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As usual, we begin the final show with a recap of the previous 36 days. How Kota Tribe dominated winning nine of the first eleven challenges. And then how Kota crashed after the players were switched up. The five finalists were then highlighted. Susie, who flipped sides early. Matty, who hasn't won much of anything. Sugar, the Exile Queen. Bob, the last of the Kota Tribe who has won the last four challenges in a row. And Ken, the manipulator.
Night 36 finds everyone pleased with the results of Tribal Council. Everyone except Ken. He's still fuming that Bob did not give him the immunity necklace and that his treacherous plan to boot Bob failed. Sugar is VERY happy she used her idol to save Matty, which sent Crystal packing. Ken continues to fume at Bob, but Bob retorts that he only promised if he thought that Ken was in trouble. Bob knew that Crystal was the planned boot, so he did not break his promise. Ken is so delusional, he still thinks he has a tight alliance with Matty and Sugar. LOL!!!
Day 37 and Sugar tells Uncle Cameraman that she hopes the Final Three are Bob, Matty and herself. She keeps playing Ken like a fiddle. They go to fetch the tree mail together and she continues to assure Ken that she's on his side. They find a basket of war-paint and beads. All five are to decorate themselves like warriors. They do a very good job.
The first of tonight's Immunity Challenges begins with digging under a wall to reach an elevated maze. After traversing it, enter another maze with 20 Gabonese huts. Three of the huts contain bags of puzzle pieces. After they fetch all three bags, assemble a model of a Gabonese hut.
Susie is first under the wall. The others are right behind her. She then is first to complete the first maze. Sugar and Ken follow her. But all five players are in close competition as they search the village maze for the bags of puzzle pieces. Matty starts to get a lead, finding the first two bags. Bob looks like he is slowing down after he gets his second bag. Sugar is the first to find her third bag, followed by Bob. They get a head start on their puzzles, but Ken and Matty also begin assembling. Susie, is lost. Bob manages to beat Sugar and wins his fifth straight challenge!
Back at camp, Ken relaxes, confident in his alliances. Susie is nervous and fears she's going home. She tries talking with Matty, but he offers only sage advice, "… go with your gut". This does not reassure her. Matty and Sugar discuss booting Susie. Then Sugar talks with Bob.
At Tribal Council, Jeff tells Bob he's tied with the record for most consecutive individual wins. Matty thinks Bob is awesome! Ken is jealous. Susie is very worried about tonight's vote. Ken thinks that he repaired any damage from the previous night. Then Ken starts trashing Bob about not keeping his pro- mise. Bob fires back that he learned of Ken's treachery. That Ken and Crystal were plotting to blindside him after he gave Ken the necklace. Ken still tries to justify his move and that Bob is the bad guy. He just keeps digging himself into a deeper hole. LOL! Time's time to vote. Ken votes to boot Susie. The rest show Ken the highway of shame, and rightly so! YEAH!!! I've been waiting a long time to see this cockroach get voted off. LOL!!!
Day 38 and the Final Four are having a happy morning. Susie tells Matty that she feels she must win today's challenge. If she does, then she's voting to boot Bob. Matty gets the tree mail while Bob and Sugar share a boat ride. All four must go to Exile island for the seasonal Memory Walk. Along the way, they must gather up masks representing the other 14 past players. Then take the masks of the 'Fallen Comrades' to the top of a plateau and burn them. As they walk and collect the masks, we get the obligatory recaps of each of the past players. At the plateau, the final four are greeted by locals who play music during the mask-burning ceremony.
The final Immunity Challenge! Each player gets 200 wooden tiles to build a house of cards. The first to get theirs 10 feet in height, or the one with the tallest after 30 minutes, wins a guaranteed spot in the Final Three. Susie and Sugar just start building theirs willy-nilly. Bob and Matty take their time to construct a solid base. Both of the ladies' houses come crashing down nine minutes into the event. Bob's then crashes leaving Matty with the tallest. But Susie and Sugar get right back at it. With five minutes left to go, Sugar and Susie are tied at 6.5 feet. Matty's is at 5.5 feet. Bob's is only 3.5 feet high and he's still having trouble. Susie gets hers to the 8 foot mark with less than a minute left. She decides to stop and not risk it any further. Matty and Sugar are both just over 7 feet and keep at it. Sugar's and Bob's crash one more time. Matty fails to catch up and Susie wins! She won both the first and last individual immunity challenges.
Back at camp, the mood is somber. Bob accepts that fact that he's going to get booted off. Susie starts to talk too much. She's amazed she won! Then she asks Bob how many jury votes he thinks he has? Bob is offended by the question. He answers what difference does it make now? Matty and Sugar ask Susie to just cool it. Bob feels bad enough as it is, why rub his nose in it? Sugar is most unhappy and talks with Bob about splitting tonight's vote. She'll vote for Matty if he does, giving him a chance to compete against Matty in a tie-breaker. Bob goes off to practice starting a fire. Sugar feels like Bob is a father figure to her.
At Tribal Council, Susie is very happy indeed that she won immunity. She again talks about how if she did not win, she knew she would be toast. Bob tells Jeff that he is very uncomfortable about tonight's vote. He knows that he is popular with The Jury and lets on that he would vote to boot Sugar over Matty. Matty says he cannot vote for Sugar after she saved him. Sugar tells Jeff that she feels that Matty is like a brother and Bob is like another father to her. She feels very torn, especially since she lost her real father. Bob gets choked up talking about his family.
It's time to vote. We see Matty vote for Bob and Bob vote for Matty. Jeff counts the votes and it is a tie! Bob and Matty must now build fires to burn through a string and release a flag. Bob gets his fire started right away, but before he can fuel it, it goes out. Matty is having a lot of trouble. Bob gets his going again. He adds fuel and the fire grows quickly. It burns through the string and Bob wins!!! The ex-Kota members of The Jury are very happy! Ken and Crystal look disappointed. Matty is not bitter when he goes to the confessional after being booted off.
Click here for Part Two of "Goodbye Gabon"
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