LAST EDITED ON 01-11-13 AT 02:50 AM (EST)

Malcolm's fatal error? Um, let's list Malcolm's mistakes.

He (along with everyone else) allowed a situation at Survivor Auction where Abi could buy an II advantage, and then win II.

He made an F3 agreement (well, forced upon them) with Lisa and Mike at F5 reward. He didn't really trust in that agreement as long as Abi was in the game, but he did rely on it after Abi was eliminated, though he should have known better.

He under-estimated Denise's Jedi mind control abilities, or over-estimated his own. Well, as close as you can get in reality to Jedi mind tricks -- powers of persuasion.

He didn't give Denise the HII to play for herself at F5 TC, which if she had had it and had played it when she didn't need to would have possibly hurt her chances of winning.

Getting rid of Abi at F5 was not a mistake, though. He totally knew he was toast as long as the goat was in the works.