Welcome to the finale of Survivor 42.
I love finale nights,
and I think tonight is gonna be very exciting
and very unpredictable
because there are still so many ways it could play out
and so many players who have a legit shot to win.
There are only two weapons left in the game--
Mike and Maryanne both have idols.
They both have to play them with five players left,
which means, in theory, they both get to four.
Which means, in theory, they're at least making fire--
which means at least one of them is in the final three.
So for the other players,
it will come down to immunity challenges,
because, without the necklace, you are left to rely
on your ability to persuade other players
that what you want is what they need.
And that is very tough to do on Survivor,
because both can't be true.
There's only one winner.
So tonight we're gonna have two immunity challenges,
two Tribal Councils, one fire-making showdown,
and then we will read the votes here in beautiful Fiji
and go right into the aftershow and talk about everything,
while the players are still raw and hungry and dirty.
Take a look at this final five. That's a final five.
You have Mike, Jonathan, Romeo, Lindsay and Maryanne.
Three of them are gonna get to the end to get a chance
to plead their case about why they deserve
the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes along with it.
Here we go.
This is the finale of Survivor 42.
♪
LINDSAY: Savagery is what's gonna happen right now.
Don't get in my way.
I'm balls to the wall, going all out.
MIKE: I've never given up on anything.
On anything I've done, I've gone extra.
And that's what I'm doing right now.
I'm fighting to the bitter end.
MARYANNE: I want to show that I'm here to play my game
and I'm here to win.
I can close the deal and be the winner ofSurvivor 42.
ROMEO: In the end, I will be wearing theSurvivor tiara on my head,
and I will be the ultimate Mr.Survivor.
JONATHAN: There's nothing that's gonna stop me.
At the end of the day, everyone will know
that Jonathan gave everything that he had.
♪
There's gonna be a battle royale.
MIKE: This is a big game. I have to be a big player.
LINDSAY: My goal is to winSurvivor.
MARYANNE: The million dollars is mine.
ROMEO: I don't want to be
second or third, and I'm gonna take it all.
♪
[thunder rumbling]
♪
ROMEO: After Omar was voted out,
everybody was just smiling and laughing.
Everyone's just happy we've made it to the final five.
And then we come to find out
that we are now at a brand-new beach.
MIKE: Holy crap. I don't know where we are, but this is it.
This is our home.
There's all our clothes.
Well, at least we got a machete and a pot.
This is bizarre. Is there more to look at?
I think this is it, guys.
LINDSAY: We don't even have our tarp.
We're back at scratch.
Yeah.
Good news is, we have only three days.
MARYANNE: This new beach has nothing.
We don't have a tarp,
we don't have a shelter, but you know what?
I was on cloud nine
because, by voting out Omar,
now everybody on the jury knows
Maryanne is here to play.
I might actually have a chance to make it to the end
and win this thing.
And I haven't felt like that this whole game.
It's all coming together.
ROMEO: Listen,
I have no hard feelings, but I just want to know,
what did Omar tell you to convince you to vote for me?
I never talked to Omar.
You weren't the plan.
Well, you voted for me.
I know, but I want to hear what made you
-pick Omar first. -JONATHAN: So that's why...
Yeah, we-we, uh, we planned Omar for a little bit.
Okay, and I'm your-- I'm in your alliance,
and I was unaware of that.
You voted for me, Lindsay.
LINDSAY: But you already backed up on your alliance,
because I'm supposed to be aligned with you. And you...
So was Omar.
-You just... Well, you backed... -You voted for me.
LINDSAY: I'm so pissed.
Now I have to deal with the stupid wrath of Jonathan
being all righteous of like, "You voted for me.
You are the one who are in the wrong."
Like, dude, screw you.
If you're telling me Omar was the plan the whole time,
and I'm in your alliance, you didn't tell me that.
That means you lied to me, too.
I think I've been getting played this whole time.
No. You voted for me, Lindsay. You're forgetting.
LINDSAY: I can't stand how he talks to me.
I'm frustrated that I have to kiss his ass
and grovel,
just for the sake of getting through the next few days.
And just this cockiness that he now has
just drives me up a frickin' wall.
I voted for you because Omar pinned me against you.
But if I, but if I knew the truth,
I wouldn't have...
[groans] He's impossible
to talk to.
He's just so frickin' righteous,
and it drives me insane.
ROMEO: Well, since we're all being honest here,
I have an idol, and I'm using it in the next Tribal,
so at least I get to final four.
If you guys want to vote me out after, that's fine.
Good for you, man. Good for you.
You're playing your game.
ROMEO: I'm here by the skin of my teeth.
They should just name me "The In-Case Survivor,"
because every time there's a plan to vote somebody off,
somebody's always gonna throw votes on Romeo.
Just in case that person plays an idol, Romeo goes home.
So I thought the only way that I can survive
the next Tribal Council is to come up with this lie,
which is to say that I have a hidden immunity idol.
Yeah.
They seem to buy it, but just to be sure,
I made a fake idol.
And, uh, I came up with this little baby.
See?
I think I did pretty good.
I suck at arts and crafts, so my second grade teacher
would be very proud of me.
And, uh, hopefully it'll get me through another Tribal Council.
♪
MIKE: Yeah.
JONATHAN: Mm-hmm.
I want you. I literally want you to win.
And, like, Mike gave me his word.
He said, "If I'm here at five, I'll give you the idol."
It will be a two-three-two vote on Omar.
-MIKE: Then he's out. -Yeah.
-Here's my promise to you, my giveback. -Yeah. Mm-hmm.
-MIKE: I'm the only one with an idol left. -Yeah.
-I will either give it to you if you want it... -Yeah.
MIKE: ...or play it for you.
-I got your back. -Yeah.
-I give you my word, you'll be in the final four. -Okay.
LINDSAY: I'm in the worst position I could possibly be in.
Romeo claims he has an idol.
Mike has an idol, and he's never gonna turn on Jonathan.
And they're obviously gonna take Maryanne to the end over me.
So if I don't win immunity today,
I'm definitely going home.
MIKE: I don't know about that.
Yeah, but you're not gonna play that for me.
I know that every... everyone wants me out.
Mike is saying that he might play his idol for me,
but he told Maryanne he would give her the idol at five.
So I'm like, "Don't lie to me."
I appreciate that.
Please don't.
I'm not. Look at me. I'm not.
Listen, it's okay. Come here.
[Lindsay sniffles]
My vote's Romeo.
-Okay? -Mm-hmm.
I'm not.
I'm trying to stay positive, but if something doesn't happen,
I feel like I'm screwed.
♪
MIKE: Yes.
-Whoa! Tree mail. -LINDSAY: Yeah.
[whistles]
"Another shot at immunity.
"Final four is just one vote away.
"If you want to increase your chances,
the riddle shows you the way."
One for you, Lindsay.
One for you, Mike.
We get tree mail today, knowing that it's a final five immunity,
but we also get a little envelope that's saying
"Final Advantage Clue." And we're all like... [gasps]
"First you must unscramble the words,
"then decipher the phrase.
"You cannot search for the advantage until
you have correctly solved and written down the entire phrase."
LINDSAY: Tree mail was a word scramble
to figure out a riddle,
which would tell us where to find an advantage.
♪
ROMEO: I suck at riddles,
I suck at puzzles, so I knew that I wasn't gonna get it.
But as long as Jonathan
and Mike didn't get it, I didn't really care.
I mean, get it, Lindsay.
Go for it.
Luckily, I'm good at word scrambles,
and I'm good at riddles.
♪
-JONATHAN: What you got? -Okay.
LINDSAY: The riddle, it was
"Good fortune is tucked
in the toes of the sleeping giant."
So I ran around like a banshee.
I was everywhere on this island.
[chirps]
A sleeping giant. Tree's giant. Sleeping means it fell.
I ran all around every single path on this island.
[groaning]
I'm definitely on the hot seat, for sure,
so I need this advantage.
But I looked everywhere, and nothing.
♪
MIKE: I got "giant" for this word.
I got "toes." What do you got for the first word?
MARYANNE: "Tucked."
"Tucked... in... the... toes...
of the 'blank.'"
We need to figure that one out.
MARYANNE: Lindsay scrambled and she runs away.
But then Mike's like, "Hey, yeah, guys,
let's all work together." And I'm like, "Ugh!"
Like, I'm like, "I guess I have to sandbag it,"
because I don't want
these guys to go and find the advantage.
I want Lindsay to find the advantage,
'cause I want to go to the end with her.
JONATHAN: The "P" word.
♪
Dang it.
I had to have been gone for at least 40 minutes.
I was all along the entire beach,
climbing up a giant rock wall.
I looked everywhere.
Nothing really stood out, didn't see it.
And then I thought that that dead tree
would be a sleeping giant.
I don't know what else would be some giant landmark
that sticks out.
And that's where I'm stuck.
♪
MIKE: Giant trees. Giant boulders.
♪
[gasps]
Oh, my God.
[sighs]
[cries softly]
[sniffles]
Aw, man.
"Congratulations.
In..." [crying]
[sniffles]
"In a season where you had to earn everything,
"you have a slight advantage in today's immunity challenge.
Good luck." [sighs]
I thought I was going home. Like...
to have this and to earn my way to the final four on my own
and not have to rely on anybody, like, this is huge.
Did you get it?
So Lindsay came back into camp,
and she had the advantage.
And I was ecstatic for her.
"Congratulations.
"In a season where you had to earn everything,
"you will have a slight advantage
in today's immunity challenge. Good luck."
MARYANNE: Nice.
LINDSAY: As much as I don't like
the spot that I'm in, I do have faith in myself.
Like, I have so much fire under my ass.
That résumé is looking mighty fine.
[chuckles softly]
I have nothing else to lose, so screw it.
Savagery is what's gonna happen right now.
And I'm balls to the wall,
going all out to win this today.
♪
Come on in.
-LINDSAY: Hell yeah. -Yes.
Come on, how cool is this challenge?
-MIKE: This looks amazing. -Badass.
-PROBST: Pretty epic. -Yes!
I was dreaming for a station challenge.
Dreaming!
Hell yeah.
♪
PROBST: All right. Shall we get
to your final five immunity challenge?
-Yes. -Mm-hmm.
Lindsay, come to take the necklace.
This is amazing.
-Thank you. -Yeah.
Once again, immunity is back up for grabs.
For today's challenge, you're gonna race
through a series of obstacles,
collecting puzzle pieces along the way.
Once you have all the pieces,
you're gonna use them to solve a circular puzzle.
First to finish wins immunity,
guaranteed a spot in the final four,
which means, at the very least,
you'll be making fire to get to three.
In addition, today you're playing for a reward.
-Want to know what you're playing for? -[excited chatter]
-Yes. -PROBST: First to finish will enjoy, back at camp,
-pasta. -[gasps] No. -LINDSAY: You guessed it.
-You guessed it. -Spaghetti.
Garlic bread.
Garlic bread?
You want some meat sauce?
-Yes. -MIKE: Yeah, yeah. -PROBST: Sure.
-Yes! -Yes.
-How about some cake? -Yes! -Yeah!
-Little salad? -Yes! -Yes!
-And red wine. -Yeah!
[laughter]
Get your buzz on.
PROBST: Losers, Tribal Council, where somebody
will be voted out of this game and fall this short.
Come this close.
It won't happen.
Big stakes.
-Get to it? -JONATHAN: Yes, sir. -Yeah!
-All right. -LINDSAY: Jeff, I also have an advantage
I would like to tell you about.
-Tell me. -LINDSAY: All right.
I solved a riddle,
and I gained a final advantage,
which says that I will have
a slight advantage in today's immunity challenge.
PROBST: Yes. Okay, so here's how it's gonna work.
Lindsay, while everybody else will have to untie six knots
at every station...
...you will untie one knot.
-Nice! -Wow.
PROBST: It's a big advantage.
Should get you here to the puzzle first.
-Then it's on you. All right. -Cool.
PROBST: Take your spots. We'll get started. Good luck, everybody.
-MARYANNE: Yeah! -LINDSAY: Nice.
PROBST: All right, here we go.
For a guaranteed spot in the final four.
Survivors ready.
Go!
This challenge is on.
Lindsay with the big advantage.
She has one knot,
which means she should start getting
on these obstacles faster than anybody else.
But Jonathan gets there first.
Lindsay is right behind.
♪
Lindsay's back. Jonathan's back.
Got to put it on the nail.
There you go. Jonathan heading back out.
Lindsay heading back out.
Mike struggling.
That's a tough one.
Some of these are a little easier.
Some are very difficult.
Everybody's got to do all of 'em.
Romeo through the first obstacle. He's back.
Mike with his first bag.
Jonathan back with his second bag.
Here comes Lindsay, struggling.
She's got the rope. She's across.
You're good. Lindsay with her second bag.
Jonathan's got his six knots undone.
♪
Wow! That was quick.
Jonathan is on fire.
Third bag.
Ripping through this.
Mike's back with another bag.
Lindsay's across. Tearing up those knees.
Come on, Maryanne.
-Keep digging. -[muffled]: Okay.
-PROBST: Drop those planks when you're done. -[muffled]: Okay.
PROBST: Here comes Romeo.
-[grunts] -PROBST: Maryanne's across.
Here comes Jonathan.
Lindsay's across, quickly.
There you go. Another bag for Lindsay.
Here comes Mike, one rope at a time, hanging on.
Jonathan using those planks.
On his feet, not even crawling.
It's a lot of balance.
That is dangerous.
He's going for it.
Here comes Romeo. He's going again.
Mike's across. He's got another bag.
-[grunting] -PROBST: Maryanne, back on her hands and knees,
taking on another tough obstacle.
Here comes Lindsay.
She's now in the lead.
Lindsay with one bag left.
Here comes Romeo. He's got another bag.
Jonathan back with another bag.
Jonathan down to two bags left. Here goes Lindsay.
Lindsay with her sixth and final bag.
[grunts]
PROBST: Maryanne is back with another bag.
Jonathan heading back with his fifth bag.
Wow!
Jonathan ripped through that obstacle.
Lindsay drops. Got to go back and start again.
And that is a big setback.
That will eat up the advantage she had from this morning.
Mike with his fourth bag.
Here comes Romeo,
balancing, reaching for that rope.
Here comes Mike.
Mike banging up those knees to get here fast.
You're good, Mike.
Romeo with another bag.
Jonathan is eating this challenge up right now.
-Here comes Maryanne, Jonathan. Little collision. -Oh. [sputters]
That's how you do it on Survivor.
Jonathan back with all his bags.
Jonathan first to the puzzle. Start working on it.
Lindsay's back now.
She can start working on her puzzle.
It is Jonathan and Lindsay.
A very familiar sight in challenges.
These two showing down next to each other.
Here comes Romeo.
He's fighting to stay in this.
Romeo with his fifth. He's got one left.
[shouts]
PROBST: Maryanne's back with another bag.
Mike is back.
He can start working on the puzzle.
Lindsay trying to get a piece.
Jonathan trying to find a piece.
This is a difficult puzzle, as you would expect
on day 24 and final five.
Romeo, drop those planks. Let's go!
