-♪ -[thunder cracking]
SHAN: Coming back from Tribal was not a good feeling.
It obviously did come down to Genie and Ricard.
She seemed shocked.
Yeah, 'cause I was... told her I was with her.
You know? What else was I going to tell her?
It was the hardest one for me
'cause I really wanted you, me and Genie.
Genie calls me back to
who I am in real life, you know?
I'm a pastor. My heart's already wide open for people,
but in this game, I need, like, a Ricard to pull me,
you know, to the gamer side of things,
the strategic side of things.
SHAN: But at the same time,
I am worried about Ricard.
Part of me feels like I can't really trust him
completely with his word.
...and say, "You give me this vote back for me to trust you."
That is ... up.
So the extra vote--
it's kind of become a complicated little thing
between Shan and myself.
When Shan opened the Beware Advantage
and lost her vote,
she gave me her extra vote to vote out Genie.
Okay.
RICARD: Then she got nervous
and asked for it back right before Tribal.
Could you give me my advantage?
No, I'm not. I just want insurance.
RICARD: You really don't believe me?
You said you'd give it back to me.
If you're saying you're not going to, then...
I am going to give it back to you tomorrow.
Which was really bothersome to me.
But I could have opened that damn idol, too.
- But I didn't. - Okay. So then why didn't you?
You wanted all the power in your hands so that you...
What did you risk?
I could have been voted out.
I risked my vote.
I had no guarantee that you were voting with me
if I gave you that advantage.
Brad didn't want you around. I was the one that pivoted
in that conversation and got you in on that connection.
When JD wanted to blindside you, I was the one
that was, like, pulling you in on that.
When Genie wanted you out,
I was the one that pulled you in on that.
RICARD: Ever since Shan got the extra vote,
she's felt very attached to it,
and we're supposed to be a team.
She already got the hidden immunity idol that was Genie's.
And so now she would have two advantages in this game.
I do, because
I feel a little bit of, like, something
because you said you would, and then you held it.
If we're in it together, it really doesn't matter,
but I'm not... like, I'm not fighting you on it.
- Mm-hmm. - I just don't see why it matters.
Shan asked me again if she could have the extra vote back.
For her to have an active idol, an extra advantage,
plus her paranoia?
It's just too much.
The way you're approaching me...
Instead of being like, "Oh, hey, can I have it?"
You literally just could have come in and been like,
"Oh, you promised to give it back. Can I have it back?"
- But if you... but if you... - I shouldn't have to be on,
- like, some tight schedule of... - If you would have offered it
last night, I would've been like, "Oh, thank you."
Ricard's been my number one since day one.
If you feel like you're with me, you should feel safe, you know?
You know, you gave me your word about something,
and then you went against it. It doesn't sit right with me.
I'm just saying, I feel like you don't trust me fully.
No, no, it's not about me not trusting you.
It's just, I want to go into the merge without me feeling
like, "Ricard gave me his word, and then he didn't."
I don't want that in my mind.
I don't want that in my mind at all.
Then put it out of your mind.
I'm going to when you give me the advantage back.
- Then, fine. - Okay, it's out of my mind.
I still think it's questionable on your part.
SHAN: Moving forward with Ricard, you know, I...
I trust him... ish.
Next advantage we find, next idol we find is yours.
Thank you for giving me permission to have it.
Like with everything in this game so far with Shan,
I'm just going to drop it and move on.
But from here on out, but
I have to do what's best for me.
EVVIE: I don't know.
Okay, everybody put some energy, put some food energy into this.
Please let it be some sort of sustenance.
- Food, food, food, food. - Okay, Evvie, do the honors.
- All right, all right, all right, all right. - Me?
Okay, I'll do the honors.
[gasps]
[screaming]
- Ooh! - Ah.
EVVIE: Yes!
-[Liana screams] - We did it!
XANDER: It sounds like it's going to be a merge,
but everything right now is
set up perfect for that.
- We did it! - We did it.
- BOTH: We did it. We did it. - This is Evvie's little dance.
- We did it. We did it. - This is what I'm talking about.
- Go, go, go, go. - Go, go. - Go.
XANDER: We've gotten to be a really close four,
and we're locked solid.
- Look at us now. Look at us now. - Yeah.
