Episode Report Card Kim: B | 35 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Most Boring Tie Ever
By Kim | Season 28 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.05.2014
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.On the Brains tribe, the women are vowing to stick together so Spencer is the odd man out. Meanwhile, on the Brawn tribe, Tony finally admits to Sarah that he's also a cop and they decide to align. Tony uses her new loyalty to feed her some bullshit about other tribemates being out to get her.
Everyone is miserable because the weather is wet and windy and they just can't ever get dry. LJ remembers that Morgan was poking around a nearby reef when they all arrived at camp, so he decides to investigate the area and finds the Hidden Immunity Idol.
The Brains tribe gets their treemail and learns that it will be a physical challenge. J'Tia immediately says that she needs to eat rice and everyone is like, "Are you serious with this? Did you forget that you dumped all of our rice?" Tasha wants to practice their water scooping technique, but no one else does. She convinces them to do so, even though they don't really know what the challenge will entail. I guess it can't hurt. At least it makes them feel like a team.
The Immunity Challenge does involve passing water by throwing a bucket from one team member to another, and then tossing the water like the Brains tribe practiced and finally using it to fill a bucket which will release a ball. Then they have to get that ball through a maze. The Brains tribe finishes phase one last, despite all their practice. The Brawn tribe finishes the maze first and wins. Kass and Spencer kick ass together on the maze, while the Beauty tribe falls apart and ends up losing.
The Beauty tribe splits into two factions: LJ thinks he's the tribe's leader, and he thinks everyone is voting for Brice. Meanwhile, Brice and Morgan think they have an alliance with Jeremiah and they plan to vote out Alexis. The problem is that they need a fourth to avoid a tie, so they approach Jefra only she's not down with their plan.
So THEN, they start to worry that Brice has an Idol and they decide that they should split the vote. LJ and Jeremiah will vote Morgan. Alexis and Jefra will vote Brice. Brice and Morgan plan to vote Alexis. Jeremiah isn't sure what to do: force a tie or just take out Alexis and expose his secret alliance?
At Tribal Council, Brice, Alexis and Morgan each get two votes, so there's a three-way tie. That means that Jeremiah, Jefra and LJ have to vote again, and can only vote for the three that already got votes. So Brice goes home. Boy, that could have almost been interesting.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Night 6. The Brains tribe returns to camp after blindsiding Garrett, and Spencer congratulates them for their subterfuge. He interviews that Garrett was so bad at the game that his tribe chose to keep someone who threw all the rice in the fire and oust Garrett. Spencer knows he's probably next to go unless he can pull something out of his ass.
Tasha admits that if Garrett had just allowed them to have private conversations, she would have voted out J'Tia. She says this right in front of J'Tia, who then interviews that she thought she was going home, and their tribe is an entertaining disaster. Tasha explains that she got pissed when she found out that Garrett, Kass, and Spencer had an alliance, and then she interviews that she plans to get Kass on board for an all-girl alliance. Kass interviews that her thinking was that Garrett was dangerous, and while J'Tia has a temper, you can replace rice, plus now they have J'Tia's loyalty for saving her. So the all-girl alliance is one! For now.
Over on the Brawn tribe, Tony is sneaking around in his spy hut, except everyone's asleep, so that isn't fruitful. He sits by the fire and Sarah joins him. Tony decides to come clean, and tells Sarah that he really is a cop, as she guessed. They decide to band together in a cops alliance. Sarah seems especially convinced that this will last until the end. Then, just when he actually had some smart gameplay, Tony has to go over the top as usual and screw it up. He lies to Sarah that Cliff and Lindsay are plotting to get her out because she's too smart. Sarah is shocked. We'll see how this plays out.
Then there is a lot of footage of thunder, lightning, and rain. There is a lot of rain. No one can sleep. No one can stay dry. Everyone is miserable. They are trying desperately to keep their fire going, but all the wood is wet.
The next morning, the weather is still bad. Look, we've all complained about the weather this winter, but at least the majority of us had, you know, a heated domicile of some sort. Anyway, the Brawn tribe is trying to rebuild or fortify their shelter but the wind has come up and branches are just blowing around. Woo is the only one who seems energized by this weather. Then there are a lot of shots of miserable people, with very wrinkly hands and feet. Lindsey just pulls off one of her toenails; her feet have been so wet for so long that it just came off.
Sarah interviews that she doesn't feel bad for Lindsey because of what Tony said last night. Sarah asks him for more details on exactly what was said, and Tony goes into a whole improve skit where Lindsay wanted to keep Sarah because she likes her but Cliff was pushing to get Sarah out, because they could get rid of Trish at any time but they needed to target Sarah before she suspected anything. It's actually not a bad story, because it would be good strategy, plus it's flattering to Sarah so she's more likely to believe it. It's just not a necessary lie, and it's one that is really likely to be found out eventually. Anyway, Sarah and Tony solidify their alliance with both a fist bump and a full hand handshake. Tony interviews that he doesn't trust anyone there, which is probably smart, but also going to make it difficult to get to the end of the game.