Choose Your Poison

This is the seventh episode of Survivor: Hundred Islands.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Get a Grip The castaways must hang onto a pole as long as they can. The last person left holding on without touching the ground wins. Winner: TBA

Night 17
The Diwata tribe returns to camp after blindsiding Carlos at Tribal Council. While Starr voted Carlos along with the majority, she is still baffled by the tribe's decision to vote out an original member when they had the perfect opportunity to vote out a Sirena. "diwata"

- I'm just floored by how quickly they decided to vote one of their own out when Dustin and I were easy pickins!

Meanwhile, Dustin, while still in the game, feels on the outs because his only ally, Carlos, is now gone.

Day 18
In the wee hours of Day 18, a motorboat containing Jeff Probst arrives at Diwata beach while everyone is asleep. Jeff wakes Glenn up and talks to him privately, then he gives the gender reassignment surgeon bad news from home: Glenn's brother-in-law just called and said that Glenn's wife suffered a miscarriage. Upon receiving the news, Glenn bursts into tears, explaining that his wife, who was having a precarious pregnancy, insisted to him to play Survivor. Faced with a family emergency, Glenn is forced to fly home to tend to his wife. Glenn wakes his tribe to tell them the news. Jeff adds that the emergency forces Glenn to be pulled from the game. Starr and Diana are moved to tears. The tribe gives Glenn a hug before he leaves the beach. While he is just as moved as everyone else, George realizes the implications of Glenn's exit to the game: The original Diwata tribe is now down to four members as opposed to Sirena's eight.

Day 19
The tribes arrive at what they believe is their next Reward Challenge. Much to Sirena's shock, the Diwata tribe arrives with only five people. Jeff explains that Glenn was pulled from the game because his wife suffered a miscarriage and he had to fly home as soon as possible. Aminah explains how close she was to Glenn back in the original Diwata tribe, and says her heart goes out for him. Dustin states that whether it may be last-minute strategy changes, health reasons or home emergencies, the game changes on a dime. Jeff agrees with the statement, as he announces that the game is once again changing by saying the magic five words, "drop your buffs, you're now merged!" As the tribes takes off their old buffs and receives new purple ones. After much deliberation, the yet-unnamed merged tribe will be living at the old Sirena beach, and all of the old Diwata's personal and reward items will be relocated to their new home. The new tribe arrives at camp, where a long table filled with food awaits them.