XANDER: You get so excited,
thinking, "Maybe this could be
"my Survivor story,
"and that this ragtag group of people could
totally shake up the post-merge game."
Yase Four, established day five.
- LIANA: Yase Four. - TIFFANY: Yup.
All right, let's go, let's do it.
LIANA: I think, amongst the women,
there's a really, like, solid form of trust.
So much so that we're putting on this kind of, like, facade
to keep Xander in a certain place.
But in the back of my mind, I'm always thinking,
Xander on my tribe is still a huge threat.
He has all of these advantages in the game.
LIANA: But Xander's overconfident.
He feels so comfortable with me,
he doesn't see me as a threat.
And so, I'm chomping at the bit
to, like, just flip the narrative.
DANNY: Bring all the stuff with you, personal items? Sounds like
- a merge with this. -[whooping, cheering]
- SYDNEY: Sounds good, but... - ERIKA: I still don't
trust him. I'm excited, but I still don't trust him.
- NASEER: Unify as...? - DANNY: Unify as one?
I'm skeptical.
I don't know.
I feel like nothing's come this easy so far.
I think a lot of people would be jealous to be in our position,
having been the winning tribe,
but it comes with its own set of difficulties.
We don't have solidified alliances
because we've never gone to Tribal Council.
DESHAWN: Yes. I think
it might just make the most sense
for everybody strategically to just, like,
at least for the first couple votes, just vote together.
Keeping this tribe Luvu Six is damn near impossible.
Are there cracks? The tribe is shattered.
Basically, Luvu Six is dissipating. I'm just trying
to keep the pieces together for one vote.
But if I can't, we're going to be screwed.
♪
Time to bring you in on another big twist.
So big, this is a two-part episode, so no Tribal tonight.
Nobody going home. All right, it's day 12.
The tribes already know we're going to merge from tree mail.
But this is 41, where they've already learned
that nothing is easy.
What they're about to find out is
that even when you earn it, nothing is guaranteed.
So here's what's going to happen.
It's the biggest twist so far. Here they come.
We're going to run a big challenge, and when it's over,
a group are going to believe they're safe.
But they're going to be forced
to send one player away, which is always dangerous,
and in doing so, they will unknowingly
give that player a historic amount of power.
And the question' going to be,
what will the player do with that power?
This one may ruffle some feathers.
Come on in.
Getting your first look at the new Ua tribe.
Genie voted out at the last Tribal Council.
All right, well, as you know from tree mail,
we are entering the next stage of the game.
Tribes are no longer. You are now
in the individual portion of Survivor.
Everybody drop your Buffs.
-[whooping] - Yes! Oh, my God, yes!
- Ah. - You are...
ALL: Merged!
DESHAWN: Cool.
Ah...
[all clamoring]
- Not exactly. - LIANA: Oh!
- Damn it! - Oh, God, he's killing me.
PROBST: May be better to say you're not merged.
In fact, for the moment, you are
without a Buff and without a tribe.
Like every other thing so far in this game,
you are going to earn your way into the merge.
Here's how it's going to work.
We're going to draw for two teams.
On my go, you're going to dig up a massive boulder
and push it through a series of obstacles,
retrieving keys along the way.
When you get to the end, you'll climb
to the top of the tower, use those keys
to unlock the Survivor word puzzle.
First team to finish earns
their first proper meal in 12 days.
Plus, you earn a Buff-- the merge Buff--
and you will not have to participate
in the first individual immunity challenge.
You'll be safe.
The losing team-- no proper meal, no Buff,
and you will have to participate
in that challenge to be safe at Tribal.
And to be clear, everybody will still vote at Tribal Council.
And there's one more layer to this twist.
Two players will draw gray rocks.
You will not participate on either team.
You will not run in the challenge.
Your fate will be decided by the winning team.
A Survivor player's journey often comes down to a
moment, and sometimes the
moment starts with luck of the draw.
Let's draw.
Two players will draw gray rocks.
You will not participate on either team.
You will not run in the challenge.
Your fate will be decided
by the winning team.
Let's draw.
Everybody reveal.
Who has the gray rocks?
Naseer has a gray, Erika has a gray.
You two will not participate.
If you have yellow, go to yellow.
If you have blue, go to blue.
If you have gray, go in the middle on green.
