Survivor Jerusalem

Episode 1
Day 1:
Jacob leaned forward and glared at the ground. During the first hour or so of the boat ride, Jacob had rehearsed all the strategy he needed to know for the coming afternoon. He reviewed the goals he had set for himself for each time period in the game, prepped himself on the strategy he had decided on playing and though through what his reaction should be to as many different scenarios as he could think of. Jacob went on to review all the personality traits he had linked up to certain types of players, analyzed his team to figure out who he wanted to talk to first and how he wanted to approach them. Jacobs mind had been whirring for the first hour of the boat ride, and although he wasnt allowed to talk to anyone, he was watching each player, trying to figure out how they ticked and what he could do to get them on his side. Who was lying around bored, who was contemplating their own thoughts? Who was doing the same thing he was? Who was a relaxed kid who wanted to hang out, and who was an older conservative man who wanted to be called sir? For the first hour, Jacob prepared and reprepared himself, and then when he finished, all he could do was worry. Jacob didnt want to spend any time just worrying, he wanted to be focused on the game, but there was so much to worry about. What if all this planning was for naught? What if Jacob was just bad in challenges, and got thrown out early? What if he just wasnt likable enough to fit in with the big alliance? What if he played perfectly, but his tribe lost more challenges and he never got a chance to show what he could do? Normally Jacob wouldnt have worried about this at all. He had known it was a possibility that he couldnt control, so he had told himself not to worry about it, but that was difficult when he saw the seemingly unending number of athletes on the Mayim tribe. Right across from him were two body-builder type giants, whose names he would later learn were Tony Webb and Paul Boyer. These were the sorts of men who would singlehandedly win any strength competition and Mayim had two of them. Even beyond that, besides an old woman, virtually every tribe member seemed more than capable physically. Jacob looked disappointedly back at his tribe, as if this time they would suddenly transform into a group of Olympic athletes. But instead, Jacob saw just one athlete. Besides that, Aish consisted of a stoner, a handful of ditzy young girls, and a healthy dose of people too old for

this game. So despite his prior intentions, Jacob had to admit that it was totally appropriate for him to worry.

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Jeff Probst leaned over the side of the boat and stared directly at the camera attached to the side of the vessel. The cameraman running the machinery urged him on to start his speech, but Jeff hesitated. He didnt like what was happening to the show, they needed to move forward, not back. Burnett just didnt understand that the gimmicks of new seasons were what were keeping the show afloat, not holding it back. Burnett was too concerned with getting back to the good old days, when Survivor was the biggest thing on television, but Jeff was trying to keep his job, the thing that kept him relevant to the world. Jeff stared at the camera, stifling his disgust, and started his speech. Were on board a yacht sailing through the Mediterranean on route to Jerusalem, the place where Survivor will go back to its roots. This ship is carrying 16 Americans, who are about to be abandoned. For the next 39 days they will be left to fend for themselves in challenging circumstances which havent been met since the first seasons of Survivor. They will be forced to work together to create a new society while battling the elements and each other. They must learn to adapt, or theyll be voted from the tribe. In the end, one will remain to claim the million dollar prize. 39 days! 16 people! 1 Survivor! As Jeff finished the first part of his speech the camera spun away from his, revealing the dry grassland environment where the players would be living. With little trees, rivers and wildlife, the player wouldnt have much in terms of outside nutrition. The camera once again turned to him for the rest of his speech, but he knew it Was just fort his sake, the video shown would be of the players on the upper decks. These people will be split into 2 tribes, Aish, wearing red buffs, and Mayim, wearing blue buffs, he continued, The Aish tribe will consist of Anna Gonzalez, a forty-four-year-old CEO; Ciara Brown, a thirty-year-old waitress; Jacob Stone, a thirty-six-year-old computer programmer; Jerry Cunningham, a fifty-two-year-old banker; Rocky Hall, a twenty-seven-yearold entrepaneur; Samantha Cobb, and twenty-one-year-old college student, Steven Waters, a twenty-four-year-old rock climbing instructor, and Tanya Harris, a thirty-nine-year-old yoga instructor,

