Last week, Austin was sure it was him. He had given up and that’s why he told everyone in tribal council that he had faked the weakness in the last immunity challenge. This made everyone else mad. Aras called him a “slime-ball” for lying. They wanted to vote out the strongest and now they had been fooled into voting out Nick.
Terry is talking to everyone he can to turn things around when the tree mail comes. It talks about politics and dealing with nuts. I thought of Shane, but they are talking about coconuts.
Reward Challenge
The challenge will divide everyone into 3 teams of 3 people each “at random”, that is, “per Mark Burnett’s direction”. Each team has a bin on the beach filled with coconuts, a boat tied to a line, a buoy with a net and a flag out in the water.
Each team has to take their 100 coconuts in the their bin down the beach and put them into anyone’s boat.
When all of the team’s coconuts are in a boat, they can take off paddling to go out to get the net and flag off the buoy.
When you get back to the beach with your flag, net, and nuts, use the net to drag the nuts back up the beach and put them into the bins again. First one done wins a trip to a bed and breakfast. The winning team decides who goes to Exile Island.
The teams are 1. Terry, Shane, Austin, 2. Bruce, Aras, Sally, 3. Danielle, Courtney, Cirie.
Everyone decides to gang up on the guys.
The girls are so far behind that they have to finish up putting coconuts into their own boat. They were out of it from the beginning.
Bruce, Aras, and Sally didn’t have as many nuts as the boys did, so they actually got ahead of them and won. Headline: Terry Loses a Challenge!
They get to choose who goes to Exile Island. Oh, Jeff says that they have to pick one from each other team. Aras picks Danielle. They also pick Austin because of his strength and lying.
They go back to camp and wait in the pouring rain to go have breakfast in bed. Turns out that this bed is on the beach and all romantic, except for that pouring rain we talked about. The bed is soaked.
They get into bed anyway and are feed a bunch of good food. So much bacon they can’t finish it. Orange juice, muffins, etc. They’re stuffed and actually forget about the rain and love it after all.
Back at camp. Terry is talking to Shane about who will be in the final 4. Shane says that it will be Shane, Courtney, Cirie, and Aras. Terry makes not of this and will tell Bruce and Danielle about this later.
I have to win something or I will DIE in Panama.”
Austin and Danielle are forming a bond out there in the rain on Exile Island. They kind of like each other and get along great. Danielle says of the rain “This sucks”. Austin says it’s the most miserable that’s ever been in his whole life.
This is where it gets interesting. Terry tells Sally that he has the idol. She had no hope until then and now everything’s changed.
Immunity Challenge
The Immmunity Challenge is a multiple stage obstacle course. All 9 start the 1st stage, but only 6 move on, digging out sand under a fence and then crawling under it.
Aras was first though, but gets stuck and never makes it. Finish order is Sally, Danielle, Courtney, Terry, Shane and Austin. The skinny little girls did best.
The next stage is a brain teaser using clues and colored rocks, then through some net tunnels and running up over a sand hill. The first 3 will move on.
Sally, Austin, and Terry are the 3 moving on. Sally is doing really well at these today.
The 3rd stage is going across a rope bridge and crawling over a sand hill. Terry and Sally win this one.
The last stage is climbing through a wood vertical tunnel, tower structure thing. At the end, you have to dig out some sand and crawl under a pole. This is close all the way , but Terry just beats Sally by a second or two. Closest finish for immunity yet. Headline: Terry Wins a Challenge AGAIN!
The negotiation begins. Terry tells Bruce what Shane said about Bruce being next off and asks him to join their side. He tells Austin that he has the idol. He tells Danielle that he has the idol and will give it to her if she votes with them. Aras and Courtney argue over voting for Sally or for Austin. They get heated and have to be separated.
Tribal Council
So, will Danielle flip for the idol? Will Bruce flip for Terry? Does Terry give the idol to Danielle? Will he give it to Sally or Austin if they are voted off? Did the others finally decide on who to vote for? More intrigue in this one than most.
The final vote was Aras - 3 and Austin 6. No idol turns up, so Austin is going home.
Next Time On Survivor…
Shane has a chaffing problem that he shows everyone in camp. This takes us back to the first Survivor and Richard Hatch.
What did you think of this show? Surprised to see Austin go? Who has the idol now, Danielle or Terry? Tell us in the forum!
We’re finally getting into some juicy stuff. Things are getting interesting. Bruce is fine and came back to be part of the jury. Cirie seems to be a much better player than I ever gave her credit for. She masterminded the double-cross to get Courtney voted off tonight. Shane was totally surprised by the vote. 
The real interesting part of all this is what happens on the jury? Austin and Sally will vote for their old buddy, Terry. Bruce could go either way and has no animosity. Courtney will be angry. Shane will be angry (just because he’s always angry…) Danielle? Cirie hates everyone on her tribe. Aras? Will he be in the final two? Terry? Will he be? Terry has never voted against anyone on the jury (Dan’s not there), so if he IS in the final two, no one will be mad at him and he might win it all. But the big question is, will he make it? Will Aras pick him off after the final 4? Will Danielle continue under the radar? When will everyone realize that Cirie is playing the game better than them all? Maybe the woman afraid of leaves will win it all?
(AP) “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is being held in protective custody apart from other inmates until his sentencing this month on tax evasion charges.