Julie Gets Jilted

It was Chris' tie-breaking vote that sent Julie Berry, the 23-year-old youth mentor from Maine, packing on Thursday night's "Survivor: Vanuatu." Chris had told each person something different, lying his way through, but when it was game time, he voted the way he believed would make his life easier in the end.

In the morning-after interview, The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen wanted to know how surprised Julie was to hear her name called as being ousted.

"Heartbroken, just let down," replied Julie Berry. "My feelings got hurt."

She was hurt primarily because Chris said it was their friendship that would keep him from voting for her ouster, "so I took it really personally."

But is there such a thing as friendship when you're playing "Survivor"?

"Very much so. Very much so," affirmed Julie B. "Any social contacts, you naturally get drawn to people and you do. You go through all of these hardships. You disclose. You trust. You do have to trust. It's just a matter of knowing where people draw their line, and that's where it's just impossible to tell."

She is not sure if she and Chris will be friends or not.

Julie said she took Chris along on her reward challenge partly as strategy and partly because they enjoyed each other's company.

But is Chris' betrayal of Julie going to come back to haunt him if he makes it to the final two?

"I hope so!" exclaimed Julie.

However, Julie also said that her sunbathing in the nude had nothing to do with strategy. "If I was on a island with no cameras, I would have sunbathed, too. That is just me, and I didn't think much about it."

Julie caused some talk when she leaned against Sarge's legs in one of the earlier episodes. Was it a deliberate lean?

"No," says Julie. "I enjoyed everybody there, so it's really harmless, but, you know, maybe it is embedded in me more than I realize. He, obviously, had a reaction over it, which is interesting."

Chris expected a quiet night after Ami's removal last episode. But that was not the reality of things. As soon as the tribe members got back to camp, Twila snapped and cursed at Julie and Eliza for bringing up Twila's swearing on her son's life. Eliza and Julie were secretly gloating over Twila's outburst, feeling that Twila had shot herself in the foot and turned the others off.

And thus, Julie's scheming began: get Chris and Eliza on her side, vote Twila off.

The reward challenge was composed of four parts: a mud crawl, a pig capture, assembling a totem pole and using a slingshot to break three plates. The reward? A horse ride to the top of an active volcano, Mount Yasser, complete with beer and food.

Julie won and the scheming didn't end. She chose, as her partner, Chris, an obvious attempt to play on sexual tension and get him on her side, a tactic she fully acknowledged.

The horse ride impressed Chris and Julie, who both seemed to know at least something about riding. They weren't cowboys by any stretch of the imagination and Chris had trouble building a "trusting relationship" with his animal, but they managed.

They then both stuffed their faces with volcano-vent cooked hot dogs and beer while charms were worked and angles played. Julie wanted to go farther and Chris seemed willing to help.

Back at camp was a playground fight. Twila and Scout spent the majority of their time denigrating Eliza; like old curmudgeons tormenting a child.

Chris and Julie, on the other hand, spent their time watching Mount Yasser burst and boil. "Is it talking to us?" asked Chris during a magma burp.

When the tribe was reunited, it was clear that everyone was on the same page: it was time to backstab, sneak, scheme and strategize.

Welcome back to kindergarten! The immunity challenge was half memory game, half racing. The crew was told a story, then asked questions. They had to rush to complete a puzzle and get four answers right. It gave Scout, the least physically capable player, more of a chance. Not that it mattered. Eliza won immunity.

The Scheme-O sleaze meter went off the charts while Chris played both sides -- the Scout-Twila team and the Julie-Eliza sisterhood. Both teams needed him -- a change from the days when the ladies were picking the men off one by one. Chris was weighing his options, flip-flopping – to use a recently relevant term.

But something happened that never has before; Twila seemed to be spying on both Chris and Eliza. Neither knew that Twila was sitting so close to them, listening to all the words that were being said. "I don't trust any of them. They're all women," he laughed.

Chris then approached Julie, saying that the friendship between them weighed more heavily on his decision than anything else; that he was going to vote against Twila. Immediately afterwards, Chris told Twila that he was voting for Julie.

It was all about emotions, trust, and who could fake those human attributes the best.

When it was over, Julie turned in her torch and Eliza rolled her eyes in despair as she saw her chance to win a million dollars go up in smoke faster than a hot dog left too long in the volcano vent.