Welcome to the season finale of Survivor46.
Well, it's been a fun
and unpredictable season of Survivor.
We've had a lot of strong players taken out--
including six straight blindsides-- forming our jury.
We've had five players voted out with idols in their pocket,
including the last four in a row.
That's a record.
And to date, it's been 23 days they've gone without rice.
Also a record.
But now we're down to five.
Tonight we'll have two immunity challenges,
two Tribal Councils, one fire-making showdown.
And then our final three will face the jury
and we will crown a winner of Survivor46.
We'll then immediately go into the aftershow
while we're still here in beautiful Fiji
and talk about it all.
All right, our final five:
Charlie, Maria, Ben,
Liz and Kenzie.
Who will be this season's Sole Survivor
and take home the check for a million dollars?
This is it.
Season finale, Survivor46.
♪
Oh, my God.
[laughing quietly]
And behold.
PROBST: Previously onSurvivor...
MARIA: Hopefully, we get to keep in touch
-and be in each other's lives. -Oh, my God, yeah.
MARIA: I adore Charlie so much,
but right now,
-he's standing in my way. -CHARLIE: I am just
so grateful to, like, have you just in my life.
I love her to death, but
if I'm going to play to win,
I have to vote her out.
PROBST: Maria down to her last piece.
And there it is.
Maria's done it. Her third
individual immunity win.
BEN: Now everybody's trying to come together to take down
the king and queen.
-LIZ: Yeah, I love Charlie. -Yeah.
Maria thinks Liz and I are gonna vote Charlie.
-I knew this day would come. -KENZIE: Yeah.
But we're just bamboozling Maria and Q.
All right.
Tonight is Charlie's night to go,
and I hope I get a hug.
PROBST: If anybody has an advantage
or an idol and you want to play it,
now would be the time to do so.
All right, I'll read the votes.
Thirteenth person voted out
and the sixth member of our jury: Q.
♪
The tribe has spoken.
Congratulations on making it to the final five.
One of you will claim the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes with it.
♪
[cracking]
Charlie, can we go talk?
Oh, yeah, of course. Where you want to go?
MARIA: Oh, my God.
I messed up. I messed up tonight.
I tried to take out Charlie,
my closest ally.
But my big move didn't pan out.
And, yeah, I have to do,
like, major damage control.
-Yeah. -...to tell me that if I sat next to you at the end,
I was never gonna win.
They pitted me against you and did a bait and switch
and made me vote for you so I look like an idiot,
and now Q's gone.
I'm, like, nauseated
just trying to explain myself to Charlie,
and I'm really worried my
best friend in the game is never gonna forgive me,
and my game is done.
-That threesome -Mm-hmm.
-that's up there is out to get us. -Yeah.
-MARIA: They messed up the alliance -Like...
-No, no. -I trusted the most and now it's tainted.
You know what? There's no reason to call the party off.
I still want to party, okay?
Because we're down to five people, and guess what?
-We just got to think how we're gonna play this. -Okay.
CHARLIE: Final five
by the skin of my teeth. Ooh!
Maria, my number one ally,
came for my throat.
You know, it'd be easy for me to be bitter and upset, but
let's be real. If she didn't win immunity,
I was planning on doing the same thing.
I'm sorry. God, I screwed up.
-God. -What the heck, Maria?
-Man. -What the heck?
I'm sorry.
CHARLIE: Maria
feels terrible, she feels bamboozled,
but it's completely fake.
I know it.
She came for me and I came out on top.
-[laughs] -I totally screwed up.
-Damn. -CHARLIE: But
if one thing came out of tonight,
it's that I'm a big threat,
and people are willing to write my name down.
So, I have to keep every path open, keep every option open,
to get to the end and
go for the win, go for the million.
-We made final five. -CHARLIE: Honestly,
-that was a great Tribal. -KENZIE: That was a great...
And, Liz, you finally got your wish to vote Q off.
-Mm-hmm. -BEN: You think that was just Liz's wish?
-Oh, no, I doubt that. -And that's what's up.
[laughing]
Q, my darling, you got played.
I'm so excited!
That was honestly a really good move, guys.
Y'all are playing way harder than I thought.
Yeah, we could have told you that, but we didn't.
MARIA: Yeah, I know.
LIZ: Maria says she finally
sees that we are actually playing the game.
Just a face. I don't even have words.
Just a face for that.
But at this point in the game,
Maria has a giant target on her back.
Q ruined my game tonight and I fell for it.
-BEN: Yeah. Damn. -Y'all want to let me win tomorrow?
MARIA: I am on the bottom, and
now, you know, there's a massive target on me.
Winning tomorrow is imperative.
Like, this is the time to just, like, go for it,
to fight as hard as I can, and hopefully
either win or go down fighting.
♪
Come on in!
Mighty fierce-looking final five.
Going back to day one,
nobody would have predicted this five.
No, no.
But here we are.
All right, shall we get to today's immunity challenge?
-Yes. -First things first, Maria.
-Oh. -For the third time, I have to take it back.
-[applause] -One more, Jeff. I got one more in me.
PROBST: Whoa.
That was a big prediction.
[laughs]
All right, for today's challenge,
you're gonna race through a series of obstacles.
Once you're through, you'll retrieve a rope
and use it to drop a bridge.
You'll then cross that bridge and retrieve a key,
then climb to the finish, where you will use that key
to unlock your puzzle pieces.
Once you've finished your puzzle,
it will reveal the solution to a combination lock.
First person to solve their combination
and bang their gong...
wins immunity,
guaranteed a spot in the final four,
which means you cannot be voted out of this game.
At the very least, you're making fire
for a shot to get to three.
In addition, playing for reward.
-I knew it. -Want to know what you're playing for?
-Yes. -CHARLIE: Oh, yeah.
The winner will be taken to the sanctuary,
where good things happen, for pasta...
-Oh. -Caesar salad,
-Oh. Nice. Yes. -garlic bread,
-Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. -macaroons,
chocolate pudding,
-Mm-hmm. -wine and soda.
Losers, Tribal Council,
where somebody will be the 14th person voted out,
become the seventh member of our jury.
Everybody knows this. I got to say it.
Maria, if you win today's challenge,
-you join an elite group of four women. -Wow.
The only four women in the history of Survivor
to win four individual immunity challenges.
A lot at stake. Draw for spots. We'll get it on!
-Here we go. -PROBST: Here we go. -Let's do it, let's do it.
All right, here we go. For a guaranteed spot
in the final four.
Survivors ready?
Go!
First, you're going through a muddy net.
-You're gonna get covered in mud. -LIZ: Oh, my God.
-It doesn't matter. It's day 24. -[Charlie groaning]
You want to get to day 25.
Right here!
Everybody struggling through that net.
Charlie's gonna be out first. Use the water if you need it.
You're gonna need your eyes to see.
Ow!
-PROBST: Kenzie's through! -Ooh!
PROBST: Maria's through.
Ben is through.
Now you're pulling out rope to release that plank.
The only way through is to pull that plank out
and then cross.
Here comes Liz.
Everybody working on their ropes.
Every second could count in this challenge.
Charlie down to his last bit.
Plank's out. He's good.
Maria's got her plank out. She's good.
It is Maria and Charlie
at opposite ends.
Here comes Kenzie.
Charlie through the next obstacle.
Maria's through it.
Charlie's dropped his monkey's fist.
Maria has hers. Here comes Kenzie.
Now you've got to drop your bridge,
using that ball of rope.
Kenzie has hers!
-Ooh. Yay! -PROBST: She's in this.
Here comes Ben.
-Liz now in the tunnel. -[grunting]
Ben's got his. He's good.
Maria with a nice toss. That's gonna do it.
Maria first to drop her bridge.
Charlie drops his bridge.
Now retrieve your key.
We are neck and neck right now
with Charlie and Maria.
Here comes Liz.
-Aah! -PROBST: Ben a little short.
Maria has her key. She's heading up.
Maria now in the lead.
Charlie has his key. He's heading up.
Kenzie drops her bridge, working on her key.
Now you got to climb up
and unlock those puzzle pieces.
Ben and Liz still working to drop their bridge.
Liz has her bridge dropped.
Ben's got it. Liz heading up.
Kenzie has her key.
Ben working on his key.
Liz looking for her key.
-Ugh! -She forgot it.
-Ugh! -She's got to come back down and go get it.
Maria working on her puzzle. Kenzie working.
Charlie working. Ben has his key.
He's up top now, working on his puzzle.
Liz had to go all the way back.
She forgot her key.
Day 24, final five challenge,
huge stakes.
Reward is secondary.
You want immunity right now.
Here comes Liz heading back up again.
We're gonna have everybody on the puzzle.
Another complicated Survivorpuzzle.
It'll give you all the information you need
to solve that combination lock.
Then you bang that gong and you're good.
Kenzie making a lot of progress on this puzzle.
Charlie getting a little more momentum now.
You cannot slow down.
Do not stop digging right here.
We are very close. Kenzie and Maria.
Maria with another piece.
Kenzie down to six pieces.
Maria at nine.
Kenzie with another piece.
And another.
Kenzie down to four pieces left.
Guaranteed spot at four.
Everybody else vulnerable tonight.
Kenzie, one piece left.
She's got the puzzle done.
-Oh, my God. -Now what?
♪
New twist in this challenge.
You think the puzzle is the end, but it's not.
You've got to read the puzzle.
Everything you need is on the puzzle.
