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Everybody gets in the water and swims out to the cages. Laura is called out for being “way back” and Reynold has to swim back to help her. The “favorites” all climb over first, but the “fans” are close behind them, and both tribes start work on opening the cage door, and arguing about who is wearing the goggles (Shamar has contacts and can’t see without them).

The “fans” open their door first and start dragging their chest to shore while the “favorites” are “falling behind”. But they are tied up again when they get back to shore and the “fans” are the tribe with more trouble carrying the heavy chest. Both sides end up rolling it over to the track, which is just a long, raised platform.

Reynold is first to grapple a missing section of track, while Malcolm has to tap out and let Phillip take over. Phillip, challenge monster, gets his toss on the hook and soon everything is tied up again. Malcolm is somehow able to flick his ring onto the second hook while Eddie and Shamar miss for the “fans,” so the favorites are ahead.

Brandon does the tossing for the third section, and he misses a few times, allowing the “fans” to catch up when Shamar hooks his ring. But eventually Brandon gets it for the “favorites” while Eddie keeps missing for the “fans” and before you know it the “favorites” have their third section in place and have pushed their chest off the track and lifted it onto the final platform. “Favorites” win! While the “favorites” gather up their reward, Probst threatens the “fans” with “a date with me tonight.” And don’t expect a corsage!

Back at their camp, the “fans” debrief about how it sucks to lose. There’s some arguing between Reynold and Shamar about the goggles because Shamar needed them to see and Reynold took them. But no one cares and it’s unimportant anyway, and Shamar just wants Reynold to stop talking to him.

Reynold and Eddie talk about how childish Shamar is, while Laura is worried that people are going to vote for her based on how badly she performed in the challenge. She says this means they need to keep Eddie and Reynold so they should get rid of Hope. Laura suggests a plan to Sherri and Matt, that they should split the vote between Hope and Eddie, in the hope of flushing the idol, and vote for Hope on the re-vote.

Sherri explains this to Shamar, and he quickly realizes that there would be three votes for Eddie, three votes for Hope and three votes for him. He seems okay with that, and Sherri pleads with him to keep his mouth shut.

However, Shamar is bathing in the ocean and strikes up a conversation with Hope about how it’s “not a good feeling when everybody wants to get you but you haven’t done anything wrong.” Hope claims she is just “trying to enjoy my last moments.” Shamar, who gets along with Hope better than the other two, says that “she isn’t 99% in the hole,” that he isn’t voting for her tonight. Hope says it is “out of her control now” and Shamar suggests should could “always throw the vote a different way. You could always vote for one of those guys.”

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