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Over at Kalabaw, it is raining too. Jeff Kent talks about how Survivor is an endurance event, just like baseball, and he is used to waiting people out. Jonathan complains that due to all the rain, he hasn’t been able to look around for the idol. No interviews with any other Kalabaws this week. We see the non-Jonathan Kalabaws start a checkers game, but eventually they decide that the cave will be drier than the shelter. Jonathan stays behind, with the pretext that he will take a swim since he is already so wet, which none of them believe. He could easily say “I’m going to stay and look around for the idol,” because no one seems to care about leaving him alone to look for it. No one even bitches about it while they are up in the cave trying to keep their fire alight.

So Jonathan has a few precious minutes to look in pots and dig under the flag, before Dana and Dawson come back to get flint and bust him under the shelter. Jonathan spins some story about his contact lens and his glasses, which is so stupid he has the good grace to be embarrassed about telling it. All those evenings spent in improv class, wasted! Again, no one cares, because for some reason there is no one around when Jonathan has an epiphany! The clue said the idol would be right under his nose, and what was right under his nose when he found the clue? The lid of the rice box! If only he’d read last week’s recap. Jonathan rushes back to camp and secures the idol. This is the first time Jonathan has ever had a hidden immunity idol. He talks about how players who find the idol feel they can dance their way to a million, and end up getting blind-sided – and he declares “that’s a mistake I’m not going to make, I hope”. “Yes! I am on fire!” he shouts as he charges through the jungle, right as Dana returns back with a load of wood. Keep up that poker face, Jonathan.

Day 5 at on Matsing, and there is more cuddling between Malcolm and Angie. Roxy interviews that of the two, Malcolm is more useful and she will have to get Russell on her side for the vote to go her way.

In his interview, Russell monologues that Angie has “some boob thing going on, they are popping up all over the place. I don’t blame Malcolm for wanting some slap and tickle, but I’m not down with that. You get your bag on somewhere else. Because Survivor couples? You want to whack that thing down real quick!” Roxy then goes to Denise with the same message, about how when it’s you and them, they aren’t going to choose you. I like how succinctly Roxy can make her points. In interview, Denise seems more relaxed than Roxy about the snuggling. It’s just some 24-year old getting his bag on, plus she has an alliance with Malcolm, which she doesn’t want to break. Malcolm has noticed the strange vibe around camp, and is wondering whether the others are freaking out about the cuddling.

At Tandang, we open with a shot of a praying mantis, which is Survivor Editor for “something is about to go down.” There is more rain, and the desperate castaways start talking about their favorite foods. Dummies! Don’t make hungry people frustrated! Lisa, who describes herself as an introvert, can’t put up with the chit-chat and walks away from the shelter. Her tribemates think that her going off on her own is suspicious, and assume she is looking for the immunity idol. The obvious reason – that she prefers not to spend her time in pointless chit-chat with a group of people she doesn’t particularly like – doesn’t occur to anyone. This is why introverts think carefully about how they play Survivor – because they’ll have the most problems putting up with a bunch of chumps they don’t want to listen to for 39 days.

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