Riding Dirty With Alliances

 is the tenth episode of.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Wiki Clicks. Castaways were given two wikipedia articles to click between in the shortest amount of clicks. The castaway with the least clicks would win immunity and a one in seven shot at the title of Sole Survivor.

Winner: Nora.

Voting Confessionals
"njano"

- IM REALLY SORRY I HATE MYSELF FOR THIS

"njano"

- SUCK MY ASS ALL OF YALL IF THIS WORKS UR ALL FOOLS

"njano"

- Sleep well my friend, there will be a moment we meet again

"njano"

- kumbaya's over bro, you played yourself

"njano"

- My ride of die since day one. I hate these dumb people for making me do this. Will hope to make you proud <3 or who knows maybe its me and you'll make me proud.

"njano"

- ya know I Again actually wanted to work with u Natalia and Cali but u keep targeting me and being literally insane. If I go home then meh but if u go home then like you literally did this to yourself by leaking everywhere

"njano"

- this tribe is fade since Will is gone

"njano"

- I am scared that 100th day will be my last day. But I need to vote you out girl. Acting like you know nothing does not work. if you will play your idol congratulations but I hope I am not the second highest vote.

Final Words
"njano"

- Unfortunately I got out I mean I tried to convince them but I got took advantage by already voting early cause uhm timezones but still I have no hate with the others all of them are amazing and I am just so happy and honored to play with them.

Episode Summary
Following an explosive tribal council, the castaways returned to camp and immediately began comparing notes on the events leading up to Will’s elimination. Jack, Chris, and Evan all sought to repair their relationship with Nicole while Natalia intended to mend bridges with Nora. Before Will’s departure, he grouped Natalia, Nora, and Nicole together in an alliance titled Will’s Coven, but both Nicole and Natalia noted that they were wary of each other due to the former’s idol and the latter’s savviness.

Meanwhile, Chris returned to camp and informed Nora that Evan leaked her boot list, prompting Nora to confront Evan on call, where he tried and failed to shift the blame back to Chris. Amidst the scheming by Evan and Chris, the majority of the tribe denoted they were the major threats who needed to go but were conflicted over which should leave first, with Nora campaigning for Evan’s demise and Jack, Natalia, and Cali labeling Chris as the biggest threat.

At the immunity challenge, which was revealed to be a Wiki Links race, Nicole and Evan became the clear front-runners. However, the impending expiration of Nora’s score swap prompted her to inform other castaways that she would use the item on either Chris or Evan. Given the latter’s proficiency in challenges, Nora selected Evan. At results, it was revealed Evan would have won immunity, but Nora stole the necklace instead and received a one in seven shot at the title of Sole Survivor.

After the immunity results, Nora, now emboldened with the immunity necklace, launched her one-woman campaign to avenge Will by eliminating Evan. Amidst this, Natalia and Nicole strategized and denoted that Jack was a wild card. While Nicole meant Jack was seen as a free vote, Natalia perceived this as Nicole targeting Jack and relayed this back to her primary allies in Jino and Cali. Jino, hoping to rally votes on Nicole in an attempt to flush her idol, then went to Jack and informed him that Natalia told him that Nicole was targeting Jack. Jack, baffled by this given his efforts to reconnect with Nicole, then told Nicole, prompting her to adamantly deny this. Accordingly, Jack came to a revelation that despite Chris and Evan being threats, they were at least predictable while characters like Jino and Nora could drive the knife into anyone’s back at any time.

Shortly thereafter, Jino’s plan became more widespread and the common narrative quickly evolved into one wherein Jino wanted a 4-2-2 split on Nicole, Evan, and Jack with the intention of flushing the former’s idol and forcing a split between the two heterosexuals on the revote. As a result, Jack, Nicole, Evan, and Chris quickly rallied against Jino, Natalia, and Cali with the expectation that Nora would join the second group or throw a vote onto Evan. Chris, in particular, hoped to see the campaign for Jino’s demise reach fruition and relayed it to Cali, prompting her to hatch her own plan to save her close ally. Amidst the chaos, two new alliances formed: one with Cali, Natalia, Chris, and Evan, and one between Chris, Evan, and Nicole. While Cali felt sticking with the alliance would be the safer call, it also lowered her chances of winning and thus, she pitched pulling Natalia, Nora, Nicole, and Jino in to vote Chris out.

Natalia, however, felt this was unrealistic and thus the alliance remained locked on attempting to oust Nicole’s idol. As a result, Natalia approached Evan hoping to bring him in as the fourth vote against Nicole, but he feigned concern over the idol being played. Despite seeing through this, Natalia and Cali realized the votes were locked against Jino and decided to join the tribe in voting him in order to preserve their new alliance. Meanwhile, Nora remained convinced that the plan to eliminate Jino was a ruse to send Nicole home with her idol and attempted to convince her to play it to ensure they could idol Evan out, but failed to gain traction. Shortly thereafter, Cali, Natalia, and Nora joined the tribe in voting Jino out unanimously.

Trivia

 * The episode was named after Cali’s quote.