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I'm standing on the rim of Mount Yasser, a massive crater that displays its

anger on a regular basis, spewing molten lava and rock thousands of feet into

the air.

Locals believe this is the final resting spot for the spirits of the dead.

Yasser is one of nine active volcanoes on the island nation of Vanuatu in the

South Pacific.

It is a land with a fascinating history of cannibalism, where rituals like

sorcery and black magic are still a part of daily life.

It is here that 18 Americans are about to begin the adventure of a lifetime.

18 strangers, all from different walks of life, 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 out of the tribe.

In the end, only one will remain to claim the million -dollar prize.

39 days, 18 people, one survivor.

Welcome to Survivor Vanuatu, Islands of Fire.

The game is about to begin, but before it does, you're going to take part in a

tribal ritual.

It is a rite of passage and an invitation to stay on the land, but in

stay, you must participate.

It's going to impact each of you differently.

At times, you may find it beautiful.

At times, you may be repulsed. And at times, you may be frightened.

Chief Mormor will preside over all of this. He is a real chief. I will be

but he will guide you through it.

The tribes of Vanuatu take their spirituality very seriously.

The Vanuatu tribal tradition.

You are in a foreign country.

Remember that. This is their culture. We are only visitors.

Time to go over. Three in a canoe.

Down the rope ladder.

Jeff gave us an overview saying how the customs of Vanuatu are not like we're

used to. So I was really nervous after he was talking to us. I'm like, what are

they going to do?

Jeff informed us that we were going to climb down the side of the boat and we

were going to get in these canoes.

I thought, man, that's great because I didn't learn how to swim until six weeks

before I came here.

I would have been spooked if I knew I had to swim.

We get into the boat, and it tips over.

So I'm trying to hold on to the rope to keep me up. It's killing my back, but I

wasn't about to move it. I was going to stay right where I was at.

We finally got another boat over there.

I

don't

know if it was just the...

anticipation of getting started or the whole thing but I was really I was here

We're a bunch of tribesmen running with spears. My first reaction was, you know,

what's going on?

We were like, what, are we supposed to defend ourselves? What are we supposed

do?

They're jabbing spears at absolutely everybody except me.

Nobody jabbed a spear at me in any way, shape, or form, which I took as, you

know, a black man coming on the island is not particularly unwelcome.

guys in their big cone -shaped jungle dresses, they have these big sticks and

they start, you know, pulling people out with the sticks, but kind of like, you

know, whacking them out.

Soon enough I noticed that they were bringing the women to one side.

We look over and the guys, you know, like we're like kneeling on a mat and

all have like little like stump seats to sit on and they're like right in the

center of the action. We're kind of off to the side. And so I immediately

started thinking.

What's with this? I thought we were all supposed to be part of this ceremony.

They brought a bowl out and they uncovered the palm leaves off of it and

pointing at it. Well, I thought maybe I was supposed to wash my fingers or

something, you know, that we were getting ready to eat something or wash

fingers because it was some rustic looking stuff.

Chief, more and more offers each one of us this calm drink it.

Your lips go numb, and your tongue goes numb, and your throat goes numb.

The chief was welting them on, and I look over at the girls, and they're not

getting anything to drink.

And I'm thinking, wow, this is pretty cool, you know? Special treatment for

guys.

I was waiting for our turn. I was like, well, okay, when do we get kava? But it

never came around.

We're not getting the full deal here.

I'm not used to being put second behind a man.

Keep in mind, guys, what is about to happen next is a common part of their

tribal tradition.

Apparently, the Vanuatu people really honor pigs.

Pigs are, I think, sometimes better than women.

Anyway, so they come in with this pig.

Right away, I thought, okay, we're having a pig roast, you know, but I

the pig was dead.

And then I realized the pig was alive.

know that animals are slaughtered, but like seeing it was just like, like I

literally think I gasped out loud because it was just so shocking to

That kind of stuff doesn't bother me because I'm a shepherdess and that's

do. I raise lambs for that exact purpose, to slaughter.

