♪ ♪
CODY: Tribal went well.
Jesse and I decided to make a big move
and vote out Dwight.
Team Coco jumped on board. Me, Jesse, Team Coco.
And then, to my surprise,
who I would have never thought,
Sami jumped on board, as well.
SAMI: That went the way it was supposed to.
It's tough to vote somebody out of my own tribe.
-Obviously, but... -Uh-huh.
-It worked out. And it's fun. -Anyways.
-All right, bro, cool. -It was an honor sitting by you.
-It was a lot of fun. -I know. Let's do it again.
CODY: Before Tribal,
it was pretty common knowledge that James had gotten
the Knowledge Is Power Advantage.
And everybody was in a panic mode,
moving around advantages and idols.
But when you hand that thing over,
you got to hope and pray
that you made the right decision.
SAMI: At this point, if you never want to talk to me again,
I get it. But I want you to listen to me, at least,
-Yeah. -for a little bit,
because this is the second time in a row
-you had no idea what was happening. -Yeah.
And you guys have to understand,
I find out Jesse and Cody are flipping.
Mm-hmm.
Dwight's going home, regardless.
JEANINE: Tribal ended up being
worst-case scenario for me
in every possible way.
I lost an ally in Dwight.
And before Tribal Council, I had given
Dwight my idol to hold on to.
Okay.
It's not going anywhere?
Okay.
I'll wash it off before giving it back to you.
Oh, thank you.
I was on such a high, and then
everything slipped through my fingers.
I was so shocked. I blacked out
the moment where he got his torch snuffed.
And I'm like,
"I'm a freaking idiot and had my idol
go home in Dwight's crotch."
SAMI: I know.
I get how hard it will be to listen to me at this point,
but nobody even wanted to, like,
consider working with you while the idol was still in the game.
JEANINE: This can't be real. This can't be happening.
I have no numbers, no immunity
and no idea of how to even
start picking up the pieces.
SAMI: Dwight had Jeanine's idol.
-He had Jeanine's idol. -Yeah, so...
I didn't want it... We didn't want it here.
He literally went home with Jeanine's idol.
That's freaking amazing.
You all know where Jeanine's idol was?
-KARLA: No, where? -Where?
-Dwight's pocket. -[gasping]
-KARLA: No. -CASSIDY: So it turns out
Jeanine's idol got flushed sort of on accident.
It's insane. Like, the idol's gone.
So it was kind of perfect.
JESSE: They were shuffling advantages,
because they were scared of whatever you have.
-Yep. -Yep.
The last thing I heard, in the shuffle,
was that it went into Dwight's pocket.
-He had it. -And so...
-I'm telling you, he had it. -Yeah.
Everybody's high-fiving
because Dwight went home with an idol in his pocket. But
that idol is... in my pocket,
and nobody knows about it. [laughs]
JESSE: Before Tribal Council,
Dwight comes up to me, he's panicked,
and so he drops the idol in my pocket.
This is awesome. I already have Cody's idol
that he gave me and he hasn't asked for it back yet, so, like,
in a way, I kind of have two idols here.
JAMES: A idol may be back in circulation now.
But here's the thing, though: I can take it.
SAMI: Uh-huh.
Knowledge is power in this game,
and I know there's a Knowledge Is Power floating around.
So I'm keeping the idol to myself.
That way I can make big moves
that people aren't necessarily seeing until it's too late.
♪ ♪
JEANINE: Yeah.
Then we can write our names, like, just wherever.
I like that idea.
CASSIDY: This is so cute. I'm excited.
-KARLA: Just like this? -CASSIDY: Yeah.
-Perfect. -Okay.
SAMI: That looks really good.
Un poquito.
Un poquito?
Yeah.
His parents only speak Spanish.
-And so, like, I went and I met them, and, like... -[gasps] Oh.
-OWEN: Oh, that's tough. -So, like,
they said, like, "I love you."
And that was, like, the only words they could say.
-And, like, it was just my first time meeting them. -Aw.
-But, like, I just couldn't say anything, so it's all weird. -OWEN: Oh, that's hard.
-That is weird. -Yeah.
I tried to teach myself a little Korean
-in the middle of the pandemic. -[laughs]
I was like, "Maybe I should learn this."
'Cause I'm adopted.
I don't know if y'all had heard that part...
-NOELLE: Oh. No. -Yeah, I have white,
I have white parents, so...
-Oh. -I didn't grow up with a lot of Korean culture.
Kind of rejected it a bit, but coming around.
It's nice.
So I was adopted when I was four months old.
