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Malcolm concludes that Russell is still here only because the tribe is doing badly and needs muscle mass. Ouch.

We are back with Russell, who is interviewing that everyone is wondering whether it will be them next, and that neither Malcolm and Denise has come to him yet to talk about what will happen when the bottom falls out, and that makes him suspicious. I know Russell talks up his positive attitude, but he should listen to all the negative things he says once in a while.

Russell finally remembers that he has a clue to the idol and goes pottering around camp for it. He’s sarcastic about the clue – “I love this word… ‘somewhere’ near your beach” and even he does finger quotes. As if the clue is not telling him exactly where the idol is. It’s right under his nose!

Russell feel like he has walked past the idol 100 million times, so the cruel but funny Survivor editors make sure to include several shots of him looking for the idol with Matsing’s monkey idol right in the foreground.

Russell has even anticipated the Survivor editors, saying “then everybody’s gonna see me looking for it, and there’ll be this flash on the screen, and they’ll say ‘this dummy is walking right past it,’ and it’s gonna suck.” So of course the Survivor editors are sure to include a digital flash around the idol when he’s looking in totally the wrong place, like a dummy. He should be looking at where the camera crew is positioning itself.

Denise spots Russell rummaging at the rear of the shelter and Russell makes up some long excuse about some banana leaf that he had to check out or something. For some reason, this makes Denise think Russell has the idol instead of flailing around blindly for it. She fills in Malcolm and they go through all his stuff.

There’s a clip of a spider with a caterpillar caught in its web when we cross to Tandang, so you know what that means. Of course, we get one of those every time we cross to Tandang now. Michael is cooking something and thinks more water should be added. Abi wants to have more salt because she’s a “salty person”. Asked to taste test, RC makes the mistake of taking Michael’s side.

RC tries to clear the air with Abi about the immunity clue thing and protests that she did not do anything, but Abi goes on and on about how she is over it and doesn’t want to talk about it and that RC betrayed her and broke her trust and she doesn’t want to talk with her any more. “I didn’t do anything,” complains RC.

“Abi is irrational,” explains RC “She’s not a rational player.” meaning that Abi is the type of player who goes with her emotions instead of logic. No, Abi is bad-tempered, unreasonable and ridiculous but she is acting quite rationally. RC's mistake is that she is approaching Abi as an ally when really, Abi sees her as a threat and isn't interested in talking. Abi just wants RC gone. It's that simple. RC interviews that she has no idea what’s going on, but she is now worried about her place in the tribe.

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