An original Malolo four needed to find a crack in Survivor Ghost Island episode 4, yet it looks like Desiree Afuye was not having any of it.
Warning: Spoilers involving last night’s episode of Survivor Ghost Island within!
Secret scenes in Survivor are a fickle thing. Even though you can see the evidence of things happening in front of you on the screen, in terms of a season’s canon, they’re not shown on television for a reason, making it hard to reckon why something was or wasn’t shown. For Survivor Ghost Island episode 4, it was mostly about the conflict between Chris and Domenick, meaning Malolo’s camp was first seen almost two-thirds in.
That could be one reason why this secret scene was omitted from the episode entirely last night, as it showed the Malolo four gathering together and trying to find a weakness within the old Naviti five on the new Malolo tribe. We saw this group gather late in the episode so Michael could reveal he has an idol and try to play it on somebody, but now we got to see the seeds of discord planted a day earlier.
Michael seemed to be the original Malolo’s star this episode, as the four left it up to him to try to find a crack with Desiree. Stephanie led the idea of getting her to think Bradley called Desiree one of the weakest in the bunch, with Michael offering an olive branch in bringing her over to the original Malolo squad.
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Of course, Desiree is smarter than that, brushing off Michael’s advances and saying she’d have to be stupid to switch sides. That may be another reason why we didn’t get to see this secret scene; it detracts from the possibility of Michael’s eventual idol play (and subsequent lie) working on either Chelsea or Sebastian, seeing how Desiree wasn’t swayed whatsoever.
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Either way, we know how this play worked out, hence why this Survivor Ghost Island episode 4 secret scene is exactly that; a secret.