Maria now closing in on her puzzle.
Holes in your plank?
Confusion now.
What is happening?
PROBST: We've never seen this before in a challenge.
Liz now running back,
appears to be going to help Kenzie.
Got to go over the obstacles.
Maria has her puzzle finished.
Now she's working on it.
Everything up in the air now.
It's Kenzie trying to figure out the combination,
Maria trying to figure out the combination.
PROBST: The puzzle contains information
you need to finish this challenge.
Maria now gonna head back out.
Got to go over all the obstacles.
Here comes Liz, coming back.
She's carrying the plank.
The only guess is she is helping Kenzie.
Maria now moving through those rope rungs
as fast as she can.
Liz now here with Kenzie's plank.
Maria on her own, trying to get her plank
and get back here.
They've got what they need. Can they figure it out?
PROBST: No!
PROBST: Something got to be wrong.
Here comes Maria. She's got her plank.
Kenzie and Liz working together.
Maria on her own.
Immunity on the line.
Thirty-five.
PROBST: Kenzie has it, bangs the gong.
-It is over. -Yes! Oh, my God!
-Yes! -With the help of Liz,
-Yes, yes, yes! -Kenzie's won
her second immunity challenge, guaranteed a spot
-in the final four. -KENZIE: Oh, my God.
You deserve it and more.
PROBST: Maria just a little short.
KENZIE: Maria.
Good job.
Wow. Another unpredictable moment
in an absolutely unpredictable
season of Survivor.
LIZ: You're a badass.
It takes two to beat you. You're a badass, Maria.
-KENZIE: Yeah, you're incredible, Maria. -LIZ: Seriously.
Kenzie, come on over.
-Yeah. -For the second time this season,
-individual immunity is yours. -Dude.
-You are guaranteed a spot in the final four. -Yeah.
It means you will never be voted out this season.
-Yeah. -At the very least,
-Kenzie! -Go, Kenzie! -you got a shot at making fire.
Yeah, I can-I can taste it. You know, I... [whoops]
Thank you so much, Liz. Like, Maria, you're incredible.
Like, we had to team up to beat you.
Like, that just proves, like,
what an amazing competitor you are. It just made sense.
When Liz saw she wasn't gonna finish her puzzle,
it was just like, "Okay, girl, we got to go."
Maria, it is one of the most interesting facets of Survivor--
is that the better you are,
the bigger the target you are.
I take it as a compliment, honestly.
Like, I have exceeded my expectations out here,
and if it took two people to beat me, then, like,
it's a big compliment to me
-and good for them for teaming up. -It is a compliment.
You know, it's not over until you snuff my torch.
PROBST: All right, so here's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna leave here, go to the sanctuary.
-CHARLIE: Wow. -Yeah. -You're choosing one person.
Who are you gonna take with you to the sanctuary?
I'm torn because, Liz, you helped me,
but Ben's the only one who's never seen it.
-Like, what... -I'd go with Ben.
I'm allergic to pasta.
-KENZIE: Oh, okay. -Are you serious?
-Yeah. -Bennie boy.
You haven't seen the sanctuary yet.
All right, so here's what's gonna happen.
You two are gonna head out to the sanctuary.
-Okay. -You'll return back to camp in time for Tribal Council.
-Grab your stuff, head out. -Do I get a hug?
-Oh. -Buddy hug. I love buddy hugs. -Let's go.
-Thanks, Jeff. -Congrats.
Thank you.
Down the steps, hang a right. Boat'll pick you up.
-KENZIE: Thank you so much. -BEN: Thanks, Liz.
-LIZ: Have fun. -KENZIE: Thanks.
Let's go chill hard, buddy.
-Let's go chill hard! -PROBST: All right,
Maria, Charlie, Liz, got nothing for you. Grab your stuff.
Head back camp. See you tonight at Tribal Council where somebody
will be the 14th person voted out,
seventh member of our jury.
-See you tonight. -Jeff. -Thank you.
LIZ: Yes, what I did was wild, but
I'm trying to make it to the end.
And honestly, that's all I care about.
It seems like a no-brainer that tonight is Maria's night.
But this isSurvivor. This is the final five.
Anything can happen.
Well, it's been one of the most unpredictable seasons
of Survivor,and honestly, it's why I still love doing this job.
Come on out. Apply to be on Survivor.
KENZIE: I can't believe I won immunity.
Dude. And it was, like, the most important
-and sickest immunity of the season. -And the po...
I didn't care which one of us won it
as long as it wasn't Maria.
-Damn right. -Oh. Cheers.
My dude.
-To chillin' mad hard. -To chillin' mad hard.
Going into the immunity challenge today,
there was one common goal, and it was for Maria to not win.
And Liz helped me win immunity,
which I was surprised at.
She is so unpredictable. She's like
a secret assassin.
This is heaven.
It's a perfect day, and I'm not getting voted out, eve.
I'm here to stay, baby.
Like, I'm going to final four whether y'all like it or not.
Honestly, today is, like, amazing for me.
-Like, winning... -Because the high is so high today.
-Like... -I know, and, like, I get to be out here
-with, like, my Survivorbestie. -Oh, my God, it's sick. [laughs]
It was so sick Kenzie picked me for the reward today
because in this game,
you hope to make alliances, and then you make a real friend
with a person like Kenzie.
Like, how can you not feel
grateful to shred in a situation like this?
When I go home, I just have to catch up
on all the things I ignored for years
'cause I was too busy trying to rock my hardest.
-Gonna get my driver's license. -Hell yeah.
-That's a good place to start. -Yeah.
If you want to be an adult,
-we should get a driver's license. -Exactly.
On top of that, we're sitting in Fiji,
overlooking one of the most epic landscapes of all time.
It's such a vibe. It's, like, electric, almost.
What do we do when we get back? I don't want to come in cocky
and be like, "Oh, Maria tonight," you know?
Feels, like, too perfect.
I would be shocked if something crazy happened.
BEN: I think we're all on the same page
'cause the enemy is so common.
Maria is a whole-package threat.
Multiple immunities, decimated people's gameplay,
played an epic game of deception.
So, unless she finds an idol or pulls a blindside,
Maria's done.
MARIA: Well, that was a fun challenge.
-It was fun, Maria. -CHARLIE: Oh, my God. -It was fun.
-I do love you, dude. -I love you, too.
You're just such a friggin' competitor, dude.
I love you, too. Thank you for saying that.
-I'm just really scared of going home. -Don't worry about it.
-I still really...
-I'm still really scared. -You know what?
-I'm so proud of myself. -CHARLIE: Liz going over
to Kenzie to help to take down Maria--
that says, to me, Liz is here to play.
MARIA: I'm gonna spend the afternoon looking for idols.
If I can find one, I'm gonna pretend
-I don't have one. -CHARLIE: Yup.
And then you and I take out whoever we want to take out.
I think, that's... I mean...
After last Tribal Council,
I made sure that my door to work with Maria was open.
'Cause I didn't know what today would bring.
So, I want to solidify Maria
as my champion if she's going home tonight,
and as someone who's gonna work with me
if she finds an idol.
-We just should just check -Mm-hmm.
tree mail, water well, underneath,
-and then go the back way, -Yes.
-and then go back down to the beach. -Okay.
MARIA: It's really hard to come back to camp
knowing that Liz just worked against me.
I'm, like, super pissed.
But at the same time, I'm like, "Damn." Like,
maybe it just takes two people to beat me.
This is cool. This feels like it would be a good
-"tied to a branch" tree. -Mm-hmm.
MARIA: My plan from here is to find an idol
or convince somebody
to work with me.
MARIA: I think Charlie has forgiven me and would
work with me, but that's not enough.
We need one more person.
Let's go! Let's go!
MARIA: So,
today is definitely gonna be an uphill climb
in the snow, barefoot.
I've just never been one to give up. Like, I just...
It's not in me to give up.
[chuckles] Hi. You coming to keep tabs on me?
No, I was just looking to talk to you.
Oh. Here's my pitch to you.
You got to know that, like, with Ben,
I've distrusted him since day one.
-That's why we're not working together. -Yeah.
Like, the fact that he's trying to convince you
that he accidentally wrote "Kenzie."
-You wouldn't... -I've never believed
-he accidentally wrote "Kenzie." -But that's what I'm saying.
You're about to move forward with somebody
who's so deceptive, and I'm telling you,
-I'm an open book. -Yeah.
I just don't think I can beat you.
-I think I can beat Ben. -Yeah.
KENZIE: Maria's selling Ben writing my name down
a couple of days ago wasn't an accident.
She is
fighting for her life right now,
which I respect, but she's almost making
her argument worse by being so convincing.
I'm like, "No, you're even more dangerous."
Her pitching Ben is foolish.
There's no way any of us are gonna fall for that.
MARIA: I'm gonna put myself out there.
-LIZ: Mm. -Big time, 'cause I got nothing to lose.
-Yeah. -Ben wrote Kenzie's name down on purpose.
-That was not an accident. -Hmm.
And he lied to her face, and
-he's been lying to her face. -LIZ: Wow.
Ben's been playing a game that nobody knows,
and he's very charismatic.
He is fully capable
of pulling something out at Final Tribal.
He could come out and say, "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
"None of you even knew
-that I was doing this." -Yeah.
What if he has this, like, rocking story?
I have no idea. That's the scary part.
MARIA: Taking Ben to the final three is dangerous.
-Yeah. -MARIA: And I think the decision is in your hands, really.