Game just took another turn.
We've got Naseer and Erika in the middle,
and we have two teams of five.
For yellow, we have Xander, Heather, Liana,
Tiffany and Shan.
On the other team, we have Danny, Ricard,
Sydney, Deshawn and Evvie.
Liana, where are we in the game?
This is another new twist.
You don't just waltz into the merge.
You got to earn the merge.
Yeah, it's-it's really real, Jeff. [laughs]
I'm super hungry right now, and when Liana's hungry,
she's feisty, so I want to win this.
All right, Naseer and Erika will watch.
Everybody else, give you a minute to strategize,
we'll get started.
Here we go for food,
Buff and immunity at that first Tribal Council.
Big stakes.
Survivors ready.
Go!
[grunting]
Your first job is to work together to dig up
a very big and very heavy boulder.
You got this!
[sighs]
It looks like
there is a big physical advantage for blue,
but that remains to be seen right now.
[grunting]
These are big holes you are digging
- to get a big boulder out. -[grunting]
You're just looking for that moment
where you can wedge the ball out of the hole.
This gives new meaning to one of my favorite phrases.
"You got to dig deep."
-[grunting] -♪
Both teams got to be getting very close now.
Got it. One, two, three, go.
PROBST: Yellow now going to try to push.
Can they get it to move?
[grunting]
- It's close to moving. -[muttering]
- Just a little shy. - Go. Come on. Go!
Come on, guys. Keep digging.
Blue gonna give it an official go now.
- SYDNEY: One. Two. - EVVIE: Count it out.
Three. Oh, there you go.
- Go, go, go. - Go.
And they are out of the hole.
- Good job, blue. -♪
Blue is now in the lead,
pushing that Earth-like globe
- onto the course. - DESHAWN: This way.
- SYDNEY: Go this way. - And you can see the momentum
- kick in. - Push!
-[grunting] - Good job, y'all.
Right side.
Now blue at their first key station.
- DESHAWN: Step in the back, though. - I got it.
You got to hold that ball and get
somebody up on top of the ball.
- SYDNEY: Nice, dude. - PROBST: They're putting
the biggest guy up on the ball.
Also, probably the most athletic.
EVVIE: You got this, Danny.
- Nice. - Danny has the first key.
Got to get down. You're on the move, blue.
EVVIE: All right, we're good. We're good.
Let's go, yellow! Keep going!
- Let's go, guys! Come on! - ERIKA: Keep digging, yellow!
Keep digging!
PROBST: We've got blue going
- for their second key. - This side!
Yellow trying to get some momentum.
-[grunting] - Can they get it out of that hole?
-[grunting] - Ah, let's go...
[indistinct, overlapping chatter]
PROBST: Yeah!
That's how you do it!
- Keep digging! - We're not letting it fall.
I'm not letting it fall!
-[grunting] - PROBST: You're out!
You're in this.
Yellow is not giving up.
- Roll the ball! Roll the ball! - They are in this challenge.
We've got blue going for their second key.
- Nice. - Doing good. Good job.
PROBST: Yellow going for their first.
-[grunting] -[indistinct chatter]
- Roll the ball. - Sure enough here, all ten players
in the game right now.
Nobody's giving up.
- NASEER: That's right, yellow! - PROBST: You got it.
Keep moving, yellow. Keep moving.
Danny with the second key for blue.
- They've got a big lead. -[indistinct chatter]
Closer to that meal, that Buff and immunity.
Blue now got to get up to that tower
using only the ball and each other.
- I got it. I got it. - NASEER: "Evie."
- Nicely done, Evie. - Good job, Evvie. Good job, Evvie.
- It's "Evvie"? - Evvie.
- Nice one, Evvie! - Good job, Evvie!
And here comes yellow. Keep moving! Push!
You never know when there is a word puzzle,
how long it will take the other group.
Push that ball!
- Here goes Ricard! -[grunting]
Look at that human ladder!
- Yeah, let's go. - Danny, Deshawn and Ricard.
That is how you do it in this challenge, but they are up.
Now it's a human ladder to get to the top.
- Let's go. -[grunting]
Sydney goes up on Danny's shoulders.
[grunts] Got it, got it, got it.
-[grunting] - Got it. One, two, three. Go.
