The first item on the joint agenda of Yau Man and Earl this week is finding the immunity idol, and when Earl gets the rest of the group to go with him on some errand or other, Yau Man digs up the idol. It's amazing what actual digging tools will do for you. The two of them later agree that they'll work together to make the most of the idol. Meanwhile, Ravu "welcomes" Lisi, who has calmed down a little bit since she was first sent to Exile Island. She's annoying, but when Ravu wins a reward challenge and spends an afternoon having fun at an arcade, she fits in a little more -- more, specifically, than Rocky, who is getting on more and more nerves by the day. At the immunity challenge, Michelle turns out to be a great caller for those "walk this direction" challenges, especially when she can stay on the platform without falling off. She leads Moto to victory, so Ravu is going to tribal council again. Rocky is pretty sure that they're getting rid of the girl, OBVIOUSLY, but Alex and Edgardo have had about as much Rocky as they care to, so they want to boot him. "Dreamz" suggests to Mookie that he'll vote with him and Rocky against Lisi, but somewhere along the line, that fails to happen, and Rocky is deliciously ousted on a 4-2 vote. He complains kind of bitterly in tribal council, so I hope that when he gets to sequester, Anthony will mock him for being such a girl.
Previously on You Can't Spell 'Misogyny' Without...Looking It Up: the tribes were mixed up, leaving most of the young dudes to battle most of the non-annoying people (and a few annoying people), and Lisi went to Exile Island. The immunity challenge went to Moto, leaving poor Anthony twisting in the wind. After Rocky tried to beat him up and push him around for a while, Anthony found himself pushed out the door, with only the hope of Rocky's booting to keep him company.
We open at Ravu, on Day 17, where it seems like things can hardly get worse. Ravu's lost every challenge, they've just sent home probably the only guy on the entire tribe who didn't royally suck donkey feet, and they have nowhere to sleep except on the sand, which probably now carries the impressions of everyone's individual butt by now. But then, of course, we cut to a boat that is carrying Lisi back from Exile Island, and we recall that of course, things can always get worse. Sometimes, they get worse with a cowboy hat on, as is the case here. As the guys await Lisi's arrival, "Dreamz" speculates that she's going to quit as soon as she gets there and looks around at her situation. Alex says that he doesn't think so -- Lisi just "felt threatened by the other girls," so this will be fine for her. It's an interesting analysis, because he's not entirely wrong, but he still comes across exactly like guys always do when they explain about women's insecurities, which is to say: badly. Edgardo thinks Lisi was being influenced by Stacy. I agree that would be detrimental to anyone. Alex interviews that Lisi's little quitting meltdown (which was recently discussed by Probst in an interview that revealed that it was longer and more extreme than was shown, which kind of explains a little better why people keep yapping on and on about it) concerned him, but he knows that she talks out of her ass, and her ass is fickle.
Speaking of Lisi's ass, she now drags it out of the boat and up onto the beach. The guys are talking amongst themselves about how much Lisi is going to love all the attention on the new tribe, and I'm kind of intrigued by what kind of attention they think she's going to receive, unless they know something I don't. Edgardo doesn't get it either, but the answer comes back (from Mookie, I think): "Five guys with ears." The guys all huh-huh together, because chicks talk too much, huh-huh, and then Lisi walks up to them, refreshed by her time on Exile Island. As they welcome her, she says that Exile is not as bad as it is reputed to be. Whatever -- that's what they say about tetanus shots, too. She tells us that upon arrival at Exile Island, she "cracked up." But of course, she swears that breaking down makes you put yourself together better. If the weekend I just spent moving out of my apartment while experiencing intermittent spectacular meltdowns from the stress -- which sometimes landed on anyone who tried to help me (sorry, Mom!) -- is any indication, I certainly hope that this is true. "Dreamz" tells Lisi that the guys thought she might quit, and she goes on to explain how freaked out she was about the tribe shuffle, which shocked her because she apparently...kind of doesn't get how the show works. It's called a twist, lady. Be glad they didn't produce a long-lost relative and force him to eat worms. Lisi confidently interviews that there may be problems in the tribe, because she's so close with Edgardo and Alex, and "Dreamz" and Rocky and Mookie may try to get in on her action, as it were. As if she's determined to prove everything that was being said about her in her absence to be entirely true, Lisi begins a long-form explanation to the gathered guys about her "spiritual enlightenment." They all look bored, but they pass their reactions off as laughing with her, pretty much. "Dreamz" reminds us that, at Moto, he and Lisi did not dig each other. He does not seem prepared to forgive and forget now that the shoe is on the other bed-deprived foot. Thus, "she should be worried out of her mind."
