Chris and Owen

This article is about the alliance between Chris McLean and Owen, in Total Drama Action when Chris brought back Owen as a saboteur to create more drama and mayhem amongst the remaining competitors. Chris offered Owen money to repay his family's debt in return for Owen's cooperation.

Rock n' Rule
Owen returns in this episode, supposedly after filed a successful lawsuit against the show, one for having his jaw broken by Chef Hatchet in Masters of Disasters, and the other for being unfairly eliminated at the hands of Courtney in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine (Only Counrtneys vote for Owen was counted). However, he says in the confessional that Chris really just offered him fifty grand to do so, and that it would make up for his family spending the same amount of money (that they did not really have) on a cheese cellar. But the offer had only one condition: Owen would start to act as an antagonist, and sabotage the other contestants. He states that the only reason that he accepted the offer at all is because he needed the money to help his family, as he would never want to do anything of a sort to his friends (except for Courtney). However, he makes no other reference to this plan at all for the rest of the episode, and does not start his sabotaging just yet.

Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen
The alliance has a greater emphasis. Owen begins to sabotage the participants, also at the behest of Chris. Chris sends Owen to sabotage one of two teams, but instead of sabotaging one, he sabotages both of them, making Chris very annoyed. Owen took care of LeShawna Jr. for Harold, which was forbidden because it was not sabotage, but helping. At the next challenge where Duncan and Harold had to climb a cliff and collect a bonsai tree, Owen went along only because Chris wanted him to sabotage either Duncan or Harold and take their chances of winning a reward away. While Owen was climbing the cliff (actually being pulled up by a crane) Chris becomes furious at him for letting Duncan and Harold help each other and for not doing his duty. He pulls Owen up and threatens him that if he doesn't sabotage at least once he won't be getting the fifty thousand dollars he was promised and will be fired. After climbing the cliff, Owen finally does some sabotage work by ruining Duncan and Harold's small friendship and asking Harold what he misses about LeShawna. Duncan then insults her, causing Harold to throw a glass of water into Duncan's face and then punching him. This allowed Harold to win the challenge.

2008: A Space Owen
Owen's guilt over sabotaging his friends is seen to reach a maximum level after he receives an award from home for his being an honest and trustworthy person. After Harold saves the cast on the spaceship, Owen does his sabotage work and breaks the window on the spaceship using Harold's nun-chuks. Owen then backs away from the broken window so would suspect him. Near the end of the episode, Harold rats out Owen as the saboteur since he was the only one not accounted for when the window broke. Owen continuous farts prevents Harold from questioning him any further, thus saving him from being exposed. Owen votes for Harold to leave since he knows about his sabotage work. When Harold was taken to the Lame-o-sine by Chef, he tells the others that Owen is the traitor, but they apparently do not listen to him, or didn't care.

Top Dog
In the confessional at the beginning of the episode, Owen admits that he is actually starting to enjoy sabotaging. At the beginning of the first challenge, Owen sabotages Courtney by dropping blood, from a prick in his finger, into her shark's tank, causing it to go insane. Courtney gets into a fight with it and later on she gets into a fight with a pack of sharks. Courtney did not participate in the second challenge, thanks to Owen's sabotage work. He is also seen hindering Duncan, but does not sabotage Beth. In the second challenge, Chris secretly gives Owen a GPS as a reward to get him out of the forest first and win himself invincibility. Owen and his bear plan to trap Duncan and Beth so that they could not win. Owen does not sabotage Beth, but successfully fools Duncan when he puts up a sign pointing in the opposite direction of the Film Lot. However, this causes Duncan to instead fall straight into a hidden hole, which Owen honestly did not expect. Owen and his bear then get stuck in another trap by mistake. Thus, he does not have enough time to sabotage Beth, and she makes it back to the Film Lot first. After a few days, Owen, Duncan and Courtney finally get back. Owen's secret is revealed when Courtney gets a message from her lawyers saying that Owen is the saboteur. Beth and Courtney then immediately confront him. Owen says in the confessional that he is glad that his secret had been revealed and that he can go back to being his old self. At the Gilded Chris Ceremony, Courtney is voted out, but is soon joined by Owen when Chris fires him from his job; he says that there is no point of "having a spy that's been spied." This clearly marks that the alliance is over.

Trivia

 * The alliance parallels the alliance between Chef and DJ, as it is an alliance between a contestant and a staff member.
 * Both are secret alliances.
 * Despite it being similar to Chef's Illegal Alliance, many more people find suspicion of it.
 * Harold finds out about the alliance in 2008: A Space Owen, but is carried out of the competition before revealing it.
 * In Top Dog, Courtney and Beth also figure it out (although it was Courtney's lawyers who ratted the alliance out).
 * In fact, of the final five of Total Drama Action, only Duncan is shown to be unaware of the alliance.
 * This is the second alliance between a staff member and a contestant, but these alliances have two differences.
 * The alliance between Chef and DJ was illegal and no one knew about it. It's purpose was to make DJ more tough and make him win the million dollars.
 * This alliance was not illegal since Chris and the producers know about it. It's purpose was to make Owen sabotage the remaining contestants and bring more drama to the show.