[whooping and cheering]
[chanting]: Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge! Merge!
PROBST: Previously onSurvivor...
There it is-- a full-blown idol
that nobody... knows about.
Q: For the plus-one alliance, I pulled in Tiff,
Hunter pulled in Tevin, Tim pulled in Maria.
So the journey six
is what I want to try to make sure is intact.
KENZIE: Right now, as it stands,
there's five on Siga, five on Nami.
But there's three of us right in the middle.
Three of us Yanu.
Soda hates Venus. It's a mess.
Q: Nami has cracks, so it might be wiser
for us to side with Nami
and vote out Mo.
I'm unsure about Mo.
TIFFANY: Oh, my God. All I know is that
I'm glad I'm safe tonight because, baby,
it's about to get messy.
First vote: Venus.
Sixth person voted out of Survivor46:
Moriah. That's six. That's enough.
The tribe has spoken.
Congrats on the first Tribal for some of y'all.
-Wasn't that intense? That was... -It was bad.
-That was really intense. -BEN: Whoa.
That was really, like, bad.
VENUS: My first Tribal
was mind-blowing.
Seeing my name written down on a piece of parchment
as the very first vote-- it was just terrible.
But the fact that there was jut only one vote with my name
and the rest was straight Mo--
I automatically knew that Soda wrote my name down because
that's the only thing that could possibly make sense.
Oh...
Sure.
Our relationship has been a question mark for a while no.
I really wish I could have worked with her,
but I'm also not stupid.
I know that I'm loyal,
but the way that you were being evasive with your answers...
That's why I... that's why
I came to you the way that I did, because
it's alarming to me that you, like, went straight for me
in the attitude that you did, though.
I'll be straight up with you.
I needed a moment 'cause I know I snapped.
No, that's fine that you needed a moment,
but you did snap at the same time.
Like, it is fine that you needed a moment.
I didn't want to raise my voice.
No, but you still were, like, "You voted for me."
TEVIN: Watching Soda and Venus
is kind of the hottest tea of the night.
I told Soda I don't trust Venu, I don't trust where she stands,
I don't trust her loyalty,
and I think that she'll flip any second that she gets.
Soda hasn't listened to me, and now
they are digging their own graves
and showing the people how toxic
and dangerous they are to the game.
And I hope that they continue to do that because it will
slide them closer to that snuffer and keep me closer
to that million dollars.
CHARLIE: Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
If you want to chat one-on-one, or, like, I can explain now.
-VENUS: We can talk in the morning. -CHARLIE: Okay. Yeah.
Q: Charlie put a vote on Venus anonymously.
So, for Venus to come back and to now think
that Soda wrote her name down
was gonna be the perfect plan.
I need Nami to be in panic mod.
But Charlie lets his emotions get the best of him,
and he confesses
to Venus that he is the one
that wrote her name down.
In this game,
we cannot have that going on.
And I think he needed
to be put in his place.
Yeah. Yeah.
You're right, man. You are right.
I messed up here. I messed up here.
-I'm with you. -You know what I told you?
-Yeah. -Do not let your emotions
-get you in this game. -Yeah.
You don't have to admit ... to nobody.
You're right. You're right.
Q's
real mad at me for telling Venus that I voted for her.
And in this moment, I'm just saying, "I'm sorry,"
and just letting him know that we're solid.
But what I'm thinking is,
Q is running this show,
and no one is allowed to have any other ideas.
"We're doing this, we're locking it down,
"we're getting to the end,
we're doing it Q's way or it's the highway."
So...
I need to get Q out of the game.
♪
[Ben gasps]
[panting rapidly]
[gasps]
-Ben, is that you? -Yeah.
I'm right here. I'm right here.
It's not bad. It's not, like, hurting.
BEN: After Tribal, I wake up
from a dream, and
panic mode, like, kicked in.
I have this hysteria for about 50 seconds,
and I have to calm down for a minute.
LIZ: Yeah.
BEN: I understood how nuts it was in the moment,
'cause I've had panic attacks before.
It's, like, something I can't control.
Thank God there were some nice people in the tribe,
and Kenzie was able to just calm me down.
KENZIE: My mom and sister both struggle with anxiety.
They struggle with their mental health.
So, I've been helping people regulate sleep and anxiety
before I even knew what that was, really.
KENZIE: You know, this is a game
where I very easily could have been like, "Good, don't sleep.
I hope you mess up in the challenges."
But that... I couldn't. I couldn't.
BEN: Kenzie held my hand, helped me make a fire,
and she made me feel like it wasn't
gonna be some kind of, like, "Yo, Ben's being a freak show,"
back to, like, the sixth grade vibe.
KENZIE: I don't care if it's a game for a million dollars.
Like, at the end of the day, Ben's a person.
Is he my competition? Yes. But he's my friend.
And sometimes you just got to be there for somebody
and just sit with them through it.
Just be with them through the storm, you know?
Sometimes that's all someone needs.
♪
Bring in the boats.
[whooping]
PROBST: Come on.
-Morning, Jeff. -Good morning.
Boy, it feels good to make the merge.
-[whooping] -Good morning, Jeff.
[whooping]
Wow.
Come on up.
All right, shall we get to today's immunity challenge?
-[all voicing assent] -[whooping]
PROBST: For today's challenge,
you're gonna balance on a triangular platform
with your feet perched on very narrow footholds.
At regular intervals, you're gonna move higher up
on the platform, making it more difficult.
If at any point you touch the platform,
or fall off of the platform, you're out.
Last person left standing
wins immunity, safe from the vote.
If you are wearing this...
-[whooping, exclaiming] -Whoa.
I love it.
PROBST: ...it means
you are not going home.
There is a twist
-to today's challenge. -Uh-oh. -Oh, wow.
You're gonna be randomly divided
into two groups of six,
which means two people will have individual immunity
-at tonight's Tribal Council. -[whooping, cheering]
Two people will be safe.
