Previously on Survivor! Shannon was furious at Yve's blindside, yet he along with his arch enemies Kelly S and Fabio, had no choice but to try to get on Yve's good side. At La Flor, Marty spotted Sash's fake immunity idol on Jimmy J, and planned to split the votes in order to flush it out. At the immunity challenge, both tribes were informed that they would both go to tribal council. Kelly S won individual immunity for Espada in shocking fashion, while Jimmy J, the most unlikely man to win a challenge, won individual immunity for La Flor. Over on Espada, standing at a crossroads, Yve choose to align herself with the 3 youngins, knowing that they'd have no choice but to accept. But on La Flor, Sash scrambled when Jimmy J was would about the fake immunity idol, and tried to get in Wendy onto the La Flor side. At tribal council, Yve once again shocked the tribe when she aligned herself with the old La Flor, sending Jimmy T packing. It was then Espada's turn, and despite Jimmy J, Holly, and Marty throwing Sash under the bus, Jimmy J and Wendy stayed true, sending Holly home. 14 are left. With the merge close by, who will be voted out tonight?
Episode
At Espada, Shannon was relieved that Jimmy T. was voted out and that he, Fabio and Kelly S would get another day in the game. Yve was scared about the potential chaos that could unleash from her decision and she pondered about who to vote out. Fabio was estatic that he and Kelly S. were still in the game. They both shared another kiss and frolicked together on the beach. Kelly S told Fabio to jump back to the youngins when the tribes merge. He agreed.
At La Flor, Sash was thrilled he took out Marty's only ally. Marty was panicking about how to stay in the game and decided to get revenge for losing Holly. Jimmy J. was angry at Sash for his deception and argued with him about it. The two continously bickered until Sash walked off angrily. The tribe was annoyed by this and decided to collect firewood.
REWARD CHALLENGE
At the reward challenge, they would be playing for a cruise around Nicaragua in a yacht, along with food and drink. The challenge was a good ole fashioned tug of war in the mud. It was the challenge from Guatemala. Everyone would be strapped together and try to get to the other side of the mud course. In the event of nobody making it in 10 minutes, they'd go to 1v1 match ups in a best of 5 series. Just like Guatemala, it went to the tiebreaker matchups after 10 minutes. Jimmy J scored the first point for La Flor in a matchup against Yve. Marty easily scored point #2 against Fabio when Fabio confidently lost his grip. Shannon seemed to start up a comeback as in round 3, he soundly beat Marty. Round 4 had Jane beat Brenda, which surprised alot of people. Finally, it was the final round. For this round, La Flor choose Marty to return, and Espada choose Shannon to return as well. But in the end, after a hard fought battle, Marty barely edged Shannon out when the time limit expired, giving La Flor the win.
Later on, La Flor was on the yacht, enjoying their feast. But as they were feasting, Marty noticed something. He had noticed a piece of parchment that blended in with the color of the basket holding the whine bottles. Fortunately, he managed to obtain it, and in private, he found out that it was indeed a clue to another hidden immunity idol. He tried to keep his excitement hidden and waited until they returned to camp to go on a hunt for the idol.
Back at Espada, as Kelly S carried the firewood back, her contact lenses ended up falling out on the way back to camp. As such,it ended up being lost in the sand, unable to be found. As such, she had to wear the reading glasses she packed with her as backup. This actually seemed to make Fabio like her even more, as the glasses seemed to make her seem much more intelligent.
On La Flor, Marty was in eager search of the idol. The clue said it was something in the rivers around the camp area. But as he searched, the clue ended up falling out of his pocket. As such, Brenda of all people picked it up. Marty ended up giving up his search, but her retrieving the clue gave her, and Sash a chance to keep their footing by finding the real immunity idol.
At Espada, Shannon was hacking mindlessley at firewood, thinking about what to do for the next elimination, if Espada is to go to tribal. He pulled Yve aside and told her he wanted to hav a discussion about who to elimination. He went on, saying he'd like to get out Fabio if they lose, as he's a jury threat and a physical threat come merge. Yve was irritaited at the plan, but decided to just go with it. Meanwhile, Kelly S and Fabio were cuddling in the shelter, giggling and laughing, and sharing more kisses.
Back at La Flor, the whole tribe, minus Brenda went swimming in the oceam. Knowing this would be the perfect time to find the idol, Brenda went on a rabid snipe hunt, tearing the entire camp apart to find it. However, Brenda could not come out on top and came out empty handed.
