While some believe that Rudy and Rich wanted a male sub-alliance and therefore sacrificed Colleen, I believe Sue was the one behind giving Colleen the boot. It was Colleen that let it get back to the Alliance that Kelly was playing both ends against the middle. Therefore, Susan felt that she could not trust Colleen to form a female sub-alliance. Remember, Richard had been redeeming himself to Colleen and she may ally with him in the voting, if given the chance.

While Kelly's voting has been seen as somewhat independent, never once has she voted in such a way as to throw a monkey wrench in the T.A.'s plans.

Kelly seemed almost *too* disinterested in having breakfast on the yacht. Why? She was giving Sean an avenue in which to invite Rich. As expected, Rich now thinks he has Sean in his back pocket.

Kelly made a point of calling Sean a bastard in front of Colleen. That was a bit overboard. Her going on and on about it was a bit much. Why did she do it? So it would in no way appear that she is in alliance with him.

Susan doing a 180 in regards to Kelly in front of the cameras and in front of Rich and Rudy was pure posturing.

The cbs.com website (for what it is worth) states that Sean exploits the rift between Susan and Kelly. I believe he does this by allying with them, because at this point no one would imagine that Sue and Kelly are conspiring together. If Sean was seen as somewhat instrumental in booting Richard, he may redeem himself to the Pagongers ... assuming he is around for the final vote.

Everyone wants Sean to stick around for a while. It probably seems to them that he is not very well favored by the Pagongs. Additionally, Rich has been working Colleen and probably feels comfortable in the fact that he has convinced her (and the other Pagongers indirectly) that he is not a bad guy after all. Kelly probably feels that she could garner votes against Sean in the Final Two. Sue plans on keeping him around for the time being, but booting his butt when the time is right.

In less than an hour, we will see if I am right .... or if I am just wishing something exciting would happen.

Melissa