This Will Help Me in the Battle Field

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**This Will Help Me in the Battle Field** is the season premiere of *Survivor: Thailand*.

## Story

### Day 1

Traveling on two boats in the waters of Thailand, 20 new castaways are about to begin the adventure of a lifetime. They have already been separated into two tribes: Kalasin and Phayao​​​​. Once the boats were docked at a beach, the groups convened in front of the host who welcomed them. Each group from the boats stand on their respective mats. Everyone looking around at each other.

After meeting all the contestants, the game opens with a Reward Challenge. Willa and Novak go head to head against Bree and Espen; in which, Bree and Espen pull out the first point for Phayao. Allan and Jelia pull out a win for Kalasin as they win against Rico and Serene. The third round is won by Ken and Freya for Kalasin against Alessia and Foley for Phayao. With Kalasin 1 point away from winning, Nasir and Tati pull out a much needed win against Daughtry and Kaiti. The tribes are tied 2-2, and the final round decides the winner. Eleos and Malany reign victorious for Phayao as they win against Darion and Helen. Phayao win the first reward challenge of the season, so they leave the challenge site with a fire-making kit. Kalasin lost the challenge, and leave the challenge with nothing.

Before leaving the challenge, Phayao is left with an important decision. They must decide as a tribe which member from the Kalasin tribe that they want to send to Exile Island. Whoever they send to Exile Island will rejoin their tribe at the next immunity challenge. Phayao ultimately decides on sending Daughtry to Exile Island. Daughtry is now faced with an important decision as well. He must choose someone from Phayao tribe to join him on Exile Island. Daughtry chooses Espen to join him on Exile Island. They both head off to the beach where a boat awaits for them.

The boat speeds up to Exile Island. Daughtry and Espen get off the boat, and head up to the white flag on the island. Once they reach the flag, they notice two urns on top of a small table. There is a sign that reads, "You both must choose one of the two urns. One of the urns contains nothing inside while the other urn contains a potentially game-changing twist." They both look at the urns before finally choosing their own urn. Espen opens Urn 1 which contains nothing inside. Daughtry opens Urn 2 which contains a note that must be read in private.

Daughtry opens the note which reads, "You must now make a decision on how you would like to receive an advantage. You have the easy route that locates to a Hidden Immunity Idol, and you have a dangerous route that will put your game on the line for a bigger advantage." Daughtry debates between the two options before finally choosing the easy route.

Daughtry unties the string from the original note to reveal a small map of his camp with a large circle around an area of the camp.

On the Kalasin tribe, the castaways reach their tribe flag, and immediately start to introduce themselves to each other. Shortly after introducing themselves, they begin to work on making a shelter. Helen and Willa get into a disagreement over how to build the shelter in front of the whole tribe.

Helen and Willa stand across from the shelter, avoiding eye contact.

Darion, Kaiti, Jelia and Novak check on Helen who has walked off into the woods.

Meanwhile, Allan and Ken sit near Willa by the fire. Freya is seem minding her own business on the beach. Allan and Ken talk with Willa, and try to reassure her about her position on the tribe. However, their antics don't work and Willa begins to panic.

Freya continues to mind her business back on the beach by collecting sea shells.

After the first fight of the season, everyone makes their way back to camp. They continue to build the shelter. After feeling on the outs already, Willa goes around to everyone for conversation. She starts making individual conversations with everyone as they continue to work on the shelter.

Darion and Novak head off into the woods to find where the well is located. Darion asks Novak where his head is at in the game. Novak doesn't give a solid answer. Darion asks Novak what his thoughts are about Allan. Novak tells Darion that Allan hasn't made a good impression on him so far in the game. Darion agrees. Darion asks Novak what are the chances that he would go after Allan first if they were to lose the challenge. Novak considers it, and tells Darion that if the numbers were there that he would have no problem with it.

Darion and Novak shake hands that they won't go after each other, but rather try to rally votes for Allan.

Later, Freya and Novak meet up on the beach. Freya and Novak bring up the thought about who they would want to target in the game. Novak brings up Allan's name which doesn't sit with Freya.

Novak keeps pushing for Allan to be the target, and Freya agrees with him.

On the Phayao tribe, the entire tribe is cheering and hugging each other as they reach their tribe flag. They start introducing themselves to each other, and Bree starts jumping up and down which starts to rub the other members of the tribe the wrong way.

