Well, last season birthed a new era of Survivor.
26 days, a relentless pace, no food...
I'm just really hungry.
penalties for losing...
I need your flint.
and these crazy, dangerous twists.
- Oh, my God. - DANNY: Oh.
PROBST: You are safe, my friend.
And what's really great is,
we shoot two seasons back-to-back,
which means this new group of players for 42
has not seen anything that happened in 41.
So we're going to use that to our advantage in this way.
Some twists will remain the same,
like the crazy phrases that you have to say
in front of other players to activate your idol.
TORI: "Potatoes have skin. I have skin. Am I a potato?"
PROBST: But other twists,
we're going to change the variables a little bit
to see if it changes how the players respond.
And some twists will be new.
It's another evolution
in the greatest social experiment
ever seen on television.
JONATHAN: I've waited for a long time
to be out here playing Survivor.
I live for challenges like this.
I have a world record in pull-ups
with 100 pounds on my back.
I did 15 in a minute.
But this is like the ultimate challenge.
There's nothing like this.
Like, yeah, there's a million world records,
but there's one Survivor.
DREA: From the beginning, I've had to fight
for people to believe in me,
even doing hurdles half blind.
They thought I was crazy.
I became an all-American in hurdles.
Like, I fight,
and I'm very competitive.
Sometimes, I bring that into certain situations, and
they're just like, "You're-you're too much, Drea."
(laughs)
OMAR: As an exotic animal veterinarian,
you never know what you're going to see when you come into work.
It might be a tiny canary with a fractured leg,
or a giant rhino that you have to put your hand up its butt.
I'm gonna come out into this game acting like a pigeon,
something that's nonthreatening, but really,
I'm going to be like the owl in the night.
You're not gonna hear or see me coming
until you're dead and Jeff is snuffing your torch.
(bird squeaks)
LYDIA: As a young woman, as a Gen Z,
I feel way outside of my comfort zone.
I mean, the most I've ever even camped
is at music festivals, like, truly, like.
It's definitely a weakness. I mean,
I'm an awkward runner, I'm an awkward swimmer.
I'm nervous about the bug.
I will burn instantly.
I'm already worrying I'm burning now.
Even sand. Sand is horrible,
especially, like, when it, like, sticks
to your whole body. It sucks.
PROBST: These 18 strangers have left everything behind.
DANIEL: I've been trying to get
on the show forever. This is like
a lifelong dream.
PROBST: They're about to take part
in an adventure that will forever change their lives.
MARYA: There's something for me that's here
that I need to find.
PROBST: A complicated and dangerous game
designed to test them
by pushing them further than ever before...
LINDSAY: How much farther can I really go?
How much potential do I really have?
PROBST: forcing them to adapt at every turn...
HAI: Whatever twist Jeff is going to throw at us,
I need to be prepared.
PROBST: and challenging the beliefs
of what is possible for those brave enough to say yes
to the adventure of a lifetime.
You get one shot at this. You get one shot.
And I'm gonna give it everything I got.
Who will have what it takes to outwit, outplay
and outlast all the rest?
This is Survivor 42.
♪ ♪
Come on.
Come join me.
♪ ♪
MARYANNE: Right now, it feels like a roller coaster.
The strap is on, the people have done their final check,
and the roller coaster just went like... (grunts)
And it's now just starting to move.
And in this moment, you have to decide,
are you going to raise your hand
to have the experience of your lifetime, or are you gonna
close your eyes and regret that for your life?
My hands are going to be raised,
and I'm going to be screaming with everyone on this...
whatever ride this is.
PROBST: All right.
Welcome to Survivor 42.
(whooping and cheering)
You are here, so excited.
It is so nice to be back in Fiji where it is safe.
You all quarantined, everybody tested, everybody is good to go.
We can play Survivor. Woman in the front-- your smile.
You haven't stopped smiling since you got in the sand.
- What's your name? - Maryanne.
Maryanne, what is that enthusiasm?
How do you describe that to your best friend?
It's, like, you dream about this, you know?
You dream about, like, going on Survivor.
Then you're like... And all your friends are like,
"Maryanne, you're not gonna make it on Survivor."
Like, so many people. And then it's like, you're here,
and then it's like, like, you know, like, you're here.
And, like, you're there and, like, I'm here, and, like,
you're just like... Like, I just want to,
like, jump up, run, scream.
Ah! It's so hard to keep it in.
(laughter)
Guy in the middle in the green. What's your name?
Mike. How you doing, Jeff?
I'm out here with Jeff Probst. Can you believe this?
- Holy crap. - That'll go away fast. - (laughter)
- It will? - Yeah.
Well, let me soak this in for a few seconds first.
On the beach, sand under my feet,
and Jeff Probst is talking to me.
It don't get better than that. I can't wait
for my friends to see this. They're not going to believe it.
- (laughter) - So what does it take to win this game, Mike?
I think you need to be diversified in all the areas--
Social game, your challenge game,
and even just how you act around camp. I think it takes it all.
I think the person that comes out and is more well-rounded
than the rest of us will win this game.
- What's your name? - Zach.
Zach, what does it take to win Survivor?
I think we're about to find out, Jeff.
What does that mean?
I don't know. I was trying, man.
- (laughter) - It-it sounded cool.
I think it was the delivery
that I kind of, like, miffed it on.
(laughter)
So, look around.
One of you is 26 days away from winning Survivor 42
and the million dollars that goes with it.
There are lots of different ideas
about what it takes to win,
and you have to continue to adapt.
That is the key, which is why you got to think
of the game of Survivor
like it's the monster in the horror movie.
Either you slay this game, or the game will slay you.
I'm glad each of you are here,
and I hope that Survivor gives you what you're looking for.
Let's get into it. Let's start with our tribes.
- Over here on the left-- Taku. - Yeah.
In the middle-- Vati.
And on the end, wearing blue-- Ika.
- (whooping) - Yeah!
All right, are you ready to get to your first test
- as brand-new tribes? - ALL: Yeah!
All right, here's what's going to happen.
On my go, one person from each tribe is going to race
into the jungle and untie two paddles
from a cargo net.
They'll come back. Another person from that tribe
will then race down around the far end of the beach
and get two more paddles.
When you're back with your paddles,
everybody gets in your boat and you paddle out
and around the buoy, collecting a bag of bamboo sticks.
One tribe member will use those sticks
to try to retrieve that flint.
First tribe member to get a flint earns for their tribe
- a pot, a machete and a flint. - Oh, my.
That's what you're starting the game with.
- No rice. - (laughs)
- No food source. - Wow.
PROBST: You haven't seen Survivor 41.
You're going to be on your own. The new Survivor
is fast, it's difficult, and it's dangerous.
OMAR: I don't know about season 41, but
watching 40 seasons of Survivor, you have a general idea.
But when Jeff says,
that's out the window, and you don't know what to expect-
this is just wild.
All right, tell me who are the first runners
for the first leg? Come right up here
in front of the green.
- Come on, my brother. - Right next to each other.
Jonathan.
- (whooping) - All right, Jonathan!
- All right, Daniel. - Yeah, let's go, Daniel!
He's pretty big, you know.
I got to win one for the short guys here.
- (laughs) - We have Jonathan, Daniel...
- Yes. - and Tori gonna race on the first leg.
- Tori, you got this. - Go, Jonathan! - First challenge
of Survivor 42 for basic camp supplies.
Here we go. Survivors ready.
- Yes. - Go.
- ROCKSROY: Go, Tori! - Jonathan, Daniel and Tori.
ROCKSROY: Yeah, Tori! (whoops)
Two paddles tied to a cargo net.
- (whooping, clapping) - MARYANNE: Jonathan!
You got this, Jonathan!
PROBST: The early moments of Survivor 42.
You have no idea what's happening back there.
- Jonathan! - You've sent a relative stranger
- to represent your tribe. - (whooping)
Who will come back first?
- Let's go, Tori! - (whooping)
Come on, Tori!
(Tori grunts)
- (whooping) - ROCKSROY: Come on!
Oh!
- Let's go, Daniel! - Come on, Daniel!
- Come on! - Keep it up! Keep it up!
- Come on, Daniel! - Here it is!
Jonathan with Tori right behind.
You're good. Go!
It's gonna be Lindsay. Here comes Tori.
You got to get there! Go. Here comes Drea.
MARYANNE: Go, Lindsay! Go, Lindsay! Go!
Go, Lindsay! Go, Lindsay! Go!
PROBST: Down and around the beach
trying to get two more paddles.
- (overlapping shouting) - We're waiting for Daniel.
Here comes Daniel.
Got to get back. Daniel takes a fall.
-Keep digging, brother. You're on Survivor. -HAI: Got it.
- Drop it, drop it, drop it. - Go. Hai's gonna head out now.
Go, Hai!
Get the pad... Get the paddles ready.
You're okay. You're okay.
JACKSON: Come on, Lindsay!
MARYANNE: You got this!
JACKSON: Lindsay!
I sprint, and I run around, and I get there.
And then, all of a sudden, I see that there's this thing
that says you have to make
this decision, but you have to wait
till everyone else gets there.
