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Lisa interviews that “everyone’s galvanised against Jonathan” and she wants to swim with that stream, but that once Jonathan and Michael are out, she will get together with Jeff, Carter, Denise and Malcolm and target “the three that everybody doesn’t like,” which would be Pete, Artis and Abi.

We see Jeff Kent and Lisa walking along the beach, and Jeff Kent sets out the plan Lisa just explained, saying that it is a straight up numbers game. A bunch of castaways formed an alliance with a group of three, and “can that group outside of that three eventually trust each other and come together and get them out?” “I like that,” says Lisa. Then in a poorly edited interview, Jeff Kent says how fun it would be to break that up and that Lisa is so naïve and so soft and so nice, but maybe they can “carry themselves into a flip scenario."

Probst sighting! It’s for a reward challenge. The castaways will divide into two teams, and then they will swim out with a rope. They will connect the rope to the fish trap, and then swim down to release the buoy. The rest of the team then pulls them back to shore. Once they have collected all four fish traps, someone will then go dig in the sand for a key which will unlock a puzzle frame. After the puzzle frame is unlocked, the teams can open the fish traps that contain the “puzzle scrolls,” and two of them will work to solve the puzzle. Complicated to describe? asks Probst. Yes, say the castaways.

Anyway, the winning team will be treated to a river cruise, and lunch. Ribs! Potato salad! Cornbread! Apple pie! Worth playing for, asks Jeff? The moaning laughter from the castaways at each of his announcements said it all.

The two teams are Jeff, Malcolm, Jonathan, Lisa and Denise (the yellow team) and Pete, Abi, Artis, Michael and Carter (the blue team). Interestingly, Pete, Abi and Artis all ended up on the same team, meaning that whatever happens there’ll be five players who’ll do nothing but moan about them. Jonathan makes a funny fisticuffs move towards the red team. Probably at Michael, because he seems the only one capable of laughter.

Abi and Jeff Kent are first into the water, and Jeff Kent makes quick work of things while Abi can’t quite get things to happen. Remember when Jeff Kent twisted his knee? What happened with that? Anyway, he is back on shore and Jonathan is in the water as Abi hooks her fish trap. I can’t think of a way for that to not sound dirty.

Pete heads out for the blue team, and then Lisa for the yellow team. “Lisa, slow in the water,” calls out Probst. It does make me wonder why they didn’t send her out first instead of Jeff Kent, as she would have had the least distance to swim. But Pete gets back to shore and taps in Carter who seems to overtake Lisa before she gets to her buoy. Michael swims out for the blue team just as Lisa finally hooks her fish trap.

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