Another week, another possibility that Terry will do something to upset the apple cart, another tribal council where he doesn't. Reward goes to Bruce, Courtney, Terry, and Sally, all of whom get to watch video of their families. (Sorry, Boston Powers!) Aras is sent to Exile Island, where he pokes around and doesn't find any idol, stoking his suspicion that Terry has it. When everyone is offered the opportunity either to compete for immunity or chow down on cheeseburgers, all the Casayans except Aras choose the latter. Aras can't get it done, so it's Terry with immunity again. While he considers giving one or the other of his immunities to Sally in order to get rid of Aras, he ultimately doesn't, so he is fully committed to the "I will win every immunity" approach. Which you can tell by the way he smugly informs everyone that he will win every immunity. Oh, and Shane is growing a crotch fungus, as if you're surprised.
Previously on It's Raining Men Who Are Badly Outnumbered: Aras bossed around the Casaya women at the reward challenge for his own benefit, and wound up with a very wet breakfast as his reward. Austin and Chiclets headed to Exile Island, and they bonded in that way that means, "I like you, and I'll enjoy seeing you after I win and you lose." Terry won immunity again, and he decided that this was the time to give up the fact that he had the hidden idol. Sally and Austin were ecstatic, but Terry wasn't able to figure out how to make the right offer to the right person, so Terry and Sally sat helplessly at tribal council while Austin was sent home. Now, there are eight people left:six Casayans who haven't been disturbed since President Beefcake went home, plus Terry and Sally, who aren't so much "on the ropes" as "under the ropes" or "tangled up in the ropes." Who will be eliminated ?
Credits. Exile! (That's pretty much all you can get from the credits anymore. So much for being reminded of ancient Survivors long forgotten.)
Gitanos, Day 22. Behold the monkey, how much he is like Shane, only with less semi-obscene scratching and more knowledge of literature.
The tribe is starting the day around the fire, where Terry is going on and on about his background. He's yammering about flight school, jet training, learning to drop bombs, getting his wings, going to learn on F-18s...it's the kind of thing that you listen to for five minutes with rapt attention, and then you start to nod and smile a little less enthusiastically, and then you're really nodding but only pretending to smile, and then you're only pretending to either nod or smile, and then you're doing long division in your head, and then you're doing your taxes in your head, and then you're trying to remember all the words to "We Didn't Start The Fire." And under the shelter, Courtney, Cirie, and Chiclets are basically sharing the sentiment "Ugh." Terry is providing the Glory CliffsNotes about some great story where he did this really awesome thing this one time, and all his friends were undoubtedly like, "Dude!" Courtney mutters to the other C-listers that she's not sure how anyone is supposed to beat a retired Navy pilot. "Maybe he'll break his arm or something," Cirie says, not really all that unhappy at the thought of Terry snapping a limb right in two. Courtney can't believe Cirie is so naughty.
Out by the fire, Terry thinks he's going to renegotiate. "All right, guys," he says to Aras and Shane. "When we get down to the six, where do I fit in?" "That's not in our plan," Shane says, and Aras echoes, "That's not part of the plan, Terry." Seriously, why would they make a deal with him? He's so...dumb. I mean, he can win immunity over and over again, and I get that, but it's a damn good thing, because his strategic mind is for shit. Why in the hell would they ever, ever, ever deal with him? What would they have to gain from that? He's outnumbered six to two. What's he bargaining with, his buried chest of pirate treasure? I mean, it takes some doing to make Shane and Aras look like geniuses, but here we are. Aras and Shane both proceed to pretend that they'll really respect Terry if he just pounds them by brute force with an endless string of immunity victories, but as we all know, that rarely happens. One way or another, people tend to find a way not to vote for a really dominant player. In this case, though, if Terry were up against a girl, both of those guys might give him their votes. The more I look at this whole scenario, the less ridiculous an unsatisfying victory for Terry appears to be. Terry totally bores me, so this is not good news. Terry interviews that it was "a bummer" that Austin went home, and that his attempts to turn Chiclets and Bruce didn't work. Yeah. We noticed.
