Hey, real quick, I just-- I want to say two things.
Just, first of all, I'm sorry for getting
a little worked up and anxious,
but just definitively knowing my name was coming up, like,
-it definitely was fear-inducing. -GABLER: Sure. Of course.
OWEN: Tonight was wild.
Morriah went home.
But when I saw my name come up, I wanted to poop my pants.
Looking down the barrel of potentially going home,
it was absolutely terrifying.
More importantly, I just want to say thank you,
not just for keeping me
but just for-for being who I thought you were, you know?
I'm just so relieved that
my trust in the people that are here,
in Gabler and Jeanine and Elie and Sami, like,
that was not unfounded.
ELIE: I hope this vote solidifies trust, you know?
Like, we all did what we said we would do.
That was like a trust exercise we just went through.
GABLER: Well, it was. I mean, heck,
I trusted you guys not even to play my idol, so...
-SAMI: Yeah. -I mean... -ELIE: I know.
GABLER: Our tribe has been slow to get into the game
because up until now we've been
very much focused on the relationships
and getting to know one another,
so there's a lot of stuff we still have to do,
but if we can take care of our bodies a little bit better,
I think we'll be that much better in challenges,
and hopefully that doesn't put us back in, in Tribal Council.
You know, tomorrow I think it's real important
for us to find some food.
I'm thinking of worms.
We can fry 'em up and that will be our Survivorbacon.
I've been on fumes here the last couple days.
Oh, boy.
[thunder rumbling]
GABLER: Is there anything going there?
OWEN: There are some embers in here.
We just got to find 'em.
GABLER: Right there.
SAMI: That was the roughest night
I've ever had in my entire life.
Back at home,
when it starts raining,
I could go to the convenience store
and wait for my mom to pick me up
or I could run inside
or I could throw my windshield wipers on.
We can't do that out here.
And I don't know if anybody has ever tried to do anything
while they're just completely drenched and everything.
But sleeping?
That's not-- it's not happening while you're wet.
We might have to come up with a different roof situation.
Yeah.
-That is getting done today. -Yeah.
We were not prepared for that storm last night.
That was a beating.
It was scary
'cause that storm came in so loud, so fast.
The wind went from, like, this to probably,
you know, 40-mile-an-hour wind.
[groans]
What a night.
-I've never had a night like that, ever. -Seriously.
That was pretty brutal.
GABLER: This adventure is
everything I can take and maybe a little bit more.
I've never pushed my physical boundaries this far
in my entire life.
And I played football, ran track, was a boxer.
I do a lot of big hiking with heavy packs on my back
in mountains, in high altitude,
but, you know, I've got food, I've got water.
I can stop and do whatever.
This is like-- there's just--
you never know and you're never dry.
So this game
is blowing my mind right now.
Those gulps of water, which I know are good for me,
I just feel like puking right now.
Oh, man.
I am worried about Gabler.
He's a big guy and he's running out of steam,
and I worry that he's not gonna be able
to sustain himself out here.
-[groans] -Uh-oh.
Very. I'm extremely nauseous.
OWEN: So I'm not 100% sure if he is the best piece of the puzzle
for this tribe moving forward 'cause he's a strong man, but
it doesn't do us any good if he's lying on the ground.
GABLER: I'm 20 to 30 years older than some of my teammates,
but I don't want them to look at me
and think that I'm dead weight.
It's walking a fine line
because, I mean, I had to lay down
this morning for, you know, a couple hours
while everybody was getting the fire going,
and I know every minute
I'm laying down, resting, and I'm getting stronger,
I'm getting weaker in the game.
JEANINE: Long enough?
-ELIE: It's okay. -Great.
GABLER: The longer I have to loaf,
if you will, to manage my body,
the more of a liability I become.
[chittering]
Yeah, yeah, I'll just yell if somebody's coming.
DWIGHT: Advantages are all-important in this game.
This is the new era ofSurvivor, and there's a lot
of new dangerous twists.
It's a 26-day season.
You got to play aggressive from the jump,
so having that advantage would be huge.
JESSE: Yeah.
Okay, yeah.
[Jesse chuckles]
Yeah.
JESSE: Our tribe is doing all right now,
which feels great.
I think that we work well together.
I think we have a good sort of sense of unity
and a good sense of teamwork,
but at the same time it seems
like the tribal lines are getting clearer.
Noelle and Justine cliqued up, like, almost immediately,
and me, Cody, and Nneka are tight,
and Dwight-- he's on his own, basically, so I'm trying
to really build that bond with him
and make sure that we're a tight pair
because I think we could be good partners going forward.
Back home, like, all my decisions
have been made in a partnership, right, like...
[both laughing]
Oh, Lord.
DWIGHT: I wanted to come in here and find somebody I trust
immediately, and Jesse's that person.
He's someone that I could rock with the entire game,
but at the same time I feel like I've made good social bonds
with everybody on my tribe,
and I've been able to do that ever since I was a kid.
When I was in school, whenever there was, like,
some events nearby with influential political figures,
I'd reach out and say, like,
"Hey, I'm a junior journalist.
Can I interview you?"
Those included Madeleine Albright,
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell.
I'd just go up to them, start talking, start asking questions,
and I didn't really have that fear in me,
and even to this day I don't fear walking up to people
and just talking to them, so in the game ofSurvivor,
I'm talking to everybody,
no fear, having a good conversation.
That allows me to build
these really great bonds with these people,
except for possibly Cody.
JESSE: Yeah.
I really like Cody,
but, like, we never talk game at all.
-For real? -No, like,
we'll just, like, talk about life, whatever,
but it's never game-related.
-So... -Yeah.
-But got to do it. -Yeah.
JESSE: Dwight doesn't really trust Cody.
Yeah, he doesn't talk strategy, but I'm okay with that.
[laughing]: Cody's just Cody.
He's just kind of off on his own.
I want to jump off that 'cause it looks really fun
and it feels like home.