The Mayim tribe will consist of Adam Bonds, a thirty-year-old writer; Amy Fischer, a twenty-eight-year-old lawyer; Eric Robertson, a thirty-four-year-old farmer; Jackie Perkins, a twenty-six-year-old bar tender; Janet Pace, a forty-nine-year-old homemaker; Paul Boyer, a forty-two-year-old police officer; Stacey Ellis, a twenty-two-year-old medical student; and Tony Webb, a twenty-eight-year-old personal trainer, The ship landed and Jeff stepped onto shore following a camera, waving the players on to follow him. Each tribe has been given a crate of supplies from which they can pick to bring home to their camp. Over the next 39 days they will need these supplies, and deep in the heart of the Israeli grasslands there is little to no food for miles around. Jeff stepped back and watched as the players sprang into action, but stared out at the dead landscape. This would be Survivors graveyard.

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When Stacey hopped of the boat and heard Jeffs instructions, she ran to her tribes crate and pried it open before anyone else could get to it. Stacey was going to prove herself to the tribe and that meant making certain that meant doing a real job, not carrying the map. When she opened the crate, however, Tanya stopped and just grinned. The box was packed with more free food than Stacey had seen in many seasons. The tribe was getting two huge jugs of water, netting for catching fish, enormous bag of rice, and even canned food! Stacey composed herself a grabbed a bag of rice she wasnt going to be seen as the weak link, but that didnt mean she had to carry the tribe on her back either. After they organized themselves and set off, the tribe was strangely quiet. No one was ready to devote themselves to start talking with any other group of people, afraid that they might be left out of some other conversation. As a result everyone just walked quietly in a cloud of people, careful not to seem too attached to anyone else until they gradualy began to get more comfortable with each other. Despite this, besides some directional issues and good natured complaining, the group still refused to enter into any real conversation, but that didnt mean there wasnt anything for Stacey to learn. Stacey watched the group and quickly noticed that the two goliaths, Paul and Tony, were walking in a pair, each carrying a water jug and talking. IT wasnt exactly surprising that the two got along, but Stacey still felt safer compartmentalizing the information. She was still

torn apart about what strategy she wanted to go for to start the game out, and that meant a lot of watching, and a lot of waiting. Stacey was weighing her options when the group slammed to a halt. She heard grumbling up near the front. Apparently The old woman with the map was having more issues. Assuming that the conflict would be short lived Stacey looked around the group to see if there was anything she could do while everyones attentions were diverted. It sounded like the farmer and the bartender were getting into a fight at the front, and the muscle heads were standing off to the side confused, which left a youngish looking guy and an Asian woman in the back for her to talk to. The man was staring intently at the conflict so Stacey decided to introduce herself to the woman, who she learned was a lawyer named Amy. Maybe I should have kept that to myself, Amy laughed, Everyone will think Im lying through my teeth! I dont think you need to worry about that, said Stacey, You seem nice enough. I just hate how awkward our tribe is right now. No one is even talking. Oh my God I know! Its like are we going to need an icebreaker to start talking? Were adults! The two continued to talk until the shouting match at the front grew beyond normalcy. Holy crap! yelled the tattooed and pierced woman, I know the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, but its noon, She said, animatedly pointed up at the sun, How do you know that that way is East? Bcause I been watching the sun, stupid! The farme r drawled in his thick southern accent, We need to head that way! Then weve been going in the wrong direction this entire time! The girl raged, Why didnt you point this out before! We wernt walkin straight, that was the problem girl, not my sense of direcshins. Stacey pressed her hands to her eyes in frustration. Did her tribe really suck this bad? She had been keeping quiet at first,hoping to allow some tension to solidify her safety in the even of an early tribal, but she couldnt take this anymore. Guys, look at the tree over there! she shouted over the other two, Isnt that one of the landmarks on the map? She said to pass the comment off as a new discovery. The farmer snatched the map from the old woman and stared at it angrily for a couple of seconds.

