Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT WHAT
By Sara M | Season 16 | Episode 13 | Aired on 05.08.2008
After the break, Erik takes a nap while Natalie sits down with Cirie and Amanda and says she just heard Erik and Cirie's entire conversation. Cirie tells Amanda that Erik wants to ally with her and Parvati and vote out Natalie and Amanda. Amanda says she's not surprised by this at all, and that Erik is telling everyone the same thing; that he wants to ally with her for the Final Three. Well, he's not telling Natalie that anymore, I don't think. Amanda says that what Erik doesn't seem to realize is that there are only five people left in the game, and four of them are women. And women talk, and lies are uncovered. And you'd think Erik would have learned this lesson after watching Ami get voted out for telling two alliances the same thing, especially since he was the one who told everyone everything she did! Erik walks nearby and spots them all talking. "Idiot," Natalie says.
Erik tells us that he just screwed up "quite a bit," and told everyone something different, only to see them all talking to each other. Now he's worried that they've all told each other what he's promised them. He goes to his good friend Amanda and says he's worried that everyone thinks he's full of crap. Amanda asks him why he didn't realize that people were going to talk to each other and find him out. She says he has to pick a side and stick with it, because this whole wanting to vote her out because she's a threat and then taking her on reward and then wanting to vote her out because she's a threat again is ridiculous. Erik tells Amanda he made a lot of mistakes. He tells us that it just occurred to him that he might be the next one to go because of this. Why doesn't he realize that as much as he sees Amanda as a challenge and jury threat, everyone else would see him as much more of one? Is he that self-absorbed that he can't begin to realize how others may view him?
Immunity challenge time! Parvati is reunited with her tribemates and hugs Amanda, which angers Probst because it interrupts his all-important "once again, immunity is up for grabs" speech. Just for that, he'll make sure that Amanda and Parvati don't win the immunity challenge. Don't fuck with Probst, bitches! Unless you're Julie. Also, Probst is wearing plaid shorts today and not his usual safari garb. What's up with that? For today's challenge, each player will be given a set of coordinates that will correspond to some pictures stationed around Circles in the Sand, which, by the way, is a great song. Contestants must tie two ropes to certain coordinates, and where those ropes intersect they will dig and uncover puzzle pieces. Then they'll bring the puzzle pieces back to a game board and solve the puzzle, which will tell them another set of coordinates. Repeat the exercise with the next circle and then again with a third circle. The first player to solve his third puzzle wins immunity and a "guaranteed" spot in the Final Four.