The Battle To Read Minds

The Battle To Read Minds is the eleventh episode of Survivor: Finland.

Previously On Survivor...
Andrew had an emotional break down after being voted for again as Ashley goes to comfort him, John goes and questions Christine about not voting with the Vantaa alliance. Meanwhile, the Kuopio alliance decides to expose to Kevin and Luna regarding Simon's idol which questions their loyalty. Luna won the reward and bought John and Kevin with him to the reward, where all three of them chat strategy and received letters from home, back at camp, Andrew and Ashley gets annoyed by Simon and Tracy's behavior, while Simon and Tracy decided to recruit Christine as the third member of their alliance, which Christine is hesitant of. Andrew and Ashley are starting to be worried of Christine's loyalty. After, Christine decided to join Simon and Tracy's alliance, as the three remaining Kuopio alliance members continued to convince Kevin and Luna to turn against Simon and Tracy by also telling their concerns of Christine joining Simon and Tracy as the Vantaa alliance decided to target Jacalyn for being the leader of the Kuopio alliance, Tracy managed to stop Jacalyn from winning immunity, the three remaining Kuopio alliance member continue to convince Kevin and Luna that Simon and Tracy cannot be trusted, which they considered to change their target to Christine in order for John, Kevin and Luna's liking. John, Kevin and Luna decided that if they are going flip, they rather blindside Simon with his potential idol so the target of Kuopio's alliance went back to Simon. However, at Tribal Council, Luna accidentally leaked out their secret plans to Simon and Tracy, however they still sided with the Kuopio alliance and Jacalyn is voted out.

Jeff Probst: Jacalyn, the tribe has spoken.

8 remain, who will be voted out tonight?

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Dig It

The teams would race through a series of obstacles to a log, which they must dig under and get themselves through. They would then make their way to a sandy pit where they have to dig up three bags of balls. Once they had all the balls, they would roll those balls attempting to land them in a series of targets. The first team to finish win reward.

Reward: A trip to survivor spa, ice cream, chocolate, candies

Winner: Andrew, Kevin, Luna, Tracy

Immunity Challenge:

Winner:

Night 27
The camera shows the castaways returns from Tribal Council.

Ashley: Gosh, what a tough ride.

Luna: Sorry about that guys.

Andrew: It is ok.

"esillie"

- Tribal Council is tough, we had to chose between Simon and Jacalyn, we went for Jacalyn as we figured we can always blindside Simon later, also if we vote out Simon, I can see Jacalyn turning the tables on us with Tracy and Christine, but if we remove Jacalyn out of the picture, then we no need to worry about the consequences of voting her out as Simon will still think we are with him, also tonight also proof that Christine joined them, so tonight is an eye-opener and the game soon will be fun.

We can then see Kevin dragging Luna to a side.

"esillie"

- The moment I came back, I have to immediately drag Luna aside from a talk, while the plan we made went well, however Luna is like this person who is very honest and can't lie, and she basically told us that we were approached and considered to vote them out, and that is bad, if they know we were plotting behind their back, who knows what else they can pull behind our back?

Kevin: Look, I need to talk to you.

Luna: Yeah?

Kevin: You spoke too straight forward just now at Tribal, I am pretty sure right now Simon and Tracy knew that we considered turning against them.

Luna: Did I? oh no..... Sorry....

Kevin: It is ok, we just have to be careful for now....

Luna shakes her head.

"esillie"

- Uh oh... I was told by Kevin that I spoke too straight forward and I leaked that we considered taking him out, and now he knows we are plotting behind his back, and now they might go ahead and make a move against us, all because I was too honest and said too much! (grabbing her head) Gosh, why did I say all that?

Later Simon, Tracy and Christine are shown.

Tracy: Did you guys notice what Luna just said?

Christine: What? What did she say?

Simon: She said it is a 'tough decision' which means she was approached and she considered thinking to vote us out.

Christine: Uh oh....

Tracy: So we really need to look out from now on and we really need to re-plan.

Simon: Yeah, I agree.

"esillie"

- Tonight was kinda an eye-opener, I originally thought that we were good and I let my strategic brain down for a while, and people have already been plotting behind my back now, so that pretty much proves I need to continue to play hard every second, every time, and now, I am feeling that I might even need to turn against them, no one can be trusted now, tonight I learned that.