After introductions, the tribe starts to disperse to build a shelter for themselves. While trying to collect wood, Nasir becomes dehydrated and passes out in the woods. Medical comes to the rescue, and the tribe gathers around from a distance.

Nasir starts to regain consciousness, and the doctor tells him and the tribe that they will need to check up with him in a few days. Nasir is informed that he will remain in the game unless his conditions worsen.

The tribe continues to collect supplies for their shelter. People continue to talk about each other, and get to know each other. While bringing back a long log, Malany and Rico begin to talk strategy with each other. They talk strategy, and realize that they both share similar strategies.

As the day goes on, Rico is bringing fire wood after fire wood without any break. The other tribe members start to talk about how much work Rico has put into making the shelter.

Eleos approaches Rico while he's gathering wood, compliments his work ethics, and the two continue to gather wood for their tribe.

After finally getting everything ready at camp to start building the shelter, Rico, Eleos, Bree, Foley, Malany and Tati all stand in one area of the camp. They're laughing, sharing stories and having a fun time with each other.

There is a silence after a while. Everyone works on their part of the shelter until Rico finally throws out the idea that everyone there protects each other. Everyone agrees with the idea.

### Day 2

Meanwhile on Exile Island, Daughtry and Espen decide to spend the day exploring the island together.

Daughtry and Espen start hiking up mountains. The clouds start moving in and the sky becomes dark. The two of them rest at a huge rock. Espen advices that the two of them turn around, but Daughtry says that they should keep moving. Espen caves and they keep moving. Eventually the rain starts to pour down. An irritated Espen starts an argument with Daughtry for keeping them away from shelter. The argument results in the two of them turning back around to go back to camp.

Once the two arrive back to their camp, the rain has finally slowed down. They notice that the rain took out the fire, so they begin working together to try to start a fire together. After a while, they spark a flame and a fire is lit. The moods are lifted between the two of them.

### Day 3

Both the tribes walk on the challenge sit and stand on their respective mats. The boat arrives with Daughtry and Espen. They both hop out of the boat and head to their tribes who both greet them with a group hug.

The rules of the challenges are explained to the challenges, and they get in their positions. The challenge ends with Phayao winning immunity, sending Kalasin to the first tribal council of the season.

Back at the Kalasin tribe, the tribe is bummed about losing the challenge and having to send someone home first. Members of the tribe try to comfort the people who performed poorly in the challenge, but Allan begins to boast about how well he performed in the challenge. Much to annoy members like Helen and Kaiti.

Helen starts to get heated and takes a walk in the woods with Daughtry. The two start talking about Allan's ego. Helen starts panicking about the vote tonight, and how she could be in danger. Daughtry calms her nerves by confiding in Helen about his clue on Exile Island. Helen grabs Daughtry's hands in excitement. They agree to help each other find the key and the idol.

Daughtry tells Helen the clue, and the two start to look around the island together. After searching the woods for a while, Daughtry spots something hanging in the trees. Daughtry climbs the tree, and grabs the key to unlock the hidden immunity box.

Daughtry climbs out of the tree, and continues to look in the woods. While he's searching, Helen lets out a small scream and Daughtry comes sprinting over. Helen grabs the hidden immunity idol box. Daughtry tells Helen that he found the key. Helen with no hesitation gives Daughtry the hidden immunity idol box which he unlocks and takes the hidden immunity idol for himself.

Daughtry hugs Helen, and the two of them head back to camp.

Allan and Freya take a walk to the well. As they walk, Allan tells Freya that he has felt that the two of them could work together and potentially dominate the game. Freya agrees with Allan. Allan asks Freya where her head is at for tonight's vote. Freya tells him that Novak is playing the game too hard too fast. Allan agrees with her. Freya tells Allan that Novak dropped his name. Allan becomes heated, wanting to confront Novak, but Freya warns hims that it's not a smart idea.

After a while, the tribe is sitting around camp, it's completely silence until Allan tells everyone that he has something important to say. He lets the tribe know that he knows that his name has been thrown around by someone on the tribe. He lets the tribe know that he does not appreciate it, and again tells them that be puts a lot on the table for them by being a strong competitor in challenges.

Kaiti and Helen reconnect and start talking about the speech Allan gave to the tribe.

Kaiti and Helen talk about getting votes against Willa over Allan and Novak. Helen agrees with Kaiti.