In the shelter, Chiclets mutters, "I just wish Terry and Sally were gone. And then Aras." Aha. Interesting! Chiclets is not a fan. It also makes me think that the C-List may have something in mind regarding the way the Casaya situation will develop when they run out of La Minans to boot. I would enjoy seeing Aras banished, hopefully carrying a little mat over his shoulder. I bet he looks nice in a leotard. Terry goes on to interview that he and Sally are really on their own at this point. It's good that he noticed. He says he's "totally motivated to kick their [Casayan] butts at everything that comes down the road." Back at the shelter chat, Courtney tells the C-List that they need to get rid of Terry's idol, or just boot him if he doesn't have it. It's easier for her to say, of course, because she knows that it will be Aras, not her, who will go if the idol does show up. Voting for Terry with Aras as the other option is kind of a free boot for Courtney and her friends, because either way, they're happy.
With the other women looking on, Chiclets snoops in Terry's bag to try to see the idol he showed her, but it's not there now. She interviews that she isn't entirely sure that the "furry" thing she saw was even the idol to begin with. Chiclets says that Terry might have just found "this furry thing out in the woods." Some kind of trinket, you know. Bigfoot's thumb, for instance. Chiclets says that you have to be careful about assuming you know who has the idol, and I think she speaks from experience in speaking about the dangers of underestimating your own cluelessness. Aras visits the C-List, and tells them about the chat he had with Terry about being in the Navy. Aras assures them that Terry will eventually be gotten rid of: "He flies planes. He's not an American Gladiator." I never say "Word, Aras," ever, but...if I ever were going to, I would have said it then. He also tells the C-list that if they win, he wants to be sent to Exile Island so that he can snoop around and see what the story is with the idol. This, of course, means that this will happen, because for whatever reason, these women seem to do as they're told. Aras interviews that he doesn't know, really, what his situation is, but that he knows he's possibly a target.
Challenge course. Now...it is maybe the hardest challenge course ever to explain, but I'll have a go. There are these two great big frames, cube-shaped, like the size of a medium-sized room, and there are flags stuck in the corner posts. There are also holes along the bottom of the frame. There's a sort of a harness/stretcher deal that hangs down on an elastic band from the middle of the frame, big enough to hold a person lying face-down. Jeff welcomes the entire group, and he explains that what they're playing for is something having to do with people back home. They're all going off to see their videos -- or a little bit of their videos. I would love it if one of the videos was of a person lying lifeless on the couch pretending to be dead, and then the Survivor was like, "Oh my God! Grandma's dead!" That would be the funniest family video ever.
We begin with Jeff making it clear that the family members are not here personally, and then he starts the viewings with an appearance by Terry's wife, kids, and dog. They look just about as you would expect, and Terry's daughter blubbers through the whole thing. Poor kid. Chiclets's family has wonderful Boston accents. Bruce's family asks the dog where Bruce is, and the dog barks. Hee. That's totally my parents' dog. Who, incidentally, is having ACL surgery soon. I didn't even know he played basketball! Bruce's wife is really pretty, by the way. Courtney's mom tells her that the family is thinking about her. Mom looks kind of severe, though, although Courtney promises that her mom was flashing her "love signs." Aw. They're all part of the love gang! Aras's dad is seen on a bike, and the only thing I care about where he's concerned is that Papa Aras does roll the "R" in Aras, so that's kind of interesting. And Aras's dad has a teepee! All of a sudden, I feel culturally insensitive for hating his guts. But Aras explains that his dad has just always wanted one. So maybe his dad is just a random dork.
