Rule in Chaos

Rule in Chaos is the second episode of .
==Story==
===Night 3===
After being voted out, Marissa Peterson arrived at to be warmly greeted by residents Candice Cody and Rupert Boneham. She told them she was blindsided and that she was voted out to spite her uncle, Gervase Peterson, after his trash-talking at the previous Reward/Immunity Challenge. However, Candice speculated that Marissa's comments about Brad Culpepper on Day 1 may have had an impact on her elimination. The three commiserated over their undeserved situation.
===Day 4===
At Galang, the tribe was getting along well, enjoying the morning with a leisurely massage train. In a confessional, Laura Boneham expressed relief that the tribe's attitude had helped to settle her after the drama of the First Impressions twist. However, not everybody was enjoying the fun. Colton Cumbie sat by the sidelines of the massage train, stewing with frustration at the tribe's apparent unwillingness to talk strategy. Monica Culpepper tried to remind him that the game was about patience, but he remained unconvinced.
He then pulled Aras Baskauskas, Gervase Peterson, and Tina Wesson aside, and lied that Laura Morett had approached him about taking out Tina. However, Aras cut him off, saying he "[didn't] believe any of that talk." Aras continued by cautioning against playing too far ahead, and Colton expressed apathy about winning challenges, reminding them that he had volunteered to go to Tribal Council. Gervase immediately jumped in and warned him that nobody should be talking about strategy until the tribe lost a challenge. When Colton then expressed a mere desire to talk to people, Tina said she was happy to "talk about anything but Survivor."
Meanwhile, at Tadhana, Brad and Vytas Baskauskas had taken the boat and Hawaiian sling to go fishing. Brad was in a positive mood after receiving flint at Tribal Council and being able to share his fishing knowledge. However, the effects of the previous night's vote were still hanging over the tribe, as they dissected their decision to boot Marissa over breakfast, and Rachel Foulger felt the heat of a growing mens' alliance. Determined to keep herself in the game, she approached John Cody and suggested the two of them could work well together. He readily agreed. However, Ciera Eastin grew suspicious of Rachel's apparent disinterest in working with her fellow women, and told Katie Collins that she believed Rachel to be working in an alliance with John.
Later, John returned to camp bearing Tree Mail, inviting the entire tribe to witness the Duel at . The tribe was excited to witness the Duel, and encouraged John in anticipation of Candice's fight to stay in the game.
At the Redemption Island Arena, Galang filed in first. Tadhana followed, revealing that Marissa had been voted out. Laura M, Monica, Tina and Kat Edorsson fought back tears, and when Jeff Probst asked about it, Monica said it was the "heartache" of seeing their loved ones again, with Laura Morett adding that "seeing them safe" was the trigger. Aras gave Gervase a consoling pat on the back, though Gervase told him he was okay. The competitors then entered the Arena: Rupert, Candice and Marissa (who glared at her former tribe). She announced that she did not believe she should have been sent to Redemption as her performance had not lost the challenge, and told Gervase that his "rubbing salt in the wound" with his gloating was the reason she'd been voted out. He turned to Tadhana and said, "I'm 'a rub some more, I promise you that." Jeff offered Gervase the chance to swap places with Marissa, but he declined.
Jeff then revealed the Duel: Operation Balance Build. Using a long pole, each competitor would guide a spool through a wire channel standing upright on a spring and stack the spool on the top of the wire frame. Touching the sides of the wire would cause the frame to wobble, potentially destabilizing the stack of spools. The first two people to stack ten spools would remain at Redemption Island, with the third castaway being eliminated permanently from the game. In addition, the contestant to place first would also receive a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol that they could give to any player, of either tribe, still in the game.
Candice and Marissa took a steady approach early, but Rupert raced ahead without caution, knocking his first spool off the platform on his first attempt. Candice claimed the lead, but Rupert caught up to her, pushing Marissa into last place. However, as Rupert placed his eighth spool, he didn't steady the stack and as he began to maneuver his ninth spool through the channel, he knocked off all but one of his spools. Calmly, Candice placed her tenth spool, securing her place in the game and granting her the Idol clue. Rupert raced to make up ground, but Marissa's slow and steady approach won out as she placed her tenth spool and saved herself from elimination.
Rupert hugged his wife Laura goodbye, telling her he was sorry but assuring her that she would be fine. Rupert said he couldn't believe it; being the first person eliminated without ever going to Tribal Council or getting to cast a vote. However, he added that he had no regrets about his decision to take Laura's place at Redemption, since although he loved Survivor, he loved his wife more. Rupert then burned his Buff and became the first person eliminated from .
