Jane Austen: Welcome back. Tensions were high after Miss Bennet announced her nominations.
Elinor: (diary room) I will not allow emotion to overcome me. No, I will keep calm and make sure that I do not go home this week. I quite understand Miss Bennet putting me up and hold nothing against her.
(Later, Brandon approaches Elizabeth)
Brandon: Miss Bennet, I few you did not take seriously my previous warnings. I cannot force you to believe me, but I give you my word as a gentleman that I was not lying.
Elizabeth: (crossly) I shall venture still to think of the gentlemen as I did before.
Mary: (diary room) Ever since he got nominated, Col. Brandon has been brooding all over the house. Although, come to think of it, he was almost always brooding before then also.
(Later, Elizabeth sits with Fanny sewing. Darcy sits in a chair at a distance reading a book, but occasionally glances up and looks at Elizabeth).
Elizabeth: (diary room) It seems that ever since I won Head of Household, Mr. Darcy will not stop staring at me. I do not know what he means by it, but if he is trying to intimidate me, it shall not work.
(Caroline approaches Darcy)
Caroline: I can guess the subject of your reverie.
Darcy: I should imagine not.
Caroline: You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner.
Darcy: I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Caroline: I do desire that you tell me what lady has the credit of inspiring such reflections.
Darcy: Miss Elizabeth Bennet.
Caroline: (diary room) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Jane Austen: The next day, the houseguests gathered in the yard to play the Power of Veto competition. By random selection, Mr. Bertram, Mr. Willoughby and Miss Bingley were selected to compete alongside Miss Bennet, Miss Dashwood and Col. Brandon.
(the houseguests go into the yard, which has been covered with artificial snow, balance beams, and numerous snowmen)
Jane Austen: Houseguests, here is your challenge. At one side of the yard, you must form a snowball from the snow on the ground. Then you must race across the yard, go over the balance beam. Once across the yard, you have six snowmen ahead of you. Your goal is to hit each of the snowmen with your snowball. You get only one shot each time. If you miss, you must return to the beginning to start over.
(The competition begins. Several of players, including Col. Brandon, try running as fast as they can but keep sliding on ice or falling off their beams. Elizabeth is more sturdy but is a bad aim as she frantically throws and keeps missing the snowman targets. Elinor, who keeps going at a steady pace, never falls and manages to accomplish her goal first).
Jane Austen: Congratulations Miss Dashwood, you have won the Power of Veto.
(The next day, Wickham and Lydia stroll together through the yard)
Wickham: (diary room) People in the house think I have a special attachment with Miss Lydia, but that is not so. On my very first day here I aligned myself in total secrecy with Mr. Willoughby. I thoroughly believe that Willoughby and I are the smartest people in this house, and I would get rid of Miss Lydia at a moment's notice if she became inconvenient to me.
(Elsewhere, Caroline approaches Elizabeth in the Head of Household bedroom)
Caroline: So, Miss Eliza, I hear you are quite delighted with George Wickham! I find that the young man forgot to tell you, among his other communications, that he was the son of old Wickham, the late Mr. Darcy's steward. Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions; for as to Mr. Darcy's using him ill, it is perfectly false; for, on the contrary, he has been always remarkably kind to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy, in a most infamous manner. I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this discovery of your favorite's guilt; but really, considering his descent one could not expect much better.
Elizabeth: His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same, for I have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of that, I can assure you, he informed me himself.
Caroline: Excuse my interference. - It was kindly meant.
Elizabeth: (diary room) Insolent girl! She is much mistaken if she expects to influence me by such a paltry attack as this. I see nothing in it but her own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr. Darcy.
Henry: (diary room) I'm in a four-man alliance with Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Bertram and Mr. Wickham. While I don't mind them a little harmless flirting with the young ladies to persuade them to vote with us, I am concerned that Mr. Wickham's feelings for the elder Miss Bennet are more serious than what he is showing for her younger sister.
(Henry and Wickham play cards at the kitchen table)
Henry: Miss Bennet is a very shrewd young woman. It would be a shame if you let her wits and charms distract you from our target. If she a danger to us and if we cannot control her, she must be voted out. I hope you understand.
(Elsewhere in the house, Elizabeth enters a parlour where Fanny is sitting alone, sewing)
Elizabeth: Oh, Miss Price, I almost forgot you were in this house.
Fanny: I'm just catching up on my work.
Elizabeth: I did want to talk to you though. I truly believe that the women in this house need to band together if we are to hold our own against the men. I hope I can count on your support.
Fanny: Dear me, this game is almost too much for me to handle. So much scheming and plotting and secrecy. Can this be moral? I fear I made a grave mistake coming here.
Jane Austen: The next day, the houseguests gathered for the Power of Veto ceremony.
Elinor: I have decided…to use the Power of Veto…on myself.
Elizabeth: I choose Miss Bingley as my replacement nominee.
Jane Austen: Who will be the next person evicted from the Big Brother house? Who will win the next Head of Household? And who will be the next two nominees? Tune in next time to find out.