Cagayan Episode 2: When It Rains, It Pours

The Brains get back from that crazy tribal council, and it appears to have been a last-minute decision on both Kass and Tasha's parts. Although Tasha is still mad about J'Tia's rice antics, her plan is to do the girl power thing and see that Spencer goes next.

Over in the Brawn camp, Tony admits to Sarah that he's a cop and the two form an alliance. He feeds Sarah a lie about Lindsey and Cliff turning on her and she appears to buy it. She's putting an awful lot of faith in the "blue blood" thing, and that might end up being her downfall.

Welcome to Hell

Rain starts coming down hard all through the night, and it hasn't eased up at all the next day. The wind is really wrecking havoc on the Brawn beach, but Woo remains in good spirits regardless. Jefra finds it a bit more of a struggle. After repairing his tribe's shelter, LJ decides to brave the storm to go out looking for the idol. He doesn't have a clue but he figures that the reef he saw Morgan come from on day 1 might be a good start. He manages to find it, and is keeping it to himself.

Brains read the treemail for the challenge, which indicates a tarp is at stake. Tasha wants to practice, although the rest of her tribe don't seem to be as enthusiastic. They have a little splash around in the end, which seems to go well.

Right in the face!

Being able to do it when it counts is another matter however, and the three tribes arrive to find they will be transferring water via buckets to release a ball for their vertical maze. Brains are really poor at it, particularly J'Tia (again). The Beauty tribe start pulling away and Morgan releases the ball first. Brawn are next and Brains end up having to come

It all ends in J'Tears

from behind again. Woo and Cliff work the maze for Brawn, and gradually manage to get the hang of it to win the challenge. Spencer uses a lot of hard yanks to start a comeback for the Brains however, and the four of them react ecstatically when they get their ball out and realize they'll be avoiding tribal council.

Strategy is haard

The Brawn tribe put their reward to good use, as Sarah ends up breaking the hammock. Meanwhile, Beauty are now stressing about who to vote out. LJ is more worried by Brice than Morgan, so decides to make him his target. Brice and Morgan's plan is to get Jeremiah and Jefra to vote out Alexis. But after the two talk privately, it becomes apparent Jefra doesn't want to vote out Alexis, which kinda ties Jeremiah's hands.

So now Alexis wants to split the vote, with the boys voting for Morgan and the girls voting for Brice. Jefra reacts to this plan as if she's never seen an episode of Survivor before. With the numbers so tight, Jeremiah is now the swing vote and able to decide for himself who goes home. But he knows it also means someone is inevitably going to be disappointed by whatever decision he makes, and as a simple country boy, he hates hurting people's feelings.

Butterfly Brice brings the sass

At tribal council, Brice throws everything out in the open and names the alliance of four that's against him. Alexis looks terrified when Brice names her in particular as someone he thinks is gunning for him. Jeremiah tells Jeff he's confident he knows what is going to happen, but he might be the only one. Time to vote.

When the votes are revealed, it looks like Brice's faith in Jeremiah turns out to be misplaced, as it ties between Alexis, Brice and Morgan. The three people revoting all send Brice out, earning them an eyeroll. I actually enjoyed Brice's short stay on the show more than I thought I would. His final words are just as hilariously catty as you'd expect. "I hope Morgan does really well. And to the rest of the people, I don't even remember their names."

STAR OF THE WEEK: LJ MCKANAS

LJ is a little too arrogant for my taste, but I can't deny his game has been pretty good so far. Finding the idol just based on educated guessing was pretty impressive, and he's also got out his biggest threat. I'm still not convinced he's winner material though, just because he seems too obvious right now.