A Sinking Ship

A Sinking Ship is the twelfth episode of .
==Story==
===Night 30===
The tribe returns from Tribal Council after Candice Woodcock had flipped alliances from the Heroes Alliance to Russell's Villains Alliance, causing Sandra Diaz-Twine to have to stay with the Villains as well. Despite Candice's flip, Jerri Manthey does not see Candice as a long term asset for her alliance.
When Rupert Boneham and Colby Donaldson get back, they badmouth Candice to each other for ruining the Heroes' chances. Rupert is angry for having their best chance to regain control of the game foiled. They call Candice weak, self-centered, greedy, and other names.
===Day 31===
That following morning, Rupert voices his disgust at Russell Hantz by calling him out during breakfast for being a terrible human being. Russell says all of his actions are just part of the game, but Rupert says he has played twice before and has never stooped as low as Russell. The argument quickly devolves into personal insults and attacks between the two men as the rest of the tribe watches on.
The tribe arrives at the next challenge, where host Jeff Probst reveals the challenge today is not a Reward Challenge, but an Immunity Challenge, much to the surprise of the remaining castaways. During the course of the challenge, everyone but Parvati Shallow and Rupert drop out at some point for food temptations. Parvati and Rupert hang on for a long time. After losing his concentration for a moment, Rupert falls off and Parvati wins individual immunity. Jeff announces a twist by reading a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol at the end of the challenge.
As soon as the tribe returns to camp from the challenge, everyone immediately begins to fan out into the jungle in search for the idol. Ultimately, Sandra is the one who is able to find it, but she keeps it to herself and doesn't share it with anybody else.
Rupert, knowing he is the main target of the Villains at this point, hatches a plan to keep himself around by faking that he has the idol. Rupert takes a large stone from the river and puts it in his pocket to make it look like he has an idol. As Rupert returns to camp, Russell sees him and the bulge in Rupert's side pocket and immediately believes that Rupert has found the idol.
Russell tells Sandra that Rupert has the idol, and the plan for splitting the votes to get rid of him. Unbeknownst to Russell, Sandra already has the idol for herself and privately laughs at Russell for believing Rupert's bluff.
The rest of the Villains alliance meets together and confirm that to avoid the idol, they will need to split the votes, which is possible since they are now an alliance of six. Everyone unanimously agrees Rupert is the prime target who should be sent home if he doesn't play his idol. Parvati says they should put the alternate target on Colby, but Jerri immediately speaks up to object and says she wants the secondary target to be Candice.
Colby and Rupert meet out in the jungle to talk about what the Villains plan on doing. Colby says they'll probably split the votes three on Rupert, and another three on either Colby or Candice. They come up with a plan to put their own votes on Candice, so if the Villains do end up splitting on Candice, she will go home five votes to three. Colby remarks that this is their only shot left in the game.
That night at Tribal Council, Candice's flip to the Villains is discussed, with Rupert telling Jeff that he and Colby are the only true Heroes left. Candice tries to defend her move to Colby and Rupert, who both disrespect her personally and the move she made. Russell speaks up and says Candice made a great move for herself by flipping and not going down on a sinking ship. Before voting, they discuss the idol, where Rupert makes a speech that strongly implies that he found it. At the vote, the Villains split the votes three each for Rupert and Candice, while Rupert and Colby vote for Candice, blindsiding her unexpectedly 5-3.
Returning to camp, Russell is disappointed that the split vote didn't go in his favor and that Candice was voted out. Russell talks to his alliance and voices his frustration that they split the votes on Candice instead of Colby. Jerri scolds Russell for not speaking up if he really didn't want to split the votes on her. Russell gets paranoid and then starts talking about how Rupert is just one immunity away from going to the top. Danielle DiLorenzo and the others in the alliance try to talk him down by saying that Rupert and Colby underperform at challenges and they are only an alliance of two against the five of the Villains.
