Feeling Fun Flirty And Ready To Scam

 is the ninth episode of.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Safari Race. Castaways were given phrases to either move steps forward or move other contestants backwards. The castaway moving the furthest would win immunity and a one in eight shot at the title of Sole Survivor.

Winner: Natalia.

Voting Confessionals
"njano"

- Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it everything you've got. Im choosing to live on my feet rather than die on my knees.

"njano"

- I was ready to rock with you, but you didn’t get me involved until it was convenient. Love ya, but this was a long time coming

"njano"

- So I do hope this will work but I am sorry man you winning this season would be like a no no I do feel no one wants you to win a second time on your second season cause I mean I am not letting you pull a Sandra. I tried to gave you a shot but I know you are really a threat not when it comes to social game tho. I just hope you won't play an idol to yourself.

"njano"

- ya know I was actually considering flipping and getting one of the predators out but I literally woke up and you threw my name out for the following reasons apparently

"she's in a sinai trio"

"she made this alliance during the alex vote"

"chris blue told me to"

anyway ya there's a chance i might go home right now but hopefully its you. I tried to talk to you n build a relationship w u but if ur just gonna do a cassandra leave me on seen its not in my hands anymore! hopefully u didn't pass ur mutiny to anyone in case will wants to use his tribe splitter !! hopefully u dont have any advantages.

"njano"

- you are a top prey and u need to go ❤️❤️

"njano"

- u didn’t speak to me all round and u come for me time and time again... hope u go

"njano"

- Listen, when I say I see a lot of myself in your personality AND your gameplay, it's definitely not an understatement. You are beyond lovely and i am really bummed that things turned left for us. if this works then congrats u got the big bad witch out if this doesnt work...well...then THAT WHAT U GET FOR PREACHING THAT BROWN SISTER LOVE. GET OFF MY INLAND AFRICAN NATION. BTW UR HAIR IS GORGEOUS

"njano"

- Superwoman, watch me work Handle business while i twerk

Revote Voting Confessionals
"njano"

- Adios amigo, consider this my justice.

"njano"

- thank you for having my back at times, but i can only ride along for so far. sorry you have to sit through 24 hours of this

"njano"

- Cheers Will! Goodluck at Uni!

"njano"

- We were robbed of working together by never being swapped. Enjoyed finally getting to know you in the last 24 hours.

"njano"

- I know you aren't going home but it only makes sense from like a gameplay and relationship POV to vote u. If for some reason Jino managed to not vote Will (unlikely) this vote will cause rocks and i have rocks immunity. Also I could totally pull a showdown benj and say that I'm loyal to my people blah blah blah and this can be proof I've already written your name down once so that barrier is already broken and i've already talked to you about this and you seem completely ok with it (you aren't but zzz).

Final Words
"njano"

- IF JINO HADNT FRESKING VOTED SO EARLY ID DEADASS BE STAYING 😞 He said he’d do what Natalia did and after my call she was convinced to keep me ;( And then Nicole Would use her damn rocks advantage And WIGS WOULD FLY!! Alas Jino. What clda been... I’m sorry if I’ve been chaotic to host Ima A chaotic player.

Episode Summary
After a straight-forward tribal council, the castaways returned to camp where chaos quickly reigned supreme as the fall-out of an increasingly complex relationship network began. Cali, feeling grateful to Chris for his efforts to switch the vote off of her at the previous tribal council, gave him her exile pass from Trent to allow him to secure 100 days in the game. Meanwhile, Nora began conspiring and relayed her ideal boot list for the remainder of the merge to Evan, which set the target on Natalia at the next vote and Chris at the following vote. Evan, in turn, feeling alienated by Nora’s increasing control and paranoia, leaked this to Chris.

Accordingly, Chris determined that in order to reach his 100th day of the season he would exile himself from the upcoming tribal council while planting seeds of chaos to guarantee the tribal council would be cracked without his direct interference or accountability. In order to do pre-emptive damage control, he attempted to gain faux-consent from his allies which led to a standoff between himself and Will. Despite the latter’s protests, Chris decided to dip.

