The big episode opened up not with the usual images of waves crashing on rocks and sun shining over the sea. Instead, we had intensely creepy music setting the stage for buzzing flies and hungry vultures. Oh, so ominous. Surely this would harken the return to Casaya's previous near-homicidal state. For those of you who may not remember the pre-NCAA tourney days, there once was a great time when every time the cameras turned on at Casaya, all hell would break loose. Mostly it was because of Shane and his psycho ways, but he can't shoulder all the blame. There was Bobby and the wine. Bruce and the wine. Courtney and the, well, anything really. Point is, this was a crazy tribe that was ready to cannibalize itself -- both figuratively and I'd say literally. But once La Mina came over in the merge, they managed to unite against a common enemy (at least, from what we saw through the editing), and for the past few weeks, this tribe has somehow kept all its lunatic impulses on the back burner. I blame La Mina for not being able to pry out the rifts and psychosis, and I specifically blame Terry for being so smug that all these nutballs could spend their time focusing on him rather than their own screwed up tribe.

Well, that being said, we soon found Mr. Terry futzing with some ashes, trying to guestimate his next move. "I still have a huge target on my back," he told us. Yeah, well, whose fault was that? The best way to get rid of a target? Stop pissing everyone off with your cocky attitude.

And speaking of cocky, Shane sidled up to one of his allies and said, "We're still gonna be the first tribe to ever stick together all the way to the end." Ah yes, famous last words. We'll see how long your tribe stays together. It might be hard to keep that bond considering you're all CRAZY! By the way, I'm pretty sure that the Chuay Gahn tribe from Thailand was the first to stay together all the way, even though they too hated each other. Hmmm... maybe that's the key to success. In order to stay intact, tribes must have deep-seeded hatred and anger. That's sort of how we run things here at TVgasm. Oh I KID!

Anyway, Terry then babbled to us about his gameplan: he'd have to win the next three immunities to get to the final four, and then he'd be able to use the idol to get to the final three. One problem: the idol can't be used once the tribe gets down to four people. I so hope no one tells Terry that. If he gets kicked off because his idol's expired, that would be wonderful.