Survivor 2013 Caramoan Episode 10 Recap: Best Tribal Council Ever

In what people are calling the BEST TRIBAL COUNCIL ever (and by people, I mean me), this week’s Survivor 2013 Caramoan left not many people without their jaws on the floor. More on that later.

This week’s episode picks up right after the last Tribal Council. Stealths R Us, which is everyone (beyond their control) except for Malcolm, Reynold and Eddie, excuse themselves to talk about the other three. And they’re very obvious about it.

Phillip and company are talking about what they’re going to do next to get one of those three out. And at this point, Cochran is the only one as embarrassed by Phillip’s stupid alliance as I am.

The next day we get right into the Dawn insanity/breakdown. Everyone can hear her just throwing a complete crying fit. What we didn’t know during all the previews was that Dawn had a partial denture that she lost in the water. And she is so self-conscious about it she threatens to pull herself from the game.

But Brenda goes scuba diving and finds her fake teeth. So crisis averted. Embarrassment, however, was not averted.

And right away it’s Reward Challenge time. This week they’re playing in two teams of five. One person from each team will race through a series of obstacles into a muddy pit where they;ll search for a bag of balls. Then they have to shoot the balls through a basket.

The winners will be taken to a nice resort for a fancy lunch.

The teams are:

Purple: Reynold, Erik, Dawn, Cochran and Phillip

Orange: Malcolm, Eddie, Andrea, Brenda and Sherri

Purple wins reward. So they head off to the resort for a shower, some good food and swimming. And despite the shower, Phillip gets into the really beautiful pool and all of his dirt and rice and a month of nasty comes off in it. How disrespectful. Shower first, you fool.

Oh, it’s time for more Dawn insanity. This time she’s whoa paranoid that she’s going to be blindsided this week. All she’s really doing is drawing attention to her, which is not a good idea.

It’s Immunity Challenge time. It’s a racey, swimmy and quick challenge that I got kind of confused about, so I’ll just tell you the results.

In the first group, the two people moving on to the final round are Reynold and Andrea.

During the next group, Phillip decides to sit out the challenge. What a freak.

Moving on to the final round were Brenda and Malcolm. So it’s those two versus Reynold and Andrea.

Reynold wins immunity. And there goes Stealths R Us’ plan to target Reynold. And Malcolm has his hidden Idol, so bye bye, Eddie. Right? I think they should target Phillip. Especially after he chose to not participate in the challenge. And he’s annoying beyond words.

And everyone is on the hunt for a hidden immunity idol. And Malcolm finds it. Another one. And Dawn and Andrea see it. So Stealths R Us plans to target Eddie. And Eddie knows it.

At Tribal everyone agrees that Reynold was going to be the target. Then he won immunity. So then they say Malcolm was the target. But he found (another) immunity idol. So they all say, yeah, Eddie is the target. So that can’t be the outcome, right?

Right. Malcolm finally realizes he has an alliance in Eddie and Reynold. So, Malcolm gives the other idol he’s had hidden to Eddie. EPIC. That was so amazing. What a game changer.

And then Malcolm says “I’m just throwing this out there, the three of us are voting for Phillip.” Ha.

And they still don’t know who to vote for. When they should just vote for Phillip and be done with it.

Eddie and Malcolm decide to play their immunity idols.

The Votes

• Malcolm
• Malcolm
• Eddie
• Eddie
• Eddie
• Eddie
• Phillip
• Phillip
• Phillip

Phillip is the 11th person voted off Survivor.

That was the best Tribal Council I’ve ever seen. Bottom line.