Upolu Tribe - Mike, Russell S., Shambo, Russell H., Ashley, Kelly, Yasmin, Marisa, Monica
Coming back from Tribal Council, Russell H.'s alliance begins to gloat about their majority, Russell S. in particular. Monica is annoyed by this, but she still says she can pull through, since she has been on a minority alliance for the whole game, yet has made it this far.
Kelly later gathers Ashley and Monica and says they need to find away to get in control of the game. Ashley suggests that since trying to get them "with us" didn't work, they instead had to get them to go "against each other." They try to create a scheme to get Russell S. off the island.
When the tribe receives tree-mail, instead of a reward challenge, each player is given $500 to spend in an auction for food and other luxuries, as well as "certain things to help you in the game." Several food items are sold, such as a cheeseburger with soda to Mike, and a piece of chocolate cake to Monica. But things get interesting when Jeff reveals a bottle, and he says that this bottle will give one person a big advantage in the next immunity challenge. Bidding is tight between Kelly and Russell S., but Russell S. ends up spending all his money to buy it. The following item; however, is perhaps more interesting, as it is a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol. Kelly bids the money that she didn't have to spend on the last item to buy the clue.
Back at camp, Kelly goes aside and views her clue, which is stored on some random model of a Sprint Phone (with a cool touch-screen, OMG!). It shows somebody lifting a rock and placing the Hidden Immunity Idol under the rock. Kelly searches around and is able to locate it. She doesn't take it back to camp; instead, she buries it nearby and returns to camp without it; thus, everybody else would assume she was unable to find it. Later, she reveals to Monica and Ashley that she found it.
Trying to put their plan into action, Ashley goes to Marisa and casually complains about Russell S. She also points out that he's a big threat in challenges. Marisa agrees, although she isn't sure how they could vote him off, since Russell H. is the one really in control.
At the immunity challenge, it ends up being a showdown between Russell S. and Marisa at the end, but Russell S.'s advantage helps him out as he wins immunity. This saddens Kelly, Ashley, and Monica, since now they need to find another target.
Back at camp, Russell's alliance gathers and they agree to vote out Kelly this time. Later, though, Russell H. talks privately to Shambo, Yasmin, Mike, and Russell S. and reveals to them that Marisa has the Hidden Immunity Idol. They consider using this opportunity to vote her off and get the idol out of the game, but nobody is entirely sure. They also say that if Kelly has the Hidden Immunity Idol, she is likely to play it tonight and waste it.
However, what they didn't know was that Monica was listening in to their conversation in the background. She reports back to Kelly and asks if she should still use her Hidden Immunity Idol. If Russell's alliance ends up voting for Marisa, she says, then playing the Immunity Idol would be a waste, but if she doesn't play it, and Russell's alliance votes for Kelly, then she'd be out of the game.
Tribal Council comes, and Jeff reads the votes:
1st vote - Kelly
2nd vote - Marisa
3rd vote - Marisa
4th vote - Marisa
5th vote - Marisa
6th vote, and 12th person voted off and 1st member of the jury...
Marisa.
The blindside is successful, and Kelly gets to keep her Hidden Immunity Idol.
Who will be voted off next? And who will win the million dollars? Please comment!
