Verbal Diarrhea

**Verbal Diarrhea** is the fifth episode of *Survivor 41.*

## Story

With Tiffany out of the game, Evvie finds herself alone on the tribe. Although they worked together, Evvie isn't too emotionally crushed, congratulating the other three on the good move. She sits around the fire with them all night, chatting and laughing, doing her best to establish connections. When Evvie and Sara go to bed, JD and Danny stay up, talking excitedly about their futures together in the game. Meanwhile, on Ua, Shan continues to push herself hard, spending any free time talking with Liana and Erika. Both women get along with Shan, Liana especially after they discuss their experiences as Black women. However, they feel overpowered by her constant stream of gametalk. While Erika lays low, Liana talks with Abraham, as they were allied on Yase. They agree that Shan could be worrying, and Abraham gets Liana to talk to Genie more in hopes of sparking a connection. Over on Yase, the rather calm tribe continues to coast. Sydney and Brad forge a very strong connection, becoming close in just a few days. Meanwhile, Xander gets along with both of them as well as Deshawn, while continuing to distance himself from Voce. Deshawn and Sydney agree that working with Brad and Xander is a good idea, as Voce seems out of touch from the rest of the group.

At the Reward Challenge, Xander and Deshawn's skills at throwing help Yase snag the win of comfort items. Unsure of who to send to the Summit, they end up drawing rocks, and Xander chooses the white rock. He decides to bring Abraham with him, as they were allied on Yase and Xander wants to know what things are like for him and Liana. At the Summit, the two reunite happily, quickly discussing their positions in the game. Xander says he feels comfortable on Yase for at least one more vote, while Abraham talks about how he is unsure of where Liana's head is at since Shan is always in her ear. Xander decides to protect his vote so Abraham can risk his to get an advantage to convince Liana to stay with him. Abraham ends up winning the Knowledge is Power advantage from this. Abraham is still nervous, asking Xander to consider throwing the challenge because he feels insecure on the Ua tribe. Xander considers this greatly, feeling safe in his positioning and not wanting to lose either of his closest allies.

When Abraham comes back to Ua, he says he did not get anything. Shan does not believe this for a second, trying to get Liana to turn on Abraham because he and Genie are close and obviously have all the advantages from the Summit. Nervous about this, Abraham reveals his advantage to both Genie and Liana at the same time, hoping this will secure their loyalty to make a majority three. Xander also says he got nothing from the Summit when he returns to Yase, and no one really questions him at first. However, Deshawn is unsure about this, talking with the other members of the tribe about how he thinks Xander probably has something. This gets back to Xander, but he just brushes it off. In the same day, Deshawn also talks to Xander and even Voce, who is on the outs, about how he is worried by the sudden closeness between Brad and Sydney. The Yase guys are stunned by Deshawn's reckless gossip, and are even more surprised when Deshawn proposes the possibility of blindsiding him out of the game so his ally Sydney doesn't drift away from him. Xander and Voce agree to keep this plan between them for now, wanting to hold all their cards for after Immunity. Luvu experiences a much calmer day than the other tribes. The four members relax on the beach all day, bonding together, Evvie fitting right in with JD, Sara, and Danny. While the others go swimming, Danny walks around the jungle, looking for the idol, and eventually finds it. He's able to hide it again before his tribemates come out of the ocean.

At the Immunity Challenge, Yase has a lead going into the puzzle due to their physical strength, but Xander has decided to throw it to protect his allies on Ua, who are in dead last. He slips a puzzle piece to the ground where no one can see it so that he and Deshawn become very confused on the puzzle. This provides an opening for the other two tribes, causing Yase to lose Immunity. After the challenge, everyone agrees it was nobody's fault, but Deshawn is flabbergasted by the sudden loss. He feels weirded out by Xander, especially the fact the lost piece was by Xander's foot. He tells Sydney and Brad that he thinks Xander threw the challenge on purpose. Annoyed by Deshawn's gossiping, Brad and Sydney share this with Xander when discussing voting out Voce, venting about Deshawn's constant paranoia. Bothered by how much his name has been in Deshawn's mouth, Xander decides to reveal Deshawn's plan to blindside Brad with Xander and Voce. Shocked and angry, Sydney confronts Deshawn about all of his lying, shouting about how they were supposed to be in an airtight alliance. Scrambling, Deshawn tries to revert to the very first plan to take out Voce unanimously, begging Sydney to keep him, but she will not be appeased. Seeing him as gossipy, paranoid, and untrustworthy, Sydney gets the others to gang up on Deshawn, and they do so happily, sending him out at Tribal Council in a 4-1 vote.

## Challenges

* Reward
* Immunity

**Challenge:** *Game of Throw-ins*

Each tribe will divide into pairs and be tethered together. One pair from each tribe will race through an obstacle course to retrieve their tribe colored ball. They will then attempt to shoot it into a basket. If they miss, the ball will bounce away from the shooters, forcing them to chase after the ball. The first tribe to score three points wins immunity.

**Reward:** Tarp, blankets, and hammocks

**Additional Stipulation:** One member of the winning tribe will attend the Summit with a member of another tribe of their choosing.

**Winner:** Yase

**Sent to Summit:** Xander Hastings who picked Eric Abraham to go with him.

**Immunity Challenge:** *Smash and Grab*

The four castaways must swim, one at a time, to a platform, grab a club, and leap off the platform to smash a tile that releases a key. The swimmer then retrieves the key and swims back to shore with it, allowing the next tribe mate to go out. Once the four keys are collected, the castaways use the keys to open a locked box containing a set of puzzle pieces that form a map of Fiji. Two of the four castaways then put the puzzle together.

**Winner:** Luvu and Ua

## Voting Confessionals

*Voce was shown writing Deshawn's name down on the parchment.*

## Next Time on Survivor...

After Deshawn's chaotic vote off, the Yase tribe takes a deep breath...

...while on Ua, tensions over Liana's true loyalty begin to thicken.

## Trivia

The episode title was said by Brad Reese when discussing how much Deshawn Radden was running his mouth around camp gossiping and lying to everybody.