If anybody has an advantage or an idol and you want to play it,
now would be the time to do so.
Give me a minute.
So, I'm playing this for Owen.
-PROBST: For Owen. -JESSE: Yep.
♪ ♪
JESSE: So, last night, right before Tribal Council,
Cody hands me the idol back because he trusts me.
And I feel like a terrible person.
But I decided to blindside Coy and I played his idol.
And then Karla thought,
"Oh, my god, something's afoot."
I will play mine.
JESSE: And so she immediately pulls out
-her idol and she plays it. -Okay.
JESSE: Incorrectly. So, the plan went perfectly.
Both idols are out of the game.
But I still have an idol. And Cody goes home.
Cody, the tribe has spoken.
You have made it to the final five,
but this game is far from over. Tonight you will be taken
to a new beach...
-(sputters) -(laughs) -to start over.
-KARLA: Oh, my God. -PROBST: This is the beginning
of the final push to get to the end.
Oh, Jeffrey.
Dig in and hang on.
♪ ♪
(birds chirping)
GABLER: We're in the final stage. We're on day 24.
I don't have that much in the tank but I got to find more
because I think I've got
a strong chance of winning if I can get to final three.
I'm the guy hiding in plain sight. I am the assassin.
One by one, my opponents are falling
and I'm continuing to move forward.
No one is looking at me yet.
But there's no breaks in season 43.
I've got to pull it together.
OWEN: For me, making the final five- it's almost hard to believe.
My game started so poorly.
Like, I've been
blindsided. I've been left out of votes and I've
recovered.
But now I need to be perfect
heading into these last few days in order to
reach the top.
JESSE: All season, I've been playing this sort of subtle game,
and so it was important for me to take out Cody.
And it feels like,
"Man, I just made this crazy move."
Like, almost-- Like, it feels
historic, almost. Now it's like,
my threat level is probably off the charts.
But I do have another idol in my bag.
So, like, I know that I
can punch my ticket to final four and nobody knows it.
(whoops)
CASSIDY: It takes a lot to get to the final five.
I've been on the right side of every single vote.
I can say I made every single move correctly
to get to this spot, and nobody else can say the same thing.
But I wasn't able to make any, like,
really huge, flashy moves, and so
I need to push through to the end
and fight for my case.
-This is the final five of you, right here. -OWEN: Top five, baby.
-Final five. -Five, baby. -(whooping)
You know it.
KARLA: Day 24 Karla is struggling.
I don't have an idol. I'm at the bottom.
Busted ankle,
stitches still in my finger.
Just goes to show that, like, I have the heart of a warrior.
I'm still out here. I'm not giving up.
I'm not gonna go out without a fight.
♪ ♪
CASSIDY: That fight that's in me I think is unmatched.
JESSE: This is a free-for-all. You have to cut anybody
who stands in your way.
OWEN: I'm ready to step up. I'm gonna
have to scrap, claw and fight.
GABLER: I'm gonna flip a Metallica switch,
you know, go into metal mode.
KARLA: People see me as a threat.
Hell yeah, I want to be a threat.
We should have fuel.
We're exploring a new island.
Everybody's got bumps, bruises. We're all depleted.
You know, we worked all season to have built
your own little civilization. And then
to have it all dismantled at the 11th hour-- I mean,
part of me was surprised and part of me's not
because that's the season we're playing.
I don't have that much in the tank, but I got to find more.
When you get deep in Survivor,
it's all about living to the next day.
Whoa!
KARLA: What is "whoa"?
More than mail!
Wh-- Oh, God.
-CASSIDY: Oh, man. -Oh, man.
GABLER: We're going on a runabout.
As soon as we got back to camp,
I find five envelopes
in the tree mail, one with each name on it,
says "clue to secret advantage."
So here we go again.
CASSIDY: This note basically says
in order to get a clue
about where this advantage is hidden,
you have to solve
this word scramble.
Everybody's trying to unscramble faster than the other person,
and I do not want Karla to find this advantage because
the game I need to play to win
includes getting Karla out.
JESSE: Final advantage of the game.
We don't know what it is. It could be,
like, an idol nullifier. It could be
the Challenge Advantage. We have no idea.
All we know is it's an advantage.
And I'm nervous because I don't think anybody wants
to take me to the end.
KARLA: For me, it's really important to try to get this because
I'm at the bottom. I'm injured. Right? I'm gonna
need any advantage possible.
OWEN: Starting to unscramble the words, I am in my zone.
I've been doing my Wordle. I'm feeling good.
So, I am dying to get this advantage
before the biggest threats in the game: Jesse and Karla.
KARLA: I figure out the phrase.
And the note says:
So I start running.
OWEN: Right as I'm figuring out what it is,
Karla takes off,
and she is the last person I want
getting this advantage.
KARLA: Now it's a matter of finding
the advantage, right? And, uh,
that's where I'm a little disadvantaged
because of my busted ankle.
Part of the clue says
"lifeless." The only thing that could be lifeless is a tree.
OWEN: I get most of the words, except I'm stuck on the word "prints."
Like, "footprints in the sand,"
and I realize it's "sprint."
So, once I get that I take off like
a bat out of hell.
I'm limping down the beach because of my busted ankle.
And then, "Pew!" I see Owen just sprint past m.
If he finds it first I'm gonna be so upset because I was able
to unscramble this thing, and I'm like, "Gosh."
Owen is by the rocks.
And I'm like, "Great." I think it's by the beach.
I'm like, "Let me
find a dead tree."
OWEN: I'm desperate. And then I remember
that the clue said "knots"-- K-N-O-T--
"knots," and I realize
I am looking for a tree with a rock at the base.
GABLER: "I stand near the sea with a rock at my surface.
Long since..."
What is that word?
It's killing me.
KARLA: I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking,
but there's nothing in this tree.
There's a knot at my surface.
And then I see Owen running back past me
the opposite way towards another dead tree.
I start investigating trees
right along the ocean line, and I see one.
KARLA: And I'm like, "Let me go check out that dead tree
and maybe I can catch up the him."
OWEN: I start looking by the root where the rock is,
and I'm getting to the knot in the tree,
and Karla just gets right in there.
OWEN: Aah!
I'm furious.
Karla scoots on in there
and yoinks that advantage
when it is two inches from my fingertips.
Aw...
OWEN: I am furious because not only
was I this close to getting the advantage, the only person
that I did not want to find the advantage
yoinked it out from under me.
The latest example of Charlie brown
getting the football yanked out from under him,
and me just kicking that air and falling flat on my back.
Aah!
It sucks.
(chuckles)
I feel like I am
the only one that needs an advantage right now because
of the state that I'm in.
You know, I'm already beat up, I'm beat down,
the only one on the outs.
And, of course, this is what I need.
I was supposed to find this advantage. It's kind of like
I was sent, like, this message from up above
or from my wife,
saying, like, you can't give up.
♪ ♪
Come on in.
Look at that five.
Like warriors
entering the coliseum
for a battle.
All right, shall we get to today's immunity challenge?
-OWEN: Yes, sir. -First things first, Cassidy,
-Wah. -take back the necklace again.
-Thank you. -Yep.
Once again, immunity is
back up the grabs.
Let's get into today's challenge.
Yes. Before you do, though...
-Yes? -KARLA: Today we were
able to duke it out for an advantage,
and, uh, I was able to snag that advantage
this morning for a final five challenge.
Nice job. I'll take it.
-Okay. Thank you. -PROBST: Well done,
Karla, with a bad ankle.
All right, we'll deal with this in a moment.
-First, I'll explain the challenge. -Okay. Cool.
For today's challenge, you're gonna
maneuver a buoy
through a series of obstacles.
You'll then use two handles to transport
puzzle blocks over a hinged balance beam.
Once you have all your blocks,
you will use them to solve a word phrase.
First person to finish wins immunity.
Guaranteed a spot in the final four,
where you can't be voted out.
You will either win your way there,
you'll be taken there, or you will fight for it with fire.
Huge stakes. In addition, you are playing for reward.
-Want to know what you're playing for? -(all assenting)
-It's a protein burst. -GABLER and OWEN: Whoa.
PROBST: The winner of this challenge
will be taken to the sanctuary
where you will enjoy steak,
-(gasping) -Oh... -baked potatoes,
-Oh... my God. -veggies, wine
-and cheesecake. That is -(gasps)
the energy you need for the boost
at the final four challenge.
Big stakes. Losers, Tribal Council,
-Big stakes. -where after 24 days,
somebody will be voted out
of this game, their dream of winning Survivor 43
will fall a little short.
Karla, let's get to your advantage. Today,
you will start with ten of your puzzle blocks--
roughly a third-- already at your finish table.
-Okay. -PROBST: So, depending on
how many you take at once, it can save you
one, two, or even three trips.
It's a decent advantage. The question is
-what will you do with it? -Okay.
We're gonna draw for spots and we'll get started.
Day 24. Here we go!
♪ ♪
PROBST: All right.
Here we go.
For immunity and reward.
Survivors ready?
-Go! -♪ ♪
The first step is you're maneuvering a buoy
through a series of obstacles and that buoy's gonna
have to go wherever the rope goes.
Day 24. Everybody exhausted, but you can feel the energy
knowing that the end is in sight.
That million dollars--
you can almost reach it.
Owen off to a fast start.
Here comes Cassidy, fresh on the heels
of an immunity win, would love it again.
Gabler right behind,
then Karla, bad ankle at all.
Jesse struggling.
The only player yet to win an individual immunity,
and it's not looking promising right now.
Owen continues to tear up this course.
Cassidy right on his heels.
Here comes Karla and Gabler.
Jesse's through the first obstacle!
He's now swimming to catch up.
It's gonna be Owen who gets out first.
Karla's made up more time, but she's kind of knotted up.
Owen gonna be first to the puzzle blocks.
You're good. Start untying the bag.
Karla's here. Start untying the bag.
Here comes Cassidy.
She's gonna start untying her bag.
Jesse's now through, leaving Gabler
in dead last.
Owen whipping through his knot.
Owen has his puzzle blocks.
Dump 'em on the table. Here comes Gabler.
Get 'em all out, Owen. That's it.
Karla has her puzzle blocks. There's Cassidy.
Once you have them untied, start transporting
as many as you can at a time using your two handles.
Karla gonna be first out of the gate.
Karla made fast work.
Karla has the advantage in this challenge.
Got to come back and start again. Here goes Owen.
Getting across this beam is not easy.
You can't use your body, you can't go vertical.
Owen slips, he loses everything. Here goes Karla.
Can she make that move-- the pivot?
Yes.
Karla already has
ten of her blocks at the finish.
Karla... nice job. She is in the lead despite
being injured in the last challenge.
Here comes Jessie, here comes Gabler.
Here comes Owen and Cassidy.
Gabler's across the first obstacle.
Owen now figuring it out.
That pass went very fast. Gabler's good.
There's Owen, there's Cassidy with blocks.
Here comes Jesse.
Everybody now starting to get the rhythm,
but it is Karla still in the lead.
Here comes Owen,
trying to close the gap on Karla.
Owen has really picked up the pace.
Gabler now starting to get it, too.
Cassidy's in it. Karla, with her last blocks.
This is it. Karla can start
working on that puzzle. It is Karla the first.
She now has a time advantage,
which is sometimes all you need at the puzzle phase.
Owen's across. Can he get up the steep steps?
He does. Owen is good.
Here comes Jesse.
You're still in it. It is a word scramble
you got to solve,
so this challenge is not over.
Here comes Cassidy with more blocks.
Here comes Owen with his last blocks.
Owen is there.
Owen can start working on it.
It is now Owen and Karla.
It is a word phrase.
Here comes Gabler with his last blocks.
Gabler can now start working on the word phrase.
There are lots of words that you can form with these letters.
You need to form the right words
in the right order, before everybody else.
Cassidy back with the last of her blocks.
She's in on it. Here comes Jesse with the last of his.
He's in on it. Everybody now working on
the word scramble. This challenge is on.
Final five.
You want a spot at four because they can't take you out.
You will always have a shot
to earn your way to the end
through fire. At the very least,
you will have some control
tonight at Tribal because you are safe.
It gives you a little bit more power in the game.
Lots of different words being formed.
You're looking for the right words.
"What is it? What's the phrase I'm looking for
"that will guarantee me a spot at final four?
"I want to be safe tonight at Tribal.
24 days into this game. I'm not going home tonight."
♪ ♪
Lots of thinking going on right now.
And then, suddenly, it's gonna pop.
Somebody's gonna get one word
and that word's gonna open the entire phrase.
Then it's a race to finish before
somebody else figures it out.
That's how this will end in a hurry.
Karla now making a move.
She thinks she's on to something.
Question is, is she right? Is she on to something?
Owen making a move now.
Karla moving more letters.
Karla feeling good if she's right.
Owen taking a different approach now,
trying a new word.
Sometimes that's what you have to do.
You think you have a word, you're not sure,
-replace it with another word. -KARLA: No.
No.
Like any good
word phrase on Survivor,
there are words
designed to fool you,
words designed to make you really wonder,
"Is it this?
"It could be this.
"But I can't fill out the other blanks.
Something's not right."
When you get it, you will know it.
Owen making more moves again.
-Quickly moving letters. -Let's go, Jeff!
Owen thinks he has it. Say it.
"You cannot hide in a dangerous game."
-And you won't have to. Owen wins -Let's go!
-individual immunity, guaranteed a spot -Oh, my God.
in the final four.
Oh...
PROBST: You cannot
-be voted out of this game anymore. -Oh...
-You will have a shot -(indistinct chatter)
at getting to the end one way or another.
Huge challenge.
-Huge effort by everybody. Big win. -Owen, you...
Oh, my God.
-♪ ♪ -GABLER: Great win, amigo.
Wow.
-Owen, come on over. -Yes, sir.
-Well done again. -Thank you, thank you.
-You know what this feels like. -Oh, feels good, Jeff.
-PROBST: You are safe, cannot be voted out. -OWEN: Thank you.
PROBST: Guaranteed a spot in four.
-In addition, you've earned reward. -Oh.
-Oh, God. Okay. -So you have steak, baked potato.
You're gonna choose one person.
-Oh. -They're gonna go with you to the sanctuary.
Who are you gonna bring with you? And in doing so,
who are you gonna leave behind?
I got to take Cassidy.
-I'm sorry. -PROBST: Cassidy, come on over.
-Tears start. -Thank you so much.
Three of you going back to camp. Tribal Council tonight,
where, sadly, one of the four of you-- Cassidy, Karla,
Jesse, Gabler-- your dream of winning this game will end.
You two, head out. Boat'll pick you up.
Enjoy your afternoon at the sanctuary.
-Congrats. -Thanks, Jeff.
-Nice work. -OWEN: Thanks, y'all.
-Great job, everyone. -PROBST: Head straight down
-to the water. -Okay.
All right, Karla, Jesse, Gabler, got nothing for you.
Grab your stuff up. Head back to camp. See you tonight at Tribal.
Thanks, Jeff.
