♪ ♪
TEVIN: Survivor is 18 people
coming together
from all different walks of life.
And they are here, all together at one time,
having to trust each other, build a society,
play challenges with each other with different strengths,
different weaknesses.
And to be able to trust one another
while also not trusting anyone,
because you're playing a game that is built on deceit.
And you have to be vulnerable,
and you have to be authentically yourself.
And you have to overcome and adapt
to all the challenges in which they are guaranteed to face,
because that is what Survivor is about.
(laughs)
But it is in that moment right there
makes the game so worth playing.
And I'm ready for it.
(all cheering)
CHARLIE: Let's go, Siga!
♪ ♪
BHANU: I applied for Survivor
the day I become a citizen of the United States of America.
I came out of the courthouse, and I was like, "Hello,
Survivor team, Jeff Probst!"
Hi. Hello. Namaste.
I want one opportunity to play the game,
so I can be a role model
for all the folks who look like me.
From slumdog to Survivor, baby!
(laughs)
♪ ♪
JESS: I actually think that the biggest risk to my game
is, like, I might be socially awkward.
And my personality is, like...
I know I'm a little odd.
But I don't really care.
But I've come to realize that I'm competitive.
(laughing)
I mean, I have an identical twin.
I've been competing for nutrients
since we were in the womb.
BOTH: Choo choo!
Here we are in the rain.
I grew up in a small town in Mississippi.
I lived there my whole life, and I teach there now.
And so
there's experiences that I haven't had
that I know a lot of other people have.
There will be this barrier of maybe not being able
to relate on a full level. You know,
if people bond over, you know,
being huge Taylor Swift, you know, fans,
I-I won't have that.
I got my Taylor Swift socks.
I got my Taylor Swift Eras Tour merch.
I ride the Swiftie bus on the way to law school,
but I'm not planning on mentioning I went to Harvard,
because you got to keep your threat level down.
Objection.
♪ ♪
TIFFANY: I've worked with major brands like Nike,
Adidas. I had my artwork
displayed in Madison Square Garden.
I'm self-taught.
Me and YouTube University is all I had
when I was figuring out my job as an artist.
'Cause at the end of the day, being an artist is a hustle.
But that's what I do.
I'm a hustler.
♪ ♪
PROBST: This group of strangers has agreed
to be abandoned in the Fijian Islands.
They must learn to adapt or they'll be voted out.
VENUS: I may look tiny and weak, but I am mighty and strong.
I'm gonna do some sneaky ...
and I'll deal with the repercussions later.
PROBST: In the end, only one will remain
to claim the million-dollar prize.
KENZIE: I've got my stilettos on, disco ball spinning.
I'm just waiting for the club to open.
Like, I'm ready to party! (chuckles)
♪ ♪
Who will have what it takes
to outwit, outplay and outlast all the rest?
This is Survivor 46.
♪ ♪
SODA: I'm wet, people around me are wet,
-(cheering, whooping) -but
I'm about to play 100 per-freaking-cent, bro.
I'm ready, man.
I'm here to prove me to myself.
And for all my students,
like, you can say yes to the adventure.
You can conquer anything.
I'm here to, like, be a model for them, 100%.
Q: I started playing football when I was nine years old,
and it made me, at an early age, be very, very competitive.
I do not like to lose.
So I'm gonna play this game full speed,
from day one.
I'm the QB.
I'm quarterbacking the game.
Put the ball down, say hut.
-All right. Welcome to Survivor 46. -(Soda squeals)
(all cheering)
Oh, my God.
I got to say, I'm impressed with the enthusiasm,
-given the boat rides I can anticipate you just had. -(overlapping chatter)
I don't know whether to laugh or cry or crap my pants.
PROBST: Pretty rough seas?
-Yes. -Very rough.
-Very. -Who vomited?
-(laughing) -SODA: So close.
Yeah.
Sometimes you're birthed into Survivor
in a nice, smooth, beautiful day.
Other days, it's a little rough.
All right, let's get into it.
It's always so exciting
to start a new season of Survivor
because, right now, everything seems possible.
You can all envision yourself at the end.
You can all see your name on the parchment,
crowning you the winner of Survivor 46.
Oh!
Because, right now, it kind of feels like a blank slate, right?
Q: It does.
PROBST: And you all, right now,
believe you can win this game.
But it's simply not true.
Right now, there is at least one of you that cannot win.
No matter who you go to the end with, it won't matter.
Something about your personality is not gonna gel
with this group, and you won't get the votes.
And the beautiful thing
about the confidence of a Survivor player is
right now, you're all nodding in agreement,
and yet none of you think you're the one
-who can't win. -(laughing)
It's one of the reasons Survivor is so fun to watch,
but it should be the number-one reason
why each of you play this game
on your terms.
Because that blind optimism that you have right now,
that specific point of view that you're bringing
into the game--
it's gonna work or not work,
but it is your single biggest weapon.
I'm glad you're all here. I wish you luck.
Let's get into our tribes.
(cheering)
(screaming)
Wearing purple: Yanu.
-Go, Yanu! -Yanu!
(whooping)
Let's go!
Wearing green: you are Siga.
ALL: Siga!
-Let's go! -(whoops)
And in orange: you are Nami.
-Nami! -(cheering)
-Nami! Nami! -(excited chatter)
-(laughing) -Them, but Nami!
-TEVIN: Know what I mean? -Yeah!
(laughing)
-Got that one. -(whooping)
All right, you ready to get to your first challenge?
-Yeah. -Let's do it. -Yes. Let's do this.
PROBST: For today's challenge,
two members of each tribe are gonna race down the beach,
crawl under a muddy net...
...and retrieve two very heavy puzzle pieces,
then bring 'em back.
Then the next pair goes.
Once you have all six pieces,
three tribe members
are gonna use those pieces to build a podium.
Then one tribe member will climb to the top of the podium,
use a long pole to retrieve your flint.
First tribe to finish earns their camp supplies--
pot, machete, flint.
-Not much. -Enough. That's enough.
-But it's-it's a start. -But it's enough.
Exactly, Tevin.
The second tribe to finish earns the right
to choose between the Sweat task or the Savvy task
for their second shot at earning your tribe supplies.
The last tribe to finish, otherwise known as...
-The losers. -Losers!
-Not me. -PROBST: You get what's left.
(laughing)
Everybody feeling good?
-Yeah! -TEVIN: I'm good.
All right, follow me. We'll get set up.
(whoops)
All right, here we go.
Marooning challenge of Survivor 46.
Survivors ready?
Go!
-Heading out in pairs. -(cheering)
Tiffany and Jelinsky for Yanu.
Jem and Ben for Siga.
Hunter and Venus for Nami.
Make the hole big. Make the hole big.
PROBST: Pieces are heavy.
-SODA: Venus, go, go! -LIZ: Go!
-Venus, go, go! -Go!
RANDEN: Keep going, baby! Yeah! Let's go!
SODA: Let's go, Hunter! Let's go!
-PROBST: Hunter moving quickly with that first piece. -Yeah!
PROBST: You can head out and help,
but you got to go back through the obstacles.
(Soda whoops)
PROBST: Hunter making quick work of this.
Now gonna help his new Tribemate, Venus.
These are big puzzle pieces. She needs some help.
Here comes Tiffany, carrying one on her shoulder.
Jelinsky right behind.
Jem pushing one. Ben pushing one.
Once you cross that line, the next pair can go.
You're good! Go!
It's Tevin and Liz out now.
Hell yeah!
Jump on that course like a starving man on a Christmas ham!
PROBST: Here comes Jelinsky.
You're good! Go, Yanu!
It's Siga in dead last.
Come on, guys.
-PROBST: Ben already exhausted. -Come on, Ben.
-You're good! Go! -Good work. Good work.
-Good work, Ben... -PROBST: It's gonna be Charlie and Maria.
TIM: Let's go, Siga!
Keep going! Come on!
PROBST: Here comes Liz and Tevin heading back for Nami.
-(grunting) -Bhanu and Jess out for Yanu.
(all cheering)
TIM: Let's go, Maria!
Look at that! Maria carrying one on her back!
-Come on! Siga! -(cheering)
Maria.
That is how you do it on Survivor.
Here comes Charlie, heading back for Siga.
You're good! Go!
CHARLIE: Come on, go, go, go! You got it!
PROBST: You're good! Go!
-You're good! Go! -JELINSKY: Let's go, guys. Let's go, let's go, let's go.
PROBST: It is Randen and Soda on the course.
Tim and Moriah heading out.
-The last two pieces got to travel the farthest distance. -SODA: Come on, guys!
(grunts)
PROBST: Randen heading back. Here comes Kenzie.
Here comes Q.
Tim and Moriah got to go back out now
and get their last piece.
Every second counts.
You want those tribe supplies.
You're good. You're good.
Start working on the puzzle.
Come on, y'all.
PROBST: Here comes Tim and Moriah.
-You can hear, they're gassed. -(grunts)
Ten minutes into day one of Survivor.
