From James Barber at Sucks -- not sure if he's transcibed the whole thing yet, but here's what he's posted so far...Charlie: Secret Scene
Watch as Randy bonds with his 'first gay friend'
(day 25)
(Randy goes skinny dipping)
Charlie (on the dock): Randy. (jumps in in his trunks and swims out) Am I interrupting your alone time? (I can't quite hear Randy's response) Nice.
Randy (solo): On my morning swim today, Charlie came out and joined me. I was buck nekkid, but I love my relationship with Charlie. He's my first gay friend ever. I kind of like that idea.
Randy: Don't make this Brokeback Lake. (Charlie laughs and says he's not naked)
Charlie (solo): Randy and I have become really close out here. We never suspected when we met each other that we would become close. He has no gay friends in real life, he's never met gay people, he's kind of not an emotional person. It seems like the opposite of me. But he's a smart guy, and I'm a smart guy, and I think we see that in each other. We align over being intelligent out here, which is rare, there are a lot of idiots out here.
Randy: I'm glad you see when I get into game mode, that's not me. (Charlie says it's something, then says he's the opposite)
Randy (solo): Charlie's awesome. The first real gay friend I've ever had. Who's gonna expect a guy like me to hook up with a gay guy. It's beautiful. He's cool. Friends for life. I like Charlie.
Tribal Council Voting
Watch what each tribe member had to say as they cast their votes
Randy ("CC"): Bitch.
Sugar (takes a long time and cries before she writes out Charlie with a sad face): Sorry, Charlie, but you've picked two of the worst allies you could possibly pick when I have to make a vote. (flashes a peace sign) I'm a traitor. Sorry.
Matty (Charlie): Charlie, you're a hell of a guy, you played a very good game, but it's time for you to go.
Susie (Charlie): Charlie, you're a good competitor. I've gotta take you out if I'm gonna move ahead. Hope we can still be friends.
Crystal (Charlie): You are a big threat and you are hurting my alliance. Sorry, but you've gotta go.
Ken ("Charley" with a sad face): Sorry, Charlie. It's not like I'm a homophobic. It's just that...at that feast, you took the hidden immunity idol away from me...and...uh...I thought, I gotta get you for that. Sorry.
Bob (Crystal): Sorry, Crystal. It's a game. Hope to see you later.
Corinne (Crystal): You're a bully, and I don't want to play this game with you. I hope you go home tonight.
Charlie (Crystal): Word on the street is that you're a really mean person, but that's beside the point. You took out my Marcus, and that makes me really mad.
Charlie's Final Words
Charlie reacts to having just been blindsided by the newly merged Nobag Tribe
"This is a disaster. I 100% did not see this coming, but it makes complete sense. I was controlling all the old Kota members, feeding them lines, telling them what to say, making every move for them. I'm sure that the people who voted me out learned a lot from Marcus and Bob and Susie when they had their time at Kota. I'm not completely surprised, kind of bummed. I think I could have done a lot more in this game. I was having a blast out there, and people complained day in and day out, and I was one of the people who was actually enjoying myself out there, so it does kind of suck that I have to go home. If I'm gonna leave Survivor, I'm glad it's a blindside, because that's what makes Survivor fun. I'm gonna try and move on from this, and it was a blast, and I'm so happy I made the jury. I'm not bitter towards anyone out there."
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"I'm furious that now I have no opportunity to move on in this game, but it makes complete sense why they took me out. These aren't the smarest people I was dealing with there, and I had trouble relating to these people who had a lot less intelligence than I have, and I think it was transparent what I was doing. I think these other people, the Fang people, the original Fang tribe, are playing a really great game. It sucks. I wish I could go on. I had a lot of plans in the future. I knew today was like, pivotal, but what can you do at this point? Honestly I came here and I didn't think I would make it past the first Tribal. To make it this far is amazing, but every Tribal that I made it another week further, I was hungry for more, and I really saw myself going for more in this game. Now that that's been bashed for me, I'm upset, but these people are playing a good game. When I saw people weren't playing this game, I was kind of frustrated. The fact that I know now these people are smart players, especially the ones I haven't been playing with, like Crystal and Kenny, that makes me happier about this game. It sucks, it sucks. I really thought I could go further. I think if I made it one more week I had this in the bag. What hurts me the most is Sugar. I don't know why she flipped, but she did. Sugar in my mind wasn't playing this game at all, and the fact that she made that move shows that she's playing this game, so more power to her."
