| Episode
12 |
| "The
Amazon Heats Up" |
Filmed Dec. 7-9,
2002
Airs May 8, 2003
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| RC
speculation |
| IC
speculation |
| Boot
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Episode
descriptions
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| CBS:
The Survivors react to Butch's bizarre behavior when he obsessively
stacks firewood everywhere throughout the camp. |
| Returning
to their camp, the Survivors find devastation after a fire rages
through their shelter and belongings, leaving them with nothing
but the clothes on their backs. |
| Believing
they are on the chopping block, Jenna and Heidi refuse to help in
rebuilding the camp. Will this seal their fate? |
| One
Survivor is worn out and sick, and begs to be voted out. Will the
others comply? |
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| REWARD
CHALLENGE/ Super challenge for a Saturn ION - Butch wins? |
The Early
Show preview shows this is indeed that the traditional recycled
obstacle course-type challenge for a car. The first part involves
removing knots from the door of a wooden cage. We see Butch opening
his cage first, leaving four other closed doors behind him. So Butch
takes the early lead. While irrelevant to the outcome of the RC,
the Early Show also shows the fire occurs while the contestants
are competing in the RC. While most of the challenge comes from
previous ones, Probst implies one comes from a future challenge.
We think this is likely the rope swing Rob is shown completing.
The end of the course involves a zipline ride down to grab the key
to the car.
We see Heidi and Jenna walking, seemingly disgruntled, with those
same cages in the background, as well as a smiling Butch, walking
arm in arm with Heidi and Jenna. This is clearly after the race,
because Butch is wearing his cap before the race. So is Butch happy
because he won, or is he just putting on a good, supportive face
to lift the spirits of Sticks and Twigs? If Butch's giddiness at
having won an ION clouds his judgement enough to allow him to hug
Heidi and Jenna, that would fit with a purported spoiler from jautionjoann
at Survivor Sucks, claiming Butch wins the car.
On the other hand, Rob is the only contestant shown on a part of
the course (rope swing near the river) that nobody else is. And
when he swings, there are at least four other unused ropes still
there. As such, Rob would appear to have the best evidence for a
late lead in this challenge, unless of course that pic is from the
IC. Rob is dressed exactly the same as the RC there, right down
to the placement of his buff. But we still can't definitively place
that shot. So we'll lean with Smilin' Butch taking the prize.
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| Reward challenge pictures:
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Butch gets free, right into the sun. |
Sour grapes? That was last episode! (Cages in the background). |
Butch looks awful happy about something. Probably not the
accessories to either side of him. |
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| IMMUNITY
CHALLENGE/ Another race, involving swinging - Rob wins? |
If the fire
truly does destroy all but the clothes the Survivors are wearing,
this makes separating challenges difficult. Luckily, Heidi and Jenna
comply here, by sharing Heidi's shirt and moving their buffs around.
We can see Heidi, presumably pre-challenge, in the immunity necklace,
with Butch and Matt behind her in brown shirts. New promos show
that the rope swing between platforms Butch and Jenna are shown
(separately) completing must be from the IC, because Jenna is wearing
Heidi's blue shirt at both times, but is wearing her yellow top
throughout the RC (the RC appears to be the day of the fire). From
the position of Heidi's buff, the rope tunnel appears to be from
this challenge, as well. We note that Heidi did fairly well at this
sort of scrambling activity back in Ep1. But if the picture of Rob
on the rope is from this episode (the rest of the RC that we can
see seems to be in deep forest, rather than on the banks of the
river), there's a decent chance Rob wins.
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| Immunity challenge pictures:
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Heidi, wearing the necklace, probably before the immunity
challenge. |
Jenna, different shirt and buff location than the RC, same
background. |
Rob is a swingin' man. |
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| BOOT/
Heidi? |
Heidi
remains a top candidate for boot this week. For the men, splitting
up the Jenna-Heidi pair should be the first order of business, since
they have a 3-2 advantage. By refusing to rebuild the camp, they
might be on the chopping block, although so far they've gone 30
days without doing a lick of work, so why start now? Milkshaky originally
predicted Heidi would finish fifth or sixth, and that would still
be possible here.
Then again, there's always Rob, who nobody trusts. But with
two factions fighting for dominance, better to hope he doesn't backstab
you, than to be tied at F4 with those you know will vote against
you. Maybe next time.
And finally, there's Butch, who was on the outside of the
last vote. He (or Rob) may also commit the same error as Sean Rector
and Ted Rogers before him: winning the car. Plus, nobody wants to
go up against Butch in the final two. So Butch would appear vulnerable
this week, unless he can pull off an IC win. Anything's possible,
we suppose.
Really, though, this week seems to be a toss-up between Heidi and
Rob. Either is potentially vulnerable, and while there are plenty
of alleged spoilers suggesting Heidi either does or doesn't get
this boot, there is really no solid info to separate fact from fiction.
If you flip a coin, it comes out Heidi. |
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