You're already feeling it.
(overlapping chatter)
You're good, Siga. Start working on your puzzle.
This is where you see
what your tribe is made of, right here.
VENUS: Good.
PROBST: Opening moments of Survivor 46.
If you put yourself in the puzzle position,
you are feeling the pressure.
JEM: Hey, guys, no.
PROBST: You are building a three-tier podium.
Always looks so easy when you're watching it at home.
Soda, Hunter, Venus think they have something now for Nami.
JEM: Yes!
PROBST: Jelinsky, Bhanu and Jess
-trying to get something going for Yanu. -Push it in. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Come on, Siga. -JEM: You're still in it.
PROBST: Moriah, Tim and Ben,
they've been moving their pieces all over the place.
Come on, watch out, watch out, watch out.
-Yes, yes, yes. -PROBST: Hunter and Soda working for Nami.
They think they're getting close.
Venus putting that last piece in.
-(cheering) -That is right. You're out.
-Somebody else is in. -HUNTER: Let's go, Tevin.
It's gonna be Tevin now.
It is Nami in the lead by a long ways right now.
-(cheering) -Tevin! Baby!
(chanting): Nami! Nami! Nami!
PROBST: Tevin now going up top with that pole,
trying to knock that ring off.
That flint is all you need in your hand.
Yanu and Siga continue to fight to get in this.
-You're almost there. -You're almost there.
-HUNTER: Yeah! -PROBST: Tevin has it!
(excited chatter)
-Tevin has the ring. -(cheering)
Nami has earned their tribe supplies.
And now we're looking for second place.
TIM: There we go.
Something's wrong.
-PROBST: Something not right for Siga. A setback. -No, it's not right...
Something's not right.
PROBST: That opens the door for Yanu.
Jelinsky now running around to give it a study.
Yeah.
PROBST: Siga thinks they have something.
Tim and Ben lifting that last piece.
Will it fit? And if so, is it right?
-(cheering) -You got it, Siga! Let's go!
Gonna be Charlie now untying the pole.
It's all over for Yanu.
-(overlapping chatter) -PROBST: Here goes Charlie.
TIM: Drag it all the way, Charlie.
(cheering)
PROBST: There it is.
Charlie's got it for Siga.
Siga will choose between Sweat and Savvy,
-and Yanu will get what is left. -JEM: Good job. Good job.
Good job. Good job.
All right, Nami, congratulations.
(cheering)
Waiting for you back at camp: a pot, machete and flint.
It's not much, but in this game,
in the early days, it is everything.
Now we have another big decision to make.
Siga, you took second place,
which means you get to choose
whether you take on the Sweat task or the Savvy task.
So, what have you learned about the six of you
in these opening moments
that's gonna determine what you choose?
Uh, we're gonna choose Savvy.
At the end of the day, it was the puzzle
that allowed us to get that flint,
so we're gonna keep on the roll.
So that means, Yanu, you will be taking on Sweat.
-I ain't scared of a little sweat, Jeff. -(chuckles)
Let's do it.
All right, maps to your new home.
-Here you go. -Tevin, take it. You swung that thing.
Yes, Maria!
(cheering)
Giddyup, baby. Let's go.
Survivor 46 is underway.
-Yanu, Nami, Siga, head out. Good luck. -(cheering)
(laughing)
JEM: Right now, everybody's laughing.
They're living their wildest dreams,
but only one out of the 18 of us is gonna
be the Sole Survivor.
I'm so ready to just
cut everybody else's throat
on the other side, and then guess who's your Sole Survivor?
Me.
♪ ♪
JELINSKY: Fiji is a lot different of an animal than Las Vegas.
There's no ocean.
We don't even have trees out in Vegas--
no good trees, anyways-- but I'm hyped.
Let's get to the Sweat task. Let's play.
Jeff preaches about the monster in this game.
Jelinsky is the monster.
-JESS: Okay. -(sighs)
Who thinks they can do it is the thing?
-It's, like... -I mean, I think, I think
-we all can do it... -We all can do it.
It's just gonna take a long time
-and people gonna be tired. -I can do it, for sure, yeah.
-JESS: Yeah. -That's it.
-Y'all want to do that? -Let's do it, yeah.
TIFFANY: I appreciate you guys.
-Yeah. Okay, good. We'll knock it out. -We got it. We got it.
One, two, three.
TIFFANY: Good luck, guys.
We believe in you.
KENZIE: Good luck.
♪ ♪
The bucket had holes in it.
Come on, Jeff.
And now you're walking up the hill,
around the hourglass, to the urn,
which is about 40 yards of distance.
That's it?
So I could tell, at that point,
that it was gonna be very difficult.
But it doesn't bother me. Hard work is all I know.
I'm a guy who's from Mississippi, small town,
one of 17 kids,
who had to work for everything that he has.
I've been a great businessman,
a great real estate agent.
I was the number two agent in the country.
And that takes hard work.
Like I told Jelinsky,
you know, we have to have that mentality
that we keep going no matter what.
...or it's gonna push us further apart.
-That's right. -I'd rather it bond us.
I wonder what they're doing back at camp.
TIFFANY: Oh, my gosh.
-Yeah. -Cool.
-Welcome. -That's why I, you know,
I struggle with English a little bit.
-That's okay. -Oh.
BHANU: I'm in Fiji with my Buff on.
I can't ask for more. Yes.
Let's get going.
(gasps) Yay!
Oh, good find.
-Never, ever leave this. -(laughs): Okay.
-Oh, good. -Yeah.
Survivor is Bhanu's life.
I am originally from Visakhapatnam, India.
I grew up in a hut made of palm leaves
with, uh, mud floors.
And that's how...
I lived 18 years like that.
18 years.
It was only last year I got my citizenship.
-Oh, congratulations. I know that's hard. -Thank you, thank you. Yeah.
But here I am.
I'm a citizen of the United States.
I'm so proud.
Wow.
And, as a superfan, I get to play Survivor.
-Oh. -TIFFANY: Really?
(sniffs) Ah. Sweet papaya.
I'm the provider. When people come to me and say,
like, you know, "Can you help me? Can you do this?
Can you do that?" I love it, because Bhanu is always there.
So, these ants...
-Sure. -Okay.
I eat them at home.
You do?
Like what? Like sprinkles?
-(laughing) -JESS: There you go.
My first ant on Survivor.
(laughs)
BHANU: I'm already comfortable being on Survivor.
Beyond excited, nervous
and thrilled to be on Survivor.
(laughs)
TIM: All right, gang.
JEM: Yeah.
Wah-wah.
(laughing)
TIM: Any volunteers?
I think I'm into it.
-Okay. -CHARLIE: I mean, I'll-I'll help Ben out.
-Maybe we can work through it together, but -JEM: You got it.
no promises.
When in doubt, rock out, right?
There's, like, the lockbox, and then there's also
this board with all these random letters.
It looks hard-core, but if I go home tomorrow, like,
I want to know I at least stepped up.
And Charlie and I are like
front man, guitar player.
You know?
Diamond Dave, Eddie Van Halen.
CHARLIE: Let's go.
All right, this is what I see, right?
-Numbers, right? There's six here. -Yup. I see 12, seven, six.
BEN: 12, six...
So, 12. Six.
BEN: I see seven.
CHARLIE: Okay.
-So this would be a one. -And there's some numbers going down, too.
Like, I see 20. I see five.
-You're seeing things that I never saw, ever. -Yeah.
-Okay. -Shout-out to my dyslexia.
-Let's go! (chuckles) -You're killing it.
You're-you're on fire.
-BEN: Uh... -Four.
Yeah, and six.
So I'm-I'm noticing an issue right away
is we've got six digits here
-and ten digits here. -Ten.
I don't know. I think we got to think about this.
Let's think a little harder, I guess.
CHARLIE: Machete, pot, flint.
If you don't have those things,
it's like, "Game over."
We have to figure this out. Like, it's a must.
-TIM: Oh, fire. -MARIA: Yes.
Then moved to New York, met my husband in New York.
Had our first kid. Pregnant with my second.
You had the mom strength. That's what it was.
-I told y'all I was taking it. I was like, "I can pull..." -(laughing)
-I got two boys. -You have two boys? How old are they?
-Yeah, yeah. Five and two. -Aw.
TIM: I miss them a great deal.
I love my family.
I want my sons to have everything that they imagine.
So, Maria and I were rocking with the parent narrative.
-I have a five-year-old, too. -Five?
I have a ten, an eight and a five.
Whoa!
MARIA: I told my kids, "Mommy is gonna lie,
cheat and steal," because
there's only one way to win,
and that's by taking everyone else out.
Tim and I-- we've connected over being parents,
but I have no intention of being anybody's mom.
Likewise.
Yeah, sure.
I just am not going to be in the flashy red car.
I'm gonna be in my little minivan driving the game.
All right.
I would do the three first, and then...
3-6-5-1-4-7.
If this works, I'll eat a hat.
BEN: No dice.