- Keep going! You're in it. - Keep going...
PROBST: Yellow, still fighting. Exhausted but still in it.
Come on, yellow!
Keep moving! Get that ball back! You got to get that second...
- Slow it down. Slow it down. - This way?
- Catch, catch, catch. - PROBST: There goes Deshawn.
- He's gonna give it a go. -[grunting]
Holding on by his fingertips. That'll do it.
- SYDNEY: You got this. - Now Danny on his own,
gonna have to scale this wall.
- And he's got it. - Yeah, Danny.
Wow. Made it look easy.
Puzzle, puzzle, puzzle.
PROBST: All right, on the mat. Two people on the puzzle.
Got to unlock it.
Flip that center piece and start sliding pieces.
Two different stories.
- One team trying to solve the puzzle. - Yeah.
The other team just trying to get up here.
- More. - You got it. Tiffany, go, baby.
Yes. [grunts]
- Go, go, go, go! - Tiff, come on!
Blue continuing to move one piece at a time.
- Uh, tribe. - Merge, merge, merge.
Merge, merge, merge. Merge, merge.
Getting closer and closer.
Pull, pull! Hold, Xander. Come on.
- Yellow has four people up. - Come on, Xander.
- Let's go... We got it. - PROBST: Look at that. No quit!
- That's it! - Go, go, go, go, go.
Let's go! Start that human ladder right now.
- Right here, right here! - PROBST: Yellow, you are still
in this challenge.
Here goes Liana.
Can she pull herself up?
Very little strength left in that body,
- but she is using all of it. - TIFFANY: You got it, baby.
- Struggling. - I got you, baby. I got you.
PROBST: Holding on to anything.
Look at that effort! Nice job.
- Nice, Liana. - Nice work.
Keep put... moving 'em all down.
Move 'em all down.
PROBST: Blue's struggling now.
- Yes, yes, yes! -[indistinct chatter]
- RICARD: Yeah, it all goes here. - PROBST: Yellow now in this.
Here comes Heather. She's gonna need a hand.
- Come on. - You ready?
-[grunting] -[indistinct shouting]
- SHAN: Come on, Heather. -[Heather groans]
- Come on, Heather. - We are not letting you go.
- You got this. - Give her a push, Shan! Come on, Heather!
- Come on, Heather! - Pull!
- Come on, Heather! - Go, go, go!
Look at that.
One of the most amazing displays of teamwork
in the history of this game.
Here comes Shan.
Shan is up. Xander, get up here. You could be back in this.
Xander gonna give it a run. Let's go.
Time is ticking.
Hold me. Hold me. Shan, hold me.
- Nice! - Come on. Come on.
- Xander's got it! -[groans]
- Get on the puzzle. Let's go. -[groaning]
Suddenly, we got a challenge.
- Wait, wait... - No, A, A, A.
- No, A's first. - PROBST: Blue had the early lead.
But I think that lead is gone.
It would be a huge comeback if yellow came back and won this.
[indistinct chatter]
Anything is possible on Survivor.
- EVVIE: You got this, dude. - PROBST: This could
come down to seconds and a few pieces.
I know. This is gonna look weird. Give me a second.
- You got it. You got it. - You got it. You got it.
Suddenly blue is moving quickly.
Yes, you're so right. You're totally right.
Wait. No, no, no, we want... It's not...
We're not... not going backwards.
Is it "Merge Feast"?
Now it's yellow who's slowing down.
- Amazing, bro. - You're right, Ric.
PROBST: You could not ask for more
on day 12 of Survivor 41.
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Wait, wait, wait.
- Amazing, bro. - Wait. Oh, that's good.
- Bring it down. - Yes. Jeff? - Jeff.
Blue thinks they have it. Say it!
- ALL: Merge Feast! - That's it!
- Yes! - Blue wins the first meal of the season.
Congrats, guys!
A tribe merge Buff and immunity
at that first individual challenge.
And what a huge effort by yellow to get back in this.
[indistinct chatter]
Danny, Evvie,
Ricard, Deshawn, Sydney,
boat's going to take you to the sanctuary.
Beautiful spot where you will have a proper meal,
plus tribe Buffs, the merge Buff.
Ooh...
