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Kristina.

Dude.

I finally found something.

No way.

Previously on Survivor...

We're going to randomly divide into two groups of five.

The losing five,

- nobody has immunity. - Oh.

That group will go to Tribal Council.

Whoa. That's crazy.

We have a showdown.

-Savannah, stay. - Ow.

Sophie's out.

Savannah wins

- for her group. -Whoo!

-I'll be honest. - I'm putting my money on Sophie, too.

Sophie just looks like the biggest threat.

- You think? -Yeah. -Yeah.

Oh, my God.

It's a boat.

Is that Savannah?

I'm coming over here,

ready, honestly, to cause some chaos.

My number one ally has an opportunity

to bank her vote.

It's almost like

a Christmas miracle at this point.

Mm-hmm. That's fine.

Why are we going to target

someone that other people

want out?

Why are we doing their dirty work?

I'm gonna flip the script

and put a target on MC's back.

MC's gonna have three people. You get what I'm saying?

Why would you keep someone

who showed that they didn't trust you?

If anybody has an advantage or an idol and you want to play it,

now would be the time to do so.

Ninth person voted out and the second member of our jury:

MC.

- The tribe has spoken. - Thank you so much.

Any final speculation?

I think Rizo played his idol, Sophie went home.

It's Sophie or Rizo.

If it's anyone else, I'm gonna be shocked.

I'm gonna be like, "What happened?"

I'm definitely thinking about Tribal.

There's so many unknowns.

Best-case scenario, Rizo had to play his idol,

and then, potentially, Sophie

is voted out,

because she's just so great at challenges.

As soon as she is vulnerable,

you have to take advantage of it.

And it's even better that she's in my alliance,

because I wouldn't get any

dirt on my hands.

- Hey, everybody. - Hey.

Hi.

Yeah, MC was voted out.

-Wow. -What? What?

Are e-- Wait, what?

The group that went to Tribal Council walk in, and

MC is not anywhere to be found.

It's honestly like a punch in the gut.

-Yeah. - Yeah.

MC is someone that I was taking to the final three,

and there's clearly this just shock

amongst the whole group,

and we're just, like, processing,

"What?"

To be honest, it was a unanimous vote for MC to go,

and MC voted Sophie.

Oh, and by the way,

the idol is still with Rizo. Like,

how do you lose an alliance member

and still have the idol in the game?

It was literally the worst-case scenario.

From my perspective,

it was very obvious, early in the day,

that it was me or MC,

and I fought like hell to stay in.

-Yeah. - And she threw me under the bus.

Yeah.

And...

yeah, that really sucks.

When I got back

to camp,

there was a lot of like,

"Oh, my God, MC's gone?

And why is Sophie here?"

So does this mean you would rather have me

sent home?

Seems like there was a lot of, also, surprise that

I was not the one voted home,

which is not making me feel too hot right now,

I'm gonna be honest.

So, my intention is to figure out who

can I still trust. Can I trust Kristina?

I don't think so.

Can I trust Steven?

Maybe, but...

I'm definitely playing free agent right now.

Savannah filled me in that she

got an extra vote,

which is great because

we're at nine people, right now, in this game,

and that extra vote

can basically be another number for us.

From the outside looking in,

me, Rizo, and Savannah look like

we're next on the chopping block,

but we actually have a lot of power here.

Rizo has his idol, Savannah has her extra vote,

and I have

my Knowledge Is Power Advantage that nobody knows about.

Today, I put on an absolute

master class of a performance.

It was absolutely cinematic.

I not only got out MC,

I not only gained a potential ally in Sophie,

but then

I did not have to play my hidden immunity idol.

Yeah.

I know.

I know.

So from someone

that was digging his ass out the dirt

to climbing to the rooftops of Fiji,

I feel on cloud nine after that Tribal Council.

Oh, my God.

Now that MC is gone, I'm feeling a little bit alone.

And I'm finding myself having to find new lifelines.

Who's gonna be my new person

that I place all my trust in?

At the moment, that person feels like Sage.

I really like the Bottoms Up alliance

that I formed with her and Jawan.

I think they're sitting very safely

in the power position, right now, in the game.

So I want to do

what is gonna continue cementing trust with Sage.

- I just want you to know - Yeah.

we went idol hunting.

And guess who finds the ... idol?

- Who? - Kristina.

So don't tell anybody.

I'm putting a ton of... so much trust in you,

but she's like, "This idol's for the three of us.

- I'm not even gonna tell anyone else." Like... - Okay.

So, like, if it gets out, they're gonna know it's me

- that leaked it. - I-I won't even tell Jawan.

Yeah. So she's got it.

I needed you to know that because

- you, me and Jawan, like, are the tightest thing I have. - Yeah. Yeah.

Steven confided in me

that Kristina has the idol.

But as much as I want to tell Jawan about the idol,

I cannot risk blowing up my spot with Steven,

'cause I really need to have as many people who have my back

as far as we can go into this game.

Last night, everyone back at camp

thought it was gonna be Sophie.

And for her to not even know

that her name was the number one out there

and for her to be shocked that we were shocked

- that she came back... - Yeah.

just shows how, like,

little game awareness she had.

The tides are changing right now at camp

and I think

Sophie is a very good example

of what happens to a Survivor player

when they don't see the tides are turning

before it's too late.

-How are you doing? -Well,

when I came back, it did really feel like...

Dude, that was wild.

It was really weird. Like, the energy was really weird.

It felt almost like people were mad that I was still here.

- And, like, how am I supposed to respond to that? - It was wild. It was wild.

Like, "Oh, yeah, sorry."

- You know, like, it kind of, like, "Oh." - Opened your eyes a little bit?

-It opened my eyes a little bit - Yeah.

because those were, like, genuine reactions

-Yeah. - and not responses.

Exactly.

I feel like I just got LASIK.

I went from, like, fully blurred vision, seeing, like,

my yellow blobs,

and being like, "Yay, they're my yellow friends."

To, all of a sudden, crystal clear.

And I'm questioning

my relationship with Steven and Kristina.

Now I'm questioning everything.

- Honestly, yes, this hurts. - Mm-hmm.

And, like, okay, so whatever.

Like, my freshman floor friends are not my friends.