Maryanne with her final bag. You're good.
We're going to have everybody on the puzzle on day 24.
Five players left.
One's going to be guaranteed a spot in the final four.
Lindsay off to a fast start on the puzzle.
Jonathan right there with her.
It is very close right now.
Mike would like to get in it with his first piece.
Jonathan with another piece.
It is Jonathan and Lindsay almost identical puzzles.
It's been one of the best matchups we've seen on Survivor.
Often coming down to Lindsay and Jonathan.
But Mike, Maryanne and Romeo would like to change that up.
-Spoiler. Spoiler. -ROMEO: Yeah.
PROBST: Mike with another piece.
It is Mike now in the lead.
Jonathan and Lindsay trying to keep up.
Lindsay finds one that fits.
It is now Lindsay and Mike, with Jonathan
and Maryanne trailing.
Romeo right where he started.
-Nothing. -I suck at puzzles, Jeff.
Don't say that. You always have a chance, Romeo.
PROBST: Jonathan's been stuck in the same spot for a while.
Lindsay with another piece.
Mike with another piece.
A little momentum going now.
Lindsay right on his tail.
Mike with another piece, extending his lead.
Mike can feel it now.
He can see it starting to come together.
Now he's got the outside of the circle complete.
It's just the guts.
Lindsay with another piece.
Lindsay is still in this. This is not over.
This is Mike and Lindsay right now.
Mike has the advantage. And another piece by Mike.
Lindsay trying to find one.
It's a big one. Does it fit?
It does. Lindsay with another piece.
Mike being very careful with that puzzle.
You get too aggressive, it could fall apart.
Meanwhile, Lindsay picking up the pace.
She's got another piece.
Mike has been on the same piece for a long time,
trying to get it in there
without knocking anything over. That's opening the door
for Lindsay, and she is taking advantage of it.
Mike's got it in.
Lindsay's now the one losing time,
trying to wedge a piece in.
Mike with another piece. He's down to five pieces.
Lindsay now starting to fall apart.
It's losing its shape.
She can feel it.
That's a scary spot.
Lindsay's got it in.
She's back in business. Got to pick up the pace again.
Lindsay with another piece.
We are dead even right now.
Mike and Lindsay-- five pieces each.
Both trying to wedge a piece in.
Mike has his piece in. Mike is down
to four now. Lindsay now down to four pieces.
Michael with another piece. This couldn't be any closer.
Mike with another piece.
He's down to two pieces.
Lindsay with another piece.
This could come down to seconds between Mike and Lindsay.
Mike's got another piece.
He's down to his last piece, but he's got to get it in without
destroying everything else, and that will take a second.
Mike working it.
He's using his whole body to hold the puzzle together,
which is what you have to do. Lindsay down to two pieces.
Lindsay has another piece.
-Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! -Mike has it!
-Yes! Yes! -Mike pulls it out by one piece!
Come on! Jeff!
-PROBST: Mike going to the final four! -Yeah!
-PROBST: What a finish. Wow. -Yeah!
I've been waiting 21 years for this.
Whoa. One piece away, Lindsay.
Man, my kids are going to be proud right now.
-MIKE: Holy crap, Jeff. -PROBST: Wow.
I've been waiting 21 years for this.
MIKE: Jeff, look at it.
-That's good, right? -Look at that.
-Those are points in Hoboken.
-In Hoboken, those are points. -Those are points.
Those are well-earned Survivorscars.
This is what you got right here.
-LINDSAY: Oh, I bet they are. -Yeah? Yeah? -Yeah.
-My man! -21 years.
-LINDSAY: Yeah. Badass. -So tell me about that.
Because it... You can just say that, but that means,
from season one, you've been watching.
Season one, I watched in the firehouse.
And for me to be here now standing with Jeff Probst with
an immunity necklace around my neck,
again with these great competitors,
-and I'm sitting up here at the end? -You killed it.
-Give me a hug. Thank you, man. -You got it, man.
-Congratulations. -Thank you so much.
Here's where things stand.
You are guaranteed a spot in final four.
That means, at the very least,
you're making fire for a shot at three.
Jonathan, Maryanne, Romeo, Lindsay,
tonight one of you-- the dream will end.
You'll go to the jury. It will not be you. You've also
-earned pasta. -I forgot about that.
-Yeah. Garlic bread, cake. -Oh, my God.
Choose one person to join you.
So think about what you're doing.
You're fueling your competition or you're buying favor.
Actually, I'm deciding about buying favor.
There's somebody here that's been dizzy every day.
He started at 250. He's down to, like, 210.
He's got nothing left in the tank.
And I love you guys. I just think, right now,
-he hasn't had a reward in a while. -LINDSAY: Of course.
And I got to bring Jonathan.
I love you, bro.
PROBST: Jonathan will be joining...
-Want to give me another one? -No.
-Okay. All right. -That's it.
PROBST: Maryanne, Romeo, Lindsay, got nothing for you.
Grab your stuff, head back to camp.
-See you tonight at Tribal. -Thank you.
-LINDSAY: Oh.
LINDSAY: Ugh! So close!
Being
one piece away?
It just sucks, but I'm not going to quit. I'm not going
to stop playing because people don't want me there.
Screw that. I'm making it to the end,
and I'll apologize later.
♪
[Mike vocalizing]
-Thank you. -Look at this!
-Thank you, God, and thank you, Mike. Ah! -Oh, my God.
JONATHAN: Vanilla cake.
-[whooping] -Oh, Mike, give me a hug!
Ah!
[overlapping chatter]
Holy crap.
I was one piece.
I had one piece left.
Jonathan didn't even keep doing the puzzle.
He just watched Mike do it. Like, such a cocky ass.
Cheers to our brotherhood.
History will be made with us.
There are good ships, there are bad ships,
but there are no ships like friendships.
That's a good one. That's a good one.
LINDSAY: And to just have him, like, be able
to gloat about me leaving before him just, like, irks me
because I'm a way better player than Jonathan.
JONATHAN: Mmm.
MIKE: Today at the immunity challenge,
I won this necklace.
I'm playing against
kids that are 30 years younger than me.
Two of them have been
immunity beasts.
And Lindsay had a distinct advantage today,
and I still won immunity, and it feels unbelievable.
I have a little bit of power.
You have a lot of power, brother. Come on, dude.
MIKE: I have immunity.
Plus, I have an idol in my pocket.
Now I got to figure out what I'm gonna do with it,
which I'm not exactly sure yet.
I just know that I'm gonna play it for somebody and take
who I want to the final four.
Romeo's saying he has an idol.
We got to take away our biggest threat.
JONATHAN: The plan tonight is to get Lindsay out.
She is an absolute beast.
She's really good at puzzles.
She's physically strong.
She's got a good head on her shoulders. She talks.
So she's somebody that you don't want
to be sitting by in the final three.
I just feel like they're coming after me, Mike,
'cause you know they're talking about me right now.
Of course they are, but, dude, you're not going home tonight.
-I got one favor to ask of you. -Uh-huh.
If she pulls an idol, will you play it on me?
That would help.
So give me... give me your word right now, please.
I don't have to save you. I swear on this. I'm telling you.
Okay.
LINDSAY: I don't know how the hell
I'm gonna make it out of here.
He's gonna give his idol to Jon.
-Exactly. -MARYANNE: No.
He gave me his word.
LINDSAY: He gave me his word about stuff, too,
and it means nothing.
LINDSAY: Today was a challenge
that I absolutely needed to win.
So now the only possible way
that I'm going to get through this is to
vote for Jonathan-- all three of us--
and hope that Mike
gives his idol to either myself or Maryanne.
He gave me his word that he would play his idol for me.
Did he give you the same word?
He kind of said it to me on the beach that he might.
He didn't guarantee it.
MARYANNE: I really, truly do think
Jonathan won't be here tomorrow.
I have faith.
LINDSAY: Maryanne is extremely confident that
Mike is going to play his immunity idol
for her, but I can't rely on that.
So my plan is to pitch to Mike hard
to make him feel extremely guilty
that he'd be breaking his word if he didn't pick me.
[birds singing]
LINDSAY: So, I'm just begging
to not go home.
I valued how much that you feel like your word,
as long as someone shows trust back, you show trust to them.
I feel like I very much earned that with the trust
that I've given you.
We had a bond-- you, me, and Omar--
we're going to make it to the end.
Omar burned you, but I stayed true to my word,
and you saying to me, "I would love to see you get
-to the end." -That's still true.
-But you have the power of that. -I know. Yeah.
So if I leave, then it makes me feel
that that was a lie.
It's not a lie. I still feel that way.
Honestly, I love Lindsay.
I think she's a great girl. I really do.
I see my own daughter in her.
I think she got caught up in the wrong place
and with the wrong person.
Other than that, she's been loyal to me.
But on the other hand, it's fair
that I protect Jonathan 'cause he protected me,
and Maryanne has been a person of good character.
She's kept her word,
and that means a lot to me.
I'm gonna tell you my dilemma.
When that happened with Omar
-and-and you, I thought... -Mm-hmm.
MIKE: ...I went to Maryanne and made a promise to her.
Then this is what's hard for me, Mike,
because I feel like I've proven myself to you
in so many ways, and now,
because you now made a last-minute promise
to Maryanne, everything that I did meant ....
No, that's not true.
Mike, look at me in my eyes.
I 100% never lied to you once.
I promise you, I swear
-on everything. -I believe you. Yeah.
I had your back and told you everything.
And this is your time
to-to show me the trust back.
I'm very torn. I...
Honestly, I don't have my-my mind made up.
I've put myself in a position where
I have to make a decision that's going to
hurt somebody,
and it sucks.
I'm not 100% any way right now.
But now I got to figure out what's the right thing to do.
Right, he's got to... You know what, though? You're right.
But listen.
I... Like, my mind says, like, I think I can squeeze it out.
Right now Lindsay is a sitting duck, but
not only do I have my idol, which is
the only secret that has been kept in this entire game,
but also Mike might give his idol to me at Tribal.
So this means that my idol-- I can use it to save Lindsay
and blindside Jonathan. The question is,
what gives me my best chance of winning?
Emotionally, yes.
MARYANNE: Lindsay's played such a great game.
She's won immunities and taken major risks,
and the jury loves that.
But voting out someone who knows they're going home--
that's not a big move.
MARYANNE: But if I play my idol
on Lindsay and blindside Jonathan,
the jury will know that I am here to play
and that I'm a contender.
But it all comes down to what Mike does,
and this could make or break my game.
♪
PROBST: Let's start this morning.
Lindsay, you wake up, and you each have a riddle
to solve. Walk me through what happened.
LINDSAY: We each get this envelope that says,
you have to fix the word scramble.
Once you figure that out,
you're off to the races to solve the riddle
and find a secret advantage.
And I was the only one
-who solved the riddle. -[chuckles]
-I-I had to have been gone for at least 40 minutes. -At least.
PROBST: Jonathan, it's got to be frustrating
because it's an advantage.
It's offering you something in the game
if you can just solve it.
Yeah, that's the thing.
I haven't felt normal in days, Mr. Jeff,
because of how hard this has been.
It took four people.
-Yeah. -No, we didn't get it. -And we still didn't get it.
No, Lindsay had to come back and tell us.
Yeah. We said... we said, "Lindsay, can you tell us
what it was?" She's like, "Well, yeah, I got it now."
-It was "sleeping." -It was "sleeping." It was "sleeping."
We look at the word.
We said, "We can't believe it was 'sleeping.'"
PROBST: So, Lindsay, you get
the advantage, but did you feel,
going into the challenge,
that that advantage would be helpful?
Absolutely. I knew if I didn't win, I'm going home.
And I was one puzzle piece short
from beating Mike. Super happy for Mike.
Really proud of him that he got it.
Just sucks that in return of that,
I'm most likely going home.
So what's giving you that feeling?
LINDSAY: Based on last Tribal. Everyone else,
apparently, already kind of knew that Omar was working everybody.
I didn't until afterwards.
And then there was a lot of damage control to do,
and some that wasn't able to be repaired, it seems.
Jonathan, then, what was the vibe at camp?
I thought it would be fireworks
with people running around everywhere. Was it not?
Is everybody locked in that it's Lindsay?
Uh, you can never know for sure,
of course, because then comfort sets in,
and we know that that kills people in this game.
But people do recognize Lindsay as a big threat, which she is.
Maryanne, what was your take on what was going down at camp?
MARYANNE: In my perspective, I had to decide
on whether I wanted to vote emotionally
on who I feel I want it to be in the end,
and strategically on who I feel is the best combination
of people to have in the end.
And everyone here knows that I wear my heart on my sleeve,
so that was something that was difficult for me because
I love every single person here, and I...
but I need to go and recognize that, like,
I want to play this game for me,
and that means that I might have
to, like, go back on my word, or, like, that means
that I might have to go back on an alliance, and that sucks.
PROBST: So, Lindsay, do you feel
that you were the only one that was openly feeling desperate?
-Yes. -So that was clear to everybody?
Yeah, so it's calm
because no one has to really make a decision.
It was more me having to plead my case of why
I would like to stay. I mean, on one end,
I got deceived by Omar this entire time,
so my social game clearly sucks, strategic game sucks, because
all I have is my competitive edge.
That's only one... That's one note.
So, in terms of fighting against the jury,
that's not really a big case. That's only one end of that.
JONATHAN: No, absolutely not. Every time Lindsay
communicates with people, they have a bond with her.
It's not just because you got tricked
that makes you a bad social player at all.
You're social with everyone, and everyone loves you.
And that's the truth.
PROBST: And so, Lindsay, this is a question
I can never figure out what I would do.
How do you stop trying? Because I'm sure, at some point,
you go, "Well, okay, I guess that's it. But wait, Mike,
let me just... Can I...? Let me just try it one more time."
-Is that what happened? -That's literally what I did.
-That's exactly what happened. -LINDSAY: Yes. -Okay.
I'm doing it right now. Like, I have to just pitch my case
as best as I can. Until you snuff that torch
and my name is up there, I have to just hope
that I can just say one last thing and offer one last...
I don't know. I-I don't know.
It's like guns blazing, whatever I have left.
I'm just throwing anything out there.
PROBST: Jonathan, how do you feel about
that aspect of the game in this sense?
The better player you are,
the more likely you are to be taken out.
In theory, in a lot of games, the better player you are,
the more likely you are to win 'cause you're better.
It's a fine line. If you aren't a great player, then
people want to keep you till the end, but
if you're looked at as too strong, then done.
MIKE: Or finding the person
or people that you really can trust,
and they... you work together to get to the end,
even if you're a good player, that helps out.
But again, it is Survivor. That changes quickly.
PROBST: And what does that mean?
That you can be a good player,
and if you find another good player
that you trust, then maybe the two of you bond
and you protect each other?
Yeah. You don't even have to be two good players.
Just two people that really know
that they have each other's back.
As long as one of them doesn't feel
the other one has an upper hand, you kind of work together.
I mean, but it's a hard thing to find.
Well, Maryanne, the key is, you have to align with people
that you believe you can beat,
and the trick is, they're aligning with you
because they believe they can beat you.
