Terry opens the episode by lecturing Cirie like she's three years old, which she does not appreciate. The reward challenge is the first in quite some time that isn't primarily physical, and Terry doesn't jump into a lead, so much. This freaks him out to the point where he hauls off and shoves Aras, making him lucky not to be DQ'd, really, and then late in the game, he starts complaining about the rules. And that's when Aras, overwound and sick of losing, yells out, "Somebody call the whambulance! Terry's crying on the co-urse!" Which is unbelievably juvenile, but also hilarious, especially because Terry gets even madder, and after losing the challenge, has to stop and explain why he could have won. It is not pretty. Cirie and Aras go off on the reward together, and Chiclets and Terry are sent to Exile Island, where they hatch a plot that requires Terry to win immunity. Of course, it's a puzzle challenge, and Terry loses for the second time in a row when confronted with something that requires something other than strength and agility. Aras winds up with the necklace, and he and Cirie vote for Chiclets, while Chiclets and Terry vote for Cirie. This sends Cirie and Chiclets to a fire-building tiebreaker, which⦠is not resolved as of the close of the episode. Damn.
Previously on Crazy Is As Crazy Does: All the remaining contestants managed to scrape up someone to come on the show who claimed to love them. Terry won the challenge, and he allocated time to various people, leaving Aras and Chiclets with the short straws. Back at camp, he explained to Aras that everything would be different when Aras was married. After Terry won immunity again, Shane wanted to oust Chiclets, but Chiclets, Cirie, and Aras decided that Shane's time was up, so they sent him home. We are at the final four. Who, if anyone, will get the boot before the finale?
It is Night 33 at Gitanos, and the final four are returning from tribal council, having gotten rid of Shane. Someone else has probably inherited the wood Blackberry, so some lucky family member back home will soon be receiving an imaginary text message which, ironically, will express relief about the ousting of Shane. As Cirie explains, the evening's interpersonal drama starts right away when she lays down her torch in the dark to a tree. Not the best place in the world to put your torch, but it's hard to find the best place in the world, especially in the dark. (I've eliminated Pittsburgh, North Dakota, and most post offices.) Terry asks, "Who dropped their thing right in the middle of the way?" Wow. Articulate! Not in the mood for a lecture, Cirie says, "I did. Right there. I couldn't see." Terry starts in like an aggressive bully, saying, "Yeah? Yeah?" And then, unbelievably, he says, "Is this where it goes?" Yes, he's using the rhetorical device most often aimed at three-year-olds and essentially never appropriate for use with adults. "I didn't know it had a specific place," Cirie asks, exercising caution and giving him more of the benefit of the doubt than he probably has coming. Terry: "You'd be slapping your kids around if they dropped their stuff..." Cirie cuts him off: "I don't slap my kids, Terry." Seriously, that is not a smart thing to say to anyone. "Verbally, then," he insists. "Well," she interviews warily as she begins to tell the story, "here comes Captain America." She explains that she didn't understand what was so horrible about choosing the wrong spot for her torch along their "fifty miles of beach."
Back around the fire, Terry won't drop it: "You do know I was right behind you. That's fine." Meaning, as the passive-aggressive always do, that it's not fine, but that he just wants you to know that he's awesome for pretending to forgive you. Cirie points out that it was pitch black, so she didn't know where Terry was: "So I don't know where you want my torch to be." Terry is not pacified. "Well, God, this just looks like one of my kids," he gripes, aggressively. Cirie points out that she is not, in fact, a child. "You're not, you're not," he agrees. "And that's why I expected a little bit more." I wonder when Cirie became responsible for living up to Terry's expectations. I missed the part where he became her parent, teacher, mentor, boss, priest, or life coach. "Make an attempt to throw it out of the way," he says. Cirie is not impressed. "Make an attempt to talk to people like you want to be talked to," she comes back. And: man, no kidding. "I'll tell you what," he says. "The least you could have said was, 'Hey, I'm sorry I dropped it right in front of you.'" She reminds him that she didn't know he was there. "Regardless," he says, "it was where I happened to be walking." Get that? He's saying that even if she legitimately couldn't have known he'd walk there, it was where he happened to be walking, and thus, she should have apologized.