Yeah.

But I'm just gonna make new friends, you know? Like...

Talking to Soph and Savannah, my goal

is to build those relationships with people that I have

not trusted,

but I'm about to start playing

Sophie Segreti Survivor.

I'm looking out for the one and only, and that's myself,

from here on out.

I'm not gonna run back and tell them

everything that you're telling me. I'm not gonna run back

- and try to vote with them, -Right.

because I-I was at the bottom of that.

Sophie is completely isolated now.

And so it's an opportunity

for me, Savannah and Rizo

to kind of pick her up and be like,

"Hey, we're all at the bottom here.

We can work together and get one of these big players out."

Maybe we're just Sophie squared now. Maybe there

is room for two Sophies on this island.

What are you thinking?

'Cause I feel like

you've got an opportunity to, like, sit with

- a lot of, like, different types of people - Yeah.

a lot more the last couple of days.

So, like, who do you think would make the most sense

to target next?

Well, I think either Rizo or Savannah.

Like, but then...

-Yeah. - If we, if we want

to get out Yellow Sophie, that's fine with me, too.

Yeah.

There's nine people left.

And, this whole game, I've been playing the middle.

People have thought they've been using me,

so they're sharing information with me,

and I know exactly what's gonna happen.

But we're at this point now

where there's basically two sides--

Jawan and Sage,

who are the power group in this game--

and then there's Soph, Rizo and Savannah,

desperate and at the bottom.

But I need to find the group who wants to work with me

and stick with that group fully.

I think there's a clear target

of Sophie.

-Yeah. - But

they want to get out one of you two.

No, I know. It's, like, I don't think...

It's, like, they don't want to work with you guys.

I know.

It takes a very savvy player like myself

to see what Alex is doing.

He is trying to create lines in the sand,

while he's stuck in the middle.

Well, where do you stand?

I want to work with all of you, you know?

Like, I am a number for...

you guys, and if we all stick together...

Buddy, you can't work with everyone.

If you're loyal to all, you're loyal to none.

It wouldn't be beneficial for me to strike

at one of you, you know? We can work together.

He might think that he's in the clear,

but I see your tricks, Alex.

And this is not your game, this is mine.

Come on in.

Here they come.

The nine remaining players

from Survivor 49.

All right.

Kristina, did the last vote--

given that there were five people

that didn't even have anything to do with it--

did it change the game because of that dynamic?

Um, it absolutely did, Uncle J.

It really, like, opened my eyes, in particular, to

this is a very fluid game.

And you might be in the majority on one vote

and you think you know what's gonna happen,

you know, at the next vote, and then it doesn't happen at all.

And so it really is just, like, it's changing every day.

And you just got to, like, work to keep up.

Sixteen days in, and the game is fluid.

I like it.

All right, shall we get to

today's reward challenge?

-Absolutely, Jeff. - Yeah. - Yes.

Here's how it works.

We're gonna divide into two teams of four.

On my go, you're gonna race

to roll a very heavy metal cube.

You'll use it to retrieve a sandbag.

You'll crawl under a net,

and then use that sandbag to knock off

three rings from a very tall pole.

Once you have those three rings,

you will race to land those same three rings

on that same very tall pole.

First team to finish wins reward.

Want to know what you're playing for?

- Yeah. -Yes, sir.

Waiting for you back at camp--

fried chicken.

Oh, my God.

French fries.

Oh, my God.

-Soft drinks. -Oh, my God.

Lemonade.

And for dessert,

cheesecake and blueberries.

- Oh, I love cheesecake. - Ooh.

How big is this, Jawan?

This would be your first food,

- your first meal. -Yeah.

I'm trying not to think about the food,

'cause every time I thought about the food, I came up short.

So I'm trying to lock in.

I'm trying to make sure I'm not the curse.

But I have a feeling

today is gonna be different.

A little prediction.

All right, we'll do a schoolyard pick,

and we'll get this going.

Here we go. Game's changing again.

All right, we did a schoolyard pick.

Kristina was a captain.

She chose

Sophie, Alex and Savannah.

Rizo was a captain.

He chose Sage, Steven and Jawan.

Soph was not chosen.

Instead, she gets to wager on a group.

She's decided to go with Yellow, Rizo's group.

She will win or lose with you.

All right, here we go.

For reward of fried chicken back at camp.

Survivors ready?

Go!

First thing you got to do is work together

to free this heavy metal cube.

Got to get all the knots done,

then you start pulling on the bigger rope.

You got this, guys.

-Done. - Yeah, good.

- Okay, I'm... -No, you're getting...

- Okay. - I'm getting out the rope in different spots.

Once you get all that rope clear,

you can start trying to move that cube.

- We're good. - Hold on.

Who's gonna be out first,

Yellow or Blue?

We're very close.

On the count of three.

One, two, three.

It's gonna be Yellow out first.

Let's go!

One, two, three!

-Here comes Blue, right on their tail. - Three!

This is a very heavy cube.

Come on!

- Here we go. - Good job. Take your time.

Let's go!

-You got to get it to this line. -Slow.

It takes everything you've got.

That's how you do it.

Let's go!

You guys got it. One more.

Come on. Let's go.

You're good, Yellow.

- We'll get up there. - You got it.

- I might need help up. - Gonna be Rizo going up.

We have to get the line.

You're good, Blue.

Somebody get up there.

You got it, Alex.

You're good, buddy.

Good job.

You got it, Rizo.

You're good. You're good. You're stable.

Good job.

Gonna be Alex for Blue.

Rizo for Yellow.

Rizo whipping through this.

He's got the bag free. You're good.

Now you got to get under the net with that sandbag.

Go, go, go. You got it, guys.

Alex getting through it quickly, too.

That did it. You're good.

- You got it? - Yep.

Big food reward on day 16.

Fried chicken, french fries, cheesecake.

Got to get everybody to that mat.

You're good, Steven. Go.

Go, go, go, go.

You're good, Blue. Go.

You got it, Soph.

Steven has the sandbag free.

- Sophie has it free for Blue. -You got it, Sophie.

Now you're trying to knock those rings off.

- Oh, you got it. - Good hit, good hit.

Gonna take a little more pop.