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"If I were the first member of the jury, this would be an even larger disaster, but thank God Marcus is in the jury house. That is my saving grace. I can't wait to see Marcus. I do kind of feel bad that Marcus lef last Tribal and now I leave. I don't want my legacy to be just that once Marcus gone, I got nothing. I think some people were thinking I was riding his coattails, and this might make it seem like I am even more, but hopefully it will show I was playing this game all along and was strategizing, with Marcus."
Charlie the Day After
Charlie reflects on his time in the game, how he played, and his relationship with Marcus
"My favorite part of playing the game of Survivor was just figuring out who I was, being out there, trying to understand my character and how I'm perceived. It's a very unique situation to be put basically without any preconceived notions of who you are and figure out how you're perceived by other characters and other people and just learning about yourself and where you fit into the context of a very diverse set of characters."
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"Going into the game, I didn't even know what the real Charlie was. I was struggling with that, or have been struggling with that, for a while. I was really excited to try and chip away at that. If what they saw was the real Charlie, then I'm really happy, because I think I played the game like a very nice guy, with a great set of values, with a fun, competitive edge, so I'm really proud of the way I played. I hope that's the real Charlie. I actually am surprised with how I played the game, and in my real life I'm not sure if how I played is actually how I go about my real life. I'm hoping to incorporate the way I played the game in my actual day-to-day activity."
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"I think what makes me one of the more perfect survivors (laughs), is I played a very balanced game. I was never the best at anything, but I was very good at almost everything. Socially I was very good, physically I was very good, mentally I was very good. I was never the best, so I don't think I posed much of a threat to people, but I was very close to the top. That was my strategy going into the game, and I think I was able to execute that. All along I think people underestimated and overestimated me at the same time, so I was always perfectly aligned in the middle."
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"The moment where I got really excited that I could play this game was when I figured out I could align with people I really trusted, thought were intelligent, and shared a lot in common with. I never thought that could happen in the game, I thought I was going to be out there swimming alone, playing the game alone. That was very early on when I met Corinne, Marcus, and Jacquie. I was concerned people who were a lot more unlikeable, like Ace, weren't ever gonna be viewed as unlikeable, because no one was as intelligent or was on the same page as I was. The moment I realized these people are thinking the same thing I'm thinking, and they're very smart, and they have a lot of the same values, and if we put our minds together, we can run this game."
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"What will drive me crazy is if I'm perceived as riding coattails in this game. Part of my strategy was to be a little bit underestimated, so I didn't step up to the plate as much as I think I had the capability to, and was sort of waiting later on to take the reins more. Even though other people were doing a lot of work with me, I don't want it to be perceived that I was letting people do work for me. I was constantly thinking, I was playing this game very cautiously and always calculating what was going on in this game, and even though I wasn't the most vocal player and other people might not have perceived me as playing the game, every second I was thinking what was coming out of my mouth, where I was walking to, who I was hanging out with, was affecting the game. I think a lot of people lost sight that this was a game every step of the way."
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"Surprisingly I don't think the game is what's bonding me to the people who I formed close relationships with. There just happened to be people who I felt very similar and connected to, who I wouldn't ordinarily meet, but have so much in common with. On top of that, to share such a unique experience bonds us."
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"When I was voted out of the game, I was shocked. I could not believe what was happening. I did not feel any paranoia going to that Tribal that I would be voted out. When Jeff said, 'Bring me your torch,' I had two thoughts. The first was, 'Oh my God, this is such a shocker,' and the second was, 'As a huge fan of the show, this is such a rite of passage to being on Survivor, and a dream come true of mine.' I had a huge smile on my face, while also at the same time being very sad this experience was coming to an end."