The bad news is both groups
-are going to Tribal Council. -SODA: Ooh.
So, two people are going home tonight.
-Oh. -Oh. -Oh.
In addition, you're playing for reward.
-Want to know what you're playing for? -[all voice assent]
The person who lasts the longest for the entire challenge
earns for their entire group
coffee and tea, hot and cold,
sandwiches-- veggie and tuna,
meat pies, cream cheese Danishes...
-Lord Jesus. -waiting for you back at camp.
In addition, that group will go to Tribal Council second.
And that matters, because
the group that goes first,
the person voted out
will not make the jury.
-Big enough stakes? -Oh, my God.
PROBST: All right, we're gonna draw for groups.
LIZ: Yeah.
Ooh. My heart.
♪
All right. Everybody take your first position.
In Purple: Soda, Liz,
Maria, Charlie, Venus and Tevin.
In the other group we have Tiff, Kenzie, Hunter,
Ben, Q and Tim.
You will be competing against each other,
and whoever stays up there
the longest overall earns,
for their group, food.
And you go to Tribal Council second.
Everybody's up?
Everybody's good.
This challenge is on.
Cowabunga.
PROBST: We'll be here for 15 minutes.
Last time we did this challenge,
very different conditions.
Maryanne is out.
Rocksroy's out. Omar's out.
Mike's out.
It is a very rough day on the water.
The entire challenge lasted, like, three minutes.
Today,
it's like a lake.
-KENZIE: Okay. -TIFFANY: Yeah.
With, like, cities or food or something?
-Yup. -Yes.
Somebody start it.
-A for Atlanta. -Q: Atlanta. Who's next?
-B for Birmingham. -You have to say,
"Atlanta," then whatever.
A, Atlanta.
B for Baltimore.
Oh, my goodness. You're out, Ben.
-[laughs] -BEN: Let's go, Liz.
C for Cincinnati.
Well, you got to say... Wait. What?
-But Ben said two Bs already. -Q: B is out.
-Q's making up the rules here. -So you say, "A for Atlanta."
-Atlanta. -LIZ: Oh, I got to start all over?
-Yes. -Yes. -C for Cincinnati.
-Oh, my God! -[laughs] -CHARLIE: Wait, wait.
-I'll go, I'll go. -Q: There we go.
-There we go, Charlie. -All right, all right.
-I got this. You ready? -Go.
Baltimore.
-Oh, my God. -[blows raspberry]
HUNTER: Charlie knows.
-[laughs] -Q: New game.
-Who's next? -PROBST: I'd just like to take
a moment and say, in honor of Jelinsky,
you've been up here several minutes.
-Several! -Yay! -PROBST: Which means seven.
-Legend. -PROBST: Everybody looking really good.
14 days into Survivor46,
balancing on a triangular platform,
trying to stay in a million-dollar game.
15 seconds left in this round.
Uh-oh.
PROBST: Almost there. Hang in there.
Five, four, three,
two, one. Everybody's safe.
-You can touch your platform. -[whooping]
You're gonna be moving quickly, though, so,
don't get too comfortable.
You have 15 seconds
to get up on that top shelf.
Start making your move.
Ten seconds left.
This is a live transition, which means,
if you fall, you're out.
Five, four,
three, two,
one. Q can't make the transition.
Soda can't make the transition.
We have our first two casualties.
One person from Purple is out.
One person from Orange is out.
Wobbly.
Damn it!
Ben is out for Orange.
Orange is down to four.
This challenge is picking up now.
It is Charlie, Maria,
Tevin, Venus and Liz for Purple.
For Orange, it is Hunter, Tim,
Kenzie and Tiff.
We'll be here for 30 minutes.
Ooh.
Mm.
PROBST: You want to survive tonight's Tribal,
you've got to outlast the other people
you're competing against.
You want reward, you got to outlast everybody.
What's up, Jeff?
What's up, Tim?
Thanks for the shout-out.
Nah, Jeff,
that's how Black people ask you, like, what the time is.
-[laughs] Yes. -Ah.
I learn a lot on this show.
So rare to have a moment like this.
You against you.
How long can you last?
What's up, Jeff?
You are 23 minutes in
-to this section. -[laughs] -[whistling]
Once again,
-very calm waters of Fiji. -[sighs]
There's not even a sound.
[whispering]: Absolute quiet.
Now y'all want to be quiet.
HUNTER: Oh, you can't?
My daddy told me when I'm not in a fight, shut my mouth.
-Oh. -SODA: Mm. -TEVIN: Mm-hmm.
PROBST [regular volume]: Don't let the silence
lull you into sleep.
Think of something to distract.
TIM: Shout out Jalen, shout out
my sons-- Carter, Cooper.
Shout out my wife Jasmine.
Shout out Tevin mama from Virginia.
-Hortensa. Yay, yay. -Shout out
Charlie's daddy Brian. Shout out Maria's family--
Sebastian, Leo, Juju.
That's what Black people do on the radio, Jeff.
-TIM: ...Spicer, family. -"Shout out to Uncle PooPoo
-and my nephew John." -TIM: Your daddy said,
"If you ain't in a fight, shut up."
-You right. -[Probst laughs]
Most fun I've had at challenge in a long time.
[laughs]
PROBST: One minute left in this round.
Here's where we stand. In Purple,
whoever lasts the longest out
of the five of you will earn immunity.
In Orange, whoever lasts the longest of you four
will earn immunity, and whoever
stays up there the longest
earns, for their group, food.
You will also go to Tribal Council second.
That means two people
will be gone from the game.
One will not even make the jury.
This section is over.
The last part of this challenge is
-you're gonna lift one foot. -Ooh.
Wow.
PROBST: I'm gonna count you in in ten seconds.
When I get to one, you've got to lift that foot.
You don't have to lift it before then.
You're on your own if you do.
You can use those ten seconds however you want.
Here we go.
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five,
four, three, two,
one.
Charlie's out. Tim's struggling.