So I totally understand that ritual.

The head chief took the blood of his sacrifice and went to each male member

Survivor, no female, and said, you are now a warrior in Vanuatu.

And basically I felt what he was doing when he was saying welcome.

element left to this initiation.

It involves a spiritual stone.

It is believed on these lands that this carved stone and other stones like it

ward off evil spirits.

Last thing you want in this game is bad luck.

Possessing this stone could give you a spiritual advantage in the game.

As you've seen, men and women are treated very differently.

The chief is offering the men a chance to possess this stone.

The only hitch is You have to get it from the top of that pole.

This has been greased with pig fat.

If you fail, the women get it.

The chief will decide in which order you go.

To show you that it can be done, he's going to instruct a tribe member to take

it up and put it there now.

Ever who possesses that stone, the spirits are supposed to be in favor,

though that's not my belief.

I still wanted that stone.

So the girls wouldn't get it.

We were all going, I don't want to be the one that falls flat on my face in

front of everybody.

The chief turned around, and he pointed in my direction. I was like, oh, my God.

No, not me. And I went like this out of the way. I said, yeah, him?

I was just praying to God he was going to pick somebody else.

But he picked me. As soon as he did, I figured the only way I'd even have any

chance is to do it kind of like the other guy did it.

And I dealt with dirt on my feet and my hands, and I just hung on for dear life.

The girls were praying that the boys were not going to do it. So I was like,

please fall.

We want to see some of them fall.

As soon as he got that rock, it started raining like pouring pee out of a boot

on a flat rock.

It was definitely spooking, but I didn't care. We got the rock.

Now, time to begin Survivor. Because you have been divided by the chief into

groups of men and women, you will stay that way. Men in possession of the

spiritual stone.

You are the Lepevi tribe.

You will wear red.

Men against women. Perfect.

I can outsmart eight men a hell of a lot quicker than I can outsmart eight

women. Women stick together at their thickest feet.

Men are deceiving, mischievous, untrusting human beings. Men I can

You are the Yasser tribe.

Named after the volcano.

You will wear yellow.

When I found out we were splitting the men into women, I looked around at them

little girls and I thought, oh, Lord, what did you get me into?

We had a couple old prissy ones. They probably hadn't even been dirty in their

entire days, and they ain't got a clue what's in store for the next God knows

how many days. Your next task is to find your tribal beaches. You will not have

a map to guide you. You will not have fire to lead the way. It is going to be

long, dark, wet...

Walk, and when you get there, you will have a pot, you will have a machete, and

you will have a map to water, and that's it. Have a good 39 days. Men, down the

beach this way. Keep walking until you find your tribe flag.

Ladies, down to the beach. Head right.

I think the boys got a lot more out of that ceremony than we did. I think we

definitely got a bum deal.

So we're out for blood now.

Hold on to the next person. This is really slippery roots here, so be really

careful. Oh, whoa, Scout.

One down, one up. Are you okay?

What do you think, Scout? I'm going with your years of experience and

know -how here because I don't want to walk around all night.

I just wanted to hunker down till daylight came so we could, you know,

camp easier and everybody be safe. I wasn't tired.

I just love to sit and visit. I haven't said anything to anybody here, but I'm

sweating around an artificial me.

So I'm pretty cautious crawling across lava rock that deep at night when it's

raining.

Yeah!

Amy and Dolly and Scout didn't want to come along. They almost insisted on just

stopping where we were and...

you know, sleeping.

I think sleeping right here is the stupidest thing we could possibly do.

You guys, come on up here! Come up here!

We want to hang out! We want you to come hang out with us!

Let's make a group decision.

What way do you want to go?

Well, I don't want to hold you. I want you guys to go at your pace.

I feel like we're headed the wrong direction, so I want you to go on. I'm

to stay back.

Nobody needs to make a decision.

