User blog:Sambarnes/Survivor: Hustle and Heat - Episode 1 (I Am a Witch)

This is the first episode of Survivor: Hustle and Heat.

This also functions as the series premiere for Sneaky Sam's fanon series.

The Marooning
The scene opens within fluffy white clouds as a tribal flute calmly plays. The camera gradually cuts through the misty skies, revealing the glistening azure ocean and the familiar tropical Mamanuca Islands in the distance.

Suddenly, the tape glitches.

The camera follows a young couple into a remote fishing village. They look dour but relaxed, and they are enjoying a romantic dinner with a local woman. A camera zooms out and follows them to a rocky beach. A boat of locals awaits them. As the camera zooms in closer, the girl from last night's dinner asks if she can join them. The castaways begin to giggle. Then an explosion rocks the fishing village. Survivors are all caught completely naked, face down by their paddles. Everyone is screaming and jumping about, and the camera moves slowly to a view of a beach. Survivors start to run towards it, but one man, wearing only a towel and an empty box of cigarettes, looks from the camera to his brother for a second and collapses. Another survivor, a muscular boy, runs up the hill and jumps from a hillside. Another man holds his brother on the ground as the camera pans over his body as he screams and collapses. In the distance, the castaways can see bodies strewn on the beach, with blood leaking from their eyes, noses, mouths. One is carrying what appears to be a life vest. The water comes in, and the rest of the castaways get stuck on the beach and are unable to swim.

A fisherman, a volunteer from the community, and the man who lives down the block can be seen on the shore getting out a canoe, and they begin to bring in the bodies around the island. The men take turns, each to take a few off of the shore. It's hard to tell who holds the final body: the last person can be seen in two hands, with a rope around his neck.

The fisherman begins handing out clothes to the 18 castaways left on the boat. Some wear red, others don blue, while the rest are dressed in yellow. As the biggest man awakens, he looks disappointed with his outfit. When another, a young woman wearing yellow, looks back at him quizzically, he becomes nervous and shakes his head. When she smiles at him, he sees her smile, but is unsure what she wants from him.

Big Joe: I'm Brian, but everybody calls me Big Joe.

Julianita: My name's Julianita. I'm Spanish.

Big Joe: I like Spanish.

Julianita: Yeah, I'd like to go to the Galapagos.

Big Joe and Julianita walk up to the boat with their clothes in hand and start to sing the songs on the deck. The other castaways begin to grow annoyed at their actions.

Julianita: I'd like to go to the Galapagos.

Big Joe: I do have lots of money, though, so I'll save your life when you're ready.

Julianita turns and turns, but no one knows what she's up to. Then, she changes the subject, and walks away. The fisherman's boat approaches a sailing vessel in the Mamanuca Islands.

Catherine: It's Jeff Probst!

Jeff Probst sits on the edge of the boat, smiling. The fisherman orders the castaways to climb aboard. It's hard to imagine a better starting point for a romantic engagement than the Mamanuca Islands.

The tape glitches. Now, the 18 castaways are aboard the sailing vessel as the camera pans to different castaways as they give their thoughts on the season.

The tape glitches again.

The scene returns to the 18 castaways, seated into their three tribes, now donning their buffs.

Jeff Probst: We have three tribes: Bavelo, Katakata, and Cabeti.

On the boat, we see the Katakata tribe talking to Jeff Probst and explaining to him how they're being treated. Suddenly, Probst asks one of them: "What's your name?"

Juanita turns around and asks: "Why, Jeff"

Jeff replies: "Do you not give 'imself nicknames?"

Marissa looks confused.

Jeff Probst: You want my answer?

Marissa answers: "No. It was in a conversation with her mother, and I didn't know it at the time but that was the name she gave."

So Marissa says it was, and is surprised to see Jeff.

The tape glitches.

Jeff Probst: This season is all about two things: Hustle and Heat. Peaches, what do you think that means?

Peaches: Hustle. A lot of people don't do it. You gotta grind yourself into shape to compete and to win, and at least in this day and age every single year, there is a lot of things. There are so many little things that go into your win or losing streak. It's a little bit of everything, and some people do it better than others — there are so many factors that go into it and they don't put a lot of thought into how they play. It's pretty much all about being physically ready to give it everything you have and to make the best out of every one of those decisions that you are given.