Cirie is full-on pissed off now: "I'm sorry, King Terry [this gets exaggerated finger quotes], that this torch was where you were walking." And then he does the "I Am Arguing With A Woman, Therefore, It's All About Hysteria" thing, and he says, "All right, all right, Cirie, don't get so upset." Don't get so upset? You just browbeat her into apologizing to you, dude. That has a way of making people upset. Not that he needed to make her upset. I mean, his entire attack there was a catalog of condescending bullshit, but mostly, what strikes me is how preposterously unnecessary it was, no matter who's right or wrong about the torch. Even if she wasn't as careful as she should have been, what would have been wrong with just saying, "Hey, I know it wasn't intentional, but I almost stepped on your torch, so if you could kind of throw it out of the way so nobody trips over it, that would be great"? It could have been over in ten seconds. That's how you cope with living with other people. What would have been wrong with that; it's better than that snotty remark, "Is that where it goes?" followed by comparing her to a child? Why is it necessary to make things ugly when they're not? This is why I tend to agree with the EEFPs, who pointed out that in all likelihood, what's at issue here is that Terry was frustrated because of his total inability to control or predict anything that happens with the voting, so he took that frustration out on Cirie. The torch just didn't justify that level of reaction, you know?
Aras -- unable to let Cirie handle it on her own and happy to find Terry making a jackhole out of himself -- tells Terry not to ruin the happy evening for the rest of them by...being a jackhole: "Don't come into final four territory and ruin it for everybody else." Terry starts to make protesting noises, but hilariously, he has nothing to say. "Terry," Aras continues, just as condescending as Terry was thirty seconds ago, "you yelled at Cirie for putting her stick where she wanted to put it as a 35-year-old grown woman. And then you started arguing...." Terry: "Which was right in front of me, where I was walking." Hasn't Terry already admitted that Cirie couldn't have necessarily had any idea he was even there? Why is any of this needed? Terry goes on to gripe in an interview that everyone "ganged up" on him. Terry totally misses the point by claiming that they got angry at him for "telling Cirie not to drop a piece of equipment right in front of [him]." Now, notice a few things. It's not Terry telling Cirie not to drop the torch that was the issue, really; the real issue was his tone tone. Second of all, "equipment"? It's a fucking toy torch. It's not really a tribal ceremony, doofus. All these little shifts are made in order to boost Terry's position -- he's adding the fact that it's "equipment," as if it's something you desperately need that she placed in peril, like a canteen, rather than a torch used for fake ceremonies. It wouldn't have sounded as good, after all, had he said "scenery."
At any rate, Aras is in full, self-righteous bellow, telling Terry that they could all have celebrated F4, but now he has ruined it. Terry tells them that he'll just go to bed, and they can "have [their] little final three situation." Terry tells us in an interview, "I didn't come here to make friends with 24-year-olds." I wonder if he believes that he hides his contempt for people who are younger than he is, because he doesn't. When you're saying things like that in interviews about your personal biases, the odds are that the people who are the targets of those biases are well aware of where you stand. He goes on to congratulate himself AGAIN for surviving the "target on [his] back," and how he was "the underdog the whole time" -- ignoring the part where he was completely ineffectual strategically, and where anyone who failed at the social and strategic game as much as he did would have been "the underdog." Aras, Cirie, and Chiclets share a moment of relief about being in F4, as Terry voices over that he "could give a shit" if any of them talk to him for the rest of the time. Mature! Good thing he's not 24 years old! "I'm winning the million dollars, and that's all," Terry says. Man, I hope not. That will be the worst outcome ever, should that happen. Back at the fire, Cirie and Aras agree that Terry is just pissed off about the vote, because he thought Shane was the person that he could beat in F2. And I agree. Terry knows that his best shot at a final vote just walked out the door, and he knows that he's done less to get himself votes than the rest of these people.
Challenge course. There are a bunch of random-looking boxes full of iguanas and rocks and crabs and things, so it looks from the beginning like it might have some non-physical aspects. Which: about time. Or else they're making a very unusual soup. Jeff calls in the F4. He explains that this is a reward challenge where you are attached to a rope with a hook. You slide along the rope, and then when you run into an obstacle, you have to hook your other hook and then unhook your first hook so that you're hooked at all times, get it? Okay. Anyway, you make your way along the ropes to each of six stations: poles, crabs, rocks, iguanas, shells, and fish. At each one, you count the number of items and then you return. Each time you count, you have to come back, find the tile out of a big pile of them that has the corresponding number on it, and put it on the front of a game board. When you've been to all six stations and have all six numbers, you arrange them on a grid, and if you have all the right numbers, they will form the combinations to three locks. When you get all three locks open, your flag will drop, and you win. Oh, and if the locks don't open and you get numbers wrong, "you can head back out and correct your mistakes."