Credits. The full-length credits have returned, and with them, the shots of people I entirely forgot. What's a Jessica?
Back from commercials, it's Day 17 at Moto, where everyone is waking up happy and preparing for breakfast. Earl reminds us that the new Moto is made up of three old Ravus and three old Motos, so it stands as a tie, assuming that alignment predominates. I'm not sure it would, because Cassandra doesn't seem to me to have any interest in Stacy and Boo, but maybe she has some weird tribal loyalty I'm not aware of. Anyway, Earl says that they need to accomplish a sort of power shakeup, and he and Yau Man want to use the idol to do it. So Earl takes the rest of the group on an expedition to get the boat, which it has apparently stranded somewhere. Yau Man stays behind, wink wink. Never leave the crafty computer engineer in camp alone. Never!
As soon as the rest of the tribe is out of sight, Yau Man fetches the pickaxe. Because, see, they have much better tools here with which to dig. This is a lot better than a dull machete. He strikes at the dirt, breaking up the surface easily.
Elsewhere, the tribe walks.
When we return to Yau Man, he now has a shovel. I sense an escalating series of tools, reminiscent of Wil trying to break open the ice globe in the most hilarious sequence in Amazing Race finale history. He digs the hole.
The tribe walks on the beach and finds the boat stranded by the high tide.
Back at camp, Yau Man keeps digging. And then...there it is. He pulls out a little parcel wrapped in cloth, and he holds it up toward the camera and shakes it at us gleefully, wearing a huge grin. "This is my...this is my million dollars," he says in disbelief. He goes and sits on a trunk to untie it, and immediately owns up to the fact that he's lucky he's not currently participating in a "knot-untying contest." He finally produces a...turtle on a rope. No, really. It's a turtle figurine, kind of, and it's on a long rope. He first pronounces it "the one and only immunity idol," which is divinely not the case. He backtracks to say that there are actually two immunity idols, of course, but...this is the only one for now. Yau Man puts the idol around his neck, saying, "This is mine...this is mine." He says that it looks good on him, and then he actually sticks out his tongue and rubs his pecs. Not even kidding. He touches himself like Simon Cowell. He's all atwitter with excitement, and admits, "I'm going to jump out of my skin here!" And then he smooches the turtle. Hee. That's actually one of the least gross kisses on this show ever, which is kind of surprising. And then Yau Man coos in a high voice, "Little turtle!" And he kisses it again. That's just a beautiful scene, and a great example of what irrational exuberance looks like. Yau Man then sets about covering up the big giant hole he's made before the tribe comes back. He fills it in as he tells us that because Earl helped him to get time to hunt for the idol, he will tell Earl that he found it. He adds that he's agreed to share the use of the idol when the time comes for it. Yau Man completes the cover-up of the ground where he dug, and then it's time to pretend to be doing something other than kissing turtle props. He sits down and putters with a coconut, and then we see the tribe returning from its long, long walk. "My arms are falling off," he complains, presumably in reference to his very, very long work period while they were gone. It's actually probably true, and it's not like he needs to tell them it's from digging. He asks if they retrieved the boat, and Cassandra says that they didn't. He apologizes for not going along, but they tell him there wasn't much he could have done. It does strike me that staying behind in a situation like that carries its own risk of making you look weak and/or lazy, but I think it's safe to say at this point that it paid off for Yau Man.
