For once, silence reigned over Ravioli. Rocky was gone and Lisi was sleeping alongside Deamz. Alex, Edgardo and Mook were being vewy, vewy quiet — they were hunting immunity idols.

Edgardo and Alex had told Mook about the hidden immunity idol and they had decided to repay Lisi’s idiocy generosity in spilling the idol beans by looking for it without telling her. As the unsuspecting Lisi dozed a few metres away, Ocean's Three found and unearthed the immunity idol. They didn't have time to make a decoy and frankly, I wouldn't trust their craft skills like I would Yau-Man's.

They snuck into the forest to giggle over their newly acquired turtle idol and promised to share it. Since Mook was the one to find it, he was appointed Official Idol Holder. The threesome laughed at how easy it was to outmanoeuvre Lisi. "Lisi is not a very smart person," Edgardo said before adding the unnecessary, "at playing the game."

Lisi would probably disagree with this assessment of her intelligence. After all, when she had woken up, she was able to notice Mook kicking dirt around the dig site and concluded he was looking for the idol. "You’re going to have to wake up really early to fool an old cat like me," Lisi gloated, failing to notice the seagulls of irony flapping above her head.

Soon it was time for the bi-weekly Ravioli drubbing. This week's RC was basically a Fijian version of 'So You Think You Can Dance', otherwise known as a Meke. A Meke in a Tiki vs Mookie and his rookies.

The teams had to show off their moves to some Fijian dance experts who would score them on appearance, enthusiasm and technique. They would then open the lines and allow Fiji to vote for their favourites and the one with the lowest total of votes would be eliminated.

Beach boogie

Earl led Motorola in a fast-paced beach boogie and silently prayed Boo would not forget his moves and end up doing the Robot. Ravioli followed with an enthusiastic piece almost completely lacking in timing and rhythm and capped off with an acrobatic jump by Dreamz. Ooooh, did he choreograph that himself? Pretty good but he should have made some pom-poms out of palm fronds. And maybe also added some spirit fingers.

The judges liked both teams but ultimately thought Motorola was more in sync. What have you done, Fiji?! The Raviolis slumped, disillusioned. I told you guys you should have used spirit fingers! Motorola sent Lisi to Exile Island before settling down to a feast with the locals.

Lisi was very sad. She even cried! Poor woobie was tired of losing and getting sent to Exile Island. Not to snigger at her pain or anything (oh, who am I kidding, I totally mean to snigger) but she had been bragging about how much she didn’t care about any challenges earlier on. Poetic justice, and not the silly treemail kind of poetry either.

Back to backstabbing

After enjoying some Fijian hospitality, it was back to backstabbing. Earl had his spy Michelle report back to him on what was going on in the camp. Michelle recommended voting out Stacy because of her torn loyalties to her old tribe. Well, that was only part of the reason. The other part, Michelle covertly told us, was because she felt she and Stacy were carbon copies of each other when it came to function in the tribe. A shot of the two of them lying on the beach tanning left suggested that their function was to do absolutely nothing. There can be only one appendix!

It was at this point that I was sure Stacy was screwed. After all, she’d had something like two whole interviews up until that point. I think that’s the most non-Dreamz-bitching screentime she’s had the entire season.

Silly, foolish me. To see Stacy get voted out would require Motorola actually losing immunity. The Raviolis were not ready to give up their loserdom however and the IC featured yet another dismal performance from them.

This time they were feeling more hopeful than ever. After all, it was a marksmanship challenge and they had self-professed archery expert Edgardo. First up was the blowdart portion of the competition. Boo proved to be the biggest blowhard and won Motorola one point. See, this is the one time Rocky might actually have proved useful in a challenge, considering the amount of hot air he spouts.

Worth two points was the spear-throwing section. Almost everyone proved to be completely useless at this. Yau-Man appears to be the only one who’s ever watched Javelin-throwing on TV as he ran with it and released it like a true pro. You da man, Yau-Man!

The last event was archery and it was worth three points. Yau-Man once again proved his pointy-thing-target skills and shot his arrow pretty near the bullseye. Edgardo, as the last Ravioli to shoot, was the only one who could save his team. The music became tense as he drew back his bow, a look of pure concentration on his face. He released the arrow and… didn't even hit the bullseye. So much for the Robin Hood heroics.

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