Rodger was voted out in Survivor: The Australian Outback Episode 13, leaving just one Kucha left standing against the alliance that’s both imploding and not making a lot of sense yet nonetheless still intact.
With Rodger gone, Elisabeth misses her family more, which she decides to discuss with Tina. As they near the end, they’re more able to afford the luxury of thinking of normal things like home.
Today’s challenge combines elements from previous challenges. They will start blindfolded and shackled and negotiate a ropes course, take off their blindfolds and complete a puzzle to get a key to undo the shackles, cross a balance beam, and start a fire on a fire scale. Reward is a Pontiac Aztek, which at the time was a new SUV but has since been discontinued. Let the car curse begin. Colby’s leading as usual. He is the first to complete the ropes course. Tina and Keith are behind him. Elisabeth is in last. Colby still leads after the puzzle. Elisabeth moves into second. Keith and Tina are bringing up the rear. Now it’s a matter of who can keep crossing the balance beam with their bucket of water the fastest. Colby is still in the lead moving into the fire lighting stage. Elisabeth is a close second. Tina’s in third but obviously out of it. Colby wins reward. In addition to the new car, which guarantees he won’t win the game, he also gets a mattress, hot shower, and a meal.
When they go to get treemail, they get a scale and a mirror. Are they brave enough to check it out? Tina can’t bring herself to look into the mirror, but she gets on the scale to find out she has lost 16 pounds and is now down to 99. Elisabeth is down from 113 pounds to 101. Keith has dropped to 143 pounds from 170. Colby is down 25 pounds from his starting weight of 190. Between the four of them, they’ve lost a third grader.
Colby’s keeping his conversation with Keith to a minimum. He gets the feeling Keith needs to win tomorrow. Tina and Elisabeth bid him farewell as he goes to get his car, but nobody knows where Keith has disappeared to because Keith keeps going off on his own.
Upon arrival at his new vehicle, Colby’s got one more surprise. His mom has paid a visit to the outback. She’s bothered by the look she sees in his eyes, probably due to lack of food. The next morning, she returns with Colby to camp to visit the others, and after talking for a while, she’s got some care packages for each of them.
The immunity challenge is a memory game. There are 18 matching pairs in all. Whoever gets the most wins. Colby gets the first match. After several more matches, Colby has 2, Elisabeth has 2, Keith has 1, and Tina has 1. More time passes, and Colby and Keith have 3, while Tina and Elisabeth have 2. Continuing on, Colby has 6, Keith has 5, and Elisabeth and Tina have 3. It’s mathematically impossible for either Elisabeth or Tina to win. Colby is looking to win, whereas Keith is looking to force a tie. Colby gets number 7 to win immunity.
It’s unlikely anybody will want to get rid of Tina, though as one of the more likeable people with good jury support, she should certainly be a consideration. but Keith and Elisabeth are both in danger depending on which way Colby wishes to go.
Votes
Elisabeth
Keith
Elisabeth
Elisabeth
With three votes, Elisabeth has been voted off the island, bringing an end to Kucha’s run. Based on his voting strategy, it would seem that Colby is following the plan he considers to be taking the least likeable person along with him in Keith, yet he got rid of Jerri and continues to keep Tina around.
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