Episode 1: Originally part of the younger male Viveros tribe, Aras and the rest of the tribe struggled early on, as the group of younger men were unable to set up camp, nor make fire. Their goofing off and foolishness almost carried over at the first Immunity Challenge, narrowly beating the older women Casaya tribe, finishing third place and avoiding Tribal Council.

Episode 2: Following a terrible storm, the tribes gathered for a Reward Challenge and were shocked to learn they would be rearranged. Bayoneta and Viveros were disbanded, with all remaining contestants spread across the new Casaya and La Mina tribes of seven people each. The new La Mina tribe consisted of Austin, Dan, Misty, Nick, Ruth-Marie, Sally, and Terry. The new Casaya tribe consisted of Aras, Bobby, Cirie, Courtney, Danielle, Melinda, and Shane. With Bruce left over as a result of the odd number of castaways, he was granted immunity and sent to Exile Island for three days until tribal council and would join the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge. Aras became a member of the new Casaya tribe, and Shane formed an early alliance with him, Courtney and Danielle . But the alliance was threatened with implosion when Shane wanted to quit the game, having smoked three packets of cigarettes a day prior to Survivor. But Aras convinced him not to quit. Aras told Cirie and Melinda that one of them is going home. At the Tribal Council, Aras and his alliance voted out Melinda Hyder, one of the two older women of the tribe.

Episode 3: Shane’s mood swings continued and created friction among his alliance. Casaya won their first Immunity Challenge.

Episode 4: Before the reward challenge, Bruce, Aras and Shane returned from foraging for food to find the rest of their tribe had let the fire go out. Aras criticized some of his tribemates, especially Courtney, has he admitted on a confesional, that he kind of regret being in an alliance with Courtney, and he almost want to throw a challenge just to vote her out of the game. Casaya won the reward challenge. Back at camp, Aras and Shane criticized Danielle for her lack of working around in camp. Casaya won the immunity challenge.

Episode 5: Bruce’s “Zen Garden” caused friction in Casaya and Aras felt he should instead have been helping with the daily camp chores. Bruce felt disrespected by Aras, and Aras made it clear to him that it’s wasn’t his intention. Casaya lost the immunity challenge. While Aras plotted to eliminate Bruce, Shane wanted to vote Bobby off, however, Cirie, Courtney and Danielle overpowered Shane and told him they felt Bruce was more trustworthy and less problematic. At tribal council, Shane voted for Aras as a “throwaway vote” as not to choose either side, and the women of Casaya led an erratic 3-2-1-1 vote, resulting in Bobby’s elimination.

Episode 6: The alliance of Aras, Danielle, Courtney and Shane started to brake apart, as Shane said that he didn’t wan’t to be in an alliance with Danielle and Courtney anymore. Aras also didn’t wanted to be in an alliance with Shane, and he’s happy that the alliance is breaking apart. Casaya won the reward and immunity challenge.

Episode 7: A recap of the first 15 days including previously un-aired bonus footage.

Episode 8: La Mina received treemail that they are to go to Casaya for the merge. As the tribe approached Casaya’s camp, Shane pulled his tribe together in an agreement to vote out the other Tribe in the next four Tribal Councils and the Casaya members, who were eating, ate as much rice as they could to avoid sharing with La Mina, then greeted them with open arms. While building a larger shelter, Nick accidentally chipped Bruce’s tooth with a machete, but Bruce was fine. Meanwhile, Terry tried to convince Shane and Cirie to flip, guaranteeing them two more weeks in the game, but no one would budge. They named the merged tribe Gitanos. At Tribal Council, Nick, considered the second strongest member after Terry, was voted out along former tribal lines, 6-4.