CHARLIE: The sand is trickling through the hourglass.
We were adding, subtracting, multiplying.
We tried everything.
Maybe there's another word in the puzzle
that's gonna help us crack the code.
BEN: Yes. I'm already looking.
I mean...
BEN: What is it we're not seeing?
CHARLIE: "All the information below to find what you are missing."
There's nothing underneath it.
(sighs)
It's the final countdown.
All right.
It's the beginning of the Dumb and Dumber alliance.
CHARLIE: The feeling when the timer runs out is just the worst.
We have no pot. We have no machete.
We have no flint.
This brings us together in our...
-in our shared stupidity. -A hundred percent.
CHARLIE: We're gonna look like idiots.
We tried to step up for the tribe,
and we-we failed, big time.
-(laughing) -SODA: We crushed it, guys.
HUNTER: We totally did it.
How old are you?
Twenty-four.
-Wow! -SODA: No way!
I-I have an old soul.
I watch old things.
Oh, sunshine!
Opie. You watch Andy Griffith?
-Yeah. -Oh, my God!
What do you do?
I teach people how to write emails
and make money on the Internet.
VENUS: Very cool.
-I've owned four companies. -SODA: Wow.
I currently own two.
I've sold two.
-Oh! She sold them, too. -Oh.
LIZ: Yeah.
I'm-I'm pretty awesome.
TEVIN: As I talked to Liz, some of her comments
made my head just kind of go... (groans)
...because you're talking about
how you have all these businesses,
and you're flaunting your dollar bills.
Huh.
Well, I'm out here for money.
-It's nice to get to know everybody. -OTHERS: Yeah.
TEVIN: Clearly, Liz forgot
game begins not tomorrow, but right now.
We need fire.
Is there anyone that knows, like,
knows-knows how to make fire?
-I do. I-I mean, I feel pretty good about it. -I also do.
LIZ: That's awesome.
I'm feeling good about this tribe.
We already have our pot, the machete, the flint,
which is not a lot, but it leads to a lot.
Oh!
We can hack things down and build fire and make a shelter.
We just dig it out a bit.
And we need tinder. We need kindling.
I'm a teacher and a camp counselor,
so I've been practicing fire, like,
literally every day to get my confidence.
Just let it grow a little. No, don't-don't snuff it.
Just let it grow a little.
That's how quick that magnesium just goes out.
Catch it, catch it, catch it, catch it.
All right, all right, all right. Oh. All right.
(Tevin whoops)
Fire!
Yay.
SODA: Fire means everything out here.
And we had a roaring one, honey.
We had it roaring flames.
How do you think the other tribes are doing right now?
Do you think they have a fire?
RANDEN: Who doesn't want fire on their first night of Survivor?
Clearly, our supplies are a big deal.
And not having to do Sweat or Savvy
feels like a million bucks. I'm not gonna lie.
JELINSKY: This is no joke.
I'm lucky I got Superman on my tribe.
Even if we don't get a flint...
I got an ally.
This is one of the hardest things I've ever
had to do. I honestly
don't know if I've done
that physical labor in my life.
Yes, sir.
Let's get it.
JELINSKY: My feet were getting beat up.
I'm looking at these urns like, "Damn.
It looked the exact same as it did 30 minutes ago."
There's no way we're filling this.
And we were working against time.
It said that this task takes several hours,
-but it looks like we only have four hours. -You slow down.
I know you ain't gonna stop for me, but you better.
JELINSKY: Last I checked,
"several" means seven, not four.
So I feel like I knew we weren't gonna do the damn challenge.
...you don't think we can finish it?
I don't.
I do.
♪ ♪
Q: We still had a couple hours,
but with Jelinsky, now I know
when the going gets tough,
he's going to tuck his tail and quit.
And in Survivor that's not an option,
period. If he cannot do this
physically and mentally, then we're done.
♪ ♪
-CHARLIE: Um... -BEN: Uh...
The Savvy was not so savvy.
-We were not very savvy on the Savvy. -Yeah.
-Let's go rinse. You guys look like... -Yeah.
It sucks to be like, "Yo, we lost," but,
I mean, I like to look at the world
as a glass half full kind of vibe.
-First and foremost, thank you. -Thank you. Yeah.
I appreciate the morale.
I feel like...
-No. No. That's okay. -No.
I feel like we're all working on keeping the vibe up.
-Yes. -And we could be, like, the vibe tribe.
-You know what I'm saying? -(overlapping chatter)
BEN: They were like,
"Don't even worry. Y'all stepped up."
Which was awesome. So,
at this point, my strategy's to be myself,
which is to just chill hard to make everybody laugh.
Hi, I'm Ben.
OTHERS: Hi, Ben.
I'm an Aries.
-Oh! -(excited chatter)
That's kind of my life.
I've played everything from, like, heavy metal to,
-like, salsa and bar mitzvah music. -Yeah.
-You know what I'm saying? -Oh, fire, bro.
A man of many talents here.
-I could tell. -Listen, you got to be open-minded.
TIM: Ben is, like, the vibe god.
He's, like,
the dean of cultural affairs,
making sure that the tribe is in good spirits.
(laughs)
You got the vest on.
Dude, rock it all you want.
-Yeah, there you go. -Yeah.
-Oh, that's cute. -That's not bad.
I'm getting Ben's powers here.
BEN: I like this little workout.
We're gonna get ripped.
MARIA: I love Ben's energy. He has a lot
of confidence. And with that confidence, I think
he gives us confidence in ourselves.
JEM: There you go!
No. Chug, chug, chug. (screams)
JEM: I feel like Ben is the epitome of Siga.
We're surviving.
(laughs)
That's our thing. It's all about the vibe.
And I think that's why, like, the Siga tribe
get along so well.
What about you?
-We met at bar trivia, to be honest. -Let's go. Really?
Yeah, in such a dorky way. (chuckles)
I'm this geeky, dorky nerd.
Like, I love board games like D&D.
I do crosswords. I do sudoku.
I brew beer on the weekend.
I'm aware that I'm a little out there, so I am...
not everyone's cup of tea.
For most of my life, I've struggled
to make connections and to make friends.
So I'm looking for this opportunity
to prove to myself
that I'm just not that loner.
Like, I can forge
a connection.
-Oh, okay. There you go. -Or when I'm running late, Mo-on-the-slow.
This is my tribe.
This is my game.
I'm not here to say, like,
"Oh, no, they don't like me. I'm done."
No. I'm here to play my game.
I do, too. Yeah.
-Yeah, for sure. -Do you feel good with me?
-Oh. -Genuinely?
-Yeah. Do you feel good with me? -Okay. Yes, absolutely.
MORIAH: I definitely connected with Jem.
I also bonded pretty quickly with Maria.
Surviving. (chuckles)
Who are y'all getting good vibes from?
-I think everybody right now, to be very honest. -Everyone.
But we need to maybe start thinking, like, long-term.
Especially if we don't want a woman voted out first.
-JEM: Yeah. -MORIAH: Yeah.
The women came together, so now
I believe I have an alliance.
I feel strong, and I trust with them, but more importantly,
I've made new friends.
And it feels incredible.
(laughing)
Ha!
-You got it, coach? -Yep.
(both grunt)
(whoops)
He's a he-man.
(grunts)
(groans)
-Yes, sir! -(cheering)
Am I a good student, coach?
-(laughing) -Damn good student, man.
-Yeah, okay. -Okay.
-All right, ready? -Yeah.
(laughing)
TIFFANY: Maybe I should have did the Sweat task.
I wouldn't have given up because now we didn't get the supplies.
We got to bang a coconut up against the side of a rock
to just get a little bit of juice out.
It's hard, like,
especially when you don't have any tools.
-Yeah. (laughs) -Who needs a Sweat challenge
when you got beautiful people, you know?
(laughing)
I'm in the beauty industry. I know what I'm talking about.
I do hair and I own a salon.
Building connections, building repertoire
is literally my bread and butter.
Like, this is
a fast-moving game,
and I am ready to, like, giddyup.
Are there three of you?
A lot? Oh.
Oh, my gosh.
(laughs): What?!
Q is an amazing, hardworking man.
I'm like, "Let's team up."
-(laughs) I know. -(laughs)
I got a good vibe from Jelinsky.
We literally have two matching tattoos.
JELINSKY: I already thought of our alliance name.
What is it?
Shaggy and Daphne.
-(chuckles) You like that? -Okay, I love it. Yeah.
-This is a sacred bond. -But... I agree.
So I was like, "Hey,
you and me, we'll work together."
We pinky promise.
I definitely want to be on your side,
-'cause I want to work with you. -Yeah, yeah. I mean,
I want numbers, so... And I want, like,
people I like to work with, so...
I'm the queen
of the tribe right now. Everybody's calling me.
My phone won't stop ringing.
Everybody's like,
"We should work together. Let's work together.
Let's do this." Jess is like,
"I get a good vibe." I'm assuming
that's her way of saying we should work together,
but I can't tell if it's the truth or not.