Candice was then given the clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol as reward for placing first in the Duel. Without hesitation, she chose to give it to her husband John. Candice and Marissa were then sent back to Redemption Island and the tribes returned to camp.
Tadhana's return to camp saw John congratulated for his wife's stellar performance and the tribe amused by Marissa's outspokenness and her ultimate triumph. John revealed in a confessional that he was disappointed that Marissa had pulled through, as he'd hoped to keep Candice up against easy competition. However, as the men gathered water from the well, Vytas proposed the idea of playing to the twists by voting out somebody with a strong loved one would be likely to switch with them at Redemption, thus weakening the Galang tribe. His suggested candidate was Rachel, who he believed Tyson Apostol might swap with. John showed some signs of reluctance, and then when asked about the Idol, he said he wanted to keep the five-strong alliance between Brad, Vytas, Caleb Bankston, Hayden Moss, and himself together until the merge and use the Idol to aid the alliance then. However, in a confessional, he revealed that he wanted to keep the clues to the Idol to himself to retain control.
Over at Galang, Laura Boneham was comforted by the tribe after the elimination of Rupert. She said she was "surprisingly okay" and saying, "There's a sense of relief that I don't have to worry about him." She also pointed out that losing her partner made her less of a threat in that she became an individual player. However, Colton once again grew frustrated with the touchy-feely atmosphere of camp, and began throwing seeds of dissention amongst the tribe, telling Gervase that Laura Morett was huge threat, warning Monica that Tyson was gunning for her and lying to Tina that Gervase wanted to take out Aras. Tina was unconvinced, and later talked to Kat, expressing her frustration with Colton's excessive attempts to strategise. In a confessional, Kat also acknowledged how threatening Colton's ruthless strategy could be.
As night fell, Kat informed Colton that Tina was "freaked out" by his over-strategising. He asked her what Tina had said, and Kat answered that Colton only wanted to know because he'd told Tina something that he told her not to tell Kat. Colton turned the innocent conversation into a scene by demanding to know what Tina had said by marching into camp to pull Tina aside. A bewildered Kat and Tina tried to calm Colton, but he threatened to send Kat to Redemption Island if she didn't tell him what Tina had said to her. Later, as the tribe sat around the fire, Colton made an announcement that he wanted to bury the hatchet, but again, Aras cut him off, saying that the drama didn't matter to anybody else on the tribe and that all they were interested in was a peaceful camp and winning challenges. Colton returned that all he was after was the truth, and the tribe's kumbaya attitude was frustrating him.
===Day 5===
The next morning, Colton began to feel the effects of his troublemaking, wondering if it might have put a target on him. Monica advised him to "decompress a little," but in a confessional, revealed that she had no interest in tying herself to a sinking ship. Later, Aras, Gervase, Monica, Tina, and Tyson met at the well and discussed the Colton issue. Tyson suggested that they all tell each other everything Colton was saying in order to keep track of his scheming. Monica noted that Colton was aware that the target had shifted to him, and Aras added that the game did not need to be about fear, condemning Colton's bullying behavior and likening him to "a gay Russell Hantz." Aras then suggested that the five of them work together in an alliance to the end, to which they all agreed, sealing the deal with the pact, "Don't say anything!"
===Day 6===
The next day, the tribes convened for the Immunity Challenge. Jeff took back the Immunity Idol from Galang. He then revealed the challenge: In a Barrel. Three members of each tribe, tethered together, would roll a barrel containing another tribe member to a series of flagpoles. The castaway in the barrel would then climb out, stand on top of the barrel and untie a set of knots to release a bag of balls. Once the tribe had collected all four bags of balls, they would pass them off to the remaining tribe members, who would use them to land a ball in each of the six targets at the end of a ramp. The first tribe to finish would win immunity, as well as a collection of fishing gear, including lines, hooks, lures and live bait. To even the numbers, Kat sat out the challenge for Galang.
With Katie in the barrel for Tadhana and Laura Morett in the barrel for Galang, the Immunity Challenge began neck-and-neck. Brad, John and Vytas rolled Katie to the first flagpole quickly to gain a narrow lead, but Aras, Monica, and Tyson quickly caught up. Both women quickly untied the knots, keeping the tribes even. The pattern continued throughout the first portion of the challenge, with Galang edging out a very narrow lead. However, Galang struggled to roll the barrel into the final cradle, giving Tadhana a narrow lead going into the skee-ball portion of the challenge.
The four remaining competitors for each tribe worked quickly to untie the bags, and Hayden and Gervase took on the responsibility of landing the balls in the targets. Hayden extended the Tadhana lead with the first three balls, but Gervase quickly caught up and evened the score. The two men again tied up at four balls each, but Gervase claimed victory by landing the final two balls first, winning immunity and reward for Galang. Celebrating and shouting, "Marissa! That's for you, baby!" Gervase was embraced by his teammates. Galang then received the idol and their reward and headed back to camp, as a disappointed Tadhana followed.
