Epsiode 5 chat

Welcome to the conversation about episode 5 of season 46 of survivor!

“Tiki Man”

Feel free to head down to the comments, that is where the fun is, the play by plays, the astute observations, and of course that’s where the friendships are happening.

The detailed episode write-up has been finished!! Friday night, 12:39am (Saturday morning, I guess) Enjoy!

I’ll be watching the show with the NY time zone tonight and I’ll be taking quick notes which will display here.

Later I will stream it again, to watch and pause so that I can add important details like – Who all was involved in that conversation? What exactly did that person say? Challenge details and where each tribe was in the running at each stage of the challenge – to my notes. I tend to finish up my final notes by Sunday morning, so if you are interested in the season but unable to watch, keep checking back for updates to this report.

Sometime over the weekend I will watch the show a third time, just for fun, with my late-watching Survivor pals. So, if YOU are also a late watcher, please don’t hesitate to add your comments to the conversation! The more the merrier!!

Here are the pictures to remind us of who everyone is:

 

Here is a reminder of who has which advantage:

 

Here is a reminder of the previews we were shown at the end of the previous episode:

• Yanu(purple): Kenzie: “What will Yanu lose today?” Tiffany: “Our minds!”
• Nami(orange): Soda searches for an idol, tells us we wouldn’t want it to fall into the wrong hands. Camera shifts from Soda to Tevin and lands on Venus to stay.
• Siga(green): Jem walks while Tim asks her, “You moved the Beward Advantage?” she responds, “I don’t know much about that.” Tim tells camera that somebody is not telling the truth. We’re all suspects. Jem runs through the woods, glancing behind her.

 

Links to past discussions:

• BACK TO MAIN PAGE.
• Episose 1 “This is Where Legends are Made”
• Episode 2 “Scorpio Energy”
• Episode 3 “Wackadoodles Win”
• Episode 4 “Don’t Touch the Oven”

3 things I’ve figured out online cuz I was curious:

1/ Bhanu has lived in the USA for around 10 years and his partner is named George. I think there could have been space for an emotionally volatile man who over shares to have still had a great time in this game, I wish it hadn’t been so upsetting for him.

2/ The bandaging on the front and back of Ben’s right shoulder cover tattoos which are trademarked images. It’s not an injury.

3/ Here is  link to Ben’s music in Spotify.

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Alright, Survivor Fans ready?

Let the game begin!

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The fleshing out of my show scribbles has been finished. Enjoy!

Recaps:

• The first journey where Jelensky folded before Maria, and Tevin reminds us that Maria and Tevin both have different votes. This whole time I assumed this meant: an extra vote at any future Tribal Council that Maria or Tevin attend, but in tonight’s episode I noticed that her extra vote card had a lot of words on it, I think they said something about the vote not being available until only six players remain in the game. I will clarify when I stream to that part of the episode.
• We are reminded of Tiffany finding her beware advantage and eventually finding her hidden immunity idol.
• We watch Siga(green) digging under that tree, through the biting-ant-infested dirt digging for the beware advantage that Jem had already found.
• We watch Ben and Bhanu lose their challenges and lose their votes on their journey.
• We then watch a series of meltdowns from poor Bhanu who didn’t have a heck of a lot of fun during his time on Survivor. Tiffany tells him that she is gonna write his name that night. “But it’s not about the million dollars, all I want to do is win a million hearts.” Tribal Council, Kenzie: “You won MY heart, Bhanu.” Bhanu’s torch is snuffed and away he goes. (Jeez, if I had just lived through as emotional a few days as he just created for himself – all that wailing and dramatic behaviours and all – I’d have a KILLER of a headache by now!)

Night 9 Yanu(purple) tribe comes home after Tribal Council. They acknowledge that they are the smallest team ever, that this has been hard on Bhanu, and that though he is a lovely and sweet person, it doesn’t make him the best Survivor player.  Tiffany eloquently summarizes: “We all knew that we weren’t gonna be able to play the game we wanted to AND teach Bhanu how to play the game at the same time.”  She is happy with the three that are left, Kenzie and Q are her two closest allies in the game.

They do seem to work well together. Sometimes I imagine if Bhanu had landed in Siga(green) instead of Yanu(purple), what might have been different for him? It might have made life a little more difficult for Yani(green), but his extreme emotional reactions might also have been accepted as part of who he is, putting him more at ease. Even moreso, I think of this for Jess, because she never had a chance with the people of Yanu(purple)-INCLUDING Bhanu, because she is a different sort of person than they are. I think that her calm and sincere disposition might have fit in great with a more “vibe tribe” type of group, she might have been celebrated by her tribe, instead of put to shame over who she is.

Tiffany doesn’t think they will win the next immunity challenge either, all of them start repeating that they are the worst tribe in Survivor history. This brings the tribe down. They’ve had no fire for 10 days. They are very hungry, tired, cold, and dejected. Kenzie cries: “This tribe needs to win. We need some food, and to just have fun. It’s just, we don’t have fire, we can’t do anything. It’s just tough, tough, tough, tough.”  Q: “We just need to make it through the next phase.”

Opening credits.

Siga(green) Day 10

“It’s crazy being in a hell-hole in, like, the most beautiful place on earth.” Ben, laying uncomfortably on their sheltered bamboo platform in the rain. Before this another man was groaning about his sore back. All six of them are huddled together in the shelter. They are depleted. Sore. Cold. Tired. Hungry. Did I mention it’s raining? Ben continues: “I remember I read the Motley Crue (imagine two dots above the “o” of Motley and the “u” of Crue) autobiography, “The Dirt,” when I was in, like, middle school, and Tommy Lee talked about coming to Fiji and living in, like, a bungalow…I’m like, This ain’t that.

Ben to camera: “You know, I’ve been getting more depleted every day, cuz the shelter of pain is not a condo or a luxury hotel room. But, ah, anytime you suffer is another opportunity to learn the depths of your mind.”

Ben has a bit of a headspin, and Charlie offers to get him more water. What a helpful dude.

Ben continues to camera: “Ya, I’m really thankful for Charlie, he’s been looking out for me. But, like, I have had some survival experiences. You ever been stuck in a van with the same six people for two months, surviving off three dollars at Taco Bell a day? It is not easy!” He laughs.

