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Last week’s Tribal Council shook up the game in more ways than one. With a simple coin flip, Rick Devens kept himself safe from the imminent vote, put an immunity idol in his pocket, and increased the final prize to $2 million. But all that new power also increases his public threat status, and if our castaways are smart, they’re going to do whatever they can tonight to flush his idol—likely pulling off the blindside of another player while doing so.
While we’re back to our regularly scheduled runtime with episode 11, “Everyone Will Be Shooketh!,” there’s still so much gameplay that will likely be packed into these 90 minutes. And with a title like that—which we know comes from Devens—it seems something big is about to surprise not only the players, but us fans at home, too.
And with only two weeks to go until the Survivor 50 finale, we have 6 players who need to get sent to the jury so our Final Three can emerge. Who will be the next to go?
After the biggest Tribal Council of the season…
As our castaways return to camp, they’re celebrating the $1 million added to the final prize, but also immediately start playing harder. Aubry Bracco approaches Rick Devens about how great the result of the prior vote went for them and she also knows that he’s taken the brunt of the target from her.
But Joe Hunter and Jonathan Young are both complaining to Ozzy Lusth about how they were bashing Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick at Tribal Council. In a confessional, Jonathan is thankful that Devens threw Stephenie under the bus and not him—a ride he’s going to take until he goes home—but Joe is really upset about the way Devens and Aubry are playing. So much so that even by the next morning, he’s still complaining about how Devens performance was done in “extremely poor taste.”
Devens also opens up the idol to find out it only lasts through the Final 7. He then proceeds to dance around the island with the goofiest grin on his face. He confesses that he’s having the absolute best time of his life playing this season.
And the entire morale of the tribe—except Joe and Jonathan—is up with the additional prize money fueling their game. But Joe wakes up and immediately starts sulking again.
He tells Aubry, Cirie Fields, and anyone who will listen that Devens is ruining the season for him. Cirie goes on to tell him that Devens is just playing the game and shares in a confessional that he’s being a hypocrite. She then turns to Tiffany Ervin and shares her annoyance with her. But Tiffany reminds her that there are bigger targets than Joe, considering Ozzy and Rizo Velovic both have idols as well as Devens.
Cirie has a flash back to Survivor: Game Changers where she was eliminated simply because everyone else was immune. So Cirie is finally considering flushing the idols by tricking her two closest allies into playing them without it being necessary. She tells Ozzy that people are coming for him and he should probably play his idol. Of course, he has his own flashbacks to getting voted out with an idol in his pocket, which he doesn’t want to repeat.
Revisiting letters from home
With the $2 million driving them, our castaways continue to reflect on the letters from home they got to add heart-fuel to their renewed journey. Ozzy turns and opens up to Devens about his relationship with his father who is no longer around. He’s having doubts about things he’s done. Devens tells him that no matter what, his dad’s going to be proud of him.
As a father himself, he assures him that there’s nothing his kids could do to make him not love them. He goes on to tell Ozzy why he chose to be a dad and says that Ozzy himself would be a great dad because of his patience. Ozzy remembers that patience was a gift Survivor gave him and something he’s never played with before.
Treemail evokes discussions (and not all about the challenge)
After guessing which challenge they’re going to get today based on treemail, everyone is around the fire talking about the challenge while Emily Flippen and Devens whisper about wanting something crazy to happen in the game.
Devens shares that he wants to use his idol to eliminate someone big, throwing out Joe and Cirie’s names. Emily completely agrees and is excited that they’re on the same page. They know if Cirie makes it to the Final 3 she’s winning no matter who she’s up against. So now could be the time for them to strike against her.
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