Survivor

Previously on Survivor...

By day 10, the two big dogs: Russell Hantz and Boston Rob,

were running in opposite directions.

Rob found a hidden immunity idol.

Ding, ding. This is the real deal. This is not a phony baloney.

And even though they had lost three out of four challenges,

he held blind aliegence over everyone on the Ometepe tribe

except for Kristina and Phillip.

I need to get rid of him now. Good-Bye, Rob.

Russell could only muster loyalty from two on his tribe, Krista and Stephanie.

And he couldn't even come close to finding an idol.

Where is the idol?

The rest of the Zapatera tribe was so down on Russell, they agreed to throw a

challenge so they could send him to Redemption Island,

where he faced Matt in a duel.

Matt stays alive!

Matt not only defeated Russell, he reduced him to tears.

Suddenly, Russell was out for good.

This is my last time playing this game.

At the last tribal council...

Kristina, both times that you guys have been here

to tribal council, you've within on the hot seat?

Rob's position just kept getting better when he

got his tribe to vote out his biggest opposition.

Kristina, the tribe has spoken.

Now Kristina heads to Redemption Island where he

will face Matt in a duel to see who will stay alive.

****

This is wicked, man. Is the blanket dry?

Yeah, it was right at the tip.

Without the tarp, that would have been wet.

Take as much wet clothes as you can off.

Thank you, tarp.

Tonight, Kristina went home after a 4-3 vote, three for me, four for her.

Not too surprising. I suspected it.

There was a very close alliance with Rob and several others in the group.

They've been running the show from the get-go.

And I'm kind of like the odd man out around here,

even though I think I bring a lot to this tribe,

and soon a couple of people are going to wake up and realize that.

Ready for bed?

Can we move down a little bit that way?

You and I are going to be really good buddy tonight?

Do you have your underwear on?

I have my underwear on, but that doesn't stop me, brother.

Phillip last night stuck his leg in my back, like his knee, into my back.

Just to be an ass last night.

Do you think he's a little upset about tribal council?

I don't know.

Tribal council is always a miserable night all around.

On top of it, Phillip it bugging everyone, including myself.

He's completely off his rocker, walking around in those pink panties.

- Nobody trusts him. - It's seriously hurting my eyes.

As long as Phillip is aggravating everybody so much it takes

all of the heat out of me, so in a way, maybe he needs to stay.

Day 12... The spirits of the tribe are high,

you know, as long as we keep excelling in the challenges.

Everything is kind of coming along as planned.

- You got a fish! - Thank you.

**** My vision would be to try to reach out to those two girls.

There's always hope to bring Krista and Stephanie in.

- *** - Go for it.

If we can show them that we're a solid family and

there's no backstabbing and it's a safe place to be...

Oh, my God, that's the best-tasting one. I'm not kidding you.

I would think that they would want to hang tight with us going into a merge.

Got some tree mail. The reading of the scroll.

"Another duel is happening at the arena. Of course, you know the score"

"It doesn't matter how you choose them. It's time to send two more"

So who hasn't been?

- You two, me, and Julie. - Who's is going to be?

- Whoever picks one and four? - One and four or two and three.

- Don't matter. - So one and four.

Go ahead, you two.

- One. - Quick decision.

- Ready to go. Four. - All right.

- Ya! - Sorry, didn't mean to hit you.

Now that Russell is gone, Stephanie and Krista, they're not even a threat.

They can go do whatever they want. They can talk about whatever they want.

We really don't care. They're... They're just pawns in this big game.

- See you in a couple of hours. - Have fun.

- We will. - They can't do any damage to us.

What all are we going to tell them?

Hey, can you tell Rob that we're Russell's girls and we hate our tribe?

I'm hoping to send the other tribe a message that they have two girls ready

to flip so we're ready to cause some chaos and craziness in the merge!

Now bring in the competitors for today's duel.

Matt will battle against Kristina, voted out at the last tribal council.

Welcome to Redemption Island arena.

Both tribes sent two members to witness today's duel.

Rob and Grant from Ometepe. Krista and Stephanie from Zapatera.

Matt, you have won both duels you've been in. Kristina, this is your first.

It is a do-or-die situation.

In order to continue your quest for the million dollars, you have to win.

Loser goes home. Here it is.

On my go, you'll race to collect puzzle pieces.

Once you have all the pieces, you will use them

to complete a puzzle in the shape of a cube.

First person to get it right stays alive in this game.

