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In the shelter, Laura is sitting between Sherri and Julia. Everyone’s talking about voting for her, Laura notes, but Julia suggests they do a split vote and flush the idol. Laura interviews the only thing she can do is trust her alliance.

On the beach, Matt brings up Laura’s name as the vote and Sherri looks very frustrated. Maybe she always looks frustrated when talking with Matt. I know I would be. In interview, Sherri highlights – holding up four fingers on one hand and two on the other - that keeping the strong and voting off the weak means that eventually the men are going to get rid of the women.

In the pre-Tribal Council discussions, Sherri fills Laura in on what Matt said and asks “How do you feel about us being the last two girls? They keep talking muscle, they keep talking muscle." And Laura is confirming with Michael that the five of them will vote together, and he says “boys Eddie, girls Reynold." But in interview Michael says he is the swing vote, and will go with his gut and hope it works out.

Tribal Council. Probst asks Matt how things are with Shamar gone, and Matt admits there is less tension, but it sucks that they are still losing challenges. Sherri, do you miss Shamar? Sherri pauses a lot as she says she misses him as far as being part of the alliance.

Reynold, how are things going now? Still an outsider? Reynold thought that the tribe could “gel” with Shamar gone, but he says the remaining five in the majority alliance are very hesitant to vote out one of their own. Alliances with more than four members are so unfair! He says that if they vote out Reynold or Eddie, their chances of winning immunity will be very slim.

“Good point Reynold, what do you think Laura?” is basically Probst’s next question. But Laura talks about whether the priority should be strength or loyalty, and which would get the tribe further in the game. She points out that the early boots on Survivor are based on who can’t compete in challenges but the later boots are based on relationships. Sure, but it has only been ten days.

Reynold “can’t get his head around” these arguments based on trust, and asks whether the tribe is prioritizing winning or prioritizing losing. Probst points out that Reynold “single-handedly brought you guys back," but Sherri responds that “we’re still losing." Probst paraphrases: “keeping Eddie, keeping Reynold isn’t going to do anything. All it’s going to do is break our alliance."

What about Eddie, “who’s been on the bottom from the get-go?” Eddie thinks that the tribe should come together and get rid of the weaker members. Because it would work out great for the physically stronger players. Probst asks Eddie about each of the women (but not Matt). Eddie proves that he is one of the mentally weaker players by saying that Sherri is a weaker player and Laura is the weakest. “I’m not going to lie about it,” he self-justifies. No one says, “Eddie is the dumbest player. I’m not going to lie about it.” Those sneaks!

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