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"For me, one of the most unique things about my experience on Survivor was the relationship I built with Marcus. In my real life, straight guys don't gravitate towards me. I'm very close with lots of women, and they all love me, and gay guys fill a lot of my relationships, but to have a relationship with a straight guy is something that was very unique. I feel so close with him, almost closer than a lot of my very close friends at home...even though I didn't win a million dollars, the fact that I have that relationship is so important to me at this point."
Bob on Marcus's Blindside
Bob shares his thoughts after witnessing one of the most powerful players in the game get blindsided.
"The Tribal Council was interesting. I got to see my first real blindside last night. Susie, Marcus and I sort of had a loose alliance before we left the second generation Kota tribe. Our understanding was we would go to the final six. Susie decided that wasn't the way we were gonna go, so Susie, Corinne, and Ken voted Marcus out last night, which was a classic blindside. It surprised me. Maybe Susie didn't trust me, but I thought Susie and I had an understanding. She's playing the game...maybe I oughta learn to play."
When Leeches Attack
On Exile Island, Bob shows off his bloody leech wounds
"I was surprised. (shows a wound on the bottom of his foot) I cut my...that might have been a leech, that acts like it might have had a leech on it."
(cut)
"Nothing like what we have over at the Kota tribe. (something about a hamburger) That bleeding like that is real significant of an anticoagulant leeches poke you with before they start sucking your blood."
(cut)
"I didn't notice. I sort of scoured myself afterwards and I didn't look too bad. I didn't see any leaches at all but I'm thinking maybe that one there, because it was right in the cuff of the sneaker, might have been knocked off by my sneaker while I was walking around. It might have been a scab that was irritated but it seems to be bleeding way too much to not be a leech."
Ken and Susie Catch Turtles
With Marcus gone, Ken and Susie are the new providers at Kota when they catch a net-full of turtles.
Ken: 8 turtles! 8 turtles!
Susie: They're alive.
(they row back to shore)
Ken: No fish, but turtle.
Susie: Turtle galore. Oh my God.
Ken: How many turtles were (I think he means how many before the switch).
Susie: I think there's some turtles there.
Ken: I know, but so far you guys only caught one.
Susie: One. (laughs) I can't believe it.
Ken: Seriously, Susie, every day we've been out here I've caught something. It just makes me so proud that we're doing it ourselves and Marcus isn't bossing us around. I was like, Marcus...
Susie: Look at them.
Ken (looks at turtles in the bag): They're moving.
Susie: The ones that are alive, I wonder if there's some way we can keep them so that they're not...is any of them alive? (Ken says he doesn't know) We'll check.
(they go back onto land)
Ken: It's heavy. They're heavy.
Susie: OK, one, two, three, four, five turtles at least. I kind of feel bad, we won't be able to eat 'em all, will we? That's a lot of meat.
Ken: My God, turtles galore.
Randy's Struggle With Fang
Randy expresses his frustrations with his new tribe during the reward challenge.
"We eventually won the golf challenge. We made it more difficult than it had to be. I even screwed up one hold. Those short shots, believe it or not, are tough. From inside 10 feet, you don't know whether you're gonna launch it 2 feet or 15 feet. It's just luck. In the last hole, our ball was resting next to the hole. The rules don't tell you which way you have to pull the elastic. Instead of pulling it this way away from the hole, we could have just pulled it this way over the hole and simply dropped it in, no chance of missing. I tried to explain it. No one would listen, not even Charlie, my good friend in this game. Sugar of course was not gonna listen, because she's a....Matty wouldn't even listen. The reason Kota went on a winning streak in this game, that I was a part of, is because we communicated and we performed as a team. The reason Fang sucks at everything they do is because there's no communication."
Charlie on the Reward
Charlie compares being in the Bwiti Village to struggling in the game for twenty-seven days
"Visiting this village was such a stark difference from our day-to-day life here at Fang. Everything is so routine here, there's not much movement, we see wildlife very infrequently. It was such a spirit lift to be just tossed into this great village with all this love and rich culture and color and happiness and smiling people who just wanted to invite us into their culture and their religion and their spirit. It was very moving and it was great to spend it with all the people we went with."