And you don't have to compete in that first individual
immunity challenge. You are safe
at that first Tribal Council. Before you head out,
a very big decision to make.
You are going to choose either Naseer or Erika to join you.
The person you choose to join you--
for them, it will be as if they won--
food, Buff and immunity.
A very big strategic decision because that is a gift.
For the other person,
they'll be taken to a separate island,
where they will live alone for two days,
two nights, no proper meal,
no Buff, no immunity,
no company, no shelter.
So for very different reasons,
also a strategic decision, so talk about it.
Big decision.
One person gets a gift, one person gets sent away,
which is always dangerous.
All right, before you tell me,
what was the thought process for your decision?
Paper, rock, scissors.
PROBST: Really?
It's our tribemates, and, you know, it's hard to choose,
- and, uh... - So rock, paper, scissor?
Yup.
PROBST: Okay.
So, blue, who is going to join you for the Merge Feast?
Uh, Naseer.
-[whoops] - PROBST: Naseer, come on over.
Guys. I love you guys.
- Sorry, E. - It's okay.
PROBST: All right, you six gonna have a great afternoon together.
Grab your stuff, head out.
Boat'll take you to the sanctuary.
Enjoy.
- DESHAWN: Good luck. You got it. - Good luck, guys.
PROBST: Xander, Liana, Tiffany,
Shan, Heather, consolation prize?
You'll have a little bit of rice waiting for you back at camp,
enough for the day. You're heading to Luvu tribe.
This will be your merge home.
Grab your stuff, head out.
The game continues.
Enjoy, guys. Have a good day.
- Thank you. We will. - Sorry, Erika.
- We got you. - I'll be okay. I'll be okay.
I'll be okay.
Erika, how you feeling right now?
You're left behind.
Yeah, I mean, I had suspicions that I was at the bottom.
Maybe this just proved it.
I honestly thought that
when the choice was between Naseer and I, like,
I was dead in the water.
So maybe the rock, paper, scissors was, you know,
like, a nice cover to not hurt my feelings,
but I never expected to join the feast.
Well, Erika, there is no denying it.
Your game just took a dramatic turn.
Grab your stuff, head out.
Boat will take you to the island
where you will spend two days and two nights alone.
Good luck.
ERIKA: Hearing I was going to be alone
on an island is honestly a nightmare.
My first 12 days on Survivor is not
what I thought was going to happen.
I didn't expect to have moments where
I was perfectly safe and feel so powerless.
I didn't expect to be exiled for two days, but, like,
as long as I get it done and I do it,
that's what matters.
EVVIE: I'm a huge fan ofSurvivor,
and there has never been anything like this.
Only the winners of the challenge
officially make the merge and get a Merge Feast.
Losing the challenge and not getting the feast?
That's got to be heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking.
- EVVIE: Oh, my God. -[whooping]
EVVIE: Winning this challenge is huge. It means
I officially made the merge,
it means I have immunity for the first vote after the merge,
and most importantly, it means I get to eat.
- Who wants a beer? - DANNY: I do.
[indistinct chatter]
EVVIE: I've seen every season ofSurvivor,
and I really, really, really believe
that this is one of the hardest ever. Like,
it cannot be overstated what not having rice means. Like,
there are many days, where I ate literally zero calories.
Zero calories.
Yo, real talk? We,
the last three days, ate nothing.
Like, nothing nothing.
EVVIE: Yeah.
It is probably the toughest thing I've ever done.
- Yeah. - NASEER: It's a great day for me.
This is what I got. This is, like...
I feel like my... the individual immunity is around my neck
for the first challenge, so...
Smells really good, and I love the color.
You guys think Erika's gonna be okay?
- DESHAWN: I hope so. - I hope so. - DANNY: I really hope so.
- That is a rough punishment. - Yeah...
- But she's, like, super happy-go-lucky. - Is she?
- You think she...? - DESHAWN: She's gonna make the best of it.
NASEER: And also I have
a hidden immunity idol in my pocket,
so I feel like I'm doing really good in this game now.
[whoops, laughs]
First Tribal Council, I'm not going home anymore.
SYDNEY [laughing]: Yeah.
Now I get to feast.
RICARD: Do we...? Do you like Erika?
EVVIE: Yeah, I was gonna ask.