How could you not see that, he shouted, before picking up his share of the canned food and storming ahead of anyone else in the direction he had just been lobbying against. Stacey had just started to feel confident about diffusing the situation when the man who had been staring so intently at the conflict clasped her should. You know, he paused smirking, Eric hates you now. Who is that, the redneck who doesnt know east from west? she asked. Yea hes the one. Whats your name again? Im Adam by the way. Stacey. So what are you? A professional worry. causer? she finished weakly. Nice one, Adam laughed, No I am a highly famous and successful writer, he said, That why I volunteered to go through six weeks of starvation and pain for money that, even if I do manage to get a hold of, I will blow in a month anyway. Adam and Stacey chatted through the rest of the trip to camp, eventually bringing Amy into the group. Adam got an audience to entertain and Staceys mind drifted fro m watching and learning, but she didnt mind. Stacey didnt care that the rest of the tribe had noticed her and Amy and Adam laughing because she had abandoned all the strategies she had come to the game with. Stacey had no interest in playing under the radar and hoping to make the merge, then figuring her game out as she went. She also wasnt going to play two alliances against each other, or even find the tribe leader and put a final two pact together with him. Stacey wasnt even thinking about these things because she was going to be the tribe leader, and she was going to do it by taking out her only enemy. Eric didnt have a chance.

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Ciara smiled as she tied brush and olive tree branches with her best friend in this game. The tribe had already lost one of their two jugs of clean water and one of their two bags or rice, yet she could not have been more pleased. From the very beginning of the trek to camp the youngest four had bonded walking to camp and they hadnt looked back. Ciara had been nervous at first, because at a solid 30 she hadnt known whether she would be able to fit in with the younger twenties crowd or the older players, but she had fit in just fine with Samantha, Rocky, and Steven, and their alliance showed no signs of cracking. That didnt mean the foursome was free and clear though. The old people, were kept to the back of the group and formed their own clique, all of them except one at least. The dorky

guy who had somehow ended up carrying the map over the elderly tribemates was doing everything he could to be included in the young peoples group, but it just wasnt happening. Jacob, who might have been the only survivor to ever insist on wearing his ratty glasses instead of contacts had walked awkwardly with the young group the entire trek, not only barely ever trying to be a part of the conversation, but just doing a damn horrible job of it whenever he did. He had tried to team up with Steven and Rocky to build the shelter, but that had failed miserably as well, with Steven dismissing him to collect the few large tree branches that could be found so Steven could build. Ciara felt kind of bad for Jacob, and she did think it would be a good idea to be nice to him to solidify a group of five, but it was hard to defend the guy when Steven and Rocky were tearing into him and all the older tribe members so hard. Ciara was focused on integrating herself into the group and solidifying her four right now, and if that meant letting her allies act like assholes then so be it. The rice was knocked from my hands! Rocky said scrunching up his face and talking in an annoying voice, I couldnt hold onto it! Oh my god Jerry! Laughed Samantha, We had no idea! We thought the rice just wanted to go swimming! she said, referencing the debacle that had caused the tribe to lose half of their rice and water. The two old women had insisted on carrying one of the water jugs which they dropped as the tribe crossed a river using a precarious bridge assembled by production. The water jug had caused a domino effect, knocking Jerry and the rice he was carrying into the river. Steven had dived in and saved the rice, but it was all soaked in dirty water and unusable. Ciara wasnt too upset though. Stevens status as leader of the tribe went from obv ious to established, and the tribe could always eat from the olive trees all around them. Once they finally made it to camp Steve and leapt into this role, not hiding from anyone what his intended position in the tribe would be. He tossed out jobs and made the plan for the shelter himself, as well as ensuring that the Face Cards, as their all but formalized alliance now called itself got to stick together working at the shelter while most everyone else was split up. As long as we can keep them from joining together we own this tribe, Steven had proclaimed confidently once the old people were gone, Right now we are solid thanks to Jacobs impeccable play, but we have to keep our eyes open, he joked. During one of their runs into the field to get bushes and leafy branches, Samantha had offered Ciara a finals deal. So the guys are obviously going to team up, so I just thought it makes sense for us to do the same thing. I mean, you seem, like, pretty cool, Samantha had said once they were far away from the others. Ciara had readily accepted, why wouldnt she? A solid two within a solid

