Okay, it's a brand-new day and there's only one vote, so here are the results:On the way back, Malcolm asks, "Cochran, why didn't you put all your money on the Immunity Advantage? If you had, none of the Fans would have had an advantage in the next Immunity Challenge?"
"Because I figured there would be letters from home," said Cochran. "I didn't think that any of the Fans would want to give up letters from home! I should have known better -- their backs were against the wall, after all!"
"Yes, you should have," Julia said. "I'm a race car driver after all. I was deliberately waiting for the Immunity advantage so I could put all my money on it! Also, I'll see my family in at least two weeks, less if I make the family visit. I can wait."
That's when Cochran makes the mistake of saying, "You're the first woman I've ever seen in 26 seasons of Survivor who can control her emotions well enough to think like that after almost a month out here."
At that point, Dawn flips out, cusses Cochran up one side and down the other, and then says, "John Cochran, you spineless little weasel, I'm gonna stay in this game longer than you if it's the last thing I do." Cochran has to apologize as a result.
Its day 29 and the survivors are scraping redundant peanut butter off their bodies into a coconut shell. Reynold says there has been a turnaround. Thanks to the food, they have gone from morose and hungry to upbeat and well fed for the duration.
The letters from home have brought most people, even our strong as steel Cochran, to tears. Hope says that she hopes to stay long enough to see her family. Matt says that if they get rid of Cochran, all of them might get to see their family!
Brenda is aware of Cochran's ill-timed comment and plans to use it to her advantage by promising the Fans who don't win Immunity safety for three more days if they all vote with her, Corinne and Reynold to get rid of Cochran.
She suggests the plan to her fellow allies, who basically shrug and say "As long as it isn't me." Reynold says that if they get rid of a known strategist, it might help his own chances of making the jury, and Corinne agrees.
It's the next day and we head over to a sand clearing! There are nine contraptions lined up on the sand. It’s the endurance immunity challenge. The contraption is a platform on which to stand.
There is a heavy log lever sticking out with a breakable tiki head under it. The logs are held up by a rope which the survivor will hold. Only the survivor’s strength will keep the log from falling onto the tiki head.
The rope itself has knots in it for measuring purposes. In the beginning the survivor holds a knot that is quite a way up the rope. That keeps the logs at a high angle.
At intervals the survivor has to move down the rope toward the end. That lowers the angle of the logs and makes it harder to hold. Last one holding the logs and having an unbroken tiki-head, wins immunity.
Since Julia won an Immunity advantage, she gets to read the scroll and see what it is. At any point in the competition, she may move her hands back up the rope by two knots. Cochran openly groans, saying "20 bucks! 20 freaking bucks!"
The rope holding is one handed. One at a time, anyway. The weight of the logs is 1/3 of the starting weight of the player holding the rope. The knot change is in five minute intervals. At ten minutes, Julia uses her advantage to return to the top.
At 25 minutes, it's down to the last knot (except for Julia, of course). Brenda tries to get into the zone, but falls off the platform and drops the rope. Hope follows Brenda soon afterwards, as she just couldn't hold on.
At 30 minutes, they all move again and there are no more knots, just slick rope. Except for Julia, who is up the rope a by two knots and will, I guess, continue to have the advantage of a knot below her hand.
Andrea drops out. Dawn struggles and then slips, eliminating herself. Reynold slips and is eliminated as well, and it's down to Cochran (who is really struggling), Julia (who got to the rope) and Matt.
Cochran finally slips and is out. Matt looks at Julia and gives up:
Jeff Probst: Julia wins Immunity! (Julia cheers as Cochran groans openly. Probst gives Julia the Immunity necklace). Julia, you have Immunity and are safe from the vote. The rest of you are at risk, however! You have all day to figure out who will be joining Michael on the jury. I'll see you at Tribal.
In a confessional, Cochran says that he hopes the fact that Hope and Matt are still in the game will deter the others from going after him! He also plans to make up to Dawn just to make sure he's safe.
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Okay, Julia won Immunity and is safe from the vote. Andrea and Reynold each have a Hidden Immunity Idol and are safe as well. Now it's time for you to decide who will be joining Michael on the jury. The main targets are Matt (he's the strongest Fan), Hope (thanks to her showmance issues) and Cochran (thanks to his ill-advised comment to Julia which upset Dawn). I want you to decide which one of them joins Michael on the jury. The person with the most votes will be out. I'll take votes until tomorrow at the latest, so please vote!