Previously on Like A Loss To A Flame: Steph and Bobby Jon were a desperate little Ulong tribe of two. When they were out-eaten at a duckling-off, they lost out on a cleanliness reward that Koror took home. Tom pressed for water conservation, much to the annoyance of Anonymous Jen, who wanted a shower, the better to canoodle with Studly Gregg, the Non-Romantic Yutz Who Is Getting Action Anyway. Yet another puzzle challenge left Steph and Bobby Jon baffled, and Koror took the immunity monkey again. Doomed to a deadlocked vote, Steph and Bobby Jon played a fire-building challenge for survival, and when Steph came up with the incredibly tricky strategy of blowing on the fire, she took home the victory and Bobby Jon was rather heartbreakingly sent home. Stephenie headed back to camp and wondered exactly what it would be like to be on her own at the Camp of Great Suffering. Nine people are left. What in the hell can happen to Stephenie now?

Moon. Ulong, Night 21. A lone crab wanders out of frame at the request of the producers, who want as much of a sense of isolation as possible to greet Steph upon her return. And here she comes, with her paddle and her stuff. She tells us that being the last surviving member of her tribe is "exciting," but also "scary." She is alone, and her first thought is to check on the fire she and Bobby Jon left behind. She finds that it is still glowing, so she goes in search of the palm branches she knows are lying around. She trips in the dark. A rat munches on something nearby. Let's see, if that's pestilence, and the end of Bobby Jon was death, and the whole theme has been the military, and she's already done famine...she's completed the circuit! Hooray! Steph gathers up some fronds and starts to tear them up as she voices over that everything she knows about starting and tending fires, she learned from Bobby Jon. Which makes her victory over him a little ironic, and she doesn't even successfully identify it as such, meaning that once again, the word "irony" has suffered a blow, percentage-wise. Steph further explains that she's not sure it's a good idea for her to even fall asleep, because she's afraid of losing the fire, which scares her. She settles in under what looks like some kind of a thin blanket as she reiterates that it's scary being on her own in camp. "I'll never give up," she says as she stares from her makeshift bed up at the sky.