experiments is that they can really show Americas embarrassing, racist undertones.
Tolu pulls Brian aside to apologize for the way that she spoke to him the other night about Winnie.
The timing of the apology is convenient, but Brian overlooks it.
He understands the need to stand up for a friend.
The time comes to gather around the dining table.
The majority alliance is quiet when Winnie asks if they want to address anything.
Winnie is right; it should scare the group that they do not know where Lindsey stands.
To no ones amazement, Brian is scared of the key card.
This is the most disheartening loss yet, as Winnies game has always been crystalline and honest.
Tolu feels a total sense of loss and dreads that she is next on the chopping block.
He leaves feeling some guilt about this windfall.
Though his starched-up jeans look good, deep down he doesnt feel the same.
In the morning, Tolu wakes up feeling more resolved, remembering that shes here for her parents.
She will fight because she deserves to be here.
She scolds Jake and Gaspare for outing her at poker night as well as at the candle test.
She decides to show her card, revealing her votes for Juelz, Bryce, and Winnie.
The guys are annoyed by her lies of omission.
Furthermore, Gaspare is shocked that Lindsey voted out her supposed ally Bryce.
He gathers that Tolu and Winnie have been telling the truth all along.
Ultimately she shares her voting history because she sees it as an opportunity to come clean.
They show compassion for the moves she has made in the game thus far.
Brian, Julie, and Jake decide not to vote.
Lindsey votes for Tolu, alluding to the whatever number of times she has called her names.
Tolu also enters self-preservation mode and votes for Lindsey, the snake.
He knows who Tolu is, but he cannot say the same for Lindsey.
Brooke arrives and announces that Lindsey is going home.
Stunned faces electrify the room, including Gaspares.
The first lie Brian has ever told in this game is when he manages to squeak, Too cute!
when he sees them snuggling in Jakes bed.
So long to our carefree queen.