Immunity Challenge
One at a time, 4 members from each tribe would race out into the ocean and swim to a floating platform. They would then climb a ladder and use a club to smash a tile that had a key attached to it. They would grab the key and the three other members would do the same. After all 4 keys are collected, one person from each tribe will run to a crate containing 4 locks. They would unlock the locks and release 4 tribe colored balls. The final person would smash 7 tiles. First tribe to smash all their tiles, wins immunity. The swimmers for La Flor were Benry, Brenda, Marty and Wendy, while for Espada, the swimmers were Fabio, Kelly S, Shannon and Jane. La Flor took an early lead on the swimming leg despite Benry slowing things down a bit. Despite this, Espada gained momentum when Yve; the ball unlocker for Espada was able to unlock the bags faster than Jimmy J, the ball unlocker for La Flor. Everything came down to Sash, who was knocking the balls for La Flor, and Tyrone, who was knocking the balls for Espada. With a one tile difference, Espada prevailed and won immunity.
Back at Espada, everyone was extremely happy about the crucial victory. The two lovebirds Fabio and Kelly S decided to go off into a mud pit Kelly S had found while on Espada. They discussed their happiness over surviving another round and cuddled closely together. Shannon was extremely thrilled over remaining in the game and danced around with the immunity idol in his hands, stating he hasn't felt this secure since the tribal swap.
Over at La Flor, the tribe was both depressed and irritaited by their narrow defeat. Sash was especially furious and kicked the sand angrily, cursing at his tribe for the loss, while it was really his fault. Marty ignored him, and decided he would unearth the idol no matter how diicicult it would be. He searched near the rivers, by the large cliff, in the well, until he finally retrieved it in a very tall tree. Dancing frivolously, he hatched a nefarious plan. He would trick convince Sash the tribe wanted to vote him out, making hm behave obnoxiously. He would craft a fake idol, give Sash the bluff, and Sash would use it, sending him home. He ran to a rock in the jungle and started crafting the idol. He finished it, then ran to Sash, lying about his supposed fate. Sash moronically bough into it and took Marty's fake idol, believing it to be the real one. Marty secretely told the rest of the tribe about Sash having the idol, which made them decide he should be the target. Sash wanted to vote out Jimmy J, who was starting to distrust him. Jimmy J was unsure about the vote, merely hoping he would survive another round.
At tribal council, Jeff asked what was most important at this stage of the game. Brenda said she thought that until the merge was official, strength was the most important componant. Marty disagreed, stating he felt like trust was important, stating he believed La Flor was not a united enough tribe. Baffled by his response, Jimmy J criticized Marty because he was not the loyal type in his opinion. Angered, Marty told Jimmy J that he was no better, while the later rebuffed, stating he never doublecrossed a single person so far. Jeff then asked Sash how he felt about his position in the game, to which he stated he felt uneasy, as "a little birdy" told him that someone was planning on voting him out. The entire tribe rolled their eyes at Sash, to which Jeff asked Wendy the reason. Wendy stated that according to Marty, Sash was in possesion of the hidden immunity idol. Angered, Sash repeadetly denied he had the idol to Wendy, leading to a prolonged confrontation between the two. Wendy asked Sash to prove whether he had the idol or not, to which Sash whipped out the bluff, albeit with the rest of the tribe, minus Marty buying into it. Marty chuckled to himself. Jeff announced it was time to vote, and everyone voted. Just before the votes were about to be announced, Sash stood up, made a speech stating: "I'm not letting you buzzards get my torch snuffed! I have the lucky charm, and one of you morons is paying!" He smugly walked up to Jeff, believing he would be immune. But much to his horror, disgust, embarrasment and anger, Jeff revealed the idol was a fraud, causing the rest of the tribe to break out into uncontrollable laugher. Jeff threw the fake idol into the fire, then announced the votes. In the end, Sash was blindsided by his tribe 6-1, and walked away angrily, middle fingering Marty, while calling him "A pathetic excuse for a man". The mirthed La Flor tribe then traversed back to camp.
Next time on Survivor
It's the merge and things are getting tense. A castway plans a sneaky move, while the connection between two others grows more and more. One contestant suffers another embarrassing moment. And will a grueling challenge test the wills of the remaining contestants? Find out next time on Survivor
