Chris started the episode with a slightly different strategy than the last time he left tribal council. Before, he had tried to get the women to trust him by telling them that he voted for Sarge. After Chad was sent home, Chris tried a sort of scorched earth campaign, and decided he would shake things up as much as possible. He immediately began to talk about the plan to get rid of Eliza, and how Ami would be next. He implicated Scout and Twila as the masterminds behind plot, and although Chris believed that he would be causing a lot of dissent, Leann noticed that everything that Chris was saying was obviously for his own benefit.

Still, with the new information about a possible break from the original alliance, there had to be some damage control, an activity in which Ami has excelled all season. She had to do it the previous week when she heard people wanted to take out Eliza. Leann, who has been Ami's right hand all year long and has benefitted from having no pressure on her for her individual performances, started talking to Twila and described her as a "panic player". If you look at it from Leann's perspective, the description fits, as Twila has kind of run around and entertained ideas of all sorts of alliances, but sort of returns to the women at the end, seemingly in fear of the alternative. But if you look at it from Twila's perspective, she has been very pragmatic. I haven't given her enough credit for using her brains in the game, but I think she has sensed for awhile that she was going to have to change some things up.