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- Like, let's talk about it. Okay. - Mary's with me.

She wants to be with the strong five.

We're trying to do strong six now.

That is the clearest way to the final six.

Previously on survivor... At the reward,

I found a tiny little scroll, and it says:

Okay.

Rather than Chrissy, -yup.

What do you guys think about kamilla?

I would sleep easier if it's kamilla tonight.

I'm a little wary of shauhin.

If shauhin actually is working with kamilla,

there's one easy way to solve this,

and that is to get kamilla out.

It doesn't make any sense, bro.

Trying to work with kamilla moving forward

it just can't happen.

- You need to let that go. - I'm just...

You're scaring me, bro.

All of a sudden, David wants to disrupt everything.

So I need to do whatever it takes

to keep kamilla in this game.

I'm looking a couple steps ahead, and

I see these strong players taking over the game, and

there's gonna come a point when they're gonna be unstoppable.

Shauhin.

Ninth person voted out

and the second member of our jury: Chrissy.

- The tribe has spoken. - Thank you, Jeff.

I'm chilling, bro. I'm, like, 100% all good.

Good. Nice.

Obviously, like, seeing your name at tribal is never fun.

But I'm chilling. I'm super, super good.

Chrissy went home because

she tried to take a very early stab

at someone that she shouldn't have:

Me.

I don't know why she came at me.

She seemed to be very upset with all of the muscles.

And I don't know how

that ended up being... Being mad at me.

- I felt like the tribe had my back. - Absolutely, yup.

And sure enough, the tribe did have my back.

Yeah.

Every single person

voted for Chrissy except for Chrissy, but

I don't think that it was unanimous in their hearts.

I think it was unanimous on paper.

- You good? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I know you look really nervous. - Yeah.

I was trying to be like, "you're good, you're good."

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So... You're a horrible liar. Don't worry.

David is dead to me.

He parades himself around camp

talking about how he's playing an honest and truthful game.

And he was the one person who lied straight to my face.

He tried to vote me out,

and David wants to keep all the strong people in the game

so that he can continue to have

amazing survivor challenges.

This dude is a complete idiot.

He thinks he's out here

for the olympic qualifiers with him, Eva and Joe.

He's completely forgot that we're on survivor.

People just use you guys as shields all the time.

Yeah.

A meat shield.

Somehow, when the strong people get together,

it's like, "hey, you can't do that."

Yeah.

The last tribal council was cutthroat.

It was brutal.

Personally, I would have rather have seen kamilla go.

I think she's a bigger threat in this game.

But there seems to be some hesitancy

with voting out kamilla on the part of Kyle.

Everybody plays this game in a different way.

But Kyle's been scaring me lately.

Why is he so hesitant to vote out kamilla?

I got to figure that out.

We need to gather the wood today, by the way.

Yeah.

- Yeah. - We need to paint that flag. -Yeah.

You guys, I'm pumped. I'm so pumped. I'm-i'm.

I have an ear-to-ear smile on my face right now.

- It's crazy. - I think we can all relax today.

Last night, Chrissy went home.

It was a really tense vote, but everybody voted together,

including those not in the core six.

I'm happy she went home.

I think that it's definitely a better vibe

around camp without her.

And I think

that as long as it's not one of my people, I don't care.

- Honest opinion. - Wait.

I mean, Mitch is the most likely to win one.

Well, I see that.

I'm in backseat on this one, so

I don't... it really doesn't matter who, to me,

as long as we all do it.

- Yeah. - I trust all of y'all.

Mary?

Do you want kamilla? Do you want... you know?

Yeah.

Kyle, what do you think, man?

Everything you guys are saying is good.

Like, I just want to make sure that we ride this thing out.

Okay. I'm there. Well, what did we decide?

I'm going with whatever you guys want.

- Kamilla? - Cool.

That's where my head's at, you know what I mean?

So you guys... You guys feel the same way?

That sounds good.

David wakes up and gets

right back to work. He's still hell-bent

on getting kamilla out of this game.

And David has a new number one, which is Mary, and,

it's David's way or the highway.

And that's just how he kind of operates.

- Good morning. - Morning.

David and I's relationship really fell apart

when he tried to pressure me into voting out kamilla.

So I'm feeling pretty pissed off because

kamilla is my number one in this game,

and we work well together.

But it also showed me

that he really wasn't with me at the end of the day.

I've been riding the middle very hard in this game,

and I think that's starting to fall apart.

So now I got to play.

So the only way they can take a shot at you or me is

- by getting her out of the game. - I know.

They know they can't take us out,

but they're trying to, like, neuter us or something.

When in reality, me and you have been rock solid.

Okay.

- I'm telling you, I'm with you. - Okay.

So the first thing that I had to do was talk to shauhin.

And I had to explain to him that

David and Mary don't trust shauhin and I at all,

because I need to make this personal for shauhin

so that I don't reveal just how close I am with kamilla.

They are coming for me.

Mary's trying to take you and I's spot.

She's under... she thought she could undercut both of us

by taking out kamilla.

That's why kamilla needs to stay, bro.

David and Mary are in trouble

because they pushed too hard too soon.

And they're trying to push kamilla.

And the reason they're pushing kamilla is

because they're afraid of kamilla's

relationship with me.

And so, Kyle's trying to enlist my help to get rid of Mary.

And I'm down.

Yeah.

Something in my gut tells me

that Kyle and shauhin are gonna flip on us.

Like, you can't just ignore all these signs.

There's a blaring neon sign that says,

"they are working together."

Shauhin and Kyle are worrying me.

- I'm telling you, Eva, you're gonna... - Something's going on.

It-it might not be you, but the four of us.

They're after the four of us.

And it's most likely gonna be me and David.

There's a wall up with shauhin, there's a wall up with Kyle.

Why this...

Why all the pushback yesterday against kamilla?

