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Although she had recovered from her whining, Shawna was voted out in Survivor: Amazon Episode 6.

Rob is worried that Alex is a little depressed that Shawna’s not around any more. Maybe now he’ll get back to playing. Either that, or he’ll just get voted off right away.

Enough of that, though, Rob’s right back into strategy mode. He pitches to his new tribe a plan to pretend after the merger that everything’s still as it was. Jenna has confidence that she can get Heidi, but she doesn’t trust Christy, probably because she has never made an effort to bond with her. Deena suggests getting rid of Dave first. Rob, meanwhile, wants to tell Roger to shut up at some point in the near future.

In treemail, they get a key. The mystery box. It’s been there from day one. It’s now day 18, and the mystery will be revealed. What’s inside? A clue telling them it’s time to merge. Lame, even if it is good news. Everybody packs up to move to a new site, where they’re going to have to start over from the beginning.

Before Jaburu leaves, they repeat the plan: Dave, Roger, Butch.

When they arrive at Jeff, he gives them new red buffs and a boat to row to their new location, where a feast is waiting for them. While eating, they come up with the new tribe name, Jacare (alligator). It’s not long before Roger decides that he wants to start working and stop celebrating. He’s also irritated that they want to keep the beer cold, rather than worrying about the food.

As the Jaburu men remember why they hated Roger, Deena is joining with them. She’d like to be in charge still, but that’s going to be a tough sell as long as Roger’s around.

Rob’s noticing something. Some people are busy building the shelter. He’s busy building alliances. We’ll see if the people primarily focused on the shelter are going to be there to use it for more than 6 or 9 days.

Christy doesn’t like that she can’t help with the shelter, and Heidi joins the chorus, begging for Roger to go first. If he makes the jury, he’s not going to vote for one of them on the basis of gender.

The immunity challenge is a test of will. They will each stand on a perch 4 inches wide by 12 inches long. Last person standing wins. Jeff lays it all out. There will be some temptations along the way. Don’t jump off until you get those. Jenna offers to take her clothes off for some chocolate and peanutbutter. Get the girls some chocolate and peanutbutter, Probst. He delivers: two colas, a plate of peanutbutter, and a tray of chocolate cookies. Jenna and Heidi both willingly strip for this. To all the kids at school, Butch is not looking. Dave and Alex are, though. Heidi and Jenna jump after stripping, and the first two are out of the challenge at 30 minutes. At 35 minutes, Roger decides to jump, exactly what everybody was waiting for. At the 1 hour mark, the rain comes in. The offer for pizza draws three jumpers: Butch, Rob, and Alex. At 2 hours, Deena says she outlasted Roger. That’s all that really matters. Jeff has a new offer: chicken wings with bleu cheese. Matt and Dave jump in. That leaves Deena and Christy. Jeff offers spaghetti and meatballs at two and a half hours. They’re sharing the food regardless of what happens. Deena suggests rock, paper, scissors. Rock breaks scissors. Deena wins immunity.

Roger thinks that everything is falling into place exactly as they planned. It seems too easy. It seems too good to be true.

At tribal council, discussing the first few days as a merged tribe, Rob says that if people didn’t know what they were good at, there were a couple people more than willing to tell them what to do. Jeff can read between the lines. It sounds like complaints about bossiness. Deena offers up the fact that the women were set aside during that whole shelter building thing, but they took the opportunity to rebond with each other.

Votes
Christy
Christy
Roger
Roger
Christy
Roger
Roger
Roger

The male members of Tambaqui thought they had it in the bag, but everybody else voted to get rid of Roger.

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Following a tribe shuffle, having been given no assurances other than being third on the chopping block, Heidi turned on the girls and helped the guys vote Jeanne out of the tribe in Survivor: Amazon Episode 5.

Christy wants to know why Jeanne was voted out. Roger responds that the assets brought to the tribe by Jeanne were those already embodied in Butch. Dave describes this explanation as different than his understanding, which was that Jeanne was the next to go in Jaburu.

Heidi defends her decision by saying she was trying to get all of them together as a team, instead of a split tribe three against three. The next morning, the guys go off in their group, leaving the girls behind to do their own thing.

Matthew views his new tribe as a new lease, seeing as he was probably next in line over on the other tribe.

Shawna, who was on her deathbed days prior, is in good spirits now that she’s got a guy to flirt with. She and Alex have some interest in each other, whether it will evolve to anything or not.

The reward challenge is a log roll. Reward is something to spice up their food, as well as some fresh fruit. Deena sits out for Jaburu. Roger and Matthew go first, with Matt easily winning to take the lead 1-0 for Jaburu. Heidi and Shawna are up next, and Shawna wins that match to take the lead 2-0. Alex and Dave go next, which evolves into a good match, as Dave narrowly wins to make it 2-1. Rob and Butch square off, with Butch winning to tie it 2-2. Jenna takes on Christy, and Christy gives Tambaqui the lead 3-2. Alex beats Roger to tie it 3-3. Shawna beats Heidi again to take the lead 4-3. Matt loses to Butch to bring the score to 4-4. In the final showdown, Christy takes on Jenna. With Christy’s win, Tambaqui wins reward.

