This Protects Me, and Me Only

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**This Protects Me, and Me Only** is the eighth episode of *Survivor: Thailand*.

## Story

### Day 20

The morning after Espen's blindside, Alessia and Tati go for a walk to the treemail. Alessia apologizes to Tati for leaving outside of the vote, and also mentions that she kept her end of the deal.

Alessia and Tati grab a note out of tree mail, but they are instructed to read it in front of the tribe. They head back to camp and read the note that tells them to pack everything up and hop on the boat. The tribe begins to question if they are about to merge.

On Kalasin, the tribe reads the note and begins to start cheering and rushing to pack their essential items.

Both tribes are on the boats heading towards their new island. As they get closer to the island, both tribes are in sight of each other and a feast table lies in front of them both.

Both of the boats reach the shore, and the castaways get out of their boats and greet each other. They run towards the feast, but on the table is a note that Novaks reads to the tribe. The note congratulates all twelve players on the reaching the merge, and instructs them to paint a tribe flag and come up with a tribe name before the Immunity Challenge that will happen tomorrow.

Everyone starts to go in on the food, and drink the alcohol. The alcohol becomes a little much Eleos. He makes a comment towards Helen telling her that she would have been the next person to go if they lost the challenge. Helen's upset and starts to have a breakdown, so she leaves the table. A drunk Eleos doesn't care and starts laughing.

Darion finds himself trying to calm Helen down. Helen's crying into her hands as Darion wraps her hand around her. Rico, Serene and Tati are standing nearby getting ready to comfort Helen as well.

In the mist of the Eleos and Helen drama, Daughtry sneaks away from camp.

Daughtry continues to look in the woods for the hidden immunity idol. Time passes by and Daughtry begins to lose hope, but he recalls the first time that he felt like giving up a few moments later he found it. Daughtry starts to digging at the bottom of an oddly shaped tree, seconds later, he finds the Hidden Immunity Idol inside of the box.

Daughtry pushes the dirt back into the spot that he found the idol.

Back at camp, Eleos' drunkenness is annoying the tribe. Many of the tribe members begin to leave the feast and head back to the camp.

As the day starts to wind down, Freya tells the tribe a story about a time that she fell out of a car on the highway. The players shocked at her story, but Freya made it comical, making everyone laugh with her.

The tribe sits around the camp while they paint the flag, listen to more of Freya's stories, and try to think of a tribe name. They start floating tribe names around until Serene remembers on one of the rewards that one of the cities was called Rayong. Serene wants to pay tribute to the country she's been living in for twenty days. Everyone else agrees and decides to call the name Rayong.

### Day 21

At the Immunity Challenge, the tribal immunity statue is taken back and the individual statue is placed out in front of them. For the challenge, they would stand on a narrow beam, and use a long pole to balance a statue. At regular intervals, they would move further away from the statue. If at any point, they fall from the beam or drop their statue, they are out of the challenge.

The order of elimination in the challenge went Darion, Novak, Serene, Bree, Tati, Rico, Daughtry, Foley, Eleos, and Freya with the final two remaining being Alessia vs Helen. With the majority of Phayao rooting for Helen, Helen felt determined to push through. Ultimately in the end, Alessia proved she was a competitor and won the first individual immunity of the season.

Rayong returns back to camp, knowing what's coming up, people start spreading throughout the island.

Novak finds himself talking with Alessia, Daughtry and Freya about the vote tonight. Daughtry, Freya and Novak come up with the idea to vote out Tati at tribal council. Novak asks the three of them if they think Tati has some sort of idol that she could play. Daughtry tries to reassure Novak that if they vote Tati that it will be fine.

They agree that Tati is always thinking about who should go home. They say that she is a very strategic player. Novak says he will try get Darion on board. Daughtry says that he will try to get Helen.

Eleos and Bree are sitting on the beach together, talking about their lives, but eventually the conversation about the target reaches them. Eleos asks Bree what she's thinking for tonight. Bree mentions Tati's name which completely shocks Eleos. Bree tries to convince Eleos that Tati is a strategic player and she already has bonds with some of the Kalasin members. Eleos tells Bree that she's not with them and she's a number for us. Bree tells Eleos that if she wants to win the game then she'll have to go now rather than later. Eleos tries to convince Bree to vote Novak instead.

a lot of votes in this game. His social game worked on Alessia which caused her to flip. He's more dangerous than Tati who was on our tribe. Bree needs to clearly think this through.

Helen approaches Bree and they start talking about tribal council. Helen asks Bree where her loyalties lie right now. Bree tells Helen that she's a free agent. Helen asks Bree about the chances that she would try vote Foley out of the game. Bree tells Helen honestly that she doesn't see Foley as a threat in any way. Helen accepts her answer and asks Bree about Rico. She feels as though Foley and Rico are big players flying under the radar. Bree tells Helen that she wouldn't vote Rico this early into the merge.

After their conversation, Bree approaches Foley and Rico and tells them about Helen. Both of them are completely shocked.

