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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

-threatening situations.

Today, however, we have a different mission. These 16 Americans are about to

be abandoned.

This plane 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

quiet until after the plane has landed, drop them off, and abandon 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

and 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,

an internet projects manager from Greensboro, North Carolina.

Ogakor 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 Berkich, 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.

Welcome to the Australian Ocean.

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

only supplies you will be given. Use wisely since you 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.

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

side of their son done? Can we pee soon?

Take every, every, everything.

Come on guys, you 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

River. 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? See, look, it's not... That's north. That's north right

now. The northeast is like... That way.

We're on the wrong way.

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 the compass.

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

way. Tell me something. He's telling me we're 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, okay?

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

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

Even from the beginning it was funny, like people were automatically getting

on people's nerves.

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

See, if we're going southwest, how are we going to hit the dry creek? Because

that's 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. It's just she's not somebody that

in the outside world that I would talk to because she'd make me crazy.

When you traverse 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?

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.

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 this and do a little

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

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

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

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

here and make sure if it looks like it's getting too dark, you turn back and come

get us.

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

getting pretty tired.

The last leg of that walk was really difficult.

Keith, what do you see?

I found it.

I'm

feeling

really weak.

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

to get sick I will not throw up so I sort of went into this little zone and

breathed and I don't remember any of it

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

Poor Elizabeth 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

four when we were walking to our campground.

I mean, everything was heavy to carry.

You can't discount any of our equipment as easy to carry. But some of it was

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

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

the 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 just an accomplishment.

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

As soon as we got out of the river, I think we just, it was kind of a

realization. We got a little cold and we realized that we're going to, we have to

sleep somewhere. And we just wanted 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.

Going to make it softer to sleep on.

That means there's snakes in there.

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, 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

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

Roger, 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,

but with others.

Push that up a little bit, Roger, so I can give you a little bit. Push this up

a 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. It's going to give us fall this

way plus both directions.

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

off good?

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

I don't know about that.

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 storms. 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 because, 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 everything

anybody was doing or saying as a strategic move

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

as the tarp that covers us and blocks us from the wind and the sun.

I really did bring the flag to serve as 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 too and too short.

Yeah, you don't need to go that far now. It was...

No, but it's not going to stay, as I was saying. The tension between Keith and I,

I think him and I kind of rubbed each other the wrong way.

Look, right here, watch. Let me show you.

Right there.

It's set.

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

grommet for 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 just because of...

Some of the condescending mark 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 got to share something about yourself that's really embarrassing.

Okay. 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.

Boyfriend, husband, wife.

Okay, A, 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'll people plug them

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

You have 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 her. Nothing

at all. Listen to me.

You guys might like a skin wig. However, on occasion... Kimmy will not shut up.

You know, I'm tired at night. I want to go to sleep. And they're constantly

talking. And with the headache that I have, it just reverberates. Kimmy cannot

say a single thing without screaming it.

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 love you. I can take my braids out.

And you had a threesome. We went back to back and farted in my s***. It

rebounded. I didn't know where it came from.

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

fish and I 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.

Bite into one.

I know. Well, we're going to put the fire pit down. Can you eat them, Green?

Look at that.

That's not bugs, is it? No, that's not bugs.

They're not moving.

I'm looking at bugs.

Let's see.

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 I'm starving, and these bugs are just

creepy and flying around, and I don't eat.

You know, I cook my food.

And if the bugs don't fly out, I'm going to eat them. Eat for yourself, baby.

We very well might be cold and hungry tonight, but not if we can help it. 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 sand in there. I think it's good.

Get the cotton right at the bottom. 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. You need to keep that. But if you keep putting

sand in there, it puts out the tinder. I know. It's just the book said you needed

friction. 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 on what she read and

not on actually doing had she went and practiced this stuff at home i would

take her opinion a lot more you know 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 if you're 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.

Read it. I don't have my glasses. Do you want me to read it to you out loud so

that you know? I don't care. I can't even wear 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 i'll find it i love notes

that was a nice little piece of home when you when you least least expect it

you know and it said go to page 200 and then go to page 150 and we went through

that about seven or eight times i think till we finally came to the end can you

give us a page with a burning bush and it was a little sentimental for me to

tell you truth

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

If I start this fire, I will be his hero.

Oh, this side got hot.

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

where we want to keep it. Because if we move it, it's going out.

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

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 see if I can find a better place.

Grab move.

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 able to cook nothing,

and we wouldn't have a bonfire. So it was really pretty critical.

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

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

it.

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

know, this is 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 gadgets!

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.

Let them eliminate someone on their team first.

This immunity 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 rice.

What's up, guys?

Gather up.

So, anybody have any luck with fire?

No luck. We came close. Almost.

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

full. 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.

You're playing for immunity. There are four legs in the race.

You'll be carrying 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 planks to help you bridge the gaps.

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

water 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

the torch.

Winners, maybe a hot meal tonight, security of knowing you're going to be

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. Let's go.

at stake, fire and immunity.

Survivors ready?

Ready! Go!

Fire.

Let's go.

You're almost there.

Guys, don't lean too far right.

Can we get the rope?

Oh, careful.

Mitchell!

Don't kick it. Don't throw it.

Oh,

good

car. Congratulations.

Nice work.

Your reward, right here.

Waterproof mask.

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

You 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

any of us are looking forward to it.

You need to sit down. You're so shaky. You're scaring me.

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

to, 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 him. He's a good kid. He's sick.

Deb, 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, it's a 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 and a Coke. 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

the 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 gonna happen and I haven't been with these

people long enough to know for sure How well I mean, I'm not gonna trust anybody

but there's a certain to a certain point you have to

It's like going to court. Tribal councils go into 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

challenges and climbing challenges. And it's not just Roger. It would be anybody

over 50 years old.

I mean, I'm looking forward to voting somebody out because 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 somebody's name on

a card and talking about them 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 put some 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.

Going to help you. 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, let's get 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 time 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

a 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 has.

As far as building the HUD, 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 taking 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

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

the 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?

Let's 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.

He's still not over it. So I'm going to vote for Jeff. And I hate to do it. I

love him.

No real reason, actually.

She's part worker of 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-willed person. It's not a bad thing. It's just not what

I need.

I'm going to tally the votes.

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.

Deb.

Jeff.

Deb.

Four votes for Deb, one vote for Jeff.

First person voted out of the tribe.

It's Deb.

No point in revealing the other two votes.

Need to bring me a torch.

You're good.

Kick ass.

Right over here, Ted.

The tribe has spoken.

It's time for you to go.

You survived the first tribal council.

Grab your torches.

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

Stay tuned for scenes 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. I

had a blade of grass and I was chewing on that.

It was nowhere near any grass.

Kimmy struggles with the immunity challenge.

You got cow brain there.

I can't eat a brain.

You're good.

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 you if jeff

had read every one of those votes it would have been seven to one and that's

that's a shame i still thought a lot of it boiled down to mental toughness and

physical ability and