Exactly, and so many people have tried to play that fine line
and played it a little too well.
That's truly why I think Omar is there, because he...
I thought I was his number one, but then
I realized that if I did take my number one to the end,
I'd be taken and herded as a goat.
But you have to realize, "Okay, no. I have
"to go, and I now have to find new allies
"who are round the same level as me
so I actually have a chance to win at the end."
PROBST: So, Romeo, if you were gonna give this vote a title,
this chapter is called what? What's the vote about?
I would call it "The Fighter."
Whoever it is didn't give up.
They kept fighting till the very end, and that's admirable.
So, Lindsay, you think he's talking to you?
It's "Lindsay: The Fighter"?
Yeah, but I-I like that title. I'm cool with it.
If-if the reason for me leaving is because
no one thinks they can beat me,
that's the best way for me to leave.
All right, well, it sounds like it is time to vote.
Romeo, you're up.
♪
All right, if anybody has an advantage or an idol,
and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.
Jeff. [sighs]
I waited 21 years to do this, also.
However, I can't play it for myself,
but I want to repay somebody's loyalty to me.
I'm gonna play this for Maryanne, okay?
[gasping]
You deserve it. I want you to be here tomorrow.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
This is a hidden immunity idol.
Any votes cast for Maryanne will not count.
Jeff?
-[gasping] -ROMEO: Um, I will...
not be playing this for myself because
it is a fake idol.
I made it at camp. So I'm going to throw it in the fire.
Good for you. Good for you. Okay.
All right, I'll read the votes.
♪
First vote-- Lindsay.
Jonathan. One vote-- Lindsay, one vote-- Jonathan.
Lindsay. Two votes-- Lindsay, one vote-- Jonathan.
♪
14th person voted out of Survivor 42--Lindsay.
It's three. It's enough. Need to bring me your torch.
It was fun while it lasted, guys.
Love you, girl.
Good luck.
-I love you so much. -Good luck to you.
LINDSAY: Ugh.
Lindsay, the tribe has spoken.
-Time for you to go. -LINDSAY: Ah.
-Good luck, guys. -Bye, Lindsay.
-I'm gonna eat so much food! -[Maryanne laughs]
Enjoy it.
All right, you've made it to the final four.
Tomorrow you'll compete in your final immunity challenge.
Grab your torches, head back to camp.
-Good night. -MARYANNE: Thanks, Jeff.
I love that the label's "The Fighter," and I like
that that's my tagline for this because I really felt
like I fought my way throughout this whole game.
And I'm incredibly proud of myself
of how far I got. This was so much fun.
I got to experience so manySurvivor things
that so many people don't get to have.
Of course, I'm a little upset right now,
but this was the best ever.
♪
Come on in.
[Maryanne panting]
I can hear you breathing just walking up the steps, Maryanne.
Oh, yeah.
MIKE: Good morning, Jeff.
Good morning, Mr. Jeff.
Good morning.
Oh, wow.
PROBST: It is a Survivorclassic.
-You know the name? -Yes, sir.
All right, so, let me just check in.
How are you doing, day 25?
Mike, what are you feeling?
Obviously we're very depleted. It's day 25.
But I always say, "Big games, big players."
And that's when you reach deeper than you've ever reached
into everything you have and put it out there,
and this is the last immunity challenge.
And whatever's left in the tank,
you have to leave right here on this platform today.
PROBST: How about you, Romeo? When you're about
to take on this challenge, who all do you think of?
Do you draw on inspiration right now?
Definitely. Family back home.
All the strong, independent women that I coach back home.
They're looking at me and saying, "Hang in there.
You know, you taught me to push for what you want."
And now I'm showing them that I'm pushing for what I want.
I want final three.
How about you, Jonathan? What do you draw on right now?
We've been working this hard for this moment, Mr. Jeff.
And for me it comes down to this.
And everything that I have, I'm going to pour it into this game,
and I'm going to give it my all
so that if I do get kicked off, then I'll say,
"Hey, I fought the good fight. I did everything I could do."
Maryanne, right now you've been so vocal all season
of sharing your emotions.
You even say, "I wear 'em on my sleeve."
What are you feeling right now?
What are you drawing on to get you pumped up?
[voice breaking]: Um... right now...
I'm sorry. [sniffles]
I'm right now drawing on knowing that
my whole family's going to be watching me doing this, and...
one of my family members is not talking
to the rest of my family,
so we haven't really been together
for more than a year, and it hurts.
But to know that at this moment,
even if they're separate,
we're together right now, cheering me on
is the thing that's driving me and pushing me.
PROBST: So you being on Survivor could bring your family back?
[crying]
I want it more than a million dollars, Jeff.
[sniffles]
I want it more than a million dollars.
[sniffles]
PROBST: How do you now take that emotion
and turn it into energy rather than sorrow or sadness?
I sit in the sorrow and sadness.
It's okay to feel sad, but the thing is,
sadness doesn't take you anywhere.
It's what you do with that.
What am I going to do with my sadness?
I'm going to turn it into passion and drive
so that I push myself, and I do the best that I can,
and I win this competition.
PROBST: All right, all four of you feel very ready.
You know what's driving you.
Let's get to it. First things first, Mike.
Jeff, you might have to wrestle me for this. I don't know.
-Ah, I don't want to wrestle you, man. -Ah.
-I want love. -You always get love, brother.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
[whistles]
It comes down to this, Mr. Jeff.
-PROBST: It comes down to this. -Man, I'm stoked!
Come on!
For the last time, immunity is back up for grabs.
For today's challenge, you're going
to have one hand tied behind your back.
You're going to drop a ball down the chute.
It's going to spiral around. You're going to catch it.
You're going to drop it again. At regular intervals,
we will add another ball, making it more difficult.
If at any point a ball drops,
you're out.
Last person left standing wins immunity,
guaranteed a spot at the final three
where you will get a shot to plead your case to the jury
that you helped vote out,
why you deserve the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars.
Plus, you decide, "Who do I take with me
to put in that second seat, and who do I force to make fire?"
All the power will be in the hands
of the person who wins this challenge.
Never has a challenge been more important
in this season than this one right here.
Are you ready?
-MIKE: Yes. -Yes, sir. -PROBST: Let's get to it.
MIKE: Yes.
All right, everybody pick up your first ball.
Here we go. Final four.
Win this, you're in three. Everybody,
drop your first ball.
This challenge is on.
Everything riding right here
on this beautifully-designed, hypnotic game.
What started as an art department project
in Survivor: Chinaby somebody
who had some free time on his hands, named Simo,
turned into a challenge that we used
in Survivor: Tocantins, and is now worth
a million dollars to somebody.
Right now you're just getting
warmed up, getting a feel of this.
Mike drops. Mike, you're out.
Mike is out with one ball.
Unbelievable. Never seen that happen.
Mike has no control tonight.
-I'm still in shock. What happened? -MIKE: So am I.
Took my eye off of it to put it in.
I mean, we're in the warmup phase.
I literally had it in my hand.
It slipped out of my hand.
All right, we're down to three.
In a moment you're going to add a second ball,
and that's when this challenge will really start to kick in.
You'll have 15 seconds to do it.
You don't need to rush.
You just saw, with Mike, how quickly it can be over.
Stay engaged.
Your 15 seconds starts now.
Maryanne drops.
Jonathan drops.
Romeo drops.
Everybody now with two balls in motion.
The key to this challenge is that gate.
It's going to send one ball to the right,
and then the next ball to the left.
It's going to come down to the spacing.
[clicking]
That sound is hypnotic.
You got to stay very engaged.
Mike still stunned.
You never know what is going to get you on Survivor.
-[Maryanne groans] -Oh, Maryanne drops.
Maryanne is out, and now, quickly, we are down to two.
And we only have two balls in play.
It speaks to mental exhaustion.
This is not a difficult phase of this challenge.
Lots of kids watching could do this.
But they've been sleeping and eating.
Mike and Maryanne--
their fate will be decided by either Jonathan or Romeo.
Whoever wins this challenge will hold
all the power tonight at Tribal Council.
You're gonna get ready to place a third ball.
You'll have 15 seconds
starting now.
Based on what's happened so far,
three balls might be it.
Romeo drops.
Jonathan drops, and we're now
into the next phase-- three balls.
Those balls now feel like they're spinning more quickly.
That spacing is really critical.
Every part of you is focused on one thing--
left, then right.
Left, then right.
This is it.
Who will have the power tonight
to try to control what happens?
Romeo and Jonathan,
if you hear a thud of that ball hitting the plank,
that's going to echo in your mind for a lifetime
if you lose Survivor.
All right, in a moment, we're going to add a fourth ball,
and it's going to get very difficult.
So you need to start thinking
about where you want to put that fourth ball.
You'll have 15 seconds to do it
starting now.
You can drop any time in that window.
Romeo drops.
Jonathan drops.
Jonathan drops, and he's out.
Can't make the transition.
Romeo wins his first individual immunity,
-and it could not have come at a bigger time. -[clapping]
Romeo is in charge of everything tonight.
-MARYANNE: Congratulations. -Wow. What a challenge.
-On any given day... -I'm proud of you. Great job.
...anybody can win anything.
You have the inspiration in your heart.
-[Romeo sighs] -Romeo, what is it right now?
-I want to know right now. -[Romeo sniffles]
I feel like I've been at the bottom of this game for so long,
and I've just been hanging on by my fingernails.
Every Tribal, my name comes up.
Every single Tribal, Romeo was always the "in case."
In case somebody pulls an idol, throw some votes on Romeo.
It's just... it's exhausting.
I've been fighting so hard, and this feels good.
And I'm going to go back home,
and to all those young women that I work with
and tell them, "That's what I tried to teach you.
"Just-just don't give up because, hey,
you could be in the final three of Survivor."
This is a dream come true.
Let me come to you.
-Yeah! -Great job.
-Jeff. -Final four immunity.
You are not only safe.
Every decision that happens tonight will be yours.
All right, everybody, grab your stuff, head back to camp.
I will see you tonight for the biggest Tribal
-of the season. Congrats. -Thank you.
-MARYANNE: See you, Jeff. -MIKE: Great job, man. Hey.
ROMEO: It was extremely emotional for me
because I felt like, after winning this, for the first time
in a long time, I had security.
ROMEO: This is definitely
my Miss America moment. The spotlight's going to be on me.
I have the shiniest dress.
I have the most expensive dress and the most coveted dress, so
we'll see what I do tonight.
♪
-JONATHAN: Good job, Romeo. -MIKE: Good job, Romeo.
Way to come through when it counted, brother.
Thank you, guys.
Coming back from the challenge, I felt like
MVP, Miss Universe and prom queen all combined.
I beat Jonathan in the final immunity challenge.
I am just thrilled,
and I think this necklace looks a lot better on me
than it does on big-ass Jonathan.
[laughs] All good.
This big victory going into
one of the most important Tribal Councils--
it's just kind of like vengeance for all those horrible Tribals
where people just dismissed me
and-and just threw my name out there just in case.
So it feels amazing, and I'm enjoying it.
Oh, Romeo, unless you have your mind made up, and you want
-to say something, I'd like to talk to you first. -Sure.
-Hey, I'll talk to everybody... -Has nothing to do with...
It has nothing to do with strategy.
It's about my personal feeling.
Romeo has to send me to make fire because
it's the consensus that I'm the most dangerous.
It's a compliment and a curse. It is what it is.
I think I can beat Maryanne.
Jonathan could be a different story, though.
I'm in deep water, but I didn't drown yet.
I know you're gonna have to ask me to make fire.
I want you to know that there's no animosity.
If I'm being 100% honest, I know I'm the right move.
You'd be silly not to send me.
-That's why I know it's going to happen. -I respect that a lot.
You need to think about the other two.
-If I go against Jonathan... -ROMEO: Yeah.
...and I beat Jonathan, then you have to deal
with me and Maryanne.
-That's true. -But if you make me make fire
against Maryanne instead of Jonathan,
-you only got to deal with one of us. -Yeah.
I do have to send Mike to make fire,
but he has a good point.
If he goes against Jonathan and he beats Jonathan,
now I'm going to be going
against the two most likable people in the final three--
Mike and Maryanne.
You need to make a bold move. That's up to you.
-Listen, I'm giving you advice. I'm just telling you... -Yeah.
-that's how I would think about it. -Yeah.
I'm weighing everything at this point
because what good would it do for me
to get to the top three and end up
third place or second place? I want to win.
Jonathan, are you ready?
-Yes. -Go.
Oh, that's a good amount.
-Oh, nice. Whoa! -Hold on.
MARYANNE: Jonathan is very good at making fire,
and my fire-making, I would say, is decent, but the thing is,
you never know what's going to happen at Tribal.
Maybe I'm going to choke.
Maybe Mike is like, "I'm a super good fire maker."
So, the best thing for me is for Romeo
to put Jonathan and Mike for fire,
and Jonathan wins.
You're good. You just have to focus on, like,
building a fast teepee up,
'cause the trick is to get the sticks to catch.
-They're caught. Mm-hmm. -Once the sticks catch, you've won.
-So the sticks are caught. Do you see that? -Then you're good.
I've been telling Jonathan all the tips
and tricks to go and make fire because
I don't want Mike here in the final three with me.
I want Jonathan and Romeo
because that is my best shot at winning.
-So, what was that? Like, 30 seconds? -Yeah, that was, like,
surprisingly fast.
Jon, do you want to go talk, my brother?
-Yeah, I do. -Look at you practicing, huh?
You don't need practice.
I need practice now.
The first thing you do to prepare for a night like tonight
is you start a lot of fires.
So I've been starting a lot of fires.
And I've been starting 'em quick,
but no one has seen Mike make a fire.
I'm gonna try like hell to beat your ass tonight in fire.
-You better, man. If you don't... -Hey...
-If you don't, I would be ashamed. -I get one last...
I got... I got one last little bit in me.
-I hope... I hope you try. -Oh, I'm definitely gonna try.
I ain't giving it to you.
If you want it, you got to take it off me.
Be honest. You start fires a lot, don't you?
-I don't know. -Ah, yes, you do.
-Ah. -I think that you've been dealing with fire too long
for you not to be a good fire-starter.
I'll tell you what, though.
If Romeo gives you an out not to make fire,
take it.
-Yeah? -Yes.
Don't lose your spot. I'm telling you.
-Yeah. -Listen, you'll be the favorite,
definitely, to beat me,
but don't risk your spot for that, man.
-I'm telling you right now. -Yeah.
I know Mike's plan,
and I know what he's doing.
He's trying to get in my head.
I'm being serious.
If he gives you the out, take it.
JONATHAN: Mike, that's not going to work for me, buddy.
I love you, but you can't get in my head.
You're just going to get me hyped to beat you.
ROMEO: This is exactly what I wanted.
We need him, like, spooked.
He's practicing right now.
He doesn't know if he's going against his buddy or you,
-and I want to keep it that way. -MARYANNE: Okay.
[rapid scraping]
MARYANNE: I can't sit down and relax and be comfortable.
I have to be prepared to make fire, because, in the end,
Romeo has all the power.
He might blindside me,
and I might have to make fire against Mike.