I was born in Korea.
Owen Knight is not a particularly Korean name.
My parents are amazing.
I've had a wonderful, wonderful life,
but I was not like most kids.
Being Asian was what made me different
and I just wanted to fit in.
I wanted to be a "regular kid" and just,
like, get the same haircut,
and it just, i-it was isolating.
And now this game reminds me of my childhood.
Being left out of the vote two Tribal Councils in a row,
it's hard to not blame myself and wonder what's wrong with me.
Hopefully I'll hear if my name comes up, but it's scary.
I was not on the bus yesterday,
and, like, I just thought the numbers
-were going the other direction, so... -Yeah.
It feels like I'm running around the playground
asking people to play with me
and no one wants to.
If making final Tribal is getting into college,
right now, my transcript
is sorry. I have a 1.7 GPA right now.
My extracurriculars are in the toilet.
I've got no recommendations.
Nobody has anything good to say about me right now.
So I just need to take a breath and reset
and remind myself I'm here to have fun
and that we are all on our own personal journey.
I have hope that there's room to maneuver
and that there are some people who feel left out,
feel on the bottom,
and that we can start a little
uprising of sorts.
It's finally just us bottom dwellers.
JEANINE: I don't understand how it flipped so quickly.
I guess Jesse and Cody were threatened by Dwight and that...
...they saw the opportunity.
NOELLE: Cody and Jesse flipped, and I was left in the dark.
And that's shame on me, because people started
playing this game before I did,
and that's just a kick in the ass.
I'm not ready to go down without a fight.
Like, we still have us three. We have Gabler.
-OWEN: We need two more. -We need two more.
NOELLE: Right now, it seems like us three
and Gabler are on the bottom, but
I don't believe the seven people that voted last night
are seven strong, and they're gonna be like,
"This is gonna be the final seven."
I don't believe that. That never works out.
KARLA: How are you?
JAMES: I feel pretty good.
Have you started feeling anyone out or anything out yet?
JAMES: Right now, we have seven with that last vote.
That can take us pretty far.
Like, this makes me extremely happy, is that we...
KARLA: I know.
[chuckles]
Coming out of Tribal Council, the seven
that voted out Dwight were me, James, Cassidy,
Karla, Cody, Sami and Ryan.
And we all seem to be on the same page that, like,
this could be the seven, right, that make it,
and then we sort of, like, all guns blaze
and we'll just turn on each other.
That would be awesome if we could just, like,
skip to our Lou to the end of, you know, the game.
-KARLA: What do we think... -CASSIDY: What's next?
KARLA: Yeah, what's next?
Does anybody have a preference?
So, I think Owen. Owen is kind of a snake.
I don't think he really has, like, a backbone.
He's not gonna ever put his foot down.
He's always gonna follow the numbers,
and that's dangerous in this game.
I have strong opinions about who should go.
I really want Owen out.
He voted for me at two previous Tribal Councils.
He is not my friend in this game, and
when you have an opportunity to take someone out
that you really, really don't trust,
you take that person out.
♪ ♪
KARLA: I had a dream... This is gonna sound so stupid.
[chuckles softly]
I... My dreams are wild here. Probst was there.
It was, like, an eating competition,
but it was, like, a lot of chicken.
It was, like, a lot of chicken.
But then Probst was like, "I'm hungry."
And I was like, "Here, you could have some of mine."
And then he decides to make ramen. [laughs]
-Ramen, and that's his lunch. -[laughter]
And he proceeds to, like, get in the middle of all of us,
-kind of like crowd-surf. -What?
And he's like, "All right, selfie time."
You know, "Picture time." And I'm like,
-"This is weirdest thing ever." -RYAN: That is an awesome dream.
Yeah, you had a good dream, man. That's great.
[laughter]
KARLA: I'm really dreaming about food.
People are definitely hungry right now.
People are starving, um...
We've been talking about food just constantly.
I want to eat every... something from every one on the menu.
Like an appetizer, a regular entrée
and a dessert, 'cause I never do that.
RYAN: I'm gonna order the pepperoni stuffed crust, right?
I'm-a get two of those.
And then I'm gonna pick up really good bur...
a few really good burritos.
And those are gonna get wrapped with the pizza.
-CODY: Oh, God. -Yeah.
I'm glad you're excited about it. I don't know if I could
-do the pizza... the burrito -JEANINE: I'm not on board
-wrapped in pizza. -with the pizza burrito.
GABLER: You know, I don't need to eat
to win this game. I think that is a luxury.
But check this out, boys.
