In a thoroughly anticlimactic show, one of Russell’s two allies (in this case Krista) was the next to be booted in Survivor: Redemption Island Episode 5.
Steve got some votes. Stephanie tries to be delicate when telling him he’s a weak link.
While the others are busy or at least pretend to be busy, Natalie and Ashley decide to have a spa day. If there were a Survivor After Dark, I’m sure we’d see bikini waxing.
Andrea & Natalie and Julie & Mike go to Redemption Island to watch the duel between Matt and Krista. For the duel, they will retrieve three bags with a grapling hook, then they will use a ball to solve a table maze. Krista’s first toss nets her a bag. Matt’s second toss makes it one each. Krista’s second toss is successful as well. Matt follows this with his second bag. Krista grabs her third and final bag. This hardly seemed challenging. Matt’s fourth toss gets him to the puzzle. Eventually, Matt overtakes Krista on the puzzle. Krista seems to be more interested in peeking at what Matt’s doing than concentrating, and her ball falls in the hole. Matt wins his fourth challenge in a row.
She hands him her luxury item on the way out, her bible. That’s the extent of what we get, but it does lead to some interesting jealousy from Andrea, who doesn’t like that he bonded with another girl so quickly.
Sarita says she has a cavity with bacteria in it. Seeing as David doesn’t like her, he hopes her complaining will help Stephanie move up a spot.
Phillip wants these young girls to work harder (and/or at all), while Boston Rob and Grant realize they’re not going to do anything anyway, so making waves with them won’t do any good. Rob’s perfectly content if they do nothing because that’s one more reason to vote for him at the end.
Stephanie apologizes to Steve if she hurt his feelings, and he buys it.
For today’s challenge, two members of each tribe will launch balls to the beach where the remaining tribe members will catch the balls. This is the opportunity Sarita needed to lose that tooth that’s been bothering her, but she will sit out for Zapatera. The winning tribe will go the mountains and enjoy a picnic lunch. David and Stephanie will launch the balls for Zapatera; Natalie and Phillip will launch the balls for Ometepe. Grant and Mike square off on the beach, Boston Rob and Steve go against each other, Julie and Andrea are in the back, and lastly Ralph takes on Ashley. Grant scores a point. Grant scores a second point. Grant scores a third point. Boston Rob steals one from Zapatera to take the 4-0 lead. Grant has finally decided to rip off his shirt so Mike will stop yanking it, a strategy that’s not working anyway. Grant scores again. Ometepe wins immunity and reward. Earlier in the season, I’d have thought this challenge favored Zapatera, but Grant easily beat Mike, Rob beat Steve, and Ralph couldn’t even outdo Ashley.
Rob spots another idol clue. He doesn’t want to take it, so he waits for someone else to notice. That someone else would be Grant. They go off to the side, but they are busted by Phillip. They show it to him, but he’s still upset that they have violated their “alliance” with him. He expects more respect. After all, he served his country for 4 years, 11 months, and 13 days.
There’s an outside chance Stephanie will not be going home tonight, a very outside chance. Sarita will not campaign for herself, but Stephanie will.
Ralph blames the shooters at the challenge for their loss. Sarita, however, can’t be blamed, seeing as she didn’t participate.
Votes
Sarita
Stephanie
Sarita
Stephanie
Stephanie (or Stifinie)
Stephanie
With 4 votes, Stephanie has been voted off the island.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Redemption Island Episode 7, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.