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Deep in the heart of the South Pacific lies one of the most mysterious and

isolated islands in the world, Samoa.

A land of steep volcanic mountains, towering waterfalls,

fierce rainstorms, rugged coastlines virtually

untouched by civilization, and surrounded by an ocean that's home to a

marine life.

Here is where these 20 Americans are beginning the adventure of a lifetime.

Though they've not yet spoken, first impressions are already forming.

This lady with her free -flowing life, she's probably some super outdoors woman

that will naturally set forth as our leader.

Dude, I'm a people magnet.

People have gravitated to me my entire life. It's like, oh my God, this chick

rocks. We love her.

There's a guy who looks as tough as nails. He looks like a pit bull. He's

I wouldn't want to mess with him, that's for sure.

I plan on making it as miserable as possible, making it hell for everybody

get what I want.

When I first started being a police officer, I believed every single person

met, but now I don't believe anybody anymore.

20 strangers forced to work together while battling the elements and each

They must learn to adapt or they'll be voted out.

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

39 days, 20 people, one survivor.

to Survivor Samoa.

You guys have already been divided into two tribes. Wearing purple, you are

Galoo. Wearing yellow, you're Foa Foa.

You're now going to make your first tribe decision.

You're going to elect a leader for your tribe.

Out here in Samoa, the leaders, or Matais as they're called, held in very

esteem because they're called upon to protect the interests of their tribe.

Whoever you elect is going to do that for your tribe. It's going to be based

body language, observations.

Piece of parchment and a pen for each of you.

Do your best to describe who looks like they could lead your tribe.

Like, kind of like a deer in headlights.

Taking on a leadership role in a game like Survivor is a death wish.

Once you have it, you can head back to your mat.

I do have leadership qualities.

Being in the operating room, you have to make snap decisions.

It takes more than, you know, a no for mom to get through med school and

residency.

All right, Galoo, who looks like they could leave your tribe?

I voted for the guy in the gray shirt with the very short cut.

What's your name?

Eric. First vote is for Eric, guy in the back. I voted for the lady with the

purple bandana.

What's your name?

Shambo.

Shambo? Yep. My nickname has been Shambo since 86.

I was in the United States Marine Corps, and Rambo had the same dandana I had,

so everybody was like, Shannon, Shambo, Rambo, Shambo, so that's my game name,

and that's what I'm here to do, is play.

All right, woman in front with the blonde hair. Black jacket and dreads,

hair. What's your name? Russell. That's one vote for Russell.

In the back.

Voting for the guy with the dreadlock, Russell.

Two votes for Russell.

Handsome man in the suit.

All right, that's three votes for Russell.

Russell, who'd you vote for?

Shambo. Shambo. So Russell has three votes. Shambo has two. Woman here in

in gray.

Shambo. Guy in the back.

Russell. That's four for Russell. Three for Shambo. Eric. Yeah, better looking

Lennox Lewis.

That's five for Russell. That'll do it. Shambo has the last vote.

This fella.

All right. Russell is the leader of Galoo.

All right. Foa Foa, your turn.

Red shirt, jeans, khaki jacket.

What's your name? Mick.

Tall guy in the back. Mick. Mick. That's two for Mick. Right up here in the

front with the cap.

Girl in orange shirt, white flowers. What's your name?

Marisa. Brought a smile to your face.

That's two for Mick. One for Marisa. Mick. Yellow shirt, vest.

What's your name?

Jason. All right. Right here in the front in the yellow dress.

The guy in the khaki jacket and orange shirt. That's three for Mick. Jason,

who'd you vote for? The girl with the dark hair, Asian.

The name is Liz.

All right. Marisa, who'd you vote for?

Short, strong guy with a hat.

Short, strong guy, what's your name? Russell.

Woman in front.

Male, gray vest, yellow button -up, Jason.

Down here on the end.

The tall, nicely dressed, Yale -type black man.