I'm like, "That's a huge twist," but
clearly this is a much more dangerous version of this game.
Okay.
- HAI: Okay. - Well...
Hai, let's go!
Pros are, we all have an advantage.
- JENNY: Come on! Let's go, Hai! - Right, and also, con is
we are now being deceitful immediately if...
- HAI: That's the game. - We play... We came
- to play the game, though. - (overlapping shouting)
But go with your gut.
My gut is that it's only 26 days.
- Going fast. - And that as long
as we get to merge
and the three of us know and only the three of us know...
- It has to stay, just the three of us. - I got y'all.
- Five finger. - Otherwise we...
- we all crash and burn. - Can you touch his pinkie? - Pinkie.
HAI: This was an opportunity to build
two instant connections on other tribes.
So for me there was no other choice
except to do it.
- Hey, what's the lie? - Wait. What's the lie?
DREA: This is awesome! Wait. Let's
- help each other out here. - Yo, this one is a long ride.
- It is. Man. - Row.
A long time to get back.
Rest of the tribe can do nothing until their tribe member is back
with those two paddles.
- This is mud. Here, get it on. - (Hai mumbles)
(laughs)
- Wait. - Oh, it's so cute.
- But I'm sorry. - Yeah, just do it.
- Who cares? - Wait. They're gonna be like,
- "What kind of freaking...?" - Put it on my face, too.
- Oh! - It has to look like...
All right, we have to make it believable.
- Otherwise it's-it's obv... - We can't just... Shh.
No one's back yet.
I've been on such a strict skin care routine.
- This is good. It's mud. - Oh, yeah, you're right.
Oh, my God. I hope they're okay.
(grunting, laughter)
Wow. This is a hell of a run you sent 'em on, Jeff.
(laughter)
Oh, my God. Come on. No. You have to.
- DREA: Okay. - HAI: Okay, I'll do that.
Oh, yeah.
Like, we have to do it. This doesn't...
This doesn't look good at all.
Should we check on them?
(panting)
- Lindsay! - (cheering, screaming)
Oh, and it's Lindsay back first.
Here comes Drea and Hai.
(whooping)
(cheering)
PROBST: You're good.
ROCKSROY: Go ahead.
OMAR: You guys ready?
- MIKE: Come on, Hai. - PROBST: You're good.
You're good. Everybody in your boats.
Steady, girl.
PROBST: All six people going to be paddling.
It's going to be Taku in the water first.
You got to go out and around the buoy.
Get your bamboo sticks on the way back.
Now we're straying. Let's all go...
PROBST: Ika is way off course.
They're struggling just to not go backwards.
Stop paddling. Stop. Left. Stop. Right, right, right.
- Row. - Go.
PROBST: Taku getting close to that buoy.
- Row! - Now all of us, all of us.
PROBST: It is Vati and Ika in second place,
but Taku in the clear lead right now.
Come on. Come on, come on.
PROBST: You got to get around that buoy...
-All right. before you can get
the bamboo sticks on your way back.
All right, guys. Come on, we got this.
PROBST: It is Taku still in the lead.
Taku now at the station to get their bamboo sticks.
PROBST: Now they're starting to float away
- from the station. - No!
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, you are.
LINDSAY: Jump. All right, paddle close to him.
Paddle close to him.
PROBST: Jonathan gets up on the platform for Taku,
- untying knots with his bamboo. - (whooping)
Jonathan back in the water now.
Jonathan gonna swim back to that boat.
Taku still in a very dominating position right now.
It's now Vati finally at the buoy.
Go! Good, guys, good!
- PROBST: And Ika right behind them. - We got it.
Taku is back. You got to get in.
You got to tie up.
PROBST: Taku trying to get close to that rope.
Look at that. A miscalculation
about where they came in.
Jonathan literally dragging that boat over
so he can walk in.
Yeah!
- Now Vati at the platform. - You got it, Lydia?
- Come on, baby. - Working on
untying their bamboo sticks.
Don't lose me. Don't lose me. Don't lose me.
Everyone get out?
PROBST: Once that rope will reach, try it.
(overlapping chatter)
One person now.
- Come on, Marya. - Gonna be Marya using
the bamboo sticks. You're gonna have to build a pole
that is long enough and strong enough to reach that flint
and get it back to you.
- (overlapping chatter) - Hold on, hold on, hold on.
- Hold on! - PROBST: Vati coming back now.
They have their bamboo sticks.
And Ika in blue now at the platform.
Ika has their bamboo sticks. They're heading back.
Taku with the early lead.
(whooping) Tak-Tak-Taku!
Go, go!
Keep digging. You've got
- to be tied in. - One, two. Go, go, go. Come on.
- You're good. Head in. - Come on, pull.
- PROBST: Daniel clearly injured. - Come on!
- Push! - PROBST: That fall he took
in the beginning-- That right shoulder looks lame.
Got it. Got it.
- Come on. - Let's go.
Hai now starting to work on the bamboo sticks.
Rocksroy starting in on the bamboo sticks.
Marya with a big lead
of time, allowing her to work on her bamboo pole.
- You got it, girl. - Yeah, can you give it a go?
Trying to see how much more distance she needs.
- She is not close. - MIKE: All right, you better move it, Hai.
- Hai! - Hai! - Hai and Rocksroy are gaining.
It would be a huge comeback for Ika
and a huge comeback for Vati
'cause they were really out of it.
- Good job, Rocksroy! - PROBST: Marya absolutely patient.
Does she have it this time?
- It's looking better. - There you go.
She's got to get it high enough to hook that ring.
Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
PROBST: Hai now gonna give it a go.
And here comes Rocksroy.
All three tribes are in it.
This is what you want minutes into Survivor 42.
- Oh, yeah, baby! - PROBST: Rocksroy
- literally a half an inch away. - Got it?
- (overlapping shouting) - PROBST: Closer. Closer.
Rocksroy's on the ring.
- Can he get it off? - Let's go!
He's got it hooked. He's got it off.
Now it's in the sand.
Now he's got to drag it. Here comes Hai.
- What is happening? - PROBST: You can feel the pressure
- now kick in. - Yeah, you got this. - Good job.
Taku had a huge lead,
which puts the pressure on Marya to pay it off.
- You got this. - PROBST: Rocksroy very patient,
but this is not a good situation.
Keep dragging it!
PROBST: Stick doesn't have much leverage.
- There you go! There you go! - It will take a great touch.
- Yes! - Rocksroy's inside the ring.
Can he hook it again? This would be a great maneuver.
- And this might do it. - (overlapping shouting)
PROBST: For the win for Ika.
- Yes! - (cheering) - Yeah, baby!
Ika wins first challenge. Huge job by Rocksroy,
earning camp supplies for his tribe.
You're the man! You are the man!
Sorry, guys.
Are you okay? You're bleeding a lot.
Ika, congratulations.
Out of the gate, first victory.
Waiting for you back at camp will be
your meager supplies: a pot, machete and a flint.
As for the two losing tribes,
you have to go to your new beaches now
and once again try in a new way
to earn your camp supplies.
Ika, grab your stuff, get in your boat.
-You're heading out this way. Congratulations. -(cheering)
Get started building shelter.
Taku, grab your stuff, head out.
You're going straight out.
MARYA: I mean, I failed.
My team set us up to win and win big,
but it's a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be.
And so, my mindset is just
buckle my seat belt.
Like, it's gonna be real.
All right, Vati, before I send you out,
Daniel, clearly your shoulder is hurting.
What happened?
I think I-I pulled a Stephenie LaGrossa here,
and I think it-it just popped out.
We're gonna bring medical in before you head out.
- Yes. Yes. - PROBST: So you can paddle.
All right, medical, let's come in.
All right, so let's give a little space.
Just step back a little bit so we can just talk with Daniel.
- MIKE: You got this, Daniel. - LYDIA: Yeah.
DOCTOR: Let's sit you down so that you're more comfortable
- to start with. Yeah? - DANIEL: Okay. Okay. - PROBST: Can you sit down?
- DOCTOR: It's whatever position is more comfortable for you. - Okay.
DOCTOR: All right...
Okay.
PROBST: Is it something that can be repaired?
(groans)
- Okay. - Just pop it. Pop it. I'm ready.
Okay.
- Just stay as relaxed as you're able to. - I trust you.
-Oh, there we go. That feels so much better. -Wow. I saw it.
Oh, my God.
- Wow, Dr. Rae, well done. - LYDIA: Good job, Daniel.
Daniel, you're a rock star right now.
DANIEL: Okay.
- Okay. All right, thank you. - (chuckles)
- PROBST: Thanks, Dr. Rae. - I do love doctors.
Good job, Dan. Good job, Dan.
- (clapping, chatter) - Thank you. Thank you.
All right, brother.
We lost the challenge, somebody got hurt.
We don't know how hurt he is.
Also, we got no rice, no flint, no machete, no pot.
And I'm like, "Already?"
The first 15 minutes, and we're in trouble.
This is not a good start at all.
♪ ♪
(whooping)
- All right! - We're here!
- ZACH: Oh, that's our stuff. - TORI: Oh, my God!
ZACH: I'm a super duper fan.
So getting to just sit in this sand on this, like,
stupid tree thing is a dream.
