Previously on Australian Survivor...
I think it's time to take out Mat.
..Benji's determination to eliminate the biggest player in the game...
It's gonna be a bloodbath.
I've still got my idol and I'm ready to play hard.
..led to the most intense tribal council ever.
- I'm playing it for Mat. - No. No. No.
- Don't play it for Mat. - OK. I'll play it for... myself.
And a blindside...
- Mat. ***
- ..that left Sharn... - I want revenge.
- ..and Shane... - I'm angry.
..seething.
Don't *** with Shane Gould.
In the reward challenge that followed...
Look at Shane go.
..Shane swam her team to victory.
And over fried chicken...
- Benji? - What if we blindside him?
..Shane and Sharn convinced Monika...
Yeah. For sure.
..to flip back to the Champions.
Champions strong?
But Brian was focused on his own game.
Brian's got a bloody idol.
And in the battle for immunity...
Brian wins individual immunity!
..Brian found himself in a position of power.
At tribal council he set his game play in motion...
You have to go home.
..voting with the Champions to blindside Benji...
Fourth member of our jury.
You got me.
..saving Sharn in the process...
..and dethroning his greatest threat.
The tribe has spoken.
Now I can have the power in this game.
Seven are left. Who will be voted out tonight?
Oh, my gosh. I can not believe that I am still here.
This is so great.
When we left for tribal council tonight,
I literally turned around and took one last look down the beach
and thought, "That'll be the last time I see this place."
But no, I am here. I am back on the beach.
The fact that Monika and Brian have flipped back to the Champions,
you know, is a promising sign
that they might want to work together with us again.
I am, you know, completely indebted to them tonight.
I just...
My faith in the tribe and humanity was restored.
- No. No. No. - Seriously.
It's really cool.
Yeah. Everything went to plan.
I had to do what I needed to do for my game going forward.
Yes, tonight was Champions versus Contenders,
but that's only a one-time only special.
You've got to strike when the iron is hot.
And the iron is burning hot right now.
It's just kind of like, when there's less people around
- it's like, I don't know. - Oh, really?
- I actually enjoy it more. - Oh, yeah. Me too.
I'm enjoying it too.
It's just a different feel now, isn't it, don't you think?
Like, Brian is having a snooze.
The girls, I just saw out there walking.
They've gone to get crabs, I think.
Step on him. Step on him. Step on him.
- Don't run away. - Yeah.
Come here. Stop it.
Gosh. Shane's hooking in.
She's done amazing, hasn't she? To be out here this long. She's so good.
Give it a crack.
It's just firewood.
Shane's 61 years of age
and she's made it nearly six weeks in the game,
you know, down to the final seven.
Shane's efforts around camp
put a lot of the younger ones in their 20s and 30s to shame.
I think the reason Shane is an Olympic gold medallist
is because she's just got this mentality
to just keep chipping away.
And it's been wonderful having her in the tribe
and being 19 years older than me, 61, she's got a lot of wisdom.
She's also funny.
This morning...
'Cause no-one else has said it to me, which...
I'm like, "Gosh. I can't wait to tell her."
Shane Gould thinks that I'm a grumpy old man too, babe.
But it's a compliment.
The beauty of this Survivor game
is that it's... it is a microcosm of life.
Even though it is a game, we're real human beings with real relationships.
She says, "When we get that farm
"and I'll just walk out the front with a cuppa in the morning
"and you've got your big beard and a flannelette shirt on
"with the axe over the shoulder..."
She's just like, "You know, you're just tottering around.
"I'm just watching you."
I'm just like, "Ohh. You're making me all shy now."
Thanks for sharing that. That's a really intimate thing. You know?
- Yeah... - To have shared that insight.
It's unbelievable.
Being here for 40 days on this beach
and this is a new insight to this man.
I realise I've got a real friendship with Steve.
And those connections with people that I care about,
so I think that's going to help me to win this game.
The end is nigh. I'm determined to get there to be the Sole Survivor.
It'll rank very highly on my resume.
I'm the oldest here on the game of Survivor. And it is a point of pride.
I think in this game I'm representing my generation.
