Season 3, Episode 4

**Season 3, Episode 4** is the fourth episode of Australian Survivor (2016) which aired August 29, 2016.

## Story

### Night 8

Returning back to camp after Evan Jones' elimination, Aganoa reflect on his blindside and were amazed that he left all his personal belongings and didn't take them to Tribal Council. Phoebe Timmins reflects on the two alliances she has with Elena "El" Rowland, Katherine "Kat" Dumont and Kristie Bennett and the second deal with El, Lee Carseldine and Rohan MacLaren. Phoebe and Rohan agree the decision was correct and privately, Phoebe believes she is in the key position to decide who leaves next.

### Days 9 - 10

At Aganoa Rohan and Phoebe look for the hidden immunity idol and after searching for an 'X' in the jungle, Rohan finds it and reneges on his promise to tell El and Lee about it and didn't hand the idol to Phoebe. Phoebe knows that the idol is solely for Rohan and begins to distrust him. Telling El about the idol, she asks Phoebe if she does trust Rohan but can't bring herself to trust him and as a result El starts to consider cutting ties with Rohan as well.

On Saanapu, Peter Fiegehen continues to weigh up his game and struggles with his mind, body and health. Talking to Matt Tarrant, Peter compares the game to "psychopaths anonymous" but Matt is aware that Peter is dwindling despite being the heart and soul of the game. Peter believes that he is being kept out of friendship and not about what's good for the tribe despite knowing he is not at his best. Knowing Kylie isn't in a strong position and taking the offer of the clue to help her, Peter tries to help look for the hidden immunity idol but struggle to get time away from camp. The younger alliance know they're potentially looking for the idol and always try to stay with them to prevent searching for it and when Conner Bethune walks back to camp the twosome overlook a small wall of dirt which houses the idol.

Craig I'Anson, Jennah-Louise Salkeld and Sue Clarke on the Vavau tribe talk about the legitimacy of the hidden immunity idol clue that was presented to them by Nick Iadanza and Tegan Haining and that they've become more distant since they divulged the clue. Wanting to make amends, Nick takes Craig, Jennah-Louise and Sue to try and consolidate his loyalty to them and starts reciting another fake clue about high tides with Craig and Jennah-Louise skeptical whilst Sue is starting to waiver her allegiance to Nick. With a broken flint, the tribe have been without fire for the past three days and after exhausted different methods have taken to getting water from coconuts and eating the fruit supply. Kate Campbell talks to the tribe about her car accident when she was 19 and that with her injuries she shouldn't have recovered. The tribe understand why Kate is so optimistic about life and that after such an experience, Kate is ready to take life head on.

At the Immunity Challenge, Saanapu and Vavau clinch victory sending Aganoa back to Tribal Council. Vavau asks Jonathan LaPaglia for a trade in order to get a new flint, Jonathan agrees to a new flint as long as the tribe bring all their comfort items and fishing gear won previously to the next reward challenge.

Back on Aganoa, Kat theorizes the female alliance taking out Rohan from the game. El campaigns to keep strength in challenges and asks Kristen and Phoebe to vote Kat instead, Phoebe expresses her disappointment at Rohan for not giving her the idol and that if Rohan isn't open to the alliance she has other options available. Phoebe later goes to Lee (who favours loyalty and trustworthiness) and tells him about the idol in an effort to push for Rohan to leave. Concerned he might play the idol, Lee considers a potential backup option but Phoebe remains adamant that as long as Rohan feels safe he will not play it. Rohan looks at the girls as an alliance and that his group should follow through on voting Kat but after overhearing the plans for somebody else to take over cooking duties, Kat walks straight through the group of Phoebe, El and Rohan. Not surprised that her name is on the chopping block, Kat brings the girls in and pushes for Rohan to leave. As the tribe head out to Tribal Council, Rohan knows he will be safe and that at the slightest bit of worry he will play the idol.

At Saanapu, Peter finally reaches his limits and calls in Jonathan to quit, knowing that he has a big responsibility to the tribe but a greater one to his family. A visibly upset tribe bid farewell, especially Matt who is the most affected by the loss. His departure makes him the fourth person to leave Australian Survivor (2016) and in doing so leaves Kylie on her own against seemingly impossible odds.

Arriving at Tribal Council, Aganoa talk about camp life, morale and the challenge but Jonathan emphasizes on the puzzle section which has become their weakest aspect. Rohan takes responsibility of the puzzle section despite physically exerting himself during the chest portion whilst Kat and Kristie did nothing to contribute but were willing to do the puzzle should they need it. Not wanting to quit from the puzzle, Phoebe says she wanted to see it through to the very end and it wasn't the best thing to do to swap out. Jonathan asks about the strong four and Phoebe confirms that group remains in place, making Kat vulnerable to be voted out but before the vote Jonathan announces Peters departure from the game and as a result no vote will take place. Kat feels lucky that she can stay a few more days and that she knew she was going to leave. Before Tribal Council concludes without a vote, El knows the tribe will be awkward going back to camp but they'll recover. Jonathan tells Aganoa to turn themselves around as he doesn't want to see them again.

## Challenges

### Immunity

**Challenge:** Crab Pots

In pairs, castaways will swim to a cage and use a grappling hook to recover heavy chests from the seabed. Once all three chests have been collected, the contents inside will be used to solve a puzzle. In addition, the puzzle solvers can be swapped out at any time.

**Winners:** Saanapu and Vavau

## Tribal Council

### Day 10

Due to Peter's ailing health he chose to voluntarily leave the game, cancelling the planned Tribal Council for Aganoa.

### Voting Confessionals

There were no voting confessionals this episode.

## Gallery

*All images are taken directly from Network Ten and their affiliates*

## Trivia

* Rohan is the first person in the Australian franchise to locate the hidden immunity idol and the first male to possess it.
* In the immunity challenge, Kat and Kristie did not participate in any element of the challenge and weren't sit-outs.
* This episode marks the first time a player has quit the Australian franchise.
* This episode becomes Vavau's fifth continuous victory, an Australian record.

## References

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