No one's talking to me.
I mean, you haven't really talked a lot of strategy.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm playing a slow game.
KENZIE: Jess doesn't really want to talk strategy,
and no one can get a read on her. I tried.
I tried talking to her. There wasn't much there.
I tried to talk to Jess and be like, "Who-- What are you--
-Have you talked to anybody?" -Yeah. Literally. It's, like,
-she was so hesitant, like... -She was like, "About what?" And I was like...
Yeah.
KENZIE: Tiff, that is my girl.
We kind of have this girls thing,
apart from the big thing,
that's the four of us--
Q, me, Tiff and Jelinsky.
So, we like this.
-Uh... -We like this a lot.
We want to lock this in.
-Like, for sure. -KENZIE: Yeah, we're good.
The four of us working together--
wonderful, perfect. Numbers.
We've got brains, we're all strong.
Like, we're good.
♪ I'm building me a home ♪
♪ This earthly house ♪
♪ I didn't hear that part ♪
SODA: ♪ This earthly house ♪
-♪ And my soul is gonna need ♪ -(Tevin laughs)
♪ And my soul is gonna need... ♪
SODA: I just love to sing, and I love group songs.
And I used to lead camp, so I feel like
Tevin and I singing,
like, really brings camaraderie.
I think it helps morale.
It helps us connect, and it helps people feel okay.
Yay!
(laughs)
HUNTER: Soda has worked as a camp counselor.
I also have worked as a camp counselor,
but one of the things that, like, I didn't enjoy...
b-being a camp counselor was camp songs.
It's the part of camp that drove me crazy,
and it has followed me out here.
It goes... ♪ Big booty, big booty, big booty, uh-huh ♪
-♪ Big booty. ♪ -(whoops) -HUNTER: My tribe,
in terms of energy and enthusiasm,
we have the most.
There's no doubt about that.
(both whooping)
(chanting): Let's go, Hunter, let's go!
Let's go, Hunter...
HUNTER: Being from a small town,
I don't fit in perfectly, because I'm very introverted,
and there's a lot of energy, and I cannot keep up with them.
I met my ex-husband.
I was like, "You tall as a tree. I want to climb you."
-SODA: Oh! -Oh, damn!
-Turn me over. -SODA: Hey.
HUNTER: I've said it
coming into this game, and I'll continue to say it:
it's about being flexible
and adaptable, and I want to work with someone
who can help my social game.
I mean really, like, aesthetically,
do we want it to be square?
Aesthetically. Look at you. You're trying to...
You're trying to flip this house.
-(both laugh) -Yeah.
You're trying to flip this house.
HUNTER: Tevin is a cool guy.
We work well together, we can laugh together, and
it's just, it's really easy to have a conversation with him.
Tevin, I love to hear that you sing.
I-I am not a singer because, like,
some people's jokes fall flat.
My singing falls flat.
If your goal, like, you-you can teach me how to sing...
That way I know I'll be here a long time.
-Okay. -(laughs)
You're gonna have to keep me here a while.
TEVIN: Hunter has been humble and a hard worker,
and the two of us have
taken on the leading roles
of kind of getting this shelter together.
You're obviously very, very good, socially.
-We can make it working together. -Why, thank you.
The Andy Griffith alliance.
-The Andy Griffith alliance. -(laughing)
("The Andy Griffith Show Theme" playing)
Hunter and I really do bond
because we both love Andy Griffith.
Oh, my God!
I have an alliance named after Andy Griffith.
It's so stupid.
I'm an introvert, and so, like,
I really enjoy y'all's energy.
I just don't have it to match, you know what I'm saying?
TEVIN: I definitely want to work with Hunter, but one of my strategies
coming into this game was to
feel out who everyone is.
I really vibe with Hunter.
I think he has a good spirit about him.
-Um... -Yeah, he's really sweet and, like, calm and easygoing.
TEVIN: As an actor, I'm very extroverted
and very good at working with people, and that is what
Survivor is about.
At the end of the day, all the world's a stage,
and all the men and women are merely players.
And so I am just on this island
playing whatever role I got to play.
And very soon, everyone
is gonna find out why I say this island's mine.
♪ ♪
I love that song.
What was on your mixtape, Charlie?
Uh, oh, man. I'm a big Taylor Swift fan.
-Ha! Yes! -BEN: Hell yeah. Yeah, T.S.
Yeah, I lo... I love Taylor Swift.
Yeah, I always have.
It's real catchy.
-I like the lyrics. -That's dedication.
CHARLIE: You know, I've lived a very simple life.
I grew up in a beautiful town
called Manchester-by-the-Sea. And I loved
growing up there, but it's a bubble.
It's filled with a lot of people who look like me.
It's not a very diverse place.
But out here, it's totally different.
I've been known to shred a Long Island iced tea or two.
Oh, man.
-You're not one of those. -You're that guy.
(laughing)
-Like appletini? -JEM: Like tropical drinks?
BEN: I'll be honest...
-MORIAH: Appletini? -(laughing)
CHARLIE: On Survivor, you've got people from every single walk of life,
every single background, and I'm just really excited to
learn people's stories and, you know, pop that bubble.
JEM: The girls came to me with this
all-girls alliance, but I was like,
"We need somebody else.
Like, three and three. Like, we have to have majority."
-Charlie's Angels. -Oh, my God.
(laughs)
That is amazing.
♪ ♪
CHARLIE: How are you guys feeling?
-I feel good. -I feel good.
-I feel good with everybody. -Yeah.
-I love the tribe. Yeah. -Yeah.
MARIA: But, like, the three girls really like you.
-That sounds actually really good. (chuckles) -Yeah.
CHARLIE: I've only had women bosses my whole life.
In school, in clinics, in law school,
it's, like, all women.
I don't mind working with women at all.
And they seem really smart,
really game savvy,
which I like in an alliance.
♪ ♪
TIM: The girls are playing.
They're walking, whispering.
I mean, I'm all about women empowerment,
but there's potential for the women to be in cahoots.
I have a wife. I have a grandma. Like, I know
how they operate.
I'm telling you, the women always take out the guys.
If-if people are playing, you got to play, yeah?
-You got to play. -You got to play the game.
All I'm saying is, we have to take a girl out.
CHARLIE: This is great. I love this.
I got two groups of people who
I have an alliance with.
But I have to be really careful how I handle this,
because playing both sides is dangerous.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
Oh, girl.
♪ ♪
VENUS: Whenever you guys can, like,
maybe help me split the palm fronds,
I'll braid all of them for us.
When I saw you, I called you "princess."
-At that moment. -I did, too.
So funny, but I said, "Princess U.S.A."
But you're Canadian, so...
VENUS: One of the things I was afraid of, coming into this game,
was that people would think I'm a princess.
I'm anything but.
That's right.
Don't ever let somebody
-tell you that princess is-is bad. -LIZ: Amen.
VENUS: Tevin called me out right in front of everyone,
saying, "You are a princess."
I know I'm on the bottom for that fact alone.
But then I thought to myself, "You know what?
Screw it. I'll just play as hard as I can."
I'm not gonna go out without a fight.
I have to start being sneaky
and looking for advantages and finding the immunity idol,
'cause if I can't find it, it's my ass going home.
Throw a girl a bone, Jeff.
I'm desperate.
Venus is the goddess of love,
but she's married to the god of wrath.
So when I'm being underestimated,
you are gonna see me become a dangerous player--
someone who isn't afraid
to get their hands dirty and cause chaos.
Aah! Big spider.
I'm already envisioning myself
at final Tribal Council saying "screw you" to everyone
who underestimated me the first day
and thought I was some princess
who wasn't gonna get anything done.
I'm not stupid. Venus was clearly looking
for an advantage or an idol, and I caught her.
I knew off the bat
that Venus was going to be the number one threat
in my tribe.
It's so obvious to me. She's very sociable,
very charismatic, she's dangerous.
So I have to make sure that
she's exploited as a threat.
-RANDEN: Well, I mean... -How are you feeling?
I'm solid, but my gut tells me
that Venus right now is just playing super aggressive.
-You're afraid of her? -Not afraid of her.
No, that was the wrong word.
-Yeah, I'm not afraid. -Wary, wary.
But I know a Parvati Light when I see a Parvati Light.
Yeah.
If homegirl had a chance, I think she would slit a throat
at the biggest opportunity.
SODA: Randen is telling me
to look out for Venus,
and I appreciate how forward he's being, but
my Sodar's going off, like...
♪ Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, ding. ♪
And I have to listen to that,
so I don't trust him.
I feel like he would, in a minute,
be like, "Soda's dangerous, Soda's dangerous,
Soda's Dangerous," to everyone.
He really doesn't trust you.
-SODA: He's totally using your looks against you. -Oh.
And he said, "I know a Parvati when I see one."
VENUS: Parvati was a player
who was charming
and smart as hell, and she even won a million dollars.
So, Randen calling me a Parvati is a compliment
'cause I love strong women.
