She Is Going To Choke With Her Lies

 is the eighth episode of.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Category Blitz. Castaways were given five categories and one minute per category to name as many items as possible. Each correct item earned a point. The castaway with the most points would win immunity and a one in nine shot at the title of Sole Survivor.

Winner: Evan.

Voting Confessionals
"njano"

- I LOVE YOU

"njano"

- If you leave good riddance, don't sign up for a game you don't plan on being active in ! If it's me, shameful.

"njano"

- zero clue what's going on bc go GATORS but if I can get an inact out this round without lifting a finger I'm lol'ing to the grave.

"njano"

- you did this to yourself bud

"njano"

- Just want to save Cali right now I don't believe that Cali deserves to go home she deserves to stay!

"njano"

- Hope there isn't an idol played

"njano"

- you would've been a good goat to bring to the end but you literally don't talk to anyone ever so literally no one wants you to stay except for Will and that's not even bc he likes u it's bc he hates Cali and is paranoid of Chris. Enjoyed the few convos we had when u didn't take over a day to reply to me x

"njano"

- was a pleasure meeting u. Ur a king ! This is nothing personnal.

"njano"

- We need to stop voting each other off

Final Words
"njano"

- This was such a fun experience and I'm really glad that I was asked back for a 3rd time, unfortunately my personal life got in the way at the end and I'm totally okay with how things shakes out and I truly wish them all the best of luck!!

Episode Summary
At the immunity challenge, castaways were tasked with playing Category Blitz, which mandated them to type as many options from a category as possible in a short amount of time. Jack and Will put forth commendable performances, but it was ultimately Evan who claimed his first immunity of the season.

Back at camp, the consensus among the majority faction was that Will’s auto-vote on Cali forced their hand in terms of targeting her as they would forfeit numbers if they were to move the vote onto Jino or Natalia. Nicole and Jack were both particular advocates for this route, with the former noting Cali served no purpose in her game despite CCBD’s reunion and the latter noting that he felt Cali made no attempt to bridge the gap between them following the last tribal. Meanwhile, Alex allegedly spoke and told Jino he wanted to vote separately from the majority alliance, indicating a flip could be in the works.

Chris, meanwhile, feeling that Alex and Jino were both useless for his game and would float to the end, decided to shift the tide of the tribe. He initially floated a plan by Evan to rally both sides against a middle-esque player, which was well-received. Accordingly, they began working on spreading the idea to the remainder of the tribe. Due to the minority position of the former CCBD alliance, they quickly locked down as numbers to eliminate Alex. Meanwhile, Nicole was sympathetic to this plan due to Alex’s silence and Chris continued to build a divide between Nora and Nicole by informing the former of the latter’s double dealing with the CCBD alliance in an attempt to lay the foundations for flushing an idol at the next tribal council.

As more tribe members became fixated on voting Alex, Will protested heavily and felt that Chris’ changing the tides of the vote was an indicator that he was playing both sides of the merge. Jack shared similar sentiments, calling the vote on Cali a ‘slam dunk’, but noted he might have to flip on the Predators down the line. Despite Will’s campaigning, the tribe stayed locked on Alex, with Nicole noting a war between Chris and Will was inevitable and would likely become predominant at the next few tribal councils. Accordingly, for a multitude of reasons, Chris and Evan’s plan came to fruition and the tribe united to vote off someone they deemed likely to float to the end in Alex. Alex, meanwhile, cast his sole vote alongside Will’s auto-vote for Cali under the impression that this was the majority vote.

Trivia

 * The episode was named after Nora’s quote.