'Cause the trick is,
you just want to get the tiny sticks to ignite
'cause once you have those tiny sticks ignited...
-Yeah. -...it's game over.
MIKE: For 21 years, I've been watchingSurvivor.
I always had one dream in my life.
The last thing that I would want to put on the top
of my résumé of life-- and I have a pretty good résumé--
it would be to winSurvivor.
So tonight, whether I have to make fire
against Maryanne or Jonathan, there's only one choice--
for me to win.
My fate is in my own hands,
and I truly feel that if I win at making fire tonight,
I will win a million dollars. So,
this is for me to lose.
♪
All right, let's talk about the past couple of days.
If you start yesterday morning, you had a riddle.
Lindsay solves it. She gets an advantage
in the immunity challenge. Turns out, the time advantage
was enough, in theory, to have won.
But Mike ends up winning, the guy that some would say,
least likely to win on a complicated puzzle.
-You said it many times. -Absolutely.
We get to Tribal Council.
Lindsay can't persuade you to keep her
because she's too big a threat. She's now on the jury.
We get to today. Romeo, a lot of people would have said,
if you're gonna look at past history,
you're the long shot to win.
And then you win. And what it reminded me
is that so much of what we accomplish in life starts
with showing up,
and by showing up, you're still in the game,
and you have all the power tonight.
So, as you sit here, what is that feeling of knowing,
"I hung in there long enough, and when I needed to,
I did what I had to do"?
ROMEO: I mean, I work with all types of people back home,
and I encourage them to be the very best that they can be.
And somehow, in this game, for the first time,
I had to use that advice that I give them on myself.
No matter how low I'm feeling, I still had to keep pushing.
It's just a reminder that if you just hang on long enough,
it can happen.
And that's why I was so emotional today
because I did it, and I'm very proud of myself.
PROBST: All right, before we get to your decision,
let me check in with everybody else. Maryanne,
-how you feeling? -You know, you always feel like
you're going to vomit 'cause it's like,
I've watched the show and, like, I've seen people be like,
yeah, they do fire at camp, and they get here,
and they can't do... They can't even catch a flame, right?
So, like, even, like, how confident I feel, it's like
anything can happen at Tribal, so...
PROBST: Did you practice making fire?
MARYANNE: Yes, I did.
Jonathan, how are you feeling about your fire-making skills?
I'm pretty good at making fires, Mr. Jeff.
PROBST: Mike, what was your take on the afternoon?
Well, the worst kept secret at camp was
I'm definitely making fire tonight.
I mean, it's obviously ironic a bit
that the fireman would be making fire,
but it doesn't mean you know how to make them
just because you have a living of putting them out.
MIKE: Very true.
I watched Jonathan make fire for the last 12 to 13 days.
He's very good at it.
I will give it my best shot.
So you feel like it's you and Jonathan. That's what I heard.
And that's exactly what I'm saying.
-I feel like it's me and Jonathan. -[chuckles]
They're putting their best fire maker against me.
PROBST: So you're the target?
[scoffs]
Absolutely.
PROBST: All right, well, let's find out.
So, Romeo, before you tell me, just walk me through
the different things you considered and why.
Yeah, I mean, I felt like Miss Universe,
and this was my crown, and everybody wanted to talk to me.
It felt great, uh,
but it's not as easy as-as they think it is.
It was like a tennis match in my head.
Am I making the right choice? I don't know.
I might be making a million- dollar mistake, or not.
I-I don't know, but I've played my game since day one
based on my gut feeling, and I'm still here.
So obviously I did something right.
And, uh, I'm going with my gut tonight.
Okay. So, congratulations.
First spot at the final three is yours.
You will get a chance to plead your case tomorrow night
to this jury.
The next decision is
who's going to be sitting next to you
in that second spot at the final three.
Who's that gonna be?
Ah.
I'm taking Maryanne with me.
And these two are making fire.
PROBST: All right, so, Maryanne, you are now in the final three.
-[exhales deeply] -PROBST: You, too, will get a chance to plead your case
to the jury tomorrow night.
The only question left is to see who is going to be
-the third person next to you. -I love you, brother.
I love you, too, man.
PROBST: You guys can take your spots.
Good luck, guys.
Give you a minute to look at everything,
and then we'll begin.
♪
All right, so, what you're looking to do
is make a flame high enough and hot enough
to burn through and raise that flag.
First to do it will be sitting
at the final Tribal Council tomorrow.
The other person will be sitting on the jury.
-Stakes don't get bigger. -JONATHAN: No.
-Are you both ready? -Yeah. -Yes.
Let's begin.
Been doing this since season 35.
Both guys get some coconut husk and start shaving magnesium.
That magnesium is what's gonna give you that igniter.
Jonathan, now trying to get a spark going.
It's one thing to do it at camp,
it's another to do it on the stage at Tribal Council
with the million dollars potentially on the line.
♪
No flame yet.
That's pretty normal, too.
♪
Jonathan going back for sparks again.
Had a little something. Can he get it? No.
♪
Jonathan once again trying to nurture
a little spark into a flame.
Can't do it.
Mike still working.
Mike's got flame first.
You only have a limited amount of coconut husk,
so you don't want to use all of it.
It burns quickly,
but it also burns out just as fast.
So once you get a flame, it's what you do with it.
Mike going for it.
He's putting a lot of coconut husk up there.
Just dumping sticks on.
Got to keep it going.
Jonathan now has a little something.
He's working it. Can he get it to take hold?
Jonathan's got flame now.
He's in it.
He's gonna add more coconut husk.
Takes a lot to burn through that rope.
The occasional glance off of the fibers
of that rope won't be enough.
You got to get a flame that's gonna be on there for a moment.
Mike's is now starting to hit the rope
a little more consistently.
It's shooting pretty high.
Jonathan has his going.
Now he's trying to build something.
Side by side.
25 days into Survivor 42.
A million dollars on the line.
Mike's flame burning high again.
You can see that rope burning little by little.
Jonathan doing a nice job to get his fire going.
We've got two good fires going right now.
♪
Mike adding more sticks.
No real pattern with Mike.
He's just putting timber on the flame.
Jonathan a little more organized,
trying to build something, more of a structure.
Mike is more of a backyard, and he's burning through that rope.
Now the wind is blowing Mike's flame sideways,
almost into Jonathan.
You're both still in this,
but Mike has a big fire going right now.
Jonathan has a small fire.
And Mike's flame is really starting to burn.
It is right where you want it. It is killing it.
♪
-Yeah! Yes! -There it is. It's over.
-Yes! -PROBST: Mike will have the final seat
at the final Tribal Council of Survivor 42.
-Oh, my God. -PROBST: Great matchup.
-Both guys got fire. -MIKE: Boom.
PROBST: The fireman pulled it out.
Mm.
[claps]
Jonathan, before you pack up, have a seat.
JONATHAN: Yeah. [sighs]
PROBST: So what are you thinking,
Jonathan, when you're looking at your fire?
Which is still going.
That's a decent fire in the fire-making challenge.
Mike just built an inferno.
Yeah.
You know what, Jeff? I was thinking when I got here,
if-if I lose, then I was meant to lose.
I-I gave it what I had.
Mike's just-- he beat me.
-Yeah, it's that simple. -[sighs]
PROBST: Mike, what are you feeling,
because you're the guy that just took Jonathan out
and earned your spot in the final three?
You know, it's-- obviously I'm... I-I'm...
ecstatic over what just happened.
Um, I'm happy that I went against Jonathan,
because Jonathan has been known as
the best fire-starter in the camp.
He's been very, very good at it.
It made it that much more, um, rewarding for me,
that I went against somebody that was...
not a pushover.
Jonathan, you lasted 25 of 26 days.
You got almost as far as you can go.
It's time to grab your torch.
[groans]
-MIKE: I love you, brother. -JONATHAN: I love you, guys.
And, Mr. Jeff, I got to say.
Say it.
I fought the good fight.
And, Jonathan...
The tribe has spoken.
Time for you to go.
Hey, my friends.
-All love. -ROMEO: The same.
Bye, Jon.
All right, Mike, Romeo, Maryanne.
Regardless how you got here,
you did what 15 other players in this game could not do.
You made it to the final three. Your work is not done.
Your last job is to claim your victory,
and that happens tomorrow night
when the power shifts
to this jury, plus Jonathan, who will be there tomorrow.
Tomorrow night they're gonna put you through a Q and A.
Their job is to hold you accountable for your actions
and make you prove why you deserve
the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollars,
rather than the other two.
This is your last night in Fiji.
I hope you enjoy it. I hope you get some sleep.
I'll see you tomorrow night for your final Tribal Council.
-Congratulations. -Thank you so much. Thank you... -Thanks, Jeff.
[sighs] Oh.
I got to tell you, I was so shocked
to see how fast
my main man Mike started that fire.
He beat me fair and square.
He earned his spot in the top three.
And if I get the chance, you better believe
that I'm gonna be right back out here.
Thank you, God. Thank you, Survivor.
Thank you for the opportunity.
♪
MIKE: Look at the sun.
See it right there, starting to peek through?
-Oh, my God. I love the sun. -MARYANNE: Oh, my goodness. That's beautiful.
-It's gonna get warm. It's the 26th day. -MARYANNE: Oh, my God.
There it is.
Know what's even more beautiful?
Look how different all three of us are.
-And we're still here. -I know.
So, it's the morning of the 26th,
the last day you're on Survivor.
But, of course, I feel like this game ain't over.
This game's not over at all.
And immediately what goes through my head is:
what am I gonna say to the jury?
♪
How am I gonna talk to the jury?
Eight jury members are gonna ask hard-hitting questions.
I think I'm sitting in a good spot,
but does that mean I'm in a good spot?
If Mike comes out tonight and says,
"My strategy was to play a man of integrity
and to stab you in the back," fantastic.
ROCKSROY: Mike played a very good game.
He was able to disarm and manipulate a lot of people,
JONATHAN: Mike, using his social game,
hit the hearts
of a lot of players.
OMAR: I need Mike to own
that he was a snake.
If that was intentional, he could get my vote
for a million dollars.
♪
-MARYANNE: Oh, my God! -MIKE: Yes! Yes!
Oh!
There's, look, look. I told you, Danishes.
-MARYANNE: Oh, my goodness, -MIKE: Look at... Give me some, brother.
-MARYANNE: Oh, my God! -MIKE: Yeah. [chuckles]
ROMEO: If you're voting for the person
that played the best game,
give it to me.
I'm the ultimate underdog.
Cheers for the most unlikely final three.
-And one of us winning a million dollars. -[whooping]
ROMEO: Now we're going into the final pageant,
and I want that crown and that Miss Survivorsash.
That's what I want.
Romeo's strength was the fact that he was weak.
He played the game on a weaker level,
so he could be forgotten.
And if that was his strategy and that's the way he played,
that's brilliant, dude.
CHANELLE: Romeo's game might deserve
a little bit more credit and respect,
because basically he said, "Think of me as a goat."
Take me to the end,
and I'm gonna tell you exactly why I'm not.
OMAR: A lot of us want to reward the most aggressive player,
but why is it more impressive to be
an elephant than a cockroach,
who's gonna survive the apocalypse?
I'm truly so full right now.
MIKE: No. Come on.
I know.
To be successful tonight,
I need to go and be honest about my game.
At this point,
the roller coaster has already moved.
There's no getting out,
which means, when I go down, I have to
raise my hands and scream and be like,
"This is what I did in these past 26 days."
I want to show that I can still be myself
and I can still be weird,
but in the end I can succeed.
People think she was just used as a vote, as a pawn,
which is why I need Maryanne to articulate what she did
to drive the season.
I am so happy for Maryanne.
She made herself seem like this silly, younger girl
who can't be taken seriously,
but I know there's a lot more to Maryanne
than other people are seeing.
LINDSAY: I was with Maryanne from day one,
and yet I have all this unknown.
You had all this potential and all this knowledge.
What did you do with it?
I hope Maryanne sways me.
I am a feminist.
I want to give a woman some money,
but I'm also a competitor
and I can't, in good faith,
just give someone money because I like them.
I did everything except for win a challenge,
I believe, on my bucket list.
And we should be proud,
'cause we're the last ones of our tribe.
Yup.
MARYANNE: One Taku, one Vati, one Ika.
Yup.
Don't ever give up.
You fight and fight and fight.
This is the final fight.
You don't, you don't quit in the fourth quarter.
I know I can close the deal and be the winner of Survivor 42.
ROMEO: They're about to be surprised tonight.
Deep inside this little man, there's a, uh, a monster.
-We did it, guys. Final three. -MARYANNE: We did.
-Good luck tonight, all right? -TORI: My vote
is up for grabs.
JONATHAN: I'm hoping somebody comes with some beef
that deserves that million dollars.
HAI: I can only expect
that the ending of season 42
will be the most unpredictable ever.
CHANELLE: I am making the decision to change someone's life.
OMAR: What was your move? How did you drive the game?
Convince me
why you deserve my vote.
Give me straight-up honesty,
'cause that's what we're gonna respect.
And I want them to fight.
Fight.
♪
Wow. Here we are.
Final Tribal Council.
Romeo, Maryanne, Mike.
There are stages to Survivor.
You have the beginning, where you need to form a strong tribe.
Then you have the individual game.
And then, when you get down to about five,
you have that final push,
and tonight is the last phase: claim your victory.
This is it.
You have to convince
this group of people that you voted out--
you're the reason they're over there--
you deserve the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes with it.
If you sit back and you're passive,
you will not win this game.
Juries have shown this repeatedly.
You got to stand up and take it.
Demand it.
Jury, your job is to hold them accountable.
Tribal Council has always been
where you are held accountable for your actions.
You're gonna put them through an interrogation
that I feel confident will be tough and respectful.
Both can exist.
-[chuckles] -PROBST: All right, I'm gonna give
everybody here a moment.
[breathes deeply]
One big, deep breath, and then we'll begin.
♪
All right, it's time for our final
Tribal Council Q and A from the jury.
We're gonna examine the game tonight
from three different areas: social, physical, strategic.
And I realize that they often overlap, and that's okay.
All right. Who wants to get us started? Omar.
All right.
It's been so long since we've been able to talk to you,
so I wanted to congratulate all three of you.
And this season has been so unpredictable.
And it's so fitting that you three,
who may be perceived as three unexpected players,
are the ones that made it here.
And similar to Darwin's theory of natural selection
and survival of the fittest,
it's not always the mighty elephant
or the powerful lion that's gonna win.
Sometimes it's the honeybee, which causes prosperity
in agriculture across the world,
or even the cockroach,
-who survives this apocalyptic game... -[laughter]
that we've had in season 42.
So, for tonight,
what we really want you to do is present
your survival of the fittest strategy
and make us sure that you deserve to win,
because all our votes are open tonight for any of you.
-So fight for your life tonight. -That's right.
All right, let's start with social.
Okay, so, Mike, my perception of you,
from the outside looking in, is that you're a man of integrity,
you're a man of honor, your word means something,
-you really value a handshake. -Yeah.
It appears that you do not want to lie or deceive in this game.
