Season 7 of Survivor again pits 16 new castaways on a deserted island.  This year they are sent to Panama, South America where each tribe will have their own island paradise.  There they will have to live, eat, sleep, and compete with each other to find out who will outwit, outplay and outlast all the rest to become the sole Survivor. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 1- The castaways were stunned to find out that instead of a photo shoot they all got dressed up for they were starting the game.  All the survivors could bring with them was the clothes on their backs, nothing else.  Men were in suits and the women were in dresses.  They had to jump off the boat and swim to shore where they were to visit a small village and buy/trade anything they would need to last the full 39 days.  Once they finished with that the tribes landed on their respected islands, ( each tribe's camp was their own specific island) and started to make camp.  The Morgan tribe started off all confused.  They unlike Drake didn't have a plan and didn't work together as a tribe.  The first Immunity Challenge had the survivors pulling a heavy cannon through 3 obstacles testing their strength, speed, and their ability to work together as a tribe.  Drake was leading most of the way, and towards the end Morgan gained the lead, but at the finish line Drake came away with the win and the Immunity Idol.  At the Morgan camp, Lillian and Ryan S. were looking to be targets for the first vote off, but Nicole not thinking started to pit her fellow tribe members against each other.  The other survivors got wind of Nicole's plan and at Tribal Council the rest of the tribe voted the sneaky, lying Nicole out of the tribe.

 

Week 2- The Morgan tribe was feeling down but not out, hoping they could pull off a victory in the next couple of challenges.  While at Drake, fighting ensued between Rupert and Shawn when Shawn went spear fishing and lost the spear.  Rupert feared this would happen, but let Shawn go anyway.  Luckily Rupert found it after searching the whole island, and the tribe was back on track.  They were so on track that in the reward challenge, they pulled out another victory.  This reward was the first of a string of reward's that lead to a buried treasure chest on each of the tribes island.  Drake winning their first piece of the map.  Also another reward, sort of, came with the winner, they got to go to the other tribes camp and loot one item.  Since Drake won, Sandra was picked to go loot and choose Morgan's only tarp.  Morgan's lost was frustrating for the tribe especially for Skinny Ryan S. who knew if they didn't win the Immunity challenge he was next to go.  Some more bad news for Morgan, Osten was thinking of quitting.  He was tired of losing and having no clothes, no food, and possibly catching pneumonia.  Each tribe member tried to convince him to stay.  At the Immunity challenge the tribes had to pull 3 members of the opposite tribe to shore as quick as they could, while those 3 members were tied up and had to untie themselves as quick as possible.  Those 3 members were to swim to shore once freed and join the others, then they had to decode some coordinates and dig to find a flag.  That flag they were to hoist onto a pole and raise it to victory.  Although a close race, the Drake tribe once again tasted victory.  Back at the Morgan camp, Osten approached Ryan S. and Lillian and asked them to vote for him at Tribal Council.  Both agreed that he needed to go because he was just giving up.  Even though it seemed that Osten would go, once at Tribal Council the rest of the Morgan tribe decided to keep Osten for his strength and vote out Skinny Ryan S.

 

