Warning: Here be series-wide spoilers!

PREVIOUSLY ON SURVIVOR: VANUATU…



LET’S GET THIS SHOW STARTED!

After Alinta get back from Tribal Council, Chris decides to stir the pot at camp by revealing that Scout and Twila were conspiring with him to get Eliza voted out last episode.

Leann is wondering whether or not to fall for Chris’ plan, but the seeds have definitely been sewn regardless…

It’s Day 28! And the Chris Seeds are germinating as Leann approaches Twila about what she learnt last night. Twila initially tries to brush it off, but eventually throws Scout under the bus saying that she was the mastermind behind the attempt to get Eliza out.

REWARD CHALLENGE!

It’s a quiz! Everyone is asked questions about previous challenges. The person with the most correct answers wins an hour long webcam chat with a loved one thanks to a special internet set up.

But before they get started with the challenge, Jeff allows everyone to have a quick webcam chat with their chosen loved ones.

We see Twila and her son James, Leann and her BFF Teri, Eliza and her mom Susan, whatsherface and her friend Justin, Scout and her life partner Annie, Ami and her girlfriend Crissy, and Chris and his now-wife Lorie. As expected, tears are a-flowin’.

Let’s get on with the challenge!

After all of the questions, Eliza and whatsherface (ed- Julie…) are tied. Tiebreaker! They’re asked to name as many items in the memory challenge in episode 4. Eliza writes down furiously while Julie comes a blank. Two guesses as to who wins…

Eliza wins reward!

But then, Jeff drops a bombshell. Eliza’s mom is actually here on the island! And Eliza’s real reward is that her mom gets to spend the night at camp!

In fact, they didn’t really set up an internet system to have a webcam chat, everyone’s loved ones are actually here on the island!

After a quick goodbye, all the other loved ones hop on a boat.

As they get back to camp, Eliza is super excited to have her mom around. Susan gets a confessional where she basically acts as the stereotypical Jewish mother who is worried that her precious daughter is going to catch a plethora of diseases and bugs.

Meanwhile, Ami and Leann finally confront Scout about her little ploy last episode. Scout tries to apply some damage control and tells them that she will stick with their final four deal, to which Ami and Leann basically respond “what deal?”

Scout then asks Leann if they’ve made a final three deal with Julie, which Leann affirms. Great alliance management girls, tell the person on the bottom of your alliance that they’re on the bottom, let’s see how that works out for you.

It’s now Day 29! And it’s time for Eliza’s mom to go back home, and before she leaves, she gives her little girl her blouse to keep her warm.

Afterwards, Ami and Leann have another talk with Twila about the ploy from last episode (jeez, this is turning into a saga now). Ami tells Twila that having the audacity to talk with the men and not being a cliquey ice queen like her made Twila look real sketchy. Twila tries to reassure them that she’s solid, going as far as to swear on her son’s name that she will stay loyal.

Spoiler alert: this move is going to royally bite her in the ass later on.

It’s now Day 30! And Chris is dead set on winning immunity today, because Julie is acting as his mole and has told him that he’s very much a dead man walking if he doesn’t.

As everyone arrives for the Immunity Challenge, Jeff throws out another twist: their loved ones (including Eliza’s mom) are still here and will be competing with them!

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE!

It’s another blindfold challenge! Each loved one must collect three bags of puzzle pieces in blindfolds and then assemble a puzzle with their respective castaway. First one to complete the puzzle wins immunity.

Off we go!

There’s a lot of screaming. And it’s pretty funny. Especially when Chris growls upon seeing Ami’s girlfriend dumping their third bag.

As soon as Lorie arrives with their third bag, her and Chris are in a crazy mad rush to finish the puzzle.

But it’s not enough…

Ami wins immunity!

Now staring down the barrel of defeat, Chris tearfully hugs Lorie before the loved ones go home.

But, little does he know…

Once everyone gets back to camp, Leann decides that she doesn’t feel good about voting off Chris, and puts forward the idea to blindside Eliza instead because she’s less deserving in her eyes. Ami is not thrilled about the idea, but, in a very uncharacteristic move, decides to let Leann have her way this one time.

Meanwhile, Chris’ little mole informs him that he’s now 100% safe. And here we get one of the greatest confessionals in the history of Survivor. Take it away, sir…

So Chris goes off to collect firewood with Twila, who puts forward a suggestion that he can flip this game on its head. Chris’ thought process upon hearing this?

She tells him to talk to Eliza to come on board with them and Scout. Apparently, Eliza has been the key that Chris needed to flip the game on its head all along.

He finds Eliza and explains to her everything that he knows, but there’s one problem: Eliza REALLY doesn’t want to work with her mortal enemies Scout and Twila and doesn’t trust either of them. Chris implores her to trust him on this one. Will it work?

TRIBAL COUNCIL!

After Alinta take their seats, Jeff asks Eliza if seeing her mom changed her perspective on the game. She says that it made her realise how far she has gotten in the game.

Jeff then implies to Chris that Lorie’s performance in the Immunity Challenge cost him the win. Chris says that she gave it 110% and did a great job.

Jeff then asks Leann about having her BFF there. She says that she decided to just have fun halfway through because it wasn’t life or death for her.

Jeff brings up the fact that Eliza always brings her bags with her. She explains that she never feels safe and that there’s always a chance of being voted off.

Jeff then asks Chris if there’s any tension in camp. Chris makes a comment about “lol, there’s six women, of course there is!”, and he does a little foreshadowing by saying that there’s always a feeling that not everyone is on the same page.

It’s time to vote!

Let’s read the votes! Who’s going to become the third member of our jury?

#EPICBLINDSIDE!!! And Chris gets to cross off the first name on his list…

See you guys for episode 12!