Maryanne, my perception of you is that you're bubbly, young,
you're talkative, you're silly and goofy.
Sometimes you might take parts of the game
less seriously than others, is how it appears.
And, Romeo, my perception of you is,
there are times when you are quiet, more reserved,
you know, scattered with bouts of frantic paranoia
and random votes at Tribal.
So my question, to all of you,
with that perception, is, is that accurate?
Is that accurate of how you played the game, who you are?
And if not, what am I missing? Was there more to it?
-Mike. -I think it's a great question.
Um, I think you described me pretty well.
Um, I think I've absolutely played the game
as honorable as I could play a game
that is about deception, about backstabbing.
There was only one time I went against my word,
and that was to Rocksroy, and I owe him an apology for that,
but I think I've played the game true
to how I wanted to play the game.
Maryanne.
So, I agree with almost all of your perception with me.
The only part which I don't agree with
was when you said that I don't really take the game seriously.
So, me not taking the game seriously
was actually a part of my strategy.
When I came into the merge, I realized that there was a trend.
If you were young, like under 25, and you seemed
like you were strategic, you would be voted out.
Zach got voted out-- under 25. Swati got voted out-- under 25.
Lydia got voted out-- under 25.
Tori, you were under 25.
You showed that you were strategic,
and you were on the bottom for the whole time.
So I basically had to pretend that I had no strategy,
and then, when there were fewer people,
I'd be able to start to show my strategy
further and further in the game.
Romeo.
So, the only negative word that you said about me
was, uh, "paranoid."
And, at a certain point, I was,
because, when we got to the merge of Kula Kula,
I quickly went from feeling like I was the boss
to the employee.
And I was at the bottom of every single Tribal Council.
And the random votes,
yes, I did do that, but that was purposely,
because I didn't want to vote for the person that was going.
Chanelle, I knew you were going. I didn't vote for you.
Tori, I'm glad that I didn't have to vote.
Hai, you saved me,
and I told you I wasn't gonna vote for you when you went,
and I voted for Jonathan. Um...
But your strategy of throwing hinky votes to rile people up,
you did that to me, it succeeded,
and you proceeded to gaslight me.
So, was that part of your social game?
ROMEO: No, I did not gaslight you.
You saved me, and I didn't want to vote for you.
-I refused to vote for you. -HAI: Let me, let me specify.
The gaslighting was when I asked you
if you threw the hinky vote at me at the Chanelle vote-off.
And you said, "No, I did not."
Yes.
So you did gaslight me.
ROMEO: For that time, yes,
because you came at me aggressively.
HAI: But you came at me aggressively, too.
I was just-- I let my feelings get to me.
And it-it came from Drea,
'cause I felt Drea replaced me with you.
You were so good that you... that you were...
that she replaced me, and I'm sorry.
-I'm sorry. I'm sorry. -Thank you for owning that.
-Thank you. -I'm sorry.
You admitting that me getting close to Drea
-made you threatened, I respect that. -ROMEO: Yeah. Yeah.
So thank you for being truthful.
PROBST: Anyone else, social?
Uh, yeah, um, Mike,
you touted a lot around camp
about honesty, integrity, you're a man of your word.
-Yes. -And you said earlier, is that the only time
you've ever lied in the game was to Rocksroy.
But did you not lie to Drea on the beach
about going after Romeo to make her feel comfortable?
And you said, "Omar, we got to vote out Drea.
-You know I'm just trying to make her comfortable, right?" -[Drea chuckles]
MIKE: Well, I never purposely
sacrificed my integrity, but there were times
that I had to do things that maybe I didn't want to do.
I had to protect myself.
That's honor for myself, also.
Mike, I don't think I hear you owning up
-to what we're asking you. -MIKE: Okay.
CHANELLE: And so, I just want to kind of
-really dig in. -Okay.
How many people in this game did you shake their hands,
did you look in their eyes, did you give your word,
and then did you lie to their faces?
MIKE: I'm gonna be honest,
there's only one person that I shook their hand
and said something, and that was Rocksroy.
Everybody else, I absolutely kept my word,
and, until, no, no, until they deceived me first.
And I'll explain what happened.
Rocksroy says to me, I say to him,
"Is this easy as it is?" We shook hands.
I said, "I'm voting Romeo."
At the last minute, you came up to me and said,
"Listen, we have to vote Rocksroy off."
I said, "I can't vote Rocksroy off.
I just told him I wasn't voting him off."
And you said, "No, we have to."
I said, "If we're in an alliance and I'm your number one,
"how come I didn't know until 30 minutes prior
to us going to a Tribal?"
You shook my hand, and you blindsided me.
-I was never deceitful. Your words are... -MIKE: Yes, but then, okay.
So you're telling me that you weren't deceitful?
-Then-then I... -I think somebody else might have lied to you.
You don't realize that Omar was lying to you the entire time?
-MIKE: But then you weren't talking to me. -HAI: Yes, I was, Mike.
I didn't even know you were in an alliance with them.
I told you.
It kind of comes down to, anybody who's aligned with you
is not allowed to talk to other people...
-Mm. -...when that's how people get information
to be able to give you, yet you are allowed
to talk to lots of different people and have one-on-ones.
And that's where it seems inconsistent.
-MIKE: That's true. -HAI: But was that the strategy?
We're trying to understand, was that strategy,
-or was that just like...? -MIKE: It was.
It was absolutely strategy to use
my social game for the alliance I was in and for myself
-to advance in the game. -JONATHAN: Okay, but you just claimed
that your game was to be honest and have dignity.
That is not what it's sounding like, Mike.
-You need to own your game. -Well... I am, I'm saying it right now.
I just want to, I just want us to settle down
because we all lied to people.
Mike, I actually think your social game was on point.
You were very social with everyone.
And kudos to you, as a 57-year-old,
staying in the talks with all of us--
people who are half your age most of the time.
Thank you. Fortunately my social game is what I am in real life.
I'm a very social person. I like people.
I want to know what makes them tick.
And you guys opened up your world to me,
introducing me to places, cultures,
religions that I never knew before, and I just ate it up.
So when I talk to people, people like me,
and they would just come up to me and give me information.
I-I respect that, 'cause your social game
is the reason I went home, straight up.
Like, it saved you.
Thank you.
-I have a question for you, Maryanne. -Mm-hmm.
OMAR: At Taku, I felt that your social game
put you on the bottom.
Did you realize that your sloppy social game
was putting you in danger,
and did you do anything to change that later in the game?
Yep. And I can understand that,
and thank you for pointing it out
and giving me the chance to explain my social game.
To be completely honest,
I didn't realize that my social game was as sloppy
as I thought it was until the fake merge.
I truly was sitting there,
being like, "Wow, I'm doing such a great job.
-I'm living such a great life." -[chuckles]
And, like, I'm gonna be honest about that.
Like, I feel as if that's because
when I got comfortable, I started to play
a little bit more emotionally.
When I play emotionally,
I'm someone where I love to tell everyone everything.
And you literally can't do that on Survivor.
Does that answer your question?
-Yeah. -I want to piggyback off of that.
-Mm-hmm. -LINDSAY: Was there any particular people
that you were able to draw in yourself
for a vote, or just for an alliance?
The person who I feel I specifically went
and drew in for a vote was Romeo at your vote, Omar,
because Romeo and I were kind of working back and forth together,
and you two were very gung ho already about voting Omar out.
-So it was time to take out Omar. But the... -Hold on.
-That's not... That's not how you knew. -Yeah.
-I told Mike to team up with you to take Omar out. -Yeah.
This wasn't a move that you came up with.
Yes, you two did go and think of it first,
but I can tell you and promise
that I was already thinking about it.
I was deciding whether I'd take him out at six or five,
and I will agree that Mike and you talking to me is what said,
"Okay, it needs to be at six."
LINDSAY: Okay.
So I want to hear the same thing from Romeo.
What is a big social move that you did, Romeo?
So, for me, I'm more of a one-on-one conversation,
as opposed to sitting around camp
and just speaking out loud in front of groups.
That's not what I do.
Back home, I work with women one-on-one,
and that's what I did with each and every one of you,
I felt like, whether I was in alliance with you or not,
I had a relationship.
So, to answer your question, that was my social move--
making alliances with every single person.
-Okay. Got it. -Like I made with you.
Like I made with Omar and Maryanne.
Like I made with Drea and Rocks.
Like I made with every single person.
PROBST: All right, I'm gonna move this
into the physical part of the game.
-Rocksroy, I can't think of a Survivor in recent memory... -[laughs]
-...who's enjoyed the physical part of the game as much as you. -Yeah, buddy.
-Yeah. -So why don't you get us started in this section?
Uh, one of the things I noticed is, uh, for a lot of players
this year, is just basic skills.
Doing physical work, building a shelter,
identifying plants or whatever.
What skills did you guys think you brought to the game?
Maryanne?
So, one of the things which I did was weave palm fronds.
So, when we were all still gung ho about weaving palm fronds,
I showed most of my tribe, "Hey, this is how we weave it."
And I also used it for other things.
I made Omar's prayer mat. This is just an example
to show that I weave palm fronds.
Another thing which I knew how to do
was, I was very, very good at scaling and gutting fish.
My family were-were Luo-- which is a tribe from Kenya--
and we love eating tilapia.
So when you buy it in, like, little buckets of it,
you have to individually scale them and gut them.
So I've always been growing up, watching my mom doing this.
So, even though I can't catch a fish,
I can go and be like, "Thank you for bringing this fish.
I'm going to prepare it so you don't have to do that work."
Mike.
MIKE: Um, I think the most important thing,
in regards to strength, is my work ethic.
I didn't stop moving once in the 26 days I was out here.
Every single time something was needed to be done,
even if I didn't know how to do it. I cut bamboo.
I went and got wood. I built.
You are the only reason we had a merge shelter.
It was incredible to watch you work
-the first two weeks of Vati. -And I got to be honest with you,
I didn't know what the hell I was doing.
[laughs] It was fantastic, and you did it so fast.
-Yeah. It was a nice shelter. -Yeah.
-Thank you. -ROCKSROY: Romeo.
So I'm gonna be honest with everyone.
I've never been camping a day in my life.
I just learned how to swim to come out on Survivor.
-I-I was just... -LINDSAY: That was very impressive
considering you just learned how to swim.
-I thought you did really, really well. -ROMEO: I was, I was not...
Number one, I'm terrified of heights.
And I just learned how to swim.
And now I have to do both,
and on national TV, in my underwear.
-So, I'm like... -[laughter]
And you hate hearing Jeff say, "Romeo dead last."
-[laughter] -And-- but-but that last challenge,
I knew I was gonna win. I didn't care what it was.
I was like, "I'm not leaving Survivor
without my dream of wearing that necklace."
And I pulled it through, and I, and I was so proud of myself.
And I think that was the most important immunity challenge,
'cause it gave me power.
And it felt good to have power in this game,
so it meant the world to me.
All right, let's move into strategy.
So, my vote, just so you know,
is off of game strategy-- how you played this game.
So I want to know what your biggest move
that you did on your own, in this game, was.
Um, Romeo.
For me, my game quickly shifted into,
unfortunately, a self-preservation game,
'cause my name was always at the bottom.
I had to make as many alliances as I could,
and hopefully that would push me through,
and that did.
But somebody's just gonna say, "Okay, well,
we'll take Romeo, 'cause we could beat him."
So I figure, "Okay, I need to do something."
And the first thing was create a fake immunity idol.
Whether it worked or didn't,
that was just to get people's attention away from me,
to not vote for me.
Then the last and final immunity challenge,
I knew I had to win,
to show that nobody carried me to the final three.
I put myself there.
Why did you take Maryanne to three?
Mm. Good question.
ROMEO: I felt that she didn't have a strategy,
and my best move was to bring somebody that was
perceived to be playing a similar game.
And I secured my own fate by putting myself
in the final three, and-and... and the rest is up to you guys.
Mike, what's something that you solely did on your own?
MIKE: Once we got to the merge,
I decided to make my big move.
And I thought Hai was too strong.
I was nervous that he was coming at me.
And I organized a blindside on Hai.
And that's when I started working
with, uh, Lindsay and Omar
to better my game strategically.
Do you think you played an emotionally-charged game,
or do you think you played a strategic game?
I think I played both.
I think I played a strategic game,
but I also think I played an emotional game, too.
Sometimes my emotion got the best of me.
Um...
I'm-I'm being told that I gave my word,
and I, and I went against it a lot.
Well, if I'm being honest with you,
maybe I didn't play as much
with integrity as I thought I did, to be honest with you.
And I, maybe I misconstrued exactly what I was doing.
But again, you have to say some stuff that is not true,
or else you're gonna get steamrolled.
You're gonna be voted out.
I would have been out a long time ago
if I didn't do what I did-- I know I would have.
So at seven on, I realized I'm playing the game of Survivor.
I used the beginning of the game to set up that game,
and then, from seven down, I played the game
that I thought that would best get me to the end.
Maryanne, I'm really, really interested
in what you have to say, 'cause we slept together
by the fire every night,
and I don't know what you really did in the game.
My one big move that I did was set myself up
to be in the final three, with multiple combinations
with Omar's vote. Let me explain to you why.
When I voted out Omar, Mike gave me his word
that he will give me his idol at the final five,
and that would guarantee me the final four.
But then, you know, you might be like,
"Mike backed on his word. So, like, how were you so sure?"
And the reason is, I kept the only secret in this game.
I, actually, after your vote, Tori, had the merge idol.
-I can show it to you right now. -[gasping, oohing]
MARYANNE: And I told no one about it.
You can see it over here.
Here's the idol. Here's the note.
So now we're then off to my final four
of Jonathan, Mike, me and Romeo.
So that meant that if I won,
I'm going to the end, because I'm not making fire.
If Mike won, he gave me his word that I would go to the end.
If Romeo won,
Romeo was afraid of Mike, he would take me to the end.
And if Jonathan won, he would want to go
and have that final big move to take Mike out,
and Romeo and I would be at the end.
By taking you out, Omar,
I gave myself the best position to be sitting here.
♪
Touché.
CHANELLE: I have a question.
What's your story
of your personal evolution playing this game?
Like, what did you learn about yourself?
Romeo, I'd like you to start.
Um, I felt like,
for at least the second part of this game,
I was holding on by the skin of my teeth.
And back home I would say,
"Screw it. Let me just try something else."
But out here, I couldn't do that
because I was not just representing me.
[sniffling]
[crying]: That was not the game I wanted to play.
I didn't want to play from the bottom,
but that was the game that was dealt to me.
And I-I-I... and I saw an opening and a window
for these two people that were going to play with me.
And then, the next vote,
these three people want to play with me.
And then this person was gone, so then
I had to find another person, and I just kept going
until I won that final immunity,
and that's what I'm going to take away from this game,
is, no matter how hard this game was--
and I can tell this to the girls
that I work with, empowering back home--
I didn't give up.
I'm leaving this game
as a free man who will no longer have to hide
because I'm scared of what people might think--
even my religious family back home--
just because I'm gay, and they won't accept me.
I'm going to... I'm going to leave this game as a free man
to live my life the way I wanted to live since I was 19.
