I'm Gonna Have the Time of My Life

**I'm Gonna Have the Time of My Life** is the season premiere of *Jaylen's Survivor: Chile*.

## Story

### Day 1

After a year and a half of being off the air due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, *Survivor* is being rebooted.

Sixteen Americans from many different backgrounds arrive at the Cordillera Paine, a mountain group in Torres del Paine National Park, in two trucks based on the tribe that they are on.
On one truck, there is the Carrera tribe, who will always wear yellow, consisting of Brandon, Derrick, Ellie, Lydia, Minnie, Ronald, Tammy, and Tanner. On the other truck, there is the Tatio tribe, who will always wear red, consisting of Clarissa, Israel, Joanna, Joe, Jordan, Krystal, Samuel, and Viona.

While riding on the trucks, a few castaways give their thoughts on the game beginning in confessionals.

The trucks containing both tribes stop and the castaways get out. Everyone goes to the colored mat that corresponds with the color of their tribe. They are immediately greeted by Jeff Probst. He gives each tribe their respective buffs and the castaways put them on. After having some of the castaways talk about their initial thoughts, he tosses both tribes maps with directions to get their respective camps and sends them on their way. He also gives each tribe some supplies, including some tools, cooking utensils, and a bag of rice.

After a while, Carrera arrives at their camp. Everyone begins to introduce themselves. After a bit of chatter by their tribe flag, they begin to work on their shelter and other survival responsibilities. Ellie's social anxiety and Minnie and Ronald's lack of work ethic start to make them stick out as potential outcasts.

The other five tribe members vibe well with each other, beginning to consider the possibility of an alliance.

While on a walk to gather supplies, Tanner takes the initiative by throwing out the idea of the alliance to Brandon. They both agree that it's a good idea and decide to build it up slowly over the course of the next few days.

Over at the Tatio camp, everyone sits down what they were carrying and begin to chat. While everyone is talking, Jordan makes some off-putting jokes, making everyone else uncomfortable.

Eventually, everyone begins to work on their shelter and camp. Some people, like older members Joanna and Joe, are doing a bit less than others, but everyone pitches in to help out the tribe. While they are working, they begin to split up into smaller groups. Specifically, the women of the tribe hit it off with each other. The women discuss who they like out of the men and all of them, excluding Joanna, say that they feel great about Israel.

Meanwhile, Israel, Joe, and Jordan are at their tribe well getting water. While there, they discuss the idea of a guys alliance, since they see the girls starting to clique up. Israel suggests including Samuel to at least ensure that they are even in numbers, but Joe and Jordan are quick to shoot it down, which irritates Israel. They decide to revisit the idea later.

By the end of the day, both tribes have some sort of shelter built. Both shelters are decently built thanks to both tribes working together, but many people still have a hard time getting sleep. Neither tribe has a fire mainly due to their lack of flint and fire-making experience.

### Day 2

As the sun rises, the Carrera tribe is shown waking up. Everyone complains that they didn't get good sleep due to their shelter. Tanner, who has experience with building structures as an architecture student, helps them rebuild the base of their shelter. After testing it out, everyone says that it is more comfortable, gaining him a lot of favor within the tribe.

Tammy and Tanner go on a walk and he asks her if she likes the idea of the five-person alliance that he talked to Brandon about. She gladly agrees, then goes to Derrick and Lydia to talk about it with them. They both also agree to it.

Ronald sees people going off on their own as the day passes and starts to wonder where he stands in the tribe.

At the Tatio tribe, Samuel is by himself in the water silently reflecting on the game so far.

Seeing him in the water, Joe makes a comment about it, causing most of the tribe to laugh, except for Jordan.

Later, Jordan and Samuel go to get firewood, and Jordan decides to talk to Samuel about joining a men's alliance. Samuel is happy to join them.

