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JEFF PROBST: We're onboard a 38-squadron Caribou DHC-4 military aircraft

on loan from the Royal Australian Air Force.

Normally, these planes

are used to rescue people

in dangerous, life-threatening situations.

Today, however, we have a different mission.

These 16 Americans are about to be abandoned.

This plane will land

in the heart of one of the most unforgiving places

anywhere on earth-- the Australian outback.

For the next 42 days, they'll be left to fend for themselves,

forced to work together to create a new society

while battling the elements and each other.

They must learn to adapt,

or they'll be voted from the tribe.

In the end, one will remain

and will claim the million-dollar prize.

42 days, 16 people...

one survivor.

( retching )

As this plane touches down

on a remote strip of land in the Australian outback,

these 16 strangers begin the adventure of a lifetime.

They have never spoken to each other,

and the rules state they must remain quiet

until after the plane has landed, dropped them off

and abandoned them.

They have been separated

into two competing tribes: Kucha and Ogakor.

One crate of supplies awaits each tribe,

and once the plane has taken off,

they will have only five minutes

to salvage whatever they can carry.

They then face a grueling five-mile hike

that will take them deep

into the outback and their new homes

for the next 42 days.

All right!

The Kucha tribe, which will always wear blue,

consists of Kimmi Kappenberg, a bartender from Long Island;

Michael Skupin, a father

and software publisher and distributor

from White Lake, Michigan;

Alicia Calaway, a personal trainer from New York City;

Rodger Bingham, a farmer and school teacher

from Crittenden, Kentucky;

Elisabeth Filarski, a footwear designer

from Newton, Massachusetts;

Nick Brown, a Harvard law student from San Francisco,

Debb Eaton, a corrections officer

from Berlin, New Hampshire;

and Jeff Varner, an Internet projects manager

from Greensboro, North Carolina.

Whoo!

So cold.

JEFF: Ogakor tribe, which will always wear green,

consists of Maralyn Hershey,

a retired police officer from Wakefield, Virginia;

Colby Donaldson, an auto customizer

from Christoval, Texas;

Amber Brkich, an administrative assistant

from Beaver, Pennsylvania;

Mitchell Olson, a singer-songwriter

from Vermillion, South Dakota;

Tina Wesson, a mother and personal nurse

from Knoxville, Tennessee;

Keith Famie, a chef from West Bloomfield, Michigan;

Jerri Manthey, an aspiring actress from Los Angeles;

and Kel Gleason, an Army intelligence officer

from Fort Hood, Texas.

( cheering )

Wait, guys, there's got a be a way to prop it open, I think.

"Welcome to the Australian Outback.

"As of right now, you are

completely cut off from the outside world."

"These are the only supplies you'll be given.

"Choose wisely, since you still have a long way to carry them.

"Fresh water is essential to your survival.

"Unfortunately,

"all of the water you will need

"for the next few days

"must be taken from your box

"because the river water must be boiled,

and you may not be able to make a fire."

We're Kucha? Kucha?

Ogakor. Ogre Kor.

Ogakor.

We have the map.

I guess we're starting here. Yeah.

Okay, that's north.

How much do you need?

I don't know the names yet.

In the green hat right here.

Can you help her get one side of this undone?

Can we pee soon?

Take every,

every, everything.

Come on, guys, we need to go now.

Grab something, all right?

All right, we'll get it, we'll get it.

JEFF: The tribes will split up and head in opposite directions.

Their camps are situated four miles apart

along the shore of the Herbert River.

Each beach has a flag and a canoe.

Finding these sites will be the first unofficial challenge

for the new survivors. KIMMI: Whoever's got the compass?

Okay, northeast we have to go?

NICK: It seems like it's not,

but, okay...

That's north. That's north right now,

so northeast is, like, across back that way.

That way. We're going the wrong way.

We're going the wrong way.

ALICIA: When they dropped us off,

you know, everybody was designated a certain thing

to do, and, uh, they gave Nick the compass.

For some reason...

although the compass said one way...

we kept going the wrong way.

DEBB: Tell me something-- he's telling me

we're moving this way.

According to the compass, are we moving in the right direction?

ALICIA: Absolutely, all the way, baby.

KIMMI: I think we should check, like, every...

All right, then, that's where we're going.

Nick? Nick?

Stay in the front, Nick, and keep us going north

to northeast, okay,

but keep us going north...

There's a... there's a beaten path.

