Finally, the heavy door to S4 swings open, and Heidi walks in first, followed by Assorama. Ereka seems irrationally exuberant at the sight of Heidi (in fairness, I would likely consider any exuberance irrational), and then everyone's faces fall at the sight of Assorama. I think this was overplayed, frankly, because the rest of the folks in the suite are always jolted when they see the second person, because that's when it dawns on them who got fired. I don't think this is so much horror at Assorama's return -- the project manager is always the odds-on bootee -- as it is the unavoidably dumpy feeling they all got because someone who was pleasant and generally well-liked was sent home. That's particularly so when she was sent home in place of two people who make life around the suite rather more of a pain in the ass for everyone else.

Assorama tries to make a big demonstrative deal out of publicly embarrassing Tammy for acting surprised to see her, which is uncalled-for and juvenile, but of course utterly typical of people who are constantly looking to take the focus off of their own faults, as Assorama is. Assorama now interviews that "the most valuable thing that has happened to [her]" was watching the other people be surprised that she returned. First of all, "the most valuable thing that has happened"? You know, there are better ways to compose sentences than by throwing darts at a dictionary. Second, her complete lack of self-awareness is getting very creepy, in that she obviously doesn't understand how dumb she sounds when she's unrelentingly shitty to other people and then tut-tuts everyone else about taking the game personally. You can decide that it's better to be feared than loved, in other words, but then when you're not loved, it's not because other people are too sensitive. This is why I would never work for her -- she's substantially more spiteful and petty and driven by personal grievances than anyone else on the team, but she's utterly unaware of it, and struts around with what I think are honestly held delusions of professionalism. I've had a lot of contempt for a lot of contestants on a lot of shows, but I think she would be in the running for the most oblivious reality show participant I've ever seen, as far as the size of the gap between the person she consistently shows herself to be and the person she sincerely thinks she is.