You don't have to warehouse yourself
and sit in a rocking chair at home knitting booties.
You can get out in the world.
I came into this game as a Champion and I'm leaving as a Champion.
Ever since Mat left I've been leading the Champion alliance.
I knew that was coming. It's just I didn't know what the advantage was.
He should have played it at any time.
Mmm.
They just used it to their advantage to get me on side.
Last night's tribal council, Sharn was targeted.
I'm pretty pissed off. I'm not happy with them at all.
I think one of the biggest differences between Day 1 and Day 40
is that I'm much more confident in my ability.
That I can play this game hard.
So maybe now's the time to get revenge on Brian and the girls.
- So, what do you do? Just bang it? - Yeah.
It's very obvious that Shonee and Fenella are a really tight pair.
We've started calling them Shonella
because they are a power couple.
I've decided that we're going to split them apart.
One of them has to go.
Shonee might have an ability to do something with her social games.
Fenella is more of a physical threat. Fenella just encouraging Brian.
You know, "Oh, Grubby."
King Brian. King Grubby.
They're calling Brian "King Grub" with his harem of women.
But he's not going to be king of the tribe
if I have anything to do with it.
He's cheating. He's lying. And he has flipped before.
So if we eliminate the Contenders, he'll have no-one left to work with.
But after that, it'll be Brian.
It'd be nice to see him fall from his throne
and be brought back down to earth.
- Did you?! - What?!
Grubby!
Go, Grub.
So, last night, myself and Monika,
we had to flip on our mighty ducks and get rid of Benji.
So we had to combine with the Champions in Sharn, Steve and Shane
because Benji was a major threat.
It was just too high risk for me to have him still in the game.
- Ohhh. - Ooh-ooh.
The positon now with Benji gone, I definitely feel a lot more at ease.
Me, please.
I'm in a position of power at the moment.
I've got the girls on my side and I've got an idol in my back pocket.
When there's $500,000 up for grabs, I'll do anything.
Mon.
Before merge, I had to kiss a little bit of backside.
But now this is my time to shine in this game.
Do it again, Grub.
Does anyone eat their bottom leaf?
The only concern at the moment is Monika.
Both of us flipped on the two girls to get Benji out.
But, yeah, Miss Universe?
I don't know what she's gonna do and which way she's gonna head.
I'm like, "What the hell is going on here?"
I feel so lucky that I'm still here in this game.
And it proves to me that I'm such a social threat. I must be.
The game of Survivor and being Miss Universe Australia
is exactly the same.
It's pretty much a popularity contest in one way or another.
Benji dug his own grave. He said to me yesterday...
This is what made me go, "Hmm..."
He's like, "OK. So, tonight Sharn then one of you two next."
The game of Survivor has three game plays.
There's the social game, the physical game and then the...
What's the other game? The academic game, but no...
I mean, the social game, that's huge.
It's personality based and it's who likes who.
Oh, King Grub, he's very nervous.
'Cause Steve's obviously trying to get Monika back on their side
talking about his Zen yoga stuff.
I've never really liked Steve at all.
I need to keep my alliance strong and with the majority.
So I'll reassure Monika that if we stay strong together,
that she's going to get to top four
'cause we can't really afford to be losing her to the Champions
at this stage.
My game plan going forward is just taking the threats out one by one
'cause it's going to make it easier for me to be the Sole Survivor.
Steve is also the biggest physical threat left in this game.
If I can knock out Steve, that leaves me as the only male here
and with a couple more immunity challenges left
and having an idol in your pocket, I'm in a pretty good spot.
Steve's going next because that's going to help my game.
This is a time now where I can click into gear.
This is a time now where I can strike.
It's just vital that I win immunity
or someone else from my alliance does.
We can't allow Steve to win it because he's the next target.
Come on in, guys.
Sharn...
You seemed quite relieved at the end of last night's tribal.
How you feeling this morning?
I feel really good, Jonathan, yeah.
It was a relief to see, you know, um, the votes go that way.
And, yeah, I was very pleased, obviously.
- Still in the game. - Yeah. That's right.