Like, we always go jump off bridges, jump off rocks.
Pretty inviting.
That's beautiful. I want to climb up there
'cause I bet nobody's ever done it before.
And it gets kind of boring at camp
just sitting around, eating coconuts.
JESSE: Cody's fun, man, honestly.
At first you're thinking, like,
oh, this guy's crazy 'cause he's just, like,
spouting out these wild ideas and stuff, but then,
like, I realized he just likes to have fun.
CODY: What do you think of my hat?
[both laugh]
I'm gonna wear it loud and proud.
JESSE: Cody's just living, dude.
Like, it says it on his ass-- he's living.
CODY: You want to enjoy your time while you're out here.
You know, like...
[whoops]
-You know what I mean? -JESSE: Yes, sir.
... yeah.
-Livin'. -Livin'. L-I-V-I-N.
JESSE: So, like, I'm not that worried about Cody.
Honestly, like, I'm able to connect with, like,
almost everybody on the tribe except for Justine.
-Oh, my God. -DWIGHT: What?
Oh.
Oh, my God, there's a spider right there, too.
Oh, my God, I just keep walking into them.
Aah!
I literally see spiders crawling all around.
JESSE: I don't know, maybe it's like
the four days of hunger, but I'm starting to get annoyed.
[laughing]
Wait, Cody, do you mind putting it over one?
'Cause that makes this side of the bed a lot smaller.
Or, like, drag it over a little bit?
Okay.
JESSE: The thing about Justine is, like,
I don't know how much we jibe.
She lives, like, a city over from where I grew up,
but I think she's just a different kind of person.
JUSTINE: My nails are so disgusting.
JESSE: But at this point we don't have to make a decision.
Also, Dwight risked and lost his vote on the journey, so...
at the end of the day, he doesn't really have a say.
I would like to sort of be on the same page as him,
but right now I'm sort of in the driver's seat,
which is awesome.
RYAN: So... bring your foot back.
You're gonna pull it out and then back in.
Back, forward, same foot.
KARLA: We dominated our first immunity challenge,
and that is such a good feeling because
overall the Coco tribe is still pretty united,
but when you start peeling back those layers,
you can kind of see where the divides occur.
RYAN: Did you guys finish all your sets?
-Yes. -Five on each side?
KARLA: There's a three-person girls alliance,
which is me, Lindsay,
Cassidy, and we're bringing in James to be our fourth.
Yeah. Come on.
-[crack] -There we go. -[laughs]
KARLA: That leaves Geo and Ryan. They believe
that I'm in a solid three with them.
You're trying to expand this part when you breathe in.
KARLA: But what is making me
a little bit more cautious is,
Ryan is very close to Geo.
-[crack] -[groans] -Okay, I...
-You get... you get it? -Yeah.
-[gasps] Yes. -Look at you.
-There's a bunch of these trees. -Yeah.
There's another one right there.
Okay.
Ah, no, you got it. You really were right.
So, if you really don't... Okay, let's try that.
-Let's find out. [stammers] -We should open this?
Look at you go.
-Mm-hmm. -And...
Watching the show from TV, you're, like,
Everything looks so much easier, like, anybody can do it,
and it's not.
Just one almond in there?
But I've gone through so many struggles in life.
I had to overcome so many things.
I've kind of always knew that I was gay
from a very young age.
I knew that I was different.
When I turned 18,
I decided to come out to my parents, and
their... I guess their dreams kind of, like,
came down crashing
because I wasn't the person that they wanted me to be.
That was kind of hard for me
because I always had that in the back of my head
that if I ever tell my family
that I am not straight,
that they would not love me anymore
or they would not want to be with me anymore.
My parents didn't agree with me being gay.
They ended up pretty much telling me that
if I'm not gonna change the way I am,
then I will have to go somewhere else or leave the house.
-Oh, this one's pretty good. -Yeah.
GEO: Because of that, I was kind of forced
to going through a homeless stage.
As a lot of people know,
the LGBT community has a very high rate of suicide
and depression, and I did
consider not continuing my life,
but I had to learn how to look at the positive.
So I told myself,
"This is your chance to make it happen in life.
"This is your chance to keep going
"and don't let anything or anyone stop you
from whatever you want to accomplish."
And that's exactly how I'm gonna play this game.
I'm gonna tell you right now. [laughs]
I am not gonna let anything or anyone get in my way.
Oh.
RYAN: Me and Geo feel like
we've known each other since before Survivor.
I accept him. I feel like he's able to be himself around me.
-GEO: Oh. -RYAN: Okay, cool. They're in here.
RYAN: And that's something I feel
he really looks for in life--
to be himself and not to have to hide anything.
Yes, we do.
-We-we have a rhythm. -Yeah. Yeah.
RYAN: So I do think there is
a good push-and-pull that we have.
-Consider myself a new brother. -That works for me.
[laughing]
RYAN: I think if we can take control
and really pay attention,
we can go pretty far. I think we'll be a good duo.
My hands are so wet. I can't even get this on.
CODY: Meeting Noelle was really cool.
I-I wanted to meet her seeing that she had, obviously, one leg
'cause there's a huge story behind that,
and I love to hear those things.
CODY: In high school, my best friend lost his leg.
At first I was like, "Oh.
That's the end of the world," and then, it progressed to...
You know, he's up in heaven with us now,
and he's watching over me right now
here on the game of Survivor,but
that really changed the way I live my life.
You're, like, living a dream life, Cody.
Was there a moment that spread that,
or, like, have you always been that way?
Uh, I've been pretty, like, crazy my whole life.
But, like, for me, part of, like, my drive is,
I had a high school friend die of cancer.
And then, like, a year later, he passed.
I grew up in a small town in Iowa.
A thousand people in my town, 28 kids in my graduating class.
With that small of a school, we're all pretty tight.
And I realized when Devon died that life was very fragile.
I really had to watch him struggle.
And I think that's-that's why it affected me as much as it did.