Tim is out. We're down to three on Orange.
It's Hunter, Kenzie and Tim.
Venus is out.
Liz is out.
Hunter's out. We're down to two on Orange
and two on Purple.
Tiff is out.
-Kenzie wins immunity, -Yes!
but she's out.
Kenzie has won immunity.
Now it's a showdown between Tevin and Maria.
Yes. We want food,
but stay in, Tev. Stay in.
PROBST: Purple has already earned the reward.
Now the question is who will have the immunity.
Both players looking really solid.
PROBST: Maria, rock solid.
Very little movement.
Tevin, a lot of movement.
Both players still up there.
-SODA: Hey, you got this. -PROBST: Tevin trying to recover.
-CHARLIE: Oh, nice. -PROBST: And he does!
-An amazing recovery! -SODA: Wow, Tevin!
-PROBST: Wow. -SODA: Good job, Tevin!
PROBST: Keep fighting. You got nothing else to do right now.
Just this.
You want that necklace.
Tevin once again trying to recover.
SODA: You got this, Tevy baby.
PROBST: Kevin drops. He's out.
-Maria wins individual immunity -[cheering]
and reward for her crew.
Epic challenge.
SODA: Yes. Maria! Maria!
VENUS and SODA: Maria! Maria!
-Maria! -PROBST: Maria,
before you get in the water, what's the emotion right now?
You know, Jeff, I just...
I kept thinking about, "Just think about yourself.
"Think about yourself. You've done harder things in life.
"Don't think about anybody else.
"I've felt so much more pain than this.
Just-just forget about it."
SODA: Thank you, Maria.
-[whoops] -SODA: Good job, Tevin!
Good job, guys.
Kenzie, you pulled it out.
Good job, Kenz.
-[squeals] -Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
Individual immunity is yours.
You are not going home tonight.
With this around your neck, you are safe.
-Head back. -Thank you.
-Maria, come on over. -TEVIN: Go get it, Maria.
[whooping]
The only thing missing is a hug from you.
-Oh, well, I... we can get a hug. -Oh, my hug. Yes.
Thank you.
-TEVIN: Get it, Maria. -PROBST: Congratulations, Maria.
Safe tonight at the vote. In addition, you've won
a big reward for your group.
-Head back. -BEN: Lieutenant Mom! [whoops]
-Thank you, Maria. -Good job, Maria.
PROBST: All right, so here's what's gonna happen.
Liz, Soda, Venus, Tevin, Maria, Charlie,
you will go to Tribal Council second.
Swim out. Enjoy the afternoon.
I'll see you at Tribal Council tonight.
SODA: Felt slow.
All right, so, Kenzie, you're safe tonight.
-Yep. -The six of you will go to Tribal Council first,
where, sadly, the person voted out
will not make the jury.
One last thing.
You're not going back to camp.
You're going back to the old Siga camp.
All right, swim out. See you tonight at Tribal Council.
All right, see you later, Jeff.
HUNTER: Nobody wants to be the person that's chopped off
right before they make it to the jury,
and I am the odd man out.
So I need to play my idol to get me to that jury,
to get another day, to get back to Tevin and to the Nami people.
And if that's what it takes to get there,
then that's what I'll do.
♪
-SODA: Oh, my God. Yay, -TEVIN: Lord,
-have mercy. -you guys, first feast!
TEVIN: Oh! -SODA: See, this is why I wasn't worried.
[indistinct chatter]
CHARLIE: Maria and Tevin.
Our angels.
MARIA: The immunity challenge was
a dream come true.
Not only did I win immunity. I won
reward for our group, which meant we finally got to eat.
-Cheers. To Maria and Tevin. -Cheers.
-SODA: To the merge feast, thanks to Maria and Tevin. -Yes. Yes.
[overlapping chatter]
CHARLIE: Oh, man, this is so good.
SODA: This coffee is so good. Wow.
VENUS: Winning this means everything.
Maria, my girl-- she really pulled it out for us, and
she basically gave us a second life in this game.
Like, we were given
a feast that is gonna energize us for future challenges.
But even more than that, she basically guaranteed
that we're all at least gonna make the jury,
which is huge, you know,
and, you know, coming in, it seems obvious. You know,
there's four Nami, there's two Siga--
Charlie and Maria.
And Maria has the immunity necklace.
Who's the obvious vote?
Charlie, my guy
who put my name down the last vote is unfortunately
up on the chopping block.
Oh, my God.
TEVIN: Can we cheers? We are all at least on the jury.
We will be...
[cheering]
TEVIN: From the outside looking in,
you would automatically think, "Oh, there's four Nami,
there's two Siga, Maria's safe."
So, I think that people would assume
that Charlie would be the one going home
because he's not in the numbers.
However, Maria and I know different.
We understand that there is another game
being played that is across tribal lines.
So we see that it's not Nami versus Siga here.
And so, tonight is the night that I want to make a big move.
I want to be the curator of the first blindside of the season.
Poor Hunter is all alone over there.
MARIA: That's gonna be, like, massive strategy
-over there right now. -Yeah.
♪
-BEN: It ain't too far off. -TIFFANY: Oh, my God.
[laughing]
-Nice job, Kenzie. -KENZIE: Thank you.
BEN: Yeah, you crushed.
TIM: It was tough out there.
Coming out here, I didn't expect to do super well in challenges.
Like, of course I'm gonna give it my all. I'm not a quitter.
But it's such an accomplishment
that I didn't think I would get to check off my bucket list.
Yanu started
so bad. Like, I never thought
I was even gonna get this opportunity.
And now, I just feel like I'm, like...
really gaining some footing in this game.
It's just a really, really good feeling.
Soda and Q she needs to land a talk show after this.
That was so funny.
KENZIE: You were just out there having a good time today.
Q: So far in this game, I have yet to really show my ability.
That was by design. I didn't want a target on me.
So in today's challenge,
I jumped off on purpose
to see if my alliance was really strong.