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"The people at the village were so welcoming, so happy, so nice, so simple. It seemed like they took pleasure in things that were so small. It made you realize that even though we're starving out here for a couple days, people have it so much worse than you. It lifted my spirits entirely and I feel like I can get through the rest of this game just off the performance that they gave me."
Susie Resents Corinne
Susie reacts to Corinne's opposition to Marcus's blindside at the reward challenge
"Corinne is a personality, a person that I feel, she's very fortunate. She's one of those kind of people who came into this world with great parents, great education, is able to have any job she really wants. She's very fortunate that way. I was very hurt yesterday when we lost the immunity and she made a statement after she'd seen that Marcus was voted out that he deserved to be here, he was playing with heart. It was very insulting, because she made it perfectly clear that none of the rest of us deserved it, only her and Marcus deserve to be here. We kind of called her out on it a little bit. I really took offense to that, it was very hurtful. Her personality is very all about herself, I come first, I deserve to have all this. It's just not the real world. People don't live like that. Or at least the people I know are not like that. I'm trying to see the good in her, she probably is kind, she probably does have her sweet moments, but in reality, outside this game she's not someone I would hang out with. She seems very selfish, and very mean-spirited, and I just don't like that."
Strategy Talk at the Reward
Randy, Charlie and Corinne devise a deceptive plan while enjoying the village reward
Randy: If Bob acts like he has the idol, then we play to win. If he doesn't have the idol, then...
Corinne: We consider throwing it and getting rid of Matty.
Randy: Exactly. We need Sugar but let's not talk game with them until the 3 of us have a good hour together when we get back. Nothing today, nothing tomorrow. Late tomorrow. Charlie: Let's not talk about our feelings for Marcus. That's why I was trying to be like, "Oh, he was a threat."
Randy: They're on to us. It's Bob and Sugar.
Corinne: I don't care. Bob's gonna get that idol and that's gonna save him.
Randy (to Charlie): And if he doesn't, we're gonna be throwing the challenge and getting rid of Matty.
Charlie: We don't know if he does, but I'm sure he will, he's a wizard. Today he was trying to tell me desperately that Susie voted Marcus.
Randy: I shook his hand between holes one time and just said, "I need you, man." Anyway, Sugar and Bob are our salvation. I'm sorry, but we're top 3.
Corinne: We have to ditch Matty. Immediately. He's totally, absolutely gonna...
Randy: You guys have gotta sell Sugar, because Sugar hates me. , "This game is not about who you like. We need Randy now." Pretend like you're playing me. Charlie: I will.
Corinne: You have to do it because...
Charlie: It's just me, because she doesn't like Corinne. I was thinking of telling her I was in an alliance with Marcus and Bob, and there was the three of us, we were waiting for her, or they were waiting for her, and that now the final three should be me, Sugar, and Bob. Tell her that, and that we're just using you two.
Randy: I don't even think she's playing the game now that hard. Just say you're coming with us.
Corinne: I don't think it's believable that you and I wouldn't be in an alliance, so I don't think you should do that.
Randy: They know you guys are tight.
Corinne: Right, that's obvious.
Charlie: We could be a foursome then.
Randy: The key is, you don't like Randy...
Corinne: Shut up.
Randy: The key is you don't like Randy either, but you need me.
Charlie: This is so awesome.
Randy: We'll talk in a day or two.
Matty's Reward
Sugar describes her feelings on Matty's struggle throughout the game
"Who wouldn't take a liking to Matty? Matty's so charismatic. When they pulled him up to dance, I guess he was the chosen one. They had him bow to this god. It was craziness. He was mad happy. It was so great to watch because nobody in this game deserves that more than Matty. (**+$+ up) He's been stuck on Fang, which is basically a losing tribe, and then he's got these guys come in and be negative and make it more miserable. I'm just so, so thrilled. I had, even on Exile. I'm just so thrilled that Matty got to experience that and got to be the chosen one. It was beautiful. It was great."
