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We're on board a 38 Squadron Caribou DHC -4 military aircraft on loan from the

Royal Australian Air Force.

Normally, these planes are used to rescue people in dangerous, life

situations. Today, however, we have a different mission. These 16 Americans

about to be abandoned.

This flame will land in the heart of one of the most unforgiving places anywhere

on Earth, the Australian outback.

For the next 42 days, they'll be left to fend for themselves.

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 from the tribe. In the

end, one will remain and will claim the million dollar prize.

42 days.

16 people, one survivor.

As this plane touches down on a remote strip of land in the Australian outback,

these 16 strangers begin the adventure of a lifetime.

They have never spoken to each other, and the rules state they must remain

until after the plane has landed, dropped them off, and abandoned them.

They have been separated into two competing tribes, Kucha and Ogakor.

One crate of supplies awaits each tribe, and once the plane has taken off, they

will have only five minutes to salvage whatever they can carry.

They then face a grueling five -mile hike that will take them deep into the

outback and their new homes for the next 42 days.

The Kucha tribe, which will always wear blue, consists of Kimmy Kappenberg, a

bartender from Long Island, Michael Scoopin, a father and software publisher

distributor from White Lake, Michigan, Alicia Calloway, a personal trainer from

New York City.

Roger Bingham, a farmer and school teacher from Crittenton, Kentucky.

Elizabeth Falarski, a footwear designer from Newton, Massachusetts.

Nick Brown, a Harvard Law student from San Francisco.

Deb Eaton, a corrections officer from Berlin, New Hampshire. And Jeff Varner,

Internet Projects Manager from Greensboro, North Carolina.

Ogacore tribe, which will always wear green, consists of Marilyn Hershey, a

retired police officer from Wakefield, Virginia.

Colby Donaldson, an auto customizer from Christoval, Texas.

Amber Burkett, an administrative assistant from Beaver, Pennsylvania.

Mitchell Olson, a singer -songwriter from Vermilion, South Dakota.

Tina Wesson, a mother and personal nurse from Knoxville, Tennessee.

Keith Fahmy, a chef from West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Jerry Manthe, an aspiring actress from Los Angeles.

And Kel Gleason, an Army intelligence officer from Fort Hood, Texas.

There's no way to prop it over to them.

No, no, no.

Welcome to the Australian Island.

As of right now, you are completely cut off from outside world. These are the

only supplies you will be given. These licenses still have a long way to carry

them. Fresh water is essential to your survival.

Unfortunately, all the water you will need for the next few days must be taken

from your box because the river water must be boiled and you may not be able

make the fire.

I don't know the names yet. In the green hat right here. Can you help her get

one side of this undone?

Can we pay soon?

Take every, every, everything.

Come on, guys, we need to go now.

Grab something. All right, we'll get it, we'll get it.

The tribes will split up and head in opposite directions.

Their camps are situated four miles apart along the shore of the Herbert

Each beach has a flag and a canoe.

Finding these sites will be the first unofficial challenge for the new

survivors.

Okay, northeast we have to go?

That's north. That's north right now.

We're going the wrong way.

When they dropped us off.

You know, everybody was designated a certain thing to do, and they gave Nick

compass.

For some reason, although the compass said one way, we kept going the wrong

Tell me something. He's telling me I'm moving this way. Are we moving in the

right direction?

I think we should check, like, every... All right, then, that's where we're

going. Nick, stay in the front, Nick, and keep us going north to northeast.

There's a beaten path.

What's your name again?

Mike. Mike. Let's just stop for one second and look at the map and look at

compass just to make sure because it's a long way to where we're going. Even

from the beginning, it was funny. People were automatically getting on people's

nerves. We were walking through the grass, and Kimmy was like, I can't stand

Deb.

If we're going southward, how are we going to hit the dry creek? Because

north.

That's right.

So we're not going to hit it unless we go that way.

Deb's not even a bad person. She means well.

She's not somebody that in the outside world that I would talk to because she'd

make me crazy.

