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Now Pete goes to Michael and suggests taking out Malcolm. It would take out an idol, it would take out a threat, though both of those things would also be gone if the vote went to Abi and Pete tonight. “Would you be up for it?” Michael seems tempted by the suggestion, and interviews that he’s not sure he could beat Malcolm at the final Tribal Council. “You’ve never done me wrong this game,” he lies to Pete, “so, um... I’m not saying no.”

Michael’s interview goes on to say that changing it up again would backfire on him, but at the same time he’s not sure his current alliance will stay strong until the final four stage. If Michael says yes, and the final three is Abi, Pete and Michael, my recap will be summed up in two words: “This sucks.”

Meanwhile, Jonathan decides to share Pete and Abi’s “incredibly cockamamie plan” so that it’s all out in the open and maybe so Malcolm will play his idol tonight. In interview, Malcolm with his glossy hair complains about his situation.

Tribal council. We will now bring in the members of our jury. Artis looks very happy, and Jeff Kent still has his pornstache. Abi smiles at Artis, and Probst, who has never seen Abi smile at anyone before, points this out as jury management. Abi says that she loves the green and yellow he is wearing. I’ll give Abi the benefit of the doubt because (a) Abi was in an alliance with Artis for 25 days, (b) Artis is wearing the national colors of Brazil, where Abi is from, and (c) Abi won’t be getting any votes at a final Tribal Council anyway.

Probst asks Malcolm how he feels about blatant jury management, and Malcolm says that he’s more concerned about staying in the game.

“How good a move would it be to take you [Malcolm] out in one fell swoop?” Malcolm refuses to say it’s a strategic move to get rid of him, but he can see what’s going on. Probst then asks Michael about how the immunity idol factors in and Michael garbles on with an answer that doesn’t really make sense and closes with “it’s going to get crazy again."

Probst asks Pete what it is like going from top dog to beat up? “Not a good feeling." He basically repeats his pitch to get rid of Malcolm. I wonder if he'd have been in favor of him being voted off all those episodes when he had the power?

Abi, any regrets about how the last Tribal Council went down? “Absolutely, I am very regretful, but...” and this is where the rule “everything before the word ‘but’” applies. “I never betrayed Lisa, I just had doubts because of the way things happened." Probst asks if these misunderstandings could be put down to cultural factors? Ah Probst, master of cultural awareness. Remember the Cook Islands season when he was surprised that there are different types of Asian people?

Abi says that part of it is cultural because English is not her first language, and generously admits that her “attitude may be perceived as not the most gentle." Probst has to point out that “every single person is smiling at that."

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