Earl stands near Yau Man and says something about the fishing nets, and Yau Man takes the opportunity to tell Earl that the two of them can go off and (wink wink) talk about untangling the net. As the two of them walk off together, Yau Man interviews that he never really expected to make a good friend, and then we see him tell Earl that they have the idol, which news Earl takes in stride. Yau Man says that he wouldn't necessarily have thought that the "big strong black man" would be his best ally. I know how it sounds, but I think he's talking strictly in terms of predictability, in the sense that people have shown some historic tendency on this show to bond with other people demographically similar, or similar in "type" (as far as buff dudes or whatever) to themselves. So I think I get what Yau Man's saying, though he might have regretted it when he saw it on TV. Yau Man shows the idol to Earl, who then interviews that he and Yau Man have it worked out that they're going to use it together on whoever is in position to be voted out first, so they really do believe they can essentially "share" use of the thing. Yau Man happily describes to Earl how he dug and dug for the thing, and how happy he was to find it. "Hopefully, there's a power change," Earl interviews. Yau Man tells Earl that they'd make a good F2. I agree, though in some ways, they'd be terrible F2 partners for each other, because they're both so likable. They'd probably both be better off taking someone obnoxious like Boo. The tragedy of the nice people eating each other is always the worst part of the season.
Challenge time. Jeff welcomes the tribes, pointing out that Anthony was sent home at the last tribal council (which undoubtedly surprises no one), and that Lisi joined Ravu this morning. He explains that, in today's challenge, each tribe will use a flamethrower -- a thing you hold in your hand, not a machine like a catapult -- to throw fireballs at three perhaps tablecloth-sized targets on the ground a ways away. Each team has three targets to hit; first tribe to hit all three will win. And what's the reward? Well, tomorrow morning, the winning tribe will get to go to an arcade. Like an arcade, with air hockey. The only food and drink will apparently be hot dogs and beer. I'm not sure I'm crazy about this reward, compared to big picnics with massages and so on. But they agree that it's worth playing for, of course, because even Couch Camp doesn't have an arcade.
We get underway with Earl and "Dreamz." Earl misses, while "Dreamz" hits on the first try. Well, you know, he grew up on the streets, where you have to throw fireballs to defend yourself, so it's no wonder. , Michelle and Lisi both miss. As Yau Man steps up for Moto against Edgardo for Ravu, Mookie starts poking all his Ravu buddies, making fun of how Yau Man won't even be able to hold the flamethrower up, pantomiming a quivering, doddering old man. That would be, of course, the old man who won his Sumo wrestling challenge when Mookie lost his. Alex grins appreciatively at the hilarity. Edgardo misses. Yau Man...well, he hits. Go to hell, Mookie. "Old guy's good for some good," Yau Man points out. Hey, if the only thing you accomplish is making Mookie look ridiculous, you'll be good with me, dude. Boo misses by only a little. Mookie hits. So now, Ravu is up 2-1. up are Cassandra and Alex. Both miss. Now, Stacy and Rocky both lose. Earl and "Dreamz" go, and Earl misses. "Dreamz," who explains that he doesn't drink and thus prefers hot dogs to beer, makes the last hit, and Ravu is victorious. Of course, now Ravu is all one big happy family, and Rocky loves "Dreamz," whom he hated about a week ago in real time. Ravu decides to send Earl to Exile Island, on the theory that he's already been, so he knows all there is about the immunity idol, and this way, nobody else finds out anything. The tribes are sent home, Ravu tasting its first victory ever. Oh, the glory of the win! They get to play foosball! Somebody pinch me.
