Panic

Twenty-three players are in, and the stakes are high--literally. Panics second challenge takes the players sky-high, even as the game attracts the attention of the sheriff and his deputies who are dead set on stopping it. The new kids odds are looking up until a bit of surprise sabotage.

Narrow escapes take on literal meaning as a disastrous series of events at the third challenge puts all the players lives in danger. Luckily, the players get a short break at the annual Players Ball, where sparks fly unexpectedly between competitors, and old trouble returns to cause new problems.

The annual demolition derby provides some much-needed distraction from the troubling revelations of the previous episode. With the cops closing in on the judges, no one is sure the game can continue. Heather repairs one relationship, and ruptures another, in a dramatic ending that proves the game must go on...but not for everyone.

The judges get personal when they announce the first of the four individual challenges that will establish the games finalists. Past and present collide in the unexpected exposure of our players motivations--and enmities. The sheriff gets closer to making an arrest, and Heather has her heart broken.

Someone is dead set on making sure that Joust, the final challenge, ends with the right winner-and Heather realizes that for at least one person, Panic isnt a game anymore. An explosive conclusion brings the game to a permanent end...or so, at least, it seems. This years players may be finished with the game. But it may not be finished with them.