As her tribe continued to flail about in Survivor: San Juan del Sur Episode 2, late to the game Val was its next victim.
Josh was the person who flipped, which allowed Baylor to stay. He admits this right after they get back to camp.
Drew warns everybody that monsoons are coming. They teach him how to weave. He spends a minute doing this before giving up and going to sleep. Keith wants to spank him.
Jeremy predictably gets upset at the challenge, and John apologizes to him, blaming his alliance for not going along with his plans to keep Val.
They must get on a swaying balance beam and move pieces from one end to the other. Wes doesn’t think his father will be any good at this, so he nominates it, effectively offering to participate himself as well. They’re neck and neck until Keith drops one. With that, Wes wins reward, Coyopa’s first challenge victory. Keith is going to Exile Island with Josh because Wes says he gets along with him. Reward is a choice between comfort or fishing gear, and they take the fishing gear, which the other tribe traded for flint at the previous reward challenge.
John’s apology to Jeremy fell on deaf ears. He wants out now. He’s also really upset about the comments (yeah, now it’s a problem, coincidentally) John made as a player and outs him to his own tribe. Julie is worried she may be the casualty of this outburst.
This time, Keith does not get the blank piece of paper.
The fishing gear is quickly used to provide some protein to the tribe. If Jeremy was hoping to make John public enemy number one, this fish catching is not helping.
Baylor had a chance for a female alliance, which she declined. Now she’s worried, leaving her with the only alternative of trying to kiss up to the younger guys, who are not falling for it.
At the immunity challenge, they divide into pairs and are tethered together. They will race through an obstacle course to retrieve a ball that they will shoot into a basket (first to make the basket gets a point). To make for even numbers, each tribe sits out one person. Keith and Dale sit out. Jon drags Natalie around the course before taking the lead for Hunahpu. Wes ties it along with Alec. Then John scores to take the lead for Coyopa. Jeremy ties it 2-2. Two pairs who have previously scored go into the tiebreaker, and Jon drags Natalie around again to beat Wes and Alec, winning immunity as usual for Hunahpu.
Then Natalie starts shouting about how John is a racist and a homophobe. Oh god. Why did they let these twins back on the TV? You hear a story about how someone made comments but no real useful information about the situation… then you make personal attacks against them. In what world is this necessary or acceptable? John mostly just stands back and lets her make a fool out of herself, though he does make a couple of comments that really are not helping matters any. He points out to us the irony here. His closest ally is Josh, the gay tribe member, while the cross-tribal alliance he made was with a black couple.
Baylor is an easy target. As John rallies the troops, he lets Josh know that he has an idol, a surprise he may have held on to for a bit too long. Josh is clearly more allied with the hapless Baylor, and this is as good a reason as any to target John instead.
Jaclyn makes comments at Tribal Council that should warrant concern out of John. She’s seeing some shifting in the tribe, and there is a plan to vote one of the guys out. Despite that, John does not play his idol.
Votes
Baylor
John
Baylor
John
John
John
With 4 votes, John has been voted off the island. Like Nadiya before him, his downfall started before he even entered the game, and his weak attempt to protect someone at the request of a seemingly unstable ally (on the opposing tribe no less) did not help him any. In the end, though, he had the chance to save himself and was too stupid to take it. If the events of the day did not give him pause, Jaclyn made it pretty clear something was afoot. This week’s stray vote came from Dale, still the tribe’s outcast.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: San Juan del Sur Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.