So I wanted to go into this first immunity
not immune at all.
Oh, my goodness.
-Hunter's Nami, though. Is he not? -Yeah.
TIM: This is like a Christmas preset
that we have to open.
It is a gift-wrapped opportunity
because Hunter is alone.
Yes, we've made agreements with Hunter,
but it's not about the allianc.
Hunter's a beast in challenges, and
now that we have him pinned, let's take him out.
He's part of the six.
Are you gonna beat him in an individual immunity?
Me? I can. Yeah.
That's okay. Ain't nobody in this game
gonna ever win ten individual immunities. Nobody.
Tim feel like Hunter is
the most physical threat here,
which-- debatable,
but I would rather go against
a physical threat than one that
somewhat has some skills
off the gridiron competing.
All right.
Because I committed to the six thing
with you, Maria,
him, Tevin and Tiff.
The point is Nami.
Nami got the most numbers.
Nami was the target.
So after today, once again, Nami's gonna outweigh everybody,
and they can control anything.
Q: Tim right now is trying to position himself in this gae
to get to the end in multiple ways.
He wants to have the plus-one alliance,
but he also wants to have his Siga alliance.
He also wants to have his sub-alliance with Ben.
Which is it, Tim?
Which game are you playing? The Siga game
or the Q game?
Well, buddy, you are going home tonight,
and you just don't know it.
♪
CHARLIE: Oh, my God.
LIZ: Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord.
MARIA: Oh. Ooh. Excuse me.
Okay.
Oh, my goodness.
CHARLIE: I've been thrown in to the lion's den.
The Nami lion's den. It's four Namis, two Sigas--
me and my ride-or-die: Maria.
So that's the one lifeline
I have out here is
I've got the person I trust most in this game.
But if they stick together, I'm gone.
There is zero other possibility.
Oh, a fed nap is a really great feeling.
-Uh-huh. -I'm drifting off.
I may snore.
CHARLIE: We're napping right now?
You guys don't know
what it's like to be, you know, me on this day.
You know, I wanted immediate conversations.
As I'm laying there, I'm hoping I'm gonna
catch some eyes, you know,
that someone's gonna look at me and just go...
But I'm just losing it.
Calm on the outside, but losing it on the inside.
I want someone to get up so I can go talk right away.
SODA [with British accent]: Charlie.
[regular accent]: I mean, there's literally four Nami and two Siga,
-and you're the only other Siga that can be voted. -Oh.
SODA: Anyone from the outside looking in would say
Charlie is the easy vote tonight.
Charlie's literally the only person we can vote for
if we want to be "Nami strong."
But I don't want that to happen because Charlie's somebody
who I feel is very loyal and likes me
and just wants to work with me.
I'd rather have that than Venus,
because over these past few days,
she's been, like, sus about me because
I haven't been doing one-on-one strategy with her.
And then last night, after Tribal,
she came for me and said, I wrote her name down.
That tells me you don't trust me.
It's four Nami and one you.
-Yeah. -I'm not gonna vote that way.
And I'm gonna talk to Tevin.
So we have to really, really make it...
No, I get it. I understand.
I'm nervous, but I trust you.
-I got you. I got you, Charlie. You're okay. -Soda.
SODA: We are not gonna go with the majority.
That's the story, is that it's gonna be Charlie
because of the numbers, but we're really going after Venus.
I told Charlie, I just talked to him
because I really love Charlie.
I don't know who your vibe with. He...
And Maria, too. Let's... let me tell you.
He's loyal, and he loves us, and I have him.
Like, we're very tight. But I think we should go for Venus
tonight. I think it has to happen tonight.
TEVIN: Soda's right. Venus has been shifty.
She is flopping, she's flippin,
and she is potentially threatening
to the alliances that I've already built.
-We're-we're on the same team. -Okay.
We're always on the same page-- you and I.
Always. We don't even need to have long chats.
TEVIN: But to be honest, Soda and I's relationship
has been a little bit distant because
she talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
Like Yam Yam say, "You talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk."
She talks, and she's good
at making every single person feel comfortable.
And for that reason, I can't necessarily read her.
That's why I have kind of separated myself
from Soda, alliance-wise.
And so the time has come.
Try to make a big move, because now is the time to start
really, really building résumé,
because we're heading to the end of the game.
The plan is to make V feel comfortable
so don't play her Shot in the Dark.
And we vote V out and tell her
that the plan is to vote Charlie.
That's an option.
The other option is...
it could be a blindside tonight against Soda.
Because V is the one that thinks she's going.
Right.
I believe theSurvivor gods
are smiling upon me.
And honestly, I've been waiting to lose.
I've been
wanting Soda out so bad.
She is my number one target.
She's a big threat in this gam.
Oh.
Sure, we have a connection
because we're Nami, but
I don't care about Nami strong.
Soda has to go.
I know what kind of game Venus is playing,
and everyone is all on board with, like...
Venus is snaking, but
we also have a chance to get out Soda,
and she doesn't expect it.
I just don't know
what kind of game Soda's playing.
So your proposition is
-that we all vote Soda? -Soda.
TEVIN: I trust Maria.
She's in the plus-one alliance.
I trust her. I-I know she's there for me.
Oh, you just sit there and let people come to you.
Your turn with the Tev?
TEVIN: My gut tells me that I can trust Charlie.
Charlie's very loyal
and sweet and nice and he wants to work with me.
You ain't going nowhere tonight.
So, you, me, Liz and Maria vote Soda.
Okay.
And then we tell Soda
we're all voting Venus, which she wants to do anyway.
-Okay. -Then you're still safe.
CHARLIE: When we got back to camp,
I was scared out of my mind.
And now I've heard Venus and I've heard Soda already,
and I'm thinking, "What is going on
on this beach?"
I don't like it when I'm not included in conversations.
It's obvious we should vote for Charlie.
But for me, I now
have the clarity to realize that
that's not the only way in this game.