-That's fine. -And he...
-That doesn't faze me at all, honestly. -Exactly.
VENUS: How dare you point fingers at me.
Sure, you're correct, but, like, how dare you assume, correctly,
that I was being sneaky?
I just want to feel... Yes, quickly. Look out.
VENUS: Thank God Soda has my back a thousand percent.
Randen,
you just put a giant target on your back.
If you have my name in your mouth,
you're going home.
♪ ♪
-I'm putting days on here. -VENUS: Yay, Hunter!
-SODA: You all hear that? -TEVIN: I hear it, baby.
-It's simple, simple. -Do you hear the sound of, like, food?
It's nice to have something to eat.
It's nice. A hot meal.
The sheer emotion I just felt
from eating that one piece of coconut is actually wild.
That's awesome.
I'm Liz Wilcox, and
I'm allergic to everything. (laughs)
Everything edible, anyway.
I think I have at least a couple dozen allergies.
Any and all nuts, cinnamon,
avocado, coconut.
I'm allergic to chicken.
Eggs give me incredible brain fog.
-SODA: I'm so sorry, Liz. -For what?
SODA: We really have to find you some food.
I, like, didn't even think about my reaction.
LIZ: Listen to me. Listen to me.
You know, one thing you got to know about Liz is,
you don't have to apologize around me for being yourself.
-Yeah. -You know, like, that's just silly.
Not eating-- that sucks,
but I'm not gonna be a big baby about it.
It's, like, I ain't going down like no punk.
Y'all don't eat, we don't win,
so I'm-a thank you all over the place.
HUNTER: Oh, there's a boat, there's a boat, there's a boat.
-RANDEN: Is it coming here? -HUNTER: Yeah, it's coming.
-Oh, no. -Ah.
-JEM: Guys, boat! -MORIAH: Oh, no.
It's that boat, guys. It's the boat.
-TIM: Oh, my God. -Oh, my gosh.
HUNTER: You want me to go and get it from him? I'll go get it.
TEVIN: I mean, what does he think, he's Jesus?
He gonna walk across the water all that way?
Oh, my God.
-All right, let's... let... -VENUS: Oh, it's a note!
BHANU: What is it?
JELINSKY: I don't know. I haven't opened it.
Hopefully, it's a journey.
If it's a journey, I want to go, without a doubt.
"One person must get on this boat.
You will return to camp this afternoon."
-I really want to go. -Okay. All right.
-You're cool with that? -Yeah, cool.
I really want to go. However, Jelinsky's
the first one to put up his hand for everything.
I'm like, "Okay, if you want to do it."
That's gonna put a target.
He wants to go, let him go. I don't want that target on me.
I'm feeling really lucky.
TEVIN: Soda rolls that Shot in the Dark,
and my symbol comes up.
And the first reaction I have is, "Oh, God."
And then I go, "Oh, yes."
Because, baby, baby, baby, I'm ready to play the game.
Is there an idol? Is there an advantage?
Oh, the fan in me is blowing up. (laughs)
While the player in me is glowing up.
(laughs)
Rock, paper, scissors.
CHARLIE: The battle of the M's.
-Oh! -Oh!
CHARLIE: Maria! Maria!
Maria.
-Get on that boat. -We'll see you later.
Maria going away is a complex thing for me, right?
'Cause she is part of my alliance.
But at the same time, you know, like,
I would love to go on a journey and get an advantage.
Flock of Sigas!
(all cawing)
Having a little somethin' somethin' in your pocket--
that could be really powerful.
JELINSKY: I did not have to work my tribe
at all to go on the journey, and
I'm playing Survivor like I'm going to win this game.
My mind's on an advantage.
You know, I'm not here to sit around all day
and play nice-nice like everybody else.
I'm here to win a million dollars.
-Hello, hello. -Oh, my God. Hi!
-Jelinsky-- that's it, right? -Jelinsky. That's right.
And this is
where great Survivors are made.
This is where the legends are made.
Jelinsky is a legend.
-Oh, boy. -Oh, boy.
-Oh. -This looks exciting.
-Oh, God. -Okay.
I'm actually gonna pee my pants.
-Like, I'm not okay. -(laughing) -Oh, okay, so we...
JELINSKY: Yeah, let's go ahead and flip them over.
TEVIN: The adrenaline is up because the stipulations
of the game are as follows.
And the person that has the torch symbol is going
to reveal that they have that symbol.
The other two are then going to
try to convince the person who has the torch
that one of them has the vote card.
The stakes are ridiculous.
Your vote is on the line.
But whoever's right get an extra vote.
Oh, spicy. Spicy mami. Okay.
MARIA: I got the torch.
My job is to decipher who has the vote card.
TEVIN: I look at my card.
And what do I see? The vote card.
I get to
tell you the truth, just about the truth.
It's the easiest form of acting that exists.
JELINSKY: And as soon as I saw that I picked the skull,
I knew that I had to lie to Maria.
So it becomes
a game of deception.
Talk to me.
Well...
Plead your case, and then I'll have questions.
Well, Maria...
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I have the vote card.
I don't want you to make the wrong decision.
That's all I got to say.
-Maria? -Yes. Yes, Tevin?
I'm just gonna tell you right here, right now,
clear as day, that that vote card is right here.
-Okay. -JELINSKY: I-I promise you, though, like,
I have the vote card.
I'm not lying to you.
TEVIN: I would hate for you to lose
your vote, is what I would hate for,
and I'd hate to lose my vote, so I'm pleading
that you pick this so that we can have an extra vote.
'Cause if you pick that one,
my God, today, you might be disappointed.
MARIA: There's something in my gut
that's saying, "Jelinsky's lying," but I'm not 100%.
So, my heart was pounding out of my chest because
if I choose wrong, then I'm gonna lose a vote.
-All right, so... -I'm so sorry.
Let's talk about this. If,
and you're being honest with me, Tevin,
-I'm being 100% honest. -then I can trust that
we can work together.
But Jelinsky,
losing my vote would not be good.
So, if I find out that you were lying,
I will have to go back and tell my tribe the deceit.
-Ooh. -MARIA: So,
I'm gonna give you all another chance.
You know what? I'll-I'll be honest,
'cause I'm not "deceptful" at all.
I-I do have the skull card.
Don't pick it.
You know, this is a nerve-wracking thing.
So you're saying you have the skull card?
I do. I have the skull card.
TEVIN: Lord have mercy.
He literally folded his cards.
Jelinsky has, in this moment, just given up his vote.
But Maria and I get an extra vote.
-Should we shake hands on it? -Shake hands? -Shake hands.
-Go like this, do it this way? -Shake hands? -Uh-huh.
-I'm sorry I was deceptive. I was scared. -That's okay.
It's because of me that Jelinsky totally quit.
Like, I felt super on top of the world.
It felt super powerful.
JELINSKY: Growing up in Las Vegas,
you got to know when to hold 'em,
you got to know when to fold 'em,
you got to know when to walk away.
And it was my time to fold 'em and walk away.
I'd rather lose my vote for one Tribal Council
than lie to Tevin and Maria
and make 12 enemies going into the merge.
I know, I know, I know. You'd do really great on the show.
That's what you're saying right now.
Prove it. Apply to be on Survivor.
-TIFFANY: Yo! -Q: Hey!
He's back!
(Jelinsky sighs)
JELINSKY: I will give y'all all the tea.
So, we had to play a game.
There were three cards.
And the torch card had to figure out whether
the skull card was lying about what they had.
So, of course, I picked the skull, which was unfortunate.
And at first, I lied to them.
That probably lasted a minute
and then I was like, "Yeah, I'm lying."
-TIFFANY: What?! Why? -KENZIE: Why?
Why do you care what they...?
JELINSKY: It was a lose-lose situation.
If I lied, they both
-would have lost their vote. -KENZIE: So? So? -So?
KENZIE: Jelinsky confessed 'cause he didn't want
the people on the other tribe to lose their vote.
Who cares? They're not on our tribe.
Like, you didn't even fight for us?
You're supposed to be my number.
All you had to do was lie to strangers.
So you're the only person that lost the vote?
Right. And they both have extra votes now.
-Okay. -It was a bad situation.
I felt so bad. I just felt obligated to tell the truth.
BHANU: Jelinsky-- he gives up too quickly.
Are you kidding me?
This is Survivor.
You cannot give up like that. Have you seen Jeff talk to you?
You got to dig deep.
Hello.
CHARLIE: I can't figure out why Jelinsky would say that.
MORIAH: You mom'd the heck out of this, man.
-Yeah, you did. Yeah. -CHARLIE: Yeah.
MARIA: And so, I will get an extra vote
-at the next Tribal Council. -TIM: Good job, Maria.
-Yeah. -KENZIE: Yeah.
-Hey! -It was fun to do that. -CHARLIE: The torch.
MARIA: Oh, my God.
-BEN: Yeah, he's crushing it. -(Maria laughs)
Yeah, I'll try to grow out a mullet while I'm out here, too.
