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the equator through the scorching desert of Kenya in Eastern Africa, where these

16 Americans are about to begin the adventure of a lifetime.

They're about to be abandoned in the heart of one of the most diverse and

dangerous collection of animals anywhere on the continent.

Zebras, elephants, giraffes, lions, just a sampling of the wildlife that call

this place home.

Temperatures here can reach 120 degrees.

Water is scarce.

It is a land virtually untouched.

by the modern world. For the next 39 days, these 16 strangers will be left to

fend for themselves, forced 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, 16 people, one survivor.

As this truck rolls closer to its remote destination, these 16 Americans begin

the adventure of a lifetime.

They have never spoken to each other and have been divided into two competing

tribes named after the people of this land.

The Samburu tribe, which will always wear red, consists of Silas Gaither, a

23-year-old bartender from Germantown, Tennessee.

Kim Powers, a 29-year-old freelance marketer from Conshohocken,

Pennsylvania. Carl Balancione, a 46-year-old father and dentist from

Winter Springs, Florida.

Linda Spencer, a 44-year-old mother and career counselor from Cambridge,

Massachusetts. Lindsay Richter, a 27-year-old advertising account

executive from Portland, Oregon.

Frank Garrison, a 43-year-old father and telephone technician from Odessa, New

York. Brandon Quinton, a 25-year-old bartender from Dallas, Texas.

And Teresa Cooper, a 42-year-old mother and flight attendant from Jackson,

Georgia.

The Buran tribe, which will always wear gold, consists of Ethan Zahn, a 27-year

-old professional soccer player from Lexington, Massachusetts.

Kelly Goldsmith, a 22-year-old behavioral research analyst from Rancho

Santa Fe, California.

Tom Buchanan, a 45-year-old father and goat farmer from Rich Valley, Virginia.

Kim Johnson, a 57 year old grandmother and retired school teacher from Oyster

Bay, New York. Lex Vandenberg, a 38 year old father and marketing manager from

Santa Cruz, California.

Diane Ogden, a 42 year old mother and U.S. mail carrier from Lincoln,

Nebraska. Clarence Black, a 24 year old high school basketball coach from

Detroit, Michigan. And Jesse Camacho, a 27 year old deputy sheriff from Orlando,

Florida.

Down, faster, hurry up, hurry up.

Down, down, down, down, down, down. Down, down, hurry up. Stand there.

Faster, faster, faster, down.

Down, down, down, down, down.

Stand there.

Stand there, down.

Have a nice day.

Bye-bye.

You decide as a group which supplies you can carry. Choose wisely and ration

carefully because this may be all that you get for the next 39 days.

Do we want music?

Yes. As you begin your new world, remember this.

The animals can be extremely dangerous.

Farming will be essential to your survival.

We got tomatoes. We're going on a safari, not a garden adventure.

Take all the water you can carry because the water at your camp must first be

boiled. The map shows the way to the abandoned village dwelling that will be

your new home. It is a long hike and there is much work to do before

nightfall. Be very careful. This

can be a harsh and unfriendly land.

I think to carry that much water plus our gourds filled is just a huge amount

of weight.

We have enough water for all day. Do we just leave that in our gourds? Yeah, I

would empty it out.

There were three jugs of water and we took two of them and dumped them out

because they were just too heavy to carry.

We would have had to sacrifice the canned goods and a lot of the other

things that we thought we couldn't replace, and we figured we ultimately

would get a source of water.

All right, you good?

Diane was the one in charge of the map. Don't know if it was the best choice,

but she seemed confident, which I would say was the first issue of our tribe,

was the map problem.

Can't be carrying this damn thing and not be going in the right direction.

All right, here we go, boys. Three.

I live on a farm, and the first sheep jumps in a hole, the rest of them

follow. And here we were, following this blonde girl, zigzagging through the

desert, saying, I think we're this way.

Okay, we're going right now.

Diane, Diane, you're angling off a little bit.