===Day 33===
The tribe heads to the Immunity Challenge, where the final stage comes down to Russell, Parvati, and Rupert on a slide puzzle. Parvati quickly falls behind and the slide puzzle becomes a battle between Russell and Rupert, with Russell coming out victorious, much to the disappointment of Rupert for again coming in second in Immunity Challenges that he needed to win.
Returning to camp in the rain, Parvati admits in a confessional that she wants Rupert out of the game.
After the rain ends, Parvati meets with Danielle and Russell on the beach and lobbies for Rupert to be sent home, saying that if either of the remaining Heroes makes it to the end, they will win. Russell and Danielle agree with Parvati to vote for Rupert, since Colby is weak in the challenges anyway and won't be a threat to the Villains. Russell, however, is worried about Parvati and Danielle's alliance and has different plans in mind.
Russell speaks one on one with Danielle and tells her that the two of them can't take Parvati to the finals. He says Parvati is going to try to take one of the two of them out at some point, and that they can easily blindside her. Danielle says she trusts Russell, but that even if they ever were going to vote out Parvati, that now would not be the night to do it.
Russell then turns around and speaks with Parvati alone in the jungle and tells her the same story he told Danielle, but in reverse. He says that Danielle wanted to vote her out.
Parvati is highly skeptical of Russell's story that her alliance from Day 1 has now suddenly turned on her and tells Russell that she is going to ask Danielle about what's going on. Russell panics and tries to tell her not to talk to Danielle, even going so far as threatening Parvati that she will get voted out next if she talks to Danielle. Russell's paranoid and panicked reaction only increases Parvati's doubt of his story.
Russell is nervous that Parvati will fact check his story with Danielle, and that is exactly what Parvati goes and does. She talks with Danielle and tells her what Russell had said. Danielle denies targeting Parvati, and tells Parvati that Russell told her the same story but in reverse. They realize Russell must be planning to vote Danielle out instead of one of the Heroes.
Russell talks to Colby and Rupert in the shelter and urges them to eliminate Danielle. Even Colby is shocked to hear what Russell is doing, wondering why Russell would be cannibalizing his alliance, but the two remaining Heroes will do whatever they need to remain in the game another day and enthusiastically agree.
Parvati, Danielle, and Sandra express to each other their frustration with Russell for flipping the game on Danielle. The women assure themselves that all they need to do to foil Russell's mischievous plan is to make sure Jerri doesn't write Danielle's name down. Parvati and Danielle approach Jerri and tell her not to switch her vote. Jerri is shocked that anyone would be thinking of voting for somebody other than Rupert, and promises them she will vote for Rupert and not Danielle. However, Russell pulls Jerri aside later and tells her he wants Danielle gone. Jerri tells him it would be a bad move and to get rid of Rupert instead, but Russell tells her if she doesn't vote out Danielle, she will be next to be ousted, but not because of him, but because of Danielle.
Tribal Council is especially mean spirited. Danielle and Parvati admit they were pitted against each other by Russell. Russell claims Danielle really did want to blindside Parvati and that his story was factual. Russell attacks and insults Danielle, eventually causing her to cry. Upon seeing her crying, Courtney Yates on the jury unsympathetically mocks Danielle by saying, "Boo Hoo". After arguing with her more, Danielle unintentionally reveals that Jerri was never part of their alliance, stunning Jerri, and Russell mouths to Jerri to vote Danielle. She also tells Russell, "I'm closer to Parvati than you think", which causes Russell to smile. This proved to only reinforce Russell's decision to split up the pair. In the end, with the votes of the two remaining Heroes and Jerri, Russell successfully blindsides and eliminate Danielle in a 4-3 vote. Even jurors, J.T. Thomas and Amanda Kimmel are amused that Danielle, a true Villain is eliminated. As Danielle gets up to leave, Parvati whispers to Russell that what he did was stupid, but Russell brushes off her remark.
