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“You don’t slap the gift horse,” says Phillip, which Brandon paraphrases as “you don’t bite the hand that...” “Feeds you” finished Phillip. Being talked down to sets Brandon off. “What gives you leadership to say ‘hey, he deserves to be here’? Don’t I make that decision for myself?” No, because it’s Survivor and you leave when other people vote you out. And then Phillip is the one who put the alliance together, and when it comes to the crunch everyone will probably vote with Phillip. Is that enough reasons yet? “So I can still trust you?" asks Brandon, and Phillip is snappier than he should be when he says “Yes, you can trust me, I’ve been telling you that.” Trustworthy!

Brandon interviews that he’s annoyed with Phillip, but so long as he can keep himself under control things will be fine. “But goddamn, that might be a really tough thing to do." They handshake on the beach and Brandon “apologizes as a man." But as far as Phillip’s concerned, Brandon is persona non grata, and the first opportunity Phillip has, Brandon will go.

There’s dangerous, foreshadowing music when we come back from commercial, but we are looking at the “fans” beach, so the dangerous music is for Matt’s gross, water-sodden feet. It is one of those awful Caramoan rainfalls that we saw last season, and Mike goes about getting things ready so they’ll dry when the sun comes out. Mike must be the tribe optimist. “I want my mommy,” says Matt to add a slice of levity during a very heavy rainfall that puts out the fire, before interviewing “I wish something good would happen to our tribe."

It’s raining over at the “favorites” camp, and Brandon is lighting a fire with flint and the knife, and Malcolm is keeping a very close eye on the knife.

Brandon interviews that the Phillip-Brandon rivalry is really getting to him. His scary eyes are on full beam as he says “I get up this morning and who starts the fire? Brandon starts the fire! I’m the only dude who can start a fire with a piece of flint! I don’t need no old 54-year-old punk b---- telling me don’t bite the hand that feeds you!” Brandon doesn’t need to be fed. “I am a Hantz! I feed me!”

Phillip, meanwhile, is interviewing about Brandon. “He’s not sane, he’s not right, he could harm one of us, and therefore one might do the unthinkable to make something else possible.” Phillip talks about what a competitive person he is, so he would never normally think about this, but he really wants to throw the challenge. He continues to self-justify – it would be a “degree of compassion for him as well as a potential game-saver for us."

It’s not long before the discussion comes up in camp. “What happens if we lose?” Andrea asks Phillip. “He needs to go. I want him gone. Put me in the challenge,” is the response. “Are you saying you want to throw the challenge?” “Yes. I would do that. I don’t want him around anymore.”

Now Andrea, who not that long ago was so concerned about saying the wrong thing to the wrong person, is talking with Brandon about her conversation with Phillip. Brandon says “I apologized, I was the bigger man about it." He calls “Hey Phillip," and Andrea says “I don’t like where this is going." Brandon turns his head back to her and asks if Phillip is wanting to throw the challenge, and Andrea says “I don’t think he will go that far, but if we lose we’re going to have issues."

Angry interview now from Brandon, who talks about how he cooks, how he does good in challenges, how he lights the fire and takes care of camp, and is still on the block to get voted out. If he doesn’t understand why that’s the case, maybe he should be on the “fans” tribe.

Brandon confronts Phillip about how he thought they had cleared everything up yesterday, and completely throws Andrea under the bus by saying that Andrea said Phillip still wanted Brandon gone. Phillip says “I’m not happy with what happened with us” and that he “cannot trust Brandon, because his activities have been active." Active activities? Shocking! He means that Brandon has been giving out more information than Phillip wants him to and this goes against Steath R Us’s corporate values or something.

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