Survivor

This season's castaways have endured 27 days on the rugged shores of Nicaragua.

They have battled exhaustion, starvation, and each other.

I'll push you so hard that damn leg will fly off.

In their fight to become the sole survivor.

If you are 40 and older, you're over here.

30 and younger, you're over here.

For the first time in "survivor"

history, tribes were divided strictly by age.

The young guns.

I'm young at heart!

Pitting young against old in an epic struggle for dominance.

On the la flor twrieb players weren't afraid to use their

youth to their advantage.

I have always used flirting and I will use that if I have to.

I trust our five and that is it.

Drawing clear lines within the tribe.

The older tribe had wisdom and experience but not even the

presence of super bowl winning coach jimmie Johnson... team huddle.

...Could keep some of the tribe from going over the edge.

She stole my shoes.

She stole them.

It's a good thing you're not a guy.

It's enjoyable just to watch a little bit of tension in this tribe.

Marty finally took control at espada.

Do not mess around with me.

I mean, I'm playing this game for real.

But they could only watch as young tribe won early

and often, slashing the older tribe's numbers and putting them

in serious jeopardy, having only been to tribal council once, the

younger tribe seemed invincible.

Drop your buffs.

But a surprise switch changed the game dramatically.

At the new espada, older members holly and Dan joined forces with

their new tribemates to vote out two of their own.

Brenda and sash reined over the new la flor, leaving the espada

puppet master Marty stripped of his power and his idol.

Going into the merge, the younger members had the numbers

and Brenda and sash still called the shots.

Marty, is not running the camp.

Sash and I are running the camp.

100%.

But as new alliances formed, serious cracks begin to

show in the old la flor core alliance.

20 castaways set out on this epic journey.

Only nine remain.

Tonight, in a special episode of "survivor," we take a deeper

look at how the final nine have survived 27 days of grueling competition.

New scenes reveal the conflicts, strategies, and power plays that

have brought these nine within days of becoming the sole survivor.

The older espada tribe arrived at camp on kay one.

We did it, guys.

How are you?

Ready to put their wisdom and experience to work.

I'll be interested to see how our older people hold up.

We're the underdog, the older folks, but I hope we come

together enough to where we can surprise people.

Shelter is the most important thing right now.

Marty's right, shelter first.

We need to figure out where we're going to do it, though.

There's low tide right now.

You tonight want to be too close to the water see, I think...

As soon as we hit the beach, everybody startsiacking, yelling.

Everybody is excited.

We had all chiefs and no Indians.

Can I say one thing?

There are some palm fronds.

I think we collectively agreed... there's a lot of testosterone over there.

Tyrone wants to go in control.

If the shelter is here... Jimmie Johnson is used to

being in a control situation.

If somebody wants to try and see what it's like to split a bamboo in half...

Marty looks like he wants to be a little bit of a leader, t too.

So let them lead, you know, but give me a couple of good ideas once in a while.

We need to figure out about how high we're going to have it.

The power struggle has began, man.

The game is on.

People want to act like they know what they're doing, build a shelter.

Joe pesci over there I think knows a little bit about construction.

Who the hell ever built a shelter before.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

They think I haven't built a shelter?

We can't just sleep on that.

Five hours of daylight left.

Okay.

I'm all for... Watch it!

Watch it.

I don't see progress.

But I do hear conversation.

And it's a bit entertaining.

We may end up keeping this roof.

Jimmy t. 'S style is, "look at me!

I crave attention."

Listen.

I don't feed into that.

Because it's just like a crying child.

Necessary their diaper needs to be changed, if you don't respond

to that nonsense, they'll stop.

I feel like I'm being ignored by you guys.

We can walk while we talk.

Each guy grab each a pole and we put it up here and we've got our structure.

I heard some rah-rah going on, a couple of profanities.

The girls are doing great.

We're weaving palm frondz.

The boys have built and unbuilt the shelter our or five times already.

I think it's going to be a long night for us.

All right, that was good.

Are we done?

Time to go home?

Things were much more relaxed at the young la flor tribe?

Time to swim?

Where fun was priority number one.

Ready, one, two, three.

Okay.

So it was like, hi, my name is Brenda.

I'm getting to my underwear now.

As the younger tribe we have a huge advantage because we have so much energy.

All of us are fit.

And we're all so happy to be here.

Underwear!

Whooo!

Those are cute!

I think the biggest advantage is we're getting along so well.

We're in Nicaragua.

I am really happy that I'm on the younger tribe.

We're not really set in our ways.

Like older people, they're kind of like... They're already set in their ways.

They think they know everything and it's going to be a lot

harder for them to bond and click.

The la flor tribe just wants to be in the water.

I'm with a bunch of idiots.

I wish that I had been on the other tribe because they're a lot smatter.

I believe they had a shelter.

I believe they had a door.

Probably a few windows and basement and attic because I

know those women were sitting up there weaving, weaving, we'ving.

I know it.

They do have wisdom.

I'm with young idiots.

It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

Hey, do you need another vi vine?

Maybe eventually.

By nightfall at espada, the tribe had built some camaraderie, along with some

should the.

I'll put my hand through the top and you hit the target other all right.

Throw one up here.

Hold on, hold on.

Thank you, doctor.

I got a little upset with some guys earlier.

There's a bunch right here.

Maybe they weren't eloquent in the way they spoke to me.

But guess what?

I like the way guys are starting to step up.

I think we're starting to unite as a team.

I think that's important.

It can't get any better than this.

One, two, three espada!

I'm about ready to turn in.

Good night!

The game plan is to try to get some sleep.

We od our asses off tonight.

Everybody worked hard today.

You all right?

Yeah.

We have a ramshackle shelter there but at least it's

something we can all huddle under and try to get a few

hours' rest and make this place a lot more livable tomorrow.

What a day today was, seriously.

So far, so good, man.

, you know, you just gotta be careful.

This game changes all tomb.

It's never what you think it's going to be.

Oh!

So I get to spoon with Danny tonight?

That sounds so wrong.

Stew time.

Fabio needs a bubble wrapped all around his body.

By day four at espada, clear roles were established among the tribe.

While we've got everybody here maybe we should have a conversation.

With jimmie Johnson emerging as the group's natural leader.

First of all, sleeping arrangements, we've got to readjust.

Jimmy, he didn't even have a spot last night.

We have to come up with a plan.

We have to have a plan of rotation.

Tonight I'll sleep on that backside.

So I get to spoon with Danny tonight?

Oh, no you spoon... I spooned with Tyrone last night.

You've spooned with about everybody.

That sounds so wrong.

But you are my best spoon, I promise you.

I don't know about you, but I needed a cigarette when I woke up.

No wonder I was up all night.

At la flor, fabio came in with a very different strategy... avoid leadership at

all costs.

I came out here with a game plan.

I feel like I'm going to be able to kind of stay under the radar

and slither through things.

I'm just trying to stay cool, stay confident, but not be stupid.

Did you rub your eye?

Yeah.