At that age,
to have to watch how vicious
life can be to someone that doesn't deserve it--
that made it really, really tough.
But it put things into perspective, and
without that experience, I wouldn't be...
I wouldn't be here today.
I wouldn't... I wouldn't reside in Hawaii.
I wouldn't have taken some of the risks
that I have taken in my life.
So I'm gonna playSurvivor as hard and as fast as I can,
just like I do in my life. I ain't letting a day
go by out here without really living.
There's not a day
I'm gonna let go that I can't go to bed
and be like, "I had a good time today."
My friends back home describe me sometimes as a, uh...
a lovable curmudgeon, and I'm trying
to keep the curmudgeon under wraps.
I've tried to be
a bit more measured, and I think all my friends at home
are gonna be very proud of how
much I've held it together to this point.
Aah!
[mutters]
Someone had to do it
'cause these fools don't like drinking water that much.
But I'm fine. I'm fine.
I don't need... Yes, you do.
[sighs]
I feel like the next vote
is gonna be a really tough one.
I feel like you and me need to be thinking about, like,
who would be a safe bet for a vote.
-You know? -Yes, for sure.
Going to Tribal kicked things into gear,
and really forced us to now be in game mode.
So I've been talking strategy with Elie.
Obviously, we've been close from the start.
And we have our pick of whether we want to bring in
Owen or Sami as our third.
Who do you feel close with outside of this?
ELIE: I think, at first, Owen,
but maybe more recently, Sami, only because
Owen's gonna be a lot
to manage, like, once we get to the merge.
I feel a little bit like Sami and Owen are my children.
Sami is my firstborn, and he came out really independent,
and, you know, strong-willed.
He can kind of take charge
and doesn't need a lot of tending to.
And Owen is, like, my baby boy, my second born.
Even though he's older, he needs a lot more attention, and so,
he's the more high-maintenance child
in this situation.
[sighs]
If you need to take a break, you can take a break.
Okay? So the frustration
-makes it harder, right? -[laughs]
Okay. Yeah.
I know.
I'm so confused about it. Are they doing something
that we're just not seeing?
This foot seems worse than the other one.
Mine are equally pruning and gross right now.
You guys know who Patrick Mahomes is?
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah. -I'm Patrick Mahomes.
OWEN: Dude, you're rocking his haircut. Yeah.
GABLER: You look like him, yeah.
You kind of look like him, man. Geez.
[Owen laughs]
[laughs]
But I think that it's opened the door for the two of us to be,
like, strategic incognito.
I wonder if they're talking about us.
SAMI: You got to take it into consideration.
-They do seem pretty close. -Hmm.
But here's the dealio. It doesn't matter.
-One, two, three. -Yeah. -It's true.
SAMI: The guys need to look out for each other
in the event that this thing goes south
and those girls stick together.
Because those girls will vote together
to the very end of this game.
And I think that the best way for me to go right now
is with Gabler and Owen.
If they try to pull something funny
and pull aside any one of us...
GABLER: Then we know what to do.
OWEN: I genuinely hope
-it doesn't come to that. -I hope it doesn't, too.
-But the game's on now. -OWEN: The game is on. -GABLER: Yeah.
We got to look out for each other.
I got you boys always.
I'm not the kind of person
that enjoys the whole guys
or girls alliance, or...
I don't-I don't think that alliances should be based
off of that, but I think me, Gabler
and Owen are being completely underestimated
by the women altogether.
So, we have to be able to look out for each other 'cause
we have the numbers, and we will be stupid
to lose to them.
♪
Come on in.
Vesi, Coco, getting your first look
at the new Baka tribe.
Morriah voted out at the first Tribal Council.
All right, shall we get to today's immunity challenge?
-[all voicing assent] -Let's go.
First things first. Got to take back the idols.
-GEO: It's coming back. -With Coco.
-Just win it back. -That's the plan.
Thank you.
All right, once again, immunity is back up for grabs.
For today's challenge,
you're gonna dive into the ocean and swim to a tall cage.
You then have to get up and over the cage
to release a very heavy snake.
You then have to get that snake out of the cage,
drag it to a table
where you will release number tiles.
You'll use those tiles to solve a combination lock.
Then two players will race
to solve a massive Survivor puzzle.
First two tribes to finish win immunity, safe from the vote.
You're also playing for reward.
[whooping, cheering, voicing assent]
Want to know what you're playing for?
-Yes, sir, Jeff. -[all voicing assent]
-CODY: Yes, Jeff. -First tribe to finish.
-[cheering] -Oh, my God.
PROBST: A complete Survivorfishing kit.
Second tribe to finish--
it's smaller, but it'll get the job done.
Hey, it still works.
Last tribe to finish, otherwise known as the losers--
Tribal Council tonight where somebody will be
the second person voted out of this game.
And as a penalty for losing, I will take your flint. Baka,
you're playing today to get yours back.
All right, we have sit-outs.
Vesi, who's gonna be the sit-out?
Get us this fishing gear.
-I am. -Noelle's gonna sit this one out.
Coco, who's it gonna be?
I'm sitting out.
Karla's gonna sit up. All right.
Sit-outs take spot on the bench.
Everybody else, give you a minute strategize
and we will get going.
[whooping]
♪
All right, here we go. For immunity
and reward,
Survivors ready?
-Go! -[whooping]
-NOELLE: Go, Vesi! -KARLA: Let's go, Coco!
PROBST: Everybody's swimming quickly.
You got to get all five players
to that first edge of the gate
before you can start heading over.
Coco, you're good. Baka, you're good.
-Vesi, you're good. -KARLA: Let's go, James!
Let's go, Ryan! Good job!
PROBST: You cannot go through the cage.
You've got to go up and over.
Here we go, Vesi!
PROBST: Now you got to untie that snake and start
working it over the other side of the cage.
PROBST: You can ask people on either side of that gate
to push or pull that snake once you have it untied.
Cody now starting to lift for Vesi.
That is 400 pounds of Survivorsnake.