And now, Shane. We do finally see the famous Boston Powers, who looks like he might be a pretty good kid, just kind of lounging around with his dog. I predict that the dog is the most stable influence in the kid's life, if you get my drift. Shane bawls like...not even like a girl -- most girls wouldn't be caught dead doing that shit. Jeff asks Shane about Boston, and Shane says that they "grew up together," because he was only twenty-one when the kid was born. And I'm guessing he wasn't one of those "he's a mature twenty-one" guys, either. He says that his kid is his "other half" and "brother" and "best friend." ["Told you." -- Wing Chun] Interestingly, I...I usually don't like parents who are too breezy about "my kid and I are friends!," but this one didn't bug me, because of the seriousness. I do think that family relationships are really variable, and not everybody's family makes sense to anybody else. You have to kind of feel how you feel, and a guy who loves his kid this much, I can't really fault. You know, for this.
Sally's mom and dad are in her video, which is kind of interesting, since she discussed estrangement earlier. They don't look all that comfortable, though, and it's her sister doing the talking. Aside from a fairly stiff "we love you," and wave at the end, her folks don't talk in the bit that we see. I can completely believe that could still be a really strained relationship, although in the "we love you, but we hate what you're doing" way, rather than the "you can't walk in the door of our house" kind of way. Sally cries. That's sad. I also like it when Jeff points out that her sister has a new apartment, as the sister mentioned. "Apparently," Sally agrees. Oh, things do happen while you're away.
Jeff pretends he's going to forget about Cirie, but that just means he loves her the most, so he does cue up her kids and her husband for her to see. They're all adorable, and she cries just like everybody else. As usual, this entire sequence with all the crying kind of weirds me out, because...I mean, I was away from home for a month a few times when I was a kid, for camp or whatever, and I went months without seeing my family when I was in law school. This "I haven't seen my family in three weeks, and I burst into bawling the minute I see them" thing just kind of freaks me out. Maybe your kids, but the rest of it is weird. ["I always chalk up the intensity of these people's emotions at moments like this to the intensity of the experience in general, and that seeing people you knew before you were just maneuvering and strategizing with people you don't even like would remind you that you had a life before you were in this game, and you would miss that." -- Wing Chun]
Anyway, Jeff tells the group that if they win the reward challenge, they'll win the opportunity to see their whole video, and they'll also get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and milk. I love how a punishment on Big Brother is a reward on Survivor. The people on Big Brother are such sissies, not like you didn't know this. Poor them, sitting around eating PB&J.
So now, Jeff explains the challenge. They're going to compete as two teams of four. One person will lie on the stretcher thing, and the others will use ropes to pull them around on their bouncing bungee cord thing. (Whatever. I told you it would be hard to explain.) You have to pull them to the corner post to get each flag, and then down to the bottom to stick it in the right hole. And the flags have to be done in a specific order, so you have to put them to the right flag at the right time. (I realize that if you didn't see this, it's very difficult to envision. I apologize. You can just pretend they're doing a Virginia Reel, or something.) Anyway, the winners will send someone to Exile Island.
The way the teams break out and line themselves up, Courtney is being pulled around by Bruce, Sally, and Terry. Chiclets is being pulled by Aras, Shane, and Cirie. This is for love and sandwiches, maybe the best reward ever. Ready? Go! It's a really cool-looking challenge, especially once the teams get good at it and start skillfully winging the women around. The action only gets complicated fairly late in the challenge, when Chiclets has a lead, only to lose it when her team bumps one of the flags out of its hole, which means that she has to be brought back down to pick it up and put it back. They then knock out another one, and she has even more trouble getting that one back in. In case I haven't mentioned it, it's a really good challenge, and it shows that even after a long time, the challenge designers are working their asses off to come up with new stuff. I had the honor, incidentally, of interviewing one of the challenge guys once, and it was totally the coolest thing ever. Those guys fucking rock, and even though I hate recapping challenges, I kind of wanted to make out with the challenge guy.
