Back from tribal council, Amanda vowed to get Candace out because she tried to gun for James. It seems like everyone did not care about James condition with a busted knee, could he be able to physically compete anymore? Meanwhile, James continued to humiliate Colby, asking him if he needed a hug. (If I were Colby, I’d give James a hug with a knife pointing to him.)
Over at the villains’ camp, Russell tried to convince Rob that he wanted to make a truce with him. However, Rob’s too smart for him to play that kind of game. He tried to make Russell play the idol instead. (If these two can work together from the beginning, they’ll dominate the whole game. Unfortunately, their personalities clashed.)
Tree mail arrive, with a very vague content. Everyone was confused what they would be playing for, a immunity, reward challenge or both. Probst revealed to them that they would play for immunity, individual immunity, as both tribes would be voting someone out.
Each one would be hooked onto a rope that was tied to an obstacle course and they would need to get through it the fastest in order to win. JT, Coach and Tyson all competed in this challenge during Survivor: Tocantins, and Tyson won it.
The heroes were up first, and Candace ended up winning. Amanda’s attempt to vote her out failed. What was surprising was that James put on a pretty good performance in this challenge, depite his injury, while Colby was falling behind everyone else. Colby just gave it up.
The villains were up next, and everybody had a fight in them, except Sandra. Boston Rob walked away with the necklace, which made Russell in a very bad position.
Rob and Candace then faced off in a final battle, in a course that is three stories high and much more difficult than the first round (like the one the Tocantins). The winner would get hot dogs and soda for their tribe and they would get to listen in on the other tribe’s tribal council. And Rob won it again. He’s just dominant in challenges.
Back at the heroes’ camp, Colby told everyone that he knew he would be voted out, so there’s no need for everyone to scramble as he just wanted to enjoy his last day in the game. But, it looked like everyone had changed their minds. The heroes wanted to make sure that James was fine to compete. So Amanda asked him to show them. And James tried to impress them by participating in a race against JT. The result, he hobbled along while JT ran backwards, it’s clear to everyone that he could not compete physically at the moment. (What amazed me was that why the hell they would not have done this when Tom was still around.)
While everything worked smoothly for the heroes, you would expect the same for the villains. Rob came up to Russell and told him to play the idol if he still wanted to be in the game. Then, he proved himself to be a great strategist by coming up with a fool proof plan of splitting the votes to ensure that Russell or Parvati went home, even if they played the idol. He even predicted that Russell was going to gun for Tyson.
However, no matter how great Rob was, he failed to make everyone believe in him. Tyson was uneasy that he’s on the chopping block, and that gave Russell a chance to find out the loophole in Rob’s plan. Russell managed to convince Tyson that he would be voting out Parvati.
For whatever reason he had, Tyson believed Russell and voted Parvati at the tribal council. Russell made a bold move by giving the idol to Parvati, and won over Rob. Tyson was voted out. (Welcome to the Hall of Fame for dumbest players in Survivor history, James and Erik are your best partners.)
The villains then enjoyed their hot dogs while watching the heroes’ tribal council. Colby admitted he was not in a good form like he used to be, and James kept on humuliating him by telling him that he was the baddest Survivors of all time and is now like Superman in a fat suit. That hurted. However, the tribe decided that they needed someone who’s not injured to keep them in the game, and sent James home.
It’s a bit surprise that Amanda would vote James out, she’s got no real support now. And Colby has a lot to prove himself to the tribe that he deserve to stay, though I doubt it very much. We’ll see.
