Kimmi refuses to eat hers -- a delectable pile of cow brains. She goes to the back of her group and cries.

It looks like she's going to cost her tribe the game until Tina, the older woman on the other team, barfs up some cow stomach. Kimmi smiles in the background.

There's a sudden-death slurp-off -- Kimmi vs. Tina. It's a big, foot-long worm whose phylum falls inside Kimmi's dietary code.

She gets it down before Tina, and suddenly she's a hero.

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Ogakor has to vote someone out of the outback.

Who's gonna get offed? Keith, the crummy chef? "He's bossy and condescending and close to going," says beanpole Mitchell.

Kel says he's going to vote for Jerri. He says he has a pact with Maralyn and Tina, dating from the first day.

Maralyn, he says, he can trust.

Jerri, again from her puddle of evil, says Kel's a liar and a cheat.

Up at the tribal council, Probst takes a shot at Keith: You got fire and a professional chef, he asks the group. Why the heck aren't you eating well? Keith tries to compliment Jerri's tortillas; she smiles condescendingly.

Probst doesn't ask the group about its mob-action root through Kel's knapsack.

Tina says she's willing to take the fall because she blew the disgusto-smorgasbord challenge. It's plain she studied the treacherous first season; she says she should be "voted off the island."

As the group marches up to cast its ballots, we see Maralyn vote for ... Kel.

Seems she's not so trustworthy.

The Mad Dog gets off a slicing reference to Sue Hawk's final speech on the first "Survivor":

"Kel, if you were lying in the desert dying of thirst, every single one of us would give you a drink of water. Good luck to you."

But on the first season, Kelly really did betray Sue. Here, the outback lynch mob couldn't even produce a beef-jerky wrapper as evidence. They're being manipulated, big time.

We can see what's happening. Kel votes for Jerri. Everyone else gangs up on him.

Bye, Kel!

-- Bill Wyman

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