For those of you who can't remember last week's RIVETING episode, the Road Rulers failed a convoluted mission involving a helicopter, diamonds, and blindfolds. Jodie became the de facto scapegoat for the failure (based on no real evidence), but when it came time to vote off someone's pretty little face, the team opted for a "fair" strategy. They all put their names in a hat and whichever name was drawn the most would go.

This week, we returned to the scene of this emotional ceremony where the girls huddled together as if they were about to be devoured by a bear. Jodie was kind enough to bring a roll of toilet paper to the proceedings. I imagine it was for the tears, but maybe she had a bad case of the runs too. Nevertheless, the kids all picked names, and for a while, it looked like their stupid voting scheme was going to go down in flames since everyone had a vote except Patrick. But then plucky Kina pulled that final fateful name: her own. Oh the irony! Must... come... to grips... with vote... before... Kina montage... Eh, too late. While Kina sobbed melodramatically in the trailer, the producers obliged us with a Greatest Hits compilation of the Jersey Girl in all her snot-trail glory. And then just like that, a Chilean cab ferreted Kina away. Everything happened all so quickly. It was like she was an illegally doodled tree that had to be erased!

Of course crying abounded, even from Nick, who's known Kina for all of forty-seven minutes. I think he was just trying to connect emotionally with his teammates, but as far as I can tell, they still think he's a production assistant with the crew. The good news for him was that Kina's ouster meant a fresh face to join him in pariah land. This week's new victim: Angela.

As I've said many times before, I always brace before we meet the new people in fear of a retread of South Pacific's Tina - you know, grating, annoying, stupid, loud. Luckily Angela was fairly lowkey, but her chill "I go to White Lotus, not Miyagi's" attitude only thinly veils her inner-drama queen. After her first five minutes in the RV, everyone already knew her entire life story, including even a rape confession. Anyone who divulges this much info to strangers on national television without a hint of self-censoring usually has a mild penchant for attention, and lots of it.