When Bar-Lev asks Laura and Mark point-blank whether they might have helped Marla a little and got in over their heads, their straight-faced reactions, ending with Laura in tears, do less to alleviate doubts than to add a layer of discomfort, which is all the more dismaying because no one wins.
Even the opening episode eventually delivered some high emotion as model Catalina Guirado, already looking less than glamorous after just one day, burst into tears when she was voted in to tackle crocodiles in the "Bushtucker" challenge.