Mad Treasure Hunt

Mad Treasure Hunt is the seventh episode of .
==Story==
===Day 19===
Solarrion returned to camp after Sarah Lacina's blindside, where an angered Spencer Bledsoe chewed out Kass McQuillen for flipping to the Aparri Alliance. She batted away the criticism by saying she'd gone with her gut, and then asked the Aparri alliance to cover her. Trish Hegarty and Woo Hwang emphatically agreed to protect her. As Kass hoped her old tribe would understand her decision with time, Morgan McLeod interrupted her, asking what they'd ever done to her. Kass returned that Morgan had never talked to her, before Tony Vlachos interjected that Sarah had been trying to get rid of Kass. Kass and Spencer then had an argument in which Kass warned him that he'd have to eventually make an unpopular move too, but he dismissed her strategy talk as laughable and embarrassing.
===Day 20===
The next morning, as the tribe went about their chores, Kass suggested that Morgan could be the person to do the water run since she was just "in her usual spot" lying in the shelter. When asked to get water, she returned that Kass being rude about it wasn't an encouragement, but Kass countered that Morgan had been rude to her too. As LJ McKanas celebrated the dispute in the background, the two women continued to bicker.
At the Reward Challenge, host Jeff Probst welcomes the tribe and reveals the challenge: Rise and Shrine. The castaways would be divided into two groups of five, and would first traverse a series of obstacles in the water (comprising a large teeter-totter and a series of balance beams) to retrieve a chest on the shore. They would then drag the chest to the base of a tall structure. One by one, the contestants were to climb the structure and then work together to pull the heavy chest to the top. Then, two members of the team would use pieces inside the chest to assemble a shrine puzzle. The first team to finish would win reward in the form of an Outback Steakhouse dinner away from camp.
The teams were randomly determined: LJ, Morgan, Spencer, Jefra Bland, and Jeremiah Wood for the orange team and Kass, Tony, Trish, Woo, and Tasha Fox for the purple team. The orange team were first over the teeter-totter, but purple was close behind. Neck-and-neck, the two tribes easily crossed the balance beams, although Woo slipped and cost the purple team the lead. The two teams were soon untying the knots to their treasure chests, with orange maintaining a marginal lead.
Woo and Spencer then began climbing the structure, with Woo pulling out ahead to give purple the lead. Trish and Morgan followed, with Tasha and LJ (not using the provided rope) climbing next. Purple extended their lead as Kass and Tony both beat Jefra to the top, and purple worked together to pull their chest up to the platform as Jeremiah brought up the rear for orange.
Kass and Woo began work on purple's puzzle, quickly finding the first piece. However, orange was close behind with LJ and Spencer on the puzzle, who also quickly assembled the first three pieces to retake the lead as Purple found their second piece. LJ and Spencer continued to extend the lead with the next five pieces as Kass and Woo only managed to find their third and fourth pieces. However, Orange had already gained the momentum, placing their last two pieces, and capping off the puzzle with the shrine locked in the chest. With that, orange won Reward and departed for their Outback Steakhouse whilst the purple team returned to camp.
At camp, the losing purple team prepared a hearty meal to make up for their challenge loss. Kass asked the Solana alliance if they were more concerned about Jeremiah or Spencer, and all agreed that Spencer was the bigger threat. However, Trish offered to let Kass decide the vote, but Kass resisted having the final say as she didn't see herself as being locked into the Solana alliance. Meanwhile, in a confessional, Tony noted the difficulty in reading Kass, but believed she was going to be loyal to them. Even so, Tony was determined to find the Hidden Immunity Idol near camp, and went hunting for it after alerting Woo.
At the Outback Steakhouse, the winning Orange Team enjoyed their feast comprising Pineapple-Ritas, salad, steak, baked potatoes, smores, and milkshakes. Towards the end of the meal, Spencer opens his napkin to discover a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol. He slips the clue into his pocket to read later.