four, and all she had heard out of her finals partners mouth was making fun of the other players, this was a dream come true! So Ciara sat with her best friend who she didnt like, laughed at jokes that werent funny, and planned to change as little about her situation as possible in the next 39 days.

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Paul Boyer tensed his arms and lifted the back end of two small tree trunks and carried them back to camp with Tony,. Who was taking care of the front. After the two dumped the lumber onto the pile theyd been building up, Eric informed them that they finally had enough wood and they began to tie the walls together. Much to Jackies chagrin, Eric was the only member of the tribe who even claimed to have any experience with building, and he had some extensive plans for the Mayim shelter. Eric managed Paul and Tony as the three men worked together to construct their new home, but they werent the only ones who had gotten together to work. As soon as the builders had been decided, Adam had volunteer to take Stacey and Janet to find water and food, while Jackie and Amy worked on making a fire. On their last trip to gather wood, Paul got the conversation he was looking for. Tony, are you here to play this game? He asked, once they were just far enough away from the others. Tony gave him a look like How stupid are you of course thats why Im here. Umm, yea, he said. No I mean really play. These people, they dont expect us two to have any idea what were doing in a game like this. They expect us to team up and hope to keep the tribe strong, then get blindsided right after the merge because they think were dumb as a bag of hammers. Tony chuckled, A bad of hammers eh? Well Ill tell you what. Why dontwe let em think just that, until we get em first, he said. With that the plan was set in motion. With a solid alliance Paul was already started on his path to finals. He needed three more people on his side and hed be golden, but he couldnt let anyone know who was behind the plans and alliances. If someone knew he could beat them in any challenge and he couldnt strategize them every step of the way, hed be target number one.

Thats where Eric came in. Eric was yearning for a leadership role, you could see it in his eyes when he stepped up for any job he could, and you could hear it for miles around when he had been yelling at Jackie. If Paul offered him the loyalty of the two best athletes on the tribe, Eric would have total control, and he would take it. The best part was, Paul didnt need to worry about being taken out by Eric, it would never happen with someone that stupid. Hey, Paul said to Tony, nodding towards the camp, Why dont we pull in member number three and get an all-out mens alliance running? Tony smiled, jogging back to camp carrying a bundle of wood. They would have to be subtle, but Eric wouldnt be difficult to pull in.

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As soon as the tribe got to camp, Jackie, had made a beeline for the grove production had set up for confessionals. She knew it probably wasnt a good idea to skip out on working at the first possible moment, but Jackie wasnt going to sit there and listen to that redneck tell everyone what to do just because he had fixed a door on his trailer a decade and a half ago, or whatever his supposed carpentry experience was she had said to the producer asking her questions. I know its such a clich for the tattooed lesbian girl to have issues with the southern NRA member, but hes just so ridiculous. I honestly dont understand how he could be so outspoken and idiotic at the same time, and he still totally thinks he was in the right about the whole map situation! Jackie ranted for nearly the entire confessional session, which was really the only reason she had gone, to vent. It was relatively short though, and she was soon able to join Amy in her attempts to build a fire. They had to work at camp, near Eric and the steroid junkies, but Jackie didnt mind, as hanging out with Amy and failing to make a fire turned out to be a lot of fun. There werent any glasses at camp, so they had been forced to try the friction method, and using the reflection of the sun off of the cans of food, both of which had been hilariously disastrous. Better yet, Amy turned out to be a really cool person, despite the fact that she had come to Survivor in a power suit. Jackie had laughed on more than one occasion at Amys Eric directed snark, and even though she suspected her choice of victim had been calculated by Jackie distaste for the man, she appreciated it nonetheless.

