after tribal foafoa knows they are in trouble if they can’t divide and conquer the glau tribe at a merge. russell is confident about his numbers even though he i sbehind in numbers. laura notices the tension in the tribe and doesn’t get along with shambo and loses her canteen while she’s gone which leads to more arguing. shambo wants laura gone now and the guys say it makes laura look insane. treemail is confusing but indicates food jaison is worried about the abillity to win challenges. russell takes his idol with him to a possible challenge. jeff is not at the beach where they meet but there is a note meaning the merge (first time they merged with 12 people) it is relief to mick that there is a merge and a big feast which monica says is delicious shambo is on top of the world. foafoa work on trying to bring people on their side russell shows a few people the idol which is going to be a mistake. natalie loves the new camp. the new tribe name is aiga. erik is arroagent at this point saying he is way ahead of everyone the only thing he is ahead with is his idol. laura is told first about the idol and russell tries to make a deal but lauras response makes him succsipicious and tries to control it. russell than changes his mind to target laura next and talks to monica about it which doesn’t work he than works on john who is more considering it than anyone else but still considers it. russell then talks to shambo about the plan to take out laura and she wants to go along with it and trusts him. the immunity challenge is t-ball but there is immunity for the highest scoring man and woman. dave goes first after a weird conversation scores 3, jaison is off the course, russell scores 4 to take the lead, brett is off the course, mick scores 2, erik aims for the 10 but gets off the course, john scores 5 to win immunity. for the woman natalie is off the course, monica scores 2, kelly scores 3 to take the lead, shambo scores nothing, laura scores 4 to win immunity. shambo is disappointed that laura won immunity. russell is worried that he will be the target he wants to get rid of monica but shambo doesn’t think its a possibility and erik and laura are in charge of who goes. laura tells erik about the idol and the plan is to say russell but vote jaison. john and erik want to switch to monica instead of sticking to the plan. erik tells the tribe to vote monica and they don’t tell shambo but they will vote monica which has succspicions from dave and has him nervous. erik’s attitude annoys foafoa and they decide to blindside erik instead. natalie works on the girls to vote out erik. kelly and laura are considering it. they start to grab numbers against erik shambo is confused about it when told by dave somehow erik doesn’t know and russell is still succspicious. erik is uncomfortable though. jaison is concerned about the situation with the merge. monica says you don’t know who to trust completly. erik says that foafoa has nothing to offer he would be stunned if anyone flipped and says its not overconfidence. russell says his tribe has a lot to offer galu. erik explains what’s happened but is still not worried saying that jaison hasn’t used his potentional and gets into an argument with jaison about it. russell says they still have hope erik respects it. russell won’t go quietly. in the end russell wastes his idol by playing it when he got no votes. but someone should have played an idol that person being erik who is blindsided 10-2 over jaison (shambo voted with erik) and joins the voted out with an idol in his possesion club and becomes the first jury member.
next time everyone on galu think they can get russell out but will he find another idol plus will shambo get laura out.