OWEN: After watching Karla
snatch the advantage from my fingertips,
I was feeling defeated.
But after winning, it reminds me of my home,
New Orleans, and the never-say-die attitud.
And I'm back on top. It feels amazing.
♪ ♪
-(Owen laughs) -Wow.
-Oh, my God. I see bread. -Oh, my gosh!
-CASSIDY: I finally get to experience the sanctuary. -(laughs)
OWEN: Oh, my gosh. Jeff has outdone himself this time.
(laughing): My God. Look at that.
-The mushrooms. -Oh, my gosh.
-Wait. Oh, my God. Is this is real? -Oh.
OWEN: This is real.
Sitting at the table with my dear friend Cassidy
with the immunity necklace around my neck,
a glass of wine and a big juicy steak,
I feel like a king.
-Okay. -Cheers to you and your win. I'm so proud of you.
Cheers. Thank you. Just like you yesterday.
It feels
amazing to win my third immunity necklace.
CASSIDY: I'm gonna be so sick after this.
I don't care.
OWEN: And now this reward is about putting myself
in a position to win this game.
(laughs) Me too.
CASSIDY: Is that what we're thinking tonight or are you thinking that
Jesse's kind of emerging as a bigger threat?
-It's hard to say. -I know.
OWEN: Karla and Jesse-- they are absolutely threats.
Karla has proven to be a very astute player.
She is a wizard with puzzles, she is tough as nails,
and she is smart, and she can talk.
So if she makes it to the final three, she could win.
But on the other hand, Jesse is dangerous. Jesse
was the mastermind behind the biggest move of the season.
He's gonna get all the credit in the eyes of the jury.
And I think if I'm sitting at the final three
with Jesse, I lose.
I feel like Jesse's the favorite,
right, after last night?
-Yeah. -I think for a modern
Survivor jury, they want to see the moves.
-And, like, after last night, he's so threatening. -Yup.
CASSIDY: I feel like Owen is leaning towards Jesse,
but my focus is Karla.
You know, she was trying to come for me the other vote,
and I don't trust her at all.
So, I would like to see Karla go tonight.
The problem with me is I feel like
-I have driven a lot of the votes, but... -Mm-hmm.
...since I've done it
-with Karla... Yeah. -With so many people? Yeah.
-She gets more of the credit. -Mm-hmm.
And for some reason-- I don't know why-- I mean,
maybe it's her personality
that makes people take her more seriously.
-So would your preference be Karla? -Yeah.
'Cause I don't want to sit at the end next to her
and have to, like, differentiate my game from her.
-Me, you and Gabler all have pretty different games. -Mm-hmm.
I don't really think Gabler has too much of a shot right now.
I don't-I don't think so, either. I love the guy, but...
-But... -I don't think people would take him seriously as a...
Yeah. So I think I need that move.
I think you need it, and I think she's more threatening
than Jesse in terms of challenges and fire.
Yup. So are we feeling, like, Karla tonight?
-That's how I feel. Do you... -Yeah.
-You feel that way, too? -Yeah, I think so.
Everybody who's come after me and written my name down,
I've managed to blindside and get out of the game.
And with Karla, I think it would be a good move
for me to get her out before she tries to get me out.
-All right. -All right.
(chopping)
(chopping continues)
All right, this will be my steak and potato
and eggplant right here.
I am crushed, actually.
I was hoping that, uh,
Owen would pick me today because
I just have so little in the tank,
and it's such an important time in the game.
And I feel like, you know, mentally, I'm breaking down.
Gosh, we've been absolutely starving out here.
I don't think you can underestimate
how important it is to have nourishment
at the eleventh hour.
Just got to pull it together a little bit longer.
And I'm just hopeful that...
I can hold it together another couple days.
It's gonna be between me and you.
-Yeah. -That's-that's the hard part.
I don't know what the hell to do.
Cass. It... We have to flip it on Cass.
That's literally the only way.
Is Owen gonna go for that, though?
No, we have to get Gabler.
JESSE: I have Jeanine's idol, and nobody knows it,
so I'm gonna play it tonight for myself so I'm safe.
But right now,
I'm just nervous. I'm nervous about,
you know, the path forward.
-He's voted with you, right? -He has.
The winner of the final immunity challenge--
they get to choose who they sit with in the final three,
and the other two have to have a fire-making challenge.
Me and Karla are being perceived as, like,
the top threats in this game.
So, if Karla gets taken out
and I make it final four and I don't win immunity,
they would want me to make fire, and
I don't want to go out in fire.
Like, I don't want to go out. I want to make it to the end.
I'm more scared about tonight than last night.
You don't say.
I am pitching Cassidy to Jesse,
but in reality, I want to put a target
on Jesse's back because he just made
what I think to be the biggest move of this season.
So I want to paint that target on him
so that there is no target on me.
So, what's going down?
-So... -JESSE: I mean, I'm gonna be straight.
-Like... -GABLER: Tell me.
So, I think if we want to improve our odds
of making it to final four,
we take out Cass.
GABLER: Just got to figure out
what's gonna be best for my game.
And who's most likely to win a challenge?
Not me, at this point.
-Cass and Owen are winning. -I know.
And they just got refueled.
They want to vote for Cassidy, but,
right now, I think I want to be sitting next
to Cassidy and Owen at the final three.
I think I've got a better story to tell
than either of those two.
-Absolutely. -Hey. Oh! -Oh!
GABLER: So my goal is to
take out Karla and Jesse.
If that happens, then I think
I've got a really good shot at the million dollars.
I think that's the smartest way to go.
I think that's the only way to go.
He does have a perfect record,
and he hasn't been voted against.
And, uh, he's been on the right side, I think,
-of every vote post-merge. -Yeah.
KARLA: Right now, I need to have one-on-one times with Owen
and Cassidy and, uh, Gabler to show them
how big of a threat Jesse is.
And if they don't see it,
they're dumb as hell.
-No one's ever voted for him. -Okay.
-He just stole Cody's idol and flushed two idols. -Mm-hmm.
-Um... -That was a historic move.
-He had... -And that was all his idea.
I already have considered possibly voting for Jesse.
I'm not stupid.
I fully acknowledge Jesse is a huge threat in his own right.
But Karla... (whistles) She can talk.
-You make some good points, Karla. -Yeah.
OWEN: And she is putting forth
a very solid argument
that Jesse needs to go.
And she's not wrong.
I mean, if he makes it to the end, he wins.
Yes.
OWEN: Decisions like this are critical
at this stage of the game because
this vote sets the table for the final immunity challenge
and the final Tribal Council, and I didn't come all this way,
I didn't come back from being left out of those early votes
just to be a zero-vote finalist.
So I need to think long and hard about what's best for my game.
Where do you think you stand in a
Gabler, Owen, Jesse, you?
I think that I have a pretty good shot
-of getting to the final three with them. -Okay.
But you have Jesse,
who just played the most massive move in all of the season.
-Do you not see that? And then, but then... -I do.
But he's not gonna say, "Thank you, Cassidy,
"thank you, Gabler, thank you, Owen,
for helping me make this move."
-I'm not an idiot, Karla. -Okay, well, that's what I...
-You don't need to look out for me. -Yeah? I mean...
You don't need to, like, make me aware of these things.
-I understand the game. -Okay. So, then, I'm...
I'm trying to figure out how
you're gonna use that to your advantage.
CASSIDY: Karla was definitely trying
to stir up a lot of chaos, 'cause at first,
she starts trying to kind of pitch Jesse
and how he played a way better game than me.
And when she starts realizing
that's not really gonna work, she starts trying all
these different tactics, like, basically throwing anything
at the wall to see what will stick.
Any of the Coco votes, anything pre-merge,
I don't know if you will be able to use as gameplay
because it was all me and James.
So if you go home tonight, that's what you're gonna
-go tell the jury? That it was all... -Of course.
-Because I'll be on the jury. -Yeah.
And my vote is not gonna go to you.
Karla tried to pull this, lik, whole scare tactic on me
where she's gonna come after me
and smear my name to the jury, and I...
You know, I just kind of lost a lot of respect for her
for pulling that move on me
when we've played so long together.
I think she's upset that I maybe have gotten the better of her
and that I've formed
better social relationships and outwitted her
to the point where I'm gonna be the one in the final four
and potentially not her.
And so I'm worried about what she might do tonight.
She's literally been throwing your name out all day...
I'm frustrated that Karla is trying to paint a target on me
because, like, the plan was to vote for Cass.
I mean, she's pretty convinced that she's going home.
She said, it's either me or her, so...
I think either you or me.
I'm getting definitely a little nervous now.
I know I shouldn't,
but you just never know in this game.
JESSE: In my heart, I feel like,
you know, I could go with the majority and vote Karla,
but at the same time,
my head is telling me to vote out Cassidy.
She could easily win final immunity.
So the best strategic move for me is to take her out.
I don't think so. I don't think so.
I'm at a dilemma here because, like, aah!
This is it. Like, there's only one more challenge,
and then there's the final for fire-making challenge.
So, I'm really sort of weighing out my options here.
I have this idol that nobody really knows about
and I'm just trying to figure out what I can do
at Tribal Council with this idol.
I'm gonna use it. I just got to figure out how to use it.
♪ ♪
All right. Final five.
Last time you can vote somebody out of this game, Jesse.
You survive tonight, your fate is in your hands.
You either win at final four, somebody takes you
to the final three, or you get to make fire.
How does that shift the level of threat management
that has to happen
if you think you're the one that everybody's worried about?
Uh, you just start trying to play up
everybody else's threat level.
You start trying to push them in front of the bus.
I had, uh, you know, someone earlier today try and push me
in front of the bus and play at my threat level and...
You looked directly at Karla.
Yeah, Karla has, uh,
been throwing punches today, so... (laughs)
KARLA: Well, last Tribal, someone
stole someone's idol and then washed another idol
and then managed to save someone, right?
And I was like, "Dang."
That is one of the best moves I've ever seen on Survivor.
We're talking about Jesse.
And we're talking exactly about Jessie.
And, you know, the jury sees
the one person who takes the idol and says
who they're playing it for.
That is the memory that's engraved
in the jury's mind of who made that move.
PROBST: So you're saying, "Jesse made a big move.
That's why it should be Jesse that we take out"?
Exactly.
PROBST: So, Jesse, from your standpoint,
when you hear that happening, what do you do?
I feel good tonight. Like, I feel good.
I mean, Owen's safe, and I know I'm safe
because I've been hanging onto this little thing
since Dwight went home.
And, uh, so...
♪ ♪
I-I'm punching my ticket to the final four tonight,
-so either way... -(Owen laughs)
I mean, I'm good. You know, I'm good. I'm fine.
Cassidy, your jaw was open
-for that entire time. -CASSIDY: Yeah.
I think that was Jeanine's idol, maybe, in his pocket.
So I guess Dwight pulled a switcheroo
and maybe gave Jeanine's idol to him.
It looks pretty familiar to me. I mean,
that looks like the bead that Jeanine got off
my bag back at Baka way back.
So, I-I was also under the impression that it went home
with Dwight, so, um,
my jaw dropped just like everyone else's.
PROBST: Karla, does it make you nervous now that
Jesse has dangled what he says is an idol?
Owen says, "I recognize a bead," so that might be an indicator.
KARLA: Yeah, I mean, it's...
It was a flex. He has an idol, if it's real.
So, at this point, if anyone wants
to make any other move, I mean,
there are two other options.
PROBST: Cassidy, she's basically talking
-you or Gabler. -Yeah. No, of course.
I could see her kind of driving any pitch at this point.
That's how good of a player she is,
you know, and-and that's the reason that
she's being targeted tonight, as much as she's trying to downplay
-her threat level. -KARLA: I don't know. Like, honestly,
maybe it's because I'm being honest.
Maybe it's because they're like, "Let's just
get her to shut up and send her to the jury."
But they think I'm a threat?
I mean, you have threats in front of you.
If people want to make bigger moves-- and I don't know if
you want to entertain doing an even bigger move--
I mean, the floor is open, right?
-Let's do it. -JESSE: Yeah, I mean, so,
I've been thinking about this all day, you know?
I definitely will entertain more ideas
if you have 'em, so...
Would you like to dance, sir?
-We can dance. -Let's dance.
♪ ♪
Um...
-Jesse, can we talk to you? -Yeah. -The two of you?
-JESSE: Come over here? -GABLER: Yeah.
-Just the two of us. -Okay, cool.
PROBST: So, Owen, how you feeling
-right now? -Freaking the heck out.
-Like, just thinking about... -For real?
Yeah, for real. I mean, we have...
This has been a very subtle season,
and to have it finally boil over like this is just...
it's wild.
This is a lot, Jeff.
-Okay. -PROBST: Wow. And just like that,
everybody sat back down together.
-How are you feeling, Cassidy? -I mean, I'm definitely
more nervous than when I started the night.
You know, Karla's been trying to talk up like
she's less of a threat than me and... and yada, yada, yada.
She's been pretty much saying that
about everybody and everything, and...
But, you know, I think me and Jesse also have
a really good relationship,
and we've worked together on many votes,
and including this last vote.
And so, you know, I mean, I hope that
that holds some sway to him.
PROBST: Gabler, how about you?
You know, the-the turmoil
and the chaos that's been going on all day today?
Everyone has been vehemently targeted
with a great plan, and then, like,
literally, when you turn away, somebody else walks up.
There's another one, and it's-it's for the next person,
the next person. It's anybody.
♪ ♪
And on that note, it is time to vote. Gabler,
-you're up. -Gotcha.
♪ ♪
I liked you in this game,
but I would like you better on my résumé.
♪ ♪
If anybody has an advantage or an idol
and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.
I don't think I need it,
um, but my good friend Cody
taught me to always take the guarantee.
-So I'm playing the idol on myself. -Got it.
(laughter)
This is a hidden immunity idol.
Any votes cast for Jesse will not count.
All right, I'll read the votes.
First vote: Jesse.
Does not count.
Karla. One vote Karla.
-Karla. That's two votes Karla. -Oh, yes.
Fourteenth person voted out of Survivor 43: Karla.
That's three. That's enough.
And that's how you play a game, you guys.
You're a rock star. You're a rock star.
-Good game, Karla. -Thank you.
That was amazing, man.
(laughs)
Oh, man!
This feels so good, Jeff.
-Karla? -Yes.
The tribe has spoken.
-Good luck, y'all. -GABLER: Have a great night.
-KARLA: I love y'all. -Bye, Karla.
Well, you have made it to the final four.
Tomorrow, you will compete in your final immunity challenge.
Try to get some sleep.
Grab your torches. Head back to camp. Good night.
Good night, Jeff.
I think I played a kick-ass game
and to hear people think
that I was a great threat, a great player,
that is the highest honor, I think, in this game.
There's no other way I would have wanted to go.
If you think you have what it takes to live in a jungle,
compete in challenges
and vote each other out, apply to be on Survivor.
♪ ♪
Come on in.
-Welcome to day 25... -(whoops)
and your final immunity channel.
All right. Shall we get to your final
immunity challenge?
-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir. -Yes.
