Following a tribe shuffle in Survivor: Cagayan Episode 4, everybody started acting all stupid like the Brains tribe. In the end, Cliff became the victim of members of his own tribe turning on him.
When they return back to camp, Trish goes off on Lindsey, which leads to much drama and, eventually, a visit from Probst. Lindsey walks away from camp despite the fact that it’s cold and dark out and goes to sit on the beach by herself. When Jeff arrives, she tells him she is afraid that her conflict with Trish will cause her to do something she regrets, and she is quitting. Congrats on flipping on your own tribe, guys. Now you’re down two members. Regardless of the numbers, they don’t care. They are happy she is gone. I normally come down hard on quitters and, to be fair, this is a pretty weak reason to quit, but these people are just asking for it.
When they arrive at the reward challenge, Sarah, likewise, is thrilled to see who is gone. Alexis is also happy… happy that her tribe is completely unscathed while the Brawn tribe has been decimated. Spencer as well. His odds just got a lot better, and he didn’t have to lift a finger. Never before has a tribe been so thrilled about the other tribe’s vote, yet Trish and Tony take the reaction as a positive that they have done the right thing.
At the reward challenge, their task is to knock an idol out of the other person’s hands. Reward is a camp raid. Alexis and Kass sit out for Aparri. According to Probst, Spencer beats Woo. Watching the replay, it’s pretty clear Spencer lost his first, though Woo’s does hit the ground first. I’m not sure what the rules are here. Trish beats Tasha to tie it 1-1. Sarah beats Jefra to retake the lead. LJ beats Jeremiah to tie it again. In a mismatch, Tony beats Morgan to take the lead. Woo beats Spencer (arguably again), and Solana wins reward.
Tony and Woo are going to Aparri’s camp to retrieve their spoils. They know exactly what is on the other island. They have a choice of two of three item categories: comfort, tarps, or fishing gear. They choose the comfort items and fishing supplies. In addition, they receive a clue to the hidden immunity idol, which they use to try to frame Jeremiah, even though it’s for their beach rather than his. Of course, he’s seen this clue before over at the Beauty beach.
Then Tony tells his tribe, by the way, he’s a police officer. He wants them to know he’s trustworthy. Never mind all that lying he did to them for days.
Spencer’s not buying Jeremiah’s true story, and Alexis is deliberately making an effort to not buy it so she can sink him. If he were smart, he would have refused when Tony said he needed to take the clue back, or he would have returned it but only after showing the others. By doing neither, he has to hope the others take his word for it.
For the immunity challenge, they will build a staircase, race through a maze, maneuver a key through a rope obstacle, unlock a machete, release puzzle pieces, solve a puzzle revealing three numbers for a combination lock, then unlock that lock. Morgan and Tasha sit out for Aparri. I’m not sure which tribe is more competent any more. I don’t think either can be described using that word. Aparri finishes their stairs first. Both tribes are about even after the maze. Jeremiah beats Tony to release the machete first, building a good lead heading into the puzzle. Unsurprisingly, the tribe with the Brains struggles the most with the puzzle. These people just generally suck at challenges. Solana wins immunity.
Then Tony starts shouting about top 5. Awesome strategy to let Sarah know you have forgotten her. If Aparri did not want to come together before, they may wish to do so now.
Alexis continues to work the Brains to get rid of Jeremiah. Tony setting him up has not helped him. Their other option is to get rid of Alexis instead. Kass explains that the brain just needed a body, and now they have found their zombies and are good to go. Of course, the problem before was that the brain needed a brain, too, which does not seem to have changed.
Votes
Jeremiah
Alexis
Alexis
Alexis
Alexis
With 4 votes, Alexis has been voted off the island. If merge happens next week, that was perhaps the wrong move, but since the merge is an unknown, they did the right thing for once. On a positive note, the tribe was completely unified in their vote. Even Morgan does not trust Alexis, despite the fact that Jeremiah is the one who lied to her earlier in the game. For all the talk about Alexis and Jeremiah, an easy vote, Sarah, has been completely overlooked, despite being perhaps the biggest threat, no matter how much Tony’s idiocy may have jeopardized her chances of flipping. Alexis has nobody to blame but herself, though. Had the Beauties behaved as a cohesive unit, they would not have all been scrambling like they have as a result of immediately backstabbing each other.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Cagayan Episode 6, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.