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From this tiny Malaysian fishing village, these 16 Americans are

adventure of a lifetime.

They have volunteered to be marooned for 39 days on mysterious Borneo.

This is their story. This is survival.

Americans begin an adventure that will forever change their lives. They've been

given two minutes to salvage whatever they can off this boat.

Their destination, this island right here, a beautiful but dangerous jungle

the middle of the South China Sea.

For the next 39 days, they'll be marooned, left to fend for themselves,

creature comforts. They are wiping the slate clean.

16 strangers forced to band together, carve out a new existence totally

accountable for their actions. They must learn to adapt or they're voted off.

In the end, only one will remain and will leave the island with $1 million in

cash as their reward.

39 days, 16 people, one survivor.

The 16 contestants have been separated into two tribes named after the beaches

where they will live. The Toggy tribe, who will always wear orange, consists of

Sean Kenneth, a neurologist from Long Island.

Kelly Wigglesworth, a river guide from Las Vegas.

Rudy Bosch, a retired Navy SEAL from Virginia.

Sonia Christopher, a 63 -year -old cancer survivor from San Francisco.

Richard Hatch, a corporate communications consultant from Rhode

Susan Haack, a truck driver from Wisconsin.

Dirk Beans, a young dairy farmer, also from Wisconsin.

And Stacey Stillman, a litigation attorney from San Francisco.

The Pagong tribe, who will always wear yellow, consists of Jervis Peterson, a

YMCA basketball coach from Philadelphia.

Colleen Haskell.

an advertising student from Miami.

B .B. Anderson, a real estate developer from Kansas City.

Ramona Gray, a biochemist from New Jersey.

Gretchen Cordes, a preschool teacher from Tennessee.

Greg Buett, a recent Ivy League graduate from Colorado.

Jenna Lewis, a single mother and full -time student from New Hampshire.

And Joel Clue, a health club consultant from Little Rock.

Hard to imagine that just four hours ago, this group met for the first time

small fishing village on the coast of Borneo.

Their minds racing with questions, wondering, can I do this?

This is more than just a test of survival skills.

It's also a test of social skills.

Here, it's the impressions you make on the other castaways that determines your

fate. Under the rules.

One tribe must visit tribal council every three days with a single purpose.

Vote one of their own members off the island.

To win, you must survive the island, survive the vote, and ultimately survive

each other.

Paddling over, we had two or three of those boxes in the water, dragging them

behind the raft.

And that is dumb. I said, let's get them boxes aboard.

It'll be a lot easier.

You know, that's dead weight you got.

He was yelling at everybody, let's lose the box. Cut it loose now.

He may be 72 years old and an ex -Navy SEAL, but that doesn't mean that this is

his world.

Rudy, Sean, Stacy, Sue, can we take like 15 minutes and just talk before we do

anything? Sure. Can we piss first?

Should we

take a break? No.

No, keep paddling.

One break at a time.

I'll just fill you all the water you want. Just get me to the island.

Guys, we're so close.

Keep going. We're there.

You all right?

Almost there, bro. Hang in.

Okay. I got one right over here.

Right ahead of us.

Where's he going?

Right there.

on the water all that much.

So, I mean, the whole motion like this, and we're rowing. We have like 100

pounds of stuff on the raft.

I started heaving. Good job.

Good job. We're not to quit on it. I'm used to being in a lab with my lab coat

on, in the air conditioning.

But this is like outdoors 24 -7, and you're exerting energy like almost all

that time.

This is just day one.

Should we talk for a little bit? Should we start moving stuff up? Let's discuss

some things, man. Let's figure some things out.

Here's what we plan on doing. High tide is that line right there. See that line?

So it shouldn't come up to here.

And this piece of bamboo back here, we can lay it from up here over to there.

Actually,

before we build the shelter, just knock that whole thing off.

What's the first thing we need to do?

We need a latrine.

We don't need fire tonight. That's an option. We got enough water to make it

tonight. You guys, I think the first thing we ought to do is talk about how

we're going to do whatever we're going to do. Talk about the process.

All right.

Listen, listen. Let me give you a quick.

The camp will be right there where Clarity's leads are. That's a flat piece

ground.

The latrine will be down there. The wind's hitting me in the back right now.

So we're saying we need a latrine and we just need a clear place to sleep. Is

that all we want tonight?

Off the ground.

Off the ground.

Let's check the box. Let's see what we got. Let's see what we got. There might

be a blowtorch in there.

