Cameron and Mike

This article focuses on the interactions between Cameron and Mike.

Overview
Mike and Cameron do not interact much until A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste despite being placed on the same team. However, Cameron learns of Mike's alternate personalities but keeps Mike's secret from Zoey, Mike's crush. Cameron also tells Mike that he will help him to control his personalities, leading the two of them to become friends. Meanwhile, Cameron learns how untrustworthy Scott is and tries to get Mike's help in order to vote him off but fails as Scott has the McLean-Brand Chris Head. Knowing how big of a threat those two are, Scott breaks their alliance by voting Mike off in Grand Chef Auto.

Truth or Laser Shark
In this episode, Cameron was the first to finally catch on to Mike’s condition, observing him as he had a conversation with “Chester” in his sleep.

Ice Ice Baby
In this episode, Cameron has further studied Mike’s condition enough to know how to bring certain personalities out. When their team found themselves losing the challenge with their ice fort melting around them, Jo tried to get Mike to do his “Svetlana” thing and be catapulted over to the enemy team’s fort. While Mike was reluctant and barely able to voluntarily transform, Cameron gave “Svetlana” a dramatic, announcer-style introduction that instantly brought out Svetlana and eventually caused their team to win.

Finders Creepers
In Finders Creepers, when Cameron worked to retrieve the first clue from the hole in the tree, Mike encouraged him and referred to him as “Cam,” in a manner similar to how Zoey encouraged him in the previous episode. Later, after Zoey, Brick, and Jo were taken by the spider, Cameron found himself in charge of the team. He tried to get Mike (who was stuck in his “Vito” personality) and Anne Maria to stop making out and come help him in the challenge, eventually resorting to yelling at them for the first time ever. This convinced them to come along with him into the cave, where he himself was eventually captured by the spider before their team lost.

Backstabbers Ahoy!
Cameron is watching Mike interact with his various personalities in his sleep once more, describing him as “a walking talking psychology book.” Thus, Cameron was now eagerly studying Mike’s behavior and taking notes in a small sketchpad. During the second part of the challenge, Cameron once again managed to bring out Svetlana, who aided them in the challenge and led to them winning once more.

A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
They developed a strong friendship in this episode. Mike and Cameron shared the first mine cart as they headed down the tracks, and as a result were separated from the others when they hit a fork in the tracks. When Cameron woke up to find Mike still unconscious, he eventually managed to wake him up by hitting him in the head with a flashlight. Later, as Cameron became weaker due to the radioactivity setting in, Mike carried him on his back. When Mike referred to Cameron as “buddy,” Cameron was very happy about finally having a real friend. When Mike saw Cameron and Zoey under attack by a giant mutated gopher, he raced over to save them and tried to hold the gopher back by grabbing onto its jaws. All three of them were eventually saved by Brick, who was eliminated later in the episode. Right before the elimination, Cameron talked to Mike behind the Maggots’ cabin, and told him that he knew about his Multiple Personality Disorder. Mike was at first scared about his secret being out, and frantically asked Cameron how he knew, to which Cameron said that 16 years in a bubble make one very observant. He then told Mike that he could help him control his personalities, in exchange for an alliance between them against new teammate Scott, whom Cameron didn’t trust. Mike was more excited about the chance to control his personalities and picked up Cameron in a tight hug, thanking him vigorously.

The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean
Cameron is seen helping Mike be himself and winning Zoey's affections which Mike is grateful for. Cameron listens to Mike whenever he has a suggestion on how to do the challenges. In the confessional, Cameron explains all the triggers of Chester, Svetlana, Vito and Manitoba Smith. Cameron does tell Mike that he should tell Zoey about his condition which Mike says he will in about ten years. Mike and Cameron both voted for Scott during the elimination ceremony.

Grand Chef Auto
Cameron feels guilty that he told Scott about Mike's multiple personalities. During the challenge. Mike was going to tell Cameron that they needed to only use a little bit of paint to make a mark until Scott forced him to go. Cameron realized that he has not been helping Mike throughout the episode and feels like a bad friend. Cameron is saddened when Scott chooses Mike to be eliminated.

The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean
Cameron accidentally reveals Mike's alternate personalities to Scott which he uses it to blackmail Mike in the next episode and chooses him to be eliminated.

Grand Chef Auto
Cameron again accidentally reveals more of Mike's secret to Scott such as how to activate Vito. He also reveal Mike's disorder to Zoey.

Trivia

 * In both Cameron and Mike's original designs, both had a lighter skin tone and lighter hair, both of which were later changed to be darker.
 * Cameron and Mike have both shown distrust in Scott. Mike in Ice Ice Baby, and Cameron in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
 * They were the first two members of the new cast to refer to an original contestant by name, with Cameron mentioning Izzy in Finders Creepers and Mike mentioning Gwen in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean.
 * Despite their friendship, Cameron is indirectly the cause of Mike's elimination, as he is the one who reveals to Scott that Mike has multiple personality disorder, leading to Scott's blackmailing of Mike.