Over the last two weeks, we've looked back at nine different seasons featuring memorable moments from 14 of our Survivor 50 players.
Now we're wrapping up CBS's Road to Survivor 50 in a big ol' blindside bow with one of the most captivating episodes of Survivor 48 showcasing some major moves by Kyle Fraser, Kamilla Karthigesu, and Joe Hunter.
Tune in for "Icarus Time," the penultimate episode of Survivor 48, on Friday, Feb. 20
The final episode of CBS's Road to Survivor 50 is "Icarus Time," the second-to-last episode of Survivor 48, and it features the biggest move of the season. You can watch the episode on CBS at 8 p.m. ET.
Our Final Six collectively start to realize they might need to start turning on each other to safeguard their own game—and in a season built on loyalty and honor, that's no easy task. Since the castaways all merged on day 12, a majority called "The Strong Five" has made it known that they're running the game as the physical threats who decided the people at the end will be the ones playing with integrity, not calculation.
In addition to Kyle and Joe, the Strong Five consisted of David Kinne, Eva Erickson, and Shauhin Davari. Fairly quickly, David decided to open up the alliance to Mary Zheng, making it the Strong Six—which not everyone agreed to—and suddenly didn't trust anything anyone was saying except for her. Mary and David wanted Kamilla out, but when Kyle pushed against it, David started acting paranoid and going off about how Kyle was secretly working with Kamilla and everyone was lying to him.
Kyle approached his alliance, worried about David blowing up their game, but they all wanted to stay strong with him, until David accused Joe of lying. That was the final straw. Joe and Eva both agreed to join Kyle and Shauhin in blindsiding their ally for being so mistrustful of them all.
The irony of the whole situation, however, was that Kyle was secretly working with Kamilla. He had been the entire game. It's pretty much the reason he was even still in the game since she helped him solve the Beware Advantage puzzle that gave him the immunity idol that she gathered the information that led him to playing it to save himself after the tribe swap.
Which brings us to the beginning of "Icarus Time." We are 22 days into the game, and still, no one knows that Kyle and Kamilla have been working together this whole time. With Mary the last voted out and the tribe down to essentially a core alliance—with Kamilla on the bottom only being semi-brought in by Joe and Shauhin after David was eliminated—and Mitch Guerra, our castaways know they either need to make a move now or it's never going to happen.
Kyle and Kamilla have never really trusted Shauhin while Shauhin has consistently said they're going to need to break up the tight alliance of Eva and Joe sooner rather than later. Shauhin also believes he's the one secretly aligned with Kamilla. So you know tonight's episode is going to involve a lot of he-said-she-said and Tribal Council is all going to come down to which player you believe. But either way, an unsuspecting castaway is definitely ending up on the jury.
A great finale to CBS's Road to Survivor 50 before the premiere this Wednesday, February 25, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+! Less than a week away, people! This is not a drill!