We need a bathroom. Are you guys all done talking?

Huh? I don't know.

I'm done.

I'm going to open up a box. I'm looking for freedom.

Rich, I appreciate what he's trying to do as far as bring the team together and

stuff because that's one thing that needs to happen. I think he's got some

skills in that area, and unfortunately, people like that annoy me. I did that.

I'm just thinking. I think we're off to a bad start.

Why? Because we're not talking?

Yeah. Sometimes, though, Richard, you kind of got to do things and talk as you

go along, and sometimes things can't be that planned out.

I agree with you. The problem with having no conversation whatsoever or

people talking about different things is that nobody's working toward a

particular goal. Not the silly little stuff about, oh, who's going to sleep

where, what are we going to do, but why are we here?

And what's the point?

And if we don't set up... Oh, I figured that out before I come here. For you.

So you have it?

And I have for me.

But we haven't, for us, and for the next seven ejections, 21 days, we have to

function together or we fail.

What do you think we're doing now? Not functioning together at all. I'm a

redneck, and I don't know corporate world at all. And corporate world ain't

going to work out here in the bush.

No, and I'm not talking corporate world. I'm talking creating a team and working

together.

See, so the creative team is actually putting all of our hands together and

walking. Not hands, all of us knowing what we're doing. The head thing, yeah,

but action, man. Action, Richard.

Action. You don't want to act ahead.

I'm good to go, survival -wise.

People -wise, it'll be a little more challenging. But I've got the million

-dollar check written already.

I mean, I'm the winner.

And it's that kind of cocky attitude that makes people really hate your gut.

That's the kind of thing I've really got to keep under wrap.

But it's just, how do I get there from here?

Whoa,

look at this, folks.

If this is carotid, we didn't take one of those lambs.

It says, look, you can make torches and stuff out of slime. We can twine all

kinds of things together.

What is that?

Biscuits.

Yeah, look, it's definitely biscuits. We got corn.

Oh, look, we got a frying pan. Oh, we are so good.

Look, I'm shaking it. Can anyone hear the biscuits?

Oh, we got a team play.

Woo! Woo!

That's all the train. I think we dig a hole, put this here, knock the port out

of the bottom. Then we put some of it in the hole.

And have a talk about what the hell we're going to do. Can I help?

When I asked earlier about having a conversation, that's what I was talking

about. And I really can help with how we can do that.

You guys, we came over here to talk.

What happens when people get together is if they aren't all headed in the same

direction toward a particular goal, then things that individuals do kind of get

in the way of the whole team.

And I think it's really, really important that what we decide be decided

group. So if you hear somebody saying something and you're all aggravated with

them, stop.

Don't try to make your point and try and help them make theirs.

So, for example, you know, Sean, what do you think the main point of what I'm

trying to say now is?

I've been daydreaming, thinking, what am I going to eat? That's a real good way

to figure that out.

Hey,

we found a water map.

We got it? We got a water map.

Walk 375 paces along.

Oh, here. We start here. We go back to the other stream down there.

and then we get the water here.

Here's where we are right here. We have to go across the stream.

We go across one stream, two streams, three streams.

All right.

All right, we're ready to go.

All right.

You know that?

Okay, is this the path?

Well, it said newly cut path.

Trail washes out. Oh, the trail washes out. Oh.

No.

Why don't you stay there for a minute? Let me walk to keep you in sight.

Okay. To see if I see anything that resembles anything.

Do you see anything?

Look at here.

Well, I mean, come here and look at it.

There we are. Go ahead.

All right.

Way to go, baby.

Don't let me drop sweat on that. Okay, we're almost full.

You know, we could never do this, but you know what the thought crossed my

What? As long as you and I always know where the water is and we got control of

the water map, no one else is able to vote you or I out.

We're not giving up the secret of the water supply.

Your wife is how old now?

My wife right now? Yeah.

She's 45.

And how old are you?

Oh, you better go. You are a stud.

He's a stud.

His name is Viagra.

Viagra, that's his nickname.

You got to do what you got to do, right? Nobody has to do the dirty work.

If we don't keep the humor, we'll go mad.

Night, y 'all.

The hardest part is hanging around with all these young kids.

I don't even know what MTV means, you know. And I'm used to being in the

military and one guy stands up and gives an order and there's no back talk.

You know, like yesterday, everybody's trying to run the show.

And if they let one person do it, we'd be much better off.

But trying to keep them all shut up is hard.

If they listened to me, they'd all have haircuts and everything else, you know.