Week 3- At the Morgan camp, the tribes felt depressed and bitter because it seemed like they could not even win one challenge.  They hoped now that Skinny Ryan S. was gone they had a shot.  Lillian was trying to figure out from the rest of her tribe why they kept Osten, and they only said it was because of his strength.  At Drake, the tribe decided to try and look for the treasure chest, but to no avail.  Tension also started to grow between Sandra and Jon where Jon insisted that Sandra couldn't swim and told her she should sit out of the challenge if it had swimming involved.  The Drake's pushed it aside and went to the second reward challenge involving the next piece of the map.  The tribes competed to see who could sink the other tribe members boats first, and even though Morgan came close, Rupert's strength gave the edge to the Drake tribe and they won their second piece of the map and someone else was going to Morgan to pillage.  Christa was chosen and headed off to the Morgan tribe where she was bombarded with questions but gave nothing away.  She took one of their cooking pots and headed back home to Drake.  At Morgan, Lillian was getting anxious to get stuff done which made some of her tribe members a little upset.  The Immunity Challenge was a test of strength were the tribes had to choose their smallest member, who would be hoisted above the water and their strongest member, who would be that teams anchor.  They had 5 of their members holding a piece of rope and after 5 minutes a member from each tribe would let go until the teams strongest members were left to try and hold up the smallest members.  Osten for Morgan, and Rupert for Drake were chosen as the strongest, and Darrah for Morgan, and Michelle for Drake were the smallest.  Osten gave it his best, but ended up dropping the rope and Darrah into the water giving Drake another victory.  Drake was getting Immunity for the third time, and sending the Morgan's to their third Tribal Council.  Back at the Morgan camp, the vote was between Lillian and Darrah.  Lillian was good at doing camp duties and Darrah was good for challenges.  Andrew told Lillian that if she was going to go, he would tell her flat out to her face.  Lillian took that as a sign of she is staying.  When they arrived at Tribal Council though the tribe decided to keep little Darrah for the challenges and they voted out Scout Master Lillian.

 

Week 4-  At the Morgan tribe, life went on without Scout Master Lillian, but the tribe really missed her doing chores around camp.  The Drake tribe was having some friction occur when Jon was complaining about some help around camp.  The other tribe members were really feeling the sting about winning so many challenges, they get stuck with the people they don't like.  Many of the tribe members of Drake were considering losing to get rid of some of their teammates.  At the reward challenge, it was a race to find puzzle pieces scattered on the beach and in the ocean.  First tribe to accumalate all the pieces and solve the puzzle won reward and another chance to raid the losing tribes camp for another item.  Morgan was trailing for most of the challenge.  Then they started to pull it together only to have Drake win their six challenge in a row.  Drake ended up winning the last piece of their map, along with an old fashioned sewing machine.  Trish was chosen to go loot the Morgan camp and took one of their lanterns.  The Drake's took the opportunity to search for their buried treasure only to find some rotted food and some foul smelling blankets, pillows, and a hammock.  At Drake, Burton talked to Rupert about possibly losing the Immunity challenge to get rid of Christa.  Rupert agreed to it only to tell Christa the whole thing.  Rupert was furious with Burton and vowed if they lost to vote him out instead of Christa.  The Immunity Challenge had the survivors battling with each other to get from one side of a platform to the opposite side, trying to knock off the other teams members if they came in contact with them.  First tribe to have all their members on the opposite side wins Immunity.  Drake's strategy was to lose, so they sat out two of their strongest members, Burton and Rupert.  Morgan ended up winning their first challenge and first Immunity.  A special stipulation was given to the winners that no one saw coming.  Morgan was allowed to choose one member of Drake to join them for an allotted amount of time.  They happily chose Rupert.  Reluctantly Rupert joined the Morgan's.  Back at Drake everyone was looking at Jon.  He was the swing vote.  Burton felt confident in his alliance with Michelle and Shawn and Christa felt confident with her alliance of Trish, Sandra, and Rupert.  They both were counting on Jon to help them oust the other.  At their first Tribal Council Burton was stunned to find that not only did Jon screw him, but so did Shawn.  Burton became the first Drake voted out of Survivor Pearl Islands.

 