So what's the reward? A tour of the Panama Canal on a big yacht. Big meal, open bar, overnight. Also, you'll decide who goes to Exile Island. Terry can taste the food already, because obviously, he will win.
Ready? Go! They all go running down the course, trying to get the hang of the clipping and unclipping. Aras arrives at the rocks and starts counting. Chiclets counts shells. Cirie counts iguanas. Terry counts poles. Aras heads back, then Cirie, Terry, and Chiclets. Aras gets his first number onto his board, and he runs to the station. Cirie does the same. Aras runs into a returning Chiclets, and we learn that one of the problems in this game is that when people are trying to get around each other, they can get in each other's way very easily. See, in order to pass but remain attached, you have to sort of wrap yourself around the other person, and if they're not inclined to let you, they can make it very difficult. Terry gets his second number set. There is more counting and more running, and for a bit, the race between Aras, Cirie, and Terry is a tie. Chiclets falls behind for a bit. We start to see numbers accumulate on people's boards, and Terry and Aras see it shaping up to be a battle between the two of them. Both of them begin to presume they can tell the women how to handle themselves, as Terry -- who just yelled at Cirie last night -- orders her, "Over the top, Cirie, over the top," when they run into each other. Cirie does not obey, oddly, and Terry finds himself tangled up with her. Then, as Terry and Aras put their second-to-last numbers into their boards, Terry is so overwound that he throws a number on the ground and has to go around to the front to retrieve it. I love when a jumpy freakazoid pays the price for his freakazoiditude.
A minute later, Aras takes his turn telling Chiclets to "let [him] through," which...it's a challenge, right? She would do that...why? Aras always does this, thinking that the women he's allied with should just step aside and let him win. Insanity. Chiclets actually doesn't seem to have a problem with it in this instance, so maybe she just wants Terry to lose. All four of them wind up tangled at one point, and the only person who looks happy about the ensuing pile-up is Cirie. Oh, Cirie. And then, as Terry and Aras work their way back, Terry hauls off and shoves Aras, from behind, exactly the same way bully/chicken hybrids have been doing since time immemorial. Remarkably, after Jeff issues a reprimand, Terry starts insisting that Aras pushed him first, which...is not true. Aras used his body to block, as everyone else has been doing. Terry is the only one who shoved with his arms from behind like a big baby. Maybe he forgot that this is all being taped, so we're all capable of looking for ourselves. "Terry, you're full of shit," Aras declares, and figuring that the gloves are now off, he puts his head into Terry's shoulder and shoves him. "Two battering rams!" Jeff proclaims. Hey, at least Aras didn't sucker-punch him from behind.
Terry returns to the boxes with a small lead, theoretically in possession of all the numbers that he needs to solve the thing. Aras soon follows. They both feed their numbers into their boxes. Cirie gets back to her box with her last number, as does Chiclets, and now it looks like everybody is playing. But nobody's numbers are right on the first try; at least not all six. Cirie and Terry are the first to go back out. Aras then heads back. Chiclets is still working, but her numbers aren't right either. Terry returns and starts working again. We see Aras and Cirie work their way from one station to another, looking and remembering numbers. Terry leaves yet again to keep checking. As he runs back onto the course, Terry yells at Jeff, "Don't you have to come back after each look once you're out there? Aras should have been back here already. He's taking multiple looks." So this is where we learn that rather than just trying to solve the puzzle, Terry is spending too much time concentrating on everybody else and what they're doing. "No, Terry, you're good," Jeff says. "I can take multiple looks?" Terry asks. "Yes," Jeff says. "Oh, you didn't tell us that!" Terry gripes loudly, as he heads back out onto the course. "It was one look and back to the station!"