All right, we have a tie now. We have Mick with three votes, Jason with three

votes. One vote left.

Last vote, hold it up. Guy, green jacket, red shirt, Mick. That's it.

Our leader for Fala Fala, it is Mick.

I wasn't really surprised that I wasn't written down as the leader, but I don't

really see anybody else that's a country boy.

I've shot and killed and cleaned about everything you're allowed to in

and probably a few things you're not.

So I've done all this stuff before, and I think a lot of these people are kind

of candy asses. All right, leaders.

Now, you're going to make your first big decision.

And it will test your leadership skills right from the start.

I'm scared.

This leadership thing can go south real quick.

The highest nail definitely gets pounded down in this game. And right now, I'm

like sky high.

All right, you're now going to make your first big decisions as leaders. You're

going to decide who's going to participate in our opening challenge.

Mick, I want you to choose from your tribe who you think is your best

Okay.

Jason looks like a swimmer.

Everybody assumes that tall black guy can't swim. So I didn't think in 100

that Mick would choose me for the swimming.

But I played water polo through college and the national team. So I would like

to claim I'm a pretty good swimmer.

Russell, who do you think is your best swimmer? I'm choosing the young

-looking guy.

John, head on over.

Mick, pick the strongest person on your tribe.

I'm choosing Russell.

Russell. All right, for Galoo. I'm going to choose the younger guy with the

short crop haircut.

Eric? Eric.

Mick, pick.

Who do you think is your most agile person? I'm choosing Marissa.

Marissa. Marissa.

All right, Russell.

I'm choosing my African queen with Rave. All right, Yasmin. Come on over.

Yasmin wearing nice heels.

All right, Mick. Last choice. Pick the smartest person on this tribe.

This is tough. I am choosing the woman on the end. I'm sorry. I lost her name.

forgot.

I think Mick chose me because I'm Asian.

And while I certainly don't take offense to the positive attributes of being an

Asian because they're smart, they're supposed to be studious. Come on over.

your tribe. There are also negative attributes like sneaky, conniving. But I

just don't want people attributing all the negative attributes to me.

All right, Russell. Who do you think is the smartest?

I'm choosing Shambo. Oh, my God.

I am smart in the ways of life.

But as far as book smart, dear God, please help me here.

Come on over. Okay.

You guys ready to get to the first challenge?

Here's how it's going to work. On my go, the designated swimmer.

Swim out.

You would free the key and swim back.

The designated strong person will use that key to unlock a chain, freeing up

very heavy bundles of logs.

You'll then carry those logs back to the map, where the most agile person will

use those logs to get up to a balance beam. You must maneuver across the

beam while navigating another key through a rope maze.

The designated smart person...

We'll use that key to unlock a bag of puzzle pieces, using the pieces to solve

the puzzle. First tribe to solve the puzzle wins the reward.

Want to know what you're playing for?

Yeah.

Fire in the form of flint. Let's get it, guys.

Huge advantage to start this game. Take your spots. We'll get started.

All right, here we go.

Survivors ready?

leg is a swimming leg.

Wow, two sprinters through the water.

Got to swim all the way out, retrieve the key, and get back.

Jason's starting to pull away from Sean.

Mick feeling very good about his choice for a swimmer.

Jason, he's surprised about me.

Afro -Americans aren't known to be women, you know.

John now at his key.

Jason has his key and he's heading back.

John has his key, he's heading back.

We got to race.

Come on, John, keep going.

Jason, first back for 4 -4.

Passes off the key to Russell.

That is a long swim.

John shanked that swim so bad, I was ready to vote him off right there. Keep

going. Keep going.

Eric has the key. Eric now getting to work.

Russell having no problem with that first bundle of logs.

Eric trying to make up some time.

a little trouble with that second one.

made me so proud.

Nice head start.

Gambo is right in it.

She was worried that she was going to be smart enough.

I won the challenge because Mick made a very good choice on all legs.