Alessia, Eleos, Foley, Serene and Tati meet up in the woods and talk about the vote. Foley and Tati say that Helen would be the easiest votes. They bring up a point that Helen has really rubbed everyone wrong, and they could possibly get a clean sweep.

Eleos and Rico talk before the vote about who they are doing. Eleos tells Rico that he heard Helen's name as well. Rico says that Novak would be the smartest move. Eleos tells Rico that they might not have the numbers. Rico asks Eleos what if they play an idol. Rico says they should vote for Novak as a back-up plan.

Alessia, Bree, Eleos, Freya, Novak and Serene talk before heading to tribal. Novak and Freya both tell the group that voting for Tati would be the best move for everyone. Bree tells the group that she's a big player that has to be taken down.

The jury grabs their torches and start walking to tribal council.

At Tribal Council, the players discuss this being the biggest merge in history. The players talk about the feast and mainly how Eleos got drunk which led to a fight between him and Helen. He's asked if he's worried, but he responds saying "a little but not too much." Helen is asked if she is worried that he's not worried which she answers as being nervous. The group is asked about what the vote is being based on tonight. Novak says the vote is based on who has the best chance to win in the end, while Rico tells the group based on who he believes is the biggest threat along with loyalty. The castaways go up to vote. They are asked if anyone would like to play a hidden immunity idol, but no one moves. The votes are read, but in the end, Tati was voted out in a 7-3-2 vote against Helen and Novak. The castaways were shocked to see that the jury did not start this tribal. Tati turns and waves to them and wishes them goodluck.

### Day 22

The morning after Tati's departure, the castaways begin to wake up as the sun rises. They sit on stones around the fire.

Later, the castaways walk to their mat in a row. They are informed that they will be playing for reward. They will be divided into two teams five with one player sitting out and not being able to win reward. On the Orange team includes Alessia, Daughtry, Eleos, Novak & Rico while Purple team consists of Bree, Darion, Foley, Helen & Serene. Freya was not selected and could not win reward. In the challenge, one member of each team will be the defender standing on a perch in the water while one at a time, members of the other tribe leap off a platform into the water and attempt to throw a ball past the defender and into the net. The first tribe to get four balls in the net wins.

The match-ups were Daughtry vs. Foley, Novak vs. Helen, Eleos vs. Serene, Alessia vs. Darion, and Rico vs. Bree. After all the first match-ups, Alessia and Daughtry were the only ones to score for orange, and Darion and Serene were the only ones to score for purple. The teams were tied 2-2. In the second match-ups, Helen and Novak both scored against each other to tie it up 3-3. In the following round, Eleos and Serene also scored against each other making both tied 4-4. The next point would reward for their team. In the end, Foley scored against Daughtry making purple team the winners of the reward. They would travel to one of Thailand's waterfalls where they can swim and have a lunch prepared for them. Before Bree, Darion, Foley, Helen and Serene could leave for reward, they were asked to choose one player to go to Exile Island. Since he performed the strongest in the challenge and went to Exile Island in the past, they decided to send Daughtry to Exile Island.

Bree, Darion, Foley, Helen and Serene stand on the waterfall getting ready to repel down the waterfall.

The guides start to attach the hook onto everyone. Bree is the first one to stand in position to go down the waterfall.

Serene stands in position to go down the waterfall as well.

Bree, Darion, Helen & Serene have all made their way down the waterfall and into the water. Foley stands at the top.

Foley finally repelled his way down the waterfall before landing into the water with clapping.
The five of them sit down around the table that has their lunch on it. They all raise a glass and click it together.

Everyone cheers to winning the challenge against some of the strongest players out here. They all laugh together.

At Exile Island, Daughtry hops off the boat alone and walks up to the urn.

Daughtry reads the sign that tells him he will have a 50/50 shot at choosing the correct urn with a clue inside.

Daughtry looks at both of the urns before choosing Urn 1. He opens the urn and reveals nothing inside. He's disappointed in his choice.

Back at camp, the five winners return from their reward. They start telling the tribe about the experience that they had. Serene goes a little overboard with her story which rubs Novak the wrong way. Novak's irritation is noticeable to Serene who then confronts him later in front of Darion. Novak tells Serene that he's mad that he didn't get to go on a reward, and it seemed like she was rubbing it in his face. Serene says that not she was doing. The two continue the argue, but it abruptly ends once Darion takes Novak for a walk.

### Day 23

The following day, Foley and Rico meet up to discuss the next vote for tribal. Foley asks Rico who he considers a threat in the game. Rico throws out Daughtry and Novak's names. Rico confesses that he is torn between the two.

Foley asks Rico about the chances he would consider targeting Helen. Foley brings up the point that Helen is disrupting camp peace for everyone. Rico agrees with Foley, but he tells him that Helen isn't a threat to them. Foley agrees.

