| Episode
13 |
| "It
Could All Backfire" |
Filmed
December 4-6, 2004
Airs May 12,
2005
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| RC speculation |
| IC speculation |
| Boot speculation |
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Episode
descriptions
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CBS:
"-Gender lines are drawn as one group hatches a plan
to vote off the Survivor who doesn't win Immunity.
-One Survivor feels betrayed when the winner of a Challenge
chooses a different tribemate to enjoy the Reward.
-Going into Tribal Council, one Survivor holds the power and
is torn between an alliance and a friendship. Which way will
the vote swing?" |
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| REWARD
CHALLENGE/ "Maze At Sea"? - Ian wins a Corvette, takes
Tom on reward trip |
Dan
Bollinger posted back in December:
"3. yellow customized GMC truck taken to rock islands, possible
reward
4. red Corvette driven to Shallum Etpison's
house on top of rock island as a reward."
Wezzie
later reported (despite her oft-stated claim
that she never posts spoilers) that Ian will win
this challenge, and the red Corvette is his Reward.
(As is her wont, Wezzie has since edited this out, and now points
back to Dan's post. The original post is archived here).
Quartzeye
maintains that Ian wins the Corvette, however. Does anyone win the
yellow Chevy SSR shown on the CBS
site? Dan seems to think so.
Updated update from Wezzie:
"I don't believe that anyone wins the truck until the finale,
but it was used to transport survivors for a day."
Updated updated updates from:
- Wezzie:
"SEG loaded the truck onto a LCU."
- Dan
Bollinger: " This 'LCU' (on the left, in the water) would
have no problem delivering a mini-pickup truck to Pelelui or elsewhere
in Palau."
- Wezzie:
"It's time to brush up on WWII history in Palau. We're going
to Peleliu! ... and we've got WHEELS."
(Later posted a picture of the Chevy SSR).
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New update:
Biancaxxx
confirms that Ian wins the Corvette, and that it's the only car
won during this episode.
Additionally, as Biancaxxx
posts here, Tom will be Ian's "date" for this, um, outing.
As confirmation, the post-Ep12 TV preview
shows the three women openly plotting at camp (near right), presumably
while Ian and Tom are off on their reward. Also, Ian, in his own
new swimsuit (far right), and Katie are shown discussing Ian's betrayal.
That seems most likely to be breaking his "deal" with
Katie to take her on reward, and taking Tom instead.
So enough of the spoilers, what's the challenge? The storyboard
suggests it may be called "Maze At Sea" (storyboard discussions:
Sucks,
Phoenix,
Joker's
Updates), and this time, the caps seem to fit. We see the contestants
apparently racing on individual rafts, across the water. That's
about all we see, which isn't terribly helpful, but since we already
know Ian wins, no big deal.
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CHALLENGE pictures/ Click on thumbnails below for larger version |
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| IMMUNITY
CHALLENGE/ Another balance-related race - Tom wins |
The
overhead shot at the start of this challenge reveals part of the
layout. Behind the contestants are what look like puzzle-assembling
tables of some kind. Ahead of them individual rope bridges, a central
platform, and beyond it, something covered in green camo tarps.
Since the contestants are shown going in both directions on the
bridge, it seems probable that they have to retrieve stuff from
under/past the tarps, bring it back to the tables, and do something
with their retrieved objects (a puzzle of some kind?). A combination
of balance, agility, and mental power? Then again, it may be pure
balance. As BJ
points out at MeSS, in the area with the green tarps in the starting
picture, you later see floating platforms in water, in the picture
(second row, left side) of Jenn heading back. As several people
at MeSS have pointed out, there's no clear indication that anyone
is actually carrying anything back, though, so it's unclear what
the tables (and running back in forth) is for.
Who wins? As we noted last week, Wezzie
states that Tom and Ian are "immunity gods," so it's probably
one of them, again. In the overhead shot at the start, Ian seems
to have an early lead, and Tom is shown falling on the rope bridge
later on. If anything, we'd expect a tall guy like Ian to have problems
with balance, but in the first pass through the rope bridge, he
seems to be in the lead. Another toss-up. On the other hand, there's
a lot of shots of Tom near the immunity necklace, so maybe that's
supposed to mean something. Perhaps the CBS synopsis lends a clue
here: "Going into Tribal Council, one Survivor holds
the power and is torn between an alliance and a friendship."
Since the promo shows the episode will go to great pains to explore
the Katie-Ian bond, as well as the women plotting while the men
are away at reward, the most plausible synthesis would be that Katie
is torn a newly formed alliance with Caryn and Jenn (neither of
whom have anything to lose in going against Tom and Ian here), and
her friendship with Ian. For this to work, Ian must be vulnerable
at Tribal Council, so we'll say Tom wins IC.
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CHALLENGE pictures/ Click on thumbnails below for larger version |
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| BOOT/
Caryn |
Once
again, Mersaydeez
provided this boot long ago. Although not in a galaxy far, far away,
as far as we know. Ignore the usual talk of all-female alliances
and such.
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