Survivor Cuba! Episode 8

Previously on SURVIVOR!

Wumba and Chumba both get a visit from Probst telling them to pack their belongings because they will be merging today! Nash breathes a sigh of relief. The two tribes meet at the beach and enjoy a feast. Avery and Nash embrace while TO and Danica size up Misty and Kerri, the two they believe is the mastermind behind Chumba. They don’t know about the drama with Brandi. In the middle of the meal, Nash privately confronts Sergio about Amanda leaving. Sergio sneers that TO and Danica had a better plan.
Sergio approaches Nash. “We are thinking about making a run over to camp tonight to find the idol. We think it is to the right of where our tree mail was. You in?” Sergio asks Nash.
“You know the way. And if you don’t go, we’ll spill the secret that you were in,” TO says as he approaches the two.

Probst goes to count the votes. He returns and says that once the votes are read, the person eliminated will have to leave immediately. Also, if anyone has an immunity idol and wants to use it tonight, they must use it now. TO stands up and hands his hidden idol to Danica, who hands it to Jeff. Avery’s eyes get super wide. “This was Stevie’s idea. He took me to find the hidden idol since he knew his way to camp from the raid. He masterminded this whole thing. Good job Steve. Way to stick strong for Wumba!” Nash’s eyes get super wide and he shakes his head no. Probst reveals a vote for Danica which he throws away. Another for Danica, which he throws away. Another for Danica, which he tosses into the fire. Another for Danica and another. One more vote for Danica thrown away. One vote for Misty. Another vote for Misty. Another vote for Misty. That will do it. Misty is stunned. TO, Danica and Sergio look pleased with themselves. Nash is shaking his head no to Avery and Tebow.

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Chumba Tribe….Tim Tebow, Brandi Chastain, Sean Avery, Ichiro, Kerry Walsh. Wumba Tribe… Steve Nash, Danica Patrick, Sergio Garcia, TO

Day 22
Back at Quest camp, Kerry is in a daze now that her partner Misty is gone. She admits in a confessional that with Bruce having been blindsided by Brandi from her own alliance then Misty getting the boot, she is all that is let of the Femme Fatals.

Sergio, Danica and TO are quite pleased with themselves. “Good move TO,” says Sergio. “Well good play by Danica to come up with the plan,” says Sergio. “Well good snooping around Sergio,” Says Danica. “I feel like the SAG awards. You’re great! No, You’re great!” mocks Sergio.

Meanwhile Nash is trying to talk to Tebow but the Gator wants nothing to do with Steve. “I just don’t want to hear it right now. That wasn’t the plan Steve. And you GAVE them an idol? Took them right to it?”
“Tim, that isn’t true. I mean, I went with them to the idol but I went along with our alliance with the vote,” Nash pleads.
“But what went down, went down because of your actions. Just admit you were involved!” Tebow shouts.
“If you want to look at it skewed, go ahead, but use your head Tim. You can trust me,” Nash retorts.
“OK, I trust that you’d never steal from me…wait. I trust that you’d never get involved with our opposition…wait. You’re either with us or you’re not. You want to join them? Go buy a seat in 37F!” Tebow brushes off Nash.
“You mean on an airplane? I don’t get that,” Nash is confused.

Avery meanwhile is talking to Ichiro about what is going down and Ichiro is assuring him that the plan can still work but TO living to fight another day is potentially scary. “We still must vote out the Beautiful People, then take out Walsh and Chastain. I believe Chastain is still with us. Walsh is who we must be concerned about,” Ichiro reasons.
“Well now they have nothing on Steve. I forgive him. So May got voted out? Who cares?” Avery reasons.
“But if the BPs get Walsh involved, suddenly Brandi has a lot of power in this game. If she is with us that is good, and all signs point that she is. But if she turns, we get voted out one by one,” Ichiro concludes. Brandi is seen staring at the fire all by her lonesome.

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Tebow and Avery are talking and Tebow questions whether or not they want Nash in the group. Tebow says that Steve is a liar while Avery defends Nash. “He’s with us. All of his dirt, if you want to call it that, is out in the open and honestly, what was so bad about it? Did you go home? No. Misty did. All we really need to worry about now is maybe Brandi and Kerri flipping. But you need to keep them in the fold,” Avery points to Tebow.
“Well, just know that Nash needs to walk on eggshells. He needs to prove himself all over again to me,” Tebow finishes. “You brought him in so he reflects on you.”
Meanwhile Sergio and Danica are walking to tree mail when they see Kerri gathering firewood. They both approach. Sergio asks if he can help and Kerri bites her lip before saying yes. Sergio and Danica both begin to ask Kerri how she is doing without Misty. Kerri curtly says fine. Danica said she was worried but Kerri nearly bites her head off, asking why she was worried because they sent her partner home.
“That’s part of the game, Kerri. We were trying to survive in the game and you have to tip your cap that we could pull that off,” Sergio semi-brags.
“But honestly, what we did, was advance you in the game. If you join us and TO you will be in the final four. How long do you really think those boys would keep you after they cut us out? And with TO and Sergio, he has an idol and TO can win the immunity. If they do and once they vote me out, you would be next. Think about it chicky.” Danica crosses her arms triumphantly.
“You guys think they would vote me out before Steve?” Kerri asks.
“Yeah, he is in with those guys,” Sergio informs her.
“So I am now a floater? We should offer Brandi the same offer. Get her with us, then we can pick them off,” Kerri suggests.
“Might not be a bad idea,” Sergio agrees.

