Last time, Angelina blew up her game and Elizabeth became the first member of the jury. Let’s get into it.

Everyone gets back from tribal and Angelina is trying to cover her butt. She makes up a story about how Elizabeth wore her down and no one is believing it. I love the cutting between Angelina’s story and Alec, Alison and Dan saying they don’t believe it. I say this every episode but the editing is top-notch this season. On the topic of Angelina, I love her as a hot mess. She is part of the reason the season is so great.

The next morning, Mike is talking to Christian about Gabby at last weeks tribal. Mike thinks Gabby is not that invested in the Strike Force. This begins Mike annoying me all episode. Mike is getting too paranoid for his own good. Christian, in a confessional notes that’s weird that Mike is so suspicious. My view is that Gabby is committed because her crying at tribal was an act to make Elizabeth think she was with her. Meanwhile, Davie and Nick are looking for an advantage. They have an alliance name but, this is a school friendly blog so I can’t put it here. Comment below or on the Reddit post if you wanna know. They find a paper that matches the symbol from the merge feast last episode. Carl gets involved and they head out to find it. Carl and Nick go to the spot while Davie distracts everyone by dancing on a rock. Davie is back after being left on Vuku last time and we as the audience are happy about it. Nick and Carl find the vote steal. This advantage I swear is in every season from Game Changers on. Nick owns the vote steal and Carl reveals the nullifier to Nick. I’m not sure Carl should have done this because if Strike Force hadn’t fallen apart, this would have been brought up to them.

Reward Challenge

The reward is the most disgusting thing on Survivor: Survivor pizza. Survivor pizza always looks gross to me since it sits out in the sun and never seems appealing to me. Before the challenge, everyone gets a bite of pizza. I was hoping some drama would start because the slice was gone before it got to Dan. The challenge is two teams of 6 hold 8 sandbags that weigh 10 pounds each above their heads. Every 15 minutes someone must drop out and give their bags to another player on their team. They are allowed to pass the bags anytime to another player as long as they don’t drop them because if they do water will drop on them and they lose. Gabby and Mike are team captains. Gabby chooses Alec, Alison, Christian, John and Nick. Mike Chooses Dan, Kara, Angelina, Carl and Davie. The challenge starts with Team Mike having a good strategy of giving the two bags to the weakest so they can pass it when they drop out. At the first 15 minute mark Gabby and Angelina drop. At 30 minutes, Christian and Carl drop. During the challenge, Dan gets overconfident and balances 3 bags on one hand leading to Team Mike losing. Team Gabby wins pizza. Jeff has nothing for Team Mike and Mike has nothing for him. Angelina is pissed at Dan and wants this to bite him in the butt.

We cut back to camp and Mike is wondering why people are focused on rewards and wants Christian out. I literally wrote in my notes “Mike STOP”. Mike is ruining his chance to get to the end. It is clear that he is on the bottom of the Goliaths after Angelina. Compare Mike’s final 6 situations in both alliances. In Strike Force, he can either get one of the Davids to flip or join the Davids at 6. In the Goliaths, he has to join up with Kara, Dan, Alec, and Alison. In that group he is guaranteed 5th place since Mike has to count on Alec to stay loyal to him and Alison in that group and Alec is unreliable. Mike is making it harder to get to end. Mike pitches Christian to Alec. Alec wants to play double agent so he does not know if he wants to follow through with this. Mike pitches it to the rest of the group and they say yes. Angelina is livid since she pitched that idea last time and did not get the support. There is a difference in how Mike did it versus how Angelina did it. Angelina did it the afternoon before tribal when a target has been locked in and she forced it into the group without telling anyone beforehand. Mike told the group before the Immunity challenge and they did not have a clear target yet. The reason Mike’s pitch worked its that he did it with better timing. Angelina is the decoy boot and she doesn’t want to be the decoy but, she begrudgingly accepts her role.

Immunity Challenge

Jeff takes back the necklace normally but, watch Alec throughout the exchange. Alec is mouthing Jeff’s spiel throughout the scene and it is so hilarious. The challenge is to hold up a buoy with two sticks and not drop it. Brad Culpepper was mentioned more in this episode than tonight’s boot. 7 people drop almost immediately and 3 more right after. It comes down to Angelina and Dan. Dan describes his sweat by saying, “Drip Drip Drip”. That must have worked since he won. In the post immunity confessional, Mike says that the plan is set to blindside Christian.

Back at camp, John gets a confessional about it being a #brochachoblindside tonight. If only he knew. Angelina is nervous about being the decoy and Dan rudely assures her. We find out Dan is willing to let go of Angelina if Christian has an idol. Alec pulls an Angelina and tells Nick the plan. Alec’s move is not as disastrous because he is telling someone he has a relationship with and Nick is not leaving. Nick tells Christian he is getting votes tonight and Christian feels awful since he has nothing to save himself. Nick also tells Davie he should play the vote steal tonight and in a confession, Davie thinks about using his idol on Christian.

Tribal

Some highlights include, Davie doing some jury management by thanking Elizabeth for exposing some cracks and Christian saying, “Hello, my name is Threat”. It’s time to vote and Nick does not play the vote steal. The votes are about to be read but wait! Davie plays the idol on Christian! Angelina immediately turns to Dan to get him to play the idol on her. I thought I was gonna have to make a Jacketgate joke but, Angelina actually gets the thing she wants this time. Dan uses his idol on Angelina. With the two targets being saved, who is going home? the votes come in, the first 7 votes are Christian does not count. The next couple votes are for Angelina, does not count. The person who received the final three votes and is the second member of the jury is……

The Mayor of Slamtown, John is voted out with only three votes. I did not see this coming at all. I was frantically waiting for the votes to reveal to know who voted for him. In the end, the winners are the Davids and the loser is Dan. Dan not only lost his second closest ally, he also wasted an idol since John had one more vote than Angelina. To be fair, Dan was in a lose-lose situation once Christian was safe since he either looks like a jerk and not give Angelina the idol or wastes an idol. John was a good contestant. He was a nice guy and was very smart. John did not do anything wrong that got him voted out. In his final words, we find out that Christian, Nick and Davie voted for him. Davie must have told Nick about the idol or else Nick would have wasted the vote steal. Overall, that ending mad the episode for me.

The purple player of the week is between Kara, Carl and Gabby. The person between them I went with is Kara. Kara’s name never even got mentioned in the episode. Also, Gabby was talked about by Mike and Carl had the advantage find.

Next Time, Dan and Kara are done and Dan is targeted but, Nick doesn’t believe it

Grab your stuff and head back to camp!