Jeremy
Jeremy is the fifteenth person voted out of Survivor: Winners at War. Jeremy asks who did it, and Tony apologizes to him. "Bad move, dude," Jeremy says before he gets his torch snuffed and walks away. Before he leaves for the Edge of Extinction, Jeremy bequeaths his two fire tokens to Michele.
Tony and Ben talk after tribal council. Tony is glad he's been on the right side of the votes unlike Michele. He thinks a player like Michele could be viewed as a goat to take to the end of the game, but he says there are no goats in an all-winner season. He and Ben agree that Michele needs to be voted out next, but Tony is also worried about Nick winning challenges. Meanwhile, Nick talks to Michele about the vote. He says they would have no chance winning the game against Jeremy, but Michele tells Nick that they have no path to the Final 3 now. She says that she will be public enemy #1, and then he'll be voted out right after her. Michele thinks Nick is naive to think the other people will want to go to the end with him. Although Michele feels cornered in the game, she is determined to keep fighting.
The next morning, Michele and Sarah talk game. Michele says she sees the writing on the wall, and she knows the plan is for them to vote her out next. Sarah says this is not true, but Michele continues her campaign. She tells Sarah that Tony is running the game and that Sarah cannot win against Tony. "You don't think so?" Sarah asks. "Hell no!" Michele tells her. She tells Sarah that all the jurors are going to see how Tony is running the show. "How do you know who is running the show?" Sarah asks her. "Perception is everything," Michele says. In her confessional, Michele says they should go after the biggest threat in the game. Between herself and Tony, it's clear Tony is the bigger threat. After her conversation with Michele, Sarah goes to the shelter and tells Tony, Denise, and Ben how Michele said Tony is unbeatable at the end. "At least she's trying," Sarah says. "A for effort." Sarah calls Michele an unpredictable person who can't keep her mouth shut. Sarah says Michele needs to go.
Back on the Edge of Extinction, Jeremy said he was up all night thinking about what he could've done differently. He just hopes he can reenter the game. Later, Yul reads a new message for them to earn more fire tokens. After he finishes reading the clue, people get up and go searching for a "throne of stone." It's apparently a race between Natalie and Wendell, but Natalie is the one who realizes where it is. She retrieves the advantage, saying she knows the island very well since she arrived there first. Natalie kept her head in the game and never gave up. She decides to read the advantage together with everybody so it can be a group activity. The advantage is for a player still in the game to place a disadvantage on one person in the next immunity challenge. Natalie's goal is to earn as many fire tokens as possible.
Later, Nick finds the advantage in his bag. He can anonymously place a disadvantage against someone in the next immunity challenge. However, it will cost him eight fire tokens. He later tells Michele about the advantage. She tells him she has two fire tokens, so they have enough since Nick has four fire tokens. Michele says her fire tokens are only souvenirs if she is voted out next. So, even though Nick has hurt her game, she says she can only work with what she has.
It's time for the immunity challenge. They are going to have to stack blocks on a beam while stepping over trip obstacles. The first person to stack their blocks and then have those blocks fall like dominoes and hit a gong will win immunity and two fire tokens. Jeff reminds them that today is the last day they can earn or spend fire tokens. Jeff also reveals how a disadvantage is being played today. He says the disadvantage is that one player will have 30% more beam and 30% more blocks to work with. Jeff reveals how the disadvantage is being played against Ben. Ben is displeased, and he says he must not be making as many friends this season. The challenge begins, and Tony and Michele are in the lead with Sarah right behind them. "Come on, T, go faster," Sarah says to Tony. Michele drops a block on the ground, allowing Tony and Sarah to surpass her. However, Sarah ends up dropping a block right when Michele makes her first attempt to knock down her blocks. They all fall like dominoes and the last block hits the gong. Michele wins immunity! Michele notes how no one is clapping when Jeff puts the immunity necklace on her. They halfheartedly start clapping for Michele, but she tells Jeff how she knew she needed immunity tonight.
