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Jeff Kent and Carter go off to reassure the Tandang alliance. “We’re good, we’re still hanging,” is the way Jeff Kent puts it. Jeff Kent interviews again about how he’s at a crossroads – either going with the veterans who he doesn’t want to win, or going with Tandang and being on the bottom. He talks about how you can’t treat the game with disrespect because it will bite you in the ass, and he has to make sure he protects himself whatever move he makes.

In all of this, where is Denise? Why aren’t we seeing Jonathan or Jeff Kent talking with her?

Tribal Council! Gecko! Probst greets everyone and tells Tandang to get their torches and finally get fire. He goes over a bit of Survivor history about how Tandang never lost and they are the only tribe ever to not go to Tribal Council until the merge. Only on a technicality, because there have been ever-victorious tribes before, but they had compulsory Tribal Councils.

Probst asks Denise, about being a Tribal Council veteran and Denise is hoarse for some reason. It can’t be from talking too much, because we’ve barely seen her speak since the merge.

Michael – 19 days in there have to be fractures in Tandang. Michael says sure, but says they still pulled out victories. So nothing from Michael. Probst asks RC “how bad has it gotten at camp?” “It was pretty bad at Tandang,” RC says, “but families fight and we are a family."

Probst them points out to Abi that families don’t win Survivor, and Abi has an opportunity to talk about how RC “betrayed” her with that hidden immunity idol clue that Pete planted, even though Abi had betrayed her first. “I didn’t unbury it... you blew up and wouldn’t have a discussion." If you’re waiting for this to be discussed at the reunion, don’t get your hopes up because Abi will be all “hey, it was a game, don’t take it so personal."

Probst asks Lisa about the argument between Abi and RC, and whether that worries her that someone might flip to Kalabaw. Somehow he manages not to work in a Facts of Life reference. She points out that anyone who switches over to Kalabaw would find themselves at the bottom.

What’s wrong with that, Jeff Kent? He says that if someone who is at #7 on Tandang is offered a #5 slot at minimum with Kalabaw, there’s “potential for a game-changing switch." But Lisa jumps in to say that once you flip, you’re weaker, because you’ve shown you can’t be trusted in your alliance. Whoa, she’s not bad at Tribal Council.

Pete is asked about returning players, and he gives a non-answer about how on other seasons no one has liked the returning players much. Except when they fawned over Boston Rob. And Coach. And Stephenie and Bobby Jon. I’ll just say here that if players like Pete and Jeff Kent think that no one wants a returning player to win, why not just keep them around until Tribal Council and beat them there? What returnee is going to get the jury votes?

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