Aras is completely delighted to see Terry coming unglued like this, which I can't really fault him for, considering how many times Terry has lectured Aras about maturity. Aras hollers, "Somebody call a whambulance -- Terry's crying on the co-ourse!" It's horribly juvenile, but no one has ever deserved it quite as much as Terry does at this moment. Terry, taking things about a half-step above "I'm rubber and you're glue," declares, "I'll have to take over your role." Yeah. The problem there is that you can't really do that when you're the current egregious whiner. Whining about the rules of a challenge, particularly while it's going on, is kind of like whining about the officiating in a basketball game. You're not fooling anyone; you're just pissed off that you're losing. Everyone understands, but you're still wrong. Anyway, Aras opens another lock and starts on the last one. He gets the third lock, pulls the string, and his flag comes down. So Aras is the winner. When Terry returns, he says to Aras, "Good on ya, good on ya, you got...whatever he said, and I missed it." And had he left it there, he would have almost redeemed himself for his little meltdown. But now, even though the challenge is over, Terry feels the need to open his bitch session about the rules again. He wants to clarify again, even though Jeff already did, that you could look at more than one thing after your first trip to each station. "Well," Terry says, "the second time I came back, I didn't have to come back. I could have stayed out there." So Terry just needs the rest of the tribe and the viewers at home to know that if he had understood the rules, he could have won. That's all that remark is about. It's just...it's remarkable what a bad moment that is for Terry, and how he doesn't realize it.
Aras can't resist rolling around in Terry's bad sportsmanship: "Every time somebody else wins, are you going to say you got hosed?" Terry says the only thing he can think of: "Well, that's the first time I've lost, so there you go, Aras." I thought Cirie won a reward challenge, didn't she? I thought Terry lost a whole bunch of team immunities, didn't he? I don't think this is Terry's first loss. Aras points out that Terry whines whenever anyone else gets anything, and Terry comes back with, "Right back at ya." Which...what? Look, I don't like Aras, either, but he has endured weeks of getting his ass kicked by the same guy, and I've never once heard him say that the rules weren't fair, or bitch about the ref, or whatever. I'm not sure "Right back at ya" is a very good comeback. Aras tells Terry that Terry has no respect for anyone else in the game. "Keep it up," Terry says menacingly, as if there's some threat behind it. "What are you going to do?" Aras says. "Say something bad about women? Do I have to worry about that?" Oh, goodness. Terry rightly disses this as not a very mature remark its own self.
But anyway. It's time for Aras to get his reward, and he needs to pick someone to go with him. He chooses Cirie, apologizing to Chiclets and Terry. This decision it turns out, sends both Terry and Chiclets to Exile Island. They leave. Aras and Cirie head for their reward.
When we return, Aras and Cirie are on a plane, heading to their yacht. Aras tells us what a big deal it was for him to win his first reward challenge. He and Cirie settle themselves on the yacht, as she voices over that she's only seen yachts on TV, but she never anticipated she would be on a yacht. Aras and Cirie toast to final four, and then he shows his cards accidentally, I think, by saying they should also toast to final three. "Final two," she says, "why you joking?" He's not joking, lady. He ain't taking you to F2, because you'll beat his ass. They enjoy their boat ride. As they pass an enormous ship, Cirie comments that she could fit her whole house in there. Aras tells her that if she couldn't fit her house on that ship, he certainly wouldn't let her win the money. Heh.
As Aras and Cirie sit around and eat and (particularly) drink, Aras recounts his glory and his "whambulance" remark, which is one of those things that you ruin as soon as you revel in it. It's too bad. He does do it at Cirie's urging, but still. Aras interviews that he really tries to "practice love and compassion" to people, and he hasn't been doing those things with Terry..."recently." With admirable self-knowledge, Aras says, "It's been ego. It's been all my ego." Hey, at least his ego can look itself in the mirror and blame itself for its sins before becoming distracted by its own awesomeness and starting to make finger-guns at its reflection.
Day 34, Exile Island. Terry tells Chiclets that the rivalry with Aras is becoming "unhealthy." YOU THINK? What's awesome is that Terry explains that Aras is getting "really emotional," and he thinks Aras might be cracking. Uh...he's not the one who appears to be cracking, Splinters McFreaky. Terry interviews that Aras has become "a hothead," unlike those who shove others, who are apparently models of restraint. He tells us that Aras is wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Equally awesome, because...equally ridiculous. Terry yabbers in an interview that he was "just trying to get a final ruling." There was already a final ruling! Shut it! He also brings up in the interview Aras's remark about him and women, and he says to Chiclets that he hasn't made any disparaging remarks about women. But then Terry tells us that he has to "act like a 46-year-old" and rise above it. He is more obsessed with the idea that age = awesomeness than anyone I've ever seen. What is with that? People can still suck in middle age. Seriously. He says that with any luck, there will be one more immunity challenge that he or Chiclets will win, and Aras will be gone.