Week 5- The Drakes headed back to camp after their first Tribal Council were they voted off Burton.  Shawn openly stated that he betrayed Burton and voted him off.  Michelle felt vulnerable seeing as she voted with Burton aganist Christa.  At the Morgan camp, they were pleased to have Rupert join their group even if for a short time.  He helped them catch fish, help move their shelter, and many more necessary chores.  They felt blessed to have gotten ahold of Rupert.  At the reward challenge Rupert was the key to victory for the Morgan's gaining their second challenge in a row.  They won a array of bathing supplies along with a portable hanging shower.  After the reward challenge Rupert went back to Drake where he told the rest of the tribe all about his time at Morgan.  Since they won the reward Morgan had their first taste of revenge when Andrew was picked to pillage an item from Drake, but he choose to take some of Drakes rice.  His plan was to be friendly with them because the awaited merge was just around the corner.  The Immunity challenge invovled a roulette wheel with two markers, and slots marked with various seafood delicacies ( bloody clams, red shellfish, for example).  Then depending on what they land on, Jeff blends them up in a blender and serves it to them in a glass.  It came down to a tie between both tribes.  Each tribe had to choose one member from the opposite team to compete.  Drake chose Darrah and Morgan chose Sandra.  Jeff prepared a special blended glass of goodies plus a whole sardine for the ladies to finish.  First one done wins for their tribe.  Although it was a tight race Darrah edged out Sandra to win immunity for the Morgans.  Their second immunity in a row.  Drake headed back to camp disapponted.  Sandra felt vulnerable because she let her tribe down and she was the reason they were going to Tribal Council, but the majority of the tribe was targeting Michelle.  Michelle tried to save herself by trying to go after Shawn.  She talked to Rupert and he told her he would try to convince the rest of the tribe.  At Tribal Council, Michelle tried her best to stay, but the remaining Drakes stayed with their original vote, and Michelle was voted out.

 

Week 6- The Drakes headed back to camp vowing to never go there again.  Everyone hated that they had to vote out Michelle but it was necessary.  Rupert felt bad that he voted for Michelle and not for Shawn.  At Morgan, they had a visit from a wandering bird ( I think a booby, not sure ).  It got Osten pissed off and he kept talking about killing the bird because he doesn't like animals.  Andrew and Ryan O. got pissed with him for being such a baby.  The next day, had a rejuvenated Drake predicting victory.  At the reward challenge the tribes competed using cannons to strike various targets.  Whoever hit all of the targets first wins.  Drake barely egdes out Morgan for the win boosting their spirits.  They won some steaks, lobsters, spices, and a barbeque.  They also sent Jon over to loot the Morgan camp.  He only took one of their pots but gave away some info that infuriated the Morgans.  Andrew was ready to show Drake that they were not pushovers.  They all headed to the immunity challenge where the tribes had three members hoisting up multiple 20 lb bags over their shoulders trying to see who can outlast the rest.  Rupert and Osten were taken out fairly quickly.  Towards the end Christa was the only one left for Drake, while Morgan had Andrew and Ryan O.  She gave it her all but it wasn't enough and Morgan claimed immunity for the third straight time.  Back at Drake, Shawn was feeling his head was on the chopping block, but to his suprise Trish and Jon were planning something different.  They wanted Rupert gone because they figured the merge was happening next and they wouldn't stand a chance with him there.  Rupert got wind of their scheme and convinced Shawn to join him, Sandra, and Christa to vote out Trish.  He also alligned himself with Trish and Jon to vote out Rupert.  Shawn was in control.  At Tribal Counicl he chose to stick with Rupert, Christa, and Sandra to vote out an unsuspecting Trish. 

 

Week 7- At Drake, Rupert was furious at Jon that he voted for him at the previous Tribal Council.  Rupert exploded at Jon and Jon didn't know what to do.  Rupert decided to let bygones be bygones and start from stratch, which Jon agreed to, but both still didn't trust each other.  At Morgan, the tribe was feeling down because they were low on food.  Andrew felt that Osten was going to throw in the towel.  In Andrew's words "O. T. has checked out, I can see it in his face".  The tribes recieved some interesting tree mail concerning a reward greater than anything they have seen before.  Before the challenge Jon and Shawn started to verbally fight with each other causing major friction at Drake.  At the challenge both tribes were amazed to learn that the previous 6 tribe members they voted out are back to compete at a chance to get back in the game.  Nicole, Ryan S, Lillian from Morgan and Burton, Michelle, and Trish from Drake were back to get some revenge.  The stakes were high and the 6 castaways called themselves the Outcasts and were going to compete against both Morgan and Drake.  If the Outcasts beat Morgan and Drake, both Morgan and Drake will go to Tribal Council and vote someone out and then the Outcasts will go to Tribal Council and they will vote 2 people back in the game.  Also the 2 members from the Outcast tribe that are voted in are immune from the vote at the next Tribal Council.  The challege was a race/jail break.  Which ever tribe can free all their members and crosses the finish line with their flag and all their members wins.  Remarkablely the Outcast's tribe won sending both Morgan and Drake to Tribal Council.  Drake went first and Jon and Shawn's necks were on the chopping block.  The Drake's made their decision and Shawn was voted out.  Morgan headed to Tribal Council next were Osten layed down his torch and for the first time ever left the game by choice.  So then Osten was the lastest Morgan voted out.  The episode ended here and will pick up next episode with the Outcast's Tribal Council.   

