BMN Superfan - episode 2, season 2

The contestants settle into their hotel rooms for their first full night.  The missing spot where Doug was is noted.

Shandi Finnessey greets them with news of the next challenge.  It has to do with one of the essential survival skills of traditional farming: gathering and delivering water.  The challenge will take place at William B. Umstead State Park near Raleigh-Durham International Airport.  Three team members will travel to a designated area along the shoreline of Park Lake to gather one bucket of water each.  The other three will transport it among a half-mile trail, using a cart drawn by mules, the symbol of the local area where the Barefoots live.  The first team to completely fill the 10-liter butt, or water barrel, wins the challenge.  The losing team will see one member go home.  Since the red-dot team has one extra member, Alecia decides to sit out; she thinks she has a strained muscle in her lower back.

The teams encounter tough going.  The buckets have a large size and must be carried uphill, while the mule trail is downhill and full of ruts.  As a result, teams repeatedly see much of their water spilled to the ground and they have to make a dozen trips each through the course.  In addition, Brooke bruises her knee while running, leaving the red team shorthanded.  After nearly three hours, the red team - overcoming Brooke's injury - defeates the blue, with Wayne making the final delivery.   (After the challenge ends, doctors check out both Brooke and Alecia; both have only minor injuries and can continue in the season.)

For the second straight week, the original blue-dot team faces elimination.  This time, the chorus for Pam to depart the game is louder, but again, the judges decide to go in a different direction.  They call out Jason and Bellamy as the bottom two.  Bellamy is cited for not keeping up with the rest of the retrieval group, and Jason is singled out for dropping too much liquid on the return. Brandon McLamb also notes that Jason seemed not to care after the team lost: "I can't believe someone who was so brave in battle in the army would show such non-chalance - if that's a word - in a simple little game like this."  Jason replies, "That is not true.  I don't want to see the team lose.  It's just that I want to be optimistic at all times."  Before the announcement, Brandon says, "I know I'll piss a lot of [viewers] off.  It's either the war veteran or the beauty queen.  So what do I do?"  Brandon then whispers, "It's gonna be hard, but give her the news anyway."  Shandi announces Bellamy's departure, after which Brandon says,  "This was the hardest decision to eliminate that this show has ever had.  Someone had to go home, and you were just the worst player in this game today."  At that point, Bellamy weeps openly and is comforted by the rest of the losing team, and then later by everyone else and even judge Brian Warner.  "This [decision] will not defeat me," Bellamy says in the post-show confessional.  "I trust I have a long life ahead of me and will learn from this experience always."