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Monday, Nov 9, 2009
The immunity challenge is a target game. Each player has three clay pots hanging from a rope. The others try to knock out your pots by throwing carved African sticks that look like smoothed bones.
Tom is a natural. Whenever he tosses a stick he breaks a pot.
Teresa and young Kim are first to go. It's closer with the rest. At one point, Jeff notes that someone has "taken out" Lex. Both women cheer in a pair of horrible poker faces. But it turns out that he's still in the game -- he just lost a second pot.
Big Tom takes out the older Kim for his first immunity win.
The music swells.
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There's surprisingly little intrigue in the final segment of the show. We see each survivor's face, accompanied by a drum beat.
And then we get one of Lex's classics: "[Teresa] has a lot of fire in her belly, and I know there's nothing more dangerous than a desperate animal. "
Teresa tries to round up a the remaining women for a girls-against-boys alliance to run up against Lex. It's not clear if it will come together.
Teresa has a natural ally in little Kim, but to get the elder Kim, she has to pry her away from the boys' alliance.
You'd think it would be an easy sell. If the elder Kim sticks with Ethan, Big Tom and Lex, she's going to be the fourth-to-the-last person voted off. Period.
If she goes over to the girls, the three target Lex, who has votes against him already. The boys target little Kim, a tie results, and Lex has to leave.
In this scenario, at worst the older Kim is the antepenultimate survivor.
It's a crazy idea, but it just might work.
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At tribal council, it's a chatty night for Jeff Probst, King of All the Wildebeests. He asks what everyone misses most. Ethan says couch. Big Tom says cheeseburger.
He asks if anyone has regrets. Tom doesn't. Teresa says she wouldn't have jumped into an alliance so early.
The votes are counted. Lex gets two. Young Kim picks up four.
We've been calling little Kim "dumb Kim." One of the piquant joys of "Survivor" is that, now that she's gone, we still have a dumb Kim on hand!
We think the guys are going to bounce Teresa next week, and then dispatch their ally Kim.
Anything can happen in "Survivor," of course; one of the women could earn immunity for two weeks in a row, forcing the guys to turn on each other. But neither seems to have that sort of grit at their disposal.
Little Kim is asked to leave.
She will eat no corn.
We felt like we hardly knew her.
Click, click.
Silence.
(Jeff Stark)
