Episode 1
Aired Jul 5, 2001
Twelve contestants compete to win head of household and try to avoid eviction.
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Episode 2
Aired Jul 7, 2001
For the first Luxury Competition, the houseguests have to enter an inflatable pool filled with mud to find keys corresponding to another houseguest; the players have six minutes to find the keys and get back to their original starting positions.
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Episode 3
Aired Jul 10, 2001
Houseguests compete in the food competition.
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Episode 4
Aired Jul 12, 2001
Justin continues his erratic behavior, destroying property in the house and holding a knife to Krista's throat while he kisses her; Justin meets with the show's psychologist and is expelled from the show due to breaking the show's rules of conduct.
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Episode 5
Aired Jul 14, 2001
Mike is shocked that Nicole wasn't evicted and feels that he is a targeted man now because he was so vocal in wanting to eliminate her; the Head of Household competition involves questions about the houseguests.
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Episode 6
Aired Jul 17, 2001
In the Luxury Competition, the houseguests are divided into teams of men versus women. Each team picks three players to ride a mechanical bull set up in the backyard; if a player stays on the bull for 30 seconds, he/she moves on to the next round.
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Episode 7
Aired Jul 19, 2001
Shannon and Will begin to develop feelings for each other but question whether they are real or strategic. Autumn is evicted from the house. For the Head of Household competition, players are asked questions about the remaining houseguests.
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Episode 8
Aired Jul 21, 2001
In the Food Competition, each houseguest requests three food items by writing them on yellow balls. Their requests are grouped with a bunch of other balls that are thrown over a fence in random intervals.
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Episode 9
Aired Jul 24, 2001
Will and Shannon vow to do whatever it takes to eliminate Hardy; teams compete for a chance to have their clothes professionally cleaned; Shannon gets upset with Hardy and uses his toothbrush to clean the house toilet.
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Episode 10
Aired Jul 26, 2001
Shannon and Will have a date, and Nicole prepares the meal; Shannon is unanimously evicted from the house and is sad to leave because of her growing feelings for Will, even though she has a boyfriend back home.
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Episode 11
Aired Jul 28, 2001
Kent enjoys the perks of being the new Head of Household and begins to get on the nerves of the remaining houseguests. The houseguests band together and win the next Food Competition, earning themselves full food rations for the next week.
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Episode 12
Aired Jul 31, 2001
Monica wins the Luxury Competition and is given a personal stereo and a CD of her choice; Hardy wins the America's Choice contest and is allowed a three-minute phone call home, which he uses to speak with his grandmother.
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Episode 13
Aired Aug 2, 2001
Mike is evicted by a vote of 4-1; Krista is upset after Mike leaves the house, and Bunky consoles her; the Head of Household competition consists of true or false questions; Hardy wins Head of Household for the second time.
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Episode 14
Aired Aug 4, 2001
The latest Food Competition goes well for the remaining houseguests, who walk away with close to full rations for the week; Kent decides to quit smoking, making him irritable and causing the other houseguests to dislike him even more.
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Episode 15
Aired Aug 7, 2001
The Luxury Competition involves the remaining houseguests being divided into men versus women. The teams are blindfolded and must find three dummies located in the house and bring them outside; the women are the fastest and win the contest.
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Episode 16
Aired Aug 9, 2001
Will finds out that Krista, Monica and Hardy have maintained a secret alliance; houseguests slide keys down a lane labeled with sections corresponding to rooms in the house.
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Episode 17
Aired Aug 11, 2001
Krista and Monica have become close friends and feel that their relationship makes them a target. They confront Will in the hot tub about this, something that Will conveys to Hardy and Nicole. Nicole selects Krista and Monica for eviction.
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Episode 18
Aired Aug 14, 2001
Will and Nicole discuss whom they should vote to evict and are amazed that they are friends now after hating each other when the game started; the houseguests receive a trampoline in the backyard due to the America's Choice contest.
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Episode 19
Aired Aug 16, 2001
Krista is evicted from the house by a unanimous vote of 3-0, something that deeply upsets her good friend Monica. Krista is okay with being evicted but feels Nicole misled her; Krista says there is no way she would vote for Nicole to win the game.
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Episode 20
Aired Aug 21, 2001
The remaining houseguests take the eviction of Krista hard and console each other. They compete in a competition to win a movie night in the HoH room; Bunky wins and selects Monica to join him for the movie and snacks.
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Episode 21
Aired Aug 22, 2001
Bunky finally comes clean about the $5,000 deal he made; in the first part of the new Head of Household competition, a large U.S. map is laid out in the backyard, and each player is given a remote control car.
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Episode 22
Aired Aug 25, 2001
Houseguests use blocks corresponding to different food groups to build a tower in the backyard.
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Episode 23
Aired Aug 28, 2001
The remaining houseguests are asked to decorate dolls; the players must fill up as many balloons as possible to make baskets of dolls float over the house; a helicopter tour over Los Angeles.
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Episode 24
Aired Aug 30, 2001
In the eviction ceremony, Monica votes to evict Will, and Nicole votes to evict Bunky. Due to the tie, Head of Household Hardy must cast the tiebreaking vote, which he uses to evict Bunky because he views Bunky as the biggest remaining threat.
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Episode 25
Aired Sep 4, 2001
Nicole's husband, Jeff, hears an internet rumor that Nicole hooked up with Will in the hot tub the night before, so he has a plane fly over the house with a banner admonishing Nicole. Nicole and the producers straighten things out with Jeff.
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Episode 26
Aired Sep 5, 2001
Nicole's husband, Jeff, flies a new banner over the house showing his love for her, something she needed to see as she was despairing about her husband's anger over the false rumors. The houseguests are asked to put on "Big Brother" shirts.
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Episode 27
Aired Sep 6, 2001
Will, holding the eviction vote, is torn about whom to evict between Hardy and Nicole. He likes Hardy more but is still mad that he played a part in the eviction of Shannon. Will decides to evict Hardy from the house.
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Episode 28
Aired Sep 18, 2001
Will, Nicole and Monica are informed of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with Monica being told that her cousin Tamitha was working at the World Trade Center that day and is still missing. Monica is eliminated in Round 2 of the HoH competition.
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Episode 29
Aired Sep 20, 2001
The evicted houseguests reunite to vote for the winner of "Big Brother 2." They air a lot of grievances and have a difficult time deciding who deserves to win, as Will and Nicole have made enemies throughout the contest.
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Episode 30
Aired Sep 20, 2001
A Big Brother winner is crowned.
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