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"He's very expressive, Matty. His crazy faces he makes and noises and apparently dance moves. Who knew? He was all over the place. He was having the a great time. It was so good to watch it, because he deserves it. (**+$+ up) I think he had it worse than anybody in this whole game, and he totally deserved it."
Fang Makes a Comeback
After the merge, Fang takes a turn for the better as they begin to gain an advantage over the original Kota members.
Matty:
"The names are flying. There's 9 people at Fang now, and the names are flying around. (quickly snaps his fingers) The reality of it all is that the only names that aren't flying around are Susie (snaps), Kenny (snaps), Sugar (snaps), and I think mine (snaps). But Randy's name's been thrown out, Charlie's name's been thrown out, Corinne's name's been thrown out, Bob's name's been thrown out. All Kota. Randy's Kota now. He made that switch and he made it apparent to everyone that he's Kota now. He's in a Fang-dominated game now, and I told Randy he's making big mistakes in this game by planning so far ahead. He planned so far ahead, he calculated so much in his head, now he's in a position where he can't win."
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"This is Fang. Even though we're merging the two names, this team is Fang now. We're at Fang's original camp, Crystal is dominating the game again (laughs), y'know. It's not the way I like it, because I voted for Crystal, I casted a name on Crystal, so now there's a bounty on my head, eventually."
Charlie on the Merge
Watch as Charlie shares his concerns after the merge
"We have been conjecturing forever on when this supposed merge was gonna happen. I sort of wrote it off. It's never gonna happen. When we walked in and Jeff said, 'Drop your buffs,' it was an amazing feeling, because it was a milestone in this game. I don't think any of us predicted we'd make it this far. For me, especially, I was just overjoyed I made it to the merge. That said, I don't think the merge is the best circumstance for me. I think had we stayed as tribes, my game would have been played a lot easier, but I'm excited to be one happy merge. That's the way Survivor's played, and I'm excited to be part of that Survivor milestone."
(cut)
"When we found out there was a merge, it means everything's gonna be chaos in this game again. It's like day one in this game again. Nine people scrambling around, trying to figure out where they stand, what the pecking order is, who gets along with whom. Yes, some of us have relationships from being in tribes with each other in the past, but it's chaos again. I don't like chaos. I like to have everything under control, know who's talking to whom, know where everyone's head is at. I have no clue at this point, and that's really frustrating for me."
Bob Introduces Himself to Matty
After merging, Bob takes the opportunity to properly introduce himself to Matty, the only player in the game whose tribe he has never been a part of.
Bob: Hey, Matty. I've been around the block. (they hug) You're the only one I haven't had a chance to sit down and chat with.
Matty: I know you though. Trust me, I know you, man.
Bob: How do you like the coffee?
Matty: Coffee's great. I know you. Heard everything about you.
Bob: People been talking?
Matty: Oh yeah. Of course we're gonna ask.
Bob: You're the only one that's stuck at this tribe forever.
Matty: You're the only one at Kota, I'm the only one at Fang. I've been here the whole time.
Bob: And I haven't. You're the only one that stuck it out the entire game.
Matty: I guess now you're right. This place OK for you?
Bob: Let me get used to it. It's just hot. Let me get used to it. I don't know.
Matty: Kota was a nicer setup?
Bob: I liked it, but I just got here. I don't want to...
Randy: Wait 'til the evening hours when our friends come.
Matty: It's alright, Bob. You're pretty dirty, so am I. I think the bugs won't attract to us that much.
The Birth of Nobag
Crystal reveals the process of naming the newly merged tribe
"Kenny came up with the name Nobag! Kenny was like, 'You guys, it's Gabon backwards, Nobag.' So then we took an instant vote, and nobody really objected, but the logic behind it was Gabon backwards, so it did sound kind of cool. Everyone was OK, Nobag it is. (laughs) Right now, Sugar is decorating our beautiful flag called Team Nobag (laughs)."
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"We even asked them did you guys learn any cool words at the festivties. So we were like let's merge both names, Kotang. For the longest it was Kotang. Then Kenny was like, 'No, Nobag, Gabon backwards.' So the logic behind it, Gabon backwards. Nobag it is. Nobag's our tribe name. (laughs)"