Another break from the ping-ponging and idol-hopping came with the Immunity Challenge. It was your basic balancing challenge and Yau-Man was the person who won it. I will laugh and laugh if Yau-Man turns out to be this season's immunity monster. The worst thing about the challenge was all the close-ups of everyone's skeevy feet. The second-worse was Boo suddenly and briefly bursting into song.

Back to the backstabbing. With Yau-Man safe, Earl was able to borrow his spare turtle idol. They decided they would vote for Alex. The Dreamz-ball bounced over to Alex and told him he was in danger. With his head so perilously close to the chopping block, Alex used all his lawyerly skills to convince Mook to let him use the idol. Mook was not happy but finally relented. Sadly, we did not get to see touching goodbye scene between Mook and Turtle.

Changing their vote

Yau-Man told Stacy exactly which way her vote should blow. Alex then approached Stacy and tried to convince her to vote for Earl. Stacy put on her poker-face, which looks remarkably similar to her normal blank face, come to think of it.

Stacy immediately scurried to Team Earl to reveal that the three Mulemen were voting for Earl. Good to see Alex and Edgardo's attempts to bring Stacy in as their fifth alliance member worked out so well for them.

Just to confuse things even further, both alliances decided to change their votes. The mulemen decided to vote for Cassandra because, according to them, she was the warm gooey centre to Team Earl?s Rolo.

Dreamz bounced over to Team Earl and revealed the Mulemen's change of vote. As if my head wasn't spinning enough, Stacy of all people came up with a pretty good plan: if they voted for Edgardo, rather than Alex or Mook, they'd probably be able to avoid the hidden immunity idol completely. How is Stacy suddenly on the decision-making committee on Team Earl anyway?

Sooo Team Earl wanted to vote for Edgardo and the Mulemen wanted to vote for Cassandra, got that? Everyone was pretty much confused as to what was going on, as Tribal Council soon showed. Edgardo admitted to Jeff he had no freakin' clue what was going on. Dude, neither do I and I've had it explained to me in nicely-edited clips. I don't know who's on whose side and who's faking and?gah, my head hurts.

Voting time. When Jeff asked if anyone had the hidden immunity idol, a smug-looking Alex stood up and dangled his turtle in front of Jeff's face. Jeff revealed the first three votes: Cassandra. Mook looked even more smug than Alex had. Jeff then revealed a vote for Mook (courtesy of Dreamz). Mook got pouty. The next four votes were revealed and they were all for Edgardo. Alex and Mook looked vaguely ill. Heh heh. So much for your cunning plans, masterminds.

In his final words, Edgardo blathered some nonsense about who was deserving and fervently hoped Cassandra would be voted off soon. Huh, I never figured Edgardo for sour grapes. See, this is what happens when you spend long periods of time with mooks like Mook.

Next week: Dreamz, you got some 'splainin' to do. Why'd you vote for Mook? The Mulemen discover Yau-Man's idol when they conduct an illegal search of his possessions. Oy! You need a warrant for that!