Zapato return to camp. Ralph reminds us that they threw the challenge to get rid of Li'l Russell, who heads off with his allies and leaves the other alliance alone to plot his doom. Mike says they'll split their votes in case Li'l Russell has the idol: three for Li'l Russell and three for Stephanie. Meanwhile. Li'l Russell sits in the tide pool lagoon thing and rants about how stupid it is to throw a challenge this early in the game. Krista and Stephanie nod and agree with him. Li'l Russell interviews that it's a bad idea to intentionally give Rob's tribe any kind of momentum, as they could very well go on a winning streak and then Zapato will be seriously down in numbers when the tribes merge. Um, didn't Li'l Russell go into the merge the first time he played with only like four people to the other tribe's eight? And he didn't seem particularly worried about it then, because he knew that a strong tribe of four could be better off than a fractured tribe of eight. Even if Zapato loses every immunity challenge between now and the merge, they're still better off than they would have been going into the merge with Li'l Russell on their tribe waiting to screw them over.