When the reward winners returned to camp, a rainstorm was raging and the group quickly huddled into the shelter. However, Spencer was desperate to find the Idol and stepped out of camp to read the clue. The clue indicated that the Idol was buried (but not down) in a place where a river once ran. Recognizing that the location could be a wall of a riverbank nearby, Spencer continued out in the rain, looking for the Idol, taking off his shoes and pants and leaving them on the riverbank, along with the clue folded into his pants. Once the rain began to let up, Woo noticed Spencer's absence and tracked him down using his "ninja stealth mode," where he managed to observe Spencer digging through the bank wall. Spencer began walking towards Woo, and Woo played it off as "going for a walk." The two passed each other and Woo picked up Spencer's pants to find the Idol clue inside. Woo picked up the clue, put it in his pocket and bolted back to camp.
Back at camp, Woo tells everyone that Spencer had found a clue to the Idol, and gave the clue to LJ to enlist others to find the Idol. Meanwhile, Spencer finally caught up and told the group that Woo had thrown his pants in the water to steal the clue and recruited his own alliance to search for the Idol. LJ passed the clue onto Tony and soon, the entire tribe was out at the riverbank, searching for the Idol.
A petulant Spencer continued his search whilst kicking and throwing rocks around until Kass was assigned to keep an eye on him. He struck up a conversation with her about how the game had "devolved into this," but she countered that it was "karma for [his] behavior" the previous night. Spencer offered an apology, but continued digging – having found the Idol – until Kass' attention lapsed long enough for him to hide the Idol in his pants and make a getaway. He managed to get away without her noticing his discovery and reveled in his success.
===Day 22===
Two days later, at the Immunity Challenge, Jeff first takes the Immunity Necklace back from Woo. He then revealed the challenge: Keep On Your Toes. Each contestant would balance on their toes on a narrow platform, wedging a block between their head and a frame above them. If the block dropped, that person would be eliminated. The last person standing would win Immunity.
Almost immediately after the challenge began, Kass dropped out. Although she made a recovery, Trish dropped out moments after Jeremiah. Tony dropped out moments after them, leaving six people still in the challenge. After 25 minutes had passed, flies were buzzing about the castaways, but they resisted the distraction. Spencer had a close call, but recovered. Morgan was not so lucky, losing her balance and falling out of the challenge. Cringing in pain, she tried to stretch out her legs. A slight wobble turned into a loss of balance for Woo, and he too fell out of the challenge, leaving four.
After one hour had elapsed, the pain was evident in Jefra's face, and her block dropped, eliminating her from the challenge. She hobbled down from her platform as LJ, Spencer, and Tasha – side-by-side – fought it out. Tasha shifted on her feet but easily recovered her balance. Rather, it was LJ who lost his balance and dropped out, to leave two former Brains fighting for the title. After 1 hour and 30 minutes, the two were still fighting. Tasha remained frozen in place as Spencer gawked awkwardly as he kept his balance. Spencer's block began to rock, but he was able to recover his balance and stay in the challenge. Suddenly, without warning, Tasha's block fell, eliminating her from the challenge. A relieved Spencer eagerly walked to Jeff to receive the Immunity Necklace that he "dreamed about…for a long time," and Solarrion then headed back to camp.
At the beach, Spencer was congratulated for his win, before the majority alliance met to decide who to target. Tony asked Kass if she thought anyone had an Idol, but she didn't think they did. LJ suggested targeting the easy vote in Morgan, but Trish wanted to take out challenge threat Tasha. Tony agreed that, to protect against an Idol, they should go for the simplest vote in Morgan since no one would play an Idol for her. The group agreed that it would also get rid of "dead weight" around camp. The group established that the Plan B, in case something unexpected happened at Tribal, was to take out Tasha.
Meanwhile, the minority Aparri alliance discuss their target. Morgan wants to vote for Kass, but Spencer argues that she is the only person who might flip to their side. He suggested Tony, hoping that he might make a stupid mistake at Tribal that would spook Kass. Hoping to pull Kass back to their side, Spencer approached Kass and proposed that if she came back to her original alliance, she might regain the jury votes she'd lost with her flip against Sarah. Kass told him that she was a free agent, and would consider the proposal. Spencer told her that their target was Tony, and the tribe packed their bags and headed to Tribal.
At Tribal Council, Jeff first welcomes in Sarah, the first member of the jury. He then asks Tony about the massive power shift at the last Tribal. Tony said that "the wind changed directions," and Kass interjected, admitting that she was "the wind that blew through." Asked about the fallout at camp, she said that she'd gotten chewed out and ignored by the Aparri alliance. Spencer countered that, whilst he respected big moves, he'd felt betrayed and had gotten out of hand with Kass. He added that he was glad to have Immunity, but said that he would "rather risk going out now for a shot at winning than extend [his] stay in the game."
