Abandon Ship!

This is the first episode of Survivor: Maldives - Island of Secrets

Introduction
The season opens to a white screen, but soon after the camera moves through the hazy white clouds revealing numerous island chains below. Multiple shots are then shown, some aerial while the others situated on land. All revealing the aqua blue waters, stunning white sand beaches, and beautiful aquatic life below the oceans surface. In the final shot from above a buzzing from propellers can be heard before a planes nose pokes into the screen. Immediately the scene cuts inside of the sea plane, introducing Jeff Probst.

The camera glides swiftly above the ocean waves before finally coming to a halt upon reaching the boat, which had at one point been far in the distance. On board are 16 castaways along with the ships crew.

The camera shifts to Katie, who's looking out onto the open sea.

A close-up of Nick's face is shown, who too is looking off into the distance.

Among all the commotion of the ships workers running around on deck, the camera focuses onto Kelly, who's sitting on a crate with her legs crossed.

The sea plane then makes a drastic change in altitude, falling out of view of the camera.

-Shortened version of the opening intro plays, displaying no names or contestants as the tribes have yet to be designated-

The show picks back up with a shot of the ship carrying the 16 castaways cutting through the waves of the oceans water just a few hundred feet off of shore. Shots are shown of Dev, Dorothy, Fabian, Kelly, and Tony who all stand silently, although their tense body languages evoke their anxieties through the screen.

A close-up of a bell is shown, then an unknown hand reaches into the shot and rings the bell. Immediately everyone takes off into a mad scramble as they know this is their cue to abandon ship. "Go, go, go!", holler multiple crew members as the castaways only have a mere 2 minutes to gather as many supplies from the ship as possible.

Anything that cannot fit into pockets or the castaways bags is being thrown into the water in hopes that it'll float and be able to be dragged to shore. After untying some wooden planks and chucking them into the ocean, Geri wraps the rope around her shoulder for safe keeping. In complete chaos both Heather and Natalie manage to run into one another, dropping everything both women carried in their arms.

As Jillain stuffs her bag full of cutlery, Katie runs over to try and grab a handful for herself. Jillian turns to Katie, "That's mine!", she (Jillian) aggressively exclaims as she snatches the rest away from her.

The bell rings again as an unknown voice yells the time reminder, "thirty seconds, get off the ship!"

Marcus is first to make the dive off into the ocean. An underwater camera catches 3 more jumps, although it's hard to get a clear look at who each jumper is from the vantage point.

Fabian makes his leap into the water, and with that everyone is off the boat and begins swimming to shore.

While many swim with their sights on the beach, Marcus, Tony, Dorothy, Justin, Dev, and Kelly all drag items big and small through the surf with them. Fabian trails behind the pack along with Geri, who although is not a strong swimmer herself offers words of support.

Nick is the first castaway to reach the beach, quickly followed by everyone else. Fabian and Geri are the last to arrive, both are left embarrassed as they can feel all eyes on them as they drag themselves out of the water.

"I lost my (bleep)ing rope!", mumbles Geri through her short breaths as she joins the rest of the group.

As the group stands together on the beach the sea plane seen earlier in the introduction comes back into view. It circles around the beach, grabbing everyone's attention, before finally landing off shore and cruising on the ocean's surface coming close to the beach. The door opens up and none other than Jeff Probst hops out and into knee deep water.

Jeff runs up onto shore as the group of castaways cheer and welcome him. Probst takes his position as everyone assembles into a long straight line.

Jeff flashes his infamous smile and dimples.

Jeff Probst: Welcome to Survivor: Maldives!

The castaways erupt into cheer and applause. A close up of Aneal shows just how ecstatic he is.

Jeff Probst (pointing): You in the purple shirt, what's your name?

Dorothy (with a confident smile): Dorothy.

Jeff Probst: What is it you do, Dorothy?

Dorothy: I'm a retail manager.

Jeff Probst: Ah, and what brings you out here?

Dorothy: As I said Jeff, I'm a retail manager (laughs). We're not exactly the best paid in the workforce.

Jeff Probst (nodding to Fabian): What about you?

Fabian: My name's Fabian.

Jeff Probst: And what do you do for a living?

Fabian: I work part-time at a convenience store near my house, the rest of my time I spend developing my own video games.

Jeff Probst: No offence, but I'm going to ask the question on everyone's mind. How on earth can you afford a house on a part-time job wage?

