23rd Season 2-Hour Finale: Loyalties Will Be Broken - Recap

With Brandon out to Redemption Island only Coach, Sophie, Albert, Rick remain in the competition with either Brandon or Ozzy coming back in the game. On Night 35, Brandon goes up to Ozzy and hugs him. He says that he was blindsided. He says that he made a commitment to Albert and gave up the Immunity necklace. Meanwhile at the Te Tuna tribe, the final four talk about the vote and Coach says that she doesn’t want to sit there and have people tell him lies about everything.

Day 36

Ozzy and Brandon get their tree mail and Brandon reads that it is the last duel. Ozzy says that he is excited to get back into the game. The duel arrives and Brandon and Ozzy are going to have to hold on to a poll for as long as they can. Brandon slides down and gets out of the challenge after 40 minutes. Brandon says that he can hold his head up proud and says that he stayed committed to God. Sophie says that there is only so much they can do now that Ozzy is back in the game. He says that he has been waiting so long to be able to do this.

They get back and they congratulate him, but it is clear that there is hostility. Coach sits down with Ozzy and says that if he wins an immunity, then he will give over his necklace to him. Ozzy doesn’t believe him of course and they talk about where the loyalties are in the camp. Ozzy says that he wants to be able to believe Coach, but there are so many things that are fighting against that.

Immunity Challenge time and the challenge is to balance a beam while building a house of cards. Ozzy gets in the lead and it is against. However, everyone’s stack falls. The game continues at a fast pace and then with Ozzy and Coach neck to neck, it is Ozzy who wins immunity and is safe from the vote.

Day 37

Ozzy explains his strategy and says that he loves that the guys are eating each other up. He tells them that he is grateful to be in the position that he is in right now. He starts to stir the pot and Sophie, Albert and Coach all agree that it is Rick who is going to go next. Ozzy goes up to Albert and says that Sophie is the biggest threat against them and that they need to vote her out. Albert starts to think that he has a point and that she has won several immunity challenges and that it could be good to swing the vote to her.

Tribal Council time and the remaining survivors sit down. They start talking about how their plan backfired when Ozzy won the immunity. Ozzy lets it out that he has a secret alliance with Coach that he is going to take him to the end. Coach stumbles and tries to get what he said not to sound like he was lying to the others. Ozzy says that Sophie is a brat and that sends her off on an emotional roller-coaster and she cries about the 37 days that she has been there so far and how tough it is to hear that. She composes herself and they get down to the voting. The votes are tallied and it is Rick with 2 votes and Sophie with 2 votes. The next person to be voted out is Rick. He tells them not to get up and to let him leave.

Day 38

Ozzy wakes up in and gets an early start at getting coconuts. He tells himself that he is not going to share with the others. Sophie says that she doesn’t want Ozzy there and that they have to do everything to make sure that he is going to be leaving. Both Coach and Albert agree that they need to do something to make sure that he doesn’t go through. Coach goes up to Ozzy and tells him that he doesn’t know what kind of game he is playing and says that he didn’t like that he threw him under the bus like he did. Ozzy says that he lost the game two other times because he trusted people and that he doesn’t want to do that again.

The last Immunity Challenge arrives and the survivors take their place. In this challenge, they are going to have to race through an obstacle course to get puzzle pieces and solve it. The one who does it, will be safe in the final three. Ozzy takes an early lead and Albert is trailing to. Ozzy is the first back with the puzzle pieces. Coach gets the puzzle pieces and even though the lead that Ozzy had, he gets attacked with Sophie getting a huge lead. Sophie gets the lead, but Ozzy catches up. However, Sophie figures out the puzzle out and wins the final immunity.

The tribe gets back and Ozzy congratulates Sophie. He says that he doesn’t know what the vote is going to be like for him. Coach tells Sophie and Albert not to talk to Ozzy for too long and that he will try to manipulate them to get them to turn. Ozzy goes up to coach and tells him that if he is honorable, he will allow him and Albert to go to a tie and to have a Fire Starting Duel between them. Coach contemplates the decision.

Tribal Council arrives and they talk about what a hard decision it is going to be for them and Albert admits that he wouldn’t do well in a challenge against Ozzy. The votes are tallied and it is Ozzy with 2 votes and Albert with 1 votes. Ozzy is voted out of Survivor. The final three is Coach, Albert and Sophie. Later that night, the tribe get back to camp and they celebrate the fact that they are in their

Day 39

The survivors get breakfast and they are amazed that they did it and it was a long journey. Sophie goes up to Coach and says that it should be between her and Coach. He says that there is nothing bad to say about Sophie and Sophie says that she is going to go into Tribal with a level head and not going to get mental in it.

The last Tribal council commences and Albert says that he is honored and humbled to be in the position. He says that this is a social experiment and says that it is a game about people. He thanks the jury and says that he is thankful. Sophie says that it is about outplaying and says that she won three immunities and says that she played the game well and says that she made some friendships and says that she was honest. Coach says that he can’t believe that he is there and says that he had a good time there and says that he is blessed that he got to know each of them. The Jury gets to speak and Ozzy says that nobody wants to vote for any of them. He says that Sophie is a brat and Albert is just happy to be there. Coach admits that he broke his word and says that he tried. Jim asks Albert what is the worst of the other two. Albert says that Coach is not the leader. Dawn asks why the alliance was between Coach and Albert. She says that she wanted to tail around with men because that is how the game is. Rick gets up and asks what Coach has to say to him and Coach apologizes. He tells Albert is a liar and that it is horrible. Sophie says that she hated voting him out. Rick says that they know how he feels about cheaters.

Brandon asks what they feel about lying. Brandon says that Albert is a liar. Whitney says that Albert is sleazy. She says that Coach used Christianity to bully people. She says that Sophie is a liar. Edna says that religion was used to manipulate people. She says that they all managed to dupe them. Keith asks Coach about the idol and Sophie brings it out that they found it together. Cochran says that he loved how Coach played a game and says that he wants to hear the strategy. He says that he stabbed people in the back and says admits that he is not a strategist. The jury goes to vote and Jeff says that he will see all of them in Los Angeles for the reading of the votes. They get there and everyone is cleaned up. He asks who the winner of Survivor: South Pacific is. The votes are tallied and it is Coach with 3 votes and Sophie with 4 votes. The winner of Survivor: South Pacific is….Sophie Clarke! She goes up to her family and they exchange hugs.

Written By David Sibert

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