KARLA: Let's go!
PROBST: You are trying to maneuver all the way
-to the top through to the other side. -[grunting]
-One, two, three. -KARLA: Go, Coco!
PROBST: Vesi doing a nice job working together.
Coco trying to get that snake up.
You can see how heavy the snake is.
-[grunting] -You can't let go once you get it up top.
-[grunting] -PROBST: It is Baka now in the lead.
-Vesi... -NOELLE: Way to go, Vesi!
-making progress. -Lift up.
PROBST: Lindsay hanging from the snake.
Ryan, one pull at a time, is pulling that snake
over the edge.
-NOELLE: Good job! -[grunting]
Cody trying to just wrestle it down.
[grunting]
Baka has their snake.
Now you got to get everybody over.
There goes Ryan, very close to the end.
KARLA: Let's go!
PROBST: There's Gabler.
You're good, Baka.
[indistinct shouting]
-Coco has their snake. -CODY: All right. [grunts]
PROBST: Cody is literally hanging on
to the snake like he's riding it.
NOELLE: Go!
PROBST: You're good, Coco.
Start heading in.
It is Baka in the lead, followed by Coco.
-KARLA: Good job! -PROBST: Vesi very close.
-One big pull. -[grunting]
PROBST: There you go, Vesi!
Okay, here we go!
PROBST: Get over, Jesse.
You're good. Start heading in.
Let's go, Coco! You got this. Come on.
It's very close-- Baka and Coco.
Vesi coming behind.
Now you've got to go under a barrier
which will also be tough 'cause you're dragging the snake down.
You're still in this, Vesi. Let's go. Dig now!
JEANINE: One.
PROBST: Baka into the next stage.
Coco right on their tail. Sometimes
it comes down to seconds, which is why
you're digging all the time.
One, two, three, go.
-One, two. -[grunting]
[grunting]
PROBST: You got to get that snake
all the way to the end of your table.
PROBST: It is Baka, Coco and then Vesi.
Vesi slowly gaining on both tribes.
-ELIE: Right there. -Come on, push!
PROBST: There you go! Start untying.
You're looking for the six tiles.
Three of them have numbers.
That's how you do it, Coco. Keep pulling.
One more big pull.
Start untying.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
PROBST: Baka has their number tile.
It's gonna be Owen and Sami.
-Once we're free, we're good. -KARLA: Lindsay, free...
-What's wrong? -PROBST: Vesi, you got to keep digging.
What happened? Vesi completely came to a stop.
[indistinct shouting]
Baka solves their combination. They're good.
You got Jeanine and Elie for Baka. No, no.
Give 'em that. Not you. Go.
-Hey, hey, hey, hey. -PROBST: Got to get that open.
There's a piece inside you need for that puzzle.
Coco has their number tiles.
Geo and Ryan opening that combination.
[grunting]
There we go! There we go!
[indistinct shouting]
PROBST: There you go! Start untying!
There's a piece by Jeanine and Elie.
Coco solves their combination. They can start
working on the puzzle.
You got Lindsay and Cassidy for Coco.
KARLA: You're right there, Coco!
Yup. Let's go! Let's go!
Okay.
PROBST: Jeanine and Elie for Baka.
Vesi has their number tiles.
-Let's go, Vesi! -No. That's gonna be up...
There. Yeah, yeah. Just... There it is.
PROBST: Another piece by Elie.
Vesi solves their combination. They can start working
-on the puzzle. -OWEN: Great job, Elie.
Now gonna be Nneka and Dwight on the puzzle.
-CODY: Right now, Vesi! -PROBST: Right now, it is Coco and Baka
-side by side. -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. -Yeah.
PROBST: Then Vesi trying to get back in this.
There you go, Nneka.
Two tribes will be safe.
Two tribes will stay intact.
One will go to Tribal and lose a tribe member.
-Nice. -Vesi, you're in this.
There are comebacks in Survivorall the time.
-Ryan? -Right there. Good job.
You need to get that bottom part.
-Okay, we need one like that? -RYAN: Hell, yes. -OWEN: Good job.
PROBST: Vesi once again dead still.
It's becoming a theme in this challenge.
They get some momentum,
then they stop, talk, rest.
You guys, we can't give up. Come on.
I'm not. I'm not, I'm just thinking.
PROBST: You can't rest on Survivor,ever.
You sleep when you get back home.
And I don't mean your camp. I mean back home.
Coco is closing the gap on Baka.
We got a challenge right now.
-There you go. Good. -We're good.
PROBST: It is Vesi in dead last,
looking at the Tribal Council right now.
-Flip it over, Nneka, and look at that. Yeah. -PROBST: They are stuck.
-Can't find the pieces they need. -Yeah.
Nneka, stay down, stay down.
-No! Turn! -PROBST: They don't even know
if they have the right piece.
-It's right there! -PROBST: It is Baka and Coco
side by side, piece by piece.
Vesi still moving in slow motion.
[indistinct shouting]
PROBST: Elie shoving her arm
through one of the openings to get it in there.
Wow. We are really close.
Baka down to their last piece.
Careful, guys. Careful.
PROBST: Jeanine and Elie.
Redemption for Jeanine.
They've got it!
Baka wins immunity.
Safe tonight from Tribal Council.
Big fishing gear as well, and they earned their flint back.
This one's over. You can put it
to deep freeze. Vesi's out of it.
The last piece by Lindsay...
-RYAN: That's got to be it. -for the win.
Whoa.
PROBST: And they got it.
Coco wins immunity, safe from Tribal Council,
sending Vesi to Tribal Council
where the second person will be voted out of Survivor 43.
[overlapping chatter]
That was the piece. That was the small one that goes right there.
Damn.
All right, hard fought.
-Ah. -PROBST: Baka. -[whooping]
-Coco. -[cheering]
Yeah, my baby.
PROBST: Baka, no Tribal Council tonight, nobody going home.
Large fishing gear will be
waiting for you back at your camp.
