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Episode 9
"Swimming with Sharks"

Filmed July 17-19, 2003
Airs November 20, 2003

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CBS: Having trouble sleeping, Rupert finds a spot on a log near camp and has a heart-to-heart chat with a faraway loved one.
- A trip to fetch water becomes an opportunity for one pair, with questionable fates, to hatch a new plan and turn the tide in their favor. Will their powers of persuasion work?
- Lillian has a slight anxiety attack.
- One castaway gives selflessly to another.
TV Guide: One player has an anxiety attack during a Reward Challenge, two castaways whose fates are in jeopardy hatch a plan to turn things in their favor.
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Ep9 CBS web promo
Uploaded Nov. 14, 2003
(TV caps replace web ones)
Transcript:
Voiceover: Survivor Thursday - intrigue...
Rupert: I never give up, I never surrender.
Voiceover: Danger...
Burton: I want Rupert weak, injured.
Voiceover: Betrayal...
Sandra (to ?): I heard Burton and Jon talking in the bushes.
Voiceover: It's not just a game...
Burton: I wanna smoke him.
Voiceover: It's Survival. Of. The fittest.
Probst (at RC): Go!
Voiceover: If you think you know who's going home...
[Rapid-fire shots of Balboa at TC, with Rupert wearing the sword, all from Ep8]
Jon: They feel they're above the law.
Voiceover: Think again.

Burton: The game's about to take a serious, serious change.
Rupert: This stinks of rot and death.
    
 
 


Post-Ep8 TV preview
Aired November 13, 2003

Transcript:
Probst: Next time on Survivor... Rupert goes extreme fishing.
Rupert (confessional): This shark appears, and I'm like aaaaahhh, I want him, I want him bad!
Probst (voiceover): While on land, the tribe plots a mutiny.
Burton (to Jon,D,T,Lill): The five of us HAVE to stick together.
Probst (voiceover): And Lill makes a decision that she regrets.
Lill (to Jon): I'm such a bitch. *sob*
Jon: (Rodent-like squeaks).

 





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