Steve, with only 10 days left, is it time to put your head down
and sprint to that finish line?
I don't know about sprint to the finish line.
You've still got to stay composed,
and, um, not allow your head to get the better of you.
Shonee, with only seven players left, are you starting to think about
how you might spend that half-million at the end?
Ooh, maybe. No, not yet.
At the moment, I'm just thinking, like, maybe one or two votes ahead,
and then take it as it comes and hope for the best.
It's what I've been doing the whole time.
- Alright. You guys ready to get to today's immunity challenge? - Yeah.
First things first. Brian...
Once again, immunity is back up for grabs.
Today's challenge is very simple.
You're gonna place one foot on the end of a see-saw.
On the other end is an idol.
If at any point, you slip or tire, the idol will fall,
you're out of the challenge.
Last person with their idol still standing
wins immunity, safe from the vote.
As for the rest of you, no such guarantees.
Alright, let's get to it.
Alright, here we go.
Three, two, one.
This challenge is now on.
Another simple challenge,
that is deceptively difficult.
It's a position that's no fun to stay in for any length of time.
There's some strength involved in this,
but it's probably more about balance.
If you lose focus and overbalance,
it'll be hard to recover.
Anyone's glute burning yet?
- Yep. - Oh, yeah.
Starting to feel it, Brian?
Oh, yeah, my gluteus maximus.
Today is Day 40,
your body is already depleted.
It's gonna make this challenge that much harder.
Just like that, Shane drops out.
We're now down to six.
Steve, yet to win immunity,
I'm sure he'd love to win it today.
Ooh.
- Fenella. - It just plopped.
The next to drop out.
- Oh. - And then Sharn.
We seem to be going in order today.
10 minutes in. We're down to four.
Shonee,
Monika,
Steve
and Brian.
That idol is precariously balanced on the end there.
It won't take much movement to knock it off.
Brian, grunting now.
That burn sets in.
Not much you can do about it. There's nowhere to hide on this one.
Can't shake that leg out.
You gotta dig deep, push through it.
Oh.
Just like that, out of nowhere, Steve drops out.
We're down to three.
Shonee,
Monika,
- Brian. - Well done, girls. Great work.
Shonee and Monika looking very solid today.
They are locked and loaded.
Gonna give Brian a run for his money.
Big grunt.
Sore... bum!
The girls are very focused.
Neither of the girls have won immunity yet.
Brian would like to make it back to back.
It's a much more enjoyable night,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
Likes the feeling of wearing that necklace.
Oh, oh, he's in trouble.
Can he recover?
No. He's out of the challenge and we're down to two.
Both girls, super focused.
Eyes down, neither of them looking at the idol.
Shonee and Monika battling it out for that necklace.
Yeah. This is exciting.
Who's gonna falter first?
A little bit of wobble from Monika.
Ahh...
Oh, my God, Shon!
Shonee wins individual immunity!
Surprised herself.
Oh, my God!
- Oh, my God! - Good work!
- Good work... - Oh!
Shonee!
Oh, my God!
Shonee, come on over.
Hee-hee!
- Congratulations. - Thank you, Jonathan.
What an honour!
Individual immunity is yours. Nobody can vote for you tonight.
- Well done. - Thanks, Jonathan.
I thought it would never happen.
As for the rest of you,
tonight's tribal is gonna be a little different.
The person who gets the most votes tonight
will become a Dead Man Walking...
..which means they will lose their ability to vote
in the next two Tribals.
And just so we're clear,
Dead Man Walking can still win immunity challenges,
can still play an idol
and can still be voted out of this game.
They just can't vote in the next two tribals.
If they survive until the final five,
they regain their vote and it's game on.
I know that's a lot to take in.
You'll have this afternoon to think about it.
Grab your gear, head on out.
I'll see you guys tonight at tribal.
Tonight's vote
will determine the rest of the game.
Dead Man Walking is critical
in the division between Contenders and Champions.
So, whoever wins tonight's vote
is gonna have the power to win this game.
Yay!
Dead Man Walking is a huge twist
because in this game, it's all about numbers
and being on the right side of the numbers
and making sure everyone's voting the way that they've said.