Reverse something that I could bust my butt on. Let me know.

The hike, it was a little intimidating.

I was afraid, good grief, what if I get so winded that I can't keep up? Do you

see the flag?

Wait a minute, hang on.

You all right, Marilyn?

Good.

That trek let me know that this was for real. That was a long trek we had

through deep sand with a lot of heavy equipment, and I was packing more weight

than anyone else, so I was really struggling.

It was a long trip, and that fired me up, because that is the quickest way to

find out what people are made of.

I'm a little tired.

This race is very heavy.

I really want to get there soon.

We don't know how far away we are, so I'm going to run up and do a little

reconnaissance and see if we can't find out where we're at. I figure if it's

really far, we'll drink some of our stuff here and we won't take it.

We're not far, then we'll buck up and get it there.

Yeah, I'm going to keep him going. We're just going to follow the creek bed here

and make sure if it looks like it's getting too dark, he'll turn back and

get us.

Keith actually ran ahead to go scout out where the camp was because we were all

getting pretty tired and the last leg of that walk was really difficult.

I'll let the snake see what's the bingo.

Never let him see it switch.

Keith!

Okay, what do you see?

I found it. Oh my God!

Woo!

I'm feeling really weak and I'm on the verge of throwing up just ever since I

got here.

And it started with the plane flight.

In the beginning, it was really fun and it was kind of cool and groovy and I was

enjoying the ride. And then all of a sudden, I just got sort of nauseous and

kept thinking to myself, I'm not going to get sick. I'm not going to get sick.

will not throw up.

So I sort of went into this little zone and...

and I don't remember any of it.

Roger carried one of the big water jugs. Mike had a big water jug.

Four Elizabeths had the board on her head, and I had the eight bottled waters

wrapped around me. So the four of us kind of got separated from the other

when we were walking to our campground.

I mean, everything was heavy to carry.

You can't just count any of our equipment as easy to carry, but some of

just more awkward. And some of the crossings, we had to go, you know, down

sharp valley of rocks and up again and kind of wind and balance across the

river. And it was frustrating, too, but with the water jugs and, you know, the

water canteens, I mean, that stuff is just awkward.

When we arrived, it was just a moment of ecstasy because it's like, yes, I've

worked this far just to see this silly thing. I mean, and not just physically

from here, but just mentally preparing yourself for the whole journey.

Like all the airplane flights from New York to California to Australia, from

other part of Australia to here to there, you know, there were just so many

things in sequence to get you to that flag that just being at that flag is

an accomplishment.

We should be up in the trees to some degree. There's no shelter here at all.

soon as we got out of the river, I think we just kind of realized we got a

little cold, and we realized that we have to sleep somewhere, and we just

to feel a little safe and dry.

So we got to work as much as we could on building the basis of a home.

We got enough rocks here, too. We could build a pretty decent shelter just using

rocks.

It's going to make it softer to sleep on.

When we started building the shelter, I thought everybody started chipping in

because there was the wood gatherers and there was the people that were

building. And I had worked a lot of, you know, some construction in my life, and

I had a reasonable sense of construction.

What we're going to have to do is just cut little holes in here and then just

tie it around the top here about this high so that we can just make it right

here.

We need one to go right about halfway up along this support right here. It seems

like one individual in the group is ordering everybody around. And if you

haven't figured it out, it's Mike.

Try to get the level out and see how we're doing.

You can't have one person step in and start ordering everybody around because

it's not going to play, and it's not playing right now, and not just with me

with others.

Push that up a little bit, Roger, if I can. Give me a little bit. Push this up

little bit.

Roger used to build homes.

Roger is the one who helped build this shelter. He knows what he's doing.

Well, Mike comes over and starts telling him how to build it, and Roger was

like, no, that isn't going to work.

Don't give us fall this way plus both directions.

I mean, do you think it's enough of a pitch here so the rain's going to come

good?

We're never going to want to leave this place.

I don't know about that.