And it took me in my 30s to figure it out.
And just a quick shout-out to you
for making me comfortable to do that.
-DREA: Thank you. -CHANELLE: Thank you. Mike?
MIKE: So, for me, I think that I proved that
people that are older, like myself
and Rocksroy, can come out here,
compete in the game, play the game hard,
and get along with the younger generation,
which sometimes is not so easy.
For myself, I-I learned that
I can still do what I thought I couldn't do anymore.
You know, I-I-I talked a lot about my kids, and it just...
For my kids to see me come out here
and do what I did and... and-and compete
and-and... and succeed to a certain level,
that they would see that they can do anything
that they've put their mind to it,
and that there was no...
There's no boundaries as to what they can accomplish
in their life.
So that's what I learned about myself.
-Maryanne? -MARYANNE: So,
the thing which I really learned about myself is that,
a lot of times we talk about how Survivorbreaks you down,
how it takes your insecurities.
And I realized, I, with the Omar vote,
made my path to the end.
But there was a chance that I was going to lose the game
and not know why.
So then I started to self-sabotage myself.
I really wanted to bring Lindsay to the end,
but in my mind, I'm like, "I cannot beat Lindsay."
'Cause that means that I wanted to go
and give myself an easy out
[crying]: because I didn't want
to feel that rejection of friendship.
Even recently in my life, a couple years ago,
someone spread a rumor about me, and I lost so many friends,
and I didn't want to feel that again.
I kind of knew that that's how I self-sabotage.
Like, when I was young, I used to push people away
so they couldn't go and hurt me first.
And it's like, to know that I'd do it
in something that I love, too, it's like, it shows
that I still need to grow as a person,
and I'm still growing, which is why, like,
I'm still proud of myself.
Because I really, really was so, so close
to playing my idol for you,
like, before we went to Tribal. But I'm like, "Maryanne,
you need to grow and you need to make yourself open." Like,
I knew that I still had to take that chance to lose
because I deserve that chance to win.
Thank you. Thank you for your transparency.
PROBST: Jury, I have to say, one of the best
final Tribals that I can remember.
You held them accountable, but
you were always respectful and at times
even encouraging and inspiring them
to try to give a better answer.
And, Romeo, Maryanne and Mike, you did a great job.
It's very hard to sit over there
and take that from them,
-but that is what you want. -Very hard.
You want the opportunity for them to grill you,
and I think all three of you held yourself in really
high regard. You should be very proud of yourselves.
-We're going to take a moment. -Thank you guys.
We're going to let the jury take in
everything they've just heard.
And when we come back, we will vote
for a winner of Survivor 42.
-And congratulations, guys. -Congratulations. -Yes.
[applause, laughing]
Thanks. You guys roasted me good.
>> Probst: ALL RIGHT FOR THE LAST TIME IN SURVIVOR 42 IS IS
TIME TO VOTE, CHANELLE, YOU'RE UP.
♪
>> Probst: I'LL GO GET THE
VOTES. WELL, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS
BE EASY SEASON OF SURVIVOR. THERE'S NOT AN EASY DAY OF
SURVIVOR. YOU COULD ARGUE THERE IS NOT AN
EASY MINUTE OF SURVIVOR. YOU ARE STRIPPED OF EVERYTHING.
DROPPED IN A JUNGLE WITH A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TAKE YOU
OUT. AND YOU DID IT.
YOU MADE IT TO THE FINAL THREE. NOW ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW IS WHO
WON. THERE IS ONE MORE TWIST THIS
SEASON. >> STOP IT.
>> OH WOW. >> Probst: BECAUSE WE SHOOT
OUR SEASONS BACK TO BACK YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING THAT
HAPPENED IN SURVIVOR 41. AND WHAT WE DID IN SURVIVOR 41
WAS WE READ THE VOTES IN THE JUNGLE OF FIJI AND THAT'S WHAT
WE ARE GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW. >> NO!
>> Probst: WE'RE GOING TO READ THESE VOTES.
WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE WINNER OF SURVIVOR 42.
ARE WE READY? >> YEAH!
>> GOOD LUCK. >> GOOD LUCK.
>> YES. OH MY GOD.
>> Probst: HERE WE GO. FIRST VOTE, MIKE.
MARIANNE, ONE VOTE MARYANNE, ONE VOTE MIKE.
MARYANNE. TWO VOTES MARYANNE, ONE VOTE
MIKE. MARYANNE, THREE VOTES MARYANNE,
ONE VOTE MIKE. MARIANNE, THAT'S FOUR VOTES
MARYANNE, ONE VOTE MIKE. THE WINNER OF SURVIVOR 42,
MARIANNE, WITH FIVE, THAT'S ENOUGH.
CHEESIER CHEESIER. >> Probst: COME ON OVER, JURY,
COME ON OVER. WHAT ELSE THEY DON'T KNOW IS
WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A SURVIVOR AFTER SHOW WITH
EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW. WHICH WE ALSO DID LAST SEASON.
BRING OUT THE CHAMPAGNE. BRING IN THE SIGNS.
LET'S BRING IT ALL IN. THIS IS THE BEST PART.
THE SURPRISE OF SHOOTING BACK TO BACK SEASONS THEY DIDN'T KNOW
EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. WE WILL BRING A COUPLE CAMERAS
AROUND, BRING IN MORE FIRE. WHEN WE COME BACK WE WILL HAVE
EVERYBODY HERE AND WHEN THEY ARE STILL IN THIS GREAT RAW ENERGY,
I WILL TAKE SOME CHAMPAGNE RIGHT HERE.
SURVIVOR 42 AFTER PARTY COMING UP AFTER THIS.
>> Probst: ALL RIGHT, SO WE ARE STILL IN THE JUNGLES OF
FIJI. WE'VE JUST CROWNED OUR WINNER,
23 YEAR OLD MARYANNE WHO JUST WON SURVIVOR 42.
ONE OF THE YOUNGER WINNERS IN OUR 42 SEASONS.
LET'S START WITH YOU. WHAT IS THIS FEELING RIGHT NOW?
BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO ASK THE JURY, I THINK THEY
CAME IN UNDECIDED. I THINK YOU SWAYED THEM TONIGHT.
DID YOU FEEL THAT HAPPENING? >> AT FIRST I FELT AS IF I
WASN'T BEING ASKED QUESTIONS AND THAT WAS DEMORALIZING BECAUSE
OH, THEY EITHER KNOW MY STORY AND THAT SAY GOOD THING OR THEY
DON'T WANT TO KNOW MY STORY AND THAT IS A GOOD THING BUT
HONESTLY I KNEW THE PIVOTAL MOMENTS WAS TELL BEING THE IDOL
AND HOW I SET MYSELF IN THE END, I KNEW COMPARED TO OTHER PEOPLE
ON THE JURY I DIDN'T REALLY PLAN A BIG STRATEGIC GAME, I WILL TO
PROVE I WAS HERE TO PLAY, NOT JUST TO GET TO THE END.
I WANTED-- TO BE THE 40th WINNER OF THE SHOW IS, LIKE I
STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING.
>> Probst: CLARIFYING BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE HAVE WON TWICE.
>> YES, SORRY. >> Probst: SHOW OF HANDS, WHO
HERE CAME IN UNDECIDED? OKAY, SO VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY.
WHEN HAI WHEN YOU SAY UNDECIDED WERE YOU SWAYED BY MARYANNEOR
LEANING ONE WAY THE OTHER. >> I DON'T WANT MY SHIRT TO
THROW YOU OFF. I WAS UNDECIDED MOSTLY BECAUSE
WE DIDN'T WORKING TO FOR A LARGE PART OF THE GAME.
AND WE ALL CAME IN WANTING TO KNOW YOUR STRATEGY.
BECAUSE IT WAS PRETTY ELUSIVE TO A LOT OF US.
SAME WITH ROMEO. I THINK MIKE WAS A LITTLE MORE
VISIBLE. BUT FOR US WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU
AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN YOURSELF.
AND YOU DID IT SO ELOQUENTLY. >> Probst: SO DREA WITH SO
MANY PEOPLE COMING IN UNDECIDED, WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?
BECAUSE IT WAS A 7-1 VOTE, THE OTHER TWO VOTES WERE MARY ANN'S
AS WELL. >> RIGHT, I THINK, AND I KNOW IT
CAME OFF AS IF I WAS COMING OFF HARSH.
BUT WE KNEW THAT MIKE HAD BEEN PLAYING THE GAME SINCE DAY ONE.
SO I REALLY WANTED TO GIVE HER THE HARD QUESTIONS SO SHE COULD
EXPLAIN HERSELF IN DETAIL. >> Probst: WAS THERE ANYBODY
WHO WAS LEANING TOWARD MIKE THAT GOT SWAYED BY MARYANNE?
>> ME. >> Probst: REALLY?
SO ROCKSROY, TORI, LINDSAY, A LITTLE BIT OMAR AND WERE ALL
LEANING MIKE. WAS IT THAT MIKE FALTERED AT THE
END OR MARYANNE STEPPED UP. >> FOR ME IT WAS TWO FACTORS.
ONE IS THAT MIKE PLAYED A MORE OBVIOUSLY STRATEGIC GAME.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT, I WAS REALLY LIKING FOR MIKE WAS YEAH, I
PLAYED THE HONOR, I PLAYED THE INTEGRITIES CARD BUT I WAS
PLAYING TO WIN THE WHOLE TIME. AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I GOT
THAT. WHEREAS MARYANNE I WAS REALLY
TIGHT WITH HER FROM THE START, HER STRATEGIC MIND WAS BRILLIANT
BUT I NEVER SAW THE EXECUTION UNTIL SHE PULLED OUT THAT I HAD
A BACKUP PLAN AT FINAL FIVE AND THAT IDOL THAT EVERYBODY IS
ELUSIVELY LOOKING FOR, SHE HAD IT FOR AWHILE.
SO THAT REALLY CINCHED THE DEAL FOR ME.
IT WAS A COMBINATION OF MIKE LOSING IT AND MARYANNE SNATCHING
IT RIGHT AT THE VERY END. >> Probst: MIKE, LET'S TALK
ABOUT THIS. YOU JUST HEARD THEM SAY THAT A
LOT OF PEOPLE CAME IN HERE, LEANING TOWARD YOU.
AND THEN MARYANNE STEPPED UP AND TOOK T EVEN THOUGH YOU DIDN'T
WIN. YOU FOUND AN IDOL.
YOU WON AN IMMUNITY CHALLENGE. YOU WON THE FIRE-MAKING, YOU HIT
ALMOST ALL OF THE BIG ICONIC MOMENTS IN SURVIVOR.
SO WHAT IS THAT FEELING RIGHT NOW FOR YOU, EVEN AS A
RUNNER-UP? >> SO IT IS IN BETWEENMENT I
PLAYED SURVIVOR, I PLAYED THE HARDEST CAN I PLAY, I HAVE NO
REGRETS AND AFTER HEARING MARYANNE'S STORY TONIGHT, I
THINK SHE EARNED IT. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO
ANIMOSITY. I AM GOOD, I PLAYED SURVIVOR AT
THE AGE OF 57 AFTER WATCHING IN 21 YEARS, I DID A LOT OF THINGS
THAT HONESTLY THAT I WATCHED ON TV, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
SO IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR ME TOO, IT IS.
>> Probst: AND ROMEO, ST ALWAYS HARD WHEN SOMEBODY MAKES
IT THIS DEEP AND DOESN'T GET ANY VOTES.
WHAT IS THE FEELING YOU HAVE? BECAUSE I FELT LIKE YOU MOVED A
LOT OF PEOPLE TONIGHT. AND PROBABLY GOT CLOSER TO THEIR
VOTE THAN YOU WERE WHEN YOU WALKED IN.
AND I'M SEEING A LOT OF PEOPLE NODDING RIGHT NOW, DID YOU FEEL
THAT AS WELL. COULD YOU FEEL THAT YOU WERE
MOVING THEM? >> YEAH, BUT YOU KNOW, JEFF, FOR
ME I DIDN'T COME HERE FOR A MILLION DOLLARS.
I CAME HERE TO SEE IF I COULD OUT, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT TO THE
END OF SURVIVOR. AND I DID THAT.
AND I'M LEAVING THIS GAME WITH LIFE EXPERIENCES THAT I WOULD
HAVE NEVER GOTTEN IF I HADN'T BEEN HERE.
SO I HAVE NO REGRETS. AND TO ME BEING ABLE TO LEAVE
THE JUNGLES OF FIJI AND BE FREE AND LIVE THE LIFE THAT I WANTED
TO LIVE FOR A LONG TIME MEANS MORE TO ME THAN WINNING A
MILLION DOLLARS. SO I FEEL LIKE I'M LEAVING HERE
A WINNER. >> Probst: ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A
LOT MORE TO TALK ABOUT. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK
BREAK, ANYBODY THAT NEEDS TO GET A REFILL ON CHAMPAGNE, LET'S
LOAD IT UP. WE'LL BRING IN MORE PIZZA AND
CONTINUE WITH THE SURVIVOR 42 AFTERSHOW.
MIKE, YOU'RE STARVING, ART YOU. LET'S BRING IN A BUNCH OF PIES,
JUST FOR MIKE. UP NEXT, PLAYERS RECOUNT SOME OF
THE BEST MOMENTS OF THE SEASON.
PLUS LATER, YOUR FIRST LOOK AT SURVIVOR 43.
>> Probst: WELCOME BACK TO THE SURVIVOR 42 AFTER SHOW WHERE
PIZZAS ARE BEING DELIVERED, CHAMPAGNE IS BEING DRUNK.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME GAME MOMENTS.
LINDSAY, DREA AND HAI, STRAIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, DOES EVERYBODY
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPENING CHALLENGE.
>> STOP, YOU MUST WAIT FOR ALL THREE PLAYERS BEFORE YOU MAKE
THE DECISION. GOOD NEWS IT REQUIRES EFFORT
FROM YOU. IF YOU WANT YOU CAN GRAB YOUR
PADDLES AND RACE BACK TO YOUR TRIBE OR YOU CAN AGREE TO
SECRETLY WORK TOGETHER AND EACH EARN AN ADVANTAGE IN THE
PROCESS. >> Probst: LING SAI, IS THE
FASTEST THE THREE OF YOU DID THAT A SIGN OF HOW YOU HAVE TO
PLAY SURVIVOR IN THAT IT WAS ONE MINUTE INTO DAY ONE AND YOU HAD
ALREADY MADE YOUR DECISION TO GO FOR IT.
>> YEAH, I MEAN THEY BOTH PERSUADED ME INTO SAYING YES.
BECAUSE I KIND OF SAID NO. AND THEN I READ IT AND I'M LIKE
WELL THIS IS DEFINITELY WORSE THAN GOOD.
SO I HAVE TO HOPE THAT THEY DON'T BELOW UP THEIR OWN GAME
AND BELOW UP MY GAME. AND IT ENDED UP WORKING OUT
GREAT. WHERE NONE OF US WANTED TO GO
AFTER EACH OTHER. WE ACTUALLY ALL WANTED TO WORK
TOGETHER. AND IT WAS JUST LIKE WEIRD.
