When given the choice between the two pairs, Jaclyn and Jon went with Missy and Baylor in Survivor: San Juan del Sur Episode 5, helping to vote out Kelley.
Dale pulls out his fake idol. He informs Jon that he won’t be going home next time. More than once. He’s a little too adamant about it, but that doesn’t seem to prevent the rumor from being believed.
Jeremy’s angry about the proposed trade. Even though they have nothing to eat, he doesn’t care. Of course, he was part of the problem of eating too much rice originally.
As promised, Jeff shows up at camp the next day with a bag of rice. He can only think of one other time that someone has needed this sort of help, back in Australia (season 2) when perhaps people did not know any better, and they also had some other hardships that contributed. This is the first tribe of gluttons who suck at planning.
In order to receive enough rice to last the rest of the game, he wants the tarp, hammock, bed roll, hatchet, hammer, one of the pots, and the extra flint. Basically, everything they have won so far during their winning streak, aside from the fishing gear that they already gave up so they could replace the lost flint.
For the reward challenge, one person at each tribe will be blindfolded, go across obstacles to stations and collect puzzle pieces (while avoiding the similar dummy pieces), then go to the other station to complete the puzzle. Reward is chicken and steak. Reed and Baylor are nominated by their tribes as the strongest competitors for this challenge. They are both in about the same place when they get back to the station with all their pieces. Reed places a single dummy piece, which he correctly replaces before asking for confirmation, and he wins reward for Hunahpu as usual.
Baylor will be going to Exile Island. Reed wants to send Julie with her. Then Natalie pipes up and volunteers to go instead. I’m not sure what she gains from this, but what she does not gain is a meal, as she will not participate in the reward. Her explanation is that she wants Missy and Baylor to take care of her after the merge. When they do arrive, Baylor volunteers the idol clue.
Jeremy views Josh and Reed as threats. I’m losing track of how many people are his targets.
As fate would have it, the day they give up their tarp, it starts raining. Julie is the most shaken up about this and is talking about quitting.
For the immunity challenge, they will race up and over a wall, move a large wooden cube, and get puzzle pieces by unwinding them from a spring. Then two tribe members will put together the puzzle. Julie sits out for Hunahpu. Hunahpu takes the lead as usual, but Jon manages to overtake Jeremy when he is retrieving puzzle pieces. Jon’s dominance continues and gives his team a large lead heading into the puzzle. With 8 pieces in total, Jon manages to place 3 of them before the other tribe even places any. As Coyopa falls apart on the last half of the puzzle, however, Hunahpu retakes the lead and wins immunity.
Dale has a new strategy. He offers his fake idol (at least he’s pretty sure it’s fake) to Jon if he is not voted out tonight. This is a much more interesting strategy. They could just split the vote and get rid of Keith in case Dale plays an idol, but now Jon has incentive to keep Dale.
Votes
Dale
Keith
Missy
Keith
Dale
Dale
With 3 votes, Dale has been voted off the island. Given the ties Missy and Baylor have on the other side, whereas Dale has nobody, I’m not sure this was the right move, although it beats trying to play a fake idol and having it backfire.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: San Juan del Sur Episode 7, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.