THE TRUTH HURTS: CARYN OUSTED
After setting aside the game to tell it all, Caryn Groedel, the 46-year-old civil rights lawyer from Solon, Ohio, trusted an alliance of women who immediately betrayed her, sending her home in a unanimous vote. After the fateful decision, Caryn observed, "Everybody's been very deceptive, and I'm the one who starts speaking about it, and you ultimately have to face the music anyway."

GAME ON
As the Koror tribe returned to camp after a stunning Tribal Council in which Gregg Carey, the 28-year-old business consultant from Chicago, Illinois, was sacrificed, Jennifer Lyon, the 32-year-old nanny from Encino, California, was surprisingly calm about having been deceived. With three women and two men left, Ian Rosenberger, the 23-year-old dolphin trainer from Key Largo, Florida, worried about an alliance of women picking off the men, remarking, "If we can avoid that in the next 24 hours, we're money for the Final Four."

LOTS TO THINK ABOUT
With five members remaining in Koror, the politicking kicked into high gear. Jennifer aggressively lobbied Ian to rid the tribe of Koror's biggest threat, Tom Westman, the 41-year-old NYC firefighter from Sayville, New York. Meanwhile on the beach, Tom sat with Caryn discussing his distrust of Katie Mullen, the 25-year-old graduate student from Huber Heights, Ohio, asserting that she was next to go. "I don't know if I'm being played," Caryn confessed. "This could be part of the planning and plotting in the last six days."