LAST EDITED ON 04-18-07 AT 07:15 AM (EST)
Episode 6: ”It’s a Turtle?!” Last week on Survivor, both tribes were sent to Exile Island and told to merge, forming the purple-buffed Bula Bula tribe. They were all then sent to the Moto camp to live, and were shocked and dismayed to find that it was stripped of all luxuries. They were also shocked when, at the immunity challenge, the newly-merged tribe was divided up into two teams. The green team (Boo, Cassandra, Earl, Edgardo, and Yau-Man) barely beat the orange team (Alex, Dre, Michelle, Mookie, and Stacy) for immunity and a reward of steaks and wine. The bubbly, young, puzzle-master Michelle got the boot, after the surprise twist left her competing on a team with no one from her alliance and no chance to strategize before tribal council. To read more about it more in depth, check out Aruba's witty summary.
You can also read Dabo's East Coast Update Thread, in which the members of this board discussed the happenings as the show aired. If you’d like to delve further into the undercurrents of the game at this point, check out the transcript from the Episode 9 CBS Insider, brought to us by Michel.
Another informative read is the editing analysis thread posted by Veruca Salt, with contributions from other insightful RTVW members. KOBrien_fan told us the title of episode 6 is "It’s a Turtle?!”.
Since both the hidden immunity idols have been found, and are both turtle necklaces, it is apparent that one of them gets played in this episode. My flower sistah FlowerPower brought us over the ”viccaps” (a.k.a. vidcaps) for the CBS promos from Survivor Fever. Chez started a hotly-discussed thread which gives us the clues CBS tosses out to try and confuse us, a.k.a. the Misdirection: The hidden immunity idol stirs distrust among tribemates. At the Reward, one Survivor works diligently to solidify an alliance. One Survivor is caught strategizing with a member of another alliance. How will this double-dealing affect this Survivor’s game? A cat and mouse game plays out at one of the most dramatic Tribal Councils in SURVIVOR history, leaving one alliance shocked and the other gloating. In the promo, we see that Mookie is irritated at Dreamz for breaking their pact to vote out Stacy at the last tribal council. Dreamz chose to go with Alex and Edgardo and vote out Michelle instead. 
Mookie: “You just screwed everything.” The hidden immunity idol stirs distrust among tribemates. Mookie is now distrustful of Dreamz for not voting with him. Alex and Edgardo are distrustful of Mookie for not voting with them. Also, Mookie has possession of the hidden immunity idol, and Alex and Edgardo are wary of how he will use it. At the Reward, one Survivor works diligently to solidify an alliance. The solid alliances that we have seen formed so far are the one with Earl, Yau-Man, Cassandra, and the one consisting of Alex, Edgardo, and Stacy. Dreamz has been playing both sides, and is possibly someone who might be trying to solidify an alliance with either group. But Boo is the only person at this point in the game who has not really formed a solid alliance with anyone. So he may also be one who tries to solidify an alliance at the reward. It looks like he will lean toward an alliance with Earl. 
Boo (to Earl): “They’re all backstabbers.” One Survivor is caught strategizing with a member of another alliance. How will this double-dealing affect this Survivor’s game? We see from the promo vidcaps that Dreamz tells Earl and Cassandra that Mookie has the hidden immunity idol, making it seem like his loyalty lies with Earl’s group. 
And according to the press release on Survivor Phoenix,
Dre will be the one whose loyalty comes into question, when he is caught strategizing with Alex by the Earl/Yau/Cassandra alliance. Maybe Boo is the one who spills the beans? 
Before we get into the “dramatic tribal council”, let’s take a look at the challenges. Reward Challenge: “Get Smashed” According to TV Guide, the reward winners will receive “a feast and overnight stay on a yacht that is moored within sight of the losers back at camp.”
The challenge involves answering questions about their competitors. Each player will answer a series of questions before the challenge, and then will try to determine what the predominant answer was for each question. The contestants who answer correctly will smash wooden shelves that have been color-coded for each individual. 
Jeff: “Who believes they are in control of this game?” 
