MINNEAPOLIS — After barely being proven in a earlier “Survivor 48” episode, Eagan native Eva Erickson was entrance and middle in the newest present and gained her first particular person immunity idol.
The present final week opened with an Erickson-led dialogue in regards to the largest animal you can tackle in a battle — her reply was a feminine deer — earlier than shifting onto technique discussions.
Erickson, who’s the present’s first overtly autistic participant, stays a member of a five-person alliance consisting of the season’s bodily strongest gamers: Her day-one ally Joe Hunter, stuntman David Kinne, debate professor Shauhin Davari and lawyer Kyle Fraser. At Kinne’s request, they added substance abuse counselor Mary Zheng, to provide them a stable six in opposition to the 4 remaining castaways.
Stated alliance isn’t precisely a secret one, and fireplace lieutenant Chrissy Sarnowsky overtly mentioned taking it down. That immediately made her a goal.
“We have created a very strong, loyal group of five people that I trust that are all big threats,” Erickson stated. “Chrissy is the kind of person who will come in and try to bust up what we’ve built and I don’t want to play with someone like that.”
The ten gamers divided into pairs for the huge reward/immunity problem, which was staggered to knock off two groups on the first stopping level, another on the subsequent, with the ultimate 4 then competing individually in an endurance problem. Whereas there was just one immunity winner, these ultimate 4 did get to share a reward, a lavish taco feast again at camp.
Erickson paired up with Hunter and so they proved to be fairly adept, successful the primary leg and coming in second for the one which adopted. The ultimate problem is a “Survivor” mainstay the place castaways want to carry onto a big pole with extraordinarily small footholds. The ultimate individual nonetheless hanging on wins immunity. Host Jeff Probst known as it one of many present’s most iconic challenges.
Hunter and Kinne, who’re each constructed like superheroes, predictably fell off rapidly, as it is a problem that favors extra lean muscle. That left Erickson and Zheng every curled round their pole, ready for the opposite to fall. Though it took some time, Zheng did lose her grip, leaving Erickson because the winner.
Zheng gave Erickson a congratulatory hug as Erickson informed her, “Good job, good job. That was really fun.”
When Probst requested Erickson about successful, she stated she knew she’d win on the pole: “I was like, I have the hockey legs, there is no way I’m losing this challenge. And when I found out there was tacos on the line, too, I was like there is no shot in hell that I’m not there for that.”
On the feast that adopted, the 4 wolfed down tacos and all of the fixings. At one level Erickson, with salsa smeared on her chin, closed her eyes and leaned on Hunter with a glance of sheer contentment.
Whereas grabbing a chip, Erickson noticed a small, rolled-up scroll within the bowl, which she rapidly stuffed in her pants with out being seen by her fellow gamers.
After all, consuming all that meals directly if you’ve barely been consuming something results in some abdomen points. As soon as they had been completed, Erickson introduced: “I’m gonna lay down for a little bit and then I might go yak … I am feeling like I’m going to absolutely puke my guts out.”
Whereas we don’t see Erickson lose her lunch, she does belch, repeatedly, within the section that adopted.
Whereas on the seaside, away from the opposite gamers, she reads the scroll, which guarantees she’ll discover a secret benefit the next night time if she sneaks away from the shelter to the other aspect of camp.
Erickson additionally determined to maintain the benefit to herself as everybody is aware of she already has a hidden immunity idol: “It might be nice to have something that’s private knowledge to me.”
From there, the episode centered on the sturdy alliance of six battling over who they had been going besides from the sport, finally selecting Sarnowsky after some fierce debate.
The preview for this week’s present urged that sturdy alliance is creating some critical cracks.