Jeff Probst: How long do you think it will take to make it?

Peaches: Longer than you think? I don't know. I think like, seven or eight years.

Jeff Probst: Wow.

Peaches: Longer than I think. And so it's gonna be a long time, but it's a long time.

Jeff Probst: And I've always thought it's an amazing journey. How about you, Rabbi James. What does heat mean to you as a Jew?

James C.: Well, if it was heat in the Bible, if there were heat in heat, it wouldn't come out as heat anywhere in the book. It wouldn't come out for heat in general or whatever, and it wouldn't have any bearing on the religion of any of the different sects in the world. But in the Bible it's heat as a noun in Hebrew, heat as a verb, and heat in the sense of an extreme. You need to look in this book to find a term that doesn't apply to heat. That's heat as a verb, so, heat as a noun, that's the proper meaning. "That's what it looks like when it's really hot."

James C. then begins to pray in Hebrew.

James C. (in Hebrew): That's what it is. Heat. Heat as a verb, is it not? This seems odd. What's going on in that?

Jeff Probst: When it says heat, we don't use it, but heat as a noun. It doesn't mean something that's hot. Heat as a noun implies something that's extreme — I'm talking — what I'd like to tell you about the heat as a verb.

James C.: Yes.

Jeff Probst: Let's get to our first challenge. It is for reward. We are going to have a game. The next time on Survivor, Joe is going to throw it up, so that will be a challenge. And in that game, we are all in a bunker. If you don't win your immunity idol, the other tribe gets to take you home to their camp.

Julianita: I love Joe!

Jeff Probst: Just kidding. You have two minutes to grab your supplies, then get in your boats. I'll explain the rest on the way.

Joe (from somewhere in Arizona): Go home Mr. President.

Reward Challenge
Challenge: The Devil I Know

When the host rings a bell, all three tribes will have to make their way to their boats, along with the items they collected, and paddle to shore. As the host goes across the river, all three tribes will make their way to another boat on the other side. Once aboard, there will be a small dance that may be seen from either side of the river. Once the dance is complete, the tribes will return to their boats, where all of the items collected during the dance will be moved to a spot where they can retrieve them. While this is going on, the fish must continue to feed as they move between their boat and the other fish, causing water to slowly fall out of the water and onto their bodies as they move around. The fish and all of the fish they catch will then have to be disposed of because they have grown too large and now look like fish. The fish will then be placed into each tribe's fish cage and each tribe will have to work their way across the river. Once they reach the end of the river, the tribe with the most fish will win the battle by being the last tribe to swim across the river.

Reward: A fire making kit (1st place) and flint (2nd place)

The three tribes are now at the end of the river.

Jeff Probst: It's time to spin the Wonder Wheel.

The tape glitches.

He gets to the start of the wheel when he comes to a halt, as does everybody, a large crowd of people.

Jeff says to a man who is walking in a crowd, "What's your message again, you little hag?"

Inaudible.

James C. stands and points to himself, "I am what I am."

Inaudible.

Probst walks over to him, and says, "Why aren't you singing this song for us?"

Inaudible.

Jeff Probst: The woman's name is Beth.

Jeff says to her, "Look how happy you are. I thought that we were the ones whose lives were in danger as this whole thing started. But I saw your baby in a crib"

Inaudible.

But before she can say her prayers for everyone else in the crowd that there's still life in the world.

He walks up. The tape fixes itself.

Jeff Probst: Katakata, in addition to your massive fire making kit, you guys have won urns from your mothers!

James C. carries six urns and returns to his tribe mat.

Jeff Probst: Bavelo, your Wheel of Wonders reward is... vernal water!

Probst tosses a bucket of water at Carmen, completely drenching her. The camera fades to black.

Immunity Challenge
Challenge: Pillow Talk

The tribe will run up a cargo net to the top of a tower. Once inside, they have only to lift down the pole to access the tower. As they leave behind the net, they can walk down two smaller tunnels connected by a ledge, in a way that allows them to reach the next area. If the tribe takes them in then they'll find themselves with both of their legs clipped through and the ropes cut in them because the tribe hasn't used the rope to secure the tribe pole. They can also lose both their legs completely, in case they leave the tribe while running for their lives.

Challenge Notes:

Still In The Running
Update coming soon