- This is our shelter? - This is for our shelter? - (laughter)
I mean, prime real estate.
A new era of Survivor is absolutely terrifying,
because I know 40 seasons.
I don't know last season.
I'm Zach.
I'm 21 years old, and I'm a student.
But whatever is thrown my way, bring it on.
I'm Drea. I'm 34.
Born and raised in Texas,
but I've lived in Montreal for the past 12 years.
So, I'm Romeo. Uh...
I'm a pageant director.
I'm Rocksroy Bailey.
I am the old head here.
- (chuckles): I'm... - No way. No.
I'm 43 years old.
Okay, hi, guys. My name's Tori.
Um, I work as a caregiver, and I'm 24.
Um, I'm Swati. I'm 20.
Um, I'm in the Army National Guard,
- and I'm a computer science student. - ROCKSROY: Oh, awesome.
Being in the National Guard, I think it'll be a real asset,
because young women, as we have seen,
get voted out early on Survivor pretty frequently.
So I think just having that initial impression of me,
of like, "Okay, she's going to do her work around camp,
she's going to participate in the challenges,"
will be super useful.
My family immigrated from India.
They raised me by example
on hard work and discipline.
And some people were surprised when the hippie nerd
joined the Army National Guard,
but to me the military really exemplifies those values.
Also, my education was always a top priority.
Uh, not to flex, but I got into every college I applied to.
And now I got into Harvard.
All I do at home is work and maneuver my way to the top,
and that's what I'm about to do here.
Tell me how to say your name.
- Swati. - Swati, Swati, Swati.
- Swati. - Is it Tori?
- Yes. How'd you know? - No way.
TORI: So, my social strategy coming into the game
is, I want to tell people and show people
what I want them to think about me.
So I told them I work as a caregiver-- which is a lie.
I actually work as a therapist.
But using what I know in therapy
is totally what I'm going to do.
Are we, like, the three young people?
TORI: I guess we are.
So we quickly start working on our shelter,
and the big kids go to deal with the fire,
which leaves the three youngest people,
we're doing the palm fronds.
Wait, so do you like Harry Potter?
ZACH: Yeah, I mean, I read all the books.
- There you go. True fan. - Seen all the movies.
And I'm from Florida, so I've been to the...
-the Wizarding World. Like... -Oh, yeah. Have you ever had Butterbeer?
- Of course. - How is it?
It's delicious.
TORI: So we're talking,
and I'm really trying to let my nerdy self show.
Oh, she knows her Harry Potter.
I love this.
'Cause I could just tell. I picked up on that,
that that's the kind of person they are.
Oh, man, they're working hard on the fire.
Ah!
TORI: So I don't want to be with the big kids.
- DREA: Oh, my God. - They get it?
I want the people who are a little quieter,
maybe on the outs.
Good job.
And, so far, I think it's going well.
ROMEO: So...
- You're thinking what I'm thinking? - Yeah.
Yes.
- Yeah, same. - You remind me of back home.
I work in the world of pageantry.
First impressions is the most important thing.
So right off the bat, with Drea and Rocks,
I just got really good vibes from them.
Well, let's just start off with this.
DREA: Yeah.
ROCKSROY: There you go.
(Drea chuckles)
ROMEO: Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to do two things.
I couldn't win Miss Universe because I'm a man,
but I could win Survivor.
Let's talk about building some homes.
Let's do it.
Who would have thought a pageant coach from South Central,
this skinny kid,
could be able to make alliances
and be chopping bamboo with no problem.
- (laughter) - You good?
(laughs): Yeah.
It's incredible.
(laughter, indistinct chatter)
♪ ♪
MIKE: One, two, three.
Holy crap.
It's a lot different than TV, huh, guys?
LYDIA: Vati tribe,
our first challenge of season 42, like,
it was insane.
Even the team that's in last can finish it,
- so we don't give up. - Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah. Right.
LYDIA: Daniel fell and dislocated his shoulder,
and now we have no camp supplies.
So that is definitely a setback
going into a game where we are not provided anything.
"You failed in your first attempt
at earning your supplies. Here's your second chance."
(sighs) Oh, my gosh.
Oh, God.
So we need to decide.
- Um... - Okay.
MIKE: The choice of our challenge was to get
probably the most important things in the game:
flint, machete, pot.
You can't do anything without those three.
So big decision, we're in trouble.
Either we solve this puzzle, or fill up that pot
and walk that back and forth for four hours
and fill that 55-gallon drum up.
Now, looking around,
I saw that the person that would be designated to do that
was yours truly.
And they get to talk,
they get to rest, I'm left out.
I make sure to put a kibosh on that right away.
Here's what I'm thinking. That pot's heavy.
- Yeah. - MIKE: That's four hours.
It's one person. I think we're a team.
- Yeah. - MIKE: We stick together, and we do the challenge
- that we're all involved in. - DANIEL: I agree.
So that way we all take responsibility for it.
Who's good at stuff like reading these triangles?
- Do we-- Are you good at that? - LYDIA: Well, it's a visual...
I-I think I'm pretty good
- with visual puzzles like that. - MIKE: Okay, good.
LYDIA: All right.
- MIKE: Okay, okay. - DANIEL: This is...
HAI: Wait a minute. Was that a trick?
MIKE: No, it's not a trick. Listen.
- If it seems easy, it's not easy. - HAI: Yeah. All right.
- So should we all just do it? - LYDIA: Yeah.
Okay, I-I have my number.
- HAI: I have mine. - MIKE: Me, too.
DANIEL: I, uh, I'm still going.
- Let's all say it on three. - DANIEL: Wait, wait, wait.
JENNY: So I start counting the triangles,
and how many of my tribe members say "I got it"?
There's no way anyone has it yet.
Let Jenny explain. She's on to something.
I thought, "Good Lord.
These people are not puzzle people."
- So, one, two, three at the top, right? - HAI: One, two, three. Right.
-JENNY: This is a triangle. This is a triangle. -HAI: Damn.
- You're right. - MIKE: Oh, you're right.
JENNY: I'm a designer, and so I'm a very visual person.
I'm also really methodical, so I can pick things apart,
and I can see them visually.
So this is one, including the two rows, right?
- CHANELLE: Yeah. - LYDIA: Yeah. Yeah. - JENNY: Four, five, right?
- That's another. So that's 20. - Yeah.
JENNY: So I just start showing them the basic math of it,
and they look at me confused.
And at that point,
I'm realizing I have to step up and really lead this challenge,
so that I can get us the tools that we need.
(laughter)
There's no way.
♪ ♪
(whispers): It almost seems too easy.
Six, seven, eight.
- This isn't my strong suit, so... - (laughs)
- Like, he saw 30 more triangles than me. - LINDSAY: Yeah.
And I don't-- I-I feel like I would get in the way.
You know, it's-it's better to divide our resources anyways,
- so that we can have somewhere to sleep tonight. - OTHERS: Yeah.
Ultimately, the tribe decided to do Savvy,
which is a puzzle.
I wanted to be the provider, the strength,
but I'm not gonna be the puzzle guy.
So, as a tribe, we decided to split--
Half work on the puzzle, half work on the shelter.
And then there were three.
The hardest part about this puzzle
was remembering what you already counted.
BOTH: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
Thirty-one.
Okay, I see...
No, no. The 30 is the 30. That 30 is that...
- Oh, yes! Oh, my God. - Okay.
MARYANNE: The puzzle, it's like,
you can see this triangle, and it might go
and make a triangle like... ♪ Doonk, doonk, doonk. ♪
And then you're like, "Yes. This is great."
That's triangle number one.
You go to triangle number two, three, four, five.
And now you're at triangle number six.
Where's triangle number one?
You don't know.
And then after, you'll go, you'll be like, "Oh,
this is a cool triangle."
♪ Doonk, doonk, doonk. ♪
And then you'll double-count it.
LINDSAY: 11, 12, 13, 14.
OMAR: Fourteen?
(laughter)
(groans loudly)
MARYANNE: It was so stressful
just trying to keep track of,
like, what have I counted? What have I not counted?
Oh, oh, no, there's one.
(groans)
OMAR: The pressure is on
because you don't have those tools.
We can't start a fire.
If rain comes, we're screwed.
And of course, we can't even build a shelter.
Oh, my gosh.
- LINDSAY: Okay, let's go. - Yeah.
Oh, my God.
DANIEL: 46, 47, 48,
- 49. - LYDIA: Mm-hmm.
Yeah. They have to come together.
That's what's tricky.
JENNY: Yes.
Yep.
Getting this number right is the difference between
being on the beach with nothing
or having water and fire and a shelter.
It is the difference between literal survival in this game.
So, what are we at now?
- DANIEL: We're at 50. - 50.
I'm confident that there are at least 50.
- JENNY: Yes. - CHANELLE: Yeah.
JENNY: Fifty.
LYDIA: Okay.
MIKE: And then we do the drumroll, right?
Who's got the drumroll?
Fifty-one.
- LINDSAY: So, 37 plus 14 is 51. - OMAR: So...
LINDSAY: So is that 51 three times?
I think it is.
Or 51 and 52.
