Last Push

Last Push is the season finale of .
==Story==
===Night 36===
As the Enil Edam tribe walk their way back to camp from Tribal Council, Erik Reichenbach tells his tribe he is very dizzy. Jeff Probst comes in with the Survivor Medical Team to check Erik's condition, where Dr. Joe deduces that Erik's body could no longer cope with malnourishment and dehydration. As the medics put an intravenous drip on Erik, Eddie Fox, an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) by profession, explains to Erik his health status. Dr. Joe then declares that due to Erik's health being dangerously debilitating, he does not allow him to continue on the competition.
With no other choice other than accept his fate, Erik says his goodbyes to his tribemates and vice versa. Jeff reminds the four remaining castaways that despite Erik's evacuation, the game continues on. The final four castaways then continue to walk back to camp.
Returning to camp, the final four discuss the evacuation, expressing sadness about Erik's sudden elimination. John Cochran realizes the game is back on and starts strategizing once again. After several Tribal Councils trying to oust Eddie, if it weren't for bigger strategic threats Andrea Boehlke and Brenda Lowe, the Harvard law graduate finally flirts with the idea of working with him because he is the most likely to win the remaining challenges, ostensibly having a big say as to who goes at the Final Tribal Council. While Dawn Meehan and Sherri Biethman were already asleep, Cochran makes his move on Eddie, where Eddie agrees to make a Final Three deal with him, stating that Dawn is a bigger threat than Sherri.
===Day 37===
Still not getting over the fact that Erik was pulled from the game, the remaining contestants try to get a better understanding of where they stand and who they want in the final 3. Eddie and Sherri talk about voting out Dawn, while Dawn comes up to Cochran since she is worried but Cochran, once again, reassures her. However, he does consider voting Dawn out. At the challenge, it is revealed to be a Reward Challenge as anticipated, but the reward is an advantage to the next challenge (the Final Immunity Challenge). Eddie was hoping the reward would be food-related, but he is happy with this reward because he really needs to win final immunity, as he believed he would be the likely top target otherwise. The challenge proved interesting as the leaders continued to fall back behind, but ultimately Cochran managed to win the challenge and the advantage. Since Cochran has the advantage, the others try harder to ensure that Cochran is willing to go to the final three with them. Eddie pitches his plan to vote out Dawn, which Cochran neither confirms nor denies.
==Challenges==
<tabber>Reward=Challenge: Teeter TowerThe castaways would use one hand to hold on to a rope to steady a balancing board. With the other hand, they would build a house of cards with wooden tiles on one end of the balancing board. The first castaway to build a tall enough house of cards to reach the finish mark would win.Reward: An advantage in the next Immunity Challenge.Winner: 
|-|Immunity=Challenge: Vertically ChallengedThe castaways would race up a three-story tower to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces tied to a post and then slide down a water slide. Two more puzzle piece bags would need to be retrieved before the castaways could start on their puzzle. The first castaway to assemble their puzzle would win.Additional Stipulation: As part of the Challenge Advantage he won by winning the Reward Challenge, John Cochran had the advantage of having his puzzle bags already untied.Winner: </tabber>
==Tribal Council==
===Night 36===
Removed from Camp
===Day 38===
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====Voting Confessionals====
Cochran's vote was not shown during his confessional.
====Final Words====
===Final Tribal Council===
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Voted forWinner	Voter
 	
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====Voting Confessionals====
Malcolm's vote was not shown during his confessional.
===Final Results===
									
									
==Trivia==
===Life At Ponderosa====
===Secret Scenes===
===Behind the Scenes===
===Other===
* In this episode, Erik becomes the first person to be medically evacuated in the finale episode of a season.
** His evacuation is the latest evacuation in Survivor history, occurring on Night 36.
* This is the second consecutive finale episode to have a Reward Challenge on Day 37.
** Same as the previous season's finale, the reward for winning the challenge is an advantage at the Final Immunity Challenge.
** However, had Erik not being pulled from the game on Night 36, the challenge would instead have been an Immunity Challenge.
* This episode is currently the last finale episode to feature the Rites of Passage.
* This is the second consecutive finale episode to have someone be tied for runner-up after , the first were Lisa Whelchel and Michael Skupin who both received one jury vote, followed by Dawn and Sherri who both received no votes.
==References==
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Category:Episodes
Category:Caramoan Episodes
Category:Season Finales
Category:Survivor (U.S.)
Category:Survivor (U.S.) Episodes
Category:Survivor: Caramoan