Although she had recovered from her whining, Shawna was voted out in Survivor: Amazon Episode 6.
Rob is worried that Alex is a little depressed that Shawna’s not around any more. Maybe now he’ll get back to playing. Either that, or he’ll just get voted off right away.
Enough of that, though, Rob’s right back into strategy mode. He pitches to his new tribe a plan to pretend after the merger that everything’s still as it was. Jenna has confidence that she can get Heidi, but she doesn’t trust Christy, probably because she has never made an effort to bond with her. Deena suggests getting rid of Dave first. Rob, meanwhile, wants to tell Roger to shut up at some point in the near future.
In treemail, they get a key. The mystery box. It’s been there from day one. It’s now day 18, and the mystery will be revealed. What’s inside? A clue telling them it’s time to merge. Lame, even if it is good news. Everybody packs up to move to a new site, where they’re going to have to start over from the beginning.
Before Jaburu leaves, they repeat the plan: Dave, Roger, Butch.
When they arrive at Jeff, he gives them new red buffs and a boat to row to their new location, where a feast is waiting for them. While eating, they come up with the new tribe name, Jacare (alligator). It’s not long before Roger decides that he wants to start working and stop celebrating. He’s also irritated that they want to keep the beer cold, rather than worrying about the food.
As the Jaburu men remember why they hated Roger, Deena is joining with them. She’d like to be in charge still, but that’s going to be a tough sell as long as Roger’s around.
Rob’s noticing something. Some people are busy building the shelter. He’s busy building alliances. We’ll see if the people primarily focused on the shelter are going to be there to use it for more than 6 or 9 days.
Christy doesn’t like that she can’t help with the shelter, and Heidi joins the chorus, begging for Roger to go first. If he makes the jury, he’s not going to vote for one of them on the basis of gender.
The immunity challenge is a test of will. They will each stand on a perch 4 inches wide by 12 inches long. Last person standing wins. Jeff lays it all out. There will be some temptations along the way. Don’t jump off until you get those. Jenna offers to take her clothes off for some chocolate and peanutbutter. Get the girls some chocolate and peanutbutter, Probst. He delivers: two colas, a plate of peanutbutter, and a tray of chocolate cookies. Jenna and Heidi both willingly strip for this. To all the kids at school, Butch is not looking. Dave and Alex are, though. Heidi and Jenna jump after stripping, and the first two are out of the challenge at 30 minutes. At 35 minutes, Roger decides to jump, exactly what everybody was waiting for. At the 1 hour mark, the rain comes in. The offer for pizza draws three jumpers: Butch, Rob, and Alex. At 2 hours, Deena says she outlasted Roger. That’s all that really matters. Jeff has a new offer: chicken wings with bleu cheese. Matt and Dave jump in. That leaves Deena and Christy. Jeff offers spaghetti and meatballs at two and a half hours. They’re sharing the food regardless of what happens. Deena suggests rock, paper, scissors. Rock breaks scissors. Deena wins immunity.
Roger thinks that everything is falling into place exactly as they planned. It seems too easy. It seems too good to be true.
At tribal council, discussing the first few days as a merged tribe, Rob says that if people didn’t know what they were good at, there were a couple people more than willing to tell them what to do. Jeff can read between the lines. It sounds like complaints about bossiness. Deena offers up the fact that the women were set aside during that whole shelter building thing, but they took the opportunity to rebond with each other.
Votes
Christy
Christy
Roger
Roger
Christy
Roger
Roger
Roger
The male members of Tambaqui thought they had it in the bag, but everybody else voted to get rid of Roger.
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