Well done.
-In addition, you earned back your flint. -[whooping]
No, I can't catch [bleep].
[laughter]
PROBST: Coco, Nicely done. No Tribal Council tonight for you.
Nobody going home.
Smaller fishing gear will be waiting
-for you back at camp. -We'll take it.
-[whooping] -Thanks, Jeff! Let's go.
PROBST: Baka, grab your stuff, head out.
Enjoy the night off.
-JEANINE and ELIE: Thanks, Jeff. -PROBST: Well earned.
Thank you, Jeff.
PROBST: Cody, how many steps
before you're into your camp,
strategy kicks in, and people start
splitting off to talk?
-20. -So quickly?
I think so. I mean, the parade's over, man.
It's hunt or be hunted at this point.
Everybody's got to go to Tribal, and,
unfortunately, one member of our family is gonna have to go.
PROBST: Nowhere to hide in a dangerous game, and there's
very little room to hide when there's only six tribe members.
Tribal Council tonight, Vesi.
Somebody will be the second person voted out of this game.
And as a penalty for losing, I got to take your flint.
Sorry for you.
You'll have a chance to win it back in the next challenge.
Grab your stuff, head out.
See you tonight at Tribal Council.
NOELLE: It sucked watching from the sidelines.
I'm a competitor.
I came out here not wanting to sit out any challenges,
but now it turns out
that Nneka's not great at jumping off things.
She's not great at puzzles.
I'm so sick of it. I just want
to have a strong, united group.
So if we're gonna keep the tribe strong, Nneka's got to go.
♪
Gave it all we got.
CODY: Leaving that piece, none of us caught it.
We all sat there and watched the whole thing,
and none of us caught it.
So I don't know.
We can learn from our losses,
but, uh, tonight's gonna be tragic. This sucks.
Today's challenge was a beast,
and we got our butts kicked.
Now we're gonna Tribal,
someone's going home, and you're gonna have to
cut somebody from your own ohana.
And it's heartbreaking.
-CODY: You know what I mean? -JESSE: Yeah.
CODY: Me and Nneka, we're very close.
I love Nneka's energy.
She's got a positive attitude, and we have a strong alliance.
Unfortunately, she really struggled in the challenge.
So for some people,
it could be Nneka on the chopping block,
because keeping the tribe strong is important.
But I'm not gonna let that happen.
JUSTINE: Every time I looked down, she was just in the water,
-sitting there. -NOELLE: She was in the water, and, like...
I'm pissed, because I would have kept this leg on.
And I, like, I would have been able to lift.
And also, when Cody said that was all of our faults
that the puzzle piece was in the bag.
-She grabbed the bag. -NOELLE: Especially, yeah.
-That's your responsibility. -Yeah.
JUSTINE: Nneka has been great around camp,
but judging by this challenge, um,
I just feel like every time I was looking at her,
she's wasn't really pulling her weight.
-I don't know. -Yeah, we need to talk to the boys.
Yeah. We need to talk to everybody.
Nneka does contribute a lot around camp,
but we just need to think what's gonna get us
further in this game.
And voting out Nneka is probably the best way
to keep the tribe strong.
♪
[scoffs]
-Oh. -We know what that means. All right. Well...
NNEKA: After the challenge, it was a very different vibe.
I mean, we've had a good kumbaya thing going in the tribe,
but today, people talk to you,
they're not making eye contact.
And I'm not surprised,
because I did not do well in the challenge.
So there is a chance that it could be me tonight.
Talking about the stupid challenge
and the other tribes probably eating freaking fish tonight.
NNEKA: However, Cody and I are super close,
and Jesse and I have been getting along really well.
So hopefully the relationships I've built in this game
are something I can count on.
♪
[whooping]
[cheering]
JEANINE: Oh, my God. It feels amazing to win.
Not only did we win immunity, but it was a reward challenge,
so we won fishing gear.
[indistinct chatter]
Oh, my God! There's two.
JEANINE: Which is so crucial, because the entire tribe
has not been eating anything but coconuts.
So to be able to get a different source of protein is invaluable.
-I'm so proud of us. -GABLER: I'm-I'm so proud of us. -SAMI: You guys...
ELIE: I was actually in shock.
And then it hit me, and I was like,
"Aah!"
I feel really proud of myself.
It makes me a little tearful, like...
I did that, and that was something that
came from my brain, and...
[sniffles] I underestimate that a lot.
Growing up, I had ADHD and I had dyslexia.
And so before I was diagnosed,
teachers just assumed that I was lazy and didn't care.
I would get one of those timed quizzes sit in front of me,
and I would freeze up so bad, I just couldn't think.
I would only answer, like, two or three questions.
And, you know, we have to swap and grade each other's papers.
And the person next to me always knew how bad I had done.
And that kind of talk gets around quickly.
So I grew up being told I was dumb--
by my teachers, by the people who are supposed to help you.
Basically everybody but my mom and dad told me that I was
not going anywhere and that I couldn't do
the things that I wanted to do. And so, it takes
an experience like this to really shed that.
A doctoral degree couldn't even shed me of this feeling
that I'm not smart enough. But today,
I looked at that puzzle, and I was like,
"Dang, girl, you're bright."
JEANINE: Have you guys worked with that gear before?
-The-the spear and the... -SAMI: A spear?
-No. -ELIE: Oh, I have an idea.
Do you want to tie a really long rope around it?
GABLER: We don't need that. I'm gonna be holding on to it.
If we're just walking out there, I can hold on to it.
-We're just gonna be holding on to this... -Also, it's...
-You're gonna hold on to... No, for when you release it. -So that's...
-when you release it. -That you can catch it...
-without having to, without having to cut it short. -We can shoot it into the sand.
Shoot it into the sand.
All right, do whatever you want to do.
Gabler has some spearfishing experience,
which I very much appreciate.
All right, bud, let's go see what we can get into.
However, he has not ever used a Hawaiian sling.