DEBB: What's your name again?

Mike. ALICIA: Mike.

Let's just stop for one second and look at the map

All right, all right. and look at the compass.

All right. Just to make sure,

'cause it's a long ways to where we're going.

NICK: Even from the beginning, I was finding, like,

people were automatically getting on people's nerves.

Um, yeah, we were walking through the grass,

and Kimmi was like, "I can't stand, uh, Debb."

See, if we're going southwest,

how are we going to hit the dry creek bed?

KIMMI: Because that's north!

That's right, so we're not going to hit it

unless we go that way.

KIMMI: Debb's not even a bad person.

She means well.

It's just she's not somebody that,

in the outside world, that I would talk to, because...

she'd make me crazy.

When you traverse something

that I could bust my butt on, let me know.

The hike, uh... it was a little

intimidating.

Um, I was afraid,

"Good grief, what if I get so winded that I can't keep up?"

Do you see the flag?

Wait a minute, hang on.

You all right, Maralyn?

That trek let me know that this was for real.

That was a long trek we had through deep sand

with a lot of heavy equipment, and I was packing more weight

than anyone else, so I was really struggling.

It was a long trip, and that was...

that fired me up, because that is the quickest way

to find out what people are made of.

( groans )

I'm a little tired.

This rice is very heavy.

I really want to get there soon.

KEITH: We don't know how far away we are,

so I'm going to run up this and do a little reconnaissance,

see if we can't find out where we're at.

I figure if it's really far, we'll drape

some of our stuff here, and we won't take it.

If we're not far, then we'll buck up and get it there.

Yeah, I'm going to keep going.

We're just going to follow the creek bed here,

and, uh, make sure if it looks like it's getting

too dark, you turn back and come get us.

JERRI: Keith actually ran ahead

to go scout out where the camp was,

'cause we were all getting pretty tired,

and the last leg of that walk was really difficult.

COLBY: I wish the snakes would...

Never let 'em see you sweat.

( birds chirping )

Keith? KEITH: I'm here.

Okay, what do you see?

KEITH: I found it.

Oh, my God! Yay! Let's go!

Whoo!

( laughing and chattering )

( whooping )

( cheering )

Yeah!

( grunts )

( talking happily )

JEFF V.: I'm feeling really weak,

and, um, on the verge of throwing up

just ever since I got here.

It started with the plane flight.

In the beginning, it was really fun,

and it was kind of cool and groovy,

and I was enjoying the ride, and then all of a sudden,

I just got sort of nauseous, and I kept thinking to myself,

"I'm not going to get sick. I'm not going to get sick.

I will not throw up."

So I sort of went into this little zone

and breathed, and I don't remember any of it.

KIMMI: Rodger carried one of the big water jugs.

Mike had a big water jug.

Poor Elisabeth had the board on her head,

and then I had the eight

bottled waters wrapped around me,

so the-the four of us kind of got separated

from the other four when we were walking to our campground.

ELISABETH: I mean, everything was heavy to carry.

You can't discount any of our equipment as easy

to carry, but some of it was just more awkward.

And some of the crossings, we had to go, you know,

down a sharp valley of rocks and up again, and kind of wind

and balance across a river.

And it was frustrating, too,

but with the water jugs and,

you know, the water canteens, and...

I mean, that stuff is just awkward.

KIMMI: Oh, I see the flag.

Oh, my God!

Welcome to our home.

( laughing )

Right up there.

KIMMI: When we arrived,

it was just a moment of ecstasy,

'cause it's like, "Yes! I've worked this far

just to see this silly thing." I mean...

And not just physically from here,

but just mentally preparing yourself for the whole journey,

like, all the airplane flights

from New York to California to Australia,

from the other part of Australia to here to there.

You know, there were just so many things in sequence

to get you to that flag

that just being at that flag is just an accomplishment.

( yells )

( cheering )

( thunder rumbling )

We should be up in the trees to some degree.

There's no shelter here at all.

ELISABETH: As soon as we got out of the river,

I think we just... this kind of realization.

We got a little cold,

and we realized that we're going to...

We have to sleep somewhere,

and we just wanted to feel a little safe and dry.

So we got to work as much as we could

on building the basis of a home.

We got enough rocks here, too!

We could build a pretty decent shelter just using rocks!

( groans )

It's going to make it softer to sleep on.

KIMMI: Want to see a what?

That means there's snakes in there.