BUT AWESOME. AND I THINK THAT JUST KIND OF
SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT ALL OF US. I DON'T KNOW, THERE WAS A HUGE
RESPECT LEVEL THAT WAS DIFFERENT THAN JUST SAVAGERY, SOLO GAME
PLAN. AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS A BIG
TWIST THAT I WASN'T EXPECTING WHEN I FIRST OPENED THAT
ADVANTAGE. >> Probst: AND AGAIN I KEEP
FEELING LIKE I HAVE TO SAY THIS. WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY OF SEASON
41 OURSELVES AS PRODUCERS. WE ARE SHOOTING BACK TO BACK.
I HAVE BEEN IN THE JUNGLE SO LONG I HAVE A MULLETTE.
NOBODY HAS SEEN ANYTHING BUT THERE HAVE BEEN THEMES IN BOTH.
AND ONE WAS FUN. WE FELT LIKE COMING OUT OF THE
YEAR WE HAD, WE WANTED TO HAVE FUN.
AND WITH THE BLOOD AND THE MUD, YOU CAME BACK LOOKING LIKE YOU
HAD BEEN IN A WAR. >> I WAS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO
COMMIT TO, THIS AND HAI WAS LIKE-- AND OPEN YOUR-- HIGH,
PUTTING THE MUD OVER HIM, ROLLING IN SAND.
I THOUGHT IF WE ARE GOING TO PLAY THIS GAME WE'RE GOING TO
GIVE IT ALL WE GOT. AND OBVIOUSLY I'M GETTING THE
ADVANTAGE SO WE KIND OF-- . >> Probst: DREA LET'S TALK
ABOUT ADVANTAGES. BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW, I DIDN'T
CHECK THE RECORDS BUT I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE HAD AS
MANY ADVANTAGES AT ONE TIME AS YOU DID.
WALK ME THROUGH THE LIST OF WHAT YOU HAD AT YOUR HEIGHT A AND
WHAT THAT FELT LIKE. >> I HAD AN IDOL.
I HAD AN EXTRA VOTES. I HAD MY SHOT IN THE DARK.
AND THEN I HAD MY KNOWLEDGE TOWER ADVANTAGE AS WELL.
>> AND MY AM YOU LET. SO I STRATEGICALLY PUT ALL MY
ADVANTAGES IN MY LEFT STOCK AND TIED IT UP THREE TIMES AND PUT
THAT SOCK IN MY LEFT LEG OF MY BLUE TIGHTS AND TIED THAT UP
FOUR TIMES. >> THAT'S IMPRESSIVE.
SO LIKE I KNEW IF SOMEONE WENT THROUGH MY BAG.
>> Probst: GENERAL QUESTION IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT WILL
ADMIT WHEN THE FIRST FUNNY PHRASE WAS SAID WHICH IS
MARYANNE TALKING ABOUT THE BUNNY RABBIT IN THE MAIL BOX, THAT YOU
DIDN'T PICK UP ON IT. YOU JUST THOUGHT SHE WAS-- OKAY,
IS THERE ANYONE WHO HEARD ALL THREE PHRASES AND STILL DID NOT
KNOW. GOOD.
>> I THINK I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION, JEFF, REALLY.
I THINK AFTER THE SECOND TIME MARYANNE SAID THE PHRASE, I KIND
OF LIKE TUNED OUT. I WAS LIKE OKAY, I'M FOCUSING ON
WHAT THE CHALLENGE IS GOES TO BE.
HAVE I TO DIVE OFF OF WHAT, HOW HIGH UP.
I WAS NOT, I WAS NOT FOCUSED ANY MORE.
SO I GUESS RIGHT OVER MY HEAD. >> Probst: DO OR DIE, LINDSAY,
ONE OF MY FAVORITE NEW TWISTS BECAUSE IT IS LITERALLY DO OR
DIE. IT SEEMED LIKE YOU KIND OF
ENJOYED IT EVEN THOUGH IT HAD TO BE PETRI FYING.
>> YEAH, I MEAN IT WAS AWESOME. LIKE IT WAS REALLY COOL.
AND SAYING THE COOLEST PART ABOUT T THE ADRENALINE RUSH AND
EXCITEMENT AND THRILL AND WORRY AND THAT FEAR WAS REALLY COOL.
>> Probst: AND WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN OKAY IF YOU HAD DIED.
>> WITH THE TWIST, YES. THE GAMBLE THAT I MADE, NO.
SO I STILL WAS VERY REGRETFUL OF MAKING THAT GAMBLE DECISION.
BUT THE DO OR DIE ITSELF IS A COOL TWIST THAT YOU HAVE TO
ACCEPT, IF YOU DON'T PICK THE RIGHT BOX LIKE BEING OKAY WITH
IT, THAT IS WHAT I WOULD HAVE REGRETTED, NOT NECESSARILY JUST
THE DO OR DIE CHANCE THING. >> Probst: I ALSO HAVE TO
POINT OUT, YOU WERE LODGELY SLATED TO BE IN SURVIVOR 41.
YOU TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID, COULD NOT COME OUT.
AND I REMEMBER WHEN WE TALKED ON THE SHOWN AND I WAS SO SAD FOR
YOU, AND I HUNG UP AND I SAID WOW, HER ATTITUDE IS AMAZING
BECAUSE YOU SAID HEY, YOU KNOW T WILL HAPPEN.
>> SORRY, YOU EVEN SAID ON THE PHONE WHEN I WAS LIKE YOU NEVER
KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. >> ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SEASON
43, RIGHT, AND I WAS LIKE NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT SEASON 42.
IF IT HAPPENS TO SOMEBODY ELSE, I MIGHT BE ON 42.
>> AND I HUNG UP AND I WENT SHE'S PRETTY OPTIMISTIC.
[LAUGHTER]. >> Probst: ALL RIGHT, WE WILL
TAKE ANOTHER QUICK BREAK, WHEN WE COME BACK MORE FROM FIJI, THE
SURVIVOR SEASON 42 AFTER SHOW. MIKE, MORE PIZZA.
>> YEAH. >> Probst: UP NEXT, PLAYERS
SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW ERA OF SURVIVOR AND HOW
DIFFICULT IT IS TO MANAGE EMOTIONS IN THE GAME.
>> Probst: I LOVE ARE YOU HAVING SO MUCH PIZZA SO MUCH
CHAMPAGNE, LET'S JUST KEEP TALKING.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE WHOLE NEW ERA OF SURVIVOR WHICH IS THE
26 DAY NO RICE, VERY TOUGH, YOU EARN EVERYTHING, CRAZY TWISTS,
MORE DANGEROUS GAME. CHANELLE, LET'S START WITH YOU.
HOW BIG AN IMPACT IS THE NO RICE?
>> MAN, I MEAN IF SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT I WOULDN'T EAT FOR 11
DAYS, I WOULD BE LIKE YOU'RE CRAZY, THE WAY THAT YOU
PHYSICALLY FEEL. I REMEMBER STANDING UP AND JUST
BEING DIZZY AND SEEING STARS AND NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK MORE THAN
THREE STEPS WITHOUT BEING WINDED.
AND SO IT REALLY IMPACTS YOUR BODY AND IT MAKES THE GAME THAT
MUCH HARDER. >> Probst: JONATHAN, ANOTHER
PART OF THIS GAME THAT WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT BUT BECAME VERY
EVIDENT AS YOU WERE PLAYING IT, IT IS RARE AT TRIBAL THAT THERE
ARE MORE THAN SIX OR SEVEN PEOPLE.
WE BROKE YOU UP INTO DIFFERENT GROUPS.
TALK ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THAT. WHEN YOU START WITH A SMALL
TRIBE AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO HIDE AT TRIBAL.
>> WELL, BEING A BIGGER GUY, I ALREADY FELT LIKE COMING INTO
THIS THAT I COULDN'T HIDE ANYWAYS.
AND NOW THAT WE HAVE SMALL TRIBES, I WAS THINKING WELL NOW
THERE'S DEFINITELY NO PLACE TO HIDE.
AND THE ODDS OF ME GETTING KICKED OUT ARE MORE THAN EVER.
AND THAT WORRIED ME, MR. JEFF, THAT I COULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST
TO GET KICKED OFF. AND IT SCARED ME TO DEATH.
>> Probst: AND OMAR, ON TOP OF IT, NOT EVERYBODY KNEW EARLY ON
THAT WHEN YOU TOOK THESE JOURNEYS YOU HAD OPPORTUNITIES
TO GET SOMETHING. BUT IT REQUIRED YOU TO RISK
LOSING YOUR VOTE. >> YEAH, AND ON TOP OF THAT THE
SHOT IN THE DARK MIGHT TAKE VOTES AWAY.
SO YOU ARE IN A SITUATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NUMBERS ARE
SO SMALL WHERE YOU MAY THINK SOMETHING'S HAPPENING AND
SOMETHING COMPLETELY, A SECOND, THIRD OR EVEN FOURTH TARGET
COULD GO HOME THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO GO HOME IN THE FIRST
PLACE. YOU HAVE TO ALWAYS BE THINKING
AND ANTICIPATING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING MORE THAN EVER
BEFORE. >> MIKE, EVEN THE BEWARE
ADVANTAGES, THEY SAY VERY CLEARLY BEWARE.
DO YOU GET EXCITED WITH THOSE KINDS OF CHANGES WHERE IT IS
RISKIER. THIS GAME IS MORE DIFFICULT NOW
THAN IT WAS? >> IT IS EXTREMELY RISKY.
WHEN I FOUND MY IDOL I SAID BEWARE, IMMEDIATELY I GRABBED T
I DON'T CARE WHAT THE BEWARE IS, THE THRILL OF EVEN FINDING IT
BUT THEN WHEN YOU OPEN IT UP REALITY HITS AND YOU SAY OH
CRAP, I DON'T WANT THIS. ST ALMOST LIKE WHOA, GET BACK.
BUT THEN YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT DID AND SAY LIKE IF YOU HAVE AN
ADVANTAGE THAT TELLS YOU YOU LOSE YOUR VOTE, YOU KIND OF HAVE
TO TELL SOMEBODY. BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE TO SPLIT
VOTES OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE EXPOSED ANYWAY.
WHICH HAPPENED AT OUR VOTES. >> YOU HAVE ANOTHER SURVIVOR
FIRST, THERE WERE ONLY TWO VOTES CAST WHICH MEANS TWO PEOPLE DID
NOT VOTE. DIDN'T ANTICIPATE HAVING TO
REVEAL WHO YOU ARE, BUT NOW BECAUSE OF A TIE AND THE
INABILITY TO VOTE SOMEBODY OUT, YOU HAVE TO.
SO WHO DIDN'T VOTE. WE WILL TO RAISE OUR HAND LIKE
THIS, LIKE WE GOT CAUGHT, WE DON'T HAVE OUR VOTE.
>> Probst: HOW ABOUT YOU LINDSAY, OVERALL APPROACH TO THE
GAINL, OF SURVIVOR, DID IT FEEL RISKIER OR MORE DANGEROUS,
BECAUSE YOU COME IN BLIND, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IS IN STORE FOR
YOU, BUT WE HAD CONSCIENCELY DECIDED WITH 41 AND 42 TO MAKE
IT MORE FUN AND MORE DANGEROUS AND SEE WHERE IT TAKES US.
>> I ACTUALLY LOVED IT. AT THE BEGINNING IT WAS KIND OF
DIFFICULT, LIKE WHEN YOU ARE REALLY LIVING IT AND ALL THESE
THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND YOU LIKE THIS SUK SUCKS, THIS SUCKS,
THIS SUCKS ALL HARD DIFFICULT THINGS BECAUSE WE ALL WATCHED
ALL OF THE SEASONS SO AT THIS POINT THINGS ARE MORE
PREDICTABLE. WE ARE ALREADY LIKE MENTALLY
PLANNING WHAT THE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE NEXT AND WITH ALL OF
THESE TWISTS YOU ARE LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS GOING TO
HAPPEN. BUT THEN I WAS LIKE HALFWAY
THROUGH, THIS IS PRETTY AWESOME BECAUSE WE ARE ALL KIND OF
EXPERIENCING A WHOLE NEW GAME THAT NO ONE IS AWARE OF RATHER
THAN PLAYING A GAME THAT EVERY ONE KNOWS EVERYONE'S MOVE AND
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I WAS LIKE THIS IS PRETTY COOL.
IT'S LIKE ARE YOU IN A GAME OF JUMANJI BECAUSE ARE YOU LIVE,
BUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE TWISTS ARE.
BUT IT IS COOL TO TAKE THE RIDE, I LOVED IT.
>> Probst: LET'S TALK ABOUT MANAGING EMOTIONS IN THE GAME.
MARYANNE. I WASN'T COMING TO YOU BECAUSE
YOU ARE EMOTIONAL. BASE YOUR EMOTIONS ARE ACTUALLY,
TO ME WERE ALWAYS JUST REALLY FUN AND OPENING.
YOU WERE VERY ACCEPTABLE. BUT LET'S START WITH YOU.
HOW DO YOU FEEL WITH THE EMOTIONS?
WHAT DID YOU LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR ABILITY IN THE
MOMENTS TO MANAGE YOUR EMOTIONS. >> I FEEL THAT IT IS A REALLY
BIG THING WHICH I LEARNED, ESPECIALLY THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF
SURVIVOR THAT YOU NEED TO VALIDATE YOUR FEELINGS, YOU
KNOW. A LOT OF TIMES WHEN IT IS
RAINING AND YOU FEEL MISERABLE YOU ARE LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE WANT
TO DO THIS AND I FEEL BAD THAT I'M FEELS BAD.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, ST OKAY THAT I'M FEELS BAD.
THIS IS A PART OF THE EXPERIENCE.
I'M GOING TO MOVE. LIKE I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO
TO THE NEXT THING LIKE I SURVIVED THIS.
BUT RIGHT NOW I DON'T WANT TO SIR VIVE THIS.
I WANT TO BE HOME AND WARM AND I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE.
AND THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE OUR LOWS AND OUR HIGHS.
>> TORI, I REMEMBER A FEW TIMES AT TRIBAL WONDERING WHAT YOU
WERE DOING BECAUSE YOU WOULD TAKE HEAT, AND SO YOUR CREDIT
YOU WOULD TURN AND PUSHBACK. DID YOU EVER GO BACK TO CAMP AND
HAVE YOUR OWN INTERNAL MONOLOGUE ABOUT HOW YOU WERE FEELING
ABSOLUTELY. I TRIED MORE-- CRIED MORE THAN I
THOUGHT I WOULD, AND IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE MY FAMILY, HAVE I SO
MANY FAMILY MEMBERS BECAUSE THEY SAID THEIR BIGGEST WORRY OF ME
COMING OUT OF HERE IS THAT I WOULD BE TOO EMOTIONAL.
