Survivor Recap: Cagayan Episode 04 ‘Odd One Out’

Tonight on Survivor Cagayan, the three tribes are no more when we get an early merge down to just two teams. How those new teams come together are likely to have a big impact on how the next round of votes go. Of course, a quick flip of loyalty to throw a wrench in a tribe’s plans and shift the power.

The show picks back up with Luzon returning from Tribal Council, again, where J’Tia’s nine lives had finally run out. Luzon is down to just three players from their original six and it’s time for them to prove their strength with the dead weight cut. Wait, hold that thought.

When the tribes arrive at the first challenge they learn it’s time to “drop your buffs” and draw new teams. Aparri (orange) and Solana (purple) tribe colors remain while Teal is done. The new tribes consist of Sarah, Spencer, Morgan, Kass, Tasha, Jeremiah, and Alexis on Aparri. Over on the Solana team we’ve got Wood, Cliff, Jefra, LJ, Lindsey, and Tony. Ouch. That means only Sarah was sent away from Aparri to help form the new tribes and Luzon got to stay completely together.

Reward Challenge:

Now that tribes are set we’ll get the first reward challenge with the new teams. They’ll put a player on a telephone poll and the other tribe will use two players to try and pull that player away and over the finish line. The reward? A pile of doughnuts and pastries.

The ladies go first and it’s hilarious. No one is letting go and, wait, did I already use hilarious? Yeah, it is. Finally Morgan and Sarah drag Lindsey away from the pole and score the first point.

Next up it’s the guys turn. Spencer and Jeremiah try to unlock Cliff but it’s useless. Trish and LJ have no trouble getting Alexis off the pole and across the line.

Final round with the scores tied. Cliff is back on the poll and against Spencer and Jeremiah again. Hah. Good luck. Tony and Lindsey are working over Sarah. This shouldn’t take much longer… Well it did take longer than I expected. Kudos to Sarah on being a beast out there and making it hard for Solana to win. Cliff was just too much for Aparri to carry over that line.

Back at camp the new tribes are learning about each other all over. Solana’s LJ has hope when he finds out Trish is also from Boston and Trish can’t stop giggling around him. Over at the new Aparri Morgan gets out’d about picking the Idol clue instead of getting rice. Oops for Morgan.

Alexis decides this is her time to jump ship and join up with Brains. Dumb, dumb, dumb. She’s now bottom of a four-person alliance instead of sticking with old-Solana plus picking up Sarah who was isolated. Dumb.

Immunity Challenge – Gate Crasher:

Trish sits out for Solana and Morgan loses Rock, Paper, Scissors to Alexis so she sits out for Aparri.

Teams have to use a battling ram to break down two wooden gates, navigate a puzzle, and then ring a gong.

Solana takes a big lead after Aparri struggles at the first gate. Aparri is catching up as Solana starts to wear out. Wow! Aparri is now leading, wait, no Solana is just a step behind them.

Both teams are struggling with the maze portion where they have to twist and turn their telephone poll to get through and charge the gong. It’s very close, but… Aparri wins! What a comeback. This was Solana’s to lose and they did just that.

Someone from Solana is going to be voted off Survivor tonight as they prepare for Tribal Council.

Most the Solana tribe agrees to go after LJ, but someone forgot to tell Trish who wants to keep LJ and still go for that Cliff plan from last round. Who will get their way?

At Tribal most of Solana is pushing to keep their numbers strong and vote out LJ and Jefra first and stick it out for the big merge. It’s pouring rain on tonight’s Tribal Council. Funny to see them soaked and trying to act like it’s not happening.

It’s time to vote… Whaa?! Cliff is voted out 4-3 over LJ. Craziness! I guess Tony did flip, right? Yep, we see later that Tony did vote against Cliff while Woo, Lindsey, and Cliff went against LJ.

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