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With Matt and Mike, Phillip is saying that Julia has to go, because she got “flustered” and Mike and Matt are bigger assets on a strength vs. strength basis. Philip then talks about maybe having a potential Stealth R Us initiation if they’d like to hear about it. “Sure,” says Matt, not quite keeping a straight face.

And it really is like joining Skull and Bones, because someday, someone might come up to the initiate and tell them to do something, and unless told otherwise by Phillip, they have to do it. And if they do, they pass their first test. “Understood,” says Matt. When do the Stealth R Us paddle-spankings begin?

Anyway, Matt basically interviews that he’ll do as much slobbering over Phillip as necessary if it gets him to the merge. Phillip’s big finish is that they can become Stealth R Us members, together with the other six. Matt and Mike both say “Seventh and eighth sounds great to us!” and then do big cheesy double thumbs-ups. Not really.

Matt, Mike and Julia go off into the forest to figure out what to do. Should they all vote for one of them? Mike suggests Cochran. Julia suggests Dawn, and Mike goes right along with it, which is the sign that he’ll be voting for Julia.

Cochran and Corinne talk in the jungle with Mike and Matt, about she would like to build an alliance with them, but everyone’s playing Survivor, and if she divulges any information and someone has the idol, then everything is blown. Which is all true. Cochran interviews that it’s one of the fans going home, and Mike and Matt are openly close, so it makes most sense to break up the power couple. He’s also worried about the idol, but he knows Matt doesn’t have it because he “reeks of desperation”.

With the other “favorites” Cochran makes his pitch for either Michael or Matt and repeats his certainty that Matt doesn’t have the idol. Dawn is on board, “Matt’s got to go”. But Phillip wants to keep them around, because he thinks he can turn them both. Why would this be a good thing for the group? If they get rid of Julia and induct Mike and Matt into Stealth R Us, then all six people on Bikal are members of the same alliance.

If you have ever, ever thought that Phillip is actually a secret genius who everyone underestimates because of his pink underoos and improbable stories, your theory is blown right there. It’s one thing to string people along with a maybe-promise about joining your alliance, it’s another to say that your alliance of six or more which is in control of the game needs two more members.

Anyway, Corinne is happy that “my gay gets saved, God save the gay” especially as Julia is “really boring and cost us the challenge,” though she is not keen to vote for Matt because he is honest and why punish him for that? Also, notice how Corinne’s editing has turned on a dime since Brandon left? Suddenly we have the Corinne we were all expecting from Episode 1.

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