I SAID NO, IT SAY GAME, ALL COMPARTMENTALIZED, NO, DAY
THREE, I WAS CRYING SO MUCH TO MYSELF AND PEOPLE IN THE TRIBE.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOES TO HAPPEN WHEN YOU ARE
HERE. I RECOGNIZED THAT MY EMOTIONS
ARE MY GREATEST STRENGTH, AS A THERAPIST I HAVE TO BE
EMPATHETIC AND EMOTIONAL BUT CAN ALSO BE MY GREATEST WEAKNESS.
SO WHAT MAKES YOU GOOD ALSO MAKES YOU BAD.
SO I REALLY LEARNED MORE ABOUT THAT COMING OUT HERE FOR SURE.
>> I'M CURIOUS, HOW MANY PEOPLE, BIG SHOT, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL
ADMIT THAT THEY HAD A MOMENT EVEN IF IT WAS JUST IN PRIVATE
WHETHER THERE WERE TEARS OR NOT, IT WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF AN
EMOTIONAL CRY. WOW.
EVERY PERSON. SO NOBODY CAN GET AWAY INTEREST
THAT. OMAR, WHY IS THAT?
WHAT IS IT THAT HAPPENS THAT BRINGS YOU TO THAT POINT?
>> I MEAN I ALMOST NEVER CRY IN REAL LIFE SO THE FACT THAT I
CRIED SO MANY TIMES OUT HERE IS OUTRAGEOUS, BUT I THINK IT
REALLY IS BECAUSE YOU ARE STRIPPED TO THE CORE OF WHO YOU
ARE. YOU HAVE NO COMFORT THAT WOULD
YOU NORMALLY HAVE IN REAL LIFE AND YOUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
SYSTEM IS ABSENT AND YOU HAVE NOTHING BUT TIME TO THINK.
AND YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PAINFUL MEMORIES FROM YOUR PAST COME
BACK. AND YOU ARE IN AN ENVIRONMENT
WHERE YOU CAN EMBRACE THAT. AND LET IT OUT.
AND SOMETIMES IT IS GAME-RELATED.
SOMETIMES IT'S NOT. BUT ARE YOU SO STRIPPED OF
EVERYTHING THAT EMOTIONS JUST COMES OUT.
AND I CRIED MORE HERE THAN HAVE I IN THE LAST TWO YEARS,
PROBABLY. >> Probst: DREA HOW ABOUT FOR
YOU. BEFORE YOU ANSWER, THIS IS MY
TAKE ON YOU. AND REMEMBER I'M NOT ON THE
BEACHES WITH YOU. BY DESIGN MY JOB IS TO JUST
OBSERVE THE THINGS I GET TO SEE AND SEE WHAT I CAN LIRN.
AND NOT REALLY KNOW EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON.
BUT YOU ALWAYS STRIKE ME AS A LITTLE BIT LIKE THIS, BUT INSIDE
I THINK YOUR HEART IS LIKE THIS. DID YOU HAVE YOUR MOMENTS.
>> YES, THAT'S ME. AND I HAD PLENTY OF MOMENTS HERE
ON THIS ISLAND. I CRIED AT NIGHT, JUST BY
MYSELF, WHEN PEOPLE WEREN'T HERE I WAS STARVING.
I BARELY SLEPT. IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ME.
THIS WAS VERY HARD FOR ME, YEAH. >> Probst: WE'RE GOING TO TAKE
ANOTHER QUICK BREAK, WHEN WE COME BACK THOUGH I'M GOING TO
ASK OMAR SOME ANIMALS THAT HE THINK DESCRIBES THE FINAL THREE.
BE RIGHT BACK WITH THE SURVIVOR. COME ON IN WITH MORE CHAMPAGNE,
IT'S SURVIVOR 42 AFTERSHOW. UP NEXT, WE CHECK BACK IN WITH OUR
FINAL THREE AND YOUR FIRST LOOK AT SURVIVOR 43.
>> Probst: WELCOME BACK TO THE SURVIVOR 42 AFTERSHOW.
I SHOULD CLEAR UP, IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE A GIANT CATERING TEAM,
WHAT IS COOL ABOUT OUR TEAM IS HALF THE PEOPLE DOING THIS RIGHT
NOW ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT WERE OUT THERE ON THE BEACH WITH
ME. THEY ARE OUR SHOOTERS, OUR AC'S,
OUR AUDIO TEAM, SURVIVOR IS THIS BIG FAMILY WHICH IS WHY FOR ME
THIS IS THE MOST REAL REACTIONS WE'RE EVER GOING TO GET.
SO AHMAR, LET'S HAVE SOME FUN. YOU LOVE ANIMALS, LET'S NAME
SOME ANIMALS THAT DESCRIBE MARYANNE, ROMEO AND MIKE.
>> OKAY. >> SO MARYANNE IS DEFINITELY THE
AMAZON PARROT. GOOGLE OF SIPGING, LAUGHING
IMMIGRATE-- IMITATING VOICES AND SO CHEERY ALL OVER THE PLACE BUT
UNDERNEATH THAT THEY HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE OF A TODDLER.
AND I DON'T MEAN THAT AS AN INSULT TO YOU BUT FOR A BIRD FLA
IS PRETTY GOOD. THEY ARE VERY INTELLIGENT
ANIMALS BUT THEY HAVE THAT FUN AND GOOFY SIDE THAT ALWAYS KEEPS
YOU LAUGHING. ROMEO IN THE GAME CUZ I DON'T
KNOW HIM OUTSIDE OF THE GAME REMINDED ME OF A FLEDGE LING
BIRD LEAVING THE NEST BUT THEN FALLS AND BREAKS ITS WINGS.
AND THEN I GOT TO TAKE IT IN AND TRY TO HEAL IT AND WATCH HIM
GROW AND HE MATURED IN TO A FINALIST.
SO YOU KNOW, HE IS THE LITTLE ROBIN THAT COULD.
MIKE, I DOBILITY KNOW, MAN-- . >> Probst: JOB THAN, GIVE THE
MAN A MOMENT. [LAUGHTER]
>> I FEEL LIKE MIKE IS LIKE-- OH MY GOSH, LIKE A KOALA BEAR.
LIKE STRONG, SOLID, EATS THE SAME THING EVERY DAY, A LITTLE
BIT CUDDLY BUT HE HAS A LITTLE BIT OF THOSE CLAWS THAT YOU
DON'T SEE COMING UNTIL HE BLIND SIDES YOU.
BUT ULTIMATELY HE HAS GOT A GOOD HEART AND HE IS JUST A CUDDLY
BIG TEDDY BEAR. >> Probst: ALL RIGHT, FOR THE
LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES HERE, I JUST WANT TO CHECK BACK IN WITH
OUR FINAL THREE. BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO
MUCH. YOU LITERALLY JUST FINISHED 26
OF THE MOST INTENSE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
THEN YOU FACED YOUR JURY AND THEY GRILLED YOU.
AND NOW WE HAVE A WINNER. SO THERE IS NO DOUBT YOU ARE
GOING HOME KNOWING, YOU ARE GOING TO GO HOME TRYING TO KEEP
A SECRET, HOPEFULLY. SO ROMEO, WHAT IS THE FEELING
YOU HAVE A LITTLE FOOD IN YOUR STOMACH, 96 INSTEAD OF -9D 5.
WHAT IS YOUR FEELING, ARE YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF?
>> YES, I'M VERY PROUD OF MYSELF.
BECAUSE LIKE I SAID BEFORE I CAME HERE FOR THE EXPERIENCE.
AND I GOT THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE. I WENT AS FAR AS ANYONE CAN GO
IN THIS GAME. AND I HAVE NO HARD FEELINGS.
IT IS A GAME. I STILL LOVE THESE PEOPLE AND I
STILL WANT TO HANG OUT WITH THEM AND I FEEL LIKE I GREW OUT HERE
AND OMAR'S REFERENCE, YES, I WILL TAKE THAT.
YOU KNOW, I WAS VERY SCARED, VERY PARANOID, AND IN THE END I
WON THAT FINAL IMMUNITY CHALLENGE AND I THOUGHT I WON.
IN THE GAME OF LIFE I FEEL LIKE I WON CONDITIONS CAN'T DID FOR
MORE THAN THAT, RIGHT? >> NO.
>> HOW ABOUT YOU, HERE IS WHAT MI WONDERING.
YOU GOT VERY QUIET. I DON'T KNOW T COWS J BE THE
PIZZA ARE YOU PUTTING DOWN. BUT ARE YOU GOOD WITH THIS?
>> I'M EXTREMELY GOOD WITH IT. GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN WITH
THAT MONEY. QUITE FRANKLY, NOT THAT I DON'T
WANT THAT MONEY BUT I DON'T REALLY NEED THE MONEY.
AS I TOLD EVERYBODY, I'M HAPPY IN LIFE.
I HAVE MY FEE AN SAIRKS I HAVE MY KIDS.
I'M ALREADY RICH. SHE'S A YOUNG GIRL SETTING OUT.
AND I KNOW GOOD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THAT MONEY, SO I
AM EXTREMELY FIEFN WITH EVERYTHING.
AND HONESTLY, I REALLY LIKE EVERYBODY IN THIS TENT, THERE IS
NOT A MEAN PERSON HERE. >> Probst: WHICH BRINGS US TO
YOU MARYANNE. I REMEMBER MEETING YOU.
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME WE SPOKE AND I REMEMBER THINKS
SHE'S GOT TO BE ON THE SHOW, SHE IS JUST TOO FUN, TOO ENERGETIC,
HER SMILE IS TOO AMAZING. WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOU OR
DIDN'T EXPECT ABOUT YOU IS HOW GOOD YOU WOULD BE.
I THINK YOU WERE REALLY GOOD AT THIS GAME.
I THINK YOU WORKED PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
I THINK YOU USED YOUR CHARM MAYBE MORE THAN YOU ARE SAYING.
I THINK YOU WERE A VERY IMPRESSIVE WINNER AND AS YOU SIT
HERE NOW, KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS, YOU ARE THE
WINNER OF SURVIVOR 42, AS YOU SAID, ONE OF ONLY 40 WINNERS FOR
A SHOW THAT HAS BEEN ON 21 YEARS.
>> OH MY GOD. >> Probst: HOW DO YOU FEEL
RIGHT NOW? CLOSE THIS OUT?
>> IT STILL FEELS LIKE THIS ISN'T HAPPENING.
LIKE I FEEL AS IF I ALWAYS KNEW THAT I WAS GOING TO GO ON TIS
SHOW. BUT I REMEMBER LIKE GOING AND
LITERALLY LEAVING AND WRITING NIE BUCKET LIST AND HAVING MY
SISTER LOOK AT IT AND SAY WHY ISN'T WINNING ON THIS BUCKET
LIST. AND I TRULY DIDN'T THINK I WAS
GOING TO WIN. SHE IS LIKE YOU ARE GOING INTO
THIS GAME THINKING YOU CAN'T WIN, YEAH, LIKE I WAS ALREADY
THINK BEING THE JURY, AND WHICH I WITH WEAR TO THIS ONE AND THIS
ONE. BECAUSE UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE I
CAME OUT HERE, I DIDN'T THINK I HAD THE ABILITY TO WIN.
AND IT IS LIKE, TO COME OUT HERE AND THEN TO PLAY A GAME THEN
AFTER TO PLAY CLEARLY ONE OF THE SLOPPY GAME ACCORDING TO THE
JURY MEMBERS WHICH IS FINE BUT THEN TO STILL PULL IT OUT AND BE
ABLE TO WIN T IS LIKE WHEN I TOLD YOU HOW I FEEL LIKE I'M
DREESMING, IT FEELS LIKE I'M DREAMING RIGHT NOW.
>> Probst: I'M REALLY PROUD THAT YOU WON.
YOU ARE A GREAT WINNER. I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO
REPRESENT SURVIVOR WELL. >> YES, YOU ARE.
>> OH MY GOSH. >> Probst: I'M SO HAPPY THAT
YOU DID WHAT YOU DID TO GET OUT HERE.
BECAUSE I KNOW IT TOOK A LOT FOR US TO GET HERE.
I KNOW IT TOOK A LOT FOR YOU TO GET HERE AND YOUR FAMILY, YOUR
FRIENDS, WHOEVER SUPPORTED YOU TO GET OUT HERE.
I HOPE YOU FEEL IT WAS WORTH IT. I LOVED WATCHING YOU PLAY, THIS
WAS A GREAT SEASON OF SURVIVOR AND TO THE PLAYERS, THE NONJURY
WHO AREN'T HERE, WE ARE SORRY YOU AREN'T HERE.
WE WISH YOU COULD BE HERE AS WELL.
THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST TIME IN THE JUNGLES OF FIJI AND TO ALL
OF YOU WITHOUT CONTINUE TO WATCH SURVIVOR, WE THANK YOU.
IT'S NOT LIKE YOU ARE FANS, WE WHERE A TRIAD, SOME PEOPLE
PRODUCE, SOME PEOPLE PLAY, SOME PEOPLE WATCH AND END UP PLAYING
AND COME BACK WATCHING. BUT IT IS ALL THIS BIG
FAMILIMENT AND WE'VE HAD A BLAST AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING
YOU SURVIVOR 43 NEXT. HERE'S YOUR FIRST LOOK.
>> IT WASN'T A MATTER OF IF I WAS GOING TO PLAY SURVIVOR.
IT WAS A MATTER OF WHEN. >> I WENT FROM BEING IN A GANG
TO BEING IN A Ph.D PROGRAM AT DUKE.
I JUST WANT TO SHOW THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT.
>> I AM SCARED TO DEATH. IT IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE THE
HARDEST CHALLENGE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.
>> DOES SURVIVOR MOVE FAST? WE WHERE ON A JET.
>> IN THE OPERATING ROOM WHEN THINGS GET REALLY INTENSE,
THAT'S WHEN I GET TO BE MY BEST. >> SURVIVOR IS THE ULTIMATE GAME
AND HUMAN TEST. THERE IS NOT ONE WAY TO WIN.
IF YOU HAD TO TAKE IN ALL OF THE DATA AND KNOW WHEN TO STRIKE.
>> GROWING UP IN A TOUGH ENVIRONMENT, THERE IS SOME CODES
TO GROW UP BY, I'M AN ETH KAL PERSON.
THERE ARE THINGS I WOULDN'T CROSS THE LINE ON, LIKE I DON'T
THINK I WOULD-- YOU KNOW WHAT, NO, THERE IS REALLY NOTHING I
WOULDN'T DO. >> I LIVE TO GET RADICAL, THAT
SAY MANTRA OF MINE, I HAVE IT TATTOOED ON MY BUTT CHEEK.
>> ONE THING DO I AS A PSYCHOLOGIST IS GET PEOPLE TO DO
THINGS THEY DON'T WANT TO DO. >> I'M HERE TO BE THE YOUNGEST
EVER IN SURVIVOR HISTORY, WRITE THIS DOWN, AT ALL COSTS.
>> IN THE GAME OF SURVIVOR YOU WILL KNOW VICTORY.
YOU WILL KNOW PAIN. >> BRING IT ON.
>> LET'S ALL VOM MORE CHAMPAGNE. WHO CAN I GIVE SOME TOO.
>> ALL RIGHT. >> LET'S DO IT.
>> . >> WOW.
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