Survivor Gabon - Just because I'm paranoid... doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

While Ace says Crystal is the next lamb to the slaughter, Ken sweet talks Sugar telling her Ace was ready, with his buddy Matty, to vote Sugar out. Ace knew he was a target from Crystal and Ken so asked Sugar outright this time for the hidden immunity idol. Sugar thinks Ace may indeed be about to vote her out so she doesn't hand it over so easily this time. Crystal seeing Matty and Ace talking in the canoe knows her name is being brought up. Dan on Kota is worried that he's not fitting in, and Susie takes the opportunity to tell Corrine who's planning on voting Susie out, that she was going to vote Corrine out.

After the recap we see the Fang tribe rationing the rice, measuring it and while Matty is worried about how much there is Crystal spills the rice. Sugar won't eat because she doesn't want to take it away from the others. Ken sees Matty and Ace going against Crystal. Ace says she'll be the next lamb to the slaughter. Y'know if he thought more in terms of getting the OTHER tribe out rather than who on his own tribe is going next it might be more productive while they are still on teams.

Kota tribe shows Dan feeling out of the group. Corrine notices and seems to feel for him but Marcus realizes Dan's paranoia is going to be a liability.

Challenge
Play keep away. Toss a breakable ball between members of one tribe while a member of the other tribe tries to break it. Reward is a helicopter ride and a nice afternoon picnic...and send a member of the losing tribe to exile. Corrine and Charly sit out. Randy is attacker for Kota Ace is attacker for Fang. Two tribe members of the opposite team toss the ball, Kota leads one zip, Bob and Sugar are the attackers. Jeff - Sugar "doing nothing, absolutely nothing." Kota scores again 2-0 game goes to 3
Matty attacker for Fang, Sugar drops the ball instead of catching it and Kota wins reward.
Sugar is sent again to exile for the 5th time. Matty gives a testimonial saying Sugar is a pin up model and useless and he would like to see her gone. He says it's madness, total madness. It's really amazing the way Fang always loses reward and Sugar always gets to go to exile and eat. That being the case it's not amazing that Fang then tends to lose the immunity challenges after that. The ONLY reason for Ace to not send her packing is because she hasn't given him the hidden immunity idol to keep while they are at tribal council. If she uses it tonight, and loses it by using it she's toast. What I don't quite understand is why that tribe has not yet made her use it or lose it and go home.

The helicopter ride is beautiful. Bob talks about the view of the crater. Susie too gets a testimonial and of course she was saying how fantastic it was.

Fang tribe, Matty says he's embarrassed, humiliated. He is going on about Sugar, says he hates her and he's getting pissed. Ace and Crystal watch silently. Matty goes in the canoe with Ace and tries to tell him to take Sugar out. Ace resists, Matty seems to fold and asks then what's next, and Ace says Crystal. Ken and Crystal at camp know that Ace is trying to oust her.

Kota tribe gets their picnic as well as letters from home. It's very emotional. Bob cries a lot while he's reading his off away from the group. The others do sit around reading and crying.

Exile shows Sugar in her hammock in the Sugar Shack. She says she doesn't know what's happening in this game. She's sticking with Ace she says in her testimonial. She realizes that may be stupid and she hopes he's not screwing her around.

Challenge
Good news and bad news. Both going to tribal council, but the good news is it's an equal shot at winning individual immunity idol. It's a log roll. Last person left standing wins immunity. In addition there's a twist that will be revealed after.
First two match up, Dan and Ace. Ace wins that one. Charlie vs Crystal. Crystal goes down Charly moves on to next round. Marcus vs Matty. Marcus wins
Randy vs Susie, Randy wins. Ken vs Sugar, Sugar wins. Bob vs Corrine, He says he won log roll in college. a long time ago. He stands very still, and he does get Corrine out, Bob moves on.
Charly vs Ace. Charly hits the water first by a fraction of a second. Randy and Marcus, Marcus wins. Sugar vs Bob, Bob in the water first, Sugar moving on. But only by a fraction of a second again.
Final round, all three on the log. Ace, in the middle, Sugar and Marcus. Sugar down, Marcus and Ace fighting for immunity. Ace loses and Marcus wins individual immunity. He gets a paper to read. It says you will now assign immunity to one member of the other tribe. He gives it to Sugar. He doesn't realize she has two I guess. Marcus thinks/hopes she will keep it for herself and Ace or Matty will get voted out.

