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“Can you drop the Stealth R Us thing?... It’s demeaning!” asks Brandon, “Nobody in there is Exterminator or Exterior, it’s bulls---“, but Phillip thinks it’s “a lot of fun for us." If Phillip were the CEO of a real company, he’d probably think his workers would have a lot of fun watching his band play at the office Christmas party.

“Nobody likes it,” Brandon says, probably accurately. “Thanks for sharing,” replies Phillip. Brandon goes further. “Everyone actually does not like you.” Phillip says “Well guess what, then they’ll vote me out.” Phillip has Brandon there, so Brandon says “Let me give you a reason to vote me out,” like there aren’t enough already.

He then storms back into the camp. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m gonna give you a reason to vote me out,” like there aren’t enough already, so he dumps out the rice and then the beans despite everyone else’s efforts to grab then without making physical contact with Brandon. “I thought you were a secret agent! Come get some!” he calls after Phillip who is walking down the beach.

Dawn suggests that Brandon give himself time to breathe, but Brandon has his arms spread as wide as a preacher’s and is declaring “I am the author of my fate! Now vote me out, b----!” The others are collecting up the rice and hoping to win a sieve at the next reward challenge. There’s voice-over from Andrea about how Brandon was ready for a fist-fight. “Why not just go to Tribal?” Corinne asks. Dawn is thinking the same, interviewing “can we still play with him?”

So to recap, first Brandon volunteers for everyone to vote him out, so he can see his family. Then he decides to stay in the game for his family. Now he thinks that no one has a good reason to vote him out, and he decides to give them one. Great.

Probst sighting! Immunity challenge! “Come on in, guys!”

Probst wants a bit of chit-chat before explaining the challenge. He asks Reynold if the long, wet, rainy night had an impact on the tribe. Reynold’s response is all over the map, about how the favorites won everything so they have all this stuff (that he lists in nauseating detail), but it’s still hard even if you win everything, so “we’re all in it together." I see why they usually edit this part out of the show.

Same question to Cochran, who says it hurts morale and it’s not good for anybody. Brandon, how are you doing?

Brandon says he had an outburst with Phillip, and he would like to address the “fans”. Probst will allow this.

“Tonight is going to be an opportunity for you to come back and actually make this a game. I’m your second chance,” says Brandon as though he is doing this for the “fans”. His condition is “please don’t let Phillip get to the end of this game." “Where are you going?” asks Reynold, in the first of many, many gloating cuts to Reynold.

Corinne has the job of tribe spokesperson for this one, and she has a speech prepared. “We realize this is going to be a challenge for immunity, and it’s for this reason we would like to forfeit the challenge and go to Tribal. While we are all really fierce competitors, there is some discourse in our camp and we would like to hash that out in the appropriate setting. We respect this game, and we hope that both you and the ‘fans’ will respect this decision to go to Tribal.” Discourse? Corinne should have run her speech by an editor. The “fans” cannot believe their luck.

Brandon wants to help out a little bit, saying that the “favorites” don’t have any respect for the “fans”, and the “fans” shouldn’t take crap from anybody. Probst interrupts and beckons Brandon to come over with him, into a “neutral” spot. Listen to your friend Jeff Probst, he’s a cool dude.

Probst asks Brandon to explain what’s going on, Brandon he says that Phillip put together the Stealth R Us alliance, giving us “cartoon names, it’s degrading us, making us feel like we’re plastic dolls! And Phillip speaks so highly of himself! Stop talking about yourself! Boston Rob took you to the end, you didn’t do anything! You were made fun of! And you come here and you tell me, don’t bite the hand that feeds you?!”

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