Day 12, and Bruce constructs a "Zen rock garden" while the others work. Aras calls him over and says, "It's dire straits with the fire," to which Bruce replies, "Go get firewood." This leads to Aras yelling at Bruce and thinking a trip to Exile Island would be a nice break. Maybe the Zen rock garden isn't plugged in.

The Reward Challenge is forming a human assembly line and tossing bags of rice and beans to each other, followed by huge dead fish. The last person in the line has to chop the head and tail off each fish. The winner gets all the food plus spices and wine. The loser gets their choice of rice or beans. Courtney and Danielle sit out for Casaya.

Bruce and Terry get the cleavers. Bruce is to chopping fish what Jamie from Guatemala was to chopping rope, so Casaya falls behind. Cirie however is the Jerry Rice (the wide receiver, not the celebrity dancer) of fish catchers. She makes some very nice grabs.

Bobby takes over for Bruce. He is the Brandon of fish choppers. Holy cow. It takes him two whacks tops for each head and sometimes only a single mighty blow. With the Seafood Assassin in charge, Casaya storms to their fourth straight win.

La Mina chooses the beans as their parting gift and Casaya chooses to make Terry depart into Exile once again.

Casaya's high is short-lived as they return to a flooded camp. Was there a big rain we missed? Did the tide go haywire? Either way they have no dry wood to make fire so they eat their fish raw. Cirie is grossed out and Aras says, "We're bonding in our weird Casaya strange fish way."

Over at La Mina they gorge themselves on beans. The magical fruit plays a very sour note as Austin and Nick spend the night making trips to the latrine. Dan says Nick "got both ends going." Wheee!

Back at Casaya, Bobby and Bruce can't find room in the shelter so they spend the night in the outhouse drinking the last bottle of wine. Bob says he's sick of the others and tells Bruce he's jumping ship at the merge. The two of them promise not to vote for each other.

The next morning Courtney confronts Bobby about the wine. He says he drank it. She asks how he feels out it. Bob calmly says, "I feel bad that I deprived them of wine, but I have no hard feelings whatsoever about the fact that you've been deprived of wine." Well played, Bobby. Well played.

Meanwhile, Terry is just fine on Exile Island. He has fire and water and nothing to search for any more.

The Immunity Challenge is retrieving skull-shaped puzzle pieces from underwater coffins. Each coffin is held shut by four knots. That's a lot of diving. Cirie and Bruce sit out.

La Mina's lead grows throughout the race and they get their fourth piece before Casaya retrieves their third. They have a huge head start on the puzzle but Sally and Austin have trouble with it. Shane and Bobby close the gap but it's not enough. La Mina finally breaks their streak!

Back at camp, Shane immediately says they should vote out Bobby. Aras doesn't agree because of his strength (and I agree with Aras). He wants Bruce instead. Shane says, "This is really stupid" because Bobby will rejoin the young guys after the merge. They finally agree on Bruce and include Cirie on it. She is looking very Fishmongeresque at this point.

Shane must have an alarm in his head that reminds him to do stupid things, because he goes and tells Bobby they were about to vote him off but changed their mind. Why would you do anything that could possibly anger this guy? Weren't you paying attention when he was decapitating huge fish like they were gingerbread men??

Bobby tells Shane he won't turn on them later. Shane makes him swear on Shane's son, and Shane promises Bobby the final 6.

Wait, the "Boston" tattoo on Shane's chest is his son's name? Boston Powers? Is that an electric company or a minor league man of mystery?

Courtney does yoga in Bruce's rock garden, which disgusts him. He too thinks a trip to Exile Island wouldn't be so bad.

Courtney and Danielle talk and decide they don't want Aras calling the shots so they change their minds and want Bobby gone again. They tell Shane who says he can't vote for Bobby because he just swore on the life of Boston Powers. Yeah, baby.

Off we go to Tribal Council, where Bruce finally gets a torch. Shane says they are "the dysfunctional functional tribe" because they argue all the time but come together during Challenges. Bobby describes his previous actions as deciding to "get my drink on with my boy Bruce." Cirie says Bob made a big mistake there. Aras reminds them it wasn't just Bobby because Bruce was there too.

Jeff asks Bruce if he feels disrespected, and he says he does. Aras says Bruce needs to not take disagreement personally and work as a team. Danielle defends Bruce, saying they should listen to him because he's older and wiser.

Bruce votes for Courtney. Danielle votes for Bobby. And Aras votes for Bruce. Ha! We don't see Shane's vote but we hear him say it's a "throwaway vote." This is going to be good.

The tally goes Courtney, Bruce, Bobby, Aras, Bruce (2), Bobby (2), and the final vote is for…BOBBY!

Four people got votes? That's got to be a record. And, not that it matters, but Bobby couldn't even make it through one vote before breaking his promised alliance with Bruce.

Next time on…Survivor: The Casaya women want Shane out. "A big twist could mean salvation for one, and a Tribal Council like never before." What, Casaya completely falls apart and there's a 6-way tie?

We end with a couple more gems from Bobby. He calls Courtney, Danielle and Shane "spineless little twerps" then says, "At least I don't have to be them. I get to be Mr. Bob Dogg, whoa whoa!"

Bobby can chop the heads off of my dead fish any time.

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