Yes, Charlie seems like the easy vote,
but I'm not here to do easy votes.
I'm here to play
a hard game. And, sure, playing with fire
could come back and bite me in the ass,
but I want to play with fire.
I want to make big moves.
I want to make a name for myself here
and show people that I'm not someone to mess around wit.
What are you thinking in terms of threat level
-between Soda and Tevin? -I have no idea.
Honestly, like, I can't tell you, at this point.
But if I were to say, "Hey, let's throw it on Tevin,"
'cause I just personally see him as a bigger threat
-Right. -socially and physically.
MARIA: Poor Venus.
Venus is trying really hard
to get some footing in this game,
but Venus is pretty oblivious.
She's not reading the room very well.
She threw out Tevin's name, and so I think that's a mistak.
Tevin and I are part of an alliance of six.
And in my perspective, Tevin was never an option.
-No committing. -No committing.
I don't want to, like, make you say, "Well, oh, gosh,
she told me this and then, like, she turned on me."
Like, not committing.
-I want to talk to everybody again. -Ah, so, as in,
-you may want to work with Tevin instead? -No, no, no. I want to talk.
VENUS: Maria's hard to read.
And I'm providing her with a really good opportunity
and she was unsure of even working with me.
So I don't know why she's wary of me,
but, realistically, she's putting her Siga numbers at risk
by not trusting me. So I just need to talk to Charlie
and hope that I can pull something out.
And I am, like, stressing.
I really don't care that you wrote my name down,
and I could see myself potentially working with you.
'Cause I'm gonna be real with you.
-I would rather you stay here. -Okay.
I don't know if you've noticed how close Tevin and Soda are.
CHARLIE: Yeah, I've seen it.
The most important thing right now
-is to break the two of them up. -Okay.
I'm impartial to which one. I have two suggestions.
The option's vote Soda, and we blindside her tonight.
-Okay. -Option two is if I tell Liz "Soda,"
Soda and Tevin think it's you,
-and then me, you, Maria vote Tevin. -Like, a three...
-Yeah. Like a three, two, one. Yeah. -Three, two, one.
CHARLIE: Venus says,
"Number one, we could vote out Soda."
Then she's got this plan
where she wants to do a blindside on Tevin.
-I'm gonna go off. -Okay.
Um, and we need to connect at least one more time,
-'cause things change so-so quickly. -Yeah.
It's becoming clear to me
that the cracks on Nami are more like
oceans between continents.
You know, they are ready to go at each other's throats.
♪
I mean...
I don't know where you stand, specifically,
from our last conversation. I know we said more check-ins,
-but I feel we have not done that. -No, we haven't checked in,
and I don't know where I stand.
I want to make sure I make the right decision
that feels right for me.
-Like, character-wise? Do you think I can't be true? -Yes.
-I'm gonna tell you. Yeah... -Yes, please do.
-I think that's the best thing. -Yeah.
-When you come at people, you come at 'em. -Yeah.
Have I come at you?
Yeah, you came at me, and that puts me off.
-Like, negatively? -Just like when we were just down at the beach,
you're like, "Oh, so you don't want to work with me?"
-I don't want to be pressured before I'm ready. -Ah.
I'm open to working, but, like, don't pressure me.
And when I say I'm gonna do something, I'm doing it.
Venus just kind of came at me, and I'm like,
"Listen, you're 20. Like, I've been there, done that."
And so I was really put off by her demeanor.
And, honestly, I don't trust Venus.
She's conniving. She's sneaky.
She is dangerous.
I don't know. Lack of s...
Like, I'm putting, like... We're putting a lot on the line.
So, like, this lack of certainty, if anything,
it's kind of, like, scaring me off on the idea as a whole.
Maria said that she felt like I was
telling her what to do, which, honestly,
like, I feel like that's her ego getting in the way of the game.
I wasn't trying to pressure you into an idea.
'Cause at the end of the day, it's your game.
-You can do whatever you want. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? I'm gonna go.
VENUS: She's probably used to calling the shots and doesn't like beig
told what to do by someone she probably considers her junior.
So I'm a little bit in panic mode. This really is
a "make it or break it" moment for me in this game.
Here's where I stand. I'm down for Soda.
I thought I could get Maria on board,
but I don't know if I can.
-You know what I mean? -For Soda?
-Yeah. -So, it's abort.
I mean, I-I might just have to,
like, consider playing my Shot in the Dark
or something, you know?
VENUS: I'm scared. Charlie could potentially play
a Shot in the Dark-- in which case,
if he's safe, whatever the other name is would go hom.
And that name would most likely be mine.
If you're saying it's like this, then I'm gonna be honest.
I'm just gonna stick with the Nami four,
-'cause that's just the safest thing. -No...
The only person who I'm gonna
believe wholeheartedly right now is Maria.
I want Maria to be cool with any plans
that we lock ourselves into.
I'm hearing from Venus...
Yeah.
And then Soda wants it, obviously, just to be Venus.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
-So, apparently, I'm okay. -Yeah.
CHARLIE: With this split that we have where there are
two Tribal Councils,
two people being voted out in one night,
Maria and I, all of a sudden--
the two Sigas on a tribe with four Namis--
have the power.
At Tribal tonight,
-are we pretending... -For me, it's easy.
I'm just gonna be like,
"Listen, I'm the only Siga who can catch votes."
Tonight has transformed from a night where
I was gonna be shaking in my boots at Tribal Council
because I thought I was going home to a night where
I'm making, probably, the biggest decision of my gam.
Everyone on the beach has been talking about getting Venus ou.
Venus is totally chaotic and unpredictable.
I don't think I can trust her with anything.
But Soda-- extremely
social player. She's a huge threat.
So if Maria and I
can come out of this situation down
two to four in numbers and, ultimately,
make the call on what happens tonight,
we can take control of this game.
♪
No, I feel good with this.
So we're gonna have to split the votes between Hunter, Ben.
