Well ladies and gents, we have made it to the special two-hour merge episode for Survivor: Island of the Idols! Tonight we will watch as the castaways enjoy their merge feast and then individual immunity is on the line for the first time this season! Which castaway will be safe from Tribal Council tonight? What will happen at the Island of the Idols? Find out right here by refreshing this page for all the details as the show airs!

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After Tribal Council, Jamal asked who else wrote down Jack’s name (aside from Dean). Noura admits to it but tells him that she did it because someone else told her that it would be best for her game. Jamal asked her to tell him who told her that and because he used his idol on her, she felt indebted to him and told him it was Kellee in front of everyone else. Kellee then pulls Janet and Jamal aside and denies it all to them, but Jamal knows there is more to come out of this.

The tribes get a scroll and everyone gathers. As soon as “Gather your…” is read, they all know they made it to merge! They climb into the boats and head to their merge feast. Now it’s a race to get allies so that you aren’t the first one cut at this week’s Tribal Council! Meanwhile, Kellee has found an idol.

Kellee and Missy are talking about Dan and how he is overly touchy. Kellee is venting to the cameras and one of the producers tells her that if she is uncomfortable with any of this and something needs to be done about it then she can go to them and talk to them and they will take care of it. Kellee then goes to talk to Janet and Janet tells us that she has to back the other girls. Missy talks to Elizabeth about the Dan situation and how they have the numbers to get Dan out at this point.

Lauren then goes to Missy after Missy talked to Kellee for two hours and tells Missy that Kellee wants to get Missy out. Missy is very confused as to what’s going on because she felt like she made a genuine connection with Kellee. Before the commercial break, there was a message on the screen that said that the castaways were talked to about personal boundaries and Dan was spoken to privately about things and production is carefully monitoring the situation with Dan and the female castaways.

It is time for tonight’s first Individual Immunity Challenge of the season! Today they will be holding onto a table with three balls. Every time the table lowers it locks into place making the challenge more difficult. If they lose all three of their balls, they are eliminated. Noura, Kellee, and Dean lose a ball. Noura loses her second ball, Kellee loses her second and then Noura loses her third. Noura is eliminated, Kellee right behind her, Dean right behind her. Janet is eliminated, Elaine is eliminated and Lauren is right behind her. Dan is out, Karishma is out soon thereafter. Tommy loses his grip and is eliminated. Missy drops leaving Aaron, Elizabeth and Jamal left in the challenge. Elizabeth is out leaving Jamal and Aaron, both with two balls on their table.

Jamal can’t take it anymore and drops his table and he collapses on the ground and Aaron won Individual Immunity. Aaron asks if he is good to put his table down and they all rush to check on Jamal. Jeff asks Jamal if he wants Medical, but he says he is good. Looks like Missy could be in trouble unless she can talk herself out of this with some of the other castaways.

Back at camp, Missy tells Lauren that she is nervous, but Lauren thinks that they can get others to vote Kellee out. Missy says she is okay with this, but it only works if Lauren and Tommy are really on board. Lauren and Tommy are talking to Dean, but he doesn’t think he can vote out Kellee. Meanwhile, Jamal and Noura are talking about getting Dan out and Jamal goes to Janet. Janet is good with Dan going because she feels that it’s what best for the morality of the tribe. Janet goes to Elizabeth and tells her this plan, but she doesn’t believe that this is really the plan.

Elizabeth goes to Elaine and tells her about Janet’s pitch. Elizabeth tells her that she told Janet she was good with that, but they aren’t voting for Dan. Elaine tells Dan that Janet is throwing his name out there in order to solidify him in their group. Sounds like their plan is to still vote out Kellee, but Kellee isn’t stupid. She has an Idol and plans to play it, but she would feel better if she had another one. Since two were played last week, there is at least one more on the beach. Kellee is looking for it and does end up finding the second idol. This makes her feel a little better going into this first Tribal Council of tonight’s special two-hour episode.

It is time for the first Tribal of the night! They talk a lot about how there were a lot of conversations on the beach after the merge and while most of them were just getting to know the others, some people are seeing these conversations as a strategy. It’s time to vote and when the voting is done, Jeff goes to tally the votes! Jeff asks if anyone has an idol they would like to play, now would be the time and Kellee decides not to play one.

