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And immediately the Probst commentary is “Abi is pulling away” and “It’s Abi’s to lose." Carter catches up a bit, so that everyone cheers him on, even Jonathan. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone in an individual immunity challenge cheer on someone they’re supposed to be competing against. I know Jonathan’s not Mr. Altruism here, but it’s still weird. But Abi is already at the last knot and Denise is saying “You’ve got to be freaking kidding me." Abi slides down, and Denise mouths to Malcolm “I want to throw up," but they all clap and smile, which is nice and isn’t always done for the person no one likes – like we saw with Jonathan’s immunity win a few weeks ago.

Foreboding music plays as the castaways arrive back. Malcolm interviews that “Hell hath frozen over," as Abi has actually won immunity. And he’s thrilled with it, because he really wants to be rid of Jonathan. The final four alliance of Malcolm, Denise, Michael and Lisa meet to confirm it will be Jonathan voted out tonight. “I’m just not cut out for this game,” Lisa moans. It’s like her programming is caught in an infinite loop.

Lisa interviews that she likes Denise and Malcolm but she has a really “hard connection” with Carter and Jonathan. Inner conflict! The other three of the four all make platitudes about how this is the hardest part of the game, and Michael coaches Lisa that she should remember “we made a pact and we’ve stuck to it”. “I think it’s too big for me,” says another of Lisa's subroutines.

Now Lisa is talking with Jonathan and Carter. “I’m not good at this game” says yet another sub-routine. “I don’t want to lie to you that I’m totally in.” “Oh come on, cut the crap. Really?” They take a walk along the beach and Jonathan asks her what her latest personal crisis is. She recaps the “too soon to go to final four” discussion they had last week, and that someone else came to her and said “final four, let’s do it” and only an idiot would say no. Well, not that last part.

“Am I going home?” Jonathan asks. “That’s the name I’ve been told to write down.” “By who?” “I can’t tell you that... I’m so not good at this game”. Jonathan loses it for a second, saying that it is unbelievable, “because I didn’t make empty promises after you had written my name twice?” Then he collects himself, says that he is appreciative of the heads up and what she is going through, blah blah blah.

In interview, Jonathan is less kind. “Lisa once again lost her mind, and she had to confess to me that she’s writing my name down.” He recognizes that she won’t be swayed. Back in the conversation, Lisa says that she wants to go to the final three with Jonathan, that it’s not about the money but she won’t be voting that way. “What are we going to do?” he asks. No response, so “What am I going to do?” “Go do the magic that you do.” is Lisa’s answer, and Jonathan determinedly puts on his fedora.

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