I think we're good, yeah. We're doing really well.

All right, so what makes the most sense as far as building, where would we want

to live?

Do we want to live by the water? Do we want to take a walk up on the high

ground? There's a lot of electrical storm.

Yeah, good point. There's going to be a lot of bugs down by the water, though.

We want to definitely be under some trees.

I mean, when the sun comes out, it's going to be hot.

Probably the sun is going to be out at certain times, so at certain times

there's still going to be shade based on the position of the sun.

As soon as we hit the beach, and it was really kind of amazing collectively,

We all dispersed to do something different.

When we got to our camp, I was considering at that point anything and

anybody was doing or saying as a strategic move.

Colby, his luxury item was the Texan flag, which is great because it served

the top that covers us and blocks us from the wind and the sun.

I really did bring the flag to serve at shelter, but, you know, don't get me

wrong. When I wake up in the morning, there's two things I'm thankful for. I'm

thankful I'm alive, and I'm thankful I'm a Texan.

It's not going to work. I mean, we don't need to risk ripping this if there's a

stick that's two inches shorter.

Yeah, you don't need to go that far now. It was, no, but it's not going to stay.

It's not staying.

The tension between Keith and I, I think him and I kind of rubbed each other the

wrong way.

Watch, right here, watch. Let me just put it.

Right there.

It's set.

That's where... And before it was here... But see, we put it on the

a reason, so that the flag wouldn't rip. You can't... You won't be able to go

through that on a flat surface.

Keith and I didn't start off on a very good foot because of some of the

condescending remarks he made to me. And he might very well not even be aware

that he does it, but I'm not the kind of person to just let it slide off my

back.

You've got to share something about yourself that's really embarrassing.

Embarrassing? I just got naked in a tent with a bunch of strangers. That's what

I was getting ready to say.

Give us the dark hour. Boyfriend, husband, wife.

Okay, hey, not married. Don't believe in marriage until I'm 35.

Okay, don't say you're a virgin because I swear to God I'm people -positive.

The main concern was where the hell am I going to masturbate out here?

You've got to be kidding me.

Kimmy is a happy -go -lucky person who's got... I don't even know how to

describe her. I don't know what the right word is. Nothing is taboo with

Nothing at all. Listen to me. You guys might like a skin wig. However, I'm

excited.

Kimmy will not shut up. You know, I'm tired at night. I want to go to sleep.

they're constantly talking. And with the headache that I have, it just

reverberates. Kimmy cannot say a single thing without screaming it.

while it was on my head.

All of a sudden, out of the blue, with that accent, it just talks and talks and

talks and talks and talks and talks.

I just want to grab her by the neck and shake the s*** out of her, you know?

Oh, my God!

I think we're starting to get to know each other and people are not accustomed

to this kind of lifestyle yet.

I'm a little accustomed to this lifestyle because I do hunt and I do

do camp, so it's not that foreign to me.

Coach Joe, we got food!

Like right under our noses.

Is it better? Yeah, I think you can eat them. When I saw those figs, it was a

big rush and two or three people came over and helped pick the figs and we

brought them back and I bit into one.

right off the tree.

Don't bite into one.

Look at that.

Mike,

he opens up these figs and he's...

showing us these bugs, and I'm just wanting to eat that thing so bad because

starving, and these bugs are just creepy and flying around, and I don't eat

anything. You know, I cook my food.

And if the bugs don't fly out, I'm going to eat them, so... It's for yourself,

baby. We very well might be cold and hungry tonight, but not if we can help

The fire is the most important thing for survival. We need to eat, and we need

to boil water. That's all I care about.

Keep putting that fan in there. I think it's good.

Well, the problem is we get too much sand in here.

It's dumping on all of our tinder. This wood's not going to catch fire. The

tinder's going to catch fire.

But if you keep putting sand in there, it puts out the tinder.

Deb works very hard, and she means well. But she's like, well, in the camping

book, it says to do it like this.

And you know what?

