Everybody else on Borneo thought they were on a camping trip. Richard Hatch sat back and counted to four. He pulled Rudy, Sue, and Kelly into a bloc and just started voting the same name every Tribal while the other tribe was still bonding around the fire — the first real alliance the show had ever seen, built before anyone else realized there was a game to play. He also sunbathed naked and speared fish to feed a tribe that mostly couldn't stand him, and none of it mattered, because the numbers were already his.
The Tagi four held all the way to the end. Kelly ran the table on immunity down the stretch and took the seat next to him at the final two, but the math never broke his way — he won the very first jury vote 4-3, the original Sole Survivor, the guy who figured out the whole thing on the fly while the cameras were still rolling. The All-Stars encore was a quick, ugly flameout on Mogo Mogo: he went out fourteenth, gone before the jury, and it doesn't dent the original. He didn't just play the first game. He's the reason it's a game at all.
