This week kicks off with, among other things, the Airai tribe giving ten up top (in their heads) to Malakal for ridding the game of Jon Dalton. With that out of the way, there"s a challenge in which Ozzy takes over, and you know what that means. This challenge is for both immunity and reward, meaning that Malakal takes home some fishing stuff and doesn"t have to go to tribal council later. They do, however, have to send someone to Exile Island. Knowing that EI includes a shot at an idol, Malakal sends Chatty Kathy The Bug-Eyed Possible Crazypants, figuring that this stands the best chance of really annoying Airai and really helping Malakal"s game. After they"ve picked Kathy, however, they learn that they also have to send one of their own with her. Dun! Cirie "Afraid Of Leaves And Crazy Like A Fox" Fields oh-so-reluctantly agrees to be thrown to Exile Island with Kathy, so the two women go off together. Cirie has probably the best social skills of anyone who has ever played (this is why she could befriend Shane, still appear mentally functional, and engineer the only successful 3-2-1 split vote ever), and Kathy falls goofybrains-over-heels for her instantly. The two slog through numerous clues hunting all over for this elusive immunity idol, but we never really learn whether they found it or not.
Meanwhile, back at Airai, they can"t boot Kathy because of the immunity idol she picked up last week, courtesy of Yau-Man"s help. Because Kathy is part of a Kathy-Tracy-Chet trio that All The Young Dudes and their Dudettes have decided they don"t like, a plan is afoot to boot either Tracy or Chet. Mikey B, however, is fearful that whichever one they pick, Kathy will somehow give an immunity idol -- either the one she has or one she finds -- to that person, and the vote will bounce off, back onto whomever Kathy/Tracy/Chet vote for. So he suggests hedging their bets by splitting their votes between Tracy and Chet, so that they are at least guaranteed a tie in the event that one of those two comes up with an idol. Big Giant Creepy Joel, however, is very threatened by Mikey B coming up with this sound and sensible plan, so he decides that Mikey B should be the target. As you know, the way you go after a dude is to knock off his girlfriend, so because Mary (who? EXACTLY) is perceived as Mikey B"s biggest ally, Joel gets everybody to vote off Mary. Mary! Yeah, we don"t get it either.
In other news: Dear Ozzy, you don"t necessarily become the best kisser by opening your mouth the widest. The sooner you realize that kissing is not an immunity challenge, the happier Amanda is going to be. I"m just saying.