This week on This Ends Your Time on The Challenge, the curse continues — whoever we root for goes home. We’re calling it The Kiss of Death.

We kick off with a little Challenge history (Real World x Road Rules, baby), a trip down memory lane with Leroy revealing Bananas’ exit strategy from Season 40, and another round of Alicia’s wild Challenge dreams — this time featuring TJ Lavin, a stolen baby, and some light blackmail.

Then we play matchmaker with our ideal final pairs: Amanda gets her flowers (redemption era!), Josh gets crossed off immediately, and it’s a battle between Cory’s finalist record and Leroy’s legend status.

In the episode itself, Theo might actually be working with a witch (and his psychic deserves a guest spot), while Turbo gets increasingly unhinged — telling Sydnee, “When you’re sad, say ‘I need Turbo.’” Big yikes. Meanwhile, Michaela’s pretending to be drama-free while puppeteering from the shadows, Adrienne’s got another terrible plan, and Aneesa’s serving hypocrisy in the elimination puzzle.

We talk the cold, the math puzzles, the glazing epidemic, and why Nany can’t win no matter what she does.

And finally — as our latest favorites fall, we face the big question: who can we root for without dooming them?