Having sealed her fate at the very beginning, Kristina was not surprised when she met the end of her road in Survivor: Redemption Island Episode 4.
Steve says there’s hope to bring Krista and Stephanie in. He wants to prove they’re a solid family. Oh. That would be different. Julie, however, considers them to be just non-threatening pawns.
Krista and Stephanie randomly draw to be able to go to the duel. Stephanie wants to send a message that they’re Russell’s girls and ready to flip. Boston Rob and Grant come from Ometepe.
Matt and Kristina will square off in the duel. The challenge is simply to put together a cubed puzzle. Matt’s very close but wrong and has to start over completely. Not content with merely focusing on the task at hand, Matt would like to know from Rob why he voted him out. Rob’s response: it doesn’t take one person to vote someone out. In the end, Matt wins his third duel in a row to stay alive.
Following the duel, Matt says he’s ready to rejoin his tribe. Stephanie, however, says she is not so ready to stick with her tribe. The girls think yellow might look good on them.
Phillip says he’s frustrated that he can’t make an impression on these women. Oh, he’s made an impression alright. He compares them to the crabs he’s trying to catch, which run away right when they see him. His only slight hope is Andrea, so he proposes an alliance with her.
Andrea’s an outcast who would rather get rid of Natalie and Ashley, no matter how much she and the other girls pretend they get along.
A caller will guide blindfolded teammates through a maze to collect bags of puzzle pieces. Once they have collected all four, the caller will use those pieces to solve a word phrase. In addition to immunity, they are playing for coffee and pastries. Steve and Julie sit out for Zapatera. Stephanie is the caller for her tribe, and David ain’t happy about it. It goes without saying Rob will be the caller for his tribe. Ometepe is the first to deliver a bag to their table, but Zapatera has three in hand by this point. Sarita and Krista deliver the first two bags for Zapatera. Mike brings their third. Ashley has Ometepe’s second bag. Grant returns his second bag to make it three each. Stephanie mostly just wants Ralph to shut up and move to his left (his other left).
Grant has the final puzzle piece for Ometepe, allowing Rob to start the puzzle first. Too bad he just dropped a piece. Surely he’s seen enough episodes of Survivor to know to be more careful than that. Eventually, he spots it, but he’s lost some ground, as Stephanie was quick to open her bags. As they work, Steve takes the opportunity to mock Stephanie and wish David were doing the puzzle instead. Ralph agrees. Ometepe wins reward and immunity. They can make Stephanie the scapegoat all they want, but Boston Rob’s tough to beat when it comes to puzzles. Regardless, they lagged behind and gave him an advantage.
As we know by now, there’s a clue in the reward. Grant and Rob spot it in the coffee. They create a diversion to sneak away with it. Rob’s plan is to keep that clue to himself and switch it out with the first largely useless clue he got previously, which he then shares with Grant, who gave him the clue they just found.
Sarita says she made the choice she did because she didn’t like the idea of David under pressure. Proving her point, he turns this into a confrontation. His profession: lawyer. He’s under the impression now that he’s in a courtroom apparently. In his court, he will be doing every puzzle they ever come across again, and nobody will tell him otherwise.
In spite of all this drama, Stephanie and Krista are the two targets, and they have decided that there’s no hope of scrambling.
Stephanie would rather get rid of Steve because he’s useless around camp. Sarita would rather get rid of David because he’s a lawyer.
Sarita disagrees that they haven’t been playing the game. She says they played it so hard that they got rid of Russell. A result of throwing a challenge and banding together like lemmings.
At tribal council, Krista calls out the pairs, saying everybody has joined up with one other person… except David.
Mike claims they have strategized. They have?
Votes
Steve
Steve
Krista
Krista (aka Krasta)
Krista
Krista
Krista
With 5 votes, Krista has been voted off the island.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Redemption Island Episode 6, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.