Stripping someone of their ability to vote
is a huge advantage in this game.
You're unable to say who's going home
and you basically hold no value to your alliance.
This decision is a crucial part of the game.
Whichever alliance wins it
basically have control of the endgame.
Who we choose tonight is going to be momentous.
It's definitely going to shake things up.
Tonight, Dead Man Walking, so the person with the most votes...
- Yep. - ..loses their ability to vote...
- Correct. That's right. - ..on the next two councils.
At the immunity challenge today, Shonee won,
which means she can't be Dead Man Walking.
It makes sense to take Fenella out instead of Shonee.
She's proven herself in challenges that she's quite a physical threat.
She's strong, she's... she's fit.
She's agile. She's smart.
- You. - What a cackle.
And we really need to break up Shonee and Fenella,
'cause they've just got too much power together.
They're dangerous.
But if we took her vote away, then that means...
..essentially, we've got a good majority.
Yep.
But that all depends on, you know, Monika and Brian
being onside with you, me and Steve.
You know, Monika's such a sweet girl
but I do get irritated.
Eeeh!
She thinks she's playing her own game. She reckons she is.
But I don't think she knows what she's doing.
In order to have the numbers,
we really need to get her to come on board with us.
That way.
Steve, Shane and I, we are the vulnerable ones.
We're in the minority here, so we're the easy targets.
Monika's in a real position of power at the moment.
And that's a concern for me.
Hi.
She is the swing vote,
which gives her a lot of power.
She gets to choose who she wants to work with.
I really need to convince her to stay onboard with us.
Who do you see as the strongest alliance in this game now? Who?
- The girls. - Yeah.
'Shonella', I call them. Shonee and Fenella.
Right?
We have the opportunity to take the power out of that power couple.
If they stay, they go all the way to the end, the two of them.
- We know that, right? - Yeah.
We have to vote for Fenella tonight. We have to break it up.
Then they're only one vote, and we can use that to our advantage...
- Exactly. - ..for the next two tribal councils.
- It's perfect. - Yeah.
- So, again, that will advance us further in the game. - Definitely.
- What do you reckon? - Definitely.
- Yeah? - Makes total sense.
- OK. - Easy. Easy, done.
- We already have... - Yeah, we've got four.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Then it's you, me, Shane and Steve... - Yeah.
..vote Fenella.
- Correct. - Alright?
- Let's do it. - Alright, cool.
- I'm excited. Alright. - Yeah!
Aw, Moni! Come here, babe.
I know.
The game of Survivor is so real.
- It feels like reality now. - I know.
You know the first couple of weeks, it was like, "It's just a game."
And now it's like, "This is our life and it's all..."
I can't. I just don't want to talk about this anymore
because it's really hard.
- I feel better now. - Alright.
- But do you like the idea? - Yeah.
- Yeah. It's perfect, isn't it? - It makes total sense.
Yeah, OK. Alright.
To hear that Monika was onboard to vote for Fenella
was a comfort to me,
and I was happy that she's willing to work with us.
OK.
- Mm-hm. - Alright.
Yeah.
If you say.
You know, in normal life,
I'm not...
Mm.
And I, um, just don't want to hurt anyone's feelings
and things like that,
whereas this, that's the game... name of the game.
Yeah.
I know Sharn said Monika's onboard.
It's hard to leave your emotions at the door.
Exactly.
But I don't trust her.
I don't trust Monika, but I need her.
- Whatever the best way forward is... - Mm.
..for that.
- Rightio, sweetheart. - Hmm?
- Rightio, sweetheart. - Yeah.
- No, but I'm... - That's what I call my daughter.
It's really...
Oh, I feel... feel very pleased. Thank you.
If Monika doesn't vote with the Champions tonight,
it's basically the end of the Champions.
But there's lots of reasons I'd like to be with you...
Me too.
But Monika's so unpredictable.
You know, she... she just is in agreeance with everything.
I don't hold much hope, so I'm feeling, right...
..that I've got to try and deepen a friendship,
deepen a real relationship with her.
So, if it was the final five, that was us, Champions...