Ravu, Day 18. The seaplane takes the tribe to the "arcade." Mookie seems to think that this reward will put them right back in it, because nothing cures what ails you like a hot dog. They arrive and are welcomed to "Kava Bowl," which is the arcade at issue. Inside, they find the food and the games. As Lisi explains it, they all pounce on the food first, so that takes precedence. They all eat enthusiastically and toast each other with sandwiches. Rocky says that the amount of food you could shove in your mouth is the only thing on anyone's mind, and that he would have offered a "chill out" to some of those who were stuffing multiple hot dogs into their mouths at the same time -- as we see "Dreamz" doing. It does occur to me that a person could stand to eat hot dogs one at a time. I'm not an expert on avoiding overwhelming your system when you haven't been eating much, but I'm thinking "don't test the diameter of your mouth" would be a good start. The arcade guy comes around and shows them were all the fun stuff is, including the "golf area" where they can play virtual video golf, or whatever you call it. There's even a bowling alley. The members of Ravu enjoy the festivities, and what's great is that since there are only Ravu people here, some of them are guaranteed to win occasionally, provided that they stick to playing each other. Lisi tells us in an interview that this was great for her, because she loves "being around a bunch of boys." And I'd argue with her, except that...I can't really argue with her. Mookie happily interviews that Lisi is just like a guy -- she eats a lot, and you can say anything around her. He even says you can "bump chests" with a girl like that. But he doesn't mean "bump chests" the way that, say, Rocky might. As Lisi plays simulated golf, she says that her status as a woman would make her obviously "the weakest link right there." WHY? God. I don't even hate that opinion as much as I hate the assumed nature of that opinion, you know? It's not because she's a "chick" that Lisi's a weak link; it's because she's a weak link that she's a weak link. I've seen stronger links on a plate of sausage. (Rimshot!) Lisi does think that, in spite of her girl parts and natural weakness, getting to know her has helped the guys to like her more. Hey, maybe they really like to kill ants with hammers.
We briefly visit Earl on Exile Island, which is really boring now that he has no idol to think about. Now, it's pretty much just "sit around." He tells us that he's spent more time on Exile Island than anyone, and that he's decided to start taking reservations on "Earl Island" from tourists. Sign me up, dude. We'll play shuffleboard. He points out that there's an ocean view, "good eats," and so forth. We get a chance to see a really impressive drawing he's put into the wet sand with a stick. Earl has many talents. "Earl Island In Fiji," it reads.
Ravu is relaxing post-gorge, and realizing that they've eaten too much and that they're all sick. This entire scene basically consists of Rocky telling the other guys not to bitch about being sick, followed by the other guys telling Rocky not to keep talking about the food, because they're...well, sick. The level of etiquette on display here is inferior to that of your average family pet, including my parents' dog, who passes gas spectacularly whenever he walks up the stairs. Alex interviews that he was indeed feeling very ill after the hot dogs, a brownie, and some beer. Nice use of "some." They all moan and lie around, but Rocky wants to talk about the brownies and how good they were, which none of the nauseated other people really wants to hear. Rocky complains that when he was starving, everybody talked about food constantly, and now that he's had some food, he can't talk about having food. I'm not sure what he thinks is going to be so great about talking about the food to a bunch of people who also just had food. Am I missing something? Rocky proudly interviews that he really got off some good jokes at the expense of the rest of the team, which is always a good way to stay around. After all, it's not like it's majority rule or something. "If you can't take stuff like that? Here? You shouldn't be here!" he commands. As you know, Rocky is an advocate of taking everything in stride. Edgardo interviews that Rocky is the one of these things that's not like the others, in terms of tribe members, and that while they all tease each other, he kind of takes the jerkweedery to a whole different level. Edgardo says that Rocky's routine gets old, because nobody wants to be hassled all the time -- that's why they have "bosses and teachers." It's pretty funny, because I initially thought he said "t-shirts," which would really have been interesting. "I'm tired of being lectured to Keep Smiling!" Rocky tells his team to "Suck it up!" And he follows this with "HA!" That's a good idea, because nothing endears you to the team like "HA!" I'm not sure what Rocky thinks he's accomplishing here. The fact that a bunch of other guys will let you bully a guy they perceive as weak doesn't actually mean they're going to let you bully them.
Commercials, and then we are at Moto on Day 18, where Boo is eating...a bowl of cereal? That's what it looks like, anyway, although I think I missed the Frosted Flakes reward. Boo says that losing the reward challenge proved to them that they're going to have to work a little harder to keep winning immunity. He insists that it's extra-important for Yau Man that they win immunity, because of course, Yau Man will be out if they lose. I'm impressed that Boo has been successfully given that impression, which I don't think is accurate. "He's got to be the weakest, physically, out of all of us," adds Boo.
