Kim says Tom, because she doesn't think much of the way he treated women.

Lex wants to know what will be each survivor's "first selfless act." Kim says that she wants to "look into the Wamba project" and cites some AIDS statistics.

Ethan, lamely, says something about working with inner-city kids. We remember that moment when Ethan said the thing he missed most about the States was his couch. It's one of those statements where you just want to ask what kept him from doing it before.

And we like Ethan.

He has the cutest hair, and great teeth, too.

Frank is up next. He has a perfectly composed question asking them the five characteristics that survivors need to win.

They offer five one-word answers: Willpower, integrity, love, respect, etc.

Kelly is up next. She starts off telling them that she didn't want to see either one of them in the final round. She was "disappointed" by Kim, but she praises her for finally voting Lex the hell off the bush.

"Though you totally sold me out," Kelly says. "I hope you know that part of your success comes at my expense. If you think you did this with integrity, don't flatter yourself."

Kelly's a nut, but it's a good point.

Then she turns on Ethan. "This game is about making relationships, and I sure didn't see you trying to make one with me."

She asks them to pick a number between 1 and 1,000.

Kim says 3. Anyone familiar with numbers games knows that all Ethan has to do is choose 4. Ethan is not familiar with numbers games, and picks 860-something.

Sigh.

Kelly is proud of herself. She meant to deliver an incendiary speech, but she ended up with something closer to voting with the alphabet than a scorcher about rats and snakes.

Kim P. is next. Who did they learn the most from? The least?

Kim J. says, surprisingly, her. She admires her for walking out on her wedding and for her forgiveness.

Kim P. breaks into tears.

Kim J. learned the least from Tom.

She's really picking on Tom.

Ethan says he learned a lot from Teresa, and he learned the least from Kelly.

Tom gets up. It's his final chance to not come across to a worldwide audience as a big Southern buffoon.

"If a hyena came through camp and eat our mush, and after he eat it he licked his heiny, did he do it because of animal instinct, or to get the taste out of his mouth?"

It's a question far less funny than Ethan's straight-faced attempt to answer it in all seriousness. "If I was a hyena ..."

Kim says the hyena was just cleaning his hind end.

Teresa: "If you could take back anything you said, what would it be?"

Kim wishes that she hadn't jumped to conclusions about Kelly. Ethan wished that he didn't accuse Frank of a rogue vote.

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The vote begins when we come back.

Brandon is up first. He goes to the voting booth and says that he came tonight to vote for Ethan, contradicting what he just said minutes ago again.

But now he's not going to vote for Ethan because of the personal jab, and because he thinks it's cool to vote for a 56-year-old. He rambles on and on about how tacky it was for Ethan to insult him like that. Actually, it's just Ethan demonstrating smarts: He knew he didn't have Brandon's vote, and took a safe shot.

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