Survivor: Cambodia · Season 31

Episode Guide

How Survivor: Cambodia unfolded, week by week.

1“Second Chance”Sep 23, 2015For the first time ever, the fans picked the cast: twenty returning players, all handed the redemption a public vote gave them. The premiere is everyone sizing up old reputations, and on Ta Keo that spells trouble for Vytas Baskauskas, a strong social and physical threat nobody wants to let settle in. Ta Keo drops the opener, and the tribe moves fast, voting Vytas out first to knock down a threat before he can build anything.
2“Survivor MacGyver”Sep 30, 2015Ta Keo can't find its footing, losing again while Bayon rolls, powered by Joe Anglim solving the puzzle to clinch it (Stephen Fishbach dubs him 'Survivor MacGyver'). Back on the beach, Shirin Oskooi is stuck on the wrong side of Ta Keo's shaky numbers with no easy way to flip them. When the votes come in, Shirin is the one sent out.
3“We Got a Rat”Oct 7, 2015A swap splits everyone into three tribes, and the new Angkor squad draws the short straw: a stripped-bare beach and instant misery. The tension on Angkor boils over between Abi-Maria and the Peih-Gee and Tasha side. When Angkor loses, Peih-Gee Law lands on the wrong end of the numbers and is voted out.
4“What's the Beef?”Oct 14, 2015Angkor keeps suffering, and the miserable tribe trudges back to Tribal with the battle lines already drawn. Jeff Varner, an original Ta Keo, can't pull together the numbers to protect himself against Savage and Tasha's group. He's voted out, exiting with an emotional, self-aware speech about just how much the second chance meant to him.
5“A Snake in the Grass”Oct 21, 2015For the first time, the dominant Bayon tribe has to turn on one of its own. Monica Padilla had floated the idea of an all-women's alliance, but Kimmi Kappenberg exposes the pitch to the rest of the tribe, and suddenly Monica is the threat that has to go. The blindside lands, and Monica is the first original Bayon sent home.
6“Bunking with the Devil”Oct 28, 2015The game stops for a real-life moment that towers over it. Probst pulls Terry Deitz aside to tell him his young son Danny has been hospitalized with a serious heart condition, and Terry chooses without a second thought to leave the game and get home to his family, the first player ever to step away for a loved one's medical emergency. (Danny would later receive a heart transplant and recover.) The game does roll on that night, and at Tribal Woo Hwang is voted out, but the episode belongs to Terry and his family.
7“Play to Win”Nov 4, 2015The merge hits as Orkun, and the returnees get straight to scheming with thirteen left and a jury now forming. Spencer Bledsoe, playing a sharper, more self-aware game than his rookie run, threads the needle through a messy vote split. When the chaos clears, Kass McQuillen, his old nemesis, is the one voted out as the first member of the jury.
8“You Call, We'll Haul”Nov 11, 2015The majority lines up a clean, confident hit on Kelley Wentworth, sure they've got her, while Joe wins immunity to keep his own run alive. But Wentworth is holding a hidden idol, and she plays it at the perfect moment, wiping out a staggering nine votes against her. With all of those erased, the handful of votes left land on Andrew Savage instead, blindsided 3-0 and sent to the jury in one of the great idol plays the game has ever seen.
9“Witches Coven”Nov 18, 2015Joe keeps winning immunity, untouchable for another week, so the whole game has to flow around him. Kimmi tags the Wentworth, Ciera, and Abi-Maria trio the 'Witches' Coven,' and a challenge advantage helps a Jeremy and Spencer bloc team up with them on a target. The blindside catches Kelly Wiglesworth, the original Borneo runner-up, and sends her to the jury.
10“Like Selling Your Soul to the Devil”Nov 25, 2015Hour one of a two-hour Thanksgiving night, and Joe wins immunity yet again. The vote narrows to Ciera Eastin versus Stephen Fishbach, and Jeremy makes a power move, playing a hidden idol on his ally Stephen to wipe out the votes coming his way. With Stephen safe, the votes fall on Ciera, the player who'd spent the season begging everyone to make moves, blindsided to the jury.
11“My Wheels Are Spinning”Nov 25, 2015Hour two, and Spencer finally does it, snapping Joe's long immunity streak to grab the necklace himself. That cracks the game wide open, and Stephen Fishbach, sitting on a steal-a-vote advantage, tries to maneuver by taking Joe's vote and casting two. But Stephen splits those votes and gets outfoxed anyway, blindsided and sent to the jury despite the advantage in his pocket.
12“Tiny Little Shanks to the Heart”Dec 2, 2015Joe Anglim has been untouchable, riding a four-week immunity streak that's kept the season's biggest threat safe, right up until his body gives out. He collapses during the endurance immunity challenge and has to be attended to, and with Joe finally vulnerable, the tribe moves on the challenge beast at last. Joe is voted out and off to the jury, the run that defined the season finally over.
13“Villains Have More Fun”Dec 9, 2015With Joe gone, the remaining players turn to the loose cannon they've been managing for weeks. Abi-Maria Gomes has been an unpredictable wildcard all season, and Spencer winning immunity means the alliance can finally deal with her. Abi-Maria is voted out to the jury, the chaos agent the tribe never could quite trust.
14“Lie, Cheat and Steal”FinaleDec 16, 2015The finale is a showdown of idols and nerve. At the final six, both Jeremy and Kelley Wentworth play hidden idols, voiding a pile of votes and forcing a 3-3 standoff, then a deadlocked revote, until, staring down a rock draw, the group concedes and sends Kimmi Kappenberg out by agreement. Keith Nale, 'stick to the plan' right to the end, falls next at the final five. Then Wentworth, the idol queen with no idol left, is finally voted out at the final four. That leaves Jeremy Collins, Spencer, and Tasha at Final Tribal, where Jeremy lays out his meat-shield game and reveals his wife is pregnant, and the jury rewards him with a clean sweep, 10-0-0, Spencer and Tasha both blanked.