On Survivor Redemption Island, Matt and Mike may have won the first three-way duel, making its loser, Dave, the first member of the jury, and Julie may have been voted off, but the episode was entirely about Phillip, the former federal agent whose spiral into odd behavior reached a new low tonight, when he turned others’ response to his behavior into something about race. Maggot-infested rice led Phillip and some tribemates to dump out their remaining rice and pick out the maggots, but they needed a new container in which to store the remaining and allegedly good rice. He asked Steve and Julie if he could use their container, and they said no, perhaps because they were being selfish, perhaps because it’s just smart to not put formerly maggot-infested rice into a container with maggot-free rice. But Phillip thought his argument was rational and freaked out, leading Steve to call him a “lunatic.” Phillip then played the “race card,” as his own tribemate Grant said. Phillip started using...