As for Yau Man, he tells us he feels good -- he's allied with the "very strong and honorable" Earl, and of course, he has the idol. So his priority right now is just making it to the merge. He tells us that he was trying to think about not letting anyone know that he had the idol, after which he says he had "a really evil thought." And what was this really evil thought? He decided to make a fake idol and bury it where the idol is meant to be, so that someone else might find it and think he or she had it, and at least not know that Yau Man had it. He makes an "idol" out of a coconut shell with a face painted on it, and...I'm not sure I think it would fool anyone with six brain cells to rub together, even/especially with the letters "I.I." that Yau Man paints on it just to make sure you know it's...the Immunity Idol. Nevertheless, he's at least making an effort. He wraps his "idol" in a cloth, and as he slips it into his bag, he says to the camera, "There are so many immunity idols running around here!" He's so cute. And then, when Michelle and Stacy are sleeping, Yau Man buries it good and shallow, saying he just hopes someone will wind up with a fake. He explains that the challenge is important, because he's "always a target," even though he has the idol. He hopes he won't have to use it.
We move to the challenge course, where the tribes have already gathered. Jeff asks how they're doing, and then he welcomes Earl back from Exile Island. Jeff takes back immunity from Moto -- it's "back up for grabs!" In today's challenge, one person for each team will act as the "caller," while everybody else is blindfolded. One at a time, the caller will lead people out into an area where there are five skulls hanging free from above. The caller has to guide you through smashing a skull, piñata-style, which will not only splatter paint everywhere (according to the demo clip), but also drop a tied-together pack of tiles. With your blindfold still on, you find the tiles on the ground and take them over to your team's puzzle table, and then run back to the team. When all the tiles have been delivered, the team can take the blindfolds off and run to the table to unscramble the tiles into a two-word phrase. Jeff notes that you are allowed to switch callers if, for some reason, you feel like you need to. Like, for instance, if you put your most annoying person up there first.
The callers are set up to be Michelle and Lisi. I have no idea what the thinking is behind making Lisi the caller for Moto, but I suppose that's the team's decision. Maybe they think she'll find her happy place if they let her do all the yelling. Lisi is leading Alex, and Michelle is leading Stacy. Go! From the beginning, it's fairly clear that Michelle has the gift for caller work, and Lisi does not. Not only that, but Michelle dances around adorably as she yells out things like, "Go forward, go forward, go forward, go forward!" She's like a cheerleader, only with more of a direct purpose. (Oh, keep your saddle shoes on. Don't email me.) Stacy has her tiles on the table in no time, while Alex is now ineffectually swinging his club (heh) menacingly, missing everything as the skull swings in the air. So apparently, he managed to hit it, but not break it, and that's why it's swinging. Lisi basically has him right where he needs to be; it's the swinging that's a problem. She tells him to let the thing stop swinging, but then the skull falls to the ground, so she has to lead him to it and have him smash it there.
Cassandra is the second person out for Moto before Alex even drops off his tiles. As soon as Alex gets back, he demands that Lisi let him do the calling, even though it doesn't actually appear to me that she did all that bad a job. I don't know that the swinging was really her fault, you know? But in any event, Alex orders her to get down, and she does. Alex opens his calling career by leading Edgardo to crash into a pole. Welcome to Alex's gift for leadership, Blunt Metaphor Edition.
Michelle is leading Cassandra, once again shimmying her hips with excitement as she does. Cassandra is also giddy over finding and delivering the tiles, and then she's on her way back.
