As the Samburu tribe became more and more divided by age and unable to work as a tribe, their winning streak went away in Survivor: Africa Episode 3, forcing them to go to tribal council where they voted off Dr. Carl in a tiebreaker because he didn’t need the money.
Although she’s safe, Lindsey is returning to camp with 4 votes against her. She’s also returning with a chip on her shoulder and a message for the rest of the tribe to not piss her off any more because she’s a raving lunatic.
Big Tom believes he’s going to climb a 50 foot palm tree. After he realizes that’s a stupid idea, he and Clarence knock a couple palms out of the tree using rocks. Once they get them down, they have to then waste their energy chopping the palms open, which ends up taking about an hour for very little food that doesn’t taste good anyway. Not worth the effort. Have to stick with the mush.
Frank has, once again, decided he’s not really that concerned about getting stuff done. Let the others worry about it. This is a stupid idea because the only value he adds to the tribe is his work ethic. Take that away, and he may as well be voted out.
Linda and Frank go to get mail and find out there’s a challenge in 30 minutes. She is obnoxiously thrilled about it and looking forward to waking up those who are sleeping in late. Then, as they’re discussing the challenge and coming together as a team, Linda makes a solid effort to prove she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and no toy either.
Food reward is things like olive oil and sun dried tomatoes. Tribes will go back and forth across the rope net and grab their items, 12 in all. The first tribe to get all the items wins. Brandon takes the lead over Big Tom. What happens next is anyone’s guess as the challenge becomes a blur, but apparently the tribes are tied or something. Finally we get a glimpse at the challenge and see that Brandon has a slight lead over Tom as they head into their second run. Teresa and Kelly are dead even. In the battle of the Kims, Kim J’s fall gives Samburu a big lead. With her subsequent slowness in getting the basket, Boran gets lapped. What had been a tied contest all the way through becomes a no brainer, and Samburu wins reward.
This is the second challenge in which Kim has been directly responsible for the loss, and the tribe may be waking up to it.
Upon their return from the challenge, it’s time for Samburu to go on a water run because they’re almost out of water and dehydrated from the challenge. This is what made Linda so happy before. It was an opportunity to prove a point to the younger group. When they get back with the water, their trouble is going to be boiling it since they’ve broken all their pots.
Boran’s walking around and doing their thing when they spot a buffalo. Their homework suggests that’s the most dangerous animal out there. It ain’t very pretty either. They’re not real sure what to do, so they just decide to wait it out while making a bunch of noise.
First thing in the morning before the sun is up, Frank wakes everybody up to go for a water run. His plan to ignore the water is now backfiring, and since it’s getting worse, he’s got no choice but to pay attention to it.
Despite the fact that Kim has been a liability, Ethan still wants to save her as they head to the immunity challenge, but he’s realizing that if they don’t win, it’s her neck on the line. The challenge is to relocate a camp including a hut, animal pen, flag pole, and various supplies. They will bring it up the hill and recreate it exactly as it was at the bottom of the hill. Two members from each tribe will be architects, and they are responsible for remembering how it looked before. They will not do any lifting, a blessing for Kim J and Boran. Teresa sits out for Samburu. Brandon & Linda and Kelly & Kim J will be the architects. Everybody else will be responsible for physically lifting and moving the camp. After struggling to get most of their camps to the top, Boran’s down to their roof and flag, while Samburu is down to the walls to their hut, the heaviest thing there. It’s close, but Boran wins immunity.
Boran’s very happy and united as a tribe. It’s like night and day, though, because Samburu is still on opposite sides of the divide.
Silas is planning post-merge strategy. He tells the older group to go ahead and vote for Lindsey. Nobody else has any votes against them, so there’s no need to bring the whole ship down.
Probst tells Silas one thing’s for sure. If Samburu goes into a merge with 4 people solid and 1 not so solid against Boran with 5 people solid, Samburu’s in trouble. Linda completely agrees with this and nods her head as noticeably as possible. So why is it that she planned to sabotage Silas’ plan unless there’s something in it for her?
Lindsey acknowledges she’s bringing a lot of negative energy into the game due to her paranoia and easily hurt feelings.
Votes
Silas
Silas
Silas
Linda
Linda
Linda
Linda
Good riddance to Linda for just being an oddball, and congrats to the older people in the group for totally screwing over their entire tribe on purpose.
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