Lisa continues to privately express her desire of wanting to take someone to the end that she can beat. Then we see Malcolm reflecting on this revelation from her. The question is, will he be smart and do something about it?
Abi is still playing as hard as she can. In addition to faking an idol the first chance she gets she starts working on Lisa. Apparently she is still itching to get out Denise. Lisa doesn't believe Abi about her being on the bottom but wisely plays along to keep Abi close. I'm sure Lisa knows she's better off giving Abi some hope but not too much hope in order to keep her options open. The last thing she wants is for Abi to start plotting against her with Malcolm and Denise. However given the fact that Malcolm has only one more chance to play his idol, and both he and Denise are strong candidates to win immunity she might of been had a better chance getting those two to flip, even though her and Denise have a hate hate relationship.
At the reward challenge players are told they are playing for pizza and whale watching. They are also told ahead of time that the winner gets to bring two other players with them. The challenge consists of climbing over a large ramp , then running into the ocean to retrieve two bundles of rings which they must toss onto five pegs.
Skupin jumps out to an early lead and is one ring away from winning but then Malcolm starts to make a comeback and pulls within to just one ring. In the end Skupin wins the reward and picks Malcolm and Lisa to join him. When he hears that a helicopter will be transporting them to the reward it brings back memories of the last time he played when he was air lifted out of camp.
Maybe he should of picked Abi to keep her from doing any scheming but given the fact that she was left behind with her new arch enemy Denise that seems pretty unlikely. Abi has a bad case of sour grapes and sarcastically comments that her vote must not mean anything, indicating she won't be voting for Skupin if she's on the jury. This might be actually be a strategic move by Abi to try to get him to keep her around to the end since he won't be getting her vote.
It's pretty amusing watching Abi and Denise trying to get along back at camp. Denise compares it to being on date with a kid that pulled her hair in grade school. Abi continues to try to strategize but doesn't really try to pull in Denise. Denise just politely agrees with everything she says, trying her best not to lose Abi's jury vote. Or should I say, trying to win Abi's vote.
On the reward Skupin, who apparently doesn't normally eat sugar, gets "drunk" off of sodas or "pop" as he calls it. Growing up I used to call soda "pop" but they I realized that few people outside of Illinois use that phrase. Anyway Skupin starts acting like an idiot, climbing sails, and feeding Lisa cookies of a flipper. Can't help but think of how much Angie would of enjoyed this reward. Then they go diving to swim with a giant shark whale. It isn't caught on camera but we are told that Skupin has a head on collision with the whale.
Never the less I am very jealous of this reward and my desire to get on Survivor strongly intensifies.
When they come out of the water Malcolm suggests that neither of them can beat Denise and proposes they band together to knock her out soon. Malcolm comments that it will be a blowout if Denise makes it to the end because she hasn't betrayed anyone. I'm not sure how sound this logic is. After all, Denise was on Kalabaw and had a hand in all of their exits from the game. They still all agree though, but Lisa is quick to point out in a private interview that she's keeping her options open. If it wasn't for Abi, Lisa would probably be the season's primary villain and apparently they STILL have not figured out it's going to be a final two this season.
The next day Denise wakes up in a lot of pain after getting bitten by something. She has fang marks on her neck. Maybe Robert Pattinson snuck onto the island. She's appears to be in so much pain that I'm wondering if she might be evacuated which brings much delight to Abi. However, after a hardcore healing prayer session she makes it to the immunity challenge.
This challenge is waterless and involves navigating yourself over a rope bridge with two planks while retrieving puzzle pieces that are attached to each bridge. This pieces form a maze that you must then navigate a ball through to the end. Malcolm falls behind in the bridge portion when he falls off right at the end but makes a miraculous comeback and wins the challenge.
This gives Malcolm an enormous amount of power since he still has a hidden immunity idol which is useless after the next vote. This could seal Abi's fate if Malcolm decides to give Denise his idol but after the challenge right before the break we see Denise talking about Abi going home tonight, which is normally and indicator that the person is question isn't going anywhere. Will Malcolm use this opportunity to get rid of Denise who he expressed a fear of early in the episode? That seems to be a distinct possibility when Denise asks Malcolm for his Idol and he shows a lot of reluctance, supposedly because he wants to give it to his mom as a souvenir. Before that we get a comical shot of Skupin cooking something and being thrown back by a spark from the fire. Judging by his panicked reaction he is still very weary of being around fire.
At this point Abi has just about given up on playing her phantom idol. She makes a desperate plea to Skupin and Lisa. She argues that they have no chance since Denise and Malcolm "such a story". This leads to a pow wow between Skupin and Lisa where Lisa suggests they seriously consider voting off Denise.
Then in the middle of tribal council Abi starts calling Skupin an "idiot" and a "moron". The scene was obviously edited pretty hard and I'm guessing that Skupin probably told her before they left for the tribal that he wasn't voting with her. Abi pleads her case to Jeff on why they should take her. I'm surprised Probst didn't confront her about her phantom idol. He does however get Malcolm to agree how Abi's argument has helped a lot of people win the million dollars and I think he's right. Like I said last week, if Parvati can win this game you can't count anybody out. Except of course for Russell Hantz.
In the end Abi is voted out even without Malcolm playing his idol. I'm guessing Skupin and Lisa wanted to vote out Denise but got scared that Malcolm would use his idol for her. I think it was a mistake not to give the idol to Denise. That could have helped secure her loyalty. I'm thinking he's probably thinking he's confident in his ability to win the next and what he BELIEVES to be the last immunity challenge. That may very well prove to be his undoing. The episode ends with Skupin do a crazy dance back to camp indicating he might still be drunk from too much sugar. So RC finally gets to have her confrontation with Abi. It's definitely worth watching and you can do so by clicking HERE
NEXT WEEK ON SURVIVOR! The finale is this Sunday and I'll be looking forward to seeing Angie again. We know that Malcolm doesn't win so I think it's say he doesn't make it to the final 2. So that means the final 2 will either be Skupin and Lisa, Skupin and Denise, or Denise and Lisa. I thing the most likely combination is Denise and Lisa. I think Denise will probably turn on Malcolm at the final four and then Denise and Lisa will use girl power to get rid of Skupin. Then again Skupin could win the final immunity or Lisa could get too scared to go up against Denise. It's still anybody's game. I don't think Denise is a lock if she makes it to the end because if she betrays Malcolm she'll probably lose his vote, Abi probably won't vote for her. However, from everything I've heard from post game interviews it sounds as though Lisa makes it to the end but doesn't win. So the two favorites are probably Skupin or Denise. Man what a crazy season!
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