One more time. Owen, got to take back
-the necklace. -All right.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Once again, and for the last time,
immunity is back up for grabs.
For today's challenge, you're gonna use a long fork
to maneuver a bowl through a channel.
When you get to the top,
you'll place your bowl, head back for the next one.
What makes it tricky is the entire structure
sits on a spring, which means if you hit the structure
too hard, it will wobble, your bowls will drop,
you got to start again.
First person to stack 15 bowls...
...wins immunity,
guaranteed a spot in the final three,
where you will get a chance to plead
your case to your jury about why you deserve the title
of Sole Survivor and the million dollars.
In addition, and equally important,
you decide who sits next to you and who you force to make fire,
and that may not be the same decision for everybody.
All right, a lot of power, the kind of power
that could be worth a million dollars,
but first you got to win. We're gonna draw for spots.
We'll get started.
Here we go. The last time drawing for spots.
All right, here we go.
Biggest challenge of Survivor 43 is right here.
Win this, you are in the final three.
Survivors ready?
Go.
This is it. Final challenge is on.
You have 15 bowls you have to stack.
You just can't hit that structure very hard.
Especially when your stack gets higher.
And it should be easy at first.
Jesse dropped. He's got to go back.
Owen drops. He's got to go back.
Cassidy getting her first one through with no problem.
Cassidy gets her first bowl.
There's a learning curve to this.
Gabler places his first.
Gotcha.
PROBST: Owen places his first.
Jesse taking his time. Jesse the only player in the game
who has not won individual immunity.
Cassidy working with her second.
She's got two. Owen has one.
Jesse working on his first.
Gabler has one.
There are 15 total.
Right now, it's early.
There's a decent breeze today, which is going to come into play
when your stack gets higher.
It's going to wobble.
♪ ♪
Right now, it is Gabler, Cassidy and Owen all very close.
Jesse's a little bit behind.
Day 25, season 43, you want to get to the end--
the final three-- this is it right here.
Gabler up top.
It is Gabler at 11, Cassidy at ten,
Owen at ten, Jesse working on his eighth.
This is where it gets tricky.
Can you withstand the wind?
That is what this is gonna come down to.
Here comes the wind. A big gust.
Cassidy taking a lot of time,
wanting to make sure it is centered.
Cassidy has 11.
Owen placing his eleventh. He's in it.
We got a challenge right now. Lot of people in it.
Gabler with a one-bowl lead. He's at 12.
Cassidy and Owen are at 11.
Here comes another gust of wind.
That stack is moving.
-Damn! -PROBST: Gabler-- he loses most of his stack.
Get out of there. Get 'em all back.
Gabler's got to get everything back.
He's now down to three.
-Oh, boy. -It is now Cassidy in the lead.
If she can get this to stick, it'll be number 12.
Owen with his 12th.
They both have it at the same time.
Three bowls left for Cassidy and Owen.
Jesse with nine. It would be Owen's
fourth individual immunity win.
It would be Cassidy's third.
That's what you needed is a break.
And the break came when Gabler dropped.
That wind played a part.
And the stack was not straight. We are tied at 12.
Cassidy and Owen both working on their 13th.
You can see how high it is. You've got to reach now.
Owen has his 13th! He's in the lead.
Cassidy has 13, right behind him.
Here we go. Two bowls left.
It is Cassidy and Owen
for a guaranteed spot in the final three.
Owen drops! He's got to go back.
That opens the door for Cassidy. It is now Cassidy in the lead.
Not by a lot, just a few seconds.
Cassidy halfway up the channel.
Owen right on her tail.
Cassidy has a time advantage, but it's very difficult.
The wind is moving her stack right now.
As she places her 14th.
♪ ♪
Cassidy is down to one bowl left.
Here goes Owen, trying to stay in this.
Owen drops and loses everything!
This is it right here for the win.
Cassidy has a lot of time.
The only thing that can hurt Cassidy right now
is either Cassidy or a big gust of wind.
PROBST: This is when you want to be as steady as possible,
which is very tough.
25 days into Survivor, and here comes the wind...
...moving that stack.
Owen taking his time. Slowed down.
He knows it could be over right here.
Cassidy placing her 15th and final bowl.
She's got to get it to stick and get back to her platform.
That is going to do it.
Cassidy wins individual immunity!
Her third of the season!
And guaranteed a spot in the final three.
And it lasted just long enough
before the wind toppled it.
-A huge win on day 25. -Good job.
PROBST: Cassidy will be in the final three.
Cassidy will have a lot of power,
deciding who sits next to her and who she forces to make fire.
Wow. What an effort.
♪ ♪
(groans)
All right, Cassidy, come on over.
-(laughs) -Once again, for the third time,
-individual immunity is yours. -I can't believe it.
PROBST: This one is as big as it gets.
You have done what you dream about,
which is put yourself in a position
where you can plead your case to the jury,
-and you have enormous power. -Yeah.
-What is the fear? -Yeah, I mean,
it's beyond description.
Um, for me, like, I looked up to so many amazing women
that played this game, and now I'm just thinking, like,
I might be that person who's inspiring
other little girls to come out and live out their dream.
And, like, you can be a badass.
You can... you can do it, and I...
I mean, this could be a million-dollar necklace for me.
I'm just really grateful to have the power that I do tonight.
PROBST: Now you have two big decisions.
Who do you put next to you--
which is probably somebody you believe you can beat--
and who do you force to make fire, which, in theory,
would be somebody you're uncertain if you can beat.
One thing we know for sure-- you're not gonna be voted out.
You want to be at the final three.
-You're in the final three. Congratulations. -Hell yeah.
-CASSIDY: Thank you so much. -Great job, Cass.
As for the rest of you, busy afternoon.
I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of politicking going on.
I'll give you time to get to it.
Grab your stuff. Head back to camp.
-Thank you. -See you tonight at Tribal Council.
CASSIDY: This was the biggest win of the season for me.
It comes with a really heavy decision.
You have to consider,
who do I want to have to make fire?
CASSIDY: And Jesse, just based on his performances
at the last two Tribal Councils, I really
don't feel comfortable sitting next to Jesse right now.
So my big question is who do I think has a better shot
of beating Jesse in this fire-making challenge?
♪ ♪
I won the final immunity challenge! Oh, my God.
I knew how crucial this win was for me.
I mean, being able
to have this power in the game
and not leave my fate to one
of my fellow tribemates right now...
-So close. -I know.
That also gives me the power to make a decision tonight
about who I want to see face off in fire.
And so, I mean, this win could not have come at a better time.
Oh. Oh, God.
-GABLER: Nice work. -CASSIDY: Oh.
-Nice. Hi. -Nice work. -Nice work. What's that?
-Oh, that's our... -Practice. -Wow.
OWEN: I spent the whole walk back from the challenge
thinking about what's best for my game,
and it was conflicting, 'cause what would be best
for my chances of winning would be
to go head-to-head against Jesse.
I think, to the jury, Jesse is the top dog.
He is the biggest threat to win,
and he will be making a fire tonight.
So if I were to go to fire and win,
that would be my best chance
of getting votes at final Tribal.
But losing today in such close fashion--
it's just defeating to get knocked down once again.
You know, you take enough hits in a day or in 25 days.
Like, you reach a point where you're just tired.
And part of me almost just said, "I'm ready to give up."
But that's not what I want
to take away from this game, and that's not...
that's not what all this has been about.
One of life's great lessons is
what do you do when you fall down?
You get back up. And today,
I fell.
And I kind of laid there
for a while, and...
...that's not... that's not me.
That's really not me.
That's not who I am as a person. I'm not a quitter.
I'm gonna give Cassidy a crack,
see if I can get myself into fire
and take out Jesse in the fire-making challenge.
I firmly believe that
-if you put me in against Jesse... -Mm-hmm.
-I win. -Yeah.
Like, I genuinely believe that.
So you just need to figure out if you think Gabler
or I has a better chance of...
Yeah. I just... I need
-whoever goes against Jesse to win. -To win.
JESSE: It sucks.
I haven't won a single immunity challenge.
I still was hoping to at least win one so
my kids could see that, but I didn't.
I lost the most important one today,
which is, uh, the one where you get to decide,
you know, who sits next to you in the final three
and who has to go to fire.
If I was in that position and there was somebody
who had played, like, my game, especially with the last two
Tribal Councils, being so flashy with the moves or whatever,
I'd throw them in fire right away, so,
I'm going to fire.
This is all that matters.
I'm 100% locked in on this fire-making challenge.
This is, like, my one shot.
If I'm gonna make fire,
I want to make it against Cassidy because I think
that's my best shot at winning.
I think that...
I think that you should make fire against me.
-Okay. -Because
if I'm the biggest threat in the game at this point,
you could eliminate any doubts
-by beating me in fire... and... -Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know how much weight people actually hold
in the fire-making, but it's a fair point.
Jesse knows that I'm probably the worst at fire, and he thinks
he can beat me more than he can beat Gabler and Owen
and he's scared of that, and so he's trying to convince me
that the only way that I'm gonna win the game
is to go up next to him, but
no way in hell am I giving up this necklace. I earned it.
JESSE: I'm, like, one...
I'm one challenge away.
There's one thing standing in my way right now...
...between me and a million dollars,
between me and, like, being able...
...between me and being able
to give my kids, like, that security...
...that I never had, so...
...I'm not gonna stop.
CASSIDY: You want to talk?
Yeah, sure.
So what are you thinking? It's your show.
Do you think you could beat Jesse in fire?
-Yeah. Mm-hmm. -You really do?
Can I see you make fire?
-Sure. -Like, you know, like,
-watch you practice? -Sure.
I've been playing this game out of the spotlight,
so I think I need a very public, big move.
And I want more than anything
to go make fire
to win even more credibility with the jury.
-Now, fire's gonna go right in there when I do it, all right? -CASSIDY: Yup.
GABLER: But I'm running on pure heart
with not a lot of food.
Might just want to start scraping a little more
-magnesium. -Yeah.
I am so hungry. I've lost probably 20, 25 pounds.
Every time I stand up or move too fast, I get lightheaded.
My muscles burn all the time.
GABLER: But I got to pull it together tonight.
I got to do this.
I need Cassidy
to put me in for fire.
Nice.
GABLER: I'm playing for bigger things.
People need me and people are counting on me.
I'm gonna do something that's never been done
in Survivor history.
I'm gonna donate the entire prize to charity.
Yeah.
Winning this game is about
winning a million dollars and being able
to donate 100% of that prize
to a patient population that I hold dear--
Veterans in need-- so I have to win.
I'm gonna get it. Let me get it here.
CASSIDY: I am trying to weigh, between Owen and Gabler,
who do I think has a better shot,
not only of beating Jesse,
but who do I think can beat him
that also won't come back
with that boost on the résumé that
they needed to beat me.
I think that Owen has a potential
to beat Jesse in fire-making, but
if I put him in fire, and he comes back
in this blaze of glory, like,
that might be the ammunition that he needs
to steal the win from me.
I'm nervous about Gabler
because he's been seeming a little bit weak,
a little feeble.
That makes me a little nervous
putting him up to Jesse.
But I think that if he did beat Jesse
that wouldn't be enough for hm to take the win from me.
I think I would still beat him in the end.
So that's why it would be a better choice
to put Gabler up there.
But can Gabler actually beat Jesse?
That's the question. Is he strong enough?
GABLER: I'm playing for
people out there that are counting on me,
and tonight I'm gonna have to do
something spectacular to win this game.
OWEN: I fought so hard to make it this far,
and I still have a chance.
I need Cassidy to put me in fire and win, and triumphantly
go to the final three.
JESSE: If I pull this off,
I think I win the game.
I just think about my kids, I just think about my wife.
A lot riding on it. A lot riding on it.
CASSIDY: This decision, if I make it right,
will change my entire life.
But I won't know if it's the right decision
until the jury votes are read for the winner.
♪ ♪
PROBST: All right. First question.
Cassidy, what's that feel like to walk in knowing
all the jury is looking for who has the necklace?
CASSIDY: Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty good feeling.
You know, this was the paramount win of the season. I think
this is the most monumental time to have this
around your neck, and to be the last person
to win this necklace and for it to be my third win,
I mean, I'm super proud, and I'm proud to wear it tonight.
And I feel like I earned this spot in the final three.
And that's-that's huge, so, I feel great.
PROBST: You have earned it.
You have three individual immunity wins.
There were nine individual immunity necklaces.
You won a third of them, Owen won another third.
-It's a dominating performance. -Thank you.
With your win today,
you have a spot in the final three where you get
to plead your case, your story to your jury
about why you played the best game, you deserve
the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollars.
-But equally important... -Yup.
...is the decision you're about to make, which is,
who are you gonna take with you and put in that second spot
and who are you going to force to make fire?
So, before we get to that, let's just talk about the day.
Because you go back, and now
you're the center of attention.
-Yeah. -I'm assuming
everybody is pitching their way around you.
CASSIDY: You know, of course, everyone kind of lined up
to talk to me and pitch and plead their case.
And so, I mean, this is definitely a burden
I was carrying today. As happy as I am to have the burden,
this could make or break my game depending on what I do tonight.
Jesse, you made a pitch. What was it?
Uh... (laughs)
I had a hard sell. (laughs)
So my pitch to her was,
if you want to sort of, like, guarantee a win,
if I'm that big of a threat, then, like,
you should sit and make fire with me.
PROBST: Cassidy, how was that received?
Uh, you know, to me, I think that that is the kind of move
that somebody would make if they feel like
they haven't really earned their spot in the final three.
But for me, I trust in a game that I've played.
I've played a strong game
through and through in every aspect.
So for me to, like, risk that,
basically, is in his best interest, not mine,
because he probably thinks that he has the best chance
of beating me at fire.
PROBST: Okay, so it sounds like
Jesse's making fire,
and then it comes down to the question of
is he gonna make it against Gabler or Owen?
Gabler, what was your pitch?
Please let me make fire.
-I want to do it. I want to-- If I get to -You want to?
the final three, I want to go into
the final three in a blaze of glory.
That was literally what I said.
Then I worked on some coconuts, and I'm ready
to rock it out at one of these stations.
Wow. Owen, what was your pitch?
Did you want to make fire?
I would love to make fire, 100%.
I would love to. I would-- I would rather go out swinging.
So, of course, I would love
that opportunity to seize this moment.
It's really interesting to me, Cassidy,
because you basically have three people
are saying they want to make fire
when one of them could say, "Hey, I'm good
-just sliding into that second seat." -CASSIDY: Yeah. But to me,
this decision is not based off of anything that they said.
It's based off what's best for my game,
what makes the most sense for me tonight.
PROBST: So you have a very clear
point of view, and it's based on
what you think is the best move for you,
which is the only thing
-you care about right now. -Yeah.
Who are the other two people sitting next to you
and how do you convince
this group that you played the best game of the three?
So, are you ready to tell us your decision?
Yeah, I think I am.
PROBST: Let's start with who are you going to take
and sit next to you in that final-two spot?
CASSIDY: Tonight I am going to...
take Owen to sit next to me.
