Continuing with the boot order that was spoiled during the summer/early fall of 2009, this week, the Heroes start to gain back some lost ground, as (as spoiled by SurvivorsUnite) this episode's boot is Boston Rob.

    As far as spoilers go, Rob's exit is perhaps the most talked-about boot, at least by survivrcuz, missyae and SurvivorsUnite. Here's an abbreviated timeline. Our summary? Boston Rob's boot sounds complicated:
- somerandomdouche (9/24/09): "cirie and tom are both out before the merge and so is rob."
- missyae (9/29/09): "Rob does leave pre jury. His style of play did not work this time."
- missyae (9/30/09): "By Robs gameplay I meant how he controls everyone in his tribe and dictates who is leaving and who is going. That did not work very well with another male on his tribe."
- missyae (apparently inaccurately, 9/30/09): "Rob did not fall at the hands of Coach. Both Rob and Coach fell to the hands of The Evil One."
- survivrcuz (10/23/09): "In a way boston rob goes because of coach (in a way) because coach vowed not to write russell or boston robs name down! and this is used against boston rob."
- SurvivorsUnite (10/26/09): [Boston Rob is the 8th person booted].
- missyae (10/26/09): "Yes - it was just like 19 - merge with 12 left - Rob barely missing out."
- SurvivorsUnite (11/15/09): "No, he [Boston Rob] doesn't quit.... He goes home due to something Coach does. Boston Rob is in the majority alliance when he exits the game...Coach messes it up for him."
- survivrcuz (11/29/09): "boston rob and his alliance get blindsided bad by the danielle alliance. coach was said to be the target and thats what they all thought, they retaliated by writting down russels name , no idols get played. coach does not go home on a count that he promised to rob and russell never to write their names down so he stays neutral, danielles alliance use this info and take out rob who thought coach was on his side and would vote with them to oust russell , but coach decided not to take sides against russell or rob."
- SurvivorsUnite (12/1/09): "The minority alliance is Randy/Tyson/Coach/Jerri. Parvati/Russell/Danielle/Sandra/Courtney/Boston Rob team up to get rid of them, notice how they go one after the other. Then Coach F**ks it up for Boston Rob, and they turn on him."

   Update: Hmm. Well, it still doesn't make sense as of Ep6. As shown thus far, it should be Russell-Parvati-Danielle vs. Rob-Sandra-Coach-Jerri-Courtney. Even with Coach opting to vote neither Russell nor Rob, that's still 4-3-1 against Russell, so we're not seeing how Rob gets booted without someone else flipping, or an idol getting played.
   Updated update: As should have been obvious, but was suggested by some guy named Stephen Fishbach in his People column the day after Ep6, the other flipper (with her former showmance-mate, Coach) should be Jerri, who had a video on the CBS site weeks ago complaining about Rob's heavy-handed tribal leadership.