We'd be in formation in the morning and all that kind of stuff, but they're not

going to do that.

I've got to fit in, not them. You know, there's more of them than there is of

me.

Hey, you've got a pierced nipple, eh?

Yeah, I've got the old pierced nipple thing.

Pretty edgy for a doctor, right?

Yeah, yeah.

I thought I was making it with the hair, and then this morning, man, when I ran

my hands through and felt a couple, like, softball -sized knots in it, I was

like, nah, they've got to come out now.

I've been trashing around like I'm 35 instead of acting my age, but we

have a doctor in our tribe, Sean, and he did a wonderful job of bandaging me up.

I think one of the problems with aging is the thinning of the skin, darn it.

so I think I'm maybe getting a little more banged up than some of the younger

ones.

That

ain't

going to work.

The therapist version of bye -bye blues.

If I can remember it, I will.

Bye -bye, blues. Thanks to Prozac. Bye -bye,

blues. Give me pencils.

They'll bring birds.

Well, the fish traps were hanging from the boat that we were coming over here,

and when we were tossed into the sea on the raft and we could take whatever we

could get our hands on, we grabbed three or four fish traps and a bunch of rat

traps, and so we stuck the rat traps out the first night, and boom, we got a rat

in each of them.

Bait. I want bait. Give me bait.

We didn't sleep at all. I mean, we closed our eyes. We kept hearing noises

like, cooking sounds.

And we were like, okay, what's his name?

Joel woke up. A rat was, like, in his ear.

I heard something squeaking in my ear every time a rat was trying to get on

raft or get near us or get at something. I mean, everything was moving.

We're just going along the beach here and just identifying whatever we can use

for the shelter, the roof.

I'm a little irritated that none of the others down there helped carry stuff,

but that's okay.

We need five more of these.

Bebe.

He's a character, Mom.

I don't think he likes me much.

No, you don't understand.

I've got to have this thought out and positioned right.

Joel,

trust me.

I'm not the one bitching. I mean, I'm fine.

Don't be talking to me about monkey business. I can't sleep. I'm usually up

my job.

This being the whip.

We got a lot of lazy people, if you don't know the truth.

Can't do it all yourself.

You know, I asked Colleen to straighten this out for me, and here it is. It's

the only thing she had to do today.

She can't have lazy people.

He had been out there, you know, all morning long, and, you know, it was hot.

I thought we said this was the time of day we were going to be out of the sun.

Well, but for some of the people, it's been all day that way.

Right, it's your turn.

You tell me what you're doing here, and I'll help you. You hold it up, and I'll

do it quick. I promise you, I'll do it quick.

You know, that's the right way to do it, but we won't have near enough line to

build the roof and do that if we do all that.

Anyway,

don't stop now, but... I think we'll have plenty.

And I'm going to roll that up for you, too.

We can't, like, get burned out, though. I'm not burned out.

I know, but you will be if you spend all day out in the sun. I never get burned

out. You don't know me. I don't know you, but I know human beings.

I like working as a hobby.

Honest to God. How about 15 minutes, though? You've done for 15 minutes.

but I want to get this thing stabilized.

So at least, let me explain.

I want to get this stabilized so then people can come in, you know, with that

light cord you got, and we can tie these things down. But until I get this

bounce out of this.

I want to put a support there, in the middle here, and right there.

Because if not, we've got to take bounce out of this. I just think we have

plenty of time. I thought we were going to try to stay competitive.

And if you work all day and you're burnt at the end of the day, we're not going

to be competitive.

Take a break, and if it bounces a little tonight, then we'll fix it tomorrow.

I'm going to keep working.

You're going to work. No, I'm not.

Yeah, you are. You are, you are.

The fire started because I had bought a set of glasses with me. I was going to

do it and Gretchen said, why don't I do it? I know how to do it too. So I said,

great. Nice, guys.

Nice split up and everything. Amen.

Good work.

And she took my glasses and started the fire.

You did well, Rich.

If we get fire, it means we're going to have a hot meal in our stomach, which is

going to bring up femoral.

That first hot meal might be rat soup, which I'm, like, looking forward to very

much because there's nothing wrong with a rat. All a rat is is a squirrel

without a fuzzy tail.

Let's just work with this. Okay. I'm thinking that's just, if we could just

with this, I mean, we're getting a ton of smoke.

Now we just got to figure out.

So if we get a piece of bamboo, someone sits here and holds the bamboo right

here with the tinder in it.