PROBST: So, Owen, you are in the final three.
-Great. -PROBST: You will have a shot tomorrow
to plead your case
to the jury about why your game is better
than the woman who just brought you there: Cassidy.
The only thing left to decide is fire-making now
between Jesse and Gabler.
Anything either of you want to say
before you head over to your fire-making stations?
-How are you feeling right now, Gabler? -GABLER: I'm feeling good.
I'm feeling good. You know, I believe I can do this,
and I want to end my 25 days
with an exclamation mark,
and I can't think of a better way to do it
than at one of these stations tonight.
-Jesse, how you feeling? -JESSE: You know, I've spent every
single minute since we got back from the challenge
up in the forest, making fire.
The only time they saw me today
was when I was collecting sticks.
So I'm just gonna do what I can, give it my all.
That's the best I can do.
Gabler, Jessie, you can both take a spot
at your fire-making station.
Good luck.
PROBST: All right.
This is the only thing
you have to think about
right now in your life,
is making what could be
a million-dollar fire.
I'm gonna give you a minute to focus on that,
and then we go.
All right, let's get to our fire-making showdown.
You each have the same supplies.
Requirements for fire are always the same.
Build a fire high enough to burn through your rope
and pop your flag.
The first person to do that
takes the final spot.
The other person will join the jury.
Could be a million-dollar fire.
-Are you both ready? -Believe so.
-Yes, sir. Here we go. Begin.
This is it. Day 25.
The fastest fire's ever been made
was just under five minutes.
Season 38.
Jesse said he worked on his all day.
Gabler sounds like he's had a lifetime of making fires.
Jesse now gonna try to get a little spark going.
He's got his flint.
Magnesium just helps it.
Gets you a little ignition in there.
Ignite.
Both players prepping.
Gabler's the first to get flame.
Good job, Gabler.
PROBST: Jessie has flame. Now you got to nurture it.
Both guys have flame.
(whispering): Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.
That hessian burns quickly and it's impressive,
but it goes out just as fast.
You're gonna have to actually build a structure.
Jesse nurturing a little flame. Gabler has
a much bigger flame. A lot of that is still hessian.
Gabler now adding sticks.
That's what you need to catch to start building
a bigger fire.
Jesse's flame is out.
PROBST: He's gonna have to start again.
Gabler trying to nurture his to keep it going.
Jesse has played this entire game slow and steady.
Never showed signs of panic.
Gabler adding more sticks.
He's got a decent fire going.
Will it burn high enough to burn that rope is the question.
Jesse has flame again.
PROBST: Gabler in the Clear lead right now
if that fire continues to grow.
Jesse now has got a little something going.
He's in it.
Gabler adds a little more hessian.
PROBST: Starting to burn that rope a little bit.
Jesse now trying to get his fire going.
He's gonna have to build it quickly.
Gabler's is high and strong.
-No... -PROBST: Gabler's got
a high flame, fast.
Good job, Gabler.
-Thank you. -PROBST: Fire is burning hotter
and higher.
Jesse trying to get back in this.
Trying to get a flame going that can get him in this.
It is Gabler's to win right now.
Come on, baby.
-Fire man! (whoops) -PROBST: There it is!
Gabler makes fire. The fastest fire
-that has ever been made -GABLER: Come here. Give me a hug.
-in this final four challenge. -Come on, that was good.
And that is it for Jesse.
Played a hell of a game. Be proud of yourself.
I'm proud of you. Proud of you, dude.
(whispering): Jesse, I'm sorry.
Come here. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
(Jesse exhales)
(sniffles)
Jesse, do you feel like sharing what you're thinking?
(sharp exhale)
(sniffles)
GABLER: Everyone's proud of you, dude.
Especially your family.
Um... thinking about the people
I've been thinking about this whole time.
You know?
Thinking about my wife and my kids
and...
I've been playing as hard as I have because of them.
For them. Like... (sniffles)
Part of the reason I came out here
was to set an example for my kids, right? To show them, like, you know,
you give it your all, like, you fight as hard as you can.
Just leave it all out there, right?
And, uh...
I feel like I did that.
But the closer we got to this, like,
point where I could plead my case
for a million dollars, right?
And I felt like I played, like, a great game.
It was right there, and it--
And it's hard because, like...
I've had to fight, like, my entire life
to sort of, like, get to where I'm at.
And I've always felt like I've had to walk
this tightrope because I don't have a safety net back home.
I don't. And so...
...every day feels like do-or-die back home.
Because one wrong move... (sniffles)
GABLER: You're not gonna make any wrong moves, dude. You're on
-an upward trajectory. -JESSE: Slips through...
it slips through your fingers.
Um...
looks like I made a wrong move but,
you know, I think I set a great example for my kids,
you know, just to play your heart out, give it your all...
-And the only reason that you're in this position -Just had to get some tears out.
is because of how amazing of a game
that you played and how big of a threat
-that you were. And I know that's not, -I appreciate it, but...
-like, that's not... -(laughs)
-I know that's not what you want to -Maybe I shouldn't have
-hear, but... but I'm just saying, -played that game...
like, it was out of respect.
JESSE: Yeah, no, I appreciate it. No, there's -PROBST: Jesse,
-no hard feelings. -that really is the biggest compliment
you can get, is that she needed you out of the game
-in order to improve her chances. -Yeah, it makes sense.
And this is an example of why this game
is so difficult to win.
As you say, one wrong move
-Yep. -on Survivor
and you're out.
It's all good. Gave it my all.
PROBST: Sadly, Jesse, for you,
after 25 days, that is the case.
Need you to grab your torch.
-All right. -All right, bro.
-Appreciate it. This was fun. -Great game, Jesse.
-Thank y'all. It was so much fun. -GABLER: Thank you, buddy.
-Love you, Jesse. -I'm glad to have met you. -It was so much fun. Yeah,
so much fun.
Gave it my all.
-Yes, you did. -OWEN: Sure did.
Jesse, the tribe has spoken.
-♪ ♪ -(applause)
Come on. Time for you to go.
-Ooh! -GABLER: See you, buddy.
Great game, Jesse.
All right.
You've made it to the final three.
You each have a different story for
how you got here, and tomorrow night you will be
defending those stories
as the power shifts
to this side of Tribal Council.
Eight people that you had a hand in voting out
are now in charge.
They're going to interrogate you tomorrow and make you prove
why you deserve the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes with it.
You have one more night in Fiji.
Try to get some sleep.
I have a feeling you are going to need it.
Grab your torches, head back to camp.
-Thank you, Jeff. -Good night. Good night, Jeff. -Thanks, Jeff.
♪ ♪
I was playing to set an example, just plain and simple,
you know, for my family,
but also for, you know, the kids who are in juvenile hall
right now. You know, I want everybody to know that,
you know, just give it your all and just
go after life and chase your dreams and just fight for it.
And, you know, sometimes you're gonna come up short,
but at the end of the day, you're still gonna be a winner.
♪ ♪
PROBST: Coming up, the winner of Survivor 43...
Oh, my God.
PROBST: ...the Survivor aftershow
and your first look at Survivor 44.
♪ ♪
This is it, brother.
CASSIDY: We made it through last night.
-OWEN: We did. -The only three people
-that went this far. -OWEN: Mm-hmm.
It's amazing
to wake up here knowing that I can't be voted out.
Jeff is not gonna snuff my torch.
To make the final three
is beyond comprehension.
OWEN: Yeah. This is the most important presentation of my life.
The key, I think, is to figure out what they're looking for.
OWEN: But there is still a monkey on my back
knowing that the battle is yet to come.
♪ ♪
There is this daunting grim reaper lurking,
knowing that I have to go in front of the jury.
I know some of them are bitter.
I don't care.
I've been the underdog for the majority of this game.
Tonight is no different.
This is a million-dollar Tribal Council,
and I'm gonna give it everything I have.
KARLA: Owen embodies
what it means to never give up, because you never know
where you might end up.
SAMI: Owen made it to the end
without being on the right side of the votes.
That is his case that he has to plead.
He has to come out with some fire.
NOELLE: I am rooting for Owen.
I'd rather vote for the underdog
than the person that was just sitting pretty
on the majority this entire game.
-GABLER: Great job, everybody. -CASSIDY: Oh! -OWEN: Yay.
-Final three breakfast! -Oh... -(whoops)
-CASSIDY: Oh, my God. -GABLER: Wow.
This feast is huge because
when you're so depleted, it brings your body
and your mind back into the game.
-We did it. Cheers. -Cheers.
-Final three. -Cheers. Final three. -Final three.
Congratulations, everybody.
At 51 years old, I made
final three. I didn't get drug along.
I made fire. I've got-- I've suffered, I've battled.
And I've never received one vote.
Which is why, tonight, I hope
I get all of their votes on parchment.
RYAN: Gabler played a good game.
Some people look at it, "Oh, he's flipping
and he's flopping, he's back and forth,"
but he did that to further his game.
JEANINE: Gabler is just such an enigma.
I really just need him to explain what parts
were intentional and what parts were not.
CODY: He's a 51-year-old man,
20 years older than everybody else.
So for him to be able to integrate
with a much younger cast--
that's impressive.
So, I want him to hinge his game
on the relationships he built,
because that is where Gabler thrives.
Wow.
CASSIDY: Now, you guys have all watched the show
-for a long time, right? -OWEN: Mm-hmm.
How long you dreamed about playing?
Can you imagine making it to the final three?
-I cannot. -And then starving for so long,
having this delicious breakfast and, like,
having a one-third shot
-at a million dollars and the title? -OWEN: Crazy.
This is the best day of my life.
CASSIDY: It's been a long journey and I am so
proud of myself and everything that I've accomplished.
I feel like
I came out as a dark horse in this competition.
You know? Nobody really saw me coming.
I was never once on the wrong side of the vote,
all the while winning immunity challenges.
I have the social and the strategic and the physical game
to back up, you know, why I deserve to win.
JAMES: Cassidy-- she didn't rock the boat.
She was able to align herself with big threats.
By the time people realized she was a community threat,
it was too late. They needed her votes to move forward.
RYAN: I tried to get Cassidy out multiple times,
but she got me out. I saw the danger in
the sweet girl, and nobody else really did.
JESSE: Cassidy should have gone up against me
at fire, but if she's able to show that
she survived being targeted
and was always voting correctly,
she could win my vote.
I'm just curious, like what they're thinking going in.
It's like, who's the front-runner?
Who needs to impress us?
-Yeah. -OWEN: Either way,
I gave it everything I had...
-Same. -and I'll be proud of the outcome.
CASSIDY: Mm-hmm.
OWEN: I had to fight harder
than anyone else in this game to stay alive,
and I'm gonna defend my journey with everything I have.
Definitely the biggest night of my life,
and hopefully the best night of my life.
I'm on the one-yard line for a million dollars.
Failure's not an option at this point.
Owen-- he's the underdog.
You're the champion. I'm the outsider.
JESSE: I want to see fireworks at final Tribal. I want them
to show me that they earned that million dollars.
NOELLE: Who I vote for will be decided
at Tribal Council. I want everyone
to fight for their lives.
JAMES: You have to stand behind your moves.
Plead your case.
KARLA: Games are gonna be fact-checked.
Like, show me your résumé and your references.
♪ ♪
JEANINE: If people can explain
unseen moves that they made,
you have my vote.
RYAN: If you play
an amazing game and then
shoot yourself in the foot at the end,
you could lose a million dollars.
CODY: I'm hoping there's some punches
thrown at each other because, ultimately,
they're gonna have to snap some necks to cash that check.
SAMI: Come fierce and come correct
and let the jury know
you played better than us and that's why you're sitting
right there. Whoever does that, for me, gets my vote.
Welcome to your final Tribal Council.
Congratulations on doing
what 15 other players couldn't do:
get to the end. You survived that
early tribe stage, you transitioned into
the individual stage, you started building your jury.
You got through that final push where you had to start over.
Now you're at the last stage. This is claim your victory.
If Survivor is a mountain, this is you at the top
with your flag saying, "This is my victory."
And if you don't defend your game,
this jury will flick you off that mountain,
send you tumbling down.
That's their job. Tonight, the power in the game
shifts right there. Eight people you had a hand
in voting out will now determine your fate.
Your job is to examine their game
by asking questions, holding them accountable.
With respect, they did kick your ass.
(snorts)
You're trying to determine
who you think's deserving of your vote
for a million dollars.
I'm gonna give you a moment to think of your questions,
I'm gonna give you a moment to prepare for their questions,
and then we'll get started.
Okay, let's get into our final Tribal Council.
We'll look at the game in three big areas--
the social, the physical and the strategic--
knowing that they all overlap.
And ultimately, it is one big game.
But just so we have some context,
-Jesse, get us started. -JESSE: Yeah.
Um...
(chuckling) Uh, I just want to say
all three of you should be proud of the games
-that you played. Honestly. -Yes, sir. -Thank you.
-JESSE: Like, you guys did amazing. But, like, -Thank you, Jesse.
this is not the end of the game.
You have to earn our votes
-Yep. -because this jury has questions,
and they're gonna be tough questions. And, as somebody
who went out in fire last night,
I was able to smell the million dollars
right up until I smelled the smoke
-of Gabler's blazing fire. -(laughing)
JESSE: So, you know, I know how much pressure
you must be feeling right now, and so
I want to see you go out in a blaze of glory.
With that said, you guys did amazing, and good luck.
-Thank you. -Thank you, my man.
NOELLE: So, I would like to start off
with the first question.
How would you differentiate your game from the others?
-And we could start with Gabler. -You know-- Thank you, Noelle.
So, my game has been very much relationship-based
and trust-based, being somebody
that can be counted on. That's how I was playing.
And I'll tell you, I've been in an alliance
with each and every one of you guys at one point.
I was with the Coco crew. I was with the Baka boys.
And then, raise your hand
if you were in the Ride or Die alliance.
But I was never seen,
because I was talking behind the scenes with
all the different alliances,
and I had multiple ways
to get deeper into the game.
Even when I was at ten,
I had a couple of ways to get to seven.
When I was at seven, I had a couple of ways to get to five.
When I got to five, I had two ways to get to three.
So, by being in these different groups, it was very helpful.
And guess what?
26 days.
No one has written my name down,
-Mm. -Mm. -not once.
I do want you to write my name tonight.
-(laughing) -GABLER: And I'm gonna
tell you more reasons why later,
but for now, I hope that answered
your question. Thank you.
-PROBST: Cassidy. -CASSIDY: Yeah. So,
for me, I feel like I've always had
my fingers on the pulse of this game.
I always knew where the votes were going.
Every vote that I cast, it was the right vote.
Not one surprise or blindside the entire game. And I think
the only other person in this season who maybe
could say that is Jesse.
But he's on the jury and I was
able to make it to the end here.
And I also had really close bonds
with Karla and with James on the Coco tribe,
which saved me through those first couple votes.
And then, I knew if I went to the end
with some of these people, that they were gonna beat me.
So I had to form bonds with, you know, with Gabler
and with Owen, who were left out of a lot of the votes,
who were on the bottom.