That was amazing.

You earned it. Your reward.

Fire the map to your new home.

Russell, at all frustrated?

No, Jeff. I'm proud of this team. I am not frustrated in the least.

Everybody loves an underdog, Jeff. That's right.

You are definitely the underdogs. Here's your map to your new home.

Grab your stuff.

Head out. You got a camp to build, pretty boy.

Maybe you couldn't swim, but get your ass off the mat.

Stand up.

Unbelievable. He doesn't deserve to be here.

Real world experience.

I'm a hillbilly man.

I've done this lots of times.

Bathroom should definitely not be up from camp. It should be away.

Ben's an interesting cat.

You know, he shows up to camp and, I mean, the guy is just like, all eyes to

We just need four holes that are like equal distance apart, like 10 by 10, 12

12, whatever it is. I think the leadership thing is difficult, and I'm

trying to sort out exactly how to run it. Put that other piece of bamboo that

way. If he wants to step up and take control of things, you know what?

Have at him, my friend, because he'll pay his own target.

I didn't come here to work. I came here to play.

You gotta talk about alliance as soon as you step on this island.

So my strategy is to be able to have a secret alliance with each one of these

dumb girls.

We can have something like a secret alliance.

Okay.

So we can be strong for the beginning.

We can look back at this moment right now and say we did it from the

from day one. It is day one now. I got alliance with the dumb short -haired

blonde. This is what I wanted. I wanted someone to approach me.

The even dumber long -haired blonde.

I'll trust you. So do I have that same trust with you? Yes. And the dark

girl. You've got my word.

You have mine.

I like to call it my dumbass girl alliance.

It's just going to be me and you. All right.

I told them exactly the same thing.

This is real.

I believe you. I'm not joking.

And I believe they're just gullible enough to believe it.

I thought this thing was quite a guy.

Aligned with the old lady.

To make sure that I win this game. My fourth alliance is with the old lady. I

know she's a lot smarter than my dumbass girl alliance.

So I got to be real careful with that one. That is fun,

Russell. As a police officer, I usually can get a pretty good read on somebody

by talking to them, looking in their eyes, their body, language.

I just have a feeling that I don't trust Russell because he came to me too quick

in the game.

I did make an alliance with him, but I don't trust him.

So let's do this. Let's make our structures. I've been elected leader of

Galoo tribe.

It is a heavy, heavy liability.

Who's the one that you always want to get when you don't know who you want to

get? Get the leader.

It's almost like we're building a raft.

Let's think about a raft, right? On the ground,

right?

And then we're going to raise the raft up. All right? So make sense?

Let's get it done.

When we first landed on the beach, I saw Russell, our tribe leader, begin to

actually take charge. It was really cool.

I felt, yay, we do have a leader.

I just want to do some building.

You're going to make this load bearing when the tree isn't vertical, so it

compressed through the core.

Oh, my God. They're still discussing it. My only problem.

Right now is we have some really strong male dominant personalities that aren't

hearing one another. I mean, can we go higher than this potentially?

I mean, yeah, this isn't necessarily like a hard stop.

There's no reason we couldn't. Yeah, exactly. I'm just sweeping up here and

two stacks, like five and then five. They got all hung up on.

exactly what should be done, how, when, where.

We're going to sleep here, right? You can feel the trench, all the drain, all

the water that runs off this hill, which was part of the initial rationale for

picking this spot, right? It gets diverted around.

In my life experience, a little bit of planning has taught me don't always be

quick to start spinning the wheels.

Raw destruction.

Everyone's in a hurry right now. We got all day.

This isn't your typical construction job. You can't push your schedule to the

right, come in late, and deliver over budget.

Because guess what? Your budget is coconuts. I think it might be suited to

like a five -minute break and just really think about what we're doing

John is very much all talk, no business. I think he's an engineer or something.

Too technical.

I think wind needs to be addressed.

I think rain is your biggest adversary.

