The Jury - Marisa, Russell S., Yasmin, Russell H., Monica
It's Night 36, and Monica was just voted off. The four tribe members rejoice that they are, indeed, the Final Four, and that the game is over in less than 3 days.
However, a disaster happens on the way back from Tribal Council. In the darkness, Mike trips over a tree root and hurts his ankle. He tries to walk but then starts to fall over again. The camera operators call in the medical team, and Mike is taken to the producer's camp for the night so they can examine his injury. Shambo, Ashley, and Kelly are instructed to head back to camp, and await news in the morning.
In the morning, the 3 women are given a tree-mail for the immunity challenge, but no news about Mike. Shambo is very worried, but they all head off to the challenge.
Jeff announces the challenge, an obstacle course where they will have to gather bags of puzzle pieces from 5 different areas, and then complete the puzzle back at their station. Jeff then steps back to reveal Mike walking in towards the rest of the players. He is limping, and wearing a brace around his ankle, but Jeff says that he is still in the game and in contention for the million dollars. However, Mike will be unable to run in the challenge.
Shambo, Kelly, and Ashley take their marks and race for the puzzle pieces. Shambo falls out of it quickly, with Kelly and Ashley neck-and-neck for the lead. In the end, Kelly wins immunity. Jeff announces that there will be a Tribal Council tonight, where either Shambo, Mike, or Ashley will be voted off.
Back at camp, everyone tells Mike that they're glad that he's alright, but then everyone starts strategizing about the next Tribal Council.
First, Kelly confronts Ashley about her vote at the last Tribal Council, and Ashley defends that she only voted Monica because she heard that Monica was trying to get her voted off. Kelly says that that was only a plan to divert Shambo and Mike's votes, but now, they have to find a way to break up Shambo and Mike, which probably means causing a tie.
Meanwhile, Shambo and Mike discuss the vote. Since Kelly won immunity, Shambo says, then that means that Ashley will have to be the target. Mike points out that then there will probably be a fire-making tiebreaker, but that there may be another way. He suggests telling Kelly to vote for himself and Ashley to vote for Shambo. Then, their own two votes for Ashley would be enough to send her home.
Shambo says that she'll rather not have to try such dishonest measures, but Mike insists that he'll take care of everything. But the plan will count on Kelly and Ashley not talking to each other afterwards. If not, then they'll have to plan for a tiebreaker.
First, they wait until just before Tribal Council, and Mike gathers everyone together. He announces that he'd like to be voted off, because he's worried about his injured ankle. Kelly tries to talk him out of it, but Mike insists.
Afterwards, Mike approaches Ashley separately and tells her that he doesn't actually want to go home. He says that what he really wants is to get rid of Shambo, since he says she is a big jury vote threat. Ashley asks why he had to act like he was going home, and Mike says that he could definitely beat Shambo in a fire-making challenge. He then pressures that she shouldn't talk to either Kelly or Shambo, in case they wise up and vote for Ashley instead.
Ashley is worried that Mike is lying to her, but then also doesn't want to talk to anybody else in case he's telling the truth. She also debates the jury votes in her mind, and wonders if she has a better shot against Mike in the end than either Kelly or Shambo.
Tribal Council comes, and Jeff reads the votes:
1st vote - Mike
2nd vote - Ashley
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3rd vote - Shambo
Last vote, and 17th person voted out of Survivor: Samoa and 6th member of the jury...
Ashley.
Revealed votes:
Mike -> Ashley
Shambo -> Ashley
Ashley -> Shambo
Kelly -> Mike
Only 3 remain; who will win the million dollar prize? The rest of the final episode will be up at some point soon, hopefully.
I definitely wanted a 2-1-1 vote in my story, because something like that has never happened in the real show. I really like Mike's idea, and obviously Ashley fell right into the trap.