TIFFANY: I think I'm all right with that.
TIM: Only because we think the biggest threat here
on this Siga camp right now
is Hunter.
-One, two, three... -TIFFANY: We just gonna have to do damage control
when we get back to Tevin.
But I think Tevin'll be fine, though.
He'll be fine. Yeah. He's, like...
-Like, he's... -I think Tevin will be fine.
-'Cause Tevin really rocks with us, so... -There's five...
TIFFANY: Tim's logic is Hunter's the biggest threat on the beac.
But what I know for certain:
it's not about Hunter being a threat.
It's less about Hunter being a threat and more about the fact
that they are thirsty to get a Nami player out
because a Siga player went home
last night.
They're still trying to chip away at Nami's numbers.
I don't care about chipping away at Nami's number,
'cause I know I could do that easily on my own.
[blows raspberry]
-[whispers]: Tim? -[whispers]: Yes.
-TIFFANY: Yeah. Yeah. No, first of all... -Why?
TIFFANY: He's-he's getting real shifty.
Okay. Okay. I'm good with that.
TIFFANY: My only hesitation right now is
if we leave Ben in the game
it's gonna be harder to get him out,
'cause now he's gonna be on high alert.
I, personally,
think that Ben is a bigger threat than Tim.
I can see through Tim.
He thinks he's a good liar. He's not.
Ben-- I think he's a sneakier player.
He might be a secret agent of chaos.
So in my perfect world, Ben would go home tonight
and Tim would stay.
Yes.
Yes. Bro.
Tim got to go.
HUNTER: The plan tonight is to get the four of us--
the three Yanu and me-- to all vote for Tim.
What could go wrong is they're all lying to me,
and the Yanu people vote me ou.
There's no doubt I'm nervous going into this,
but I have an idol that nobody knows about,
and if I have to play the idol, then I'll just play it.
And if I look crazy because no one voted for me, that's that.
But if that's what it takes,
then that's what I'll do.
BEN: There's only, like, a couple options happening tonight.
Obviously, my name being one of them, right?
-Yeah. -But, um, what are you feeling?
I think that we're all open-minded, is the thing.
And we also don't want Nami to have all the numbers.
It's harder to lie to a friend, and Ben and I have bonded.
He's just, like, such a sweet and kind, gentle person.
And Ben had a panic attack that I was there for him for.
So Ben and I have formed this, like, friendship.
That's why this game is so complicated,
because it's hard
to figure out who I, like, like as a person
versus who I'm gonna work with long-term.
I mean, what do you and Tim want to do-- go Hunter?
BEN: For numbers, it makes sense.
The only thing that makes sense is to try
-and equalize the entire playing field. -Exactly.
BEN: My biggest hope tonight
is that I can convince the Yanu three
into going Hunter, or else I'm screwed.
That simple. You know, like, Kenzie--
she looked hesitant, but I don't have much to go on.
I'm in a tough corner,
but you can't go down not swinging.
The reason I'm talking to you, straight up,
is, like, I know we haven't had a moment.
-And I know Tim and you vibe. -Correct.
-So... -Listen, let...
-Man, you got to just make me comfortable, bro. -I hear you.
Who are we gonna tell Hunter we voting for-- you?
I think we might have to do a cover like that.
But you cool with...
We gonna tell this man to write your name down.
-Yeah. -I write his name down.
-Yeah. -He stands his ass up,
he play something, and he wrote your name down.
-Then what? -Yeah, then I'm screwed.
But that's Survivor,right? You got to take a chance.
But I'm just making sure you aware...
That my name could be...
-Yeah. -When you on the island...
But what do they say in Survivor?
-No risk, no reward. -No reward.
BEN: Would it suck to be taken out tonight? Sure.
But it's like gambling.
If you pulled this off,
I would feel high the rest of the game.
You know, in the words of the mighty Van Halen,
"Time to go bottoms up."
No, no, no. Listen.
He said he's fine with Hunter writing his name down.
And if Hunter has an idol or something, he plays it,
he's fine with going home. So..
Yeah. 100%.
I don't know. I can only go on what I read.
He's not comfortable. He's not comfortable going home.
I'm not a sucker. I'm smarter than what you think. I promise.
I'm telling you, that was a bluff.
Q: Okay. So do you want to go Tim?
Dude, I just told you what I wanted to do.
I want to vote for Ben.
I'm just telling you what I'm observing.
KENZIE: Q is the type of person where
we'll have a conversation. He'll be like,
"Tim is the vote." I'm like, "Perfect." I walk away.
I come back from the water well, and he's like, "It's Ben."
And I'm like, "Q, what happened?
"Like, you can't just do this.
"What if we have to go to Tribl
"and you don't get a second to tell me that the vote changed?
"And why is it you are the only one
"who's deciding the way the votes go?
"Like, we're a three.
We're supposed to be working together."
I would rather see Ben go.
-TIFFANY: Well, that's what I've been saying since we got here. -And we just... And if...
If the three of us are in it together,
let's take the shot at Ben.
-Just so you know. -Ben ain't playing anything now.
-Yes, he is. -Well, do you want to go Tim, then?
TIFFANY: The stakes are high right now,
but Q keeps flip-flopping back and forth.
Like, "All right, we're doing this."
And then you step away, and he come back,
"No, no, no. We're doing this."
You can't do that. This is a conversation.
You're not just telling us where to place our votes.
-Q is working everyone. -He is.
"So do you want Tim?"
If you don't shut your ass up...
He's gonna come back and be like, "Vote me, yo.
-I've decided." [laughs] -Oh, God.
I'd be like, "Okay, boy."
This is not the Q show.
At some point,
-that ain't gonna work for us. -Uh-uh.
The way Q is approaching stuff right now is worrisome.
However, I've got my girl Tiff.
The three of us
have been strong this whole time,
but the way Q
is barking orders at us
has Tiff and I being aware
that this could go
into chaos mode very quickly.