Back at camp, Brad expressed his frustration with Gervase's trash-talking, wishing for a challenge of a more physical nature in which he could take Gervase on. However, the looming Tribal Council quickly set the afternoon in motion, with Katie expressing a hesitancy to turn on her fellow women, but adding that she was determined to do whatever she needed to do to make it to through the game. The five men, meanwhile, discussed Vytas' earlier plan to oust Rachel to weaken Galang. John resisted the idea, saying that if Tyson didn't switch, then they'd be losing their strongest woman for nothing. Vytas argued that regardless of whether or not he swapped, voting out Rachel would still damage Tyson himself, but began to doubt John's commitment to the Five Guys Alliance.
Vytas and Hayden approached Katie to tell her that the mark was Rachel, but she doubted that John would go along with the plan. Vytas admitted that he was resistant to the idea, but Hayden added that even if he went rogue, they would still have enough votes to take out Rachel. However, Katie raised the issue of the Hidden Immunity Idol, suggesting that John might play it to save Rachel, yet Vytas admitted that they did not believe John had found the Idol. He added that the plan was to tell Rachel that the vote was going against Ciera. Meanwhile, John informed Ciera about the misdirect for Rachel, prompting Ciera to worry about her own name being written down. In response, Ciera and Katie discussed the idea of working together to defend against any Idol play by casting their two votes on John.
Rachel approached John, and he told her that the vote would be directed to Ciera. As he then searched for the Hidden Immunity Idol, he expressed fears about his alliance mistrusting him due to his clue to the Idol and his resistance to the Rachel vote. As Ciera, Hayden, and Katie ate their rice, Ciera noted John's disappearing acts, prompting Caleb, Hayden and Vytas to discuss John's place in the game. Although they they didn't believe he would play the Idol for Rachel, the three agreed that John's sketchy behavior was worrying, with both Hayden and Vytas entertaining the idea of giving him the boot.
At Tribal Council, Jeff began by asking about the men-to-women ratio. Ciera said that the five men, and their fishing trips and male bonding, were concerning for the gender down in numbers. Hayden countered that the men had easily bonded, but made a point of not denying that there was an alliance. Katie said that the women were still trying to figure out the situation.
Caleb was then asked if John's clue, courtesy of Candice, had put a target on his back. He answered in the affirmative, noting that the history of Idol-play in Survivor automatically put a target on John. Brad added that they had to consider whether he'd already found it, and noted that it was up to John as to whether he would share that information with his tribe or not. John, when asked about the effect of the vote on Candice's game at Redemption Island, noted the complications of the situation with the possibility of their loved one swapping in. Hayden agreed that it was twisted, but brought up that the possibility of swapping could potentially weaken Galang.
Acknowledging the multi-layered complexity of the voting process unique to the season, Jeff announced that it was time to vote. Rachel and Katie cast her votes first, and John followed (voting for Rachel). Brad, Hayden, and Ciera cast their votes next, with the latter voting for John. Caleb and Vytas concluded the proceedings, and Jeff tallied the votes.
The first two votes came up for John, followed by a lone vote for Ciera. However, the remaining votes were all directed to Rachel, and she became the fourth person voted out of , and she departed for Redemption Island with a wave to her former tribemates. Noting their need to win the next challenge, Jeff sent Tadhana back to camp.
Rachel arrived at Redemption Island, and recounted the events of Tribal Council to Candice and Marissa, revealing that the vote had been split between her and John (which had evidently been a surprise to him) and divulging that although the tribe was tight, it was bound to fracture soon.
==Challenges==
<tabber>Redemption Island Duel=Challenge: Operation Balance BuildThe players would use metal rods to lift and guide wooden spools through a metal maze. Once the spool was through the maze, they'd place the spool on top of the maze. They'd then get another spool and do it again. The maze is held up by a spring. The first two people to stack all ten of their spools win.Winners (in order of finish): and (Candice gave the Hidden Immunity Idol clue to )|-|Reward/Immunity=Challenge: In the BarrelOne tribe member crams into a tiny barrel. Then, other tribe mates, who are attached at the waist, will roll the barrel up and into a special barrel-shaped cradle. The barrel dweller will then hop out, climb onto the barrel, and untie a bag of balls and then hop back into their barrel. The rollers will back the barrel out of the cradle, proceed to the next stand and continue the ball-retrieving process. There are four cradles in all and they are arranged in a zig-zag pattern along the course. Once all four bags have been retrieved, the barrel will be rolled into a final cradle and the inhabitant will burst forth to present the rest of the tribe with his or her bounty. The four remaining players will then roll the balls up a skeeball structure. The first tribe to land six balls in place wins immunity.Reward: Fishing gear (including lines, hooks, lures and live bait)Winner: </tabber>
==Redemption Island==
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===Final Words===
==Tribal Council==
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===Voting Confessionals===
John is shown writing Rachel's name down on the parchment. Ciera is shown writing John's name down on the parchment.
