[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 47 Episode 7.] A reward challenge and advantage twist let the safe team not only witness tribal council in Survivor Season 47’s seventh episode, but also protect one player from elimination in secret. This led to a shocking plot twist that left the eliminated castaway in tears after Jeff Probst snuffed their torch.
Probst addresses the shocking developments in the new episode of Survivor ‘s On Fire podcast (listen to the full episode for free below). This episode’s tribal council was the last tribal council before the jury starts to form next week. The reward challenge had two sections, one for a group immunity/reward and one for individual immunity.
The 12 remaining players were randomly divided into two teams of six for the group challenge, and it was a pure luck that all five remaining members of the Tuku (blue) tribe ended up on the same side, with Rachel as their sixth player. Teeny, Genevieve, Sol, Sierra, Andy, and Sam got the reward and were safe from tribal council. Kyle won individual immunity again, but he was still part of the losing side — consisting of him and Rachel, Gabe, Sue, Tiyana, and Caroline — that had to vote out a player.
As the only one who wasn’t part of Tuku pre-merge, Rachel seemed like the obvious choice for elimination. But most of the former Tukus knew that presenting a “Tuku strong” alliance would put targets on all of their backs, so players like Tiyana and Car.