Anyway. Courtney's group is on a good roll, and it's just too difficult for Chiclets and her crowd to catch up. The funniest part is that as soon as they win, they all let go of the rope, and Courtney goes flying. Wouldn't have been so funny if they'd flung her into a post and broken all her teeth. Or it wouldn't have been funny in the same way. I really do think Courtney has to get a lot of the credit for that challenge victory, because much of it had to do with not only getting the stretcher to the right place, but the person on it being able to remain calm and handle the flags smoothly. I think a gymnast is just who you want in that situation.
Terry recommends to his team that they send Aras to Exile Island, because he'll "eat anything." So he's sending the biggest threat off to Exile Island to gather intelligence about the idol. I just do not get Terry's strategy, like, at all. The boat comes and fetches Aras, who's going into exile just like he wanted. Shane, Cirie, and Chiclets head back to camp. The four winning members go off to watch their videos and eat, though we don't see any of it. I bet everybody watched the videos and was like, "Oh, that was nice." Because if anybody had gone on an additional crying jag, we'd have seen it.
When we return, it is still Day 22 at Gitanos. As the three losers return to camp, Shane tries to tell them that the tapes wouldn't have been that great, and that losing the sandwiches and milk is nothing to feel bad about. Cirie interviews that Shane was just doing this to make everyone feel better, because they were really bummed about not getting to see the videos. And then, Shane announces, "I have an issue with my penis." No, he does. Cirie makes a face. Shane tells Cirie that he needs her to look at it, because she's a nurse. She looks like she's never regretted her career choice so much in her life. "I don't wanna look at it," she protests. She asks whether Shane can just explain what the problem is. He tells her no, she needs to look at it. "I can't even touch it," he says. "It hurts." I think it hurts us all at this point, dear. In an interview, Cirie says, "Shane has this funky thing going on with his, uh...testicles." She then says that, "lucky [her]," Shane wanted her to look. And then we cut back to her, just in time to see her pause, then clap her hands like a little kid and say, "Yaaaay!" I dated a guy who used to do that in precisely that sarcastic way, and it cracked me up fiercely every time, because I am nothing if not the world's cheapest date. It's easily the funniest thing about this entire very funny sequence.
Shane has everything pulled down as Cirie approaches him kind of gingerly. He makes her promise not to laugh, which is the part where I think she showed the most restraint, not that she's really going to deliver on that promise. Cirie has to get kind of close, as she asks him what exactly he's worried about. Shane points out to her a certain amount of redness, which she quickly dismisses as chafing that results -- similar to diaper rash on a baby -- from being damp all the time. And as she walks away, she doubles over with laughter, all as the interview plays in which she claims she was trying to be as "professional" as possible. She tells Shane that the only solution is to get dried out, so now he's walking around naked. Ultimately, he pulls his shirt on like a skirt, so that the neck is the waistband, in order to allow air to circulate. Cirie voices over that he's "like a cartoon character." That certainly seems like the most benign explanation possible. She does say the incident took her mind off of the videos she was missing, as Shane tells Cirie and Chiclets that this is now his "chafing skirt." An owl looks on disapprovingly. I feel you, owl.
Day 22. Exile Island. Aras makes himself a fire, and tells us in an interview that being on the island is good for two reasons: 1) he doesn't have to be around the other obnoxious assholes on his tribe, and 2) he can look for the idol. My favorite part is where they show him somberly picking up the map, looking at it, and then...turning it, because he was looking at it upside-down. Ha ha ha! He talks about how the clue indicates that the idol is under a rock, and that lots of rocks have been moved, so he has no idea whether he's digging in vain. He is, of course, and that pleases me. Aras tells us that Terry is the one he's afraid might have the thing, so he wonders if Terry sent him there, hoping to weaken him. Furthermore, the fact that Terry didn't worry that Aras -- his strongest competitor -- would find the idol might mean, Aras thinks, that Terry has it. I hate saying "Good thinking, Aras" also, but...again, there you go.