Loser is out for good. This is it, one shot.

Take your spots.

Winner stays, loser goes home. Survivors ready?

Go.

It's a very simple challenge. It's a 3 x 3 cube you are trying to put together.

The pattern will be on the outside.

You've got to get all the cubes up here, then you start working on it.

As in the case of every duel, this is potentially a million-dollar challenge.

Matt has all his pieces. He's starting to work on the puzzle.

Kristina now has all of hers. These pieces are not light.

Kristina making some progress right out of the gate.

Matt making some progress.

Matt looking good from this angle. Thinks he may be getting closer.

Very close but wrong.

Matt starting over completely.

One moment Kristina's on the verge of passing out, the next moment

she's knocking pieces off the puzzle like a true gladiator.

- Boston Rob and Grant watching. - You rascal.

You voted me out for no reason. I still don't know why.

If you want to explain to me why, while I'm working,

- it might calm me down or something. - Why did you vote him out, Rob?

Doesn't take one person to vote someone out, Jeff. You know that.

Kristina starting again now. Got some new energy, maybe she has a new idea.

It goes on top.

Matt just collude into something that seems to be helping him.

Kristina not giving up. Using every bit of energy she has.

And Matt thinks he may be getting closer.

- Got it! - Matt thinks he has it.

Out of nowhere. Matt stays alive!

I told you.

Matt, congratulations. You're still in this game.

A lot going on at the end of that challenge.

As you are talking to Rob and Grant about why they voted you out,

did you learn anything?

I mean, I told both of those guys that I wanted to go with them to the top three.

I mean, like, I wanted you two guys, man.

So hopefully I'll hop back up on the Ometepe tribe.

I kind of like that he says he would stick to his tribe.

I wish I felt the same he did. There's still a clear division.

- In your tribe? - In our tribe.

Us two together on the bottom.

They may think they have the numbers,

but I think yellow might look good on me.

- Me, too. - Wow.

Rob, Grant, that never hurts to have two people say,

"listen, we might be willing to merge with you"

Doesn't hurt if they're telling the truth.

I'm telling the truth.

Kristina, you don't want to hear it.

Your shot at Redemption is over.

Put your buff in the urn on your way out.

- Do you have to? - You got to.

Matt, for the third time, you have seized the moment,

and your quest for the million dollars and

a chance to get even or rejoin continues.

Grab your stuff. Head back to Redemption Island and await your next opponent.

You guys can head out.

I didn't even plant a seed in Rob's head.

It's more like I took a sequoia tree and put it in his brain.

This is the only thing I have to hold on to to stay in this game.

- I hate rice. - I really don't eat rice.

It's like 90 seconds to put in the microwave, brown rice.

- Really? - Yeah. It's the easiest thing ever.

Like peas and corn and everything. I used to do that in college.

Rob and Grant stepped away to go watch the duel at Redemption Island,

so kind of funny kind of day for me.

For me, it's just, like, I can't make an impression

on these ladies so it's frustrating for me.

These girls remind me of crabs, to be honest,

back at camp, you know, particularly Natalie and Ashley.

I have a very difficult time trying to approach them.

They're quick to move away. They see me coming.

And they don't want to have a conversation with me about it.

They definitely remind me of crabs.

Andrea is a little bit more approachable, but she's cautious.

She doesn't want Rob or Grant to know that she's talking to me,

even though theyre the ones who sent her

closes ally, Matt, to Redemption Island.

- It's just all wet. - It's going to be okay.

It's looking good. Bravo.

I've already got a whole bed of them underneath here that are going to ignite

it's going to settle and then start to burn as well.

That was the ticket. We miss the boys.

Like, Rob and Grant are like our big brothers.

Like, it's weird not having them around, and so we

had to fake it to make Phillip feel part of the group.

We had to fake it so Andrea feels comfortable.

There's a lot of faking going on, but that's the name of the game.

The sun's coming out, girls. Almost time for our beach day.

My relationship with the girls is... Is just...

There is a level of frustration that's growing a little bit because they...

They just don't do that much.

- Oh, my gosh, that feels so good. - I know.

It's a little agitating to me because I want to keep, you know,

getting stuff done and keep going but I also like

hanging out with them because us three girls are together.

Theyre sweet girls but the conversations usually going to superficial stuff like,

"oh, how's my hair," talking about stuff like that.

What happened to your back? What is that?

- It's me picking my skin. - Oh, my God. Stop.

It only looks bad right now because it's, like, wet.