'Survivor' recap: Tiyana Hallums voted out after twist and Rachel LaMont advantage play

Survivor featured Tiyana Hallums getting voted out of the Beka Tribe after the real target, Rachel LaMont, played a "Safety Without Power" advantage at Tribal Council during the Season 47 episode that aired Wednesday night on CBS.


After the merged Beka tribe was randomly and temporarily divided into two teams, Tiyana, a 27-year-old flight attendant from Aiea, HI, was voted out of Survivor 47 on Night 13 of the game through a 4-1 vote instead of Gabe Ortis, a 26-year-old radio show host from Baltimore, MD, at Tribal Council.

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"I thought I could trust the people in my alliance and I got bamboozled," Tiyana said in her final words.

"To come this far and to literally be one vote away from making the jury, I'm beyond devastated right now. I think I played a genuinely honest game, and I was true to myself. I don't regret the way that I played the game; I just regret who I trusted."


The Survivor broadcast began on Night 12 at Beka's camp post-merge.

Teeny Chirichillo, a 24-year-old freelance writer from Manahawkin, NJ, said she was "feeling so good" about Rome Cooney's elimination and how the Amulet had been played.

But Solomon "Sol" Yi, a 43-year-old in medical device sales from Del City, OK, who currently resides in Norwalk, CT, needed to do some damage control because he had written Andy Rueda's name down as a backup plan.

Sol admitted to Andy, a 31-year-old AI research assistant from Buffalo, NY, who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, that Sam Phalen, a 24-year-old sports reporter from Schaumburg, IL, who currently resides in Nashville, TN, had pitched him as the backup plan.

Andy, feeling like a third wheel, realized he should probably take out his former Gata tribemates before they could come for him first. He therefore woke up early on Day 13 to re-evaluate his Survivor game.


Genevieve Mushaluk, a 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was in search of a new ally after her "No. 1" went home, and Andy was at the top of her list. The pair agreed that teaming up could be powerful and they had a lot of possibilities.

Rachel, a 34-year-old graphic designer from Dexter, MI, who currently resides in Southfield, MI, said she felt "really good" about most of the women in the game. Teeny pointed out how, if the women worked together, they could all make it to the jury together and she'd love that.

The women therefore got together and talked about taking a guy out next, such as Gabe.

The tribe then met Survivor host Jeff Probst for the next Immunity Challenge.

For the challenge, each castaway was required to stand on a narrow beam while balancing a ball at the end of a very long pole while holding the pole above their head. At regular intervals, they had to move farther down the beam, making it more difficult to balance and concentrate.


And the longer the challenge lasted, it would become more difficult to hold the pole overhead.

If at any point a ball dropped, that castaway would be out of the Survivor challenge.

Jeff randomly divided the castaways into two groups of six players. The one person to last the longest for the entire challenge would win immunity for his or her entire team.

The person to last the longest for the losing group would win Individual Immunity, but the rest of that team would have to vote someone out at Tribal Council that night. The person voted out would not make the jury.

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The Survivor castaways were also playing for Reward in the form of barbecue ribs, potato salad, corn on the cob, beer and soft drinks.

After drawing rocks, the Yellow Team was comprised of Genevieve, Teeny, Sol, Andy, Sam, and Sierra Wright, a 27-year-old nurse from Wilmington, DE, who currently resides in Phoenixville, PA, which ended up being three former Gata and three former Lavo.

The Blue Team was made up Gabe; Rachel; Tiyana; Caroline Vidmar, a 27-year-old strategy consultant from Palos Verdes, CA, who currently resides in Chicago, IL; Sue Smey, a 59-year-old flight school owner from Kirkwood, NY, who currently resides in Putnam Valley, NY; and Kyle Ostwald, a 31-year-old construction worker from Cheboygan, MI.

The Blue Team featured the entire former Tuku tribe plus Rachel.

Rachel was admittedly "terrified" and couldn't believe her bad luck, but she put on a good face for Jeff and announced how many dynamics were in play.


Kyle was the last person to hold on for the Blue Team, and so he won Individual Immunity and the rest of his team would be forced to attend Tribal Council. For the Yellow Team, Teeny and Genevieve were both still holding on at the time Kyle dropped out.

Since Genevieve and Teeny were on the winning Survivor team, and the entire team was going to be safe from the vote that night, they no longer had to compete.

Caroline pointed out how Rachel would be "the easy vote" that night, but she acknowledged to the Survivor cameras how she wanted to make "a smart move."

While the winning Survivor team celebrated with food, they discussed how they needed to peck away at that strong Tuku group. They therefore hoped Rachel could pull through and stick around.