Chiclets and Terry talk. They agree that if he can win immunity, then he'll give Chiclets the idol, and they'll get rid of Aras. Chiclets interviews that when Aras took Cirie on the reward, that told her that it was "the right time" for her to align herself with Terry. Which I don't really blame her for; that's probably a reasonable piece of analysis. She also explains that she's just using Terry; she doesn't like him or want to be his friend or anything. And really, who would? Except his wife, I guess. She's kind of stuck with him. Terry shows Chiclets the idol, and she interviews that now, she really knows that he has it. They make a deal that they'll take each other to F2, no matter what happens. "We can't let Aras win the immunity," Chiclets says.
Aras and Cirie on their yacht. Now, the canal. Miraflores locks. Aras explains what the canal is, and how the locks are really cool. A man! A plan! You know how it goes. Cirie, too, expresses some amazement at the man-made accomplishment of the canal, which I guess you sort of have to, because at one time, that was considered kind of a big deal, they tell me. That, and walking on the moon. Which: yawn. Cirie says that she's closer to Aras than anyone, and has been for thirty-four days. She says that they're also thinking how great it would be if the two of them could get to F2 together. I don't think Aras thinks that, since it would not result in his winning the money.
Back from more commercials, the yacht is heading for the beach. Cirie says that she and Aras came along to their own island and beach, and from a distance, it looked pretty good. Much less miserable than from close up. She also says that it was nice to be home. And then we get a scene in which Aras repeatedly farts audibly, which you don't hear on TV that often. He blames it on the food, and she refuses to come in the shelter with him. Instead, Cirie heads out to try to start a fire on her own with the flint, which she says she has never done before. It turns out there's always been someone else there to start the fire, and Aras won't expect her to have started one, which is why she wants to. Happily, Cirie does manage to start a fire, just as Aras is waking up, an he's happy for her. He tells us in a quick interview that on the first day, she wouldn't have been able to do that. Do you get it? It's foreshadowing! Foreshadowing, I tell you!
Challenge beach. Cirie and Aras come in, and then Chiclets and Terry are brought in from the boat. Jeff asks Aras about the food, and Aras says that he may have eaten too much. It's never wrong to gloat about the hunger of others. Jeff explains today's challenge. You solve three puzzles, each made up of a bag of pieces you dig up using coordinates that show you where to line up ropes, and then you dig where they cross. The first coordinates are already set up, the first puzzle leads to the second coordinates, the second to the third coordinates, and the final puzzle is the end. First to finish all three puzzles will win immunity. I'm sure Terry is disappointed to see immunity resting on something that they wouldn't do in survival training.
Ready? Go! Everybody digs. Aras digs his bag up first, then Chiclets, then Cirie, then Terry. is the task of getting the bags open, then the solving. First to solve the first puzzle is Aras. Terry is . Chiclets finishes her first puzzle, and then Aras returns with his second bag. Cirie, on the other hand, is not doing so well. Aras working on his second puzzle, Terry coming back with his second bag. Aras finishes his second puzzle and heads back out to dig. Chiclets can't find her second bag. Cirie finishes her first puzzle, finally. Cirie digs for her second bag. Aras returns with his third set of puzzle pieces. Terry working on his second puzzle. Terry finishes that one and heads out to dig. Aras is progressing on the last puzzle, and Terry runs back with his last bag of pieces. For some reason, Aras seems to go slower on this last puzzle than on the others. Chiclets returns with her second bag, but at this point, it's Aras and Terry. Jeff tries to tell you that Terry is gaining on Aras, but it's not clear how close Terry actually is when...yes, Aras wins, so somebody besides Terry has immunity, thank God.
We come back to Gitanos, Day 36, where an unhappy Terry wants to talk to Aras. Is Terry unhappy about losing? Oh, no, not at all. This isn't redirected hostility or anything. He's upset because Aras made the crack about him saying bad things about women. He tells Aras that just asking him, "What, are you going to say something bad about women?" is "slanderous," which: HA HA HA! Terry then says, "What I need from you is either an apology, and then we can talk about where you're coming from and where I'm coming from, or we don't have a relationship for the three days." In other words, "First, you admit you're wrong, and then you can explain your position and we can talk." That's brilliant. I'm totally stealing that. I also love the part where he threatens Aras with the loss of the closeness and brotherhood they've shared up to this point. My favorite part, though, is where Terry talks about his deep respect for women and says, "That's how serious stuff like that can be. I don't treat flight attendants like that, I haven't done anything I wouldn't tell my wife...." Those are the weirdest two things he could have said, practically, in terms of a defense. "I'm not a sexist! I'm nice to flight attendants!" It would only have been better if he had said, "I'm nice to flight attendants, waitresses, and cigarette girls at the club." And I'm not really any more convinced by, "My wife doesn't think I'm a sexist." Like she'd admit it if you were. And then Terry adds that he didn't do anything he wouldn't tell his priest. What? Aras didn't say you made out with anyone.