When we started building the shelter,

I thought everybody started chipping in,

because there was the wood gatherers,

and there was the people

that were building, and, uh, I had worked a lot of,

uh, you know, some construction in my life,

and I-I had a reasonable sense of, uh, of-of construction.

What we're going to have to do

is just cut little holes in here,

and then just tie it around the top here

about this high, so that we can just make it right here.

Um, we need one to go right about halfway

up along this support right here.

DEBB: It seems like

one individual in the group is...

ordering everybody around.

And if you guys haven't figured it out, it's Mike.

Rodger, get the level out and see how we're doing.

DEBB: You can't have one person step in

and start ordering everybody around,

'cause it's not going to play, and it's not playing right now,

and not just with me, but with others.

Push that up a little bit, Rodger, so I can...

Push this up a little bit.

DEBB: Rodger used to build homes.

Rodger is the one who helped

to build this shelter.

He knows what he's doing.

Well, Mike comes over and starts telling him

how to build it,

and-and Rodger was like, "No, that isn't going to work."

...going to give us fall this way plus both directions.

I mean, do you think

it's enough of a pitch here to...

so the rain's going to come off good?

( grunts softly )

We're never going to want to leave this place.

I don't know about that.

AMBER: I think we're good.

Yeah, we're doing really well.

KEITH: All right, so,

what makes the most sense as far as building

where we'd want to live?

Do we want to live by the water, or do we

want to take a walk up in the high ground?

Well, there's a lot of electrical storms.

AMBER: Yeah, good point.

KEITH: There'll be a lot of bugs down by the water though.

We want to, definitely, be under

some trees, 'cause, I mean...

when the sun comes out, it's going to be hot.

Probably the sun

is going to be out at certain times,

so at certain times, there's still going to be shade,

based on the position of the sun.

KEITH: As soon as we hit the beach,

it was really kind of amazing.

Collectively, we all dispersed to do something different.

JERRI: When we got to our camp,

I was considering at that point

anything and everything anybody was doing or saying

as a strategic move.

MITCHELL: Colby-- his luxury item

was the Texan flag, which was great,

because it served as the tarp that covers...

covers us and blocks us from the wind and the sun.

COLBY: I really did bring the flag

to serve as shelter, but, you know,

don't get me wrong.

When I wake up in the morning,

there's two things I'm thankful for.

I'm thankful I'm alive, and I'm thankful I'm a Texan.

JERRI: It's not going to work.

We don't need to risk ripping this

if there's a stick that's two inches shorter.

Yeah, you don't need to go that far, though.

No, but it's not going to stay

is what I'm saying.

The tension between Keith and I...

I think him and I kind of... rubbed each other the wrong way.

Watch, right here, watch.

Let me just show you.

Right there. It's sticking now.

That's-that's working.

And before, it was here.

But we put it on the grommet

for a reason-- so that the flag wouldn't rip.

You won't be able to go through that

on a flat surface.

JERRI: Keith and I didn't start off on a very good foot,

just because of some of the condescending remarks

he made to me, and he might very well not even be aware

that he does it, but I'm not the kind of person

to just let it slide off my back.

All right, all right.

MICHAEL: You got to share something about yourself

that's really embarrassing.

ALICIA: Embarrassing, or just deep?

I just got naked in a tent

with a bunch of strangers.

RODGER: That's what I was getting ready to say.

ALICIA: Give us the dirt, girl.

Like boyfriend, husband, wife.

KIMMI: Okay-- A) not married.

Don't believe in marriage until I'm 35.

ALICIA: Okay, don't say you're a virgin,

'cause I swear to God, I'll...

I'll tell you what my main concern was--

where the hell am I going to masturbate out here with...

( laughter )

MICHAEL: You have got to be kidding me!

DEBB: Kimmi is a happy-go-lucky person who's got...

I-I don't even know how to describe her.

I don't know what the right word is.

You know, nothing is taboo with her-- nothing at all.

KIMMI: Listen to me!

You guys might like a skin wig, however...

on occasion.

JEFF V.: Kimmi will not shut up.

You know, I'm tired at night.

I want to go to sleep, and they're constantly talking.

And with the headache that I have,

it just reverberates.

Kimmi cannot say a single thing without screaming it.

KIMMI: All right, someone just stuck their finger in my...

DEBB: Well, it was on my head.

JEFF: All of a sudden, out of the blue,

with that accent that just talks

and talks and talks and talks...

