Episode Seven - 2 Become 1

[John]

I met Joe and Billy last night, and I reconnected with T.J. and Rich.  No meaningful conversations there.  This round is likely to be a mess.  I think Kurtis and I have squashed our beef for the most part.  Kurtis is now mostly upset because he feels that the fallout has taken him from the top of the alliance to the bottom.  No shit.  Not that anything in life is ever supposed to be fair, but it seems that way considering he had the opportunity to weasel in with the Aguila tribe, he's holding onto immunity still for this round, and he always left me feeling at the bottom of our alliances.  Zavi used his express pass this morning, and then came to talk to me about establishing majority on this merge tribe.  That's all fine and dandy, except now he can't count as a number in the majority this round.  Everyone seems to be so interested in self-preservation right now.  It doesn't bode well for the coming rounds.

[John]

I feel like such a follower right now. I haven't done a bit of strategizing here. Jacob tells me that we've got the numbers to all vote for Cody, so I'm on board to vote for Cody. Jacob told me that Joe would give money to Sassy to bid on an idol or he would bid on the idol himself so that even with Cody's vote control he'd be out of the game. Fine by me. Now tonight Jacob's telling me that Joe doesn't want to do that anymore and Joe would rather vote for me or Bryan, seeing Jacob, Bryan, Sassy, and me as a tight group of four but not being willing to let go of his friends Jacob and Sassy. Kurtis was pushing Jacob to do this too. Apparently I'm too sensitive and Kurtis doesn't want to play with sensitive people. Pot, meet kettle.