Australian Survivor - Eighth Season

Previously on Australian Survivor...

Go, go, go, go!

The battle between red and yellow continued...

Get it to the switch!

..as Brains tried in vain to notch up their first win.

Yes!

But they were no match for the mighty Brawn.

Brawn wins reward!

Back at Brains camp...

I think I would have beaten him out of the net.

..tensions were rising after yet another loss.

I thought I could win.

You're delusional.

George and Wai were still the weak targets.

They're going to pick us off one by one.

But at the immunity challenge...

Everything! Give it everything!

..Wai proved her worth.

Brains wins immunity!

And Brawn was off to tribal.

Back at camp...

..it looked like a clean sweep on Janelle.

But Simon wanted Shannon gone...

Shannon is my biggest threat.

..and went about gathering the numbers.

It is going to go off beautifully.

But at tribal council, Flick stuck with Shannon...

..and cleaner Janelle...

The tribe has spoken.

..was done and dusted.

Good luck, guys.

22 are left.

Who will be going home tonight?

How good, eh?

Get some Zs, mate?

- Not really. - No? Not feeling good?

Definitely cold, man.

What temperature do you reckon it got down to? 15?

Yeah.

We need to get food... Food fired up and...

..keep going.

Oh, jeez.

First tribal council.

And...

Oh...

Everything went according to plan.

But not according to my plan.

- Thank you. Thank you, Emmett. - It's official now, mate.

Ha! Just own it, mate. Just own it.

I am owning it. I did own it.

That's good, mate.

We had six votes lined up to blindside Shannon.

Myself, Emmett, Gav, Flick, Chelsea and Dani.

I thought we all knew that Shannon was gonna be the one

we were going to blindside.

I am so sorry. Like, I don't know how I miscounted.

The truth is, I don't think we've miscounted here.

Right. Yeah.

As soon as we walked out of tribal council,

I honestly thought somebody flipped on us.

We've got to find out who is voting against us.

Oh, man, this game is so confusing.

Like, seriously.

Conversations were happening left, right and centre.

I thought we were all on Janelle.

Yeah, I didn't know what was going on.

I mean, I need someone just to come up to me

and say, "We are voting for Shannon."

The guys don't know I made the mistake.

They know I'm a loyal guy.

I mean, I didn't do that deliberately.

Mm.

I'm just gonna let this one slip.

You know, it is the game of Survivor.

I don't want to blow my game up

by telling them

I put down the wrong name.

That's silly.

I just want... someone.

I will take no prisoners here, my friend.

You know what? Simon, Gavin and Emmett 100% thinks I'm onside.

I flipped and I didn't want to vote Shannon.

I like Shannon.

Look at how it's turning out.

It doesn't look terrible.

Ooh, but it feels bad.

I think that she is someone I want to be around for the rest of the game.

I see myself working with Shannon and I don't want her gone.

I'm gonna put olive oil in it.

Honestly, I didn't want to work with Gav, Emmett or Simon

because I see them as such a strong threat.

As soon as they get rid of everyone else,

I'm the first person to go of that alliance.

You know what I feel like? A big breakfast.

My dad makes, like, really good lambs fry.

What's lambs fry?

- It's brains. - Is it?

I'm here to play my own game.

Not theirs.

I have got a couple of great friendships going on in here.

Dad, make me some of that fry.

And they're people that I genuinely get along with,

and people that I would want to be around further on in this game.

The biggest threat for me is definitely the boys' club.

Especially Simon.

His ego is getting bigger and bigger.

Next tribal council, that's when we're taking one of them out.

- Hey, you're full of birdseed! - Birdseed for brekkie.

It's all clean. It's fibre.

It's fine.

It's day six and I'm feeling pretty good today.

We didn't have to go to tribal last night

because we won the immunity challenge yesterday.

We worked really well as a team yesterday

and I think that vibe is flowing through everyone.

But we really need fire.

Otherwise we can't cook any of the fish we want to catch,

we can't stay warm at night

and we will be eating that gross activated rice

and nobody wants that.

Where is my food?

OK, what are we doing?

What should the schedule be?

I think...

OK, so if you can give me an example

of how we can be strengthening ourselves for the challenges,

I'd love to hear it.

Resting? OK.

It's obvious you need fire here to survive.

If we don't have fire, we don't eat cooked food.

But we haven't won a single reward challenge.

We need rest.

What's the likelihood of a fire being made?

5%?

Compared to some of our strong players

getting blisters on their hands, and then we're weaker in a challenge.

Like, I don't know what he's saying.

Do you want to have a nap at some stage?

No, I don't need a nap. I operate on like two hours sleep.

Um...

George is an interesting character but George is out of his element.

That's all I can say.

We need light, we need fire, we need to make food.

But it's also an energy boost if we can get some, you know...

Yeah.

We need fire.

Alright.

I'm gonna go.

Fire is such a critical element.

And to be able to create it from scratch, you know,

is quite difficult.

But I'm excited to figure out what resources we can utilise.

Yeah, that's good. Alright, it's gonna work.

You can stand up and get much more power on it.

It's something I'm very passionate about.

I love doing it.

Nature and being able to work with nature to my advantage.

I'm a wildlife and survival expert.

I remember being eight years old and going out and just catching

highly venomous snakes

and then it just developed into this love and passion,

being able to observe and understand the environment.

Making shelters or fires.

I've always had this willingness to survive and thrive and test myself.

That's why I'm going to win Survivor.

To start fire from scratch by using the hand drill and bow drill method.

- Ready? - Yep.

Yeah.

Kind of works well but you need to persist.

OK.

We're moving around, it's getting hotter and hotter and hotter.

- Is that smoking? - Yep.

When I've handed over to Baden, you know,

we can see the smoke coming through.

Yes!

And he's just got to bring it on home.

- Wow! - That's perfect.

We're good, we're good.

Gonna transfer it.

No way.

Everyone's holding their breath because no-one wants it to go out.

Burn, baby, burn!

No more cold lentils and rice.

We actually get to heat it up.

This will be the morale booster we all need.

Good job, bro.

We need a bit of a boost, we need a pick me up,

and now I just want to stick it to those Brawnsters.

I just want to beat them.

This is the one, we're gonna bring it home. We need this win.

We need it bad.

Well done, everyone.

That was a major effort.

Wow, you guys got fire while I was walking.

Did you find anything?

Can I just say, I had a very long walk and I'm very, very exhausted.

Um...

Come on in, guys!

Brains getting your first look at the new Brawn tribe.

Janelle voted out last night's tribal council.