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Dawn drops out, and Corinne takes her bag. Gota starts to run again, while Bikal keeps up their walking pace. Cochran and Julia drop out, so Corinne starts carrying 60 pounds of sand. Then Phillip falls, and Erik is able to continue running to tag him on the back. “Worst strategy ever,” Julia says, smacking the platform. Anyway, Dawn claims that losing this particular reward wasn’t the worst thing because Gota is all going to get diarrhea. Nice bright-side, Dawn.

However, back at camp Dawn is interviewing about how she really doesn’t want to call Phillip arrogant, because it sounds mean. But as “he sees all of his strengths and none of his weaknesses”, she’s not left with much option.

After the break, we look at the reward. Everyone squeals at the sight of the sweet food. Andrea talks about how this is a chance to bond with the “fans”, who are on their first reward, so she can get as close to them as possible before voting them out.

“Spring break! No parents!” shouts Reynold, who clearly wishes it was spring break forever for the rest of his life. He talks about how he is a bacchanalian who always wants to have a good time. Meanwhile, Malcolm is saying the caffeine has hit him because he is saying “I love you” to everyone and kissing them in the head. But in interview, he talks about how on the surface everything is great because they win all the challenges, but he is in trouble game-wise after the merge, because no one wants to go to the end with him so he has to make a move.

Back at Bikal, Phillip is talking about how inevitable it was that their tribe would lose. In interview, Corinne agrees, saying that Phillip is a “tubby lunchbox” and an “amoeba, ten pounds of potatoes in a five-pound sack.” She claims to Cochran that she could have carried all of the sandbags and won the challenge, which just shows that outlandish claims are contagious.

Cochran talks about how the vibe around camp is “like a death sentence” and it’s not a certainty they’ll be voting for a “fan” tonight. Yeah, whatever. Cochran would like to vote for Julia, who he would say has a vanilla personality, if it wasn’t such an insult to vanilla. Poor Julia. Even Cochran is scoring off her! He demonstrates that few things are less appealing than a bullied nerd who picks on people even lower on the social ladder by continuing with this motif, saying that people like vanilla flavor but nobody wants Julia flavor. Especially after no shower in 19 days.

Poor Julia, though. The editors must hate her to put in so much footage of the other castaways saying how boring she is. It’s like they are blaming her for this boring season.

But what eludes Cochran is Phillip’s sudden interest in Julia. No one could possibly be interested in Julia! Phillip is certainly on-again off-again with her, because he’s giving her another talk about becoming a double agent. Not just any double agent, but one of the best! Julia makes a series of non-committal faces while saying, “Understood” and “I understand.” Phillip instructs her not to talk with anyone about this except him, and she could go far. And then he interviews about how excited he is about having a double-agent at last.

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