In spite of losing Chris’ vote at the upcoming tribal council, Nicole and Will felt that the majority faction could set their sights on Cali in Chris’ absence and start a path of smooth sailing to the endgame. Unfortunately for them, the expectation that Jack and Evan would join them in a 5-3 vote deviated substantially from reality. Jack noted he felt a war between Chris and Will was inevitable and that his newfound relationship with Natalia could be the framework for a middle-esque game starting with a flip. Evan, on the other hand, was desperate to protect Natalia from Nora’s wrath and argued that he could flip alongside Natalia’s double vote to eliminate Jack as a safe vote to prevent any idols from disrupting his plans.

At the immunity challenge, it was revealed castaways would be responsible for an endurance safari race wherein they could sabotage each other. Nicole and Natalia emerged as the front-runners, with Will sabotaging Natalia and Jino sabotaging Nicole. At the eleventh hour, Evan decided to cement Natalia’s safety by calling Nicole and attempting to distract her. As a result, Natalia earned her first immunity win of the season. Shortly thereafter, Chris exiled himself from the tribe but informed Natalia and Jack of Nicole and Will’s idols before doing so.

After immunity, Evan relayed Nora’s plot to Natalia and determined that with the majority faction now settled on Cali over Natalia, he could be bolder in flipping since the former was more disposable. The major factor in assuming a bolder strategic route, however, would be flipping Jack from his Sinai trio and to the prey formerly targeting him. Jack, however, was now armed with the knowledge of the double idols hidden within his alliance and thus was significantly more susceptible to flipping. With Jack and Evan now situated in the middle of Nora, Nicole, and Will and Cali, Natalia, and Jino, they decided to deviate from the easy vote in Cali and prevent their former allies from coasting into the endgame with two idols and an advantage.

With six votes locked on Will, Natalia noted the near-expiration of her double vote and upped the strategic odds by offering to play it to create a 3-3-3 split between Will, Cali, and a third option. Because Nicole assumed herself a target at the upcoming tribal council, Natalia and Evan decided to place their votes on Nora in the hope that Nicole would play her idol while Will would be too arrogant to play his, resulting in both idols being cleanly flushed out of the game. The success of this, however, was dependent on the opposing trio remaining ignorant to the plan. Nicole suspected a shift in the tides, but couldn’t quite decipher how a flip would work due to her close bonds to Jack and Evan while Nora noted her control was too unopposed despite her having a reliable shield in Will. As the tribal deadline approached, they failed to put the pieces together, no advantages were played, and a 3-3-3 split between Nora, Will, and Cali ensued. Per the rules of Survivor, a re-vote would begin.

During the re-vote period, all hell broke loose as Nora went on a rampage in one on one conversations. While she directed some of her ire at Natalia and Jino, Jack and Evan were the perpetrators of the betrayal and as a result, she swore vengeance on Evan. Regardless of this, the new majority remained set to eliminate Will at the tiebreaker barring slight concerns over Nicole holding onto her idol and Will potentially having passed his own idol to Nora. Amidst the post-tribal chaos, Nicole and Nora both deduced that Chris played a role in setting the stage for Will’s demise prior to his exile and agreed they would not let him dodge accountability. Will, meanwhile, began campaigning and formed a last-minute bond with Natalia wherein they compared notes and realized Evan and Chris’ role in playing them against each other since the outset of the merge. With Natalia on board to save Will and Nicole being closer to him than her frenemy Nora, a shift in the tides appeared possible despite Jack and Evan’s determination to eliminate Will. However, prior to these discussions, Jino locked his vote, which meant Natalia had to cede to the majority’s will and accordingly, Will was ousted from the tribe in a 4-1 vote.

Trivia

 * The episode was named after Chris’ quote.