Galang is a big happy peace party and Colton is already sick of it, because he wants to start strategizing and no one else is interested.
The first Redemption Island duel takes place and all of the tribe members get to watch. This means that Marissa gives her entire tribe the stink eye and then tells everyone that she got voted out because Gervase was a dick. Gervase passes on swapping spots with Marissa. The challenge is one we've seen before, where they have to use a long fork to move spools through a wire maze and then stack them at the top, ten high. Candice wins first and is kind of badass about it. And then Marissa wins second! Which means Rupert is going home!
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I couldn't be happier about this development, obviously. As the winner, Candice can give a clue to the Immunity Idol to anyone, and she gives it to her husband. The male alliance on Tadhana (specifically Vytas) discusses the idea of voting out Rachel , in the hopes that her partner Tyson will swap places with her at Redemption Island, which will weaken the other tribe. John is nervous about the idea, because that would mean Candice would have to battle Tyson.
Meanwhile, Colton is bored and he starts planting seeds of chaos within the tribe by spreading rumors and instigating fights. No one really takes the bait and hopefully, they are all onto what he's trying to do and will just get rid of him first. As a result of his machinations, an alliance forms with Gervase, Aras, Tyson, Tina and Monica.
The combined Immunity and Reward challenge involves rolling one tribe member in a barrel to various locations so that she (Laura M. and Katie handle it) can hop out and untie a bag of balls. Those bags are then delivered to a bowler, who basically plays skee ball. The tribes are neck and neck, but Gervase manages to pull off the win for his tribe and yells, "This is for Marissa!" The loss was really not one person's fault; it could have gone either way pretty easily.
The guys decide to vote off Rachel for the reasons stated earlier. Then everyone gets nervous that John has found the Idol and is going to use it to save Rachel so that Tyson won't go to Redemption Island against Candice. This is something that is so unlikely to happen that I can't believe they're even discussing it. The guys actually discuss breaking up their alliance already to blindside John. How dumb are they? Really dumb, if they actually follow through.
In the end, they do what they said they were going to do from the start and vote out Rachel in hopes that Tyson will switch places with her. I don't think he's going to, but maybe I'm wrong.
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