Shit it's Wednesday, and another double episode!  I gotta bang through this because it was an important pair of episodes!

So Mike played his idol and Joe is mad because 1) it was freaking stupid to play it and 2) Joe didn't know about it.  

Chrissy announces Mike and Joe are dead men walking.

Mike declares he's here to WIN!!  Stay tuned!!!

Reward Challenge:  Use your disgustingly dirty feet to build a block tower and add a flag.  Wanna know?  Cheeseburgers and fries.  Hey remember back in the day when they actually pretended to give a shit about the local culture?  Yea, that world is so yesterday.  

Lauren wins.  She picks Ben, Devon and Ashley to join her.  Jeff asks Ryan if that bothers him and he says no because Devon is always hungry and Ashley hasn't won yet.  But he's 100% wrong because the real reason Lauren chose these 3 is her decision to split the 7 into the her final 4, leaving JP, Chrissy and Ryan out of the final alliance.  They eat cheeseburgers and share everything they know including that Ryan has an idol and Lauren has the special advantage. They decide it's all about business and they have to keep Joe and Mike around.  Poor Devon thinks Lauren is ALMOST as good at the strategy as he is!  

They're all happy and then they find letters from home under the burger buns.  

Back at the ranch, Mike and Joe decide it's time for them to bust things up.  They run around basically yelling HELLOOOOOOO, WE ARE 2 VOTES YOU CAN USE TO SPLIT UP YOUR ALLIANCE!!  They decide to call themselves the coco-nuts.  

Chrissy talks to Ryan and they once again agree Joe is next.  But then they agree that the first off of the 7 should be Ben and then Lauren.  Chrissy asks, will we really get to the final 7 and get to play together??

Ben goes out to read his letters from home and finds a clue and then an idol.  

IC:  Balance on a triangular platform in the water.  Or if you are feeling secure you can sit out the challenge and eat.  Devon, Lauren and Ben decide to eat.  Ryan is a bit annoyed by that.  Ashley wins immunity.

The 7 debate Joe or Mike and decide the boys vote Mike, the girls vote out Joe.  Devon is all gloating how Ryan and Chrissy are cluelessly blinded by power.  He's just so thrilled with himself!  

Lauren decides that NOW is the time to take control of the game.  They need to flush out Ryan's idol and split the 7.  Devon comes up with his big plan to blow things up with a blindside of JP/Ryan/Chrissy by having Ben continue to pretend that he's also out of the loop so they can get info from the remaining 2.  

Lauren approaches Joe and Mike and says they want to work with them.  FINALLY!!!!  Mike says he's not the court jester, he's actually freaking MERLIN and he's going to take everybody out one by one.  

Tribal

Mike says his ridiculous play last week was to reinvent the game.  He says although he's saying the same bullshit Joe is, that now that a DOCTOR is saying it people will believe him.  

Everyone is laughing it up at the coco-nuts.

Ryan says that the 7 are still totally strong! He says something about a shared vision among the 7

Joe says it's possible that he and Mike's vision might line up with someone in that 7 that wants to split it up

Lauren says not only is this not the calm before the storm, that it is the PERFECT storm

Poor clueless Chrissy says something about how do we manage our individual way to the end?

Lauren says that in fact they aren't all sitting around thinking they are a happy 7

Ashley says they're not all playing as poorly as Joe thinks they are.

Ryan is asked by Jeff how you know when something is happening and he says "it's happening when you don't think it's happening"

Ben says for about the 5th time at Tribal, you need to trust 2-3 people to get you to the final.

Chrissy says she's like to trust the people in my closest alliance.

Vote:  Mike 3, Joe 1 and JP is voted off breaking the 7 alliance.  

Back at camp Chrissy asks if someone would like to tell her what happened?  Devon just keeps strutting around with his dumb grin on his face.  Joe is an asshole to her saying "we aren't going to tell you but like you always said to us, you should just be glad to be here still and not bitter".  Chrissy says she is most mad about how they were treated after the vote.  

Ryan tries to be gracious but is pissed.  

Ben is still acting but says Joe is walking around like the whole thing was his idea.  Lauren is gloating about reversing the roles so Ryan and Chrissy are at the bottom.  Ben promises to get Ryan to play his idol.  

Ryan talks to Devon who tells him he was left out of it because he lied to him about not telling anyone about his idol.  "I trust Ashley and Lauren but you scared me".  

Reward Challenge:  Swim to a boat, paddle in collecting logs, use them to push puzzle pieces, do the puzzle.  In 2 teams.  Ben, Ashley, Joe and Devon win a spa day.  

Joe: "I finally have a true alliance".  At the reward Ben is still acting all hurt at being on the outs, while Joe is eating it up and rubbing his face in it.  Joe says Ben is now at the bottom and doesn't know how to play the game.  

Ashley sees what a great actor Ben is and she's a bit scared of how good he is.  Devon and Ashley keep congratulating themselves on their big moves!!  

At camp, Ryan is upset that his game is so bad he couldn't even win a veggie wrap.  He decides to talk to Mike to see if he can split him back off.  Mike is all proud of his new position and rightly points out that Ryan never wanted to work with him when the tables were turned.  Mike says, "I'm good now, unfortunately for you..." 

Chrissy tries to talk to Lauren and gets nothing there either.  "You never wanted to work with me before..."

It's a rainy day and Chrissy is all depressed and miserable.  

Immunity Challenge and it's not a balance one!  The have a cart, and a key and some puzzle pieces with a 12 letter word and....CHRISSY WINS IMMUNITY.

Ben asks, then who is it going to be knowing Ryan has an idol?  They decide Joe but have to pitch it to Joe and Mike as Devon, Mike and Joe will vote for Ryan while Lauren,  and Ashley vote for Ben with her extra vote.  I still don't think this makes sense but Joe and Mike stand there taking a sand bath saying okey dokey.

Chrissy and Ryan talk to Ben and inform him that they want Ashley or Lauren to go.  Ben tells Ryan if he had an idol, he's play it tonight.  

Lauren and Ashley talk about how crazy it would be to take Ben to the final.  Ashley tells Devon that she's considering an alternative and maybe they should take Ben out.  Devon is all WHAAAAAT? He can't figure out if that's a good idea or a bad idea so he has to think about it.  

Tribal

Mike is totally loving this new game because he's playing with the cool kids and "my tribe vibes me"

Chrissy is excited to have immunity

Joe is all excited too because he is now part of a VERY STRONG alliance of 5

Ben is still acting and says "oh, I'm  prolly going home"

Joe says again it was NEVER a real alliance of 7 and he takes a lot of joy out of seeing those 3 on the bottom

Ben says, the coconuts are still on the bottom

Mike says not true, we all share everything and we know everything that is going on

Ryan points out this is the same thing he was saying when Joe was calling bullshit

Mike says, yea but out 5 is better than your 7 ever was

Devon says there's a new plan every tribal.

Ashley says it's more insane than you think when watching from home

Chrissy says there is always hope and you just have to keep looking for the cracks.

Joe says he's totally comfortable this vote!  He trusts the 5!!!

Ben says that's what every comfortable alliance member thinks.

Vote, and Ryan plays his idol

Ryan 2, Ashley 3 and Joe goes home finally!!