Hard, straight up.

- Yeah. -Sophie hits it, but not enough.

Steven hits it, but not enough.

Hard as you can, Sophie.

You're doing so good.

- You got it. - You got it, Steven.

You're trying to free those rings.

Yeah!

Steven's done it. You're good, Steven.

- Go, go, go. -Now it's Rizo.

Take all the rings back.

Now you got to land the rings back on that same pole

you just knocked them off of.

It's Rizo now with that first ring.

Just short.

Hey, two-hand granny.

- Oh. - Yeah.

- Just like that. - That looks hard.

Rizo's starting to gauge the distance now.

- Sophie's still trying to free her rings. - There you go. Almost.

One more.

- One more like that. -Rizo short again.

Sophie in a tough spot.

You start feeling that panic.

- Will this do it? -Yes. Oh, yes.

-Yeah! Whoo! -That does it.

You're good, Sophie.

Get the rings back.

It's gonna be Alex now with that first ring for Blue.

We're back even now.

Someone go. Jawan, go quick.

- Give me a minute. - Okay.

Jawan now heading in to give the ring toss a try.

- And look at that. - Let's go.

- He's got it with his first toss. -I keep going?

Okay, let's get it.

Jawan has not had anything to eat in 16 days.

Would like to change that right now.

Alex with a toss.

- There you go. - Yes!

Alex lands the first for Blue.

- We are tied one ring each. - You got it, Alex.

-Three rings total. - So good.

-Need a break? - Yeah.

You got it, Rizo.

- Now you know how it works. -Here comes Rizo.

Back in for Yellow.

Just misses.

Keep going. You got it.

You got it.

Alex with another toss.

Alex with the second for Blue.

Alex gonna stay in there,

try to win it for Blue right now.

- Can I try, bro? -Go.

Here comes Jawan.

Wants to take control of his own fate again.

Jawan trying to tie it up.

Just misses.

Jawan, get back.

Alex for the win.

- There it is! - Yes!

It's over.

Alex does it.

Alex, Savannah, Sophie and Kristina

will enjoy fried chicken, french fries,

dessert and soft drinks back at camp.

- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - It's okay. I didn't make any.

- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. -Hey, dude, no worries.

- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - I didn't make any. -Soph,

come on in. Join the group you bet on.

Unfortunately, it was the losing group.

It's okay, guys.

Pardon me.

All right, Savannah, Alex, Kristina...

Uncle J?

What's up, Kristina?

Can I trade with Jawan? Is that an option?

No.

It's okay.

I would like, uh, if you let it, I want to trade with him.

You are in charge of your reward.

If you want to give up your spot,

but it-it has to be agreed upon...

I...

...by the person who you're giving it to.

You got to eat, baby.

I want to earn it.

So, let's walk through this.

So, Jawan,

Kristina is offering

to give up her spot at the food reward for you,

but you're reluctant.

Yeah, Uncle Jeff, I struggle with receiving stuff.

I feel like I-I wanted to earn it,

and it's hard receiving stuff, you know?

Kristina, what's your emotion about?

Why are you so invested in Jawan?

It's just, I mean...

...he's been fighting.

He has never complained that he hasn't eaten,

like, at all.

He's still the one opening coconuts this morning,

even though all of us have had something.

And I just, like,

I just want him to know that there's someone else out here

that's still looking out for him.

All right, so, Jawan, now the decision.

Kristina's been very clear.

She wants to do this.

It's her choice, but you got to accept it.

Otherwise, we don't have a deal.

- Take it. - Come on, please. -Do it, please.

- Do it. Do it. - Please. - Do it.

I think I'm gonna eat the chicken, Uncle Jeff.

All right, make the swap.

Love you, fam.

Thank you so much. Appreciate you.

Another unexpected moment.

Survivor 49.

For the first time in 16 days, Jawan,

you're gonna have some food.

-Yeah. - Can you already taste it?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm-I'm starting to think about it a little bit.

All right, Savannah, Alex,

Jawan and Sophie,

you're gonna head back to camp

and have an afternoon of food and bonding.

Grab your stuff, head out, enjoy it.

Thank you, guys.

All right, Soph, Sage, Steven, Kristina, Rizo,

got nothing for you.

Grab your stuff, head back to camp.

I might be hungry, and I might be having to drink

coconut water for a few days,

but Jawan has

the struggle of always feeling

like he needs to be the provider.

And, honestly, I don't know if that's the mother side in me,

I don't know if it's the natural nurturer in me,

but it was just something in me that was like,

"No, let me take care of you."

Right?

I'm not going to be limited

- by the waistband of my other shorts. -Oh, my God. Yeah.

So this is for us, right?

-Yes. -All of it?

-All for it. -This is for us.

Oh, my

goodness.

My first reward.

Ah.

Should we do

- a fry toast? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's do

- a fry toast. -Let's do a fry toast.

Cheers to the final nine.

- Yes, you guys. Cheers. - Cheers to the final nine.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

It was everything I wanted and more.

Get that chicken.

I can feel

my superpowers coming back a little bit.

I'm like, "Okay, the player

is back."

- Thank you, guys, for coaching me into it 'cause -Yeah.

- I was not gonna accept it. -Yeah.

I mean, you are just so deserving to be here

because it's like,

everything that you're doing is, like, helping people

when they're down.

You're cutting coconuts when you're exhausted.

You know? Giving juice and all this stuff, like

You don't have to, like, get this, like, award

to be deserving.

I'm, like, so used to, like, I guess, helping other people.

Mm-hmm.

And for me,

not to get too deep, but, like,

growing up without my dad, you know,

I kind of struggle with, like, acceptance and stuff.

- Yeah. -So I'm so used to trying to, like,

make sure everyone's okay

- to kind of get that acceptance thing. -Yeah.

I definitely feel like

I'm a provider in my everyday life

back at home with my siblings--

Breah, Destiny, Isaiah and Jae'Onnah.

You know, those are my little knuckleheads at home.

And with me growing up without a dad,

I felt like I needed to be Superman.

But I find it really beautiful,

the fact that

people out here like me for me.

And it shows that I don't need to, like,

put on a mask

and try to pretend to be

anything else but myself.

This is kind of cool.

