Caryn Groedel spent all of Palau trying to blow up the one pair that ran the entire season, and got brushed off as paranoid for it. The employment attorney landed on Koror, the juggernaut that lost just one immunity all season and ground the entire Ulong tribe out of the game, so there were no losses to hide behind and nothing to do but stew on the threats inside her own group. She kept hammering the same warning to anyone who'd listen: Tom Westman and Ian Rosenberger were too tight, and somebody had to crack them before it was too late.
Nobody bit. Tom and Ian were exactly as locked-in as she said: they blindsided Gregg 4-2, then ran the table to the end, and the duo she'd begged her tribe to break is the one that finally cut her at the final five, sending Caryn out fifth as the fifth juror. So she watched the rest play out from the jury bench, every warning she'd given coming true in front of her. The only person in that cast who called the Tom-and-Ian endgame, and the one nobody would back when it still could've mattered.