Soon it stops raining and ‘Sir Ben’ and ‘Sir Charlie’ playfully (and tiredly) walk ‘off to war’ down a pathway through the brush. The three women lay out in the sun on the beach, trying to warm up, and share misgivings about the obvious bond that is growing between the two men. Camera shows a view of the three men standing in the water, very close to each other, holding the fishing gear like they might be preparing to go fishing. Will Charlie stay true to his three Angels? Or will he become loyal to a male alliance? Maria reminds the other two women that no matter what the men are scheming, “we got to him first.”

Moriah to camera: “I do trust Jem, Maria and Charlie, where I worry is, Ben and Charlie chatting, and Ben is the most charismatic and likable, enjoyable guy I have ever met in my life.”

Ben and Charlie walking through the underbrush, Charlie: “People on our tribe just know how awesome you are, you know?” Ben (singing it at the end): “They know how awesome YOU are!”

Moriah to camera: “It seems Charlie’s Bens, like, special buddy, especially when they’re just, like, going on hour-long music, song battles.”

• Ben: “Danger”
• Charlie: “The Last Great American Dynasty”
• Ben: “I Love it Loud”
• Charlie: “Peace”
• Ben: “Killer”
• Charlie: “Hoax”
• Ben: “I Still Love You”
• Charlie: “Mad Woman”
• They both laugh

Moriah continues to camera: “Ben can charm anyone. It’s a little bit intimidating. You can’t just say, ‘my alliance member,’ People change, people make their own decisions.”

Back to the women, warming their bodies in the sandy beach, they decide to prioritize their vote outs. If they have to go to tribal tonight, their short-run choice of who they should vote out is Tim. If they don’t need to go to tribal tonight, their long-run choice of who they should vote out is Ben. Jem is thrilled that the other two think that one of the guys has found the hidden immunity idol. She reminds the camera that she has the beware advantage, and she hid everything that wasn’t important in a place where it would be found, and days have been spent digging under the tree, and finally they decided to fill it in again because they accepted that there is nothing there. She figures this works to her advantage, because now the women suspect Ben or Tim of having the idol, are poised to vote one of them out and the women are running the show.

Tribe walks out onto the beach and Maria decides it is a nice day for a Salsa dance lesson. All six of them are involved in the Salsa lesson. It’s lovely, fun, heart warming and beautiful.

• All, in unison, while stepping: “Five, six, seven, eight. One, Two, Three, PAUSE. Five, Six, Seven, PAUSE.”
• Ben: “I want to see Charlie get the hips going,” wiggling his hips while he laughingly speaks.
• Charlie tries it with good success. The editors add Salsa music, and the girls squeal in delight.
• Ben: “Cha-Cha-Charlie, man!”
• Charlie to camera: “It’s amazing, I thought it would take a few, you know, Dirty Shirley Temples, to get me in that type of mood, but out on Survivor, you’re just having so much fun with each other.”
• Ben: “Yeah, let’s go! Bite that lip!”
• Charlie, biting out in a Salsa-ey way, “Arrh!”
• All, while dancing: “Four, five, six, seven PAUSE”
• Charlie continues to camera: “You know, the salsa may seem goofy, but it’s all part of the strategy, if you think about it, you know, It’s going to be very important for me to really be in lockstep with my number one ally, Maria.We’re trying to walk the tightrope of the middle of this tribe, and you’ve got Tim and Ben on one side and Jem and Moriah on the other. So Maria and I are really in control. I don’t think anyone knows we’re really working closely together, and that’s so powerful, so I want to keep it that way.”
• Dance finishes, all cheer, standing in a tight circle on the beach.

 

Nami(orange) Day 10

Laying in the shelter, Liz feels pressure from the idol searching efforts of others in the tribe and tells Hunter that she should look for an idol too. Hunter, laying nearby, stretched out on a log: “There’s just so many nooks and crannies to scour.”  He gets up. “While we’re here, I have some stuff around here we can look at. Since it’s just me and you, and I don’t care if you know if I find it.” Liz says she will close her eyes.

Hunter tells camera that everyone is worried about the idol because we are getting so close to the merge. We see clips of other tribe members searching. Soda bends over and pokes at the underbrush with a long stick. Tevin stands at a crossroads holding a shovel and circles slowly around. We see Hunter climbing, digging, poking around, while he tells us he has been going all over the place looking for this idol.

• While Hunter narrates, “I feel like I’m walking by it, and, you know, the camera pans to it, and ping, there it is but I don’t see it.” He walks by it and the camera pans to it. And ping, there it is! He doesn’t see it.
• Tevin to camera: “I don’t know what the hell going on with the idol. I don’t know if there’s more than one, if there’s two, if there’s three, if there’s none. So I don’t know where to even look. And no one seems to have found it. I think every person has looked for the idol except Liz.” While he speaks, we see clips of every one looking for the idol, and then we see Liz laying in the shelter.
• Liz to camera: “I’m just sitting at the shelter. I keep telling people, “I’m not gonna look.” I’m not gonna search for an idol, I can barely find my shoes.”
• Soda to camera: “Looking for an idol is just so difficult. It is so dense out here. It’s almost impossible to scour every little inch. There may be one coconut you don’t turn over, but there’s like a million coconuts. It’s exhausting. And at the same time, you don’t want it to fall into the wrong hands.” Camera immediately lands on Venus.
• Venus spies Hunter beyond some ferns. “What is that man looking for? I’m gonna go spoil his fun.” She walks over to Hunter. “What are you reaching in there for?”
• Hunter: “An idol.” You can see in his face that she has succeeded in spoiling his fun.
• Venus: “In my mind, it’s day ten, and I’m pretty sure that sucker is found. And I guess I was wrong in assuming you found it.”
• Venus to camera: “This advantage has really weighed on my mind because I know Randen found it and he was medivacced with that Beware Advantage in his pocket, so, it’s probably back in the game. Hunter knows this island better than anyone, so Hunter, if you’re finding that idol, I will find it with you. I’m shameless. I will literally follow you, and if I’m annoying you, I don’t care.”
• Venus to Hunter: “It would be near a landmark, no?”
• Hunter to Venus: I don’t know, I mean, in the other season, it was, like, tied to the top of a bush, and then, in, like, those little cracks of those things. And so, I think the era of the landmark has kind of like, passed.”
• Hunter to camera: “Venus keeps following me around AS I’m looking for an idol. So, I automaticaly just sit down and stop searching. I don’t want her to know if I find it.”
• Venus: “Realistically, Hunter, if we do go into any kind of merge, we have to pick out who the biggest threat is. People might be thinking you.”
• Hunter: “Okay, but you don’t think that?”
• Venus: “No, I do, but I …”
• Hunter: “So you want to vote me out today?”
• Venus: “I don’t because I consider you a meat shield.”
• Hunter to camera: “Come on, man, I know that I am a huge challenge threat. That’s why I’m looking for idols and stuff. I wish she would just leave me alone.”
• Venus: “Can you believe we’re halfway through and we haven’t even started playing? It’s unheard of.”
• Hunter: “It’s pretty fun.”
• Venus: “Okay, good luck idol hunting.
• Hunter: “Thank you.”
• Venus, as she walks away: “I’m rooting for you.”
• Hunter: “I’m rooting for us. For Nami.” He watches her leave, and only when he is sure she is leaving, he begins to get up to resume his search.
• Hunter to camera: “After our really cagey, awkward conversation, Venus finally decides to leave me alone. And then I can get back to really looking. And then I see it: The Beware Advantage. It’s about time!”