Gitanos, Day 22. The four who won the challenge return to camp full of peanut butter and family warmth. Chiclets talks about how she didn't want to see them, and didn't want to hear about the food and the family videos and so forth. What's more, for whatever reason, these four have been given their luxury items as part of their reward. Remember luxury items? We haven't seen any in a while, I don't think. Courtney has received the "fire toys" that she uses in fire dancing. Terry immediately unfurls his giant American flag over the tent, as if anyone is surprised. He goes on to explain how it was on the coffin of his father-in-law, a Korean War veteran. (I received a text message at this point saying, "I can't wait for the ceremonial burning of the flag at the end of the season.") It turns out that Sally has brought her journal, and Bruce has his sketch book. Cirie says that she thought Courtney's were still "the coolest." I agree! Courtney dances around with her "fire toys," which appear to be long straps -- or maybe thin rods -- with bulbs at the ends, and you set the bulbs on fire. It has a lot in common with baton twirling or rhythmic gymnastics, and honestly, it's pretty cool. I always think they should give people their luxury items, because they really tend to help distinguish people, just as they do here. Random Guy is one thing, Random Guy Who Sketches is something completely different. Where would Jerri have been without her drum? Cirie says that losing is hard, and that having everyone else filled with happiness over their reward is not too much fun. She doesn't care to listen to everyone's happiness and excitement. I can't really blame her too much. Courtney plays with her unlit fire toys on the beach.
We come back to find Courtney still in fire-toy mode, still on the beach. Now, however, it is Day 24. So apparently, there were a couple of real down days there, just kind of leaving Aras on Exile Island and whatnot. Day 23, for instance, was not action-packed. Bruce is sketching the beach, and he's doing a pretty nice job, too. Sally is telling Terry she doesn't want to leave, and Terry is telling her that if she wants to stay, she needs to turn somebody, and then Sally or Terry needs to win the challenge. Sally reiterates that it's 6-2 at this point, which is pretty brutal, as far as odds go. I kind of wonder whether they should have stopped trying to come up with a new alliance at this point and tried to find a different plan to oust a specific Casayan. She tells Terry that maybe what they should do is try to win the immunity challenge, and then tell Chiclets or Courtney, for instance, that they're going to play the idol and present the options of 1) jumping aboard with Terry and Sally; or 2) risking being the one from Casaya to be booted. Sally says that if one of them can win the challenge and Terry decides to use the idol, then a Casayan will go home. Of course, that becomes less meaningful by the week, since it would still leave them down 5-2. Sally sure hopes that things will change. She'd have to.
Around the fire, Shane asks Terry what they need to do other than beat him for immunity, and Terry says, "You better not think about anything else." Which isn't very clever or...coherent. Shane tells Terry that if he doesn't win immunity and doesn't have the idol, he's done. "Yeah, well, you never know," Terry says in a way that does not qualify as "cagey." A ray skitters across the ocean floor.
And now, we are at the immunity challenge. After bringing Aras back from his boat, Jeff asks how Exile Island was and ascertains that it wasn't bad. Jeff then hands each person a nut and a shell. After taking the immunity necklace back from Terry, Jeff explains the challenge. It's basically a game of memorizing a series of symbols that are underwater, and then coming back to shore and arranging a set of symbols in your box so that they match. First to solve it will win immunity. The trick is that, in this challenge, they will have the option of either competing for immunity, or eating cheeseburgers as fast as they can until someone wins immunity. What should not be allowed, despite the rock/shell thing that's clearly designed to make people decide without conferring with each other, are the Casayans -- all but Aras -- immediately making it clear with broad gesturing and sticking their hands out that they're all going to take the food, defeating the purpose of making them choose blind. Unsurprisingly, Terry and Sally choose to play, but only Aras chooses to compete against them. So five out of six members of the power alliance decided they didn't give a shit, which doesn't say too much for Aras's standing with his tribe, among other things. I think it's safe to say that Aras had better be prepared to start winning immunity.
