dballing

We've been saying this around here forever. The smart play for the rest of the house is to knock out Liz. She's the "point" of that power triangle, and without her to bridge the gap between Julia and Austin, Julia's going to remember how Austin was willing to throw her under the bus shortly after her arrival, and pay that debt back.

I think professional poker players know that they're lying. HGs are deluded enough to trick themselves into believing the most ridiculous things as truth, even when they invented the fiction in the first place. I would imagine that helps determine how much they expose to an observer.

Yes and no. The rights to such things are usually very strict. ie., the theme-song "composer" has granted CBS the rights to use the song for the following purposes: x, y, z. It's certainly a longer list they've negotiated than maybe some other lesser uses, but it's still a finite list.