You know what I'm saying? Here we go.

Come on, Dirk.

Go big.

What do you want to do?

I'll try and make the bow.

Smoke it up.

I want to smoke.

Cool!

How much more do we need, Lord?

How much more?

You in, Ray?

We made a lot of smoke, but no fire.

I think that it would have been nice if we had fire.

We're not going to catch fish unless we have fire to cook it. And I think that

if we had fire, we could have spent a lot of time sitting around the bonfire

night and maybe sing a song. We have a ukulele, you know, and that didn't

happen, and I wish it did.

Throughout their time on the island, the tribes will compete in a series of

challenges. They'll receive messages notifying them of these competitions at

their tree mail.

Today's challenge is for both reward in the form of 50 waterproof matches and

immunity. Win immunity, you stay on the island a few days longer. Lose, face

tribal council where you must vote one member off the island.

A map to fire, it's got to be.

Dark camp. Just a reminder of your first night.

It looked so easy in the book. Yes. Why is it so hard to light?

Tonight your tribe will carry the torch.

One tribe takes home the flame. The other gives someone the boot.

Whoa! Whoa!

I guess we're combining the reward and immunity challenge. That's the

competition is taking home the flame. But what's the competition? We've got no

freaking idea.

Welcome, tribe, to your first challenge.

Congratulations on your first night on the island. You should be very proud.

I know both of you guys have food. You found some fresh water.

And I think, Pagong, you guys had fire.

Right on. A lot of work to get fire, right? Yeah.

Yeah, it takes a lot of work. With the threat of rain, always a constant. Even

if you guys did have fire, you're certainly not back there tending to them

50 waterproof matches should certainly make that a lot easier.

One of the things you're playing for tonight.

The other is this. I want everybody to touch this. Get a good feel of this.

This is your life on the island.

This is the immunity idol.

Win this, you stay on the island a few days longer.

Lose, you face tomorrow's tribal council where one of you will be the first

person voted off the island.

Big enough stakes?

Oh, yeah.

Okay, here's what we're doing.

There are two rafts about 150 feet out in the water.

Your job is to get your raft back to the beach.

Along the way, a series of torches, both in the water and on the land.

First team to light all their torches and their side of the fire spirit wins

immunity. Here are the rules. Each tribe member has to have one hand on the raft

at all times. At all times.

Nobody can swim ahead. Nobody can fall behind. The other rule, you have to

every torch.

Don't put me in the position of having to make a judgment call. I don't want

There's too much at stake.

Clear? Clear. All right. Swim out to your rafts. Wait for my signal.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Begong, you get fire in the form of 50 waterproof matches.

And more importantly, immunity from tomorrow's tribal council. You'll stay

the island a few more days.

You know

the

drill. You have a date with me tomorrow for the tribal council.

where one of you will be the first person voted off.

You got any dirt?

Where the hell did he go?

Oh, he brought his Bible with him? Yeah, yeah. I think he's pretty religious. He

was telling me he was a youth minister or something.

Before we got on the island here, I formed opinions about people, but I

my mind just on that trip in. He's rich, for one. I mean, this guy, he's strong.

He's smart.

This guy surprises me. You know, he's fat, but he's good.

I like Rudy. I'm not bothered by his.

straightforwardness at all. I don't think it's even a problem. I like it

he's saying, hey, do this or hey, do that. But people are thinking of that as

very direct and arrogant. That's the word I'm hearing. And I'm thinking to

myself, well, they think he's arrogant. Oh, my God, I'm out of here.

Having fire tonight.

One of us won't be here to enjoy it. We got the tribal council tonight.

Pack your bags, get ready to go. Which one it will be, the world will see now.

Unfortunately, we're going to have to vote somebody off.

There's going to be a lot of tension.

And one of us is going to leave.

What time we got to do this at?

Get ready to go. Pack your bags, get ready to go.

I can't believe we have to pack up. We're just getting settled.

Well, somebody's gone,

so it's time to think about who are they going to vote for, why are they going

to vote. I've narrowed it down to four.

I'm one of them.

Well, it could mean a lot, either staying or being voted out. You know,

night's competition, I really feel responsible because I couldn't keep up,

was dragged totally off my feet.

I do feel that that stumble probably cost us the immunity challenge, and

a big one.

Up until probably last night, I never gave it a second thought about who I was

going to vote off or if I got voted off.

But after last night, I thought about it then, and I decided then.

I feel pretty secure, actually, about the vote tonight.

