Eagan native Eva Erickson entered the fourth episode of “Survivor 48” as a potential target for her tribe, Lagi, to send packing.

But then host Jeff Probst announced they would be switching tribes, going from two teams of six and one of three to three teams of five. After the swap, Erickson remained in Lagi with sales expert Star Toomey and picked up stuntman David Kinne and flight attendant Charity Nelms from Civa and substance abuse counselor Mary Zheng from Vula.

Erickson, the show’s first openly autistic castaway, did not take the news well. In the switch, she lost her main ally, fire captain Joe Hunter, to Vula. And her relationship with Toomey has been strained, to say the least.

“I don’t like change, I don’t deal with change well,” she told the camera. “And this big change about to happen is making me very on edge. Joe is the only person that I told about having autism and how to help me and what to do. And the thought of leaving Joe and thinking about not having him by my side, it makes me scared.”

Erickson was then shown squeezing her hands, which she previously said helps her calm down when she’s overstimulated.

“Love you sis,” Hunter said to Erickson as he hugged her goodbye. “All right, be strong out there. All right? I’ll see you soon, OK?”

Once Erickson returned to camp with her new tribemates, she shared another reason she was upset by the switch.

“The first thing I noticed is that it’s all girls and one man,” she said. “This is a complete flip from anything in my life. I play on an all-men’s hockey team. I don’t have friends who are girls. Also, Joe and I have been super close since the beginning of this game and going at it alone is scary and new.”

However, she immediately struck up a friendship with Kinne, a handsome, muscular and outgoing guy with an odd backstory. (He currently lives in a trailer in front of his father’s home and says he’s in love with a woman who will only marry him if he can buy them a house and allow her to become a stay-at-home mom. Oh, and he also loves drinking chocolate milk.)

The pair immediately bonded over their shared love of jet skis and, later, the fact that Kinne grew up with three sisters and was used to taking care of them.

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“Dude, I was stressed just because I was, like, I’m gonna be away from Joe and Shauhin (Davari) and like those are my people,” Erickson told Kinne. “And so I’m glad I found another person that I can be, like, hey you’re gonna be one of my people.”

Erickson also swiftly threw Toomey under the bus, telling her new teammates that she’s “offering her up on a silver platter if we have to get there.”

Kinne then told the camera he was more interested in booting Nelms, saying he hasn’t trusted her from day one.

But that all turned out to be just talk as Lagi continued their winning streak at the combined reward/immunity challenge. Erickson remains safe, for now at least.

“Survivor 48” airs at 7 p.m. Wednesdays on CBS and streams the next day on Paramount+.