Bring On The Pain, I Enjoy It

Bring On The Pain, I Enjoy It is the twelfth and penultimate episode of Survivor: Dueling Desert.

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Right or Flight Contestants will start on a high platform above water, where they will need to jump off and race to a station where a series of numbered and coloured tiles are laid out. They then must race back to the platform and go to their station where they must remember the order of the tiles and attempt to place their set of tiles in the correct order. If they get it wrong, they must make the jump off the platform again to swim back to the station to check again. The first person to have their order right wins reward. Reward: An afternoon barbecue and picnic with their loved one, as well as the choice of two other people to join them.

Immunity Challenge: When It Rains, It Pours (Africa) 'Castaways will have one arm above their head with their wrist tethered to a bucket of water on top of a platform. The castaway who could stand there the longest without tipping the bucket would win.' (Survivor Wiki)

Gadya Tribe
The episode opens to a shot of the Gadya camp which is completely still and lifeless, with the exception of the fire which is still gently burning. It then pans across to the entrance into camp where the final six are all returning from tribal, each with a solemn look on their faces following the result. The camera then focuses in on Edith as he places his torch down, looking around at everyone with a grim expression.

(With everyone else then placing their torches down, everyone stands around, where there is an uncomfortable silence felt by everybody.)

Rosalind: I guess it's nice that he left on his own accord, even though heading into tribal it was clearly the result none of us were looking for.

Jamie: Yeah.

(There is another silent pause, with the camera focusing on Calvin as he slowly glances over at Edith, who meets his gaze and looks back him sadly.)

Jamie: Congrats on final six, I guess. If you had've told me back on Tolmer that I'd be here I would've laughed in your face.

Michelle: This is a pretty big milestone. It'll be day thirty in the morning.

(Things go quiet again.)

Michelle: Anyone want to grab some water?

Jamie: Sure. Sonnie?

Sonnie: Might as well.

(With the three having excused themselves, Sonnie, Jamie and Michelle all grab their canteens from their bags and start heading out of camp towards the well, leaving Rosalind, Edith and Calvin standing around awkwardly in camp.)

Rosalind: So... are we going to talk about that at all?

Calvin: I'm.. not particularly in the mood right now.

Rosalind: That's fine, I-

(Edith cuts her off.)

Edith: You're not in the mood.

Calvin: Edith...

Edith: You tried to vote me out. And like, I get that it's a game, but why go to the lengths you did to lie to me about it?

Calvin: Look what happened when people found out about it. You had somebody basically quit the game to save you, and might I add, he practically buried any chance I have of doing well in front of the jury by making me look like some monster at tribal.

(Edith sighs.)

Edith: I know what you're saying, but right now I just can't listen to you.

Calvin: You guys were the ones that started this discussion.

Edith: You're seriously making me question I fought to save you over Charlotte.

(Rosalind finally steps in, standing between the two of them.)

Rosalind: Guys, this isn't good for any of us. Take some time away from each other to let the raw emotions run out, then talk in the morning or something. Right now, you're just making things worse than they need to be.

Edith: Fine.

(Edith picks up his bag, heading over to the hammock, with Rosalind then turning to Calvin.)

Rosalind: I get it, okay? You swung for the fences, and it got caught in the outfield.

Calvin: I just can't believe how much everything has blown up for me in the span of a few hours.

Rosalind: You'll be fine. Edith loves this game, once he gets over Gerald being gone and you guys make up, he'll see this for what it was: a game move.

Calvin: Thanks for understanding.

Rosalind: It's fine.

(Calvin goes to turn away, before stopping.)

Calvin: Can I just ask, how did you know?

Rosalind: When you spend ninety percent of your time out here gathering firewood, you stumble across a lot of interesting things going on in the forest.

(Calvin sighs, smiling slightly, before his smile fades and he turns to walk down to the water, with the camera focusing back on Rosalind as he does.)

(Rosalind goes to sit in the shelter, before the camera then cuts to the waterfall by camp as the water cascades down heavily, before cutting to a shot of the rocky wall where a slim crack down the wall has water gently dripping down, one drop at a time. There is then a cut to show Calvin sitting by the water, looking at the ground, as his tears begin to fall onto the rock below him.)

(Calvin wipes his tears away, leaning back against the rocks and looking off into the distance, before he eventually closes his eyes in attempt to calm himself. The camera then cuts back into camp as Edith is lying in the hammock, similarly getting emotional, before looking over his shoulder to see nobody around at camp, and then looking to his side, upset at the absence of Gerald in the hammock with him.)

Viewer Polls
Who do you hope lives to see the finale after this episode? Calvin Edith Jamie Michelle Rosalind Sonnie

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