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Denise has a quick chat with Michael to say that she’d join with them to get rid of Malcolm, but then leaves when Lisa shows up. “Denise was thrilled with your conversation,” Michael says a little sarcastically. “Me too.” Lisa does not get it. Michael is less than thrilled, because he does not want to go back on his word.

The disagreement is about their chances of winning. Lisa “cannot see a scenario where Malcolm does not win” if they keep him in the final three. On the other hand, Michael is somehow convinced that he can beat Malcolm. “In the physical part of the challenge, I beat Malcolm,” he affirms, as though this is evidence that Michael can beat Malcolm in front of the jury. Note that Malcolm absolutely thrashed Michael at the mental part of the challenge to the point where it wasn't a contest. Unsurprisingly, this has gone completely over Michael’s head.

Michael thinks that he “can tell a pretty good story." What story is that? I would love to hear this story he thinks is so compelling. How no one wants a returning player to win and no one actually respects Michael or the way he plays the game should win a lot of jury votes.

As usual, Michael is not lacking in confidence, and after the beatings he got from the rest of Tandang early in the game, it’s probably what has taken him this far, but at the same time it makes Michael pretty ridiculous. I bet you could ask Michael what his chances are of stealing the Declaration of Independence, and he’d say “I’d give it a pretty good shot."

Day 38. Michael and Lisa wake up and prepare for what will be “a crazy day." Michael says that they can’t let Denise win the final immunity challenge, and Lisa believes, “We have to let her win. She hasn’t been playing the game, she’s just let Malcolm play the game for her." She interviews that she hated it when Abi used to tell her to keep Michael “on a leash,” but at the same time she sees the point. Michael’s “not that level-headed.” Michael interviews that he and Lisa “are not on the same page,” and that he wants to “create the final three instead of just falling into the final three.”

Anyway, it’s time for the Walk of Fallen Comrades. “It will be a cool thing to be able to take some time and remember them,” Malcolm erroneously claims. Couldn’t they just cut this part and make it a 90-minute episode? Do we really have to see them collect plaques?

Malcolm has to explain to everyone who Zane is. “Appeared to be a little insane,” is Lisa’s assessment. Zane thinks that there’s proof that Matsing made a mistake voting him off because “my whole tribe folded after I left.” If you think Matsing was an unmitigated disaster, imagine what it would have been like if Zane had stayed.

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