 

The two tribes merge into one, the Balboa tribe and individual reward and immunity comes into play.

 

Week 8- The Outcasts tribe headed to Tribal Council and each member got to say why they deserve to come back into the game.  Each member was to vote for the 2 members they thought deserved to get back in the game.  When the voted were counted.  Both Lillian and Burton were chosen.  Lillian had to pick a buff out of a container to see which tribe they were going back to.  Reluctantly she reached in only to pull a Morgan buff.  Lillian was going back to Morgan and Burton was headed back to Drake.  Both set off to their respected camps.  At Drake, all were anxious to find out who was coming back.  Sandra was hoping the it was not Burton.  They all decided to just go to sleep and find out in the morning.  Burton arrived and awoke the Drake's and all seemed well.  Rupert found him to be not malicious or mad but happy to be back in the game.  At Morgan, they all waited up to see who was coming to join their tribe.  They all saw a familiar face when Lillian arrived on their beach.  All were glad to see her, but she felt a little resentment for them voting her out before.  Both tribes awoke to a new day.  At Drake, Rupert pulled Burton aside to talk about why he voted Burton out.  All was forgiven and the talking turned to ousting Jon at the next Tribal Council.  At Morgan, Andrew was pissed to learn that Lillian was getting a second chance and Lillian was uncomfortable with her situation.  The tribes headed to a challenge were they were suprised again, with a merge.  All were estatic to finally be one tribe.  They called themselves the Balboa tribe and were given black buffs.  From now on all challenges both reward and immunity were individual.  The challenge was based on an old pirate punishment.  Each tribe member had a platform and had to jump into the water pulling themselves on rope while holding their breath the whole way.  They had to complete 2 laps to get into the finals.  In the finals were Jon, Burton, Ryan O, and Rupert.  This time the same thing but 5 laps and after every lap they had to bring a gold medallion from one side of their platform to the other and hang it up.  It was a close race between Rupert and Burton, but Burton edged out Rupert by a hair.  Burton claimed the first individual immunity.  Which caused a dilemma.  Burton already has immunity from the resurrection back into the game and then he wins individual immunity.  He was given a choice to give it to someone else or hold it to make everyone else vulnerable.  They all headed back to Drake ( where they will be living from now on ) and found a buffet of foods waiting for them.  They had ribs, lamb, bread, cheese, fruit, and wine.  After the meal the attention turned back to the game.  Who was going to get the boot?  The ex-Morgan's wanted Jon gone because he was a trouble maker. While the ex-Drake's wanted Andrew gone because of his strength.  All eyes turned to Lillian, she was the swing vote.  Would she vote with Morgan's or the Drake's?  Burton talked to her about joining the Drake's and then Andrew did the same for the Morgan's.  Andrew was getting mad because they needed her to vote with them, but Lillian was mad because when she got previously voted out Andrew was supposed to tell her if anything had changed and he didn't.  Andrew asked her the same thing, "will you tell me what you are going to do before you do it".  Lillian said "just like you were supposed to tell me before I got voted out".  This caused Andrew to worry about Lillian's betrayl.  All headed to Tribal Council where Burton gave the immunity idol to Rupert sparing him from votes and then all eyes again turned to Lillian as she joined the ex-Drakes to vote out Andrew.