Left a little.

It's a straight line, Diane, right in front of me.

Hold up, hold up, Diane.

All right.

Pick it up.

I don't necessarily want the command.

I just want to get us there. I agree.

I carry mail, so I just kind of went at my pace, which is probably faster than

most people, and I got way out there and then ended up having to wait.

And then we plug on through.

All right, we're coming. Here we come.

Oh, yeah.

Is this better for you?

Yeah, I have the cornmeal in my face, so I can't put it on my shoulders, but I'm

just holding up with my arms, and when I get tired, I'll have somebody move the

cornmeal.

What's a matter, okay y'all up oh Let me uh All

right, you got it my man.

Let's put up on our shoulders.

Take it up. What do you think?

What do you think Brandon? I think that'll be fine. How tall are you?

And my shoulders are not that tall as wide as this either

Let's rock and roll.

So how was the walk? I mean, did you feel as comfortable moving along, you

know, at a good pace?

Everything? Absolutely no.

Brandon. What's your luxury item?

Yes, ma'am, what?

What's your luxury item?

Uh, it's shut. All right, are we ready?

For who? Yes.

You rock.

Now they're back there. You know, JCPenney's, this is what I bought. Did

you see that guy? Yeah, he's so cute. Oh, I'm having these problems at home.

I just started my period.

Oh, man.

No wonder I have.

Excuse me, Africa, you know, we're not down at the mall here, you know, sitting

outside with a latte here or something. Let's just get moving along.

Frank is like a big, strong ex-army guy, and when we were hiking, he was like a

block away from us, just trooping on all by himself.

And the rest of us are all in a pack back there. And he would like stop and

wait for us. And you just tell he was really put out.

You know,

socialize later.

We can laugh later around the campfire. And I'm just like, dude, we're not all

like you. I mean, like no compassion at all for the rest of it at all.

Every time we stop, this gets heavier.

Three.

All right, so she's going straight now.

Check it out. Check it out.

I think I see the sign.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, right there.

Seeing that survivor flag, it's just not real until you're here.

And seeing that flag, everyone just wanted to pass out. Of course, you know,

then Frank was all yelling at us to pick up the pace now that we saw the flag.

and we're just dragging ourselves to get there so great good branch of service

were you in i was in the american branch so freedom

guys, check this out.

Hey you guys, there's another note.

Welcome to your new home.

This traditional African dwelling is in serious need of repair.

The Manyana hut is made of wood, grasses, and manure. The thorn-bama

fence is your only protection against lions and other predators.

There are three things you must do immediately.

One, make sure your fence is secure.

Two, keep a fire burning all night. Beautiful.

Three, always keep two people awake on the lookout for animals that hunt at

night. I'm the first one up tonight. For water, follow your map to the spring

that will share with the local game. You must boil it before drinking.

Got it. Frank, you on that?

These don't hurt.

Ow! That doesn't hurt.

Keep beefing that up until it's uniform.

There's a lot more in those trees. You don't have to venture out in the bush.

Just come around the corner.

He's just the biggest puppy you've ever met. Pretty much is. Just keep smiling.

That's what I'm doing.

Well, Frank, he was trying to hurry us along, and that's not my style. I like

to bond. I like to talk to people.

That's awesome! This is also a time where I want to enjoy some of it. I

don't want to, I'm not military. I don't, I don't need it in my life. I

don't need all that structure. You know, I think we'll get stuff done without

having like every single thing be a rule and every single thing be single file.

That's just not me. We've got two of those. How full are they?

This one's full.

This one here is not. It's like maybe half, maybe not that.

Well, right now we have a really...

Drastic water situation.

We have no fire yet.

And we broke three gourds on the way on the hike. The gourds are very fragile.

And we lost the cap on one of them. And apparently when you don't cap the water

that's in the gourd, it turns into like turpentine.

So bad.

I mean, we've got to get water like in the next hour or we're just going to be

so screwed.