Helen talks with Darion, Daughtry and Novak about potentially voting out Willa over Allan. Helen warns Novak that votes could be coming his way, and this could save him from being voted out.

At Tribal Council, the tribe all come to an agreement that the first three days have been tough for them. Daughtry explains what it's like to come into a tribe of strangers after missing two important days. He says that he missed an argument between Helen and Willa. Helen explains that the argument that took place on Day 1 between herself and Willa. Willa tells the tribe that she has been trying to make up for it around camp, which all agree that she has. Allan brings up the fact that he has been targeted by Novak. Novak admits to targeting Allan because of his attitude. Many of the other tribe members agree that Allan has an ego. Daughtry breaks down that the vote comes down to Novak and Willa, and the tribe is divided.

In the end, Daughtry votes with his ally, Helen, to vote out Willa in a 6-4 vote, ultimately leaving Allan, Freya and Ken on the bottom of the tribe and pissed.

Kalasin returns back to camp, they place their torches down, and start getting ready for bed. Allan, Freya and Ken sit on one side of the shelter, and the others lay down on the other.

### Day 4

In the morning, everyone starts to wake up, and sits around the camp. Darion quickly notices Jelia starting to talk more with members of the minority.

Darion goes up to Jelia and confronts her about talking with the enemy. They go back and forth and gather a crowd consisting of Kaiti, Ken, Helen & Novak. The two go back and forth with Darion accusing of Jelia trying to play the game in her favor. Jelia storms off with Ken trailing behind him.

Kaiti, Helen and Novak stay behind and reaffirm Darion about their group being strong. Novak tells Darion to lay under the radar.

Ken catches up to Jelia who has walked to the well and sat on the ground with her hands in her face. Ken wraps his arms around Jelia.

Ken walks back to camp with Jelia and asks for everyone to meet back the camp. Everyone slowly starts to walk back. Ken begins with addressing how he already feels on the bottom of the tribe, and not talking to them won't help them as a tribe. Members of the tribe start to agree.

Novak sticks up for Ken and agrees with him. He stays that a divided tribe isn't going to help them win challenges. Freya sits down on the log, and starts to focus her attention on Novak.

Throughout the day, Freya notices Novak talking one on one with every tribe member in the game.

On Phayao Tribe, Serene and Bree lay on the beach, getting a tan with each other. Bree opens up about her ex-boyfriend the struggles she's had with him. Serene relates to Bree about one of her exes who really broke her heart.

Later, the tribe excluding Bree and Malany are sitting around camp wondering where Bree and Malany went. Alessia tells the tribe that they are the last two that should be leaving camp after the first couple days of annoying the tribe.

Rico throws out that he likes both of the ladies, but he wants to solidify a strong tribe. He asks the seven of them what he thinks about an alliance with the 8 of them.

Everyone agrees, they smile, laugh and continue to conversate.

### Day 5

Phayao walks into the challenge site first then they are followed by Kalasin. At the challenge, five from each tribe had to cross planks in the water and then swim from a pontoon to a bigger platform. From there they had to break tiles to get keys. The remaining four then had to unlock a crate with sand bags in them. They had to throw the bags at blocks. The first tribe to have knocked all the blocks off a big platform, which raises their tribe flag, wins. Phayao easily dominated the Kalasin tribe sending them back to tribal council. Before leaving Phayao had to choose one person from Kalasin to go to exile island, they chose to send Daughtry again. Daughtry chose to bring Alessia to exile island with him. Daughtry was made aware that he would not attend tribal council.

The boat speeds up to Exile Island. Alessia and Daughtry get off the boat, and head up to the white flag on the island. Once they reach the flag, Alessia notices two urns on top of a small table. There is a sign that reads, "You both must choose one of the two urns. One of the urns contains nothing inside while the other urn contains a potentially game-changing twist." Alessia looks at Daughtry before finally choosing their own urn. Alessia opens Urn 1 which contains a note that must be read in private. Daughtry opens Urn 2 which contains nothing.
Daughtry asks Alessia if she got the note, and she tells him that she did.

Alessia walks off in private and reads the note which says ""You must now make a decision on how you would like to receive an advantage. You have the easy route that locates to a Hidden Immunity Idol, and you have a dangerous route that will put your game on the line for a bigger advantage."

Alessia grabs the note under the dangerous route. She is given a map of the next challenge, and the location to an extra vote.

