Thanks for the Info, but No Thanks

**Next:** | "Going Down Together"

**Thanks for the Info, but No Thanks** is the ninth episode of *Survivor: Philippines*.

## Story

### Night 23

The Yaman tribe returns back to camp after the hectic tribal council, the division is obvious by the separation taking place after tribal council.

As the tribe begins to wind down, Sapa members begin to sleep together and the Gubat members stay on the otherside.

### Day 24

Cristina starts to get up and tend to the fire while taking a look at everyone in the shelter.

The Yaman tribe walks into the challenge site and competes in the "Muddy Waters" reward challenge. Cristina, Grant, Jamir, Kieran and Rashad win the challenge and head off to the resort for lunch.

Cristina, Grant, Jamir, Kieran and Rashad walk into the resort where they are greeted with food on the table. Excitement bounces around the group as they sit down and begin to dig in.

As the group starts to eat their food, no one talks to anyone from the opposing tribe. Jamir and Rashad keep conversations to themselves while Cristina, Grant and Kieran talk amongst themselves.

Jamir makes eye contact with Grant for a moment before he turns away and continues to talk with Kieran.

The group enjoys the rest of their meals before heading back to camp. As soon as they arrive back to camp, Grant starts to excessively brag about the lunch that they went to mainly as Sapa members walked by him.

Moments later, Kieran sneaks off into the woods to try to look for a hidden immunity idol.

Kieran continues to look in the woods, in bushes, in trees, moves dirt around for a while.

### Day 25

The following day, Rashad, Oren, and Jamir are sitting on the beach before they are followed by Cristina and Mao.

Nick shortly follows and sits down with the group. They start talking about how many days that they have been out here and how many days they have left. A couple jokes are thrown in, causing people to laugh.

### Day 26

Yaman tribe walks into the immunity challenge "Flashback" where they compete. In the first round, Jamir and Oren are eliminated from the competition. In the second round, Grant and Kieran are eliminated. In the third round, Danna, Jasmin, Mao and Nick are eliminated. In the fourth round, Cristina and Rashad battle, and Cristina wins out against Rashad, earning her second immunity win. The tribe leaves back to camp, knowing one of the nine non-immune players will go home.

The tribe returns back to camp, and begins to disperse and start talking about the vote. Kieran asks Grant how much he trusts him. Grant promises Kieran that he trusts Kieran the most right now. Kieran throws the idea of voting out Jamir out tonight. Grant says it would make the most sense, but thinks if they have any advantage, they should try to get them to vote Mao. Kieran agrees.

The Sapa tribe excluding Rashad approach Cristina and Kieran. Swearing to vote who they promise, they ask how willing would they be to vote out Mao at tribal council. Kieran mentions he trusted in Jamir in the previous vote and he went against it. Jamir admires Kieran's loyalty, but confesses in order for him to feel safe in the game, it was a move that needed to be done. Kieran tells the group that he will think about it as he walks away.

Jamir asks Cristina how she's feeling. Cristina confesses her tribe's behavior for the previous days have rubbed her the wrong way, and she thinks it may be time to switch it up. Jasmin pitches in and tells Cristina that if she votes against Mao tonight with them, they will be more than happy to work with her. Cristina worries if she makes the move that she'll become number six. Although hesitant, Jamir mentions that they are working together in order to survive whereas Gubat is working together because they are genuinely close to each other.

Cristina tells the group that she will let them know the way she's swinging before tribal council. Everyone thanks Cristina for her time.

Danna and Oren walk away to find Rashad and let him know about the vote. Jasmin tells Jamir she believes Cristina will flip over to their side. Jamir agrees. Jasmin thanks Jamir for playing the idol on her at the last tribal council and lets him know that she won't flip on him and will do her best to protect him.

Mao makes her way to Jasmin and asks to speak with her privately. Jamir agrees and leaves the two alone. Mao mentions to Jasmin that does want to work with her than rather be enemies with each other. Jasmin tells Mao that she voted for her at the previous tribal while Jasmin did not vote for Mao. Mao acknowledges her vote and wants to prove herself to be an ally.

Jasmin tells Mao that there is talk about splitting the vote between her and Danna. Jasmin tells Mao if she votes for Danna alongside her, it'll throw off the split vote and flip it to Danna. Mao thanks Jasmin for the information and in return exposes the original Gubat alliance with Grant, Kieran, Nick, Seth and herself. Jasmin asks about Cristina and Mao tells Jasmin that she wasn't included in the alliance. Jasmin thanks Mao for telling her and also says that as long as they vote Danna that it will work in her favor.

Before Tribal, Jamir and Kieran talk again. Jamir tells Kieran how much he respect him and wants to say the game move he made last tribal was to benefit himself and hopes they can work together. Kieran shakes Jamir's hand and tells him that he repsect the move, but did lose some trust that he does hope they'll eventually get back.

The tribe begins to grab their torches for tribal council and walk to tribal.

At Tribal Council, the tribe discusses the level field being even with Gubat having five and Sapa having five. Jamir discusses the affect that last tribal had around camp. Kieran mentions the Gubat tribe has been a family since Day 1 and it was like seeing someone from the family leave. The tribe is asked if things have mended since then and Nick answers saying the tribes have spoke to each other again, but it doesn't change alliances in the game. Jasmin brings out that there are certain plans in play for tonight that could change the game. The tribe goes to vote. As a result, Mao is blindsided in a 6-3-1 vote.

## Challenges

* Reward
* Immunity
**Challenge:** *Muddy Waters*
Contestants will be broken into two teams. They must go through a small obstacle course. They use the balls they collected to shoot into a basket. First team to get 12 balls in the basket wins.
**Reward:** A trip to a resort and lunch.
**Winner:** Cristina Wong, Grant Kerr, Jamir Weaver, Kieran Grover, and Rashad Singh.

**Challenge:** *Flashback*
Jeff would recite a series of symbols to the Survivors. When the sequence was finished, the castaways must recite the sequence back to him in order using their answer cube. Every time someone answered wrong, they would be eliminated. In the end, the last person left presenting the right answer will win the challenge.
**Winner:** Cristina Wong

## Tribal Council

 Mao (6 votes)
 Jamir (3 votes)
 Danna (1 vote)
 VOTED OUT:Mao May

## Trivia

* The episode's title comes from a line said by Jasmin Summers after Mao May exposed the Gubat Alliance.