And then also, I know that this is not personal,
and this was nobody's intention, but
there was an historical number of women voted out at pre-merge.
Like, to be the last woman standing,
I think, is also a feat in itself.
And-and that's something that I'll claim as well.
-Owen. -Yes, sir.
OWEN: Well, y'all, my Survivor story has been
one of the underdog.
I am a superfan, I am a student of the game,
and I came out here thinking I would play a brilliant game,
and that all came crashing down, basically, in 24 hours.
On Baka, we were a disaster from the beginning.
I got my name written down on night three,
and I legitimately thought I was gonna be the first boot,
and that my dream was gonna come crumbling down.
We get to the merge, and things just get even worse from there.
I end up on the wrong side of the Elie vote, and so,
I had to claw and scratch and dig myself out of a hole
much deeper than either of these folks were in.
And so, I saw one clear path,
and that was to sit with these two,
working with Jesse, to then
take the power position with some options.
Was I perfect out here?
Abso-fruit-ly not. No way, no how.
But I learned that I don't need to be perfect.
I just need to be me.
So if you respect an underdog,
if you respect determination, hard work,
I think you should consider giving me your vote tonight.
And I think that's how I differentiate myself.
Thank you, guys.
PROBST: James.
Man, um, I respect all three of you.
Really good job. Um, with that being said, Owen,
trust-wise, when did you stick your neck on the line
for an ally to try to get them to stay in this game?
NOELLE: I would say
when you trusted me to steal your vote to get him out.
OWEN: Yes, that was a big one.
That's when I knew I wanted to trust you and work with you.
OWEN: Yeah, that was a big day.
And since you brought it up, Noelle, I'll mention that.
So, I viewed James and Karla
as the biggest threats in the game,
and I saw this golden opportunity for us
to lull them into a false sense of security
that I am going home.
Noelle will steal my vote,
and then they will not play an idol,
they will not play a Shot in the Dark, and we are good to go.
And I had to trust in Noelle
to pull that off without bamboozling me.
The Gabes.
GABLER: So, the Elie vote-- let's talk about that for a second.
Elie had looked through my bag.
Also, it was Elie, but... Yes, go ahead.
Yeah. I-I... This is...
I'd... I'm... It's my time to come clean, Gabler.
-Yes, ma'am. -Your instincts are spot on.
And I have to say, I'm so sorry. I did go through your bag.
And you have killer instincts.
-You're a rock star. No worries. -I just have to tell you that
'cause that's been eating away at me, and I just...
-I really needed to finally be honest with you. -No problem.
-No problem. I totally get it. I totally get it. -All love.
So, I was... I was like, "Okay, something's not right here."
And I stirred that pot.
Me and Elie even had a very public argument in camp,
and we voted her out,
and then she flamed me in front of the whole jury here.
Like, "That's what you get for trusting Gabler."
And I was like, "I am way too high-profile here.
"Like an alligator, I need to go underwater
and start playing a different game."
-Thank you. -KARLA: Okay.
So, Cassidy, can you give me
one specific move that you did pre-merge
to help propel you into the merge?
CASSIDY: Yeah. Um, I think the most important move
was building my relationship with you and with James.
I trusted y'all whenever the vote switched
last-minute off of Geo onto Lindsay, and then,
through our relationship, we were able to blindside Geo
and take control of-of kind of the tribe in that way.
And so, that was the vote that I made that helped propel me
and, you know, our alliance into the merge.
Thank you.
-Jesse. -JESSE: Yeah, so,
I run surveys for a living,
which is all about extracting information from people.
Give me an example of when you used your social relationships
to get information in this game
and how you used that to get ahead.
GABLER: So after the Elie takeout,
Alli-Gabler had to go underwater...
-(laughing) -Alli-Gabler. -and-and hang out
by the water's edge because you don't
just say, "Oh, it's me. I'm the guy." No.
Even though it could have been
Gabler in the library with a coconut,
-I wanted it to be a total secret, right? -(laughter)
So, because of my social game and the information
I was getting, I was able
to get deeper in the game with more options.
So, for me, I, like you,
had all of the right information that I needed at every Tribal.
I mean, I was in the trenches in all of those votes.
I was talking to everybody. I was making sure
that the plan that I was in on was the right plan
for every single vote.
You know, also,
I had a mental checklist of all the people who had gunned for me
in this game. Ryan was trying to blindside me.
And then, Noelle, I found out you wrote my name down
at the merge. You know, no hard feelings, but
same with Sami. He tried to come after me at one point.
Cody threw my name out there at one time, Karla as well.
So all of these people,
I knew, if they were gunning for me once,
they're probably gonna try to get me out again.
And I have to get them out of this game
before they can get me.
JEANINE: I feel like I have a great understanding
of Cass' core alliance at this point,
but I'm really curious as to, Gabler and Owen,
who you feel like your closest allies were
and how you worked with them post-merge.
OWEN: Sure. Um, Noelle and I had gone
on that journey together on day seven.
It-it sounds corny, but when I-I looked her in the eye
on that hike, I felt like we-we kind of just got each other,
and I felt like you were someone I could trust.
Eventually, once Noelle was blindsided,
I decided to make my bed with these two, plus Jesse
and go to the final four with them.
-Gabler? -GABLER: My core alliance.
You know, honestly, I... Honestly,
I had a few of them. I was in Ride or Die,
I was in with Sami and I was in with Owen.
Although me and you went in and out for a while,
and then we came together post-merge,
and we were locked the rest of the way.
Um, also, you know, I was in with Ryan, Noelle, so...
-I-I got a question for you, Gabler. -Yes, sir.
You had decided to flip and go with Jesse and Cody.
Was your intention to go with these guys
for the rest of the way or were you actually continuing
to kind of go back and forth?
I think that's something that we would like to know.
I was in Ride or Die to ride or die.
And, you know, that's having trust and not being targeted.
I mean, just to think back to day one,
to get all the way to here and not get a vote? I mean,
-I... It's lucky, but it's a... -That's very impressive.
CASSIDY: Do you wonder if part of the reason
that you didn't get any votes is
'cause people didn't perceive you as a threat
or because, just because you played it so well
with all of your different alliances?
GABLER: I think it was both, because
if I stayed up top, it wasn't gonna last.
NOELLE: I mean, I think you did an amazing job
of keeping me comfortable, and that's why
I never wanted to put your name out, so...
-Thank you. -JESSE: Yeah. You've come to me and said,
like, "We're sort of playing the silent, like, killers.
"You know, like, we're sort of, like, laying low,
and we're taking people out."
And you were doing that, so, like, if people weren't
perceiving you as a threat, that was your intention.
Thank you. That was the game. Thank you.
How about the physical part of the game?
RYAN: Yeah. Um, so, a majority
of the immunities that were won were won
by these three people right here.
A third of the immunities, a third of the immunities,
and a ninth of the immunities.
Only two weren't won by you guys.
At what point in the game did you feel like you needed
to manage your physical threat level?
Like Gabler said, Alli-Gabler had to go down
'cause if you're too much of a threat,
you're getting kicked out.
CASSIDY: Yeah. I mean, I think, for me, I honestly
didn't see myself becoming a physical threat in this game
until, I, you know, I won my first immunity.
And that gave me the boost I needed to be able
to win more immunities, and I think the most important
win that I had was that final win,
was that power to, you know, decide who I wanted to take out,
-the biggest threat in the entire game. -I have a question.
-Yeah. -Um, I left out a little bit about my occupation.
I am actually a Paralympian.
I run track and field for Team USA.
-Wow. -So, Cassidy, I have to give it to you
for winning three individual immunity challenges.
That is something that you're gonna
take with you for the rest of your life.
It's a beautiful thing, especially being a woman.
Thank you. I really appreciate that.
And now, with that being said,
you just mentioned the fire-making challenge.
I would like to be walked through your decision-making
on why you chose Gabler
to make arguably one of the biggest moves
in taking out one of the biggest strategic players
in this game, and why you didn't want
to take that challenge on yourself.
CASSIDY: Yeah. Honestly, the game
that I had played up to that point was a good game.
You know, I didn't make any big mistakes in this game.
You know, everything
that I did, I was always on the right side of the votes.
I was always in the major alliance, and I worked
my ass off to be sitting here,
and I won that immunity fair and square.
When the pressure was at its highest, I showed up for that,
and I ... defeated that challenge,
and I deserved to be here.
But I also felt like it was a strategic decision
in keeping Owen here and not giving Owen the chance
to redeem himself in that way,
'cause he did have a little bit of an underdog story.
And I felt like if he made that fire,
that was gonna give him, potentially, the boost
that he would need to, you know, beat me in the end, and,
you know, also, even if Gabler did win that fire challenge,
I didn't know if it would be enough to,
you know, be able to beat me.
So that was also a strategic decision,
and I felt like he was the best at fire.
And so, that's why I made that decision.
Perfect. Thank you. Great answer.
-Thank you. -PROBST: Karla?
KARLA: Yes. So, as you've seen,
I left it out there physically and mentally,
and you saw me fighting till I couldn't fight any longer.
-Yeah. -Can you tell me a moment
where you have fought until you couldn't any longer?
OWEN: So, physically speaking,
obviously, last gasp. We don't need to recount that.
But the-the main example for me
is the final five immunity challenge.
So, for those of you who don't know, we got an advantage clue,
and we had to do a word scramble,
and it said to sprint to find the advantage.
I get to the correct tree, and Karla snatches it literally
when my hand is right there, and in that second,
that was probably the angriest
I have ever been in my entire life.
-(laughter) -I screamed, I punched the tree,
I threw a rock into the ocean.
I blew this opportunity.
And so, I'm going in feeling that I need to win.
And so, I ended up winning immunity, my third one.
And it-it was so representative of how my entire game has gone.
To just be constantly going up and down
and having the highs of winning, having the lows
of getting blindsided, and just emotionally, physically,
that was the-the one for me that really meant a lot.
JAMES: To follow up on that,
how do you feel like you handled the low points
in this game compared to the high points in this game?
Uh, not great. I mean, one of my only regrets
is how you and I went at it that day,
and mostly how I came at you and how I reacted,
and I-I lost my cool that day.
But in contrast, I think I tried to remain humble
when I did win immunities.
I tried to not gloat if I pulled off a blindside.
But that blow-up with you-- that is something
I'm ashamed of and I wish hadn't happened.
KARLA: So, we've heard a lot about
the great things you've done, but I want to know
about your biggest mistake.
What did you do wrong, and how do you own up to it?
GABLER: I'm gonna go back to
when we lost our immunity challenge,
and I basically huddled Baka together--
right, Sami and Jeanine and Owen-- and I was like,
"Look, I blew the challenge tonight.
"You know, you guys can vote for me.
I'll play my Shot in the Dark."
I mean, I... It was clumsy.
That almost got me taken out.
In this game, to put yourself out there
is not a good idea.
-PROBST: Cassidy? -CASSIDY: Yeah, honestly,
Karla, and especially since this question's coming from you,
I think the biggest mistake I made is about
the last conversations that we had before we voted you out.
And I feel like I could have approached that better
'cause we had such a good relationship this entire time.
But you were that big of a threat in my eyes,
and I knew that, like, if I sat up here
next to you that you were gonna beat me.
And-and I just wish
that I had handled our last conversation better
because I-I think you're such an amazing person.
And I'm not just pandering to you.
Like, I love you, I respect you,
and I just really regret the way
that our last conversation went and leaving things like that.
-Thanks. -Owen?
It's hard to choose just one thing that I did wrong
since I had such a roller coaster of a-of a ride.
But, um, in regards
to getting bamboozled a few times, I don't regret
choosing the sides that I did
because they led me on this journey.
And even if I don't win,
that growth and that-that challenge to myself
in the journey I've been on over the past 26 days--
it has been... the adventure of a lifetime.
It's been so valuable to me as a human being.
And I don't regret those at all, but I do regret
a few conversations I had.
-Last question. Jesse, bring it. -JESSE: All right.
Um, so, I've been honest with everybody.
You know, I have... I got a PhD
about three weeks before I got out here.
The thing I didn't really tell everybody is
that the PhD is in political science, which means
that I spent about six years studying voting behavior,
studying elections, studying campaigns.
And something that's extremely important
in that is, like, persuasion.
And so I want to know when you persuaded somebody
to vote the way you needed them to vote and how you did it.
GABLER: Um, okay, I'm gonna go to the big vote,
post-merge, the first big vote, the Elie vote.
I planted the seed
that she had looked through somebody else's bag.
I pushed that at our merge feast,
and I persuaded each group to say,
"You know what? I don't trust her.
I don't know if you should, either."
And bam, first one out, post-merge.
-Cassidy? -So, I would probably go to the Ryan vote
because it was like my neck was very clearly on the line.
And Ryan did have relationships with Cody,
he did have a relationship with Gabler.
But I was able to convince them to take Ryan out instead of me.
Yeah, so...
-Not-not to discredit you. -CASSIDY: Okay. Well, I was
under the impression that I had... you know that, uh,
you guys were leaning more
towards going with Ryan, so that's what...
You were definitely part of that,
-but that was from Ride or Die. -JESSE: Yeah.
We came into Tribal-- me, Gabler, and Cody--
and we decided that if James was gonna be on the jury,
we were gonna vote out Ryan. If James wasn't on the jury,
we were gonna take out you.
-That was the start of the Ride or Die. -That was the start
of the Ride or Die. (laughs)
Well, damn. You got me.
PROBST: Owen.
OWEN: Yeah, I'm-I'm not gonna lie.
I don't have one specific vote
where I was the driver driving that vote.
I didn't have any advantages, I didn't have idols.
I voted wrong at the beginning, and was put
into this minority position.
So I can't pretend that I was here wheeling
and dealing and making votes happen and saying,
"Come on, come with the Owen plan."
But I showed that I had some strategic chops
and that I could be trusted and that I could be a key part
of a lot of these votes.
I appreciate that answer, Owen, truly do appreciate
that answer because it was honest and it was humbling.
-Mm-hmm. -Thank you. -JAMES: Great job, guys.
-GABLER: Thank you, guys. -Like, really good job.
-Great job, y'all. -All right, jury, a great final Tribal Council.
You held them accountable when they needed it.
You lifted them up when they deserved it,
and in the process, you illuminated three
very different games that all got them to the end.
The only question left now is
which game you feel is most deserving
of the title of Sole Survivor
and the million dollars that goes with your vote.
I'm gonna give you a minute
to take it all in and then we will vote.
♪ ♪
>> Probst: ALL RIGHT, THERE IS ONLY ONE THING LEFT TO DO IN
SURVIVOR 43 AND THAT IS VOTE FOR A WIN-- WINNER, FOR THE LAST
TIME IT IS TIME TO VOTE, JEANINE, YOU ARE UP.
THE I WOULD YOU PLAYED YOUR GAME, YOU STOOD UP FOR YOURSELF,
YOU KICKED BUTT IN THESE CHALLENGES.