I just want to grab her by the neck

and shake the... out of her, you know?

KIMMI: Oh, my God, I love you!

I can take my braids out!

And you had a threesome.

We were back to back.

You farted in my... and rebounded it!

MICHAEL: I think we're starting

to get to know each other,

and people are not accustomed to this kind of lifestyle yet.

I'm a little accustomed to this lifestyle,

because I do hunt and I do fish and I do camp,

so it's not that foreign to me.

Kucha, we got food!

Oh, my God.

Right, like, right under our noses.

Yeah, I think you can eat 'em.

When I saw those figs, it was a big rush.

And two or three people came over

and helped pick the figs,

and we brought 'em back, and, uh...

I bit into one right off the tree.

( spitting )

( yelling )

Don't...! ( spitting )

What? What? What?

Don't bite into one.

Dang fruit flies.

I know.

Well, we're going to put the...

KIMMI: Can we eat 'em green?

Look at that.

DEBB: That's not bugs, is it?

MICHAEL: No, that's not bugs.

I'm looking at bugs.

DEBB: Bugs are all over the place here with this.

Mike, he opens up these figs, and he's...

showing us these bugs, and I'm just wanting

to eat that thing so bad 'cause I'm starving,

and these bugs are just creepy, and flying around,

and I don't eat anyth... you know, I-I cook my food.

ALICIA: If bugs don't fly out,

I'm going to eat them.

Speak for yourself, baby.

DEBB: We very well might

be cold and hungry tonight,

but not if we can help it.

The fire is the most important

thing for survival.

We need to eat, and we need to boil water.

That's all I care about.

If we put enough sand in there, I think it's good.

MICHAEL: Well, the problem is we get too much sand in here...

It's dumping on all of our tinder.

This wood's not going to catch fire.

The tinder's going to catch fire.

But if you keep putting sand in there,

it puts out the tinder.

DEBB: I know, it's just that

the book said you needed friction.

KIMMI: Debb works very hard,

and she means well, but she's like,

"Well, in the camping book, it says to do it like this."

And you know what? We could have the wrong wood.

We could have the wrong rocks, something.

She's making herself an authority on something

actively on what she read, and not on actually doing.

Had she went and practiced

this stuff at home,

I would take her opinion a lot more, you know, seriously.

RODGER: One thing we tried to do in starting the fire

was use my Bible, which I had brought along.

It was my luxury item.

And, uh, we tore some pages out of it.

Uh, it wasn't the pages

that actually had any scripture in it,

but I would've used that.

You know, if you're... you got to do with what you got.

Next? I don't know.

RODGER: Yeah. There's a letter

from my son-in-law he wrote me.

Read it.

I don't have my glasses.

Do you want me to read it to you out loud...?

I don't care.

I don't have my glasses.

"Dear Dad, best of luck.

"You have many people who believe

"you can do anything you put your mind to.

"Just be yourself.

"Things'll be fine in Kentucky.

"Focus on your task at hand.

"You can do this.

"It's not going to be easy,

"but a challenge such as this shouldn't be easy.

Just try your best."

It says, "K.J.A."

And then he put in parentheses "141,"

so I don't know if that...

RODGER: 141? Oh!

ALICIA: That's pretty cool.

You got love notes.

RODGER: That was a nice

little piece of home

when you least, least expect it, you know.

Then it said go to page 200, and then go to page 150,

and we went through that

about seven or eight times, I think, till we...

till we finally came to the end.

Can you give us the page of the burning bush?

And it was a little sentimental for me,

to tell you the truth, to hear it.

I think you wrote the book, huh?

KEITH: My son is in Cub Scouts.

If I start this fire, I will be his hero.

( laughter )

Ooh, this side got hot.

JERRI: Are we far enough away from the water to make a fire?

This is what I was going to say, right here.

Oh, it doesn't... I think we start the fire,

we can take it anywhere we want to.

We pull off making the fire...

Well, I don't even really

want to attempt to start it

until we get it where we want to keep it.

Yeah. 'Cause if we move it, it's going out.

Well, let me keep trying on this.

If you get lucky, and you spark that thing,

and it's ready to go, and you try

and pick it up and move it, and we don't have

anywhere to put it, then...

KEITH: Then I can just keep it burning here

and a little one going, and we can always move this.

All right, I'm going to go see if I can find a better place.

Bad news.

KEITH: I've never started a fire

before from scratch, but, you know,

I knew nightfall was coming.