It got to a point where we couldn't make a decision whether we should continue

or go back or if we missed the flag or, you know, we were really kind of afraid

that we missed camp all together because it's dark out. I really had my heart

set on riding our camp tonight. Me too.

I didn't want to be too pushy because I didn't want to be like the odd person

out. Are you going to be able to sleep in this raincoat?

No, no, I want to keep walking.

Luckily, you know, other people agreed with me that we should continue.

Will you come with us if we choose to go, or are you going to just... Yeah,

go with you. Come on, girl.

Yeah, let's go for it. We don't want the guys to find their camp before us.

I know.

It's blind leading the blind here.

Where's the flag, bro?

I don't think none of us have missed it. Can we hold on a quick second?

We really need to come up with some sort of game plan, because this walking on a

path is bull. I mean, we got nine of us.

There's got to be a better way than this.

Now, we can keep walking along the path, and some of us can walk along the path,

but then we pass several trails that are going up, and we have no idea where

those things are going.

Nine of us walking in a group like a bunch of ladies ain't helping.

Rory, I don't think he's going to fit in. There's one in every bunch, you know

what I mean? To see, like, Rory already parking outdoors, what is he thinking?

I'll be honest with you, the walk's, like, kind of keeping us busy. We've got

nothing to do, just walk, you know what I mean?

Once we find camp anyway, what are we going to do when we get done?

What does the group want to do? What do we want to do?

Keep walking?

Move out.

I don't think there was any independent thought. I think that we could have

covered more ground if we weren't all walking.

in a big pack of nine guys all at once.

Some of the younger guys that are here, none of them want to listen.

They're all young.

A little tension on the first night.

What's that right there?

Does that look like a shit flag on it?

Yeah.

Yo, it's a flag!

This has got to be it.

Please be our beach. Please be our beach. Please be our beach.

You guys,

we did it!

You see the flag and, you know, all the troubles, all the conflict, like,

dissolved. We're all hugging and thrilled to death that we're here.

persevering and being here.

Okay, now what?

Let's pull in what we got and see, and then tie them down. You've got to tie

these up to that center piece.

Well, we've got a really sturdy rack for a shelter. It's been a group effort.

I've stayed with it, and Twyla stayed with it, and Leanne stayed with it. But

some of the gals are down there on the beach, basking in the sun, chitty

-chatting.

Oh, praise the spirit of the sun.

Can I just rub it on?

Maybe go around.

I call all these sorority girls bowheads.

I mean, that's what we call them back in Oklahoma.

They all like to hang together. They're like cattle. I mean, really, cows, they

just cluster.

And those sorority chicks, they aren't paying attention to any damn thing but

themselves. You know, they're their favorite topic.

I'm really not a negative person. Like, I'm awfully optimistic in most cases.

But for some reason, I just don't think we're going to get fired from rubbing

two, like, quasi -dry sticks together. Well, you know, Eliza, she talks none.

Stop. She's probably at the top of my list just to get her mouth out of my

I'm telling you.

Dude, are they building shelter right now?

Oh, yeah.

Just lean up against this and hold it.

Slide down a little bit, though.

Twyla has been working on the shelter constantly. I feel like her continuous

work has made those of us who have taken reasonable breaks look bad in her mind

to think that, oh, they're not pulling their weight.

Hey, ladies, looking great.

We had too much chatter and not enough moving.

Miles are working, but the hands ain't. The hut still is not done.

There's a couple of them that didn't do nothing but bitch -moan and complain

last night. We was all cold.

You know, get off your ass, get done, and don't bitch about it tonight when

you're freezing your butt off.

We know where our water source is.

Just a little creek with some fresh water.

It looks really clean, but it's still going to have to be boiled. And I guess

our problem right now is we've just got to get a fire going.

Hey, you guys, before we start the fire, let's get the immunity rock, huh?

Grab the rock, Ted.

For fire.

Well, you know, it worked at home when I did this.

You make a little notch in the fire tray, and you're going to put the ball

cinder right in here. On the opposite side, we make a groove.

The aborigines did this.

Why can't we?