LIZ: Well, we would all have to do that.
I know that this is crazy,
but Maria really got to me about Ben and the unknown.
If he drops a bomb or two,
it might be just enough for him to win the game.
That's terrifying.
I've been so focused on trying to get Maria out,
but is that really what is best for Liz?
Ben, Ben, Ben.
CHARLIE: If you told me this morning
Maria goes to Liz
and pitches Ben as the vote out tonight,
I would have laughed you off of Fiji.
But it seems like Liz
is willing to do something different tonight.
KENZIE: We're all just voting Maria, right?
-Yeah. -Like, why does tonight feel so heavy
when it should be so easy?
CHARLIE: Maria has a lot of enemies in this game.
Ben, on the other hand, has friends on the jury.
He's a great storyteller,
he's charismatic, and we've
been together since day one.
So I'm worried the jury might see us as similar player.
He could easily get some of my jury votes,
and that's dangerous.
I don't know.
MARIA: I am so scared because tonight
could be the end for me.
I've done all I can do,
but if I can pull off this mov,
I'm gonna win this game.
And so, tonight is a massive night.
It's do-or-die for me.
♪
All right. Let's just get right into it.
Today was an interesting day at the challenge.
Kenzie's in the lead. Maria's on her tail.
And at that point,
Liz decides, "I'm gonna help Kenzie."
And it worked. Kenzie wins individual immunity.
Congratulations.
But, Maria, where does that sit, knowing
that they were working together to make sure you didn't win?
Honestly, I have no hard feelings at all.
I think at 47
with three small kids at home
and three immunity challenges under my belt,
I hold my head up high, and I feel
super proud of the game that I played.
PROBST: And I just want to say,
there are a lot of people that look at Survivornow
and feel like it's a younger person's game,
but then somebody like you shows up
and says, "Oh, no, no.
"Oh, I still got game.
I got a lot of game."
And, Ben, the better you are,
the bigger the target.
That's just how the game goes, you know?
Maria's a great player.
I still think she is the MVP of the season.
But no hard feelings.
We all have to outlast,
outplay, outwit, outshred, whatever it is.
The bottom line is we have to play the game.
PROBST: Kenzie, what Ben is saying is that
you do develop relationships,
and sometimes they become like this,
but then sometimes they do this.
Doesn't mean you can't play the game with somebody,
but it does mean if I have the opportunity
to take you out, I might.
And it sounds like Ben is saying, "I have no problem
writing Maria's name down tonight."
-Am I getting this right? -Yeah, definitely.
KENZIE: Yeah. Maria's incredible.
Like, an amazing woman.
-Thank you. -KENZIE: I admire you. I respect you.
I love you deeply.
And that is what's crazy about Survivor,
is that I can look someone in the face and be like,
"You could kick my ass up and down this game."
So I have to write your name down tonight.
-I totally understand. -KENZIE: Because...
...you would beat all of us.
You're amazing.
-You are wonderful. -Thank you, Kenzie.
-I love you. -I love you, too.
Liz, Ben and Kenzie have been very open.
They're voting Maria. So, where are you?
I'm just ready to focus on the game.
Sometimes I'm like a horse with blinders on.
When I was helping Kenzie with the puzzle today,
I wasn't thinking about Maria's feelings.
Afterwards, I was definitely thinking about her feelings
and what a jerk I looked like.
And so it's really hard,
but Maria and I, we're like
two ships passing in the night. Like,
we could have been the, like, most dynamic duo out here,
but for some reason, instead of attracting each other,
we just kept getting further and further apart with each vote.
Charlie, where are you with Maria?
Yeah, so...
Maria and I have worked
really side by side a lot of this game.
We've got 24 days together.
You know, you have people that you
build these insane bonds with,
and then you have to vote each other out.
Tonight, it's almost like a sibling rivalry moment.
PROBST: Maria, from my vantage point, you've been very gracious
about handling this pressure and having a target
and even having them double-team,
trying to get at you.
How are you able to play the game
as hard as you've played but also understand,
"You're coming for me.
If you can get me, you should get me."
Um, I think any competitor
knows how to win and knows how to lose.
And I can honor and respect
any move that takes down a fierce competitor like myself.
There's also
the knowledge that my kids are watching.
My kids are watching tonight.
You know? And I plan on walking out of here
with my head held high.
[sniffles] I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of my game,
and I know that they're gonna be proud of me.
And being ungracious-- like,
that's not what I want them to do.
And so I'm going to be an example to them.
PROBST: Where does that come from?
I guess it comes from my upbringing.
You know, I'm-I'm an immigrant.
I come from Beirut, Lebanon, and
you know, I grew up
with, I guess, an environment of survival.
You know, work hard, be determined
and to be honest and to be respectful
and to be gracious and to be humble.
And I think to myself,
"My husband and I are raising three boys,
"and Daddy is strong as hell.
But you know what? Mommy is, too."
PROBST: Well, it's a tough transition to make,
but it is time to vote.
Maria, you're up.
♪
I literally want to be you when I grow up.
You're the coolest person in the whole world,
which is exactly why this is happening,
because you literally would have wiped the floor with us.
Like, you're amazing.
♪
Listen up, future nephews.
Your mom kicks butt.
♪
I'll go tally the votes.
♪
If anybody has an advantage or an idol and you want to play it,
now would be the time to do so.
All right. I'll read the votes.
First vote: Ben.
Let's go!
[laughing]
Maria.
One vote Ben, one vote Maria.
Maria. Two votes Maria, one vote Ben.
Fourteenth person voted out
and the seventh member of our jury: Maria.
That's three. That's enough. Need to bring me your torch.
Good job, Maria.
Bring it in, Lieutenant Mom.
LIZ: I want a hug.
Thank you.
♪
Maria, the tribe has spoken.
Thank you.
It's been a pleasure, you guys. Love you.
-We love you, Maria. [whooping] -MVP.
-[Liz whoops] -Bye.
♪
[mouths]
Congratulations on making it to the final four.
Tomorrow, you'll compete in your final immunity challenge.
Grab your torches. Head back to camp. Good night.
Oh, wow.
You know what?
I feel amazing.
I played such a good game.
I'm 47 and, you know, I smoked some of these guys.
It felt really good to know that, at my age,
at my stage of life, like, I still got it.
♪
BEN: So...
-Final four! -Final four! -[screams]
Oh, yeah!
[all whooping]
CHARLIE: Come here, Meemaw.
-Let's go! -[whooping]
LIZ: Holy hot dog on a stick, I made it.
Ta-frigging-da, baby.
Final four feels amazing. But honestly,
I knew it was gonna happen.
BEN: Congrats to y'all.
LIZ: It was.
CHARLIE: As sweet as it is being in the final four,
Tribal was hard.
I knew if I was going to have
a shot at this title, Maria couldn't be there with me.
LIZ: Oh, my God.
-Yeah, that's a lot of power. -LIZ: It's a lot of power.
CHARLIE: This whole game, I've been all about options,
and, tomorrow, the only way to have options
is to win.
You have to be wearing the necklace.
Otherwise you're at the mercy
of whoever is wearing it.
♪
BEN: [panting rapidly] Aah!
BEN: At night, I don't know what happens.
Some nights, I have a reason why I freak out,
but last night, I had all the reason in the world to chill--
you know, I had a reward,
we got Maria out.
But I have this hysteria,
and I have to calm down for a minute. It takes a while.
BEN: It's weird. It's like I wake up from a drem
and this jolt of electricity
bumps me up like Beetlejuice.
-I've been suffering since, like, day 13 or whatever. -I know.
[panting]
-KENZIE: Ben, is that you? -Yeah.
-Hold my hand just a little bit. -KENZIE: I'm right here.
Ah. Yeah.
I need water.
I feel like I don't stand a chance, you know?
I thought I went into this game
really having conquered some of my demons, but...
the big lesson for me in life is
how do you let go
of trying to control what you can't?
And how do you trust in yoursef
and believe in who you are despite your fears?
Yeah.
But at the same time,
I feel very blessed because
people show up for me.
They believe in me.
Anti-anxiety hug.
We got you, bro.
BEN: To me, it just comes down to, like,
I went through it.
I didn't quit.
And thank God I had Kenzie and Charlie.
♪
♪ Tree mail, tree mail♪
♪ Where do you get your news♪
BOTH: ♪ Tree mail, tree mail♪
♪ Gathering all the clues♪
♪ Yow!♪
-CHARLIE: This is intense. -BEN: I know.
Siga!
[both exclaim]
Let's go.
-Dude. -Dude.
The last two Siga.
The first pair remaining.
-Dumb and Dumber, baby. -Let go!
CHARLIE: I've been with Ben since day one.
You know, we started the Dumb and Dumber alliance
after we botched the Savvy challenge.
We've become more than friends.
Friends doesn't cut it anymore.
-You want to read it? -I'll read it. Sure.
-Dude, these beads are sick, too. -These are sick. Thank you.
CHARLIE: Problem is, you know,
this is the pinnacle of theSurvivor dilemma.
We're friends, but we're friends going to war.
-Ooh... -Ooh...
-Last immunity challenge. -Let's go!
KENZIE: Final four.
I mean, I'm in.
[laughing]
The final four challenge is the most important challenge
of the entire game.
Especially for me, because I'm so nervous
about fire-making.
I have this really weird condition
where the ligaments on my wrist
are too big for my body.
And so my joints are constantly popping in and out of place.
