Survivor Gabon - Shake, Rattle and Roll

Another tribal shake up, Mattie rattles his competition and Crystal rolling over on her promise to keep someone safe. Marcus and Randy manage to turn the second not-so-hidden immunity idol into forbidden fruit that no one will touch, taking it out of play. Survivor is about out-smarting and out-lasting. This season it's certainly not about showboating and being over-confident tends to get you a trip down the path away from Tribal Council in the dark, without your torch.

Kota has won 9 out of 11 challenges.
Randy says this last tribal council was hard. He voted for Susie to go out and is sad Dan, his friend left. Randy kinda gets on Susie as do several others. Corrine dissing Susie. Susie says she feels like she has "the power" although I don't understand where she's getting that. There seems to be some discord that night after the tribal council but from what I could tell it was mostly aimed at Susie.

Fang after TC. Sugar is feeling her power. Mattie says it was a text book blindside but he says he's glad he stuck to his word. He is concerned though that he voted for Crystal and that she will be coming after him. Sugar says she trusts Ken more than she ever trusted Ace. The decide they have to start over and stick together. They openly discuss that Sugar has the hidden immunity idol.

Treemail talks about a feast. "A brand new tribe, a brand new tribe..." and a move to the beach. They all arrive at the feast and act happy to see each other, very happy to see the food. They ALL get to eat then when done they open a mystery box. Fang tribe members are stuffing their faces. Ken sees some clues sticking out under a bowl. Says it's a cue to another HII, but Charlie sees the clue and blows it for Ken, not able to choose between keeping it to himself or sharing it. Randy says he sees it. Randy digs in the sand, finds the idol, says he doesn't want it, if anyone else wants it then take it. They debate whether to take it, each one. Matty says it's the apple in Eden. If you take it you will get thrown out. They take the idol to the beach and send it out to sea. Randy is arrogant saying he's the king of Gabon. Marcus and Randy throw it out in the sea. Marcus says it's stupid, he got 10 people to throw away an immunity idol.

Mystery box.... 10 stones. pick out of the box. The odd numbers are the new Fang tribe and even are new Kota. Shake up the members again
Yellow Susie Ken and Crystal Marcus Bob
Red Randy Charly and Corrine Sugar, Charly
Marcus says I don't need immunity idol, I have great relationships.
Susie says she has great power and can swing with Crystal and Bob
Crystal doesn't feel secure.

Marcus discovers Crystal is the cousin of one of his best friends back home and that sort of throws a wrench in his plans. She tells Marcus she won't write his name down but she says in interview, that's just her playing the game

The Kota 6 plan to stick together and work on getting out what is left of the Fang tribe.
Matty says he's ok Ace got out but is upset with Sugar for going with Crystal. He tells her Ace was NOT voting for her. Now she's crying and knows she made a big mistake, getting duped by Kenny and Crystal. They seem to have each other's back now.

Marcus and Bob talk about the final six thing and Marcus feels better but he's unsure of
Susie. She tells Marcus she's in the middle and can go either way.
She tells him she thinks final 6 is ok, but she wants to be in final 3. In that tribe right now, Marcus and Bob are close, while Ken and Crystal are close so Susie is the "swing vote". This is smarter than letting yourself be considered "odd man out". Susie's talking tough.

Treemail
Randy says something about get rid of Matty then it doesn't matter what crazy Susie does. Randy says a one in a billion chance Sugar is a rocket scientist and has the idol. Oh wow. that was dumb Randy
Matty is feeling very vulnerable.

Corrine says she doesn't feel like Fang.

With arms outstretched hold two poles... the last person standing (endurance) wins Immunity for their entire tribe.
Crystal is out in one second. Sugar is out after 10 seconds. Susie is out. Randy and Corrine out. Fang has 2 people left.
Kenny is out for Kota. Bob and Marcus for Kota left, Charly and Matty left for Fang.
Marcus out for Kota, only Bob left
Charly is out. It's a showdown between Bob and Matty. Matty is laughing and trying to rattle
Bob but is close to losing his pole. Bob hanging in then loses it. Matty wins immunity for Fang tribe. Corrine says it's Faaang not Fong.
Kota goes to TC tonight, someone will be going home. Susie's question is can I get to final 3 by trusting Marcus.

Marcus talking after the challenge. Crystal starts explaining why she dropped out so fast. Marcus says Ken or Crystal has to go home tonight and he would rather it be Ken. He talks to Crystal about it. He offers her a spot on Kota six rather than Susie. She says can you sell them on it, and he says yes. But she's not crazy about him wanting to knock off her strongest ally. She realizes he's scheming but she says she is scheming. Marcus talks to Susie about how awful Crystal is. Susie realizes Bob will follow Marcus. She feels safer with Marcus right now. They start discussing the order of people going. She's buying what he's selling.
Ken and Crystal, she explains to him they want to vote him off and she can't let them do it. So they know they need Susie on their side. It's riding on Susie.
Crystal tells Susie Marcus is lying to her, if she'll write down Marcus then Crystal will vote off Marcus. and so will Kenny. Susie is not comfortable that Crystal can get her to final three. She is having to weigh her options and hopefully make her best choice for herself and her future.

TC - Ken and Marcus get into it a little in TC when Ken calls him out for obviously planning to take out Fang people as a strategy. Susie when asked says she's made her decision and she's happy with it.
Marcus votes out Ken
Crystal votes out Marcus
Bob votes out Ken
Ken votes out Marc-Ace
Susie is the deciding vote.
Tally is Marcus, Ken, Ken, Marcus, Marcus is out of survivor and first member of the jury.
Bob is worried, or exasperated. Another blind side.

This will not make Randy happy, Susie not only stayed, she took out Marcus and Bob knows it.
Looks kinda like Crystal is the real snake, at least for now. Marcus fell for the "best friend's cousin" thing. I liked him and wish he'd stayed but you can't play this game with any "attachments" that are superficial, not based on knowing the person, building the bond of a true alliance.
Next week - Kenny is the man of the house for Kota, says he can win this game. Randy is seen ordering Matty what to do during a challenge.

Marcus good bye message, I forgive but don't forget. He knows who wrote his name down.
He says he feels bad for Bob because now he's in jeopardy.

all I can say is........... WOW.

Ace was over confident and got blindsided. Marcus was not worried about his place and got blindsided. Kenny now thinks he can win this game. That plus Sugar finding out from Matty that Ken lied to her, tricking her into voting out her ally Ace leaves Kenny potentially in a lot of trouble if the pattern continues. Fang isn't good at challenges but those left are pretty good and lying and scheming and playing the players. Well it's certainly not "predictable" so far, at least in my humble opinion.