Falling victim to the fact that hidden immunity idols are now pretty much just falling out of trees, Phillip was voted out in Survivor: Caramoan Episode 10 after Malcolm burned both his idols to keep his alliance alive for one more week.
Now it’s time for Brenda to have her breakdown. She says she’s afraid they lost control of the game. Don’t you still have a 6-3 advantage?
It’s the Survivor auction. Reacting in about 1 second, Malcolm buys beer and nuts (plus a surprise of 2 more beers and pretzels) for $20. He immediately chugs his beer that he potentially just threw the game away for.
Multiple people are interested in the covered item, which Reynold wins for $180. He can trade it for one of two other covered items, but he keeps the one he bought originally, a slice of pizza. Better than the rotten coconut but not as good as the rest of the pizza he gave up. Sherri offers $500 for the rest of the pizza. Can she do that? Apparently she can.
Dawn opens the bidding for a roasted chicken at $500.
Malcolm bids $480 for information in the game, which luckily for him nobody else wants to top. He gets directions to a hidden idol, as if that’s really necessary.
Andrea really wants the next covered item, and she wins it for $280. Spaghetti, meatballs, bread, and wine. Plus a dilemma. Not a real hard decision, though. Either her meal or a sack of rice and beans for the tribe. She takes the rice and beans.
Cochran wins an advantage in the next immunity challenge for $340.
Brenda has been wondering whether she should take a risk this whole challenge. So she does it now with a $300 opening bid for a covered item: pig brain. She takes a bite then remembers she doesn’t eat pork.
Letters from loved ones are $20, which means Malcolm, Sherri, and Dawn are left out. Then they start crying. Surely anybody who watched and/or played this game before knows that letters from home are one of the prizes. If a letter is more important than food or safety, just don’t bid on anything else.
Eddie buys a covered item for $200, and the entire tribe will share a giant bowl of peanutbutter.
Reynold starts talking to Sherri. Is she really going to join them? She never trusted them to begin with, and she clearly can’t beat them in challenges (not that she can beat anyone else).
Malcolm’s idol is actually hidden. This one is 6 inches deep. He heads to the well early in the morning, but it’s not early enough to prevent Andrea and Cochran from busting him digging. Cochran goes to the bathroom, but she’s going to just sit there and wait him out. As the sun comes up, he realizes she won’t be leaving him alone any time soon.
At the immunity challenge, they will hold on to a rope connected to a very heavy log (1/3 of the body weight they started the game with). Cochran’s advantage is moving the knot up two knots at any time. After 5 minutes, they move to the second knot, making things more difficult. Then the third, and Cochran uses his advantage. After half an hour, everybody (but Cochran) moves to the final knot. Brenda is out. Then Erik. The final position is no knot, except for Cochran, who will have a knot the whole time. Sherri is out. Then Malcolm somehow. And Andrea. Dawn puts up a strong effort, but she eventually slips. Reynold is next. Eddie drops. Thanks to his advantage, Cochran wins a strength challenge. He tells us this win that was handed to him (though in his defense, he earned it by buying something nobody else wanted) makes him the biggest challenge threat in the game.
Malcolm tells Sherri he has an idol, and he makes a final three deal with her. He wants to get rid of Andrea.
Erik also agrees to vote with them. They’re both wishy washy about which way they go, and they both fancy themselves all powerful.
Cochran doesn’t want to split the vote in order to avoid a disaster (Andrea being voted out and a 4-4 tribe split), but Andrea argues it’s safer to split. She asks how dumb Erik would have to be to flip right now. Did you see his first season? He is considered by many to have made the dumbest mistake in the history of Survivor.
Tonight the power begins to shift, as Tribal Council will be viewed by first jury member Phillip.
Despite putting fear into Malcolm that she’s going to haunt him if he goes looking, Andrea still says she’s 80% sure he has an idol.
As the voting begins, we can tell that they split the vote, banking on nobody flipping.
Votes
Reynold
Malcolm
Andrea
Reynold
Malcolm
Andrea
Reynold
Andrea
Malcolm
The three way tie proves that everybody kept their word, a lucky break I’d say, and now they can get rid of who they really want, Malcolm
Votes
Malcolm
Malcolm
Malcolm
Malcolm
With 4 votes, Malcolm has been voted off the island. He didn’t play a very good game, but he certainly kept things interesting.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 12, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.