  • Dan
  • Kellee
  • Dan
  • Kellee
  • Dan
  • Kellee
  • Dan
  • Kellee
  • Dan
  • Kellee
  • Kellee
  • Kellee

With two idols in her pocket, Kellee is the second member of the jury! WOW!

Janet is taken aback by Kellee being voted out after being told by all the women in the tribe that they were uncomfortable with Dan. Janet talks to Lauren and Tommy about the vote and Lauren tells her that the issues everyone is having with Dan, she isn’t having. After this conversation, Janet goes to Dan and talks to him about all the accusations that Missy, Elizabeth, and Kellee all came to her with concerns about Dan’s inappropriate actions. Dan then pulls Elizabeth and Missy aside to apologize if he ever came off that way and they threw Janet under the bus about it. They claimed that they didn’t tell Janet that.

Janet goes to talk to Dan and he tells her about how Elizabeth and Missy told Dan that they never talked to Janet. Janet calls Elizabeth and Missy out in front of Dan and Elizabeth admits in front of Dan that she said the things about feeling uncomfortable with Dan. After Janet leaves the conversation, Elizabeth tells Dan she only agreed with what Janet was saying for game reasons. Janet is sitting on the beach when Missy and Aaron walk by her (not seeing her because it’s dark). Janet says hi and asks where they are going and they tell her they are going for a walk. She knows they are looking for an idol, but she needs it more than they do so she follows them. In the early morning hours, Janet finds an idol.

Karishma finds a hanging note while walking around with Jamal, but before she can grab it, Jamal does. It tells him not to open it, but to bring it with him to Island of the Idols. When Jamal gets there he is met face to face with Rob and Sandra. He is told to open the note and inside the note, it says that he just learned a valuable Survivor lesson and as soon as he grabbed this note, he lost his vote at the next Tribal Council. Rob tells him that he has the opportunity to get someone else. Sandra hands him something else and it’s a rolled-up blank parchment with a pencil inside it. Rob asks Jamal what he can do with that pencil and piece of parchment.

He uses it to write a fake legacy advantage and tells them all that he risked his vote at the next Tribal Council in order to get an advantage. However, he was told that the advantage wasn’t for him, he had to give it to someone else. He picks Dean and tells him that it’s an olive branch, but after talking about it, Dean doesn’t believe that this is true. Aaron thinks that he didn’t hand Dean and olive branch, he handed him a death sentence and that makes Jamal dangerous in this game.

It is time for the second immunity challenge of the night. The castaways will be holding onto a handle over the water and Jeff will lower them closer to the water at regular intervals. When the pain gets to be too much, they will let go and fall into the water. The last woman and man hanging on will win immunity tonight. Lauren is the first to drop, Dan jumps next, and Jamal is the third one to let go. Elaine is the fourth one in the water and Jeff lowers them just a bit.

Karishma, Janet, and Dean all drop. Two men and three women are left. Jeff lowers them a bit more. Noura drops leaving Elizabeth and Missy standing. Tommy drops giving Aaron Immunity for the second time in a row. It is down to Missy and Elizabeth for the women’s immunity and Elizabeth can’t hang on anymore. Missy and Aaron are safe tonight.

After the challenge, Jamal is worried about being voted out tonight because he is worried about if people think he’s lying. Janet and Jamal go off to talk and meanwhile the rest of the castaways are talking about splitting the vote between Jamal and Karishma. Tommy tells Janet that she is safe tonight and that she has to vote for Jamal, however, Janet thinks she is still a target.

We go into the Tribal Council and they talk about the last Tribal Council. Janet talks about how the vote was flipped on her and she voted based on the information given to her from the other women of the tribe. Aaron mentions how if it was really an issue then he would have known about it, so would Tommy and this one and Jamal stops him. He tells him that isn’t true and that’s what happens in the real world all the time when women come forward about things like this. He also adds that men aren’t entitled to know these things just because they are men.

Dan is getting very defensive over this conversation and seems to be shooting himself in the foot by continuing to talk about it. Janet is really upset about the way that this is all coming off and how it makes her look like she is using this as a gameplay. She tells Jeff that she is wondering if she should even stay in the game right now because she feels like everyone hates her. Jeff summarizes what has been going on and they move onto the vote.

Janet played her idol and Jeff read off the votes:

  • Janet
  • Janet
  • Karishma
  • Karishma
  • Karishma
  • Jamal
  • Jamal
  • Jamal
  • Jamal
  • Jamal

With five votes, that is enough to make Jamal the third member of our jury.

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