Once we got three in a row, where we're like, "There's 51,"
we felt good about that.
But even that's not enough,
'cause then you have the final step
of what's your second number?
Did you count two that were the same?
Or did you maybe miss one?
LINDSAY: 51 and 52.
- MARYANNE: We good? - Yeah.
- We good. (chuckles) - God.
This is the scariest thing I've ever done in my life.
MIKE: Do it slow.
- Okay, ready? - (chuckles nervously)
Let's go.
(cheering)
(overlapping shouting)
(whooping)
(screaming, cheering, laughing)
What? What?
You guys rock.
MARYANNE: We have the flint, we have the machete,
and we have the pot.
And it's so funny how low your standards go so quickly.
I'm like, "Oh, my gosh, we got bare necessities.
This is the best day of my life!"
(Maryanne laughs)
(chopping)
Hey, guys.
Yeah.
MIKE: Fifty-seven.
JENNY: Never would've guessed that.
I try, brother. I try. Listen, it's not easy.
Throughout my whole life,
people look at me and think I'm a hard guy,
that I'm some guy
that's probably a little mean, a little tough.
You know, so it's my job to soften that blow
because that's not who I am.
- JENNY: Oh, wow. - HAI: Oh, wow.
- I break rock. - JENNY: That's how strong Mike is!
MIKE: I'm so proud of what I've done in my life.
The Hoboken Fire Department was my career for 26 years.
Very proud to put that uniform on.
It gave me a sense of pride. I was actually
the first Puerto Rican battalion chief in Hoboken.
You know, honestly, I have very humble beginnings.
I was a kid in the projects, running the streets.
My father was rough, my mother was handicapped, so
I had to work to... to be who I am today.
You got it this time.
Yes.
- LYDIA: Oh, my God. - JENNY: Oh, my God. Yes.
Holy cow, baby.
- Yes. Here. - Wow.
Oh, my God, guys.
There's only sidewalks in Hoboken,
but I got a fire in Survivor.
DANIEL: Who says someone from the city can't make fire?
High five, man.
- Now... - Fireman gets the fire started.
- Jenny. - (Jenny laughs)
(Drea and Zach singing Survivor theme)
(all singing)
(singing continues in distance)
(singing continues)
I know, hey, just go with it. They're kids.
(whooping, laughing)
TORI: Yes!
The thing is, my work ethic is different.
I like to get things done.
- This is not a vacation. - I got you.
We're in the middle of nowhere, people.
Guys, we got the... we got the booty here.
Guys, seriously, we need to really seriously buckle down
- and focus right now. - SWATI: Okay.
ROCKSROY: We're going to need firewood.
We're going to need a place to lay our heads. It's game time.
Let's get crack-a-lackin'.
Let's move your palm fronds over this way, and then, Z,
if you can help me pull out everything.
It was like herding cats.
And I'm not a cat herder.
Got to get stuff done.
ZACH: In terms of the building of the shelter...
Got to get things done, man.
ZACH: I have one word.
And that's Rocksroy.
Put it on this side-- Here, over here.
This is why I'm moving this out of this way.
ZACH: Rocksroy has taken on the most leader-like role...
Line 'em up like this.
that through 40 odd seasons
I have ever seen in this game.
- I just need to sit for a minute. - Just sit.
ZACH: And in a new era of Survivor,
it paints a huge target on your back
right out the gate.
Let me know if I'm being too lecture-y.
Generations have changed, you know?
It's kind of a little frustrating 'cause
my kids are a lot more easier to take care of than these guys.
I am a stay-at-home dad.
You know, I love it.
My kids are seven and five.
It's such a joy, like,
just being there with the kids all the time,
watching them grow, watching them develop.
It's such a different mindset
to go from always being needed
for something with your kids.
And then when you're put in this situation with
adults, which you don't need to teach them all the time,
it is a reset with my brain.
It's a complete different way of dealing with things.
So I will have to adapt to being
in a more social type of game.
- Where did his stick go? - Which one?
A wide stick so that we can put another stick over it.
- Okay, I'm gonna go searching. - Okay. - ZACH: Okay.
DREA: I have the advantage. It's still in my bra.
That's when
I realized, I need to see what's in my bra.
- You got to get that pot on, man. - Yeah.
DREA: While they're listening to Daddy,
I'm going to go and, like, read this clue.
I know that they probably think I'm looking for an idol, but
I just don't care. (laughs)
Okay.
Cool.
Hide it in my pants.
HAI: I kind of overestimated this advantage
because the catch is really
crippling.
Not only do I have to reconnect
with Lindsay and Drea to use this thing.
I also have to consider whether or not
I need to take them out, because
this thing becomes more powerful.
But they're thinking the same thing.
HAI: So now it's like this complex web
of, like, game theory.
Are you going to strike? And who's going to strike first?
JACKSON: Okay. Yeah.
Fire talk.
Okay...
- Yeah. - Very good story
that has a little bit of a twist to it,
a little bit of a turn to it,
- a little bit of strangeness. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so I applied for Survivor one time ten years ago.
When I first started watching.
- MARYANNE: Oh, my gosh. - But here's the twist.
- You ready? - Yeah.
- I applied as a girl. Yeah. - LINDSAY: Get out. - OMAR: Ooh.
- Wow. - OMAR: Oh.
Yeah. So I don't want to hide anything
from you guys 'cause that's my true self.
- LINDSAY: Right. - MARYANNE: Mm-hmm. - I'm a transgender guy.
I started transitioning about eight and a half years ago.
- LINDSAY: Uh-huh. - OMAR: Wow. - I had not told my parents.
Scared to death to tell the parents
because I already knew how they felt about it.
I was born
a girl. I didn't feel like a girl.
And I struggled with it. Made me a very angry, sad,
depressed person.
And when I told my parents, it was not accepted,
and so, I had to live my life away from my family, which was
very difficult because I was very, very, very close
to my mother.
While I was transitioning, my mother had gotten really sick,
and my father had invited me to come see her.
I said, "Let's bring her home."
And he said, "Well, we can't
'cause we have to have full-time care."
And I said, "So I'll move here,
and we'll take care of her full-time."
My father and I were never close at all,
and during that time, because we had
to spend literally every day together,
we started to get to know each other, and then,
next thing he was asking, did I have anybody in my life.
I'm like, "Well, I'm actually married."
And he's like, "Well, I'd like to meet her."
And I thought, "Well, that would be great.
She's a nurse. She could help."
And so my wife got to meet my dad.
And they ended up becoming close.
My mother and I were very, very close.
And she started getting worse and worse and...
um, she-she passed away.
My father would ask me,
"Why did your mother get sick?"
And I said, "'Cause I think this was the plan.
You and I got a relationship, and Mom got to know who I was."
So I tell you guys this because I want to be honest
about who I am.
Survivor makes you take
everything and peel it off and be vulnerable and open.
And for me, that's a huge testament for someone
who's always hid, like, who I was.
My goal is to get to the million dollars.
But if that doesn't happen, the fact
that I tried it is a huge testament
to someone who hid their whole life.
So there's your fire talk.
LINDSAY: It's a great fire talk.
You're doing a great job, man. Good job.
- Our hold's gonna be better. - Yeah.
- We got a roof. - (Lydia laughs)
LYDIA: Oh, my gosh.
Day two, and I'm nowhere near crying. Thank God.
LYDIA: I think it's by, um...
LYDIA: But, like, it's crazy.
I think this is already
way harder than normal Survivors
'cause they have so much more stuff to really work wit.
Can you try to just flip it up again?
I mean, we don't even have rope. We're literally
just, like-- aah!-- Putting things up,
and fingers crossed, you know?
HAI: I really felt
some sort of, like, connection.
CHANELLE: So right now, Lydia
and Hai seem like they get along well.
Trust me, I got you.
CHANELLE: And it seems like Jenny and Mike are a duo.
And that leaves me and Daniel to be a duo.
Nothing's going to happen without,
like, me cluing you in or...
You have to trust someone to have your back
- in the conversation. - Yes.
- I got you. - Yeah.
-You don't have to worry. I'm solid. -Okay.
DANIEL: I like everyone in this tribe.
There is no dud in this tribe.
CHANELLE: I get, I get good vibes from you, too.
DANIEL: It seems like I've made good connections
with people thus far,
to my delight and surprise, actually.
Dude, I wouldn't even know you had a bad shoulder
- if-if... - Good.
DANIEL: Like, a lot of people after
I potentially lost the challenge for the tribe
and, like, dislocated my shoulder,
would have totally used that to destroy my game,
and they didn't.
It just means so much to be here right now.
Um...
- It is a childhood leukemia scar. - Oh, my God, you're...
- Yeah. - Good for you, but you're good?
-Yeah, I'm fully cured. Fully cured. -Good for you, man.
- Good for you. - Yeah, that's amazing. - Yeah.
- CHANELLE: Wow. - Yeah.
DANIEL: At age 15, I was diagnosed with leukemia.
I went through, like, three years of chemotherapy.
And one of the things that helped me through all this
was watching Survivor.
It was just a way
of enjoying something that brought me to a different world.
DANIEL: It was rough, but
it was the best type of cancer you can get if you're a kid.