Teeny then announced how there could be a hidden Immunity Idol at Lavo's beach. She predicted someone was going to find an idol and that it was going to be a "crazy" Tribal Council session.

When Rachel returned to the old Lavo camp with Kyle and the losers, she called her position "the worst case scenario."


Gabe thought Rachel was personable and charismatic, but he told Sue that Rachel needed to go and Rachel was going to play her "Shot in the Dark." Gabe wasn't really worried about Rachel's "Shot in the Dark," and he said he wanted to stay Tuku strong.

Tiyana told the Survivor cameras, however, that if Tuku walked out of Tribal Council five strong, they'd be picked off one by one because they didn't have the majority and they would've already blown their cover.

"We technically lied to everybody else about how close we were, so not only are we really, really strong, but we're liars!" Tiyana explained in a Survivor confessional.

Tiyana told Kyle, as a result, it would be "a perfect opportunity" to get rid of Gabe, and Kyle thought it was a great idea. Kyle just needed Rachel to be "all in" with this move, and so Tiyana worked on Rachel, who clearly loved to hear this news.

But Caroline wasn't really onboard. Caroline thought Rachel was a savvy and likeable player who had other women in her back pocket, and so she told Tiyana that getting rid of Rachel would open up the door to them grabbing more allies.

Caroline thought this was a great opportunity to essentially take out a strong social player.


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During the Survivor Reward, Andy fearlessly searched for an advantage in front of the other castaways, and Sierra called him "a sloppy player."

Sierra admitted Andy was someone she simply couldn't work with going forward, and Genevieve also said she needed Andy to be more careful.

When everyone fell asleep, Sol also went searching for an idol or advantage -- and he found a scroll tucked into one of the tent's beams. Sol slyly tucked the scroll into his pants when the other Survivor castaways were casually laying around.

Prior to Tribal Council, Gabe told Rachel that he wanted Caroline out, but Rachel was well aware this was a fake plan. Rachel knew she was in jeopardy of going home, but she definitely had faith some of the Survivor castaways were willing to work with her.

Sol was then shown walking off by himself to open his scroll, which was a "Take Your Pick" advantage. Sol could give it to someone on the losing team, and the recipient could choose between two advantages: "Block a Vote" or "Safety Without Power."


The recipient could either block someone's vote, meaning it wouldn't count, or the person could choose safety and walk out of Tribal Council. However, the using the safety advantage would mean that person could not vote, which could upset his or her allies who had been depending on that castaway.

Sol was so excited to have some power in the game and have a huge impact on Tribal Council that night.

At Tribal Council on Night 13, Jeff announced how the easy move would be for the five Tuku to take Rachel out, but Sue shared how the game changed almost on the hour and her head was spinning.

"This is really very difficult for me tonight," Sue confessed to the Survivor host.

It was clear the Tuku Five were in charge, but Rachel told Jeff that she felt "anxiously hopeful" and she thought she was a part of a plan.

Before it became time to vote, Rachel shared how someone on the winning team had sent her an advantage that was only good for that night. Rachel had found the scroll in her bag prior to Tribal Council.


Rachel announced how she had been given a "Safety Without Power" advantage, and she naturally decided to play it.

The winning team asked each other who was behind this big move, but Sol acted shocked and didn't own up to it. Regardless, Rachel thanked "whoever you are" for her game-changing advantage.

When Rachel walked out of Tribal Council, jaws were on the floor, and then it really became time to vote.

Tiyana confessed that her anxiety was through the roof, and she started to cry about the idea of a Tuku member not making the Survivor jury because it meant "everything" to the players.

"Is the emotion more that you're worried you will be voted out tonight, or is the emotion more you don't know what to do because this wasn't the plan?" Jeff asked Tiyana.

"Both," Tiyana replied. "It's very, very possible that it could be me, and that would devastate me and would be horrible."


As Tiyana spoke and cried, whispers broke out all around her.

Gabe whispered to Sue that they couldn't part with Caroline, and Sue responded, "100 percent."

But Tiyana talked to Kyle about working with Caroline, and then the three ladies discussed how Gabe was really active and they should vote him out of Survivor 47.

Gabe was then shown whispering to Kyle about how they couldn't control Tiyana. Kyle, however, thought Tiyana had been honest, and he said Tiyana's story checked out every single time.

Once in the voting booth, Tiyana wrote down Gabe's name, and Gabe wrote down Tiyana's name.

No "Shot in the Dark" or idol was played, and then Jeff proceeded to read the votes in the following order: Gabe, Tiyana, Tiyana, and Tiyana.


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Tiyana appeared totally shocked and crushed, and she cried as Jeff snuffed her Survivor torch. Tiyana walked out in silence except her sobs could be heard.






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