BEN: Yeah, exactly.
(laughing)
TIM: Maria's extra vote-- it is scary
because I want to get one of the ladies out.
But now the women can dominate
in this game and take out the guys.
So, this is really, really bad.
JESS: Since we got here, I have no idea if I slept.
And last night, I went straight to the shelter.
When I tried to
lie down, lay down...
Lied down? Laid down. And
that did not go well, either.
(wood snapping)
-You okay? -(laughing) -TIFFANY: Hello.
-No, I'm good, I'm good. -Q: It can hold on its own.
I don't think I've slept at all.
I'm, like, running on empty. I don't sleep at night.
Without sleep, you're not gonna be strong.
No, and I can't even think straight.
I got my ADHD diagnosis in the last couple of years, and
it's-it's been difficult out here.
On such little sleep and food and water,
it's making me kind of... It's making my head spin.
And I feel like it's, like, affecting me
in worse ways than I imagined.
Oh, my God. I lost my water bottle.
-Q: You lost it again? -This always happens to me.
This is my nightmare, coming out here,
is that I would lose my stuff.
I'm losing things, like, all over the place.
My ADHD is, like, messing everything up.
I feel like I have to kind of shrink a little bit
and not be as, like... take as much
social initiative as other people do.
That is not a good strategy. Like, I need
to take a little bit more initiative.
No, and I'm scared to because of how I am!
I would lose them in a shopping mall.
BHANU: Oh, no.
JESS: I am scared to have kids.
-BHANU: Oh, man. -You can just be, like, one of those
-leash moms who has their kids on a leash. -JESS: I know.
I need... No, they should put me on the leash.
(laughing)
JESS: I have to be going out and, like, not be scared
to talk strategy to people.
I even feel scared to go out
idol hunting. Oh, my God.
If I found an idol, I would lose it anyway.
BHANU: I'm not trying to be sketchy, but
I'm always looking for an idol.
It's extremely stressful because
I don't want to be caught.
I don't want to be caught doing this.
(vocalizing)
All right.
Where are you hiding?
And I've been looking high and low everywhere.
It's super hard.
Why-why do they make it look so, like, easy?
-They make it so easy on TV, man. -Yes.
BHANU: Everyone's searching for an idol, but
I don't want anyone to find an idol before me.
Calm yourself down and think.
I'm gonna
find that guy. I'm gonna find that idol.
(whispering): I found something. Yo!
It's a Beware Advantage.
TIFFANY: Not for one second did it cross my mind
to put the Beware Advantage back.
This is mine. I earned it, I found it.
I don't care what's in here.
I'm doing it or I'll deal with the consequences.
I didn't come out here
to play scared.
People who play scared go home.
Girl, we got to go back.
Where'd you find it?
TIFFANY: I read the clue real quick, and it says
I got to go back to the spot where I found it and dig a hole.
We digging, digging, digging, digging.
Pull out this big box with a lock on it.
All right.
-Yeah, you did lose your vote. Your vote is gone. -Okay.
-Damn. All right, I got to bury it. -You got to bury it back.
TIFFANY: So until I have the idol, I can't vote.
"That's why it says beware."
(laughs)
(shrieking): Ah!
But if we lose an immunity challenge,
I have to return to that spot. There better just be
a key waiting there for me and not no extra stuff.
If we have to tell the boys, we have to tell the boys.
-They're are numbers. It's fine. -Okay.
It's fine.
TIFFANY: The more people that know about the idol,
the more messy it's gonna get.
But, I mean, it's a Beware Advantage, right?
So this is the kind
of advantage that you kind of need people
to be on your side for.
I don't have a vote. I found a Beware Advantage today.
-You don't have a vote? -I don't.
So if Jelinsky loses his vote, and I lose my vote,
it's y'all two, Jess and Bhanu.
-Do not tell Jelinsky. -I'm not telling him anything.
TIFFANY: I don't care if I don't have a vote.
I'll figure it out.
I ain't nervous at all. You can't be nervous.
We only got 26 days.
Who got time to be nervous?
♪ ♪
Come on in.
♪ ♪
All right.
Let's review the first few days.
Charlie, Siga chose Savvy.
-(laughing) -Oh, you're laughing.
Yeah. Are we savvy?
I don't know.
-(laughing) -Aw.
BEN: You know, in life,
you either rock or you get rocked.
What happened?
-We got rocked. -We got rocked.
We definitely got rocked.
It's just one loss.
-Just one loss. -Yeah. Yeah.
You will have your tribe supplies
waiting for you back at camp
-after this challenge. -(whooping, cheering)
All right, Yanu, you had Sweat.
How'd that go, Tiffany?
Um, I mean, we just having a good time, Jeff.
(laughing) -PROBST: So, wait. So, Jelinsky,
-you got rocked, too? -JELINSKY: Jeff,
we read that Sweat task and it said
it's gonna take several hours, and we have four.
Last I checked, several means seven.
-Hmm. -JELINSKY: But with that being said,
we didn't give up until an hour and a half into it.
Wait a second. Several means seven?
Several means seven. It's a part of the word.
-Is it not? -SODA: No. Several is more than...
-No. -Several is more than a couple.
Several means seven in my book.
(laughing)
Several means seven in Jelinsky's book,
-and that's that. -Okay.
PROBST: All right, so you did not complete the Sweat task,
which means you don't have your supplies, either.
They'll be waiting for you back at camp after this challenge.
-BEN: They got rocked. -PROBST: All right, shall we get
to your first immunity challenge?
(all voicing assent)
It's going to tax you.
You're gonna race to the top of a ramp
where you will be confronted
with the biggest gecko you have ever seen.
Legs, long tail, bloodshot eyes.
You're gonna race to untie that gecko.
You then got to get it over a wall,
through a tight tunnel and to the top of a deck
where two players will then race to solve a Survivor puzzle.
The first two tribes to finish win immunity.
This is what you're playing for right here.
(cheering, whooping)
-All right! -Let's go.
The immunity idol.
-Wow. -PROBST: With one of these
at your camp, it means nobody's going home.
-(whooping) -Great. -Last tribe to finish,
otherwise known as the losers--
Tribal Council tonight where somebody will be
the first person voted out of Survivor 46,
and as a penalty for losing,
I will take-- or keep-- your flint.
All right, give you a minute
to strategize, we'll get it on.
(whooping)
♪ ♪
All right, here we go.
For immunity.
-Survivors ready? -BHANU: Yup. -Ready.
-Go! -Come on!
PROBST: Everybody got to get up that ramp first.
It's gonna take a lot of teamwork here.
(overlapping chatter)
PROBST: Once you get everybody up, you can start untying.
-You're good, Nami. -Come on, boys.
(indistinct chatter)
PROBST: You're good, Siga! You're good, Yanu!
-(overlapping chatter) -PROBST: You got six sets of knots.
Question is which tribe is gonna work together the best?
And Siga has their knot.
Here comes Nami.
-Dump it over. -Jump! -PROBST: Here comes Siga.
-(grunting) -All right.
PROBST: Here comes Yanu.
Come on. (whoops)
(whooping)
-We got a challenge. -MORIAH: It's okay.
Use both, use both hands.
PROBST: Everybody and the gecko goes over the wall.
(groaning)
-BEN: Just two at a time. -MARIA: Yeah, everything.
Come on, come on, come on. No. Hey.
That is 500 pounds of Survivor gecko.
Ain't nothing easy on Survivor.
-(groaning) -Push!
PROBST: All three tribes doing a nice job,
trying to figure out how to maneuver
a 15-foot long, 500-pound gecko.
-Come on. -SODA: Again! Push! Go!
PROBST: Nami-- everybody getting into it.
-(groaning) -PROBST: Can they get it over?
-(indistinct shouting) -(Tevin yelling)
-Flip it. -They've got the gecko.
You got to flip it over and turn it around.
Siga and Yanu once again struggling.
-Very familiar. -Hey!
Let's go, y'all.
Nami dominated the marooning challenge
and right now they are dominating this first
-immunity challenge. -One, two, three!
PROBST: Now you're going through a very tight tunnel, as Siga
and Yanu struggle with a very big gecko.
(Tim shouting)
PROBST: Got to get to that halfway mark.
-TIFFANY: Pull up! -Flip that weight.
Everybody pulling.
While Nami continues to extend its lead.
(overlapping chatter)
PROBST: You are not gonna get it by pulling that head.
Nice.
PROBST: You've got to get on the body.
-Yes. Yes. -We got to push the body up.
-PROBST: It is Nami now -HUNTER: Ready?
-at the last obstacle with the gecko. -One, two, three.
(grunting)
Great coordination.
-(grunting) Yeah. -That's how you do it.
-Once you can clip it in, you're good. -One,
-two, three. (grunting) -(grunting)
They've got it up.
-Click it in! -RANDEN: That's what I'm talking about.
-TEVIN: Wait. No, no. -HUNTER: Hey, it's fine. We got it.
-We got it. -You're good, Nami!
