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Remember last week when Zhan Hu was naive and poor Aaron was booted out?  Good times.  Seriously, who throws competitions on purpose?  STUPID.  And they couldn’t even keep that under wraps.  Zhan Hu is ripe for extermination here.

We wake up at Zhan Hu to James getting busy and looking rather down in the mouth.  And you know, I would too if I were him.  I’d hate to be in a tribe full of a bunch of weenies.  He’s trying to keep busy and win the challenges because if they lose again, he’s gone.  Weenies!

Over at Fei Long, Jean-Robert is sawing logs, literally, while Amanda and Todd discuss the hidden immunity idol.  This idol is news to her, but she’s all on board for helping him find it.  His plan is to win reward and bring over Aaron or James (whoever survived) and have him give them the clue so they can find it.  And you know what?  It goes pretty much to plan.  Fei Long stomps Zhan Hu at the reward challenge, where teams had to find pieces of a puzzle.  Reward is a trip to a tea house, access to a shower and toilets and plenty of Charmin.  During the challenge, PG tries to get a message to Sherea that Zhan Hu is still allied with her and Frosti.  Sherea doesn’t say much in return, however. The competition is neck and neck but as I said, Fei Long wins,  mostly because they can actually finish a puzzle whereas Zhan Hu can’t.  And James is summarily kidnapped.

Apparently, the tea house is more than just “some refreshment” as Jeff promised.  Fei Long is just over the moon about the place.  They eat up over tea and laugh and have a great time.  Then they all settle down into their bathtubs and get clean (Amanda and Courtney share a tub).  Jean-Robert predictably makes a crude comment about it.  He gives Courtney the heebie jeebies.  James, meanwhile, shows off his heiney taking a shower and everyone cheers him on.  In stark contrast, the three remaining Zhan Hu members are sitting in their camp looking depressed.  Erik is tired of losing.  Maybe, just MAYBE, stop throwing challenges.  Might help with that a little.   They insist they threw the challenge to save Sherea and Frosti and now they’re not sure if that was a good move because Frosti and Sherea don’t appear to want to have anything to do with their former tribe.  And, can you blame them?  Todd approaches James about the hidden immunity clue, promising to save him.  James is very relieved to learn about this hidden immunity idol and he hopes it will save him, as Todd promises.

Back at camp, he shares the clue with Todd.  Todd knows exactly where it is then.  Amanda and Todd then Frosti joins in to help without really knowing what they’re after.  So they have to share the info with him.  And they have to trust him.  He promises them they can trust him.  Todd handed the idol to James.  The plan was for Zhan Hu to lose the challenge, they vote for James and he uses the idol so Jaime goes bye bye and her and Erik’s “bond” is severed.  Plus, he can grab the other idol at the other camp.  Todd shares the plan with Denise and Courtney, to encourage them to try as hard as they can at the challenge.

And what is the challenge?  It was bound to happen sooner or later.  It’s an eating challenge.  And not a happy eating challenge.  Traditional Chinese dishes.  Not General’s Chicken or Mu Shu Pork, either.  And no fried rice.  No, we’re talking about bird fetuses and chicken hearts and whatnot.  I’m not going to go into the details because I pretty much watched through my fingers.  I am pregnant here and my stomach isn’t as strong as it usually is.  The important thing to know is that Zhan Hu didn’t want to throw it, and try as he might, James couldn’t get it done for them either.  So Zhan Hu won the challenge and immunity.  Oops!

Denise feels awful for dropping the ball on the chicken fetus.  They are all pretty shocked and upset at going to tribal council.  And to them, the decision is a pretty easy one to make.  As much as they dislike Jean-Robert, he’s definitely loyal to them.  They don’t want to boot Frosti, after the whole immunity idol thing, so Sherea it is.  Courtney really wants JR to go but the rest of them aren’t feeling it.  I rather wish they’d keep Sherea and get rid of Jean-Robert, but I can understand their thought process here too.

Tribal council goes fairly predictably.  Courtney and Sherea vote for Jean-Robert while everyone else votes for Sherea and she is sent packing.  Boo!