Jeff Probst welcomes the survivors to the reward challenge. The survivors will be playing darts, sort of. They will throw knives at a big bullseye target and the person with the most points wins reward. In this case a trip to a local village where they will see some dancing and get a homecooked meal. The board will also have several pieces of fruit on it. If you hit it, you get to keep what you hit, but your points don’t count. Let’s go. Three throws apiece.


Nash has some explaining to do. Tebow questions Avery on whether or not they want a liar in their group. Sergio and Danica approach Kerri, who now seems shut off without Misty. TO and Nash get nose to nose in the rewards challenge. Tim Tebow is first. He throws and picks up 8 points with an outer ring. Brandi Chastain goes next and hits a pineapple. Sean Avery fires away and hits a 7. Ichiro connects on a 5. Kerri Walsh hits a one pointer. Steve Nash fires and gets 8 points. Danica Patrick misses., Sergio Garcia’s falls off the board. TO hits a banana bushel. Tebow goes again and hits a 5. Brandi aims and hits a papaya. Avery connects on a 9. Ichiro drills a 10. Kerri hits for 5. Steve Nash lands some plantains. Danica’s falls off the board. Sergio connects on a 10. TO hits right beside a pineapple. Tebow fires and hits an 8 for a total of 21. Brandi connects for 7, finishing with 7 points, a papaya and a pineapple. Avery hits an 8 and finishes with 24. Ichiro nails a 9 and finishes with 24. Walsh aims for a pineapple, but misses, finishing with 6. Nash hits an orange sack, finishing with plantains, oranges and 8. Danica hits a one pointer. Sergio hits another 10, finishing with 20. TO hits a 7, finishing with 8 points. Avery and Ichiro tie and Jeff decides that they tie and get to choose who can go with them. Ichiro speaks up and says Brandi before Avery can even be consulted. Probst allows Avery then to select who goes to exile island, and he says Kerri. Kerri is a bit pissed about this, but Danica pats her arm. This might be the final push Kerri needed to go to the BPs. The rest collect their winnings and head back while Brandi, Ichiro and Avery head off to reward.
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At the rewards dinner Avery, Ichiro and Brandi all watch the dancers and participate a bit before eating their arses off. Avery tells Ichiro that he wishes he had been consulted, but Ichiro assures him it is strategic. They talk a bit of strategy and try to re-recruit Brandi to their side. Brandi says, “Of course I am in. Why? Do you think Kerri switched? Is that why you sent her away?”
Avery theorizes that Sergio and Danica are trying to get to her and yes, he sent her there in case they had not. “That way, they can’t talk to her until after the immunity challenge, which maybe too late in that case.”
“If they have already and she was fence sitting though, she is definitely on their side,” Ichiro sadly says.
“I can talk to her, bring her back in,” Brandi offers. Ichiro and Avery nearly in unison say, “NO! That’s ok.” Brandi raises an eyebrow.

Back at camp, TO is eating is booty and right in front of Tebow. Nash sees this and brings Tebow a plantain. TO rolls his eyes and walks away. Tebow thanks Nash but then walks away. Nash is left shaking his head. Sergio sees this and sneaks over to Danica thinking that if Nash doesn’t get the immunity, they should go after him and maybe even get Tebow on board. Danica agrees.

On exile island, Kerri is struggling to find firewood and it is starting to rain. She tries to build a shelter, but it is too late and she is soaked. She is not having a lot of fun.

The three reward winners return to the camp and tell of their experiences. Avery and Nash go off and Nash says that Tebow gave him the cold shoulder. Avery promises to talk to him.
Before he can though, Sergio and Danica are seen talking to the gator. Sergio floats the idea they THEY cannot trust Nash after all of the stuff he pulled in Wumba and they suggest Tebow not trust him either. They also float the idea that if Nash doesn’t win immunity he is THEIR target and if Tebow really wants him gone, which Tebow says he doesn’t want anyone around if he cannot trust them, maybe he should consider writing Nash’s name down. Tebow says that might be an option.