Fabian: (Chuckles) I don't! I live with my Mom, in her basement.

A close up of Jillian shows her face drop at the near thought of a twenty-seven year old man working as a cashier and living in his mother's basement.

Jeff Probst: Older lady on the end, tell us about yourself.

Geri: Well, my name's Geri, I'm fifty-one, and I'm a fortune teller.

Jeff Probst (interested tone): Really?

Another close up of Jillian shows her smirking as she makes a face, revealing her judgmental thoughts.

Kelly raises her hand among the group, then asks if it would be okay if she had her fortune told. With a giggle Geri agrees to do it, then looks to Jeff for the O.K. Jeff nods.

Geri steps out of line and walks down toward Kelly. Kelly reveals the palm of her hand as Geri looks closely at its lines while she massages it. As she finishes Geri raises her hands to the sides of Kelly's head, "may I?", she asks. A confused looking Kelly gives permission as Geri begins to rub she sides of Kelly's temple and run her fingers through her hair. A few giggles are heard from the group, even Jeff cracks a smile.

Jeff Probst: ... Well?

Geri looks to Jeff and then back to Kelly.

Geri: Well Jeff, it seems Kelly has a bit of a rocky road ahead.

Although she may not believe in fortune telling, Kelly is left visibly unnerved as Geri takes her place back in line.

Jeff Probst: Well, I'd hate to break it to you, but I think it's safe to say you'll all have a rocky road ahead. This season, we decided to pick a theme.

The castaways remain silent, listening and hanging onto Jeff's every word.

Jeff Probst: This season our subtitle is The Island of Secrets.

Justin's mouth partially opens in surprise.

Jeff Probst: This season you'll be faced with twist and turns around every corner. You'll need to stay on your toes in order to survive, because just because you're unaware of something doesn't mean that it's not already in full effect.

Heather looks puzzled by Jeff's hint.

Jeff Probst: But, I suppose you're all anxious to learn what tribe you'll all be on, huh?

Everyone shouts but Justin gives an enthusiastic, "Yeah!", much louder than the rest of the crowed, causing some to look to him with a smile.

Before the group are two mats, one orange while the other navy blue.

Jeff Probst: Girls to the orange mat, boys to the blue. It's as simple as that.

Jeff's abrupt announcement causes a mixed reaction. Many of the boys high five and show excitement while many of the girls look hesitant. "Woah", mouths Kelly. Both tribes assemble onto their designated mats.

Jeff tosses the girls a sack containing their orange buffs, revealing that their tribe's name is Alifu. Jeff then throws the boys their blue buffs, telling that their name is Dhaalu. Everyone grabs a buff. Aneal, a true survivor fan, can be seen smelling it as he grasps his buff for the first time.

Jeff Probst: Now is everyone ready for the first twist of the season?

Natalie (humorously): That's not it?!

The group laughs at Natalie's joke, Jeff shakes his head with a smile.

Jeff Probst (with a smile): No Natalie, it's not.

Natalie: (With a snap of her fingers) Darn!

Jeff Probst: It's time for your first challenge... it's for reward, AND immunity!

A shot of the group shows their surprise of competing in their first challenge already.

Jeff Probst: If your tribe wins reward you'll take everything that was salvaged from the ship back to your camp for supplies. If you lose, you'll be voting someone out of your tribe... right here on this very beach. Someone's about to leave this game, right now.

Faces among the two tribes drop. A close up shows Katie looking stunned with both of her eyebrows raised, crinkling her forehead. Isaac face palms.

A shot of Fabian is shown, still wearing his life vest.

Jeff Probst: Now, what's better for a first challenge than a team building exercise?

Reward/Immunity Challenge
Challenge: Pass The Bucket

One player retrieves water with a bucket and toss to other players until another bucket in a teeter-totter. Once that bucket is full, it will release a ball. Two players should put the ball in the center of a spinning vertical maze, and use two ropes to spin the maze until the ball is out of it. First tribe to finish, wins immunity and reward.

Challenge Highlights:
 * (Dhaalu) The boys work quickly and efficiently through the water passing portion of the challenge.
 * (Alifu) Geri struggles and wastes a lot of water.
 * (Alifu) Natalie and Kelly make up a lot of time during the puzzle portion of the challenge, however not enough to catch up to the leading Dhaalu tribe.