The plan right now is that we'l vote out either Tim or Ben.
Tiff and I need to be on the same page,
so no matter what goes off in Q's world,
Tiff and I have a foundation.
So is it worrisome? Yes.
♪
All right. So, Q, what was it like this afternoon
with only six people knowing Tribal was looming?
First thing I noticed,
a tornado had to come through Siga's camp
between the time they left and when we got there.
'Cause it was awful. They was living rough.
But we had to start talking plans,
making this game fair, because Yanu only has three members.
Nami and Siga still has the advantage
when it comes to numbers.
So if we send the right person home,
it could even those numbers out a little more.
But, Hunter, at what point do Tribal lines disappear
and it becomes, "This is who I want to play with
because I can see my path to the end"?
Yeah. It's this weird spot where the Yanu three
are in a power position, because I'm here by myself,
and there's two Sigas over there,
but the majority falls with Yanu.
I am the only person who has not voted with any group.
And so I would love to be a Yanu member right now.
So, Kenzie, Hunter's saying,
"I'm willing to join Yanu three.
Make it Yanu four."
-[laughing] -Yeah.
Okay. Hunter's a free agent, so that's appealing.
That's a number, but at the same time,
Nami has the numbers.
What way do we take it?
Do we adopt one and hope that he's...
You hope he's our baby?
Or do we, like, chance it
that he's gonna go back with his original family?
It's-it's a toss-up.
PROBST: And so, Tim, if we stay with this train of thought,
you and Ben would be saying, "No, no, no, take out Hunter.
Let's get Nami."
TIM: Yeah, I mean, it's an individual game,
and you're not really thinking about the alliance.
You're thinking about who's threatening.
And I think Hunter
has carried Nami the entire game
by leading and dominating
in every single challenge.
Yeah, but I'm not tied to Nami in any real way
other than I had to get them here
so they wouldn't vote me out.
And I'm telling you, this Nami group is not even
getting along when the Siga group is really, really close.
And it was clear at last Tribal,
the four that have been working together are still here
and still trying to work together.
TIM: I love that Hunter
just loves how Siga has been able to operate.
It's like, "Siga did this" or
"Siga kept a close, tight lip,"
but he's never had to
show any allegiance to anyone.
He's never sat here and had to make a decision
about one of the individuals that sit amongst him.
And I'm assuming he's saying that's a hard thing to do,
which I haven't bonded to somebody in that way,
and I'm looking to do it tonight with these three.
PROBST: Ben, it's very clear
that Siga was trying to work on Hunter
and Hunter was trying to work on you two.
I haven't heard either of you say
that you were trying to work on each other.
I mean, I'd be lying if I hadn't heard
people try to break me and Tim up.
How do you respond to that?
BEN: Well, it's like, I try to be personal.
I know this is a game of deception,
but, like, it makes it really hard
to separate the personal from the game.
And I know it might sound like
an open target saying that here,
but, like, you know, I had a panic attack last night.
It wasn't so much about the game
as just being like,
"Wow. So much intense negativity.
How am I gonna keep a straight mind?"
I don't know which other way to say it.
Kenzie woke up at 1:00 a.m. to make sure I was doing okay.
That was something human, which is very hard in this game.
-That was human. -It... Yeah.
Like, I would be there for you no matter what.
It makes me want to cry now, 'cause it's like,
when do you get those moments in this kind of game?
I came into this game thinking
I was gonna be on the bottom the whole time for how I am
as a human in an individual society.
I'm usually people's, like, entertainment monkey
that, like, they like having around at a party,
but don't want to get deep with. But, like, it wasn't that case.
It was a breath of fresh air where it's like,
"Wow, we've actually made bonds that I think
might go beyond this game."
And then to bring it back to what we were saying before
about me and Tim, all we can do is try and play our game.
It's like, we came and did our thing
and if that's what got us in the end, so be it.
But, like, what a beautiful ride it was.
You don't get an adventure like this
or make bonds like this very often.
Sorry, I know that was a lot.
It was great. Beautiful.
Kenzie, if it really is the Yanu three in charge
and your choices are Hunter, Tim or Ben,
it's got to be a bit of a Sophie's choice
in terms of humans, because they all three
have made very compelling, likable cases tonight.
This is really hard for me
because I wouldn't be here without these boys.
Like, they literally threw me through the merge. Sorry.
And, you know,
I wouldn't be able to, like, have won this without these boys
and Tiff, obviously, but, you know, um...
And I've bonded with all of them, deeply.
So when we were all on the same team today, I was devastated.
And the fact that now it's up to me to decide,
like, which one to cut is
a hard pill for me to swallow.
It's tough, because, yeah, like,
I, like, held Ben's hand last night,
and, like, I've talked to Hunter,
I've talked to Tim, I've talked to everyone here
on a deep level, and it is so human.
And that's how I make my money at home,
is building human connections.
So, it-it gets hard
for me to separate.
Jeff, I know you didn't ask me a question,
but I want to recognize,
amongst all these giants,
today in the challenge,
the smallest person standing amongst us won.
When Yanu went 11 days
without any positivity, that girl right there--
she smiled, she cried, she kept it together.
That deserves more recognition than we're giving.
And I understand we have to vote, I do,
but I have to give credit where credit is due.
-Kenzie, you did an amazing job. -[laughs]
-Thank you. -You did. -All right, Kenzie!
You did an amazing job.
Thank you.
PROBST: So I'm getting the impression
this is going to be a tough vote tonight.
It's gonna be a very tough vote, Jeff.
Yeah.
All right, it is time to vote.
Kenzie, you're up.
♪
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.
Okay, I'll read the votes.
First vote: Hunter.
Hunter. Two votes Hunter.
Tim. One vote Tim.
Tim. We're tied. Two votes Hunter, two votes Tim.
Tim. That's three votes Tim, two votes Hunter.
Seventh person voted out of Survivor46:
Tim. Need to bring me your torch.
