Win the final-four immunity and you pick who makes fire. Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt won it and did the thing almost nobody does — she sat herself down at the pit instead of pawning the job off, then lit a flame fast enough to beat Carson Garrett head to head and send the beloved Tika strategist home in fourth. An engineering manager from Ponce who'd come up through Soka and merged into Va Va, she was rarely the loudest voice at any Tribal — but when it counted, the most efficient hands in Survivor 44 turned out to be hers.
Her game wasn't spotless, and that's the fun of it. At the first Va Va vote she burned an advantage to commandeer Lauren's vote and steer it onto Yam Yam — and the numbers landed on Matt anyway, 3-2, sending him to the jury first. Later, at the final six, she fired a hidden idol on herself with not a single vote coming her way. None of it cost her, and she made fire to earn the last seat. Then she sat next to Yam Yam Arocho at Final Tribal and the jury wasn't torn — they handed it to her ally 7-1, Carolyn shut out without a vote. She finishes second, the runner-up nobody talks about enough, beaten not by a misplay but by a guy the jury just liked more.