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At the immunity challenge, Probst welcomes in everybody and points to a dock. After the dock are a series of platforms on which the survivors will stand for 10 minutes at a time. IF you fall, you are out. Stay on the ten minutes and we move on to a smaller platform. Last survivor standing wins immunity. Let’s board the platforms. No one falls off the first platform, but once on the second platform, Kerri falls as does Danica. Ichiro, Avery, Nash, Brandi, Tebow, TO and Sergio move on. On the next platform, Brandi falls as does Avery. Sergio falls off with 8 seconds remaining. TO, Ichiro, Nash and Tebow move on. TO immediately falls off and after a while Ichiro falls off. Nash and Tebow move to the final platform where the two will stand until one falls. 45 minutes later, Nash is focused and Tebow is starting to sweat. His leg is starting to hurt him where he injured himself a few weeks back. It also begins to rain. 20 minutes later, the rain is coming down harder and Tebow is trying to flex the knee. 20 minutes later Tebow picks up his leg but when he puts it back down, he wobbles and falls off the platform, giving Nash the win. Nash jumps off and Avery congratulates him when he exits the water. Nash is given the necklace and everyone heads back to camp with Tebow limping. Tebow sits down while Ichiro rubs his leg. Kerri, Danica, TO and Sergio all retreat to a different area of camp while Brandi and Avery sit by the fire with Nash.
Nash gets up to find some more wood when TO whistles him over. Nash originally ignores him but Sergio appeals to him and Nash finally rolls his eyes and walks over. TO and Danica reveal that Tebow is ready to throw Nash out next time he doesn’t have the immunity necklace. It might be a good time to get rid of Tebow. He might go on a run and this could be the perfect time to get rid of him. “It is a good point Nashie. Think about it baby!” TO laughs. Kerri and Danica look at TO.
“Are we really going after Tebow?” Kerri asks.
“Our four plus maybe Nash would be enough. The key is who is Brandi going with,” Sergio figures. “Go talk to her Kerri. You know her best. Guilt her into it.”

Brandi goes swimming, but it is with Ichiro as he fears someone will try and switch Brandi, but probably not with him right there. He says as much in a confessional. Kerri comes down to the river and offers forth the idea of Tebow but Ichiro shakes his head and Brandi says that they can’t do that. They ask if Kerri has switched over and Kerri denies before leaving. Ichiro confirms that she has. She has to GO! Ichiro leaves to tell everyone the gist of what happened, leaving Brandi alone, but Kerri slinks back to the river. Kerri asks Brandi to just think about what is going to happen. If they go with the boys, then after the BPs are gone, they would be next. If Kerri and Brandi go with the BPs then after the boys are gone, and the BPs must go against each other, the Femme Fatals could come back to take on the BPs. “3 v 2 is a lot better than 4 v 1 Brandi…” Kerri says before leaving. Brandi seems to nod her head.

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Probst welcomes every to tribal council and asks Kerri if she was surprised Misty is gone. Kerri says that it was shocking. Jeff inquires on her status after her own former tribemates sent her to exile island, and Kerri answers that it was just strategy. Tebow is asked about his leg injury to which Tebow says he is fine. Probst asks about his trust of Nash. Has that healed as quickly as your leg? “He lied to us and he’s tried to make good, but you cannot really trust someone once they cross you, you know?” Probst asks Nash how he can earn Tebow’s trust back. Nash says that you just work your tail off and hope that’s enough. But what if it isn’t? Jeff asks. Then I go home, Nash responds.
OK, Steve you have the immunity necklace, I assume you want to keep it?
“Actually Jeff, I heard a rumor going around about tonight’s vote and I figure this is my best chance to earn my alliance’s trust back, so I am giving Tim the immunity necklace.”
Tebow looks shocked as he takes Nash’s necklace. Tebow shoots a quick peek at TO and TO nods at Nash. Tebow winks.
“Let’s go vote. And remember, whomever is voted out becomes the first member of our jury.” As Tebow goes to vote, the BPs quickly huddle.
Probst goes to count the votes. “Once the result is announced the person will leave immediately.
First vote…Ichiro. Ichiro is shocked at this. Second vote: Danica. One for Ichiro, one for Danica. Ichiro. Next vote, Danica. That’s two to two. Next vote Danica. Another one for Dancia. That’s 4-2. One more and Danica goes home. Next vote…Ichiro. Eighth vote…Ichiro. 4-4. Last vote decides the balance of the game. First member of our jury, Danica. Bring me your torch.
TO looks at Kerri and Sergio. Sergio looks right at Kerri who in turn gazes at Brandi, who stares straight ahead. Danica walks off.
Another former Wumba member goes home. Too bad she didn’t have another immunity idol, right Sergio? Sergio laughs at Jeff, but he isn’t amused. We’ve seen unselfishness tonight as well as selfishness coming back to bite someone. This is a game of outwitting others. Danica was outwitted and she’s done. Remember her mistake or you’ll soon join her. Head back to camp.

Next time on Survivor…
Brandi tells Kerri that she wants to join the BPs, but only as a secret Femme Fatal. Kerri asks why she stabbed the BPs in the back? Meanwhile Tebow and Nash are on speaking terms again and Avery is feeling a little left out. Nash and TO end up nose to nose in the immunity challenge.