There's one of those deadly giraffes.

Giraffes. Zebras.

Dig, dig.

Look out for those zebras.

See,

this is really the mother continent for me. I don't know if this makes any

sense, but mother Africa. And I've been here before, and I have tremendous

respect. When the tribe was joking about the tambourinos or, you know, the tampon

in Samburu, my reaction to that inside, I was thinking, oh, my God, that is so

disrespectful to Samburu people.

You know, civilization.

Ages, ages ago. Do you realize where you are? This is where it all started,

folks. In Africa.

It's so sick.

I mean, it's just covered in crap.

Jeez.

I don't even want to touch the water.

You know what I mean?

This all looks pretty stagnant.

Whatever we do, we gotta get our water and get out of here. You guys seen food

in here yet?

The water's disgusting.

I'm terrified.

It's sick. I mean, I was filling it up, and so it's this deep.

So you get water mixed with crud.

We're pulling water out of a very, like, murky, tadpoles are running all over it,

like pond scum kind of little water hole. So the water is contaminated, and

it has to be boiled for at least five minutes over a fire before we can drink

it.

You have to have the fire.

And even the Maasai tribesmen said, without the fire, you can't live in this

land. Fire's not for warmth, whatever one would think of right away, or

security right away, but the water has to be boiled three to five minutes. It

has to be purified for us to drink.

Okay, hold it. See, now look.

Feel the tip. I bet you it's hot. God dang.

We thought we'd get a fire faster than we, of course, than we did.

As hard as we were working, we just couldn't seem to get it. And then, of

course, we retired from the long day.

It was getting dark, and we still kept trying and trying, even when it was

dark, to try to get the fire going. And that was, you know, a big frustration.

You happy, Frank?

You two are on yourself. You got us here. You should be very happy. We are.

I spend nine months of softness in my mother's womb.

Everything else, that's hard when you come out.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on.

I don't think anybody, unless they've been put in a situation like this,

really know how much water your body really needs.

I mean, I really need water right now. I really do. I'm so dehydrated.

I'm hearty right now.

All right, get right here.

Now, look, what we want to do is get it deep enough where we can stick it. Now,

you get your ice back here.

Right where I am, get right here. All right, guys, you got to be quick because

this place isn't safe.

All right. Okay.

Clean this up. We need to get our water.

You get a line, I get a pole, baby.

You get a line, I get a pole. We'll go fishing across that hole, honey, baby of

mine. All right, let's let it settle.

i know exactly what i'm doing here we

got water without

fire you can't boil the water anybody knows that you don't just belly

up to the stream that you're camping next to drop your canteen in it and

drink the water if you don't boil your water out here you end up with what they

call amoebic dysentery which basically has you puking and crapping your guts

out.

It's getting worse.

I got another one that's about to open up.

We do realize that after we give it everything we have and it's challenging,

we win.

We're going to be so happy.

We're going to be happy, but all eight of us sons of bitches might pass out.

It's fine. If we pass out next to a fire, it's going to be the best sleep I

ever had.

It doesn't sound possible, but we could go another whole day without it. That's

what I just said. That's what I said. We may be a little dehydrated, but it's not

like we're going to die or something.

I just opened the medical kit. I don't think anybody's opened it up.

Where's Linda?

Yeah? It's your birthday.

Oh, it sure is, honey.

I knew it was going to be in here.

Kim and somebody, I think Linda just decided to open the medical kit to see

what was in there.

You know, tampons and stuff that we need.

In the medical kit, there just happened to be a...

a telescope for us to, you know, watch out for animals.

I don't know a lot about telescopes, but I know that a magnifying glass can start

a fire, and I had no idea whether or not that was a magnifying glass. But I

unscrewed the telescope, pulled out the lens, and Silas was right there. And I

was like, Silas, isn't there something we can do with this?

Mmm,

that sucker's hot. Yeah.

