Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every week, we’re debriefing the week’s new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care. With no elimination this week, we’re still at our final five—but which queen is in the most danger next week?

5. Jewels Sparkles (last week: 4)

Credit to Jewels: she knew the other queens wanted her gone, and she made sure that was an impossibility in the lip sync. I thought she won versus Onya Nurve, but as we saw just last week, there’s never a guarantee that Ru will actually decide the lip sync result accordingly when such disparate track records are in play. Jewels effectively forced a tie, as Ru was never going to eliminate Onya. While I have doubts about Jewels’ viability as a winner—really, anyone’s viability as a winner beyond Onya—I do think she deserves a shot in the finale.

Will she get there, though? It feels very plausible to me that this was just a stay of elimination, and if she can’t produce another lip sync at this level (or, honestly, even if she does), Ru will just send her home next week. There’s a reason everyone else named her as most likely to go home next. She has the worst track record of anyone left, and her momentum in the back half of this season has been nonexistent. If I were a betting man, I’d say the most likely outcome is still Jewels missing out on the final four.

4. Onya Nurve (last week: 1)

Though she lip synced this week, I don’t think Onya was in any real danger of going home. I’ll be honest: though punting Jewels’ wig was a fun gag, I don’t think she was quite able to keep up with Jewels. She emoted well, but Jewels pulled focus with more dynamic moves. Honestly, we just haven’t seen that many truly iconic lip sync battles this season. Lydia B Kollins was doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it came to show-stopping performances. (Worth noting that Suzie Toot and Lexi Love were both great in their Lip Syncs for the Win, but neither has had to lip sync since then.)

But overall, I think this was a solid episode for Onya. Sure, her makeover was underwhelming from a fashion perspective, but her dad’s mug looked great, and he was one of the breakout stars of the episode. Law Roach was ready to jump his bones then and there! Overall, it’s not all that bad for a frontrunner to show some vulnerability before the finale. True, her poor makeover episode performance is likely what set up Sapphira Cristál’s loss last season, as it gave Nymphia Wind the chance to usurp her momentum. But I don’t see anyone in this cast with the fan support that Nymphia had. Onya should be fine—but stay vigilant, Onyarinas.

3. Lexi Love (last week: 2)

I personally would’ve put Lexi in the bottom two over Onya this week, but not by any large margin. I didn’t like either of their outfits for themselves and their partners, but I thought Onya’s dad’s mug and overall confidence were better. Still, Lexi’s story with her mom clearly touched the judges this week, and I understand why. Theirs was the kind of narrative you hope for when you greenlight a challenge like this: they seemed to really heal something between them through the power of drag. Ru loves that shit. Remember how mad he got that the Season 7 queens made fun of Drag U because it “changed lives”? Yeah, Lexi had a strong case this week in the panel’s eyes.

Overall, I’m not as impressed with Lexi’s run this season as I hoped I would be during the premieres. She’s stayed a main character in the narrative, which is great, but competitively she’s mostly languished in the safe-to-low range. Her two wins were definitive, but they feel like temporary highs in her otherwise fairly static run. If she can pull out the final win of the season next week, she’ll technically be tied with Sam Star for the second-most wins—but while Sam and Onya feel like real threats to take it all, I think Lexi will have to settle for just being happy to be in the finale should she get there.

2. Suzie Toot (last week: 3)

Weird edit for Suzie this week, no? There was clearly something unspoken happening between her and her mother, which even the other queens seemed to pick up on. (Sam alluded to knowing of something that Suzie had been through with her mom in one confessional.) Suzie skated up to talking about it a couple of times, but the vagueness of it all just made the story confusing. Regardless, I’ll tip my hat to Suzie for finding a way to make her mom’s discomfort on the runway read as an intentional character choice. Having her mom follow her lead clearly charmed the judges, and as Law noted, they actually had two of the most fashionable looks on the runway. If I had a scorecard, the point differential between Suzie and Sam would be very small.

At the end of the day, though, I do think the show was looking to reward a heartwarming story this week. With Sam’s mom proudly declaring just how supportive she is of her son, and Suzie’s mom a bit disengaged from the process, the decision seemed like an easy one. Despite not winning, though, Suzie has one hell of a stat she can now claim: she has gone 12 weeks without placing below safe, the longest streak anyone has ever accomplished on the flagship series. That, plus her focal point in the narrative, makes me think she’s going to safely make it into the finale.

1. Sam Star (last week: 5)

What a recovery for Sam! I was worried about her at the start of this episode: she seemed almost in shock after surviving the bottom two, and she walked back into the werk room with stubble in a disheveled state. It seems like seeing her mom really gave her the boost she needed—a testament to how genuinely strong their relationship is. I loved hearing about how Sam’s mom is a mom to all the other queens in her home bar. It’s no wonder to me that Sam flourishes in the pageant world, with its strong family structure; that’s exactly what Sam comes from.

I thought Sam’s looks for her and her mom were good, although I was clutching my pearls a bit at her mom’s reveal. As June Diane Raphael put it, it’s truly something to see a child put their mom in a thong on national television. Still, she looked fabulous, and Sam really nailed family resemblance. Sam bounced back at just the right time, and now she’s the only one with a track record that rivals Onya’s. (Though unlike Suzie, both have had to lip sync for their lives.) I don’t know if that’s enough to make Sam a real threat to Onya’s crowning—Sam’s bottom two-placing episode was far worse overall than Onya’s was this week—but it at least feels like someone’s giving our frontrunner a run for her money at season’s end.