Written by Judith Blakley

This article contains spoilers and information that may or may not appear on television. Some of the audio and/or video clips may contain language or behavior that may be offensive to some people

After Jen's meltdown and subsequent eviction from the Big Brother 8 house, Jessica finds herself with the most difficult decision in this game - whom to betray.

Let's Begin at the Beginning

If you need more information on Jen's meltdown and how she jeopardized the integrity of the game, please refer to my previous article: "Big Brother 8 Game's Integrity in Jeopardy" (http://www.writernia.com/node/1012).

If you missed Thursday's episode where CBS did a surprisingly good job of showing Jen's behavior, you can visit CBS's website, click "Full Episodes" and then click "Big Brother 8" and you can catch up that way. CBS did omit some information from their broadcast, but they did show some footage that was blocked from the live feeds, so it was the first time anyone was able to see the full physical fight between Dick and Jen.

This video shows the full fight as seen on television:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRXsZqWROJQ
(video posted by: cooplsfamous)

Jen was one of the houseguests who consistently did well in competitions. For that reason, each time she was placed up for eviction, she would get off the block. Danielle decided to backdoor Jen by putting Amber and Jameka up for eviction. Danielle won the POV competition and took her own nominee, Amber, off the block. She replaced Amber with Jen. Amber and Jen won a trip to New York to play on the new game show "Power of 10" and were out of the house during Jen's meltdown.

Jen lost her mind because she knew she was going to be evicted from the house. She threatened to not go to the Jury House. She then began to self-destruct.

First, she took four cartons of Dick's cigarettes and crushed them, placed them in a trash can and pour bleach on them.

Dick took all Jen's clothing and belongings and hid them, then Big Brother Producers returned three cartons of cigarettes to him.

When Jen learned that Big Brother returned the cigarettes, she rebelled and began to eat. She previously won a POV competition by agreeing to perform certain tasks over the course of a month. One of those tasks was to only eat slop for thirty days. It was not only that she was eating food and not slop that angered the rest of the houseguests, but the fact that she was on slop because she won the POV that kept her from being evicted that one week and someone else was evicted instead.

Big Brother issued her a penalty vote for her rule breaking behaviors. She was voted out by a unanimous vote on Thursday night.

Footage immediately after Thursday night's episode:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkv8MT1Ns9E
(video posted by: quirkydude)

Prior to the vote Thursday night, Zack confronts Dick about his behavior in the fighting episode:
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbdtYwc6JI
(video posted by: dreamersvids)
Part Two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRHQdshLq8
(video posted by: dreamersvids)
Part Three: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihtJwj3RhBI
(video posted by: dreamersvids)

And now..

As Danielle was packing to move out of the HOH bedroom, she and her father, Dick, fought again. This time it was about the agreement Danielle made with Amber that got Amber off the block. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IavEEj4YFk (video posted by: xx2000xx)

Dick does a dance to celebrate Jen's eviction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nsnouw_Y-k
(video posted by: chip228)

Dick does a Jen impression as he, Eric and Zack talk about the speech Jen gave before her eviction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_knMJdhx8w
(video posted by: chip228)

After Jessica won the HOH, Eric and her celebrate as she packs for her move into the HOH bedroom:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vak6GeCKDNo
(video posted by: therealdeal2006)

Amber and Jameka are thrilled that Jessica won the HOH, but they may find themselves betrayed because America's Player, Eric, is told to get one of them nominated for eviction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s20NVD9tO9M (video posted by: xx2000xx)

Amber talks to Eric about what Jen said about Eric before she left:
Part One: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NjOWR3nfQ
(video posted by: quirkydude)
Part Two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlLRBUCaZk
(video posted by: quirkydude)
Part Three: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0nKtZBbwE
(video posted by: quirkydude)
Part Four: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJCWh7Jomw
(video posted by: quirkydude)
Part Five: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJUOKp8YiFs
(video posted by: quirkydude)

Amber tells Jessica what Jen said before she left:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww4XSfsCamM
(video posted by: therealdeal2006)

Jessica gets her HOH bedroom:
Part One: www.youtube.com/watch?v=poxlmTXhC24
(video posted by: quirkydude)
Part Two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0NI3CD27XU
(video posted by: quirkydude)

Who's Jessica Going to Betray?

Dick talks to Jessica:
Part One: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbPdEZqCctc
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6AU35f-T_g
(video posted by: xx2000xx)

Eric and Dick talk about possible nominations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiMtd7hJ6gI
(video posted by: xx2000xx)

Jameka talks to Jessica:
Part One: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ivmy6hUsPA
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPecVzSvq7k
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Three: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aocC-WY4e8
(video posted by: xx2000xx)

Eric gets his America's Choice task to get Amber nominated for eviction, and he begins working on convincing Jessica to put Amber up:
Part One: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_GfUF3EKTk
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Two: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8275DWNAKbc
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Three: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4OkIOirENY
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Four: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFXSHPutDk
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Five: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M72idY56Exg
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Six: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ucvuwLzLw
(video posted by: xx2000xx)
Part Seven: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDxmMHytkHE
(video posted by: xx2000xx)

Side Items

The Luxury Competition is just getting posted online at this moment and this is the first videos from that event:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLCQ5CO2vis
(video posted by: xx2000xx)

Everyone loves and misses Nick. In this radio interview in Alaska, he discusses Danielle and how he got onto the show: (http://www.bobandmark.com/audio)

I must give credit where credit is due. I first heard about Jen's meltdown and Nick's radio interview from this fantastic Big Brother 8 MySpace account: (http://www.myspace.com/allstarsbigbrother)