Kelly and I get along real well, and we've been talking about strategy and,

know, who's not contributing as much and who would do best to vote off. And I

think we've come to a mutual decision.

We've talked to Sue about it.

Stacy came up to me. It's like, she don't like Rudy.

And she's like, oh, we think we're going to vote for Rudy and vote him off

because he's still barking.

Why anybody's too barking and too bossy is Stacy because she doesn't move her

ass. Some chicks think I'm voting for one person and I'm not.

This is Tribal Council.

where each week one member will be voted off the island.

Last night in a crushing defeat, Taghi lost the immunity challenge, so tonight

they will come here and vote the first person off.

It all begins with a dangerous hike through the jungle.

With so little time to get acquainted, everyone is vulnerable.

Rich's talk versus action approach may be more annoying than helpful.

Sonia's tumble cost them dearly.

One thing's for certain. At Tribal Council, you are held accountable for

actions. There will be a vote.

Someone is going home.

I see torches.

Oh, that looks pretty hairy.

Make a way around.

We begin Tribal Council with a ritual.

Behind each of you is a torch. I'd like you to grab the torch and approach the

fire.

Go ahead and dip your torches in the flame and light them.

Put them back in their slot and take a seat.

We do this because, as I'm sure you've discovered, on the island, fire

represents life.

These torches now represent your life, your identity here at Tribal Council.

The good news is you will take these torches with you when you leave.

So you will have fire, and you will bring them back with you to each tribal

council. Go ahead and have a seat.

Well, leave it to me to state the obvious, but this is not a place you

be.

You tread in dangerous territory every time you come here. Tribal council is

basically where you account for your actions on the island. Some of those

actions will come back to help you. Some of them may come back to haunt you.

But tonight, based on those actions, one of you will be the first person voted

off the island.

So before we get to the vote, let's talk about...

What's been going on? I'm curious just about you guys getting here and finding

this place. How was the journey over here?

It was a deadly snake.

Really? Yeah.

Great canyon, mud flood.

It was great.

Fun.

We're still starving. We still haven't eaten.

We've eaten, but not really eaten. The competition is different. The

we had last night was tougher than I had anticipated.

How are you holding up physically?

Well, pretty well. You know, I'll fight to the finish, but I have my blisters.

putting out, but I'm doing okay.

What happened after Quest for Fire? That was a great competition.

Obviously a lot at stake.

We came close. We almost got it. We came back.

We were right there.

There's no way.

Alright, guys. Well, it's obviously a fun group. This is not a pleasant

And I know also from listening to you guys talk that there were a lot of

different reasons why you're here.

Obviously a million dollars. Big motivator for anybody.

But I'm sensing...

There could be personal reasons, different journeys you might be on that

encompasses.

Whatever it is, to fulfill that agenda, you have to survive tonight's tribal

council.

That's the way it's set up.

So what we're going to do is vote. And how it will work is we'll come down

We'll go across this bridge into our voting confessional.

Write the name of the person you want to vote off. Large, clear letters.

Hold it up and speak your piece. We can't hear you. Fold it up.

Put it in the container, come back, and take a seat.

Now, once the votes are tallied, the decision is final.

And you have to leave the tribal council area immediately.

It's time to vote.

Stacey, tough call.

Subtle reason.

Not sure exactly what they are.

He's an ornery guy, doesn't really help that much.

He's a Navy SEAL. He doesn't know how to start fire.

And he just criticizes everything.

I'm picking her because I think she's the reason we lost yesterday.

I'll miss his skills and speaking his mind openly.

Before I read these notes, I just want to commend you on the courage it's taken

to get this far. There were a lot of steps along the way. Any of you could

turned around.

Nobody did.

And in my book, that gives you bragging rights for life.

So with that, I'll read the votes.

First vote, Sonia.

Rudy.

Rudy.

Rudy.

Three for Sonia and three for Rudy.

First person voted off the island.

Sonia.

Sonia, I need you to grab your torch and bring it to me.

The tribe has spoken.

Go get them, guy.

Well,

to the rest of you, I get some somber congratulations.

You've survived the tribal council. You have fire.

You can head back to camp, and I will see you tomorrow for the next challenge.

Good night.

Next week on

Survivor.

Well,

I think this has been an awesome experience.

Being the first to be voted out is a little humiliating. On the other hand,

team did the right thing. They're a terrific group of people. They're very

strong physically, and I think in their shoes, I'd probably do the same thing.