As the sky darkened, Amy and Jackie worked together to prepare a meal of olives and beans. The rest of the tribe gradually migrated to camp for dinner, and Jackie ate content that she would have at least one friend out here.

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Tanya wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead as she stared at a spot of light, waiting. Beside her, Anna held Richards glasses aloft, using the lens in hopes of starting a fire. As the ember began to burn, Tanya breathed onto it, reaching for the dried leaves and twigs they had found to feed the fire with. We got it! She shouted as the ember began to turn into a flame. Tanya picked up the bundle of tinder and rushed it bag to camp, where Steven and Samantha helped to turn it into a proper fire. Jerry brought over the water he had so the tribe could start to boil. Tanya and Jerry sat down to start dinner while Anna went out to gather food. Eventually the younger men finished the shelter and the four youngest players went to the river to swim, with Richard out in the distance doing his interview. Tanya looked back to the river to make sure the kids were still relaxing before she put herself forward into the game, Those four are going to pick us off one by one, she said, Theyre going to pitch it like we need to keep the tribe strong, but theyll vote each of us out after the other, regardless of whats best for the tribe. Well what do we do? They look solid as can be, whos going to flip? asked Anna. What do you mean? Tanya almost laughed. Anna was going first if the older players didnt get their act together, Theres four of us and four of them. What about Richard? asked Jerry while he checked on the rice, Where the Hell is his head at? Ill get Richard, no problem. I might even be able to pull in Ciara, said Tanya. Anna and Jerry both agreed to the coalition as long as there were at least 4 votes, and Tanyas plan was set in motion. Not long after, the tribe was sitting around their fire eating a dinner of olives in rice. Tanya watched the tribe dynamics. She saw the tight bonds between Samantha and Ciria, between Steven and Rocky, and between Steven and Samantha. IF there was one thing Tanya could do, it was read people, and she knew that despite their outward

friendliness, the kids wouldnt hold together like her group would. Despite a rocky start, the tribe was looking strong and Tanya was ready to take control.

Day 2:

Adam woke up first; he had been training his body to wake up early for the past few months. He thought about making breakfast to give himself a good reputation among the tribe, but he wasnt really concerned with that. He didnt need to make breakfast today to get his tribe to like him, so there really wasnt any point. Instead, Adam looked for a way to seem like he was working for the tribe which would be fun. He thought about picked olives but immediately realiz ed that 1: that wouldnt be fun at all, and 2: No one would care if he picked olives, anyone could do that. If he real food though, that would impress people. The best part was that it didnt matter if he took hours to do this. After a day and a half of olives everyone would be excited for some real meat. Fish wasnt an option without and fishing gear besides nets, which no one knew how to use, so Adam took the machete and went out searching for animals to kill. Unfortunately, as Adam would soon find out, there wasnt much wildlife in an Israeli desert. The closest thing Adam could find was a goat which took off running quite fast when it realized Adams machete hurt. Adam could have tried to stalk it, but that would have taken all day, and he wouldnt even be able to carry the damn thing back to camp anyway. Beginning to worry, Adam turned back to camp. He had been gone a little too long to excuse without anything to offer. There was a fine line between tribe provider and a slacker pretending to be a hunter. Before he was quite back to camp, Adam checked whether anyone was watching him, and climbed the closest tree to camp whose branches had not yet been stripped. It was hard to go unseen in the flat dead plains they lived in, but the consistency of the leaves kept Adam perfectly concealed from afar, yet still able to focus in on the camp life. Adam watched from the branches, glad to have some time to watch the others and figure them out without anyone becoming suspicious. If you watch too long people figure out that you want to learn something. Stacey and Janet were still asleep, or behind the shelter where he couldnt see them anyway, while two other groups conversed conspicuously. On one

