We're not really sure what the big guy has in mind. Then he comes around.

"Jerri doesn't deserve to win this thing simply for the way she's treated the people around her."

Go Big Red!

"I didn't like the fact that I had to lie, but because it was to Jerri, I didn't lose any sleep over it."

Is sleep a rare commodity out there? Are people staying up late playing spin the stick and toasting earwax on the fire?

Finally, in the last quarter of the show, we get a clue to where the rest of the show is inevitably headed.

Jerri says that Alicia is a threat because she's so strong.

"The men are sweating it right now over Alicia," says Jerri, who knows another alpha female when she sees one.

The immunity challenge is a large, three-dimensional version of a simple paper logic game, the kind that kids used to play in the back seat of a car sometime after tick-tack-toe and before GameBoy.

There are dozens of upright logs in a grid pattern. Each turn, a player gets to put a rope between two logs. When a player boxes off a square, he or she claims that square and also gets to place another rope. The person who claims the most squares wins.

It's a nice, fair challenge that doesn't give stronger players a physical advantage. But while it does involve some thinking, there's a lot of chance involved; with so many people playing it's difficult to strategize. Sooner or later someone gets to clean up.

Jerri takes an early lead with six squares.

God help us.

Keith comes in and mops up with 17 squares.

Amber gets 10.

Tina completes 16 squares.

Keith wins the immunity necklace again.

Jeff Probst reminds the players to come to tribal council that night, and then says, "Someone's going home tonight."

But no one is going home; all of the players kicked off from here on out have to stay around in the Jury of the Damned until the last day, which he'll point out later.

Someone's been in the pituri.

Back at camp, it starts to rain. We're reminded that it often rains before tribal council. This is held up, by Keith of all people, as some sort of evidence of "stronger powers."

If we wanted empty religious sloganeering we'd watch professional sports.

Alicia, not consumed by the rain from our dear Lord's glorious heavens, says that Elisabeth has convinced the remaining Kuchas to vote for Jerri with the hope that at least one of the former Ogakors will take a shot at evil Heather matriarch Jerri. At the same time, Alicia says that she thinks Elisabeth is being "naive."

"Colby, Keith and Tina would be foolish to vote Jerri off," she says.

At the tribal council set -- which looks like Stonehenge, which we think doesn't have much to do with Australia -- Dingo Jeff Probst is dripping from the rain. We notice, though, that his shirt is still half-dry, so he's clearly doing costume changes for the session. Still, he looks good and rugged.

He asks several questions that are all -- again -- just more smoke clouding the inevitable.

Alicia gets four votes.

Jerri gets four votes.

And Alicia gets the final vote.

The voting lines don't change. The Ogakors are on their way to a sweep to the final five.

Jerri smiles. The red herrings sleep well tonight.

-- Jeff Stark

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