It was the most treatable.
So the idea to now go from a hospital bed
where I could not support myself and have the strength
to, like, brush my teeth to, like, being on an island about
to have the adventure of a lifetime--
It's, uh... it's surreal. It's absolutely...
Then how could I not say yes to that-that opportunity?
- Yeah, it means a lot to be here. - Yeah.
- So, yeah, it's great. - HAI: Awesome.
But the number one reason I am here
is because there is, like, some kid out there
in some hospital bed longing
to have an adventure of this sort or just, like,
leave the hospital, and I am out here
because I'm playing for that kid.
ZACH: Who wants water?
- No one else wants it? Okay. - DREA: Thank you.
You know, I weighed in before I came here.
- How much? - I'm, like, literally 118.
You're... you were more than me. I was 112.
Dude, but 118 is the highest
- I've ever been. - But how tall are you?
ZACH: I like Romeo.
We're both, you know, ripped.
But trying to make an ally on Survivor is one of the most
awkward experiences I've ever been in.
- Yeah. - The most I've been is 118.
ZACH: It's like waiting to be kissed.
You need to be willing to make that move,
to lean in, but it's terrifying.
And what if you lean in, they don't lean back?
But the first convo I have with Romeo,
he asks me...
How are you feeling? I was about to ask you, how are you feeling?
To me that's like,
"Ding, ding." Like, those are the words.
That's... Like, that's the words you're waiting for
as a Survivor player.
I'm going to talk to you like superfan to superfan, right?
- Yeah. - I feel good about this tribe, and you're the person
that, like, I just relate to the most, and I feel...
I, too. Even when I saw you, I was like, "We're both, like..."
That's what I said. I literally...
- Taro? - I think she said she saw a...
I don't even know what taro is. Isn't that, like, cards?
She saw... she saw, like, a taro leaf.
I think it's taro leaves, which means it has a root.
(distant thudding)
I mean, look, there's, like, literally one thing to do
on Survivor.
TORI: I know this game. I know
you do not go off on your own for an extended period of time.
But, so, I'm like, "This is good. People know
I'm looking for taro."
Little do they know, I did look around for an immunity idol.
Like, I'm on Survivor. I'm here to play.
But they're never gonna know that.
She's first.
TORI: Then I come back, and something's off.
Something feels weird.
I feel myself being nervous.
Almost, I feel guilty as if I've done something wrong
because I went to go try to find food for my tribe,
but I wasn't able to do so.
Uh, I just want to let you know that Drea is, like...
- like, bringing your name up. - Oh, really?
Yeah, and it's, like, it's all about
that, like, uh... that idol thing.
TORI: There's these rumors already being spread.
That, to me, is, like,
you're seeing your hopes and dreams dashed
before your very eyes because
you, yourself, I... I made a very stupid decision.
Am I going to work through this
and turn this around somehow in my favor?
I'm going to find a way to do so.
MARYANNE: You guys, there's a boat.
Come on!
We're just working on the shelter.
And then I hear a "Om" in the distance.
I'm like, "Oh, my goodness."
What is a boat doing here on day two?
Jeff wasn't kidding when he was saying this was fast-paced.
Thank you.
- Any volunteers? - (Maryanne laughs)
-That's it. -JONATHAN: You know what? Y'all...
MARYANNE: In my mind, I'm like,
"I want to get on this boat."
But every single Survivor fan knows
that if you leave the tribe,
that puts you on the outs.
I've just been weaving palm fronds.
If I'm the sacrifice, I'm fine, if everyone's fine with that.
Yeah!
I don't... I don't mind if you go.
MARYANNE: I'm just like, "Look, Maryanne,
"this boat probably has something
that we want to know about."
So in that moment, I decided,
I'm going to take one for the team.
Taku strong!
HAI: Come on, let's do it.
All right.
- On three. - Ah!
- HAI: Is it Jenny? - CHANELLE: I think it's Jenny.
HAI: Hold down the fort, Jenny.
LYDIA: Yeah.
Drawing the shortest straw makes me nervous,
because what's going to happen when I get out there?
- Oh! She's going. - (overlapping chatter)
- Drea! Congrats. - SWATI: Drea! - ROMEO: You got it.
DREA: I came to play, and I know
that whatever it is will be an advantage.
ROCKSROY: Represent!
DREA: And I want as many
advantages as I can get in this game.
JENNY: This boat takes us
to this beautiful island, and I'm starting
to feel excited because I don't know what is
at the other end of this boat.
Maybe this is good.
- I'm Maryanne. - Drea.
- Drea? - Yeah.
- Jenny. - MARYANNE: Jenny.
Hey, nice to meet you here. It's so exciting to be here.
- Um... Okay. - Oh, my gosh.
It's a summit.
"Follow the path to the summit.
Take this time to get to know each other."
- Oh, my God. - There better be food.
Please be food.
Rice? Yeah, but...
JENNY: We start hiking, and I think, "Okay.
"We're walking just over this little hillside,
"and right over that ledge
will be a beautiful picnic set up for us."
- MARYANNE: Oh, my gosh. - DREA: I can't believe it.
- MARYANNE: Oh, my goodness. - DREA: This is insane.
Oh, yeah. This is, like, still surreal for me.
- MARYANNE: Yeah! - JENNY: I know! You poor thing!
MARYANNE: I feel as if
I have gone through a lot of, like, adversity.
So I think that, honestly, like,
it's built me to be a stronger person.
♪ Happy birthday, Maryanne. ♪
MARYANNE: My parents are both originally from Kenya.
When I told my mom I was first interested in Survivor,
she was like, "Maryanne, why are you interested in this show?"
She was so confused. She was like,
"Why does Maryanne want to go on an island to, like, starve?"
But the reason why I think I'm here is
because I've always struggled with, like,
self-esteem issues 'cause I was a pretty weird kid growing up.
Like, I remember, like, just dreading going on the bus
because people would always pick on me,
but I can be me on this show.
And, like, Survivor is a way where not only I can go
and test my own limits, but I can show the people, as well.
It's like, "Hey, like, look at you.
"You're someone who's weird
who didn't have to change themselves to succeed."
And, like, maybe there's someone who's watching this
that needs that, and I want to be like,
"Hey, I'm here. I'm weird.
"You can be weird, too, and you can win,
"and you can succeed,
and you don't have to change anything about yourself."
I truly want Survivor to be such a big experience for me.
It's like, the million dollars--
I don't really care about that.
It's the title of Sole Survivor, and it's the growth
that you get to get to that title.
That's what I'm here for.
We're here?
MARYANNE: Oh, my gosh.
JENNY: "You will now separate and make a private decision
before returning to camp."
- Okay. - All right, guys.
- Here we go. - Good luck.
(laughing): Yeah.
What do we have here?
Oh. Oh.
"Protect your vote or... risk your vote."
Oh, my God. The prisoner's dilemma.
Ah.
♪ ♪
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, God, please give me information.
I don't know these people.
We just met, so...
I'm going to take another risk.
Let's go.
A lot of times, Christians play this game,
and when they're out of the game, they always say,
"Man, I wish I'd played more cutthroat.
I wish I risked it."
And I knew coming to this game,
I wouldn't want to make that mistake.
So even though it's terrifying
and it might bite me in the butt,
I think I'm going to risk my vote.
I need to think about whether
all of us are willing to take that chance or not.
I think they both might risk it for different reasons
and then receive an extra vote.
And I've got nothing, but I need to play it safe...
Ugh.
and protect my vote.
LINDSAY: All right, Jackson,
you want me to fill up your water bottle?
But all in love, 'cause if you were saying
you were dizzy for ten hours, I can't have you like that.
♪ ♪
LINDSAY: Counseling-- that's always what I wanted to do,
- but take... - OMAR: There's Jeff.
MARYANNE: No! No, it's not.
- That is Jeff. - MARYANNE: No, it's not Jeff.
- OMAR: What does he want to say to us? - JONATHAN: That's Jeff.
- No. - OMAR: Oh, no. - JONATHAN: Stop.
Hello, Taku.
Hello, hello.
Pretty cool. This is impressive
for just three days into this game.
- LINDSAY: Thanks. - PROBST: All right, and
I rarely come to a tribe camp, and especially this early.
And so I came here with a purpose,
and it was to have a little one-on-one with Jackson.
- Can I borrow you? - Yeah.
- You can head down this way. - Oh.
PROBST: So, Jackson, during the Survivor
- casting process... - Mm-hmm.
we spend a lot of time getting to know players,
- getting to know you, right? - Right.
- It's one of the best parts of the job. - Right.
From go, you were a home run.
- It was an absolute "has to be on the show." - Mm-hmm.
There's another element
throughout the casting process where we ask you
to always keep us updated on anything
that changes with your medical situation.
- Right. - Doctor's visit, anything, and that's because
we have to make sure we can take care of you
when you're out here.
- Right. - The day before
we're going to shoot,
you disclose some new medical information.
And we all decided, let's let Jackson start the game.
- Okay. - Because nothing's going to happen
- in 24 or 48 hours. - Right.
- So nobody's worried about you at this point. - Right.
