Ignorance is Bliss

**Ignorance is Bliss** is the sixth episode of *Survivor: Patagonia*.

## Story

Both tribes have the upcoming merge on their mind, and Louise is once again upset with the rest of her tribe as this was the second time she was on the outs of the vote after tribal council. The Viedma Core comment how they feel Leona will be easy to takeover as they seemed to be weakened after their losing streak.

Later on Bugs suggests the tribe eat the remaining chickens just so the Leona tribe can't have any, a suggestion which Bubbles finds rude and insulting. When Katniss overrules her and chops the head off of one chicken, Bubbles flies off crying.

Leona has controversy of their own when Emma jokingly comments, calling Leela "cyclops" which Leela takes personal offense to. Emma brushes it off as a mere joke, Leela reveals that word become a near slur to her where she comes from. Every is particularly upset with Emma's ignorance and not seeming to take the issue seriously.

Both tribes received Tree Mail for their next Reward Challenge wrapped around a canned good. Opening the can, revealed what appeared to be dog food. Some castaways proceeded to eat it but were not pleased with it.

The days following, both tribes have conversations of sticking together in the incoming merge. After losing the final tribal immunity, Viedma is going to tribal council thus evening up the numbers.

Steven hopes for the tribe to remain united going into the merge, and suggests a plan to vote out Louise due to her being the only one on the outs of both votes they've had so far, which most everyone agrees to. Wishing to be completely transparent, Steven tells Louise exactly what he did. Though she understands Steven's perspective, Louise has no intentions of going down without a fight and tells Katniss that Steven spilled the beans on the plan to her. This deeply annoys Katniss, who is uncomfortable taking Steven to the merge if he's so willing to give away their gameplan to the target just for the sake of "fairness".

At tribal council talk revolved around the merge and the gameplan for entering it. Steven reveals the play for tribal unity, and eventually Katniss calls him out for telling Louise about the plan to vote her out. She then says she wants to vote Steven out, which causes Bubbles to argue back in defense of her friend. The argument eventually ends with Bubbles in tears, and when it comes time to vote The Viedma Core sides with Louise and Steven is voted out 4-1-1.

## Challenges

* Reward
* Immunity
**Challenge:** *Abandoned Barracks*
One at a time, each tribe member raced to a barrack. There were three different items in there (a can opener, a knife, and an army helmet). The first tribe to get all of their items (with no duplicates) back to the start wins reward.
**Reward:** Canned foods and a chocolate bar.
**Winner:** Leona

**Challenge:** *The Obstacle Course*
After being split up into pairs, the tribes must race through a military-style obstacle course. The first pair will run the first half of the course where they will meet up with the second pair. Together the two pairs will run the second half of the course. The first tribe to cross the finish line wins immunity.
**Winner:** Leona

## Trivia

* This episode's title is in reference the Emma's comments being accidentally insulting towards Leela.