The camera switches off.

Day 28
The camera shows Andrew and Ashley.

Andrew: Sucks that she is gone, I so thought they would side with us.

Ashley: Yeah, I know right? I thought they would side with us too, and now they still sided with them, and we already laid out every reason we got.

"esillie"

- Tribal Council tonight sucks, and I was a bit shocked too, like John, Kevin and Luna told me before Tribal Council that they are shifting the target to Simon, and that is when I thought they would for sure side with us, but they end up voting out Jacalyn, and now Simon is still here with his idol, and I am still in the bottom of the totem poll.

Ashley: Honestly, I don't really know if they will even turn against them at this point, we are just pretty much like in Danielle and Zack's situation.

Andrew:(nodding) We already laid out every reason we got so we need new reasons why they should flip, if we just keep insisting on the idol and Christine joining them, we are going nowhere.

Ashley: I agree, got anything else we can convince them on?

Andrew: Well...

"esillie"

- I am still glad I am here, after receiving votes for five straight Tribal Councils, I finally got a break once, but I am still in the minority of a 6-2 vote, and I need to convince Kevin and Luna why we should vote out Simon hard or else I will be voted out, I need to throw everything I got at this point, however right now, the only new reason I can think of is...

The camera shows the Vantaa alliance.

Luna: That vote went well last night.

Tracy: Yup, I am kinda glad that Jacalyn is out now.

Everyone pauses.

Kevin: So, who are we voting next? Andrew, Ashley or Christine?

Simon: Honestly, I think it is actually time for Andrew to meet his end right? He is the bigger threat of the three.

John: Yeah, I agree with you.

Kevin: Oh, and who was the sixth vote against Jacalyn?

Tracy:(trying to hide the alliance) I don't know, whoever desperate.

Kevin nods.

"esillie"

- In hindsight, it looks like this is just one normal alliance chat, it might look like it is a calm sea, actually there are tides of storms behind, you can definitely taste and feel the tension among our discussion just now, they definitely know that we considered voting us out, and probably they know that we know they allied Christine, so the only thing I can say is, this will be chaos for the coming new days, and honestly, I don't feel safe at all at this point, they might even gun for me if I am not careful!

"esillie"

- That is well, interesting, all this time I am busy fighting against the fool to get him out, I thought for sure he will go home next, and guess what? All these comes up right now to ruin everything over, I don't even know what is going to happen next with all this going on, I mean where does those threesome's loyalty lies? Will they be with us? Or with them? Would they blindside me next? Gosh, I am glad that I have the idol now, so I can smack sense into them.

John, Kevin and Luna can be shown.

Kevin: God... that was intense.

John:(confused) Intense? What do you mean?

Luna: Simon and Tracy learned that we were plotting behind their back, John.

John:(surprised) What? How?

Luna:(sighing) I spoke too obvious last night.

John: What the- uh oh...

Luna:(sighing) I messed up, they might turn against us anytime for now.

John: That is terrible! We can't let them do that, they still have the idol right?

Kevin: Which is another bad thing, who knows when will they turn on us? Gosh...

Luna: Honestly, what can we do at this point?

Kevin: I think we need to be really careful of our every step from now on, and we need to decide this step by step.

The rest of the two nods.

"esillie"

- Things are pretty alarming I guess, all a sudden at today's meeting, out of the blue Kevin and Luna said that we were in trouble, and when i heard what was going up, I was like damn, that is a heck lot of trouble and I have no idea what was going on! I thought I have the game in my alliance's hands but now, it has flew away from my hand like how it was back at the beginning of Kuopio, oh no, I fought my way back here, I don't want to go down, not now.

Then, Simon, Tracy and Christine were shown.

Simon: We just have a meeting with those three, and it is awkward.

Tracy: They realized their mistake, so it is obvious they knows what is going on.

Simon:(laughs) And it makes the situation more worse and them being more guilty which is making the situation more laughable. (chuckles) Anyway, we really need to think what should we do now. We can either still go for Andrew and Ashley or turn against them now that we know.

Tracy: Honestly, maybe turning against them is the right think to do, they pretty much proved how untrustworthy they are, then again, I don't want Andrew and Ashley to totally flip the script against us.

Christine: I don't want either, a lot of times I hate it when people in the majority spared the people in the minority once and they flipped the script to win, like Danielle and stuff.

