By Kim
The men are worried that leaving Bill in the game could come back to bite them in the collective ass, because they think he might be able to split their "misfit alliance." Meanwhile, the women are eating snails, and they turn down Jonas's offer to use their fishing net and give them half of the haul.
Reward challenge offers a choice of three prizes: Comfort (pillows, blankets and a mattress), Protection (tarp), or Luxury (donuts and coffee). The challenge involves using a slingshot to fling coconuts at a giant grid of wooden panels. The winners must knock out five squares in a row or column. The women make quick work of it, disproving Coach's theory last season that women can't handle this slingshot. The women take the tarp, even though they really want the donuts and coffee, so at least they're not being complete idiots, yet.
Leif accidentally tells Bill that they nearly voted him out at the last Tribal Council. Mike rats him out to Colton, who pulls Leif aside and tells him that it was a dumb move, and Leif has sealed his fate. Of course, Colton can't go against Leif without calling a number of derogatory names related to Leif's stature, because Colton is a garbage person.
When the women get the invitation for the challenge, it's a puzzle, so they figure that the challenge will be a puzzle as well, and they'll be paired. Kat immediately admits that she's terrible at puzzles so she needs to be paired with someone awesome, and not Alicia. Alicia takes offense to that, and thinks Kat is calling her stupid, and of course starts a fight with her minutes before they go to the challenge. Sabrina tries to quash it.
The challenge involves being paired up. Each pair has to cross a teeter-totter and solve a puzzle, and then retrieve a key. Once all three keys have been retrieved, the team has to open three locks and raise a flag. Chelsea and Alicia are the first pair for the women, and they still haven't solved their puzzle while the men are on their third puzzle. They even look at the men's completed puzzle and it still takes them a lot of time to finish. Tarzan gets really mad that they're "cheating", even though Probst says it's fine, so it's not really cheating. It doesn't really matter because the men win, which gives Probst plenty of opportunity to lecture the women on how terrible they are and how they aren't taking the game seriously. Ugh. Note that the men didn't get this lecture when they lost immunity – he just questioned if they were losing momentum.
After the challenge, the women are thinking about dumping Alicia. Meanwhile, Bill wants to talk to Colton about their beef, but Colton refuses to talk to him. Bill gets in Colton's face and it makes Colton so mad that he proposes offering to go to Tribal Council instead of the women so they can get rid of Bill. Tarzan gets wind of the idea and he confronts Leif and says that Leif betrayed them and has to go. WTF is happening? Bill's all for this idea so that he can take advantage of the tribe's anger at Leif and spare himself.
So the men end up giving Immunity away and going to Tribal. They are idiots. They are numbskulls. What are they doing? Even if someone is incredibly annoying, better the devil you know going into the merger, right? Probst is dumbfounded when the men show up, as no tribe has ever won immunity and then gone to Tribal Council anyway. The only way I would enjoy this would be if they blindsided Colton. That would be great. If only one of them were smart enough to put that together.
At Tribal, Probst tries to make sense of the whole thing, but there's no sense to be made. Colton tells Bill that he needs to get a real job. Does Colton have a job? Also, Probst gets Colton to admit that they only African-American in his life is his housekeeper. Ouch. Bill finally flips and accuses Colton of never working an honest day in his life. Colton digs his grave further by talking about how the rednecks live in trailers and they judge him for being gay, but his country club friends are educated and open. Tarzan tries to stick up for Colton, but Probst sees right through his blatant ass-kissing and when Tarzan can't back it up with facts, Tarzan just starts yelling about how we should live in a post-racial world. I am seriously confused as to what is happening here.
So it appears the whole Leif thing was a smokescreen, and Bill goes home. I don't think I can root for anyone anymore. They're all idiots.