J .P. wants to prove himself bad.

He's about 30 years old, and he's feeling like, you know, I'm buff, I'm

young, I'm all, you know, go to the end of this.

He don't have a clue.

He's got the frame, but he ain't got the brain.

Flacking it. Yep. There you go, dude. Keep it going. Yep.

That's going to be it. Keep going. We need more smoke. More smoke, dude.

Dump it. Dump it.

It's here.

It's right here. It's right here. It's right here.

We actually had.

A hot amber, which is very pink.

Oh, you're getting it. That's it.

Light, light, light.

I think we were all excited to see a hot amber, but none of us knew what to do

with it. We're just kind of like, yeah, we've got amber.

No!

We were so close to getting fire going that I thought we were going to be able

to boil water.

It didn't work.

You got those leaves?

You guys check it out. I got it. I got it.

You guys agree that I...

I had a pretty good run down here. I didn't fall or anything.

After doing things that are physically demanding, I felt like it was the right

time to reveal the fact that I have no foot, that it's a prosthesis.

They were pretty...

I had absolutely no idea that Chad had no legs.

I mean, he was wearing pants the whole day.

So he just goes, hey, guys, look.

And then he unzipped his pants.

There was no legs. It was pretty shocking.

Extremely mobile. Yeah. All the job was. Well, try.

Great. The guy with the mechanical legs can win for sure. He's nice, he's smart,

he's quiet, and he's got the underdog thing going on.

So we're screwed.

That's awesome, dude. I had no idea.

I'm amazed. All the power to him. I totally think that's inspirational.

But if I have to vote his ass out of here tomorrow, I'm still going to vote

ass out of here tomorrow.

That's it.

Until Friday in unity, it's time the two tribes meet. Bring your tribal flag

with you whenever you complete.

Compete. Compete.

Access. Assess your tribe. Make friends.

This challenge you'll require.

One tribe leaves with heads hung low. The others go home with fire.

They got true mail, and we're all psyched up because supposedly we're

get some fire.

Obviously, most people think that girls are weaker and women aren't cut out for

this kind of thing, so I think it's really important that we win this

We're going to go and kick some butt.

Yes, sir. Ladies, how's it going so far? Two nights.

Too long, cold, wet night. But it's going awesome.

All right, LePevi. You guys grinning.

No problem, right? First three days, how's it going so far?

We still need fire before we're going to drink water, so we need to boil ours.

We're not taking any chances.

Okay, let's get to the first challenge. It is for both reward and immunity.

There are several elements.

All nine of you must go under the mud crawl.

Once all nine of you have made it to the other side of the mud crawl, three

tribe members will tackle the box maze. Your goal is to maneuver a ball from the

start to the finish net. Once the ball gets in the net, take it with you

it has matches inside that you're going to need later. The next stage, all nine

must cross a very narrow balance beam.

If you fall off or if your feet hit the net at any time, you've got to go back

to the start.

Once all nine have finished...

Three different tribe members will race to build a fire that will burn a rope

and drop a torch.

Light it, cross the finish line. First tribe with a lit torch to cross the

finish line and light the final walk wins reward and immunity.

Want to know what the reward is? Absolutely.

It's flint.

Yeah. You already have steel with a machete. This will give you fire, give

warmth, let you boil water. But more important than reward is this.

Immunity. This is what you want in this game. If you have immunity, you are

safe. You cannot be voted out. Without it, you are vulnerable.

Ready to go?

Yeah. Take your spots on the start. Wait for my go.

All right, here we go. For reward and immunity.

Survivors ready?

Go!

Through the mud pit.

Everybody's dead even.

Pretty even.

Keep moving. Get your face down and dig through.

John and Lisa are across.

A lot of teamwork going on.

The women pulling each other through.

Guys pulling each other through.

Get even. Let's go. Get her through.

Get her through.

Get him.

Got to get on the mat.

Men are through the mud.

Men moving on to the box maze.

Get on the mat.

Drag her.