Aras interviews that Terry was very upset about this comment. Aras tells us that he "didn't feel good" about saying it, because it wasn't fair. Oh, I think it was. And I think Aras thinks it was. But I think Aras knows he can't prove it, because often, sexist attitudes are very subtle, and unless you can say what specific remarks you're talking about, you can't make that kind of a crack, which is true. Aras tells Terry that he apologizes. Aras thinks that he crossed the line, and he was totally wrong. He goes belly-up, offering not at all the usual reality-show pretend apology, but a real apology. Which real apology, you can immediately tell, is not at all what Terry wanted. Terry wanted to keep it as something to be mad about; he didn't actually want Aras to apologize. Aras BSs in his interview that maybe he and Terry have "helped each other grow." Grow less mature and rational, maybe. They shake hands.
Over at the fire, Cirie and Chiclets are very curious about what Terry and Aras are talking about. "Why they hate each other," Cirie suggests. Heh. I've had that conversation with people, believe it or not.
Chiclets explains that now, tribal council is going to be a little different than her and Terry were hoping. Aras has immunity, Terry has hidden immunity, so Chiclets anticipates that she and Terry will vote against Cirie, while Cirie and Aras will vote against her. She sees a tiebreaker in the offing -- probably a fire-building thing. And then a rather funny sequence follows in which Terry and Aras give lessons to Chiclets and Cirie, respectively, on how to build fire with flint and get the fire going. Aras adds advice to have fun and not worry about it, and to be proud of how far she's already come. Cirie tells us that she feels very nervous, but she also thinks she'll be okay with making fire. She hasn't seen Chiclets make too many fires herself, so she's just letting Chiclets believe she has the upper hand. For her part, Chiclets thinks she can beat Cirie at starting fires. It's like they're both brimming with unjustified confidence, which is fun.
Chiclets also floats the idea with Terry of having him give her the idol, on the theory that as long as Aras and Cirie don't know she has it during the vote, that could be a way of ensuring that they got Cirie out. It's an interesting plan, and it might work, but it's certainly not one I'd take if I were Terry. It's too risky for the limited benefit of getting Chiclets to F3 instead of Cirie. Terry needs to count on his ability to get himself to F2 by winning the F3 challenge; that's not going to change.
Tribal council. Jeff introduces the jury, including a haggard Shane, who has probably been smoking ever since he left, and has not made the usual pre-show leap to a fitter, finer, more lovely condition. Jeff then remarks on how F4 consists of one person from every original tribe -- one older woman, one younger woman, one older man, and one younger man. He asks Aras whether his two challenge victories mean that momentum has shifted, and Aras says that he thinks that every time out, he has a chance, so he was confident that if he kept working in the challenges, he'd eventually get a win. Jeff mentions to Terry that this is his first time at tribal council without the individual necklace since the merge. Does he feel vulnerable? "No," Terry says, not so cleverly. Jeff asks Cirie if this seems weird, and Cirie basically says they all know, and they've all known for a while, that Terry has the hidden idol, so what's to be surprised about?
Jeff brings up the fact that the F4 vote is the last time that the idol can come up. Chiclets gives a little speech that they suspect that Terry has it; Aras says that he knows Terry had it, but he doesn't know if Terry has it right at the moment. Jeff asks Cirie how she'll feel if this is her last night. Cirie says that she's been underestimating herself all along. The jury looks at her with affection, as she explains that she had a great time and feels okay about how she did. What about Chiclets? This serves as Courtney and Shane's opportunity to make faces, which I really do wish they would stop allowing that. It affects the game. Quit it. Oh, and Terry says that he's going to learn from his mistakes in the future. You know, if he gets voted off. Sigh.
Aras is keeping the necklace. Chiclets votes. Terry votes. Cirie votes. Aras votes. Now, it's time to read. Are you prepared to be shocked? Yeah, no need, really. First vote: Chiclets. Second: Cirie. Courtney makes a display of cheering for Chiclets to be out. Third goes to Chiclets. But the fourth is indeed for Cirie, so there will be a tiebreaker. And indeed, it will be a fire-building challenge. As usual, the task is to build a fire big enough to burn through a rope.
Survivors ready? Well, too bad. To Be Continued.