SO PROUD OF YOUR GAME PLAY. GOOD LUCK, AND I WISH YOU THE
BEST. OH MAN.
>> BECAUSE YOU TOOK THE MOST RISKS, YOU OWNED UP TO YOUR
GAME, YOU MADE GREAT MOVES. YOU ARE HONEST IN A GAME FULL OF
LIES. I APPRECIATE IT.
♪. >> I'LL GO GET THE VOTES.
>> Probst: JURY, THANK YOU. GABLER, CASSIDY, OWEN, YOU HAVE
BEEN OUT HERE FOR 26 DAYS, YOU HAD AN ADVENTURE FILLED WITH
EXPERIENCES THAT I HOPE WILL STAY WITH YOU FOR THE REST OF
YOUR LIFE, BUT SURVIVOR IS ALSO A GAME, BIG GAME, COMES WITH A
BIG PRIZE, A MILLION DOLLARS, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WINNER.
THERE IS NO NEED TO WAIT. WE'RE GOING TO READ THE VOTES
RIGHT NOW HERE IN THE JUNGLE OF FIJI.
ARE YOU READY? >> WE'RE READY.
>> OH MY GOD. >> Probst: HERE WE GO.
FIRST VOTE, CASSIDY. GABLER.
ONE VOTE CASSIDY, ONE VOTE GABLER.
TWO VOTES GABLER, ONE VOTE
CASSIDY. GABLER, THAT IS THREE VOTES
GABLER, ONE VOTE CASSIDY. GABLER.
FOUR VOTES GABLER, ONE VOTE GAS I HADDIE.
THE WINNER OF SURVIVOR 43, GABLER.
FIVE, THAT IS ENOUGH. WE HAVE OUR WINNER.
>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
>> Probst: JURY, COME ON OVER. >> THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH, THANK
YOU. >> Probst: LOOK AT THAT.
WE HAVE OUR WINNER OF SURVIVOR 43, GABLER.
ALL THE VOTES WERE HIS. WE'RE NOT DONE HERE.
WE'RE GOING TO STAY HERE IN THE JUNGLE IN FIJI, BRING IN THAT
CAMPAIGN, SOME FIRE, WE HAVE PIZZA COMING IN.
WE WILL SIT DOWN WITH EVERYBODY AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT
HAPPENED THIS SEASON. GET IN HERE, KARLA LET'S GO.
>> LET'S GO. >> SURVIVOR 43, AFTERSHOW
HAPPENING RIGHT AFTER THIS. LET'S TOAST, EVERYBODY.
>> Probst: ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE THE SURVIVOR 43 AFTERSHOW GOING.
IF YOU NEED SOME PIZZA WE HAVE IT FLOATING AROUND.
IF YOU NEED MORE CHAMPAGNE, JUST LET ME KNOW.
THE IDEA REALLY IS JUST TO HAVE A CASUAL BUT HONEST AND RAW
CONVERSATION WHILE YOU'RE STILL IN GAME MODE, WHILE GABLER AND
CASSIDY AND OWEN STILL SMELL LIKE 26 DAYS OF FIJI WHICH YOU
ALL ON THE JURY DON'T. >> I'M SHAKING, I'M JUST
SHAKING. >> GABLER, LET'S START WITH YOU.
YOU ARE SHAKING. WAS THERE EVER A MOMENT WHERE
YOU FELT LIKE YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE THIS IN THE BAG?
OR WAS IT ALWAYS THE WAY UP UNTIL TONIGHT.
>> JEFF, IT HAS BEEN A ROLLER COASTER.
LIKE OWEN SAID, IT CAN BE A SIX HOUR SHIFT IN YOUR ATTITUDE FROM
BEING AT THE LOWEST LOW TO THE HIGHEST HIGH.
BUT TONIGHT WAS SPECIAL BECAUSE I GOT TO TELL ALL OF THE
STORIES. YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE TRIBALS
MY ANSWERS HAVE BEEN KIND OF DIRECTED AT CERTAIN WAY TO MAKE
THINGS GO A CERTAIN WAY. OUT HERE TONIGHT, I WAS WORKING
IT TILL THE VERY LAST SECOND, YES, SIR.
>> Probst: OKAY, LET'S ASK THE JURY.
BECAUSE I FELT THAT TONIGHT. I FELT LIKE THIS WAS A VERY OPEN
TRIBAL. YOU ARE ALL NODDING.
SO DID GABLER SWAY YOU DURING THIS Q & A.
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> YES, SIR.
>> YES. >> Probst: SO KARLA WHAT WAS
IT THAT MADE SEVEN OF THE EIGHT VOTES GO TO GABLER.
>> YEAH, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WHEN YOU ARE IN THE JURY, YOU
GET TO KIND OF FACT CHECK. SO WE CREATED A CHECK LIST FOR
EACH PLAYER F OWEN CAN DO THIS, IF CASSIDY CAN DO THIS, IF
GABLER CAN DO THIS. AND GABLER JUST CHECKED MOST OF
THE BOXES. >> Probst: SAMI, DO YOU AGREE
WITH THAT, DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENING AS IT CONTINUED.
>> 100 PERCENT, WE KNEW WHAT WE WANTED TO HEAR, AND GABLER, WE
SAW AND HEARD FROM GABLER WHAT WE WANTED TOO.
WE KNEW HE WASN'T JUST A LOOPY OLD MAN.
HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. AND THAT IS WHAT WE WANTED TO
HEAR. >> YEAH.
>> Probst: SO GABLER, YOU HAVE GOT A CHECK WITH TWO COMMENTS ON
A CHECK WITH TWO COMMAS AND YOUR NAME ON IT, A MILLION DOLLARS,
IT IS A LOT OF MONEY, WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE RIGHT NOW?
>> IT FEELS BIGGER THAN YOU KNOW, JEFF.
BECAUSE WE MADE HISTORY HERE THIS SEASON IN 43.
I'M ONLY THE SECOND PLAYER IN SURVIVOR HISTORY OVER 50.
>> Probst: YOU ARE THE SECOND OLDEST WINNER.
THANK YOU ALL. >> THANK YOU ALL, THANK YOU ALL.
>> BUT YOU KNOW, SEASON 43 IS A SPECIAL SEASON BECAUSE OF THESE
SPECIAL PEOPLE AND BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO MAKE HISTORY ANOTHER
WAY. >> Probst: WAIT, WHAT IS
HAPPENING? >> WE ALL HAVE A CHANCE OF A
LIFETIME OUT HERE. AN ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME.
WHAT WE ALL LEARNED FROM EACH OTHER IS PRICELESS.
WE ALL MADE US BETTER. THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT NEED THAT
MONEY MORE. AND I'M GOING TO DONATE THE
ENTIRE PRIZE, THE ENTIRE MILLION DOLLARS IN MY FATHER'S NAME,
ROBERT GABLER, WHO IS A GREEN BERET TO VETERANS IN NEED WHO
ARE COMING BACK WITH PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS, PTSD.
>> GABLER. >> TO CURB THE SUICIDE EP DIJ.
WE ARE GOING TO SAVE LIVES, DO SOMETHING GOOD, SEASON 43, A
MILLION DOLLARS IS GOING TO THEM, WE MADE HISTORY, GUYS.
>> GABLER. >> THAT IS AMAZING.
>> OH MY GOSH, WOW. >> Probst: GABLER, I ALSO
DON'T WANT TO LOSE THAT THIS IS IN HONOR OF YOUR FATHER.
THAT IS OBVIOUSLY A BIG PART OF WHAT IS INSPIRING THIS.
>> YOU KNOW, JEFF, I HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO COME FROM A
MILITARY FAMILY. MY FAMILY AND HIS BROTHERS WERE
IN THE MILITARY. MY MOTHER HAD SEVERAL BROTHERS
IN THE MILITARY. ONE OF MY UNCLES WAS A SEAVEE IN
VIETNAM. HI FRIENDS FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. YOUR DAD WAS A MILITARY HERO,
YOU KNOW, THERE YOU GO. RIGHT?
>> I AM HOLDING SO MUCH BACK RIGHT NOW.
>> WHY? >> WELL, MY DAD IS A VETERAN,
HAS 100 PERCENT VA BECAUSE HE PUT HIS LIFE ON THE LINE TIME
AND TIME AGAIN. AND I HAVE BEEN SITTING AT HOME
THINKING IS HE GOING TO COME BACK THIS TIME.
AND I HAVE BEEN THERE, SEEING, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT HAS BEEN
AT HIS WEDDING NOT COME HOME. AND SOMEBODY THAT I KNEW, NOT
COME HOME. AND THE FACT THAT HE IS GIVING
IT ALL TO VETERANS THAT SERVED OUR COUNTRY AND THERE IS SO MUCH
THAT WE DON'T KNOW THAT THEY GO THROUGH, THEY'RE OVER THERE.
AND THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR US, BUT YET THEY CAN COME BACK AND
NOT HAVE A JOB OR BE DISABLED AND NOT CARE FOR.
THE FACT THAT HE HAS GIVEN THAT ALL TO THEM IS SOMETHING THAT HE
IS ALLOWING ME TO BE A PART OF. AND IT JUST TOUCHES ME IN A WAY
THAT, IF I WOULD HAVE WON IT, I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN THOUGHT OF
THAT. AND THE FACT THAT THIS MAN,
IMMEDIATELY, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE HISTORY, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE
BACK TO THE VETERANS, AND WE'RE GOING TO ALLOW THEM MORE CHANCES
THAT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE EVEN THOUGH THEY PUT THEIR
LIFE ON THE LINE. >> Probst: GABLER, IT SAY
REALLY BEAUTIFUL GESTURE AND IT IS REALLY INTERESTING TO HAVE IT
HAPPEN HERE. >> ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT.
ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE HELPED CARRY ME,
CARED FOR ME, SUPPORTED ME, COMPETED WITH ME, INSPIRED ME.
I WAS IN THE LANE NEXT TO YOU WHEN YOU DID THAT COME FROM
BEHIND. AND I'M SEEING TEARS ON YOUR
FACE AND ARE YOU STILL COMING. I AM THROWING THE BEAN BAG AND
YOU ARE STILL COMING. YOU GOT UP THERE AND WON THAT.
THE STORIES WE SHARED AT CAMP ON RAINY NIGHTS WHEN WE WERE
SUFFERING, YOU KNOW, ABOUT YOUR FATHER COMING OVER FROM CHINA,
YOUR LOVELY WIFE, YOUR BROTHER, CODE WORDS.
>> GABLER, I LOVE YOU. JUST KEEP GOING.
>> Probst: I GOT TO ASK THE QUESTION THAT EVERYBODY IS
WONDERING RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE THAT IS A TRULY
BEAUTIFUL GESTURE. A MILLION DOLLARS, WELL EARNED,
HARD FOUGHT FOR, THAT IS YOURS, YOU ARE GIVING TO THOSE IN NEED.
THE QUESTION I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WONDER, ARE
YOU RICH AT HOME? >> NO, I'VE WORKED VERY HARD.
I HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE. BUT YOU KNOW, I REALIZED GOING
THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE, I AM RICH AT HOME.
I HAVE AN AMAZING LIFE AT HOME. I HAVE AN AMAZING FAMILY.
I HAVE AMAZES FRIENDS. I NEED TO BE A BETTER HUSBAND, A
BETTER FATHER, BROTHER, SON, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, JUST LIKE ALL
OF US ARE GOING TO DO THAT WHEN WE GO HOME.
BUT TO TAKE THIS MILLION DOLLARS N A TIME PERIOD, THERE IS SO
MUCH GOING ON IN THE NEWS THAT PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO LOOK AT.
THAT IS WHY WE WATCH SURVIVOR, BECAUSE AMAZES THINGS HAPPEN ON
THIS SHOW. WE JUST DID ANOTHER ONE ON
SEASON 43. WE ARE GOING TO HELP VETERANS IN
NEED AND DONATE THAT MILLION DOLLARS TO THEM.
AND I'M FOREVER GRATEFUL THAT WE DID THIS.
>> GABLER! >> GABLER!
>> WOW. >> WE DID THIS, GUYS.
>> Probst: ALL RIGHT, WE'LL TAKE A QUICK BREAK.
WHEN WE COME BACK, IDOLS, I WANT TO HEAR THE STORY OF HOW YOU
PERSUADED PEOPLE TO GIVE YOU THOSES BEADS AND THEN WELL HE'S
TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE SEASON WHICH
INCLUDED THE IDOL, JESSE WHO DIDN'T FIND ANY BUT ENDED UP
WITH TWO. WE'LL TAKE A QUICK BREAK AND BE
RIGHT BACK, THE SURVIVOR 4 APROXIMATE AFTERSHOW.
>> CHEERS!
>> Probst: WELCOME BACK TO A LIVELY SURVIVOR 43 AFTERSHOW,
CASSIDY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE GREAT DESIGNS OF THIS GAME IS
THAT YOU HAVE TO LIVE TOGETHER AND RELY ON EACH OTHER AND THEN
GET RID OF EACH OTHER. AND THERE IS ONLY ONE WINNER.
>> YEAH. >> Probst: SO KNOWING YOU DID
ALL OF THIS WORK TO GET TO THE END AND YOU GOT ONE VOTE, ARE
YOU STILL PROUD OF THE GAME YOU PLAYED.
>> I AM, I WILL STAND BY MY GAME 100 PERCENT.
I DID EVERYTHING THAT I COULD. I PLAYED A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER
OF A GAME, JEFF, THAN I THOUGHT I EVER COULD HAVE COMING INTO
THIS. I REALLY JUST EVOLVED AS A
PERSON AND A PLAYER OUT HERE. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BECOME MY OWN
INSPIRATION IN THIS GAME. SO I WILL ALWAYS TAKE THAT WITH
ME. I ALWAYS BE PROUD OF MY GAME, I
WOON CHANGE ANYTHING, I WAISH-- GABE WAS PLAYING ME AS
WE WERE SITTING HERE, I THOUGHT I COULD HAVE BEATEN HIM BUT
AFTER THAT, I THOUGHT HE DID A GREAT JOB.
>> WHAT A GREAT LINE YOU JUST SAID, HAVE I BECOME MY OWN
INSPIRATION. BECAUSE WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT
OTHER PEOPLE THAT INSPIRE US. INSPIRE YOURSELF IS WHAT YOU ARE
SAYING AND YOU DID. CONGRATULATIONS.
>> THANK YOU. >> Probst: OWEN, WE DON'T TALK
ABOUT THIS MUCH BUT OFTEN PEOPLE GET NO VOTES.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THEIR GAME ISN'T RESPECTED.
WHAT IS YOUR FEELING RIGHT NOW WITH NOBODY PICKING YOUR NAME
FOR A WINNER? >> YOU KNOW, JEFF, I'M AT PEACE.
I WILL LEAF HERE WITH MY HEAD HELD HIGH.