- RICARD: Okay. - DANNY: We hadn't really got
a chance to play the game, so it's been,
like, true harmony in the... in the tribe. Like...
I do feel bad for Erika that she's out there
for two days alone, but
we didn't want to send Naseer because
the real situation is, a lot of the men were voted out.
But nobody really wanted to explain why we chose Naseer, so,
first thing that popped in my head
from old Survivor seasons was
paper, rock, scissors.
EVVIE: Huh?
You got it right.
I'm still worried. [laughs]
We assumed you would be afraid.
DANNY: I thought it was pretty obvious
that the women were kind of
knocking the men out on the other tribe.
So it was really, really important for us
to keep the men's numbers up.
So we needed to keep Naseer safe.
The truth is, a woman definitely has to go home,
and I think Erika makes 100% the most sense.
Okay.
Of the things that I absolutely did not want to happen to me
on Survivor, number one on the list was "Be alone
on a beach for one night,"
and it is happening times two.
Oh, yeah, Jeff wasn't messing around.
I really don't get a lot.
Being alone
for that amount of time almost seems scarier than
not being in the game for two days.
What's in here? Okay.
Okay. We have some rice on the menu.
This one looks promising.
Oh, it's water.
Okay.
It just felt so daunting.
I immediately had the fear of like,
am I going to, like, literally survive?
Am I going to be able to stay alive?
I didn't come into Survivor with a lot of outdoor skills.
And the person least equipped to be outside is me.
But I've been used
to, like, things never coming easy for me in life. Like,
growing up in Canada,
like, always looking different than the other kids
and knowing, like, how many challenges my parents had
in trying to, like, give us a good life.
Coming from the Philippines to Canada,
working so many jobs to, like, keep us going.
I know that, like, it probably hurts them that
they didn't have as much, like, time with us, like, growing up
as they would have wanted to.
But I know that, like...
that everything they did, like,
set me up with, like, the skills to be able
to, like, achieve what I want to do.
I'm just so used to, like, things not being handed to me,
but I just, like, always am able to, like, somehow, like,
persevere and figure out, like, how to get through it.
Oh, my God. Please stay. Please stay lit.
It's been such a dream to be onSurvivor,
and I can't believe that I'm here.
In many ways, me being onSurvivor is almost
like a love letter to my parents
to let them know that, um,
like, everything they did, like, gave me what I need
to survive out here. And I don't know.
I actually think that if I can survive here,
survive, like, double mySurvivor nightmare,
I'm going to come back into the game, like,
still looking like a lamb but ready to play like a lion.
Wow.
Well, that sucked.
XANDER: Because of that challenge,
I'm covered from head to toe
in bruises and bumps, scrapes and dirt.
And I felt like I looked--
just completely disheveled, downtrodden.
I haven't even made it to the merge yet.
I mean, this is like
-a merge-atory. - All right, can we get that?
XANDER: I want to ensure that I get there, so,
it's possible that playing my idol now
or winning immunity
is the only thing that's going to keep me in this game.
I knew you had it.
I wouldn't have shared it
with anybody. You did the right thing.
I didn't play 'cause I wanted you to have it.
- Well, thank you. - Yeah. I...
TIFFANY: Okay.
LIANA: Shan immediately,
in front of Tiffany, talks about the advantage.
I didn't plan on sharing this with anybody.
That sucked because there was no getting out of that pickle.
No...
I can...
The way my Knowledge Is Power Advantage works-- I have
to have the knowledge about where everything is.
I have to ask the correct person the correct question.
And I only have one shot to do it.
I can ask either "Do you have an idol?"
or "Do you have an advantage?"
and they have to give it to me if they do have it.
Mm-hmm.
I know.
SHAN: I am super excited to work with Liana moving forward
because Liana and I really bonded on the journey, and
I kind of just trust her with everything.
You know, she's like, "I've got your back,"
and I know... I know I've got hers.
And that's how I... I genuinely feel.
XANDER: Oh, my God, what a sight.
Oh, my God.
Baruch Hashem. We're eating.
Baruch Hashem.
- HEATHER: I'm good. Let's share it. - XANDER: Mmm-mmm.
- We'll take turns. - HEATHER: I'm good.
TIFFANY: This is delicious.
