For half of Samoa, Galu had the easiest job in the game: stay strong, watch Russell Hantz set fire to his own Foa Foa tribe, and wait to bury the survivors at the merge. John Fincher was one of eight Galu who cruised in with the numbers stacked their way. Then Galu did the one thing a dominant tribe never recovers from — it ate itself.
The crack was Shambo. Fed up with her own side, she threw in with Russell's Foa Foa Four and flipped the whole game, and the wall started coming down a name at a time. A week later Mick won immunity, Tribal deadlocked 5-5, and Laura Morett went home on the revote. By the time the bloc came for Fincher, the math was simply gone: Jaison had immunity, Foa Foa plus Shambo had the votes, and John was the next Galu domino to fall. He'd grabbed an immunity of his own to stretch his run to Day 30, but there was no flipping it back, and he went out fourth juror — not a misplay so much as a guy on the right tribe at exactly the wrong time, watching one of the great pre-merge powerhouses collapse from the inside.