I had a muffin top coming out here,
but the wolf pack is hungry.
Everybody is physically depleted.
-Ready? -Yeah.
Ah, daddy-o.
Last night's Tribal,
I was on the wrong side of the votes.
So today, I'm gonna spearfish,
trying to curry favor with everybody,
but our biggest food provider,
bar none, is Ryan.
Uh, he loves to do it.
He's just, you know, he's an absolute physical beast.
RYAN: I went from, as a kid with cerebral palsy,
being told, "You can't walk.
"You're gonna to be in a wheelchair,
and your mom's gonna have to help you most of your life,"
to catching fish in the Fijian waters.
♪ ♪
[whoops]
If I had given up
on trying to walk, if I had given up
on being myself and really caring about others,
I probably wouldn't be as far as I am in this game
and I probably wouldn't be onSurvivor.
And being a provider--
that is 100% part of my strategy.
Nobody else was catching fish like I was.
So, I feel like Aquaman
out there with my little spear.
My family's gonna be so proud of me.
Oh, heck yeah, dude.
You're like a superhero, dude. I keep saying it.
I think I could survive out here.
That's why I'm going out here and getting you guys fish,
even though, you know, next vote it could be me, you know?
You know, you-you acknowledge you're a-a big guy,
physically intimidating, a little bit, right?
RYAN: I hope people don't see me as a threat.
Well, I think you made quite the impression.
RYAN: Of course, they're gonna see me as a threat
in the challenges, but at the same time,
I showed I'm a hard worker.
I'm willing to spend my calories to get everybody else food,
but not only that, since I am part of the seven,
I can trust the alliance that I have.
Feel good. Do you feel good about the seven, Cody?
CODY: Absolutely.
-Take the gloves off and let's just throw punches. -KARLA: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
SAMI: With this newfound seven of Cody, Jesse,
myself, Karla, James, Ryan and Cassidy,
where do I fall Within that group?
-It's, like, the line is, like, drawn, seven-four. -Yeah. It really is.
It would be stupid to say,
"That's the seven to go with and then we make final seven."
-I'm not here to play for final seven. -No.
-I'm here to play to win. -Play to win.
SAMI: I'm trying to set myself up
at 19 to win this game.
Not to make it to the end and not get any respect.
That's not what I want to do.
I want to be in control and make decisions
for the rest of this game.
It's seven to four. I don't want to go
get rid of you, you, Gabler and Noelle.
Where does that leave me? I'm at the bottom of the seven.
I don't want to be there.
You're seventh on there, like...
No, no, I know.
SAMI: I don't want to go that way.
-That's why I'm talking to you guys. -I know. I know, exactly...
-At the end of the day, we still have four with Gabler. -Yeah.
-And then we have Noelle.
And then, at that point, we're one off.
-JEANINE: We're one off. -OWEN: One more.
-All we need is six. -All we need is six.
OWEN: Thank God.
I feel like my game has a little bit of hope.
We just need one other person to maybe try
to turn the tables and
take down some of the big players
who are starting to get big heads right now.
That group thinks that one of the four of you guys
-will probably just go home. -Yeah. -It's probably me.
-That's not the way the game should go. -OWEN: No.
-That's not the way I think the game should go. -I agree. I agree.
SAMI: I feel like the seven
is sitting pretty on a sinking ship,
but I need to act like I'm still with that group.
Otherwise, they're gonna start to be suspicious.
We're at war, and I'm with the right folks.
JAMES: That was the point, man. So...
I know.
It's one less person to worry about.
-And at the end of the day... -And he's definitely a flipper.
And those are the people that are dangerous.
SAMI: OnSurvivor, it's all about windows.
It's all about, "When am I gonna make my move?"
And with a million freaking dollars on the line,
this game is only gonna get crazier.
The moves are only gonna become shadier and
more cutthroat. This is where good players survive
and great players thrive.
This adventure could be yours. Apply to be on Survivor.
♪ ♪
Come on in.
♪ ♪
All right.
-Shall we get to it? -Yes, sir.
First things first, Gabler, got to take back the necklace.
-Yes, sir. -You're gonna make me take it off.
Yes, sir.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Once again, immunity is back up for grabs.
-[exhales sharply] -PROBST: For today's challenge,
you're gonna balance a ball on a pole.
At regular intervals,
you're gonna add another section of pole,
making it more difficult.
If at any point your ball drops...
...you're out.
Last person left standing wins immunity,
guaranteed a spot in the final ten.
Losers, Tribal Council, where somebody
will be the eighth person voted out of this game
and the first member of our jury.