I'M PROUD TO BE IN THE CLUB WITH FISHBACK AND TASHA AND THERE
HAVE BEEN PLENTY OF FANTASTIC SURVIVOR PLAYERS THAT HAVE BEEN
ZERO VOTE FINALISTS AND TO FIND MYSELF WITH SUCH A CRAPPY HAND
AT SO MANY POINTS IN THE GAME AND STILL OUTLAST 15 PEOPLE, I
AM PROUD OF WHAT I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OVER THE PAST 26
DAYS. >> Probst: AND YOU ARE GETTING
APPLAUSE. YOU HAVE PEOPLE RESPECT THAT.
>> YEAH. >> DEFINITELY.
>> Probst: SO I HAVE A QUESTION IN GENERAL JUST ABOUT
ADVANTAGES. ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO
DO WITH THIS NEW ERA IS REALLY BREAK THE GAME INTO A NEW WAY,
SO WE THREW A LOT OF TWISTS OUT THERE.
ARE THERE ANY THAT STICK OUT, LIKE JEANINE, DOES THE WE WARE
ADVANTAGE REALLY HAVE AN-- BEWARE ADVANTAGE REALLY
HAVE ADVANTAGE WHEN IT SAYS IN RED LETTERS HEADS UP.
>> YEAH, IT DOES. IT IS ALMOST LIKE YOU DON'T WANT
TO BE THE PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE ADVANTAGE AT THIS POINT, BUT
YOU WANT TO BE THE RIGHT-HAND MAN WHO, YOU KNOW, JESSE WAS,
WITH PEOPLE THROWING IDOLS AT HIM, LIKE IT IS HOT POTATOE
BECAUSE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT JAMES OR ANYONE WITH ALL THE
POWER COULD TAKE IT AWAY. SO IT IS ALMOST LIKE A FALSE
SENSE OF POWER OR SECURITY, WHICH YOU WANT TO PAWN OFF IN
ORDER TO HOPEFULLY GET BACK SOME DAY, WHICH I DIDN'T.
BUT YOU KNOW, THAT IS THE RISK YOU TAKE FOR THAT.
>> Probst: ALSO THE IDEA WITH FINDING THE IDOLS WAS YOU WOULD
HAVE TO USE YOUR SOCIAL CHARMS. COULD YOU PERSUADE, CAJOLE, YOU
COULD DEMAND, YOU COULD LIE BUT YOU COULDN'T STEAL THEM.
SO CODY, WHAT WAS YOUR APPROACH. >> MINE I GOT ABOUT AN HOUR
BEFORE THE FIRST TRIBAL. I GO FOR A WALK OH, HERE'S
SOMETHING. I DON'T EVEN READ THE WORD
BEWARE, I JUST SEE ADVANTAGE, RIP IT OPEN RIGHT THERE, AND
CAUGHT LIKE A DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS AND I RUN TO JESSE,
JESSE, I JUST MESSED UP. I PICK THE UP THE BEWARE
ADVANTAGE, LOST MY VOTE, AND JESSE LOOKED AT ME STRAIGHT IN
THE EYE, BRO, YOU GOT THIS, JUST GO BE YOU, I WILL START DOING
THINGS ON MY END. YOU ARE RIGHT, I GOT IT, NO
PROBLEM. SO WHEN I GET ON THE BEAD,
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I PUT THEM ON A BRACELET, I HAD
TO HIDE THE BEWARE ADVANTAGE. SO I GO ON THE TREE, A I GO I
LOST THE BEWARE ADVANTAGES I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE WRISTBAND
IS. I'M LOOKING FOR THE BEWARE
ADVANTAGE PAPERWORK. >> THAT I BURIED RIGHT OVER
HERE, I PUT MY BEADS IN IT AND MY-- .
>> AND I'M FREAKING, AT THIS POINT I GAVE UP AND GO BACK TO
CAMP, I'VE BEEN GONE FOR TWO LONG, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WILL
DO I REMEMBER SEEING JESSE, BRO, I THINK I LOST THE BRACELET.
AND HE'S LIKE I'M LINING UP WITH YOU.
ALIGNING UP WITH YOU TO START THIS GAME.
I WENT BACK AND ENDED UP FINDING IT.
>> I THE BEWARE ADVANTAGE, ST FOUND,-- RIDICULOUS.
I GOT TO GO FINISH. >> I SAID HEY MAN, THIS IS OUR
BRACELET, YOU COACHED ME, YOU NEED T IT IS YOUR, IF I NEED T
IT IS MINE. >> JESSE HAD A DIFFERENT TAKE ON
THAT WE GET OUR THREE IDOLS IN THE GAME.
THEY ARE NOT PLAYED UNTIL VERY LATE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE HAS EVER BEEN A SEASON WHERE THE FIRST
IDOL PLAYED WAS AT SIX PEOPLE LEFT.
BUT SHOW YOU WHO DIDN'T WIN A CHALLENGE, DIDN'T FIND AN IDOL,
END UP WITH TWO IDOLS, WALKING THROUGH BOTH SCENARIOS.
HOW DID YOU END UP WITH JEANINE'S BECAUSE THAT WAS THE
REAL SHOCKER. >> BAM BOOZEELED.
>> YEAH, SO JEANINE'S IDOL, WE HAD SET UP THE BLIND SIDE ON
DWIGHT AND AT THE TIME THERE WAS SO MUCH TALK ABOUT ADVANTAGES.
AND JAMES HAS THIS KNOWLEDGE OF POWER.
>> THE DREADED DEADLY KNOWLEDGE OF POWER.
>>. >> EVERYONE IS PLAYING MUSICAL
CAN CHAIRS WITH THEIR ADVANTAGES.
THE POPULAR ADVANTAGE, TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, JEANINE TOSSED
HER ADVANTAGE TO DWIGHT, AND DWIGHT IS VER NERVOUS AND RUNS
UP TO ME, JAMES SAW ME WITH JEANINE, SHE GAVE ME HER IDOL.
I DON'T WANT HIM TO SEE WITH ME, I'M GIVING IT TO YOU.
I THROW IT IN NIE BAG, ZIP IT UP, OKAY, WE'RE GOOD.
>> POOR DWIGHT. >> AND LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT
JESSE HAD THIS, AND HE COMES TO ME THAT NIGHT, AND IS WEARING IT
IN HIS BOFF TALKING TO ME. >> THERE IS ANOTHER HIDING SPOT
THAT WILL NEVER WORK IN A FUTURE SEASON.
>> NEVER AGAIN. >> Probst: SO JESSE, THERE IS
THE FIRST ONE, HOW DO YOU END UP WITH CODY.
>> CODY ALSO GAVE IT TO ME PRETTY EARLY ON IN THE MERGE,
DUDE, JAMES KNOW I HAVE THE IDOL, I WILL GIVE IT TO YOU, YOU
HOLD IT. HE GAVE IT TO ME, HE TRUSTED TO
ME, WE HAVE BEEN DOGS SINCE DAY ONE.
SO I HAD THE IDOL IN MY BAG FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
>> Probst: AS A SURVIVOR PLAYER TO HAVE TWO IDOLS THAT
EARLY, WHAT IS THAT FEELING? >> I MEAN I FELT PRETTY
POWERFUL. BUT LIKE I OBVIOUSLY DID NOT TRY
AND FLAUNT IT, JUST OBSERVING. >> WE TALKED ABOUT THE SILENT
ASSASSIN OF THE SEASON, THE ONE THAT SNEAKS IN THE BACK AND
POISONS THE KING ANDSLIPS OUT THE DOOR, THE WHOLE TIME.
JESSE. >> Probst: CODY, I GOT TO ASK,
SO AFTER THAT BRUTAL BLIND SIDE. >> LOVE YOU.
>> KEEPING THEM SEPARATE, WE ARE.
>> THERE SAY MOMENT I WILL NEVER FORGET.
YOU WENT TO GET YOUR TORCH AND JESSE WENT UP TO SHAKE YOUR
HAND. AND I WAS STANDING RIGHT HERE
WAITING FOR YOU. AND THERE WAS A MOMENT, AND I
THOUGHT HUH, WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO.
AND I FEEL LIKE I WATCHED YOU IN THAT MOMENT SAY, MY FRIENDSHIP
WITH THIS GUY IS GOING TO BE BIGGER THAN THIS MOMENT.
AND YOU PUT YOUR HAND OUT. SO WALK ME THROUGH, WHERE ARE
YOU TWO, BECAUSE I KNOW IT HURT. BUT IT REALLY SPEAKS TO THE
IDEA, IT IS JUST A GAME. >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, JESSE AND I
JOKE A LOT, AS WE STARTED THIS GAME TOGETHER, WE'RE GOING TO
FINISH IT TOGETHER. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN PLAYING
WHERE WE ARE LIKE SCHOOL AGE KIDS WHEN WE INTROAT WE WERE
FIST BUMP. SO WHEN THAT HAPPENED I AM LIKE
DAMN, I AM SO PROUD OF HIM FOR THAT MOVE, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE
RIGHT MOVE TO MAKE. AND YOU KNOW, IF ANYTHING, I WAS
LIKE HEY BRO, YOUR GAME WAS SO GOOD, THANKS FOR DRAGGING ME TO
THE FINAL. MI SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU KEPT ME
AROUND THAT LONG BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU I DON'T MAKE IT TO THE FINAL
6. >> Probst: CODY, HAVE I TO
APPLAUD THAT, THAT SAY BEAUTIFUL WAY TO FRAME THAT STORY, IT
REALLY IS. BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE COULD
HAVE TAKEN THAT A VERY DIFFERENT WAY.
ALL RIGHT, WE'LL TAKE A QUICK BREAK.
IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT APPLYING TO SURVIVOR, SAMI,
FIRST OF ALL, HOW OLD ARE YOU REALLY?
>> I'M 19 YEARS OLD. >> Probst: AND SAMI, GIVE ME
THE FIVE SECOND PITCH ON WHY SOMEBODY SHOULD APPLY TO BE ON
THIS SHOW. >> COME OUT AND TRY T AGE IS
JUST A NUMBER, COME OUT HERE AND DO IT.
>> I AGREE. >> Probst: A QUICK BREAK, MORE
SURVIVOR 43 AFTERSHOW. RIGHT AFTER THIS.
WHO NEEDS CHAMPAGNE.
>> Probst: ALL RIGHT, WELCOME BACK TO THE SURVIVOR AFTERSHOW.
MORE PIZZA MORE CHAMPAGNE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED ANYTHING,
ALL RIGHT NOELLE, YOU WERE OBVIOUSLY INOPERATIONAL, BECAUSE
OF YOUR LEG. BUT I JUST WANT TO A, SAY WE PUT
YOU ON THE SHOW BECAUSE YOU ARE A BAD ASS.
YOU PROVED THAT. I SAW YOUR LEG COME OFF IN ONE
CHALLENGE. DID YOU ONE CHALLENGE WITHOUT
IT, YOU HAD AN INCREDIBLE COMEBACK IN ANOTHER CHALLENGE
THAT YOU WON, THAT I GOT TO TELL YOU, I JUST WONDERED IF YOU WERE
GOING TO GET TO THE FINISH. >> SAME.
>> Probst: SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THAT, WHAT ARE YOU MOST
PROUD OF OVER YOUR TIME OUT HERE?
>> I MEAN AT HOME, I DOUBT MYSELF.
I'M SAYING TO MYSELF THERE IS NO WAY I WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT.
IT IS THE PEOPLE I SURROUND MYSELF WITH MY FAMILY, MY
BOYFRIEND, MY LOVED ONES, MY FRIENDS, MY COACHES, THEY ARE
THE ONES EGGING ME OUT, COMING ON HERE I'M LIKE I'M GOING TO BE
ALONE, NO ONE WILL BE ENCOURAGING ME.
BUT COMING OUT HERE IT WAS LIKE A GOT THE SUPPORT SYSTEM,
THOUGH, I LITERALLY NEVER FELT ALONE.
EVERYTHING I WAS DOING, EVERYTHING WAS EGGING ME ON,
LITERALLY SAYING YOU CAN DO THIS.
THAT CHALLENGE THAT I CAME FROM BEHIND, I HEARD EVERY SINGLE
PERSON CHEERING FOR ME, WHEN THEY ARE FRICKING TRYING TO WIN
THIS BIGGEST REWARD OF THE SEASON WITH THE FAMILY LOVED ONE
NOTES. >> Probst: THERE IS NOELLE.
NOELLE IN ONE MUCH THE BIGGEST COME BACKS IN THE
HISTORY-OF-SURVIVOR, HAS JUST WON THE BIGGEST REWARD OF THE
SEASON. THAT IS WHAT THIS GAME IS ABOUT,
RIGHT THERE. I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THINGS IN
43 SEASONS, THAT IS UP THERE AT THE TOP.
UNBELIEVABLE EFFORT. >> THAT WAS JUST REALLY
WHOLESOME, THAT REALLY JUST REALLY SPEAKS TO YOU AND THE
TYPE OF PEOPLE THEY HAVE PLAYING, THEY ARE TRYING TO WIN
A MILLION DOLLARS, YES, BUT THEY ARE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AT ME AND
BE LIKE THIS GIRL CAN DO THIS. SO YES, I DID HAVE THE SUPPORT
SYSTEM BUT I WAS ALSO THINKING IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD, I NEED
TO KEEP TELLING MYSELF I CAN DO THIS, BECAUSE IF I DON'T THERE
IS NO WAY I WILL BE ABLE TO BELIEVE IN MYSELF.
AND STRUGGLING WITH THAT AT HOME IS SOMETHING I A HUNDRED PERCENT
GO THROUGH. >> THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING
BECAUSE GIVEN YOUR AGE AND YOUR PERSONALITY AND THAT YOU ARE AN
ATHLETE, YOU HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE THAT SAY YOU ININSPIRE ME, AND
SHOWING ME I CAN DO THAT. AND AND I LOVE HEARING THAT EVEN
YOU, WHO ARE INSPIRING TO OTHERS YOU STILL NEED TO INSPIRE
YOURSELF, LIKE CASSIDY SAY, ST A GREAT TAKEAWAY FROM THIS GAME.
LEADS ME TO QUARLA EVERY SO OFTEN THERE IS ONE SEASON THAT
GETS BANGED UP, WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF OUT HERE.
>> THE ONE THING THAT I AM THE MOST PROUD OF IS THE
DETERMINATION TO KEEP GOING. REGARDLESS OF HOW BAD I FEEL,
LIKE WITH MY FINGER, LIKE I WAS FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I AM LIKE HOW
IS THIS POSSIBLE. BUT IT WAS REALLY ABOUT HOW CAN
I KEEP MY MIND STABLE LEADED ENOUGH TO SAY YOU CAN.
>> Probst: SO TAKE ME INSIDE THAT MOMENT.
BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT SURVIVOR IS IT PUSHES ITS
PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO COME OUT HERE AND TRY IT TO GO
FURTHER THAN YOU WOULD EVER NORMALLY GO.
SO YOU ARE HAVING THIS MOMENT NOW WHERE YOU HAVE TO SAY I CAN
DO THIS. I CAN OVERCOME THIS OBSTACLE.
>> EXACTLY. THERE IS A MOMENT I REMEMBER
WITH THE BRICK CHALLENGE, THE ONE THAT I ACTUALLY WON.