We'd have no light, and we'd be able to cook nothing, um...

and we wouldn't have a bonfire, so it was...

it was pretty critical.

COLBY: Keith is just licking his chops.

He's wanting to cook so bad, he can't stand it,

and so you can bet he's going to work

on this fire thing until we lick it.

AMBER: Uh-oh.

Oh.

Since Jerri and I had our little confrontation before,

I thought, you know, this is a great time

to get her involved with this process,

to be a part of it somehow,

with something she brought that was important to her.

Fire.

Ah!

Don't come away!

JERRI: Whoo!

I can feel it.

JERRI: Whoo!

Oh, my God! Let go.

Oh, my God!

JERRI: Wow.

Are you guys okay?

MARALYN: Until we can get a fire and boil water...

we're not going to be eating much of anything.

I got the mail...

No way!

( cheering )

All right! Read it. Read it to me.

Oh, my God. All right, what does it say?

"You expected dry weather,

"but then you slept in the rain,

"and you can't get a spark no matter how hard you strain.

"To get your tribe's fire,

"pay heed to this note: Yes!

the winners take matches; the losers cast the first vote."

Oh! Yeah!

We are getting matches!

When, though? When? We are definitely...

Matches! All right, we just got our notice

for the first immunity challenge,

and we're going to go kick some butt,

'cause we're all together on this,

and we're going to go get us some fire,

and we're going to go, uh, get us some food.

Fire means food, so that's what we're going to go do.

We're going to go there, we're going to fight hard and win.

ELISABETH: Winning immunity is the most important thing.

We need to...

beat, beat, beat the other tribe.

We'll let them eliminate someone on their team first.

MITCHELL: This immunity challenge is extremely important,

because we have to show the other team that we're better,

you know, and plus, we have to have fire

in order to start eating rice.

JEFF: What's up, guys?

Gather up.

So, uh, anybody have any luck with fire?

No luck. We came close.

Almost. We got a lot of smoke.

All right, I got something that's going to help the smoke.

Waterproof matches.

One of the things we're playing for tonight,

right here, a little canister full.

We're also playing

for something else much more important

than waterproof matches.

Right here:

the immunity idol.

You want to know this guy really well,

'cause the tribe that wins the immunity idol

will not have to go to Tribal Council

and vote out one of their own members.

That brings us to challenge number one.

You're playing for fire.

You're playing for immunity.

There are four legs in the race.

You'll be carrying a lit torch.

If somebody falls in the water at any time

and their torch goes out, your tribe is done.

Somebody's going home tomorrow.

So that is key.

Here's how the game is played.

First leg starts at the old bridge.

You'll make your way across

using two planks to help you bridge the gaps.

On the second leg, you'll cross over the island,

where you'll find, in the water,

a small torch-carrying raft.

Put your lighted torch on the raft

and, as a tribe, swim across to the other side of the bank.

When you get over there,

you'll find two sets of wooden rungs.

Take them with you.

For the third leg,

you're going to get on another raft,

and using a rope, pull yourself across the river.

Using the rungs, climb up the ladder, light the torch.

Winners: maybe a hot meal tonight,

security of knowing you're going to be here a while.

Losers: cold,

somebody's going to be the first person

voted out of the tribe.

Make sense?

Let's take our spots. Wait for my start.

Let's go.

All right, at stake--

fire... and immunity!

Survivors, ready?

Ready! Go!

We won, we won, we won!

Continue to move forward! Move it forward!

Move it forward!

Go, go, go!

You can hand it.

This is a team. This is a team.

Go, go, go, go, let's go, let's go.

NICK: Go, go.

Help her a little. Help her.

Go, go, go. We're even. Go, guys, run.

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Get the fire.

Hand on the raft.

Let's go.

Come on, come on!

We're all done, we're all done!

Let's go, let's go.

Put your hand on the raft, Kel.

( indistinct shouting )

Wait.

Wait, his foot's caught.

Oh, my God.

Watch your step, watch your step!

We're almost there.

Work, work, work.

Whoo! Yeah!

( cheering )

Mitchell. Go.

Keep on going.

Back up, back up.

Whoo!

Mitchell!

TINA: We got it.

ALICIA: We got it. Don't lean too far right.

Good job!

You got it! Good job, Mitchell!

( cheering )

Damn, you're good. Damn, we're good.

MARALYN: My God!

Ogakor, congratulations.

