Survivor, Ep. 26.6

The Aftermath
Bikal discusses the craziness that happened with Brandon. They all feel like he was a traitor. Phillip: "Even the Specialist couldn't tell you what's going on with him." Phillip tries to rally the troops by saying that they're still strong, and one of them is going to win this. Cochran: "When Brandon was here it was like a certified asylum. It's comforting to know that Brandon has successfully flown out of the cuckoo's nest and we're only left with Phillip."

Switch Up
It's no surprise that it's time to switch up the tribes--commercials pretty much came out and said that's what was going to be happening.. It probably couldn't come at a better time for either alliance. Gota is being demolished and Bikal just came off the back of a very unfortunate event.

Oh boy, here we go. Everyone gets an egg--you smash it, whatever color you get is your tribe. Each tribe gets a new ration of rice.

New Gota: Malcolm, Brenda, Erik, Andrea, Reynold, Eddie, Sherri
New Bikal: Dawn, Corinne, Phillip, Cochran, Michael, Matt, Julia

Gota
I'm so happy with this tribe! I love that Malcolm and Erik are with Eddie and Reynold. They definitely look like they have the better, stronger tribe.

Reynold: "We're the young, cool tribe." (Where have we heard that before?) They don't see any way they can lose. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the Favs split up and each talk to different members of the Fans.

Eddie and Reynold talk with Malcolm and Erik. They say that Sherri is running things, and that she's wanted them out.

Sherri starts spilling all of the Fans' secrets to Andrea and Brenda-mainly about Reynold. She says he's a car salesman and he needs to go (funny, that's the same thing that Andrea said after talking to him).

The Favs then start swapping info: Andrea spills to Malcolm what Sherri told her. She then asks Malcolm if he has the idol and he lies to Andrea about having an idol. He thinks it's hilarious that his idol is right next to her head when she's sleeping. Malcolm is so proud of himself: "I'm an accomplished liar when it comes to women." Andre tells him about Reynold's use of the idol, so they know he's kind of a threat.

Bikal
Corinne says likes gays and if she hadn't played before she would turn on her alliance to align with a gay. Phillip starts some crazy talk with Julia. He says she's smart, but she's not college educated like him. He wanted to start a seed with her because he didn't think he could get to the guys (Matt and Michael). Corinne: "Phillip is the worst federal agent ever" for trying to get Julia to flip--they don't need a flipper, they need to look for the idol. Dawn: "we can't leave him alone." Who knows what Phillip is thinking right now. He just kind of seems to be scrambling and trying to make things happen when he really doesn't need to do anything because they have the numbers. I don't know if he's trying to work on back-ups in case his remaining Stealth members turn on him or what.

I loved what Cochran had to say about the other tribe: "They're like the Bold and the Beautiful over there." That's pretty much exactly what the other tribe thinks of themselves.

Immunity Challenge
This is a repeat of a challenge from a previous season. They have to roll big, huge crates that have a design on the side. They need to get them stacked to say Fans Vs Favorites.

Eddie and Erik totally kicked Phillip and Julia's butt rolling that first big crate. Malcolm and Andrea also were very strong. Reynold and Brenda out for #3 and about ready to lap Bikal. Malcolm and Eddie on #6 pass up Bikal on #5. Phillip running out on his 3rd pass and he's doing 1 back to back, and he's feeling it. They are walking #5 back! Malcolm doing good calling the shot for moving the blocks. Bikal is doing a lot of arguing. Probst: "Bikal appears to be on some sort of medication they are moving so slowly." They are so lost, and completely messed up! Not even close! Probst: "That was pathetic."

Bikal Before Tribal
Phillip addresses the tribe. He thinks they did a good job. He said they gelled and worked well together. Um...no...not even close. Not only were they slow, but they couldn't agree on who should be calling the shots and those calling the shots were getting things wrong. Gonna have to work on that if they hope to win next time.

Corinne thinks Phillip's the most annoying person ever--worse than sitting next to a crying baby that has diarrhea on an airplane. Phillip chats with Michael and Matt. They decide a girl needs to go, and it looks like Julia's on the chopping block. Phillip says that Stealth-R-Us is still up and running. He won't say who is in it, but he said they have a chance to get in and he is going to test them. He tells them that someone will tell them to do something, and they are to do it unless he says different. He also says there is someone else as #2 as his back-up. Michael and Matt were funny...it was all they could do to not laugh at the whole conversation. But they're smart. They know they need to just play along with Phillip to make him happy. He tells them there are 6 members of Stealth-R-Us and if they execute the task they are given, they will be inducted as well.

Julia decides with Matt and Michael that they will write Dawn's name down. But in actuality the guys are voting for her. The guys tell Corinne they would vote for whoever she tells them to.Cochran is worried about Michael and Matt as a power couple. The tribe is back and forth between Julia and Matt.Corinne: "Julia doesn't contribute anything but a nasally voice."

Tribal Council
Corinne is worried about the hidden Immunity Idol. She openly says she'd be willing to take the 3 former Gota members and substitute them for people in her alliance. I can see Phillip not being really happy to hear that...just another reason to get her out when he has a chance.

The Vote
Julia-2
Dawn-1
Matt-4

OK, so I did not expect this outcome. Matt and Michael were the 2 votes for Julia. Was this the first test from Phillip? To either see if they would listen to him or maybe to see if they would turn on one of their own? Julia was obviously not involved with either alliance, as she was all on her own voting for Dawn. That should be a big wake up call for her.