By Kim
After Tribal Council, Shamar is really angry and I'm not exactly clear why? But he yells at Matt a lot. Reynold and Eddie realize they're screwed, but hope Shamar continues to piss people off so they get rid of him first. Shamar might beat them to it because he's thinking about quitting. He opens up to his tribe about his vulnerabilities and they convince him to stay -- was all this legit or gameplay?
Malcolm and Corinne have become buddies because they're the only people in their alliance who don't have a season mate (Phillip/Andrea and Cochran/Dawn). Together, they find the Hidden Immunity Idol. Later, Andrea decides that they need to ditch Corinne and pick up Brandon instead, because Corinne seems to be playing the game too hard.
Also, Phillip is still crazy and claims that he plays pick-up basketball against guys who are twice as tall as him (so, actual giants?) and he shoots the ball and gets "nothing but air" (so, an air ball?)
The Immunity Challenge involves the entire tribe climbing over a bamboo cage in the water and retrieving a heavy chest, then dragging it back to shore where they have to use a grappling hook to assemble a track and move the chest to a platform. The winning tribe gets immunity and comfort -- some chairs, pillows, blankets and a tarp.
The Fans lag behind at first, but get their cage door open first and seem to have a good system for dragging the chest through the water. The Favorites catch up near the beach and get their chest up on the track first. It comes down to the third piece of track and Eddie tries and tries to hook the track with the ring for the Fans, but can't do it. I don't know why he didn't let someone else try; he ended up being the goat. The Favorites win Immunity.
The Fans majority alliance decides to split the vote between Eddie and Hope in case one of them plays Reynold's Idol. They want Hope to leave because they need Reynold and Eddie's strength for challenges. Shamar takes matters into his own hands and tries to convince Hope to vote for Eddie so that he'll go home and she'll be saved. Julia finds out about Shamar's blabbing and Laura freaks out and decides they need to get rid of Shamar.
Everyone rags on Shamar during Tribal Council, but Laura and Julia actually stick to the original plan and vote for Eddie, resulting in a three-way tie between Hope, Shamar and Eddie. On the revote, the people who got votes can't vote again, so there go two of the votes against Shamar. Everyone but Reynold votes for Hope and she goes home.
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