===Still in the Running===
									
									
==Trivia==
===Secret Scenes===
* On Redemption Island, Rupert struggles with the isolation of Redemption Island. Rupert checks at Tree Mail and finds Marissa's luxury item and a message inviting Rupert, Marissa, and Candice to their first Duel.
===Behind Scenes===
* I'm Ready for a Battle: Before the Duel, Rupert discusses his excitement at finally getting to do something, noting his disappointment at not getting to "play" Survivor whilst stuck at Redemption. He misses his wife, and hopes to be able to talk to Laura at the Duel to give each other strength and hope. He concludes by saying that he is confident going into the Duel.
* Oh Thank God: Colton relates his relief at seeing Caleb at the Redemption Island duel and speculates his loved one is in a good position in his tribe. He also suggests that if he gets voted out, he is certain that Caleb would take his place on Redemption so he would be able to take control of Tadhana.
* I Don't Get to Play With Him: A tearful Laura B. talks about her husband's elimination at the Duel, saying that it was a mixed blessing. While devastated he will be fighting his way back in the game, she is aware her chances have improved in the tribe because she also finds Rupert as a threat for herself.
* Advantages of Going to the Duel: Caleb is glad that the whole tribe gets to witness the Duel as it sizes up the competitors in the duel. He adds that if Colton gets voted out, he would find it difficult to resist switching with him, but reserves the right to refuse if he is in a better position in Tadhana.
* I Worry About John: Rachel finds the layer of the Blood vs. Water format more unpredictable.
**:When I Saw Him, I Lost It: Kat talks about being emotional upon seeing Hayden not be voted out.
* It Throws a Wrench in the Game: Hayden analyzes the switching mechanic between the loved one in the game and the partner on Redemption Island.
* I Was Really Really Proud of Her: Gervase is proud to see Marissa win the first duel.
* I Was Really Moved: Seeing Marissa arriving on Redemption Island Arena stirs Aras' emotions.
* I'm Still Mad: Despite winning the first Duel, Marissa vents her frustration on why her tribe's ire of Gervase was dumped on her.
** I'm In It to Win It: Candice is relieved to have won the Duel.
* Clue to the Immunity Idol: Tyson comments about Candice giving the clue to her husband John being a haphazard decision. 
* I Don't Give It to Me: Laura M. is relieved to not see Ciera voted out, but is shocked to see Marissa, whom she believes is the strongest female on Tadhana. She also praises Candice's calm performance at the Duel. When talking about the idol clue, Laura is perplexed to see Candice easily giving the clue to John as it puts a target on his back.
* Colton is the Outwit: Tina is exasperated by Colton's over-strategizing which disrupts camp life.
* Learning About Myself: Ciera talks about her personal growth during the first five days of the game, particularly her moving away from her prior disapproval of gay marriage on religious grounds through her growing friendship with Caleb. 
** I Have to Stand Out: Katie talks about making an impact in challenges, pointing to her volunteering to do the part of the challenge nobody else wanted (rolling around in the barrel) and her strong performance in that role. She particularly noted the need to stand out above the other two girls, given the gender imbalance in Tadhana.
* I'm Getting Annoyed with My Brother: Vytas' animosity towards Aras grows after Tadhana's second loss, lamenting Aras was succeeding in his endeavors outside the game more than him.
* Brad praises his five-man alliance and his individual relationships with each of them.
===Other===
* This episode features the first duel featuring two returning players, Candice Cody and Rupert Boneham.
* This episode marked the earliest time a Redemption Island duel occurred, being held on Day 4.
* This episode marked the first time a three-way duel occurred prior to the merge.
* This is the only time Rupert has played the game and has not made the merge nor the jury phase.
** This is also the only season where he hasn't been on a blue tribe.
* In the :Previously on Survivor: segment, Jeff Probst mixed up the tribes when recounting the First Impressions twist from the previous episode, saying that Galang voted out Laura Boneham, and Tadhana voted out Candice Cody.
* Aras referred to Colton as "the gay Russell Hantz" in this episode. Russell did not react well to this, claiming that he was a lot worse, and overall a much stronger player, than Colton was.
==References==
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