Go! Jeff sort of goes back and forth between yelling out the progress of the actual challenge and yelling out the progress of the cheeseburger-eaters, which is awesome. There's not a lot to report here -- they all swim out and dive under to look at the symbols, and when they get back to shore, Aras arranges his symbols first, but he's wrong. So he has to head back out, and before he can get back, Terry solves it and wins immunity again. It makes Terry look kind of invincible, of course, but really, it's less than it appears. When five people sit out, your chances of winning improve considerably. It's not that he doesn't deserve the win, because he does, but it's got an asterisk to it, because I don't know that he automatically would have beaten everyone, if everyone had chosen to play. It's just like the hang-from-a-pole challenge, really -- most people didn't care and didn't try that hard. Considering how badly Terry's team did in immunity challenges as a group, and given the fact that he still does things like take half the coconuts instead of all of them, you know that he's not at all the challenge monster that, say, Tom Westman was. Terry does collect the necklace, though, and they can't take that away from him. Nor can I, unfortunately.
Later, still on Day 24, Terry and Sally celebrate, as if it has something to do with her. Elsewhere, Aras tells everyone that either the idol was really easy to find, or nobody has it. Which I guess is his way of saying he did a good search, but it sounds assy, because it's him, and he can't not. They agree that they'll go 6-0 against Sally and just hope Terry doesn't have the idol. Aras interviews that he never had a choice about competing, because he knows he's the target if anyone is.
Now, for whatever reason, Terry decides to show the idol to Bruce in the shelter. That seriously has no explanation I can possibly think of, other than showing off. Bruce interviews that Terry did just seem to show it to him, and that, until then, he wasn't sure Terry had it, but now he figures that...he does. So the plot of that scene, if we can all review it together, was, "Guy shows another guy a thing he found. Other guy says he guesses the first guy has that thing he just showed him." Pass the popcorn!
Sally talks to the C-List, and tells them, basically, "If two of the three of you will vote for us, then it will be a tie, and we will play the idol, and then..." And this is kind of where the presentation falls apart. Because she doesn't really know what she's offering, because she's not offering anything. She's kind of offering F4, but she's offering it to three people, so it's...weird. Sally says that she's telling everyone that the idol will be played at this tribal council, even though she doesn't know whether Terry will actually do it, in which case she knows she'll go home. "It's most advantageous for us to break up this strong six as soon as possible," she says, understating her case considerably. Yes, it's true -- when you're at a 6-2 disadvantage, that's when you need to get serious about putting your plan into effect sooner rather than later.
For his part, Terry is playing some kind of highly weird mind game with Courtney, in which they are out getting water, and Courtney is asking whether he's saying he's going to give the idol to Sally. He clarifies that it's nothing like that -- he's not even saying he has it. Which...what's the point of that? Why not just tell her you have it, at this point? What's the advantage of making her think you might not have it? It's like, play the card or don't, you know? He either needs to try to get people to vote for him, or try to get people not to vote for him. There's no point in being like, "I might have it. But I might not have it." At least that's the way it seems to me. Terry tells Courtney that his proposal is now apparently himself and Sally and her and Bruce. Terry tells Courtney that, with four votes, they'd get rid of Aras by playing the idol. He tells Courtney that this would mean "guaranteed final four." See, this is beginning to be a real plan, but if it is, then he needs to tell her for sure that he has the idol, and there's no reason to fuck around. Courtney interviews that she'd like to align with Terry and go up against him at F2, but again, the disorganization of Casaya works against Terry, because she doesn't seem ready to jump yet. Courtney also tells us that Terry is harder to beat in challenges, but that Aras would be harder to beat in F2, which is an interesting perspective. I have a feeling that there's more animosity toward Terry than we've really seen. Courtney says that there's not a clear answer for her at this point.