So it's day 16,
and even though we're still in the early days
of this still evolving new era of Survivor,
there are already certain markers
that the smart player has identified.
Today is another one of those markers.
There's enough rice in here for four days for every player--
a lot longer if you ration it.
The established price for this rice in this new era
is five players.
Still less than half of you must sit out of this challenge,
give up your shot at immunity,
in exchange for rice for everybody.
So take a minute. Walk me through your thought process.
JAMES: Jeff, can we do four players?
PROBST: No.
I'll be fully transparent in my negotiating approach.
Today is the only day it will cost you five players.
Tomorrow it will be more expensive.
Nobody talking.
I'm hungry.
-So I-I can. -I'm game.
-I don't mind. -KARLA: I...
My finger's busted.
-And this is a gripping challenge. -SAMI: I mean...
I will-I will do it.
-JESSE: I'll sit out. -PROBST: There's two.
-You'll sit out? I'll sit out. -Yeah, my hand's...
PROBST: There's three. There's four.
Yeah.
We need one more to make this deal done.
Day 16. That is a lot of rice.
-Uno más.Taco Bell. -PROBST: That'll wake you up.
-That will give you energy. -CASSIDY: All right.
-I'll do it. -PROBST: And there goes Cassidy. We have our five.
-RYAN: Thank you, guys. -PROBST: James, Sami, Jesse,
Cassidy, Karla agreeing to sit out.
Sami, that was a pretty fast agreement
for five players with a million dollars on the line.
Where are we in the game
that this group is volunteering to do it
with no certainty that it won't be you that goes home tonight?
Yeah, it's crazy, 'cause, like,
when you come out here, you know,
"I want to compete,"
you know, "I'm this big guy. Let me compete. Let me do it."
But, like, once you get further down the road,
the-the deterioration starts to take a toll on you.
Like, we're all deteriorated. We're beat up.
We're all just a little hungry.
And if it is us tonight, it's us tonight,
but we're ready to give up our spots
so we can all have a little bit more food in our stomachs.
PROBST: Five of you are sitting out. That is a massive risk.
Maybe the tribe will treat you respectfully
and not vote you out,
or maybe we'll have a big blindside tonight.
Who knows? James, Sami, Jesse, Cassidy, Karla,
you're on the bench.
-Thank you guys. -Thank you, guys. -Thank you.
-Thank you, guys.
PROBST: Everybody else will draw for spots.
We'll get started. Here we go.
Day 16, Survivor 43.
All right, we have our sit-outs.
Leaves us with six people competing for immunity.
Let's begin.
Grab your first pole.
Put your ball on there.
All you have to do for this first section
is to have your hand under the paint.
-So you're either under the white or you're under the black. -Oh.
PROBST: Just make sure I can see a little gap.
Perfect. Everybody's good.
All right. Let's add one section of pole.
You have 30 seconds to pull this off.
This is a live transition, which means
if your ball drops while you're adding another section of pole,
you're still out. There's no freebie.
♪ ♪
All you have to do now is move your hand under the new coupler,
the lowest coupler.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
Everybody looks good.
All you have to do is keep your ball on your pole.
That's it.
Every five minutes, we'll add another section of pole.
The more pole, the more difficult.
♪ ♪
All right, we're gonna add another section.
Now you're gonna feel the difficulty kick in.
This part was probably pretty easy.
So long as I can see that coupler
and no part of your hand is above it,
you're in good shape.
Start working your way there.
Ryan's good. Gabler's good.
Jeanine can't make the transition.
And Noelle, right on the heels of Jeanine.
Both women are out.
Cody, Ryan, Gabler and Owen all survive the transition.
-Good try. -Good job. Good job.
PROBST: Wow. Just like that.
Four players left.
All right, we're gonna get ready to add another section.
You have 30 seconds.
Remember, you can't put your hand above where it is now.
You can't really look down.
For fear of taking your eyes off the prize.
So you've got to figure out
how to maneuver that pole into its slot.
15 seconds.
Gabler's pole with a lot of bend,
but that ball still sitting okay.
-Damn. -PROBST: Nope. It won't hold.
Gabler's out. We're down to three.
Five, four,
three, two, one...
You are all good.
Gabler will now join the others on the bench.
No shot at getting that necklace back.
We'll go five minutes in this round.
All right, we're gonna get ready
to add another section.
So start making your move.
So these 30 seconds are yours to use strategically.
Go early, or wait and hope somebody drops and go late.
15 seconds left.
Ryan has made the transition.
Cody.
