The mystery, then, is whether Can-Do can figure out that Lindsey has four votes against her, and if Can-Won't can keep them from figuring it out.
Remember when people said that this reality stuff was going to reinvent television? It's this kind of plot that makes you hanker for a good ol' episode of something like CBS's "CSI."
You know, they have ass shots of dead hookers on "CSI" now.
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We switch back over to the Boran tribe with a lame concept of country music. There's a violin sound and maybe keyboard-created banjo sound too.
This music means that we're back to the chicken part of tonight's show.
Last week, remember, Boran won three chickens and a rooster in a reward challenge. Clarence wants to eat chicken for dinner, but the others think that maybe they should wait to see if the hens start laying eggs.
If you've seen the previous "Survivor" shows, you know this is a recurring debate -- one that usually ends with a pile of chicken bones and some unheard protests from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"I will not deny that I am having homicidal feelings about these damn chickens," says Clarence.
Somewhere in the Midwest, a self-righteous 16-year-old girl writes the first line of a petition that will be distributed at the next local PETA meeting:
"Dear CBS Executive,
We, the undersigned, are furious, dismayed and incensed that your show promotes cruelty toward delicious animals."
The tribe decides to wait and see what happens at the reward challenge; they'll figure out what to do with the chickens later.
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Notice of the reward challenge comes, and the hint suggests that it might be something cerebral. The Boran take the opportunity to bone up on their "Survivor" manuals.
We don't see what the Samburu do, but it probably has something to do with taking a nap.
It turns out that the challenge is in fact a trivia contest. The reward is a bucket of highly caffeinated soft drinks from one of the show's sponsors and a big lunch spread. The survivors lick their lips.
The questions are rejects from the $100 round of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
Both teams know that the Atlantic is not the ocean nearest Kenya. Both teams know anyone poaching elephants will be shot.
In fact, both teams know pretty much everything that the other team knows, except that the Samburu know that the leopard is one of the animals on the "Big Five" safari list and the Boran do not.
Samburu wins. Cruelly, the lunch spread, with pasta, sandwiches and cookies, is set out right in front of the other tribe. The Samburu race to the feeding trough, unable to contain their excitement. It's a big slap in the face to the Boran, who watch for a while, and then walk off malevolently.
Several gratuitous shots of the soft drink later, we see that one girl from Samburu walking back to camp. Turns out her name is Kim P. (The other Kim is an older, blond woman in the Boran tribe.)
You know, we've seen Kim P. and her bland good looks dozens of times on "Survivor," but like every "freelance marketing executive" we've ever met, we forget her name the second we hear it.
Anyway, what's-her-name drank too much soft drink or something back at the picnic. She now looks like she's going to puke.
It's amusing to watch. Even more amusingly, that bland woman's teammates also find it amusing that she's in such obvious pain.
"If you barf it out, just barf a little of it out and keep the rest," says a helpful Lindsey. Lindsey seems to have some familiarity with managing barfing.
Next page: Yet more chicken footage