He grabs it from the tree, it’s resting in a palm tree at about neck level. “Oh, golly…” He snatches it up. He digs and finds the box. On the box there is a little scroll. He reads the note written in the scroll:

“There is a hidden immunity idol in this box, but the box requires a key to open it. The location of the key will remian a mystery until after your tribe loses a future immunity challenge. Once your tribe loses, return to this location to receive further instructions. Until you have taken possession of the idol, you cannot vote at the Tribal Council.”

Hunter to camera: “I do want to have this idol, but now I have to wait until my tribe loses? Looking at the performance of the other tribes, it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen very soon! Thankfully, there’s a clause that says if we don’t lose, I still have an opportunity to get it. I know that I am in trouble if the merge hits. I know that I need as many weapons and tools as I can have going into it, and so, this could be game changing for me.” He buries his treasure in sand under some scattered twigs and branches.

 

Commercial Break 13:47

 

Yanu(purple) Day 10. It’s raining again. Kenzie and Tiffany lay in their shelter and Tiffany wonders why rain is coming through their tarp. They ought to be dry. Q lays alone under that rock we found the four of them sleeping under a couple episodes ago. He also looks cold, but at least the rain isn’t dripping through the tarp onto him. Sitting up, he acknowledges to the camera that they have it tough right now, and that they still do not have flint, that it’s rained just about every day, and he’s hungry – he hasn’t eaten in ten days, and sleeping or even sitting on the bamboo – or even looking at the bamboo at this point is getting on his nerves.

He walks over to the camp to find the rest of his tribe laying where we first found them this morning, talking about how they are running strictly on adrenaline. “No tree mail,” he announces. While Kenzie acknowledges to the camera that Yanu is in a tough spot, she also appreciates how their tribal misfortune is almost commical to Tiff and herself. They love laughing over every new loss or potential loss. Kenzie: “What will Yanu lose today?” Tiffany: “Our minds!” Both: “Ha ha ha!”

Kenzie notes that Q seems to be getting really down.

• Q and Kenzie sit together near the shore. Q: “Eleven people left to go home.”
• Kenzie: “We can make it. We’ve, like, already fought so hard, and I don’t see, like, either one of us, like, stopping anytime soon.”
• The music takes a downward turn. Q: “I might.”
• Kenzie: “What?”
• Q: “I might.”
• Kenzie: “Stop? Don’t say that. Are you serious about that? Like you would just want to go?”
• Q: ” Yeah, I already told you, it’s not giving up. It’s accepting.”
• Kenzie to camera: “This morning, I could tell something was off. So now, Q has thrown himself on the sword. He’s telling us he’s ready to go. If someone’s saying, ‘send me home,’ that’s one step closer for me to the end.”
• Kenzie to Q: “Let’s just win.”

Q to camera: “It’s tempting to just give up and go home, but I would never do that. The reality of the situation is this: Regardless of the conditions, I’m willing to pass out and die before I quit. But I don’t want Kenzie to know that because if we have to go back to Tribal, I want Kenzie comfortable so she’s not gonna play  her Shot in the Dark.”

Q to Tiffany: “I’ve been saying it the whole time. I got one number one out here, and that’s just real.” Tiffany: “Absolutely.” Q: “Hey, have you noticed, when Kenzie walk up, the first thing she always ask is…’Whatcha y’all talkin ’bout?’?” Tiffany thinks about it a second, then laughs, “Yeah, I noticed that.” Scenes:

• Q and Tiffany sit on the boat near the shore.
• Kenzie approaches: “What are y’all talking about?”
• Tiffany: “Salmon.”
• Kenzie, sitting down on the ground nearby: “Oh.”

 

• Kenzie walking down a path to beside Q: “What are y’all talking about?”
• Tiffany, off camera: “Chopping up wood.”

 

• Q and Tiffany sitting on the boat again, reversed positions from before.
• Kenzie walks up: “What are y’all talking about?”
• Tiffany: “Coconuts versus papayas.”

 

• Tiffany and Q in swimsuits, hanging up laundry.
• Kenzie walks up: “What are y’all talking about?”
• Tiffany: “Q over here telling us to write his name down.”

Then back in the shelter, Tiffany continues the conversation with Q: “She nervous.” Tiffany to camera: “It would be devastatingly hard if we go to another Tribal Council, especially for me, because Kenzie’s expecting me to vote Q, and Q’s expecting me to vote Kenzie, which puts me in a really tough position. It forces me to have to choose between my two tightest allies. So I’m praying we don’t have to go back to Tribal Council, so I don’t have to make that decision.”

 

Siga(green) Day 10

Moriah talks about getting the fire going. Jem and Maria sit close to encourage and watch.

• Jem: “Those are some good shavings, Mo.”
• Sitting over by the shelter alone, Tim asks the idol: “Tiki Man, when am I gonna poop? Hmm? I don’t feel nothing yet.” Jem seems to look over at him, but it might be tricky editing. Tim continues, a little quieter: “Tiki Man, everybody…everybody want to be in our business. Everybody want to know what we’re talking about.”
• Tim to camera: “I’m feeling fine. I’m getting hungry, but I’m drinking enough. I haven’t pooped, so I don’t know, like, whether or not to be concerned.”
• Jem definitely looks over to Tim and Tiki Man. Tim: “I’m talking to Tiki Man.” Jem, smiling: “Oh.”
• Tim to camera: “But I feel good, nevertheless. You know, it is what it is. It’s Survivor, and I’m just trying to see it through for my family.”
• Whole group sits around a warm fire. Tim: Somebody moved the Beware Advantage. I’m trying to figure out who. Somebody lied and made me dig three feet.” Ben: “That would be the dickest move to make people dig for three days.” Moriah: “Yeah, and give them no-” Ben: “And kill a tree.”
• Tim to camera: “I have no idea who who put it there to play with us, these people are nuts. I’m talking about my tribe. Siga is nuts. Like, right now, we’re all suspects. I do feel like I trust Ben. Wew vibe, we’re hanging out.”
• Cut to a scene of Ben and Tim walking through tall grass, singing quietly together, “Brotherly love.”
• Tim continues: “Same for Maria, the parent connection is strong for us. Since the beginning.”
• Cut to a scene of Ben telling Maria: “And I still feel confident in you, Charlie, Ben and I.” Maria, nodding: “Ya, I think we’re a very strong four going forward.”