AND I WAS LIKE I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT BEFORE SURVIVOR,
RIGHT, I LOST 20 POUNDS BEFORE COMING ON SURVIVOR, RIGHT.
SO I WAS LIKE I KNOW I CAN MOVE AROUND AND CONTORT AND USE THESE
MUSCLES, YOU KNOW. AND KNOW THAT THE PRESSURE THAT
I STILL KEEP PUTTING ON THIS, DESPITE HOW LOW I CAN GET,
RIGHT, AND THE LESS PRESSURE I PUT ON THIS FINGER, THE MORE I
CAN KEEP IT GOING. BUT IT WAS REALLY A PRIKING
PUSH, LIKE YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL IN LIFE, BUT IF YOU CAN
JUST KEEP GOING, BECAUSE THERE IS NO MUCH SELF-DOUBT, I THOUGHT
COMING ON TO THIS THIS GAME YOU WERE GOING TO SAY THIS IS THE
BIGGEST GIRL HERE, WE ARE GOING TO GET LETTER OUT, SHE IS WEAK,
I WILL HAVE TO DOLE WOULD THAT, A THE FIRST VOTED OUT, THAT IS
WHAT I THOUGHT, BUT YOU ALL CHEER IMMEDIATE AND SAID NO YOU
ARE THE STRONGEST GIRL HAVE I SEEN HERE.
>> WE THOUGHT YOU WERE A POWER LIFTER.
>> YOU THINK I'M STRONG. I THINK I'M THE WEAKEST ONE.
AND THAT WAS MOTIVATION ENOUGH TO KEEP ME GOING IN THIS GAME.
AND I THINK I PROVED THAT LIKE DESPITE WHAT I THINK OF MYSELF,
AND WHAT MY BODY THINKS OF MYSELF, I CAN DO WHATEVER IT
TAKES TO GET AS FAR AS I CAN. >> Probst: WELL DONE.
ALL RIGHT, WE WILL TAKE ANOTHER QUICK BREAK, BY THE WAY, IF YOU
HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SAY TO US AT SURVIVOR, WE WANT TO
HEAR FROM YOU. SO WRITE TO US, SURVIVOR SHOUT
OUT@GMAIL AND LET'S US KNOW, STILL TO COME IN THE SURVIVOR 43
AFTERSHOW, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO WANT TO HEAR THIS.
IT IS YOUR FIRST LOOK AT SURVIVOR 44.
WE'LL TAKE A QUICK BREAK AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. LET ME TOP
OFF EVERYBODY. COME ON.
WE HAVE MORE DRINKING TO DO.
>> Probst: WELCOME BACK, HERE SAY QUESTION FOR THE GROUP, THE
EMOTION, DID YOU HAVE A MOMENT. >> I AM NOT A SUPEREMOTIONAL
PERSON IN REAL LIFE, LITERALLY I DON'T CRY, AND I BROKE DOWN,
LIKE I BROKE DOWN IN TEARS, LIKE MY BIRTHDAY AND MOTHER'S DAY.
AND THEN YOU ARE OUT HERE, AND THE ONLY PEOPLE YOU CAN LEAN ON
ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR TRIBE. AND THEY HELD ME UP AND YOU
CAN'T UNDERESTIMATE THE BONDS THAT YOU CAN BUILD BY BEING
VULNERABLE. COMING WITH THAT VULNERABILITY,
YOU ARE GOING TO CRY, EVERYTHING IS STRIPPED FROM YOU. AND THIS
IS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. >> Probst: OWEN, JAMES JUST
SAID SOMETHING THAT NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT, WHICH IS THE BONDS
YOU CAN MAKE IF YOU ARE WILLING TO BE VULNERABLE.
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> Probst: YOU HAD TO FEEL
VULNERABLE BECAUSE YOU WERE ON THE BOTTOM MOST OF THE GAME.
>> YEAH, I WAS. I MEAN I SAID THIS BEFORE, I
WILL SAY IT AGAIN. I MR. SO HARD ON MYSELF IN MY
REAL LIFE. AND BEING AROUND THESE AMAZING
PEOPLE WHO LIFTED ME UP AT MY LOWEST MOMENTS WHO GAVE ME THE
CONFIDENCE THAT I DIDN'T HAVE IN MYSELF, I MEAN SURVIVORS YOU TO
YOUR CORE AND SHOWS YOU WHO YOU ARE, BUT IT ALSO SHOWS YOU HOW
YOU CAN BE BETTER AND THAT YOU ARE MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
AND THAT YOU CAN LEAVE THIS EXPERIENCE A BETTER PERSON NO
MATTER HOW MANY VOTES YOU GET AT FINAL TRIBAL, NO MATTER WHAT
PLACE YOU GET, YOU CAN TAKE SOMETHING AWAY AND BE MORE A
MORE VULNERABLE, EMOTIONAL, SECH CONFIDENT PERSON, AND TO ME THAT
WAS WORTH A MILLION DOLLARS, 100 PERCENT.
>> Probst: BECAUSE YOU OPENED THE DOOR, LET'S JUST THINK ABOUT
ALL THE MOMENT, THE TEMPER TANTRUM AT THE FINAL FIVE
RIDDLE. YOU BENT YOUR FORK AT THE FINAL
FOUR CHALLENGE. >> I WAS S-O-L.
>> I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STCK THE BOWLS AT A 90-DEGREE
POLE. >> Probst: SO WHEN YOU THINK
OF THOSE MOMENTS DO YOU LAUGH AT THEM OR IS IT ALSO A LITTLE BIT
A TEACHING MOMENT FOR YOU. >> HUNDRED PERCENT THE LATTER,
JEFF. I MEAN I CAN LAUGH IT OFF AS OH,
I'M THIS FIERY PERSON, I TAKE MYSELF TOO SERIOUSLY.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT REALLY IS AN INTROSPECTIVE TIME TO SAY
LIKE WHY DO I DO THERE? THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH
FAILURE. FILURE IS A PART OF LIFE.
I FAILED AT SURVIVOR BUT CAN I WALK OUT OF HERE WITH MY CHIN.
>> WAIT. >> NO, NO, WE ALL FAILED EXCEPT
GABLER. >> I RESPECT THAT BUT YOU DIDN'T
FAIL, MY GUY. >> Probst: OWEN, IF I MAY, AS
THE ONLY ONE OUT HERE LISTENING TO ALL OF YOU TALK, YOU JUST DID
THE THING YOU SAID YOU WOULD NEVER DO AGAIN.
>> EXACTLY. >> Probst: I.
>> I LOST. >> Probst: LOSING IS DIFFERENT
THAN FAILING. >> I WON IN MANY, MANY WAY, THE
BIGGEST WIN I'M TAKING AWAY IS KNOWING, AND I'M STILL LEARNING,
CLEARLY, IS TO GIVE MYSELF MORE CREDIT AND SHOW MYSELF MORE
GRAITION. >> Probst: WE ALL NEED TO DO
THAT. >> 100 PERCENT.
>> Probst: WHICH LEADS ME TO YOU, JESSE, BECAUSE YOU WERE
VERY VULNERABLE IN SHARING WITH EVERYBODY THAT MY CIRCLE IS
TIGHT. I'M NOT LIKE A LOT OF YOU THAT
MIGHT HAVE A BIG SOCIAL ROLLODECKS, I GOT MY LITTLE
GROUP AND THAT'S ALL I NEED. IT SOUNDS LIKE HAD YOU GOTTEN TO
THE END, YOU WOULD HAVE WON THIS GAME.
BUT THE TAKEAWAY, WHAT IS THE TAKEAWAY FOR YOU ABOUT THE VALUE
THAT PEOPLE SEE IN YOU? HOW MUCH THEY LIKE YOU.
>> LET ME TRY AND GATHER MY THOUGHTS HERE, BECAUSE I WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT I'M CLEAR. SO LIKE I TOLD EVERYBODY, I HAD
TO SORT OF PIVOT MY WHOLE LIFE TRAJECTORY.
LIKE I STARTED OFF AS A TEENAGER, I WAS VOFERRED IN A
GAPPING, IN JUVENILE HALL, I WAS HEADED DOWN A PATH THAT WOULD
HAVE LED ME TO PRI SOFNLT I SORT OF PIVOTED.
I ENDED UP GOING TO BERKELEY AND GOING TO DUKE AND CREATING THIS
AMAZING FAMILY. SO I KEPT THIS SMALL
CIRCUMSTANCE WELL JUST ME, MY WIFE AND TWO KIDS.
AND I DON'T BRANCH OUT OF THAT MUCH.
BECAUSE I DO ENJOY THAT SMALL CIRCLE.
I DO LOVE THEM AND THAT IS SORT OF MY CORE, MY MOTIVATION AND
COMING OUT HERE, THE VERY FIRST DAY, I WAS LIKE ABSOLUTELY
TERRIFIED BECAUSE LIKE I'M AROUND ALL OF THESE STRANGERS.
AND I DON'T KNOW, I STRUGGLE WITH IMPOSTOR SYNDROME BACK
HOME, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS I HAVE HAD, I
JUST FEEL LIKE AN IMPOSTOR. COMING OUT HERE I'M ON A BEACH
WITH FIVE OTHER STRANGERS. I'M FREAKING OUT, OH MY GOD, I
ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW IF I CAN DO THIS, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE
ACTUALLY GOING TO LIKE ME. BUT I JUST PROMISED MYSELF WHEN
I CAME OUT HERE I WOULD BE AS GENUINE AS I POSSIBLY COULD BE.
I WOULD JUST BE HONEST ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT MAY SELF.
AND I DID, AND LIKE EVERYBODY LOVED ME.
>> IT WORKED. >> AND YOU KNOW, IT FELT LIKE,
GOOD, AND THEN LIKE YOU GET PASSED LIKE THE FIRST TRIBAL AND
AND YOU ARE LIKE OKAY, THIS IS COOL, PEOPLE SEEM TO LIKE ME AND
WORK WITH ME. THE NEXT, OKAY, THIS IS LIKE
WEIRD, PICKING UP STEAM HERE, YOU GET PAST THE MERGE.
OH MY GOD, I FEEL LIKE I'M DOING REALLY GOOD WITH PLIE SOCIAL
GAME, AND TOWARDS THE END, OH MY GOD,IVE HAVE MASTERED THE SOCIAL
GAME. I HAVE TWO IDOLS IN MY BAG AND
LIKE EVERYBODY WANTS TO WORK WITH ME.
AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SEE THE FINISH LINE AND LIKE YOU CAN
JUST FEEL LIKE, FROM THE JURY, THAT LIKE, IT'S JUST LIKE OH MY
GOD, I MIGHT WIN THIS THING. AND IT IS JUST BASED OFF OF ME
BEING ME. AND IT IS JUST SO AMAZING.
SO EVEN THOUGH I CAME UP SHORT, I DID, LIKE, WIN THIS SORT OF
LIKE CONFIDENCE IN MYSELF, THE SORT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE I
CAN DO IT. >> I COULD NOT HAVE PUT THAT
BETTER. >> WELL SAID DUDE, WELL SAID.
>> SO WELL SAID. >> Probst: CODY, I WILL GIVE
YOU THE FINAL WORD. I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT YOU ALWAYS
SURPRISE ME. WHAT IS THE LAST STATEMENT FOR
SURVIVOR 43. >> WOW.
>> CHEESIER FOR THE GREATEST MOVE EVER MADE-- CHEESE FOR
SURVIVOR FOR THE GREATEST MOVE BY THE LEGEND GABLER.
>> SEASON 43! >> Probst: I WILL TOAST THAT
AS WELL AS ONE SEASON COMES TO AN END, ANOTHER BEGINS.
HERE IS YOUR FIRST LOOK AT SURVIVOR 44.
>> I THINK THE BIGGEST LESSEN THAT I LEARNED FROM WATCHING
SURVIVOR OVER THE YEARS IS THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM,
WHETHER YOU HAVE MONEY, IF YOU ARE A GUY, A GIRL, IF YOU ARE A
GAY DAD LIKE ME, ANYONE CAN COME HERE AND HAVE THE DRIVE AND CAN
SUCCEED. YOU JUST HAVE TO WANT IT.
YOU HAVE TO WANT TO GO FOR IT. YOU HAVE TO BE JUST FEARLESS.
I KNOW THAT IT IS GOING TO BE CRAZY.
I AM JUST GOING TO KEEP HOLDING ON, EVEN IF I HAVE ONLY GOT ONE
ARM. >> I DID PLAY IN THE NFL FOR THE
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS BUT I CONSIDER MYSELF A RENAISSANCE MAN.
I PLAY PIANO, I COOK, I FLY PLANES, SO I AM GOING TO BE A
SAFFAGE WITH GRACE. >> I'M STUDYING TO BE A ROCKET
SCIENTIST WITH NASA TO PREPARE FOR SURVIVOR I READ FBI
INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. >> THIS IS THE EXPERIENCE FOR
ME, I'M SOAKING UP EVERY MOMENT, I'M TOUCHING EVERY PIECE OF SAND
AND LOOKING AT EVERY SING HE-- SINGLE ROCK AND I'M ROUND
RUBBING IT, IT IS ALL THAT STUFF!
>> I GOT THE BIGGEST SURVIVAL WOULD BE AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE
BUT IT'S REALLY THE ELEMENTS, THE CHALLENGES.
THIS IS HARD, SURVIVOR IS REAL. >> I EXPECTED TO COME IN AND BE
CHALLENGED. AND IT IS THAT PLUS A LOT MORE.
>> EVERYBODY STOP! MEDICAL.
>> STILL WITH US, RIGHT. >> KEEP BREATHING.
>> OH MY GOD. >> IF THIS DUBILITIES BOND US, I
DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL. >> THESE 18 STRANGERS HAVE
AGREED TO BE ABANDONED AND LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES.
THEY WILL BE STRIPPED TO THEIR CORE, IN ONE OF OUR MOST
INTENSE, UNPREDICTABLE, INSPIRATIONAL.
>> TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER OUT HERE, GUY.
>> AND ENTERTAINING SEASONS OF SURVIVOR.
>> SOUNDS SO EXCITING. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE JEFF, I
CAN'T WAIT TO NOT EAT. NOT SHOWER.
NOT BRUSH MY TEETH. POOP IN THE OCEAN, BRING IT.
>> SURVIVOR 44 PREMIERS MARCH 1S ON CBS AND PARAMOUNT PLUS.
>> IF YOU WANT TO BID ON PROPS FROM THE SEASON LIKE THIS GIANT
PIECE OF PARCHMENT SIGNED BY OUR S43 WINNER GABLER AND EVERYBODY
ELSE, YOU CAN DO STO. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR LOYALTY TEE, WE WILL SEE YOU IN THE SPRING
FOR SURVIVOR 44. LET'S DO IT.
CONGRATULATIONS, EVERYBODY. >> WHAT A SEASON!
PLZ ONE LAST TOAST.
SEASON 43! YOU GUYS ARE NUTS!