At The Top Of Everyone's Hit List

At The Top Of Everyone's Hit List is the ninth episode of Survivor: Hawaii - Paradise of the Pacific

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Survivor Auction The castaways are each given $500 to bid on items, ranging from food, advantages, and love from home. The auction will end without notice.

Immunity Challenge: Brains and Brawn Castaways are attached to a rope, which is threaded to a hitching rail. The first five to complete this part move on Part 2. Part 2 consists of the castaways attached to another rope, while navigating through bamboo poles. The first two to complete this part move on to the final round. The final round consists of untying a series of rope gates, while navigating through a multi-level obstacle course. The first person to complete this will win immunity. As part of an advantage received at the Survivor Auction, one castaway will skip the first two parts of the Immunity Challenge and advance to the final round. Winner: TBA

Night 23
The episode opens with the castaways who survived tribal council trudging back into camp, exhausted after a shocking and confusing tribal council.

Kathy (pleased): Well, we did it, there goes the biggest snake in survivor history!

The camera focuses again on an elated Kathy.

Kathy (growing in excitement): I think it's only hitting me know what just happened, we can finally play the game without feeling like we have to be on edge twenty-four seven!

Carl: Yeah?

Kathy: Oh yeah, we just voted out the most dangerous person in the game!

Carl: Right.

Marcus rolls his eyes at Kathy's continued gloating.

The camera settles on Marcus talking to Cindy as they watch Kathy's lengthening rant.

Marcus: She's literally the most delusional, annoying person I think I've ever met. How stupid is she?

Cindy nods and sighs in response.

Marcus: I don't like voting people out for nonstrategic reasons but I am this close (holds up fingers with a small gap) to voting her a*s out of here.

Cindy (with a shrug): If she wants to take the heat for it she can go ahead. It'll only keep the target off our backs.

Marcus (considering): Yeah... you're right I guess.

Cindy continues to watch Kathy thoughtfully as Marcus continues to vent.

The camera switches to Joe leaning against a tree, watching the rest of his tribe mates warily, listening to their words.

Joe continues to stare into the fire as the scene slowly fades to black.

Day 24
The camera shows a white-tailed tropicbird gliding above the choppy, blue open ocean before cutting back to camp where Pierce is walking up the beach with Marcus.

The camera cuts back to Marcus and Pierce as Pierce begins to talk.

Pierce (with a harsh tone): I'm just gonna come straight out and say it, what's going on? You told me and Sarah to vote for Joe, we did it and then you hung us out to dry.

Marcus: I'm sorry, I thought I was going to vote Joe and then there was a new plan right before tribal council and I didn't have time to tell you.

Pierce (softening slightly): Well, you've kinda screwed us over here. Is losing allies really worth it?

Marcus (a little defensive): I'm not trying to lose allies, you and Sarah are still my number ones but the numbers were with the other plan and I thought that it'd be better for us to have a foot in the door then to be clearly on the outs.

Pierce considers this for a moment.

Pierce (dropping the aggression): Alright, but you gotta let us know these things, we want to have a say in who's getting the boot if we're in an alliance.

Marcus: I know, I know... are we good?

Marcus holds out his hand for Pierce to shake.

Pierce (shaking his hand): Yeah we're good.

Marcus: What about Sarah?

Pierce: She'll be fine, we'll just explain it to her.

Marcus nods but doesn't say anything as the two continue to walk, drenched in a somewhat awkward atmosphere.

The camera shows Pierce eyeing off Marcus as he talks to Cindy before cutting out. The camera cuts back into a view of a grassy clearing in the forest. The camera zooms in to show rows of seats building on each other facing a bench with a gavel on it. Probst is standing behind the bench.

Jeff Probst: Come on in guys!

At Probsts call, the smiling castaways eagerly march into the clearing holding envelopes full of money. As they take their seats, Probst welcomes them to the survivor Auction and after a bit of questioning, the auction commences.

As Probst announces the auction's conclusion, the castaways leave all with smiles on their faces with the exception of Kathy and Joe, the former of which is clearly showing her frustration. The camera cuts to a spinybacked orbweaver sitting in its web and then back to camp where the eight castaways are making their way back into camp.