Seven seconds left.
Owen's got to get his hand down under there.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
Everybody's done it again.
Cody took every single second, wisely.
It is Cody, Ryan and Owen
now with a lot of pole.
My toes are asleep.
My left foot is on fire.
No!
PROBST: Ryan drops.
Thought he had a strategy using his forehead,
but it resulted in that pole
bending a little too much, and we're down to a showdown now.
It will either be Cody
or Owen who wears the immunity necklace.
Keep doing what you're doing.
I know you're getting tired.
I know you're on fire.
It's hot out here.
Your hands might be getting numb.
Your body's stiff. You're afraid to move.
All of those things are part of the design of this challenge.
You have to overcome it right now.
If your leg goes to sleep, rely on the other one.
♪ ♪
All right, get ready to add another section of pole.
Think through this.
And your time starts now.
You have 30 seconds to add another piece of pole.
You just need to make this transition successfully
to stay alive.
Cody goes first.
Owen reaches for his section of pole.
Owen locks in.
-GABLER: Oh, my... -Careful.
PROBST: Cody drops, can't make the transition.
-Owen wins individual immunity. -Let's go! Oh, my God.
-PROBST: Safe tonight at Tribal Council. -GABLER: Amazing.
-OWEN: Oh, my God. -PROBST: Guaranteed a spot in the final ten.
-Great effort from both Cody and Owen. -GABLER: Both you guys. Amazing.
PROBST: Nice job up there.
GABLER: Cowboy Cody and Big O, good job.
-PROBST: Wow, that went a long time. -OTHERS: Good job.
Great job, guys.
Owen, come on over.
[exhales] Yes, sir.
-[Sami whoops] -[chuckles] -PROBST: Well-earned.
-Thank you. Thank you. -[applause]
-Holding that a long time. -SAMI: Yes, sir.
Oh, my God. Is this real life?
PROBST: "Is this real life?" What does that mean?
Walk me through that, because I hear that
-so often in this moment. -OWEN: Yeah.
I mean, you're a little kid,
and you-you watch Colby,
you watch Terry Deitz, you watch Kelly Wiglesworth.
You watch everyone winning all these necklaces.
-You're going old school. -Old school, baby.
That was me, nine years old, watching this show,
and I want to do that one day.
-And you're showing you can. -And I'm not... I can.
I'm not the biggest, I'm not the strongest,
but I-I just did that.
It's insane.
All right, Owen, safe tonight at Tribal Council,
cannot be voted out of this game.
As for the rest of you, somebody going home tonight--
eighth person voted out, first member of our jury.
Grab your stuff, head back to camp. See you tonight at Tribal.
-Congrats. -Can I give you a hug, man?
-Yeah, of course. Congrats. -Oh, my God. Thank you.
-Enjoy that necklace. -Thank you, Jeff.
-Oh, my God. -GABLER: Animal.
Owen won immunity, which puts me, Noelle
and Jeanine in the hot seat.
I think the majority alliance smell blood.
I'm trying to find safe harbor,
because as long as my name doesn't hit parchment,
I'm moving forward.
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
Yeah, baby.
Good job, Ryan.
GABLER: Yeah, Ryan. Great job, Owen.
-Nice work, buddy. -Thank you.
Winning today is just
such a huge sigh of relief. I've voted incorrectly
the past two Tribal Councils.
And whether or not
the seven versus four is the reality out here,
it's safe to say I'm towards the bottom.
SAMI: We're gonna eat, right?
-Yeah. -GABLER: A cup of rice for everybody.
-Let's get a good meal. -NOELLE: Do the same cup, and then, like...
OWEN: At the immunity challenge,
Jeff was asking for five to sit out,
and James turns and looks at me, and he says,
"You're protected." Like, spare me that crap.
I thought that was pretty patronizing.
So that gave me a little extra fire to-to win today.
But I know this is temporary.
I don't want to get too cocky.
I need to get my footing,
get a majority and find myself
on the right side of the numbers.
I'm gonna go fish in about 30 minutes to an hour.
I just need to talk to you guys and get everything situated,
-so I'm not... Yeah. -GABLER: Before you go out.
JAMES: So, just... -That's why she didn't sit out.
-If she had something, she would have sat out. -GABLER: Yeah.
RYAN: Owen won the immunity challenge.
Great for him, and horrible for Jeanine.
Now that she doesn't have her immunity idol,
Jeanine's gonna go home.
Yeah.
-Yeah, let's do it. -Yeah. I'm down.
So, uh...
-So we're all good. -KARLA: Okay.