side, at the river trying to figure out how to fish with the nets, were Eric and his two gigantic helpers. They had seemed to be getting closer and closer in a worrisome fashion. Adam would have to keep his eyes out, and either worm his way in, or kill the alliance, because it could be trouble facing the current tribe leader and two biggest physical assets on the tribe, apart from himself of course. On the other side of the river were Amy and Jackie, working on breakfast. That would be fine if they werent laughing, a lot. So theyre good friends now too, he thought bitterly. Just twelve hours ago, Adam had had three people in the palm of his hand. Stacey, Amy, and Janet had been all he needed to own the vote this round, he could have gone in whatever direction he wanted, but the important thing had been that he chose what happened. He wasnt exactly worried right now, he was safe and he would be for a long time as loing as he didnt do anything stupid. No, the issue was that Adam needed to win to be safe, and that meant merging with five allies totally loyal to him. Adam had to split these alliances up until no one thought they were safe without his protection. Lies, and alliances, and votes spun through Adams head, whirring with possibilities. As he started to get down from his tree, still undecided as to what course of action to take, Adam noticed a small nest in the tree. Reaching in, he felt his way to five spotted eggs, which he carried to camp. Adam threw his ideas out the window, it was better to watch for opportunities than to work to force a solution out.

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Jeff watched the tribes climbing over the hill for the entrance shot. He had, back facing the Mediterranean, and explained the rules of the challenge to them 15 minutes ago, but this take was for the cameras. He already had the inside scoop on tribe dynamics. Mayim was another Pagong, a cloud of tentative friendships without alliances, while Aish was ripe with strategy and conflict. Jeff was sure Mayim would just take out the weak link in a unanimous of near unanimous vote, which meant waving goodbye to Janet, while it was anyones ballgame in Aish. In other words, Jeff hoped to god for the sake of the show that the season opener did not end in a Mayim tribal council. Come on in guys! Jeff yelled out as the players made their way to the tribe mats, You guys ready to get to todays challenge? After a handful of yeses Jeff went on, For todays immunity challenge we will return to a classic challenge from Survivor Borneo, a relay race, but

this time, with six parts. You first leg will start here, and swim out to those buoys. Directly under the buoys is a glass bottle containing a map. Bring that bottle to your second leg on the bridge. Your second leg will run across the floating bridge to a boat. The third leg will paddle the boat and the bottle back to shore and hand the bottle off. Using the map the fourth leg will run to the field of rocks we set up about a half mile down the coast and navigate through the piles to the one containing his key. For the fifth leg, two members of your tribe will us the key and map to locate a wooden balls held within a key in the sand. Finally, the last two member of your tribe will use the balls to knock down ten targets. First tribe to knock down all ten targets wins this Jeff paused and pulled a blanket off the immunity idol, the same design they had had in Borneo, Is what you covet. This is the only thing in the game that can keep you safe. Win it, and you earn a few more days, lose, and you will go to tribal council, where one of you will become the few person voted off. Big enough stakes? If so lets get started. Ill give you each a couple minutes to form your strategies. Jeff watched the tribes split off and discuss what they would each do. When they came back, Jeff was a bit surprised with the anchor legs, but he shrugged it off, We want and Aish loss anyway, right? He thought. After the tribes got into position, Jeff started the challenge. Survivors ready, go! One of Burnetts new rules was that Jeff wouldnt provide narration for the challenge, just commentary and only when it was relevant, not just to fill time, so he quieted down and watched the tribe compete. On the first leg was Rocky and Eric. Rocky, a surfer and natural swimmer got off to an early lead, ahead by around 15 feet by the time he dove down to retrieve his bottle. By the time Eric came up with his, Rocky had already passed the torch on to the second leg. Eric wasnt preforming horribly, but he wasnt doing well, which Rocky certainly was. As Eric finished up the swimming portion of the race Tanya ran through the floating bridge and into the boat, where she started paddling with Richard to shore. When Janet got her bottle she had massive difficulty, slipping and falling multiple times, she eventually found herself in the water and had to pull herself to the boat by holding onto the side of the slippery, bouncing bridge. Once Stacey finally got her hand on the bottle and started to paddle, Richard and Tanya were already two thirds of the way to shore, and they quickly handed off the map to Samantha, who tore across the beach to the rock maze. Samantha was already in the maze trying to make sense of the map in a field filled with seemingly random mounds of painted rocks when Stacey handed off to Adam, who headed down the beach in leaping bounds. Adam didnt run quite as fast as Samantha had, but she was only just getting her key when he arrived, and, following her lead, Adam headed to the opposite corner, where he found his own key and ran back, hot on Samanthas trail.