I feel that David and Mary

are being extremely paranoid.

I get that we're at nine, and that

if one person from our group swaps,

then it changes everything.

But nobody's gonna swap to me.

Like, I feel like I trust all of them.

And so, I'm not liking that

there is this weird extra tension.

- Yeah. Why? - Okay.

I mean, yeah.

You and Kyle good?

It sucks for the people I trust not to trust each other.

Please. Like, you guys are so cool.

Please just be friends.

I want all my friends to be friends.

Nothing. Just talking about the Chrissy situation.

And I hope that you know that, like,

I wasn't trying to, like, switch anything up.

I'm totally, like, in on this.

But I was just trying to also, like,

make sure that we were considering all the options.

Yeah, I thought we were already past all that.

Yeah, yeah, totally.

I mean, it's just yesterday was a really rough day.

Like, see, I don't know. Maybe not for...

It shouldn't have been, though. That's the only thing.

I was kind of like...

That's why I confronted you about it.

I'm like, "it should... Should have been easy."

- It should have been easy? - Should have been easy.

I think it was just...

It was a rough day because it was so confusing.

That's my thing. It's like, it shouldn't have been.

It seemed like there was a lot of scrambling,

and there didn't need to be.

Well, I get what you're saying, David.

I mean, but we're still people out here.

Like, it's like you're trying to figure out what's going on,

what's the truth, what's not the truth.

Like, I was not trying to cause any tension, man.

- And I know. - No, I don't. Dude, again,

I don't think any one... I don't think

any one person caused more tension than the other.

Yeah, I had my reservations,

and some things were not adding up.

And obviously, this is survivor.

When that happens, you got to be aware, and so...

- And likewise. - Yeah, exactly.

And so again, like, no, I thought we were all good, man.

Yeah. Okay, yeah, I'm good. I'm good.

I think we're beating a dead horse. We're all good.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I was just talking.

We got this. Yeah. Yeah, like, I'm not... I'm not doing

- anything. I was just talking. - Yeah. -Yeah.

What the hell is going on?

David's paranoia has translated into bullish behavior

towards other players in this game.

And I've had a lot of experience, dealing

with confrontational or argumentative people

in various circumstances.

I don't like it in the real world, I don't like it here.

- Man. - Dude, relax.

I don't know why you're so-so tense.

Dude, I'm an emotional guy, man.

There's, like, a lot of things going on in this game.

It's, like, you know...

While I would love to just remedy this behavior

by talking to him about it, I can't.

So, at the end of the day,

his number... His new number one's got to go,

and he's got to go soon after.

- All right. - I'll join you... in a bit.

At the taco reward, I had reached in my chips

and pulled out a tiny little scroll,

and the scroll told me that I would need to sneak out of camp

the night after the taco reward

in order to get some new advantage.

Once it's finally dark and all the conversations die down,

I think I can go now.

I'm really excited, but I need to make sure

that I don't get caught with my pants down.

So I start creeping my way out of camp,

and I don't think that anybody sees me go.

I woke up in the middle of the night,

and I see this shadowy figure, and I realize

it's little old Eva.

Usually, in past seasons, when someone creeps out of camp,

they have an opportunity for an advantage,

and Eva just went on reward.

Well, where do they tell you that you have an opportunity

to go sneak out of camp and get an advantage?

When you're on reward.

That's what I think is happening tonight.

So, boom. Game on.

So, I'm laying there asleep, and

like a wombat, here comes shauhin,

a bearded man, standing over top of me.

He's staring into my eyes, and he's like, "shh."

And he grabs my face, and he whispers in my ear...

"Eva's gone."

And he goes, "she's been gone for a long time.

Don't fall asleep. Wait for her to get back."

He's super worked up, but

I am not worried at all about Eva. I'm not.

She's a team player, and I trust her with my life.

So, whatever it is, we'll talk in the morning.

Shh.

Once I sneak out of camp,

I walk all the way down the beach,

and I can see that there's these torches

that are lighting a little area off to the side.

And I am a little worried because all the journeys

that have been happening this season,

you lose your vote by going. And I was like,

"it said I'd get an advantage,

but I might be risking my vote, too, just by being here."

When I walk up, I see

this table waiting for me. And I was like,

"this is crazy."

"Congratulations! This extra vote is yours."

So, I read the note, and the first part

is that I get an extra vote.

I'm really excited. I'm super pumped to see this.

I get an extra vote. And that can be mine or

I can bet it for a safety without power,

where I would pick between two scrolls,

and one would give me the safety without power

and one would give me nothing,

and I would lose that extra vote.

I'm in the middle, and everybody trusts me,

but they don't trust each other.

And all hell could break loose if something goes wrong

with this core group that I'm working with.

This extra vote is good,

but fifty-fifty shot at having

a safety without power.

Being able to evacuate tribal and stay safe

that seems like a huge advantage here.

I think I'm gonna risk the extra vote.

I think it's gonna be a lot more helpful for me

to have a safety without power

than to just have this vote.

So, I'm gonna go...

"Congratulations. You now have power in the game.

"This advantage offers you safety without power.

"When Jeff says it's time to vote,

"announce that you have the safety without power advantage.

"You will leave tribal council immediately.

"You will not cast a vote.

"But more importantly, you cannot be voted out.

"The last time this can be played is when

there are seven people left in the game."

Okay. That's huge.

But I'm not done yet.

I have another decision to make.

"You can risk it again

by choosing one of the next three bamboos."

"The sun will be up soon. Good luck."

So now I will get to bet

again if I want, and I can bet on three scrolls.

So I have a 33.3% chance

of picking a scroll that will give me

a full-on hidden immunity idol.

And they all know I have the idol.

But if I had an additional idol

that everybody didn't know about,

then I'm safe twice,

or can save an ally and save myself, which is huge.

But now I have to go, "do I want one of the three?"