RYAN: Jeanine's the vote tonight because
she's definitely a smart mind, a puzzle threat
and also a threat to slide under the radar.
Right now, it's fine.
We'll get Jeanine out, 'cause she's not part of anything,
-and she's really smart. -If we can...
-And I-I agree. -So... Awesome.
-Well, then I'll keep a pulse over here -And I...
-while you're out there. -Yeah.
Just let me know if you hear anything.
If anything changes.
I want an unanimous vote.
I just went and double-checked it with everybody.
Took about ten, 15 minutes.
Now I can go out into the water for two and a half hours,
because part of me really wants to show them that
rice is nice, but fish is a little bit better.
CODY: I think Jeanine, just because she is such
a free agent, she's gonna align with somebody,
and it's gonna bite us in the ass.
And everybody said they'd like to keep the seven strong.
We made the bed. We just got to sleep in it one night.
Last Tribal was really crazy.
People were running around the beach
like Jean-Claude Van Damme.
We can simplify this game to an extent.
Like, there can be some simple votes.
But right now, we're cruising.
You know, this alliance with seven,
I believe we're running the game right now.
We have full control. We're steering the boat.
I just want it to look sick as hell.
Yeah, it's got to be sick as hell.
Yeah, we are definitely outdoing ourselves.
That is a work of art.
"Proposterous. Live 2 Get Radical."
Who wouldn't want to hang out with us?
[laughs]
SAMI: This group of seven, we're already talking about,
"Let's not mess up a good thing.
-We already did this." -Oh, it's beautiful.
SAMI: But I want to screw up this entire operation
to try to make a move and try to kind of break away
and make this game my own.
It's gonna be... It's supposed to be you. Ryan wants you.
It's not gonna be you tonight.
We got to get more people, because then we turn it.
-They're down on numbers. -Uh-huh.
SAMI: We're good.
I'm telling you...
You also have to be careful,
because you got to move more in silence
to make these bigger-scale moves. But I think
getting out Ryan would make the damage control,
with that group that I just ditched, a lot easier.
He's not really making tight bonds
with anybody, except for the fish.
Ryan loves the fish, and the fish love Ryan.
How do you feel about that?
I need to ask you a serious question.
Okay.
What would you think if we flipped it on to Ryan?
Because I know that that's-that's in that seven,
and I don't want to make it seem like
-I'm trying to break off that already, right? -Mm-hmm.
You know, at this point, it's an individual game.
Ryan is a big threat.
Even though he's Coco, that doesn't matter to me, you know?
You're serious about that, right?
KARLA: I'm excited about possibly blindsiding Ryan
because it's a great move,
it's a big move. We get a guy out, we get a strong guy out,
but that might be questionable for some of the people
in my alliance, in the seven.
We need to get Ryan out.
-I know you are. -I'm-I'm rocking out whatever you want to do.
KARLA: I love the kid, but he doesn't...
Where's he at right now? He's fishing.
He's been gone for a few hours, bro. Like, strategize,
right? Like, we finally have rice.
I don't care about your fish.
Aah! Freaking spines.
They're in my pockets.
[groans]
-I'm with you. Yes. -I'm with you. I'm with you, too.
All right.
-All right, sounds good. -Jesse!
Would we be down to go with Ryan?
I-I mean, I'd be down.
I'd be down, bro. I mean, he's...
I don't think Cass likes him very much.
Like, I feel like we could do damage.
-Yeah. -And I know Ryan has it out for me.
I mean, I don't want you to go.
-Yeah. -So for my game, I would say Ryan goes.
-I-I've wanted to get Ryan out for a long time. -Yeah.
-Well, he's been out to get you for a long time. -Yes.
JEANINE: I know that I'm on the chopping block,
but I'm not willing to bargain.
I'm not willing to succumb to the majority.
Okay. Yeah. Done.
Hopefully he can catch some nice, beautiful fish.
-Before he goes? -JAMES: Yes.
JEANINE: I need to secure some sort of shift in the game.
There are enough people here and enough voices that we could
work together and we'll all just vote Ryan out.
If it's Jeanine, you can tell me, and I won't say anymore.
-JAMES: We're voting Ryan, and it is what it is. -Okay. Cool.
-Just got to, you know... -OWEN: Yeah.
JAMES: This is a great time.
OWEN: It seems like everyone's on board.
So, were you still thinking Ryan?
SAMI: I think that could work.
I think it could be pulled off.
CODY: To me, this is a very obvious one.
JAMES: But right now, it's like, you take the numbers,
you use the numbers that you have.
