Tai and Aubry kiss after pulling off a big move...awkward. Jason is on an island and making an appeal for Cydney to consider him as an option. Julia is frustrated to be out of the loop, seeing herself on the bottom as well. Aubry talks about their final 4 and how Jason is the next target.
Tai explains himself to Jason, saying he was threatened by his bond with Scot. Jason is still really mad and wants revenge, although he's not quite mad enough to kill the chicken like Tai feared.
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| Do the funky chicken! |
The reward challenge sees teams of two face an obstacle course tied together, retrieving rings and then throwing them on a hook. The pairs are Julia/Aubry, Cydney/Michele and Joe/Tai...sucks for Jason, who misses out. Aubry and Julia find the course difficult and their rope trips them up at one point, whilst Cydney and Michele fly through it. There's a high-up ring that needs retrieving with a stick, but Tai, Aubry and Cydney all get it off. Cydney is the first to land a ring and Joe ends up making a mark for once by getting 2. Cydney gets the last one though and wins. The prize is a picnic and they choose Aubry to accompany them.
Michele uses the reward time to make sure she's reintegrated with the group. Cydney is pretty adamant about not going to the final 3 with Tai, so she's definitely considering her an option. Julia and Jason also talk about wanting Tai out, thinking they have Michele, and wait to pitch Cydney when she gets back. "As soon as Tai leaves, we're eating Mark" says Julia. And the chicken reacts as if he senses the danger.
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| Chicken run |
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| The writing's on the board |
The immunity challenge tests everybody's memory, where they have to race out to find symbols matching with numbers and then use them to decode a wheel. Once they have the right key, they must unlock the box and solve the puzzle with the blocks. Jason treads water and gets there first, but Cydney is the first to leave. Back at the decoding stations, Tai and Michele try writing numbers in the sand to help them. Jason is wrong when he makes a guess for the key and has to go back. Michele and Julia are both right on their first try, as Aubry and Cydney go back for more. Joe has given up at this point. Michele spells the word - "Blindside" - and ensures that there won't be one for her tonight. Jeff is pretty impressed when she tells him she managed to memorize all of them in one go.
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| Why me? |
Cydney says to the group that Jason should go, but then several people point out how Julia was right behind Michele in the challenge. The five agree to stick together but Michele isn't that comfortable voting out her best friend. Coming up with a decoy plan to tell Julia, Cydney says they'll just go with "the Tai thing". Tai is pretty WTF at this, as it's not nice to see your name come up. Michele actually wants to vote out Tai for real, and tells Julia as much. Jason is hoping he can either take out Tai or at least get rid of his idol.
At tribal council, Julia discusses the pivotal point in the game and tells the girls she's hoping to vote with that they're on the bottom. Tai says not to rock the boat, but Jason points out that Tai has already flipped twice. Tai explains he just wanted to break up Jason and Scot, but Jason argues that Joe and Aubry are an even stronger pair. Michele and Cydney both say they're comfortable making big moves, which makes Tai very uncomfortable.
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| A teary farewell for the sorority sisters |
Aubry gives an awesome throwback to her Peter vote when she says "Sorry I'm not crossing it out this time" as she votes for Julia. Tai gets some last-minute advice from Aubry about whether to play his idol. She tells him he's good, so he doesn't. It proves to be the correct decision as Julia is voted out, with even Michele writing her name down. But Michele's tears makes it clear it wasn't easy for her.
Julia showed a lot of fight for someone so young, but made her bed when she got caught playing both sides. Tai survives for now, though the target on his back is getting bigger. But let's be honest...the real winner here is Mark the chicken.
STAR OF THE WEEK: KYLE JASON
The military man handled his sucky new position with much more grace than we've come to expect from him and gave a spirited showing at tribal council too. There was even talk of bringing him further in the game...as a goat, but still.
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