Boy. Like, I have an idol,

but, like, two idols? That's big.

And do I get greedy here?

This is a big decision.

And the game is at a really tough spot.

I'm not gonna go for the next step.

I'm gonna stick with this guy.

I feel like I have all the ammunition right now.

Like, the artillery is full.

I think that I'm sitting

with the most power in the game, currently.

And that's a great feeling, but it's also a dangerous one.

I know what you're thinking. You want to apply,

but you're never going to.

Good news is you don't have to.

Now you can play survivor from the comfort of your living room.

The tribe has spoken, the official survivor card game.

Okay, guys.

This has to stay between the four of us.

- Yeah. - At the reward,

there was a tiny scroll in my chips.

Nobody saw it.

And it told me last night

there would be a chance for an advantage.

Last night I said, "I am not worried about Eva."

I wasn't gonna ask her. I wasn't gonna approach her.

I felt that confident. And what happened?

First thing in the morning,

she's like, "all right, here's what I got."

So I feel good. I'm happy for her.

So I go, like, way down.

I go up in this table, and this table says,

"automatically, you now have an extra vote.

"Or you can risk it

and you get safety without power."

So I was like, "well, this extra vote, that's not super powerful.

I think it's better to have the safety without power."

- Yeah. - I risk that, grab the scroll,

I get the safety without power.

Eva... two advantages in the game.

I almost blew a gasket last night,

but her telling me

all this information solidifies trust.

She's dangerous to win this game for sure, but

I trust Eva. I'm not coming for Eva.

The last time I can play is the tribal before six.

All right.

- Okay. That sounds... - Got it.

Yup, it's always been kamilla.

- Hey. - Hey.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

I cannot lose kamilla in this game.

I know that we have different strengths and weaknesses.

I'm able to sort of navigate this game socially

and grab information from people,

or at least try to be in the know.

Whereas kamilla, on the other hand,

has a great strategic mind.

And she's also good at solving problems.

So it's been very helpful for me to bring problems to kamilla

and sort of workshop them together.

Yeah.

- Thank you. - So...

So David and Mary... they want to get you,

and they're coming after me and shauhin.

- Yeah, yeah. - Like,

we are trying to, like, play it cool right now, but, like...

- Yeah. - And...

Okay, this is... You need to know this

if we're actually doing this to the final.

Yeah.

Kamilla and I... nobody seems to really know

how good we are at playing this game together,

except for David.

David actually could blow up my whole game.

David has information from old civa,

so he really knows how close I am with kamilla.

And I'm really antsy about that,

so I need to make sure that I'm one step ahead of him.

Listen to me.

There's a different game going on.

So...

You guys good? You talk?

- No, hell, no. - No, bro, we're just chopping.

We're supposed to have

this strong guy alliance moving forward, but

I just get this uneasy feeling.

I think shauhin and Kyle

have something going on. I can feel it.

But Joe... Think about this, okay?

Do you think Mitch is just gonna lay down and die?

Do you think shauhin's just going

to follow us to the end and lose?

All signs point to something's going on, man.

And I know kamilla.

They've been getting tight.

Yes. I think

I think shauhin and Kyle are with kamilla.

Why aren't they scared? Why aren't they scrambling?

I'm telling you, Joe, something's not right, bro.

Something's going on.

David's like, "hey, we need to talk."

And he's very paranoid. "What's going on?

Something's wrong, something's wrong."

Basically saying, "watch out for Kyle,

watch out for shauhin."

But that's my alliance, and I trust them.

Dude, we got to play the game right now.

My hesitation is, like,

I've been so straight-up with all of you...

- Yeah. - That it's hard for me.

Which is why they were okay voting her out.

But kamilla was, which is why they were so strong

about switching it to Chrissy,

and which is why they did it in the last minute.

And you went back on your word.

And then, at the last minute, he convinced you to do Chrissy.

The group decided for the group.

- Guys, I... - I'm just trying to help. I really

I want to do this. We're so close.

Bro.

But you got to look at it from my perspective.

I'm not saying it was deliberate.

Survivor.

God dog... Here we go.

I'm a man of my word, David.

I know you are.

I'll figure it out today, that's for sure.

I think I'm right on this, man.

I trust Kyle, I trust shauhin, and I trust Eva.

I don't know about David.

I thought I had a good read on him.

It's never too late to learn.

No, that's why I'm here.

Exactly.

It's no secret at this point, I can't really swim.

But I told myself I would at least try

to get some practice in the water.

You just have to start on one thing at a time.

Like, just make sure your hands are cupped,

in a r... thumb up.

Every time.

And you push, and you come in.

And you push, and you can... Just like that. Perfect.

The last few days, I've been

really trying to build a relationship with star.

And I got to give her a couple tips on swimming.

- Good for you, star. - Hey, hey, here.

Big push.

There you go, star.

Yeah, just like that.

- Big push. - Good job.

The fact that she's out here doing it and trying,

it just goes to show you

that anyone can come out here

and play this game, regardless

of what you think you are

and are not capable of doing.

Smooth.

Yes!

The swimming

of the breaststroke and then the moving of the feet

it just reminded me that I definitely got

to sign up for these swim classes whenever I go back,

because when Jeff calls me,

I promise the next time Jeff sees me,

I will be a swimming pro.

They're way out there.

Some of those spots, they might even be able to stand.

Yeah, that is true.

- Is it a rock? - Yeah.

Yeah, you got to be able to swim back again.

Yeah, you're right.

Well, this feels so good to chill.

You know what I mean?

Things are really tense right now.

Little battles are forming,

a war seems to be burgeoning, and

I still seem to be a person that's right in the middle

of all of this conflict.

So I just had to talk to Joe about, like,

why I was feeling the way I was feeling.

How was it, you little fish?

- Beautiful. You guys should check it out. - You went deep.

