She says she made a few clear mistakes and if she goes home tonight, it’s on her. As an alliance push against old school players?
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Kelly Wiglesworth is devastated to be on the bottom. And I’m aware that we need to bow down and worship at the altar of Jeff Varner. As much as I hate Abi, her laugh at Shirin when asking if they were still together was pretty great. Kelley Wentworth talked about how happy she was to be able to get the immunity idol during the last immunity challenge without anyone noticing. She buries it instead of keeping it on her person. But his reasoning resonated: He voted out Vytas as a sort of kick-in-the-butt to guys like Terry and Woo, which in turn filled Shirin and Spencer with the confidence they had that ended up blinding their game sensors.
Going into Tribal Counsel, everyone is gunning for Shirin and Spencer, I wonder how this is going to work for the tribe. Kelley says there was a disagreement between Abi and Peih-Gee. Terry was upset after Tribal but feels better after his talk with Jeff. Andrew tells about meeting his wife, a Model from South Africa and how there was immediate chemistry.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Abi-Maria Gomes. Cue Shirin and Peih-Gee talking about Abi around the campfire one night. “Abi is an absolute drama queen”, says Spencer who goes on to call her “the permanent liability”, which also sounds like the name of a few George Clooney legal thriller that underperforms at the box office yet garners mild-to-moderate Oscars buzz. She’s standing nearby and hears the entire thing. Shirin walked away, but things escalated between Abi and Peih-Gee.
Kelley doesn’t really like her new alliance but has to go where the numbers are so she’s not a target. He corralled everyone else after the challenge loss.
Sure, Abi is unpredictable and just a little insane. Terry chose to give Abi a few company, initially out of sympathy, but soon realizing the strategic opportunity as Abi suggested she could join the old school alliance. And it gets even better for Abi-Maria, who wakes up the next morning to find Jeff Varner pledging himself to her cause, telling her she’s fabulous and that he doesn’t want her going anywhere. Terry told Abi he liked her and wanted her to stick around.
What did you think of Shirin getting voted out? Over at Bayon, Joe makes a hammock. Stephen said Joe is too good for his own self. He says Joe is the ideal person to keep around until the merge when you slit his throat.
Later, Andrew told Bayon the story of how he met his wife, which turned out to be a Nicholas Sparks-worthy epic about about an worldwide beauty queen/law student who happened upon the apartment of a modest, up and coming lawyer.
Spencer tells the tribe he’s sorry he didn’t get it and they tell him he’s okay. He said he didn’t want to screw over Shirin because she was the only one he wanted to play the game with. Jeff is playing the game hard, he says, and life is good.
Jeremy is so touched by Andrew’s story that he has to take a private moment to himself. The tale had just about the whole tribe crying.
She may be determined to play the game differently this time, but this Brazilian firecracker hasn’t changed her ways – meaning, drama is never far when she’s around. Varner may have his number now in Abi, despite so many people voting against her just this past tribal council.
This week’s immunity challenge was a race across a frames with a rope carrying heavy crates. Everyone is skidding down the wooden pyramids though which seems pretty painful. But things are back to even at the puzzle. TaKao works the puzzle, but they are falling behind and panic is setting in. Vytas’ second chance was short lived, and the tribe is on edge thinking that this scenario could happen to them. They continued to win the immunity challenge, so we didn’t even see them for the rest of the episode. There’s still a lot of moving parts here, with Jeff Varner really being somewhat of a swing vote. The too-smart-for-you duo (Shirin and Spencer) is a little too much strategy, not enough get to know you and Varner starts making his case. Ultimately, Shirin and Spencer both, separately, reveal in confessionals that their only move tonight may be to vote for the other person. She also agrees that Shirin and Spencer are huge threats. That left Shirin and Spencer to scramble to save themselves. But it isn’t! Kelley says that she’ll vote with the numbers, even though it will be hard to go against her friends. She admits that change is important. They gather up their precious survival kit and head back to camp, safe for the day.
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It is night three on TaKao and Abi is the subject of Shira and Peih Gee’s conversation. Abi tells her that she wishes that she had, because when she’s in an alliance, she’s a very loyal person, but Shirin did not show that loyalty back. Spencer thanks Takao and says that he meant every word.
