Ali starts the week with a chance to win immunity at a pop challenge, the first time immunity has ever been offered at the start of a week. The winning team also wins three envelopes that can affect the outcome of the game. The challenge is to run a one mile loop to get a key card, which they can then put in a machine. If the machine shows a green check, you get a point; if a red X, no point. The first team to get three points wins the challenge. On the first go, red and black get a point. By lap three, yellow, brown and pink have a point. Pink gets two by lap four. Gray and orange get on finally, then white and green. Purple has no points at lap nine. White gets two points and so does orange and red. At lap 10, red gets their third check and wins immunity.

They are given three decisions to make, one at a time. The first is no access to the gym, second is no elimination vote, and the third is a two pound disadvantage. They can split the cards between teams or give one or more to a single team; they have 15 minutes to decide. They give no gym access to John since he doesn’t need the gym much – he can still use the pool. They give no vote to Michael and they say it’s because “some of us said some things last week to Michael because we don’t want you to take it out on anyone this week.” They then give the two pound disadvantage to green and green doesn’t even let them explain. Lance says that it was because “they were hoping for the rollercoaster effect” – that green wasn’t as high last week so they were hoping they would be able to manage with it this week.

Ali meets the teams for another challenge. Each team has a cage attached to a rope, and the job is to lift the cage 120 feet up. The winning team gets phone calls from home, plus they get to choose three other teams to get phone calls. Gray takes the lead with red in second and close behind. The other teams all appear to be less than half as high. Red surges at the end but gray ends up winning. Sam is crying after winning and saying their motto is “family first.” For the other three teams, they choose red (for giving them a fight). They choose green because a son has a birthday coming up and Migdalia’s husband is going to be deployed to Afghanistan. For the final team, they choose brown since he’s all alone with strangers and has a son at home. On Miggy’s call she tells her fiancé, “I might be home sooner than you think.” Migdalia tells her husband, “I want to go home!”

Prior to the weigh in, Ali recaps the red team’s handiwork this week: “Because of you John couldn’t go to the gym, Michael can’t vote, and green gets an extra two pounds.” Jillian tells the camera that the “something wrong” with Melissa is going to be cured by peer pressure. Red is up and Melissa loses 11 with 6 for Lance. Melissa says it was stupid to lose the weight since they were immune, but she “couldn’t do game play.” Michael is up next, and says he wants to show the others he deserves to be there. He loses 15 pounds, or 70 pounds in four weeks. Black needs over 20 pounds as a team to beat Michael; they only lose 15. Orange needs over 11 to be safe and loses 12 (only .01% ahead of black), with both falling below a milestone (300 and 200 pounds). Pink needs 13 pounds and gets only 11, putting them at the bottom. John needs 10 pounds to be safe and he gets the necessary 10. Gray team expresses concern since they did well last week; they need 15 pounds and have another huge week of 26 pounds, putting them in the lead. Stephanie goes next and needs just 5 pounds; she loses 6. Green is the last and with the 2 pound disadvantage they will need to lose 12 pounds. Both look pissed off, Miggy tells the camera, “As soon as I stepped on the scale, I knew we weren’t going to make it.” They look pissed off and convinced they have already failed. The final tally is 1 pound for Miggy and 4 pounds for Migdalia. Melissa is smiling, and Lance says, “It wouldn’t have mattered anyway.” Melissa then says, “Hey Ali, just so we’re clear, two pounds didn’t make a difference.” Miggy has some choice words for Melissa and then tells Migdalia, “Don’t cry.” Jillian is ticked about that attitude and says the stress helped them to fail.

Migdalia tells everyone she wants to go home – “Just write my name down. I’ve got my kids at home and my husband at home; I want to go.” Black is a bit upset that they didn’t share their feelings about why they want to go. Melissa tells the others, “Let’s remember where the vast majority of the drama and bad aura have been coming from.” Red says they’re sick of Miggy and votes for her. Migdalia calls her on it and says, “You’re always the first one to talk.” Orange honors their wish and votes Migdalia, as does pink and purple. Gray team says it hurts to hear Migdalia like this, and they “believe it’s their emotions getting the best of them.” They vote for Miggy. There appears to be an alliance between red and gray at this point. John says he had to do what he felt was right, and that “none of us have learned all they need to know.” He votes for Miggy as well. Black says they wish Migdalia would have shared her heart in the five minutes she had, as it would have made things easier. However, they still vote Migdalia.

Migdalia says she’s ready to move on and her mom needs the help more. She says she’s “happy with herself.” “America, next time you see me, I’m going to be 140 pounds and I’m going to be a sexy mommy!” At the check in, she is down to 219. She says she gained 10 pounds when she first went home, because of her husband leaving. After he left, she “started working hard again”. Her goal is to run a marathon with her husband when he returns from Afghanistan.

The preview for next week shows the announcement that either yellow or blue is returning. Then a 911 call is made for one of the contestants – “No previous history; he is conscious.” Ali is also shown saying, “there’s no need for deliberation tonight, so if you want to say something, now’s your chance.” The indication is that one of the teams with a single player fell below the yellow line.

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