Everyone should go try it. It's really pretty.

That's awesome.

I wanted to share with him a couple of experiences

I've had in my life that might make it difficult

for me to be in sort of confrontational situations

or very tense situations.

I know I probably look a little different

around camp and stuff like that.

Yesterday and, like, just the aggressiveness and, like,

- the whole nature of it? - Yeah.

It just kind of triggered me a little bit.

It was an odd day, but I wanted to

- well... - Clue you in on this so you don't think

that I'm, like, trying to be

I know you don't think that, but I know that I can tell

people kind of see a little bit of a difference in me.

And, like, when I say yesterday was rough,

I'm actually being serious. That was, like, a tough day.

Growing up, I was a little bit of a wild child, and a lot

of that was how I was doing socially, you know?

I started drinking and "partying" at a very young age.

As an athlete, as somebody who was kind of in the in crowd,

like, that's what I did.

And because of that, I also ended up in a lot more trouble

than... Than the average kid.

You know about my, like, history,

and how I was as a kid and stuff like that.

We have the same blood in us.

And I got pretty rowdy for a little bit. You can talk.

Yeah, it's-it's never really, like, weighed on me.

Like, I have certain things that, like, hang on...

Right.

That I hang on to because of that.

Like, all my stuff is, like, -yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nonviolent, like, very minor misdemeanors.

The charges and the things that I sort of confronted were

underage possession of alcohol, you know,

which is drinking alcohol before you're 21.

You know, like, a disorderly conduct charge,

you know, for walking down the street

with a beer or something like that.

And, you know, that results

in me having to... to go to jail for a couple of weeks.

I never thought I had any issues with that type of stuff,

or, like, sort of those experiences

and how I've, like, come out of it.

But, like, honestly, up until yesterday,

and I don't want to draw a direct connection,

'cause it's a little different.

It's definitely... And it makes sense.

I'm glad you told me that. That makes a lot of sense.

You know, most people, if you screw up

or if something happens to you,

you kind of just give up, you know?

You might think, if you're in law school,

and you get sentenced to 30 days in jail

that your life is over,

but that's not the case for me, you know?

I convinced the judge at that time,

before I actually had to do my sentence

to let me come out on furlough so I could actually

take one of my exams in person.

I wrote an essay that I needed to turn in that semester

on a jail computer

in the corner of the room while, like,

my cellmates were watching game of thrones

behind me on the small TV.

I had my fiancée Maggie actually bring books to the jail

so I could study.

And how... I even had a professor come and visit me

while I was in jail

so that I could give her an in-person oral exam, which I...

You know, and I got great grades that semester.

And, sharing that with Joe was really nice for me.

It really kind of let me get something off my chest.

In a game where I'm lying about my entire profession,

part of my life, I felt like I could at least

share one thing about myself that doesn't define me,

but is a big part of who I am.

To able to share that with Joe,

who I really do trust to be a good person

it was... it was really game-changing for me.

- I'm sorry, man. - No.

You know, I imagine my dad went through

I remember you told me.

He's been... he was in prison for a little bit, and...

So, I feel for you.

Kyle shared some really deep things

about a little bit of a troubled past,

and places he's been.

And there's been a lot of stress

with Mary and David, and he's feeling the tension.

And I'm glad that he entrusted me

to just kind of open up and say why it was a trigger for him.

It's not even David, bro, to be honest with you.

Just the whole situation of the day,

and, like, the intensity of it.

- Dude, this is getting crazy. - And-and-and...

And what was my word? He goes, "well, you should...

You were gonna vote kamilla."

And I said, "David, we talked about this."

- We decided on Chrissy. - Man...

"And you're trying to mani..."

"You're trying to manipulate me"

"right now 'cause you know that I value that."

Yeah.

- What is going on? - And everyone's noticed.

Like, his demeanor has changed

- the last 24 or 48 hours. - Yeah.

I'm feeling completely different about David

after that conversation,

about him saying I went back on my word,

'cause I did not go back on my word.

I know myself. I'm getting super irritated.

And to be honest with you,

I don't like working with this guy.

But I'm trying to play this game

as honorable as possible, I truly am.

But I want to just see where Eva's head is at.

I wanted to rap with you because

- you're my number one. - Yeah.

And we haven't talked in a while, it's been so hectic.

And I know, like... So, here's where I'm at.

Like, I am feeling super uncomfortable

about a few things, and you're the only person

- I can really rap with about it. - Yup.

- Yeah, we're a team. - We're a team.

Eva is

very fond of David, she's very fond of Mary.

So, I'm gonna have to subtly go,

"hey, where are you really at?

Because I want to make sure we're both protected."

The way that... David has been recently

I don't li

I don't like the feeling of this anxiety,

of who's talking to who and this mistrust. I don't...

It doesn't create a good environment

for our group.

The one person that I know is sweet,

and I know is all these things is, like

Mary just gives me a lot of pause.

I'm very concerned.

I know you trust them.

And I trust you with my life.

- Yup. - What's your thought?

- So, here's... - I don't know, girl.

Those two are getting so paranoid.

But I don't want their paranoia to be

what breaks us all apart, because then it's open warfare.

So what I'm... the role I'm trying to play right now

- I know... - Because you know that...

Yeah, and I'm... they feel really, really solid with me,

and so do Kyle and shauhin.

I don't understand why people are starting

to get spooked about each other, but maybe

I just feel extra safe because I do have an idol.

And maybe I feel extra safe

because I'm not recognizing people lying.

I think that we all have to be trusting here.

- I'm gonna stick with you. - Yeah.

'Cause we have to remain very calm here.

- I think we both are, right? - And I think we are, yeah.

I think that if I get spooked by people,

that will break our entire thing apart,

because I believe that I'm the one who's in the exact middle.

Yeah.

We're so close to having accomplished something

that is very rare in survivor, but people are

starting to get scared.