Here we see Boo and Cassandra smashing Stacy’s shelf (From the pics, Stacy is yellow, Dreamz is green, and Edgardo is purple): 
Both TDT and Survivor Fever are speculating that the under-the-radar player Cassandra wins the reward challenge and takes Dre with her on the yacht. 
As for Cassandra, it seems she is another chip on Mookie’s shoulder: 
Mookie: “I am irritated with Cassandra. She just made the worst mistake of her life.” Why would Mookie be irritated with Cassandra? Some people on these boards think he is saying this because Cassandra wins reward and chooses to take someone other than him, the only tribe member left who has not had any luxuries yet in the game. Others believe that Mookie is ticked after being sent to Exile Island by the reward challenge winner Cassandra. Others theorize that it is because Cassandra turns down his proposal of a final three pact with him and Dreamz. I think that turning down his alliance proposal would be the most plausible reason for Mookie to be annoyed with Cassandra. 
But I disagree that Cassandra will win the reward challenge.
In the pic above, she seems to be giving the A-OK sign to someone, and I think it could be the reward challenge winner out on the yacht. I think it’s Boo who wins, and takes Earl with him. That would make the clue about solidifying the alliance during a reward (not a reward challenge) make more sense. It is speculated that the reward challenge winner chooses the exile. I think Alex is the best candidate for exile, which would be a smart move to keep him from strategizing with his alliance before tribal council. Immunity Challenge: “Chimney Sweep” It looks as though this is an endurance challenge involving standing barefoot on small pegs and attempting to keep themselves propped up inside colored wooden boxes. Looks like Edgardo and Cassandra are among the first few out of the challenge, and Stacy is falling fast. 
Thanks to CBS, we know who wins this challenge, as we see Yau-Man in one of the promos actually wearing the immunity necklace! 
Now let’s move onto tribal council. A cat and mouse game plays out at one of the most dramatic Tribal Councils in SURVIVOR history, leaving one alliance shocked and the other gloating. The likely target boot for Earl’s group is the kingpin of the other group, Alex. He probably finds out that he is a target as a result of the pecking-order revealing reward challenge. Dreamz is the swing vote. Alex, Edgardo, and Stacy will likely be planning to vote for Earl, but they may target Boo or Cassandra if they think Earl has the hidden immunity idol. In the web promo, we hear Edgardo say to Mookie: 
“You could give Alex the idol.” 
Mookie has a tough decision to make. But here is the clincher, as spoiled by Survivor Phoenix a few weeks back:
“At Final 9, when Alex finds out he is the target at Tribal Council, they will decide to play to idol to protect Alex. Dre moles out Alex's plans to the opposing alliance, their votes are switched to Edgardo, making him the casualty of intrigue.” Dreamz seems pretty smug about the way things are going to play out. 
So, before the votes are read, Alex presents the immunity idol that Mookie has given him, but, when the votes are revealed, it will be Edgardo, in a blindsiding twist of fate, who has the majority of the votes and is sent home. 
Adios, amigo!
Reward Winner: Boo (possibly Cassandra)
Immunity Winner: Yau-Man
Exiled: Alex (possibly Mookie)
Bootee: Edgardo To see who what all the spoiler sites think will happen this week, check out Scarlett’s Across the Board Picks thread when it’s posted. For more spoilery-type information, here are some other threads you might want to check out: Survivor Phoenix Updates, posted by FlowerPower Jury Vote Speculation, posted by KOBrien_fan. Go cast your vote for this week’s bootee in forehead’s vote thread. *Special shout-outs to some of the contributors to the Survivor Spoilers forum this past week, without whom I would never have been able to write this SOTS, especially, Emydi, FlowerPower, Brownroach, michel, vince3, Volcanic Glass, KOBrien_fan, forehead, Bebo, and Chez. Huge thanks also to Survivor Fever, Survivor Phoenix, and TDT for all of their insight, photos, and inside info. Edited to fix typos and to say that if I'm wrong about anything above, then it's DreamerBeliever's fault for asking me to sub for him.
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