-Two people are on the puzzle. -All right, get up, get up!
(grunting)
-Here we go. -Coming down!
PROBST: Siga has the gecko over.
Let's go. We're looking for two.
-You're still in this. -Yes!
PROBST: You've got to get under that body
and lift it over the wall.
You cannot pull it.
Siga now entering the tunnel...
-We're almost there, yeah. -Pull!
PROBST: ...while Nami works on the puzzle.
Look at that lead. Let's use it.
Q: One, two, three.
Get up. Get up.
PROBST: Yanu starting to make some progress.
Let's go, Yanu!
-(Q shouting) -Push!
(yelling)
PROBST: There it is!
Get everybody over. Let's go!
Yanu, you got to dig deep right now.
-You're exhausted. There's no time. -All right.
-(all grunting) -Siga closer. -We are right there.
Got to get enough of that head up that you can lock it in.
Three.
-(grunting) -Okay, go.
PROBST: That should do it. Clip in.
Yanu making progress. Made up a lot of ground.
You are in this, but you cannot rest.
RANDEN: Hell, yeah.
-PROBST: Soda and Venus for Nami. -Look for a number.
-Moriah and Maria for Siga. -You're solid!
There you go, Moriah.
Just go, just go, just go!
PROBST: Yanu is through the tunnel.
There you go. You are still in this.
-(groans) PROBST: You got to get it up to the top
before you can get on that puzzle.
And every second you take is a time bleed
-for Siga and Nami. -(overlapping chatter)
-That goes here. -I got it.
-I have it. -You got it. Go. -Perfect.
-(indistinct shouting) -Come on, come on.
PROBST: Yanu could be in this if they can get it up here.
TEVIN: It's all good. Don't panic.
-Breathe, breathe. -PROBST: Venus and Soda doing a great job
-on the puzzle for Nami. -Y'all got it.
They have been in charge of this challenge from the get-go.
-Got it. -From the gecko.
From the gecko-- we see what you did there.
-From the get-go! -HUNTER: No pun intended.
-(grunting) -PROBST: Yanu's got it up.
-Clip in. -Jess, climb up, climb up.
You're good, Yanu. Start working.
-It is Nami decidedly in the lead, -Come on, y'all!
but Siga does not have such a big advantage
that this is over.
Yanu could catch you. You better keep moving.
-Yanu, you got a shot. -There you go.
It's gonna come down to Jelinsky and Jess for Yanu
and Moriah and Maria for Siga.
Soda and Venus clearly in control right now.
-Two pieces left. -Come on, Jeff!
-Come on, Jeff. -PROBST: One piece left for Nami.
For the win.
There it is! Nami wins immunity!
-(cheering) -We're looking for one more.
It's now between Siga and Yanu.
Build out the right.
PROBST: Jelinsky's stacking, and Jess is putting 'em in.
If this strategy works, they can make a fast catch-up.
-BEN: Great, Maria. -CHARLIE: There you go.
Yes. There. Right there.
No, up one.
-To your right! -PROBST: Jelinsky a little confused.
-No. The one you just put down! -To your right!
(indistinct, overlapping chatter)
Keep going!
Siga with another piece.
Jess trying to find another for Yanu.
-And she's got it. -Beautiful.
PROBST: Is it too little too late for Yanu?
They took forever to get their gecko up here.
Jess. Come on, Jess!
Jelinsky trying to get one, gives it to Jess.
-Yes! -PROBST: It's not gonna matter.
-(shrieking) -It's over.
Siga wins immunity,
joining Nami,
safe in the game, sending Yanu
to Tribal Council,
where somebody will be the first person
voted out of Survivor 46.
Wow.
All right, Nami, congratulations.
(whooping) Take it, V.
Nobody going home from Nami.
Grab your stuff, head out.
-Siga, congratulations. -(whooping)
Well earned. Grab your stuff, head out.
-Enjoy the night off. -Thank you.
Bhanu, what's gonna happen when you get back to camp?
'Cause now it's real. You're voting somebody out tonight.
Sorry, Jeff. Um...
It's-it's breaking my heart that one of us has to go home,
and... it's really hard.
We put in a lot of effort to be on this,
and Survivor means a lot to all of us.
No one wants to go home,
and here we are.
I don't know.
All right, Yanu, waiting back at camp will be your pot
and your machete.
As a penalty for losing-- sorry for you--
I'm gonna keep your flint. Tribal Council tonight
where somebody will be the first person
voted out of Survivor 46.
Grab your stuff. Head out. See you tonight at Tribal.
BHANU: No one wants to be the first person
to walk away from Survivor, but this is a game,
this is a serious business, someone has to go,
and I think Jelinsky and Jess are targets tonight.
But this is Survivor. Anything can happen.
The game is on, 24 by seven.
It's so hard.
♪ ♪
Well, good effort, everyone.
TIFFANY: Does anybody need their canteen filled?
-You guys coming, too? -Probably gonna
kick back for a little bit.
There's no stopping
in the game of Survivor. We got to vote tonight.
We got to make sure we're locked in,
and I'm going into Tribal Council without a vote.
But I do feel pretty confident
because I feel like I have a great alliance
with Q, Kenzie and Tiff.
We have a solid four.
All of my allies are locked in with me.
I did want to just chill out for a little bit.
Really? You think that's better for your game
than going where everyone is?
(laughs)
-How are you feeling? -Scared.
I'm, like, one of the smallest people here.
Yeah.
I mean, I know our names are on the block.
My name is on the block?
I just figured 'cause we were at the puzzle.
I think Jess has to be the first one to go.
I just wanted to make it seem like I'm nervous because
I do not want Jess playing her Shot in the Dark tonight.
And if I could get Jess out of here
without even casting a vote?
Oh, my God.
That's Survivor legend status to me.
I just want y'all to know I don't want any of you
going home, period.
BHANU: What is the plan, then?
So, the real plan is Jess.
The fake plan that we're telling Jess is Jelinsky.
TIFFANY: People want Jess to be the first vote, right?
Me included. The vibes don't...
They not vibing when I talk to Jess.
And
I'm really bummed that
we lost the immunity challenge.
Psych. I don't care. I'm happy we lost
the immunity challenge.
Now I get further instructions for the idol.
Okay.
TIFFANY: And I needed to have my vote back
because your vote is
your voice in this game.
Girl.
I got to crack this message to find the location of the key.
My heart sank.
When I opened it up, it was a friggin' puzzle.
And now I have to decode this alien language
to figure out where my key is.
All right, let's see. I think this word is "the."
So that means this is T.
Maybe this is O.
I mean, I love it.
I don't know where your brain's at, but beautiful.
TIFFANY: I am a visual artist, so,
doing the puzzle-- it's just like
a friggin' light bulb just went off in my head, and I just
started rolling through it.
TIFFANY: But then, of course, here comes Q and Bhanu,
curbing the corner.
So I knew I had to boogie.
I had literally two words left.
Oh. Oh. "Point."
"Your key is tied to a rock
in the shallow waters at the point."
What is the point?
I run over there to the point
or what I think is the point, and I'm just
turning over every rock.
Oh. Behind a rock.
I'm turning over everything. Crabs jumping out at me,
all kinds of crap.
I'm sweating bullets.
(gasps) Yes!
Oh! Yes!
Yes!
I untied the key, and I hauled ass.
Oh, my God.
(gasps) Yes!
(whispers): Yes! Yes. Yes.
I had to work for this.
Survivor bucket list item... achieved.
This is a real, true idol.
-No catches. -KENZIE: Whatever you're doing,
you have to do it quick.
-You got it? -Yeah, I got it.
-You did? -I did.
Now, I mean, unless some talks
are happening right now that I don't know,
it's looking like Jess to go home.
When you don't deliver time and time again,
in my world, you get dismissed.
Where I come from, hard work is respected.
Jelinsky talks a good game, but doesn't show up to play.
I don't need talkers.
I need soldiers who's willing to go to battle, do the job.
I can't go to war with him.
JELINSKY: I want our four to go deep.
Me too. I mean, it's kind of our only option.
I think we could seriously run things.
Q: A lot of folks think Jess is going home,
but I'm writing Jelinsky's name down.
Big letters. I don't know how to spell it yet,
but his name will be written down, from me, tonight.
I cannot have Jelinsky to come back.
Q: Correct.
-And then, Jelinsky, I don't trust at all. -Correct.
JESS: Q's saying Jelinsky's the target, but
I'm very nervous about tonight. Nobody wants
to be the first person voted out and, like,
I was a common denominator in our puzzle failures.
Maybe they're trying to, like, butter me up
just to vote me out.
I think it will benefit us to get Jess first, then Jelinsky.
Jelinsky has told us he can do everything under the moon.
So what is he good at? He's weak.
I don't know if Kenzie's gonna go
for voting Jelinsky out first.
Maybe we might have to think about this.
What Tiff is saying is also super valid.
-Yeah. -It's super, super valid.
I don't know.
I'm so... I'm so torn.