Come on in!

Welcome to day 17

of survivor48.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's on today.

Hello, Jeff.

I'm happy to see you all.

- Happy to see you. - Happy to see you, too.

Shall we get to today's immunity challenge?

First things first. Eva, got to take it back.

There you go, girl.

Thank you.

Once again, immunity is back up for grabs.

For today's challenge,

you're gonna hold on to a handle,

clamping a ball between a set of jaws.

If at any point you step off the platform,

or you lower that handle and your ball drops,

you're out.

Last person left standing wins immunity, guaranteed a spot

in the final eight of survivor48.

It's a small number.

In addition, you are playing for a reward.

- Want to know what you're playing for? - Yes, Jeff.

Back at camp,

the winner will enjoy ham and cheese wraps.

Ooh.

- Crackers, dip, - juices and soda. - Man.

Soda.

You want some dessert?

- Yes. - Yep.

Peach cobbler.

Yes.

- You want some more dessert? - Yes.

Chocolate-covered strawberries.

- Worth playing for? - Yes. - Yes, Jeff.

All right, losers, tribal council,

where somebody will be the tenth person voted out

of this game, become the third member of our jury.

We're gonna draw for spots.

We'll get it on. Let's do it.

All right, here we go.

Everybody, palms up.

Both hands on your handle.

I'm gonna count you in, you're gonna lift up

and release your jaws.

Three, two, one. Lift up.

A little more. There we go.

All right, everybody is good,

and this challenge is on.

It's kind of a survivor classic.

Done it a lot over the years.

Star is gonna be the first out.

That's how fast it can go.

You have to keep pressure on those jaws.

And if you hesitate for a moment,

like shauhin just did,

that ball immediately starts moving.

Nice save by shauhin.

So you're gonna be looking at endurance

Mary drops. She's out.

Mary, take a spot on the bench.

You're trying to keep that pressure,

but you don't want to give more pressure than you need to,

because it's gonna exhaust you faster.

So it's a balance of how much is enough.

Kamilla hesitates.

Just a little bit of movement.

Her ball drops.

Mitch's ball is on the move. Mitch drops.

It's the ball, y'all.

Wow. Quickly, four people are out of this.

- Good job, kamilla. - Day 17.

Survivor48.

You can see it in Mitch's face.

Absolute exhaustion.

Frustration.

Once again, a food reward on the line.

Shauhin working to stay in this.

Shauhin is the only person who's not won individual immunity

that's still in this.

Hang in there, shauhin.

- Let's work, bud, let's work. - You got this, dude.

Thanks, everybody.

Everybody looking good.

You got to keep reminding yourself

to keep that pressure upwards.

Keep that tension.

What the ...?

- Aw. - Just like that, -Eva drops. -No.

Out of nowhere.

That's how fast this will get you.

Concentration is key.

And you're down to four.

It is Joe, Kyle, David and shauhin.

I'm so lucky I work out more than these guys.

Day 17.

You want to get to day 18. It's right here.

All you got to do is hear three more balls drop,

you're gonna be wearing that necklace.

That's it.

You don't know how close these other players are to dropping.

You have no idea what level of pain they're in right now.

Good survivor player,

you never let them see you sweat,

which is why you got to keep digging,

'cause they may be close to dropping.

Shauhin cannot hang in any longer. Shauhin is out.

We're down to three.

It's Joe, Kyle and David.

Each of them have already won individual immunity.

It will be the second win for somebody.

And it will guarantee you a spot at eight.

Yeah, you beat me.

- That's a surprise. - Eight people

- left in this game. - Yeah.

I didn't even see it coming.

- Me either. - Keep digging.

The challenge can get you a couple of ways.

You're gonna feel it in your arms.

You're gonna feel it in your biceps.

You've got to stay concentrating.

You've got to stay on that platform.

You step off, you're out.

Your ball drops, you're out.

Whoa.

Kyle, you're off. You stepped off. You're out.

Kyle's out, and we are down to two.

It is another showdown.

- Come on, Joe. - Joe's struggling now.

- He almost fell off. - Yes.

Yes. Good job, Joe.

Happened to Kyle.

Joe's ball slips, but Joe recovers.

Hang in there, Joe.

It's a familiar battle.

We've seen it before.

Joe versus David.

You got this, Joe.

This is about endurance and concentration,

together.

You've got to be able to hang in there with the pain,

and you've got to stay concentrating,

every single second.

- Nice job. - Amazing, boys.

- Yeah. - Been up there 17 minutes now.

Mad respect, Joe.

Same.

Boy.

Another face-off. Holy...

Whatever it takes, whatever you're telling yourself,

just keep doing that.

Keep digging.

Keep that tension.

One little lapse, that ball drops.

Your shot at immunity is over.

You're vulnerable tonight at tribal council.

There's only one way to be certain you aren't going home,

and that's having that necklace.

You can hear those jaws. They're hungry.

Those are our jaws.

- Our jaws are hungry. - Mitch's jaws.

Mitch's jaws.

The only one out here who hasn't had a reward yet.

You're eating.

Joe with another little bit of movement.

Joe is on the edge, cannot afford a mistake.

David is right where he started.

Ball has not moved.

Don't worry, Joe,

if I win, I'm still picking you for the reward.

Shut up, David.

Lock in, Joe.

This is gonna end quickly.

Somebody's gonna have a slip up, and it's over.

You're gonna hold in, hang on,

and then suddenly you're gonna drop.

Got to keep the concentration.

You got this, Joe.

David steps off.

- It's over, out of nowhere. - Let's go, Joe.

Joe wins individual immunity.

- Wow. - Wow.

David's legs gave out. There was a slight hesitation.

Whoa.

- Wow. - My god. - Stepped off of the box.

This challenge is over.

Unbelievable.

What a showdown.

Great show, boys.