Like, just to break bread with y'all.

- You know? - Yeah.

Especially after last night,

- I'm like, "Who? Hina, Uli, Kele who?" -Yeah.

- I have no clue. No clue. - Exactly. -You know? Like...

Um...

Kristina really hurt my feelings.

And even today, like, the mat chat

just kept being about like,

"Oh, my God. It was crazy that MC went home."

But the subtext there is that

you thought it was inevitable that I was gonna go home. And,

so, what, you would have been happy with that?

Honestly, though, it's a blessing, you know?

-That's true. -Yeah.

- True colors. Yeah. - At least I know. Yeah, yeah.

Sophie S. feels like she's been at the bottom

of the Hina tribe.

She feels like she's been stuck.

I feel like we have so many parallels.

We both feel like we're at the bottom.

So, yeah, Sophie,

that's why you have to work with me,

'cause we can be at the bottom together

and help each other out.

You know, just to let you guys know,

I'm, like, I'm very open to anything, so...

- Yeah. - Me too. I'm literally at the bottom.

I certainly am open for business after yesterday.

My thing is trying to figure out, like,

- all right, what's next for all of us, you know? -Right.

- Yeah. - So I'm open

- to anything, you know? - Yeah.

-So everyone's open. -Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

They think that this game is wide-open,

but ever since the merge,

all roads lead back to me and Sage.

We're the top dogs, so...

I'm sharpening my blades.

And now I got some energy.

I got a little taste of blood.

I feel like your boy is the king

shark out here.

When I look around at my next targets,

I kind of hear the Jaws music

a little bit.

And, oh, man, I'm ready

to tear this game up.

That was the one reward I'd actually, like,

probably enjoy, too.

I think everybody felt bad

about not bringing home the food reward,

because, at this point,

every little thing that you get matters.

But for me, personally,

having killed two chickens already,

I'm okay not having the chicken.

I can't look at them the same way.

I'm having some

weird dreams about chickens, man.

I do feel a little bit of chicken guilt.

The two survivors

are circling the camp,

and they're clucking as if they're like,

"We know what you did."

I could be

okay not eating chicken

for a little while.

Well, I just want to jump in.

-Oh, yeah. -'Cause, like,

I think this is our last time

to confidently get one of them out,

- when we have the numbers. -Yeah.

We got to get rid of Rizo's idol.

But, like,

in reality, I want Savannah to go home.

Sage really wants her to go home.

She is kind of public enemy number one,

because, I'm sorry, Savannah,

you give off mean girl energy.

Ooh, I love that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, of course,

I love this plan,

because Savannah and I have definitely had, like,

a rocky relationship out here, and I can get pretty petty.

I enjoy collecting blackheads

in jars.

Savannah very well could be

a blackhead that I just pop out of this game.

Yeah.

I don't think Rizo's gonna play for Savannah.

I don't think he's playing it for her.

I don't think he would play it for her.

Rizo and Savannah-- one of 'em have to go.

But no matter what,

we are getting that idol out of this game.

Okay?

Point-blank, period,

the next time we go to Tribal.

So we just need the numbers right now.

I have no idea where, like, this next vote is gonna go.

I think we're just gonna...

- Rizo? - Rizo?

- Yeah. That's what I think... - And try to get this idol out, but...

I've not been with Soph at all,

and I don't fully trust her at this point,

but I really do think that

she does really want to be on the right side

of the votes.

And so she almost just becomes, like, this easy number

that you always have

once Rizo and Savannah are out the game.

My thing is, like, he plays it, he's safe.

- Yeah. - What's the actual target, then?

Yeah.

To be honest.

Kristina proposed doing, like, this split vote plan

on Rizo and Savannah.

And I'm just saying, "Yeah,

I'm down to be a part of this."

He has the idol, so I think we should definitely

- go for that. - Like, we got to flush it.

But the truth is,

I'm working with Rizo and Savannah.

I think it's

in my best interest to play all the sides,

because people are actually

telling me what they're thinking.

And I can use that to protect

my real allies in this game.

I feel close to Savannah in, like, a personal way.

- Yeah. - But, like,

on a game level, like, I don't know.

I'm trying to make, like, logical decisions.

Mm-hmm.

Rizo has the idol,

Savannah has an extra vote,

and I have the Knowledge Is Power Advantage.

So, right now, even though it seems like

we're the three at the bottom,

we actually have the most power of anybody in this camp.

Hey, hey.

- Hey, what's up, guys? -Oh, wow. Welcome back.

During the reward,

I was biding my time with all of these people

before I can have a conversation with Savannah.

I know...

But as soon as Savannah comes back,

I fill her in on what the other side is thinking

of doing at the next Tribal Council.

And I want her to know because

I do have her back out here.

And I think that in this game, there is something to be said

about being loyal.

I still want to be with you guys.

I want to work with you so much, and, like,

even if it's just me and Rizo,

I feel like you should feel, like,

- safe in that, you know? - I know.

- I don't know. - Literally, since the Nate vote,

it's felt like no one has wanted to play with me.

No one, like, wants to give me the time of the day.

- Yeah. - And, like,

it brought me back to a place, like,

a few years ago where, like,

I thought I had, like, recovered from, like, this trauma.

And, like, it's still, like, very much there.

- Mm-hmm. - And it's, like, there's something about Survivor that,

- like, brings back, like, all those emotions. - Brings back those, yeah.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

And I get that.

I wasn't gonna tell anyone this.

- Okay. - Okay, so you can't tell anyone.

- I'm not gonna tell anyone. - I'm not even telling Rizo.

Okay, go.

Okay, so I tell people I used to work in marketing.

- Okay. - I used to work in news.

- So I used to be a news anchor. - Oh. No way.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

- That's cool, Savannah. - Yeah, yeah, so...

I told Soph that I used to be a reporter.

I feel like

she's not gonna vote me out

because I used to be someone who talks on TV

and who might be good at speaking to other people.

Like,

honestly, it just felt right.

- No, but that's good. Thank you for telling me that - Yeah.

for trusting me. Like, I'm not gonna ... tell anybody that.

Don't worry. Like, I have your back.

If it means anything, you know that you, uh, you have me.

Like, in and outside of this game.