Tim continues talking to the camera: “I have a feeling about who did it. So I’m excited about putting the pieces together.” In a related scene, Tim and Jem walk down a path together.

• Tim: “Are you gonna talk about how you moved the Beware Advantage?”
• Jem, looks at him, face expressionless: “The – moved the what?”
• Tim: “How you moved the Beware Advantage?”
• Jem: “What Beware Advantage? I don’t know about that. I just don’t know about that.”
• Tim: “So you don’t have an idol?”
• Jem: “I don’t have an idol, I wish I –had an idol, I would not be freaking the — out right now.”
• Tim: “Why are you freaking out?”
• Jem: “I feel… I feel… You’re gonna make me upset, I really feel like I’m on the bottom.”
• Tim: “Don’t get it, nobody’s on the bottom.”
• Tim to camera: “I don’t believe her. Jem’s, like, acted weird. Ugh! I don’t like it. I do not like it.”
• Tim to Jem: “Somebody moved that Beware Advantage, yo.”
• Jem: “I think so too.”
• Tim to camera: “I’m not sure, but I think she’s fooling me and everybody else.”
• Tim to Jem: “I also heard that you were the leader of the girl’s alliance.”
• Jem: “There’s no girl’s alliance. There isn’t.”
• Tim: “You and Mo not tight? So who you tight with? Just me?”
• Jem: “I hon… Can I be honest?”
• Tim: “Yeah.”
• Jem: “I don’t feel like I have, like, a very tight relationship with anybody, so I don’t know what’s going on in your head.”
• Jem to camera: “Tim’s coming at me so hard for information, but I’m a fantastic liar, I just found it out! ‘Cause usually at home when I lie, I giggle, and, like, my husband knows when I lie. But I haven’t giggled at all, like, I just lied!”
• Tim to Jem: “What are you thinking… if you had to vote?”
• Jem: “Whoever pissed me off that day. But I know you and Ben have, like, this strong alliance.”
• Tim: “We are. Bros are tight.”
• Jem: “Yeah, and I know y’all are in an alliance, the two of you. Don’t play me.”
• Jem to camera: “Ben and Tim think they’re running the show, but the girls have control, which is great, ’cause when you’re playing this game, it’s either you or them, and that’s how I see it. So it’s either me, or Ben or Tim and so, it’s better them than me.

Commercials 20:40 I’m taking a break for the night.

I’ve been thinking about this conversation between Tim and Jem overnight last night after I typed it out. During airing, I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to it, because my mind was still thinking about the rich scene between Venus and Hunter, but it strikes me now that I really appreciate how forthright Tim is. He has his (correct) conclusions about who hid the clue, and he openly talks to her about it, because in his mind at least, she is his friend. He asks her about what he knows to be true and then pays close attention to her responses. (What does he do in real life, that gives him such good interrogation skills? He is a father, and he coaches sports.) Jem might think that she is being a good liar because she is able to not do the “tell” that her husband uses as a shortcut to tell her when he knows that she is lying, but there are other ways to tell when a person is lying. A person can sense that something is off in the conversation, and that is not a ‘tell’ that the liar can control, that is a person recognizing that there is insincereity in the interaction.

 

Day 11 Immunity Challenge with Rewards

As the aerial video clip zooms in on the challenge, I can see that it is set up for 3 tribes. This tells me that there will not be a merge today, though it’s possible that tribe members might be moved around to create 3 tribes more equal in size. However, as things play out, it becomes clear that all tribes will play as they are, with sit outs to make the competition even. As Siga(green) and Nami(orange) get their first look at the new Yanu(purple) tribe, everyone nods when they see that Bhanu is gone. They were expecting that. Jeff tells players that losers will be voting the fifth person out of the game and they will lose their flint. Winners will get watermelon, pastries and fruit; lots for first to finish and significantly less for the second tribe who finishes. He teases Yanu(purple) about losing all the time, that if they lose today they will be the tribe with the most losses in the new era, and that they already are the tribe who has gone the longest without flint in the new era.

Sit outs:

• Siga(green): Ben, Charlie and Moriah
• Nami(orange): Liz and Soda

One at a time, players must race through a massive, three level obstacle course, each player releasing three bags containing a key along the way. There are 3 bags, marked 1, 2 and 3, and they must all be collected in order. This dictates the route each player must take through the obstacle course.

• Siga(green): Tim finishes first, doesn’t even use the ladder. Maria, Jem. Siga finishes first.
• Nami(orange): Hunter finishes second. Tevin, Venus. Nami finishes second.
• Yanu(purple): Kenzie, Tiffany, Q. Yanu finishes third, a fair way behind.

One person will use those keys to unlock a long hook, but first they have to find the keys and figure out which one will unlock their hook. Who did each tribe elect to do so:

• Nami(orange): Hunter is first to unlock hook.
• Yanu(purple): Q is second to unlock hook, does it quickly.
• Siga(green): Tim is last to unlock hook.

Use hook to release sandbags, who unwound the rope and released the sandbags:

• Nami(orange): Hunter finishes first.
• Siga(green): Tim finishes second.
• Yanu(purple): Q finishes third, way behind the others. Tevin at Venus have already hit their targets before he finishes releasing the purple  sandbags.

All three tribemates pick up and carry the sandbags to a box, the sandbags must all be in the box before they can start shooting. This is the order that tribes complete filling their boxes with sandbags:

• Nami(orange) is first
• Siga(green) is second
• Yanu(purple) is third, by a long shot.

