Episode Report Card Sara M: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Everybody's Crazy!
By Sara M | Season 21 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.22.2010
Jill regales her tribe with the story of Holly vs. the Snails, ending with Holly dumping their food. "Wooooow. Throwing away food. That's ... that's crazy," Tyrone says. The Mafia Guy, whose name turns out to be Dan, says Holly is "crazy as shit." Oops! Holly was standing nearby and heard him! She decides that she needs to turn this around and prove to her tribe that she isn't crazy by acting rational and sane. Oh wait, I'm sorry -- I mean, she decides to "get back" at Dan in a way that she believes is the "best way to handle the situation": stealing his dress shoes, filling them with sand, and dumping them in the ocean. Isn't that basically what she did to the snails? I guess dumping things in the ocean is Holly's go-to. "I'm not gonna sit back anymore and let them rub things in my face. I've been too nice up to this point," she says. How is secretly fucking someone over going to send him any kind of message other than "you should keep a better eye on your shoes, as apparently you lost them?" If he doesn't know that his shoes were even damaged or why, there's really no lesson for him to learn. Also, I love how Holly's definition of "too nice" is stabbing her only ally in the back and trashing everyone's lunch.
After the break, we're still at Espada, as it is infinitely more interesting than whatever's going on at La Flor. Dan can't find his alligator shoes, which he should have known better than to bring on this show in the first place. He knows they aren't simply lost, though, because he put them in his bag, so the only way they'd be gone now is if someone took them out and hid them. The tribe looks around for them anyway, but come up short. Dan, who claims to be a "real estate executive" when he's clearly a Mafia don, interviews that his shoes are gone. Also, they cost $1600. Good luck convincing people you need the money if you make it to the end, Dan. Jimmy T. finally says what everyone is thinking: the shoes were taken by one of them. Meanwhile, Holly sits there looking guilty as fuck.
She walks out on the beach alone and reflects on what happened, saying that the game is "turning [her] into someone [she's] not." I have a feeling that we're seeing a fairly accurate portrayal of Holly, though. She decides it's time for a tribe meeting. Dan lies down in the shelter, and Holly suddenly steps forward and puts her hands on his knees and hovers over him. The expression of shock and fear on his face at this point is pretty freaking amazing. But she's not trying to kill him. Instead, she confesses to stealing his shoes and throwing them in the ocean. Dan smiles somewhat and puts his hand over his face, probably trying to keep himself from reaching out and throttling her. "She stole my shoes? She stole my shoes! She stole 'em!" he interviews, still unable to believe it. He says he was "born and raised in Brooklyn," and if Holly was a guy he would've knocked her the fuck out for this.