 

Week 9- Lillian felt good about voting Andrew out.  She felt glad she stood up for herself.  Ryan O. felt really close to Andrew and was sad to see him go.  He felt vulnerable because the rest of the tribe feels he was strong and he knows he is on the chopping block.  Ryan O. tries to get Burton to vote with him and get control of the game, but will Burton turn, who knows.  At the first individual reward challenge the survivors had to shoot some marbles at some plates to ignite a torch and the first to hit all three and ignite the barrell on top wins reward.  The reward was a buffet of breakfast items ( pancakes, sausage, bacon, eggs, and orange juice ).  It came down to Ryan O, Rupert, and Lillian.  Rupert egded out Lillian to win.  He then chose to give it to Burton to repay him for giving him the previous individual immunity.  Burton was able to choose someone else to accompany him.  He chose Lillian.  Before they went to breakfast Burton talked to Jon about voting off Rupert, Christa, or Sandra and changing things up.  At breakfast, Burton and Lillian talked about their alliance with each other and promised to get them as far as he could.  Lillian told Burton she was with him all the way.  Back at camp, Sandra and Christa were plotting to get rid of Burton and Rupert.  At camp the ex-Drakes were sick and tired of the ex-Morgans laziness.  At the immunity challenge the survivors had to answer questions about the Pearl Islands and in the process put coconuts into other tribe members boxes to eliminate them from the game, last one standing wins immunity.  It came down to Christa and Rupert and in the end Rupert claimed immunity.  After the challenge everyone was trying to get control of the game and scrambling to get plans made.  Ryan O. tried to get his fellow ex-Morgans to help him stay.  Burton and Jon were talking about ousting Christa.  Who will it be? At Tribal Council it was a majority vote and the first member of the jury is, Ryan O. ( 1st member of jury ).

 

Week 10- Rupert was feeling tired mentally, physically, and emotionally trying to always be in control of the game.  He really missed his family and knew he was going to be the last one standing.  The next day Jon and Burton talked and needed some alone time to talk to ex-Morgans about an alliance to help them vote out Rupert.  Rupert went fishing and Christa and Sandra went into the woods.  Burton and Jon looked at each other saying this is the perfect time to discuss the alliance with the ex-Morgans.  Darrah and Tijuana listened closely to Burton and Jon and they happily agreed to join forces to oust Rupert.  The reward challenge had the survivors racing from one end of a ship to the other ringing bells and releasing bags ( which contain puzzle pieces ).  First one to get to the other side and finish the puzzle wins reward.  The reward was an afternoon on a boat fishing ( which if they caught anything they would keep ), also they were to enjoy some pizza and beer.  The survivors competed in pairs.  Came down to Burton and Lill vs. Rupert and Jon.  Close race but Burton and Lill edged out Rupert and Jon.  Lill kept her reward, but Burton was going to give it up.  Rupert and him had an agreement that if Burton won he would give it to Rupert as payback for Rupert giving up the breakfast he won in the previous episode.  Although that was the plan Burton didn't follow and gave it to Jon.  Before leaving on the boat Jon and Burton discussed voting out Rupert and getting Lill to help.  Sandra snuck behind some bushes and told Rupert that Jon was going to talk to Lill and work his magic.  Rupert said that he would talk to Lill when she came back.  They came back empty handed, no fish, Rupert talked to Lill and was satisfied that she was on his side.  At the immunity challenge it was a game based on the game killer.  Each tribe member would blow darts at a bullseye board to eliminate the other survivors.  First they would have to hit their own color to become a killer.  Then after that they could hit other colors to eliminate the others.  Rupert and Burton were eliminating people until Burton turned and went after Rupert.  With only one life left, Sandra went up and accidentally hit Rupert color eliminating him from the challenge.  After that Burton started to knock tribe members out until he became the last one standing and won immunity.  Back at camp, Rupert was mad at Burton because he figured he did it on purpose and was afraid he might not be so secure.  Rupert, Sandra, and Christa talked to Burton and Jon and it was discussed that Darrah was going home.  At Tribal Council a stunned Sandra and Christa watched as the others voted out a shocked Rupert. ( 2nd member of jury ).