Whoo! JEFF: Nice work.

Ow! Guys,

your reward,

right here: waterproof matches.

Yeah! Yeah!

And much more important,

I think, you're in possession...

JERRI: Wow...

...of the immunity idol.

( cheering )

We need to stay positive now, okay?

Guys, tomorrow, somebody

from Kucha will be the first person voted

out of the tribe.

You'll have that

to think about tonight.

I know you're already a close group.

It's going to be a tough decision.

You guys can head on back to camp.

Ogakor, you guys can light this up in celebration.

( birds singing )

RODGER: Yesterday's immunity challenge was a big letdown.

Uh, uh, not only physically, but emotionally.

I think probably more so emotionally.

As far as the Tribal Council goes tonight, which are...

which we have to go to, uh,

I don't think any of us are looking forward to it.

( gagging )

( indistinct chatter )

( retching )

Jeff is not well.

ELISABETH: You need to sit down.

You're so shaky, you're scaring me.

I'm okay. Please.

DEBB: I don't know.

I'm not betting on me getting voted off,

but I think it's-it's down

to, like, me, Rodger or

maybe, um...

Jeff, because he hasn't been feeling good.

My personal opinion is the strong survive.

If you were gonna vote for someone,

who would you be voting for right now?

Jeff.

Me, too.

I really love the guy.

I like... I like... He's a good kid.

But he's sick. He's sick.

JEFF V.: Debb. Yeah.

She wants to go, too, by the way.

Really? Yeah.

She's told me that you wanted to go.

She sure did.

What?

She told me that you wanted to go.

That is a bald-faced lie.

Okay, scandalous.

She told me you wanted to go.

DEBB: I-I'm gonna probably vote for Jeff.

And I was talking with him today, you know,

and he doesn't even seem that upset at the thought of it.

Yeah. He... He's, like...

He wants a pizza and a coke. He might have...

ALICIA: She said, "He's falling apart, doesn't feel good."

I was, like, "Yeah, okay." Are you kidding me?

No, I'm not kidding you.

I wouldn't tell you that if she didn't say it.

It's like there's a part of me

that's a little paranoid about who's talking to who.

I see these two standing over across, um...

Mike and Rodger standing across the river talking.

They're not fishing.

They're not doing anything.

They're just talking, and, uh,

the wheels start turning,

and I'm just... my eyes are going around.

I mean, it's two different games, you know?

Me, too.

JEFF V.: Just because we've said what we're doing doesn't necessarily

mean it's gonna happen, and I haven't been

with these people long enough to know for sure how well...

I mean, I'm not gonna trust anybody,

but there's a certain... to a certain point, you have to.

I puked on camera.

How embarrassing.

( laughs ) You puked?

Couple times already...

Did you save it?

( laughing )

Would you stop?

( indistinct chatter )

( bird singing )

KIMMI: It's like going to court.

Tribal Council is going to court.

Nobody likes to go to court, you know,

but if you broke the law,

you got to go, and we broke the law

by not winning, so we... you know...

we got to go face our punishment.

Our punishment... is to get rid of one of our own.

MICHAEL: The people that I think

that are in jeopardy tonight are

potentially Jeff, because of the health issues,

and Rodger might not be safe.

He could be

a liability in the challenges,

and especially swimming challenges

and climbing challenges.

And it's not just Rodger.

It would be anybody over 50 years old.

( indistinct chatter )

JEFF V.: I mean, I-I'm looking forward

to voting somebody out,

'cause it's the game,

and I'm here to play the game.

I'm not here to make friends.

I'm not here for that.

People have got to go,

and I look forward to walking up,

writing somebody's name on a card and talking about 'em.

( laughs )

Um...

( laughs )

I'm getting ready to do it.

JEFF: Guys, come on in.

We begin your first Tribal Council with a ritual.

Behind each of you is a torch.

Grab a torch and approach a flame.

Dip your torches in and...

get some fire, put 'em back in their slots.

We do this because fire does represent life here.

These torches will now represent your life,

your identity at Tribal Council.

You'll bring these torches with you to each Tribal Council,

and the good news is, when you return

home tonight, you will have fire.

Before we get into this, I just want

you guys to take a second

and look around at where we're at.

We're on top of a granite waterfall.

Can't think of a more spectacular place

for the drama that's going to go down here

every three days.

This is where you account for your actions.

Some of those actions tonight

are going to help you.

