Kaoh Rong Episode 12: Tai'd Down

They come back to camp with Mark the chicken on the hammock...he's the boss now. Tai tells Jason that he's so persuasive he almost played his idol. Jason then immediately starts using that persuasion to tell Michele and Cydney that Tai and Aubry will be hard to beat, so they'd be better off siding with him. Tai gets Aubry and Joe together and tells them he has an extra vote and that he wants to play it in order to ensure they get the majority.

Fowl play: Mark might have the best social game left

Tai finds a big grub and feeds it to Mark, who scoffs it up in one bite. Jason bitches to Joe that no-one is playing the game, but he doesn't seem that sympathetic. Jason's doing what he can to be seen as a good person to be taken to the end - but will it be enough?

Tipping the scales

The reward challenge involves making it out to a circular maze in the water and then getting the ball to the middle as a team. It's Joe, Aubry and Cydney against Tai, Michele and Jason. Joe and Jason are the first to dive and Jason leaves Joe in the dust. In fact, blue team get Michele over as well in the time it takes Joe to finish. Once all team members are in place, Jason confidently directs for blue, whilst yellow struggle. They only get one ball in before blue get all three and win a trip to the animal shelter.

Joe organizes a firewood collection back at camp, and Cydney starts to get annoyed with the old man's bossiness. On reward, the others get to see an elephant, which seems very interested in Tai. Jason really enjoys playing with the animals as a monkey jumps on his back. Tai has now gone from targeting Jason to targeting Michele.

A real monkey on his back

Someboddy kant spel

The immunity challenge involves stacking blocks on top of eachother to spell a word, whilst holding onto the rope that keeps the table from falling over - a harder version of the challenge Jon Misch won, basically. It's actually Joe that gets off to the best start (who would've thought?) whilst Cydney goes very slowly. Joe falls, which puts Michele in the lead...but then she drops too, as do Aubry and Tai. After Jason drops, Cydney is now in the lead as the only person that hasn't. Joe is facing a different setback - putting up the wrong letter multiple times. Michele, Aubry and Tai all lose their stack again, meaning it's down to Jason and Cydney. Jason outpaces Cydney in the placing of his last block...but then it falls on the way back, and slow Cydney caps off a perfect win.

Ready for a fight

Tai is in the water with his alliance and decides to throw out booting Michele before she comes over. Tai then tells Jason to vote for her too, but he'd rather vote for Joe. Joe and Cydney both say how they'd rather vote out Jason and don't like how Tai tried to dictate the vote. Cydney lets Michele know that Tai is gunning for her but that she's fighting to save her, which lets Michele know she might have to fight for herself at tribal. Aubry has a big decision to make at tribal too, as she feels pulled in two directions.

At tribal council, Jeff comments on how the immunity challenge felt a lot like the game - constantly changing. Michele gets her shots in on Tai early, saying he must feel comfortable having two idols. Cydney also claims that Tai wasn't letting her voice be heard. Tai then reveals there's a smaller group within the big group, as Michele appeals for them not to trust him since he's flipped on every alliance he's had. Tai says that to be honest he doesn't even know why Michele got brought into the alliance in the first place. Jason is getting excited, but he's not laying back just yet...he could still be going home!

After the votes are cast, Tai tells Jeff he wants to play his advantage and goes back up to cast a second vote. Jeff reads Tai's two votes for Michele, and then two for Jason. The next vote is...Joe? Dammit Jason. But it doesn't matter as the rest of the votes are for him as well, leaving Tai pretty confused. Damn, this extra vote is now 0/3 in getting out a target.

Well, I'd say it's now time for the group to start turning on eachother, but it seems they're already ahead of the curve on that. Tai still has the idol but his social standing has taken a huge hit. Now him and Michele can go at it again for a second round.

STAR OF THE WEEK: MICHELE FITZGERALD

She put Tai on blast during tribal and completely obliterated him. Nobody can say she's boring now. I don't know why they were so eager to keep her though...and I bet she makes them regret it.