"Laying in the weeds" was the whole plan — Jim Rice, the medical-marijuana dispensary owner who saw himself as the real brains behind Ozzy Lusth's Savaii, was going to ride low, win when he had to, and let the bigger targets soak up the heat. He even banked an individual immunity to prove the point. Then Cochran happened.
At the Te Tuna merge, John Cochran flipped to Coach's Upolu bloc and handed them the whole game, and suddenly Savaii were the ones getting picked off. With Keith already snuffed as the first name on the jury, the Upolu wall went looking for the next stranded Savaii, and Jim, a sharp strategic threat they had no reason to keep, was right at the front of the line. He made a desperate pitch and couldn't crack a single vote loose, going out eleventh as the second juror — shipped to Redemption Island where Ozzy was already waiting to punch his ticket to the bench. The self-styled puppet master never had the strings; the weeds he was hiding in turned out to be the chopping block.