We could have the wrong wood. We could have the wrong rock, something.

She's making herself an authority on something actively and what's to be

And not on actually dealing. Had she went and practiced this stuff at home, I

would take her opinion a lot more seriously.

One thing we tried to do in starting the fire was use my Bible, which I had

brought along. It was my luxury item.

And we tore some pages out of it.

It wasn't pages that actually had any scripture in it, but I would have used

that, you know, you've got to do with what you've got.

I don't know.

There's a letter from my son -in -law he wrote me.

Oh. I don't have my glasses. I don't care.

I don't even know. I can't even have my glasses.

Dear Dad, best of luck.

You have many people who believe you can do anything you put your mind to. Just

be yourself.

Things will be fine in Kentucky.

Focus on your task at hand.

You can do this. It's not going to be easy, but a challenge such as this

shouldn't be easy.

Just try your best. All right, KJA.

And then he put in parentheses 141, so I don't know if that... 141.

Yeah. Oh!

That's pretty cool.

You've got love notes!

That was a nice little piece of home when you least expect it, you know. And

said go to page 200, and then you go to page 150, and we went through that about

seven or eight times, I think, until we finally came to the end. Can you give us

a page with a burning book?

And it was a little sentimental for me, to tell you the truth.

I think you wrote the book. My son has been Cub Scouts.

I start this fire. I will be his hero.

Are we far enough away from the water to make a fire?

Oh, I think we start the fire. We dig in where we want to.

We pull off making the fire.

Well, I don't even really want to attempt to start it until we get it

want to keep it. If we move it, it's going out.

Well, let me keep trying. Because if you get lucky and you spark that thing,

it's ready to go, and you try and pick it up and move it, and we don't have

anywhere to put it, then... Then I can just keep it burning here and a little

one going, and we can always move it.

All right, I'm going to go... What about the... I've never

started a fire before from scratch.

But, you know, I knew nightfall was coming, we'd have no light, and we'd be

to cook nothing, and we wouldn't have a bonfire. So it was really pretty

critical.

Keith is just licking his chop. He's wanting to cook so bad he can't stand

And so you can bet he's going to work on this fire thing until he licks it.

Since Jerry and I had our little confrontation before I thought you know

a great time to get her involved With this process to be a part of it somehow

with something she brought that was important to her

Until we can get a fire and boil water, we're not going to be eating

much anything.

You expected dry weather, but then you slept in the rain, and you can't get a

spark no matter how hard you strain.

To get your tribe's fire, pay heed to this note. The winners take matches. The

losers cast the first vote.

We are getting matches!

We are definitely getting matches.

All right, we just got our notice for the first immunity challenge, and we're

going to go kick some butt because we're all together on this, and we're going

to go get us some fire.

And we're going to go get us some food.

Fire means food. So that's what we're going to go do. We're going to go there.

We're going to fight hard and win.

Winning immunity is the most important thing.

We need to beat, beat, beat the other tribe.

We'll let them eliminate someone on their team first.

This community challenge is extremely important because we have to show the

other team that we're better, you know, and plus we have to have fire in order

to start eating right.

What's up, guys?

Can we gather up?

Gather up.

So, anybody have any luck with fire?

We came close.

We got a lot of smoke.

All right, I got something that's going to help the smoke.

Waterproof matches.

One of the things we're playing for tonight, right here, a little canister

We're also playing for something else, much more important than waterproof

matches. Right here, the immunity idol.

You want to know this guy really well, because the tribe that wins the immunity

idol will not have to go to tribal council and vote out one of their own

members. That brings us to challenge number one. You're playing for fire,

playing for immunity.

There are four legs in the race. You're preparing a lit torch.

Somebody falls in the water at any time and their torch goes out, your tribe is

done, somebody's going home tomorrow.

So that is key.

Here's how the game is played.

First leg starts at the old bridge. You'll make your way across using two

to help you bridge the gap.

For the second leg, you'll cross over the island where you'll find in the

a small torch -carrying raft.