### Day 24

The eleven castaways walk onto the challenge site. The immunity necklace is taken back by Alessia. The rules are explained to the players. They would stand behind a cage door where they maneuver a handle through a maze. Once their handle is free, they unlock the door and race to complete a slide puzzle. The first person to finish wins immunity. Bree and Novak were neck and neck in the puzzle towards the end, but Bree ultimately won the second individual immunity challenge.

Everyone returns to camp, and people immediately start to head off in groups to find out the plan for tribal.

Alessia and Bree meet up in the woods about who they are considering voting out of the game. Bree throws out Novak's name. Alessia tells Bree that Novak wouldn't be the right move right now. Alessia offers up Daughtry's name as a target.

Alessia finds Rico and Serene having a conversation in the woods about the vote. She joins the conversation and asks if the three of them will join forces tonight and vote together. Alessia throws out Daughtry's name. Rico says that Novak might be the better option. Alessia turns to Serene and asks Serene who she thinks would be the better option.

Serene says that Daughtry would be the better option to go home. Alessia tells Rico that it's official. Daughtry will be the one getting votes tonight.

Bree approaches Daughtry asking him what he is thinking about tonight. Daughtry tells Bree that no one has really talked to him at all. Bree asks Daughtry if he would consider going after Novak. Daughtry questions it.

Daughtry tells Bree that he'll do it if she gets enough votes to do it.

Alessia, Eleos and Serene agree that Daughtry should be the best to go. They tell Bree, Freya and Novak that Daughtry will be the one receiving tonight.

Novak goes up to Daughtry and tells him that he could be the one going home. Novak asks Daughtry if he has anything to protect himself. Daughtry looks at Novak in the eyes before finally revealing that he has a hidden immunity idol. Novak is shocked at Daughtry's reply before revealing that he has a hidden immunity idol as well. Daughtry drops the final bomb on Novak by telling him that he has two hidden immunity idols, but one of them needs the key. Novak stands in front of Daughtry stunned.

Daughtry and Novak discuss who they should vote out of the game. Daughtry tells Novak that if he's going to use an idol to save himself, he might as well get someone out who hasn't talked with him. Novak tells Daughtry that whoever he decides that he will join with him.

Everyone grabs their torches and heads to tribal council.

At Tribal Council, they are asked that after last tribal council if tribal lines are officially dead. Novak is upset that tribal lines are still a thing this late in the game, and they seem stronger than ever. Daughtry says the people at the top feel comfortable and are liars. Daughtry's asked who is at the top. Daughtry says Bree, Rico, Eleos and Serene are feeling very comfortable tonight. Rico admits that he has worked with Phayao, but he wants to work with people that he genuinely likes. Bree feels safety feels good tonight because it protects them from any craziness. The four named in power are asked if they are worried about a hidden immunity idol coming out at tribal tonight. Serene admits that based on the way that they have been acting they have taken the right precautions. After her comment, they all cast their votes.
The votes are tallied and the players are asked if anyone would like to play a hidden immunity idol. Daughtry grabs the idol out of his bag and stands up with his hands on his hips. Everyone except Novak are stunned when he plays the idol for himself. The votes are read, and Daughtry gets nine votes against him. With only two votes left, the tribe sits on the edge of their seat. Serene's name is read from the urn and many are filled with relief except Daughtry and Novak who are smiling and fist bumping each other. When the final vote was read for Serene, she became the 10th person voted out of Survivor: Thailand and the first member of the jury.

## Challenges

* Immunity (Day 21)
* Reward
* Immunity (Day 24)
**Challenge:** *Over-Extended*
Standing on a narrow beam, and using a long pole, castaways must balance a statue. At regular intervals, they will move further away from the statue. If at any point, they fall from the beam or drop their statue, they are out of the challenge. The last person left standing wins.

**Winner:** Alessia Gaston

**Challenge:** *Jump Shot*
One member of each team will be the defender standing on a perch in the water while one at a time, members of the other tribe leap off a platform into the water and attempt to throw a ball past the defender and into the net. The first tribe to get four balls in the net wins.

**Reward:** A trip to a waterfall and lunch.

**Winner:** Purple Team (Bree Synnott, Darion Elmer, Foley Ruttley, Helen Wang, and Serene Bloome)**Challenge:** *Rusty Gates*
The castaways must each stand behind a cage door where they maneuver a handle through a maze. Once their handle is free, they unlock the door and race to complete a slide puzzle. The first person to finish wins immunity.

**Winner:** Bree Synnott

## Tribal Council

### Day 21

 Tati (7 votes)
 Helen (3 votes)
 Novak (2 votes)
 VOTED OUT:Tatianna Jones

### Day 24

 Daughtry(used Hidden Immunity Idol)
 Serene (2 votes)
 VOTED OUT:Serene Bloome

## Trivia

### Other

* Daughtry's play of the Hidden Immunity Idol negated nine votes against him. He sets a record for most votes negated by the idol.

### Episode Title

* The title was said by Daughtry Haynes after revealing his two hidden immunity idols to Novak Thorton.