 

Week 11- Still stunned from Rupert being voted out Sandra took her frustration out at Jon.  Yelling and cursing that he can't be trusted.  Burton was going to cook some fish that Rupert caught the day before, but they were missing.  The finger was pointed at Christa being that she was the strongest woman and was the only one who could do it.  She reluctantly denied the accusation.  The next day Burton found the fish behind the camp and was more furious with Christa.  Christa was feeling alone because no one trusts her and she had no way to prove otherwise.  A sad Sandra felt bad because she was the one who accidentally dumped the fish but she couldn't say anything now fearing that Christa would go tell the others and she would get voted out next.  The tribe headed to the reward challenge where they were suprised again by the arrival of their loved ones.  Jon's friend "Thunder D" came and brought him some bad news that his grandmother had died, crushing Jon.  The game was a simple game of match.  Where Jeff would ask a question about the survivors and both survivor and loved one had to match.  If you got a question right you were able to send another tribe members loved one closer to walking the plank.  Last one standing wins reward.  The reward was 24 hours with loved one at camp.  Everyone decided to let Jon win so he could find out more about his grandmothers death.  Jon and "Thunder D" went back to the Balboa camp while the others went to a new deserted island for 24 hours and had to start from stratch.  Back at Balboa, Jon and "Thunder D" were happy with the performance they gave saying that Jon's grandma was dead when she wasn't.  Jon figured everyone would fall victim to that lie and he was right.  The next morning "Thunder D" left and everyone returned home.  Sandra tried to get Tijuana and Darrah to realize they can't trust Jon but the ex-Morgan girls weren't listening.  So at night Jon and Burton went for a walk.  Sandra decided this was the best time.  She grabbed Tijuana and told her to come with her to spy on Burton and Jon.  Tijuana was stunned to hear differences from what the boys were telling her and Darrah.  Sandra was glad that Tijuana was able to hear for herself what Jon and Burton were planning.  Tijuana returned to camp and discussed what she heard to Darrah and they figured if Burton doesn't win immunity then he is out.  At the immunity challenge it was a game of wits as the survivors were given 3 different words and had to make a variety of different words.  For instance, they had to have 4 four letter words, 5 five letter words, 6 six letter words, and 2 seven letter words.  When they were done, they would say done and everyone would stop and turn around and Jeff would check their board.  Whoever finishes first wins immunity.  Christa, Tijuana, and Jon thought they finished but were eliminated one after the other with mistakes on their boards.  It came down to Burton, Lill, Sandra and Darrah.  Burton yelled out he was done and Jeff checked his board and declared him the winner.  Just before the survivors left, Jeff called them back saying that he found a wrong answer on Burtons board.  Jeff took away Burton's immunity and it was a new game only involving Sandra, Darrah, and Lill seeing as they weren't eliminated yet.  It was a new game with different words and it was timed.  Whoever could accumilate the most words correctly wins.  This would be the first time a woman would win immunity.  It was close as Lill got 10 words right, Sandra got 12 words right, and Darrah got 14 words right making her the winner.  Darrah won her first individual immunity and was glad that Burton didn't win.  Back at camp,  Darrah and Tijuana talked about either going with Sandra and Christa or Burton, Jon, and Lill.  They decided they wanted Burton gone because he was the strongest.  They told Jon about the plan and he was shocked to know Burton might get voted out so he did some work and talked to Sandra and Christa about voting out Tijuana instead of Burton.  Sandra and Christa were skeptical of Jon as he has betrayed them before.  He guaranteed them final four with him and Burton.  Would they do it?  At Tribal Council Darrah and Tijuana voted for Burton as planned and Burton, Jon, and Lill voted for Tijuana.  Who would Christa and Sandra help? Burton or Tijuana, they decided to save Burton and they helped vote out Tijuana. ( 3rd member of the jury ).