There it is. One short one.
Like that.
♪
This guy you swing around like this.
You guys are ready for your fish.
It's a big, blue frickin' ocean out there.
When I think of soaring off into oblivion
and completely misses the fish, we might be out a spear.
♪
Wow.
Good news is next Tribal we have to go to
we don't have to deal with that idol.
-JEANINE: I'm just, I... -I think that it's invalid now.
-Oh, yeah. I think so. Yeah. -JEANINE: But we're just trying,
but we're trying to verify that.
ELIE: A big topic of discussion has been whether or not
Gabler's idol expires after the first two Tribal Councils
in the game or after Gabler's first two Tribal Councils.
We want to look at the clue again without being weird
and being like, "Can we read your clue?"
It said the next two Tribal Councils...
JEANINE: But are you sure?
OWEN: I am sure that's what it said.
ELIE: We were hoping that after tonight,
even though we're not going to Tribal Council,
that the immunity idol that he had would expire.
♪
JEANINE: Okay.
I always thought it was so wack
when people went through each other's bags on Survivor.
I thought it was just lying, cheating,
you know, unfair.
But it's so different coming here, understanding that
those are necessary deeds.
♪
-GABLER: Hey, Owen. -OWEN: Yes, sir.
Do we have any coconut left?
OWEN: There's a tiny bit on there.
Okay, cool.
Hopefully this is the last of this I eat.
I don't like it, man. I thought I'd like coconut more.
In my daily life, I don't lie,
I don't cheat. I really am an honest person.
But everything changes when you're in this game,
because anything you can do to give yourself an advantage
is fair game.
OWEN: Oh, it was in that shell thing.
-JEANINE: It was in the shell? -OWEN: That's where
the idol itself was. I'm, like,
95% confident it's no good anymore.
JEANINE: I found it.
Okay.
ELIE: Okay.
-Obviously, it's still good. -After that, it loses all power.
-So he still has to stay around for the next one. -ELIE: Okay.
-Okay. Yeah. -It's good we read it.
I have confirmed my worst fear
that Gabler's idol is still in play.
So that complicates things, because if he plays his idol--
which I think we have to assume he will--
and he throws my name out, I'm gone.
♪
[flies buzzing]
JUSTINE: Our game plan right now is to get Nneka out.
We know that Dwight doesn't have a vote,
so obviously Jesse is a key person here,
because if Jesse is with us and Nneka plays
her Shot in the Dark, we can split our votes on Cody.
I've always gotten really good vibes from Jesse.
I feel like he's being genuine with us,
but there is that little inkling in the back of your head
of, like, how do I know 100% that you're actually
on our side, and we're not the ones getting played?
♪
JESSE: While Nneka might be a challenge liability going forward,
I think Justine is a bigger threat to my game.
She seems smart, She seems calculating,
and like Cody said, "You can never trust a salesperson."
But also, the other day, she just openly told me
that she's really good at lying.
We need to come up with a decoy to tell 'em.
I'll talk to Nneka.
I'll do some acting.
-[Jesse chuckles] -I have a good, like, lying face.
I can keep a straight face.
JESSE: I mean, she's scary.
So I've always got, like, this stereotype of...
Yeah.
Justine's a threat. Like, she seems sort of lethal.
So I think voting out Justine right now is the right move,
but I really want to get on the same page with Dwight.
♪
-Me and you, I-I feel like we're tight. -Yeah.
Think we're solid like that.
And I think, like, we're in the middle of these two pairs.
-Yeah. -And we have to figure out which way is best.
JESSE: No, no, no, no...
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
JESSE: So...
...is Justine is a little bit scary to me.
-I'm not gonna lie to you. She's a little bit scary. -Yeah.
Like, earlier, she was telling me, she's like,
she's like, "I'm really good at lying."
And I was like, "What? Why would you say that to me?"
And that's what scares me.
So...
-I-I... -Cody is, honestly,
he's like, "Oh, Dwight is, like, solid. He's great."
So I run the idea of voting Justine off to Dwight,
and he wasn't too receptive.
I could just get the vibes that he didn't want to do that.
He still wanted to sort of work with the girls,
which is kind of troubling to me, because, you know,
then he has these other options, right?
But the thing is, he doesn't have a vote.
So is there any way for you...
-[footsteps approaching] -Spiders.
Yeah...
[chuckles]
-How are you guys? -We're good.
-Yeah. -I mean...
Nneka thinks it's her.
-DWIGHT: Uh-huh. -JUSTINE: I mean, that's who I'm voting.
But how do we know
that you're not playing us?
You're the swing vote here.
I just want to know.
JESSE: You're good. You're good.
-I swear. -DWIGHT: We've been walking all day...
Yeah.
The fact that she came up to me
and was like, "I don't know if I trust you, pretty much."
Like, that for me, I got to take that out.
I can't have that. [laughs] I really can't.
I would like to sort of be on the same page as Dwight,
but if push comes to shove, I'm gonna do what's best for me.
The plan is Nneka?
-Yeah. Do you guys agree? -Yeah.
Jesse really wants to vote out Justine,
but that's not what I want.
I feel like, with Justine and Noelle here,
I have a lot more options going forward.
I have no vote. I really have no say in this,
but we have to keep the tribe strong.
So, unfortunately, Nneka needs to go.
♪
Justine is worried that it's between you and her.
So she has an inkling that we're going after her as well.
-CODY: J-U-S-T-I-N-E? -NNEKA: Yes.
-Yes. -CODY: Okay.
-Hey, man, spelling wasn't my best. -[laughter]
My standardized score in, like, vocabulary and English
-was quite low. -[laughter]
CODY: We got it all settled. We're all good.
We're just ready to go to Tribal and vote out Justine.
And I decide to take a little bit of a walk,
'cause Survivor.Why not?
Got nothing else to do.
Plus, it'd be nice to have an idol.
My eyes are peeled.
I think I'm good at that kind of stuff.
Always have been.
