She's Like the Worst Nightmare

## Subpages

**She's Like the Worst Nightmare** is the premiere episode of *Survivor: Polynesia*.

## Story

### Day 1

Twenty eight strangers arrived on a boat to the Polynesia wearing only the clothes on their backs. Believing they were merely posing for their pre-season photo shoot, the castaways were unaware that the game had already begun.

Jeff Probst welcomed the castaways to the Polynesia. He informed them that the game of *Survivor* would be starting exactly at that moment, which received very shocked faces among the castaways who were completely not prepared to start the game so soon, as they expected the game to start a few days later. He also tells them that bags with their other clothes will be waiting for them back at their camps.

Jeff comments on the wardrobe. He points out that Matt was wearing a suit, and Kira was wearing a strapless dress.

Jeff then asked them to take out and give their personal items (watches, wallets, money, passports, jewelry, etc.). Conor brought everybody laughter as he put wine and alcohol into Jeff's bag with Jeff smiling and saying "You were really hoping, weren't you?". Jeff then states that they will be separated into four tribes of seven named after four polynesian islands: Akamaru, wearing blue, Kamaka, wearing yellow, Papuri, wearing red, and Taravai, wearing pink. Jeff calls Kara, Katie, Madeline, Mike, Patrick, Preston, and Simon and sorts them into Akamaru tribe.

Jeff then calls Angie, Marissa, Martha, Matt, Matthew, Nadya, and Parker and asigns them into Kamaka tribe.

He calls Cory, Jacob, Maggie, Paul, Sally, Sandra, and Sylvia and asigns them into Papuri tribe.

At the end, Jeff calls Cameron, Carol, Conor, Kira, Maya, Peter, and Shane and sorts them into Taravai tribe.

Jeff says on the boat are supplies to make their life at camp easier. The castaways are told they each have just a few minutes to grab everything they can from the ship before leaping over to their raft. From fruits to chickens to firewood, the castaways waste no time collecting as much supplies within the very tight time limit. The one minute lapses, prompting the castaways to lower their rafts and jump overboard. Over the commotion, Kamaka releases their raft, but accidentally drops their items. Marissa realizes that Matt, who had a bad fall from the boat to the raft, is in pain because of his knee, and asks him if his leg is okay. Matt replies that he is fine, though he tries to hide the pain from his tribemates.

After arriving on their beach and disembarking from their raft, Akamaru tribe greet one another with hugs and they are introdcing themselves.

Moments later, as the tribe builds shelter, Mike starts barking orders on how to construct it, to Kara and Patrick's annoyance.

Taravai arrives at camp and immediately unload the supplies from their boat. They are introducing themselves and share their first impressions about other castmates. Cameron makes up a lie about his personal life in order to gain more sympathy from his tribemates.

When the rest of the tribe is building their shelter. Maya is ready to make alliances right away. She first approaches Cameron and suggests the two of them team up with Kira and Conor to form an alliance, to which Cameron agrees. Also Conor is a little attracted to Kira and he shares his impression about her. Peter and Carol are worried about the four younger people teaming up so early in the game.

### Day 3

The Akamaru tribe return to camp upset at losing the challenge, feeling that they might have had too much hubris going into the competition. The tribe is clearly demoralized by their defeat at the hands of the other tribes. Mike and Simon are blaming Madeline for their lose and they don't hide their dislike towards her, what pretty much irritates Katie, who believes that Mike and Simon will go after all girls in the tribe.

Katie brings Kara and Madeline aside and tells them that it will be a great oportunity to vote Mike out, which the other girls agrees. Kara decides to bring Patrick and Preston in, because she knows that they don't like Mike and would be pretty much happy to vote him out as soon as possible. The both guys listen to the idea, but they are unsure what to do.

Kara shares her thought with Katie about keeping Mike to win some challenges in the future, but Katie disagrees. Both of them makes one more attempt to plead to Preston and Patrick about keeping Madeline in the game.

The Akamaru arrive at Tribal Council for the first time and light their torches. Jeff gave an open statement to talk about the first three days, at which point Madeline smiled and noted, "I knew you were gonna want to talk to me a lot, Jeff" because she knew she was on the chopping block. She owned her mistakes in the Immunity Challenge and promised to be much better at challenges and around camp.

As thunder cracked and the rain started to pour, Jeff asked Mike about his behavior towards Madeline at camp. He answered that he didn't want to hurt her feelings, he was just mad about losing a challenge. Mike added that Simon had told him that he was a target because of his work ethic and bossiness, pointing out that he had been unaware that he'd been coming off so negatively, but owned his mistakes.

Asked how it would feel to be the first out, Madeline said that she would be disappointed because she'd come to play, and that for the tribe to succeed, they couldn't be "thinking about the last two-thirds; you've got to be thinking about the first third and getting there." What Mike and Simon were saying about her back at camp, led to her saying that Akamaru were "her people" and while she understood that someone had to go, she didn't want it to be her, and pointed directly at Mike. Mike said that such accusations were common strategy when you were about to be voted out.

Kara said that Madeline is correct and they shouldn't be thinking about the game so far in the future, because they needs to get there first. She added that tribe strength is also something to consider, because with the trust alone, they can't win challenges and if they keep losing, she or anyone else in that tribe could be the victim of that. Preston backed up everything what Kara said, but added that some people in that tribe don't really care about the tribe as a whole, but only about their own games. Katie felt like he was talking about her, because she openly said that she is voting for Mike and don't care about strength, but about who she can trust moving forward and who is better for her game.

As Simon was asked about the "big vote," he answered that they had to make the vote based on keeping the tribe strong. As the thunder roared, Katie answered that her vote based on keeping the tribe unified and trustworthy. Patrick said he was conflicted for the entire Tribal Council, but finally has made his decission.

Jeff then initiated the vote. Katie voted first, followed by Mike, who cast his vote for "Madeline." Kara followed and Madeline then returned the favor with a vote for Mike. Simon, Patrick and Preston concluded the proceedings and Jeff tallied the votes.

The first vote was for Madeline, followed by one for Mike. Each received another vote, tying the score at 2-2. However, the last three votes came up for Mike. He took his torch to Jeff, muttering "Unbelievable." With that, Mike Stray became the first contestant eliminated from *Survivor: Polynesia*. Jeff urged the tribe to get it together quickly, before sending them back to camp.

## Challenges

**Reward/Immunity Challenge**: *Quest for Fire*
The tribes are to push a platform with a fire cauldron through the water, lighting torches along the way with the fire in the cauldron. Upon getting onto shore, they must carry the platform and light a series of torches while on land. After this, one member from each tribe will attempt to make a pole long enough with pieces of stick and twine in order to retrieve a key from behind a gate. The first tribe to go past the gate and light a final torch wins immunity.
**Reward**: A fire-making kit (1st place); flint (2nd and 3rd place)
**Winners** (in order of finish): Taravai, Papuri, Kamaka

## Trivia

* Akamaru and Papuri used their raft as the floor of their shelter, while Kamaka and Taravai used theirs as their roof.
* The episode title was said by Preston Kass about Madeline Hathaway.