Losing immunity in Survivor: The Australian Outback Episode 5 gave Kucha the opportunity they’ve been looking for since they voted out Debb: a chance to vote out Kimmi.
Having returned from tribal council through the heaviest rain they’ve seen so far, Kucha’s night is going from bad to worse. Their fire is out, and their clothes are wet.
Kucha hopes to go into the merger up 6-4 so that they can Pagong the other tribe. This next immunity challenge is vital.
Jerri is having as many kinky fantasies as she can dream up involving chocolate. Colby says it ain’t about the chocolate. It may well be, though. Hey, girls, guess what’s for dinner. White rice.
The other tribe, which has plenty to eat, at least comparatively speaking, has decided to eat some chicken feed. When they begin cooking it, they find out that there’s popcorn in there. They’re addicated to chicken feed now. They just hope there’s nothing radioactive or anything like that in it.
Jerri has picked some unripened tomatoes. Keith would prefer to leave them around for another day so that they can be ripe when they eat them, but Jerri insists she will cook fried green tomatoes. Colby’s sick of both of them. Tina finally yells that they both have to stop it, or they’re going to timeout. One of the problems has to go.
Reward is for a picnic. Alright, Boo Boo. Probst teases them with a Doritos chip and a sip of Mountain Dew. Each tribe will select one set of eyes to be their leader, while the rest of the tribe will be blindfolded. Jerri is the leader for Ogakor; Nick is the leader for Kucha. They will guide their teams to complete tasks: get logs into a sawhorse, switch the trap on land with the trap in water, fill buckets with water to fill the wine barrel, and get a picnic basket to the table. Ogakor seems completely confused and lost from the start. Kucha completes the sawhorse task first. They also complete their second task first, though Ogakor is to an extent keeping up with them. On the water task, Ogakor manages to take the lead, but it’s still close. Ogakor has completed the third task, moving on to the picnic basket. Just as it looks like they’re going to win, Ogakor snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, and Kucha wins reward.
Although some in Ogakor feel it’s over if they don’t win today, Colby doesn’t plan to go out like that. He’s more than willing to switch things up if he needs to do so. Jerri is thinking along those same lines as well, and she’d like to mix things up and freak people out.
We hear a scream off camera. Based on the episode title, Trial by Fire, we know what’s coming next, one of the more memorable moments in Survivor history. It’s Mike, and he’s burnt pretty bad. He runs and dives into the water to try to cool off after having passed out and fallen into the fire. After blowing into the fire, he inhaled some smoke, which caused him to pass out. The skin is literally coming off his hands. After he stands in the water for a while with the rest of the tribe looking on, the medical team arrives to look at him. He’ll take whatever they want to give him. They give him some anesthetic to breathe in and then wrap up his hands. They have him lay down to prepare him to be airlifted out of there by helicopter. Before leaving, he wants to make sure he says goodbye to his tribe and tells them how much he’s grown to love them. They keep their brave faces on until he leaves.
Ogakor is only told there has been an accident at the other camp, without any more details given, but that they will be advancing to the merge. While they hope for the best, they also realize that this evens things up at 5 each.
Rodger thinks that, especially now, his tribe will stick together, and some of them may have even realized there are things that are more important than the money. Jeff thinks that, although Ogakor will be compassionate, they will be relieved.
Given the extent of his injuries, it goes without saying that Michael will not be returning to the game.
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