- Yeah. - Like, a million percent.

- I really have your back. - Yeah.

I do feel special that Savannah did trust me

with that information.

It really solidifies where we are in this game

and where we are personally,

as allies.

- I want us to be the three at the end. - I know.

There is a path for Savannah, Rizo and I

to get to the end, if we play our cards right.

And we do have a lot of cards.

But, yeah, don't tell anyone about my...

- past life. - I will never.

But now it's time to play and get back to work.

But everyone's gonna put their votes on you this next Tribal.

They want to split it between you two.

I don't think so.

Soph's told me there's a conversation about having

a split vote plan

between Savannah and I, which-- it's no surprise.

I'd rather get Alex out this vote,

because...

I just don't trust

Sage and Jawan at all. Like...

To get Alex out?

Yes.

- They're so erratic. - We'll have to gauge it. I know.

Alex, to me, is someone that has his hand

in a lot of cookie jars.

And what I'm trying to do is

build a common enemy.

And right now, my targets are set on Alex.

Alex. He goes, "Why'd you guys keep Yellow Sophie?"

He was like, "That's all right. We'll get her out tomorrow."

- He's playing the middle hard. - He's playing the middle hard.

And he wants you out hard.

Any small, minute detail that Alex

has given me in this game, I'm trying to

use these words against him.

I want him out next.

And then, you know,

you kind of throw some more dirt on it

and just put extra details that never happened.

- I don't trust Alex. - I don't trust him.

- And I think he's playing the hardest. - Yeah.

- He's... Like, he's trying to play the middle. - Yes.

I don't even know if it's true or not.

Wow. Very interesting.

But I'm willing to go to that extent

and do what I got to do

to create a bigger target on his back.

And I was like, "All right, dude. Like, I..."

When did he pull up on you and say this? Today?

- Last night. Last night. - Wow.

Alex is being way too messy.

It made me think twice on whether

I can trust Alex with information or not.

Why the hell would he say that? And that makes no sense.

But is Rizo someone I can trust?

I had my hit list,

and Savannah and Rizo have been on my radar for a long time.

So, I think I need Alex moving forward.

I think there's bigger fish to fry than Alex.

And right now, Savannah's at the top of the list.

Come on in.

Hi, Jeff.

Still smiling.

Always.

Uncle Jeff.

- Uncle J. - What's up, Jeff?

Hey, hey.

All right, shall we get to today's immunity challenge?

First things first.

Savannah, got to take it back.

Thank you.

Once again, immunity is

back up for grabs.

For today's challenge, it's very simple.

You're gonna use your feet

to press against a disc.

As your legs get tired

and that fatigue sets in,

that disc will begin to slip.

If it drops, you're out.

Last woman...

- Oh. - Wow.

...and the last man standing

win immunity,

safe from the vote, guaranteed a spot

in the final eight.

Losers-- Tribal Council, where somebody

will be the tenth person voted out,

become the third member of our jury.

Stakes couldn't get any bigger.

Take your spots. We'll get it on. Here we go.

All right.

Everybody, put your feet up against that disc.

All right, I'm gonna count you in

on a three, two, one.

And you're gonna press with your heels.

That's gonna release your disc, and now it's on you.

You're holding it.

Here we go.

Three, two, one.

Press with your heels.

Everybody is good, and this challenge is on.

It's already a little uncomfortable.

It doesn't take much for that disc to start to slip.

Slipping's okay.

That's gonna happen.

Dropping is no good, you're out.

For the first ten minutes,

you can hold onto your structure,

you can grab your legs if that helps.

You're free to roam.

After ten minutes,

you will no longer be able to hold onto the structure

or your legs.

And that will get a lot more difficult.

Little bit of movement with Rizo on the end.

You start to feel it slipping.

That's obviously an indicator...

something's not going well.

Rizo cannot regain control.

Rizo first out.

Right behind Rizo, Kristina drops.

She's out.

One man out, one woman out.

We now have four women left competing for a necklace,

and three men left competing for a necklace.

Right now, everybody that's left looks very solid.

Doesn't mean it's not chaos inside the mind.

Steven, we need

the space facts.

- You want some space facts? -Hit us.

We need the space facts.

All right, all right.

You could fit every single planet

in our solar system--

I'm talking Mercury all the way to Pluto--

side by side, in the distance between

the Earth and the moon,

and you still got room to spare.

That is how vast space is.

It blows my mind

every time.

Well done, Steven.

Love it, Steven.

- Keep going? -More, more, more.

All right.

On the lunar south pole, they've discovered water ice.

You can crack the hydrogen from the oxygen.

If we're considering Pluto a planet still...

To get to space, you need safe, clean, reliable energy

that won't explode.

So if you can design a nuclear thermal propulsion system,

you can create propellant.

Being in the moon or being in deep space,

then, dude, you've got basically clean energy

that you can now safely...

Sage can't take it anymore.

Sage drops out of the challenge.

- Keep going. Please. -Sage drops.

No shot at immunity. Thank you, Steven.

I'm gonna get back to the challenge.

Much appreciate all the insight.

I mean it. I love that you shared.

- Now we got to get back to this. -Yup.

All right. In a moment,

we're gonna move

to the next phase of this challenge

where you can no longer

hold on to the structure.

You can also not hold on to your legs.

Those are the two things

you're gonna really wish you could, but you can't.

Here we go.

Dig in, everybody.

Three,

two,

one.

Let go of the structure.

You can't hold on to your legs.

It's gonna get

a lot more difficult really fast.

What the hell?

We're now down to Steven, Jawan, Alex

for the men,

and Soph, Sophie and Savannah

for the women.

There's one necklace for the women,

one necklace for the men.

Who's gonna be wearing it tonight at Tribal Council?

Seventeen days on Survivor 49.

You want to get to day 18.

Desperately.

Been doing this for 13 minutes.

Everybody looking really good right now.

Whatever internal monologue you are using, it is working.

Little movement

from Alex, but not a lot.

Soph with a little bit of movement.

Jawan's been hanging in there for a long time.

Jawan continues

- to fight. - Des. Jae'Onnah.

Isaiah. Breahjna.

- Aah! -Alex is out.

No shot at immunity.