[popping]
So I haven't been practicing fire very much
because my hand starts cramping up
and I don't want to look like a complete dum-dum.
Ugh!
There we go.
There you go, Benny. Nice job.
LIZ: I'm getting this feeling that everyone thinks
Liz is the number one threat.
We definitely need to throw her
into fire.
I've never had my name written down.
I have four
Nami members on the jury.
And so if I make it to the final three,
I can literally see Jeff with the parchment.
"The winner is Liz."
[whoops]
I hope I win this immunity.
Otherwise,
I got to make fire. I just know it.
♪
Come on in.
♪
Welcome
to your final immunity challenge.
We made it.
'Course, Meemaw.
Liz, I hope there's a story
to the cane on day 25.
You know, just bringing Meemaw
to the challenge.
No, wait. There's been so many jokes this season.
Is this a joke or are you really injured?
-It's a joke. -[laughing]
25 days. This is what'll happen to you.
25 days? This was day one, dude.
[laughs]
All right.
Shall we get to your final immunity challenge?
-Oh, yeah. -First things first, Kenzie.
-I go to take it back for the second time. -Do it.
Here you go.
Ooh.
For the last time,
immunity is back up for grabs.
For today's challenge,
all you have to do is solve
a simpleSurvivor logo puzzle.
-Yeah, right. -Catch? -[laughs]
-But there's a catch. -Yeah.
PROBST: You're gonna have a timer in the form of a giant
Survivor pinball table. Here's how it works.
You're gonna start by rolling your ball up an inclined ramp.
While the ball is making its way back down the ramp,
you can work on your puzzle.
When the ball reaches the bottom,
you got to stop,
grab your ball, roll it again.
But if you fail
to get your ball before it hits the metal track,
then you have to wait
as the ball slowly
makes its way to the bottom.
And during that time, you can't work on your puzzle.
So during this entire challeng, your focus is going to be spli,
making it very difficult to concentrate.
But you're still in. You're not out.
You're still in.
-Yeah, that's sick. -Just whoever
-completes it first. -You're just slow. -Yeah.
-BEN: Hey, I have...
Jeff, I want to say something real quick.
I barely slept more than two hours a night
-for, like, 14 days. -PROBST: Wow.
And it's, like, been
the most intense time of my entire life.
And, uh, I don't know, I'm just ready to rock, dude.
That's it.
Shall we finish with the stakes?
-Yeah, let's do it. -Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
-That's important. -First person to finish
wins immunity,
guarantees themselves a spot
at the final three.
Let it sink in.
Where you get a chance to plead your case
to the jury about why you deserve the title
of Sole Survivor and the million dollars that goes along with it.
Plus, you have enormous power,
because you decide who you put next to you in that second spot
and who you force to make fire to earn that third spot.
Biggest challenge of the season.
-We'll draw her spots. -[whoops]
-PROBST: Get it on. Here we go. -Let's go, Jeff Probst. -[exclaims]
♪
All right, here we go.
For immunity and a guaranteed spot at three.
Survivors ready?
Go!
Last challenge of the season.
You've got to roll that ball
then work on your puzzle as it makes its way down.
Liz didn't get hers up. You got to try it again.
That'll do it, Liz. Get to work on that puzzle.
So you're working on the puzzle
while trying to listen and anticipate where your ball is.
You don't want it to hit that metal frame.
Then you get a big penalty.
Kenzie heading back. Charlie heading back. Ben heading back.
Kenzie with another roll.
She's good.
Charlie's good.
Ben has his ball.
Ben's good.
Liz, nice left-handed launch. That'll work.
Everybody back on the puzzle.
You know this logo. You've been living with it on your Buff.
But the puzzle is the easy part.
Charlie, stop. Put the piece down. Go to your board.
Charlie's ball came down very quickly.
He missed it. Now, he's got to wait
a very long time,
as that ball slowly
rolls to the bottom.
Giving an advantage to everybody else.
Day 25, Survivor46.
Your shot at a million dollars, right here.
♪
Charlie still waiting while everybody else is working.
Kenzie doing a nice job on her puzzle.
Ben making some progress.
Liz with a piece.
Every single second is gonna matter.
♪
Charlie's ball still on the track.
Painful anticipation.
Charlie with a nice toss.
He's back on his puzzle.
It is Kenzie in the lead.
Then Ben, then Charlie and Liz.
Immunity on the line.
You win this, you got a shot. You get to plead your case.
If not, your fate is in somebody else's hands.
Oh, and Liz drops her ball in the track.
Now, she has to wait.
Human error, unforced error.
Liz now waiting.
Kenzie trying to find another piece.
Charlie trying to get back in this.
Ben being very conservative now.
Heading back, not taking any chances.
Liz waiting. Kenzie trying to take advantage of it.
KENZIE: Whoops.
Kenzie loses her ball. Now got to track it down.
Now it's Kenzie who gave up a time advantage.
It is Ben and Charlie in the lead.
Here goes Kenzie.
That's gonna be short, costing her time.
[Kenzie groans]
Kenzie with another bad toss.
[Kenzie grunts]
PROBST: Kenzie suffering from bad tosses.
It is Ben and Charlie side by side, then Kenzie.
Something so simple, like rolling a ball,
could cost you a million dollars.
Charlie races back and saves it
by an inch.
Charlie back to work on his puzzle.
Kenzie with another piece on her puzzle.
Kenzie races back, saves her ball.
She's got it. Kenzie's quickly getting back in this.
It's now Ben in the lead.
He's yet to win an immunity challenge.
This would be his first.
He's put everything on
a slow and steady approach.
Kenzie, right behind, fresh on the heels of an immunity win.
Would love it again.
Charlie trying to catch up.
Charlie, once again,
risks too much.
That ball clanks. He's got to wait.
It is Kenzie and Ben right now very close.
Charlie has had two setbacks.
That ball has clanked twice.
This is gonna be close at the end.
We are neck and neck right now.
Ben with another piece.
Charlie's back in it now.
Liz in dead last.
[Liz shouts]
The sound of that clank
is death in this challenge.
It is a showdown
between Ben and Kenzie.
Kenzie trying to find another piece. She's got to race back.
Kenzie's got to get it here.
One good toss.
She's got it! Kenzie down to three pieces.
Ben down to two pieces.
Ben very close to winning his first immunity challenge.
Charlie with another piece.
You cannot slow down right now.
Kenzie very close.
Ben down to his last piece.
For the win.
Ben has done it! It's over!
Ben wins individual immunity.
Guaranteed a spot in the final three
of Survivor46.
All right!
Came down to three pieces
between Kenzie and Ben.
You say everybody wants some. How 'bout you?
[laughs]
PROBST: Ben, come on over.
-CHARLIE: Let's go, buddy. -KENZIE: Let's go, Katzman.
[whoops]
Dude, I thought I'd never get to see the day.
-Rock and roll. -You look great, bud.
Ben, your first individual win of the season
couldn't come at a better time. You have done it.
You've guaranteed yourself a spot at the final three.
You will get a chance to plead your case
to a jury of people you've helped vote out
about why you deserve the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes along with it.
You also have a lot of power tonight.
You're gonna decide which of these three--
Liz, Charlie or Kenzie--
you say, "I want you next to me,"
and which of the other two are gonna have to make fire
to earn that third spot.
Yeah, it's, uh... a little wild.
I found it remarkable, given that just a few minutes ago,
you walked in here saying, "I'm so distracted.
-I can't focus." -Yeah.
And you get a challenge that requires split focus.
And of all four, you had the most focus.
It was clear. Where did that come from?
What is that inside you that you,
when you need to, you can get that gear?
Today, I was just like, "I have to show up for me,"
'cause I'm always trying to be somebody's hype man.
And at, like, 1:00 in the morning, I'm like,
"It's okay, dude. I love you. You came this far."
And when I got here, and I was like, "Wow.
It's like a pachinko machine or something."
-It brought out, like, the little kid in me. -Mm.
And I live to be my inner child.
That's why I'm in a rock band.
You know what I'm saying?
And this was, like,
the most meditational,
transcendental shred-itation game
of the entire season.
So I just was in the moment,
and I didn't think about anything else.
-All right. -I know that's a word scramble,
-but that's how my brain is. -It was beautiful.
No, it was beautiful.
You found meditation where everybody else saw chaos.
-BEN: Yeah. -PROBST: All right.
You are safe. You're in the final three.
-Crazy. -Busy afternoon, I'm imagining, back at camp,
as Liz, Charlie and Kenzie will all be
making different cases
for different reasons. Grab your stuff. Head out.
I'll see you all tonight at Tribal Council.
-Can I give you a hug, though? -Give me a hug, brother.
-OTHERS: Aw... -All right!
-PROBST: Congrats. Well done. -BEN: Thanks, Jeff.
-See you tonight at Tribal. -[exhales]
-LIZ: Good job, brother. -BEN: Let's do it.
I was so down on myself,
and I could have quit when I was at my lowest,
but I didn't.
And for some reason,
the determination just came out
and then I won immunity.
It's so sick.
13-year-old me, who got made fun of
for everything and told I wouldn't get anywhere.
Who's gonna be able to tell me what now, dude?
♪
LIZ: Dare I say it, Ben-- you rocked it.
-Hey. -Yeah, Ben.
-Cowabunga. -Who rocks?
-You rock. -You rock.
CHARLIE: You're the man of the hour.
BEN: Well, listen, I know we all want to get into it,
but I'm gonna be honest, like, I don't have...
