(CBS) The gang on "Survivor: Panama — Exile Island" is all one tribe now — but just how happy, well, we don't know.

Episode 7 saw the voting out of Nick Stanbury, a financial salesman from Tempe, Ariz., and the merging of the two tribes, Casaya and La Mina.

The new tribe is called Gitanos — Spanish for Gypsies. A traveling wish by the contestants, perhaps? Since there's no place to go except up or out.

Nick was on CBS' Early Show Friday, when there was an important question to be set forth: What did he throw to Cirie as he was leaving Tribal Council?

"I threw Cirie my socks," said Nick, and a fine gift it was because when you are stranded on a cold, wet island, there is no such thing as a sock that is too dirty or sweaty.

"They are warm and comfortable and a hand-me-down from Dan to me to Cirie," reported the outcast.

Why Cirie? After all, she voted Nick out.

"I know what it's like not to have those things out there," replied the kindly Nick. "I wasn't going to hold any grudges. Her socks were torn up."

Throughout Thursday night's episode, it appeared that Austin, not Nick, had a target on his back. And Nick agreed.

"It was a surprise to me to be voted out last night," he admitted.

So why him?

"Physical threat," said Nick. "You know, I surprised them during the challenge with, I guess, my strength, endurance, what have you. From then, it was, like they said in the meeting, Shane said, 'Look. We thought Austin was the main physical threat.' I think that spelled my demise."

Nick felt secure in his standing with the tribe but, as the weekly Secret Scene illustrated on The Early Show Friday, appearances can be deceiving. Everyone thought Austin was on the way out. (Even Austin himself thought so.) And in the Secret Scene, Nick said, "I'm crushed right now. It sucks. It's almost like if he (Austin) goes, I want to go."

As co-anchor Julie Chen pointed out, Nick kind of got his wish. "You had to go, but he stayed," she continued. "Does it sound like he's going to be the next one off?"

Replied Nick: "Could be. He's not looking so good right now. The Casaya tribe is convinced he's got the immunity idol."

Speaking of immunity idols, it sure looked like Terry, the leader of Nick's alliance of four, was behaving like a ratfink. Not only did he have the immunity necklace on but, in his pocket, he had the immunity idol that he got when he went to Exile Island. So it was in his power to save Austin or Nick.

So does Nick feel betrayed by his own leader?

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