I used to go hunting for night crawlers at night.
So we'd go fishing. Mushroom hunting in the spring.
Easter egg hunting as a kid. I was a legend at it.
Just bird doo-doo.
But this looks easier on TV.
That's for sure.
♪
I haven't looked for an idol because I believe that
that is a kiss of death.
But we're going to Tribal Council,
and that changes everything.
I'm walking around forever, and I'm finding nothing.
And I'm about to say "to hell with it."
♪
And then I walk up to this, like, stump,
and bingo. I got it.
And I was like, "Holy moly."
I was so stoked.
I saw season 41 and 42,
but the L-I-V-I-N that was tattooed on me is in my blood,
so, like, the "beware" part, like, it didn't even exist.
Like, I just said, "Open it."
Tonight was a slam dunk,
we were ready to rock, and now
this leaves both me and Dwight without a vote.
So, Justine and Noelle are voting for Nneka.
And Nneka and Jesse will be voting for Justine.
Tie. Fantastic.
... just got crazy.
♪
CODY: Opening up the Beware Advantage was a huge mistake,
because if I don't get a specific bead
off of each person's bag, I don't have a vote.
And we'd guarantee gonna a tie.
JESSE: I need to go get my stuff that was drying.
I'm gonna hang mine up.
And getting these beads from my tribemates is going to be
damn near impossible,
because they're all superfans,
and these things are like gold to them.
Like, the whole Survivorexperience--
the bags, the water bottles-- are like gold.
And there's minutes left on the clock.
So I got to talk to Jesse.
♪
And I lost...
How am I gonna convince anybody?
-I can get yours. -Yeah, you can get mine.
For sure. Yeah, yeah, no...
But then Dwight's, like, all about it.
I shouldn't have grabbed it. It was so stupid.
We were set just perfect.
JESSE: Cody found the Beware Advantage
and he just opened it, right before Tribal.
I don't know if he hasn't seen, like, season 41 or season 42
or something, but, like, you know
you're gonna lose your vote unless you do something.
It's absolute panic.
You got people losing their votes, people who didn't
have their votes to begin with.
It's just chaos right now.
[sighs]
♪
Guys think I should wear my hat tonight?
[laughter]
-DWIGHT: Absolutely. -CODY: Right?
Like, really ... rip it.
-It'd be a legend move. -Yeah.
Palm frond hat.
It'll pop, you know?
That'll be beautiful on here, you know?
I want to connect it.
Sweet.
-JESSE: I'll put it right there. -[Cody grunts]
JUSTINE: Maybe, like, weave it into the palm fronds.
Can I have yours off your bag to wrap it around?
NNEKA: Sure. I'm not gonna do anything with it.
[Nneka laughs]
You can take my beads off of my bag.
JUSTINE: Yeah, you can take mine off.
CODY: Immediately, Justine--
who doesn't know she's on the chopping block-- was like,
"Yeah, you can have mine, too." I'm like, "Whoa.
This is actually working."
-CODY: Hey, Dwight? -DWIGHT: What's up?
CODY: You want to put your beads in this?
NNEKA: Dwight, you should give Cody the beads from your bag.
From my bag?
NNEKA: He's trying to string it all around.
DWIGHT: All around?
I don't know. I mean...
NNEKA: Oh, come on.
All right.
CODY: I thought that Dwight was
gonna be very difficult,
but he took it
right off his bag.
NNEKA: Aw, that's awesome.
DWIGHT: Of course.
NOELLE: Mm-hmm?
NOELLE: 'Cause. I think they're cool.
Pretty.
I made a bracelet.
CODY: Noelle-- there's no way she's parting with any of this stuff.
So I'm freaking.
I feel like an actual castaway on Survivor
with my Survivorbeads.
JESSE: There are so many moving pieces.
The sun's setting. Tribal's upon us.
I mean, this new game ofSurvivor--
it's just absolute freaking chaos.
Yeah.
JESSE: I mean, there's so many different possibilities
for this Tribal, so we got to be ready for anything,
because it's gonna be crazy.
♪
PROBST: Behind you are some torches. Everybody grab a torch.
Dip it in and get fire.
♪
This is part of the ritual of Tribal Council,
because in this game, as you know,
fire represents your life.
And when your fire is gone, so are you. And as much as
I hate for any of you to leave, that's the stakes.
Did you feel that, Cody, when you got back to camp--
that realization that it's on?
"One of us is going home tonight."
Oh, automatic. Guarantee.
I mean, two days ago, we won our first immunity challenge,
and we had dropped into the wave of our lifetime.
And we rode it up until today.
And unfortunately, someone is going to wipe out tonight
and have a end to their Survivorstory.
Cody, got to ask: did you weave these palm fronds,
-this hat? -CODY: Yeah.
Learned it from the uncles that sell 'em to tourists
-on, uh, the island of Oahu. -PROBST: For real?
-CODY: Absolutely. -Huh.
CODY: So, figuring that today could be my last day,
I wanted to rock it and, uh, give the people what they want,
show 'em this beautiful hat.
And with the help of my tribe, we, uh...
you know, made it real nice and fancy and put some beads on it.
PROBST: It's pretty impressive.
-Oh, yeah. -JUSTINE: It's like a full-on visor.
And I actually am very down for a hat.
Like, today I was squinting in the sun. I wish I had a hat.
So, Cody, what will it take for you to make a hat for Justine?
[exhales] I mean,
it's gonna have to take for her to stay for another day,
and, uh, unfortunately,
I don't have that sole power to do so. It-it's a tribe thing.
And, um, whoever goes home, I'll be happy to get you a hat.
-I can promise you that. -[laughter]
PROBST: Wow.
Just a simple comment about a hat.
And then Cody has to say, "Great.
If you survive, I'll make you one."
JUSTINE: Yeah, I mean, I personally know
that tonight could be my last night.
-Based on what? -JUSTINE: Well,
Noelle and I hit it off immediately,
so that puts us two together.