Fang tribe is shown returning. Ken is saying he will do everything in his power to get Sugar to vote with him and Crystal. He meets with her and explains to Sugar how Matty wanted Sugar out. She doesn't know who to trust, knows he could be lying. He tells her things that are not true as far as I know but tries to get her to agree to vote out Ace. Ken tells Crystal he's convinced her. Crystal doesn't know whether she'll do it. Sugar talks to Ace who asks for the idol, to borrow. He says he needs to borrow it. She says why? She thinks this means Kenny is telling the truth. She tells Ace she'll think about it. Ace promises to give it back after the TC. She doesn't know what to do.

Tribal Council
Jeff - Sugar... tell me what's going on. She talks about the rice being low, Crystal knocking it over and not eating because she spilled it. Matty explains how valuable the rice is. He starts getting on her about it. Ace says Crystal made a mistake. He says her feeling like they blamed her is in her head. She gets defensive. They argue. Jeff - Sugar you have the perfect seat in this big drama. She says it's petty and this is why we haven't been winning, because they fight over petty things rather than work as a team. She keeps her individual idol for herself Crystal votes for Ace. Matty votes out Crystal and says he's been waiting for this day. No one plays the hidden immunity idol.
Votes - Ace, Crystal, Ace, Crystal, Ace is voted out! Matty looks confused, Crystal and Sugar and Ken all smile. I'm somewhat surprised. Matty shakes his head. Ace was blindsided. Sugar is smug. I don't know if Sugar didn't give him the idol or he was arrogant enough not to use it. I guess Crystal wasn't his "next lamb to slaughter!"

Coming up, Jeff says Susie commits social suicide.
Tribal council for Kota.
Day 21, late in the afternoon. Dan asks Marcus if he's going tonight. He says not that he knows of. Dan is showing some serious paranoia.
Charly, Corrine, Randy and Marcus (minus Bob) talk. They talk about Susie being more vulnerable than Dan. Corrine tells Susie she's not voting her out, says she thinks it's Dan. Susie says she's figured people were talking and she admits to Corrine she was going to vote Corrine out. She's being upfront (and stupid). Corrie says in testimonial "I hate her." Corrine goes to Randy with this info, and he says "yes I told you she was nuts." He says in testimonial that Susie's game is no game. Her vote can be bought. He says he wants her to go home soon. Corrine explains the convo to Charly and Marcus. They discuss that it could go either way. They know Dan COULD have the hidden Immunity Idol so they decide to go with voting out Susie.
Jeff - Marcus are you now looking out for yourself. He says we have to surround ourselves with the most powerful. Jeff - Susie is it fair to say you are vulnerable... who's weaker than you. Susie says Corrine maybe. Corrine disagrees. The two women get a bit bitchy with each other. Dan just looks nervous. Jeff asks Randy where do you sit on a scale of 1-10 with "letting it out" as opposed to keeping it to yourself. He says 8. (letting it out) Jeff asks Dan same thing and he says he's a worry wart and that's not good. Charly says they have to be able to trust each other going into a merge. He asks Corrine if tonight's vote could be a mistake. She says yes but she thinks she's ok with her vote
Bob votes, Susie votes out Dan, Dan votes out Susie. Marcus votes out Susie, says it's about Dan, not you.
Tally
Susie, Dan, Dan, Susie, Dan, Susie, Dan is voted out. Dan in his suit and tie leaves. Susie does not look comfortable with her win.

On the Fang tribe, Matty is left confused and maybe a bit out in the cold if Sugar, Ken and Crystal are making an alliance. I would have said they may want the strength he offers but at this point it's about time to start voting out the stronger ones, or it would be if they had more numbers going into the merge. It's hard to know but I think Fang is still more vulnerable without the power of Ace although they weren't winning anyway so maybe his strength was less of an asset than his arrogance was a detriment. Kota tribe seems to be playing a good strategy and winning food to keep their position of strength and power. The rest of this season ought to be very interesting.