Race to fire those sandbags at three targets, each player must hit one target. It ends with Tim and Q, neck in neck. This is the order that the tribes begin shooting:

• Nami(orange): Tevin, Venus hits her target in one shot, Hunter also does it in one shot.
• Siga(green): Maria eventually takes a break. Jem hits target on her first shot. Maria tries again and hits it. Tim does not hit it.
• Yanu(purple): Tiffany hits her target with her first shot. Kenzie gets it on her first shot. Q eventually hits it, with dramatic slow motion effects edited in.

This is the order that tribes complete the challenge:

• Nami(orange) wins first place, remains undefeated.
• Yanu(purple) wins their first immunity challenge of the season.
• Siga(green) will head to Tribal Council for the first time.

Cameras focus on the various positive reactions to Yanu(purple) finally winning an immunity challenge. Q whisper pants to his tribe: “This is beautiful. This is beautiful, man. This is the feeling we haven’t felt yet. Is this what it feels like to win?” Kenzie: “We get to hold an idol!” Tiffany gushes over the fact that they will get fire, she had forgotten about that. Flint. Idol. Food. Great relief. Jeff asks each member of purple tribe a pointed question.

• Jeff: “What is that feeling, right now, Tiff, to be holding that idol?”
• Tiffany: ” Honestly…it feels so good, but all I can think about right now is that I’m not gonna wake up freezing cold tomorrow. It’s been so hard sleeping without fire for the last 11 days. Like, brutal. I’m just so happy, Jeff.” (camera shows many other players nodding in understanding.)
• Jeff: “Kenzie, what’s the feeling? It’s been a very long losing streak for Yanu.”
• Kenzie: “This feeling is new to us. All we really know is losing, and we have lost half of our tribe. So the fact that we get to keep some – us together, like some semblance of Yanu moving forward, it’s…You know, we were preparing for the worst this morning. We were like, ‘What if we have to go down to two?’  because that’s all we knew. So this is just a little bit of security in a game where we haven’t had any.” (she hugs Tiffany, who stands in the middle of the three players.)

A large tray of pastries and fruit will be waiting for Nami(orange) when they return to camp, and a smaller tray of pastries and fruit will be waiting for Yanu(purple) when they return to camp. Siga(green) will go to Tribal Council tonight, where on the eleventh night of the game they will finally lose their first tribe mate, the fifth person voted out of Survivor 46, and they will lose their flint.

Before Jeff sends them on their way, there will be a Journey. Nami(orange), as the winning tribe gets to choose who goes. They elect Hunter, who asks for volunteers, giving the other tribes their own choice of who will go with him. Yanu(purple) sends Q, and Siga(green) sends Tim. As everybody leaves, I worry that the winning tribes who return to camp will be so hungry that they won’t remember to save any food for Q or Hunter.

Charlie to camera: “We’ve been the vibe tribe for the whole first eleven days. The thing about vibes is they can go from good to bad, and it’s just terrifying. Tonight’s our first time at Tribal, and everyone’s got the feeling of dread all over their body.”

 

Commercials break  35:17 I’m gonna take a break too, and have some breakfast.

 

During the boat ride of The Journey, I could be wrong, but it seems like they are heading to the same sand bar island where the other Journeys took place. Q gets a chance to talk to the camera about how he felt about winning (I think that after the Immunity Challenge, Kenzie’s answer to Jeff’s question might have taken a bit too long, and maybe Jeff didn’t feel there was time to ask Q afterwards.) Q talks to camera, while we watch the Journey boat land on the sand bar: “Winning feels amazing. I’m feeling the best that I’ve felt in 11 days. I’m excited, ready and eager to have a bro moment at this Journey. I couldn’t wait.” His voice, the way he forms his words, all sounds excited and raring to go.

Hunter, Q, and Tim knuckle punch each other and talk through each other, I think all of them are excited to have a bro moment together.

• Hunter: “That was a good win, man, I’m glad you got your flint, man.”
• Tim: “I’m glad you got your flint….I was pissed we lost, but…But-“
• Q: “We-we..we haven’t eaten since we got on the beach.”
• Hunter: “Oh, yeah. Have y’all had a fire yet?”
• Q: “No!”
• Hunter: “I didn’t hink y’all did.”
• Q: “Never. Only thing we’ve had was one coconut a day.”
• Tim: “Damn.”
• Tim: “So we’re looking at one more vote before a merge, possibly.”
• Tim: “Yeah.”
• Q: “If we get to the merge – the physical threats – it’s only really three of us…we gonna have to stick together, regardless.”
• Hunter: “We’re gonna have to figure something out, yeah.”
• Q: “We gonna have to stick together, regardless.”
• Tim: “For the Merge, yeah.”
• Q: “And the only thing that I can think of is, if you get one person you trust,” Q looks at and points at Tim.
• Tim, nodding: “Yeah.”
• Q: “I get one person I trust,” gestures to himself, “you get one person you trust,” looks at and points at Hunter.
• Hunter, nodding: “Yeah.”
• Q: “So if we can do that, we can make it to six, and may the best man win.”
• Tim: “Yeah.”
• Hunter: “What about Tiffany? Is she – is she with you?”
• Q: “Tiff. Tiff would be my one.”
• Hunter: “Okay, okay.”
• Q: “I don’t know who would be your one,” (looks at and gestures at Hunter) “who would be your one, maybe Jem.” (looks and gestures at Tim.)
• Tim: “Maria’s got the extra vote, so I’m using her as my one. She’s strong and we’re both…we’re the only parents over there.”
• Q nods at Tim, “Maria for you.” looks over to Hunter.
• Hunter: “Yea. Tevin.”
• Q: “And Tevin for you.”
• Hunter: “Tevin.”
• Tim: “Are we solid on this alliance?”
• Q: “I’m solid. I-I swear to you guys.”
• Tim: “I’m solid on this…”
• Hunter: “Yeah, I’m fine with this.” Knuckle punches all around.
• Q, to camera: “Hunter, myself and Tim are the biggest threats, physically. So we agree that the three of us pick one person on our tribe, and let’s go to the final six. I think that’s a good plan.”

Sounds like a great deal for Q, anyway, usually the losing tribe is the first ones to go, because of their lower voting numbers. Hunter nodded a lot, but I noticed that he didn’t say the words “I am solid on this alliance,” like the others did. Time will tell whether he sincerely feels it is a good idea. Q kinda took charge and it felt to me almost like he railroaded the others into it, however, maybe they do all need each other, and maybe they were all hoping for something like this.

