Kellyn feels on the bottom now, despite Sebastian reassuring her. Laurel is STILL unsure about making a move on the top dogs, but Donathan is at the point where he's willing to make a move with or without her.
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| Remind anyone else of The Borrowers? |
The reward challenge is for 3 teams of 2 to keep wooden spools rolling down a track. The pairs: Kellyn/Sebastian, Wendell/Domenick and Donathan/Laurel. The challenge wears people down gradually, with Sebastian and Kellyn the first to drop. Donathan makes a nice save, but they're out next meaning Domenick and Wendell get the reward...just like they've got everything else this season. They get to take one person with them for their mission trip and send one person to Ghost Island. They make both decisions quickly, bringing Laurel with them on reward and sending "the pirate" (Sebastian) into exile. That just makes Donathan feel even more left out.
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| Suckerfish or just a sucker? |
On Ghost Island, Sebastian makes an analogy about how he's playing the role of a suckerfish, but that he's hoping to get an advantage that can really boost his game. His most coherent analogy yet. He wins the extra vote...the same one that Kellyn just misused. This is a bit meta.
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| Hide yo kids: Domenick's carried a few people this season |
On the reward, Domenick is playing with the kids, Laurel is playing volleyball and Wendell is playing basketball. The three agree that this is the final 3, with Laurel even asking the local who she thinks will win. Why, need strategy advice? Laurel tells them her best bet is to hope they both split the votes, though that might not be her actual plan.
Wendell tries to reassure Donathan that they're solid. but Donathan knows he won't be getting to the end unless he stirs things up. He tells Wendell that Domenick will be hard to beat at the end and that he'll vote for him if he's on the jury. Wendell says this is "incentive for Domenick to put him on the jury"...I'd say it's more an incentive for Wendell to put Domenick on the jury.
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| Wendell loses on a technicality |
The immunity challenge is to build a bridge using planks, then build a ladder to climb up to a slide puzzle. Wendell and Sebastian are out in front, as Kellyn trips and falls (moving wasn't even supposed to be the hard part). Domenick and Laurel catch up on the ladder, as Jeff roasts Donathan and Angela for being hopeless at the bridge. The slide puzzle feels like Wendell's to lose, since he had such a big time advantage, but Laurel has done this puzzle before in episode 1. Laurel gets it and wins immunity, although Wendell points out he actually got it first, he just didn't call Jeff over. Jeff explains he doesn't know that you're done unless you call, to which Wendell agrees, but he's still a little salty about it. I love a good controversy!
Laurel says she wouldn't feel right voting out Wendell after what happened at the challenge, so is gonna stick with the boys to pick off Kellyn. (A: who cares about "fair"? B: Vote out Domenick, then!) Donathan seems to think he's in trouble and asks them to tell him if he's going home, which throws Domenick off. Wendell asks Domenick for some idol instructions to go with his fake idol, and Donathan sees him take something out of his bag. He doesn't buy their vague explanation, and wonders if they're going to play an idol on Kellyn to get him out. Donathan then goes to Kellyn to plot against Domenick. Domenick and Wendell see this and growing increasingly annoyed with how paranoid he's being, debate switching the vote to Donathan with Angela and Sebastian's help.
At tribal council, Domenick talks about the mental toll that makes even a simple slide puzzle difficult at this point, with Wendell admitting not being sharp was the reason he lost. Donathan brings up how he feels the others are withholding information from him, and shuts down Domenick when he tries to explain. Domenick then urges people to stick with their plan, which Donathan assumes is him. Wendell whispers to Sebastian to split the votes. Dang, Donathan could've dug his grave here.
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| My time to g...oh. |
Donathan votes for Domenick, Kellyn votes for Donathan. We know other votes are going his way, could this be enough? It's a tie between Donathan and Kellyn in the end, and on the revote, Donathan grabs for his bag thinking it's him. But then Kellyn goes, and he has to put it back down. Awkward.
So Donathan has blown up his game and getting out the power players is gonna be very tricky when they both still have idols. But there can only be one winner, and we'll have to see who emerges on top in the finale next week!
STAR OF THE WEEK: DONATHAN HURLEY
Donathan made a valiant effort to get Domenick out and appears to have no fucks left to give. I liked his attempt to try and get the power couple to realize they are eachother's biggest threats, since he really has nothing to lose right now.