Their victory brings Tambaqui a sense of being a team.

Following their loss, Jaburu decides to have a communal bath. Now that they have some men around, the young girls can be bathed by others, instead of acting like they’re better than the rest of the tribe and going off on their own for a soap commercial gone wrong. Deena sits off to the side and watches the action.

Rob’s concerned that Alex is more interested in making friends than playing the game. Their alliance no longer seems reliable. So he approaches Deena, who he sees as being as hungry as he is. As much as he’d like to get rid of Matthew, they need his fishing skills and probably his vote.

Not to be stopped by the fact that Alex and Shawna are trying to hook up, Matthew is looking to create a triangle.

The immunity challenge is to get meat into a basket using only their mouths. Jenna sits out for Jaburu. It’s like watching a bunch of animals at feeding time. Jaburu ends up at just under 9kg. Tambaqui gets just over 9kg to win immunity.

Shawna agrees to put her head on the chopping block rather than letting one of the other girls go home before her, although she has decided now that she still wants to be in the game because there are guys on her team. Matt and Alex say they’re going to trade votes with each other. Shawna wants to make it one more for Matt. Rob doesn’t want to see Matt go any more, especially since he’s been putting so much effort into getting on his good side lately.

Votes
Shawna
Matthew
Shawna
Matthew
Shawna
Shawna

By a vote of 4-2, Shawna has been voted off the island. Odd man out Alex has some scrambling to do.

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Against Shawna’s wishes, her tribe kept her trapped, opting instead to vote out JoAnna in Survivor: Amazon Episode 4.

Deena feels as if she’s in control now that she’s eliminated JoAnna.

Jeanne thinks her tribe consists of a bunch of idiots, having eliminated their strongest member in favor of keeping around their weakest member. Speaking of which, Shawna’s going to be whining for a while. She’s falling apart and can’t take it any more. Well, quit, then. You always have that option if you really want out. This ain’t Big Brother where you’re trapped until you destroy property or get violent.

The next morning, Jeanne decides to confront Deena. She overheard her saying “Your problem is that you weren’t part of the team.” She was talking about Christy about the first few days, not about the person lying in bed. Jeanne’s sure not making them want to keep her around by being confrontational about something she thought she heard.

Treemail tells them to send the youngest for wine and laughter. That means Dave and Jenna. If this comes down to a battle of wits, it goes without saying the rocket scientist wins against the model. Upon arrival, they are given plenty of food, bottles of wine, an outdoor shower (that’s partially see through), and a bed. Jenna says that her tribe is boring. She’d rather talk more. She’ll take that opportunity now, spilling all about what’s going on at camp, unafraid to reveal alliances and strategies in the process. When she’s done rambling, she says she probably shouldn’t be saying all this. No kidding. Dave realizes this and doesn’t want to reveal too much.

The next morning, as they’re chowing down on breakfast, they see Jeff. Uh oh. It’s good they just shared all that information about their tribes because they’re in charge of picking new ones. In his first pick, Dave immediately screws over Jenna, taking her most trusted ally. Dave also keeps the somewhat questionable Roger. As for Jenna, she keeps around the sickly Shawna rather than being stuck with hard working Jeanne, not that she can be blamed because Jeanne would have tried to get rid of her sooner or later.

Tambaqui: Dave, Heidi, Butch, Christy, Roger, Jeanne
Jaburu: Jenna, Alex, Deena, Rob, Shawna, Matthew

When he returns, Dave says that he strategized to get the best possible outcome for the tribe. Rob’s not buying and not happy.

Like Jenna, Heidi is upset to be split up. Jeanne, however, is thrilled to get away from that tribe.

The boys come into the Jaburu camp. All of a sudden, Shawna, who was at her lowest lows and wanted to get voted out because she was too sick to continue, is now doing just fine and can’tstop smiling. I hope somebody slapped her upside the head. If not on the island, at least at some point after she got home. This is a thoroughly pitiful display. At least we won’t have to watch her acting as if the end of the world’s coming any more, though.

Christy appreciates that her new tribe is making an effort. Unlike how it was with the girls, now she’s being included.

Deena, who believed last week when she got rid of JoAnna that she became the queen of the world, is now worried.

The first immunity challenge for the new tribes is in two stages. The first stage is a word scramble. When they solve that puzzle, they will paddle out and retrieve the corresponding flags. Tambaqui’s got a bit of a lead throughout, but they lose that lead trying to figure out the final word. Jaburu solves their fifth word as Tambaqui continues to work on their final one. Now they need to get the flags that match the words in their tribe color. Jeff tells Tambaqui that they can catch up, but it’s not looking like it, although it’s pretty close. Jaburu wins immunity.

Jeanne, Christy, and Heidi are the least likely combination. They’re only working together because they don’t see another option. Working together translates to drawing straws. Butch gets the short straw.

Dave then goes to Heidi, and he pitches an alliance with the guys. They intend to get rid of Jeanne, who was going home when she was on Jaburu anyway. She knows that, if they lose the next two immunity challenges, she’s gone. He doesn’t even attempt to deny that.

Votes
Jeanne
Butch
Jeanne
Butch
Jeanne
Jeanne

As Heidi switches sides, Jeanne has been voted off the island.

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