Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch: Survivor Ponderosa Videos, Episode 9

Kelly Part 1

The first clip opens up at Tribal Council. Jeff Probst flips over the last parchment. “The eighth person voted out of Survivor: Samoa and the second member of our jury… Kelly. That's three. Tonight that's enough.” Probst smothers her torch. “Kelly, the tribe has spoken.” Kelly smiles ruefully.

Kelly takes the Walk of Shame. “All I wanted to do was cry. I turned around and I took a deep breath and I sucked it up.” Kelly dons the black, hooded robe the exiled players wear on the way to Ponderosa to keep them from being identified. She climbs into the waiting SUV.

Once inside the SUV, Kelly breaks down. “I don't feel like I deserve to go home at all. I feel like I was playing the game really well. It's just a shame that a little rat like Russell would feel the need to get rid of genuine players. He doesn't deserve to be there. I'm like totally, totally shocked.”

Kelly’s tears don't prevent her from taking the goodie bag offered her. “Are these scones? Okay, I feel a little bit better.” She smiles and starts eating, but tells us she would still give up cookies for 15 more days in the game.

In the medical station, Kelly tells us she never had any medical concerns in the bush. She steps onto the scale. She's lost ten pounds.

Kelly arrives at Ponderosa. She interviews that she never thought she would be here tonight. Erik is here and regardless of whether he is excited to see her, she is happy to see him. Kelly gets out of the SUV and walks into the cantina, where Erik is waiting. He offers her a bottle of vodka and a mixer of some sort. They hug and he tells Kelly she looks good in his boxer shorts.

Erik tells us that his animosity drained away immediately. It was good to see Kelly. Hugging her and working things out made him feel better about his game. The two of them start talking about the game and Erik’s last days in it. He is stunned that they apparently made the plan to vote him out in just five minutes before Tribal Council.

They sit down to eat. “Welcome to Ponderosa, Kelly, where the food never ends. It's like magic.” It looks like they are eating a virtual repeat of the same meal Erik had before. I see chicken, white rice, and broccoli. I also see a pasta dish that might be beef stroganoff, which is new.

Erik tells us that Kelly is here and she did nothing wrong. That just goes to show that the people who do the right things lose in the game. “If you want to stay in the game, do things wrong.”

Kelly says the differences are catching up to her. For three weeks she was sleeping in the jungle. Now she has AC and a shower and a bed. It's lonely too, because there were so many people for so long and now there's time to be alone. She can relax and doesn't have to constantly think about the game anymore.

We see Kelly examine her quarters. She has a bed and a shower in her bathroom. We also see her room is equipped with a mini fridge. Kelly loads some bottled water in hers. She says it will be weird to have this much space and to be able to sleep alone.

Kelly interviews that she went into the game thinking she would be able to outwit and out think everyone. She never even thought about quitting. She kept her complaints to herself. They were all internal. Each day you just ask for the strength to get through and you get it. Each day you work your way through. Kelly thinks she has developed a stronger will to fight for things now.

Kelly Part 2

Erik interviews that Kelly is handling the mental part of leaving the game very well. The physical part of leaving is another story, though. We see him enter the “game room” cabana and he finds her inside, asleep. Erik lies down too. He tells us it was the first time he was able to sleep for more than three hours at a clip.

Kelly tells us that she stayed in bed all day on her first day back. Erik tells us the same thing. Back to Kelly. “I feel like I got hit by a bus.”

On what I assume is Kelly's second day in Ponderosa, Erik is up early fixing his coffee. He joins Kelly at a table. He tells us he dealt with everything stoically the first day. Now that Kelly's here, though, he is ready to let go. Someone else is in pain, too. We don't see him actually getting emotional, though.