Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fistbump
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.08.2010
Day 19, we head over to the incredibly boring Heroes camp. While Colby and Rupert work on the shelter, Candice asks Amanda where J.T. is. It turns out that he's looking for the immunity idol, despite being the person who suggested that they all look for it together and play it "as a tribe." He says he wants to make sure that he's the one in control of the idol because "you don't know what these other people are thinkin' around here." Honestly, though, when it comes to Rupert, Colby, and Amanda, I can make a pretty good guess: "..." J.T. tries to charm us with his country words, saying the idol is "in a creek" and he's going to "swing by there and take a gander." Back at camp, a lightbulb, albeit dim, turns on over Amanda's head and she decides to go look for J.T. As some kind of lizard looks on, J.T. searches for the idol as Amanda searches for J.T. It appears that he gets his prize first, but his desire to look awesome on camera and narrate his own discovery of the idol and haste to get back to camp before he's noticed wastes enough time that Amanda comes upon him as he's stuffing it down his pants. His look of "oh shit!" is pretty amazing, but he's able to recover quickly and say he was just looking for the idol to save everyone else the trouble and here it is. On the way back to camp, a suspicious Candice finds them both and J.T. is forced to tell her about the idol as well. And then he decides to "come clean" with everyone because he thinks that will bring the tribe together and keep him in the game longer since they wouldn't dare try to vote him out knowing that he has the idol.
J.T. and the girls return to camp and J.T. shows the idol to Rupert, who gets a big, stupid grin on his face like J.T. having the idol is somehow a good thing. Colby also seems happy for J.T., giving him a high-five as J.T. explains that the idol will go to whoever on their tribe needs it when the merge happens. Amanda and Candice, meanwhile, sit off to the side. "Good thing you walked up," Candice says; "how close was that?" "Close," Amanda says. Good -- it would appear that Candice and Amanda know what's up with J.T., so if they can combine their brainpower against him, that's like one and a half minds against one. Candice interviews that she's not happy that J.T. has the idol because she knows he's a slimeball and his word is good for nothing, and yet, somehow he's running their tribe. She confides in Amanda that she doesn't want to say anything against J.T. for fear that it will turn people against her. "He's always in with everybody," she says. "Yeah ... " Amanda says. "Isn't he in with you?" Candice asks. "Isn't he in with you?" Amanda replies. "Isn't he in with Rupert?" Candice says; "Isn't he in with Colby?" "That's true ... " Amanda says with a blank look on her face and her jaw slack. Sigh. Poor Candice must be dying for some intelligent conversation at this point. Colby and J.T. probably just giggle about the fact that her last name is "woodcock" when she tries to talk to them, Amanda is barely capable of the speech, and it takes ten minutes for Rupert to put three words together in interviews (all of which he does without blinking), so he's stupid and kind of scary.