I like Jelinsky. I like that kid.
-I'm a little nervous. I'm just... -Here.
BHANU: And I really like Jess.
Come here.
BHANU: She's the one who's consoling me,
but I'm gonna suck up my emotions,
drain my tears, just put
the name on the parchment tonight and be at peace with it.
I mean, Jess was a little better at the puzzle today.
Jelinsky was looking like a deer in the headlights.
-BHANU: Yeah, but... -KENZIE: But we wouldn't have gotten
to the puzzle without Jelinsky. We need to look
at the standard of who's gonna be able to carry us, literally,
through challenges.
Jess is our weakest in the physicality realm...
That's me, personal.
KENZIE: Oh, my gosh. It's a mess.
We aren't on the same page. Like, what should we do?
Jess isn't really bringing a strength.
And sure, she's sweet, but
it's really hard to work with someone
that you can't get a read on.
But then, with Jelinsky, I don't want to play with people
who just give up. Like, I'm not gonna
give up on anything.
Rule number one of playing the game--
that one, you don't quit.
First Tribal is crucial.
Lines get drawn.
You know who to trust, a lot of stuff gets exposed.
And now my brain
is, like, hurting.
My... I, like, want to throw up.
♪ ♪
Behind each of you is a torch. Go ahead and grab a torch,
dip it in and get fire.
This is part of the ritual at Tribal Council
because in this game, fire represents your life.
When your fire's gone, so are you.
All right, so let's go back to the beginning.
Jess, what surprised you most these first three days?
Oh, man. I think...
I... I knew that it would be physically challenging,
but more than anything, it's the sleep deprivation
that is really messing with me
and just really messing with my ability
to process information.
PROBST: Is it because you're choosing not to sleep
or you just can't physically get...
JESS: I can't physically sleep, and I thought
that I would be physically exhausted enough
because we've all been working so hard.
I thought that I would be physically exhausted enough
to just, like, go out like a light,
and that's how I usually am at home.
PROBST: I want to circle back to the Sweat task
because I still have some questions about what happened.
Q, walk me through it.
Q: So we had to,
Jeff, climb up Mount Everest,
climb down Mount Everest,
go into the ocean with holes in a bucket,
and we're like, "Oh, my.
What has Jeff put us through now?"
So, we decided
to not finish it with maybe about
two hours and 45 minutes left.
PROBST: So, Jelinsky, I got
a slightly different story from you today.
Honestly, Jeff, Q and I share the same mentality.
We're the type of dudes to not give up on anything.
-You know? If... -PROBST: Wait a second.
That's an impossible statement to make given that Q said
you just gave up.
Okay. I see your point, Jeff,
but I'm saying if we had all day
to fill up that damn bucket, we would have.
PROBST: Jelinsky, what's fascinating to me is
the reluctance to own that you quit.
You're right. We quit the challenge.
There's no way around it, and I'm gonna own up to it now.
We quit the challenge, and that's that.
Okay, let's move on to the journey.
Jelinsky, you go on this journey.
-What happened? -JELINSKY: Honestly, Jeff,
I was so excited to go,
but lo and behold,
Jelinsky doesn't have a vote tonight.
And Jelinsky has never talked in third person in his life before.
-But tonight, it especially sucks. -Let me...
let me step in. He gave his vote away.
Again, a different version of a story.
Q: He gave it away. He traded his vote
for them to have two extra votes.
It's not good in my books.
JELINSKY: I was in a tough spot.
You know, I'm not a deceptive person,
so I realized the cards were literally stacked against me.
There was not much I could do.
In fact, them having extra votes might work
to our advantage one day, and we'll just have to wait and see.
JESS: How would that work to our advantage
one day-- them having extra votes?
They might want to work with us and say,
"Hey, you guys vote this way, I'm gonna use my extra vote,
and we're golden."
Maybe they're not gonna vote you out,
but we ain't give them them extra votes. You did.
It's a game for a million dollars, Jeff.
We're not handing out favors.
PROBST: And, Jess, that's part of the design
of a journey. What do you do when you're alone?
-Yeah. -Do you make a decision that's good
-for the group? -Yeah. But...
I don't know.
(laughing): Come back to me in a second.
PROBST: Are you really struggling
-right now? -JESS: I am really struggling.
Like, my brain is, like, somewhere else right now.
Like, and I must have said that the first day,
but it's, like, really somewhere else now.
I'm like mush mouth. I, like... I...
I can't even string sentences together.
PROBST: I'm fascinated by
-how open you're... -JESS: I'm an alien.
I don't understand myself, either.
PROBST: And, Jess, it happens to a lot of players, and
it sometimes never goes away.
-You just can never catch up. -God.
-Yeah. -So you're struggling with even something as simple
-as spelling your name. -JESS: Yeah.
Don't learn how to spell my name, please.
(laughing)
-PROBST: So, Kenzie? -KENZIE: Yes.
PROBST: We're only three days in.
Where is this tribe right now?
KENZIE: Well, it's difficult, because
we have lost everything together.
We've gone through it all together.
You get super close super quick.
And now we have to cut someone out.
It's... it's tough.
PROBST: So, Bhanu, how do you make
that first decision about who to send home?
(sighs)
This is a challenging vote for me.
Um, I want to work with someone
who's gonna be good socially,
not someone who's not giving
any clue of what's going on in their mind.
PROBST: How about for you, Tiffany?
TIFFANY: For me, it comes down to one thing.
What four people can I go back to the tribe with
that's not gonna put me back here again in a couple of days.
-I don't care about nothing else. -So you're talking about
-tribe strength in challenges? -TIFFANY: Yeah.
PROBST: And Jelinsky, that's one
of the fundamental dilemmas of Survivor,
is tribe versus self.
JELINSKY: One hundred percent. I understand what they're saying.
I am still 100% into this tribe.
Like, I want to stay in this game.
I just don't want my efforts to be lost
in a decision like a journey, and I will never,
ever give up in a challenge.
Except for the Sweat test.
(laughing)
-And the journey. -And the journey.
(laughing)
Thank you for reminding me.
(laughing)
Jess, given what some of the people have said
they're looking for in a tribemate,
are you worried that your inability
right now to form sentences--
do you think it's impacting your ability to connect
-or do you feel solid? -JESS: No. This is only happening
in, like, public settings,
but in my one-on-one or, like, smaller groups,
I think I'm a lot more coherent
because I do feel like I'm delivering at camp
and I do feel like I'm delivering at the challenges.
Even though I just shouldn't have volunteered for the puzzle.
-Yeah. Again. -JELINSKY: Jeff, I think
Jess and I are definitely in the same boat.
I feel like a lot of the pressure is on us,
especially being the common denominators in the puzzle.
PROBST: Jess, he is determined to get you
-in this boat with him. -JESS: I don't want
to be in that boat! I feel like I worked really, really hard.
I do not deserve to be in that boat.
Jeff, I don't have a vote tonight,
so maybe I am subconsciously deflecting.
But I love Jess. Like, Jess is awesome.
-Thank you. -You're welcome.
-(laughing) -I'm a nice guy, man.
I don't like fighting. I don't like being the center....
Nobody thinks you're not a nice guy.
-We love you. -We all think you're a nice guy.
-I know. -BHANU: Jeff, I love this kid.
Like, I... This kid is really awesome.
But I don't know how the tribe is feeling.
Is it too little, too late?
Like, I don't know, so...
So you're feeling in your heart that it's Jelinsky tonight?
It's time to vote?
(laughing)
-Oh, ... -(laughing)
I don't know if I'm ready for that, Jeff.
TIFFANY: Hey, yo.
-Oh. -PROBST: Wow. Jelinsky.
That did not sound good.
JELINSKY: Jeff, all I know is,
as long as I'm in this game, I'm giving 100% effort
in every single challenge we do,
and I just want us to be the strongest tribe possible
going forward.
PROBST: All right, it is
time to vote. Kenzie, you're up.
Wow. This is so beautiful.
Oh, I never want to see another gecko again.
(sighs)
Oh, my God.
I'll go tally the votes.
If anybody has an advantage or an idol
and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.
All right. I'll read the votes.
First vote: Jelinsky.
Jelinsky. That's two votes Jelinsky.
First person voted out of Survivor 46: Jelinsky.
That's three. That's enough. Need to bring me your torch.
Jelinsky, the tribe has spoken.
Time for you to go.
Grab your torches. Head back to camp.
Good night.
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KENZIE: People are starting to feel defeated.
Come on!
KENZIE: It's just so overwhelming.
PROBST: Next time on Survivor...
You don't want to see a pissed-off version of me.
Fire! Yeah!
This is wide open.
Any tribe could win.
This was a huge blindside. I thought with every ounce
in my body that Jess was going home tonight.
I was the first one voted out,
but sometimes that's just how the cards fall.
And I didn't even get to cast a vote this season.
That's horrible. You know,
when you're comfortable in this game,
that's when you go home, man.
That's exactly what happened to me.
(roars)