Back at Kalasin tribe, the tribe arrives back to camp and immediately disperses around the island. Freya finds herself walking in the woods with Darion. Darion asks Freya if there is any way that she would turn on her allies if it meant she could stay another day. Freya thinks about it before finally throwing out Allan's name. Darion looks at Freya, a little shocked, and he asks what dirt she has on Allan that could convince the other tribe members to vote him off. Freya tells Darion that Allan wants to go after him tonight instead of Novak. Darion asks Freya what she's thinking about targeting. Freya doesn't give him an answer. Darion tells Freya to come to him when she's sure.

After the awkward conversation with Darion, Freya finds herself sitting with Kaiti talking about the possibility that the two of them could work together. Kaiti doesn't shut down the idea.

Freya throws out the idea that the two of them could work together if they really wanted to. Kaiti says they could bring in Allan, Jelia and Novak for an alliance of five. Freya doesn't disagree with the idea.

Kaiti calls over Allan, Jelia and Novak. The five of them sit down and dicuss the idea of an alliance. Allan and Jelia jump at the idea of forming an alliance of five.

Kaiti asks who they feel like should be the one leaving tonight. Allan, Freya and Jelia all agree that they should blindside Darion at tribal council. Kaiti throws out the idea of voting out Ken, but they shut it down.

Novak meets up with Darion, Helen, and Kaiti as the sun starts to slowly move down and the tribe is about to go to tribal council. Novak tells the group that they are planning to vote out Darion. Darion suggests that they vote for Freya, but Helen and Kaiti convince them to vote out Ken instead. It would be a complete blindside for them. Darion agrees, and thinks that they should make them scramble.
Darion starts an argument with Ken about trying to get him out of the game. Allan, knowing this isn't true, backs up Ken. The fight results in the two sides at odds. The tribe begins to gather their stuff, and torches before walking to tribal council.

At Tribal Council, they address the obvious division in the tribe. Allan, Freya and Ken claim to be on the bottom of the tribe. Freya asks Darion's allies to turn against him and join them in voting him out of the game. Darion rebuttles by saying that keeping the three of them in the game is a dangerous trio. After everyone votes, the vote is tied 4-4 between Darion and Ken. Before the revote, Helen, Kaiti and Novak make it clear to Allan, Freya and Jelia that they will not be changing their votes and they are willing to go to rocks.
In the end, fear overcame Allan, Freya and Jelia as they turned on Ken by voting him out of the game in a 6-0 vote.

## Challenges

* Reward
* Immunity (Day 3)
* Reward/Immunity (Day 5)
**Challenge:** *Battle Dig*
The tribes would face off in pairs. The four castaways would race along the beach to dig up a single bag in a designated lane. The castaways would then have to race back to their respective finish mat. The first person to be touching the bag and their finish mat would score a point for their tribe. The first tribe to score three points would win
**Reward:** Fire-Making Kit
**Winner:**
Phayao

**Challenge:** *Losing Face*
Five members of each tribe must assemble a wheelbarrow, then navigate it through a course. Once through the course, each tribe must then unite a series of knots to release a set of sandbags. They must then take sandbags and place them in a trough. Once all of their sandbags are in the trough, the other five members must take apart the wheelbarrow and assemble it to create a slingshot. Using their sandbags, tribes will then need to knock down five targets. The first tribe to knock down all five targets wins.
**Winner:**
Phayao

**Challenge:** *Smash and Grab*
For this challenge, five from each tribe had to cross planks in the water and then swim from a pontoon to a bigger platform. From there they had to break tiles to get keys. The remaining four then had to unlock a crate with sand bags in them. They had to throw the bags at blocks. The first tribe to have knocked all the blocks off a big platform, which raises their tribe flag, wins.
**Reward:** Fishing kit with a raft waiting at the winning tribe's camp
**Winner:**
Phayao

## Tribal Council

### Day 3

 Willa (6 votes)
 Novak (4 votes)
 VOTED OUT:Willa Barrows

### Day 6

* First Vote
* Revote

 Darion (4 votes)
 Ken (4 votes)
 TIE:Darion, Ken (4 votes each)

 Ken (6 votes)
 Darion (4 votes)

## Trivia

* This is the first season premiere to have two tribal councils.

### Episode Title

* The title was said by Daughtry Haynes about using his Hidden Immunity Idol to work his way through the game.