Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Rumblings Of Mutiny
By Miss Alli | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.12.2003
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Day 23 at Balboa finds Burton up early, getting ready to leave for breakfast. He voices over that it's an odd dynamic, being voted out of a tribe and then back into the same tribe. He explains that he's doing his best to be all, "Yay, Drake!," but as he explains, it's completely an act. He's in it solely for himself and the Outcasts, and that's the only place he has any loyalty. That gift of breakfast sure did the trick to keep him faithful to Rupert, huh? He gives a particularly funny "That's a bunch of b-- uh, lies." And then he grins. And he has pretty teeth and a lovely smile. Oh, hello, Burton's pretty smile. You can come right over here and sit by me. He explains that he knows damn well that Christa, Sandra, and Rupert would all stab him in the back in a minute, without even hesitating.
In a powwow with Jon, Burton explains that, in the end, Jon is clearly going to be the odd "man" out of the Rupert Club of Suck-Ups, because Rupert will stay with Christa and Sandra to the bitter end. Jon knows this is correct, as much as he wishes it wasn't. Even in wrestling, you have to know when you're going to wind up on the bottom of the dogpile. Burton suggests taking Rupert out now, and Jon says, "We're crazy if we don't. That's numbers, man." Burton asks whether Jon thinks it would be better to tell Rupert ahead of time or just blindside him. Jon says they'll have to blindside him, the two of them agreeing that Rupert will go psycho if they tell him ahead of time. I have to say, if Rupert's psycho flip-out of a couple of weeks ago was an effort to intimidate Jon into not plotting against him anymore, it certainly didn't work very well. Jon interviews, slightly less odiously than usual, that Burton knows Jon's a snake, so he knew Jon would be perfect for this rather snakelike attack on Rupert and his entourage. "And he was exactly right," Jon grins. Jon adds that Burton is Jon's strongest remaining ally, despite the fact that Jon was such a big participant in Burton's original ouster. "Irony definitely plays a strong hand in this game," Jon says. It's a little bit true, even though Jon is the one saying it. And in a strange way, the situation is actually slightly ironic, as opposed to a coincidence, which is usually what's involved when people on TV refer to "irony."