Calling continues -- Earl and "Dreamz" go. Boo and Rocky go. Boo has a little trouble with "right" and "left," predictably, leading Michelle to call out in frustration, "Yes, that way, that's your left!" just as the music guys brilliantly splice in just a touch of Beethoven's Fifth. Meanwhile, Rocky actually gets told by Alex, "Smash!," calling many Hulk jokes to the surface. Then Yau Man leaves for Moto. As she's leading Yau Man down the rail, Michelle isn't even moving side to side that much, particularly, but she doesn't realize that she's at the edge of her platform. So as Yau Man's blindly rattling along, Michelle yells and yells until the moment when she just falls right off the side of the platform, in a way that looks very hilarious once you know that she didn't hurt herself, which she easily could have. It kind of looks like Wile E. Coyote going off the edge of the canyon, cycling his legs and hanging for just a minute before he drops. What's genius is that they have a great shot of Yau Man running down the course as Michelle does her death drop into the dirt in the background. Certainly are a lot of unpredictable falls this season. Michelle immediately giggles at herself and climbs right back up, at which point she starts trying again to scream instructions to Yau Man. Either he's farther away or his hearing isn't as good or both, but he appears not to be able to hear Michelle. Mookie is now on the course for Ravu, so they kind of need to move things along. Boo declares that he has a loud voice, and he offers to take over. Unfortunately, once he's up on the platform, he declares himself temporarily blind (from...the sun? from...the blindfold? I don't know) and has to rub his eyes. You might think he'd have checked to see if he could see before offering to be the caller, but you would be wrong. Yau Man is successfully guided by Boo, though, through the process of smashing the skull and delivering the tiles, so he returns to Moto before Mookie. Who, incidentally, spectacularly smashes himself into the railing, abdomen-first. I think his kidneys felt that one. Moto hauls ass down the course to start the puzzle-solving. Mookie racks himself one more time, and I like to think that ending to this phase was just for me.
Yau Man initially thinks the puzzle might be "castaway" something, but they note that there's no "W." So it's not that. Stacy brings in Michelle, who is apparently some kind of puzzle savant. "Cannibal, cannibal," Michelle immediately notes, and they start to put the letters together. It turns out to be "Cannibal Isles," and Moto is right, and they win again, and Ravu is going to tribal council again. Moto really does seem to be a happy tribe, for the most part, and maybe it's just because she's not saying much, but Stacy is way less annoying right now than she was for a while. I vote she stays quiet all the time. As we go to commercials, Earl happily picks up Michelle, who certainly was the MVP of that challenge.
After commercials, we are at Ravu, on Day 19, where nobody is happy. Edgardo interviews that he and Alex think they don't really need strong players as the merge approaches -- they need loyal people, and Lisi is loyal. In other words, right now, blindly dumb is less dangerous than big-shouldered and blindly dumb. Thus, although Rocky thinks he's safe, he's perhaps to go instead of Lisi. As Alex and Edgardo discuss this, they're not sure whether to tell Mookie, because they think he may be tight with Rocky. Edgardo interviews that he thinks Rocky's lousy attitude is part of why Ravu never won anything. Ooh, harsh. He's convinced that Lisi will be loyal because "she doesn't have anybody else to tag along with." Wow, that's not very nice either. Alex tells Lisi about the plan to take Rocky out . He also says that they want to figure out who has the immunity idol, and Lisi tells Alex that it's at camp, not on the island. She tells him she thinks that all three of them -- herself, Alex, and Edgardo -- should look for the idol, rather than her going it alone. Why am I not surprised? She claims in an interview that the clues are "vague," which is ridiculous, considering that the clues available by the time she got there explained exactly where the idol was in about six different ways. Lisi and Alex even take a walk to where she thinks the idol might be. Lisi is not a strategic genius.
Snake.
"Dreamz" has apparently been let in on the plan, because he tells Mookie that the others want to take out Rocky before Lisi. Mookie clearly doesn't much care, but says that because he told Rocky he wouldn't vote for him, it would be kind of awkward to...vote for him. Thus, he asks whether everybody else would mind if Mookie just threw a vote to someone else. "Dreamz" says that he wouldn't, and then adds that he'd probably vote with Mookie. I'm not sure whether "Dreamz" realizes that if he does that, he's potentially imperiling himself by forcing a tie (assuming that Rocky and Mookie both vote for Lisi). Mookie interviews that it hasn't escaped his notice that the plan to get rid of Rocky would mean there would only be one Ravu person left, meaning that Mookie would be outnumbered even worse than he is now. He thinks he needs to turn this, and that "Dreamz" is his best shot, partly because Moto treated him like crap in the tribe setup. "Dreamz" tells Mookie that he understands Rocky, even though they don't get along. He doesn't think Rocky means to be an asshole, it's just "his personality." I never really know how that's supposed to be a vote in your favor, but okay. ("My jerkitude is fundamental to my being! Don't judge me!") He also repeats in an interview that Rocky somehow will keep the team "strong," despite the fact that I don't recall ever seeing Rocky do well in any challenge. I consider Rocky's "strength" a total myth, mostly of his own making. He looks like Stallone's corpse right about now.
