Ami in a lighter moment after her team won the Reward Challenge.
Heading to Reward: Amanda, Ami, Erik
The Losers:
From CBS.com: After withstanding numerous trips to Exile Island and non-stop torrential downpours at the Airai beach, Kathy Sleckman, the 46 year-old golf course vendor from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, dramatically quit the game. After Kathy tearfully admitted to her tribemates that she wanted to go home, Jeff Probst arrived by boat, and Kathy said, “I’m never leaving my baby girl or my husband again, for this amount of time ever again.” She and Jeff boarded the boat, pulled away from Airai, and Kathy left the game.
Facing Tribal Council for the third time in a row, the Favorites on the Malakal tribe, Ozzy, Amanda, Cirie, and Ami, outnumbered the Fans, Erik and Tracy, 4 – 2. .. At Tribal Council, the focus was on Ozzy after Tracy called him out as a leader. But, in the end, the Malakal tribe decided to keep their leader and vote out Tracy five votes to one.
Reward Challenge: Money Roll
For this challenge the tribes will worked with traditional Micronesian money-stones, large wheel-shaped stones standing almost as tall as the Survivors themselves, once used as currency by the native people. The Malakal tribe…won their first challenge since the switch-up. Ozzy singles out Tracy (to go to)Exile Island, asking her, “Can you take one for the team?”… The (rest of the) triumphant Malakal embarks on their Reward to the Herbal Essences Great Escape Spa.
Malakal: On their way to a Reward Challenge win.
Erik celebrates Malakal’s Reward Challenge win.
Airai didn’t quite have it. (Kathy, James, Eliza)
Reward:
Heading to the Spa Reward, Ozzy, Amanda (Ozzy carries letters from home).
Enjoying the fruits of their reward…
The Malakal tribe arrives at their Reward, where they find an inviting spread of fruit, cookies, muffins, and juices. The tribe lets out squeals of excitement at the multitude of spa items…Ami, Ozzy, and Amanda spot a showerhead mounted atop a small water tower and …the three tribemates strip down and scrub each other’s backs with both women stripping off their bikini tops completely whilst Cirie sat off to the side, tsk, tsking.
Ami is overcome after reading letters from loved ones.
Stormy weather:
A horrific storm hits, pounding down rain and lightning on the Airai tribe. They huddle for shelter and warmth in their cave, unable to prepare a fire. Kathy is beside herself…the tribe holds each other’s hands for comfort and waits for the rain to subside. James heads out into the wild choppy waters and fetches the girls a clam. They eat it raw…
Kathy breaks:
As the sun rises on the Airai beach, Kathy sits on the tribe’s boat, looking out towards sea. “When I woke up this morning I hadn’t gotten any sleep,” complains Kathy, “and I was looking for some kind of strength and I couldn’t find it.” She approaches James, asking him for “one more hug.” He holds her and tells her, “It’s okay, baby. We all got our bad days.” Kathy finally breaks into tears, crying, “I can’t feel my family.”
The women, Eliza, Parvati, Alexis, and Natalie, try to comfort her. But Kathy breaks into sobs and tearfully declares, “I can’t be here one more minute, I can’t take it.” The girls try to convince her to stay… But no amount of comforting will placate Kathy and she pleads, “I wanna go home. I want them to come and get a boat and pick me up and take me away!” Jeff Probst …arrives by boat on the Airai beach… He hops onto the boat with Kathy and they speed out onto to the open ocean. Kathy leaves the game.
Immunity Challenge:
The tribes arrive at the challenge as Jason and Tracy return from Exile Island. Jeff Probst informs everyone that Kathy has quit the game, and after shocked reactions from the Malakal tribe, the game goes on….The Malakal tribe takes an early lead with an amazing performance by Ozzy. He dashes across the floating bridge and clips into the first puzzle piece. Malakal cranks the wheel and Ozzy gracefully bodysurfs back to shore with his puzzle piece. …Meanwhile, Eliza, returning with Airai’s last puzzle piece, quickly unlatches it and sets to work on the puzzle with help from Jason. Despite their early lead, Amanda and Cirie fumble with their puzzle pieces and Eliza and Jason make a huge comeback. Shoving their puzzle pieces together, Airai wins Immunity sending Malakal to Tribal Council for the third time in a row.
Tribal Council
The Malakal tribe proceeds to Tribal Council. Tracy calls out Ozzy as the overbearing leader of the tribe…In the end, the tribe decides to keep their leader and their strength, as Tracy casts the lone vote for Ozzy, and the rest of the tribe unanimously votes her out. Tracy becomes the ninth person to leave Survivor 16: Fans Vs. Favorites.
Tags: Spoilers, Survivor 16, Television
