Australian Survivor - Eighth Season

Previously on Australian Survivor...

Go, go, go, go!

..a dusty immunity challenge in the heat of the desert...

..pushed the players to new heights.

Go!

But challenge beast Simon...

Let's go, Sim!

..smashed it out of the park.

Brawn wins immunity!

Back at the Brains camp...

- Done. - Welcome. Thanks for coming.

..the minority three, Georgia, Rachel and Laura, weren't giving up.

Game on, molls!

Their hope was to get Kez to flip on Cara.

Keeping in people that are physically weaker than us,

I don't really get it.

One of my best mates has gone home because of Cara.

It's time to vote her out and stay strong.

But at tribal council, Kez was still sitting on the fence.

I'm just a big, mushy ball of playdough.

And both alliances fought to get her to jump to their side.

Which way are you going, Kez?

Because I feel like you're just following.

She can do whatever she wants.

Oh, God.

In the final count, Kez stuck with Emmett...

Georgia.

..leaving Rachel and Laura more vulnerable than ever.

Bye, guys.

- Bye! - Bye, Georgia.

15 are left.

Who will be going home tonight?

At last night's tribal council, the plan came off without a hitch.

Good morning, everyone, if you're all awake.

Hello, George.

The big five alliance pulled it off, and Georgia was sent packing.

Long night.

It feels great to be in a majority.

But I didn't get lucky.

I worked hard to pull myself from the bottom

and shake the target off my back.

I'm playing Survivor.

This is my childhood dream.

If you work against me, you're gonna go.

And every single one of my enemies on the Brains tribe

has been eliminated.

Mitch was gunning for me.

He's gone.

Joey was gunning for me.

He's gone.

Now Georgia was gunning for me.

She's also gone.

Watch out, you could be next.

It's all part of the fun and games, right?

The big five alliance on the Brains tribe -

Emmett, big Kez, big Gerald, myself and Cara,

my closest ally in this game.

We have the numbers and the alliance is working.

There are now two more targets left here on the Brains tribe

that are gonna be picked off one by one.

Rachel and Laura are so far on the bottom of this tribe,

it doesn't matter who we pick off next.

It's day 22 today and I think it feels like the hardest day.

Um...

When Georgia went home last night, it wasn't a surprise to me.

I knew it would either be Georgia, Laura or myself going home.

Today's a tough one after such a challenging tribal council

last night.

I'm exhausted.

Um...

You know, it really challenges your humanity.

And it's tough.

Especially when you're tired and hungry and dirty.

The five of them are too tight for us

to even be able to find a small crack or a small way in.

I really miss my family.

Yep.

I don't want this to end.

I want to keep going, I want to keep pushing myself.

You need to roll with the punches

and change things up as you go along.

So this is my...

This is my last cast.

I'm gonna try.

I need to use my social game

to try and find a crack in the alliance that is against me.

Have you been fishing before?

Yeah, heaps.

So you let them run a bit, to get it right in there?

Yep.

Oh, good girl!

You're a gun.

All of my life experiences have led me to right here and right now.

In 2020, I was awarded Queensland Australian of the Year

for developing an anonymous online reporting tool

that schools use that we know has saved many, many lives.

And that was very, very humbling.

I am 50 and there is a strength and courage in being 50.

I want to win Survivor so badly.

I have a lot to prove.

- Good-looking fish. - Good-looking fish.

Good-looking dinner.

- May I have a crack, if that's OK? - Yeah.

So you watch the line.

Like, if it's a little fish it'll just bounce around like this.

Yeah.

If it's a bigger fish it'll actually start to take its own direction.

Right, right.

Leave it a sec for it to take its own direction

- and then pull on it. - Then jack it. OK.

I've been an educator for 26 years.

It's about empowering people to know that they can do something

that, you know, five minutes ago they couldn't do.

- Whoo! - Right, see?

Ohh!

That's my first fish! Yay!

That's insane.

I've never, ever done that before in my life.

OK.

Another tick on my list.

I want Cara to feel like she can work with me.

That's exciting.

I'm gonna play the social game little by little.

This is exactly what I need to further my game

and keep myself here for a little bit longer.

I'm ready to cause a bit of chaos.

It's day 22 and I feel like I am a new woman on this new tribe.

It's like a fresh start.

We've got a really strong tribe.

The women are really running this camp.

I feel like Amazonian woman.

That's it.

We're bonding over trying to catch fish.

Taking on all this, like, survival role within the camp.

- Tighten it. - Yep, exactly.

It's like building a little stepladder.

I'm feeling surprisingly secure in this new Brawn tribe.

I can bond really easily with these girls.

Meanwhile...

Ooh.

Are you guys making bracelets?

Yep.

It's like in primary school.

- Would you like one, Simon? - Yeah.

I can see that Simon has this big ego and he thinks he's running this camp.

Did you put the B on at the start?

Like, how many loops is that?

Round here.

Yep.

He thinks he can just sail to merge

but that's a pretty big assumption to make.

I want to think about having the most amount of people at merge

that I can work with.

If Brawn want to stay together,

then the next best step would be to take one of them out,

and right now Simon is painting this juicy target all over his back.

But he is also a really close with Chelsea and with Dani.

But I don't think Brawn are as tight as they say they are.

I've already seen some cracks emerging

and I'm pretty sure we can drive a wedge into those cracks.

If we haven't caught all the fish already in here,

I think that they'll be floating to the surface.

Yeah, exactly.

Is that what's gonna happen to them?

Slowly and slowly as the water starts receding,

is the fish become more and more cannibalistic,

as the volume decreases, you know?

Yeah. Kinda like Survivor.

When it comes to Dani, she is a bit of a hard nut to crack.

She is pretty strongly held to the alliance that she is with.

I really need to find a way in.

You scare the shit out of me, Dani.

You think I'm the alpha male? I think you might be the alpha male.

Hey, mate, I can stand up to the plate if you...

..if you're too scared.

A massive part of this game is knowing

when is the right time to get really close to someone.

It's a social game.

You've got to work with people and have conversations

and hopefully we can find a crack to divide the Brawn.

And what's Gerald like? Softie?

I think that I've got a really good read on people.

I can tell that Dani is someone who is willing to play this game hard.

So I decide to just go for it.

Um...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm all about...

- Yeah? - I think especially when...

Go on.

That's nice. I like it.

Dani tells me that she has this grand plan to blindside Simon.

Yep.

Off with his head.

My strategy from day one has been to come in and to be someone

who is really trustworthy so that I can get all of the information.

And it's working perfectly.

I'm gonna have to sit on this information

and think about how to move forward.

We've been out here for three weeks now, sleeping in the dirt,

eating nothing, getting paranoid about gameplay.