Is your arm hurt? Like, would it help if I put my hand on your elbow?

No, it's okay.

Oh, my God. Okay, let's, do we have a little fire?

No, no, no, don't, like, just don't jinx us. Let's just get this damn thing

smoldering. Oh, you dumb ass. It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

You're doing so well. It's fine.

Careful. Nurse it. Nurse it. Really gently.

Don't inhale that smoke, dude.

Careful, careful. I have a little fire right here to start burning. Once you

get a flame, bring it over here.

Do not pass out. Oh my god, dude.

Sorry.

Holy cow.

Oh my god.

Just keep blowing.

There you go, there you go.

Give me some more. Back up, back up, back up.

Come over here, come over here.

Do we need to put this on top of it or set this upside down on it? How do you

do it?

Oh, my God. Get Frank and those guys. It's done. You guys, come here. We got

fire. Quick, quick.

Frank, hurry.

Hey, hey, hey.

Frank, get the hay.

Right here, right here, right here.

Put the hay on it. Put the hay on it.

from the side don't get your face directly over come on Frankie give me

something come on buddy

Has anyone had water today at all?

Maybe I should try to find us a can of cherries. We didn't have canned goods.

Are you kidding me right now? We'd have no moisture.

You guys all cool with that? We open a can of cherries to get some sugar

energy, and we all sit down in a circle, take a cherry, pass it, one cherry, pass

it on.

Everybody get a cherry. Everybody get in a circle, you guys. Look at these

things.

Look at those things. Whoever said keep all the canned goods wins the prize.

Well, then we'll go. Does everyone have one? Go in order. I was eyeing people

just because I want my equal share of cherries. I mean, it's so silly. We're

talking about cherries here because we're starving.

And I definitely, definitely saw Clarence take two cherries at one time

and pass it around him. I mean, it's so tempting in there to take two.

Everyone's got to take one cherry, pass it on. And I saw him take two, which is

an issue.

You know, and we'll see.

Oh, check it out. What is this?

Is this male?

This is bright. I got to take this somewhere.

hey guys we have mail you survived your first night can you prevail or be left

in the dust as you blaze a trail oh the dreaded first challenge you know you

must win or the game may be over before you begin

How's it going, guys?

Let's talk about the first night.

Ron, how'd you do with fire? Almost had it.

No fire?

No fire.

Sam Burrow, how'd you guys do with fire?

We got it today. We got fire. We got fire.

We did.

What's one of the things you're playing for tonight?

Fire. You win tonight, you keep them another night without fire.

Here's the other thing you're playing for.

Probably as important, immunity.

I want everybody just to get a feel of this. This is the immunity idol.

You want this in your possession as often as possible.

Win this challenge, you guys have immunity.

Lose, you're coming to see me tomorrow night at Tribal Council where one of you

will be the first person voted out of the tribe.

Here's how the challenge works. Each of you has a cart. Your goal is to light

the three fire towers on your way to the finish line. First tower is across the

bridge. Second one is atop that mountain. One member of your tribe will

have to climb up. Last tower, down on the beach.

First tribe to light all the towers and cross the finish line with all their

members wins fire, wins immunity, and wins one of these carts, which you can

then use to transport firewood, water.

All right, take your spots. Wait for my start.

This is for fire and immunity.

Survivors ready?

Guys, matches.

Keep that fire going.

And this, more importantly, you guys are safe from tomorrow night's vote.

Guys, tough challenge. I know it's hard to see a tribe member go down. Tomorrow

night, you still have the unfortunate appointment with me at tribal council.

We'll get fired.

We'll get fired tomorrow night.

But it's going to cost you somebody.

We're going to go to the water hole. Water hole?

Yeah, we'll take a walk to the spring.

We'll bring back our water.

Lexi, do you need me to go?

I think we're good. We've got three guys carrying the big water containers. I'm

going to stay and take care of her. That is totally fine.

But if you need me to go.

No, I'm going to stay.

