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Then Abi declares that if the others are going to talk behind her back, she will stop doing any of the cooking. She’s been cooking for 26 days and is over it and she’ll be going home soon anyway. She clarifies that she’ll still be doing the eating, but just no cooking. In interview, Denise talks about how Abi has lost her mind, and gives the episode title “whiners are wieners. You need to go home.” Abi pouty-face takes us to the break.

After the commercial, Abi is keeping up her end of the kitchen deal by seeing a pot of beans cooking on the fire and explaining that she’s not cooking any of it. “Okay. Good to know” says Denise.

Meanwhile, Michael and Malcolm are talking what happens when it gets to six. “It’s either game on, or make a plan,” says Michael. “Do you want to wait that long to make a plan?” says Malcolm, who interviews that he wants to lock a final four down today and coast until the end. Coasting! It's a winning Survivor strategy! Michael says that obviously Malcolm and Denise have a close relationship, but “who else do we have for sure?” Malcolm suggests Lisa.

We see Michael fill in Lisa on Malcolm’s final four plan. “Really? Wow!” says Lisa, and then Michael interviews that when someone wants to take you to the final four, you have to say “yes”. He sets out the two options with Lisa as the two of them with Jonathan and Carter, or with Malcolm and Denise. Lisa says that she trusts Jonathan more and would prefer to go to the end with him.

So Lisa and Michael ask Jonathan about what he is thinking for final four, and Jonathan says “that’s cool and I appreciate that. But personally, I am more than comfortable taking care of business one thing at a time." He interviews that it’s too early for him to decide who to go to the final three with, and if that gets him blind-sided, more power to them. He tells Michael and Lisa that he doesn’t want everyone getting squirrelly, that they all agreed to go to six and that’s what they should do. Jonathan’s obviously counting on the chaos that will come when they are actually down to six to steer him through.

Dangerous music sounds when later at camp, Jonathan asks “where is everybody?” I know where Malcolm, Denise, Lisa and Michael are – in the jungle cementing their final four arrangement.

Michael interviews that he’s not totally comfortable with the new arrangement with Malcolm, because Malcolm’s a gamer, but he felt he had to so he’ll be doing everything he can to win immunity. Michael must have been the only castaway to mention “immunity” in interview, because it’s time for the immunity challenge.

Probst sighting! Immunity! Back up for grabs! This challenge has three stages, which are all about buoy maneuvering. The first stage is maneuvering the buoy through a tangled rope which is tied over various obstacles. The first five go through to the second stage, which is the same thing, except the rope is wound around a balance beam, and you have to stay on the beam. The first three go to the final stage, which is the same thing again, except the obstacles are in the water. There’s a brief interview with Pete to clarify that if he doesn’t win immunity, he is screwed.

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