The only question, does Jeanine have anything up her sleeve?
I'm just saying we made a plan.
-JAMES: Let's stick to it. -I think she's scary. I really think she's scary.
I agree with Cody.
So the more I think about the vote,
the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know.
And the thing about sacrificing Ryan tonight,
Ryan's a vote with me, as of right now,
and he has trusted me, as of right now.
I don't know.
I want to make everybody in our seven feel comfortable.
She's not a big threat.
I just feel like that's a vote we could always do later.
I think we need to get out more immediate threats right now.
Who are you wanting? You want to take these, like, big...
-Just because you want them to be, like, competitors? -I don't.
I just don't...
Does it not frustrate you to see the girls picked off one by one?
Mm-hmm.
There are people here that are strong, yes, but also athletic.
-Like... -But J-Jeanine may be athletic.
Just never mind. It doesn't, it doesn't matter.
-I feel like this conversation isn't getting anywhere. -JAMES: No, it's cool.
CASSIDY: I want to get my revenge on Ryan.
He's burned me in the past and tried to vote for me,
so he's proven that I can't fully trust him. He also
is a threat in challenges.
21!
CODY: All right, dude.
Wow.
CASSIDY: And voting out a guy right now
would allow the women to gain a little bit of momentum
and have a little bit stronger of numbers going forward.
I'm tired of seeing women go home.
I know that's nobody's intention,
but it's frustrating to me.
We need to ... take control of this.
I know.
CASSIDY: It seems like Ryan and Jeanine,
everyone could agree on one or the other,
but I don't think Ryan would have my back
more than Jeanine.
I am truly a ship looking for safe harbor.
I just want to know what's going on with the majority,
-so that I write the right stuff. -We-we still don't know, even.
CASSIDY: Everyone seems scared
of being on the wrong side of the votes.
If there's, like, a unanimous decision on
one or the other, it's like, maybe we should just go with it
instead of trying to rock the boat.
They told me Ryan, too.
Is this actually... Is...
I don't know, Jeanine.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I might actually have to trust James.
CASSIDY: But I'm ready to fight for my game,
so sometimes you have to rock the boat.
Like, this is a cutthroat game.
♪ ♪
PROBST: All right, let's start with a big topic.
Every season of Survivor has a unique social contract
that is established,
designed, built and executed by the players.
You all decide, "Okay, here are the rules."
So, Gabler, does this group have a sense
of what the established social contract is?
GABLER: I think so, Jeff.
It's been a relationship game,
and when you step outside of that, especially
if you're starting to get too aggressive with gameplay,
you kind of get cracked into line.
So it has to be subtle.
And with every Tribal Council, we learn a lot more
about those social constructs
and those borders and where they're gonna be crossed.
Karla, do you agree with Gabler's assessment?
I do agree that there is some subtlety,
but at the same time, you can't be subtle the entire time.
You know? Like,
how will people know what moves you're making?
How will the jury know who to vote for?
Ryan, does this line up with the way
you're seeing the gameplay?
I think, this season, we're comfortable enough to say,
"Hey, let's slow down, and we'll get to playing the game."
But right now, a lot of people
are trying to step back and enjoy what's around them
and enjoy the experience they're having.
So, Owen, that begs the question,
are people staying in line because you all
actually share the same philosophy?
Or is the player saying,
"I'm reading the room. I need to just lay low"?
I think, truthfully, it's more of the latter.
I don't think all of us are out swimming for three hours
the way Ryan is, necessarily. -[laughter]
But foolishly, last Tribal Council,
I tried jumping in front of Dwight
from getting run over by the bus.
So now, at this point, I just,
I don't care if I'm in the wayback seat of the bus.
I don't care if I'm sitting anywhere.
Terrible seat, gum under the seat, whatever,
I just want to be on the bus this time.
SAMI: But at the same time, the last two people that went home
had no idea they were going home.
And so, there's a lot of game
being played, a lot of conversations being had.
Everybody that's sitting here is playing this game.
Everybody's just playing it a little bit differently.
Cassidy, do you like the way this game is playing?
CASSIDY: Yeah, I mean, for me,
my gameplay is maybe a little bit more subtle,
but that doesn't mean that I'm not making big moves, you know?
It's just about keeping trust with the people
that I want to work with.
PROBST: How about you, James?
Last Tribal, there were a lot of lines
that may have been drawn,
but each day a new line can be drawn,
and you're trying to make sure
that you're drawing the proper line for you to move forward.
PROBST: Jeanine, James just said it.
