The Marooning

The Marooning is the first episode of and of the American television series .
==Story==
===Day 1===
Sixteen Americans from different walks of life were sent to a remote Malaysian fishing village to board a small boat. In the middle of the ocean, the cast was instructed to salvage all supplies that they can get, jump overboard to their tribe rafts on the small, uncharted deserted island of Pulau Tiga, located in the South China Sea off the Malaysian coast of Borneo.
The sixteen castaways were divided into two competing tribes. They must survive the elements and each other for the next 39 days, or they will be voted off the island. In the end, only one will claim the $1,000,000 prize and the title of Sole Survivor.
The two tribes, Pagong and Tagi, began to scramble to pull as many supplies as they could off the boat and onto their own rafts.The Tagi tribe arrived at camp, happily setting up camp and talking about creating a shelter almost immediately. Early on the younger members of Tagi become annoyed with their oldest member, 72-year-old Rudy Boesch.Richard asked his tribe to take a few minutes to relax before they start setting up the camp, and his tribe agreed to stop for a bit before immediately building a shelter. 
Early on, sickness among castaways started to set in, as the paddle from the boat took place under a hot equatorial sun. Pagong was fighting the current, and their journey took almost two hours longer than Tagi's. Both Ramona and Gretchen swallowed salt water en route, with Ramona vomiting over the side of the raft before reaching the shore, and Gretchen heaving on the fringe of the jungle once they had made land. While approaching their beach, Jenna of Pagong haplessly breast-stroked to their camp, without even knowing that Pulau Tiga has one of the highest concentration of sea snakes. When they finally reached shore, Pagong's Gervase made sure Ramona was okay and cheered that his tribe has finally completed their trek.
Back at Tagi, Kelly and Dirk decided that their tribe should organize together and try to figure out how to build a shelter. Rudy clashed again with the rest of his tribe when he suggests a certain way to make the shelter, and Sue interjects with her own ideas. As the tribe argued, Richard sat in a tree and acted as the voice of reason, telling his tribe they should come up with an organized plan before the argument continues. This led Rudy to lay out exactly what they want, prompting some more discussion and leading the tribe to look through their supplies.Sue approached Richard, still sitting in the tree, and told him that he should come help the rest of the tribe build the shelter. Richard told Sue that the tribe should determine their own goals as a tribe in order to function in unison as a tribe. Sue tells Richard that he needs to help because "corporate world isn't gonna work out here in the bush", which leads Richard to tell him they need to solidify Tagi as a team.
Tagi breaks open the chest they took from the marooning to discover various different supplies, a team flag, and Richard finally decides to join the tribe. Richard tells his tribe that the tribe should move towards one team goal, rather than multiple individual goals. Now united, the tribe works together to help put together their camp with every member, including Richard, taking part in constructing the main shelter and the latrine.
Back at Pagong, the tribe discovers a water map and attempts to find a watering hole. Ramona and B.B. work together to try and follow the route to their watering hole. After some searching, B.B. stumbles across a watering hole filled with brackish water. B.B. jokes with Ramona about how their knowledge of watering hole could prevent the other members of their tribe from voting them out.
As day turned to night, neither tribe was entirely settled—though Tagi had constructed a magnificent makeshift outhouse—and neither had fire for cooking a hot meal. With rats and snakes beginning their nocturnal beach invasion, the sixteen brave men and women settled down for a night of fitful rest.
===Day 2===
The Tagi tribe woke up early, and Kelly led the tribe to a yoga session. Rudy admitted he was secretly struggling to get along with his much-younger tribemates. 
Later, Sonja injured her left foot; and Sean, a doctor, tended to her medicals needs. As Sean and Richard worked on the camp, they discovered varying degrees of results using both an ax and a flimsy knife which broke when Sean attempted to use it. Shortly after, Sonja played Richard a version of the song "Bye Bye Blues" using her luxury item, her ukulele. Afterwards, Richard begins to provide for his tribe by using the fish and rat traps that he took from the pagonging. As he cuts up one of the rats to use as bait in the traps, Stacey looks away in disgust.Pagong barely slept because of last night's rat invasion.
 