Episode 9: At the reward challenge, The Gitanos tribe will be divided into three teams of three. Each team will have one boat and 100 coconuts. They must race to put the coconuts into the boats of the other two teams. The more coconuts in the boat, the slower it will be. Once the teams have exhausted their coconut supplies, they’ll paddle out in their boats to retrieve a tribe flag and fishing net, return to shore and use the fishing net to carry all the coconuts from their boat back up the beach and into the bin. The first tribe to get all the coconuts in their bin and on their finish mat with their tribe flag wins a reward of breakfast in bed. The castaways were split into three teams, and Bruce, Aras, and Sally ended up victorious. Austin and Danielle were exiled together, while the winners enjoyed a big breakfast in a rain-soaked bed. Aras felt that the reward challenge put a target on his back. The former La Mina tribe tried to convince Bruce and Danielle, the two outcasts of their alliance, to switch to the La Mina alliance, and Vote off Aras. Terry offered Danielle the immunity idol in exchange for her switch. this made Aras nervous. At Tribal Council, Danielle and Bruce still showed loyalty to Casaya, and, with a 6-3 vote, voted off former La Mina’s strongest non-immune member Austin, while Aras got three votes.

Episode 10: Aras asked Danielle, Cirie and Courtney to send him to Exile Island, if one of them win the reward challenge, because he wanted to find out if Terry found the hidden immunity idol. At the reward challenge, after watching a preview of their videos from home, the tribe will be divided into two teams. One person will lie face down on a cradle suspended in the air by bungee cords. Attached to that cradle are three ropes. The teammates will pull those ropes to maneuver the person on the cradle as they grab fifteen flags and place them in order into their appropriate slots. The first team to get all fifteen flags in order wins the full length version of their videos from home, plus peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a glass of milk. the team of Bruce, Courtney, Sally, and Terry won a videos from home, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, and ice-cold milk. They chose Aras to be sent to Exile Island. After searching for a while, Aras realized that Terry did found the hidden immunity idol. At the Immunity Challenge, Each Survivor is asked to grab a nut and a shell and put them in opposite hands. For the Challenge, each person will swim out to a long plank with seven symbols on it resting on the ocean floor. They will have to memorize the symbols in order and race back to the beach, where they will try to replicate those symbols, in order, on their answer board. The first person to solve the puzzle correctly wins Immunity. With participation in this challenge being optional, if someone chooses not to participate, they will instead be able to enjoy cheeseburgers, French fries, and soft drinks. They can only eat for as long as the Challenge goes or until the food runs out. The players had to decide between a feast of cheeseburgers, fries, and soft drinks or the immunity challenge. Bruce, Cirie, Courtney, Danielle, and Shane decided to feast, whereas Aras, Sally, and Terry chose to participate. Terry narrowly defeated Aras, with Sally placing third. When the Survivors got back to camp, Sally and Terry continued their efforts to break the Casaya alliance, targeting Aras. At Tribal Coucil, while Aras got two votes from Sally and Terry, the Casaya alliance held strong, and Sally was voted out.

Episode 11: At the reward challenge, each of the castaways will fill out a questionnaire in private, then the results will be tallied and the Challenge will begin. The questions will be posed to the group. At this time, they will guess whose name came up most often. Each time someone gets a correct answer, they’ll get to chop one of three ropes assigned to each tribe member. After three chops, the rope will release a torch that will in turn send their voodoo dolls up in flames. The winner would receive a visit to a spa. Cirie won the reward challenge, and chosed Aras and Danielle to join with her. Bruce, who had been sick for several days, was in increasing pain. He claimed to have not gone to the toilet since the Panamanian village reward. Finally, he couldn’t take it any longer and asked for medical assistance. The medical team arrived and took him out of the game. Later that day, with the Reward winners returned, Jeff Probst brought Terry back to the camp from Exile Island and revealed that as a result of Bruce’s withdrawal, there was no Immunity Challenge nor Tribal Council, and Bruce would assume a position on the Jury if his condition allowed.

Episode 12: After losing the reward challenge, Aras was sent to Exile Island. When Terry won once again the individual immunity challenge, Aras was in danger to be voted out. However, Cirie wanted Courtney out, as everyone wanted to be in the final two with her. So Cirie infromed Aras that he is in risk, and formed a new alliance with him and Danielle to vote against Courtney. With the votes split three ways, Courtney was blindsided 3-2-1.

Episode 13: Terry won immunity. Back at camp, Aras decided to break his alliance with Shane after finding out that Shane wanted to take Courtney to the final two. Aras then made an alliance with Cirie and Danielle. In the end, Shane was blindsided in a 3-1-1 decision.