Going to stay here a few more days.

Some of those actions may come back to haunt you.

One thing's for certain.

One of you guys will be

the first person voted out of a tribe.

So before we get to that, let's get a little gauge

on how the first few days were.

Debb, what about finding the camp?

Was it a celebration,

was it fall down, "I'm exhausted"?

Celebration. Celebration.

It was celebration all the way in.

Hop in the water

and then regret it afterwards

when we were freezing and had no fire.

Yeah, let's talk a little about that.

Fire. You've-you've been one really trying

to get this fire going.

Yeah, I been the one trying and getting no fire.

I mean, I've tried everything those damn books said to do.

The bow, the-the...

this thing.

That's crazy.

Well, you'll have fire tonight when you go home.

DEBB: Yeah, yeah. That's good to know.

It's been a little cold a couple nights here.

Have you guys formed any impressions

about the other tribe

in the limited time you've seen them?

MICHAEL: We haven't really had

a lot of contact with them,

but, uh, right now, we totally see them as the enemy.

We haven't had a chance to bond with them.

We haven't had a chance to talk with them at all.

I didn't even look at 'em when we lost.

NICK: Yesterday's event was just

a physical challenge, and I would've put money on us

any day to win that challenge, but they went through,

and then we had problems.

JEFF: Rodger, leadership

come up?

Did anybody emerge as a leader?

Uh, yes.

I would say probably, uh, Mike has.

Uh, uh, as far as building the hut,

I think we both probably shared in on that,

'cause my knowledge on that is pretty extensive

in-in that I teach a carpentry class, and, uh...

But overall, I'd say he's probably taken the lead,

and-and that's fine,

'cause he's a very knowledgeable person.

We all... we all get along great.

Tonight is, uh, really a hard deal for us.

Uh, personally, I-I thought

that the first vote off would be easy,

because you would probably have somebody that would be slacking,

but we just haven't had that.

I mean, every one of these people have worked

and worked hard, and that's-that's

what makes tonight's vote so hard.

All right, it's time to vote.

Here's how it's going to work.

One by one, you guys will go across the bridge

to the voting confessional.

You'll write down in big clear letters

the name of the person you're voting for,

hold it up, speak your peace--

why you're voting

the way you're voting--

then fold it up, put it in the voting container,

come back and have a seat.

Make sense?

We'll start here with you, Debb.

You're up.

I love this guy dearly, but I came here deciding

that I was going to vote on the strongest surviving.

Jeff's been the sickest of all of us,

and he's still not over it,

so I'm going to vote for Jeff, and I hate to do it.

I love him.

No real reason, actually.

She's as hard a worker

as anybody out there,

and, uh...

somebody had to go.

I'm voting for Debb because...

she's a great worker and everything,

but she does feel isolated.

You know, when we're together all in the tent at night,

she just chooses...

to be independent, and...

she's just a strong-willed person.

It's not a bad thing.

It's just not what I need.

I'll go tally the votes.

I need to remind you that once the votes are tallied,

the decision is final.

The person will be asked to leave

the Tribal Council area immediately.

You'll do so across this bridge here.

Take the bridge up, over the rocks,

down to a confessional

where you can speak as long as you want

about your time here in the outback.

I'll read the votes.

First vote...

Debb.

Debb.

Jeff.

Debb.

Four votes for Debb, one vote for Jeff.

First person voted out of the tribe...

is Debb.

No point in revealing

the other two votes.

You need to bring your torch.

Do good.

Kick ass.

JEFF: Over here, Debb.

The tribe has spoken.

It's time for you to go.

Good-bye, Debb.

You survived your first Tribal Council.

Grab your torches.

You'll have fire.

Head back to camp. I'll see you tomorrow.

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.

Next time on Survivor:

Kel is accused of smuggling food.

Jerri blatantly said that she saw something

that looked just like beef jerky.

KEL: It was a blade of grass,

and I was chewing on that.

It was nowhere near any grass.

JEFF: Kimmi struggles with the immunity challenge.

You got cow brain there.

I can't eat a brain.

You're good.

I wouldn't have minded getting voted off if I had fell...

fallen during a competition, if I was lazy,

if I wasn't a team player, but when I come here,

and I give all of that, and I still get voted off,

I bet you if Jeff had read every one of those votes,

it would have been seven to one, and that's-that's a shame.

I still thought a lot of it boiled down to mental toughness

and physical ability, and none of that even mattered.