Chris and Dakota



This article focuses on the interaction between Chris McLean and Dakota.

Overview
Brought onto the show due to questionable means, possibly tied to her connections with her rich father, Dakota became an immediate target of Chris from the moment she arrived on the island. Humiliating her in any way possible, including eliminating her paparazzi and taking away her cell phone, Dakota began to hate him for preventing her from having the fame and the spin-off show she believes she deserves due to being beautiful and semi-famous. Even after her elimination, Dakota and Chris continued to get at each other with the blonde returning to the island in hopes of staying in the spotlight but becoming stuck as an intern, forcing her even further under Chris' twisted thumb.

Opening Sequence
Dakota's attempt to model for the paparazzi on the dock is interrupted by Chris dumping water on top of her from the sky using a jetpack.

Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
At the beginning, when everyone was swimming, Dakota was getting pictures, but then Chris set off a bomb, causing the photographers to blow up. Dakota did it again when the teams were doing the challenge. Chris then sawed a tree which caused the photographers to get crushed.

Truth or Laser Shark
Chris asks Chef to blow up the paparazzi for him and when Dakota takes the Hurl of Shame, he catapults her off the island before she can finish her sentence.

Ice Ice Baby
After hang-gliding her way back to the island, after elimination while interrupting another elimination ceremony, Dakota pleads with Chris to find a way to stay on the show. When her father calls Chris almost immediately after his daughter tried to make the offer, Chris finally agrees to let her return, but as an intern to Chris.

Finders Creepers
Dakota voices her dismay in the confessional about Chris and returning as an intern. She says that Chris gave her and the paparazzi a lawsuit, due to them distracting her from challenges, when she was originally competing as a contestant. During the elimination, Chris grins at her in the elimination ceremony and then has her take the Hurl of Shame, to her dismay.

Backstabbers Ahoy!
Chris humiliates Dakota multiple times with various water duties: first waking her up by throwing her to piranhas in the lake, followed by forcing her to test out both water-born challenges alongside Bridgette leading to both getting hurt in the process, and ultimately being abandoned by him on a buoy after the end of the challenges and episodes, left to the mercies of Fang swimming beneath her.

Runaway Model
Chris makes Dakota do stressful chores, as he relaxes in his beach chair.

A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
The episode starts off with Dakota filing Chris's toenails. Chris soon yells at Dakota that she is not doing a good enough job, and Dakota soon gets worried and files harder. Later, when everyone is at the mine Chris says that he sent Dakota to the mine for safety testing and she should be fine. Dakota then wakes up in a tent and realizes she is bald because of radiation. She then screams that Chris is a dead man. At the elimination, Chris replaces Anne Maria with Dakota, as he can't fire her because of her dad. Dakota then gets mad that she is returning and says that Chris can't do this to her.

The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean
Dakota is still angry at Chris for making her lose her hair in this episode. Her hatred for him intensifies when Chris buries her crush somewhere underground. Because of this, Dakota's anger causes her to mutate to a horrible mutant, hell-bent on killing Chris. At the elimination ceremony, Chris is glad that Dakota will be eliminated for one last time.

Brain vs. Brain: The Ultimate Showdown
Chris introduced Dakota as Dakotazoid while introducing the previously eliminated contestants. An the end of the episode, Dakota and the other contestants laugh at Chris after he was blown by his own bomb and after he was arrested.

Trivia

 * Chris can be held single-handedly responsible for Dakota's mutation, as he was the one who sent Dakota into the mine, exposing her to radiation.