Tracy: Yeah, actually both plans have their own cons, if we go for those three, we can remove potential blindsides, but we risk getting turned against by a 4-3 vote, unless we use that idol to make it 3-3 and we might get stuck, if we still vote for Andrew and Ashley, after Andrew or Ashley is gone... I don't know, both plans make sense.

Christine: Yeah, both plans pretty much works.

Tracy: We need a few more days, on the main time lets pretend we are still sticking with them.

Christine and Simon nods.

"esillie"

- I am now thinking two plans, we can currently still either vote out Andrew and Ashley which is the original plan, but now with those three adding to the mix, things are so complicated, we basically have three alliances, I don't even know when will they turn against us. Honestly, I prefer to turn against John, Kevin and Luna after they proof how untrustworthy they are, but with three alliances completely scattered, who knows what I should do?

The camera switches off as it shows the castaways walking in the reward challenge.

Jeff Probst: You guys ready for today's reward challenge?

Castaways: Yes!

Jeff Probst goes on to explain the challenge.

Jeff Probst: For the reward, the winning team will get to have a trip to the survivor spa, where you get to relax after spending 28 days in the game, in addition, you will have ice cream, chocolate, candies, these kinda of desserts there, worth playing for?

Castaways: Yes!

Jeff Probst: Alright, we will draw for teams, lets get started.

Jeff Probst: For the red team, it is Ashley, Christine, John and Simon. For the yellow team, it is Andrew, Kevin, Luna and Tracy, this is for reward, survivor's ready? Go!

Both teams start running forward as they approach the wooden hurdles, for the red team, Simon was the first one through as he goes on to help the others, however the others all need help. For the yellow team, generally the yellow team took less time as Kevin and Tracy goes through the hurdles pretty fast, except for Andrew struggling due to his height, but Kevin and Tracy moved very fast to help him across the hurdle and the yellow team already moved to the second hurdle as the red team is stuck behind due to Christine struggling and Simon being frustrated, the yellow team continue to go through the next two hurdles very fast as the red team is stalling behind because Simon is the only person that can go through the hurdles easily, the yellow team manage to go through all three hurdles while the red team is just passing their second hurdle. The yellow team hurries and go to the log as the digging begins, the yellow team work and managed to dig a hole as the red team start passing their hurdle, Simon helped John first so they can both help Christine across the hurdle. Soon, Simon managed to help everyone across, while the yellow team already dug a hole, Andrew went and try to squeeze through the hole, as the others managed to help Andrew to get across the other side of the wood, Andrew started digging immediately when he got on the other side to help Luna get across as the red team began to dig, comparing, the red team is slower and the yellow team managed to dig a hole as the yellow team pulls Luna out, on the red team, things were slow and we can see the yellow team already helped Kevin as the three of them help Kevin under the wood frame. By the time Kevin climbed up the frame, the red team is only beginning to try and slide Ashley through the hole. The yellow team run to the arena and they begin to start digging as the camera focuses back on the red team where Ashley finally managed to slide through the hole, then Christine as the red team is trying to fight back but lagging behind. On the yellow team, Kevin quickly found the first bag as he throws it out, the red team finally manages to slide Simon, who is the last person out as they run to the field to split up and dig, Tracy then pulls the second bag out of the sand and right after, Andrew found the last bag and the yellow team rushes to the target place. Kevin runs up and starts rolling the balls and he starts landing the balls, he landed two balls as he continues to roll, Simon found the first bag and Kevin manages to land the third ball, we can see the red team is all digging but no one seems to find the bag as Simon found the second bag, Kevin manages to land the fourth and fifth ball, hearing the description, the red team hurries up but Kevin throws the last ball and it rolls over the hole and lands it.

Jeff Probst:(raises hand) Kevin lands the final ball! Yellow team wins reward! A huge blowout!

Simon: Damn!

Simon stomps on the ground, frustrated that their team haven't even found all the balls as the camera shows the castaways standing in front of Jeff Probst.

Jeff Probst: Andrew, Kevin, Luna and Simon, congratulations, you will have a trip to the survivor spa and you will have some sweetness after, go enjoy your reward.

The yellow teams walks off.

Jeff Probst:(turning to the red team) Unfortunately, I got nothing for ye, you can head back to camp.

The red team walks off.