We are down to five-- three women,

- two men. -Great job, guys.

Great job.

- ... - Soph drops,

- and we have another showdown -Good job, Soph.

between Savannah and Sophie.

A repeat from the last immunity challenge.

Both have won individual immunity.

It will be the first win

for Jawan or Steven.

Jawan's struggling, but that disc

is still up there, and that is

- all that matters. -You got it,

Jawan.

You have no idea when the people on either side

of you are gonna drop.

You keep digging in.

Jawan is out. Steven, you're good.

Steven wins individual immunity.

- Yay. -But with Jawan, huge effort,

went as far as he could go.

Toes, legs ultimately gave out.

Toes are probably numb.

Everything hurts.

Steven did what he had to do,

which is outlast all the other men.

He has won his necklace.

And we are left with Savannah

and Sophie.

Two challenges in, both women showing themselves

to be very strong competitors.

We know you're feeling it.

We know you're digging into those reserves.

The real question is how deep does that tank go?

When's the last time you ever tested it like this?

- Two days ago. - I was gonna say, yeah.

Host corrected again.

- Been up there 30 minutes. -You both got it.

- You're killing it. - Good job, guys.

For a very long time,

Savannah and Sophie have not moved

this entire challenge.

Probably going to end quickly without much warning

when somebody just cannot take it anymore.

I'm not dropping.

Okay.

I'm not just gonna give it to you.

No, I know. You're making me work.

Smack talk is full on now.

I expect nothing less

when you're fighting for a million dollars.

But I'm not dropping.

- Oh. -My God, this is crazy.

Been up there

- 40 minutes now. -Oh, God.

This repeat showdown

between Savannah and Sophie.

Seventeen days into Survivor.

You never know when you're the one in trouble.

I need it, dude.

Mm-hmm.

I'm not dropping.

I'm not even close.

Sophie drops.

This challenge is over.

Savannah wins her second individual immunity,

back to back.

What a battle.

Stellar performance, guys, you're amazing.

Good job. Good job.

Huge effort.

Good job. Good job.

Steven, come on over.

- Yes, Steven. -We got an astronomy lesson,

you got individual immunity.

Congratulations.

-Thanks. - So, what is this feeling?

Because everybody knows when you dream of playing Survivor,

part of that dream is, "Could I wear the necklace one day?"

You are. You are safe.

You've got a spot in the final eight.

What's the feeling right now?

It's incredible. I mean, I came into the game

with a ton of imposter syndrome,

not feeling like I deserve to be here.

This kind of helps

relieve a lot of that that I've been feeling.

And I'd like to think that, out there,

there's a shark wearing a necklace full of human teeth

that I would just like to say,

"Keep on swimming, keep on going, because if you don't--

"I'm pretty sure sharks need to move to breathe--

so you might die."

But I think that it's just...

- I don't know. - Do you know what you're saying right now?

No. Can you play me off?

Congratulations. You are safe tonight.

Head back over there.

- I love you, man. -Savannah,

- come on over. -Yeah, Savannah.

- Way to go, girl. - Yeah.

Your second.

Back-to-back individual immunity win.

What is this feeling,

having this necklace on, knowing you are guaranteed a spot

in the final eight?

The whole time up there, like,

I'm just thinking, like, "One in eight shot,

one in eight shot, one in eight shot," like, on repeat.

Like, I feel like if I dropped,

my name's getting written down, so,

it's not gonna get written down tonight.

It is not. You are safe. Congratulations.

- Appreciate it. - Head back over.

All right,

as for the rest of you, somebody will be

the tenth person voted out of Survivor 49,

become the third member of our jury.

Grab your stuff, head out. See you tonight at Tribal.

The challenge went great for me

because my closest ally, Savannah, pulled out immunity.

So with these rumblings of being a potential split vote,

knowing that Savannah is safe,

the tides will have to change

for the other people in the majority.

And

I've done so much work

to throw Alex under this big bus,

so, I'm hoping that will work

and give me another day in this game.

Epic challenges, hidden immunity idols,

blindsides, and it all takes place in Fiji?

Sounds like a fun summer to me. Apply to be on Survivor.

- Congrats, Savannah. - Congratulations, guys. Great job.

-Yeah. -That was amazing.

- It was. -Congrats.

- It was awesome. -Good job, guys.

- And you're awesome, too, seriously. -Thank you.

It's exciting, obviously, to win,

but, like, it also feels like this is more of a necessity

than anything.

I know that there are people out here gunning for me.

They're freaking obsessed with me.

And so, honestly, like, if I want to stay in this game

and ensure that I'm here and not part of that crazy scramble,

like, I need to have this necklace.

So now that I'm safe,

I'm going with what I know to be true, which is Rizo and Soph.

Those are my people.

They've been my people from

close to the very beginning.

And right now my alliance plans to vote out Alex.

I know.

I'm voting Rizo, 100%.

- Okay. - He's not gonna play his idol.

If we can get him to not play it,

- and then there's four on him, he's gone. - Yeah. And he's gone.

- He's been cocky, dude. -Yeah, he's been cocky.

The last two rounds, he hasn't played it.

He hasn't played it.

Plans change, and Savannah ends up winning.

So, the plan is, Rizo tonight. We just need

to flush the idol.

Like, he continues to get by

week after week after week,

not having to play this idol.

So, if he's cocky, he's going home.

If he realizes he needs to play his idol, then he's safe.

But if he does play his idol, you have to have a backup plan.

Sage and Jawan have voted with us

- to get Nate out. - Yeah. I agree.

I feel like we can trust them.

- They are, like, proven. - Yup. Yeah. Proven, yes.

So we could split between,

um...

I don't know. How do you feel about Soph?

- We can. I mean... - I like Soph, but...

Unfortunately, Soph is collateral damage

for Savannah winning today.

We have

- us three, Alex, -Mm-hmm.

- Sage and Jawan. - And Jawan. Yes.

Okay.

So it's been decided that

Soph is gonna have to be the backup.

- Okay. Okay. - I think he's gonna be very comfortable.

- Yeah. - And I think he's going...

The drivers

of the split vote plan are Kristina and Steven.

And the pros of going with them is that

we either guarantee that Rizo is going home

or if he

plays his idol, we flush the idol

and Blue Soph goes home.