Asked about the consideration for the vote, Tony said they were considering physical, strategic and social threats, and confirmed that the alliance had come to a unified decision. Asked where she fit in, Morgan argued that she wasn't a physical threat and that she wasn't liked by the tribe, so wouldn't earn any jury votes. Trish agreed with the assessment, adding that Morgan was also unhelpful around camp, and that she could continue to add to the list. Morgan replied that LJ and Jeremiah had pampered the girls at the original Beauty tribe, and she'd grown accustomed to the treatment. Jeff asked if she was used to being treated well off the Island, and Morgan agreed, continuing that she was used to not having to work too hard based on her looks, adding, "If any person in the world could decide to be ugly or cute, most would pick cute." As her tribe shook their heads and rolled their eyes, Morgan told them she would work harder around camp if she stayed in the game.
Jefra was then asked about Kass' position in the alliance. She denied that Kass was automatically at the bottom of the alliance, comparing the group to a chain: "Everybody's a different link on the chain, and I think that we're all even." Jeff asked if that was ever truly the case, and Jefra referred back to the previous Tribal Council, where the Brains tribe had indicated their balanced alliance, though Spencer interjected that Tony had called them out on it. Tony countered that the Aparri alliance was "put together by default," but that his own alliance "hand-picked each other." Spencer argued that someone was always on the bottom, and Jefra commented that there might be a lower rung in the future, but there was presently a strong alliance. 
Tony added that Kass was in a comfortable place and had no reason to flip. Jeff countered that Kass could be unpredictable, and Tony acknowledged that she could be setting them up. Asked if she was concerned with Kass, Trish said there was a worry that she might flip back to her original tribe, but they'd been including her in the group and treating her like they treated everyone in the alliance. Asked about her dilemma, and whether she believed she was truly a part of the alliance, Kass smirked, "We're all on the chain, remember?" She added that she'd made a decision at the last Tribal, but she hadn't made any deal with the Solana alliance. She concluded by comparing the game to a trip to Las Vegas: "When I sit down at the table with a friend, I don't mind beating them."
Jeff then called the vote. Trish cast her vote first, followed by Woo, Jefra, and Morgan. Tasha and Jeremiah voted next, with Spencer, LJ, Tony, and finally Kass rounding out the proceedings. Jeff tallied the votes.
When Spencer chose not to play his Idol, Jeff read the votes. The first cast was for Tony, followed by another three votes for him. The next vote was for Morgan, followed by another three for "Queen Morgan" (complete with illustrations of a sleeping stick figure), to even the score 4-4. This was followed by a fifth vote for Morgan, and a final sixth vote for Morgan. She wished Tasha luck before collecting her torch. It was snuffed by Jeff and she became the ninth person eliminated from and the second member of the jury. On her way out, she wished the tribe luck once more, and Jeff sent the tribe back to camp, commenting that trust was unpredictable which always meant that just because someone was on the bottom, it didn't mean they were out.
==Challenges==
<tabber>Reward=
Challenge: Rise and ShrineThe castaways were divided into two teams. The teams would have to go through a series of obstacles to retrieve a wooden chest. After hauling it up a tall slope, They must then assemble a ten piece puzzle. The first team to solve the puzzle and place the topper in the chest on top wins reward.Reward: A meal from Outback SteakhouseWinner:  (, , , , and )
|-|Immunity=Challenge: Keep on Your ToesCastaways would each stand on a small wooden perch in a rectangular frame, adjusted to their height. They would brace a wooden block on their head and keep it in place using the wooden board above them. The structure would force the contestants to stand on their toes slightly, increasing the difficulty. If they fall off the frame, drop their block, or touch either the structure or their block, they would be out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins.Winner: </tabber>
==Tribal Council==
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===Voting Confessionals===
No voting confessionals were shown in this episode.
===Final Words===
===Still in the Running===
								
								
==Trivia==
===Deleted Scenes===
===Other===
* No footage from day 21 is shown in the episode.
* This episode was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography for Reality Programming at the 66th .http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2014/outstanding-cinematography-for-reality-programming
==References==
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