14th Episode Survivor Tocantins
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Survivor Tocantins Episode 14
In tonight’s Realty TV show of Survivor Tocantins, we find the final four celebrating “high five” and then begin to worry about jury votes, as it was on the castaway’s mind. Stephen knows that his vote for Coach will hurt him, where JT is still in good with Coach on the jury since JT voted for Erinn instead of Coach. Stephen voted that way because he thought about “who can I beat at the end.”
Forza camp, day 37, find new Tree Mail which was a plastic spider and a scroll. It read, “Do huge spiders make you worry? If you get spun out in the web, you could get stuck in the jury.”
Immunity Challenge: Castaways are to race through a spider shaped obstacle course to three different stations. Each person will retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces from each station. Once all three bags are collected, they are to solve a web shaped puzzle. First person to get it right wins immunity, and guaranteed a one in three shot of winning this game. Loose this challenge, and be guaranteed a one in three shot of going home.
JT wins immunity, (back to back), and is safe at Tribal Council. Erinn was a close 2nd place, but now realizes she will probably be voted out.
Back at Forza camp, Taj speaks privately to us and says Erinn will be voted out. Erinn keeps thinking about how to play the game now with JT and Stephen. She tells the boys that Taj would be favored by the jury.
At Tribal Council, JT had individual immunity, so it really came down to either Taj or Erinn. The discussion with Jeff did not clearly reveal which way the guys would vote. Jeff tallied up the votes and announced the results. The 13th person voted out and the 6th member of the Jury became Taj.
Taj said, “It’s day 37, I got blind-sided by my Jalapal tribe members that have been looking out for me from day one. And for them to blind-side me, it blew my mind. So it’s going to be really hard to choose who is worthy of a million dollars. But either way, if Erinn finds a way to get to the end, she got my vote.”
At Forza camp, night 37, JT said that was the toughest Tribal Council yet. Erinn agreed with JT. JT said he really did not want to vote out Taj. But he said they made a decision based upon how easy it would be to win at the next challenge against Erinn.
On day 38, JT said that this is the biggest challenge of his life. “One of us (referring to himself and Stephen) is gonna win that million dollars. And they’re gonna have to decide between me and you.”
Tree Mail read that the castaways were to follow the map across the river and there they will find the torches of their fallen comrades. They are to burn a part of them at the end of the trail, paying them respect as each one had a part in getting them to this point in the game. Then they are to proceed to their final challenge.
So all of this resulted in the big, final Immunity Challenge. For the last time, Jeff said immunity is back up for grabs. Each castaway will place a ball down a shoot where it will spiral down until at the end the ball must be caught and placed back in the shoot. Every few minutes, another ball will be added. The balls will alternate, left and then right. It will become more difficult to tell which shoot it will drop out of. If at any point, one of the balls hits the ground, then that contestant is out of the challenge. The last person to keep all of their balls in play, wins immunity. To make it more fun, one hand will be tied behind the back.
JT ends up winning immunity for the 3rd time in a row, and has gone as far as he can go in this game. JT now is the one who decides at Tribal Council who goes home, Stephen or Erinn. The remaining castaway will sit next to JT, where the jury will decide who wins the one million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor.
Tribal Council: Discussion with Jeff as to who JT would pick, based upon jury votes at the end. JT said he was nervous, and was still thinking about the vote. But in the end, Jeff reviewed his vote and said the 14th person voted out, and the 7th and final member of the jury was Erinn.
Erinn said, “I was a little bit surprised, but I think like deep down I definitely knew that was decision that JT was going to make. And I’m really proud of myself for going as far as I have come. It’s really been life changing, and I’m glad I was able to stick around as long as I did.”
Day 39 at camp, Stephen said “we’re freaking here.” “I feel really great,” said JT. Stephen tells JT that they will be friends for life. At the Tree Mail, a huge breakfast was left for the two remaining castaways.
Tribal Council: Both castaways had an opportunity to address the jury and convince them to give the million dollars to them. Then each jury member had the opportunity to address or ask a question of JT and Stephen. Then they voted for who wins the game. This Realty TV show then was cut (edited) for the votes to be read live in New York City, in front of a live audience. Jeff read off the votes, and said the winner of Survivor Tocantins is James “J.T.” Thomas, Jr. For only the second time in the history of Survivor, all votes went to the very popular JT.
After the commercial break, Jeff asked JT why are you crying? What is going on? JT said, “I’m very happy obviously, I just created one of the best friends I probably will ever have, Stephen, and his family. And my parents are crying . . . so I can’t help it. I’m happy, probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my whole life, obviously.”
Later, Jeff announced the results of the Sprint popularity contest, when the viewers could vote for who they like the most. The winner of this contest would receive a prize of $100,000. Jeff said it came down to three top castaways, which were Sierra, Taj, and JT. The winner was JT, which put his total winnings up to $1.1 million dollars.
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