Survivor: Cook Islands -- Episode 6

Neither tribe had immunity this week on Survivor: Cook Islands. Cao Boi and Cristina were the least popular on their respective teams, so they got axed.

The day after a Tribal Council in which Cristina learned her tribemates all considered her "annoying," both the Aitu and Raro tribes were summoned to a Reward Challenge.

For the challenge, each team selected three members whose job was to hold on to a post for dear life. In teams of two, the remaining tribe members tried to pull one opposing tribe member off a post, through about fifty feet of sand, and across a goal line. First, women would go against women, then men against men, and then the women were up again.

The first tribe to drag all three opposing post-holders to their goal line won.

Jeff told the tribes he had some good news and bad news. The winning team would enjoy a feast of roast lamb. However, they'd be gorging at Tribal Council, where both tribes would be voting someone out.

Because the challenge was physical, and Aitu had an extra man, Cao Boi sat it out. As it turned out, the challenge was more than just physical. It may have been the most brutal in show history.

Aitu's Jessica and Becky manhandled Raro's Jenny, yanking her from her post and hauling her to the goal line, Jenny kicking and squirming the entire way. Her body took a beating, and so did her swimsuit, which had to be blurred out at one point.

At the same time, Raro's Parvati and Rebecca had little luck wrestling Aitu's Candice away from her post. Each time they were able to move her, Candice used her lanky frame to reach back and grab on to the post.

Once Jenny had been dragged across Aitu's goal line, Yul and Jonathan took a crack at Nate. He put up a good fight, but they were still able to pull him to their goal before Parvati and Jenny bested Candice.

Perhaps the best fight of the challenge was Raro's Cristina versus Jessica and Becky. Early on, Jessica put Cristina in an illegal choke hold. Cristina's police training kicked in, and she pulled Jessica's hair and shoved her face into the sand. At times, Jessica's only recourse was to pin Cristina down and hope that Becky could pull them both, a few inches at a time.

As the fight raged, Raro's Adam and Brad were able to haul Aitu's Ozzy to their goal. Ozzy didn't make things easy, and the three lay in the sand trying to catch their breath as Parvati & Rebecca went to grab Sundra, Aitu's final woman.

Sundra gripped the post with her legs in a scissor lock, buying her teammates enough time to get Cristina near the goal. With a final pull, Becky was able to touch Cristina's toe to the goal line, earning the win for Aitu.

Both tribes had time to recover from the challenge and discuss voting strategy before Tribal Council. Cristina begged the Raro tribe for a second chance. Nate and Rebecca discussed saving Cristina, and eliminating Jenny instead.

At Aitu's camp, Cao Boi awoke from a weird dream about a shaman woman who told him he needed to apply for an American Express card. Obviously, it could mean only one thing: Cao Boi had to come up with a plan to flush out the Hidden Immunity Idol. Rarely are dreams so literal.

Assuming that Jonathan had the Idol -- because he'd been to Exile Island twice -- Cao Boi suggested to Yul that three people vote for Jonathan and three people vote for Candice. The tie would force Jonathan or Candice to use the Idol for self-preservation, and the other would be sent home.

Yul called the plan "ingenious," but he didn't comment on its lone flaw: Jonathan didn't have the Idol. Yul did.

Jonathan's constant shifty glances and secretive ways made the plan, named "Plan Voodoo" by Cao Boi, appealing to many tribe members. But its source, the dream, also reinforced the reigning opinion that Cao Boi was off his rocker.

Yul confirmed that opinion at Tribal Council. "I can't say I fully understand him," Yul said of Cao Boi.

When asked about his voting strategy, Cao Boi further confused his tribemates with a chess analogy that didn't make much sense, until Jeff Probst correctly interpreted Cao Boi's plan to "expose the queen" as an attempt to put the Hidden Immunity Idol into play.

Ultimately, only Jessica stuck with Cao Boi's Plan Voodoo. She voted for Jonathan, while the plan's mastermind voted for Candice. Everyone else voted for Cao Boi.

In his exit interview, Cao Boi said his only regret in the game was trusting in "the Asian Community."

Aitu moved over to the jury box as Raro took their seats for Tribal Council. Before deliberations began, Jeff handed Aitu a pot of greasy lamb shanks. The members of Raro could do little but watch and lick their lips.

When asked about the verbal beating she took at the last Tribal Council, Cristina admitted that it hurt. Brad stood up for her, saying, "Some things are better left unsaid."

But Adam refused to let things go, saying, "Her personality just clashes with ours. She can't change it."

Before Raro voted, Jeff gave Aitu the opportunity to kidnap someone from Raro. That person would be awarded Immunity, share in the lamb feast, and then become a part of Aitu through the next Reward Challenge. Aitu kidnapped Nate.

Nate chowed down as Raro cast their votes. Once they were finished voting, Aitu was sent back to camp, leaving Nate in the dark about who was voted out from his tribe.

Cristina and Brad voted for Jenny, but the rest of Raro sided with Adam and voted for Cristina. Brad looked nervous as the votes were read, a possible sign that he's not on the same page with his tribemates.

Of her experience on Survivor, Cristina said, "I met some really good people, and I met some awful people."

Next week: Jessica says too much about Plan Voodoo in front of Nate, and one survivor spends a stormy night on Exile Island.