Day 6 It’s tree-mail time again, and all of the tribes receive notes and funky little wrist cuffs that indicate that today’s challenge will depend heavily on the tribes being able to work as a team. Cut to a picture of Billy in Black, sitting alone under a tree. Teamwork… hmmm, yes. Combination Reward and Immunity Challenge Today the survivors get story time about the life and voyages of Captain Cook. They have to listen carefully however, because the challenge requires them to get several plaques with story time facts that are strung out all within a crazy jungle-gym maze. After they retrieve all of the plaques, they have to cross a rope bridge as a team, and assemble the facts in correct order to win reward and immunity. Oh, by the way, the tribe has to be attached to each other in a long tribemate chain as they make their way through the challenge. Because Hika is short a member since Sekou’s departure, all of the rest of the teams must also have one member sit out. Billy again and again volunteers to sit on the sidelines, but his team will have none of it. J.P. ends up sitting out, and Billy is shackled to the end position of his tribe's chain. The challenge begins, and all of the tribes leap to the jungle gym… except surprisingly for the Aitu tribe. Led by Ozzy, they decide to take the option of reviewing the Captain Cook story “just to get all the facts right” before entering the maze. Billy looks confused for just a moment, but then the realization that his tribe is about to orchestrate his exit hits him… and the sad puppy face is back. Piku, Rora, and Hika all attack the course… while Ozzy lollygags and slowly leads his team through the challenge, trying to not make it painfully obvious that they are bound and determined to come in dead last. Surprisingly, Hika has enough troubles that Aitu could easily move into third place with little or no effort. But Ozzy makes sure that doesn’t happen… and with a mean streak I haven’t seen since recess in the third grade, Ozzy makes sure to wobble the robe bridge enough to send Billy in to the wading pool below, just to add insult to injury and ensure that they come in last. In the meantime, Rora and Puka race to the puzzle-solving element of the challenge. They slam their plaques into place, and in what looks like a dead heat, both tribes race to the finish mat simultaneously to try and win reward. Jeff pauses for a bit, trying to distinguish which team exactly finished first… but then gives the win to Puka, because heck, that Asian team has got to be better at solving puzzles than the whities, right? About that time Hika struggles to the finish… and bringing up the rear is a smug Ozzy with a questioning Cristina and Cece on board, and a very dejected and soggy-looking Billy at the tail end. About that time we get the call from the instant replay booth that Puka and Rora actually did hit the finish mats simultaneously, and so a tie is announced. So in this case, both tribes get reward, which is two tarps per team that will come in handy with the rainy season just around the corner. About this time, the tribes are all standing on their individual finish mats. A forlorn looking Billy is on one far side of his tribe, and next to him on the blue mat is the Rora team with Candice on the far side of her mat next to Billy. Candice is giddy, as a result of the announcement of the tie and the shared reward. Attention: here comes the sum total of the Billy/Candice romance in it’s entirety. Candice, suddenly noticing Billy’s hound dog expression, tones down her excitement for a moment and says, “I feel really bad for your guys.” Billy looks over at her and says, “I’m next.” Candice, speaking for her entire tribe, says, “We love you.” Billy looks back at her and with a bashful smile says, “I love you.” Yep, that’s it. That is what Billy created an entire full-blown love affair out of. Never mind the fact that Parvati was standing right there with Candice, providing her moral support to Billy as well. Nor that Candice didn’t say another word to him or even give him a wave goodbye when they eventually left towards their separate islands. That’s IT. That Billy, he’s got one hell of an imagination though. He should be a romantic novelist with the way he can create love and romance out of thin air. As revealed last week, the losing tribe gets to choose one member from any of the other tribes to go to Exile Island. So, despite the fact that his heart is all aflutter, Billy announces that the Aitu tribe has chosen Yul to be exiled. Exile Island Although clearly unhappy to be away from his tribe that he has begun to bond with, Yul sucks it up and struts up the beach of Exile Island to the shipwreck. There he pulls out the handy-dandy clue notebook and takes a look at Clue #2: Use the mast and an island to form a letter, block out the south island and you’re doing better. Yul wastes no time, and starts strolling around the island, looking at angles that will enable him to create the letter “A” with the masts of the shipwreck, and the profile of various islands in the distance. He marks a spot on the sand that meets the criteria, and sits down and begins digging. This guy can do no wrong, so I don’t think a single one of us were surprised when suddenly he strikes something hard, and pulls up a little chest with a note and the immunity island inside. That’s right CBS, you can just write the check out now. That’s spelled Y-U-L, K-W-O-N.