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Andrea interviews with some admiration that “Malcolm’s a good liar," but she’s amused at the dynamic that he’s lying to her, and she’s lying to him. Meanwhile “Dawn is really working it. She’s the MVP. I don’t know where this Dawn came from.”

Malcolm tells Dawn his plan is to vote for Andrea. All of Dawn’s fingers are up at her eyes by this point, but she plays along. Malcolm interviews that whatever Phillip is, he isn’t running things and he wants to “kill the person running the show." Does he mean Probst? We all saw how quickly Probst backed away quickly from Dawson last season, so I really don’t think Malcolm has much chance of getting closer. Malcolm finishes his thought: “Which is Andrea.” Oh. Oh well.

“Reynold has an idol,” he tells her and Dawn responds “show me and I’ll believe you." Nice one, Dawn. “But I’m never going to be able to look anyone in the eye again.” Dawn thinks it is nuts that Malcolm is still trusting her, after Corinne told Dawn all of her plans last week and Dawn voted against her – though we didn’t see Corinne tell anyone about her convo with Dawn, so that might explain it.

So Malcolm goes to Reynold and convinces him to show Dawn the idol. He says that the majority plan is to split the vote between Eddie and Reynold, but reassures Reynold that no idol has to be played tonight, and that they’re voting for Andrea.

Then we see Reynold approach Dawn right in the middle of camp with his bag. Nothing shady about that at all. He shows her the idol, and then says “if you don’t follow through, I go home tonight so don’t screw me” and “If I have reason to doubt you, I’m gonna play it for myself tonight." Immediate cut to a Dawn interview about how she “can’t stand people that intimidate other people.” But he showed her the idol. “Shame on you, you shouldn’t have shown me your idol. Malcolm, shame on you, you shouldn’t have brought me in,” Dawn tut-tuts.

Reynold tells Mike that he showed Dawn his idol, so now it seems like everyone knows about Reynold’s secret idol. Then Eddie decides that he’s going to talk with Andrea. Reynold tries to dissuade him because “she changes her mind every five minutes, she promises you the world, she’s dangerous, dude,” which is his first accurate read on someone we’ve seen this episode. Maybe this is some impostor Reynold? Then he reassures Eddie that Cochran will warm up to them after Andrea is gone and “we can just bro down with the guys to the end." No, it’s Reynold.

Anyway, Eddie’s interrogation of Andrea starts about as poorly as you can expect. “Malcolm thinks you’re splitting the votes tonight." “Maybe,” says Andrea, not saying “so, you heard this from Malcolm?” She says she’s not saying who she’s voting for but it’s not him. “But who are you voting for? Is it Mike? Can you tell me and I’ll vote that way.” Andrea won’t say.

“Tell me if it’s Mike or Malcolm,” urges Eddie. “I can’t tell you,” and then Andrea remembers to put in a why-would-it-be-Malcolm face. “It’s not Malcolm.” “Is it Reynold?” because Eddie doesn’t want to lose Reynold, as if Andrea should care about that. “Can you just trust me?” Andrea asks. “If Reynold plays his idol, I go home," Eddie insists. “Is he going to play the idol?” “I don’t know.” “Does he have an idol?” “Somebody here does.” “You said you know he doesn’t have an idol.” “I don’t know any more.” Eddie is petulant. Andrea puts the numbers together and suggests that it could be her next. “It could be you," a frustrated Eddie says a little aggressively. “If my name comes up, let me know.” “It’s been talked about,” says Eddie, the big doofus.

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