All he's doing is running his mouth. I'm trying to kind of get an inventory of

all the actions that we need to have completed or at least try.

I think we ought to just act and quit freaking thinking. Okay.

I'm tired. I'm going to go get wet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go.

Who wants to jump in the water? Yeah, I'm vile.

Oh, these young kids.

I didn't want to go in the damn water.

It's crazy because I have to constantly remind myself this is not the Marine

Corps. And all these people are in their mid -20s. So the way that the rest of

the tribe does things is going to be way different than the way that I do

things. So Russell as leader, I'm struggling with it. He's not being

He's not leading right now.

In my opinion, he needs to open a can of whoop -ass and lay some logs down.

That's what I would have done. That would have been my game plan.

I lived in New Orleans in St. Benoit Parish right by the levee.

The storm was a Category 5.

When it hit, it broke the levee. I was in my house.

Me, I have a German shepherd. His name was Rocky.

And I tried to get out the house, and I realized I wasn't going to make it.

So I grabbed my axe, because as a fireman, one thing you learn is when you

something, you have to be able to get out.

By the time I got upstairs, the water was rushing in like, I look at Rocky,

know, I couldn't even see him.

It was muddy water. He's gone. I can't even find him. Oh, my God.

I never lived in New Orleans, and I'm not a fireman.

I even never had a German Shepherd.

You know, I really ain't got that close to another dog yet. I had him for like

nine years.

Really? I'm such an animal lover. That was so hard for me to hear.

And, I don't know, it just kind of gets to you.

And when I got on the roof, I stayed there for two days.

Two days.

And it's crazy how you can break their hearts by telling them a lie.

Russell is an interesting character because I really trusted him off the

but he's really been scrambling with everyone, and he was trying to get

sympathy about Katrina, which is probably very true, and his dog, and I

want to...

diminish that story but i just think that it was he was angling at stuff and

starting to feel like he's pretty slightly i

figured i'd make it a little interesting for everybody when they wake up i

emptied all the water out of all the canteens i plan on weeding out the week

right off the bat i plan on making it as miserable as possible

for everybody.

Little stuff like taking a sock, I done burn it in the fire.

I think if I can control how they feel, I can control how they think.

I'm really a multi -millionaire on an oil company in Houston.

I'm not here for the money. I'm only here to show people how easy it is to

this game.

I'm the worst one to trust out here.

I should be the first one to go.

But I'm going to do everything it takes to win this game.

There's no more water. No.

Yeah. They're all empty.

Oh, you know, I haven't been drinking.

I haven't.

Somebody drank my whole canteen.

Yeah.

I'm looking for my socks, which I can't seem to find.

Gone. Disappeared. My feet are starting to hurt. They're a little blistered.

I'd really like to find some socks. And to be warm.

I don't mean to be like, but we've got to hurry because we've got to fill the

canteens, cook some crab up. Would you just relax?

No, I don't want to relax. It's way too hot to touch.

It's not that hot. We can start pouring it.

With the coconut husk?

Here.

I'll do everything.

No, Liz. Liz, you want to fill the canteens? It's hot.

We can blow on it. We can blow on it in a smaller portion and it's going to cool

it faster. Use a little common sense.

My strategy is working like a dream.

We have not had sleep.

I slept fine.

Congratulations.

And they're hollering at each other right now.

And I'm going to just sit back and watch them, you know, watch it happen.

I just need some serenity.

Right now I think I am running the whole show.

They don't even know it, but I know I am.

How are you guys doing? Good.

Great. Russell, how are you feeling about your tribe?

Best group of people I could ever meet.

Everybody's pulling their weight.

Everybody, tough as nails.

Jeff, I've never read that book.

Thanks, Losers Day.

Okay, that was really good. That was great. Can we start this, Jeff? Because

ready to open some cans of whoop -ass.

