Survivor: Palau – Recap – Episode 13

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Last time on Survivor, Caryn positioned for power, and Ian and Katie formed a reward alliance. Gregg won the reward challenge, and took Jen and Katie with him. Tom, Ian and Caryn plot to oust Greg, even if it means risking the purple rock. At the immunity challenge, Ian won immunity, and then told Katie their plan. At Tribal Council, Gregg became the 13th person voted off. Who will be voted off… next?

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Koror, Night 33. Jenn was blown away by Gregg’s ouster. Tom gives her the whole “nothing personal” spiel. Ian is impressed with Jenn’s coolness under fire.

Day 34. Tom and Caryn talk on the beach. Caryn wants to know where she stands. Tom thinks he can swing Ian away from Katie. Jenn asks if they should take Tom out. Ian is wavering, and would rather take Caryn out. Jen notes that she and Katie are lesser threats compared to Tom. Caryn doesn’t know if Tom is playing her, and she’s guardedly optimistic.

Treemail. Looks like a rowing challenge. Tom tells Ian that if one of them wins the challenge and they can take someone, they can’t take each other in order to prevent the women from colluding. Tom wants them to take Caryn, Ian wants to take Katie. It’s a stalemate, and Ian realizes that it’s a hard road to the Final Four.

Reward Challenge. Survivors are playing for a Corvette convertible. Teams must use Palauan rafts to go to one of five pontoons and retrieve bags. Each bag has sign markers with a distance corresponding to a city. First person to get match distance and city wins reward – the car, and a picnic at a mansion on a hill.

Ian gets and early lead, with Tom right behind. Jen is doing well, Caryn is struggling. Tom and Ian are way out in front. Jen is doing well in third. Tom and Ian are out for their fourth, as Caryn and Katie get their first in. Ian gets his fourth, while Tom tries to lob his into his basket, and misses. Ian gets his fifth bag, and starts placing the distance markers. Katie is In dead last, as Tom gets in with his fifth. Ian places all his markers correct on the first try, and wins reward!!

Ian gets to take a person, and interestingly, decides to take Tom. They drive up to the mansion as we hit the

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Ian’s overjoyed at winning the Corvette. Ian and Tom dig in and enjoy themselves. Ian feels bad about not taking Katie, but he considers it revenge for he “not being loyal”.

At camp, Caryn wants to know what the deal with her, Ian and Tom is. Katie feels like she’s been betrayed by Ian. Katie asks Caryn what HER deal with Tom is, and Caryn denies it. Katie puts it out in the open, and Jenn is surprised, because of course she’s had no clue. Katie puts forth the Women’s Alliance idea again, and all three decide to go along with it, except that Caryn is only pretending.

Day 35. Tom and Ian return, and Caryn asks Ian who the “Final Three” were. Ian says it’s he, Tom and Caryn. Caryn says Katie said that it was her and Ian until the end. Tom asks what’s the deal, and Caryn basically says there’s no deal. Tom thinks that Ian screwed up.

Ian wants to talk with Katie, and Katie doesn’t want to talk to him. The plan is working, Katie tells the girls. Ian gets 5 minutes alone with Katie. Ian swears that he has had every intention of taking her to the Final Two, but Katie feels like she’s lost her best friend, and feels that she can’t trust Ian anymore. Katie’s really upset more because of broken promises than not going on reward challenge. Ian profusely apologizes, declares himself stupid, and he and Katie make up. Awww, I gotta puke now. See you after the

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Day 36. Tom asks Caryn what the deal with Katie was, and if she brought up the women’s alliance. Caryn doesn’t remember. She also doesn’t know which of them will go first. They get the treemail. The immunity challenge seems to be a combined memory/squares game. Tom tries to convince Katie that their whole game lies with Katie. Katie doesn’t know who to trust, and she doesn’t like how Tom is being cold and threatening.

Tom tells Ian that she’s playing him. Ian doesn’t care. Tom tells him that the only way to swing her back is by threatening her. Ian is still considering taking out Tom.

Immunity challenge. Probst takes back the Immunity Necklace. Survivors walk across a floating bridge, floating pontoons, and a rope bridge. They will look at a memory puzzle, go back, and try to recreate that puzzle. If the fall, they must go back to the start. If they mess up the puzzle, they must go back across before they can take another crack at it.

Tom, Ian and Jenn don’t have much problems getting across, while Caryn and Katie are hopeless. Tom and Ian get back across, and Jenn takes her time. Ian and Tom go back across, as Jen gets back and puts all the pieces in! Katie and Caryn have finally made one crossing, and start their puzzles. Tom takes a nasty spill. Ian thinks he has it, but he’s wrong. Tom thinks he has it, but he’s wrong. Jenn has been going back and forth, really analying the pieces. Tom and Ian head back. Ian has JP check, but he’s wrong again. Jenn’s back to work. Tom thinks he has it, and he does!! Tom wins immunity. JP will see them later at Tribal Council.

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Back at camp, Tom knows that if Ian’s gone, he needs to run the table in order to survive. Ian and Katie talk on the beach, and Katie tells Ian that she hasn’t made up her mind, and isn’t making any promises to anyone. Caryn notes that everyone will plot and scheme to stay in the game, and says that Katie is the swing vote.

Tribal Council. JP brings in the jury. They talk about the Reward Challenge. JP notes that Katie was upset about Ian taking Tom. Katie concurs, and says that now she’s hurt and doesn’t know who to trust. Ian says it’s the worst mistake he’s made. JP asks Caryn if discord is good for her. Caryn basically spills the beans about everything that happened while Gregg, Jenn and Katie were on the cruise. The upshot of this is that Caryn realized where the power lies. Um, I think she’s screwed.

Tom notes that he realized that he would be the next to go if he and Ian didn’t do anything. Caryn calls Tom a liar. Tom wants to finish his story. Steph looks hot. Shit has been disturbed, and Katie doesn’t know what’s going on anymore.

Tom doesn’t want to give up immunity. Ian votes for Caryn. “Best three seconds of my day”. Heh. Caryn votes for Ian. JP goes to tally the votes.

Once the votes are read, yadda, yadda, yadda. Ian. Caryn. Caryn. Caryn. Caryn is the 14th person voted off. See ya.

JP gives his usual Final Four speech. 3 days, 2 Immunity Challenges, 3 Tribal Councils.

Sunday, on the Survivor Finale, the drama intensifies, and we’ll find out who will be the Sole Survivor.

In her exit interview, Caryn is ok with everyone shooting the messenger. Actually, they just shot the person who made it obvious that they could trust her with a secret. We see that the final tally was 4-1 against Caryn.

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