One World Episode 14: Kimmunity

Chelsea is delighted that Tarzan has gone home. Kim is impressed with how far they've come...from struggling and starving in the rain, to the last five standing. Next morning, Kim proposes to Sabrina that Chelsea should go, which shocks her. She thought they were tight, but instead Kim is thinking of taking out a jury threat and taking the useless Christina. This makes Sabrina think twice about Kim - is she on the chopping block if Chelsea wins immunity?

Kim heading for the top

The five girls compete for a 1 in 4 shot at the final and Christina surprisingly takes the lead. The next stage is to walk over a maze. Alicia and Chelsea come out first. Alicia unties the wrong bag to put Chelsea in the lead. The puzzle becomes a three horse race between Kim, Alicia and Chelsea. Kim makes it to the top of the tower first, but can't get it right. Alicia also goes up and fails. The girls both go back down. Chelsea is in on it now. With all three of them working their combination locks, who will snatch it first? It turns out to be Kim.

Kim is relieved to be safe, but she now has to consider her options, and is torn between getting rid of Alicia and getting rid of Chelsea. Every vote has an impact on how it goes down. Chelsea feels completely safe because of her friendship with Kim. Christina and Alicia both think that Kim is voting Chelsea out with them.

At a very Kim-centric tribal council, Jeff weighs up the criteria of how to vote someone out and offers everyone the chance to give some last words to Kim. The votes comes down and Alicia and Chelsea await finding out which way she's gonna swing. The vote is 3-2 with Alicia going home. She regrets her decision to vote out Tarzan and seems a little mad that Christina has outlasted her, but is overall in decent spirits and not bitter at Kim - unlike most of the jury.

Up in smoke: Tribute to the fallen survivors

Christina returns to camp having voted in the minority, and feels like she's on the block. Not necessarily true though, all the girls are looking at her as a favourable opponent. The four girls go on the final torchwalk, something which I am happy to see come back. We learn that Matt is still delusional, thinking he played the best game, Kim considers Colton and Troyzan her biggest strategic threats, and that Tarzan considers himself an alpha male playing as a beta male. The four watch the bonfire, appreciative of their cast.

Kim, calm, collected

The final immunity challenge is like a delicate game of operation. Kim takes the lead, with Chelsea behind her but pacing herself. Christina emerges as a surprise contender, impressively managing to keep up with Kim as late as round 8. The wind proves a bigger obstacle for Christina, who has to slow down to avoid her stack spilling. Kim takes the lead and wins her 4th and most important immunity.

Eh, I had a good run

Christina goes up to Kim and says she'd rather just know. When Kim reveals that it is her, Christina sighs and doesn't fight it - which starts to make Kim have second thoughts about voting her out. At tribal council, Christina even admits she gave up, and for some reason attacks Sabrina for being undeserving. Kim's last response is to assert that Christina would be a good opponent and maybe not everything is as it seems. However, in a surprising move Christina is actually voted out, with one of the most pathetic exits ever. To be fair to her, she was slated to go episode 1 and made it to the final four.

Sabrina is totally overwhelmed by the experience. She wants to go back and tell her kids everything. The three girls all sit down and eat, Chelsea says her reward is the experience and Kim talks about her year, which has included a rough divorce.

Sabrina overcome by the experience

Here we are: final tribal council. The jury gets a chance to speak. Chelsea's opening speech, which she stands for, is horrible and basically a great advert for a Kim win. Kim talks about how hard she played and asks for forgiveness. Sabrina talks about how her levelheaded approach was smart.

Kat speaks from her heart

Jonas is soft on the final three but seems to bash several jury members. He makes Chelsea admit to booting Kat. Christina asks Chelsea "why do you hate people?". Tarzan shows off his vocabulary and talks about himself. Half of them just want to know why they were voted out, which Kim answers honestly and respectfully...doesn't seem to placate Troyzan though. Alicia gives a deluded speech about how awesome she is. Kat closes it up and says despite how hurt she was, she doesn't want the jury to base their vote on anger.

Troyzan votes for Sabrina ("take care, comb your hair"). Kat votes for Kim ("If I didn't vote for you tonight, I would not have learned a damn thing in this game"). Jeff takes the votes back to the U.S. and gets ready to read them. In a 6-2-0 vote, the winner of One World is....Kim.

STAR OF THE WEEK: KIM SPRADLIN

There has never been a more obvious winner, but that just proves how deserving she was. She was head and shoulders above everyone else with her Boston Rob-like dominance. The most impressive I've ever seen a first-timer play and maybe the best female player ever.


Next time on Survivor...The show heads to the Philippines and goes back to three tribes, with second chances for three medevacs. Could that include Mike Skupin, who hasn't been on the show since season 2?