- Yep. - ..where would we go next?
I'm thinking Brian, um...
Definitely you're in there in my books.
- You're in my books, too. Really. - Yeah?
That's why I love to talk to you. That's why.
I can't believe the future for my game of Survivor
is being decided by Miss Universe.
It could be curtains for me.
- Maybe that tree. - Mmm.
Looking at this Dead Man Walking in the vote tonight,
it's definitely going to be used to weaken the opposition
in Steve, Sharn and Shane.
Oh, great. Wow.
I need to push my case forward as much as possible
about putting it on Steve
and hope the girls take it.
My idea is Shane.
Because we don't know who's going to win immunity next.
If we do Shane, it makes no difference to us.
I'm thinking, "What's going on here?"
I... I... I was dumbfounded.
Shane is not a threat. Even blind Freddie could see that.
OK. Well, then, that's a good plan. Let's make it then Shane...
My... Mine...
I'm thinking take the power out of Steve's hands
because... Shane's no threat.
But it's just a matter of, like, I feel like if we ditch Shane...
I just thought...
I was thinking, say if we wanted to get Steve off...
- No. - Yeah.
For me, I think it's very important to keep those girls on side.
Steve's my major threat so I want him at number one
and try and get Monika.
It's going to be hard.
Shonee and Fenella, I had to flip on them last tribal council
to get Benji out.
So I've got to be very careful how I tread there.
I've got to try to wheeze my way in there somehow,
try to sell them a story.
See if I can suck them in.
Yeah. But for the challenges we've had so far, been a lot of endurance.
And who's the major threat in that?
If he's still in the game...
..that means he's got a chance of winning those.
- The only one who's going to beat him is myself. - Yeah.
So it just takes that threat away.
So we'll get him next.
- I think so, yeah. - Mmm.
Shonee and Fenella I think will be on board.
But I know myself I'm on tenterhooks at the moment.
My game is now heavily reliant on Monika.
The challenges now, they're too...
We've had a lot of endurance stuff, simple stuff.
- There's gonna be bigger obstacles and stuff like that. - Definitely.
And who's the major threat in that?
We want to get Steve out first now.
*** me!
This afternoon has been the toughest afternoon in Survivor by far for me.
I felt like I was back at school again,
having to pick, you know, which group of friends I wanted to hang out with.
You know? And that's why I think I'm feeling so emotional
because... I really respect the three Champs so much, you know?
And then Shonee, Fenella and Brian, we've just bonded and they trust me
and they want to work with me moving forward.
I could ruin these guys' chances, my chance potentially, you know?
And it's... Oh.
I just... I don't know. I don't know what to do.
We'll now bring in the members of our jury,
Robbie, Sam, Mat.
Benji, voted out at the last tribal council.
OK. Just to get the jury up to speed,
tonight's tribal is a little different.
Tonight, someone is not going home.
Instead, someone is gonna become...
..Dead Man Walking.
Which means they lose the ability...
..to vote in the next two tribal councils.
Sharn.
- Jon? - What were your first thoughts
when you heard about that twist this afternoon?
You know, it's exciting to hear when there's a twist in the game.
It mixes it up a little bit and it creates new opportunities.
When I first heard the news, I was a little bit shocked at first,
um, that there's a change-up, but excited.
Shane, are you worried that whoever gets voted Dead Man Walking tonight
will be back at camp tomorrow?
Um, it's not a worry, it's a fact...
..that they will be there.
But I think the next tribal council's gonna be very interesting.
So what are you factoring in to your vote tonight?
Alliances. People you can trust.
People that you want to work with, you know,
through the next three tribal councils.
Sharn, how much of a handicap is this?
To the person that becomes Dead Man Walking, it's a huge handicap
because their vote is being taken from them.
That's their ability to have their input in this game.
I see it as a real opportunity for the tribe
to be able to perhaps neutralise things.
You could neutralise threats.
You can neutralise people that are playing the game really hard
and that might have more power than other people.
So if you get given an opportunity like this, you've gotta grab it
and make the right decision.
Because if you don't,
might not be sitting here in two tribal councils yourself.
