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Night 33 and Judd's outburst is the main topic around the campfire. Rafe and Stephenie were taken aback by how angry Judd was. Duhhh! What did they expect? Judd thought the million dollars was all his. Cindy is also concerned about her standing with her allies, as they had not informed her about the boot-Judd vote. She's wondering who she can trust and why she was left outside the decision process?
Day 34 starts with the focus on Rafe, last man standing, and how well he fits in with the ladies. They all like his attitude and his comical behavior. Rafe tells Uncle Cameraman that he has a personal friendship with each of the remaining women. Tree-mail arrives, and it's a set of car keys! Xhakum Camp is a-buzz with thoughts of a new car for one of them.
Reward Challenge is the seasonal 'Second Chance', where each gets another crack at previous challenge activities. Jeff shows them the prize of the day, a new 2006 Pontiac Torrent sport SUV. The winner also gets dinner and a night at an archeologist camp, complete with sausages, steaks, and perhaps even a genuine archeologist tent! Actually, a real archeologist will host the winner. The first three of the five contestants who cross the balance beam and untie their two pairs of Mayan war clubs move on to the next stage. Use the clubs to break a tile. The first two who break the tile move on to the final stage, solve a Mayan calendar puzzle. First to solve the puzzle correctly then boards a mining car, machetes a rope and careens down a track to the Finish Line, and the new Pontiac Torrent. Everyone but Danni has trouble on the balance beam, she finishes first followed by Cindy and Steph. Cindy scores first in breaking her tile. Stephenie breaks hers on the next throw. So Cindy and Stephenie face off on the Mayan calendar. Cindy finishes first and wins the challenge. Before Jeff hands over the keys, he makes her an offer. Every winner of a car in the past ten seasons has failed to win the grand prize. Jeff tells Cindy that if she does not wish to temp the Curse of the Car, she may pass, and if so, the other four players will each get a new Pontiac Torrent instead. After some hemming and hawing, along with a bit of reasoning, Cindy declares that she does not fear the Curse of the Car. Jeff hands over the keys and allows Cindy to take one person with her on the reward. Cindy chooses Stephenie, and the two ladies drive off.
Cindy and Steph arrive at the camp site and are met by the real archeologist. They grill up their food and settle down to eat and listen to tales of Mayan history and culture from the archeologist. Back at Xhakum, Rafe and Danni discuss Cindy's choice. Both claim they would have turned down the car for themselves and allow the others to each have a new car. As Cindy and Stephenie settle down for a good night's sleep on a real bed, they discuss booting off Danni next.
Day 35 and the gang is reunited. Cindy goes on and on about her new car. Her ramblings are getting on Rafe's and Danni's nerves. Lydia has no prob- lem with Cindy winning herself a new car. Stephenie is surprised when talk- ing with Rafe about the matter. She's amazed that Rafe would actually sacri- fice winning a car for himself and let others have one.
Day 36 and it's time for the Immunity Challenge. Each are shackled at the feet and have their hands shackled around a pole. A rope is attached to each which has been wrapped around four other poles. Using a ring of ten keys, each must first unshackle their hands and then unlock the rope at each pole. After the fourth pole, they unshackle their feet and begin unwinding the rope. The first who unwinds enough rope to reach a flag pole and unfurl their flag wins. Stephenie is out in front with Cindy a close second through- out most of the event. Rafe is not far behind Cindy, but never really in a position to challenge for the lead. Stephenie frees herself first from all the locks and shackles, but doesn't have enough slack in her rope to reach the flag pole. She hurries to untie some knots in the rope while Cindy tries to catch up. But Steph manages to get enough slack finally and wins her first individual immunity.
As they return to camp, Stephenie is very happy to be guaranteed a spot on the Final Four. She's come a long way since the first tribal council, where she was endanger of being booted off. Not to mention the Season of Doom when she first competed. Rafe and Danni discuss their private alliance. Rafe tells Uncle that Danni has promised to take him to the Final Two. He then chats with Stephenie about who to vote off tonight? Rafe wants Cindy gone. He's tired of her babbling on and on about her new car. Stephenie points out that if they boot Cindy off, that's one more person on the Jury who will have a real beef against them. She's not sure what she wants to do. Steph tells Cindy that Rafe considers her, Cindy, a bigger threat than Danni. They discuss with Danni and Lydia an option of booting off Rafe and make it an all-female Final Four.
At Tribal Council, they first discuss the mood at the camp. Rafe says that everyone feels threatened. Danni adds that she feels like the odd-man-out. Cindy goes on a long monolog about her winning the car, and the Curse of the Car. She looks at the reason why the car winners are booted off is sim- ply because they are tough competitors. Cindy then outs Rafe as being the toughest competitor of the bunch. It's time to vote. Cindy votes to boot Rafe, the rest vote against Cindy. She quips that none of them will watch the stars from the sunroof of HER NEW CAR!
SPOILERS: SUNDAY NIGHT-- 8PM EST, THE FINALE! 3 DAYS LEFT TO SEE WHO OF THE FINAL FOUR GOES ON TO WIN THE GRAND PRIZE OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS! Two-hour episode followed by the standard one hour reunion show. My bet is on Rafe and Danni being the Final Two with Danni winning by default as Rafe engineered the fall of each of the Jurors.
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