Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sierra A-Leone
By Sara M | Season 18 | Episode 11 | Aired on 04.30.2009
And so, the Jalapeños return to camp and Douche pulls J.T. aside for a confidential conversation because Douche honestly believes those still exist in this game. He lays his cards out for the eighty millionth time and asks J.T. how he feels about voting out Sierra, then Erinn, and then Taj. J.T. says that sounds great, of course. Douche interviews that after talking to J.T., he was confident that Sierra would be going home next. He's not really that confident, though, since he then tells J.T. a story about how Sierra tried re-form the Tempura alliance when he, Stephen, and Taj were off on the reward. Douche claims that he immediately told her he would never turn against his alliance, and would never "get in bed with a snake" who will do whatever it takes to stay in the game "without any honor." Except join an alliance with you, Douche, although I'm not even sure he remembers that anymore. In fact, I really believe that he thinks that everything went down the way he just described it to J.T. Douche interviews that he doesn't trust Sierra, and he does trust J.T. "All in all, a very good day's work," he says.
Meanwhile, Sierra has gone to Stephen and told him a truthful version of events, that Douche and Debbie tried to convince her to join their alliance against the Jalapeños, and when she said she was going to play for herself and no one else in this game, "they both went bananas!" Actually, only Debbie went bananas. Douche just kind of sat there and didn't do anything, like always. Stephen interviews that a four-way Tempura alliance is his worst nightmare. He tells Sierra that he'd like to "include" her in their alliance, but he can't be sure that she isn't lying to him right now. Sierra starts crying and says she's sick of playing games and is the last person anyone should be worried about right now. True. After the answers in the reward challenge, Sierra would be my first choice to take to the Final Two with me.
Stephen heads over to Douche and J.T.'s conversation corner. Douche greets him warmly because he really thinks they're all friends. Stephen comes right out with it and says he was worried that Douche and Debbie would think he was loyal to Taj over them based on his reward choices and would have had some kind of conversation about eliminating Jalapeño back at camp with Sierra. Douche says that a conversation like that did indeed happen, but it was all Sierra and Debbie. He admits to considering a Tempura alliance for fifteen second before deciding that he could not do something like that to his BFFs Stephen and J.T. "It makes me sick to my stomach to think about it," Douche lays on way too thickly. Stephen makes sure that Douche is saying that Sierra was the one who wanted the Tempura alliance, and Douche says she'll try anything to get ahead but is too stupid to do anything to really help herself. Kind of like one Coach Ben Wade. Stephen interviews that he has no idea who's telling the truth and who's lying right now. As soon as Douche walks away, he whispers to J.T. "I'm freaking out." He tells J.T. what Sierra told him. J.T. interviews that everyone has a story to tell and he also doesn't know who is honest and who is not. He seems doubtful that Douche would lie to him, but Stephen says Douche might be a pathological liar. Sadly, he does not bring up some of Douche's previous obvious lies, like the short tribe of ass-eaters. Stephen argues for keeping Sierra around. Hooray! "I think she's loyal to us," Stephen says over a shot of Douche wandering around the wilderness collecting useless twigs.