And the seashell's got some salt on it,
- so it's gonna kick in. - HEATHER: Mm-hmm. - XANDER: Mmm.
- Savor every bite. - I am.
Every single little grain.
TIFFANY: I'm kind of on the outs in a weird way
'cause Liana went on a journey with Shan, so they have
a little bit of a... connection.
Heather's sort of
connected to five people who have already won.
And I'm sitting here like,
"What's happening?"
So I'm just going with everybody at the moment.
All right, we're gonna rinse, you get water.
- Okay. - Is that fair? You want to do that?
- Yeah, that's cool. - All right, let's do it.
LIANA: Tiff gets a moment with me
as we're walking down to do shells,
and she's like, "Okay, well, what's the advantage?"
I'm like, "Oh, my God."
Essentially, what I can do is,
I can steal someone's idol or advantage
at Tribal Council, and they... they have to give it to me.
I'm not kidding.
So we can take...?
Naseer's. We can take whoever we want.
LIANA: That was just nerve-racking to tell Tiff
because she's to me like, "I knew it.
"I knew you had it the whole time.
"Don't worry. I wouldn't have have told Evvie,
I wouldn't have told Xander."
Like, she has this, like, intensity about her.
- Whoa. - Whoa.
LIANA: She's playing so hard.
Yet she's this really funny, you know, charismatic person
that everybody loves to be around.
And so, that, to me, is kind of like poison, and I'm like,
"Especially with you knowing about this now,
"and how I've seen you operate,
you've just become a major threat."
TIFFANY: Liana is continuing to hold
this emotional tie to wanting Xander out.
And she's gunning for one of our own.
That's a problem, and here's another problem.
She did tell me right away what it was,
and it's some sort of advantage.
But all I could think was,
"We were a tight three coming in here,
"and you already had something to hide from us,
and now we're in a big group."
If she can do that within the game like this,
she's gonna flip on us in two seconds. So,
I'm not so sure I'm gonna have her back like I did before.
Oh, my.
- Look. - Oh, my God.
Oh, my goodness. Hi!
Hi.
Hi! Oh, my gosh.
- I'm Sydney. - Hi. I'm Liana.
- Nice to meet you. - I'm Xander.
- I'm Danny. - Hi, Sydney. Nice...
EVVIE: So going back to camp, I was expecting it to be awkward
because we just had a feast and the others
have just been sitting there, but actually,
they were so excited to see everyone here.
Everyone put on their best merge-making-new-friends face.
- Okay, I'm Liana. - Liana. Liana, okay.
- I'm from a suburb of Chicago-- Evanston. - Okay.
Thank you, man. Oh, I really appreciate that. Aw.
When the red Buffers came back home,
it was all fun and games. We're having a great time
out here, we're getting to know each other, but
in everybody's mind, we know
that it's not going to last very long.
Yeah.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay?
XANDER: It's bad being the only guy
eligible to be voted out. Everybody
could decide that, you know what?
This is our best chance to take out Xander.
However, I do have the extra vote
and also an immunity idol.
So I'm not entirely powerless.
But she didn't tell me. She didn't tell me.
I'm hoping that everybody is of the mindset of...
Yeah.
I think...
DANNY: The Luvu tribe--
we got fractures all over the place,
but with Erika getting sent to exile, it's kind of obvious
that she's at the bottom, and I don't want her
to come back with a grievance and automatically decide
that she wanted to flip
and try to get one of us out.
- Who? - Erika.
- Oh, yeah. - Right. So basically,
she's gonna take a spot away from one of us.
Yes, exactly.
SYDNEY: This is an absolute no-brainer.
Erika's a very smart person
and an incredibly intelligent player.
And if she has some sort of advantage,
that makes her very dangerous.
- EVVIE: We don't know what she has on the island. - Yeah.
And I think that will just make everyone feel more comfortable.
- You know? Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
SHAN: Ricard and I-- we're the only two from Ua.
So if people are pitching Erika,
I'm okay with all of that and I'll rock with all of that.
But if she comes back with an advantage,
it might not be that easy.
XANDER: I think the Luvus want to cannibalize each other first.
But it's just, like, it's almost,
like, too good to be true.
- It sounds too good to be true. - I don't know.
SHAN: I was just really, really nervous,
and the only person that really seems reliable is Liana.