“Today, one of you will have a chance to earn an advantage in the game. But if you fail, you lose your vote at your next Tribal Council. Decide amongst yourselves who will compete. If you cannot come to a group decision, you will draw rocks to decide. The two white rocks will return to their camps. The one blue rock will make their way down the beach to test their Survivor knowledge.”

The three men now prepare to read about their challenge. One person has the chance to win the advantage, but with the risk of losing their next vote if he fails. The other two return to their camps with no risk of losing their vote. Tim is a super fan and is confident in his ability, but he has Tribal tonight, and does not want to risk his vote. Q feels that he has almost no Survivor knowledge.  Hunter willingly agrees to do it.  More knuckle punches. Hunter: “We’ll see what happens.”

Hunter to camera: “The Journey is awesome because you have an opportunity to meet people and, you know, whatever connections you can have, I’ll take. And now, if I can get a big advantage from this, it would be amazing.”

The challenge: “You must arrange these twenty Survivor logos in chronological order.” They include the following:

• Survivor (Borneo, season 1)
• Survivor Marquesas
• Survivor Thailand
• Survivor Pearl Islands
• Survivor Vanuatu Islands of Fire
• Survivor Quatemala The Maya Empire
• Survivor Panama Exile Island
• Survivor Cook Islands
• Survivor Fiji
• Survivor Tocantins
• Survivor Samoa
• Survivor South Pacific
• Survivor Caramoan Fans vs Favourites
• Survivor Cagayan
• Survivor San Juan Del Sur Blood vs Water
• Survivor Cambodia Second Chance
• Survivor Kaoh Rong
• Survivor Game Changers
• Survivor Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers
• Survivor David and Goliath

Would you be able to do this? I sure wouldn’t! Even though I’ve never missed an episode, I sure can’t keep track of all the titles, let alone the order they aired in.

Hunter to camera: “I think I’ve been doing pretty well, but also, it’s just fun to walk down memory lane and be inspired by all the other people who have played before.”

Hunter reasons through the challenge demonstrating his impressive memory and logic. Even so, he ends up with a losing 8 right out of the 20, so he loses his next vote. He points out that when he was introduced to Survivor, it was through his college room mate who played the series for Hunter in order of his own favourite seasons, not in the order the seasons were aired.

Hunter to camera: ” I lost my vote because I didn’t know the order of the logos. Which sounds terrible, but if this whole plan works with Q and Tim — The brochachos, like, the meathead thing — that’s good for my game. Those connections going into merge could be worth a million dollars.

 

Commercials Break 42:15

 

Yanu(purple) Day 11
Kenzie and Tiff happily sit in their shelter eating their share of the reward feast, which is decorated with pretty Hibiscus flowers. Q has not returned to them, but I can imagine after 11 days of barely eating, it must feel impossible to wait for him. When he does return, they tell him that they have saved him a third of everything. Yanu(purple) tribe is feeling very happy for a change. Kenzie and Q create a fire with their flint and the three of them are super happy to be able to just relax as friends for a change. After eating a bit, Q happily talks with the idol: “Hey buddy, you like Q? I like you too.” The three of them gaze at the fire, hug, and call themselves the Comeback Kids.

 

Siga(green) sits talking together in a circle, without Tim, who is still away on his Journey.

• Moriah: “It didn’t fall our way today, but -“
• Ben: “You know, I will say even though Yanu won, and we’re obviously here, like, people need a moment … to feel a little sane, and I’m glad they finally got one.” Nods all around.
• Moriah: “We’ve had a blessing of a time out here, 11 days, six strong.”
• Moriah to camera: “Going to Tribal, it’s our first vote. People are scared, and we have this wonderful, looming question mark of what idols and advantages are gonna come out of the woodworks tonight.” She goes on to list the possible advantages and disadvantages that she knows of or suspects, she does not know about, so does not mention Jem, who is not yet searching for the clue to complete her Beware Advantage.
• Jem: “We’ve never dealt with this before, so I want to go idol hunting, and I’m not talking as a group, I’m talking, like, idol hunting.”
• Charlie: “Yeah, just go do your thing, all right.”
• Maria: “All right. I think everybody goes and does whatever they want to do.”
• Moriah: “Yeah.”
• Ben looks around at everyone as they get up and walk away with kind of an expression on his face…sad? bewildered? dissappointed? puzzled?

Jem immediately starts looking for and digging up her next clue while talking privately to the camera about her missing vote, how she needs to get it back, how she needs the hidden immunity idol.

“Grab the tribe’s machete and measure the following items: perimeter of your tribes boat. Width of logo on your tribe flag. Perimeter of Treemail. Once you have your measurements, put them in the following equation: Boat times logo plus treemail equals x machete lengths from the spot where your idol was buried towards the ocean. Then dig.”

Jem returns to camp, gets the machete, makes all those measurements, completes the equation, counts out her steps, and digs up the rope with the key, unlocks her box, and claims her Hidden Immunity Idol – all without anyone noticing that she did so. She now has her vote and she has her full advantage in the game: Hidden Immunity Idol. She tells us that this was her dream to achieve in this game, and she is proud that she did it, all with nobody knowing. Jem: “Now I have to make sure that the women plus Charlie are still going strong, so there’s no way tonight that Ben or Tim is not going home.”

 

Commercials Break. 48:21

 

Siga(green) Day 11

Jem asks Maria and Moriah what they think Tim is going to come back with. Maria thinks its for sure that he is coming back with something, but she also thinks that he already has something. Moriah: “We think he has the idol for sure.” They discuss how they want to vote tonight. They think voting Ben is playing it safe, because voting Tim if he has something to play is too risky.  Maria counts the votes they have, including Maria’s two, equals 5, with Charlie voting their way also. They decide to lock down on putting three on Ben and two on Tim, but to follow up with Charlie. Maria tells us that she is willing to use her extra vote because Tim potentially has an idol, so they have to take out Ben. She states that their plan is very fool-proof. The women talk with Charlie who easily goes along with them while they are in their group of four, but later, alone with Maria, he will express his real opinion, which differs from what he agreed to here. Charlie to camera: “Ben is the target. Bam, it’s like my heart plummeted in a second.” He talks to the camera about how close he’s grown to Ben over the past couple days. Moriah feels bad for Charlie and talks alone with him: “Can I just say this as a friend? I know this is really difficult for you, because you’ve gotten really close and I’m, I’m really sorry that you, like…” Charlie: “I know, it sucks, but he’s a really big threat, like…” Charlie to camera: “People are talking about Ben as a big-time social threat. He’s a magnetic guy, he’s charismatic, he’s funny, it’s true. People like Ben a lot. I like Ben a lot, and I want to keep him around, because, ultimately, Ben is an asset.”