All right. For today's immunity challenge, six...

members of each tribe will race across a series of a -frames while carrying

three coils of rope. You will then use that rope to pull a heavy crate to the

finish platform where the four remaining tribe members will disassemble the

crate and use the pieces to solve a puzzle.

First tribe to finish wins immunity.

This is the immunity idol.

When you have this at your camp, you cannot go home. Tonight, the losing

goes to tribal council. Tonight, somebody will be the first person voted

this game.

All right, everybody take your spots. We'll get started.

For immunity.

Survivors ready.

Yep.

The loo over in one fell swoop.

The loo off to a huge lead.

Fall, fall quickly behind.

Desmond trying to get over for Galoo.

Russell now coming down to help.

You got to climb, you got to climb.

All falling now working together to get over.

A -frame.

Blue now working together, building a human pyramid.

Great strategy.

Bobo is over the second A -frame.

This last A -frame much more difficult because there's no momentum.

I've got to tie all

They think they have it.

Monica, I will give you this. Fire.

FOA, FOA, I got nothing for you except a date with me tonight at Tribal Council

where one of you will be the first person voted out of this game.

Grab your stuff, head back to camp. See you, Tribe.

Everybody listen, though. That's only like the first quarter in a seven -game

series. Oh, yeah.

You know, it's a long way to go.

Today at the challenge, we lost, and that sucks.

I don't know whose fault it was. I feel like, you know, we all contributed.

I need to go in.

You got to make a decision now.

No, we got to go in.

I don't know. I think we have a lot to think about, but I don't want to be the

one to bring it up because then I'm going to have a target on my back.

I think right now it's a matter of strength.

I think the weakest should go.

Well,

weakest -wise, I think it's actually just based purely on physical strength.

I second that, actually.

I'm 62. I'm the oldest one out here, and, you know.

I do not want to be the first one out, you know.

So I'm talking to a few people and saying I think right now we should work

strength.

I'm going based on strength.

It's weakest.

There's going to be hard challenges ahead of us. So I think we should vote

the weakest.

And I am not the physically weakest.

What are you saying?

You've still got to stay tight with me.

Okay, but you've been, like, talking to everybody.

I know.

So I don't know why you've been doing that.

And it makes me a little wary.

Okay.

It makes me wary.

Yeah, because I've seen you talking individually, like, to everyone. I'm

not sure.

If I'm talking individually, it doesn't mean I'm trying to be strategizing with

them.

I'd rather keep it pretty low -key. I mean, what have you been talking about?

It's everything. We're out here on Survivor.

Talking about having a good time, talking to some of them about what they

and who they think are weakest.

How do you come to me and threaten me and tell me you're feeling

Are you kidding me?

Marissa is the dumbest player I've ever seen.

It is a game, you know. Yeah.

I'm running this show here.

You come up to me and threaten me, we got to go. And she's gone.

He just completely threatened me, saying, you're not making me

I said, why are you telling me this right now? What is that going to make me

think? That makes me think, I got to get rid of her.

I'm going to tell you who's going first.

Okay, who?

Marissa.

Do you think so? I know so.

She's going first.

If you stay with me, then you're going to be fine for a long time.

I love Marissa.

Really?

My tribe will believe anything I tell them at any point because they're just

stupid. I'm starting to make her nervous. Why would you say that?

Still don't know from recently.

All right, good, because I can't stand that bitch.

Makes the leader of the tribe, but I'm the one in charge of the camp.

You can call me the puppet master.

They can be my little puppets.

They'll run when I tell them to run. They'll walk when I tell them to walk.

I'm finished with them, they throw them in the trash.

I wouldn't trust Russ.

Why do you say that?

Oh, I just wouldn't.

Well, tell me why. Give me a reason.

Oh, I don't know why.

A woman's intuition.

Behind each of you is a torch. Go ahead and grab a torch, approach a flame, dip

it in, and get fired.

In this game, fire represents your life. As long as you have fire, you are still

in the game. When your fire is gone, so are you.