Dwight and Jesse are kind of in, you know, no-man's-land.
We don't really know where they stand at this point.
And then it really seems like Nneka and Cody
have been hitting it off as well. So it kind of
breaks our six up into two, two and two.
-Hmm. -JUSTINE: But I think that the strongest two
that we know are together are Nneka and Cody.
And on top of that, I'm the only person that hasn't really
talked game or strategy with Cody.
So I think that puts an extra target on my back.
PROBST: Okay, so, Dwight,
this is what I just heard Justine say.
Her and Noelle are paired.
She thinks Cody and Nneka seem to be hitting it off,
but you two-- they don't know if you're together
or you're both lost or you haven't figured out
-what you're doing. Is that what you just heard? -Yeah, I'm not sure.
Are we together now?
[laughter]
-You want to make this official? -Absolutely.
Thank you so much, sir.
-We're together now. Um... -PROBST: So wait, is that real?
Are there three pairs?
DWIGHT: Um, the strategy talks, up until this afternoon,
have been very limited.
It also has kind of been difficult for me,
because I think it's common knowledge here,
I got on the boat day two,
and I lost my vote in a decision.
So it's kind of been difficult for me to have strategy talk
if I don't actually have
a concrete say in this Tribal Council.
How does everybody know you don't have a vote?
DWIGHT: I came back and I was very honest with my tribe,
told them what kind of decision I made, lost my vote.
And I got to live with the consequences of that.
PROBST: Jesse, I'm sure you think this at times,
when you watch the show.
I hear it all the time.
"Probst, why does everybody tell everybody everything?"
And I try to explain that it's about currency,
and trust is really the only currency you have.
Is that what it is for you, as well?
JESSE: Yeah, I think that's the case.
I mean, back at home, like, when, you know, I'm trying
to sort of, like, build relationships with people--
which aren't very many. [laughs]
Again, it's just me, my wife and kids.
But, like, in social settings, I will, you know, go one-on-one
and, like, share my background with people.
I will tell people, you know,
that I did get jumped into a gang as a teenager.
It's about sort of building trust and, like, opening
that door, and I think when you're authentic with people,
they're authentic back.
PROBST: Nneka, when you watch Survivor, do you ever scratch your head
at why players share all their
advantages or disadvantages?
Jeff, have you hung out with Nigerians at all?
We are, like, ultra-passionate.
You need to see us watch Survivorat home sometimes.
Like, we will be on the coffee table,
screaming at the TV. [laughs]
"No, I should've done this. No, I shouldn't have done this.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
Like, "You know what? I'm gonna go on Survivor.
I'll show you all." [laughs]
PROBST: So, Nneka, Dwight brought up,
"Hey, I went out. I lost my vote."
Did that open the gates for everybody to have
a discussion about whether or not there's other advantages
or idols that might be in the game?
Um, no, I think that, on the one hand, yes,
maybe there's an idol for this season.
But if we look at the last couple of seasons,
like the Beware Advantage, you want to think, like,
"Okay, if I find this, will it really help me right now
"or is it something that will get your hands tied
in whatever way?"
NOELLE: And that's just a tough part,
because you just never know if there even is an advantage
or an idol on our island, because,
unless everybody's lying to me, nobody's sharing.
So they're either playing a really great game
or nobody actually has found anything.
So, Cody, what kind of impact does that
have, knowing one of only six players
says they won't be voting tonight?
CODY: It's enormous. I mean,
not having a vote can break up an alliance.
You know, Dwight doing that.
Well, they only got one vote, you know?
It makes an easy target.
But hopefully for him or Jesse or whoever else here,
it's not gonna be the-the dagger in the back
that really causes them to go home.
NOELLE: And that's a tough decision because
not one person has done anything wrong on this tribe.
Nobody deserves to be going home tonight.
But then, on the other hand, we need to keep the tribe strong.
We need to be winning these next immunity challenges,
because I don't want to be sitting here again.
PROBST: Jesse, that really gets at
the heart of where the game is for each player,
and that is, "I care about tribe strength.
I don't want to lose another challenge."
Or, "I just need to make sure my alliance is strong
and as long as I'm here, I'm good with that."
Yeah, I mean, I think that it's a big dilemma.
I can't say, like, which one is more important.
I think that's a really hard thing to decide.
But we do develop these relationships.
We have these emotions that are involved,
but at the end of the day, we do have to sort of
set them aside and-and play the game.
PROBST: All right, it is time to vote.
Justine, you're up.
♪
I'll go tally the votes.
♪
If anybody has an advantage or an idol
and they want to play it,
now would be the time to do so.
All right, I'll read the votes.
First vote: Justine.
Nneka.
Cody.
That's one vote Cody, one vote Justine,
one vote Nneka.
Justine.
Two votes Justine, one vote Nneka,
one vote Cody, one vote left.
CODY: Right before Tribal was easily the most craziest
emotional ride I've ever been on.
It was terrifying.
CODY: But thanks to Nneka and Jesse, I got the beads
just in the nick of time to take off to Tribal Council.
Second person voted out of Survivor 43:
Justine.
Need to bring me your torch.
Justine, the tribe has spoken.
Time for you to go.
-NOELLE: Love you, girl. -Love you, guys.
Love you.
-Bye, Justine. -Bye.
Grab your torches, head back to camp.
Good night.
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-♪ Happy birthday to you.♪ -CASSIDY: We're building a community here.
Till we slit each other's throats.
The island marriage is a bit strained.
He's sleeping on the couch.
I'll sign the divorce papers. It's okay.
GABLER: My ally was snooping around.
She's next.
I got completely hoodwinked by Jesse, which sucks.
Jesse was very visibly playing both sides,
but I feel sad about leaving this family.
I'm still rooting for Vesi.
My dream was to be onSurvivor,
and I'm gonna take it for what it is.
I had an amazing time out here.
I'm so lucky to be on this show,
so I'm walking away with a smile on my face.
[roars]