- Great show. - Both guys have got to be exhausted.

Frustration in losing.

Fatigue in the muscles.

You saw it happen suddenly.

Good job, boys.

- Good job, boys. - Good job. Good job.

Good job, David.

- Good job, Joe. - Good job, David.

- Good job, both of you guys. - Yeah, Joe.

You won that.

No immunity for David.

Good job.

Good job, boys. Way to fight.

- Good job. - Great job.

Hell of a fight, bro.

Joe, come on over.

Good job, Joe.

Two stories

the smile on your face, the despair on David's.

Immunity is yours for the second time.

Once again, safe tonight in this game,

guaranteed to get to eight.

So let's talk about this moment.

The numbers are very small.

This is a big win.

You can see the showdown again, both of you wanting it.

What does this mean?

It just means that, obviously, each vote,

as you get closer to the end, is pivotal.

So every single one of us

thinks this could be our night.

So I can't explain how important this is.

David, is that part of the despair?

'Cause I've seen you down,

but you're down like I've never seen right now.

I should have won that.

I had a lot left in the tank,

and I'm not feeling confident today.

I don't think anybody should be

feeling confident going into tribal council,

unless they're wearing that necklace,

and I should've had it.

And I'm not taking anything away from Joe,

but I'm just beating myself up over it,

'cause I feel like I had a lot left to give,

and I made one mistake, and he won.

Sometimes that is all it is on survivor.

One mistake can be enough to get that torch snuffed.

That will be the case for somebody tonight.

But before we get to that, you also earned reward.

You're gonna go back to camp.

You're gonna have ham and cheese wraps,

- veggie wraps, crackers and dip. - Jeff.

- Some soft drinks. - Jeff.

Peach cobbler.

Chocolate-covered strawberries.

Pick somebody to join you.

Mitch.

You didn't even hesitate.

It's okay, buddy.

It's okay, buddy. It's okay, buddy.

Is this an alliance move or is this

Mitch needing some fuel?

This is just a human to human.

This is just a human being move. That's all this is.

He needs to eat, he was hurting.

He was hurting bad today.

So... my pleasure.

- Thanks, Joe. - Yeah.

All right, Joe.

Choose one other person

to enjoy this reward with you and Mitch.

Shauhin.

Shauhin, come on over.

Go get those strawberries, my guy.

Dude, there's chocolate strawberries. Thanks, bro.

I appreciate it.

It's all good.

Joe, pick one more person.

Eva.

Eva, come on over.

All right, here's what's gonna happen.

Everybody's going back to camp together.

Four of you will have a nice afternoon, a little bit of food.

Then you get back to business.

Tribal council tonight.

Somebody will be the tenth person voted out of this game,

become the third member of the jury. It will not be you.

Congratulations. Grab your stuff.

Head out. See you tonight at tribal.

Thanks, Jeff.

I'm so proud.

I won immunity. I won immunity today.

My kids get to see that.

Proud dad right now.

For all them old dads out there,

all them young punks running around,

still can get 'em.

We still got it.

Still got it.

Camp is a little dreary.

David is really upset that he lost that challenge.

Mary actually kind of had to console David

for quite some time.

It looked like... It looked like they were

no, i-i-I'm not gonna say it.

It... they looked like very close friends

in that moment.

It was hard to see David

in that emotional state, but...

Then when I look at David and Mary together,

it just reminds me how tight they are.

They're a really dangerous pair,

and they need to be split up.

They're definitely planning something.

They have to be planning something.

They absolutely are.

A-Absolutely.

There's a chance that shauhin has a real idol.

Yes.

I'm thinking shauhin would use the real idol on kamilla.

Wouldn't you do that, too, right?

Yeah.

When you don't have that immunity necklace

around your neck,

you do have to look at things from a different perspective.

Like, you do feel that you are maybe on the bottom.

And it makes you go through contingencies,

makes you go through what could happen, what could go wrong.

You and me... our lives are on the line.

- They're gonna write our names next time. - Yeah.

They're writing our names.

And if we're wrong, we're wrong.

Yeah.

If we're right... And I'm pretty sure we're right.

We're right. We're 100% right.

I'm-i'm-i'm

I'm willing to die over this, David. We're right.

Mitch is the only clear other target here.

And so that's why it has to be Mitch, because it can't be

kamilla, 'cause, obviously,

I think they're gonna play an idol on her.

And I don't want it to be star

because I potentially got to work with star.

Don't know what y'all talking about,

but I came here to tell y'all to open your ears, please.

- What's going on? - Okay.

- So... - What's up?

Would y'all vote shauhin?

- We can't. I would love to. - I... I would. I would love to.

- I would love to. - I want to.

Otherwise, why aren't they scrambling? Why isn't...

- Why hasn't kamilla been scrambling? - Right.

They have a plan.

At least for tonight, there's nothing we can do.

As long as we get out Mitch,

we have a lot of options moving forward.

For some damn reason, David thinks

shauhin has an idol.

I know shauhin has no idol.

But with that being said,

you got to go with the majority or you're gonna be next.

So, tonight, Mitch goes home.

Wow, this is, like, incredible.

All of this is delicious.

Dude, I'm so glad you won today, Joe.

- He looked so good. - He looked so solid.

- You'll never hear me front. - That was hard as hell. No. Hell no.

Yeah. Mitch, who would you like to go in this vote?

1,000% I want it to be David.

I will gladly vote him out tonight.

Go where the numbers are.

At this point in the game,

my hands have been tied behind my back,

because I haven't had the numbers.

I haven't had the immunity necklace

to make the moves.

And it's so frustrating, but in survivor,

you don't go out without swinging.

The only thing I'll say about this morning

is just that it's been more of the same.

Because of people's paranoia.

- And it's, like... -Yeah. - Hard.

That was it. That was what killed me.

When Mitch says that he wants to go after David,

that got me excited.

