The Ultimate Shock is the season finale of Survivor: Palau.

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Story

Day 37

Day 38

Day 39

Challenges

Challenge: Tower Of Domination

Survivors must race along a tire crawl, then navigate through a series of vertical escape hatches to reach the top of a three-story tower. Once at the top of the tower, the Survivors must use grappling hooks to retrieve keys that unlock a hatch covering a flag, which they must raise. The first two players to finish would race down a flying fox into the ocean and retrieve a combination lock box containing another flag. After figuring out the box's combination, the Survivors must retrieve the flag and raise it. The first person to raise their final flag wins Immunity.

Winner: Tom Westman Challenge: Bob-Bob Buoy

The Survivors must each grab onto a navigational buoy and hang on while the buoy sways from side to side. The last player left hanging on would win.

Winner: Tom Westman

Tribal Council

Day 37

Tribal Council 15:

Koror Voted

Against Voter

Ian (2 votes)

Jenn, Tom

Jenn (2 votes)

Ian, Katie TIE:



Ian, Jenn (2 votes each) Revote

(Ian and Jenn ineligible to vote) Voted

Against Voter

Ian (1 vote)

Tom

Jenn (1 vote)

Katie DEADLOCKED:



Ian, Jenn (1 vote each) Tiebreaker Challenge:

Ian vs. Jenn Participant Result

Ian Won

Jenn Lost VOTED OUT:



Jenn Lyon

Voting Confessionals

Confessionals for the first vote and the revote are unavailable.

Final Words



Jenn “ I lasted 37 days but it didn't work out my way. I am a little disappointed in Katie. She had the chance to keep me around a little bit longer and she went against that so Katie, I don't know if you have my vote any longer. ”





Day 38

Since the challenge ended late at night, this Tribal Council was held at the challenge area itself.

Tribal Council 16:

Koror Voted

Against Voter

Ian (1 vote)

Tom VOTED OUT:



Ian Rosenberger

Voting Confessionals

Since Tom's vote for Ian was cast verbally at the challenge, there are no voting confessionals.

Final Words

Since the challenge ended late at night, and the Tribal Council was held at the challenge, Ian did not have final words.

Final Tribal Council

Tribal Council 17:

Jury Vote Voted for

Winner Voter

Tom (6 votes)



Caryn, Gregg, Ian, Janu, Jenn, Stephenie

Katie (1 vote)

Coby RUNNER-UP:



Katie Gallagher SOLE SURVIVOR:



Tom Westman

Voting Confessionals



Janu “ (voting for Tom) Tom, I'm voting for you because I walked away with an incredible experience, and that was due to the fact that you chose me on that day when we chose tribes. So thank you, and good luck to you. ”



Coby “ (voting for Katie) I asked for honesty tonight, and I got it... but it wasn't from you, Tom. ”





Final Results

Trivia

The Tribal Council at Day 37 marks the 1000th vote cast in Survivor . [citation needed]

. This episode marks the only time the Fire Making Challenge is used twice in one season.

The Challenge name Bob-Bob Buoy is a reference to "Bababooey" from the Howard Stern Show , which Jeff Probst was a fan of.

, which Jeff Probst was a fan of. The Final Immunity Challenge currently holds the record for longest challenge held in the history of the series, at 11 hours and 55 minutes.

Years later, Jeff Probst revealed that when the challenge continued at night, they tried to bring fire as lights, but the smoke distracted Tom, so they brought spotlights to continue shooting. [2]

This is the first time a vote was held outside Tribal Council, since it was too late at night to hold the actual visit to Tribal Council. With the impromptu Tribal Council, all jury members were absent.

This episode reveals that Tribal Council is always held at sundown.