There's a wheel with nasty ingredients, a ball for someone from each tribe, spin it, Jeff mixes up a smoothie with the nastiness (and his choice of base, sometimes milk, sometimes juice, sometimes water) and splits it between the two people facing off, a member from each tribe. In a bit of a twist, it doesn't matter who finishes first; whoever finishes at all gets a point.

It stays tied for ages, and then it's Dave and Ashley, who get a double dose of sea slug guts, and Jeff cruelly mixes it with water, "so we can see exactly how chunky it is." Yuck. Dave finishes, Ashley tries and tries, but the end of her glass is all chunks, no liquid, and she ends up barfing. Game over! Galu wins again, taking home a bunch of steaks and sausages.

But wait ... first, they have to send someone over to the other tribe to "spy," which seems like the wrong term what with there being no secrecy, and this person will miss out on the reward. Russell chooses Shambo and makes sure she knows she's missing the reward because she lost the chicken. Nice. I mean, not wrong, but he's just so condescending about it.

Back at Foa Foa, Shambo is mad at her tribe, so she decides to show them all the clues for the immunity idol. These clues are not subtle, so everyone figures out exactly where it should be and that it's not there, since Russell found it sans clues about 459 years ago. Everyone starts to wonder who has it, then, and there are two schools of thought: that Russell has it and is lying (true) or that Ben had it and failed to use it, so it's not in play anymore (false). Liz acts like she thinks the latter could be true, but she totally suspects Russell. She tries to get him to admit it, which she does very straightforwardly, and which of course Russell interprets as a threat. Basically, if you say anything, it's a threat. So he gets super mad about her asking him, yells at her about being threatening and then tells her she's on thin ice (which is way more threatening than anything she said to him).

Then (and this is important): It starts raining. A lot.

At the immunity challenge, a man and a woman from each tribe have to hold onto a rope that goes through a pulley and from which a basket is hanging. The remaining members from the other tribe have to throw coconuts into the baskets, and whichever team lets go of both ropes first loses. Foa Foa cannot make a shot and Galu is hitting like mad, so Liz and Russell (the designated holders for their tribe) are having a rough go of it, but they hang in there. Ashley, in particular, cannot seem to make a single shot against Galu.

Russell (who was taking the brunt of the weight) finally gave out, leaving Liz alone. She tried and tried, but eventually she couldn't hold it anymore -- it seriously looked like the basket was holding the equivalent of her body weight and it lifted her off the ground. So Galu wins again.

But about that rain ... it still doesn't stop, and it's so relentless that Foa Foa is forced to just sit huddled in their tiny shelter before tribal council. There's no sneaking off to cut deals or even discuss anything. They're just trapped. I know there was a time when a tribe had to go straight to TC without having time to discuss, but I can't remember another time when the weather took this opportunity from them like this. It was pretty awkward as they tried to figure out whether they should all say at camp who they're voting for or not. Finally, they just decided to vote for whoever at TC. It was pretty clear, though, that Ashley was out after two bad performances in back-t-o-back challenges.

And that was true. People interviewed half-heartedly that maybe Liz was in danger (yeah, Liz, the only one who gave them any hope of winning that immunity challenge), but everyone voted for Ashley, even her BFF Natalie. If he'd had time, I'm sure Russell would have been gunning for Liz, but the rain put a stop to that. 

They're so going to mix up the tribes, soon, don't you think? It's so unbalanced right now. I think that could be really, really interesting.

What did you think of the episode?