In episode 1, Lisa was lazy (and darn proud of it), but Nomfundo ended up getting the boot because of her weak swimming ability.
Following a close vote at the last tribal council, is Lisa turning over a new leaf? She makes sure the entire tribe knows she carried a pile of twigs. But perhaps she did some actual work as well.
Dyke makes a fishing trap as part of his effort to become a leader along with Hein. Amanda believes Dyke’s bossy, which is always the risk when you try to take on a leadership role. The rest of the tribe slowly proceeds to bash the fishing trap one by one.
The reward challenge is to retrieve chests from the ocean. Viwe observes that Malaysia is just becoming a swimathon. There are pictures on the chests that indicate what’s inside, and the survivors must determine which ones they need most, in addition to doing it the fastest. Better off just grabbing whatever’s first. That’s the strategy Iban goes with. Bajau takes their time to pick the first chest and never recovers, also getting dragged down by a second chest that’s too heavy. Iban wins by a landslide. They receive a knife, a shovel, and fishing hooks (without holes in them) and lines. Grant thinks they’re screwed because the hooks don’t have holes, but Lorette figures out a way to make it work.
Elsie starts to get even more useless. Her stomach hurts, she’s hungry, she’s got a headache, she misses home, blah blah blah.
The other tribe found a raft last time. Now Bajau finds a fishing net. Apparently both coincidence. But after all the effort, getting fish turns out to be just a simple matter of getting up early enough to catch the low tide. Lorrette catches a (very small) fish at the other camp, which both impresses and scares Grant.
The girls and Rijesh begin plotting to get rid off Dyke. Way too early to get rid of someone that valuable because he’s bossy. This is a dumb plan if I ever heard of one.
At the immunity challenge, one person must climb a ladder, while the other 6 must grab poles and head into the water. The poles must be placed/moved so that the person on the platform can climb across them to another platform. They will then lower the ladder letting the rest climb up it. All members must be standing on the relatively small platform with control. Elsie begs to be allowed to sit out, but the tribe decision is to have Nicola sit out instead. Elsie says they’re making a mistake because she’s the weakest.
Iban is a complete mess. Angie falls in pretty quickly. Bajau is working together well, but eventually Angela falls in as well. Iban never really seems to get it together, but they make it anyway. Bajau’s problem is they’re being too conservative with little tiny steps that take forever. Mark reminds Bajau that they can still catch up. Yeah right. Iban wins this pretty easily.
When Iban gets back to camp, they begin talking about the other team’s strategy. Someone mentions Dyke as a possible boot choice, and the response is that getting rid of him would be stupid. Meanwhile, back at Bajau, the tribe begins a test to see just how stupid they are. Elsie starts yet another fight and goes on and on and on not just during the fight but continues after it’s done and the people she was fighting with have left. Hein realizes that he, Dyke, and Nicola are outnumbered and need to pull a fourth person onboard. Last time, it was Lisa who was useless. This time, it’s Elsie, and Rijesh realizes this but feels he’s stuck with her for now.
At tribal council, fire is brought up, and Angela complains that Hein hasn’t made fire and Dyke’s fish trap didn’t catch fish and is now being used as decoration. Mark points out: what about the other six people in the tribe? He follows this up by asking Elsie what frustrates her. He must have a lot of free time on his hands tonight if he’s brave enough to ask a question with such a potentially long-winded response. Dyke puts his foot in his mouth at a really bad time to do so, being as honest as he can and saying he has a problem with people starting confrontation for no reason. Amanda responds equally honestly and says he’s bossy and obnoxious. Elsie still feels he’s a racist. Dyke apologizes if he’s offended anybody. Angela rolls her eyes.
It’s time to vote:
Elsie
Elsie
Elsie
Nicola
Nicola
Nicola
Nicola
Nicola
Nicola gets the boot by a vote of 5-3. This is a much more logical move than getting rid of Dyke. The bad news for the 5 who were in the majority is pretty simple, though: it won’t make any more sense getting rid of him next time than it did this time, which means they’re gonna have to eat one of their own. Nicola’s not really a big loss in terms of challenges, though her work ethic is a lot better than most others in the tribe.