We've been gunning for Mary,

but at the end of the day,

the move of taking out David is a bigger move.

I just have to be careful,

because when you push too hard, people pull away.

But I have been planting the seeds

to let that move happen for a while.

In order to get the David thing to happen,

this had to start, like, four or five days ago.

Trying to play a Boston Rob style game.

Nobody can talk to nobody.

You have to sit here and babysit each other.

David was like, "why were you talking to Kyle?"

Kyle's in the alliance.

- I thought I could talk to Kyle. - Yeah.

David wants too many people in his back pocket.

Someone's gonna have to tell him,

"hey, man, you keep trying to keep all your pets around,

and, soon enough, they're gonna come for the owner."

And that is key, because,

all along, you allow the others

to see it for themselves.

Hey!

- Hello, hello. - They're back. -Hi!

It feels like a war

that I've already been preparing for.

Welcome to the party, David.

I've been here for a minute.

Let's party.

Something's not right.

The whole pushback against kamilla made no sense.

And even Joe going back on his word.

Something's going on, Eva.

- Like, I feel it. - Yeah.

Coming back into camp,

the first person I wanted to talk to was David,

but he's still saying we can't trust

shauhin and Kyle, who are two people

that I trust very much in this game.

I don't even want to tell shauhin

who we're gonna vote for.

Kamilla said there was a decent chance

that shauhin had an idol.

I think they're gonna give kamilla the idol,

she plays it herself...

We can do Mitch.

Great. If we're being paranoid, we're being paranoid.

We still have the strong six going forward.

Again and again, David and Mary have been

causing this paranoia

and constantly, like, attacking my-my friends.

It's really bringing me down,

and I just, I'm not liking it.

Mary and David keep counting you and shauhin with kamilla.

And they're like, "we think they have an idol."

"So if there's an idol played on kamilla,

then we know that they're with them."

On principle, right now, Eva, like, I'm

I am considering writing David.

Kyle said to me he might

try to make a move on David.

And my heart sank.

This is someone that we had had this plan together

about playing an honest and loyal game.

I've been trying to be, like, diplomatic about this,

but, like, at this point, I don't know.

At the end of the day, I'm trying to get

two loyal people to turn on their alliance.

It's a really delicate balance that I'm trying to play.

Joe and Eva are both straight up players,

and they don't want to turn on Mary and David,

but somewhere along the way,

I fell out of David's good graces.

Would you be comfortable writing David,

- if that was, like... - Of course.

At this point, it's probably the thing

that I'm the most comfortable with.

I-I want to talk to Joe, because I haven't

- had a chance to talk to him at all today. - Yeah, talk to Joe.

And I want to make sure that Joe and I are on the same page.

So I'm hoping when Eva talks to Joe,

it's full steam ahead, and we send David packing.

If I can't get them on my side, then my game,

while still alive, might be in the gutters.

Talking with Kyle,

he was like, "I think we should do David."

That's really hard for me, because I know, like, we both

have this thing where we're, like, we're playing with trust.

I'm with you, so if you're...

- If that's what... I'm sticking to it. - I'm with you, always.

I hate that I might have to go against my word to David,

but it's so

hard for me, because I do see things in very black and white,

like I trust you or I don't.

And here, I'm, like, I trust Mary,

and I trust David for me.

I trust that they are with me,

but I don't know if they're with my people.

I'm good.

As long as you're good, I'm good. I'm with you.

I don't want anything to damage us.

It is so good to know that I have someone I can fully trust

in a game where there is no trust.

I'm telling you right now, I'll go home

- before that. - I'm dealing with

two really hard options right now.

One is I go with this initial plan we had,

where we vote out Mitch.

Outside of the six of us, he is the most likable player

and the biggest threat to win this game, but...

There's another option that

is blindsiding someone I trust

and getting out David.

David and Mary have been

creating a lot of paranoia,

but I'm someone who's always been part of a team,

and I believe that you need a team

to accomplish anything.

And I do still believe in this core alliance.

And it's a lot to weigh because this is a big decision here.

And I didn't think I'd have

this decision to make this early on.

Now bring in the members of our jury.

All right.

So, every survivor player knows

that the game is played in stages.

It wasn't that long ago we were in the merge stage.

And seemingly, like that,

after tonight's vote, there will be three people

already on the jury

and only eight people left in the game.

So, shauhin, what's different, fundamentally,

about this phase of the game?

I mean, with this little number of people left,

it's a lot easier to make those emotional connections.

And when people are making those emotional connections,

alliances can be shifting.

That creates paranoia

in the game. And all of a sudden,

things feel tighter.

So then, Joe, what's the key

to being able to play right now,

because you can't get tighter at this point in the game.

At this point,

to really play well and move forward,

hopefully you did some work before you came out here

and you know your strengths and weaknesses.

Specifically, socially.

It's not just how you want to play.

It's about understanding and adapting

to what's changing every day

certain vibe, what's going on and understanding the mood.

Star, does the game change

with this number of players left?

Do you see people starting to shift?

At this stage, where there's only but so many days left,

you see it.

It comes to a time where you're looking for cracks

and just trying to see, where can I break in?

What alliance can I decipher through?

Is there any way I can get the crowbar and bust it open?

And who can I switch or flip or get to my side?

And, Eva, can you feel that happening?

Is there just a sense and energy

where you know things are stirring?

I mean, I feel really solid.

And I don't feel swayed

by this crowbar coming to crack me open.

Maybe I'm just set in my way,

but I've put a lot of trust in people here.

I'm depending on that trust.

And I'm open to say that,

that I'm locked in to what I want to do.

David, you were the same way at the last tribal.

You said, "what's wrong with having a strong alliance

and being public about it?"

Yeah, I mean, obviously,

I was pretty public about it,

and I don't think that's a bad thing sometimes.