Liana and I really bonded on the journey and the excursion, so,
I feel like I can trust her,
and then I do really like Danny and Deshawn. More than any
other season that I think I've ever watched onSurvivor,
I think Season 41 has been the most diverse and most,
like, inclusive and representative
of America.
No, I...
Yeah, yeah.
I know.
But, like, I... I think it's...
- I think it's dope. - I agree.
LIANA: As people of color, there is a shared experience.
You immediately have this bond.
You're like, "Oh, you're the only one in your classroom
that looks like you? Me, too."
And so, you have this bond and this connection
right off the bat. We do want to uplift one another
in this game, and that would be a really beautiful thing.
SHAN: Right.
- Delicious. - Guys, let's really do it. - Let's do it. Let's do it.
DESHAWN: Recently I made some new friends
and new allies in Shan and Liana.
I'm going to be honest. I'm a guy from San Bernardino.
I'm used to being around a lot of African American people.
But I thought that I probably wouldn't get a chance
to play with Black people in this game.
And that's not the case.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
As long as it's not one of us.
This season, the beauty of having a diverse cast is
that it kind of
busts your possibilities wide open, you know?
And everybody is kind of
bringing something to the table. It's like,
"Well, we got an arsenal here.
We would be foolish not to work together."
[Liana laughs]
ERIKA: I was sitting in my little exile home,
and I see this boat pull up.
It looks like Jeff is on the boat.
It made me think, like, "Okay, I'm actually crazy."
Like, there's no way Jeff is making house calls.
- What? - Take me in. Let me see what...
Are you serious? Oh, my God.
Jeff doesn't just show up
to tribe camps for no reason.
And he certainly doesn't show up to Exile.
- So you kept the fire going all night? - Yes.
Working on the fire is what kept me sane.
I think that if I didn't have this little fire
that I felt like I was taking care of,
I probably would have just laid in a ball and cried.
So let's talk about the emotional part of that.
- Yeah. - Because this game can take you on some wild journeys.
- Yes. - And when the decision was made,
however it was made,
the result was, you were sent here alone.
What does that feel like
when it is really just you here with your thoughts?
I feel like... I just feel like I was left behind.
I feel like coming here and having to spend two days alone
when the merge happened-- which is so important--
it feels like... like I have so much catch-up to do.
Well, it doesn't have to be that way,
because in sending you out here, what they didn't know is
they gave you tremendous power.
Oh, my God. I was hoping for something.
This... is an hourglass.
The black sand at the bottom of this hourglass represents
the time that has already passed.
- This is the history of what has happened in the game. - Yeah.
If you want, you can leave the game in its natural state,
and the events that have happened happened,
- what is is, that's our history. - Yeah.
Or if you want, you can go back in time
and change history.
You have the power to reverse the outcome
of yesterday's merge challenge.
- Oh, my God. - So those that have immunity
would have it stripped from them.
They would have to compete,
one of the six of them would be voted out.
You and the other five would be safe
and guaranteed a spot in the final 11.
Oh, my God.
I'm gonna leave you with this.
If you want to do nothing,
then just leave everything as it is.
But if you want to make history by changing history...
Oh, my gosh. How much time do I have to think about this?
Tomorrow morning before you leave the beach,
you got to make your decision.
- Oh, my gosh. - Game is always changing.
You've earned your spot out here.
You're still in the game.
What you do with this decision is up to you.
It's obviously a big strategic decision.
- I'm going to leave you with it. - Jeff.
Not only has Jeff created this single game-changing decision.
[singsongy]: Little old me gets to make it!
The little girl from Canada who's much smaller
than everyone else, who everyone was okay
with sending to exile, gets to make this decision? Oh,
my... God!
What makes it complicated
is, the six who are safe are the majority
of my original tribe.
So this could burn bridges with people
that I do have some type of trust with.
No matter what I do, I'm probably going to lay awake
for the next few nights, wondering
if I did the right thing.
People are going to talk about this one for a long time,
and it's a lot of pressure.
Whatever I do, there are going to be people
who are going to be upset with me.
I had the opportunity to change the events of history.
- Wow. - SHAN: Oh, my God.
XANDER: That's a curveball.
EVVIE: This is literally life or death for me.
What decision did you make?
[roars]