-No, no. We want to rest, dude. -Okay. Okay.
Yeah, you can collect your thoughts. Do whatever you need.
This is what I think about the other two. No, I'm kidding.
I'm so proud of myself.
Nobody would call me a challenge beast.
I was the kid they didn't pick for dodgeball.
You know what I'm saying?
CHARLIE: Soak this moment in.
King Ben!
♪
Yes. So sick.
[whoops]
Wearing this necklace, as aSurvivor fan,
it's just like, "Damn, I did it."
To hear Jeff just say,
"Ben's got it!"-- like, that's crazy.
You know? After all my panic attacks
and all my fears,
it's just a confirmation.
When in doubt, if you rock out,
it's all gonna work out.
And then the weight of winning hit me.
I'm in the final three, and this necklace
allows me to pick
who's gonna sit next to me
and who's gonna go at it in fire.
I have to think, "Who can I beat at this final three?"
So I feel like, no matter what, it's a difficult thing.
And some people need the money more than others.
Some people are in different situations.
So, Ben, what you thinking?
Yeah, I mean, obviously, I'm very close with Kenzie,
and Charlie's, like, my day one.
And, uh...
I think you kind of unintentionally played
the hardest game out here.
-I mean, I'm super flattered. -Yeah.
I mean, I feel like that's why
I'm gonna ask you to do fire tonight.
I don't think I could beat you.
Yo, you outlasted the whole Nami tribe.
-You know what I'm saying? -Mm-hmm.
-You went without eating. -I mean,
I know Nami's on there, but I betrayed all of them.
I mean, that's another thing.
Everybody on that jury already knows, like, I...
-I'm a millionaire. Like, I don't need the money. -Yeah. Yeah.
Obviously, I need it.
I think I'm the most broke person
of the four that are here, you know?
She was like, "I got money. I just want to make it further"
I'm broke,
you know? Like, I share a space with my parents.
So, to me, it just confirmed that
I don't want her in the final three.
Yeah, well, I'm out. I'm last jury. I suck at fire.
I can barely hold a knife.
-[wrists popping] -Yeah.
And on top of that, Liz has the most homies on the jur.
She's the last person on Nami
because people didn't think she was a threat. Now, she's here.
Can I give you a hug?
-Sure. -If you don't want one, I get it.
So, now the thing I got to think about
is who I'm gonna put up against Liz.
Always down to rip it up. I'm here, okay?
Okay.
♪
[sniffles]
[spits]
They're onto me, and I'm pissed.
Ben just told me,
"Liz, you've been playing the hardest game."
Like, that I'm gonna win,
that I'm the winner. [laughs]
I knew the fire-making
was the hole in the plan.
My friggin' loose-ass wrists
can't hold things for nothing.
But I'm not... I'm not gonna give up.
I guess I need to practice fir.
It's like, I'm having a hard time...
-...picking between you and him. -I know.
Charlie's my day one.
But it's like, you are also equally
as important to me in this game.
So then it just comes down to who can beat Liz.
-Yeah. -And who you want
-to have that on their résumé. -I know.
-Ooh! -It's okay.
-I'm good with whatever choice you make. -Yeah.
I'm gonna practice all day.
This season, my fire-making's been great.
So, tonight,
would I like an opportunity to build fire?
Yes.
[exhales] Okay.
Positives going into fire against Liz
is I think I can beat her. Another positive is that
it would be great for my résum, but it doesn't
make it any less anxiety-inducing.
Like, I'm still freaking out,
even if I have to do it.
But for all I know, Ben could be like,
"Yeah, I'm gonna make Charlie do it."
And then I'm freaking out for nothing. [laughs]
[groans]
♪
Coming to check in on my boy.
What's up, my man?
Are you okay?
Yeah. You want to have a chat?
Yeah. What's going on, dude?
All's good. It's a heavy decision.
Yeah. What's... Talk me through it. W-What's going on?
You sit. Pop a squat.
BEN: It's like, I know I want to put Liz in.
CHARLIE: Yeah.
And it's like, I don't know
whether to pick between you and Kenzie.
Is Kenzie practicing?
She's practicing.
-Isn't she good? -Truth is, you're kicking
the most ass at fire.
You're seeing one right here,
-but I've been kind of struggling, too. -Yeah.
CHARLIE: Yeah, the competitor in me is like,
"Well, maybe I could beat Liz."
But the other part of me just says,
"I don't think I need fire-making on my résumé.
I don't really want it on my résumé."
And it makes me want to just say,
"Look, Ben, just take me with you."
You know, take the easy way to the final three.
At the end of the day, would... if I asked you,
if I was like, "Will you take me?" would you take me?
-I haven't made that decision. -Right.
And I know it's hard.
'Cause I know you're really close with Kenz,
but listen, she can probably beat Liz.
I need to get
in front of the jury.
Forget about the fire.
-No, I... -Then, 'cause, you know, then that's all in your hands, but...
Yeah, I'm not doing that.
CHARLIE: Ben has all the power today.
His goal
is to have Liz out of the game.
I'm solid at fire,
but, you know, fire is fluky,
and I'm sure Liz is no slouch.
All it takes is one lucky strike.
♪
Fudge.
[groans]
I feel like I know how to do this,
but then I don't know how to do it.
Ben was like, "Oh, my gosh.
"There's absolutely no way
I can beat you at the end,"
which is obvious.
It's gonna be over for them.
[groans]
Wow, I'm on a roller coaster of emotion.
You can do it,
'cause you are the winner.
I will not be beaten.
[groans]
CHARLIE: Is that Liz yelling?
She just, like, literally screamed.
Okay, I'm feeling better.
I need flame.
Oh, yeah, baby. Oh, yeah.
Just make a couple jokes, and you'll get it, Liz.
Yay.
♪
KENZIE: I'm feeling scared.
Yeah, I-I know... I-I know I can make fire.
I've done it a hundred times, but...
there's something about, like, cracking under pressure.
I can't get anything to catch on fire, and, like...
Ugh. I just need to get it together.
Oh, my gosh, I'm doing it...
KENZIE: This is, like, the pressure point, but...
any challenge there is, I'm gonna face it head-on.
And I'm gonna give it my all, even though I'm scared.
I know I can do this. I can do this.
CHARLIE: This is it.
After tonight, the final three is set.
The weight of that pressure-- it's suffocating.
Oh, yes, baby.
Did you make your choice?
BEN: I'm trying to figure out who I think has
a better chance at beating Liz.
That's what I'm talking about.
Dude, you crushed it.
Charlie's really good at fire,
but the hardest part is
Charlie's been my number one from day one.
I love the kid.
And the other side is Kenzie.
She's been one of the best friends I made out here,
and she's been my number one through my panic attacks.
She's been a sweetheart.
There you go, Kenzie.
I don't know how I'm gonna
lean one over the other.
I have to think wisely.
It's heavy, bro. I'm stuck between
a rock and a hard place.
♪
[quietly exclaims]
BEN: 'Sup, Jeff.
CHARLIE: Jeff.
♪
PROBST: All right.
We get to our final immunity challenge.
On the surface, it's very simple.
Just solve the Survivor logo puzzle in front of you.
But there was a twist. Ben,
you were the only person that didn't
make any mistakes in the challenge.
Explain that, because you walked in and said,
"I am all over the place today,"
and yet something crystallized, and you were
perfect in that challenge.
BEN: You know, I didn't go into that challenge
expecting to win.
I said that 'cause it was true. I haven't been able to sleep.
Night terrors, panic attacks.
It's just very, very brutal.
For some reason, today, I just decided
to say, "This is it. I'm just gonna go for it."
I don't know. I had a blast. It just came together.
PROBST: Charlie, you were in it for a while,
but a couple of mistakes cost you this challenge.
What did you reflect on this afternoon?
Today's immunity challenge is potentially
the one with the most power of the season.
Ben's, of course, safe tonight,
but tonight he can do whatever the heck he wants.
So...
it was a lot of reflecting,
but there's not much time for reflection
when all I was really doing
was making fires all day.
Kenzie, you were very close.
Would have been your third individual immunity win.
You, too, had issues, not with getting the ball late,
but with just getting the ball up the ramp,
and those few extra tosses were the difference.
You were a few pieces behind.
Yeah, I was three pieces behind.
And they will probably haunt me forever.
Like, crumbles. I'm happy for my friend, but here we are.
Liz, what was your experience today?
"Liz, you're the biggest threat.
"You're definitely going to fire.
I don't know who's going against you."
-Yeah. -LIZ: And then I just
fell apart, 'cause I suck at fire.
And, um, I knew this was
the one hole in my game.
And I'm gonna go to fire. I mean,
he's totally right.
I've never had my name written down,
so, he's smarter than he looks.
-[chuckles] -So, Ben, you had one easy decision.
-You knew Liz, immediately. -Yeah.
So then the debate became
Kenzie or Charlie.
Yeah. And when it
came down to Kenzie and Charlie, I mean,
Charlie's the first friend I made out here.
I know that's not great when it comes to
talking about your strategy, but
if somebody can give you a little bit of kindness,
it goes a long way, whether they know it or not. And
the hard part is my friendship with Kenzie
is very similar, except I only met Kenzie at the merge.
But I'd say her impact on me feeling sane--
it's like, I can't... I can't oversell it.
Like, I'm playing Survivor,
but I'm hanging out with my homies and having, like,
a real human experience that, like,
you know, it sucks that
I have to make this decision.
