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Erik also thinks that Andrea is playing both sides, and he talks with Francesca and Cochran about switching “the five” – Francesca, Erik, Brandon, Brenda and Dawn - to Andrea, keeping Cochran and Andrea in the dark. Francesca trusts Cochran but not Andrea and at the same time she’s frustrated that there are all these changes at the very last minute before going to Tribal Council before she can get to the bottom of any of it. Welcome to Survivor: Reject Island. “I’m going to drown myself in the ocean,” she tells Cochran and Andrea.

As everyone heads off to Tribal Council, we get more Cochran, where he talks about how it would be inhumane to send Francesca out first, because he has morals and a sense of shame. Well...

Those are some glum faces arriving at the first Tribal Council of the season. “Dip it in and get fire,” commands Probst. He then blahs on about the ritual of Tribal Council and how fire represents life.

Probst asks Brandon if there’s anyone running the tribe, and the reply is that at the moment it is all chiefs and no Indians, and “no one is getting done the way they were done last time.” “Somebody is,” corrects Probst. “Tonight!”

Probst them moves on to the “famous rivalry” between Francesca and Phillip. Francesca admits that “it’s never good to see someone you’ve had an infamous fight with.” Phillip is pretty aggressive with his response, and even claims that the whole Francesqua bit was just to get up her nose. And not the whole bit about “my mouth is dry and I’m getting treatment for it” that he said at the time.

How was it for Phillip to see Francesca? “Apprehensive… she was strategic about the game when she didn’t need to be.”

Probst asks if Francesca she feels she is at a disadvantage because she doesn’t have as much experience as the other players. “You keep bringing that up. It’s as if you’re saying I’m bad at Survivor.” “You said that,” corrects Probst. But as we’ve seen this episode, Francesca is pretty bad at Survivor. She talks about her paranoia and its snowball effect.

Here, Phillip says that paranoia can start where you hear your name being mentioned. And his name has been mentioned. “Already?” asks Probst, faking surprise. Everybody has heard Phillip’s name get tossed around.

Andrea, who has been talking to everyone since the game started, says that “if you tell the wrong thing to the wrong person, it gets back to you, and then maybe you will go out.” Probst asks Andrea how she thinks the others see her. Andrea gives a non-answer about how they see her as “someone who brings it to challenges and works hard around camp.” The eye-rolling says that is not what the others think of her.

Probst’s next observation is that with more experienced players, the game moves faster, and things can even shift at Tribal Council. Cochran spouts on about that time Boston Rob reached over and tapped the shoulder of the person he said was going to leave, and how exciting it is and blah blah blah. I’m not really listening because I am transfixed by Cochran’s huge zit on the side of his nose until Malcolm reaches over and grabs Cochran’s shoulder. Someone had to do it.

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