A boat appears, and Tim returns home to camp. The six sit together around their dead campfire pit and listen while Tim tells them about his Journey. He mentions that it is about Survivor knowledge, that Hunter says he will do it, that he himself didn’t do it, that nothing happened, that he didn’t get anything. Jem doesn’t believe him, still want’s to vote out Ben in case Tim has something to block votes sent his way. She also reveals that she will bring the idol with her tonight in case she needs to use it. She thinks that Ben and Tim are up to something big, so she is determined to find out what their plan is. She takes Ben on a walk, carrying the machete, and grills him. Ben is playfully carrying a hammer and banging it against things with playful energy.

• Jem: “Listen, I know you and Tim have a really strong relationship….”
• Ben: “Everybody says that, but you don’t…we don’t…”
• Jem: “Listen…this is not the moment, this is Jem, okay, okay? okay?”
• Ben: “If you only knew what we laugh about.”
• Jem: “I don’t care what you laugh about, but I want to be part of the laugh, is what I’m saying.”
• Ben: “Okay. I don’t know, dude, you’re holding a machete.”
• Jem: “Honestly, but, like, whoever you want to vote for, like, let me know, and I will vote with you, whoever you guys think, please, tell me, honestly. I’m all about honesty.”
• Ben, laughing: “Yeah. I hate just being confronted. I’m all about honesty too.”
• Ben to camera: “Jem corners me. She’s trying to get some information, ’cause she’s gunning for me. You just know when you know. She’s holding the machete, so I grab the hammer. I’m, like, trying to hold my space…”
• Jem to Ben: “Tonight is do-or-die. Yeah.”
• Ben: “I know, it’s do-or-die.”
• Jem: “Ya, and I will not flip. I’m looking you straight in the eyeballs.”
• Ben: “I know.”
• Jem: “I’m not blinking and I will not flip. Trust in your gut.”
• Ben to camera: “She’s like, ‘Go with your gut.’ and my gut is telling me Jem’s playing at all costs, and if we keep her around, she’s just gonna screw us at the next vote, because she’s so, like…It’s chaos mode. And I know she approached Tim, ’cause I saw it and heard it.”
• Scene changes to Ben in the bushes, following Tim and Jem as they walked together earlier in the day, and Ben listens as Jem says, ‘Let me know who to vote for, and look at me, I will vote with you….You’re not looking at me. Tell me what I gotta do.’
• Ben continues to camera: “I’m just hoping we take Jem out. The problem is, nobody knows I don’t have a vote.”
• Charlie, Tim, and Ben walk together, Ben: “Jem’s in chaos mode.” Tim: “Yeah, I bet.” Ben: “I had to grab the hammer ’cause she was holding the machete.” The other guys laugh. “And she goes, ‘you know I’m loyal, like, you know we can work together.’ And she just keeps interrupting me.” Tim: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I’m with us voting for Jem.”
• Ben to camera: “Me not having a vote, it definitely blows, but, like, Jem – she’s kind of, like, made everybody feel a little bit on edge. She’s on endgame mode. But if you come into a game like this already thinking about the million dollars and you’re not thinking about every step along the way, you’re never gonna get there.”
• Ben, still holding the hammer, to Maria, with Charlie there too: “Jem confronting all of us like that…Chaos energy is not my energy.”
• Maria: “Now potentially you DON’T have a vote?”
• Ben: “Just assuming I don’t have it, right? If you, Tim, and Charlie stick on Jem, it’s still a majority.”
• Charlie to camera: “Maria and I have been playing the middle the entire time we’ve been out here. I go back and forth. I think Maria goes back and forth and right now we’re at that crossroads.”

Charlie and Maria meet alone in a private place, and respectfully debate which way to vote. Maria leans towards a Ben vote, and Charlie leans towards a Jem vote. Maria feels nervous that Charlie feels close to Ben. Charlie: “I’ll tell you where my head’s at with Ben. We need threats in FRONT of us, he’s a shield. He is a charisma, rock and roll shield.” Maria remains unconvinced, but they will work together, whatever they decide.

Ben: “Tonight we find out the alliances.”

Moriah: “Line in the sand!”

Charlie to camera: “Tonight at Tribal, there’s no more flip flopping, it’s all about Maria and I putting our cards on the table and not looking back. And all of a sudden you’ve got six people, who yesterday were hunky-dory, dancing the salsa, and today, we’re scared out of our minds that our dream’s gonna end, you know, no more salsa.

I like both Jem and Ben, but I’d really like Ben to hang around a bit longer, he is so sweet and fun.

I wonder what will happen….well, I wondered on Wednesday night what would happen. Tonight I already know, but I’m trying to not give it away yet.

 

Commercials Break 54:18

 

Siga(green) tribe gets their first look at the gorgeous Tribal Council set. What looked impressive at the first Tribal, while memories of real life were still fairly fresh in the minds of Yanu(purple), must look AMAZING to the members of Siga, who haven’t seen life outside of their campsite and challenge grounds for the past eleven days.  I’m pretty sure I saw at least Moriah and Tim looking around and mouthing “WOW!” As instructed, they grab their torches, dip them in, and get fire. Jeff: “In this game, fire represents your life. When the fire is gone, so are you.”

