Survivor Season 38

Fourteen new players started on Kama and Manu, joined by returnees Aubry and Joe on Kama, David and Kelley on Manu. Ron found an Advantage Menu with three pre merge options. Joe made fire without flint. Gavin and Eric targeted Aubry as a threat. On Manu, Kelley bonded with Lauren, Wendy shared her Tourette diagnosis, and Reem connected with Keith while rubbing others the wrong way. Kama won the opening challenge. Manu split votes between Reem and Wendy, and Reem was sent out. She chose to stay in the game on the Edge of Extinction.

Reem dealt with isolation on the Edge. Back at Manu, Wendy kept pushing Kelley’s name as David and Rick weighed working with her. Kelley organized a public idol hunt to counter Wendy, not knowing Lauren already had it. On Kama, Aubry struggled to connect while Julia, Ron, and Victoria questioned her sincerity. Julie tried to spark a women led idol search. Kama won immunity again after hauling a massive snake and completing a paddle toss. Keith took blame for the loss. Despite pitching loyalty, he was voted out and considered staying on the Edge.

Keith chose to stay and joined Reem on the Edge, where a long stair climb became their daily path to a small rice ration. Manu won a wheelbarrow to slingshot reward despite Wendy hurting her ankle and picked chickens. Wendy later hid the flint to stop them from being cooked. At Kama, the six new players grouped up against Aurora, Joe, and Aubry, who found an idol. Kama won immunity again. Back at Manu, David and Rick tried to rally numbers against Kelley, but Wardog flipped it onto Chris. Chris was voted out and went to the Edge.

Tension met Chris on the Edge, but catching fish helped repair his standing with Reem and Keith. Back at camp, Wendy stayed in trouble over the chickens even after returning the flint. A swap created three tribes. Kama kept Aurora, Joe, Julia, Julie, and Ron. Manu became Aubry, Eric, Gavin, Victoria, and Wendy. Lesu formed with David, Kelley, Lauren, Rick, and Wardog and had to start from nothing. Wendy freed the chickens, angering Manu. Lesu lost immunity. Wardog chose Kelley and Lauren’s side, Rick was voted out, and he went to the Edge.

Sandwiches and supplies went to Kama and Manu in the reward, and Joe’s work ethic gave Ron pause about cutting him. On Manu, Eric, Gavin, and Victoria lined up Aubry, with Victoria stringing her along. Lesu debated Lauren’s health as Wardog pressed Kelley. On the Edge, coded maps led to two advantages. Chris won a reentry practice kit, and Rick sent an anonymous extra vote to Aubry. Kama and Lesu won immunity, and Aubry was blindsided with advantages unused. Later, Wendy was voted out at a joint Tribal and joined the Edge, where everyone was told one would return.

After the joint Tribal, the tribes merged as Vata and the Edge twist went public. Six Edge players battled to return. Keith used his penalty to saddle Chris with extra knots. In the course, they built a pole for a key and guided a ball up a vertical maze. Rick won and came back. He received a split idol and handed half to David. If both survived one vote, it would activate. Julie won immunity. The Kama Six, wary of Joe’s threat level, stayed tight and blindsided him, sending him to the Edge.

In the wake of Joe’s blindside, Aurora felt burned by the Kama Six but weighed staying put. Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog tried building numbers with Aurora, David, and Rick, though David and Rick had quietly linked with Ron and Eric. Aurora, Eric, Julia, Rick, Wardog, and Victoria won a water puzzle reward. Rick refused to reunite with Kelley’s side. On the Edge, Aubry found a practice kit and secretly sent an extra vote that Aurora later received. Aurora won immunity. A split plan on Kelley and Lauren unraveled when Julia, Gavin, and Victoria flipped, and Eric was blindsided.

Left out of Eric’s blindside, Julie and Ron tried to rebuild with Kama. Julie told Ron and Rick she thought Julia was controlling everything. Gavin worked to connect Julia and Victoria with Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog to target David, but Julia hesitated. David and Rick reunited with Julie and Ron. Gavin won a balance immunity. Kelley’s side floated Ron, Julia tried pulling Kama back together, and suspicion spread. At Tribal, whispering took over. Rick played a newly activated idol on David, and the vote flipped late, sending Julia to the Edge.

With numbers shifting, Wardog built a new majority of Gavin, Julie, Lauren, Kelley, and Ron and aimed at Aurora for Julia’s exit. A pizza temptation pulled Lauren, Kelley, Victoria, and Ron out of immunity. Aurora won, forcing the target onto David. He was voted out and sent to the Edge, where he found an advantage and gifted it to Rick. Rick used it to win the next immunity. Wardog then pivoted, rallied Aurora, Rick, Ron, and Victoria, and blindsided Kelley. On the Edge, Kelley revealed she and Lauren both had idols.

Tension followed Kelley’s blindside as Gavin pressed Wardog for keeping him out, then set his sights on him. Rick floated a deal with Ron and Wardog as threats, while Ron and Julie mended fences. Julie, Lauren, Rick, and Wardog won a swim and ring toss reward. Lauren and Julie weighed taking a shot at Wardog, though Lauren worried more about Rick. Rick won immunity in a grueling obstacle and puzzle. Plans to cut Rick stalled, Gavin gathered votes against Wardog, and at Tribal the numbers flipped, sending Wardog to the Edge.

Following Wardog’s exit, Rick called out Ron for misleading him. Ron tried repairing things by handing over his Advantage Menu, though it was no longer valid. Loved ones arrived before a water carrying reward that Ron won, sharing it with Gavin and Julie. Sensing danger, Rick hunted and found an idol hidden above camp. Gavin won immunity in a balance test. The tribe split votes between Rick and Ron as backup. Rick’s old advantage failed, so he played his idol and wiped out votes. Ron was eliminated and sent to the Edge.

With another idol in his pocket, Rick stayed aggressive. Gavin won a shooting and obstacle reward and brought Lauren and Victoria, which left Aurora on the outside. Lauren floated keeping Julie as a beatable endgame option. Rick then grabbed immunity in a disc and word puzzle challenge. Lauren pushed Gavin to cut Aurora over Julie, even considering doing it without Victoria, but hesitation lingered. At Tribal, Rick flashed his idol and hinted he might use it on Julie, then held it. The majority sent Aurora to the Edge.

Chris won the final reentry duel and came back as the last Edge returnee. He reconnected with Rick and told Lauren he knew about her idol. Julie won a combined reward and immunity and brought Chris and Lauren, raising Rick’s suspicions. At Tribal, Rick and Lauren played idols, and Victoria was voted out. Rick later found another idol and planted fakes. Chris convinced Lauren to use her idol on him, then played his own to survive as Lauren left. Chris won final immunity, beat Rick in fire, and won the game over Julie and Gavin at Final Tribal.