Foa Foa lost two more people in Survivor: Samoa Episode 2. First, Mike overexerted himself at the challenge and was removed due to medical reasons. Then, Betsy was voted out because Russell H knew she was on to him.
Jaison thinks Ben is the next to go. You had your chance on this last week, dude.
Russell H thinks his team is crazy and that nobody else is playing the game.
Ben doesn’t think his tribe knows anything and that they’ll die if he’s voted out. He tells the girls to not bother even trying to start the fire because they will not be able to do so. Despite his craziness, Russell H is not ready to get rid of him just yet because he’s decent in challenges and strong at camp.
Over on Galu, they’re taking a break. Time for some yoga and relaxation. Well, half the tribe anyway. Shambo has no interest in participating.
Russell’s decided which girl he wants to get rid of. He tells Ben that Ashley was gunning for him last time. When Ben goes to her, she acknowledges this is true. She asks who he found it out from. His response: not Russell.
Not learning from last week, there’s another battle challenge. Let’s just hope nobody drowns. The object is to go into the water, make their way through the battle zone, retrieve crates, and stack those crates so there are no repeating colors on any side. The winner will receive immunity and comfort. Russell H will sit out for Foa Foa. Shambo, Yasmin, Erik, and Brent will sit out for Galu. The women for Galu get to their first crate first. The gap gets even bigger when the men go. The women retain the lead. On the last run, the men continue to lead for Galu as they are the first back to the beach with all 4. With a puzzle to be completed, it’s still anybody’s game. Foa Foa thinks they’ve solved the puzzle. They haven’t. Galu, however, has. They win. Again. This is getting pretty hopeless for Foa Foa.
Russell S has a choice. Comfort or function? He opts for comfort because he’s looking to please the women. Also, this time, he will be sending Shambo to Foa Foa.
Unlike Yasmin, who was obnoxious to them, Shambo uses this as an opportunity to be nice and build relationships on the other side. She proceeds to bash her tribe, saying they’re like 90210 and she can’t relate to them.
Shambo gets clue #2 to the hidden immunity idol, which doesn’t matter since it’s already gone.
Erik says that Russell’s going to regret his decision of comfort for one reason: the tarp. The day it rains, every comfort item will be soaked.
Jaison has an ultimatum, although he doesn’t plan to actually act on it. Either Ben goes home, or he goes home.
Mick’s not sure which side he should go on. He’s loyal to Jaison, but Russell and Liz want to get rid of Ashley. Russell says Ashley first. His plan is to let yet another person know about the immunity idol to gain his trust.
Shambo’s barking up the right tree in the search for the idol from the looks of it, but it’s just a waste of time.
Russell continues down his path of getting rid of Ashley. His excuse is that he doesn’t want the girls to get the numbers. Not that they would because voting out the three guys would be foolish. Granted, it would not be the first time. We saw the group of older guys vote out all the physically fit guys in Vanuatu.
At tribal council, Jaison has a suggestion. Trade Ben for Shambo. Russell blames Jaison’s hatred of Ben on one thing (and he’s right), the fact that he said some comments that could be interpreted as racially motivated. Apparently, he would have preferred the word hood (Yasmin’s term) to ghetto (Ben’s term). I’m not a big fan of Ben, but Jaison needs to get over himself.
Votes
Ashley
Ben
Ben
Ben
Ben
For the first time, Russell was unwilling or unable to get his way, and Ben has been voted off the island.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Samoa Episode 4, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.