And everybody, for the last two days,
has been trying to figure out how we can do this.
But to speak very candidly...
- Please. - it's very hard
to get any kind of test done right now.
It's very difficult.
So here's my question.
Why did you not tell us?
Why did you wait until the last minute?
'Cause I was trying to just quit it completely,
'cause I didn't need it anymore.
'Cause, I mean, we're talking to my wife. She's a nurse.
And I said, "I'm on lithium."
And she's like, "Well, you're weaning yourself off of it.
You'll probably be off of it."
You're charting it out and thinking,
- "I think I can get myself to where I'm off it." - Yeah.
"I don't need to bring it up 'cause I'll be fine."
Right, I just thought... And it's a stigmatism.
I mean, I'm a human to know the fear is,
everyone hears the word "lithium,"
and they go way back in time where they're like,
"That was a huge drug back in the day."
That was a scary drug to be on.
And the first thought is, the transition.
- Right. - "Was it because of your transition?" I'm like,
"That had... that had nothing to do with it."
If that were the case, I would have been on lithium
20 years ago because I was so unhappy,
- but that wasn't the case. - Right.
I took it for another reason.
And this goes back a few years.
For... When I started taking care my mom in 2016,
the stress of it... I wasn't sleeping.
Like, two hours a night.
And they're like, "Well, you have to start sleeping."
So that was a way for me to take something
that I could actually sleep with.
- Which is not uncommon. - It wasn't.
And I wasn't ashamed to say that I was on something because
I don't know how anybody could go through...
what I went through and be like,
"I don't need anything. I'm fine."
So, Jackson, I came here
ready to have this conversation very veiled,
without really revealing anything, out of respect to you.
- Oh, I appreciate it. - But you clearly are comfortable
talking about it. Is that from the same place of,
"If-if I'm just honest and open, and if we would just talk more,
we could... we could get rid of some of these stigmas?"
By far. I think you should talk about everything.
I'm not ashamed to say
I need help with certain things, and that's life.
- I mean... - Okay, so just to be clear,
the only problem with this medication is,
it does have a reaction when you are stressed, not eating,
- dehydrated, not sleeping... - Right.
physically demanding challenges.
And that's where our concern came.
The cumulative effect of this show would-would have
a potentially very bad impact on you, and we don't want that.
Your safety is paramount.
We can't do it. We can't.
Yeah, so...
I get it, and I appreciate you talking to me about it.
It's weird that I'm getting emotional about it, but even
to test yourself for 48 hours,
- it is such an adventure. - Huh.
And I take this with love, and...
I know that I'll be friends with these people.
And I appreciate you giving me the opportunity.
For someone who didn't like anything about them
for 40 years, then to have someone say,
"People like the things about you that you didn't know
you were capable of," speaks volumes.
And I appreciate it.
It was the best 48 hours I've had ever.
All right, now the tough part.
- Yup. - Have to go tell your tribe.
Okay.
PROBST: Okay.
We have some news to share.
JACKSON: Okay, so I've been on a medication
since I've been taking care of mom, uh, for sleep and anxiety.
And unfortunately, when it comes to that,
it's dehydration, a lot of things
that come along with this can really mess with the medication
and also make me very sick.
And as much as I would love to be here...
- JONATHAN: No. - (Maryanne sobbing)
uh, they're going to have to take-take me off.
- (Maryanne sobbing) - JACKSON: It's okay.
- MARYANNE: I am so sorry. - It's okay.
I'm so sorry.
(Maryanne sobbing)
It's so nice to meet you, man. Thank you.
OMAR: When you watch the show,
you don't understand how difficult
and how important the survival aspect of this game is.
It's brutal, and your ability to survive is reliant
on the people around you,
and immediately that bonds you so,
so, so quickly.
LINDSAY: Love you, Jackson!
(Maryanne crying)
JACKSON: It's a journey that I was absolutely blessed
to be able to go on.
And I think
it makes you stronger and more adaptable
to what life will throw at you.
So I think, even if you don't win a million dollars,
you've won something that very few people can say they've done.
It was a gift.
Come on in.
♪ ♪
Vati, Ika, getting your first look at the new Taku tribe.
- DANIEL: What? - Huh?
Jackson had to leave the game this morning.
- What? - ROCKSROY: Oh.
Oh, wow.
Just like that, Taku is down to five tribe members.
- Oh. - What?
All right. Game continues.
Shall we get to our first immunity challenge?
- Yes. - (applauding) - All right.
For today's challenge,
each tribe is gonna start out
in the water on a platform.
On my go, you'll dive in, swim to a boat,
paddle to shore,
collecting three chests along the way.
Once you get to shore,
you will drag your chest and boat
across the track, under the net to the finish,
where two tribe members will use the pieces inside
to solve a massive dragon puzzle.
The first two tribes to finish win immunity.
- This is what you want. - (exclaiming)
- (applauding) - Yeah.
That's cool.
PROBST: With the immunity idol at your camp,
it means your tribe is safe and nobody's going home.
Losers, Tribal Council, where somebody
will be the second person to leave Survivor 42.
In addition, there is a penalty for losing.
The last-place tribe will have to give me their flint.
- (gasping) - Will have a chance to earn it back
at the next immunity challenge.
- Wow. - (chuckles)
All right, one more thing I have to tell you
before we get to the sit-outs.
This we did last season.
Back at camp, you're each gonna have a die waiting for you.
It's called the Shot in the Dark die.
If you get to Tribal Council one night,
and you feel you're in trouble,
you can choose to not vote
and instead play your Shot in the Dark
- for a one-in-six chance at immunity at that Tribal Council. - Oh.
- Wow. - Wow.
- Oh, my God. - Wow.
- Wow.
PROBST: All right, Vati, you have one extra person.
Sitting somebody out, who's it gonna be?
I'm gonna sit out.
PROBST: All right, Lydia gonna sit out.
- Ika, who are you gonna sit out? - (quiet chatter)
I'll do it.
PROBST: Romeo's gonna sit out.
All right.
Sit-outs, take your spot on the bench.
Everybody else, give you a minute to strategize.
We'll get to our first immunity challenge.
(whooping)
♪ ♪
All right, here we go.
For immunity,
survivors ready.
Go!
♪ ♪
Everybody in the water got to get to your boat first.
You got to get all five tribe members in
before you can detach
- the boat from its anchor point. - Got it.
I'm going to the boat.
PROBST: Once again, it is Taku
quickly out of the gate, in the lead.
CHANELLE: Go.
- ROCKSROY: Go. - MIKE: Go.
- Go. - Go.
It's gonna be Jonathan and Lindsay
out of the water for Taku,
trying to untie that first chest.
- Wait, wait, wait. Long strokes. - Vati is way off course.
They're at the wrong chest.
They've got to go back.
Oh!
- You good? - Good.
PROBST: These chests are very heavy.
MIKE: Jump up.
PROBST: Vati's at their first chest.
Ika's at their first chest.
Those chests weigh a ton.
Vati has their first chest, but the boat is gone now.
Big leap by Jonathan.
- Attagirl! - PROBST: Wow.
Lindsay with a huge leap. Taku in the lead.
Once again, Vati and Ika
trying to stay in this first immunity challenge,
but they are struggling,
trying to figure out how to paddle together.
MIKE: Go. Go.
PROBST: Taku doing a nice job.
- Very calm. - LINDSAY: I got it.
PROBST: Mike and Hai on that second chest for Vati.
Drea and Rocksroy on that second chest for Ika.
Jonathan is now realigning Taku,
giving them a head start.
(grunting)
PROBST: Rocksroy drops his chest in the water.
They're gonna have to now get it up in their boat,
which makes that leverage so much more difficult.
- Everybody working now to get that blue chest in there. - (grunting loudly)
They've got it. Ika's heading out.
Vati has pulled themselves back into the challenge,
if they can get it in there.
Jonathan's got to be on that boat, too, and he is.
You got to get to the sand before you can get out.
- OMAR: Yes. - PROBST: Ika working on their third chest.
(overlapping shouting)
You're good!
It is Taku in the lead.
MARYA: I got it. I got it.
PROBST: Once again.
Ika struggling now to get that third chest in there.
It is heavy and there's not a lot of room.
Now you are dragging a very heavy boat through the sand...
- MIKE: Go. - JENNY: All right, we're good. - PROBST: with three chests.
- Ika has struggled this challenge, but you're doing it. - Keep paddling!
Keep paddling!
- LYDIA: You guys are doing great! - PROBST: Ika, you're good.
Let's carry the chest up. I can carry...
- All three tribes... - MARYANNE: Need help?
look to be opting to take
the chests out and walk them up the beach.
They are so heavy.
PROBST: It's taking everything. Now you still got to get the boat up.
(straining)
That sand has a lot of resistance.
- (grunting) - PROBST: You are earning it, every single grunt.
(straining)
This is no joke. Nothing is easy on Survivor.
(grunting)
PROBST: Slow and steady.
It is Taku in the lead once again.
Here comes Vati.
- They're making progress. - One, two, three.
Now you got to get the chest back on the boat,
- 'cause everything's got to go together through the net. - Yeah.
- (grunts) - Take a breath,
take a breath, take a breath.
