A SHOCKING TRIBAL COUNCIL TURNS THE GAME ON ITS HEAD AND REVEALS THE TRUE INTENTIONS OF SOME VERY CONNIVING CASTAWAYS, ON “SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS — THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS,” THURSDAY, MAY 7

“The Ultimate Sacrifice” – A tough decision gives one castaway the chance to sacrifice personal comfort to benefit the rest of the tribe, and a tricky immunity challenge puts brains and brawn to the test as the weary castaways fight for a guaranteed spot in the final five, on SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS – THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS, Thursday, May 7 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Last week upon their return to camp after Tribal Council, Coach and Debbie were upset with J.T. and Stephen for not telling them about the blindside of Tyson. Debbie talked to Coach about reforming the Timbira alliance to regain control of the game.

The reward challenge was each of the castaways would fill out a questionnaire about the tribe in private, then the results would be tallied and the Challenge would begin. The questions would be posed to the group and the castaways would guess whose name came up most often. Each time a castaway guesses the correct answer, they would get one chop at a rope assigned to another castaway. After three chops, the rope would be released, which would smash an idol, removing that castaway from the challenge. The last castaway whose idol is not smashed would win.

The Reward Challenge was won by Stephen, who selected fellow ex-Jalapaos Taj and J.T. to join him and Erinn to go to Exile Island. While on their reward, J.T., Stephen, and Taj talked strategy for the next Tribal Council, either voting out Debbie or Sierra. Coach and Debbie tried to strongarm Sierra into joining up in a former Timbira alliance, but when she hesitated, they angrily turned on her. Coach felt a line had been drawn in the sand and approached J.T. about what his plans were for the final four. Coach lied to J.T. that it was Sierra who brought up bringing back the old Timbira alliance. Meanwhile, Sierra told Stephen that it was Coach and Debbie who brought up the Timbira alliance. The differing stories made J.T. and Stephen suspicious of all three of them.

The Immunity Challenge was the castaways would toss a grappling hook to retrieve three bags. The first three castaways to retrieve their three bags would move on to the final round. In the final round, the three would compete in a labyrinth game. The first to finish would win. At the Immunity Challenge, Coach, J.T., and Debbie moved on to the final round, which was won by Coach.

In an effort to show that she was not lying about her version of the potential reforming of the former Timbira alliance, Sierra confronted Coach and Debbie about what exactly happened between the three of them in front of the whole tribe. Coach said that Debbie wanted to talk about a former Timbira alliance, Sierra got into Debbie’s face, Debbie started to cry, and then he said that he did not want a Timbira alliance. Stephen and J.T. believed that Sierra’s confrontation brought out into open Coach’s half-truths and Debbie’s scheming and they considered voting Debbie out, but also thought that voting Sierra out would cause less drama in the future for the tribe.

At Tribal Council, Coach and Sierra continued their confrontation about who said what regarding a Timbira alliance. In the end, the old Timbira alliance was not to be, and Sierra headed on to the jury by a vote of 4-2-1.

Voted out: CAROLINA EASTWOOD (1st Voted Out), CANDACE SMITH (2nd Voted Out), JERRY SIMS (3rd Voted Out), SANDY BURGIN (4th Voted Out), SPENCER DUHM (5th Voted Out), JOE DOWDLE (6th Out, Removed Due to Injury), BRENDAN SYNNOTT (7th Voted Out), TYSON APOSTOL (8th Voted Out), SIERRA REED (9th Voted Out)

Remaining:

JALAPAO TRIBE

STEPHEN FISHBACH, TAJ JOHNSON-GEORGE, JAMES “JT” THOMAS JR., SYDNEY WHEELER

TIMBIRA TRIBE

DEBRA “Debbie” BEEBE, ERINN LOBDELL, BENJAMIN “Coach” WADE

SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS – THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS is hosted by Emmy Award-winning host Jeff Probst and produced by SEG, Inc. Mark Burnett is executive producer and David Burris and Leisa Francis are co-executive producers.

Source: CBS Press Release