Women through the mud. Women moving on to the box maze.

You need to maneuver the ball into the finish net.

Guys at a roadblock.

The men have it. Moving on with their ball to the balance beam.

Chad, first up on the balance beam.

Keep working. You're still in there.

Bubba's down. Back to the start. Go! Go!

Go! Go!

Go!

Go! Go!

Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!

Go!

Go! Go!

Go! Go!

Go! Go!

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Go! Go!

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Go!

Man, come on. Just a few more pushes. Think about it. Think about it. Mother

working it. Let's go.

Let's go.

She's catching you. She's catching you. Come on.

Women have their first woman across. Get those feet up there.

Mother's through.

Chad,

you're there.

Keep moving, Twyla.

Watch your feet.

Keep them up.

That'll win.

Okay, let's go now.

Look up. Let's go.

It's all you.

It's all you, man. You're the man.

No Tribal Council for you guys.

And Clint, water tonight.

You'll stay warm. Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

LePavy, tough break.

Chris, certainly gave it everything he had. We'll see if it mattered or not

tonight at Tribal Council. Somebody's going home. First person voted out.

I'll see you there.

Hey, bottom line, I think we underestimated them, man. They did a

yeah. Yeah, we just lost.

Losing fire right now was tough.

Losing to women was tough.

Well, to tell you guys a little bit more about myself, I'm not real good at a

balance.

Chris couldn't get across the balance beam.

Fact is, he didn't make it, and we lost.

I'll get halfway and hit a wall.

I really wanted to make it across the beam. And, you know, if I had wings, I'd

have made it. You know, I would have made myself go across the beam.

But this game, you outwit outplay outlast people.

You don't outbalance them.

You know what I'm saying?

We need to win this thing.

Yo, Lee.

What do you say?

Who are you leaning towards tonight?

Like, we're just talking, and as a group, we want to be a strong group.

Bottom line is, I want to beat those girls, and I want to keep getting

The way I'm going to do it is, it's basically the way it's going.

Well, I said I'm going to give it a few hours and see what the attitudes are.

Because, I mean, I like everybody.

That's the thing. I don't have no bad calls with nobody.

J .P., Brady, John, and Brooke, they basically said, Sarge, we need to get

of the weakest link.

I mean, it's tricky to decide who I'm going to vote for. I said, I'm going to

think about it. They said the weakest link.

They're assuming that I agree that the weakest link is Chris.

If we're going to stay in this, the old people, the only way we're going to get

a million dollars, one of us, is if we get rid of young people.

He's too strong. I know. He's too strong.

JB is the only one that's really trying to make fire.

I'd say Brooke.

Brooke is cocky, and we don't know where he lies.

I'll talk to Chad. I'll take care of him. I'll talk to Chad. I prepared to

here mentally, and I prepared to play the game.

I'm not vulnerable at all. We've got a plan.

I was trying to survive the first couple days.

The one thing you've got to worry about is you never know if those guys are

smart enough, which I hope they didn't.

Personally, I think these are all young guys on the team.

guys are going to be targets. I feel like I am one of the stronger, younger

who's going to be a target. Right now, we're in charge of who's getting voted

off. That's right now.

You know what I mean? Not necessarily.

All right, cool.

Do you know what I'm saying?

All right, cool. I'm down with it. All right.

Well, obviously, I haven't fully made up my mind on who I'm going to vote for

yet tonight.

I'm thinking about Chris right now, but...

Rory, he's kind of on his own sheet of music a lot of the time.

I think maybe some people feel like Rory's maybe not putting out as much

effort as some of the other guys.

And the group right now is where it's all at.

Behind each of you guys is a torch. Go ahead and grab a torch.

Approach a flame and get fire.

Because in this game, fire represents your life.

As long as your torch has fire, you're still in the game. When your flame is

gone, so are you.

Welcome to your first travel council.

Definitely not the place you want to be.

Somebody's going to go home as a result of today's loss.

But before we get to the vote, let's talk about today's challenge.