Can I give Tim a hug real quick?
♪ Brotherly love.♪
Tim,
-the tribe has spoken. -Thank you.
-Love y'all. -Love you, too.
Time for you to go.
[crying]
[breathing sharply]
[sniffles]
Grab your torches. Head back to camp.
We'll bring in the next group.
They... got me.
They got me.
Technically, I lost, but I didn't have to fake
and follow anybody else's game.
I was a leader. I wasn't a loser.
I'm honored. I'm thankful.
I'm the sexiest dad to ever do this,
and I'll get over it.
♪
All right.
So, Liz, where is this tribe right now?
'Cause, for a moment, you were all together as individuals,
-but then now you're back into two groups in a small group. -Yeah.
I, actually, am really excited that we're
split into two groups.
For my game,
I made a lot of friendships
and connections on both sides.
So, for the individual game,
if you're in the right spot,
you're in a good spot tonight, no matter what happens.
Charlie, what do you read into that answer?
It's a very interesting comment.
I find it fitting for a person who's in here
with four of their former Tribemates.
There's a little bit more comfort where Liz is sitting.
For me, you get divided onto a tribe where
you're the odd tribe out
and the only person vulnerable on that tribe--
it's like I have a big, red target
painted on my forehead.
Soda, can you appreciate how that might feel?
Might be accurate, might not be.
Yeah, I can, I can... Like, I mean, it was...
I felt it for him, and I, like,
I don't think there's any way kind of around it as much as,
like, I adore him as a person.
It's kind of clear
where the numbers really are, so...
PROBST: But, Tevin,
we also reached a new phase of the game
where it's not always that simple.
That's true. But, I mean, just last Tribal Council,
you heard the kind of division between the two tribes, still.
And I don't know if people are necessarily
willing to let down the tribal lines right now,
and they are still trying to play a tribe game because
they're scared that one tribe may pick off the other.
PROBST: Venus, where do you sit?
The easy vote would be for the four of you
to stick together and take out Charlie,
and there's not really anything he could do
other than maybe he has some power in the game
-or he could play a Shot in the Dark. -Exactly what you said, Jeff.
It's a pretty easy vote, but, um, unlike Soda, I feel like
my butt is more on the line because it's no real secret here
that, the other night, Charlie wrote my name down.
So if anyone here really has to be worried, it's me.
PROBST: Maria, if you want to try to take somebody out,
six people is a great opportunity,
because there's nowhere to hide.
Um, I'm gonna paint a picture for you.
-Mm. -You're having a party.
You get gussied up and you put on, like,
your favorite red necklace.
And you wait for your guests to come.
[chuckles]
And maybe they don't come.
So no one approached you?
It's not that nobody approached me.
It just didn't feel like I had the power.
It just kind of felt like, you know, maybe they stayed
for a little bit, but not too long.
I'm sorry you got all gussied up.
[laughing]
Y'all, I didn't bring my bag tonight.
I am staying Nami strong.
That's that. Ready to go back to the fire and get warm.
I mean, that is a lot of confidence.
Soda, is that just
the luxury that comes with having the numbers?
Yeah, it's, like, the luxury of having four Nami right now.
You know, and, like, that's the thing. That's the big
steak on the plate right now.
So how does that change the dynamic
for the six of you?
What did you notice in terms of behavior?
We were just more like, "I don't need to run around,"
which is very, very different from yesterday.
Feeling like you have your tribe there,
like, a majority of your brain space is not worried.
You could see that in people's physical movement
in their body.
So, Charlie, what's it like
to hear Liz say,
"I didn't even bring my bag"?
CHARLIE: Not great.
Um...
You know, I knew what the odds were
as soon as Maria was the one that won that immunity.
And I did my best today to just pitch myself
to every single person here.
And it's so hard in the new era, because,
you know, I have this little number in my pocket.
Little Shot in the Dark die.
And that makes it so people
will give me a little bit to work with.
But I don't know if I can believe one word of it,
'cause they don't want this to come out.
It's a one in six shot.
There are only six people here.
That's still scary.
I just want to say, realistically, Jeff,
I feel like I already know the move that they're gonna play.
The fact that my name was written down
not only one Tribal ago, like, it's very
clear to me that that's gonna be their move today.
And I'm just hoping that the Survivorgods
are in my favor, and his Shot in the Dark
doesn't work, and I get to live another day.
All right, then, it is time to vote.
Liz, you're up.
♪
Not tonight. Not tonight.
[whispering]: There is just not
any way that we could work together.
You're way too dangerous.
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: Soda.
Venus. One vote Soda, one vote Venus.
Venus. Two votes Venus, one vote Soda.
Soda. We're tied.
Two votes Venus, two votes Soda.
Soda. That's three votes Soda, two votes Venus,
one vote left.
Eighth person voted out
and the first member of our jury:
Soda.
Need to bring me your torch.
Wow.
-It was you, wasn't it? It was you. -VENUS: Yeah.
[both laugh]
I did not see that coming at all.
You played an amazing game, Soda.
Oh, man. So fun.
I love you.
I love all you guys. It's really hard.
-[laughs] -We love you, Soda.
[inhales sharply]
I hope you crush it, man.
[cries]
-Soda, the tribe has spoken. -Oh...
Time for you to go.
[sniffles]
CHARLIE: Thanks, Soda.
[sniffles]
Oh, wow. [sniffles]
Grab your torches. Head back to camp.
Good night.
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♪
PROBST: Next time onSurvivor...
[laughs]
LIZ: "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha."
Shut up.
Q: She broke my rule.
I'm a mob boss.
Never seen anything like this.
Did not see that coming at all.
It was an excellent, excellent move.
This adventure was amazing.
I conquered so many fears and, like,
busted my ass in challenges,
but I got to live inside, like, my favorite TV show ever.
And now I get to be on the jury and, like,
vote for someone to win a million dollars.
I'm just happy that I got to be a part of it all.
[roars]