The castaways return to camp, and Denise says it's unfortunate how Michele won immunity. Denise proposes making a big pot of rice. She says she is aware how she could be voted out tonight, so she wants to go to the Edge of Extinction will a full belly. She also uses her fire tokens to buy some extra rice. She hopes the tribe will want to keep her if she plays up the role of a dejected player. However, Nick is the target for the majority alliance tonight. They seem set on this plan, but Nick and Michele campaign to Tony to vote out Ben tonight. They tell him Ben is a strong candidate to win the fire-making challenge at the Final 4, and Tony does not want to be eliminated in the game due to a fire-making challenge. Tony then goes to his spy nest up in a tree, and he overhears a conversation among Denise, Sarah, and Ben. Denise mentions how big of a threat Tony is, and she wants to go to the Final 3 with Ben and Sarah. After hearing this, Tony wants to get rid of Denise tonight. He later talks to Nick and Michele about voting out Denise. Michele reveals in her confessional that Denise wouldn't be her first pick to go tonight, but she's fine with this plan. Later, Tony talks to Sarah about voting out Denise tonight. He knows about the conversation and how Denise would pick Ben over them, meaning that he and Sarah will be competing against each other in a fire-making challenge. Sarah is receptive to Tony's thoughts. Denise took out Queen Sandra and has played the game without making people mad at her. However, Nick has an underdog story that can endear him to the jury. She and Tony are the swing votes tonight, and Sarah says this is the biggest vote they will be making thus far in the game.
It's time for tribal council. Jeff talks about the immunity challenge and why this was a big win for Michele. Michele says she knew she was on the bottom of the tribe as no one would talk strategy with her. Sarah says they might've took their foot off the gas tonight by revealing to Michele she was in trouble. Ben says he does wonder who played the disadvantage on him, but he doesn't know if it came from someone on the Edge of Extinction or someone still in the game. Nick says they are at the point of the game of knowing who they want to keep. Nick says they will have the numbers to know after tonight. Sarah says they have to manage not just their tokens, but everyone else's tokens. Michele says she's gotten emotional over the fire tokens she has received throughout the game. Michele says the tokens have given her the hope she needs to keep going. Ben says the next few votes will be scary as people are going to be turning on each other as they near the end of the game. Tony says it will come down to bonds and trust. Denise says the moves she can make tonight are limited without immunity. She even admits it could be her. "Endure and let go," Denise explains. She is not giving up, but she does not want to scramble anymore. Afterwards, it's time for the vote.
Jeff reads the votes. The first vote is for…
Nick
Denise
Denise
Nick
Nick
Nick
Nick is the sixteenth person voted out of Survivor: Winners at War.
It's the morning of Day 35 at the Edge of Extinction. It's their last day there, and they are all preparing to compete to reenter the game. Amber says it feels like it's been ages since she first got there, but it also went by quickly. She thinks she will miss it despite how miserable it has been. She says it's beautiful and peaceful there. Tyson reads the note informing them that they are indeed about to go compete to reenter the game. Kim says she will have to bring it. Wendell has two fire tokens, and he can buy an advantage in the challenge. Yul says the fire tokens have added an interesting dynamic to the game. Parvati says there is still a game bubbling under the surface. She will buy an advantage too. Ethan hopes for the win even without fire tokens to spend. Natalie will have multiple advantages. She says she has been grinding slowly. After 32 days of being on the Edge of Extinction, Natalie has 14 fire tokens. She has used her tokens to buy peanut butter, a hidden immunity idol, and three advantages in the upcoming challenge. She uses her extra fire tokens to buy a hidden immunity idol for Tyson. Tyson is touched, and it gives him a little more extra motivation.
The episode ends with a recap of the season. Next week is the season finale of Survivor: Winners at War. Who will be the winner of this 40th season of Survivor? Thanks for reading, and come back next week for the live recap when the winner is crowned.