PROBST: So, Ben, are you ready to tell us your decision?
So, it's gonna be Liz and Kenzie tonight
going at it for fire.
♪
PROBST: Which means, Charlie,
you made it to the final three.
You will take that second spot.
This is what you dream of,
because getting to the final three
is as much as any player can do.
You've gone as far as you can go. What's the feeling?
CHARLIE: I'm grateful to Ben, you know, in this moment.
Because of the relationship and the bond that we've built,
he's gonna take me to the final three.
And getting there with that bond
means just as much to me as making fire.
PROBST: Kenzie, what's it like to hear that
when you can hear a little bit of emotion in Ben's voice,
and he's very clearly saying,
"It wasn't easy for me because
of love and friendship"?
KENZIE: Yeah. There is emotion. Like,
we have, like, fallen in love with each other,
and it's so complicated.
But at the same time,
as annoyed as I am that I have to do this,
I am grateful that I'm not getting my name written down
and that I get a chance
to try, you know? That's exciting.
[laughs]
We're gonna give it our all, baby.
It's down to the ladies tonight.
[chuckles] Like, it is what it is.
All right, it is time
for the final four fire-making challenge.
The winner will take the third and final spot at our final
Tribal Council. Kenzie, Liz...
take your spots.
♪
All right. So, you both have the same fire-making kit.
In seasons past, we have sent this kit
out to your camp so you could practice.
We did not do that this season. This is new to you.
All you had was a knife and a flint.
So, forget about setting a record.
This is about being faster than the other person.
Who can make fire fastest
and get it to burn hot enough,
long enough to burn through that rope?
That's what we're gonna find out.
The person who does that will make it to the final three.
Are you both ready?
-Ugh. No. -[chuckles]
This is as good as it's gonna get, Jeff. [chuckles]
-Liz? -Okay.
All right. This challenge is on.
Begin.
Takes three things to make fire.
You need heat.
You're gonna get that heat by striking your flint,
trying to get a spark, some friction.
Then you need fuel.
That's gonna be kindling or some hessian.
And then once you get a flame, you need oxygen.
You got to let it breathe, so it can get big enough
to burn through that rope.
Okay.
Liz going for a spark.
Liz has a baby flame.
Fudge.
No fire yet.
Kenzie, a lot of prep. Unusual approach.
Oh, my God.
PROBST: Liz, a lot of spark.
And a little bit of a flame.
Aw...
It dies.
25 days of fatigue and the pressure.
This could literally be
a million-dollar fire you are making right now.
Oh.
What is happening?
It's pressure. Keep digging.
You're both in it, clearly.
Okay.
-Oh, my... -Kenzie.
PROBST: Kenzie's got a little bit of a flame.
Now she's got to nurture it.
It's got to breathe. Don't want to suffocate it.
Now Liz has a little bit of a flame.
And out.
Kenzie still working.
So long as she doesn't smother it.
Ow.
PROBST: Kenzie continues to nurture that fire.
Oh, God.
PROBST: Liz now has flame. Can she get this one to stick?
No.
[groans]
PROBST: Kenzie's fire starting to take now.
Medium-sized fire.
Now it's starting to just
light the fibers of that rope.
It's really going now.
That's burning that rope.
-Oh, my God. -PROBST: That is a fire
that's gonna get you a spot in the final three.
-And there it is. Kenzie's done it. -Oh, my God!
PROBST: She has earned the final spot
-at the final three... -Oh...
-Come on, you knew you were winning that. -Oh...
PROBST: ...with Ben and Charlie and a shot at the million-dollar prize
that goes along with it.
Thanks, babe.
Yeah. Of course.
♪
Boo.
Tomato, tomato.
PROBST: Kenzie, let's start with you. Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
-PROBST: You've made the final three, -Amazing.
-Thank you. -you earned your way in.
What is the feeling right now? I know it's been
-an emotional 25 days. -[Kenzie exhales]
Yeah, I mean, I...
I've been at the bottom since Yanu,
and I've been earning it the whole way,
so it just made sense.
And it's so ironic that we set the record
for the longest time without flint, and...
Earlier today, when I couldn't catch a fire, I was like,
"Of course my journey's gonna end without fire.
It started without fire."
But I redeemed myself with that today.
It's just really overwhelming.
Like, my... I couldn't get a flame all day today.
So my confidence was shot. I was like, "Well, you know..."
I'm just very grateful. I earned it.
Liz, I know you've had some very fun times
and you've had some very low lows.
What's the big takeaway from this journey?
You learn so much about yourself,
and the game is so much bigger
than you think it is.
[sniffles]
But I am very proud of my game.
It was really over for you guys. It really was.
[sniffles]
I would've beat all of you.
[sniffles]
All right, Liz.
You become the eighth and final member
-of our jury. -I know it.
You need to grab your torch.
♪
[sniffles]
Love you, Liz.
I'll love you tomorrow.
-[laughs]: Take your time, mama. -LIZ: No, I love you now.
Oh, God bless America.
-Liz, the tribe has spoken. -[groans softly]
Time for you to go.
[sniffles]
♪
Kenzie, Ben, Charlie, congratulations.
You made it to the final three.
Now, the power in the game shifts to the jury.
They decide who wins.
Tomorrow night, you will face them
and each of you will have a chance to persuade them
that it's you that deserves the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes along with it. You have
one more night here in beautiful Fiji. Enjoy it.
Try to get some sleep. You know you're gonna need it.
Grab your torches. Head back to camp.
-I'll try, okay? -Good night.
♪
So close.
So pissed. [laughs]
I made it 25 days.
I did everything I thought that I would do.
I really think
I would have won, but...
so did they, and now I'm here.
♪
-CHARLIE: Last day. -KENZIE: Wow.
Soak it all in, boys.
CHARLIE: I will not forget these.
KENZIE: The sunrises?
No. Me either.
-Be pretty hard. -Yeah.
CHARLIE: Here comes the sun.
-BEN: All right! -[cheering]
CHARLIE: I've been out here for 26 days, and
listening to everyone's stories, their accomplishments,
their struggles, their dreams
has changed my perspective on the world.
That's been priceless.
I don't think anybody would have picked this
as the final three.
BEN: I couldn't have done it without you two.
KENZIE: Thanks, Ben.
CHARLIE: I think every single one of us
in this final three could win the game.
So, it's intense, it's excitin,
but it's also really, really scary because
tonight the jury has all the power.
TEVIN: Being on the jury is one of the most powerful things
in the game.
Tonight, we decide the Sole Survivor
who deserves to win the million dollar priz.
What did you do?
How did you utilize us
or not utilize us to get past us?
-Wow! -Oh, my God!
BEN: The best part about the final three morning
is the feast.
-Cheers to the final three... -BEN: Final three...
-KENZIE: To final three. -of Survivor
-forty-six! -forty-six!
[whooping]
CHARLIE: Oh, my God, it's so good.
Guys, we're eating like humans again.
I'm chilling hard today, but tonight,
I have to give the performance of a lifetime.
My game was a game of honesty
built around being myself
and relying on my social cards.
Everybody called me a vibe person.
Tonight is about showing
that a vibe or chillin' isn't about being one-dimensional.
It's not me using it as a gimmick.
It's about showing I played a hard game
from day one.
Q: Ben outwitted,
outlast, outplayed us.
The game he played was to rock out
and fly underneath the radar.
If he can articulate that he was behind moves,
he could receive Q's vote.
SODA: Ben shreds,
Ben rips, Ben rocks.
That's who Ben is.
He's a social threat playing an emotional game
that really worked for him, but it's "outwit,
outplay, outlast," not "outlove."
My game has been about adapting and knowing when
to sit back and when to step up.
I had a fake idol play.
I was a huge part in taking out
the biggest threats in the gam,
and I beat Liz in fire-making.
My biggest challenge tonight with the jury is that
I've written a lot of their names down.
I don't think anybody's holding back tonight.
I know I'm not.
Like, guns are blazing.
I know my story's better than Charlie and Ben's.
It's just about how I sell it.
VENUS: Kenzie's social game was brilliant.
I don't think there's a single person who disliked her or
didn't get along with her, but I want to hear
from her specifically what moves she made.
You have to have played the gae
to earn my vote.
TIFFANY: Kenzie is somebody who cares about people,
and I do believe that that's wy she lasted so long in the game.
Friendship aside, gameplay at the forefront,
I deeply feel that she's the best candidate right now.
CHARLIE: I had power in the game to send home
who I thought...
I had power in the game to send home...
or to work with
who I thought was going to be able
to carry me forward another vote.
I played a very strategic game
worthy of the title of Sole Survivor.
I built alliances, constantly.
I never closed a door to anyon.
I've always made sure
that I put myself in a position where I was safe,
but I also had power.
But a lot of what I did was in the shadows.
Tonight, I want to pull back
the curtain on what I've done.
The biggest hurdle is what the heck is the jury
thinking of me?
HUNTER: Charlie has done a good job
of having his finger on the pulse.
And he's also been winning immunity challenges,
and so, he has, potentially, a story to tell
that is worth a million dollars.
MARIA: Charlie and I worked together so long
that I'm pretty sure I know all of his moves,
except when it came to him trying to take me out.
But my criteria is not friendship.
I want to make sure that the person I write down tonight
deserves this money.
KENZIE: Is there anything on your Survivorbucket list
you didn't get to do?
