Fiji

Survivor: Fiji · Season 14

Episode Guide

How Survivor: Fiji unfolded, week by week.

  1. 1“Something Cruel Is About to Happen... Real Soon”Feb 8, 2007Nineteen castaways, one short after a pre-game withdrawal, get a rude welcome to the season's big twist: Haves vs. Have-Nots. Moto wins the luxury camp, beds and a kitchen and even a shower, while Ravu is dumped on a bare beach with a pot and a machete and nothing else. The misery on Ravu is instant, and when they lose the opener the starving tribe goes looking for its weakest link. Jessica deBen is the first one voted out, in 19th, as Ravu starts a long losing spiral.
  2. 2“Snakes Are Misunderstood... We Have an Understanding Now”Feb 15, 2007Life on Ravu only gets grimmer, no food, no shelter, no wins, while Moto lounges at their resort and keeps stacking up challenge victories. Starving and demoralized, the have-nots keep trudging to Tribal with nobody feeling safe. Erica Durousseau ends up the easy target this round and is voted out in 18th, the spiral rolling right along.
  3. 3“This Is Not Survival...It's a Thrival”Feb 22, 2007The wealth gap between the tribes turns almost cartoonish, Moto practically on vacation while Ravu wastes away. Sylvia Kwan comes back from a stint on Exile Island hoping to slot back in, but her tribe has already cooled on her. Ravu loses yet again, and with the group eager to cut someone they don't fully trust, Sylvia is voted out in 17th.
  4. 4“Let's Just Call Jeff on the Jeff Phone”Mar 1, 2007A strange night, with two castaways leaving the game. First, Gary Stritesky is hit with a scary medical issue and decides on doctor's advice that he can't keep going, quitting in 16th. Then the game rolls on to an actual vote, where Liliana Gomez lands as the odd one out and is voted out in 15th. Two gone in a single episode, and the tribes keep reshaping around whoever's left.
  5. 5“Love Many, Trust Few, Do Wrong to None”Mar 8, 2007Camp harmony, never strong on a starving tribe, finally snaps. Rita Verreos means well, but her constant talking and managing has worn thin on people running on empty. When the tribe drops another challenge, they decide the chatter has to go, and Rita is voted out in 14th.
  6. 6“I've Got Strength Now to Carry the Flag”Mar 21, 2007The game's first tribe swap shakes everything loose: Earl and Edgardo are tapped to run a schoolyard-pick reshuffle, scrambling both camps and the alliances inside them. New tribes mean new numbers and new targets, and a young guys' bloc, the self-styled Four Horsemen of Alex, Mookie, Edgardo, and Dreamz, starts taking shape in the chaos. When the dust settles at Tribal, Anthony Robinson is the one voted out in 13th.
  7. 7“An Evil Thought”Mar 29, 2007Quietly, the unassuming Yau-Man Chan goes digging and turns up the hidden immunity idol, then does something nobody had ever tried: he carves a fake idol out of a coconut shell and reburies it as a decoy. He lets only his closest ally Earl in on the real one, the start of a quietly powerful partnership. At camp, the abrasive Rocky Reid has been grating on everyone with his in-your-face style, and the tribe has had enough. Rocky is voted out in 12th, the first member of the jury.
  8. 8“So You Think You Can Meke?”Apr 5, 2007There are two hidden idols out there, and the Four Horsemen get their hands on the second, Alex and Mookie digging it up and choosing to hide it even from their own ally Dreamz. It's a crack in the bloc on the very day they grab some real power. A Fijian dance challenge sets up the vote, and Lisi Linares, more checked out and combative by the day, is voted out in 11th as the second juror.
  9. 9“Are We Gonna Live on Exile Island?!”Apr 12, 2007The merge lands as Bula Bula, but with a cruel catch: everyone funnels through Exile Island and returns to find Moto's luxury camp stripped bare, so the haves lose their cushy life right as the game turns individual. A twisty first merge challenge splits everyone into groups and chokes off the usual pre-Tribal scrambling. Caught on the wrong side of it, Michelle Yi is blindsided in 10th, the third member of the jury.
  10. 10“It's a Turtle?!”Apr 19, 2007The Four Horsemen are sure they're running the merged tribe, but one of their own is quietly doing the math. Dreamz Herd, sensing he's stuck at the bottom of his own alliance, flips to Earl and Yau-Man's side and hands them the numbers. The Horsemen never see it coming, and Edgardo Rivera is blindsided in 9th, the swing that tilts the whole game toward Earl.
  11. 11“Blackmail or Betrayal”Apr 26, 2007With their grip slipping, the last Horsemen make a panicked play to survive. Holding the second idol, they badly misread the vote, and Alex plays it on himself when he was never the one in danger. The idol is burned for nothing, the votes fall right where they were always headed, and Mookie Lee is voted out in 8th as the fifth juror.
  12. 12“A Smile, Velvet Gloves and a Dagger in My Pocket”May 3, 2007Alex Angarita is the last Horseman left, and with his alliance gone and his idol wasted, he's running on fumes. He hunts for any crack in Earl's group, but there's just nothing to pry open this late. The vote is a formality, and Alex is voted out in 7th, the final piece of the old bloc gone and Earl's alliance fully in command.
  13. 13“I Wanna See If I Can Make a Deal”May 10, 2007Yau-Man knows he's the biggest threat left with a target squarely on his back, so he protects himself the smart way. When the alliance lines up to ambush him at Tribal, he plays his hidden idol perfectly, the first time anyone in the game's history had ever played one correctly, voiding the four votes against him. Stacy Kimball goes home in 6th instead, and with the end in sight Yau-Man starts wheeling and dealing to lock in his safety the rest of the way.
  14. 14“You've Got That Puzzled Look”FinaleMay 13, 2007Finale night turns on the most debated deal the show has ever aired. Earlier, Yau-Man had won a brand-new truck in a reward and handed it to Dreamz, who promised that if he ever won final-four immunity he'd give the necklace to Yau-Man. Boo Bernis goes out in 5th, and then at the final four Dreamz does win immunity, and after a long, public agonizing he keeps the necklace and the truck both, voting Yau-Man out in 4th. That sends the beloved Yau-Man to the jury one step short of the end, leaving Earl, Cassandra, and Dreamz at Final Tribal. The jury isn't conflicted in the slightest: Earl Cole sweeps it 9-0-0, the first unanimous Sole Survivor the show ever crowned, with Cassandra and Dreamz both shut out.