Monika, Sharn sees it as an opportunity
to neutralise someone who's got a lot of power.
Do you think that exists in the tribe right now?
Yes. Power always exists.
There can never be an equal playing field
and I think Sharn's right, this is such a great opportunity
but the weight of it makes me scared as well
because we can turn the game completely on its head
with just this vote tonight.
I just have to add to that, fortune favours the brave, you know?
You've gotta be courageous in your moves.
You've gotta have courage.
Shane, where's this tribe at now?
Is there still a majority alliance?
Has it fractured into groups of twos and threes?
Yes. Yes, I believe there is.
I think, um, there's a Shonella.
Ooh. I like it.
Shonella?
Is that, like, a perfume?
- Sounds like us. - Yeah, sounds expensive.
Luxurious.
I'd buy it.
So, Steve, do you see an opportunity to work with one or the other
or do they come as a package?
Dunno. Haven't considered it.
Haven't given it much thought.
Why?
There's others that are too busy doing that.
Doing what?
Working with 'em.
Fenella, Shane pointed you guys out as a power couple.
Would you agree?
Power couple?!
Um, definitely not.
I mean, we are Contenders, we're the only two Contenders left.
I mean, if we're a power couple, there's certainly someone
that has more power in the couple tonight and someone that doesn't.
I'm definitely at a disadvantage right now.
I'm limited with my options so I don't feel very powerful.
Monika...
..when two people are locked in together, that's two votes.
When the numbers are getting small like this,
I mean, how dangerous is that, to have that around?
It's definitely a fact that you've gotta consider.
We can see that they're super close, these two girls,
but of course, because they have been together since day one.
We've got some really close bonds ourselves, the Champions, I mean,
from day one as well
and it's really tough because you have to focus on yourself
and your game, moving forward, and who you can trust,
regardless of what bonds they may have with other people.
So, Brian, is tonight an opportunity to drive a wedge between these two?
Um...
..conversations have been had today.
Options have been talked about.
Then they'll be executed today.
So, Shonee, the person that you rely on the most in this game
suddenly has their vote taken away, does that make you a sitting duck?
I think regardless of whose vote gets taken away,
you need to be surrounded by a strong alliance to move forward.
Otherwise, yeah, you will be a sitting duck alone.
Mm, sitting ducks.
Well, Sharn, Shonee brings up a good point,
I mean, one person is gonna have their vote taken away
but that's gonna be a blow to whoever else they're working with.
So if you're in an alliance with someone, it's not gonna be good.
That's right. So that's why the decision is important.
You've gotta think about those people you wanna work with,
people you can trust, the people you have faith in,
moving forward in the game.
Not looking forward to right to the finish line but for now
so that you can inch your way forward to the end point.
It's fundamental. So important.
Alright, well, I think it is time to vote.
You're up.
Fenella, I'm voting on old tribal lines tonight.
You're the other Contender that can be voted off
so, sorry, it's you.
If this gives us a couple of percent advantage
to get you voted off the next two tribal councils,
I'll take it.
I'll go count the votes.
If anyone has a hidden immunity idol and they want to play it,
now would be the time to do so.
OK, once the votes are read, the decision is final.
Person with the highest number of votes will be Dead Man Walking.
I'll read the votes.
First vote, Fenella.
Fenella.
Steve.
Fenella.
That's three votes Fenella, one vote Steve.
Steve.
Three votes Fenella, two votes Steve.
Steve. We're tied.
Three votes Fenella, three votes Steve.
One vote left.
Dead Man Walking...
..Steve.
You can come over here.
Steve...
..you are Dead Man Walking.
If you survive until the final five, you will regain your vote.
Until that time, you cannot vote.
Go ahead and take a seat.
Well, in Survivor, if you bury the wrong person at the wrong time,
you better hope they don't come back to haunt you.
Grab your torches, head back to camp.
Tomorrow night on Australian Survivor...
He knows how to battle the odds...
You don't spend 41 days in the game of Survivor to lay down.
..and the enemy...
Brian thinks that he's the mastermind.
..and he's aimed to fire.
I'm Dead Man Walking.
I got nothing to lose.