Uh, win Sole Survivor? No, I'm kidding.
-[laughs] -Not yet.
That one's still up for grabs.
VENUS: There's always a chance
to change the jury's minds.
Every single person
can sway me with what they have to say.
Q: It's not won yet.
You can go in and change minds,
so don't blow it.
SODA: I'm not just gonna hand money out.
You need to have done something.
MARIA: If you can't connect the dots for me,
I can't give you my vote.
TEVIN: What did you do?
Tell me that and stand on it.
If you can do that,
you'll get my vote.
LIZ: Right now, I have no idea
who I'm gonna vote for.
TIFFANY: A million dollars is a lot of money.
I'm not just giving it to you
'cause you cute or we homies.
HUNTER: I'm about
to give somebody a million dollars.
Show that you knew what you were doing and why
you deserve to win this game.
All right. Charlie,
Kenzie, Ben-- glad to see smiles.
You should be smiling.
You made it to the final three.
You did what
15 other players could not do.
You survived every Tribal that you went to.
And now, one of the most unique aspects
of Survivoris that the power shifts
from this side to the jury.
Eight players who also
were in this game but were voted out--
they decide who wins
based on who they think played the best game.
Tonight, you have one job.
Convince them it's you.
This is where you step up and claim your victory,
that you're the one deserving of the title
of Sole Survivor and the million-dollar check
that goes along with it.
Jury, I'm gonna give you a moment,
and we'll get started with our final Tribal Council.
All right, let's get into our final Tribal Council.
We've been forming the jury for many days.
Tonight is your first opportunity
to ask them the questions you need to decide
who played the best game.
Let's get into it.
Who wants to get us started?
-I will. -Go, Tiff.
Well, first of all, good evening.
And on behalf of myself
and everybody sitting here on the jury,
we want to say congratulations on making it to final three.
We have very specific questions for you guys tonight,
and we're looking for very specific answers.
Also, please understand,
we are not looking for Taylor Swift lyrics.
We are not looking for pop culture
or rock and roll references. We are looking
for serious and thought-provoking responses.
And with that being said,
can you articulate one move
that you made on your own
that changed the course of the game?
I would like Ben to go first.
That's a hard one.
For me, I got dealt a hand
that really sucked when I entered the merge,
and I had to rely on my social game.
I felt one thing that I did help contribute to
that was sort of a move, was go
to the people who had given me an opportunity to talk
and people who had been on the outs
of their crew, bringing people together, mainly
going to Kenzie, Charlie and Liz.
TIFFANY: So, your move was that you brought Kenzie,
Charlie, and Liz together to change the course of the game?
-Of getting me out. -Of getting Q out to... Okay. -Yeah.
Which was late, but again, like I said, I was not dealt
-the best hand. -TIFFANY: Charlie, you have something
-to say? -CHARLIE: Yes. Just, on that point,
when this alliance came together,
Kenzie, Ben, Liz
and Venus all wanted Q out in the final seven vote.
But a big part of my game was making sure
that there was a four going into six,
'cause I needed Q and Maria as shields,
and if Q had gone out there when Maria
won immunity at final six,
I, probably, am sitting on the jury.
-Okay, well, since we're on you, can you tell me what -Yeah.
-the move is that you made that changed the course of the game? -My... The move
that I would pick would be the Hunter vote.
At the Hunter vote, there was actually an initial plan
from Kenzie to blindside you, Tiff.
But Hunter's a real social threat
and strategic threat, especially given
he's got strong allies of Soda and Tevin on the jury.
That was also the day that I beat Hunter
in individual immunity.
You know, that was, to me, a big accomplishment.
So I thought that was the time to go after Hunter
and build out my options.
HUNTER: Not to take away the move that you made,
but I came into this Tribal gonna play my idol.
I had the Shot in the Dark and the idol in my pocket.
And the person that actually convinced me not to
is, uh, Kenzie.
She, like, sold me on that.
TIFFANY: Okay, thank you.
-Kenzie? -KENZIE: Okay, so, post-merge,
I wanted Tim to go.
I knew I couldn't beat him, and a lot of us had that thought.
But at the same time, Tiff and Q,
who were my number-one allies,
did not like Ben at all.
So it was back and forth between Tim and Ben all afternoon.
Q would come over to me and be like, "It's Ben. Let's vote Ben.
-He has the idol." -Q: No, no, no.
-I was never gonna vote Ben. -KENZIE: To me...
Tiff?
-I have to agree with Kenzie. We went back and forth -No.
-Thank you. Yes, you did. -several times
between Tim and Ben that day in the woods,
-which is why I also was upset. -KENZIE: All day.
-Y'all did, right? -KENZIE: No, you did.
-You did... with us. -No, no. No.
You might have woken up with that Tim,
but you had Ben at 02:00, you had Tim at 2:30, you had...
-Nope. -KENZIE: At the last minute,
you said, "Fine, you can have Ben." And then I said...
-And go Tiff. -Wait. Tiffany said
-she wanted Ben, not Q. -I'm saying
-you guys were arguing about it all day. -Q: You wanted Ben out.
Q, I'd like for Kenzie to answer the question.
Well, I'm not about to argue on this jury right now.
-Right. -LIZ: I don't want to argue. -KENZIE: Regardless,
when I was playing with someone like Q, I can't
fight with that. Obviously.
He doesn't remember what he says to me.
You know what I mean? So I had to play
in a way that Q would hear me and think it was his idea.
Like, that was an intentional move
that I wanted when I won immunity.
We went back and forth all day,
and I was the last one with the whisper that made it happen.
All right, who's up?
Me. The question I have for each of you is
what is one mistake that you made in this game
that you were ultimately able to flip on its head
and capitalize on to use to your advantage?
-Charlie? -Okay. V, I'm so glad this question came from you.
At the very first vote in merge limbo,
there were-- I don't know-- ten votes for Mo
and one vote for Venus.
Also, after that vote, Q gave me
a big old thump on the back.
And let me tell you, when Q thumps you
on the back, you notice it.
He took me down to the boat, lecturing me
on, you know, why I shouldn't have done that move.
I was very receptive to everything you said,
and I wanted to, in that moment, build a relationship
with someone who was having a lot of power
early in the game. The next morning,
Q invites me in to the six,
and I was part of a new alliance.
So-- very fun.
MARIA: I just want to be clear that
I invited you into the six.
So you came into the six on my invitation.
Yes, you were my recommendation letter into the six.
-I didn't have one. -In hindsight, it's not that...
-It's just not great to be -It's literally, like...
-No, no, no. -part of the six.
MARIA: You don't want to be part of the six. This six is...
TIFFANY: You probably should have
-just left that part out, then. -[Hunter mumbling]
-Look at his laugh. -CHARLIE: I just...
-I love the six, you know. -Q: Being in the six
-was a one-way ticket home. -[laughing]
KENZIE: Like, y'all can keep your six.
HUNTER: We just never talked about it.
It just was a pathetic excuse for an alliance.
So, Kenzie, you're up.
-Good-good response, though. -KENZIE: One mistake
I made was I got cocky.
I wasn't paying attention. I got confident,
I got comfortable, and ultimately, Tiff went home.
Tiff and I were like, "Don't even play the idol, girl.
Like, you'll get into six. We're good."
-We were riding too high together, okay? -We were.
I'll be the first to admit it. I got cocky, too, girl.
-That's why I'm over here. -KENZIE: Yeah, we...
That hit me like a bullet train. I immediately
started rebuilding relationships with everyone,
paying attention to who was working with who,
and it became very apparent that Maria and Q were number ones,
which led the three of us
and Liz coming together to ultimately
take out the two biggest threats who had started working together
-at that vote. -Q: So, of course.
-Yeah. -Q: Did y'all come together
at six or seven? 'Cause at seven,
why would Ben write your name as the contingency plan?
'Cause he was drunk on pizza.
That's what I'm saying. So, I'm confused.
KENZIE: That is the question of the hour.
We... we worked together at seven,
but just because Ben wrote my name down,
whether it wasn't an accident or not, I didn't go home.
Well, she had an idol. If she would've played it,
you would have.
Maybe.
But we were working together,
and we all ultimately decided.
That is true.
KENZIE: Yeah. Thank you, Liz.
But just to address the-the accidental voting.
-Yeah. -TEVIN: I know you had ate pizza, but were you
a bit lackadaisical in the tribe, and you weren't...
-you listening during Tribal, and that's... -BEN: No.
I think, on top of me having
pizza in my stomach,
I have been having night terrors since about day 13 or 14.
The truth is I lost my bearings.
I was really as out of it as it could be.
-Yeah. Okay. Got it. -And we can all appreciate that.
There's a lot of us looking back
at Tribal Council, should have seen red flags.
I mean, we're talking about idol, idol, idol, idol.
And so, I'll give you the benefit
-of the doubt, you know. -BEN: Yeah.
Sometimes Tribals are a little bit crazy, and we miss things.
Yeah.
PROBST: Who's up?
-Tevin. -TEVIN: Hi, y'all.
So, my question to you all tonight
is I want your one best example of how
you used one of us sitting up here on the jury
to further your game and make it to the final three.
-Let's start with Ben. -BEN: All right.
At some point in the game, I was stuck
with Q and Maria for, like, three days straight.
For those three days,
all I was fed was, "This is what you need to do,
this is who you shouldn't trust."
Nobody asked me what my input was on anything.
There was no moment where it was like, "Hey,
this is what I think our next move has to be."