Anybody here willing to admit that as they saw Chris fail, fail, fail, that

started thinking, this guy is killing us?

Oh, I mean, yeah, because it was so easy. And I'm saying, come on, bring

big tail across the doggone beam. We were ahead, now we're losing.

All we got to do is build a little fire, lower this torch, and win over these

females. Chris, at any point while you're trying to cross it, are you also

thinking, I'm dead, I'm going home tonight?

No, I wasn't. I wasn't thinking I'm going home tonight. I wasn't thinking

dead. I don't categorize stuff like that. The first night, Rory, he had some

ideas. He was getting on people's nerves. Did I all of a sudden develop an

opinion about him and think, you know what? He's going home first time I go to

tribal council.

No, I didn't think that.

Everybody's going to help the team some way, sometime down along the line.

And that's all I think about.

Rory, how are you fitting in with this group?

I fit in fabulously well, and I love my partners here.

We've accepted every single thing that's come our way as a family and as a team,

and I would expect that that's the way we're going to continue to operate.

JP, how close are you guys to crisis mode in terms of not having water?

We're on red alert. I mean, when you get into this game, you realize you take a

lot of things for granted, and water is one of them. You start getting

headaches. You can't get up. You're lethargic. You start cramping.

It's taken a toll on all of us in some way or another.

Before we get to the vote, there's one other topic we have to bring up. You got

your first look today at the women.

Bubba, that was just a little grunt or a groan or a... Jeff, I've said it once,

I've said it a thousand times. You never underestimate a woman.

I knew going into this that these women were going to be fighting hard. And I

hope now everybody respects these ladies because they mean business.

And they can kick our tail, Jeff.

Brooke, anybody you wouldn't mind ending up on a tribe with?

Yeah, there was a couple girls who had really nice tails, but I was real

impressed with how competitive some of those girls were. It's one thing to

expect it and one thing to see those girls shimmying across that beam and

grinding their teeth and screaming and yelling just because they want to beat

so bad.

But, yeah, I was peeking over quite often when I got a chance.

JP, you had to be a little surprised nine women kicked your guy's butt.

I think as the group we expected to win.

Nine males, Jeff. There's nine of us. We're all brute strong.

We're going to have to come in and play the game a little bit harder. They just

raised the level of the game.

With that, it is time to vote. Brooke, you're up first.

Chris, I'm making this vote to save my own butt, and it's definitely a

Good luck, bud.

If you get voted off tonight, we'll miss your sage comments around camp.

Right now, man, it's all that team and winning.

Just playing the game, man.

Started playing it when I got to the beach.

It's all part of the game.

I'll go tally the votes.

Once the votes are read, the decision is final. The person voted out will be

asked to leave the tribal council area immediately.

I'll read the votes.

First vote.

Chris.

Chris. Two votes, Chris.

Two votes, Brooke.

Two votes, Chris.

One vote, Rory.

Chris.

Brooke. Three votes, Brooke.

Three votes, Chris.

One vote, Rory.

Brooke. Four votes, Brooke.

Three votes, Chris.

First person voted out of Survivor Vanuatu Islands is five.

Brooke, you need to bring me a torch.

Tribe has spoken.

Three

different

tribe members received votes.

You guys are going back to camp.

No water, no fire, because you're going to earn it or you're going to build it.

You guys can head back to camp. Good night.

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.

Next time on Survivor. Lines are drawn at LePevitt. You are so friggin'

dangerous, man.

Who else is a threat? At Yasser, things are bleak. It's so miserable.

Being here is like being in prison.

And Rory gets mad. That was nonsense.

That was clackless. I just don't think, you know.

Go some clack.

The one thing I didn't want was to be the first person off. Who the hell wants

to be the first person off? But during these three days in the game, I don't

think I have learned much about myself.

My only problem was the other 17 people here just gave me an absolute schooling

in the game of Survivor. So, you know, I got beat, bottom line. Someone got me.

They got me good.

Peace out, Survivor land.