Okay. Okay.

But

I am now playing my own game.

And what I'm trying to do

is be a free agent.

So now, everybody is telling me all the information,

and then I can make an informed decision from that.

If we get Alex out, we'll be fine.

My question is...

I don't know.

Hopefully,

in the last 24 hours, I have blown up Alex's game.

- So, all of us want Alex? - Yup.

- Oh, yeah. No worries. - Yeah. I know.

- All good. - I was gonna say...

Cool. Cool.

And I've somehow been able

to shift a potential vote

on me to flush my idol

to possibly there being a majority vote

on Alex going home at Tribal.

Yeah.

True.

So I'm hoping my plan works

so we don't have to play the idol

or the extra vote.

If throwing Alex under the bus somehow worked,

- like, there's a path for us. - Yup.

If we can get through this, we're a guaranteed seven.

Yeah, yeah.

-Ah. - That's crazy.

I just need to scrape

past this vote with my idol.

- Wow. -Crazy.

- Remain calm. - Yeah.

'Cause if I do that,

Savannah, Soph and I

can control the game at eight

with Savannah's extra vote and my idol.

- I just want to make it through tonight. - Yeah.

- You will. -Do you think so?

But if I can't convince Jawan and Sage

that Alex is bad for their game

and I'm good for their game,

I'm gonna have to play my idol.

- Yeah, yeah, definitely. - I still want to work with you.

- You do, too, yeah, bro? - I do, too.

Yes. Yes. I mean...

-I still feel really good about you. - Yeah.

I want to take out Rizo because that's the plan

I've been really thinking about

for a long time.

But there's this dude named Alex

who's making it very hard for me

to actually do that plan.

- Yeah. We're getting down to the nitty-gritty. - Right.

I got to catch up with Sage.

I'm like, "Bro, just relax.

"Stop causing trouble.

I'm trying to focus on the big targets."

But he can't help himself.

And he's falling right into the firing line

because of Rizo.

I want to be straight up with you, bro.

Rizo-- he's coming for you, bro.

- He is? - And... Yeah.

Whatever happened, bro, that's why I'm coming to you.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I... No, I appreciate it.

Like, you're the person I want to work with.

- Yeah. I'm a loyal dude. - Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

I'm, like... I'm down to rock with you,

- and I think Sage is, too. - Yeah.

Jawan mentioned

that Rizo's throwing around my name.

It's, like,

I'm scared, you know? People are starting

to figure me out, and I can't have that.

- I appreciate you sharing that. - Yeah. Yeah.

Like, I trust you fully.

This is where the game heats up,

and so, I need to figure out how to work my magic

and get Rizo out. Rizo,

you've got to go now.

Rizo was throwing my name around

- to, um, Jawan and Sage. - I heard, yeah. I heard.

And it was just like, "Ugh."

- Like, I just wanted to ask around, you know? - Right, right. Yeah.

I want to feel comfortable again,

and so now I have to rely on my relationships.

I mean, the ideal situation

- would be just Rizo going home. - Yeah.

And my relationships have gotten me this far in the game,

and so I'm going to hope that I can recover.

- I love you and Jawan, and, like, - Yeah.

- so I would... Why would I burn you guys? - Yeah.

I want Rizo out.

But who are Jawan and Sage going to believe?

Are they going to believe me or are they going to believe Rizo,

someone who's desperate and at the bottom

and scrambling to get to the top?

Look, Jawan told me that... that Rizo said was that I was like,

- "You better watch them," which is not what I said. - Okay.

I think Alex has definitely

been playing in the middle and spilling a lot of information.

Yeah.

So, at this point,

it might make more sense

to get Alex out now versus later.

There's this thing brewing between Rizo and Alex.

I still haven't made up my mind.

My number one is Sage,

and me and Sage are a power duo.

She's the one person I trust the most.

We just got to make sure me and you get out alive.

- I know. I know. - Me and you to the end.

- Absolutely. - I promise you.

So we're, like, in the middle.

We're, like, really the core of the final nine.

- Thank you, fam. - All right, yeah.

Me and Jawan easily

could go with the split vote plan,

and, like, try to pull a big move

on Rizo, or we could go with Alex,

who is getting super messy and who

once never had a target on his back,

now has an enormous target on his back.

This definitely is quite the dilemma. I have

to weigh the scales a little bit.

This vote tonight is about

who is the bigger threat for my game.

Is it Alex?

He's causing so much chaos.

Or is it Rizo with his idol?

This man can't be trusted.

These guys both need to go.

But which one needs to go first?

We'll now bring in the members of our jury.

Oh, snap.

-All right, so, Soph? - Yeah.

Catch me up. We leave today.

Two people have immunity:

Savannah, Steven.

Go back to camp.

-Yeah. - What happens?

You know, it's a typical scramble, Jeff.

We got back to camp, and we started talking.

You know, someone has to go home, so,

you have to have conversations.

You got to crack a couple eggs to make an omelet,

- and so that's what we did. -Alex, it sounds

like this decision

that somebody's got to go was made pretty quickly.

You got the omelet going, and then what?

Yeah, I think that there were a lot of chefs

in the kitchen today,

and some people are making eggs on the beach,

some people are making eggs by the water well,

but eggs are being made.

Jawan, I had no idea

Survivor could be this simple.

Yeah. That's it, you know?

Eggs, people.

That's it.

- What is wrong with you all? -I don't know.

- We're hungry. - Our chickens are not laying eggs.

- Our chickens are not. - No. -We're hungry, Jeff.

We're really hungry.

- Shall we vote? - No. - Oh, no.

No. Okay.

- So it's not quite that simple? -No, no, no.

Okay. Rizo, what went on

at the beach today?

Yeah. In terms of gameplay,

fluidity is starting to become a thing with this group.

People that might have not been working together

in previous votes are coming together tonight,

and I'm curious to see the fireworks happen

at Tribal Council tonight.

Savannah, what do you read into Rizo's answer?

Yeah, I think Rizo's answer

is spot-on.

And I'm just going to take a little credit here.

I'm happy to be the catalyst

of some of this cross-pollinization

that we're seeing tonight,

because I know that, originally, the plan was

to put my name out there.

