UnREAL 2.08

Fugitive

Darius is out of the picture for most of this episode. Quinn decides to do things a little different and have the contestants decide which one of them should get voted off the show. Tiffany knows that the other three women hate her. She doesn't think she stands a chance. Chet gets her the answers to the immunity challenge, which is a trivia contest where the questions are all about Darius.

Quinn is one step ahead of Chet. She gives the answers to Chantal and add in a question that was not originally part of the challenge. Chantal wins the challenge and Tiffany is sure that she will get voted off the show.

Rachel does not get as much of a spotlight as she has in the past but there are some interesting twists and turns in her part of this episode. In the beginning she is still in the mental hospital, sedated. She has been there for a week. Coleman wants to visit her but before he does he catches Yael snooping in his office, looking at his laptop. She tells him that she is a reporter and is working on a story about Everlasting. They broker a deal but the exact terms aren't known.

Coleman visits Rachel in the hospital and brings her back to the set. Her mother of course disagrees with this course of action and later comes to the set with another doctor to try and convince her daughter to return to the hospital.

Darius is missing throughout all of this. He left the hospital without notifying the producers of Everlasting. He meets up with Ruby at a diner. He tries to sweet talk her but she isn't buying what he's selling. She is still stinging from the fact that he dropped her from the show. She called Jay, after she heard from Darius and let him know where they would be meeting. Ruby walks out and Jay talks Darius into returning to the show.

Quinn has some personal drama of her own. John Booth still wants her but he also wants to have children with her. She's not up for that. Chet tries making a play for Quinn, for the umpteenth time. She's not up for that either. Chet focuses most of his attention on Tiffany. He still wants her to win in the hopes that it will get him in the good graces of her father who is the owner of an NFL team, a very exclusive club that Chet would like to join. He promises to do everything he can for her. Once it looks like she will probably get voted off the show he suggests that he could start another show for her. She likes the idea and in one of the weirder turns of the show they start making out.

Rachel's mother temporarily backs off her push to bring her back to the hospital when Rachel seems about to reveal something about her mother in front of the other doctor. She tries talking her daughter into it privately but Rachel still won't go back with her. Rachel tells Coleman in confidence what it is that her mother doesn't want her to reveal: she was raped by one of her mother's patients when she was 12. Her mother has managed to keep it under wraps but it is clear that this is something that Rachel has never recovered from. Does anyone else know about this? Does Quinn know? I'm guessing not.

Coleman assures Rachel that they will get through this together but I don't trust him. I think he sees dollar signs. I think his next move maybe to expose her story as a way of advancing his career. Of course he will probably couch it in terms of it being for Rachel's good. At the end of the episode He meets with Hot Rachel, nothing overt happens between them but she is Hot Rachel. I've got a feeling that something is going to happen between them.

Darius returns to the show in grand fashion. He walks in just as Tiffany is announced as being voted off the show and changes the rules of the game. He votes Jameson, the cop, off the show and picks Tiffany to spend the night with him.

There are lots of twists and turns here. I continue to enjoy watching the show progress. I wondered about Rachel's past, why her mother wanted her medicated. I was right about Yael being a reporter but that was kind of telegraphed.