PROBST: You can see the exhaustion on everybody.
ROCKSROY: All right. Go.
PROBST: Ika's still at the beginning of the track.
You've got this, guys! Here we go! Come on!
- PROBST: Very little left in the tank. - JONATHAN: Go, let's go!
PROBST: We're only on day three.
- Here goes Taku with the next difficult section. - (straining)
This is not easy either.
Go, let's go! Three.
(straining)
Two, three.
(grunting)
PROBST: There goes Vati.
They've got some momentum now.
Yeah! Come on, you guys are in this! Let's go!
PROBST: They're starting to gain on Taku.
They have got a very fast pace now.
It is now Vati in the lead.
(grunting)
PROBST: Ika trying to get back in it.
Get it up there.
Let's go!
(straining)
JONATHAN: Everybody, pick up the back.
One, two, three.
(grunting)
- DANIEL: It's outside the net. - MIKE: One, two, three, push.
- PROBST: Vati in the lead. - JONATHAN: One, two, three, push.
- LYDIA: Yes, keep digging deep! - DANIEL: Guys, the end is in sight.
Taku still trying to figure this part of it out.
They're running out of steam.
- You got to get to the end, Vati. - One, two, three.
- LYDIA: Yeah! - PROBST: Vati, you're good!
- Now you're putting the chests in the spots. - LYDIA: Come on! We've got it!
TORI: Come on, let's go!
ROMEO: Yes! You got it!
PROBST: Ika, pushing through that net now.
(grunting)
Taku digging to stay in this.
- Vati has their third chest. - HAI: Go. Go. Go, go, go.
PROBST: Now the puzzle solvers take over.
Two people. It's gonna be Daniel and Jenny.
Y'all got this.
You get 'em out. I'll start working.
- Three. - (straining)
PROBST: This challenge is taking everything you have.
Rocksroy absolutely exhausted.
Complete fatigue.
Taku, three more feet. Let's go.
- Come on! - (grunting)
♪ ♪
There it is. You're good, Taku!
Now you can move your chests up onto the platform.
MARYANNE: Take this side and pull it toward me. Okay.
PROBST: Jonathan gonna do it himself, carrying the first one.
- That's it, right? - PROBST: Vati with a lot of time.
- Here comes Ika, still slowly inching their way there. - TORI: One, two, three.
(grunting loudly)
PROBST: Vati has that first section of puzzle completed.
- Exactly. Like that. - Yeah.
Remember, I'll do the left side, you're gonna do the right.
Vati, now onto the second chest of puzzle pieces
- with a huge lead right now. - Oh! - We're good. We're good.
Two puzzle solvers now. It's gonna be Maryanne and Omar.
Ready? One, two...
Now have two tribes on the puzzle.
- (straining) - That's the one right below you.
PROBST: It's Taku and Vati.
Vati's had a big lead on this puzzle.
Daniel and Jenny have been working very well together.
Great. We're good.
Hey! Another piece.
Taku quickly gaining on Vati.
They're through the first section.
They're now on their second chest of pieces.
We got a challenge now.
(grunting)
-There you go. That's how you do it, Ika. -One, two, three.
- (straining) - Yeah!
- One, two, three. - PROBST: They're two feet away,
but you got to finish those two feet.
- You're good! Start moving the chests now to the platform. - TORI: Go, go, go.
Come on, guys.
- Yes. Nice. - PROBST: It is Taku and Vati side by side
- at about the same spot. - LYDIA: Yes, Jenny! Yes, Jenny!
Move!
PROBST: Zach getting shoved out of the way. All right, puzzle solvers,
take over. Other three, on your mat.
- DREA: Let's go, guys. - ROCKSROY: Let's go, Z!
DREA: Comeback story.
- ROMEO: Go! - LYDIA: Yes, Jenny! Yes! Yes! - PROBST: One of the most
- physically grueling challenges we've ever done. - Yes, Jenny.
- But all three tribes completed the physical... - Keep going!
- You've got it! - the punishing part.
Now comes the smarts, the puzzle solvers.
MARYA: Good job, guys.
PROBST: Swati and Zach are making up some time
with their last two pieces. There they are.
- Let's go! We've got to go! - Now you can move on to that second chest.
We're right there!
It is Taku and Vati. Very close.
Can Ika catch either one of them?
Otherwise, Ika going to Tribal Council
and somebody will be voted out of this game tonight.
And she's got it. They can move on to their third chest.
Come on, Jenny!
You're almost done!
PROBST: You're good, Taku. Go.
Taku now onto their third chest.
- Let's go! We're right there! - We got to dig!
Zach and Swati are working independently.
We're gaining!
PROBST: You don't need to win, you just don't want to be last.
Please, guys, let's go, let's go!
- PROBST: There goes Jenny with a piece and another piece. - CHANELLE: Yes, Jenny!
- Omar looking to close it out for Taku. - LINDSAY: Nice. Great job.
Swati, this one should go there.
This one.
Ika now hitting their own roadblock.
That one, that one, that one.
Omar and Maryanne can smell victory. Is this the last piece?
- MARYANNE: Jeff, do we have it? - OMAR: We got it. - Taku...
- has it! Taku wins immunity! - (screaming)
(cheering)
- Keep going! Keep going! - (shouting)
Big celebration. We're still looking for one more.
Jenny down to three pieces left.
Don't knock it down. Be careful.
Come on! Theirs could fall out!
PROBST: You can put this one in the Deepfreeze.
Ika is in trouble.
- Vati one piece away. - DREA: Don't hit it out.
-PROBST: Jenny has it. Got to get it in. -HAI: Careful on that last one.
JENNY: Okay.
-And there it is. Vati wins immunity! -(cheering)
They are safe from Tribal Council,
sending Ika
to the first Tribal Council of Survivor 42.
That is one of the most grueling challenges.
There is no doubt you earned it.
- Result is, Taku, immunity. - (applauding)
Lost one person. You're not losing anybody else.
Everyone touch it. Everyone touch it.
Vati, nobody going home from your tribe.
Jenny, go get it.
Well earned, Jenny. Nice job.
- Thank you, Jeff. - Jenny on the block.
- (chuckles) - PROBST: All right, Vati,
Taku, head back to camp. No Tribal Council.
Nobody going home. Enjoy the night off.
Yeah.
PROBST: All right, Ika. Tribal Council tonight.
There's also the punishment of losing.
- DREA: Mm-hmm. - TORI: Yeah. - Got to give me your flint.
- It's okay. - Thanks, Romeo.
Sorry for you.
- Are you? - We'll get that back.
You'll have a chance to earn it back
at the next immunity challenge.
All right, Ika, see you tonight where somebody
will be the second person to leave Survivor 42.
ZACH: I know that the puzzles are a place
that I can prove myself,
but I've never been more exhausted in my entire life.
And at that point, everything that you memorize
about a specific puzzle just goes out of the window.
So the fact that we lost,
honestly, I-I put 100% of the blame on myself.
♪ ♪
Um, I just want to apologize.
- For what? - For the puzzle.
For the puzzle.
There are no excuses.
We win is a team, we lose as a team.
- That's how I look at it. - DREA: Mm-hmm.
I-I just appreciate you so much, just saying that.
And I just want to thank you all for that.
Can I say something first, before we all do split up?
- ROCKSROY: Yeah. - Just because,
whether we like it or not,
we do have to make a big decision tonight.
And I know that
talk of idols will play into that decision.
So I just want to talk to you guys
as all rational, logical, intelligent people.
I know there's been a rumor that I have an idol.
So, like, I don't want that to have to
factor into our decision, okay?
Like, I don't have it,
so that doesn't need to be something we, like, work around.
I have to really quickly dispel
that paranoia behind me having an idol,
because if that's what takes me out,
that's honestly stupid.
But I did want to talk to you one-on-one,
just, like, woman-to-woman, 'cause I did hear
that the idol rumor came from you, so...
Other people were also getting in my head
that you were out there looking for it.
But then... Oh.
Can someone fess up
and tell us who told her that?
Just to clear the air,
'cause now we're all gonna have paranoia.
ZACH: It really was me.
Like, I was the one who ran down to tell her.
All I'm thinking to myself is,
"Oh, Tori's throwing me under the bus. Cool."
Uh, so I know that I'm gonna be in trouble tonight.
There was never a rumor that you had an idol.
- Okay, yay. - There's only a rumor that you were looking for it.
- Okay, yeah. - And that's when...
- Just to talk about the challenge... - Mm-hmm.
At one point,
I was looking at both Zach and Rocks.
It was only me pulling at the front.
- Rocks kept on saying "stop" because he was tired. - Mm-hmm.
I was literally in the water
having to pull it, like, push it up.
- Yeah, you were freaking killing it. - And I just feel like
- he's not contributing at all. - Mm-hmm.
Thank you, Rocks, for helping build our shelter and fire,
and now we can take it from here.
- I did the fire. - Yeah, true, you did.
You made the fire. Yeah.
Drea comes up with this idea of getting out Rocks.
It's a really good idea becaue he helped us with the shelter.
We don't need him anymore.
Let's get Rocks out.
Yes. Rocks is out.