#### Reward/Immunity Challenge

Both tribes come in after Jeff calls them in. Everyone looks excited for their first challenge. Jeff explains the rules of the challenge. Once everyone is set up, the challenge begins. Immediately, Tatio gets off to a good start, taking a lead over Carrera for the water portion of the challenge. Tatio gets to the gate first, and Clarissa is the one that makes their pole. Soon after, Carrera gets there, and Minnie makes their pole. At first, both women struggle to make their pole, but Minnie figures out a method and builds a strong pole. She makes an attempt to grab the key and is successful. She takes a bit long to bring it back out of fear of dropping it, but she eventually gets it to her tribe. Meanwhile, Clarissa is still struggling to make her pole. When Minnie gets her gate unlocked, Clarissa finally makes a sturdy pole and goes to get her key. While she does this, Carrera gets to the final torch and lights it, winning immunity along with a fire-making kit as a reward.

#### Post-Challenge

After the challenge, Carrera celebrates their win. Minnie gets a lot of appreciation for helping them surpass the other tribe during the pole-making portion of the challenge. They also make their first fire with their newly-acquired kit.

At the Tatio tribe, everyone is upset about their loss. Clarissa apologizes to the entire tribe. Most of the tribe is receptive of her apology, but Jordan speaks up about her shortcoming being unacceptable. Clarissa asks him why he didn't volunteer to step up at any point, leading to a small argument between them.

### Day 3

Early in the morning, the women go to their tribe well to discuss the vote. Immediately, Clarissa pushes for Jordan to be their target. The other women agree. They decide to get Israel as a fifth vote for a majority.

A bit later, Jordan gathers up the men to pick a target. Israel throws out Joanna as a possible target, but Jordan is quick to shoot it down in favor of targeting Clarissa, due to her poor challenge performance and their fight after the challenge. Joe and Samuel agree with Jordan.

That afternoon, Viona approaches Israel about voting for Jordan. He tells her that he's not entirely set on it, but that he's definitely considering it.

Israel spends most of the day talking to both groups figuring out what to do. As the sun begins to set, he pulls aside Joe and tells him that he's not sure about who to vote. After some discussion, they decide to base their decision on what happens at Tribal Council.

As the sun sets more, the tribe grabs their bags and heads to Tribal Council.

#### Tribal Council

Tatio arrives at Tribal Council. Since it is their first time at Tribal Council, Jeff tells them all to grab a torch and dip it in the fire.

Once everyone is in a seat, Jeff begins to ask the tribe questions. He starts by asking Clarissa about the challenge. She says that it was big role to be in, and she thought that she could handle it since she's an engineer, but that it just didn't go their way. Jordan makes a face, catching the attention of Jeff, who asks him about his reaction. Jordan then says that Clarissa should just own up to her mistakes, and that no one forced her to step up to the position. Like on Day 2, they begin to argue again.

After a short exchange, they finally calm down while Jeff stares in amazement. He says that he asked one question and it ended up snowballing into a fight. He asks Krystal why they are getting along so badly. She says that there are a lot of big personalities with big ideas, and that everyone doesn't necessarily always see eye-to-eye, but that they will fix that with the vote.

Clarissa speaks up again and says that she's sorry for the challenge yesterday, and that she will make it up to everyone down the line. Jordan rolls his eyes and sighs, causing Clarissa to ask him if everything is okay. He says that everything is fine and asks her the same thing. She says that she is fine and turns to face Jeff. After this exchange, Israel begins to rub his right shoulder, catching the attention of Joe. Jeff then tells them that it is time to vote.

Once everyone has cast their vote, Jeff goes to tally the votes. He comes back with the voting urn and sits it on his stand.

**Jordan**.
**Clarissa**. We're tied. That's one vote Clarissa, one vote Jordan.
**Jordan**. Two votes Jordan.
**Clarissa**. We're tied again. That's two votes Clarissa and Jordan.
**Jordan**. Three votes Jordan.
**Jordan**. That's four votes Jordan.
First person voted out of Survivor: Chile...
**Jordan**. That's five votes and that's enough. Bring me your torch.

As Jordan goes to grab his torch, Israel and Joe attempt to apologize to him. He tells them not to apologize and says that they just threw their games away to the women. He sits his torch in the slot by Jeff and stands in front of it.

Jordan walks out of the Tribal Council area.

Jeff sends them back to camp. The remaining seven tribe members grab their torches and head out of the Tribal Council area in a line.

## 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.
**Winner:** Carrera

## Trivia

* This episode was named by Brandon.