I still think it's natalie trying to have keith as a vote in her back pocket and it really looks like keith has given up, so he's just like "keep me on longer, use me as a vote". Here's how i'm thinking natalie might be thinking.
It's going to be a final three,
natalie is thinking ok if i bring j/j with me no one will vote for them b/c they're horrible ppl, no one likes them and they've flip flopped everyones game to hell.
natalie is thinking ok if i bring missy/baylor with me no one will vote for them b/c no one in the world would like either of them.
I think this is like thinking that no one has thought of, keep 2 horrible couples together that no one on the jury likes, surround yourself with shitty ppl and the jury has to vote for you.
In a numbers game, no one would want to go against the couples in a final 3, b/c you think "oh damn, that's 66% chance of me not winning" but it's really 50% b/c ppl aren't voting for 1 person, they're voting them like a unit, and if you keep that unit/couple in the final 3, then neither of them can affect the jury back in ponderosa.
If natalie got rid of jacklyn now, she'd be in ponderosa chatting up a storm of how good jon is this and how jon is that for the next few days, that might work on these dumb jurors.
and with keith in her back pocket, he's a pawn, not a partner.