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Later, Jaime and Peih-Gee whisper covertly out in the woods. Peih-Gee brings up the point that Frosti and Sherea might not be 100 percent safe over on the other tribe, so perhaps throwing this challenge and getting rid of James or Aaron would be the most prudent course of action to ensure their long term success. The commercials are meant to leave us in suspense, but I'm too busy getting excited about Viva Laughlin to care. HAHA, no I'm not.

Immunity Challenge! Today, the newly mixed tribes will send two people out into the water who will dive down and release twelve puzzle pieces. The pieces will float to the surface, and they'll use a boat to drag them back to shore where the waiting members will use them to solve a puzzle featuring characters of the Chinese zodiac. JR and Frosti are diving for Fei Long, and Aaron and Erik are diving for Zhan Hu. Zhan Hu gets a small lead during the puzzle portion as Jaime and Peih-Gee discuss ways to share the puzzle-solving load with James that will cause him not to be involved. Jaime chooses this point to tell the people diving to take a break if they're tired. She has Capri Suns back on shore if you want to come back for a drink!

Zhan Hu gets back to shore first (mostly due to Aaron dragging the boat back IN HIS TEETH) and Zhan Hu gets to work on their puzzles. Jaime gets off a sly move when she ditches one of the pieces in the shrubbery behind the puzzle board without James noticing.

Now, here's where things get sort of ugly. Peih-Gee and Jaime proceed to throw the challenge obviously. Like, really obviously. Several members of the WWE watching from their television sets at home are like "Man, that shit is fake." Oddly, the only people who don't pick up on this are Aaron and James, who grows increasingly frustrated with the performance of the women. Jeff, catching the snap, is like "So, Peih-Gee, I thought you said you were good at puzzles?" At this, Peih-Gee fully stops participating in the challenge to tell Jeff that she meant that she was good at Sudoku. James, in the line of the evening: "Girl, fuck Sudoku! Pay attention." Me, from home: "Thanks for the recap title, James!"

As a result, Fei Long wins and Zhan Hu will be making the trip to tribal council. Jeff, after the fact, calls out Jaimes puzzle piece throwing all indignantly, in what I consider to be a pretty douche move on his part. You'll notice that Jeff tends to insert himself rather drastically into the game when matters of "integrity" like this are involved. Shut up, Jeff.

So, I should state here that I am fully in favor of this move from a strategic standpoint. While there's not a 100 percent chance that Sherea and Frosti will stay loyal to the old Zhan Hu members at the merge, there is a 100 percent chance (given what they know about Aaron) that he is viewed as the leader by the other team and would flip back to them in a heartbeat. Statistically, throwing the challenge makes sense. What I am not in favor of, however, is the manner in which this is done. If you'll recall the Cook Islands season, Yul stated during the reunion that he pretty much threw every individual challenge. However, no one noticed because he did it in such a way as to stay just behind, appearing to compete and being prepared to win in case they needed him to for strategic purposes. This is the way to throw something successfully if you want the victim not to realize it: don't tell anyone what you're doing until well after it's done, appear to make an effort, pretend that the victory is genuine. Jaime and Peih-Gee do none of these things.

Back at Zhan Hu's camp, Aaron, James and Erik really, really haven't figured out what just happened. Is there some sort of cursed ancient Chinese artifact buried somewhere around camp at Zhan Hu that makes people dumber the closer they get to it, like some sort of retarded Monkey's Paw or something? Because that's the only answer to this stupidity. James is particularly indignant, effectively telling the girls to decide amongst themselves which one of them will be going home. This is where I started disliking him, this whole thinking that Survivor is some sort of meritocracy thing. Somebody's been spending too much time around Probst.

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