And I'm glad to have disrupted this game a little bit

and encouraged organic conversations.

I think it's really great of me that I could do that.

So your victory today

was as much philanthropic as anything.

I'm happy to take one for the team any day, Jeff.

Soph,

you've been at more Tribals than anybody.

Does that give you a different viewpoint?

Yeah, I do feel like going

to a lot of Tribal Councils has given me an edge because

I've been awake this entire game.

And I've been kind of waiting for some people

to wake up, too, because it's easier to play with people

who are not asleep at the wheel

and are ready to make these moves

and kind of have a good read on the game, like I feel like I do.

Rizo, Soph didn't say,

"I'd rather play with people who are asleep

at the wheel so I can take advantage."

She's saying, "I need people who know how to play.

Wake up."

Yeah, Jeff. Strategically,

you want to play

with people that think like you.

And I think for me, I'm starting to find myself in the spotlight

due to my hidden immunity. Well, it's not really hidden anymore.

So let me rephrase it. I think

I would be foolish to think that these people,

even though they say

I might not be the one getting votes tonight,

that votes are gonna be coming my way

'cause they want to flush this thing.

Sophie, if Rizo has an idol,

and it's okay for my game that he keeps that idol tonight,

then I'm fine with him keeping it.

If Rizo has an idol and I need him

to get rid of it, then that is a different thing.

What does that say about the level of sophistication

it takes to play Survivor,

to be able to dissect like that?

We have, like, surpassed high school level Survivor.

We are in the toughest grad school class out here.

Because back in the day, it was simple.

You have an idol, you flush it.

But we know that he has an idol,

which means is the devil you know

better than the devil you don't?

Like, it's a strange game of chicken.

I don't want to keep bringing it back to the chicken.

But we're all playing a strange game of chicken.

Everyone is trying to figure out

what their risk tolerance is for

keeping it or flushing it.

Steven, are you noticing

the level of sophistication that's starting to come up

in terms of everybody's social gameplay?

Absolutely. Can I give you a space metaphor

- or a kangaroo metaphor? - Oh. -Oh.

- We have an option? -Yeah, choose one.

Let's go kangaroo.

I wasn't expecting you to say that.

- I only have a space one. - Oh.

So, I liken it to kind of a space mission

where you're sending crew

way, way beyond low Earth orbit.

And there's gonna be communication blackouts

during those time frames.

And during that time,

you have to trust that mission control,

which are your allies, have your back.

Because you just have to trust

that when you are able to downlink

and uplink information,

you're actually getting truthful data.

Sage, can you tell

if somebody's starting to stumble,

just based on what you've learned about them already?

Totally. It's kind of interesting, like,

when somebody is in a calm state, and then,

when they maybe get, like, a little bit more animated,

you notice, "Oh.

"When they're talking to me this way,

their words usually don't align when I cross-reference."

So, yes, you can tell, but then,

I've learned the hard way

that there's a lot of bluffers out here,

so it kind of depends on who you're talking about.

Kristina, are you good

at sensing when you're stumbling

and able to recover, maybe in real time?

I don't know if I'm good at that or not.

Or is this my poker face?

There it is.

"I don't know if I'm good unless I'm great."

Alex, everybody's got their own criteria.

They've got their own way of looking at somebody and saying,

"Uh-uh, I don't buy it," or, "100% I do buy it."

How do you determine that?

It's just, like, oh, my gosh, like,

you can't get through even a day

without not telling someone the full information

or deceiving someone.

And so, you have to find a way around things in this game.

And so that's your relationships.

It's going back to kind of

what you built when you came into this game,

the connections you made from different swaps.

Jawan, will tonight's vote draw any kind

of a line in the sand,

or is it truly going to be another fluid game tomorrow?

I think for me, the past couple votes

have been about building trust.

I think tonight's slightly different.

I think for me, this is taking a shot

at a potential threat for my game

and my allies' game.

Sophie,

Jawan is saying, "I'm taking a shot

to get somebody out of this game."

That's when Survivor starts...

really kicking in.

Absolutely.

There is no such thing as a easy vote anymore.

Nobody is throwaway. Nobody is expendable.

And if you think that, then I think maybe,

like Soph said, "You're asleep and you got to wake up."

All right, it is time to vote.

Soph, you're up.

I really don't want you to go home.

Man, I hope that Rizo is cocky and doesn't use that idol.

But we had to have a plan B.

I just hope it's you, not me.

I'll go tally the votes.

If anybody has an advantage or an idol

and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.

All right, I'll read the votes.

First vote...

Soph.

Rizo. One vote Soph, one vote Rizo.

Alex. That's one vote Rizo, one vote Soph,

one vote Alex.

Soph. That's two votes Soph,

one vote Rizo, one vote Alex.

Alex. Tied again. Two votes Soph,

two votes Alex, one vote Rizo.

Alex.

That's three votes Alex,

two votes Soph, one vote Rizo.

Alex.

Four votes Alex,

two votes Soph, one vote Rizo.

Tenth person voted out

and the third member of our jury: Alex.

That's five, that's enough. Need to bring me your torch.

Aw, Alex.

- It's all right. -Love you, Alex.

- Good game, Alex. -No, I had a feeling, guys.

This is what I get for playing both sides.

At least you knew it.

- I love that, bro. That's dope. - You guys all talk?

What is this?

Bye, Alex.

Oh, Jeff.

Thanks so much for the opportunity.

There we go.

Alex, the tribe has spoken.

Yeah.

- Time for you to go. - Thanks.

Good luck, everyone.

- Bye, Alex. - See you, buddy.

Grab your torches. Head back to camp.

Good night.

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I don't want to be around these people.

Next time on Survivor...

We're about to blow up the game.

It's done, and nobody would see it coming.

They're gonna flip.

This is where players live or die.

We have to get her out.

- What?! - What?!

I can't say I'm surprised, honestly.

I was a little too loose at the lips,

and that's why I'm sitting here.

I just am extremely grateful for this,

and I know that everyone at home calls me a softie,

but I killed two chickens,

I brought home four fish for my tribe,

and so, I'm a lot tougher than I might think I am,

and I know I'm a stronger person because of being out here.