Last year, we figured out that "Survivor" is a game, and needed to be played as such.

This year, we learned to not run out of food.

Oh, yes, and to not build a camp in a dry riverbed.

Nor to leave our last bits of rice in a place where they could get washed away.

By, say, an unexpected flash flood.

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We wonder if Probst is going to stroll across the water with some loaves of bread and a few baskets of fish.

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After last week's debauching of listless Nick, it looks like Rodger and Elisabeth, the final representatives of the luckless Kucha tribe, are next.

But evil Heather Queen Jerri still haunts the camp like a wraith. Amber, her unquestioning henchwoman, is a reminder of crimes of the past.

In real life, Amber is an administrative assistant from Beaver, Pa. She's trying to lie low, but some people can see what she's up to.

"You can't get by flying below the radar," says nurse Tina.

Amber tries to put as good a face as she can on it.

"I just keep hoping the next three days to come I'm still here."

Elisabeth seems to like Amber, though: "They don't see she's a sweet person," she says, talking about the Colby-Tina-Keith alliance.

But she's pessimistic in her hunger-induced lassitude.

"The people who are in control are going to push your eject button one time or another, and you just hope it's not you the next time," says Elisabeth.

What does sturdy Colby think? He's a meat-and-potatoes type of guy. To him, Ogakor is still a team, and he just can't wait to see the last of the Kuchas ground down into the dirt of the outback.

"Rodger and Elisabeth both know that we've brought them along this entire time with the intent to eliminate them before we eliminate ourselves," he says unapologetically. "And they're both aware they need to win immunity to stick around."

Texas is a hell of a state, and there's a lot to be said for the Texas vision of manhood Colby so studly-ariffically embodies.

But they were also the same guys who reduced a full, bursting continent of buffaloes, in a bloodbath of annihilation, nearly to extinction in just a few decades.

And, uh, the continent's Native American population as well, via a quite similar process.

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