Yeah.
- You need to wash those off. - What?
Those things that you call shoes.
(Swati laughs)
Anything that is not me tonight,
'cause I know that, like, Zach and I did the puzzle,
so Zach and I have a little bit more of a target on our backs.
I want to know who would you want to.
I would still feel... better getting Zach out.
- Yeah. - Okay.
I was pushing for Zach
to go home because
my puzzle partner Zach
was one-- slower at the puzzle than me, even though
he was supposed to be our main puzzle person.
And then, two-- just kind of gave up during the challenge.
- ROCKSROY: Don't overthink yourself. - SWATI: Okay.
- You made a decision. - Okay.
- Stick with your decision. - Okay.
- And that's it. - Sounds good.
ROCKSROY: I don't want this whole
buzzing around, boom, boom, boom at Tribal. No.
Okay.
ROCKSROY: There is a weak link, and that weak link is Zach.
We have a plan.
Stick with the plan and be done.
My gut is telling me Rocks needs to go.
Rocks did nothing.
I did the brunt of the work.
The problem is that, first of all, we can't do him now.
We have to do him now. My plan is to do him now.
- Just hear me out here. - Yeah.
ROMEO: Drea, we made an-an alliance
on day one-- the three of us. What do you mean-- Rocks?
Number one-- He's our strongest guy.
We need him in challenges.
Number two-- He's in our alliance.
Just for strength alone.
Fine. I'll do what you say.
I think this time-- Tori.
DREA: I was pushing for Rocks, but
I realized, after talking to Romeo,
I have to go with the numbers.
'Cause yesterday I took the risk to lose my vote,
and I will only know in Tribal, when I go to vote,
if I have my vote or if I've lost my vote.
So, I will vote Tori if that's where it's going.
I think, you know, we all... we all know
what's going on here, so..
- Yeah... - Um, I think... I think
it could be either one of us, but... I don't know.
I've always kind of been someone who, like,
always kind of looks at the worst-case scenarios.
Either everyone's voting for Tori,
or people are voting for me.
I just wanted to say, like, whatever happens,
- no hard feelings. - Yeah. Okay.
ZACH: I just hope that they really do see
how much Tori has been plotting
and going off to look for the idol.
ZACH: That's the only hope I have,
other than the Shot in the Dark.
ROCKSROY AND SWATI: Zach.
So it's between Zach and Tori.
And...
ROMEO: This one's a hard one for me
because Zach is my plan B.
We have the skinny guys alliance, and I trust the kid.
And getting rid
of Zach would not make sense for me.
So I want Tori because she's sneaky.
What name are you going to write down?
No, I'm not... I'm not doing that.
ROMEO: But unfortunately, Rocks and Swati--
They want to keep strength.
I want to keep somebody that I trust.
But this is Survivor 2.0.
This is what I signed up for.
♪ ♪
Behind each of you is a torch. Go ahead and grab a torch,
approach the flame, dip it in and get fire.
♪ ♪
Zach, I know you want to say it. Go ahead.
In this game, fire represents your life.
Once your fire is gone,
- so are you. - PROBST: Well done.
That's what we say to begin Tribal Council,
only to remind you
that that flame is literally your life in the game,
and there are six flames.
Shortly, there will only be five.
So, Rocksroy, it's one thing to watch the show.
It's another to go camping.
But to get out here and actually be physically living
in a real jungle-- What's it been like?
It's been... it's been tough.
And when you told us that we will not
be receiving any rice--
I think all of us, collectively, was like, "What?!"
And from watching a lot of Survivor
and then survival shows,
I could 100% say, "America, this show is real."
Zach, how about for you? I know you've dreamed
of being on Survivor, and now here you are.
You're living out in the jungle.
The first thing I'm thinking of is, you know,
watching the show, when the shelter's getting built,
you get-- what-- like, a minute-30 long montage?
(Drea laughs)
ZACH: So I'm sitting there waiting, like,
"When does the montage start? When are we going
to get through this stuff?" But instead
I was able to really go to work on the shelter, and I feel like
every single person here pulled their weight and made it happen.
PROBST: So, Drea,
we're in the early stage of the game.
And of course, you want to build your own individual game,
which is making alliances and relationships.
But you do have to have a strong tribe,
because if you don't have a strong tribe,
you end up at Tribal Council where there's nowhere to hide.
I truly believe that this is going to be a very hard season.
We're continuously improving the camp
while trying to find food.
- Right. - And then you're like,
"Oh, and we lost the challenge today.
We have to get someone out." So, for me,
I do think you need to have a strong tribe.
So, did Shot in the Dark come up, Romeo?
I mean, I think every individual here looks at it differently.
If you feel desperate tonight, use it.
If you don't, don't use it. It's early in the game.
I think it's an individual decision, but nobody said
if they were using it or not.
- Swati, you nervous? - SWATI: Yes.
If I could cut off a finger
to not be at Tribal tonight, I would.
I just, like, don't want to be here.
- You would give up your pinkie... - SWATI: Yeah.
for the rest of your life
- to survive one Tribal? - Yes. Yes. (laughs) - ROMEO: Oh.
And if you came back next Tribal,
and I said, "The other pinkie"?
- (gasps) Ooh. - Oh.
I think past, like, day seven or eight,
I would stop giving up a finger.
PROBST: All right, so, two digits?
You know, it's not that weird. I mean...
(laughter)
Zach, how about for you?
I definitely feel very nervous tonight.
I know that my name has been thrown out there, so
I-I would be really surprised if it wasn't me and Tori.
- One of us. - PROBST: Tori, you're nodding.
- You agree with that? - TORI: I know
that I'm on the chopping block,
which is literally terrifying.
I wanted to throw up when I just said that, but
I believe that I am a strong player,
and so, if you keep me in this,
you're going to keep us strong,
and the people I've been working with in an alliance
are going to keep me around.
And I am a trustworthy, loyal person.
I haven't been able to prove that to you yet,
- but I will be able to tonight. - ZACH: Well, I...
I don't know. The trustworthy and loyal is just the...
that part that I get caught up on, you know.
'Cause obviously we've had a little bit of differences
when it comes to, like,
where we started the game and where we are now.
And I mean, I still... I still really like Tori.
- Um... - Doesn't want to work with me anymore, though.
I do not want to work with her...
PROBST: Well, and her body language just shifted
very clearly when you started leaning in. She's closed off.
I know that Tori went to Drea and, like,
you know, tried to throw me under the bus,
and that's kind of how the whole day started.
TORI: Wow. That's crazy. I'm, like,
so mentally, I guess, fatigued that
I don't remember that happening.
- Now, are you being sarcastic? - Absolutely, yes.
- PROBST: You're saying that did not happen? - TORI: Yeah.
It didn't happen. Just to go to all of this,
the only reason I'm even being mentioned now is because
I was foraging for food for literally ten minutes
by myself, which is a mistake.
And then I come back, and, you know, of course
there's going to be a talk because in this game,
when you have not solidified trust or alliances,
you are looking for any single thing that you can find
to pit someone against another,
or to say "Ooh, maybe we shouldn't trust them."
And I got caught in the crossfire,
and that's why I'm here.
That is why my name got brought up.
All right, it is time to vote. Zach, you're up.
♪ ♪
First vote of season 42.
It's not even a vote.
♪ ♪
Anybody has an advantage or an idol, and you want to play it,
now would be the time to do so.
Yup.
- I'll take the shot. - PROBST: So, Zach,
you took the Shot in the Dark?
- Yeah, I took the Shot in the Dark. - Okay.
ZACH: As a superfan, I know
that if you've got whatever odds
there are that you're safe,
and you can add 16% to those odds,
I think you'd be silly not to take it.
PROBST: So Zach sacrificed his vote.
So there is not a vote in here from Zach.
Instead, took a one-in-six shot at safety in the game.
If that says you're safe,
then any votes in here that are for you will not count.
If you're not safe, any votes will count.
PROBST: All right, you're gonna open it
and then show it to all of us.
♪ ♪
Let's see.
♪ ♪
"Not safe."
PROBST: Not safe.
All right. Any votes cast for Zach will still count.
I'll read the votes.
First vote-- Zach.
Zach. Two votes-- Zach.
♪ ♪
Second person voted out of Survivor 42-- Zach.
That's three. That's enough. Need to bring me your torch.
♪ ♪
Zach, the tribe has spoken.
DREA: Bye, Zach.
- Time for you to go. - I really did have a blast.
- Seriously. - (overlapping chatter)
♪ ♪
I just got voted out of Survivor.
It's kind of cool.
Grab your torches, head back to camp. Good night.
♪ ♪
You are swinging that thing like you're on a scary movie.
- Here's Maryanne! - Aah!
TORI: The game is shifting.
I see the way forward now,
and that's to get Drea out.
DANIEL: I am mortified
at this gameplay.
Wow.
Survivor still is my favorite show.
So, would I rather be the first one voted out
or just never play at all?
Vote me out first a million times.
The opportunity itself means more than anything.
Hey, I'm the first unanimous vote. That's neat.
It's not what I wanted, but it's a cool, uh, little fact
you can put on my Survivor Wiki page.
(roars)