'UnReal' recap: No white flag in sight

Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Monday night's episode of UnReal.

The power struggles in the second episode of Season 2 of UnReal were hot and messy enough to rival the dumpster fire that Chet's version of Everlasting looked like it would be.

As Chet and Quinn warred for the Everlasting throne, Rachel continued to dissolve into an unstable wreck of a person, while the contestants and Darius were thrown into the racially charged first episode.

Most fire one-liners of the night: Quinn

Quinn's back in charge and she looks comfortable there, spitting out burns to take down the empty-headed host Graham, her ex Chet and even her most loyal officer, Rachel. A few of Quinn's great (and out of context) zingers:

• "You know, I can shoot ping pong balls out of my (expletive) but no one wants to see that either."
• "Chet's caveman brain fart..."
•  "We promised the networks suicide ratings and we need to deliver."
• "Grown-ups are talking."

Watch her first NSFW line below.

But when she wasn't thinking up one-liners or trying to put out fires caused by Chet's newly-obtained Men's Rights Activist attitude, she was emotionally (and literally) demoting Rachel, telling her that she still doesn't have what it takes to be the boss, and twisting in the knife with a reference to her mom and Rachel's mental "episodes."

The moment that mattered: 'Racism is so confusing, isn't it?'

Quinn convinces Rachel to go back to producing and manipulating contestants, and Rachel immediately works her magic on Beth Ann, the Girl With the Confederate Flag Bikini. After Beth Ann's initial reluctance to don the infamous bikini people because "there are certain kinds of people here," Rachel persuades her to live up to her southern pride and wear the bathing suit, immediately starting a spat with Ruby, the black power activist. Rachel leaves them be with a carelessly uttered, "freedom of speech is so important," causing Ruby to catch on to the whole gameplay.

Turning to Jay, Ruby asks if she can trust Rachel, but he tells her she can't. Distraught, she asks him what to do and he persuades her to not lean into her black power platform and just play to win. However, she soon changes her mind after seeing Darius' charmingly lukewarm reaction to Beth Ann's bikini (and subsequent strip show).

Angry at Darius' non-reaction reaction, Ruby dons an "I Can't Breathe" T-shirt to meet Darius, but in her move to play against producers' expectations, she played right into Quinn and Rachel's hands.

Player to keep an eye on: Hot Rachel (Yael)

High off the success of her last manipulation, thanks to the direction of Rachel, Madison eagerly asks Rachel to let her under her wing. Rachel reluctantly agrees and gives her Darius' shirt to give to the sweet former black debutante, who gives Quinn and Rachel the "black wifey" they wanted.

But immediately after Madison leaves, Rachel is approached by the bane of her existence: hot Rachel, aka Yael. Yael's request for advice falls to deaf ears as Rachel pettily points her toward Madison, but Yael might have a mind of her own. Later in the episode, she falls in the pool, leading to her rescue by Darius and Quinn's triumphant "fairy tale moment" in her rivalry with Chet. But after Madison frantically tends to her, she reveals that it was a calculated ploy to get Darius' attention, and the two of them form a pact.

Most likely to have a mental breakdown: Rachel

Rachel's not doing so well this episode. After having the rug pulled from under her with Quinn taking charge, she's been demoted to her old job of producing and manipulating contestants -- something she does even more halfheartedly than before.

After getting the verbal beatdown from Quinn about her showrunning capabilities, the fragile threads of Rachel's sanity unravel even further. She throws away her mom's concerned note and the accompanying pills, she smokes and broods out by the set, and she lashes out against Jay when he tries to get her to see the reality of her and Quinn's relationship.

After spending the episode as Quinn's lackey and emotional punching bag, Rachel digs her pills out of the trash and goes straight to Gary the Executive about the Chet and Quinn rivalry. Despite Gary's friendship with Chet and his promotion of Quinn, Rachel attempts to get them both kicked off set, which would have effectively won her the title of this week's best backstabber -- if it had worked.

Biggest out of left-field twist: Coleman Wasserman

Who the heck is this guy?

Coleman Wasserman -- who basically seems like a stable, male version of Rachel -- is brought in by Gary to take over Everlasting from the squabbling Chet and Quinn, and an even more despondent Rachel.

Worst person of the week: Chet

Chet's new vision of Everlasting is like a liquor-drenched frat bro's wet dream, and his and Jeremy's alliance in search of some "girl-on-girl action" makes for a truly despicable storyline.

With the bikini-clad contestants, the entrance of Darius' entourage and a music-blasting party, Chet almost manages to turn Everlasting into a trashy reality show mess à la The Real World: Las Vegas. Thankfully, his attempt to sabotage Quinn's fairy tale show by manipulating her "wifey" Tiffany into a tryst with Darius' cousin and manager Romeo went bust, but this week only served to prove that Chet is the ultimate misogynistic MRA jerk -- but sadly might also prove that people would probably watch "Everblasting."