Unfortunately for one of you, that will be the case tonight.

How does that feel, Ashley, hearing that, that one of the ten of you going

in just a few minutes?

You know, it's really sad, but that's just the way the game works.

You know, it's whatever.

It is what it is.

It is what it is.

Russell, why not just vote her out now if it's not that big a deal? Let's get

out of here.

I don't know how to answer that question.

I think tonight we all realize that this is a dog -eat -dog game and we're all

wearing milk bone underwear. So the honeymoon's over and we have to get

Ashley, regretting that comment at all?

No, it's a game. You have to vote people out.

I think we all did our best today, and unfortunately, they beat us.

I disagree. I thought they were lucky with the puzzle.

Lucky? With the puzzle, yeah.

Barathi, we'd still be there. You guys were nowhere close. Liz, you were

designated the smart person.

Was that luck today?

No, I don't think it was luck on their part. I think that we could have been a

little bit more unified.

We're only as strong as our weakest link.

Betsy, who do you think is the weak link?

I think Ashley's the weakest.

Ashley. I find it very entertaining that she thinks I'm the weakest link when I

am, like, cardio -wise physically fit. I work out tons at home. I mean, I was

climbing those walls today.

That should have shown that I'm fit, and I don't understand how I'm the weakest

link at all. I don't understand that.

Marissa, who would you say it is?

There's different levels of weakness, Jeff.

So, I'm not... The weakest link is not... I mean, I'm just saying... That

what he asked you. He said, who do you think it is? Who do you think the

link is?

I don't... Assert yourself and answer the question. It's not that hard.

They don't like each other. That's quite clear.

I like Ben.

I like everybody.

But Marissa...

You voted for Marisa to be the leader. And she could be the leader. She has a

very strong mind. She knows what she's talking about. She knows how to say it.

Clearly, Marisa must have told you what to do at some point.

She just, at one point, told me that she's starting to worry about me. You

I'm walking around with everybody in the tribe.

Well, yeah, it doesn't mean I'm making an alliance with everybody in the tribe

or trying to stab you in the back. Well, she just came right at me.

Well, he did say to me, honesty is the most important thing in this game. So if

I felt worried about him, I wanted to be honest with him and share that with

him. Well, as soon as she came at me telling me she doesn't trust me... I

say I didn't trust you. ...then immediately I can't trust her. I said I

worried about you.

Well, that's not how I... She was concerned for your welfare, Russell. I

Obviously, in this game, you're not safe no matter what. I would hate to go home

right now, but if I did something to put a mark on my back, well, then that was

really dumb of me, and I need to fix it.

And I can guarantee you it won't happen again.

Okay, it is time to vote.

Bethy, you're up.

You'll get burned.

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.

Marisa.

Marisa.

Ashley.

Ashley. That's two votes Marisa, two votes Ashley.

Marisa. Ashley.

We're tied.

Three votes Marisa. Three votes Ashley.

Marisa.

Marisa. Five votes Marisa. Three votes Ashley.

First person voted out of Survivor Samoa.

Marisa. That's six. That's enough. You need to bring me your torch.

Marisa, the tribe has spoken.

Well, I know you don't need me to tell you how bad things are on this tribe.

Hopefully, tonight's vote solved some of the dysfunction. Otherwise, you're

going to be seeing a lot of me at tribal council.

Grab your torches, head back to camp. Good night.

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.

Next time on Survivor.

An epic battle.

Dual fat blood between the tribe.

This is ignorant.

Why would a dude tackle me?

Stop! Out of the challenge!

And Russell goes on the war pal.

She's full of crap.

She's going to pay for that statement, I promise you.

Tonight's really difficult for me to swallow. I trusted Russell initially,

it was a mistake to say something to him because... He makes trouble, and so he

made it around me, and I'm really sad to be going home. I don't hold any

animosity towards anyone, and I'm grateful to have had the experience,

short it may have been.