Cochran’s old tribe got narrowed down quickly in Survivor: South Pacific Episode 9 with Ozzy being eliminated and then Jim following him.
Upon arrival at Redemption Island, Jim continues his whining. Apparently, there is something wrong with the other tribe sticking together. When can he and Ozzy be officially done already? Obviously, the other tribe has to implode eventually, but that time does not necessarily have to be now nor benefit a hot headed player who may have been able to get farther in the game if he kept his mouth shut once in a while.
Keith, Ozzy, and Jim head to the duel. Yeah, more duels, as if we have not had enough already. I got an idea. Why not just give Ozzy a free pass to the finals? It’ll save you the effort of having to give him 12 chances. The duel is an endurance test of balancing poles on their hands. Whoever wins sticks around. The two losers will be the first and second members of the jury. Brandon is rooting for Jim. Whitney is rooting for Keith. Anybody rooting for Ozzy? No. He’s what you call a free agent. Jim is the first one out. Keith is next. Ozzy stays alive.
With her numbers virtually wiped out, Dawn now acknowledges that she played stupidly.
For the immunity challenge, they will balance a bowl of rice on their heads and race across two teeter totters to fill a container on the other side. Aside from Brandon, the men predictably all fail on their first attempt, while Dawn and Sophie succeed. Whitney and Edna slowly makes their way across before finally dropping near the basket. Cochran is unsurprisingly the most awkward of the bunch. It continues shaping up to be a battle between Brandon, Dawn, and Sophie. Sophie takes the risk of filling her bowl as high as she can, and that’s enough for her to win immunity in spite of Brandon being faster than she is.
Probst warns of a twist at tonight’s tribal council.
Dawn and Whitney realize they’re on the chopping block. Brandon is a loose cannon. Rick is invisible, aside from that one time he cast the deciding vote. Edna is too attached to Coach. That leads them to Albert. Working in their favor, Albert doesn’t care about Edna anyway, as he tried but failed to get rid of her in episode 6. To get Cochran onboard, he tells him that he will be the target when they get down to 7. Albert then approaches Sophie, who voted with him to try to get rid of Edna last time when Mikayla got booted instead.
Coach sees that Albert is playing for jury votes, something that it’s a little early to be doing.
Dawn and Whitney discuss how the people in 5th, 6th, and 7th would be better off flipping than maintaining that status quo. Whitney reiterates that Cochran’s 7th. I’m not so sure of that. If using them for votes makes that much sense, wouldn’t using him for a vote make even more sense in another few nights? 5 and 7 are a lot more important votes than 9. I do agree, however, that there are problems over on that other side. Rick isn’t playing, which makes him unpredictable, and Brandon’s equally unpredictable. Coach and even Cochran for that matter may be in a good spot if they get rid of Dawn or Whitney, but I don’t know what Albert and Sophie plan to do.
I see we have a good chunk of time left as the vote looms. Something time consuming is about to happen.
Votes
Dawn
Edna
Dawn
Edna
Dawn
Dawn
Dawn
With 5 votes, Dawn has been voted off the island.
Now another immunity challenge and another vote. The immunity challenge is based on survival questions.
How much purified water should they drink each day to prevent dehydration?
1 gallon. You’d think everybody would get this right, but Albert, Edna, and Rick do not and are eliminated.
The coconut crab gets its name because its favorite food is coconut. True or false?
True. Cochran and Brandon are out.
The soft, edible flesh found inside a fallen coconut is called what?
Heart of palm. Coach is out.
You should not attempt to remove giant South Pacific clams from the ocean, as they are considered dangerous. True or false?
False. Whitney is out, and Sophie wins immunity.
Well, that was close, but now everybody should be able to breathe easily. Granted, I would think they were smart enough to have planned for this. After all, this was a scenario Cochran came up with in his confessional.
Votes
Cochran
Whitney
Whitney
Whitney
Whitney
Whitney
With 5 votes, Whitney has been voted off the island. Another productive episode.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: South Pacific Episode 11, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.