Everybody knows what's going on for the most part.

We know where the alliances are.

We know the people that are talking to one another.

And we just have to accept that.

Like Eva says,

"we can be sturdy. We can be strong.

We can stick together."

Shauhin, is there any risk in saying,

like David's saying, "I'm good and I'm solid."

The risks are that,

if someone wants to take advantage of that,

that is the way that survivor is played.

The reward is, if you believe it, if you buy it,

if you think it's the real honest truth,

then it's so rare to find that

that maybe you want to bottle that

for as long as you can.

Mary, that is a really dicey part of survivor.

You want to survive. You want to make a move.

You also want to earn a little credit

in front of the jury, but it's risky.

Right, right. And, you know,

it's great when you strike first,

but what if you struck first

when the other person was never gonna strike?

That is something that

I know I would have a hard time dealing with.

David, how does.

Mary's idea of whether you should strike,

not knowing if somebody was gonna strike against you,

align with your approach, which is,

"I'm gonna be straight up,

I'm gonna tell everybody where I'm at"?

It's a risk, like shauhin said,

but I think there is a path to win

by being honest and being true to your word and

call us crazy

maybe Eva and I will be voted out.

Maybe we'll win,

but if we do make it to the final three

with the game that we're playing,

I think that's maybe

something we've never seen on survivor before.

And I'm willing to take that risk and take that chance

just to prove that this game can be played more than one way.

Kamilla, it's a very bold statement.

David does not back off of it.

He said it last tribal. He's saying it again.

How does that sit with you?

I think he just needs to keep the jury in mind.

He might be happy with the game he's playing,

but are the people that he puts over there gonna be happy

with that type of game? We don't know.

I don't know if he knows.

Why are you laughing?

Because she's just so straightforward,

and it's, like... I need to be straightforward.

Kamilla's basically like,

"you're playing your game, and that's cute,

"but I don't care what game you're playing

if it doesn't float with me."

Kamilla's basically saying,

"you put me over there, you ain't getting my vote."

She said it better than me.

Mitch, from your vantage point,

when you can see a path to the end,

- does it start to change - how you play? - Yeah.

I feel like this game is constantly changing.

What's so hard is, like, any given season,

what might work for the person who wins

won't work on the next season.

And it just comes down

to who wants to play with who

and who has voted together, but you have to

continue to build relationships and just hope that

what you're doing... Is enough.

Kyle, how about for you?

Yeah, I mean, Jeff,

when you see a pathway to the end,

you're kind of in, like, "don't screw it up" mode.

I mean, a lot of people just screw it up.

You obviously want to do what you have to do to win,

but you got to make sure that...

That you get there, at the end of the day.

Kamilla, Kyle's really talking about adaptability.

You're still having to adapt,

but does it get more difficult?

It is significantly more difficult now.

I-I feel like, you know,

if I was on a different season

with less, like, muscular people,

or if I was on a season with, like, weirder people,

maybe I'd be doing better socially,

'cause I'm an odd person.

But that's not the season I'm on.

So I do have to adapt because the rest is out of my hand.

So, shauhin, what were things like back at camp,

after the reward was over

and people started talking about the vote?

It did seem a calmer version of chaos.

And did that concern you?

Yeah, I mean, calm on survivor is terrifying.

And so you don't want to start running around.

And you don't want to sit in calm.

And you don't want to, and you don't want to,

- and you don't want to. - Wow.

And so I'm hoping

that I didn't "don't want to" my way

out of this game.

Joe, how do you deal with the "don't want to"?

Yeah, Jeff, I think there's one way to do it,

if you want to run around and do what you need to do,

but it's also an element of

"I can only control so much."

Yes, there is a ton of what-ifs

and, yes, it scares me and, yes, it's unsettling,

but if you play like that, then you'll present

a version of yourself that isn't really you.

You might be fearful, you might be over talking,

you might be too aggressive, too passive.

So you try to stick

to who you really are and just have that trust,

which could bite you in the butt.

So, you know, it's that paranoia again.

And, David, while Joe was saying that,

did you just knock wood?

Absolutely.

Of course.

- I'm not tempting any fate. - Yeah.

Wow, so we're about to vote,

and you've got a wooden stool you're sitting on

- and you're knocking wood. - You know, hey,

you can never discredit anything you can't disprove, right?

Maybe there is such a thing as fate.

Maybe knocking on wood does something. I don't know.

So that's why I'm gonna knock on wood.

How'd it feel?

Felt like wood.

All right, it is time to vote.

Mary, you're up.

It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know you, my friend.

I'll go tally the votes.

If anybody has an advantage or an idol

and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.

All right, I'll read the votes.

Mitch.

David.

One vote Mitch, one vote David.

Mitch.

Two votes Mitch, one vote David.

David. We're tied.

Two votes Mitch, two votes David.

Mitch.

That's three votes Mitch, two votes David.

David.

We're tied again.

Three votes Mitch, three votes David.

David.

That's four votes David, three votes Mitch.

Tenth person voted out and the third member of our jury:

David. That's five. That's enough.

Need to bring me your torch.

David, the tribe has spoken.

Time for you to go.

Thank you, Jeff.

Bye, David.

- Good game, David. - See you, David.

Good game, David.

Grab your torches. Head back to camp.

Good night.

Thanks, Jeff.

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Next time on survivor...

If you don't make a move now,

you don't have a shot.

The big people

are about to get ate by the piranhas.

Unfortunately, I don't think there was anything I could do.

Seems like too many people turned on me

and Kyle and shauhin flipped,

which I had a suspicion they would.

A big takeaway from this is

there are no heroes, there are no villains.

We're just people.

And we're all gonna be heroic one day,

and villains the next.

And I think that's okay.

You know I'm trying to get chocolate milk

as soon as I get out of here.

That's, at least, the solace in getting voting out is

I get to look forward to that.