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'''The final four participate in an animal-themed challenge. The drama intensifies when someone is exposed for the mole they are. At the elimination ceremony, a certain antagonist finally meets her end, and a spy is fired for being discovered. This all leads up to the final two of this season being revealed.'''

Plot
This episode opens with Owen waking up from his sleep and being surprised that Duncan is not picking on him, which leads him to wondering where he could be. All of a sudden, Duncan walks sleepily into the guy's trailer. He reveals that he and Courtney spent the night talking about "relationship stuff." Duncan then shows Owen the large relationship rule contract that Courtney wrote out for him and he states that Courtney wants him to follow and memorize all of it. Afterwards, all of the contestants head to breakfast where Courtney is seen imposing the rules already, much to Duncan's annoyance. Beth also reveals that she heard everything that they had said, except for some minor parts which she is able to list exactly by paragraph and sub-section. The cast also eats "scrambled eggs" cooked by Chef. Chris then appears with a parrot (which he later gets into a fight with), saying that today will an "animal-buddy" movie genre, because he couldn't think of any more themes other than a "guy in a coma" movies. He shows the cast that they will all receive animals for the challenge. The contestants will have to train them in order to act just like them and they'll get to choose which animal they would like.

Beth inadvertently succeeds in training her raccoon, as she becomes friends with it. Duncan is trying to get his chameleon to change its color to the color of his mohawk, while Courtney tries to teach her shark to cheer. Owen is also shown in secret, sabotaging the other castmates during the challenge. It is then time for the cast to show what they have taught their animals. Beth gets a ten, due to her relationship with her raccoon, shown while they were looking for Beth's retainer and were practically mimicking each other's movements. Owen gets a six for "teaching" his bear to do a mild impression of him, which was only waking up and farting. Duncan gets an eight for getting his chameleon to be the correct color. Courtney doesn't receive a score, as she ended up in a fight with her shark.

Courtney does not participate in the next part of the challenge, as she is fighting off a pack of sharks, courtesy of Chris. The rest of the castmates are taken out into the forest. They are accompanied by their animals and must find their way back to the abandoned film lot. Beth and her raccoon get sidetracked, while Duncan and his chameleon just walk along aimlessly until Duncan loses sight of it. Owen and his bear try to figure out how to sabotage the other three contestants. Beth is then shown, talking directly to the video camera, frightened out of her mind, thinking she will die in the woods. However, her raccoon shows her a path they can take, prompting her to pretend she knew it existed.

Meanwhile, Courtney has dispatched two of the three sharks and is left fighting the last one shark, which grabs hold of her PDA and threatens to eat it. She is infuriated and tries to get it back, only to end up going over a waterfall. Owen sabotages Duncan (who can not find his chameleon) by luring him into a deep hole, which causes Duncan to go crazy. Duncan, out of hunger, eats the papers Courtney gave him. Owen then gets stuck in a trap himself with his bear. They manage to escape by eating their way out by eating berries until their combined weights break the branch that is holding them up. Beth and her raccoon end up going into the raccoon's home, which is very nicely furnished with a television, ping-pong table, and many snacks. She spends some time there, yet she still ends up being the first to return to the trailers, making Beth the winner of the challenge and invincibility. Chris and Beth then wait for the other contestants to return.

Two days after Beth had originally arrived, the rest of the castmates return to the trailers. Courtney is shivering out of "PDA withdrawal," Duncan is acting savagely, and Owen grew a beard again. Chris announces Beth as the winner. Afterwards, Beth and Courtney begin to bicker after Beth's raccoon is shown to have found Courtney's PDA. While they are talking, Courtney gets a message from her lawyers outing Owen as a traitor and Beth and Courtney accuse him of such, figuring out that Harold was telling the truth about Owen in the previous episode. Duncan, still acting like a savage, knocks Beth out with a tranquilizer dart from his blowgun. Courtney kisses him to snap him out of it and asks Duncan for the letter, since she wants to do some changes to it. Duncan then reveals that he lost them, but Courtney was already prepared with a number of copies. Owen then reveals that the chameleon had been in Duncan's mohawk all along.

They all go to the Gilded Chris ceremony that evening. Courtney is voted out, mainly due to Duncan disliking how many rules she was imposing on him and because she was considered a bigger threat than Beth. While she is forced into the Lame-o-sine, Owen asks Chris why he did not receive a Gilded Chris Award. Chris then fires him for having been discovered, so he also leaves the competition. As Courtney is leaving, she breaks up with Duncan. After Courtney and Owen are taken away, Chris proclaims Beth and Duncan the final two, then pushes them away from the frame and tells the viewers to tune in for the finale.

Exclusive clip
Courtney hopes Duncan wins the prize money as he signed a contract stating that he has to share the money with her. Courtney attempts to call her lawyers but received a message from them saying that there are on vacation for three weeks. Angered, Courtney threw her PDA through the window. She then pulls out several documents that "holds her entire future" but a breeze causes the pages to fly out the hole on the window she made earlier. Courtney began screaming as the camera cuts off.

