After she expressed her desire to get rid of Coach in Survivor: Tocantins Episode 2, Candace found herself on the wrong end of him changing his strategy of keeping the strong, and she was the first person eliminated from the Timbira tribe.
Erinn, having voted the opposite way of the rest of the tribe, tries to pretend she didn’t trust Candace at all. Just admit the truth. Everybody already knows it.
Jerry, who we saw for all of about 15 seconds so far, is having trouble with his stomach. He thinks it might be the beans.
Jalapao may have won fishing gear, but they don’t seem to know what to do with it. They do start catching something eventually, though.
Six members of each tribe will be blindfolded and tied together. The remaining tribe member will guide them through a maze to fill their containers with water and corn. Reward is comfort (tarp, umbrella, chairs, pillows, blankets, and a hammock). Joe guides Jalapao; Debra is the caller for Timbira. Timbira gets pretty well lost, while Debra squeals at them. Spencer and Stephen get some water for Jalapao. Taj and Sandy also get water for them. Then JT and Sydney bring back some more water. Timbira as a group finally gets water, and they’ve almost got enough. Stephen and Spencer raise their water flag. Jeff has told Timbira they only need a little more water, but apparently Debbie didn’t hear him because she says she doesn’t know what they should do, so they should just fill all their buckets with water and come back. It doesn’t matter, though, since Jalapao’s got all their corn and raises the second flag to win the challenge. Brendan goes to Exile, and as promised, he picks Taj to go with him again.
Coach begs everybody to not go off in groups and talk about who screwed up. So he goes off with Tyson to talk about Sierra and Erinn. Tyson thinks Coach wants his point to be known, whether he really knows anything or not. Tyson is now Coach’s assistant coach.
Taj and Brendan pick urns again, and this time she gets the clue. They know it’s at camp and surrounded by wood. Not a lot to go on, but it’s something. Just in case they don’t get sent back, they plot to each bring one person in. Brendan will go to Sierra, and Taj will go to Stephen. This is brilliant.
With their reward, Jalapao slept well. Sandy believes she’s a sex kitten this morning, which… scares me.
At the immunity challenge, two members of each tribe will roll a large crate back to the mat. When they gather all 6 crates, they must stack them to build a staircase spelling out their name. Jalapao and Taj go first against Brendan and Debra. Brendan and Debbie get off to a slight lead, but JT and Taj return first. Stephen and Sydney are next for Jalapao against Sierra and Tyson. Sierra and Tyson make up time and take the lead by a good margin. Erinn and Coach go against Joe and Sandy. Erinn and Coach retain the lead. Brendan and Jerry go against JT and Spencer. Brendan and Jerry retain the lead, but Jerry gets hit by the other team’s crate in the process. JT and Spencer go against Joe and Stephen. Timbira’s still in the lead. Tyson and Brendan go for their last crate against Spencer and Taj. Timbira’s got a good lead when it comes time to build the staircase. Jalapao does a good job of catching up on the stair building, and they come from behind to win immunity. It appears that Jerry’s stomach problems finished off his tribe, which is good news for the poorly performing Stephen and Sydney.
Coach doesn’t like the look on Erinn’s face, which makes him hate her more. Despite the fact that Jerry blew the challenge, his plan is still to get rid of Erinn. Way to keep the strong around. Sierra doesn’t want to be stupid and go along with this plan.
Brendan begins his hunt for the hidden idol. It’s inside the treemail post.
Erinn expresses her frustration because she knew the answer to the staircase puzzle, but nobody wanted to listen to her until it was too late. Jerry doesn’t believe the tribe communicates very well, and he wants somebody to be a leader. He suggests Brendan. Coach suggests himself. Erinn responds Brendan is better. He says this is just because of a personality clash, which she denies being aware of. He has great ideas but is unable to own them. Probst says Coach’s ego may be getting in the way.
Votes
Jerry
Jerry
Erinn
Jerry
Jerry
Unlike last week when everybody blindly followed Coach’s poor plan, this time the tables have been turned, although Coach was among the unanimous vote against Jerry. Jerry’s elimination is not overly surprising since he went from invisible to a key character this episode.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Tocantins episode 4 The Strongest Man Alive, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.