==Challenges==
<tabber>Immunity (Day 31)=Challenge: When It Rains, It PoursThe castaways would stand on a perch, one arm above their head with their wrist tethered to a bucket of water on top of a platform. The castaway who could stand there the longest without tipping the bucket would win. During the challenge, host Jeff Probst would tempt the castaways to quit with offerings of cookies and milk; donuts and iced coffee; peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, candy, and milk.Winner: |-|Immunity (Day 33)=Challenge: Pegatory KnockoutIn the first round, the castaways would dig up a wooden peg and then guide the peg through a table maze. The first five to finish would move on to the next round. In the second round, the castaways would use four pegs to climb a wall. The first three to reach the top of the wall would move to the final round. The final round would be a sliding puzzle. The first castaway to finish their puzzle would win.Winner: </tabber>
==Tribal Council==
===Day 31===
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====Voting Confessionals====
Russell and Danielle did not give confessionals. Complete confessionals retrieved from CBS' YouTube account.
====Final Words====
===Day 33===
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====Voting Confessionals====
Danielle did not give a confessional.
====Final Words====
===Still in the Running===
									
									
==Trivia==
===Life at Ponderosa===
Walking away from Tribal Council, Candice says that she tried to play hard, but her strategy didn't work out, making the wrong choice and ruining the chances for her team. Candice's weigh in reveals she lost 10-12 lbs., but she says she gained nine or ten to go out.
Candice arrives at Ponderosa nervous about how she will be received because of voting out Amanda who was her friend on the island. As Candice walks into Ponderosa, nobody pays any attention to her, but finally, J.T. decides to break the ice and everyone starts to talk with Candice over a meal. Candice tries to give her story about how Amanda went home, but J.T. tells the camera later that Candice's long winded story is not really believable.
The next day, Candice learns more about Coach, having never met him before. Although she initially thought he was a crazy person based on his first season, after talking with him, she finds that Coach is a really nice guy and is very open to listening to her about anything she wants to talk about. The jury tries to make peace with Candice after Amanda tells them to be nice. As a peace offering, J.T. decides to help Candice bake some brownies.
Later, "The Dragonz" band continue writing and playing music, with everyone helping out. Coach writes and sings a song while J.T. plays the guitar. Leaving for Tribal Council, all the members of the jury leave in Dragonz T-shirts, but at some point later everyone is forced to change shirts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHF8nHgn0shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJzbvRsnfs
Danielle walks away from Tribal Council upset at over opening her mouth at Tribal Council and seeing Russell flip as a last minute decision. In the car ride to the weigh-in, Danielle describes herself as being in a dream, feeling completely out of it. The weigh-in reveals Danielle only lost 5 lbs. Danielle looks forward to getting to experience Ponderosa for the first time.
Danielle arrives at Ponderosa and is welcomed with open arms by everyone, with the exception of Amanda. Danielle and the other jurors talk about Colby not doing anything nor talking to anyone. Danielle is introduced to the resort chef, "the good Russell", who prepares their meals.
The next day, Danielle begins to feel better after getting the freedom of eating her own food. Danielle talks to Coach about being upset over being voted out, but Coach tells her that she did a good thing in standing up to Russell and showing everyone she was not just going to sit around and just be one of the group. That night, The Dragonz shoot a music video.
The next day, Coach goes out on his own to be away from the growing number of people at Ponderosa so he can be on his own. The jury prepares to go to Tribal Council, where everyone hopes to see Russell voted out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJBNMijsTikhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWtyfjObZzw
===Other===
* Rupert makes a reference to Jon Dalton's dead grandmother lie in in in a confessional discussing his confrontation with Russell.
* With Danielle voted out, both returning players from have been eliminated.
* This episode marks the first time a castaway has won the same challenge twice. Parvati previously won the When It Rains, It Pours challenge in .
* This is the second episode in a row in which ships are mentioned in the title.
==References==
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