We’re down to the final two episodes of Survivor’s second Blood Vs Water season with six castaways left and someone set to leave tonight’s show ahead of the finale next week.
Last week brought us the elimination of Alec after Natalie’s plan to target Jon fell apart with his Immunity win. Now she’ll have one more shot at taking out her revenge for Jeremy’s vote-out earlier this season. There’s also some promised medical emergency drama when Missy injures her ankle and contemplates leaving the game for medical attention.
Tonight’s show picks up as the final castaways return from Tribal Council where Natalie pulled a quick one and voted out Alec over Keith. Only Baylor knows the truth, but she’s keep her mouth shut, for now. Jaclyn, Missy, and Jon quiz Natalie over how this happened when they thought the plan was clear.
Natalie goes to Keith and explains to him why she voted out Alec. Keith agrees to after the power couple, Jon & Jaclyn. Now Natalie feels she has the pieces she needs to make another move against Jon. Well, unless he secures Immunity again.
Reward Challenge:
The six castaways are split in to two teams of three and tethered. They’ll have to cross an obstacle course starting with a huge hay pile and an over/under rail system. They’ll have to fill a bucket with water to lower a gate and reach a puzzle. First trio to finish wins a trip to a day spa.
Blue: Keith, Missy, and Jon. Yellow: Natalie, Baylor, and Jaclyn.
Yellow has a solid lead as Missy kept falling through the rails. Going over the teeter totter the first time we see Missy take a very hard fall on her leg. Missy reveals she twisted her ankle but does not slow down.
Yellow continues to hold their lead and has their bucket filled first and is on to the puzzle while Blue is still working on filling their bucket. There’s still time for Blue to catch up as Yellow works on the puzzle.
Lead schmead. Blue stages an awesome comeback and overcomes the HUGE lead Yellow had at the puzzle challenge. Sure enough, they get the win. Oh but guess what, Jon gives up his spot to… Baylor. Heh, I thought he’d give it to his girlfriend, but I guess he’s really worried keeping Baylor and Missy in their pocket.
Natalie volunteers to head off to Exile Island and leaves the pack. Meanwhile Baylor gives Missy a piggyback ride out of the challenge and Jeff asks to let him know if she needs medical. Yep, she will.
Reward:
Keith, Missy, and Baylor are living it up with drinks and lots of food at their Reward event. Missy shows off her ankle and it looks bad. They test her range of motion and it’s not good. We’ll see more of this later.
Camp:
Jon and Jaclyn start to speculate about Natalie’s vote-split error. They wonder if she did it on purpose (yep) and maybe they need to keep an eye on her in these final days (yep).
Immunity Challenge:
Immunity is back up for grabs and this is a big one! Missy hobbles in and Jeff says it needs to be addressed. Natalie arrives and Baylor has brought her a bowl of rice which brings Natalie to tears.
Jeff asks Missy about her ankle and she’s in tears too. Missy says she’ll try to do the challenge on one foot, but that’s clearly not an option from what we’ve seen in the preview. Jeff calls over medical before the comp can begin. The medic says it likely a very bad sprain, but it could also be a fracture which would require her to leave the game.
Medical advises Jeff that Missy does not need to be pulled from the game. He thinks they can immobilize the ankle to offset any more damage. Missy is going to sit out the comp, but she won’t be leaving the game.
Now Immunity is back up for grabs. Players, Huyopa minus Missy, must balance on a board and keep a ceramic plate and vase balanced with them. Last to let their vase drop will win Immunity.
Jaclyn is the first player out of the comp and doesn’t appear to have lasted very long. The winds are high, Jeff points out, which is adding an extra challenge. Keith and Baylor are wobbling a lot but it’s Baylor who drops out.
Keith, Natalie, and Jon are still in the game and survive a heavy gust of wind. This looks tough for sure, as it should be. Everyone looks very strong and focused as a new gust of wind picks up and takes out Keith while Natalie and Jon both look solid.
Another round of wind comes along and just when things look good, BAM!, Jon’s vase falls. Natalie wins Immunity!
Camp:
Now they’ve got to work on their plan. Everyone minus Keith agrees that they’ll vote out Keith. Natalie goes and talks with Keith about playing it cool. Oh geez. She says her plan is to get them to split the votes and if Jon plays the Idol then they’ll get rid of Jaclyn.
Baylor goes to her mom with the plan and Missy refuses. Missy is standing fast and says she won’t break the deal that she’s made with Jon. Oh this should be good.
Natalie comes over to try and help the discussion, but it’s not seeming to help. In an aside Missy tells us she knows maybe she needs to break up the “Jon & Jaclyn Show” but she’s very hesitant to do it.
Tribal Council:
Keith right out the gate starts in on pitching that the other five should use his vote and make a big move that the Jury would respect. He seems to be playing it a little better than that implosion event the other week.
Missy says she’s loyal to a fault and is suggesting she won’t flip on Jon, but is this all a decoy? Let’s find out. Jeff has tallied the votes.
Votes: Keith, Jaclyn, Keith, Jaclyn, Jon, & Jon. 3-way tie! Now they’ll have to re-vote, but Jon, Jaclyn, and Keith can’t vote. Wow!
Very smart move to evenly split the votes to block their targets from having a chance to vote in the second round of votes. Well done.
Re-Votes: Jon, Jon, … that’s two & that’s enough.
Jon Misch was voted off Survivor and blindsided tonight at Tribal Council with an Immunity Idol sitting in his pocket. Ouch.
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