You're cool.

All right, be careful.

When we was at spring, I said, you know what?

Something tells me we should count our food because Clarence loves and

cherishes. But he doesn't know how to use the can opener, does he? No.

You think?

Yeah. We'll see. We'll see when we get back. I really hope he's not like that,

man. I really hope. Right now, Clarence is helping out Diane.

She's sick. She's dehydrated.

And he might be sipping on our water or get everyone out of the camp. Maybe he's

eating our food. I don't know.

Is everybody ready?

Let's go.

We get back to camp. Clarence comes to meet us 20 yards from camp.

Right then, I smelled a little something.

It didn't smell good.

So when we got on that tree, I sniffed a little bit more.

Through talking to Diane, she admits that she gives Clarence some water and

they just ate a can of beans.

Diane said the best thing to do would be to open and get her something to eat,

you know, because we wanted to get her strength up.

She said, well, maybe something to eat will help.

So I said, well, I'll do that. I'll open up a can, maybe get some food in you,

and that'll make you feel better.

Hey, Clarence, Diane talked like you want to eat something while it's gone,

if you have it.

You need to kind of fess up.

Explain why you thought you should eat a can of food.

I got her something to eat, and so we split it while she was gone, just so she

could feel better when she does. I just wanted to make it... I mean, I ain't got

to eat.

Okay, I just wanted to make... It ain't no big deal.

It's a big deal to me. It's a big deal to me, too. And I want to make it

straight right. Anybody that eats without the rest of it, it's a big deal.

I opened the can because she needed something to eat.

It was a judgment call. It was a judgment call I made. It was bad damn

judgment.

There's eight of us. You guys were gone.

It don't matter. We're all making it. You can't make the decision.

Tommy, Tommy.

I had to open it for her.

You don't have to open it to her.

She's all right. She should have eaten all of it then. You a doctor? Let me see

yours, Elijah. You ain't no doctor. I'm saying I made a call for her. I did not

open the can for me. I opened the can for her.

But did you eat any?

Yes. Okay, well, that's our point here. You made the call for you, brother. You

made the call for you, too.

You made the call for all of us.

And I don't think you got that right.

You don't eat without all of us. My apologies. Okay, apologize to that

woman, because you took her food.

Apologize to that woman. You took her food. I'm sorry. This man right here,

you took his food. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All right. You only got to tell me once. But this issue

is cut and dried.

Okay, that's what I want to hear. And we're pissed off, and we now need to

deal with a situation where we were starting to build trust.

The truss has been broken, and it needs to be built from square one. We need to

start over now, because right now, we're all wondering if we can leave anybody

alone. If you did that in the Army, you made a bad call in the Army, you'd be

kicked out of there so fast. Hell, they'd shoot you. They'd shoot you.

You'd be code red. I'd shoot you.

There were only three.

No, no, no.

You know what? No. A judgment call was made by one person. I wasn't going to

not tell you guys. Where's the can right now?

I put it up. I tossed it.

I was walking out. Did you hide it? No. I was on my way walking to get some

sunscreen. I tossed it.

I didn't ask for beans.

Was it one of the big cans of beans?

I don't know about that. You didn't ask for it? You didn't ask for food?

I didn't ask. He said he was going to open up because he said I needed to eat.

That's a lie, dude. I don't know if I trust him. That's a lie. That's not

either. That's a lie. That's a lie. Clarence, that is not.

Diane, oh my God.

Clarence, I didn't ask you for a can of beans.

I told you I didn't want, I wasn't hungry, I didn't want any. Diane, Diane.

Yesterday I did this, but what is that giant thing that you was showing old Cal

Dung how to do, old Hayseed?

But today, you shake my way, man to man, when we shake.

Your way ain't the way I'm going. What more do you want me to say, Tommy?

Today's a hard day for us. We have got to kick one of us out. Today was not a

good day to do this.

I want you to grab a torch and approach the flame.

