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When the doctor studies Joe's knee, it becomes apparent he will not be continuing. He states that they'll have to tell him he might lose the leg before he'd stop competing. That's going to happen. The only question is whether there is an additional Tribal Council elimination. Negotiations ensue along these lines with the bombshell coming from the Stephen/Taj tandem. Stephen asks if she would vote for Brendan and while she is reticent at first, it's obvious that his not communicating with her at all has rubbed her the wrong way. She eventually consents to the bold strategy, presuming everyone else agrees with the plan. A quick cut to Coach and J.T. shows the egomaniac telling his new protégé (?) that as long as J.T. promises not to burn him later, the kid is in Coach's alliance. Fearing his potential elimination otherwise, J.T. readily consents.

The southern gentleman directly heads to Stephen to strategize how to guarantee survival. Recognizing that they have enough votes to cover their bases in case Brendan chooses to play his idol, the men go to Tyson with an idea. Their new ploy is to split votes between Brendan and Sierra in order to assure that if Brendan does protect himself, it is Sierra rather than J.T. who goes home. Tyson quickly agrees and tells Coach the new plan. Amusingly, Coach monologues to the camera that this is the way HE plans for it to happen, which means that either he or the editing crew is the type of liar Tyson dreams of being. Not quite content to celebrate the impending victory as it stands, Coach starts deciding the best descriptive terminology for himself. He considers then discards The Orchestrator before having the epiphany that Jackie Chan would respect him more if he called himself The Dragon Slayer. Coach never got over bombing at that pro wrestling tryout, did he?

The producers of the show, perhaps hating Coach every bit as much as I do, deny him his victory. Jeff Probst walks up to the tribe and informs them that Joe's leg is about as gangrene as legs can get in the post-Civil War era. He's been Medivac'd back to civilization and is out of the competition. Because of this, there will be no Tribal Council elimination tonight, which may very well save Brendan's neck, depending on how much of this was an editing swerve. Under any circumstance, it's in Brendan's best interest to pull Taj aside next week, show her his Eddie George autographed jersey, and sing her every SWV song he knows.

Coach and Tyson's disappointment at this turn of events sexually arouses me. Their pain is my pleasure.

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