-Well, that's the point. -So, can I ask the follow-up question?
-BEN: Totally. -Wouldn't you assert your ideas
-Yeah. -on the group to try to make a move of your own?
I took my "chillin' hard" approach, which was,
"I'm gonna listen, I'm gonna hear what
they have to say," and using that information is what I went
to Kenzie with, I went to Charlie with,
what I went to Liz with,
and it's what allowed me to slip through the cracks,
whether I was thought of as a threat or not.
-Thank you. -Thank you. -Thank you. Kenzie, you're up.
KENZIE: So, after the Tiff blindside, I was
out for blood, and then I had to manage my emotions.
I wanted Q out immediately after.
I was so upset, I was so hurt.
But I had to placate and pretend to go with numbers
to gain Q's trust back to get back in good graces.
And that's how quick I went from devastated crying all night,
out for blood to, "Okay, I'm back working with the guy
"that I want out of here so I can get him out tomorrow
if I can gain his trust today."
-Great. -Thank you. -Excellent.
-Charlie? -Charlie? -Concise.
Uh, so, for me, the person that I used was actually Tevin.
For me, coming into the merge, Nami was an enigma.
They're either the best actors in the world
or there are really cracks everywhere.
-Yeah. -But there was so much information going around
because Soda was telling me
she was tight with Tevin, but here Tevin was
saying he wanted to blindside Soda, and
what I figured out from that is that Tevin was the power player.
Okay.
-Thank y'all. -CHARLIE: Yeah, yeah.
HUNTER: I got it ready, Jeff.
-Okay. Go, Hunter. -HUNTER: Okay.
So, last Tribal Council, Ben was on the hot seat
and had to lay out a lot of information
as to who he saw as threats,
who can make fire and not.
So, my question is gonna be for Charlie and for Kenzie.
If you were in Ben's seat,
who would you put in fire and why would you do it?
I would have put the exact same thing that Ben did.
I would have gone against Liz.
I know that these two boys
have a similar game and that I have a better chance
at beating them than I had beating Liz.
And I would have taken a chance on myself.
-That's what I would have done. -HUNTER: Awesome. Appreciate it.
-Charlie? -Yes. So, if I had won the necklace that day,
I think I would have done things a little bit differently.
-Okay. -I think I would have taken Liz
with me to the final three.
I think, personally,
my game could stack up well against hers.
I think that's someone that I could have beat,
-despite her being a threat. -HUNTER: Okay, well, then,
was there any moment that you thought,
"Hey, Ben, let me do this?
Let me put myself in, because Liz isn't the threat"?
My game has been all about getting to this moment.
So I didn't feel the need to push insanely hard
to get into fire for a move
that I didn't think was going to buy me all that much.
HUNTER: Right, and I appreciate that.
But I hope getting to this point
in a safe way doesn't hurt you, right?
You said your goal was to get to this point.
I hope your goal was to win this game.
You better believe it. That has been my laser focus
this whole time.
My goal was to win this freaking game.
Okay.
Yup.
-Soda? -SODA: Um, I have been
on the jury the longest.
Um, I have been listening, um, to a lot.
Ben, my take on you was that you were playing an emotional game
and that you had no agency.
Charlie, my take on you was that
you were playing the middle very closely with Maria,
but you did not set yourself apart from her.
And, Kenzie, my take on you
was that you were brought into votes pre-merge.
And post-merge, you said, "Tell me who to vote for."
Now, I've heard a lot of information that,
you know, contests some of those things,
but I want each of you
to take 30 seconds
to either prove me right or persuade me why I'm wrong.
Also, I'll be the 30-second timer.
When I say "time," please stop.
SODA: Kenzie?
So, I'm a social player.
I'm not the loudest voice in the room.
I'm not the one who's gonna be a driving force,
but I am a number, and I am also thinking strategically.
Like, my social game is my strategic game.
They are one and the same. I know
they're supposed to be separate, but I'm a people person.
I've had deep conversations with each of you.
I've, like, held half of you
while you've cried about various things. Like,
yeah, I got brought along on votes.
That's how I ended up here.
-I'll take it. I'll own it. It's true. -TIFFANY: Time.
-I'm not gonna say I drove a vote. Okay. -SODA: Time.
Nice ownership. Thank you. Charlie?
CHARLIE: Maria and I were partners in crime
for a lot of the game, but by the time
Maria was winding back her fist
to throw a punch at me,
I had already put the pieces in place
that were setting up her demise.
I put together the four that protected me
from the punch that you and Q threw at me at final six,
and ultimately voted both of you out of the game
at six and at five, exactly how I designed
after the Tiffany vote.
I thought that I needed...
-to differentiate... -Time. -Time.
-Ben? -Oh, yeah. I mean, I'll definitely agree.
I'm probably the most emotional person,
most "cries in this game" this season,
but that's what
I had to do, and it crushed me
that I felt I came into the merge with this plan
that got wrecked, and
I was very fortunate
that how emotional I was opened the doors
to make friendships and bonds
that allowed me to be part of moves
that I wanted to be part of. And, yeah,
I openly admitted I was a goat for a few votes.
But when the turn came to not be that, the only way
-that would have happened... -Time.
-SODA: Time. -Yeah. Cool.
Thank you all so much. I know that was hard, um,
-but you all did great. -BEN: All good.
Q, you haven't asked a question.
All righty. The most important thing
for me and my vote is this simple question.
What do you plan to do with the money
and how will it change your life?
-Ben? -Um, you know, I'm a musician.
I get a lot of great things in my life,
but I don't make a lot of money.
I want to give my parents some sort of retirement
'cause they're hardworking immigrants
that always put food on the table
and weren't around because of how hard they worked.
And at the same time, I want to join up
with my best friend's nonprofit program and help bring
music education back to schools in South Florida.
It's an initiative I've already been a part of called
Young Musicians Unite.
And having an artistic expression for kids is a way
for them to feel comfortable with who they are,
which is something I had to learn the hard way
'cause nobody gave me that opportunity when I was a kid.
Q: Thank you, Ben.
-Charlie? -CHARLIE: Yeah, so,
number one: family is more important to me than anything.
And to be where I am at in my life--
you know, I'm 25 years old,
and a million dollars is a whole lot of money.
Life-changing. I can set up the rest of my life
for me and my family.
You know, part of this experience has been
getting to meet and know all of you.
And if there's one thing I know, it's that
every single person here had something
bigger than themselves they were playing for.
I've talked with a lot of you about the work that I do.
I've worked a lot in immigration law.
There's a lot of organizations that I would want
to make a donation to, and I would also want to,
you know, bet on myself and pay for law school with this money.
Thank you, Charlie.
-Kenzie? -KENZIE: I've been
in my career since I was 15 years old,
not because it sounded fun.
I would have loved to enjoy high school like a normal kid.
I couldn't.
I started working in salons when I was 15,
got my beauty license by the time I was 17,
opened my salon by the time I was 24.
I opened it to give people a place to work.
I don't make any money off of the chairs that I rent out.
If a business person looked at my business plan,
they would lose their minds and be like,
"You could make so much money off of this."
It's not about the money. The business is not about the money.
It's about providing people an opportunity.
So this money would be mine, for me.
I would invest it and I would set up myself so I don't have
to be 70 years old doing bang trims on kids, okay?
-[laughing] -Like, I'm trying
to set myself up to have a family
and to be able to be financially secure in myself.
This was my venture. My life is...
has been for everyone else.
-Q: Thank you so much. -No problem.
Q: Yes, ma'am.
Well done, jury.
Every single question got
different information.
Well done. Thank you.
Charlie, Kenzie, Ben,
I'm gonna give you 30 seconds.
-Okay. -PROBST: If you think
there was something not brought up
that is pertinent to your game, this is your chance to make it.
Charlie, 30 seconds.
A pattern I wanted to highlight
was "never close a door."
Always keep my options open.
Everyone here knows that I've strategized with them
at one point or another in the game.
It's what gave me options.
It's what let me see my position in the game,
stay safe and have power.
That's how I feel like I got here today,
and I really just wanted to hit that point home to all of you.
I think I played hard. Thank you for listening.
-PROBST: Kenzie? -Thank you.
KENZIE: Oh, to sum it up, um, I went
on every sanctuary reward because I am a social butterfly.
I competed in every single challenge
from the first one to the fire-making.
Won two of those, thanks to some help, because
you get by with a little help from your friends.
I came in here trying to make friends, and thank you all
for listening. Um...
Yeah. I... I just love you all.
Thank you so much. [laughs]
-Thank you, Kenzie. -Thank you. -PROBST: Ben.
Not that I think it stacks up against them,
but, uh, with everything I've been through in my life,
I did want to come here and be the emotional me
and not the bravado frontman performer version of me.
And even though I had a hard time
with the night terrors,
I got from the bottom and had fun
climbing my way through moves towards the end.
I played the game I wanted to play, and I'm glad I got
to meet y'all, because y'all rock, and...
-Q: Thank you. -Who rocks?
-Thanks, Ben. -You rock. -You rock.
TIFFANY: Thanks, Ben.
-I'll accept that. -Right. The one, right?
Come on. That's for you there.
-[laughing] -PROBST: Charlie,
Kenzie, Ben, it's not easy to sit
in those seats and defend your game, but
you have to claim your victory, and one of you just did.
The question is who.
The only thing left to do is vote.
-[laughing] -[grunts]
CHARLIE: I love you guys.
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