Cook Islands

Survivor: Cook Islands · Season 13

Episode Guide

How Survivor: Cook Islands unfolded, week by week.

  1. 1“I Can Forgive Her but I Don't Have to Because She Screwed with My Chickens”Sep 14, 2006Twenty players arrive in the Cook Islands to one of the most controversial twists the show ever attempted: the cast is split into four tribes divided by ethnicity, African American, Asian American, Hispanic, and white. When the first tribe loses immunity, Sekou Bunch is voted out 3-2, the first boot of a season already making headlines.
  2. 2“Dire Strengths and Dead Weight”Sep 21, 2006The four-tribe experiment claims another. Billy Garcia, after clashing with his tribemates, is voted out 4-1, and then delivers one of the show's more awkward moments by professing his love for Candice from a rival tribe on his way out the door.
  3. 3“Flirting and Frustration”Sep 28, 2006The divisive ethnic split is scrapped early: the four tribes are dissolved and the castaways redraw into two mixed tribes, Aitutaki and Rarotonga. In the reshuffle, Cecilia Mansilla lands on the wrong side of her new tribe's numbers and is voted out 5-3.
  4. 4“Ruling the Roost”Oct 5, 2006Rarotonga heads to Tribal, and the tribe's women quietly take the reins. J.P. Calderon, a strong physical presence and exactly the kind of challenge asset you'd expect to keep, is instead read as a threat and voted out 7-2.
  5. 5“Don't Cry Over Spilled Octopus”Oct 12, 2006Aitutaki stumbles into Tribal, and Stephannie Favor, short on allies and tagged as a weaker link around camp, is the one sent home, voted out 7-1.
  6. 6“Plan Voodoo”Oct 19, 2006A rare double Tribal Council. On Aitutaki, Cao Boi Bui, the eccentric older player whose convoluted 'Plan Voodoo' vote-splitting scheme had exasperated his own ally Yul, is voted out 6-1-1. Over on Rarotonga, the tribe's resident pariah Cristina Coria is sent home 4-2. Two gone in a single night.
  7. 7“Why Aren't You Swimming?!”Nov 2, 2006Rarotonga is back at Tribal, and Jessica 'Flicka' Smith, the free-spirited rollergirl who'd never locked into a solid alliance, can't find the numbers to save herself. Jessica is voted out 4-2.
  8. 8“Mutiny”Nov 9, 2006Probst springs the mutiny: anyone who wants to switch tribes can do so on the spot. Candice Woodcock and Jonathan Penner leap from Aitutaki to Rarotonga, leaving the 'Aitu Four' of Yul, Ozzy, Becky, and Sundra stranded at just four against Rarotonga's eight. But the Aitu Four win immunity anyway, and the bloated Rarotonga is forced to Tribal, where Brad Virata is voted out 6-1 as the first member of the jury.
  9. 9“People That You Like Want To See You Suffer”Nov 16, 2006Another double elimination, and the lopsided tribe lines start to bite. With the Aitu Four still winning when it counts, the overstuffed Rarotonga has to eat its own twice over, voting out Rebecca Borman and then Jenny Guzon-Bae and sending both to the jury.
  10. 10“Why Would You Trust Me?”Nov 23, 2006The merge arrives and the tribes fold into Aitutonga at nine. The Aitu Four are technically down a number, but Yul Kwon holds the trump card: the hidden idol he found on Exile, which he uses to pressure Jonathan Penner into flipping back to his side. With the balance quietly tipped, Nate Gonzalez is voted out 5-4 as the first boot of the merge.
  11. 11“You're a Rat...”Nov 30, 2006Now in control, the Aitu alliance starts picking off what's left of the old Rarotonga crew. Candice Woodcock, one of the two mutineers whose gamble had backfired, is voted out 5-3 to the jury.
  12. 12“Arranging a Hit”Dec 7, 2006Jonathan Penner had flipped back to Yul's side under the threat of that idol, but once his usefulness runs dry, the alliance has no reason to keep the wily veteran around. Penner is voted out 6-1 and sent to the jury, still scheming on his way out.
  13. 13“I Have the Advantage...For Once”Dec 14, 2006Parvati Shallow, the flirty, strategic competitor in her first season, is the last real outsider standing between the Aitu Four and the end. She's voted out 4-2, clearing the path for the original four to run it out.
  14. 14“This Tribe Will Self-Destruct in 5, 4, 3...”FinaleDec 17, 2006Finale night, and the Aitu Four finally turn on one another. Adam Gentry is voted out in fifth, leaving Yul, Ozzy, Becky, and Sundra, the four who'd survived the mutiny together. Ozzy wins the final immunity, and the vote between Becky and Sundra ties, forcing a fire-making tiebreaker, an excruciating marathon in which both women struggle for ages before Becky finally coaxes her flame to life, sending Sundra out in fourth. At the first Final Tribal Council ever to seat three finalists, the jury weighs Yul Kwon's masterful, idol-driven strategic game against Ozzy Lusth's dominant challenge run, and they hand it to Yul 5-4-0, with Becky shut out.