This week on Survivor, the Fans were reeling after Joel’s surprise torch snuffing. Their strategy session was intercut with footage of various island creatures, including scurrying rats. Brilliant editing.

There’s a lot to talk about this week, so let's skip the Reward Challenge play-by-play. Jonathan competed, but his leg was in pretty bad shape. Airai won a subsistence lesson from locals.

Before the local experts showed up, medical came to look at Jonathan's knee. It was a great big gross pussy mess, and the doctor recommended IV antibiotics, telling him that the infection was starting to spread throughout his body. He left the game to get hospital treatment. He's not very likable, it's true, but he's a tough player and he really wanted to play the game, so it's too bad. At least he seems to think that he could have won if not for the injury, which is a nice consolation for him whether or not he's totally kidding himself. Everybody was a little teary, but Kathy totally overreacted and blubbered about it. When is she gonna get voted off, anyway?

While Airai (minus Jonathan) was learning how to fish and catch crab, Malakal discussed the general uselessness of Tracy and Chet. Cirie had one of the best lines of the episode, referring to Tracy not being very good at the building challenge even though she’s a builder. "If they had an operating room challenge and I failed, I couldn't go back to work." Good point, Cirie. Why don’t they have an operating room challenge? Or maybe just play Operation? They are running out of creative challenge ideas...

On Exile Island, Chet and Jason lounged around in the water. That really does look nice. It’s so clear and shallow and sandy. Hey! I want to go to Exile Island! Chet seemed like he was a little jealous of the attention Jonathan got with his injured knee, because he took some time to complain about a coral abrasion on his foot. (Yeah, those can hurt and get infected, but this is Survivor and I'm sure everybody has a few cuts and scrapes by now.) Jason left Chet flopped like a very skinny beached whale at the water’s edge to go look for the Immunity Idol, found the half-whittled stick that Ozzy left, and believed that it was the real Idol. Oh. My. God. Could we actually get two cycles in a row where somebody plays a fake Idol? Oh please tell me it's true.

At the Immunity Challenge, Jeff brought everybody up to speed about Jonathan's knee. They ended up performing surgery to remove the abscess. James' strength and a little creative tweak to the challenge design pretty much won the challenge for Airai. I bet Malakal was missing Joel a little bit right then.

Back at the Malakal beach, Chet showed everybody his foot (which actually didn't look that bad to me, just kind of red) and asked to be voted out. That’s crappy for Tracy and Erik, who thought they should try to blindside Ozzy in case he has the Idol. He wouldn’t be expecting it yet. In another moment of crafty animal-related editing, audio from the chickens was played while Erik tried to convince Chet to stick around. Nice.

At Tribal Council, there was some open talk about the possibility of someone other than Chet going home, but when the votes came down it was Chet all the way. Good. Maybe it’s unkind of me to think so, but he was so pathetic it was really just annoying.

Next week: Tracy and Erik still haven't given up the ghost, and Kathy might crack. (Oh, she will, she will. It's just a matter of time.)

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Amy Kane spends as much quality time with her television as possible, when she's not busy at her day job as a cube dweller.

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