General

 * Like her fellow antagonists Heather, Justin, Alejandro, Scott, and Mal, Courtney had a major downfall in the episode in which she was eliminated.
 * Courtney wasn't able to score a single point in this episode's challenge, having spent most of the episode fighting with her animal buddy instead.
 * She lost her beloved personal digital assistant and went through severe withdrawal symptoms as a result of her losing it.
 * She eventually got it back, although only after the challenge was over.
 * The deciding vote for her elimination came from her love interest, Duncan, after she imposed rules on their relationship that were deemed by him to be far too strict.
 * Ironically, Duncan was the person who most vehemently opposed her elimination in the first season.
 * Duncan and Courtney break up in this episode.
 * Duncan choosing the million dollars over her can also be seen as karma for Courtney's similar actions in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island.
 * Although she was responsible for Owen's first elimination, she herself would be eliminated when she tried to eliminate him again.
 * Owen's role in the show is revealed by Courtney's lawyers, and Chris fires him from the position.
 * This reveals that Owen was not really competing again, but was, in fact, more like a staff member.
 * Each cast member received an animal during the challenge:
 * Courtney: Shark
 * Beth: Raccoon
 * Owen: Bear
 * Duncan: Chameleon
 * In the raccoon hideout, the raccoons are viewing Chris' badminton movie, which was first mentioned in Million Dollar Babies, and first seen in Get a Clue.
 * Duncan mentions his pet spider Scruffy again (who is now deceased), and chooses the Chameleon in honor of him.
 * However, he refers to Scruffy as a reptile despite the fact that he was a tarantula. Owen corrects him on it by saying he is an insect, but Duncan takes it as him insulting Scruffy.
 * However, Owen is also wrong. Scruffy is a tarantula, which is an arachnid.
 * When Duncan is crazy, he has pupils in his eyes. This is unusual, as throughout both seasons, he has had eyes without pupils. They disappear throughout the episode, and eventually go away when he is no longer crazy. This was likely done to distinguish "crazy Duncan" from "regular Duncan."
 * Two of Courtney's rules were revealed in the episode:
 * Only Courtney can utilize pet names.
 * Duncan must compliment Courtney once every hour.
 * Courtney was voted off by the votes, but Owen was eliminated because Chris fired him, not by a tie of votes.
 * This marks the first time in Total Drama history that a contestant has been fired.
 * This is also the first time that there is no proper final three, due to Chris firing Owen.
 * Chris calling his parrot his BFFF (Best Flying Friend Forever) may be a reference to how Katie and Sadie call each other BFFFL's (Best Female Friends For Life).
 * Chris is seen with a full grown beard in this episode.
 * The animals that the contestants chose could have hinted their placements in Total Drama Action, going by smallest to biggest:
 * Duncan had the smallest, a chameleon. He made it first place.
 * Beth had the second-smallest, a raccoon. She made it second place.
 * Owen had a bear. He made it to third place.
 * Courtney had the largest animal, a shark. She placed fourth.
 * As of this episode, Duncan, Beth, and Owen have all been through all the Total Drama Action episodes at Camp Wawanakwa.
 * Duncan was the only one who didn't find out prior to the Gilded Chris ceremony that Owen was a spy working for Chris, probably because he went insane in the episode. Had he known, it may have influenced his vote.
 * The chameleon is the only new animal featured in this episode. The shark and the bear have appeared multiple times on show, and the raccoon simply had a different facial design than the ones that have appeared before. In addition, the raccoons that appeared before did appear again here.

Continuity

 * This is the first episode in the series to feature real blood.
 * This episode marks the second time in a row that both Duncan and Owen make it to the final four.
 * Coincidentally, while Duncan was eliminated in the final four while Owen won in the previous season, it was reversed in this episode.
 * This episode is the first time a bear is seen since Monster Cash.
 * For the first time in Total Drama history, the final two both come from opposing teams(where as the first season, the final three were all formerly from the same team). The two also come from opposing teams of last season's teams.
 * This is the second time that a double elimination occurs. The first time is in Alien Resurr-eggtion. There are three more in the series after this, in Total Drama World Tour: Jamaica Me Sweat, Chinese Fake-Out, and Hawaiian Punch.
 * This is also the first of two double eliminations to feature Courtney as one of the two eliminated.
 * This is the first time in Total Drama Action that there have been two elimination episodes in a row since Alien Resurr-eggtion and Riot On Set.
 * With Owen getting eliminated this episode, this marks the first time where a contestant outranked him. In this case, Beth and Duncan are the first two contestants to outrank Owen.
 * With Courtney's elimination, this marks the second season in a row in which Courtney spends twelve episodes in the competition.
 * This is currently the last episode where Beth sets foot on Camp Wawanakawa.
 * The parrot from Haute Camp-ture is seen once again in this episode.

Goofs

 * When the castmates and their animals are arriving at the forest on the bus, the raccoon is shown to wear glasses. When it is shown again, it is not wearing glasses.
 * Chris says that he had to make twenty-six movie genres. However, he didn't, because of the three aftermaths. He may be referring to the amount of episodes there are. However, even with this he'd be one short of the correct number, as this is the twenty fourth episode while the finale would be on the twenty fifth episode. It is possible that he had another planned, but canceled it due to Owen's cover being blown. Oddly, he easily comes up with the pirate movie genre in the next episode.
 * Courtney is eating the "scrambled eggs," though her rules say she does not have to eat Chef's cooking.
 * Chef says that the bear had one more day on its contract in Monster Cash. However, the bear returns in this episode. It is possible that his contract was renewed, or that it was a different bear.
 * The raccoon has a new facial design in this episode having white eyes and black pupils. However, when Chris introduces all of the animals together at the beginning of the episode, it has black eyes and white pupils.
 * When Owen is seen in the confessional right after he ate all the berries, if you pay attention to his Canadian logo on his shirt, you can see that it is pumping during the whole scene he is at the confessional.
 * When Duncan leans up from the bed, his goatee is missing.
 * While Owen was messing with the castmates there were a few goofs:
 * After Owen sprays Duncan's hair, it goes back to normal in the next scene.
 * Owen is also carried by a rope while messing with the castmates, but he could not be carried by a rope because he was not connected to anything.
 * When Duncan is lying on his bed after Chris says that breakfast is ready, he appears to have two eyebrows instead of his usual unibrow.
 * It was shown that Duncan had voted for Courtney on accident (i.e he was sleeping thus wasn't paying attention), but it was then shown he had purposely voted for Courtney.