Cirie has a chat with Bruce, meanwhile, in which she says that she can't believe Terry is going to turn over his idol to anyone: "If he does, that will go down as the worst move in Survivor history." I don't think anything will ever match Lex's decision to boot Jerri instead of Amber, quite frankly.
Courtney does some kind of fire dancing thing, and Terry tells Sally that Courtney won't make a commitment to flipping. He then interviews that if Courtney isn't willing to go, then he may or may not give the idol to Sally -- he hasn't decided. He says that if he can get good numbers, then he won't have to win another challenge until F3. Courtney fire-dances for her team. It's all very dramatic. I think the guys in editing can't believe they got lucky enough to have somebody waving fire all over the place while plans are being hatched.
Tribal council. Everyone is seated, and Sally is wearing her "I'm fucked" face. Austin is brought in, and everyone chuckles with affection, appreciating, I think, how clean and well-fed he suddenly looks. Jeff starts off by mocking the weenies who sat out of the immunity challenge at the word "cheeseburger." Jeff asks whether Shane is concerned that a move like that could backfire. Shane goes into a bit about how he "overperformed" at the challenge by eating two cheeseburgers, which is oddly a little bit funny. He does say that part of him believed that, as a team player, he should have competed instead of eating. But on the other hand, he didn't feel like he, personally, needed to get immunity today. For her part, Sally talks about how confident people have the luxury of being confident, and she doesn't, so much. Jeff asks Aras about being stuck with the responsibility of winning for his tribe. Aras says that he felt like he was the one who would be screwed if they didn't get immunity, and that they need to get immunity away from Terry. Jeff asks Shane whether they discuss Terry's dominance, and Shane says that it's going to take six consecutive immunities, and while Terry's a "forty-seven-year-old beast," Shane isn't convinced it can be done. Terry: "Regardless, I'm going to continue winning immunities, whether they like it or not." Chiclets can be heard to say, "Here we go." Terry talks about how he wants to compete against Aras, who's such a monster. Jeff asks Chiclets about her comment, and she says that Terry does have a way of going on and on about how great and how competitive he is: "It's all about Terry, Terry, Terry." She comments on how cocky and confident he is, and Jeff calls her out for being kind of cocky herself. Chiclets says Terry has all of them beat. ["At first I was kind of put off by Terry's trash talk, but when you're in a situation like that, where the dominant alliance is not even making a token effort not to lord it over you, trash talk is kind of the only way you can respond and still respect yourself." -- Wing Chun] Jeff asks Chiclets whether she's frustrated about being unable to beat Terry, and she says she is, but that there will eventually be one that Terry can't win.
Jeff asks Cirie about the idol, and Cirie says that there are many competing theories about it; she'd like to just see it come out. Aras takes issue with that, because he thinks he'll be the one to go. Now, Jeff asks Terry if he wants to give away the necklace, and...he doesn't.
Sally votes for Aras. "I'm kind of sick of the six of you," she offers. Cirie votes for Sally: "Just strategy; nothing personal; hope you have the idol." Aras votes. Terry votes for Aras. Bruce votes. Courtney votes, saying, "You're a great player in this game, and too much of a threat." At some point in there, Chiclets voted, but I missed it. Jeff goes off to tally. He brings the votes back. Sally. Sally. Aras. Aras. Sally. Sally. Sally. So that's it for her, unless she has the hidden idol. She...does not. So Sally brings her torch over to be snuffed. Everyone looks sad. She waves goodbye. Jeff says that the game seems to be six against Terry, and he's got his cocky smirk on. He sends them all back to camp.
Sally tells us that she's not unhappy that Terry didn't give her the idol, and that she found lots of inner strength that she'll be carrying away from the game. "I have no regrets," she says. Nor should she, except maybe the long socks she kept wearing. Those are a little bit regrettable.
week: Bruce is very unwell. Terry wants Casaya to implode. Shane is arguing with people again. Shane is "turning the game," probably into something really icky and possibly infected.