Put your lighted torch on the raft, and as a tribe, swim across to the other

side of the bank.

When you get over there, you'll find two sets of wooden rungs. Take them with

you. For the third leg, you're going to get on another raft, and using a rope,

pull yourself across the river. Using the rungs, climb up the ladder, light

torch. Winners, maybe a hot meal tonight, security of knowing you're

here a while.

Losers, cold, somebody's going to be the first person voted out of the tribe.

Make sense?

Let's take our spots. Wait for my start. Go.

All right. At stake. Fire.

And immunity.

Survivors ready.

Ready. Go.

Thank you.

What, what, what?

Can we get the rope?

Yeah! Good job!

Good job! Good job!

Congratulations.

Nice work.

Your reward?

Right here, a lot of fruit.

And much more important, I think, you're in possession of the

immunity idol.

We need to stay positive now, okay?

Guys, tomorrow somebody from Kucha will be the first person voted out of the

tribe.

You'll have that to think about tonight. I know you're already a close group.

It's going to be a tough decision.

You guys can head on back to camp.

Ogre Corps, you guys can light this up in celebration.

Yesterday's immunity challenge was a big letdown.

Not only physically, but emotionally. I think probably more so emotionally.

As far as tribal council goes tonight, which we have to go to, I don't think

of us are looking forward to it.

You need to sit down. You're so shaky. You're staring at me.

I don't know. I'm not betting on me getting voted off, but I think it's down

like, me, Roger, or maybe Jeff because he hasn't been feeling good. My personal

opinion is the strong survive.

If you were going to vote for someone, who would you be voting for right now?

Jeff. Me too.

I really love the guy. I like, I like. He's a good kid.

He's sick.

Yeah. She wants to go, too, by the way.

Really? She told me that you wanted to go.

She sure did.

What? She told me that you wanted to go.

That is a bald -faced lie. Okay, scandal. She told me you wanted to go.

I'm going to probably vote for Jeff. And I was talking with him today, you know,

and he doesn't even seem that upset at the thought of it. He's like, he wants a

pizza. He might have. She said his phone part doesn't feel good.

I was like, are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding you. I wouldn't tell you

that if she didn't say it.

It's like there's a part of me that's a little paranoid about who's talking to

who. I see these two standing over across, Mike and Roger standing across

river talking.

They're not fishing. They're not doing anything. They're just talking. And the

wheels start turning, and I'm just, my eyes are going around.

I mean, it's two different games, you know.

Just because we've said what we're doing doesn't necessarily mean it's going to

happen. And I haven't been with these people long enough to know for sure.

how well, I mean, I'm not going to trust anybody, but there's a certain, to a

certain point, you have to.

You puked?

Did you save it?

It's like going to court. Tribal counsel is going to court. Nobody likes to go

to court.

But if you broke the law, you got to go. And we broke the law by not winning. So

we got to go face our punishment. Our punishment is to get rid of one of our

own.

The people that I think that are in jeopardy tonight are potentially Jeff.

because of the health issues, and Roger might not be safe.

He could be a liability in the challenges, and especially swimming

and climbing challenges, and if not just Roger, it would be anybody over 50

years old.

I mean, I'm looking forward to voting somebody out.

It's the game, and I'm here to play the game. I'm not here to make friends. I'm

not here for that.

People have got to go, and I look forward to walking up, writing

on a card and talking about them.

I'm getting ready to do it.

Guys, come on in.

We begin your first tribal council with a ritual.

Behind each of you is a torch.

Grab a torch and approach a flame.

Dip your torches in and fire.

Put them back in their slots.

We do this because fire does represent life here. These torches will now

represent your life, your identity at Tribal Council.

You'll bring these torches with you to each Tribal Council.

And the good news is, when you return home tonight, you will have fire.

Before we get into this, I just want you guys to take a second and look around

at where we're at.

We're on top of a granite waterfall.

Can't think of a more spectacular place for the drama that's going to go down

here every three days.