The thing that really complicates
these Survivorsocieties is that they're fluid.
So how do you play this game knowing that what was
true yesterday, or even this morning,
may not be true right now, this evening?
JEANINE: Yeah. Like we've all been talking about,
there has been a culture established,
but just as much as it was easy for us to all
kind of opt into that culture, it could change and shift.
And you have to understand when that's happening
and go with the momentum there.
PROBST: Gabler, what do you do
when you talk to two people, and they say, "Plan A,"
and you talk to two more people, and they go,
"No, no, we're doing plan B."
Oh, well, that's... that was my day.
I mean, it's been plan A, plan B,
plan A for sure, back to B.
It's bounced around a little bit.
So, yeah, tonight's gonna be interesting.
I think it's gonna put a little bit more
into focus for tomorrow.
PROBST: Cody, when you feel comfortable,
does that make you more nervous that you're feeling comfortable?
I get more nervous when I'm comfortable.
And, for example, when we got back today,
I'm thinking, we're starting the rice.
Get the pot on there, let's eat.
And I'm sitting by the firepit,
and I look around, and there's nobody around.
I'm going, "What, do I have to go herd cats out here?"
I thought we were gonna smash some rice
-and then go have our conversations. -[chuckles]
I was trying to talk to people quick, so I can go out and fish.
-So, we... -He caught 22 fish today.
-22 fish. 21 fish today. -21.
21?
That's a lot of fish.
RYAN: I'm still not 100% comfortable.
I felt, you know, I'm gonna try my luck
with the waters, and if I bring back a bounty,
then they'll keep me in the game.
Jeanine, were you comfortable today?
No, I think it's pretty obvious.
There were lines drawn at last Tribal,
and I was not in the majority vote.
and so I'm-I'm definitely not comfortable tonight.
So what did you do today? Ryan went fishing.
JEANINE: For me, it was really just about
trying to connect with as many people as possible
and lean on the relationships that I think I can out here.
But there's never any way
to tell if someone's telling you the truth.
You really just have to trust your gut.
CODY: You know, this game, I learned today, Jeff,
it's a game of centimeters, or even less.
And those same centimeters
don't only carry over into the challenges,
but they also carry into the conversations that we have.
And just misinterpreting one word,
-Wow. -one body posture, can change the whole outcome as well.
So I-I don't know where I'm going with this,
at the end of the day, but it's...
Well, I was tracking every bit of it, and it scares me.
So, Sami, the vibe of the tribe is pretty clear.
The group is saying, "Listen,
"we have agreed to play a certain way.
"Make your moves quietly. Be respectful of time.
He wants to fish, let him do it."
And what I would be thinking as a player is,
"What do I do other than just trust?"
SAMI: I feel like we're all talking about trust,
and it's, like, such a fishy word.
Like, it's a whole bunch of nonsense.
It's a crock of crap at this point, you know what I mean?
Like, these rules are being curved.
They're being amended all the time.
And I think it's gonna continue to be that way.
I think that it's gonna be a damn civil war.
The rules are gonna be outright broken all around,
and it's gonna be crazy chaos around here.
All right, it is time to vote.
Cody, you're up.
♪ ♪
You're a wonderful girl.
You need to start embracing yourself
and being the leader I know you can be.
♪ ♪
If anybody has an advantage or an idol
and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.
Okay, I'll read the votes.
First vote, Jeanine.
Ryan.
Jeanine.
We're tied. Two votes Ryan, two votes Jeanine.
Jeanine. That's three votes Jeanine,
two votes Ryan.
Jeanine.
Four votes Jeanine, two votes Ryan.
Jeanine. That's five votes Jeanine.
Eighth person voted out and the first member of our jury,
Jeanine. That's six. That's enough.
You need to bring me your torch.
All love.
-All love. All love. -Bye, Jeanine.
♪ ♪
Jeanine, the tribe has spoken.
Time for you to go.
-See you guys in the real world. -Bye, Jeanine.
Bye, girl.
♪ ♪
Grab your torches, head back to camp.
Good night.
♪ ♪
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If you break trust with James, you go home.
I woke up this morning wanting to make a big move.
There are two immunity necklaces.
Two people going home.
SAMI: I'm ready to change this game up.
We're on the Autobahn to the million dollars.
Dwight leaving with my idol had a major impact on my game,
but I can't look back on any of it and not smile.
I truly do feel like I've learned
more about myself these last 16 days.
And I've challenged myself physically, mentally,
in every possible way.
I can't describe it any more than gratitude
and contentment.
[roars]