• Jeff: “Ben, the upside of not coming to Tribal is obvious, all six people are still in the game. So what do you do from an individual standpoint, when you all share one thing in common: you’ve never been to Tribal?”
• Ben: “Definitely feels like some Ozzy Osbourne ‘going off the rails on a crazy train’ in every direction. Everybody, I think is sussing out a vibe. We’ve been calling ourselves “the vibe tribe” since day one, and now the reckoning has come.” He laughs.
• Jeff: “Maria, how does it impact the first Tribal, when you’ve spent so many days relying on each other, surviving in the jungle, and now you got to vote somebody out?”
• Maria: “I think this is the time where we rip off the Band-Aid, and this is gonna hurt, I think, doing it at day 11, than having to do it at day two or three, because we gel so well together. We’re even dancing together.”
• Ben: “Yeah, we learned how to salsa dance from Maria yesterday. It’s like being at a retreat sometimes, wake up, shred the aqua dump…” laughing, “Then everybody’s like…
• Charlie: “yeah, normal retreat, yeah.”
• Moriah: “Just to clarify, we do not aqua dump together, that’s the one solo activity we do. But it feels like we’re living in Survivor la-la land.”
• Jem: “Jeff, it goes like this: ‘I’m low on water, I want to go to the well.’ ‘Okay, we’re coming.'”
• Charlie: “Five hands!”
• Jem: “All six of us walk to the water well … and to tree mail….we go to bed together…we wake up together… “
• Jeff: “Well, Charlie, what all of that equals to me is, massive blindside tonight.”
• Charlie: “I’m no math guy, but it seems like you’ve got the equation right. You know, we don’t have a Hunter or a Q, how WE survive is by being scrappy, by being gritty, and working together. That was necessary for us to all get to day 11, but we’re starting to feel the heat for the first time, it’s not just smoke, there’s a whole lot of fire around here.”
• Jeff: “Moriah, was there much talk about idols or advantages in the game?”
• Moriah: “Oh yeah. There’s the possibility of an idol out there, and I don’t know how many votes may be at this Tribal at this point. People may have zero votes, some people may have two. There may be four extra votes cast tonight. Actually, I’m really bad at math, so that doesn’t totally add up to me right now.”
• Jeff: “But I get your point, is that there’s this uncertainty, because of Journeys, about who might have what.”
• Moriah: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then we’re a hot mess when it comes to, like, Beware Advantages. We’ve had, like, a laundry list of debacles over at camp.”
• Charlie: “Maria found what we assumed was the Beware Advantage. All the advantage says is, ‘dig down.’ So we get digging, and we get digging, and we get digging. And then we rip the whole tree up, and there’s nothing. And all six Sigas have been pouring a whole lot of energy into a whole lot of nothing.” Jem is grinning like mad.
• Ben: “Over three days.”
• Moriah: “Emphasis on ‘hole!'”
• Jeff: “So, Maria, what’s the conclusion that you’ve come to? That you haven’t found it?”
• Maria: “Well, that’s a really good question, Jeff.” She laughs. “I think that it must have been found by someone else before me.”
• Jem: “Yeah.”
• Jeff: “So, Jem, you’re in an interesting dilemma as a group of six, because you formed these relationships, people that you like and want to work with. So was there any debate for you about who you wanted to vote out tonight?”
• Jem: “I’m sitting here, and I am lost for words because I’m still trying to think who I might want to put on the parchment, and there’s no name that’s coming up. Like, can I write YOUR name down?” laughing.
• Jeff: “You can’t write my name down, Jem, I’m here forever!”
• Jem: “Sorry, sorry!”
• Charlie: “Permanent Immunity Idol.”
• Jeff: “So, Tim, what is about to happen? Because even right now, everybody’s smiling and yet, a name will be written down, and I’m guessing one of the six of you are going to be very surprised it’s you. Am I right?”
• Tim: “You’re absolutely right. But, we might just all be playing a very, very good game right now, so that nobody FEELS targeted before we all start marching up those steps.”
• Jeff: “Maria, that rings very true.”
• Maria: “It does, I think that we all, deep down, know what we’re gonna write down. I think all of us are lying by saying we don’t know what we’re gonna do.”
• Jeff: “Jem, do you think that’s a group feeling , or is that just where Maria’s at?”
• Jem: “I think nobody wants to rock the boat. Just thinking about it, there’s so many options, right? If you want to move forward in this game, you have to be able to, like, trust the alliances you made right now.”
• Jeff: “Ben is it possible that tonight’s vote does more damage than just one person going home, ’cause you can no longer trust everybody?”
• Ben: “I mean, that’s always a possibility, I know I’m still getting a Siga tattoo either way, you know? We’ve all talked about it. But, um, yah, obviously, you never know if somebody’s gonna feel like they were on the bottom, and if we get to another side, why would I want to work with those people in the merge? So you never know, but that’s the thing about Survivor, one vote, one challenge at a time, hopefully you get to your long goal.”
• Jeff: “Charlie, how will this tribe be different after tonight’s vote?”
• Charlie: “I think it’s a test of can this tribe face a loss and still be the vibe tribe? Or is the vibe tribe a mask that we’ve been wearing, and after tonight, it’s been ripped off and it’s not coming back?”
• Maria: “But I think, Jeff, that at the end of the day, we have to separate emotions and game.”
• Jeff: “Easy to do?
• Maria: “Very difficult to do.”

Time to vote. Afterwards, Jeff goes to fetch the votes, and invites to play idols or advantages. Jem does not play her idol. This is the order Jeff reads the votes:

• Ben
  Jem
  Ben
  Jem
  Jem
  Jem

Jem is the fifth person voted out of Survivor 46. She brings her torch to Jeff. “Jem, the tribe has spoken.” Jem does not look back, Moriah shakes her head, she now knows that Maria and Charlie flipped on the Charlie’s Angel’s alliance. They grab their torches and head back to camp.

 

Commercials Break 1:03:30

 

Scenes from the next episode:

• Hunter reads out loud from the TreeMail, to the gathered Nami(orange) tribe, while Tevin looks over his shoulder at the words with his mouth wide open: “It’s day twelve and the game is about to change.”
• Yanu(purple) tribe screams together as they all read the TreeMail: “Drop your buffs!”
• Siga(green) tribe dances on the beach, while Charlie waves the TreeMail around, all chanting: “Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge!”
• Two motor boats head towards a sandy shore. Siga(green) is in one boat, and Yanu(purple) is in the other.
• All remaining players gather under the shelter at Nami(orange) tribes camp. Q to camera: “There’s cracks all around this island.”
• On beach, Moriah to Charlie: “Today we see the divide.”
• Hunter tells Q on beach: “Liz hates Soda. It’s a mess.”
• Hunter to camera, rubbing face with both hands: “Oh, my goodness.”
• Q to Tiffany: “Venus is saying all KINDS of ____”
• Tiffany to Q: “Baby, it’s about to get messy.”

How everyone voted:

• Tim: Jem
• Moriah: Ben
• Ben: “You cannot vote tonight. Return to your seat.”
• Maria: “Congratulations! Your read was correct. You have earned an extra vote. The last time you can use this is when there are six players left in the game.” Jemila, Jem
• Jem: Ben
• Charlie: Gem ♡

Final words from Jem:

“The dumbest move, with an idol in my pocket. Ugh! Honesstly, I did not expect this. This was a total blindside tonight, but it was really fun for me. I love that I replanted a Beware Advantage and got them digging for three days. So, I mean, it serves them right, they voted me out.”

 

Have a great week survivor fans! See you next week!