The challenge begins. Julie is on the wheel with the other two women in Li'l Russell's alliance, so while they aim their water at the tube, she gets called out by Probst for missing it. Probst then focuses his rage on Steve for looking weak as one of the wheel-spinners, as Probst clearly was given a heads-up that there would be shenanigans in this challenge. Onomatopoeia's ball is released first, and even though Phillip is one of the people in control of the wheel, he does not manage to drown anyone. Almost, though. Kristina came awfully close there.
While Rob works furiously on the puzzle, Krista and Stephanie manage to get Zapato's ball released. Now it's up to David to suck out. Sure enough, while Rob slides puzzle pieces around, David just stares at the puzzle. Rob solves his puzzle and maneuvers the ball through the channel and into the net to win it for his tribe, who are so happy to finally win that no one has the heart to tell them they probably only won because the other tribe hates Li'l Russell that much. Anyway, I might be happier than Onomatopoeia are, as surely this means Li'l Russell will be voted out and off my TV screen until the finale -- oh, wait. That's right: we have Redemption Island this season. So I guess Li'l Russell will never be too far away. Probst gives the idol to Onomatopoeia and asks Rob how it feels to finally win. "Overdue," he says. Lame. Probst should've asked Phillip. I have no idea what his answer would have been, but I know it would have been awesome. During the slow-mo Walk of Shame, Li'l Russell says he'd think his tribe lost that challenge on purpose, if he "didn't know any better." Except he does know better, since I'm sure the producers tell him stuff like this. "I'm dealing with a buncha bitches," he concludes. No, no, Li'l Russell -- we call those people HEROES.
Onomatopoeia returns to camp and get right to setting up their tarp over the shelter. Rob interviews that he couldn't bask in the glow of victory for too long, as he was sure there was a clue to the hidden immunity idol somewhere in the reward and he wanted to find it before anyone else did. And, he says, other people are looking. Like Kristina, who looks for her clues by squatting next to a tree in an unflattering manner. And some blonde girl, who looks for her clues by sniffing the inside of what appears to be a water jug. Yeah, I don't think Rob should be incredibly worried here. Rob says he used to think he could just ignore the idol, but that didn't work out very well last time. So this time, he's going to get the clue and thus, the idol. He searches everything that came with the reward, but finds nothing ... until he spots Phillip's "fat ass" lounging in the new chair like any good Former Federal Agent? will and tells him to get up because the chair is lopsided and Rob is afraid it's going to break. No, no, Rob; only Shambo breaks reward items. Rob checks out the chair, only to see the immunity idol clue sewn into the fabric "right underneath [Phillip's] ass." While Phillip snoozes in the other chair, Rob mutters something about taking the "broken" chair to their toolbox for repairs, walks off with the chair, and grabs the clue. He mutters to the camera that Phillip's fatness caused the chair to bend, thus getting Rob's attention and, ultimately, getting him a clue to the idol. But Rob's happiness is short-lived, as he reads the clue and finds it incredibly vague, even more than Zapato's was. He doubts it'll help him find the idol, but says at least he knows no one else will be able to find it using that clue, either.













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