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'''The final four participate in an animal-themed challenge. The drama intensifies when someone is exposed for the mole he is. At the elimination ceremony, a certain antagonist finally meets her end, but not before discovering a spy and causing him to be fired. This all leads up to the final two of this season being determined.'''

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 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 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 Beth finding her as the biggest threat among the remaining contestants. As she is forced into the Lame-o-sine, she is furious at Duncan for betraying her and breaks up with him. Before the Lame-o-sine leaves, 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. 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 receives a message from them saying that they are on vacation for three weeks. Angered, Courtney throws her PDA through the window. She then pulls out several documents that "hold her entire future", but a breeze causes the pages to fly out of the hole in the window. Courtney begins screaming as the camera cuts off.

General

 * Like her fellow antagonists Heather, Justin, Alejandro, Scott, Mal, Scarlett and Sugar, Courtney has a major downfall in the episode in which she is eliminated.
 * She is unable to score a single point in the challenge, having spent most of the episode fighting with her animal buddy instead.
 * She briefly loses her beloved personal digital assistant and goes through severe withdrawal symptoms as a result.
 * The deciding vote for her elimination comes from her romantic interest Duncan after she imposes rules on their relationship that are deemed by him to be far too strict.
 * Duncan choosing the million dollars over Courtney can be paralleled to Courtney leaving him for the briefcase in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island.
 * 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 receives 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 is first mentioned in Million Dollar Babies and first seen in Get a Clue.
 * Duncan mentions his pet spider Scruffy again (who is now deceased). He chooses the Chameleon in honor of him, despite Scruffy being an arachnid, not a reptile.
 * Two of Courtney's rules are revealed in the episode:
 * Only Courtney can utilize pet names.
 * Duncan must compliment Courtney once every hour.
 * Duncan cannot refer to Courtney as "babe", however, this may fall under the rule that Duncan can't refer to Courtney under a pet name.
 * 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.
 * This happens for the second time much later in Total Drama All-Stars.
 * Duncan is the only one who doesn't find out prior to the Gilded Chris ceremony that Owen is a spy working for Chris.
 * 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 has a different facial design than the ones that have appeared before. In addition, the raccoons that appeared before did appear again here.

Continuity

 * This episode marks the second time in a row that both Duncan and Owen make it to the final four.
 * Coincidentally, Duncan is eliminated in the final four while Owen who was the finalist in the previous season, it is 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.
 * This is the second time that a double elimination occurs, the first being in Alien Resurr-eggtion. There are six more in the series after this, which are Jamaica Me Sweat, Chinese Fake-Out, Hawaiian Punch, A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, The Bold and the Booty-ful, and Scarlett Fever.
 * This also marks the first time that a season features more than one double elimination, the other being Total Drama World Tour.
 * 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 and counting his ending of the previous season, this marks the first time a contestant outranked him. In this case, Beth and Duncan are the first two contestants to outrank Owen.
 * This is the second time Harold and Courtney are eliminated back-to-back, only this time Harold went first.
 * The parrot makes its first appearance since Haute Camp-ture.
 * Courtney and Duncan break up for the first time 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 four Aftermaths.
 * 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 is 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 eats 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 is messing with the castmates there are 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, although he is seemingly 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 is shown that Duncan votes for Courtney on accident (i.e he is sleeping thus isn't paying attention), but when Courtney is announced to be eliminated, Duncan behaves as if he knew exactly what he was doing. However, he may have been faking the sleeping with the possibility that Courtney would see it as a valid excuse.
 * For some reason, Owen isn't with Courtney in the exclusive clip, even though he is seen getting into to the Lame-o-Sine.