Having just come back from his initial run, Adam lost steam as he neared the diggers, but Jeff was still astounded by how much ground he had made up. Looks like the gap for Mayim is closing rapidly! He announced, This one will be down to the wire. It was true too. Even though Samantha had arrived around 100 feet ahead of Adam, Paul had been tearing through the sand while the other legs were completed, and he had somehow gotten his hand on one of the chests. Paul and Amy dug out the chest while Ciara and Anna were pinpointing the location using the confusing map. When the wooden balls were brought up for Mayim Tony initially tried to step up, but quickly volunteered to ball retrieval when it became clear that the adult softball league pitcher was going to outdo him. Thats three targets down for Mayim already! Jeff shouted happily, And Aish is still pulling their chest out of the ground. You guys better pick up the pace. Jackie knocked out another target by the time Steven and Jerry had gotten their hands on the balls. Jeff grinned, clearly Aish hadnt planned to need to depend on Jerry for this win. Lets go Aish! Aish split the balls between themselves, but both throws sailed high, Steven throwing like a pitcher throwing fastballs, and Jerry tossing looping, high arched tosses over his head. After Jeff announced Mayims fifth point, Steven grew quickly fru strated, and his throws became erratic, missing by more with each successive throw. Jerrys strategy, conversely, appeared to be working, as he hit his second and third throw. Jackie continued to throw, but missed her next shot while Jerry hit a third target in a row. Steven, hand the balls off to me, he said as he realized for the first time that the tribe could win it. Shockingly enough, Steven nodded and complied, offering Jerry his last ball and running out to bring him more just like Tony. Jerry mis sed while Jackie scored Mayims sixth point, but hit his next two to bring the score to 6-5. Amy scrunched her face up and spun and fireball, hitting the seventh target and bouncing back at Jeff. Jeff ducked and shouted back at her. Watch out there, throwing harder wont make you any more accurate, he said. As Jerry hit his sixth target he continued, Jerry has improbably come back from 5 -0 to get Aish within 1 at 7-6. Aish down 1 but with all the momentum in the world. Jeff Ill tell you Im surprised at all, Jerry said tossing another ball to score the seventh point, I played a lot of basketball in high school. I was pretty good if I say so myself.

Ahhh, thought Jeff, that explains the high arched throws. Jackie blocked out the banter, and just as Jeff was about to announce the tie pulled the score out to 9-7, Jackie looking determined out there with just one target left! Tony! she yelled, I need more balls! Tony had been trying to collect them all and neglected passing enough off for Jackie to continue throwing,, while Steven grabbed only a couple at a time. Jeff looked at Jerry as Tony rushed back to get Jackie more balls, and he only had two. Same deal over here! Said Jerry, getting rid of both the balls he had left, and somehow hitting the target each time. Score tied at 9-9! said Jeff. He was as invested in the outcome as any of the players. Seeing Tony just ten feet from resupplying Jackie to throw, Steven did the only thing he could think of to get the win, he ran to the first ball he could reach and threw it with all his might to Jerry. Jerry dropped the throw just as Tony made it to Jackie, who, rushed to get off a throw, didnt wind up with her usually multiple rotations, which threw her off and pulled the throw left. Jerry picked his last ball up off the ground as Jackie watched her throw miss and tossed the ball high in the air, connecting with the target. Aish! Win immunity! said Jeff, disappointed and worried for the outcome of the vote, Mayim, you and me have a date at tribal tonight, where one of you will be sent packing.