B.B. squabbled with his tribemates about work ethic. He got on a lot of people's bad side as he complained about people not helping him work on the shelter.
B.B. continued to work on the shelter as the other people in his tribe slack off and swim or walk away talking together. He is irritated especially after Colleen doesn't do the simple task of straightening out a roll of rope.
Worried about B.B., Gretchen told him that he should get out of the sun. After he refused to stop working, Gretchen decided to help him work on the shelter. B.B. told Gretchen that it is his hobby to work and that he would not stop building their shelter even in the heat.
Using B.B.'s glasses, the tribe was finally able to start a fire.
Over at Tagi, the tribe also tried to start a fire in order to cook a meal.
Dirk attempted to rub two sticks together, using a piece of kindling in the middle, hoping that they would be able to start a fire that way. After several different methods, Tagi has no luck starting a fire.
Sonja discovered that her tribe had tree mail, telling them that they would be participating in a challenge for both Immunity and Reward.
Later, the two teams met Jeff Probst, where he revealed that they would compete in their first challenge, where it was announced that the winning team would receive 50 waterproof matches, as well as the Immunity Idol, which symbolizes the guarantee of staying on the island for three more days. The losing tribe will proceed to Tribal Council and vote one tribemate off the game.
In the challenge, each tribe had to swim out to a raft with a flame burning on it. The tribes would then have to bring the raft back to the beach, using a torch to bring flame to each unlit torch they passed along their way. The first tribe to light all their torches and then bring flame to a large fire pit at the finish would win. At all points during the challenge, every tribe member had to be touching the raft.
It was a close race between Pagong and Tagi, but Tagi's Sonja stumbled as they reach the beach. In the end, Pagong emerged victoriously.
===Day 3===
At Tagi, Richard targeted Stacey for being the weakest, while the others were gunning for Rudy and Sonja for being the oldest castaways. Also, Sonja's poor performance at the challenge made her a target for elimination. 
Stacey conspired with the women about voting out the grumpy Rudy.
Sue initially said she agreed to the plan, but in a confessional, she declared she had other ideas.
At Tribal Council, Sue joined Dirk, Sean, and Rudy in eliminating Sonja. She was first to go in 4-3-1 vote.
==Challenges==
Reward/Immunity Challenge: Quest for FireTribes must guide a raft they lit a series of torches along the way. Throughout the challenge, tribe members must have a hand touch the raft at all times. Upon reaching shore, the tribe must lit the remaining torches before setting their side of the fire spirit ablaze. The first tribe to set fire on their side of the fire spirit wins the challenge.Reward: 50 waterproof matches.Winner: 
==Tribal Council==
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===Voting Confessionals===
Kelly was shown writing the letter R on the parchment. Sean and Dirk's confessionals appeared in the DVD version.
===Final Words===
===Still in the Running===
							
							
==Trivia==
===Behind the Scenes===
* In Mark Burnett's book Survivor: The Ultimate Game, he describes a deleted scene that took place on Tagi on Night 2. The Tagi tribe were around the bonfire at night when Richard Hatch decided to come out as gay and told his tribemates about "his past and the difficulties of being a gay growing up in a conservative area". According to Burnett, this was probably the most important moment of the season and where the relationships that would later evolve to form the Tagi Alliance began.
===Other===
* Rudy Boesch was the first contestant to have a confessional.
* Susan Hawk was the first contestant to cast a vote at Tribal Council.
* This is the only time Richard Hatch voted for someone who wasn't eliminated at Tribal Council in Borneo.
* Sonja Christopher was the first castaway voted out in history.
* This episode was voted the 7th best Survivor episode of all time in the "Top 25 Greatest Episodes of all time" poll by Survivor Oz in 2015.
* Filming for began exactly 15 years after this episode originally aired.http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/08/survivor-second-chance-jeff-probst-promises-chaos-and-scrambling
==References==
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Category:Borneo Episodes
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Category:Survivor (U.S.)
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