Episode 14: Terry was inadvertently tripped by Cirie’s torch and yelled at her while she was tending the bonfire, but Aras protected her, saying that it was an accident. This left Terry further isolated among the tribe. Aras won the Reward Challenge, and chose to take Cirie on a luxurious yacht trip through the Panama Canal; but not before having a debate with Terry after he accused him of complaining every time he lost a challenge and blurting out “disparaging comments about women.” Both Terry and Danielle were sent to Exile Island for losing the Challenge. During their trip, Aras and Cirie made a pact for the Final 2; while Danielle and Terry also conspired for their fate in the game during their time on exile. Soon after returning from their reward, Cirie successfully built her first fire. In the Immunity Challenge, Cirie and Terry were putting up a good fight but Aras ultimately won the challenge, thus ending Terry’s Immunity winning streak. Before the tribal council, Aras approached Terry to apologize for accusations of Terry’s worthiness to remain in the game after Reward Challenge, which Terry accepted. Meanwhile, Cirie and Danielle practiced making fire, anticipated this would be the tiebreaker in the event of a tie (with Danielle reconsidering about Terry giving his Hidden Immunity Idol to her). In the end, the guess proved accurate as the vote indeed ended up tied between Danielle and Cirie. With Terry refusing to give Danielle the Hidden Immunity Idol, she and Cirie will partake in a fire-starting challenge.

Episode 15: After many attempts to start fires that continue to wear out, Danielle won the fire starting tie-breaker, and Cirie was eliminated from the game. Danielle won the final immunity after Terry fell off and Aras jumped off after receiving a nod from Danielle. Danielle voted out Terry, thinking that she would have a better chance of winning against Aras, and because Aras was a fellow member of the former Casaya tribe. With all of the older castaways gone, Aras and Danielle received a celebratory food reward the next day. While walking along the beach rocks, Aras slipped and sliced open his hand and back, requiring a total of eight stitches.

Final Tribal Council

The finalists arrived at the Final Tribal Council. Jeff introduced the members of the jury one by one. Jeff asks about the bandages on Aras’s hand. Aras tells him about the accident. Jeff explains how Final Tribal Council works. Aras’s opening statement was thanking the jury and he hopes that they jury vote by how he played the game. He also states the he played the game with honesty and integrity for the most part. Sally was the first to speak. She congratulated the finalists and asked of the Casaya 6, who contributed the most. Both finalists said Cirie because of their friendships with her. Bruce was next to speak. He bows to the finalists and congratulated them. He asked what would the finalists do with the responsibility of the million dollars. Aras said to make himself a better person to inspire people. Terry was the third to speak and called Danielle’s speech off based. He elaborates on this and hopes she doesn’t regret not taking him to Final Tribal Council. His question to the finalists was to rank themselves from 1-10 and why. Aras said 9 because he would work his butt off in challenges. Austin congratulated the finalists and felt sorry for Aras. He asks for one good move and one not so good move that helped them get to Final Tribal Council. Aras said that his move was calming Shane and telling Melinda she was going so she wouldn’t be blindsided. The move he regretted was blindsiding Shane. Courtney was the next to speak. She said that her guns were dropped in the sea of forgiveness. Courtney said she struggled with playing her integrity and it took her a week to get over the betrayal of her blindside. After completing her speech, Courtney asked the finalists what the finalists learned about themselves. Aras pointed out that she voted against him at her last Tribal Council, but takes responsibility. He said that his ego was smashed. Cirie asks the final two why she should vote for the other one. Danielle said Aras is an overall great person. Aras said that Danielle was there for them when he was injured. Shane congratulated the finalists but states he was disappointed that they were the final two because Terry was the most deserving. Shane lists off the reasons why they were undeserving. When his was done, Shane ask the finalists a number between one and a million. Aras said four, while Danielle said ten. In his closing statements, Aras said that he worked hard in the game and he apologized to Shane. He thanks the jury for being a part of his jury experience. Bruce votes for Danielle because of the experience they shared. Terry voted Aras because he was a worthy rival. When the votes are tallied, Aras is declared the winner in a 5-2 vote.

Statistics

Tribes: Viveros, Casaya and Gitanos

Alliance: Casaya Alliance

Challenge wins: 10

Votes against: 9

Votes from the jury: 5 out of 7