Following an abysmal job of constructing a tribe in Survivor: Gabon Episode 1, the lackluster Fang tribe got beat badly in both challenges, and then foolishly decided to vote out Michelle, a negative but relatively strong part of the tribe.
Marcus and Charlie have a strong bond, but Marcus would like to add some additional players to the fold, so they’re looking toward the women.
GC’s growing into his leadership role, but Randy hopes to sabotage him and let the tribe self destruct, as if that will take a lot.
Marcus approaches Corinne to see where she’s at. She likes Jacquie, and he was already thinking about that. She’d like to be in an alliance with them and Charlie. They all gather together to discuss their strategy, including who should be the fifth (lesser) partner.
GC was awakened early by all the snoring. He decides to do laundry, then a few people join in. Gillian lets him and the others know she doesn’t want to hear them talking that early in the morning. GC (Golden Child) hands over his leadership because he doesn’t want to be the leader any more. Nobody else wants to be the leader (still). Dan tells the camera he’d like to be the leader, as long as he’s a silent leader and nobody knows about it.
Immunity’s back up for grabs. The tribes will push a large boulder through a series of gates, retrieve keys, and use their keys to open the locks. They’re playing for fishing gear and one person to go to Exile. Kota will sit out Paloma. Steep hills and heavy boulders doesn’t bode well for Gillian, who the tribe tells to get out of the way and not bother pushing (and we go back to the really great decision of keeping her in the game last episode). Kota is the first to get their first key, but it’s pretty close. Kota is also through their second key first, but it’s still a close race, as both Bob and Ken are doing a good job with the knots on the keys. There are six keys but only three locks, so it may come down to dumb luck. It’s a much closer challenge than the last two, but Kota still ends up winning immunity and reward. Dan has been sent to Exile Island.
Kota, which is flying high after their three wins, puts the new fishing gear to quick work.
Dan has a choice between clue or comfort. He takes the clue. The first very vague clue. He has no luck finding it.
Some of Fang is demoralized. Some are just happy they sucked less worse than they suck normally. They are finally starting to realize that Gillian is weighing them down, though. Duh.
Gillian hopes to get the older people together against the younger ones. She wants to target Ken.
Randy and GC have constructed a fishing line out of Randy’s glasses and GC’s shoe strings. They’re hoping that a bit of protein will help them out. The makeshift fishing line works, and they manage to catch five small fish.
Dan realizes he made the wrong choice on Exile. The tribe believes he’s acting strangely and has the idol. They’re considering voting him out instead of Gillian. Are you kidding me? Even if he has the idol and is shifty, lack of strength is their biggest problem.
Dan, perhaps the first person to wear a tie to tribal council, empties out his bag there and says he doesn’t have the idol. He tells the tribe he’s not a liar and isn’t lying to them. He asks them to not be dumbasses and try to flush out the idol.
Votes
Gillian
Ken
Gillian
Gillian
Gillian
Gillian
Talk aside, at least they ultimately turned out to not be complete morons. One tribal council too late, Gillian has been voted out.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Gabon episode 3 She Obviously Is Post-Op, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.