Survivor 51 Episode 6 Recap: I Love Crying

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Key Moments

Three to a Summit, Two Home With Lunch

Three to a Summit, Two Home With Lunch

Each tribe sent one castaway to a summit. Ori, Sharonda and Kristin, all original Savus, traded notes over ribs and corn, and two of them carried that lunch home.

Kristin Takes the Tethered Idol

Kristin Takes the Tethered Idol

Kristin volunteered to spend the night on Exile and got an idol she can only play on Ori or Sharonda. If both are voted out, it is hers to play on herself.

Toka by Seconds, Dina Right Behind

Toka by Seconds, Dina Right Behind

Ropes, sandbags and a puzzle of the Survivor 51 logo. Toka and Dina finished seconds apart, and Savu, first off the line, came apart at the puzzle.

Eric Has Not Moved On

Eric Has Not Moved On

Kilby's tie-forcing vote saved Lewis last week. Eric called it the biggest betrayal he has felt, and he is done with Kilby. He also said the line that named the episode: "I love crying."

Mike Shops for a Partner

Outvoted for the summit and called a bottom feeder at camp, Mike offered Kristin a blank-check vote at the next Tribal for her help to the merge. She did not take it.

Not Safe

Ori's Shot in the Dark read Not Safe, and Jelly and Devin, who would not write each other's names, wrote his. The Helicopter Alliance lands at two.

“I Love Crying” was said by Eric Macksoud — about feeling comfortable letting out his negative emotions, the week after Kilby's vote saved Lewis

Camp Notes

Savu

Down to three, Savu found time to laugh: Devin and Jelly talked Ori out of his shirt, and Devin gave him runway tips for after the game. All three knew the next loss would split them.

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Tribal Council

Savu lost its third straight immunity challenge, and this time there was nobody left on the beach who was not the Helicopter Alliance. Devin, Jelly and Ori had voted together since Day 1. One of them had to go.

Ori knew the math and went after it all day: Jelly, turn on Devin; Devin, play for yourself. Devin admitted the pitch flipped his brain. Then Jelly settled it at Tribal. She said she had an idol and would use it, and that she could not write Devin's name even if it was the smarter move. Devin said the same about her.

With no votes to win, Ori played his Shot in the Dark. The scroll read Not Safe. He teared up before the votes were read, and Devin and Jelly voted him out 2–0. Jelly never had to play the idol, and Devin never used his extra vote. Ori Jean-Charles is the eighth castaway out of Survivor 51, and the first man voted out after six women in a row. In his final words he said he came to retire his mother and failed; Jeff told him how you play is the measure, and Ori played it to the last minute.

Fantasy fallout: Ori takes −3 for the vote and −2 for the tears, with +1 back for the summit trip. Jelly and Devin get +1 each for a Tribal with no votes against them. Every castaway on Toka and Dina banks +3 for immunity, less −1 for the five who sat out: Mike, Carter and Thien An for Toka, Sharonda and Eric for Dina. Kristin adds +2 for the Tethered Idol and Sharonda +1 for the summit. Kristin and Eric share the best night of anyone still in the game at +5, his with +3 for saying the line that named the episode.

Tribal Fallout

Everyone at this Tribal, every pair. Ringed squares happened this episode. Tap one for the why.

  • Voted against
  • Voted together
  • On screen together
DevinJellyOri
Devin
Jelly
Ori

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THREAT INDEX

After Episode 6
BIGGEST TARGETS
1
Devin Way
Devin

Savu is two and he is the one without an idol. Jelly has kept him close; at a merge, a Helicopter pair is an easy first target.

2
Mike Pinsky
Mike

Toka's bottom by his own tribe's account: outvoted for the summit, called a bottom feeder, and his blank-check offer to Kristin went nowhere.

3
Lewis Kelly
Lewis

Survived four votes and a deadlock last week. Dina's old Savus still want him gone, and Eric is now furious with his partner Kilby.

MOST LIKELY TO SURVIVE
1
Kristin Flickinger
Kristin

Holds the Tethered Idol, has Sharonda's gratitude, and Probst called her a clear fan favorite. Hard to vote out, and harder now Ori is gone.

2
Angelica "Jelly" Loblack
Jelly

Has an idol, has now said so, and still survived a Savu Tribal with zero votes. She decides when Devin goes.

3
Sharonda Cox
Sharonda

The only castaway Kristin's Tethered Idol can protect, and she kept it from Dina. Safe with Dina this week.

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