Australian Survivor - Eighth Season

Previously on Australian Survivor...

Drop your buffs.

With tribe swap came a whole new game.

Cara was back in the Brain tribe with George.

Far out!

But this time, she had her Brawn friends with her.

Just relax and enjoy the journey.

Then, after she messed up the vote that sent Big D home,

the original Brawns wanted her out.

Mm-hm.

But Emmett knew they still needed her as a number.

So he turned the vote on Laura.

Tonight is definitely not the night to make a big move.

Over at Brawn...

I've got an idol that's burning a hole in my pocket

and I definitely plan to play it for me or Baden.

Ex-Brain Hayley tricked the original Brawns into turning on each other.

I needed them to think that they had no options.

And it worked.

At a special double tribal council, both tribes cast their votes.

Laura and Shannon, you've both been voted out by your tribes.

But in a final twist...

..the four who had won individual immunity decided who would stay

and who would go.

This is so hard.

Shannon, both tribes have spoken.

16 are left.

Who will be going home tonight?

Yes, everybody was so cuddly last night.

Wai, how warm's Hayley, hey?

- Hayley is very warm. - Hayley is so good.

Oh, I was so warm last night.

I slept, like, all through the night. It was so good.

Waking up on day 20

is probably the best feeling I've had waking up in this game so far.

I have finally dethroned the queen.

Last night was the perfect blindside.

Everyone voted for Shannon except for Flick.

To see her torch gets snuffed,

and please excuse me while I gloat for a little bit...

God damn it was good.

I might... I might get to work on this shelter, eh?

Oh, yeah, we were gonna...

We'll start... See all these branches and stuff?

Take them all off.

Yeah, just pull them all up and we'll start stacking them over here.

Yeah!

We're renovating.

Shannon going home last night

means that we are not gonna be staying Brawn strong.

But we are gonna be able to use these Brains to build relationships

and to use them as a vote.

And I'm excited about what I can make of this.

The cherry on top is that Flick is now on the bottom.

So this morning, Dani and I need to ensure that Hayley's on board

to vote with us moving forward.

Good cover.

I managed to get away.

I didn't have a chance to thank you so much for voting...

I know! How good.

That was so good.

- That was awesome. I was so happy. - Oh.

I was, like, so nervous in it because I wasn't sure if, like,

you guys were all actually a five and screwing us

and I kept looking over

and Dani's like, "You're good!" I'm like, "OK."

Look, if you had have pulled out your idol to play it,

- I would have told you not to. - Oh, would you?

Yeah, and I'm like, don't play your idol,

and that means I don't have to play mine.

- Yep. Yeah, exactly. - So...

At tribal council last night,

I bluffed my idol and said that I would use it.

That caused the majority to start fighting with each other

and Shannon went home.

And I've still got my idol in my pocket.

Perfect.

Flick is obviously someone that we need to get rid of.

Yeah, yeah. She's the lone duckling now.

And if we work together it means that we can both go through to merge.

Flick would be the choice purely because she flipped on us

in the beginning and she was in the alliance with Shannon.

- Yep. - Now it's broken up, she's minority.

Majority...

- Let's keep it that way. - Yeah.

I'm still surprised that the five Brawn were so easy to crack open

and vote out one of their own.

It was a bad move, wasn't it?

- Yep. - It is so important.

I know with Shannon gone, Flick is gonna come to me,

and my goal now is to bring Flick into this new alliance

with Andrew, Baden, Wai and myself,

so we can work together with our numbers

to get rid of Chelsea, Dani and Simon.

- How are you feeling? - Oh, man.

I mean... Last...

It was such a shock to me, obviously.

- I had no idea. - Yeah.

I have come to accept that Shannon's gone. That's fine.

That's been and that's done and dusted and I'm, like, more than happy

- if you had me to work with you. - Yep.

I just feel like, with Simon, he's crossed me like a few times

and I'm just like, you know what, mate?

Like, you don't have a number in me anymore.

Yeah.

Yep.

It's funny.

It's kind of funny that she assumes that because she's like,

"We made this massive move on Shannon, it was the best move ever."

And I'm like, it was really dumb, actually,

because now you're assuming the four of us

are gonna go with the three of you and just leave Flick out.

Why would we do that?

My plan is to just be like, OK, cool, whatever.

Like, you know, we're just really grateful that we're with you. Like, whatever.

We don't want to rock the boat.

We're with you.

- I promise we're with you. - Yep, OK. Yep.

That move of deciding to tell the tribe

that I would use my idol changed the game last night.

Andrew, Baden, Wai and myself can take Flick on board

and have a five person majority.

We're now in control.

It's so good.

Yeah.

Oh, there's a cow. You see that?

- Massive. - A bull.

- That's a big one. - Yeah.

Is it a bull or is it a...

- A girl? A cow. - I have no idea.

Girl cow.

Can't tell from this far away and we can't tell up close either.

OK. Here we go again.

Oh, we're all still here.

Yay.

Oh, good morning, cruel world.

What do you have in store for us today?

It's day 20 and I'm still bloody here.

Tribal last night did not go the way I thought it would go.

I went in with the intention of voting for Cara

alongside Kez and Gerald and Emmett and that just did not happen.

They all switched it up and voted for me.

I can't believe I'm actually still here right now.

I can't believe that. I was... shocked.

Yeah, me too.

At first and then I was like, you know what?

Maybe I'm not really shocked now.

So Emmett and Kez and Gerald sit at the top with Cara and George.

And then Rachy, Georgia and I sitting on the bottom.

They have really drawn this solid line through the sand

between the ex-Brawns and the Brains.

No-one around us?

If Georgia doesn't come back, as long as both don't have an idol,

we're safe, because we split the vote 3-2.

- There's five of us and two of them. - Yep.

Unfortunately for us, Georgia's been really ill

and she's been taken off for further assessment.

Without her, we are super vulnerable to being voted out.

Like, doesn't really make sense.

And I think Cara's weaker than George.

- Your hair looks good. - Hair looks great.

It actually looks like you straightened it.

Thanks. Great.

You can tell the hand I used to brush with.

My strategy so far has been to play a social game.

I just need to keep those social connections open.

That actually makes me feel a bit sick.

Because things do change really quickly within this game

and it's not over until that torch is snuffed.

At this point in the game, I am in the majority alliance,

which is great.

Like, being an empath, today I sensed a bit of fear.

I see Kez and Laura growing closer in their relationship.

And it worries me a little bit.

Alright.

Kez is keeping close to the girls and keeping away from me.

OK.

But maybe that's just 'cause she's young.

I'm starting to sense that Laura's a threat.

She's a lovely girl

and she can probably charm anyone into voting her way, I'm sure.

The relationship between her and Kez could prove problematic.

Two tribals ago, I made an error

because I didn't know which plan to do.

And Big D unfortunately went home.

It does cross my mind that the ex-Brawn tribe

don't trust my reliability.

Good that Cara figured it out, eh, and voted for the right person.

Cara's fine.

I know, just...

I don't... I really don't know how she got it wrong.

I have no question about her loyalty at all.

Yeah. That's good.

That is all that matters on Survivor.

The possibility of Georgia's return hinders my game.

Win for Georgia.

That triangle of Laura, Georgia and Rachel,

I think they're dangerous all together.

We can't allow them to gather more troops

into their little power triangle.