The outside world is abuzz at the hidden pasts of two "Big Brother" residents. Goofy George, it turns out, once killed a man -- in a hunting accident, 12 years ago. Or so his wife revealed to "Entertainment Tonight." And Mega is a camp follower of Khalid Abdul Muhammad, the New York Daily news reported. Muhammad is a former Nation of Islam member who managed to get himself kicked out for wacky beliefs: He publicly called Jews "bloodsuckers." He doesn't like white people generally, either, the paper says.

But the house residents know nothing of this. Jordan and William just want to know who and why they got nominated for expulsion. Maybe it's true -- annoying people just don't know they're annoying. No one's filling them in.

William, the hatemonger's friend, gets nastier. "Eddie and the old folks are their own happy family, with their crippled son," he says privately to Jordan. Outside in the garden, Eddie tells Karen, the mom, that he's worried that Jordan and Mega will eat all the food. "I can see Mega doin' that," he says. Dinner, unsurprisingly, is quiet. "I'm surprised more of you don't pray," William blurts out. "It's a cultural shock to me."

"You make me feel like an oddball," he says accusingly to George after dinner. "I'm just rolling with the flow," George says. Once you know about the death in George's past, you look at him with a little more respect.

After dinner, Jordan and William again try to force the issue, but the group keeps its mouth shut. Jordan's eyes are glittering with anger.

The pair lick their wounds in the backyard. "They saw us being open and real," Jordan says. "Now they're gonna divide us." The two seem really to like each other; they wonder what they're going to do without the other.

"It's because they think we're the ones that might win," William says. This is Mr. 100-1 Odds speaking. "Screw 'em all," Jordan says. She says she's going to be the one viewers bounce from the house. William laughs at this. It'll be a very cold day in hell before an American television-viewing audience votes a stripper with confessed lesbian tendencies off a TV show.

"I feel like an icky person," Brittany says, crying in the confession room. She tries to rationalize her not being honest with the people she voted to banish by saying other house members didn't want her to, but she's not even fooling herself.

Another silent dinner, with the amplified sounds of forks rubbing up against plates. The show is beginning to seem psychotic.

After dinner, the episode ends with an extended scene in which a tearful Karen admits to Jordan that she binged her. "It has nothing to do with you; I don't want you to be hurt." Karen cries a lot. At the end, the women are holding hands and clutching each other.

(B.W.)