Edgardo and Rocky are sitting on a log, and Edgardo mentions that he doesn't like tribal council. And he asks Rocky what he thinks, at which point Rocky says he thinks Edgardo should move over unless he wants to make out. You know, if homosexual panic were beer, Rocky would be Homer Simpson. Rocky interviews that he was pulling all the strings up until now, but that he's nervous going to this tribal council. He tells us he thinks it's Lisi for sure, but that you never know. Could be him! Lisi scratches in the dirt, presumably wondering if she can find the idol. "You never know what happens at the last minute," she says.
Tribal council. When the tribe is seated, Jeff asks Lisi about her freak-out, and she admits that she was kind of thinking it was time to go home. He asks her whether she was worried about how she'd be perceived, and she says she wasn't really, because she knows that the old Moto people would love her no matter what. Jeff asks "Dreamz" about watching Lisi lose it. "Dreamz" says that he knew she wanted to quit, so he wanted to win the last challenge just so they wouldn't get her. But when she came back, he says that she was okay and that they were "ready for business." Jeff asks Rocky whether there's scrambling going on, and he says that he supposes it's "in the back of people's minds." Jeff asks Mookie how the emphasis on "strength and agility" plays into how you vote. In other words, "Is Lisi just completely fucked?" Mookie says that they're all strong, and that Lisi has "another aspect," because "maybe we need a girl." He mentions that trying to be physically strong is kind of flopping for them anyway, so "you have to look at it both ways." Those two ways are the way in which they suck, and the other way in which they also suck. Jeff asks Rocky whether he trusts people to tell him the truth, and Rocky says that all he can do is trust who he trusts. Jeff asks Lisi whether the tribe needs to make adjustments, and she ant-hammers as she says that she'll just be happy still to be around tomorrow, so the hell with "adjustments." Her real answer turns out to be "Whatever happens, we need to win." Boy, she must have put a lot of thought into that one.
Jeff says that it's time for the vote. If you have the idol, you can play it after the votes are cast, but before they are read. In other words, "Blah blah blah." Rocky votes for Lisi, telling her he's "got no choice." Alex votes. Mookie votes. Lisi votes for Rocky, "because that's the way it's gotta go." Edgardo votes. "Dreamz" votes, accompanied by suspenseful music. Who will it be?
Jeff says that he will go and tally. When he returns, he asks if anyone wants to play the idol. There is very minor suspense before it becomes clear that nobody has it, and nobody is playing it. First vote goes to Lisi. Then Lisi again. Then Rocky. Then Rocky again. And...Rocky! And...Rocky! Ha ha ha! He's gone. And Jeff says that he's "the first member of [their] jury," so we've got that big jury again, and you can kind of tell it's going to be full of ungracious pricks, because that's practically all that's left. Rocky is snuffed, and he walks off, saying goodbye only to the "boys." And why not? Girls are dumb! Don't talk to girls! Jeff tells the group that being blindsided can happen to anyone, so he hopes they're all happy. Nyah!
In his final words, Rocky yells, and he says that he's "extremely pissed off." He says that he's on the jury now, and hopes none of them gets the money. That's right; he's going to refuse to vote at all. That'll show them. I'm glad to know he's taking it like a big man. A big man named Rosey Grier in Free To Be You And Me.
week: Lisi is stressed out. Boo tries to dance. Digging for the idol goes on without the person who found the clues. Did I mention Boo dancing?