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Probst sighting! Probst takes back the immunity idol from Carter and declares it back up for grabs. Anyway, there are three stages in the immunity challenge – everyone’s attached to a rope, and they have to navigate themselves through obstacle courses. So it’s pretty much the same as last week’s immunity challenge, except in place of a buoy there’s, say, Carter. Not really a lot of difference there.

But there’s also a twist! Before each stage, Probst will ask a question and anyone who gets it wrong will have to carry a bag equal to 5% of their body weight.

And there’s another twist! Abi, if you will read your note? “There are two messages in the note”. “OK...” says Probst. Abi claims that the second part of the note is that she may move directly to the final part of the challenge. And then she rips up the note into “little tiny pieces," explaining that she’s doing this so no one will find out what the other part of the message said. Well, I’m convinced!

Let’s start the challenge. The Philippines consists of about how many islands – about 50, about 500 or about 5,000? Lisa and Denise both manage to get this easy trivia question wrong, so they will be carrying an extra 5% through the course. Again, I hope that’s not their pre-Survivor weight. If Jonathan gets a question wrong, he’s really going to struggle.

Only one person isn’t going to make it through the first stage with the rope slung around a hitching rope, so there’s not a lot of tension. Denise takes an early lead and comes in first, with Carter recovering from a slow start and then everyone else but Lisa and Jonathan. “Start moving Lisa! Let’s go!” urges Probst, but it is Jonathan who makes it through to the next round.

The second phase of the challenge is through a pole-maze. We don’t learn what the next piece of Filipino trivia is, so I’ll just assume it was something racist. All we know is that Denise, Michael and Carter all got it wrong, and Denise is going to be politely excluded from any trivia team I am on. Surprisingly, Jonathan finishes first this time, followed by Carter who just makes it ahead of Denise.

Time for the third stage of the challenge through a multi-level climbing course with Abi, Jonathan and Carter. “She can’t win this,” declares Michael, Survivor savant. “She can’t climb.” But we’ve seen Abi bring it in that one challenge where she needed it, and these idiots are really pushing the foreshadowing so I’m more than a little nervous here.

Carter got another one of those racist multiple-choice questions wrong, so he’s now up to carrying an extra 10%. Probst explains that this challenge is a little different (read: easier) than the other one, because it involves untying knots to make it through rope gates. So it’s nowhere near as physically demanding, no one is tied to anything and both Jonathan and Carter are tired. Sigh.

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