This is where you account for your actions.

Some of those actions tonight are going to help you. You're going to stay here a

few more days. Some of those actions may come back to haunt you.

One thing's for certain.

one of you guys will be the first person voted out of the tribe.

So before we get to that, a little gauge on how the first few days were.

Deb, what about finding the camp? Was it a celebration? Was it fall down, I'm

exhausted? Celebration, celebration.

It was celebration all the way and hop in the water and then regret it

afterwards when we were freezing and had no fire.

Yeah, let's talk a little about that fire.

You've been the one really trying to get this fire going. Yeah, I've been the

one trying and getting no fire.

I mean, I've tried everything those damn books said to do. The bow, this thing.

That's crazy.

Well, you'll have fire tonight when you go home. Yeah, yeah, that's good to

know. It's been a little cold a couple nights here.

Have you guys formed any impressions about the other tribe in the limited

you've seen them?

We haven't really had a lot of contact with them, but right now we totally see

them as the enemy. We haven't had a chance to bond with them. We haven't had

chance to talk with them at all. I didn't even look at them when we lost.

Yesterday's event was just a physical challenge, and I would have put money on

us any day to win that challenge. But they went through, and then we had

problems. Roger, leadership come up. Did anybody emerge as a leader?

Yes, I would say probably Mike.

As far as building the hut, I think we both probably shared in on that because

my knowledge on that is pretty extensive in that I teach a carpentry class.

But overall, I'd say he's probably taken the lead, and that's fine because he's

a very knowledgeable person. We all get along great.

Tonight is really a hard deal for us.

Personally, I thought the first vote -off would be easy because you would

probably have somebody that would be slacking.

Well, we just haven't had that. I mean, every one of these people have worked

and worked hard, and that's what makes tonight's vote so hard.

All right, it's time to vote.

Here's how it's going to work. One by one, you guys will go across the bridge

the voting confessional. You'll write down in big, clear letters the name of

person you're voting for.

Hold it up. Speak your piece.

Why you're voting the way you're voting. Then fold it up, put it in the voting

container. Come back and have a seat.

Make sense?

I'll start here with you, Deb.

You're up.

I love this guy dearly, but I came here deciding that I was going to vote on the

strongest survivor, and Jeff's been the sickest of all of us, and he's still not

over it.

Well, I'm going to vote for Jeff, and I hate to do it. I love him.

No real reason, actually.

He was part of the workers, anybody out there, and somebody had to go.

I'm voting for Deb because she's a great worker and everything, but she does

feel isolated.

You know, when we're together all in the tent at night, she just chooses to be

independent and she's just a strong little person. It's not a bad thing.

just not what I need.

I'm going to tally the vote.

I need to remind you that once the votes are tallied, the decision is final.

The person will be asked to leave the Tribal Council area immediately.

You'll do so across this bridge here.

Take the bridge up over the rocks down to a confessional where you can speak as

long as you want about your time here in the Outback.

I'll read the votes.

First vote.

Deb.

Jeff. Deb.

Four votes for Deb. One vote for Jeff.

First person voted out of the tribe.

Deb. No point in revealing the other two votes.

You need to bring me a torch.

You're good.

Kick ass.

The tribe has spoken.

It's time for you to go.

You survived your first tribal council.

Grab your torches.

You'll have fire. You can head back to camp. I'll see you tomorrow.

Stay tuned for themes from our next...

Next time on Survivor, Kel is accused of smuggling food.

Jerry blatantly said that she saw something look just like beef jerky. It

nowhere near any grass.

Kimmy struggles with the immunity challenge.

You got cow brain there.

I can't eat a brain.

I wouldn't mind getting voted off if I had film.

fallen during a competition, if I was lazy, if I wasn't a team player.

But when I come here and I give all of that and I still get voted off, I bet

if Jeff had read every one of those votes, it would have been seven to one.

that's a shame.

I still thought a lot of it boiled down to mental toughness and physical

ability.