At Tribal Council, fire most definitely represents life.

As long as you have fire, you're still alive.

When your flame is out, the game is over for you.

So there's fire relating to ritual, and then there's fire relating to real life,

as you guys have figured out living without it for two nights.

So the good news is, tonight...

Seven of you will return to camp with fire.

Bad news is one of you is going home.

So before we get to tonight's first vote, let's have a little chat.

What's the first thing you're going to do tonight, Jessie, when you go back to

camp having fire?

Oh, definitely light up a fire and boil water all night.

I don't think any of us is going to sleep tonight. We're just going to boil

water and drink.

We're all dehydrated.

Let's talk about the first challenge. Diane, obviously it was tough on you.

Yeah, it was tough on me.

We had tried to build a fire all day in the sun and, you know, sat out there in

the sun with no water and then having to go do this challenge.

I was done. I was just out.

I was out of gas.

Clarence, what's it been like living together as a group so far?

It's definitely been awesome, despite the fact that we haven't had water.

Everybody here has really just gotten to jail to the point where even when we

mess up, we feel bad about it.

I know I did some things today and I feel horrible about it. And, you know,

it's just you don't feel like that with strangers. You feel like that about

people you seriously care about.

Fill me in. What happened today?

You know, today a teammate was was not feeling well. And I decided

to open a can of beans to make them feel better.

While I had the can open, I ate some, too.

And that wasn't fair.

Like I said, it was something stupid, and I seriously hope they forgive me for

it. Ethan, what was your reaction when you came back?

I was pretty pissed off.

I'm very impressed that he stayed behind and helped out Diane because she's

feeling sick, and that's very, you know, noble of a thing to do.

But, you know, I was a little surprised that someone would do that.

I think he had a weak flaw in his character.

He had a weak moment, and I forgive, but I don't forget.

All right, let's get to tonight's vote.

Here's how it's going to work. One by one, you're going to make your way along

here to the voting confessional.

We're going to write down the name of the person who you're voting for.

Clear block letters.

Hold it up.

Speak your piece.

Diane, you're first.

Clarence, you were kind of deceitful to me today.

Plus, you called me a liar, which I didn't appreciate at all since I'm not

one.

Vote tonight is Diane.

She's by far the weakest person on our team right now.

That challenge, she killed us.

I'm not forgetting about what Clarence did, but if you look, he's a big, strong

guy, and we need him for the next little bit to help us get some challenges won.

Clience Black, he let the team down.

We were looking for somebody that was strong, but yet he was weak.

Our tribe will do what it takes to win, but we'll do it with our head high.

We're not weak.

Out of all the people who I hung out with, you told me that we were the

closest. And when it came down to it, I took care of you today. And you lied on

me for no reason.

And for that, I can't forgive you. And I'm ashamed to tell you that the day I

told you you were like my mother, you're nothing like my mother.

I'm going to 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 read the votes.

First vote.

Clarence.

Diane.

Clarence Black.

Two votes Clarence, two votes Diane.

Three votes Diane.

Diane.

That's four votes Diane, two votes Clarence.

Diane. That's five votes, that's enough.

Diane, the tribe has spoken.

It's time for you to go.

Yeah.

Well, a lot has been said here tonight, so I would encourage you as you head

back to camp and boil a lot of water to try and do some mending as a tribe.

You can take your torches and head back to camp.

I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.

Next time on Survivor. At Buran, it's boys against girls. It wouldn't shock me

if they all just thought that they could do it just without any of us. We want

you on our side. At Samburu, lines are drawn in the sand.

Can Silas be trusted? And we're going to take it all the way.

Trust me.

Silas, he's playing both sides, but it could backfire on him.

Well, I'm the first one to get the boots, and I have no regrets.

I'm actually kind of glad. It was a lot tougher than I thought it would be. I'm

glad that I had the experience and got the chance to come and find out exactly

what wild Africa is like, and it's tough.

It's real tough.